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Confront Your ISSUES 3 @ Boston Neighborhood Network
Palberta, Rong, Beverly Tender, Lucy &&& more
The first time I heard Well Palberta was after pickreaders … here we are … aning up a copy of their Speother 12 unique issues of this rag compiled, cial Worship split with (New Range in filmmaking is crucial; to not pigeonhole printed, and dispersed around our beloved neighborEngland) yourself into a single genre of filmmaking and to hoods, and it's time to celebrate. It’s time to confront your issues Patriots. WHEN : adapt a certain style across a spectrum of stories … your Compass issues! This time, we’ve had the honor of teaming W h o 12/7 @ 8pm no matter the type. There is no better example to up with the Boston Neighborhood Network in Egleston Square, who showcase this than the talents of directing brothers offered up their historic wall space (formerly walls of an old MBTA WHERE: was this splendidly quirky rock band with so many acute angles and abrupt tempo changes? Each song Joel & Ethan Coen. Whether it be the power station) to our 2019 featured header artists. The art has a spot WHEN: drifted in and out of so many themes — sonically and stoner comedy The Big Lebowski or the been hung and will hang through December, but YOU come (All Ages) lyrically — amounting to irregular cacophonous bursts anxiety-inducing tale of one man's inse- 12/5-12/29 hang on Dec. 12 for our reception 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and give curities in A Serious Man, the Coens can props to these artists! This ain’t just your typical reception, HOW MUCH: that ended almost as soon they began. The punkish WHERE: $10 three-piece of Ani Ivry-Block, Lily Konigsberg and do it all. To prove this, the MFA has genthough. Our amazing sponsors have MFA Nina Ryser swap instruments multiple times over the erously put together a collection of their provided gifts that we will be raffling off! Love 1369 Coffee course of every show as they soundtrack some sort best work to make sure your Coen-Cat- HOW MUCH: House, or crave recording time at Pink Noise Studios? We of imagined, possibly deranged, yet brilliantly constructed series ion is complete. From the classic Fargo, MFA.org for gotchu. We’re also able to pay homage to local heroes Jaof folk tales. Or foreign commercials. I’m not quite sure just yet. to their Oscar-winning No Country for showtimes & son Trefts of Illegally Blind and Jonathan Nankof by having Several albums later and fresh off a stint playing with Bikini Kill Old Men, the Coen Brothers series is them come down and spin their favorite local jams while pricing in NYC, there’s no better time to catch this raucous trio. Rong is a filled with their essentials and a few we party on. Who knows, maybe we’ll perfect compliment to Palberta’s erraticness and has become one of hidden gems in between. The series also includes hear some unreleased tracks from WHEN: my favorite punk bands playing today. Sharp, aggressive lyrics belt the black & white, Roger Deakins-shot The Man Who Trefts! This ain’t all about the Compass 12/12 @6-9pm first forth — sometimes stated, sometimes shouted — as if the band finds Wasn't There, the bizarre Barton Fink and their though! Now’s your chance to learn WHERE: itself precariously perched atop a precipice, staring into the infinite feature film, Blood Simple. The film list is huge, but it's about the org whose building we’ll be