By Fernando Cervantes Jr.
Dishes from all over the world are currently being served at Nibble Somerville, a local kitchen. The kitchen, located at Union Square’s Bow Market, has been serving bites since September 2019.
Sponsored by the Somerville Arts Council, the kitchen is part of an initiative to highlight immigrant communities and cuisines in Somerville. Currently the kitchen serves the three cuisines mentioned before from Thursday to Sunday.
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Veterans Day is one occasion that all Americans can relate to equally. There is virtually no one in this land that has not been affected positively by the sacrifices made and courage shown by the many who have served their country in uniform.
We may disagree on the policies and actions undertaken by the government itself, but all right-thinking people surely stand with loyalty and pride alongside those who serve and protect us against those who would do us harm.
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The Somerville Boys and Girls Cross Country teams both rolled to victory at the Greater Boston League (GBL) League Championship meet held at MacDonald Park in Medford last Thursday. Somerville took home the title on both the girls’ and boys’ sides in the eight team conference. In the boys’ race the Highlanders came in the top three spots. Somerville junior Sam Buckley claimed the individual conference title, covering the 2.85-mile course in 15:03. The Boys team captured the first three spots in a dominant performance, totaling 27 points, with senior Calvin Wicks finishing 10th to claim All Star honors. Runner up Medford came in second with 60 points.
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Back in 1994, I decided to give up my small, rent-controlled flat in the Republic of Cambridge, to get married. My late wife Dianne said, “I am convinced you loved me, because you gave up a rent-controlled apartment for me.”
As it turns out, rent control was soon to be abolished, and there was a mass exodus to Somerville, where – if you can believe it – rents were cheap.
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Shira Hoffman (she/her) is a poet living with multiple invisible disabilities. Her poetry is featured in A Thin Slice of Anxiety and Muddy River Poetry Review and is forthcoming from Ibbetson Street Press and the Bagel with the Bards Anthology. After getting her MFA from the New School and working in traditional publishing, she relocated to Sommerville where the air is cleaner, but the people are still weird. Follow her on twitter @ShiraSHoffman for updates.
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By Blake Maddux
As a member of the scrappy indie rock band Guided by Voices from 1986-1997, Tobin Sprout played on and wrote songs for beloved lo-fi classics such as Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes, and Under the Bushes Under the Stars. Between 2012 and 2014, he did the same for six releases that appeared after the band’s “classic lineup” reunited in 2010.
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Arrests:
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Rudolph Harris, of Lowell, November 3, 10:40 a.m., arrested at Washington St. on a warrant charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
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