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Mass officials say there’s no threat at home following Paris attacks, yet put forces on increased alert anyway
It’s sick to think that in the wake of horrors like those that unfolded in Paris, France, last week, some people are snapping on their party hats. I’m not talking about terrorist goons in any number of rogue organizations, or the sick and twisted clerics who cheer on atrocity. Rather, I’m referring to surveillance and security contractors who feast on tax dollars and who have never met a tragedy they couldn’t turn into a profit. In Massachusetts, one doesn’t have to look far for examples of domestic war profiteering. As was first revealed in DigBoston and subsequently reported by news organizations worldwide: Following the bombing of the Boston Marathon, companies like IBM came in for the kill, pushing newfangled technologies on vulnerable pols and state agencies. Many of the costly purchases, like facial recognition software, were made in secret despite posing threats to civil liberties. So you can imagine why privacy advocates like me may be alarmed that a terror campaign executed in Europe—3,500 miles from Beacon Hill—has our policing apparatus standing erect. On Sunday, as people hoisting French flags and signs that read “Je Suis Paris” still consoled one another following a vigil at the Boston Common bandstand, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and his law enforcement brass spoke to the media inside the State House. The scene downtown and near the Common didn’t seem extreme—a spattering of BPD special operations officers, the usual corps of park rangers. Up the hill and across Beacon Street, however, things were far from normal for the briefing on special security measures. To be fair, the State House is typically closed to the public on Sundays, and so the circumstances inherently called for strange arrangements. At the same time, 4
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the shields they put in place seemed superficial if not slapdash. A ranger asked reporters for ID from behind a steel gate on the sidewalk; a pair of state troopers stood like Beefeaters at the top of the steps; once inside, another ranger operating the metal detector asked me for my ID a second time, just to be safe. I suppose I should be happy that nobody touched my balls. The ordeal was almost worth the inconvenience. Baker brought important friends along, most notably Hank Shaw, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston division; Boston Police Department Commissioner William Evans; and Secretary of Public Safety and Security Dan Bennett. Their message was twofold: First, there is absolutely nothing for the people of Massachusetts to be worried about; second, in spite of the first message, every last defensive effort will be made for good measure. Special Agent Shaw chimed in early: “At this point in time, there is no articulable information that would indicate any actual threats to the homeland or specifically here to the New England area.” Nevertheless, he added, the FBI is on the lookout for copycat attacks, while the Joint Terrorism Task Force and other coordinating affiliates are monitoring activity in France. “We will continue to work with the intelligence community to get the most updated information that we can share and pass back to our local partners here in the New England area,” Shaw said. “Since the attack the FBI has conducted multiple conference calls with the fusion cells to be able to keep these cells actively up to date.” We also learned that Massport added layers of security at Logan Airport, where travelers can expect more K-9s than usual sniffing their underwear, and that State Troopers have been ordered to patrol with
“heightened awareness.” The Massachusetts National Guard is on alert, while the MBTA is also taking extra caution, presumably including searches through some variation of its Random Baggage Inspection program, which has failed to net a single terrorist in 10 years. Speaking for the BPD, Evans confirmed: “In Mass, we don’t see any viable threats.” Clear and present lack of danger or not, though, Evans told reporters, “There’s no doubt about it, now everybody’s heightening security. As we saw after the unfortunate Marathon bombing, people have to expect to be under closer scrutiny.” That’s not all that happened following the Marathon bombing. As I noted in the preamble to my question for the governor yesterday, two years ago we saw a feeding frenzy among security and surveillance contractors, many of whom scored contracts for unproven but costly new technologies, many of which have since been abandoned by the purchasing agencies, if they were ever used in the first place. In response, Baker passed the mic to Public Safety Secretary Bennett, who assured: “We have to evaluate every contract individually. We’re not going to make expenditures that aren’t important. We aren’t going to make foolish purchases, but if it does come down to something that can make the people of the Commonwealth safer, we are certainly going to look to the governor and make sure we do the right thing.” Good to hear. It’s never easy criticizing vigilant Big Brother while the crime scene is still bloody. It’s even more uncomfortable attempting to check the surveillance apparatus during such a time in a place like Massachusetts, which still has post-traumatic stress disorder from the bombing of the AU CONTRAIRE continued on pg. 6
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AU CONTRAIRE continued from pg. 4 Marathon two years ago. But while on one hand it is somewhat understandable that certain steps have to be taken when extraordinary situations explode elsewhere—or it at least it makes some sense that authorities feel obligated to make soothing comments to an irrational public—on the other hand, as your learned lefty pals have no doubt mentioned on Facebook over the past few days, state, city, and federal pols alike—as well as their bullhorns in the media—are awfully selective in which bombings and atrocities in countries far away spur them to orchestrate steroidal demonstrations of security and press conferences at home. To his credit, Baker acknowledged shootings in Dorchester over the weekend, as well as overdoses that occurred throughout the state. In other words, he understands that there are real threats we face, and he hinted that ISIS isn’t one of them. At the same time, the rhetoric from those beside Baker yesterday is still unnerving. As Secretary of Transportation Stephanie Pollack said, apparently without realizing how ridiculous her comments were, “In the absence of a specific threat, the goal is to increase both our vigilance and our visibility.” Score one for the bad guys.
