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If it’s true that a culture’s anxieties can be meaneed to sured in its science fiction, then stand together and the genre may be poised at urtis oey C fight for what's right at this ) dir. J the dawn of a new golden age. In that Nicole Maloof, An exercise in paranoia, 2015 (2017 M A DRE crucial juncture in our country's respect, we Bostonians could scarcely be better TER’S : WIN 2307 history. Young minds are clearly in need situated: our city is home to one of the oldest and most of escape, and the work of Liberation Library in revered genre festivals in the world. Now in its 42nd year, Chicago is more imperative than ever. Boston's Boston SciFi is known the world over for its annual showcase of Katie McShane has turned her recurring Monthly Fem fresh talent, its carefully curated repertory screenings, and its The work on view in I Dread to Think… balances in the anxious Night this February into a benefit to support this radical space between hope and fear, and perhaps falls more to the latter side. brain-melting finale: a 24-hour marathon to take you halfway library, which provides books to incarcerated youth. For through Presidents’ Day. Among this year’s crop of new films— The exhibition, curated by Liz Blum, was developed out of interpretaover a year now, the showcase at the Midway in JP has many of which will be making their world premieres this month tions of a global sense of unease ranging in issues from the broad to been helping to draw attention to stellar fem-identified at the Somerville Theatre—are several reflecting the issues the particular. Interestingly, the thirteen participating artists all evade artists, performers, and musicians from the Boston area directly representing the object of our terror. Instead they negotiate the wracking our collective consciousness: the sinister undertones and beyond. The lineup for this month’s benefit features grey areas or statistics that typically make up our actual lived realities of social media, people turning on themselves, pandemic viruses the groove-inducing Boston electro-pop trio Cit(non-zombie category), and so on. Perhaps to counterbalance of dread. In our media culture that is filled with images of war zones, rusphere—boundary pushing 80’s pop for the modern corrupt world leaders, and unending police brutality, our instincts beg to the dystopian feeling of present society, this year’s festival will world—and Matt Delligatti's Custom Drummer featuring look away from the violent act itself. The work in this show, however, suc- also showcase a family-friendly series called SciFi Kids, mixing Mcshane, Jesse Heasly, and Jon Nankof, plus hypnotic, cessfully entraps us in paying attention. One such piece is at first glance brand new films from around the world alongside such classics multi-instrumental compositions by Abby Swidler— as Rene Laloux’s FANTASTIC PLANET and Hayao Miyazaki’s a theoretical text-based installation á la Lawrence Weiner. Once you straight off a 1920’s Parisian street corner—as well as LAPUTA: CASTLE IN THE SKY. get close enough to read the words, you find it is a partial list of every the hauntingly complex yet comforting living room rock As if all of that weren’t enough, we are beyond proud to African American person killed from 2014-2015 by police, or in police of Gia Greene. It's an eclectic menu of people who GET custody. In another work the artist has created an app that allows you announce that this year, for the first time ever, Boston Hassle IT. And what’s more? This may be your last chance: it will be presenting the festival’s showcase of local films, with to volunteer yourself for random surveillance as you are followed by a was recently announced that Monthly Fem Night will be stranger for one day. Taken together, the objects in this show succeed in features and shorts from the Boston area’s finest! Keep an eye coming to an end in the upcoming weeks. So come out! on the Hassle website for additional details as they develop. asking for the continued participation of the viewer in ways that don’t Support the night and support the cause! Oh, and while you’re at it, keep watching the skies. You know, pass swiftly from the mind. —Michael Achille just in case. -Maggie Jensen —Oscar Goff
I Dread to Think… (1/13 - 3/19) @Boston Center for the Arts
