Mr. Airplane Man guitarist and singer Margaret Garrett.

By JT Thompson

Margaret Garrett is the guitarist and singer of Mr. Airplane Man, a duo that she formed with her close friend Tara McManus, who plays the drums. Their website describes the band as blending “hypnotic blues, haunting slide guitar, and idiosyncratic rock and roll with dreamy girlgroup melodies.” Mr. Airplane Man got its start on the streets of Somerville and Cambridge and the duo has toured with nationally known bands like the White Stripes, Holly Golightly and Morphine.

It rises up from the ground and stands, an enigmatic and featureless monolith, vaguely suggestive of the one in the sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. It seems to inform us of … something … but we’re not quite sure what.

Or perhaps as in another popular film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, where the main protagonist stares vacantly at a towering mound of mashed potatoes and utters in a state of profound bewilderment, “This means something.”

Eagle Feathers #185 – The Wesleys

By Bob (Monty) Doherty

Clergyman John Wesley was the founder of Methodism, an alternative movement from the Church of England. He was born in England on June 17, 1703, the same date of the future American Battle of Bunker Hill.

Former Somerville Ward 3 Alderman Bob McWatters is enjoying some vacation time in Furnas, a civil parish in the municipality of Povoação on the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese Azores. He is pictured here with with John Correia and Mario Riberio.

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A screening of The Last Sacred Place of Poetry and talk with Olivia Huang and Doug Holder will take place on September 3, 6:00 p.m., at the Cambridge Public Library.

When I first met Olivia Huang she was in the midst of making a documentary about the famed Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Harvard Square titled The Last Sacred Place of Poetry: Grolier Poetry Book Shop. And I was proud to be one of the talking heads in this film about the much-revered shop.

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Ron A. Kalman was born in Haifa to parents who fled Budapest during the Hungarian uprising of 1956, and after living near Paris for a few years, he came to America at age 6. He received his MFA from Emerson College and works as a limo driver in the Boston area. His poems and translations have appeared in The Exquisite Corps Annual, The Main Street Rag, Muddy River Poetry Review, Beacon Street Review and other publications.

Arrests:

Shami Grant Sampson, of 162 Medford St., Charlestown, August 10, 4:43 p.m., arrested at Marshall St. on warrant charges of failure to wear a seatbelt, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, and motor vehicle operator misuse of a mobile phone.

Come join in for a night under the stars watching original youth produced videos. Somerville Media Center will be hosting their fourth annual Out Takes Youth Film Festival on Thursday, August 15, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., at the Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave.

They will be showing a selection of youth produced videos from the 2018-2019 school year and summer youth media program.  The event is outdoors, so feel free to bring a lawn chair or a picnic blanket to spread out and get comfy.

The East Somerville Foodie Crawl is back for its 9th edition with diverse restaurants, a beer garden featuring Aeronaut and Small Change Breweries, and live entertainment.

On September 17, come and take a cultural crawl through the East Somerville restaurant corridor.

The Somerville Public Library and St. Mark Community Education Program will host a free, 12-part Citizenship Interview Preparation Class on Saturdays this fall in partnership with Project Citizenship. The class is designed to prepare participants for all parts of their citizenship test, from literacy to U.S. history and government while improving English speaking and listening skills.