void. The calm before their impending storm often explodes outward only indicative of the type of career the Coens have Boston hanging in. Check out bnnmedia.org for with piercing blends of noisy, squealing guitars. Beverly Tender walk had. Do yourself a favor and visit the MFA website, Neighborhood a head start. I know sometimes we can the middle ground on this bill. Their meandering guitars and technical build yourself a schedule and make sure you catch seem like a pretty mysterious bunch of Network drumming recall the best indie rock of the Northeast in years past proall of your favorite films by the one and only (Egleston Square) freaks chiseling away at each of these —Kyle Brunet viding comforting coordinates through the aforementioned storm. The Coen Brothers. issues in the dark, but this is one time, HOW MUCH: the whole Compass team will be hangin’ melodic, electronic minimalism of LUCY brings us all back to the bedHow to live a zero FREE room where so much of what makes all this music great first began. HARD. Maybe this will be a good time to see waste lifestyle And more you say?! Who knows, but you’ll have to show up to find what we’re all about and how you can get involved … I may it. Ask around, get to the gig, don’t be a jerk. even take a pitch from you about the article you really want It’s the most garbage-y time to see in the freshly expanded 8-page Compass! of the year, my lil’ trash an—Mike Achille gels! This December, be radical —Kevin Dacey and GIVE GIFTS, NOT GARBAGE. Here are ways to reduce holiday-themed carbon emissions, organized by the effort involved. AND MO ZERO EFFORT Dump: New gifts. Replace with: Quality hang time RE!!! with loved ones. Share a cherished book, record, or artwork from your collection. SMALL EFFORT Dump: Gift wrap and ribbon. Paper that’s laminated, metallic, glittered or textured is fun, but not recyclable. Ribbon, made of plastic and damaging to recycling machinery, is 1000% garbage. Replace with: Wrap a gift within a gift - bento bag (easy to make), handkerchief, wooden box, jar, tote. Use compostable/recycled alternatives - this newspaper, brown craft paper, post-consumer gift wrap, The places “ribbon” of twine. Dump: Plastic gifts. They’re made from you can hang this month are fossil fuels and nearly impossible to repair once broken. Replace with: Anything else! MEDIUM EFFORT Dump: winter markets — lots of them! I’ve highlighted Amazon, online stores, big box retailers. Their evils to the envithree exciting, community-centered markets that can’t ronment, workers, and local economies are well-documented. be missed. First on the calendar is the JP Crafts Fair, on SatReplace with: Holiday markets, craft fairs, fleas, small busiurday, Dec. 7, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 6 Eliot St. in JP, hosted by Hey all! I'm Claire, an intern with Brain nesses. They’re infinitely more fun to visit, and you the First Church in Jamaica Plain. Stop by to support local artists probably won’t get trampled. Or, make something Arts Org this fall! I've been digging into a ton of reand craftspeople, and to get your holiday shopping out of the way yourself! Dump: Shipping, especially overnight search about nonprofits in Boston these past few months at the same time! Sunday, Dec. 8 will be Brain Arts’ own BRAIN Marand two-day. Replace with: Locally-sourced and have just published my first write-up about the orket Flea, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Cambridge