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In 2013, Dr. Steven Adelman of Physician Health Services (PHS)—a powerful nonprofit founded by the Massachusetts Medical Society that provides help to residents and doctors struggling with substance abuse problems—published a now-infamous article on KevinMD titled, “Against the Medicalization of Marijuana,” in which he lambasted the 63 percent of voters who supported the Massachusetts initiative petition to eliminate criminal and civil penalties for marijuana by qualifying patients with diagnosed debilitating medical conditions. Blasting the mandate for the Department of Public Health to “operationalize the so-called medicinal use of cannabis in the Commonwealth,” Adelman wrote, “the community of physicians has been scratching its collective head and wondering, ‘What in the world are we going to do about patient requests to become certified to purchase, or grow, so-called medical marijuana?’” In his report, Adelman noted the alleged perilousness of addiction, withdrawal, and cognitive impairment related to cannabis, and warned of the potential onslaught of underground entrepreneurs waiting to capitalize. Adelman, a so-called addiction expert at Harvard Vanguard, predicted a floodgate of unscrupulous profiteers diverting “massive” amounts of this “valuable” “addictive” “substance” to “non-patients,” and guessed that the health and wellbeing of the “greater public will be jeopardized for the relief of a few.” As noted by many activists but ignored by all but niche marijuana media, in another instance, Adelman blamed the bombing of the Boston Marathon on “marijuana withdrawal.” One of his cohorts, Dr. Robert Dupont of the Institute for Behavior and Health, rode a similar bandwagon, arguing that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev smoked his way to failure and, because of a disappointing report card, said, “Fuck it, I’ll become a terrorist.” Most doctors don’t think like this. That includes most members of the Massachusetts Medical Society. But very few speak out about the fraud being carried out against cannabis. How does the same medical society that publishes the New England Journal of Medicine allow this type of tripe and rabble to evade editorial scrutiny? Why no backlash from dissenting doctors? Easy, no one has stood up to Adelman because as the head of an influential Physician Health Program (PHP) like PHS, he has power over the license of every doctor in Mass. Such state operations have come under major scrutiny. A recent Medscape article titled “Physician Health Programs: More Harm Than Good?” reveals patterns of anonymous referrals, false diagnoses, and a lack of credible process. These state-based programs appear to have created a climate of fear in doctors, as all it takes is an anonymous referral to someone like Adelman to ruin a career. For these reasons, many doctors will not even talk about medical marijuana privately, let alone in public out of fear that they might get referred to their state PHP. It’s hard to know who to hold accountable for these lies. PHS operates under the national Federation of State Physician Health Programs (FSPHP), which is located in Massachusetts. Meanwhile, the FSPHP is an arm of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM), which also pushes self-serving public policy under the guise of contributing to the greater good. That despite the Massachusetts Medical Society’s charge to “do all things as may be necessary and appropriate to advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit and welfare of citizens of the commonwealth.”
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The Paris attacks and the need to fund a mass independent American news media BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Shortly after the Paris attacks on Friday, I flipped on the TV and saw that Fox 25 was feeding Fox News live during its normal evening entertainment slot. I was not surprised to find that News Corp HQ was taking full advantage of Americans’ understandable outrage about the tragic slaughter of more than 100 innocent people to foment hysteria against immigrants, refugees, Muslims and any other convenient target in the service of a raft of hard-right policy agendas. All par for the course. Fox will be Fox after all. But that’s not what bugged me in this case. What bugged me was that the rest of the major American news media was not much better than Fox in its early reportage of the Paris crisis, and that we do not have a mass independent news media representing the positions of the broad left (and much of the populace) in this country: democracy, equality, peace, human rights, and social justice. There are many interesting “humane and sane” independent news projects around the US—like the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism that I’m helping organize. The question is: Will the remaining progressive institutions in the US with deep enough pockets to bankroll such major news operations step forward while there’s still time? And will you—the audience that agrees we need such a left news media complex—step forward and donate to projects like BINJ, and to consortia of such projects? I hope so. At BINJ, we’d like to work with any institution or organization that is forward-thinking enough to see the need for a mass progressive news media. And that is willing to put their money where their aspirations are. Email me at jason@binjonline.org to start that conversation today. Read the full Apparent Horizon article at DigBoston.com
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The Dig teams up with comrades coast to coast (and some major bestselling authors) to crank the heat on climate change awareness World leaders from more than 190 countries will convene in Paris during the first two weeks of December for the long-awaited United Nations Climate Change Conference. Will the governments of the world finally pass a binding global treaty aimed at reducing the most dangerous impacts of global warming … or will they fail in this task? Letters to the Future, a national project involving more than 40 alternative weeklies across the United States, set out to find authors, artists, scientists and others willing to get creative and draft letters to future generations of their own families, predicting the success or failure of the Paris talks—and what came after. Some participants were optimistic about what is to come—some not so much. We hereby present some of their visions of the future.
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BY BILL MCKIBBEN
Dear Descendants, The first thing to say is, sorry. We were the last generation to know the world before full-on climate change made it a treacherous place. That we didn’t get sooner to work slowing it down is our great shame, and you live with the unavoidable consequences. That said, I hope that we made at least some difference. There were many milestones in the fight—Rio, Kyoto, the debacle at Copenhagen. By the time the great Paris climate conference of 2015 rolled around, many of us were inclined to cynicism. And our cynicism was well-taken. The delegates to that convention, representing governments that were still unwilling to take more than baby steps, didn’t really grasp the nettle. They looked for easy, around-the-edges fixes, ones that wouldn’t unduly alarm their patrons in the fossil fuel industry. But so many others seized the moment that Paris offered to do the truly important thing: Organize. There were meetings and marches, disruptions and disobedience. And we came out of it more committed than ever to taking on the real power that be. The real changes flowed in the months and years past Paris, when people made sure that their institutions pulled money from oil and coal stocks, and when they literally sat down in the way of the coal trains and the oil pipelines. People did the work governments wouldn’t— and as they weakened the fossil fuel industry, political leaders grew ever so slowly bolder. We learned a lot that year about where power lay: less in the words of weak treaties than in the zeitgeist we could create with our passion, our spirit, and our creativity. Would that we had done it sooner! An author, educator and environmentalist, McKibben is cofounder of 350.org, a planet-wide grassroots climate change movement. He has written more than a dozen books. -----
SORRY ABOUT THAT BY T.C. BOYLE
