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ime to let the needle drop on some new astral additions to the world of experimental sound. The hypnotic soundscapes of some of Boston’s most eclectic practitioners join with out of town friends from Chicago to envelop us all in a cozy sonic sweater nestled inside Cambridge’s Studio 550 (leave your shoes at the door ‘cuz we’re gettin’ comfy). Bitchin Bajas craft their own galaxy out of tonal rhythms and swaying pulses pulling you deeper into a state of cathartic peace. Welcoming Where them to Boston with a new record of their own is Prone, Studio 550 whose haunting and atmospheric synths and seemingly W h e n atonal arrangements confuse and captivate. Also guiding 12/10 9pm us down our shamanic path to enlightenment is Erika C o s t Nesse, who crafts intricate yet delicate soundtracks for $12 adv atoms—minimal bursts of subtle beats that seem to be $15 day of in two places at once and send you down a whirling and endless spiral. Thankfully, here to be our big bang and thrust our spirits full throttle into the very ether that makes up this celestial showcase is Boston Typewriter Orchestra, whose wholly original and mesmerizing methods of music manifestation make marching marauders of us all. Their new album keeps us grounded in the terrestrial sphere ahead of our communal trip to the stars. As if emanating from a bright center, this is music that carries you to another plane. Come towards the light. — M IC H AE L AC H IL L E

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It’s also a cool and completeit or not. Space Fundraiser and bostonhassle.com/donate) ly free place to catch up with a friend, take a date, a dog or both. already know. Thanks for the support! We love ya! I know, I know...its cold. Well, layer up and put some pep in your step Don’t you know that you’re a newly sprouted seed, in every second, even In addition to the space hunt we kept busy this cause this is as good for your head as it is for your heart. To be real here, if in a minefield; you can be fertile soil. Remember Viktor Frankl. year with many projects, new and old. We sold out if you take the orange line to Stony Brook and walk 10-15 minutes, both days of our 9th Hassle Fest. We hosted our you’ll be warmed up by the time you hit the abandoned bear cages. A “Very Extended Period of Madness” made me who I am today. My first annual YES Fest with GRCB, BTC, YCCA and ZuBuilt in 1912 as part of the Franklin Park Zoo, the bear cages still stand “Moment of Clarity” is every time I choose to become a better me. mix in which 250+ Greater Boston teens and 80+ tall as dilapidated dens nodding to Boston a hundred years ago. Keep adults participated. It was our first grant-funded moving and you’ll find the “tunnel of love” on the other side of White I have been called “Crazy”; mmmm, and they are right! Crazy enough to year which made possible our 10th Boston UnStadium, which leads to the Overlook ruins (Watch your feet, there’s believe that there is something beautiful worth fighting for and that I derground Summit, bringing the likes of Xiu Xiu usually a used condom or two on the ground). You’ll find staircases survived all I have so others will benefit. and Lydia Lunch to town and raising $1,500 for that lead nowhere and corners of stone buildings from another time. 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Teens, Nate Gibson, Sean Mencher @ Great Scott 9pm 21+ $15 Sat 12/9 GRCB CLUB After School Showcase! @Midway Cafe 12pm All Ages $10 (free under 18 Sat 12/9 Hit like a girl, Archie Alone, Mallcops, more TBA @a spot 7pm All Ages $Donate$

Mon 12/4 DYR FASER & Chris Warren (of Viva Viva) @ZuZu 10pm 21+ $5 Fri 12/1 Maximo Park, Ava Luna @Brighton Music Hall Tue 12/5 Acid Dad (7” release show) with Ghost King, Black Beach, Bodega @Zone One at Elsewhere 8pm 16+ $12 8PM 18+ $18 Fri 12/1 The Dream Syndicate, The Richard Lloyd Group @ONCE 8pm 18+ $20

Tue 12/5 Boston Hassle Holiday Card Making Volunteer Hang @Dorchester Art Project 6-9pm All Ages FREE!