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Wasn’t the Women’s March awesome, y’all? It was such a great day, but let’s be real: one hang with 175,000 of your new best friends isn’t going to cut it for the next four years. Think of the Women’s March like an early date: you had a good time, took a bunch of wi th Je nnie Rose H a l pe rin selfies, and wore matching hats, but you’re not in a relationship yet. The coolest thing about this date, though, is how easy it is to take this relationship to the next level. There are many organizations around Boston looking for people to swipe right, and chances are it’ll be a match. If you’re overwhelmed and don’t know where to get started, try going on a double date: attend a meeting with a friend for an organization like Black Lives Matter or Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). If volunteerism is more your thing, go cruising: scope out nonprofits serving communities directly. If you’re looking for something casual, that’s cool too! Show up to rallies, follow the leads of organizers, and ask how you can support others while you’re there. Fighting this will take all of us, so don’t ghost the movement with a flippant text or Facebook post. Like any good relationship, this is going to take some work. Howdy, howdy readers, In Punk news... advance copies of the Video Filth/Mutant Itch split ep on We’re super stoked to jump into the new year with big news! Last Total Fucker/Dark Raids are now available as of their West Coast month, we finalized our website redesign and went live. We have a Invasion tour which concluded last week. Pick up your copy at the shiny brand-spanking-new website at bostonhassle.com thanks to Raw Punk Weekend of gigs starting Saturday Feb.4th with the efforts of core Brain-Arts members and the web-designer Kay Asylum(RVA)/Syringe(Bmore)/Video Filth/Dsagawa and Sterile at Belardinelli (kangabell.co). We still provide the same great coverage the DC. and Sunday Feb.5th with Hide(Chicago)/Sunshine Ward/ you’ve come to expect from us, but the layout now presents our events Sadist/Dsagawa at Obriens. A double header of Raw Punk upand articles in a more convenient way. You can find shows, films, and starts Dsagawa and the last Boston gig for Sadist until the other happenings easier than ever before- check it out. We’re also excitsummer! The standard pressing of the ep will be out later this ed to announce a shift in the Boston media landscape from the grassmonth. Sadist's follow up ep "Beauty Fades" will be available roots up. We recently met with the folks from the Boston Institute for worldwide on 02/14 courtesy of Hardcore Victim records in Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ), and were delighted to hear they’re taking Australia. Believe it or not but Siege, Psycho and the FUs all over operations at the weekly Dig. In only a short time, BINJ has become have gigs scattered throughout the month...but that's Boston known for bold, authentic reporting and a commitment to supporting Nevermind the looming, haunting police state... for ya! Al Quint will be celebrating his 80th annual sweet sixteen independent publications like ours! This means that for the first time in It's PURE IMPACT. party on Saturday the 18th with Siege, Fuck You Pay Me (from Compass history we’ll be working with other nonprofit and grassroots It would be irresponsible of me to not at least comment Clevo), Shattered Silence, Piss Dogs and Purgatory at Hardcore groups to supply quality journalism to Bostonians and beyond. Scope on the protests and rioting that erupted nationwide Stadium. Mayhem and Inquisition also have a stop in Boston that https://medium.com/binj-reports and definitely follow them on social merely a week ago surrounding the swearing in ceremo- night at the Royale. The next day, Sunday the 19th, again at Hardmedia. As always, thanks for picking up the rag: we remain ny of the pig faced puppet leader we all deserve (who's core Stadium Exit Order and Bombers support Machine Gun. committedto delivering the best picks of the Boston scene. name is not fit to print in my column). In the wake of Starting this month on Tuesday nights from 8PM-Midnight there is a —Daniel Lloyd-Miller these actions let us not forget the over 200 protesters new Punk arts and crafts night at the St.Ripper HQ. Contact who were detained for hours to a city block in DC who aintahopeinhell@yahoo.com for more info. And of course IRRH/Boston are now facing major felony charges with heavy prison Hassle bring you the Black Market Feb.12th at the Cambridge Elks which Unless otherwise indicated, the Compass sentences. A move one defense attorney says is unlike can be read about elsewhere in this paper. is licensed under a Creative Commons anything they've seen in their 15 years of practice in the That's it. All the news that's fit to print. Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY) DC area. Got any gigs or news you want printed? Got a new band in town? ConPay attention. tact: SuffocatingMadness@gmail.com This is day 0001. -GHOST
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