THINGS TO DO INSTEAD OF BOSTON CALLING
Is everyone excited for the next commercialized, commodified, “alternative” music fest to descend on Allston/Brighton this month?! NAHT. Yet again we’re getting blasted with all the hype that surrounds Boston’s (new?) nationally sized music fest - showcasing the best music has to offer?? Yeah right. A small “local” stage? Give me a break. As if having capitalism dripping from every corner of this fest wasn’t enough, here’s a direct fact for your brain matter - a developer of Boston Calling, and so called “supporter of the arts” was and is involved with the closing of the legendary EMF building near Central Square. FUCK that. In the name of actually supporting the foundation of the arts and music scene in this city, how about heading to Somerville instead for a casual stroll through the sonic anomalies that will permeate its streets, stoops, and stairwells for PORCHFEST! For the better part of Saturday the 12th, those who make art and music for the sake of it will be showcasing their talents for any and all passerby. Forget inflated ticket prices and $10 Evian drink your water from the hose like the rest of us and come listen to the true soul of the city. OR invest the cost of that BC ticket into some gas and take a little road trip to Winooski, VT for the next iteration of Waking Windows - a fest with its priorities straight. Spread across the entire town at bookstores, outdoors spaces, record stores, churches, and traditional, intimate music venues, Waking Windows brings an eclectic lineup of TRULY independent music, art, and comedy to their 8th year - as well as workshops, craft fairs, film screenings, and more. Contrary to what Facebook wants you to believe, there’s plenty else out there besides Boston Calling this May. Don’t get lost in the algorithm. —Mike Achille
TRASH IS TRAGIC // PART 2: ZERO WASTE KITCHEN
NATIONAL POSTER RETROSPECTICUS POP-UP @UNION PRESS IN SOMERVILLE 5/56 NOON-5PM
Bop on over to Union Press in Prospect Hill, Somerville May 5th and 6th to check out an array of hand printed posters. Union Press is strengthening the antique tradition on letterpress printing. By using woodblock and metal type, pages are assembled (backwards!) and run through a machine to make all sorts of print material. This is a skill combining mechanics, design aesthetic and lots of patience. They will be hosting the National Poster Retrospecticus and their traveling exhibition. New Prints from the series Forty Nine Parks will be showcased, showcasing letterpress as well as multiple other kinds of print processes. Limited edition prints about each national park have been created for viewers like you to take home, including some quirky variants. Five percent of proceeds from the posters will go to the National Parks Service. Other artists will be showcased, and food and letterpress demos will be available. Union Press has been a long time supporter of Boston Hassle and The Compass, so give them some love for us. Even if you can’t make this pop-up, be sure to check out the shop by making an appointment! [Union Press, UP@unionpress.com, 440 Somerville Ave., Somerville, MA 02143] (This weekend is also Somerville Open Studios, so there will be plenty to see if you need an excuse to make it up there) —Chloe Dubois
COME HANG AT OUR 100 BIRTHDAY 5/31 @ GARMENT DISTRICT
