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DIG 23.02 – 1/28/21

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BLM TAG INSPIRES ARTIST’S SOMERVILLE MURAL

Written by GREG COOK Posted August 20, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

Black Lives Matter mural

In June, Jason “Swat” Talbot was invited to paint a mural on Posto, the pizza place outside Somerville’s Davis Square. Amidst the Black Lives Matter protests, someone had tagged “BLM” on the wall, Talbot says, “really sloppily.”

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, davis square, Jason “Swat” Talbot, mural, visual arts

FIRST LOOK: ELM STREET TAPROOM

Written by MARC HURWITZ Posted February 18, 2020 Filed Under: Better Boston Beer Bureau, Drinks, Eats, LIFESTYLE

Elm Street Taproom—which is not a brewery, by the way—is so scarily like Democracy Brewing in look and feel that the two appear to be like doppelgangers, almost like beer-based versions of, say, Larry David and Bernie Sanders.

Filed Under: Better Boston Beer Bureau, Drinks, Eats, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: Beer, craft beer, davis square, Democracy Brewing, eats, Elm Street Taproom, Food, Hurwitz, SOMERVILLE

DILAPI-DAVIS SQUARE

Written by LYNNE DONCASTER Posted March 7, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Somerville residents squawk about the state of infrastructure, deteriorating public art

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Curtatone, Davis Now, davis square, development, infrastructure, Iwerks, SOMERVILLE, Somerville Arts Council, Somerville Community Summit, Somerville News Garden

CARAMEL’S CARAMEL

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 21, 2018 Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE

Caramel at Caramel French Patisserie. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2018 Jason Pramas.

 

A taste of the new French bakery cafe’s gateway dessert

 

The Boston area has been in the midst of a bit of a bakery renaissance in recent years. The growth of small upscale cafe chains like Flour and Tatte is testament to Hub dwellers’ love of sweets, and we don’t
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Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: bakery, cafe, Caramel French Patisserie, davis square, dessert, Dimitri Vallier, eats, Food, Jason Pramas, pastry, review, Salem, SOMERVILLE, Sophie Vallier

TOXIC DEVELOPMENT: SOMERVILLE OFFICIALS SIDE WITH DEVELOPER IN LONG BATTLE OVER POLLUTED DAVIS SITE

Written by CAROLYN BICK Posted October 25, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The oil spill is just one of the many issues Iappini and others have endured, and which have been a common topic of neighborhood gossip for years around Davis Square.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Board of Aldermen, Carolyn Bick, davis square, DEP, development, Dilboy, EPA, MassDEP, Nancy Iappini, SOMERVILLE, Summer Street, toxic, VFW, ZBA, zoning

LO KEY ENDORSEMENT

Written by CAROLYN BICK Posted August 29, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Why would Somerville Mayor Curtatone be seen with this guy?

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: assembly row, Ball Square, Ben Echevarria, bowling alley, Brawl for City Hall, Curtatone, davis square, Elio LoRusso, extortion, fake news, FBI, FRIC, Matt McLaughlin, SOMERVILLE, Somerville City Hall, Somerville News, Somerville News Weekly, Somerville Times, The Somerville Files, Welcome Project, William Tauro

BULL: DECIPHERING THE VIRAL ‘SOMERVILLE NEWS WEEKLY’ STORY ABOUT AN ALLEGED FBI PROBE OF CURTATONE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted August 13, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

All this says is that Tauro contacted and complained to the FBI. Which is different than an FBI investigation, or so we thought.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: Ball Square, bowling alley, Curtatone, davis square, extortion, fake news, FBI, SOMERVILLE, Somerville City Hall, Somerville News, Somerville News Weekly, Somerville Times, The Somerville Files, William Tauro

HEY ‘PAH

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted June 26, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Film

It’s no leap to say that the conversations we’re having now about sexism and gender representation—in art and in life—are growing perpetually louder. So when we look back at Sam Peckinpah, who directed masculine-minded genre pictures defined by their resolutely cruel tone, we look with a microscope: Was he getting off on the explicit violence? Was he as spiteful of women as he was of the men in his movies? Was he a caricature of John Wayne-era machismo—has his time passed? Many of his films are playing the Somerville Theatre this summer. So while we can’t speak to his character, we can speak to his work. And there’s artistry in his cruelty.

 

When we talk about that artistry, we often do so by talking about aesthetics: The discontinuous, shell-shocked editing of the gunfights in The Wild Bunch (July 15), or the blood-streaked textures of the cinematography in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (August 5). But Peckinpah’s voice is also defined by an abiding interest in the darkest pockets of male existence—in the intricacies of codes of honor among thieves, in the effects of combat on body and mind, and in the psychological causes of sexualized violence. And those interests were clear even back when his movies were filmed with a more functional eye.

 

Take 1962’s Ride the High Country, which—save for some stunning moments set in a preacher’s shack, where Peckinpah shades everyone as though they were under candlelight—visually resembles many other Westerns of its era. The narrative also seems typical: Joel McCrea plays an aging gunman hired to transport gold from a mining colony, and he brings an old outlaw friend (Randolph Scott) and a young buck (Ron Starr) along with him. The latter pair plan to double-cross him for the loot, but then the young one falls for the aforementioned preacher’s daughter (Mariette Hartley), awakening all his moral impulses in the process.

 

We’ve heard this one before. But then the rhythm drops out from under us. Hartley’s character is engaged to one of the miners, and she marries him. It’s only after “I do” that she realizes her beau intends to share her with his snaggletoothed cousins. Peckinpah shoots the whole ordeal from her perspective, lingering on the details as she’d notice them: The tackiness of the local madam, then the shabbiness of the bar they’re in, and then—as the camera shakes with a wildness it never possessed before—the brazen passes of her new relatives. We stay with her point-of-view the whole way through.

 

It’s a sequence that recontextualizes similar incidents in other Peckinpah films, like the traumatic assaults that send Straw Dogs (July 22) into its own fits of furious violence. Beyond the blood, the gore, and the brutal displays of misogyny, there’s a melancholy and a terror, embodied by sequences like this wedding—there’s a lament that a man’s world is the one we’re stuck with.

 

=&0=& SOMERVILLE THEATRE. 55 DAVIS SQ., SOMERVILLE. JULY 1. 8PM/NR/$10. SOMERVILLETHEATREONLINE.COM

 

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, davis square, Mariette Hartley, misogyny, Randolph Scott, Ride the High Country, Ron Starr, Sam peckinpah, sexism, somerville theatre, Straw Dogs, The Wild Bunch

GRILLED TO BE HERE: JOHN DELPHA OF ROSEBUD AMERICAN KITCHEN WANTS YOU TO GRILL PIZZA

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted June 8, 2015 Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE

"Make sure you practice it first before having friends over for dinner."

Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: al forno, backyard, BBQ, charcoal, crust, davis square, grilled pizza, ique, jack daniel's competition, john delpha, providence, rosebud american kitchen, smoke, SOMERVILLE, summer

GRIDDLE ME THIS: GRIDDLER’S BURGERS & DOGS AIMS TO BE INSTITUTION OF FUN

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted March 25, 2015 Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE

“We want to be an institution,” he says. “Not just a chain.”

Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Boston Common, Boston Marathon, Brookline, burgers, cajun ham, chili, davis square, emerson college, euz azevedo, forum, games, hot dogs, kimchi, localvore, the tap trailhouse, wink and nod

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