woof.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

Dear Neighbor Across the Bike Path,

I think you should know that I am an avowed pacifist, and a lover of animals and humanity.

This means that if your dog barks for an hour straight between 8 and 9am next Sunday, too, I will not come over there and strangle it. Even if I've been out at work until 1am the night before, again.

It is possible, however, that someday I will snap.

If this were to happen, I would feel great sadness and remorse, and my sleep would be wracked with guilt. But at least it would not be interrupted by your dog all morning.

with all the love and compassion I can muster after listening to your effing dog bark for an hour,


-Your Neighbor

Discount on yoga in Union Square and more

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Special Spring Offer from Bow Street Yoga (Union Square, Somerville)
From April 24 to 30, 2011, donate clothing for Second Chances and enjoy a discount on yoga at Bow Street Yoga: $15 off a ten-class or one month pass. Details and directions »

Coming Soon: June Public Clothing and Coin Drive (Union Square, Somerville)
Please join us on June 22, 2011 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Somerville Community Growing Center - details in early June.

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Rev. Molly Baskette returns to First Church after cancer and chemotherapy

[ron_newman]

Big article on the front page of today's Boston Sunday Globe:

Into the light: She helped bring new life to a struggling church, then faced a threat to her own from cancer. The Rev. Molly Phinney Baskette finally returns to the pulpit today, with an Easter story to tell.

Rev. Molly's blog is here: http://revmolly.tumblr.com/

Stilts and Stained Glass! (with Parts and Crafts, at Somerville Open Studios)

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Somerville Open Studios is next weekend, and our studios are open, open, open!

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In a grand act of alliteration, we're going to be doing final take-apart of the Streetbeest (www.streetbeest.org) during Somerville Open Studios and making -- stilts! Dozens of them! We have more wood than we know what to do with. Our goal is to give every kid in Somerville a pair of stilts and have a swarm of stiltwalkers for the next honk parade!

In addition to that, a very special repeat workshop with Terry Murray the Inventor Mentor -- stained glass contraptions! It was a blast back in September, so we're doing it again! Plus some mad drumming with Clay Ward (whom some of you know from maskmaking). Come by and make something awesome!

Workshops are free, but registration is required so we can get a ballpark on materials. Details below!

What: Stilts and Stained Glass at Somerville Open Studios!
Where: Parts and Crafts! 155 Powder House Blvd at the Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church
When: Saturday, April 30, from 12-3
Cost: Free! ($5 suggested donation for materials)
Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1609489025

For more information, visit www.partsandcrafts.org or email contact@partsandcrafts.org

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Snow's all gone, winter is over at last!

[ron_newman]

Some time between 3 and 4 o'clock this afternoon, the last bit of snow behind Rite Aid finally melted or evaporated. Winter is officially OVER.

(thanks go to unferth for today's observation)

World music concert May 1st

[ccsomerville.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone,   I live in Davis Square, and I am part of a world music non-profit group called The Halalisa Singers.  We are performing at the First Parish Church in Harvard Square next Sunday, May 1, at 3:00 pm.  The program includes songs in Spanish, Yiddish, Japanese, Sotho, Zulu, and Old English. The music is beautiful and fun, and appropriate for kids five and older.  Tickets can be purchased through our website; the concert description is below.  Please join us!   Wallking in the Cradle of Our Land Halalisa Singers Lexington and Cambridge April 30 & May 1   Join the Halalisa Singers on a moving and magical journey through land and sea in a concert of nature-inspired vocal music. The varied international repertoire explores themes including human connection with nature, the pull of homeland, and the majesty of Mother Nature. The concert’s title song, “Walking in the Cradle of Our Land,” is Malcolm Dalglish’s ode to the planet. Also included in the program is Eric Whitacre’s “Seal Lullaby,” Frank Tichelli’s “Earth Song”, Simon & Garfunkel’s “April, Come She Will,” the Japanese folk song “Furusato,” the 19th-century Yiddish song “O, Kum Shovn Stiler Ovnt,” an arrangement of “The Lake Isle of Innesfree,”  Brian Tate’s rousing “Home in D’Rock” in which the singers rock out in a gospel tour de force, and Folk singer-songwriter Patty Griffin’s moving, gospel-tinged tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., “Up to the Mountain."  Music will be interwoven with text from one of America’s most famous nature writers, Henry David Thoreau.   Come join the Halalisa Singers as they usher in the season of new beginnings with beauty, joy, celebration, and reverence.  A special collection will be taken for Japanese disaster relief efforts. Tickets: $15, $12 students & seniors Info: Tickets & Information at: www.halalisa.org, info@halalisa.org

Visit the Halalisa Singers official website