Union Square

No flaming hula hoops on his watch

adamg — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:16:58 -0400

Allison Stevens watches a fire inspector at the Fluff festival.

Fluffed up

adamg — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:40:15 -0400

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

Image used under Creative Commons.

Fluff out

adamg — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:30:53 -0400

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

And were they black?

adamg — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:11:06 -0400

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

The ugly duckling of Somerville bars

adamg — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:04:32 -0400

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. ...

Fluff fotos

adamg — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:46:00 -0400

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.

Wicked pisser

adamg — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:03:03 -0400

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.

Fluffy photos

adamg — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:50:59 -0400

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?

The Fluffiest festival ever

adamg — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:19:02 -0400

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. ...

Too much fun in Somerville

adamg — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:13:06 -0400

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. ...