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Review by Off the Shelf Correspondent Denise Provost

Especially in Somerville, many will recognize David Campbell’s extraordinary paintings of local scenes. Campbell’s hyper-realistic scenes of our post-industrial landscape are easy to recognize. His subjects, often painted from rooftops, include defunct factories, dingy streets, wire-crossed horizons, moody skies. Have you looked at Campbell’s painting of Everett Avenue, which hangs in Somerville City Hall – doesn’t it take your breath away?

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Our poet writes: My name is Sydney DelMastro and I am from Seekonk, MA and currently a student at Endicott College majoring in English with a concentration in Secondary Education. I work as a photographer at Endicott, and I love to read, write, go on hikes and play the ukulele. I also identify as a gym rat, animal lover, and plant mom.

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Somerville Chief of Police Charles Femino have announced that Jose Mendez, 60, of Somerville has been charged with two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, indecent exposure and operating as an unlicensed chiropractor in connection with allegedly assaulting two women on separate occasions while providing services under the guise of being a chiropractor.

Green Line service will bypass Magoun Square station on the Medford/Tufts Branch all day from start to end of service on May 4.

The MBTA today announced service changes in May on the Red, Green, Orange, Kingston, Greenbush, Middleborough/Lakeville, Fairmount, Newburyport/Rockport, and Haverhill lines. The MBTA will continue working to maintain its infrastructure and improve reliability across the system.

Somerville Media Center to open a 5,000 square foot, state-of-the-art media center

Rafi Properties, Owner and Operator of Somernova, the 7.4 acre innovation campus and community dedicated to helping people and companies iterate and grow faster, announced today that the Somerville Media Center (SMC) will expand their footprint at the campus, and open a new, state-of-the-art media center designed to spark creativity and amplify community engagement. SMC is operating in a limited capacity in their current, 2,500 SF space at 12 Tyler Street, and plans to come back and offer all of their services and more in their new space at 29 Properzi Way. Tailor-made for the digital age, the new 5,000 square foot media center, will serve as a nexus of collaboration and exploration designed to inspire Somerville’s next generation of storytellers, innovators, and change-makers.

Somerville Climate Forward, Somerville’s first comprehensive climate change plan, is a set of implementable actions that will reduce Somerville’s contribution to climate change and prepare the City for the unavoidable impacts of climate change.

The “Kaleidoscope Queer Visions” art initiative will take place from May 6 to May 11 at the Boston Figurative Art Center in Somerville

The upcoming queer community art initiative, Kaleidoscope: Queer Visions, sponsored by the Mass Cultural Council, Somerville Local Cultural Commission, and the Boston Figurative Art Center, will take place from May 6 to May 11 at the Boston Figurative Art Center, 285 Washington St., Somerville.