Dear Rats of the Future: Congratulations on your bipedalism: it’s always nice to be able to stand tall when you need it, no? And great on losing that tail too (just as we lost ours). No need for that awkward (and let’s face it: ugly) kind of balancing tool when you walk upright, plus it makes fitting into your blue jeans a whole lot easier. Do you wear blue jeans—or their equivalent? No need, really, I suppose, since you’ve no doubt retained your body hair. Well, good for you. Sorry about the plastics. And the radiation. And the pesticides. I really regret that you won’t be hearing any birdsong anytime soon, either, but at least you’ve got that wonderful musical cawing of the crows to keep your mornings bright. And, of course, I do expect that as you’ve grown in stature and brainpower you’ve learned to deal with the feral cats, your one-time nemesis, but at best occupying a kind of ratty niche in your era of ascendancy. As for the big cats—the really scary ones, tiger, lion, leopard, jaguar—they must be as remote to you as the mammoths were to us. It goes without saying that with the extinction of the bears (polar bears: they were a pretty silly development anyway, and of no use to anybody beyond maybe trophy hunters) and any other large carnivores, there’s nothing much left to threaten you as you feed and breed and find your place as the dominant mammals on earth. (I do expect that the hyenas would have been something of a nasty holdout, but as you developed weapons, I’m sure you would have dispatched them eventually). Apologies too about the oceans, and I know this must have been particularly hard on you since you’ve always been a seafaring race, but since you’re primarily vegetarian, I don’t imagine that the extinction of fish would have much affected you. And if, out of
some nostalgia for the sea that can’t be fully satisfied by whatever hardtack may have survived us, try jellyfish. They’ll be about the only thing out there now, but I’m told they can be quite palatable, if not exactly mouthwatering, when prepared with sage and onions. Do you have sage and onions? But forgive me: of course you do. You’re an agrarian tribe at heart, though in our day we certainly did introduce you to city life, didn’t we? Bright lights, big city, right? At least you don’t have to worry about abattoirs, piggeries, feed lots, bovine intestinal gases and the like—or, for that matter, the ozone layer, which would have been long gone by the time you started walking on two legs. Does that bother you? The UV rays, I mean? But no, you’re a nocturnal tribe anyway, right? Anyway, I just want to wish you all the best in your endeavors on this big blind rock hurtling through space. My advice? Stay out of the laboratory. Live simply. And, whatever you do, please—I beg you—don’t start up a stock exchange. With Best Wishes, T.C. Boyle P.S. In writing you this missive, I am, I suppose, being guardedly optimistic that you will have figured out how to decode this ape language I’m employing here—especially given the vast libraries we left you when the last of us breathed his last. A novelist and short story writer, T.C. Boyle has published 14 novels and more than 100 short stories. -----
POLITICAL BONEHEADS BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Hello? People of the future … Anyone there? It’s your forebears checking in with you from generations ago. We were the stewards of the Earth in 2015—a dicey time for the planet, humankind, and life itself. And … well, how’d we do? Anyone still there? Hello. A gutsy, innovative, and tenacious environmental movement arose around the globe back then to try lifting common sense to the highest levels of industry and government. We had made great progress in developing a grassroots consciousness about the suicidal consequences for us (as well as those of you future earthlings) if we didn’t act pronto to stop the reckless industrial pollution that was causing climate change. Our message was straightforward: When you realize you’ve dug yourself into a hole, the very first thing to do is stop digging. Unfortunately, our grassroots majority was confronted by an elite alliance of narcissistic corporate greedheads and political boneheads. They were determined to deny environmental reality in order to grab more short-term wealth and power for themselves. Centuries before this, some Native American cultures adopted a wise ethos of deciding to take a particular action only after contemplating its impact on the seventh generation of their descendants. In 2015, however, the ethos of the dominant powers was to look no further into the future than the three-month forecast of corporate profits. As I write this letter to the future, delegations from the nations of our world are gathering to consider a global agreement on steps we can finally take to rein in the looming disaster of global warming. But at this convocation and beyond, will we have the courage for boldness, for choosing people and the planet over shortterm profits for the few? The people’s movement is urging the delegates in advance to remember that the opposite of courage is not cowardice, it’s conformity—just going along with the flow. After all, even a dead fish can go with the flow, and if the delegates don’t dare to swim against the corporate current, we’re all dead. So did we have the courage to start doing what has to be done? Hello … anyone there?
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES BY ROXANA ROBINSON
Dear Descendants, Already I know some of you, with your quick liquid eyes, your supple movements, the way you look and listen in your world. I’ll write to you, and to your descendants, the ones I will never know, you whose lovely quick shapes and minds will illuminate their own world. Let me tell you what this world is like, the world I grew up in, about its beauty and variety. Let me tell you about the miraculous Monarch butterfly, a shimmering flicker of amber that alights in our meadows, and feeds on our ragged milkweed plants. It lays eggs on the leaves, eggs that become fat striped caterpillars, which become tiny glowing gold-rimmed jade urns. These, magically, contain the butterflies, which turn dark and vivid as the moment of their emergence approaches. The butterflies themselves, flimsy, erratic, fly thousands of miles to a place they’ve never seen, to spend the winter. This quick amber miracle has been mine to admire every summer of my life. And let me tell you about the polar bear, the largest land mammal, a bear of unimaginable size, with a pelt of pewter-white, a color to freeze your blood, and well it might, because they live at unimaginable temperatures, cold so deep it will freeze your breath inside your chest, freeze the salt sea, freeze the wind in the sky, but not the polar bear. Vast and unstoppable, the polar bear will swim through the frozen seas, pad over wrecked floes, slide in and out of water, fog, ice and snow. He is an apex predator, 12 feet high and weighing 2,000 pounds. He has 42 curved ivory teeth, and his paws are 12 inches across, armed with curved, lethal claws. Beautiful, wild, invincible, he has no animal enemies. It took 100,000 years for the polar bear to evolve from their nearest cousins, the brown grizzly, and now polar bears rule the arctic, with their lazy gait, their deadly black stare, their great majestic presence. Let me tell you about the little brown bat, a small nocturnal flier that kindly eats our insects, flickering wildly through our evenings in pursuit of our mosquitoes. Bats flooded out of those louvers in our old barn—you’ve seen the pictures of it—every evening, all summer, hundreds of them, speeding out into the quiet dusk. We watched them, standing on the lawn: it was like a natural fireworks show, the silent, darting glimpses of wings flashing against the darkening sky. Let me tell you about the frogs, leopard-spotted, with dark spherical marks ringed with gold, green frogs with round black eyes, that sat motionless beneath a leaf, waiting for an insect. Or the gray tree frog, the tiny one that climbs into the tall eupatorium plants in the garden, disguising its tiny mottled body among the leaves. There are more I could tell you about, thousands of animals and birds and insects whom we are lucky to have now in our lives. But I think you won’t know them, dear descendants. I think that by the time you read this many of them will be gone. There is always a reason to kill a creature, it turns out, and it always makes money for someone to do so. That’s how it is in our world. I wish I could show you these quick and beautiful creatures who were entrusted into our care, and not just describe them. I wish I could show them to you. A novelist and essayist who writes often about the natural world, Robinson is current president of the Authors Guild.
