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ON OUR RADAR » In which we prise apart Bill Clinton’s oratory steez like so many crumbly donut holes, unveil your new go-to source for rabbit rillettes, and tell you how to go shuck yourself. STYLE » Hot dots: Get a glimpse of this fall’s dapperest dappled duds. VOICES » It’s a scary world out there: Libertarians are ditching Ron Paul, Scott Brown is snuggling kittens, and no one is paying for Elvis’s soiled Underoos. Get outraged. SPOTLIGHT » Our reporter covered the DNC on five hits of acid; behold his mind-altering dispatch from the donkey show.
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TwenTy-four-year-old Private First Class Bradley Manning must be the loneliest man in America. Accused of funneling to WikiLeaks a vast cache of diplomatic documents — as well as the video of an Apache helicopter machine-gunning civilians and a Reuters correspondent over Baghdad — Manning is a prisoner of conscience without a constituency. If a Republican were in the White House, at least some members of the Democratic establishment would express vague sympathy for Manning, condemning, no doubt, the leaks during wartime, but spotlighting the importance of his revelations. The activist base and what’s left of the gutsy media would embrace Manning. But with a tight election against the loathsome Mitt Romney and the right-wing Congressional Republican radicals in motion, discretion tempered with passive hypocrisy commands the order of the day. Manning’s military trial on more than 30 charges — including “aiding the enemy” — starts next February. Disturbingly, President Barack Obama has already declared Manning guilty. Trumping Obama, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called
for Manning’s execution, a theoretical possibility. If there are any soft and mushy ideas about the presumption of innocence during our perpetual war for perpetual peace, then the Manning case obliterates them. WikiLeaks was the star of the show that Manning triggered. Front-page stories drove home the growing sense that wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were ill conceived. This enraged Washington and made WikiLeaks impresario Julian Assange a marked man. With Swedish rape charges dogging him, Assange is trapped in a no-man’s-land. Those charges — reasonably seen as prosecution by proxy, stage-managed by the United States — may eventually result in Assange’s capture. In the meantime, Manning and Assange may share headlines, but it’s an unequal celebrity. Assange commands an image, a support network more potent than Manning’s. Young, gay, and from a dysfunctional family, Manning was a study in isolation even before his arrest. Other whistleblowers have become pop icons. Jeffrey Wigand, the conscience-racked tobacco executive who in 1996 turned state’s evidence on 60 Minutes to reveal the secrets of addictive cigarette manufacture, was able to substitute the scorn of former colleagues with the applause of anti-smoking advocates. Russell Crowe played Wigand in a movie based on his exposé. Twenty-five years earlier, Daniel Ellsberg set a standard for moral courage when he supplied first the New York Times, then the Washington Post, and finally the Boston Globe with the top-secret, government-commissioned Pentagon Papers. The papers documented the political deceit that marbled the Vietnam War and exposed the misjudgment that prolonged the wrenching conflict. Ellsberg became a hero to like-minded defense intellectuals who shared his convictions but lacked his guts. Wigand received death threats. And Ellsberg risked more than he may have realized: Ellsberg’s trial, on charges similar to Manning’s, ended in a mistrial after a plot to seriously injure or kill him surfaced amid the fallout from Watergate. Manning’s fate, however, was direct and brutal. The government tried to break him, detaining Manning, subjecting him to sleep depravation, and forcing him to remain naked, or nearly so, for 24 hours a day. In the words of law professors from Yale and Harvard, these conditions were “degrading and inhumane,” “illegal and immoral.” The horror of Manning’s torture is over, but his political isolation continues. This almost-forgotten man awaits trial for releasing over-classified documents that resulted in no deaths or injuries but did lay bare the folly of America’s National Security State. Remember him. The odds of a fair trial are slim. Manning needs friends.
If there are any soft and mushy ideas about the presumption of innocence during our perpetual war, the Manning case obliterates them.
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Your Boston Fashion Week mixtape Fashion and music have always been intrinsically linked. From Jagger to Jackson, Frank Sinatra to Frank Ocean, music icons have long shaped the styles of the times . . . and, often, vice versa. With Boston Fashion Week kicking off on September 27, we asked the 10 designers prepping for solo shows in the Tent to let us take a listen to the albums and tracks that helped inspire their collections. What you hear might surprise you. _alexandra cavallo
luke aaron 1 >> The Amalgamation of Soundz, "Enchant Me" 2 >> Ivy, "I Think of You" 3 >> Morcheeba, "I Am the Spring" karina Bresnahan oF KArInA BrESnAhAn SWIMWEAr 1 >> Ellie Goulding, “Lights” 2 >> Goldfrapp, “Strict Machine” 3 >> Alex Clare, “Too Close” mark cordell oF Tru FICTIon 1 >> Frank ocean, “Pyramids” 2 >> Santigold, “You’ll Find a Way (Switch & Sinden remix)” 3 >> robyn, “Dancing on My own (Fred Falke remix)”
avni trivedi oF AvnI FAShIon 1 >> Tyler Bates, “Gypsy Thief” 2 >> hariprasad Chaurasia, “Delta” 3 >> Dharma Mittra, “om Chants” candice wu oF CAnDICE Wu CouTurE 1 >> Era, "Enae volare Mezzo" 2 >> Lady Gaga, "Bloody Mary" sam mendoza oF MEnDozA 1 >> P.M. Dawn, “Paper Dolls” 2 >> Janet Jackson, “Anytime, Anyplace” 3 >> Grimes, “Genesis”
victoria dominguez-Bagu oF MArIAvICTorIA 1 >> Paolo Conte, “via Con Me” 2 >> Edoardo Bennato, “viva la Mamma” 3 >> Kevin Johansen, “hindue Blues”
emily muller 1 >> AWoLnation, “Sail” 2 >> Fanfarlo, “I’m a Pilot” 3 >> radical Face, “Welcome home”
grace kim oF G. K I M STuDIo 1 >> Paul oakenfold, “Starry Eyed Surprise” 2 >> Black Eyed Peas, “Imma Be (Danger olympic remix)” 3 >> naughty By nature, “hip hop hooray”
Firas yousiF oF FIrAS YouSIF orIGInALS 1 >> Yana Kay, Magnetic [Deeselecta] 2 >> Linda Eder, “Gold” 3 >> Assorted Artists, The Most Famous opera Arias [EMI Classics]
“I think about the music for the show more than I think of any other detail. Oops. . . . ‘Baby-making music’ is what I’m calling it.” — Sam Mendoza
“I always listen to old-school hip-hop whenever I design. It gets my blood pumping and design juices flowing. It’s also my natural caffeine on nights when I stay up late working.” — Grace Kim
The CrImInal neTwOrk Smile! Your mug shot might be on Facebook
Police dePartments might not asPire to be popular. But the Natick Police Department has racked up almost 10 times the number of “likes” on its Facebook page as police in nextdoor Framingham, a city twice Natick’s size. One difference is that the Natick PD Facebook page features a weekly compilation of mug shots of those arrested by its officers. Viewers — and even at least one arrestee — have commented and shared the photos with their friends. Once confined to dusty folders in the bowels of police stations, mug shots are now widely distributed by police departments and commercial outlets. Natick police spokesman Lt. Brian Grassey says his department noticed other police departments posting the shots, “and felt like it was a good way of showing the public what we do. There seems to be great public interest in it.” Those who find their mug shot floating around the Internet may be embarrassed, but they don‘t have much recourse, says Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Hanni Fakhoury. “There’s nothing I can think of that is legally wrong about it,” he says. Civil liberty groups have been divided on the issue, with some voicing concern for privacy rights, but others saying that government records are protected free speech that should be made available. “We urge everyone to remember that police sometimes arrest people who did not deserve to be arrested,” says ACLU spokesman Chris Ott, who adds that “posting people’s pictures online is something that can stick with them for the rest of their lives.” Natick’s mug-shot posts include a disclaimer stating that the subjects are arrested for probable cause, not guilt. And Grassey says because the names are printed in the image they are less likely to be detected by search engines. (The Yarmouth Police Department includes the names of those arrested in its captions. The recent arrest of an 81-year-old for drunk driving sparked a lively discussion in the comments section.) Fakhoury says another potential downside to both government and commercial mug-shot sites is that they could “be used to ‘out’ people who are arrested as part of their participation in political causes” — for instance, those picked up in the mass arrests during last year’s Occupy protests. In one recent case, a Natick arrestee used the comments section to point out that his charges of operating with a suspended license were dismissed in court the next day. As for the mug shot, he commented that it was “not a bad picture, huh?” He made it his Facebook profile image. _noah schaFFer
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Cost to attend in dollars; get your ticket at coolidge.org island creek oysters President shore “Bug” Gregory guesstimates he’s shucked 30,000 bivalves during his six years with the company. And he’s adding to that tally daily: fall is oyster prime time, so we caught up with Gregory at Kenmore’s Island Creek Oyster Bar, where he’s a co-owner, to get some pearls of wisdom. _cassandra landry
on shucking “It’s easier than you think. With the right tool and the right know-how, opening an oyster should be as commonplace as opening a bottle of wine or starting a fire. Always shuck cup side down. It’s going to be very difficult if you don’t.” on slurPing “Chew three times. You’re not going to release all of the flavors of the oyster unless you chew. If you just slurp it down, it’s all salt water. When you bite down, texturally it’s more interesting.” on garnishes “A purist would go with a squeeze of lemon,” he says. “Mignonette is number one. The acidity of the mignonette is a great complement and not a masker. I shy away from cocktail sauce.” other go-tos? Gregory suggests freshly grated horseradish or even a splash of vodka. on when oysters are at their Best “This time of year, definitely. As the oysters begin to go dormant in the wintertime and the water gets colder, what they exist on is glycogen, which is a glucose. So that sweetness comes through as the water chills. The oysters tend to be most full-flavored the last three or four months of the year.” on oyster etiquette “I always flip my shells face down on the ice, because I think it’s part of the fun of it. Say you’re trying five different varieties: flipping the shells over highlights just how different each oyster is. The shells tell a great story. Cup down for me.”
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“Bloody hell. a sane and in-focus editorial about the latest @amandapalmer hijinks.” — neil Gaiman, via Twitter, commending Daniel Brockman's post "Amanda Palmer: The Erotic Politician on the Crowd-Sourcing Campaign Trail," which defends Palmer's recent decision to ask "professional-ish" musicians to donate their talents to her tour. read the post at thephoenix.com/ onthedownload.
Oral examInaTIOn Pundits have been parsing every word uttered on this long and winding campaign trail. Brookline’s Speech Improvement Company is doing them one better — scrutinizing every gesture, pause, and facial tic, too. Panelists analyzed the Republican and Democratic conventions, rating speakers on a 100-point scale with 10 dimensions, from vocal variety and wording to pacing and eye contact (here’s not looking at you, Rubio). It may just be as fair and balanced coverage as we’re going to get this season. Check out the convention headliners’ average scores below, and listen in on past panels and upcoming debate dissections at electionspeakers.com. _Jacqueline houton
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progressives nationwide, expectations skyrocketed. As a result, when Brown opened up his slim lead this summer, it unleashed a torrent of criticism, locally and in national publications, about the Warren campaign. Some of it seems justified: her ads have been unmemorable, she has been far too sheltered, and she has done little damage to Brown’s reputation as a nice guy and an independent politician. But it’s also a little unfair. A year ago, any Democrat in the state would have been thrilled at the prospect of a candidate entering the final stretch of the campaign in a virtual dead heat with Brown, with poll numbers equal to his, and the resources to match him ad for ad.
his Thursday brings the first debate With eight tSenate of Massachusetts’s blockbuster US campaign. But the real showdown that will decide the contest is not between incumbent Scott Brown and challenger Elizabeth Warren, but between Brown and the Republican Party. Now that summer’s over and the sprint is on to the November 6 election, polls and most close observers agree on where the race stands: each candidate has a solid 45 percent of the vote tucked away, and they pretty much cancel each other out. Brown has a slight lead, but that should be negated by Warren’s expected turnout advantage. This leaves the race in the hands of the middle 10 percent, or some 300,000 persuadable voters statewide. Who are those 10 percent? Put simply:
weeks to go, a popular incumbent must win despite his party.
they like Brown, but they hate the GOP. They plan overwhelmingly to vote for Barack Obama over Mitt Romney — by a six-to-one margin, according to a recent poll from Kimball Political Consulting. And yet people close to the Brown campaign, and a lot of others, believe that in the Senate race, people will ultimately vote the person, not the party. Frankly, most Democratic insiders used to think so, too. That’s why, even with the expected outpouring of Democratic voters for the presidential election, the state’s A-list Democrats, including all of its US House members, statewide and county officeholders, and state senators, declined to enter the race. But when Warren jumped in, and immediately shot up in the polls and raised unthinkable sums from
So now it comes down to those few, Obama-supporting, Brown-liking voters, and whether a majority of them will vote for Brown, or against the GOP. As it happens, Warren campaign manager Mindy Myers ran a campaign in very similar circumstances six years ago, and just a little way down Route I-95. In Rhode Island’s 2006 Senate race, Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse narrowly defeated incumbent Republican Lincoln Chafee, by emphasizing that with George Bush in the White House and a thenRepublican majority in the US House, liberal voters needed to prevent a matching Republican majority in the US Senate. It worked so well, one of Chafee’s final TV ads featured him speaking directly to the camera, acknowledging that “All the time, people tell me, ‘Linc, I really like you, but I have to send Bush a message.’” Chafee countered by stressing his independence — just as Brown is doing now. At this point in that race, the polls showed an even split. In the end, Whitehouse won with 53 percent of the vote. The task might be a little tougher for Warren, but there’s no reason to think it can’t be done.
New this week at mapoliwithaNimals.tumblr.com: state rep. Jennifer benson with cows, Fitchburg mayor lisa wong with a fish, and us senator scott brown with a kitten.
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’ve been fighting for social justice all my profesisurveillance-censorship sional life. I’ve litigated against the militaryaxis of repression;
The drawbacks of the two major parties make them unacceptable choices for a voter who supports liberty.
battled puritans, police, and drug warriors; and generally campaigned on behalf of citizens’ rights. Once, I believed in the inevitable progress of freedom and decency, but things haven’t worked out that way. We’ve won a few battles: gays entered the mainstream, racial minorities took a place at the table, police brutality is less pervasive, or at least more exposed (due, perhaps, more to ubiquitous cellphone cameras than legal reform). But on balance, my generation has made a mess. When current events can be best understood by watching Comedy Central, we’re in trouble. This campaign season, I find myself reluctant to vote for either major party. I reject the Republicans’ aggressive effort to intimidate the world and wreck civil liberties in a “war on terror,” along with their destruction of the middle class by catering to the moguls. I similarly reject the Democrats’ effort to intimidate the world and wreck civil liberties in the name of a “war on terror,” and their willingness to betray the middle class by favoring a different set of interest groups. So I registered Republican and voted for libertarian Ron Paul. I wanted to send a message that the “military-industrial complex” was threatening not only the stability of our economy, but also the fabric of our liberties. Paul’s one drawback is his opposition to a floor beneath which citizens would not be allowed to fall. Paul’s advocacy, however, for a smaller central government would allow states to resume that obligation. But when the Republican Party robbed Paul of many of his elected convention delegates, I despaired. The drawbacks of the two major parties make them unacceptable choices for a voter who supports liberty but wants to assure all a fair opportunity to survive the competition. The Democrats betray liberty by blaming speech for many social ills, banning “hate >> freedom on p 28
Harvey Silverglate is a lawyer who has been writing Freedom Watch since 1976.
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speech,” “harassment” and “bullying,” thus making free discourse impossible, especially on college campuses and in the workplace. They talk of amending the First Amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United opinion. Democrats’ unwavering support of public-sector (especially teachers’) unions has wrecked municipal budgets and public education. They support an increased federal role in health care, even though the federal bureaucracy has become destructively remote and inefficient. Indeed, they support enhanced federal power in all spheres, which has been largely responsible for the creation of a dangerous national security and prosecutorial state — also favored by Republicans. Republicans tout economic liberty but attack abortion, gay marriage, sexually explicit materials, and those who suffer economic misfortunes. They give lip service to free enterprise and cater to plutocrats’ thirst for government’s economic favors (banks got bailed out during the recent economic crisis, but not middle-class families mortgaged to the hilt), while abandoning the lower and middle classes. And tacit bipartisan agreement has enabled the Department of Justice, once a protector of civil liberties, to accumulate power to imprison virtually any citizen, since no one can avoid arguably violating some vague federal statute. And despite Republicans’ howls to the contrary, both parties are oblivious to the disastrous consequences of endemic overspending, as long as budgets reward their friends. We need a political realignment, producing a party or coalition that protects liberty, reins in the national security state, educates the young, balances the budget, and erects a floor beneath which citizens cannot fall. Little did I earlier know that the parties of both left and right would turn out to be the problem rather than the solution.
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husband — was just wishing aloud. Fan reaction to the prospect has been positive, and I agree with that sentiment. Gosling is a fine actor, and the part demands one — I only made it through about 30 pages of the book, but the Main Spank Bro would smile mysteriously and/or make inscrutable facial expressions roughly 50 times per page, so the actor in the role would need the ability to rapidly twitch and contort his face like a glitched-out video game. (I also hope they can find an actress who can blush, then flush, then blush again within the span of half a page.)
ast month, a peculiar scrap of music hisLframed tory went up for auction in England: a pair of Elvis PrEslEy’s husky briefs — “unwashed,” according to the BBC, and still “soiled with stains.” NME was more specific about the character of these stains, calling them “yellow” and “suspicious.” I am baffled to report that this item did not sell, despite a modest reserve price of just £7,000. There must be thousands of rich, disgusting idiots in the world — not one of them would lay out the cash to huff the King’s dong residue? Here’s a fun thought: how should Elvis, looking down from heaven, feel about nobody buying his pee-peed whities? Relieved? Disappointed? A previously undiscovered combination of the two? Treasured public asshole BrEt Easton Ellis coaxed fancy gasps recently by tweeting a tirade of withering
beef toward fellow novelist David Foster Wallace, who is not alive. Some called Ellis unsporting for engaging a recently deceased colleague in a one-sided public slapfight, while others have pointed out that Wallace gave it, during his lifetime, as good as he got it. However, by taking sides in the matter, we risk losing sight of the true issue at hand: who cares, books are for nerds. But! Some books actually have great social merit. FIFTY SHADES OF GREY, for example, is an important work: it makes your dear old mom want someone to beat her on the bottom with a belt, and that is hilarious. The book stayed in headlines this week with a tantalizing rumor: immaculate cutie-pie Ryan Gosling may be under consideration to play the Main Butt Slappy Dude in the film adaptation. Or, maybe the source of the rumor — the author’s
Get familiar: Gigolos is the Breaking Bad of grody semiscripted male-prostitute reality erotica.
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That’s enough about book stuff — in fact, let’s forget about books forever, because the new season of Showtime’s GIGOlOS has arrived! If you’re not caught up, get your ass familiar: this is the Breaking Bad of grody medium-core semi-scripted male-prostitute reality erotica. It was a dramatic off-season for the plucky ’tutes, with Clark Kent–wholesome Jimmy arrested on charges of beating his girlfriend — he’s off the new season, naturally, with some convenient fictional excuse. In his place shall be Ash, a pony-maned Miami hunk with, according to their pimp, an “Eastern medicine” vibe. Can an aging Brace compete with this smoldering mystic Fabio? Yes, because Brace fucking rules (and vice versa) — I predict our craggy surf Adonis shall take on all comers (and vice versa). Even with the season just starting, the real world is already encroaching: Steven, the sappy doofus, was arrested just days after the premiere for “open and gross lewdness” — and if that’s a crime, you might as well shut down the whole show. Watch it while you can.
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Our reporter trekked down to Charlotte to cover the DNC, and — as if the frenzied Obama lovefest weren’t trippy enough — he decided to do it on five hits of acid. Here’s his mind-altering dispatch from the donkey show. B y C h ri s Fa ra on e c fa r ao n e@ p h x .c o m :: @ fa r a 1
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never thought I’d find myself at two o’clock in the morning, hanging solo on a corner in uptown Charlotte, having two kind older black women telling me to stop preaching about war and the prison-industrial complex. Yet there I was, one block from the Charlotte Convention Center, hailing a taxi for two 60-something peaches who were up from Georgia and had missed the shuttle back to their motel. They were right about two things: 1) I had no business pontificating to either of them, particularly in the middle of Barack Obama Blissfest; and 2) my main concern should have been getting my own sweet little ass home. I was annihilated. How did I get there? And why was I holding a poster of Tupac, Bob Marley, and the president riding stallions into the sunset?
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The rhinestone Obama merch amounted to more bedazzled junk than Fran Drescher keeps in her dildo drawer.
After two weeks of covering the protests outside these political fiestas without writing about what’s popping inside the actual hall — in Tampa at the Republican National Convention, or in Charlotte at its Democratic counterpart — for my last night on the job, my editors thought it was a good idea to enter among the hysterical partisan masses. [No, we did not. — Ed.] That sounded fine to me, so I began to chew through some acid that I had left over from the RNC. Years ago, a writer friend explained how he always found that the best way to glimpse a conservative’s soul, or lack thereof, is with a noggin full of LSD. He didn’t mention what I might find around comparably obsessed lefties, though, so I set out to do some soul-searching of my own.
ONE HIT
I swallowed the first pop on my way to the bus stop near my crash pad in West Charlotte. All week, I stayed with an amazingly cool host who rented me a room in his apartment, in one of the few gentrified buildings in the scruff of what more than a few locals told me is the city’s foulest pocket. If we’re talking experience points, I could not have picked a better spot. Instead of riding shuttles with delegates, or cabs with my damn self, I rolled back and forth to the convention zone on public transportation with real North Carolinians, most of whom wanted nothing to do with me, my press pass, my lame questions, or the DNC. Thinking back, I’m pretty sure that it was street vendor Don Winslow from Louisiana who activated my buzz; he was outside the convention center leaning through his trademark banger, “The Obama Shuffle,” which he’d written, recorded, and was selling copies of. I hear it synchs up perfectly with The Wizard of Oz if you’re tripping hard enough. I wasn’t — not yet, at least — but was certainly thrown deeper by the rhinestone Obama merch being slung right next to Winslow, the lot of which amounted to more bedazzled junk than Fran Drescher keeps in her dildo drawer. Good times >> DnC on LsD on p 36
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After making a slight scene at the gate, I assembled a team of convention rejects and headed to a nearby party hosted by the United Nations.
were up ahead. Even the nuttiest Jesus freaks weren’t bothering me, which I took as a divine cue to level up with a second dose. Since she’s already written about her throwback teen hippie experience at the DNC, I suppose that it’s alright to say I stomached hit number two with Rebecca Schoenkopf of Wonkette — the only person in Charlotte who was brave enough to indulge along with me. Together, we kicked over to the regularly scheduled Politico bash, where I’d been sipping complimentary beverages and enjoying good conversation all week. The party was sweet down to the passed appetizers, but I ultimately got turned off by the glowing “America’s Natural Gas” ad on the news desk. I could care less about the shameless placement — we all need to keep this journalism thing going somehow — but I could only ogle gasbags in front of gas ads for so long. . . .
