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After Food Nation and Honk!, Davis Square project looks at funding from a parking improvement district (updated)

by Marc Levy September 9, 2026

The group working to revive Davis Square is feeling good about its first five months, preparing for a big end to its first season and already looking at what’s coming in 2027.

BUSINESS

Somerville’s Out of the Blue art gallery is on the move back to Allston

by Marc Levy August 27, 2026

The Out of the Blue Art Gallery is packed to leave Somerville for the Jackson Mann Community Center in Allston, with some art scattering to Cambridge, Medford and Waltham.

ARTS

Sign of the Dove arts collective has a new home in Porter Square

by Marc Levy August 25, 2026

The art store Sign of the Dove reopens Sept. 1 at Lesley’s University Hall – next to Porter Square Books – in time for the Cambridge Arts Open Studios.

NEWS

Somerville meetings, Aug. 10-17: Fixing up the Armory and saving more room for the arts

by Marc Levy August 9, 2026

Take part in CSO plan community office hours and meetings on Winter Hill school plans, Armory infrastructure needs and preservation of creative space.

ARTS

‘One Night Art School’ event sold out immediately in a Union Square building with empty lab space

by Marc Levy July 29, 2026

Maybe the the arts should be taken more seriously as economic infrastructure, suggests a coalition of local arts organizations and businesses.

BUSINESS

Armory arts building tenants are announced, with Center for Arts at the Armory staying, Out of the Blue leaving

by Marc Levy July 16, 2026

The Center for Arts at the Armory will remain the anchor tenant at the Armory, the Somerville-owned community arts building.

ARTS

With preservation of art studios, Somerville becomes the state’s flagship art city, group says

by Marc Levy June 18, 2026

The preservation of Somerville’s Central Street Studios was marked with a ceremony that, like all art, helped people see their surroundings in a new way.

ARTS

Davis Square Plaza owner agrees to let it be filled through October with musicians and other buskers

by Marc Levy May 18, 2026

An agreement is in place to fill the unused Davis Square Plaza with musicians and other buskers, part of a bigger effort to reclaim the area.

OPINION

Helping music survive is about more than just Porchfest

by Nicholas Marchuk May 10, 2026

The band couldn’t afford to play its monthly jam sessions. What? These guys could fill a room on a weeknight, sell alcohol and not break even?

ARTS

Groups align on reclaiming Davis Square as a home for everyday art, starting Friday with a concert series

by Marc Levy April 30, 2026

Two efforts to revive the square as a community gathering place are at critical stages, starting with a Down in Davis concert series launching Friday.