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Slow Smoked Baby Back Ribs
156 Highland Ave. ONCEsomerville.com
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You know that you’ve stumbled across a hidden gem when even some of the people who go there don’t know what city it’s in. And Tavern at the End of the World is indeed such a place, with more than a few people saying it is one of their favorite bars in Somerville, when in reality, it isn’t in Somerville. Nope, this quirky little watering hole is one of the relatively few dining and drinking spots in Boston’s Charlestown, and is pretty much the only restaurant/bar option in this tiny piece of the neighborhood that is mostly cut off from the rest of the community. Tavern at the End of the World is located a short distance from the Sullivan Square T stop along with the square itself, which is one of the best places in the city for witnessing true gridlock on a Friday afternoon. There really isn’t much around the area in which it resides other than homes, apartments, warehouses, and railroad tracks, and the exterior of the bar makes it look like a place that locals and only locals go to, which is true to an extent, but it’s not nearly as rough inside as it might appear to be from the street. The front room at Tavern at the End of the World is dominated by an inviting bar, with a real mix of people found in this space: hipsters, blue-collar folk, artists, couples, retirees, etc. The back room is mainly a dining area and tends to be a bit less hectic than the bar, but it also has a section where comedians, bands, and singers perform, depending on the night. Tavern at the End of the World tends to have a bit of a split personality, sometimes feeling like an Irish pub, other times feeling like a local townie bar, and still other times feeling like a quirky cafe, and the varied menu reflects this to an extent. For those looking for Irish pub fare, the place offers excellent takes on curry fries, toasties (the ham and cheese toastie is what countless pubs serve in Ireland), fish and chips, shepherd’s pie, Guinness stew, and chicken curry, while those looking for either New American or classic American fare might opt for such items as truffle fries, goat cheese with honey, salmon burgers, rib eye steaks, grilled pizza, or roast chicken. One of the highlights on the menu is actually a dessert item; the Irish Mars Bar dessert toastie is an absolute diet-killer, with bananas, Belgian waffles, strawberries, and cream making for a tasty treat that will likely induce you into a nap, though hopefully not before you get home. The beer list at Tavern at the End of the World is very impressive, with some of the best local and national craft beers that you’ll find, including options from Long Trail, Dogfish, Berkshire Brewing, Left Hand, Abita, Mayflower, Six Point, Maine, and so many others. Back when Tavern on the Water was around, some people actually thought that bar (which was at Pier 6 in Charlestown) and Tavern at the End of the World were one and the same, so this and the fact that some don’t believe that the latter is in Charlestown made for quite a bit of confusion. But Tavern at the End of the World does actually exist, and it is a great little spot for a bite to eat, a drink, and some entertainment. >> TAVERN AT THE END OF THE WORLD. 108 CAMBRIDGE ST., CHARLESTOWN. TAVERNATTHEENDOFTHEWORLD.COM
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“WHEN ONE MAN, FOR WHATEVER THE REASON, HAS THE ABILITY TO LEAD AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE, HE HAS NO RIGHT TO KEEP IT TO HIMSELF.”
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Boston En Masse
Rewind!: Rushmore
Make Happy by Bo Burnham
Studio 263: Art Auction/Dance Party
Thirsty Scholar Trivia
Loving Jeff Berlin
Boston En Masse’s goal is to bring local artists into the spotlight, and, oh man, are there a lot of local artists. Over the course of the next three days, you’ll get the chance to listen to Rick (of Pile), Skinny Bones, Dent, Jaw Gems, Littlefoot, Milk, W00DY, Horse Jumper of Love, Guerilla Toss, Mal Devisa, Lady Bones, Anjimile, Ursula, Harmoos, IAN, STL GLD, Abadabad, Radclyffe Hall, Gracie, Peachpit, So Sol, and Castle Danger. The lineup changes every single night, so there’s no reason to miss these three nights of local music goodness.
Do you like Wes Anderson? How about Bill Murray? Good music? If you answered yes to any of these questions (and I know you did), then I’ve got a treat for you. Wes Anderson’s second full length film, Rushmore, will be playing at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on Thursday night. Follow the exploits of 15-year-old Max Fischer as he goes through the trials and tribulations of school life. The whole movie has a certain childlike wonder to it that’ll leave you with awe for days to come.
Are you happy? Regardless of your answer, you will be if you let Bo Burnham make you happy. Maybe— no promises. At the very least, he will make you laugh. Bo Burnham’s fourth comedy tour takes him back to his hometown of Boston to share his insightful and fresh style of humor. With everything going on in the world lately, we all need a night where we can kick back and let a funny man tell us jokes to help us unwind.
Disco ain’t dead, baby; it’s just been hibernating, waiting for the perfect moment to wake up, and that perfect moment is Saturday night. Studio 263 is turning back time to the ’70s in this art auction extravaganza. Sip some cocktails as you bid on art during the Silent Art Auction and add your photo to the Polaroid wall, forever solidifying your presence there that night. The auction ends at 9 pm, and once it does, Studio 263 is burning to the ground (the studio’s words, not mine) in the disco dance party of the millennia.
We all need a little R&R, especially on Sundays. It’s technically the start of the week, but it feels more like the end, doesn’t it? Well, what better way to spend your week than with a little bar trivia? And if trivia isn’t your thing, unwind with some friends and a few beers. Or just relax by yourself with a drink; sometimes the peace of solitude is the best option on those lazy Sundays.
[Ed. note: I’ve never seen a better live show locally than Hybrasil. They were it.] Jeff Berlin was an amazing drummer to see live with Hybrasil. Recently stricken by several strokes, Jeff’s in need of our help to get back there, and thankfully the incredible world of musicians that know and love him have put together an insane show to raise money for his medical costs. Come show some love and check out this amazing lineup: Jimmy Ryan & Hayride, The Curtis Mayflower, Club d’Elf (feat. Duke Levine), Hybrasil (with Tom Arey and guests Duke, Jimmy, and Dana), Vapors Of Morphine, and Bow Thayer.
