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From thephoenix.com Re: “SCotto pullS out — but not all the Way,” by david S. beRnStein, 10.29.12

You just clowned yourself. It obvious you have it in for Brown. And this was another opportunity to find some bogus issue to criticize him for. Now that Warren has done it too you’re left with no choice but to criticize her also. Own goal! Postponing the debate was a class move by a guy with military training who knows how to handle a crisis. Clue: TV ads don’t require police for security and civic resources to organize. _“Rafael bapti Sta”

Re: “a Convenient exCuSe,” by Wen StephenSon, 11.02.12

Thank you for the article Wen. I was part of the activist community focusing on Climate Change as far back as the 2000 presidential campaign. The issue seemed more mainstream then but we still had a hard time getting either Gore or Bush to say anything about climate change.

And just another note, this is about personal responsibility too.

We like to talk about how to be good citizens, but we don’t always use our actions in a way that promotes healthy communities. _“mi Chael”

Re: “killing With kindneSS,”

by S.i. RoSenbaum, 11.02.12 I agree with your premise, as a person with a lifelong disability (grand mal epilepsy) who runs an

_“Cynthi a Stead ”

Re: “Stein oR SupReme: What kind of voteR am i?,” by ChRiS faRaone, 11.02.12 Thank you for your thoughtful consideration.

You will pay dearly for your insubordinance.

Your pony will have but three legs.

Good day to you sir.

_“ve Rmi n SupRem e”

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agency for those with a different disability (blindness). The ‘burden’ factor is enormous, and I sometimes hear from clients that it’s not ‘worth it’ to purchase an adaptive aid as they are so old that money shouldn’t be wasted. While the definition of ‘terminal’ isn’t as ill-defined as you say, it’s also a very short step from terminal to chronic. But your slam at Romney at the end is totally uncalledfor - as Governor, he signed the Disabled Voters Bil of Rights here in MA, and as the husband of a woman with a terminal/chronic diagnosis, he isn’t oblivious to the problems and abilities of the disabled. You spoiled a good essay with a nasty cheap shot.

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» Suggestion: hunker down and ride out your next Nor’easter with some pub vittles and applejack cocktails. And the folks behind Asta reveal the demise of “Princess Sparkle Power Pickle Bunny.” » 5 Courses with asta’s alex Crabb and shish parsigian p 74 » liquid: another side of applejack p 76 » on the Cheap: boathouse p 78 » the week in food events p 80

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» Who couldn’t use a little pampering right now?

Say, some freshly waxed beard curlicues, or some Predator eye makeup, or maybe some neon-pink hair horns?

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» three local salon expansions p 12 » beard sculpture 101 p 12 » Cocktail cartography p 14 » grooming: boston’s throwback barbershops p 16

voiCes

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arts & nightlife

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» It’s Brits vs. Yanks at the box office this weekend, with Bond and Lincoln going head to head. Plus, Dan Deacon, Errol Morris, and ancient Roman 1 percenters.

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» Many news outlets have tried and failed to kill “Gangnam Style.” Will Psy find himself hoist with his own horsie-dance petard? Plus, forecasting the gathering storm in Mass politics, and bashing American Airlines’ union-busting. » the big hurt p 18 » scream on p 20 » talking politics p 21

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» boston fun list p 84 » welcome to allston p 86 » boston City guide p 87 » visual arts p 88 » books p 89 » dance & Classical p 90 » theater p 92 » film p 94 » Music p 98 » nightlife p 106 » get seen p 108 » back talk: errol Morris p 110

» Who’s the fairest of them all on Beacon Hill?

We asked, you answered — nominating a slew of #mapoli’s snappiest dressers. What goes best with a gold fanny pack? Incredible power. In other aethestics-minded-movers-and-shakers news, we profile Helen Molesworth and her upcoming ICA exhibit, “This Will Have Been.”

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Climate Change is Forever You have to be a fool, a charlatan, or seriously uninformed to deny the reality of climate change.

Elected officials who are deniers fall into the first two groups. That a majority of them are Republicans should not surprise. Democrats, on the other hand, have little to crow about. The national election came and went with virtually no mention of global warming. Only New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s endorsement of President Obama powered the issue into the headlines.

The blinders of expediency keep the political class silent. And, as Wen Stephenson wrote in last week’s Phoenix, the mainstream media has ignored its responsibility to push the issue forward. Meanwhile, our planet slowly ushers in a new era with bursts of destruction.

Superstorm Sandy is only the latest incident of ecological backlash spawned by long-term warming trends. Estimates of the damage keep climbing, but as we went to press they were at $50 billion.

In New York City alone the number of those homeless ranges from 20,000 to 40,000. The New Jersey coast looks like a war zone, as do slices of Queens and Staten Island.

Lower Manhattan and Hoboken were under water for days. The damage to coastal Connecticut was just as bad. All things considered, greater Boston got off lightly.

What about next time?

Global warming, of course, does not cause hurricanes or tropical cyclones such as Sandy. What it does do is fuel their intensity and increase their frequency. Last year Vermont was hard-hit by rains from Hurricane Irene, causing unexpected flooding of surprising intensity over a much larger area than anticipated. It is impossible to link a single storm with a larger pattern of change. But the warming trend is clear, and so are the results.

This past summer wildfires ravaged parts of Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Colorado. At the same time, an unprecedented heat wave throughout the Midwest brought three-digit temperatures, along with their familiar cousin, drought. As was the case with Sandy, these naturally occurring disasters were intensified in both depth and breadth by climate change.

Take the Colorado fires as an example. A warmer-

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than-usual winter meant a lighter-than-usual snowpack in the Sierra Mountains — and that snow, in turn, melted sooner. Higher overall temperatures meant less cooling at night, so forests were prematurely dry and ready for ignition. Add a bolt of lightning and presto — hellfire on earth.

Princeton University’s Michael Oppenheimer said the wildfires of 2010 are “vivid images of what we can expect to see more of in the future.”

The recent past provides enough examples that you’d think common sense would cause climate-change deniers to at least pause and maybe reconsider their delusional position. The problem is, this right-wing ideology is grounded in a pre-modern, superstitious frame of reference that denies evolution and holds that rape cannot cause pregnancy. It’s rather amazing that deniers accept that the earth is round and that it revolves around the sun.

Companies such as Exxon are masterful at exploiting this peculiarly American brand of willful ignorance. And Corporate America’s hired hands among Republicans and conservative Democrats are quick to play along.

But not all capitalists are willing to wallow in denial.

In a cover story headlined “It’s Global Warming, Stupid,” Bloomberg Businessweek calls attention to a report from the German reinsurance giant, Munich Re, titled “Severe Weather in North America.” It concludes that from 1980 until 2011 weather-related disasters topped $1 trillion, adding that “nowhere in the world is the rising number of natural catastrophes more evident than North America.” Over the last 30 years, Munich Re found that weather disasters along the coast of North America had quintupled. That’s a greater increase than on any other continent.

In other words, North America and the United States are being hit harder by global warming than any other landmass. The new industrial powers such as China, India, and Brazil may be more important in that battle over the long run of years. But at the moment, America has the biggest problem, at least measured by dollars — the most to lose.

Unlike the budget crisis, the sad state of the economy, and our various ill-conceived wars, climate change is forever. P

Over the last 30 years, weather disasters along North America’s coast had quintupled. That’s a greater increase than on any other continent.

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uman hair grows a measly 1.25 centimeters a month. Boston’s beauty scene seems to be growing a helluva lot faster.

Here are three local salons expanding their empires this season.

For the last two years, W Boston has lured locals with Bliss’s cheekily named spa treatments (a betweeny wax, anyone?). Now there’s another excuse to pop in: the third location of James Joseph James Salon, which just joined existing spots on JosepH Newbury Street and in Medford. The newly salon opened street-level retreat has six stylists’ 100 stuart st, chairs and shelves stocked with Balance boston

by James Joseph, the house product line formulated sans sulfates, parabens, or syn617.292.3328 :: thetic colors. jamesjosephsalon. com Also opening its third spot — and its first in the city proper — is suburban stalwart saloncapri SalonCapri. The Penna family started styling hair in Hyde Park way back in 1967, but 11 newbury st, before long they moved to the ’burbs, coiffboston ing clients in Newton and Dedham. Now 617.236.0020 :: they’re coming back to Boston, opening an saloncapri.com outpost at 11 Newbury Street next month.

Expect a 2200-square-foot salon with the sHag city’s only L’Oréal Professionnel Color Bar 840 summer st, and plenty of iPads to browse during downboston time in the chair.

That’s pretty big for Back Bay. But in 617.268.2500 :: Southie, 5000 square feet wasn’t enough shagboston.com for Shag owner Sandy Poirier, who just commandeered a neighboring space to expand his alreadysprawling salon. He and his tatted-up crew are using the added elbow room as a photography studio, an extra area for color services, and an event space, where they hope to host art openings, live bands, and fashion shows. “We want to give back to local artists,” says Poirier. “Like the Factory, Andy Warhol — that’s what I’ve envisioned this place to be.” _ J a c q u el in e H o u t o n

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“that moustache makes him look creepy. he looks like a creep. i mean, he’s a nice guy, but the moustache is a monster.”

— Two beardos discussing a third on the 66 bus

The beard. It’s the manliest accessory a dude can sport, the hirsute seat of his virility, an announcement that he is one bad mamba jamba with testosterone and style to spare. And along with its more streamlined peer, the moustache, it’s the focus of multiple facialhair competitions being staged around town this month in honor of Movember, an annual campaign to raise awareness and funds for men’s health causes. Bert Mayer, a Boston Beard Bureau member and proud owner of one of the fiercest beards in town, is a regular on the competitive beard and ’stache circuit. (He most recently competed in BeardFest this past Saturday at the Armory in Somerville.)

Since our know-how on the subject had been limited to what we gleaned from Parks and Recreation star Nick Offerman’s online tutorial “How to Grow a Moustache” (in which he offers tips like “tolerate a crying baby,” “smell wood,” and “eat a raw onion”), we asked Mayer to share some pro tips of his own. _alexand ra c avallo

On cultivating a strOng, full beard: “I would say to fight someone with a bigger beard than yourself to gain their powers, but you’ll just lose. So just throw out the razor and wait.”

On itchy, newbOrn beards: “Man up. Some people say you can brush or comb the itchiness away. Don’t scratch it. Just be content knowing that soon you will look like a man.”

On chOOsing a signature style: “You really just need to go with what feels natural. It can take years to get ‘your look.’ I try new shapes in my beard all the time. The easiest way to try new things is to grow out your whole beard, then shave it down to the desired look (goatee, chops, moustache, etc.).”

On cOmpetitiOn: “Depending on the judges and their level of expertise, as well as the category, they can look at density, length, color, shape, neatness (no stray hairs), and really just how you wear it.”

On perfOrmance enhancements: “A good multivitamin will never hurt. Keep yourself healthy, and the beard will grow. Biotin is something that can help grow hair and nails, as well as prenatal vitamins. I personally always thought that one was a bit weird.”

adj. 1. Without covering or clothing; naked; nude. 2. Open to view; unconcealed; undisguised. See also: Bare! True Stories of Sex, Desire, and Romance, a monthly fixture in NYC and DC that’s making its Boston-area debut at 9:30 pm on November 12, bringing storytellers, comedians, sex educators, and other uninhibited over-sharers to the Middle East Corner. Cover is $5; learn more at barestories.wordpress.com.

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Late last month, Newbury Street upstart Salon Eva Michelle threw its glam one-year-anniversary bash at the Emerald Lounge — but the staff were clearly thinking pink. While guests sipped cocktails and perused silent-auction swag, stylists created rose-tinted looks in honor of the night’s beneficiary, the National Breast Cancer Foundation, raising about six grand (and turning more than a few heads). Check out other wild styles from their hair show at thephoenix.com/parties.

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We’ve gotten lost more than once while under the influence. Boston designer Brian Johnson’s new glassware creations probably won’t help with that, since we’ll be sipping from them at home — but we still dig his snazzy rocks glasses ($25 for two) and carafes ($50), each hand-etched with a detailed street map. They’re the latest releases from his design house, theUncommonGreen, known for its use of eco-friendly materials and its geek appeal (picture bar towels covered with the complete genetic code for alcohol dehydrogenase and “pi plates” sporting hundreds of digits from everyone’s favorite irrational number). For the new glassware line, Johnson started with theUncommonGreen’s home base, South Boston, adding map-adorned designs for Greater Boston and other cities, from Portland to LA to Chicago.

There will be more than a dozen locales by the month’s end, offering lots of options for holiday giving — and a good way to toast with a drinking buddy in another time zone. _ Ja cque lin e H out on

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Beauty and the geek

When I was a young nerdling, there was an unspoken rule: makeup was reserved for popular, mainstream girls. Geeky girls — those of us who spent lunch in the library, our unpowdered noses buried in Have Spacesuit, Will Travel — well, we just didn’t do that stuff.

No longer. Geek is now chic, and the Internet is filled with female makeup artists who draw inspiration from superhero comics, video games, and science fiction.

Check YouTube, and you’ll find tutorial after tutorial for looks based on the Predator franchise, for example, or on characters like Wolverine, Deadpool, and Gandalf.

“This is how we get our nerdiness out — how we express ourselves,” says Ashley DeMello, 24, of Fall River, whose cosmetics blog HaveYouMetAshley is subtitled “A nerd’s love for makeup.”

“It’s like how guys play with action figures to become like those characters,” she says.

“We do makeup.”

DeMello debuted on YouTube in 2010, with a tutorial for a lightsaber-themed look: “I only did a little bit of red,” she explains in the video, “because there aren’t that many Sith lords compared to Jedis.” But she’s been playing with makeup since before high school, about as long as she’s been into comics, sci-fi, and horror. “I always played off what I saw on movies and TV,” she says.

She notes that she and other geek makeup enthusiasts sometimes catch flak from fanboys who don’t appreciate having their male power fantasies translated into mascara and eyeshadow. But geeky cosmetics have become established enough that indie companies like Glamour Doll Eyes have put out whole superhero-themed lines, and on Etsy you can find homebrew nail polish inspired by the Incredible Hulk and Doctor Who. And all these looks are subtle enough to wear on the street as well as the club. “It’s like, I know I’m being nerdy right now, but nobody else does,” DeMello says. Her advice to fresh-faced geeks? Take inspiration wherever you find it and let your freak flag fly. “Nerds can be girly too.” _s.i . rosenB aum

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this month, the Art of shaving opened a newbury street store, leaving me curious about their claim that they’ve turned “shaving from a chore into a luxurious ritual.”

Can it be so? they were kind enough to ply me with samples so I could find out.

I applied the sandalwood pre-shave oil ($16–$25) with caution that turned to abandon as I found myself basically huffing my own face, which smelled of warm wood and figments of fall. I was suspicious of the preshave extra step, but between that and the shaving cream ($16– $25), I got the closest shave of my life.

From there, things devolved a bit with the after-shave gel ($40), which probably could have done more to soothe fiery skin. but all was well as I tucked under the covers in my ingrown-hair night cream ($45) with white-willow-bark extract. I cannot yet say whether it prevents ingrown hairs, but I know I drifted off smelling like a forest of weeping willows, so who cares? _Tm The Art of Shaving, 139B Newbury St, Boston :: theartofshaving.com

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state street barbers started in Chicago. the premise? A high-end, manly-man, classic barbershop channeling a different era. they’ve since opened a south end location, which Details just named among the 16 best barbershops in America, citing master barbers and cuts ($37) that come with a shoulder massage, a shampoo and condition, a straight-razor neck shave, and a beverage.

the local menswear favorite now offers barber services, from a haircut ($38) to a beard trim ($14) to a men’s facial ($28), right in the store’s cozy back room. but for the full experience, try one of their packages, like the presidential ($98), featuring a shampoo and haircut, a beard trim, a hot-towel shave, and a men’s facial, or the 9-5er ($48), a haircut and express shave. After you’re all cleaned up, you’ll look even better in their duck-camo bow tie.

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A closer shAve

I’ve been lookIng for a barbershop for a year and a half — something retro, not anachronistic; quality, not pretentious. I’d heard good things about Mike Coronella of Barbershop Deluxe in the South End, most intriguingly that he specializes in “vintage haircuts.” Since I’ve got a low-key pompadour and the price was right ($23), I figured I’d check him out.

Mike’s a barber’s barber — a master barber, in fact — and a bald barber, he joked, at that. But Barbershop Deluxe doesn’t have that AM-sports-radio, talcumscented vibe I remember from the place down the street from me growing up. It’s airy and bright, with a diverse clientele — gays and lesbians, men of color, and regular ol’ straight, white guys. They also cater to kids and give out big lollipops, not the crappy little ones — a point of pride, clearly.

And they do haircuts for short-haired women. (“A confident woman can always do short hair,” Mike declared, permanently endearing him to my wife and short-haired women everywhere.)

The whole deal took 45 minutes, and Mike spent most of the time waxing philosophical about his commitment to the scissor cut (“Hear that?” he asked proudly, clack-clacking some American-made steel scissors) and insisting that he “cuts to the personality,” meaning he likes to talk things over and feel you out before getting started.

He’s convinced past customers to abandon haircuts that don’t work for them, but he agreed that my pompadour could stay, and gave me a pro tip: classic styles are meant for maintenance every two weeks. That’s why barbers are so cheap. “It’s the price of two beers!” he said.

Somewhere along the way he handed me his great-uncle’s scissors, telling me they’ve cut the hair of men heading to Vietnam, to their wedding days, to their first job. “You’re holding history in your hands,” he said. Time was up though, so he wheeled me around to look at his work.

Verdict? Mike’s definitely worth those two beers — you might even consider buying him a couple and asking how he got into vintage haircuts in the first place. Now that’s a story.

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The unkillable “GanGnam STyle”

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“If you thought that Korean pop artist Psy’s 15 minutes were over, THINK AGAIN.”

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AfTer monThs of pop dominance, Psy’s K-pop hit “Gangnam Style” has our nation’s weary bloggers on the brink of collapse. Whenever a late-to-the-party celeb does the signature horsie dance on some crap morning show, the web’s exploited blog slaves must crank off yet another 500 words of joyless, compulsive content.

They can’t help it; if they don’t milk the latest cultural novelty for every last pageview, they’ll be out on the streets.

While the rest of America gallops carefree to the jaunty tune, frustrated bloggers are doing their best to put an official end to the Gangnam phenomenon.

Among the first to crack was E! Online’s John Boone, who prematurely tried to declare Psy “officially over” back in late September: “We’re so inundated with Gangnam galore that it’ll take something seriously out there to grab our attention. We need glitz!

We need controversy! We need Amanda Bynes and Lindsay Lohan Gangnaming with a slew of LAPD and NYPD officers! [. . . ] And since that doesn’t seem like it will be happening anytime soon, we’re calling it: ‘Gangnam Style’ has officially jumped the shark.”

Of course, that didn’t work; E! has covered nearly every celebrity Gangnam moment since, and the song’s profile only continued to skyrocket. As desperation set in, even gentle CNN took a run at Psy with a wooden stake. Blogger Jarrett Bellini declared the craze “officially no longer a thing.”

“Now it’s time for all of us to come together and stop the madness. Thus, let it be known that I hereby declare October 12, 2012, as the day ‘Gangnam Style’ died. [. . . ] Psy seems like a really good dude, and I hate to have done this to his song, but this morning I slowly walked ‘Gangnam Style’ out into the backyard, thanked it for the good times, and shot it.”

But Psy still had a twitch or two left in his corpse. After some NFL players horsie-danced in the following weeks, a Deadspin headline declared “Gangnam Style . . . Officially Dead” on October 21.

Days later, the ladies of The View brought Psy out for a performance and dance lesson; Gawker’s Rich Juzwiak tried one more time to smother it (“officially,” of course):

“It may still be No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, but ‘Gangnam Style’ is officially dead.

It’s over. There is no life left to suck from it in a vain attempt at youth. It has outstayed its welcome.”

As I write this, “Gangnam Style” is officially still a chart juggernaut, holding steady at #2 on the Hot 100; it’s also on top of Billboard’s Digital Songs, OnDemand Songs, and Rap Songs charts, and lingering in the top 20 of Pop Songs, Dance Songs, Radio Songs and — in astonishing crossover fashion — Latin Airplay.

How long can this novelty sensation — this “Korean ‘Macarena,’ ” as every single blog in the goddamn universe has cleverly called it — possibly last? The conventional answer is 15 minutes — even the writers who aren’t declaring it dead are impatiently watching the hourglass. On October 17, for example, the Inquisitr filed this report: “Just when you think that the viral phenomenon known as ‘Gangnam Style’ is on the downward slope of its 15 minutes of fame, Hugh Jackman puts on his Wolverine claws and does his own Gangnam dance with Psy.” On October 24, Gothamist blogged about Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei doing his own Gangnam parody and marveled at the track’s refusal to die: “If you thought that Korean pop (K-pop) artist Psy’s 15 minutes were over, THINK AGAIN. His infectious, worldwide hit, ‘Gangnam Style’ is still alive and kicking.”

On the same day, CNN’s Marquee Blog spoke of a Dancing with the Stars rendition of the dance. Their impatience boiling over, they even saw fit to put an exact time on it: “It appears the viral sensation has a few minutes of fame left in it. On Andy Warhol’s 15-minute scale, I’ll clock ‘Gangnam Style’ at 11:57.”

But my blogging brothers must be patient for a little while longer, because only one thing can truly end Psy’s 15 minutes of fame and kill Gangnam Style forever: his upcoming Englishlanguage single.

No way, homie. It’s like when Rebecca Black tried to release her “real” song.

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AmericAn Airlines busted for union-busting B y C hr is Fa r a o ne

AN iNEbRiAtEd dENzEl Washington isn’t your biggest problem at the airport. Nor should you be awfully concerned about Searchbags Grabbypants and TSA radiation chambers, or the Hudson newsstand that, for some reason, has no counter to put items on.

Instead, focus your deepest worries on the plight of airline workers who serve as the backbone of Big Aviation — everyone from pilots and flight attendants to mechanics. Many of these integral facilitators of safe air travel will soon be replaced by cheap labor, if they haven’t been already. And that’s not the scariest part.

Take the experienced American Airlines cargo agents here at Logan airport. They’re the ones who route goods across the planet, ensuring that important packages arrive when and where they are supposed to. Boston being one of the world’s largest medical and health-care hubs, Logan cargo agents handle an inordinate amount of sensitive shipments — coolers, crates, and boxes holding limbs, organs, fluids, and 20 11.09.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOm

Many of these integral facilitators of safe air travel will soon be replaced by cheap labor, if they haven’t been already.

the like. They know how to scrutinize manifests, and they have relationships with colleagues in other cities, who they often contact to doubly confirm deliveries. For this nonunion position, hourly salaries top off at about $22.

As you read this, American Airlines is systematically eliminating many of those veteran cargo workers, as well as ticket agents, nationwide. Since its parent company, AMR, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last November, the airline has escalated its long-running war on the middle and lower ranks. Leveraging the legal perks of bankruptcy, AMR bullied most of its union employees — nearly 70 percent of the company’s workforce is card-carrying — into accepting significant concessions. The only holdouts are roughly 10,000 unionized pilots, who are still fighting for perks in the face of a federal court’s ruling that AMR can terminate their contracts at will.

Union-haters, and perhaps even those who are respectfully weary of

organized labor, might suggest that drastic cuts are necessary to keep planes in the sky. They would be correct; the commercial aviation industry, arguably more than any other, relies on a give-and-take between management and workers. Following the late-1990s, when airlines enjoyed rising profits, wage premiums shot up. On the flip side, after 9/11 stunted business, employees shouldered the burden. In 2003, for example, AMR actually avoided bankruptcy because of nearly $2 billion in initial union concessions and multiples of that since.

But whether you support or loathe unions, it’s important to consider how AMR has treated unrepresented workers in its quest to trim jobs, as well as how that treatment impacts service. Ticket agents are increasingly replaced by automated kiosks. As for the cargo agents whose responsibilities include shipping items such as body parts and serums — they’re being pushed out for subcontracted laborers who make as little as $8 an hour.

At Logan, those who handle international shipments — and are trained in complicated customs protocol — are the only cargo agents who have been spared. Their days on the job, however, are numbered.

It’s not all bad news. Last week, the National Mediation Board authorized more than 9500 such nonunion AMR workers nationwide — including about 150 at Logan — to vote on whether they should organize under the Communication Workers of America. As promising is that those laid off during bankruptcy proceedings — including many who are scheduled to be axed right after Christmas — will be considered eligible voters. The tally will take place in January, at which time the majority of agents are expected to support unionization. Even then, though, the CWA expects that AMR will challenge the vote all the way to the Supreme Court, leaving jobs across the country in scab-ridden legal limbo, and countless customers in untold jeopardy. As if flying didn’t already worry you enough. P

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as i write this column, a campaignweary Commonwealth awaits the end of a year-long, roughly $80 million Senate race that seems to have been on the front pages — and in every commercial break — for as long as we can remember.

Don’t expect a long respite, however.

The next statewide slugfest is already shaping up as you read this.

With Deval Patrick out of the running, most eyes are on the wide-open 2014 governor’s race. And interested contenders seem as if they can’t wait to get started.

The State House News Service reported last week that Treasurer Steve Grossman says he will “take a hard look at running for governor” as soon as this Tuesday’s election was over.

Dan Wolf of Harwich, first-term state senator and founder of Cape Air, will do the same, I am told by someone working closely with him.

And rumors are swirling that Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray will signal his intention to run very soon — perhaps in his November 15 speech at the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

If you think it’s too soon for the 2014 race to get started, you’ve had your horizons lowered by recent gubernatorial cycles.

Republicans have done such a good job clearing the field for their preferred nominees — Charlie Baker in 2010 and Kerry Healey in 2006 — that they’ve had no pressure to start early.

Democratic insiders tried to do the same in 2006, pledging themselves to Tom Reilly.

As a result, the only candidate to enter the race early was a virtual unknown named Deval Patrick — who needed all the time he could get to build his campaign.

But go back to the 2002 cycle, and things were very different. It was one big brawl.

By that timetable, Grossman is getting a late start — he was part of that field, and he’d already declared himself a candidate for governor by this point in that election.

Grossman announced in May 2000; Warren Tolman jumped in a

michael capuano

martha coakley

One statewide political slugfest ends, and the next one begins — this one, for governor.

few months later. Tom Birmingham and Shannon O’Brien didn’t officially launch their campaigns until the beginning of the actual election year, 2002, but they were acting as candidates — and fundraising and organizing as candidates — long before.

Similarly, Grossman, Murray, and others might not officially declare their candidacies in the next few months — but they don’t want to leave potential supporters in doubt for long.

After all, there are plenty of other rumored candidates who might be vying for attention. The list includes US Attorney Carmen Ortiz, Congressman Michael Capuano, Attorney General Martha Coakley, Somerville mayor Joe Curtatone, Salem mayor Kim Driscoll, and former New Bedford mayor Scott Lang.

