Virtual Reality Demo & Open House
Wednesday, August 28 from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Come have fun and explore our new Virtual Reality station at VOX POP. Adam Stone, Studio & Technical Manager at Somerville Media Center will host a fun interactive session for the community. They will have Google Tilt Brush which lets you paint in 3D space with virtual reality. Unleash your creativity with three-dimensional brush strokes, stars, light, and even fire. You can also play with Beat Saber, a VR rhythm game, where your goal is to slash the beats which fit perfectly into precisely handcrafted music.
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Review by Robert Cable
These poems reward our senses of sight, hearing, smell and taste! The poet observes that “ordinary seeing makes us blind.” She herself, however, has cultivated particularly keen perceptions, which she shares in these colorful, musical, fragrant, tasty poems. A winner in the Maria C. Faust Sonnet Contest, Provost’s poems tend to be of 14 lines, more or less. They are short and sweet, as is the poet herself. (Last night I had a front row seat at her public reading.) A few longer poems also tell interesting stories.
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Tim Young is looking forward to a milestone birthday this January 2020, when he turns seventy. He began writing poetry in high school and has continued to do so. His poetry has appeared in Kaffe in Katmandu, Fictionaut, and other publications. In 2005 he began chasing the novel form and has since produced four unpublished works. He was a resident of Manhattan’s famed Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. Tim is also a singer/songwriter/guitarist.
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Grolier Poetry Book Shop: The Last Sacred Place of Poetry
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Arrests:
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Terrence Morrison, of 21 Michigan Ave., August 19, 10:17 a.m., arrested at home on charges of resisting arrest and multiple counts of assault and battery on a police officer, and on warrant charges of larceny of credit card, credit card fraud under $1200, receiving a stolen motor vehicle, and larceny over $1200.
Ithamar Santana, of 11 Rowson Rd., Arlington, August 19, 3:12 p.m., arrested at Elm St. on a charge of disorderly conduct.
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Join Mayor Joseph Curtatone and Ward 1 City Councilor Matthew McLaughlin on Tuesday, August 27, at 11:00 a.m. for a ribbon cutting ceremony at the East Somerville School Field, located at 50 Cross St. The ceremony will celebrate the refurbishment of the existing synthetic turf field.
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By Nathan Lamb
Registration is now open for Savvy Caregiver, a free training program that provides family caregivers with skills and knowledge about dementia.
The six-session class returns to Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services on September 13, and will meet Fridays from 9:30 to noon.
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By Jim Clark
Celebrity Series of Boston is producing 5,000 mini-concerts September 20–29 for its Concert for One project, which brings free, one-on-one performances by solo musicians for single listeners in Boston and Cambridge. Two artists from Somerville are among the 60+ musicians participating from around the region.
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