This Sunday: SomerStreets 'Monster Mashed-Up' and Oktoberfest on Somerville Ave

[ron_newman]

The final SomerStreets festival of the year will be Monster Mashed-Up this Sunday afternoon on Somerville Avenue, from Porter Square to Union Square.

The street will be closed to car traffic, and will feature live entertainment, "Monster Mash-Up" DJs, a costume parade, chainsaw pumpkin carving demonstrations by Artisan's Asylum, Ghosts of Somerville at the Milk Row Cemetery, a craft fair, and an Oktoberfest at the Union Square end.

Here's a map of all the activities.

Comments

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to this, but somebody really needs to explain to the event organizers the precise meaning of the term "cornhole". I don't think a "cornhole competition" is what it sounds like.

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

Just because *you* get the 7th grade giggles doesn't mean that Cornhole (http://playcornhole.org) isn't a legitimate sport.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is literally the first time I've heard the term "cornhole" used to describe tossing a bean-bag tossing game and I spent my teenage years in Vermont getting dragged to county fairs. Not that I think the game didn't come first, but the name changed for a reason.

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

I guess you've never seen this toddler prodigy:

http://buzzlog.yahoo.com/buzzlog/94508/video-toddler-conquers-cornhole-game

[fangirl715.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it is, but growing up in northern rural NH, that kind of game was a "beanbag toss", and "cornhole," well...let's just say my parents are old-school Yankees with highly colorful vocabularies, shall we?

[boblothrope.livejournal.com]

I happened to come across this poster yesterday:

http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa410/boblothrope/cornhole.jpg