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GROUND, UNDERGROUND, AND ALL AROUND AWESOME HAPPENINGS IN THE GREATER BOSTON AREA

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Time for another crafty conglomeration of clandestine crusaders—that's right, I'm talking the ninth Boston Underground Summit! We’ve got spoken-word style hip-hop with a strong, lo-fi bedroom 4-track aesthetic that culminates in sincerely honest word salads courtesy of Pink Navel. Minimalist leaning, guitar pop backed complex lyrical flowers a la Sidney Gish. A rock-n-roll buffet featuring Boston Cream’s (ex-Barbazons) lightning riffs, horns, dance beats, and electro-jams that produce a psychedelic, disco flavored style of punk spewed through a basement strobe light alongside Mint Green’s catchy, party inspired pop-punk with a faint emo twinge just beneath the surface. At the same time, Ozlo’s darkwave infused, aught-rock riff machines bleed into the bands viscous brand of chaotic yet focused post-hardcore plus (muah!) Kiss Concert’s headbanging blend of power pop fueled basement mosh mayhem. Looking for something more far out? How about Kármán Voh’s echoey electronic mysticism, or Divided Self (Members of Secret Lover and Snow Wite) who paint the space with groovy yet charged acoustic living room jam sessions. Capping it off is Solei, whose soul inspired sweetheart gems featuring hefty, toe tap-inducing backbeats leave plenty of room for the soothing vox of Atlas Lab’s Solei to shine through. Who needs March Madness? This raucous round robin’s where it’s at. -Michael Achille

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Gwenneth Boelens: A t O d d s and Charlotte Moth: Seeing While Moving 2/17 - 4/16 @MIT List Visual Arts Center

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The exhibitions Gwenneth Boelens: At Odds and Charlotte Moth: Seeing While Moving are currently on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center until April 16, 2017. Both Gwenneth Boelens and Charlotte Moth use unconventional photographic approaches and techniques to explore the expressive possibilities of photography in their work. Gwenneth Boelens has developed an abstract visual language that attempts to capture the traces of physical movement in space. Boelens uses light, time, and chemical and material processes to suspend and inscribe traces of movement, exploring and illuminating perception, memory, and time. Boelens’ first solo exhibition, Gwenneth Boelens: At Odds features a group of her most recent photograms, wall works, weavings, floor sculptures, and an acoustic piece.

Travelogue series that are combined with small bits of text and colored filters. Moth’s first solo exhibit in the US, Charlotte Moth: Seeing While Moving presents photography, sculpture, slide projection, and film pieces that explore the modes of tactile representation.

The List is MIT’s contemporary art museum which offers free art exhibitions and programs open to the public. Visit The List at 20 Ames Street, Bldg. E15-109 Cambridge, MA 02139. Regular hours: Tues, Wed, Since 1999, Moth has taken photographs of arFri, Sat, Sun: 12:00 - 6:00 chitectural features throughout the course of her pm, and Thurs: 12:00 travels and has collected them into her Travelogue 8:00 pm. series. Much like a tabletop Instagram account, -Maryam Yoon her central piece Noting Thoughts (2011) is a table assemblage of groups of photographs from her