No heavyweights steve grossman

kim Driscoll

Dan wolf

tim murray

carmen ortiz

The potential candidates all have some combination of political operation, fundraising ability, name recognition, and visibility — but none has enough to ensure a successful late start. All, to some extent, need as much time as possible to build a grassroots campaign.

“Nobody can wait,” says Mary Anne Marsh of Dewey Square Group in Boston.

“Every day that goes by could be one less supporter you might have, or one less check you might get.”

There will also be pressure on some to make their decisions clear, at least privately, to those who would seek their current position if it’s becoming available.

Grossman’s decision to run for governor would launch a race for treasurer (nearly certain to include Boston city councillor Stephen Murphy); and there’s plenty of interest in Coakley’s AG position and Capuano’s House seat.

There are also a host of Democrats interested in running for lieutenant governor — depending on who is running for the top spot.

So don’t expect much respite from political action, now that the Scott Brown– Elizabeth Warren battle is over. There won’t be much calm before the next storm. P

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olitics in Massachusetts can be an ugly business.

We spend a lot of our time reporting on the unattractive aspects of Beacon Hill behavior: the rough-and-tumble campaigns, the backroom bartering, the seamy allegations, and the too-common disgraces.

So, the Phoenix and political news aggregator MassterList decided to team up and show you another side of life under the Golden Dome — the beautiful side.

We took nominations from MassterList’s thousands of news-junkie subscribers, and assembled a secret team of political insiders to vote on them in the most Beacon Hill way we could imagine: in complete anonymity, behind closed doors, and without a whiff of accountability.

The result? Twenty-five individuals who brighten the State House halls with style, attitude, and even — if such a thing exists on Beacon Hill — inner beauty.

Check thephoenix.com or massterlist.com to learn more about them.

And let us know who you think we left out!

Micaelah Morrill 30, engageD, caMBriDge

Chief of staff to state senator Dan Wolf Originally from Urbandale, Iowa, and now overseeing a staff of five for the Labor and Workforce Development co-chair, Morrill “represents the best of America,” one panelist says. “Nononsense talk about urban planning policy, and style straight out of a J. Crew catalog.”

“I like to think of my style as vintage chic, with a splash of electric pizzazz,” Morrill says. “Kinda like Jackie O. partied it up with the Scissor Sisters one night.”

Don’t take her lightly, though. A political-science major at UMassAmherst, currently finishing her master’s degree in urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts, Morrill has worked her way up quickly in six years at the State House. She also volunteers with Minds Matter Boston and Project Bread’s Walk For Hunger.

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44, MarrieD, cohaSSet

seCretary of Veterans’ serViCes The only Patrick administration cabinet member on our list, Secretary Coleman Nee manages the state’s comprehensive veterans’ benefits system, aiding servicemen and women from the World War II generation all the way to recently returned veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Under his watch, the number of homeless veterans in the state dropped by 21 percent in 2011, double the national average.

“But you won’t hear him bragging. You know what’s hot?

Modesty,” said one panelist.

Nee got his start working as a college intern for his hometown Congressman, South Boston’s legendary Joe Moakley, before serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and the Gulf War. Once a Marine, always a Marine and when it comes to Nee’s personal style, he describes it as “pragmatic, personable, and accessible.”

anDrea Maruzzi 29, engageD, lynn

CalenDar Clerk, senate Clerk’s offiCe

BrenDan crighton Chief of staff to senator thomas mCGee How does a State House power-couple maintain their professionalism working so close together? One rule: no PDA in sight of the golden dome, an edict that has been known to break from time to time in the case of Maruzzi and Crighton.

Our panel called Maruzzi “one of the only reasons to go to the Senate clerk’s office,” and Crighton must have been thinking the same thing, since they met when he would continuously come to Maruzzi’s office to ask the same questions over and over. “I would find any excuse I could to stop by the clerk’s office and ask her for help,” he said.

With sessions deliberating important legislation sometimes stretching into the dead of night, it’s easy to see how important, and difficult, it is to keep those 40 august lawmakers on schedule. As the Senate’s calendar clerk, it’s Maruzzi’s job to manage the legislative session, help maintain the journal and keep track of the multitude of bills flying around the chamber at any given moment.

As Senator McGee’s chief of staff, Crighton manages the senator’s office and handles everything from statewide transportation policy to constituent services.

Once he’s back in his hometown of Lynn, Crighton also serves as a city councilor.

And don’t think you were going to get through the couple’s profile without an “awww” moment. According to Maruzzi, the best part of her day is getting to have lunch with beau Crighton.

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DireCtor of marketinG & CommuniCations, massaChusetts state lottery When the Lottery hands a jackpot winner one of those giant novelty checks, you’re seeing Bresnahan’s work.

What you seldom see are her “winning smile” and “megawatt sense of humor” that our panel raves over.

This is actually Bresnahan’s second tour with the Lottery, which is part of the state treasurer’s office.

The lifelong Lynn resident — who names her fish and cats after Red Sox players — has worked in and around Beacon Hill for 12 years. That began with a hasty application to the state’s housing department, and recently including four years at the Rasky Baerlein public relations firm.

“I try to bring my quirky sense of humor to most situations,” she says. “But no one wants to deal with a PR person who is full of BS, so I strive to be honest, straightforward, and transparent.” And, according to our panel, beautiful.

kate cook

36, MarrieD, Back Bay

DireCtor of PoliCy anD Cabinet affairs Cook may be the most important person in state government you’ve never heard of. She coordinates across all the executive departments, getting cabinet secretaries, staff, legislators, and outside-the-building stakeholders to actually get things done for the governor. born in Hot Springs national Park, Arkansas, raised by “lovely hippie parents,” and having passed through boston Mayor tom Menino’s office of corporate counsel, Cook has worked for Patrick since he took office in 2007.

“Don’t be fooled by her sweet, Southern sensibilities,” warns one panelist. “She takes no prisoners in cabinet meetings.”

DaviD Seltz

GoVernor’s sPeCial aDVisor on health Care Cost Containment “the most adorable metrosexual in the governor’s cabinet,” one of our panelists says. Others rave over his seersucker suits, bowties, and impeccable daily style that he calls “preppy politico.” (rumor has it his socks always match his tie.)

Seltz is also in charge of improving the efficiency and quality of the state’s health care system — hired away from State Senate President therese Murray after helping her create a cost-containment law for that system. “being the absolute authority on healthcare reform never looked so good,” a panelist says.

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34, in a relationShiP, caMBriDge

leGislatiVe DireCtor, DePartment of transPortation In Massachusetts, everybody has an opinion about transportation issues, from bus routes to turnpike fares. All of it funnels to Smith, whose job is to find ways to do something about it.

No pressure.

As legislative director, Smith advises Secretary Richard Davey on all transportation-related legislation, projects, and budget matters. That means working with elected lawmakers and staff inside the building, as well as the broad rabble he diplomatically calls “stakeholders, opinion leaders, and advocates.”

And he does it, according to our panel, with “old-school charm, and always dressed to the nines.” Not to mention a “razor-sharp jaw and intense blue eyes,” which make us think there’s a Superman behind those Clark Kent glasses,

Suzanne BuMP

auDitor of the CommonWealth Elected two years ago, bump has already made headlines, both by shaking up the 240-person staff, and by exposing problems in how taxpayer money is spent.

And she’s done it in impeccable style, our panel says. “Anyone who can eliminate wasteful spending while wearing head-to-toe leopard print is beautiful in my book,” says one. “Her daily look would stand the test of any audit,” says another. bump takes particular pride in her report last year that exposed waste and abuses by special-education collaboratives — and recommended structural reforms that were passed into law this year.

Few know the State House from more perspectives than bump: she has been an intern, an aide, a state representative, a cabinet secretary (heading Labor and Workforce Development), and now a constitutional officer.

“I have great respect for the work of and people in government,” she says. “I strive to be open to and solicitous of others — and not take myself too seriously.”

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34, Single, SoMerville

General Counsel anD health PoliCy aDVisor to sen. riCharD moore In case you haven’t heard, health-care reform is kind of a big deal. The Senate’s top health care lawmaker, Sen. Richard Moore, is lucky to have the multi-talented Kim Haddad on his staff.

Haddad didn’t take the typical route to the Hill: she’s been a Harvard Business School researcher, a victim-witness advocate, and an enforcement attorney for the ePA — all before training at Quantico to become an FBI Special Agent. And did we mention she has a law degree, a public-health master’s degree, and once worked in Mayan villages? In the end, Haddad decided to come back to Boston to, as she puts it, “apply my training to combat at the State House.”

The valedictorian of her Worcester high school class, college varsity tennis player, and law-school merit scholar, Haddad hasn’t slowed down her extracurriculars. She serves on the steering committee of the Health Law Section of the Boston Bar Association and is vice-president of her alumnae class from Wellesley College.

JeroMe SMith

Chief of staff to senate PresiDent therese murray Jerome Smith says he’s “pretty good at putting out fires,” as he manages the day-to-day operations of therese Murray, the Senate’s leader and main policy mover.

Our panel loves his “charming personality and good looks,” but Murray cares that Smith can oversee her staff of more than 30.

He says he’s a jeans-and-t-shirt guy when away from the office, but prefers “a simple suit with clean lines and tie that pops,” when he’s walking the corridors of power. One vulnerability may be Smith’s footwear: “My friends want to take away my gay card for shoe violations,” he says. before joining Murray at the State House, Smith worked in the far less beautiful boston City Hall for City Councilor Mike ross and as Mayor tom Menino’s GLbt Liaison and neighborhood coordinator for the South End.

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25, in a relationShiP, South BoSton

buDGet DireCtor for rePresentatiVe stePhen kulik Coming from a political family from Greenfield, Merrigan is well-suited to handle the avalanche of funding requests that come into the office of her boss, House Ways and Means Committee Vice Chair Stephen Kulik. Growing up, she helped her state representative father campaign, and knew she wanted to be a part of the political action.

Since coming to the State House in 2006, Merrigan has managed to maintain her “chic but comfy” fashion sense while helping to keep the commonwealth’s finances in order.

alayna van taSSell 32, MarrieD, natick

Chief of staff, house Committee on Post auDit anD oVersiGht Van Tassell and the six staffers she oversees for committee chair David Linsky might be in for some time in the media glare — they’ve been charged with investigating the state crime lab fiasco.

She’s ready for the spotlight, our panelists say. “She’s smart and chic,” says one. “A true inspiration,” raves another.

Van Tassell is back in her hometown of Natick, and back working on Beacon Hill, after three years in Washington — where she picked up a master’s degree from George Washington University. She also ran the Boston Marathon. And our panel attests to her cookie-baking mastery, too.

Mark kenneDy

26, Dating, eaSt SoMerville

leGislatiVe aiDe to rePresentatiVe Denise ProVost Referring to Kennedy’s night job as a language teacher at the Cambridge Center for Adult education, one panelist asks, “Is he a Catalan teacher, or a catalog model?”

“Hearthrob of the House, with beautiful eyes and perfect jaw line,” says another.

Kennedy is also Provost’s only full-time staffer, so he’s got his hands full drafting bills, managing constituent services, researching policy, and running the office.

That’s a long way from where he started — giving tours of the Capitol Building as an intern to Senator John Kerry.

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James Vallee

rachael Phinney

allyson Perron

Attorney At nixon PeAbody Vallee served as a state representative for 18 years, rising as high as Majority Leader before his resignation earlier this year. His work at Nixon Peabody includes government relations and public policy.

Active in the U.S. Army and Massachusetts National Guard, he’s earned the rank of Colonel.

Our panelists loved Vallee’s tailored suit style and soldierly appearance. Smart, charming, handsome, and kind, the panel knows the former rep has “style in spades.”

Vallee credits his father and his experience running Patrick Kennedy’s first Rhode Island legislative campaign in 1988 for starting him down the political path.

Attorney/Lobbyist, serLin HALey Phinney, a native of Middleboro, started a lobbying career straight out of Wheaton College and seems to have no qualms or regrets — regardless of the opinion some have of her industry.

Phinney’s corporate and trade association clients cover a wide range of issues including biotechnology, health care, education, retail, and manufacturing.

Like many lobbyists, advocating for and against bills is just one part of what she does to help her clients navigate the state’s bureaucracy.

And, according to our panel, Phinney is “the hottest lobbyist, hands down.” On the side, she volunteers to represent domestic-abuse victims through the Women’s Bar Foundation.

senior Government reLAtions director, AmericAn HeArt AssociAtion This South Shore native gets pulses pounding in the hallways and meeting rooms of Beacon Hill as a lobbyist with her heart in the right place: as an advocate for cardiac health.

Perron was turned on to public policy while studying at UConn and interning at both the Connecticut and Massachusetts State Houses. After working on policy to curb domestic violence, she became the rarest of breeds: an advocate who actually wanted to become a lobbyist.

“Women at the State House sit in awe of Allyson when Go Red for Women day comes around . . . she has the best coordinated outfits and best accessories, hands down,” says our panel.

Perron’s tip to bypass ordinary fashion: “The right shoes can always take an outfit from good to fabulous.”

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Jen caissie

sonia chang-diaz

Governor’s counciLLor “Don’t judge her because she’s beautiful,” cautions one of our panelists. “Caissie is also a tough-as-nails advocate for public safety and victims’ rights.”

She is also the new mother of Sydney Carrington Caissie-Desautels, born October 9.

Caissie’s first term on the Governor’s Council was an eventful one, thanks to a scandal-triggered shake-up to the state Parole Board — whose members the Council vets and approves — in addition to judges.

She must be doing something right; she was unopposed for re-election this year.

stAte senAtor, suffoLk district 2 The first Latina ever elected to the Massachusetts state Senate, Chang-Diaz was a nearly unanimous choice from our panel: “Senator Chang Diaz has a signature look that epitomizes her personal style and her approach to politics: polished and pragmatic,” they say.

In just four years, she has established herself as a leading progressive voice in the senate. She played a key role last year on the special redistricting committee.

And she currently serves as Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Education.

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state rePresentatiVe, suffolk DistriCt 3 It didn’t take the North end’s Aaron Michlewitz long to make a name for himself on Beacon Hill after filling the seat of former Speaker Sal DiMasi, who resigned in 2009.

Our panel praises Michlewitz’ s distinguished greying sideburns (move over, Mitt) as well as his “nice Jewish boy/nice Italian boy” appeal. “He makes a mean matzoh ball soup with a side of penne arrabiata,” says one panelist.

Michlewitz lives up to his dual heritage as a member of the St. Anthony’s Society in the North end and by winning a Legislator of the Year award from the Jewish Community Relations Council.

carl Sciortino

34, engageD, MeDforD

state rePresentatiVe, miDDlesex DistriCt 34 Sciortino was in his mid-20s when he took on, and defeated, an incumbent fellow Democrat to become a state rep. That was in 2004, in the heat of the marriage-equality battle, and Sciortino, who is gay, found himself very squarely in the line of fire.

How things change: Sciortino recently got engaged to his boyfriend, and the political world didn’t even blink.

It does mean that the boyish Sciortino, whom our panelists call “adorable” with a “memorable laugh,” is off the market. Sorry, guys. He will, however, continue working on health care, transportation, and constituency issues for his Medford and Somerville constituents.

Julian cyr

DePuty DireCtor of GoVernment affairs, DePartment of PubliC health

by Cyr’s count, the legislative session currently wrapping up required him to keep tabs on some 1300 bills potentially affecting his department’s 10 units and 100 programs.

Apparently that’s not enough work for him; he also serves as vice Chair of the MA Commission on Lesbian, Gay, bisexual and transgender youth. And, while things are slow at the State House, he’s taken a leave to work on the barack Obama re-election campaign.

“Fabulous,” “adorable, well-dressed, and fit,” with a “rugged edge,” as our panelists describe him, Cyr says he learned his people skills growing up working in his parent’s seasonal restaurant on Cape Cod. It’s taken him far: he has interned at the White House, worked for the Clinton Global Initiative in new york, and organized on Deval Patrick’s re-election campaign. but it’s his current job that combines his love of public service with the public health policy he studied in college.

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state rePresentatiVe, bristol DistriCt 12 This pint-sized Republican lawmaker has made a splash on Beacon Hill in little over a year, standing up for her constituents as gambling interests look to build resort casinos in her Bristol County area.

Orrall tells us her style is based on treating people with dignity and respect, and remembering to walk in other people’s shoes.

Prior to winning a special election last year in a district long-held by Democratic lawmakers, the Cincinnati-born Orrall worked as a school teacher and Lakeville town official. An avid runner, Orrall “jogged right into the heart of Massachusetts Republicans everywhere . . . . Don’t let her petite physique fool you — Keiko is set to make a BIG impact on Beacon Hill,” said our expert.

And how would the spunky freshman Rep improve the beauty of Beacon Hill? “Beauty to me is truth and honesty.

State House work could become more ‘beautiful’ with a willingness to tell the truth and approach our problems honestly and in a transparent fashion so that we can arrive at the best solutions for the Commonwealth,” Orrall tells us.

Marvin l. venay

katherine clark

exeCutiVe DireCtor, massaChusetts blaCk & latino leGislatiVe CauCus the caucus venay heads is an active one, advocating and strategizing on issues of importance to the state’s minority residents — like COrI reform, which became law last session. that’s just part of venay’s community impact. He’s an associate minister at Morning Star baptist Church, an adjunct professor at Suffolk university, chairman of the vine Street Community Center — and, for the past month or so, Faith Outreach Coordinator for the Obama campaign in Ohio.

He’s also one of the best-dressed men in the State House, according to our panel: “Marvin knows how to combine forward-thinking politics with classic, dapper style.”

state senator, miDDlesex & essex DistriCt With one of the most impressive resumes in the legislature, it’s no surprise how quickly Clark has moved since first being elected a representative less than four years ago. She soon won a Senate seat, and became revenue Committee chair.

She’s been recognized for her work on public safety, education, and veterans’ services. “tall and stately, Clark personifies the term ‘dignified stateswoman,’ ” one of our panelists says. “Works hard on behalf of the Commonwealth, with beauty and grace,” gushes another.

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Helen MolesWortH’s MoMent The ICA curator prepares for a bold new show — and a new way of thinking about art history B y Gr eG C o o k

hen the Institute of ContemW porary Art hired chief curator Helen Molesworth in 2010, the museum had put together a string of impressive exhibitions showcasing single artists (Anish Kapoor, Tara Donovan, Shepard Fairey, Charles LeDray), but it didn’t seem to have anyone who could put together a powerful Big Idea show.

Molesworth has begun to fulfill the ICA’s aim — described by director Jill Medvedow — to balance monographic shows with exhibitions of historical sweep that “put more historical context around contemporary art.” She started with last fall’s “Dance/Draw,” which traced the origins of today’s

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performance art in the intersection between dancing and drawing since the ’60s. Now Molesworth has upped the ante and signaled the ICA’s aspirations with “This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s,” opening November 15, which re-examines the whole greed-is-good, pastel-preppy conservative decade through the lenses of feminism, AIDS, rapacious business, and queer culture.

The scope and daring of the exhibit, attempting not just to pursue a Big Idea but also to redefine a whole decade, shows Molesworth — and the ICA — stepping up to a new level. It makes her one of the handful of curators in the country redefining the canon of art of the past

half century. What we’re witnessing is someone becoming one of the most influential curators in the nation, and thereby, someone who can reshape the way we think about art and art history.

“It’s a very ambitious show,” says Los Angeles Times critic Christopher Knight, who reviewed it when it opened in Chicago. “It’s the kind of show that very few art museums even attempt. . . . I hadn’t seen this type of show at another American museum, aside from MoCA [the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art], in a very, very long time.

It was an attempt not just to take on a pretty big chunk of history, but it seemed to me pretty clearly driven from an interest in where we are

right now. Looking at the decade of the 1980s seemed to me to have come from a recognition that the complicated situation that the United States has found itself in in the last couple years was born out of major shifts that began to happen 30 years ago.”

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago director Madeleine Grynsztejn, who commissioned the show from Molesworth after they co-curated the major touring 2010 Luc Tuymans retrospective, says, “Helen is among the very, very best curators in the country — in fact anywhere — and by extension the ICA Boston is one of the most important places where you look at and think about contemporary culture.”

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Molesworth began her museum career in the education department at New York’s Whitney Museum in the 1990s. She earned her PhD in art history (dissertation on Marcel Duchamp) from Cornell in 1997 and became gallery curator at the State University of New York at Old Westbury in 1997. While contemporary art curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art from 2000 to ’02 (where she met Susan Dackerman, now a curator at the Harvard Art Museums, whom she married in 2006), she organized “Work Ethic,” a 2003 study of the “deskilling” of post–World War II art that paralleled America’s shift from a manufacturing economy to a service economy to an information economy. She says she aims “to try and situate as fully as one can the art of our time within the larger political and economic framework of our time.” As chief curator at Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts from ’02 to ’07, she organized 2005’s “Part Object Part Sculpture,” which examined the legacy of Duchamp’s “Readymades” in contemporary art.

Molesworth’s exhibits are distinguished by generosity, “intellectual girth,” and accessibility, according to Grynsztejn. “There’s always a clarity to the proposition that she’s making, and it is always not the status quo, but yet not deliberately just in-your-face for the sake of that.

She wants you to think about things differently.”

“She is beloved across America by artists,” says celebrated Los Angeles painter Lari Pittman, who sought Molesworth out to contribute to his 2011 monograph. “Most curators are not artist-identified or practice-identified, they’re more ideologs that look at art and try to fit it into their program. And I don’t think Helen at all approaches it that way. She looks at art and tries to develop a cohesive idea around it as opposed to trying to make the art fit into a pre-assigned idea. . . . She’s interested in art and how it takes its place in life as opposed to how it takes its place in academia.”

At the root of Molesworth’s approach are feminism and queerness. She contributed essays on feminist painting to the catalogue of LA MoCA’s landmark 2007 history of feminist art “WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution” and on how feminism should influence curating to Modern Women, the Museum of Modern Art’s 2010 book reexamining how feminism challenges the

“I’m always interested in a more complicated version of a story because I’m a feminist, and because easy stories are usually stories that support business as usual.” institution’s own version of the history of Modernism.

“I’m always interested in a more complicated version of a story because I’m a feminist, and because easy stories are usually stories that support business as usual,” Molesworth says. Her own queerness — both in sexual orientation as well as radical political point of view — enables her to “read the dominant against the grain, to be interested in the minor, to be suspicious of power for its own sake, definitely, to be interested in the slightly askew.”

That said, she’s a curator focused almost entirely on art happening inside the art industrial complex.

The 1980s are when graffiti burst into international prominence, but “This Will Have Been” barely registers it. Her revisions of history can sometimes feel like the popular artists of one era swapped out for those popular among the cool kids now — for example, Anslem Kiefer, who remains one of the most well regarded 1980s art stars, is absent from “This Will Have Been,” while artists like David Hammons and Louise Lawler, who’ve been respected for ages but whose renown in the museum world is of a more recent vintage, play starring roles.

Also, Molesworth has a core group of favorite artists that she sticks with.

As she noted at a 2012 ICA talk, “I’m not known in the field for being the discoverer of new talent.”

Recognition of Molesworth’s own talent has been increasingly evident across the country, but Bostonians still seem to have a fuzzy

idea of what the 46-year-old curator is about. Partly this is because many of her major projects happened elsewhere — the Tuymans show, for example, didn’t come here. Partly this is because Molesworth became contemporary art curator at Harvard in 2007, just before its Fogg Art Museum was closed for renovation and expansion. So her Fogg shows offered small presentations by Moyra Davey, Paul Chan, William Pope.L, Félix González-Torres, and ACT-UP. At the ICA, last year’s Catherine Opie show offered minor works by a major photographer; and this summer’s Josiah McElheny survey was more a success of sensation (glittery chandeliers) than substance.

While the ACT-UP show offered a glimpse of her impressive thinking, “Dance/Draw,” meaty and ambitious though somewhat muddled, was her first project here that showed the aesthetic and intellectual fireworks possible if a museum gave her room to run.

“This Will Have Been” raises the stakes again, while kicking off a series of major projects that Molesworth is developing for the ICA, including a survey of New York painter Amy Sillman for fall 2013 and a new history of the revolutionary North Carolina art school Black Mountain College.

“Helen has without question brought a different kind of historical interest and scholarly heft to the ICA,” says art critic Tyler Green.

“She would have to be considered in that top tier of scholarly-minded contemporary curators” in a catego-

ry with Michael Auping of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Paul Schimmel, chief curator of the Los Angeles Museum from 1990 to this past June; Nancy Spector at New York’s Guggenheim Museum; and Siri Engberg at Minneapolis’s Walker Art Center.

Molesworth’s best shows are wicked smart without making visitors feel dumb, notes Arlette Kayafas, owner of Boston’s Gallery Kayafas. “I think that she brings a really high intellectual content and presents it in a way that you feel successful and not less than when you experience the show.”

For decades, the national leader in the expansive revisionist history that “This Will Have Been” attempts has been LA MoCA. But a significant difference between Molesworth and Schimmel’s LA team is that part of their rewriting of art history has been deeply engaged with art made in their region (one of Schimmel’s first shows was 1992’s “Helter Skelter: LA Art in the ’90s”), while Molesworth exhibits so far have given scant attention to art from Massachusetts and New England. There’s no denying that Schimmel began working at LA at a time when the city’s artists were becoming widely recognized as world class, while little Boston art is so regarded. But Schimmel has used his stature — his power — to give art made in California official legitimacy, to help lift his neighbors up with him.

Molesworth takes issue with the notion that she should pay more attention to art made here. “It’s so weird to me,” she says. “I feel like that’s definitely the perception people have of the ICA even though since I’ve been here there have been two permanent collection rotations both of which have had a ‘local’ artist in them. In [‘Dance/Draw’] the big group show I did, I had a ‘local’ artist in it. . . . I feel like there’s this rap and, you know, all we can do is what we’re doing.”

So it will be interesting next May to see Molesworth’s version of the Foster Prize exhibit, the ICA’s biennial roundup of local talent (arriving nearly three years after the last one).

She’s also curating a small survey of Boston painter Steve Locke for next summer, inspired by his recent works challengingly, awkwardly combining painting and sculpture.

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limate change may have been ignored during this fall’s eleccmention tions, but it’s likely on the minds of many skiers — not to ski resorts eager to avoid a repeat of last year’s warm

winter, which saw many ski-related businesses either opening late or closing early.

And it’s not just a threat of an occasional lackluster ski season. A recent report prepared by the office of Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) for the House Natural Resources Committee warns that unless carbon pollution is cut by 2100, “Maine will likely be the only state cold enough to sustain ski resorts, putting thousands out of work and losing billions of dollars for the New England economy.” >> climate on p 46

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ski guide :: climate << climate from p 45

Pamela Templer, a Boston University biologist affiliated with the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, recently spoke with me about why changing temperatures mean fewer days to ski.

How has the ski season changed? The data collected in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest shows that since 1955 there are about 20 fewer ski days per year. The snow pack has decreased by 10 inches. The air temperatures have increased by 2.5 degrees. There’s been an increase in midwinter thawing. It used to be that you could reliably expect a continuous snowpack all winter, and you could go skiing anytime you wanted. That’s changed, because now the snow isn’t quite as predictable.

