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When Boston’s spirits speak, ghost hunter Joe “Jiggy” Webb listens. By Ariel Shearer. Page 30.
“For outright horror, it’s tough to invent anything more messed up than what actually happened at our network of public mental hospitals.” p 24 the stories behind seven wicked-spooky Massachusetts sanatoriums
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FROM THEPHOENIX.COM Re: “a ChallengeR appeaRs: One wOman’s Battle against the anxiOus masCulinity Of the fighting-games sCene” By maddy myeRs
I’m a female computer technician + gamer, and I frequent the Pru MS store to play Dance Central and check out the new hardware. I look much younger than I am, and it always surprises the employees when I know more about MS products (and computers in general) than they do. Though I frequent MMOs more than fighters, the worlds aren’t so different in terms of how they treat women. I won’t tell anyone there I’m female. I let them assume I’m male. Easier that way. Keep fighting, Maddy. We’re all in this together. _“lai na”
What I like about these articles about video game sexism. Is that they get proven true automatically. By the inevitable wave of awful comments they attract. Dudes, your privilege is showing. _“vexORi an”
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» All Hallows’ Eve is nigh. Are you prepared? We give you witch-house tunes, morbid tchotchkes, stompy boots, and slinky trick-or-treating outfits; plus, we show you how to cross the velvet rope.
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» Snoop Dogg drips some cheesy drizzle on his shizzle, Mitt Romney fumbles his gyno-binder, and the GOP runs an Obama attack ad that — wait, no, they would never air that one.
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» the Big hurt p 18 » scream on p 20 » talking politics p 22
spotlight
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» Murder, lobotomies, cruel experiments — American Horror Story’s got nothing on our fair state’s abandoned (and reportedly haunted) sanatoriums. So if there’s something weird in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? Joey Webb and his crew of paranormal investigators, of course. » new england’s most haunted asylums p 24 » hunting ghosts with paranormalhood p 30 » a very phx halloween p 38 » things that go bump and grind in the night p 40
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» Quoth the raven: “I’m surprised Brian Poe hasn’t eaten me yet.” Catching up with the Tip Tap Room’s ultra-carnivore. Also: lay off the pumpkin booze for a bit — try some orange wines instead. » eater’s digest: Brian poe p 44 » 5 Courses with Jd kemp p 46 » liquid: orange wines p 48 » on the Cheap: doowee & rice p 50 » Chew out: the week in food events p 51
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» dr. Martens store opens on newbury p 12 » Clubbing 101 p 12 » Meet our witch-house homegirl Bathaus p 14 » nightlife attire for the witching hour p 16
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» Lincoln Arts Project celebrates art-o-ween, Stephin Merritt interviews Daniel Handler, John Hawkes has iron-lung sex, and Pile’s Rick Maguire “hypothesizes spiders are living in his butt.”
Sat. November 10 • Great Scott
Thurs. November 29 • Great Scott
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TIERNEY FOR CONGRESS The mosT closely waTched congressional race in Massachusetts is being fought in the Sixth District, on Boston’s North Shore, between Democratic incumbent John Tierney and his Republican challenger Richard Tisei. Experts say it is the only congressional contest in the state that could be an upset, with the GOP rival besting the Democrat. Tierney has only himself to blame. His campaign has failed to adequately address concerns arising out of his wife Patrice’s guilty plea two years ago to federal tax charges connected with work she did for her brother’s Antigua-based offshore gambling business. This would be an uncomfortable situation in any family, but for a high elected official such as Tierney, it could spell the end of his political career — despite his stellar record of representing his constituents. And Tisei has successfully made the episode the centerpiece of his campaign against Tierney. Patrice entered her guilty plea one month before Tierney was handily re-elected in 2010. She subsequently served a month in prison. Federal prosecutors never implicated Tierney in either the case against Patrice, or the action against her brother. Given the zealous, even fanatical, dedication that the US Department of Justice exhibits in pursuing targets, especially those suspected of political wrongdoing, it is reasonable to assume that prosecutors had nothing on Tierney. Tierney has been a stalwart champion of working families and the middle class. He is a strong supporter of the whole range of important women’s issues, especially the right to choose abortion, and has fought Republican efforts to strip Planned Parenthood of funding. Tierney has also worked diligently to ensure that the nuclear power industry is properly regulated, and is a leader in the bipartisan effort to police waste and misspending in the Afghanistan war. And Tierney is a staunch defender of gay rights and a committed advocate of marriage equality.
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Overall, Tierney has assembled a record in Washington of which any Massachusetts congressman could be proud. We understand that Patrice’s guilty plea was unsettling. But we urge voters who are still disturbed to hold their noses and cast their ballot for Tierney. They will be voting for John, not Patrice. Tisei may not be a certifiable right-wing nut, but he is only a thinly disguised Tea Partier. In his 26 years as a legislator on Beacon Hill, Tisei was regarded as a moderate conservative. Now, however, Tisei has changed his stripes — embracing the Republicans’ Paul Ryan budget that would compromise Social Security, gut Medicare and Medicaid, promote sweetheart tax treatment for the wealthiest, and replicate the nothingis-too-good-for-corporateinterests agenda that spawned the Bush-era crash. Tisei is gay, and lives with his partner, with whom he jointly owns a brokerage that handles residential and small commercial properties. His sexual orientation and his support for marriage equality, combined with his now out-of-date reputation as a moderate, have given Tisei effective political cover. However, if voters brush past the cosmetics and look hard at the fundamentals, they will see that today Tisei is a staunch Republican royalist committed to privileging the one percent, ignoring the 47 percent, and screwing everyone in between. A Tisei victory would shortchange the North Shore, as well as Massachusetts. It would also aid and abet the radical economic reactionaries who want to return America to an 1890s-style plutocracy. As to the argument that Tisei’s election would sensitize the hard right, we are skeptical. At this point, it’s almost oxymoronic to be a gay Republican. The Log Cabin movement has enjoyed some success on the local level, but among national GOPers it is an outfit that dare not speak its name. Ask yourself this: if the NAACP offered to launder the sheets of the Ku Klux Klan during the struggles of the 1950s and the 1960s, do you really think the Southern bigots would have embraced the idea of civil rights?
A Tisei victory would aid and abet the radical economic reactionaries who want to return America to an 1890s-style plutocracy.
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Approximate year in which Pope Gregory IX is said to have issued Vox in Rama, cited as the first church document to condemn black cats as incarnations of Satan
The world’s first Dr. Martens rolled out on April Fools’ Day in 1960, but they were no joke. Their thick, air-cushioned soles — originally designed by an army doctor nursing a broken foot — and smooth, begging-to-be-scuffed leather have won an amazingly motley assortment of fans over the decades: postal and factory workers, cops and skinheads, punks and new wavers, and probably your 14-year-old Docs-loving self. In the 52 years since its founding, the British brand has THe dR. sold more than 100 million pairs and added MARTeNS styles like dress loafers and heels to its iconic SToRe yellow-stitched kicks. Now it’s bringing its 201 newbury st, AirWair wares to its first Boston location, slated boston to open on October 25 at 201 Newbury Street. Nodding to the company’s manufacturing 617.585.1460 heritage, they’ve outfitted the 3000-square-foot space with furniture and fixtures that radiate an industrial vibe — think table bases taken from factory workspaces and railroad-track shelving from London trains. The store is stocked with designs that run the gamut from sandals to hikers, as well as accessories like tech cases and wallets and on-trend clothing for men and women. You’ll also find their Boston shoe, a classic men’s Oxford named after our fair city. The Dr. will see you now. _CH e RYl F eN T oN
Percent less likely a black cat is to be adopted as compared to a tabby cat, according to a study published in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
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Cats currently available for adoption via Jamaica Plain’s Black Cat Rescue, which deals exclusively in black cats
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Weight in pounds of Rhode Island grower Ron Wallace’s pumpkin, which set a new record at the Topsfield Fair last month — and brought Wallace a $15,500 prize
Halloween isn’t just the one time of year when we all get to pretend to be somebody else (the stumbling zombie you sometimes morph into at 2 am doesn’t count); it also offers the opportunity to hit nightspots you might not usually frequent. If, in the immortal words of 50 Cent, we can find you in da club any given Saturday, you may already know how not to comport yourself like a total newb whilst partying on the right side of a velvet rope. If, however, you’re like most of us — more likely to be cracking cans of ’Gansett in Allston than popping bottles of Dom in the Leather District — chances are you could use a few pointers before dipping your toes into the nightclub scene this All Hallows’ Eve. We shook down Prince Smith, one of the Liberty Hotel’s lead security officers, for some pro tips. _AleXANdRA CAVAllo
On jumping the line smith’s heard it all from impatient clubgoers looking to sweet-talk their way in. the hard truth is, you’re likely going to have to wait it out with everyone else. the best attempt so far? “ ‘I’ll buy you a pizza at the end of the night if you let me in,’ ” smith says. he didn’t, but he gives props for the effort. “It was tempting. I was really hungry.” On rOOkie behaviOr so you’re finally 21 and can legally be all up in whatever club you want. now just try not to blow it. “Go easy on buying people drinks,” smith says. “you’ll be out of money real quick, and girls don’t like broke guys.” On spitting game “Do tell a good joke and give non-stop compliments,” advises smith. And don’t resort to corny lines, brosef. here’s one smith has heard more than a few people feed the object of their late-night desire: “ ‘I own this hotel.’ According to how many times I hear this one, we’ve got a lot of owners.” “the birds,” saturday’s hitchcock-themed halloween party at the liberty, is already way sold out, but you can get in by booking a pre-party dinner at Clink. and for info on other parties, dinners, shows, and more, check out our halloween listings on page 38.
n. 1: The conditions in which a food is grown or produced and that give the food its unique characteristics. See also: Sensing Terroir, a “harvest food opera” being hosted at Cambridge restaurant Bondir on November 13, featuring chef Jason Bond’s five-course feast of seasonal ingredients and sound pairings by composer Ben Houge, who’s combining music with interviews and field recordings from New England farms into a 30-channel soundscape. Make reservations ($125) by calling 617.661.0009 by October 30.
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Say what you will about witch house. Yes, the genre’s artists have adopted a sort of spooky-scary leetspeak by filling their names with triangles and iT ouT CheCkaus’s new h crosses. Yes, the prototypical get Bat RCANE|||CUT te A Casset dCloud.Com/ witch-house band is named n at sou s, and look Bathau -release of after a town that built a e re for th um BAsTiEN B her al te magie kitsch empire on a legacy on hau mBer. in deCe of cold-blooded lady-killing. But in the dark winters of New England, haunted by the ghosts of Sam Adams, John Hancock, and weird nights at ManRay, witch house has a witch home. And Bathaus is our very own witch homegirl. Ashley Capachione’s dark electronic-music project was born out of the Bathaus, a Jamaica Plain collective and basement space dedicated to performance art and electronic music, started by Capachione and fellow artists Dead Art Star and MagZilla. Capachione began making sound art while studying painting and printmaking at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire, collecting sounds from churches and conversations. Inspired by trip-hop and the Bristol sound, Bathaus the music project anchors such ambient samples with choppy beats and deep, ominous bass. “After I started making music, I stopped painting and making prints,” says Capachione. “The way that I use my hands is now on these instruments.” While she has transitioned out of visual art, her live shows are usually accompanied by performance and videos (see stills at right) that create an immersive experience. At this month’s closing reception for an exhibit at the Anthony Greaney Gallery, the full JP art-space aesthetic was represented — Dead Art Star’s photos were on display, MagZilla rapped, and Capachione controlled the vibe, twisting beats to move bodies and turning the gallery into a different sort of ritual space. “The performative element comes out of timing,” she says. “It’s like stirring up a little potion.” _ NIN A MA SHU RoVA
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Sorry, those fake cobwebs still have to come down November 1. Fortunately, several local spots stock creepy décor that’s cool enough to keep up all year round. Check out these scary good finds. _J A C qUel IN e H o U T o N
the daughter of a geologist, brooklyn’s ria charisse draws inspiration from natural forms for her swallow line of jewelry, art, and table-topping objets. we’re not talking flowers and kittens: think thorny branches, anatomically correct hearts, and the skulls of woodpeckers and bats. Gift, the Gardner museum’s new shop, stocks a number of her designs, including this bronze titmouse ($105). gift at the gardner, 280 the Fenway, boston :: 617.566.1401
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pAtch nyc’s Don carney and John ross may have hit it big — west elm collabs here, a target collection there — but the boston-based design duo are still turning out totally unique stuff. take these skull-adorned linen throw pillows ($124 each) featuring a handprinted reproduction of one of carney’s original ink drawings, available at their south end showroom. patCh nYC, the Courtyard at 46 Waltham st, boston :: 617.426.0592
emil Fiore, the new Jersey artist behind whirled wide webs, has caught 12,000-plus webs from two dozen spider species during his strange career. mounted on beveled glass, each piece comes with a photo and description of its web’s creepy-crawly creator. Fiore’s work will be featured in a June exhibit at salem’s peabody essex museum, but you can find his creations ($45–$180) now at Good in beacon hill. good, 133 Charles st, boston :: 617 722.9200
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The wiTching hour
Long after darkness faLLs, restLess young souls haunt the streets and nightspots of the city. Clad in minis and metallics, stilettos and skirts with sky-high slits, they’re totally fearless — sartorially speaking and otherwise.
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instead of an outlandish rattlesnakehatted dweeb being courted by a busload of shrieking strippers, it’s a guy bickering with his normal fiancée. It’s a bright moment for America: one of our young nation’s most lucid storytellers is now a participant in the glorious system of democracy. “I’ve been voted early,” Waka Flocka Flame told New York’s Hot 97. “It’s my first time voting. I’m a taxpayer now, so you know you got to vote for the right guy.” Waka didn’t reveal his presidential pick, but the Phoenix has obtained a copy of his ballot: he cast a write-in vote for “GUN SOUNDS.”
So bring your friends, we going on a wild ride Herb Sauce tender meats heat yo insides So don’t change the dizzle, turn it up a lizzle Got some cheesy drizzle dripping on my shizzle At this point, I can’t even tell if I’m making this up or not. I don’t think 18 10.26.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOm/bIgHurT
The actual Snoop Dogg has now lapped the Snoop Dogg I’d invent if I were trying to make fun of Snoop Dogg.
it matters — the actual Snoop Dogg has now lapped the Snoop Dogg I’d invent if I were trying to make fun of Snoop Dogg. In other rap-debasement news: former (?) rapper the Game is making the very best of his last shreds of credibility with a new VH1 “celebreality” show. Says a press release: “It was anything but love at first sight when Tiffney Cambridge first met Jayceon Taylor. Tiffney, the 5th grade history teacher took to Jayceon, but wanted nothing to do with his alter ego, the young rapper known as the Game.” (These days, I’m sure we can all relate to the second part.) In “Marrying the Game,” the release continues, ”Jayceon’s actions leave [Cambridge] in a constant struggle wondering if she will have to compromise for the rest of her life with his demanding, lavish, and wild career as a rapper.” You see, it’s just like Rock of Love, but
When Nelly’s tour bus hit a Texas checkpoint this week, cops found 10 pounds of weed, a gun, and 36 baggies of heroin (totaling just under an ounce, if “baggie” isn’t a specific enough junk measurement for you). Bad news: according to a statement released by the singer, the stuff wasn’t his — I would have loved it if Nelly turned out to be a hardened junkie with a 36-baggie-a-week habit, or a kingpin using a “music career” as a front to run horse and weed to Mexico. No such luck. A hanger-on named Brian Jones was allegedly responsible for all that stuff, and Nelly had not a clue. (Not that Brian Jones, obviously). P
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in a recenT Big hurT column about selling out with grace and dignity, I gently called out Snoop Dogg as an artist who’d entirely blown out his commercial gag reflex. The ink on that piece was barely dry when Snoop subjected himself to a new level of artistic humiliation: in a promotional video for Hot Pockets, the microwaved sustenance of suicidal bachelors, Snoop has reworked his hit track “Drop It Like It’s Hot” as “Pocket Like It’s Hot.” Lyrics include:
This week in back payments, compiled from various human-misery stories on TMZ.com and hiphopdx.com: Tyga is a little behind on his rent. He’s been living in a $16-grand-a-month manse in Malibu, but tried to back out of the year-long lease due to security concerns (pesky fans kept showing up at his door). The landlord wants the full lease amount, but Tyga — who hasn’t even moved out of the pad — doesn’t want to pay it (regrettably, it has come to a lawsuit). Meanwhile, Nas’s Atlanta mansion has been sold at public auction after he defaulted on the loan, and Young Dro owes $45 large in back taxes, also in Georgia. Finally, another setback for embattled cokedoofus Scott Storch: he’s wanted in Florida for failing to pay $28 grand in child support, and a California hotel filed a police report saying he skipped out on a $4 grand bill.
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Here’S a mitt romney commercial that could topple the popular notion that President Obama cares more about vulnerable Americans than his challenger does. We open with a quick flash of the chic Windy City Loop in all its glory, then pan toward a strip of bars where metrosexuals are sipping cocktails in impractical glassware. A title card sets the scene: “DOWNTOWN CHICAGO, 2012.” The camera then zooms toward the back of a swank bistro, where silhouettes of suits resembling Obama and his chief crony, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, appear to be plotting in the bourgeois shadows of democracy. Sleazy premise established, the shot morphs into another title card: “MEANWHILE . . . ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO . . . ” It’s a dreary early evening. There’s a well-dressed African-American couple, pushing a stroller through a pillaged post20 10.26.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOm
The television spot that could win Romney swing-state voters — and why he would never run it.
apocalyptic sewer. Suddenly, sinister thugs emerge from both sides of the street and start to pull heat out of their waistlines. The thugs open fire, shooting not just one another, but slaughtering the passing family, newborn and all. An ominous voiceover assesses the blood-stained South Side cityscape: In the past 10 years, more than 5000 people have been murdered in Chicago. Families are under siege, authorities have lost control, and President Obama’s former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, has neglected to confront the problem. While Emanuel brought a 50-officer detail with him to the Democratic National Convention, Chicago was embroiled in what local pastors have called a state of emergency. In recent weeks, there’s even been a rash of murders within blocks of President Obama’s former home. For the final stretch, Superman
music prevails over the sirens and gunfire, and the spot unfolds into a montage of Romney’s greatest ’hood hits. There’s news footage of the governor signing America’s first assault-weapons ban, followed by the clip of him rapping “Who Let The Dogs Out?” for Florida teens. The voiceover, no longer hostile, announces that violent crime in Massachusetts decreased while Romney was in office. Finally, there’s a still photo of Mitt pointing at an imaginary bogeyman: “I’m Mitt Romney, and I approve this message. But unlike my opponent, I don’t approve of babies getting murdered in my backyard.” The Republicans should run that ad in swing states that are under siege: Florida, Ohio, Colorado, take your pick. Across racial and geographic lines, communities that have been crippled by economic earthquakes are concerned about violence. Persistent strains like foreclosures, joblessness, and cuts in local aid have fueled drastic increases in substance abuse and paved other avenues that lead to crime. Identifying these trends in an opponent’s home state is hardly unprecedented — even for Republicans. Think of the mess that George H.W. Bush made of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, after GOP hit man Lee Atwater famously handcuffed the Democratic challenger to convicted rapist-murderer Willie Horton. Of course, Mitt Romney would never run such an ad. Even if it could help him gain more of the African-American vote or earn him cred with poor people in contested regions. For a range of reasons — from his fear of the National Rifle Association to his reluctance to so much as acknowledge poverty — Romney prefers to propagate bigoted birtherisms and exploit sound bites rather than to tap a credible attack line on Obama’s hometown. It’s unfortunate, because unlike the gaffes that have reverberated this election season, the daily dread of life for disparate voters is a critically important issue, even if neither candidate finds it worth mentioning. P
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social-media sensation of last week’s presidential debate. The unfortunate phrase was born as Mitt Romney described his quest to find qualified female candidates to fill his toplevel appointments as a governor in 2003. “I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks?’ and they brought us whole binders full of women,” he said. But Romney’s story, as he told it, was not true. As I reported on the Phoenix website immediately after the debate, Romney did not initiate a search for qualified female applicants; a bipartisan coalition of 40 women’s organizations spent months on the task, independently. Dubbed the Massachusetts Gender Appointment Project (MassGAP), the coalition planned to present its results to whoever won the gubernatorial race. And did so, to Romney, after the 2002 election. Yes, in binders. The spike of interest about those binders might seem like a passing memestorm. But it opens the door to an interesting question: should voters be concerned that a President Romney administration might not have women in key policy-influencing positions? It’s not a new thought. Way back in 1994, Senator Ted Kennedy criticized Mitt Romney for the lack of women and minority partners at his company, Bain Capital. And not much seems to have changed, judging by the staff he assembled for this presidential campaign. Aside from the communications team, headed by Andrea Saul and Gail Gitcho, that team has been almost exclusively male at the top levels. The campaign manager, top strategists, political director, digital director, policy director, operations director, and finance chair are all men, as are the overwhelming majority of his policy advisors.
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It is true that — thanks in part to the résumés provided by MassGAP — Romney chose 14 women among his first 42 high-level appointments, according to a UMass-Boston study. But for the most part, those women were in charge of departments and agencies of little interest to Romney. Key posts, including those in charge of the budget,
Romney’s binder story was not true; but should voters be concerned about his record on women and work?
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economic development, transportation, and public safety, were always held by men under Romney. And the overall numbers of female appointees later declined. Romney also took heat when the Boston Globe reported, in early 2005, that 17 of his first 19 judicial nominations were men. That was despite major changes to the judicial nominating process, initiated by Romney to de-politicize what had, frankly, been an old-boys’ network. Romney also stocked the Judicial Nominating Committee with women and minorities. “The goal was to increase the diversity of the pool of applicants,” says Dan Winslow, state representative from Norfolk who was Romney’s chief legal counsel at the time. In some respects, it worked — for racial and ethnic diversity, and in promoting women to magistrate positions. But in recruiting women judges, Winslow concedes, “Did we succeed? No, we did not.”
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Critics say that more should have been done — but that Romney only took further steps later, to fix the political damage from the Globe story.
“I do not think that there was any effort to recruit women to the bench” before that, says Boston attorney Marianne LeBlanc, who was president of the Women’s Bar Association at the time. “To the contrary, there were many qualified applicants who were overlooked.” And that might be the real lesson some see in the binder story. Romney told it — and twisted it to take the credit — not because he in fact sees the importance of having women in powerful positions, but because, for political reasons, he wanted to convince women that he does. In almost the same breath, Romney cited his concern that businesses have flexible hours for women who need to get home to cook dinner for their children. That reveals a lot, Romney’s 2002 opponent, Shannon O’Brien, says. “His comments in the debate indicate that qualified female candidates were window dressing, rather than part of his thinking,” she says. “He’s painting an image of himself as a knight in shining armor, who is going to pluck women out of obscurity and let them work for him — and get home to cook dinner.” P
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with so few of these sprawling hospital sites still standing, it’s a good thing that their awe-inspiring architecture and curious histories have fascinated so many photographers. new england native John Gray began by shooting Danvers, which was near his home; his interest in abandoned sites grew, buttressed by desire to immortalize architectural history before it meets a wrecking ball. the images on pages 26 and 28 come from his Abandoned Asylums of New England – A Photographic Journey, which includes historic background from new york’s museum of disaBiLity. But as for stories of hauntings? Gray says they don’t mean boo to him. find more at grayphotography.net.
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hen American Horror Story: Asylum debuted October 17 on FX, it was still a show about moderately attractive people getting the crap scared out of them. But AHS’s second season also boasts a completely new plot and a mostly new cast — all set in a fictitious 1960s Boston insane asylum.
It’s not the first time a Bostonarea asylum has ended up on the big screen (Shutter Island was filmed at Medfield State Hospital), but in terms of outright horror, it’s tough to invent anything more messed up than what actually happened at Massachusetts’s network of public mental hospitals. From Waltham’s Fernald State School (where developmentally disabled boys were fed breakfasts laced with radioactive material as part of a 1940s MIT-led experiment) to the Belchertown State School (which closed in 1992 amid accusations of overcrowding, squalor, and patient abuse), our state’s institutional memories are riddled
with sordid tales of deplorable physical conditions, sexual misconduct, and cruelly unusual torture masquerading as “treatment.” Even in disrepair, these asylums still haunt our imaginations. In the new volume, Abandoned Asylums of New England: A Photographic Journey [People Ink Press], out this month, New England native John Gray collects striking images that convey the evocative contradictions between the buildings’ majestic grandeur and their brooding decay. The same sense permeates a pop-up photography exhibit this month at Zuzu in Cambridge by Jason Baker, whose book series
“Abandoned” and “Urban Decay” document his explorations of New England’s eeriest asylums. And it’s probably no surprise that, even as the rise of Big Pharma and privatized mental health care have spirited these institutions away, locals have grown up believing that many of these sites are haunted. They are: if not by ghosts, then by the twisted and shameful legacy of what happened in these places. We visited three of the most notorious abandoned hospitals in the state to get the backstories of what transpired within their walls . . . and the scoop on what is alleged to lurk in their ruins today.
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pHoto by JASon bAker “Worcester State Lunatic Hospital” doesn’t ooze touchyfeely compassion, but after opening under that name in 1833, the facility became America’s first publicly funded hospital for the insane to employ “moral treatment.” The then-enlightened approach aimed to cure patients — not just confine, starve, and beat them. Ironically, in 1936 the hospital welcomed Donald Ewen Cameron as its director of research. Cameron, creator of a cruel brainwashing technique called “psychic driving,” was recruited by the CIA to lead “Project MKULTRA”: an illegal, top-secret mind-control program that used citizens as test subjects. (LSD dosing? Sensory deprivation? Insulin-induced comas? Check, check, check.) Less sure is whether Cameron was already experimenting with torture at Worcester. Following a four-alarm 1991 fire, the hospital’s heavily damaged main buildings were closed; but exploring their decrepit wards has become rite of passage for troublemaking teenagers and amateur ghost hunters. The sparkling new, state-of-the-art Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital opened on the grounds this August, and officials are debating what to do with the historic older buildings that have gone to shit. The clock tower’s floor is covered in pigeon guano, a state official told preservationists this year. Oh, the horror.
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pHoto by JoHn grAy The (un)holy grail of haunted asylums. It opened in 1878, by cosmic coincidence, on the same hilltop spot in Danvers — formerly Salem Village — where witch-trial judge John Hathorne once lived. By the mid-1900s, the institution was nearly quadruple its intended capacity, indiscriminately packing the criminally insane alongside mildly bummed-out housewives. Danvers was plagued with allegations of abusive treatments, especially with regard to its “expert” lobotomies, which used electroshock therapy to render a patient unconscious, after which a metal pick would be driven behind the eye socket and wiggled back and forth to sever neural connections in the brain. “The things I saw inside would make your blood curdle,” says Eric Perry, founder of the Central NH Paranormal Society, who as a teenager visited his uncle, a hospital barber, there. He remembers ghastly sights — nude patients, covered in razor slashes — and grisly stories, like that of a 16 year-old girl who sliced an orderly’s throat with a scalpel. Based on the so-called Stone Tape theory, such suffering made Danvers a likely haunt, says Sam Baltrusis, author of the new book Ghosts of Boston: Haunts of the Hub. “That paranormal theory speculates that the environment can absorb energy from a high-tension event, like a lobotomy or suicide,” says Baltrusis. Strange activity started while the hospital was still open and flourished after it closed in 1992, becoming a deified Big Score for urban explorers, photographers, and thrill seekers. An entire horror film revolves around the place: the 2001 cult gem Session 9, about a terrorized asbestos-cleanup crew, filmed in the abandoned hospital. Eventually the asylum was demolished, save the façade of its signature spire, to make room for luxury condos. Today, say ghost-hunting groups, apartment residents have reported everything from receiving mysterious scratches to the face in the nearby patient cemetery to children with paranormal playmates.
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INSTITUTIoNaL MeMorIeS Abuse, neglect, and other sordid stories have led New England paranormal groups to label these as historic haunts.