Community Center! gifts. If shipping is essential, avoid last-minute ganization DOT Not For Sale. DN4S began in 2017, but the Our flea market’s name change from the Black Market Flea marks an purchases and use ground transit. Dump: Food Dorchester advocacy group has been fighting issues that have organizational rebrand that focuses on brainy, or conscious, art and culwaste from holiday meals. Replace with: A dinbeen affecting Boston neighborhoods for decades. DN4S, as ture. There will be tons of different artists at the flea, and everything from ner party calculator, such as SaveTheFood.com, the group is abbreviated, uses collaboration and empowerment handmade artwork to tees, pins, ceramics, jewelry, zines, vintage clothto estimate how much food is needed at your as processes for advocacy against community displacement annual Hanukkah orgy (all eight crazy nights!). ing, accessories, books, tarot readings, haircuts and more for sale, along and gentrification. The group calls for truly affordable housing in Freeze leftovers you can’t gobble within a week. with raffle prizes and coffee from 1369 Coffeehouse! Entry is just $1! Dorchester, built for those most in need. By hosting community And no cumming on the cauliflower, it spoils! The third market is Society of Arts + Crafts’ Craft Boston Holiday 2019 dinners on the third Thursday of every month, DN4S prioritizes putMAX EFFORT Dump: Air travel. One passenger’s Show, which will be held in the Hynes Convention Center from Friday, ting those most at risk of displacement in power in the org. Where share of emissions on a 2,500-mile flight melts 32 Dec. 13 to Sunday, Dec. 15. The show is both an event for local craft ensquare feet of arctic summer sea ice cover. Woof. DOT Not For Sale has been setting its sights: the new luxury “DOT thusiasts and for fine art collectors. Admission is free for anyone with a Replace with: CarBlock” development. Learn more about DOT Not 4 Sale in a fullstudent ID or under 18, $12 for seniors and $15 for the general public. pool, train, or bus. length feature on the Brain Arts blog! Take advantage of the variety of art markets going on this time of If flying is absolutely —Claire Foley necessary, nix another year! 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Tue 12/10 Pile w/ Lady Pills, Pet Fox @The Sinclair 7pm 18+ $16-18 Wed 12/11 Battles w/ Guerilla Toss and DJ Carbo @Brighton Music Hall 7pm 18+ $20 Wed 12/11 Fully Celebrated Orchestra w/ Hilken Mancini & Friends @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5 Thu 12/12 Street Sects with Elizabeth Colour Wheel and Pain Chain @O'Brien's Pub 8pm 21+ $12 Thu 12/12 AndrewEckelJonahSacksGhostTownNick JoliatDanWickWildAllegations! @ Club Bohemia 7-12am $10 21+ Thu 12/12 Alec Hutson’s Winter Residance: Thursdays @ Atwoods 9pm 21+
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Fri 12/13 Mount Eerie @Arts at the Armory 6pm All Ages $25 Fri 12/13 The Party Band, The Only Thu 12/19 Killian/Whall, Savoir Faire, JoceThings, Settler, Zachary Boudrot @The lyn Limmer, Kaylee Federmann 8-11:30pm $6 Acropolis Room 8:30pm 21+ $5