Fri 12/1 The Monsuiers, Nice Guys, Earthquake Party @Great Scott 10pm 21+ $12 Fri 12/1 Cannibal Corpse, Dance Gavin Dance, Dillinger Escape Plan Ensemble @David Friend Recital Hall 6pm All Ages $ome Cost Fri 12/1 QUAD - Multichannel Sound Works-Nace, Meginsky, Pensado, Rainey @School for Contemporary Dance and Thought 8pmAll Ages $ome Cost Fri 12/1 Black Beach, Gloop, Cult Fiction @Black Lodge 8pm All Ages $5-10

Tue 12/5 Frank Hurricane, Illlich (JP), Little Musket and Constant Smiles (Brooklyn/Martha’s Vineyard) @Dorchester Art Project 8pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale suggested donation…*A Boston Hassle Joint Effort*

Sat 12/16 Bent Shapes (final show), Laika's Orbit, Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion @Great Scott 9pm 21+ $12 Sat 12/16 Municipal Waste, Nails, Macabre @ Brighton Music Hall 7pm 18+ $20 Sat 12/16 This Is Pointless, Anyone Anyway, Polluter, Quiet Giant, Porno Portal to Florida @The Democracy Center 7pm All Ages $5-10

Sat 12/16 Break the Chains presents: The Sat 12/9 Hammydown, Ozlo, Heavy Shondes w/ Afropanther @Milky Way Pockets, Birdwatching @O'Brien's Pub 9:30pm 21+ $10-12 @O'Brien's Pub 8pm 21+ $8 Sat 12/16 HR (of Bad Brains) & Human Rights Sat 12/9 Din, The Fateful Hour, Infera @POP 7pm All Ages $15 Bruo @Koto (Salem) 9pm 21+ $5 Sun 12/17 The Dazies, Hallelujah the Sun 12/10 Reverend Horton Heat, Hills,The Knock Ups, Courters @Koto 8pm Junior Brown, The Blasters, Big Sandy 21+ $ome Cost @Sinclair 7pm 18+ $35 Sun 12/17 Harry and the Potters 13th Annual Sun 12/10 BLACK MARKET @Elks Yule Ball! featuring The Moaning Myrtles(ReLodge 11am-5pm All Ages $1 Enunion!), Lauren Fairweather, Potter Puppet try…*A Boston Hassle and Ignore Rock Pals, Draco and the Malfoys, Jason Anderson, ‘n Roll Heroes Joint Effort* KwikSpell @Mid East Down 5pm All Ages $20 Sun 12/10 Bitchin Bajas (Chicago), Prone (album release), Erika Nesse, Boston Typewriter Orchestra (Record Release Show!) @Studio 550 9pm All Ages $12 adv/$15 dos…*A Boston Hassle Joint Effort*

Sun 12/17 Deep Cleanse! featuring Service, Hexpet, Minibeast @Deep Thoughts JP 8pm All Ages $5 Sun 12/17 Midway or the Highway Open Mic Night w/Angela Sawyer @Midway Cafe 9PM 21+ Free

Sun 12/10 '68, WHORES, Allstair Hennesey, Barbarian, SPC @Sonia 6pm All Mon 12/18 Unsane, Big Brave, Child Bite, Ages $15 Hepatagua @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $15 Sun 12/10 Midway or the Highway Open Mic Night w/Angela Sawyer @ Midway Cafe 9PM 21+ Free

Mon 12/18 KLYAM PRESENTS: Boston Cream, G. Gordon Gritty, more TBA @ZuZu 10pm 21+ $ome Cost

Wed 12/6 Miss Geo, Violet Nox, VQnC, Audrey Harrer @ONCE Sat 12/2 Sidney Gish, The Water Cycle, Lucy, New Da- 7pm 18+ $8 kotas @The Democracy Center 7:30pm All Ages $5-10 Wed 12/6 Sidney Gish @Aeronaut Brewing Company 8pm 21+ $ome Cost Sat 12/2 America’s Hardcore Fest featuring Unified