Medfield State Hospital
Belchertown State School. Such “schools” were essentially prisons for the mentally disabled, and Belchertown closed in 1992 amid accusations of overcrowded squalor and patient abuse. One ghost hunter claims his crew has had hair and arms grabbed by unseen hands, leaving painful, finger-shaped bruises.
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Fernald State School. The Waltham facility is the nation’s oldest publicly funded institution for the developmentally disabled. Between 1946-53, boys baited to join a “science club,” were fed breakfasts laced with radioactive material as part of a MIT-led experiment. Foxborough State Hospital. First an alcoholism treatment center, then a mental hospital, and now a condo building where residents report hearing disembodied voices and seeing shadowy figures at the foot of the bed. Medfield State Hospital. The Shutter Island filming location is the rare abandoned site with grounds (not buildings) open to the public. But Fallout founder Plante says visitor tires are regularly found slashed, and he’s stumbled across pentagrams drawn on floors, with chairs arranged at each point. THEPHOENIX.cOm :: 10.26.12 27
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pHoto by JoHn grAy Waltham’s Met State didn’t earn its nickname the “Hospital of Seven Teeth” for a subpar dental department. It refers to the gruesome 1978 hatchet murder of Anne Marie Davee by another patient, Melvin Wilson, who kept seven of his victim’s teeth as ghastly souvenirs. Wilson buried the rest of Davee’s dismembered body in shallow graves on the property — some of which, it’s said, were never found. These aren’t the only unceremonious burial grounds at the hospital, which operated from 1930 to 1992. During road construction in 2006, state workers accidentally demolished a number of graves in the adjacent, unkempt cemetery, where hundreds of anonymous markers identify patients only as numbers. And there are rumors of cults digging up corpses to use in rituals, says Matt Plante, who explores and photographs sites like this for his collaborative, Fallout Urban Exploration. Plante has found evidence that squatters made hidden homes within Metropolitan’s abandoned wards and the maze-like miles of underground tunnels between buildings: beds and personal belongings would pop up in previously empty rooms. Following recent demolition for condo space, only one original brick building remains. Any takers? 28 10.26.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOm
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oe “Jiggy” Webb is talking to dead people. He’s standing on Boston Common at 10 o’clock at night; the moonlight glints off his shiny bald head and the gold dog tag around his neck. He’s staring at his hand-held Ghost Meter Pro, which is buzzing and flashing. “Are you buried somewhere right below us?” he asks. “Can you make the lights blink, please?” The red light on the Ghost Meter Pro blinks once.
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now-deceased Great Elm. We’re here because the tree was once used for hangings. And we’re not alone. “Are you frightened of us being here?” Webb asks the entity. I gently encourage it not to be afraid. The light on one of our ghost detectors suddenly turns on. It’s a warm night, but I can’t shake the chills. ebb was just seven years old W when he met his first ghost. He says a man he’d never seen before
introduced himself and then disappeared when his grandmother asked whom he was talking to. “It wasn’t like it was a reflection in a mirror. Clearly it was like somebody stand-
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ing right in front of me.” Webb says he later recognized the apparition — when he saw a photograph of his grandfather, who had died before Webb was born. Webb is originally from Mattapan, but his family moved around a lot. He lived for a time in Brockton, in a house he swears was haunted. Windows reflected strange faces. A family puppy got out of the house mysteriously and was hit by a car. And his father left the family. “My father will not talk about what happened in that house,” he says. As a teenager, Webb says, he started selling crack before he was old enough to drive. But that wasn’t the life he wanted. He got into setting up sound systems for an uncle with connections in the entertainment business, and soon he found himself working security at clubs. “Joey never finished high school, and he was able to start a business of his own,” his older sister Serena explains. “His escape was ‘Okay, I’m gonna make money, and I’m gonna be happy when I get rich.’ ” In 2003, he was working as a security supervisor for a Saugus nightclub, the Palace, when he was wounded in a drive-by shooting. “People’s first perception is there’s a six-foot-four, baldheaded black man who dresses like I dress, so he had to be doing something wrong,” says Webb. “Sorry — I got shot at work. Nothin’ gangsta about that.” A profound scar runs the lower
length of Webb’s right leg. He says bullet bits are still stuck somewhere in his muscles, deep below the flesh. “I’m more afraid of live people than I am [of the] dead,” he says. “The dead have never hurt me. The dead have never shot me, or stabbed me, or cut me,” Webb says. “It’s live people who do that type of stuff.” He still carries a gun. And he takes solace in the words tattooed on his massive bicep (despite a missing letter): “WHAT DO[E]SN’T KILL ME WILL MAKE ME STRONGER.” Three years after he was shot, Webb started having problems seeing. He was almost blind in his right eye by the time he checked into the hospital. When doctors gave him a CT scan, they discovered something potentially deadly. The doctors told him he had a sausage-shaped aneurysm sitting on his optic nerve, on the right side of his brain, Webb recalls. They opened his skull to operate. Unlike the bullet scars, evidence of his craniotomy is now barely visible. A smooth line no thicker than dental floss starts at his brow and runs over his forehead to the back of his right ear. Webb calls the experience an awakening — an event that inspired new life aspirations that go beyond money and fame, the traditional tenets of working in the entertainment scene. “I said [to Joey], ‘When you had this brain aneurysm, you brought something back with you,’ ” Serena >> GhOSTS on p 34
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At 42 years old, Webb has formed an intimate bond with death. He’s been shot in the leg, and once walked away from a totaled car with no more than a bruise. And after his last brush with mortality — a brain aneurysm in 2006 — Webb started working outreach for the other side. By day he runs his own security firm — working bouncer gigs and bodyguarding stars like Faith Evans, Naughty by Nature, and Gavin DeGraw. But he spends nights immersed in supernatural research. He’s a paranormal investigator — a ghost hunter — and he calls his operation ParanormalHood. Thanks to TV shows like the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventurers, ghost hunting has become a national obsession. And it’s particularly trendy in historical New England. Massachusetts alone boasts 70 paranormal operations, with plenty more in New Hampshire, Maine, and Connecticut — and, of course, the Syfy reality show Ghost Hunters is based in Rhode Island. All these groups have two things in common: they have a fascination with the supernatural, and, overwhelmingly, they are white. That lack of diversity is one of many reasons Webb is shopping his own ghost-hunting reality show, also called ParanormalHood. He wants to investigate ghosts in communities of color. “Who gives a fuck about Lizzy Borden’s house? That’s nothing new,” says Webb, impugning the limited scope of major-network ghosthunting shows. “You don’t see anybody go to the ’hood. They’re not gonna go to Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan, to ask them what they’ve seen, what might be haunted over there. It’s not their territory . . . and frankly I don’t think they give a fuck.” I first met Webb at a bar back in June, during a networking event held by Press Pass TV, a local organization offering media training for Boston’s underserved youth. Within minutes of introducing himself, Webb began describing life as the head of his own personal security business, namedropping famous clients whose bodies he’s guarded. Then he asked if I believe in ghosts. “People say YOLO, but how do you know?” So here I am, out on the Common with Webb and tonight’s paranormal crew of four — all of whom are people of color. We huddle beneath hazy moonlight, near the six-point footpath intersection at the base of Flagstaff Hill. We linger on a grass patch not far from a plaque memorializing a
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says. “He’s more open than he was before in terms of talking to us about things.” Webb says it opened his third eye. “After the brain surgery, I really feel like somebody flipped a light switch and illuminated the world for me a little bit better, to see it more for what it is,” Webb says. “I don’t know what happened, but something happened. Everything is so much clearer.”
Marlon Orozco, videographer
“They don’t know the ’hood ghost stories like I know them. They don’t have a ’hood ghost story like I have.” — Joe “Jiggy” webb
seeking a new kind of ghost-hunting team, one that focused on unreported hauntings and, in particular, communities of color. “You look at [ghost-hunting TV shows], and you don’t see a black person. They maybe have a black cameraman; that’s about the size of it,” he says. “So they’re not going to take that leap and go talk to someone in the ’hood because that’s not their area, it’s not their territory. They don’t know the ’hood ghost stories like I know them. They don’t have a ’hood ghost story like I have.” At first, he says, most people he reached out to didn’t take him seriously. But one day last spring, Webb found a kindred spirit: Marlon Orozco, a local photographer and videographer who shares his reverence for the supernatural. Orozco says he loved Webb’s ParanormalHood pitch, and they’ve been working as a team ever since. The duo quickly expanded into an amorphous entourage of inquisitive characters, including some of Webb’s friends who also grew up in Boston, and who spend their days in an array of non-ghost-hunting jobs that range from Zumba instruction to firefighting and retail. The ParanormalHood team call themselves HooDeez — and each has a nickname that could double as a rap handle. (Webb started calling me “Sprite” after my first investigation.) All HooDeez come with some personal form of prior paranormal experience — and a hunger to learn more about the world beyond the physical. As I got to know the team, I began to realize everyone has a ghost story. I met most of the seasoned HooDeez, like Daneja (pronounced “Danger,” with a Boston accent), a firefighter and military vet with a wry sense of humor; J’Riggs, executive director of a nonprofit; and Renaissance, a personal trainer and health and wellness coach. They range from
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hen Webb decided to start docuW menting his quest for answers about the supernatural, he began
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ebb has a theory about ghosts. W According to Webb, the bonds people form with their loved ones and
possessions can make it difficult for them to let go of the physical world. “A lot of mansions are haunted,” he says. “Why? Because rich people are very, very territorial. They work hard to be rich. They become very, very anchored, very attached to these things . . . so it’s easier for you to be trapped here, because you’re worried about your car, you’re worried about your mansion, or you’re worried about your girlfriend, or your cat, or your dog, the money hidden in your wall that you should have spent.” He didn’t grow up with that feeling of attachment, he says — just the opposite. 36 10.26.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOm
Webb checks his Ghost Meter Pro
“Young black people, including myself — I didn’t believe I was going to live past my 20s, my early 20s. So if somebody would have told me 20 years ago, before I started my business, when I was wild in the streets and just doin’ whatever, that I’d be 42 years old, I would have never believed you,” he says. “There’s almost a feeling of hopelessness with some black kids who just don’t care. It’s like, ‘Okay, this is the life, I’m a gangbanger, and if I get shot and die I don’t care.’ There’s no attachment.” That’s not to say that you aren’t as likely to find ghosts in Mattapan as in Middleboro, he adds. “We don’t know what is there; that’s the whole great thing about this,” Webb says. “This is new territory. We’re exploring something new. I have a hundred stories, and I grew up in the ’hood. There are other people in the ’hood with stories. That’s the whole point, to reach out and get those stories so people will understand it’s not relegated to one area. You’re giving a voice to people who no one is talking to.”
s the Ghost Meter Pro buzzes ACommon, and flashes in the dark of the Webb continues asking
questions. “Have you been here a long time?” The lights blink yes. “Are you enjoying playing with these lights? Can you make them go off?” The light flickers. He asks why the ghost has been tickling Daneja. “Are you touching him?” “This is bugging me out right now,” says Daneja. “Is it because of his hat?” “Does my hat remind you of somebody?” They determine that Daneja’s hat looks like a soldier’s hat. “Were you hung here? Were you murdered here, maybe by a soldier, someone wearing a similar hat?” The light blinks. “Were you yourself a soldier?” The light flares brightly. “Did you fight in a war?” “Did you die in a war?” “Are you native? Are you Indian?” “Can you make those lights blink?”
encounter on the Common, which has become the pilot episode of ParanormalHood. He’s in talks with a couple of major networks, he says, but doesn’t want to disclose which ones. Before we watch, he flips on the Ghost Meter Pro and passes me a blunt. I already feel strange smoking in the presence of spiritual altars; a photograph of his grandmother rests peacefully underneath a bouquet of rainbowcolored carnations, and the brightest light source in the dark kitchen comes from a purple light bulb mounted to a wall sconce in the shape of a spider. But having the meter on is just a little too much. I make him turn it off. Webb isn’t easy to keep up with. Six roaches sit in a porcelain ashtray painted with images from Barcelona. I notice Webb’s “JiGGY” name tag, from the night we met, stuck to the speakers set up on his kitchen table. He turns on the first episode of ParanormalHood, and I start reliving my experience while watching the footage. My stomach knots up and I get the chills — the same unease I felt that night. But to Webb, the supernatural is no longer frightening. He’s not trying to capitalize on fear. And as I ask him about his plans for turning the makeshift documentary into an actual television series, I start to realize his aspirations really aren’t for fame, either. “I’m not trying to have some great, great impact on everybody in the world,” he tells me later. “But if I can reach some people who normally don’t wanna talk about something or open up their minds to other possibilities . . . I’ve accomplished something. I wanna leave this world a little better than I found it. Will I find that through the paranormal? Yes. I’ve already been there. “I’m not talking about radical things . . . what I’m saying is it’s a consciousness. People don’t understand, your brain is such a big, beautiful thing . . . “The new incarnation of my brain allows me to just feel good, and think, and not be afraid to think outside the box, not be afraid to learn more, to try to talk to other people, get their stories, and it’s a community — a community that I’m in touch with: people who want more than just to live and die.” P
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couple of months later, I head Awants over to Webb’s apartment. He to show me the video of our
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skeptics to firm believers. The bond uniting them is the desire to explain the inexplicable. “I’m looking to see if we can find a way to prove there’s an afterlife,” Orozco says, “to get more answers to questions like, ‘Is this it?’ ” He says he’d be upset if it is. The HooDeez roll with heavy equipment to detect the presence of ghosts. On investigations, Webb hauls a duffle bag full of everything from supersized night-vision goggles to a spirit box (used to contact ghosts through radio frequencies) to various EMF detectors. The most popular one is the Ghost Meter Pro, which retails on Amazon.com for around $30 and comes with an “All New Exclusive Ghost Dialog Mode,” in which “the ghost can answer 4 to 9 questions in a yes or no format.” Tonight, Webb spreads out the ghost-hunting gadgets on a stone bench by Park Street station just before we embark on our ghosthunting expedition. He tells us we can each pick one to hold during the investigation. I pass and clutch my notebook tighter — but the HooDeez jump right in. “That’s cute,” says Daneja, grabbing an infrared thermometer that looks like a handgun and has a laser sight. Then things start getting weird. Daneja begins laughing — it’s like he’s being tickled. “Something’s buggin’ me out.” He’s a grown man giggling. “I’m scratchin’ like crazy.” Orozco, always a sweet-talker with the spirits, asks out loud: “Are you still here?” He’s not talking to us living folk, and a cheap flashlight-turned-ghost sensor flickers brighter without human contact. We flash each other glances that ask whether it’s a coincidence.
Spotlight :: a very phx halloween
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Rounding up your perfect Halloween week stage n’ scream
“THE RUDE BOYZ PRESENT: LAUGH TIL YOU DIE!” HALLOWEEN COMEDY SHOW › Halloween comedy revue with Lamont Price, Dan Crohn, Bigg Nez, Julie Kityama › October 25 @ 8:30 pm › Sweetwater Café, 3 Boylston Place, Boston › $15 › 617.351.2515 EVERYTHING THAT CREEPS › Scary art! › Reception Oct 27: 7-10 pm; open through October 31 › Lincoln Arts Project, 289 Moody St, Waltham › free › lincolnartsproject.com GOREFEST X: 28 DAYS LATTE › Musical horror-comedy › October 25-27 + October 31 @ 8 + 10 pm; October 28 + October 30 8 pm › ImprovBoston Mainstage, 40 Prospect St, Cambridge › 617.576.1253
Themed costume party, pick your side. . . . › October 27 @ 8 pm › Goodbar, 183 State St, Boston › $10 › 617.723.7050 SEXY SWINGERS COUPLES AND SINGLE LADIES ONLY COSTUME PARTY › Adult dance party with DJs, cash bar, and a clothing optional pool party › October 27 @ 8 pm › International Inn & Suites, 662 Main St, Hyannis › $50 per couple › 508.775.5600 “THE GREATEST BAR’S HAUNTED HOUSE” › Four floors of terror with sounds provided by Breeazy and prizes for costumes › October 27 @ 9 pm › Greatest Bar, 262 Friend St, Boston › $15 › 617.367.0544 “DIRTY DOCTORS & NAUGHTY NURSES HALLOWEEN BASH” › The theme of this year’s edition of the Estate’s annual Hal-
dle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $12; $10 advance › 617.864.EAST “HALLOWEEN HANGOVER NIGHT 2” › With Effzero, Waves, Semi-Good Looking, Shotgun Waltz, and Ways to Fall › October 27 @ 9 pm › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 “HALLOWEEN PARTY!” › The New Dumb & Friends as the Hives, Great Lakes USA as the Lawrence Arms, Roger as Dashboard Confessional, Courters as the Sonics, and ExMagicians as the Clash › October 29 @ 8 pm › Charlie’s Kitchen, 10 Eliot St, Cambridge › $5 › 617.492.9646 “HALLOWEEN COSTUME SHOW” › Babydriver as Modern Lovers ’88, Earthquake Party! as Nirvana, Personal Finance as Them,
scary movies
SHUDDER FEST 2012 › Curated selection of horror features and shorts › October 26-27 @ 7 pm › Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville › $10 › 617.625.5700 “THE COOLIDGE’S 12TH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN HORROR MOVIE MARATHON” › Twelve-hour marathon featuring The Exorcist and The Thing with live music, burlesque, costume contest, and more › October 27 @ midnight › Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline › $20; $15 double feature only › 617.734.2500 “HAUNTED HOUSE OF PANCAKES” › Short films and videos dedicated to flapjacks and all things spooky. Admission includes a stack of pancakes › October 30 @ 7 pm › Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge › $5 › 617.876.6837
terror at sea
HALLOWEEN ON THE HARBOR › Cruise from bar to bar to eat, drink, party, and collect grown-up treats. Participating venues include the Barking Crab, Barlow’s, Jerry Remy’s, and more › October 26 @ 7 pm › Boston Duck Tours, 800 Boylston St, Prudential Center, Boston › $5 › 617.723.3825 BOSTON HARBOR SINGLES HALLOWEEN CRUISE › Bon Voyage Party at Howl at the Moon followed by a boat cruise > October 27 @5:30 pm › Howl at the Moon, 184 High St, Boston › $40; $35 advance › 617.292.4695 MONSTER BOAT JAM 2012 › Party cruise with DJs, cash bar, costume contest, and more › October 26 @ 7:30 pm › Mass Bay Lines, 60 Rowes Wharf, Boston › $20$25 › 617.542.8000
loween party is sexy medical staff. EDM music all night. Costumes mandatory! › October 31 @ 10:30 pm › Estate, 1 Boylston Pl, Boston › $30 › 617.351.7000 “THE EMERALD FACTORY” › Halloween costume party to benefit non-profit rescue for dogs. with Willy Wonka-themed decorations, drinks, desserts, and more. Music by DJ Case › October 31 @ 8 pm › Emerald Lounge at Revere Hotel, 200 Stuart St, Boston › $10 › emeraldfactory.eventbrite.com
costume balls
rock ‘til you drop...dead
SBS HALLOWEEN PARTY › DJ A-Con playing top 40s, group and individual costume contests, vodka drink specials, and more › October 26 @ 9 pm › Sweet Caroline’s Restaurant & Bar, 1260 Boylston St, Boston › $20 › 617.424.1260 BLOODFEAST HALLOWEEN PARTY› The New England chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists 9th annual Halloween bash with a costume contest ($1000 cash prize), music by DJs David Day, Die Young, Nemesis, Volvox, and Arcrunner, live art, and more › October 27 @ 10 pm › Machine, 1256 Boylston St, Boston › $15 › 617.536.1950 HEAVEN & HELL HALLOWEEN ›
dancing on our grave
RAVEN: DYKE NIGHT’S 14TH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN PARTY › With DJ Susan Esthera, costume contest, photo booth, tarot card readings, and more › October 26 @ 9 pm › Milky Way, at the Brewery, 284 Armory St, Jamaica Plain › $10 › 617.524.3740 “HALLOWEEN DANCE PARTY AT PRIME” › With the Crystal Method live! › October 26 @ 10 pm › Umbria Prime, 295 Franklin St, Boston › $20 › 617.338.1000 “NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEADHEAD HALLOWEEN PARTY” › With Primordial Sounds, Creaturos, the Migs, and Freak Flag DJs. › October 27 @ 10 pm › ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.864.3278 CEREMONY TURNS 16 › The Goth Night celebrates 16 years with DJs El Poser, Lost Boy, Static, and Black/Mail. Goth-industrial-fetishpunk-creative encouraged, all black minimum (prize for best costume) › October 29 @ 9 pm › An Tua Nua, 835 Beacon St, Boston› $5 › 617.262.2121 “HALLOWEENIE MASK-O-RADE” › With DJ D’Hana, Blk.Adonis, and DJ Leah V › October 30 @ 10 pm › ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $3 › 617.864.3278 “THROWED HAUNTED MANSION” › With DJs E-Marce and Texas Mike, Mobsky, Bad Magician, and Kevin Wang › October 30-31 @ 9 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $25 two-day pass › 617.864. EAST SON OF FRANKENSTEEZ HALLOWEEN EP RELEASE PARTY” › Halloween record release for Mister Jason’s EP Son of Frankensteez. With DJs Frank White, Drew, and J-Zone spinning 45s only all night › October 31 @ 8 pm › Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston › $10 › 617.236.7600
more thrills n’ chills
“HALLOWEEN HANGOVER NIGHT 1” › With Cougar Bait, Mojo Kick, Sour D Cosmodrome, and Western Education › October 26 @ 7:30 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $12; $10 advance › 617.864.EAST “HALLOWEEN HANGOVER NIGHT 1” › With Skinny Cleveland, Ryan Jackson Troika, Left Hand Does, School For Robots, and Bent Knee › October 26 @ 9 pm › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 “HALLOWEEN HANGOVER NIGHT 2” › With Shoney Lamar & the Equal Rights, OTP, Ellis Ashbrook, Kristen Ford Band, and the Symptoms › October 27 @ 7:30 pm › Mid-
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and Pimple Zoo as Guided By Voices › October 31 @ 9 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $8 › 617.492.2327 “HALLOWEEN HOOTENANNY” › With Otter Control and Coq Au Vin › October 31 @ 8 pm › Vault, 105 Water St , Boston › 617.292.3355 THE HARDER THEY COME 40TH ANNIVERSARY HALLOWEEN TRIBUTE SHOW › Destroy Babylon play The Harder They Come, with the Sterns as Fleetwood Mac and the Fat Mikes as NOFX › October 31 @ 8 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864.EAST “THE PILL 10TH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN SHOW” › The Luxury as Oasis, the New Highway Hymnal as the Stooges, Color Channel as LCD Soundsystem, Ruby Ridge as the Knife, and DJ Ken & Michael V › October 31 @ 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $10 › 617.566.9014 “WALTER SICKERT PRESENTS THE SQUIDHOUSE OF HORROR” › Hosted by Johnny Blazes with music by Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys, XNY, Darling Pet Munkee, and Moe Pope. Halloween burlesque by the Bunny Collective › October 31 @ 8 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $15 › 617.779.0140
DARKNESS! › Gallery show and costume party in support of Hellbound III: Darkness › October 27 @ 6 pm › Andromeda Gallery, 119 Braintree St, Suite 320, Allston › Free › 617.835.9129 PANIC IN THE PARK › Haunted 5K obstacle run with a post-race party › October 27 @ 6 pm › Hookslide Kelly’s, 19 Merrimack St, Lowell › $60; $55 advance › 978.654.4225 “IF YOU GOT IT, HAUNT IT” › The Slaughterhouse Sweethearts + Femme Bones + B.L.O.W.W. + Anna Phylaxis + Maggie + Honey Pie › October 28 @ 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 MARKET OF THE LIVING DEAD › The last SoWa Open Market of the season with costume contest, pumpkin carving, live music, and more › October 28 @ 10 am › SoWa Open Market, 460 Harrison Ave, Boston › free › www. sowaopenmarket.com/special-events/
Feast . . . oF Flesh
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS PATRÓN DINNER › Five-course Halloween-themed Mexican dinner. Seating limited, make reservations now› October 30 @ 6 pm › Papagayo Mexican Kitchen and Tequila Bar, 283 Summer St, Boston › $50 › 617.423.1000 ALL HALLOWS’ EVE BREW HA HA › Halloween themed food and drink specials, with a costume contest › October 31 @ 8 pm › John Harvard’s Brew House, 33 Dunster St, Cambridge › No cover › 617.868.3585
spotlight :: nightlife
Royale
Things ThaT go bump and gRind in The nighT
the coyote and the fisher cat, the lciesikeBoston go-go dancer is a nocturnal spethat has returned in full force after a
long period of declining numbers. And it’s fair to say that Barbie Gilman is leading the charge. She’s the in-house “creative connoisseur” at Royale, and has been hiring, clothing, and den-momming go-go dancers for over 15 years — going back to the days when Avalon and Axis ruled Lansdowne Street. While her own dancing days are long behind her, she has become the wizard behind the curtain — the one pulling the strings, fluffing the feathers, and making sure all the magic stays magical. We asked Gilman to drop some go-go knowledge on us. What you need to know is this: A go-go dancer (ahem, performer) is not a stripper. “The biggest misconception is that they take their clothes off, “ Gilman says. “That they take money, they’re not smart, they’re promiscuous, which is not true. My performers have actually gone on tour with really famous artists, are actresses and singers, and are really well known. It’s pretty amazing seeing them grow.” It’s not about looks. Well, not all about looks. “What I look for in a girl [I book] is energy. Energy is number one,” she says. “Someone who’s going to give off that
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energy that everyone is going to feed off of. They’re going to create that vibe and allure that people want and want to see and admire, that beauty from within.” If you’re thinking about trying to cop a quick feel . . . “Don’t. Do. It,” she warns. “There’s a very big security force.” And it’s not likely you’re going to score a post-performance date with one of the dancers, either. “They’re walked to their vehicles,” Gilman says. “Plus, they arrive in loungewear, and then when they perform they’re dressed to the nines in, you know, hair pieces and eyelashes and lots of stage
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makeup. Then they leave in yoga-wear with no makeup, so you won’t even really recognize them. It’s like a different life.” Which is why the life Gilman and her girls create, for those brief hours in the club, is all about fantasy. “I have aerialists and sometimes drag queens onstage,” she says. “Sometimes I have a bear running around onstage taking photos. It’s not just some girl in a bikini and shorts standing onstage and calling herself a dancer. It’s like live art; that’s what I think it’s all about. It’s definitely changed from the ’90s to now. It’s more modern.”
Try not to be that weird guy, because there’s always one. “There was a patron who used to go to all the clubs and say that he was my brother and used that to get into all the clubs complimentary,” she says. “And that wasn’t the case. People would say, ‘Oh, I met your brother, Barbie,’ and I said, ‘Excuse me?’ ” Go-go girls dig them some Psy. “You know that song everyone’s obsessed with right now?” Gilman asks. “The one with the Asian guy who raps?” Ah, yes, “Gangnam Style.” “Yeah! The girls do a little choreographed number before the show . . . and they really like that song right now.” _alexand Ra Cavallo
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Here are a few favorite haunts for local go-goers. Machine › 1254 Boylston St, Boston :: 617.536.1950 :: machine-boston. com
Royale › 279 Tremont St, Boston :: 617.338.7699 :: royaleboston.com
Royale photos by Natasha Moustache; GilMaN, uNdeRbaR, aNd MachiNe photos by deRek kouyouMjiaN; thRowed photos by jaMes coletta
ThRowed › Various locations :: throwedpresents. com UndeRbaR › 275 Tremont St, Boston :: 617.292.0080 :: underbaronline. com
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ou might know Brian Poe as the chef responsible for the yak fever that swept Boston with the June opening of his Beacon Hill joint, the Tip Tap Room. (Seriously. Yak sold out in three hours.) Or maybe he first made an impression that time his namesake burger — Kobe stuffed with lobster, foie gras, and black truffle — totally slayed you at Poe’s Kitchen at the Rattlesnake. Either way, you’re probably pumped for his next project, Estelle’s, slated to bring its Southern fare to the South End by early December. Us, too. So we got Poe, an avid list maker, to pause from his preparations to give us a bite-by-bite recap of his week, from morning slurps of veal stock to beery nightcaps. He responded with such military precision — even noting a trip to check the ol’ cholesterol — that we could only squeeze in three of his busy days, most of which are spent dashing from one restaurant to another, tasting everything. That counts as exercise, right?
