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Master Printing opens this coming week in the former site of Union Square Printing. The friendly Nilson Rigonatti and Jim Lima offer a range of services, accepting jobs big and small, from high volume to self service copying, printing and binding, flyers and faxes, passport photos, business cards and laminating. The bright and clean newly renovated store was humming with activity even before the official opening this week. The multi- lingual (English, Portuguese and Spanish) staff are ready to serve everyone in Union Square and beyond.
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One of the great things about new businesses means new jobs and two of the recently opened businesses are looking for staff. At Union Boot Elizabeth LeFavour wants someone to join her sales team and share the fun of bringing clogs and comfortable footwear to the world. The position includes shifts in both her Union Square and nearby Porter Square location. Contact sethlamoreaux@hotmail.com for more information.
And Taza Chocolate is also hiring. Larry Slotnick seeks a Business Operations Assistant for his Windsor Street factory. It's a chocolate lover's dream job to be part of a company in it's early days, doing a whole range of tasks from marketing to bookkeeping, stockkeeping to shipping.
Wouldn't it be nice to walk to work?
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| All Laughs at Upcoming Shows |
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Allow your funny bone to be tickled at upcoming shows at Sally O'Brien's and PA's Lounge.
"Sally O'Briens Laugh Lab" is hosted by Dan Hirshon and Myq Kaplan every Monday night at 7:30. You might remember Myq as the very capable and witty MC from the "What the Fluff?" festival last September. The stage's an experimental space for comics to develop new material and hone their sets. With ten or so performers there's lots of variety and laughs. Shows are free at 335 Somerville Ave.
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Don't let the sober title of "The Union Square Round Table Part Deux" fool you. Over at PA's Lounge the monthly variety show is a hoot. This month special guests include Eugene Miriam who's appeared on Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central, VH-1 and a list too long to share. There's also the hilarious Walsh Brothers. This is one of the last times to catch the duo who are heading off soon to Los Angeles in search of greater fame.
Additional performances by Nick Branigan and George Gfromm, the talent behind the cartoons Honolulu Dogfight.
The show is sponsored by Sherman Cafe and produced by Ben Dryer and Nick Branigan. Doors at PA's open for "The Union Square Round Table" at 8:30 pm on Thursday, January 11. 18+ show and tickets are $7- $10
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| New Residents for 11 Bow Street |
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11 Bow Street has languished for years, with passersby wistfully dreaming of all the stately building could be. The former home to the East Asian Bank, the windows have remained dark, season after season the promising little garden overgrowing with weeds. But at long last changes are afoot.
Diesel Cafe has signed a lease to create a cafe on the first floor and renovations have begun this week. This is the second location for the thriving Davis Square business. Upstairs, The Zeitgeist Gallery has leased 1,500 square feet of space to present a wide range of arts programming. The well known center used to rent a smaller storefront on Cambridge Street in Inman Square. Alan Niedel and the center's board of directors are looking forward to presenting a similar dynamic collection of programming including gallery exhibits, film, music and other performing arts.
Enabling this flowering at 11 Bow Street is the building's owner, Ifeanyi Menkiti. The Nigerian born poet and Wellesley College professor earlier this year bought the Grolier Poetry Bookstore in Cambridge, keeping this national center for poetry alive.
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| Become a Member of Union Square Main Streets |
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Union Square Main Streets, a non-profit organization, is a partnership of local businesses, residents and the City of Somerville to enhance the Union Square business district through active community collaboration. Become involved in making Union Square a more vibrant neighborhood.
Join us for an upcoming event, participate in one of our committees and become a member.
Memberships are $50 for Union Square businesses and $25 for residents and general supporters. Members receive: Free "Attracting Attention" Discount Card providing discounts with Union Square businesses; Tokens to spend at the Union Square Farmers market; Invitations to Special Events and Reduced Costs for USMS Programs; Recognition for Business Members in USMS materials.
Become a Member On-Line! |
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Lights Break Depths of Winter
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| Instead of lamenting the early setting sun Union Square is reveling in the darkness, turning it into the playspace of light. Three temporary lighting installations will sparkle in these winter evenings for residents and visitors.
Commissioned by ArtsUnion and funded by the Mass Cultural Council, three proposals were selected in the competitive process for exhibit in February.
Pictured above is "Light Cycle," Sarah Carier, Jerome Chou, Justin Scherma and Gena Wirth's vision to encircle the center of Union Square in reflected light. Their plan is to afix reflective and glow-in-the-dark tape to the facades of store, down walls, and across sidewalks, a giant waving loop that curls along the patterns of the buildings and streets.
Judith Leeman's "flock step" is a meditation on the various sorts of pedestrians in Union Square. In a video projection shining down onto the Plaza, passersby will interplay with images of yesterday's soldiers, today's pigeons and tomorrow's dancers.
Ricky's Flower Market, at this time of the year is like a garden stilled, dulled and barren in the cold. It comes to life through Jonathan Bachrach's sculpture. "Protochoice" creates a living vine of sparking lights and sound under the awning at Ricky's. A tangle of circuit boards mounted by LEDs carry sparks that run out and through the twisting threads in an ever changing pattern.
The artists are meeting now with local business and property owners. Installations are expected to take place in January and February and will remain in place for about four weeks.
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New Year's Day Flag Raising
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