THREE HITS
We show up outside the hall, and there’s the biggest pile of umbrellas that I’d ever seen. Apparently there’s an umbrella bomber on the loose, because it was the same thing at the RNC — they wouldn’t let you in with one. Despite my gut instinct to frolic in them like Scrooge McRomney in a pool full of bullion, I got in line for the metal detector instead. This was it — after two weeks on the road, I was finally about to report from the floor. The prospect was exciting, or at least it was until the fire marshal shut shit down with just two people left in front of me. I waited for five minutes, then decided to split
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I waited for five minutes, then decided to split for a bar. But not before having my way with the mountain of umbrellas.
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for a bar. But not before having my way with the Guinness Book–worthy mountain of umbrellas. After making a slight scene at the gate — heckling other journos who were shut out — I assembled a small but fierce ad-hoc team of convention rejects and headed to a nearby party hosted by the good folks from the United Nations. Free drinks were poured, beer cans were cracked, and after watching Sandra Fluke deliver the only speech of the week that packed not a bit of bullshit, I popped another blotter and ran for the door. We would have stayed, but the UN party was wrapping for the night, and I thought that it was time to spread my wings a little anyway. . . .
FOUR HITS
It took four hits of acid and a spot in front of the MSNBC stage for me to sort of buy into the donkey show. For a few scattered moments, during speeches by Elizabeth Warren and then Bill Clinton, I finally understood the official DNC motto for the week: “Americans Coming Together.” I was covered in it. Amazingly, I barely even puked as all of the imbeciles around me — apparently complicit with Obama’s failure to neuter health-care profit-mongers — applauded Bubba’s half-sense about “donut holes,” as if they had a clue what he was singing about. In the least, I was pleased to be enjoying the live Chris Matthews taping. In the land of Democrats, I’ve always considered him to be the one-eyed king. I had watched Matthews closely in Tampa as well, including during Paul Ryan’s speech, when he gorged himself on French fries and a warm Italian sub, the melted mozzarella stretching from his wedge to his chatter box like gum under a shoe. Between his unmatched political knowledge and status as an unapologetic southpaw, Matthews was already my favorite pundit — even before the sandwich incident.
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I’m engineered to hate crowds, and that goes double for blind patriots, and triple for when I’m spun.
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But he earned my utmost affection during Clinton’s speech, when someone shouted, “GEORGE BUSH SUCKS,” and he leaned back in his chair to let out a hearty chuckle. None of this, of course, means that I completely let my guard down. I’m engineered to hate crowds, and that goes double for blind patriots, and triple for when I’m spun. I’ll also blame the MSNBC camerawork; in the heat of Clinton’s slam dunk, as he spit his line about how broken clocks are right twice a day, some slick producer flashed to the Democratic Party’s most severely damaged timepiece of them all: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Like that, I snapped right out of it, screamed something about the wars on drugs and in the Middle East, and proceeded to polish off my stash. . . .
FIVE HITS
Actually, it was just four-and-a-half hits. I split my last notch with a wasted dude from California who was shooting a reality show about some North Carolina family with “the craziest redneck hotdog shop you ever heard of.” The two of us had an enlightening conversation, as I paid forward my writer friend’s knowledge about how important it is to eat LSD at these functions. There’s a metaphor to all this trippy nonsense, I told him, which is that attending the DNC — even not on hallucinogens — is actually a lot like being on acid. You’re at the center of the universe, rendered completely unable to consider the perspective of those outside your bubble. From there, I slugged some more drinks, bought an artist-autographed poster of Obama and Tupac on horseback, and headed back to the apartment I was crashing at in West Charlotte. The effects of the high were waning, though the décor at my crash pad — old Calvin Klein posters of diesel dudes with bulging dicks — was a little strange. I never thought I’d end up on the tail end of a political bender, staring at giant cocks and shaved chests. But then again, I also never thought that I’d find myself at two o’clock in the morning, hanging solo on a corner in uptown Charlotte, having two kind older black women telling me to stop preaching about war and the prisonindustrial complex. I guess you had to be there.
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South End is one of Boston’s great Tbeenhedining destinations, but its luster has dimmed in recent years by a series
of closings highlighted by splashy failures like Ginger Park and Rocca. A revival now appears to be in the offing, with new entrants Kitchen and Yakitori Zai already humming and Cinquecento, BoMa, and Estelle’s on the way. Among the lessernoted passings was humble South American and Mexican standby Don Ricardo’s. Its successor, Puerto Rican newcomer Vejigantes, has attracted little fanfare, perhaps because it sits in Villa Victoria, an affordable-housing development. That obscurity, we predict, is about to end. For starters, Vejigantes’ décor is a significant upgrade over the homely
ambiance of its predecessor, with walls painted in bright pastels, colorfully upholstered banquettes, an attractive patio, and various images of its namesake, a many-horned, fantastical Carnaval creature. Service now reflects the polish one expects from the owners of Roxbury’s Merengue, the sleekest Dominican restaurant in town. The short wine list is a slight step up, still dominated by New World wines at under $35 a bottle and $8 a glass, but adds Italian sweet wines ($7/glass, $35/bottle) and swish Champagnes ($65–$90/bottle). There are 10 bottled beers ($5) and some sweet afterdinner cordials ($8). Cocktails include a creditable mojito ($9) and delicious frozen daiquiri variants ($8) in flavors like passion fruit, banana, guava, and mango, made by
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a forkful might make your Puerto rican friends misty-eyed with nostalgia.
adding rum to the tall fruit smoothies that are batidos ($4). But the main draw is the food, a sophisticated take on Puerto Rican cuisine. Starters include alcapurrias ($5), fritters of minced beef in a plantain/ taro batter fried to Brazil-nut brown. Empanada-like pastelillos ($4) encase minced chicken, beef, or crabmeat in crisp, lard-shortened dough. Bacalaítos fritos ($5) deliver the briny snap of salt cod in the shape of dollar pancakes, with only a whisper of a fried-batter coating. Pinchos de pollo ($5) offer moist, grilledbreast kabobs in barbecue sauce, prettily topped with microgreens. Entrees include grilled dishes like bistec a la jardinera ($12), marinated skirt steak grilled medium-well and topped with sautéed onions and peppers; colorful and delicious, it’s even better with a hit of the oily, habanerofired house hot sauce. Seafood dishes originating from Boquerón, Puerto Rico, include ferociously good camarones al ajillo ($18), seven fat shrimp cooked in about a head’s worth of minced garlic in oil. Also particularly fine are the accompanying sides, like good white rice served with excellent soupy pinto beans, or the outstanding yellow rice seasoned beautifully with a complex sofrito and dotted with pigeon peas, ham, and pork. Paellas are built on rice tinted a bright orange that betokens more annatto than saffron, which leaves the paella valenciana with chicken and sausage ($22) feeling a bit mild; the lobster, clams, shrimp, and squid in the paella marinera ($25) yield a richer flavor. Both versions make a bigger impact in the two-person “artesenal” presentation ($42 and $45), served in a whimsical, edible clamshell-shaped container made of fried plantains. Slightly less dramatic-looking but perhaps more emblematic of traditional Puerto Rican cooking is the mofongo tradicional de plátano ($8), a flat-topped cone of mashed and fried green plantains stuffed with meat and served with chicken broth. This hearty dish, with its mild, lightly crisped exterior, is like a present you tear open to reveal a steaming, garlicfragrant heap of chicken or chicharrón: fried pork cracklings. A forkful of plantains and crisp/chewy, garlicky pork, dipped in broth, might make your Puerto Rican friends misty-eyed with nostalgia. But even Anglos will get the homey appeal of this terrific dish, which might stand more broadly for what Vejigantes has achieved here: an unprepossessing exterior with a lovely, delicious surprise inside.
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PURITAN & CO., INMAN SQUARE
Chef Will Gilson is standing amidst small piles of rubble with a grin on his face. “We just found out that this corner of the floor doesn’t have anything supporting it,” he says, pointing to a gaping hole k Loo t... i that gives a view to the basement and a bearded worker’s bobr o f te In La t 1166 bing head. Wine glasses, dishware samples, and chairs coated a r be t, in a soft sheen of sawdust are littered throughout the space OctO brIdge S cam brIdge that will magically turn into Gilson’s “clean slate,” as he calls m ca it — Puritan & Co. — in just a few weeks. It’s a fitting name for the first restaurant concept from the former Garden at the Cellar chef and pop-up impresario. A century ago, the property housed Puritan Cake Co.; now Gilson is aiming for modern, elevated takes on traditionally simple New England dishes. And don’t knock the tightly wound and buckled Puritans of his heritage (his family has been here since the 17th century). “The Puritans just wanted to pioneer a new world, and a new style,” he says. “That’s really what we’re trying to do.” Among the New England bounty to be had, keep an eye out for stuffed quahog, composed charcuterie plates, and a fully stocked oyster bar.
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If Alex Crabb’s résumé is any indication — Noma, L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon, k L’Espalier, Atwood’s Loo t... i forOber at Tavern, Lineage . . . , ct need we go on? In O aSS ave 47 m StOn — we’d say Asta O b is bound for a few mind-blowing things of its own. Word is Crabb has tossed the à la carte menu, striking out with a few prix-fixe options instead: three courses for the gentle-hearted patrons and five or eight courses for the culinarily ferocious. The whole squid with black chickpeas should be nothing less than swoon-worthy.
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sausage tasting menus this side of the Atlantic. Good luck trying to decide what to go for; between the honey-lavender boudin blanc and the beef sauerbraten with gingerbread sauce, we’re already throwing in the towel.
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Maybe it’s our sacrilegious streak, but we can’t wait for this “neighborhood-friendly American bistro” to hit k Loo t... the former home of i r fo mIdthe Blessed SacraIn t er a emb , ment campus. The nOv ntre St e 80-seat spot is capital365 c StOn bO izing on its storied site: expect furniture built from repurposed pews and a cozy bar with stained-glass windows. Divided into “In the Beginning” (appetizers), “Selections” (entrees), “Creations” (specials), and “Temptations” (desserts), the menu is designed with various dietary needs in mind — so you can have your herb-roasted chicken with customized sauces and sides. Gluten- and lactose-challenged brethren, rejoice!
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every so ofTen, The churning, bilious stomach of the Twitterverse belches something beautiful into our collective lap. In this case, it’s disgusting, witty, and strangely alluring commentary on everyone’s favorite scapegoat du jour: foodies. Appearing to us like a backlit e m o need s rt? god in a ravaged culinary landscape, rife with the comfo Craigie n to smell of Batali’s Crocs and pretentious baristas, w o d d g in Hea tH for any Ruth Bourdain arose from the Interwebz two on Main d pig’s tails ie froM fr pastraMi. years ago as an amalgam of former Gourmet ediil ta to ox st, tor (and flowery tweeter) Ruth Reichl and chef853 Main pen o ge; CaMbrid un. cum-travel guide with a fondness for a well-placed tues-s cuss Anthony Bourdain. A James Beard Award for humor writing and more than 57,000 followers later, the bastard/bastardess’s true identity remains a secret. This month, he/she released a book, Comfort Me with Offal: Ruth Bourdain’s Guide to Gastronomy. And it’s fucking awesome. Subjects that demand mention include, but are not limited to, a survival manual for the vegan apocalypse, a guide to the art of getting gastrostoned (read: bong hits of mozzarella and tangerine zest), and, of course, @RuthBourdain’s bread and butter — plenty of digs at Guy Fieri. _Cassand ra Land ry
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You know, we’ve been watching a little too much Downton Abbey lately, so we’ve been shamelessly daydreaming about drinking wine with the upper crust in Newport’s jeweled eggs — Rosecliff and Marble House. Tickets and seminars run the full gamut from affordable to way pricy, and celeb chefs make appearances left and right.
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So here’s the pitch: fake out your taste buds with a dinner that jumps around in time (and throughout the rooms of a palatial manor) — and if you make it to the end of the night, you snag free tickets to Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s new time-travel flick, Looper. Any protests? Alden Castle’s first open-to-the-public event will feature dueling takes on dishes popular both today and 30 years ago — think deviled eggs, beef Wellington, and coconut cake, updated.
6 pm @ Alden Castle, 20 Chapel St, Brookline $50; includes movie ticket to the advance screening of Looper at AMC Loews Boston Common aldenlooper.eventbrite.com
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Holy shit, it’s almost October. It basically is October, if you round up like we do. What does this mean? It means it’s almost hardcore roots-and-squash season, and all that gorgeous late-summer/early-fall produce is dwindling. Book yourself into tonight’s class with chef Maura Kilpatrick and selfproclaimed “pickle geek” Janice Goldsmith; that way, when you’re too downtrodden to trek to a winter farmers’ market, you can take solace in pumpkin jam and pear butter. 6:30 pm :: Sofra Bakery, 1 Belmont St, Cambridge :: $85 :: jamandpickle.eventbrite.com
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of Scotches have notes that are floral, fruity, buttery, nutty, or, yes, like honey. diGAbLe PLAnets, “WheRe i’M FRoM” Wine doesn’t have a monopoly on matters of terroir. With whiskey, it’s about more than the soil, though. A distillery’s landscape is evident in many single-malt Scotches — so called because they come from just a single distillery. (Blended Scotches, like Johnny Walker, involve blending dozens of single malts.) When you taste a Scotch produced on the island of Islay, for instance, pay attention for salty notes in the aroma. That’s evidence that the whisky spent a decade or more aging in a wood barrel in a warehouse where the air is permeated with sea spray. Xtc, “senses WoRkinG oveRtiMe” There are 10,000 taste buds in the human mouth. The human nose has five million cells that are sensitive to odors. Taste is not necessarily the sum of a spirit’s parts; it’s only one part. So take your time — breathe the aromas, note the mouthfeel (silky? rich? jagged?), and observe the color. to walk in with a few maxims in mind. Music is a powerful memory aid, so here’s a mixtape we’ll call “The Whiskey Tasting Survival Guide.” Each song offers a teaching moment. Let the education begin. Guns n’ Roses, “PAtience” Whiskey is defined as any drink distilled from fermented grain mash and aged in wood barrels. Scotches are made from malted barley; bourbon from at least 51 percent corn; rye from at least 51 percent rye. There’s also Irish, Tennessee, and Japanese whiskey. Each has its own history, production methods, and spelling preferences (the “e” is optional). There’s a learning curve. the Jesus And MARy chAin, “Just Like honey” If you think all Scotches are smoky peat bombs, you might as well believe that all cheese is stinky cheese. An overwhelming majority
adding water disrupts the alcohol’s molecular structure. scots call it “releasing the serpent.”
the beAtLes, “think FoR youRseLF” Taste and smell are highly subjective. If someone pours you a bourbon and tells you there are milk-chocolate notes in the nose, and you detect dark chocolate — or coffee — you’re not wrong. deeP PuRPLe, “sMoke on the WAteR” Adding water to a Scotch is not an indication of a drinker’s frailty, greenness, or risk aversion. Nerd alert: it’s science. The addition of a few drops of water disrupts the alcohol’s molecular structure and cracks open esters, compounds that contain aromas and flavors. Scots call it “releasing the serpent,” but anyone not inclined to medieval reference might do well to think of it like foreplay. ice cube, “check yo seLF” If you go into the event equipped with nothing more than two words to guide you, they should be these: pace yourself.
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Whiskey has inspired — and inebriated — musicians across eras and genres. (See: the centuries-old “Whiskey in the Jar,” Willie Nelson’s “Whiskey River,” the Pogues’ “Streams of Whiskey,” and Lynyrd’s Skynyrd’s “Whiskey Rock-A-Roller.”) And Whisky Live sounds like a great name for a country-hopping, amp-shredding concert tour. But it’s actually an epic tasting produced by Whisky magazine (full disclosure: I’m the American contributing editor). It does, however, travel to more than a dozen cities worldwide, now including Boston, where it makes its debut on September 22. And it boasts a killer lineup: 150-plus varieties ready for the tasting. Diving headlong into such an event is risky. It’s tough to learn the differences among the many styles without trying them side by side — but taste too many, and you may not absorb anything but the ethanol content. So it’s important
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clap YOur hands saY Yeah :: October 12 at Royale, Boston :: $18 :: bowerybostom.com “an evening wiTh Kevin smiTh” :: October 13 at the Wilbur Theatre :: $47 :: ticketmaster.com The weeKnd :: October 23 at the House of Blues, Boston :: $37-$49.50 :: livenation.com The meTer men + page mccOnnell :: October 30 at the Sinclair, Cambridge [inaugural show] :: $35:: ticketmaster.com
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The ALLSTON VILLAGE STREET FAIR has been called an 23 “urban Mardi Gras,” though the Rock City denizens we know would be more likely to flash their goods for rare vinyl B-sides than a string of cheap plastic beads. What this street fair does have in common with a N’awlins party is that it draws a hell of a crowd — Allston residents and visitors alike — who come to day-drink, browse cool locally-made art and clothing, listen to live music, and get rowdy with their neighbors all day long.
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henrY rOllins “capiTalism” TOur :: October 30 at Berklee Performance Center, Boston :: $25-$29.50 :: berklee.edu/BPC human sexual respOnse :: November 10 at House of Blues, Boston :: $25 :: ticketmaster.com dinOsaur Jr. :: November 30 at the Paradise Rock Club, Boston :: $25 :: ticketmaster.com mY mOrning JacKeT :: December 31 at the Agganis Arena, Boston :: $50.50 :: livenation.com rihanna :: March 10 at TD Garden, Boston :: $52.50-$147.50 :: ticketmaster.com
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Tennessee Williams showed up in Provincetown around 1940, and in some ways never left. His 21 spirit will be unavoidably present this weekend, during the PROVINCETOWN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS THEATER FESTIVAL, which crams a dozen new shows and more than half a dozen parties into four days. A musical thread runs through many of them, including Tony nominee Alison Fraser’s survey of songs found in Williams’ plays. The premieres include a production of his 1973 I Never Get Dressed Before Noon on Sundays (left) about a play rehearsal gone awry.
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Presents a week of Venezuelan music at Longy School of Music of Bard College THURSDAY, SEPT 20. 8:00 PM Marco Granados, Roberto Koch & Jorge Glem Trio A vibrant trio of leading exponents of Venezuelan instrumental music join forces to present a program filled with Venezuelan spontaneity, rhythmic intensity and joyful virtuosity.
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SUNDAY, SEP 23. 3:00 PM Clara Rodriguez, Pianist Latin American piano music which any classical, world or jazz music lover will enjoy. A program of nostalgic, very lively sounds and sunny music! Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music 27 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 Admission: free
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It’s become the Oscars of geekdom. And tonight the 22nd FIRST ANNUAL IG NOBEL PRIZE AWARDS, conceived by the Annals 20 of Improbable Research and presented by actual Nobel Prize winners, are handed to the humans behind the year’s most dubious and hysterical scientific achievements. The ceremony includes an operetta, a massive paperairplane deluge, and a Nobel laureate giving a complete technical explanation of the universe in 24 seconds. Can’t get a ticket? Watch it live on YouTube, or grok the newly crowned Ig Nobel Laureates attempting to explain themselves, briefly, on Saturday at MIT. tHU
THURSDAY :: Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge :: 7:30 pm :: $35-$60 :: SATURDAY :: MIT Building 10, 77 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 1 pm :: Free :: improbable.com Sat
22 Does GOTYE have staying power? Last time Wally Blacker was in town, at a sold-out House of Blues, he was riding the peak of a ceratin hit single that shall not be named. (We, too, totally dug it, but now we’d like to never hear it again, thanks.) Even if said mega-hit becomes just that song we used to know, we hope Gotye’s star continues to ascend. Because the entirety of last year’s Making Mirrors was awesome, and we’re looking forward to seeing what else he’s got(ye). Bank of America Pavilion :: 290 Northern Ave, Boston :: 7:30 pm :: $34.50-$40:: livenation.com
Just can’t wait until February for the annual Fetish Fair Fleamarket? We hear you, our gimp needs a new suit, too. Scratch that itch at the FLOATING FETISH BALL 2012, on board a multi-level party boat stocked with live entertainment, photography, outfits (sponsored by Latex Nemesis), and more. DJ XERO and NYC’s DJ XRIS SMACK spin goth and industrial jams to get kinky to.
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Free events MICE 2012 COMIC ARTISTS TALK :: Cartoonists/zinesters brian Connolly, Alizeé de pin, Chelsea dirck, and lily richeson discuss the overlap of indie comics and zines in a preview of the massachusetts independent Comic expo :: Papercut Zine Library. 1299 Cambridge At, Cambridge :: September 23 @ 5 pm :: papercutzinelibrary.org “PSYCHONAUTICS” :: primordial sounds dJs have their favorite bands spin their favorite tracks :: ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: September 23 @ 10 pm :: zuzubar.com TRIVIA SUNDAY :: new weekly trivia night hosted by local drag performers rainbow frite and raquel blake with prizes including restaurant gift certificates and more :: Geoffrey’s Café, 142 Berkley St, Boston :: September 23 @ 8 pm :: 617.424.6711
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CONEY ISLAND at night + METROPOLIS :: screenings of the 1903 documentary and 1927 dystopian sci-fi drama film, respectively :: harvard film Archive, 24 Quincy st, Cambridge :: september 26 @ 7 pm :: hcl.harvard.edu/hfa QUARTERLY + RYAN LEE CROSBY :: instrumental and indie rock :: Middlesex Lounge, 315 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: September 27 @ 9 pm :: middlesexlounge.us
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IF YOU ONLY DO ONE THING The very first — only? — full-service restaurant, music shop, and bookstore in this city, TRES GATOS serves up stellar tapas in the space once occupied by Roseway Books. In tribute, Tres Gatos still offers an impressive selection of used and new books, and rare vinyl that patrons can browse between mouthfuls of dangerously good churros or tortillas española. When it comes to good vibes, these cats got it covered. 470 Centre St | 617.477.4851 | tresgatosjp.com
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Caffe aromi At Hyde Square’s newest go-to for primo Americanos and free Wi-Fi, bask in the sleek modern interior — or, while the weather’s good, slip out back with your cuppa and take up residence on their hidden gem of a brick patio. 403a Centre St |
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Hatoff’S Empty your tank while cruising JP for thrift-store finds? Fill ’er up at Hatoff’s — they
pump the cheapest gas around (NB: it’s cash-only). You can use all the moolah you saved to fuel your next haberdashery spree. Salmagundi, here we come. 3440 Washington St | 617.524.1003
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tHe Video UndergroUnd Think of the Underground as the Omega Man: one of the last video stores left standing. Fuck Netflix, says we. We’re all about VU’s epic rental selection, sweet theme shelves (“Smells
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Jeanie JoHnSton PUb Four words: Best. Jukebox. In. Boston. Jeanie’s juke is no joke, boasting everything from Stone Roses deep cuts to classic Tupac. Or you can indulge that late-night craving for “Don’t Stop Believing” with their Saturday-night karaoke blowouts instead. 144 South St
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StreetCar Wine & beer Between the Brendan Behan and the James’s Gate, JP isn’t lacking for cozy bars. But sometimes, we just want to lie on the couch watching How I Met Your Mother and getting loopy-drunk. For the latter, Streetcar is your newest ’hood hookup, offering craft beers and affordable wines (plus frequent tastings). 488 Centre St |
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So what makes the Haven such an, um, haven? Well, it’s a really nice bar in Jamaica Plain. It’s definitely less of a JP bar, and by that, I mean it’s not full of dogs. I don’t like bars that are full of animals. Puppies are cute, though. Yeah, dogs are fine. I don’t hate dogs, but I don’t want to go to a bar and have a dog sniffing my leg while I’m trying to drink. I get that maybe that’s not a popular opinion in Jamaica Plain — but leave the dogs at home. is haggis worth the hype? I don’t know. I’m a vegetarian. They make it here. I’m told it’s very good. It’s like a sheep’s stomach full of oats and meat. Your thoughts on dumpster diving? It’s not for me. I feel like freeganism often takes things away from the homeless, and that’s not necessarily cool. There’s a difference between a homeless guy going into the trash can at Whole Foods and a college kid who has an iPhone taking stuff out of the trash can. It’s like, don’t buy the iPhone. Get some groceries. What if you’ve got a hard-on for an iPhone? Seek medical attention. _BarrY THOmpsON
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You can’t swing a hemp totebag without hitting something arty in JP. So imagine the explosion of creativity at the 19th annual Jamaica Plain open Studios. This art crawl’s even available as a self-guided bike tour. September 22-23 | jpopenstudios. com
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“People ask me if I am a drag queen,” sings riot-folker Evan Greer. “If I had to choose, I’d be a drag peasant.” Shower Greer with riches anyway at the Queer Wave benefit show — proceeds benefit the Theater Offensive. Septem-
ber 26 | midway Café, 3496 Washington St | 8 pm | $10 | midwaycafe.com
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We love the wackedout brand of trivia at geeks Who drink (sample category: “Real TV Products, or Some Shit We Made Up?”).
