THE 21st ANNUAL BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL Sundance is over. The Oscars are behind us. Which means, at long last, it’s time for the REAL Super Bowl of movies: The Boston Underground Film Festival! For over two decades, BUFF has provided the city with the cutting edge of cinematic weirdness and future cult classics, along with special guests, restored favorites, and mind-melting short upon mind-melting short. This year’s opening salvo is HAIL SATAN?, the latest film from acclaimed documentarian Penny Lane, about the meteoric ascendance of the Satanic Temple. Other selections at press time are the neon-colored queer neo-giallo KNIFE + HEART; HAPPY FACE, about a teen who fakes massive facial deformity to find acceptance in an unsuspecting support group; INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT, a documentary about Chicago’s legendary Wax Trax Records; and a repertory screening 3/20 - 3/24 of Sarah Jacobson’s ‘90s underground classic MARY JANE’S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE. As always, keep Brattle an eye on the Hassle website for Theatre/hfa our Film Flam team’s in-depth coverage of the fest, and check out the BUFF site for ticket info and further tickets/pass info scheduling announcements. Or on bostonunderjust camp outside the box office. ground.com It’s the only way to make sure. For full schedule, tickets, & pass info visit BostonUnderground.org —Oscar Goff
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With Melanie Bernier
HOW TO LEAD A ZERO WASTE LIFESTYLE
You’ve seen them floating around woke-y food establishments: disposable containers, cutlery, straws, and bags that claim to be good for the environment. They look like plastic, but feel kinda funny. Emblazoned on each are vague ecological prefixes that make us feel good: eco-this, bio-that, “green.” A leaf motif as if to say, “this cup is one with the land.” These freaky deaky disposables are made using bio-based polymers, dorkspeak for “bioplastics.” According to the Earth Institute at Columbia University, “bioplastics” are made from 20% or more of renewable materials. The multibillion dollar industry pumping ‘em out is new, so classifications are kinda squishy, but bioplastics are generally lumped into three categories: degradable, biodegradable, and compostable. It’s hard to tell if bioplastics live up to their lofty environmental claims. Are they actually superior to plastic? How does one accurately dispose of them? Can I eat it? Most importantly, why are questions about their origin met with drank-the-Kool-Aid answers like, “It’s made from potatoes!” Listen man, I’ve been around the potato block once or twice. I’ve defiled many a spud in the name of science and pleasure. Legend of my Allston Potato Bong predates Facebook. Don’t go telling me what is and ain’t potatoes! I’ve coined an acronym for disposable bio-based polymers: Single-Use Bio Plastics and Resins, or SUBPARs. SUBPARs aim to: Reduce reliance on fossil fuel-based polymers AND/OR Reduce landfill mass AND/OR Provide retrievable energy in the form of disposables AND/OR Cash in on our concerns about plastic waste. Sounds pretty woke-y, right? Now you can Shavasana in peace knowing the chalice for your post-yoga smoothie is one with the circle of life. Not so fast! SUBPARs are not, in and of themselves, good for the environment. Plastic or not, single-use products are wasteful by design. Additionally, SUBPARs create a host of disposal challenges for America’s waste municipalities. To learn more about SUBPARs, how to accurately dispose of them, and how to kick ‘em in the dick, visit melaniebernier.com/zerowaste!! —Melanie Bernier
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A Mouth Is A Mouth Noise Fest Part IV:
Evicshen, Birthday Ass, Johnnie and the Foodmasters, THIGHS, Pain Chain, Eric Baylies, Healers co, Klyam Haus Band
Photo by Corbin
Heavenly trumpets sound — Georden West’s vision of the Divine Queer is set to manifest at the end of March. In the upcoming show, West, in collaboration with menswear designer Jamall Osterholm, conjures a mythic landscape of religious figures clad in shimmering black. Seraphs, saints, and spirits, dressed in Osterholm’s designs, exude West’s prime influences: Queer bodies, heavenly figures, and historical context. It’s a fashion show, a lesson in the classics, and an immersive performance in one. West, in turn, plays the role of curator, director, professor, and artist. She was the recipient of the Annie Terrill Bushnell and the Nicole Kohn Film Awards and is an alumnus of Emerson College. Osterholm, a RISD grad and and NYFW veteran, explores blackness as an identity both in Patron Saint and in his greater portfolio. 3/21 His recent pieces invoke a sort of diachromatic Afrofuturism, himself a tailor for sleek aliens. Working in distillery combination, Osterholm and West Gallery have imagined a landscape full of unblinking elder gods covered in the ink of night. free Patron Saint is preparing to tour later in the year, but catch its very first installation at Distillery Gallery on 3/29.
