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“A trip to the movies next year might make you think you’ve entered a time warp.” p 36 peter Keough takes us on a tour of the movies of yesterday, tomorrow
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From thephoenix.com re: “neWtoWn anD the MeDia’s Delusional narrative on CauCasian MayheM,” by Chris faraone (12.16.12)
That last line [“If major national and international media bureaus used their resources to analyze the home situations and backstories of some young Chicago shooters . . . they might even see a school-related shooting or two”] is on point. I’m a Chicagoan and this point is being made in multiple places and I’m happy to have it be heard, finally. It’s a crisis here and it’s mass murder, just over multiple days and weeks rather than one morning. And let’s call it that fair haired kids make it in the news — missing children is another example — much more often than their counterparts of color. But I want to know, minus discussing it on forums such as this one, what do we do? I feel helpless. I try to support different organizations here in Chicago that are trying to help, but it starts even getting desensitized and that is a tragedy in and of itself. _“Meli nDa MCi nti re”
re: “restaurant reWinD: a look baCk at the year in boston DininG,” by MC sliM Jb (12.21.12)
A great, dizzying tour of what was a very interesting food year. I’d say the only thing you left out was that whole realm you always cover better than anyone else in
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town: the wonderful, immigrantrun restaurants in places like East Boston, Dorchester, East Cambridge and so on. The kinds of joints that make you shake your head every time the college kids pick some bland burrito bomb chain as “Best Mexican Restaurant.” _“Charles Coe”
re: “Death knell for the loCal GoP?,” by DaviD s. bernstein (12.21.12)
You hit the nail on the head about Brown’s campaign being vaguely supportive of a generic ideals (like pro-economic growth). While it is debatable whether or not Obama articulated a vision in 2012 (and the media seemed determined to say he hadn’t when it is fairer to say “maybe”), the total lack of that from Brown or Tisei is a big part of why they can’t win. To be fair to Brown, he did have that on some level as the 41st vote. That’s gone now and (and in a special election). There’s plenty of style, but no substance. _“W MassP& i ”
re: “still battlinG the bPPa,” by Chris faraone (12.14.12) I can’t believe I even read your rag. Your all a bunch of cop hating wack jobs who live in a fantasy world. _“frank”
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» Okay, it’s January 1 — and you may be curled up in the fetal position on the couch right now, but just think: when you’re done recovering from that skull-splitting hangover, you have all this fab stuff to look forward to. » Film p 36 » games p 38 » visual art p 40 » Books p 42 » dance p 44
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» Already, 2013 is gearing up to be a contentious year. Girding for battle: profiteers vs. public schools over education reform, Repubs vs. Dems for Kerry’s Senate seat, and pop artists vs. tweens for a few nanoseconds of fame.
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Can gun reform misfire? If, In the wake of the mass killings in Newtown, Connecticut, Congress does not summon the will to vote to ban semiautomatic weapons with large-capacity clips, then the institution will have blood on its hands. If Congress does not act, then the next time a shooter armed with an assault rifle invades a school, a theater, or a shopping mall, and kills or maims multiple victims, then every senator and representative who failed to act will have the lost lives of the dead on their heads. Since the ban of rapid-fire, assault-style weapons expired in 2004, inertia, cowardice, ignorance, and a bizarre faith in the need to be armed for the eventual rightwing overthrow of our elected government has kept Washington from doing its duty. How can Congress fail to act in the wake of 20 children and six adults murdered by a lone gunman at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary? At its longawaited December 21 press conference, the NRA failed to confront the issue of assault weapons specifically and gun murders/violence in general (conference transcript available at nra.org). Even by its own tonedeaf standards, this enabler of mass mayhem remained brutally indifferent to the indisputable fact that the US leads the world in gun violence and murder, and that Newtown is but a heart-wrenching blip on the screen of terror. As the NRA’s hang-tough stance demonstrates, banning semiautomatic weapons and the large-capacity clips that make them even more deadly is going to be a more daunting political task than enacting national health care. It is, however, time to smash the nation’s gun culture. The way to begin is to restore common-sense meaning to the Constitution’s second amendment. Gun nuts say it guarantees citizens the right to own as many and whatever weapons they choose. False. It provides for citizens in local militias, today called the National Guard, to own weapons. States, of course, arm the Guard today. And those weapons are
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Last-minute shoppers bustling through Harvard Square were confronted by something besides beckoning window displays: the faces of homeless youth, staring back at them. Two Saturdays before Christmas, a building at the corner of Palmer and Brattle streets became a showcase for 35 of photographer Anthony Pira’s portraits of members of Youth on Fire, a Harvard Square drop-in center that provides homeless 14- to 24-year-olds with services many of us take for granted — like showers, laundry, and voicemail, not to mention meals and medical care. The installation marked the kickoff of the Outside In Project, a 10-city campaign from Needham’s Center for Social Innovation, which hopes to use art to inspire conversation about homelessness and distribute tool kits to aid in the fight to end it. Learn more at outsidein. center4si.com and aac.org/yof. photo by jeff olivet
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10 things we said goodbye to in 2012
Not to be all gloomy as we stand on 2013’s doorstep or anything, but we thought it only right to bid one final adieu to some people and things we left behind in 2012. Hey, it’s not all bad! We weren’t that broken up about the death of, say, Mitt Romney’s presidential aspirations. Couldn’t wait to pound the nail in that coffin. But when it comes to some old haunts that closed this year, for example, we found ourselves getting a little nostalgic. Let’s take a stroll through yesteryear together, in the spirit of auld lang syne.
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THE OTHERSIDE CAFÉ. 2vorite Speaking of our fabars closing down, when we got word that the Otherside was shuttering, we were all, Man, WTF? Pour one out for the best vegetarian joint slash beer bar this city had.
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midnight screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, we wouldn’t have the chance to do the “Time Warp” again there — ever — after the theater closed its doors in July. THE CELTICS’ BIG-THREE 4pretty ERA. The triple threat had a fucking golden five-year
streak, so attention must be paid. Even non-rabid fans like ourselves shed a green tear when Ray Allen headed for the Heat. MERCOGLIANO 5TheMIKE OF MIKE’S PASTRY. owner of the North End
bakery and goldmine died at the ripe old age of 90 just a few weeks ago. And while we haven’t stepped inside
the place in years for fear of getting trampled by cannolifrenzied tourists, we’ll still pay homage to his legacy. OPERA 6if soaring BOSTON. Even arias aren’t
your musical steez, you have to admit that the closing of one of the city’s great cultural institutions due to lack of funds is a sad thing. The fat lady officially sang on January 1, 2012.
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LOCKE-OBER. Less a restaurant than a Boston landmark, the downtown eatery that served generations of blue-blooded Brahmins closed its doors after 137 years in business in October.
KEVIN WHITE. We’d be remiss if 8of Boston’s we didn’t reflect on the passing of one most influential mayors. The
colorful politician stood at the city’s helm through four terms in times of both great strife and abundance before losing his battle to Alzheimer’s in January.
loews Harvard Square Okay, we know these aren’t 9thatTWINKIES. Boston-based, but come on! The thought we may never again feast upon one of these golden treats, or any other Hostess products, is super lame.
THE BOSTON PHOENIX. And then 10 there was this one time when we switched from newsprint to glossy. We totally did that!
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You could be boring (again) and ring in the new year with a glass of cheap bubbly . . . or you could impress your friends with something new: a locally brewed Bière de Champagne. Enlightenment Ales in Lowell is one of the only breweries in the US that’s crafting a beer using the traditional méthode champenoise, wherein multiple yeast strains, bottle refermentation, slow maturation, riddling (turning the bottles to consolidate yeast), and disgorging (removing yeast from the bottle) are employed to create a beer style like no other. Ben Howe, former assistant brewer at Cambridge Brewing Company, does all of this by hand, as well as packaging the beer in 750 ml corked and caged magnums. What to expect? An 11 percent alcohol by volume Belgian-like golden ale with all of the subtle crispness, zest, and refreshing character of a Champagne, bound by the complexity of a beer — a/k/a the perfect complement to your NYE festivities. Enlightenment Brut will set you back around $20 at stores. For a list of bars, restaurants, and stores that carry it, check out enlightenmentales.com.
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Filling a snug living space with bric-a-brac is sort of like trying to cram a trunk full of junk into your college jeans: not a good look. So when Flour Bakery executive pastry chef Nicole Rhode set out to overhaul her South End studio, she tapped Brad Dufton and Kendra Amin-Dufton, the husband-and-wife team behind local interior-styling service colorTHEORY Boston, who helped her create an airy, streamlined, and balanced vibe. We stopped by to get a peek at her just-wrapped home project — and a little insight into this sweet chef’s personality. _Scott Kearnan » @t heW ri teStuffSK
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PRedIctInG the fUtURe is a little silly. It’s like trying to remember what happened 10 minutes ago: you’re too drunk, so why bother? But since this is the Phoenix’s special annual Year in Preview issue — or so my editors have told me, possibly to humiliate me in a classic only-guy-in-a-costume-at-theparty gag — I look ahead to 2013. Here’s my prediction: in the decades to come, historians will widely accept 2012 as the last real year of the pop-music era; 2013 will be remembered as the first post-pop year, when recorded music began winding down permanently. By 2033, there won’t be enough songs to fill the charts; the Hot 100 will cut down to a Hot 50, or maybe a Hot 23 on slow weeks. By 2043, there will be only one Grammy Award, and it will be for “Only Record of the Year.” It may seem incredible, but the signs are all around us. Amid all the One Direction hysteria, 16 12.28.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOm
Historians will widely accept 2012 as the last year of the pop-music era.
2012 may have seemed like a big year for teen pop, but to paraphrase a Chameleons track sampling the 1946 film Two Sisters from Boston purporting to quote Sophocles: “In its autumn ’fore the winter comes [pop’s] last mad surge of youth.” Today’s teens never knew a world without Twitter, and they lack even the split-second attention spans of the MTV generation. The cycles of pop stardom are already shortening, and soon they’ll become unsustainable. The Wanted were hot early in the year, but they’re already relics of the distant past, each successive single peaking 40 spots lower in the Hot 100. The Jonas Brothers, major stars just two years ago, have suddenly all turned 48; they’ll be opening for a reunited Bay City Rollers soon. Teens are simply too busy sexting and dicktweeting and snapchatting to pay any mind to music. This year,
the two-month fame cycles will make recording pop tunes economically untenable, and savvy labels will cut out the irrelevant step of paying a Swedish guy with frosted tips a million dollars to write a dumb song. Instead, new songless idols will be marched before a panel of celebrity judges, briefly cherished by a million lovesick teens, paraded to the nation’s biggest arenas for smiling-and-waving tours, and discarded before they can even get unpopular new haircuts. Meanwhile, cracks are already appearing in the foundations of popular hip-hop and R&B. Sprinkled among the club anthems we find the lugubrious partied-out ennui of Kendrick Lamar’s “Swimming Pools,” the Weeknd’s “Wicked Games,” and half a dozen Drake singles. At the strip club, Big Sean is listless, resorting to endless ass puns to mask his sexual malaise; 2 Chainz envisions the booty club as his tomb. Maybe our hip-hop stars have been in the club too long; little by little, they’re becoming uncomfortably faded in VIP, burping up rosé foam, resenting their entourages, and texting their exes. In 2013, party rap will become too depressed to hit the town, and the few lingering tracks will be glum spokenword pieces about the newest stuff on Netflix Instant. On the streets beyond the empty club, harder hip-hop will fare no better. It’s already long gone from the charts and seldom intersects with mainstream pop culture, but in 2013, we will officially pass “peak hip-hop,” when dopeness becomes a diminishing return. We’ll watch the painful attrition on WorldStar, where the unsigned hype will slow to a trickle. The new tracks will be gradually replaced by viral content, and children born in 2013 will never know “hip-hop” as anything more than videos of bus scuffles and big-booty models. Chief Keef — the last rapper — will die in 2083; the tradition of MCing will die with him, and the four pillars will crumble. To future scholars, their ruins will be inscrutable as Stonehenge. Oh, and rock music will die because of Mumford & Sons, but everyone already knew that. P
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After Kerry, who? B y D av iD S. B ern St e i n
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grief to Patrick, so I predict he will again choose an explicit placeholder — someone dependable, but safe.
scoTT Brown
I’m not convinced it’s as certain as some think that Brown will run. He’s sent strong signals that he’s not done with politics, but he’ll need to run some polls to decide whether he can realistically hope to reverse his 2012 eight-point loss — not just in a special election, but again in 2014. If not Brown, there are other intriguing potential Republican candidates. But I predict they will all be forced to the sidelines by an ambitious and delusional Bill Weld.
The Dems
The sTaTuTe
This time, some Democrats want Patrick to turn the appointment into an anointment.
State law on US Senate openings was changed for political purposes in 2004 (when Kerry was running for president)
and again in 2009 (after Ted Kennedy died); why not a third time? Deval Patrick has indicated that he would love to change the law again, eliminating the special election, so that his appointee serves through 2014. Some DC Democrats, worried about Scott Brown winning his way back to DC, approve of the idea. But there is no interest in it among state legislators, so I say: there will be no rewrite of the law.
The appoinTmenT
In 2009, Patrick declared that, to temporarily fill Kennedy’s Senate seat, he would nominate someone who vowed not to run in the subsequent special election. This time, some Democrats want Patrick to turn the appointment into an anointment. Actually, from what I hear, the “some Democrats” who want that are mostly congressmen Ed Markey and Mike Capuano, who each want to be chosen. I don’t see how that brings anything but
The new senaTor
Somehow my crystal ball has given me a choice between a 67-year-old (Weld) and a 66-year-old (Markey), neither of whom has been in a competitive campaign in ages. I’ll take Markey over Weld — but it would be the first time I’m right about a Massachusetts Senate seat in a long time. P
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as word circulaTed on Thursday, December 13, that Susan Rice was withdrawing her name from consideration for secretary of state, it was like a 2013 starting gun going off in Massachusetts. Sure enough, the following Friday, President Barack Obama announced that he would nominate Senator John Kerry for the position, succeeding Hillary Clinton. If he’s confirmed, a special election for Kerry’s seat will take place next year, with a primary likely in April or May, and a final election in June or July. You might think that recent history would warn pundits like me against attempting to predict what will happen in a Massachusetts Senate race. But let’s forget the poor track record, and try to prognosticate how everything will play out this time.
The early word among Democratic insiders is that only four pols are preparing to run: Capuano, Markey, Congressman Steve Lynch, and State Senator Ben Downing. Markey would be the frontrunner, with $3 million in the bank and a substantial following. But veteran political insiders who have seen Markey pass up races before — dating back to 1984, when he bailed out of the Senate race won by Kerry — are skeptical he’ll run. Capuano, who finished a distant second in the 2009 special primary, could have trouble again connecting beyond his Bostonarea base. And Lynch, although he has won back some of the unions who abandoned his aborted ’09 run, will still have some appeal as a pro-life candidate in a Massachusetts Democratic primary. It’s not crazy to imagine Downing, of Pittsfield, sneaking into contention. He could have Central and Western Massachusetts to himself, and he would be the fresh face against the entrenched Washington crew. But I’m going to guess that Markey runs, and wins the primary.
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Education rEform: thE battlE ahEad B y C hr is Fa r a on e
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Five yearS agO, as George W. Bush was pushing No Child Left Behind, his younger, even sleazier sibling Neil was picking the initiative’s pockets. Before Dubya left office, his brother’s education-software company, Ignite, sold more than $1 million worth of products to schools, encouraging districts to make the purchases with NCLB funding. The looting has continued under Democrats. The current vice-president’s younger brother, Frank Biden, is the chief development officer of Mavericks in Education, a for-profit enterprise that operates charter schools in Florida. Despite the dismal failures of several Mavericks labs — they don’t publish retention stats, but according to state records, one of their high schools had a 15 percent graduation rate in 2010 — Biden’s business has received at least $750,000 in federal grants. Those are each hideous examples of education profiteering. However, they’re just the tip of the Hindenburg, as politically connected forces with armies of lobbyists continue to extract increasing sums from public-education budgets. Until recently, 20 12.28.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOm
The blind bipartisan backing of charter schools has been amplified by a complicit media.
this free-for-all has been met with little resistance. But in the coming year, more states will face similar scenarios to that in Chicago, where Mayor Rahm Emanuel — acting in tandem with nonprofits that are funded by the likes of Bain Capital, which has a holding that builds charters — squared off against the city’s teachers union. It’s a nationwide battle, and the so-called ed reformers — everyone from corporate test administrators to for-profit-charter-school executives — have the upper hand. But for the first time, they face a growing legion of formidable opponents. Few socio-political forces are more popular than the galaxy of alternative pedagogical boosters known as the education-reform movement. According to the Washington, DC–based Center for Education Reform, charter schools, around which much of the movement revolves, “enjoy tri-partisan support”; a poll conducted by the group found that 87 percent of Republicans, 74 percent of Democrats, and 70 percent of independents embrace the charter concept. In 2012, that trend was especially clear in the nearly
identical education sections in the major party platforms; the GOP’s document pushes for “charter schools, open enrollment requests, college lab schools, virtual schools . . . vouchers, or tax credits,” while the Dems call for more “magnet schools, charter schools, teacher-led schools, and career academies.” The blind bipartisan backing of charters — as well as other reform measures that siphon money away from the traditional public-school infrastructure — is widespread, and has been amplified by a complicit media. Still, there is notable dissent emerging, and not just from the union teachers whom reform groups are gunning for. Informally led by veteran education guru Diane Ravitch — a former NCLB supporter who now exposes venture-capital grabs in the public-school sector — outraged parents, academics, and even journalists are beginning to question the spoils that countless corporations bank in the name of ed reform. A recent investigation by the Arizona Republic, for example, revealed that, over the past five years, more than $70 million has passed through nonprofit charters and into the hands of companies run by board members, business brass, or their relatives. Though money will inevitably keep free-falling into the pockets of school vultures, there is some hope as the showdown between reformers and their beaten-down detractors shapes up. A November New Yorker profile of Ravitch, for one, introduced the notion of impugning charters and the like to a legion of lefties that, until recently, has had little exposure to opposition viewpoints. With new eyes on her blog, more attention is already being paid to behemoths like MCS Pearson, which spends about $1 million a year lobbying Congress, and in 2011 made $4 billion scoring exams, selling textbooks, and providing other North American school services. It should be an interesting, if not frightening debate to follow, as people on both sides of the war for the soul of education, divided as they are, agree that something must be done to improve public schools across the board. The billion-dollar question up ahead, it seems, is just how public those schools will actually be. P
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Medical-Marijuana caregivers: a growing need B y A r iel SheAr e r
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“Common Sensi” is our new series covering the local impact of a national cannabis revolution. in hiS oxford ShirtS and slacks, Gary still looks like the network engineer he used to be. But his current occupation is far from average. He lives in Maine with his wife, two older children, and nearly three dozen cannabis plants. Gary is one of hundreds of medicalmarijuana caregivers registered in his state, legally permitted to cultivate cannabis and sell it to up to five patients. As Massachusetts joins Maine and 16 other states in legalizing medical marijuana, there’s much speculation about how our Department of Public Health will regulate dispensaries. But caregiver crops like the one in Gary’s basement will be flowering throughout the Commonwealth by DPH’s May 1 deadline. Gary asked me not to publish his last name. He says he keeps his business on the DL, partly because of the social stigma tied to growing and selling marijuana, but primarily out of fear of being robbed. “It’s completely normal and legal [on a state level], but it’s still a dark art,” he says. 22 12.28.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOm
Municipal governments must also tend to the caregivers if they plan to establish a patientcentered medicalmarijuana ecosystem.
“I still sing in the choir at church,” he adds, “but my church doesn’t know what I do.” Because he can’t advertise directly, Gary found his patients through an online network called the Compassionate Caregivers of Maine, a nonprofit organization that helps medical-marijuana patients connect with caregivers. The service plays a crucial role in a state where medical marijuana is legal but dispensaries are limited, a situation Massachusetts medical-marijuana patients will soon find themselves in. That’s why last week, the CCM launched the Compassionate Caregivers of Massachusetts website, massmedmarijuana.com, which mirrors the Maine network’s online model in anticipation of our medical-marijuana measure going into effect on January 1. Gary says he’s built relationships with all of his patients and spends at least a half hour with each of them every week. With caregiving, Gary offers personal and discreet service he says the dispensary business model might struggle to provide. But Brian Vicente, a lawyer who helped write Colorado’s new legalization
amendment and whose firm recently opened a Massachusetts office, cautions Bay Staters thinking about caregiving as a sustainable business model. “If your idea is to have you and five friends live in a house and grow a bunch of marijuana as caregivers, frankly, that is probably going to be legal come January 1,” Vicente explained to a young man who’d asked about caregiver coops during a public seminar in late November. Vicente points out that communities could seriously restrict caregiving in the process of writing zoning regulations. “My prediction . . . is local communities are gonna crack down on that.” Aaron Smith, an executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, explains how dispensaries aid a widespread effort to professionalize the public’s perception of cannabis in ways caregiving can’t. Noting how the commercial industry comes out of a criminal market, Smith says patients prefer to buy medicinal marijuana in a retail environment. “That’s where patients know they can get quality medicine,” he says. On the other hand, Gary’s patients range from a military veteran missing part of his leg to a wealthy sales professional managing hepatitis — someone Gary says would never want to be seen in a dispensary. Establishing well-regulated, patientcentric dispensaries could make Massachusetts a leader in the national movement to legitimize our country’s budding cannabis industry, while caregiving provides personalized patient services that treatment centers can’t match. In the end, each business model serves its purpose by serving patients. But until dispensaries start opening here, our state’s municipal governments must also tend to the caregivers if they plan to establish a patient-centered medical-marijuana ecosystem in Massachusetts. “The money that caregivers make goes back into the local economy — it goes toward their electric bills, local grow shops,” explains Patrick Sullivan, one of CCM’s founders. “If the true meaning of the law is to help sick people get their medicine, why limit where they can get it?” P
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“Captured is one of the few current labels that has a compelling sense of mystique or mythology about it. I can imagine people being obsessed with Captured the way they were obsessed with 4AD in the early ’90s.”
