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TYVEK @DEEP THOUGHTS
TYVEK are returning to Boston to lay down the licks and pummel us with obfuscated yet concerted guitar prowess. It’s not hard to see why these contemporary legends, drenched in the DIY ethos, have managed to slip (purposefully) under the radar for the last 10+ years but hey, that’s just the kind of weirdo sonic anomaly Where we embrace. The Detroit (via Philly) band has scoffed Deep at the “punk mold” since its inception, Thoughts blasting listeners and attendees with a When scrappy, sometimes mangled shriek of 1/6 9pm noise-induced basement rock - making Cost the intimate abdomen of Deep Thoughts $10 the perfect place for this impending erupALL AGES tion. With impeccable taste of their own and indicative of people who constantly strive to know what’s up, TYVEK has requested it’s own showmates to curate a broad-based spectrum of Northeast garage glory. Repping Boston and blending elements of 60’s pop with mild proto-punk undertones is Bong Wish. Alongside them are Connecticut’s Head Room who weave an ebullient sweater of muck rock splatterings. As we stare into the new year it’s good to feel confused, comforted, and curious all of which are most assuredly on the table here. Descend into the chasm that is DT for a night o f ja r r ing yet all e ncom p a ssi ng bl i s s. — MI CHAEL AC H I LLE
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ON RATHSKELLER DAY: WHO REMEMBERS WHAT?
The First in a series of Reports on The Rathskeller by the Boston Compass
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THE UCLA FESTIVAL Of PRESERVATION 1/18-1/31 @MFA
THE PLASTIC DOME OF NORMA JEAN (1966) dir. Juleen CompLucky us! We get to live—after all too many ton (screens 1/26 & 1/28)
Aviary Gallery in JP
lost, lax decades—in a golden age of film preservation, a field in which UCLA’s Film and Television Archive remains the gold Every year, it feels like Boston’s art scene standard and perhaps the busiest body. grows tenfold. It can be hard to keep Even luckier us! We get to live in Boston track of who’s who and what’s what. in January, during the latter half of which As the federal government threatens Where the future of arts nationally and locally, we want to support we can trek day after day to the MFA to check out said MFA Bosto our local artists and spaces now more than ever this year! Here institution’s latest crème de la conserved, restored, and n are three community-based shows this January not to miss: When otherwise rescued gems (or nuggets, I guess) of cine1 /1 ma, among them Howard Alks’ timelier than ever THE 8-1/31 1. Distillery Gallery in South Boston is kicking off the new year with MURDER OF FRED HAMPTON (1971), Alfred Werker’s Cost an exhibition titled “PRACTICE” featuring around thirty artists from pseudo-doc noir HE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948), Juleen $11, $9 for Boston, LA, and New York. This exhibition asks artists to engage in the Compton’s shoe-string odyssey of bohemian feminism members customs sympathetic magic by ascribing meaning, power, and signifSTRANDED (1965), and Donna Deitch’s pioneering lesicance to an object through the ritualistic practice. Ends January 27th. bian romance DESERT HEARTS (1986). Why, there’s even some Laurel and Hardy on the schedule. Come treat yourself to the salvaged treasure, while supporting those who 2. Artist and curator Noah Grigni is partnering with Aviary Gallery to present strive to maintain our precious moving image heritage. “Displaced.” This group exhibition features Boston artists who have responded to displacement, dysphoria, identity trauma, marginalization, and a range of — MAT T HE W MA R TENS other experiences. Some artists have chosen to donate part of the profits from their art sales to the victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Ends January 27th.
