Breakfast/brunch recommendation

[eclecticavatar.livejournal.com]

If you haven't yet eaten at The Neighborhood Portuguese Restaurant and Bakery in Union Square, do so at your earliest convenience. The breakfast/brunch that we had on Saturday was delicious and the portions were just right for the price which was totally reasonable.

I recommend that you go on a nice day so that you can sit outside, however. Inside is a little crowded

Used Book Buyers

[rainbowbride617.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone! I'm looking for some advice for a place in the greater Boston area (the closer to Davis, the better) that buys used books. I've got bags and bags sitting here that need a good home. I love to sell them to a book store where I know they will get a good home. I've got a ton of hardcover fiction and non-fiction. Help is appreciated!

People Still Use Monitors? (and other Free Geekery)

[chuckm.livejournal.com]

I noticed this guy actually found a taker for a Free Monitor. I was about to shell out the $20 to get it recycled, but if people still use them,
I have a 17" Sony Trinitron monitor for FREE that works perfectly with no damage -- just too big for me to take to NYC. Any takers? Same general location -- Cedar St, near Elm.

I also have a random box of old cables I'm disposing of --- USB/ethernet/printer power, a pile of old cards (mostly 10/100 network cards), and some random fun geeky stuff (X11 video transceiver, wireless keyboard w/ old style round connector, Joysticks with sound card connectors, MadCatz multiple RCA input selector for old game systems). Your welcome to come take a look through it and see if anything is useful to you.

Bigger ticket items we're gonna try to sell yard sale style next week (Dreamcast with games, nerf guns etc, CD holders), so be watching for the official announcement.

Greetings & Inquiries

[corruptviridian.livejournal.com]

Hi, friendly denizens of Davis Square. I'm looking for help from the vast powers of the internet.

I'm moving up north in a couple of weeks. Right now I'm in the depths of the South, working on my MFA in book arts (The short version of the bio - I'm a former used bookseller and art teacher, was an art history major, moved from Chicago to New Orleans, and then got some weird idea that going to grad school was a good idea), and I've got two questions.

First, does anybody know of letterpress printers in the area who might trade studio-assistant work for time on their presses? I don't know how to use a C&P flywheel, but I'm good with the Vandercook proof press and the iron handpress (I've done most of my work on a Washington press).

Second, my thesis involves a kind of ... performance/installation thing, with a thousand paper cranes and ritual burning thereof after a certain amount of display time. I can do this down south, but I'd rather do it in a more, for lack of a better term, punkrockart-friendly place. My ideal space would be somewhere post-industrial, and I'd like to have music and suchlike (assuming I can find bands or a DJ or... right, and I can't actually spend money, since I don't have any). It isn't something that lends itself to the quiet, sedate sort of art gallery opening, and also I have some doubt that there are traditional galleries willing to have fire as part of an installation, even smallish and well-controlled ones. If anyone out there has some idea of a place for this kind of thing, or people to contact, I'd really appreciate some leads. The only problem is that it needs to happen soon - I'm aiming for doing my defense in October, and I've got to have all the documentation done for that.

There's some of my work online - reject sheep press & forget gutenberg - if anyone's interested (n.b. the website is very much a rough draft, and the thesis page even more so than the rest of it).

Edit for clarification: Ok, given the risk of fire getting out of control, the burning is something I'd do in as contained a manner as possible. It's not like they actually have to be up while they burn. It is kind of a thought I've had, to send them out on the river, but ... well, I'm not sure how that would go over with the various relevant governmental bodies either. (It's all handmade paper, cotton and linen, pretty much acid-free, although I don't know how damaging the dye would be at this point; all the color is from whatever the rag was dyed with, and it was pretty old rag mostly. I'm not terribly concerned about the ecological impact aside from that, though, 'cause it's all going degrade very fast indeed.)

Audition for The Margaret Ghost

[bex77]

We are looking for actors!

Audition next week for "The Margaret Ghost"
August 1 and 2 at 7 pm at First Church,
89 College Ave. in Somerville, 4 blocks from Davis Sq. T stop.

Theatre@First is holding open auditions for our Fall Show
being performed the weekends of October 12 & 19.

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