So now the ski season is both shorter and less consistently snowy? Exactly. This isn’t continuous. It’s not like each year, the ski season starts a day later. But the general trend over the last 50 years is that it is starting later and

“Since 1955, there are about 20 fewer ski days per year. it used to be that you could reliably expect a continuous snowpack all winter. that’s changed, because now the snow isn’t as predictable.” ending earlier and is interrupted by midwinter thaws.

What’s causing the shortage of snow? It’s safe to say it that it is driven by increases in air-temperature shifts, so there is less snow and more rain. That has been observed and is projected to increase. So that not only changes the form of precipitation, so even if you have snow on the ground, if the air temperature goes up, you get more melting. If you have snow on the ground and it rains, that will melt what is on the ground.

Is this happening in every ski region around the world? New

Hampshire is similar to many other regions in northern latitudes where the spatial extent and the duration that snow is on the ground is likely to decrease in the future.

I know that you’re a scientist and not an economist or a politician, but surely this is having an economic impact on the ski region. Yes, that’s being experienced. Lawrence Hamilton, a sociologist at the University of New Hampshire, has studied this. One thing he’s researched is how there is often more snow in New Hampshire than in Boston. He calls it the “urban effect.” If we don’t see

snow in the ground in Boston, we don’t think there’s snow up north.

That has an economic effect on the ski industry. People in Boston need to be educated to check the ski reports and not to just look at what is on the ground. He’s also documented some of the costs associated with artificial snow.

Right now, a lot of ski companies have been able to keep pace with the lack of natural snow. But the midwinter thaw makes the process more expensive.

So wouldn’t this multi-billiondollar industry want to prevent being threatened?

Last spring, the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation convened a roundtable discussion involving scientists like myself, recreational users, and land managers, and we learned that the scientific evidence of climate change is being experienced firsthand by users and land managers. We need to communicate more with each other. It should be a two-way street where we find ways to make science usable to the public while at the same time the users inform scientists what they’re experiencing. P

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Would a solitary winter in the New Hampshire wilderness clear my head, or destroy my sanity? I couldn’t wait to find out.

My new home, a solar-powered, yurt-shaped structure called Lonesome Lake Hut, is one of eight such huts owned and operated by the Appalachian Mountain Club — the granddaddy of outdoor nonprofits across New England, and my summer employer throughout college.

With 48 bunk beds for hikers, the hut is perched above a disc of cold water, miles from any road. In the summer, hikers from New England and beyond make overnight reservations at Lonesome, and a co-ed crew of six sling out hot meals and entertainment for them. But once the first frost glazes the trees, the hut reverts to self-service, meaning guests must strap on micro-spikes to combat the snowy trail and bring their own food and bedding. As the lone caretaker, my job description is simple: welcome hikers with a pearly grin, show them to their bunk beds, and help them cook spaghetti on the stove without burning down

the building. The rest of the time, I will often be left alone in the frozen forest, for up to a week. I am then allowed a week off in the valley (to catch up on music, news, and collect my sanity), while my fellow rotating caretaker, Beth, hikes up and takes the helm.

Before breaking the news to my friends and family, I spent weeks preparing a list of rationalizations on why this would be a good idea. For one, I had spent much of my childhood romping around outdoors, in the very mountains I was about to inhabit again. After a solid year without leaving the city for more than 48 hours, I was long overdue for a holiday of pine needles, loon cries, and other bucolic things not found near Central Square.

Unsurprisingly, office life had taken a punishing toll on my body. Even an hour of grunting at the gym each day wasn’t enough to offset the chronic aches of sitting for hours and staring at an LCD screen. Life as a hut caretaker offered an endless menu of physical necessities, from snowshoeing down mountain slopes to chopping log rounds with an axe (I was very excited for this). By New Year’s Day, I’d be built like a brick shithouse.

But what drove me to the hut with greater urgency was a desire to temporarily escape the superficialities of city life and do something real, dammit. As a magazine writer, I was uniquely subject to the constant symphony of pop hype and fury that defines the metropolis these days.

Each week seemed wrapped around yet another new club opening near the Financial District, or the arrival of some hotshot chef with a freezer full of duck fat or kangaroo bacon.

Everything that was once intoxicating to me had outworn its welcome.

It was all beginning to feel like the waning hour of any house party, when sipping one of those IPAs that once tasted so crisp and hoppy is about as pleasurable as inhaling cough syrup. I needed a cold shower, like Martin Sheen in the opening frames of Apocalypse Now. I wanted to get dirt under my nails, rip holes in my pants. Most of all, on the busier weekend nights, I wanted to greet hikers with a crackling fire, start conversations that didn’t involve couture houses or hashtags, and serve as a steward of the forest.

I left Boston with a sedan full of clothes and cumbersome books like Jude the Obscure and Atlas Shrugged (for comic relief, you understand).

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hour that seemed to last the entire evening. As the autumnal mounds of suburban New Hampshire gave way to greasy food joints and creaky general stores, I began to feel like I had entered another country. And to a degree, I had. For better or worse, the New England countryside has a way of preserving old-time comforts and customs that most cities have largely shoved aside to make room for more contemporary diversions. It felt deeply refreshing to be surrounded by unpretentious establishments with names like “Hank’s Chops” or “D.W. Beezley Supply and Feed.”

The first hike up almost killed me. Day one is invariably the worst.

Of course, it doesn’t help that most trails in the White Mountains were designed by alpine athletes seeking revenge on regular humans. There’s no other explanation for the lack of switchbacks, the prominence of rock staircases, and the evident principle that a trail should reach its destination as fast as possible: even if that means shooting up three vertical miles of granite and roots. For 1.6 miles (a modest distance in these mountains, believe me) every muscle in my legs and lower back quaked and quivered, guaranteeing physical therapy sessions in seniority. But I trudged on, climbing out of Franconia Notch, onto the plateau beneath Cannon Mountain, where Lonesome Lake Hut awaited.

I kicked open the front door, redfaced and gasping like a beached whale, trying to remind my lungs of their normal function. The hut was empty: the kitchen sinks dry, floors swept, mysterious bags of garbage festooned throughout the place. The first thing I noticed was just how loud my labored wheezing sounded, with no ambient noise to make it less conspicuous. This was it: my new habitat. There wasn’t a soul to break the silence or offer a glance of acknowledgment. For the first time since my departure from Boston — from the office, the gala parties, the company of roommates, the availability of beer — I began to wonder if I had made a mistake.

I tried to distract myself by cooking a big, fatty dinner: ground beef sizzled with smoked paprika, spaghetti, and sautéed peppers. I took my plate, which was really more like a trashcan lid, and sat in the empty dining room, under the glow of bare bulbs. Through every bite, I kept shifting my glance towards the door, expecting some weary traveler to stomp in. This was similar to moments I would often have back in 50 11.09.12 :: Thephoenix.com/ski

i swung until i thought my arms would fall from their sockets, relieved that i had not given myself a lobster foot with the chopping blade.

Cambridge, when I’d walk home from work in the evening and find that I had the apartment to myself for a few precious minutes. I could take my shirt off, put on Guns N’ Roses, and rest my feet on the kitchen table, or invite a girlfriend over for some sensual boinking that wouldn’t be punctuated by repeated whispers of “Shh!” from the other side of the wall.

I savored those interludes of privacy, but at the same time, I counted the minutes until my friends would arrive home.

No one walked through the hut door for the rest of dinner, nor while I washed my dishes and spread out my sleeping bag in the caretaker quarters.

In theory, anyone could crack open the door any time, even as I slept (a reality I tried not to reflect upon too much). If they were modestly experienced hikers, I’d likely find them eating their own cold porridge in the dining room the next morning. But if this was their first time in the woods, or worse, if they had gotten themselves wet and been out in the cold long enough to develop the shakes, I could be up well beyond 2 am wrapping them with emergency blankets and spoon-feeding them instant chicken soup to replenish their body temperature and sodium levels. It was an entirely imaginable, if daunting prospect.

The crew room was arrestingly cozy with six bunks, a desk stacked with journals, and a dusty two-way radio, through which I would receive and

transmit weather reports each morning. I chose an upper-level bed by the window — I figured this would allow me the best vantage point in the event of a nighttime visit by genetic mutants with names like Virgil and Purvis.

Stripped down to my briefs, I encased myself in the bag and hit the lights.

But before allowing myself to drift off, I uttered a brief, quiet “Hello?” into the dark. I’m not quite sure why I did it, but it was the first time I had spoken since arriving at the hut that afternoon.

It was Monday night, and I was officially off the grid.

I awoke the next morning with a head full of phlegm and a heart full of purpose. I couldn’t remember feeling so juiced up for the day during my entire tenure in Boston. I threw on jeans and flannel, brewed a pot of coffee, shoveled some oatmeal down my gullet, and went to town on my morning chores. First I spritzed the composting toilets with bacteria-killing spray.

Then I checked the gauges on the hut’s propane tanks and made sure that none of the hoses had developed a leak that could incinerate the entire area if some poor sucker lit a match nearby.

Finally, I slipped into steel-toed boots and began splitting firewood with a weighted axe called a maul. I’d been pumping iron on a regular basis for the last few years, but this was a workout I could actually enjoy, probably because it would guarantee a toasty fire by the end of the day. I swung and swung until I thought my arms would

fall from their sockets, relieved that I had not given myself a lobster foot with the chopping blade.

The crazy thing to consider is that not too long ago, this morning ritual was of vital importance for the survival of millions of American men and women. To endure a winter in the countryside, hematomainducing amounts of firewood were needed to keep the house warm. If livestock were part of the equation, endless bales of hay and grain, reaped from the fields out back, were also necessary. Toweling off from my first bout of log splitting, I thought about fitness beauties and bodybuilders packed into gyms, wringing what pleasure they could from lifting metal plates under fluorescent lights, with LMFAO pumping from the stereo. Laura Ingalls Wilder would have wept.

I fell into a routine by my own design. Once chores were complete, I’d take my notepad or laptop down to the dock near the lake and put my English degree to a more literal use, finally full of energy to tap out every half-baked script and short story idea that had come to me during a sales meeting or a Green Line delay between Arlington and Copley. Being autumn, there were hardly any birds left in the area, which imbued the lake with serene echoes of rippling water. Thursday afternoon, I thought to myself, “This is healthy.”

Just imagine if American employers spent less time quantifying work hours and allowed employees more space to breathe and gather ourselves.

I’m not only suggesting more paid vacation time, but an enforced requirement to actually take that vacation and recuperate. Back in 2009, thencongressman Alan Grayson proposed a bill that would require businesses with over 100 employees to provide at least one week of paid holiday for each worker. The bill was shot down by a bipartisan majority with such intensity that you’d think Grayson had suggested infecting the nation with syphilis. Plenty of us still cling to that old “work hard and never look up” mentality, but a look at today’s economy suggests that ethos has not exactly aged well. Maybe it was never meant to.

I was just beginning to feel at home, when suddenly, on Friday, a worrying thing happened. I woke up rattled and alert. My dreams from the night before had been disturbing: gunfire, gore, and a sand-swept locale in ruins. The other day, I had read a New Yorker article on the devastation in Syria, afflicted by Assad’s army. I was no stranger to violent news, and in >> HUT on p 52

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But this morning, a sticky, unseasonably warm day of fog, I was so shaken that I was reluctant to close my eyes, for fear of falling backward into that imagined hell.

As I scrambled some eggs on the stove, later that morning, I wondered why I had internalized the war zone reports so completely as to envision them in my sleep. It was an affliction disturbingly similar to Jack Torrance’s in The Shining: a writer-cum-caretaker besot by night terrors. The allegory was so apt that it would be laughable in retrospect — only, I was beginning to wonder whether I’d maintain my sanity long enough to experience that retrospect. In one night, my caretaking experience had gone from blissful to haunting, and I couldn’t figure out what had snapped.

I spent a deeply unnerving morning moving wood inside, cleaning out my freezer — a coffin-sized container in the perpetually dripping hut basement — and doing lunges on the trail around the lake. I’d constantly catch myself looking over my shoulder, triggered by something as slight as a rustle of leaves or the moving of wa-

ter. During lunch, down on the dock, I spotted a man on the other side of the lake, moving between pockets of trees. He had a bright red jacket on, which gave away his presence from afar. Yet the man never made it to my side of the lake. I kept waiting for him to pop around a boulder or tree trunk, but he never did.

It hit me like a bucket of ice water: I was already starting to miss people.

Dearly. After four days on my own, I craved that familiar comfort of banter, shared laughter. No wonder I’d dreamt of Syria: there was nothing and nobody up here to take my mind off whatever media I had digested each day. The of retreating to a log cabin with baked beans, a machine gun, and several gold bricks — “every man for himself,” if you will — never seems to take into account the implications of being completely alone with one’s thoughts. The reality of that classic American dream was grimmer than many of us would imagine.

Even in the woods, community remains important. Because at one point or another, Mother Nature will kick the living shit out of you. Nothing ruins an outing like a freak blizzard or twisted ankle on slippery rocks.

In those desperate moments — your once-insulating, cutting-edge wind jacket sodden, your knees lacerated like a roast ham — it helps to have others nearby, ready and willing to offer you a hand. And that is the absolutely salient point here: everyone needs a hand sometimes, whether they’ll admit it or not.

Ultimately, the function of Lonesome Lake Hut — a warm sanctuary for outdoor visitors to take shelter and at times, help each other — swooped in and saved my mind.

The weekend had just begun, and my reservations sheet indicated that I had a group of 48 travelers en route for the evening. Jumping from zero to 48 living companions is dramatic in any event. But what really caught my eye about this particular group was the subheading: “MIT GRAD STUDENT RETREAT — CAMP SLOAN.” Giddy, I swept the hut floors vigorously, hid everything breakable, and made sure that all of the fire extinguishers had inspection tags. I had lived right next to MIT for a year and knew what those students could get up to, in and out of the classroom.

They had rented out the entire hut, a new (and cheap) option for 2012

guests. I was anxious, but really, beyond what havoc the group might have been planning to wreak, I was looking forward to seeing and engaging them.

They arrived sodden and shivery at 6 pm, with frozen hamburgers and what looked like tubes of fireworks.

Before they finished frying up the patties, the group had erected battery powered speakers, thrown on “Gangnam Style,” and formed a breakdance circle in the dining room. They might as well have brought a wagon of elephants and baboons with them. It would be a tiring night — enough to make four more days of solitude seem heavenly. But it moved me to witness others enjoy their time in such an extreme, removed place, where life is boiled down to its most lasting essentials. I was grateful to be trusted with the responsibility of preserving a place unstuck from time. And I realized: this was what I had left Boston for.

“I hope we’re not making life tough for you up here,” Denise, their leader, said to me at one point as she sloshed water around a tray of beef fat.

“Not at all,” I replied, handing her the dish soap. “Actually, you’re making it interesting.” P

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Berkshire East has two full-service lodges, a ski school, racing, and tubing.

A 1180 feet B 45 total; 30 percent novice, 35 percent intermediate, 35 percent expert F Terrain park K 100 percent G Two surface lifts, one double chair, two triple chairs, one quad D Weekdays 9 am to 4:30 pm; weekends and holidays 8:30 am to 4:30 pm; night skiing Wed through Sat 4 to 10 pm C Weekdays $38, seniors $28; weekends and holidays adults $58, juniors/seniors $38, students $48; halfday afternoon adults $40, juniors/seniors $28, students $35; night $28 all ages H Skis full-day $30, half-day $20, snowboards full-day $35, half-day $25 M Group lessons (ages eight and up) $30/hour; private lessons $70/hour, $30 per additional person

BLANDFORD SKI AREA 41 Nye Brook Rd, Blandford, MA › 413.848.2860 › skiblandford. org › Operated by the Springfield Ski Club, 76-year-old Blandford is the oldest continuously run club-owned ski area in North America.

A 465 feet B 22 total; six novice, 11 intermediate, five expert F two terrain parks K 80 percent G three double chairs, one multi-lift, one magic carpet

D Fri through Sun 8:30 am to 4 pm, with night skiing in Jan and Feb C season passes $99 to $349. Individual day rates $15 to $45, based on skier’s age, holiday/non-holiday, and area coverage H skis, boots and poles or snowboard and boots $24 adults, $19 juniors; skis only $15; snowboard only $17; ski boots only $7; snowboard boots only $8; poles only $3 M group lessons members adults $29, juniors $23; guests adults $35, juniors $27; private lessons member $60, guest $65; $27 per additional member, $30 per additional guest

BLUE HILLS SKI AREA 4001 Washington St, Canton, MA › 781.828.5070 › ski-bluehills. com › The closest thing to having a winter wonderland in your own backyard, the William F. Rogers Ski Slopes on Great Blue Hill are a city slicker’s best friend. If Mother Nature’s lagging, 90 percent of the 60-acre terrain is covered by man-made snow, and more than half of the 12 trails are lit for night riding. There are separate areas for beginners, mid-tier skiers/boarders, and parks and pipes riders, as well as private and group lessons — everything you need to change your outlook on winter.

A 309 feet B 12 total; five novice, four intermediate, three expert F terrain park K 90 percent G double chair, magic carpet, wonder carpet and handle tow D Mon through Wed 2 to 9 pm, Thurs through Sat 9 am to 9 pm, and Sun 9 am to 5 pm; hours vary on holidays and are subject to change; closed on Christmas Day C weekends $24 to $36, juniors $20 to $32, and weekdays $18 to $27, juniors $16 to $25 H skis, boots and pools or snowboard and boots $28, helmets $6.59 M group or semi-private lessons $25, private lessons

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A 750 feet B 22 total, almost evenly divided between expert, intermediate and novice F terrain area K 98 percent G two double chairs, three surface lifts D Mon through Wed 9 am to 9 pm, Sun 9 am to 4 pm; hours vary on holidays and are subject to change C Mon through Fri $25, Sat and holidays $42; Mon through Sat nights $20, Thurs Night Owl special $15; snowtubing $15 for two hours H skis, boots and pools, snowboards and boots, or skiboards and boots $30; snowboard and ski boots only $15; poles or helmets only $7.50 M private lessons $70/hour, group lessons $40/hour, Kids All-Day program $80 for half day, $99 for

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A 1150 feet B 45 total, about one-quarter novice, half intermediate, one-quarter expert; 3 terrain parks, one small, two large; longest trail is 2 miles F three terrain parks (two big, one small), one glade trail, mogul runs K 96 percent G one six passenger high-speed, two quads, three triples, one double, two surface lifts D Weekdays 9 am to 10 pm, weekends and holidays 8:30 am to 10 pm C Full day adults $61, teens $52, juniors/seniors $44; Half day adults $57, teens $48, juniors/seniors $40; twilight hours $36-$42; holiday prices vary; Mountain Coaster $9/ride, $7/ride with lift ticket H skis, boots and poles or snowboard and boots full day $36, half day $33; helmets $10; wristguards Free M Group lessons start at $44 for $90 minutes; Beginner ski packages start at $74; private lessons start at $95, $70 per extra person

NASHOBA VALLEY SKI AREA 79 Powers Rd, Westford, MA › 978.692.3033 › skinashoba. com › Nashoba Valley claims 17 trails (the number used to be higher), even though anyone standing and looking at the 240-foot hillside — roughly one-third the height of the Prudential Tower — would have trouble figuring out where some of them end and others begin. Still, it’s

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ski guide :: listings a learner’s paradise, with clearly demarcated areas for each skill level, serviced by their own lifts. That, the location, private and group lessons, and half-day and nighttime tickets make this one of the most convenient places around to learn how to ski or ride. Ski school, tubing park, and ski and snowboard shop at base. Call 800.400.7669 for snow conditions.

A 240 feet B 17 total, three novice, eight intermediate, six expert F terrain park K 100 percent G three triples, one double, three rope tows and two conveyors D weekdays 9 am to 10 pm, and weekends 8:30 am to 10 pm C Weekdays $38, kids under 12 $36, kids under 5 $22; weekends and holidays adults $48, kids under 12 $46, kids under 5 $22; half-day and night skiing is discounted H skis, boots and poles or snowboard and boots $32; demos $42; skis for children ages 5 and under $23; helmets $10 M private lessons $90/hour, $45 per additional person; group lessons $45/hour; rental and lesson packages and race training also available

SKI BRADFORD South Cross Rd, Haverhill, MA › 866.644.7669 › skibradford.com › Just minutes from Boston and the North Shore, Ski Bradford has an uphill capacity of 9600 skiers per hour. Lessons for all ages and abilities, racing, complete rental shop, full-service snack bar, large base lodge, ample parking, and more than 80 hours of operation per week.

A 248 feet B 15 total: three beginner, four intermediate, eight expert F terrain park with jumps, rails, boxes, and events and competitions throughout the season K 100 percent G three triple chair lifts, one T-bar, and three rope tows

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D weekdays 8:30 am to 6 pm; weekends, school vacation, and holidays 8:30 am to 4:30 pm; nights Monday through Saturday 6 to 10 pm C weekdays and twilight hours $34; nights $30; weekends $45; discounts for half days and learners H ski or snowboard package $35, $30 half day or night; juniors $25, $20 half day M group lesson $35; private lesson $80

SKI BUTTERNUT 380 STATE RD, GREAT BARRINGTON, MA › 413.528.2000 › skibutternut.com › Base includes a children’s nursery, clubhouse with locker rooms and cafeteria, upper lodge, sun deck, and ski rental, repair and clothing shop. Also hosts a professional ski school and five-lane tubing center.

Now offering private lessons for learning to ski on Telemark skis. (Call 800.438.7669 or check web site for snow conditions.)

A 1000 feet B 22 trails total, eight novice, eight intermediate, six expert F three terrain parks for different abilities with jumps, rails, boxes and pipes K 100 percent G three quads, D Weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, weekends and holidays 8:15 am to 4 pm, tubing center open Sat 10 am- 8 pm and Sun 10 am to 5 pm C Mon through Fri $25 adults, $20 juniors/seniors, $15 children; Sat through Sun $55 adults, $45 juniors/ seniors, $20 children; student discounts available; tubing $18/two hours any age H skis, boots and poles or snowboard and boots $35 adults, $30 juniors, $20 children; helmets $12 M group lessons $40 an skill level; private lessons $90/ hour, $50 per additional person; private Telemark lesson $90/hour only by reservation

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WACHUSETT MOUNTAIN 499 Mountain Rd, Princeton, MA › 978.464.2300 › wachusett. com › Wachusett Mountain is a decent place for beginners and intermediate skiers/riders alike.

It also has a few black-diamond trails and a vertical of 1000 feet, but truth be told, its proximity is its greatest asset. Call 800.SKI.1234 for ski conditions.

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At the top of the new T-Bar near the summit of Mount Stickney, a cozy new 600-squarefoot log cabin features an exterior stone fireplace and patio as well as a porch for catching rays on warmer days. Inside, a wood stove warms skiers in between runs while enjoying a light snack.

In addition, Bretton Woods has increased its snowmaking capabilities with the installation of 50 new snowguns on the popular Range View trail. The SV10 Impulse snowmaking technology provides for a better and longer skiing experience.

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New Hampshire’s largest ski area welcomes the 2012-2013 winter season with exciting new developments. As part of a multi-phased $70 million transformation at the Omni Mount Washington Resort, the luxury, all-season resort introduces a new lift, additional terrain for backcountry adventures and new snowmaking capabilities at the Bretton Woods ski area.

“The dedicated team at Bretton Woods is excited for the upcoming season with new and exciting enhancements that maintain the area’s reputation as one of the top ski destinations in New England,” said Larry Magor, Managing Director of the Omni Mount Washington Resort.

New Hampshire’s largest ski area continues to expand with the much anticipated addition of lift service to the Mount Stickney area, welcoming adventurers with a step back to a traditional New England skiing experience. The Mount Stickney expansion, whose last addition included 30 acres of gladed tree skiing, is now complemented with the addition of a T-Bar surface lift and warming cabin.

A new 2,000-foot Doppelmayr T-Bar serves the Mount Stickney Glades, while the gladed terrain has been expanded and enhanced to open up the steep drop offs and cliff area for those thrill-seeking skiers and riders. For the less adventurous, many of the glades have been manicured in the Bretton Woods fashion so they will be skiable even in lean snow years and cater to abilities of intermediate and above. With the addition of the surface lift, skiers and riders can now spend hours doing laps in the trees without having to return to the main base area.

The next phase of the Mount Stickney expansion is planned for the 2013-14 season, and is aimed at the Nordic skier with additional terrain to be added to the resort’s already vast 100km network. The new high altitude trails will provide Nordic skiers with early and late season terrain, starting at the Mount Stickney Cabin and connecting into the existing Stickney trail system.

With these recent additions and enhancements, Bretton Woods has now expanded across three summits, providing skiers and riders with a variety of terrain to match anyone’s desires. Long known for its family-oriented atmosphere, Bretton Woods continues to strive to provide an experience that family members can enjoy together for the entire day.

Part of the Omni Mount Washington Resort, the popular “Stay Here, Ski Free” package is on offer again this season, as is the “Zip & Ski” combo ticket allowing guests to hit the slopes then soar above them. Both offers start at just $99 per person. To learn more, visit brettonwoods.com, or call 800-843-6664.

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ski guide :: listings seniors $38, children $10. peak season adults $53, juniors/seniors $42, children $15 H skis, boots and poles or snowboard and boots fullday $32 adults, $26 juniors/seniors, $20 children, $10 helmets; half-day $27 adults, $21 juniors/seniors, $15 children, $8 helmets; packages available M group lessons $40-160; private lessons $80/hour; semi-private $55/hour

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BIGROCK 37 Graves Rd, Mars Hill, ME › 207.425.6711 › bigrockmaine.com › Established in 1960, Bigrock Ski Area was purchased in 2000 by the Maine Winter Sports Center. Steps have been taken to make this family friendly ski area ideal for learners. Its projected opening day is December 11.

A 980 feet B 35 trails: 11 percent novice, 75 percent intermediate, 14 percent expert F terrain park K 37 percent G one triple chair, one double chair, one poma lift, one carpet lift D Wed-Fri 3 pm to 8 pm; weekend and holidays 9 am to 4 pm C adults $15 every day; children 5 and under $5 every day; seniors 75+ free H ski or snowboard package $25; ski or snowboard only $20 M group lessons $20, private lessons $28

BLACK MOUNTAIN OF MAINE 39 Glover Rd, Rumford, ME › 207.364.8977 › skiblackmountain.org › A family-oriented ski area with snow tubing and ski racing (classical, slalom, and freestyle) throughout the season.

A 1150 feet B 21 trails: five novice, six intermediate, and ten expert F half-pipe and terrain park K 90 percent

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G one T-bar, one handle tow, one double chair, and one triple chair D daily 9 am to 4 pm C ages 6-74 $15 all day every day; children 5 and under and seniors 75+ free H full day $8, half day $6 M runs several children’s ski programs throughout the season; prices vary

CAMDEN SNOW BOWL Off Rte 1, Camden, ME › 207.236.3438 › camdensnowbowl.com › The ski area overlooks Penobscot Bay and includes areas to skate and tube slide, as well as a toboggan chute.