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3. Lovers of beer, stories, and stuff will find haven at Thrift Story: So Over the Holidays Edition on January 13th at Aeronaut Brewing from 12pm-5pm. They’re asking the community to donate items with a backstory by dropping off small items and clothing with the story written on a notecard and attached to the object. For more information, visit www.thriftstory.org. —JAM E S ON J OHNSON
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I caught up with Jonathan Sandler, owner of Village Vinyl November 16th was recently marked for commemoration by and Hi-Fi, to hear his thoughts on opening his own place. Mayor Marty Walsh as Rathskeller Day in Boston. It’s hard not Jonathan's been around for quite a while and gave me a bit to read this as an ominous declaration for the future of Bosof Boston record store history here. Village Vinyl opened at ton Art. What I see as another tone deaf move by The Mayor (as 58A Harvard St. in Brookline Village less than two months counter cultural & marginalized voices in Boston are gradualago, a result of his lifetime love of music and collecting, ly erased), must also be a sign of the social values of those who and more recently, his obsession READ A FULL run this city. As DIY artists, musicians and organizers struggle INTERVIEW WITH with vintage hi-fi stereo equipment. to live in this city, the administration checks the art communiJONATHAN SANDLER There's a whole lot going on in this ty off of their “to do” list for another calendar year with a cereON OUR WEBSITE little space, but anyone who's been mony celebrating the death of (perhaps) Boston’s most famous BOSTONHASSLE.COM! knows that it's more than worth the music venue and the dubious hotel room/shrine to said venue, trip. Rows of LPs line the walls underneath original Metallihoused deeply within the upscale hotel that usurped its place ca, Prong, and Voivod posters from his younger days. You in Kenmore Square. The thought process on display here ought might hear some buzzing from one of the back rooms, from to be a wake-up call about the state of emerging arts in Boston. a tech repairing and/or restoring a vintage Phase Linear or We urge the promotion of community art spaces, affordable housing Pioneer amplifier. You can peruse the other back room, and and greater opportunity for those who find themselves increasingly immediately be surrounded by the literal dozens upon on the fringes of our society but nevertheless demand to be heard. dozens of vintage turntables, amps, and speakers. You The state of Boston music and art is perpetually insecure. might walk into the store and think you'll only spend fifFamilies, whole communities, and an endless flow of talented teen minutes there, only to walk out two hours later with artists and musicians are being priced out of this city. The Rat a bunch of obscure 2000's hardcore records, original Blue Suite is now our metaphor for the disconnect between those Note LPs, early 80's speed and heavy metal comps lost to who run Boston and the lives of working people and artists. the ages, or some lightly used golden era NYC hip hop wax. Marginalized voices and artists of all backgrounds are strugNot to be missed by casual shoppers sponsored in