Hello my trashy babies! In the inaugural Trash is Tragic, we learned the basics of trash-free grocery shoppin’. Readers suggest I use PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY to better illustrate the column, so I had Peaches take some photos at the grocery store and GUESS WHAT, we got lectured by the manager. It’s OK. We’re gonna keep doin’ what we’re doin’ and showin’ you how. This month’s Trash is Tragic, we’ll go on an INTIMATE TOUR of my kitchen to learn, in words and pictures, how to TRASH-NEUTRALIZE. Since you live in Massachusetts, you probably already have a PhD in this, but didya know: plastic bags are made of PETROLEUM OIL and take, on average, 1000 YEARS to biodegrade? Average time the “consumer” makes use of that bag? A couple stinkin’ minutes (womp womp). Whilst unemployed, the plastic bag has many years to kill; maybe it’ll take up a hobby and choke a dolphin, 20 seagulls, a school of flounders, ten guppies, two sharks, and constipate a whale before calling it a day. Joking aside, once I began seeing plastic as the logistical waste problem it is, I couldn’t unsee it’s flagrant misuse. I’m just like the little boy in the Sixth Sense, not just because I hang out with Bruce Willis IRL, but because I see the past (oil), present (short-term, cheap item), and future (landfill/dolphin blowhole eternity) of every plastic item I come across. It makes me super fun to hang out with. But hopefully, because I see death everywhere, you don’t have to. Just go to the Hassle website and look for Trash is Tragic! —Melanie Bernier
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UMETSUGU INOUE, JAPAN’S MUSIC MAN, FRI 5/4 - SUN 5/13 @ HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE ALL SCREENINGS $9
There is an old adage when discussing musicals, that goes: “If you can’t say it, you sing it, and if you can’t sing it, you dance it.” This mantra best captures what I find so intoxicating about movie musicals: they craft a depth of emotion which, although perhaps without “realism,” somehow appears more humane and lifelike. In its hyper-emotion, the movie musical can express emotions that mere words and gestures fail to capture. This month, the Harvard Film Archive, along with the Inoue & Tsukioka Movie Foundation, presents a sampling from movie musical master Umetsugu Inoue. Although perhaps not as well-known to Western audiences, Inoue made over one hundred movies in his lifetime in Japan and Hong Kong, and became particularly known for his musicals there. Beginning with Inoue’s first musical blockbuster THE STORMY MAN, The HFA will also screen THE WINNER, THE GREEN MUSIC BOX, THE EAGLE AND THE HAWK, and, finally, the colorful, energetic HONG KONG NOCTURNE. COME FOR THE SONG, BUT STAY FOR THE DANCE. —Nick Perry
PLACES YOU CAN HANG: FRAMER'S WORKSHOP! IN BROOKLINE VILLAGE
You ever get one of those random NIFTS in yer email? I got one (from someone I know and love) so I figured I would follow through for a larf. But lo and behold, it led to a priceless discovery that was right under my nose all along—the Framer’s Workshop in Brookline! This place ranks high on both the chilling and the service charts, making it the definition of a PLACE YOU COULD HANG. No pun intended! You bring a piece of art down there and the friendly and very much with-it staff helps you bring that ish up to HANG STATUS. They cut the glass and the frame and all the hard stuff and YOU have the option of framing the piece (the easy part) yourself with the assistance of the radical FW team. In fact, it costs more to have them do it! So for a discount you get both a framing lesson and the opportunity to hang in Brookline Village which is a rare treat for some of us freaks. There are artists and creatives buzzing around doing their thing, sharing art with each other, and truly enjoying themselves. Only advice