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On his new song “Lust,” Kendrick Lamar paints a picture of what has been the reality for many Americans: “We all woke up, tryna tune to the daily news / Lookin’ for confirmation, hopin’ the election pring! g in the S in h T e e h wasn’t true… Time passin’, things change / Revertin’ back to our daily T r : o h m t 11 & h y t r , poet June 7 m il f programs, stuck in our ways.” The temptation to make like a hermit t, s r e a l Ag ft. music, MIT List Visual gh NH, Al u o and seal ourselves away is strong. To ignore what’s happening ! r o t Arts Center b r s e e @Pet May 19, 2017 - Ju nic F /10) around us and pretend that life is perfect. But as comedian Hari o ly 16, 2017 r t -plusElec le, 6 Kondabolu has tweeted every day of the Trump presidency. 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Th r $5 fres Has l and the ation en, B ), an e list asse t i te Huldisch, the ca Fro , Mid a, Se Josep ngra DMAN logue features es e fo nd the na de pt tasay contributions do) onpk oid ( es G FOO Ko (LA let am ok V k d a . by Eugenie Brinkem cs tian Ged (a.k sociate Professor, "Br work ees a it up natio inclu l tem bella ras omp e’ve s ka a, AsBa w, M. まつり op Literature Section c g n l r Ko Cla 食品 , MIT; Johanna Bu na of t nd h uch and nnica ), Isa Gen or a ons w er Director and Cura ph lle and rton, m y f a tor of Education an n sto i D s r a r n aCh chi fa calz g so to t tyr (PV dde rag ulati d Public Engageme vol lSe the New Museum; A w by e n l s h it nt e at w e and Emily Watlingt ua lo urin nd th iner . Ge this em s. Vis on, Curatorial Rese a f Assistant, MIT Lis t cha ic arch t Visual Arts Cent ea 's err ing o onta H), M ts of tron drum - Mi f er l and graduate stu l r u History, Theory an c C dent d Criticism of Ar foo samp her, w (O the g l ele ur ea t and Architectur a yo - Maryam Yoon lc Cla ct t e, MIT. e n e u e Sq iant Diss erim G n). p x Hassle is an amazing group. As an l, e pa (Ja pirica engineer, the organizational structure em kind of makes my spleen hurt, but it’s a fantastic bunch of genuine people who are serious about supporting creativity. I volunteered because DIY venues are awesome. They provide space for music and The United States currently incarcerates 2.2 million people—significantly more than any other art and ideas that otherwise do not have a country. We disproportionately imprison people from minority and low-income communities. place to connect to people. And they direct The experience of prison and its lingering after-effects—including barriers to welfare, housing, more money to artists instead of landlords employment, voting, and education—leave formerly incarcerated people even more likely to and infrastructure. I also wanted to find like- remain poor and marginalized. Though the US spends upwards of $86 billion on corrections minded people and discover the local new music each year, incarcerated people are given few resources to prepare them for re-entry. 90% hidden under rocks and jammed into the nooks of incarcerated people will be released, but 40% will return to prison within three years. and crannies of this Greater Boston Area. Hassle At the Petey Greene Program, a nonprofit that recruits and coordinates volunteers to reminded me of Occupy and BLM, because when I tutors in local prisons, we collaborate with college students to try to make a difference first heard of them I thought, what? Wow. how is this in the lives of incarcerated people. Education is one of the most effective ways to organized? Jazz hands? decrease crime and the costs of