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Celebrate the Season!

No, not that season. The one we’re in right now. Autumn.

Somerville is celebrating the final SomerStreets of the year on Sunday October 19th with the Monster Mashed UP Festival. Major streets will be closed, ghosts and goblins will walk among us, and fun will be had by all. Also, there will be pumpkins, face painting, a parade, costume contests (for pets and their people) and, you’ve probably guessed it by now, craft vendors.

I’ll be there in my tent with all sorts of things to tempt you. Things that make great host gifts, things that make gifts for yourself, and yes, things that make great holiday gifts as well.

Details are here. Please come! It’s a rain or shine event. We’re hardy New Englanders after all, and this is only Autumn. Winter is, as they say, still coming.

See you there!

~Kelly

A Gentle Reminder as We Approach the Holiday Season

I know that there are a lot of people who follow this blog who understand this. I also know that there are a lot of people who follow this blog who might not. I’m asking you to read this post and try to understand before you ask the dreaded Holiday questions of one of us who works in the Service Industry, Retail, is in Food Service, or is a Professional Musician of some type.

Why I Can’t Spend the Holidays With You – A Guide

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Back to School Shopping with Local is for Lovers

Somerville Local First, Local is for Lovers, and Arts at the Armory bring you:

Local is for Lovers Market- Back to School

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Greater Boston area people – we need your help!

When you think of creepy, spooky, or cool and mysterious, what do you think of? Is it the Ether Dome at MGH? One of the chapels in Mount Auburn Cemetery? Or something else entirely?

Here’s why we’re asking.

One of the music groups I work with is planning a very cool and very creepy Halloween concert. Several concerts, actually. And we’re looking for the creepiest, spookiest, and coolest places in the greater Boston area for these concerts.

I know it’s July and way to hot to be thinking about falling leaves, a chill in the air, and ghosts and goblins, but we’re planning ahead. If you have any ideas about a place that would be cool for a concert of music about things like severed heads and possessed vegetables, please leave a note in the comments. Thanks!

~Kelly

Live, Work, or Play in Somerville? Wanna be on TV?

Somerville, formerly known as “Slummerville” has the most artists per-capita of any city in the US second only to NYC. That’s not bad considering Somerville is a suburb of Boston (though functionally it is as much a part of Boston as Cambridge.)

If you’re a resident of Somerville, if you work in the ‘ville, or if you make art, play in a band there, or spend a lot of time doing Somerville related things, this post is for you. (If not, you should read it anyway, it’s about communities and people working together.)

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Boston! Live Jazz near YOU

From the always awesome David Scott comes a list of performances in the greater Boston area that you, yes you, should attend. Dave is an amazing performer and he’s always working with amazing performers. If you haven’t heard him before take a moment to check him out.

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Our home server has had some issues

Years ago, I decided to build my own server. Part of it was wanting to have the experience of building and running my own server, because I had shockingly little server experience of any kind. Part of it was knowing how such a machine could help me manage the home network I was also building. So in 2010 our home server came into existence.

And then two weeks ago, it went out of existence.

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Calling all Boston area Geeks, Nerds, and Star Trek fans!

Tribbles like you’ve never seen them before! Captain Kirk with cleavage!

Um, what?

My friend, Karen, is performing in this.

Karen’s pretty cool even when she’s not dressed up as Captain Kirk but this – this is really cool. Also, FREE. Come one, come all. Details are here. If you missed this at Arisia 14, this is your last chance.

~Kelly

May, June & July 2014 concerts – mark your calendars

It’s time for the summer concert season in Boston. Mark your calendars now, there’s some great stuff happening.

This list is from Julia Cavallaro and Matthew Hall of Musical Offering

Musical Offering - Baroque Chamber Ensemble — Musical Offering – Baroque Chamber Ensemble

Saturday, May 31 at 4:00 PM
Sunday, June 1 at 2:00 PM
C.P.E. Bach’s Playlist: Works by C.P.E., J.S. & Telemann
Musical Offering (musical-offering.org)
May 31: First Church in Cambridge, MA
June 1: St. Anne’s-in-the-Fields, Lincoln, MA
More Info: musical-offering.org/season-3

Sunday, June 22 at 8:00 PM
Gesualdo Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday
Zefiro Ensemble (zefiroensemble.com)
St. John’s Church, Jamaica Plain, MA
Directions: goo.gl/maps/xC45s
Tickets: $10 at the door

This is from Julia and is AGO/Pentecost/awesome related.

Wednesday, June 25 at 7:30 PM
Thursday, June 26 at 7:30 PM
A Praetorius Organ Vespers for Pentecost
Canto Armonico; Ulf Wellner, dir. (cantoarmonico.org)
Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Orchestra
First Lutheran Church of Boston, MA
More Info: agoboston2014.org/2013/09/lutheran-vespers

And then we have Meravelha and SoHIP.

Veni Creator Spiritus – SoHIP Summer Concert Series

July 15, 2014 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
St Peter’s Church 320 Boston Post Rd Weston, MA 02493

July 16, 2014 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM
The Chapel at West Parish Cemetery 129 Reservation Rd Andover, MA 01810

July 17, 2014 time TBA
Emmanuel Church 15 Newbury St Boston, MA 02116

Go out and enjoy all the music the summer has to offer!

~Kelly

Brimfield 2014 – the bizarre & the geeky

We’re back from Brimfield. While we haven’t had a chance to photograph all of our cool finds yet, we did get a chance to take some photos while we were there of some odd stuff. This post, a lot like the last one, is dedicated to the weird, the strange and the downright bizarre. Fair warning: if you don’t have a sense of humor this post may not be for you.

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