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Executive Director of Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Editor of DigBoston I come to you as the reluctant To suggest the modern undervillain who told Boston Magazine ground is thriving is to disregard a that our local counterculture is in time in Boston when your average trouble. I am someone who has summer weekend in a somewhat The majority of the American workforce will be working spent my whole adult life helpyuppie-free Jamaica Plain packed from home by 2020, so it’s important to find the best spots ing fuel the indie press, all while countless outdoor parties with live now so you can “become a regular” before then. I’ve been witnessing the steep decline of music, and to forget how heads everything both non- and anti-cor- could actually burn pre-legal blunts working remotely for almost a year, so when I’m not on my porate. Though I regret having to at reggae shows from Blue Hill Ave couch, I spend a lot of time in cafes, judging them largely by the quality of their WiFi, noise level, and employees’ musical give Hassle readers homework as to Cambridge back in the day. tastes. a prereq for my emotional old man All that said, the innumerable This summer I spent hours at Fiore’s because I love their polemic, I do hope people read scattered silos of creative subterrathe BoMag piece in its entirety, nean activity considered, I feel one back patio and gluten-free options, but I eventually moved and not only because the author thing that alternative types can all to Evy Tea for turmeric lattes, an herb garden, and calming ultimately agrees with what many agree on is that now, perhaps more vibes. If I feel like venturing, I’ll head over to Haley House of his critics are claiming, which is than ever before, we need to foster Bakery, particularly for breakfast, but it closes at 5. Across the river, Forge is pricey but delicious, and Life Alive secretthat there are strong and hopeful close collaboration to survive. ly has great WiFi and the best food. (Maybe even better signs of counterculture life among This need has led my crew at the than Clover?) I appreciate Darwin’s, particularly the Mass us Boston Institute for Nonprofit JourAve outpost, and if it’s too crowded, I grab a latte at Tatte, I wholly understand the knock- nalism (BINJ) to partner with not ing of the writer’s choice to give only the Hassle and Compass, but with newly-opened locations seemingly everywhere. Finally, the Boston Public Library recently opened a cafe with such weight to aging whiteboy hip- with other local grassroots outlets good, cheap coffee and snacks and a TV studio if you want sters like yours truly. Nevertheless, such as KillerBoomBox as well. It’s to make your public television star turn. I think it’s critical to recognize the a smaller counterculture tent than undeniable, housing-driven fact in the past, but I never doubted our I’ve heard that digital alienation is common in this strange, new world, so I try to get out of the house as much as possithat Greater Boston’s countercul- capacity to raise the roof. ble, particularly if it means I can eat cookies ture is unprecedentedly diffuse and drink coffee while surrounded by other and, even though it may not seem people staring at their laptops. the case to those who live and play in Allston, relatively minimal.

Let’s face it: modern film festivals can be a drag. Sure, your Tribecas and your Canneses and your Fill-In-The-Blankdances carry prestige and industry clout, but they all tend to be almost oppressively respectable. Thank god, then, for the Boston Underground Film Festival. For nearly two decades, BUFF has been providing Boston with all the gloriously transgressive, subversive, and frankly rude cinematic fare that would make Robert Redford blanche. Among this year’s offerings are the Lovecraftian body horror of THE VOID, Gabriel Bartalos’ surrealist nightmare SAINT BERNARD, and A LIFE IN WAVES, a documentary on the life of synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani – plus loads more. If you’d like to do your part to keep the BUFF machine chugging, check out their Kickstarter (accessible via the URL above) and score some sweet swag in the process. We may not be La La Land, but as long as there’s BUFF, Boston will always have a home for cinematic freaks, mutants, and weirdos. Dance on that. --Oscar Goff

NOTES FROM THE CREW WITH DAN SHEA

There’s a lot happening around these parts. First, we are excited to announce that our organization won a grant from the Boston Cultural Council! These funds will spur our creative activity throughout 2017 and we are thrilled to be supported by our city. Next up is an event that has quickly become one our biggest annual endeavors. From April 7th @ 10am until April 8th @ 10am we will be throwing the 2017 Boston Hassle 24 Hour Telethon & Performance Marathon over @ Somerville Community Access Television. Why are we throwing a 24 hour telethon? Well, besides it being a GREAT idea and an AMAZING chance to highlight an insane gaggle of the area's most unique performers and minds, we (the 501(c)(3) BRAIN Arts and our website/event booking arm, Boston Hassle) will be trying to raise start-up capital to back our signing of a lease for what will be an: all-inclusive, all-ages art market/community center/performance space. The telethon is open to the public. Space will be limited inside the television studio itself, but we are essentially turning all of Union Sq into a 24-hour party. Come hang at any of the businesses that support us. It will also be beamed the world over via the internet's magic! Bands, poets, performance artists, rappers, comedians, video fuckery, storytellers, lectures, short films... we got it all! And we're even still accepting performance submissions, so get in touch!!! dan@brain-arts.org