Straight from Kids Like You & Me to your big old bulging earballs, the bands at this month’s A Mouth Is A Mouth Noise Fest might just blow off your peepers & peekers. Floss your brain with harsh noise from Lowell’s very own Pain Chain. Then, stuff your face with nostalgic supermarket-core kids Johnnie and the Foodmasters. Turn up at 4:20 sharp to catch the brand new upstarts, including a couple acts too outthere even for the internet. And keep a special (disembodied) ear out for standout strange birds Healers, who have put out three releases this year including a cassette on Ingrown Records. Their really happening June record, Live from Indecency, is dark comedy by the wails and whistles of your most distorted lofi dreams. With the brilliant, studied Victoria Shen headlining, you’re sure to feel the pulse of analog synths sucking you into the blades of Mouth Is A Mouth’s industrial fan and leaving you there. C’est la vie. Evicshen follows the scattered genius of Birthday Ass, Boston art rock mad-persons of ERASED! Tapes fame. Because if nothing has you there already, rest assured vocal3/16 ist Priya Carlberg’s lyrics and ar4:20-11:30p, rangements for trumpet, guitar, bass, drums, and sax will gently grate you into cheese. With all trixie's palace these sick weirdos around, we promise you’ll be able to stand through a seven hour show. Or $5-10 all ages will you levitate?
—Sophie Yarin
—Brieanna Martin
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H A N G Taco Party is a cherished Somerville eatery that makes the city, known for fluff and armories, hip among the sprouting McCondos and detour signage. Founded by Keith Schubert as a food truck in 2013 during the great food truck come-uppance, the shop went brick-and-mortar in 2015 in the Ball Sq. Neighborhood. Since then they’ve had a number of esteemed taco slingers among their ranks, including even yours truly, and also the Ex-Western Mass/ Hawaii now Somerville based general manager and lead taco sculptor David Benway. My personal favorite tacos, if I may be so bold to suggest, are the classic chorizo seitan and chimichurri tempeh tacos. And At an easy four bucks a taco, the one thing I love about Taco Party, aside from the fact they help you sort your change, is that the establishment is an indefatigable, yet accessible clarion call for veganism in a city with a steakhouse on every block. And while we here at the Compass and Hassle usually leave the preaching to Chicago’s avant-choir group Ono, reducing the amount of meat you eat in your diet is part of a greener and punker lifestyle. A new piece by Nature titled ‘Options for Keeping the Food System Within Environmental Limits’ suggests that western countries need to curb meat consumption by 90 percent to avoid the worst effects of climate change. While these esteemed scientists may not be the best at picking titles, they sure can read a thermometer and they’re telling you to get a taco. —Chris Hughes
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with Michael Mambrino
The “street team” has always been a thing in Brain Arts, but now it’s truly established as a community not only by our newly created Street Team mailing list but by us as a non-profit. I’m Michael. I joined Brain Arts a little over 6 months ago and it really changed my thoughts on promotion. You see the street team is in charge of a lot. They’re in charge of flyer printing and hanging, Compass printing and distributing, and various other forms of traditional promotion. You may think that because it’s a lot to handle it’s frustrating but hey… it’s actually really fun. You get to hang out with cool people in flyer hangs, see cool artwork before everybody else does on their local cafe bulletin board, and even make a change for the better. In this so-called "digital age” there’s less and less innovation in promotion because (sarcastically) why waste time with these up and coming weirdos when we can spend 350 dollars on the next music festival? Flyers bring back the awareness of these cool low-key events happening in your neighborhood that you wouldn’t have found out otherwise. So really… why look at limited opportuniabuot ties in your Facebook event page when you can just go outside, experience the real world for once, and flyer away! —Michael Mambrino