Middle East Upstairs. 480 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. 6-11pm/21+/$30. facebook.com/ events/1493679537595832
Coolidge Corner Theatre. 290 Harvard St., Brookline. 7-9pm/21+/$9-12. coolidge. org/films/rushmore-0
Shubert Theatre. 265 Tremont St., Boston. 8-11pm/18+/$60. boburnham.com
Gallery 263. 263 Pearl St., Cambridge. 7-10pm/21+/$30 in advance, $35 at the door. eventbrite.com/e/studio263-art-auctiondanceparty-tickets-19219463934
The Thirsty Scholar Pub. 70 Beacon St., Somerville. 8-10pm/21+/FREE. thirstyscholarpub.com/ somerville-ma-bar-events. html
The Burren. 247 Elm St., Somerville. 6-11pm/21+/$20. m.bpt.me/event/2411861
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FOLK’ED UP
The Ballroom Thieves give Boston a wicked fun barn stomp This may be the Northeast, but we’ve got folk rock like we’re living in the ’70s South. Boston’s thriving scene grows with mild secrecy. Its acts snag venues as large as the Royale, but they’re so modest about it that there’s no headline news making a raucous—well, until now. Meet the Ballroom Thieves. The local trio of guitarist Martin Earley, drummer Devin Mauch, and cellist Calin Peters (all three of ’em share vocal responsibilities) only has one full-length to its name, but the size of the crowd that follows the group would have you guessing it’s got three times that under its belt. With musical enjoyment comes talent, with talent comes praise, and with praise comes the doting adoration of fans who can’t get enough. The band originally played as a duo when Earley and Mauch attended Stonehill College. Shortly after, the two found a cellist, but she left after two years when touring became too large a commitment for her. Then, one fateful night at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, they stumbled into Peters. “We put up a signal, very much similar to how Batman puts a logo in the sky, but for her,” Mauch jokes. “She didn’t seem to be your standard cellist. Really, it was the right person at the right time. It was fate… and now she’s stuck with us.” Physical releases roll out slowly in the Ballroom Thieves’ court. In 2012, it put out The Devil & The Deep EP. In 2013, the band released its self-titled EP. Only this year did its full-length, A Wolf In The Doorway, see the light of day. As the most polished and comprehensive work the group has put out yet, the record captures not only the three’s technical skills, but their unbridled love for folk rock. “It’s a relief to finally have it out, mostly because the previous ones didn’t feature Calin,” says Earley. “When we made that change, we were having anxiety trying to get music out that actually represents the current lineup of the band. Giving people an accurate representation of what we do, you know? We wanted enough time to figure out where we wanted to take the sound, and in that way we know the waiting game between the EPs and the full-length was done the right way.” Listen closely and you can pick out bonus instruments they usually don’t play live: strings, organ, pedal steel. Besides those, it’s note-for-note what you hear at the live performances. “We wanted to make sure there was nothing lost between the listening experience in your car or home compared to the live show,” says Earley. “We still want the live show to be an even bigger experience.” They did that by recording almost every part live and recording three-
“Two and a half years ago, we were playing music on the streets by Faneuil Hall to make a living.”
part harmonies in the same room to emphasize vocal textures and organics. The sterility of isolated recordings doesn’t lend itself to an easily imitable sound live. Luckily for the band, our city won’t bail anytime soon if the songs sound different. The loyalty here is unparalleled. “Once you have a Boston audience, you’re not going to lose the Boston audience,” explains Earley. “They’ll love you not only because they like the music, but they’ll love you because you’re from Boston. That might have to do because Boston’s such a sports show. Some of our fans really love sports. There’s people at our shows who have made up chants like they see it as more of an athletic event.” The last club show the Ballroom Thieves played here was a two-night takeover at Great Scott. The Royale is about twice the size of the Sinclair—and about six times the size of Great Scott. “Two and a half years ago, we were playing music on the streets by Faneuil Hall to make a living,” says Mauch. “It’s a bit surreal now to feel this
much love and support, to get to play the Royale, but those old days down in the marketplace crushing covers all day aren’t lost on us. We’re grateful for everything that’s happened.” With the help of local music forces like WERS 88.9 FM and Bowery Boston, the band’s music has been echoed twice as loudly as it would have been if the three kept to spots like the Lizard Lounge, instead placing them on the stages of Boston Calling Music Festival and Newport Folk Festival. “We’re always pumped to come home and play for our Boston shows because not only are shows the most fun for us, but there’s a certain energy that comes along with Boston shows that is unmatched,” says Earley. “It brings out a new energy in us in return.” That energy keeps fans coming back in doubled numbers. Folk rock will never die, and the Ballroom Thieves are bringing it back in Boston with unparalleled gusto and jollification, a sound that’s uplifting in genuine ways. Thank our lucky, charming, barn-stompin’ stars.
>> THE BALLROOM THIEVES + YOU WON’T + THE BROS. LANDRETH. THU 11.19. THE ROYALE, 279 TREMONT ST., BOSTON. 7:30PM/18+/$16. ROYALEBOSTON.COM
MUSIC EVENTS WED 11.18
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THU 11.19
THU 11.19
[The Sinclair, 52 Church St., Cambridge. 8pm/18+/$17. sinclaircambridge.com]
[The Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. 8pm/18+/$15. mideastoffers.com]
[Great Scott, 1222 Comm. Ave., Allston. 9pm/18+/$12. greatscottboston.com]
[Royale, 279 Tremont St., Boston. 8pm/18+/$16. royaleboston.com]
LAYERED DANCE POP SHAMIR + HANA
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FOLK FOR TWO THE BALLROOM THIEVES
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SAT 11.21
[The Sinclair, 52 Church St., Cambridge. 8pm/18+$15. sinclaircambridge.com]
[The Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. 7pm/18+/$12. mideastoffers.com]
BOSTON FOLK CLASSICS KINGSLEY FLOOD + BOMBADIL
GARAGE-DWELLING ROCK TOGETHER PANGEA + DINOCZAR
PHOTO BY DAVID SALAFIA
BY NINA CORCORAN @NINA_CORCORAN
MUSIC
BOSTON EN MASSE The inherent struggle and quiet pride of booking an eclectic three-day festival
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JUST ANNOUNCED!
BY NINA CORCORAN @NINA_CORCORAN
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13
THU 11/19
>> BOSTON EN MASSE. WED 11.18 - FRI 11.20. GREAT SCOTT, 1222 COMM. AVE., ALLSTON. 6PM/18+/$12. ILLEGALLYBLINDPRESENTS.COM
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LAURA STEVENSON FRI 11/20 - LEEDZ PRESENTS:
SATURDAY, MAY 28
KEVIN GATES
SAT 11/21 - ROCK ON! PRESENTS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28
THE TOASTERS
MON 11/23 - LEEDZ PRESENTS:
JAY ROCK (TDE) TUE 11/24
E JAKE AZ, CORNERBOY P
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18
WED 11/25 - HEROES PRESENTS
DARK MEET
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19
THU 11/19
H20
ANGEL DU$T, GIVE, FRI 11/20 BOSTON EN MASSE
IAN, STL GLD
SATURDAY, JANUARY 23
SAT 11/21 - MATINEE SHOW:
STRAY BULLETS SAT 11/21, 6PM
together PANGEA SUN 11/22
WITH ROCKET QUEEN SYGNAL TO NOISE
HIYA WAL ÂALAM
SUNDAY, JANUARY 24
ARTWORK BY JANE FITZSIMMONS
If you’ve witnessed a stacked bill at the Middle East Upstairs in the past year, thank Jason Trefts. The 33-year-old booker behind the venue’s schedule and owner of booking company Illegally Blind has been curating consistently solid lineups of Boston garage, indie rock, and psych, including the annual Boston Fuzzstival. He’s been at it for a mere two years and yet it’s already impossible to imagine the city without him. Just look at this week’s upcoming Boston En Masse festival to understand why. Boston En Masse brings a colorful mashup of local acts to the forefront thanks to a dizzying bill order. On Wednesday the 18th, concertgoers of all ages can crowd the Middle East Upstairs to see Rick (of Pile), Skinny Bones, Dent, Jaw Gems, Littlefoot, Milk, W00dy, and So Sol perform. On Thursday the 19th, Guerilla Toss, Mal Devisa, Lady Bones, Anjimile, Ursula, and Harmoos take over Great Scott. The following evening, Friday the 20th, IAN, STL GLD, Abadabad, Radclyffe Hall, Gracie, Horse Jumper Of Love, Peachpit, and Castle Danger fill Great Scott’s walls again with melodious thunder. For the first time in months, if not all year, Boston’s finally getting a bill where genres contrast one another as starkly as the electronic quips of W00dy and the angsty acoustics of Rick. “It’s interesting how you can take a band like Guerilla Toss—such a big band, everyone knows who they are—but find out just how many people haven’t seen them live because they only go to shows at Great Scott or the Middle East,” says Trefts. “In building this lineup, I’ve had a lot of musicians in town say they haven’t even heard of three of five of these bands. I can’t expect everyone to put in the time to learn about all the bands here—everyone is busy being in their own bands—yet hearing that still surprises me.” Above all else, Trefts emphasizes community and shifting structures, a lasting mark of his graduate studies in sociology, challenging Boston’s music bubbles to rethink their shapes. Put simply, Boston En Masse is whatever goes. “It’s my pet project,” Trefts explains. “I think these are all great bands in the city, but they may not know who each other are. Let’s put ’em in a room and do musical introductions. They’re playing shows with bands they may not normally play with.” Even with all the stressors piling up on his back, Trefts isn’t looking for help. He doesn’t need sponsors, he doesn’t want staff members, and he isn’t trying to start a business. Boston En Masse is proof that he can pull off major loads as a single unit. “It’s about being more effective and more of an authentic thing,” he explains. “How can I make Boston a better music city for people? How big can I get it while still keeping it out of the capitalists’ hands? You have to battle the inherent narcissism of art. If there was a hurricane in Boston, you don’t want to be the person who thinks, ‘Oh shit, the show is cancelled,’ before thinking about what the hurricane means to the people. You have to get people to remember that life is first and music is a part of it—and I have to remember that myself, too.”
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II THE THE BREATHER BREATHER GHOSTOWN GHOSTOWN THE THE FACELESS FACELESS DANCE DANCE GAVIN GAVIN DANCE DANCE TERROR TERROR THE THE ACACIA ACACIA STRAIN STRAIN
DIRTY DISHES
WED 11/25 - BOWERY PRESENTS:
SURFER BLOOD
All shows, All ages. Tickets available in person at the Palladium Box Office, FYE Music and Video Stores, online at Ticketfly.com or by phone at 877-987-6487.
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Tues 11/17 8PM - (Jazz)
THE BRUCE SAUNDERS QUARTET
feat. NOAH PREMINGER VETERANS FOR PEACE CHICK SINGER NIGHT OPPOSITE PEOPLE + DJ PUSSYWILLOW A CAPPELLA MASTERS:
WORLD TOUR
Frederick Wiseman gets diverse in latest film BY JAKE MULLIGAN @_JAKEMULLIGAN
Wed 11/18 8PM - (Benefit Show)
THU Nov.19 12AM
ALL GOOD Thaddeus Jeffries, Estman Garcia, Yvng Pavl BREAKS, HIP HOP, R&B, REGGAE, SOCA, CARIBBEAN, CLASSIC HOUSE, FRI Nov.20 9:30PM
PICO PICANTE
VS. UNITY Riobamba , Oxycontinental , Ultratumba, Francesco Spagna & Cruzz UPSTAIRS = CLASSIC, SOULFUL, AFRO AND LATIN HOUSE / DOWNSTAIRS = GLOBAL BASS, TROPICAL, DIGITAL CUMBIA SAT Nov.21 9:30PM
Thur 11/19 7:30PM - (Singer-songwriter)
Thur 11/19 10PM - (Afrobeat/Funk)
Fri 11/20 7PM - (A Cappella)
SIMILAR JONES + FERMENTA TOWN Fri 11/20 10PM - (Afrofunk)
THE MACROTONES + THE PARTY BOIS Sat 11/21 10PM - (Afro-Latin/World)
ALEX ALVEAR + MANGO BLUE Sat 11/21 10PM
THE BAND THAT TIME FORGOT 17 Holland St., Davis Sq. Somerville (617) 776-2004 Directly on T Red Line at Davis
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If you go to the website for New York City’s Small Business Services, you’ll find this quote: “New York City is home to the nation’s largest, most comprehensive network of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs).” That’s the kind of verbiage that smiles. For those who don’t know, a reduced explanation: BIDs are state programs wherein fees are levied and taxes are raised on business owners in a selected geographic area to fund services like graffiti removal and streetwide wifi access. This has become a commonplace approach in urban areas throughout the country. And the websites that end with .gov are quite happy about that. But the small business owners in the districts getting improved? Probably not. Not unless they own a GAP. In Jackson Heights, the latest film by Boston-born nonfiction filmmaker and national treasure Frederick Wiseman, is not a movie about business improvement districts. That’s not his type of filmmaking: there are no interviews in his movies, or voiceovers, or subtitles to identify the people onscreen. He embeds himself within a culture, then he shapes the resulting footage into a structure befitting that culture. Conversations about the effect of BIDs on rent payments, and thus on the ability of Latino business owners to remain in the area, are indeed prominent within this movie’s 190-minute running time. But so is the depiction of a day’s work at a live poultry market. And a parade following a victory by the Colombian national football team. And the arrests made by police following that same parade. Close-ups are even granted to the vegetables out on the street carts and the flowers growing outside the florist’s window. This is not advocacy, but a profile—a street tour. We end up spending three days walking around this Queens neighborhood, where more than 60 percent of the population is foreign-born. That’s how the film is structured, at least: day, night, day, night, day, night. We cut directly from the tail end of an evening at a gay bar into children laughing on a nearby playground the next morning—and the rattling of the 7 train serves as the soundtrack for all of it. Patterns emerge. There’s a meeting where immigrants counsel one another on responses to exploitive work conditions, a gathering of transgender and cisgender women—all regulars at a bar called Lucho’s—that’s held to discuss strategies for curtailing police harassment at their hangout, a