TUESDAY
8 am Coffee, banana, one cup of fresh blueberry juice, and two ounces of turkey. 9 am Granola bar. 10:30 am Two mini whoopie pies at the Tip Tap Room (ensuring quality control, of course). 11:30 am A teaspoonful of each stock at the Tip Tap Room (lamb, veal, chicken, turkey, and mushroom) and one of each potato (creamed corn, tapenade, horseradish, chevre, and chive and seven bacon). 1:30 pm A bowl of rice with veal stock and toasted bread. 2:30 pm Tested the Beacon
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Hill Bacon recipe at the Tip Tap Room. (Part of our delay in starting brunch is perfecting this bacon. It’s cured with all the ingredients of Boston baked beans, then rubbed with Boston baked beans, then rolled into pancetta, then smoked.) 3 pm Went to check cholesterol and blood pressure after the bacon testing! 4:30 pm Corianderdijon- and thyme-marinated Iberico pork special with apple-cider mashed potatoes and homemade cider beer stock. 11:30 pm The kitchen
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crew makes amazing eggfried rice and leftover tips for our staff meal. I paired it with a Boddingtons. 12:30 am: At home, one spoonful of Vermont Brie cheese and a glass of cabernet. Okay, three spoonfuls.
WEDNESDAY
8 am Coffee, blueberry juice, and two spoons of Vermont Brie cheese on toast. 10:15 am A spoonful of each stock at the Tip Tap Room, potatoes, and each vinaigrette for our salads. Noon Rock-shrimp appetizer and the lamb entrée at the Tip Tap Room.
3:30 pm At Poe’s Kitchen at the Rattlesnake to taste the Steenbrugge Dubbel beer black-pepper wildboar-bacon cheese fondue for the Belgian Beer Dinner prep. 6:30 pm Re-taste of beer cheese; taste of Bruges endive salad with Geuze Boon vinaigrette, candied walnuts, and Chimay à la Bière cheese; taste of moules frites (Blue Hill Bay mussels steamed in shallot, garlic, tarragon, and Steenbrugge Wit-Blanche broth with yucca frites); taste of Flemish rabbit stew; taste of Grand Marnier Belgian waffle with raspberry sauce
Poe’s latest has become a dining destination for Boston’s most adventurous eaters — especially those hankering for something a bit more gamey than chicken. Last we
and chocolate whipped cream. I made some minor adjustments and tasted for our beer dinner until 8 pm. 11:30 pm Rice with chicken stock and two Boddingtons to wash it down back at the Tip Tap Room. 12:45 am Home for a sandwich of a slice of turkey and Swiss cheese rolled up, seasoned with peppercorn and coriander and then dipped in Dijon mustard. Of course, this was accompanied by a glass of cabernet.
THURSDAY
8:30 am Coffee, two slices of cheese, and toast. 11 am Taste-testing at the
Tip Tap Room (all sauces, all potatoes, and our new yak burger). 3:45 pm Tasting for the soon-to-open Estelle’s with chef Eric Gburski’s Gulf Coast cuisine: shrimp with chili honey and bacon, catfish with pecan relish, steak, po-boy, beans and rice. So glad I didn’t eat a big lunch because my Southern roots devoured and loved every bite of this tasting. Well played, Chef. 10:05 pm My chef Jauguar’s signature stir-fry rice with chicken tips at the Tip Tap Room. 12:30 am Time for a nightcap of three Boddingtons.
checked, offerings included yak flatiron steak, spicy wild-boar meatballs, and even emu. Pair ’em with any one of the 28 rotating craft beers on tap.
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Five Courses with:
JD Kemp, FounDer anD presiDent oF FooDex B y L o u isa K a sd o n
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Meeting local foodie-entrepreneur Jd KeMp, I thought of
Frodo from The Lord of the Rings — he’s got the same compact energy, arresting pale eyes, and slightly manic fix on a big vision. Kemp is the tech whiz who helped rescue a floundering JP culinary incubator and transform it into CropCircle Kitchen, which has helped launch the likes of Clover and Voltage Coffee. Then he started playing matchmaker for local farmers and food producers and their wholesale clients with FoodEx, an algorithm-based fresh-food distribution system. And just this month, at the SXSW Eco conference in Austin, FoodEx and Portland, Oregon’s FoodHub announced a joint venture to take Kemp’s creation national — or at least to the Northwest. 46 10.26.12 :: Thephoenix.com/food
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you can make money. We’re still 18 months to two years away from turning a real profit. . . . The “aha” moment happened in fits and starts last year when we realized that there are a couple of products — apples, potatoes, squash, and fish — where we can deliver food for better than a commodity price and make a profit. We can actually get a gross margin of 40 to 50 percent on some products and still get farmers a higher price and chefs a lower price by cutting out four or five levels of inefficiencies, the middlemen.
How did you get the idea for FoodEx? Producers were producing — fishermen and farmers, ice-cream makers, apple orchards — but they had no way to get their product to market when it was really fresh, after the carrots came out of the ground. We decided to take on the meat of the bigger problem: getting trucks to the farm the morning the carrots are dug, or when the milk is still in the cow, getting the freshest food from farm to table at the best price and in the shortest possible time. Local strawberries, for example, have a shelf life of five days and shouldn’t spend three of them sitting on a truck.
What about the FoodHub venture? It’s a pretty natural fit. We were both looking at taking on the big food industry. They are in the Northwest, and we are here. They have front end but no back end, and we have the back end but haven’t been able to do marketing, build a good website, etc. They have 4000 users for their map application — trucks, farms, clients — but they haven’t actually moved a box of food. We have 600-plus farmers and producers whose goods we carry. They are committing funds to us — their money comes from Ecotrust — but it is still our company to run. We get great resources, a web designer, all things I would have to hire. And we get to figure out how to expand our business model across the country.
Is FoodEx a nonprofit? No. We are a missiondriven for-profit. We make profitable deliveries every day. But like a lot of deep tech startups, you dump a lot of money before you turn a profit. You get up to scale, and
So, having created all this wonderful access for local food, how often do you cook? That’s the irony. We’re so busy, we are almost never home and hardly ever get a chance to cook for ourselves. P
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You are a tech guy. How did you get into the business of trucking fresh local foods? I’m from Texas, and as a Southerner, I was used to great local food. My partner and I came here so I could work for an MIT spinoff. We had deep passion for good food. We wanted all the gorgeous local produce and protein and couldn’t find it. We found that all the local chefs had the same problem. I am a systems engineer, and my PhD is for an algorithm for problem solving, using computers to solve enormous logistical problems. I saw the local food system as a classic systems problem — regional, diverse, and complicated, but ultimately solvable.
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Liz ViLardi, wine goddess of Kendall Square’s newly opened Belly Wine Bar — the latest branch in the Central Bottle and Blue Room family tree — is cracking up, her laughter echoing through the bar. “This is my favorite video of all time,” she says, as comedian Andy Milonakis mocks highbrow wine-tasters. (One tasting note he offers after a few sips: “Matchbox cars.”) “It makes me die every time I watch it.” “My approach to wine is to be really, really lowkey, not snobby,” she adds. After she compares the chardonnay grape to Dolly Parton — “It’s got big hair, and it’s blonde, and it’s very curvy” — I believe her. As a result of her no-bullshit Texan approach, Belly’s wine program is rapidly gaining kudos for its ballsy selections, including its prominent lineup of orange wine. That’s right: orange wine. A trippy category that sometimes hides in plain sight on menus, orange wines are produced when vintners allow white grapes more maceration time than usual — essentially treating white grapes like red ones. With the juice in contact with the grape skins for as long as seven months, the wines develop a hue and tannin level somewhere between the pale gold of a crisp sauvignon blanc and the deep red of a chewy zinfandel by the time they’re stored in casks to age. They’re wines that start like whites and end like reds, and they can leave you at a loss for words. To get to know the sexy beasts on Belly’s menu — which hail from the region of Italy near the Slovenian border — we spent an afternoon with Vilardi, sniffing, swirling, sipping, and spitting oranges, one by one. 48 10.26.12 :: Thephoenix.com/food
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wine gets tannins — compounds that impart an astringent taste — from grape skins, so the longer the skins stay on, the more tannic the wine. “The tannins are exactly why these need food,” Vilardi notes. Try pairing orange wines with meat, salty dishes, honey, balsamic, and hearty fare like lentils.
Region: Emilia Romagna. Grapes: 25% ortugo, 25% malvasia, 25% marsanne, 25% mystery grape. “Dinavolino [is an unsulfured wine, but] it smells like rotten eggs, in a funny way. It’ll blow off, but it’s just a funkiness that happens. This guy to me is the earthiest, and it’s not putting out a huge nose. It doesn’t want to give you a lot. Its tannins definitely come on fast. It’s got lots of acidity, and it’s very bright.”
2 “sLatnik,” radikon, 2009
Region: Oslavia. Grapes: 80% chardonnay, 20% friulano. “Super aromatic. This has a little bit of honey, and there is some apricot marmalade going on. Marmalade definitely comes up a lot with these guys. Orange peel, pith, it’s all really prevalent. Tannins are way lower here, and they come in late.”
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Region: Oslavia. Grapes: 100% ribolla gialla. “I really hate using the word ‘sweet,’ but it really does smell like what you would associate with apricots. It’s very concentrated, viscous . . . you’re thinking heavy, syrupy thoughts. The wine is the opposite of what you’re expecting, which is what’s so fun
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about it. It has almost no tannins. It’s got some spice, but it’s outrageously complex, and it doesn’t give you any of that caramel or honey that you got on the nose. . . . I love this wine. Gravner is the man.”
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Region: Carso. Grapes: 100% vitovska. ‘This skin maceration goes almost as long as Gravner — six months. It’s lacy and aromatic in a gingery, spicy kind of way. It’s fresh and clean, and it’s almost minty. Its tannins are moderate. It’s not fruit-forward in any way, and it’s just giving me minerals and . . . nut skins.”
5 “ageno,” La stoppa, 2007
Region: Emilia Romagna. Grapes: 60% malvasia, 40% ortuga and trebbiano. “This is, to me, the most like mulled cider in the nose. Apples, cooking spices — it’s unbelievable. It just makes me think all over the orange spectrum: orange peel, pith, candied peel, the whole realm. It’s really well integrated. It rivals Gravner for complexity; it’s got so many layers. It’s the most red-wine-like of them all, and it would go great with something like blood sausage or pig trotter with lentils. It can take on meat really well.” P
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DooWee & Rice When I fInally strolled into DooWee & Rice, a new East Asian eatery in Powder House Square, close to closing time after a weirdly long drive from Central, I had beef and noodles on the brain. The unassuming hole-in-the-wall — a tiny, brightly lit space with a handful of red booths for sit-down dining — has been open for just under two months, but chef-owner Duy Tran’s signature Vietnamese marinated beef noodles in his special sweet-and-spicy fish sauce have already earned street cred from diners in the know. Not the most discerning of foodies myself (full disclosure: I’ve been known to microwave an egg or two in my day), I was excited to taste what all the fuss was about. But it was not to be. The girl behind the counter sadly told me they’d sold out during the dinner rush, but recom-
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mended the chimichurri chicken and rice, a hearty portion of tender, mostly darkmeat chicken (not overly greasy or grisly like much of the Asian takeout I tend to mainline as a late-night tequila chaser), drizzled with Tran’s homemade sauce atop a bed of well-seasoned, almost Latintasting yellow rice. At a very reasonable $7.50, a serving of this — or any of DooWee’s other rice or noodle dishes — is more than enough for a nice meal. But fuck it: I was the only one in the restaurant, so there was nobody to portion-shame me. I added two Vietnamese egg rolls — flaky rolls filled with generous portions of shrimp,
pork, jicama, and vermicelli and served with a fantastic, spicy chili dipping sauce (and only a buck each!) — and braisedpork bao baos ($5 for a pair). Let’s talk bao baos. I brought one home to share with my roommate, who reverently described the white Chinese fluffy buns as “heavenly pillows.” I frankly found her descriptor a little creepy — Carrie and her “dirty pillows” spring to mind — but I had to agree they were almost impossibly soft, providing a tasty cushion to envelope all that savory, succulent pork. Semi-pro tip: when you go to DooWee, get the pork bao baos. And the beef noodles . . . or so I’ve heard.
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Unquestionably, the smartest trick-or-treating move we remember was to make the rounds in the nicest neighborhoods, where the Snickers bars were bigger and you didn’t encounter anybody handing out toothbrushes (buzzkills). Grown-up trickor-treaters, meet the Seaport District. Tonight, 13 Harbor joints — check online for the full list of participants — will be offering specials on apps and drinks, plus a few more treats along the way. 7 to 10 pm @ various Seaport restaurants, Boston
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We know we talk nose-to-tail a lot around here, but that doesn’t mean we don’t love leaf-to-root eating just as much. Whether your protein always comes with soy or you’ve just been skimping on the greens lately, the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival is the place to be. With more than 100 exhibitors, tons of samples, and top national speakers and chefs, you can leave the animals be for a weekend and brighten up your palate. 11 am to 6 pm on Sat and 10 am to 4 pm on Sun @ Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center, 1350 Tremont St, Boston :: Free :: bostonveg.org/ foodfest
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We never understood the soft, fluttery musical stylings of jazz brunches. Give us Whitesnake! Mötley Crüe! Guns N’ Roses! We want to feel alive when we roll out of bed and manage to sit upright in front of a plate of eggs Benny. It’s like a solid, hard-rock pat on the back. Chef Tim Maslow of Strip T’s gets us — the Hair Band Beer Brunch is back. Praise the rock gods, who most definitely brunch after a late Saturday gig.
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After you spent last year’s freak Halloween snowstorm slip-sliding all over the sidewalk, more than a little buzzed, you swore this year you’d class it up and put the bar crawl to rest. You’re just in time, then, to get your fancy get-up together and hit up Barbara Lynch’s beacon of chic for a legit masquerade — masks, black tie, the whole shebang. And get this: there will not only be an entire bar for tartare, but an absinthe fountain. Absinthe. Fountain.
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TD Garden, 100 Legends Way, Boston :: 7 pm :: $29.50-$69.50 :: livenation.com
INTO ANOTHER + PRIMITIVE WEAPON :: December 13 at the Sinclair, Cambridge :: $15 :: boweryboston.com RUSKO :: December 28 at the House of Blues, Boston :: $25-$35 :: livenation.com “MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES HOMETOWN THROWDOWN”:: December 29-31 at the House of Blues, Boston :: $25-$50 :: livenation.com JEFF DUNHAM’S “DISORDERLY CONDUCT” TOUR :: January 12 at the Agganis Arena, Boston :: $47.50 :: ticketmaster.com BILL BURR :: February 21 at the Wilbur Theatre, Boston :: $39.75 :: tickermaster.com THE BOOK OF MORMON :: April 9-28 at the Opera House, Boston :: $47-$134 :: boston.broadway.com
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Time to sate that yearly yen for the macabre, terrifying, and grisly by checking into the 27 12TH ANNUAL HALLOWEEN HORROR MOVIE MARATHON, 12 blood-soaked hours including two of the scariest films of all time: William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973) and John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982). (They’ll reveal the rest of the movies the night of.) All that, plus a live performance by stoner-metal band Dream Warrior, a burlesque performance by Betsi Feathers Burlesque Troupe, a costume contest, and more.
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brA Certified Artists only Sadly, you won’t get to see Mick or Keith in a pair of tights (on 25 second thought, that sounds scary) at tonight’s debut performance of BOSTON BALLET’s fall program, but you will be treated to a selection of the Stones’ vast catalogue, which provides the score for Christopher Bruce’s Rooster. Also on the bill, a world premiere of an unnamed new ballet from Jorma Elo, and the return of William Forsythe’s The Second Detail.
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Been wanting to get a tattoo but too afraid to take the plunge? If you 25 were lucky enough to have booked a spot at MNEMONIC, a very cool performance-art event in conjunction with the ongoing group exhibit “Something Along Those Lines” at the SMFA tonight, you can baby-step your way toward the big event and ink your virgin flesh. Audience members/ participants will get a small black dot tattooed on a spot of their choice, as a representation of the invisible lines connecting us all. Neat story to have behind a tat, no? As of now, unfortunately, all appointments have been filled, but here’s hoping they open up a few more. And don’t forget to check out “Something Along Those Lines,” open now and running through November 3. School of the museum of Fine arts, 230 the Fenway, Boston :: october 25-26 from 10 am to 5 pm; the exhibit runs through november 3 :: free :: smfa.edu
If there’s one thing we here at the Phoenix love as much as a good book, it’s a good flick. Which is just part of the reason we’re co6 2 sponsoring “PAGE TO SCREEN,” to kick off the Boston Book Festival tonight. Moderated by Globe film critic Wesley Morris, the evening features authors whose popular books have been adapted into movies, among them Buzz Bissinger, Andre Dubus III, and Nick Flynn. They’ll discuss their works and answer questions from the audience, backdropped by clips from the movies they inspired. Opportunities for book signings will follow. FRI
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DEFTONES There was a point in the late ’90s where it seemed possible for Deftones to get lost in the nü-metal shuffle, but Chino 29 Moreno and crew blasted out of that stale company with 2000’s unfuckwithable White Pony. Now comes seventh album Koi No Yokan in November, and Deftones are in the running for most influential bands— metal or otherwise — of the past 20 years. mon
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Free events HeLLBoUnD iii: DarKneSS GaLLerY SHoW + CoSTUme parTY :: Art show for the third edition of the Boston Comics Roundtable’s horror anthology. Event includes live zombie and monster caricatures, “sketch fighting,” a costume contest, and more. :: andromeda Gallery, 199 Braintree St, Suite 320, allston :: october 27 @ 6 pm :: hellbound.riverbirdcomics.com
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:: october 31 from 7 to 9 pm :: mfa.org “niGHT oF THe LivinG DeaDHeaD HaLLoWeen parTY” :: With CreaturoS, the Migs, Freak Flag DJs, a costume contest, and more. :: zuzu, 474 mass ave, Cambridge :: october 29 @ 10 pm :: zuzubar.com perForminG anD viSUaL arTS CoLLeGe Fair :: College-bound students to meet with reps from colleges, universities, studios, festivals, and other Institutions with specialized programs in the arts :: Cyclorama, 539 Tremont St, Boston :: november 1 from 6 to 8 pm :: gotomypvafair.com
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Who knew Coolidge Corner needed a gastropub devoted to Three’s Company in-jokes? Well, turns out, in the case of the Regal Beagle, it did — possibly because this place is equally devoted to craft cocktails and delectable small plates. So go ahead: muscle your way to the bar, and get yourself a Sassy Coworker.
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What Coolidge Corner’s certainly not lacking is a slew of unbelievably good Asian food — from the Thai triumvirate of
Khao Sarn, Rod Dee, and Dok Bua to the luxe sushi splendor of FuGaKyu. And hiding in plain sight is Zenna Noodle Bar, a tranquil Thai/ Vietnamese spot whose elementally minded menu includes satisfying soups (under “Water”) and delicate stir fries (“Fire”). 1374 Beacon St :: 617.566.0566
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The looming threat of cold, prickly November rain means two things: you need to find a reliable source of pho (see above), and those cute galoshes you see people tromping around in are more than just decora-
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tive — better pick up some wet-weather footwear, lest your socks end up gooshing with urban bilge water. So make a beeline for Downtown Shooz, a charming boutique dedicated to all your ped needs. 307 Harvard St :: 617.734.1411
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It’s worth going into Eureka Puzzles with a bona-fide boardgame enthusiast, if only to see them fall to pieces when confronted with such an onslaught of mind-bogglement. They’ve got your Carcassonne, your Munchkin Quest, your Arkham Horror — and let’s
not forget those gorgeous tavern puzzles. 1349 Beacon St :: 617.738.7352 :: eurekapuzzles.com
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Thirsty? Hops N Scotch, the newly opened better-booze emporium from the owners of Coolidge Corner Wine & Spirits, boasts a massive drink list with some 80 Scotches and 40 draft beers (Clown Shoes on tap, folks). And if you overindulge, they can fix you up with a meaty, eggy plate of Hangover Hash the next day.
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You got a big print of Brandon Bird’s The Death of Jennifer Sisko framed. Why didn’t you get a painting of a better-known Star Trek series? My girlfriend is a huge Deep Space Nine fan, and she bought it for my birthday. DSN’s long plot arc made it hard to follow when it aired, but it stands up really well. Before DVD and DVR and everything, if you missed an episode, you’d get totally lost. I can talk about my experience at the shop, if you want. Hmm, as I’ve been asking about Star Trek and Brandon Bird for 10 minutes, maybe that’s a good idea. It was cool. They have all the same frames, mats, and glass [that are at most framing shops], but they cut them to size, and you assemble the frame yourself. It gets done a lot quicker, and it’s a lot cheaper. Is something art just because you hang it on the wall? If it’s a wall in an art museum — yup, whatever you put up will be art. At home, there are things that aren’t art; pictures of your kids, a plasma TV. A coatrack isn’t art, but if it’s up in the MFA, suddenly it’s a statement on our modern consumer reality. _Barry Thompson
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In need of a terror infusion? The Booksmith is giving you not only mindfuck purveyor Mark Z. Danielewski (with a new story of “a terrible item sealed in a long, narrow box”) on october 25, but also Boston Noir 2: The Classics (ripping yarns from the likes of Dennis lehane) on November 2. For more info, call 617.566.6660 or visit brooklinebooksmith. com.
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Few have ever sat through the entire 12 hours of the Halloween Horror Movie Marathon and lived to tell the tale. When the survivors finally stagger into the sunlight, it’s said they’ve been driven mad. (or at least have stiff necks.) This year’s installment starts with The Exorcist and ends with . . . well, only the bravest souls will find out. October 27 @ 11:59 pm :: Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St :: $15–$20 :: 617.734.2501 or coolidge.org
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If you want good sex tips, don’t read Cosmo — unless you want to be immortalized in some paramour’s memory as “The one Who Did That Weird CouchRuining Thing With Hershey’s Syrup.” For actual advice, turn instead to Good Vibes’ workshops. Coming soon: “Fabulous Fellatio: The Art of Oral Sex.”