Costello’s tavern, 723 Centre St | Sundays @ 8 pm | free | geekswhodrink.com
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The next installment of dyke night’s fourth fridays celebrates Latin Pride with salsa and merengue lessons. milky Way, 284 armory St | Last friday of the month @ 9 pm | $7 ($10 for salsa dance) | milkywayjp.com
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Support local causes and feast on artisanal vittles from Whisk, JP’s very own pop-up supper club. September 28-30 | first baptist Church, 633 Centre St | 7:30 pm | $55 | whiskboston.com
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FRESHGRASS BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL :: Over 15 acts, pop-up performances, film screenings, banjo workshops, instrument building for kids, food, drink, and more :: THE BIG E :: Super Circus, Avenue of Fri 6:30 pm; Sat 1:30 pm; Sun 11:45 States, Storrowton Village Museum, am :: Massachusetts Museum of animals, competitive exhibits, rides, Contemporary Art, 87 Marshall St, shopping, crafts, a daily parade, and North Adams :: Sat or Sun: $25; $15 more :: Thurs-Wed 8 am :: Eastern students; 3-day pass: $46; $26 students States Exposition, 875 Memorial :: 413.662.2111 :: massmoca.org Ave, West Springfield :: $12 :: JAGUAR ALIVE DRIVING 413.737.2443 :: thebige.com EXPERIENCE :: Experience “BOND MODEL QUEST the “luxury, performance, 2012” :: A rotating panel G e t and capability” of the of celebrity judges Listed brand’s 2012 model ! that includes local Want to submit yo year line-up :: Fri-Sat ur event li media personalities, stings to ph th 9 am; Sun 9:30 am oenix? it e celebrities, athletes ’s easy — ju an st d :: Gillette Stadium, 1 like the and more; Models phoenix it ’s free , Patriot’s Pl, Foxborough ! drop from Maggie, listings@ us a line: :: Free :: 800.543.1776 Inc., Dynasty, and phx.com . or :: jaguarusa.com/ The Model Club. JaguarALIVEDrivingExperience :: 7 pm :: Bond, 250 ROGUE BURLESQUE :: Franklin St, Boston :: “Naughty Bits,” with special Free :: 617.956.8765 or :: guest Femme Brulee and her human bondboston.com piñata :: Fri-Sat 7:30 pm :: Club “EVERY VOTE COUNTS: A Café, 209 Columbus Ave, Boston :: SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS $18; $12 advance :: 617.536.0966 or :: EXPLORING THE 2012 ELECTION” :: brownpapertickets.com With Jim Braude and Callie Crossley SUMMER STREET MARKETS ARTS :: 7 pm :: Cambridge Center for Adult AND CRAFTS :: Original, handmade Education, 42 Brattle St, Cambridge :: works, including jewelry, glassware, $10 :: 617.547.6789 or ccae.org woodworks, photography, sculpture, “PARTISANSHIP AND THE clothing, accessories, and more :: FOUNDERS” :: With historian Fri + Wed 11 am :: Summer Street in Ray Raphael :: 6 pm :: Old South Downtown Crossing, Summer and Meeting House, 310 Washington Washington Sts, Boston :: Free :: St, Boston :: Free :: 617.482.6439 or 617.482.2139 :: bostonbid.org oldsouthmeetinghouse.org
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BARSTOOL BLACKOUT TOUR PRESENTS FOAM :: World’s biggest foam party with lights, lasers, and EDM :: 9 pm :: DCU Center, 50 Foster St, Worcester :: $52 :: 508.755.6800 or :: dcucenter.com BOSTON FESTIVAL OF INDIE GAMES :: With video games, live action games, tabletop games, interactive fiction, and more :: 10 am :: Kendall Square, 300 Athenaeum St, Cambridge :: Free; registration required :: bostonfig. com/registration FARM DAY :: Cider making, tractor climbing, games, PYO carrots, recipe tasting, and more :: 2 pm :: Waltham Fields Community Farm, 240 Beaver St, Waltham :: Free :: 781.899.2403 or :: communityfarms. org TAKE A SHOT: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY SYMPOSIUM :: Designed to provide information and technique sharing through various interactive and intensive workshops :: 9 am :: Boston Center for Adult Education, 122 Arlington St, Boston :: $125 :: 617.267.4430 or :: bcae.org VINTAGE BAZAAR AND MUSIC FESTIVAL :: With 125+ vendors from 11 states, a motorcycle show on Sun, live bluegrass, country, and folk music, and more :: SatSun 10 am :: Pettengill Farm, 45 Ferry Rd, Salisbury :: Free :: 978.462.3675 :: pettengillfarm.com
ROGUE BURLESQUE :: See listing for Fri
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8TH ANNUAL HUB ON WHEELS :: Annual city-wide ride for which the city closes down its busiest streets. The ride starts and finishes on City Hall Plaza and cyclists can choose from with three different routes: 10, 30, or 50 miles :: 8 am :: City Hall Plaza, 1 City Hall Plz, Boston :: 781.893.8222 :: www.bostonbikes. org/events/hub-on-wheels SOWA OPEN MARKET :: Open every Sunday through the end of October, SoWa hosts painters, sculptors, photographers, clothing and jewelry designers, milliners, handbag designers, house ware crafters, florists, bakers, local farmers, and more selling unique products :: SoWa Open Market, 460 Harrison Ave, Boston :: free :: www.sowaopenmarket.com/ FRESHGRASS BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL :: See listing for Fri “GALLERY NIGHT TUESDAYS” :: Showcase of artwork from a different local artist each week :: 6 pm :: Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St, Boston :: 617.224.4000 or :: libertyhotel.com
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arts & nightlife :: get out Somerville :: $20 :: 617.776.2004 or :: johnnyds.com “FUTURE BOSTON PRESENTS ASSEMBLE!” :: 6 pm :: Emerald Lounge at Revere Hotel, 200 Stuart St, Boston :: free :: futureboston.com
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21ST AMENDMENT :: 150 Bowdoin St, Boston :: 8 pm :: Stump! CHARLIE’S KITCHEN :: 10 Eliot St, Cambridge :: 8 pm :: Stump!
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“GRAY MATTER: BRAIN INJURY IN SPORTS” :: Lecture with Taylor Twellman, Christopher Nowinski, & Bob Lobel. :: 6:30 pm :: Suffolk University, C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple St, Boston :: 617.567.3900 or suffolk.edu REEL ROCK TOUR :: Screening of a selection of adventure films presented by REEL ROCK film :: 7 pm :: Regent Theatre, 7 Medford St, Arlington :: $14 :: 781.646.4849 or reelrocktour.com “BOND MODEL QUEST 2012” :: See listing for Thurs
BATTERY PARK BAR AND LOUNGE :: 33 Batterymarch St, Boston :: 7 pm :: Geeks Who Drink JOHNNY D’S :: 17 Holland St, Somerville :: 8 pm :: Stump! MILKY WAY :: at the Brewery, 284 Armory St, Jamaica Plain :: 8 pm :: Stump! PIZZERIA REGINA ALLSTON :: 353 Cambridge St, Allston :: 8 pm :: Geeks Who Drink TOMMY DOYLE’S AT HARVARD :: 96 Winthrop St, Cambridge :: 8 pm :: Geeks Who Drink
SPIRIT BAR :: 2046 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 8 pm :: Stump! TAVERN IN THE SQUARE :: 161 Brighton Ave, Allston :: 8 pm :: Geeks Who Drink TOMMY DOYLE’S AT HARVARD :: 96 Winthrop St, Cambridge :: 8 pm :: Stump! TOMMY DOYLE’S KENDALL :: 1 Kendall Square, Cambridge :: 6:30 pm :: Geeks Who Drink
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BRIGHTON BEER GARDEN :: 386 Market St, Brighton :: 8 pm :: Stump! DRUID :: 1357 Cambridge St, Cambridge :: 8 pm :: Druid Trivia Night JEANIE JOHNSTON PUB :: 144 South St, Jamaica Plain :: 8:30 pm :: Stump! JOE SENT ME :: 2388 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 7:30 pm :: Geeks Who Drink KINSALE :: 2 Center Plaza, Boston :: 7 pm :: Stump! PHOENIX LANDING :: 512 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 7:30 pm :: Geeks Who Drink
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SPIRIT BAR :: 2046 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 8 pm :: Geeks Who Drink
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AN TUA NUA :: 835 Beacon St, Boston :: 7:30 pm :: Geeks Who Drink COMMON GROUND :: 85 Harvard Ave, Allston :: 8 pm :: Geeks Who Drink GREATEST BAR :: 262 Friend St, Boston :: 8 pm :: “Friendly Feud” JOE SENT ME :: 2388 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge :: 7:30 pm :: Stump! SPIRIT BAR :: 2046 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: LIVING ROOM :: 101 Atlantic Ave, Boston :: 8 pm :: Geeks Who Drink 8 pm :: Trivia Night SWEET CAROLINE’S RESTAURANT & BAR :: 1260 Boylston St, Boston :: 8 pm :: Geeks Who Drink TRIDENT BOOKSELLERS & CAFÉ :: SWEETWATER CAFÉ :: 3 Boylston Place, 338 Newbury St, Boston :: 8 pm :: Trident :: “Medulla Oblongata” Trivia Nighthalf new PHX_Scullers half newBoston Scullers Phoenix 9/7/12 4:13 PM Page 1
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Honky-tonk Heroes WHen Henry Horenstein began photographing Boston’s seedy Hillbilly Ranch tavern, New Hampshire’s Lone Star Ranch country-music park, and the legendary Ryman Auditorium and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in the early 1970s, he came for the music. But he also “saw all this as a disappearing world that I wanted to preserve on film,” the Bostonian wrote in 2003. The black-and-white shots in his show “Honky Tonk” suggest he was partly right, partly wrong. Here are stars: Dolly Parton, with her big hair and bigger bosom, in a poufy dress backstage at Boston’s Symphony Hall in 1972. She’d just begun to score solo hits, and she looks like a doe in the headlights. Here is Waylon Jennings with a cigarette in his mouth and a guitar in his hand, backstage in Cambridge in 1975, looking like the kind of guy who could hang out with the Devil at the crossroads. Here is a smoldering Jerry Lee Lewis with his slickedback wavy hair, sitting at a piano at Boston’s Ramada Inn in 1976, lighting a cigar. But Horenstein also photographs the audience — a fellow perched on a Nashville barstool playing a harmonica, a weathered man in a cowboy hat lighting
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a cigarette in the Hillbilly Ranch’s darkness, people crowding around the tour bus of Ernest Tubb among the sunny trees of the Lone Star Ranch. It’s hard knocks and booze, sin and redemption and gritty good times. The transition Horenstein witnessed was the fading of this world — many of the bars shuttered and the country-music parks dried up, while the Grand Ole Opry grew bigger, more manicured. But country music didn’t disappear. Alongside Bob Dylan, James Taylor, and the hippie folk and blues revival, it got prettied up and went mainstream. Hee Haw debuted on TV in 1969. By 1977, Parton was on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson joking about her, ahem, healthy body. Over the past decade, country has dominated American Idol and claimed to be the most patriotic music going. But there was a tradeoff, as Horenstein tells me, “more and more generic.” Old photos are always interesting as time capsules. So although Horenstein’s artistry is quite good, his pictures get an extra boost from being three decades old, and from nostalgia for a time when country meant smaller, more local, more down-home. _greg Cook Read Greg Cook’s blog at gregcookland.com/journal.
“Honky tonk” :: Carroll and Sons gallery :: 450 Harrison Ave, Boston :: through october 20
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Since 2007, Rhona Bitner has traveled across the country photographing the hallowed halls of rock and roll — from drums and mics set up in the Electric Lady Studios that Jimi Hendrix built in New York to LA’s Whisky A Go Go, where the Doors were once the house band. The New York– and Parisbased photographer’s “Images from the Series ‘Listen’ ” features seven of the more than 200 venues she’s documented. She photographs the joints empty, deadpan style. The stage at Randy’s Rodeo in San Antonio is just one more dull shithole, but here’s where the Sex Pistols played their infamous 1978 concert. Sid Vicious called the disagreeable crowd of Texans “faggots” and then bashed those who objected with his bass guitar. In other words, the photos are okay, but the backstories are platinum. One photo stands out: Detroit’s “Images Grande Ballroom from the (below). You serIes may or may ‘LIsten’ ” not know Howard yezerski that this was Gallery, 460 where the Harrison Ave, MC5 and Boston Stooges through defined Mooctober 23 tor City rock. Once an ornate dancehall, the site has a fallen-in ceiling and a floor in shambles. Detroit is sick of the rest of us focusing on the bad news, but how can you not be astonished by such magnificent ruins? _gC
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AXELLE FINE ARTS :: 617.450.0700 :: 91 Newbury St, Boston :: axelle.com :: Daily 10 am-6 pm :: Sept 22-Oct 22: Laurent Hours :: Reception Sept 22: 6-8 pm CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY :: 617.495.3251 :: 24 Quincy St, Cambridge :: ves.fas.harvard.edu :: MonFri 10 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun 1 pm-5 pm :: Sept 27-Nov 4: Matt Saunders: “The movies that were secret remain secret somehow and a nation forgets its pleasures.” :: Reception Sept 27: 5:30-6:30 pm GALLERY 55 :: 508.740.0260 :: 55 South Main St, Natick :: gallery55.com :: Tues-Fri 9:30 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-4 pm :: Sept 27-Oct 7: Richard Powers: “Seen and Unseen” :: Reception Sept 27: 5-7 pm
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ART INSTITUTE OF BOSTON :: 617.585.6600 :: 700 Beacon St, Boston :: aiboston.edu :: Tues-Wed + Fri noon-5 pm; Thurs 3-8 pm; Sat noon-5 pm :: Through Oct 21: “In Depth: Contemporary Letterpress” BRICKBOTTOM GALLERY :: 617.776.3410 :: 1 Fitchburg St, Somerville :: brickbottomartists.com :: Thurs-Sat noon–5 pm :: Through Oct 20: “From Paper to Production; Artists of Wheelock Family Theatre” BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER :: 617.566.5615 :: 86 Monmouth St, Brookline :: brooklineartscenter.com :: Mon-Fri 9 am– 4:30 pm :: Through Oct 10: Lois Swirnoff: “Natura Viva: Visions of the Muddy River” CAMBRIDGE MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER :: 617.577.1400 :: 41 Second St, Cambridge :: cmacusa.org :: Mon-Fri 10:30 am-6 pm :: Through Dec 14: Martin Karplus: “South and Central American Kodachromes of the 1960s” :: Through Dec 26: Sylvia Stagg-Giuliano: “Transit of Venus” DISTILLERY GALLERY :: 978.270.1904 :: 516 East Second St, Boston :: distilleryboston.com :: Mon-Sat 9 am-5 pm :: Through Oct 26: “Elsewhere” GALLERY AT ATLANTIC WHARF :: :: 290 Congress St, Boston :: bostoncyberarts. org :: Daily 7 am-10 pm :: Through Oct 26: “Play Ball!” GALLERY AT THE PIANO FACTORY :: 617.817.6600 :: 791 Tremont St, Boston :: galleryatthepianofactory.org :: Fri 6-8 pm; Sat-Sun noon-5 pm :: Through Sept 30: “2012 Annual Group Show” SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS :: 617.267.6100 :: 230 The Fenway, Boston :: smfa.edu/gallery :: Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Thurs 10 am-8 pm :: Through Sept 28: “Grad Student Curatorial Team Show” :: Through Nov 3: “Something Along Those Lines” SHERMAN GALLERY AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY :: 617.358.0295 :: 775 Comm Ave, Boston :: bu.edu/cfa :: Tues-Fri 11 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm :: Through Oct 28: Colbert Mashile: “Not Yet” :: Reception Sept 20: 5:30-7 pm SPOKE GALLERY :: 617.268.6700 :: 110 K St, Boston :: mwponline.org :: Wed-Fri noon-5 pm :: Sept 22-Nov 14: “Terrain” :: Reception Sept 22: 5-7 pm STUDIOS AT PORTER MILL :: :: 95 Rantoul St, Beverly :: studiosatportermill. blogspot.com :: Wed-Fri 5-7 pm; SatSun noon-4 pm :: Through Sept 28:
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Raúl González III’s The Shape of Your Path is on view at Spoke Gallery, September 22– November 14. Lynda Schlosberg and Mary O’Malley: “Spontaneous Order” TRUSTMAN ART GALLERY AT SIMMONS COLLEGE :: 617.521.2268 :: 300 the Fenway, Boston :: simmons.edu/ trustman :: Mon-Fri 10 am-4:30 pm :: Through Oct 4: Nona Hershey: “Rewired”
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ARNHEIM GALLERY AT MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN :: 617.879.7166 :: 621 Huntington Ave, Boston :: massart. edu :: Mon-Tues + Thurs-Sat noon-6 pm; Wed noon-8 pm :: Through Sept 22: Stella Aguirre McGregor: “The Urbano Project” ARTWORKS! COMMUNITY GALLERY :: 508.984.1588 :: 384 Acushnet Ave, New Bedford :: artworksforyou.org :: Mon-Sat 9 am-5 pm :: Through Sept 27: Denise Sokolsky, JoAnna Hickman, Jessica Heikes, Jodi Stevens, and Mikelle Lindsey: “Release Reaction Result”
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CAHOON MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART :: 508.428.7581 :: 4676 Falmouth Rd, Cotuit :: cahoonmuseum.org :: Tues-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun 1-4 pm :: Admission $8; $7 seniors; $6 students :: Through Oct 28: John Thomas Grant: “Final Thoughts: Eternal Beauty in Stone” :: Through Nov 4: “All Hallows’ Eve: Symbols of Halloween” CHARLES RIVER MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY AND INNOVATION :: 781.893.5410 :: 154 Moody St, Waltham :: crmi.org :: Thurs-Sun 10 am-5 pm ::
Admission $7; $5 students, seniors :: Through Jan 15: Wayne Strattman: “Self Illumination” CONCORD MUSEUM :: 978.369.9763 :: 200 Lexington Rd, Concord :: concordmuseum.org :: Mon-Sat 9 am-5 pm; Sun noon-5 pm :: Through Sept 23: Annie Leibovitz: “Pilgrimage” DANFORTH MUSEUM OF ART :: 508.620.0050 :: 123 Union Ave, Framingham :: danforthmuseum.org :: Wed-Thurs + Sun noon-5 pm; Fri-Sat 10 am-5 pm :: Admission $11; $9 seniors; $8 students; free to youth under 17 :: Through Nov 4: Catherine Kernan: “Caught in the Current” :: Through Nov 4: “Cruel Sea: Law of the Fishes” :: Elizabeth Awalt: “Cascade and Other Work” :: Jand Lund: “Home Body” :: Jane Goldman: “Tidal Pools” :: “Picture This!” :: Susan Heideman: “Proteanna” :: Thaddeus Beal, Ilana Manolson, Adrienne Der Marderosian, and Rhonda Smith: “Fragile Navigation” DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE :: 781.283.3382 :: 106 Central St, Wellesley :: davismuseum.wellesley.edu :: Tues-Sat 11 am-5 pm; Wed 11 am-8 pm; Sun noon-4 pm :: Free admission :: Through Dec 16: “A Generous Medium: Photography at Wellesley, 1972-2012” DECORDOVA SCULPTURE PARK AND MUSEUM :: 781.259.8355 :: 51 Sandy Pond Rd, Lincoln :: decordova.org :: TuesSun 10 am-5 pm :: Admission $14; $12 seniors; $10 students and youth ages 13 and up; free to children under 12 :: Through Dec 30: Jean Shin and Brian Ripel: “Retreat” :: Through Dec 30: Julianne Swartz: “How Deep is Your” :: Through April 21: “Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now”
ERIC CARLE MUSEUM OF PICTURE BOOK ART :: 413.658.1100 :: 125 West Bay Rd, Amherst :: carlemuseum.org :: Mon-Fri 10 am–4 pm; Sat 10 am–5 pm; Sun noon–5 pm :: $7; $5 students :: Through Oct 14: “The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats” :: Through Nov 25: “Our British Cousins: The Magical Art of Maisy and Friends” FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM :: 508.588.6000 :: 455 Oak St, Brockton :: fullermuseum.org :: Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm; Wed 10 am-9 pm :: Admission $8; $5 students, seniors; free for members and children under 12, and for all Wed 5-9 pm :: Through Oct 7: “Iron Twenty Ten” :: Through Nov 4: “A Taste for Spoons from the Collection of Nora and Norman Stevens” HARVARD ART MUSEUMS :: 617.495.9400 :: 485 Broadway, Cambridge :: harvardartmuseums.org :: Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm :: Admission $9; $7 seniors; $6 students :: Through Sept 29: “Recent Acquisitions, Part II: Building the Collection” INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART :: 617.478.3100 :: 100 Northern Ave, Boston :: icaboston.org :: Tues-Wed + SatSun 10 am–5 pm; Thurs-Fri 10 am–9 pm :: Admission $15; $10 students, seniors; free for ages under 17; free after 5 pm on Thurs :: Through Oct 14: Josiah McElheny: “Some Pictures of the Infinite” :: Through Nov 25: Dianna Molzan :: Through Nov 25: Os Gêmeos ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM :: 617.566.1401 :: 280 the Fenway, Boston :: gardnermuseum.org :: Wed-Mon 11 am-5 pm :: Admission $15; $12 seniors; $5 students with ID; free for ages under 18 :: Through Jan 7: “The Great Bare Mat & Constellation” MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART :: 413.662.2111 :: 87 Marshall St, North Adams :: massmoca. org :: Wed-Mon 11 am–5 pm :: Admission $15; $11 students; $5 ages 6-16; free for ages 5 and under :: Through Oct 30: Sanford Biggers: “The Cartographer’s Conundrum” :: Through Nov 4: Michael Oatman: “All Utopias Fell” :: Through Nov 5: Anna Betbeze :: Through Jan 2: “Making Room: The Space Between Two and Three Dimensions” :: Through Feb 4: “Invisible Cities” :: Through April 1: “Oh, Canada” MCMULLEN MUSEUM OF ART AT BOSTON COLLEGE :: 617.552.8100 :: 140 Comm Ave, Chestnut Hill :: bc.edu/ artmuseum :: Mon-Fri 11 am-4 pm; Sat-Sun noon-5 pm :: Free admission :: Through Dec 9: Paul Klee: “Philosophical Vision; From Nature to Art” MEAD ART MUSEUM AT AMHERST COLLEGE :: 413.542.2335 :: 100 Boltwood Ave, Amherst :: amherst.edu/museums/ mead :: Tues-Sun 9 am-5 pm :: Through Dec 30: “Re-Inventing Tokyo: Japan’s Largest City in the Artistic Imagination” MIT MUSEUM :: 617.253.4444 :: 265 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: web.mit.edu/museum :: Tues-Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun noon-5 pm :: Through Sept 28: “The Jeweled Net: Views of Contemporary Holography” :: Through Dec 31: Berenice Abbott: “Photography and Science: An Essential Unity” MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY :: 617.720.2991 :: 46 Joy St, Boston :: maah.org :: Mon-Sat 10 am-4 pm :: Admission $5; $3 seniors and 13-17 years; free for 12 and under :: Through Oct 31: “The Color of Baseball in Boston: The History of Black Teams, the Players, and a Sporting Community” MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS :: 617.267.9300 :: 465 Huntington Ave, Boston :: mfa.org :: Mon-Tues + Sat-Sun 10 am-4:45 pm; Wed-Fri 10 am-9:45 pm :: Admission
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<< GALLERIES from p 110 $22; $20 students, seniors; free for ages 7-17 and under during non-school hours [otherwise $10]; free for ages 6 and under :: Through Sept 23: “An Unspoken Dialogue with Japanese Tea” :: Through Sept 30: “The Invention of Fantasy: EighteenthCentury Venice” :: Through Oct 21: “Seeking Shambhala” :: Through Oct 28: “Manet in Black” :: Through Dec 31: Edward Weston: “Leaves of Grass” :: Through Dec 31: “The Allure of Japan” :: Through Jan 6: Ori Gersht: “History Repeating” :: Through Feb 18: “Cats to Crickets: Pets in Japan’s Floating World” :: Through July 7: “Art of the White Mountains” :: Through June 1: “Jewels, Gems, and Treasures: Ancient to Modern” NEWPORT ART MUSEUM :: 401.848.8200 :: 76 Bellevue Ave, Newport,
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RI :: newportartmuseum.org :: Tues-Sat 11 am-4 pm; Sun 12-4 pm :: Admission $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 students and military personnel with ID; free for children 5 and under :: Through Nov 4: Didi Suydam: “Presence” :: Sept 22-Jan 13: “Image and Innovation: 100 Years of Photography from the Permanent Collection” :: Sept 22-Jan 13: Recasting the Loving Cup: From Traditional Silver to Contemporary Media” NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM :: 413.298.4100 :: 9 Rte 183, Stockbridge :: nrm.org :: Daily 10 am–5 pm, through Oct. After Nov, 10 am-4 pm; weekends 10 am- 5 pm :: Admission $15; $13.50 seniors; $10 students with ID; free for ages 18 and under when accompanied by an adult :: Through Oct 28: Howard Pyle: “American Master Rediscovered” :: Through Oct 28: Norman Rockwell: “Sports!”