A 850 feet B eight total; one intermediate/beginner, four intermediate, two intermediate/expert, one freestyle F terrain park K 45 percent G two T-bars, one double chair, and one surface lift D Wed through Fri 10 am to 8 pm, and Sat and Sun 9 am to 4 pm C weekdays $23 for adults, $21 for students, weekends $35 for adults, $26 for students. Half-day and night rates also available.

H ski and board packages $30 M $25/hour and a half for group lessons, $50/hour for private lessons and $25/hour for each additional person

MOUNT ABRAM 308 Howe Hill Rd, Greenwood, ME › 207.875.5000 › mtabram. com › Boasts 650 acres of trails and glades and also features the longest tubing park in Maine (1325 feet!).

A 1150 feet B 44 total; 10 novice, 22 intermediate, 12 expert F four freestyle terrain parks K 75 percent G two double chairs, one T-bar, one handle tow D Thurs through Sun 9 am to 4 pm C adults $49, seniors 60-79/students six through 17

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Thurs is two-for-one, and on “Caravan Fridays,” everyone seat-belted into a vehicle receives a lift ticket for the flat price of $75 H adult package $30, seniors/juniors $23 M group lessons $35, private lessons $60/hour

SADDLEBACK MOUNTAIN Rte 4, Rangeley, ME › 207.864.5671 › saddlebackmaine.com › The 12,000-acre preserve includes Saddleback Mountain and Saddleback Lake. Glades and other “free” skiing opportunities challenge experts, but plenty of terrain is groomed and smooth enough for beginner and intermediate skiers. Backcountry cross-country trails available at no charge. Projected opening day is Dec 11.

A 2000 feet B 66 trails and glades F terrain park K 85 percent G two quads, two double chairs, one T-bar D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm; weekends and holidays 8:30 am to 4 pm C weekdays, $49, $10 seniors, juniors seven-18/college students $39, children under six free; weekends, adults $59, juniors 7 through 18 and college students $49, seniors over 70 $10, children under six free H adult ski or snowboard package $35, junior/senior ski or snowboard package $25 M group lessons $45, private lessons $79/hour

SHAWNEE PEAK 119 Mountain Rd, Bridgton, ME › 207.647.8444 › shawneepeak.com › Offers top-to-bottom night skiing on 19 trails, plus one of the largest pipe/park combinations in New England.

A 1300 feet B 44 total; 25 percent novice, 45 percent intermediate, 30 percent expert F half-pipe, two terrain parks, and grommet-garden

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beginner’s park, all equipped with night lighting K 98 percent G one quad, two triple chairs, one double chair, one surface lift D Mon 9 am to 9 pm; Tues through Thurs 9:30 am to 8 pm; Fri 9 am to 10 pm; Sat 8:30 am to 10 pm; and Sun 8:30 am to 4:30 pm C weekdays adults $41, juniors/seniors $33; weekends and holidays adults $59, juniors/seniors $46 H ski or snowboard package $35 M private lessons $59/hour, $77/90 min, $150/three hours; first-timer packages and kids’ programs also available

SUGARLOAF 5092 Access Rd, Carrabassett Valley, Kingfield, ME › › sugarloaf.com › With the first double-black-diamond trails in New England, Sugarloaf had an early lead carving a niche out for itself with the core wintersports set. It’s a fun, challenging mountain with 54 miles of trails, three terrain parks, a superpipe, and separate snowboard-cross and skiercross courses designed by two-time Olympic snowboard-cross gold medalist Seth Wescott. Maine’s second-highest peak sees an average of 200 inches of snow each year and celebrates its 60th anniversary on January 8.

A 2820 feet B 146 total; 23 percent novice, 34 percent intermediate, 27 percent advanced, 16 percent very advanced F three terrain parks, one superpipe, one half-pipe, one snowboardcross course K 95 percent G two superquads, two high capacity quads, one triple chair, eight double chairs, and two surface lifts D weekdays 8:30 am to 3:50 pm; Sat and Sun opens at 8 am C regular season, adults $79, young adults $66, juniors/ seniors $55;

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SUNDAY RIVER 15 South Ridge Rd, Newry, ME › 207.824.3000 › sundayriver.com › Sunday River offers skiers and snowboarders eight interconnected peaks featuring a hearty selection of double black diamonds and open bowls among its 132 trails and terrain parks, so you never have to ride the same run twice. The mountain has done a good job of clustering trails together by skill level, so you shouldn’t run across (or over) beginners while stomping through White Heat’s moguls or tackling Locke Mountain runs. Additionally, a superpipe and four terrain parks provide ample opportunity for trick riders to jib, bonk, and air to their hearts’ content.

A 2340 feet B 132 total; 25 percent beginner, 32 percent intermediate, 27 percent expert, 17 expert only F four terrain parks, a super-pipe, and a mini-pipe K 92 percent G nine quad chairs (four high-speed detachables), four triple chairs, two double chairs, three surface lifts D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, and weekends 8 am to 4 pm; subject to change C adult $80; teen $68; junior/senior $55 H ski or snowboard package $39 M group lessons $35/90-min; private lessons $85/hour

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ARROWHEAD 14 Robert Easter Way, Claremont, NH › 603.542.7016 › arrowheadnh.com › Arrowhead Recreation Area is jointly run by the city of Claremont and the Arrowhead Recreation Club. It offers day and night skiing and

boarding, as well as tubing.

A 1210 feet B nine trails: one novice, five intermediate, three expert F terrain park K none, but infrastructure is being laid out for future snowmaking G three lifts D Fri 6:30 to 9 pm, Sat 10 am to 4 pm and 6 to 9 pm, Sun 10 am to 4 pm C adults $8, juniors $6; night skiing $6, $4 H ski or snowboard $12 M group lessons $11, private lessons $16

ATTITASH MOUNTAIN RESORT Rte 302, Bartlett, NH › 800.223.7669 › attitash. com › Attitash Mountain Resort and nearby Wildcat Mountain are now under the same ownership and offer two of New Hampshire’s larger ski areas for the price of one. Lift tickets are valid for use at both resorts and allow skiers and riders to enjoy the most vertical, value, and variety. Attitash Mountain Resort features some of New England’s most advanced snowmaking technology, excellent grooming, and après & on-snow events that are the essence of the skiing lifestyle. Call 877.677.7669 for snow conditions.

A Attitash, 1750 feet; Bear Peak, 1450 feet B 77 total; 33 percent novice, 47 percent intermediate, 20 percent expert F the terrain park on Thad’s Choice has more than 1700 feet of ramps, table tops, huge air hits, rails, boxes, & jibs K 98 percent G three quad lifts (two high-speed detachable), three triple lifts, three double lifts, and one surface lift D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, weekends and holidays 8:30 am to 4 pm C midweek adults $63, teens (13 through 18) $48, seniors (over 65) and juniors (6 through 12) $39;

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weekends/holidays adults $70, teens $55, seniors and juniors $50; multi-day and military discount tickets also available; ages 5 and under free ticket when accompanied by adult/guardian with valid ticket H skis and snowboard packages $36 M private lessons $79 an hour, $20 per additional person; group lessons adults $30, full-day childrens programs $79, half-day $59; lesson and rental packages available

BLACK MOUNTAIN 373 Black Mountain Rd, Jackson, NH › 800.698.4490 › blackmt. com › A family friendly ski area located in the Mount Washington Valley with activities, racing, and special events throughout the season.

Call 800.475.4669 for snow conditions.

A 1100 feet B 44 trails and glades; 34 percent novice, 32 percent intermediate, 34 percent expert F half-pipe and two terrain parks K 98 percent G one triple, one double, one platter-pull, one J-bar D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, weekends and holidays 8:30 am to 4 pm C weekdays, adults $35 and juniors/seniors $25 ($5 off after 12:30 pm); weekends, adults $45, juniors/ seniors/students $30 (33 percent off after 12:30 pm). Kids under six always ski free H ski or snowboard $30 adults, $24 juniors M group lesson package $79 for adults, $69 for juniors (includes lift ticket and rentals); private lessons $55/hour; semi-private lessons $50/hour

BRETTON WOODS RTE 302, Bretton Woods, NH › 800.314.1752 › brettonwoods.com › The Granite State’s largest ski area, historic Bretton Woods features four terrain parks and 101 trails on 434 acres, including intermittent tree runs and the Rosebrook Canyon Glades, a large free-riding area with patches of heavier maintenance than might typically be expected

of “backcountry” terrain, although it still provides plenty of opportunities to sit in the back seat as you plow through the powder.

Snowmaking covers 92 percent of the mountain, so you can ride morning, noon, and night whether Old Man Winter is doing his job or not. Season begins in mid-November.

A 1500 feet B 101 total; 25 novice, 29 intermediate, 31 black diamond, 16 double diamond F four freestyle terrain parks K 92 percent G five quads, two carpets, one double chair, one triple chair D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, and Sat and Sun 8 am to 4 pm; night skiing 4 to 9 pm on selected dates; subject to change C weekdays adults $70, teen $57, junior $43; weekends and holidays adults $78, teen $64, junior $49, senior $78 H adult package $41; seniors/juniors $30 M group lessons $35/90 min, private lessons $85/ hour

CANNON MOUNTAIN 9 Franconia Notch, Franconia, NH › 603.823.7771 › cannonmt.com › Cannon Mountain was the site of the first passenger tramway in North America and is the home of the New England Ski Museum.

Call 603.823.7771 for snow conditions.

A 2180 feet B 72 total; 15 novice, 34 intermediate, 23 expert F terrain park open to skiers and riders K 97 percent G one tram, three quad chairs, three triple chairs, one wonder carpet, one rope tow D Mon and Fri 9 am to 4 pm, weekends and holidays 8:30 am to 4 pm, closed Tues through Thurs C regular season: adults $68, college/teen $55, juniors/ seniors $45 H ski/snowboard rentals $41 for adults/teens/seniors,

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CRANMORE MOUNTAIN 1 Skimobile Rd, PO Box 1640, North Conway, NH › 800.SUN. NSKI › cranmore.com › This affordable resort tucked away in downtown North Conway offers more than 200 skiable acres, as well as seven dining options, kids’ programs, tubing, night skiing, and entertainment and special events all season long. Scheduled to open on Nov 26.

A 1200 feet, with W, NW, and SW exposures B 43 total, with seven glades: 36 percent novice, 44 percent intermediate, 20 percent expert F freestyle terrain park with quarter-pipe K 100 percent G one quad, one triple chair, two double chairs, two carpets, one rope tow D weekdays generally from 9 am to 4 pm, Sat and Sun open at 8:30 am and close at varying times C adult $59, teen $49, kids/seniors $39 H ski and snowboard packages $35 adults, $32 youth M group lessons $59 to $125, private lessons $109 to $209; prices vary by age and length

CROTCHED MOUNTAIN 615 Francestown Rd, Bennington, NH › 603.588.3668 › crotchedmountain.com › Crotched Mountain has the highest snow-production capacity per acre in New England and offers Midnight Madness skiing from 9 pm to 3 am on Fri and Sat nights A 875 feet B 21 total; seven novice, six intermediate, eight advanced F Crotched Mountain Park is equipped with its own quad chair, and Zero-G terrain park features its own triple chair K 100 percent G two quads, one triple chair, one double chair, one magic carpet D Mon through Sat 9 am to 9 pm; Sun 9 am to 5 pm.

Midnight Madness Fri and Sat 9 pm to 3 am from Dec 30 to Feb 25 C weekdays, adults $48, juniors/seniors $39; weekends, adults $59, juniors/seniors $48. Midnight madness is $42 H $29/day M group lessons $29, private lessons $70/hour

GRANITE GORGE SKI AREA 341 Rte 9, Keene, NH › 603.358.5000 › granitegorge.com › Features downhill racing, tubing, alpine, and 12 kilometers of cross country skiing.

A 525 feet B 20 trails: 30 percent novice, 40 percent intermediate, 30 percent expert F terrain park K 75% G one summit chair lift, one handle tow, one carpet lift D Wed and Thurs noon to 6 pm, Fri noon to 8 pm, Sat 10 am to 6 pm, Sun 10 am to 4 pm C adults $42, juniors and seniors $35, college with id $30 H skis or snowboards $35 M group lessons $25, private lessons $65

GUNSTOCK 719 Cherry Valley Rd, Gilford, NH › 603.293.4341 › gunstock.com › Located in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire, Gunstock has scenic views of Lake Winnipesaukee and the third-longest lift in the state. The Panorama High Speed Quad takes skiers over a mile to 1400 vertical feet in only six minutes. The tubing park has five chutes and is serviced by a hand tow lift. Backcountry cross-country ski tours and clinics are offered throughout the season, as well as skijoring (cross-country skiing with your dog).

The tentative opening date is Dec 3.

A 1400 feet B 55 total, 12 percent novice, 61 percent intermediate, 27 percent expert; night skiing includes 21 trails and five lifts F all trails, freestyle terrain park, and wall K 90 percent G one high-speed quad, two quads, two triples, one double, one conveyor, one handle tow D Mon 9 am to 4 pm; Tues through Thurs 9 am to 9

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ski guide :: listings pm; Fri 9 am to 10 pm; Sat 8:30 am to 10 pm; Sun 8:30 am to 4 pm C weekdays adults $63, teens $50, children/seniors $36; weekends and holidays adults $72, teens $59, children/seniors $46; night and half-day skiing prices are discounted; Mon tickets are two-for-one H ski/snowboard packages adults/teens $38, children/ seniors $30; ski boots only $20; snowboard boots only $20; skis only $28; poles only $5; helmets $10 M group day programs $75 to $95; private lessons $65/ hour; semi-private (two person) lessons $120/hour

KING PINE 1251 Eaton Rd, Madison, NH › 603.367.8896 › kingpine.com › King Pine’s gentle terrain is ideal for children and beginners, but thrill-seekers can ski “Pitch Pine,” one of New England’s steepest trails. Area includes a skating rink, indoor pool, nursery, tubing area, and fitness complex. The Nordic Center at King Pine features scenic trails on the grounds of Purity Spring Resort and through the pines of the New Hampshire Audubon Sanctuary. Opening day is Dec 10.

A 350 feet B 17 total; 44 percent novice, 31 percent intermediate, 25 percent expert F terrain park K 100 percent G three triple chairs, two rope tows, one magic carpet lift D Mon, Wed, and Thurs 9 am to 4 pm; Tues and Fri 9 am to 9 pm; Sat 8:30 am to 9 pm; Sun 8:30 am to 4 pm C adults $47; juniors/seniors $33; children 5 and under free; beginner lifts adults $35, juniors/seniors $22 H adults $34, juniors under 13 $26, children under six $16; snowboard package $34; half-day rentals available M group lessons $77 adults, $62 juniors; private lessons $68/hour, $29 per additional person

LOON MOUNTAIN 60 Loon Mountain Rd,

Lincoln, NH › 603.745.8111 › loonmtn.com › Call 603.745.8100 for snow conditions. The resort is located in the White Mountain National Forest. Season scheduled to begin on Nov 19.Loon’s Nordic and Adventure Center also hosts snowshoeing, ice-skating, indoor climbing, workshops, and Nordic rental/trail/lesson packages.

A 2100 feet B 61 total; 20 percent novice, 60 percent intermediate, 20 percent expert F six terrain parks, a 18’ Superpipe, and a mini-pipe K 97 percent G one gondala, three high-speed quads, one fixedgrip quad, one triple chair, three double chairs, two carpet lifts, and one handle tow D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm; weekends and holidays 8 am to 4 pm C weekdays $53, teens 13-18 $43, juniors 6-12 and seniors 65-79 $33; weekends $78, teens 13-18 $68, juniors 6-12 and seniors 65-79 $58 H ski/board packages $40, junior packages $28 M group lessons $80-$95; private lessons $99-$410

MOUNT SUNAPEE 1398 Rte. 103, Newbury, NH › 603.763.3500 › mtsunapee.com/mtsunapeewinter/index.asp › A family-owned and operated resort in southern New Hampshire.

Season runs from late November to mid-April.

Call 603.763.4020 for snow conditions.

A 1510 feet B 65 total; 17 novice, 32 intermediate, 16 exper F three terrain parks K 97 percent G three quads (one high-speed), two triple chairs, one double chair, three carpet lifts, and two surface lifts D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm; weekends and holidays 8 am to 4 pm; half day starts at noon C weekdays adults $70, young adults $56, juniors/ super seniors $48; weekends and holidays adults $74, young adults $59, juniors/super seniors $50;

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half-day and South Peak only tickets available H skis, boots and poles or snowboard and boots adults $41, juniors $30; skis or snowboard only adults $33, juniors $23; poles only $8; snowboard boots only $19; helmets $10, juniors $8; Telemark skis available M private lessons $95/hour, children aged 3-4 $65; group lessons adults $45/hour, children’s vary by age and ability

PAT’S PEAK 686 Flanders Rd, Henniker, NH › 603.428.3245 › patspeak.com › Call 888.728.7732 for snow conditions. Offers child care and kids’ programs, snowtubing, and après ski entertainment.

A 710 feet B 22 total and seven glades; 11 novice, four intermediate, seven advanced/expert F “Turbulence Park” terrain park, freestyle terrain park K 100 percent G two triple chairs, three double chairs, two carpet lifts, two handle tows and one J-bar lift D daily 8:30 am to 4 pm until Dec 24; hours extended after the holiday and vary throughout the season C weekdays adults $46, youth $43; weekends and holidays adults $58, youth $50 H skis, boots and poles or snowboard and boots adults $36, juniors/seniors $32, children $24; premium equipment $46 M group lessons $32; private lessons $75/hour

RAGGED MOUNTAIN 620 Ragged Mountain Rd, Danbury, NH › 603.768.3600 › raggedmountainresort.com › Call 603.768.3971 for snow conditions. Out-of-bounds skiing is available if natural snowfall permits. Season open Nov 26.

A 1250 feet B 50 total; 30 percent novice, 40 percent intermediate, 30 percent expert F four terrain parks, including a “learn to slide” begin-

ners park K 84 percent G one high-speed summit six-pack express, two triples, one double, one surface lift D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm; weekends and holidays 8:30 am to 4 pm C weekdays adults $62, teens $47, juniors/seniors 65+ $37, seniors 80+ free; weekends and holidays adults $71, teens $57, juniors/seniors 65+ $47, seniors 80+ free; half day tickets available H ski and snowboard packages adults $41, juniors $31; half-day ski or board $34; helmets $10 M private lessons $85/hour; $29 per additional person; group lessons start at $41

WATERVILLE VALLEY 1 Ski Area Rd, Waterville Valley, NH › 1.800.468.2553 › waterville. com › Assuming you don’t mind the two-hour drive from Boston, Waterville is a readily accessible mountain that provides exceptional bang for your buck. We should know: we skied here so often in high school, we should have owned stock in the mountain. Its 52 trails span 259 acres — all of which are covered by snow guns — and include terrain parks, a superpipe, and tree skiing. Admittedly, the lift lines can get a bit horrendous on the weekends, despite seven chairlifts, but that’s what mid-week lift tickets are for. Also, the two double-black-diamond trails here are mogul runs, so you’re either going to be totally stoked or your knees will hate you by lunchtime. Opens for the season on Nov 20.

Call 603.236.4144 for snow conditions.

A 2020 feet B 52 total; 20 percent novice, 60 percent intermediate, 20 percent expert; intermediate and expert glades and mogul runs F terrain park and superpipe K 100 percent G two high-speed quads, two triples, three doubles, five surface lifts

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Six-packS for the hardpack Five canned local craft brews to throw in the cooler for your next ski trip B y Mic ha el c . Wa l S h m wa l s h @ p h x .c o m

Brace yourself; I’m aBout to unveil the biggest revelation in the world of ski and snowboard since Gore-Tex: canned craft beer. Seriously, this will change the way you think about getting drunk after a day on the slopes. Truth is, the shift from glass to aluminum is in full swing and will have an effect on the way everyone consumes their finer-grade suds, but the revolution seems especially suited for perpetually mobile snow enthusiasts. Because it’s our duty to point you in the right direction, we’ve picked five New England–brewed selections that’ll slake your après-ski thirst.

cIsco Brewers :: whale’s tale Pale ale :: 5.60% aBV

Although brewed in Nantucket — probably the furthest thing from the mountains — Whale’s Tale is an exceptionally perfect post-ride beverage. It’s smooth, with a malty, orange-tinged taste, ideal for consumption while laid up in a reclined position. Just because it isn’t summer doesn’t mean the beer that you’re drinking can’t taste like it.

shIPyard :: exPort ale :: 5.00% aBV

The most wintery selection of the lot. Bearing a hearty caramel scent, Shipyard’s blonde ale is light and easy to drink while still maintaining a staunchly piney seasonal taste. And being the flagship beer of one of New England’s pre-eminent microbreweries, the Export Ale shouldn’t be too difficult to come by.

New eNglaNd BrewINg co. :: 668 the NeIghBor of the Beast :: 9.00% aBV

While the fact that New England Brewing Co. is based out of Connecticut might make this Belgian strong pale ale a bit tougher to seek out, we suggest that you do so at all costs. Besides being the beer with the greatest name in the history of beer, 668 lives up to its “strong” brand with a full-bodied imperial taste. Plus, at 9 percent ABV, we doubt it will take much more than two of these following a day of rigorous cardio to have you feeling nice.

Baxter BrewINg co :: stowaway IPa :: 6.90% aBV

Once you shake the initial shock of drinking an IPA from a can, you’ll be quick to realize that this is, in fact, one damn fine IPA. Revealing a hazy orange glow should you choose to dispense it into a glass, the Stowaway treads a bit closer to the sweet, fruity side of the IPA spectrum than the bitter, starchy end. It’s essentially a West Coast IPA brewed in Maine (lucky for us).

It’s not often that ‘Gansett gets lumped in with a discussion on craft beer, but this year-round offering is deserving of as much praise as we can levy in its direction. Their website recommends the Cream Ale as a “fitting a reward at the end of a hard day of yard work,” and the same rings true following a day on the mountain. P

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ski guide :: listings D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, and weekends 8 am to 4 pm C adults $73; teens $63; youth/seniors $53; Sun kids under 12 ski free; Mon and Fri tickets 2-for-1 H ski and snowboard packages adults $42, juniors $35, children under 6 $29; helmets $10 M group lessons $42; “Learn to Ski/Ride Program” $75/day; private lessons peak $99/hour, off-peak $79/hour

WHALEBACK SKI AREA 160 Whaleback Mountain Rd, Enfield, NH › 603.448.1489 › whaleback.com › This mountain focuses on extreme sports and offers night skiing, programs, camps, and events. They also have a pub at the base.

A 700 feet B 30 total; 60 percent or more are novice and intermediate; 21 trails equipped for night skiing F two terrain parks K 85 percent G one double chair, one magic carpet and 3 surface lifts D Tue and Wed 1 to 7 pm, Thurs and Fri 1 to 8 pm, Sat and Sun 9 am to 4 pm C weekdays $20, last two hours only $15; weekends and holidays adults $40, youth $30, children/seniors $25, last two hours only $15; half-day tickets available H ski and snowboard packages adults $30, youth/ seniors $25; boots only $20; skis and poles or snowboard only $20; helmets $10 M group lessons adults $29, youth $24; private lessons $65, $25 per additional person; lesson and rental packages available

WILDCAT MOUNTAIN Rte 16 , Pinkham Notch, Gorham, NH › 603.466.3326 › skiwildcat. com › Wildcat Mountain is 100% within the White Mountain National Forest across from Mount Washington and features legendary scenery, longer trails, and a season that goes well in to spring. Now under the same ownership as nearby Attitash Mountain Resort, lift tickets are valid for use at both resorts and allow skiers and riders to enjoy the most vertical, value, and variety. Call 1-888-SKI-WILD for snow conditions.

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A 2112 feet B 49 total: 25 percent novice, 45 percent intermediate, 30 percent expert F progression terrain park with snow elements, rails, & boxes K 90 percent coverage G one high-speed detachable summit quad, three triples D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm; weekends and holidays 8:30 am to 4 pm C midweek adults $63, teens (13 through 18) $48, seniors (over 65) and juniors (6 through 12) $39; weekends/holidays adults $70, teens $55, seniors and juniors $50; multi-day and military discount tickets also available; ages 5 and under free ticket when accompanied by adult/guardian with valid ticket H ski and snowboard packages $35 M private lessons $69 an hour, $20 per additional person; group lessons adults $35, full-day childrens programs $89, half-day $69; lesson and rental packages available

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BOLTON VALLEY 877.9BO.LTON › boltonvalley.com › This full-service resort offers child care, dining, a sports center, and evening activities.

A 1704 feet B 64 total; 27 percent novice, 47 percent intermediate, 26 percent expert F three terrain parks K 60 percent G two quad lifts, three double chairs, one surface lift D Mon through Tues 9 am to 4 pm; Wed through Fri 9 am to 8 pm; Sat 8:30 am to 8 pm; Sun 8:30 am to 4 pm C weekends $64, juniors and seniors $54; midweek $54 and $44 H adult ski or snowboard package $40, junior ski or snowboard package $29 M call for details

BROMLEY MOUNTAIN 1-63 Bromley Lodge Rd, Peru, VT › 802.824.5522 › bromley. com › A family friendly resort with varied terrain and lots of sunshine.

A 1334 feet B 46 trails and glades; 32 percent novice, 37 percent intermediate, 31 expert, four glades F three freestyle terrain parks and half-pipe K 84 percent G two quad chairs, four double chairs, two Mitey-Mites, one T-bar D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, weekends and holidays 8:30 am to 4 pm C midweek adults and teens $49, junior $39; weekend adults $67, teens $57, juniors $41; holiday adults $71, teens $61, juniors $47; non-holiday Sunday specials available H ski and snowboard packages $44, $34 for juniors M group lessons $49/90-min, private lessons $89/hour

JAY PEAK 4850 VT Route 242, North Troy, VT › 617.629.5383 › jaypeakresort.com › Less than seven miles from the Canadian border, Jay Peak offers more than 100 acres of offpiste terrain, the most in New England. An average annual snowfall of 379 inches makes a true backcountry riding experience possible, and it will only take one run bombing through the trees to understand why it’s far superior to carving S’s among the masses on any trail. Another defining feature: Jay Peak has Vermont’s only aerial tramway. Absolutely worth the drive, and easy to roll into a road trip to Montreal. The projected opening date is Nov 26.

A 2153 feet B 77 trails, glades, and chutes; 20 percent novice, 40 percent intermediate, 40 percent expert F four terrain parks and a half-pipe K 80 percent G one 60-passenger tram, three quad chairs, one triple chair, one double chair, one T-bar, one moving carpet for beginners D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, weekends 8:30 am to 4 pm C adults $75, juniors $55, senior $35, toddler $16 H ski or snowboard packages $50 for adults, $40 for juniors M TBD for 2012-2013

KILLINGTON 4763 Killington Rd, Killington, VT › 802.422.6200 › killington.com › Killington Mountain Resort and Ski Area, the largest winter-sports complex on the East Coast, boasts more than 87 miles of trails serviced by the region’s highest-capacity lift system, so you’ll spend more time on the slopes than in line for the gondola. With five ski and snowboard terrain parks — one of which is the largest snowboard park in the Northeast — and double black diamonds including the steepest mogul run in New England, Killington is a proving ground, as the annual rotation of contests the mountain hosts attests. One of them, the Winter Dew Tour, stops by on January 20–23. It’s usually the first mountain open in the fall and the last one to close in the spring.