incarceration. Formerly incarcerated people who took After signing up, and waiting, and then confusing classes in prison are 43% less likely to return to prison than those who did not, and a emails, and texts with no context, I found out. This UCLA study found that $1 million spent on education prevents almost twice as many distributed network of volunteers is focused on making crimes as the same amount spent on corrections. shows happen, so sometimes there’s nobody in the office Since the recession, however, many Departments of Corrections have cut reto pick up the phone. And there’s no office. There is tons sources for all educational programming, and students face underfunded and to do though, so if you’re curious come see a show or Black understaffed classrooms. This is where the Petey Greene Program can make a Market on June 18 in Central. Or sign up as a volunteer. difference. By working with the educational programs in prisons, we can signifiAgain even. We need more people writing for the site, copycantly improve outcomes for the students. editing that writing, promoting and learning what post-face- If you’re interested in getting involved, contact us at boston@peteygreene. book means. Or just drop off the Compass at some coffee org or apply directly at peteygreene.org/volunteerapplication. shops. Especially in the summer, it’s great fun to help something -Eleanor Roberts big and ambiguous convert dark spaces into colorful ones, and then turn the volume up. -Sean Bradley
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Sat 6/10 Non Event Presents: Chris Strunk (CD release) with Donna Parker & Vic Rawlings, Gilmore Tamny, Lean/Venerate the Plow @Washington St. Thu 6/8 Thing in the Spring and the Glass Museum Arts Center 8pm All Ages $10 present: Reading #1 featuring Alexandria MarzaSat 6/10 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds @Wang no-Lesnevich / Kate Senecal + Bach: Partita for Solo Flute (BWV 1013) @Toadstool Bookshop 12pm Theatre 8pm All Ages $45 All Ages Free Sat 6/10 Pussy Power Party w/ Solo Sexx, Miss Thu 6/8 Thing in the Spring and the Glass Museum Geo, Violet Nox, Citrusphere, Shimmi Hendrix, Spectramotiv, Brandi Blaze, Tracy Chevrolet, JBird present: Rear Defrosters w/ Eastern Mountain @Out of the Blue 6:30pm All Ages $5 Time @Harlow's Pub 9:30pm 21+ Free Thu 6/8 Reverend Horton Heat, Agent Orange, Flat Duo Jets @ONCE 8pm 18+ $26
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Sat 6/3 Sonorium presents: Angela Sawyer, Matt Weston, Ryan Kayhart, and Eames Armstrong / Cory O'Brien @Gallows Hill Theatre (Salem) 8pm All Ages $10 Thu 6/1 Born Without Bones, Lady Pills, The Furs @ONCE 8pm 18+ $12
Sat 6/3 Bent Knee, Great Caesar, The Refectory @Cafe Nine 9pm 21+ $10
Thu 6/1 The Riot Shuffle featuring Angela Saw- Sat 6/3 Endless Boogie, Death Pesos, TBA @ yer and more @The Riot Theatre (JP) 9pm All Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages $10 sugg. Ages $ome Cost donation Fri 6/2 A Benefit for Ed Walters Heart Fund w/ Sun 6/4 Angela Sawyer @Comedy Studio 8pm TSOL, Jerry's Kids, Stranglehold, PanzerBas$ome Cost tard @ONCE 8pm 18+ $15 Sun 6/4 GIUDA, Unnatural Axe, The Hi-End @ Fri 6/2 The Orwells, The Walters @Sinclair 8pm ONCE 7:30pm 18+ $14-17 All Ages $20 Sun 6/4 HAUNTER, Burglary Years, Good Fri 6/2 Milk (LP Release) w/ Big Mess and Taxi- Game, Sleeping In, Civility @Mid East Up 7pm dermists @Great Scott 10pm 21+ $10 18+ $12 Fri 6/2 Angela Sawyer @The Hideout (Fanieul Hall) 8pm $ome Cost Fri 6/2 Hippie Hour 6th Anniversary featuring 3 Grateful Dead cover bands @ Midway Cafe 6pm All Ages $8 (free before 8:30)