Sun 12/10 Non Event Presents: MalThu 12/21 Ceremony, Nothing @Sonia 7pm colm Goldstein experimental coffee All Ages $20 house @Cafè Fixe 7pm All Ages $5-10 Thu 12/21 Shea's Lounge, A Punk Night: DeSun 12/10 Sunday Social Club #1 cember Theme - general hardcore w/guest featuring Roman Flügel, Axel Boman, DJ Brian Poulin and live band Class Action @ Right, Violence to Fade, Free, Abuse of Power, Line of Thu 12/6 Noise For Toys - A Toys For Tots Benefit Rock Show Matt Foley @Middlesex Lounge 4pm Jeanie Johnston 9pm 21+ FREE Sight, Glory, Faze, Lowest Priority, Substance @Mid @AS220 7pm All Ages $7-10 21+ $ome Cost East Up 12pm All Ages $20 Sun 12/10 Ladies Do It Better *(Berklee Thu 12/21 Prawn, Slingshot Dakota, People Thu 12/7 Non Event PRESENTS: Non Event Presents: Winter Female DJs Night)* @Zuzu 10-12:45am Like You, Queen Moo @Great Scott 8:30pm Sat 12/2 America’s Fundraiser Show! featuring performances by Apathy + Steel, $8 18+ $14 Hardcore Fest Part 2 featuring Supertouch, Bastian Void, B.T.O. (Bromp Treb and Offal), Jesse Kenas Mon 12/11 Eye Design Presents: Fri 12/22 Eye Design PRESENTS: Something Red Death, Big Contest, Collins, Wendy Eisenberg, Andrea Pensado (and AndrieBundles, Blame Shifters, The Furniture, Sneaky, Future Teens, Civic @Great Scott Krimewatch, Concealed ta), Wenhua Shi, Damon Smith... with In-Between-Set DJ Susanna Bolle (Non-Event and WZBC) @Le Laboratoire 8pm Daphne Blue Underworld @Charlie's 10pm 21+ $10 Blade, The Real Cost, Kitchen 9pm All Ages $5 Demolition, Mil-Spec @ All Ages $10-15 Sat 12/23 A Colleen Green & Cassie Ramone Hardcore Stadium 6pm Thu 12/7 JESUS DRINKS FREE! 1950s-70s country, gospel, Mon 12/11 Sidney Gish, Monica Bang, Christmas Spectacular @The Democracy All Ages $20 soul and RnB spun by 2 atheists @Jeanie Johnston 9pmHux and the Hitmen, The Hannas Center 7pm All Ages $7-10 Close FREE @O’Briens 8pm 18+ $7 Sat 12/23 Jonee Earthquake Band, The Sat 12/2 Miracle Meat Noise Fest w/ Crank Sturgeon, Thu 12/7 The Interrupters, SWMRS, The Regrettes @Paradise Tue 12/12 Faith Healer, Cecil Frena @ Sound Down Cellar, Zack Facco (of the Bobo, +Dog+, Evicshen, L’Eclipse Neu, Allison O, 6:30pm All Ages $16 Lilypad Inman 7pm All Ages $10 Facc-Tones), Mickey PG and the Overshare @ Cursed Boxes, Forest Wizard @Deep Thoughts JP Midway Cafe 3:30pm 18+ $5 8:30pm All Ages $5 Thu 12/7 The Bouncing Souls, T.S.O.L, Rebuilder @Sinclair Tue 12/12 Fable Grazer Family Reunion 7pm 18+ $30 with Hard Rugs and Bird Organ @ Sun 12/24 Midway or the Highway Open Mic Sun 12/3 Hundredth, Spotlights, Gleemer, Tennis Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5 Night w/Angela Sawyer @Midway Cafe 9PM System @ONCE 8pm 18+ $15 Thu 12/7 Drone Night #2 @Outpost 186 8-11pm $ome Cost 21+ Free Tue 12/12 Eye Design PRESENTS: CreaSun 12/3 Andrew Savage (of Parquet Courts) @Great Fri 12/8 Vespers: featuring Erika Nesse and Christopher turos, Zip-Tie Handcuffs, Sun Voyager, Mon 12/25 Storyclub Boston @Milky Way Scott 9pm 18+ $10-12 Strunk (solo sets) @Washington Street Art Gallery 8pm All Rye Pines @Great Scott 8pm 18+ $10 6:30pm 21+ $ome Cost Sun 12/3 Midway or the Highway Open Mic Night w/ Ages $5-10 Wed 12/13 Fully Celebrated Orchestra Thu 12/28 Cymbals Eat Guitars, Charles Angela Sawyer @Midway Cafe 9PM 21+ Free Fri 12/8 The Dazies, Courters, Grim Streaker, Dirty Bangs with special guest Andy California @ Bissell, Bad History Month @Great Scott 9pm Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5 18+ $15 Sun 12/3 JUDGE, PanzerBastard, Kind Crew @Middle @O'Brien's 8pm 21+ $10 East Down 12pm All Ages $25 Fri 12/8 STORYTIME AT THE APE’S NEST w/Chris Braiotta, Thu 12/14 Melissa Weikart (tape Fri 12/29 Wyoming, Nick Owen, Program, release), Wendy Eisenberg, Na B @ The Laces @Democracy Center 7:30pm All Sun 12/3 Bay Faction, Fish House, The Water Cycle @ Angela Sawyer, Ryan Chani, Ken Green, Gilmore Tamny, Andy Bills, Aaron Bennett, Kathleen Mahoney, Vanessa Lilypad 9pm All Ages $ome Cost Ages $5-10 Lilypad Inman 4:30pm All Ages $10 LeFevre, Death Shepherd, and Tyler Derryberry @Gallery 263 Cambridge 8pm SUGGESTED DONATION…*A Boston Hassle Thu 12/14 AD.UL.T, Pig Parts, Brian Sun 12/31 Midway or the Highway Open Mic Sun 12/3 Lina Tullgren, Wendy Eisenberg, Primal Joint Effort* Forever @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8 Night w/Angela Sawyer @Midway Cafe 9PM Feelings and John Cushing Big Band @First Parish 21+ Free Church in Cambridge 8pm All Ages $10 suggested Fri 12/8 OG Swaggerdick, Oompa @Boston University Cen- Fri 12/15 Esh & Baabes, The Furniture, donation….*A Boston Hassle Joint Effort* tral 7:30pm All Ages $old Out Dirty Bangs @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10 Mon 12/4 Angel Olsen @House of Blues Boston 7pm Fri 12/8 Sold Out! Converge w/ Pile, Give at Brighton Music All Ages $25 Hall @Brighton Music Hall 8pm 18+ $old Out