A 3050 feet B 140 total; 28 percent novice, 33 percent intermediate, 39 percent expert F three terrain parks and a 430-foot superpipe K 80 percent G nine quads (five are high-speed), two gondolas, six surface lifts, three triple chairs, two double chairs D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, weekends 8:30 am to 4 pm (subject to change) C adults $86 on peak days and weekend, $79 midweek; young adults/seniors $73, $67; juniors/super seniors (70+) $60, $55 H skis or board $39, $43 peak days;juniors/seniors $26; $29 peak days M group lessons $49 off-peak $57 peak;private $99

MAD RIVER GLEN 62 Mad River Resort Rd, Waitsfield, VT › 802.496.3551 › madriverglen.com › This ski area at General Stark Mountain offers varied terrain and the country’s last surviving

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A 2037 feet B 45 total: 30% novice, 30% intermediate, 40% expert F no snowboarders allowed K 15 percent, but the area gets plenty of natural snow G three double chairs, one single chair, one handle tow D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, weekends and holidays 8:30 am to 4 pm C midweek $49; weekends adults $69, juniors and seniors $53; holidays adults $72, juniors and seniors $59 H ski packages $30, juniors $25 M private lessons $65, semi-private lessons (four people) $160 for two hours

MAGIC MOUNTAIN 495 Magic Mountain Access Rd, Londonderry, VT › 802.824.5645 › magicmtn.com › This area is known for its steep and challenging terrain, but beginners will find easier slopes on the mountain’s east side.

A 1700 feet B 40 total; 30 percent beginner, 30 percent intermediate, 40 percent expert F terrain park K 70 percent G two double chair, two surface lifts D Fri and Mon 9 am to 4 pm, Sat and Sun 8:30 am to 4 pm C weekday lifts, $39 adults, $35 teens, $25 juniors/seniors; weekends and holidays, $59 adults, $51 teens, $39 juniors/seniors H ski or snowboard package $35, $25 juniors M private lesson $105 for two hour lesson, group lessons $40 for two hours

MOUNT SNOW 39 Mount Snow Rd, West Dover, VT › 800.245.SNOW › mountsnow.com › Mount Snow includes four mountain areas: Main Mountain, North Face, Carinthia, and Sunbrook.

A 1700 feet B 80 total, including tree terrain: 15 percent novice, 70 percent intermediate, 15 percent expert F 12 terrain parks, one superpipe, one mini-pipe K 80 percent G 20 total, including three high-speed quad chairs, one fixed quad chair, seven triple chairs, four double chairs, one rope tow, four magic carpets D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, weekends 8 am to 4 pm C weekends and holidays, adults $83, youth and seniors $65; weekdays $75 and $58 H adults $39, juniors $30 M group lessons $48, private lessons $105 per hour

OKEMO 77 Okemo Ridge Rd, Ludlow, VT › 802.228.4041 › okemo.com › Family ski area with day care and extensive children’s ski programs.

Season begins in mid November.

A 2200 feet B 119 total; 32 percent novice, 36 percent intermediate, 32 percent expert F six terrain parks, one super-pipe, and one minihalf-pipe K 96 percent G nine quad chairs (five high-speed detachables), three triple chairs, seven surface lifts D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, and weekends 8:30 am to 4 pm C weekdays adults $77, teens and seniors $67, juniors and super seniors $52; weekends $84, $74, $57 H ski or board package $40 for adults, $29 juniors M group lessons $55, private lessons $110

PICO 73 Alpine Dr, Killington, VT › 802.422.6200 › picomountain.com › Also offers explorer and mountaineer programs. Season opens December 16 and runs through late March.

A 1967 feet B 52 total: 19 percent novice, 46 percent intermediate, 35 percent expert F half-pipe and alpine park K 75 percent G two quads, two triple chairs, two double chairs, one rope tow D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, and weekends 8:30 am to 4 pm C midweek adults $49, teens and seniors $42, juniors $34; weekends $62, $53; peak period $65, $55

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H adults $35, teens and seniors $28, juniors and super seniors $24 M half day group lesson $44, peak $49; one-hour private lesson $94

STOWE MOUNTAIN RESORT 5781 Mountain Rd, Stowe, VT › 800.253.4754 › stowe.com › The resort boasts 485 skiable acres and 39 total miles of skiing, as well as resort vacation packages and dog-sledding tours. The Stowe Mountain Lodge was recently named #9 on the Top 100 Hotels in the United States by Condé Nast Traveler as well as the Reader’s Choice Award.

In celebration, they’re offering two special packages this year for guests- the “Ski & Stay” package and the “Ski For Free” package.

A 2160 feet B 116 total; 16 percent novice, 59 percent intermediate, 25 percent expert F beginner park, mini-park, advanced-terrain park, and super-pipe K 80 percent G 13 total: one 10-person high-speed gondola, one eight-passenger gondola, three high-speed quad chairs, two triple chairs, four double chairs, and two surface lifts D daily 8 am to 4 pm C during prime season adults $84, seniors $73, juniors $63; during peak season $89, $77, $66; early/late season $59, $58, $48 H adults $43, children $34 M group lessons $108 for 2.5 hours; private lessons $145-$575

STRATTON SKI AND SUMMER RESORT Rte 30, Bondville, VT › 800.787.2886 › stratton. com › This family-friendly resort boasts nearly 600 acres of skiing and riding with a sports center, spa, and slopeside village. Seasons opens late November.

A 2003 feet B 92 total; 42 percent novice, 31 percent intermediate, 27 percent expert F four terrain parks and a half-pipe K 90 percent G one gondola, four high-speed six-passenger lifts, three quad chairs, one triple chair, one double chair, two surface lifts, four magic carpets D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, and weekends 8:30 am to 4 pm C midweek adults $76, teens and seniors $67, juniors and super seniors $59; weekends $87, $75, $65 H midweek $35; weekends $45 M group lessons $49-59, private lessons $89 to $114 per hour, depending on day

SUGARBUSH RESORT › Skiing on six mountain peaks, all within Sugarbush North and South.

A 2600 feet B 111 total; 20 novice, 45 intermediate, 35 expert F three terrain parks and a regulation half-pipe K 70 percent G seven quad chairs, two triple chairs, four double chairs, three surface lifts D weekdays 9 am to 4 pm, and weekends 8 am to 4 pm C call for details H call for details M rates vary by time of day, date, hours of lessons, and age

SUICIDE SIX 247 Stage Rd, South Pomfret, VT › 802.457.6661 › suicide6.com › Includes a cross-country ski area and sports center with pool, indoor tennis, squash courts, and Swedish massage. Suicide Six and the Woodstock Ski Touring Center are both part of the Woodstock Inn and Resort.

A 650 feet B 23 total; 30 percent beginner, 40 percent intermediate, 30 percent advanced F terrain park K 50 percent G two double chairs, one J-bar D daily 9 am to 4 pm C call for details H call for details M call for details

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Five Courses with:

Alex CrAbb And shish PArsigiAn oF AstA

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Alex, why did you want to open your own restaurant?

AC: I’d been cooking for As 17 years, since I was 47 M tA as 16, the last seven of Bost s ave , asta o Bost n :: them at L’Espalier. on.c oM Quite honestly, I’m friends with everyone, but I didn’t want to work for anyone else in the city Back in 2010, when chef Alex Crabb and his partner and front-of-the-house anymore. I felt I was always manager, Shish Parsigian, started thinking about opening a small Boston one of the most creative restaurant, they planned to call it “Princess Sparkle Power Pickle Bunny” — a list people in the kitchen, and of their favorite words. “We were reacting to the fashion of one-word restaurant I was ready; it was time names,” says Crabb, a vet of L’Espalier. “But our investors couldn’t get in the spirit. to capitalize on my own They wanted us to pick two names on the list. One of them kept referring to it as culinary point of view, build ‘Pirate Sharpie Pumpkin Head,’ which is completely different and didn’t seem funny my own team. to us at all.” Ultimately, they went with much less of a mouthful. With Asta slated to open by the end of the month, we checked in with Crabb and Parsigian to get a taste What’s the concept? of the new Bay Back spot — and learn how it got its name.

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tasting-menu restaurant — three-, five-, and eight-course menus. The three-course menu will be home-style food, perfect for dinner in the neighborhood. The five-course menu and the eight-course menu get more adventurous. I am trained in French style, but my food has evolved into a lighter, more flavor-specific cooking — less fireworks, less emphasis on butter, lemon juice, and truffle oil, more of carrots just pulled out of the ground, oysters, mini turkey pot pies. I love turkey thighs! Rich red color, with lots of connective tissue.

Why don’t we eat it more often? We also have a really, really open kitchen with two high-top food bars. My peers in the chef community are really excited.

Shish, what is your vision for Asta?

SP: Unfussy with a great neighborhood feel. I moved from Ann Arbor, Michigan, 12 years ago to help Rene Becker open Hi-Rise [Bread Company] and have been there ever since. I like good, unfussy food. Asta will be like being invited to someone’s home for a really good home-cooked meal. But Alex can also be adventurous. He’ll get a chance to push the boundaries in the five- and eight-course dinners.

Alex, you are just weeks away from opening your first restaurant.

Any kinks?

AC: No kinks. But stressful.

Every decision has to be made right this second.

I’ve had times where I wanted to kill myself. I keep reminding myself that I’m a chef, not a professional restaurant builder. P

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You did end up with a one-word name. What is Asta? Is it Italian?

AC: No, not Italian at all.

It really stands for Alex & Shish’s Taste Adventure.

But it also might be named after Nick and Nora’s dog, Asta, in all the Thin Man movies.

SP: Here’s really where the name came from. I grew up watching all the old blackand-white movies with my uncle and loved The Thin Man. Alex and I were in Chicago on an eating trip, meditating on names and writing down every name on every sign we passed. We went into the famous Pump Room in Chicago, and it had all these photographs of movie celebrities from the ’30s and ’40s. Alex wondered why one of them had a dog sitting at the dinner table.

I said, “That’s Asta, Myrna Loy’s dog.” We both said, “That’s a good name for a restaurant,” and Alex wrote it down on a napkin. The napkin made its way home and lived on our kitchen table, and the name stuck.

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Food & drink :: LiQUid

How do you like tHem apples?

Meet applejack’s cooler cousin B y L u k e O ’N eiL

the hangtown Dream at ArtBar

EvEry culturE hAs its traditional alcoholic beverage of choice, but it has little to do with taste. For the vast majority of recorded history, people simply drank what they had on hand; whatever crops were in abundance where they happened to live found their way into the still. For Colonial-era and early American settlers, that crop was apples.

By now you’ve probably at least heard of the apple brandy Laird’s Applejack, that most American of spirits — how it was George Washington’s tipple of choice, how William Laird first produced it in New Jersey in 1698, how his great-grandson Robert Laird secured America’s first distilling license in 1780, or how it’s used in the classic cocktail the Jack Rose, all of which has been thoroughly documented by spirits writers far and wide. Slightly lesser known is a

variation sold today as Laird’s Bottled in Bond Straight Apple Brandy, which has recently started to make its way onto the shelves of Boston bars.

The “Bottled in Bond” on its label refers to a set of rules outlined in the Bottled-in-Bond Act of 1897, which aimed to prevent the watering down of spirits — in other words, to help ensure a bottle labeled and sold as straight whiskey actually was straight whiskey, not a concoction flavored and colored with substances like, say, tobacco or acid. In this case, it amounts to an applejack that is 100 proof and 100 percent apple brandy, unlike the typical 80-proof applejack, which is blended with a neutral-spirit base. The result is a more assertive apple profile with a bit more heat, as well as subtle caramel and spice that makes it perfect for mixing in fall cocktails.

“the apples really come through. you get a fruity apple quality, but it’s still dry; that’s unique.”

“I like it a lot because I feel like it brings more depth than the original, being that it’s higher proof.

It seems to be smoother, with a lot more apple flavor coming out,” says Troy Clarke of Cambridge’s ArtBar, where the spirit is showcased in the Hangtown Dream, along with Pisco Portón, green-apple shrub, acid phosphate, and Green Chartreuse.

It’s an extraordinarily contemplative cocktail, with loads of green apple and grape, plus a slight tart pucker on the palate from the acid phosphate and vinegar that inspires introspection with each sip.

Darren Swisher of the South End’s Kitchen says the more widely available applejack is better suited for mixing shaken drinks with citrus, like the Jack Rose. “But for stirred, straight-spirit drinks, I think it comes up a little short,” he says. “You just get a better quality” with the bonded applejack, which takes 20 pounds of apples per bottle to produce. “The apples really come through. You get a fruity apple quality, but it’s still dry; that’s unique.”

He recommends trying it in his variation on the American Trilogy cocktail from New York City’s Little Branch bar. Instead of Rittenhouse, Swisher uses Old Overholt rye, which is lower proof and sweeter, making it better suited for mixing with the bonded applejack, orange bitters, and a rich sugar, either brown or Demerara. You might also try it in a Diamondback; originated by famed Seattle bartender Murray Stenson, it’s a surprisingly simple mix of bonded rye, applejack, and Green Chartreuse that yields a complex and lovely flavor.

For drinks like those, you’re going to need a truly assertive and complex spirit. The bonded applejack, which feels closer to a whiskey than a brandy, certainly fits the bill. “It’s almost a different spirit altogether,” Swisher says. “To use a bad fruit pun, it’s like apples and oranges.”

Or apples and other, more interesting apples. P

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On the Cheap

The BoaThouse I hIt the BOathOuse just two days before Hurricane Sandy hit the Eastern Seaboard. It was an unseasonably warm fall afternoon, but once inside the pleasantly dim bowels of the dark-wooded pub, it wasn’t hard to imagine battening down the hatches and hunkering down with a hoppy beer or five to wait out a Nor’easter. It would be sort of like The Perfect Storm, minus Mark Wahlberg and all the carnage at sea.

The new pub is owned by the same Irish brothers who own Daedalus next door, though you wouldn’t know it from the quaint Nantucket-ready décor: an old nautical compass here, a weathered buoy there. But the menu is Irish-American, offering some dependable comfort-food fare, from fish ’n’ chips to truffle fries and mac ’n’ cheese with Gruyère. The Boathouse might be more of a great brew

pub than a great eatery (for a small bar, they have an impressive craft-beer selection), but nothing is priced above $15, which more than softens the blow of food that’s hearty if somewhat uninspired and under-seasoned.

That latter descriptor can be applied to the popcorn chicken ($7), juicy bites of white meat that, while perfectly fried, were oddly flavorless. That must be what the two dipping sauces — a spicy barbeque and a cool chipotle ranch — were for.

When I inadvertently upped the flavor ante by spilling my Full Sail IPA into the basket of chicken whilst gesturing at the aforementioned décor, our bartender/ waitress was quick with a roll of paper towels. I should disclose that I continued to eat the beer-logged (beer-battered?) chicken bites and polished those suckers right off.

Also notable were the fish tacos ($7), two

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soft tortillas stuffed with lightly battered tilapia, cabbage, and onions in a zesty chipotle sauce. One IPA-spattered friend ordered the pulled-chicken quesadilla ($8), a savory, markedly inventive take on the ’dilla, which we all agreed was the highlight of a generally pleasant meal. So reads this captain’s log: simple, satisfying food that complements an afternoon spent throwing back good beers in what should prove to be a solid addition to the Square’s pub scene.

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Chew Out SAtuRDAY 10 MOONLIGHT

tueSDAY 13 LOVIN’ THANKSGIV-

If you’re a mead fan, welcome to the club. If you’re under the impression that you’re not a mead fan, we’re going to assume that you just haven’t found your golden-hued soul mate yet. Regardless of your current affinity for honey wine, swing by the Urban Grape in Chestnut Hill to try some of New Hampshire’s finest. Mead is the ultimate holed-up-inthe-apartment-in-winter drink (and we could have gone for some during Ms. Sandy now that we think about it), so build up your stash now. Winter is coming!

One would hope that the beauty of a turkey-and-gravy sandwich the day after Thanksgiving isn’t lost on anyone. That said, if you’re not looking for a nuked replica of your T-day feast every day into early December, it might be time to find new ways to use all those leftovers. Lovin’ Spoonfuls founder Ashley Stanley and BBQ badass Tiffani Faison will school you on how to squeeze every last drop out of the year’s biggest food holiday. Keep those expandable pants in the rotation.

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OH, SHERRY DARLING!: TUESDAY NIGHT SHERRY TASTINGS

Wine pairing just got a little more interesting: Tres Gatos, the only place where you can munch on tapas with a new LP on your lap, just introduced Tuesday-night sherry flights.

So skip your standard Rioja and put back some Grant “La Garrocha” fino with boquerones and olives and some El Maestro Sierra amoroso with Shropshire blue cheese, to name a couple sample pairings. For $15, you get three one-ounce pours paired with three pinchos. Salud, mis amigos.

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Settle down. This event does not call for your birthday suit, but the good folks at UpStairs on the Square are promising something almost as good as dining au naturel: knock-out natural wines from Austria, Germany, and France. Chef Susan Regis and wine director Matt Reiser have joined forces with grape guardian and evangelistic wine personality Terry Theise for a night of good food, good company, and most likely a few cases of good-natured wine mouth.

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MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK :: The emo punk-pop veterans are on tour in support of their fifth studio album, Go, at the Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston :: November 9 @ 9 pm :: $23 :: ticketmaster.com

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CHUCHO VALDÉS QUINTET :: November 29 at Berklee Performance Center, Boston :: tickets start at $40 :: celebrityseries.org “A CHANTICLEER CHRISTMAS” :: November 30 at Jordan Hall, Boston :: tickets start at $35 :: celebrityseries.org HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY PRESENTS 159TH ANNUAL HANDEL MESSIAH :: November 30–December 1 at Symphony Hall, Boston :: $20-$78 :: handelandhaydn.org JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION PRESENTS “NEW ENGLAND CELEBRITIES TACKLE CANCER GALA” :: December 3 at Gillette Stadium, Foxboro :: $150 :: JAFGala.org MEMPHIS :: December 11-23 at the Colonial Theatre, Boston:: $34-$129 :: broadwayinboston.com “BOSTON BAND CRUSH HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR” WITH FREEZEPOP + SIDEWALK DRIVER + THE FIELD EFFECT + EMILY PEAL & THE BAND OF SKINNY MEN :: December 14 at Brighton Music Hall, Allston :: $12:: ticketmaster.com “THE OLDJACK HOLIDAY SHOW” WITH OLDJACK + GENTLEMEN HALL + MELLOW BRAVO + PARLOUR BELLS :: December 15 at the Sinclair, Cambridge :: $13 :: boweryboston.com CHURCHILL :: December 19 at T.T. the Bear’s Place, Cambridge :: $10 :: ticketweb.com “SPANK! THE FIFTY SHADES PARODY” :: January 12 at the Wilbur Theatre, Boston :: $47.75 :: ticketmaster.com

Snark and satire at its finest, the NYC-based comedy trio known as UNITARD, a/k/a Mike Albo (former NY Times columnist), Nora Burns 9 (of comedy troupe the Nellie Olesons), and David Ilku (of comedy duo the Dueling Bankheads), take potshots at culture in their much-lauded variety show NEW AND ABUSED, and it’s absurdly hilarious. Nobody and nothing is sacred in the bitingly witty show — a variety of monologues and sketches — which enjoys a limited engagement at Oberon, starting tonight.

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Oberon, 2 Arrow St, Cambridge :: November 9 + 11 @ 8 pm :: $25 :: cluboberon.com

RA RA RIOT :: January 26 at the Paradise Rock Club, Boston :: $20 :: ticketmaster.com COREY SMITH :: January 26 at the Sinclair, Cambridge :: $20 :: boweryboston.com CASTLE :: January 28 at O’Brien’s, Allston :: $10 :: boweryboston.com “AN ACOUSTIC EVENING WITH COMPANY OF THIEVES” :: January 30 at Brighton Music Hall, Allston :: $15 :: ticketmaster.com SHOVELS & ROPE :: February 1 at the Sinclair, Cambridge :: $12 :: boweryboston.com GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC :: February 8 at House of Blues, Boston :: $29.50-$45 :: livenation.com AER :: February 23 at the House of Blues, Boston :: $20 :: livenation.com

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Gone are the days when street art was not recognized as such, when graffiti was 10 mere defacement. Today, some of the finest, most thoughtful, and thought-provoking art can be found on the streets. The Fourth Wall’s new exhibit “FEAR NO ART 4” is a celebration of that art form, bringing together both established and famed graffiti artists and those yet unknown — including Slick, Cern-One, and Augustine Kofie — from across the country in one unique exhibit. It opens with a reception this evening.

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Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Ave, Boston :: Reception 7-10 pm; Through December 3 :: free :: fourthwallproject.com

Do the clothes really make the man? Or, rather, the costumes the dancer? You’ll find out tonight at FASHIONLESS DANCE when five new 0 1 dances are premiered, first with the dancers in their plain rehearsal clothes, and then again in Act II in elaborate costumes created by local designers including Solé Nazare, Deborah Parker, Erika Carey, and Shaniece Cooper. You might be surprised by what a difference a little glitz and glamour can make. The two-night only performance is a benefit for Dance Complex costume cooperative Betty’s Closet.

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Dance Complex, 536 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: November 10 @ 8 pm + November 11 @ 7 pm :: $20; $18 students :: dancecomplex.org

When a ton of major labels stop producing CDs entirely at the end of the year (don’t laugh!), will we soon be seeing compact disc fairs popping up alongside the likes of today’s SOMERVILLE VINYLPALOOZA? Only time will tell, but for now you can score old CDs alongside rare records, 8-tracks, 45s, and more at the third annual collectors meet-up.

The palooza is set to feature more than 60 tables from dealers across NE, with DJs spinning all day long.

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holiday Inn, 30 Washington St, Somerville :: 10 am to 4 pm :: $5 :: newenglandrecordcc.com

An environmental warning before people even knew there was an environment, Robert Gordon’s IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA (1955) features a giant octopus provoked by H-bomb testing into destroying San Francisco. It makes sense when you see it, especially when University of Chicago professor Michael LaBarbera explains the monster’s biology at this session of the Science on Screen series at the Coolidge.

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Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 harvard St, Brookline :: 7 pm :: $10; $8 students :: 617.734.2501 or coolidge.org

It should come as a surprise to 11 no one that tonight’s NAS and MS. LAURYN HILL show sold out almost immediately after tickets went on sale. The two hip-hop legends have been in the game since . . . well, since before Hill added that Ms. to her name, for one.

Hill is along for the ride on Nas’s Life Is Good/Black Rage tour for his latest album, Life Is Good. The disc, which includes a cameo from Hill, finds the Queens rapper returning to his street poet roots.

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Free events BOSTON CONSeRvATORY 11Th ANNUAL NeW MUSIC FeSTIvAL: “FOCUS UNDeR FORTY” :: Five concerts of contemporary chamber music all by composers under the age of 40 :: Studio 401, 31 hemenway, Boston :: November 8-16 :: bostonconservatory.edu/performances

Ice Cold, pany (tastings are free with purchase of book) :: Porter Square Books, 25 White St, Cambridge :: November 9 @ 7 pm :: portersquarebooks.com

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ALL CHANGE PLEASE BOOK LAUNCh :: Event for new novel from Everett-born author Danielle West (professional MMA fighter and former go-go dancer for Boston punk bands), written entirely on her Blackberry over seven years :: Jabberwocky Bookshop, 50 Water St, Newburyport :: November 9 @ 7 pm :: 978.465.9359

BRIGhT LIGhTS: BLACK MARIA FILM FeSTIvAL :: ArtsEmerson presents the finale of the 31st Black Maria Film and Video Festival with three works by Emerson faculty and three additional works by Boston area filmmakers including animator Karen Aqua :: Bright Family Screening Room, Paramount Center, 559 Washington St, Boston :: November 8 @ 7 pm :: artsemerson.org

ReIGNWOLF + MARC PINANSKY :: Local artist Pinansky opens for the Canadian singer-songwriter :: Café 939, 939 Boylston St, Boston :: November 10 @ 8 pm :: berklee.edu

“ReAD, eAT, DRINK LOCAL” :: Discussion of John Holl’s book Massachusetts Breweries and beer tastings from Cambridge Brewing Com-

SAND ReCKONeR :: Psych rock; the New Lights open :: ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: November 12 @ 10 pm :: zuzubar.com

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When the owners of Deep Ellum opened a taquería next door, we wondered if it could live up to its big sister’s rep. But Lone Star Taco Bar quickly established itself as one of the best purveyors of delicious, cheap Mexican food in town. And don’t even get us started on the cocktails — the El Diablo could make even the most devout turn to the dark side.

479 Cambridge St :: 617.782.8226 :: lonestar-boston.com

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Speaking of cheap eats, you won’t find a cheaper breakfast in town than Twin Donuts.

Just look for the big

signature sign; it heralds no-frills dinertype fare served up hot and fast. They’ve got table service, but your best bet for getting eggs and bake-y in your stomach stat is to order at the counter.

501 Cambridge St :: 617.254.9421

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There’s a reason the Silhouette is consistently nominated as one of the best dive bars in town in our Best Poll. Actually, there are a few. Namely, cheap pitchers, free popcorn, pool, and darts. But mostly the dirt-cheap beer.

Don’t feel like waiting in the line that forms outside the Model come 11 pm? Pop on down to the ’Sill.

200 Brighton Ave :: 617.206.4565

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We debated including Urban Renewals on this list simply because we don’t want all the bargain-savvy clotheshorses in town competing for the goods.

Best-kept secret in vintage shopping no more, Urban Renewals is the place to go to buy or sell gently used duds.

Cash only and no dressing rooms, but it’s worth it to score a piece you won’t find at that other Urban.

122 Brighton Ave :: 617.783.8387

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When recordheads got word that Looney

Tunes was closing down last spring, they were understandably miffed.

Luckily, the Back Bay record store found a lnew home in Store 54, merging with the funky thrift/art/collectible shop to form one superstore of awesomeness. The new and improved Store 54 (in the basement of the old firehouse) is your one-stop shop for everything from handmade guitars to old-school kids’ games to rare LPs to unique home goods. And so much more. Plus, the store sometimes moonlights as a music venue 16 Harvard Ave :: no landline . . . yet

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Since we last spoke, you’ve remained mayor of seven different locations designated as “Allston.”

What’s the deal? The Meet the Mayor interview with me came out [last year], and all of a sudden people were like, “Hey, he shouldn’t be mayor of Allston.

I should be mayor of Allston!” More people were ousting me for a day. For a while, I had to have a spreadsheet to keep track, because if people got frustrated that I kept re-taking the mayorship, they would just start their own “Allston” location.