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THIS PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY A GRANT FROM THE BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL, A LOCAL AGENCY WHICH IS FUNDED BY THE MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL, AS ADMINSTRATED BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF ARTS + CULTURE

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Wed 3/8 Fully Celebrated Orchestra with special guests Trinary System @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5

Fri 3/17 Illegally Blind Presents: Jacuzzi Boys @ Lilypad 10pm All Ages $12

Wed 3/8 Fiesta Melon and Zion Rodman @Plough Sat 3/18 Spirit Ghost, Today Junior, Long Arm Rex, and Stars 10pm 21+ Free Calico Blue @The Ratsnest 7pm All Ages $5-$10 Thu 3/9 WMBR and List Visual Arts Center presSat 3/18 Boston Stands With The ACLU w/ Nada ent Ampersand Concert Series featuring Miles Surf, Juliana Hatfield, Gravel Pit, Belly, Evan DanOkazaki and RAJAS @MIT Bartos Theatre 8pm All do, Bill Janovitz @Paradise 6:30pm 18+ $35 Ages $ome Cost

view the full calendar at bostonhassle.com

Sat 3/4 Closing reception for "City Floor" group photo exhibition & film screening of “Voyeuges: Episode I” (soundtrack featuring Old Wave, Guerrilla Toss, Debo Band, Thick Shakes, Incredible Universe, Points North, and more) @Boston Arts and Sports Entertainment 7pm-11pm All Ages $ome Cost

Thu 3/9 SHEA’S LOUNGE: A Punk Night—Texas Theme! @Plough and Stars 10pm 21+ Free

Fri 3/10 Agent Orange, The Queers, Guttermouth, Atom Age @ONCE 7pm $16 Sat 3/18 Crank Sturgeon, +DOG+, L'eclipse Nue, Howard Stelzer @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages Fri 3/10 E, Gary War, Violet Nox, Audrey Harrer @ $5-$10 Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10

Sat 3/4 XFEST @City Hall (Holyoke, MA) 6pm- Fri 3/10 Snake Union (Chuck Bettis/Dave Grant), Wed 3/1 Slothrust, Ian Sweet, Kal Marks @ Moondrawn and Austin Covell/Cleo Miao Duo @ 10pm All Ages Brighton Music Hall 7pm 18+ $13 SMFA 7-10pm All Ages $5-10 Suggested Donation (Free to SMFA students with ID!) Sat 3/4 The Dreebs with Sam Rog, Gamma Wed 3/1 Sad13, Bellows, Christian Holden, Pope and Psychotica (members of Flaming Horse Jumper of Love @ONCE 7:30pm 18+ $10 Dragons of Middle Earth) @Deep Thoughts JP Fri 3/10 Blau Blau, Gobbinjr, Joss, Prior Panic @ Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages $5-$10 8:30pm All Ages $5-10 suggested donation Wed 3/1 Puppy Problems, Emmett Mccleary, Ricecrackers, Du Vide, Ozlo @O’Brien’s 8pm Fri 3/10 The Operators, Citrusphere, The I Want Sat 3/4 Food Not Bombs Benefit featuring 18+ $7 Ozlo, Tribe Sweat, Mail Thief, Tsunemen @De- You, Miss Geo @Jeannie Johnston 9pm 21+ $ome mocracy Center 7:30pm All Ages $ome Cost Cost Wed 3/1 Kármán Voh, Spectramotiv, Citrusphere, Heather Weapon @Midway Cafe Sat 3/4 Slingshot Dakota, Ratboys, Lilith, Push- Sat 3/11 The Hotelier, Palehound, Loone, Animal 8pm 21+ $6 Flag @Middle East Upstairs 6pm All Ages $15 flowers @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $10 Thu 3/2 Potty Mouth, Party Baby, Tennis System Sat 3/4 Expire (Last New England show!), @Middle East Upstairs 7pm All Ages $12 Homewrecker, Cross Me, Break Away, Buried Dreams, Vein, Chaos Cross @Hardcore StadiThu 3/2 2ndSHIFT Concert: Allysen Callery/ um 6pm All Ages $15 Rob Noyes @Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation 7:30pm All Ages $ome Cost Sat 3/4 Rick Rude, Jeff Beam, Carinae @Great Scott 9pm 21+ $9 Thu 3/2 JESUS DRINKS FREE 1950-70s Country, Gospel, Soul and RnB spun by 2 atheists @ Sun 3/5 Littlefoot, Cleocatra @The Sinclair The Jeanie Johnston in JP 9pm-close FREE *A 10pm 21+ FREE DJ NIGHT* w/ vinyl and everything Sun 3/5 Bent Shapes and The Owens @State Thu 3/2 Library Sounds Series and Boston Park (Cambridge) 9pm All Ages Free Hassle present… XFEST PRE-SHOW - part of a 3 day Western MA. experimental and improvi- Sun 3/5 Gymshorts, No Parents, Birthing Hips sational art festival. Open to the public, on the @Lilypad 6pm All Ages $10 spot open ensembles, all are welcome! Bring an instrument (movement and video artists Sun 3/5 Mint Green, Horse Mode, Bottle Kids welcomed)! @SMFA 7-10pm All Ages $5 to $10 and Jonas, the Cloud @Midway Cafe 4pmsuggested donation 8pm All Ages Thu 3/2 La Neve, Evan Greer, Blau Blau, Boston Cream @O’Brien’s 8pm 18+ $10