is to choose wisely because its not necessarily a cheap endeavor. Pick the piece of art you have that really deserves to be hung and put it in a special place where you will look at it all the time, like above your toilet. It’s a weird lesson but I never would have discovered this goddamn gem had I not gone to 40 South Street who hooked me up with that NIFT shit…So support local businesses, check your dang email and visit the Framers Workshop—you won’t regret it! —Sam P THIS PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY A GRANT FROM THE BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL, A LOCAL AGENCY WHICH IS FUNDED BY THE MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL, AS ADMINSTRATED BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF ARTS + CULTURE
CHOSEN S H OW S view the whole cal endar @ bostonhas sle.com Sat 5/5 Kal Marks, Black Beach, Rong, Pleaser @O'Brien's Pub 8pm Tue 5/1 No Age, Behavior, Jazz Massagers @ONCE 9pm 18+ $12=15
Sat 5/5 Experimental Offerings III @The Studio 8pm All Ages
Mon 5/21 SOLD OUT - An Evening with Lou Barlow @ONCE Fri 5/11 YES Fest Presents: Teen Artist Showcase & Masterclass feat. Aubrey Haddard @YCCA (West Subur- May 21 7pm All Ages $ome Cost ban YMCA Center for the Creative Arts) 4:30pm Masterclass 6pm FREE Pizza & Teen Creative Mon 5/21 Untombed, Brain Famine, Shroud and Armpits 5/2 Panel Discussion—Art for Social Impact @Impact Networking 6:30pm Music ft. THE LACES from Walpole, @O'Brien's Pub 8pm 21+ $8 Hub Boston 6PM - 8PM The Fictitious Yacht People, Tema Seigel, 2 new GRCB Mon 5/21 Kato Kaelin, Two Houses(CHI), Talk Me Off(RVA), bands, HouseBounce (Zumix), and Wild Painting! Sug5/3 Beyond the Pattern: Alt Fashion Show @Arts at the KCUF @Charlie’s Kitchen 8pm 21+ $ome Cost gested Donations: $5 youth & teens | $10 adults Armory 7PM - 9PM Wed 5/23 Three Brained Robot, -1, Porno Portal To Florida, Fri 5/11 Martin Bisi (BC35 LP Release), tK, Ajda The Turkish Queen, Tidal Channel @Deep Thoughts JP 8pm Jazz Massagers @Deep Thoughts JP 8pm All Ages $5-10 5/3 Visiting Artist: Lisa Yuskavage @Peter Fuller Building, Boston University 7:30PM - 9PM All Ages $5-10 Thu 5/24 American Pleasure Club (fka Teen Suicide) w/ 5/3 Opening Reception: Bold Colors - A Dedham Special Explosion @Sonia 7pm All Ages $14-17 Fri 5/11 Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever w/ Beeef @ Artists Guild Show @Dedham Community Theatre 6PM Great Scott 10pm Thu 5/24 Gozu, Sundrifter, Leather Lung @Opus 8pm $ome - 7:30PM Cost Sat 5/12 Porchfest 2018!! @Somerville All Ages Free 5/3 CIC ArtWeek: Arts Technica @Cambridge Innovation Center 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM Free Sat 5/12 Pummel Presents Hardcore at the Democracy Center Vol. 1 @The Democracy Center 7pm All Ages $5-10
Sun 5/6 Style Revival [Repair•Alter•Shop•Swap] Sun 5/13 Melvins @Paradise Rock Club 7pm @Massasoit Elks Lodge 11am - 5pm All Ages $ome Mon 5/14 Salem Wolves w/the Very Reverend, LE Yikes Cost SURF CLUB, the Maxims @Charlie’s Kitchen 8pm 21+ $5 Thu 5/3 Colbis the Creature, Ceramic Animal, daisy-5/6 Bobb Hatt (Columbus, OH) and Janet (St bones, Snowhaus @Middle East 7pm Louis) Jen Gileneau Kevin Dacey, idm theftable, 5/15 Lineup: Otter River, Tv Shirt, Durt Dog, The Peters @ Middle East Zuzu 9pm-12am 21+ $8 tickets Thu 5/3 HAIM with Lizzo @Agganis Arena 7:30pm Chris Strunk, Andrea Pensado, Victoria Shen, Walter Wright and more! @in the park... ask a Tue 5/15 Alice Glass w/ Pictureplane @The Sinclair Thu 5/3 JESUS DRINKS FREE! Gospel, Country, Soul freak 9pm ALL Ages $Donation 8pm and RnB from the 50s-70s