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BEAN COUNTER: VOLUME 15, ISSUE 4

BEANS

A city solicitor continues to draft an ordinance that would ban Styrofoam take-out containers from Somerville in an attempt to rid the area of any offensive, unhealthy, or environmentally harmful items. Bros beware. PLUS 2 Continue reading

Experience 

TOO MANY EARS, NOT ENOUGH DECIBELS

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Higher than your weird uncle Joe at a 1974 Grateful Dead concert, nationalism soared at the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear” in DC this past weekend. People came from- wait, let me rephrase that – a gargantuan amount of people came from everywhichstate, politely amassing to partake in John Stewart’s and Stephen Colbert’s comically inseminated plea for normalcy. Though I stood in the middle of it all circa high noon, I later found myself sipping a delicious Pipeline Porter at a nearby bar, watching the rally live on a flatscreen that shared a wall with a few college football games. Continue reading