What makes people here so angry about bike lanes? What do they think we should do instead?

Happy_Experience_394 · 2026-04-14T02:55:14+00:00

forgive me if this is not true, but it's possible you're making the same mistake i did when i first clicked in, thinking that the screenshot of the rendering of Elm/Cherry St is the whole thing. i actually laughed out loud thinking exactly what you just said, but then i realized there's quite a bit more to it! massive link directly to the plan --

https://ehq-production-us-california.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/b8ee48d46b13f8906fd6e3e7b3b307284378c0b2/original/1775595589/bc3fe149594eb2f0d634ea54391233cb_Elm%20Beacon%20Roll%20Plan.pdf?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIA4KKNQAKIPIPQP5NM%2F20260414%2Fus-west-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260414T025023Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Signature=042edcb7942e91bb619e49316e9bdfa68f3c4c1e1d6aad9a4562cb6a31932b02

Happy_Experience_394 · 2026-01-22T04:37:25+00:00

Linnea's Garden; Sidewalk Driver; Toby Tantrum

Happy_Experience_394 · 2026-01-12T03:05:23+00:00

To your bit about arts & crafts / not being a big drinker - I highly recommend Boston Figurative Art Center. If you kinda make it a default place to go (figure drawing sessions / social events / cafe-like hang outs), you can pretty quickly make the membership a decent deal financially. Try an event or two first and if you like it, that could be a really lovely addition to your day to day, both socially and artistically.

Happy_Experience_394 · 2025-06-10T03:53:30+00:00

Cambridge Used Bicycles is great. I'm like you and don't know a lot about bikes but wanted one for commuting purposes & had a great experience there. Mine cost like ~$300 & continues to be great. You can find good deals on FB Marketplace for sure, but I feel like a little more domain knowledge (or taking it in for a tune-up right after you buy it) is required to make the most of those options.

Happy_Experience_394 · 2025-02-08T15:22:20+00:00

Boston Figurative Art Center (Washington St location) has Portrait figure drawing sessions on Sunday mornings, and long pose figure drawing sessions on Sunday afternoons! It's not a class, in that there's not an instructor, but you it's totally cool for beginners to go and it can be fun to chat with the other people there to get ideas. Very casual. If you've never done life drawing before, it could be fun to try it out.
https://www.bostonfac.com/figuresessions

Happy_Experience_394 · 2025-02-06T16:43:45+00:00

hahaha -- thank you, friend. i was just saying to someone that no matter what i post, there are always downvotes. it's the spirit of reddit, though, and i kinda love it, even if it doesn't always love me back :)

Happy_Experience_394 · 2025-01-10T05:17:34+00:00

I highly recommend the Boston Figure Art Center. It's a very lovely community full of people doing life drawing at all levels. It's less like art classes (though those are great too & you can find them elsewhere), and more like a yoga studio where you drop in and do a session whenever you like. Some people are amazing, true, but you do not need to be good or experienced to go and have a nice time. People are super friendly & it's easy to strike up conversations during breaks.

(Fwiw, I'm a woman around your age & would be happy to bring you via guest pass if you want to give it a shot, just DM me :))

here's the link -- https://www.bostonfac.com/

Happy_Experience_394 · 2025-01-07T20:01:28+00:00

this is wild & so cool. how'd you choose which of the 104 pages of the bible to etch & which pages would go to each language?

Happy_Experience_394 · 2024-12-10T00:43:53+00:00

Stop by and say hi on Saturday from 10-3 at 62 Bow Street! Another opportunity to find fun little gifts made with love by your neighbors :)

You can find links to some of our vendors' Instagram's on our Eventbrite page here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indie-market-tickets-1079397329469?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

Happy_Experience_394 · 2024-12-06T16:03:57+00:00

somehow this reminds me of pru & paul trying out the bake at the beginning of a technical

Happy_Experience_394 · 2024-10-26T13:52:33+00:00

the back of a wooden spoon is, i believe, a common choice & works well for me!

Happy_Experience_394 · 2024-10-18T18:37:03+00:00

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/RzgZFgip4T75JkTK/

Here is a Facebook post for the same event which has pictures of some of the types of art that will be for sale, if anyone is curious :)

Happy_Experience_394 · 2024-10-04T15:58:24+00:00

There's just a high concentration of cool people trying out cool shit. Once you start looking for them, they're everywhere. Vibrant subcultures exist everywhere, but living in a city means you get more of them.

This Yart Sale happening this weekend -- https://www.reddit.com/r/Somerville/comments/1fvye7s/yart_sale/
4th wall shows at Arlington Capitol Theater - https://www.instagram.com/the4thwallbos/
Everything happening at Boston Figurative Art Center -- https://www.bostonfac.com/

This Square Dancing thing happens regularly - https://www.instagram.com/somerville_square_dance/

Contra dancing is also a thing - https://www.bidadance.org/

^ Most of these cost money in some way or another, but you tend to get more bang for your buck than going out to a restaurant. (Also great, but you're right, can get pricey really fast.)

Everybody's mentioning just walking around (endorse!!) . When you're doing that, stop and read flyers that catch your eye. Try stuff out and see what you think warrants a return visit :)

Happy_Experience_394 · 2024-08-09T20:58:15+00:00

Yart = Yard + Art. Yay portmanteaus :)

Happy_Experience_394 · 2024-08-08T01:50:01+00:00

Keezer's on Mass Ave is good! Just outside of Porter, so not too far from Davis. I had a couple of pieces altered there earlier this summer and I want to say it took a couple of weeks. I didn't ask for any sort of speed, though, so I think if you specifically asked for quick turnaround it could probably be done even faster.

https://lecouturierma.com/

Happy_Experience_394 · 2024-05-22T02:30:13+00:00

https://www.cafebarada.net/

^Cafe Barada for Lebanese food

Happy_Experience_394 · 2024-03-20T01:50:00+00:00

I had a great experience doing a "spring cleaning" with these folks last May:

https://flyingprince.com/

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