spun by DJs Sam P and Sun 5/6 Nightime Sunshine @Atwood's Tavern Dan Shea @Jeanie Johnston 9pm-1am FREE Tue 5/15 Bong Wish, LEYA, The Switzerlands @Deep 10pm 21+ $ome Cost Thoughts JP 8pm All Ages $5-10 Thu 5/3 SOLD OUT - Demilich, Blood Incantation, Mon 5/7 Turnstile @Paradise Rock Club 6pm Artificial Brain @Dusk 8pm Wed 5/16 The Switzerlands, Bong Wish, Jones HarFri 5/4 The Breeders @House of Blues Boston 7pm Mon 5/7 Show Me The Body, mmph, Thighs @ Elks rington, Banshee @Koto 9pm 5/5-6 Somerville Pop-Up Poster Show @Union Press Lodge 7pm All Ages $10 Noon - 5 PM (Sat + Sun) All Ages Wed 5/16 GRCB Pizza Party w/ live music by Hilken & Fri 5/4 Steve Gunn @Arts at the Armory 7pm Thu 5/24 BRAIN Arts Benefit feat. Rogozo, Birthday Ass, Thalia, Charlo & Studs Green, and Jennifer T & Liz W @ Mon 5/7 Aneurysm / Idiot Genes / Deep Hole / All Ages Spectramotiv and Celebutant @The Red Room 8pm All Ages 5/5 Opening Reception: Worries Bash (Caitlin Foley Milky Way/Bella Luna 7pm All Ages $20 Bliss @Charlie’s Kitchen 8pm 21+ $5 and Misha Rabinovich) @Proof Gallery 6PM - 8PM $5-10 Sliding Scale Fri 5/4 Lord Youth, Grandmother Miracles, Miles Hewitt (of Solars) @Dorchester Art Project 8pm ALL Mon 5/7 Neil Hamburger @ONCE Somerville 8pm Thu 5/17 Liz Durette,(Baltimore), Reta Naanan, Sarah Nolen (puppets) @DAP 8pm All Ages $10 Suggest, $5 Fri 5/25 Whore Paint, E (record release), Arch Cape feat. 5/6 Mendi's Style Revival Pop-up @Cambridge Elks AGES $5 Lodge 11 - 5PM All Ages Free Rachel Blumberg @Midway Cafe 8:30pm 21+ $10 Tue 5/8 Faux Ferocious, Death Pesos, Cult Fiction with cake donation Fri 5/4 New Aura, Violet Nox, Sound Shaman, Main @Pink Noise 7pm All Ages Thu 5/17 FEED THE PUNKS: Horror movie soundtracks Sat 5/26 Standing Waves #12: Aki Onda, Lecture and Con- 5/6 Pindrop Sessions Finale: Masary @Aeronaut Fader @The Jeanie Johnston Pub 9pm 21+ Tue 5/8 Bald Uakari (goodbye uakari), ____high- & sludge punk night ft. Luke and Renato@Jeanie John- cert Series @The MIT Press Bookstore 4pm All Ages $5-10 Brewing Company 7PM - 10PM 21+ $25 lightreel, and Melissa Weikart @The Lilypad 9pm ston Pub 9pm FREE 21+ Fri 5/4 La Sat 5/26 Wormrot, Escuela + TBD @AS220 9pm All Ages 5/10 Reception: Just Ducky (Maureen O'Connor) @ Boum's 9th All Ages $10 Suggested -->Bye Tony we love you!!! Uforge Gallery 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Fri 5/18 Love Strangers (LP Release Show), Mini Dress- $ome Cost Anniveres, Rob Noyes @Lilypad Inman 7pm All Ages $10 saire! - Queer Tue 5/8 Bald Uakari, ____highlightreel, and Sun 5/27 Nice Guys, Blessed, Tunic, Muddler @O'Brien's 5/11&12 Dance: Pentacle Presents|The Gallery - Boston Dance Party! Melissa Weikart @The Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10 @The Dance Complex 5/11/2018 8PM-10PM Fri+Sat Fri 5/18 Evicshen, Sibling, Lasuje, TRNGS @Teacher's Pub 8pm 18+ $8 @Bella Luna Suggested $15 Lounge 8pm All Ages $5 Restaurant Sun 5/27 Jazz Massagers live score MEMORIAL DAY 2000 Tue 5/8 Non Event Presents: BATS FROM POGO and Milky Way Lounge (Andrea Pensado & Walter Wright) @Cafe Fixe Sat 5/19 Punk In Drublic Massachusetts - NOFX, Bad - the music of Thelonious Monk @Deep Thoughts JP 8pm 5/13 Gallery Talk: Tomashi Jackson and Kevin Beasley @Institute of Contemporary Art 2PM - 4PM Religion & more! @Campanelli Stadium 1pm 21+ $50- All Ages $5-10 7pm All Ages $5 10pm 21+ 100 $ome Cost Wed 5/30 Self Defense Family, Sannhet, Weeping Icon @ 5/16 Boston Poetry Slam: Speed Slam @Cantab Lounge Wed 5/9 Tomato dodgers (DC), The Owens, 7:15 PM - 11:59 AM Great Scott 8:30pm 18+ $12 Sat 5/19 Shimstock, Long Neck, Great