Awnthay, Northern Life @The Worthen Attic 8:30pm 21+ $5 Sat 12/7 American Hardcore Fest 2019 with Magnitude, Wild Side, One Step Closer, many more @Middle East 12pm All Ages $25-30 Sat 12/7 American Hardcore Fest 2019 with FirewalkMon 12/2 So Sensitive, Kármán Voh, Bunny Boy, er, Big Contest, Abuse of Power, many more @Middle East 6pm All Ages $30-40 Tony Bullets @O'Brien's Pub 8pm $10 Mon 12/2 KCUF, Bad Idea USA, the Bad Remind- Sat 12/7 Cheap City EP Release w/ Michael Character and Mystery Gems @Pink Noise Studios 7pm All Ages ers, Apts @Charlie's Kitchen 8pm 21+ $5 Wed 12/4 Thurston Moore Group w/ Devin Brah- Sat 12/7 The Scrooges, Brix'n Mortar, NICE GUYS, The ja Waldman and DJ Carbo @ONCE Somerville Von Traps @Once Ballroom 8pm 18+ $12 7:30pm $18+ $ome Cost Sat 12/7 Rachel Baldwin & Mimi Tanski @Outpost 186 Wed 12/4 Lightning Bolt @The Sinclair 8pm 18+ 8pm All Ages $10 (all ages admitted with adult) $ome Cost Sat 12/7 Palberta, Rong, Beverly Tender, Lucy &&& Thu 12/5 Hearing for Little Saigon Cultural Dis- more @a spot (Everett) 8pm All Ages $10 trict @240 Adams St, Dorchester 5:30pm All Ages Sat 12/7 J. Robbins (band) w/ Versus @Great Scott Free 8:30pm 21+ $12 Thu 12/5 Triheart, DUMP HIM and Toad & The Sat 12/7 Experiments Electronica @Studio 550 Stooligans @O'Brien's Pub 8pm 18+ $10 7:30pm Thu 12/5 Horse Jumper of Love @Great Scott 8:30pm 18+ $10-12 Sat 12/7 Sapling, Lockette, Bad Larrys, Ex-Temper @ Thu 12/5: Corner Soul, Blindspot, Fish House, Ralph’s Rock Diner 9pm 21+ Phil Cambra & TSC @The Acropolis Room 8:30pm $8 21+ $5.00 Sat 12/7 Insignificant OthFri 12/6 American Hardcore Fest 2019 with In- er, Phony, Pdaddy @Mccendiary, Mindforce, Buried Dreams, many more Spanky's 8:00pm $10 @Middle East 6pm All Ages $30-40 Sun 12/8 Brain Market Flea Fri 12/6 Late Bloomer Release Party ft. Brandie at the Cambridge CommuBlaze, Optic Bloom, C4 @The Rockwell 8pm 21+ nity Center! @Cambridge $12-15 Community Center 12-6pm All Ages $1 Fri 12/6 Raavi & the Houseplants, Gap Teeth, Maya Lucia, VHS Slut 1997 @ONCE Lounge 8pm Sun 12/8 Canopy Room Presents: VQNC All Ages $10-12 and the Sunset Kings Fri 12/6 Wet Specimens, PCP & The Knives, Car- 7-9:30pm $12 tridge @Banshee Den (Everett) 7pm All Ages $7 Fri 12/6 Taxidermists, Sweat Enzo, TBA @The Sun 12/8 Long Neck, Field Mouse, Squitch, Firehouse 8pm All Ages Ceramic @O'Brien's Fri 12/6 Rainsound, Dreamwell, Fairgrounds, Pub 8pm 18+ $10
Fri 12/20 Benefit Show w/ Green Piece, Joe Sat 12/14 JP Holiday Flea 2019 @First GrizZly, Arthur Terembula @Thirsty First Church in Jamaica Plain Unitarian Uni- 8:00pm 21+ donation versalist 11-4pm All Ages Sat 12/21 Black Mass, Ritual Blade, Face Sat 12/14 The ERGS w/Crunchcoat @ First, Bed of Razors @O'Brien's Pub 8pm 21+ Great Scott 6pm 18+ $15 $10 Sat 12/14 The ERGS w/Dead Trend and Sat 12/21 Black Helicopter, Blood Built EmConmen @Great Scott 10pm 21+ $15 pire, Above the Din & NSTW @Club Bohemia 8:30pm 21+ $ome Cost Sat 12/14 Pet Fox, Mister Goblin, Littlefoot, Squitch @Hong Kong Harvard Shows Sat 12/21 Daughters, HEALTH, Show Me the 7:30pm 21+ $10 Body @Paradise 7pm 18+ $28 Sat 12/14 Heathen Shame 20th Anniv. w/ Sat 12/21 S O L 1 ft. Jireh Calo, Eleanor Parker/Rawlings + Margery Kempe @ Elektra @Margaret Jewett Hall, First Church Washington Street Art 8pm All Ages $ome Cambridge 7pm All Ages Cost Fri 12/27 Bandit, Scalp the Pioneer, Tossed Sat 12/14 Disco Volante album release w/ Aside, Inhalement @O'Brien's Pub 8:00 PM TV Shirt, Squash, The Runouts @Thirsty AM - 11:30 PM AM 18+ $8 First 9:00pm 21+ Sat 12/28: oldsoul, Daisybones, Past Life, Pet Sun 12/15 A Very Fuzzy Christmas: A Ben- Fox @McSpanky's 8:00pm $5 efit for Girls Rock Campaign Boston @The Burren 3:30pm All Ages $Donate$ Mon 12/30 Deer Tick @The Sinclair 8pm 18+ $ome Cost Sun 12/15 Coral Moons and Tory Silver with Stoyer 7-9:30pm $10 Mon 12/30 (the last) Rebuilder New Year’s Eve Party @Charlie's Kitchen 8pm 21+ $5 Wed 12/18 Colleen Green, Kathy Snax, Bad Larrys @O’Briens 8pm 18+ $10 Tue 12/31 DAP Open Mic New Years Eve Edition ! @Dorchester Art Project 7pm All Ages Thu 12/19 Hallelujah the Hills w/ Major Free Stars, Adam Schatz @Great Scott 8:30pm 18+ $13-15