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
Wed 3/13 Fully Celebrated Orchestra w/ Sat 3/23 Elizabeth Colour Wheel, Sea, CTTBOTO Conor Ryan Hennessy @Midway Cafe 8pm @O'Brien's Pub 8pm 21+ $10 21+ $5 Sat 3/23 FUTURE PUNX, JOEY AGRESTA aka Wed 3/13 Prior Panic, Blue Ray, Toothbrush, Joey Pizza Slice, Kremlin Bats @Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $5-10 Hairbrush @O'Brien's Pub 8pm 18+ $8 Thu 3/14 The Flesh Eaters w/ Opener Porcu- Mon 3/25 Elizabeth Colour Wheel, Reduction pine @City Winery Boston 8pm 21+ $25-35 Plan, Mineva, Crag Mask @cafe nine 7pm 21+ $5 Fri 3/15 Wayfaring and The Jeb Bishop Ensemble @Outpost 186 8pm All Ages $ome Mon 3/25 My Deer Friends, Toward Space, Bernie & the Wolf, Charmed&Strange @Charlie's Cost Kitchen Shows 8pm 21+ $5 Fri 3/15 Molly Nilsson @Lilypad Inman 10pm Tue 3/26 Kenny Werner and Ra Kalam Bob MoAll Ages $12 ses @Lilypad Inman 10pm All Ages $10 Fri 3/15 Grateful Dead Family Night with special guest Steve Zebu @Deep Thoughts JP Wed 3/27 Hilken Mancini and Chris Colbourn @Bella Luna Restaurant and Milky Way Lounge 9:30pm All Ages Free 6:30pm 21+ $ome Cost Fri 3/8 Sentinel Hill, High Karate, Inverter, Tester, TexFriday 3/15 SERVICE EP Release Show w/ as Death Match @Ralph's Rock Diner 8pm 21+ $ome SERVICE, Dust From 1000 Years & Dim-Lit @ Wed 3/27 Walter Etc., Perspective, A Lovely Cost Landry’s on Comm Ave 8pm All Ages $10 Hand To Hold @Boston, Massachusetts 7pm All Ages $10 Fri 3/8 Vespers 17 featuring Laura Cetilia and Austin Suggested Larkin @Washington Street Art 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sat 3/16 A Mouth is a Mouth Noise Fest Part Wed 3/27 Deep Hole Tape Release! w/ Joey Molinaro PGH, PainChain, ShiverPotion @Hong Fri 3/8 Choke Up, Commander Keen, Jim Shorts, Cult VI @Trixie's Palace 4pm All Ages $5-10 Kong Restaurant 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Fiction @O'Brien's Pub 8pm 21+ $10 Sat 3/16 Today Junior, Dutch Tulips, Good Fri 3/1 Gozu, King's Destroy, Forming The Void, Test Meat @Middle East 8pm All Ages $12 Fri 3/8 Zach Boudrot (Album Release), Snowhaus, Fiction, Salty Greyhound @O'Brien's Pub 8pm Thu 3/28 American Echoes, Dyr Faser @Atwood’s Tavern 9:30pm 21+ $ome Cost 21+ $10 shiver. Bandicoot @UnchARTed 8pm All Ages $5
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Fri 3/1 Glockabelle, Rong, AD.UL.T, Evicshen @ Trixie's Palace 8pm All Ages $5-10 Fri 3/8 Red Shaydez, Brandie Blaze, Solo Sexx, Genie Sun 3/17 Tender @Great Scott 8:30p 18+ $12 Santiago @ONCE Somerville 8:30pm 18+ $12-15 Mon 3/18 This Is Not This Heat, YVETTE @(le) Fri 3/1 Kevin Wynd Release Show Feat. Melissa Weikart and Beverly Tender @6 Elliot Street JP Fri 3/8 Black Beach, Sunstroke, Weighdown, Hellhorse poisson rouge 7pm 18+ $30-35 8pm All Ages $ome Cost @Koto 9:30pm 21+ $7 Mon 3/18 Pita and Kate Village (solo sets) @ Fri 3/1 The Monochrome Set, The Very and The Fri 3/8 Grateful Dead Family Night with special guest The Yard: Back Bay 8pm All Ages $10-15
Fri 3/29 Deche-Charge, Psycho, Horrible Earth, HRD, Squeedlyspooch @Bungalow Bar & Grill 7:30pm 18+ $8 Fri 3/29 Grateful Dead Family Night @Deep Thoughts JP 9:30pm All Ages Free
Sat 3/30 Solei, Frigid, Steph Germaine, Kegels Mon 3/18 Street Milk, Stubborn Hearts, Came for Hegel, Dyke Mite, Violet Nox, Miss Geo, and Fri 3/1 Bat House, Boyscott, Squitch, Plant 9000 @ Sat 3/9 Exit: Underground Techno (2 Edition) @A Spot Out Fighting, Kreisau Circle @Charlie's Kitch- Brandi Blaze with visuals by Vidumami! @Out of the Blue Too 6:30pm All Ages $ome Cost en Shows 8pm 21+ $5 Steve's Grotto 8:30pm All Ages $5-10 10:30pm All Ages $ome Cost Milling Gowns @ONCE 8:30pm All Ages $20-24