Wight, Can’t Fri 5/4 Lady Pills, Fleece, Boston Cream @Lilypad Banana, DUST @O'Brien's Pub 8pm Relate @Black Lodge 7pm All Ages $5-10 Inman 10pm All Ages $ome Cost Thu 5/31 SOLD OUT - Japanese Breakfast, Radiator Hospi- 5/16 The Price is Right: Demystifying the Value of Your Thu 5/10 Darklands ("Hate it Here" record reSat 5/19 Occult Burial, Black Rat, Malleus, Hell Bent tal, Long Beard @Warsaw Concerts 8pm All Ages $18-20 Work @Arts at the Armory 6:30 PM - 8PM Free Sat 5/5 FANCY LAD SKATE STAGE at Wake Up The lease) @AS220 8pm @O'Brien's Pub 8pm 21+ $13 Earth Festival @Stony Brook 11am - 5pm All Ages Thu 5/31 SCD, Viscera Infest, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Myxoma 5/17 Opening Reception: Nature Structure @Boston Thu 5/10 OKKYUNG LEE + ANDY GRAYDON @ Society of Architects 6PM - 8PM Metropolitan Waterworks Museum 8pm All Ages Sat 5/19 Pillorian, Obsidian Tongue, Falls of Rauros @ and Mucophagus @O'Brien's Pub 8pm $12 Sat 5/5 Animal Flag [LP Release], Nature Shots, Grayskull Booking 8:30pm 21+ $12-15 $10-15 Kindling, Paige Chaplin @The Democracy Center 5/17 Opening Reception | Allison Katz Diary & Carissa 7pm All Ages Rodriguez @MIT List Visual Arts Center 6PM - 8PM Thu 5/10 Vince, Brennan, Timothy-Anne, Butch Sun 5/20 King Tuff w/ Special Guests Cut Worms @ (registration required) Brighton Music Hall 7pm 18+ $18 Sat 5/5 Vegatators (mems. of Macula Dog), Valerie baby @Studio 550 9pm All Ages Martino, TRNGS, Seraah @Dorchester Art Project 5/19 Boston's Black Owned Business Pop-Up Market Fri 5/11 Power Trip, Sheer Mag, Fury, Red Death Sun 5/20 Bombers, Future Terror, Vagra, St. Ripper, 8pm All Ages (BBOB) @District Hall 11AM - 5PM Just Skinned Alive @The Space Studio 7:30pm All Ages @Paradise Rock Club 6pm $ome Cost 5/19 Party: Secret Gardens @Nave Gallery 3PM - 5PM Wed 5/2 SOLD OUT - Frankie Cosmos w/ Florist, Lala Lala @The Sinclair 7pm
DISCOVER THE OTHERS...........
Sat 5/12 Dirt Devil, Lendl, Φ Cygnid, Hairspray Queen, Leopard Print Taser @ AS220 9pm Sat 5/12 Roz and the Rice Cakes (last W. MASS. Sat 5/5 Lina Tullgren, Spirits Having show) @Columbus Theatre 9pm Fun, Wendy Eisenberg @The Brick House Sun 5/20 The Proletariat, Lolita Community Resource Center 8pm All Ages Black, Hairspray Queen @Alchemy 4pm All Ages Free Fri 5/11 Home Body, Space Cubs, PatThu 5/24 Parquet Courts @Fete Music rick Bella Gone @The Root Cellar 8pm Hall 7pm All Ages $16-18 21+ $9 Tue 5/29 Sateen , Xhosa, Kurt Fowl, La Wed 5/16 Speedy Ortiz and Nnamdi Ogbonnaya @The Root Cellar 7pm All Ages Neve @Alchemy 9pm $ome Cost $18 Sat 5/19 Ralph White / Allysen Callery NEW HAMPSHIRE Sun 5/6 OHMME, Guy Capecelatro III, / Shrinnirs @The Root Cellar 8pm $10 Fjordoey @Sue’s 8pm All Ages $5-10 Fri 5/11 Yazan, Peacham, Bethlehem RHODE ISLAND Steel, Rick Rude @Sue's 7:30pm All Tue 5/1 Palberta, Goon Planet, baby; Ages $5-10 baby, Brian 4 Ever @AS220 9pm
Sun 5/20 Talk Me Off (VA), Crystal Methodist, Charles @Sue's 8pm All Ages $5-10
VERMONT Thu 5/3 Frankie Cosmos, Florist and Lala Lala @ArtsRiot 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Fri 5/4 Waking Windows Winooski 2018 @ Winooski, Vermont
5/21 Photography as Performance: A Conversation @ Harvard Art Museums 6PM - 7PM 5/25/ Twenty Summers Artists Residency Open Studios (Provincetown, MA) @Twenty Summers 6PM - 8PM
Mon 5/7 THE FLYING PROLETARIAN (2017) dir. Phillip Warnell @HFA [16mm] Cosmic carnal geography avec Jean-Luc Nancy. Director in person! Mon 5/7 WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (1988) dir. Pedro Amodovar @ COOLIDGE [35mm] Classic Almodovar farce. Avoid the gazpacho.
