This unexpected location is where you will find the fifth and final Project MUM tonight from 9pm-1am. An outdoor dance party presented by ARTSomerville, this year’s Project MUM is a tribute to George Clinton and the P-Funk Mothership, so be prepared for DJs (featuring  DJs Flack, Pace, Axel Foley, Wayne & Wax and Brother Cleve) spinning funk records, a video space mashup by VJ Dziga, and Carey Foster and Peneny Pinnette’s Space Girls and Aliennettes.

Check out this video from last year’s festivities.

$10 at the door.

Team USA scrums vs. Canada at a tournament back in June.

The Women’s Rugby World Cup begins August 20 at Surrey Sports Park in Guildford, England. Jamie Burke, co-captain of Team USA, is a Somerville resident.

One of 12 international teams to qualify for the World Cup, Team USA enters the tourney in “Pool B,” along with England, Ireland and Kazakhstan. The first match is against Kazakhstan on August 20. “We don’t know a lot about Kazakhstan, and they are the reigning Asian champs,” says Burke. “We haven’t played them before. They tend to run some nontraditional positions and roles so it could be a little confusing on defense.”

Only six of the team’s 26 members have playing experience from the 2006 World Cup, at which Team USA placed fifth. Burke is one of the six. “We’ve been trying to impart [to the newcomers] how intense it is, spending a month playing rugby in this high-pressure environment of international matches,” she says. “The World Cup is its own beast.”

The tournament runs through September 6.

Folk Arts Quartet: Ivonne Hernandez, Liz Davis Maxfield, Jenna Moynihan and Lea Kirstein.

The performance was organized by NotloB Folk Concerts. Established in 2007, NotloB is an organization that aims to bring the best local and touring roots, blue/newgrass, traditional and contemporary folk, Celtic, and blues artists to audiences. They have shows in Jamaica Plain at the Loring-Greenough House and in Newton at the Jackson Homestead in addition to the Somerville venue. All of the concerts are volunteer-run and not-f0r-profit.

Friday’s concert features Folk Arts Quartet, a group that “breaks musical molds by fusing the worlds of folk and chamber music to produce a cross-over genre they call ‘ChamberGrass.’” Combining innovation and edge with a solid understanding of classic compositions, Folk Arts Quartet performs original songs as well as traditional Celtic and folk selections.  Their current lineup is Liz Davis Maxfield on cello, Ivonne Hernandez and Jenna Moynihan on fiddle, and Lea Kirstein on viola.

Suggested minimum donation is $12 at the door and $10 if a reservation is made at least 24 hours in advance. It is $10 for students (with ID) and seniors and $5 for children under 13. Email  notlobreservations@gmail.com for reservations.

Here’s a link to a video of one of their performances: Folk Arts Quartet

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Attendees enjoyed good food, music and lots of fun!

James Conforti, co-owner of Gargoyles on the Square, says he's "ready to move on to another young chef" if Jason Santos becomes the head chef at Savoy Grill in London.

In case you missed Tom Nash’s story in The Somerville News or Donna Goodison’s piece in Friday’s Boston Herald or the Inside Track piece in Thursday’s Herald, we’re here to tell you: There’s a celebrity chef in town, he works at Gargoyles on the Square (219 Elm St) and his fame will come to a head on national TV on Tuesday night.

In honor of the occasion, there’s a viewing party at Gargoyles on Tuesday night (August 10) at 8pm.

The chef is Medford Square resident Jason Santos, 34. The TV show is Fox’s Hell’s Kitchen, a so-called reality program in which chefs compete for the “prize” of working at Gordon Ramsay’s Savoy Grill in London.

Now in its seventh season, Hell’s Kitchen averages seven million viewers per episode. Santos, who has worked at Gargoyles for five years, now has a publicist and (at last count) 427 followers on Twitter.

In the wake of such newfound popularity, you might think Santos would be hard to get a hold of. In fact, we were able to reach him Thursday afternoon by simply dialing Gargoyles. But first, we spoke to co-owner James Conforti (pictured above), who picked up the phone.

Conforti was confident he could promote from within — choosing one of his five line cooks — to replace Santos as executive chef, if Santos were to take the job in London. He added that Gargoyles had been getting more inquiries about jobs since Santos began appearing on television.