Steve Zebu @Deep Thoughts JP 9:30pm All Ages Free
Fri 3/1 Grateful Dead Family Night One Year Sat 3/9 Brother, Reveries, Foxtails, Hundreds of Au, Mon 3/18 Black Midi, Kal Marks, Rob Noyes @ Anniversary. Live Grateful Dead music @Deep Mangled @The Democracy Center 7pm All Ages $5- Great Scott 8:30pm 18+ $10-12 Thoughts JP 9:30pm All Ages Free 10 Tue 3/19 Major Stars, Dan Melchior, Honey 3/1 Candle Show #6 ft. Dance Nite, Anda Volley @ 3/9 Kohinoorgasm, Victoria Shen, Dance Nite @The Radar @O'Brien's Pub 8pm 18+ $10 ask a friend 8pm All Ages
Chapstick Room 9pm $10 All Ages
Sat 3/2 New England Winter Synthesizer Festival Sat 3/9 Thrust Club, Electric Street Queens, Weather @5 Wayside Rd. Burlington, MA 12-6pm All Ages Weapon, Fur Purse @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $8 $ome Cost Sat 3/9 Earthmark, blindspot, Fire in the Field, MonSat 3/2 A-Round the Living Room (XIII) @539 key Knife Fight @UnchARTed 9pm All Ages $5 Washington St. Brighton, MA 7pm All Ages $ome Cost Sat 3/9 Transient Cities (record release) w/ Something Sneaky @Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages Free Sat 3/2 COLD CAVE, AD.UL.T, VOWWS @The Sinclair 8pm 18+ $23-25 Sun 3/10 Habib Koité and Bassekou Kouyaté @ Somerville Theatre 7:30pm All Ages $ome Cost Sat 3/2 Banana, Amiright?, Lydia Deetz @Lesley CAB 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Mon 3/11 Teenage Fanclub @Paradise Rock Club 7pm All Ages $ome Cost Sat 3/2 Daisybones, Phil Cambra & the Space Cadets, Fish House @UnchARTed 9pm All Ages $5 Mon 3/11 Claire Rousay Experimental Coffee House @ Cafè Fixe 7pm All Ages $5 Sun 3/3 Bellows, Shannen Moser, The Water Cycle, Soft Fangs @O'Brien's Pub 8pm 18+ $10 Mon 3/11 Nice Guys, Sneeze, Darklands, Rong @Charlie's Kitchen 8pm 21+ $5 Mon 3/4 Mumra, The Blues Dream Box, Mo Daäsh, Witch Cake @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5
Sat 3/30 Kàrmàn Voh, Haasan Barclay, Rong, +1 TBA @Democracy Center 7pm All Ages $5-10 Sat 3/30 Child Abuse & Psychic Graveyard @Machines With Magnets 9pm All Ages $ome Cost
Wed 3/20 Dilly Dally @Brighton Music Hall Sat 3/30 Russian Tsarlag, Dan Talbot, Baby;Baby @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages $5-$10 7pm 18+ $ome Cost Wed 3/20 Wine Lips, Zip-Tie Handcuffs, Sat 3/30 Mike Sim's 30th Birthday Show featuring Of the Sun & Acid Brunch Club + More TBA Baabes @O'Brien's Pub 8pm 18+ $8 @Cambridge Elks Lodge 9pm 21+ $10 Wed 3/20 Forced into Femininity, Blue Ray, Jazz Massagers @Deep Thoughts JP 8pm All Ages $5-10 Wed 3/20 Disq, Puppy Problems, Honey Cutt @ONCE Somerville 8:30pm 18+ $10-12 Thu 3/21 Mark Fell, Okkyung Lee, Kara-Lis Coverdale: Solo Organ, LXV @First Unitarian Congregational Society 8pm All Ages $15-25 Thu 3/21 Hood Rats, Andy California, Mongorellis, Sticker Shock @O'Brien's Pub 9pm 21+ $8-10 Fri 3/22 Jawbreaker @House of Blues 7pm
Mon 3/4 State Forest, slo-anne, Thought Partner @Charlie's Kitchen Shows 8pm 21+ $5
Fri 3/22 Gyna Bootleg, Human Interaction, Double Dragon, Vat Of Acid @Washington Street Art 8pm All Ages $ome Cost
Mon 3/4 Mike Krol, Savak, earthquake party! @ Great Scott 8:30pm 18+ $10-12
Fri 3/22 Grateful Dead Family Night @Deep Thoughts JP 9:30pm All Ages Free
Tue 3/5 The Cowboys, Nice Guys, Boston Cream @ Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $5-10
Fri 3/22 Churchburn, Scaphism, Shabti, Upheaval @O'Brien's Pub 8pm 21+ $10
Thursday 3/7 Country, Gospel, Soul and RnB 4 u: Jesus Drinks Free @The Jeanie Johnston Pub 9pm-CLOSE // 21+ // FREE
Sat 3/23 Beat Circus, Count Zero, Jaggery, Emp. Norton, Kee Avil @ONCE Somerville 7pm 18+ $10-12
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CHOSEN SHOWS OF NEW ENGLAND AND BEYOND
Western Mass.