Sun 12/8 Mini Dresses & Pushflowers @ State Park 10pm-1am 21+ Mon 12/9 Stove @ONCE Somerville 8pm 18+ $ome Cost
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Pick of the Month: Fri 12/27 Firewalker, Pummel, Luxe, Crisis Actors and Pathogen @News Cafe (Pawtucket) 9pm 18+ $10
Hardcore! It’s what’s for dinner in Pawtucket in the aftermath of your holiday hootenannies. Boston is well represented with metallic punk outfit Firewalker. Acerbic hardcore unit Pummel and ecclecticly influenced punk quartet Crisis Actors, who have a new split out with Crimps, bring more thrills and spills RHODE ISLAND Fri 12/6 Beverly Tender (album release) w/Palberta, and Sully Banger 9pm All from the 617. Philly’s Luxe spews beautifully aggressive bursts, and PVD’s Pathogen holds down the Ages $10 Fri 12/6 Atlantic Thrills, Viennagram, Jimmy Falcon, Sugar Cones @Dusk 8pm homefront. Thrash your way into 2020. —Michael Achille $ome Cost Sun 12/8 Palberta, Leaf Peepers, Human Host @Root Cellar 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Sun 12/8 Vanum, Yellow Eyes, Death Vanish, Tortured Skull @Flywheel Arts Collective 7pm All Ages $10
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Thu 12/5 Xylouris White @SPACE Gallery 8pm All Ages $10-12 Sat 12/14 Portsmouth Music and Art Center’s Teen Rock Band Concert! 12pm All Wed 12/11 Pile, Lomelda, Pelican Movement @SPACE Gallery Ages $5 8pm All Ages $12-1
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Sat 12/21 SATANTANGO (1994) dir. Béla Tarr @ MFA Just trouble, and work, and spiders. Also screens 12/22
Thu 12/12 1369 Coffeehouse Staff Holiday Art Market! @1369 Coffeehouse Inman 6-9pm FREE Thu 12/12 Reception: Winter Solstice 2019 Sun 12/1 Crafting: Getting Cozy at the Library Member’s Exhibition 7pm- 8:30pm @ Somerville Public Library 2pm-4pm FREE Thu 12/12 Curator Tour: Ruth Erickson on When supplies provided! Home Won’t Let You Stay 6-7pm (free museum 12/3 Reading and Reception: Black & Pink - The admission Thursday nights) Records of Prison Activism and Boston’s LGBTQ Community @The History Project 6-8pm Dona- Thu 12/12 - Sun 12/15 Allston Brighton Winter Market @The Harvard Ed Portal (Various tion Requested Times) Wed 12/4 Reception: Citizen Artists @NorthFri 12/13 Opening Reception: Hanna Washeastern’s 360 Gallery 5pm-7pm burn’s Hombody @Norwells’s James Library Wed 12/4 Drinking and Drawing with Jamie 6pm-8pm Andrade @Zone 3 5:30-8:30 RSVP Required Fri 12/13-Sat 12/14 Union Square Holiday MarWed 12/4 Holiday Art Sale @Cambridge Art ket @Warehouse XI 4pm-8pm & non-6pm Association 6-9pm Fri 12/13 - Sun 12/15 CraftBoston Holiday 2019 Thurs 12/5 Closing Reception and Artist Talk @ Hynes Convention Center $15 (Free for Stu- Brooke Lambert @ Video Creators Lounge dents and under 18) 5-8pm Sat 12/14 JP Holiday Flea 2019 by SEEK + FIND Thurs 12/5 Basics of Mold Making and Casting Boston @First Church in Jamaica Plain 11am@ Reynolds Advanced Materials 9:30-3:30 $75 4pm Thurs 12/5 Artist Talk w/ Chris Fitch - Finding Sat 12/14 Makeshift Boston Presents: Winter Arts Fest @MakeShift 12-6pm $5-$12 