Mon 6/5 Bent Knee w/ The Shills, Body English @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 Mon 6/5 Rad Castle and Eye Design Present: Ghosts of Sailors at Sea, Omoo Omoo, Minibeast @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free Mon 6/5 Horse Lords (Baltimore), Creative Healing (WMASS/Boston), Spy In The Sky @ Hojoko 8pm All Ages $10 Sugg. Donation…*A Boston Hassle Joint Effort* Tue 6/6 Department of Everything, Leo Albatross, J E Double F, Squallie Greenthumb @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8
Fri 6/2 Dronezone Night 1 featuring Dim Red Glo, Sean Quixote, Petridisch, bothands, crustmonk, Violet Nox, subsoma, Muddy Wire @ Tue 6/6 Pharmakon, Pelada (MTL), Isabella, Shitty Field 8pm All Ages $5 Sugg. Donation DJ Dayglow @Cambridge Elks Lodge 9pm All Ages $10-12…*A Boston Hassle Joint Effort* Sat 6/3 Dronezone Night 2 featuring Floromancer, Obsidian Helix, Sun Rad, Godmouth, Tue 6/6 Meatbodies, Midriffs, Bong Wish @ Solid State Entity, Kar’Nam, Mike Sim, Sound Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $12 Shaman, Tucuxi, dontnormally @Shitty Field 8pm All Ages $5 Sugg. Donation Tue 6/6 Giving Up (IOWA), Blau, Blau, Louie Sat 6/3 Ancalagon, Diva Karr, Abrader @O'Brien's 8:00pm 21+ $8
Louie (PHILLY), Kal Marks (solo) @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages $5-10 Sugg. Donation
Sat 6/3 Birdsongs of Mesozoic & Audrey Harrer Wed 6/7 Girlpool, Ian Sweet, Lexie @Brighton @ONCE 10pm 18+ $10 Music Hall 7pm All Ages $15 Sat 6/3 Parks, Psychic Dog, Me In Capris, Surf Vietnam @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $8
Wed 6/7 Pharmakon, Humanbeast, Valerie Martino, Timeghost @AS220 9pm All Ages $8
Sat 6/3 Open Sound presents: Viola Yip, Wed 6/7 Hairspray Queen/ Toxic Womb/ UlKirsten Volness, & Cobra (by John Zorn) @Third traje(PR) @a spot (PVD) 7pm All Ages $5-8 Life Studio 8pm All Ages $ome Cost
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6/2 Eternal Slumber Party Presents: Forth Wanderers, Shannen Moser, Paper Bee, Burglary Years @Flywheel Arts Collective 7pm All Ages $10 RHODE ISLAND
6/9 Giving Up, Louie Louie, Mother Tongue @ Psychic Readings (Providence) 9:30pm All Ages 6/9 Twin Peaks, Ron Gallo, Gymshorts @Fete (Providence) 7pm All Ages $15 6/17 Downtown Boys, The Kominas, Giant Kitty, Third Floor @Aurora (Providence) 8:30pm $8 6/30 Edgar Clinks, Purrer, Lady Queen Paradise, Fine. @Machines With Magnets (Pawtucket, RI) 8:30pm All Ages $ome Cost
Thu 6/8 Park Slug and Eye Design Present: Ovlov, Sun 6/11 Shirime (NYC), New Hell, G.M.F. (CT), Mis(s)Invader @Firehouse 13 (PVD) 8pm All Ages Glued (MO), Jackal Onasis, Big Mess @Polish American Citizens Club of South Boston 8pm 21+ $7 $8-10 Sun 6/11 Squirrel Flower, Lina Tullgren, Brittle Brian @Lilypad 8pm All Ages $10 Thu 6/8 RareFootage4 featuring ASE Manual, Raqcity, Boydjibouti, Creamykittn @Good Life Sun 6/11 The Motherlode Electronic Fest Day 2 10pm 21+ $ome Cost featuring Midisexual, Kill Alters, Joe Mygan, cskopThu 6/8 Bastard Noise, Dropdead, Jarhead Fertil- ka, Seth Graham, Jake Meginsky, Valerie Martino, izer, Sickness, Horrible Earth @Mid East Up 7pm Bastian Void, Giant Glaw, M. Geddes Gengras, Darren Keen, FOODMAN, Christopher Konopka 18+ $10-15 @Cambridge Elks Lodge 3pm All Ages $15…*A Fri 6/9 Mild High Club, John Andrews & the Yawns, Boston Hassle Joint Effort* Lina Tullgren @Brighton Music Hall 8pm 18+ $12 Sun 6/11 Improvised Music at Blue Bag featuring Lance Grabmiller, Jorrit Dijkstra & Nate McBride, Fri 6/9 Reverend Horton Heat, Flat Duo Jets, Rebecca Novak (Houston) w/Adi