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM :: 978.745.9500 :: 161 Essex St, Salem :: pem. org :: Tues-Sun and Mon holidays 10 am-5 pm :: Admission $15; $13 seniors; $11 students; free for ages 16 and under :: Through Oct 8: Ansel Adams: “At the Water’s Edge” :: Through Jan 31: “Auspicious Wishes and Natural Beauty in Korean Art” :: Through Jan 31: “Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China” :: Through Jan 31: “Of Gods and Mortals, Traditional Art from India” :: Through Jan 31: “Perfect Imbalance, Exploring Chinese Aesthetics” :: Through Feb 3: “FreePort [No. 004]: Peter Hutton” :: Through Feb 3: “Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones” :: Through May 27: “FreePort [No. 005]: Michael Lin” :: Through May 27: “Natural Histories: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth”
PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM :: 508.487.1750 :: 460 Commercial St, Provincetown :: paam.org :: Mon-Thurs11 am-8 pm; Fri 11 am-10 pm; Sat-Sun 11 am-5 pm through Sept. Beginning in Oct, Thurs-Sun noon-5 pm and by appointment. :: Admission $5; free for children under 13, and on Fri evenings :: Through Sept 30: Robert Motherwell: “Beside the Sea” RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN MUSEUM OF ART :: 401.454.6500 :: 224 Benefit St, Providence, RI :: risdmuseum. org :: Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm; third Thurs per month until 9 pm :: Admission $10; $7 seniors; $3 college students and youth ages 5-18; free every Sun 10 am–1 pm, the third Thurs of each month 5-9 pm, and the last Sat of the month :: Through Oct 21: Dan Walsh: “UnCommon Ground” :: Through Nov 4: Wendy Richmond: “Navigating the Personal Bubble” :: Through Nov 11: “Designing Traditions Biennial: Student Explorations in the Asian Textile Collection” :: Through Dec 2: “The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Rhode Island” :: Through Feb 24: “Everyday Things: Contemporary Works from the Collection” :: Sept 21-Jan 13: “America In View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now” ROSE ART MUSEUM AT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY :: 781.736.3434 :: 415 South St, Waltham :: brandeis.edu/rose :: Tues-Sun noon-5 pm :: Admission $3 :: Through Dec 9: Dor Guez: “100 Steps to the Mediterranean” STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE :: 413.458.2303 :: 225 South St, Williamstown :: clarkart.edu :: TuesSun 10 am-5 pm :: Through Oct 31, admission $15, free to youth 18 and under. Beginning Nov 1, the institute is open free to the public. :: Through Oct 21: “Unearthed: Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China” :: Through Jan 1: “Clark Remix” WEST END MUSEUM :: 617.723.2125 :: 150 Staniford St, Boston :: thewestendmuseum.org :: Tues-Fri noon-5 pm; Sat 11 am-4 pm :: Through Sept 26: “War of 1812: A Nation Forged by War” WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART :: 413.597.2429 :: 15 Lawrence Hall Dr, Williamstown :: wcma.org :: Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 1-5 pm :: Through Oct 21: “Power Runs in Many Channels: Diversity of Nigerian Art” :: Through Nov 25: Laylah Ali: “The Greenheads Series” :: Through Dec 30: “Room for Reflection” WORCESTER ART MUSEUM :: 508.799.4406 :: 55 Salisbury St, Worcester :: worcesterart.org :: Wed-Fri + Sun 11 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm; Third Thursday 11 am8 pm :: Admission $14, $12 for seniors and students. Free for youth 17 and under and for all on first Sat of the month, 10 am-noon :: Through Nov 30: “Pilgrimage to Hokusai’s Waterfalls”
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Pulitzer alum and MIT prof Junot Díaz’s new book, This Is How You Lose Her, follows his alter ego Yunior to Boston, where he gets yelled at by racists and rejected by women. I called Díaz up to ask if the city is as bad as all that. (Answer: kind of.)
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DANIEL KANSTROOM :: Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora reading :: 3 pm :: Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.661.1515 or harvard.com GENE ROBINSON :: God Believes in Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage reading and discussion :: 6 pm :: Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge :: $5 :: 617.876.6837 MAGGIE STIEFVATER :: The Raven Boys reading :: 10 am :: Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.489.0519 or harvard.bkstore.com SAMAR YAZBEK :: A Woman in the Crossfire reading :: 1:30 pm :: Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.489.0519 or harvard.bkstore.com DAVE ZELTSERMAN :: Monster reading :: 7 pm :: Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.489.0519 or harvard.bkstore.com
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HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AUTHORS: SHELLEY CARSON, JEFF BROWN, AND MARGARET MOORE :: Your Creative Brain, The Winner’s Brain, and Organize Your Mind, Organize Your Life readings and discussion :: 7 pm :: Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.489.0519 or harvard.bkstore.com NAKED GIRLS READING: THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS :: Unclothed women over 5’10” read fiction :: 11:59 pm :: Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline :: $20-$30 :: 617.734.2500 or coolidge.org
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SARAH MYERS MCGINTY :: The College Application Essay reading :: 4 pm :: Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline :: Free :: 617.566.6660 or brooklinebooksmith.com
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MICHAEL LOWENTHAL :: The Paternity Test reading :: 7 pm :: Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline
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MADELINE MILLER :: The Song of Achilles reading :: 7 pm :: Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.489.0519 or harvard.bkstore.com
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PAUL HARDING AND GREGORY SPATZ :: Tinkers and Inukshuk readings :: 7 pm :: Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St, Newton :: Free :: 617.244.6619 or newtonvillebooks.com JOHN PERRY :: The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing reading :: 7 pm :: Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.489.0519 or harvard.bkstore.com
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EDWARD B. BURGER :: The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking reading :: 7 pm :: Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $5 :: 617.661.1515 or harvard. com TY BURR :: Gods Like Us: On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame reading :: 7 pm :: Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St, Newton :: Free :: 617.244.6619 or newtonvillebooks.com JUNOT DIAZ :: This Is How You Lose Her reading :: 7:30 pm :: MIT Stata Center, 32 Vassar St, Cambridge :: free :: shass. mit.edu/calendar DON E. FINEGOLD :: The Israeli Caper reading :: 7 pm :: Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St, Boston :: Free :: 617.536.5400 or bpl.org MIKE HEPPNER AND JAY WEXLER :: An Evening of Stories :: 7 pm :: Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline :: Free :: 617.566.6660 or brooklinebooksmith. com WILLIAM MARTIN :: The Lincoln Letter reading :: 6 pm :: Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St, Boston :: Free :: 617.723.8144 or bpl.org JULIE ZAUZMER :: Conning Harvard: Adam Wheeler, the Con Artist Who Faked His Way into the Ivy League reading :: 7 pm :: Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.489.0519 or harvard.bkstore.com
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WILLIAM H. CHAFE :: Bill and Hillary: The Politics of the Personal reading :: 7 pm :: Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.661.1515 or harvard.com LUCIA GREENHOUSE :: fathermothergod: My Journey Out of Christian Science reading :: 7 pm :: Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, 25 White St, Cambridge Sepha2e4 l :: 617.491.2220 or mic thal portersquarebooks.com loweng fRom PAMELA POSTReadin erniTy FERRANTE :: Writing The PaT okline B Ro & Healing: A Mindful TesT at ith. Booksm Guide for Cancer Survivors :: Free :: 617.566.6660 or reading :: 7 pm :: Harvard brooklinebooksmith.com Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, FRANCINE MILLER :: Cashing Cambridge :: Free :: 617.489.0519 or in on Culture: Betraying the Trust harvard.bkstore.com at the Rose Art Museum reading :: 7 TY BURR :: Gods Like Us: On Movie pm :: Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, Stardom and Modern Fame reading :: 6 pm Cambridge :: Free :: 617.489.0519 or :: Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, harvard.bkstore.com Brookline :: 617.734.2500 or coolidge.org
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ASAKO TAKEUCHI, ANDREW ARCECI, AND PAUL CIENNIWA :: Selections from Johann Jacob Froberger’s Duets for violin and viola da gamba; Marin Marais’s Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris :: 12:15 pm :: First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St, Boston :: Free :: 617.267.6730 or firstchurchbostonmusic.org
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Two newcomers enTer the paradisiacal garden that will be their final resting place. Clayton, a fallen soldier, and Alice, an elderly grandmother, walk the paths of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. As they stroll past the gravesites of noted and obscure Bostonians, and past the unique statuary and exquisitely landscaped parkland, they release the burdens of their lives. We mortals, still residing in the land of the living, are led alongside them by a quartet of angelic ushers. A Glimpse Beyond is a site-specific 90-minute performance sponsored by the Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery. Lauren MacCarthy, a member of the Friends organization, had seen a similar, less complex performance at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn and immediately felt that Mount Auburn could be a setting where the public could explore images and ideas about life, death, and life beyond death, and where new collaborations among artists working in different disciplines could be born. MacCarthy contacted noted mask-maker and theater designer Eric Bornstein, who brought in choreographer Andrea Taylor-Blenis. She, in turn, contacted composer Martin Case. In time, the project grew to encompass a multicultural and multigenerational cast of professional and community dancers, actors, costume designer
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Elizabeth Rocha, a poet, and musicians who sing and play everything from violin to accordion, African djembe drums, and the bowed Bulgarian gadulka. “We’re taking the old idea of the grief walk, where people walk into their troubles and back out,” explains MacCarthy, “joining physicality with the process of working out grief.” It’s an idea with roots in many traditions that has gained some prominence in contemporary groups that support cancer patients and their families. For MacCarthy, the cemetery setting gives local artists an opportunity to be experienced against an unexpected background. Participating artists include dancers from Urbanity Dance, Prometheus Dance, and the Prometheus Elders Ensemble, members of the Cambridge Community Chorus and the Grant African Methodist Episcopal Church, poet Patricia Caspers, and many others. And though the dancers and musicians will be visible through the trees, those who join the event may also glimpse signs of wildlife and, in particular, the birds that have made this National Historic Landmark a site of pilgrimage for ornithologists. As MacCarthy explains, “It’s a cemetery that is tremendously alive.” _deBrA cAsh
A Glimpse Beyond :: september 22 :: 4-5:30 pm [rain date september 23] :: mount Auburn Cemetery, 580 mt. Auburn st, Cambridge :: $20 :: mountauburn.org/2012/glimpsebeyond
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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY ITZHAK PERLMAN :: Beethoven program: Romances Nos. 1 and 2 for violin and orchestra, with Perlman; Symphony No. 7 :: 7 pm :: Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston :: $75-$250 :: 888.266.1200 or bso.org KIMIKO ISHIZAKA :: Bach’s WellTempered Clavier, Vol. 1 :: 7:30 pm :: Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main St, Rockport :: $28-$46 :: 978.546.7391 or rcmf.org JUVENTAS :: See listing for Fri
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BOSTON BAROQUE CONDUCTED BY MARTIN PEARLMAN :: Pearlman’s Finnegans Wake for an actor and seven instrumentalists, with Adam Harvey :: 7 pm :: Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music, 27 Garden St, Cambridge :: $20-$45 :: 617.876.0956 or bostonbaroque.org BOSTON CONSERVATORY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY BRUCE HANGEN :: Overture to Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra; Beethoven’s Concerto for violin, with Joseph Silverstein; Bartók’s Concerto for orchestra :: 2 pm :: Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge :: $15 :: 617.496.2222 or bostonconservatory.edu
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JUVENTAS :: Selection of works by Andy Vores, Curtis Hughes, Lee Hyla, Mischa Salkind-Pearl, and Dominick DiOrio :: Fri 8 pm :: First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St, Boston :: Sat 8 pm :: Seully Hall, 8 the Fenway, Boston :: $15; $10 students :: 617.267.6730 or juventasmusic.com NIU NIU :: Piano recital :: 8 pm :: Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston :: $36; $30 seniors; $12 students :: 617.585.1260 or necmusic.edu
CAMBRIDGE CONCENTUS CONDUCTED BY JOSHUA RIFKIN :: Haydn program: String Quartet, Op. 77, No. 1; Mass in B-flat [Theresienmesse] :: 3 pm :: First Church, Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge :: $20 :: 617.547.2724 or cambridgeconcentus.org FREISINGER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY PETER FREISINGER :: Haydn’s Symphony No. 45 [Farewell]; Mozart’s Oboe Concerto, with Nathan Swain; Dan Shore’s Bergen Variations; Selection of French arias, with tenor Sean Lair :: 2:30 pm :: Old South Church, 645 Boylston St, Boston :: $13; $8 students :: 917.405.8580 or freisingerchamberorchestra.org JOSEPH SWENSEN AND MEMBERS OF THE CONCORD CHAMBER PLAYERS :: Prokofiev’s Sonata for two violins, Op. 56; Françaix’s Trio in C for violin, viola, and cello; Brahms’s String Quartet in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2 :: 3 pm :: Concord Academy, 166 Main St, Concord :: $33-$42; $28-$37 students, seniors :: 978.402.2200 or concordchambermusic.org NAREK ARUTYUNIAN AND SOLON GORDON :: Bernstein’s Sonata for clarinet and piano; Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsody; Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Op. 73; Zfassman’s Intermezzo; Donatoni’s Clair, for clarinet solo; Schoenfield’s Four Souvenirs, arr. Neidich :: 1:30 pm :: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 the Fenway, Boston :: $12-$27 :: 617.278.5156 or gardnermuseum.org TRUDI VAN SLYCK, SOPHIE MICHAUX, AND KAI CHING CHANG :: Nicholas Van Slyck’s Four Elegies for mezzo-soprano and piano and Sonata No. 6 for solo piano; Three songs on poems of e. e. cummings by Adam Jacob Simon :: 7 pm :: New School of Music, 25 Lowell St, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.492.8105 or cambridgemusic.org
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JOHN GIBBONS :: Works for piano by Bach, Scarlatti, Couperin, and Orlando Gibbons :: 8 pm :: Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston :: Free :: 617.585.1260 or necmusic.edu MUSIC AT EDEN’S EDGE :: Berger’s Spell; Beethoven’s String Trio in C Minor, Op. 9, No. 3; Haydn’s Flute Quartet, Op. 5, No. 2 :: 7 pm :: Peabody Institute Library, 82 Main St, Peabody :: $20; $18 seniors; $15 students :: 978.531.0100 x17 or edensedge.org
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DUNJA PECHSTEIN AND CAROLA EMRICH-FISHER :: Works for soprano and mezzo-soprano by Brahms, Delage, Schumann, and Strauss :: 5:30 pm :: Church of St. John the Evangelist, 35 Bowdoin St, Boston :: Free :: 617.227.5242 or stjev.org YUTONG SUN :: Ligeti’s Etude No. 13 [L’escalier du diable]; Schumann’s Symphonic Etude, Op. 13; Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition :: 8 pm :: Tsai Performance Center, 685 Comm Ave, Boston :: Price TBA :: 617.353.8725 or bu.edu/cfa
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BALLET FOLKLÓRICO DE MÉXICO DE AMALIA HERNÁNDEZ :: Mexican regional folk dances :: 8 pm :: Citi Performing Arts Center, 270 Tremont Street, Boston :: $40-$65 :: 617.482.9393 or worldmusic.org MASSACHUSETTS DANCE FESTIVAL :: Featuring BoSoma Dance, CHIMERAlab Dance Theatre, Contrapose Dance, Dances by Isadora, Deadfall Dance, Iranian Dance Artists, KAIROS Dance Theatre, Legacy Dance Company, Mariah Steele/Quicksilver Dance, Navarasa Dance Theater, Sokolow Now!, and more :: Sat 7 pm; Sun 3 pm :: Bowker Auditorium at UMass Amherst, 80 Campus Center Way, Amherst :: $15 per day :: massdancefestival.org
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Out Of AfghAnistAn MAtthew spAngler’s stAge AdAptAtiOn of The Kite Runner, which is in its area premiere by New Repertory Theatre (at Arsenal Center for the Arts through September 30), is so faithful to Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 bestseller that you might think the novel a religion. (And no, I don’t mean Islam.) But like the book, the theater piece is more exhilarating in its first half, which evokes the onetime lushness of Hosseini’s war-devastated homeland and chronicles the loss of his narrator’s innocence, than in its overwrought second, with its sadistic Taliban villain and serial fisticuffs. But the melodramatic turn is an inherited sin, and Elaine Vaan Hogue’s production — spare yet urgent and atmospheric — proves itself, like Hosseini’s protagonist, absolvable. Spangler’s adaptation debuted in 2009 at San José Rep, home of former New Rep honcho Rick Lombardo. Its chief allure is the retention of the novel’s narrative voice, particularly in the first act, where the adult Amir not only tells his story but enthusiastically weaves himself into the rambunctious, then devastating events of his privileged Afghan youth. A bounding, tender Nael Nacer, as the grown-up Amir, shadows his arrogant if sensitive childhood self as he
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interacts with his forceful yet withholding father Baba, his loyal Hazara servant/friend Hassan, and the neighborhood bullies. Though Paul Tate dePoo III’s set is mostly rocks and bricks and gravel, Nacer’s Amir evokes in language an enchanted world of gardens, pomegranates, and entitlement — all shattered by a betrayal Amir can neither countenance nor confess. After intermission, things get hurried as well as more lurid, but the New Rep staging hangs tough. It is here that Amir, having immigrated to California, is summoned home by family friend Rahim Khan, who offers a concrete if dangerous opportunity “to be good again.” Nacer’s anguish as Amir confronts the consequences of his past, both reparable and not, is heartrending if perhaps too frequent. Ken Baltin gives a robust performance as Baba, adamantine even when dying. The adult actor Luke Murtha is exquisitely centered yet puppyish as Hassan and later as Hassan’s orphan son. Fahim Hamid captures the surliness, ebullience, and remorse of young Amir. And the makeshift kites, when they appear, held aloft on poles, supply both color and grace. _CArOlYn ClAY
The kiTe runner :: new repertory Theatre :: Through September 30 :: Charles Mosesian Theatre at Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St, Watertown :: $28-$58 :: newrep.org
ART :: Salem Theatre Company takes on Yasmina Reza’s famous comedy about a novice art collector who purchases an expensive painting. He believes his two art-savvy friends will be impressed by the piece, but instead his acquisition triggers a huge fight between the three over what constitutes art. Eve Summer directs. :: September 22–October 13 :: Salem Theatre Company, 90 Lafayette St, Salem :: $25; $20 seniors; $10 students :: 978.790.8546 or salemtheatre.com AT EASE :: Suffolk University Theatre Department stages a documentary theatre production about the United States military experience, conceived and directed by Suffolk professor Caitlin Langstaff. :: October 5-6 :: Modern Theatre, 525 Washington St, Boston :: $10; $5 students, seniors, veterans :: 800.440.7654 or suffolk.edu A BRIGHT NEW BOISE :: David J. Miller directs this tragicomedy about a father, a son, and the Rapture, written by Samuel D. Hunter. David Lutheran, Janelle Mills, Dakota Shepard, Victor Shopov, and Zach Winston star in the Zeitgeist Stage production. :: September 28–October 20 :: Black Box Theatre at Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston :: $20-$30 :: 617.759.8836 or zeitgeiststage.com THE COMPANY WE KEEP :: The Boston Playwrights’ Theatre stages the world premiere of Jaclyn Villano’s drama about four longtime friends who reunite after spending some time apart. Their innocent lunch date spirals out of control as secrets, transgressions, and betrayals come to light. Elena Araoz directs. :: October 4-21 :: Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave, Boston :: $30; $25 seniors; $10 students :: 866.811.4111 or bu.edu/bpt THE FAKUS – A NOIR :: Centastage presents Joe Byers’s new play about trust and happenstance, set in 1957 New Jersey. Two men meet and instantly a friendship sparks between them; shortly after, a mysterious woman shows up with $100,000 and a deal to strike with the lucky pair. Joe Antoun directs. :: September 21–October 6 :: Plaza Theatre at Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston :: $21.50-$29.50 :: 617.536.5981 or centastage.org GIRLS NIGHT: THE MUSICAL :: In this traveling show by Louise Roche, the story follows a group of five middle-aged female friends out for a night of karaoke, bonding, and comic antics; the musical score includes pop hits like “Lady Marmalade,” “It’s Raining Men,” “Man I Feel Like a Woman,” “I Will Survive,” and more. :: October 4 :: Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St, Boston :: $47-$67 :: 617.248.9700 or thewilburtheatre.com THE GODDESS DIARIES :: Amy West directs this benefit production for Our Space, Inc. The show, which was created by Carol Campbell, juxtaposes a series of vignettes from different seasons of women’s lives. :: September 22-23 :: Regent Theatre, 7 Medford St, Arlington :: $25 :: 781.646.4849 or regenttheatre. com THE HOW AND THE WHY :: Daniel Gidron helms the Nora Theatre Company’s New England premiere of Sarah Treem’s drama about a generational clash between two female evolutionary biologists, one well-established in her field and one about to begin her career. :: September 27–October 21 :: Central Square Theater, 450 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $15-$45 :: 866.811.4111 or centralsquaretheater.org RAGTIME: THE MUSICAL :: Fiddlehead Theatre Company takes on the Tony-winning musical based on E. L. Doctorow’s novel, set at the turn of the 20th century, which mixes