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corner of West and Noble is a quiet, TOnheindustrial area of Greenpoint, Brooklyn. a Saturday afternoon, I hear nothing
save for light rain and the hum of a guy skateboarding a few paces behind me, holding a case of records. As I walk north, past the barbed-wire fences and 16-wheeler trucks, between the brown brick warehouses I can peek at the river separating Brooklyn from Manhattan, and a postcard view of the skyline. Sixty-seven West is unassuming. Up a dusty steel staircase, on the second floor, suite 221 is marked by an 8 1/2-by-11-inch sheet of white copy paper printed with logos of four of the most vital young record labels of the past few years: Sacred Bones, RVNG Int’l, Software, and Captured Tracks. Inside, the labels are having their firstever warehouse sale, set up right in the middle of the office space they all share. Half a dozen twentysomethings are poring through brown cardboard boxes set up on a table; inside each box is a snapshot of one label’s back catalog of vinyl LPs and 7-inches. A magnetic force pulls me towards the Captured Tracks bin; I pick up a copy of the first 7-inch released by DIIV (from when they still spelled their name Dive — maybe this could soon be a #rarity) and the 2010 LP by Aias, an all-girl noisepop band from Barcelona. “Pelly,” shouts Mike Sniper, the founder of Captured Tracks, from the other side of the room. “You can have that Aias record.” “Cool, thanks, I love it.” It’s a record I’ve played on my radio show pretty much since it came out. “Yeah, it’s great,” Sniper says. “Too bad they never put out another one and
then broke up before they ever played America.” I’m not too surprised. “That sucks.” “It’ll be the kind of record people love in 20 years,” says Sniper. I continue perusing the label’s sale bin, flipping through earlier releases, mostly 7-inches and 12-inch EPs of scuzzy garage pop with names like Christmas Island, and the Bitters, and the Beets. These were only released two or three years ago, but glancing at the label’s first releases reminds me of how much the label has grown in just that amount of time. I think back to 2009’s Captured Tracks Festival, held in a gritty empty lot in Bushwick, only a few months after the label seemed to spontaneously erupt from the energy of the DIY community in Brooklyn at the time. It was the fourth of July, my 20th birthday, and a band called the Dum Dum Girls played their first show, backed by Sniper on bass and Frankie Rose on drums. Woods played songs from my favorite record at the time, Songs of Shame. Later, as the JMZ train rolled by overhead and the sun set, the Vivian Girls played backed by fireworks. Those were the days when Sniper still ran Captured Tracks out of the basement of Academy Records on North 6th in Williamsburg, hand-assembling tapes. The drummer of Crystal Stilts helped with silk-screening. Captured Tracks has since grown into a more expansive endeavor, making a name for itself as one of the more prolific American independent labels, with 166 releases since 2009. Their diverse roster now ranges from shoegaze and dreampop to dark electronics and post-punk,
from re-issued, underappreciated bands of the ’80s and ’90s to first albums by young bands such as Beach Fossils, Wild Nothing, DIIV, the Soft Moon, Widowspeak, and more. “It’s interesting,” says Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber, when I call him at his Williamsburg apartment. “For as new of a label as it is, it feels like somehow it’s been around much longer. It sort of already has a sense of feeling like an institution.” In a world where everyone is seemingly always trying to re-invent the idea of what an independent label needs to be, that records themselves aren’t enough, Schreiber agreed that Captured Tracks is proving that with a careful enough roster and passionate enough staff, a traditional approach to releasing vinyl records can still work. “Mike has a really classic approach to what a label needs,” says Schreiber. “I think Captured is one of the few current labels that has a compelling sense of mystique or mythology about it. I can imagine people being obsessed with Captured the way they were obsessed with 4AD in the early ’90s. Looking at the catalog numbers and trying to get their hands on every format and edition.” Schreiber says that Captured’s limitededition releases are “especially well done” and “actually look like rare editions,” often in runs of 50 or 100. “It’s important to Captured that the records have real value that goes beyond the retail price,” he says. “Mike is one of the most insane collectors I know. He has absolutely some of the rarest shit. Stuff I didn’t even know existed by bands I’ve loved since junior high.”
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Crate digging
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“We detect the same impulsive and intuitive approach to ideas as we experienced at Factory,” says the Wake’s Caesar McInulty.
Widowspeak
also liked the Cure and Sonic Youth and the Jesus and Mary Chain. “I suspect now with the Internet those weird little suburban pockets don’t exist anymore,” Sniper tells me on a gray Wednesday afternoon, sitting behind his desk in the Williamsburg warehouse, with an air of simultaneous amusement and disappointment. “It’s easier to communicate with people [now] who live in other places. . . . To have to actually seek everything out was difficult.” That’s the sort of challenge Sniper is typically up for, though: the crate-diggingrecord-collector mindset, searching for the perfect music, a sentiment that translates over to the way he insists on digging up unheard bands for his label. Sniper has been famously critical of the way major indie labels operate these days, only working with “safe” bands who already have blog buzz from their first album. Earlier this year, he vowed to only work with a new band if he was releasing their first record. “If a label is to maintain any esteem or credibility, it should maintain a 50 percent homegrown talent base,” he wrote in a January blog post. “If you can’t maintain that meager ratio, you’re probably not a record label, you’re a manufacturing plant with a cool logo.”
out of the basement
From the start, Captured Tracks always had the ethos of a homegrown label, releasing mostly one-offs by his friends’ bands, such as Thee Oh Sees and Woods. By necessity, it was a DIY label; recordings were scrappy, the bands played in the burgeoning warehouse-show scene booked mostly by legendary DIY booker Todd P at places like Market Hotel and Death by Audio. Packaging was done by hand. Eventually the label outgrew the basement of 26 12.28.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOm
Academy, though, and moved in with their friends who ran Mexican Summer and had some extra office space. “At the time, Captured Tracks was based in the same building as Mexican Summer, on the first floor, in this warehouse area,” recalls Captured Tracks current label manager Katie Garcia on a Thursday evening when I meet her at her Greenpoint apartment. “We didn’t even have an office per se; it was just a desk amongst these boxes.” At that point, it was February 2010, and Garcia was just starting at Captured Tracks as the label’s sole intern, working three days a week, mostly answering customer emails and shipping orders. This was shortly after she’d moved to Brooklyn from Boston, where she studied film at Boston University. (She grew up in Miami.) Garcia went to New York to pursue work for a set designer, and then a fashion designer, until one day she found herself on the phone calling up record labels in search of one that would let her help out. “I didn’t have a job,” she remembers. “I almost moved home. I decided to start calling record labels for internships. I called Matador, but they weren’t hiring.” She was already a Blank Dogs fan, and she realized Captured Tracks was located right around the corner from her apartment. “My first impression of Mike was that he was extremely mysterious and evasive,” Garcia remembers, sipping a cup of water, sitting on a stool in the kitchen. “Mike was kind of like the Wizard of Oz. I didn’t meet him for the first three weeks that I interned there.” Garcia’s apartment is full of records and tapes, amps and guitars — some of which belong to her boyfriend, Dustin >> caPTured Tracks on p 28
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When Sniper set out to release CT-001 in 2008, starting a label was not too much of a challenge for him. With a friend, he’d already run the power-pop re-issues label Radio Heartbeat for years. Plus, as a musician himself, he’d released noisy recordings under the moniker Blank Dogs with a slew of tiny labels — Sacred Bones, Freedom School, Hozac, In the Red. “I felt like I could do one myself,” he says. “I had become so sick of power pop that I took all of my rare power-pop 7-inches and put them on eBay. I got like 10 grand for them. I had some super rare ones. That’s how I was able to fund the label from the get-go.” He was already in touch with Dee Dee from Dum Dum Girls, and after a quick correspondence, she’d agreed to make her debut 12-inch EP CT-001. Sniper simultaneously released his next Blank Dogs EP as CT-002. The releases were packaged in the basement of Academy Records as Sniper managed the store upstairs. From the start, the label was marked by a minimal, mysterious aesthetic. This was influenced by Sniper’s background in design. During his college years, Sniper, now 35, studied philosophy and fine art at Parsons and Eugene Lang in Manhattan, mostly making large-scale abstract drawings with big grids. Sniper spent his 20s wandering in and out of various underground music scenes, first Ann Arbor where he studied history, joined a space-rock band, lived in a co-op, and grew his hair long (“everyone had two drummers and loved Silver Apples”), and then moved to Providence during the years of Lightning Bolt and Olneyville Sound System, occasionally playing in a band called Sybil Green (“I moved there for a girl and didn’t have much to do there”). He lived in Chicago for year, too, before eventually settling in Brooklyn. Sniper’s roots are in Jersey, though — he grew up on the Jersey Shore, trading cassette tapes at the lunch table and seeing shows in Seaside’s empty boardwalk bars during the off-season. Sometimes, he’d play them, forming new bands every year with the same 15 or so fellow punk-types who
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Payseur of Beach Fossils. She met Payseur during her first month at Captured, when he came in to pick up copies of the Beach Fossils’ Daydream 7-inch. The release of Payseur’s debut full-length Beach Fossils in May 2010 — combined with the release of Wild Nothing’s Gemini on the same day — were a turning point for Captured Tracks. “That was kind of what ‘broke’ the label in a way,” recalled Garcia. “I was the only intern for maybe two or three months, and finally I said, ‘Listen, I can’t be the only intern. The label’s growing really fast; we need to get more people in here.’ So they hired more interns, and I became sort of the ‘head intern.’ ” By September she was hired as the label’s full-time manager.
Making it personal
“I just sent the demo in the physical mail,” remembers Payseur, sitting on a couch at the Captured Tracks office. He only sent the demo to one other label — Woodsist. “I didn’t expect to hear anything back. I had already planned to move back to North Carolina to go to school because I couldn’t make my rent.” But ultimately, his debut LP for the label, Beach Fossils, would become one of their most successful. Because of the combined success of that LP and Wild Nothing’s Gemini, the label has been able to take on bigger projects, like their string of re-issues and the ’80s shoegaze archive project. “They’re bands from the ’80s and ’90s who kind of have a similar place in history to many of the artists who Captured is releasing now,” says Schreiber, the Pitchfork founder, of the reissues. “Bands like Medicine and Cleaners from Venus, they’re niche artists in the same way that a lot of Captured bands are. . . . The records he puts 28 12.28.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOm
“Being able to have bands live off of their music, to me, that’s the biggest success, to give them some freedom from the daily grind and just be artists,” says Captured Tracks’ Mike Sniper.
out now are really almost like contemporary versions of those records.” The most notable has been a string of re-issued singles by the Wake, an influential band founded in Glasgow in 1981, who released pop-punk and indie-pop albums with Factory and Sarah Records. (The band also shared a member with Primal Scream and the Jesus and Mary Chain.) “I think Captured Tracks retains the essential spirit of the best independents from the past and yet seems able to compete and stand out in the present day,” wrote the Wake’s frontman, Caesar McInulty, in an email. “It certainly shows respect for the aims of the people involved in the groups. That personal aspect is so important. The actual process of dealing with the rapid changes of these Internet times can dehumanize everything.” The label also eventually released two 7-inch singles featuring covers of the Wake by Beach Fossils, Wild Nothing, Craft Spells, and Blouse. “We detect the same impulsive and intuitive approach to ideas as we experienced at Factory,” wrote McInulty. “I’ve said before: Factory just went with a creative proposition if they were excited enough by it, no need for demos and explanations. The motivation to do something to the highest possible level is similar too. I feel both Factory and Sarah were hampered by the British obsession with compartmentalizing everything, though. They were perceived in definite ways and to an extent played up to that too much. You can’t identify one all-encompassing Captured Tracks style, really, although I’m sure many will try.”
homegrown
Even with more expansive aspirations these days — you’re just as likely to find their bands playing the Bowery Ballroom as a basement
show — Captured Tracks still maintains an affinity for its homegrown bands. “The intent was to do good by our bands,” says Sniper on that Wednesday afternoon at his office. “As a result, we’ve developed this community. Because of all of these bands coming up at the same time, they all tour together, they all play together. . . . There’s that sense of community like there was for Factory, 4AD. “ “Yeah, right, fuck you,” interjects Zach Cole Smith from DIIV as he bursts in through the door, with a laugh, stopping by for a visit, since he’s home from tour for a day. “Gimme my fucking royalty money!” mocks Sniper. They share a laugh and a hug. “The happiest moments for me are when bands have some success,” says Sniper. “We have a couple of guys who are able to live off of their music. Being able to have bands live off of their music, to me, that’s the biggest success, to give them some freedom from the daily grind and just be artists. That’s something I didn’t think would ever be possible. Especially for me to do this for someone else. I was living off of a slice of pizza and a Hawaiian punch a day through my 20s. Going to sold-out shows that DIIV or Wild Nothing play is a little weird. But knowing we’ve been there from the beginning is cool.” Later that night, standing on the balcony at Webster Hall, I’m looking down as DIIV open for Japandroids. The show is sold out. A few feet away from me, Sniper is watching with Garcia and Payseur, all three beaming with excitement. P WFNX.com presents the Soft moon + majical cloudz + RIBS January 9 at T.T. the Bear’s Place :: The Phoenix presents Widowspeak + Quilt + murals :: January 27 at Great Scott
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KaTe Beyond TiMe By Ch ar le s Tay lor
Almost all models who achieve some degree of fame find themselves blamed for whatever agenda their era’s most vocal scold happens to be pushing. In the cover story on Kate Moss in the December Vanity Fair, British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman remembers the uproar over the 1993 layout that photographer Corinne Day did for the magazine. “Everything was hung on this shoot,” says Shulman of the simple shots of Moss, hanging out in a bedroom in her underwear and T-shirt (as you might expect a 19-year-old girl to do), “anorexia, porn, pedophilia, drugs — the evil quartet.” The exact things claimed, later that year, of the shot Mario Sorrenti took for Calvin Klein of Moss stretched out along a couch. Those charges went well beyond the usual “models make us feel bad about ourselves” nonsense (I’d like to announce that I blame Jimi Hendrix for being a flop at my fifth-grade guitar lessons). If I dwell a bit on the naysayers in what’s meant to be a celebration of the most extraordinary pho30 12.28.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOM
tographic muse of our era, it’s not just to crow that Moss has outlasted them but to insist on the significance of Moss as an artist in a time when our response to beauty has become so moralistic, when social science has trumped aesthetics.
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The versatility of Moss’s expressiveness is on display in The Kate Moss Book, a large, handsome volume that collects photographs spanning Moss’s career. These collaborations include the famous shoot Corinne Day did for The Face, showing a bare-faced 16-year-old Moss romping on the beach in Indian headdress, as well as the supple (and sometimes brittle) work that has followed with photographers like Mario Testino (who has produced his own volume on Moss), Peter Lindbergh, Nick Knight, Patrick Demarchelier, and, for my money, the photographers who have done the best work with her, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. There is also a mini-portfolio of Moss as subject for the likes of Chuck Close, Lucian Freud, and Damien Hirst. How you feel about those may depend on how you feel about each artist — for instance, Close’s ongoing quest to render his subjects’ pores the size of the Grand Canyon. The editor, Fabien Baron, has cannily arranged the work in non-chronological order, thus suggesting that what we are seeing is not evolution but that the possibilities of sophistication and timelessness existed in Moss from the start. And timelessness is the correct word. Moss has managed not only to embody her own era — her brand of glamour contains a vital element of muss, the sexiness of artful dishevelment, maybe the truest kind of elegance for a harried age — but to suggest that other eras were waiting to be embodied by her. Sitting in a movie theater in soft overcoat and eyeglasses, in a blackand-white shot by the great Ellen von Unwerth, she is the epitome of mid-’60s continental chic as embodied by Vitti and Karina and Christie. Moss as Ziggy Stardust (an Alas and Piggott shot), on the cover of the Christmas issue of last year’s Paris Vogue, can remind you of the shock of first seeing Bowie — she makes the image seem both classic and fresh. In a 2002 shot by Craig McDean, Moss appears topless, in heels and a pair of low-slung, eyelet-sutured trousers, her hair a tangled cascade; she brings something like hauteur to the classic confrontational rocker stance. Which is fitting. Has there ever been a tougher emblem of style and beauty than Kate Moss? The most common thread, through picture after picture, style after style, is an astonishing confidence, an earned confidence. Moss looks like no setting is too posh to ever make her forget what she learned on the way up. Her look isn’t regal. It’s unshakable. That she’s outlasted the moralists is cheering. I’m betting she’s the last woman standing. P 32 12.28.12 :: THEPHOENIX.cOM
Has there ever been a tougher emblem of style and beauty than Kate Moss?
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Moe Pope looks beyond his hip-hop base in 2013. See our Boston Rock & Pop preview, page 50.
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winter arts preview :: film
In 2013, Hollywood parties like it’s 1979 B y Pet er K eo u gh
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A trip to the movies next year might make you think you’ve entered a time warp, what with indestructible ’80s action heroes Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger returning to form and the reprise of Stephen King’s Carrie, last seen on the screen in the ’70s. But there’s something new, too: the Hollywood debut of two of Korea’s hottest auteurs, Kim Jee-woon and Park Chan-wook. And there’s the usual onslaught of enough horror movies to portend the end of civilization as we know it.
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Gangster Squad :: January 11 :: Mob movies continue their hit-or-miss renaissance with this period noir from Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) about the LAPD’s fight against a gangland takeover in the ’40s and ’50s. It stars Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, and Emma Stone.
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The Last Stand :: January 18 :: After a detour as governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger picks up where he left off, fighting the bad guys du jour, in this case the Mexican drug cartels. He plays the sheriff of a border town who must defend his turf against an invasion of really illegal
Bullet to the Head
aliens. It’s the Hollywood debut of Korean auteur Kim Jee-woon of I Saw the Devil fame.
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Warm Bodies :: February 1 :: So you think only vampires can have human girlfriends? Taking a tip from Twilight, this romcom/horror fusion shows what happens when a young zombie falls for the girlfriend of one of his victims. A change of pace for Jonathan Levine (The Wackness), it stars Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, and, inevitably, John Malkovich.
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Bullet to the Head :: February 1 :: Arnold isn’t the only
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one who’s back; so is Sylvester Stallone. He plays a cop who teams up with a hitman to avenge the murder Gangster Squad
of their buddies. Jason Momoa and Christian Slater also star in veteran auteur Walter Hill’s first film in 10 years.
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Side Effects :: February 8 :: A woman copes with her anxiety while waiting for her hubby’s release from prison by binging on prescription drugs. Rooney Mara, of the American version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, stars, as does Channing Tatum and Jude Law. Director Steven Soderbergh says this may be his last film.
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Stoker :: March 1 :: Korean director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) takes on Hollywood in this thriller about a woman grieving her father’s loss who takes a shine
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Carrie
to a stranger claiming to be her Uncle Charlie. Sound familiar? So it should: screenwriter Wentworth Miller says, “The jumping-off point is actually Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt.” It stars Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, and Matthew Goode.
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Dead Man Down :: March 8 :: Niels Arden Oplev, who directed the Swedish adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, reteams with that movie’s star, Noomi Rapace, in this crime thriller about the victim of a crime lord who — what else? — seeks payback. It also stars Colin Farrell.
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Oz: The Great and Powerful :: March 8 :: Horror-meister Sam Raimi reinvents the classic, telling the story from the point of view of the charlatan from Kansas (James Franco) who is whisked to Oz and must convince three witches (Michelle
Williams, Rachel Weisz, and Mila Kunis) that he is indeed great and powerful.
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Carrie :: March 15 :: If anyone could equal Brian De Palma’s 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s first novel, it would be Kimberly Peirce, director of Boys Don’t Cry — especially when she has Chloë Grace Moretz in the title role of a bullied girl with a secret talent. Not to mention the brilliant Julianne Moore and Judy Greer.
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The Host :: March 29 :: After his last film, the disappointing In Time, director Andrew Niccol might be onto a sure thing as he adapts a novel by Twilight’s Stephenie Meyer about alien parasites taking over human bodies. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, anyone? Saoirse Ronan, Ireland’s answer to Chloë Grace Moretz, stars, along with Diane Kruger and William Hurt. P
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winter arts preview :: games
Get on your snow (re)boots B Y MITC H K R PATA @ m k r pata
With the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 now in their seventh and eighth years of existence, they’ve been around far longer than previous console generations. Maybe it’s not surprising that most of the winter’s games for these aging systems are sequels and reboots — but considering how good some of them look, that may not be a bad thing.
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DmC: Devil May Cry :: Capcom’s classic action series gets a makeover, courtesy of the Western studio Ninja Theory. Not a major departure, DmC still features the heroics of main character Dante, whose fast-paced combat style seamlessly transitions from swordplay to shooting.
Out January 15 :: For Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
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Dead Space 3 :: EA’s stomach-churning horror series adds an intriguing wrinkle for its third outing: drop-in, dropout cooperative play in which the experience may change depending on whether players are controlling the usual hero, Isaac Clarke, or newcomer Sergeant John Carver. Out February 5 :: For Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC
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Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time :: After an eight-year layoff, the world’s greatest raccoon thief is back for a new heist. For the first time, Sly creator Sucker Punch isn’t at the helm. Instead, development duties are being over-
seen by Sanzaru Games, the studio that produced the high-definition Sly remakes for the PlayStation 3. Out February 5 :: For PlayStation 3 and PS Vita
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Aliens: Colonial Marines :: Gearbox Studios aims to deliver the definitive Aliens experience for gamers. A campaign written in part by writers from the Battlestar Galactica TV series is tantalizing, but the really exciting part is a competitive multiplayer mode that pits USCMC grunts against playable xenomorphs. Out February 12 :: For Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC
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Crysis 3 :: Crytek continues to make PC owners weep in despair when they read the system requirements, but fortunately Crysis 3 will also be available on consoles. The action is still set in New York City, and you still wear a kickass super-suit, but now you can shoot a bow and arrow, so that’s something. Out February 19 :: For Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC
DmC: Devil May Cry
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Rayman Legends
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance :: It’s nice to see a series change things up, but who could have expected this? Revengeance eschews stealth in favor of highspeed hack-and-slash gameplay. It was developed by Platinum Games, whose credentials aren’t in doubt (they made Bayonetta), but is it really Metal Gear? Out February 19 :: For Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
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Rayman Legends :: The sequel to 2011’s well-received Rayman Origins is available exclusively for Wii U. With painterly graphics, four-player multiplayer, and devious-looking level design, Legends looks like another winner.
Out February 26 :: For Wii U
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Tomb Raider :: I’ve lost track of how many times Tomb Raider has been rebooted, but the latest has my attention. It aims to tell the story of how Lara Croft became a hard-nosed tomb raider. The prem-
ise sounds a little like Uncharted — Lara’s plane crashes on a tropical island — but turnabout is fair play. Out March 5 :: For Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3
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God of War: Ascension :: When a series runs as dry as God of War has, it makes sense to go back to the start. In Ascension, players will get a look at a more human Kratos, before he became the rage-filled cartoon character of later episodes. Plus, in a first for the series, there will be a multiplayer mode. Out March 12 :: For PlayStation 3
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Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm :: Strategy fans waited a dozen years for a sequel to Starcraft, but the followup to 2010’s Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty is nearly here. Heart of the Swarm features new units and buildings, and, if the name is any indication, Zerg Rushes aplenty.
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winter arts preview :: visual art
Looking good B y Gr eG C o o k
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Vaginas, posters, Ronald McDonald, grayed rainbows, and porcelain feature in our 10 most anticipated exhibitions of the winter.
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The Origin of the Force /\ The Force of the Origin :: “The vagina as seat of creativity and joy” is the theme of this group show featuring Robert Gober, Kirsten Stoltmann, Betty Tompkins, and other friends of the lady parts.
January 4–March 9 :: Samsøn, 450 Harrison Ave, Boston :: 617.357.7177 or samsonprojects.com
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Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012 :: A look at how new technologies have influenced posters agitating for “peace, social justice, environmental defense, and liberation from oppression” from 32 countries around our increasingly wired world.
January 15–March 2 :: MassArt Gal-
leries, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston :: 617.879.7333 or massart.edu/galleries
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Illuminated Geographies: Pakistani Miniaturist Practice in the Wake of the Global Turn :: Four contemporary artists adapt their training in traditional Mughal miniature painting in Pakistan to address life, politics, and Ronald McDonald.
January 17–March 31 :: Tufts University Art Gallery, 40 Talbot Ave, Medford :: 617.627.3518 or artgallery.tufts.edu
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Paint Things: Beyond the Stretcher :: Eighteen artists give painting a kick in the pants by merging it with sculpture and installation and soda pop. January 27–April 21 :: deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 51 Sandy Pond Rd, Lincoln :: 781.259.8355 or decordova.org
“Paint Things” installation by Kate Gilmore
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The Doors of Perception: Vision and Innovation in Alternative Processes :: The fact that everything seems to be a digital camera these days has left many photographers wondering what to do amidst our glut of images. Here photographers adopt old-timey methods — pinhole cameras, tintype, cyanotype — to create “unique, handmade photographic objects.”
February 5–March 23 :: Photographic Resource Center Gallery, 832 Comm Ave, Boston :: 617.975.0600 or bu.edu/prc
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Amalia Pica :: Art about the personal and political costs of communication, by a London-based artist who grew up in Argentina during its “Dirty War” and as the daughter of a politically active mom. Pica’s work has ranged from cups adhered to walls — for eavesdropping — to a
From Nick Cave’s “FreePort [No. 006]”
Ed Ruscha, Standard Station and L.A.
cast-concrete podium serving as a sort of monumental, free-use soapbox. Visitors will be invited to take home posters of black-andwhite, crowd-sourced photos of rainbows. February 8–April 7 :: MIT List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames St, Cambridge :: 617.253.4680 or listart.mit.edu
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Ed Ruscha: Standard :: The career of LA’s master of hip, pop semiotics is showcased via some 70 paintings, videos, and works on paper. Opens February 13 :: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 415 South St, Waltham :: 781.736.3434 or brandeis. edu/rose
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New Blue and White :: Traditional blue-and-white porcelain is reinvented by a cast of artists ranging from Katsuyo Aoki, who makes porcelain demon skulls, to Chris Antemann, who fashions the ceramic into elaborate rococo dioramas of feasting and fucking.
February 20–July 14 :: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston :: 617.267.9300 or mfa.org
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Design Biennial Boston :: The third biennial roundup of hot architecture and design emerging from greater Boston — plus a sampler of innovators from previous biennials. February 21–May 28 :: BSA Space, 290 Congress St, Boston :: 617.391.4039 or bsaspace.org
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FreePort [No. 006]: Nick Cave :: A small showcase of Cave’s Soundsuits — fabulous, mutant, feathered, sequined, and beaded costumes that are part aboriginal attire, part furry futuristic freakout. March 2–June 2 :: Peabody Essex Museum, 161 Essex St, Salem :: 978.745.9500 or pem.org P THEPHOENIX.COM :: 12.28.12 41
winter arts preview :: books
Getting booked B y Eu g En ia W ill i a m s o n @eugenia_will
Who cares about the fiscal cliff when we’ll have authors talking about Scientology, the spacetime continuum, and Joy Division?
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Adam Mansbach :: Although Adam Mansbach’s new novel, Rage Is Back (Viking), can’t sell anywhere near as well as his modern-day children’s classic, Go the Fuck to Sleep, chances are good it’ll be as clever as its predecessor. January 13 :: Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline :: 2 pm :: Free :: 617.566.6660 or brooklinebooksmith.com
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Michael Dahlie and J. Robert Lennon :: J. Robert Lennon’s Familiar (Graywolf ), one of the best novels of 2012, concerns a rift in the space-time continuum. Michael Dahlie’s The Best of Youth (W. W. Norton) satirizes independently wealthy Brooklyn writers. Which is more absurd? January 24 :: Newtonville Books, 296 Walnut St, Newtonville :: 7 pm :: Free :: 617.244.6619 or newtonvillebooks.com
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Ian Svenonius :: Some will turn out to see Svenonius because he was in the Make-Up and Nation of Ulysses, others because he was once named Sassy magazine’s “Sassiest Boy in America,” and still others to hear him read from his caustic and funny new book, Supernatural Strategies for Making a Rock ’n’ Roll Group (Akashic).
January 26 :: Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline :: 7 pm :: Free :: 617.566.6660 or brooklinebooksmith.com
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Jennifer Haigh :: News from Heaven (Harper Collins), the Boston-based author’s first story collection, returns to the scene of Haigh’s terrific novel, Baker Towers.
January 30 :: Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline :: 7 pm :: Free :: 617.566.6660 or brooklinebooksmith. com
Cory Doctorow
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Lawrence Wright :: Wright’s description, in the New Yorker, of Scientologists playing violent musical chairs in the desert was supremely bonkers. Praise Xenu, Going Clear (Knopf ), the book from which it was excerpted, finally has a release date for January 17. January 31 :: Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge :: 6 pm :: $5 :: 617.661.1515 or harvard.com
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Christopher Castellani :: This is the first of five chances Bostonians will have to hear the Grub Street artistic director read from his third novel, All This Talk of Love (Algonquin), a book about the misguided nature of immigrant families’ romance with the old country.
Jennifer Haigh
Adam Mansbach
February 5 :: Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, 1 White St, Cambridge :: 7pm :: Free :: 617.491.2220 or portersquarebooks.com Christopher Castellani
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Peter Hook :: Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division can’t possibly rival Hook’s riff in “Digital,” but, according to the Guardian, it’s pretty good. The supremely gifted Joy Division/ New Order bassist dishes on his rift with Bernard Sumner and the brief and tragic life of hero/martyr/ demigod Ian Curtis. February 8 :: Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, Cambridge :: 7pm :: Free :: 617.491.2220 or portersquarebooks.com
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Karen Russell :: You’d be hard-pressed to find a more charming collection than St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Russell’s 2007 debut. After a novel, Swamplandia!, Russell returns to short fiction with Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Knopf ).
February 21 :: Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 7 pm :: Free :: 617.661.1515 or harvard.com
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John Kenney :: The debut novel from this humorist and copywriter, Truth in Advertising (Touchstone) sends up corporate culture and garnered an amazing blurb from Eric Idle: “Made me laugh my ass off. Now I have a new ass.” January 29 :: Boston Public Library, Commonwealth Salon, 700 Boylston St, Copley Square, Boston :: 6 pm :: Free :: 617.536.5400 or bpl.org
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Cory Doctorow :: Nerds will likely outnumber adolescents at this event for Homeland (Tor Teen), Doctorow’s second high-concept young-adult novel. January 26 :: Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 7 pm :: Free :: 617.661.1515 or harvard.com P
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winter arts preview :: dance
Tapping and walking, stomping and flying B y D eBr a C a sh
Boston Ballet in Jiří Kylián’s Tar and Feathers
Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia
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Savion Glover, SoLe Sanctuary :: In front of a shrine to his dance mentors, power-tap superstar Savion Glover and his longtime associate Marshall Davis Jr. begin at Coltrane and travel to the domain of devotional mystery. Tap of this caliber is always mind-blowing. January 12 :: Boston Opera House, 539 Washington St :: $40-75 :: 617.876.4275 or worldmusic.org
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Nicole Pierce and Egoart Inc, The Walk :: Deploying part installation, part dance performance, the seven dancers of Pierce’s local troupe work with fresh video and set components to address the fits and starts along the perilous journey towards maturity. January 24-26 ::
Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, 85 W. Newton St, Boston :: $25 :: 617.803.9362 or brownpapertickets.com
Trajal Harrell’s (M)imosa/ Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church :: In what has been billed as a “21st century version of To Tell the Truth,” post-modern voguer Trajal Harrell and performers Cecilia Bengolea, Francois Chaignaud, and Marlene Monteiro Freitas hit the ultraviolet lights and mix the banal and fabulous to explore the persona of one Mimosa Ferrerra.
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January 17-18 :: Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave, Boston :: $10-20 :: 617.478.3103 or icaboston.org
ruary 3 :: Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave, Boston ::$50 :: 617.876.4275 or worldmusic.org
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BJM/Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal :: BJM returns to Boston from its home base in Montreal with an internationally flavored repertoire featuring Zero in On by Spaniard Cayetano Soto, Night Box by ChineseCanadian Wen Wei Wang, and Harry by American-born Israeli choreographer and rock musician Barak Marshall. January 31–Feb-
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World Music Flamenco Festival 2013 :: Always a winner. First we get the troupe headed by great flamenco guitarist Paco Pena, and then a month later Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia. The latter, 17-member troupe is headlined by guest Pastora Galvan in the US premiere of Metáfora Paco Pena :: February 3 :: Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave, Boston :: $30-48 :: Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia :: March 1-3 :: Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont Street, Boston ::$4065 :: 617.876.4275 or worldmusic.org
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Group Corpo :: Rodrigo Pederneiras’s sophisticated use of samba and baião rhythms and motifs links Brazil’s past and energetic present in these crowd-pleasing contemporary choreographies in the troupe’s area debut. February
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Boston Ballet, “All Kylián” :: Boston Ballet deepens its Jiří Kylián repertoire with the sleek Wings of Wax and Tar and Feathers, featuring poetry and onstage piano, and Kylián’s distinctive 1978 reading of Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. March 7-17 :: Boston Opera House, 539 Washington Street :: $29-137 :: 617.695.6955 or bostonballet.org
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Lucky Plush Productions, The Better Half :: Taking a gander at George Cukor’s 1944 Gaslight, these funny folks from Chicago go noir with the ways we drive our loved ones insane. March 8-9 :: Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave, Boston :: $40.00 :: 617.876.4275 or worldmusic.org
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Zoe Dance, Past Is Prelude :: Live and recorded video mix with the dancers in Callie Chapman Korn’s hour-long, surrealist dip into the tides of memory.
Danish Dance Theatre, Love Songs :: Tim Rushton, one of the world’s most emotionally incisive choreographers, digs into American jazz standards sung by Copenhagen jazz artist Caroline Henderson as his gifted company touches on anticipation, disappointment, and delight while taking a late-night chance on love.
March 1-3 :: Dance Complex, 536 Mass Ave., Cambridge :: $15-17 :: 781-738-3272 or zoedance.org
March 16-17 :: Tsai Performance Center, 685 Comm Avenue, Boston :: $60-75 :: 617.482.6661 or celebrityseries.org P
28-March 2 :: Citi Shubert Theatre, Tremont St., Boston :: $60-$75 :: 617.482.6661 or celebrityseries.org
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Boston’s winter dance scene dips into the past, climbs onto the cutting-edge, and hosts guests from Spain, Brazil, Montreal and Copenhagen.
winter arts preview :: theater
Cold comforts on stage B Y C A R O LYN C LAY
Stretching from Beethoven to Brustein and from Palm Springs to North Korea, the new theater season is all over the map. And with a new festival called TNT, it’s bound to be explosive.
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Invisible Man :: Christopher McElroen directs Oren Jacoby’s new stage adaptation of Ralph Ellison’s iconic 1952 novel, whose African-American narrator mixes jazz and symbolism into his tale of bigotry and politics in the first half of the 20th century.
January 4–February 3 :: Huntington Theatre Company at BU Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave, Boston :: 617.266.0800 or huntingtontheatre.org
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33 Variations :: Paula Plum shoulders the role played on Broadway by Jane Fonda in Moisés Kaufman’s drama about an ailing music scholar navigating stormy relations with her daughter and Beethoven. Spiro Veloudos directs.
January 4–February 2 :: Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon St, Boston :: 617.585.5678 or lyricstage.com
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The Mountaintop :: Underground Railway Theater presents the area premiere of Katori Hall’s 2010 Olivier Award–winning play set in a Memphis motel on the last night of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life. Having delivered the spine-tingling “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, he kicks back with the maid who brings him coffee.
a memoir dredging up a “pivotal and tragic event” in the history of the clan. The cast includes Anne Gottlieb, Nancy Carroll, and Karen MacDonald. January 11–February 9 :: SpeakEasy Stage Company, 539 Tremont St, Boston :: 617.933.8600 or speakeasystage.com
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You for Me for You :: Fresh from its world premiere at Washington DC’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre comes Mia Chung’s imaginative recreation of one North Korean sister’s arrival on the noisy, neon shores of New York City while her sibling remains trapped at home.
January 10–February 3 :: Central Square Theater, 450 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 617.576.9278 or centralsquaretheater.org
January 18–February 16 :: Company One, Plaza Theatre at Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston :: 617.933.8600 or companyone.org
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Other Desert Cities :: Scott Edmiston directs the area premiere of Jon Robin Baitz’s 2012 Pulitzer finalist, a home-for-the-holidays debacle in which a once-promising novelist spends Christmas with her Palm Springs–dwelling Republican parents and puts the kibosh on the fun by announcing her plan to pen
Sister Act :: Boston gets a stop on the first national tour of the Tony-nominated Broadway musical based on the 1992 Whoopi Goldberg film about a disco diva getting witness protection at a Philadelphia convent. January 22–February 3 :: The Opera House, 539 Washington St, Boston :: 617.259.3400 or boston.broadway.com
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The Glass Menagerie :: Tony winner Cherry Jones returns to her onetime artistic home, American Repertory Theater, to take on the formidable old belle trolling for a “gentleman caller” in Tennessee Williams’s famed memory play. British director John Tiffany, who won a Tony for the musical Once, is at the helm.
February 2–March 3 :: Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge :: 617.547.8300 or americanrepertorytheater.org
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Middletown :: Amp up the anxiety of Our Town and you get Will Eno’s more contemporary examination of the mysteries of ordinary small-town life. Doug Lockwood directs Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s area premiere, with a cast that includes Steven Barkhimer and Marianna Bassham.
February 13–March 10 :: Theater at the Cambridge YMCA, 820 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 866.811.4111 or actorsshakespeareproject.org
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The Last Will :: Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Suffolk University team up to present the last play in Robert Brustein’s trilogy about the Bard. It imagines our hero’s post-retirement years in Stratford, where, in the grip of a fatal illness, he struggles to differentiate fact from fiction. Allyn Burrows plays Shakespeare, Brooke Adams the inheritor of the infamous second-best bed. February 13–24 :: Modern Theatre, 525 Washington St, Boston :: 800.440.7654 or commshakes.org
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The Next Thing (TNT) Festival :: Controversial monologist Mike Daisey, a live and recorded performance based on the works of David Foster Wallace, the return of musical/spoken word ensemble UNIVERSES, and Birth Breath Bride Elizabeth by local avant-garde troupe Sleeping Weazel are among the highlights of this collaboration between ArtsEmerson, the Center for Theater Commons at Emerson College, and New York’s Under the Radar Festival.
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Paul Lewis :: This British pianist, who ought to be better known here, presents an evening devoted to Schubert’s three heartbreaking last sonatas in this Celebrity Series of Boston recital.
had to choose one program, how could it not be the most exciting choral work ever written? Daniele Gatti leads four soloists new to Boston.
January 12 :: Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston :: $35-$75 :: 617.482.2595 or celebrityseries.org
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Collage New Music: Messiaen, Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus :: Collage’s veteran pianist Christopher Oldfather might be the perfect interpreter of Messiaen’s challenging 20-movement, two-hour contemplation of the childhood of Jesus. January 13 :: Edward M. Pickman Hall, 27 Garden St, Cambridge :: $10-$15 [students free] :: 617.901.1677 or info@collagenewmusic.org
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Boston Symphony Orchestra: Verdi Requiem :: The upcoming BSO season includes distinguished performers and great music, but not always in ideal alignment. If I
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January 17–19 :: Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston :: $30-$124 :: 617.266.1492 or bso.org
Cantata Singers :: Leave it to music director David Hoose to organize a fascinating program of works in the Phrygian mode. The disparate composers are Anton Bruckner, Frank Martin, and the British composer Herbert Howells (his 1936 Requiem). January 18 :: First Congregational Church, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge :: $17-$52; student rush $10 :: 617.868.5885 or cantatasingers.org
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Handel and Haydn Society: Purcell’s The Indian Queen :: Henry Purcell’s unfinished semiopera gets dusted off by H&H’s Harry Christophers. Famous scenes by Purcell and a Masque by Purcell’s brother Daniel (who completed The Indian Queen) flesh out the program.
Jordan Hall, Boston [January 25];Lewis SandPaul ers Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge [January 27] :: $20-$84 :: 617.266.3605 or handelandhaydn.org
“Hagar’s Lament” opens the program.
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Discovery Ensemble :: Courtney Lewis (currently also associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra) has delivered some of Boston’s most satisfying and exhilarating concerts. This one includes a Rossini overture, John Adams’s Chamber Symphony, Stravinsky’s scintillating Danses concertantes, and Haydn’s Symphony No. 92. February 1 :: Sanders Theatre :: $20-$40 :: 617.800.7588 or discoveryensemble.com
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Renée Fleming and Susan Graham :: Two of the Metropolitan Opera’s most beloved American divas join forces in a rare joint recital for the Celebrity Series of Boston.
February 3 :: Symphony Hall :: $45-$125 :: 617.482.2595 or celebrityseries.org
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Boston Lyric Opera Annex: James MacMillan’s Clemency :: Although I haven’t much liked what MacMillan I’ve heard, his opera based on the Abraham and Sarah story, with Boston baritone David Kravitz in one of the title roles, sounds intriguing. Cheers to BLO for cocommissioning this and for scheduling the US premiere. Schubert’s song
February 6, 7, 9, and 10 :: Artists for Humanity EpiCenter, 100 West Second St, Boston :: $80-$100 :: 617.542.6772 or blo.org
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra: Mahler Symphony No. 6 :: Conductor Benjamin Zander leads one of his signature works, Mahler’s most darkly beautiful symphony. The order of the movements remains controversial — which order will he choose? Sanders Theatre [February 21 + 24] :: $15$70; Jordan Hall [February 23] :: $35-$98 :: 617.236.0999 or bostonphil.org [Also, Zander’s spectacular new Youth Philharmonic returns with Mahler’s Second Symphony and George Li in the Schumann Piano Concerto.March 10 :: Symphony Hall :: $15-$30 :: bostonphil.org]
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Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra :: The most edge-of-your-seat exciting orchestral performance of 2012 was Vladimir Jurowski conducting Shostakovich with the BSO. Jurowski’s back, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, leading more Shostakovich (Violin Concerto No. 1, with Vadim Repin) and a little number called Beethoven’s Fifth.
March 8 :: Symphony Hall :: $45-$125 :: 617.482.2595 or celebrityseries.org P
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It’s tough enough that there are several rescheduled events that were pushed into the new year by Hurricane Sandy and other factors (“Brando Noir” at NEC January 29, Sheila Jordan with Steve Kuhn at the Regattabar February 2, Fred Hersch Trio at Scullers February 28), but how to squeeze everything else into a list of 10? Mark your calendars.
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Matthew Shipp & Michael Bisio :: One of the most fearless players on the New York scene, pianist Shipp joins bassist Michael Bisio in the best living-room-sized venue in town. January 19 :: Outpost 186, 186 ½ Hampshire St, Cambridge :: 8 pm :: $10 :: Outpost186.com
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Patricia Barber :: The charismatic Chicago singersongwriter-pianist plays the Regattabar with her wonderful band following the release of her typically smart and literate Smash (Concord, January 22).
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January 30 :: Regattabar, Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St, Cambridge :: 7:30 pm :: $25 :: 617.395.7757 or regattabarjazz.com
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Monterey Jazz Festival :: This third North American all-star trip in the name of the venerable Northern California fest is hard to turn away from: singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, saxophonist Chris Potter, pianist Benny Green, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Lewis Nash. January 31 :: Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass Ave, Boston :: 8 pm :: $40$58 :: 617.492.6661 or celebrityseries.org
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Branford Marsalis Quartet :: Wynton’s big brother comes to Boston for the first time since the release earlier this year of Four MFs Playin’ Tunes (Marsalis Music). Those MFs will join him: pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Justin Faulkner.
February 8-10 :: Scullers, DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston :: 8 pm + 10 pm :: $40 :: 617.562.4111 or scullersjazz.com
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Terri Lyne Carrington :: The Berklee prof drummer releases Money Jungle: Provocative in Blue (Concord; February 5), an anniversary tribute to the 1963 Ellington-Mingus-Roach collaboration Money Jungle that’s also a statement on current fiscal affairs. Keyboardist Gerald Clayton and Berklee students join her for the show.
standards and originals as a belated CD-release party for last year’s Whirlpool. February 27 :: Scullers, DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston :: 8 pm :: $20 :: 617.562.4111 or scullersjazz.com
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Kurt Rosenwinkel :: The guitar god returns to town with a new album, Star of Jupiter (Wommusic), and his great band: keyboardist Aaron Parks, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Justin Faulkner.
March 6 :: Regattabar :: 7:30 pm [$28] + 10 pm [$25] :: 617.395.7757 or regattabarjazz.com
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Charles Lloyd New Quartet :: The septuagenarian sage of sax, flute, and the cosmos will release a new duet album with pianist Jason Moran, Hagar’s Song (ECM), and come to town with a quartet that includes Moran, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Eric Harland.
March 21 :: Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge :: 8 pm :: $30-$65 :: 617.482.6661 or celebrityseries.org P
Miguel Zenón
February 14 :: Berklee Performance Center :: 8:15 pm :: $12-$20 :: 617.747.2261 or berkleebpc.com
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The Bad Plus :: The piano trio who first gained notoriety for mixing Black Sabbath and Neil Young into their sets of jazz standards and thorny originals now take on Stravinsky in the Boston premiere of On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, accompanied by a video mix from lighting designer Cristina Guadalupe and film director Noah Hutton.
Christian McBride
February 15 :: Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave, Boston :: 7 pm + 9:30 pm :: $35 :: 617.876.4275 or worldmusic.org.
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Miguel Zenón :: Visionary alto-saxophonist and composer Zenón has earned a MacArthur Fellowship while exploring the roots music of his native Puerto Rico. He and his quartet join the NEC Jazz Orchestra for a rare performance of his extended multimedia piece Identities Are Changeable: Tales from the Diaspora.
Patricia Barber
February 22 :: Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston :: 8 pm :: $15 :: 617.585. 1260 or necmusic.edu/jazz
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Dominque Eade & Ran Blake :: One of the finest singers in jazz teams up with her legendary mentor for an evening of
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Seasonal forecast: A wintry from A$AP to Depeche Mode B y D A N IEL B R O CK M A N d b r o c k m a n @ p h x .c o m
I think that I speak for at least some kind of majority when I say “2012, don’t let the door hit ya!” Although dates are arbitrary and calendars are but constructs to keep us from acknowledging the timeless chaotic void of reality, 2013 — at least based on this formidable slate of first-quarter releases — looks to be shaping up as an impressive spin around the sun, music-wise.
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A$AP Rocky :: Long.Live. A$AP [A$AP Worldwide/ RCA] :: January 15 :: A$AP has blown up from mixtape kid to fullon sensation, getting Long.Live’s
lead single in the Billboard Top 50 despite it being called “Fuckin’ Problem”; this follow-up to his smash mixtape LiveLoveA$AP is worth the hype and the wait.
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Holy Grail :: Ride the Void [Prosthetic] :: January 22 :: The Pasadena quintet have ridden the thin line between envelope-pushing and classic-thrash-worship since 2008; here, they burst out in both directions, tempering their ultraaggressive technical death sound with classic shreddage and Ozzyesque wails.
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Tomahawk :: Oddfellows [Ipecac] :: January 29 :: Among Mike Patton side projects, Tomahawk are the most lowconcept (even if their last album, 2007’s Anonymous, was a rockedup batch of Native American tunes). This, the band’s fourth, is perhaps their most head-downrock album, with Patton toning A$AP Rocky
down the weirdness to let the crunching sparks fly.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds :: Push the Sky Away [Bad Seed Ltd.]:: February 19 :: Cave and Co. continue to live out the louche Euro-dream that we all pine for: wearing tailored suits, ladykilling, and filling the halls of a 19th-century French mansion with their languorous rock-musicas-sea-shanty confessionals. They emerge from Saint-Rémy-deProvence this winter with this, their 15th long-player.
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Beach Fossils :: Clash the Truth [Captured Tracks] :: February 19 :: Dustin Payseur’s sophomore offering (see Liz Pelly’s piece on Captured Tracks, page 24) is melodic bliss under layers of haze, with an aggressive propulsion that belies the band’s reputation for dreamy slacker-pop.
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Atoms for Peace :: AMOK [XL] :: February 26 :: It may have originated as a party joke, but now Atoms for Peace, with this debut, is more than just a Thom Yorke afterthought. Between Yorke, producer Nigel Godrich, erstwhile RHCP bassist Flea, and a few other dudes, it sounds a bit like Radiohead without guitars — so basically, Radiohead post-’99.
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Rhye :: Woman [Loma Vista] :: March 5 :: Standouts from 2012 like “The Fall” made Rhye one of the year’s intriguing mysteries. Who was the woman behind this beguiling minimal techno-soul? Turns out that she’s two DJ dudes, and their blurred-edge R&B may be the official sound of 2013.
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Major Lazer :: Free The Universe [Mad Decent/ Downtown] :: February 19 :: Diplo and his cartoon posse return, this time upping the ante in both bombastic reggaepop and sheer star power, with a vast entourage, including everyone from Bruno Mars to Wyclef Jean.
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Depeche Mode :: [Title TBA, Columbia] :: March/April :: When Martin Gore said recently that the new DM “has a similar vibe to Violator,” it made sense: after all, the band is back working with Flood for the first time since 1993. Maybe their 13th album will see a return to the twang-meets-Kraftwerk ur-sound that made the band soccer-stadium-filling new-wave messiahs.
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The Knife :: Shaking the Habitual [Mute] :: April 9 :: Swedish siblings Olof and Karin Dreijer dragged the zeitgeist howling into tomorrow with 2006’s Silent Scream, a pulsing, beguiling charmer that proved to be the sound of the eventual future. This follow-up is hotly anticipated, especially in the wake of the weird work Karin did in the meantime under the solo moniker Fever Ray. P THEPHOENIX.cOm :: 12.28.12 49
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A spectrum of sounds warms up Boston’s winter playlist b y MIC HA EL MARO T TA
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Ultimately unfounded threats of the Mayan apocalypse are in the rearview, but this winter’s new Boston music survey starts with a Cult and ends with a Flood. Boston rock might be on some biblical shit in 2013, and here are 10 records that will set the tone — and soundtrack — of what could be the best year ever (again).
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Cult 45 :: On High :: This hardrock quartet arrives in the new year with two new band members, but what remains is the soaring vocals of Tai Heatley. Recorded at Mad Oak Studios in Allston and engineered by Benny Grotto (GOZU, Mellow Bravo), Cult 45’s debut fulllength is a nonstop Doc Marten boot to the face (in a nice way). January 4 @ Radio :: radiobarunion.com
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The Wild Northern :: The Whiskey Season :: Nearly 100 backers and $6000 raised via Kickstarter helped this Americana quartet continue Boston’s continually rising rustic tide, but on tracks like “Send the Runner,” the Wild Northern add more jolt than the usual string-and-a-jig cavalry.
January 12 @ the Middle East :: mideastclub.com
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Mister Vertigo :: Taciturn :: Representing a slight shift in style for this Boston/New Hampshire rock band, their new EP features guest vocals (the Sheila Devine’s Aaron Perrino on “Spear Hill,” Damone’s Noelle Leblanc on “Mel + Rita”), experimental recordings done on 2-inch tape, and a cover of Morrissey’s “Everyday Is Like Sunday.” Sold.
later, only one has a jittery Boston rock band named after it. Shapes is hyper-energetic indie pop, so dance around your room and discover your own personal Jamestown. January 19 @ the Middle East :: mideastclub.com
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Larcenist :: Eager City, Patient Company :: Recorded at Q Division in Somerville, Larcenist’s latest offering is anthemic folk rock for the at-ease generation, with storytelling prowess as long as the beards in the band. January 19 @ Great Scott :: greatscottboston.com
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Moe Pope & Quills :: Let The Right Ones In :: A title that takes equal inspiration from both the Morrissey song and the Swedish vampire flick is fitting for what could be Moe Pope and his crew’s breakout performance, appealing far beyond their hip-hop base. Guest spots
January 25 @ Brighton Music Hall :: brightonmusichall.com
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Stereo Telescope :: On and Running :: Boston finally embraced its seething electro-pop underbelly in 2012, and the first dance of the new year belongs to the Allston/Brighton duo who have crafted a synth-pop record heavy on songwriting awareness. January 25 @ Great Scott :: greatscottboston.com
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Glenn Yoder & the Western States :: Javelina :: Recorded with Dave Minehan at Woolly Mammoth in Waltham, the former Cassavette rocks out a bit more than in past turns, but still retains the charm that made his former band one of Boston’s brightest.
January 26 @ Lizard Lounge :: lizardloungeclub.com
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Westland :: Intimacy Without Intricacy :: After Wetland’s delivery of their ultra-hooky pop-rock to the landlocked masses via the 2011 Vans Warped Tour, standout single “Steady Now” is more than just a new wave of emo — it’s got a bit of Killers and Wolf Gang DNA strewn in there for the indie-rock battalion.
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Kingsley Flood :: Battles :: Death to Mumford & Sons! Kingsley’s eagerly anticipated new record Battles raises the stakes for Americana in Boston and beyond, and first single “Down,” with its fuzzy ripcord grooves and street-racing horns, is already in the mix for the best jam of 2013.
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include Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, Julia Easterlin, and Dua Boakye of Bad Rabbits.
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January 18 @ T.T. the Bear’s :: ttthebears.com
The Susan Constant :: Shapes :: In the early 1600s, the English Virginia Company had the Discovery, the Godspeed, and the Susan Constant. Four-hundred years
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What will 2013 mean for the food scene? We tapped some local toques for their predictions. B y C a ssa n d r a L a ndry c l a n d ry@ p h x .c o m :: @ E at d r i n k W r i t E
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“i think that grains other than corn and wheat are going to be common. Grains that have been malted, toasted, or sprouted give depth without the usual tools — quinoa, teff, and millet. also, seaweed. most of it is edible, flavorful, and sometimes it is even invasive. it would be cool for chefs to create a demand for it.”
“the push toward informal eating continues — eating at the bar, open kitchens, and simpler, less fussy dishes. i think we will delve deeper into South America — peru, chile, and argentina — and with the interest in cooking whole animals and larger cuts of meat.”
“i think the next big food trend for the coming year will be a bigger and deeper level of locavore and sustainability, with regard to more artisanal products like charcuterie, cheese, and booze.”
“i think we’re going to see the continued exploration of what new New England food is — a bit in the way that classic Southern cuisine was adopted in a fresh way — and maybe some modern takes on Asian flavors.”
“We will be rejuvenated and energized with fresh organic juices and locally and ethically sourced animals and vegetables. Empty calories will be replaced with conscious ones. hemp seeds and aloe-vera juice will take the place of red Bull and white bread. Superfoods and longevity tinctures will mingle with tapas and libations.”
“i think climate change and the way it affects crop growth will rise to the forefront next year. For instance, i think the droughts happening in the midwest and the inability to produce enough wheat may be behind the resurgence of heirloom grains. also, we’ve been seeing a lot of comfort foods over the past few years that are pretty decadent and chock-full of butter and cream. i think in 2013 there may be a backlash against these fatty comfort foods, and you’ll see rich ingredients incorporated in a healthier way.”
“one word: fish. the increasing scarcity of the more popular types of fish has given rise to both the controversy of misidentifying or mislabeling species of fish and to problems surrounding fish farming. more and more chefs are exploring lesserknown and more plentiful varieties.”
“Genetically modified organisms for sure. a lot of the country is not fully sure of what they are eating, and i think that when they find out, there will be a serious change to the way that this country eats.”
“i think in Boston we’ll be dealing with too many seats and not enough people. all these great restaurants are popping up in the suburbs — which is great — but if you live in x suburb and come into the city for dinner on the weekends, why would you do that if you’ve got a great restaurant near you? plus, we’ve got some big-name chefs coming to Fort point and the Seaport, along with some of the big-box restaurants. We’ve proven we’re a worthy outlet for big names, but i think that will make it tough for young chefs.”
“Rooftop and vertical farming. cities like ours need more direct access to fresh, organic fruits and vegetables. roof agriculture is environmentally sustainable. it reduces carbon emissions and improves our air quality. Urban dwellers will have more accessibility to healthy foods. the hanging Gardens of Babylon may not be just a legend.”
“Pig is still going to be boss.”
“i love pork. there is no protein as versatile, but i sigh when i see menus where the chef has put pig meat in two thirds of the dishes. i don’t know what the next star will be, but i’d like to see a balanced approach.”
“i don’t think pork is going anywhere, but what i’d like to see is some of the seafood that’s native to here become more prominent. i also think vegetables are going to continue to take over the plate.”
“the pig is still the star for sure. he’s definitely got a few good years left.”
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As is typicAlly the cAse with any big drinking holiday, our advice for how to best enjoy New Year’s Eve at the bars is to avoid it altogether. But since you’re obviously not going to listen, here are a few tips to keep in mind to minimize headaches — metaphorical ones, anyway.
Jean-Chronberg recommends a sparkling red. “It’s a great alternative to Champagne because it still has the fizz and that ‘special occasion’ feel, but it also pairs well with all types of food.” Or why not toast with a beer instead, says Max Toste of Lone Star Taco Bar. “Lambic beer is the Champagne of the beer world. Its tart and zippy flavor goes very well with hors d’oeuvres and fancy party snacks.” Jason Kilgore of Catalyst suggests Brouwerij Bosteels DeuS, a beer that’s made much like Champagne. “It goes through secondary fermentation, disgorgement, etc., in the same manner, but is still brewed initially,” he says. “And the bottle design is clearly a rip-off of Dom, so your friends won’t think you’re cheap.” Or you could always reach back in time for a celebratory drink, says TJ Douglas, owner of the Urban Grape. Mead, he explains, was used for centuries at celebratory feasts throughout Europe, “sort of like today’s modern-day New Year’s Eve parties.”
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On any other night, bar-hopping is a good way to experience as many settings as possible and ensure that you don’t enjoy any of them. It’s even more problematic on New Year’s. Julian Manning’s advice? Stay put. “Find the party, bar, or friend’s house where you want to be and settle in for the night,” says the bar manager of Poe’s Kitchen at the Rattlesnake. “Bars are already on edge on that night, and most problems happen when you decide to hop from place to place. ‘A couple of drinks here and a couple drinks there’ turns into ‘lots of drinks’ fast. It’s a very good recipe for getting into trouble.”
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you drink bald-eagle blood on the Fourth of July? Take a page from Tom Tellier, beverage director of Restaurant dante and il Casale, and spritz up your prosecco with a little Aperol to add a more complex, citrusy, bitter note. Sterling Jackson of the RitzCarlton’s Avery Bar suggests adding a sugar cube along with rhubarb bitters and Lillet Rouge to your Champagne. Want a different kind of bubbly? The Beehive’s Bertil
When all is said and done, it’s important to remember that it’s just another night. “Have fun and don’t take it too seriously,” says Bryn Tattan of Backbar. She’s seen too many people get upset because reality didn’t live up to their idea of the night. “What really changes when the ball drops?” Nothing but the number on the calendar — and maybe your drinking routine. Tattan is trying to shake up the latter with experiments in carbonating wine cocktails. Her Left Bank cocktail riff uses Plymouth gin, St. Germain, and white wine, either a riesling or a muscat. The idea is to “reinvent the concept of a Champagne toast,” she says. It ends up challenging the integrity of the wine, but it’s a unique twist on an old favorite. That sounds new enough for a new year. P
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peOple (my mOm) always ask(s) Café Beirut has exemplary versions me why I studied Arabic in school if I of both — but limiting yourself to just want to be a food writer. Most of those things is like only ever listenthe kids I took Arabic with work for ing to the first two tracks of a the government, for NGOs, for think critically acclaimed album. tanks — they’re putting their degrees That fried-cauliflower sandwich to good use. Where am ($5.49) and its cousins, I? I’m at Café Beirut in the fried-eggplant and eat uP JP tryna get a friedfried-okra sandwiches 654 Centre St, cauliflower sandwich for ($5.49 and $5.99, respecJamaica Plain lunch and maybe chat tively), contain tahini, 617.522.7264 or with the girl behind the lettuce, tomato, mint, cafebeirutjp.com counter in broken, colloLebanese pickles, and opquial Lebanese Arabic. tional (but suggested) hot Mon–Sat, 11 am Many Middle Easternsauce — and they’re all to 9 pm; Sun, 11 am to 8:30 pm ers will tell you that Lebfantastic. You can build anese cuisine is the best your own mezze plate in the region. But disappointingly, ($6.99) from a plethora of options, most Americans go to places like among them hearty mujaddara, Café Beirut and only get hummus smoky baba ghanoush, garlicky, lemand falafel. Don’t get me wrong — ony foul mudammes, and bright little
stuffed grape leaves, served warm in the Lebanese style. Rotating dinner specials show off chef/partner Ali Hachem’s serious skill — on a recent night, I devoured lamb kefta in a cumin-scented tomato sauce served with potatoes, rice, more of those addictive pickles, and a tomatoand-cucumber salad sprinkled with sumac ($10.99). A frequently appearing special of baked eggplant
with chickpeas ($9.99) will satisfy vegetarians and sympathetic omnivores like myself. All that being said, if you want falafel ($5.99 sandwich or $9.99 plate) or shawarma ($6.99 sandwich or $11.99 plate), go for it. But just like in music, sometimes the deep cuts are what keep you coming back. _Luke Pyenson » LukePyenson@g m a i L .c om
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Not that we’re saying you have anything to worry about, but it might be good to check in on that future of yours. Our preferred method of crystalballing usually involves the bottom of a Champagne bottle on December 31, but this is much simpler and more dignified: L’Espalier tea sommelier Cynthia Gold will bring the sips, tarot readings will provide the predictions, and special fortune cookies could win you prizes. Plus, there’ll be plenty of bites from chef Frank McClelland to stress-eat if the news is bad.
Two of the saddest New Year’s Eve things ever: pregaming for the night’s festivities alone, and doing it without oysters. Central Bottle knows what’s up, so stop by early for $1 Island Creek oysters and a line-up of bubbly to grease your party gears. And if you wind up meandering over to sister spot Belly to top off the evening, so be it — we hear marrow is the best hangover preventative out there.
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There are countless tables to dance on tonight, so we’ll help you narrow it down. Parisian burlesque seems to be A Thing now, and South End fave the Beehive is no exception to the rule: expect performances by Francine “The Lucid Dream” and Essence Revealed, plus the ’60s pop and soul sounds of Amy Lynn & the Gun Show. And chef Rebecca Newell’s buffet will let you load up on carbs before hitting the bubbly. 9 pm to 2:30 am @ the Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston :: $75–$115 :: 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com
One more NYE thing, but only because we spotted these words in the press release: Fernet ice luge. After you take a second to imagine what kind of heaven contains a Fernet ice luge, come on back and consider the fourcourse menu from Matt Jennings, with options like house-made charcuterie, marrow-roasted diver scallops, cold-smoked venison chops, and Kate Jennings’s pear-ginger upside-down cake. Sounds like a few good reasons to get outta town to us. 5 pm on @ Farmstead, 186 Wayland Ave, Providence, RI $75
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An anti-NYE option — 31 for those who hate all the forced merriment, manic drinking, and shitty midnight toasts that place most New Year’s parties somewhere in the vicinity of the seventh circle of hell — can be found at the Cambridge Bukowski’s. True to form, they’re throwing a Fuck New Year’s Party at which there will be no silly hats or noisemakers, though there will certainly be plenty of drinking. Our favorite part? Not only is there no cover for this thing, but they’re offering guests a dollar just to come in. And forget the Andre: there’ll be a PBR toast . . . sometime around midnight . . . “if the staff is sober enough to remember.” Sounds like our kind of way to ring in 2013.
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Bukowski Tavern, 1281 Cambridge St, Cambridge :: from whenever until 2 am; kitchen closes at 1:30 am :: Free :: bukowskitavern.net tUE
No year can be too bad if it starts with the Marx Brothers. No specific details yet on the annual Marx marathon today, but we do know that there are five films and it 1
starts at 1 pm, which is just late enough in the day to allow you to sleep off some of your NYE hangover before continuing to nurse it in a cool, dark theater, with help from the soothing lolz of the Marx bros. Plus, it should fortify you with enough absurdity, pratfalls, puns, and surreal comedy to keep your resolutions at least until the end of the week Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge :: Five films for $25 :: $20 students, seniors :: 617.876.6837 or brattlefilm.org
There’s only one thing 1 that can make the first, massively hungover day of 2013 bearable: brunch. A Jazz Brunch, to be exact. Johnny D’s and Brasserie Jo, for two, are both offering up bloodies (Brasserie Jo has a makeyour-own bar), eggs, and cool, live jazz to help you ease into the next 364 days. tUE
Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville :: 9:30 am to 3:30 pm :: À la carte :: johnnyds.com :: Brasserie Jo, 120 Huntington Ave, Boston :: 10 am to 3 pm :: $35 buffet :: brasseriejoboston.com
If New Year’s Eve is truly amateur night, then music blog Allston Pudding has 31 perhaps the best alternative: reunited promwavers You Can Be a Wesley, CreaturoS, New Hampshire’s the Migs, and BOYTOY (featuring members of Wesley and Beast Make Bomb). Even more awesome: there’s no cover, pizza slices are $1, and tall boys are just $2 all night. Take that, bloated ball-droppers.
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Can ya’ll believe that this SAt is the 15th installment 29 of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ Hometown Throwdown? That’s a decade and a half of selling out shows to faithful fans of the local ska heroes. This time around, they’re joined by the Bouncing Souls for the second night of the Throwdown, which is yet not sold out. But we’re betting it will be soon, if we know Boston. . . . House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston :: December 29-31 @ 7 pm :: $25-$35 :: livenation.com
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Speaking of those New Year’s resolutions, if you’ve resolved to try something new this year, you can get a head start — on the cheap — at the BCAE’s Take for $10 New Year’s special. For three days only they’re offering up classes like “Stir Fry Techniques,” “ D.I.Y. Bracelets,” and “Swing Dancing for Couples,” plus tutorials in InDesign, Photoshop, yoga, and more for just 10 smackeroos. That’s a lot of new experience for your buck. wEd
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FIRST NIGHT 2013
[a/k/a to the rest of us as New Year’s Eve 2012] in their forward-looking way, the folks at First Night continue to name their event for what’s actually the first morning of 2013, rather than the last day of 2012, which is conventionally referred to as New Year’s Eve 2012. No matter what you call it, the event is a whopping good time. All events on this page are included with the purchase of a First Night button, $18. For more information or to view the full schedule, visit firstnight.org. And for more NYE 2012 events, visit thephoenix.com/newyears.
THE GRAND PROCESSION
36TH ANNUAL PROCESSION › Begins in front of the Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston › With music, puppets, dancers, circus performers, and more › 5:30 pm
COUNTDOWN TO MIDNIGHT . . .
WITH KARMALOOP › On the steps of the Boston public Library, 700 Boylston St, Boston › DJ Die Young, DJ Baltimoroder, DJ Coralcola, DJ Nathanael Bluhm, and Big Digits keep the party going ‘til midnight › 8:30 pm-midnight
AND THEN WATCH PRETTY LIGHTS...
ABOVE BOSTON HARBOR › Zambelli Fireworks lights up sky when the clock strikes 12 › midnight
MUSIC
ANIMAL HOSPITAL COLLECTIVE › At the Hynes Convention Center, Room 301, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Kevin Micka’s solo project-turned-30 piece band › 8:30 pm CASS MCCOMBS › At Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall, 700 Boylston St, Boston › Indie rock › 10:30 pm CUFFS › At Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall, 700 Boylston St, Boston › Indie pop › 7:30 pm DJ JESSE KAMINSKY › At the Hynes Convention Center, Room 302, 900 Boylston St, Boston › DJ, producer, and former “Imperialisms” resident DJ › 7:30 pm GEM CLUB › At Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall, 700 Boylston St, Boston › Chamber Pop › 9 pm “INTRANSITIVE RECORDINGS” › At the Hynes Convention Center, Room 313, 900 Boylston St, Boston › The experimental record label prepares another unique showcase including a solo cassette tape performance by Howard Stelzer; a multimedia presentation from Mike Bullock, Jack Dice, John Twells, and others; and more › 7:30 pm JENNY DEE & THE DEELINGQUENTS › At Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › Motown style girl group › 8 pm LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS › At Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › Veteran soul man and his band › 9 pm MAJOR STARS › At the Hynes Convention Center, Room 302, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Closing performance by the local psych rock heavyweights › 10 pm
Scott Joplin’s Wall Street Rag › 9 pm OLD SOUTH BRASS, ORGAN & PERCUSSION: “PIPES AND POPS” › Old South Church, 645 Boylston St, Boston › Arrangements of popular classics › 6:30 + 8 pm PROJECT STEP › At the Hynes Convention Center Ballroom, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Led by Mariana Green-Hill and featuring the Honors String Quartet and two other chamber groups yet to be announced › 1 pm
FILM + VIDEO
FESTIVAL OF INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS › At the Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston › Hour-long program of short films from all over the world, curated by the MFA Film Department › noon + 1:15 + 2:30 + 3:45 pm NEW ENGLAND ANIME SOCIETY › At Hynes Convention Center, Room 210, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Program of the best and most popular current Japanese animation › 7:30-10:30 pm PATRICK CHANEY › At Hynes Convention Center, Room 309, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Immersive interactive video space with sound performance › 7:30-11 pm ROXBURY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SCREENING › At Hynes
FEATS OF GRANDEUR
COMEDY
IMPROVBOSTON › At Hynes Convention Center, Hall C, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Improv based on audience input › 7:30 + 8:45 + 10 pm JIM LAULETTA › At Hynes Convention Center, Hall D, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Stand-up › 10 pm TONY V + KEN ROGERSON › At the Hynes Convention Center, Hall D, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Stand-up › 7:45 pm
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• walter SiCkert & the arMy of Broken toyS PreSentS the wireforeSt: an eVening of SPeCtaCUlar SPeCtaCle › Sickert and company’s annual trip down the rabbit hole promises an adventure through time and space. Knowing them, we’re expecting exactly that. This year’s tweakedout spectacular features Bent Knee and other special guests yet to be announced. › hynes Convention Center auditorium, 900 Boylston St, Boston p
• MagnetiC fieldS › Stephin Merritt and the gang take a break from touring off their 10th and most recent album, Love at the Bottom of the Sea, to make their First Night debut, which we’re all kinds of psyched about and we’re betting is going to be packed to the gills. Get there early! › Symphony hall, 301 Mass ave, Boston
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• tanya donelly › Speaking of the Magnetic Fields, Fields cellist Sam Davol is just one of the many artists collaborating on multiple Grammy-winning singer Donelly’s upcoming project. Others pitching in on the Newport-bred singer/guitarist’s new jam include Bill Janovitz, Kristin Hersh, and more. Catch her solo tonight. › Symphony hall, 301 Mass ave, Boston
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• John SCofield’S ÜBerJaM › Ring in 2013 with the very first reunion show for the legendary jazzman and his jam band. Preview what the newly reunited outfit have in store before they hit the studio to record a followup to 2003’s Up All Night this winter. Their First Night appearance will be recorded as part of NPR’s Toast of the Nation. › Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass ave, Boston p
WORDS
MAXIMUM VELOCITY › At the Hynes Convention Center, Hall D, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Professional stunt team of riders and skaters perform extreme tricks › 1:15 + 3 + 4:45 pm THE SKYRIDERS › At the Hynes Convention Center, Hall D, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Professional, Olympic-title winning acrobatic trampoline team perform aerial feats with snow skis, snowboards, wakeboards, and hula-hoops › 3:30 + 5:15 pm
PHX PICKS >> CAN’T MISS
CLASSICAL MUSIC
HANDEL & HAYDN SOCIETY CHORUS › At the Museum of African American History, Meeting House, 46 Joy St, Boston › A “Button Bonus,” the first 40 buttonholders get free admission to the special performance on the eve of the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation › 2 + 3 pm HEINRICH CHRISTENSEN: “DANCE, DANCE, DANCE!” › At King’s Chapel, 58 Tremont St, Boston › Program celebrating dance throughout the ages, from Bible to
Convention Center, Room 200, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Screening of films from New England’s largest film fest dedicated to people of color › 7:30-10:45 pm
BOSTON POETRY SLAM › At the Hynes Convention Center, Room 208, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Poets compete in spoken word poetry, judged by randomly selected audience members › 7:30 + 8:15 + 9 + 9:45 + 10:30 pm MASSMOUTH STORY SLAM › At the Hynes Convention Center, Room 207, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Bring a 5-minute story if you want to compete in the storytelling competition (theme to be announced; check massmouth.ning.com for updates) › 8 + 9:30 pm MORGAN WHITE JR.: THE MAN FROM T.R.I.V.I.A. › At the Hynes Convention Center, Room 302, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Get quizzed by one of the premier trivia experts in the nation › 1:30 + 2:45 + 4 pm
DANCE
A. MAJOR DANCE COMPANY › At the Hynes Convention Center, Room 302, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Sampler of lyrical jazz, hip-hop, and African dance › 4 + 5 pm BOSTON BHANGRA › At the Hynes Convention Center, Room 302, 900 Boylston St, Boston › South Asian pop music and dance based upon the traditional folk dances of the Punjab region › 3 + 4 pm CHU LING DANCE ACADEMY › At the Hynes Convention Center, Room 302, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Traditional Chinese dance fused with martial arts › 1 + 2:30 pm DIANNA & DAMIEN’S DIVINE DOMINION › At the Hynes Convention Center, Room 312, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Burlesque curated by Penny Candy › 7:30 pm ORIGINATION › At the Hynes Convention Center Ballroom, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Hip-hop, jazz, step, and Caribbean dance emphasizing the influence of African culture on modern dance › 8 + 9 pm SEAN FIELDER & THE BOSTON TAP COMPANY › At the Hynes Convention Center Ballroom, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Hoofers from across Greater Boston led by the Roxburybred dancer › 9:30 pm
THEATER
COMMONWEALTH SHAKESPEARE: WINTER › At the Hynes Convention Center Ballroom, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Multimedia interpretation of Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale › 7:30 + 9 pm A KWANZA SONG › At Hibernian Hall, 182186 Dudley St, Roxbury › Storytelling, dance, and music presented by Mixed Magic Theatre › 3 pm PIPPIN › American Repertory Theater, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge › A “Button Bonus,” ART is offering one free ticket to the acclaimed show to the first 50 buttonholders › 7:30 + 9:30 pm PRINCETON MOVEMENT THEATRE › At the Hynes Convention Center, Room 209, 900 Boylston St, Boston › Immersive theater experience portraying angels, bounty hunters, slices of toast, photocopier homunculi, superheroes battling giant inflatable robots, and more through silent vignettes › 7:30 + 8:45 + 10 pm THEPHOENIX.cOm/EvENTs :: 12.28.12 63
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IBIS › Jolivet’s Pastorales de Noel; Handel’s Concerto for Harp; Samuel-Rousseau’s Variations Pastorales Sur un Vieux Noel; Respighi’s Adoration of the Magi; Vaughan Williams’s Greensleeves; Alwyn’s Three Winter Poems › 7 pm › St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1 Roanoke Ave, Jamaica Plain › $10 › 617.524.2999 or jpconcerts.org
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AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS › Selection of works for organ › 10 pm › Arlington Street Church, 351 Boylston St., Boston › First Night button required: $18 › 617.542.1399 or firstnight.org BOSTON BAROQUE CONDUCTED BY MARTIN PEARLMAN › Corelli’s Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 7; Telemann’s Concerto for Flute, Recorder, and Orchestra in E minor, TWV 52; Marcello’s Concerto for Oboe in D minor; Pergolesi’s La serva padrona, with David Kravitz [Uberto], Courtney Huffman [Serpina], and Remo Airaldi [Vespone] › Mon 8 pm; Tues 3 pm › Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge › $25-$80 › 617.496.2222 or bostonbaroque.org HEINRICH CHRISTENSEN › “Dance, Dance, Dance!” › 9 pm › King’s Chapel, 58 Tremont St, Boston › First Night button required: $18 › 617.542.1399 or firstnight.org NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY CHILDREN’S CHORUS › Selection of holiday songs from around the world › 3 pm › Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston › First Night button required: $18 › 617.542.1399 or firstnight.org OLD SOUTH BRASS, ORGAN, AND PERCUSSION › “Pipes and Pops” › 6:30 + 8 pm › Old South Church, 645 Boylston St, Boston › First Night button required: $18 › 617.542.1399 or firstnight.org PROJECT STEP CHAMBER ORCHESTRA › With the Honors String Quartet and two other chamber groups › 1 pm › Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston › First Night button required: $18 › 617.542.1399 or firstnight.org
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BOSTON BAROQUE CONDUCTED BY MARTIN PEARLMAN › See listing for Mon
THURSDAY 3
PETER SULSKI AND MICHELLE GRAVELINE › Corelli’s Sonata in D, Op. 5,
No. 1; Bach’s Sonata in G, BWV 1019 › 12:15 pm › First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St, Boston › Donations welcome › 617.267.6730 or firstchurchbostonmusic.org
To Do
THURSDAY 27
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 › Thurs-Mon 4:30 pm › Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston › Free › faneuilhallmarketplace.com HOLIDAY MARKET › Pick up one-of-a-kind prints, artwork, and more gifts (all under $150) created by past and present Fourth Wall artists › Thurs-Fri + Sun 1 pm › Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Ave, Boston › Free admission › fourthwallproject.com REEL FEST 4 › Film showcase with the mission to create a seed-bed for films outside of the mainstream, featuring screening of The Church of Love & Confusion: Cycle 1: Sleep Walk plus other films › Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St, Cambridge › reelzine.blogspot.com ZOOLIGHTS › Thousands of lights, animals on display in the Yukon Creek, and photo opportunities with the reindeer › Thurs-Mon 5 pm › Franklin Park Zoo, 1 Franklin Park Rd, Boston › $7 › 617.541.5466 or zoonewengland.org
FRIDAY 28
BLINK! › See listing for Thurs HOLIDAY MARKET › See listing for Thurs REEL FEST 4 › See listing for Thurs ZOOLIGHTS › See listing for Thurs
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CAFE TANGO MILONGA › Crash course, followed by music from a guest DJ and light refreshments and drinks › 8 pm › Dance Union, 16 Bow Street, Somerville › $12 › 617.721.4872 or bostontango.org JINGLE JAM RAIL RAM › A rail jam in the Bob Skinner’s Six O’ Three terrain park. Cash prizes provided by Golf & Ski Warehouse. › Mount Sunapee, 1398 Rte. 103, Newbury, NH › 603.763.3500 or mtsunapee.com/ mtsunapeewinter/index.asp BLINK! › See listing for Thurs REEL FEST 4 › See listing for Thurs ZOOLIGHTS › See listing for Thurs
SUNDAY 30
BLINK! › See listing for Thurs HOLIDAY MARKET › See listing for Thurs REEL FEST 4 › See listing for Thurs ZOOLIGHTS › See listing for Thurs
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Martin Pearlman leads Boston Baroque New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
For a full listing of New Year’s Eve parties and events go online to the Phoenix.com/newyears and for our First Night 2014 Picks see page 63. “10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIVING ROOM” › Celebrate the bar and restaurant’s 10th anniversary (and New Year’s Eve) at a party with a four-course dinner, dancing, music by DJ Davey Jones, passed appetizers, and more › 9 pm › Living Room, 101 Atlantic Ave, Boston › $50-$80 › 617.723.5101 or thelivingroomboston.com BOSTON BY FOOT › 90-minute walking tour of the Boston Common and Public Garden; Meet outside Park Street T stop › 2:30 pm › Boston Common, Charles St, Boston › First Night button required: $18 › 617.542.1399 or firstnight.org
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Light-and-music show Blink! continues at Faneuil Hall through New Year’s Eve. “DISCOTHÈQUE BURLESQUE NEW YEAR’S EVE” › Burlesque performances by Francine “The Lucid Dream” and Essence Revealed and music from Amy Lynn and the Gunshow, with a buffet of hors d’oeuvres and desserts › 9 pm › Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston › $115 › 617.423.0069 or beehive2013. eventbrite.com INTERFAITH MIDNIGHT PEACE SERVICE › Inclusive, welcoming, interfaith service of music, songs and readings from many faith traditions, including Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, Bahai, Sufi, and Zoroastrian › 11:45 pm › St. Paul’s Cathedral, 138 Tremont St, Boston › First Night button required: $18 › 617.542.1399 or firstnight.org “NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH STEVE SWEENEY & FRIENDS” › New Year’s Eve comedy show with Steve Sweeney and special guests Joe Yannetty + Bethany Van Delft › 7:30 pm › Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont St, Boston › $33 › 866.348.9738 or citicenter.org THE SLUTCRACKER › “Nutcracker” themed burlesque performance › 7 pm › Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville › $25 › 617.625.5700 or theslutcracker.com “STUDIO 57 AT THE REVERE HOTEL” › Champagne toast at midnight, Times Square ball drop, stunning surprise performances by Boston Circus Guild, live entertainment and DJs, and more › 9 pm › Revere Hotel, 200 Stuart St, Boston › $75-$125 › 866.539.0036 or studio57-ebgrpthmbos0nye.eventbrite.com “THE EMERALD AFFAIR” › New Year’s Eve party to benefit the Home for Little Wanderers. With music by DJ Miss Jade, party favors, passed hors d’oeuvres, vodka ice bar on the patio, optional breakfast and dessert bar, and more › 8 pm › Emerald Lounge at Revere Hotel, 200 Stuart St, Boston › $25;$220 VIP › emeraldnye2013. eventbrite.com BLINK! › See listing for Thurs ZOOLIGHTS › See listing for Thurs
TUESDAY 1
FIRST DAY HIKE › Guided tours through Blue Hills State Reservation or Chestnut Hill Reservation › noon › Blue Hills Reservation, 695 Hillside St, Milton or Reilly Memorial Rink, 355 Chestnut Hill Ave, Brighton › Free › 617.698.1802 or mass.gov/dcr FUNDRAISER TO BENEFIT WEDIKO CHILDRENS SERVICES › Bowling, raffle
prizes, silent auction, and a percentage of all pizza sales being donated › 5 pm › Flatbread Company at Bowl Haven, 45 Day St, Somerville › No cover › 617.776.0552
WEDNESDAY 2
TAKE FOR $10 CLASSES › Knitting, drawing, cooking, writing, creative suite classes, and more › Wed-Thurs 6 to 8:30 pm › Boston Center for Adult Education, 122 Arlington St, Boston › $10 › 617.267.4430 or bcae.org
THURSDAY 3
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONVENTION › Meetings, an exhibit hall, job interviews, and more for all MLA members and others involved in the study or teaching of language and literature › Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston › $270; $80 students › 617.954.2000 or mla.org TAKE FOR $10 CLASSES › See listing for Wed
DANcE PERFoRMANcE THURSDAY 27-SUNDAY 30
BOSTON BALLET › Nissinen’s The Nutcracker › Thurs-Sat 1 + 7:30 pm; Sun 7:30 pm › Opera House, 539 Washington St, Boston › $35-$172 › 617.259.3400 or bostonballet.org
MoNDAY 31
DIANNA & DAMIEN’S DIVINE DOMINION › Burlesque › 7:30 pm › Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston › First Night button required: $18 › 617.542.1399 or firstnight.org ORIGINATION › Hip-hop, jazz, tap, step, and Caribbean dance › 8 + 9 pm › Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston › First Night button required: $18 › 617.542.1399 or firstnight.org SEAN FIELDER AND THE BOSTON TAP COMPANY › Tap › 9:30 pm › Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston › First Night button required: $18 › 617.542.1399 or firstnight.org
Arts & Nightlife :: visuAl Art
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GALATEA FINE ART › 617.542.1500 › 460B Harrison Ave, Boston › galateaart.org › Wed-Fri noon-6 pm; Sat-Sun noon-5 pm › Jan 2-27: Caryl Gordon: “Mass Masonry” › C.J. Lori: “The Narrative Landscape” › Joan Mullen: “Spring Convergence” MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER › 617.577.1400 › 41 Second St, Cambridge › multiculturalartscenter.org › Mon-Fri 10:30 am-6 pm › Jan 3-April 8: Alexandra Rozenman
galleries
Admission to the following galleries is free, unless otherwise noted. In addition to the hours listed here, many galleries are open by appointment. Please note that many of these locations alter their hours during the holidays. Check website or call for exact information. ATLANTIC WORKS GALLERY › 970.443.9551 › 80 Border St, Boston › atlanticworks.org › Fri-Sat 2-6 pm › Through Dec 29: Samantha Marder and Neil Wyatt: “Barter” AXELLE FINE ARTS › 617.450.0700 › 91 Newbury St, Boston › axelle.com › Daily 10 am6 pm › Through Jan 6: “Michel Delacroix at 80” BOSTON ATHENÆUM › 617.227.0270 › 10-1/2 Beacon St, Boston › bostonathenaeum.org › Mon 9 am-8 pm; Tues-Fri 9 am-5:30 pm; Sat 9 am-4 pm › Through Jan 12: “Chromo-Mania! The Art of Chromolithograhy in Boston, 1840-1910” BOSTON SCULPTORS GALLERY › 617.482.7781 › 486 Harrison Ave, Boston › bostonsculptors.com › Wed-Sun noon–6 pm › Through Jan 27: “Height, Width, Depth, Time: Boston Sculptors Celebrates 20 Years” BSA SPACE › 617.391.4039 › Boston Society of Architects, 290 Congress St, Boston › bsaspace. org › Daily 10 am-6 pm › Through Dec 31: “City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952–1982” CAMBRIDGE ART ASSOCIATION › 617.876.0246 › 25 Lowell St, Cambridge › cambridgeart.org › Lowell St: Tues-Sat 11 am-5
pm; Mount Auburn St: Mon-Fri 9 am-6 pm, Sat 9 am-1 pm › Through Jan 10: “Blue” CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY › 617.495.3251 › 24 Quincy St, Cambridge › ves.fas.harvard.edu › Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun 1 pm-5 pm › Through May 29: Hans Tutschku: “Unreal Memories” LA GALERÍA AT VILLA VICTORIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS › 617.927.1717 › 85 West Newton St, Boston › villavictoriaarts. org/gallery.html › Thurs-Fri 3-6 pm; Sat 1-4 pm › Through Dec 30: “Paredes en Fuego: The 2012 Cacique Youth Art Show” HARBORARTS OUTDOOR GALLERY › › 256 Marginal St, East Boston › harborarts.net › Open 24 hours › Through Dec 31: “Hazards of Modern Living” Public Art Installation JP ART MARKET › 617.522.1729 › 36 South St, Jamaica Plain › jpartmarket.com › WedThurs 2-7 pm; Fri 12:30-7:30 pm; Sat 11:30 am-8 pm; Sun 11:30 am-6 pm › Through Jan 4: Jon Langford LACONIA GALLERY › 617.670.1568 › 433 Harrison Ave, Boston › laconiagallery.org › Fri-Sun noon–4 pm › Through Jan 13: David Curcio: “I Wouldn’t Worry About It” LINCOLN ARTS PROJECT › › 289 Moody St, Waltham › lincolnartsproject.com › WedFri 4-9 pm; Sat 2-8 pm › Through Jan 12: “The Hundreds Show” MILLS GALLERY AT Admission $8; $5 students, seniors; free BOSTON CENTER FOR for members and children under 12, THE ARTS › 617.426.8835 and for all Wed 5-9 pm › Through Dec › 539 Tremont St, Boston › 30: Mark Davis: “Icarus” › Through u s eu m m e r o m ry bcaonline.org › Wed + Sun Jan 20: Cyndy Barbone, Deborah d Galles n a noon-5 pm; Thurs-Sat Frazee Carlson, Fuyuko Matsubara, listinGenix. noon-9 pm › Through Feb 3: and Bhakti Ziek: “Grand Tales of ho at the p ents “Process Goes Public” the Loom: Four Master Weavers” com/ev MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS › Through Feb 10: “2012 Biennial CENTER › 617.253.4860 › Members Exhibition” › Through March 20 Ames St, Cambridge › web. 17: Chris Gustin: “Masterworks in Clay” mit.edu/lvac › Daily noon-6 pm › HARVARD ART MUSEUMS › Through Jan 6: “In the Holocene” 617.495.9400 › 485 Broadway, Cambridge › PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE harvardartmuseums.org › Tues-Sat 10 am-5 CENTER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY pm › Admission $9; $7 seniors; $6 students › › 617.975.0600 › 832 Comm Ave, Boston › bu. Through Dec 29: “Recent Acquisitions, Part edu/prc › Tues-Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun III: Kerry James Marshall” › Through June 1: noon-4 pm › Through Jan 19: Daniel Feldman, “Re-View” Stefanie Klavens, and Lynn Saville: “The Space INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART in Between” › 617.478.3100 › 100 Northern Ave, Boston › ROLLY-MICHAUX GALLERY › icaboston.org › Tues-Wed + Sat-Sun 10 am–5 617.536.9898 › 290 Dartmouth St, Boston › pm; Thurs-Fri 10 am–9 pm › Admission $15; rollymichaux.com › Tues-Sat 11 am-4:30 pm › $10 students, seniors; free for ages under 17; Through Dec 29: Robert Castagna and Ksenia free after 5 pm on Thurs › Through March 3: Mack: “A Soundtrack for Still Pictures: Lost “This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in Across America” 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; ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN $5 students with ID; free for ages under 18 ART AT PHILLIPS ACADEMY › › Through Jan 7: “The Great Bare Mat & 978.749.4015 › 180 Main St, Andover › andover. Constellation” edu/addison › Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 1-5 MIT MUSEUM › 617.253.4444 › 265 Mass pm › Through Dec 30: “American Vanguards: Ave, Cambridge › web.mit.edu/museum › TuesGraham, Davis, Gorky, de Kooning, and Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun noon-5 pm › Through Their Circle, 1927 – 1942” › Through Jan 13: Dec 31: Berenice Abbott: “Photography and “Pekupatikut Innuat Akunikana / Pictures Science: An Essential Unity” › Through Woke the People Up: An Innu Project with March 17: “Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers Wendy Ewald and Eric Gottesman” › Through of the Greater Himalaya” › Through Sept 28: Jan 13: “People, Places, Things: Symbols of “The Jeweled Net: Views of Contemporary American Culture” Holography” DECORDOVA SCULPTURE PARK AND MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS › 617.267.9300 › MUSEUM › 781.259.8355 › 51 Sandy Pond Rd, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston › mfa.org › MonLincoln › decordova.org › Tues-Sun 10 am-5 Tues + Sat-Sun 10 am-4:45 pm; Wed-Fri 10 pm › Admission $14; $12 seniors; $10 students am-9:45 pm › Admission $22; $20 students, and youth ages 13 and up; free to children under seniors; free for ages 7-17 and under during 12 › Through Dec 30: Jean Shin and Brian non-school hours [otherwise $10]; free for ages Ripel: “Retreat” › Through Dec 30: Julianne 6 and under › Through Dec 31: Edward Weston: Swartz: “How Deep is Your” › Through April 21: “Leaves of Grass” › Through Dec 31: “The Allure “Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then of Japan” › Through Jan 6: Ori Gersht: “History and Now” › Through Oct 1: “PLATFORM 10: Repeating” › Through Feb 3: Mario Testino: “In Dan Peterman” Your Face” › Through Feb 18: “Artful Healing” FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM › 508.588.6000 › Through Feb 18: “Cats to Crickets: Pets in › 455 Oak St, Brockton › fullermuseum.org Japan’s Floating World” › Through March 31: › Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm; Wed 10 am-9 pm › Daniel Rich: “Platforms of Power” › Through
Lucy Cobos’s Hull # 247 is on view at the Multicultural Arts Center as part of her show “Impressions of the Voyageur” through April 5.
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C.J. Lori’s O’Brien’s Tower, Cliffs of Moher is on view at Galatea Fine Art as part of “The Narrative Landscape” from January 2 through the 27th. An opening reception takes place January 4 at 6 pm.
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April 14: “The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection” › Through June 16: “Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Royalty on Paper” › Through June 16: Mario Testino: “British Royal Portraits” › Through June 23: “Divine Depictions: Korean Buddhist Paintings” › Through July 7: “Art of the White Mountains” › Through Sept 8: “Chinese Lacquer 1200–1800” › Through June 1: “Jewels, Gems, and Treasures: Ancient to Modern” MUSEUM OF SCIENCE › 617.723.2500 › 1 Science Pk, Boston › mos.org › Sat-Thurs 9 am-5 pm; Fri 9 am-9 pm › Admission $22; $20 seniors; $19 children 3-11 › Through Jan 13: “Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age” › Through March 3: “Shipwreck! Pirates & Treasure” NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM › 413.298.4100 › 9 Rte 183, Stockbridge › nrm. org › Daily 10 am–5 pm, May through Oct. Nov through April, 10 am-4 pm and weekends 10 am-5 pm › Admission $16; $14.50 seniors; $10 students with ID; $5 for kids and teens 6 to 18; free for ages 5 and under › Through Jan 21: Norman Rockwell: “Home for the Holidays” › Through Feb 3: “All in the Rockwell Family: The Art of Mary-Amy Cross” › Through Feb 24: “Heroes and Villains: The Comic Book Art of Alex Ross” PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM › 978.745.9500 › 161 Essex St, Salem › pem.org › Tues-Sun and Mon holidays 10 am-5 pm › Admission $15; $13 seniors; $11 students; free for ages 16 and under › Through Dec 31: “The Invention of Glory: Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries” › Through Jan 31: “Auspicious Wishes and Natural Beauty in Korean Art” › Through Jan 31: “Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China” › Through Jan 31: “Of Gods and Mortals, Traditional Art from India” › Through Jan 31: “Perfect Imbalance, Exploring Chinese Aesthetics” › Through Feb 3: “FreePort [No. 004]: Peter Hutton” › Through Feb 3: “Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones” › Through May 27: “FreePort [No. 005]: Michael Lin” › Through May 27: “Natural Histories: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth” 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 Feb 3: “Kennedy to Kent State: Images of a Generation”
Arts & Nightlife :: theAter
play by play
COMPILED BY MADDY MYERS
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BOSTON ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL› The Boston Playwrights’ Theatre hosts Boston’s second-annual one-minute play festival featuring more than 70 brand-new oneminute plays written specifically for this event. Ben Evett, Bridget O’Leary, Vicki Schairer, Jeffrey Mosser, Shana Gozansky, Corianna Moffatt, and Giselle Ty direct. › January 5–7 › Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Comm Ave, Boston › $20 › 866.811.4111 or bu.edu/bpt BURBAGE, OR THE MAN WHO MADE SHAKESPEARE FAMOUS› Boston Playwrights’ Theatre hosts the Bay Colony Shakespeare Company’s debut production: a new play by Nicholas Minella. Neil McGarry stars in this one-man show, directed by Christopher Webb. › January 10–27 › Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Comm Ave, Boston › $12; $10 seniors; $8 students › 866.811.4111 or bu.edu/bpt CONVERSATIONS WITH MY MOLESTER: A JOURNEY OF FAITH› Daniel Gidron directs Michael Mack’s oneman show about his childhood sexual trauma at the hands of a clergyman and the life-long personal journey that culminates in him facing his abuser as an adult. › January 11, 20, 25 + February 2 › Paulist Center, 5 Park St, Boston › $15 › 617.742.4460 or michaelmacklive.com HOLIDAY› Wellesley College Theatre stages Philip Barry’s Depression-era play about marriage across economic strata, upward mobility, and classism. Nora Hussey directs the staging, which features the talents of Danny Bolton, John Davin, David Costa, Lisa Foley, Will Keary, Charlotte Peed, Lewis Wheeler, and Sarah Barton. › January 10– February 3 › Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre at Wellesley College, 106 Central St, Wellesley › $20; $10 students, seniors › 781.283.2000 or wellesleysummertheatre.com INVISIBLE MAN› Christopher McElroen helms Oren Jacoby’s theatrical adaptation of Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel about an idealistic young African-American man who begins to realize and push back against his social invisibility. Teagle F. Bougere stars in the Huntington Theatre co-production. › Through February 3 › Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave, Boston › $15-$95 › 617.266.0800 or huntingtontheatre.org THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW› Matthew Woods directs the Imaginary Beasts ensemble in their Winter Panto, a re-imagined farcical version of the 1820 ghost story by Washington Irving. The Beasts encourage audience members to cheer on the hero and hiss at the headless horseman in their family-friendly retelling of the tale. › January 11–February 2 › Black Box Theatre at Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theatre, 539 Tremont St, Boston › $20; $10 students, seniors › 617.933.8600 or imaginarybeasts.org MARRY ME A LITTLE› New Repertory Theatre’s Craig Lucas and Norman Rene stage their cabaret revue of Stephen Sondheim songs in this modern take on love and marriage, which features songs from Follies, A Little Night Music, Company, and other Sondheim favorites. › January 6–27 › Charles Mosesian Theater, Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St, Watertown › $28-$58 › 617.923.8487 or newrep.org THE MEMORANDUM› Victoria Rose Townsend directs Václav Havel’s 1989 play about bureaucracy and language. This Flat Earth Theatre staging uses the Vera Blackwell translation of the Czech play. Jim Remmes stars as Josef Gross, a director of an unnamed organization who receives a mysterious message about an audit, written in a new
language that he must learn. › January 11–19 › Black Box Theater, Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St, Watertown › $20-$25; $10 students › 617.923.0100 or flatearththeatre.com THE MOUNTAINTOP› Underground Railway Theater stages Katori Hall’s semibiographical piece about Martin Luther King Jr. The play takes place in King’s hotel room shortly after he has delivered his “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech; a maid brings him a cup of coffee and the two begin a conversation that ventures into the political and the personal. Megan Sandberg-Zakian directs. › January 10–February 2 › Central Square Theater, 450 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $15-$45 › 617.576.9278 or centralsquaretheater.org OTHER DESERT CITIES› Nancy E. Carroll, Anne Gottlieb, Munson Hicks, Karen MacDonald, and Christopher M. Smith star in Jon Robin Baitz’s family drama about a once-promising novelist returning home for Christmas after a six-year absence. The atmosphere of the reunion goes sour once her family learns she plans to reveal the family’s history in her upcoming book. Scott Edmiston directs this SpeakEasy Stage production. › January 11–February 9 › Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St, Boston › $25-$52 › 617.933.8600 or speakeasystage.com SHAKESPEARE’S WILL› Seana McKenna stars as Shakespeare’s wife in this onewoman show by Vern Thiessen, under Miles Potter’s direction. › January 10–February 3 › Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 East Merrimack St, Lowell › $20 › 978.454.3926 or merrimackrep.org 33 VARIATIONS› Spiro Veloudos stages a new play by Moises Kaufman that juxtaposes two time periods. In this Lyric Stage production, James Andreassi co-stars, as Beethoven, with Paula Plum, as a modern-day musicologist struggling to understand the composer’s motivations. › Through February 2 › Lyric Stage Company of Boston, 140 Clarendon St, Boston › $27-$58 › 617.585.5678 or lyricstage.com VINEGAR TOM› Mac Young directs Caryl Churchill’s 1976 play about a witch hunter who comes to a small town and gives its residents a focus for their frustrations. This Whistler in the Dark staging incorporates new music composed by Veronica Barron, Tony Leva, Molly Allis, and Juliet Olivier. › January 11–February 2 › Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St, Boston › $15-$30 › 617.933.8600 or whistlerinthedark.com
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ARABIAN NIGHTS› The Central Square Theater reprises Daniel Gidron’s successful staging of Dominic Cooke’s theatrical adaptation of the ancient Persian folk tales of King Shahryar and his new wife Shahrazad. She tells her husband a new story each night in an effort to distract him from his panicked vow to murder any woman the night after she weds him, in an effort to prevent adultery. The production is co-staged by the Nora Theatre Company & Underground Railway Theater. › Through December 30 › Central Square Theater, 450 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $15-$45 › 866.811.4111 or centralsquaretheater.org BYE BYE LIVER: THE BOSTON DRINKING PLAY› Hennessy’s hosts the Boston chapter of Bye Bye Liver, a show about drinking culture, from wine snobs to wildly fun (and occasionally terrifying) booze parties. The performance also incorporates audience interaction with social games like “Would You Rather” and “Never Have I Ever.” › Indefinitely › Hennessy’s, 25 Union St, Boston › $20 › 866.811.4111 or ByeByeLiver.com 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 CHRISTMAS REVELS› Patrick Swanson directs the annual Revels celebration of the Winter Solstice, with George Emlen as the music director. The show includes the talents of piper Paddy Keenan and fiddler Sheila Falls Keohane, musician and song leader David Coffin, Steven Barkhimer, soloist Mary Casey, the O’Shea Chaplin Academy of Irish Dance, the Pinewoods Morris Men, and Cambridge Symphonic Brass Ensemble. › Through December 27 › Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge › $25-$52; $15-$40 children 11 & under › 617.496.2222 or revels.org FULLY COMMITTED› Gabriel Kuttner stars as Sam, a would-be actor working at a 4-star Manhattan restaurant, in Becky Mode’s comedy about serving New York’s upper crust. Bridget Kathleen O’Leary directs the production for New Repertory Theatre.
Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of Two Gentlemen of Verona is at the Davis Square Theatre through January 6. Read Carolyn Clay’s review at thePhoenix.com/arts.
› Through December 30 › Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St, Watertown › $36 › 617.923.0100 or newrep.org HANSEL AND GRETEL› Allegra Libonati directs a cast of graduate acting students from the ART Institute for Advanced Theater Training in this theatrical adaptation of the classic children’s story by the Brothers Grimm. › Through January 6 › Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge › $15 › 617.547.8300 or amrep.org THE HOW AND THE WHY› Shana Gozansky directs Trinity Rep’s production of Sarah Treem’s drama about a generational clash between two female evolutionary biologists, one well-established in her field and one about to begin her career. Barrie Kreinik and Anne Scurria star. › Through December 30 › Trinity Repertory Company, 201 Washington St, Providence, RI › $28-$34 › 401.351.4242 or trinityrep.com JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT› Turtle Lane presents Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice’s musical theatre retelling of the Biblical story of Joseph. Rachel Bertone directs and choreographs, and Daniel Rodriquez is the music director. Peter Mill and Shonna Cirone star as Joseph and the Narrator, respectively. › Through December 30 › Turtle Lane Playhouse, 283 Melrose St., Auburndale › $25-$32 › 617.244.0169 or turtlelane.org OUR TOWN› David Cromer won a 2009 Obie for his direction of the Off Broadway production of this Thornton Wilder play. He also played — and plays here, in this Huntington Theatre Company production — the Stage Manager. For its Boston outing, Cromer’s breezy modern-dress staging, which updates Wilder’s metatheatrics without altering his text, is crammed into the Roberts Studio with the audience snugly wrapped around three quarters of the playing space. The denizens of Grover’s Corners are presented in operating-room-like surrounds. Wilder portrays life as a gift and a chore, and Cromer’s no-nonsense staging captures both halves of that equation. But don’t get depressed! Parts of the production — especially the terrified courtship and merger of heroic youngsters George Gibbs and Emily Webb, sincerely rendered by Cromer recidivist Derrick Trumbly and a placidly luminous Therese Plaehn — are irrepressibly touching. › Through January 26 › Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St, Boston › $15-$105 › 617.266.0800 or huntingtontheatre.org PIPPIN› Diane Paulus helms the ART’s staging of Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson’s musical about a young prince who believes he’s destined for greatness but can’t decide what sort of great feats will suit him best. Gypsy Snider of Les 7 doigts de la main choreographs the staging, which stars Matthew James Thomas and Patina Miller. › Through January 20 › Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge › $25-$85 › 617.547.8300 or amrep.org 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. › Through December 29 › Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, 70 Kemble St, Lenox › $15-$50 › 413.637.3353 or shakespeare.org TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA› Robert Walsh directs Actors’ Shakespeare Project in the Bard’s romantic comedy about a love triangle, cross-dressing maidens, and couples engaged to be married against their wishes. › December 12–January 6 › Davis Square Theatre, 255 Elm Street, Somerville › $28-$50 › 866.811.4111 or actorsshakespeareproject.org
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FaDe to blaCk Can a movie be intimate and rock-and-roll at lies more on the press conferences they’ll hold after the same time? That’s what Sopranos creator David they’re famous than on the music they’re playing to Chase seems to be going for with his 1960s-set memget there. He locates the soul of the picture in James oir Not Fade Away, which follows Douglas (John Gandolfini as Douglas’s father, Pat, who mourns the Magaro) and his crew of friends in their hopeless loss of the greatest generation and constantly chides attempts to strike it big as a rock band. Groups like his son for his proto-hippie fashions. the Rolling Stones have made it possible Selfishness drives all, every relationship for skinny white people to be “cool,” is corrupted, and it all builds to a and Doug — pining for a way to impress devastating climax. But unfortunately, +++1/2 classmate Grace (the luminous Bella the complaints that accompanied The nOT FaDe aWaY Heathcote) — sees in them his opporSopranos’ mysterious finale seem to Directed and writtunity for fame. But this isn’t a biopic; have had an effect on Chase: Fade closes ten by David Chase his skills aren’t up to those of Mick and with a borderline-insulting denouement, :: With John Magaro, Keith. skewing closer to a thesis statement than Jack Huston, Will Brill, Bella Heathcote, Brad And so years pass, marked not by a conclusion. After watching two hours Garrett, Christopher title cards but by historical events — the of effectively ambiguous filmmaking, McDonald, and James Beatles and Stones on TV, the sexual it’s deflating to be told — by one of the Gandolfini | 110 minrevolution, the Vietnam War, taking a characters, no less — how to think about utes | Paramount Focus date to see Blow-Up at the local theater. Chase’s themes. Though no doubt meant As the crew members grow older, their as an audacious metatextual flourish, it Boston Common hopes for fame grow slighter, and Fade comes off more glib than profound. becomes less about the music than But even if he doesn’t stick the landing, about the people playing it. the picture captures our country with Chase’s directing (as anyone who’s watched The daring honesty. Our inability to communicate across Sopranos knows) apes Scorsese shamelessly: he generational lines, our self-righteous approach to employs jukebox-style soundtrack cuts and kinetic art, our knee-jerk reactions to political hot-buttons, camerawork that glides along to them emphatically. our obsession with celebrity — Chase’s critical eye But in spite of the rockin’ needle drops, his main spares no one. This is his attempt to make the “Great interest is in quietly criticizing his characters’ American Film About Music.” He almost succeeds. _Jak e mulli gan brutish self-interest, looking at the way their focus 68 12.28.12 :: THEPHOENIX.COM/MOvIEs
DaviD Chase’s gooDbye to tv With The Sopranos, David Chase kicked off a revolution, revitalizing the hour-long serial drama and creating a benchmark for the genre. But when you ask the 67-year-old about his masterwork, he treats it as a digression: “I got sidetracked!” “I never wanted to work in TV,” he deadpans, when asked whether it’s daunting to make his feature-length debut so late in his career. “It was a nice ride; I raised a family, all that. But it was the movies I was betided with originally.” Ask him who influenced his switch of formats, and he’s equally flippant: “You know, the usual suspects — Fellini, Welles, Antonioni, Hawks. Dead white males.” Whatever the reason, the writer-director makes the shift to the big screen with Not Fade Away, a 1960s-set inquiry into America’s dueling obsessions with celebrity and pop music. It’s an audacious debut; characters drift in and out of the narrative, and a great many ellipses leave large swaths of time unexplained. “Yeah, it’s surprising this movie even got made in this environment,” he jokes, in light of its difficult construction. So was he never tempted to stretch it out, and do it as a series? “People do say, for writing human stories, TV is the best place right now,” he laments, perhaps realizing he’s switched careers at the wrong time. “But I’m not going back.” _Jm
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++1/2 CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: WORLDS AWAY › A pixie-haired girl (Erica Linz) catches the eye of a strapping young aerialist (Igor Zaripov) in a traveling circus, and the two are transported to a dimension that’s made up of set pieces from every Cirque du Soleil show under the, well, soleil. Elvis and the Beatles keep your toes tapping, stereoscopic visuals present amazing acrobatics for your eyes, and writer/director Andrew Adamson (Shrek) forces you to feast on a sampler of entrées cannibalized from the Canadian troupe’s 28-year history, robbing the film of a unifying theme, narrative, or musical score that drives the company’s best creations. Likewise, the watering-down of the performances dilutes adult-oriented works like Zumanity; this is strictly a family-friendly affair, akin to the all-you-can-eat buffets found everywhere in Vegas, home of many of the productions being drawn upon. Feel free to gorge, but know that catering to every taste never produces a great meal. › 97m › Boston Common + Fenway + suburbs _Brett Michel +++1/2 HITLER’S CHILDREN › Israeli filmmaker Chanoch Ze’evi is the probing interviewer behind this chilling, unsettling documentary. He places before his camera the living relatives of infamous Nazi criminals — Goering, Himmler, etc. — to understand how they tick with such family poison pounding in their veins. In general, they are disturbed and repentant, none more than Niklas Frank, who has spent a sorrowful lifetime in writing and lecturing against his father, the Third Reich commandant of Poland. Bettina Goering, the great-niece of the Luftwaffe’s Herman, has exiled herself to rural New Mexico. And there is Rainer Hoess, grandson of Rudolf Hoess, the commander of Auschwitz, who, in a conscious act of penitence, travels to the infamous concentration camp, and, in a scene of extraordinary emotion and courage, initiates an impromptu discussion there with tough-minded, visiting Israeli students. Winner of the Audience Award
at the 2012 Boston Jewish Film Festival. › German + English + Hebrew › 80m › MFA _Gerald Peary +1/2 JACK REACHER › “Who is Jack Reacher?” That question gets asked a lot in this flaccid thriller adapted by Christopher McQuarrie from Lee Child’s series of novels. Basically he’s Tom Cruise being a tough guy, someone every dame from the old lady at the bus ticket counter to Helen (Rosamund Pike), the assistant DA, moons over. He’s a vet with a particular set of skills who seeks the kind of justice the law can’t provide. He dislocates arms, crushes skulls, and smashes ’70s muscle cars in high-speed chases. He never gets beat and he’s never wrong, and he’s a bore. Here he’s summoned mysteriously by a suspect in a Pittsburgh mass slaying, and, despite dumb questions from Helen, follows an obvious trail of clues that leads him to the evil, sclerotic eye of Zec (a disappointing Werner Herzog). Is it all a joke? If Herzog directed, he could have cranked up the absurdity to a Bad Lieutenant level. As it is, the answer to the question “Who is Jack Reacher?” is — who cares? › 131m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Somerville Theatre + Chestnut Hill + Embassy + suburbs _Peter Keough ++ PROMISED LAND › In the tradition of Arbitrage and Thank You for Smoking, where the people who contribute to making life miserable are seen as just regular guys, Gus Van Sant, along with screenwriters Matt Damon and John Krasinski, collaborate in this ambiguous homily about the energy crisis and environmental pollution. Damon plays Steve Butler, an earnest agent for a corporation seeking the fracking rights for a big gas reserve underneath a rural community. He’s just about to convince the residents that they’ll make a killing and they don’t have to worry about their drinking water catching fire or their children becoming mutants, when a smug environmentalist (Krasinski) shows up and barnstorms the neighborhood with tales of horror. So why is Butler nicer than the tree hugger? A twist clarifies nothing, and Van Sant’s direction is as subtle as the fracking process itself. Frances McDormand evokes Thelma Ritter as Butler’s irascible partner, and Rosemarie DeWitt plays the disputed love interest/metaphor. › 110m › Kendall Square + suburbs › _Peter Keough
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to the “American in Paris” suite designed in the styles of half a dozen Impressionist painters, is overloaded and pretentious, but the rest of the film is in the lighthearted Gershwin spirit. Written by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by Vincente Minnelli. › 113m › Brattle: Sun ++1/2 ANNA KARENINA › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 130m › Kendall Square + Coolidge Corner + West Newton ANOTHER THIN MAN › 1939 › In this adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s The Farewell Murder, Nick (William Powell), Nora (Myrna Loy), Asta, and new baby Nicky Jr. are invited to the Long Island estate of
+++1/2 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS › 1951 › A sunny MGM musical built around the music of George Gershwin. Gene Kelly gives his best performance as the brash American painter in Paris; he also dances an unforgettable pas de deux with Leslie Caron to “Love Is Here To Stay.” With Oscar Levant as Kelly’s composer pal, Nina Foch as his American patroness, and Georges Guetary, whose performance of “I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise” defined American audiences’ notion of French urbanity in the ‘50s as surely as Chevalier did in the ‘30s. The intended highlight, a 20-minute ballet
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Colonel MacFay (C. Aubrey Smith), who’s been getting death threats from one Phil Church (Sheldon Leonard). Sure enough, the colonel is murdered, and everyone thinks Phil is responsible, but of course if he were, we wouldn’t need Nick and Nora. (And Asta.) W.S. Van Dyke directs. › b&w › 103m › Brattle: Mon +++ ARGO › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/ movies for a full review. › 120m › Boston Common + Somerville Theatre + Embassy + suburbs +++ BAD SANTA › 2003 › What Harvey Keitel did for cops in Bad Lieutenant Billy Bob Thornton does for Kris Kringle in Bad Santa. Thornton’s Willie is a departmentstore Santa who smokes, drinks, swears,
occasionally pisses himself, and chases after women with big bottoms. But Willie is not only a pig, he’s also a crook. He and Marcus (Tony Cox), a three-foot-tall African-American dwarf, play a Santa & Elf team who take on a different shopping mall every holiday season. After enduring the line of snotty-nosed kids asking for Barbies and bikes, they slip in after hours and Willie cracks the safe. Then the kid shows up, as he always does in this kind of movie. But eight-year-old Thurman Merman (Brett Kelly) isn’t your typical moppet — he’s more of a Charles Addams character via Federico Fellini, a taunted rich kid living in a big house alone with his ga-ga granny. He’s utter innocence wrapped in a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man body who takes all of Willie’s
phX piCks >> Can’t Miss • THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE If Holy Motors intrigued you, or if you’re already a fan of French enfant terrible Leos Carax, you should take a look at this pas28 sionate and brilliant 1991 film that stars Juliette Binoche (then Carax’s significant other) as a homeless woman who lives on the Pont Neuf. She’s a painter who’s going blind, but can she find love with an alcoholic ex-circus-performer? Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston :: 7:40 pm; Sun 1:30 pm :: $11; $9 students, seniors :: 617.369.3907 or mfa.org FRI
• GENE KELLY CENTENNIAL TRIBUTE The days of winter brighten with the deft footwork and irrepressible geniality of Gene Kelly. Today the Brattle 29 Theatre’s retrospective of his films offers a triple dose of terpsichorean therapy. In Charles Walter’s Summer Stock (1950; 12:30 + 5 pm) he plays the head of a theatrical troupe who charms a small-town girl played by Judy Garland. It’s paired with Charles Vidor’s Cover Girl (1944; 2:45 + 7:15 pm), where Kelly plays a hoofer whose partner (Rita Hayworth) hits the big time. And stick around for Kelly’s last film, Xanadu (1980; 9:30 pm), in which he’s paired with Olivia Newton-John! Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge :: Double feature $12; $10 students; for Xanadu $9.75; $7.75 students :: 617.876.6837 or brattlefilm.org SAT
• moRE GENE KELLY Hollywood shows a bit of Francophilia in Vincente Minnelli’s ambitious An American in Paris (1951; 2:30 + 7 pm). In it Gene Kelly 30 plays an expatriate Yank artist who exults in the canvases of Renoir and Monet, the tunes of George and Ira Gershwin, and the gamine charms of 19-year-old Leslie Caron. It’s paired with Kelly’s first solo directorial effort, Invitation to the Dance (1956; 5 + 9:30 pm), a triptych of tales told entirely in music and dance. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge :: Double feature $12; $10 students, seniors :: 617.876.6837 or brattlefilm.org SUN
• THE THIN MaN + afTER THE THIN MaN Long ago, detectives in movies could drink martinis, smoke, banter with their spouses, and treat every night as if it were New Year’s Eve — detectives like Dashiell Hammett’s inimitable PI pair Nick and Nora Charles, played by William Powell and Myrna Loy. So it’s fitting that the Brattle Theatre usher in the new year with two of the duo’s best films, both directed by W.S. Van Dyke: The Thin Man (1934; 2:30 + 7 pm) and After the Thin Man (1936; 4:30 + 9 pm). See if they can solve a case before the next cocktail hour! Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge :: Double feature $12; $10 students, seniors :: 617.876.6837 or brattlefilm.org moN
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abuse, even lets him rob the house, and still believes. Redemption is inevitable, but it’s tolerable because the amoral Willie resists it so endearingly. Director Terry Zwigoff takes the alienation he explored morosely in Ghost World and turns it into uproarious id, and his zest overcomes the cynical touch of the Coen Brothers, who produced and had a hand in the screenplay. So Disney should lighten up on Miramax and learn that sometimes a film can be naughty and nice. › 93m › Coolidge Corner: Fri-Sat midnight ++++ BARBARA › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › German › 105m › Coolidge Corner COVER GIRL › 1944 › Dancer Rita Hayworth becomes the title lady, and her career starts to take off, but will Gene Kelly, her partner and boyfriend, be left behind when Lee Bowman takes an interest? With Phil Silvers and Eve Arden; Charles Vidor directed. › 107m › Brattle: Sat +++1/2 DJANGO UNCHAINED › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 165m › Boston Common + Fenway + Kendall Square + Coolidge Corner + Embassy + suburbs +++1/2 THE FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON [LE VOYAGE DU BALLON ROUGE] › 2007 › In Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s homage to Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 classic short “Le ballon rouge,” the balloon has receded to the role of a melancholy outsider — peering through windows, bobbing unnoticed along rooftops, a brilliant but oblique punctuation mark on the fretful lives of the film’s human cast: Suzanne (a dyed-blonde, borderline-blowzy Juliette Binoche in one of her earthiest and most appealing performances); her younger son, Simon (Simon Iteanu); and new babysitter Song (Song Fang), a film student from Beijing who’s a fan of Lamorisse’s film and plans to make her own homage to “Le ballon rouge.” Given this kind of reflexivity and its child protagonist, Hou’s film seems at times as much an homage to Abbas Kiarostami as to Lamorisse. But Hou is no slouch, and few artists have captured with such heartbreaking assurance the fluidity of memory and metaphor. Like the red balloon itself, he hovers over the ephemeral beauty and ineffable sadness of his characters even as they aspire to his clarity and serenity. › French › 113m › MFA: Fri-Sat ++1/2 THE GUILT TRIP › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 96m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Arlington Capitol + suburbs +1/2 HITCHCOCK › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 98m › Kendall Square + Coolidge Corner ++1/2 THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 169m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Chestnut Hill + Embassy + Arlington Capitol + suburbs 1/2 HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 91m › West Newton: Sat-Sun ++ HYDE PARK ON HUDSON › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 94m › Boston Common + Kendall Square + West Newton ILLEGAL › 1955 › Film noir from director Lewis Allen and starring Edward G. Robinson as Victor Scott, a district attorney who falls into a drunk and disorderly haze when he learns that a man he had sentenced to death is actually innocent of the crime. Desperate to redeem himself, he restarts his career as a defense attorney bent on alleviating the wrongly convicted. Nina Foch and Hugh Marlowe also star. › b&w › 88m › South End Branch Library: Fri
INVITATION TO THE DANCE › 1956 › Gene Kelly’s directorial debut transverses three stories, each using dance in place of words. Kelly takes a turn as a clown in “Circus,” a marine in “Ring Around the Rosy,” and the titular seafarer in “Sinbad the Sailor.” › 93m › Brattle: Sun ++1/2 LIFE OF PI › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 127m › Boston Common + Fenway + Embassy + suburbs ++ LINCOLN › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 120m › Boston Common + Fenway + Kendall Square + West Newton +++1/2 THE LOVERS ON THE BRIDGE [LES AMANTS DU PONT NEUF] › 1991 › You can forget about irony in Léos Carax’s City Lights–like tale of homeless Alex (Denis Lavant) and runaway colonel’s daughter Michèle (Juliette Binoche), who find refuge and love on Paris’s ancient Pont Neuf. In one rhapsodic sequence set during the bicentennial Bastille Day celebrations, the pair bonk a gendarme on the bean, steal his speedboat, and take off down the Seine with Michèle sailing behind on water skis, the sky above them unscrolling into a fireworks display verging on nightmare. Then missing-person posters with Michèle’s face begin to sprout everywhere. Carax’s tale is mawkish, banal, and melodramatic — and about as close to true love as movies get. › French › 125m › MFA: Fri + Sun ++ MARGIN CALL › 2011 › The financial crisis of 2008 awaits its Social Network; until then we have Margin Call, which zaps its credibility from the get-go when a downsized risk analyst (Stanley Tucci) openly passes a flash drive to an underling (Zachary Quinto) as he’s escorted him from the building by security. It contains a file that suggests this investment firm holds mortgage-backed securities a bit longer than advisable; what follows is a 24-hour meltdown of meetings and dark-night-of-the-soul speeches that would have been better suited to the stage. Both esoteric and dumbeddown (CEO Jeremy Irons asks Quinto to explain the problem to him as if he were a child or a golden retriever), J.C. Chandor’s screenplay fails to tell us anything we don’t already know, although his feature debut does boast an engaging Paul Bettany as a Nicorette-chewing Brit, Kevin Spacey as a broker who does not talk down to his dog, Demi Moore with her hair in a bun, and an elegantly evil Irons, dining as his company burns. › 105m › BPL: Wed ++1/2 LES MISÉRABLES › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 158m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Chestnut Hill + Arlington Capitol + suburbs +++1/2 MONSTERS, INC. 3D › 2001 › Monstropolis is populated by all manner of fanciful creatures: some are furry, some are slimy, some have one eye, some have five. Monsters, Inc. is in the business of collecting children’s screams, the energy from which powers the city. These people don’t scare the kids to be mean, they do it because it’s gotta be done. Moreover, they’re as scared of the kids as the kids are of them. So when a baby girl finds her way into their world, chaos and hilarity ensue. Like A Bug’s Life and the Toy Storys, Peter Docter’s film hits just the right notes. John Goodman and Billy Crystal are custom-made for the characters they voice: Sulley, a genial blue-furred galoot, and Mike Wazowski, his manic monocular sidekick. And the giggly gibberish-speaking toddler is too cute to be believed. No need to tell you that Pixar’s animation is stunning. In short, Monstropolis is a place any kid should be glad to slip into. › 92m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Chestnut Hill + Arlington Capitol + suburbs
Tom Cruise has special skills in Jack Reacher. 1/2 NEW YEAR’S EVE › 2011 › Lately Garry Marshall has shown a certain genius for turning miserable holidays into terrible movies. With Valentine’s Day he showed how that celebration of masochism can be a vehicle for smarmy sentiments, musty jokes, and rickety contrivances. Here the eponymous feast of forced fun takes a beating, not to mention some Oscar winners who might add firing their agents to their list of resolutions. A mousy neurotic (Michelle Pfeiffer) hires a bike messenger (Zac Efron) to help her fulfill her bucket-list of wishes. A dying cancer patient (Robert De Niro) wants to see the ball drop one last time in Times Square; his nurse (Halle Berry) might help make that happen, but not if the mistress of ceremonies (Hilary Swank) can’t get the balky ball to work. Meanwhile, a jaded hipster (Ashton Kutcher) and an aspiring singer (Lea Michele) are trapped in an elevator. A busted ball and a stalled elevator? Someone get this movie some Viagra. › 117m › West End Branch Library: Wed PARENTAL GUIDANCE › 2012 › When their daughter is called away for work, Artie and Diane (Billy Crystal and Bette Midler) are relegated the task of watching their three grandchildren. They’re quick to learn that their old-school methods of parenting don’t exactly mesh with what works in the 21st century. Andy Fickman directs. › 104m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Chestnut Hill + Arlington Capitol + suburbs +++ THE PIRATE › 1948 › This Vincente Minnelli musical is low on invention — even the Cole Porter score totters — yet highspirited and amiable. The source is an S.N. Behrman play about the romance between a young woman in the Caribbean and an actor who plays the role of the pirate she fantasizes about, Mack the Black. Fortunately, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly are the principals, and though the supporting cast (Walter Slezak, Reginald Owen, Gladys Cooper) is a bit stiff, the amazing Nicholas Brothers make an appearance. The hit song (and best number), “Be a Clown,” bears strong resemblance to the great “Make ‘Em Laugh” number in Singin’ in the Rain four years later. › 102m › Brattle: Fri +++ RISE OF THE GUARDIANS › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 97m › Boston Common + West Newton [Sat-Sun] + Arlington Capitol + suburbs ++1/2 RUST AND BONE › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › French › 120m › Kendall Square +++ THE SESSIONS › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 95m › West Newton
++++ SHADOW OF A DOUBT › 1943 › Thornton Wilder wrote the first of Alfred Hitchcock’s three great psycho-killer movies; Strangers on a Train and Psycho followed, one each decade. Joseph Cotten and Teresa Wright play the two Charleys, uncle and niece, who have an almost telepathic connection; her sheltered small-town California world starts to shatter when she begins to suspect he’s a hunted serial murderer. This ingenious thriller turns on moments when something ordinary and benign suddenly becomes frightening — like the Merry Widow Waltz, the killer’s theme song. With MacDonald Carey as the FBI man, Patricia Collinge, Hume Cronyn, and Henry Travers. › b&w › 108m › BPL: Thurs +++ SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 122m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Somerville Theatre + West Newton
+++ SKYFALL › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix. com/movies for a full review. › 143m › Boston Common + Fenway + Somerville Theatre + Embassy + suburbs +++1/2 SUMMER HOURS [L’HEURE D’ÉTÉ] › 2008 › In his understated, intricate film, Olivier Assayas comments on globalization and materialism through a simple story of three siblings dividing the contents of their mother’s estate in rural France. Only eldest son Frédéric (Charles Berling), a busy Parisian, wants to keep the idyllic country house, which is on display in a lush opening segment where the 75th birthday of matriarch Hélène (Edith Scob) is celebrated. Adrienne (Juliette Binoche) is a designer based in New York, Jérémie (Jérémie Renier) works in China, and, to brother Frédéric’s dismay, both want to sell. Hélène’s last wishes include managing the effects of her uncle, a noted painter she was romantically attached to. In a rich closing sequence, Frédéric’s daughter Sylvie (Alice de Lencquesaing) holds a party at the house, then escapes into the near-by forest with her boyfriend. By this point, Assayas has returned to delicious stylistic territory not explored since 1994’s L’eau froide, and to a wistful view of a fastvanishing French culture. › French › 102m › MFA: Fri-Sat SUMMER STOCK › 1950 › MGM musical starring Judy Garland as Jane Falbury, a small-town farm owner whose actress sister (Gloria DeHaven) returns home with her troupe, in need of a place to practice. In exchange for helping with chores, Jane allows them to use the barn, and it’s during rehearsals that Jane begins to fall for the director (Gene Kelly) despite the fact that he’s engaged to the show’s leading lady — her sister. Charles Walters directs. › 109m › Brattle: Sat +++1/2 THE THIN MAN › 1934 › A marvelous cocktail-lounge detective movie — funny, suspenseful, and blessed with the sparkling chemistry of William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora
Charles, the screen’s great wisecracking, highball-swilling married detectives. (Dashiell Hammett based their relationship on his own with Lillian Hellman.) W.S. Van Dyke directs; wire-haired fox terrier Skippy plays Asta. › b&w › 93m › Brattle: Mon +1/2 THIS IS 40 › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 134m › Boston Common + Fenway + Fresh Pond + Somerville Theatre + Embassy + suburbs THE THREE MUSKETEERS › 1948 › Adaptation of the classic novel starring Gene Kelly as D’Artagnan, a young provincial noble who travels to Paris with hopes of joining the King’s Musketeers. George Sidney directs, while Van Heflin, Gig Young, and Robert Coote play the titular trio. › 125m › Brattle: Sun ++1/2 WRECK-IT RALPH › 2012 › Visit thePhoenix.com/movies for a full review. › 93m › West Newton: Sat-Sun + XANADU › 1980 › In this inconprehensible (though unintentionally funny) showcase for Olivia Newton-John, youthful rebellion means quitting your job to open a roller disco. Olivia plays one of the nine Muses (which one we’re never told) who comes to Earth to inspire humankind, and indeed her kisses work wonders on angry young Michael Beck (even more wooden here than he was as the gangleader in The Warriors) and former big-band clarinettist Gene Kelly (sadly showing his age). Together, Michael and Gene rise from their respective ruts to become roller-disco entrepreneurs. Problem is, Olivia the Muse is afraid she’s falling in love with Michael the mortal, and she’s never fallen in love before, and anyway it’s against cosmic rules. There is a happy ending, however: the gods allow Olivia and the other eight Muses to return to Earth so they can dance at the roller disco’s grand opening. {Will this work as midnight-movie camp? We can only hope.} › 93m › Brattle: Sat
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STARTING THE PARTY — AND ENDING IT — WITH BAD RABBITS IN lATE NovEmBER, Boston’s self-proclaimed “post-R&B” band Bad Rabbits released a new song called “We Can Roll.” The response to the tune — a guitar-heavy song mashing together funk-tinged keyboards, deep rhythmic grooves, and Fredua Boakye’s anguished soul vocals — was overwhelmingly positive. The video for the song, featuring live footage of the band and an abundance of stage-diving fans, received more than 20,000 views on YouTube within 10 days of release. As it turns out, “We Can Roll” is the first song on the quintet’s forthcoming album, American Love, due in spring 2013. For fans, this is momentous news: Bad Rabbits’ last collection of new music — the Stick Up Kids EP, a retrosounding hybrid of soul, funk, and new jack swing — was released in late 2009. Of course, the group certainly hasn’t been resting on its laurels since then; among other things, it had a grueling 2011 Warped Tour stint and tour with Taking Back Sunday. In fact, bassist Graham Masser believes the resulting album — which the band co-produced
with a young Bay Area producer named Brad Lewis — reflects Bad Rabbits’ evolution as a band. “There are a lot of songs on the record that are more [like] Stick Up Kids — more upbeat party songs,” he says. “[But] this is an LP, so we spread out a little bit more in terms of the sound. It’s not just 10 party bangers that you want to play when you’re partying; it goes a little bit deeper and a little bit wider in terms of the style. There’s some more, I guess I would say, heavier songs — more, like, rock-oriented — but all the songs do tie in together.” “We’re in a very different place personally than we were [when we released Stick Up Kids],” he adds. “We’re not going to be able to keep putting out party records — it wouldn’t be true to who we are. We’re not going out and partying every night and getting hammered. We’re working and living on different subjects, and the music is going to reflect that.” Still, guitarist Salim Akram is quick to stress that although Bad Rabbits have matured as songwriters, the progression was completely uncalculated. “I don’t want to come across as
this super-deep, pompous band,” he says. “We take our music seriously, but not to the point where we sat down, like, ‘All right, guys, our lives have changed. Let’s put out a record that reflects where we are in our lives.’ It’s an indirect, subconscious move.” Bad Rabbits are currently figuring out details about American Love’s release. In the past, they’ve eschewed labels and taken up promotional partnerships, like with Bostonbased retailer Karmaloop. Whichever road they decide to travel with American Love, Masser is at least secure that fans won’t mind waiting a little bit longer to hear it. “People in our fanbase are beginning to realize that we take our time,” he says. “That’s just the way we operate. We are very critical of ourselves and of our records — this is where everything stems from. So the records have to be the way that we want them to. We’re not just going to be like, ‘Eh, it sounds good. Good enough.’ That’s just not the way we operate. We take our time, but hopefully it’s worth the wait.” _ANNI E ZALESKI » ANNI E@ANNI E Z .c om
>> BAD RABBITS + HERRA TERRA :: Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Boston :: December 31 @ 9 pm :: 18+ :: $25 :: 617.779.0140 or brightonmusichall.com 72 12.28.12 :: THEpHoEnIx.coM/MuSIc
Arts & Nightlife :: music THURSDAY 27
BEN CAREW + G MONTANA + J ALLEN › 8 pm › Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston › $10 › 617.236.7600 or churchofboston. com BIG AL ANDERSON + THE SPAMPINATO BROTHERS › 7 pm › Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St, Northampton › $35-$40 › 413.586.8686 or iheg.com/iron_ horse_main.asp “BLACK X-MAS” › With Conforza + Pathogenic + Murdoc + Hope Before the Fall + A World Without › 6 pm › Palladium Upstairs, 261 Main St, Worcester › $10-$12 › 978.797.9696 or tickets.com BOB BRADSHAW › 7:30 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com “CENTRAL SQUARE JAZZ FESTIVAL” › With The Rollo Tomasi Quartet + The June Trio › 8 pm › Cantab Lounge Downstairs, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $6 › 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge.com DIZZY BATS + MAX WEIGERT + KYLE JOSEPH › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557 “FUTURISTIC SOUL: THE INSTRUMENTAL SERIES HOLIDAY PARTY” › With Danny “Skyhigh” McClain + DJ Owt Law + April Stanford + Tavonna Miller + The Lost and Found Band › 9 pm › Milky Way, at the Brewery, 284 Armory St, Jamaica Plain › $5-$8 › 617.524.3740 or milkywayjp.com HEATHER MALONEY › 10:30 pm › Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com JAMES MERENDA & TICKLE JUICE › 8 pm › Outpost 186, 186 1/2 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.876.0860 or zeitgeistoutpost.org JOCIE ADAMS + JONAH TOLCHIN + POOR OLD SHINE + FUTUR PRIMITIF › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb. com MELISSA FERRICK › 7 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $33-$35 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com PEACHEATERS + DELTA GENERATORS › 8:30 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $12 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com THE STARTING LINE + FAKE PROBLEMS + RDGLDGRN › 7:30 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › SOLD OUT › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com THURSDAY NIGHT THUNDER SQUAD › 9:30 pm › Middle East Corner, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.864.3278 or ticketweb. com TOM HAGERTY ACOUSTIC BAND › 7:30 pm › Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.666.3589 or sallyobriensbar. com/frameset.htm TRAVIS COLBY BAND › 8:30 pm › Smoken’ Joe’s BBQ, 351 Washington St, Brighton › 617. 254.5227 or smokenjoesbbq.com
FRIDAY 28
CLUB D’ELF › 10 pm › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com CONSTRUCTION PARTY › 7 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.497.0823 DAVE FOLEY › Burren, 247 Elm St, Somerville › 617.776.6896 or burren.com THE DEVIL MAKES THREE + BROWN BIRD › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $17.50-$20 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com THE REVIVAL HEART › Radio Downstairs, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com EXITING THE FALL + FAREWELL
DREAMER + THEATRES + THE VERSA CONTRAST + LIFE ON STANDBY › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com GHOST OCEAN › 9 pm › Ralph’s Diner, 148 Grove St, Worcester › 508.753.9543 GLOBAL CRASH + KANGAROO COURT + SOMERVILLE MOUTH! + GOLD LIGHT HOUR › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557 KUNG FU + MOE. › 7 pm › Palladium, 261 Main St, Worcester › $26-$30 › 978.797.9696 or tickets.com/venue_info.cgi?vid=3802 LOIS LANE & THE DAILY PLANETS › 9 pm › Cantab Lounge, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge.com LUDDY MUSSY › 10 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com MISS TESS › 10 pm › Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston › 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com MONIKER + DOCTOR X + THE EXILES + MASON VINCENT & THE CANNIBAL KINGS › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com “PBR PRESENTS MASH IT UP FEST” › With Bim Skala Bim + JC Superska + Steady Earnest + Riki Rocksteady and the Arraignments + Nick And The Adversaries › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $12-$15 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com POWER OF LOVE + VAN RAILIN + GUNPOWDER GELATINE + OBI FERNANDEZ + DJ CMAR › 8 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $12 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com RADIOACTIVE RUSTLERS › 6 pm › Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.666.3589 or sallyobriensbar.com/frameset. htm REGINA CARTER › 8 pm › Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $38 › 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com RELEASE THE HOUNDS › 10 pm › Howling Wolf Taqueria, 76 Lafayette St, Salem › 978.744.9653 or feedyourwolf.com RUSKO + JOE BERMUDEZ › 8 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $25-$35 › 888.693.2583 SARAH & THE TALL BOYS › 9 pm › Smoken’ Joe’s BBQ, 351 Washington St, Brighton › $5 › 617. 254.5227 or smokenjoesbbq. com SECOND GRAVE + FACES OF BAYON + BLACKWOLFGOAT + LAZAR HOUSE › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $6 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com SERIOUS JACK + SURPRISE PARTY + LEGITIMATRONICS + DJ ZEKE › 6 pm › All Asia, 334 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.1544 or allasiabar.com STEPHEN KELLOGG › 10 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $28-$30 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com STRANGERS WITH KNIVES + BAD MOVIES + ICEBERG YOUNG & TEAMUSKET + LOW KEY CONFUSION › 9 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $8 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com SYM › 9 pm › Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.666.3589 or sallyobriensbar.com/frameset.htm TOM RUSH › 8 pm › Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston › $35-$100 › 888.266.1200 or bso.org
SATURDAY 29
ANDREA GILLIS BAND › 10 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com “A TRIBUTE TO LOCAL MUSIC LEGEND SCOTT RICCIUTI” › With Huck
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43 Years Of Great Music thursday, dec 27allman Bros. / southern rocK / Blues
the peacheaters delta generators Friday, dec 28get your 80’s Fix!
power oF love (huey lewis triB.)
