Union Square

Thursday, Oct. 2: John Ford Coley and Terry Sylvester, lead singer of the Hollies, in concert at Kowloon. Yes, the giant Chinese restaurant in Saugus. $25. 781-233-0077 for tickets and the time the concert starts.

Saturday, Oct. 3: Harvest Fest, which will "bring together some of the finest artistic, culinary and musical talents from in and around the city of Somerville. Samples and demonstrations from local microbreweries will be presented throughout the day." Plus music/multimedia by, among others, Zebbler (better known as one of the Lite-Brite guys). 1-8 p.m., wristbands are $12. More info.

Sunday, Oct. 4: This must be snack-food month in Union Square in Somerville. The weekend after the annual What the Fluff festival comes Going Nutty, in which several local bakeries and restaurants show off their skills in making foods with, well, nuts. $5 donation goes to a high-school music scholarship fund. 2-4 p.m. More info.

Sunday, Oct. 4: Rozzie rats and political junkies will line Belgrade Avenue in Roslindale for the Roslindale Day parade, which kicks off at 1 p.m. at Adams Park in the Square, wends its way through Roslindale, takes a detour through West Roxbury by Holy Name and then ends up at Fallon Field. More info.

Union Square in Somerville hosted its annual What the Fluff festival today in honor of Archibald Query's invention of peanut butter's BFF. Read more

Kathy Weller, one of the sellers at yesterday's Boston Handmade Somerville Marketplace in Union Square, chronicles how she got ready for the market.

Rob Bellinger reports an actual townie sighting in Union Square.

Rob V posts a photo of a sign mounted on a light pole pointing you to the Dunkin' Donuts all of ten feet away in Union Square.

Sushiesque posts photos from yesterday's Fluff festival in Somerville.

Image used under Creative Commons.

The annual What the Fluff is now scheduled for tomorrow, 4-7 p.m. in Somerville's Union Square.

Why were three helicopters buzzing Davis and Union squares around 6 this morning?

DrinkBoston hoists a brew in honor of the Independent:

... The Independent in Somerville's Union Square is kind of like that middle sister who, after an awkward adolescence in which she was often overshadowed by her older and younger siblings, grew up to be the attractive, smart girl who's really easy to hang out with. ...

Jeff Egnaczyk took some photos (like the one above) at today's Fluff Festival in Somerville.

Stephanie Rogers has a write-up and photos. Ezra Ball was there, too. Sassy Sundry has more. Can't get enough? Tony Yang has even more

Flufferettes.

Jesse Kanson-Benanav watches in amazement as a mother helps her young son urinate on an electrical box in front of the Citizens Bank today:

... What in the hell kinda role-modeling is this for your child? You're in the middle of the densest city in New England - there are a hundred businesses in a four block radius. I'm sure ONE of them will let him use the pisser.

Aaron Schutzengel posts photos from the What the Fluff festival, including vital shots of kids getting dunked in a kiddie pool of Fluff during a tug of war.

Karrie posts Fluff photos as well, including one of Fluff Boy.

Jeremy Selwyn, chief snacks officer at Taquitos.net, posts still more Fluff photos, including a candid shot of the dancing Flufferettes. He also makes and devours a tuna, Fluff and hot sauce mix on a cracker.

Wait, this just in! More Fluff and Flufferette photos. And here's a photo of Coney Island Men's Rooms - drinks made with Fluff.

What? You just can't get enough of this stuff? Here are even more Fluff photos, by the immortal Hargo (he of the Somerville Gates).

Java programming geeks, meanwhile, were busy at the No Fluff Just Stuff conference in Framingham.

Hmm, did anybody see Jarrett Barrios?

Just in case you've somehow forgotten, tomorrow is the first What the Fluff? day in Somerville's Union Square. From 3 to 7 p.m., celebrate the gooey glop that made Union Square famous - and state Sen. Jarrett Barrios infamous.

... The Independent has the Fluffernutter Martini, a chocolate martini with Fluff and Reese's Pieces on the rim. Most exotic of all Fluff concoctions is surely the Independent's "Coney Island Men's Room." It's a hot-selling blue martini with a dollop of strawberry Fluff floating on top. ...

Ezra Ball posts photos of the Union Square comic minigolf course.

Jesse Kanson-Benanav, though, wonders if there's too much fun going on in Davis and Union squares, because they're basically bourgeois activities that ultimately help to drive out the city's remaining working-class residents:

... I'm afraid that the concerted effort to develop this arts reputation for the city is a quite effort to spread the gentrification evefurtherer and expand its encroachment into the neighborhoods in the east of the city which it has just recently discovered. Once the vibrant white working class and recent immigrant populations are forced from the city, Somerville will simply be Cambridge without Harvard and MIT. At that point, it might as well be annexed because not being Cambridge is what has always made Somerville special. ...

Union Square hosts the Somerville Open mini-golf tournament, Saturday, Aug. 19, 3-6 p.m.

Come play a mini-golf course designed by local cartoonists and artists!!!

On August 19th we invite you to play a round of golf and celebrate the art of comics. Each hole in the temporary mini-golf course will be designed by a different local cartoonist or artist and will have a different theme. In addition to golf, there will be music, a "customize your golf ball" crafts station, and, at the end of the day (6:30-8:00 PM), a "Draw Your Own Comics" Workshop taught by the artists at the Washington Street Arts Center, 321 Washingston St, Somerville. ...

Jesse Kanson-Benanav reports that on Sept. 30, Union Square Main Streets will put on a production of "What the Fluff," a

celebration of the genius of Archibald Query who toiled here in Union Square to create Marshmallow Fluff in 1917. In an ironic tribute on September 30 join artists, musical and theatrical performers, inventors, and humorists to pay yummy homage to this great American foodstuff in a madcap festival of science meets nostalgia meets urban landscape. ...

And, yes, of course, Jarrett Barrios has been invited.