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historical fact with sociological fiction. The show, which interweaves stories of three families (one upper-class and white, one black, and one Jewish and just off the boat), has a book by Terrence McNally and a score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens. Meg Fofonoff directs, with musical direction by Matthew Stern. :: September 28–October 7 :: Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia Rd, Dorchester :: $32-$45 :: 617.888.5365 or fiddleheadtheatre.com SEQUENCE 8 :: Shana Carroll and Sébastien Soldevila direct the French Canadian contemporary circus company Les 7 doigts de la main in their sixth and newest creation, hosted by ArtsEmerson. The piece blends theater, dance, and acrobatics to tell stories of humanity, courage, and physical limitations. :: September 27–October 7 :: Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St, Boston :: $25-$79 :: 617.824.8000 or artsemerson.org WAR VIRGIN :: Laura Cannon performs her one-woman comedy storytelling show based on her memoir of the same name, describing how her experience serving in the Iraq War “ironically catalyzed her own sexual liberation, after being religiously repressed for her entire life.” :: September 26 :: The Living Room, 101 Atlantic Ave, Boston :: $12 :: 617.723.5101 or thelivingroomboston.com WORLD OF WIRES :: Jay Scheib presents his latest sci-fi theater and multimedia fusion, based on Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 film Welt am Draht, and also inspired by the works of Professor Nick Bostrom, science-fiction writer Daniel F. Galouye, and Scheib’s personal experience with an armed robbery at a Duane Reade drugstore. :: September 21-22 :: Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave, Boston :: $25; $13 members, students :: 617.478.3100 or icaboston.org
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GOOD PEOPLE :: Johanna Day stars as single mom Margie Walsh, who has just been let go from yet another job and now must find a new way to make ends meet in David Lindsay-Abaire’s contemporary tragicomedy about family and the recession. Kate Whoriskey directs the Huntington Theatre production. :: Through October 14 :: Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave, Boston :: $30-$95 :: 617.266.7900 or huntingtontheatre.org LUMBERJACKS IN LOVE :: Stoneham Theatre stages Fred Alley & James Kaplan’s new musical about five lumberjack bachelors who live 200 miles from society . . . and from women. When one of the men accidentally receives a mailorder bride, the group dynamic suddenly changes. Plus, it turns out one of the five men has been a cross-dressing woman all along. Caitlin Lowans directs, and Kelli Edwards choreographs. :: September 13-30 :: Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main St, Stoneham :: $44-$48 :: 781.279.2200 or stonehamtheatre.org MARIE ANTOINETTE :: Dramatist David Adjmi’s new play, in a world premiere copresented by American Repertory Theater and Yale Repertory Theatre, focuses on that well-known representative of the one percent, the Austrian-born child bride of Louis XVI. Marie Antoinette is a mash-up of satire and sympathy, techno and classical, splendor and ash, at the center of which is the famously ice-cream-coiffed proponent of cake (feistily rendered by Brooke Bloom). It’s a wild ride toward the chopping block in which the mood darkens as both Marie’s hairdo and her bubble deflate. Adjmi,
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Spiro Veloudos is at the helm of a handsome and energetic staging of Gilbert and Sullivan’s popular 1885 account of love and near-death in Titipu. The cast of the operetta (with one exception, and he was ailing at the opening performance) is in glorious voice, especially Erica Spyres as a yummy Yum-Yum, Davron S. Monroe as a laid-back Nanki-Poo, and Leigh Barrett as a flame-haired sorceress of a Katisha. Of course, much of The Mikado’s wit lies in its draping of Victorian English politics in Japanese clothing. Among the Lyric’s mischievous additions to this one is some American-election-year referencing, which includes new and quite workable lyrics for a couple of songs. Through October 13 :: Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon St, Boston :: $27-$62 :: 617.437.7172 or lyricstage.com though he paints Louis as an abstracted boob, does not demonize Marie, whose insular upbringing did not prepare her to be anyone other than a naïve but not mean-spirited child diva, with hints of Lucille Ball and Lady Gaga. Directed by Rebecca Taichman, with bristling choreography by Karole Armitage to cover Marie’s numerous changes of dress, the staging negotiates the play’s hairpin turns among satire, low comedy, surrealism, and dark-night-of-the-soul before delivering a haunting wake-up call. :: Through September 29 :: Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge :: $25-$55 :: 617.547.8300 or americanrepertorytheater.org THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH THE HAT :: SpeakEasy Stage presents Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 2011 Tony Award-nominated comedy about an ex-con who hopes to turn his life around with a new job and a new girlfriend . . . until he finds a mysterious hat that sets him back on the path to mischief. David R. Gammons directs. :: September 14–October 13 :: Roberts Studio Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St, Boston :: $25-$52 :: 617.426.5000 or speakeasystage.com NO ROOM FOR WISHING :: Danny Bryck stars in his one-man play, which
was compiled from interviews and live recordings during the Occupation of Dewey Square in Fall 2011. Bryck plays dozens of real-life characters in this Company One staging, under Megan Sandberg-Zakian’s direction. :: September 13-October 9 :: Black Box Theatre at Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston :: $25 :: 617.933.8600 or companyone.org PARIS COMMUNE :: ArtsEmerson stages Steven Cosson and Michael Friedman’s musical depicting Europe’s first socialist revolution, which took place in 1871 among working-class Parisians. This world premiere of the production features Brooklyn-based theater company The Civilians. :: September 20-23 :: Paramount Center Mainstage, 219 Tremont St, Boston :: $25-$65 :: 617.824.8000 or artsemerson.org THE PROVINCETOWN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS THEATER FESTIVAL :: Music is this year’s festival theme, and the first show on the docket, The Glass Menagerie, sets the theme: “In memory, everything seems to happen to music.” Alabama actress Celeste Burnum stars, under Will York’s direction. David Kaplan helms The Tennessee Williams Songbook,
featuring the vocal talents of the Tonynominated Alison Fraser. Jackie Davis directs the world premiere of Gift of an Orange, a musical inspired by Williams’s short story Gift of an Apple. Davis Robinson heads up Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, a fantasy play set to virtuoso guitar music. Jef Hall-Flavin and Susan Grilli co-direct Williams’s mother-son drama Auto-da-Fé, starring Cristine McMurdo-Wallis. Fred Abrahamse’s company from Cape Town brings their production of Williams’s Kingdom of Earth to America for the first time. Nick Potenzieri helms Williams’s reality-bending tragicomedy I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays, featuring Jeremy Lawrence as The Playwright. Alessandra Ingoglia and Maria Teresa Galati present This Property is Condemned: i Blues di Tennessee Williams, a unique play that fuses four Williams shorts with live music performances. Venues include the Provincetown Theater, the High School, the Town Hall, the Wa Garden, Gifford House, VFW Hall, Surf Club, Waters Edge Cinema, and Sage. :: September 20-23 :: Provincetown Theater, 238 Bradford St., Provincetown :: $20-$600 :: 508.487.7487 or twptown.org
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September 22, 2012
Featuring Ricky Skaggs, John Scofield, Raul Midón, and Tracy Bonham. Ray Charles is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest geniuses in all of American music. His music lives at the crossroads of all the defining genres of that music: gospel, soul, country, and jazz. InspiRAYtion features performances by guest artists, faculty, and students inspired by the music of the great Ray Charles. This concert is presented as part of the Inspired by Ray symposium at Berklee, September 21 to 23. 8:15 p.m. at the Berklee Performance Center Tickets $35, $25, $15, reserved seating
Servant Life Tour at The Elms Hear the personal stories of The Elms staff, including butler Ernest Birch, cook Grace Rhodes, and maid Nellie Lynch Regoli. Learn about immigration, employment and labor disputes in the early 20th century. See third-floor living quarters, kitchens, coal cellar, & boiler room and a rooftop view of Newport. (weather permitting) Make reservations online or at any Newport Mansions ticket location.
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The MasTer — P.T. Anderson’s conTroversiAl Tour de force ToronTo — AlThough PAul ThomAs Anderson insists that all similarities are coincidental, his astounding new film The Master has riled up Scientologists. So much so that the Weinsteins added extra security to the New York premiere last Tuesday. The religious group’s annoyance is understandable. Set in the post–World War II era, the film follows the misadventures of Freddie (Joaquin Phoenix), an alcoholic, shell-shocked ex-sailor who somehow ends up on a yacht with Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the charismatic, paranoid Master of the title, founder of a religion that preaches psychic healing through regression to past lives and employs a procedure suspiciously like Dianetics. But at a press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival, Anderson insisted that he was interested more in understanding people than in exposés. “I don’t consider this to be about a cult. It’s an opportunity to tell a story. The postwar period was a time of tremendous optimism. But how can you feel great when there’s been so much death? So people want to know what happens after you die. The Master says that accessing previous lives is possible. That’s what I wrote the story around.” Freddie is one such wounded soul, and then some. In one of his first scenes, he’s shown humping a
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sand sculpture of a naked woman. Then he jerks off into the ocean. And that’s him in a good mood. When he gets riled up on the joy juice he cooks up out of paint thinner, he can get, as Anderson puts it, “unpredictable.” Both Phoenix and Hoffman put in performances that won them Golden Lions for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. They’re at their peak when their characters’ love/hate relationship comes to a head after they’re locked in adjacent cells. They rage at each other in the kind of cacophony that only actors who know the difference between passion and scenery chewing can achieve. “They’re both heavy hitters, but they’re also team players,” Anderson said about his stars. “A young actor might try to dominate, but a mature one knows when to back down. Ultimately, it’s more fun when you play together in the service of something else. As opposed to a dick-matching contest.” Speaking of heavy hitting, at one point in the jailhouse scene, Phoenix’s rampage seems about to cause him bodily harm. Anderson kept the camera rolling. “True, you do have to be concerned for your actor’s safety,” he said. “But you also have to make sure to light the scene properly.” _PeTer Keough
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s searchers all wash out from the same starting point: nothing left to lose. So begins The Master, with Joaquin Phoenix’s Freddie Quell, a post-WWII drifter back from Guam after being sectionedeight from the Navy. Fired from his job as a photographer in a genteel department store, Quell stumbles onto a yacht chartered by the Cause, a cult led by Lancaster Dodd (Philip ++++ Seymour THE MASTER Hoffman), 137 Minutes the epitome of culture kendaLL gone cracked. sQuaRe + Dodd squeezCooLidGe CoRneR es the dotty rich for funds and enlists the dispossessed for muscle, journeying, Mormonlike, from New York City across the country. But the real conflict roils between Quell and Dodd, and in these roles the two actors put in performances not seen since Peter O’Toole and Richard Burton in Becket. Phoenix is crazy-itchy mad, a simian in a suit. And Hoffman exudes the bonhomie of a cultured Svengali with a cause. And that’s not to overlook Amy Adams as Peggy Dodd, the maestro’s wife and navigator, cold steel while her husband schmoozes as the life of the party. So there’s no need to drag The Master into Scientology territory. Anderson spins the DNA of the lost with such dazzle that it doesn’t matter if it’s true or not; he gets it right about evangelical charisma, a staple of our literature and film. Anderson has achieved his mid-century epic, and in its pure 65mm sumptuousness, the great American movie. _hArlAn JAcobson
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+++ The AmbAssAdor :: Mads Cortzen is a diplomat on a mission. Representing Liberia, the Anglo interloper struts about the Central African Republic in colonialist fashion, dragging on cigarettes through an elongated holder, his Danish eyes hidden behind aviator glasses as the sun beats down on his bald pate, sweat pooling in his tight ginger beard. Frequently disparaging the Chinese as untrustworthy “because of the way they look,” he throws money at anyone who will take it — which is pretty much everyone. If Cortzen seems like a cartoon, well, that could be because he’s really journalist Mads Brugger, sort of Raoul Duke by way of Borat. Illicitly purchasing his ambassadorship, and capturing his attempts to get into the blood-diamond business on hidden cameras, he has neither the playful flamboyance of Sacha Baron Cohen nor Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo way with words. Taken as satire, this isn’t particularly funny — but then, the corruption he’s exposing is anything but a joke. :: 93m :: Brattle _brett michel
+++ dredd 3d :: Johnny Knoxville and his merry band of Jackasses were on to something when they shot their last movie in 3D; their formula of slow-motion + stereoscopic imaging was just about the greatest thing ever. What I didn’t realize is how much this equation could be improved upon by adding faces getting graphically blown apart. If this doesn’t sound like your thing, then you must be the fan of Sylvester Stallone’s misguided movie of John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra’s 2000 AD character, Judge Dredd. For the rest of you, erase your memories of Sly’s bomb with this, director
Pete Travis and writer/producer Alex Garland’s lean reboot. We follow the trials of the helmeted law enforcement officer (the faceobscuring headgear remains atop goodsport actor Karl Urban’s dome for the entire running time, as it should), who is judge, jury, and executioner in a plot that is otherwise a retread of The Raid: Redemption. But, fun as that film was, it failed to find the beauty in blood spreading across the screen. :: 98m :: Boston Common + Chestnut Hill + suburbs _brett michel + eNd oF WATCh :: Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña aren’t exactly corrupt cops in this self-important police drama, they’re just fascistic assholes. As Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala, they spout faux-philosophical one-liners like “I am the fate of a badge and a gun,” use hidden cameras to record themselves beating up criminals, and generally do everything they can to embody the spirit of Dirty Harry for the YouTube generation. Their brainless battling with a racially diverse cast of villains (who themselves are saddled with fake ethnic dialogue — try and keep track of how many times the Hispanic crew says “puto”) is only made worse by David Ayer’s incompetent direction. He begins with dashboard and “self-shot” footage by the characters, but the cinematography soon devolves into standard shaky hand-held, with flat compositions and no explanation as to where the “found footage” is even coming from. It leaves you wondering — who is filming the Gyllenhaal/Anna Kendrick love scenes? ::109 m :: Boston Common + Fenway + Chestnut Hill + suburbs _Jake mulligan ++1/2 For elleN :: Barely visible in a close-up behind the wheel of his car until the
flame from his lighter illuminates his angular profile, floundering rocker Joby Taylor (Paul Dano) promptly spins into a snow bank. It’s going to be that kind of trip. Unfortunately, writer/director So Yong Kim never brings Taylor fully into the light in her portrait of a young man/child who gets a brief taste of adult responsibility on the eve of his divorce. A deadbeat dad, Taylor is allowed to spend a couple of hours with Ellen (Shaylena Mandingo), the six-year-old daughter he’s about to cede all custodial rights to as part of the settlement. Their scenes together are the heart of the film, and Kim elicits a similarly naturalistic performance out of the non-professional actress, just as she did with the juvenile protagonists of her superior previous picture, Treeless Mountain. Mandingo’s so good, it’s a shame that Dano is his typically mannered self. :: 93m :: Brattle _brett michel ++1/2 KNuCKlebAll! :: For a film that’s centered around such a silly-looking pitch, Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg’s documentary is packed with considerable drama. Former Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield and current Mets pitcher R.A. Dicky serve as the two primary subjects — the pair evidently the last of a breed — and we’re granted a comprehensive look at their path toward eventual big-league stardom. Both encountered enough setbacks in their careers to make their stories worth our while. Neither ever set out to be “knuckleball pitchers,” being forced into that lane only after more traditional methods failed. And neither discovered immediate success with that pitch, either, meaning they withstood years of humbling journeyman plodding. Yet there’s an element of weightiness to the proceedings that doesn’t entirely hold. Like the curious inclusion of Wakefield blowing the
2003 ALCS to the Yankees, which was largely forgotten following the Sox’s 2004 miracle run. Its inclusion, along with a couple of other instances of melodrama, proves unnecessary in a pair of stories that hold up just fine by their own accord. :: 93m :: Coolidge _michael c. Walsh
1/2 resideNT evil: reTribuTioN :: Uwe Boll gets most of the scorn, but has anyone done more to destroy hope of a decent movie being made from a video game than Paul W.S. Anderson? Unlike Boll’s movies, Anderson’s have actually developed a following, which is why it’s so maddening to see fans of the Resident Evil franchise get jerked around by the producer/director, who’s once again written a starring role for his wife, Milla Jovovich. Donning her trademark black fetish-wear, zombie-fighter Alice spends the first few minutes bringing audiences up to speed on the events of the previous four pictures. She needn’t have bothered, since the movie proceeds to recycle scenes and locations from earlier installments, even bringing back deceased participants like Rain (Michelle Rodriguez) and Carlos (Oded Fehr) in this film’s creatively bankrupt excuse for a narrative: an extended, mostly slow-motion gun battle that serves solely as a set-up for, yes, another sequel. Now that’s evil. :: 95m :: Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + suburbs _brett michel ++1/2 sTeP uP To The PlATe :: It’s a corny American title for Paul Lacoste’s French documentary, Entre les Bras, about the fatherand-son chefs, Michel and Sébastien Bras, behind a Michelin three-star restaurant in the L’Aubrac region of France. Lacoste tells his
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obsessively piecing together an alchemic nouvelle cuisine dish: delicate, minimalist, extraordinarily imaginative. Is there anything here for the amateur chef? Sprinkle lime peelings onto milk-white ingredients: a verdant feast for the eye. :: 86m :: Kendall Square _gerald Peary ++1/2 Trouble WiTh The Curve :: Are we sure Clint Eastwood wasn’t in character at the RNC? In his latest role (the film is directed by Robert Lorenz), he’s on the verge of blindness and senility, and at one point even kicks an empty chair while yelling “Son of a bitch!” at it. How’s that for bad timing? Still, as professional baseball scout Gus, Clint reminds us why we cared about his opinions in the first place. He elevates surliness to an art form, and as his lawyer daughter, Amy Adams does an admirable job keeping up. Matthew Lillard’s sinister turn as a stats-obsessed young gun positions this film as the anti-Moneyball; you keep expecting Clint to bellow, “Get your damn computer off my lawn!” Unfortunately, this isn’t about the sport. It’s yet another film about stubborn repressed people teaching each other to open up — she helps him see the players and sign the deals, he convinces her to stop eating vegan and to date a character played by Justin Timblerlake. The star power helps the charm outweigh the schmaltz. 111m :: Boston Common + Fenway + suburbs _Jack mulligan ++1/2 ChiCKeN WiTh Plums :: Many filmmakers have made the transition from animation to live-action, but Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi’s new film suggests they’re better off going back to the drawing board. Although their debut (Persepolis, from Satrapi’s comics memoir) dealt with the Iranian Revolution, their latest leaves the political statements to the subtext. Though the “meaning” isn’t difficult to parse: they follow a Persian musician, Nasser, who leads a melancholic life after his first love, Iran — a woman, not the country— rejected his advances to instead marry an army general (subtle). So when his unloving wife destroys his prized violin, he decides to “wait” for death, lying in his bed until the grim reaper comes to claim
him. The many pieces — the socio-political undertones, the “life of an artist” narrative, the interspersed animated segments — never coalesce into a satisfying whole, yet the indelible images make up for the lack of harmony. Chicken with Plums is a feast for the eyes, not the soul. :: 93m :: Kendall Square _Jake mulligan
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phX piCks >> CAn’t Miss • The Passions of Werner schroeTer Little known outside Germany, the late, great auteur is celebrated in a series of his films. sept 21–oct 1 | harvard film Archive in the carpenter center, 24 Quincy st, cambridge | $9; $7 students, seniors | 617.495.4700 or hcl.harvard.edu/hfa • For EllEn >> see revieW in ‘oPening This Week’ Drama about a musician on the brink of success, and divorce. brattle Theatre, 40 brattle st, cambridge | sept 21-23; tonight @ 8 pm | $9.75; $7.75 students; $6.75 seniors | 617.876.6837 or brattlefilm.org • ThE AmbAssAdor >> see revieW in ‘oPening This Week’ The ambassador A freewheeling doc about political corruption in the Central African Republic. brattle Theatre, 40 brattle st, cambridge | sept 21-23; tonight @ 10 pm | $9.75; $7.75 students; $6.75 seniors | 617.876.6837 or brattlefilm. org fri
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++1/2 The boX :: 2009 :: First-semester social-science students would wince at the overreaching metaphors in Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly’s latest Rorschach test. The parallels between the tall tale’s namesake execution cube and Stanley Milgram’s shock apparatus are as subtle as a boner in sweatpants, and so are the cheap references to the Bible and O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi.” When 1970s Virginia suburbanites Arthur (James Marsden) and Norma (Cameron Diaz) are told by the mysterious Arlington Steward (Frank Langella) that they can earn $1 million by activating the box they’ve received (which will then remotely cause a stranger’s death), their poor judgment sends them onto a morbid choose-your-own adventure thoroughfare. The Box, though masterfully illustrated, fails to think outside one. :: 116m :: BPL: Mon