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12/4 Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, Sad13 @Arts Riot (Burlington, VT) 8pm 12/2 MsFits, Electric Street Queens, -1, Funeral Cone @News All Ages $18-20 Cafe 8pm All Ages $5 12/8 Get A Grip (Final Show) @Mer12/8 Black Marble, You, Way Out, Hairspray Queen @AS220 chants Hall (VT) 7pm All Ages Free 12/4 Advance Base, Lisa/Liza, Greg Jamie, W. Eisen12/4 Weakened Friends w/ Roz & The Rice 9pm All Ages $10 berg, C. Nathan @Brick House Community Center Cakes, QG @Cafe 9 (New Haven) 7pm 2+ $5 12/16 Waste Management, Burden, Rouge Trooper, Brother, 8pm All Ages $8-11 Knife Worship @AS220 9pm All Ages $ome Cost 12/6 Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth, OroborO, 12/1 Chris Brokaw, SNAEX, Mitchell Darklight @The Basement (Nhampton) 8pm 21+ $5-7 Rasor @Apohadion Theatre (Portland) 12/3 Dreamcrusher, Old Maybe, Bernard Herman, Vegetators @The Glove (Brooklyn) 12/12 Palehound, The Cradle, Lucy, TBA @TubeCats 8pm All Ages $ome Cost 12/2 Andrew Savage (of Parquet Courts), Charlie Bliss 9pm All Ages $8 (Hadley, MA) 1am All Ages $ome Cost 12/9 Orinadal Records Showcase @3SArtspace (Portsmouth) 9pm All Ages $12-14 12/16 Noise Party 10: featuring Suicide Magnets, featuring Advance Base, Lisa/Liza, Greg 12/9 Jaclyn Kendall, TRIM, York Factory, SilkPurse, Scant, Conduit @Heck (Brooklyn) Rectrix, HSFB, Wendy Eisenberg, Sam Gas Can @Cold 12/7 Lina Tullgren, Advance Base, Greg Jamie, Lisa/Liza @ Jamie, Greef @Apohadion Theatre Sue's (Rollinsford) 7:30pm All Ages $5-10 10pm All Ages $7 Spring Hollow 8pm All Ages $ome Cost (Portland) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost

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12/12 Panel and Party: Paving the Way, a Conversation with Leaders of Color in the Arts @Pao Arts Center 6-8:30pm RSVP required 12/1 Poetry: First Fridays ft. Kofi Dadzie @First Baptist Church JP ($10 suggested donation)

12/14 Boston Compass Pop Up Exhibition & Party: CONFRONT YOUR ISSUES (Our’ 2017 header artists showcase) @The Garment District 6-9pm

