by James Norton

That morning I woke up a teenager on a mission. The night before, George, Roger, Marc and I all decided that we had enough of the cold weather and since today would be twenty degrees warmer than the day before, we would skip school and go fishing.

For me it was a day destined to set itself apart from the John Hughes flavor of the month film type of life I had been living up until that point.

Oh sure, I walked around feeling like Ferris Bueller (yes nitpickers I know that movie hadn’t been released at that point), but just like everyone else in their mid teens, I was full of angst. It would be good to get away and do something different with my friends.

Keen commentary on all things great and small occurring in community life is the modus operandi for a Latino/Chicano trio, the comedy troupe “Culture Clash in AmeriCCa,” currently presented by The Huntington Theatre Company, at the Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts.

by Jacob A. Bennett

A Somerville artist, whose works are on display at Davis Square’s Diesel Café, spoke at the Feb. 25 contributors meeting of The Somerville News about his art and influences.

People need to engage themselves in the dialogue of how this country is constructed, of how corporations shape our lives, of what a lot of America really looks like: strip malls, products, consumption, said Jason Chase, a native of exurb Colorado who came east to earn to master’s degree in fine arts from Boston University.

The Walsh Brothers are not trying to make everybody laugh.
“That comes from performing in front of nobody for a long time,” said David Walsh, the elder half of the duo. The two sat down to chat with The Somerville News on the eve of their weekend of shows at Jimmy Tingle’s Off Broadway Theater in Davis Square. “When you’re confident that what you’re doing is the right thing, and nobody is there to see it, you just keep working, and having fun with it.”

St. Paddy’s Day this year was a memorable one for lifelong Van Halen connoisseur and Somerville News writer Peter “Fair Warning” Yezukevich. At the Paradise Club in Boston, David Lee Roth, guest DJing that week for Steve Sweeney on WZLX, held court and took the time to autograph his favorite book for Peter. Of the meeting, Yezukevich, clearly overwhelmed, said, “Ah seek a lotta an’ I’m lookin fo a moopee.” Photo by Larry Loprete

This week our poet is Diana Cole of Arlington, Mass. Diana has chosen to write about the “Someday Cafe” in Davis Square.To have your poems considered for the “Lyrical” send them to:
DH, 25 School St., Somerville, Mass. 02143  or dougholder@post.harvard.edu

Harris Gardner is a force-of-nature on the local poetry scene. He is the founder of the poetry organization “Tapestry of Voices,” that consists of multiple poetry reading venues including: Borders Books in downtown Boston, the “Chapel Series” in Jamaica Plain, “The Mad Poets Café” at the Warwick Art Museum ( Warwick, RI.), and the visiting poet series at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass.