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The fire This Time The first Obama administration failed progressives. Will the second be any different?

By David Bernstein.

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The airlines are exaggerating the cost of Labor, it is the greed of the upper tier of management that is the problem. In Chicago, we went from a time when each of the 48 Gates were manned by crews of at least 6 baggage handles + 1 Crew Chief while the entire ramp was supervised by 2 supervisors and 1 manager to 26 Gates manned by 3 full time and 1 part time baggage handlers + 1 Crew Chief and 6 Supervisors, 3 managers and another 2 even higher level managers who probably earn (I use that term very loosely) minimum 150K/yr + bonuses. Many of my fellow workers being laid off are going to the unemployment lines and being offered to do the same job for the

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» Hurricanes and voterturnout lines not extreme enough for you? Allow us to introduce you to a man who can wolf down seven pounds of steak, a woman who walked from Boston to DC, and a designer who wants you to wear antlers.

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» Whew, we sure dodged a bullet back on November 6, didn’t we? This week, we ponder Katy Perry’s pendulous, um, political influences, sift through #mapoli’s post-election rubble, and slap the finishing touches on our “TRUMP WAS RIGHT” protest sign.

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» For Obama’s second term: we can haz progressive politics?

Meanwhile, medical marijuana passed in Mass. So now what?

Here’s everything you need to know. And for Hip-Hop History Month, we turn to Hub rap archaeologist Pacey Foster and his extensive Lecco’s Lemma archives.

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» Black Friday is almost here, which means you’ll soon be tearing through Newbury Street in search of rad gifts for your best beloveds (as well as people you hardly know). For you, a field guide to Boston’s shopping Mecca.

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THE FISCAL CLIFF: WHAT’S AT STAKE If the just-concluded national election proves anything, it is that the Republican Party lives in a parallel universe, with its own brand of reality that is dangerously disconnected from the experience of most Americans.

Republican Mitt Romney’s honest-to-goodness shock at the news that he lost the White House to incumbent Barack Obama is perhaps the most compelling piece of evidence that the GOP is from planet Zog, while the rest of us make our home on, well, Earth.

Those who live in the real world unfortunately do not have the luxury of sitting by and watching while Republicans will themselves into total irrelevance and ultimate oblivion. Some sort of bargain or compromise must be struck with the GOP members who control the House of Representatives.

If such a deal is not made, then early next year, the nation will totter off its wobbly economic recovery and fall back into a deep recession, sending the stilltoo-high unemployment rate even higher, and whacking the average American worker with a tax increase that is estimated to range between $2,000 and $3,000.

That’s the bottom line of what will happen if Washington allows the nation to fall over what is popularly known as the “fiscal cliff.”

Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, coined the phrase in 2011, when Congress made what in effect was a suicide pact with itself after common sense failed to bring about an agreement on how to deal with the spiraling federal deficit, which next year will reach its $16.4 trillion ceiling.

The term “Congress” should be used loosely. The compromise of agreeing to put a gun to its own head was reached because House Republicans were adamantly opposed to repealing the Bush tax cuts enjoyed

by the most affluent — those with annual family incomes higher than $250,000.

Eliminating the Bush tax cuts would produce $4 trillion in revenue, but that was too sensible a solution. The GOP obviously felt this would set a bad example for the 47 percent, which does not make enough to pay federal income tax, and the balance of working-class and middle-income families who pay higher rates than big earners. Making the have-nots lust for the lower rates of the haves would build character in the Republicans’ interplanetary scheme of things.

The president has quite rightly told the nation that he was re-elected because he promised to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, so he will not back down from doing so.

How the GOP will respond to this gambit remains to be seen. House Speaker John Boehner has made a few soothing noises, but no one — given past history — should put too much stock in those.

Obama has more leverage in this round of negotiation than he had in the last. The Bush tax cuts are set to expire on January 1, 2013. By doing nothing, Obama will be able to say he kept his tax pledge.

The problem is, this narrow win would trigger economic calamity — setting in motion previously agreedupon spending cuts of $175 billion and raising taxes on the not-so rich by $530 billion. This double whammy would shrink the economy by about 5 percent, erasing all the gains — and maybe more — of recent months.

(What were those morons thinking?)

Thus Obama, who took office four years ago amidst the greatest economic crisis of our time, returns to office facing a prospect almost as grim. In moving forward, the president should expect only minimum cooperation from the Republicans — if that. Obama must make it clear to the nation that he will maximize every unilateral power at his disposal if the previously unreasonable GOP fails to act prudently. P

Eliminating the Bush tax cuts would produce $4 trillion in revenue, but that was too sensible. The GOP obviously felt this would set a bad example for the 47 percent.

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sound bites from bourdain

ight from his debut book, Kitchen Confidential — which notes rthony that the playing of Billy Joel is a firing offense in his kitchen — AnBourdain established himself as a man with an appetite

for badass rock. So with his Guts and Glory speaking tour coming to Symphony Hall on Friday, we asked WFNX executive producer (and chef-in-training) Kurt St. Thomas to grill Bourdain on the intersections between music and cuisine. Here’s a taste; for the rest, tune into WFNX.com on Thursday at noon and hear the pair spin tunes from Bourdain faves like Richard Hell and Queens of the Stone Age. And find full details on Bourdain’s Friday show on page 55.

It’s obvious from watching your show that you’re a great fan of music. And it seems like you’re a fan of New York punk bands from the late ’70s? Yeah, basically. I love that New York punk period. But I love pre-disco, funk. If I could come back as a musician, Bootsy Collins would have been a good choice, I think.

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KC Hoye walKed nearly 500 miles to deliver a letter in which she introduces herself with five words most of us can relate to: “I am an average American.” A web editor and staff writer at UNregular Radio, the 27-year-old Hoye spent much of this year planning for the month of September, knowing it would take at least four weeks to trek from Boston to Washington, DC, on foot.

But what started as a journey to present Congress a personal message — a letter urging elected leaders to thoroughly reassess their priorities — evolved into a mission relatively unconcerned with reaching out-of-touch legislators.

Listening to the people she met en route, the road angels who helped her find shelter, food, and peace of mind when she was stranded, Hoye was inspired to reform her agenda.

“I got better at asking questions than answering them,” she explains. “In the long run, it was the small-business owners, the people I stayed with, and the people I met along the way that were a way more important story than any letter delivery.”

In New York, she stayed with a medical student who helped her think critically about GDP and unemployment statistics. In Delaware, she stayed with a man who touted America as the greatest country in the world — especially in light of the entrenched classism he saw while living in India. But by the time she finally arrived in DC, it was a federal holiday, and Congress wasn’t in session. The only people she spoke with at the US Capitol were security guards.

“I knew the place wasn’t going to be that hoppin’ joint that I needed it to be to have that sensational effect. But this wasn’t about sensation,” she says.

Long before Hoye left Boston on August 29, she started blogging about her citizen-identity quest. She’s used the web platform to document the political musings of American strangers, the toll the walk took on her body (see the website for gruesome photos of her blistered and bandaged feet), and the evolution of her own values.

“It was about making politics a conversation that can happen across the dinner table, so it’s like ‘Pass the salt — and the state of the union.’ ” _ a ri el shea r er

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When you were in culinary school, did you ever think this was the path it would lead to? Absolutely not. At age 44, when I was still standing next to a deep fryer, if I was sure of anything, it was that I would never get to fulfill my childhood dream of seeing Vietnam or even Rome. I pretty much thought that was it for me.

What is your new CNN show? Is it drastically different than No Reservations and The Layover? It’s the same camera people, editors, production team, and production company I’ve been working with all along. . . . [CNN] has an infrastructure on the ground that will allow us an experience in a lot of these countries. We never would have been able to get into places like the Congo or Libya or Myanmar with the Travel Channel, so this kind of opens up the world for us in whole new ways.

1. John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, an 18th-century British statesman who invented the sandwich so he wouldn’t have to leave the gambling table for meals. 2. A sandwich chain that opened up shop in the Boston Common’s “Pink Palace” — a former public restroom — this week after lengthy delays.

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When you were starting out as a chef and living in New York, were you going down to CBGB and seeing the Ramones? All of us in the kitchen at the time, we had sort of the same hours as a lot of musicians, and none of them had any money. Punk at the time was not a commercial enterprise to say the least. No one was buying any records. They weren’t getting any radio airtime. So we’d feed them and they’d give us free passes to their shows, so it was a very symbiotic relationship.

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Stella Artois' rich brewing heritage dates back to 1366 in Leuven, Belgium, where it was first brewed to celebrate the holiday season. Traditional malted barley and the highest quality European hops give Stella Artois its full flavor and delicately crisp finish.

Hoegaarden is the Original Belgian Wheat Beer, dating back to the 15th Century. A naturally cloudy beer, Hoegaarden features a secret to its refreshing flavor and spicy nose: real Curaçao orange peel and a dash of coriander.

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Out Of the rubble

When an electrical fire tore through Pan9 six years ago, a handful of artists who lived and worked in the Warholian underground Allston art space (where the Dresden Dolls played their very first live show) were left homeless, among them Katherine Bergeron and E. Stephen Frederick. Bergeron, a/k/a Katrina Galore when performing for The Slutcracker or Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys, says that the fire’s devastation went far beyond physical loss. “It’s difficult to convey with words how special Pan9 was, and how special it was to people when it died,” she says.

It was that loss that inspired the couple to found Torrent Engine 18, a 19th-century Dorchester firehouse that Bergeron and Frederick (curator of the “multimedia assault on the senses” known as the Empire S.N.A.F.U. Restoration Project) are transforming into a flexible arts space they’ll also call home. They’re funding the project through a Kickstarter campaign, for which they’re asking for a mere $10,000. (“A friend joked, ‘Where’s the extra zero?’ ” Bergeron says with a laugh.) The campaign launched on November 1, and at the time of this interview, just four days in, they’d already raised more than half of that amount.

She attributes this swift and rather remarkable response to Boston’s tight-knit arts community. “I wouldn’t be able to do what I’m doing somewhere else,” she says. “It has to do with trust. People know that we’re willing to go to the ultimate limit to make this place as great as possible. We want to make it a destination for underground art; that is our exclusive goal.”

Bergeron, who holds a day job in education administration at Harvard while Frederick puts in a 40-plus-hour work week as “foreman and superintendent” of Torrent Engine 18, says they hope to open the new art space’s doors as early as this spring. It’s a race against the clock as winter approaches, and the couple — along with a dedicated crew of volunteers who are contributing labor instead of or in addition to monetary donations — are restoring the decrepit building almost entirely by themselves.

It’s going to be a lot of work, but, as Bergeron puts it, “We wouldn’t have tackled this project if we didn’t think it was important, in fact, urgent.” She laughs, “And you have to be a little bit insane.”

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The ability to shove hundreds of chicken wings down your gullet faster than the next guy isn’t often considered a particularly attractive quality — especially if you’re on a first date or at a business lunch. But if you’re a participant in an eating challenge, baby, it’ll make you a star. Since the closest we’ve come to competitive eating was battling our dining companions for the last spring roll over late-night takeout (victoriously, we might add), we thought it best to consult a seasoned professional before entering one of McGreevy’s new buffalo-wing-eating “Wing Pot” contests.

We found that expert in Mark Wahlberg’s buddy, Wing Pot judge and pro competitive eater Nacho, who discovered his talent because of “a stupid bet.” His claims to fame include having competed — twice — in Coney Island’s storied hot-dog-eating competition and having once eaten a 109-ounce steak in under 40 minutes. Plus, he’s always up for a challenge. “The craziest and grossest thing I’ve ever eaten was duck eggs. Boiled and oozing duck eggs,” he says. “I’ve also eaten a whole bowl of wasabi.” We take this to mean that he knows what he’s talking about.

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ON basIc TraININg: “i would recommend [beginning to train with] chicken wings or hot dogs. they’re the easiest and quickest food to eat. i also eat something with a lot of fiber an hour or so before a competition.”

ON THE EasIEsT fOOd TO EaT a TON Of: “baked beans, definitely. chicken wings, too. i’ve eaten 150 chicken wings in less than 40 minutes with no problems.”

ON THE HardEsT: “cheese. it’s so heavy and creamy that it fills you up so quickly.”

ON PukINg: “never puke. Ever.”

ON NOT gETTINg faT (wITHOuT PukINg): “walking is the best exercise routine. i walk at a high pace at least five to six miles a day.”

ON PacINg yOursElf: “definitely start off [eating] at a moderate pace. if you start at a full sprint, you’ll be done for.”

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Holiday sHopping doesn’t Have to mean braving the horrors of the mall. Indier options abound. Launched this month is Boston’s latest addition: Artistry, a South End pop-up featuring handcrafted jewelry by five local designers (plus oil paintings by artist Beth Dacey, who draws inspiration from vintage photos). The designers are staffing Artistry themselves daily through December 24 (hear that, procrastinators?), so curious browsers can learn about pieces straight from the source. Each designer has a unique aesthetic; here’s a small sample of their creations.

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her delicate floral designs, using sterling silver in place of paper — no easy feat. Each sphere in this “Continuous Flora” bracelet ($870) began as 12 silver triangles, which Makio folded and soldered to form a rosette. She pulled off that two-tone effect by oxidizing some triangles and coating others with rhodium.

her Somerville studio, Laura Jaklitsch BgreatInmakes mini sculptures that would look atop your coffee table — and even better around your finger, wrist, or neck.

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Think earrings made of cascading silver cones or a ring that ends in two huge, bright-green polyurethane bulbs. Juxtaposing unusual materials in her ultra-modern designs, she combines rubber and sea-green chrysoprase for a necklace, for instance, and wood, urethane, and sterling silver for this colorful ring ($350).

“Delicately industrial” is how Jennifer cFrom Chin describes her Lush Metals line. her Fort Point Channel studio, she

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“My biggest muses right now are deer antlers and horsehair,” says Lauren Passenti, a designer who revels in the tension between the softness of organic material and the hard edge of metal.

Her jewelry looks like it was culled from the closet of a very stylish mystic — shells, stones, and bones intermingle with crystals, pearls, and even cement. This “Under the Forest Floor” necklace ($295) is made of brass and deer antlers, which

she gets from “a sculptor/hoarder/ antique seller,” one of her neighbors at her Somerville studio.

In her South End studio, Sophie Hughes ehammer creates sculptural jewelry with a and anvil, a process-oriented

approach that yields cool, contemporary, totally wearable designs, like these “Iso” earrings ($1221) in 18K recycled gold.

Recently seen on fashion-week runways in NYC and Boston, her pieces can interact with the body in unexpected ways — picture a lariat that moves freely through a hollow U pendant and can be worn in multiple configurations.

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“Most young voters polled — 65 percent of those were under 35 —- think Perry helps the cause she supports versus only 53 percent of over-35 voters. ‘Sixteen percent of under-35 voters said Katy Perry is credible or trustworthy when expressing political views,’ said THR pollster Jon Penn. ‘Only 2 percent of over-44 voters find her credible. That’s a huge difference.’ ” But why? What on earth could account for the buxom-celebrity credibility gap between voters in one demographic and voters completely outside that demographic?

How in the world could a superstar like Katy Perry fail to change the voting habits of the elderly? My mind reels, but THR provides expert speculation:

Due To my sTrange publishing schedule, I’m writing this on November 5, the day before Mitt Romney will be elected to our highest office. I’m not at all worried about jinxing him, since he’s a total lock and absolutely nothing could go wrong. I’m so confident in Romney’s victory that I’m not even going to vote for him; in fact, I’m going to call all of my friends who live in swing states and tell them not to vote for him, either. If Romney somehow hasn’t prevailed by the time this is printed, I defy God to strike me down in the most gruesome and tortuous manner possible. Furthermore, I hereby declare that it’s totally permissible for you, loyal reader, to personally murder me, with no legal repercussions. I’m absolutely not going to knock on wood here, because I know I’m right.

[Editor: please omit preceding paragraph if Romney doesn’t win. Also omit this sentence, just to cover your tracks.]

But yeah — here in the hazy netherworld of the uncertain past, America is yet unsure who will lead her. Where I sit, everyone is 18 11.16.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOm/bIgHurT

How in the world could a superstar like Katy Perry fail to change the voting habits of the elderly?

still whipping themselves into a full tizzy over every last tidbit of meaningless statistical jetsam. If you think I’m even talking about CNN’s obsessive interrogation of mythical “undecideds” or all the wild-eyed Nate Silver circlejerking, you’re giving one week ago way too much credit: it really sucks back here. For example, I just read an important piece of opinion research from The Hollywood Reporter concerning Katy Perry’s endorsement of Barack Obama: “Likely voters under 35 find Katy Perry eight times more credible as a political spokesperson than older voters do, an Oct. 29 poll by Penn Schoen Berland for The Hollywood Reporter reveals.”

Not only do I not find this information patently obvious and unfathomably useless — remember, I’m reading this a week ago, when serious journalists like me were still waiting by the red telephone to see who Lemmy from Motörhead would endorse — I’m eager for a more detailed breakdown!

This explanation isn’t entirely convincing, since it poses a sexist double standard — older voters certainly weren’t put off by Meat Loaf’s “sexualized look” when he honked “America the Beautiful” to a titillated crowd. Regardless, I’d like to thank The Hollywood Reporter for its important Hollywood reporting; as an incredible idiot, I find that this gives me a more nuanced understanding of our difficult one-week-ago political climate.

The last time I had to write so nebulous a column was four years ago, at another pivotal moment in our nation’s history: it was the week before Chinese Democracy came out, and nobody was sure whether or not it would be the greatest masterpiece in the history of recorded music. “If Chinese Democracy isn’t the greatest masterpiece in the history of recorded music,” I wrote back then, “may God strike me down in the most gruesome and tortuous manner possible.” Dodged a bullet on that one!

Good luck last week, candidates — may the better man have won. And to my loyal readers: remember to have gotten out there and voted! P

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“Older voters may think Perry is discredited by her sexualized look and hit tune ‘Last Friday Night,’ about alcoholic blackouts, ménage à trois, and disgraceful pictures posted on the Internet. But Perry makes younger voters listen up.”

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TO everyOne On SOcial media who thanked “god” for the Obama win: next time, please pray for a president who isn’t bankrolled by the likes of Goldman Sachs, who respects civil liberties, and who doesn’t indiscriminately bomb civilians. For now, you’re just making your divine master look like a duplicitous, war-mongering asshole.

As it turns out, Donald Trump was the only talking head who interpreted last week’s results correctly. His cry for “revolution” was spot-on, as was his call to “fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice!” Not surprisingly, Trump’s poppycock was mocked and dismissed — but not just because he’s an idiot. It’s because the sluggish status quo is even more comforting than omnipotent god figures who deliver elections.

If you’re a moderate, or even a delusional Republican who pulled for Mitt Romney, then you’re likely counting on House Speaker John Boehner and his obstructionist entourage to keep Washington in check.

Conservative depravity: duly noted. But that doesn’t change the fact that our president is vile in ways that neither Republicans nor Democrats often acknowledge.

If you support Obama, then chances are that you’ve convinced yourself he’ll turn hard left in his final four. And you’ll all be disappointed.

Obama’s victory is the biggest setback to real, radical change in recent history. A win for Romney, and the inevitable dismantling of basic social services that would have likely ensued, would have propelled people into an uproar for which our nation is long overdue. It wouldn’t be the kind of revolution Trump was thinking of — more like the kind of mass blowback that makes oligarchs shit their robes. Now we have to wait another few years for folks to take their blinders off again.

As the 2012 election wound down, frightened liberals deserted their hearts and morals to back Obama. With that trend, there was a general retreat from the formerly popular notion that Democrats and Republicans — along with their corresponding presidential hopefuls — are equally deplorable.

The tilt toward Obama was understandable;

while neither party is prepared to solve our existential crises of environmental injustice, economic disparity, or imperial overreach, aggressive GOP calls for complete deregulation — across all industries — would surely light the fuse closer to the bomb.

Conservative depravity: duly noted.

But that doesn’t change the fact that our president is vile in ways that neither Republicans nor Democrats often acknowledge.

Those failures aren’t merely passive, as in his neglecting to introduce meaningful gun-control initiatives, or halt unrepentant Wall Street greed. Obama, like it or not, has actively enabled a number of atrocities.

On the international front, the commander-in-chief has presided over the murder of thousands of innocent civilians. On privacy, the president authorized measures that make US citizens vulnerable to warrantless searches and indefinite detentions.

And Obama is complicit in the decline of public education, pushing test-driven standards that benefit large corporations while exposing schools to unprecedented private profiteering.

These points are not new — even though they were largely ignored by reporters, candidates, and voters during the election.

Rather, they’re shared in near consensus among many who marked ballots for Obama. Take, for example, the obvious truth that his administration rescued banks and insurance scoundrels, but left ordinary people in the cold. No matter how you slice it, the hundreds of billions in bailout disbursements could have housed the more than half a million homeless Americans, plus rescued the countless more whose housing is in jeopardy.

The reason that we didn’t have a bottomup bailout, of course, is that Obama works for billionaires. His allegiance is not to his entire constituency — it’s to clusters of campaign contributors from the tax-evading likes of Citigroup and General Electric.

You probably already know this; however, it will take a few more swipes at American prosperity to put the revolution back in play.

When that time comes, just remember that The Donald got it right. It’s time to fight like hell against a grave injustice. P

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Tisei’s race may have saved Tierney, one Democratic consultant tells me, because every ad and website had to include the words “National Republican.”

Winner: Doug Rubin. As the strategist behind Deval Patrick in 2010 and Elizabeth Warren in 2012, Rubin has now won backto-back races starting from behind, against top-notch opponents. The 2014 gubernatorial hopefuls will be bidding for his services.

Loser: Shawmut Group. The political consulting shop of Romneyites, including the now-notorious Eric Fehrnstrom, had its two most famous clients lose: Romney and Brown. Had those two races gone the other way, Fehrnstrom would be the new Karl Rove. Instead the firm is 0-for-eight with candidates since Brown’s upset victory. You can count pollster Neil Newhouse as a loser too: his client Romney, like Baker before him, seemed to be genuinely convinced of victory right until the vote counts came in.

Winner: Senator John Kerry. Pundits suggested that Kerry wasn’t really trying to help Warren win, because that would hurt his chances at a secretary of state appointment — Obama wouldn’t risk Brown winning Kerry’s seat, according to the theory. In fact, Kerry was all-in with Warren, and the unexpected cushion of a 55-45 Democratic majority keeps his hopes alive.

The winners and losers last week weren’t all on the ballot.

Loser: mean-spirited Republicans.

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“Fauxcahontas.” Tisei’s purely negative campaignagainst Tierney apparently backfired as well.

Winner: labor. Although they looked a little shaky in some of the state primaries, labor unions redeemed themselves and then some in the general election. Firefighters, led by Ed Kelly, were a huge force for Warren, as was the Mass. AFL-CIO under Steve Tolman. Early indications suggested that union households, which gave half their votes to Brown in the 2010 special election, held much stronger for Warren this time. Oh, and as a bonus, labor doesn’t have to worry about an anti-union Romney presidency.

Loser: outside influencers. The “People’s Pledge” to keep third-party ads out of the Senate race held, much to the surprise of almost everybody — and voters could not have been happier about it. That success almost guarantees that it will return in future races, at least as a challenge among candidates if not in full adoption. Meanwhile, the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) decision to invest heavily in

Winner: residents. Massachusetts could have really screwed itself Tuesday, by voting a full slate of Democrats to the US House and Senate, had Romney won and the GOP taken control of the Senate. The state would have had nobody with any pull, as federal decisions were made about funding, contracts, military base closings, and more. The country bailed us out.

Loser: future presidential hopefuls. Romney joins Kerry, Paul Tsongas, Michael Dukakis, and Ted Kennedy on a list of failed contenders that, you’d think, might discourage people from backing Bay Staters — although from the way people are talking about Warren, maybe not. P

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the vote totals that poured in through the state secretary’s office November 6 provided one set of winners (Elizabeth Warren, John Tierney, Joe Kennedy III, medical marijuana) and losers (Scott Brown, Richard Tisei, medical suicide). But there were plenty of other victories and defeats in Bay State politics last Tuesday.

Here’s my partial scorecard.

Loser: Boston Globe and Boston Herald pollsters. It’s one thing to be wrong when all the other pollsters are wrong — as in Tierney’s surprise victory over Tisei. It’s another to be wrong when everybody else has it right.

Five other publicly released polls in the final stretch all found Warren with a significant lead, of between four and seven percentage points. The final Globe poll, conducted by the University of New Hampshire, had the race even; the Herald poll from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell had Brown ahead by one. Warren won by seven.

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The first Obama administration was a disappointment for progressives.

What makes us think the second will be any different?

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oments after television networks declared Barack Obama the winner of the 2012 election, the environmental organization 350. org, led by Bill McKibben, sent out a press release announcing a protest demonstration for November 18 in front of the White House, in opposition to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

Few on the left have been as vocally, and visibly, disappointed with Obama as the climate movement — understandably, since he made little progress in his first term, and then kept mostly silent about it in his reelection campaign.

But that is only one issue on which the left felt betrayed by the man they worked so hard to elect in 2008. On LGBT rights, civil liberties, economic inequity, immigration, criminal justice, labor organizing, money in politics, and voting rights, the Obama administration let progressives down time and time again.

And who’s to say Obama’s second term won’t be the same as the first?

The sense among activists seems to be: we’re not going to let that happen.

“We definitely do want to hold his feet to the fire on a number of different environmental priorities,” says Jamie Henn, 350.org co-founder and communications director. “It’s not to tear Obama down, but to build him up — to say, ‘We have your back.’ ” Henn thinks Obama understands the issues, and wants to do the right thing, but has been too cautious in battling Republican (and some Democratic) resistance. This is a common sentiment among dissatisfied progressives.

So, they set aside their disappointments and worked to reelect him — if only to prevent the ultraconservative horror of a Mitt Romney administration.

Having helped secure a second term, those advocates for change are wasting no time shifting their sights forward.

They feel that they have armed Obama for progressive battle in two ways. First, and most crassly, they have given him his margin of victory in a close election, and he owes them.

One study already suggests that LGBT voters — who went 76 percent for Obama — provided the margin of victory in Florida. Hispanics turned out in historic numbers, and more than 80 percent of them voted for Obama in the swing states of Nevada and Colorado. Unions ensured victory in Ohio and elsewhere in the industrial Midwest.

But the elections also demonstrated that the country is ready for progressive action.

Not only did they reject the regressive Mitt Romney — voters across the country chose progressive US senators; voted out industryfinanced science deniers; and approved ballot measures in favor of marriage equality, legal marijuana, and rational criminal-justice measures.

In other words, the country is getting out ahead of the president. He has no excuses left for going slowly — he doesn’t need to educate the public or build up consensus. They’re waiting for him to act.

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Progressives were encouraged on election night by Obama’s optimistic, uplifting speech, which explicitly included shout-outs to many of these issues – including references to “the destructive power of a warming planet” and “a tolerant America open to the dreams of an immigrant’s daughter.”

He kept it up in his first postelection weekly address, which began with a declaration that Americans “voted for action, not politics as usual” — a questionable interpretation of a largely status quo vote, but exactly what many progressives wanted to hear.

Obama has also issued a post-election call for citizen action in the process, adding to his previous statement that Washington can only be changed from the outside — meaning that he needs help from citizen brigades exerting pressure.

The rhetoric, at least, is a change from the start of Obama’s first term.

The signals he sent then were as harsh as a Dear John letter: he went incommunicado from his campaign’s grassroots network, hired Wall Street insiders to run the economy, stopped mentioning climate change, and abandoned the public option in healthcare reform.

But talk is not enough, and Obama needs to understand that he’ll be judged on results. That’s why 350. org and others are sending a signal loud and clear — and quickly — that the excitement of the campaign and

the joy of victory have not led the left to forget their long laundry list of unfinished business.

While pundits and partisans are busy dissecting the election results, parceling credit and blame, and forecasting the future of the GOP, progressives are forging forward to fight for their agenda items.

All deliberate speed is especially important because the smartest activists understand that resources and political will are limited, and that those who make the strongest case the earliest stand the best chance of getting results. They remember waiting their turn until after Obama completed his top firstterm priority, health-care reform, only to find the time for getting big things done had passed.

There are, sadly, so many vital priorities facing the country that the Obama administration can probably only tackle a limited number, at least in the short term. And beyond the short term, events have a way of crowding out a president’s agenda — and before you know it we’ll be in his lame-duck final two years in office.

So in some respects, progressives will be battling each other for attention. Advocates of each issue feel they have a strong case for the top of the term-two to-do list.

Representatives of activist organizations insist that they are

The country is getting out ahead of the president. He has no excuses left for going slowly — he doesn’t need to educate the public or build up consensus. They’re waiting for him to act.

supportive of one another, and that their causes overlap and reinforce one another. “When the Obama White House is feeling pressure from the progressive community, it opens up space for all of their priorities,” Henn says.

We’ll see how long that camaraderie lasts. In any event, the priorities may actually be set by rank-and-file progressives, who will decide which issues to pressure Obama on now that they have won him a second term.

earth can’t wait

Environmentalists understandably feel a particular sense of urgency. The earth is in crisis, and time is running short to mitigate the damage.

And there is a feeling that the moment is ripe for public support of serious action. Even before Hurricane Sandy tore apart the Eastern Seaboard — and Bloomberg Businessweek shouted from its cover “It’s Global Warming, Stupid” — Americans were coming to understand the obvious changes around them and the potentially disastrous consequences of inaction.

That awakening has come in spite of Obama’s tragic silence and inaction on the issue, both in office and on the campaign trail.

But environmental activists are cautiously optimistic that the second term will be different — if they keep up the pressure. Ideally, they would like to see a resurrection, and passage, of the comprehensive energy and environment legislation that passed the House but failed to clear the Senate.

There’s plenty the administration can do on its own. One of the most important is the new carbon-emission rule due out from the Environmental Protection Agency, which has been repeatedly delayed but is expected to be released in the first half of 2013.

The fossil-fuel industry has been lobbying hard behind the scenes to declaw those regulations — while spending hundreds of millions in attempts to defeat Obama and cleanenergy-advocating Democrats. The New York Times estimated that “spending on television ads promoting coal and more oil and gas drilling or criticizing clean energy” this year was four times the amount spent in favor of clean energy, which is a stark reversal of 2008, when clean-energy advocates spent more. >> oBaMa on p 26

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There is increasing talk, too, of including a carbon tax in the budget deal being worked out in the fiscal-cliff sequestration negotiations.

And advocates are immediately resuming pressure on Obama to deny permits for the Keystone XL pipeline extension — which, they say, would increase exploitation and use of environmentally destructive tar sands oil. They also want the administration to go after fracking and other environment-damaging practices, and to step up investment in clean-energy industries.

The Sierra Club, in a post-election letter to members and the public, declared: “The bottom line: Big Oil bet big and lost big, on Keystone XL and on a handful of other dirty energy issues.”

Environmentalists are ready to cash in their chips. “There is a lot that the administration can do,” Henn says. Obama has signaled that he understands the urgency, and “we’re looking for him to live up to that.”

That includes voting reforms.

The disgrace of hours-long lines in heavily minority communities — not to mention a whole election cycle of right-wing attempts to suppress votes — has awoken the public to the need to reform the system. Obama even mentioned it in his election-night speech.

It’s one of many areas where Latinos and African Americans have common political cause and expect to work more closely in tandem going forward.

Black Americans increasingly feel that it’s time to start demanding concrete results from Obama. The thrill of having a black president, and all the good that inherently brings, can’t entirely make up for lack of progress on racial issues.

One area in particular is criminal justice. While the Obama administration fought for, and achieved, significant improvements in the mandatory-minimum sentencing laws that were sending small-time urban law-breakers away for years,

Jared Bernstein had been cast off the team, left to whistle into the wind on Twitter and MSNBC. It took the odd combination of those rag-tag Occupiers and billionaire Warren Buffett — who proposed that millionaires should have to pay an effective tax rate at least as high as their secretaries — to create and popularize not only a rational policy framework for the new economic realities, but the best line of attack against the Republican challenger: the super-wealthy, taxavoiding Romney.

The question going forward is whether Obama gets it, and will do better for economic equity and justice than progressives felt he did in the last two years of failed negotiations with the flat-earth Republicans.

The first big test — and one progressives are already mobilizing around — comes with the “fiscal cliff” sequestration debate that must be dealt with in the coming months, before across-the-board cuts and tax increases are triggered. And that will

race MatterS

No group feels more directly responsible for Obama’s re-election than Latinos, who broke all previous records — and expectations — for voter turnout on election day. Their votes went roughly 70 percent to Obama, according to exit polls — and above 80 percent in critical swing states of Colorado and Nevada, according to a ImpreMedia-Latino Decisions Election Eve Poll. Obama won both states.

And it’s fair to say that it had as much to do with fear of Romney and his anti-immigrant rhetoric and calls for “self-deportation” as enthusiasm for Obama, who failed to deliver on his promise of immigration reform.

Reform advocates want to strike quickly, while Republicans are clearly reeling from the realization of Latino voting power. House Speaker John Boehner has already said that he is open to comprehensive immigration reform. Even conservative media stalwart Sean Hannity declared that he has “evolved” and now sees the need for a pathway to citizenship.

But don’t expect Latinos to stop there, or even with codifying DREAM Act executive decisions, or demands for slowing down the deportation pace, which has been at record highs under Obama.

No, Latino activists expect all of those things quickly, but they are also ready to move beyond immigration issues and start pressuring for more economic opportunities and social justice.

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No issue generated more interest among progressives during this election cycle than reducing the influence of money in politics. it has generally taken a hard line on crime and imprisonment, while doing little to improve rehabilitation, job training, and of course the high unemployment rates that are crushing urban black communities.

And then there’s guns.

The past four years have arguably been the worst period for gun control in the nation’s history — and it happened while Chicago suffered a crisis of gun violence, and the nation took blow after blow from mass shootings. None of it prompted anything more than rhetoric from Obama. Groups like the Brady Campaign — which gave Obama’s first term a failing F grade — are teaming up with African-American organizations to start putting pressure on the administration to change course in the second term.

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Last year’s Occupy movement was, in large part, a response to the lack of a progressive economic agenda in the White House, where Wall Street insiders like Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke made policy, and progressive

be followed by another battle over raising the debt ceiling.

Obama has made clear that he considers the election to have given him a mandate to fix the federal budget through a multi-pronged approach that maintains spending in the short term, contains long-term costs, and, critically, includes additional revenues from taxes on the wealthy.

Frankly, progressives want more.

They want, for instance, to see corporate tax benefits stripped, starting with the ones for giant oil companies.

And they want the administration to directly take on the financial industry that “thumbed their nose at [Obama]” throughout his first term and re-election campaign, as one activist said to me recently.

She, and others like her, want to see Obama beef up Dodd-Frank regulations,and step up pressure for financial institutions to pump money into the American economy. And with the expected early-2013 departure of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner — whom some Occupiers view as a tool of Wall Street — there will be a close watch

on who Obama chooses to succeed him.

Some are eager to fight against cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; labor groups in particular have come out quickly since the election to demand protection for those entitlements and benefits.

Labor unions have their own set of key priorities, which they expect Obama to deliver on: most notably, so-called “card-check” legislation that would make it easier to organize.

“Card check is important,” says Steve Tolman, president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO. “In the private sector the rules are stacked against us — that should be a nobrainer.”

But unions are also ready to pressure the administration on a number of fronts, in tandem with many different progressive groups.

the Big picture

In fact, there is wide agreement on the issues among various groups on the left. There is widespread support for bold advances in gay rights; many in the LGBT community were deeply disappointed in Obama’s first term, despite his embrace this year of same-sex marriage. And most progressives back the ACLU and other civil-liberties groups in wanting the administration to end its drone-strike assassination program, close Guantanamo Bay, lift the shroud of secrecy around the detainees at Bagram Air Base, and cut back on the post-9/11 surveillance state.

But perhaps no issue generated more interest among rank-and-file progressives during this election cycle than reducing the influence of money in politics, in the largely limitless spending environment following the Citizens United Supreme Court decision.

And there again Obama turned to the dark side when it came to dark money, approving a “Super PAC” to work on his behalf after initially opposing them.

Changing federal law to curb the effects of Citizens United will be a big test of Obama’s seriousness and commitment to progressive principles.

But in a way, the progressives themselves have taken the matter into their own hands. Through their own grassroots organizing and hard work, they helped achieve impressive victories all across the country, right in the face of billions of dollars spent for conservative causes.

Now, Obama needs to step up and do his part to bring about progress. If he doesn’t, that same grassroots effort is ready to turn on him. P

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Haze of Glory Everything you want to know about Massachusetts and medical marijuana but were afraid to ask B y Val er ie Va n de Pa nn e va l e r i e va n d e pa n n e@ g m a i l .c o m :: @v _ va n d e pa n n e

ommy Dawson, 23, of Salem, has Tto grow neurofibromatosis. It causes tumors on the nerve endings of his body.

Since he was two years old, he has had to have periodic surgeries to remove the tumors. His most recent surgery was on September 12.

As of right now, there is no cure and no medicine to stop it.

As a result of the neurofibromatosis, Dawson experiences sharp, uncomfortable, throbbing pain that tends to not go away. It’s a nerve pain throughout his entire nervous system.

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Ibuprofen doesn’t work, and he’s allergic to Oxycontin and other opiates.

Nothing really works to control the pain. Except marijuana.

Dawson spends about $110 on a quarter ounce of marijuana a week.

“Sour Diesel seems to help the pain a lot,” he says.

Dawson’s doctor is aware he uses marijuana medicinally.

In a little more than six weeks, Dawson’s doctor will be able to provide him with written certification saying, in effect, that the benefits

of his using marijuana for medical purposes outweigh the risks. With that certification in hand, he will be able to legally grow, in an “enclosed, locked facility,” a 60-day supply of the drug — at least until the Department of Public Health establishes the framework for a system of medical-marijuana dispensaries.

Dawson will need about two ounces for a 60-day supply. He doesn’t know how to grow it, so — as allowed under the new law — he’ll probably have a caretaker grow it for him.

The Massachusetts Medical Society thinks a bit differently about medical marijuana than Dawson: “Despite the vote, the Massachusetts Medical Society continues to assert that marijuana has not been proven to be medicine,” according to a statement from its president, Richard Aghababian, MD. But thanks to voters, that kind of rhetoric will no longer prevent Dawson from getting the care he needs. “People don’t have to be afraid of it anymore,” Dawson says with a sigh of relief.

“Because now, it’s actually accepted.”

Here in Massachusetts and around the country, it’s been a celebratory few weeks as marijuana prohibitions have gone up in smoke. Washington State and Colorado voters legalized the weed outright. And Massachusetts’s “An Initiative Petition for a Law for the Humanitarian Medical Use of Marijuana,” better known as Question 3, passed with 63 percent of the vote, making us the 18th state in the nation with medical marijuana.

But for doctors, black marketeers, and the entrepreneurs who will soon form Massachusetts’s first legal marijuana economy, the law passed by voters on November 6 poses far more questions than it answers.

Now, as the smoke clears, cannabis consumers of the Commonwealth look around, blinking into the bright light of the future, wondering: what’s next?

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t the Evergreen Garden Center in Peabody, manager Nathaniel Holden has been receiving over a dozen calls per day since the election, asking about seeds and baby plants. Groups of people have been coming into the store and asking him how to grow pot and open dispensaries.

“I think what people need to understand right now is, this isn’t a free-for-all. This is the time to show how responsible we can be,” he says. “People need to know, as loose as this is gonna get in the future, we’re not there now.”

Currently, he will not speak with you if you waltz in and tell him you want to do something illegal — and until January 1, 2013, medical marijuana is still illegal.

“Once people come in with their cards in hand, then we are happy to discuss with them how to do medical marijuana in their home, or in a dispensary situation,” he says. “And please, don’t walk in and start spewing that you want to grow a bunch of weed.”

If you want to open your own medicalmarijuana treatment center, it’s important to note that Massachusetts’s initiative requires treatment centers to be set up as nonprofits. And the initiative provides only the barest outline of how to open a treatment center, how those centers can obtain their medical

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marijuana, and how patients and products will be regulated. Those details are left to the Department of Public Health to figure out — and it’s unlikely the DPH will provide the answers to the most pressing questions before May 1.

DPH then has until the end of 2013 to issue licenses to treatment centers, which, at this time, as dictated by the initiative, will be permitted to sell not only marijuana, but also medibles (medicinal cannabis foods), tinctures, and oils (provided they follow all other state and local ordinances).

“What is next,” says lawyer Michael Cutler, “is the gearing up of the regulatory process for defining how wholesale cultivation and distribution will operate and how the licensing will operate.” “[DPH] has a lot on their plate right now,” he says, referring to both the drug-crime-lab scandal and the pharmaceutical-lab meningitis scandal.

“But there are plenty of examples of how to do it, between Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont and Connecticut.”

DPH regulators will more than likely refer to neighboring states, like Maine, to develop our regulations, says Cutler.

They will also probably adapt some regulations that are becoming common across the country, such as regulations that require dispensaries to not be located within a specific distance from a school or a park.

Joshua Krefetz, attorney with Krefetz & Seed in Allston, says he doesn’t expect medical marijuana to displace blackmarket sales, in part because the costs of medical pot will be driven higher by the cost of opening and maintaining a treatment center.

“Operating a dispensary or a supply operation requires a big capital outlay,” he says, pointing out that owners will need to follow all DPH regulations, yet to be determined, as well as hire staff, install security systems, obtain leases, and purchase insurance.

And since there is no legal market in marijuana farming, dispensaries are not only retail outlets — they’re also expected to shoulder the costs and risks of being medical-marijuana manufacturers.

“Pfizer doesn’t work as a nonprofit,” Krefetz adds. “Why does Joe Medical Marijuana have to? If you want to encourage quality businesspeople and encourage legitimate industry, you need to allow people to make money.”

hen the initiative goes into effect W on January 1, the DPH has 120 days to write the regulations governing how

medical marijuana will actually function here, in practice. The initiative requires DPH to develop, among other things, a “registration card,” which will probably be similar to what other states have, and issue them to qualified patients. For example, Rhode Island issues a wallet-sized card with the patient’s picture, name, and ID number.

Until the state starts issuing similar cards, patients in Massachusetts will have to furnish what amounts to a doctor’s note — “written certification,” signed by their doctor, attesting to their medical condition and the potential benefits of medical marijuana. The certification, which must be dated after January 1, 2013, must be sent, certified mail with return receipt, to the Department of Public Health.

You, the patient, must also include your name, your address (unless you’re homeless, the statute specifies), and your date of birth, as well as the name, address, and date of birth of your “personal caregiver,” if you’re unable to administer or grow your own marijuana.

Just to be safe, you may even want to include a cover letter to DPH specifying all of this information in an orderly manner. And you’d be wise to keep a copy, with the return receipt — if you run into law enforcement, this will serve as your “card” until DPH starts issuing their own. It’s your pass to have a 60day supply of the weed, for medicinal purposes only.

Remember: possessing up to an ounce of marijuana is decriminalized in Massachusetts, so you do not need a card or a certification from a doctor to have a bit of weed (if you don’t mind getting a ticket). Just don’t have that ounce in 25 different little baggies — in which case you run the risk of a trafficking beef.

arijuana activists, naturally, are M“Legalization pretty fired up. is next,” says Michael

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WHEN DO THE DISPENSARIES OPEN? That’s unclear. The statute takes effect on January 1, 2013. The law gives the Department of Public Health a period of 120 days (which works out to May 1, 2013) to figure out key questions such as how much pot constitutes a 60-day supply — and, in fact, to determine how it’ll run an entire bureaucracy. Which seems, shall we say, optimistic. But that isn’t to say it couldn’t be done: when Maine voters approved medical marijuana in November 2009, the governor convened a task force within weeks; the task force made recommendations by the following January, and emergency rules were passed in May 2010, approving eight dispensaries.

And if Massachusetts really wanted to expedite its process, it might be able to start in as little as 90 days: that’s how long the DPH has to set fees on how much it costs to apply to be a dispensary. Presumably, nobody can apply before, well, the DPH figures out how much it costs to apply. Once it receives an application, the DPH is bound to issue the license within another 90 days — provided the applicant is eligible. So under perfect conditions, it might be theoretically possible for a dispensary to open in less than 180 days — but don’t count on it. Until the DPH has its say, it’ll be impossible to predict how long it would actually take to construct a dispensary, get its employees registered with DPH as required by law, and grow the marijuana.

HOW MANY DISPENSARIES WILL THERE BE IN MASS? Unclear, though the law appears to put a cap on the number — “up to 35” — that can be opened the first year. The statute is poorly worded, but it seems to want those first 35 dispensaries to be as evenly distributed as possible, with at least one in each Massachusetts county, and no more than five in any one county. The DPH is then empowered to expand “or alter” the number of dispensaries based on demand — opening the possibility that the number could go up, but could also theoretically go down. However, a “hardship provision” elsewhere in the law makes it clear that if there aren’t dispensaries within “reasonable” distance of patients, those patients can petition to grow their own weed. The biggest immediate impediment to state-sanctioned dispensaries may be . . . Massachusetts towns. Even before Question 3 passed, north-of-Boston suburbs Wakefield and Reading were planning preemptive measures to ban marijuana treatment centers within their borders; Wakefield’s town meeting will vote on its ban tonight (November 15).

HOW DOES A DISPENSARY GET ITS WEED? The wording of the law is vague, but there are several references that seem to indicate dispensaries can, and might be required to, grow and cultivate their own supply. In its specific wording, the statute allows dispensary employees immunity to prosecution for “acquiring, possessing, cultivating, processing, transferring, [or] transporting” the drug. The verb “acquiring” would seem to open up the possibility that a dispensary could purchase or import marijuana that it has not grown itself — which raises a number of questions about whether and how growing operations might be maintained separately from dispensaries. Could someone grow medical marijuana legally — as a dispensary’s registered agent — and then sell it to the dispensary at a markup? Those are the kinds of decisions that the DPH will have to make early on — and that will have far-reaching consequences for the shape and character of the medical-marijuana industry.

WHO CAN RUN A DISPENSARY? As written, the law imposes very few limitations on who can run a treatment center. The law specifies that treatment centers must be nonprofits — which isn’t to say that the centers can’t generate revenue. Under the umbrella of a nonprofit organization, individuals and divisions can make quite a bit of money. For instance, in Florida, a nonprofit educational foundation, the Poynter Institute, operates a (theoretically) for-profit newspaper, the Tampa Bay Times. It remains to be seen whether a nonprofit treatment center will be allowed to operate, for instance, a for-profit lab or grow facility.

The law also specifies that the board of the nonprofit can’t contain anyone who’s been on the board of another such facility that’s had its medical-marijuana license revoked. Dispensary agents have to be at least 21 and registered with the DPH, and cannot have “been convicted of a felony drug offense.”

HOW MUCH WILL IT COST TO OPEN A DISPENSARY? Unclear. Aside from all the costs of operating a location, maintaining a staff, securing the marijuana, and administering the product, there will be at least one state-mandated cost: an application fee, which the DPH is supposed to set within 90 days. The law says that the administrative cost to the state of maintaining the medical-marijuana program must be revenue-neutral — meaning that whatever the size of the DPH’s bureaucracy, the cost must be paid for through the application fee charged to people who want to set up a dispensary. If the bureaucracy is a big one, that could mean a pretty hefty application fee — especially for a nonprofit.

Access to capital may not come easy. In August, CNBC.com reported that banks are refusing to deal with Colorado medical-marijuana businesses — because, in the words of one dispensary owner, the banks are afraid of running afoul of federal law, and perhaps losing FDIC protection.

That kind of financial uncertainty makes it more likely that the biggest investors in medical-marijuana companies could end up being . . . other medical-marijuana companies. In Maine, four of the eight dispensaries opened in that state’s first year of operation are owned by the same company: Wellness Connection of Maine.

In June, the company settled out of court with a California dispensary firm that alleged Wellness owed it over a half-million dollars in loans, according to the Portland Press-Herald. The same article indicated Wellness Connection had also inked an eight-year, $1.6 million deal with a consulting company affiliated with another group of California dispensaries.

CAN YOU GET MEDICAL MARIJUANA FROM A PLACE OTHER THAN A DISPENSARY? Yes. Until the DPH sets up a system of dispensaries, the law allows patients — only after they submit a qualifying letter from their physician — to grow their own weed. (If they’re physically unable to grow their own, they can assign the task of growing to a caretaker.) The law indicates that this provision ends after the DPH gets up and running. Under the law’s “hardship provision,” if you can prove your access to treatment is limited by financial hardship, by a physical incapacity to obtain transportation to a treatment center, or by the lack of treatment center within a “reasonable” distance, then you can get permission to grow your own.

WHAT MEDICAL CONDITIONS CAN GET YOU A CARD? The statute specifies several medical conditions, but leaves open the possibility of others: “Cancer, glaucoma, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Crohn’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and other conditions as determined in writing by a qualifying patient’s physician.”

HOW OLD MUST YOU BE TO GET A CARD? The initiative places no limit on a patient’s age, though the statute requires “agents” — a term that applies broadly to workers in dispensary operations — to be 21 years of age or over.

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For the 2012 election, a coalition of dPFMa, Masscann/norMl (masscann.org), and law enforcement against Prohibition (leap.cc) placed three PPQs on the ballot:

“shall the state senator/ representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of legislation that would allow the state to regulate and tax marijuana in the same manner as alcohol?”

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Happens. “We wanna see that. That helps patients too. The black market is five times as big as the medical, so we wanna address that with legalization. . . .

I don’t want to see anyone arrested for cannabis. It’s a non-toxic.” Additionally, says Crawford, “We wanna take the marijuana trade outta the high school.”

Crawford says activists are looking at 2016 for a legalization initiative, unless something dramatic happens at the federal level.

This election saw non-binding public-policy questions on the topic of legalization run on the local level in various districts of Massachusetts.

According to lawyer Steven Epstein, the idea of taxing and regulating marijuana, in the same way that alcohol is taxed and regulated, was supported by 72 percent of local-ballot voters. He also says that 54 percent of the voters supported the repeal of marijuana prohibition at a federal level.

“Voters want the state to get out of the way,” Epstein says.

Crawford describes these local ballot questions as similar to “when a rock band puts out a demo first to see if the fans like it.” ight now, though, we have medical rpartment marijuana on the books, and the Deof Public Health is tasked with

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implementing it.

They are not prepared to discuss details, referring the Phoenix only to their publicly issued statement from the interim commissioner, Dr. Lauren Smith: “The department will work closely with health care and public safety officials to develop smart and balanced policies and procedures over the coming months.”

So pretty much everything we’ve outlined in this article is subject to change — as soon as the DPH writes the rules that will govern the state’s medicalmarijuana economy.

That means medical-marijuana users shouldn’t get too comfortable: “Patients need to be on guard, so the law doesn’t get too restrictive,” Crawford says.

In fact, one of the little-noticed effects of the new medical-marijuana law is that it actually makes some penalties tougher for dealers. Once the DPH gets dispensaries up and running, the new law declares that if “fraudulent use [of your registration card] is for the distribution, sale, or trafficking of marijuana for non-medical use for profit it shall be a felony punishable by up to 5 years in state prison or up to two and one half years in the house of correction.”

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acey Foster used to fly home from college in Indiana, hustle to his Newton bedroom, and reach straight for the radio dial. It was the mid-1980s, and, just like in New York, hip-hop was mesmerizing the youth around Boston. At the local level, acts like Almighty RSO and MC Spice were making noise, and He chiefly amplifying tap ar tHe at t es in p old tales of ghetto life he L ecc erson and partying through No btirribthudtae &oe’sdoLeGmma y ba v. 2 with 8 at Goo sh.

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88.1 FM. For new Hip-hop history is full of stories about jams, burgeoning hipstandout white guys — mostly on the hop fans listened there business side — who changed the game. But Johnstone was different: a creature of the deep for Lecco’s Lemma, a weekly underground whose affection for emerging show hosted by eccentric rap trends was entirely devoid of monetary music scenester Magnus motives. A tiny figure in tattered T-shirts and tight black jeans, Johnstone was a product Johnstone. Like countless of the punk-rock aesthetic. In MCs and DJs, others from the ’hood to he saw both the hope and the rebellion that rock once evoked, and he helped deliver that the ’burbs, Foster was fully excitement from the streets to listeners from fixated.

Mattapan to Malden.

“That was the best experience of my life,” says Edo G, the leading Boston rap stalwart who got his start on Lecco’s Lemma. “Magnus changed everything. Once we were able to get on the radio, everybody in the whole neighborhood would listen. That show was the only thing going for rap — and especially for local rap. Back then, everything was new — we didn’t rock to hip-hop before that, like New York did. It was an amazing time — Magnus definitely helped shape hip-hop out here.”

In addition to being the first to spin hip-hop in Greater Boston, Johnstone also opened up

“That was the best experience of my life,” says edo G, who got his start on Lecco’s Lemma. “magnus changed everything. once we were able to get on the radio, everybody in the whole neighborhood would listen.

That show was the only thing going for rap.” better if you have the whole book.”

From the beginning, the hunt for Boston hip-hop history took some interesting turns, like Foster’s pilgrimage to Maine to see the great white hipster hope of early Beantown boom-bap. Nothing, however, prepared him for the end of the rainbow. After querying some local rap aficionados like DJ Spin, who himself has an honorable stash of old Boston rap cassettes, Foster was led to about 300 Lecco’s Lemma show tapes belonging to none other than Willie “Loco” Alexander, the 69-year-old Boston punk-rock originator, Boom Boom Band front man, and one-time member of the Velvet Underground. “He contacted me and just said that he had some tapes,” says Foster. “When I finally saw what he had, I think I actually fell over.”

Foster sat on the archives for about two years while he shopped for an institutional underwriter. His goal was twofold: to preserve the original tapes, and to digitize them so that later heads can appreciate their heritage.

Few were interested in funding the project.

Berklee respectfully declined, as did the Harvard Hip-Hop Archive. MIT and BC turned him down, despite Johnstone having broken major rap ground on their airwaves.

Foster kept pitching, though, and this year finally scored a partner in his own school, winning a grant from the UMass President’s Creative Economy Initiatives Fund. With that juice, he was able to hire David Garcia, a music student from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia who’s currently studying at Harvard, to help curate the archives.

“I don’t know how any of this happened. I’m the management professor guy,” says Foster.

With help from Garcia, who recently moved into the library of vinyl to assist with the cataloguing, Foster is working to first organize and upload everything, and will then move to permanently display at least some of the collection. He continues: “At this point, I think it’s best that we’re doing this [with UMass]. Community-based scholarship is part of our mission, and I want to reconnect these tapes with the communities they came from — I feel like it’s our responsibility. On a lot of these shows, Magnus was talking to the artists he had on about what was going on in their neighborhoods. It’s not just a history of Boston hip-hop that’s on those tapes. It’s a history of Boston.” P

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his studio doors, inviting budding artists to rock live on air. Those in-house jams were so hectic that in his final year, Johnstone had to relocate Lecco’s Lemma to WZBC at Boston College; MIT had grown tired of his entourage packing the studio each week, their “routines,” as raw tracks were known back then, spilling onto the surrounding campus after shows.

By the time that mainstream vultures and commercial jocks caught the rap bug, around 1988, Johnstone had moved on. He’d dutifully fulfilled his role as the odd Caucasian uncle of a new urban art form.

Though Foster was among those who listened to Johnstone’s show religiously, by 2006, it had been years — decades — since he thought much about Boston rap’s pioneering moments.

A professor at UMass-Boston’s College of Management, he had become a well-rounded music geek: the more than 10,000 records in his library of vinyl, as he fondly calls the walls of wax in his East Cambridge party loft, span all genres. So when friends approached him six years ago to pen the Boston chapter for an epic tome about regional rap scenes, Foster was reluctant to engage the opportunity. Before long, though, the old-school beats got the best of him, and Foster became the closest thing that Hub hip-hop has to a historian.

As it turned out, it was a role for which he was uniquely suited. As a published academic, Foster knows how to write and research. Plus, he had an asset that even most rap insiders didn’t — access to the mysterious Johnstone, who’d left Boston for the northern sticks of Maine more than a decade ago.

In the late 1990s, Foster worked at a Newton antiques store where the college DJ was employed as a furniture painter. Years after that, they often hung at Boston College, where Foster was writing a dissertation on the music business, and Johnstone had a dubhop show on the school’s radio station, WZBC. Foster’s chapter in the 2009 book Hip-Hop in America: A Regional Guide (Greenwood Press) turned out to be just the beginning of his musical spelunking. In the process, he’d convinced Johnstone to lend him nearly 200 original demo tapes that rappers had sent him between ’85 and ’87 — among them the firstever recordings of Boston legends Edo G and Guru, who were known then as Edo Rock and Keithy E, respectively. The only thing missing were tapes of the Lecco’s Lemma shows.

“It was like having all these page proofs from hundreds of unpublished authors,” Foster says. “That’s great, but it’s even

For more deep tracks and hip-hop history, check out Foster’s blog at libraryofvinyl.org.

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1 | Bostone | Take your favorite childhood pizza-and-sub shop (the one that was on the corner, with the owner named Gus), scrap the checkered linoleum floors, and you’ll get something resembling Bostone.

Simply put, this sleek, modern pizzeria dishes out some of the zestiest homemade spinach-and-feta Mediterranean (traditional or Sicilian-style) pizza and eggplant parmigiana we’ve encountered outside of the Boot itself.

2 | Cafeteria | Every table on the outdoor patio is the cool kids’ corner, at what is surely the only cafeteria with a valet parking attendant. Boasting some of the more reasonable prices on Newbury Street, Cafeteria puts a few twists on comfort-food standbys, like making meatloaf with grassfed beef or adding fontina and arugula to its grilled cheese. Cocktails like the Pimm’sbased English Class and the bourbon-andsherry Librarian keep the scholastic theme

going. This fall an upstairs room and a latenight menu were added.

3 | Kashmir Restaurant | This Indian restaurant is as beautifully decorated and designed as the fancy Thai restaurants.

And there’s plenty of wham in the food, too, from the samosas and humble vegetarian curries up to the tandoori rack of lamb, which is presented with the chops impaled on swords. The strengths here are tandoori (don’t miss the naan) and creamy sauces with real cilantro.

4 | La Voile | The crowd of diners that this cute, basement-level French brasserie attracts should be your first indication that La Voile is the place to go for authentic, top-notch French cuisine.

Most of the restaurant’s patrons are French, and so are the staff. No upturned noses here, however. The service is friendly and pleasantly accommodating of menu modifications — an attribute that is notably

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In fact, it’s not uncommon to receive a complimentary round of champagne following a late lunch at La Voile — “just because.” (But you didn’t hear it here!)

5 | Sonsie | Even though Boylston Street has been bustling with the additions of Towne and Back Bay Social Club, not to mention the relocation of the Capital Grille, Newbury Street is still home to Sonsie. After 19 years, the Lyons Group’s warmly inviting bistro remains the favorite destination of visiting sports and movie stars. If you’re not too distracted by the sight of celebrities, the open-air front affords some fine rubbernecking at Boston’s best- and, when the weather’s right, least-dressed.

6 | Stephanie’s on Newbury | Stephanie’s on Newbury felt like an institution from day one. In summer, its patio is the city’s premiere people-watching destination. Ladies lunch in big sunglasses, chic tourists cluster with shopping bags, and slick business types crowd the tables with their phones — all of Back Bay flocks to Stephanie Sokolove’s “sophisticated comfort food.” This is what everybody wants to eat these days: hearty salads, roast chicken, no-nonsense steaks, towers of onion rings done just right.

A remodel in 2000 gave the interior a warm, hotel-bar vibe, keeping the hordes comfortable in the cooler months, as well.

7 | Tapeo | Atmosphere is king at this venerable tapas joint. From its petite patio to the tight squeeze of its subterranean bar and dining room (the upper level is a sedate exception), Newbury Street fixture Tapeo cultivates conviviality in fierce fashion: amid brick and copper and painted tiles, and in music-and-sangria-soaked laughter.

8 | Thai Basil | This is an underground but elegant effort to sell a consistent Thai menu in the Back Bay — with excellent spring

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10 | L’Aroma | While many cafés have become unofficial branches of the nearest college library, L’Aroma soldiers on without WiFi. The lack of students nursing a single beverage for hours means you can actually grab a table, inside or on the patio, and have a conversation with another human being. Besides the usual array of lattes and reliably fresh pastries, there’s also an especially good hibiscus-tea lemonade for those looking to ease up on their caffeine buzz.

11 | Trident Booksellers & Cafe | Trident has been plying its customers with tantalizing tomes (not to mention a stellar magazine rack, brimming with everything from opulent foreign fashion glossies to weirdo niche publications like Howler and Lucky Peach) since 1984.

And now this beloved book shop is on the cusp of some big changes.

This fall, they’re planning to expand into the second floor — more space for books and cafe seating, not to mention a prime perch for gawking at folks strolling the Newb below.

12 | Wired Puppy | This Boston offshoot retains all the charm of the original Cape Cod location. Skip the Starbucks right down the street in favor of this busy little coffee shop where, aside from the free WiFi — hence the name — they boast tasty pastries (including muffins baked in-house), strong espresso drinks (usually topped with the barista’s “signature latte creation” in the foam), and prime seating for relaxing with a cup of joe to people-watch as the Newbury Street crowds go by.

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9 | UMAI | The fact that this bustling little Japanese restaurant offers its lunch special until an unprecedented 5 pm would be enough on its own to make it our go-to sushi joint on Newbury. But UMAI has more to recommend it than extended lunch hours. It has friendly, attentive servers, an interesting menu of sushi rolls, and, most importantly, fresh, tasty fish. Plus, the prices are pleasantly low (for the neighborhood, at least).

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and childhood nostalgia sprinkled with a little bit of rock and roll.

18 | LIT Boutique | It’s impossible not to make an impression when dressed in vibrant colors and bold patterns from the kaleidoscopic racks of LIT Boutique. This quaint storefront is known for an eclectic collection of affordable designer dresses and tasteful accessories — an avant-garde answer to mall gaudiness and thrift-store misgivings. Here you’ll find all the fixings for a unique, confident-chic, anyoccasion ensemble. Just make sure you wear the clothes — don’t let them wear you.

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a one-of-a-kind designer outfit that won’t have you mistaken for a Real Housewife is to make a trip to The Closet. It’s like raiding the wardrobe of your perpetually chic — and super rich — friend. A rack of new arrivals just inside the door sets the tone. There are pre-owned designer threads from the likes of Missoni and Theory, and an impressive cache of belts, boots, and shoes — Prada, Manolo Blahnik, and YSL, oh my! — line the shelves. Gently worn clothing,

shoes, and accessories go for about a third of the original price, or less, and styles vary from classic (Ralph Lauren silk blouses) to edgy (Jeffrey Campbell studded heels).

24 | Rescue | A fresh approach to consignment: the shop pays clients upfront for clothes and accessories or gives store credit for buying Rescue’s trendy clothes, bags, belts, and shoes — which include new inventory from designers like Trash and Vaudeville,

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19 | Riccardi | Riccardi is Boston fashion at its boldest. Importing some of the most fearless designs to Newbury Street for over 30 years, Riccardi offers pieces from fashion’s heavy hitters, such as Rodarte, Givenchy, and Commes des Garçons. Run by an Italian father/son duo (both named Riccardo, of course), Riccardi is responsible for introducing designers like John Galliano and Dolce & Gabbana to the Boston market. Despite being the antithesis of the Boston Brahmin style (which we love them for), Riccardi does offer an impressive collection of super-stylized

Tripp NYC, Alex & Chloe, and In God We Trust.

25 | Second Time Around | While some consignment shops treat “vintage” as just so much poundage of used momjeans, STA has long been the place to get coveted brand-name jewels at cut rates.

As on-it with accessories as they are with all manner of women’s (and men’s) fashions, Second Time is clutch if you’re looking for that Prada bag on a grad student’s budget.

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the phenomenon that is Alex and Ani. The jeweler has enjoyed explosive growth of late — the color and flair of its bangles, rings, necklaces, earrings, and charms are winning all kinds of new customers. The Rhode Island–based company now has stores in Connecticut, New York, Florida, and Maryland. Bostonians, of course, have easy access at the jeweler’s Newbury Street outpost.

14 | Ball and Buck | Since cigar and brandy parlors seem to be going the way of the dinosaurs, impress your pals and plan your next manly meeting at this luxury boutique. Vintage leather furniture and wall-mounted world maps imbue the place with a regal, Moonrise Kingdom vibe, while the impressive stock of American-made dress shirts, denim jeans, boots, and even hunting knives is enough to have your inner gentleman jumping like a long-neck goose.

15 | Bobbles & Lace | Formerly situated in the busy heart of the North End, this boutique, one of the small chain’s five New England shops, seems more suited to Newbury Street, where it offers a welcome alternative to the high-end national stores and superexpensive designer shops. Marked by pretty, feminine accents — as the name implies — Bobbles & Lace carries an impressively diverse selection of women’s wear, from gauzy, flowy tops and structured moto jackets to delicate handmade jewelry and unique shoes and handbags.

16 | Crush Boutique | More cheery and infectious than a Carly Rae Jepsen tune, and just as effortlessly trendy and youthful, Crush is a pop-song version of a boutique — it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Shopping is supposed to be fun, right? Stop in for slinky silk blouses in every color of the rainbow, chunky knit sweaters, and party dresses in prints from paisley to python. Beaded Daisy Buchanan– inspired tops share the racks with Aztec-print coats, and a full range of accessories and undergarments makes it nearly impossible to walk out empty-handed.

17 | Johnny Cupcakes | Johnny Cupcakes is a spunky T-shirt destination that looks less like a clothing store than a bakery for hipsters — hipsters with overactive imaginations and a sweet tooth. Wearing their signature cupcakes-and-crossbonesemblazoned garb, not to mention slogans like “Make Cupcakes Not War,” you can tell the world that you love your peace, pastries,

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jeans and T-shirts, which means even the most conservative among us should pay Riccardi a visit.

20 | Rick Walker’s | This is Austin, not Boston — at least while you’re inside Rick Walker’s temple of all things twangy. The staff may boast of the various rock stars who frequent the boutique, but the framed photo by the door is of Rex Trailer, New England’s legendary TV cowboy. Best known for its vast selection of cowboy (and cowgirl) boots, Rick Walker’s also has enough Western shirts, turquoise belts, and leather jackets to fully outfit any rockabilly musician. And in case you’re looking to get some gateway Western wear for someone who isn’t quite ready for the dusty trails, there are assorted drug rugs near the front.

21 | Rockport Concept Store | Shoe aficionados need not sacrifice comfort for style any longer, thanks to Rockport’s shift from strictly functional boat shoes to highly fashionable flats and heels. A welcome addition to Newbury Street’s mixed landscape of chain stores and locally owned boutiques, Rockport is a little bit of both: a Massachusettsbased company with headquarters in Canton and a global reach (it has stores in 66 countries and a solid online presence). Rockport is a goto for shoes that are current but also transcend trends: think classic loafers updated with a stacked heel and statement hardware, or sleek ankle boots in leopard print.

22 | SooDee | Some clothing shops try to be generalists, but the ones you return to time and time again are the ones that exemplify a sense of style that may not appeal to everyone but definitely appeals to you. If you dig the bold colors and forward-thinking styles that this shop’s proprietors dub “the Soodee look,” then a trip to this Back Bay boutique could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship.

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26 | Aloha Boston Massage | Aloha means “hello.” And “goodbye.” And “Ooh yeah, right there — that’s the spot.” Relaxing, rejuvenating bodywork from Aloha Boston Massage is a pretty good substitute for an expensive winter escape to Maui. Among owner Denise McGarry’s offerings is a 90-minute Lomi-Lomi massage, a traditional Hawaiian approach in which soothing, circular strokes caress the body like lapping waves. Need a mental vacation? Just lei down, and enjoy.

27 | Avanti | With hair, bigger isn’t always better. (Junior prom, anyone?) But when Newbury Street fixture Avanti moved to a new, larger location this year, the extra square footage allowed for exciting enhancements, including new services like facials, manicures, waxing, and massage.

Plus, the expanded headroom allows for a separate, ventilated area for fume-heavy perm and relaxing treatments. We can’t say the same about our ’90s-era bangs, but in this case big is most definitely beautiful.

28 | Barbershop Lounge | A black spiral staircase descends to the floor of Barbershop Lounge, a chill retreat that marries clubby amenities — like flat-screens, a pool table, and leather seating — with irresistible hair services, like coloring, beard and mustache grooming, and of course, a good old-fashioned chop job and shave. If you’re thrilled with your new ’do, the lounge offers annual memberships that include free maintenance between appointments, discounted services, and a license to pop by and, um, lounge during business hours.

29 | Bella Santé | It doesn’t just feel good.

It isn’t just pleasure. Cleansing, exfoliating, polishing, enveloping, moisturizing,

massaging, rejuvenating — what Bella Santé delivers is relaxation, the rare and treasured experience of calm. Their services aren’t just good for your skin, your circulation, your muscles. To place your back under the pressing hands of one of their magic-workers is to ease your nerves, to press pause on the to-do lists and confusion and stress of your life. A session at Bella Santé makes it all feel — at least for a little while — a little more manageable. It’s not just pampering, it’s self-care.

30 | G2O | Billed as the “greenest” spa in the Hub, G2O was designed and assembled with eco-friendly features such as a nifty geothermal heating and cooling system and an open-air lounging deck festooned with some of Mother Nature’s leafiest creations.

Inside, the spa offers its visitors irresistable pampering packages that include hair styling and coloring, manicures, pedicures, and even bridal makeup application.

31 | I Soci | ’Tis the season for a makeover. Hair styling, straightening, extensions, coloring: if you’re looking to frame your face, I Soci will get you looking picture perfect. Recently, the salon has even partnered with an expert in non-surgical face shaping. (Unlike the hair services, no cutting is required.) And bridesto-be: get thee to I Soci, where bridal hair is something of a signature service.

32 | James Joseph Salon | In terms of esteem, James Joseph is the Meryl Streep of Newbury Street: well-established, beloved, and basically a consistent shoo-in for annual awards and “best of” lists. In terms of style, though, it’s something a bit sexier. (Sorry, Meryl.) Staffing this airy, industrial-chic loft is a talented team that’s on top of current trends but trained in classic techniques.

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They know how to sculpt red-carpet-ready styles, and will leave you looking “best tressed.”

33 | MiniLuxe | Some people jet off to the tropics to revive their stressed-out selves, but some just head over to MiniLuxe for a bit of indulgence. Pamper yourself with a 30-minute basic manicure for $19 or go for an upgrade — a warm-oil manicure, perhaps?

Try unwinding with scrubs and massages in their $37 basic pedicure to renew and nourish fatigued feet. Pick from their rainbow assortment of OPI and house-brand polishes at this clean, modern salon for longlasting, chip-free nails.

34 | Salon Eva Michelle | The sleek look of black armchairs, floor-length mirrors, and exposed ventilation ducts characterizes Newbury Street’s Salon Eva Michelle as everything a sexy, chic beauty parlor should be. With walk-in hours and beauticians — that’s “artistic designers” to you — you can’t go wrong by stopping in for a quick $90 haircut. The prices may be steep, but with a design team willing to teach up-and-coming stylists the cutting edge of hair-dos (and don’ts) and a staff dedicated to staying at the forefront of hair fashion, that $60 blow-dry is more than worth it.

35 | Salon Monet | Hair extensions are like that first weekend away with a new boyfriend: a serious commitment. We don’t dole out recommendations at will, but the team at Salon Monet get our vote. For that matter, we’d probably take their guy advice, too. It may not have the too-chic-for-words feel of some of its Back Bay neighbors, but we so enjoy the salon’s casual, gossipy vibe — as well as the fact that service doesn’t suffer because of it.

Designer Spotlight 36 | Alan Bilzerian | The perfectly curated windows of Alan Bilzerian’s boutique draw in adventurous types with eclectic taste. Inside, its two floors of men’s and women’s clothing have played host to such famous faces as Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, and Madonna. For nearly 50 years, Alan Bilzerian has attracted celebs and civilians alike with trademark drapey jersey, eccentric shapes, and lots and lots of black from an incredible range of international designers, its eponymous owner included. The perfect mix of moody and ethnic — it’s how we’d imagine the closet of Angelina Jolie, or Captain Jack Sparrow.

37 | Britt Ryan | Britt Ryan’s shop is a little oasis of brightly colored whimsy. If the preppy, happy aesthetic of a Lilly Pulitzer ensemble collided with the simple, flattering silhouette of a Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress, it would look a lot like Britt Ryan’s little numbers. The Boston-based designer’s holiday 2012 collection is chock-full of metallic dresses and high-waist, full skirts paired with silk tie-neck tops in black or pink for party-ready perfection.

38 | Daniela Corte | Fierce, feminine designs from Daniela Corte have been mainstays of the Boston fashion scene for more than a decade. But last year, she took things up a notch by opening a studio and store on Newbury Street — selling everything from ladylike tailored looks to sexy fruit-printed bikinis that had us squealing during Boston Fashion Week. This Argentinean dynamo spreads the love, too, featuring other designers from her native country and a Boston-based footwear brand in her shop.

39 | Emerson | Newbury Street is home to the head offices of Emerson, a Boston-based clothing label that takes pride in its New England roots, but thinks nationally: with an NYC PR team headed by the formidable Kelly Cutrone, Emerson was the only Boston brand to show at New York Fashion Week this year. Designer Jackie Fraser-Swan, a distant relative of Ralph Waldo Emerson, creates clothing for fearless, in-your-face fashion stars. Just a little bit eccentric herself, with purple-streaked hair, Fraser-Swan truly embodies her line, which mixes rich fabrics and expert tailoring with rock-and-roll-meetsromance edge.

40 | Firas Yousif Originals | If you attended this year’s Boston Fashion Week, you no doubt are already familiar with Firas Yousif’s glamorous, ethereal formal wear, which was featured in an opening show in the Tent. The Back Bay resident’s design aesthetic is marked by graceful lines and unique accents.

He has said that he often listens to opera music while designing his couture wedding gowns and eveningwear — that accounts for the touch of the dramatic in each one-ofa-kind piece.

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41 | Boston Olive Oil Company | If olive oil is the elixir of the gods (and we’re saying it is), the Boston Olive Oil Company shop must be what bars look like in heaven. They stock flavors ranging from mild, early-harvest varietals to robust herbal infusions, and anyone who enters this cozy storefront can experience the subtle nuances of many of them — thanks to an extensive EVOO tasting bar. You’ll find over 50 oils and vinegars available to sample, many flowing from taps of Italian fustis, seven days a week.

42 | Fish & Bone | Are you gorging on Whole Foods provisions while feeding your pet a Market Basket diet? That situation can be put right with a visit to Fish & Bone, which offers a wide array of all-natural pet food. And, when it’s time for that grain-free meal to come back out again, you can attach a leash to one of the shop’s chic dog collars and pick up the remains with an eco-friendly poop bag.

43 | Fresh | With the clean, polished feel of a minimalist hammam, Fresh’s flagship store has been keeping it fresh on Newbury since the early ’90s. Prepare for hands-on shopping: customers are encouraged to test-drive products, like the brown-sugar body scrub, in the store’s huge sink. A chair at the makeup counter, which stocks a small but solid selection centered on weightless foundations, practically begs you to settle in for a consultation with the on-site beauty specialists.

44 | Hempest | Sure, sure, there are going to be some teenagers (with saved-up

allowance dollars crumpled up in sweaty palms) who go to The Hempest to surreptitiously pick up those glass pipes. But the true raison d’être of this store is to dress you from head to toe in frigging HEMP — and not dank drug rugs, but stylish jackets, sharp chinos, warm winter coats, and banging Praxis sneaks, all threaded with glorious organic Mother Nature.

45 | L.A. Burdick Chocolate | The hot chocolate here is legendary, and the varieties offer a globetrotting taste test of single-source cocoas — Venezuelan, Bolivian, Madagascan, and more. (Screw the diet. Try them all. It’s, uh, research.)

Nestle in to the cozy, pleasantly bustling café to make friends with a raspberry tart. And if you trade glances with a sweet, sweater-clad stranger, remember the following icebreaker: “Chocolate Supreme, for two.”

46 | Marathon Sports | Unless you’re looking to develop an untimely Ratso Rizzo limp, running any serious road race necessitates plumping for some quality footwear. Luckily, the athletically minded folks at Marathon Sports are always happy to help you navigate their wall of colorful kicks and find the best shoe for your sole, with the aid of a unique, biomechanical process dubbed The Right Fit. 47 | Newbury Comics | Records were, initially, a sideline at Newbury Comics — though in the years after punk broke, the store was so widely regarded for its knowledge of indie music that national

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chains reputedly spied on its buyers for tips on what to stock. Now that the music industry has fallen apart — and Newbury has outlasted competitors like Tower Records and HMV — records are becoming a sideline again, and owner Mike Dreese has smartly segued from CDs and DVDs into toys, ephemera, and fashion. But a funny thing is happening: vinyl sales are up. They’re prospering online, and the buyers are still reliable tastemakers — which means that their Boston-area stores are still hidden gems, with fun, friendly staff and head-scratching oddities tucked in well-curated bins.

48 | Raven Used Books | Proximity to the world’s best universities pays dividends, especially when it comes to used books. All those eggheads selling the Oxford University Press titles they’ve torn through in fits of intellectual ecstasy have enriched Raven Used Books beyond measure. It’s little wonder the store has become a destination for Boston bookhunters. And it doesn’t hurt that they frequently undersell Amazon.

49 | Sikara & Co. | The jewelry that fills Sikara’s Newbury store has roots in faraway places. Deriving its name from the Indian word shikara, which means “houseboat,” Sikara, and founder Mousumi Shaw, take customers on a journey to all corners of the world. Each piece of jewelry tells a story, which makes Sikara’s offerings perfect accents for anything from jeans and a T-shirt to a floor-grazing gown.

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36 | Alan Bilzerian | 34 Newbury St |

52 | Dependable Cleaners | 110 Newbury St |

617.536.1001 | alanbilzerian.com 13 | Alex and Ani | 115 Newbury St | 617.421.0777 | alexandani.com 26 | Aloha Boston Massage | 45 Newbury St | 978.771.5590 | alohabostonmassage.com 27 | Avanti | 20 Newbury St | 617.267.4027 | avantisalonboston.com 14 | Ball and Buck | 144B Newbury St | 617.262.1776 | shop.ballandbuck.com 28 | Barbershop Lounge | 245 Newbury St | 617.450.0021 | barbershoplounge.com 29 | Bella Santé | 38 Newbury St | 617.424.9930 | bellasante.com 15 | Bobbles & Lace | 251 Newbury St | 857.239.9202 | bobblesandlace.com 41 | Boston Olive Oil Company | 262 Newbury St | 857.277.0007 | bostonoliveoilcompany.com 1 | Bostone | 225 Newbury St | 617.536.9451 | bostonepizza.com 37 | Britt Ryan | 291 Newbury St | 857.284.7196 | brittryan.com 2 | Cafeteria | 279A Newbury St | 617.536.2233 | cafeteriaboston.com 23 | The Closet | 175 Newbury St | 617.536.1919 | blog.closetboston.com 16 | Crush Boutique | 264 Newbury St | 617.424.0010 | shopcrushboutique.com 38 | Daniela Corte | 211 Newbury St | 617.608.4778 | danielacorte.com

617.267.1235 | dependablecleaners.com 39 | Emerson | 8 Newbury St, 6th Floor | 857.753.4525 | emerson-collection.com 40 | Firas Yousif Originals | 35 Newbury St | 617.262.0100 | firasyousiforiginals.com 42 | Fish & Bone | 217 Newbury St | 857.753.4176 | blog.thefishandbone.com 53 | Forum | 755 Boylston St | 857.991.1831 | forumboston.com 43 | Fresh | 121 Newbury St | 617.421.1212 | fresh. com 30 | G2O | 278 Newbury St | 617.262.2220 | g2ospasalon.com 44 | The Hempest | 207 Newbury St | 617.421.9944 | hempest.com 54 | Hotel Chocolat | 137 Newbury St | 617.391.0513 | hotelchocolat.com 31 | I Soci | 8 Newbury St | 617.867.9484 | isocisalon.com 50 | International Poster Gallery | 205 Newbury St | 617.375.0076 | internationalposter. com 32 | James Joseph Salon | 30 Newbury St | 617.266.7222 | jamesjosephsalon.com 17 | Johnny Cupcakes | 279 Newbury St | 617.375.0100 | johnnycupcakes.com 3 | Kashmir Restaurant | 279 Newbury St | 617.536.1695 | kashmirrestaurant.com/ 45 | L.A. Burdick Chocolate | 220 Clarendon St | 617.303.0113 | burdickchocolate.com

4 | La Voile | 261 Newbury St | 617.587.4200 | lavoileboston.net 10 | L’Aroma | 85 Newbury St | 617.412.4001 | laromacafe.com 18 | LIT Boutique | 223 Newbury St | 617.421.8637 | litboutique.com 55 | lululemon athletica | 337 Newbury St | 617.867.6561 | lululemon.com 46 | Marathon Sports | 671 Boylston St | 617.267.4774 | marathonsports.com 33 | MiniLuxe | 296 Newbury St | 857.362.7444 | miniluxe.com 47 | Newbury Comics | 332 Newbury St | 617.236.4930 | newburycomics.com 48 | Raven Used Books | 263 Newbury St | 617.578.9000 | ravencambridge.com 56 | Reebok Crossfit | 31 St. James Ave, Suite 190 | 617.203.2132 | reebokcrossfitbackbay.com 24 | Rescue | 297 Newbury St | 857.350.4410 | rescuebuyselltrade.com 19 | Riccardi | 116 Newbury St | 617.266.3158 | riccardiboston.com 20 | Rick Walker’s | 306 Newbury St | 617.482.7426 | rickwalkers.com 57 | Robin’s Candy | 253 Newbury St | 857.263.7618 | robinscandy.com 21 | Rockport Concept Store | 218 Newbury St | 617.859.3127 | rockport.com 34 | Salon Eva Michelle | 118 Newbury St | 617.262.8118 | salonevamichelle.com

35 | Salon Monet | 176 Newbury St | 617.425.0010 | hairsalonmonet.com

25 | Second Time Around | 176 Newbury St | 617.247.3504 | 219 Newbury St | 617.266.1113 | 324 Newbury St | 617.236.2028 | secondtimearound.net 49 | Sikara & Co. | 250 Newbury St | 617.236.7770 | sikarajewelry.com 51 | The Society of Arts and Crafts | 175 Newbury St | 617.266.1810 | craftboston.org 5 | Sonsie | 327 Newbury St | 617.351.2500 | sonsieboston.com 22 | SooDee | 170 Newbury St | 617.266.7888 | soodee.com 6 | Stephanie’s on Newbury | 190 Newbury St | 617.236.0990 | stephaniesonnewbury.com 59 | The Tannery | 400 Boylston St | 617.267.0899 | 711 Boylston St | 617.267.5500 | thetannery.com 7 | Tapeo | 266 Newbury St | 617.267.4799 | tapeo.com 8 | Thai Basil | 132 Newbury St | 617.578.0089 | thaibasil.info 60 | Towne | 900 Boylston St | 617.247.0400 | towneboston.com 11 | Trident Booksellers & Cafe | 338 Newbury St | 617.267.8688 | tridentbookscafe.com 9 | UMAI | 224 Newbury St | 617.262.2228 | umai-ma.com 12 | Wired Puppy | 250 Newbury St | 857.366.4655 | wiredpuppy.com

50 | International Poster Gallery | If the word “poster” gives you a mental image of a ratty-edged, dorm-room Beers of the World 24-by-36 cliché, a trip to this delightful Newb Street institution might be in order. The International Poster Gallery houses nearly 10,000 vintage posters, from Soviet propaganda brutalism to turnof-the-century Art Deco lushness to early20th-century travel posters — no matter

what the era or style, these pre-digital exemplars of the fine art of four-color printing will have you tossing your John-Belushi-wearing-the-COLLEGEsweatshirt poster in the trash.

51 | The Society of Arts and Crafts | Not long after the term “arts and crafts” was coined in the late 19th century in England, a collective of Boston artists and educators opened this elegant gallery to

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showcase creations by Bay State craftspeople. Still in its original Newbury Street location, but now endowed with funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, The Society of Arts and Crafts continues to exhibit and sell original eye candy from such talents as woodworker Gordon Gladstone and jewelry designer Deborah Richardson.

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awe-inspiring $2 taco will attest that tremendous craft and modest fare can go hand in hand. Yume Wo Katare’s seemingly simple soup features a 24-hour tonkatsu (pork bone) broth flavored with soy sauce that is diligently skimmed and tended to ensure it simmers but never boils. Those noodles are lovingly handmade, the pork carefully sourced, seasoned, and prepared. Transcendence in something you eat in under 20 minutes for less than 20 bucks? Rare, but possible.

So here’s the drill. Show up; stand in line. Your name will be taken; the line will creep. As you get close, the host may shuffle you forward or back a bit to accommodate the Tetris-like fitting in of odd-sized parties. Once inside, choose ramen ($12) or buta ramen ($14). They’re identical, except one has two big slices of pork; the other, a daunting five. Order bottled oolong or green tea ($2), Red Bull ($3), or water ($1). Pay and hang onto the drink they hand you; you’ll soon be seated at the one big table or the bar overlooking the open kitchen. The chef will ask you a question in Japanese: answer yes or no depending on whether you want the raw garlic (highly recommended). Your order will be prepared and served in a few minutes. Attack; eat until full. You cannot take home any leftovers, nor order takeout. You may opt to get a pound-sized cooked pork roast ($15) to go. That’s it.

Yeah, it’s just soup. But the whole — the deep-flavored broth, luscious as gravy; the perfectly al dente, fresh noodles; the euphoria-inducing dose of garlic; and above all, the superbly tender, flavorful, fat-edged pork belly — is somehow more than the sum of its parts. Worth the trouble? For a certain kind of dedicated food nerd, it will be, in a way that has nothing to do with velvet-rope exclusivity. Yume Wo Katare offers a rare glimpse of a gifted artist executing one very specific thing, albeit an admittedly humble thing, extraordinarily well. I hate restaurant queues too, but I’m waiting in that one again soon. P

What kind oF Chump Waits in line for a restaurant? North End tourists have an excuse: they’re clueless about the dull red-sauce fare that awaits them.

On queue for a hot singles bar? Maybe you met Mr. or Ms. Right Now there last weekend: we’ve all been there. Some chain that ignored Boston until recently, like Sonic? Likely a bust. I’m professionally obligated to endure such waits, and they rarely reward my patience. Yume Wo Katare, a new thimble-sized Japanese joint that serves exactly one dish, is generating a similar frenzy: you can expect 90-minute waits for one of its 15 or so seats. Is it worth it?

Ramen is just noodle soup, after all, but it has become undeniably trendy: popup Guchi’s Midnight Ramen frustrated hundreds who couldn’t get tickets to its fleeting appearances. Posh joints like Clio

transcendence in something you eat in under 20 minutes for less than 20 bucks? Rare, but possible.

have jumped on the unmet demand with late-night weekend offerings. Traditional purveyors like Sapporo draw loyal fans.

Yume Wo Katare is different, doing a style rarely seen in the States called jiro ramen. Mostly favored in Japan by young men who view it as an eating contest, it features a pile of thicker-than-usual noodles, a smaller-than-usual amount of broth enriched with emulsified pork fat, a dollop of bean sprouts and bok choy, thick slices of fatty pork, typically from a rolled roast of pork belly, and an optional load of minced fresh garlic. Good ramen is a Camry: inexpensive and reliable. Jiro ramen is a Hummer: ostentatiously about gluttonous consumption.* And while ramen is ostensibly fast food, anyone who has seen the brilliant food-themed movie Tampopo or conducted an obsessive quest for an

*The less said about instant ramen, the better, but if you must, dorm-room ramen from a packet is the subway when it smells awful, you’ll be trapped on it for the next hour due to a disabled train ahead, and you have to pee.

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Don’t let the stroller-pushing yuppies at Whole Foods turn you off. “You don’t have to be in the one percent to live a locavore lifestyle,” says food activist JJ Gonson, a personal chef with a punk-rock side. (Once a prolific music photographer, she spent years shooting live shows — and hanging with the likes of Kurt Cobain.) Whether she’s teaching classes at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education or running Cuisine en Locale, her home-dining service, Gonson spreads the fresh-and-local gospel. Looking through her home fridge, we found she practices what she preaches.

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Want your own personal chef for a special occasion? Gonson is in the first crop participating in the upcoming Boston launch of Kitchensurfing. Already active in NYC and Berlin, it helps users hire chefs for dinner parties — or whenever they need a night off from the kitchen.

A locally stocked fridge is subject to what’s available in season. But Gonson always has on hand free-range, farm-fresh eggs, the family’s main source of protein. She suggests Stillman’s farm, a mainstay of farmers’ markets in Copley Square, JP, and Charlestown.

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She’s not just the president — she’s also a member. These containers hold delish dinners from onCe a Week, Cuisine en Locale’s shared food program. its chefs deliver shareholders a variety of prepared meals made with local ingredients each week ($125 feeds a couple four meals).

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Gonson drinks local too, stocking her fridge with craft beer like Whale’s Tale Pale Ale from Nantucket’s Cisco Brewers and Descendant Dark Ale from a favorite recent discovery, Mystic Brewery. That Chelseabased Belgium-style brewery was founded by MiT-trained fermentation scientists, who isolate native New england brewing yeasts for a “beer terroir” approach.

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Yes, please. The cheese wedge arrived via farmers to You, a Vermont-to-Boston delivery service. You can assemble a personalized online shopping cart of dairy products, seasonal produce, meats, and baked goods from participating Green Mountain State farms.

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When We asked Boston’s master of bartending ceremonies — Jackson Cannon, the suspender-sporting virtuoso behind the cocktail lists at Eastern Standard, Island Creek Oyster Bar, and his loungy underground watering hole, the Hawthorne — to make Old Fashioneds with us, he didn’t even blink. “I was born for this,” he replied simply.

Allegedly, the name “Old Fashioned” was first uttered in the 1880s (good times, the 1880s), in a Kentucky gentlemen’s club.

I mention this to Cannon, and he nods. “Very few people remember that the end of the Civil War to 1900 was a golden age for American cocktails,” he says. “That’s when all the classics were created. After that, drinks became very flourishoriented and really outlandish and stylistically afar from their conservative roots.” Thus, when you just wanted a damn whiskey cocktail like they served in the old days, no fancy fruit or high-falutin’ tricks, you asked for an Old Fashioned. “It’s essentially four components: sugar, water, bitters, and spirit.”

In present-day New York, Cannon explains, the default speakeasystyle Old Fashioned features only Angostura bitters and is finished with an orange zest. He goes for both Angostura and Peychaud’s bitters instead, drawing on the Seville orange and fennel notes in the latter, and then activating it all with a lemon zest.

“It’s a very sound architecture for a drink, and there are a myriad of variations,” he says. “This Old Fashioned is just how I like to make them. . . . This is our version of the oldest of the old style.”

Step 1 Drop one sugar cube into a mixing glass, and pour a capful (.5 oz.) of Canada Dry club soda over it to dissolve.

Step 2 Add two dashes of Angostura bitters and two dashes of Peychaud’s bitters.

Step 3 Muddle the sugar and bitters until it bubbles up and becomes a bitters simple syrup. Check mixture for sugar granules by pulling liquid up the side of the glass with a bar spoon.

Step 4 Add 2 oz. of Rittenhouse rye whiskey. Add ice and stir with the bar spoon until well mixed.

The hawThorne’s firsT anniversary parTy :: it feels like we’ve been seeking refuge in the hawthorne’s comfy couches forever — which is why it blows our collective mind that they’re celebrating their very first anniversary on november 21. Cannon and company are throwing a (classy) craft-cocktail rager that doubles as a fundraiser for Lovin’ spoonfuls, with featured menu items inspired by the people and places they’re thankful for. in Cannon’s words: “it’s going to be dope.” nov 21, 6 to 9 pm :: $50 :: 500a Comm ave, Boston :: 617.532.9150 or thehawthorne.eventbrite.com

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Step 5 Strain over fresh ice into a chilled Old Fashioned glass. Garnish with a lemon zest.

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Good news, everyone! The Smitten Kitchen CookNot all the recipes are perfect. Despite Perelman’s asbook has arrived just in time for you to tackle some bold surance that she’s carefully tested all of these out, I found new dishes for Thanksgiving. The handsome tome from that the wild-rice gratin with kale, caramelized onion, popular NYC food blogger and self-taught cook Deb and baby Swiss came out a bit dry when using her Perelman has more than 100 recipes and a spine recommended quantity of broth. Both diners still that keeps the book flopped open to whatever went back for seconds.

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FRIDAY 16 & SAtuRDAY 17 BEER SUMMiT

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No matter how busy you think you are, Bourdain is running circles around you — better-fed, snarkier circles. Dude just wrapped No Reservations and is kicking off the second season of The Layover. He’s penned 11 books and written for Treme. He just scored a show on CNN for early 2013. And he shoots the shit on PBS’s The Mind of a Chef. It’s a miracle his lanky ass will be sitting on stage this Saturday, when he’ll share tales and field questions from the crowd.

We don’t know about you, but we’ve been drinking a few too many cocktails lately — and not enough beer. That’s our diagnosis, and here’s the crazy simple prescription: the fourth annual Beer Summit Harvest Fest.

More than 60 brewers are packing into Park Plaza Castle for three sessions, bringing along 200-plus beers. If your fingers get cold, we’re sure there will be a koozie somewhere.

8 pm @ Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston

Fri at 5:30 pm and Sat at 12:30 and 5:30 pm @ Park Plaza Castle, 130 Columbus Ave, Boston

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SUNDAY 18

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It seems the folks at Dante have a thing for competition-fueled spikes of adrenaline — for the past five years, they’ve hosted a cook-off where the city’s best knife-wielding gourmands go head to head for dish dominance.

This year’s theme? Calzones. We could subsist entirely on calzones, and we’ll prove it today, when everyone from Jamie Bissonnette to Louis DiBiccari to Mary Dumont stuffs perfect doughy pockets for a few hours. Good luck outeating us, rookies.

2 to 5 pm @ Dante, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge :: $20 :: 617.497.4200 or eventbrite.com

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No, there is not a Jersey Shore–level drunken straggler dressed in her clubbing finest waiting at Ashmont Grill on Tuesday nights. This is simply your opportunity to clear those sinuses and inject some warmth into your wintry veins: Ashmont Grill’s new chef de cuisine, Lola Sotomayor-Ellis, is a native of Puerto Rico and a bona fide spice whisperer.

And the new Hot Mess menu is a space heater for your mouth. Lots of chiles, lots of fiery tears.

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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE :: November 23–December 23 at the Stoneham Theatre, Stoneham :: $40-$48 :: stonehamtheatre.org “BSSC’S ANNUAL NAUGHTY LIST PARTY” :: December 4 at the Brahmin, Boston :: $10 :: 617.789.4070 RAY KURZWEIL DISCUSSES HOW TO CREATE A MIND :: December 4 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline :: $5 :: brooklinebooksmith.com/tickets PIPPIN :: December 5–January 20 at the Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge :: $25-$65 :: amrep.org THE CHRISTMAS REVELS :: December 14-27 at Sanders Theatre, Cambridge :: $25-$52 :: revels.org BREAK SCIENCE :: December 29 at Paradise Rock Club, Boston :: $15 :: ticketmaster.com G. LOVE & THE SPECIAL SAUCE + SWEAR AND SHAKES :: January 17 at Paradise Rock Club, Boston :: $25 :: ticketmaster.com MUMFORD & SONS :: February 5 at the TD Garden, Boston :: $39.99-$49.99 :: livenation.com GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC :: February 8 at the House of Blues, Boston :: 29.50-$45 :: livenation.com PASSION PIT + MATT & KIM :: February 9 at the Agganis Arena, Boston :: $35-$39.50 :: livenation.com TEXAS IS THE REASON :: February 17 at Paradise Rock Club, Boston :: $20 :: ticketmaster.com COHEED & CAMBRIA + BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME + RUSSIAN CIRCLES :: March 14 at the House of Blues, Boston :: $27-$39.50 :: livenation.com FRESHLYGROUND :: March 17 at Paradise Rock Club, Boston :: $20 :: ticketmaster.com KMFDM + LEGION WITHIN :: March 20 at Paradise Rock Club, Boston :: $22 :: ticketmaster.com CAROLINA CHOCOLATE DROPS :: April 6 at the House of Blues, Boston :: $25-$45 :: livenation.com THE BOOK OF MORMON :: April 9-28 at the Opera House, Boston :: $47$134 :: boston.broadway.com

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They’ll be opening for Passion Pit at a just-announced show at 16 Agganis Arena this February (and the night before at MSG in New York) but you can catch MATT & KIM headlining their own show at a considerably more intimate venue this evening.

The impossibly energetic electro-pop duo always put on a hell of an entertaining — if almost manically upbeat — show, so we recommend checking out tonight’s gig with OBERHOFER before they join the Pit on their massive 2013 tour.

House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston :: 7 pm :: $22-$30 :: livenation.com

Not that you likely need any convincing, but you know how we know Seinfeld is one of the funniest shows of 17 all time? Because “the show about nothing” has raked in more than 3 billion dollars while in syndication alone.

We’re no mathematicians, but we’re pretty sure that’s a lot of dollars. So we’re psyched that JERRY SEINFELD is coming to town to do a stand-up show. Usually, we have to trek down to Foxwoods or somewhere equally inconvenient to catch a Seinfeld set!

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Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont St, Boston :: 7 pm :: $65-$81 :: citicenter.org

INSANE MOUNTAINS INSPIRED FILMMAKING ASTOUNDING ATHLETES This year’s $25,000 Jacob’s Pillow Prize winner, Kyle Abraham’s 16 seven-member troupe ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION, debuts their new production at the ICA this evening. Fusing classical choreography with modern, from ballet to hip-hop, THE RADIO SHOW is inspired by the closing down of a beloved radio station in Abraham’s hometown of Pittsburgh, and uses the closure as a catalyst through which the troupe explores themes of sexuality, culture, and identity.

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Institute of contemporary art, 100 northern ave, Boston :: november 16 @ 7:30 pm + november 17 @ 8 pm :: $40 :: icaboston.org

Kindles are great and all that, but give us a good, old-fashioned book 16 any day. You remember books, right? Paper, ink, bindings, and all that?

No batteries needed? Well, aficionados like ourselves and avid collectors can get their fill of them this weekend at the 36th annual BOSTON INTERNATIONAL ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR. The literary fest features more than 100 exhibitors, workshops, lectures, opportunities to share and purchase rare books, free appraisals, and more. Ah, we can smell that dusty old library musk already.

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Lest you think that they’re being wasteful, know that BLINK!, the six-weeklong custom LED light and sound holiday show in Faneuil Hall — unveiled 7 1 tonight — is totally green. They’re using special energy-efficient LED lights to illuminate the huge Christmas tree (the largest in the country — take that Rockefeller Center!) every night, in an impressive light extravaganza soundtracked by the (pre-recorded) Holiday Pops. We’d bemoan the fact that lighting up the tree this early is pushing the season but, hell, we’re psyched to see the show.

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If you’ve seen 300, you already know that the Spartans were the most badass of all the ancient warrior peoples. At least, in film. As far as we know, 18 you won’t have to worry about receiving a jump-kick to the sternum and plummeting to an agonizing death in today’s SPARTAN RACE, but you will be put through some pretty tough physical challenges. Think, Tough Mudder but, you know, tougher. And this particular challenge of endurance and strength takes place in our own backyard, right in Fenway where participants will leap, climb, run, crawl, maybe cry, and definitely bellow, “This is Sparta!” at the end of it all.

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Free events SILverSOnIc: 1ST annUaL emerSOn cOLLeGe mUSIc vIdeO SHOWcaSe :: Screening of 16 videos from members of the Emerson community, past and present, including the Bynars’ “Every Little Thing You Love” by Anne Scotina and Jean-Paul DiSciscio, and Bearstronaut’s “Moniker” by John Pouliot and Drew Van Steenbergen. Reception and meet-and-greet with some of the musicians and filmmakers follows the screening :: Bright family Screening room, Paramount center, 559 Washington St, Boston :: november 15 @ 7 pm :: artsemerson.org

BandITOS mISTerIOSOS’ “cOmPanY-WIde GIfT SWaP” :: This year’s annual holiday gift swap is office-themed. “Good gift” examples include “handmade desk clutter” and “homemade inbox/outbox accessories.” :: Location TBa at midnight the day of the event :: november 17 @ 1 pm :: misteriosos.org naOmI WOLf :: The controversial feminist author discusses her new book, Vagina: A New Biography :: Jewish community center of Greater Boston, 333 nahanton St, newton centre :: november 18 @ 2:30 pm :: 617.558.6522

BLacKWOLfGOaT + aLLYSen caLLerY + QUarTerLY :: Psych rock; the New Lights open :: ZuZu, 474 mass ave, cambridge :: november 19 @ 10 pm :: zuzubar.com “exTra HeLPInGS: cOmedY TO fILL YOUr BeLLY” :: With Ken Reid, Andrew Mayer, John Paul Rivera, Nick Chambers, Rob Crean, and special guests TBA :: milky Way, 284 armory St, Jamaica Plain :: november 21 @ 9 pm :: milkywayjp.com

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Let’s just get this out of the way now: Chinatown is a neighborhood that thinks with its stomach. If that sounds like your kind of party, start things off with Chinatown’s worst-kept best-kept secret, taiwan Café. Recently reopened after closing for renovations, this tiny Taiwanese eatery works magic with tentacles and duck fat, and the basil eggplant dish will change your life. Not sure what to order?

Close your eyes and stab randomly at the menu; whatever your finger lands on, it’s bound to be good.

34 Oxford St :: 617.426.8181 :: taiwancafeboston. com

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Named after an alcoholic Japanese mythological creature, Shōjō slings inventive drinks that would make the place any boozy ghost’s fave new haunt. And with head-turning fare like the shrimp capellini egg nest (a twist on pad Thai) and barbecue-pork ravioli, it shoul d be your new haunt, too.

9A Tyler St :: 617.423.7888 :: shojoboston.com

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Under the right culinary hands, the writhing pink horror that is the geoduck (a/k/a “the boner clam”) transforms into sex on a plate — a crunchy, clammy delicacy. Tyler Street institution Peach

GettING tHere subway: orange line To chinaTown; green line To boylsTon. bus: silver line (washingTon sTreeT).

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Farm’s got a knack for the ’duck, but nearby New Jumbo Seafood restaurant packs its own exotic punch. If you’re in the mood for giant bivalves, sea cucumbers, and jellyfish, this is the place to be.

5-9 Hudson St:: 617.542.2823:: newjumboseafoodrestaurant.com

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For mindblowing Shandong and Beijing cuisine, squeeze yourself into the 30-seat China king, the latest venture from the folks behind King Fung.

Here, you’ll find superlative scallion pie and pork chow mein; and when you order the Peking duck, it comes in the most duckly form imaginable: head, beak — every-

thing but the quack.

60 Beach St :: 617.542.1763

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Hot pot: the ultimate first-datecompatibility litmus test. Can you and your companion successfully steer a platter full of shellfish, greens, and paper-thin meats into a roiling cauldron of broth together? Find out at Chinatown hot-pot hot spots Kaze, Shabu-Zen, and sleeper hit q restaurant, only steps away from the Boston Common cinema, for that DIY-dinner-and-amovie experience.

Like the heat? Try Q’s five-alarm “Crazy Mala” broth.

660 Washington St :: 857.350.3968 :: thequsa.com

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What’s the deal with this statue?

He’s just a nice old man. He used to be a dentist here, actually. He came back for the opening-day welcoming ceremony this past year. I didn’t get to meet him, but some people did.

Do my teeth look okay? Overall, pretty good. Just make sure you get all the debris out from between your teeth.

That’ll get all the germs out, and get your gums looking healthy and nice.

Does the government hire dentists to implant microchips in our molars? Not that I’m aware of.

Wouldn’t it be crazy if they did?

That would be a little crazy, mostly because you’d get a lot of interference from chewing sounds. There would be a lot of footage you’d have to go through. It’d be difficult to spy on someone if they were trying to talk and eat at the same time. ever since the Combat Zone was razed, there have been far fewer hookers in Chinatown. Good thing or bad thing? Probably a good thing.

You can get a lot of diseases in your mouth from stuff like that. _BArry THOmpsON

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Tonight, Chinatown’s melting pot boils over with transglobal sounds of Picó Picante vs. uhuru afrika. It’s going to be one spicy mezcla when Riobamba and Malagón’s bilingual beats meet Uhuru’s “Afrodiasporic dancefloor explosion,” with an assist from OXYcontinental and Wayne & Wax.

November 16 @ 9:30 pm :: Good Life, 28 Kingston St :: $5 :: 21+ :: goodlifebar.com

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even with Mitt’s election drubbing, we still can’t get enough of watching a tonedeaf businessman blunder for our amusement. Spend a night cringing with Chinglish, David Henry Hwang’s Tony-winning play about mistranslation and manners abroad. Tickets to tonight’s premiere benefit the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center.

November 30 @ 8 pm :: Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St :: $75 :: bcnc.net

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We’re roaming a little past the Chinatown gates here, but surely there’s no better way to whet your appetite for late-night sushi and “cold tea” than doing a little art-gazing at Lot F’s First Fridays.

Recently spotted: the Blade Runneresque cityscapes of Adam O’Day, Josh Durant’s “explosive bird” watercolors, and masterful stenciling by Kenji Nakayama.

First Friday of every month :: Lot F Gallery, 145 Pearl St :: lotfgallery.com

PHOTOS BY DeReK KOUYOUMJIAN

arts & nightlife :: get out

Arts & Nightlife :: get out

To-Do LisT THURsDAY 15

HAUNTED SqUArE GHoST ToUr › Through the Harvard University campus and the Cambridge Burying Yard, with ghost stories and Harvard history along the way › Thurs-Sun 7:30 pm › In front of the Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, Harvard Sq, Cambridge › $20 › 617.354.1441 or cambridgehistoricaltours.org 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 “MoVING BEYoND MATErIALITY” › Lecture by MIT visiting artist Tomás Saraceno, who will present his work On Space Time Foam, a project installed at HangarBiccoca in Milan. MIT Architecture professors Nader Tehrani and Antón García-Abril join Saraceno on the panel › 6:30 pm › MIT Building 10, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge › Free › arts.mit.edu/cast “SHArING STorIES & STrENGTHS” › Discussion group led

by Desiree Taylor › 6:30 pm › Jamaica Plain Branch Library, 12 Sedgwick St., Jamaica Plain › Free › 617.524.2053 or bpl.org/branches/jamaica.htm “THE FUTUrE LooKS LIKE THIS” › Lecture with BCA artist resident Siobhan Rigg › 7 pm › Boston Center for the Arts, 527-551 Tremont St, Boston › 617.933.8600 or bostontheatrescene.com “TIME MADE VISIBLE: CHArLES ELIoT AND THE BoSToN METroPoLITAN PArKS” › Lecture with Professor Anita Berrizbeitia › 6 pm › Wheelock College, 200 the Riverway, Boston › 617.879.2000 or wheelock.edyu

FRiDAY 16

THE 36TH BoSToN INTErNATIoNAL ANTIqUArIAN BooK FAIr › Offerings from more than 120 dealers include books, illuminated manuscripts, autographs, maps, atlases, photographs, and more › Fri 5 pm; Sat-Sun noon › Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston › $8-$15 › 617.954.2000 or bostonbookfair.com DANCE FrIDAY › Ongoing participatory dance with music played by rotating DJs in a smoke-and-alcohol-free environment › 8:30 pm › First Parish Church of Cambridge, 3 Church St., Cambridge › $10-$15 or dancefriday.org

TANGo BAr › Casual milonga with a selection of Argentine inspired food, preceded by an hour-long crash course › 8 pm › Dance Union, 16 Bow Street, Somerville › $12 › 617.721.4872 or bostontango.org HAUNTED HArVArD ToUr › See listing for Thurs

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BLINK! › Six-week, state-of-the-art, LED light and sound show featuring the music of the Holiday Pops that runs once every half-hour › Sat-Thurs 4:30 pm › Faneuil Hall Marketplace, 4 South Market Building, Boston › Free › faneuilhallmarketplace.com “CoMPANY-WIDE GIFT SWAP” › DIY gift swap presented by Banditos Misteriosos; check website at midnight the evening before for details on location › 1 pm › TBA › misteriosos.org FESTIVAL oF TrEES › With more than 225 Christmas trees, kids’ activities, raffles, and more › Sat-Sun 10 am; Mon-Wed 5 pm › Valley Office Park, 13 Branch St, Methuen › Mon-Fri: $8; SatSun: $10 or methuenfestivaloftrees.com LA MILoNGA › Dress-up tango party featuring exhibitions or demonstrations by visiting teachers › 8 pm › Dance Union, 16 Bow Street, Somerville › $15 › 617.721.4872 or bostontango.org SPArTAN rACE › Three-mile obstacle course, with a post-race after party and prizes for participants › Sat-Sun 8 am › Fenway Park, 4 Yawkey Way, Boston › $130-$175 › 617.267.8661 or spartanrace. com THE 36TH BoSToN INTErNATIoNAL ANTIqUArIAN BooK FAIr › See listing for Fri HAUNTED HArVArD ToUr › See listing for Thurs

sUNDAY 18

THE 36TH BoSToN INTErNATIoNAL ANTIqUArIAN BooK FAIr › See listing for Fri BLINK! › See listing for Sat FESTIVAL oF TrEES › See listing for Sat HAUNTED HArVArD ToUr › See listing for Thurs SPArTAN rACE › See listing for Sat

MoNDAY 19

BLINK! › See listing for Sat FESTIVAL oF TrEES › See listing for Sat

TUEsDAY 20

“GALLErY NIGHT TUESDAYS” ›

more at thephoenix.com/events TrIVIA › Work your brain this week with pub quiz nights around town, including Geeks Who Drink, Stump!, and more.

Get details on these and dozens more trivia events online!

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

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 BLINK! › See listing for Sat FESTIVAL oF TrEES › See listing for Sat

WEDNEsDAY 21

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-$20 › 617.547.2724 or dancefreedom.com BLINK! › See listing for Sat FESTIVAL oF TrEES › See listing for Sat

THURsDAY 22

ZooLIGHTS › Thousands of lights, animals on display in the Yukon Creek, and photo opportunities with the reindeer › 5 pm › Franklin Park Zoo, 1 Franklin Park Rd, Boston › $7 › 617.541.5466 or zoonewengland.org BLINK! › See listing for Sat HAUNTED HArVArD ToUr › See listing for Thurs

AcTivisM THURsDAY 15

BoSToN FArE STrIKE CoALITIoN MEETINGS › Join Occupy Boston’s efforts again rising MBTA fair prices at the Gazebo on the Common › 6 pm › Boston Common, Charles St, Boston › Free › occupyboston.org/2012/07/26/boston-farestrike-coalition-meeting-today “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

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FArE FrEE FrIDAYS › Occupy Boston activists meet weekly to fight fare hikes and service cuts. Starting @ 5pm in Park Street, then traveling around the city to raise awareness. › 5 pm › Park Street T Stop, Boston › Free › occupyboston.org FooD SErVICE VoLUNTEErING WITH FooD NoT BoMBS › Recurring every Friday and Sunday, help Food Not Bombs to pass out free meals to all in Boston Common and in Central Square. To get involved, email fnbboston@gmail.com. › Fri + Sun 3 pm › Central Square, Mass Ave and Prospect St, Cambridge › Free › facebook.com/ FNBBoston MoNTHLY ZINE-MAKING MEET UP › Stop by Papercut Zine Library (located inside of Lorem Ipsum Books) as they sort through recipes collected all autumn at local farmers’ markets, and put together a zine of favorites. Bring recipes, food stories,

and harvest vibes. Zine making supplies provided. › 6 pm › Papercut Zine Library, 226 Pearl St, Somerville › Free › 617.492.2606 or facebook.com/ events/437902596266932 oCCUPY BoSToN DECoLoNIZE To LIBErATE WorKING GroUP MEETINGS › How do systems of oppression that come from colonization affect the movement? Find out a weekly meetings that include discussion, selfeducation, planning events and actions to help decolonize the movement. Follow @DecolonizeBos for updates. › 6 pm › First Parish Church of Cambridge, 3 Church St., Cambridge › Free › decolonizeboston.org oCCUPY BoSToN’S qUEEr TrANS DIrECT ACTIoN WorKING GroUP MEETING › Smash gender and sexuality based oppression › 6 pm › Boston Common, Charles St, Boston › Free › occupyboston.org “PALESTINE CULTUrAL NIGHT” › BU’s Students for Justice in Palestine present a night of music, food, and traditional dancing. Columbia University Palestinian Dabke Brigade, several musicians, and the BU DJ club will provide the night’s entertainment › 7 pm › BU Alley in the basement of the George Sherman Union, 775 Comm Ave, Boston › $7 › 617.353.5498 or facebook.com/events/36 9813136437810/?fref=ts

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“WALK AND rALLY For THE CHILDrEN oF SYrIA” › Stand in unity for the children and people of Syria. This event begins with a rally at Copley Square at 1 pm followed by a walk to Boston Common and back at 3:30 pm › 1 pm › Copley Square, Boylston + Dartmouth Sts, Boston › Free › facebook.com/ events/435828216452687

sUNDAY 18

FooD SErVICE VoLUNTEErING WITH FooD NoT BoMBS › See listing for Fri

MoNDAY 19

oCCUPY BoSToN rADIo WorKING GroUP MEETING › OB Radio needs help, ideas, producers, suggestions for show ideas and the music department. › 7 pm › Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, Boston › Free › 617.482.6300 or occupyboston.org

WEDNEsDAY 21

rADICAL FILM NIGHT › The Ice Storm › 7 pm › Lucy Parsons Center, 358A Centre St, Jamaica Plain › Free › 617.267.6272 or lucyparsons.org VoLUNTEEr NIGHT AT BIKES NoT BoMBS › No RSVP or experience necessary to drop in. Assist BNB’s volunteer coordinator with packing bikes for the organization’s international programs, prepping bikes to be repurposed, sorting parts, and other tasks. Recurs every Wednesday evening. › 7 pm › Bikes Not Bombs, 284 Amory St, Ste 8, Jamaica Plain › Free › bikesnotbombs.org

THURsDAY 22

BoSToN FArE STrIKE CoALITIoN MEETINGS › See listing for Thurs

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Arts & Nightlife :: visuAl Art sarah hIll’s Flesh Prison

“InsIder/OutsIder” “sOmethIng I learned from going out into public spaces is that sometimes public space isn’t actually public, but it feels public,” says Sandrine Schaefer, a prominent Boston performer who co-directs the art initiative The Present Tense. (She also teaches at Montserrat College of Art, where I teach.) “That started making me think a lot about how we understand space, how we divide space, how we feel like we own space, and how we don’t own space.”

Those are questions highlighted by “Insider/ Outsider” at Lincoln Arts Project, which rounds up photos and videos documenting performance art performed outside the usual art galleries.

A photo here shows her wedged under a chair at an empty Oaxaca, Mexico, food cart; she stayed there “until a taxi cab driver expressed concern (14 minutes).” It’s a style called “durational” that’s big in Boston — meaning actions dependent on the passage of time, and that can go on for quite a while, often involving some sort of physical or psychological stress.

“My aesthetic is very meditative. I like really meditative durational, what a lot of people would think is maybe boring work,” Schaefer says, with a laugh.

“But I think it’s exciting. . . . I like to create some kind of visceral response.”

The 13 artists — six of them with local ties — in

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“Insider/Outsider” mainly use performance symbolically, to address social concerns. Jodie Goodnough counts out thousands of pills onto a bed to address the “overabundance of psychiatric medicine” in America — as well as her own pill consumption.

Joanne Rice adds 100 stones each day at noon to a pile growing outside Boston’s Trinity Church (from 2007 to 2009) in memory of Iraq and Afghanistan war dead.

It comes down to the power of their actions, though. Milan Kohout’s ideas are energized by his surprising rap and location and confrontational weirdness, as he stands in a cage in Boston’s South Station telling passersbys, “Once there was a reason to keep me inside of the cage all the time because I was an unreasonable critic of the capitalist system.”

Whereas Lezli Rubin Kunda’s five days alone in an Israeli bomb shelter — swinging from a ladder, pasting leaves around her shadow on a wall — begin to feel trite.

The takeaway is that for all the social concern running through these works, most of these artists act as though convinced that they are incapable of improving the big world. They use public spaces to perform small, meditative, nearly private gestures.

_G r e G Cook

“INSIDER/OUTSIDER” :: Lincoln Arts Project, 289 Moody St., Waltham :: Through December 1

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sandrine schaefer

Sarah Hill stood near the door of Boston’s Anthony Greaney Gallery a couple of Fridays ago as Hill’s Flesh Prison screened on the opposite wall. The 15-minute video stars the 26-year-old Jamaica Plain resident getting baptized in a pond, dancing with a woman across a lawn, shoveling a grave at night and rolling a body in, choking up a feather, peeing in a yard, seeming dead, spitting, sleeping. Repeatedly the camera cuts close to Hill, painted bloody red, who suddenly lurches toward us and snarls. It’s a glam queer horror film, hallucinatory and visceral and jarring, a blast of emotions.

“People ask me all the time: why am I so angry?” says Hill, who is transitioning from female to male, and identifies as “transgender queer.” Just getting by in our heteronormative world is hard. “People can’t read me as male or female, so therefore I get marked as deviant. . . . And since they can’t understand it, they literally think I’m tricking them.

Which isn’t the case.”

A performance last year (at the Museum School, where Hill was a student, among other locations) had Hill yelling “I’m fine” over and over until nearly collapsing. For Hill, going to such extremes addresses “not exactly feeling comfortable in the flesh that I have or was born into. So being able to push my body to an extreme like that is stepping back and taking control over this body that I do have.”

open studios

BRICKBOTTOM OPEN STUDIOS › 617.776.3410 › 1 Fitchburg St, Somerville › brickbottom.com › Sat-Sun noon-6 pm › With close to 100 artists exhibiting paintings, sculptures, prints, ceramics, photographs, and more

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“Transit of Venus” NEWBURY FINE ARTS › 617.536.0210 › 29 Newbury St, Boston › newburyfinearts.com › Through Nov 25: Tim Merrett: “clearHISTORY” SHERMAN GALLERY AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY › 617.358.0295 › 775 Comm Ave, Boston › bu.edu/cfa › Tues-Fri 11 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm › Through Dec 16: Stephen A. Frank: “Exploring My Kodachrome Dreams, You Can’t Go Home Again” › Reception Nov 15: 5:30-7 pm

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openings

NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM › 413.298.4100 › 9 Rte 183, Stockbridge › nrm.org › Daily 10 am–5 pm, through Oct. After Nov, 10 am-4 pm; weekends 10 am- 5 pm › Admission $15; $13.50 seniors; $10 students with ID; free for ages 18 and under when accompanied by an adult › Nov 16-Jan 21: Norman Rockwell: “Home for the Holidays” RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN MUSEUM OF ART › 401.454.6500 › 224 Benefit St, Providence, RI › risdmuseum. org › Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm; third Thurs per month until 9 pm › Admission $10; $7 seniors; $3 college students and youth ages 5-18; free every Sun 10 am–1 pm, the third Thurs of each month 5-9 pm, and the last Sat of the month › Nov 16-June 9: “RISD Business: Sassy Signs and Sculptures by Alejandro Diaz” › Reception Nov 15: 6 pm SOCIETY OF ARTS AND CRAFTS › 617.266.1810 › 175 Newbury St, Boston › societyofcrafts.org › Tues-Sat 10 am-6 pm › Nov 16-Jan 19: “Our Cups Runneth Over” › Reception Nov 16: 6-8 pm

galleries

Admission to the following galleries is free, unless otherwise noted. In addition to the hours listed here, many galleries are open by appointment.

808 GALLERY › 617.358.0922 › 808 Comm Ave, Boston › bu.edu/cfa/visual-arts/galleries › Tues-Sun 1-5 pm › Through Dec 16: “On Sincerity” ARS LIBRI › 617.357.5212 › 500 Harrison Ave, Boston › arslibri.com › Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm; Sat 11 am-5 pm › Through Dec 22: Wendy Burton: “Histories” ARSENAL CENTER FOR THE ARTS › 617.923.0100 › 321 Arsenal St, Watertown › arsenalarts.org › Tues-Sun noon-6 pm › Through Jan 4: “Artists Talk About Art” ART INSTITUTE OF BOSTON › 617.585.6600 › 700 Beacon St, Boston › aiboston.edu › Tues-Wed + Fri noon-5 pm; Thurs 3-8 pm; Sat noon-5 pm › Through Dec 16: “MasterWork” BARBARA KRAKOW GALLERY › 617.262.4490 › 10 Newbury St, Boston › barbarakrakowgallery.com › Tues-Sat 10 am5:30 pm › Through Nov 24: Allan McCollum:

museums

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“The Shapes Project: Perfect Couples” BOSTON CYBERARTS GALLERY › 617.290.5010 › 141 Green St, Jamaica Plain › bostoncyberarts.org › Wed-Thurs 6-9 pm; Fri-Sun 11 am-6 pm › Through Dec 14: “COLLISION18:Present” BOSTON UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY › 617.353.4672 › 855 Comm Avenue, Boston › bu. edu/art › Tues-Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm › Through Dec 20: Vlatka Horvat: “Also Called: Backbone, Anchor, Lifeline” BROMFIELD GALLERY › 617.451.3605 › 450 Harrison Ave, Boston › bromfieldgallery. com › Wed-Sat noon-5 pm › Through Dec 1: Judy Riola: “Noisy Constellations” › Through Dec 1: Prilla Smith Brackett: “Promises to Keep: Monoprints” CAC GALLERY › 617.349.4380 › 344 Broadway, Cambridge › cambridgema.gov/ cac › Mon + Wed 8:30 am-8 pm; Tues + Thurs 8:30 am-5 pm; Fri 8:30 am-noon › Through Nov 23: Halsey Burgund: “ROUND: Cambridge” CAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION › 617.547.6789 › 42 Brattle St, Cambridge › ccae.org › Daily noon-9 pm › Through Nov 30: “The New England Folk Music Archives Exhibition” CHASE YOUNG GALLERY › 617.859.7222 › 450 Harrison Ave, Boston › chaseyounggallery. com › Tues-Sat 11 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-4 pm › Through Nov 30: Peter Hoffer: “Second Nature”

FOURTH WALL PROJECT › 132 Brookline Ave, Boston › fourthwallproject.com › Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sun 1-5 pm › Through Dec 3: “Fear No Art 4” GALLERY KAYAFAS › 617.482.0411 › 450 Harrison Ave, Boston › gallerykayafas.com › Tues-Sat 11 am–5:30 pm › Through Nov 24: Caleb Cole: “Odd One Out” and “Dolls” › Through Nov 24: Pelle Cass: “Strangers” GALLERY NAGA › 617.267.9060 › 67 Newbury St, Boston › gallerynaga.com › Tues-Sat 10AM-5PM › Through Dec 15: Gregory Gillespie: “Transfixed” KINGSTON GALLERY › 617.423.4113 › 450 Harrison Ave, #43, Boston › kingstongallery.com › Wed-Sun noon- 5 pm › Through Dec 2: Luanne E Witkowski: “Place” LINCOLN ARTS PROJECT › 289 Moody St, Waltham › lincolnartsproject.com › Wed-Fri 4-9 pm; Sat 2-8 pm › Through Dec 1: “Insider/Outsider” › Reception Nov 16: 7-10 pm MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER › 617.253.4860 › 20 Ames St, Cambridge › web. mit.edu/lvac › Daily noon-6 pm › Through Jan 6: “In the Holocene” MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER › 617.577.1400 › 41 Second St, Cambridge › multiculturalartscenter.org › Mon-Fri 10:30 am6 pm › Through Dec 14: Martin Karplus: “South and Central American Kodachromes of the 1960s” › Through Dec 26: Sylvia Stagg-Giuliano:

DECORDOVA SCULPTURE PARK AND MUSEUM › 781.259.8355 › 51 Sandy Pond Rd, Lincoln › decordova.org › Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm › Admission $14; $12 seniors; $10 students and youth ages 13 and up; free to children under 12 › Through Dec 30: Jean Shin and Brian Ripel: “Retreat” › Through Dec 30: Julianne Swartz: “How Deep is Your” › Through April 21: “Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now” INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART › 617.478.3100 › 100 Northern Ave, Boston › icaboston.org › Tues-Wed + Sat-Sun 10 am–5 pm; Thurs-Fri 10 am–9 pm › Admission $15; $10 students, seniors; free for ages under 17; free after 5 pm on Thurs › Through Nov 25: Dianna Molzan › Through Nov 25: Os Gêmeos › Through March 3: “This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s” ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM › 617.566.1401 › 280 the Fenway, Boston › gardnermuseum.org › Wed-Mon 11 am-5 pm › Admission $15; $12 seniors; $5 students with ID; free for ages under 18 › Through Jan 7: “The Great Bare Mat & Constellation” MCMULLEN MUSEUM OF ART AT BOSTON COLLEGE › 617.552.8100 › 140 Comm Ave, Chestnut Hill › bc.edu/ artmuseum › Mon-Fri 11 am-4 pm; Sat-Sun noon-5 pm › Free admission › Through Dec 9: Paul Klee: “Philosophical Vision; From Nature to Art” <z7ROSE ART MUSEUM AT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY › 781.736.3434 › 415 South St, Waltham › brandeis.edu/ rose › Tues-Sun noon-5 pm › Admission $3 › Through Dec 9: Dor Guez: “100 Steps to the Mediterranean” WORCESTER ART MUSEUM › 508.799.4406 › 55 Salisbury St, Worcester › worcesterart.org › Wed-Fri + Sun 11 am-5 pm; Sat 10 am-5 pm; Third Thursday 11 am-8 pm › Admission $14, $12 for seniors and students.

Free for youth 17 and under and for all on first Sat of the month, 10 am-noon › Through Nov 30: “Pilgrimage to Hokusai’s Waterfalls” › Through Dec 2: “20th Century American Drawings” › Through Feb 3: “Kennedy to Kent State: Images of a Generation”

on view through February 24

Alex Ross, JLA: The Original Seven, 2000, courtesy of the artist, ™ & © DC Comics. Used with permission.

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Arts & Nightlife :: books

book events 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

FRIDAY 16

THE 36TH BOSTON INTERNATIONAL ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR › Fri-Sun › Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston › $8-$15 › 617.954.2000 or bostonbookfair.com MICHAEL DAVID COHEN › Reconstructing the Campus: Higher Education and the American Civil War reading › 3 pm › Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.661.1515 or harvard.com DAVID NASAW › The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy reading › 7 pm › Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.661.1515 or harvard.com

sAtURDAY 17

“WORD-N-RHYTHM” › With open mic poetry, live music, and a BBQ › Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St, Cambridge › $5 donation › 617.354.5287 or outoftheblueartgallery. com THE 36TH BOSTON INTERNATIONAL ANTIQUARIAN BOOK FAIR › See listing for Fri

sUnDAY 18

Sweet tooth — A lIght, comic novel from gence in England in the ’70s, with concerns about Ian McEwan, the author of Atonement and the IRA butting up against the usual worries Amsterdam — tells the story of Serena Frome about the Soviet Union. Is the collapse of West(pronounced like “plume,” we’re told), ern civilization imminent? Important isan intelligence agent in MI5 in the ’70s. sues, but Serena usually only raises them Her eventual assignment is to pose as while pointing out that she’s pretending a member of a foundation that funds to be better informed than she is for exciting new writers, but really exists to various men. She also notes the sexism encourage writers with a pro-capitalist she encounters at her job, mostly seemagenda. It’s a bizarre scheme, but just ing indifferent to it. believable enough, and reminiscent of a There are certainly young women in similar real-life scheme by the CIA with the world who are as romance-focused various literary journals, a fact menas Serena. But with women often reltioned by the book’s MI5 agents. Less egated to the role of love interest, did believable is Serena herself. sWeet tooth we need a novel from the perspective McEwan has created a character of someone who acts like a secondary

By Ian McEwan whose life lurches from event to event character?

Doubleday/Nan A. based on her pursuit of various men, A revelation late in the novel unseats Talese from the older lover who gets her an the fragile sympathy the reader may interview with the agency, to the colhave developed for the frustrating, if of320 pages league who gets her the big assignment ten quite funny, Serena. It’s a twist that $26.95 (the eponymous “Sweet Tooth”), to the both explains why Serena is the way she author she’s supposed to be monitoring. Once she is while also condescending to her. It’s the kind of starts dating her author, she starts to have second development that worked well in Atonement, but thoughts about the assignment. Should she sacrinot so in this comic spy thriller. _Lis a W ei d enfeLd » Li sa.Wei d enfeLd @gmai L.com :: fice her job for the man she loves? @Lis aW ei d enfeLd The book also considers the state of intelli64 11.16.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOM/ArTs

MonDAY 19

40TH YEAR OF BLACKSMITH HOUSE POETRY SERIES › With Steven Cramer, author of the collection Clangings and David Hinton author of Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology › 8 pm › Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 42 Brattle St, Cambridge › $3 › 617.547.6789 or ccae.org ROSS KING › Leonardo and the Last Supper reading › 7 pm › Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.661.1515 or harvard.com TEHILA LIEBERMAN AND JENNIFER BARBER › Lieberman’s Venus in the Afternoon and Barber’s Given Away reading › 7 pm › Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline › Free › 617.566.6660 or brooklinebooksmith.com “MASSMOUTH STORY SLAM” › 7 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $5-$10 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com

tUesDAY 20

“THE STORY SPACE: TONY KAHN” › 7 pm › Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St, Cambridge › Free › 617.354.5287 or outoftheblueartgallery.com

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Boston Lyric opera’s MadaMa Butterfly “Were you Bored?” i overheard a woman walking up the aisle say to her companion. “No,” he answered, “I loved it.” “Are you sure?” she replied. Boston Lyric Opera has just offered its third production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly since the millennium. Opening night sold out, so there’s the irrefutable argument for repeating this potboiler, which combines Puccini’s most sentimental and sadistic impulses. Poor Butterfly, the 15-year-old geisha victimized by imperialism, male chauvinism, and racism, hasn’t a chance. But she’s got unforgettable tunes, and BLO’s sopranos have all played Cio-Cio San more for dignity than victimhood, though there’s no escaping Puccini’s creepy infatuation with suffering.

The latest Butterfly was New Jersey soprano Yunah Lee, singing the role for the 112th time. She’s vocally powerful enough for the numerous climaxes (occasional harshness at the top compromised her bright timbre), yet refined enough to scale back. She’s also an impressive, intricately detailed actress — not a wasted movement — though the greatest Butterflies convince you they’re not acting. As American Lieutenant Pinkerton, tenor Dinyar Vania (another Jerseyite) balanced tender-hearted lover and thoughtless heel. His voice shifted from fuzzy middle to ringing top, sometimes in imperfectly tuned overdrive.

There were two exceptional performances in smaller roles: mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, whose warm-

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voiced emotional transparency as Suzuki, Butterfly’s loyal servant, contrasted with Lee’s calculated effects, and Irish tenor Michael Colvin as Goro, the comic pimp-like “marriage broker.” Baritone Weston Hurt was a vocally refined, understated consul Sharpless. Returning conductor Andrew Bisantz continues to weave nuanced musicality into an unforced sense of drama.

The orchestra sang, though sometimes too loudly.

Stage director Lillian Groag has previously displayed for BLO odd mixtures of big ideas and gimmicky bits.

Here, her idea was to have “heightened moments”— images projecting Butterfly’s thoughts. The production began with Butterfly’s father’s ritual suicide — not in the libretto — a serviceable if heavy-handed foreshadowing of Puccini’s tragic conclusion. But one “heightened moment” nearly ruined Puccini’s most famous aria, Butterfly’s “Un bel dì” — her conviction that Pinkerton will return: “One fine day we’ll see a filament of smoke rising over the sea on the horizon.” While Lee sang, Groag had Vania enter, smoking (“smoke on the horizon”?), sit down in Cio-Cio San’s new Morris chair, then leave.

Why should this familiar aria need extraneous literalization? Similarly, John Conklin’s set had too many moving parts (descending flowers and boards) distracting from Puccini’s true heightened moments. Directors and designers ought to know when to trust the music. _LL oy d Schwartz

MORE CLASSICAL :: Read Lloyd Schwartz’s appreciation of Elliott Carter, as well as more concert reviews, at thePhoenix.com/arts.

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BOSTON CONSERVATORY CONDUCTED BY ANDREW ALTENBACH › Conrad Susa’s Transformations › Thurs-Sat 8 pm; Sun 2 pm › Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 Hemenway St, Boston › $25-$30; $15 seniors; $10 students › 617.912.9222 or bostonconservatory.edu BOSTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY BENJAMIN ZANDER › Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with George Li; Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 › Thurs 7:30 pm; Sun 3 pm › Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge › Sat 8 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › $25-$98 › Thurs $15-$70; Sat-Sun $25-$98 › 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 › Thurs + Sat 8 pm; Fri 1:30 pm › Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston › $30$114 › 888.266.1200 or bso.org MARIA FERRANTE AND PEI-YEH TSAI › Works for soprano and piano by Donizetti, Rossini, Puccini, and Michele Caniato › 6:30 pm › Kent Recital Hall at Fitchburg State University, 367 North St, Fitchburg › Free › 978.665.3276 or fitchburgstate.edu NEC SYMPHONIC WINDS CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM DRURY › Françaix’s Mozart New Look; Cornicello’s express.com; Piazzola’s Clarinet Quartet › 7 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › Free › 617.585.1260 or necmusic.edu SNAPSHOTS › Curtis Hughes’s Palin Suite › 7 pm › Community Music Center of Boston, 34 Warren Ave, Boston › $20; $15 students, seniors › 617.482.7494 or cmcb.org

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BOSTON MUSICA VIVA › Hughes’s Verbiage; Schoenberg’s Suite, Op. 29 [Septet]; Kraft’s Settings from Pierrot Lunaire, with soprano Sarah Pelletier › 8 pm › Tsai Performance Center, 685 Comm Ave, Boston › $9-$30 › 617.354.6910 or bmv.org MIT CHAMBER CHORUS › Selection of opera scenes by Mozart, Floyd, Copland, Verdi, Barber, Strauss, and more › 8 pm › Kresge Auditorium at MIT, 48 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.253.3913 or events.mit.edu TAKÁCS QUARTET › Haydn’s String Quartet in D, Op. 76, No. 5; Schubert’s String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D804 [Rosamunde]; Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57, with Marc-André Hamelin › 8 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › $65 › 617.585.1260 or celebrityseries.org BOSTON CONSERVATORY CONDUCTED BY ANDREW ALTENBACH › See listing for Thurs BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY THOMAS ADÈS › See listing for Thurs

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AARON JACKSON › Cage’s Etudes Australes, Book II › noon › Boston Athenæum, 10-1/2 Beacon St, Boston › Free › 617.227.0270 or bostonathenaeum.org BOSTON CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA › Schubert’s Overture in B-flat; Weber’s Symphony No. 1 in C; Beethoven’s Violin Concerto › Sat 8 pm; Sun 3 pm › Faneuil Hall, 1 Faneuil Hall Sq, Boston › $37-$74; $19 students › 617.635.3105 or bostonclassicalorchestra.org

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MARK RICHARDSON AND JAMES STAPLES › Bach’s Sonata No. 3 in C for unaccompanied violin, BWV 1065; Beethoven’s Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24; Richardson’s Sonata in F for violin and piano › 4 pm › St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1 Roanoke Ave, Jamaica Plain › $10 › 617.524.2999 or jpconcerts.org NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA › Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3, with pianist Abel Sanchez Aguilera; Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 [Rhenish] › Sat-Sun 8 pm; Sun 3 pm › First Baptist Church Newton, 848 Beacon St, Newton Center › $35-$45; $32-$40 seniors; $10 students › 617.527.9717 or newphil.org SOUND ICON › Philippe Leroux’s Voi(Rex) and (d’)ALLER, with soprano Jennifer Ashe and violinist Gabriela Díaz › 8 pm › Fenway Center, 70 Saint Stephen St, Boston › Free › 617.266.4457 or soundicon.org BOSTON CONSERVATORY CONDUCTED BY ANDREW ALTENBACH › See listing for Thurs BOSTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY BENJAMIN ZANDER › See listing for Thurs BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY THOMAS ADÈS › See listing for Thurs

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ARABELLA STRING QUARTET › Haydn’s String Quartet in G minor, Op. 77, No. 1; Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10; Smetana’s String Quartet No. 1 in E minor [From My Life] › 3 pm › Follen Church, 755 Mass Ave, Lexington › Free › hammondre.com BAY STATE WINDS CLARINET QUARTET › Selection of works by Prokofiev, Montilla, Curtis, and more › 2 pm › Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St, Newton › Free › 617.796.1360 or newtonfreelibrary.net BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS › Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, transcribed by the composer for piano four-hands, Op. 134; Carter’s Figment III for double bass and Wind Quintet; Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34; With Thomas Adès and Kirill Gerstein › 3 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › $22-$38 › 617.585.1260 or bso.org CORO ALLEGRO › Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata; Britten’s Festival Te Deum; Poulenc’s Chansons Françaises; Kodály’s Missa Brevis › 3 pm › Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury St, Boston › $22-$46; $17-$41 students, seniors › 617.266.7480 or coroallegro.org HERMITAGE PIANO TRIO › Rachmaninov’s Trio in G minor [Elégiaque]; Beethoven’s Trio in G, Op. 121a [Kakadu Variations]; Tchaikovsky’s Trio in A minor, Op. 50 › 6 pm › First

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA › Varèse’s Hyperprism; Grainger’s The Warriors; Orff’s Carmina burana › 8 pm › Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston › $25 › 888.266.1200 or bso.org

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ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION › Kyle Abraham’s The Radio Show › Fri 7:30 pm; Sat 8 pm › Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave, Boston › $40 › 617.478.3100 or worldmusic.org EMILY JOHNSON AND ARETHA AOKI › Johnson and Aoki’s Niicugni › 8 pm › Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, 87 Marshall St, North Adams › $12 › 413.662.2111 or massmoca.org QUICKSILVER DANCE › Mariah Steele’s Epoch Tales › Fri 8 pm; Sat 3 + 8 pm › Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St, Boston › $15 › 617.933.8600 or quicksilverdance.com

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BOSTON TAP COMPANY › Sean C. Fielder’s Rhythm In The Night › 7 pm › Roxbury Community College, 1234 Columbus Ave, Boston › $25 › 617.427.0060 or thebostontapcompany.com ABRAHAM.IN.MOTION › See listing for Fri QUICKSILVER DANCE › See listing for Fri

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RINA MEHTA › Kathak dance, with sitarist Mike Jarjoura and tablaist Amit Kavthekar › 6 pm › Dance Complex, 536 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $18; $12 students, seniors › 617.547.9363 or dancecomplex.org THEPHOENIX.COM/ARTS :: 11.16.12 67

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The Chosen keeps the faith the leap from page to stage for The Chosen (at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston through November 17) is more of a hop. Aaron Posner and Chaim Potok’s 1999 stage adaptation of Potok’s 1967 coming-ofage novel is so faithful to its source that it feels more like a narration than a play. The central character is a bearded, bespectacled Reuven Malter recalling his teenage years in Jewish Williamsburg, Brooklyn, circa 1944-1948, and his Weltanschauung-expanding friendship with Hasidic fellow teen Danny Saunders.

As the adult Reuven tells his story, fragments of the past come to life, beginning with the dueling-yeshivas baseball game that introduces him to Danny. But until the post-war revelation of the Holocaust in all its horror, the 1940s constitute a more innocent age than ours, and the heady earnestness of The Chosen reflects this. Watching Reuven and Danny’s otherwise invisible teams go at it, I found myself wishing for the delicious irony of William Finn’s Falsettos, with its bleacher full of spectators “watching Jewish boys who cannot play baseball play baseball.”

Except that these Jewish boys can play baseball, as is evinced when hard hitter Danny, his prayer-shawl

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fringes dangling from beneath his black vest, bats a ball right into pitcher Reuven’s eye — an event that precipitates first animosity and then an unlikely bond.

Of course, The Chosen is not about America’s favorite pastime. It’s about fathers and sons, about finding one’s own way in the world and in the faith, and about struggling through silence — imposed at one time or another on both boys by Danny’s stern rabbi dad — towards compassion. At the Lyric, Daniel Gidron’s delicately directed production dispenses this wisdom with warmth and even a smattering of humor.

Brynna Bloomfield’s set manages to incorporate both the baseball diamond and the Torah. And the performances capture the intellectual religious fire and old-fashioned sincerity of time and place.

Charles Linshaw handles the narration with a rueful twinkle. Joel Colodner makes a fearsome patriarch, Will McGarrahan a more tender parent. And Zachary Eisenstat and Luke Murtha render young Reuven and Danny’s struggles palpable. Still, Potok’s maxim — that a word is worth one coin, silence two — makes for scant drama unless you are a mime.

_Car olyn Clay

THE CHOSEN :: Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon St, Boston :: Through November 17 :: $27-$58 :: 617.437.7172 or lyricstage.com

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Hell Cab › Acme Theater stages Will Kern’s dark tragicomedy that strings together a series of stories that take place in a taxicab.

Seven actors play approximately 25 roles in this staging, directed by Russell Greene. › November 16–December 8 › Acme Theater, 31 Summer St, Maynard › $18; $16 students, seniors › 978.897.9828 or acmetheater.com HoW THe GriNCH sTole CHrisTmas › Matt August directs the Broadway tour of Mel Marvin and Timothy Mason’s musical theater adaptation of the classic Dr. Seuss story about a holiday-hating green grump who soon learns the importance of cheer. The show includes two famous songs from the original animated movie of the same name: “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and “Welcome Christmas.” › November 23–December 9 › Citi Performing Arts Center, 270 Tremont Street, Boston › $35-$125 › 617.482.9393 or citicenter.org/shows/lists THe piaNisT oF WillesdeN laNe › Mona Golabek stars as her mother, Lisa Jura, in a biographical one-woman play. Lisa, a young Jewish woman, grew up in Vienna in 1938 and in London during the Blitzkrieg.

She dreamed of being a famous pianist; WWII forced her to reconsider some of her big plans, but not her love of music. Hershey Felder directs. › November 23–December 16 › Paramount Theatre, 559 Washington St, Boston › $25-$69 › 617.824.8000 or artsemerson.org reCKless › John Fogle is at the helm of Craig Lucas’s cheerfully surreal, dark-edged 1988 fantasy, in which a happy housewife whose husband has hired a hitman goes on the lam on Christmas Eve. Nancy Gahagan stars in this Salem Theatre Company staging. › November 29- December 22 › Salem Theatre Company, 90 Lafayette St, Salem › $10-$25 › 978.790.8546 or salemtheatre.com rUdolpH THe red NeCKed reiNdeer › Ryan Landry and the Gold Dust Orphans have written a new Christmas musical parody of the Rankin/Bass Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Jesse James Wood stars as Rudolph, who stands out from the other reindeer because of his Southern drawl. James P. Byrne directs. › November 29–December 23 › Machine, 1256 Boylston St, Boston › $35-$45 › 617.536.1950 or facebook. com/golddustorphans THe saNTalaNd diaries › David Josef Hansen stars in the one-man show adapted

by Joe Mantello from David Sedaris’s autobiographical essay about his experience working as a Christmas elf in a Macy’s department store. Tony Simotes directs the Shakespeare & Company staging. › November 30–December 29 › Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, 70 Kemble St, Lenox › $15-$50 › 413.637.3353 or shakespeare.org THe sCreWTape leTTers › The Cutler Majestic hosts the return of this nationwide touring production, staged by the Fellowship for the Performing Arts. The staging uses Anthony Lawton’s original adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s satirical Christian apologetics novel, and it features Max McLean as Screwtape. Jeffrey Fiske directs. › November 30–December 1 › Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St, Boston › $39-$89 › 617.824.8000 or screwtapeonstage.com/boston THese seVeN siCKNesses › The Suffolk University Theatre Department presents Sean Graney’s new adaptation of Sophocles’s seven plays, directed by Wesley Savick. Associate directors and Suffolk alumni Ryan Began and Arissara Chounchiasit will also direct two of the seven plays. › November 16-18 › Modern Theatre, 525 Washington St, Boston › $20; $15

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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. 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 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. › Through December 9 › Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave, Boston › $15-$75 › 617.266.7900 or huntingtontheatre.org bloody bloody aNdreW JaCKsoN › America prefers a sexier president, and it gets a rock star in this brainchild of librettist Alex Timbers and composer-lyricist Michael Friedman, in an area premiere by SpeakEasy Stage Company. Here Injun-zapping, Spaniardslapping 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.

Bloody Bloody boasts a plaintive, pounding emo-rock score that proves the right vehicle for its mix of anachronism-peppered snarkiness and earnest feeling. Paul Melone’s SpeakEasy staging conveys all the winking, testosteronetouched 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. › Through November 17 › Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St, Boston › $25 › 617.426.5000 or speakeasystage.com bye bye liVer: THe bosToN driNKiNG play › Hennessy’s hosts the Boston chapter of Bye Bye Liver, a show about drinking culture, from wine snobs to wildly fun (and occasionally terrifying) booze parties. The performance also incorporates audience interaction with social games like “Would You Rather” and “Never Have I Ever.” › Indefinitely › Hennessy’s, 25 Union St, Boston › $20 › 866.811.4111 or ByeByeLiver.com

THe CHoseN › Aaron Posner & 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 backgrounds. › October 19–November 17 › Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon Street, Boston › $27-$58 › 617.437.7172 or lyricstage.com 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. › Through December 29 › Trinity Repertory Company, 201 Washington St, Providence, RI › $15-$36 › 401.351.4242 or tickets.trinityrep.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 › LaneComley Studio 210, 264 Huntington Ave, Boston › $20 › 617.933.8600 or bu.edu 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 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. › Through November 17 › Michelson Theater at Clark University, Charlotte St, Worcester › $5 › 508.793.7356 or clark.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. › Through November 17 › YMCA Theatre, 820 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $16-$25 › 617.491.7431 or longwoodplayers.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 Commonwealth Ave, Boston › $30; $25 seniors; $10 students › 617.353.5443 or bu.edu/bpt Tales From oVid › ArtsEmerson reprises the Whistler in the Dark Theatre staging of Ted Hughes’s translation of 24 selections from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” which they first staged in 2010. Director Meg Taintor returns to helm the production once more; the cast of five take to the air using aerial silks and divide over 30 characters between them. › Through November 18 › Paramount Theatre, 559 Washington St, Boston › $25-$49 › 617.824.8000 or artsemerson.org

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HigH infidelity Judging from Joe WrigHt’s adaptation, Some of the secondary characters, however, Tolstoy’s big book would have made a pretty good quietly steal the show. Serving as much-needed opera, or maybe a movie musical. With a reflexive comic relief, Matthew Macfadyen injects exuberance Tom Stoppard screenplay, the film is set on variainto Oblonsky, Anna’s genial, hopelessly hedonistic tions of a theatrical stage, with occasional glimpses brother. On the darker side, Law’s cuckolded of the real world and departures into self-conscious husband, despite the filmmakers’ efforts to depict mannerisms that almost, but don’t quite, him as a joyless prig (his reusable burst into a song-and-dance production condom is a sinister touch), earns ++1/2 number. Too bad they don’t just go for it. sympathy with his suppressed jealousy ANNA KAreNINA As it is, this bold but gimmicky concept and grief. His character shows the most Directed by Joe Wright serves as an efficient tool for paring down dramatic development; by the end he’s a half million words into a manageable almost tragic. Less impressive, Domhnall Written by tom stoppard two-hours-plus. And though it distracts Gleeson as the bumptious idealist (and adapted from the novel

by Leo tolstoy from the realism that makes the novel so Tolstoy’s stand-in) Levin doesn’t make immersive, the artificiality does highlight much of an impression, nor does Alicia With Keira Knightley, the most genuine aspect of the movie — Vikander as his bride, Kitty. Their Jude Law, aaron taylorthe performances. virtuous bliss should provide an ironic Johnson, matthew macfadyen, Domhnall That includes Keira Knightley, who is counterpoint to Anna’s forbidden love, Gleeson, alicia vikander, luminous, headstrong, and tormented — but here it seems gratuitous. and David Wilmot perhaps sometimes too much so. As the The best line of the film, though, stunning, diamond-bedecked wife of goes to Levin’s brother Nikolai (David Focus Features :: 130m the uptight bureaucrat Karenin (Jude Wilmot). A dissolute revolutionary on Boston Common Law), she ecstatically ruins her life by his deathbed, he manages to croak out, + Kendall square + succumbing to the passion of Count “Romantic love will be the last illusion Coolidge Corner + West Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). Their of the new order!” Maybe that’s the point newton + suburbs scenes together ring excruciatingly true. of Wright and Stoppard’s self-conscious Though Taylor-Johnson seems too callow and looks staginess: a kind of Brechtian alienation effect that a little like Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein, he’s a exposes that illusion even as it extols it. _P e t e r Keough » PKeough@P hx.com good foil for Anna’s outbursts.

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During their 2004 centennial celebration of Yasujiro Ozu, the Harvard Film Archive hosted Midori Sawato, one of a handful of silent-film narrators, or benshi, still active in Japan. It made little difference that the benshi wasn’t performing in English, since the emotion behind her inflection, plus her remarkable physicality, crossed cultural barriers, complementing Ozu’s 1932 masterpiece, I Was Born, But. . . . It was a once-ina-lifetime experience.

The HFA is once again hosting a renowned benshi: Ichiro Kataoka, a student of Sawato who began his training in 2002 — nearly 40 years after Sawato studied under Shunsui Matsuda (1925-87), another legendary benshi who notably saved many films and fragments from Ozu’s career, long before preservation was of much concern.

This time Kataoka-san performs with another Ozu film, Dragnet Girl (1933; November 19 @ 7 pm), his homage to the American gangster genre. The picture fails to fully follow through on that wonderful title, and the spare Ozu IchIro style was still in its nascent KAtAoKA, stages, but BeNShI watching Kenji at the Harvard Mizoguchi’s Film archive muse Kinuyo november 17-19 Tanaka vamp it up, Dietrich-like, as a woman in love with a criminal delinquent, is sublime.

Kataoka will also narrate a double-bill of American silents: Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp is aided by a mute in A Dog’s Life (1918; November 18 @ 7 pm). It’s preceded by a protofeminist feature from 1916: Lois Weber’s Shoes — a huge hit in Japan, boosted by the benshi headliners of the day, whose popularity rivaled that of actors and directors. _Brett mI cheL

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+++ BROOKLYN CASTLE › Katie Dellamaggiore’s sweet, winning documentary spends one year with the chess team at Intermediate School 318, an inner-city junior high in Brooklyn, where despite a 70 percent poverty rate, the kids, grades 6-9, routinely win national championships. The secret is an extraordinarily supportive administration and a crackerjack chess teacher, Elizabeth Spiegel, who devotes her life to teaching students what to do after P-K4. And the I.S. 318 team? A delightfully motley, vulnerable, multicultural bunch, whose addiction to chess has allowed them higher aspirations for top high schools and, eventually, college and careers. You will root for them like crazy when they travel far from Brooklyn to compete. › 102m › Kendall Square _Gerald Peary +++1/2 CHASING ICE › National Geographic photographer James Balog, acclaimed for his work on vanishing animal species, goes for even mightier concerns in this valiant documentary: to provide irrefutable visual evidence of the magnitude of man-made global warming. Chasing Ice takes Balog to the far north, where he plants 25 time-lapse cameras in the deep snow of Iceland and Greenland. And what he captures on camera is horrific and even tearful: mighty glaciers eroding, collapsing before our eyes, sending melting ice and waters southward. And, lo, here comes Hurricane Sandy, pushing those now-bulging coastal waters onto land! Will anyone but the usual converted consider director Jeff Orlowski’s urgent film? Or, hopefully, will the ravages of Sandy bring a new audience of alarmed Americans flooding to Chasing Ice? › Kendall Square _Gerald Peary +++1/2 GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS › Photographer Gregory Crewdson makes pictures that do everything

a movie does except move. Focused on the depressed towns of Western Massachusetts, he puts together a meticulously detailed scene, engages a crew of up to 60, arranges dozens of lights, waits for the right moment, snaps the photo, and then subjects it to a rigorous post-production process. When they succeed, the images transcend the lower-class world that is their subject and touch on an otherworldliness reminiscent of David Lynch, Edward Hopper, or Andrei Tarkovsky. Ben Shapiro shot this documentary over 10 years and not only achieves a portrait of the artist but also captures the artistic process itself, following Crewdson from initial inspiration to finished product. “It’s a sign,” Crewdson says when a garbage picker mysteriously appears on a somber street scene in Lee, Mass, perfecting the shot. Just one more epiphany in a body of work that shimmers with immanent revelation. › 77m › Kendall Square + West Newton + Coolidge Corner _Peter Keough +++1/2 PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY › Near the conclusion of Ross McElwee’s 1993 film, Time Indefinite, we witnessed the birth of his son, Adrian. In his latest first-person documentary, McElwee places the camera back on his son, sharing the focus in the continuation of a personal record of his life that began with 1984’s Backyard. That picture opened with Ross commenting on photos of himself with his father, a successful surgeon who worried about his son as Ross dropped out of college and traveled to Brittany, where he landed his first photography job.

Things come full circle in Photographic Memory, as Ross’s concerns about his seemingly aimless, yet creatively vibrant son drives him to confront his summer in Brittany and return to St. QuayPortrieux, where he lived when he was about the age that Adrian is now. Hoping to unlock not only the mysteries of his own past, but also to better understand the alienation he feels from his son, McElwee has forged another triumph in this portrait of fractured love. (Read Brett Michel’s interview with Ross McElwee on page 86.) › 87m › Harvard Film Archive _Brett Michel

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Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline :: $9.25 :: 617.734.2501 or coolidge.org • WALK THE LINE As can be seen from his explosive performance in The Master, Joaquin Phoenix has a flair for characters who live on the edge. Like Johnny Cash, whom he portrayed in James Mangold’s biopic Walk the Line (2005), which earned him an Oscar nomination. It screens today at 9 pm and Sunday at 1 pm at ArtsEmerson.

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+++1/2 POSSESSION › A Cold War of body and soul is waged in this 1981 English-language horror film by Polish director Andrej Zulawski, set in a nearly deserted Berlin. Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill give mesmerizingly out-there performances as a troubled couple trying to hold it together for their young son. It starts with verbal histrionics, then things get weird, and bloody. If you think Adjani’s effete older lover (Heinz Bennent) is slimy, wait until you meet the gruesome creature (made

by FX master Carlo Rambaldi) holed up in her love nest. Adjani is in full high-strung form here, and Neill is raw and vulnerable as a man who thinks he can survive the madness into which he pursues his wife. Zulawski’s camera swirls and prowls through the tunnels, corridors and staircases in which he places his protagonists and those unlucky enough to get involved with them.

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THE AMERICANS IN THE BULGE › 2010 › Ellwood von Seibold serves as the guide for this tour film that takes viewers across Europe as he visits many of the key battle grounds of World War II. Richard Lanni directs. › 86m › BPL: Mon ++ ARBITRAGE › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 100m › West Newton +++ ARGO › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/ movies for a full review. › 120m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Somerville Theatre + Coolidge Corner + Chestnut Hill + Embassy + suburbs +++1/2 BEFORE NIGHT FALLS › 2000 › Julian Schnabel, whose overlooked first film, Basquiat, roughly captured the torment and vision of the tragic ’80s painter of the title, made this true story of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, who’s played with utter conviction and disarming playfulness

by Spanish actor Javier Bardem. Arenas had the triple misfortune to be a lover of beauty, a lover of freedom, and a lover of men in Castro’s Cuba. Born into abject rural poverty and recognized early on as one of the country’s best writers, he was passed over nonetheless by the powers that be and through the ’60s and ’70s got deeper into trouble with the authorities for his uncompromising prose, lifestyle, and attitude. He smuggled manuscripts out and won awards in other countries, but in Cuba he was hounded and imprisoned. He escaped to the US in the 1980 Mariel boatlift; 10 years later he died in poverty and obscurity, a victim of AIDS. Schnabel and Bardem capture their hero’s indomitable spirit and imagination through Arenas’s own words, startling images, and a layered free-associative narrative that imitates the workings of memory and experience. Night re-creates and vindicates not just this tragic Cuban writer’s soul but everyone’s. › 133m › ArtsEmerson: Sat ++ THE BIRDS › 1963 › There’s no denying that it’s very scary, like the birds’ attack on a school yard; and some of it, like the birds’ attack on a gas station, is technically astounding`. There are parts, like the feathered assassins gathering on the jungle gym, that even show the director’s wit. And Alfred Hitchcock’s version of the Daphne du Maurier tale may, as some of his most ardent adherents claim, be his version of the Day of Judgment. But that doesn’t make the terrible acting, chiefly by Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor, or the atrocious dialogue, or the lapses in logic (if you were Hedren, would you go up in that attic?) any less bird-brained. You won’t feel any friendlier toward your local avian dwellers afterward, either. › 119m › Brattle: Fri-Sat

++ THE BREAKFAST CLUB › 1985 › In this appetizing failure of a comedy, writer/ director John Hughes comes down with a bad case of puppy love for his own teen characters. Five socially diverse kids share a Saturday-morning detention at the school library, strip themselves of pretense, and get down to the core insecurity and anti-parent feelings they all share. As the mildly petulant prom queen, Molly Ringwald is impeccable; so is Anthony Michael Hall doing a more serious variation on his “Geek” from Sixteen Candles. (The quintet is filled out by Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, and Judd Nelson.) Yet despite some genial, relaxed moments, the movie hammers home its themes so relentlessly that it ends up turning into Study Hall. › 92m › Brattle: Wed ++++ CHARADE › 1963 › The gun pointed at Audrey Hepburn in the opening scene, at an Alpine ski resort, turns out to be a water pistol; thus Stanley Donen sets the tone for this elegantly silly thriller. At times reminiscent of To Catch a Thief (most of it takes place in Paris) and North by Northwest, it’s as distinctly American as those Hitchcock divertissements. Hepburn plays a woman whose estranged husband is murdered.