Sun 3/5 Ladies Rock Camp Boston March Showcase @Cambridge Elks 8pm All Ages $Donate$

Sat 3/11 Hands And Knees (LP Release Show) with Blinders, headband @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10 Sat 3/11 Slaves, Black Beach @Great Scott 9pm 21+ $15 Sat 3/11 Ozlo, Dazey and the Scouts, Beautiful Woman, TBA @Democracy Center 7:30pm All Ages $5-10

Ages $ome Cost RI: 3/26 Colleen Green, The Memories, Emotional @Machines With Magnets (Pawtucket) 8pm $8

Sat 3/18 Abadabad (LP release show) @Lilypad 7pm All Ages $10 Sar 3/18 Todd Lerew, Sarah Pitan, Luke Martin @ Washington St. Arts Center 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Sun 3/19 Atlas Lab, Box Of Birds @The Plough And Stars 10pm 21+ Free Sun 3/19 Gravel, Narrow/Arrow, Notches, Puppy Problems @Zuzu 10pm 21+ $5

Mon 3/20 Park Slug and Eye Design Present: We Can All Be Sorry, Clearance, Bad Deals @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free Tue 3/21 Storytime at the Ape’s Next Vol. 2 @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $ome Cost Wed 3/22 Shaves, A Storytelling Show @a spot 8pm All Ages $Donate$

Sun 3/12 Dog, GCD, Cutout Lover, Creative Healing @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages $5-$10

Wed 3/22 Big Mess, edgar clinks, Teddy Farkas, Inspector 34 @UnchARTed 9pm All Ages $ome Cost

Sun 3/12 John Shakespear with Tory Silver @ Plough and Stars 10pm 21+ Free

Thu 3/23 Nails, Toxic Holocaust, Gatecreeper, Wound Man @Middle East Downstairs 8pm 18+ $17

Mon 3/13 Angela Sawyer standup @Koto 8pm 21+ $ome Cost

Fri 3/24 The Gala, Future Carnivores, & Lonely Leesa & The Lost Cowboys @Lilypad 10pm $10

Tue 3/14 Future Teens, Deer Leap, CosMc @O'Brien's 8pm 18+ $8

Fri 3/24 Colleen Green, the Memories, Emotional, James Leonard @Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $10