3/6 Rob Noyes, Alexander @The Root Cellar 8pm 21+ $10 3/14 Jeff Carey, Sigtryggur Sigmarsson, Andrea Pensado, Foambitz @The Root Cellar 8pm 21+ $10 3/17 Go Go Buffalo, AD.UL.T, Perennial @The Root Cellar 7pm 21+ $10 3/19 Forced into Femininity, Nemisister, PussyVision, Channel Master @The Root Cellar 8pm 21+ $10 3/31 The Future of Performing Arts in Easthampton II @Flywheel Arts Collective 2-4pm All Ages Free
Rhode Island
3/9 Xr-Tabs [EP Release] featuring Lightning BOLT @Flower Factory (RI) 9pm All Ages $ome Cost 3/16 ANCESTRAL SHADOWS, MORTUM, ANCIENT TORMENT, MALACATH @Dusk 9pm 18+ $8 3/20 MWA [IL], Exposed as Rot, Armpits, Moisturizer @Dusk 9pm All Ages $8 3/29 Churchburn, Haxen, Hell Bent, Shabti & Fed Ash @Machines With Magnets 8:30pm All Ages $10 3/29 FINE. (cd release) w/ EDT and Gertrude Atherton @AS220 9pm All Ages $6-12
New Hampshire
3/15 The Ballroom Thieves w/ Julie Rhodes @3S
3/16 An Anderson, Ossalot, Billy Carr @The Apohadion Theater 8pm All Ages $ome Cost
Artspace 8pm All Ages $15-18 3/22 Peachum, Tuft, Tiffy, All Those Ships at Sue's 3/30 Gauche, Pearie Sol, Privacy Issues @AL@Sue's 7:30pm All Ages $5 PHAVILLE. 8pm 21+ $10 3/24 Elizabeth Colour Wheel, Lightsleeper, The Doldrums @Sue's 7:30pm All Ages $5-10 3/31 Crystal Methodist, Fed Ash, Lepra, Pain Chain @Sue's 6:30pm All Ages $5 3/9 Fat Randy, Kal Marks, Sperm Donor, Exposed as Rot @WAMLEG (CT) 6:30pm All Ages $8-10 3/18 Plague Vendor, Videodome, Witch Hair @ 3/1 TMBOY, Contrapposto, Peach Hat @The Apohad- cafe nine 7pm 21+ $5 3/22 Future Punx, Pleasure Beat, Glambat @cafe ion Theater 8pm All Ages $ome Cost 3/14 Toothbrush EP release with Cadaverette, Wiz- nine 9pm All Ages $ome Cost ard Party, Roy Orbitussin @SPACE 8:30pm All Ages $5-10
New York
Connecticut
Maine
Mon 3/18 Boston Feminists for Liberation CRAFT NIGHT @Make Shift 6PM - 9PM Tues 3/19 Lecture: Spring Photo Lecture Series Oluremi Onabajo @MassArt 3:30PM - 6PM SOWA FIRST FRIDAYS 3/1
Tues 3/19 Lecture: Visiting Artist - Steve Locke @ Tricia O'Neil - Martello Tower Project @Griffin Peter Fuller Building - BU 7:30PM - 9PM Museum of Photography 6PM - 8PM Wed 3/20 Lecture: Visiting Artist Lecture - Sara Fresh Faces @Abigail Ogilvy Gallery 6PM - Henry @Office for the Arts at Harvard - Ceramics Program 5:30PM - 6:30PM 8:30PM CHANTAL ZAKARI - COGENT MESSAGE @ Wed 3/20 Modern Calligraphy at Trident Booksellers @Trident Booksellers 6:30PM - 8:30PM Kingston Gallery 5PM - 8PM $65 Opening Reception: Taking Form - Fibers & Thurs 3/21 Reception: Shades of Blue @PanoptiFabric @Galatea Fine Art 6PM - 8PM con Gallery 6PM - 8PM Fri 3/1 Reception: Do You Remember? @GalThurs 3/21 Third Thursday Reception - An Explolery 263 7PM - 9PM sion of Colors @Atlantic Works Gallery 6PM- 9PM Sat 3/2 Artist Talk with Andrew Fish @Childs Fri 3/22 Reception: Object(ive) @Brookline Art Gallery Noon - 2PM Center 6PM - 8PM Sat 3/2 Opening Reception: Light Moves new work by Nina