Remember when they found those naked, crying frat pledges wandering around Ashford Street while covered in condiments? That sounds like a good party. I’m sorry I missed that. I had a friend who lived on Ashford for a while. We were hanging out in the kitchen, and it was one of those nights where there was a party at every other house. All these strangers were just letting themselves in going, “This party sucks!” not knowing that we were not, in fact, having a party.

Would Mr. Butch be proud of the current state of Allston? I don’t think he would notice. Allston is just sort of life’s vicious cycle repeating itself every semester. _BArry ThO mpSON

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Since Rock City is one of Boston’s most creatively fueled ’hoods — about every other band we love right now got their start in some dank Allston basement — it should come as no surprise that Allston Arts District Open Studios, now in its 26th year, is always a weekend chock-full of cool art and new ideas.

Participating venues and artists this year include orchard Skateshop, Firefly Press, My Urban kitchen, and so many more.

November 10-11 from noon to 6 pm :: 1 Braintree St + 119 Braintree St + 20 Rugg Rd :: free :: allstonarts.org

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Don’t miss Boston Band Crush’s Holiday Spectacular next month, which features a bunch of bands we dig, including the Field Effect and Freezepop.

Plus, we’re sort of hoping Big Red shows up in a Santa Suit.

December 14 @ 8 pm :: 158 Brighton Ave :: $12 :: brightonmusichall.com

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one thing we like: burgers. Another thing we like: dollah dollah bills, yo. you can get one for the other at $1 Burger Night, every Monday at the Avenue. That’s a lot of beef for your buck. Chase that burger down with a side of the Ave’s sweet potato tots, and we guarantee you won’t leave unsatisfied. Who said Mondays have to suck?

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2012 SKI & SNOWBOARD EXPO › Vendors including East Coast Alpine and Eastern Boarder, skateboard competition, live music, ski trivia, Skyriders trampoline show, and more › Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Blvd, Boston › $12 › 617.385.5000 or bewisports.com/expos/boston FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL › Lineup of odd and hilarious videos salvaged from thrift stores across North America › 9:30 pm › Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.876.6837 or foundfootagefest.com HOLIDAY SHOPPING EVENT › Hosted

by TV Diner starlet Jenny Johnson, with discounts, cocktails, treats, and more › 6 pm › Ted Baker London, 201 Newbury St, Boston › Free; RSVP to event@tedbaker.com › 617.450.8339 or tedbaker.com OPEN HOUSE › See original work, share some refreshments, and meet new folks at the newly opened space › 5 pm › Romula Art Gallery, 27 Fleet St, Boston › Free › 617.227.1715

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MORTIFIED › Bring journals, poems, letters, lyrics, home movies, or schoolwork and share the contents in front of total strangers › 10:30 pm › Oberon, 2 Arrow St, Cambridge › $15 › 866.811.4111 or americanrepertorytheater.org/oberon THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE › Floral homage to world class gardens and garden art › Fri-Sun 9 am › Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Dr, Boylston › Free with admission: $12; $9 seniors › 508.869.6111 or towerhillbg.org 2012 SKI & SNOWBOARD EXPO › See listing for Thurs

sATURdAY 10

“RED BULL: PLAY AND DESTROY”› Student vs. Student v Student iPod DJ battle with “battlegories” like “Best Boston Song” and more › Sat-Sun 8 pm ›Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston> Free with RSVP › redbullplayanddestroy.com 2012 SKI & SNOWBOARD EXPO › See listing for Thurs THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE › See listing for Fri

sUNdAY 11

FAMILY BARN DANCE › With Marcie Van Cleave calling and live music from Oh, CONTRAire! › 3 pm › Parish Center for the Arts, 10 Lincoln St, Westford › $5 › 978.692.6333 or westford.com/pca

2012 SKI & SNOWBOARD EXPO › See listing for Thurs THROUGH THE GARDEN GATE › See listing for Fri URBAN VINTAGE BAZAAR › See listing for Sat

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BIG QUIZ THING › Ultimate multimedia test of useless knowledge with a grand prize of $200 › 8 pm › Oberon, 2 Arrow St, Cambridge › Free › 866.811.4111 or › cluboberon.com

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Kick-off show Friday November 9 @ SMFA Bookfair November 10-11 @ Simmons College

The Boston Anarchist Bookfair isn’t just for anarchists — anyone interested in radical activism, anti-authoritarianism, or alternatives to the mainstream will find something intriguing amidst the dozens of publishers, collectives, organizations, and distros traveling from all over the world to table. The bookfair’s agenda also includes workshops, skillshares, and films. On Saturday, workshops range from the role of culture in revolutionary movements, to graffiti in Mexico City, to radical hip-hop. On Sunday, workshops discuss fostering safer spaces, the case of Tarek Mehanna, computer security, the history of Boston’s anti-authoritarian movement, eco-defense, a queer workshop, and more. The whole weekend-long fest kicks off on Friday night with a show at the School of Museum of Fine Arts, with jazzy hip-hop by Spider Cider, riot-folk songs by Evan Green, folk-punk from Jake and the Infernal Machine, and more. For more info, visit bostonanarchistbookfair.org.

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“GALLERY NIGHT TUESDAYS” › Showcase of artwork from a different local artist each week › 6 pm › Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St, Boston › 617.224.4000 or libertyhotel.com “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

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2012 GEORGE W. COLEMAN AWARD › Honoring Callie Crossley, with master of ceremonies Janet Wu › 8 pm › Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St, Cambridge › $75-$100 › 617.395.7757 DANCE FREEDOM › On-going participatory with music played by rotating DJs in a smoke and alcohol free environment › 7:30 pm › First Church, Congregational, 11 Garden St, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.547.2724 or dancefreedom.com MILLION DOLLAR WOMEN SYMPOSIUM › With focus on women who have risen through the ranks to become the presidents or CEOs of companies with multimillion dollar annual revenues › 8 am › Hawthorne Hotel, 18 Washington Sq, Salem › $50 › 978.542.7528 or enterprisectr.org

THURsdAY 15

DO THE MATH › Production presented

by Bill McKibben and 350.org bringing together musicians, artists and voices from across the movement to heal climate change › 7 pm › Orpheum Theatre, 1 Hamilton Pl, Boston › $10 › 617.482.0650 or › eventbrite. com/event/4357555566 MALDEN ARTS SALON › With Shen Yun Performing Arts Company presenting a preview of their choreographed dance and orchestral compositions › 6:30 pm › Malden Public Library, 36 Salem St, Malden › Free › 781.324.0218 or maldenarts.com

more at thephoenix.com/events DIA DE LOS MUERTOS › Music from Mariachi Multicultural de America, traditional Mexican dance, Calavera face and body painting, Oaxacan wood-carvers, and more › 7 pm › Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second Street, Cambridge › $15 › 617.577.1400 or multiculturalartscenter.org

Get details on this and dozens more haunted events online!

For tons more to do, point your phone to m.thePhoenix.com

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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” › 8:30 pm › 2 Center Plaza, Boston › 617.742.5577 or › classicirish.com/kinsale_about.html LANSDOWNE PUB › “Live Band Karaoke” › 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 WAVE SPORTS PUB › “Karaoke & Music videos With DJ Todd” › DJ Todd › Thurs-Sat 9 pm › 411 Waverly Oaks Rd, Waltham › 781.894.7014

FRidAY 9

HONG KONG @ FANEUIL HALL › “Karaoke” › See listing for Thurs WAVE SPORTS PUB › “Karaoke & Music videos With DJ Todd” › See listing for Thurs

sATURdAY 10

HONG KONG @ FANEUIL HALL › “Karaoke” › See listing for Thurs WAVE SPORTS PUB › “Karaoke & Music videos With DJ Todd” › See listing for Thurs

sUNdAY 11

HONG KONG @ FANEUIL HALL › “Karaoke” › See listing for Thurs ROSEBUD DINER › Karaoke at the Rosebud › Sun + Tues 8 pm › 381 Summer St, Somerville › 617.666.6015 or rosebuddiner.com SISSY K’S › “Karaoke Night” › See listing for Thurs

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FIRE + ICE › “Karaoke Night” › 9 pm › 205 Berkeley St, Boston › 617.482.FIRE HONG KONG @ FANEUIL HALL › “Karaoke” › See listing for Thurs SISSY K’S › “Karaoke Night” › See listing for Thurs

TUEsdAY 13

HONG KONG @ FANEUIL HALL › “Karaoke” › See listing for Thurs JACQUE’S CABARET › “Mizery Loves Karaoke” › Karaoke hosted by Mizery › 10:30 pm › 79 Broadway, Boston › No cover › 617.426.8902 or jacquescabaret.com ROSEBUD DINER › Karaoke at the Rosebud › See listing for Sun SISSY K’S › “Karaoke Night” › See listing for Thurs

WEdNEsdAY 14

AN TUA NUA › “Karaoke Night” › 9:30 pm › 835 Beacon St, Boston › 617.262.2121 HENNESSY’S › “Live Band Karaoke” › 9 pm › 25 Union St, Boston › 617.742.2121 or › somerspubs.com/hennessys_history HONG KONG @ FANEUIL HALL › “Karaoke” › See listing for Thurs SISSY K’S › “Karaoke Night” › See listing for Thurs

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HONG KONG @ FANEUIL HALL ›“Karaoke Night” › See listing for Thurs KINSALE › “Karaoke Night” › See listing for Thurs LANSDOWNE PUB › “Live Band Karaoke” › See listing for Thurs SISSY K’S ›“Karaoke Night” › See listing for Thurs WAVE SPORTS PUB › “Karaoke & Music videos With DJ Todd”› See listing for Thurs THEPHOENIX.cOm/EvENTs :: 11.09.12 87

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ShotS Seen round the world “kennedy to kent State: Images of a Gen-

eration,” the Worcester Art Museum’s riveting survey of iconic news photos from the election of John F. Kennedy to the resignation of Richard Nixon, is one of the most depressing shows I’ve ever seen.

Oh, there are bright spots, like photos of the Beatles at play, Ken Kesey’s Magic Bus, Neil Armstrong strolling the moon, and Sophia Loren eyeing Jayne Mansfield’s remarkable, ahem, attributes. But overall, this is the ’60s as the inferno of optimism, as the graveyard of liberal idealism.

Track it gunshot by gunshot. Cecil Stoughton photographs Lyndon Johnson being sworn in as president in Dallas in 1963, in the tightly packed cabin of Air Force One, with Jackie Kennedy, stricken and stained with the murdered JFK’s blood, at his side. Ronald Haeberle records massacred Vietnamese piled up at My Lai. Joseph Louw documents men pointing toward the assassin as Martin Luther King Jr. lies fatally bleeding on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in 1968. John Paul Filo catches a teenager screaming over her friend shot dead when National Guardsmen opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State in 1970.

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“In a few seconds it was over and I began to photograph the wounded and dying,” said Howard Ruffner, another Kent State photographer.

“People kept saying, ‘No pictures, don’t take any pictures,’ but I had to. I knew pictures were the only way to tell this story.”

These photos, all given to the museum by collector David Davis, are time capsules from the last great era of photojournalism. The iconic images of our past decade, like the hooded Iraqi torture victim at Abu Ghraib, are more often than not by “amateurs.” Photography — fine-art photography in particular, but photojournalism, too — is no longer so intrepid or ambitious. We are poorer for it.

Another way of seeing these photos is as the story of the conservative 1960s backlash. The rise of the American right since then is often described as a triumph of ideology and organization. But the left was fractured by civil rights and Vietnam. Its leadership was decimated by assassination, threats of jail (see: the Chicago Seven), and abuse of power by Nixon and company. You might say the right won power the old-fashioned way: eliminating its opponents.

_G r e G Cook

“KENNEDY TO KENT STATE” :: Worcester Art Museum, 55 Salisbury St, Worcester :: Through February 3 :: 508.799.4406 or worcesterart.org

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In that rollicking era of Indiana Jones archeology in the 1930s, the Worcester Art Museum partnered with Princeton, Harvard, and the Louvre to dig up the ancient Roman trading city of Antioch in what is now Turkey.

The museum scored big in 1936, shipping home a sixth-century mosaic weighing some 12,500 pounds, unearthed from the floor of a Roman villa that was destroyed in a 526 earthquake. The institution calls it “the largest floor mosaic brought to America.”

The 20-foot-square limestoneand-marble design depicts men in tunics fighting lions, bears, boars, deer, and leopards in a free-for-all — a pastime of the ancient one percent. It’s all action and blood between stately fruit trees. A lioness pounces on a fallen swordsman only to be speared by a caped horseman.

A desperate tiger and her two cubs chase a WorCester grinning rider waving a third Hunt striped cub MosaiC in his hand. A Worcester Art lion crumples Museum, 55 from a huntSalisbury St, Worcester er’s arrow.

On view in 508.799.4406 or the museum’s worcesterart.org Renaissance Court for seven decades, the Worcester Hunt Mosaic remains one of the most complete and dramatic examples of its kind in the Americas — a testament to the moxie that used to define the museum and the city. It should be a landmark. But around Boston it’s almost like secret knowledge.

Spread the word. _GC

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tHURsDAY 8

DANIEL KLEIN › Travels With Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life reading › 7 pm › Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline › Free › 617.566.6660 or brooklinebooksmith.com MATTEA KRAMER › A People’s Guide to the Federal Budget reading › 7 pm › Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, 25 White St, Cambridge › Free › 617.491.2220 or portersquarebooks.com TEHILA LIEBERMAN AND PETER BROWN › Venus in the Afternoon and A Bright Soothing Noise readings › 7 pm › Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.661.1515 or harvard.com JAMES REDFEARN › The Rising at Roxbury Crossing reading › 6 pm › Parker Hill Branch Library, 1497 Tremont St, Boston › Free › 617.427.3820

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InformatIon, please In the modern world of Wiki and the Interweb, if you’re going to produce an actual print-edition dictionary of pop music, you’d better frontload it with attitude.

After all, all those “facts” are available elsewhere. Dylan Jones knows this, and his Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music: From Adele to Ziggy, the Real A to Z of Rock and Pop is proudly idiosyncratic, wise-ass, random, and even downright uninformative. Jones — currently editor of British GQ, with a long history of music books and journalism behind him — offers respect for the standard music encyclopedia, but he also finds them “obsessively objective and pathologically comprehensive.”

No worries here — Jones skips through pop-music history as he sees fit: 75 words for Little Richard, 1800 for Living Colour, 116 on a combined Joy Division/New Order article, 6000 on Dean Martin. And why not? Dean Martin was the most important popular singer of Jones’s childhood. This book

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is nothing if not personal — Nick Hornby on steroids. So one article begins: “The first time I met David Bowie, he asked me for a light.” It’s the first time he met Bowie, before becoming a journalist.

Later, we’ll get bits of Madonna and others culled from old interviews.

So yes, this book is as much about Jones as about his subjects, and the disproportions are part of its wit (a two-line admiring entry for Kraftwerk). His reminiscences are sometimes spiked with poetic insight — those old Dean Martin 7-inches at his parents’ house “evoked a world of snap brim hats and patent leather booze.” And the entry on Dylan’s “Blind Willie McTell” even gets down to a good ol’ rock-crit close reading. But I think the future of this book is in the e-book edition, where, we’re told, there are hyperlinks to the artists’ pages on iTunes. _Jon G ar e lick

THE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF POPULAR MUSIC :: By Dylan Jones :: Picador :: 912 pages [paper] › $25

DAMIEN ECHOLS IN CONVERSATION WITH JOSHUA RUBENSTEIN › Life After Death dicsussion › 7 pm › Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.661.1515 or harvard.com READ LOCAL, DRINK LOCAL WITH THE CAMBRIDGE BREWING COMPANY AND JOHN HOLL › Massachusetts Breweries discussion and tasting › 7 pm › Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, 25 White St, Cambridge › Tasting free with purchase of book › 617.491.2220 or portersquarebooks.com

sAtURDAY 10

“WORD-N-RHYTHM” › BBQ, open-mic poetry, and live music › Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St, Cambridge › $5 donation › 617.354.5287 or outoftheblueartgallery.com

Church of Cambridge, 3 Church St, Cambridge › $5 › harvard.com JANNA MALAMUD SMITH › An Absorbing Errand: The Way to Creative Mastery reading › 7 pm › Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, 25 White St, Cambridge › Free › 617.491.2220 or portersquarebooks.com JUDITH STEINBERGH, BARBARA HELFGOTT HYETT, AND J. KATES › Various poetry readings › 7 pm › Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline › Free › 617.566.6660 or brooklinebooksmith.com

WeDnesDAY 14

ALISON DAGNES › A Conservative Walks Into a Bar: The Politics of Political Humor reading › 7 pm › Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline › Free › 617.566.6660 or brooklinebooksmith.com EVE LAPLANTE › Marmee & Louisa: The Untold Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Mother reading › 7 pm › Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.661.1515 or harvard.com LEDA SCHUBERT › Monsieur Marceau: Actor without Words reading › 7 pm › Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, 25 White St, Cambridge › Free › 617.491.2220 or portersquarebooks.com RUDOLPH E. TANZI › Super Brain discussion › 7 pm › Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.489.0519 or harvard.bkstore.com

tHURsDAY 15

JOYCE E. CHAPLIN › Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit reading › 7 pm › Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.661.1515 or harvard.com MAMEVE MEDWED › My Bookstore reading › 7 pm › Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, 25 White St, Cambridge › Free › 617.491.2220 or portersquarebooks.com

sUnDAY 11

LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD › Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance reading › 2 pm › Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.489.0519 or harvard.bkstore.com “LIZARD LOUNGE POETRY NIGHT: JADE SYLVAN” › With music by Jeff Robinson Trio › 8 pm › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $5 › 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com

MonDAY 12

PAUL BRACKEN › The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics reading › 7 pm › First Parish Church of Cambridge, 3 Church St, Cambridge › Free › harvard.com MEGHAN COURTNEY & TIM STEIGELMAN › In the Shadow of Greatness: Voices of Leadership, Sacrifice, and Service from America’s Longest War discussion and signing › 7 pm › Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.489.0519 or harvard.bkstore.com NICK MONTFORT AND PATSY BAUDOIN › 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 reading › 7 pm › Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.661.1515 or harvard.com

tUesDAY 13

BARBARA KINGSOLVER › Flight Behavior: A Novel reading › 7 pm › First Parish

DAMIEN ECHOLS speaks at Harvard Book Store on Friday.

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“I hAd to do somethIng,” says choreographer/ dancer Kyle Abraham, taking a break from rehearsing his company Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.Motion in a downtown SoHo studio recently. “I had to respond in some way when the urban radio station Hot 106.7 FM WAMO and its sister station, AM 860, went off the air in my hometown of Pittsburgh, and at the same time my father began suffering from Alzheimer’s and aphasia. I choreographed The Radio Show. It’s about losing your voice and your memory.” His 11-member company performs the evening-length The Radio Show at the Institute of Contemporary Art November 16 and 17, presented by the ICA and CRASHarts.

Sweet-faced and intense, a tweed newsboy hat set on his head, Abraham describes the station as the voice of the black community. It featured classic soul music on AM, playing Shuggy Otis and Dionne Warwick, and contemporary hip-hop on FM, like JayZ and Beyoncé, and it also covered the community’s concerns with opinion and call-in shows. Now 35, Abraham remembers that growing up in the late ’70s the station gave him a sense of home, which of course his father did also. He uses the music of the two stations as well as classical compositions by Ryoji Ikeda and Alva Noto in his highly athletic and poetic work, mixing in the sound of audio static to represent both the radio station’s fading signal and his

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father’s loss of his ability to speak. “Don’t think it’s sad, though,” he says. “There’s joy in the dancing.”

Now a Brooklyn resident, Abraham started choreographing The Radio Show by generating movement on his own body. “I usually work with four phrases and then choreograph variations on them,” he says. He cites as his heroes the choreographers Ralph Lemon and Bebe Miller, but his intricate movement language is all his own, a visceral mix of ballet, hip-hop, and contemporary dance that excites audiences with its raw emotionalism. “His work leads to transcendence,” says Abraham.In.Motion dancer Maleek Washington. “It takes you from zero to 10 and shows you who you are.”

Abraham first gained attention as a member of David Dorfman Dance after earning his BA and MFA degrees, respectively, from SUNY Purchase and NYU. But not until establishing his own troupe in 2005 did his reputation begin to spread; The Radio Show and other works eventually won him prestigious commissions, tours to Europe and Asia and, in 2012, the distinguished Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. But there was another, maybe more satisfying reward. “I don’t know if The Radio Show had anything to do with it or not,” Abraham says with a smile, “but the last time I was in Pittsburgh, WAMO was back on the air.” _Vale ri e Glad stone

KYLE ABRAHAM/ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION :: Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave, Boston :: November 16 [7:30 pm] + 17 [8 pm] :: $40 :: 617.876.4275 or worldmusic.org

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One of the great disappointments created by last year’s mid-season demise of Opera Boston was that Boston wouldn’t get its first viewing of Sir Michael Tippett’s 1955 The Midsummer Marriage, a psychoallegorical mélange of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Many critics regard it as Tippett’s masterpiece.

Now, with support from the board of the late Opera Boston, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, under its music director, Gil Rose (former music director of Opera Boston), will lead a concert version at Jordan Hall on November 10. The cast is filled with scintillating singers: soprano Sara Heaton (in the role created

by Joan Sutherland), delicious in Opera Boston’s The Bartered Bride and deeply affecting as the daughter who prefers death to immortality the as a robot in MidsUMMer Tod Machover’s Death MarriaGe and the PowJordan Hall, 30 ers; mezzoGainsborough St, Boston :: soprano Joyce Castle, November 10 :: who excelled 7:30 pm :: $20as the vulgar $50; $10 students :: 617.585.1260 or money-grubbmop.org bing madam in Opera Boston’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and the timid Mrs. Grose in Boston Lyric Opera’s The Turn of the Screw; as well as Boston favorite, baritone David Kravitz, soprano Deborah Selig, and tenors Julius Ahn and Matthew DiBattista.

CLASSICAL ConCertS tHUrSDAY 8

BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY GIANCARLO GUERRERO › Sierra’s Fandangos for orchestra; Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1; Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 › Thurs + Sat 8 pm; Fri 1:30 pm › Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston › $30-$114 › 888.266.1200 or bso.org NEC CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE › Berios’s Violin Duos; Balch’s Night Songs; Grime’s Seven Pierrot Miniatures; Walton’s Façade › 8 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › Free › 617.585.1260 or necmusic.edu

FrIDAY 9

School of Music, 27 Garden St, Cambridge › $20; $16 seniors; $10 students › 617.876.0956 or radiusensemble.org BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY GIANCARLO GUERRERO › See listing for Thurs

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BOSTON CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY › Haydn’s Piano Trio in E, Hob. XV:28; Mozart’s String Quintet in C, K. 515; Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58 › 7:30 pm › Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge › $8-$56 › 617.349.0086 or bostonchambermusic.org BOSTON CIVIC SYMPHONY CONDUCTED BY MAX HOBART › Nielsen’s Helios Overture, Op. 17; Zallman’s Quasi una Serenata; Bell’s Triumph of Lightness, with cellist Sam Ou; Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13 [Winter Dreams] › 2 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › $38; $33 seniors › 617.585.1260 or csob.org BOSTON CHORAL ENSEMBLE › See listing for Fri BOSTON LYRIC OPERA CONDUCTED BY ANDREW BISANTZ › See listing for Fri HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY CONDUCTED BY BERNARD LABADIE › See listing for Fri

BOSTON CHORAL ENSEMBLE › Selection of works by Françaix, Ravel, Poulenc, and Fauré › Fri 8 pm; Sun 3 pm › Pickman Hall at Longy School of Music, 27 Garden St, Cambridge › $18; $8.50 student, seniors › 617.876.0956 or bostonchoral.org BOSTON LYRIC OPERA CONDUCTED BY ANDREW DANCE! BISANTZ › Puccini’s Madama For dan ce NEC YOUTH SYMPHONY Butterfly, with Yunah Lee [Ciomance li perForstings, g CONDUCTED BY STEVEN Cio San] and Kelley O’Connor o the the phoenix KARIDOYANES › Overture .

[Suzuki] › Fri 7:30 pm; Sun 3 pm com/even ts to Verdi’s Nabucco; Dohnanyi’s › Citi Performing Arts Center, 270 American Rhapsody; Brahms’s Tremont Street, Boston › $30-$150 Symphony No. 1 › 8 pm › Jordan Hall, › 617.482.9393 or blo.org 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › Free › CANTATA SINGERS › Bach’s 617.585.1260 or necmusic.edu Cantatas BWV. 114 and 3; Martin’s Et la vie l’emporta; Three Motets from Zelenka’s Responsoria pro Hebdomada Sancta › 8 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › $17MUIR STRING QUARTET › Mozart’s $32 › 617.585.1260 or cantatasingers.org Quartet in D, K. 575; Bartók: Quartet No. 4; CHIARA QUARTET › Mozart’s String Ravel’s Quartet › 8 pm › Tsai Performance Quartet in C, K. 465; Lutoslawski’s String Center, 685 Comm Ave, Boston › Free › Quartet; Dvorák’s String Quartet in F, Op. 617.353.8725 or bu.edu/cfa/music 96 [American] › 8 pm › John Knowles Paine NEC WIND ENSEMBLE CONDUCTED Concert Hall, Music Building, North Yard,

BY CHARLES PELTZ › Canzone and Strauss’s Harvard University, Cambridge › Free › Sonatina No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 143 [Happy 617.495.2791 or music.fas.harvard.edu Workshop]; McPhee’s Concerto for Wind HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY Orchestra › 7 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough CONDUCTED BY BERNARD LABADIE St, Boston › Free › 617.585.1260 or necmusic.edu › Rigel’s Symphony in C; Kraus’s Symphony in E; Haydn’s Symphony No. 26 [Lamentatione]; Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 [Jupiter] › Fri 8 pm; Sun 3 pm › Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston ALEA III CONDUCTED BY SAMUEL Z. › $20-$84 › 888.266.1200 or handelandhaydn.org SOLOMON › Iannis Xenakis program: Dhipli MASTERWORKS CHORALE Zyia, Evryali, Persephassa, Okho, and Charisma CONDUCTED BY STEVEN › 8 pm › Tsai Performance Center, 685 Comm KARIDOYANES › Vaughan Williams’s Five Ave, Boston › Free › 617.353.8725 or aleaiii.com Mystical Songs; Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, NEC SYMPHONY CONDUCTED BY with soprano Ruth Hartt and baritone Andrew DAVID LOEBEL › Bartók’s Dance Suite; Garland › 8 pm › Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy Suite from Copland’s Billy the Kid; Beethoven’s St, Cambridge › $25-$45 › 617.496.2222 or Symphony No. 2 › 8 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 masterworkschorale.org Gainsborough St, Boston › Free › 617.585.1260 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA or necmusic.edu CONDUCTED BY GIANCARLO GUERRERO › See listing for Thurs

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BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT CONDUCTED BY GIL ROSE › Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage › 7:30 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › $20$50; $10 students › 617.585.1260 or bmop.org ORPHEUS SINGERS › Selection of songs by Elgar, Goehr, and Purcell › 8 pm › Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston › $25; $15 students, seniors › 617.536.3356 or orpheussingers.org RADIUS ENSEMBLE › Bermel’s Twin Trio for flute, clarinet, and piano; Bax’s Quintet for oboe and strings; Holland’s Tracing Lines for wind quintet and drums; Ravel’s Piano Trio in A minor › 8 pm › Pickman Hall at Longy

tHUrSDAY 15

BOSTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY BENJAMIN ZANDER › Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with George Li; Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 › 7:30 pm › Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge › $15-$70 › 617.496.2222 or bostonphil.org BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY THOMAS ADÈS › Sibelius’s Luonnotar for soprano and orchestra, with Dawn Upshaw; Adès’s In Seven Days for piano and orchestra, with Kirill Gerstein; Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with Gerstein; Sibelius’s Symphony No. 6 › 8 pm › Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston › $30$114 › 888.266.1200 or bso.org THEPHOENIX.COM/EvENTS :: 11.09.12 91

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hickory shtick: Andrew JAckson is bloody good EvEr sincE richard nixon lost an election by sweating on TV, we have held this truth to be selfevident: America prefers a sexier president. It gets a rock star in Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, in its area premiere by SpeakEasy Stage Company (at the Calderwood Pavilion through November 17). Here Injun-zapping, Spaniard-slapping Old Hickory represents not only our manifest but also our hormonal destiny. Poured into tight jeans and wielding a hand mic, he’s at the center of a timely, clever, if somewhat gonzo entertainment that portrays a perennially adolescent nation heaving with blood and power lust, its charismatic seventh commander-in-chief a combination of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Conrad Birdie. Or as the publicity for the 2009 Off Broadway hit and 2010 Broadway fizzle would have it: “History just got all sexy pants.”