part gling while the city showcases pieces of The Rat’s history to by the great or even the most hardcore collecwealthy world travelers who come and go from our beautiful city. tor. Support your local record store! Before we accept the city's commemoration we need to ask —PETER MICANOVIC ourselves: I s this what we want our city’s narrative to be? Are these our values? Who are the people who own and live THIS PAPER IS AN ONGOING PROJECT OF BRAIN ARTS in all of these condos sprouting up like weeds in evORGANIZATION, INC., A 501(C)(3) NONPROFIT. ery corner of Boston and surrounding cities? PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO, VOLUNTEERING OR OTHERWISE SUPPORTING US: — CH RIS HUG H E S A N D DA N SH E A
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Sat 1/13 Horse Jumper of Love, Wildhoney, Mini Dresses, & Strange Passage @Great Scott 9pm 21+ $12
Fri 1/19 I Am Become Death, Ritual Blade, Pummel, Kind Crew, Worst Days, WOT @O'Brien's Pub 7pm 21+ $8
Sat 1/13 Mati (NYC), Bombers, HairFri 1/19 DREAMSCAPE 13 featuring Chris spray Queen, Snub Nose @Democracy Konopka on visuals + Archaic Frequency, Center 6pm All Ages $8 Ellie Denison, Melissa Weikart, Off Land @ Hope Central Church 8pm All Ages $10 Sat 1/13 Brk Fast II: Spednar (PA), Suggested Donation !@#$%, Metafish, Ancient Origin @ Studio 550 8pm All Ages $10 Fri 1/19 Run of the Mills, Rainbow Collapse w/Dr. Bob Singley, Aram Atamian and more @Boston Center for the Arts 7pm All Ages $ome Cost
read the full calendar at bostonhassle.com Sat 1/6 Fur Purse Record Release Show! w/Whore Paint, Shepherdess, Sister @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $10
Tue 1/2 Spectramotiv, Celebuton, Mei Ohara @Zuzu 10pm 21+ $5 Tue 1/2 Red Ledger, Devon Goods, Babylawns, Deep Hole @O’Briens 8pm 18+ $8 Wed 1/3 High n' Heavy, Strange Fuzz, Lipstick Boys, Banshee @ZuZu 10pm 21+ $5
Sun 1/7 Midway or the Highway Open Mic Night w/Angela Sawyer @Midway Cafe 9PM 21+ Free Sun 1/7 Non Event Presents: Wenhua Shi (ArtScience Talk) @ Le Laboratoire Cambridge 6:30pm All Ages $Donate$ Tue 1/9 Non Event Presents: Victoria Shen experimental coffee house @Cafè Fixe 7pm All Ages $5
Wed 1/3 The Endorphins, Fat Randy, Where’s Walden, Dust from 1,000 Years @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8 Thu 1/4 JESUS DRINKS FREE! 1950s-70s country, gospel, soul and RnB spun by 2 atheists @Jeanie Johnston 9pm-Close FREE Fri 1/5 Happy Little Clouds Pool Party: a video release Tue 1/9 Volunteer Hang @Dorchester Art Project or Much for trans rights ft. Rock 6-9pm All Ages FREE! Happy Little Clouds, Carissa Johnson, BLOWW, Magen Tracy & the Missed Connections @Once Ballroom Thu 1/11 Boston DIY Community Talk #1 @The Burrow 7pm 8pm-12:30pm $12-$15 All Ages Free Fri 1/5 KPG, This is not okay, Gash, Sap, Cyberbully @ The Democracy Center 6pm $5-$10 Fri 1/5 Funeral Advantage, Mundy's Bay, Kindling, Pushflowers @O'Brien's Pub 8pm 21+ $10 Fri 1/5 Endgame: Rrose, Aaron J, Lychee @Massasoit Elks Lodge
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Fri 1/5 Kal Marks, (NE) Patriots, Don Gero, Evicshen @ Trixies Palace 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sat 1/6 Strange Fate, Ancient Filth, Meat Dreams @ Lowdown 8pm 21+ $ome Cost Sat 1/6 Beeef, Dark Tones, Dodgeball (NYC), Baby! @ Ted’s Place 8pm All Ages $5-7