Sat 5/19 CINEMA SOMERVILLE OUTDOOR FILM FESTIVAL @UNION Fresh local talent, air. Sat 5/19 THE WITCH (2015) dir. Robert Eggers @ COOLIDGE Black Phillip 2020.
Wed 5/23 SHE'S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE'S ANGRY(2014) dir. Mary Dore @COOLIDGE Fri 5/11 MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO (1991) dir. Gus Van They’re here, they’re pissed, they’re mothereffin’ Sant @VU feminists. Van Sant takes on Shakespeare. Followed by discussion Free for VU members! Wed 5/23 THE QUAY BROTHERS IN 35MM @MFA Sat 5/12 UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (1991) dir. [35mm] 5/26 Ben Foley Solo Show Opening Reception @ Wim Wenders @HFA Creepy cartoons on glorious celluloid. Dorchester Art Project 6-9pm Globe-sprawling head-bender of a sci-fi romance. Also screens 5/27 Free! 5/27 Gallery Talk: Mary Marley and Rebecca Skinner Fri 5/25 VALLEY GIRL (1983) dir. Martha Coolidge 5/3 Open Reception: Hideouts—Works by Sage @Fountain Street Gallery 4PM - 6PM Sat 5/12 ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968) dir. Roman @SOMERVILLE [35mm] Schmett and Alex Marantz @Aviary 6 PM - 8PM Polanski @COOLIDGE [35mm] Gag me with a spoon. 5/31 Olmsted for the 21st Century: Creating Urban Hail Satan! 5/3 Lecture: Yolande Daniels | Surface/Sub-Surface @ Change @Boston Public Library 7:30 PM - 9:30PM Sat 5/26 THE CRAFT (1996) dir. Andrew Fleming @ Building 7 - MIT 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Sat 5/12 Ted Fendt Film Screening and Premier @ COOLIDGE 5/31 Art Opening: Dan Masi's Under the Hill w/ Nigh- DAP 7pm All Ages $10 Suggested High school is hell. 5/4 Opening Reception: 2018 BFA Thesis Exhibition time Sunshine @ Lilypad 7:30-10:30p All Ages @808 Gallery at Boston University 6 PM - 8PM Sun 5/13 SANDRA (1966) dir. Luchino Visconti @HFA LISTINGS NOTE: 5/31 BOSTON COMPASS 100th Issue Release Party @ Cardinale smolders through, swoons over cultural Below is the venue abbreviation key: 5/4 Closing Reception: Animalism @Gallery 263 7:00 The Garment District 6-9pm FREE ALL AGES decline. BRATTLE - Brattle Theatre PM - 9:00 PM Also screens 5/14 CAPITOL - Capitol Theatre (Arlington) ONGOING ART EXHIBITIONS: COOLIDGE - Coolidge Corner Theatre 5/4 Opening Reception: Speciation—Still a Camera Ducky—Maureen O'Connor @Uforge 5/4-6/30 Sun 5/13 RBG (2018) dir. Betsy West @COOLIDGE HFA - Harvard Film Archive (Kent Krugh) @Panopticon Gallery 6PM-8PM Worries Bash @Proof Gallery 5/5-6/16 N-n-notorious. MFA - Museum of Fine Arts Boston Hideouts @Aviary 4/29-6/2 Director in person! Also screens 5/2 @MFA SOMERVILLE - Somerville Theatre 5/5 Closing Reception: CAN'T YOU SEE HOW HARD I'M UNION - Union Square Plaza WORKING @Dorchester Art Project 6PM - 9PM Wed 5/16 FOLLOWING (1998) dir. Christopher Nolan VU - Video Underground (JP) @MFA [35mm] [35mm] – Projected on ACTUAL FILM! (35mm 5/5-6 Somerville Open Studios! @All Around SomerEarly Nolan, straight up creepin’ unless otherwise noted) ville 12AM - 6PM (Sat+Sun) Also screens 5/19 Managing Editor: Oscar Goff