Snir and Damon Agent Orange @ONCE 8pm 18+ $26 Smith @Blue Bag Records 7:30pm All Ages $10 Sugg. Donation Fri 6/9 Illegally Blind Presents: She-Devils, Mini Dresses, Beautiful Woman @Lilypad 10pm All Sun 6/11 Standing Waves #8 presents Anne-F Ages $10 Jacques @EMW Bookstore 7-9 pm All Ages $ome Fri 6/9 Thing in the Spring and The Glass Museum Cost present: Reading #2 featuring James Crews and Wo Chan + Bach: Suite for Solo Cello @Toadstool Sun 6/11 Thing in the Spring and The Glass MuseBookshop (Peterborough, NH) 1pm All Ages Free um present: Reading #4 featuring Charles Simic, Cristian Flores Garcia, Zach Green + Bach: Suite Fri 6/9 Thing in the Spring and The Glass Museum for Lute in C Minor @Toadstool Bookshop (Peterborough, NH) 11am All Ages Free present: Christopher Myott: Rifts (downstairs) + dj set by Matt Valentine @NHIA / Sharon Arts Center Gallery (Peterborough, NH) 5-7pm All Ages Sun 6/11 Thing in the Spring and The Glass Museum present: Steve Gunn, Jeff Parker, Nathaniel Free Russell @Monadnock Center for History & Culture Fri 6/9 Thing in the Spring and The Glass Museum (Peterborough, NH) 2pm All Ages $15-20 present: Paper Castles w/ Gilliver @Harlow's Pub Mon 6/12 The Plutonians, Donna Parker, Life 9:30pm 21+ $8 Partners, Carlisle Sound @Charlie’s Kitchen 9pm Fri 6/9 SEA, Barrows, 28 Degrees Taurus, Voidgod $ome Cost @O’Brien’s 8pm 18+ $8 Mon 6/12 Rad Castle Presents: The Ghost Boys, Fri 6/9 Truck Stanley, Coord (Zane from Banned Kave Kraft @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free Books), Stone Filipczak & Amber O’Hara, Brookline Tue 6/13 Land Of Talk, Half Waif @Brighton Music Booksmith (Christian Cahill and Cleo Miao) @ Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages $5 sugg. dona- Hall 7pm 18+ $17 tion Tue 6/13 Non Event Presents: Id M Theftable @ Sat 6/10 Mary Timony plays Helium, Noveller @ Cafe Fixe 7pm All Ages $5 Sinclair 6pm 18+ $18 Wed 6/14 The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Frankie Rose, Ablebody @Sinclair 7pm All Ages $17 Sat 6/10 The Motherlode Electronic Fest Day 1 featuring Dinnersss, !@#$%, Squelcher, Gobby, Truck Stanley’s Night Dreams, Grutch, Cabo Boing, Wed 6/14 Weedeater, Black Wizard, Serial Hawk @Sonia 7pm $20 Jahiliyya Fields, Soren Roi, Isabella Koen, Book Worms, Container @Some ‘Ting Nice (Somerville) 3pm All Ages $15…*A Boston Hassle Joint Effort* Wed 6/14 Sam Moss & Jonathan Frazer Lessard @ Sue's (Rollinsford, NH) 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sat 6/10 Thing in the Spring and The Glass Museum present: Broke! The Affordable Arts Fair Thu 6/15 Nice Guys, Black Beach, Ovlov, The featuring 50+ artists selling work for under $50 @ Cavemen @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 Town Hall (Peterborough, NH) 10am-4pm All Ages Fri 6/16 Illegally Blind Presents: The Kominas, GiFree ant Kitty, Blau Blau @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10 Sat 6/10 Thing in the Spring and The Glass Museum present: Reading #3 featuring Rebecca Bengal Fri 6/16 Eye Design Presents: Something Sneaky, Blessed, Ozlo, Bulletin @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8 and Matt Krefting + Bach: Sonata & Partita for Solo Violin @Toadstool Bookshop (Peterborough, Fri 6/16 Kids Like You & Me Rama Lama Ding NH) 11am All Ages Free Dong w/ The Monsieurs, Creaturos, Littlefoot, Germ House, Jim Leonard, Johnnie & The FoodSat 6/10 Thing in the Spring and The Glass Museum present: Diane Cluck, Sam Moss, Maryse masters @Middle East Upstairs 7pm 18+ $10 Smith, Bright Boy, Liv Carrow, Tongue Oven, Guilt Mountain @In front of Toadstool Bookstore (Peter- Fri 6/16 Palehound (album release party) w/Stove and Halfsour @Sonia 7pm All Ages $13 borough, NH) 12pm All Ages Free