Sat 1/13 Pink Navel, Karman Voh, Frigid, Floricane @The Planet 8pm All Ages $5
Fri 1/19 Illegally Blind Presents: Squirrel Flower, TBA @Lilypad 7pm All Ages $10
Fri 1/19 Nice Guys, JOSS, Lea, Blue Ray @ Sat 1/13 Rise of the Giant King Release Trixies Palace 8pm All Ages $5-10 Show ft. Hamstank (Tony Hamoui, Luke Kinnealey, Dan Thorn, Tory Quinn, Sat 1/20 Break the Chains queer dance party! @Make Shift Boston 6pm All Ages $10-20 Thu 1/11 Iron Reagan, Despise You, Cemetery Piss, Left Cross Ryan Bogosian, and more), Oompa, @Alchemy (PVD) 7pm All Ages $15 Cliff Notez, VQnC, Forte Pops, Radclyffe Hall, John E Funk & The Skunks @ Pink Sat 1/20 Black Beach, Wimp, Nick Owen, CYBERBULLY @Makeout Point 8pm Fri 1/12 Dentist, Halfsour, Horse Girl @O'Brien's Pub 8pm Noise Studios 7pm $7 adv $10 door 21+ $8 Sun 1/21 Midway or the Highway Open Mic Sun 1/14 Midway or the Highway Night w/Angela Sawyer @Midway Cafe 9PM Open Mic Night w/Angela Sawyer @ 21+ Free Fri 1/12 Dump Him, Nick Owen, Crime People, max(poetry) Midway Cafe 9PM 21+ Free @Shed Cellar 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Wed 1/24 AlegrA, Baby!, Prior Panic, TempoSun 1/14 True Widow, Kal Marks @ rary Eyesore @Great Scott 8:30pm 18+ $10 Fri 1/12 Edgar Clinks, Strange Mangers, Beverly Tender, Great Scott 8:30pm 18+ $13-15 Squitch @Trixies Palace 9pm All Ages $ome Cost Tue 1/16 The Water Cycle, Self & Other, Thu 1/25 Small Press Collection Reception @ Daytime Wino @O’Briens 8pm 18+ $8 Somerville Public Library (MA) 7pm All Ages Fri 1/12 Vespers 11: Jennie Gottschalk, Katie Porter @Wash- Wed 1/17 Mint Green, Ugly Sun, Tony Free ington Street Art 8pm PM All Ages $ome Cost Bullets @O'Brien's Pub 8pm18+ $8 Thu 1/25 Snail Mail, Lomelda @ Great Scott Wed 1/17 Boston Free Radio Live fea- 8:30PM 18+ $10 Fri 1/12 Upheaval Record Release at ONCE Lounge @ONCE Somerville 8:45pm All Ages $10
Fri 1/12 Wound Man, Tortured Skull, Hairspray Queen, Slow Death, Humor @AS220 9pm All Ages $10
Sat 1/6 Rye Pines, Littlefoot, Nice Guys, Spelling @The Fri 1/12 TMBOY, Novelty Daughter, AKKI, No Intimate, REL @ Farm 1pm All Ages $ome Cost Mercury Lounge 8pm 21+ $10 Sat 1/6 TYVEK, Headroom (CT) and Bong Wish @Deep Sat 1/13 Lyres, Paul Collins Beat, Boston Cream @Thunder Thoughts 8pm All Ages $10…*A Boston Hassle Joint Road Music Club & Rock n' Roll Bistro 8pm 21+ $11-13 Effort*
turing Baby!, sister, DJ Lunamariposa, and Boston Free Radio DJ Leila Safavi @ONCE 8pm 18+ $7-10
Sat 1/27 Aneurysm, BLISS, Knock over City, Weighdown @UnchARTed 8pm All Ages $5
Sat 1/27 Ozlo, Prior Panic, Neck, Vince @Make Wed 1/17 Weather Weapon, Duck That, Out Point 8pm All Ages $5 Luke Martin, Jazz Massagers @Midway Sat 1/27 Notches (last show), Beautiful WomCafe 8pm 21+ $ an, Similar Items, Sap @The Farm 8pm All Thu 1/18 Ramona Córdova, Tica Doug- Ages $7-10 (free under 18!) las, Sarah M, Young Familiar @Bardo 7pm All Ages $10
Sat 1/13 Elephants, Joey Sprinkles, Spelling, Psychic Life Sat 1/6 Nervous Eaters, Watts, David Age & The ReCoach, Idling @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8 grets @Thunder Road Music Club & Rock n' Roll Bistro 8pm 21+ $10-12
