By Margaux Maxwell

The Saturday show had all the usual weirdness and aerobatics of the circus act. — Photo by Margaux Maxwell

Cirque Us! announced the theme of their 2016 summer tour at their first fundraiser show this Saturday, March 19 at Aircraft Aerial Arts in Somerville: One Man’s Trash, a Repurposed Circus.

The Saturday show had all the usual weirdness and aerobatics of the circus act: clowns, tightrope walkers, acrobats, trapeze, music, jugglers and stunts (without the animal cruelty). But with a crew that moves towns every week and can be seen at an affordable price of $10-15, Cirque Us! brings something else to communities.

EXTRA! EXTRA! EXTRA! The Somerville Journal office has left the city and moved to Danvers. Is that a sign of The Times? The long established Somerville Journal has been losing readers over the past 10 years or so and the only feature that people bought the paper for was Speak Out, but that ended late last year. The Cambridge Chronicle and Somerville Journal both were longtime local weeklies, many decades as community papers that have become regional papers, but now moved on. The Cambridge Chronicle has moved to Lexington, which is two towns away, but the Somerville Journal will be run out of the Danvers office. Are they trying to tell us something with that move? Guess this means we are now the only locally owned and operated paper, which by the way has significantly increased its readership in Somerville over the past several months. We are right here at 699 Broadway, in Ball Square, while the other so-called paper is a post office box, or you have to make an appointment to go to their office. We could go on, but our readers know the difference, don’t you?

By Jim Clark

GateHouse CEO Kirk Davis has not been reached for comment regarding the Journal’s relocation.

The parent company of The Somerville Journal, GateHouse Media, has decided to move its office out of Somerville, opting instead for a new location in Danvers.

The move by GateHouse Media, a subsidiary of New York-based New Media Investment Group, is one of a series of cost-cutting measures recently implemented by the company.

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On a recent visit to Slumbrew, I tried some of their rotating brews, including the Yankee Swap (2015), a barrel-aged Belgian Quad aged in rum barrels and the Super Luma, a triple IPA version of their Luma Luma. If you’re thinking of trying a new brew, check out the sampler fights or customize your own.

By Jim Clark

On the evening of March 17, police responded to a report of someone damaging a gate at a Stone Ave. location.

Upon arrival, the officers met with the reporting party and were told that a man had been pulling at a wooden gate on the victim’s property. When the suspect, later identified as Edward Tarencz, was confronted by the victim he reportedly tore a piece of the gate off and said to the victim, “I’ll burn you alive.”

Erring on the side of caution is all fine and good, but it can be taken a bit too far from time to time.

Case in point: the curious matter of calling “snow emergencies” whenever the slightest hint of a flurry makes the evening news weather forecast.

By Ross Blouin

The highest priced single family home listed and sold here in Somerville recently closed last week at 63 College Avenue, just two blocks out of Davis Square, by The Norton Group Real Estate, Donald Norton, Broker/Owner.

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Ibbetson Street literary magazine has been based in Somerville, Mass since 1998. It was founded by Doug Holder, Richard Wilhelm and Dianne Robitaille–all Somerville residents. The name comes from 33  Ibbetson Street in Somerville where the magazine was birthed. Since then the magazine has moved to School St. in Union Square. This is a review of our latest issue:

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Somerville poet Steve Jordan writes: “I grew up in the Chicagoland area, and received my degree in English education from the University of Illinois, my masters in creative writing from Northwestern University and my second Masters at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. I studied poetry at Harvard University with Joanna Klink. I currently teach high school English in Cambridge, Ma. and was the recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching.”

Arrests:
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 Tucidides Zabala, of 2 John Elliot St., Roxbury, March 14, 7:18 p.m., arrested at Broadway on multiple charges of assault with a dangerous weapon.

Angela Grassa, of 81/2 Woodman St., Lynn, March 15, 8:42 a.m., arrested at Franklin St. on charges of failure to stop for police and disorderly conduct.