DISCOVER THE OTHERS

WMASS: 3/4 XFEST workshops featuring Walter Wright, Duane Ingalls, Ej Hampson, Loren Groenendaal, Asimina Chremos @City Hall (Holyoke, MA) 1pm-5pm All Ages WMASS: 3/5 XFEST featuring Weeping Bong Band, Donkey NoNo, Viewer, Ben Hersey, Id m Theftable, EMU (Joe Burgio Paul Kafka performing Lefts of Spring), Les Trois Etoiles @City Hall (Holyoke, MA) 12pm-5pm All Ages $ome Cost

Sat 3/18 Guiding Wave, Elephants, Lychi, Hexpet, Moist Boys @Democracy Center 7pm All Ages $5-8

Sat 3/11 Joe Turner Farewell show w/ Joe Turner And The Seven Levels, Body English, Daley Grimes Mon 3/20 Dump Him, Peach Ring, Wedding Camp, @Lilypad 7pm All Ages $ Horse Girl @Charlie’s Kitchen 8pm 21+ $5

Sun 3/5 John Shakespear Band and Daniel DeCristofaro @The Burren 8pm All Ages Free Tue 3/14 Non Event presents Phurnne @Cafe Fixe 7pm All Ages $5 Sun 3/5 Wendy Eisenberg, Alex Pelchat (MTL) Fri 3/3 Beau- and Audrey Harrer @Blue Bag Records 7-10pm Wed 3/15 Jens Lekman, Lisa/Liza @Brighton Music tiful Woman, All Ages $5-10 suggested donation Hall 7pm 18+ $25 Væpors, Nick Owen, Julian Mon 3/6 Black Beach, Halfsour, Elephants, Cult Wed 3/15 Deep Shred and Allston Pudding PresBerosh @ ent: Birthing Hips, Haasan Barclay, Banana, Peach Fiction @Charlie’s Kitchen 8pm 21+ $5 Papercut Zine Library 7:30pm All Ages $5-10 Ring @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 Mon 3/6 Eye Design Presents: Aneurysm (tour Fri 3/3 Grayskull Booking presents Rozamov kickoff), Far Corners, Deep Hole @ZuZu 10pm Thu 3/16 SUNN O))), Big ‡ Brave @Coolidge Cor(Album Release) with Wormwood and Lesser ner Theatre 9PM All Ages $33 21+ Free Glow @O'Brien's 8pm 21+ $10 Mon 3/6 Faun and a Pan Flute, Letter Castle, Fri 3/17 Simply Saucer, Major Stars, Doug Tuttle, Fri 3/3 Ordinary Affects w/Vic Rawlings @ Poppy Seed, Dyr Faser @Middle East Upstairs 18+ zero5Chorale @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Washington St. Arts Center 8pm All Ages $ome Ages $5-10 sugg. donation 8pm $10 adv $12 dos *A Boston Hassle Joint Effort* Cost Tue 3/7 Power Trip, Iron Reagan, Glory, Prison Fri 3/17 Hippie Night St. Paddy's Day! featuring Fri 3/3 Beat Research 1st Fridays Launch w/ Mystical Misftis, Social Impact of Oil, Chill Sesh & Hit, Hardware @ONCE 7pm 18+ $15 DJs Dayglow & CKD @Firebrand Saints 8pm Friends @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $7 21+ Free Tue 3/7 Obsidian Helix, Sound Shaman, Main Fri 3/17 Hiccup, Halfsour, Birdwatching, Mint Green Fader, moondrawn @Midway 8pm 21+ $7 Sat 3/4 Chain Of Flowers, Way Out, Strange @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $10 Passage, Kane Strang @Lilypad 7pm All Ages $10

CHOSEN SHOWS OF NEW ENGLAND AND BEYOND

Sat 3/18 Alloy Orchestra performs a live soundtrack for the silent films The Black Pirate and Variete @Somerville Theatre 4pm and 8pm All Ages $ome Cost