The brainchild of librettist (and artistic director of New York’s Les Freres Corbusier) Alex Timbers and composer-lyricist Michael Friedman (of the documentary troupe the Civilians), Bloody Bloody boasts a plaintive, pounding emo-rock score that proves the right vehicle for its mix of anachronism-peppered snarkiness and earnest feeling. At once pointedly

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satirical and historically instructive, with one foot on the contemporary campaign trail and the other on the Trail of Tears, this entertaining show follows its subject from the populist-forging Tennessee frontier to the image-consolidating Battle of New Orleans to a controversial “people’s presidency” without ever robbing him of his youthful fervor. Jackson was 61 when he won the White House in 1828, but here he’s more Rolling Stone than roughhewn sexagenarian.

Paul Melone’s SpeakEasy staging conveys all the winking, testosterone-touched vigor of the material, with Gus Curry a full-blooded if petulant Jackson who morphs from a maverick to an almost monarchical identification with the electorate. And from the opening strains of “Populism, Yea, Yea!” to a twanging coda of “Hunters of Kentucky” (Jackson’s campaign song), the production is musically held together by bandleader Nicholas James Connell. The conductor/music director also provides persuasive vocals on the haunting “Second Nature,” a meditation on human aggression that seems to stretch from the 19th-century westward push to our 21st-century pummeling of the planet.

Bloody Bloody is smart-alecky, but it’s also smart. _Car olyn Clay

BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON :: Roberts Studio Theatre at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St, Boston :: Through November 17 :: $25 :: 617.426.5000 or speakeasystage.com

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beTrayal › The Huntington Theatre stages Harold Pinter’s drama about a love affair between a man and woman who shamelessly deceive one another, as well as their respective spouses. Maria Aitken directs. › November 9–December 9 › Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave, Boston › $15–$75 › 617.266.7900 or huntingtontheatre.org a CHrisTmas Carol › Trinity Repertory Company leads off the attack of the Scrooges with its 35th annual offering of Adrian Hall & Richard Cumming’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s tale of the incredible flying miser. Tyler Dobrowsky directs, and Timothy Crowe stars as Scrooge. › November 10–December 29 › Trinity Repertory Company, 201 Washington St, Providence, RI › $15–$36 › 401.351.4242 or tickets.trinityrep. com miss JUlie › Clark University’s Theater Arts Program stages Penny Penniston’s modern adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1888 play about social class, gender, romance, and power. Raymond Munro directs. › November 8–17 › Michelson Theater at Clark University, Charlotte St, Worcester › $5 › 508.793.7356 or clark.edu NeCessary TarGeTs › Andrea Southwick helms Eve Ensler’s drama about a female psychiatrist and writer who travels to Bosnia to help women refugees. The piece, staged by Boston Conservatory, takes inspiration from interviews conducted by the playwright with women who survived the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. › November 8–11 › Zack Box, 8 the Fenway, Boston › Free › 617.912.9222 or bostonconservatory.edu roCK ’N’ roll › The Longwood Players take on Tom Stoppard’s play about rock music and politics, set in 1968 Czechoslovakia, just as Soviet tanks roll into Prague.

James Aitchison stars as Jan, who returns to his Czech homeland after attending college in America. Kaitlyn Chantry directs. › November 9–17 › YMCA Theatre, 820 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $16–$25 › 617.491.7431 or longwoodplayers.org 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 ToVariCH › Members of the Maxim Gorky Drama State Theater, on an international tour from Russia, present this play

by Jacques Deval, which was later adapted into a film and a Broadway musical. Efim Zvenyatsky directs this US premiere of the original play. › November 13 › John Hancock Hall, 180 Berkeley Street, Boston › $35 › 781.593.1405 or intlconcerts.org THe UNsiNKable molly broWN › Wellesley College Theatre stages Richard Morris and Meredith Willson’s musical biography of American icon Molly Brown, who survived the sinking of the Titanic.

Nora Hussey directs the staging, with David Costa co-directing and Jenny Tang on musical direction. › November 8–11 › Alumnae Hall Auditorium at Wellesley College, 106 Central St, Wellesley › $15; $8 students, seniors; $5 faculty/staff › 781.283.1000 or new.wellesley.edu/theatre

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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 beNGal TiGer aT THe baGHdad Zoo › Company One has fittingly opened Rajiv Joseph’s contemporary ghost story in late October, in an all-around impressive production under Shawn LaCount’s skilled direction. The play, inspired by a true story about two soldiers guarding a zoo in Baghdad during the early stages of the Iraq War, follows the vengeful ghost of a Bengal tiger through the city’s war-torn streets. Rick Park stars as the philosophical tiger, endowed, since his death, with the knowledge of all of life’s mysteries; he spends much of the play talking to a nonresponsive God about why his spirit lingers.

The only person who can hear the tiger’s speechifying is Kev (Michael Knowlton), the soldier who shot down the beast after it ate the hand of another soldier, Tom (Raymond Ramirez). This particular ghost story shares more with Sartre’s No Exit than with Shakespeare’s Macbeth, leaving you with existential questions rather than a tidy triumph. But so, too, has America left ghosts and loose ends behind in Iraq, as Joseph’s tale reminds us. › Through November 17 › Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theatre, 539 Tremont Street, Boston › $20–$38 › 617.933.8600 or companyone.org 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 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 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. › Through November 17 › Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theatre, 539 Tremont Street, Boston › $20; $15 students, seniors › 617.933.8600 or imaginarybeasts.org 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. › Through 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. › Through 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. › Through 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. › Through November 18 › Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 East Merrimack Street, Lowell › $15–$55 › 978.454.3926 or mrt.org NoW or laTer › 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 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. As the discussions about 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. › Through November 10 › Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St, Boston › $15-$60 › 617.933.8600 or huntingtontheatre.org sUNday iN THe parK WiTH GeorGe › Laura Espy directs Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1985 Pulitzer-winning musical about a neoImpressionist artist immersed in painting his next masterpiece. Don Boroson does the musical direction for the Vokes Theatre production. › Through November 10 › Vokes Theatre, 97 State Rd, Wayland › $18 › 508.358.4034 or vokesplayers.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. › Through November 18 › Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Comm Ave, Boston › $30; $25 seniors; $10 students › 617.353.5443 or bu.edu/bpt

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BlOnd On BOnd dOn’t yOu hate it when you’re clinging to the bullet-riddled, into the drink — only to pull off a bottom of an elevator soaring up 100 stories and Bourne-like resurrection. your hand cramps up? It’s tough to get old. That’s Such a cavalier attitude to the lives of her favorites a theme repeated in this, the 23rd installment in can have repercussions. Meanwhile, someone has the half-century-long Bond dynasty, tapped into M’s computer, causing all kinds until the refrain, too, gets a little old. of problems, including the outing of numer+++ But by the end of its perhaps overlong ous agents, a nasty explosion in headquarSKYFALL 145 minutes Skyfall has earned the ters, and a government investigation into Directed by sam franchise the right to yet another sequel, whether flesh-and-blood agents are necesmendes :: Written by if not another 50 years. It combines the sary, anyway. The megalomaniacal Silva neal Purvis, robert traditional and the newfangled, offering is the culprit; played by a bleached -blond, Wade, and John Logan :: With Daniel a sly commentary on the urgency of the epicene Javier Bardem, he looks a little like Craig, Judi Dench, future and the inescapability of the past; Brando in The Missouri Breaks. But he’s Javier Bardem, ralph and it’s a rip-snorting good time, with no Chigurh from No Country for Old Men, Fiennes, naomie action equal to the series’ best. and his creepy come-on to Bond in bondage Harris, Bérénice marlohe, albert Finney It’s kind of like Red, 2010’s star-studlacks conviction. :: Columbia Pictures :: ded action comedy about retired secret On the plus side, Ben Whishaw’s spotty145 minutes agents, though with fewer laughs. In faced new Q has spunk, as does Naomie the Helen Mirren role, Judi Dench Harris as Bond’s back-up agent, Eve. And Boston Common + Fenway + suburbs as M proves to be more than a flinty director Sam Mendes unreels some starmother figure, except maybe in the Oetling images, like a demolished, Aleppodipal sense. Monitoring the tour-de-force opening like town that serves as Silva’s home base. Mendes caper, a chase scene from the rooftops of Istanbul’s also knows when to cue in the old Bond theme on the Grand Bazaar to the rooftops of a speeding train, M soundtrack, and proves that the old ways sometimes shows little remorse in deeming agents expendable. are the best. _P E T E R KEOUGH » PKEOUGH@ PHx.cO m Including Bond (Daniel Craig) himself, who falls,

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Fritz Lang shaped much of cinema history. He made one of the first superhero movies with Siegfried (1924). He anticipated the conspiracy thriller with the Dr. Mabuse movies. Metropolis (1927) set the template for much sci-fi to come. M (1931) established the cinematic serial killer. After he fled the Nazis for Hollywood, Lang helped develop film noir. Then he dipped into the New Wave, playing himself in Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt. The three early films in this outstanding Kino DVD show the origins of FRITZ LANG: Lang’s genius.

THE EARLY That doesn’t mean they WORKS are all masterThree DVDs pieces. Two of Kino Classics :: the three are $39.95 a bit rough around the edges but offer invaluable insights for Lang fans. In The Wandering Shadow (1920) a woman makes the mistake of falling for the author of a book advocating free love. She gets tangled in a contrived narrative of unlikely coincidences and ironies.

More complicated is Four Around the Woman (1921), in which two of the four men are twins, one is a Mabuse-like criminal, and the fourth looks like Joseph Goebbels. A rich, if uneven start, and Lang would soon fulfill its promise.

Oddly, the earliest film comes closest to the mature work. An adaptation of Madame Butterfly, Harakiri (1919) dazzles not with its story but its images, an otherworldly domain of flowers and décor that is as transporting and suffocating as those in Lang’s best movies. _PK

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lincOln lOgged shOt in sepia tints, with The resemblance is uncanny, detailed period sets and though some object to the ornate facial hair, the tableaux voice, which is high-pitched vivants that constitute Steven and folksy. But Abe spins a Spielberg’s wry hagiography good yarn — too many of them, resemble Mathew Brady dain fact, or so says a disgusted guerreotypes, and are about as cabinet member. And one lively. Focusing on the passage political opponent berates him, of the 13th Amendjustly, for his pieties. ment — which gave The truth is, except ++ former slaves the for some domestic LINcOLN rights of citizens — stress, this Lincoln Directed by steven and showing how doesn’t develop much spielberg :: Written by shady means can beyond being a genial Tony Kushner :: With achieve a noble blowhard. Even the Daniel Day-Lewis, sally Field, James spader, end, this stolid conflict of resorting and Tommy Lee Jones effort doesn’t draw to dubious tactics :: Dreamworks :: 159 much vitality from doesn’t ruffle his minutes :: screenwriter Tony sanctity.

Kendall square Kushner’s florid On the other hand, dialogue. He waxes the scalawags who do Shakespearean with his rhetothat dirty work provide some ric, and some scenes, like a diversion. James Spader as a row between the president and back-room bargainer exudes first lady (Sally Field), would the juicy corruption of a have played nicely on the Ford Thomas Nast cartoon. Maybe Theatre stage in 1865. the real star is fright-wigged As a history lesson, however, Tommy Lee Jones’s abolitionist it beats the slide shows of Ken firebrand Thaddeus Stevens; Burns. No doubt having the he’s the one truest to his most Oscar-pandering cast of principles, and takes the most the year helps — like Daniel pleasure in them, too. _PK Day-Lewis in the title role.

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We watch as Madame Blossom (Lucy Liu) the Blacksmith (RZA) Jack Knife (Russell Crowe) and a collection of other archetypes battle to steal a cache of gold, but nonstop visual flourishes and film references trump the fight scenes and “story.” Crowe is the MVP, gleefully spending most of his screen time in a whorehouse.

Unfortunately, for all his audacity, it’s RZA who holds the picture back from being anything but a hermetically sealed genre tribute. He’s trying too much — too many disparate styles and tones (his reverence often feels like spoof), too many characters, too many CGI effects. It desperately wants to be Kill Bill — Quentin Tarantino even serves as “presenter”— but unlike that picture, Iron Fists never transcends its genre shackles. › 96m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + suburbs _Jake Mulligan +++ TALES OF THE NIGHT › Returning to the cut-paper shadow-play style of 2000’s Princes and Princesses while retaining the digital animation techniques that he employed

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in 2006’s Azur & Asmar, French director Michel Ocelot proves that the format doesn’t make the filmmaker — even with a move to stereoscopic 3D (the MFA is presenting the feature in 2D), the 69-year-old animator still conjures his usual brand of timeless, magical fairy tales. In an abandoned cinema, an old technician assists a young couple in acting out stories spanning cultures and centuries: from medieval Europe, across the African plains, to Tibet, through an Aztec kingdom, and even a Caribbean-flavored Land of the Dead. The kaleidoscopic backgrounds offer a colorful counterpoint to the simple silhouettes that form the people, animals, and mythical beasts populating the six fables, each of which end with a ironic twist. › French › 84m › Museum of Fine Arts _Brett Michel +1/2 THIS MUST BE THE PLACE › Did the business-savvy Weinstein Brothers plan this project as a tax write-off? How else to explain the greenlighting of this soggy, monumentally morose excuse for a movie? And with a prissy, passive cry-baby as its central character? That’s Sean Penn, improbably cast, with lipstick and eyeliner and a bad hair dye, as Cheyenne, a sadsack ex-rock star (we learn nothing of his music) who has spent 20 years hanging about his Dublin estate feeling sorry for himself. Somehow, a lunatic plot line emerges: Cheyenne, we discover, is Jewish, which sends him meandering through America seeking revenge on the hidden Nazi who humiliated his father at Auschwitz.

Believe that, and believe the Pope is pro-choice.

Frances McDormand is absurdly wrong as Cheyenne’s loving wife, but there’s a fun campy scene with David Byrne as himself, and five good minutes with Harry Dean Stanton in a diner. › 118m › Kendall Square _Gerald Peary

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• THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES + THE HURT LOCKER Paul Thomas Anderson said that his film The Master, in which a shell-shocked WWII vet tries to return to 10 normal life, was inspired in part by William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives (1946; 6 pm), the revered classic dealing with the same subject. If you haven’t seen it, here’s your chance, likewise Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-winning Iraq War masterpiece The Hurt Locker (2008; 9 pm).

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• “AN EVENING WITH TONY BUBA” Described as a “national treasure,” Tony Buba offers legitimate insight into the American working class with his unique 12 documentaries. He’ll be presenting his first feature, Lightning Over Braddock (1988), and other work in the Brattle’s program, “An Evening with Tony Buba.”

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• FLOWERS OF THE STEPPE: A FESTIVAL OF KAZAKH CINEMA Contrary Sacha Baron Cohen’s depiction of the country in Borat (2006), Kazakhstan boasts 14 one of the world’s most original and thriving film industries. See for yourself at the MFA series “Flowers of the Steppe: A Festival of Kazakh Cinema,” which begins today with Ermek Shinarbaev’s Letters from an Angel (2009) and continues through November 18. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston :: November 14-18; tonight @ 7:45 pm :: $11; $9 students, seniors :: 617.267.9300 or mfa.org WED

• THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN + THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON According to “The Biology of B-Movie Monsters,” a scientific paper by 15 Professor Michael C. LaBarbera (see the Fun List, page 85), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957; 5:30 + 9:15 pm) would have to eat his own body weight every day just to survive. Thanks for spoiling that fantasy, Teach. Luckily, we can still believe in The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954; 7:30 pm). Both films by monster movie maven Jack Arnold (The Creature in 3D!) screen at the Brattle. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge :: $12; $10 students, seniors :: 617.876.6837 or brattlefilm.org THU

photographer, Antonioni warns us about making assumptions; it’s not till the much-argued-over invisible-tennis-ball sequence, however, that Hemmings realizes there’s more to life than what he can capture with his camera. With Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles, and a comatose cameo by the Yardbirds. › 110m › HFA: Sat ++ CHASING MAVERICKS › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 104m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Arlington Capitol + suburbs CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK › 1944 › Musical comedy from director Charles Lamont. The son (Donald O’Connor) of a strict Naval officer falls for the daughter (Ann Blyth) of a traveling musiccomedy star. › b&w › 71m › Brattle: Fri CLOUD ATLAS › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/ movies for a full review. › 272m › Boston Common + Fenway + Somerville Theatre + West Newton + suburbs +++ THE DETAILS › 2011 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 91m › West Newton ++1/2 FLIGHT › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/ movies for a full review. › 139m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Somerville Theatre + Embassy + suburbs +++1/2 FRANKENWEENIE › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › b&w › 87m › Arlington Capitol + suburbs ++ FUN SIZE › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/ movies for a full review. › 90m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Chestnut Hill + Arlington Capitol + suburbs +1/2 HERE COMES THE BOOM › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 105m › Boston Common + suburbs +++ HIGH GROUND › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 91m › MFA: Fri ++++ HOLY MOTORS › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 116m › Kendall Square +++ THE HOUSE I LIVE IN › Usually when both political parties agree on something,

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the Pacific Northwest, Naomi Punk started playing in various underIandnground projects as teenagers about 10 years ago, self-releasing online EPs CD-Rs to the locals, unconcerned with ever being part of the greater

“music world.” The young trio’s off-the-grid indie rock makes them a fitting addition to the roster of Brooklyn’s Captured Tracks, who re-release their debut full-length, The Feeling, on November 13.

Previously a limited release on Washington’s Couple Skate Records, The Feeling is unusual and mesmerizing — songs like “The Spell” and “Burned Body” somehow use a medium as noisy as muffled, grungy punk to channel a sensory experience that’s meditative and oddly calming. “We’re just a punk band,” singer/guitarist Travis Coster says slowly, when he calls me after getting out from his job as a dishwasher at a coffeeshop.

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Despite the minimalistic ethos that drives their band, this most recent disc was created with a more deliberate artistic intention. “We recorded this record, not separate from how we sound, but trying to create something that was reflective of our experiences in the Northwest, rather than a live document,” Coster says. Live, the band is loud, faster, more aggressive.

Naomi Punk’s identity as a band also surfaces in their connection with a visual culture — their flyers, zine, and self-described “primitive” Internet presence. “We’ve never been concerned with being cool indierock people,” says Coster. “All of that is total bullshit. We just want people to be connecting with [our music]. If in their life, it can connect the dots to something, that’s cool.” _LI Z PELLY » @LI ZPELLY

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KVELERTAK PUT ROCK IN A CHOKEHOLD NOwADAyS, IT MAy SEEM LIKE bands have exhausted new sounds and resorted to Frankenstitching different genre signifiers together, a you-putyour-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter method of musicmaking that sounds wacky on paper — and forced and awkward coming out of the speakers.

But every once in awhile, a band manages to form a sound forged from stylistic cut-and-paste that makes the original genre conventions sound lame and stifling by comparison. Exhibit A is the strange alchemical combination of pure ’70s-swagger riffola and charred black metal that is the sonic stamp of Norway’s Kvelertak. In fact, this sextet performs such intricate stitchwork in their Mayhem-meetsThin Lizzy blastforce that it’s kind of hard to tell where one style ends and the other begins.

Kvelertak’s missives come packaged in dark roiling paeans to Norse gods and demonic urges, filled with screamed yearnings and frantic warnings.

All of which is probably abundantly clear to their fellow Norwegian hessians but less so to their increasing international followers, because their music has heretofore been sung entirely in their native tongue. “Happy-Tom from Turbonegro advised us to start singing in English,” lead singer Erlend Hjelvik explains when asked if the band has ever felt pressure to slip into English. “Fortunately, we’re not that good at listening to people. We feel that having songs in Norwegian adds a certain

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mystique; I never even put out the lyrics, so there’s a lot of weird interpretations of our songs out there.

It’s pretty funny to us.”

Hjelvik feels that, even though his lyrics are well considered and tell a story, in the end the words themselves are rendered unnecessary by the overall Kvelertak experience. “You tap into something primitive when you listen to heavy music. Or at least that’s how it feels for me when I’m up on stage.

I mean, we don’t plan things out or anything, we just like to rock out. For us, it’s awesome to go to the States, and some dudes in Texas are screaming along with music in Norwegian.” Kvelertak, live or on record, can be enveloping and throttling — not surprising, considering the band’s name means “chokehold” in their native tongue.

Kvelertak just wrapped up sessions for their follow-up to their 2010 self-titled debut with Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou at his GodCity Studio in Salem. Promising to up the ante in terms of pure rock fury, Hjelvik assures that the new record (due in March) “is both heavier and catchier than the first record.” But still intact is the musical diversity that is the band’s calling card. “We listen to a lot of different music; Bjarte [Lund Rolland, guitarist/ songwriter] steals from everything from the Beach Boys to Burzum! We just keep trying to push our own boundaries.”

In 2007, Dan Deacon experienced startling cultural self-awareness.

While on his first European tour, the brain-bending electronic-pop party-starter spent time in Ireland and made friends with the natives.

During one conversation, Deacon’s Irish heritage came up. His new buddies asked what region his ancestors were from — Deacon didn’t know.

When did they come over? He couldn’t answer that, either. “I started thinking, ‘Well, I’m not Irish,’ ” the Baltimorean says. “Even if I were to move and spend the majority of my life here, I’d be an American living in Ireland. There’s things about the culture that are ingrained in me that I’ll never shed, and moving somewhere is not going to change that.’”

That incident, coupled with hours observing his homeland through car windows, inspired the fantastic America (Domino). Deacon’s heavily layered new record is divided into two parts: five kinetic, DAN DEACON + shimmery HEIGHT WITH tunes, and FRIENDS + an exquisite, MORE nuanced four-part Paradise Rock Club, suite called 967 Comm Ave, “USA.” Boston :: November 13 @ 6 pm :: All Ages America is :: $13 :: 617.562.8800 more interor thedise.com ested in the country’s gorgeous geography than its politics, but it’s a remarkably optimistic take on the nation.

But America doesn’t appreciate its subject in conventional ways.

Multiple writers have noted that the album art (Richard Endres’s chopper’s-eye-view of Lake Placid) features both amber waves of grain and purple mountains. Was the reference intentional? “No, I think that’s someone projecting,” Deacon says with a chuckle. _REYAN ALI

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COMPACT DiSCS MigHT NOw bE an outdated medium, but there was a time when everything on the format was available — except for one of the great rock records of the early ’80s: 1981’s In a Roman Mood by legendary Boston punk/new wave/whatever band Human Sexual Response. Unfairly dismissed in its time, the band’s second and final album has seen no re-release since its small-run, original vinyl pressing on now-defunct Passport Records. Today, it’s still lost, even to the massive ether of the Internet.

While it wasn’t the cause per se, In a Roman Mood was also the record whose failure coincided with the sinking of the noble septet and is also a record that remains a thorn in the memories of vocalist/lyricist Larry Bangor and guitarist Rich Gilbert. Saturday will mark the second time in four years that the Humans will offer old and new fans a chance again to see one of the most remarkably configured bands of the era — a power trio with four lead singers and incredible live energy. “We kind of just started it as a lark,” explains Bangor of the group’s origin as Honey Bea and the Meadow Muffins, an a cappella singing group comprising best friends Casey Cameron, Dini Lamot, Windle Davis, and Bangor. He describes their repertoire (some of which carried over to the Humans) as songs they “dragged out to sing at parties, convenience stores, and ice cream parlors.” When put in front of a rock and roll band (including bassist Chris Maclachlan and

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drummer Malcolm Travis), Gilbert had never heard anything like it: “The Mamas and the Papas don’t sound like anybody else. The same was true with Human Sexual Response.”

After making a big buzz in the burgeoning new-wave scene with the topical, relatable, and attitude-heavy Fig. 14, which included local hits “Jackie Onassis” and “What Does Sex Mean to Me?,” the reaction to In a Roman Mood ranged from lack of attention to straight-up critical dismissal. “That’s an understatement,” quips Bangor from his Manhattan home, where after a post-Humans run in the Zulus, he moved on to a series of odd-jobs that including selling Bibles. “It’s a much better record,” he adds.

“It was not so obvious what kind of emotion all of these songs should be generating,” says Gilbert from Nashville, where he’s collaborated regularly with Frank Black, Tanya Donelly, and Steve Wynn. Produced by Wire sound guru Mike Thorne (Soft Cell, ’Til Tuesday), the record gets its character from the dark, murky textures, according to Gilbert.

The proof of greatness is in the songs: the pop-smash “Andy Fell”; the vocally intense “Pound”; and the repetitious “Land of the Glass Pinecones,” which strikes that perfect balance between abstraction and the feeling of observing something incredibly monumental. It’s an album from a band ripe for revisiting.

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If one record-release party is enough to get our attention, a double record-release party is enough to get its own Playlist. November 9 at the Middle East, the smooth dance-rock of trio MUY CANSADO and the bouncy alt-rock of NAKED ON ROLLER SKATES team up to drop buckets of new jams on Cambridge. Muy Cansado may be Spanish for “very tired,” but their new album Let It Go is anything but; while the Skates’ new EP, Songs from a Wooden Box, recalls the glory days of Central Square’s ’90s heyday. Rounding out the mix are two seasoned tracks repping the rest of the night’s bill.

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Audraglint » Cecil Frena emerged from Montreal’s killer music scene as part of Gobble Gobble, inciting sweaty dance parties with manic glitch-pop.

