Chocolate shop gâté comme des filles and fish store Hooked have signed leases in Union Square’s budding Bow Market complex. Chocolatier Alexandra Whisnant first launched her store in Paris, where she studied pastry-making. She specializes in seasonal offerings and makes fresh batches of her chocolates every week. Fall and winter seasonal chocolates include offerings like passion […]
Nibble, Somerville Arts Council’s culinary arm that supports diversity and entrepreneurship in Union Square, is set to open a kitchen in Bow Market in 2018. Nibble began with tours of the square’s international markets and developed into an umbrella organization that runs a culinary entrepreneurship program, cooking classes, and pop-up restaurants—all of which focus on […]
Mornings in Somerville hum to sounds of commuters—squeaking car brakes, coworkers christening the morning with coffee, and an echoing ding from the bells of cyclists awaiting a green light. It’s a refreshing sight, dozens of adults biking to work, like the neighborhood decided to take a spin around the block. But despite the many cautious, […]
Somerville police officer Louis Remigio died on Monday night after a motor vehicle crash on I-95, according to the department. The crash happened on Sunday in North Hampton, N.H., police said. Remigio was off-duty at the time, according to city spokeswoman Jaclyn Rossetti. Remigio had been with the Somerville police since 1988 and was working […]
Bow Market developers have severed plans with Union Comedy to open a studio in the new complex, the comedy theater’s organizers said in a letter. Union Comedy organizers said Bow Market was ending their agreement in favor of a “more well-known institution.” “This abrupt change came despite receiving assurances and agreeing upon terms,” they wrote. “Needless to […]
Tuesday, Sept. 19 is preliminary election day in Somerville. Voters will narrow the mayoral and ward 1 school committee races down to two candidates. Kenneth C. Van Buskirk III and Payton Corbett are looking to oust seven-term incumbent mayor Joseph Curtatone. Curtatone became mayor in 2004 after serving as alderman-at-large for eight years, while Buskirk’s background […]
As tech companies and start-ups flock to Somerville, Mayor Joseph Curtatone is launching an advisory committee to help foster innovation in the city through policies, programs, and partnerships. In addition to providing various forms of support to innovators, the committee—or the “Innovation and Opportunity Lab”—will be tasked with forming public-private partnerships to weave companies into […]
In Somerville, torrential summer rain and the accompanying anxiety are all too familiar. The hand-wringing over whether you did or didn’t smell any moisture as you descended downstairs. The startling sight of your belongings bobbing like buoys next to the washer and dryer as water floods into your basement. In the November/December 2015 edition of […]
It would seem Clare Storck was born to be a midwife of legend—and not just because of that name. “I’ve always loved babies and pregnant people,” Storck tells me. After finishing her undergrad degree in women’s studies and education, she was nannying in Los Angeles, and would often chat with the moms around her. Storck […]
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A leaky roof, peeling paint—the West Branch Library is ready for renovations. So what’s the holdup?
Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric toward immigrant groups—threats of a registry for Muslim citizens, a ban on immigration from the Middle East and mass deportations, to name a few—coupled with early warning signs of an authoritarian streak in his ruling style, have sparked massive backlash from activist groups across the country, including those on college campuses. […]