His gangster pals (James Coburn, George Kennedy, and Ned Glass) terrorize her, convinced she knows the whereabouts of a large sum of stolen money they were meant to share. Cary Grant is Hepburn’s leading man, whom she asks the famous question “Do you know what’s wrong with you?” (“What?” “Nothing.”) Walter Matthau is an American-embassy bigwig; the cast could hardly be better. Peter Stone, the writer, stocks the script with delectable bon mots and twists and idiosyncrasies; Hepburn eats voraciously whenever she gets nervous — though looking at her in Givenchy’s creations, you can’t believe it. Watch for the movie’s last line, in which Audrey points up the serious question raised by the title. › 113m › Brattle: Mon THE CHINA SYNDROME › 1979 › Thriller from director James Bridges starring Jane Fonda as Kimberly Gordon, an opportunistic reporter who witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant while conducting a report on alternative energy sources. Gordon’s attempts to publicize the incident are met with resistance from the powers that be, entangling her in a vast conspiracy that threatens her personal safety. Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas also star. › 122m › South Boston Branch Library: Tues +1/2 CLOUD ATLAS › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 272m › Boston Common + Fenway + West Newton + Arlington Capitol + suburbs THE DASH [RYVOK] › 2010 › The inspiring tale of a basketball player who has his dreams of playing professionally dashed by an envious teammate. Unable to allow his injury to get him down however, he rallies using the inspiration of his coach and Michael Jordan to help him find the courage to rebound from his injury. Kanagat Mustafin directs. › Kazakh › 88m › MFA: Sat +++ FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH › 1982 › This zany comedy about life in a California high school teems with upto-the-minute cultural debris — shopping malls, designer jeans, Van Halen concerts.

Screenwriter Cameron Crowe and director Amy Heckerling are trying for a sort of ’70s American Graffiti, and as full-time doper Jeff Spicoli, Sean Penn is the incarnation of every happy-go-lucky high-school burnout in history. With Ray Walston as tough-love teacher Mr. Hand, Jennifer Jason Leigh as the girl who loses it in the baseball dugout, stud Robert Romanus as the guy who she falls for, and nerdy Brian Backer as the guy she should

have fallen for, plus Phoebe Cates and Forest Whitaker. › 92m › Brattle: Wed ++1/2 FLIGHT › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 139m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Somerville Theatre + Embassy + suburbs ++ FUN SIZE › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 90m › Boston Common + suburbs ++ GEORGIA RULE › 2007 › Abusive sex with a minor is no trite matter, yet in Garry Marshall’s female-empowerment yarn it’s bandied about like a tennis ball on a summer day. On Marshall’s side are three talented actresses who captivate the camera. The manipulative artifice centers on Lindsay Lohan’s Rachel, who seems an extension of Lohan’s bad-girl persona. Rachel parties too much, she’s precocious, and she’s also a thorn in the second marriage of her mother (Felicity Huffman), so she’s sent off to her grandmother (Jane Fonda) in Idaho for a dose of shaping up. Rachel is not one to be bridled, however. She offers panty-less glimpses and blows a Mormon virgin, all before dropping the bomb that her stepdad had sex with her.

Is she lying for attention, or does her mother’s idealized menage conceal an ugly truth?

That note gets played too often, but the hard work of Lohan, Huffman, and Fonda give the flimsy pretext depth. › 99m › Honan-Allston Branch Library: Wed HAVA NAGILA: THE MOVIE › 2012 › Recorded by everyone from Bob Dylan to Elvis, the ubiquitous “Hava Nagila” is the focus of this documentary from director Roberta Grossman. Attempting to uncover the song’s complex history, Grossman sifts through the bouncy melody created in the Ukraine, the Israeli lyrics, and the dance

at its root, performed at Jewish weddings worldwide. › 75m › MFA: Sun HITCHCOCK › 2012 › Behind-the-scene tale of the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho starring Anthony Hopkins as the legendary auteur. This narrative directorial debut for Sacha Gervasi also stars Helen Mirren as Hitchcock’s longtime working partner and wife Alma Reville. › 97m › Brattle: Tues HITLER’S CHILDREN › 2012 › Documentary examining the children and grandchildren of Nazis, left to reconcile with the actions of their forefathers. For her effort, director Chanoch Zeevi conducted a series of interviews with the relatives of five highranking Nazi party officers, each discussing how they’ve adopted anti-Nazi stances regardless of their blood ties. › German + English + Hebrew › 80m › MFA: Sun ++++ HOLY MOTORS › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 116m › Kendall Square + Coolidge Corner 1/2 HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 91m › Boston Common + Fresh Pond + Arlington Capitol + suburbs +++ THE HOUSE I LIVE IN › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 108m › Kendall Square + Coolidge Corner ++ ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 94m › West Newton: Sat-Sun +++1/2 THE INTOUCHABLES › 2011 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › French › 112m › West Newton KELIN › 2009 › Set in the mountains of pre-historic Kazakhstan, Ermek Tursunov’s drama is silent because it takes place during an era before language existed. Sold by

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her father to the richer of her suitors, Kelin (Gulsharat Zhubyeva) is sent off to live with her new husband and his ailing mother. But when the other suitor with whom she’s more in love with comes looking for her, the results of their contest over her grow dire. › Silent › 84m › MFA: Fri ++1/2 A LATE QUARTET › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 105m › Kendall Square + Coolidge Corner LET’S DANCE › 2012 › Israeli modern dance is the focus of this documentary from director Gabriel Bibliowicz. Included is footage of Martha Graham visiting the country to share her techniques and clips from other contemporary choreographers, all meant to highlight how centralized dance has been to Israeli culture since the pioneering kibbutzniks. › Hebrew › 52m › MFA: Sun LETTERS TO AN ANGEL [PISMA K ANGELU] › 2009 › Ermek Shinarbaev’s suspense thriller about an author who seduces a young novelist and tells her about the story he’s working on. She responds with a story of her own about a woman who is having an affair with two men. It’s unclear if she’s talking about herself and when her story takes a twist, so does the film. Starring Amir Alpiev and Ilya Lyubimov. › Kazakh › 92m › MFA: Sat ++ LINCOLN › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/ movies for a full review. › 120m › Kendall Square +++ LOOPER › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/ movies for a full review. › 118m › Boston Common + Fenway + Arlington Capitol + suburbs ++1/2 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 85m › West Newton: Sat-Sun ++1/2 THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 96m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + suburbs ++++ THE MASTER › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 137m › Kendall Square + Embassy MIAMI CONNECTION › 1987 › Independent martial-arts film starring philosopher/ author/inspirational speaker/9th-degree black belt Y.K. Kim as Mark, frontman of the synth rock band Dragon Sound. Together, the group combats the crime underground of Orlando while putting an end to the cocaine influx flooding the streets. Richard Park directs. › 83m › Brattle: Fri-Sun ++1/2 THE OTHER SON › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › French › 105m › Kendall Square + West Newton ++ PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 4 › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 88m › Boston Common + Fresh Pond + suburbs +++ THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/ movies for a full review. › 103m › Boston Common + Kendall Square + Embassy PETER PAN › 1924 › Silent film adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s timeless play. Herbert Brenon directs and Betty Bronson stars as Peter Pan, the whimsical kid who just refuses to grow up. He encounters a group of children while searching for his shadow and takes them on an adventure to Never Never Land. › b&w › 105m › Coolidge Corner: Mon +++ PITCH PERFECT › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 105m › Boston Common + Fenway + Arlington Capitol + suburbs ++++ PSYCHO › 1960 › Hitchcock’s infamous shocker remains the granddaddy of the madslasher genre, and something more: in its story of a murderous sickie whose identity becomes a matter of almost metaphysical doubt, Psycho turns the very process of watching a movie into a test for the limits of rationality. With

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Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh, plus eyes, birds, holes, toilets, lumpy beds, Ted Knight, and Bernard Herrmann’s slashing strings. › b&w › 109m › Brattle: Tues +++ SABOTEUR › 1942 › An underrated Hitchcock picaresque, with Robert Cummings as a typically guilty-seeming innocent up against a nasty pack of saboteurs who are out to destroy Hoover Dam. The famous climax, in which the villain meets his fate atop the Statue of Liberty, may be the single most dizzying plunge into vertigo Hitchcock ever dreamed up. › b&w › 108m › Brattle: Mon +++ SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 86m › West Newton + Arlington Capitol SEKER › 2009 › Under the guidance of the village healer, Kurmash raises his first born daughter as a boy, teaching her to ride and help on the farm. But as she nears adolescence, her teacher informs Kurmash that he has to start dressing his daughter as a girl, requiring both of them to come to terms with gender issues they both had previously ignored. Sabit Kurmanbekov directs. › Kazakh › 92m › MFA: Sat +++ THE SESSIONS › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 95m › Boston Common + Kendall Square + West Newton +++ SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 109m › Boston Common + Fresh Pond + suburbs + SILENT HILL: REVELATION 3D › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 94m › Boston Common + Fresh Pond + suburbs +++ SKYFALL › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 143m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Somerville Theatre + Chestnut Hill + Embassy + suburbs +++ SLEEPWALK WITH ME › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 90m › Somerville Theatre +++ SOMEWHERE BETWEEN › 2011 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 88m › West Newton +1/2 TAKEN 2 › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 93m › Boston Common + Fenway + Arlington Capitol + suburbs +++ TALES OF THE NIGHT [LES CONTES DE LA NUIT] › 2011 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › French › 84m › MFA: Fri-Sat + Wed-Thurs +++1/2 THIS GUN FOR HIRE › 1942 › Based on the Graham Greene novel, this is the film that rocketed Alan Ladd to stardom.

“I don’t go soft for anybody,” he snarls as Philip Raven, a steel-hearted hitman who doesn’t think twice about offing a snitch or smacking a broad yet coddles a stray kitten.

Directed by Frank Tuttle, this top-notch noir skulks into a nihilistic underworld when Raven is hoodwinked by his mint-munching client (Laird Cregar). Slit-eyed and unsmiling, the diminutive Ladd is the embodiment of existential disaffection, the ultimate trench-coated tough guy. The film also marks the actor’s first of four pairings with the radiant Veronica Lake, whose banal musical numbers are the only element snuffing the tension of this crackling thriller. With Robert Preston as the LA policeman who’s Lake’s fiancé. › b&w › 80m › South End Branch Library: Fri +1/2 THIS MUST BE THE PLACE › 2011 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 118m › Kendall Square +++ TOGETHER › 2002 › Like Zhang Yimou’s Happy Times (2001), this film from Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine) features adolescent characters and sentimental stories.

Yet despite the sappy premise, Chen remains true to his recurrent theme of the artist’s

function in society and history. Bumbling bumpkin Liu Cheng (played by Liu Peiqi with the ingratiating, borderline imbecility of a Chinese Jim Varney) has big plans for his son, 13-year-old Xiaochun (Tang Yun, whose performance ranges from affectless to radiant).

Xiaochun’s mother, it seems, ran off when he was an infant, leaving behind her violin and the wish that her son might someday achieve greatness. Xiaochun would just as soon stay in their provincial village, but dad packs their bags and takes them to Beijing to seek their fortune. Xiaochun loses out on one audition to a bribe, and while Liu Cheng is pursuing Professor Jiang (Wang Zhiwen), a teacher of the old school now reduced to squalor, Xiaochun is getting distracted by their Holly Golightly– ish neighbor Lili (Chen Hong, the director’s real-life wife). Then there’s the Svengali-like Professor Yu (Chen himself ), who turns out to be the one to whip Xiaochun into shape.

No doubt a Disney version of this fable will soon be in the works. If so, expect conformity to overshadow artistic ambition. Meanwhile, Chen’s Together is an instance of sublime filmmaking just on the brink of kitsch. › Mandarin › 116m › ArtsEmerson: Sat +++1/2 TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD › 1962 › Gregory Peck plays a Southern lawyer defending a black man (Brock Peters) accused of rape in this atmospheric adaptation of the Harper Lee bestseller. The pace is leisurely and distinctive, and by filtering its story through the eyes of a young girl (Mary Badham), the film transcends the usual message-movie glibness — it’s as much a gothic mood piece about the South as it is a liberal rabble rouser. With Robert Duvall, in his film debut, as the mysterious neighbor Boo Radley. Robert Mulligan directed, from a script by Horton Foote. › b&w › 129m › Brattle: Thurs THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN — PART 2 › 2012 › This final installment of the five part film series finds Edward and Bella (Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart) defending their daughter’s wellbeing from vampire Irina (Maggie Grace), who believes a child of that stature could challenge the power of the Volturi. Bill Condon returns as director. › 115m › Boston Common + Fenway + Chestnut Hill + suburbs A WALK INTO THE SEA: DANNY WILLIAMS AND THE WARHOL FACTORY › 2009 › Andy Warhol’s collaborator and lover, Danny Williams vanished from the face of the earth in 1966 at the age of 27, but not before making a handful of astonishing films whose subjects included Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Paul Morrissey, Brigid Berlin, Billy Name, and the Velvet Underground. Esther Robinson made this documentary about her uncle by interviewing surviving Factory members. › video › 78m › ArtsEmerson: Fri-Sat ++1/2 WRECK-IT RALPH › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 93m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Chestnut Hill + Embassy + Arlington Capitol + suburbs +++ ZABRISKIE POINT › 1969 › It’s never safe to underestimate Michelangelo Antonioni, but examination of the late-’60s California counter-culture, his English-language successor to Blow-Up, has some abject elements about it. Like the two leads, Daria Halprin as anthropology student Daria and Mark Frechette as college dropout Mark, who’s wanted in connection with the death of a police officer during a student riot. Or is Antonioni trying to convey something through his use of non-actors, an attitude toward America’s hippies and their politics that’s not as simpleminded? His work can be naive, but it’s never simple. With Rod Taylor as Daria’s corrupt boss and the famous nude-love-in mirage at the title location in Death Valley National Park. › 110m › HFA: Sun

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he joke’s on you if you still think Canada is just our laid-back, friendly Twould neighbor up north. Futher proof to the contrary: Toronto’s METZ, who lead you to believe that Canada is one big furious mosh pit. METZ’s

homonymous debut, out last month off Sub Pop, is a defiant stomp onto the map, and one that is sure to leave a lasting footprint.

The trio undoubtedly hits the eardrums hard, but to consider them a punk band would only scratch the surface. Tunes like “Knife in the Water” and “Wet Blanket” encompass a classic pop sensibility, but clearly METZ opt to attack in a more destructive fashion. It is this kind of balance that guitarist and singer Alex Edkins hopes the band can translate. “Our live shows seem to reflect the mix that we go for,” he said by phone recently. “There are definitely the wild fans, but also the more withdrawn ones who get it from a different perspective.”

This is the mentality that led METZ to be a kindred match for Sub Pop, a label that champions everything from the Ethiopian pop of our city’s Debo Band to the garage rock of King Tuff. “Most people think back to those legendary early records,” says Edkins of Sub Pop’s grunge heritage. “But to us, I think it was how diverse Sub Pop is that made it the place to be.”

Regardless of classification, one thing is certain about METZ: they are fucking loud. Their anxious breed of rock could soundtrack anything from a zombie apocalypse to a Red Bull overdose, but the entirety of their album, and live show, leaves the listener exhausted. METZ maks a stop in Cambridge on Wednesday to play the Middle East, and it’s a good thing the next day is a holiday. We’ll all need the time off to recover. _PERRY EATON » PERRY@ AllsTONPuD D iNg.COM

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EvERYBodY’S A fuCKiNg CRiTiC, RigHT? As the standard corporate music business of the 20th century continues to melt down, the listening public, beaten into submission by a decade-plus of American Idol bullshit, is increasingly duped into thinking that it craves raw dripping talent from its pop stars.

Which might explain the fickle “meh” that some pop-flash success recipients receive when they get past the initial sizzle of their debut viral smash — as in the case of Natassia Zolot, better known by her nom du rap, Kreayshawn, who barreled into public consciousness last year with the out-of-nowhere zing of “Gucci Gucci.”

But prior to “Gucci Gucci,” Kreayshawn the pop star was Natassia the filmmaker and video editor, having built up an impressive CV of music video work.

“Music has always been there, underneath everything I do,” she explained to me last week. “But what I really wanna do is work on different projects, and not necessarily music-associated. I’m the editor, director — plus I’m my own boss.” Lyrics from “Gucci Gucci” aren’t the words of someone who intends to let the public determine her life’s path. Which is a good thing, since she might otherwise be dismayed by the critical drubbing of her September major-label debut, the prettybonkers Somethin’ ’Bout Kreay (Columbia). “I didn’t

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make this album for, like, critics, or to try to impress people,” Kreayshawn says. “It’s for my fans, and for the people who already like me, because those are the people who put me in my position today.”

Kreayshawn is a prime example of the type of supernova pop-star cycle that we can expect in the Internet era; not only because of her meteoric rise and almost-as-powerful backlash, but in the way that fame gives her fans and detractors alike such personal access. “I’m actually on my Twitter talking to people and stuff all the time, and one minute it’ll be all ‘Oh, Kreayshawn, I love you!’ and the next thing will be some guy saying ‘I’m gonna rip your face off and feed it to my dog, bitch.’ You’ve gotta have thick skin because that shit is real!”

Real as a heart attack, not only because people are mean when cloaked in anonymity, but because Internet success only leaves you more open to criticism that doesn’t see the big picture. “If one person says ‘Oh, she ain’t got no talent,’ someone’s gonna read it and believe it. It’s tough for me — I went to film school and did all this stuff and do music and do this and that, and after that to get that I’m not ‘talented,’ it kind of hurts my feelings. I know in my heart that it’s not true, but still.” _DAN IEL BROCKMAN » D BROCKMAN@phx.COM

KREAYSHAWN + RYE RYE + HONEY COCAINE + CHIPPY NONSTOP :: Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston :: November 16 @ 5:30 pm :: All-Ages :: $19 :: 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com

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Do you remember the time I knew a girl from Mars? Probably not, since that Ash hit was from eons ago. But Ash frontman Tim Wheeler does remember, checking in via phone from London. “It’s been such a long time since we toured the States,” he says of the delay.

The Irish lads first dropped pop brilliance on our shores nearly eight years ago — back when then-co-headliners the Bravery were still slotted as “the next big thing.” No dice there, but Ash are still maintaining. “Friendship helps,” Wheeler says of the alt-rock band’s two-decade longevity. “It’s different when you have a bunch of schoolmates.

Also, it’s all we ever wanted to do.” It appears to be working; 2009 saw Ash put out a new song every two weeks, part of their now legendary A-Z Series, just out on triple vinyl. “It’s one agenda, and ASh + it’s been a REpUTANTE great interaction with the Great Scott, fans through1222 Comm Ave, Allston out the whole year — creNovember 21 @ atively, for 9 pm :: 18+ :: $15 us, it’s been a adv./$17 doors :: 617.566.9014 or great process greatscottbosas well just ton.com to make that much music,” Wheeler adds.

More important, what of that whole Star Wars obsession the band has been forever associated with? “Empire would be my favorite, then A New Hope, then Return of the Jedi, and then maybe the last two, and the one with Jar Jar Binks — I really lost interest with that one.” But you figured that already.

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SITTINg wITH EDDIE JAPAN frontman David Santos, there is suspicion he might be a spy. He’s welldressed, to suit any occasion that might arise, and he refuses a drink. It might be a sign that he wants to keep his senses sharp in case he’s surprised with questions that probe deeply into the subtle cynicism that runs though Eddie Japan’s new EP, Modern Desperation, Part One. “Everything’s gotten a little too cute,” says Santos of the indie scene that left him cold in the decade leading up to Eddie Japan’s rise.

After a four-year run with the guitar-focused Mercury Quartet from 1994 to 1998, the Seekonk native and current Western Mass resident took a sabbatical from music while his musical mind mulled new ideas. Eschewing the virtues of the Pitchfork scene, Santos decided to clap his hands and say no, instead looking to the fertile past for inspiration. As a bit of an outsider himself, Santos found it in the sympathetic guise of exotic ’60s pop — such as the melodramatic music of Scott Walker and Love.

The infatuation started with Love’s 1967 classic “Alone Again Or” (famously covered by the Damned). “I wanted the band to sound like that trumpet solo!” says the singer of the song’s dark-hued mariachi vibe. The question for Santos, though, was whether these sounds might actually be achievable. He got his answer when he

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fell hard for former Bostonian Paula Kelley’s 2003 orchpop gem The Trouble with Success. “I thought, wow, this can be done on a local level,” recalls Santos. From there he reached out to Kelley’s horn player, Chris Barrett, to bring Eddie Japan to life.

“I have always been interested in incorporating horns into modern pop/rock songs in more imaginative ways than most rock bands do,” says Barrett, also of Kingsley Flood. “That seemed to be David’s bag, so I was in.”

After bringing in other key players, like Tribe’s Eric Brosius, a debut EP, 4 x 6, was released in late 2009. The addition of such a well-known Boston guitarist was not insignificant. In addition to getting a gallant read on all of Santos’s musical ideas, Brosius also recorded three of the EP’s five tracks in his home studio — including Eddie Japan’s masterpiece-to-date, “A Town Called Nowhere.”

While the crisp production on the EP’s other tracks nod to greats like the Jam and Dexy’s Midnight Runners, the ultra-lush and melodic “A Town Called Nowhere” is a full-on descent into a John Barry Bond-fantasy. Its beguiling string section and distinguished tremolo-guitar make its message known very quickly.

It all adds up to a band that’s sneaking up on the Boston scene. Kind of like a spy.

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EDDIE JAPAN + GENE DANTE & THE FUTURE STARLETS + THE DAILY PRAVDA :: Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: November 17 @ 8:30 pm :: 21+ :: $10 :: 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com

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We’re riding reckless on the high seas of Boston pop, stretching our line out west to Los Angeles and reeling in a familiar fish. Former Bostonian BLEU returns to his adopted hometown Saturday night at Great Scott, wrapping up an East Coast tour with Air Traffic Controller, appropriately presenting us with his latest record, To Hell with You. Meanwhile, former Oranjuly pilot Brian E. King resurfaces with a new project further perfecting the art of jangle-pop in PARKS, which hits T.T.’s Friday.

We then dip into the pool of electronics with the mysterious BLASÉ, a scene veteran operating anonymously on the solo tip, and close out with the electropop bounce of MIC RAYgUN.

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Woodsist » This fall, Freaks and Geeks started streaming on Netflix, and, coincidentally, the Babies released their sophomore album. Both TV show and band convey how it feels to be young, awkward, and hopeful. Unlike their selftitled debut, which was full of triumphant sing-along songs, Our House on the Hill is less about taking on the world and more about finding your way in it. And going slow. And getting lost. The songs are what we’ve come to expect — approachable slacker jams mixed in with cursory love songs, and the occasional guitar solo that proves reverb and washed-out colors don’t have the monopoly on nostalgia — but production is cleaner and energy levels are lower. There are more B-sides than anthems here, and Kevin Morby even tries out two totally stripped-down acoustic songs, including “Wandering,” a Woods-y track contemplating how to “become what, become who you are,” which seems to be a running theme in 2012. Our Babies are growing up. _NI NA MASHUROVA

+++ ISIS, TEMPORAL +++1/2 DEFTONES, KOI NO YOKAN

Reprise Records » Deftones aren’t — and never were — a nü-metal band. Sure, they play 25-string, drop-Z guitars and feature a keyboardist disguised as a turntablist, but they’re as much a nü-metal band as they are a barbershop quartet. Deftones’ brand of metal is artful and spacey, patient and textured: Stephen Carpenter’s de-tuned distortion washes over like menacing storm clouds; Abe Cunningham’s dextrous drumming takes cues from both hip-hop and prog; and, at his most melodic, Chino Moreno is the greatest art-rock vocalist on the planet. The problem, from day one, has been making that formula work over the course of an entire album: early LPs like 1997’s Around the Fur grew monotonous the longer they played, whereas recent efforts like 2006’s Saturday Night Wrist have been plagued by filler. Koi No Yokan, the band’s seventh studio album, is their most consistent batch of songs in more than a decade, and it’s also their most dynamic — blending the trippy atmospheres of 2000’s White Pony with the balls-out aggression of 2003’s Deftones. This is the band’s second album with rock producer-extraordinaire Nick Raskulinecz (who recently assisted Rush with their most focused album since the Reagan administration), and, sadly, it’s also their second since the 2008 car crash and subsequent coma of longtime bassist Chi Cheng. But that tragedy seems to have given the band an aching urgency: “Swerve City” commences with a trademark space-metal surge, with Moreno harmonizing over miles of fuzz, a porcelain bass groove, and subtle washes of synth. In the past, the band’s heavy and atmospheric sides were often used as jarring contrasts; here the combination is seamless on anthems like “Gauze” and “Tempest,” which pummel with brick-wall propulsion one second and soothe with dreamy melodicism the next. Koi No Yokan is not only the year’s best metal-rock-space-pop album — it’s also the finest Deftones album, front to back, to date. _RYA N R EE D

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DIAMOND RINGS “Runaway Love” [Astralwerks] Toronto’s John O has been billed as an “electro-pop maestro,” and his sophomore album as Diamond Rings, Free Dimensional, lives up to the billing. But that tag sells “Runaway Love” short, which adds dashes of Bowie and flashes of ’80s synthpop and post-punk into the mix, resulting in a new breed of rock and roll that’s making us wonder why this dude isn’t famous yet. _MICH AE L MAR OT TA

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ipecac » Steeples topple, glaciers melt, satellites crash, entire systems fail. Humanity is haplessly, fantastically screwed. Such implied disasters were always all in a song’s work for Isis, the formerly Boston-based five-piece who made widescreen sludge/ experimental metal for 13 years before dissolving in 2010. Temporal is an assortment of rarities culled from Isis’ entire career, and it’s a suitably bulky set in both length (almost two hours) and aural weight. The band use familiar tools to strike the proper targets — burly, pressurized instrumentation scrapes and scolds through peaks and valleys, and Aaron Turner’s scorched-throat vocals ring loud and righteous — while making departures like a fearsome cover of Black Sabbath’s “Hand of Doom” or a twangy acoustic take on “20 Minutes/40 Years.” All this output is too much to process in one sitting, and skipping around and sifting through tracks does little harm, but Temporal as a whole is evenly mastered and gratifyingly titanic.