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Fenway + Fresh Pond + Somerville Theatre + Chestnut Hill + Embassy + suburbs The deATh oF mAriA mAlibrAN [der Todd er mAriA mAlibrAN] :: 1972 :: Experimental offering from German director Werner Schroeter that, despite bearing the name of a famed Spanish opera singer in the title, does not play like anything resembling a biopic. Rather, the film consists of “a series of tableaux, primarily featuring pairs of performers in static, dramatic poses.” With Magdalena Montezuma, Candy Darling, and Ingrid Caven. :: German :: 104m :: HFA: Fri +++ deTroPiA :: 2012 :: Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. :: 90m :: MFA
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++++ hAmleT :: 1948 :: Laurence Olivier made some controversial choices: he cut Fortinbras and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, turned “To be or not to be” into a voiceover, and elected to play the Dane as a mother-obsessed neurotic. But somehow all these imperfections don’t amount to much when you watch the movie. Olivier’s Hamlet, with his halo of platinum-blond hair, is a figure of wasted passion; his line readings are at once elegant and emotional, revealing soft shadings of wit, a courtly sorrow, and an almost delicate torment. With Jean Simmons as Ophelia and Eileen Herlie as Gertrude. :: b&w :: 155m :: ArtsEmerson: Sun home beFore dArK :: 1958 :: Psychological drama from director Mervyn LeRoy starring Jean Simmons as Charlotte Bronn, a wife who finds her marriage on the rocks after returning home from a year spent in a mental institution. Suspecting her husband (Dan O’Herlihy) has become romantically involved with her stepsister (Rhonda Fleming) in her absence, she slips even further into mania. :: b&w :: 136m :: South Boston Branch Library: Tues house AT The eNd oF The sTreeT :: 2012 :: Directed by Mark Tonderai, this horror-thriller stars Elisabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence as a mother and daughter who move into the house of their dreams in a small, rural town. As they’re quick to learn however, the neighborhood possesses a number of dark secrets that are poised to haunt the new inhabitants. :: 101m :: Boston Common + Fenway + suburbs ++1/2 hoPe sPriNGs :: 2012 :: Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. :: 100m :: Fresh Pond + Chestnut Hill + West Newton + Arlington Capitol + suburbs
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:: Directors Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi’s take on Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1834 novel of the same name. For this screening, Robert Humphreville will provide live piano accompaniment. :: b&w :: silent :: 144m :: HFA: Sun ++ lAWless :: 2012 :: Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. :: 116m :: Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Somerville Theatre + Embassy + suburbs liberAl ArTs :: 2012 :: Director Josh Radnor also assumes lead duties as Jesse, a newly single and bored-with-life 30-something who is invited back to his college to speak at the retirement dinner of his old professor (Richard Jenkins). It’s on his return trip that he meets and falls for Zibby (Elizabeth Olsen), a 19-year-old undergrad. :: 97m :: Kendall Square lioN KiNG :: 1994 :: Timeless animated Disney classic depicting the story of Simba, an African lion who seeks to reclaim his rightful throne from his corrupt uncle who killed his father when he was only a cub. Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff direct, and Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, and many more lend their voice work. :: 89m :: ArtsEmerson: Sat +++ liTTle WhiTe lies :: 2010 :: Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review :: French :: 154m :: Kendall Square love’s debris [PoussiÈre d’Amour] :: 1996 :: For this effort, German director Werner Schroeter invited three of his favorite opera singers — Anita Cerquetti, Martha Mödl, and Rita Gorr — to a 13th century abbey near Paris where he gave them no direction other than an aria of his choosing to work on, which they eventually performed at the end of their stay. :: French + German + Italian :: 94m :: HFA: Sat
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+++ roboT & FrANK :: 2012 :: Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. :: 89m :: West Newton ++1/2 romeo ANd JulieT :: 1967 :: Franco Zeffirelli turns Shakespeare’s tragedy into a tearjerker that’s entertaining but very schmaltzy, right down to Nino Rota’s overheated score . His sumptuous recreation of 15th-century Verona is splendid, but Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey leave much to be desired as the doomed lovers. :: 138m :: ArtsEmerson: Fri The room :: 2003 :: Tommy Wiseau wrote, directed, and stars in what’s been called “the Citizen Kane of bad movies.” Banker Johnny (Wiseau) is ga-ga over his blonde fiancée, Lisa (Juliette Danielle). But is Lisa worthy of his trust? Where does Johnny’s best friend, Mark (Greg Sostero), fit in? And Lisa’s mother, Claudette (Carolyn Minnott)? What about orphaned neighbor Denny (Philip Haldiman)? And will this truly be the worst movie you’ve ever seen? :: 99m :: Coolidge Corner: Fri midnight roseNCrANTZ & GuildeNsTerN Are deAd :: 1990 :: Gary Oldman and Tim Roth star as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two relatively minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, given lead duties here as they follow King’s orders to figure out what’s troubling Hamlet. Tom Stoppard directs this adaptation of his own absurdist stage play. :: 117m :: ArtsEmerson: Fri +++ rubY sPArKs :: 2012 :: Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. :: 104m :: Embassy
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122m :: ArtsEmerson: Sat +++ sleePWAlK WiTh me :: 2012 :: Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. :: 90m :: Kendall Square + Coolidge Corner ++++ sTAGe beAuTY :: 2004 :: Based on Jeffrey Hatcher’s stage play, Richard Eyre’s film lives up to its terrific subject: the moment in English theatrical history when women were finally permitted to act on the professional stage. Charles II (Rupert Everett) commands this revolutionary change at the urging of his working-class mistress, Nell Gwyn (Zoë Tapper). But Eyre’s focus is on Ned Kynaston (Billy Crudup), the last of the great Shakespearean female impersonators, and his dresser, Maria (Claire Danes), whose illicit duplication — born of a long-time adoration — of his celebrated performance as Desdemona, in a tavern playhouse, provokes the uproar that initiates a new era. On stage, Ned coaches Maria to play his Desdemona out of her own experience rather than just recycle his performance. He then partners her on stage, and his frightening Othello crashes through the decorum that the presence of real women in the theater has implicitly made démodé. Shakespeare practically invented psychological realism; Crudup’s Kynaston dramatizes the exciting moment when acting caught up with him. :: 110m :: ArtsEmerson: Sat
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+++ The Well diGGer’s dAuGhTer :: 2011 :: Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. :: 107m :: West Newton WellNess :: 2008 :: Thomas (Jeff Clark) has invested his entire life savings into a sales pitch for a suspect healthcare service, but things go awry when the day of the pitch arrives and he’s without any of the materials he ordered. Debut feature from director Jake Mahaffy. :: 90m :: MFA: Thurs WhAT Time is leFT :: 2012 :: Director Dakin Henderson’s study of growing old and the fears that come along with the process. For his documentary, he turned the lens on his two grandmothers in their mid-80s, one suffering from dementia, the other still sharpwitted and healthy, as they weigh the value and consequences of dependence on family. :: 64m :: MFA +1/2 The Words :: 2012 :: Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. :: 96m :: Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Chestnut Hill + Arlington Capitol + suburbs
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Wild Nothing, but they’ve stayed true to their grassroots ethos. “[Last time] we were in Boston, we played fucking Royale and then went straight from there to a house show,” Smith says. “I think that really says something that I’ve always intended to be true about the band — that we can play a big venue or a small venue. I think the house shows are more true to our roots and our spirit. And the big venue is more of our aspiration.” It’s all part of the same quest for equilibrium, one that plays out beautifully on Oshin’s 12 tracks, as Smith’s guitar-oriented songs mediate between the light and the dark, the harsh and the ethereal. “It’s important to have a balance,” says Smith. “To have yin and yang in your life.” _LIZ PELLY
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Two years ago, meTric dropped their fourth effort, Fantasies, with catchy-as-fuck compositions “Sick Muse,” “Help I’m Alive,” and “Gold Guns Girls.” It was so well received that frontwoman Emily Haines was taken aback when, upon meeting Lou Reed at a Neil Young tribute concert, the legendary troubadour took her hand and recited back the chorus to Fantasies’ “Gimme Sympathy,” which asks: “Who would you rather be/The Beatles or the Rolling Stones?” “It was kind of the best thing ever,” Haines says by phone from Detroit, the second stop on Metric’s current tour. “Something happened in my heart; it made up for a lot of bullshit. Quick on my feet, I said, ‘The Velvet Underground, of course!’, and he thought that was pretty fuckin’ clever.” Perhaps still buzzing from the career highlight, Haines had the impulse to corral Reed into the studio to lend vocals to the track “The Wanderlust,” which appears on the Canadian band’s impressive Synthetica (Metric Music International). “I was determined to achieve the feeling with that song of contrasting this unbelievably optimistic, bright-eyed idea about seeing the world captured by me in the chorus, and then having this sort of cautionary, world-weary voice saying ‘Wanderlust will carry us on,’ ” Haines says in her best Reed impression, and laughs.
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The Metal Machine Music composer refused, as Haines puts it, “to work with a digital Emily,” and the two ended up collaborating old-school — faceto-face in the studio. But instead of showcasing the union or going the Killers-with-Reed route by leading off an album with the team-up, the band bring “The Wanderlust” in as the second-to-last track on Synthetica. That’s not because it’s a bad song, but rather because it doesn’t have to sell the album, which is already stellar from start to end, with the bounce of single “Youth Without Youth,” the intensely unassuming title track, and the ridiculously infectious “Breathing Underwater.” Now five records deep, Metric have somehow managed to keep stepping it up, despite sonic tweaks or experimentation, consistently sounding invigorated and authentic. Maybe, like Haines says, it’s the band’s willingness to “bust our asses” when no one else was giving them the time of day. “I think all the breaks we didn’t get were, in fact, lessons,” she says about the lack of major-label acceptance. “They really forced us to create our own autonomous existence, which I think we always wanted, anyway. All the different ways you can go to be validated and endorsed, it just never happened for us, and maybe that was the blessing in retrospect — the things that didn’t happen.” _michaeL chrisTopher
METRIC :: The Orpheum, 1 Hamilton Place, Boston :: September 20 @ 7:30 pm :: All Ages :: $28.50 to $33.50 :: 617.482.0106 or livenation.com
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What is noise? To the ears of drummer extraordinaire Brian Chippendale, it’s a genre tag that’s been applied to Providence power-duo Lightning Bolt for their entire 18-year existence. “The label of noise on us is strange,” he explains from the van in the midst of a tour that will see the Bolt decimate the Paradise this Sunday. “Because people will say, ‘I can’t understand what’s going on, it’s just crazy noise!’, and they’re talking about a four-chord song! All through the ’90s, I saw actual noise acts — Masonna, Merzbow, that sort of thing. From day one, I’ve always looked at us as a rock band.” Hear, hear: Chippendale and bassist Brian Gibson may ply their sonic wares at mindmelting volume, wear masks, and play on the floor of even the bigLightning gest venue BoLt they tromp Paradise Rock through, all Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston in the service of playfulSeptember 23 seeming Tickets: $17 fuzz-romps underpinned by Chippendale’s devious and ingenious trap work — but at the end of the day, it’s all full-on stomping capital-R rock of the highest grade, with everything louder than everything else. “Certain bands become normal when they figure out what they want to do,” Chippendale says. “We finally started to sound like Motörhead, which is what we wanted to sound like the whole time.”
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Julia Easterlin is finally done explaining. For nearly the past 10 years, the 2011 Berklee College of Music grad and Georgia native has given a brief on-stage introduction to what she does — and how she does it — to varying audiences, from her college’s commencement ceremony to last year’s Lollapalooza in Chicago. She’ll inform the crowd that she uses a loop pedal to make a “one-person choir” by recording and replaying a vocal drone and drumbeat, then gradually builds on that to create her song. Last year, she stopped spelling it out for everyone. “I started explaining what I do nearly a decade ago,” Easterlin says from New York City, where she moved just two weeks ago. “At the time, there weren’t many people doing it in any popular sphere.” On one hand, musical audiences have grown more technologically sophisticated — and more willing to embrace a solo artist hovering over a BOSS RC-50 loop station and using nothing but a Shure SM58 vocal mic and the occasional floor tom to create a layered and textured whirlwind of sound that’s as majestic as it is experimental. On the other, artists like tUnEyArDs, Andrew Bird, and Imogen Heap have all brought vocal looping to the mainstream. “At this point, it’s more popularized,” Easterlin says. “Anytime you’ve been working on something for a while, and someone new, or someone you per-
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ceive as being new, comes along on the scene with institutional backing, well, anyone in that situation would say, ‘Shit, I’ve been doing this!’ After that initial reaction, you know at least there’s an audience for this and opportunity for a place for it to exist, as opposed to this nebulous thing that’s hard for people to categorize.” Despite the growing familiarity of her production style, Easterlin’s sound is still hard to pin down. “I grew up with Southern music and gospel and Southern folk, and all that finds its way into the music I’m making,” she says. There’s a soulful aspect to her music that’s enhanced by her background as a jazz vocalist and student of opera while in high school. Her stable of “reimagined” covers — from Mavis Staples’s “Eyes on the Prize” to Radiohead’s “There There” and “Break My Body” by the Pixies, off Berklee’s Heavy Rotation Records sampler — exhibits a continuous web-like flow of distinct atmospherics that also spotlight the strongest instrument in her minimal musical arsenal: her voice. So, naturally, Easterlin’s latest songwriting has centered around her words. This has flipped around the creative process. “When I started, I was working with a loop pedal and working from the ground up,” Easterlin says. “Of late, I’ve been working backwards, building around lyrics.” _michaEl marotta
JULIA EASTERLIN + DAD | Middle East, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: September 22 @ 7 pm :: 18+ :: $10 :: 617.864.3278 or mideastclub.com
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+++ Partisan Records » Just because Chris Porterfield recorded his debut solo record at ex-DeYarmond Edison bandmate Justin Vernon’s April Base studio in Eau Claire does not mean it will break your heart like Vernon’s mythic cabin in the woods. Thematically, it’s dense like Edison, cryptic even, but its instrumentals don’t make it their business to enchant. If you’re not already equipped and expecting to fall in love, you could easily pass by that emotional whirlpool like a ship in the night. But if a breathy, acoustic aquarium is up your alley, then take the dive and swim alongside Porterfield’s magical lyricism. Throughout the record, he vividly dramatizes his own past by ensconcing it within the folds of a bygone folk romanticism (think Dylan and Kerouac, with a battered Midwestern sincerity) and, in doing so, renders it worthy of remembering. Fictitious or not, though, it is a beautiful creature to behold. _devon S. Maloney
GRIZZLY BEAR, SHIELDS +++1/2 Warp Records » The initial moments of “Sleeping Ute” are so quintessentially Grizzly Bear, they almost have no impact — Daniel Rossen nurses jagged, staggering chords on an electric guitar likely purchased from a 12thcentury pawn shop. Then something weird happens: the sleepiness erupts into psychedelic blaxploitation soul, with huge wallops of wah-wah cascading over ominous synths and drunken drum-kit stumbles. Veckatimest, the quartet’s third studio album, was indisputably gorgeous — but that beauty was so refined, so calculated, it sometimes kept an emotional roadblock between listener and band. On the more visceral Shields, Grizzly Bear see them live get a little weirder, a little synthier, a little grizzlier. Veckatimest felt like a 50/50 Grizzly Bear + Unknown Mortal split between Rossen’s literate folk-prog and Ed Droste’s sensitive, textured Orchestra psych-pop, sequenced as a sonic tug-of-war. On Shields, they achieve a fluid synthesis: Rossen and Droste still share vocal duties, but they often tag-team the The Orpheum, 1 same track, trading off lines and writing melodies for one another’s voices. Their Hamilton Place, Boston styles coalesce so smoothly, it’s often difficult to tell where one singer-songwriter September 22 @ 8 pm, starts and the other ends. “Speak in Rounds” begins as a Droste-led exercise in All Ages, $33.50 sleek, modern restraint, with soulful vocal melodies wafting over Christopher Bear’s deadened, tribal tom-toms. Then Rossen’s shimmering acoustics strum 617.482.0106 or livenation.com in and steal the show, culminating in a fuzzy, punk-ish clatter of horns and cymbals. “Gun-shy” is a sonic marvel, with an endless supply of headphone-worthy details: Rossen and Droste trading druggy vocal lines, a psychedelic dialogue between slide guitar and synth, triangles and shakers percolating over Bear’s booming bass drum. “Looking back and forth, turn around,” Droste croons over creaking, minimalist soundscapes on piano ballad “The Hunt,” “One that makes no sense but feels good anyhow.” In a way, it’s the perfect summary of Shields’ thrilling, idiosyncratic sprawl.
R.E.M., DOCUMENT [25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION]
+++1/2 Capitol/ I.R.S. Records » Fans of R.E.M. enjoy arguing over which album was the band’s true shark-jump, but 1987’s Document was inarguably the end of a groundbreaking era. It was the Athens band’s fifth and last album for indie label I.R.S., as well as their inevitable leap from mumbled jangle-rock into full-blown arena power. For all its bigness, however, robust radio staples like “Finest Worksong” and “The One I Love” still broadcast the band’s legendary ambiguity, while “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” remains an archetype of ’80s progressive college rock. Looking back, this is truly a best-of-both-worlds record, the little-band-that-could growing into its new clothes. Reissued in a new two-disc set, Document sounds larger than ever, and includes a live show from 1987 in Utrecht, Holland — one of the first of many stadiumsized conquests the band would make over the next two-plus decades. _Zeth lundy
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the Soft Pack Strapped [Mexican Summer] Like Adrian Gonzalez (but grittier), the former San Diegans now toil in Los Angeles.
Ringo deathstarr Mauve [Sonic unyon Records] Texas shoegazers’ awesome record to back up the awesome moniker.
Mumford & Sons Babel [Glassnote] Omitted from Fall Preview; we really fucked it up this time, didn’t we?
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ANTIBALAS + DEBO BAND + UHURU AFRIKA :: 9 pm :: Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston :: $20 :: 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com ART GARFUNKEL :: Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St, Boston :: 617.248.9700 or thewilburtheatre.coM BALTIC SUN :: P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville :: 617.776.1557 BARNABY BRIGHT + GET BRAD BYRD Isted! our L + SUZIE see y ant to w BROWN :: 8 e? send gig her s to pm :: Café 939, il ta e d tings@ 939 Boylston musiclis m. St, Boston phx.co :: $10-$12 :: 617.747.6038 or ticketmaster.com/ BEATS ANTIQUE :: Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston :: 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com BEN COSGROVE + GRAND FATILLA + DAVID MAXWELL :: 7 pm :: Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge :: 617.497.0823 BLUEGRASS: THE BAND :: 7:30 pm :: Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave, Somerville :: 617.666.3589 or sallyobriensbar.com/frameset.htm DIIV + WILD NOTHING + BLONDS :: 9 pm :: Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston :: $15-$17 :: 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com ELEVATION THEORY :: Darryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen, 604 Columbus Ave, Boston :: 617.536.1100 or darrylscornerbarboston.com FACES FOR RADIO :: 10 pm :: Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com FRIENDS OF YOURS + BRAIDS :: 10 pm :: Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St, Northampton :: $10-$13 :: 413.586.8686 or iheg.com/iron_horse_main.asp FRONTIER RUCKUS + CHAMBERLIN :: 9:45 pm :: T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge :: $10 :: 617.492.2327 or ttthebears.com JEREMY PELT :: 8 pm :: Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge :: $22 :: 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com THE JOHN SCOFIELD TRIO :: 7:30 pm :: Regattabar, 1 Bennett St, Charles Hotel, Cambridge :: $35 :: 617.661.5000 or regattabarjazz.com LAETITIA SADIER + ORCA TEAM + GULLERMO SEXO :: 9 pm :: Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $12 :: 617.864.EAST or mideastclub.com/ tickets.html LIFE AND LIMB + GYPSYBLOOD + GREAT LAKES USA :: 8 pm :: O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston :: $7 :: 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com LYLE BREWER :: Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville :: 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com MAX COOPER + BALTIMORODER + JOHN BARERA :: 9 pm :: Middlesex Lounge, 315 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $5-$10 :: 617.868.MSEX or middlesexlounge.com. MELVERN TAYLOR & HIS FABULOUS MELTONES :: 7:30 pm :: Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com METRIC + HALF MOON RUN :: 7:30 pm :: Orpheum Theatre, 1 Hamilton Pl,
The dudes in ANTIBALAS didn’t just study Fela Kuti’s funk-safari afrobeat; they also borrowed his anti-capitalist agenda. Help get the riot-funk revolution popping when they team up with homegrown, Sub Pop-approved Ethiopian pop group DEBO BAND this week at the Paradise Rock Club.