November 13 @ 8 pm :: Good Vibrations, 308A Harvard St :: $20 adv, $25 doors :: 617.264.4400 or goodvibes.com
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arts & nightlife :: get out
Arts & Nightlife :: get out
THURsdAY 25
ACUPRESSURE WORKSHOP › Learn techniques that you can use to relieve common complaints such as stress, nausea, headache, and anxiety › 6:30 pm › Pathways to Wellness, 142 Berkeley St, Boston › Free › 617.859.3036 or pathwaysboston.org “A TALK ON GIUSEPPE VERDI” › With Philip Gossett and Ron Della Chiesa › 6 pm › George Sherman Union, 775 Comm Ave, Boston › Free › 617.353.5498 “EVERY VOTES COUNTS: A SERIES OF CONVERSATIONS EXPLORING THE 2012 ELECTION” › With John Carroll, Avi Green and Alan Schroeder › 7 pm › Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 42 Brattle St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.547.6789 or ccae.org HAUNTED HARVARD TOUR › Through the Harvard University campus and the Cambridge Burying Yard, with ghost stories and Harvard history along the way › Thurs-Sun 7:30 pm › Out of Town News, Harvard Sq, Cambridge › $20 › 617.354.1441 or cambridgehistoricaltours.org “INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC W/ MULTIMEDIA BURLESQUE EXPERIENCE” › Mission Creep + The Invisible Rays › 9 pm › Milky Way, at the Brewery, 284 Armory St, Jamaica Plain › $8 › 617.524.3740 or milkywayjp.com “IS IT ALL OVER MY FACE? JULIAN EASTMAN AND THE DISCO OF CRUELTY” › With Hilton Als › 4 pm › Barker Center at Harvard, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge › Free › 617.495.0340 “SILENT VOICES OF AFRICAN DIVINATION SYSTEMS” › With Philip M. Peek › 6 pm › Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.496.1027 or peabody. harvard.edu “THE ART & TECHNIQUE OF THE AMERICAN COMMERCIAL” SCREENING › Honoring 26 categories, including visual style, performance, animation, and original music › 7 pm › Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave, Boston › $12; $6 students › 617.478.3100 or icaboston.org “THE POLITICS OF HANDSOME” › With Paula Lyons, Joyce Kulhawik, Lauren Beckham Falcone, and Jan Saragoni. › 6:30 pm › Modern Theatre, 525 Washington St, Boston › Free › fordhallforum.org
FRidAY 26
FRIDAY NIGHT DANCE CRAZE › Instructional evening focused on disco › 7:30 pm › Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 42 Brattle St, Cambridge › $17 › 617.547.6789 or ccae.org SUMMER STREET MARKETS ARTS AND CRAFTS › Original, handmade works, including jewelry, glassware, woodworks, photography, sculpture, clothing, accessories, and more › 11 am › Summer Street in Downtown Crossing, Summer and Washington Sts, Boston › Free › 617.482.2139 or bostonbid.org
sATURdAY 27
“JOE’S JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVAL” › noon-6 pm › Powderhouse Park, across from 136 College Ave, Somerville › Free › somervilleartscouncil.org
sUNdAY 28
“BANG THE DUMB SLOWLY. THE LONG ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE” › With Political satirist and Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead › 8:30 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $20-$24 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com JAMES VAN PRAAGH › Just in time for Halloween, the psychic and clairvoyant stops in town to bridge the world’s of the living and the dead, and more › 3 pm › Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St, Boston › $39.50-$49.50 › 617.248.9700 or ticketmaster.com “READING AND REMEMBERING ADRIENNE RICH” › With Alison Bechdel, Robin Becker, Cynthia Enloe, Evelynn Hammonds, and Kate Rushin. › 4 pm › Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, 25 White St, Cambridge › Free › 617.491.2220 or portersquarebooks.com SOWA OPEN MARKET › Open every Sunday through the end of October, SoWa hosts painters, sculptors, photographers, clothing and jewelry designers, milliners, handbag designers, houseware crafters, florists, bakers, local farmers, and more selling unique products › SoWa Open Market, 460 Harrison Ave, Boston › free or sowaopenmarket.com/ “WORKING TO STOP FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN MALI” › With Susan McLucas and Sini Sanuman › 10:30 am › Ethical Society of Boston, 56 Brattle St, Cambridge › Free › 617.739.9050 or BostonEthical.org SOWA AT SALEM OPEN MARKET › See listing for Sat
MoNdAY 29
SCIENCE ON SCREEN › Edward Scissorhands, with pre-screening talk with Jeremy DeSilva, an assistant professor of biological anthropology at BU › 7 pm › Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline › $10; $8 students › 617.734.2500 or coolidge.org
TUEsdAY 30
“GAME OVER” › Weekly game night with fighting games and DDR set-ups, Magic the Gathering, Rock Band, Dance Central, and more › 5 pm › Good Life, 28 Kingston St, Boston › free › 617.451.2622 or goodlifebar.com
WEdNEsdAY 31
“FUTURE BOSTON PRESENTS ASSEMBLE!” › 6 pm › Emerald Lounge at Revere Hotel, 200 Stuart St, Boston › free or futureboston.com RAPHAEL MONTAÑEZ ORTÍZ › “What Does Fluxes Have To Do With It,” video screening followed by a discussion with the performance artist › 7 pm › Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston › Free › 617.267.9300 or mfa.org
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kARAokE
HONG KONG @ FANEUIL HALL › “Karaoke” › Thurs-Fri 6 pm; Sat-Sun 5 pm; Mon-Wed 9 pm › 65 Chatham St, Boston › 617.227.2226 or › hongkongboston.com KINSALE › “Karaoke Night” › Thursdays at 8:30 pm › 2 Center Plaza, Boston › 617.742.5577 or › classicirish. com/kinsale_about.html LANSDOWNE PUB › “Live Band Karaoke” › Thursdays at 9 pm › 9 Lansdowne St, Boston › 617.266.1222 or › lansdownepubboston.com SISSY K’S › “Karaoke Night” › Thurs + Sun-Wed 8 pm › 6 Commercial St, Boston › 617.248.6511 FIRE + ICE › “Karaoke Night”“ › 9 pm › 205 Berkeley St, Boston › 617.482.FIRE JACQUE’S CABARET › “Mizery Loves Karaoke” › Karaoke hosted by Mizery › Tuesdays at 10:30 pm › 79 Broadway, Boston › No cover › 617.426.8902 or › jacquescabaret.com AN TUA NUA › “Karaoke Night” › Wednesdays at 9:30 pm › 835 Beacon St, Boston › 617.262.2121 HENNESSY’S ›”Live Band Karaoke” › Wednesdays at 9 pm › 25 Union St, Boston › 617.742.2121 or › somerspubs. com/hennessys_history
THURsdAY 1
“BUSINESS ETHICS AND OTHER OXYMORONS” › With Nitin Nohria (Dean, Harvard Business School) and Tom Peters (Business Author) › 7 pm › Suffolk University, C. Walsh Theatre, 55 Temple St, Boston › Free › 617.573.8680 or fordhallforum.org
AcTivisM FRidAY 26
FARE FREE FRIDAYS › Occupy Boston activists meet weekly to fight fare hikes and service cuts. Starting at 5 pm in Park Street, then traveling around the city to raise awareness. › 5 pm › Park Street T Stop, Boston › free › occupyboston.org FOOD SERVICE VOLUNTEERING WITH FOOD NOT BOMBS › Recurring every Friday and Sunday, help Food Not Bombs to pass out free meals to all in Boston Common and in Central Square. To get involved, email fnbboston@gmail.com. › Fri + Sun 3 pm › Central Square, Mass Ave and Prospect St, Cambridge › free › facebook.com/ FNBBoston OCCUPY BOSTON’S QUEER/TRANS DIRECT ACTION WORKING GROUP MEETING › Smash gender and sexuality based oppression › 6 pm › Boston Common, Charles St, Boston › free › occupyboston.org
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“FREE TAREK MEHANNA! THREE YEARS LATER, THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES” › Activists will gather for a discussion of Mehanna’s continued imprisonment, as well as to view displays of Tarek’s artwork from prison and hear updates from the campaign to free Tarek › 2 pm › Dudley Branch Library, 65 Warren St #1, Roxbury › free › 617.442.6186 or facebook.com/ events/365847350160362/ NEW ENGLAND MARXISM CONFERENCE 2012: WORLD IN CRISIS • WORLD IN STRUGGLE › A one-day event with discussions and workshops looking at the intricacies of Marxism. Topics include “Black Liberation and Socialism,” “Roots of Sexual Oppression,” “Socialism and Trade Union Struggle,” “What Would a Socialist Society Look Like?,” and more › 9 am › Emerson Hall, 25 Quincy St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.495.2191 or nemarxism.org
sUNdAY 28
CORVID COLLEGE SUNFALL HOEDOWN › Corvid College is Boston’s radical roving free school, dedicated to creating an alternative to conventional educational institutions. Come hear about ongoing/ upcoming classes and the motivations/goals of Corvid › 7 pm › Democracy Center, 45 Mount Auburn St, Cambridge › Free › corvidcollege. wikidot.com FOOD SERVICE VOLUNTEERING WITH FOOD NOT BOMBS › See listing for Fri
MoNdAY 29
OCCUPY BOSTON RADIO WORKING GROUP MEETING › OB Radio needs help, ideas, producers, suggestions for show ideas and the music department. › 7 pm › Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, Boston › free › 617.482.6300 or occupyboston.org
WEdNEsdAY 31
RADICAL FILM NIGHT › 7 pm › Lucy Parsons Center, 358A Centre St, Jamaica Plain › free › 617.267.6272 or lucyparsons.org VOLUNTEER NIGHT AT BIKES NOT BOMBS › No RSVP or experience necessary to drop in. Assist BNB’s volunteer coordinator with packing bikes for the organization’s international programs, prepping bikes to be repurposed, sorting parts, and other tasks. Recurs every Wednesday evening. › 7 pm › Bikes Not Bombs, 284 Amory St, Ste 8, Jamaica Plain › free › bikesnotbombs.org
THURsdAY 1
“A. BREEZE HARPER’S PRESENTATION ON THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF OPPRESSIONS” › A. Breeze Harper — an academic and editor studying the ways race intersects with vegan experiences — discusses black feminism, critical race, and decolonial studies to explain how black women can use veganism to liberate their bodies and communities › 6:30 pm › Boston University, Sargent Building Room 101, 635 Comm Ave, Boston › Free › facebook.com/ events/456470794404154/
karaoke photo by Derek kouyoumjian
To-do LisT
NIGHT HUNTER › Family gathering with s’mores, cider, apples, and the grand finale of a forty foot flaming owl › 5:30 pm › Fruitlands Museums, 102 Prospect Hill Rd, Harvard › Free › 978.456.3924 or fruitlands.org STEEZ & SO-GNAR: 25TH ISSUE RELEASE PARTY › Outdoor movie premieres, with music from DJ Alexander The Great, and complimentary food, beer, mixed drinks, and prizes › 6 pm › Studios at Porter Mill, 95 Rantoul St, Beverly › Free or steezmagazine.com STORY SLAM: “WHACKED” › 3 pm › Rosebud Diner, 381 Summer St, Somerville › 617.666.6015 or rosebuddiner.com
ArtS & Nightlife :: ViSuAl Art
Studio ViSit
Game on anthony montuori’s retro-style video games might be called the art of losing. In one, you’re the legendary Sisyphus failing to lift a boulder to the top of an 8-bit mountain. In the Mario Bros.–style Ragz, you hop along ledges trying to collect coins. Unfortunately, Montuori notes, “All the coins are placed where, if you try to get them, you’ll die, or you can’t get them.” In Debtris, you play a version of Tetris to earn minimum wage toward paying off crushing student loan debt (beginning at what he says is his personal total: around $80,000). Intended as jokes inspired by the 26-year-old Jamaica Plain artist’s own life, they resonate with the frustrations of Great Recession America. “I’m not that pessimistic about the world and about life,” says Montuori, whose newest game, in which you can work a virtual shift at his day job as “visitor assistant” at the Institute for Contemporary Art, debuts October 27 in the group show “Ask Me” (all the contributors are ICA visitor assistants) at the Howard Art Project. “I just think that these things are realities, and they’re kind of depressing, but I really want to make fun of them. I want to poke some fun at the
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seriousness of it all. I think that’s what makes art kind of cool. . . . You can make fun of an existential crisis or debt or futility. And it’s okay, for, like, five minutes.” Montuori had been making conceptual gags — toilet paper for handling “dense concepts” or a puzzle depicting relational-aesthetics thinker Nicolas Bourriaud — until he signed up for an intro-toprogramming class at the Museum School (he got his MFA in May 2012). “I’ve been playing video games since I was five,” he says. “And when I went to college, it was beat out of me: ‘That’s not an acceptable or viable form of art. You can’t work in that medium. It’s entertainment. It’s not interesting.’ It took eight years [of college] to get there, but right in the last semester, I was like, ‘Wait a minute. This is what I want. I think there is something in this.’ Having some conviction about it and just admitting, yep, I’m a geek, this is what I do. I play video games. I love video games. I’m entrenched in the culture, and I’m going to do that as an artist.” _G r e G Cook » GreGCookland .Com/journal
“ASK ME” :: Howard Art Project :: 1486 Dorchester Ave, Boston :: October 27–November 11
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_GC Patt Kelley, Ripley
STuDIO vISIT PHOTO By MELISSA OSTROW, PAINTINg By PATT KELLEy
monster mash In Patt Kelley’s twisted but surprisingly sweet comics, a hairy-faced lady from a traveling circus romances a tree-man, a monster spawned by dirty dishes devours the world, a vampire finds her soul mate in a guy with a permanent nosebleed. It’s a dangerous, unpredictable world, but love wins out. And, ya know, death. “I do stuff with vampires and monsters. It’s all kind of out there,” Kelley explains. “I think I use the sensitivity and the human aspect of it to ground the story.” “Everything That Creeps,” this fall’s edition of the annual Halloween lowbrow-art spook-tacular organized by Ami Bennitt, will feature Kelley’s creepy-cute paintings of scenes from the films The Birds, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rosemary’s Baby, and Alien alongside masks by Eric Bornstein, whose clients include Boston Lyric Opera’s Madame Butterfly and Boston Ballet’s Nutcracker; works by Beth Robinson, who makes Day of the Dead–inspired skeleton lady dolls as well as alien fetus holiday ornaments; “everythinG that Creeps” psychedelic goth drawings :: Lincoln Arts by apocalypProject, 289 Moody St, tic/folk/sci-fi/ Waltham :: magic/musical impresario Through October Walter Sickert; 31 :: lincolnartsproject.com and Nicole Johnson’s freaky dolls depicting zombie ladies, zombie Easter bunnies, and just plain old ladies. And as always, the opening party should not be missed (this year’s is from 7 to 10 pm on October 27). Bennitt says, “The freaks like to fly their flag. I can’t tell you how many grown-ups have come in costume. Elaborate. I’m talking comic-con level of enthusiasm.”
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BRICKBOTTOM GALLERY › 617.776.3410 › 1 Fitchburg St, Somerville › brickbottomartists.com › Thurs-Sat noon–5 pm › Nov 1-18: “Brickbottom Open Studios Directory Exhibition” BROMFIELD GALLERY › 617.451.3605 › 450 Harrison Ave, Boston › bromfieldgallery. com › Wed-Sat noon-5 pm › Oct 31-Dec 1: Judy Riola: “Noisy Constellations” › Prilla Smith Brackett: “Promises to Keep: Monoprints” CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART › 508.385.4477 › 60 Hope Ln, Dennis › cmfa. org › Mon-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Thurs 10 am-8 pm; Sun noon-5 pm; Call for winter hours › Admission $8; free for ages under 18; admission by donation Thurs › Oct 27-Jan 6: “Concepts in Clay” CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY › 617.495.3251 › 24 Quincy St, Cambridge › ves.fas.harvard.edu › Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun 1 pm-5 pm › Nov 1-Dec 20: Christian Boltanski: “6 Septembres” CHASE YOUNG GALLERY › 617.859.7222 › 450 Harrison Ave, Boston › chaseyounggallery. com › Tues-Sat 11 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-4 pm › Nov 1-30: Peter Hoffer: “Second Nature” LINCOLN ARTS PROJECT › › 289 Moody St, Waltham › lincolnartsproject.com › Wed-Fri 4-9 pm; Sat 2-8 pm › Oct 26-31: “Everything That Creeps” › Reception Oct 27: 7-10 pm 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 › Oct 27-Dec 31: “The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries” 17 COX › 715.441.3631 › 17 Cox Ct, Beverly › 17cox.com › By appointment only › Nov 1-Dec 23: “$1000 Reward for the 20 Foot Santa Claus” STUDIOS AT PORTER MILL › › 95 Rantoul St, Beverly › studiosatportermill.blogspot.com › Wed-Fri 5-7 pm; Sat-Sun noon-4 pm › Oct 31-Nov 25: “All Mixed Up”
galleries
Admission to the following galleries is free, unless otherwise noted. In addition to the hours listed here, many galleries are open by appointment. ACME FINE ART › 617.585.9551 › 38 Newbury St, Boston › acmefineart.com › Tues-Sat 11 am-5:30 pm, and by appointment › Through Nov 3: “Director’s Choice 2012” AMERICAN ISLAMIC CONGRESS CENTER › 617.266.0080 › 38 Newbury St, Boston › aicongress.org › Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm; Sat noon-4 pm › Through Jan 15: “Bosnian Born” AARNHEIM GALLERY AT MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN › 617.879.7166 › 621 Huntington Ave, Boston › massart.edu › Mon-Tues + ThursSat noon-6 pm; Wed noon-8 pm › Through Oct 27: Uganda Art Consortium ARSENAL CENTER FOR THE ARTS › 617.923.0100 › 321 Arsenal St, Watertown › arsenalarts.org › Tues-Sun noon-6 pm › Through Nov 10: “30 Under 30” › Through Nov 10: Mimi Bernardin with Jesse Tripathi: “Baba’s Village: Glimpses of an Ancestral Home” ART MARKET PROVINCETOWN › 508.413.9090 › 148 Commercial St, Provincetown › artmarketprovincetown.com › Mon + Wed-Sun 10 am-9 pm › Through Nov 4: Susan Bernstein, Barbara Hadden, Chaya Kupperman, Marsha Lieberman, and Lisa Sette: “Outside Time” ATELIER GALLERY AT STONEHAM THEATRE › 781.279.2200 › 395 Main St, Stoneham › stonehamtheatre.org/gallery.
html › Through Nov 12: Greer Muldowney: “6426 per KM” BARBARA KRAKOW GALLERY › 617.262.4490 › 10 Newbury St, Boston › barbarakrakowgallery.com › Tues-Sat 10 am5:30 pm › Through Nov 24: Allan McCollum: “The Shapes Project: Perfect Couples” BOSTON ATHENÆUM › 617.227.0270 › 10-1/2 Beacon St, Boston › bostonathenaeum.org › Mon 9 am-8 pm; Tues-Fri 9 am-5:30 pm; Sat 9 am-4 pm › Through Jan 12: “Chromo-Mania! The Art of Chromolithograhy in Boston, 1840-1910” BROOKLINE ARTS CENTER › 617.566.5615 › 86 Monmouth St, Brookline › brooklineartscenter.com › Mon-Fri 9 am– 4:30 pm › Through Nov 19: Gerald Shertzer: “Town and City” BSA SPACE › 617.391.4039 › Boston Society of Architects, 290 Congress St, Boston › bsaspace. org › Daily 10 am-6 pm › Through Dec 31: “City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982” CAC GALLERY › 617.349.4380 › 344 Broadway, Cambridge › cambridgema.gov/cac › Mon + Wed 8:30 am-8 pm; Tues + Thurs 8:30 am-5 pm; Fri 8:30 am-noon › Through Nov 23: Halsey Burgund: “ROUND: Cambridge” 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 StaggGiuliano: “Transit of Venus” CARROLL AND SONS › 617.482.2477 › 450 Harrison Ave, Boston › carrollandsons.net › Tues-Sat 10 am-6 pm › Through Oct 27: Henry Horenstein: “Honky Tonk” COPLEY SOCIETY OF ART › 617.536.5049 › 158 Newbury St, Boston › copleysociety. org › Tues-Sat 11 am-6 pm; Sun noon-5 pm › Through Nov 8: Oana Lauric: “Reflective Radiance” CREATIVE ARTS CENTER › 508.945.3583 › 154 Crowell Rd, Chatham › capecodcreativearts.org › Mon-Fri 9 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm › Through Oct 31: “Chatham in Art Over Time” DISTILLERY GALLERY › 978.270.1904 › 516 East Second St, Boston › distilleryboston. com › Mon-Sat 9 am-5 pm › Through Oct 26: “Elsewhere” DTR MODERN GALLERY › 617.424.7001 › 167 Newbury St, Boston › dtrmodern.com › Mon-Fri 10 am-6:30 pm; Sat 10 am-7 pm; Sun noon-6 pm › Through Oct 26: Hunt Slonem EXTENSION GALLERY AT ORCHARD/ ORCHARD SKATESHOP › 617.782.7777 › 156 Harvard Ave, Allston › orchardshop.com › Mon-Sat noon-9 pm; Sun noon-7 pm › Through Nov 19: “The Death of Childhood” GALATEA FINE ART › 617.542.1500 › 460B Harrison Ave, Boston › galateaart.org › Wed-Fri noon-6 pm; Sat-Sun noon-5 pm › Through Oct 28: A.E. Ryan: “Cheap Flights to a Far Shore” › Through Oct 28: Christine O’Brien: “Of an Abstract Nature” › Through Oct 28: Elizabeth Hathaway: “Lost in Time” GALLERY AT ATLANTIC WHARF › › 290 Congress St, Boston › bostoncyberarts.org › Daily 7 am-10 pm › Through Oct 26: “Play Ball!” GALLERY AT DANA HALL SCHOOL › › 45 Dana Rd, Wellesley › danahall.org/arts/ gallery › Mon-Tues + Thurs 9 am-3:30 pm; Wed + Fri 9 am-2 pm › Through Nov 20: Suzette Jones, G.A. Scattergood-Moore, Donna Dodson, and Andy Moerlein: “BIRDS of a Feather” GALLERY AT THE PIANO FACTORY › 617.817.6600 › 791 Tremont St, Boston › galleryatthepianofactory.org › Fri 6-8 pm; SatSun noon-5 pm › Through Oct 28: Sol Hartman GALLERY KAYAFAS › 617.482.0411 › 450 Harrison Ave, Boston › gallerykayafas.com › Tues-Sat 11 am–5:30 pm › Through Nov 24: Caleb Cole: “Odd One Out” and “Dolls” › Through Nov 24: Pelle Cass: “Strangers”
GATEWAY GALLERY › 617.734.1577 › 62 Harvard St, Brookline › gatewayarts.org › MonFri 9 am-4:30 pm; Sat noon-5 pm › Through Nov 10: “Text and Texture II” GRAND CIRCLE GALLERY › 617.346.6459 › 347 Congress St, Boston › gct.com/grandcirclegallery › Wed + Fri-Sat noon-6 pm; Thurs noon-7 pm › Through Nov 17: “Every Four Years” GRIFFIN MUSEUM BY DIGITAL SILVER IMAGING › 617.489.0035 › 4 Clarendon St, Boston › griffinmuseum. org › Tues-Wed + Fri 11 am- 6 pm; Thurs 11 am-7 pm; Sat noon- 5 pm › Through Nov 11: Venetia Dearden: “Undressed” HALEY HOUSE BAKERY CAFE › 617.445.0900 › 12 Dade St, Roxbury › haleyhouse.org › Mon-Wed + Fri 7:30 am-4 pm; Thurs 7:30 a m-9 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm › Through Nov 30: Boston Day & Evening Academy: “Identity” HALLSPACE › 617.288.2255 › 950 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester › hallspace. org › Fri-Sat noon-5 pm › Through Nov 24: Richard Cutrona: “Political Lens” HARBORARTS OUTDOOR GALLERY › › 256 Marginal St, East Boston › harborarts. net › Open 24 hours › Through Dec 31: “Hazards of Modern Living” Public Art Installation KATHRYN SCHULTZ GALLERY › 617.876.0246 › 25 Lowell St., Cambridge › cambridgeart.org › Through Nov 2: Chuck Beisch, Lorraine Sullivan, Cheryl Jaffe, Patricia Berube, and Diane Nelson: “68th Members’ Prize Show” LA GALERÍA AT VILLA VICTORIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS › 617.927.1717 › 85 West Newton St, Boston › villavictoriaarts.org/gallery.html › ThursFri 3-6 pm; Sat 1-4 pm › Through Nov 10: “Concrete Illusions: Public and Private Spaces in Puerto Rico” MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER › 617.253.4860 › 20 Ames St, Cambridge › web. mit.edu/lvac › Daily noon-6 pm › Through Oct 26: “I don’t care what anybody else thinks: Gifts of Vera List” › Through Jan 6: “In the Holocene” MIT WOLK GALLERY › 617.253.7334 › 77 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Mon-Fri 9 am–5 pm › Through Dec 28: William Wurster: “Frames for Living” MUSEUM OF SCIENCE › 617.723.2500 › 1 Science Pk, Boston › mos.org › Sat-Thurs 9 am-5 pm; Fri 9 am-9 pm › Through March 3: “Shipwreck! Pirates & Treasure” NAVE GALLERY › 617.625.6600 › 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville › navegallery. org › Sat-Sun 1-5 pm › Through Oct 28: “The BIG BAD” NEW ENGLAND SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHY › 617.437.1868 › 537 Comm Ave, Boston › nesop.com › Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm › Through Oct 31: Fran OsbornBlaschke: “bravepaintings” › Through Nov 9: “Faculty Exhibition”
NEWBURY FINE ARTS › 617.536.0210 › 29 Newbury St, Boston › newburyfinearts. com › Through Nov 1: Jeffrey Terreson: “Dynamic Gerstual Paintings of the 21st Century” OLD SCHWAMB MILL › 781.643.0554 › 17 Mill Ln, Arlington › oldschwambmill.org › Tues + Sat 11 am-3 pm › Through Nov 10: “Mosaics at the Mill: A Show of Mosaic Art” PANOPTICON GALLERY › 617.267.8929 › 502c Comm Ave, Boston › panopticongallery. com › Tues-Sat 10 am–5:30 pm and by appointment › Through Oct 30: Harold Feinstein: “A Retrospective” PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY › 617.975.0600 › 832 Comm Ave, Boston › bu.edu/prc › Tues-Fri 10 am-5 pm; SatSun noon-4 pm › Through Nov 3: Nancy Grace Horton: “Being 13” › Through Nov 3: Rania Matar: “Girls in Between: Portraits of Identity” PINE MANOR COLLEGE › 617.731.7145 › 400 Heath St, Chestnut Hill › pmc.edu › Mon-Thurs 8 am–10 pm; Fri 8 am–5 pm; Sat-Sun noon–5 pm › Through Oct 27: “PMC Alumnae Art Exhibition” POST ROAD ART CENTER › 508.485.2580 › 1 Boston Post Rd , Marlborough › postroadartcenter.com › Mon-Sat 9:30 am-5:30 pm › Through Oct 26: “Project Show 2012” QUIDLEY AND COMPANY GALLERY › 617.450.4300 › 38 Newbury St, Boston › quidleyandco.com › Tues-Fri 10 am-6 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm › Through Nov 25: “Urban Intersection” SALEM ARTS ASSOCIATION GALLERY › 978.590.3276 › 24 New Derby St, Salem › salemartsassociation.org › Thurs 11 am-7 pm; Fri-Sat 10 am-6 pm; Sun noon-6 pm › Through Oct 31: “Salem—City by the Sea” SANDRA AND DAVID BAKALAR GALLERY AT MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN › 617.879.7333 › 621 Huntington Ave, Boston › Mon-Sat noon-6 pm; Wed noon-8 pm › Through Dec 1: Zandra Rhodes: “A Lifelong Love Affair with Textiles” SCHILTKAMP GALLERY AT CLARK UNIVERSITY › 508.793.7711 › 92 Downing St, Worcester › clarku.edu/schiltkampgallery › Mon–Thurs 9 am-8 pm; Fri 9 am-4 pm; Sat-Sun noon-5 pm › Through Nov 26: “Love Letters - The Intersection of Art and Design” 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 Oct 26: “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 am5 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm › Through Oct 28: Colbert Mashile: “Not Yet”
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SOCIETY OF ARTS AND CRAFTS › 617.266.1810 › 175 Newbury St, Boston › societyofcrafts.org › Tues-Sat 10 am-6 pm › Through Nov 3: Wendy Maruyama: “Executive Order 9066” SOUTH SHORE ART CENTER › 781.383.2787 › 119 Ripley Rd, Cohasset › ssac. org › Mon-Sat 10 am-4 pm; Sun noon-4 pm › Through Nov 4: “Women 360” SPOKE GALLERY › 617.268.6700 › 110 K St, Boston › mwponline.org › Wed-Fri noon-5 pm › Through Nov 14: “Terrain” STATE TRANSPORTATION BUILDING › › 10 Park Pl, Boston › Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm › Through Nov 30: “100 Prints Celebrating 100 Years” STEPHEN D. PAINE GALLERY AT MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN › 617.879.7333 › 621 Huntington Ave, Boston › Mon-Sat noon-6 pm; Wed noon-8 pm › Through Dec 24: “Earth & Alchemy” HURT AND DAMAGE#19_ELIZABETH KOSTOJOHNTOWNE ART GALLERY AT WHEELOCK COLLEGE › 617.879.2219 › 180 the Riverway, Boston › wheelock.edu/ art › Tues-Thurs 1-5 pm; Sat 2-5 pm › Through Nov 15: Barbara Milot: “Where You Are” › Through Nov 15: Elizabeth Kostojohn: “Hurt and Damage” TRUSTMAN ART GALLERY AT SIMMONS COLLEGE › 617.521.2268 › 300 the Fenway, Boston › simmons.edu/trustman › Mon-Fri 10 am-4:30 pm › Through Nov 8: Mary Dondero, Constanze Kirmse, Mary O’Malley, and Brenda Star: “Nature Vive and Nature Morte” TUFTS UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY AT THE AIDEKMAN ARTS CENTER › 617.627.3094 › 40 Talbot Ave, Medford › artgallery.tufts.edu › Wed-Sun noon-5 pm › Through Nov 18: “Global Flows” › Through Dec 16: Lucy+Jorge Orta: “Food-Water-Life” WARNER BABCOCK INSTITUTE FOR GREEN CHEMISTRY › 978.229.5400 › 100 Research Dr, Wilmington › beyondbenign.org › By appointment only › Through Jan 11: “Tales from a Test Tube: Abstractions and Reactions” WASHINGTON STREET ART CENTER › 617.623.5315 › 321 Washington St, Somerville › washingtonst.org › Sat noon-4 pm › Through Oct 27: Lee Kilpatrick: “Splendid Isolation: Late Summer in Northern Maine” WOODRUFF’S ART CENTER › 508.477.5767 › 1 Market St, Mashpee › woodruffsartcenter.com › Mon-Sat 10 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-5 pm › Through Nov 6: “Fins, Feathers & Fur”
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ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART AT PHILLIPS ACADEMY › 978.749.4015 › 180 Main St, Andover › andover. edu/addison › Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 1-5
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pm › Through Dec 30: “American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Their Circle, 1927 – 1942” › Through Jan 13: “Pekupatikut Innuat Akunikana / Pictures Woke the People Up: An Innu Project with Wendy Ewald and Eric Gottesman” › Through Jan 13: “People, Places, Things: Symbols of American Culture” 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” 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” › Through Nov 4: Elizabeth Awalt: “Cascade and Other Work” › Through Nov 4: Jand Lund: “Home Body” › Through Nov 4: Jane Goldman: “Tidal Pools” › Through Nov 4: “Picture This!” › Through Nov 4: “Selections from the Permanent Collection” › Through Nov 4: Susan Heideman: “Proteanna” › Through Nov 4: 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 › TuesSat 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 › Tues-Sun 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” FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM › 978.345.4207 › 185 Elm St, Fitchburg › fitchburgartmuseum.org › Wed-Fri noon-4 pm; Sat-Sun 11 am-5 pm › Admission $9; $5 students and seniors › Through Dec 20: “American Scenery: Different Views in Hudson River School Painting” › Through Dec 20: “Different Views: Landscape Photographs from the Museum’s Collections” › Through Dec 20: “Face to Face: Works From The Collection In Dialogue” › Through Dec 20: “The Director’s Favorites” 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 Nov 4: “A Taste
for Spoons from the Collection of Nora and Norman Stevens” › Through Jan 20: Cyndy Barbone, Deborah Frazee Carlson, Fuyuko Matsubara, and Bhakti Ziek: “Grand Tales of the Loom: Four Master Weavers” › Through Feb 10: “2012 Biennial Members Exhibition” › Through Feb 24: Chris Gustin: “Masterworks in Clay” GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY › 781.729.1158 › 67 Shore Rd, Winchester › griffinmuseum.org › Tues-Thurs 11 am-5 pm; Fri 11 am-4 pm; Sat-Sun noon-4 pm › Admission $5; $2 seniors; free for children and students; free for all on Thurs › Through Dec 2: Jess T. Dugan: “Transcendence” › Through Dec 2: Lynn Goldsmith: “The Looking Glass” › Through Dec 2: Rita Bernstein: “Undertow” INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART › 617.478.3100 › 100 Northern Ave, Boston › icaboston.org › Tues-Wed + Sat-Sun 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 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” MIT MUSEUM › 617.253.4444 › 265 Mass Ave, Cambridge › web.mit.edu/museum › TuesFri 10 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun noon-5 pm › Through Dec 31: Berenice Abbott: “Photography and Science: An Essential Unity” › Through March 31: “Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya” 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 › MonTues + Sat-Sun 10 am-4:45 pm; Wed-Fri 10
am-9:45 pm › Admission $22; $20 students, seniors; free for ages 7-17 and under during non-school hours [otherwise $10]; free for ages 6 and under › Through Oct 28: “Manet in Black” › Through Dec 31: Edward Weston: “Leaves of Grass” › Through Dec 31: “Mario Testino: In Your Face And British Royal Portraits” › 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” NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART › 860.229.0257 › 56 Lexington St, New Britain, CT › nbmaa.org › Tues, Wed, and Fri from 11 am-5 pm, on Thurs from 11 am-8 pm, on Sat from 10 am-5 pm, and on Sun from noon-5 pm › Admission $9, $8 seniors, $7 students; free to members and children under 12 › Through Nov 11: “Particular Heights 2.0” 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!” 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 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 Jan 13: “America In View: Landscape Photography 1865 to Now” › Through Feb 24: “Everyday Things: Contemporary Works from the Collection” 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” 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 am-8 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” › Through Dec 2: “20th Century American Drawings” › Through Feb 3: “Kennedy to Kent State: Images of a Generation”
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Boston Book Festival
Saturday, OctOber 27 » 10 am-7 pm at lOcatiOnS in cOpley Sq, bOStOn » eventS free unleSS nOted » bOStOnbOOkfeSt.Org The fourth annual Boston Book Festival brings dozens of authors to town Saturday for a one-day marathon of readings, signings, panels, and seminars. The Phoenix also presents a ticketed preview event, “From Page to Screen,” on Friday night at Old South Church. Here’s where you’ll find us: 700 Boylston St › 11 am-noon
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A fortunAte event This coming Saturday, author Daniel Handler, in the persona of his alter-ego Lemony Snicket, delivers the “Kids’ Keynote” address at the Boston Book Festival. As Snicket, of course, Handler is the author of the multi-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events. Handler has also been an occasional collaborator with musician Stephin Merritt, including the Merritt project the Gothic Archies, inspired by the Snicket tales. We asked Merritt to talk to Handler on the Phoenix’s behalf.
type of Judaism I practice you can’t really convert to. It involves a fear of totalitarian deportation, an obsession over food, and the ability to extract guilt from the most guiltless of moments. One has to be born to this.
all your protagonists are so young, but you yourself have appealingly silvery hair. do you dye it? Why, or why not? I prefer to think of my hair as “ash blonde,” and I cultivated it the oldfashioned way, through worry.