12/1 Opening: Super Magic Forest: Comic Art & Paintings by Ansis Puriņš @Washington St Art 12/15 Auction Party: Found/Kept/Given @Gallery 263 7-9pm ($20) Center 5-9pm 12/2-3 Open Studios: Vernon Street Somerville 12/16-12/17 Winter Market & Open House @ Artisan’s Asylum 12-6pm @6 & 20 Vernon Street, Somerville 12-6pm 12/2-3 SoWa Winter Festival @ SoWa Boston, 11am-7pm 12/2-3 Open Studios @Mother Brook Arts & Community Center 11am-5pm 12/2-3 Preview Weekend | The Salon Show @ Abigail Ogilvy Gallery 11am-4pm

12/16-12/17 Artist Holiday Market @Black Market Roxbury 11-6pm 12/17 Networking: Wonder Women Boston presents the No Makeup Series photoshoot @ Breather 12-2pm ($8)

12/2 Opening Reception: YOUNG, DUMB, AND BROKE @The Extension Gallery 7-9pm(21+)

Managing Editor: Oscar Goff Contributing Writers: Kyle Amato, Kyle Brunet, Anders Croft, Oscar Goff, Matthew Martens Fri 12/1 ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (1981) dir. John Carpenter @MFA Snake and Brain save the day Also screens 12/9 Fri 12/1 D.O.A. - A RIGHT OF PASSAGE (1980) dir Lech Kowalski @BRATTLE Perennial punk primer New Digital Restoration! Screens through 12/3 Sat 12/2 MUPPETS FROM SPACE (1999) dir. Tim Hill @COOLIDGE Gonzo’s finest hour Authors Ben & Tonya Mezrich in person! Sat 12/2 THE FOG (1980) dir. John Carpenter @ COOLIDGE [35mm] Ghost pirates and smooth DJs Adrienne Barbeau in person!

12/2 Opening Reception: Midwinter Light, by Wayne Strattman @Piano Craft Gallery 6-10pm

Mon 12/11 14TH ROUGH CUT SCREENING @ CANOPY Local film sounding board-- BYOWIP! Free! Mon 12/11 PAN'S LABYRINTH (2006) dir. Guillermo del Toro @COOLIDGE [35mm] A terrifying fantasy classic Tue 12/12 THE BEGUILED (2017) dir. Sophia Coppola @EMERSON Wounded Union soldier + all-girls boarding school = jealousy and betrayal in the era of the Civil War Free! Discussion to follow. Thu 12/14 HOME ALONE (1990) dir. Chris Columbus @COOLIDGE Fuller didn’t go easy on Pepsi. Thu 12/14 LIFT (2001) dir DeMane Davis, Khari Streeter @BRATTLE [35mm] Boston centric film following one’s stealing habits Fri 12/15 IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) dir Frank Capra @BRATTLE [35mm] No man is a failure who hallucinates angels! Screens through 12/17

Sat 12/16 INSIDE THE ROOM @COOLIDGE Live reading of the world’s worst script! Mon 12/4 THE DEPARTURE (2017) dir. Lana Wilson @ Greg Sestero in person!! BRATTLE A Buddhist, consoling the hopeless, risks losing his Sun 12/17 THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979) dir. James Frawley @COOLIDGE own. Frogs and bears and Studebakers Presented by DocYard. Director in person!

12/3 Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair @The Loft Somerville 12-6pm 12/4 Live Painting & Reception: Frank Paints Dudes @Sister Sorel 6-9pm(21+)

Thu 12/7 UN FLIC (1972) dir. Jean-Pierre Melville @ MFA Melville’s swan song--Deneuve and Delon glitter and brood.

12/5 Visiting Artist: Ulrike Müller @808 Building 7:30-9pm 12/6 Artist Talk: Juan Pedro DelMoral Vega @J Jake Gallery 5:30-8:00pm

Sun 12/17 VINTAGE HOLIDAY SHOW @HFA Idiosyncratic seasonal 16mm Mon 12/18 GRRL HAUS CINEMA @BRATTLE Fierce female filmmakers come home!

Thu 12/7 IRMA VEP (1996) dir Olivier Assayas @ BRATTLE [35mm] Impossibly cool meta-vampirism Presented by Mubi and Mondo

12/7 Art Showcase: CAGE MATCH 2.0 @Mass Art Pozen Center 7:30-9:30pm 12/7 Networking: Gendersoup 2018 Social @ ICA 6-8m 12/7 Opening Reception: Aviary Gallery’s Annual Holiday Show @ Aviary Gallery 6-10pm 12/7-10 Artist Market: Allston/Brighton Winter Market @Harvard Ed Portal Th&F 4-8pm S&Su 10am-7pm