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Boston :: $30-$35 :: 617.482.0650 MIKE PINTO + MICHAEL BERNIER + DON MCCLOSKEY :: 9 pm :: Milky Way, at the Brewery, 284 Armory St, Jamaica Plain :: $7 :: 617.524.3740 or milkywayjp.com MOB MUSIC :: 8 pm :: Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain :: 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com NANCY BEAUDETTE :: 7:30 pm :: Amazing Things Arts Center, 160 Hollis St, Framingham :: $5-$6 :: 508.405.2787 or amazingthings.org NATRAJ :: 8:30 pm :: Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge :: $12 :: 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com ”NEON PARTY” :: With DJ E-Marce + DJ Texas Mike :: 10 pm :: Palladium Upstairs, 261 Main St, Worcester :: $5-$10 :: 978.797.9696 or tickets.com/venue_info. cgi?vid=3802 NIGHTTIME GALLAGHER & MELLO :: 10:30 pm :: ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.864.3278 or ticketmaster.com/venue/8547 PERPETUAL GROOVE :: 8 pm :: Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston :: $15 :: 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com PETE GOLAN [WALTHAM] + GARY HEDRICK [KICKED IN THE HEAD] :: 10:30 pm :: Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com SARAH BORRELLO :: 9:30 pm :: Middle East Corner, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.864.3278 or mideastclub.com/ tickets.html SEETHER + SICK PUPPIES + KYNG + YOUNG GUNS :: 8 pm :: House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston :: $29-$39 :: 888.693.2583 SESSION AMERICANA :: 8 pm :: Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge :: $20$25 :: 617.876.6837 SKELETONWITCH + HAVOK + EARLY GRAVES + RAZORMAZE :: 9 pm :: Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston :: $12 :: 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com SOFT PYRAMIDS + VELAH + THE DYING FALLS + SINNET :: 8 pm :: Radio, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville :: $8 :: 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com/ THE SUMMER VILLAINS + SAM REID & THE RIOT ACT :: 9:30 pm :: Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com VETIVER + HERE WE GO MAGIC + BIG SEARCH :: 9 pm :: Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $10-$12 :: 617.864.EAST or mideastclub. com/tickets.html WAYNE KRANTZ TRIO + KEITH CARLOCK + NATE WOOD :: 7:30 pm :: Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville :: $25
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The upside to the Sox being in the tank? Well, there’s no chance DROPKICK MURPHYS drag out “Tessie” during their summer gig at the Pavilion. Expect only hits when Barr, Casey, and Co. make a rare non-St. Paddy’s Day stop. + UP FOR NOTHING + SPECTRE HAWK :: 8 pm :: Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain :: 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com DIRTY BLONDE :: 9 pm :: Cantab Lounge, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge.com ACARO + TOTALITY + SCALPEL + DIRTY THREE + THALIA ZEDEK :: 9 FORMLESS :: Middle East Upstairs, 472 pm :: Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $8-$10 :: 617.864. Ave, Allston :: $15-$18 :: 617.779.0140 or EAST or mideastclub.com/tickets.html ticketmaster.com ANDY MOOR + L.E.O. + GMGN :: 1 am DR. DOG + COTTON JONES :: Royale, :: Rise, 306 Stuart St, Boston :: $10-$20 :: 279 Tremont St, Boston :: 617.338.7699 or 617.423.7473 or riseclub.us/intro.shtml boweryboston.com BUXTON + NEMES + DAN DROPKICK MURPHYS + THE DEVIL BLAKESLEE + GUNFIGHT! :: 8 pm :: MAKES THREE + THE CREEPSHOW O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston :: $8 :: :: 7 pm :: Bank of America Pavilion, 290 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com Northern Ave, Boston :: $23.50-$35.50 CHILLSET + HERBAN WARFARE :: :: 617.728.1600 or ticketmaster.com/ Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, venue/8310 Boston :: $10-$12 :: 617.236.7600 or EHUD ETTUN :: 10 pm :: Lily Pad, churchofboston.com 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge :: CONOR MULROY + RE617.497.0823 E COVERY COUNCIL + FATHER OCTOPUS :: 9 mosr ! mu Ic s By YOUNG HURRICANES :: 6 pm :: Cantab Lounge Downgig pm :: All Asia, 334 Mass Ave, stairs, 738 Mass Ave, CamBrowse ue , and ven Cambridge :: 617.497.1544 or bridge :: $5 :: 617.354.2685 or day, By name at By Band ix.com/ allasiabar.com cantab-lounge.com n e thepho gs. CORIN ASHLEY QUARFISH & BIRD + JOY KILLS listin TET + RICHARD DAVIES :: SORROW :: 9 pm :: Lizard 7:30 pm :: Johnny D’s, 17 Holland Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, CamSt, Somerville :: $10 :: 617.776.2004 bridge :: 617.547.0759 or lizardor johnnyds.com loungeclub.com DANNY PEASE AND THE REGUFOUR LEGGED FAITHFUL :: 10 LATORS + DEADFISH :: 10 pm :: pm :: Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St, :: 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com Northampton :: $8-$10 :: 413.586.8686 or GIRLS , GUNS & GLORY :: 10 pm :: iheg.com/iron_horse_main.asp Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville :: DAVE FOLEY :: Burren, 247 Elm St, $12 :: 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com Somerville :: 617.776.6896 or burren.com HERRA TERRA + GHOST OCEAN + DAVID WAX MUSEUM :: 7 pm :: MELLOW BRAVO + STEPAN SLIK Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St, :: 9 pm :: Ralph’s Diner, 148 Grove St, Northampton :: $12.50-$15 :: 413.586.8686 Worcester :: 508.753.9543 or myspace. or iheg.com/iron_horse_main.asp com/ralphsdiner THE DIMWITS + BLACK CHEERS I BREAK HORSES :: 10:45 pm :: T.T. the :: 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com YAEKO MIRANDA :: 8 pm :: Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge :: $13-$15 :: 617.492.7679
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Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge :: $10 :: 617.492.2327 or ttthebears.com/ public/hot_tickets.php “ILLUMINA LIVE” WITH ALEKA + GLOWKIDS & FUSE + YOUNG LONDON + JAY K + DAMIEN PAUL :: 8 pm :: House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston :: 888.693.2583 JANE MONHEIT :: Fri-Sat 8 pm :: Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge :: $40 :: 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com LARRY FLINT & THE ROAD SCHOLARS :: 6 pm :: Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave, Somerville :: 617.666.3589 or sallyobriensbar.com/frameset.htm LEO BLANCO + JORGE GLEM + ROBERTO KOCH + VENEZUELAN ENSEMBLE :: 10 pm :: Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston :: 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com LOVE DOGS :: 9 pm :: Smoken’ Joe’s BBQ, 351 Washington St, Brighton :: $5 :: 617. 254.5227 or smokenjoesbbq.com LYNNETTE & THE LONGSHOTS :: 10:30 pm :: Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com MAJOR STARS + NATIVE CATS + POTTY MOUTH + REPORTS :: P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville :: 617.776.1557 MATTHEW PERRYMAN JONES + MATTHEW MAYFIELD + CALLAGHAN :: 8 pm :: Café 939, 939 Boylston St, Boston :: $12 :: 617.747.6038 or ticketmaster.com/ PARADISE LOST + STOLEN BABIES + DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT + KATATONIA :: 6 pm :: Palladium, 261 Main St, Worcester :: $15-$18 :: 978.797.9696 or tickets.com/venue_info. cgi?vid=3802 ROB ZOMBIE + MARILYN MANSON + J DEVIL :: 7:30 pm :: Verizon Wireless THEPHOENIX.cOm/musIc :: 09.21.12 139
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THE SHIRT LIFTERS + COCKED N’ LOADED :: Radio, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville :: 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com/ SOULPHONIC :: 9 pm :: Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge :: $10 :: 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com SPIRITUAL REZ + RAPPLESAUCE + BOOMBASNAP :: 9 pm :: Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $15 :: 617.864.EAST or mideastclub.com/ tickets.html STARS + DIAMOND RINGS + CALIFORNIA WIVES :: 9 pm :: Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston :: $25 :: 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com
www.greatscottboston.com 09.20.12 Thu CQ Presents • Skeletonwitch Havok • Early Graves Razormaze • 9pm • 18+ • $12
09.21.12 Fri
The Pill • DJs Ken & Michael V. live musical guests • Fat Creeps 10pm • 21+ • $5
09.21.12 Fri
Anderson Comedy Group • The Gas The best in local comedy and beyond 7pm • 18+ • $5
09.22.12 SaT
Bowery Boston Presents Vacationer • Little Spoon 9pm • 21+ • $10 ADV / $12 DOS
09.23.12 Sun
Vanya Records One Year Anniversary BBQ 3pm • 18+ • FREE
09.24.12 Mon
Friendly People • The Can’t Tells 9pm • 18+ • $7
09.25.12 Tue
Eye Design • Treat Yo Self Creative Industry Night featuring: The Okay Win • Speedy Ortiz earthquake party! • McWolf • 9pm • 18+ • $7
09.26.12 Wed
CQ Presents • ITAL • Laurel Halo Magic Touch • M Geddes Gengras with DJ sets by: Coralcola • 9pm • 18+ • $10 1222 CoMMonWealTh ave allSTon, Ma 02134 617-566-9014
SYM :: 9 pm :: Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave, Somerville :: $5 :: 617.666.3589 or sallyobriensbar.com/frameset.htm TRIPTYCH :: 8 pm :: Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge :: $18-$20 :: 617.492.7679 WOLFMAN CONSPIRACY + DJ SKITZ :: 10 pm :: Tommy Doyle’s at Harvard, 96 Winthrop St, Cambridge :: $5 :: 617.864.0655 or tommydoyles.com
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SATURDAY 22
THE MARCELLS :: 9 pm :: Cantab Lounge, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge.com AUDREY RYAN + WILL DAILEY :: 7 pm :: Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge :: $13-$15 :: 617.492.7679 BEATLE JUICE [BEATLES TRIBUTE] :: 9:30 pm :: Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville :: $12 :: 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com BEN HOWARD :: 8 pm :: Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston :: $20 :: 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com BOYS LIKE GIRLS + THE ALLAMERICAN REJECTS + THE READY SET :: 5:30 pm :: House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston :: $25-$35 :: 888.693.2583 CANDICE ANITRA :: 10 pm :: Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston :: 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com CELTIC THUNDER :: Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont St, Boston :: 866.348.9738 or citicenter.org CORTEZ + BLACK PYRAMID + BIRCH HILL DAM + HEAVING MASS :: 8 pm :: O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston :: $8 :: 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston. com THE DIRTY HIT + DJ SPECIAL K :: 10 pm :: Tommy Doyle’s at Harvard, 96 Winthrop St, Cambridge :: $5 :: 617.864.0655 or tommydoyles.com DJ EVAREDY + KODE 9 + MOLDY + DAMIAN SILVA :: 9:30 pm :: Good Life, 28 Kingston St, Boston :: $7-$10 :: 617.451.2622 or goodlifebar.com DRY THE RIVER + HOUNDMOUTH :: 9 pm :: Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston :: $12-$14 :: 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com ERIN HARPE & THE DELTA SWINGERS + THAT BEATLES BAND :: 4 pm :: Radio, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville :: Free :: 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion. com/ FIREBAD + THE SOUR DOO-DAHS + WHEN PARTICLES COLLIDE + HEATHER & JOHNNY :: 8 pm :: Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain :: 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com GENTLEMEN HALL :: 10 pm ::
When he’s not helping his friend Nick Cave score gore-soaked Westerns (such as this summer’s Lawless), anarchic violinist Warren Ellis leads the savage trio DIRTY THREE, who are back in vicious form at Brighton Music Hall. Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St, Northampton :: $10-$13 :: 413.586.8686 or iheg.com/iron_horse_main.asp GORDON WEBSTER + MESCHIYA LAKE :: Crosby Whistle Stop, 24 Roland St, Charlestown :: bostonswingcentral.org GOTYE + MISSY HIGGINS + JONTI :: 7:30 pm :: Bank of America Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave, Boston :: $34.50-$40 :: 617.728.1600 or ticketmaster.com/ venue/8310 GRIZZLY BEAR :: 8 pm :: Orpheum Theatre, 1 Hamilton Pl, Boston :: $33.50 :: 617.482.0650 INDIGNATION + WOLFBANE + MY NEW DISASTER + SHADOW THERAPY + JOE MARAIO & THE
WHYTE TRASH ALL STARS :: 7 pm :: Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $10 :: 617.864.EAST or mideastclub.com/tickets.html “INSPIRAYTION: A TRIBUTE TO RAY CHARLES” :: 8 pm :: Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass Ave, Boston :: $15-$35 :: 617.266.7455 I WAS AWAKE + ECHOES OF PETRA + LORE CITY :: 7:30 pm :: Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston :: $10 :: 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com “JOAN JETT BIRTHDAY BASH” :: Radio, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville :: $10 :: 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com/ JOHN POWHIDA & INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT + AMY CORREIA BAND
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+ FIREKING :: 9 pm :: Lizard Lounge, ZZ WARD + ZACH HECKENDORF :: 8 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.547.0759 pm :: Café 939, 939 Boylston St, Boston :: or lizardloungeclub.com $12 :: 617.747.6038 or ticketmaster.com/ “JOHN ZEGAROWSKI’S (OF THE RADICALS) BIRTHDAY SHOW!!!” :: Morgan Knockers + The Radicals + The AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER + WILL Rare Characters + the Down and Outs + DAILEY & NEMES :: 7 pm :: Bull Run, RF30 :: 4 pm :: Midway Café, 3496 WashRte 2A, Shirley :: $15-$20 :: 978.425.4311 ington St, Jamaica Plain :: 617.524.9038 or or bullrunrestaurant.com midwaycafe.com BEN LEVIN AND THE TRAVELER + JOSH LEDERMAN & CSARS :: 4 pm :: SARAH FYLAK :: 8 pm :: Midway Café, Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain :: :: 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com JULIA EASTERLIN + DAD :: 7 pm BEN POWELL + TADATAKA UNNO + :: Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, AARON DARRELL + DEVIN DROBKA Cambridge :: $10 :: 617.864.EAST or mid:: 5 pm :: Shalin Liu Performance Ceneastclub.com/tickets.html ter, 37 Main St, Rockport :: $15-$28 :: KOMBUCHA :: 8 pm :: Lily Pad, 1353 978.546.7391 or rcmf.org Cambridge St, Cambridge :: 617.497.0823 BLOOD RED SHOES + DZ DEATHMARS :: 9 pm :: Sally O’Brien’s, 335 RAYS :: 9 pm :: T.T. the Bear’s Place, Somerville Ave, Somerville :: $5 :: 10 Brookline St, Cambridge :: $10 :: 617.666.3589 or sallyobriensbar.com/ 617.492.2327 or ttthebears.com/public/ frameset.htm hot_tickets.php MIKE DUKE & THE SOUL TWISTCATALION :: 8 pm :: Church of BosERS :: 9 pm :: Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, ton, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston :: $8 :: Cambridge :: $10 :: 617.876.9330 or ryles617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com jazz.com COLD CHOCOLATE :: 9 pm :: Toad, 1920 THE MILK CARTON KIDS + BRENMass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.497.4950 or DAN HINES :: 7 pm :: Iron Horse Mutoadcambridge.com sic Hall, 20 Center St, Northampton :: DAVID BYRNE + ST. VINCENT :: 7:30 $12.50-$15 :: 413.586.8686 or iheg.com/ pm :: Orpheum Theatre, 1 Hamilton Pl, iron_horse_main.asp Boston :: $39.50-$59.50 :: 617.482.0650 MISSER + DIAMOND YOUTH + ERIC JOHNSON + WILL LEE + ANYOUNG STATUES + RESCUER + ALTON FIG :: 8 pm :: Wilbur Theatre, 246 AN DAY :: 1 pm :: Middle East Upstairs, Tremont St, Boston :: 617.248.9700 or 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $10 :: 617.864. thewilburtheatre.com/?content=events EAST or mideastclub.com/tickets.html FRANK MOREY BAND :: 10:30 pm :: ”OCCUPY LAWRENCE 1912: AN EVEPlough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge NING OF FOLK MUSIC AND HISTORY” :: 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com :: Charlie King + Karen Brandow + Chris GOLDEN BOYS + FLETCHER C. Nauman + Kenny Selcer :: 7 pm :: ArlingJOHNSON + LOVE-UP TIME + THE ton Center for the Arts, 41 Foster St, ArRESIDUALS :: 8 pm :: Radio, 379 Somerlington :: $10 :: 781.648.6220 or acarts.org ville Ave, Somerville :: $10 :: 617.764.0005 PATRICK WOLF :: Royale, 279 Tremont or radiobarunion.com/ St, Boston :: 617.338.7699 or bowerybosJIM COYLE & THE BARROOM GENton.com TLEMEN :: 8 pm :: Sally O’Brien’s, 335 PATSY HAMEL BAND :: 6 pm :: Sally Somerville Ave, Somerville :: 617.666.3589 O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave, Somerville or sallyobriensbar.com/frameset.htm :: 617.666.3589 JOE HUNT QUARTET :: 9 pm :: Lily ROSS LIVERMORE + COMANCHEPad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge :: RO :: 7:30 pm :: Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, 617.497.0823 Cambridge :: 617.497.4950 or toadcamLIGHTNING BOLT :: 8 pm :: Paradise bridge.com Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston ”SCHOOL OF ROCK: TRIB:: $12 :: 617.562.8800 or ticketUTE TO HAIR METAL” :: 4 master.com pm :: Johnny D’s, 17 Holly i a d MISSY HIGGINS + BUTland St, Somerville :: $12 :: Ix! f Ic s u m TERFLY BOUCHER :: 7 617.776.2004 or johnnyds. Follow m/ pm :: Iron Horse Music Hall, com ix.co ephoen load. h t 20 Center St, Northampton SEAN PRICE :: 9:30 pm :: wn nthedo eviews, o :: $20-$25 :: 413.586.8686 or Middle East Upstairs, 472 s, r For new d more iheg.com/iron_horse_main.asp Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $15mp3s, an MOONSORROW + TYR + $20 :: 617.864.EAST or midMETSATOLL + FOREVERS’ eastclub.com/tickets.html FALLEN GRACE + WILDESOLSTICE CIRCUS :: 8 pm :: RUN + KORPIKLAANI :: 6:30 pm Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cam:: Palladium Upstairs, 261 Main St, bridge :: 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars. Worcester :: $22-$25 :: 978.797.9696 or com tickets.com/venue_info.cgi?vid=3802 THE TITANICS + BANDITAS + BIG THE NATURAL WONDERS :: 5 pm :: DIGITS + THE WHITE PAGES :: 9 pm Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: :: Cantab Lounge Downstairs, 738 Mass 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com Ave, Cambridge :: $8 :: 617.354.2685 or ROB ZOMBIE + MARILYN MANSON cantab-lounge.com + J DEVIL :: 7 pm :: Agganis Arena, TOBY KEITH + BRANTLEY GILBERT 925 Comm Ave, Boston :: $39.50-$55 :: + THOMAS RHETT :: 7 pm :: Comcast 617.358.7000 or ticketmaster.com Center, 885 Main St, Mansfield :: $20THE TIN THISTLES + WELTER + $81.50 :: 800.745.3000 or livenation.com HOOKER CLOPS + OLD HAT + 3TV’S :: TRAD KIDS + SHANNON HEATON 7:30 pm :: Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass :: 10:30 am :: Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Ave, Cambridge :: $9 :: 617.864.EAST or Cambridge :: $5-$10 :: 617.492.7679 mideastclub.com/tickets.html VACATIONER :: 9 pm :: Great Scott, TOM RUSH :: 7 pm :: Club Passim, 47 Palm1222 Comm Ave, Allston :: 617.566.9014 or er St, Cambridge :: $98-$100 :: 617.492.7679 ticketweb.com TWERPS + WORSHIT + UGLY PARTS THE BYNARS + PILLOWMAN + :: 8 pm :: O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston :: KUNG FU GRIP :: 9 pm :: Ralph’s Diner, $6 :: 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com 148 Grove St, Worcester :: 508.753.9543 or TYGA + KIRKO BANGZ + IGGY IZAmyspace.com/ralphsdiner
SUNDAY 23
LEA + STERLING SIMMS + JINSU :: 8 pm :: House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston :: $30-$45 :: 888.693.2583 VANYA RECORDS ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY BBQ :: 3 pm :: Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston :: Free :: 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com THE YAYAS + FRICTION FARM + AMY KUCHARIK + KATIE SACHS :: 7:30 pm :: Burren, 247 Elm St, Somerville :: 617.776.6896 or burren.com
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Jamaica Plain :: 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com ANDREA GILLIS BAND :: 10 pm :: Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com THE CAN’T TELLS :: 9 pm :: Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston :: $7 :: 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com BRIGADE LOCO :: 10 pm :: Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com THE MICHAEL WARREN QUARTET :: 9 pm :: Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston :: 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com MILK CARTON KIDS :: 8 pm :: Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge :: $13-
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$15 :: 617.492.7679 NICOS GUN :: Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville :: 617.623.9211 or precinctbar. com PETER GABRIEL :: 8 pm :: TD Garden, 100 Legends Way, Boston :: $39.50-$150 :: 617.931.2000 or ticketmaster.com/ venue/8337 RICH AUCOIN + STEPDAD + THE TERROR PIGEON DANCE REVOLT :: Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $10-$12 :: 617.864.EAST or mideastclub.com/tickets.html ROCK CHUCK + KRISTEN FORD :: 9 pm :: Middle East Corner, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.864.3278 or mideastclub.com SAINT VITUS + WEEDEATER + SOURVEIN :: 9 pm :: Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $20$23 :: 617.864.EAST or mideastclub.com/ tickets.html TREEHORN + HUG THE DOG :: 10 pm :: ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.864.3278 or ticketmaster.com/ venue/8547 YALE, MA + CASSANOVAS IN HEAT :: 8 pm :: Charlie’s Kitchen, 10 Eliot St, Cambridge :: $5 :: 617.492.9646
617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com HIPSOCKET :: 9 pm :: Milky Way, at the Brewery, 284 Armory St, Jamaica Plain :: $5 :: 617.524.3740 or milkywayjp.com HIROMI + STANLEY CLARKE :: 8 pm :: Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge :: $40 :: 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com ITAL + LAUREL HALO + MAGIC TOUCH + M GEDDES + GENGRAS + DJ CORALCOLA :: 9 pm :: Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston :: $10 :: 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com MAC POWELL :: 8 pm :: Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville :: $21 :: 617.625.5700 or somervilletheatreonline. com MELISSA LI & THE BARELY THEIRS + EVAN GREER + MERCEDES DIAZ + SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD + KAAMILA MOHAMMED + KEMI ALABI :: 8 pm :: Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain :: 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com OH THE HUMANITY + CASANOVAS IN HEAT + THE HIDEOUT :: P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville :: 617.776.1557 RAY MANZAREK & ROBBY KRIEGER [DOORS] :: 8:30 pm :: Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St, Boston :: 617.248.9700 or thewilburtheatre.com ANGUS STONE :: 9 pm :: Brighton Music REED FOEHL + PUTNAM MURDOCK Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston :: $16-$18 :: :: 8 pm :: Café 939, 939 Boylston St, Boston 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com :: $10-$12 :: 617.747.6038 or ticketmaster. THE BUMPIN UGLIES + PALASADES com/ + SKRIBE :: Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somer”ROCKPALAST #2” :: With Bard And ville :: 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com Mustache :: 8 pm :: O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard THE DEAN’S LIST :: 7 pm :: Middle East Ave, Allston :: $5 :: 617.782.6245 or obDownstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: rienspubboston.com COHEN + C. WELLS + $15 :: 617.864.EAST or mideastclub.com/ SONNY LANDRETH :: 7:30 pm :: ReSalemWitchMuseum.Phoenix2_Layout 1AARON 9 CHAMP BROWN + RED ARLINGTON gattabar, 1 Bennett St, Charles Hotel, :: Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $30 :: 617.661.5000 or regatCambridge :: $10 :: 617.864.EAST tabarjazz.com or mideastclub.com/tickets. THE SYMPTOMS :: 11:15 pm Start with... html :: T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 s G i G ABBIE BARRETT & THE Brookline St, Cambridge :: e go! h t n o LAST DATE + ERIC 617.492.2327 or ttthebears.com ar ows ne sh e se SALT & THE ELECTRIC VALDIZA MOURA & on u, right at o y CITY :: 9:15 pm :: Lizard MARAMBAIA GROUP :: 9 e, ur phon .com o y Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, pm :: Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, nix hephoe .t m Cambridge :: 617.547.0759 or Cambridge :: $10 :: 617.876.9330 lizardloungeclub.com or rylesjazz.com AFGHAN WHIGS + WORD OF MOUTH + JOHN SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS MCCLANE + CHASE MONEY :: 8 pm :: House of Blues, 15 + ASN + EIGHT REPUBLIC + Lansdowne St, Boston :: $35-$45 :: MARU$ AURELIU$ + BIGG NEZ 888.693.2583 + FRANK WHITE :: 8 pm :: Church of BAD ART ENSEMBLE :: 10:30 pm :: Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston :: $10 :: Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com :: 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com ZOE LEWIS + BARBARA PHANEUF BAKER THOMAS BAND :: 10 pm :: 8 pm :: Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cam:: Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: bridge :: $18-$20 :: 617.492.7679 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES :: 9:30 pm :: Middle East Corner, 480 Mass Ave, THE ALMIGHTY PRETTY FACE Cambridge :: Free :: 877.282.2182 or midPOSSE + JUS CUZ PERIOD :: 9:30 pm :: eastclub.com Good Life, 28 Kingston St, Boston :: Free :: DISCO LEMONADE + SHEJDEE + 617.451.2622 or goodlifebar.com STEVE AOKI :: 7 pm :: Palladium, 261 BEN SCHWENDENER + KENWOOD Main St, Worcester :: $35 :: 978.797.9696 DENNARD + DANIEL DAY :: 7 pm :: or tickets.com/venue_info.cgi?vid=3802 Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge :: FANDANGO :: 7 pm :: Toad, 1920 Mass 617.497.0823 Ave, Cambridge :: 617.497.4950 or toadOn Historic Salem Common BOBBY KEYES :: 9:30 am :: Beehive, 541 cambridge.com Open Year Round Tremont St, Boston :: 617.423.0069 or beeGOSSIP :: 7 pm :: Royale, 279 Tremont St, 1 19 /2 Washington Square North hiveboston.com urs Boston :: 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com Salem, Massachusetts 01970 CLAIRE RITTER & FRIENDS :: 7:30 GOTYE :: Mohegan Sun Arena, 1 Mohepm :: Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second gan Sun Blvd, Uncasville, CT :: $25-$35 :: Take the or the Salem Ferry. i Street, Cambridge :: $15-$20 :: 617.577.1400 888.226.7711 or multiculturalartscenter.org GRIMES + ELITE GYMNASTICS + Shop at our museum store DAVID J + ADRIAN H & THE MYTHS :: 8 pm :: Paradise Rock Club, onsite & online! WOUNDS + DO NOT FORSAKE ME 967 Comm Ave, Boston :: $18-$20 :: OH MY DARLING + AUDIBLE CRAY617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com 978.744.1692 ONS + DJ MATTHEW GRIFFIN :: 8 THE HEAVY + THE SILENT COMsalemwitchmuseum.com pm :: Cantab Lounge Downstairs, 738 EDY :: 9 pm :: Brighton Music Hall, Translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $10 :: 617.354.2685 158 Brighton Ave, Allston :: $15-$17 ::
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tickets.html DOWN + WARBEAST + HAARP :: 8:15 pm :: House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston :: $25 :: 888.693.2583 EMILIE AUTUMN :: 7 pm :: Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston :: 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com THE JOINT CHIEFS OF RETROGRASS + SAM STAMBLER & FRIENDS :: 8:30 pm :: Cantab Lounge, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge.com THE OKAY WIN + SPEEDY ORTIZ + EARTHQUAKE PARTY! + MCWOLF :: 9 pm :: Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston :: $7 :: 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com THE MANUEL KAUFMANN NONET + GREG HOPKINS :: 8:30 pm :: Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge :: $10 :: 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com MARIS AND THE MERRY ROCKERS + CAMERON GALPAN + NAUGHTY OCTOPUS + TOFT WILLINGHAM :: Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $8 :: 617.864.EAST or mideastclub.com MIRIAM + AMY FAIRCHILD :: 7:30 pm :: Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com THE PHREAKS [PHISH TRIBUTE] :: 8 pm :: Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston :: $3 :: 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com QUIET LIFE + GRAVEROBBERS :: 9 pm :: T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge :: $8 :: 617.492.2327 or ttthebears.com
WEDNESDAY 26
Salem’s Most
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THURSDAY 27
Russian, Japanese, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Everyone’s new BFF from Montreal, GRIMES is still riding the buzz wave off this year’s Visions, and Clair Boucher is finally getting too big to fit into our pixie pockets. They grow up so fast. Catch her at the Paradise Rock Club with openers Elite Gymnastics and Myths.