Movement @Artisan’s Asylum 7pm-8pm Thurs 12/5 SIM Big Show 2019 @MASSArt Sat 12/14 - Sun 12/15 The Cultural Survival Bazaar @Cambridge Rindge and Latin School 7-9pm 10am-6pm Fri 12/6 Vivant Makers Market @Vivant Vintage noon-7pm (10% off any local handmade Sat 12/14 - Mon 12/16 Holidaze Bizaare @ Wrong Brain NH (various locations and times, goods at the store!) check the web) Fri 12/6 Opening Reception The Big Cheap Art Sun 12/15 Workshop: Novelty Rabbit TaxiderShow @ Wrong Brain 4pm-8pm my Class @Hive & Forge Salem 11am-5pm $200 SoWa First Friday Read Between the Lines @ Fountain Street GalMon 12/16 Holiday Candle Making Workshop lery Stacey Cusher: Intangible Aspects of the Forest @4GoodVibes 6:30-8pm $25 @ Kingston Gallery Linda Leslie Brown: Survival Mode @Kingston Tues 12/17 Open Mic: Bummer Club (Crappy Holiday Edition) @AS220 in Providence RI 9pm Gallery $5 Donation Fri 12/6 - Sun 12/8 The Cultural Survival BaWed 12/18 Drinking and Drawing @Zone 3 zaar @The Prudential Center 10am-6pm 5:30-8:30 (free RSVP Required) Sat 12/7 Holiday Open house and Craft Fair @ Fri 12/20 Holiday Market @East Regiment Beer Fruitlands Museum 12-5pm FREE Co. Salem, MA 5pm-10pm Sat 12/7 Talk and Museum tour with Tory Fair on Gordon Malta-Clark’s Anarchitethrough Sat 12/21 Workshop: Intro to the Sewing Machine @Hatch Makerspace, Watertown 3:302pm-3pm 5:30pm FREE Sat 12/7 Annual Holiday Fair @Gateway 10Sun 12/22 The Holiday Buzz Market @ONCE 5pm Somerville 11am-5pm Sat 12/7 MASSArt Made Holiday Fair @MASMon 12/23 Workshop: Intro to Embroidery SArt 11-7pm @4GoodVibes Medford 6-8:30pm $31 Sat 12/7 - Sun 12/8 MIT Hacking Arts @MIT Ongoing Exhibitions Media Lab $25-$85 Homebody @James Library (Norwell MA) Sun 12/8 Deep Dive: Art & Poetry @ICA Boston 12/13-1/25 10:30am - 12:30pm Free with Museum Admis- Read Between the Lines @ Fountain Street Gallery 11/30-12/22 sion Stacey Cushner: Intangible Aspects of the ForTues 12/10 Gallery Talk with research fellows est @Kingston Gallery 12/4-12/29 Dear So-And-So @The Distillery Gallery 11/25@Harvard Art Museums 12:30-1pm 12/27 Wed 12/11 Drinking and Drawing with Kit Collins @Zone 3 5:30-8:30
Wed 12/25 THE RED SHOES (1948) dir. Michael Managing Editor: Oscar Goff Powell, Emeric Pressburger @BRATTLE Contributing Writers: Kyle Brunet, Oscar Goff, Mat- Black Swan for fabulists thew Martens Double feature w/ WIZARD OF OZ. Also screens 12/26. Mon 12/2 THE IMAGE YOU MISSED (2018) dir. Dónal Foreman @BRATTLE Fri 12/27 THE BOY WITH GREEN HAIR (1948) dir. A filmmaker excavates the Ireland his father Joseph Losey @BRATTLE [35mm] filmed. Classic anti-war cinema. Director in person Wed 12/4 GRRL HAUS CINEMA @BRATTLE International shorts by badass female filmmakers
Thu 12/5 BUTCH WILLIS: AMATEUR ON PLASTIC (2019) dir. Mark Robinson @SOMERVILLE Fri 12/27 THE APARTMENT (1960) dir. Billy Your new outsider music obsession Wilder @VU Screwball seasonal depression Fri 12/6 KNIVES AND SKIN (2019) dir. Jennifer Reeder @BRATTLE Sat 12/28 HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (2004) dir. Hazy coming-of-age tale set around missing high Hayao Miyazaki @BRATTLE [35mm] school students Miyazaki moves mountains Theatrical premiere run - screens through 12/10 Double feature w/ SONG OF THE SEA Fri 12/6 SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (1984) dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr. @COOLIDGE [35mm] The weather isn't the only thing that's frightful this holiday season...