How many books do you intend to write? I decided when I started I would write a dozen. That seemed more than enough. Oh, well.
most of your books involve mysterious conspiracies, as though they were the product of a mind inclined to paranoia. and yet you are the only sane person i know. Why are you so well adjusted? I can only think of that Flaubert quote: “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” you occasionally foreground Jewishness, as in your brilliant roman à clef, The Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming. Should i convert? The
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you are both a book writer and a screenwriter. How do you navigate the two cultures? With gratitude that success in the former means I have no desperation in the latter.
you have your nyrb shelf sorted by color, displaying a very pretty rainbow. What else do you collect? Books of old cocktails. On a slow evening, one can always test the various recipes for the Delmonico. you collaborate, in various ways, more than most writers; why? Because I admire others’ work and get lonely in my little room. do you ever write just for shits and giggles? I hardly do anything else. _Stephin Merritt
LEMONY SNICKET :: Boston Book Festival, Old South Church, 645 Boylston St, Boston :: October 27 :: 11 a.m.-noon :: free :: bostonbookfest.org
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“tHe HObbit: tHere and back again” › It’s the 75th anniversary of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, and we’re just around the bend from the December 14 release of the first installment of Peter Jackson’s three-part adaptation of the novel. You can see a trailer for the film at this celebration of all things halfling, which also features original artwork by Tolkien and a discussion with Corey Olsen, author of Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, and Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks. › Boston Common Hotel Hancock Room, 40 Trinity Place › 11 am-noon “SeriOuS Satire” › The Phoenix’s political ace David Bernstein hosts a pair of Daily Show vets — co-creator Lizz Winstead (Lizz Free or Die) and Emmy-winning writer Kevin Bleyer (Me the People) — along with former Onion correspondent Baratunde Thurston (How to Be Black) › Trinity Church Sanctuary, 206 Clarendon St › 12:45 pm1:45 pm “tHe brain: tHinking abOut tHinking” › While we wait for the Singularity and the rise of our robot overlords, futurist Ray Kurzweil joins Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel to share insights from their recent books How To Create a Mind and The Age of Insight. › Trinity Church Sanctuary, 206 Clarendon St › 2:30 pm-3:30 pm “grapHic nOvelS: draWing tHe StOry” › If you missed these three sequential-art titans in Boston earlier this month, do not make that mistake a second time: Chris Ware, Charles Burns, and Chip Kidd will present their latest tomes, along with Gabrielle Bell, whose autobiographical The Voyeurs has been touted by the likes of Art Spiegelman. Phoenix contributor Eugenia Williamson hosts. › Old South Sanctuary, 645 Boylston St › 2:30 pm-3:30 pm “true crime: tHe WHitey bulger StOry” › Thomas Foley and Dick Lehr pursued Whitey for decades: Lehr as an investigative reporter for the Globe, and Foley as the head of the Massachusetts State Police — in which position he was frequently undermined by an FBI that was secretly in league with the enemy. Each has written a must-read book about the Bulger years; longtime Bulger-watcher David Boeri moderates. › Boston Public Library,
“black culture: muSic and mOre” › Northeastern professor Leonard Brown is an authoritative musician in his own right and also the editor of the essay anthology John Coltrane and Black America’s Quest for Freedom. He joins pianist and UPenn English professor Tsitsi Ella Jaji; and Emily Bernard, whose Carl Van Vetchen and the Harlem Renaissance concerns someone who could almost be considered the only white charter member of that movement. William Banfied, author of Representing Black Music Culture, hosts. › Boston Common Hotel Carver Room, 40 Trinity Place › 1:45 pm-2:45 pm “uncanny imaginatiOn” › Last year, Justin Torres’s dark, poetic debut, We the Animals — about three brothers in a troubled family — won him accolades from everyone from Esquire and the New York Times to Michael Cunningham and Dorothy Allison. He’ll join two other visionary talents, short story writer Matthew Battles (Sovereignties of Invention) and memoirist Joan Wickersham (reading from her short-story collection, The News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story). Dawn Tripp (Game of Secrets) hosts. Trinity Church Forum, 206 Clarendon Street › 2:30 pm-3:30 pm “pOemS and pintS” › What’s not to like — Irish poets reading and discussing Irish poetry in an Irish pub. Panelists include Boston’s own Nick Flynn (Another Bullshit Night In Suck City), X.J. Kennedy (In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus), Joan Houlihan (The Us), and Aidan Rooney (Tightrope). Daniel Tobin, author of Belated Heavens, winner of the 2011 Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry, hosts. › Cuffs, Back Bay Hotel, 250 Stuart St › 5 pm6:30 pm ricHard fOrd › The Big Dawg of American letters these days, Ford followed up his Pulitzer-winning Frank Bascombe trilogy with this year’s ruminative, majestic, and eerie anti-thriller, Canada. He delivers the festival’s keynote address, is interviewed by novelist Claire Messud, and takes audience questions. Ford always has provocative things to say about the art of fiction, and he also happens to be charming as hell. › Old South Church Sanctuary, 645 Boylston St › 6 pm-7 pm › tickets $10 › Justin bostonbookfest.org torres
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“frOm page tO Screen” › This year’s marquee panel features the authors whose books became Friday Night Lights, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, Being Flynn, and The House of Sand and Fog. But while Rachel Cohn, Andre Dubus III, Nick Flynn, Daniel Handler, and Buzz Bissinger are on stage, we hope someone will grill Buzz on his recent Mitt Romney endorsement. › Old South Church, 645 Boylston St › 7:30 pm › $15 › win tickets this week at thephoenix.com/contests
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BOSTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY BENJAMIN ZANDER› Sibelius’s Maidens of the Island; Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, with Stephan Jackiw; Strauss’s Don Quixote › Thurs 7:30 pm › Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge › $15-$70 › Sat 8 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › Sun 3 pm › Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge › $25-$98 › bostonphil.org BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY CHARLES DUTOIT› Stravinsky’s The Nightingale; Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges › Thurs-Sat 8 pm › Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston › $30-$114 › 888.266.1200 or bso.org
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apsara are tHe Heavenly dancers of Khmer mythology, the shape-changing nymphs whose bas-relief images have adorned the walls of the temple of Angkor Wat since the 12th century. The traditions of Cambodian classical court dance, with its sustained, floating motions and backward-slanting hand gestures, are believed to have been modeled on this timeless iconography. It’s more than appropriate, then, that Lowell’s Angkor Dance Troupe is celebrating its 25th anniversary season with a performance entitled Apsara Dancing Stones. The troupe’s story is itself an example of art springing from mere imagination to unlikely existence. When the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia in 1975, displacing the nation’s population and creating its notorious “killing fields,” artists and intellectuals were among the first to be targeted and executed. By most counts, some 90 percent of the nation’s dancers and musicians were murdered or starved during the fouryear-long regime. When, in the mid-1980s, Cambodian refugees began to build communities in urban centers like Lowell, there was real question whether any of their rich classical and folk culture could be reconstituted. It could, and it has. Angkor Dance Troupe was established not merely to revive and pass on the traditions of Khmer performing arts, but to offer the sometimes troubled children of exile positive alternatives to apathy and violence. Linda
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Sopheap Sou was one of those children. A community advocate and the daughter of one of the troupe’s founders, she started dancing at age three. Now, nearing 30, she directs the Lowell Community Health Center’s Teen Coalition. Angkor Dance Troupe features a cohort of performers who have been with the troupe since the ages of 8 or 10, and the company continues to train young people. They appear at festivals, special events (including a White House performance) and have shared the stage with visiting troupes from Phnom Penh. “What we find,” says Sou, “is that people who were born and raised here become more familiar with Western systems, being involved with . . . youth-development programs. The first generation that came here didn’t understand why kids needed to stay after school. Over the decades, our elders have understood the importance of their culture and why it’s important for us to be community advocates for our culture.” Apsara Dancing Stones, choreographed by new artistic director Phousita Huy, a former Cambodian assistant minister of culture, is the first full-length, fully produced program in the troupe’s history. The dance spans the breadth of Cambodian history, from the birth of its gods and goddesses through the rebirth of Khmer culture after war. In Apsara Dancing Stones, even stones can be revitalized. _De br a Cash
Angkor DAnce Troupe :: Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 east Merrimack St, Lowell :: october 27 :: 7:30 pm :: $18-$125 :: 978.454.2219 :: angkordance.org
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BEN HOLMES AND AARON JACKSON› Works for trumpet and piano by Holmes and Jackson › noon › Boston Athenæum, 10-1/2 Beacon St, Boston › Free › 617.227.0270 or bostonathenaeum.org CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF BOSTON› Rautavaara’s The Fiddlers; Suk’s Serenade for Strings; Satie’s Gnossienne; Smith’s Polish Renaissance Suite; Laven’s A Barnraising › 7:30 pm › First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St, Boston › $20-$45; $10 students › 617.266.1626 or chamberbos.squarespace.com MUSICA SACRA› Victoria’s Missa o magnum mysterium; du Caurroy’s Missa pro
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BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS SCHOOL OF MUSIC OPERA INSTITUTE CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM LUMPKIN› Verdi’s La Traviata › 8 pm › Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave, Boston › $7 › 617.266.7900 or bostontheatrescene.com LA DONNA MUSICALE› Selection of works by Walpurgis, Nascinbeni, de Rossi, and Vivaldi › Fri 7 pm › First Church, Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge › Sun 4 pm › United Parish of Brookline, 210 Harvard St, Brookline › $25-$35; $15 students › 617.547.2724 or ladmupcomingevents.org LIEDERABEND› Selection of German lied by Schumann and Brahms › 8 pm › Seully Hall, 8 the Fenway, Boston › Free › 617.912.9222 or bostonconservatory.edu LONGY CONSERVATORY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY JULIAN PELLICANO› Smetana’s Vltava: The Moldau; DeMatos’s Psalm 51; Ravel’s Tzigane, with violinist Anya Shemetyeva; Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra › 8 pm › Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge › Free › 617.496.2222 or longy.edu LORELEI ENSEMBLE› Selection of works by Lang, Reich, Schnittke, Kyr, Rossi, von Bingen, and Nobles › Fri 8 pm › Marsh Chapel, 735 Comm Ave, Boston › $20; $12 students › Sun 8 pm › MIT Chapel, 48 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Donations welcome › loreleiensemble.com MUSICIANS OF THE OLD POST ROAD› Selection of works by Telemann, Molter, Baron, and Kress › Fri 8 pm › Christ Church, 0 Garden St, Cambridge › Sat 8 pm › First Parish in Wayland, 50 Cochituate Rd, Wayland › $30; $25 students, seniors › 781.466.6694 or oldpostroad.org BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY CHARLES DUTOIT› See listing for Thurs
defunctis › 8 pm › First Church, Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge › $27-$45; $15 students, seniors › 617.547.2724 or musicasacra. org NEW ENGLAND PHILHARMONIC CONDUCTED BY RICHARD PITTMAN› Rakowski’s Symphony No. 4; Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder; Musgrave’s Rainbow; Debussy’s La Mer › 8 pm › Tsai Performance Center, 685 Comm Ave, Boston › $25; $5 students › 617.353.8725 or nephilharmonic.org SARASA CHAMBER MUSIC ENSEMBLE› Works for soprano, violins, cello, and harpsichord by Vaughan Williams, Haydn, Oswald, and Purcell › Sat 8 pm › Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge › Sun 7 pm › First Parish in Concord, 20 Lexington Rd, Concord › $24; $20 seniors; $12 students › 617.429.0332 or sarasamusic.org BOSTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY BENJAMIN ZANDER› See listing for Thurs BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY CHARLES DUTOIT› See listing for Thurs MUSICIANS OF THE OLD POST ROAD› See listing for Fri
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ANGKOR DANCE TROUPE› Master Phousita Huy’s Apsara Dancing Stones › 7 pm › Lowell Memorial Auditorium, 50 East Merrimack St, Lowell › $18-$50 › 978.454.2299 or lowellauditorium.com TRIBUTARY DANCE› “Moving Into the Future,” with music from Boston Cecilia › 8 pm › All Saints Parish, 1773 Beacon St, Brookline › $15-$62 › 617.738.1810 or bostoncecilia.org BOSTON BALLET› See listing for Thurs URBANITY DANCE› See listing for Fri
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BOSTON CAMERATA› “The Harvest: Early American Songs of Thanks and Praise” › 4 pm › Memorial Church Harvard University, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge › $22-$46; $10 students › 617.495.5508 or bostoncamerata.org CANTATA SINGERS CHAMBER CONCERT› Selection of works by Schumann, Howells, Merryman, Macmillan, and Martin › 3 pm › Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music, 27 Garden St, Cambridge › $20 › 617.876.0956 or cantatasingers.org CHORUS PRO MUSICA› Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb; Ives’s Psalm 90; Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms; Gawthrop’s Night, Sleep, Death and the Stars › 3:30 pm › Old South Church, 645 Boylston St, Boston › $25-$45; $22-$41 seniors, students › 617.425.5159 or choruspromusica.org DINOSAUR ANNEX MUSIC ENSEMBLE› Carolyn O’Brien’s Conveyance; Wang Jie’s The Shadow; Roger Zare’s Geometries; New work by Dan VanHassel, James Borchers, and Joe Mannarino › 6:30 pm › Goethe-Institut, 170 Beacon St, Boston › $20; $10 students, seniors › 617.262.6050 or dinosaurannex.org JUDITH GORDON AND ROB KAPILOW› “What Makes It Great?,” highlighting Brahms’s Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn › 3 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › $30 › 617.482.6661 or celebrityseries.org PIETER WISPELWEY AND LOIS SHAPIRO› Selection of five Beethoven sonatas for piano and cello › 3 pm › Granoff Music Center, 20 Talbot Ave, Medford › $10 › 617.627.3679 or tufts.edu/musiccenter WHA KYUNG BYUN AND RUSSELL SHERMAN› Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 for two pianos and flute, arr. Josef Venantius von Wöss, with Sooyun Kima; Schubert’s Divertissement à la hongroise › 8 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › Free › 617.585.1260 or necmusic.edu BOSTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY BENJAMIN ZANDER› See listing for Thurs CAPPELLA CLAUSURA› See listing for Sat LA DONNA MUSICALE› See listing for Fri LORELEI ENSEMBLE› See listing for Fri SARASA CHAMBER MUSIC ENSEMBLE› See listing for Sat
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Now or Later’s personal is political christopher shinn’s new play, which takes place on election night, is so timely that it’s hard to imagine staging it later rather than now. The Huntington Theatre Company’s production (at the Calderwood Pavilion through November 8) stars Grant MacDermott as the president’s son, a closeted gay Ivy League student with a history of depression and suicidal tendencies. He’s also got a history of dressing up as Mohammad to make a statement to his peers about free speech. When blurry pictures surface of his son’s stunt, the president and his campaign staff go into panic mode and try to convince young John Jr. to apologize to the public. But John the younger dismisses this as his Dad going on a pointless power trip. Tom Nelis plays the Prez, a blend of Romney’s flip-flopping “moderate” and Obama’s hopeand-change. But his presidential charisma and well-coiffed head don’t appear until the play’s climax. First, John Jr.’s mother (Alexandra Neil) and campaign staffers Marc (Ryan King) and Tracy (Adriane Lenox) each try, in turn, to convince John Jr. that he should apologize for his stunt. When nothing works, Dad swoops in for the final debate. Paired with John Jr. is his best friend Matt (Michael Goldsmith),
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fellow student and partner-incrime. Matt dressed up too, as Pastor Bob. One wonders why he didn’t dress as Jesus, or why John Jr. didn’t dress as Bin Laden, since the pairing of Mohammad and Pastor Bob seems unparallel. The students’ free speech stunt was nothing if not poorly planned, but John Jr. is determined not to let his father pull one over on him. Meanwhile, he’s able to justify his behavior and argue himself out of political corners with a flurry of talking points. The apple does not fall far from the tree, perhaps, although John Jr. and John Sr. are too angry at their similarities to see them. Many of these debates will keep your brain cells shifting wildly from left to right, since all of these characters — political staffers as well as college students in the thick of polisci textbooks — have the gift of eloquence. As the debates over free speech, personal responsibility, privacy, safety, political extremism, and cultural imperialism grow more frenzied and desperate, the topic at hand gets pushed further and further into the background. By the play’s end, the story has been pared down to a chilling simplicity: a father and son, and the deep, lifelong scars their relationship has suffered. _Maddy My e r s
NOW OR LATER :: Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St, Boston :: Through November 10 :: $15-$80 :: 617.933.8600 or huntingtontheatre.org
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CHiCaGo › Walter Bobbie directs the Broadway tour of Fred Ebb & Bob Fosse’s Tonyaward winning musical with music by John Kander and lyrics by Ebb. Supermodel Christie Brinkley stars as Roxie Hart, a Prohibition-era murderess determined to use her looks and charm to dupe the media and the jury into believing in her innocence. John O’Hurley costars as Billy Flynn, the slickest criminal lawyer in town. › November 1-4 › Citi Performing Arts Center, 270 Tremont Street, Boston › $48.75$128.75 › 866.348.9738 or citicenter.org THe deaTH oF TiNTaGiles › Imaginary Beasts stages Matthew McMahan’s new translation of Maurice Maeterlinck’s dark story of fate, intrigue, and murder in a royal palace, intended to be staged with marionettes. Matthew Woods directs. › October 26–November 17 › Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theatre, 539 Tremont Street, Boston › $20; $15 students, seniors › 617.933.8600 or imaginarybeasts.org THe diary oF aNNe FraNK › Roxbury Repertory Theater stages Wendy Kesselman’s adaptation of Anne Frank’s diary, which chronicles her experience growing up in hiding during the Nazi occupation of Holland. Marshall Hughes directs. › October 25–November 3 › Roxbury Community College, 1234 Columbus Ave, Boston › $10; $5 students, seniors › 617.427.0060 or rccmainstage.com THe eFFeCT oF Gamma rays oN maN-iN-THe-mooN mariGolds › Jim Petosa directs the Boston Center for American Performance staging of Paul Zindel’s 1964 play about a single mother and her two daughters. Paula Langton stars as Beatrice, an emotionally manipulative mother of two daughters, both of whom hope to grow into strong women in spite of their mother’s dysfunction and all-consuming selfishness. › October 31–November 18 › Lane-Comley Studio 210, 264 Huntington Ave, Boston › $20 › 617.933.8600 or bu.edu 44 plays For 44 presideNTs › Bad Habit Productions stages Andy Bayiates, Sean Benjamin, Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, Chloe Johnston, and Karen Weinberg’s chronological, biographical survey of our country’s 44 presidents. Jeffrey Mosser directs. › October 27–November 11 › Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St, Boston › $18 › 617.933.8600 or badhabitproductions.org GUys aNd dolls › Mark Martino directs this North Shore Music Theatre production of Jo Swerling, Abe Burrows, and Frank Loesser’s 1950s Tony-award winning musical based on two short stories by Damon Runyon. Michael Lichtefeld choreographs. The story follows Nathan Detroit, the organizer of “the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York.” When Nathan runs out of places to host his game, he makes a bet with high-roller Sky Masterson to win a security deposit to pay off the Biltmore Hotel. Sky’s end of the bargain requires him to win a date with pious missionary Sarah Brown, but this proves troublesome. Meanwhile, Nathan’s fiancée Adelaide knows nothing of his gambling career and has begun to grow suspicious. › October 30–November 11 › North Shore Music Theatre, 62 Dunham Rd, Beverly › $45-$60 › 978.232.7200 or nsmt.org memory HoUse › Merrimack Rep takes on Kathleen Tolan’s drama about a mother and her teenage daughter struggling to complete a college admissions essay. Their last-minute stress over the project brings out long-held tensions and family secrets. Melia Bensussen directs. › October 25–November 18 › Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 East Merrimack Street, Lowell › $15-$55 › 978.454.3926 or mrt.org
THe NaKed i: Wide opeN — abridGed › First Church hosts 20% Theatre Company’s national tour of monologues about gender identity, written by Massachusetts transgender playwright Tobias K. Davis. This abridged version of the show features about half of the original monologues. › October 25 › First Church, Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge › $10-$20 › 617.547.2724 or tctwentypercent.org THe sUssmaN VariaTioNs › Boston Playwrights’ Theatre presents Richard Schotter’s drama about a family of musicians; Charlie Sussman, aging musical theater composer, hopes to celebrate his birthday with his two daughters, a pianist and a cellist. But his family has trouble getting along as harmoniously as Sussman hoped. › November 1-18 › Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Comm Ave, Boston › $30; $25 seniors; $10 students › 617.353.5443 or bu.edu/bpt Tales From oVid › ArtsEmerson reprises the Whistler in the Dark Theatre staging of Ted Hughes’s translation of 24 selections from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” which they first staged in 2010. Director Meg Taintor returns to helm the production once more; the cast of five will take to the air using aerial silks and divide over 30 characters between them. › November 8-18 › Paramount Theatre, 559 Washington St, Boston › $25-$49 › 617.824.8000 or artsemerson.org
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aNNe oF GreeN Gables › Wheelock Family Theatre stages Donald Harron & Norman Campbell’s musical theater adaptation of the popular book by Lucy Maud Montgomery about a talkative, plucky orphan girl with a big imagination that results in both great opportunities and hilarious missteps. Jane Staab directs, with Robert Rucinski on musical direction. › Through November 18 › Wheelock Family Theatre, 200 the Riverway, Boston › $20-$30 › 617.879.2147 or wheelockfamilytheatre.org a beHaNdiNG iN spoKaNe › Darren Evans directs Theatre on Fire in Martin McDonagh’s first American-set play, a slapstick farce about a man on a quest to find his lost left hand. He finds himself in luck when he meets a pair of bickering lovebirds with a hand they’re looking to lose. › Through October 27 › Charlestown Working Theater, 442 Bunker Hill St, Charlestown › $20-$25; $15 students, seniors › 866.811.4111 or theatreonfire.org beNGal TiGer aT THe baGHdad Zoo › Rajiv Joseph’s new play receives its New England premiere with Company One, under Shawn LaCount’s direction. The story follows the ghost of a Bengal tiger who haunts the streets of war-torn Baghdad, seeking redemption and peace of mind. › Through November 17 › Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theatre, 539 Tremont Street, Boston › $20-$38 › 617.933.8600 or companyone.org bloody bloody aNdreW JaCKsoN › Paul Melone directs Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman’s emo-rock musical about our seventh president for SpeakEasy Stage. The show makes liberal use of anachronisms and humor as it follows Jackson’s humble Tennessee beginnings to his later triumphs in politics. › Through November 17 › Roberts Studio Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St, Boston › $25 › 617.426.5000 or speakeasystage.com bye bye liVer: THe bosToN driNKiNG play › Hennessy’s hosts the Boston chapter of Bye Bye Liver, a show about drinking culture, from wine snobs to wildly fun (and occasionally terrifying) booze parties. The performance also incorporates audience interaction with social games like “Would You Rather” and “Never Have I Ever.” › Indefinitely › Hennessy’s, 25 Union St, Boston › $20 › 866.811.4111 or ByeByeLiver.com
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tHe LILY’S reVeNGe Writer/star Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge at ART’s Oberon is a five-hour musical about whether nostalgia or the hereand-now serve art better. Personified Longing and his mother Time fight over the nature of a story, until Mac’s presumptuous Lily steps in to hijack the tale and play the romantic lead. He’s variously egged on or discouraged by Time, Longing, and fellow flowers played by drag queens. Despite the length, the energetic cast and three interactive intermissions keep the production moving. Those breaks include
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refreshments, free massages, and cast members ready for a chat or a song. The show is bawdy and funny, with digressions about the politics of gay equality and the nature of theater. Does all of this hold together as a coherent whole? Yes and no, but Mac might argue that’s part of the point. He’s a fun performer despite a so-so singing voice. A four-piece-band plays the catchy but forgettable original pop songs (with music by Rachelle Garniez). Wear comfortable shoes and join the group dance number. _Lis a We ide n fe L d
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THe CHoseN › Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok, authors of the play My Name is Asher Lev, have adapted another of Potok’s novels for the stage. Daniel Gidron directs the Lyric Stage production of this coming-of-age story about two boys living in 1940s Brooklyn who become friends despite their different cultural backgrounds. › October 19–November 17 › Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston › $27-$58 › 617.437.7172 or lyricstage.com doUble iNdemNiTy › Weylin Symes directs David Pichette & R. Hamilton Wright’s theatrical adaptation of the 1944 film that kickstarted the noir genre, including tropes like the femme fatale and a scam that goes wrong. This adaptation borrows from the screenplay by Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and the original novel by James M. Cain. › October 18–November 4 › Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main St, Stoneham › $44-$48 › 781.279.2200 or stonehamtheatre.org maCbeTH › Paula Plum helms Shakespeare’s Scottish play, starring Actors’ Shakespeare Project members Allyn Burrows, Mara Sidmore, Sarah Newhouse, and Richard Snee. › Through November 4 › Chevalier Theatre, 30 Forest Street, Medford › $28-$50 › 866.811.4111 or actorsshakespeareproject.org raCe › New Rep stages the Boston premiere David Mamet’s gritty comedy about two attorneys who must defend a white man charged with raping an African-American woman. Robert Walsh directs. › Through November 4 ›
Charles Mosesian Theater, 321 Arsenal St, Watertown › $28-$58 › 617.923.8487 or newrep.org THe 39 sTeps › Elizabeth Aspenlieder, Jason Asprey, David Joseph, and Josh Aaron McCabe star in Shakespeare and Company’s staging of Patrick Barlow’s play, which was adapted from the novel by John Buchan and the film by Alfred Hitchcock. Jonathan Croy helms this murder mystery about a night at the theater gone awry. › Through November 4 › Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, 70 Kemble St, Lenox › $12$50 › 413.637.3353 or shakespeare.org 28 days laTTe › ImprovBoston’s annual “Gorefest” musical celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. This new musical about a group of hipsters and seniors fighting the zombie apocalypse from a coffee shop features a book and lyrics by Don Schuerman and musical composition by Steve Gilbane. Schuerman also directs the show, and Gilbane does the musical direction. › Through October 31 › ImprovBoston Mainstage, 40 Prospect St, Cambridge › $20-$25;$18-$20 students › 617.576.1253 or improvboston.com UNCle VaNya › Diego Arciniegas stars in the Apollinaire Theatre Company staging of Anton Chekhov’s 1899 play about Russian country life at the turn of the 20th century. Kevin Fennessy co-stars as Telegin, with Kate Paulsen as Elena, Erin Eva Butcher as Sonya, and Ronald Lacey as Astrov. Danielle Fauteux Jacques directs. › Through November 4 › Apollinaire Theatre Company, 189 Winnisimmet St, Chelsea › $35 › 617.887.2336 or apollinairetheatre.com THEPHOENIX.COm/ARTS :: 10.26.12 69
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sexual healing no other film this year pushes as many keeps a holy card taped to his iron lung. But some Academy buttons as Ben Lewin’s adaptation of the needs defy all constraints, physical and spiritual. true story of the Dorchester-born poet and writer So O’Brien asks his confessor, Father Brendan Mark O’Brien, a paralyzed polio survivor who hired (William H. Macy), if he can employ the services of a a sex surrogate to lose his virginity. It’s professional. Reluctantly, Father Brendan +++ got the torturous depiction of a person says he thinks, in O’Brien’s case, Jesus with disabilities, à la Daniel Day-Lewis would give him a free pass. THE SESSIONS in My Left Foot. It’s got a bittersweet So begin the sessions between O’Brien Directed by Ben Lewin romance, a Rocky-like defiance of the and Salem native Cheryl Cohen (Helen odds, and an Oscar-winning actress in Hunt), who if not for her profession would Written by Ben Lewin from an article by Mark the nude. There’s a snappy script, black seem an average suburban housewife. o’Brien :: With John humor, an elfin priest, a nice cat, and Intercut with these encounters are other hawkes, helen hunt, best of all, it’s a damn good movie. sessions: between O’Brien and Father and William h. Macy :: Okay, minus a few lapses into Brendan, and between Cheryl and her Fox Searchlight pictures :: 95 minutes sentimentality. But that can only be tape recorder, each situation providing expected in a story that overflows with a different point of view on the unusual at the kendall Square both pathos and joie de vivre. And given relationship, and achieving a balance the film’s ironic take on Catholic guilt between the detached and analytical and and the role of God in a world of pain and evil, a bit of the intimate and intense. This and the other low-key squishiness is a relief. tactics of Lewin’s unemphatic style, along with the The film takes on the tough luck of the human cast’s subtly powerful performances, render a story condition with its opening scene as O’Brien (John that could easily have been smarmy and exploitative Hawkes) copes with an itchy nose he can’t scratch. into a powerful expression of our common needs, He can’t reach other itches either, and if he could, fears, and consolations. _P E T E R KEOUGH » PKEOUGH@ PHx.cO m he’d suffer the sexual shame of someone who
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John hawkes on body language Ask any great actor — Robert De Niro, Christian Bale, Daniel DayLewis — if all that physical preparation is necessary for a great performance, and they’ll say that sometimes you just have to put your body on the line. I asked John Hawkes, who plays the poet Mark O’Brien in Sessions, and he agreed. O’Brien was paralyzed by polio in childhood, and muscle atrophy reshaped his body. “Mark had horrible curvature of his spine,” said Hawkes. “You can’t pretend those things don’t exist as an actor. Those are things that tell you how to play the role. I didn’t want to use a body double, and the movie couldn’t afford computer graphics or prosthetics. So what you see is old-style filmmaking, of trying to convince the audience with what you have. Basically I put myself in a twisted position where every muscle in my body felt abnormal.” Hawkes will next be seen in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln (opens November 9), with Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role. Did he have a chance to talk with DayLewis about the latter’s Oscarwinning performance as Christy Brown, a man with cerebral palsy, in My Left Foot (1989)? “He’s a fantastic actor,” said Hawkes. “But the only day I worked with him on Lincoln, there was no talking about anything outside the scene. He wasn’t Daniel Day-Lewis anymore. He was the president.” _PK
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the film? It had to be done. To ask a viewer to start over a new film six times — the sixth time being an hour and a half in — I understood. I just about get away with it in the book. With novels, as long as they don’t get dull, you can do what the hell you like in them. Films are less forgiving. So reconstitute it as a mosaic. For me, this actually generates pleasure at the ingenuity of the way one scene is glued to the next. A question is asked in 1850, and then it’s asked again in post-apocalyptic Hawaii. Did you manage a cameo? I’m in the film. Blink, and you miss me. As Sonmi [a clone in 2144 Korea] is leaving the rebel base, she goes up some steps, and I’m walking down them, and our eyes lock, and we walk on. Is there something meta to you about being in a film that’s based on something you wrote? Yeah, it’s metafictional. I hadn’t thought of that. But if you thought about it, you’d go mad, wouldn’t you!