Tar @Shaskeen (Manchester, NH) 8:30pm 21+ $ome Cost

ME: 3/3 Yonatan Gat with Friend Roulette and Diva Cup @Space Gallery (Portland, ME) 8:30pm All Ages $10-12 NH: 3/2 Mail the Horse, Footings @Union Cof- ME: 3/10 Maine ACLU Benefit featuring Spose, fee (Milford, NH) 8pm All Ages $10 Weakened Friends, Bright Boy, Jeff Beam, SunNH: 3/19 Greed Island, Who Loves You, Sneeze, set Hearts, Amarantos Quartet, Anna Lombard Idling @Sue’s (Rollinsford, NH) 8pm All Ages @Port City Music Hall (Portland, ME) 8pm All $ome Cost Ages $10-15 NH: 3/24 Big Mess, Rope Trick, Boghaunter RI: 3/13 Glenn Jones, Laura Baird, & LaRochelle (first show), KGFREEZE @Sue’s (Rollinsford, NH) VT: 3/9 Palehound, Adult Mom, Gestalt @Arts @AS220 (PVD) 8:30 pm All Ages Free 8pm All Ages $5 Riot (Burlington, VT) 8pm All Ages $10-12 RI: 3/17 Raven King (album release) with Mini- NH: 3/30 Come to Grief, Black Tomb, Scalpel, VT: 3/10 Glenn Jones @Burlington City Arts beast and Junior Beat @Aurora (PVD) 10pm All

Sat 3/25 Boston Underground Summit 9! w/ Pink Navel, Mint Green, Sidney Gish, Ozlo, Boston Cream, Karman Voh, Solei, Divided Self (Worcester/PVD) and Kiss Concert @Cambridge Elks Lodge 8pm doors 8:30 first cycle All Ages $10 suggested donation *A Boston Hassle Effort* Sat 3/25 Open Sound presents String Noise & Kevin Frenette Trio @Third Life Studio 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Sat 3/25 Property Materials zine release featuring Sun Rad, Of The Sun, My Brother Daniel, !@#$ @ Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $5-10 sugg. Donation Sat 3/25 Sonorium featuring Caroline Park, Matt Krefting/Bill Nace duo, Ice Joke (Joe Bastardo/ Mickey O’Hara duo), Id M Theft Able @Gallows Hill Theatre 8pm All Ages $10 Sat 3/25 Laura Stevenson, Adult Mom, Me In Capris @Middle East Upstairs 6:30pm All Ages $15 Sun 3/26 Atlas Lab, Gadadu @The Plough And Stars 10pm 21+ Free Sun 3/26 Alice Bag, Shepherdess, Electric Street Queens @ONCE 7pm All Ages (w/adult) $8-12 (Burlington, VT) 7pm All Ages Free VT: 3/16 Washer and Bethlehem Steel @Arts Riot (Burlington, VT) 8pm All Ages $8-10 VT: 3/26 Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee @Arts Riot (Burlington, VT) 7:30pm All Ages $15 NY: 3/4 Pigeons, Footings @Spotty Dog (Hudson, NY) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost NY: 3/24 Downtown Boys, Alice Bag, Sneaks @ Baby's All Right (Brooklyn) 8pm All Ages $12 CT: 3/16 And the Kids, Vundabar, SPORTS @The Outer Space/Ballroom (Hamden, CT) 7pm All Ages $12-14 CT: 3/23 Le Butcherettes, Lea and the Perennial @The Outer Space/Ballroom (Hamden, CT) 8pm All Ages $12-15

