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Home & Property

Have You Seen the Barbie House in Somerville?

If there’s two things the Internet loves, it’s 1) crazy real estate and 2) all things Barbie. So naturally people flipped out when this home […]

Arts & Entertainment

Somerville’s Very Own TikTok Triplets Wrap Inaugural Tour in Cambridge

You could call it something of a homecoming. Somerville’s very own Sturniolo Triplets will end their first national trek, the Let’s Trip Tour (get it?), […]

Home & Property

On the Market: The Somerville Home That Comes with a Mysterious, Thousand-Pound Safe

38 Otis St. #2, Somerville Price: $525,000 Size: 1,230 square feet Bedrooms: 4 Baths: 1 Here’s your chance to get into the one quarantine hobby […]

Restaurants

Get Fluffed with These Amazing Fluff Centennial Specials

Somerville celebrates its most famous invention at the 12th annual What the Fluff? Festival this weekend, and with it being the confection’s centennial year—Archibald Query […]

Arts & Entertainment

Somerville Is Throwing a “Pity Party”

Greg Cook was having a hard time. Plagued by a series of personal misfortunes, the local artist and writer began browsing self-help resources online. One […]

City Life

A Brief Interview With the Boston Yeti: ‘I’m a Vegan’

When he’s not delicately placing his paw-like hands on parking meters, wondering if he’s exempt from parking bans, or centering his mind during an outdoor […]

City Life

There’s a Yeti on the Loose in Boston

Officials from the Animal Rescue League may have successfully captured the Lowell Goat, but there’s another wild creature afoot, and he’s roaming the streets with […]

City Life

President Obama Calls Boston Public Radio, Says He’s Former Somerville Resident

President Barack Obama and Governor Deval Patrick are long-time friends. That’s why on Thursday, when Patrick took part in his final “Ask the Governor” segment on […]

City Life

Somerville Will Hand Out ‘Scarlet Letters’ for Unshoveled Sidewalks

When Hester Prynne gave birth to a child out of wedlock in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter, she was forced to wear a glaring […]

City Life

Take a Neighborhood Holiday Lights Tour By Bike

Some look “kitschy” and others are more “professional” in terms of their general arrangement, but all in all, the light displays outside people’s homes in […]

City Life

Tufts Students Organizing Protest In Response to Eric Garner Decision

A day after thousands of people took to the streets of Boston to protest a New York grand jury’s decision not to indict a white […]

City Life

EverGreen Delivery Brings Christmas Trees to People’s Homes by Bike

Jimmy Rider considers himself a “glorified reindeer on two wheels,” delivering a bit of the holiday spirit straight to people’s front doors each year. But instead […]

City Life

From ‘Slummerville’ to Somerville

The terms “sketchy,” “shady,” and the “armpit of New England” are just a few of the words that have been used to describe the city […]

City Life

No Gas, No Problem

People stare at Daniel Theobald when he drives his kids to school. They look at him when he cruises through the streets of Somerville and […]

City Life

Green Line Extension Plans Include Lots of Space to Store Your Bike

The MBTA recently held a community meeting about the nearly complete design plans for two more Green Line Extension stops—the Union Square and Washington Street […]