Stolz Bellucci @Musa Col- Fri 3/22 Arts Equity Summit Kick-Off @Hibernian Hall 6PM - 10PM (Donation accepted) lective 4PM - 6PM Mon 3/4 Artist's Talk: Taking Form - Fibers and 3/23 KHF Presents Modern Hippies: Art, Drinks, Food, and More! @G’s Gallery 184 Broadway, Fabric @Galatea Fine Art 3PM - 5PM Saugus MA 1-7pm Free All Ages Tues 3/5 Gallery Talk with Curators John A. Tyson and Sam Toabe @UMass Boston Universi- Sat 3/23 Workshop - Paper Cherry Blossom Branches with AIR Jessica Smith @Society of Arts ty Hall Gallery 5PM - 6PM and Crafts 10AM - 2PM $60 Wed 3/6 Lecture - Harry Dodge and Amy Sillman @Tufts University Art Gallery 7PM - Sat 3/23 Music, Dance & Fine Arts: Black Sheep Contemporary Ensemble @Laconia Gallery 2PM 8:30PM - 4PM (Donations accepted) Sat 3/8 Open Windows Cooperative Publica- Tues 3/26 Lecture: Visiting Artist - Catherine Sullivan @Peter Fuller Building 7:30PM - 9PM tion Release @Practice Space 6PM - 8PM Sat 3/8 Workshop : Materials Spotlight - Mak- Tues 3/26 MASSCreative - Arts Advocacy Day @ ing Food Safe Molds @Reynolds Advanced Boston Common 9AM - 3PM (Register Online) Materials 1PM - 3PM Thurs 3/28 Screening and Conversation: Sky Sat 3/8 Reception: AIR Fatty Spice @Industry Hopinka @School of the Museum of Fine Arts 6PM - 9PM Lab 6PM - 8PM Sat 3/9 Opening Reception: An Explosion of Thurs 3/28 Design Night Boston @Autodesk Technology Center - Boston 6PM - 9PM $15 Colors @Atlantic Works Gallery 6PM - 9PM Sun 3/10 Opening Reception: Magnus John- Fri 3/29 Installation Art: ArtTechPsyche V @Harstone: Larger Works & More @Nave Gallery vard Science Center 9AM - 4PM 3:30pm Fri 3/29-3/31 Boston Tattoo Convention @Hynes Wed 3/13 International Women's Day Cele- Convention Center (various times) $45 - $60 bration @Abigail Ogilvy Gallery 6PM - 8:30PM
ONGOING ART EXHIBITIONS
Wed 3/13-3/17 Boston Flower and Garden Show @Seaport Trade Center 10AM - 8PM Joe Caruso: Gods, Totems and Tricksters @Laconia Gallery 2/1 - 3/24 $10-$15 Thurs 3/14 Open Mic: Bummer City #39 ft. Robert Mangold: 1979 @Krakow Witkin Gallery Adam Bauer @HI Boston Hostel 7PM - 9:30PM Do You Remember? @Gallery 263 2/14 - 3/16 Thurs 3/14 Workshop : Leavings/Belongings - Bundle-making Workshop @Boston Chi- Object(ive) @Brookline Art Center 3/15 - 4/19 natown Neighborhood Center 4PM - 6PM The Creation of Man: Gallery Exhibition by (Bring your own fabric) Jamaal Bonnette aka Barry @Piano Craft Gallery Fri 3/15 Info Session for Full-Time professional 3/1 Opening Reception 6-9pm. 3/2 Artist Talk craft programs @North Bennet Street School 12-5pm. 3/8 Spoken Word 9:30AM - 11:30AM Event 8-10:30pm. Fri 3/15 Performance: Alessandro Sciarroni - Untitled - I Will Be There When You Die @ 3/15 Open Mic Institute of Contemporary Art 8PM - 9:30PM 7-10pm. M2M Live $15-25 Session Fri 3/15 Workshop: Pop-up Shop-up @Red 3/17 Thread - Seaport 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM $15-25 12-5pm.