Sun 12/29 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946) dir. Jean Cocteau @BRATTLE [35mm] Tale as old as time, 100% more French Double feature w/ KING KONG
Fri 12/6 VARDA BY AGNES (2019) dir. Agnès Varda @BRATTLE One sings, and so will you. Theatrical premiere run - screens through 12/12
LISTINGS NOTE: Below is the venue abbreviation key: BRATTLE - Brattle Theatre COOLIDGE - Coolidge Corner Theatre EMERSON - Bright Lights Emerson Sat 12/7 KUSAMA: INFINITY (2018) dir. Heather HFA - Harvard Film Archive Lenz @ICA ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art Colorful doc on a colorful artist KENDALL - Kendall Square Cinema Free w/ museum admission MFA - Museum of Fine Arts Boston SOMERVILLE - Somerville Theatre Mon 12/9 BUSTER KEATON DOUBLE FEATURE @ VU - Video Underground (JP) COOLIDGE [35mm] – Projected on ACTUAL FILM! (35mm Stone cold classics from the Great Stone Face unless otherwise noted) Live music by Jeff Rapsis Tue 12/10 BOSTON OPEN SCREEN @COOLIDGE Think open mic - B.Y.O.Shorts
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Fri 12/13 JASON GOES TO HELL: THE FINAL FRIDAY (1993) dir. Adam Marcus @COOLIDGE [35mm] The Jason-less Friday is still a blast Fri 12/13 IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) dir. Frank Capra @BRATTLE [35mm] You want the moon? Screens through 12/15 Sun 12/15 THE CRANES ARE FLYING (1957) dir. Mikhail Kalatozov @MFA [35mm] A feather in the sickle of Soviet cinema. Discussion to follow Sun 12/15 63 UP (2019) dir. Michael Apted @KENDALL Boyhood times fifty Director in person! Mon 12/16 PRESENT.PERFECT (2019) dir. Shengze Zhu @BRATTLE Freedom through livestreaming in China Director Q&A via Skype. Presented by DocYard Fri 12/20 BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) dir. Bob Clark @COOLIDGE The original slasher, even Halloween ripped it off! New restoration
Thu 12/12 Confront Your Issues #3! A Boston Compass Art Show ft. the 12 header artists of 2019! @Boston Neighborhood Network 6pm-
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Fri 12/27 A SERIOUS MAN (2009) dir. Joel & Ethan Coen @MFA Vexed by afflictions, a mensch raises questions. Also screens 12/29
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Rachel Manana Mon 12/9 GrrlHaus Cinema presents: Local Film Showcase Wed 12/11 Cha Feliz and friends! 8-11pm Fri 12/13 Plains (NH/ME), Greaseface (VT), Dark Tag (South Shore), TBA Sat 12/14 STAGED: New Visions of Boston Music Photography Gallery Hours 12-6pm Sat 12/14 Female-led rnb/indie night! ft. Annie Krivit, Maya Lucia, Autumn Jones 8-11pm Sun 12/15 Hardcore Experimental Improv and Performance Art ft. EvicShen, Charmaine Lee (NY) and MANAS (Asheville) , 8pm $10 Fri 12/20 Kids Like You And Me Holiday Show! 8-11:30pm Sat 12/21 QNC Entertainment Artist Showcase 9-11:30pm Fri 12/27 Luzlief's Boston Locals 8:30-10:30pm Tue 12/31 DAP Open Mic NEW YEARS EVE EDITION!!! 8pm --> 2020
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Bos Taurus The raising of cattle is significantly adding to climate change and one of those ways is due to bacteria producing methane in the stomachs of cows.