How has “Hell’s Kitchen” boosted business at Gargoyles? Conforti noted business was up roughly 15 percent from last summer. “Of that 15 percent, I’d [credit] 10 percent of it to the show,” he says. The other five percent he attributes to a slight recovery from last summer’s recession.

When Santos came to the phone, he seemed amazed and bemused by his celebrity status. “I was with Theo Epstein yesterday on the field at home plate. That never would have happened before the show.”

He also shared that this was not his first brush with national television. When he was 19, he appeared on the “Today” show for a cooking segment. He does not remember what he cooked. At the time, he was working at Tremont 647 in the South End. It was for this appearance that Santos decided to dye his hair blue. “I’ve had blue hair for almost 16 years now,” he says proudly.

This particular season of Hell’s Kitchen was recorded nearly a year and a half ago. Yet millions of people believe everything could change for Santos on Tuesday night. “The American public have no idea,” he says. “I have people ask me if I go to L.A. every single week to tape the show.”

He is especially bemused by how the public has linked him romantically to Holli Ugalde, a chef from California whom he opposes in the season finale. “One hot-tub scene, and people ask if we’re married and if we live together,” he says.

On Thursday night we stopped by Gargoyles to snap photos of Conforti and Santos to accompany this blog post. Conforti was in the house, but “the chef just left the building,” he told us. Santos was bound for Providence to do a cooking segment on the “Rhode Show” — an early morning program on the local Fox affiliate.

This kid is totally bored! Get her to the Community Growing Center, quick!

So all kids have different personalities, different interests, different likes and dislikes, of course. But every summer, there seems to be one similarity that surpasses everything else : after finishing the school year, all kids become plagued with boredom. I myself recall whining three little words frequently in June, July, and August: “Moooooooom I’m BORED!”

So to help I’ve put together a small sampling of this weekend’s activities for kids in Somerville based on three different personality types. For more stuff to do in the city for kids and families, be sure to check the Scout’s calendar.

For the Quiet, Book -Wormy Type: According to the Somerville Public Library,  kids entering 2nd -4th grades who “enjoy deep listening and thoughtful discussion” are best suited for Water: A Philosophical Dip. The event, part of a Philosophy for Kids series, will include songs, activities, and discussion aimed at exploring water on a deeper level and will pose questions such as, “Does water have rights?” Thursday, 2pm. Somerville Library, Central Branch, 79 Highland Avenue. http://www.somervillepubliclibrary.org/

For the Outdoorsy Type: We’ve covered the book worms, but what about the kids who…just love worms? There’s Critters in the Soil at the Community Growing Center. This program is led by environmental educator Paula Jordan and promises to add information and education to the usual romp in the dirt. Sponsored by the Friends of the Community Growing Center’s Children in Nature Initiative. For children ages 3-5. Friday, 1-3pm. 22 Vinal Avenue. http://www.thegrowingcenter.org/

For the Sports Fan (or the Aspiring Police Officer): Come watch law enforcement officials, youth service workers and local teens battle it out on the basketball court during the Annual Metro Mayors Basketball Tournament. Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Quincy, Revere, Winthrop and Somerville all have teams participating in this five-on-five tournament hosted by the Metro Mayors Coalition. 9:30am-2pm. Trum Field. http://www.mapc.org/regional-collaboration/metro-mayors-coalition

photo courtesy of blog.talkingphilosophy.com

Left to right: cornerback Briannah Gallo, tackle Kelly Barker and quarterback Allison Cahill, three of the Militia's twelve 2010 All Stars.

We’re more than a little proud of the Boston Militia, who completed a perfect season (11-0) by winning the International Women’s Football League title on Saturday, July 24, soundly silencing the formerly undefeated Sacramento Sirens, 39-7.

Here at Scout, we’ve been high on the Militia from Day 1, previewing the team in our Spring, 2010 issue. Nothing starts a bandwagon like a title run, and we’re as pleased as anyone that the Boston Globe, at last, has taken notice of the superb squad that calls Somerville’s Dilboy stadium its home.

photo by Kelly MacDonald