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+ALEX CROSS > The level of writing in Alex Cross is inferior to that of your fourth-favorite TV cop show. Tyler Perry stars as a dapper Detroit police detective/psychologist on the trail of an assassin (a buff Matthew Fox) who’s killing corporate types. Cross is eager to take a job in DC as a FBI profiler. But will he even have a future, now that he’s in the crosshairs of a sadomasochistic hitman who, um, makes charcoal drawings of his victims? It gets personal when the perp guns down a member of Cross’s family. Other than the cool choice of a decrepit theater as location for the final showdown, director Rob Cohen (xXx) works from the standard action playbook, down to the predictable “twist.” Perry’s limited range doesn’t help. It’s good for an actor to try a change of pace, but with each anguished look, each dramatic pause, Perry gives the impression that he has an invisible third hand patting himself on the back for courageously straying from Madea. > 102m>Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Arlington Capitol + suburbs > _Betsy Sherman +++THE BIG PICTURE >A word of advice to anyone who kills his wife’s lover, fakes his own death, assumes the dead guy’s name, and flees to a seaside Balkan town: leave the camera at home. In Eric Lartigau’s chilly, Chabrol-esque thriller, Paul Exben (Romain Duris), a hotshot, uptight, cuckolded Parisian lawyer, learns this lesson the hard way. He also learns that identity may be fluid, but destiny is immutable. Thanks to a unified Europe, Exben has no problem faking a passport and reaching his Adriatic refuge, where he subdues his sweaty paranoia and gradually feels at home. But then he meets a character played by Niels Arestrup, and you
know that can’t be good. Lartigau employs a detached style, with brief appearances of striking metaphoric imagery, separated by fades to black, evoking a mood of calm doom and freefloating anxiety. As for the big picture, it takes a while to develop, but it shows that even a sordid melodrama like Exben’s can have unintended, epiphanic consequences. > French >114m > Coolidge Corner _Peter Keough +1/2 CLOUD ATLAS > The most disappointing film of the year, Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer’s adaptation of David Mitchell’s 2004 novel fails on nearly every level. The three have turned the book’s elegantly structured interlinking of six narratives spanning 500 years, from the 19th century to a post-apocalyptic future, into what seems like a three-hour-long trailer — it’s kind of like Christian Marclay’s The Clock, but not as cohesive. And they have reduced Mitchell’s brilliant manipulation of styles and genres into a tone-deaf mélange that repeatedly illustrates a pop-philosophy involving reincarnation and the insight that “everything is connected.” On the other hand, the film does make for an impressive visual spectacle, and showcases some of your favorite stars (Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, et al.), each playing up to a half dozen wildly disparate roles. Watch as they switch races, genders, and hairpieces while slathered in latex and prosthetics; you might want to stick around until the end credits to see who’s who. (See Ed Symkus’s interview with David Mitchell on page 71.) > 172m > Boston Common + Fenway + suburbs _Peter Keough +++ HIGH GROUND >In October 2010, 11 wounded Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans — blind, missing limbs, suffering from traumatic brain injury or PTSD — took part in “Soldiers to the Summit,” a mission to climb Nepal’s 20,000 foot Mt. Lobuche. The organizers hoped that
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this would help them adjust to civilian life by putting them in a place between life back home and the war zone. But it also helps civilians understand the torments, needs, and courage of those returning from battle. Each vet relates his or her trauma, often depicted in chaotic and shocking videos of the actual events. They are remarkably free of bitterness and self-pity, and though at first guarded they slowly open up to the camera: one woman quietly discloses she was raped by a fellow soldier, and a Marine admits that compared to the rush of combat, civilian life is “boring.” Backed by the astounding beauty of the Himalayas, their struggle to reach the peak is healing for them and illuminating for the rest of us. > 91m > Museum of Fine Arts _Peter Keough ++1/2 THE OTHER SON > It’s a far-fetched premise: two boys mixed up at birth, a Palestinian raised by an Israeli-army colonel and his French wife in Tel Aviv, a Jew brought up by a West Bank Muslim family who have had a son killed in the occupation. The narrative happens 18 years later, when the families finally discover the disturbing truth. And that brings the ethnically mixed cast together for both quarreling and peacemaking, and for decisions about how to relate to two teenagers who grew up with the wrong parents. French filmmaker Lorraine Levy mostly makes it work, thanks to an appealing ensemble of actors, and to her sincere conviction, played out scene after scene, that Arabs and Jews can find common ground if they actually get to know each other > French > 105m > Kendall Square _Gerald Peary ++ PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 > The scares — and there have been some good ones — in the Paranormal franchise depend on what’s not happening. The fear creeps around the corners of darkened empty rooms, embodied by the dead, panning eye of a camera that refuses to reveal what the audience is anxiously waiting to see. This fourth installment, directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, may have taken the concept a too far. For most of the movie, nothing happens at all, nor does tension fill the empty space. A teenage girl video-chats with her horn-dog boyfriend while her dissatisfied housewife mom vacuums and her dad throws back beers on the couch. Sure, there’s the weird little kid from across the street who’s clearly a little off, but this chubby blond creep isn’t scary enough to carry an entire film. When the scares do come, they come fast and hard but, unfortunately, far too late. On the upside, P4 has a sense of humor about itself. Watch for a Shining reference that is — one hopes, at least — intentionally comical. > 88m > Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Somerville Theatre + Embassy + suburbs _Alexandra Cavallo +++ PUSHER >The antidote to a culture rife with rap songs and TV shows glamorizing the lives of drug dealers, Nicolas Winding Refn’s 1996 debut film of the same name depicted the “job” as a mixture of the life-threatening and the numbingly mundane. This British remake by Luis Prieto hits the same beats and makes the same points, but lacks the street-level immediacy that made the original a classic. Things aren’t going well for Frank, who loses a half-kilo of heroin in a chase with the cops, has a delivery from Amsterdam go awry, and finds the prostitute who holds his stash begging to start a relationship with him all in the course of one “work week.” Prieto pumps up his plight with neon lights and a dance soundtrack, mining influences from later Refn films like Bronson and Drive as much as he does the source. Derivative as Pusher may be, few have captured “the life” with such intensity. Without resorting to histrionics, Prieto depicts a world where one wrong move leaves you broke, unemployed, and on the run . > 87m > Boston Common + Fenway + suburbs >_Jake Mulligan ++ SMASHED > Within minutes of arriving on screen, Kate (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) drunkenly wets her bed, sloppily teaches her
kindergarten class, and wraps up a night of partying by smoking crack at the local homeless hangout. Mixing gallows humor with pitchblack observations about addiction, James Ponsoldt’s feature starts off as an exhilarating dark comedy. But it quickly gets serious, and the sense of humor dissipates. Aaron Paul stars as Kate’s husband, equally as dependent on drink as he is on her shared taste for self-destruction. When she hits rock bottom — faking a pregnancy to justify throwing up in class — a fellow teacher (Nick Offerman) forces her to clean up, but getting sober with a drunken beau proves impossible. The stage seems to be set for a boozed-up Blue Valentine, but just as the melodrama gains traction we cut to a coda and the credits (it runs a scant 85 minutes, and feels unfinished). The film is at its best only when its characters are at their worst. > 85m > Kendall Square _Jake Mulligan ++1/2 TAI CHI ZERO > Mashup, hodgepodge, or remix — call it what you will, this kung fu odyssey from former action star Stephen Fung offers intermittent pleasures and freaky twists. The premise doesn’t pretend to be original: a small turn-of-the-century Chinese village resists technology and Western influence. But stylistically Fung tries to break new ground. Part video game and part MIT CAD program with some pop-up video tossed in, the film stretches the genre with mixed results. The oddball anti-hero known as the Freak (Jayden Yuan) is on a quest like that of Caine in the old Kung Fu TV series. He is blessed (or cursed) with a small flesh protrusion on his head that when struck changes him into a kung fu demon. It also ages him, and his search for a way to control his gift brings him to the sleepy village. A love triangle and some Steampunk machinery add interest, and Fung’s spunky inventiveness makes this worth seeing. > 94m > Boston Common + Fenway + suburbs _Tom Meek ++1/2 WAR OF THE BUTTONS> Based upon Louis Pergaud’s beloved and much adapted 1912 novel, this retread by Christophe Barratier (Paris 36) is flawed but has its charms. Set in rural occupied France near the end of WWII, the story involves a rivalry between the boys of neighboring villages that heats up alongside the increasing tyranny of the authorities. The boys’ creative strategies of one-upmanship, led by charismatic bully Lebrac (Jean Texier), overlap with their parents’ resistance efforts. A new girl in school named Violette (Ilona Bachelier) comes to visit her glamorous godmother Simone (Laetitia Casta); gossip flies when it’s learned that the visitor might be a Jew in hiding. Smitten by the newcomer, the roughneck Lebrac vows to protect her. The cast is fine, especially the boys, and the cinematography lush and wistful, but the score is pure fromage and the storyline sacrifices tension for romance. > French > 100m > Kendall Square _Peg Aloi
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ALL TOGETHER [ET SI ON VIVAIT TOUS ENSEMBLE?] › 2011 › Five lifelong friends opt to eschew the tedium of retirement homes by purchasing a spacious house together. Stéphane Robelin’s feel-good comedy stars Jane Fonda (in her first French-speaking role in four decades), Geraldine Chaplin, and Claude Rich. › French + German › 96m › MFA: Sun + Wed ++ ARBITRAGE › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 100m › West Newton +++ ARGO › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/ movies for a full review. › 120m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Somerville Theatre + Coolidge Corner + Chestnut Hill + Embassy + suburbs +++1/2 BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 91m › West Newton
++1/2 BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING › 2011 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 92m › Coolidge Corner BIG EASY EXPRESS › 2012 › Tour documentary following the alt-folk trio of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Old Crow Medicine Show, and Mumford & Sons as they travel from California to New Orleans via vintage train. Emmett Malloy directs. › 67m › MFA +++ THE CABIN IN THE WOODS › 2011 › Generations of parodies have diluted horror movie conventions to inanity, but Drew Goddard’s ingenious contrivance (Joss Whedon co-wrote) takes you through the familiar paces and then opens a trapdoor. A bunch of stereotypical college types — bimbo, jock, doper, smart girl, smart guy — arrange to party in the title hovel. The expected happens, but with a twist. The twists won’t surprise anyone familiar with paranoid scenarios like The Truman Show, or the works of H.P. Lovecraft; more disturbing is the filmmakers’ sheer glee in both subverting and vindicating the genre, demonstrating how horror films function as distractions from the horrors of real life. › 95m › Brattle: Tues-Wed CHASING MAVERICKS › 2012 › Biographical film starring Jonny Weston as surfer Jay Moriarity and Gerard Butler as Frosty Hesson, Moriarity’s mentor who takes him under his wing in hopes of coaching him to survive the Mavericks, the legendary surf breaks that house some of the biggest waves in the world. Michael Apted and Curtis Hanson direct. › 104m › Boston Common + Fenway + suburbs CHUNG KUO — CINA › 1972 › A commission from the Chinese government, Michelangelo Antonioni’s documentary was originally intended to be a positive portrait of a postCultural Revolution China. And much of the film is conducive to this, taking viewers from the rural countryside to the factory towns. But after encountering a number of frustrating restrictions, Antonioni broke a bit away from the government’s eye, offering a glimpse into life under totalitarian rule. › Italian + Mandarin › 207m › HFA: Sun ++++ THE CONNECTION › 1961 › Shirley Clarke’s great film is an adaptation of Jack
Gelber’s play, the Living Theatre production of which (first mounted in 1959) was a defining cultural moment of its period. The play is about a group of junkies waiting for their connection, Cowboy. He arrives at last and everyone fixes. The two main formal innovations in the play and the film are the incorporation of performances by a hard-bop quartet (led by pianist Freddie Redd, who composed the tunes, and featuring the intense alto-saxophonist Jackie McLean) and the presence of media professionals, who are making a documentary about heroin addiction. Clarke takes the latter element to a logical extreme (impracticable in a theatrical performance) by claiming that the film we are seeing consists of footage from the documentary. The movie thus works as both a stylized portrait of Lower East Side junk culture and an attack on the presumed objectivity of cinéma-vérité. › b&w › 110m › MFA: Fri-Sun THE CROW › 1992 › A year to the day following his brutal murder and that of his fiancée, Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) returns from the grave to seek revenge upon the gang responsible for their death. Adapted from the James O’Barr comic book of the same name, Alex Proyas’s brooding action flick is perhaps most notorious for the resulting death of Lee after injuries he sustained while filming. › 102m › Coolidge Corner: Tues +++ DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL › 2011 › Visit thePhoenix.com/ movies for a full review. › 86m › Coolidge Corner + West Newton ++1/2 EDWARD SCISSORHANDS › 1990 › Tim Burton’s film is as simple-minded, unformed, and ephemeral as a teenager’s longings. This contrived pastiche is held together by dazzling imagery, a flair for physical comedy, skewed visual wit, and the director’s palpable sincerity. Johnny Depp’s Edward is a pale-faced boy in black leather whose hands end in a collection of razor-sharp shears. The creation of a mysterious inventor (Vincent Price) who died before he could complete his work, Edward is rescued by an Avon Lady (Dianne Wiest) who takes him home with her and introduces him to her neighbors. The film is a hackneyed fable of suburban hypocrisy and adolescent alienation, but Depp’s performance
radiates pathos and lingers in the imagination. With Winona Ryder. › 105m › Coolidge Corner: Mon +++ THE EXORCIST › 1973 › Lauded by critics, denounced by Billy Graham, embraced by the Catholic church, William Friedkin’s nasty shocker set box-office records and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards (winning two, for sound and screen adaptation). Women fainted, men vomited in the aisles, and protests were staged nightly. Shot on location in Iraq and Georgetown, the film offered unassuming cinematography, innovative use of effects, and non-actors like playwright Jason Miller (in his Oscar-nominated debut as Father Damien Karras). Screen legends like Max von Sydow (the elderly exorcist of the title) and Lee J. Cobb (a crusty detective) have nothing on the astonishing pre-teen Linda Blair as Regan McNeil, a young girl whose psychotic behavior baffles doctors and drives her mother (Ellen Burstyn in a gut-wrenching performance) to seek the help of priests, who decide that Regan is possessed by a demon. › 121m › Coolidge Corner: Sat midnight +++1/2 FRANKENWEENIE › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › b&w › 87m › Boston Common + Fenway + Somerville Theatre + Chestnut Hill + suburbs FUN SIZE › 2012 › Put in charge of watching over her little brother on Halloween, Wren’s (Victoria Justice) plans to attend a huge party go awry when he wanders off on his own. Directing debut from Josh Schwartz, while Jane Levy, Chelsea Handler, and Johnny Knoxville also star. › 90m › Fenway + suburbs +1/2 HERE COMES THE BOOM › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 105m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Arlington Capitol + suburbs 1/2 HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA › 2012 › Visit
thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 91m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Chestnut Hill + Arlington Capitol + suburbs I AM A GHOST › 2012 › A troubled ghost (Anna Ishida), doomed to forever haunt her old house, links with a clairvoyant (Jeannie Barroga) to form a “patient/therapist” relationship that will hopefully allow her to move on to the afterlife. H.P. Mendoza directs. › 74m › Somerville Theatre: Fri ++ ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 94m › West Newton: Sat-Sun INLAND [GABBLA] › 2008 › Story of two unrelated lives and their path toward intersection from director Tariq Teguia. One is Malek (Kader Affak), a topographer who begrudgingly accepts a job in western Algeria. The other is a young African woman (Ina Rose Djakou) migrating northwards across the desert. › Arabic › 140m › HFA: Sat +++1/2 THE INTOUCHABLES › 2011 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › French › 112m › West Newton ++1/2 IT IS NO DREAM: THE LIFE OF THEODOR HERZL › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 97m › West Newton: Sat-Sun THE LADY WITHOUT CAMELIAS › 1953 › Second feature from director Michelangelo Antonioni detailing the less-than-moral behind-the-scenes dealings of the film industry. After breaking through by a chance encounter with a movie executive (Andrea Checchi), Clara (Lucia Bosé) is quick to find herself consumed with the starlet lifestyle. Her relationship with a producer (Gino Cervi) only further compromises her identity as he assumes control of her career and role choices. › Italian › b&w › 105m › HFA: Sun
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• the filmS of StanDiSh laWDer The films of Standish Lawder prove that structuralist and conceptual film can be fun. On this, the second of two nights (there is a shorter program on Sunday), the multi-talented cinema legend will be on hand to present some of his avant-arde shorts, including Necrology (1968) — in which 10 minutes of people ascending on an escalator becomes a meditation on identity and transience. Harvard Film Archive in the Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge :: 7 pm :: $9; $7 students, seniors :: 617.495.4700 or hcl.harvard.edu/hfa • EDWARD SCISSORHANDS You’d think Science on Screen might take a look at the credibility of reanimating dead dogs, as seen in Tim Burton’s recent feature, Frankenweenie. Instead host Jeremy DeSilva, an assistant professor of biological anthropology at Boston University who is studying the remains of early hominids previously unknown to science, will discuss what it means to be human — a question also investigated by Johnny Depp as the title freak in Burton’s classic Edward Scissorhands (1990), which screens with DeSilva’s talk. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline :: 7 pm :: $9.25; $7.25 students, seniors :: coolidge.org MON
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LITTLE ZIZOU › 2008 › Contemporary comedy set in Bombay’s Parsi community and focused on two very different families in conflict: one headed by a religious bigot and the other by a reforming journalist. This is the debut directorial effort from screenwriter Sooni Taraporevala (Salaam Bombay!). › 101m › HFA: Sat +++ LOOPER › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 118m › Boston Common + Fenway + Somerville Theatre + Embassy + suburbs ++1/2 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 85m › West Newton: Sat-Sun ++++ THE MASTER › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 137m › Boston Common + Kendall Square + Coolidge Corner + Embassy MR. CAO GOES TO WASHINGTON › 2012 › New Orleans Congressman Joseph Cao finds himself torn between party politics in this documentary from director S. Leo Chiang. Shunned by fellow Republicans upon befriending President Obama, Cao is quick to lose his newfound kinship after voting against the Health Care Reform bill. › 72m › ArtsEmerson: Sat MODEL MINORITY › 2012 › Kayla, 16-year-old half-Japanese girl living in Los Angeles, has her willpower tested by a neighborhood drug dealer, a move that could potentially jeopardize her promising future as an aspiring artist. Lily Mariye directs. › 72m › ArtsEmerson: Sat ++++ MOONRISE KINGDOM › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 94m › West Newton +++ NIGHT NURSE › 1931 › Barbara ++++
NOSFERATU [NOSFERATU, EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS] › 1922 › One of the great horror films. F.W. Murnau’s expressionistic style is peculiarly suited to Bram Stoker’s Dracula, of which this is the first and best adaptation. The title character, played by Max Schreck, looks like a tall, gaunt death’s head with a hooked nose and long, pointed fingers; when he rises from his coffin, it’s his fingernails that are first lit (by Fritz Arno Wagner), as though they glowed from the inside. One doesn’t forget the image of the ship drifting to shore, its whole crew dead, or the progression of coffins down a deserted street, or the rats surging from Dracula’s shipboard grave. Screenplay by Henrik Galeen. › b&w › silent › 84m › Brattle: Wed ORNETTE: MADE IN AMERICA › 1985 › Free jazz innovator Ornette Coleman is the subject of this documentary from Shirley Clarke (The Cool World). For her effort, Clarke reached out to William S. Burroughs, Buckminster Fuller, Ed Blackwell, and more for commentary on the saxophonist. Also at the heart of the film is Fort Worth, Texas, Coleman’s birthplace, where he makes a return to perform with the city’s orchestra. › b&w + color › 77m › MFA: Fri ++1/2 THE OTHER DREAM TEAM › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 89m › Kendall Square + West Newton ++1/2 THE PAPERBOY › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 107m › Kendall Square +++ THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 103m › Boston Common + Kendall Square + Embassy +++ PITCH PERFECT › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. ›
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105m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Somerville Theatre + Chestnut Hill + suburbs +++ POLTERGEIST › 1982 › Steven Spielberg’s story of an archetypal suburban family — Diane (Jobeth Williams) and Steve Freeling (Craig T. Nelson) and their children Dana (Dominique Dunne), Robbie (Oliver Robins), and Carol Anne (Heather O’Rourke) — visited by ghosts starts out harmless but turns scary when Carol Anne is taken into her bedroom closet. Tobe Hooper is the credited director. › 114m › Coolidge Corner: Fri midnight PUI CHAN: KUNG FU PIONEER › 2012 › Recognized as one of the pioneers that brought traditional kung fu to America, Grandmaster Pui Chan and his journey form the crux of this documentary from his eldest daughter, Mimi Chan. Honing his craft in his native China, Pui eventually migrated to the United States as a means of escaping oppression, bringing along with him his world-renowned skill set. › 92m › Brattle: Sat + ArtsEmerson: Sun +++1/2 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK › 1981 › Director Steven Spielberg and producer George Lucas created this heady, hedonistic adventure story, and it’s a marvelous toy of a movie. Harrison Ford stars as Indiana Jones, a dashing archæology professor hired by the US government to find the long-lost Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis can get it; Karen Allen is the ex-girlfriend who’s there to help (but Indy or herself?). The film is all cliffhanging and rescue, climax and release. And as it piles thrill upon thrill, you’re united with the characters in a single desire: the lust for adventure. › 115m › Brattle: Fri-Mon ROME RATHER THAN YOU [ROMA WA LA N’TOUMA] › 2006 › Debut feature from director Tariq Teguia concerning a young couple who spend their days wallowing away in Algiers, reading Kafka and Chester Himes while dreaming of one day escaping to Europe. When an opportunity presents itself, they jump to enlist the services of a smuggler to help them escape to Italy. › Arabic › 111m › HFA: Fri ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT › 1986 › Real life musician Dexter Gordon stars as Dale Turner, a down-on-his-luck saxophonist living in 1950s Paris. Amidst fighting a losing battle with alcohol, Dale befriends Francis (François Cluzet), a graphic designer who idolizes the musician and attempts to assist in freeing him from his vices. Bertrand Tavernier directs. › English + French › 133m › MFA: Sat +++ SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 86m › Coolidge Corner + West Newton +++ SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 109m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + suburbs SHANGHAI CALLING › 2012 › Immediately encountering hardships upon his arrival in Shanghai on a work assignment, a New York attorney (Daniel Henney) seeks solace and potential romance in a cast of characters who may save his job and sanity. Daniel Hsia directs. › 98m › ArtsEmerson: Sun SILENT HILL: REVELATION 3D › 2012 › On the eve of her 18th birthday, amidst nightmares and the disappearance of her father (Sean Bean), Heather (Adelaide Clemens) discovers that she isn’t who she’s always thought she was. Her revelation pulls her into the dark alternate dimension of Silent Hill, where an insane cult reigns supreme. Michael J. Bassett directs. › 90m › Boston Common + Fenway + suburbs +++ SINISTER › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 110m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Arlington Capitol + suburbs ++1/2 SISTER [L’ENFANT D’EN HAUT] › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › French + English › 97m › Kendall Square
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Tillman — a/k/a Tillman, a/k/a Father John Misty — is one hell Jtheosh of a dancer. Though some knew his prior solo work, or his stint as drummer in Fleet Foxes, all preconceived notions for the experi-
mental folk/rock impresario disintegrated when he started touring under a new moniker behind Sub Pop–issued Fear Fun last spring. He checked his hips to the uplifting swells of “Only Son of the Ladiesman,” he clenched his fists and shook it to “I’m Writing a Novel,” and scores of concert-goers followed suit behind the man with the new name. Now, Tillman’s out on his most ambitious jaunt yet, a three-and-ahalf-month tour including dates on the S.S. Coachella and an extensive stay in Europe. “Inspiration is a tricky bitch, and it doesn’t always hit you in the most likely places,” he says of writing on the road, which
he’s currently doing. “I write all over the place. I’ve written in weirder places than the proverbial road.” Does this mean that we’ll get a glimpse of the next Father John Misty record in the flesh? Nope. Definitely not, thanks to “the YouTube thing.” “[This tour] is a lifeless cabaret act purely of the songs of Fear Fun,” says Tillman, laughing. “I still in some naïve way believe in the impact of putting out a record for the first time and having it be a new experience curated by the artist. I just don’t really like the idea of new songs floating around on the Internet before there’s an album out for them. I love the album, that’s the thing, and I like people having an experience with that.”