Bodysongs, Frena’s first solo work as Born Gold, sounded similar: messy but straightforward, abrasive but still pop. Little Sleepwalker, written alone in the Arizona desert, is Born Gold’s step back. Frena alters his voice with digital effects and “feminine” vocal techniques, delivering lines like “I couldn’t shake the sense we were just circumstance” as an androgynous alter-ego, making Sleepwalker vulnerable where Bodysongs was aggressive. Catchy opener “Pulse Thief” eases listeners into an album so full of labyrinthian prog-tronica that when shimmery “Gauze Pillars” closes out the album, it feels like waking from a deep dream. Frena has learned the language of club and rave music so well, Little Sleepwalker would be convincing as product of the techno world — if it weren’t so cerebral. Instead, it’s both an homage and a deconstruction of those forms, which proves way more interesting. _NI NA MASHUROVA » NMAS H UROVA @gM A I l .c OM

Seven Four Entertainment/Republic » Soundgarden have long been the most-likely grunge outfit to reunite; the only surprise here is that it took this long for them to get their shit together. While frontman Chris Cornell was off making questionable decisions like hooking up with Timbaland for a beats-infused solo effort, penning James Bond theme songs, and doing that whole Audioslave thing, the rest of us were waiting for him to rejoin the powerhouse where he initially made his bones. There was a bit of a shaky start — check the hideous “Live to Rise” that got thrown together for The Avengers closing credits earlier this year.

New offering King Animal starts off inauspiciously enough with lead single “Been Away too Long” — for a band who made their mark with vague lyrical content, this one tries sledgehammer browbeating. We get it Chris, you only “ever really wanted a break” and now you’re where you belong. Cornell’s caterwaul has been on the wane for years, and despite loads of studio magic he still sounds a bit raspy for those hoping for a “Rusty Cage” redux some 16 years later. Thankfully, it wasn’t just the voice that made Soundgarden shine in the first place; guitarist Kim Thayil remains the star, doing his familiar sonic circles on tracks like “Non-State Actor” and the brilliant “Bones of Birds.” There are a couple more clunkers, though; “Attrition” feels like forced heaviness — cock rock for the sake of Zeppelin but lacking any real passion other than the drumming

by Matt Cameron, who’s been honing his already formidable skills in the Pearl Jam stable. On the whole, King Animal is a welcome return, and though it doesn’t reinvent the wheel, it reminds us why these guys were considered the architects of the Seattle scene. _MIc HA El c H RI S T O pH E R » M I c HAE lcH R IS T Op H E R 22@H OT MAIl. cOM

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HOLY GHOST! “It Gets Dark” [DFA Records] “And it goes A-B-C-D/You won’t use that school degree,” warns Holy Ghost! frontman Alex Frankel on the NYC duo’s new discoprowling funk bomber “It Gets Dark.” It’s their first piece of new music in a year, and Frankel and partner Nick Millhiser have done the impossible: they’ve made Holy Ghost! even dancier than before. This is sinister get-laid music. _MIc H AE l MAR OT TA

Editions Mego » For Emeralds, following up their sweeping 2010 masterpiece Does It Look Like I’m Here? was never going to be a simple task. It was an album so dense and enveloping that an attempt to build further upon the synth epics contained therein wasn’t conceivable. So after working at a release-a-month clip for much of their career, the Ohio trio took their time with Feel Anything, arriving at this more focused, albeit less celestial, effort.

Compared to their predominantly improvisational past releases, everything here seems calculated. Reviewers have always attempted to draw ties between them and Italian horror soundtrackers Goblin thanks to their comparably ominous undertones. This is the first release where that really holds, though, mostly because of the reliance on traditional prog changes.

Guitarist Mark McGuire is more prevalent than ever, cutting through the tubular pitter-patter with worldbeating riffage that sometimes works (the title track is the album standout) and sometimes feels tacky. _MI cHAEl c . WAlSH » M WAl S H @p Hx.c OM

KENDRICK LAMAR “The Jig Is Up (Dump’n)” [Aftermath/Interscope] If you read the Internet, you’re probably aware of the brilliance of Kendrick Lamar’s debut LP, Good Kid, m.A.A.d. City. What you may have missed is the fact that it sold 240K in its first week, restoring some credibility to mainstream rap in the process. This track is the ferocious victory lap, ya bish. _MI cHAEl c . WAlSH

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EGUIE CASTRILLO AND HIS ORCHESTRA › 7:30 pm › Regattabar, 1 Bennett St, Charles Hotel, Cambridge › $20 › 617.661.5000 or regattabarjazz.com ELEPHANTS + SOLO SEXX + AND THE TRAVELER + WILLIAM H. GACY › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557 GRACE KELLY › 8 pm › Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $25 › 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com JEREMY LYONS TRIO › 9 pm › Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.666.3589 or sallyobriensbar.com/ frameset.htm JOHN MULANEY › 7:30 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com JOURNEY › Verizon Wireless Arena, 555 Elm St, Manchester, NH › $37.50-$123 › 800.745.3000 or verizonwirelessarena.com KURT BAKER + ZIPGUN BOMBER › 10:30 pm › Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com LOIS LANE & THE DAILY PLANETS › 9 pm › Cantab Lounge, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge.com MARY BLACK › 7:30 pm › Strand Theatre, 543 Columbia Rd, Dorchester › $45 › 617.282.8000 MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK + JUKEBOX THE GHOST + NOW NOW › 7 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $20-$23 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com MR NICK AND THE DIRTY TRICKS › 10 pm › Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston › 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com MUY CANSADO + NAKED ON ROLLER SKATES + SARAH RABDAU AND THE SELF-EMPLOYED ASSASINS + OLD JACK › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com RADIOACTIVE RUSTLERS › 6 pm › Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.666.3589 or sallyobriensbar. com/frameset.htm THE SCRIPT + TRISTAN PRETTYMAN › 7:30 pm › Agganis Arena, 925 Comm Ave, Boston › $35-$40 › 617.358.7000 or ticketmaster.com/Agganis-Arena-ticketsBoston/venue/8886&brand=agganis SEA MONSTERS + BAKER THOMAS BAND › 8 pm › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com TAME IMPALA + THE AMAZING › 7 pm › Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston › 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com THE TRAGICALLY HIP › 8 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $45.35 › 888.693.2583 TUCK AND PATTI › 7 pm › Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St, Northampton › $22.50-$25 › 413.586.8686 or iheg.com/iron_horse_main.asp

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ROKY ERICKSON + NUDE BEACH + HOUNDS OF BASKERVILLE › 7 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $23-$25 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com WAYLON SPEED + TIRED OLD BONES + SWAMP BEAR › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $8 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com WHISKEY KILL + DJ SKITZ › 10 pm › Tommy Doyle’s at Harvard, 96 Winthrop St, Cambridge › $5 › 617.864.0655 or tommydoyles.com ZION I + MINNESOTA › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $15-$18 › 617.864.3278 or ticketweb.com

PHX PICKS >> CAN’T MISS Jerry Douglas

• Jerry Douglas The sound of Jerry Douglas’s dobro has 9 become a signature of modern roots music, from his work as a regular member of Alison Krauss’s Union Station to gigs with Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, and Mumford & Sons. A dandy singer as well, Douglas plies all manner of country-folk and blues with a contemporary sensibility in arrangements and production that are true to the music’s core.

First Parish Meeting House, 3 Church St, Cambridge :: 8 pm :: $40 :: heptunesconcerts.com FRI

SATURDAY 10

• Mary Black For almost 30 years, Mary Black has been at the forefront of the SAT Irish music scene, as a solo performer and lead singer with the band De Dannan.

10 She comes to town in support her first studio CD in six years, Stories from the Steeples (Blix Street). Singer Róisín opens. Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass Ave, Boston :: 8 pm :: $30-$48 :: 617.876.4275 or worldmusic.org • THe FresH & oNlys + QuIlT + gHosT BoX orcHesTra We got mad love for San Francisco pop quartet the Fresh & Onlys, but two of Boston’s finest purveyors of 11 experimental sounds send this bill from awesome to fucking redonkulous, as Quilt’s psychedelic folk is a perfect complement to Ghost Box Orchestra’s tapestry of mindmelt sound. Skip church in the morning and instead worship at the altar of Boston psych.

Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston :: 9 pm :: $10 :: ticketmaster.com SUN

• “cereMoNy” Few dance parties anywhere live to celebrate their Sweet 16, but that’s what weekly goth night mainstay Ceremony raises a chalice to tonight at An 2 Tua Nua in the Fens. To prove that the undead have a lovely sense of humor, this 1 anniversary was supposed to go down just before Halloween, until Hurricane Sandy decided she hated VNV Nation, Wolfsheim, and dark underworld fun. DJs Static, Lost Boy, and guest mixmaster El Poser of CVLT keep the beats evil. An Tua Nua, 835 Beacon St, Boston :: 9 pm :: call for ticket info :: 617.262.2121 MON

• reVocaTIoN Last year these Massachusetts death-metal mavens dropped one of the best records of 2011 with Chaos of Forms and laid down another brutal gauntlet in September’s Teratogenesis EP, which was released as a free offering from Scion A/V. Tonight these Boston dudes thrash it up with A Life Once Lost, Kenmode, and Lunglust. Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston :: 9 pm :: $10 :: ticketweb.com • BearsTroNauT Boston electronic-pop quartet Bearstronaut drop their new EP, Paradice, with a dancefloor-minded party you can shake your hump-day rump to. Phoenix faves Animal Talk and DJ Evaredy round out the bill, with a few special guests in line with Bearstronaut’s fullfrontal tank top-pop tropical synthpop assault. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 15 Brookline St, Cambridge :: 8:30 pm Revocation :: $10 :: ticketweb.com TUE

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• aMaNDa PalMer The Million Dollar Dresden Doll kicks off a three-night WED stand at the ’Dise, showing us hometown folks just why the global icon was 14 nominated for three 2012 Boston Music Awards: Artist of the Year, Album/EP of the Year for Theatre Is Evil, and Female Vocalist of the Year. Not that we needed a reminder, but you know how Boston is. Morrissey once wrote a song about friends becoming successful. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston :: 8 pm :: $25 :: ticketmaster.com

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CHRIS ISAAK › 8 pm › Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton, NH › $30-66 › 603.929.4100 CORTEZ + ROZAMOV + BRAHMANDA › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $7 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com THE CRUSHING LOW + RANDOM VARIABLES + MISTER VERTIGO + YELLABIRD › 9 pm › Ralph’s Diner, 148 Grove St, Worcester › 508.753.9543 or myspace.com/ralphsdiner ERIK WHITE › 7:30 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com FEAR NUTTIN’ BAND + EIGHT FEET TALL + THE WONDERMICS HOT DAY AT THE ZOO + SARAH BLACKER + THE PRIMATE FIASCO › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $12-$15 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com HUMAN SEXUAL RESPONSE + CONTRAPPOSTO + DJ CARBO › 6 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $25 › 888.693.2583 JOHN POWHIDA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT › 10 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com LEFT HAND DOES + MONIKER + SUPERVOLCANO + HERRA TERRA › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $8-$10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com MANSIONS ON THE MOON › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $10$12 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com MARCO PIGNATARO JAZZET › 9 pm › Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com PARACHUTER › 7:30 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $7$10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com PINBACK › 7 pm › Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston › 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com

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Arts & Nightlife :: music << live music from p 103

RACK’EM LET’S GO + BANOOBA › 10 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $12 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com ROSIE FLORES & MARTI BROM + LEAH AND HER J-WALKERS › 6:15 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $15 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com SUFFER THE DESTROYER › 1 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $8-$10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com THE VIOLET LIGHTS + THE I WANT YOU + EKSI EKSO › 9:30 pm › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com

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SUNDAY 11

ASSAF KEHATI TRIO + EHUD ETTUN QUARTET › 7 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › $10-$15 › 617.497.0823 BAREFOOT TRUTH › 7 pm › Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston › $15 › 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com BLACK PRAIRIE [MEMBERS OF THE DECEMBERISTS] + CASEY NEILL › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $10 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb. com BLACK PYRAMID + KINGS DESTROY + CLAMFIGHT › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $9 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com DEAD DEATH + KYRIDION + SCOURGE + DEFILEMENT + BLACK MASS › 1 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $8-$10 › 617.864.

EAST or ticketweb.com EARTH + EAGLE TWIN + STEBMO › 9 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $12-$14 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com THE HIDEOUT + THE HEART SLEEVES + THE LONG TONES + GIDEON GREY › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com MEGADETH + KYNG › 7 pm › Palladium, 261 Main St, Worcester › $37.50-$40 › 978.797.9696 NAS + MS. LAURYN HILL › 8 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $59.50$259.50 › 888.693.2583 PILLOW THEORY + ALEX KELLY › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com QUILT + THE FRESH AND ONLYS + GHOST BOX ORCHESTRA › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $10-$12 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com ROBERT SCHWARTZMAN [ROONEY] + MERCIES + THE ANCHORS +

SHARON VAN ETTEN gets fragile at the Paradise Rock Club.

GOODFELLAS › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com SHARON VAN ETTEN + DAMIEN JURADO › 8 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $17-$20 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com SUFFOCATION + TOTALITY + SEXCREMENT + ABNORMALITY + SCAPHISM › 6 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $17-$20 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com TERRANCE REEVES + THE GHOST OF VIGODA + GRAYSHOT › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557

MONDAY 12

CAVE RUNNING + PEOPLE OF THE NORTH › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $8 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb. com CONVERGE + TORCHE + KVELERTAK + WHIPS/CHAINS › 7

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pm › Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston › $16 › 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com HEATHER STYKA › 10 pm › Cantab Lounge, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge.com HORSE FEATHERS + FRANK FAIRFIELD › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $13-$15 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com SAND RECKONER + THE NEW LIGHTS › 10 pm › ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.864.3278 or ticketmaster.com/venue/8547

TUESDAY 13

DAN DEACON + HEIGHT WITH FRIENDS + CHESTER ENDERSBY GWAZDA + ALAN RESNICK › 7 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $13-$15 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com DAVID BAZAN BAND + STAGNANT POOLS › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $15-$17 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com

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GREAT LAKES USA + SAVE ENDS + THE BUTTS + BATTLE CRIES › 9 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $8 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com THE HORNITZ › 8 pm › Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston › $3 › 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com INTO ANOTHER + PRIMITIVE WEAPONS › 7 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $15-$17 LAWRENCE ARABIA + ALOUD + LOUD CLAPPERS › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $8-$9 › 617.864.

EAST or ticketweb.com LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN + THE DIXIE BUTTERHOUNDS › 8:30 pm › Cantab Lounge, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge.com RED FANG + BLACK TUSK + INDIAN HANDCRAFTS › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $12 › 617.864.

EAST or ticketweb.com REVOCATION + A LIFE ONCE LOST + KENMODE + LUNGLUST › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $10 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com TRICKY BRITCHES + DARLINGSIDE › 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $13-$15 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com

WEDNESDAY 14

BARNABY BRIGHT + LIZ LONGLEY › 9 pm › Café 939, 939 Boylston St, Boston › $12 › 617.747.6038 or ticketmaster.com/ BEARSTRONAUT + ANIMAL TALK + DJ EVAREDY › 9 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com CITIZEN + STATE CHAMPS + CANDY HEARTS + NORTHBOUND + SOMOS + SLEEPING PATTERNS › 6:30 pm › Palladium Upstairs, 261 Main St, Worcester › $12 › 978.797.9696 or DENNIS BRENNAN BAND + KRISTIN CIFELLI › 9:15 pm › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com THE DIRTY GUV-NAHS › 7 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $12-$15 DOLFISH + DAN BLAKESLEE + YOUNG AND OLD + DAN BAKER › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $7 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com THE HELIO SEQUENCE + RAMONA FALLS › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $12-$14 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com HUSKY + HANNAH GEORGES + DJ CARBO › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $12 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com

“INTERNATIONAL POP OVERTHROW DAY 1” › Dave Rave Band + Kurt Baker + Lannie Flowers + Peter Baldrachi + In Tangiers + Cat Sounds › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com LIGHT ASYLUM + MATTHEW DEAR + JOHN BARERA › 8 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $15 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com “THE BRYAN STARS TOUR” › Late Nite Reading + Rocky Loves Emily + Catching Your Clouds + Farewell My Love › 6 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10-$40 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com “THELONIUS MONK TRIBUTE” › George Garzone + Tim Ray + Phil Grenadier + Dave Clark + Bob Savine › 8 pm › Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston › 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com YOKO MIWA › 8 pm › Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $20 › 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com

JIDAM KANG GROUP › 8:30 pm › Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $12 › 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com MARTHA WAINWRIGHT + AROARA › 7 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $15 MUSANER › 9:30 pm › Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston › 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com NAJEE › 8 pm › Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $38 › 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com PHUTUREPRIMATIVE + SPACE JESUS + SOULACYBIN › 9:30 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $10-$15 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com THE BYNARS + THE TINS + CAMDEN + J/Q › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $8 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com

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THURSDAY 15

AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA › 8 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $25-$27.50 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com “A TRIBUTE TO WOODY GUTHRIE” › Alastair Moock + Rani Arbo + Mark Erelli + Jennifer Kimball + Elijah Wald › 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $20-$22 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com BEWARE THE DANGERS OF THE GHOST SCORPION + THUNDERBLOODS › 10:30 pm › Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com THE BREW + VAN GHOST + ANIMALS & SHAPES › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $15-$18 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com DAVE DOUGLAS + AOIFE O`DONOVAN › 7:30 pm › Regattabar, 1 Bennett St, Charles Hotel, Cambridge › $28 › 617.661.5000 or regattabarjazz.com DEE-1 + MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS + XPERIENCE › 8 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $20 › 888.693.2583 DEIPHAGO + MANTICORE + WARSTRIKE 666 + MARTYRVORE + WITCH KING › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $12 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com EN VOGUE › 8 pm › Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St, Boston › $35-$50 › 617.248.9700 or ticketmaster.com “INTERNATIONAL POP OVERTHROW DAY 2” › The Eric Barao Band + The Buckners + Brian Charles + Kyle Vincent + The Connection + Didn’t Planet › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com

Mass Craftacular MARY BLACK sings folk — Irish and otherwise — at the Berklee Performance Center.

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Arts & Nightlife :: Clubs

club nights

RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › “Rumor Tuesdays” with DJ Roger M WONDER BAR › Allston › “Music Ecology” ZUZU › Cambridge › 10 pm › “Zuesday” with DJ Leah V

thuRsDAY 8

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 JACQUE’S CABARET › Boston › 10:30 pm › “Jacques’ Angels” with Kris Knievil LIVING ROOM › Boston › 8 pm › DJ Snow White 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” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “Elements” with Crook & Lenore RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › “Trainwreck Thursdays” with DJ Brian Derrick RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › “Hi Frequency” with Ju Lee + Burak Bacio + Kia Mazzi WONDER BAR › Allston › 10 pm › “Top 40/House Thursdays” ZUZU › Cambridge › 10:30 pm › “B.O.S.S. Ecclectic Dance Party”

FRiDAY 9

ALLEY BAR › Boston › “Fur & Gold” with DJ Brent Covington + DJ Taffy 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 pm › “Estate Fridays” GREAT SCOTT › Allston › 10 pm › “The Pill” with DJ Ken + DJ Michael V GYPSY BAR › Boston › 10 pm › DJ Dera MACHINE › Boston › 10 pm › “Machine Friday” with DJs Darrin Friedman and Gay Jim NORTHERN NIGHTS › Lynn › 8 pm › “Madonna Fridays” with DJ Jay Ine OM RESTAURANT & LOUNGE › Cambridge › 10:30 pm › “Pachanga Night” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “PYT” with DJ Vinny RISE › Boston › “Wonderland” RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › “Hush Fridays” with DJ Hectik + DJ Dres + DJ Lus SPLASH ULTRA LOUNGE & BURGER BAR › Boston › 10 pm › “Privilege Fridays” T.T. THE BEAR’S PLACE › Cambridge › 9 pm › “Xmortis” with DJ Chris Ewen UMBRIA PRIME › Boston › 10 pm › “VIP Fridays” 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 Durkin

sAtuRDAY 10

BOND › Boston › 10 pm › “Flaunt Saturdays” COMMON GROUND › Allston › “Millenium Night” CURE LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › “Saturdays at Cure”

WEDnEsDAY 14

Swedish DJ Duo Cazzette are at Umbra Prime on Sunday.

DISTRICT › Boston › 10 pm › “Clique Saturdays” EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › “Top 40s & House” ESTATE › Boston › DJ Jesse Jess › 10 pm › “VIP Access Saturdays” GYPSY BAR › Boston › 10 pm › DJ Mario 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 RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › “Revolution Saturdays” with Isabella Cavallier RISE › Boston › “Second Saturdays: Gay Night” RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › “Rumor Saturdays” SPLASH ULTRA LOUNGE & BURGER BAR › Boston › 10 pm › “Sold Out Saturdays” with DJ Bamboora T.T. THE BEAR’S PLACE › Cambridge › 10 pm › “Heroes” with DJ Chris Ewen UMBRIA PRIME › Boston › 10 pm › “Scene Saturdays” WONDER BAR › Allston › 10 pm › “Wonderbar Saturdays” ZUZU › Cambridge › 11 pm › “Soulelujah”

sunDAY 11

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 › “The Den” with DJ Joseph Colbourne UMBRIA PRIME › Boston › 10 pm › Cazzette UNDERBAR › Boston › 10 pm › “Hot Mess Sundays” with DJ Richie Ladue ZUZU › Cambridge › 10 pm › “All You Can Eat Buffet Dance Party”

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MOnDAY 12

AN TUA NUA › Boston › 9 pm › “Ceremony - Goth Night 16th Anniversary” 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 13

EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 6 pm › “Wicked New Music” MACHINE › Boston › 9 pm › “Psyclone Tuesdays” with Stevie Psyclone NAGA › Cambridge › “Fiesta Tuesdays” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “Elecsonic” RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › “Punk Night” RIVER GODS › Cambridge › 9 pm › “Whithaus Random Vinyl Night”

DISTRICT › Boston › “Classic Wednesdays” with DJ Tanno EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 8 pm › “Mondo Wednesdays” LIBERTY HOTEL › Boston › 6:30 pm › “Whole Note Wednesdays” MIDDLE EAST CORNER › Cambridge › 9:30 pm › “Heat” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “Re:Set” RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › “Rock Wednesdays” with DJ Victor 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” WONDER BAR › Allston › 9 pm › “Wobble Wednesdays” ZUZU › Cambridge › 10 pm › “Money”

thuRsDAY 15

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 › “Futuristic Soul” NAGA › Cambridge › “Verve Thursdays” OM RESTAURANT & LOUNGE › Cambridge › 10:30 pm › “Late Night Lounge” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “Elements” with Crook & Lenore RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › “Trainwreck Thursdays” with DJ Brian Derrick RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › “Hi Frequency” with Ju Lee + Burak Bacio + Kia Mazzi WONDER BAR › Allston › 10 pm › “Top 40/ House Thursdays” ZUZU › Cambridge › 10:30 pm › “Rude Sounds”

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» At the Boston Rookie Meetup at the Democracy Center

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The mainsTream media is a dark place for teen girls, but Rookie — an online mag started by 16-year-old blogger Tavi Gevinson last year — is changing that, with smart, feminist musings on pop culture, teen issues, DIY fashion, and more. It’s grown so popular with a certain niche of teens and twentysomethings that meetups have been popping up around the world, allowing readers to talk feminism, make zines and flower crowns, and profess their love for Rookie. Last month, the Boston area held one of its own at the Democracy Center in Harvard Square.

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The mag has taught her a few things too. “Rookie has inspired me to make so many more things. Instead of buying collars and pins and acid-washed denim jackets, I’ve totally made my own. . . . Rookie has never been in the business of telling me what to wear for my complexion, for springtime, or for a first date. It’s more about feeling totally awesome wearing the things I already wear.”

She also draws inspiration from a diverse crew of characters — real and fictional. “My personal style is an amalgamation of everything I’ve ever loved: some Angela Chase, some Patti Smith, some Sanderson sisters from Hocus Pocus.”

That sick pink coat was a gift from her best friend back in Washington, DC. “I think she got it at a thrift store, but I don’t know which one. She’s totally a Rookie lover too.”

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Faye came to the meetup with her younger sister in tow. “I really wanted my little sister to meet some girls who I thought would have the same values I want her to grow up with. . . . Rookie has always felt like a safe environment for young girls to be themselves and learn about positive feminist ideals.”

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Arts & Nightlife :: bAck tAlk Some of your last projects feel very different: former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara This in more o f T discussing Vietnam in To Th erview, go epho e The Fog of War; the onecom nix. time beauty queen Joyce McKinney explaining why she locked her Mormon love object in chains in Tabloid; and now this book. Is there a common denominator? They’re all about the pursuit of truth, about the nature of evidence, about the circumstances under which we can actually ascertain the truth. There are, without a doubt, themes in common among all of these projects — and probably in everything that I’ve ever done, for that matter.

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You appear to believe in absolute truth. Yeah, absolutely. (There is the faintest of chuckles.) I do believe in absolute truth, and even in an absolute truth that we can know. You may investigate a crime and fail to come to some absolute, definitive conclusion about what happened, or who’s guilty. But you can never know that in advance. You can never know in an investigation if you will be successful or unsuccessful. You have to operate under the premise that you will be successful, that you can come to a conclusion, that you can get definite answers.

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ugust 29, 1979. Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, a former Army Special Forces captain, was convicted of murdering his wife and two daughters as they slept in their house in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The case generated sensational publicity, a book — Joe McGinniss’s Fatal Vision — and a subsequent television mini-drama. Now comes acclaimed documentary filmmaker Errol Morris’s A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald (Penguin Press).

Morris examines the evidence and demonstrates the staggering fraudulence of the case against the imprisoned MacDonald. I spoke with Morris by telephone after his return from North Carolina, where he observed a court hearing about getting MacDonald a new trial.

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“I do believe in absolute truth, and even in an absolute truth that we can know.”

In general, why is it so hard to get people to agree on the truth?

There are lots of reasons. Part of it is that we’re all possessed by narratives.

We all like to weave stories for ourselves. Part of why I wrote this book is to tell a story about how narratives can actually prevent you from seeing evidence, from seeing the world. One thing to remember about truth is that just because some people believe it doesn’t make it true. P

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My take is that the criminaljustice system won’t accept uncertainty as an answer when sometimes uncertainty is the best you can achieve. The interests of the criminal-justice system are different from the interests of, say, some Platonic detective who cares about what really and truly happened.

The criminal-justice system has to come to a conclusion. It has to come to a definitive answer because a decision has to be made. Do you lock the defendant up? Or do you turn them free? That’s not a bad thing, per se.

It can turn rotten, however, when evidence is hidden, destroyed, suppressed; where the trial isn’t really an attempt to sort through evidence but rather an attempt to hide evidence.

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