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or cantab-lounge.com DIETRICH STRAUSE :: 9 pm :: Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com THE DOG PATCH RAMBLERS + MAN ALIVE! :: 9:30 pm :: Middle East Corner, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: Free :: 617.864.3278 or mideastclub.com/tickets. html ERIC ANDERSEN :: 8 pm :: Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge :: $28-$30 :: 617.492.7679 THE ERVIN DHIMO TRIO :: 8:30 pm :: Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge :: $10 :: 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com GEORGE FITZGERALD + BALTIMORODER + ALAN MANZI :: 9 pm :: Middlesex Lounge, 315 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $5-$10 :: 617.868.MSEX or middlesexlounge.com. HANGGAI :: 7:30 pm :: Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville :: $25 :: 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com JAG + BIG GHOST + THE MINOR THREE :: P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville :: 617.776.1557 JAMES MERENDA & TICKLE JUICE :: 8 pm :: Outpost 186, 186 1/2 Hampshire St, Cambridge :: $10 :: 617.876.0860 or zeitgeistoutpost.org KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD + THE ROBERT CRAY BAND :: 7:30 pm :: Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St, Boston :: 617.248.9700 or thewilburtheatre.com LANGHORNE SLIM AND THE LAW + RIVER CITY EXTENSION :: 7 pm :: Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St, Northampton :: $12.50-$15 :: 413.586.8686 or iheg.com LAUREN MANN & THE FAIRLY ODD FOLK + CHAPARRALS :: Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: $10 :: 617.864.EAST or mideastclub.com/tickets. html LINDSEY STIRLING :: 8 pm :: Café 939, 939 Boylston St, Boston :: $15 :: 617.747.6038 or ticketmaster.com/ MARC RIBOT + MOSTLY OTHER PEOPLE DO THE KILLING :: 7:30 pm :: Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave, Boston :: $10-$20 :: 617.478.3100 or icaboston.org MELODY GARDOT :: 8 pm :: Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass Ave, Boston :: 617.266.7455
MINUS THE BEAR + CURSIVE + CASPIAN :: 7 pm :: Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston :: 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com NICE GUYS + BUGS AND RATS + SKIMASK + USELESS EATERS :: 9 pm :: Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston :: $8 :: 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com
THE NICKEL AND DIME BAND + ALMOST RIGHTEOUS :: 9 pm :: Milky Way, at the Brewery, 284 Armory St, Jamaica Plain :: $5 :: 617.524.3740 or milkywayjp.com ROYAL TEETH :: 8:30 pm :: T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge :: Free
with RSVP :: 617.492.2327 or ttthebears.com SNEEZE + LUBE + BDRM EYES :: 8 pm :: O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston :: $8 :: 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com SOMERVILLE SYMPHONY ORKESTAR + BELLA’S BARTOK + FOGGY & THE FRIENDSHOP :: 8 pm :: Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston :: $10 :: 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com SÓ SOL :: 8 pm :: Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain :: 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com TOM HAGERTY ACOUSTIC BAND :: 7:30 pm :: Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave, Somerville :: 617.666.3589 or sallyobriensbar.com/frameset.htm TONY DESARE AND HIS QUARTET :: 7:30 pm :: Regattabar, 1 Bennett St, Charles Hotel, Cambridge :: $25 :: 617.661.5000 or regattabarjazz.com TONY SAVARINO & THE SAVTONES :: 9:15 pm :: Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com TWO GALLANTS + PAPA :: 9 pm :: Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston :: $17.50-$20 :: 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com ”WHILE JED’S GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS: A BENEFIT FOR THE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE” :: With Steve Mayone + Ward Hayden + Marc Pinansky + Jenee Halstead + Paul Hansen + Keith Pierce + Kristen Ford + Dan Nicklin :: 7:30 pm :: Radio, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville :: $10 :: 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com/ ZL + JOHNNY LANE + SEBASTIAN O’BRIEN :: 10:30 pm :: Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com
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Bond :: Boston :: 9 pm :: “Taste Thursdays.” dISTRICT :: Boston :: “In Thursdays” ESTATE :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Glamlife Anniversary” with Richie Ladue + Jujubee + Big Ang. Good LIFE :: Boston :: 9:30 pm :: “Mirror Shades” with Soappy + Dusty Digital + DJ Bobby Dirtza JuLEp BAR :: Boston :: “Futured Presents: Underground Thursdays” LIBERTy HoTEL :: Boston :: “Fashionably LATE: Nic and Zoe” LIVInG RooM :: Boston :: 8 pm :: DJ Snow White MIddLESEX LounGE :: Cambridge :: 9 pm “Make It New” with Max Cooper + Baltimoroder + John Barera nAGA :: Cambridge :: “Verve Thursdays” with DJ Pensive pHoEnIX LAndInG :: Cambridge :: 10 pm :: “Elements” with Crook & Lenore RAMRod :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Bear Cave” RuMoR :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Hi Frequency” with Ju Lee + Burak Bacio + Kia Mazzi
FRiDAY 21
BIJou nIGHTCLuB & LounGE :: Boston :: DJ Boris Bond :: Boston :: 9 pm :: “Play Fridays.” ESTATE :: Boston :: 10 pm :: Deniz Koyu Good LIFE :: Boston :: 9:30 pm :: “Unity vs. Pico Picante” with Chief Boima + D’Hana + Pajaritos + Oxycontinental
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GREAT SCoTT :: Allston :: “The Pill” with Fat Creeps + DJ Ken + DJ Michael V GypSy BAR :: Boston :: 10 pm :: DJ Dera JuLEp BAR :: Boston :: DJ Risk One LIVInG RooM :: Boston :: “House, Top 40, House & Dance Music” MACHInE :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Show Me Your Stuff” MILKy WAy :: Jamaica Plain :: “Dyke Night” nAGA :: Cambridge :: “DJ Maverick Video Release Party pHoEnIX LAndInG :: Cambridge :: “PYT” RISE :: Boston :: 9 pm :: “Wonderland” with Damien Paul + JK the DJ + Mike Swells :: 1 am :: Andy Moor + L.E.O. + GMGN RoyALE :: Boston :: 10 pm :: Cazzette RuMoR :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Hush Fridays” with DJ Hectok + DJ Dres + DJ Lus uMBRIA pRIME :: Boston :: “VIP Fridays” :: Boston undERBAR :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Flavor Fridays” with DJ Franklin ZuZu :: Cambridge :: 10 pm :: “Solid!” with DJ Durkin
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GLAMLIFE THURSDAYS AT ESTATE For its birthday bash this Thursday (September 20), Boston’s premier gay night brings in Mob Wives’ Big Ang, and keeps the party rolling next Thursday (September 27) with Sasha Gradiva, the buxom Russkie best known for wearing Terminator armor to this year’s Grammys.
Bond :: Boston :: 9 pm :: “Flaunt Saturdays.” dISTRICT :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Liquid Saturdays” with DJ Liquid Ice ESTATE :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “VIP Access Saturdays” with DJ Sophia Lin. Good LIFE :: Boston :: 9:30 pm :: “Bassic” with Kode9 + Moldy + Damian Silva GuILT :: Boston :: midnight :: DJ Profenna. GypSy BAR :: Boston :: 10 pm :: DJ Mario JuLEp BAR :: Boston :: DJ Hevan + DJ Yurz Truly LIVInG RooM :: Boston :: “House, Top 40,
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arts & nightlife :: Clubs uMBRIA pRIME :: Boston :: “Scene Saturdays” ZuZu :: Cambridge :: 11 pm :: “Soul-le-luh-jah”
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• NICKY DA B You first WED heard this next-wave New 26 Orleans bounce star on Diplo’s explosive single “Express Yourself.” He’s now tearing up YouTube with his own rapid-fire anthem “Hot Potato Style.” “Beat Research” at Good Life, 28 Kingston St, Boston :: 9 pm :: free :: goodlifebar.com
<< CLubs from p 144
House & Dance Music” MIddLESEX LounGE :: Cambridge :: 10 pm :: DJ Kon MILKy WAy :: Jamaica Plain :: 10 pm :: “Mango’s Latin Saturdays” with Lee Wilson nAGA :: Cambridge :: “Chemistry Saturdays” with DJ Mozes + DJ D Say + Miss Jade pHoEnIX LAndInG :: Cambridge :: “Boom Boom Room” with DJ Vinny RuMoR :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Rumor Saturdays” with DJ Roger M + DJ JC T.T. THE BEAR’S pLACE :: Cambridge :: 10 pm :: “Heroes” with DJ Chris Ewen
CLuB CAFÉ :: Boston :: 4 pm :: Back 2 Basics Tea Dance” with DJ Harrison pHoEnIX LAndInG :: Cambridge :: “The Drop” RAMRod :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Level 12” RIVER GodS :: Cambridge :: 8 pm :: “Reggae Night” undERBAR :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Hot Mess Sundays” with DJ Richie Ladue
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An TuA nuA :: Boston :: 9 pm :: “Ceremony” with DJ Black/Mail + DJ Shunt Alexxxan CHuRCH oF BoSTon :: Boston :: “Motivate Mondays” nAGA :: Cambridge :: “Industry Monday” pHoEnIX LAndInG :: Cambridge :: “Makka Monday” with Voyager 01 + DJ Uppercut RAMRod :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “The Attic”
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EMERALd LounGE :: Boston :: “Wicked New Music” LIBERTy HoTEL :: Boston :: “Gallery Night Tuesdays” MACHInE :: Boston :: 9 pm :: “Psyclone Tuesdays” with Stevie Psyclone MIddLE EAST doWnSTAIRS :: 10 pm :: “Throwed” with DJ E-Marce + Texas Mike MIddLESEX LounGE :: Cambridge :: 10 pm :: “Petrol” nAGA :: Cambridge :: “Fiesta Tuesdays: Latin Salsa Night”
Burritos & Tacos to Go!
pHoEnIX LAndInG :: Cambridge :: “Elecsonic” RuMoR :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Rumor Tuesdays” ZuZu :: Cambridge :: 10 pm :: “Zuesday” with Justincredible + DJ Leah V
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dISTRICT :: Boston :: “Classic Wednesdays” with DJ Tanno EMERALd LounGE :: Boston :: “Mondo Wednesdays” with DJ Florencia Galarza ESTATE :: Boston :: 10 pm :: Thomas Gold. Good LIFE :: Boston :: 9:30 pm :: “Beat Research” with Nicky Da B + Wayne & Wax + DJ Flack JuLEp BAR :: Boston :: DJ Influence LIBERTy HoTEL :: Boston :: “Whole Note Wednesdays” pHoEnIX LAndInG :: Cambridge :: “Re:Set” RAMRod :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Rock Wednesdays” with DJ Victor RuMoR :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Latin Night” with DJ Adilson + DJ Boatslip + DJ Maryalice RyLES :: Cambridge :: 9 pm :: “Wild Honey Queer Dance Party”
Norm MacDonald brings his deadpanache to the Wilbur Theatre, Friday @ 7:30 + 10pm. For more info and comprehensive comedy listings, go to thePhoenix. com/events. bt BPC AD 12:Layout 1 8/29/12 4:02 PM Page 1
2012 Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival Schedule Thursday, September 27 Melody Gardot
Friday, September 28 A Night of Two Pianos: Opening night concert featuring Geri Allen and Joanne Brackeen with special guests Tia Fuller, John Lockwood, Terri Lyne Carrington, and more. 7:30 p.m. Berklee Performance Center
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Saturday, September 29 Free Outdoor Festival 12:00 p.m. Columbus Avenue between Massachusetts Avenue and Burke Street
Sunday, September 30 Béla Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio 7:30 p.m. Berklee Performance Center
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dISTRICT :: Boston :: “In Thursdays” EMERALd LounGE :: Boston :: “Top 40s & House” ESTATE :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Glamlife Thursdays” with Sasha Gradiva. JuLEp BAR :: Boston :: “Futured Presents: Underground Thursdays” LIBERTy HoTEL :: Boston :: “Fashionably LATE: Tahari” MIddLESEX LounGE :: Cambridge :: 9 pm :: “Make it New” with George Fitzgerald + Baltimoroder + Alan Manzi pHoEnIX LAndInG :: Cambridge :: “Elements” with Crook & Lenore RAMRod :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Bear Cave” RuMoR :: Boston :: 10 pm :: “Hi Frequency” with Ju Lee + Burak Bacio + Kia Mazzi ZuZu :: Cambridge :: “Decade” with DJ Paul Foley
MoRE onLInE: coMEDY
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SpLASH uLTRA LounGE & BuRGER BAR :: Boston :: “EDM Wednesdays” SToRyVILLE :: Boston :: “MySecretBoston presents Dub Apocalypse” ZuZu :: Cambridge :: 10 pm :: “Swallow”
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September 27–30, 2012 Tickets available at beantownjazz.org
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Get Seen »
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»At the Fashion’s Night Out After-Party at Forum
For the second year, Fashion’s Night Out closed Newbury Street to cars, lit the Pru up pink, and drew thousands to boutiques normally quiet by night. Throwing one of our last blowouts under the STUFF banner before the launch of the magazine you hold in your hands, we kept the party going at Boylston Street spot Forum, where guests sipped >> More Get Seen on p 150 Svedka cocktails and talked style.
Mo part re ies! At th ePh oenix c o m/ . P see y Arties. ou o ther ut e!
Any girl who can pull off military garb and a Louis Vuitton bag at once is one we want to know. Dianellie paired a repurposed army jacket, H&M leggings, and Jeffrey Campbell platforms to perfection.
“Rough and rugged is me. I feel like myself in pants,” said the self-taught designer behind ready-to-wear line Demand Di. “I don’t feel comfortable in dresses.” She loves clothes with a story, like vintage pieces and designs made from offbeat materials. She’d seen the latter that night at a Copley Place fashion show, where she fell hard for an outfit made entirely of paper clips. Dianellie, we hear Project Runway calling.
Above, clockwise from top: Omid Maxey, Mike Brescia, Stanley Francis, Donny Defarzio; Ferns Francois, Alexandra Siegel; Dianellie Alexander, Dunstan Dubique, Kia Anthony Far left: Maya Maxine, Valquiria Souza Near left: Juan Jimenez, Winston Smith
_Erin Souza
Salutes Our Decades Long Media Partner The Phoenix Media/Communications Group As it gives rise to its new magazine
Proving that a great media company is like a fine wine It only gets better with age 148 09.21.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOm/PArTIEs THEPHOENIX.cOm
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Dianellie alexanDer, fashion Designer
arts & nightlife :: Parties << Get Seen from p 148
»At Assemble! at Emerald Lounge On September 12, culture vultures convened at the Revere Hotel’s Emerald Lounge for the kickoff of the new Future Boston series Assemble!, which spotlights local innovators and burgeoning talents in art, design, music, and more. For the inaugural event, Gallery Basquiat and the Goodnight Initiative curated works by local artists of color amid the green glow of Emerald’s swanky digs. The free series continues each Wednesday night at least through October 17. On the agenda: a collab between Yes.Oui.Si and NYC DJ Florencia Galarza (stopping in town en route to DJ Paris Fashion Week), a jewelry and sculpture showcase, an exhibit from the Sneaker Museum, and a blowout featuring the work of 100 Boston artists. Find out more at futureboston.com.
More s! partioe enix. At thePh ies. com/PArt t ou see you there!
Below, left to right: Adrian Molina (friends call him “Molina”); Douma laFontan, Myia X; Action Jackson, Malia lazu; logan Jones; Destiny palmer, Adam Bullock, Sheena Quintyne. At right: Whiskey Barons’ DJ Ben
phOtOS By DereK KOuyOuMJiAn
>> More from ASSeMble! on p 153
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OCTOBer 4-6, 2012 The first-ever citywide cocktail event will celebrate the culture of the cocktail with three days of events, parties, trade exhibits, educational seminars, and galas. Mixology superstars will dazzle with creative and classic cocktails, celebrated Boston chefs will prepare delicious cocktail dinners, and local and international spirits authorities will offer informative and educational seminars. Craft beer and wine events, too!
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arts & nightlife :: Parties More from Assemble! at Emerald Lounge << More from ASSeMble! from p 150
M parore t At t heP i e s! h
“Delicious,” freelance art consultant
It takes a certain gravitas to pull off a manbag, and Delicious had it in spades, which is why we had to ask him to share some style tips. “It’s all found picks. Being a fashionista in Boston, you have to go everywhere and anywhere to find them,” he said. To be clear, that’s Fashionista with a capital F. “Two F’s!” he amended. We dug that the scarf he was rocking belonged to his late mother. “I’m paying homage to her,” he said. At the suggestion that the rest of his ensemble looked a bit Christmassy, he laughed, “Well, it’s almost fall isn’t it? So I’m ahead of the season. I’m a trendsetter.”
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Like any Fashionista worth both his F’s, Delicious understands the merit of mixing high-end and lowend pieces. He scored the jacket from a street fair for $3. “For labels, I go to Barneys or Neiman’s,” he said. “But I like to mix and match. I like found objects, whether on the street or at Goodwill.”
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back talk :: publisher’s note
BACK TO THE FUTURE By sTEp HEn m. m i n di C H
The Phoenix today is defined, as it always has been, by the people who make it, not by what it’s printed on.
After our legacy of nearly 50 years of publishing an alternative weekly on newsprint, what you hold in your hands is an experimental idea, one that does more than just challenge the long-held assumptions of what an alt-weekly should look like. As a new magazine, the Phoenix preserves the heart and soul of the Boston Phoenix: the same dedication to questioning authority, the same top-notch writing and investigative reporting, and the same passion for Boston and its many communities. At the same time, it retains the energy and verve of Stuff magazine — as well as the writers, editors, freelancers, photographers, and designers who made both publications great. So while we started this experiment with the pieces we had on hand, we believe that this new whole is bigger than the sum of its parts. This Phoenix continues our legacy of political provocation, of Pulitzer-quality arts and culture criticism (even if, alas, as a magazine we are no longer eligible to win another Pulitzer). It picks up the thread of nightlife coverage that goes back to the 1970s, when we published glossy fashion and food quarterlies, and that continued in Stuff. And this new publication will keep evolving as we expand the scope of our enterprise to match the evolving interests of our audience, as well as the breadth of our individual passions. Because the Phoenix today is defined, as it always has been, by the people who make it, not by what it’s printed on. And on the subject of the people who make it: the simple fact is that managing to execute the massive challenge that was laid out to the entire staff merely seven weeks ago, with this amazing result you have in hand, is in and of itself a testament to the extraordinariness of every single person involved. To each, my kudos and never-ending thank you. You should all take great pride in this accomplishment. I certainly do. But it would be completely remiss of me to not single out a few people whose leadership throughout this exhausting process really exceeds my ability to adequately and fully thank them. Creative Director Kristen Goodfriend, Editor Carly Carioli, Senior VP of Sales Bill Risteen, Director of Creative Operations Travis Ritch, and Director of Marketing Brian Appel — absolutely and positively without them, the Phoenix as it is today could not and would not have been born. And finally to our audience and advertisers, thank you for your past, present, and future support, for without you none of us would be fortunate enough to be able to do what we do.
Coming nexT week in The Phoenix
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“Bullfrog on The moon: PiTBull, AlAskA, And me.” By dAvid ThorPe. 154 09.21.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOm
one day, a Phoenix columnist named david thorpe asked the internet to exile Pitbull, the rapper, to Alaska. ¶ the internet said, Yes, that’s an awesome idea. ¶ together, thorpe and the internet hijacked a facebook marketing campaign and made it so. ¶ that’s when Pitbull called. (okay, he didn’t actually call. he tweeted.) ¶ he said if he was going to Alaska, thorpe was going with him. ¶ this is their story. Out September 28. By Friday, you need the Phoenix. read more of david thorpe’s columns at thePhoenix.com/bighurt
mindich Photo by JAnicE chEcchio; Pitbull Photo courtEsy of dAvid thorPE
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