If this document is the last we hear from Isis, may their graceful monuments and equally graceful wreckage be forever remembered. _REYAN ALI

JESSICA PRATT “Night Faces” [Birth Records] Timothy Presley of Woodsist psych-folk staples White Fence felt so compelled by Jessica Pratt’s floating folk songs that he started a new label for the sole purpose of releasing her new record. This first, gorgeous single sounds like found footage from a lost ’60s basement tape. _LI Z PELLY

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AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA + RONALD REAGAN + THE SIMPLE PLEASURE + JHEREK BISCHOFF › 8 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $25-$27.50 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com “A TRIBUTE TO WOODY GUTHRIE” › With 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” › With 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 JIDAM KANG GROUP › 8:30 pm › Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $12 › 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com JIMMY WEBB › 6:30 pm › Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston › $40-$47 › 617.267.9300 or mfa.org/tickets/index.asp JUICE + CANCER KILLING GEMINI + BEAR LANGUAGE + DJ SLIPWAX › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com MARTHA WAINWRIGHT + AROARA › 7 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $15 › ticketmaster.com MELANIE LYNX › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com

MIKE HENRY & THE REVOLUTIONARYS + JTRONIUS › 9 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $10 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com 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 OLD FLINGS + YOUNG LEAVES + FAKE BOYS + NEW WARDEN › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557 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 RICK ROSS + MEEK MILL + WALE + MACHINE GUN KELLY › 7:30 pm › Dunkin’ Donuts Center, 1 LaSalle Sq, Providence, RI › $39.75$99.75 › 401.331.6700 or ticketmaster.com/ RITA COSTANZI › 8 pm › Seully Hall, 8 the Fenway, Boston › Free › 617.912.9222 THE BYNARS + THE TINS + CAMDEN + J/Q › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $8 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com

FRIDAY 16

AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA + RONALD REAGAN + THE SIMPLE PLEASURE + JHEREK BISCHOFF › 8 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $25-$27.50 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com

DAVE BRYANT + TSUYOSHI HONJO + GABRIEL SOLOMON › 8 pm › Outpost 186, 186 1/2 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.876.0860 or zeitgeist-outpost.org DEAD CATS DEAD RATS + PENALTY KILL + MACHINE GUN ETIQUETTE + STEADY MADNESS + LYNCH PIGS › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com DEAR LEADER + THE NEW HIGHWAY HYMNAL + PARKS › 9:15 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com DEATH GRIPS › 8 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $15-$17 › ticketmaster. com FISHING THE SKY + MOST AMERICANS + FROGGY & THE FRIENDSHIP + SETTLER › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $7 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com THE WHO: PERFORMING ‘QUADROPHENIA’ › 7:30 pm › TD Garden, 100 Legends Way, Boston › $37-$127 › 617.931.2000 or ticketmaster.com “INTERNATIONAL POP OVERTHROW DAY 3” › With Muck Duane + 1,4,5 + Fireking + Meathead + Peter Buzzelle + The Russians + Bedford Davis › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com JACK DONAHUE › 7:30 pm › Regattabar, 1 Bennett St, Charles Hotel, Cambridge › $20 › 617.661.5000 or regattabarjazz.com JD MCPHERSON › 8 pm › Belleville Congregational Church, 300 High St, Newburyport › $10-$30 › 978.465.7734 JOE KROWN TRIO + WALTER WOLFMAN WASHINGTON + RUSSELL BATISTE JR › 7:30 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $15 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com THE KIN + ALEXIS AND THE SAMURAI + FIND VIENNA › 9 pm › Café 939, 939 Boylston St, Boston › $10-$12 › 617.747.6038 or ticketmaster.com/ KREYSHAWN + RYE RYE + HONEY COCAINE + CHIPPY NONSTOP › 6 pm › Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston › $17.50-$19 › 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com LAST CALL + EMPIRE STREET + RADIOSILENCE + DIRTY WATER INFANTRY + PAUL MERULLO › 7:30 pm › Hard Rock Café, 22-24 Clinton St, Boston › $10-$12 › 617.424.7625 or hardrock.com/boston MICHAEL TARBOX DUO › 10:30 pm › Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com RUSTY SHOVEL + MIRANDA + FOLLOWING TRAILS + WASH BRAIN IMMEDIATELY › 9 pm › Ralph’s Diner, 148 Grove St, Worcester › 508.753.9543 THE SWEETBACK SISTERS › 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $13-$15 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com THE SWORD + GYPSYHAWK + EAGLE CLAW › 9 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480

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Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.864.EAST or mideastclub.com/tickets.html VELAH + THE FIELD EFFECT + THE RATIONALES + FREDDY HALL AND THE BEST INTENTIONS › Radio Upstairs, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com A WILHELM SCREAM + RAINDANCE + STEREO STATE + SMARTBOMB › 8:30 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $13-$15 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com WOLFBANE + MONGREL + BENEATH THE STONE + TESTER › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864.

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Thursday, Nov 15: hip hop/ reggae

mike heNry & revoluTioNarys

jTroNius Friday, Nov 16: (7:30pm) New orleaNs FuNk/r&b

joe krowN Trio

w/ walTer washiNgToN/ russell baTisTe jr.

(10pm) rock

selF proclaimed rock sTars misTer verTigo/ boTTom dollars

saTurday, Nov 17 (4pm) beNFiT w/ various perFormers

z 3 /

chick siNger NighT (10pm) garage rock

dogmaTics magNolias(From miNN.) suNday, Nov 18

jaZZ bruNch 8:30 am - 2:30 pm opeN blues jam 4:00pm - 7:00 pm (8:30pm) For The sake oF The soNg a TribuTe To

vaN morrisoN

w/ samaNTha Farrel, paTrick comaN, laura grill baNd moNday, Nov 19 TEAM TRIVIA -8:30 PM • $1.50 HOT DOGS 6 - 10 PM Tuesday, Nov 20: ThaNksgiviNg pre-heaT w/ dj seTs From local baNds & bloggers wedNesday, Nov 21 low dough surF & soul show

The gold blood & associaTes TsuNami oF souNd Thursday, Nov 22

happy ThaNksgiviNg

bar opeNs aT 6pm - No music Friday/ saTurday Nov 23 & 24 all beaTles! all NighT!

beaTle juice comiNg sooN:

11/28 public iNTeresT 11/29 los FleTcheros 11/30 comaNchero / paraNoid social club 12/1 (7pm) mark eiTZel (10pm) macroToNes 12/4 kelly hogaN 12/6 el veZ 12/7 (7:30pm) robby krieger 12/11 &12 bad girls upseT by The TruTh 12/13 X-mas cavalcade For homeless 12/14 vaNdaveer 12/16 eriN harpe memphis FuNdraiser 12/19 daN berN 12/21 (7:30pm) eiTher/orch.

12/26 hello echo 12/27 peacheaTers / delTa geNeraTors 12/28 power oF love 12/29 mieka pauley

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PHX PICKS >> CAN’T MISS • Dave Douglas Quintet + aoife o’Donovan The always exciting jazz trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas brings one of his most intriguing projects 15 yet — and perhaps his most sublime —to the Regattabar: Be Still, a set of music built on Protestant hymns and other traditional music. Joining him are singer Aoife O’Donovan, from the progressive bluegrass group Crooked Still, and Douglas’s great band: saxophonist Jon Irabagon, pianist Matt Mitchell, bassist Linda Oh, and drummer Clarence Penn. Regattabar, Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St, Cambridge :: 7:30 pm [$28] + 10 pm [$25] :: 617.395.7757 or regattabarjazz.com tHU

• tHe fielD effeCt It goes without saying the Field Effect are the new BFF of 16 WFNX. The photogenic Boston rock quartet showed up to our radio station’s online relaunch party decked in Power Rangers T-shirts, then proceeded to blow the roof off our new studio in the Phoenix newsroom. They even dropped a Weezer cover at like 2 am. Support one of our city’s great new bands when they hit Radio on a stellar bill with Velah, the Rationales, and Freddy Hall & the Best Intentions..

Radio, 381 Somerville Ave, Union Square :: 8 pm :: $8 :: radiobarunion.com FRI

• . . . anD You Will KnoW us BY tHe tRail of tHe DeaD What began as a headline writer’s worst nightmare nearly 15 years ago is now nearing 17 legend status in the world of post-hardcore. . . .Trail of the Dead’s latest record, Lost Songs (Horus Sound Studios), is another sonic onslaught, this time tackling themes of war, tyranny, and apathy, further cementing the Austin crew as one of those bands you really don’t give a shit if someone else doesn’t get. Middle East downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 8 pm :: $18; $16 advance :: ticketweb.com • taKing BaCK sunDaY Back around Valentine’s Day the Phoenix published its list of the “Top 100 Greatest Emo Songs of All Time,” and one of the more spirited debates was not just “Why isn’t ‘Makedamnsure’ Number 1 always + forever?,” but also why isn’t “Cute Without the E (Cut From the Team)” placing higher than 15? Tonight on Lansdowne Street, both songs prove they should have been 1 and 2 on the list. House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston :: 5:30 pm :: sold out :: livenation.com Sat

• a PlaCe to BuRY stRangeRs Have APTBS peaked? This summer’s Worship record off Dead Oceans was another relentless display of aural annihi19 lation, but it effectively continued the blistering tone the New York trio cast in stone back on 2007’s self-titled destructo-record. They may never top the buzzsaw pulse of “I Know I’ll See You,” but in the end they may never have to. Bring earplugs.Middle East upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 8 pm :: $12 :: ticketweb.com MON

• sHeila JoRDan anD steve KuHn Since the release of Portrait of Sheila on Blue Note in 1962, Sheila Jordan has established herself as one of the great jazz singers — an original, whose daring, high-wire improvisations are always at one with a deep personal interpretation of the song and its meaning. Now 84, she comes to town with one of her longtime collaborators, the superb pianist and composer Steve Kuhn. Regattabar, Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St, Cambridge :: 7:30 pm :: $25 :: 617.395.7757 or regattabarjazz.com • ligHts Thanksgiving Eve is generally a suburban holiday saved for seeing your old high school classmates at the shit bars back in your hometown. But with METZ at the Middle East up, Ash at Great Scott, and now Canadian synthpop firefly Lights in the Cambridge club’s downstairs room, there’s no need to go home a night early. Last year’s Siberia record may not have elevated Lights to the mega fame many predicted (including us), but we still <3 her 4ever. Middle East downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 7 pm :: $20; $18 advance :: ticketweb.com wed

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SATURDAY 17

28 DEGREES TAURUS + FAT CREEPS + SECRET LOVER + THE ELECTRIC STREET QUEENS › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER + BLEU + MY RADIO › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $10-$12 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com ALLEN STONE + HALEY REINHART + TINGSEK › 7 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $15.50-$17.50 › ticketmaster.com AMANDA PALMER & THE GRAND THEFT ORCHESTRA + RONALD REAGAN + THE SIMPLE PLEASURE + JHEREK BISCHOFF › 8 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $25-$27.50 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF THE DEAD + COATHANGERS + GRASS IS GREEN › 8 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $16-$18 › 617.864.EAST or mideastclub.com/tickets.html

DAVID MAXWELL’S MAXIMUM BLUES BAND + DARRELL NULISCH › 7:30 pm › Regattabar, 1 Bennett St, Charles Hotel, Cambridge › $20 › 617.661.5000 or regattabarjazz.com DOGMATICS + THE MAGNOLIAS + AM STEREO › 10 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $12 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com EDDIE JAPAN + THE DAILY PRAVDA + GENE DANTE & THE FUTURE STARLETS › 9 pm › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com ELEANOR KAUFMAN › 10:30 pm › Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com ENCANTI + DIGITAL VAGABOND › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10$15 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com FAMILY JEWELS › 4 pm › Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com “HIP HOP 101” › With Amir MC + J.Hillsz + Crazed Legacy + Mully › 1 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864.

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upcoming concerts

Chucho Valdés Quintet Nov. 29, 8pm at Berklee performaNCe CeNter

an evening with Christine ebersole JaN. 26, 8pm at SaNDerS theatre

monterey Jazz festival on tour Dee Dee Bridgewater vocals

A Place To Bury Strangers play the Middle East upstairs with Bleeding Rainbow and Young Adults.

THE HUSH SOUND: “YOU PICK THE SETLIST SHOW” › With Tommy and the High Pilots › 1 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $16 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com THE HUSH SOUND + TOMMY & THE HIGH PILOTS + DESTRY › 6 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $16 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com INAEONA + BRAILLE + OLDE GROWTH + BLUE ASIDE › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $8 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com MARK SHILANSKY + PASS IT ON + KOMBUCHA › 6:30 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › 617.497.0823 MATT WERTZ + STEVE MOAKLER › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $20-$22 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com PEOPLE VS LARSEN › 10 pm › Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston › 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com SOUL KITCHEN › 9 pm › Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com SOURPUNCH + HOOKERCLOPS + THE CRETINS + THE NUCLEARS › Radio downstairs, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com TAKING BACK SUNDAY + BAYSIDE + THE MENZINGERS › 6:30 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › sold out › 888.693.2583 TENEBRAE + CRY HAVOC! + GIVE UP! › 4 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com THAT BEATLES BAND › Radio upstairs, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com TRAILER PARK › 7:30 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com

SUNDAY 18

“A CAPPELLA ARMAGEDDON FINAL BATTLE” › 1 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10-$15 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com ALEX GOOT + JULIA SHEER + LUKE CONARD › 7 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $12 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com BOB DYLAN & HIS BAND + MARK KNOPFLER › 7:30 pm › TD Garden, 100 Legends Way, Boston › $45-$125 › 617.931.2000 or ticketmaster.com DEAD PREZ + JAYSAUN + REEF THE

LOST CAUZE + DJ STRESS › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $23-$25 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com THE OFFSEASON + THE HUNTERS + DEAD ELLINGTON + AS WE WERE + THE WAIT › 1 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $7 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com HAYLEY REARDON › 4:30 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com MIKE SCOTT › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $20-$25 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com POST-EXISTENCE › 1 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $8-$10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com PUTNAM SMITH + SORCHA › 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com RONALD REAGAN › 9 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com SAID THE WHALE + SUBPAR CO-STAR + FROGGY & THE FRIENDSHIP › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557 “THE TRASH WANG TOUR” › With Mellowhype + Trashtalk › 7 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $15-$18 › ticketmaster.com YELLOWCARD + THE WONDER YEARS + WE ARE THE IN CROWD › 7 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $25 › 888.693.2583

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BLACKWOLFGOAT + ALLYSEN CALLERY + QUARTERLY › 10 pm › ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.864.3278 or ticketmaster.com/venue/8547 GRACIOUS CALAMITY + SHIRA E + HOME BODY + JEREMY DUBS + GREG SUN & THE DARK BEACH › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com IRON HARVEST › 10:30 pm › Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com OF MONSTERS & MEN + SOLEY + ELLE KING › 7:30 pm › Orpheum Theatre, 1 Hamilton Pl, Boston › sold out › 617.482.0650 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS + BLEEDING RAINBOW + YOUNG ADULTS › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $12 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com

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TUESDAY 20

BIG EYES + AUDACITY + DAN WEBB & THE SPIDERS + EX-MAGICIANS › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $8 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com THE DANIEL BYRNES BAND + GRACE MORRISON & THE RSO › 9 pm › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com GEORGE LERNIS JAZZ QUARTET › 8:30 pm › Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com OM + DANIEL HIGGS › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $15-$17 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com

Lupo’s

THE

WESTERN FRONT 343 Western Ave, Cambridge

79 Washington st, providence

Reggae, Latin & Jazz

complete schedule at

Thursday 11/15

hoT springs reggae Call for info friday 11/16

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this Friday, november 16

the machine perForms pink FLoyd this tuesday, november 20

funk friday

taking back sunday max creek

live Bands Call for info saTurday 11/17

reggae revival

this Wednesday, november 21

live reggae MusiC FOR INFO 617-492-7772

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Thurs. & Fri., Nov. 15 & 16

NAJEE

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Tues., Nov. 20

LYDIA HARRELL

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ARTURO SANDOVAL

Tues., Nov. 27

8pm & 10pm

Introducing

ALBARE

Weds., Nov. 28

Part 2

Lights is at the Middle East downstairs with Arkells.

ORCA ORCA + SASKATCHEWAN + ABADABAD › 9 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $8 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com SUM 41 + I AM DYNAMITE › 7 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $20 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com THE TWILIGHT SAD + ERRORS › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $12 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com WENDYAM EMERSON › 8 pm › Café 939, 939 Boylston St, Boston › Free › 617.747.6038 or ticketmaster.com/ YUHAN SU › 9 pm › Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston › 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com

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John Waters the met - Friday, nov. 30

pLayin’ dead grateFuL dead tribute tickets at LUPOs.cOM, F.Y.e. stORes & LUPO’s

ALL TIME LOW + THE SUMMER SET + THE DOWNTOWN FICTION + HIT THE LIGHTS › 7 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $24.50-$27 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com ASH + REPUTANTE + DJ CARBO › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $15-$17 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com BOMB PILOT + MOJO KICK + THE EVENING + SUN IN FLIGHT + MOVE IN STEREO + MASHED POTATOES & GRAVY + DJ TRROUBLE › 8 pm › Hard Rock Café, 22-24 Clinton St, Boston › $12 › 617.424.7625 or hardrock.com/boston

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Thurs., Nov. 29

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CODE ORANGE KIDS + GAZA + FULL OF HELL + HIVESMASHER + MONOLITHS + GREAT AMERICAN GHOST + THE NAVIDSON RECORD › 6 pm › Palladium Upstairs, 261 Main St, Worcester › $12 › 978.797.9696 THE DENNIS BRENNAN BAND + HAYLEY THOMPSON-KING [BANDITAS] › 9:15 pm › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com DUNCAN SHEIK + ALPHA REV + COURRIER › 7 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $22-$25 › ticketmaster.com GRACE PETTIS + ROBBY HECHT › 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com HUDSON FALCONS + DIRTY WATER + THE UNHOLY III + SPECTRE HAWK › 9 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $9-$10 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com THE ICE CREAM TRUCKS + KEITH PIERCE [OF MELLOW BRAVO] › 9:30 pm › Middle East Corner, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.864.3278 or ticketweb.com METZ + PILE + SPEEDY ORTIZ › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $9 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com

Fine Thai Cuisine

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Competition runs 5:00 PM to 10:00 P.M Daily now through December 22nd Where: 50 JKF St. Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 547 - 6666 Winners receive gift certificates to 9 Tastes: First Place $200 • Second Place $100 • Third Place $50 • Fourth Place $25

Arts & Nightlife :: clubs

club nights

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

WedNesdAy

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” with Chris Harris + Rafael Sanchez JACQUE’S CABARET › Boston › 10:30 pm › “Jacque’s 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 MILKY WAY › Jamaica Plain › 9 pm › “Futuristic Soul” with DJ Thaddeus Jeffries + Joy Daniels & Serenity Tree + Melodi J 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 RIVER GODS › Cambridge › 9 pm › “Dream Sequence” with DJ Cat Crowley 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” with DJ Dandy Dan + DJ Nathan

FRiDAY 16

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 + Lifestyle GYPSY BAR › Boston › 10 pm › DJ Dera MACHINE › Boston › 10 pm › “Machine Friday” with DJs Darrin Friedman and Gay Jim MILKY WAY › Jamaica Plain › 9 pm › “Boyfriends” with DJ Brent Covington NORTHERN NIGHTS › Lynn › 8 pm › “Madonna Fridays” with DJ Jay Ine PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “PYT” with DJ Vinny RISE › Boston › “Wonderland” with Damien Paul + K the DJ + Mike Swells RIVER GODS › Cambridge › 9 pm › “Disco Potential” with Kevin Church ROYALE › Boston › 6 pm › Kreyshawn + Rye Rye + Honey Cocaine + Chippy Nonstop RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › “Hush Fridays” with DJ Hectik + DJ Dres + DJ Lus SPLASH ULTRA LOUNGE & BURGER BAR › Boston › 10 pm › “Privilege Fridays” UMBRIA PRIME › Boston › Nadastrom › 10 pm › “VIP Fridays” UNDERBAR › Boston › 10 pm › “Flavor Fridays” WONDER BAR › Allston › 9 pm › “Friday Night Live” with DJ Braun Dapper ZUZU › Cambridge › 10 pm › “Solid!” with Flavorheard

sAtuRDAY 17

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

tuEsDAY 20

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

WEDnEsDAY 21

Hardwell is at Umbria Prime.

DISTRICT › Boston › 10 pm › “Clique Saturdays” EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › “Top 40s & House” ESTATE › Boston › 10 pm › “Little Black Dress Party” with DJ Costa GYPSY BAR › Boston › 10 pm › DJ Mario MILKY WAY › Jamaica Plain › 10 pm › “Mango’s Latin Saturdays” with Lee Wilson NAGA › Cambridge › 10 pm › “Chemistry Saturdays” with DJ Mozes + DJ D Say + Miss Jade OM RESTAURANT & LOUNGE › Cambridge › 10:30 pm › “Saturdays @ Om” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › 10 pm › “Boom Boom Room” with DJ Vinny RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › “Revolution Saturdays” with Isabella Cavallier RISE › Boston › 1 am › DJ Endo + Balian + Charlie Rouhana RIVER GODS › Cambridge › 9 pm › “Crowd Movers” 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 › “Soul-le-luh-jah” with PJ Gray

sunDAY 18

CLUB CAFÉ › Boston › 4 pm › “Back 2 Basics Tea Dance” with DJ Harrison COMMON GROUND › Allston › 9:30 pm › “Country Night” 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 RIVER GODS › Cambridge › 8 pm › DJ Sister Kate UMBRIA PRIME › Boston › “Swanky Tunes” UNDERBAR › Boston › 10 pm › “Hot Mess Sundays” with DJ Richie Ladue ZUZU › Cambridge › 10 pm › “All You Can Eat Buffet Dance Party” with DJ Paul Foley

MOnDAY 19

AN TUA NUA › Boston › 9 pm › “CeremonyGoth Night” NAGA › Cambridge › “Industry Mondays” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “Makka

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COMMON GROUND › Allston › 10:30 pm › “Reggae 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” MACHINE › Boston › 10 pm › “Show Me Your Stuff” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › 20 pm › “Re:Set” PRECINCT › Somerville › “Oh Snap! 80’s & 90’s Dance Party” RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › “Rock Wednesdays” with DJ Victor RISE › Boston › 11 pm › Cristian Arango + Ed Pulido + Jordan Martins + John Bruno + Juan D RIVER GODS › Cambridge › 9 pm › “Primitive Sounds” with John Funke RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › “Latin Night” with DJ Adilson + DJ Boatslip + DJ Maryalice SPLASH ULTRA LOUNGE & BURGER BAR › Boston › 10 pm › “EDM Wednesdays” STORYVILLE › Boston › 9 pm › “MySecretBoston presents Dub Apocalypse” UMBRIA PRIME › Boston › Hardwell WONDER BAR › Allston › 9 pm › “Wobble Wednesdays” with Wobblesauce ZUZU › Cambridge › 10 pm › “Penguin Club” with DJ Infinite Jeff

thuRsDAY 22

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 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” 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” THEPHOENIX.cOm/EvENTs :: 11.16.12 83

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Scoop NYc’S NewburY Street outpoSt attracted Boston’s best dressed as they turned out to fete the store’s first year in town. Guests joined hostess Hayley Maybury, founder of Papercut magazine, to shop for a good cause: a portion of the evening’s sales benefited the country’s oldest child-welfare agency, the Home for Little Wanderers, whose services help ensure healthy development for local kids at risk. Check out thehome.org to get involved.

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Hayley Maybury

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Her statement accessory? A classic red mani, which Hayley paired with sleek, simple jewelry, like her menswear-inspired Marc Jacobs watch and a delicate necklace her grandmother commissioned for her.

She rounded off her otherwise grownup look with a fun, candy-colored ring, which she scored at the SoWa Open Market, one of her favorite shopping destinations. _RENaTa CERTo-WaRE

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Hayley’s fearless leopard look was a mix of thrifted and gifted. Her dress and belt were vintage finds, which she paired with black Carlos by Carlos Santana pumps and fishnet tights that added just the right hit of texture.

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Arts & Nightlife :: bAck tAlk Near the conclusion of Time Indefinite (1993), we witness the birth of your son, Adrian. In your new film, he’s on the cusp of adulthood; what drew you toward sharing the focus with him? I think it was partially happenstance.

I kept wondering how I could place a meaningful frame around a return to a place I cherished from my young adulthood — St. Quay-Portrieux in Brittany. I had all these photographic negatives and memories, and also a curiosity about what had happened to some of the people I had known there. But it still seemed like too faint a notion to base a film on — a nostalgic return to Brittany. But then it occurred to me that I had gone when I was about the same age my son is now — and suddenly, that seemed to add a layer of complexity to the filming. I had felt a little lost in life at that time — had no idea what I was going to be. And I had the sense that Adrian was also a little lost at the time I shot the film — in 2009.

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How would your life be different if the ability to communicate instantly with anyone who’s “connected” had been available to you in your formative years? Would this film even exist?

I’m quite sure my film would not exist in the form that it does. Perhaps it would be a series of intimate YouTube vignettes shot with a GoPro — one of my son’s favorite cameras.

Sherman’s March (1986) shot with a GoPro. Now that’s a concept.

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he films of Harvard professor Ross McElwee serve as an intimate, ongoing first-person document of his life, so I was somewhat surprised when he preferred answering questions about Photographic Memory, his ninth feature-length documentary, via email. Especially since, as he divides the screen time between himself and his young-adult son, Adrian, he voices frustrations with his offspring’s “constant state of technological overload.” The following is an abridged transcript of my email exchange with McElwee, who — along with Adrian — will introduce his film at the Harvard Film Archive on Friday, November 16, at 7 pm.

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Now that you’ve undertaken this exploration of your past, do you see more of yourself in your son, or less?

I’m not trying to hedge, but I think I both see more of myself in him, and less. He’s becoming his own person — which of course is what I want him to do.

You’ve dedicated the film to Adrian.

What does he think of it? He and I did a press conference at the Venice Film Festival together after the premiere there in 2011.

He’s also traveled with me to screenings in the US and taken questions from the audiences. He’s confided that it’s surreal for him. It’s surreal for me as well. But then, I am used to it, having put my life into my films for 30 years now. P

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Time machine

“Perhaps [my film] would be a series of intimate YouTube vignettes shot with a GoPro.”

Do you feel that your son will establish the same kind of deep connections with people that you demonstrate in this latest film, or even the sense of loss that comes from losing track of old friends or loves through the decades? I think the romantic poignancy of losing track of people is not something his generation is going to have to be worried about — unless Facebook raises the number of friends you’re allowed to 50,000, in which case, his generation will drown in contacts that have not been lost. Which perhaps is just another way of losing contact with people.