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saint etienne’s love letter no More than two seconds into Saint Etienne’s latest album (their first in seven years), Words And Music (Heavenly/Universal UMC), angelic-voiced Sarah Cracknell opens “Over the Border” with a spoken-word confession over a soft acoustic guitar: “When I was 10, I wanted to explore the world.” By the 30-second mark, after admitting she couldn’t join the cool older kids travelling outside her hometown “just to see Peter Gabriel’s house,” she sets the tone for the veteran UK dance-pop trio’s most engaging record since 1998’s confessional Good Humor with the following: “I used Top of the Pops as my world atlas.” From there Cracknell details how the world came to her through music. She chronicles the albums she bought, her memorization of the British charts, hearing her first synthesizer, and how she first fell for a boy (“I knew he loved me because he made me a tape”). Music “would be there for me,” she offers, “and when I was married, and when I had kids, would Marc Bolan still be so important?” Only in the chorus does she admit, “I’m growing older.” Words and Music is more than a personal memoir; it’s a universal appreciation and celebration of pop music and nightlife, toying throughout with the relationship between youthful indulgences and the one-way street of aging. Since forming in London in 1990 — an
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eternity ago in pop circles — the attraction of Saint Etienne’s sound has always been emotional, personal. Now they’re not only cataloguing their life experiences creating music, but also detailing how it shapes who you are as a person. “Bob [Stanley] came up with the idea, in a very broad scope, to write the songs about music,” said Pete Wiggs by phone from London last week about his fellow Saint Etienne co-founder. “It was brilliant for inspiration. Because it’s quite a broad concept, and it’s something everyone can understand. It quickly became [about] how music can intersect your life. When people ask what are your favorite things, they almost always respond with something about music.” Single “Tonight” is a disco stunner about the excitement of seeing your favorite band play live (“Maybe they’ll open with an album track/Or a top-five hit, no turning back,” coos Cracknell). It’s one of many magnetic tracks (“I’ve Got Your Music,” “Last Days of Disco,” “DJ”) on perhaps the most intellectually engaging dance record of 2012, a result of what Wiggs calls “a mix of growing up being into Phil Spector and the girl groups of the ’60s, then the early days of house. In house music, there’s always that progression, building up of a dance floor, and then the drop of it back down again. It plays with your emotions. We wanted to do that in song.” _MICH AEL MAROTTA » MMAROTTA@ PHx.COM
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Sometimes making a statement from a corner of a room feels truer than making one from its center. Kai Campos — onehalf of the London duo Mount Kimbie — believes that reasoning was crucial to his desire to make electronica in the first place. During shows, Campos found, DJs often set up shop to the side and in the dark, allowing more attention to fall on the audience and music itself. That modest attitude was once “quite refreshing” and is still reflected in Kimbie’s aesthetic, even though he’s begun pulling away from the genre. “Certainly now,” the twentysomething says, “we don’t particularly want to be considered an electronic band.” Cutting MOUNT Mount Kimbie KIMBIE + away from their root genre is a SQUARE disingenuous PUSHER move — they are, after all, Royale, 279 Tremont St, signed to influBoston ential electronica label Warp and October 31 @ 8 touring with pm :: 18+ :: $25 :: 617.338.7699 :: Squarepusher. royaleboston. But Campos’s com assertion is reasonable. As Mount Kimbie, he and Dominic Maker work with an electronica-born instrumental palette, but the results — frail sampler-made melodies, ominously spare drum beats, minimalist arrangements, hollow production — frequently brush against post-rock, drone-folk, or even plain ol’ experimental music. “This [forthcoming] record is probably less minimal in some ways than the last one,” Campos says. “I’d be surprised if there are a lot of guitar solos on the next one.” _REYAN ALI
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desPiTe beiNg a ToTally reasoNable and sweet dude to chat with, Rick Maguire’s got issues. Fortunately for music fans, the Acton-born 27-year-old has a band to help him work through the various hauntings visited upon him. The five-year-old quartet Pile, among the brightest of Boston’s bursting subterrane, makes waltz-time, feel-bad guitar music that is gothic in the non-eyeliner sense: angular songs express the sort of specific, primal anxieties that litter a liberal-arts undergrad’s coursework. There’s a song about Maguire’s genitalia being cut off, another hypothesizes spiders are living in his butt, yet another bemoans “trying to keep up by running in place.” Performing not long ago at O’Brien’s in Allston, Pile summoned forth this and other bad mojo and then annihilated it under a tsunami of drop-tuned guitars, pummeling drums, and Maguire’s caterwauled drawl. The deliverance from evil sounded like the musical mean of the two sides of Sub Pop’s coveted 1993 Jesus Lizard/ Nirvana split, and it inspired spirited moshing among fans who were fist-pounding out the jams in time with Maguire, drummer Kris Kuss, bassist Matt Connery, and Matt Becker, Pile’s original bassist who has returned as a second guitarist. Electrifying shows are the foundation of Pile’s reputation here and across the country. You know you’ve been out on tour a lot when you have to stop to figure out how many there’ve been. And you have to do
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calculations. And it takes two people. “Kris and I just did the math and . . . actually, I don’t know,” Maguire confessed in the band’s unevenly lit Allston practice space earlier this month. A moment later, something definitive: “Eleven. Eleven tours.” This week, Pile launches a 12th: 19 dates plunging down the coast to Florida, culminating in a homecoming November 21 at the Middle East with Sub Pop signatories Metz and Pile’s Exploding In Sound Records labelmates Speedy Ortiz. The occasion for the latest road trip is the release last Tuesday of Dripping, its commanding fourth set of throbbing, dynamic, dualguitar howlers. The record is the band’s first on a label, and also the first featuring Becker back in the fold. “It’s been sweet being able to play with two guitars now,” Maguire enthused. “It was definitely kind of a challenge, trying to coordinate all that: getting different tones, filling space, not being too overwhelming.” That element of control is the yin powering the cathartic yang that is Pile’s most potent weapon: release. From the stentorian opening of “Baby Boy” to the creepy Chicago-styled bludgeoning of “Grunt like a Pig,” Dripping shines with a sophistication and tunefulness too pronounced to be called sludgy, and it catches fire when the band pulls out the stops and Maguire’s full-throated bellowing takes over. But Maguire hasn’t quite let go of his issues: there is, after all, always another record to write, a 13th tour to mount. _JAY BREI TLI NG » J AY.BREI TLI NG@GmAI L.com
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In recent years the HUSH NOW, Boston’s finest purveyors of Halloween greetings, spawned from the depths of their spooky lounge of rock, have fled from Mephistopheles and danced with the ghosts of Dudley town. Now they kick off our Playlist of Evil with “The Flapper,” a stylish spin around a depraved soul’s dark carnival of desire. CREATUROS raise their Swampp Thingg cassette, the DEVIL’S TWINS find musical bloodstains, the BYNARS stab synths inside a haunted house, and CHRISTIAN MCNEILL’s eerie SEA MONSTERS dream of a soulful Hades on new record Everything’s Up for Grabs.
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Matador Records » It has taken a decade, but Paul Banks has finally written his mission statement in song: “Death will come by ocean, I want that guarantee,” he sings on “I Paid for That,” a propulsive cut from his debut solo album. No, the Interpol frontman has never exactly been Mr. Rogers — his main band dabbles in suicidal guitar drama like a black art. But what’s most surprising about Banks is its overall lack of brooding: most of these tracks boast a very un-Interpol-like playfulness, flipping through sonic textures like TV channels. Opener “The Base” finds Banks nursing his prettiest croon over glitchy electronics, mountains of guitar, and reversed Mellotron. “I’ll Sue You” blends funk bass with droning strings and a vintage Interpol hook. But even though the album’s zany unpredictability can be thrilling, it often feels like Banks is adorning vacant tunes (“Arise Awake,” the plodding instrumental “Another Chance”) with bells and whistles. _RYAN REED
Captured Tracks » Feeling disassociated, darkened, distressed, or just plain different this fall? Don’t fret or suffer like the only hope out there for getting lost musically is by listening to early Depeche Mode or jumping on the Kraftwerk revival bandwagon. There are, in fact, a slew of newish bands with a full palette of grey melancholy and aural dissonance ready to take you in their cold embrace. The Soft Moon joins the ranks of Silk Flowers, Cold Cave, and Ducktails as modern guardians of the bleak. Brainchild of NoCal’s Luis Vasquez, the Soft Moon sound fuses anxious synth lines with jittery drum machines; check the sway of the title track on Zeros and its seamless transmutation into Krautrock. It’s a minimalist approach that started on the Soft Moon’s outstanding 2010 self-titled debut full-length, and continues here with each composition taking on an overall instrumental feel despite the occasional presence of lyrical accompaniment. When they do enter the soundscape, Vasquez’s vocals tend to hover above the song or, as with the incredibly Cure-like eeriness of “Insides,” echo like a swirling vapor of torturous hopelessness. The effect is emotive without being over the top or resorting to a smeared-eyeliner addiction. Imagine if when Trent Reznor first hit the scene he had been more despondent than angry, headed in the opposite direction of his immediate industrial forebears Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, and Skinny Puppy, instead welcoming the softer yet no less intense side of Peter Murphy. Speaking of which, it’s that time of year again, where one is encouraged to get all bereft in deathly bloom anyhow. So watch the leaves fall as the season continues to turn while sitting alone in a darkened room. Just make sure the Soft Moon is playing within earshot. _MIC HA EL C H RI S T O P H E R
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SAVAGES “Husbands” [Pop Noire] Halloween is the perfect time for this black-lit London quartet (buzzing sharply after five CMJ shows) to carve a bloody niche in the wrist of post-punk. This studio recording of “Husbands” finds singer Jehnny Beth’s whisper/scream Siouxsie yelp dancing in the belfry over Ayse Hassan’s atmospheric graveyard bass. Evil-pop, indeed. _MICH AE L MAR OT TA
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Anticon Records » Why?’s fourth studio album has been marketed as a “return to form” after 2009’s tepidly received Eskimo Snow, since frontman Yoni Wolf ’s trademark raps are once again prominent. That claim is bullshit, of course, because Why?’s original form was never this lifeless and boring. The seemingly personal, often witty confessions that defined Wolf ’s lyrics and informed the poppy backing tracks are unfortunately long gone, replaced by a general ennui regarding the larger balance of his checking account (“Sod in the Seed”) and an exhaustion with music itself (“Distance”) that bleeds over into the bland, sterilized backing tracks. When Wolf offers (on low point “Waterlines”), “I’d prefer to be some unknown with a sports car/Than pen the dumb pun poems as a poor star,” it’s hard not to want to grant him his wish. Maybe then he might enjoy making music again. _NI CK JOHNSTON
MARIA MINERVA “I Don’t Wanna Be Discovered (Will Happiness Find Me?)” [Not Not Fun] Estonian electronic songstress Maria Minerva’s most recent LP is out via LA’s esteemed experimental label, Not Not Fun, and this third track is its entrancing centerpiece. The song is all laid-back, late-night disco, but Minerva’s contemplating some big-picture ideas. “If you don’t know by now, the world is a cruel place,” she sings in her ethereal vox. “You’ve got to sell your soul to survive.” Dark. _LI Z PELLY
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ADVENTURE CLUB › 8 pm › Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston › 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com AVISHAI COHEN › 7:30 pm › Regattabar, 1 Bennett St, Charles Hotel, Cambridge › $20 › 617.661.5000 or regattabarjazz.com BERKLEE GLOBAL JAZZ INSTITUTE + DAVID MAXWELL › 7:30 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › 617.497.0823 BETTYE LAVETTE › 8 pm › Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St, Boston › $30-$35 › 617.248.9700 or ticketmaster.com BLACK THAI + VAPORIZER + DUNCAN WILDER JOHNSON › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $7 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com CRUSH [FEATURING THE JUAN MACLEAN DJ SET] + MIDNIGHT JUSTIN MILLER + NOOKA JONES + SPLIFFOLIAN › 9 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $13 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com DAVE B & THE HOTSHOTS › 8:30 pm › Smoken’ Joe’s BBQ, 351 Washington St, Brighton › Free › 617. 254.5227 or smokenjoesbbq.com ELECTRIC SIX + LITTLE HURRICANE + TAB THE BAND › 9 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.864.EAST or mideastclub. com/tickets.html ELEVATION THEORY › Thurs › Darryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen, 604 Columbus Ave, Boston › $3 › 207.563.1507 or darrylscornerbarboston.com FATHER JOHN MISTY + LA SERA + JEFFERTITTI’S NILE › 9 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $15 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com “INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC W/ MULTIMEDIA BURLESQUE EXPERIENCE” › Mission Creep + The Invisible Rays › 9 pm › Milky Way, at the Brewery, 284 Armory St, Jamaica Plain › $8 › 617.524.3740 or milkywayjp.com
JAMES MERENDA AND TICKLE JUICE › 8 pm › Outpost 186, 186 1/2 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.876.0860 or zeitgeistoutpost.org KEATON SIMONS + YAHUBA JOSE GARCIA-TORRES › 7:30 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge. com KURT ELLING › Thurs-Fri 8 pm + 10 pm › Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $30 › 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com LOS FLETCHEROS › 9 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $10 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com MEDDY GERVILLE › 9:30 pm › Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston › Free › 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com OPOSSOM › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $8-$10 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb. com RADIO DOWN: SIC ALPS + BENT SHAPES › Radio, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com/ RADIO UP: THE CRUSHING LOW + THE RATIONALES › The Crushing Low + the Rationales › 8 pm › Radio, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com/ RICK BERLIN › 8 pm › Magic Room Gallery, 155 North Beacon St, Brighton › $10 › 617.775.4009 or magicroomgallery.com RUN GAZELLE RUN + MISSION SOUTH + JOLLY BIG HEAD › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557 SETH GLIER + ANTHONY DA COSTA › 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $13-$15 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com SHIRLETTE AMMONS › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com SLIM LIZZY + RADIO ASTRONOMER › 10:30 pm › Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com SURPRISE PARTY + FROGGY & THE FRIENDSHIP + TRAUMA QUEENS + H › 9 pm › Ralph’s Diner, 148 Grove St, Worcester › 508.753.9543 or myspace.com/ralphsdiner TOMBS 16 + MORNE LIVVER + THE PROCESS › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com
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PHX PICKS >> CAN’t MISS • “BRANDO NOIR” Pianist/composer/NEC guru Ran Blake’s annual Halloween concert of jazz-noir this year focuses not on 29 a director or particular film, but on iconic noir star Marlon Brando. Blake and fellow NEC faculty member Aaron Hartley curate an evening of film clips and evocative accompaniment and counterpoint from a large cast of NEC students and faculty. Jordon Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston :: 8pm :: free :: necmusic.edu/jazz
ran Blake photo By cerican toniou, elikeh1 photo By John Shore
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• MOzIk Sao Paulo-born, Boston-based pianist Gilson Schachnik and drummer Mauricio Zottarelli convene their sublime Brazilian-jazz quintet Mozik, with 30 guitarist Gustavo Assis-Brasil, flutist Yulia Musayelyan, and bassist Fernando Huergo, and with special guest singer, Boston diva Rebecca Parris, for a night of Jobim. Scullers, DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston :: 8 pm :: $20 :: 617.562.4111 or scullersjazz.com tue
• ElIkEh Hard to thu know whether the tiny 1 Lizard Lounge can hold the Kuti-like fury of Elikeh, the eight-member DC-based crew of Togolese and other West African expats. Expect the big Afrobeat sound of horns, guitar, percussion, and vocals, with sharp multi-lingual songwriting. Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 9 pm :: $10 :: 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com
Saturday, 10/27, 7:30PM: ALFIE BOE Wednesday, 10/31, 8:15PM: METAL GUITAR NIGHT Saturday, 11/3, 8PM: AIMEE MANN Saturday, 11/10, 8PM: MARY BLACK Friday, 11/30, 8PM: DEAD ON LIVE A note-for-note recreation of classic Grateful Dead ’71-’72 recordings
13 6 Massac h u setts Ave. , Boston Full schedule/tickets: www.berklee.edu/BPC
www.greatscottboston.com 10.25.12 Thu Bowery Boston • Opossom 9pm • 18+ • $8 ADV/ $10 DOS
10.26.12 Fri
Anderson Comedy Group • The Gas The best in local comedy and beyond 7pm • 18+ • $5
10.26.12 Fri
the pill • DJs Ken & Michael V. with Avoxblue LIVE • European tour kickoff 10pm • 21+ • $5
10.27.12 SaT
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell • 9pm • 21+ • $8
10.28.12 Sun
Allston Pudding Present • Those Darlins Heavy Cream • The Fagettes • 9pm • 18+ • $12
10.29.12 Mon
Wintersleep • Elliott BROOD The New Complainers • 9pm • 18+ • $10
Boston’s premiere all ages concert venue Thursday, 10/25, 8PM: HEAVY ROTATION RECORDS FALL SHOWCASE– FREE SHOW
10.30.12 Tue
Bowery Boston Presents • Elder Witch Mountain • Castle Second Grave • 9pm • 18+ • $10
10.31.12 Wed
Friday, 10/26, 8PM: MAD SATTA/ LOVE EXPERIMENT Tuesday, 10/30, 7PM: B.I.T.R.: BERKLEE IN THE ROUND - FREE SHOW
the pill 10th annual Halloween Show The Luxury as OASIS The New Highway Hymnal as THE STOOGES Color Channel as LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Ruby Ridge as THE KNIFE with pill residents DJ Ken & Michael V 9pm • 18+ • $10
939 Boyl ston S t. Boston Full schedule/tickets: www.cafe939.com
1222 CoMMonWealTh ave allSTon, Ma 02134 617-566-9014
Fri 10/26 Dyke Night 14th Annual Halloween Ball w/ DJ Susan Esthera - 9PM - $10 Sat 10/27 & Weekly Mango’s Latin Saturdays w/ The Lee Wilson Movement Sponsored by Hennessy Black 10PM - $10 Every Monday Stump Trivia - 8PM No Cover Wed 10/31 Sigma Gamma Rho Golden Mic Night Halloween Edition $7 adv| $10 door All events are 21+ At the Brewery Complex next to Sam Adams near the Stony Brook stop on the Orange Line 284 Amory St. Jamaica Plain, MA 617-524-6060 - milkywayjp.com
by William Shakespeare directed by Paula Plum
Tickets: 866-811-4111 actorsshakespeareproject.org Thephoenix.com/evenTs :: 10.26.12 81
Arts & Nightlife :: music << live music from p 81
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TURKUAZ + JEN KEARNEY & THE LOST ONION + STREET CHALK › 8 pm › Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston › $10 › 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com WILL DAILEY & THE RIVALS › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com WOLF GANG + THE ROYAL CONCEPT + FRANK & DEROL › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $13-$15 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com THE XX + CHAIRLIFT › 8 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $30-$45 › 888.693.2583
Sacred steel outfit the LEE BOYS will probably set the Orpheum on fire when they warm up the house for GOV’T MULE on Friday. R E S TA U R A N T
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FRIDAY 26
DECO HEART + MAT MANERI + LUCIAN BAN › 7 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › 617.497.0823 THE DROWNING MEN + THE YONI GORDON ORCHESTRA + BANDITAS › 9:30 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb. com DUPPY CONQUERORS › 10 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $12 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com THE WEISSTRONAUTS + THE HEYGOODS › 7:30 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $10 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds. com GONDOLIERS + CULPRIT POLICY + KLUGMAN + STRANGE WAYS › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557 GOV’T MULE + THE LEE BOYS › 7:30 pm › Orpheum Theatre, 1 Hamilton Pl, Boston › $30$35 › 617.482.0650 “HALLOWEEN COVERS SHOW” › Fri-Sat 8 pm › Ralph’s Diner, 148 Grove St, Worcester › 508.753.9543 or myspace.com/ralphsdiner “HALLOWEEN HANGOVER ‘12” › Strange Machines + Biscuits & Gravy + Kid And The Wolf + Bonus Round + Mother Ton › 7:30 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com “HALLOWEEN HANGOVER 12: NIGHT 1” › With music by Cougar Bait, Mojo Kick, Sour D Cosmodrome, and Western Education › 7:30 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $12; $10 advance › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com “HALLOWEEN HANGOVER NIGHT 1” › With music by Skinny Cleveland, Ryan Jackson Troika, Left Hand Does, School For Robots, and Bent Knee › 9 pm › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com HEARTLESS BASTARDS + FUTUREBIRDS › 7 pm › Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston › 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com IWRESTLEDABEARONCE + OCEANO + VANNA WITHIN + THE RUINS + THE PLOT IN YOU + SURROUNDED BY MONSTERS › 6 pm › Palladium, 261 Main St, Worcester › $13-$15 › 978.797.9696 or tickets. com/venue_info.cgi?vid=3802 KEB MO BAND › 8 pm › Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St, Boston › $35-$47 › 617.248.9700 or ticketmaster.com KEVIN MICKA + SUNRAM + EAT CLOUD › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $5 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com LAURA MARLING › 8 pm › MASS MoCA, 87 Marshall St, North Adams › massmoca.org/
MAD SATTA + LOVE EXPERIMENT › 8 pm › Café 939, 939 Boylston St, Boston › $10 › 617.747.6038 or ticketmaster.com/ MAJOR LAZER + PICTUREPLANE + BRENMAR › 8 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $25 › 888.693.2583 PETER WOLF › 8 pm › Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia Rd, Dorchester › $32 › 617.282.8000 RADIO DOWN: THE SPEARMINT SEA + SAND MACHINE + THE DISPLAYERS › › 9 pm › Radio, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › $7 › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com/ “RADIO UP: TIGER MOUNTAIN HALLOWEEN PARTY” › Future Carnivores + Soft Pyramids › Radio, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion. com/ A ROCKET TO THE MOON + AUSTIN GIBBS + BONAVENTURE › 7 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $15-$18 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com ROOMFUL OF BLUES › 7:30 pm › Regattabar, 1 Bennett St, Charles Hotel, Cambridge › $25 › 617.661.5000 or regattabarjazz.com SETH WONKKA + TROY CARTWRIGHT + DJ SKITZ › 10 pm › Tommy Doyle’s at Harvard, 96 Winthrop St, Cambridge › $5 › 617.864.0655 or tommydoyles.com “THE TALLAHASSEE DEAD ROCK STAR HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA!” ›With The Day’s Weight + Sinnet + Wash Hollow › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe. com WALK OFF THE EARTH + JULIA NUNES + THE MOWGLI’S › 7:30 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $20 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com
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AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER + VINYL SKYWAY + DJ SPECIAL K › 10 pm › Tommy Doyle’s at Harvard, 96 Winthrop St, Cambridge › $5 › 617.864.0655 or tommydoyles.com ALFIE BOE › 7:30 pm › Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass Ave, Boston › $35-$49.50 › 617.266.7455 “BOOTY VORTEX HALLOWEEN SHOW” › Booty Vortex › 10 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $12 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com CANDICE ANITRA › 10 pm › Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston › 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com CLOUD LUDUM + ALISA APRELEVA AND LUCIDUS QUINTET › 8 pm › Outpost 186, 186 1/2 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.876.0860 or zeitgeist-outpost.org “DEAD-O-WEEN III” › Playin’ Dead + Sun Jones › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $12-$15 › 617.864.
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EAST or ticketweb.com DON BYRON NEW GOSPEL QUINTET › 7:30 pm › Kresge Auditorium at MIT, 48 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.253.3913 or events.mit.edu EPICA + ALESTORM + INSOMNIUM + SYSTEM DIVIDE + BLACKGUARD › 6:30 pm › Palladium, 261 Main St, Worcester › $22$25 › 978.797.9696 or tickets.com/venue_info. cgi?vid=3802 ERIC HUTCHINSON + JESSIE PAYO › 7 pm › Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville › $25 › 617.625.5700 or somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville/ index.php GORILLAS IN TANKS + DEATH BY BILL + RAPID TRANSIT + THE RESEMBLANCE + ALL EYES ARE ON ME NOW + ANSWERMAN + FALL TIN CAN EMPIRE + GIGANTIC ANT › 2 pm › All Asia, 334 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $6 › 617.497.1544 or allasiabar.com GUY MADDIN’S THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD › Guy Maddin › 4 pm › MASS MoCA, 87 Marshall St, North Adams › massmoca.org/ “HALLOWEEN BASH” › The Timberfakes + East Coast Soul › 8 pm › Hard Rock Café, 22-24 Clinton St, Boston › $15 › 617.424.7625 or hardrock.com/boston “HALLOWEEN HANGOVER 12: NIGHT 2” › With music by Shoney Lamar & The Equal Rights, OTP, Ellis Ashbrook, Kristen Ford Band, and The Symptoms › 7:30 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $12; $10 advance › 617.864. EAST or ticketweb.com “HALLOWEEN HANGOVER NIGHT 2” › Effzero + Waves + Semi-Good Looking + Shotgun Waltz + Ways to Fall › 9 pm › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com HAYLEY JANE & THE PRIMATES › 10:30 pm › Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com
INTEGRITY + RINGWORM + SHIPWRECK + VYGR › 5:30 pm › Palladium Upstairs, 261 Main St, Worcester › $18-$20 › 978.797.9696 LAURA MARLING › 5 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $18-$20 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com LEWIS PORTER + PHIL SCARFF GROUP › 7 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › 617.497.0823 THE LIGHTS OUT AS QUEEN + SIDEWALK DRIVER + THE FIELD EFFECT + I, PISTOL › 8 pm › Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston › $10-$12 › 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com LORD JEFF + THE LIVING KILLS + SAND RECKONER › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $6 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com LOWMAN › 10 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com THE MAINE & MAYDAY PARADE + THE POSTELLES › 6:30 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $20 › 888.693.2583 MILO GREENE + LUCIUS › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $13-$15 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com MR. NICK AND THE DIRTY TRICKS › 9 pm › Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $12 › 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com “NIGHT OF THE ZOMBIE LIZARD” › Baker Thomas + Ryan Fitzsimmons + Pesky J. Nixon › 9 pm › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com NOUVELLE VAGUE › 6 pm › Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston › 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com PATSY HAMEL BAND› 6 pm › Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.666.3589 or sallyobriensbar.com/ frameset.htm RADIO UP: ELDRIDGE RODRIGUEZ › Radio, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com/
PHX PICKS >> CAN’t MISS • YONI GORDON ORChESTRA Yoni Gordon may be Brooklyn’s property these days, but Boston raised him right, and you hear the soulful sound of our city in 26 the troubadour rocker’s latest effort, The Hard Way. He and his Orchestra, the band that has supplanted the Goods, hit Cambridge on a bill with California’s the Drowning Men and local cats Banditas. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 15 Brookline St, Cambridge :: 9 pm :: $10 :: ticketweb.com FRI
• ThE METER MEN Cambridge’s newest rock club, the Sinclair, launches without any grand opening party, but with a nod to its neighborhood’s vibrancy and eclecticism. tue 30 There might be an official launch event sometime next month, but three members of New Orleans funk juggernaut the Meters — Leo Nocentelli, George Porter Jr., and Zigaboo Modeliste — join forces with Phish keyboardist Page McConnell as the Meter Men to christen the Sinclair’s stage. The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge :: 7 pm :: SOLD OUT :: boweryboston.com • WAlTER SICkERT If the whole Halloween Cover Show circuit isn’t your bag, WeD then the only man you should be spending October 31 with is Walter “Every Day Is 1 3 Halloween” Sickert. The steampunk shamen brings his Army of Broken Toys to the land of broken children, Allston, for a night dubbed as “super villainous sugar-fueled masquerade music mayhem.” This “SquidHouse of Horror” also features host Johnny Blazes, and mu-sick by Darling Pet Munkee, XNY, and Moe Pope. Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston :: 8 pm :: $15 :: brightonmusichall.com • ThE ORGAN BEATS The perfect cure for a Halloween hangover is an assault of power chords, and Boston power-pop veterans the Organ Beats celebrate the release of latest record Goldenheart. We featured first single “Living Without You” in our weekly Playlist, but we’re already hungry for more. Mellow Bravo, the Appreciation Post, and the Fatal Flaw round out bill of sweet hooks and rock crooks. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 15 Brookline St, Cambridge :: 8:30 pm :: $10 :: ttthebears.com thu
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RODRIGUEZ › 7 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $30 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com RON POPE + JESSE RUBEN › 6:15 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $12-$15 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com SAINT ETIENNE + FREEZEPOP › 9 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $20 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com THE SHAYNA DULBERGER QUARTET + THE KIT DEMOS FLAME-TET › 10 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › 617.497.0823 SMASHING PUMPKINS › 7:30 pm › Agganis Arena, 925 Comm Ave, Boston › $39.50-$49.50 › 617.358.7000 or ticketmaster.com
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sCullers jazz Club
Thurs. & Fri., Oct. 25 & 26
KURT ELLING
8pm & 10pm
New CD “1619 Broadway The Brill Building Project”
Sat., Sun., Oct. 27, 28 8 & 10 Sat./4 & 7 Sun.