FRI Nov.27 9:30PM
BOOTIE BOSTON VS. SOCIAL STUDIES
FILM EVENTS THU 11.19
SHORT FILMS BY FEMALE FILMMAKERS-FROM LOCAL TO INTERNATIONAL GRRL HAUS 2
Jovonn, Brenden Wesley, Alfredo + Jabulani, McFly, Spencer4Hire UPSTAIRS = MASHUPS / DOWNSTAIRS = ACID HOUSE, DISCO & TECHNO
[Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge. 9pm/ NR/$10. brattlefilm.org]
Sat 12/26 7PM
SUPERHONEY (REUNION) (Funk)
17 Holland St., Davis Sq. Somerville (617) 776-2004 Directly on T Red Line at Davis 18
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[Coolidge Corner Theatre. 290 Harvard St., Brookline. 7pm/R/$11.25. coolidge.org]
FRI 11.20
DRAFTHOUSE FILMS PRESENTS ANOTHER CRAZED REDISCOVERY DANGEROUS MEN
[Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge. 9:30 and 11:30pm/NR/$9-11. 35mm. Also screens Sat 11.21 and Sun 11.22—see brattlefilm.org for showtimes.] SAT 11.21
DIRECTOR LLOYD KAUFMAN IN PERSON THE TOXIC AVENGER
[Coolidge Corner Theatre. 290 Harvard St., Brookline. Midnight/R/$15. 35mm. coolidge.org]
MON 11.23
ROBERT DOWNEY SR.’S GREASER’S PALACE
[Harvard Film Archive. 24 Quincy St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge. 7pm/ NR/$7-9. 35mm. hcl. harvard.edu/hfa]
TUE 11.24
INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL BOSTON PRESENTS YOUTH
[Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge. 7:30pm/R/Free with pass provided by IFFB. See brattlefilm.org or iffboston.org for more information.]
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WORLD TOUR continued from pg. 18 collective of gay seniors determining if they will continue to hold their meetings in a synagogue or if they’ll move to a location outside Jackson Heights. All that is what we might call “community organization.” Julio Rivera, a gay man killed in 1990 for his sexuality, is invoked throughout the film. For the people involved in them, these community organizations can be described another way. They’re survival techniques. Which brings us back to the BIDs. Wiseman’s films do not have narratives in the traditional sense, but characters often emerge, though he elects not to tell us their names. In this case, there’s a pair of multilingual community organizers who speak to the area’s business owners about their experiences. We find that many storeowners were only notified of the vote to institute the BID program (which can never be repealed!) by mail—in English. We then find that if they didn’t vote, their ballot was counted in the “yes” pile. We hear that landlords are responding to the rise in property values by selling out to larger corporations, and that many local business owners have been evicted already. We hear that a Home Depot is coming. Maybe a Dunkin’ Donuts, too. We look in the mirror of the GAP store that just moved in, and see an advertisement for 70 percent discounts. We find out that the board members for BID are all “super rich” real estate owners standing to make large profits from the rise in property values and from the expulsion of small business owners. In the reflection of GAP’s mirror, we see a Gamestop. Another quote, this time from a Gothamist report on the effect of the Jackson Heights BID program: “Since the establishment of 82nd street BID, the area has become dominated by chain stores … while smaller businesses have either downsized or gone under.” Wiseman is no advocate, but his dedication to documenting the techniques used by minorities to compete in a professional culture that’s gamed against them—one of the last scenes is of a multilingual training facility for taxi drivers; another scene documents a pride parade—leaves his sympathies clear. In Jackson Heights isn’t about the erosion of the American Dream in a general sense: It considers, very specifically, the systems that are put into place to prevent much of the population from ever achieving those goals. If there’s a story here, the changing signage tells it. >> IN JACKSON HEIGHTS. NOT RATED. OPENS WED 11.18 AT MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. 465 HUNTINGTON AVE., BOSTON. PLAYS THROUGH SUN 11.29 MFA.ORG/PROGRAMS/FILM FOR SHOWTIMES. FILM
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The Jolie-Pitt family gets caught in an unflattering pose BY JAKE MULLIGAN @_JAKEMULLIGAN Angelina Jolie Pitt is smoking. It’s a cigarette, dangling from her mouth during By the Sea, her third film as a director. But the butt doesn’t bop with her lips, the way it would in the mouth of a poker player. Instead it’s still: Only the line of smoke trailing off the flaming end is moving. There’s stillness throughout this movie. Our star positions herself with her head cocked, hands clasped together, like the muse for a painter’s Madonna. Or she contorts her body across the ridges of a midcentury couch, filling the frame with her physically manifesting anguish, the way actresses did in Ingmar Bergman movies. She’s the raison d’etre of her own compositions. As though she took an art history course, and found the experience quite fashionable. If you were inclined to be generous, you could call these self-portraits instead. Either way, the visual style is best described as “multi-million dollar selfie.” But that’s not to say that By the Sea is indulging fetishes. It’s actually on an opposing topic: orgasm anxiety. Vanessa (Jolie Pitt) is a stage star gone to a vacation home, trying to outrun an ambiguously defined trauma—whatever it was, it left her sexuality at subzero. That’s unfortunate for husband Roland (Brad Pitt), an Arthur Miller-adjacent scribe who gets drunk when each new day reveals itself to be another chaste one. Verbal clichés illustrate his plight (“This place is shit anyways!” as he exits a bar, trashed), while formal clichés remove the obfuscation from hers (flash cuts that hint at the trauma, then hard cuts that bring us to the next sober sequence). The dissonance is almost invigorating: the subjects and poses of high art being being filtered through techniques more often used in work-for-hire horror movies. One visual concept stands out, like Roland’s unused erections. The pair are stationed next to two newlyweds (Melanie Laurent and Melvil Poupaud) who fuck, on the hour, with the vigor of professional tennis players. This movie is set sometime in the midsection of the last century, so our middle-aged married-folk main characters are without readily accessible pornography. Thus the peephole that lets them see into this younger couple’s room—it’s shaped like a cinema screen; smell the symbolic significance—proves to be a rare turn-on. The screenwithin-the-screen and the couple-within-the-couple represent a hall of mirrors that a better filmmaker may have gotten lost in. But our star is content to just stop and stare. >> BY THE SEA. RATED R. NOW PLAYING.
