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Somervelo, Somerville’s Newest Bike Repair Shop, Opens In Union Square

Around two years ago, JT Hargrove and Tom Estrada were sitting on a porch having a beer when they tossed around the idea of opening a bike-repair […]

Restaurants

A First Look at the Brass Union Menu in Somerville

The Somerville space formerly inhabited by restaurant and music venue, Precinct, will emerge as a brand new concept, Brass Union, later next week. On one […]

City Life

MassDOT Offers a Virtual Ride on the New Multi-Modal Community Path

We already have an idea of what a ride on the new Green Line extension through Somerville and parts of Medford will look like when […]

Arts & Entertainment

Sneak Peek: Photos of Legoland Discovery Center Boston

The bricks are finally in place at Legoland Discovery Center Boston–LEGO bricks that is. Construction began last October on the newest of 11 Lego activity spaces […]

City Life

Somerville Officials Once Again Declare ‘War on Rats’

The rat problem in Somerville has been bad for years, and officials have all but exhausted their efforts trying to combat the scourge of rodent […]

City Life

Here’s Your Definitive Map and Guide for Shopping at Assembly Row

If you need some retail therapy after watching hipsters bang on buckets and strum some banjos during Porch Fest this weekend, take a stroll over […]

Arts & Entertainment

Somerville Arts Council Brings Back ‘PorchFest,’ ‘Dancing in the Streets’

More than 150 bands just hanging out on their porches, playing for no reason other than to entertain you and themselves as part of a […]

Restaurants

Charred for Life: A Sneak Peek at La Brasa in Somerville, Opening in May

Chef Daniel Bojorquez knows a thing or two about harnessing the magic of the open flame.

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Magpie Kids in Somerville Goes Outside the (Toy) Box

At Magpie Kids, you’ll find retro toys that require imagination, and (refreshingly) not batteries.

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Five Reasons to Pay Somerville’s Backbar Another Visit

Even if you’ve been to Union Square’s hippest watering hole—and seriously, if you haven’t been to Backbar, what’s your excuse?—it’s easy to get lost along the […]

Arts & Entertainment

Bench Diary: Write Your Thoughts in a Community Journal

If you see a small pink or purple journal seemingly abandoned on a park bench somewhere in the Boston area, don’t turn it in to […]

Arts & Entertainment

Watch This Guy Build a Replica of Fenway Park Out of Legos in Two Minutes

The Red Sox are getting a brand new ballpark this season. Ok, technically we lied. But they are getting a Lego replica of one. To […]

Arts & Entertainment

Here’s Your Chance to Trick Out Somerville’s New Traveling Art Bus

If you thought the Partridge Family’s tour bus was cool (hopefully, you didn’t), wait until you see what the city of Somerville has in store […]

Arts & Entertainment

What You Missed at TEDxSomerville 2014

The audience got up from their chairs, mats, and Yogibo bean bags to give a standing ovation to Amanda Palmer after the “Social Media Queen […]

Restaurants

Restaurant Review: Sarma in Somerville

The latest addition to Ana Sortun’s restaurant empire turns up the volume on her signature eastern Mediterranean approach.