Grab your spouse, partner, roommate, bestie, sibling, or anyone you love and join in for a very special event. The Somerville Museum is open for special hours this Valentine’s Day, 6:00 p.m. –9:00 p.m., 1 Westwood Rd. Visit the current exhibition, Museo Inmigrante, and enjoy a photoshoot with award-winning photographer, Iaritza Menjivar. They’ll provide the props, background, and expertise. This Valentine’s Day do something a little different, support your local museum, and share the love with professional photos. For more information visit: www.somervillemuseum.org.

In collaboration with Somerville Bike Kitchen, the Dojo @ Somernova, the Somerville Foundation, and Groundwork Somerville have a new subset of the Green Team: the Biking Division.

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Calzones offer the perfect canvas for whatever flavors you desire. You can make it with cold cuts, spinach, broccoli rabe, collard greens, your favorite cheese, meatballs, and so on. It can be served as a meal with a green salad or as an appetizer. You can make ahead and serve at room temperature. The combinations are endless.

The President’s Day holiday puts us in mind of those great leaders who governed throughout our country’s tumultuous history: The American Revolution, the Civil War, two world wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam, and so on.

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Review by Off the Shelf Correspondent Lee Varon

Nina Rubinstein Alonso’s story collection Distractions En Route: A Dancer’s Notebook and Other Stories is a marvelous collage of thirty vivid stories.

The opening two stories keenly portray a dancer’s life, as in the opening story, The Redhead Number 37, which begins with the line: “Sixty girls lined up can’t see how they look because the mirrors are draped in paper.” One by one, these dancers are eliminated. The way in which women’s bodies are objectified is heightened in the world of dance. We are told “Eliminations start with ‘body cuts’ noted on our file cards – torso long, hips wide, head large, feet stiff.”

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Bridget Seley Galway, artist/poet. Born in Marathon Florida in 1954, Galway’s roots come from the 50’s and 60’s bohemian life style of Key West, New York’s Greenwich Village and Provincetown. Her poems have also been published in Provincetown Magazine’s Poetry Corner, Wilderness House Literary Review, Poetry Porch, Ibbetson Press, and Bagel with the Bards, to name a few. Her first collection of poems and images What Moments Yield was published by Ibbetson Press, and has been included in the following permanent collections: N.Y.C Poets House, State University of Buffalo collections, Umass Amherst W.EB Du Bois Library, and the Truro Library Cape Cod. Her art has been exhibited throughout New England, and reviewed in several publications, including Artist Magazine and Cape Arts. Her paintings have been selected for the covers of Bagel with Bards, Ibbetson Press, and individual poet publications. She is currently the Arts Editor /Curator for the Wilderness House Literary Review.

Join the Somerville Museum  for special exhibition open hours and photoshoot with artist, Iaritza Menjivar. Wednesday, February 14 | 6pm – 9pm

Grab your spouse, partner, roommate, bestie, sibling, or anyone you love and join us for a very special event. Open for special hours this Valentine’s Day come visit the current exhibition, Museo Inmigrante, and enjoy a photoshoot with award-winning photographer, Iaritza Menjivar. We’ll provide the props, background, and expertise. This Valentine’s Day do something a little different, support your local museum, and share the love with professional photos.

Three Somerville High School students represented SHS at the annual Massachusetts Music Educators Association – Eastern District Music Festival. After a comprehensive audition process, Kai Deshima (Piano), Anya Miller (Soprano), and Eclipse Felix (Bass) performed at Milton High School for the MMEA Eastern District Festival.

In addition, Eclipse Felix has been recommended to audition for All-State Chorus.

Property owners must shovel sidewalks by 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14 

Mayor Ballantyne ordered halt to ticketing, ordered no towing, waives tickets due to radical shift in forecast

The City of Somerville’s snow emergency will end today, Tuesday, Feb. 13, at 10 a.m, and normal parking rules will resume at that time. The information below offers tips to avoid ticketing and towing as well as strategies for being a good neighbor and staying safe.