van railin (van halen triB.) / gunpowder gelatine (all Female Queen triB.) oBi Fernandez / dj Ken cmar saturday, dec 29(7pm) pop
mieKa pauley (10pm) rocK’ n roll
dave crespo’s aFter party /
southern lust cluB / naughty water
Scullers PHX Dec 20_Scullers PHX Dec 20
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Friday, December 28 10pm Eric Jackson Show
Fri. & Sat., Dec. 28 & 29
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Sun., Dec. 30
new year’s eve party tue jan 1
jazz Brunch 9:30am-3:30pm
Bar & restaurant closed at 5pm For private party
wed jan 2 Bar & restaurant open, no live music thu jan 3 roots/country
joe Fletcher & the wrong reasons niKKi lane (smaller print) Fri jan 4 (7:30pm) americana
amy BlacK
live cd recording (10pm) soul
the get BacKs sat jan 5 Blues
eric French
4pm & 7pm
CD Release “East Bay Soul 2.0”
NEW YEARS EVE
monday, dec 31disco FunK
Booty vortex
luther “guitar junior” johnson
GREG ADAMS & EAST BAY SOUL
Mon., Dec. 31
sunday, dec 30 jazz Brunch 8:30 am - 2:30 pm open Blues jam 4:00pm - 7:00 pm
8pm &11pm
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sunday, jan 6 jazz Brunch 8:30 am - 2:30 pm open Blues jam 4:00pm - 7:00 pm
coming soon: 1/9 claudia schmidt 1/10 Klezwoods / cirKestra / ensmB 1/11 susan mcKeown (7:30pm) rocK Bottom/BiKini whale (10pm) 1/12 johnny Blazes/sarah raBdau/what time is it mr. Fox? 1/13 FreaKwater 1/15 oliver mtuKudzi 1/17 harmontown live podcast w/ dan harmon & jeFF davis 1/18 denney & the jets/dereK hoKe 1/29 english Beat 2/8 hayes carll 2/14 Kelly willis/ Bruce roBison
www.johnnyds.com inFo: 617-776-2004 concert line: 617-776-9667 johnny d’s 17 holland st davis sQuare somerville. ma 02144 THEPHOENIX.cOm/EvENTs :: 12.28.12 73
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+ Childhood + Pistol Whipped › 9 pm › Ralph’s Diner, 148 Grove St, Worcester › 508.753.9543 BREAK SCIENCE + DVS + MICHAEL MENERT + EARLYNINETIES › 9 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $15 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com “CHILLITH FAIR #2” › 7 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › 617.497.0823 CHOKE UP + HEAVY MEDICAL + NOW DENIAL + THE BIG BIG BUCKS + NO FUN › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $9 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com COLDPLAY › 7:30 pm › Mohegan Sun Arena, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd, Uncasville, CT › $95-$150 › 888.226.7711 DAVE ALPERT + THE BLUE RIBBONS › 9 pm › Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave, Somerville › $5 › 617.666.3589 or sallyobriensbar.com/frameset.htm DO NOT FORSAKE ME OH MY DARLING + ELDRIDGE RODRIGUEZ + GUILLERMO SEXO + NO LOVE › Radio Downstairs, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com DOPAPOD + MOE. › 7 pm › Palladium, 261 New Years Eve - Monday, December 31, 2012 Main St, Worcester › $26-$30 › 978.797.9696 or 9pm • 21 & up tickets.com DOST + RADIOSILENCE + SHADOW $75 cover available at eventbrite.com THERAPY + AERO + THE NATURAL Featuring 6 different DJ’s and complimentary champagne toast! DISASTERS › 7:30 pm › Hard Rock Café, 2224 Clinton St, Boston › $10-$12 › 617.424.7625 or hardrock.com/boston FEAR NUTTIN BAND + EIGHT FEET TALL + THE PROFESSORS › 10 pm › Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center St, Northampton › $10-$13 › 413.586.8686 or iheg.com/iron_ horse_main.asp boston HERMAN JOHNSON › 9 pm › Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com LADY BONES + HORSEHANDS + NEVER GIVE A GOAT THE HIGH GROUND + MAN ALIVE! + KILL ME NOW › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston Commonwealth of massaChusetts ›AM $5 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com T2303BO12_Boston_Phoenix_3.8125x2.375_12-21.indd 1 12/18/12 10:02 the trial Court Probate and family Court LAURENCE SCUDDER + RYAN FITZSIMMONS › 7:30 pm › Toad, 1920 CITATION ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION Docket No. SU12P2410EA Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or Estate of: Constantine John Halkias II • Date of Death: 11/30/2012 • Also known as: John Halkias toadcambridge.com Suffolk Probate and Family Court • 24 New Chardon St • Boston, MA 02114 • (617)788-8300 MARC PINANSKY › 5 pm › Precinct, To all interested persons: A Petition has been filed by Jessie R. Halkias of Allston MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. precinctbar.com And also requesting that Jessie R. Halkias of Allston MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond. MARSHALL CRENSHAW › 9:30 pm › Club You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $23-$25 › To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before: 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com 10:00a.m. on 01/17/2013. MENTE › 10:30 pm › Plough & Stars, 912 This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.576.0032 or If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, ploughandstars.com action may be taken without further notice to you. MIEKA PAULEY › 7 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 This estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code Holland St, Somerville › $10 › 617.776.2004 or without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but recipients are entitled to notice johnnyds.com regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, “MIGHTY MIGHT BOSSTONES including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. HOMETOWN THROWDOWN” WITH WITNESS, Hon. Joan P Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. December 17, 2012 • Sandra Giovannucci, Register of Probate BOUNCING SOULS › 7 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $25-$35 › 888.693.2583 THE SOUL DRIVERS › 9 pm › Cantab Commonwealth of massaChusetts Lounge, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge.com the trial Court Probate and family Court OVLOV + BIG LONG NOW + THE MIGS + CITATION ON PETITION FOR FORMAL ADJUDICATION Docket No. SU12P2386EA VEGANS › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557 Estate of: Abraham I Halbfinger • Date of Death: 9/22/2012 Suffolk Probate and Family Court • 24 New Chardon St • Boston, MA 02114 • (617)788-8300 PATENT PENDING + SURVAY SAYS + THE MOTIONS + THE YELLOW TEAM To all interested persons: › 1 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass A petition has been filled by Sylvia Halbfinger of Brighton MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree Ave, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.864.EAST or and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. ticketweb.com And also requesting that Sylvia Halbfinger of Brighton MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate PSYCHO + MARTYRDOR + DEATH to serve Without Surety on the bond. GOD MESSIAH › 9 pm › Cantab Lounge You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object Downstairs, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $8 › to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge.com of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return date, action may be taken without further notice to you. REGINA CARTER › 8 pm › Scullers, This estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $38 › Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com recipients are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court SAWYER LAWSON + WAR in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. PRESIDENTS › 6 pm › All Asia, 334 Mass
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Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.1544 or allasiabar.com SHLOHMO + SEPALCURE › 8 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $20-$23 › 617.451.7700 or ticketmaster.com SOUTHERN LUST CLUB + DAVE CRESPO’S AFTER PARTY + NAUGHTY WATER › 10 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $10 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds. com “THE PARTY BEFORE NEW YEAR’S EVE” › With the Ghettobooth + Sci-Mass + BlakSea MrGreen + Major + Cam Cruz + Adub + DJ Doubletake › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com “THE THIRD ANNUAL GOLDEN SPEEDO AWARDS” › With Sam Reid & the Riot Act + Honky Tonk Knights › 9 pm › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 207.373.2700 or lizardloungeclub.com THE VAN BURENS › 8 pm › Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston › $10-$12 › 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com WOODEN LEG › 6 pm › Sally O’Brien’s, 335 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.666.3589 or sallyobriensbar.com/frameset.htm YOUR 33 BLACK ANGELS + MOONTOWERS + THE SPACE BUMS + YANKEE POWER › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com ZACH DEPUTY + RISING TRIBE › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $20 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com
SUNDAY 30
“16TH ANNUAL ELLIS PAUL HOLIDAY BALL” › With Ellis Paul + Rebecca Loebe › Sun-Mon › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $35-$50 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com “BRIDGING THE MUSIC: LOCAL BAND SHOWCASE” › 4 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com DARREN MCGUIRE + SARAH DONNER + JAMES HOULAHAN › 8 pm › Burren, 247 Elm St, Somerville › 617.776.6896 or burren. com FOUR YEAR STRONG + MAKE DO AND MEND + SUCH GOLD + I HATE OUR FREEDOM + AMERICAN VERSE › 5 pm › Palladium, 261 Main St, Worcester › $17-$18 › 978.797.9696 or tickets.com THE GRASS GYPSIES › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com GREG ADAMS + EAST BAY SOUL › 7 pm › Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $30-$100 › 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com JEFF FELDER QUARTET › Darryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen, 604 Columbus Ave, Boston › 617.536.1100 or darrylscornerbarboston.com JILLIAN JENSEN + DANNY FALCO + CARLY TEFFT + FIRST THINGS FIRST + KRISTINA CORBETT + GINA MARSH › 1 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10-$25 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com THE KIMON KIRK TRIO › 9 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com “MIGHTY MIGHT BOSSTONES HOMETOWN THROWDOWN” WITH BOUNCING SOULS › 7 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $25-$35 › 888.693.2583 MPATHY + GRAPH RABBIT + ADAM ROTHBERG › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $7 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston. com PILE + KAL MARX + BIG LONG NOW + ADULT DUDE + CGS POWER TRIO › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $8 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb. com
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Friday dec.28 • 9:30 pm–2 am
• RUSKO One week after the apocalypse was supposed to arrive with the conclusion of the Mayan calendar, the ground shakes for real this time as UK 28 dubstep producer Christopher Mercer gets the House of Blues off its wobble rocker. This summer’s collaboration with Cypress Hill took Rusko to even further reaches of the sonic landscape, but in the end we’re all just waiting for the drop. House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston :: 8 pm :: $25-$35 :: livenation.com FRI
BREAK SCIENCE + EARLY NINETIES Brooklyn electronic duo Break Science pulls headlining duty tonight at the ’Dise, but a glimpse into one of our own city’s rising projects has the honor of warming up the party. Early Nineties, the duo of Adam McGinn and Andy Kai Nagashima, is already leading parties all over Boston, and their bouncing pop track XLR is getting spins on WFNX.com. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston :: 8 pm :: $15 :: ticketmaster.com
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PILE Boston label Exploding in Sound had a stellar 2012, issuing guitar-mad records from Speedy Ortiz-, Grass Is Green, and Fat History Month. But Pile’s Dripping, out in October, may have been the fairly new label’s gold-star release. The noise-punk band held it down a few weeks ago at the Middle East, wholly impressing headliners Metz, and return to Central Square tonight with Kal Marks and others. Middle East upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: 8 pm :: $8 :: ticketweb.com
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Bootie Boston Vs. Milk & Honey dJs: Jabulani, mcFly, Spencer4Hire, adam Balm, Leah V music: mashups (downstairs), Hip Hop, Bass music, party jamz (upstairs) $5
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A NICE PLACE TO RELAX FOR PRE OR POST PARTY LOUNGING 417 Cambridge St. Allston 617-782-7433 www.sheeshaboston.com
Saturday dec.29 • 9:30 pm–2 am
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dJs: Worthy (dirty Bird), mr. mcNeill, cS, Goulet, thaddeus Jeffries music: electro House, drumstep & techno (downstairs), Hip Hop, reggae, party Jamz, trap (upstairs) $5 before 11 pm, $10 after moNday dec.31 • 8 pm–2 am
A lil louder: new yeAr’s eVe
dJs: durkin, Knife & Who Nu? music: Hip Hop, dancehall, caribbean, trap, crunk, party Jamz there will be a limited number of tickets/ list spaces available at the door the night of for $50. there is no dress code or re-entry.
472-480 MASSACHUSETTS AVE CENTRAL SQ., CAMBRIDGE (617) 864-EAST
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ticket-list spaces are first come, first serve. the party is 21+. We will have more spaces available this year then we did last year.
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12/28 SUPERSKA, STEADY EARNEST, RIKI ROCKSTEADY AND THE ARRANGEMENTS, NICK AND THE ADVERSARIES 12/29/12 SAT SAT ROCK ON! CONCERTS PRESENTS: 12/29 ZACH DEPUTY RISING TRIBE 10TH ANNUAL LAST NIGHT ON EARTH SUN THE AND SLEEPERS 12/30 ARMS GIFTS FROM ENOLA, THE MOST AMERICANS, NIGHT FRUIT FESTIVAL AND THE MIDDLE EAST MON TOGETHER 12/31 PRESENT: RESOLUTION NEW YEARS EVE 2013
COLOR CHANNEL Eye Design and Vanya Records (disclaimer: founded by Phoenix music editor Michael Marotta) team up for a stacked NYE event at Great Scott led by the live-action electronic dance party goodness of Allston’s Color Channel. The psych-punk of New Highway Hymnal, pop-punk of Yale Massachusetts and garage rock of Fat Creeps provide sounds for everyone. Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston :: 9 pm :: $15 :: ticketweb.com moN
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R5 › 7 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $16-$18 › 617.562.6000 or ticketmaster.com RUSTED ROOT › Bull Run, Rte 2A, Shirley › 978.425.4311 or bullrunrestaurant.com SARAH FARD › 8 pm › Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston › $7 › 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com SOULIVE + THE SHADY HORNS + AKASHIC RECORD › 8 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $20-$25 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com “THE 10TH ANNUAL LAST NIGHT ON EARTH” › With Arms And Sleepers + Gifts From Enola + The Most Americans + Night Fruit › 7 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com
MONDAY 31
ALICIA WITT › 10 pm › Mechanics Hall, 321 Main St, Worcester › 508.752.5608 or mechanicshall.org ANIMAL HOSPITAL COLLECTIVE › 8:30 pm › Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston › 617.954.2000 BAD RABBITS + HERRA TERRA › 10 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $25-$30 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com BEWARE THE DANGERS OF A GHOST SCORPION + THICK SHAKES + LADYBONES › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $10 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com CASS MCCOMBS › 10:30 pm › Boston Public
Library Rabb Hall, 700 Boylston St, Copley Square, Boston › 617.536.5400 or firstnight.org CHROMEBOY + DJ ALEX RUSSO › 9 pm › Middle East Corner, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $5 › 617.864.3278 or ticketweb.com CLUTCH + MONDO GENERATOR + SAVIOURS + WINO › 7 pm › Palladium, 261 Main St, Worcester › $20-$29 › 978.797.9696 or tickets.com CUFFS › 7:30 pm › Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall, 700 Boylston St, Copley Square, Boston › 617.536.5400 or firstnight.org CYNDI LAUPER › 7:30 pm › Mohegan Sun Arena, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd, Uncasville, CT › $30 › 888.226.7711 “DAYLONG CELEBRATION ON BOYLSTON PLAZA” › With John Powell + Qaor + Main Fader + Cortexelation + Solid Stat + Entity + LRAD + Whoarfrost + Of the Sun + Andrew Goldman + Patrick Chaney + Julie Dion + Sam Perry + Tanya Fedan › 1 pm › Prudential Center, 800 Boylston St, Boston › 617.236.3060 or firstnight.org DEER TICK + TWO GALLANTS › 8 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $40 › 617.451.7700 or ticketmaster.com EMILY ELBERT › 10 pm › Modern Theatre, 525 Washington St, Boston › firstnight.org THE NEW HIGHWAY HYMNAL + COLOR CHANNEL + FAT CREEPS + YALE, MA + EVERYDAYISAMIXTAPE › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $15 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com GEM CLUB › 9 pm › Boston Public Library, Rabb Hall, 700 Boylston St, Copley Square, Boston › 617.536.5400 or firstnight.org
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UPSTAIRS
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Friday, January 18
get the Led out saturday, January 19
MARTIN SEXTON
GIRLS, GUNS & GLORY: 3RD ANNUAL HANK WILLIAMS TRIBUTE” › With Miss Tess & The Talkbacks › 9 pm › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $20 › 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com GREG ADAMS + EAST BAY SOUL › 8 pm › Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $30-$100 › 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com JASON ANDERSON › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557 JENNY DEE & THE DEELINQUENTS › 8 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › 617.585.1260 or firstnight.org JERRY BERGONZI GROUP + THE FRINGE › 8 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › 617.497.0823 JOHN SCOFIELD’S UBERJAM › John Scofield › 7:30 pm › Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass Ave, Boston › 617.266.7455 LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS › 9 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › 617.585.1260 or necmusic.edu LOIS LANE & THE DAILY PLANETS › Cantab Lounge, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge.com LORI DIAMOND & FRED ABATELLI › 7:30 pm › Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston › 617.954.2000 or firstnight. org MAGNETIC FIELDS › 9 pm › Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston › 888.266.1200 or bso.org MAJOR STARS › 10 pm › Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston › 617.954.2000 or firstnight.org SOULIVE + THE SHADY HORNS + AKASHIC RECORD › 8 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $20-$25 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com MY MORNING JACKET + PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND › 7:30 pm › Agganis Arena, 925 Comm Ave, Boston › $50.50 › 617.358.7000 or ticketmaster. com NATHAN REICH › 8:30 pm › Modern Theatre, 525 Washington St, Boston › firstnight. org “NEW YEAR’S EVE SHOW” › With the Reactive + Slapback › 9 pm › Cantab Lounge Downstairs, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge.com “NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH HAYLEY JANE & THE PRIMATES” › 10:30 pm › Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.576.0032 or ploughandstars.com “NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH SOUL CITY” › 8 pm › Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $49.95 › 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com “NEW YEAR’S EVE WITH THE FOUR LEGGED FAITHFUL” › 10 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com NYE WITH THE JOSHUA TREE › 8 pm › Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston ›
Friday, January 25
citizen cope Friday, February 8
Grace potter & the NocturNals the Met - saturday, dec. 29
the NeiGhborhoods tickets at LUPOs.cOM, F.Y.e. stORes & LUPO’s
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Color Channel are at Great Scott. $25 › 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com SHERMAN BURNS + WHITEY + TENAFLY VIPERS + DANIEL COSTA › Radio Downstairs, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion. com TANYA DONELLY › 8 pm › Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston › 888.266.1200 or firstnight.org THE TREE + EIGHT FEET TALL + WHY I RISE + DELMAN RYDER › 7:30 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $12-$15 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com “WALTER SICKERT & THE ARMY OF BROKEN TOYS: THE WIREFOREST: AN EVENING OF SPECTACULAR SPECTACLE” › 7:30 pm › Hynes Convention Center, 900 Boylston St, Boston › 617.954.2000 or firstnight.org
TUESDAY 1
BROTHERHOOD OF THIEVES + SILHOUETTE RISING › 7 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com GIRLS, GUNS & GLORY: 3RD ANNUAL HANK WILLIAMS TRIBUTE” › With Miss Tess & The Talkbacks › 9 pm › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $20 › 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com
WEDNESDAY 2
ALEXEI TSIGANOV TRIO + ANITA COELHO BRAZILIAN ENSEMBLE › 9
pm › Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $7 › 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com BROTHERS MCCANN + DAN BLAKESLEE › 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com LISA MARIE + ALIZON LISSANCE › 8 pm › Smoken’ Joe’s BBQ, 351 Washington St, Brighton › 617. 254.5227 or smokenjoesbbq.com SERIOUS JACK + TALL BOYS + THE GHOST OF VIGODA + BLUE LIGHT BANDITS › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com TANYA KALMANOVITCH & ANTHONY COLEMAN + GILL AHARON TRIO › 9 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › 617.497.0823
THURSDAY 3
THE WHISKEY BOYS + SAM OTIS HILL › 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com JOE FLETCHER & THE WRONG REASONS + NIKKI LANE › 8:30 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $10 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com MELISSA KASSEL & TOM ZICARELLI GROUP › 7:30 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › 617.497.0823 TROPHY LUNGS + FOR THE RECORD + THE QUIET CITY SCREAMS + THE OFFSEASON + DIVE THE TOWER › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $8 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com
Arts & Nightlife :: clubs RISE › Boston › 1 am › Brunno Santos + Toxic DJs ROYALE › Boston › 10 pm › “Guilt” 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 ZUZU › Cambridge › 11 pm › “Souleluhjah” with Claude Money
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SUNDAY 30
COMMON GROUND › Allston › 9:30 pm › “Country Night” CURE LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › “Industry Sundays” with DJ Hectik PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “The Drop” RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › “The Den” ZUZU › Cambridge › 10 pm › “All You Can Eat Dance Party Jam Buffet” with DJ Paul Foley
MONDAY 31
Rusko is at the House of Blues. THURSDAY 27
BOND › Boston › 9 pm › “Taste Thursdays” with Joe Bermudez + Greg Pic DISTRICT › Boston › 10 pm › “In Thursdays” EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › “Top 40s & House” ESTATE › Boston › 10 pm › “Glamlife Thursdays” with Chris Harris + Rafael Sanchez GOOD LIFE › Boston › 9:30 pm › “Flavor of the Month” with DJ Jdeck + DJ Mdeck + DJ Sancon JACQUE’S CABARET › Boston › 10:30 pm › “Jacque’s Cabaret” with Kris Knievil M BAR & LOUNGE › Boston › 9 pm › “Lotus Thursdays” MIDWAY CAFÉ › Jamaica Plain › “Women’s Dance Night” with DJ Summer s Eve MILKY WAY › Jamaica Plain › 9 pm › “Futuristic Soul: The Instrumental Series Holiday Party” 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 ROYALE › Boston › 10 pm › Nero ZUZU › Cambridge › 10 pm › “Decade All 80’s Dance Party” with DJ Paul Foley
FRIDAY 28
BOND › Boston › 10 pm › “Play Fridays” with DJ Johnny C + Matty D COMMON GROUND › Allston › “90s Night” CURE LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › “VIP Fridays” with DJ Profenna DISTRICT › Boston › 10 pm › “Latin Fridays” with DJ Juan Madrid EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › “Top 40s & House” ESTATE › Boston › 10 pm › “Estate Fridays”
HOUSE OF BLUES› Boston › 8 pm › Rusko JULEP BAR › Boston › DJ Dolo MILKY WAY › Jamaica Plain › 9 pm › “Fourth Friday” with DJ Susan Esthera NORTHERN NIGHTS › Lynn › 8 pm › “Madonna Fridays” with DJ Jay Ine PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “PYT” with DJ Vinny PRIME › Boston › 10 pm › “VIP Fridays” RISE › Boston › “Wonderland” with Damien Paul + Jay K the DJ + Mike Swells ROYALE › Boston › 9 pm › Alesso › 10 pm › “Full On Fridays” SPLASH ULTRA LOUNGE & BURGER BAR › Boston › 10 pm › “Privilege Fridays” ZUZU › Cambridge › 11 pm › “Solid!” with DJ Durkin
SATURDAY 29
BOND › Boston › 10 pm › “Flaunt Saturdays” COMMON GROUND › Allston › “Millennium Night” CURE LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › “Saturdays at Cure” with rotating DJs Hectik + DJ 7L + Brek.One + DJ Theo A + DJ Frank White DISTRICT › Boston › 10 pm › “Status Saturdays” with DJ Cootz EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › “Top 40s & House” ESTATE › Boston › 10 pm › “VIP Access Saturdays” GOOD LIFE › Boston › 9:30 pm › “Sweet Shop with Worthy” with DJ Matt McNeill + Goulet + Thaddeus Jeffries JULEP BAR › Boston › DJ 7L MIDDLESEX LOUNGE › Cambridge › DJ Kon MILKY WAY › Jamaica Plain › 10 pm › “Mango’s Latin Saturdays” with Lee Wilson NAGA › Cambridge › “Chemistry Saturdays” OM RESTAURANT & LOUNGE › Cambridge › 10:30 pm › “Saturdays @ Om” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › “Boom Boom Room” with DJ Vinny RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › “Revolution Saturdays”
ALIBI › Boston › 8 pm › “5th Annual Great Gatsby Gala” BRAHMIN AMERICAN CUISINE AND COCKTAILS › Boston › 9 pm › “New Year’s Eve Brahmin Style” COURTYARD BOSTON DOWNTOWN/ TREMONT › Boston › 8:30 pm › “5th Annual Timeless: A Bond Evening” DISTRICT › Boston › 9 pm › “New Year’s Eve 2012” with DJ Dera EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 8 pm › “The Emerald Affair” ESTATE › Boston › 10 pm › “DJ Costa’s New Year’s Eve House Party” GOOD LIFE › Boston › 8 pm › “A Lil Louder NYE” with DJ Who Nu? + DJ Durkin + DJ Knife GREATEST BAR › Boston › 9 pm › “The Gatsby Mansion New Year’s Eve Party” HARP › Boston › 8 pm › “New Year’s Eve 2012”
JULEP BAR › Boston › “New Years Eve 2012: Midnight in the Garden” LIBERTY HOTEL › Boston › 8 pm › “NYE On Top of the Liberty” with Michael Savant + DJ 7L + DJ Frank White MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS › Cambridge › 7 pm › “TOGETHER presents: RESOLUTION: New Year’s Eve 2013” MIDDLESEX LOUNGE › Cambridge › DJ Kon NED DEVINE’S › Boston › 8 pm › “New Year’s Eve 2012” with Garden State Radio PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › 9 pm › “Gangnam Style New Year’s Eve” with DJ Vinny REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › “Studio 57 at The Revere Hotel” RISE › Boston › 1 am › “Rise NYE” › 9 pm › “Rise Up 18+” ROYALE › Boston › “New Year’s Eve Party hosted by Joonbug” RUMOR › Boston › 9 pm › “New Year’s Eve 2012” with DJ Hell and DJ Vicious Angel T.T. THE BEAR’S PLACE › Cambridge › 9 pm › “A ‘Heroes’ New Year’s Eve!” with DJ Chris Ewen ZUZU › Cambridge › 10 pm › “ZuZu New Year’s Eve” with Claude Money + PJ Gray
WEDNESDAY 2
BRAHMIN AMERICAN CUISINE AND COCKTAILS › Boston › “F*mous Wednesdays” DISTRICT › Boston › 10 pm › “Classic Wednesdays” with DJ Tanno MIDWAY CAFÉ › Jamaica Plain › 8 pm › “Dancehall Lounge”
THURSDAY 3
BOND › Boston › 9 pm › “Taste Thursdays” with Joe Bermudez + Greg Pic DISTRICT › Boston › 10 pm › “In Thursdays” ESTATE › Boston › 10 pm › “Glamlife Thursdays” with Chris Harris + Rafael Sanche M BAR & LOUNGE › Boston › 9 pm › “Lotus Thursdays”
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GET SEEN » » At the Daniela Corte Leggings Bar Pop-Up at W Boston
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EarliEr this month, local dEsignEr Daniela Corte drew Boston’s most stylish to the W to shop, sip, and raise some green for the Robin Hood Foundation’s Sandy relief effort. All proceeds from the evening’s signature cocktails — like the Ricardo (heavy on the tequila) and the Daniela (prosecco laced with gold glitter) — were donated, as was a portion of proceeds from Corte’s new collection of fierce leggings, stretchy knit numbers accented with sequins, silk, and faux leather. After a do-good drink or two, we caught up with a member of her stylish crew.
clockwise from right: Joshua Janson; model; Daniela Corte; Lauren Echavarria; model
KERRI WALSH
dIREctoR of opERAtIonS At dAnIELA coRtE
She wore a Daniela Corte peplum wool jacket, a Daniela Corte leather belt, a Theory tank top, and — what else? — a pair of Corte’s signature leggings. (She confesses to owning close to 15 pairs, which she essentially lives in.) Always running from the Newbury Street HQ to afterwork events, she goes from day to night with a swipe of eyeliner and a pair of heels, like these surprisingly comfy Alexandre Birman platform pumps. What was at the top of her wish list? A trip to Argentina with Corte, who visits her native country to oversee production at least once a year. Kerri hasn’t gotten to travel there . . . yet. (Hint, hint.) _RENaTa CERTo-WaRE
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Kerri’s words to live by: dress happy! That’s not hard for her, as she gets first dibs on all of Corte’s new designs.
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