Thu 3/14 THE RAVEN (1963) dir. Roger Corman @ SOMERVILLE [35mm] Price. Lorre. Karloff. Nicholson. Nevermore. Fri 3/15 ROBOCOP (1987) dir. Paul Verhoeven @ COOLIDGE [35mm] Fri 3/1 TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991) dir. The most ‘80s sci-fi actioner ever made James Cameron @COOLIDGE He’s back, baby… for good. Sat 3/16 STARFISH (2016) dir. A.T. White @
COOLIDGE Fri 3/1 DETOUR (1945) dir. Edgar G. Ulmer @BRAT- One door closes, mind the void. TLE Director in person! Guy gives a lift to the wrong tomato. New Criterion restoration! Screens through 3/3 Sun 3/17 THE WORLD BENEATH YOUR FEET (2018) dir. Jeremy Workman @COOLIDGE Fri 3/1 THE IMAGE BOOK (2019) dir. Jean-Luc God- Walking makes the world, and New York City. ard @MFA Director and subject Matt Green in person! New wave master waxes metatextual. Area premiere! Screens through 3/21 Wed 3/20 ZAMA (2018) dir. Lucrecia Martel @ MFA Sat 3/2 CHOPPING MALL (1986) dir. Jim Wynorski Argentine period drama… with a llama! @COOLIDGE The future is here and it's out for blood Fri 3/22 THE STEPFORD WIVES (1975) dir. Bryan Forbes @COOLIDGE [35mm] Sun 3/3 LEAVE NO TRACE (2018) dir. Debra Granik When the ordinary turns out to be anything but @MFA Deserved a Best Picture nomination Fri 3/22 ANIMATED FILMS OF KAREN AQUA @ICA Mon 3/4 CATVIDEOFEST @KENDALL It’s exactly what you think it is Also screens 3/6 @COOLIDGE Thu 3/7 WEIRD LOCAL FILM FEST #8 @WAREHOUSE XI Homegrown cinematic weirdness! Fri 3/8 CLIMAX (2018) dir. Gaspar Noé @BRATTLE Derangement-junkies, getcher Gaspar on. Area premiere! Screens through 3/14
Mindblowing toons by the late animator Live score by the Kevin Field Alto Sax Quartet
Fri 3/22 SPRING BREAKERS (2012) dir. Harmony Korine @VU Spriiiiiiiing breeeeaaak forevvvvvvvver. Sat 3/23 HARDWARE (1990) dir. Richard Stanley @COOLIDGE [35mm] Underrated cyberpunk extravaganza
Sun 3/24 STYX (2018) dir. Wolfgang Fischer @ COOLIDGE Sat 3/9 BLADE RUNNER 2049 (2017) dir. Denis Ville- The freedom to explore confronts the crisis of neuve @COOLIDGE escape. Long-awaited cyberpunk sequel. Presented by Goethe-Institut Boston Sun 3/10 WHERE THE PAVEMENT ENDS (2018) dir. Jane Gillooly @MFA Life after Ferguson. Director in person. Co-presented by Roxbury International Film Festival
Thu 3/28 DRAGNET GIRL (1933) dir. Yasujirō Ozu @COOLIDGE Silent Japanese noir by one of the all-timers Live soundtrack by Coupler!
LISTINGS NOTE: Below is the venue abbreviation key: BRATTLE - Brattle Theatre COOLIDGE - Coolidge Corner Theatre EMERSON - Bright Lights Emerson HFA - Harvard Film Archive Tue 3/12 BOSTON OPEN SCREEN @COOLIDGE ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art Open mic for filmmakers-- BYO Shorts! KENDALL - Kendall Square Cinema MFA - Museum of Fine Arts Boston Wed 3/13 DISPATCHES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: SOMERVILLE - Somerville Theatre BEST OF BUFF 2018 @SOMERVILLE VU - Video Underground (JP) Bone up for BUFF! [35mm, 70mm, etc] – Projected on ACTUAL FILM! Screens in Microcinema (downstairs) Mon 3/11 OF FATHERS AND SONS (2017) dir. Talal Derki @BRATTLE A riveting glimpse inside everyday Isis. Director via Skype. Presented by DocYard
Please see our sister website BostonHassle.com/ Thu 3/14 YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE (2018) dir. Film-Flam for our full listings w/ showtimes and Lynne Ramsay @MFA other info. FILM FLAM SEEKS VOLUNTEERS!!! If A more meticulously paced John Wick 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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Fri 3/15 Curator Tour: Caitlin Rubin on Howardena Pindell @Rose Art Museum 12:30PM - 1:30PM
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3/1 Funeral Cone, The Laces, Kind!, Feedbag, Human Dust @ 7pm All Ages $10 3/2 DAP Anniversary Party: A Brain Arts Org Celebration @ 6pm All Ages Free + DAP Anniversary Show w/ Operator Music Band, TMBOY, Up the Flowers, Miss Geo @ 8pm All Ages Free 3/3 Close Body Talent / Celebutant / Andrea Schiavelli / Muddy Wires @ 8pm
3/4 Emmett McCleary, Lev Snowe, Wowflower @ 8-11pm 3/5 Human Variety Show! Monthly Showcase 3/6 Brain Arts Org Volunteer Hang: Bathroom Makeover Edition! @6-9pm 3/8 5XY, The Group Activity with Symphoz @8-11pm 3/9 Live Podcast Play Reading with the Artist Theater of Boston @6-10pm 3/14 Brandie Blaze single release @ 8pm All Ages $1 3/15Music for Pets presents Divebomb, broadband95, and special guests 8-11pm $ome cost" 3/15 Gallery Hours: The Figure is Queer: Queer/Trans Figure Drawing Showcase @12-6pm 3/15 Opening Reception: The Figure is Queer: Queer/ Trans Figure Drawing Showcase @6-9pm 3/16 Gallery Hours: The Figure is Queer: Queer/Trans Figure Drawing Showcase @12-6pm 3/17 Landowner, Glued (St Louis), Rong, Thighs 3/21 Black Cotton Club Poetry Exhibition @7-9pm 3/22 Property Materials Local Electronic Music Showcase ft. Solid State Entity, Joe Mygan, J. Bagist, Alison O'Brien, Anda Volley @8pm-2am