Sun 1/28 Midway or the Highway Open Mic Night w/Angela Sawyer @Midway Cafe 9PM Thu 1/18 Shea's Lounge: A Punk Night 21+ Free (January theme TBA) @Jeanie JohnWed 1/31 Tapestries, Saccharine, Strange ston 9pm 21+ FREE Mangers @O’Briens 8pm 18+ $8
Sat 1/6 Steve Norton/Tom Plsek duo @Washington Street Art Center 8pm All Ages $Donate$
Thu 1/18 Deerhoof @Brighton Music Hall 8pm $16
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1/13 Le Feeling (live soundtracks to queer films) + Jesus Cactus @Apohad1/15 A Night of Experimental Offerings featuring: Peter J. ion Theatre (Portland) 8pm All Ages Woods, Id M Theft Able, Overhang, Feedback Queen, Sans $ome Cost Rouge @The Studio (Laconia, NH) rhode island 1/19 Deerhoof, Palm, Olivia Neutron-John and Lina Tullgren 1/14 Karl Blau, Heatwarmer, Wildflower @Apohadion Theatre 8pm All Ages $8 1/3 Skull Cult, Cult Fiction, Goon Planet @Psychic @3S Artspace 7:30pm All Ages $15-20 1/18 Greg Jamie (album release), ColReadings 9:30pm All Ages $6 1/22 U.S. Bombs, Wimpy Rutherford & The Cryptics, FUs @ leen Kinsella, Colby Nathan @Apohadi1/5 Headroom, Bong Wish, Germ House @AS220 8pm Dover Brickhouse 7:30pm 21+ $15 All Ages $ome Cost 1/26 Guy Capecelatro III, Eastern Mountain Time, Peacham, on Theatre 8pm All Ages $ome Cost 1/28 Aisha Burns, Lisa/Liza @Apohadi1/9 Retribution Body, Ember Wreath, TBA @Dusk 8pm Joey Pratt @Sue’s (Rollinsford, NH) 7:30pm All Ages $5 on Theatre 8pm All Ages $ome Cost $ome Cost 1/13 Purling Hiss, Long Hots, Mike Donovan (Sic Alps), Ron & Scott @Root Cellar (Greenfield) 8pm All Ages $7
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1/13 Vermont Crankie Fest! featuring Sue Truman, Ellen Gozion, Mary Lauren Fraser, Kiah Raymond, Brendan Taaffe, and Tony Barrand @New England Youth Theatre (Brattleboro, VT) 7:30pm All Ages $18-20
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1/16 Ovlov, Kal Marks, Don Gero, Bilge Rat @ MAC 650 Gallery (Middletown, CT) 7pm All Ages $10
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1/2 Fern Mayo, Dump Him, Fleabite, Mallrat (solo) @Sunnyvale 8pm All Ages $10 1/13 Glue, Urchin, Never, Chrome Skulls @ Brooklyn Bazaar Basement 9pm $ome Cost 1/19 Royal Trux @Market Hotel 9pm All Ages $25
1/16 Popup Show: Gallery Sitka at the Liberty Hotel @Liberty Hotel 6pm - 8pm
Fri 1/19 LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (2008) dir. Tomas Alfredson @COOLIDGE [35mm] The “not your typical” vampire flick
1/17 Opening Reception: Bakalar and Paine Spring programing @MassArt 6:30 PM
Managing Editor: Oscar Goff Contributing Writers: Kyle Brunet, Oscar Goff, Mat1/18 Opening Reception: Michael Benari: Reali- thew Martens ty-Deconstructed @Leica Gallery Boston 5-9pm 1/5 Opening Reception: Space Invaders @FounMon 1/1 MARX BROS MARATHON @BRATTLE tain Street Gallery 6pm 1/18 Performance: Creighton Baxter @CastleParty like it’s 1939! drone 7pm-9pm 1/5 Poet Author Series: Bell Hooks @Haley Wed 1/3 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) dir. House Bakery Cafe 7:30-9:30pm 1/18 Opening Reception: Art Basil Atlantic Works George A. Romero @BRATTLE Showcase @Atlantic Works Gallery 6-9pm The original zombie flick 1/5 SoWa First Friday 5-9pm New digital restoration! Also screens 1/4 1/19 Immersive Experience: Run of the Mills— 1/5 Opening Reception: Lives in Limbo @Beacon Rainbow Collapse @BCA 7pm Wed 1/3 THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932) dir James Gallery 6pm-8pm Whale @BRATTLE 1/19 Labelled Degenerate @Longy School of Your good ole creepy family 1/5 Opening Reception: Solo 2018 @Broomfield Music of Bard College 8-10pm $20 Suggested New digital restoration! Also screens 1/4 Gallery Donation Thu 1/4 THE GUARANTEED* VIDEO EXTRAVAGANZA! 