Tue 5/1 Boston Hassle Volunteer Hang @Homestead Sat 5/5 Citrusphere, HOMEBODY, VQnC, Brandie Sat 5/12 Nervous Eaters, The Gala, The Hi-End, Justine and the Unclean @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $ome Cost Blaze @Pink Noise 9pm All Ages $5-10 (Fields Corner) 6-9PM FREE All Ages
CHOSEN SHOWS OF NEW ENGLAND AND BEYOND ................
5/20 Tigers In The Wild—A Photographic Journey— Neelakantan Sunder @Griffin Museum of Photography 4PM - 5:30PM
CONNECTICUT Mon 5/14 Weakened Friends w/ Bat House, Sarah Golley @Cafe Nine 7pm 21+ $5
NEW YORK Thu 5/3 Melkbelly, Brandy, Bethlehem Steel @ALPHAVILLE 8pm Thu 5/17 Big Ups (Record Release), LVL UP, Water From Your Eyes @Secret Project Robot 8pm 21+ $13 Sat 5/19 NY Night Train Soul Clap & DanceMAINE Off w/Kool Keith! and Escape-Ism! @ElseThu 5/3 The Districts with Horse Jump- where 7pm $ome Cost er of Love @Space Gallery 8:30pm All Thu 5/24 Gymshorts, Thick (Album ReAges $12-15 lease!), Chorizo, Lost Boy @Zone One at Fri 5/25 Queer Dance Party! @Space Elsewhere 8pm $ome Cost Gallery
5/20/2018 Urbex Roundtable Discussion @Fountain Street Gallery 2PM - 4PM
Contributing Writers: Oscar Goff, Matthew Martens, Nick Perry
Wed 5/16 IN THE INTENSE NOW (2017) dir. João Moreira Salles @MFA Wed 5/2 STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (2017) dir. Rian Amateur-captured, cross-cultural radirama of New Left revolts. Johnson @BRATTLE Area premiere! Screens through 5/31 Back to a galaxy far far away. Fri 5/4 THE LOST BOYS (1987) dir. Joel Schumacher @ Thu 5/17 THE BLACK PIRATE (1926) dir. Albert Parker @CAPITOL Please see our sister website BostonHassle.com/ SOMERVILLE [35mm] Swashbuckling silence. Film-Flam for our full listings w/ showtimes and Teen vampires and tassle-twirlers! Live musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis! other info. FILM FLAM SEEKS VOLUNTEERS!!! Preceded by Lost Boys-themed BURLESQUE! Presented If you would like to get involved with our film by Slaughterhouse Movie Club. Fri 5/18 THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964) dir. section or submit listings, e-mail our film editor at Oscar@Brain-Arts.org Sat 5/5 THE WICKER MAN (1973) dir. Robin Hardy @ Roger Corman @COOLIDGE [35mm] Price. Poe. Corman. Roeg. Plague. COOLIDGE [35mm] No bees. Just terror. Screens w/ DEATH HAS NO SEASON by Coco Roy!!
Fri 5/18 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2014) dir. Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi @VU Roommates suck. Free for VU members!