Fri 6/16 Culture Abuse, Fiddlehead, Restraining Sat 6/10 Thing in the Spring and The Glass Museum present: Bunny's a Swine w/ Rick Rude @ Order, Jinx @Hardcore Stadium 6pm All Ages $12 Harlow's Pub 9:30pm 21+ $8 Sat 6/17 Charly Bliss, Yucky Duster, Lost Dog @ Foole, MV, Pigeons @Peterborough Unitarian new hampshire: ONCE 8pm 18+ $12 Church (Peterborough, NH) 6:30pm All ages 6/3 Bilge Rat, Greed Island, KGFREEZE, Baby $15-20 Sat 6/17 Lizzo @Paradise 8pm 18+ $18 Lawns @Sue's (Rollinsford, NH) 8pm All Ages 6/10 Thing in the Spring and The Glass Museum $ome Cost present: Mail the Horse, Maya Lazaro, Family 6/7 Thing in the Spring and the Glass Museum Planning, Lauren Costello, Adam & the Flood, Present: Palehound, Kindling, Ordinary Lives, Band Band @Tent behind Town Hall (Peterbor- 6/29 Thou, Cloud Rat, Moloch, False, Nycterent @ Black Norse @Peterborough Town Library 7pm ough, NH) 12pm All Ages $10 Space Gallery (Portland, ME) 8pm All Ages $12-15 All Ages $10 (free with Peterborough library card!) Vermont Maine 6/8 Thing in the Spring and the Glass Museum 6/10 Jeff Parker (of Tortoise) @ArtsRiot (Burlington, present: Mirah, Home Body, Lilith, Giving Up @ 6/11 Meatbodies with Bad Island @Space GalVT) 8pm All Ages $13-15 lery (Portland, ME) 8pm All Ages $8-10 Toadstool Bookshop 7pm All Ages $15-20 6/16 Weedeater, Black Wizard, Serial Hawk @ 6/9 Thing in the Spring and The Glass Museconnecticut Space Gallery (Portland, ME) 8pm All Ages um present: Milford Graves, Mary Halvorson, 6/13 The Kominas, Giant Kitty @Cafe Nine (New Shahzad Ismaily, 23 Ensemble @Peterborough $15-18 Haven, CT) 9pm 21+ $8 6/24 Flow Fort Knox Presents: Steve Norton Unitarian Church 7pm All Ages $15-20 6/16 Charly Bliss w/ Yucky Duster, Hellrazor, Witch 6/10 Thing in the Spring and the Glass Museum with Nate Aldrich Leslie Ross (plus many more!) Hair @Cafe Nine (New Haven, CT) 8:30pm 21+ $12 Present: Josephine Foster, Mal Devisa, Dredd @Ft. Knox (Bucksport, ME) 3pm All Ages Free
Sun 6/18 Larkin Grimm (Georgia/NYC), Aisha Burns, Gold Dime (NYC) and Solei @Studio 550 8pm All Ages $10-12…*A Boston Hassle Joint Effort*
Sat 6/24 Citrusphere, The Nickel & Dime Band featuring Rick Berlin, The Rhys Tivey Band (NYC), Sand Machine @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $10
Sun 6/18 Feminist Fiber Art Fairy Festival (mu- Sun 6/25 Jesus Vio, Nice Guys, Wendy Eisensic lineup TBA) @Democracy Center 1pm-9pm berg, Banana @Club Bohemia 8pm 21+ $10 All Ages $5-20 Sun 6/25 Sidney Gish, Fred Beans, Dark Sun 6/18 LIZA, Celebuton, Petridisch, Pressure Tones, Wyoming @ER 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sugg. Donation Care @Midway Cafe 4pm All Ages $7 Mon 6/26 Rad Castle Presents: Death Pesos & Friends! @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free
Sun 6/18 Non Events Presents: EKG (Ernst Karel + Kyle Bruckmann) performing Alvin Lucier, Serenade (1993) @Le Laboratoire (Cambridge) 7pm All Age $5-10
Sat 6/17 THE NEW YORK DOG FILM FESTIVAL @BRATTLE Dogs dogs dogs dogs dogs Managing Editor: Oscar Goff Contributing Writers: Kyle Brunet, W. Logan Freeman, Oscar Goff, Matthew Martens, Nick Perry Thurs 6/1 MALCOLM X (1992) dir. Spike Lee @ BRATTLE Essential biopic about Malcolm X Thurs 6/1 STOP MAKING SENSE (1984) dir. Jonathan Demme @COOLIDGE Demme’s masterful Talking Heads concert movie
Mon 6/26 Pronoun w/ Funeral Advantage @ Great Scott 8:30pm 18+ $10-12
Mon 6/19 Chastity Belt, Sneaks @Brighton Music Hall 7pm 18+ $15