1/5 Opening Reception: The Depth of Stillness @ 1/20 Performance: Creighton Baxter @Castle@SOMERVILLE Galatea Fine Art 6-8pm drone 5pm-7pm Locally grown video weirdness! Presented by Boston Underground Film Festival 1/6 Closing Reception: Unbound Bodies @East 1/23 Reception: Keepers of the Culture—A Meets West Gallery 7-10pm celebration of two artists @PRX Podcast Garage Fri 1/5 THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN (1957) dir. Val 6:30pm Guest @COOLIDGE [35mm] 1/7 Tour: Cherubs & Angels of Mount Auburn @ Cryptozoological Hammer-time Mount Auburn Cemetery 1-2:30pm $12 1/25 Artist Talk: Marjee-Anne Levine @MassArt 6:30pm Sat 1/6 WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY 1/8 Artist Talk: Marc Handelman @Lesley Univer(1971) dir. Mel Stuart @COOLIDGE sity 7pm-9pm 1/25 Opening Reception: Elements of Abstrac- An acid trip for kids! tion @University Place Gallery 5pm Children's author Melissa Stewart in person 1/9 Artist Talk: Makeda Best @Lesley University
Sat 1/20 OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL @ICA Great new cartoons, eh? Also screens 1/21
1/26 Performance: Reagen Esther Myer @Arts at Sat 1/6 THE SHINING (1980) dir. Stanley Kubrick @ the Armory 7:30-10 COOLIDGE [35mm] Beat cabin fever with Jack and Wendy 1/27 Workshop: Recycling Sweaters into Yarn @ Also screens 1/13, 1/20, & 1/27 Fiber Arts Boston Resource & Innovation Center 10:30am - 1:30pm ($60) Sun 1/7 BREATH (2017) dir. Narges Abyar @MFA Iranian domesticity circa the revolution, through a 1/27 Opening Reception: EXOTICS @Extension child’s eyes. Gallery 7pm Also screens 1/11. Part of the Boston Festival of Films from Iran 1/28 Flameworking Sampler @Diablo Glass School 10am Mon 1/8 DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) dir. Billy Wilder @COOLIDGE [35mm] 1/30 Magazine Launch: Charcoal @BU Howard The noirest noir that ever noired Thurman Center for Common Ground 7:30pm Actuarial scientists Lois K. Horwitz & Hal Tepfer in person 1/31 Fundraising Event: Movers & Shakers 2018 @BCA 7pm ($50) Fri 1/12 THE THING (1982) dir. John Carpenter @ COOLIDGE [35mm] 2/3 Opening: Inaugural Artist-In-Residence Proof that remakes can be better than the original Show: Allison Maria Rodriguez @Dorchester Art Project 6-9pm Fri 1/12 ENTER THE DRAGON (1973) dir. Robert Clouse @VU Ongoing Bruce Lee kicks you in the face Overlays @Krakow Witkin Gallery 1/6-2/10 Free for VU members! Practice @ Distillery Gallery 12/31-1/27 Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hen- Sun 1/14 WESTERN (2017) dir. Valeska Grisebach @ dricks @Bakalar and Paine Galleries 1/17-3/3 COOLIDGE I need to see other people suffer to exist at all. Germans and Bulgarians contest Europe’s manifestA torch. A torch in their hearts.@Gallery 263 ing destiny. 1/11-2/10 Presented by Goethe-Institut Boston
Tue 1/30 MOTHER! (2017) dir. Darren Aronofsky @EMERSON The Bible: the horror movie Free!