They're such a part of our life, Bos Taurus. We take for granted the silk of milk for tea, bullions of butter, the panoply of cheese, plus: they haul loads, pull ploughs, act as money, a dowry, are a daily staple, and so much more. You browse the meat aisle: filet mignon, sirloin, kidney? Something tender? There's a deal on veal? Forget the poor trapped calf. Scruples flit like flies around the tail of a cow. Quell your qualms, man. You're a natural carnivore.
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from "A Field Guide to People" Greg Delanty's latest book is Selected Delanty, selected and introduced by Archie Burnett. These excerpt sonnets are from a long sequence poem titled ‘A Field Guide to People’, which will be published in his next book, No More Time, due Fall 2020.
In season three of “The Simpsons,” there is an episode called “Stark Raving Dad,” in which Homer is mistakenly sent to a mental Have you been feeling lost? Trodden on and abused by large tech institution. While there, he meets a man who believes that he is companies? Fighting the slot-machine technology of the pocket Michael Jackson. This character’s name is Leon Kompowsky and was computer? Then you might be on Team Human. That’s right! This month actually voiced — well, partially, at least — by Michael Jackson. There on Rad Apps, I’m recommending a podcast! Team Human: Conscious was a sequel to this episode that was written but never released. Intervention in the Machine, is a regular podcast by technology theorist The sequel, which was written by Conan O’Brien, was to feature Douglas Rushkoff where he offers monologues, questions, guests, and Leon Kompowsky again but this time, Leon now believed he was hot-takes in his “all hands on deck” fight for human survival. Prince. According to “The Simpsons” writer Mike Reiss, Kompowsky To Rushkoff, the modern internet and tech company enablers are a encourages the Springfield residents to "loosen up, become more highly sophisticated extension of capitalist ‘growth-at-all-costs’ mentalityflamboyant and become more sexually open." Prince initially agreed a mentality that Rushkoff notes is only found in cancerous growths to the episode and sent notes over to “The Simpsons” writing staff, naturally. So what’s the solution? Far from dropping all of the tech and however, they soon realized that he was referring to another script, living the life of a Quaker (though such a pursuit certainly contains one apparently written by his chauffeur. Prince demanded they use its own nobility), Rushkoff suggests a reiteration and consequent the script written by his chauffeur and not O’Brien’s. The writing implementation of tech: where people, rather than profits, are the driving staff declined this offer, and this script became one of the few force behind technology’s goals. unproduced Simpsons episodes. Prince would eventually make it “Finding the others” is a major point of return for Rushkoff who points to “The Simpsons,” but not until season 20’s “TreeHouse of Horrors,” out that our current technological systems are predatory. Says Rushkoff: where he played himself. “Survival of the fittest is a convenient way to justify the cutthroat ethos —Zachary Fairbrother of a competitive marketplace, political landscape, and culture”. So how do you play for Team Human? Head on over to https://teamhuman.fm/ to listen in, or https://medium.com/@rushkoff to read the monologues and excerpts from his book. —DLM by James Moore
Golden Toad It has been established that global climate change is directly linked to the extinction of species. The Golden Toad is an example. --Alan Pound
When did you last see a toad or frog on the side of the road, in your garden, hopping across a wood or skirting a bog? They were everywhere back when we were tadpoles. Remember being told that if you as much as brushed one, you'd wake covered in warts. You loved to hold them pulsing in your palm, each a Buddha, proptosed-eyed, and silk-slimy cold. It seems people have upset the natural dharma of toads and frogs, including this gold glory. We play carelessly with our mother's karma, irking the climate gods and their siblings. Scary to read frogs and toads are our coal miners' canary.
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