Mon 12/18 CABARET (1972) dir. Bob Fosse @HFA [35mm] Maybe this time she’ll win

12/8 Holiday Stroll @Fort Point Channel 4-8pm 12/8 Opening Reception: Sanqtuary @ Distillery Gallery 7-10pm

Fri 12/22 CHRISTMAS EVIL (1980) dir. Lewis Jackson @COOLIDGE Santa-suited maniac goes on rampage Also screens 12/23

12/9 Artist market: Winter Market @ ICA 11am4pm 12/9-10 Open Studios: Allston Open Studios @ Braintree Street, Allston 12-6pm

12/21 Workshop: 3D Printing with tinkerCAD @ Boston Public Library 1-2:30pm

Sat 12/30 ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) dir William Wyler @BRATTLE Hepburn and Peck take on Italy Double feature w/ SABRINA!

12/21 Performance Art: Sandrine Schaefer pres12/10 Sculpture studio performance: Brown Hall ents Pace Investigations 6.2 @Waltham Watch Mechanics @ Brown Hall NEC 11:30am Factory Riverwalk 5:29-7:11 am & 4:15 - 5:57 pm 12/10 BLACK MARKET Hosted by Boston Hassle & Ignore Rockn’Roll Heroes: flea market featuring handmade artwork, prints, patches, records, tees, pins, ceramics, jewelry, zines, body care, tea, macrame; vintage clothing, accessories, books, as well as tarot readings, haircuts, live drawings, and more! @Elks Lodge 12-6pm $1

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Fri 12/8 TALES FROM THE CRYPT (1972) dir. Freddie 12/30 Glass Blowing Demo: Glass Fridays Demo Francis @COOLIDGE [35mm] and Wine Tastings @Diablo Glass School 21+ Spooky crypt keeper tells five spooky stories ($35) ONGOING: 12/2-1/7 Young, Dumb and Broke @The Extension Gallery ALL AGES 11/4-1/7 The Gig Economy @ Boston Center for the Arts 11/18-12/30 Catalyst: Craft + Social Change @ Nave Gallery 12/1-12/31 Slutcracker @Somerville Theatre

Sun 12/31 VERTIGO (1958) dir Alfred Hitchcock @ BRATTLE [35mm] A tall story about a pushover Triple feature w/ NOTORIOUS and TO CATCH A THIEF

Sat 12/9 THE ART OF VISION (1961-65) dir. Stan Brakhage @HFA Dog Star Man, pulled like taffy until it twins infinity. LISTINGS NOTE: Below is the venue abbreviation key: Introduction by Saul Levine! BRATTLE - Brattle Theatre CANOPY - Canopy City (Somerville) Sat 12/9 YULETIDE TERROR BOOK LAUNCH @ COOLIDGE - Coolidge Corner Theatre BRATTLE EMERSON - Bright Lights Emerson Celebration of the cinematic Santa slasher Author Kier-la Janisse in person! Film screening TBA. HFA - Harvard Film Archive ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art MFA - Museum of Fine Arts Boston Sun 12/10 CISCO PIKE (1972) dir. Bill L. Norton @ [35mm] – Projected on ACTUAL FILM! (35mm MFA [35mm] Kristofferson rides laconic into the post-hip depres- unless otherwise noted) sion. Please see our sister website BostonHassle.com/ Also screens 12/21 Film-Flam for our full listings w/ showtimes and other info. FILM FLAM SEEKS VOLUNTEERS!!! If you would like to get involved with our film section or submit listings, e-mail our film editor at Oscar@ Brain-Arts.org

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The brain power of 70’s arena rock guitar players might be stronger than you think. Local rock star, Tom Scholz, known famously as the multi instrumentalist, songwriter and producer of the band Boston, received both his bachelor's and master’s in mechanical engineering from MIT. He is recognized as a pioneer in home recording, as most of Boston’s self-titled multi-platinum first album were recorded in his basement. After Boston’s peak, Scholz went on to start the effects pedal company Rockman. Not to be outdone is Brian May of Queen, who in 2007 completed his PhD in astrophysics with his thesis “A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud.” Brian began his studies in the 70’s but had to take a break due to success of Queen, how cool is that? Zach plays guitar in a band called Throbbing Chakra, and lives in Philly with his girlfriend Christina and dog snowflake. Christina does the drawings. Email him zacharyfairbrother@gmail.com or listen throbbingchakra1.bandcamp.com. twitter/insta @avantlard

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