SPYRO GYRA
Tues., Oct. 30
MOZIK PRESENTS
8pm
JOBIM
with Special Guest
REBECCA PARRIS
Weds., Oct. 31
NEC - SINGERS &
472-480 MASSAchUSETTS AVE cENTRAl Sq., cAMBRIDgE (617) 864-EAST
mideastclub.com | zuzubar.com ticketweb.com DOWNSTAIRS Thu 10/25: ElEcTRIc SIx LiTTLe Hurricane • TaB THe Band
Fri 10/26 - 7:30PM: HearnowLive PresenTs: STRANgE MAchINES • BiscuiTs & Gravy
8pm
SONGWRITERS Thurs. & Fri., Nov. 1 & 2
ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY
8pm & 10pm
DOUBLETREE SUITES
BY HILTON BOSTON Call for Tickets & Info at: 617-562-4111
Dinner/Show Packages Available. Also In-Club menu
Order on-line at www.scullersjazz.com
sat 10/27: rock on! concerTs PresenTs: dead-o-ween iii FeaTurinG • PlAyIN’ DEAD GraTeFuL dead TriBuTe • sun Jones sun 10/28 - 12PM aLL aGes POP VS. NOT BATTlE fOR gK fEST Mon 10/29 - 6PM: neMesis enTerTainMenT PresenTs: MUNIcIPAl WASTE naPaLM deaTH • exHuMed
Tue 10/30 + 10/31 ThROWED hAUNTED MANSION 2-day HaLLoween FesT dJ’s e-Marce + Texas Mike
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hoT springs reggae Call for info friday 10/26
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SPYRO GYRA › Sat 8 pm; Sun 4 pm › Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $40 › 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com TREY ANASTASIO › 7:30 pm › Orpheum Theatre, 1 Hamilton Pl, Boston › $39.50-$49.50 › 617.482.0650 VANCE GILBERT › 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $23-$25 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com VANILLA MANVELOPE › 7:30 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com
SuNDAY 28
“ACOUSTIC AFRICA: AFROPEAN WOMEN” › 7 pm › Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville › 617.625.5700 or somervilletheatreonline.com/somerville/ index.php “BAR OPERA” › 7:30 pm › Ralph’s Diner, 148 Grove St, Worcester › 508.753.9543 or myspace.com/ralphsdiner BLAZING IN BOSTON › 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $18-$20 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com COPYWRITE + TAGE FUTURE + WAIS P + EDDIE B + DOUBLE AB + TRADEMARK AARON + DJ DRASTIC › 8 pm › Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston › $15 › 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com ETTE + TURNING PLATES + STRANGE MANGERS + THE WEEDS › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557 HOOK-UPS & BREAK-UPS (THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE) + JOE HUNT QUARTET › 7 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › 617.497.0823 HOOTS & HELLMOUTH YARN + THE DAVID MAYFIELD PARADE › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $12-$15 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com “IF YOU GOT IT, HAUNT IT” › The Slaughterhouse Sweethearts + Femme Bones + B.L.O.W.W. + Anna Phylaxis + Maggie + Honey Pie › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com “LONGYLABORARTORY” › EAAE + Jeremy van Buskirk + Paul Sayed › 3:15 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › 617.497.0823 MARC PINANSKY + TRUEZOOS + AS THE SPARROW + LIFE ON HOLD + THE ONE AND ONLYS › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com MAT MANERI + LUCIAN BAN › 2 pm › Amazing Things Arts Center, 160 Hollis St, Framingham › $9-$18 › 508.405.2787 or amazingthings.org MNDR + SHINY TOY GUNS +
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COLOURMUSIC › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $17-$20 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com THE MOON › 8 pm › Outpost 186, 186 1/2 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.876.0860 or zeitgeist-outpost.org THE MOTIVATED SEQUENCE + HALEY BOWERY & THE MANIMALS + HANNAH VS. THE MANY › 7 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $5 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com “POP VS. NOT BATTLE: OPENING ROUND” › noon › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $12-$15 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com RADIO UP: LIGHT KEEPER + POLLUTED REMAINS + VIRUS CYCLE + NO HERO › 7:30 pm › Radio, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com/ THE ROUGH & TUMBLE › 9 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com THOSE DARLINS + HEAVY CREAM › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $12 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb. com
MONDAY 29
ANDY STATMAN › Mon-Tue 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $28-$30 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com CHARLENE KAYE + JAY STOLAR + ALEXZ JOHNSON › 7 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $12 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com DAVE BRYANT + BRUNO RABERG + JIM HOBBS + KAMAL JONES › 8 pm › Outpost 186, 186 1/2 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.876.0860 or zeitgeistoutpost.org DEFTONES + SCARS ON BROADWAY › 8 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $32.50-$42.50 › 888.693.2583 GABRIELA MARTINA › 9 pm › Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston › 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com “HALLOWEEN PARTY!” › With The New Dumb & Friends as the Hives, Great Lakes USA as the Lawrence Arms, Roger as Dashboard Confessional, Courters as the Sonics, and Ex-Magicians as the Clash › 8 pm › Charlie’s Kitchen, 10 Eliot St, Cambridge › $5 › 617.492.9646 or myspace. com/charlieskitchen JERRY BERGONZI GROUP + THE FRINGE › 8 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › 617.497.0823 MAEVE GILCHRIST + COURTNEY HARTMAN › 10 pm › Cantab Lounge, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge.com MELISSA MYATT + ANTOINE + LOWTONE SOCIETY + TIKUN › 7
pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com MUNICIPAL WASTE + NAPALM DEATH + EXHUMED + VEKTOR › 6 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $16-$20 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com “NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEADHEAD HALLOWEEN PARTY” › Costume party with music by Primordial Sounds, CreaturoS (cassette release party for Swampp Thingg), the Migs, and Freak Flag DJs. Free! › 10 pm › ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.864.3278 or ticketmaster.com/venue/8547 SMILEY, GET DRESSED + YOUNG ALIVE + THE DEEP NORTH + YELLABIRD › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557 STREIGHT ANGULAR + DOCTOR GASP & THE EEKS! + CRAZY EXES FROM HELL + HAUNT THE HOUSE › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $7 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com TEX RAILER’S DOOMTOWN + JOHNNY CARLEVALE & HIS JUKE JOINT RHYTHM ROCKERS + MATT CHARETTE › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com WALLPAPER + NEON HITCH › 8 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $12-$15 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com WINTERSLEEP + ELLIOTT BROOD › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $10 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com
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AMERICAN HELLBILLY + BEAST OVER BOSTON + NEMECIDE + BLACKTRIP › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com BLITZEN TRAPPER + FACES ON FILM › 8 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $15-$18 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com CRAIG OWENS + BEARCAT › 6:30 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $12-$14 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com “HALLOWEENIE MASK-O-RADE” › With DJ D’Hana, Blk.Adonis, and DJ Leah V › 10 pm › ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $3 › 617.864.3278 or ticketmaster.com/ venue/8547 JOBIM + REBECCA PARRIS › 8 pm › Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $20 › 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com “KRISTEN FORD PRESENTS ‘PANDA BAR” SHOWCASE” › Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.666.3589 or sallyobriensbar.com/ frameset.htm NAT-MAN-BAND NAT MUGAVERO AND CREW › 9 pm › Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston › 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston. com NAUGHTY WATER + REDDY SET JOEY › 8 pm › Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston › $3 › 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com SMILEY, GET DRESSED + OK CAPTAIN › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $6 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com SOCIAL DISTORTION + LINDI ORTEGA › 8 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › 888.693.2583 THE METER MEN + PAGE MCCONNELL › 9 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $35-$37 THE SPRING HILL ROUNDERS + MURPHY HIRSCHFELD & AUSICK
472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864. EAST or ticketweb.com OTIS GROVE + GILL AHARON TRIO › 8 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › 617.497.0823 THE POWER OF LOVE + BIKINI WHALE › 8 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $10 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com PETER MULVEY + TIM GEARAN + PAUL CEBAR › 7 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $18-$20 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com PRETTY LIGHTS + SAMMY ADAMS + BONOBO + ELIOT LIPP › 7 pm › TD Garden, 100 Legends Way, Boston › $29.50$69.50 › 617.931.2000 or ticketmaster.com/ venue/8337 RICHIE HAWTIN › 1 pm › Café 939, 939 Boylston St, Boston › Free › 617.747.6038 or ticketmaster.com/ “THE DOCTORS FOX AS CAKE HALLOWEEN TRIBUTE SHOW” › The Doctors Fox › 9 pm › Middle East Corner, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.864.3278 or ticketweb.com VICTOR & PENNY › Center for Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave, Somerville › 617.718.2191 or artsatthearmory.com
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tHuRSDAY 1
ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY › 8 pm › Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $30 › 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com BOBBY KEYES › 9:30 pm › Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston › 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com COMPAQ BIG BAND › 8 pm › Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $12 › 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com
DAVID CHOI + CLARA C. › 7 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $15-$20 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com ELIKEH › 9 pm › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com “FUCK THE MUSIC BUSINESS PARTY” › The Catbirds + Kangaroo Court › 8 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $10 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com MELLOW BRAVO + THE ORGAN BEATS + THE APPRECIATION POST + THE FATAL FLAW › 9 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com “MONSTER JAM” WITH TREY SONGZ + J. COLE + BIG SEAN + MEEK MILLS + CASH OUT › Trey Songz + J. Cole + Big Sean + Meek Mills + Cash Out › TD Garden, 100 Legends Way, Boston › $79.50-$127.50 › 617.931.2000 or ticketmaster.com/ venue/8337 PAPER DIAMOND › 7 pm › Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston › 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com STS9 + KAP10 HARRIS › 8 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $25$35 › 888.693.2583 WITCH MOUNTAIN + CASTLE + SECOND GRAVE + ICHABOD › 9 pm › Ralph’s Diner, 148 Grove St, Worcester › 508.753.9543 or myspace. com/ralphsdiner XAVIER RUDD + YESHE › 9 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $25 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com
Boston jazz diva REBECCA PARRIS helps MOZIK celebrate Jobim at Scullers. › 8:30 pm › Cantab Lounge, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge. com TOM’S FOLLY + THE TRUEZOOS + SIMEON SOUL CHARGER + MOONSTONE LADY › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or precinctbar. com “WFNX RELAUNCH PARTY!” › With WFNX DJs › Lansdowne Pub, 9 Lansdowne St, Boston › Free with RSVP › 617.266.1222 or wnfx.com/disorientation WITCH MOUNTAIN + CASTLE › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $10 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com
reBecca parriS photo By SuSan WilSon
WeDNeSDAY 31
ADAM EZRA DUO + DONAVON FRANKENREITER + LAURA CORTESE › 8 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $25 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com AMORY SIVERTSON + MIEKA PAULEY + MCALISTER DRIVE › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD + FUTURE OF THE LEFT › 7 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $12-$14 BAD ART ENSEMBLE › 10:30 pm › Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com BAKER THOMAS BAND › 10 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or
toadcambridge.com “BEEHIVE-O-WEEN” › With Bruce Bears› 5:30 pm › Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston › 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com BEN BECKER + STUDEBAKER HAWK + THORIAN MAXWELL › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557 “BLOODBATH FOR THE MIDWAY” › The Old Edison + The Radicals + The Pity Whores + The Skeleton Beats › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com “GHOULS NIGHT OUT” › Halloween Spectacular Costume Party with music by DJ Dandy Dan and Krezner. Free! › 10 pm › ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.864.3278 or ticketmaster.com/ venue/8547 “JOHNNY D’S HALLOWEEN PARTY” › With Power of Love as Huey Lewis and Bikini Whale as the B-52’s. Costume contest for most original 80s outfit. › 7:30 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $10 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com “MIDDLE EAST PRESENTS: HALLOWEEN WITH DESTROY BABYLON, THE STERNS AND THE FAT MIKES” › With Destroy Babylon playing The Harder They Come Soundtrack by Jimmy Cliff, The Sterns as Fleetwood Mac, and the Fat Mikes, a NOFX / 90s punk cover band featuring members of Junction 18 › 8 pm › Middle East Upstairs,
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club nights
WONDER BAR › Allston › 10 pm › “Wonderbar Saturdays” ZUZU › Cambridge › 11 pm › “Soul-le-luh-jah”
sunDAY 28
thuRsDAY 25
BOND › Boston › 9 pm › “Taste Thursdays” CURE LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › “Cure Thursdays” DISTRICT › Boston › “In Thursdays” EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › “Top 40s & House” ESTATE › Boston › 10 pm › “Glamlife Thursdays” with Chris Harris + Rafael Sanchez GOOD LIFE › Boston › 8:30 pm › The Almighty Pretty Face Posse + Jus Cuz Period JACQUE’S CABARET › Boston › 10:30 pm › “Jacques’ Angels” with Kris Knievil LIVING ROOM › Boston › 8 pm › DJ Snow White MIDDLESEX LOUNGE › Cambridge › Mark Fell [Sensate Focus] + Jack Dice + John Barera MIDWAY CAFÉ › Jamaica Plain › “Women’s Dance Night” with DJ Summer’s Eve NAGA › Cambridge › “Verve Thursdays” with DJ Pensive OM RESTAURANT & LOUNGE › Cambridge › 10:30 pm › “Late Night Lounge” PALLADIUM UPSTAIRS › Worcester › 10 pm › “Haunted Mansion” with DJ E-Marce + Texas Mike 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 WONDER BAR › Allston › 10 pm › “Top 40/ House Thursdays” with DJ NRG ZUZU › Cambridge › 10 pm › “Decade”
FRiDAY 26
BIJOU NIGHTCLUB & LOUNGE › Boston › Sharam BOND › Boston › 10 pm › “Play Fridays” COMMON GROUND › Allston › “90s Night” CURE LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › “VIP Fridays” with DJ Eric Velez DISTRICT › Boston › “Latin Fridays” EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › “Top 40s & House” ESTATE › Boston › 10:30 pm › DJ Hook N Sling GOOD LIFE › Boston › 9:30 pm › “Milk & Honey vs. Bootie Boston” GREAT SCOTT › Allston › 10 pm › “The Pill” with DJ Ken + DJ Michael V + AVOXBLUE GYPSY BAR › Boston › 10 pm › DJ Dera HOUSE OF BLUES › Boston › 8 pm › Major Lazer + Pictureplane + Brenmar LIVING ROOM › Boston › “House, Top 40, House & Dance Music” MACHINE › Boston › 10 pm › Machine Friday” with DJs Darrin Friedman and Gay Jim MILKY WAY › Jamaica Plain › 9 pm › Dyke Night Halloween Party NORTHERN NIGHTS › Lynn › 8 pm › “Madonna Fridays” with DJ Jay Ine PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “PYT” with DJ Vinny RISE › Boston › 9 pm › “Wonderland” › 1 am › tyDi + Andski + LADS RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › “Hush Fridays” with DJ Hectik + DJ Dres + DJ Lus SPLASH ULTRA LOUNGE & BURGER BAR › Boston › 10 pm › “Privilege Fridays” TOMMY DOYLE’S AT HARVARD › Cambridge › midnight › DJ Skitz UMBRIA PRIME › Boston › 10 pm › “Halloween Dance Party at PRIME” with Crystal Method UNDERBAR › Boston › 10 pm › “Flavor Fridays” with DJ Franklin WONDER BAR › Allston › 9 pm › “Friday Night Live” with DJ Braun Dapper ZUZU › Cambridge › 11 pm › “Solid!” with Flavorheard
CLUB CAFÉ › Boston › 4 pm › “Back 2 Basics Tea Dance” with DJ Harrison CURE LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › “Industry Sundays” with DJ Hectik EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › “Svedka Sundays: Industry Night” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “The Drop” RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › “Level 12” with DJ Sterling Golden UMBRIA PRIME › Boston › Mim & Liv UNDERBAR › Boston › 10 pm › “Hot Mess Sundays” with Richie Ladue ZUZU › Cambridge › 10 pm › “Pogo & Work” with DJ Dominic
Australian DJ and producer Hook N’ SliNg is at Estate on Friday. sAtuRDAY 27
BOND › Boston › 10 pm › “Flaunt Saturdays” COMMON GROUND › Allston › “Millenium Night” CURE LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › “Saturdays at Cure” DISTRICT › Boston › 10 pm › “Clique Saturdays” EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › “Top 40s & House” ESTATE › Boston › 10 pm › “VIP Access Saturdays” GREAT SCOTT › Allston › 9 pm › “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” GYPSY BAR › Boston › 10 pm › DJ Mario LIBERTY HOTEL › Boston › 8 pm › “The Birds” Halloween Party with DJ Michael Savant + DJ7L + DJ Hectic LIVING ROOM › Boston › “House, Top 40, House & Dance Music” MACHINE › Boston › 10 pm › “Bloodfeast Halloween Party 2012” with DJ David Day + DJ Die Young + DJ Nemesis + DJ Volvox + DJ Arcrunner, MIDDLESEX LOUNGE › Cambridge › 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 OM RESTAURANT & LOUNGE › Cambridge › 10:30 pm › “Saturdays @ Om” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “Boom Boom Room” with DJ Vinny RISE › Boston › 9 pm › “RISE Saturdays” › 1 am › Mike Swells + Matt Dimond + Tom Bartlett RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › “Rumor Saturdays” SPLASH ULTRA LOUNGE & BURGER BAR › Boston › 10 pm › “Sold Out Saturdays” with DJ Bamboora TOMMY DOYLE’S AT HARVARD › Cambridge › midnight › DJ Special K T.T. THE BEAR’S PLACE › Cambridge › 10 pm › “Heroes” with DJ Chris Ewen UMBRIA PRIME › Boston › 10 pm › “Scene Saturdays”
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MOnDAY 29
AN TUA NUA › Boston › 9 pm › “Ceremony- Goth Night 16th Anniversary” with DJ Lost Boy + DJ Static + DJ El Poser + DJ Black/Mail NAGA › Cambridge › “Industry Mondays” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “Makka Monday” with Voyager 01 + DJ Uppercut RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › “The Attic” with DJ Kuro RIVER GODS › Cambridge › 8 pm › “Weekly Wax” WONDER BAR › Allston › 9 pm › “Mondenial” with Jason Stokes
tuEsDAY 30
DBAR › Boston › 9 pm › “Spooky Tune Tuesday” with VJ Ryan Grow EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 6 pm › “Wicked New Music” MACHINE › Boston › 9 pm › “Psyclone Tuesdays” with Stevie Psyclone MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS › Cambridge › 9 pm › “Throwed Haunted Mansion” with DJ-Marce + Texas Mike MIDDLESEX LOUNGE › Cambridge › DJ Elyte NAGA › Cambridge › “Fiesta Tuesdays” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “Elecsonic” RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › “Rumor Tuesdays” with DJ Roger M WONDER BAR › Allston › “Music Ecology” ZUZU › Cambridge › 10 pm › “Halloweenie Mask-O-Rade” with DJ D’Hana, Blk. Adonis, and DJ Leah V
WEDnEsDAY 31
BIJOU NIGHTCLUB & LOUNGE › Boston › Danny Tenaglia DISTRICT › Boston › “Classic Wednesdays” with DJ Tanno
EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 8 pm › “The Emerald Factory” with DJ Case ESTATE › Boston › R3hab › 10:30 pm › “Dirty Doctors & Naughty Nurses Halloween Bash” with DJ R3hab GOOD LIFE › Boston › 9 pm › “Good Life Halloween: Beast Research” GREAT SCOTT › Allston › 9 pm › “the Pill 10th annual Halloween Show” with The Luxury as Oasis + The New Highway Hymnal as The Stooges + Color Channel as LCD Soundsystem, Ruby Ridge as The Knife + DJ Ken + DJ Michael V LIBERTY HOTEL › Boston › 6:30 pm › “Whole Note Wednesdays” MACHINE › Boston › 10 pm › “Show Me Your Stuff Drag Night” MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS › Cambridge › 9 pm › “Throwed Haunted Mansion” with DJ E-Marce + Texas Mikle PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “Re:Set” RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › “Rock Wednesdays” with DJ Victor RISE › Boston › 10 pm › “CNTRL: Beyond EDM” RIVER GODS › Cambridge › 9 pm › “Primitive Sounds” RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › “Latin Night” with DJ Adilson + DJ Maryalice + DJ Boatslip SPLASH ULTRA LOUNGE & BURGER BAR › Boston › 10 pm › “EDM Wednesdays” STORYVILLE › Boston › 9 pm › “MySecretBoston presents Dub Apocalypse” TD GARDEN › Boston › 7 pm › Pretty Lights + Sammy Adams + Bonobo + Eliot Lipp WONDER BAR › Allston › 9 pm › “Wobble Wednesdays” with Wobblesauce
thuRsDAY 1
BOND › Boston › 9 pm › “Taste Thursdays” CURE LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › “Cure Thursdays” DISTRICT › Boston › “In Thursdays” EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › “Top 40s & House” ESTATE › Boston › 10 pm › “Glamlife Thursdays” JACQUE’S CABARET › Boston › 10:30 pm › “Jacque’s Cabaret” with Kris Knievil LIVING ROOM › Boston › 8 pm › DJ Snow White MIDWAY CAFÉ › Jamaica Plain › “Women’s Dance Night” with DJ Summer’s Eve MILKY WAY › Jamaica Plain › 9 pm › “Subtropix” NAGA › Cambridge › “Verve Thursdays” OM RESTAURANT & LOUNGE › Cambridge › 10:30 pm › “Late Night Lounge” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “Elements” with Crook & Lenore
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» At Fashion Forward at the ICA
At OctOber’s instAllment Of the ICA’s First Fridays series, attendees watched a runway show inspired by the wild colors and patterns of Brazilian artists Os Gêmeos, followed by a guided tour of their exhibition. Local boutiques Serenella, Uniform, Turtle, Louis, and Riccardi presented looks that could have been lifted from the brothers’ canvases, while ICA neighbor Mario Russo supplied artful hair and makeup. High fashion abounded in the audience, too, as Boston’s hot young things — more than a few fresh off the plane from Paris Fashion Week — pulled out all the stops. Next up for First Fridays is November’s Mixology, where top Boston bartenders will commandeer the ICA’s Water Café, followed by December’s ’80s Night, inspired by the upcoming exhibit “This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s.” Learn more at icaboston.org.
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clockwise from above left Britney King; Mariama Jabbie, Meg Young, Mona Hamid, and Roland Pascua; Kira Doucette; models; Adam O’Reilly and Leonard Greco; Ilana Chilton and Jackie Douyard, looking at an untitled Os Gêmeos work.
Christopher peirCe snow restaurant staffer about town
This self-described “student on sabbatical” could add “Marni brand ambassador” to his CV. He wore pants, a blazer, and a shirt by the Italian brand, known for its affinity for geometric patterns. He topped his fierce look with a bubble necklace by (guess who?) Marni, a Prada clutch from the brand’s 2004 Robot collection, and, of course, his trademark blond coif. A man after Os Gêmeos’ hearts, Christopher doesn’t shy away from bold prints. Case in point: his plaid Haider Ackermann slipper shoes, a staple of his wardrobe.
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You’ve been in the game since the ’60s; has it been hard to remain relevant and continue to come up with new ideas? I think you find your inner whirlwind and that’s it. I mean, when I see it all out like this, suddenly I can’t believe it all over again. I feel very privileged to have done it, and to still be doing it. It’s still a battle. But if you do things you believe in, it’s always more difficult. Tell me about the punk scene — you were once dubbed the Princess of Punk. . . . I was only remotely on the scene. Suddenly I just thought, why not experiment? I mean just as [Elsa] Schiaparelli used Salvador Dali for Tears [iconic 1930 gown], I could use tears as objects in themselves. I looked at how things could be pinned together, and holes as the design. And actually, Versace did the same thing 10 years later, and it was pointed out by Suzy Menkes [editor of the International Herald Tribune], and Suzy was banned from Versace shows for a year! Do you feel that you missed out on anything, never having had children? Now that I’ve got to be a lot older I think, well maybe I’ve missed out, but would I have done what I’ve done? You can’t say. No, these are my children, my work is my children. Speaking of, all parents say they could never pick a favorite child, but you know they have one. What’s yours? Oh God, I do love my early ones, because they’re now saying things that aren’t as applicable to the world today. But it might turn around again. I mean, you think of the Beatles, I don’t mean they were ever out of fashion, but the early ones [songs] came back again, 30 years afterwards, so you never know what’s going to happen. You’ve dressed some really iconic people. Who was your favorite? I liked dressing Princess Diana, she was charming. Diana had a very classic, almost conservative style. Seems incongruent . . . Mine were probably her extremer dresses. That’s interesting, you’re the only other person who’s picked up on that! When my things were put up on display at Christie’s, someone said to me, “Yours were really the only fantasy pieces she ever wore.” Who are some designers you have your eye on right now? I’m not good at up-and-comings. I’m good on people I admire. I really admire Jean Paul Gaultier. If you ever get to see that show [40-yearretrospective] in San Francisco with the talking mannequins, it is to die for. I like people who create an image. Does that make sense? Like, Thierry Mugler did suits and cuts that you could look across the room and you knew it was one of his. That’s how I’d like people to look at my work. I’d like them to say, that person is in a Zandra Rhodes. That I contributed something towards . . . everything.
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t 72 years old, with an almost half-century long career in the fashion industry under her selfdesigned belt (“I only wear my own things,” she tells me) Zandra Rhodes still has no desire to rest on her laurels. Down time, actually, is the one thing the British designer has no time for at all. I caught up with her at Mass Art, where she was outfitting a gaggle of models for a runway show in conjunction with her retrospective exhibit Zandra Rhodes: A Lifelong Love Affair with Textiles.
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“Someone said to me, ‘Yours were really the only fantasy pieces [Princess Diana] ever wore.’ ”
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