Sun 5/6 THE INVISIBLES (2017) dir. Claus Räfle @ COOLIDGE Living while Jewish in “Jew-free” Berlin. Also screens 5/10 @MFA Sun 5/6 THE DYBBUK (1937) dir. Michał Waszyński @ MFA Ultra-rare Yiddish horror classic! New restoration! art this issue by
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GEMINI When you watch somebody perform, you should clap for them! Rather than snicker something random to the person standing next to you when it seems a song is winding down. If you need to be psyched-up about clapping, think of it a s h i g h - f i v i n g y o u r s e l f f o r s o m e b o d y e l s e ’s a c h i e v e m e n t. S o u n d s r o w d y, r i g h t ? L u c k y S h o w : B i g M e s s @ U n c h A R Te d
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Pro tip: hotels will charge you $250 for smoking in the r o o m b u t i t ’s f r e e t o e j a c u l a t e e v e r y w h e r e . Lucky Show: Aki Onda @ MIT Press Bookstore
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Yo u r c o u s i n ’s k i d s a r e n ’ t v a c c i n a t e d a n d i t ’s w e i r d i n g y o u o u t. J u s t t h i n k o f t h e m a s o r g a n i c c h i l d r e n w h o u l t i m a t e ly have a shorter shelf life! Lucky Show: Martin Bisi @ Deep Thoughts JP
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Don’t worry so much about automation! Horses lost their jobs to robots and they seem pretty happy to have the t i m e o f f. Lucky Show: New Aura @ Jeanie Johnston
Sagittarius’ kink is putting a straw into milk and then blowing out of it with their eye closed, imagining that they’re snorkeling in a c o w ’s u d d e r.
AQUARIUS Te a c h a n A q u a r i a n t o f i s h a n d t h e y ’ l l s m e l l l i k e a N i n j a Tu r t l e f o r t h e r e s t o f t h e i r l i f e . Lucky Show: Bong Wish @ Deep Thoughts JP
CAPRICORN C l e a n i n g y o u r c a t ’s l i t t e r b o x i s y o u r v e r s i o n o f p r u n i n g a n d s c u l p t i n g a z e n g a r d e n . A p e a c e o f s h i t. Lucky Show: Suuns @ Great Scott
PISCES As someone who finds themselves aroused by dirty talk, you shouldn’t make fun of Siri and Alexa because your genitals a r e , a p p a r e n t l y, v o i c e a c t i v a t e d . Lucky Show: Jazz Massagers Live Score Memorial Day 2000 @ Deep Thoughts JP
While Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter may not be a household name, those even remotely familiar with the smooth sounds of 70’s rock have surely heard his tasteful tones grace their ears. A founding member of Steely Dan, Baxter’s silky solos can be heard on songs such as “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” and “My Old School.” After Steely, Skunk joined The Doobie Brothers while continuing to do session work, even shredding a solo on Donna Summers “Hot Stuff.” He would go on to produce tracks for artists as diverse as Carl Wilson and The Stray Cats, to play on records from Cher, The Ventures, Barbra Streisand, and Joni Mitchell, and to write music for Beverly Hills 90210. Heck, early in his career he played bass in one of Jimi Hendrix’s first bands, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames. But in the 80’s, Skunk had one of the strangest career changes one could imagine. Skunk had always been interested in music technology and in the 80’s the industry was switching over from analog tape to digital, this lead him to start wondering about data compression systems and large capacity storage devices that were developed by the military. His neighbor happened to be a retired Pentagon engineer and, excited by Skunk’s interest, he bought him a subscription to Aviation Magazine. Baxter was hooked. He ended up writing a five page paper on missile defense systems and presented it to Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, and the rest is history. Since then, he has consulted for many defense companies and organizations and is currently “senior thinker and raconteur” at the Florida Institute For Human and Machine Cognition and was a committee member for NASA’s Exploration Systems Advisory Committee. Why do you think these military types would even listen to a hippie, who played in a band called the Doobie Brothers of all names? It’s his creativity—“We thought turntables were for playing records until rappers began to use them as instruments, and we thought airplanes were for carrying passengers until terrorists realized they could be used as missiles.” I guess that’s thinking outside the box, Skunk! /// Follow Zach on Insta/Twitter @avantlard. Drawings by Christina Giovinco.
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