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Fall Cleanup 2021! Photo courtesy of East Somerville Main Streets.
LINDA PINKOW AND JASON PRAMAS

SOMERVILLE WIRE: APRIL 26, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

East Somerville Cleanup, Boynton Yards Concerts, and Diane Esmond Showing Articles SOMERVILLE OPEN STUDIOS: VISIT ARTISTS AT HOME THIS WEEKEND The theme of this year’s event is SPACE SOMERVILLE EXTENDS EVICTION MORATORIUM ONCE MORE End date now June 30, 2022 OPINION: COMMUNITY GATHERS FOR FILM SCREENING AND PANEL ON SCHOOL

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LINDA PINKOW AND JASON PRAMAS April 26, 2022
Admirers get a preview of this year’s First Look exhibit at the Somerville Museum. Photo by Ron Newman.
LINDA PINKOW

SOMERVILLE OPEN STUDIOS: VISIT ARTISTS AT HOME THIS WEEKEND

The theme of this year’s event is SPACE (Somerville Wire) – More than 300 visual artists across Somerville will open their studios to the public this weekend, as Somerville Open Studios holds its 23rd city-wide art exhibit April 30 and May 1 from noon to 6 pm. Organized by artists

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LINDA PINKOW April 26, 2022
A real Somerville fixer-upper. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 Jason Pramas.
LINDA PINKOW

SOMERVILLE EXTENDS EVICTION MORATORIUM ONCE MORE

End date now June 30, 2022 (Somerville Wire) – After the City of Boston lifted its eviction moratorium on March 31, Somerville is now the last municipality in the state to maintain a ban on evictions in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Last Thursday, April 21, the city extended that

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LINDA PINKOW April 26, 2022
Signs in Davis Square, Somerville, April 2022. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 Jason Pramas.
LINDA PINKOW

SOMERVILLE WIRE: APRIL 19, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Yard waste, heating bills, summer jobs … and PorchFest! Articles EDITORIAL: NOW EVEN LESS NEWS IN SOMERVILLE DigBoston goes digital-only, yet another reason to donate to the Somerville Media Fund https://binj.news/2022/04/19/editorial-now-even-less-news-in-somerville/ ARTS AT THE ARMORY CONTINUES ITS JOURNEY WITH NEW CO-DIRECTOR Jess White promoted to chief operating officer https://binj.news/2022/04/19/arts-at-the-armory-continues-its-journey-with-new-co-director/  

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LINDA PINKOW April 19, 2022
Stephanie Scherpf and Jess White (right), co-directors of Center for Arts at the Armory. Courtesy photo.
LINDA PINKOW

ARTS AT THE ARMORY CONTINUES ITS JOURNEY WITH NEW CO-DIRECTOR

Jess White promoted to chief operating officer (Somerville Wire) – The Somerville Armory is changing. The former militia headquarters at 191 Highland Ave. was owned since 2004 by Joseph and Nabil Sater, owners of the Middle East nightclub and restaurant in Cambridge, who invested in substantial renovations to create spaces

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LINDA PINKOW April 19, 2022
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

ARTIST PROFILE: CINDY WEISBART

The powerful work of a social documentary photographer (Somerville Wire) – The gripping and striking work that Somerville-based artist Cindy Weisbart creates is a reflection of the world around us, whether she is tracking the story of the economic devastation of the pandemic or assembling a COVID Vaccine Portrait Gallery.

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN March 8, 2022
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

ARTIST PROFILE: ALEX KITTLE

Designs for all of your movie-related flights of fancy (Somerville Wire) – Alex Kittle is the creative and mastermind behind Pan and Scan Illustration, a shop that features film and pop culture inspired works, but also zines, pins, and stickers. Thinking of Prince, Barbarella, or David Bowie? Kittle has you

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN February 15, 2022
CHRIS HUES

CHAIN REACTION

Coffee shop workers organize, inspire others Labor organizing in the Boston area has gotten a hip makeover. Two local coffee shop chains, Pavement & Darwin’s Ltd., have had their employees vote to form unions.  These baristas have been the unlikely stars of the progressive left in Boston this past summer:

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CHRIS HUES November 17, 2021
COLE ROSENGREN

FEATURE FOLLOWUP: REVISITING RECYCLING

It took decades for workers doing this dangerous job to get a living wage. But are their problems finally sorted out? For the first time ever, Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville are boosting the pay for the workers who sort their recyclables after resolving a decades-long stalemate with a regional company.

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COLE ROSENGREN November 10, 2021
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

BUSINESS PROFILE: PEARL STREET TATTOO CLUB

The new East Somerville space aims to be inclusive (Somerville Wire) – Owners Aisha R. and Arran Lane moved from the United Kingdom to the Boston area in 2019, where they opened Pearl Street Tattoo Club. The shop aims to foster respect and build community, while allowing customers to express

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN November 2, 2021
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