one week reminder DS meetup on the 20th

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

This is your traditional one week reminder that we are having a DS meetup next week. We meet starting at 7pm in the back room of the Burren. I hope to see many of you there on Wednesday the 20th.

I'll try to get the tables near the back left corner.

Samara Yoga Studio Open House this weekend

[quinnesocrates.livejournal.com]

Hi guys,

Samara Yoga Studio (249 elm street next to the Burren) is having an open house this weekend (Oct 16-17). There're going to be free classes, free acupuncture, free massage, live music, and a potluck.

Here's a Somerville Local First article with more info: http://somervillelocalfirst.org/2010/10/samara-yoga-yoga-in-the-heart-of-davis-square/

Sounds like it should be a good time!

Food For Free Fundraiser, this Friday the 15th

[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

This Friday, the 15th, from 6 to 10 PM is Food For Free's sixth annual Party Under the Harvest Moon fundraiser at MIT's Morss Hall. Tickets are $50 online, $35 for students, and $60 day-of. I'm plugging it here because I think it's a cool event and a great cause, and because it has a lot of strong Davis-area ties.

The Org

Food For Free is a Cambridge-based "food rescue" organization. Their main schtick is picking up surplus food from grocery stores and farmer's markets and such (including the Davis Square market), and distributing it to food programs (including Somerville's Project Soup and Hearty Meals for All, and Porter Square's Helping Hands food pantry). This allows them to distribute huge quantities of fresh, healthy food (they expect to top a million pounds of food this year for the first time--that's 500 tons) at a cost of about 30¢ per pound.
In the economic downturn, their work has become more important than ever.

The Party

Party Under the Harvest Moon is Food For Free's only regular fundraising event. I've been a volunteer or guest every year, and have always had a great time. There's an open bar with beer and wine, delicious apps donated by lots of local restaurants (including Redbones, Dave's, Kickass, and Diesel), and live music.
There's about sixty silent auction items, including gift certificates to Christopher's, West Side Lounge, Cambridge Common, and Nomad, (to just mention ones in walking distance of Davis) with all the proceeds going to FFF.

Other inducements include the Car Talk guys, me in a necktie, and Morss Hall's epically bizarre allegorical mural, featuring Thomas Edison as played by a bleached Neo from the Matrix.