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Davis Square
Somerville
Red
Funky, walkable, vaguely Portland-y. Once-bohemian, now expensive, still the best square on the Red Line north of the river.
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What to do
- •Film + IMAX at the Somerville
- •BBQ at Redbones
- •Bike the Community Path west
- •Sunday session at the Burren
- •Rosebud Diner late-night
Walking trails
Davis to Alewife — paved, flat, all rail-trail.
Down College Ave past Tufts gates.
Events
- •HONK! Activist Brass Band Festival (Oct)
- •ArtBeat (July)
- •Fluff Festival (Sept, in Union)
Fun facts
- ✦Utne Reader named Davis the #1 'hippest place to live' in 1997.
- ✦Rosebud Diner is in the National Register of Historic Places (Worcester Lunch Car #759).
- ✦The Community Path was once the Boston & Lowell railroad.
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