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1/10 Artist Talk and Reception: Shantell Martin @Northeastern University 4pm 1/10 Artist Talk: Mika Rottenburg @Lesley University 7pm-9pm 1/11 Performance: Creighton Baxter @Castledrone 7pm-9pm 1/11 How Are You? Show and Tell with Artists in Residence Caitlin Foley and Misha Rabinovich @ Industry Lab 12:30pm 1/11 Artist Talk: Mark Dion @Lesley University 7-9pm 1/11 Lecture: Daniel M. Abramson @Northeastern 6pm - 7:30pm 1/11 Opening Reception: Marca X @Harvard Ed Portal 5pm 1/12 Opening Reception: Artificial Creativity: Neural Network and other Augmented Intelligence Art @Cyberarts Gallery 6-8pm 1/12 Opening Reception: I need to see other people suffer to exist at all. A torch. A torch in their hearts. @Gallery 263 7-9pm 1/13 Thrift Story: So Over The Holidays @Aeronaut Brewery 12pm 1/14 Artist Talk: Kristen Reynolds @Boston Sculptors Gallery 2pm 1/15 MLK Day Open House (Free Admission) @MFA 1/15 Performance: Creighton Baxter @Castledrone 5pm-7pm
Tue 1/16 MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (1985) dir. Stephen Frears @COOLIDGE [35mm] Brilliant young Brits—native and not—in love and business. Fri 1/19 HIGH SCHOOL (1968) dir. Frederick Wiseman @HFA [16mm] Tedium, absurdity rule the halls in this classic of everyday vérité.
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Tue 1/23 THE SEARCHERS (1956) dir. John Huston @BPL SOUTH The ultimate western Free! Wed 1/24 WEIRD LOCAL FILM FESTIVAL #3 @ WAREHOUSE XI What it says-- support your local weirdo! Free! Fri 1/26 THE PLASTIC DOME OF NORMA JEAN (1966) dir. Juleen Compton @MFA Incredible, rarely-seen vintage surrealism! Also screens 1/28 Fri 1/26 THE GLEANERS AND I (2000) dir. Agnes Varda @HFA Already legendary dumpster-diving documentary romance. Followed by discussion with Steven Brown & Jack Leng Mon 1/29 FREDERICK WISEMAN NORTON LECTURE @SANDERS Beyond-legendary documentarian LIVE!
LISTINGS NOTE: Below is the venue abbreviation key: BPL SOUTH - Boston Public Library (South End Branch) BRATTLE - Brattle Theatre COOLIDGE - Coolidge Corner Theatre EMERSON - Bright Lights Emerson HFA - Harvard Film Archive ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art MFA - Museum of Fine Arts Boston SANDERS - Sanders Theatre (Harvard) SOMERVILLE - Somerville Theatre VU - Video Underground (JP) WAREHOUSE XI - Warehouse XI (Somerville) [35mm] – Projected on ACTUAL FILM! (35mm unless otherwise noted) Please see our sister website BostonHassle.com/ Film-Flam for our full listings w/ showtimes and other info. FILM FLAM SEEKS VOLUNTEERS!!! If you would like to get involved with our film section or submit listings, e-mail our film editor at Oscar@Brain-Arts.org
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What do you think when you think of Kenny G? Smooth soprano sax tones? Beautiful curly hair? One of the first investors in Starbucks? That’s right. Kenny G, real name Kenny Goerlick, was one of the first investors of the now omnipresent coffee chain. He was convinced to invest after meeting founder Howard Schultz before the company went public. He also invented the Frappuccino, or at least partially, claiming that he called Schultz early on recommending they make a sort of milkshake drink. I mean, of course the king of smooth jazz would know something about a smooth blended drink. The G man is also one of the most loved artists in China, with his song “Going Home” played across the country at malls, shops and businesses, to signal the end of operating hours. And he is also a +0.6 handicap golfer—which, for those who don’t know, is really good—and won the Pan-Am tournament in 2001 with Phil Mickelson. Oh, and did I mention? Kenny G is a droner and held the world record for longest continually played note (for 45 minutes and 35 seconds) from 1997-2000. Someone book him a show with La Monte Young! Zach plays guitar in a band called Throbbing Chakra, and lives in Philly with his girlfriend Christina and dog snowflake. Christina does the drawings. Email him zacharyfairbrother@ gmail.com or listen throbbingchakra.bandcamp.com. twitter/insta @avantlard
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