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Anita Gillette returns to the stage in A Confederacy of Dunces BY CHRISTOPHER EHLERS @_CHRISEHLERS All of Boston—and beyond—is abuzz with the high profile, long-awaited stage adaptation of John Kennedy Toole’s cult classic novel, A Confederacy of Dunces. While star Nick Offerman has his name above the title, it is the lovely, illustrious Anita Gillette (who plays Ignatius’ mother Irene) that has captured my attention—and affection—and will no doubt do the same for other likeminded theater buffs. Gillette made her Broadway debut in 1960 in Gypsy with Ethel Merman, starred as Sally Bowles in the original production of Cabaret, and scored a Tony nomination for Neil Simon’s Chapter Two. Are you obsessed yet? With over a dozen Broadway credits, she has worked with some of the most storied and influential people in show business. Even Tennessee Williams was enamored with her. Perhaps best known as Mona in Moonstruck, her film and television credits include Shall We Dance, She’s the One, 30 Rock, Quincy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, and 50 episodes of The Johnny Carson Show. How did you become involved with A Confederacy of Dunces? I think one of the producers saw a rerun of Moonstruck and they said, “That’s who should play Mrs. Reilly.” I said yes almost immediately because, first of all, I had read the book a long time ago and just remembered laughing my head off all the way through. What are the chances of something like Dunces moving to New York? Well, they haven’t told us, but rumors are they’re working on it. I haven’t heard, and that’s an odd thing. Usually we’re hip to it. You made your Broadway debut in Gypsy with Ethel Merman in 1960. How I stayed in that show was a story, too. When I found out I was pregnant I let the producers and my stage manager know, because I had to do cartwheels and splits. When she heard that they were going to fire me, she said, “Oh, no, no, no! The kid stays in the show! Okay, so she can’t do the splits,” and then she looked at me and said, “But you can still do the cartwheels. The kid stays.” So, that’s how she saved my job and I will never, ever get over that. Who is the most difficult person you’ve ever worked with? Ray Bolger in All American. He had my song cut. He screwed up that show. [Time magazine theatre critic] Mel Gussow, he said: “Ray Bolger is as asthmatic old wheeze-bang.” He’s the only one that got it right! And then came Sally Bowles in the original production of Cabaret. How did that change your life? Big time. That was the beginning of when I wanted to be an actor. That’s when it started. I really wanted it, but nobody would touch me as an actor because I was a singer. In those days, if you sang, you couldn’t be a real actor. One time in the ’70s I went down to Joe Papp and I begged him to let me audition for a straight play at the Public. He gave me a chance and I got Rich and Famous. That was the real first start of me being an actor. And then I did Travesties at the Taper, and Neil Simon saw me and remembered me when he put together Chapter Two. And you got a Tony nomination. Yeah! For straight acting! That must have been really validating. It was. It really was. I really felt good about that. You must have developed really good instincts about when something is working and when something is not. What do your instincts tell you about Dunces? These actors are so incredible. I think it’s going to be wonderful. >> A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. RUNS THROUGH 12.20 AT THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY, 264 HUNTINGTON AVE., BOSTON. HUNTINGTONTHEATRE.ORG
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BY DAN SAVAGE @FAKEDANSAVAGE | MAIL@SAVAGELOVE.NET I’m a 27-year-old straight woman. I’ve spent this last year back on the dating market, and it’s HORRIBLE. I have a reasonably pretty face, I’m fit, and I take care of myself. I have my life together—friends, interests, job—and I’m emotionally stable. I go out, I enjoy meeting people, I’m on Tinder. And I keep hearing that with a huge influx of young dudes, Seattle is an easy place to date as a woman. So why am I finding it so hard? I can get casual sex, and that’s fun. But as far as finding a relationship beyond just fuck buddies, it’s depressingly predictable: Guy acts interested, texts me all the time, but eventually starts fading away. I’ve asked close friends to be honest with me; I even had a heart-to-heart with an ex-boyfriend. Everyone says I’m not doing anything wrong. Are they all lying to me? I’m currently seeing someone I really like. When we’re together, it seems like he likes me a lot. But now he’s starting to do the fade. I’m really sad and anxious. It’s killing my soul to be rejected constantly. Bummed About Dating You’ve been “back on the dating market” for one year, BAD. Twelve measly months! And in that time, you’ve dated/fucked a handful of men and nothing panned out. That sounds pretty normal. If you expected to be back in a committed relationship within weeks, BAD, then your unrealistic expectations are the source of your grief, not your thoroughly typical dating/ mating/fading experiences. There are worse things than being single for a year or two in your 20s. Get out there and meet men, pursue those non-men interests, and throw yourself into your work. Being single is not an aggressive cancer—there’s no immediate need for a cure—and panicking about being single isn’t the secret to romantic success. (And being single means being miserable only if you convince yourself that single = miserable.) So here’s what you can do: Chill the fuck out; listen to your friends, your ex, and your advice columnist; and stop melting down about what sounds like a thoroughly normal love life, BAD, not an unfolding catastrophe. On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Jonathan Eig, author of The Birth of the Pill: savagelovecast.com.
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