Tue 6/27 Palehound, Baked @Baby’s All Right (Brooklyn) 8pm 18+ $12-14
Tue 6/20 Dyr Faser, Gull, Wes Swing, Kate Richards @Jeannie Johnston 8pm $ome Cost
Tue 6/27 William Austin Clay, Sam Gas Can, Na B, Omeed Goodarzi @The Firehouse (Worcester) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost
Tue 6/20 Home Blitz, Honey Radar, Rays, Rat Columns @Alphaville (Brooklyn) 8pm 21+ $8-10
Wed 6/28 The Mountain Goats, Erin McKeown @Columbus Theatre (PVD) 8pm All Ages $28
Tue 6/20 WEMF presents: Bitter Magnolia, Boketto The Wolf, The Way Back, Lower Falls, Mickey PG @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $7
Thu 6/29 Illegally Blind Presents: Will Henriksen, Footings, Rick Rude @Lilypad 7pm All Ages $
Wed 6/21 Open Sound presents: A special 100 Fri 6/30 Evolfo, Bat House, Zip-Tie Handcuffs, Skinny Pigeons @Brighton Music Hall 8pm person outside performance of John Cage's 18+ $12 Variations III for Make Music Day! @Davis Square Park 6:30pm All Ages $ome Cost
Wed 6/21 THE BIG SICK (2017) dir. Michael Showalter @BRATTLE Kumail Nanjiani’s big break and the return of Ray Romano! Free preview screening Thurs 6/22 THE KID (1921) dir. Charlie Chaplin @CAPITOL Little Tramp befriends young Uncle Fester Live musical accompaniment!
Tue 6/27 Big Business @Great Scott 8pm 18+ $12
Mon 6/19 Rad Castle Presents: Feral Ohms (Ethan Miller from Comets on Fire's new beast!), Major Stars, Honey @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free
Mon 6/19 BABY DRIVER (2017) dir. Edgar Wright @BRATTLE The La La Land of the heist genre through the eyes of Edgar Wright Free preview screening!
Fri 6/2 BEAT THE DEVIL (1953) dir. John Huston @ BRATTLE A Bogey-led brigade of desperate character(actor) s on the make. Screens through 6/4 Fri 6/2 DEATH LINE (aka RAW MEAT) (1972) dir. Gary Sherman @COOLIDGE Cannibals in the London Underground Director in person! Fri 6/2 DONNIE DARKO (2001) dir. Richard Kelly @BRATTLE Metaphysical journey through the mind of a troubled emo kid in the 90s. Screens through 6/4
Fri 6/23 THE BEGUILED (2017) dir. Sofia Coppola @EVERYWHERE Sofia Coppola explores sexual politics in the Civil War era Fri 6/23 LETHAL WEAPON (1987) dir. Richard Donner @COOLIDGE Mel Gibson and Danny Glover star as the best duo in action series history Sun 6/25 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (1968) dir. Sergio Leone @BRATTLE Hell is that one goddamn implacable fly Wed 6/28 WEEKEND (1967) dir. Jean-Luc Godard @SOMERVILLE Nouvelle Vague at its most abrasive
Fri 6/30 MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE (1987) dir. Gary Goddard @COOLIDGE Wed 6/21 Fully Celebrated Orchestra, Chris Come for the poorly adapted property, stay for Wed 6/7 THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (1967) Brokaw @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5 GWILDOR dir. Roman Polanski @SOMERVILLE Thu 6/22 Kurt Vile, Julie Byrne @Columbus 6/1 First Thursday Film: The Return of the Icon @ Auteurist-nosferatic silliness LISTINGS NOTE: Theatre (Providence) 7pm All Ages $28 Museum of Russian Icons Below is the venue abbreviation key: Thurs 6/8 CLASH (2016) dir. Mohamed Diab @ 6/1 Stir: Beth Morrison Projects Presents Nico Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE MFA Thu 6/22 Planes Mistaken for Stars, Slow Muhly and Anthony Roth Costanzo @ Isabella Capitol Theatre (Arlington) – CAPITOL Cairo’s post-Morsi clusterfuck dramatized Death, Ultra Violet @Mid East Up 8pm 18+ Stewart Gardner Museum Coolidge Corner Theatre - COOLIDGE $13-15 Ends 6/2 Art and Music @ The Hidden Art GalHarvard Film