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🤯 😋 @corazondefridacantina If these outside-the-box chile rellenos are any indication of the rest of menu, you will find us here often! 🔥 ❤️ 👏🏻

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As skyrocketing real estate prices cause rents to soar, maintaining space for the arts in Somerville is increasingly difficult. Still, arts and recreation thrive in a recently developed non-industrial complex—located in a historically industrial space. Along the abandoned B&M railroad line and within one of Somerville’s oldest industrial neighborhoods lies the Somernova business complex. It occupies several repurposed buildings that previously housed older manufacturing facilities, collectively known as the Ames Business Park. This 300,000-square-foot space once housed the former Ames Safety Envelope company that shuttered in 2010. It now includes several newer Somerville businesses, like Brooklyn Boulders Somerville, Artisan’s Asylum, Aeronaut Brewing Company, and the first Greentown Labs building off Park Street. Link in bio. 📸: @adriannelacy

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Boston College photography professor and longtime Cambridge resident Karl Baden is often better known as “the guy who has taken a photo of himself everyday since 1987.” This project, entitled “Every Day,” has earned Baden a sort-of notoriety in the local photography community; every few years, the media coverage of the work returns in waves. Baden’s most recent project, however, turns the camera around to face his environment. The series, called “Mass Ave, Cambridge,” documents how Cambridge is changing through photos of the iconic street taken over a two-year period. He began the series after a conversation with Lillian Hsu, the director of public art at Cambridge Arts. “Mass. Ave. is this defining route that goes through Cambridge,” Hsu says. “It’s very different depending on where you are. The four miles that it goes through Cambridge are all very different. … From the people coming into our gallery, it’d be hard to find someone who doesn’t really know some aspect of Mass. Ave. if they live or work here.” Link in bio. 📸: @karl_baden

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Thank you to the Somerville Media Center for inviting Scout editor Lilly Milman to participate in an episode of Community Lens! Watch the full video at the link in the bio.

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There are some 81,000 people living in Somerville’s 4.2 square miles of real estate, but there’s really just one you’re going to blame if our trash isn’t picked up or the roads aren’t plowed: the mayor. Since 1872, 35 people have held that office. The current occupant, Mayor Joe Curtatone, is the city’s longest-serving mayor. The incumbent since 2004, he’s serving his eighth term. Gene Brune held the office for a decade, from 1980 to 1990. They each shared some insights on how being mayor has changed over the decades. Link in bio. 📸: City of Somerville, Gene Brune (respectively)

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Mohammad Abo-Sharkh runs the Zaaki Food Truck with his sister-in-law, Samar Abdalelah. By trade, he’s a software engineer, while she’s an experienced cook who graduated valedictorian from culinary school. Abo-Shakh says neither of them knew much about starting a business. But thanks in large part to a program that the city plans to expand in the coming months, Abo-Sharkh and Abdalelah were able to find their bearings and establish what he described as a successful business with close ties to Cambridge. Link in bio. 📸: @sashapdro

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“None of us are getting out of here alive," Somerville resident and discussion leader Alan Bingham says while leading a Death Cafe at the Somerville Public Library. A Death Cafe is a group-directed discussion of death—not a grief support or counseling session—with no specific agenda, objective, or themes, according to the movement’s official website. Bingham, who has now hosted four Death Cafes in the city and has another coming up later this week. Link in bio. 📸: @lilly_milman

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Thank you to all who came out to our celebration of another decade of local media done right last night! Swipe right to hear Scout editor Lilly Milman say a few words about why we are celebrating, and why we need your help. For access to more invite-only Scout events planned throughout the rest of this year, support us on Patreon for as little as $5/month. In addition to invites, you’ll get the magazines delivered right to your door! And shoutout to @grafton02138, @mikespastry, and @aeronautbrewing for donating the refreshments!

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“Moving here in 1984, I felt my literary center was still in Cambridge,” longtime Somerville resident Lloyd Schwartz says. “And in some way, it still is. Somerville is more grassroots. It’s so lively. You could say [there is] something wilder about it.” Schwartz, who has written his share of both music criticism and poetry, says that he has channeled his poetic sensibilities while writing music reviews. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his arts criticism in 1994. The City of Somerville named Schwartz its poet laureate, a two-year appointment, in January 2019. “I feel very honored, and feel that my connection to the city and the city’s connection to me have been cemented by this,” he says. Link in bio. 📸: @adriannelacy

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It’s been the head house for the Red Line, and Cambridge’s source of publications from around the world. It’s had its roof taken off and stashed away, and the whole structure picked up and turned to face Massachusetts Avenue. The Harvard Square kiosk is a national historic landmark and (with apologies to its namesake university) the most iconic structure in Harvard Square. Read the full history of the Harvard Square Kiosk at the link in the bio. 📸: City of Cambridge

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On a wintry New Year’s day in 1776, Somerville became the site of the first flag raising in the country. Back then, it was called the Grand Union flag—featuring a British Union Jack in the upper left corner where the 50 stars now reside, and thirteen red stripes. “Boston is inundated with sacred grounds for the foundation of our country,” says historian Byron DeLear, author of “The First American Flag—Revisiting The Grand Union at Prospect Hill.” “Prospect Hill is definitely one of them.” Learn more about Somerville's place in history at the link in the bio. 📸: City of Somerville

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