3/23 Jaap Blonk / Jeb Bishop / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter @ 8pm $20 3/23 Gallery Hours: The Figure is Queer: Queer/ Trans Figure Drawing Showcase @12-6pm 3/24 Gallery Hours: The Figure is Queer: Queer/ Trans Figure Drawing Showcase @12-6pm 3/24 Stace Brandt Lucky Ones EP Release Show ft. Donna Vatnick and Killian/Whall @8-11pm 3/26 DAP Open Mic! Ft DziDzor and ExoShakeem. Hosted by Odell 3/29 PLAYLAND w/ New Dad (Houston), Le Feeling (PVD) Animal Hospital + more @ 8pm ALL AGES $TBA A fundraiser for Mass Trans Political Coalition Friday 3/29 Mission Cult Presents: Shytalk / Octalisk / Graaves @ 9pm $10 All Ages 3/30 Paint Nite w/ Malika Bone! @ 4-8pm 3/30 Cake Factory #23 BOSTON TECHNO @ 9:30pm Sun 3/31 Gauche w/ Pearie Sol @7pm $10
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In 1996, Trent Reznor, aka Nine Inch Nails, became the first star powered musician to compose a score for a video game, that game being the sinister first person shooter, Quake, by id Software. While there are rumors of Michael Jackson’s involvement in the creation of the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 soundtrack (I highly recommend recommend reading Ken Horowitz research on the subject at the blog sega-16), famous musicians, for the most part, have not composed original scores for video games. However, asking Reznor proved fruitful and his soundtrack was the perfect accompaniment for game’s twisted Lovecraftian plot. The story is set somewhere in the future. The government, while experimenting with teleportation technology, opens a portal to another dimension that is unfortunately set on eradicating humanity. The protagonist, Ranger, voiced by Reznor himself, must blast, bomb, and gore his way through the hellscape to save the human race from oblivion. Reznor is quoted as saying the soundtrack, "is not music, it's textures and ambiences and whirling machine noises and stuff. We tried to make the most sinister, depressive, scary, frightening kind of thing…” In addition to the score and voice work, Trent also created the sound design, and in the game you’ll notice that the Nine Inch Nails logo adornes the side of ammo boxes. The interest in the soundtrack has stayed throughout the years and a re-release of it is allegedly in the works. With the size and continued growth of the video game industry I am surprised that rock stars making video game soundtracks hasn’t been a more common thing. Let’s hope this happens more in the future because I want to hear Death Grips ripping over the next Street Fighter. Zach plays in a band called ghösh, and lives in Philly with his girlfriend Christina and dog snowflake. Christina does the drawings. Instagram @avantlard —Zachary Fairbrother
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Federated Social Media After last year, you might be pretty anxious about megalithic social media companies brokering your intimate details for business, after all; “If the service is free: you’re the product.” How do we break away from such a toxic relationship with large corporations while keeping our online relationships with our friends and family intact? Last year, I made the decision to leave Facebook for good and I haven’t looked back. I know this approach isn’t viable for everyone, but the good news is I have a few alternatives proposed: Federated alternatives. So what the hell is federating and federated social media? Think about it this way: traditional social media stores all of your information on computers owned by one company (such as Google servers, or Facebook Servers, Twitter
Servers, Etc…). This means that the algorithms and decisions are entirely based on trusting the singular corporate entities who run them with no control at the hands of users. Federated social medias are a platform by which anyone with enough smarts can run their own ‘Instance’, and anyone (or anyone they want to let in) can join. Moreso, if you’re unhappy with the instance you’re on; you can join a different instance (a different person’s computer) because they’re all operating together: that’s federating. Currently, the most popular federated social media alternative is Mastodon, a twitter-like social media with a weird variety of users. If you already use Twitter, this will be the most familiar, so give it a shot! —DLM
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