"I Am Aimless and Hungry Always" - Pauline Lim

By Sanjeev Selvarajah

Brickbottom art gallery is hosting the “Strange World” art exhibit at their Fitchburg Street location this month.

Sherry Autor is one of the artists of the show as well as curator, and originator of its creation. “I was thinking about all that has been going on in the past few years; so that made me think that this is a really strange world we’re living in,” she said. Her show is her global kick in the pants and the art featured follows suit by existing as strikingly real abstractions.

Somerville resident Solomon Tsegai (right) recently received some running tips and encouragement from Ryan Hall (left), who last year set the U.S. Boston Marathon Course record, and John Hancock Senior Vice President Diana Scott. Tsegai is training to run the Boston Marathon as part of John Hancock’s employee team. He is running to raise funds for the Ron Burton Training Village.

There are a lot of talented poets at Endicott College in Beverly where I teach. I can name Dan Sklar, Margaret Young, Charlotte Gordon, and today’s feature Abigail Bottome. Well as you know, we’re here today and gone tomorrow, and Bottome illuminates this wonderfully with her poem Extinction. I also included a poem by Dan Sklar, who teaches English at Endicott and has often appeared in Somerville’s Ibbetson Street Press as well as the LYRICAL. To find out about Endicott’s creative writing program go to:  http://endicott.edu.

Feb 24 at the Halle Library on the Endicott Campus noted Poets/Publishers Gary Metras and Mark Pawlak will read from their poetry and discuss their work as editors and publishers.

Endicott College of Beverly, Mass. and the Ibbetson Street Press of Somerville, Mass. launched a Visiting Author Series in Oct. 2010. The series premiered with Boston Poet Laureate Sam Cornish, and followed with award-winning poets Bert Stern and Miriam Levine. The Spring 2011 featured writers for the Series have been announced by Doug Holder, founder of the Ibbetson Street Press and Dr. Mark Herlihy, the Chairman of Humanities at Endicott College.

By George P. Hassett

A 19-year-old woman was grabbed by the throat from behind as she was walking on College Avenue near the Davis Square train station, police said.

The suspect, described by police as a black male wearing a red jacket, whispered in the woman’s ear that he was going to kill her, police said.

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Patricia Salvato, 37, of 25 Brook St., Feb. 7, 12:37 a.m., arrested at home and charged with assault and battery.

Frank Low, 59, of 27A Craigie St., Feb. 7, 11:09 a.m., arrested on Highland Avenue and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license, failure to yield at a stop sign and warrant charges of possession of a class E drug and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license.

Marie Coady, 61, of 4 Washington Ave., Feb. 7, 10:15 p.m., arrested at home and charged with assault and battery.

By William Tauro

Last week The Somerville News reported on a story about a Somerville disabled man, Mike Cote, confined to a wheelchair stuck in the snow at the Sunoco Station on McGrath Highway because of an unshoveled handicap ramp.

Sunoco station manger Javaid Butt along with Sunoco representatives from Sunoco Corporate immediately jumped into action to rectify the problem. They assure the public that this would never happen again.

Steve Blomquist. - Photo by William Tauro

By William Tauro

Steve Blomquist of Medford makes his way through the streets of Somerville turning heads as he bounces by. After a string of snow storms that dumped several feet of snow on the area in recent weeks, he decided to take it to a higher level.

Blomquist travels around the city on stilts and is able to walk around deep puddles and over snow mounds with a single bound and never gets his feet cold or wet.

The hardships of a Brazilian immigrant family living in Boston illegally are the subject of Identidade, also known as ID, an independent film directed by Alex Ferro, which will be screened at the SCATV studio (90 Union Square) on Thursday, February 24 at 7 p.m.

By Ashley Taylor

You need an ID to drive, to drink, and to smoke. What those born in the U.S. can take for granted is that you also need an ID—be it a social security number, visa, or green card—to live and work here. The hardships of a Brazilian immigrant family living in Boston illegally are the subject of Identidade, also known as ID, an independent film directed by Alex Ferro, which will be screened at the SCATV studio (90 Union Square) on Thursday, February 24 at 7 p.m.

A Somerville man has been sentenced after being found guilty in connection with the January 17, 2009 murder of Romeo Murray, 17, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone informed the public.

Joseph Palmisano, 23, of Somerville, was found guilty yesterday by a Middlesex Superior Court jury on charges of murder in the second degree and one count of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Middlesex Superior Court Judge Howard Whitehead sentenced the defendant to life in prison with the eligibility of parole for the murder charge and 4 to 6 years in state prison for the assault and battery with a dangerous weapon charge.