Archive - HFA Fri 6/9 EVIL DEAD II (1987) dir. Sam Raimi @ lery at J.P. Licks Museum of Fine Arts Boston - MFA COOLIDGE Thu 6/22 Evan Dando, Jason Loewenstein @ Ends 6/3 The Bridges of Madison County @ Somerville Theatre – SOMERVILLE Raimi’s masterpiece – The pinnacle of horror-comONCE Ballroom 8pm 18+ $25-28 Calderwood Pavilion edy. 6/3 Exhibition Reception—Free Space Project: Please see our sister website BostonHassle. Thu 6/22 Wendy Eisenberg, Rob Noyes, Gilm- The Living Wall @Harvard Ed Portal 4-6pm com/Film-Flam for our full listings w/ showore Tamny, Gary War @Blue Bag Records 8pmEnds 6/4 A Midsummer Night’s Dream @ Multi- Fri 6/9 GO HOME (2016) dir. Jihane Chouaib @ times and other info. FILM FLAM SEEKS VOLMFA All Ages $ome Cost cultural Arts Center UNTEERS!!! If you would like to get involved Disentangling political and familial mysteries in 6/7 Pantsrole Nation @ The Rockwell with our film section or submit listings, shoot us Thu 6/22 Non Event Presents: David Behr6/14 Fafnir Adamites/John Anderson @ Boston Lebanon an email at BostonHassleFilm@gmail.com man with String Noise and Forbes Graham @ Sculptors Gallery Metropolitan Waterworks Musuem 8pm All 6/15 At the Still Point: Medicine from the inside @ Sat 6/10 THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI (1972) dir. Lina Wertmüller @BRATTLE Ages $10-15 Harvard Ed Portal 7-8:30 6/18 Black Market!! @Elks Lodge 11am - 5pm All Auspicious af Marxist sex-comedy Italian style Thu 6/22 WMBR and the List Visual Arts Cen- Ages $1…*A Boston Hassle and Ignore Rock ‘n Roll Also screens 6/11 ter present the Ampersand Concert Series: Heroes Joint Effort* Sat 6/10 NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: THE The Jeff Robinson Trio, Matthew Stubbs and Ends 6/18 Arrabal @ Loeb Drama Center the Antiguas @MIT Bartos Theatre 8pm All Ongoing Darkness Made Visible: Derek Jarman DREAM WARRIORS (1987) dir. Chuck Russell @ COOLIDGE Ages $ome Cost and Mark Bradford @ MFA Ongoing Listen Hear: The Art of Sound @ Isabel- A wisecracking Freddy fights super powered teenagers in their dreams Fri 6/23 Marilyn Arsem (solo) + ‘we love you’ la Stewart Gardner Museum (Polly Hanson + Dave Gross) @Blue Bag Re- Ongoing Botticelli and the Search for the Divine Sun 6/11 PAULA (2016) dir. Christian Schwochow @ cords 8pm All Ages $5-10 suggested donation @ MFA COOLIDGE Ongoing An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Fri 6/23 Headroom (New Haven) plus more Intimacy in Contemporary Art @ MIT List Visual The German Camille Claudel gets a biopic of her own psychedelic music TBA @Deep Thoughts Arts Center Presented by Goethe-Institut 8:30pm All Ages $5 sugg. donation Ongoing 2017 the James and Audrey Foster Prize @ ICA Sat 6/24 Burglary Years, No Hope/No Harm, Ongoing The Fine Print @ The Davis Museum at Wed 6/14 VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1967) dir. Mark Robson @SOMERVILLE Animal Talk, Atomic Spectra @Great Scott Wellesley College HINT: The dolls are pills 9pm 21+ $10 Ongoing Nari Ward: Sunsplashed @ ICA Ongoing Circular Abstractions: Bulls-eye Quilts Fri 6/16 ROBOCOP (1987) dir. Paul Verhoeven @ Sat 6/24 Grandmafest featuring Boston @ Fuller Crafts Museum Cream, Radclyffe Hall, Jon Lewis Band @Cam-6/24 Vacation Sand Sculpture @ The Creativity COOLIDGE ROBOCOP IS CHRIST bridge Elks Lodge 7pm All Ages $ome Cost Store Ends 6/26 Ambreen Butt: I Need a Hero @ IsaFri 6/16 THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) dir. bella Stewart Gardner Museum William Friedkin @BRATTLE Where’s the heroin?
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