Silent Films with live musical accompaniment from Jeff Rapsis are coming to the Somerville and Capitol Theatres.

Clara Bow in Get Your Man (1927) in 35mm will be shown on Sunday, August 27, 2:00 p.m., at the Somerville Theatre, Davis Square, Somerville. Richard Barthelmess in Tol’able David (1921) plays on Thursday, September 14, 8:00 p.m., at the Capitol Theatre in Arlington.

~Photos by Claudia Ferro

Project STAR, Somerville’s summer musical theatre camp, presented their original mini-musical on Thursday, August 17, at The West Somerville Neighborhood School. For 6 weeks, the talented Somerville teens rehearsed their play called Enough is Enough. The show addressed school bullying.

It’s an epic weekend on the road in “Girls Trip”– now playing at the Somerville Theatre.

By Dre Joseph

Have you ever been on your way to work or driving around town and a song comes on the radio or your music streaming device and you yell out, “Oh! That’s my song!”? You turn up the volume, blasting your speakers as the bass thumps and rattles your car that has now turned into a time machine transporting you back to when you and your crew use to “turn all the way up” on the regular?

By Joe Beckman

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Since Mayor Capuano’s Affordable Housing Task Force in 1998, people have talked about a 1% transfer tax. Some see it as an “admission fee” to buy and move into Somerville. Some see a penalty for speculators. It was then. At that time, it was designed to support an Affordable Housing Trust Fund to finance rentals.

~Photos by Claudia Ferro
The Ferro family hosted the Sunsetters on Tuesday, August 19 on Kensington Ave. Stop & Shop donated a $25 dollar gift card for snacks and Louie’s Ice Cream on Broadway gave all the Sunsetters free ice cream after their performance.

~Photos by Bobbie Toner

This past summer, MassDOT University conducted the 4th Annual MassDOT MBTA Intern Transportation Institute (ITI). The interns’ graduation celebration took place on Monday, August 21.

By Jim  Clark

A police officer assigned to Assembly Row last week was contacted by Saks OFF 5TH loss prevention personnel and alerted that Brandon Tracy, an allegedly known shoplifter who frequents Saks was in the store and had concealed two pairs of shoes in a brown paper bag.

By Joseph A. Curtatone

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On Saturday, August 12, I – like many people across the country – watched in horror and disgust as the KKK, neo-Nazis, and other alt-right and white supremacist groups descended upon Charlottesville, Virginia, and three innocent people lost their lives. I was appalled that this was happening in the United States of America in 2017.

— Photo by Erin Wade

By Rob Carter

The Somerville Bicycle Advisory Committee (SBAC) plans to use traffic barrels to protect a new bicycle and bus lane created during the recent overhaul to Union Square’s traffic pattern.

“The No. 1 issue for cyclists is the Prospect Street bike lane being used as a parking lane,” said Mike Tremblay, Somerville’s senior transportation planner.

House Bill 2683 is set to get much needed infrastructure repairs going with leaking gas pipes, if it can pass in the State House.

By Erin Wade

The Massachusetts House of Representatives has been in session for over eight months, and state Rep. Christine Barber’s House Bill 2683 hasn’t budged from the Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy, where it’s sat since January 23.

The purpose of the bill is to ensure utility customers don’t pay for the cost of “leaked and unaccounted for gas,” according to the language of the bill.