Ongoing Exhibition: Futurefarmers: Errata-Brief Interruptions @Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Sun 3/26 Dirty Dishes, Soft Fangs, Lady Bones, I'm Glad It's You, Lilith @Middle East Upstairs 7pm 18+ $10 Sun 3/26 Rock n Lowell Fest featuring Giant in the Lighthouse, Nashoba, Backhand, Boagrius, Lawn Gnomes, The Pickup, The Digs, Superteen, Horse Mode, When Particles Collide, Pray for Sound @UnchARTed 2:30pm All Ages $5-7 Mon 3/27 KLYAM Presents: Birthing Hips, -1, Johnnie & The Foodmasters @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free Tue 3/28 The Courtneys, Jay Som, Halfsour @ Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 Wed 3/29 Eye Design Presents: Animal Hospital, Living Body, Nightime Sunshine, Gun Mother @O’Brien’s 8pm 18+ $8 Thu 3/30 I Heart Noise Showcase w/ Guiding Light Ministries, Petridisch, Dark Sunny Land @Somerville Theatre 6pm All Ages $5 Thu 3/30 Sandy Ewen, Damon Smith, Weasel Walter, and Jeb Bishop @Outpost186 8pm All Ages $ome Cost

Tues 3/21 Visiting Artist: Steffani Jemison @808 Thurs 3/2 Reception: Nate Dow: Lost in Boston @ Gallery, Boston University, 7:30 pm Harvard Ed Portal, 5 - 7pm Thurs 3/2 Studio for Interrelated Media Artist Ongoing Exhibition: 2017 James and Audrey FosLecture: Ariel Jackson @MassArt, Pozen Center, ter Prize @Insitute of Contemporary Art, Boston 1:45 pm Sat 3/25 Closing Reception, Performance & ArtFri 3/3 Talk: Dan Byers: The Artist’s Museum @ ist Talk: Inter-Dimensional Ports of Whatsoever @ The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, LecGallery at Atlantic Wharf, 2-7 pm ture Hall @4 pm Ends 3/26 Exhibition: Occupancies @808 GalFri 3/3 Reception: Caleb Cole: To Be Seen @ lery, Boston University Gallery Kayafas, 5:30-8 pm Mon 3/27 Visiting Artists: Mary Reid Kelley & Fri 3/3 Reception: Sage Sohier: Witness to Beau- Patrick Kelley @808 Gallery, Boston University, ty @Carroll and Sons, 5:30-8 pm 6:30 pm Sat 3/4 Exhibition/event: Libreria Donceles/ Ongoing Exhibition: Doris Salcedo: The MaterialiBook Arts & Alteration in the Age of Omission @ ty of Mourning @Harvard Art Museum Urbano Projects, 3-6 pm Ends 4/1 Exhibition: Corey Escoto: A Routine PatOngoing Exhibition: Aether @Arnheim Gallery, tern of Troubling Behaviour @Samson Projects MassArt Ends 4/8 Exhibition: Take Only What You Can Ongoing Exhibition: Political Discourse @Univer- Carry With You @Yellow Peril, Providence RI sity Hall Gallery, UMass Boston

Thu 3/30 Doomsday Student (record release) with Way Out and Secret Circle @The Parlour (PVD) 9pm 21+ $10

Opens Wed 3/8 Exhibition: Listen Hear: The Art of Sound @Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Thu 3/30 Totally Wired! featuring DJ Dayglow and Solid Gold Hell @Milky Way 10pm 21+ Free

Thurs 3/9 Gertrude’s Salon: STAND UP: Women* You Should Know: Silvi Naçi with Furen Dai @ Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, 6:30-8 pm

Thu 3/30 A Benefit for The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention w/ Strange Mangers, Puppy Problems, Saccharine, Bedbug @O’Brien’s 8pm 18+ $10 Fri 3/31 Ne-Hi, Horse Jumper of Love, Cove Sauce, Steep Leans @Middle East Upstairs 7pm All Ages $10 Fri 3/31 Spelling, Great News, Aneurysm, Ghosts of Sailors at Sea @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8 ’s 8pm 18+ $10 Fri 3/31 Ne-Hi, Horse Jumper of Love, Cove Sauce, Steep Leans @Middle East Upstairs 7pm All Ages $10 Fri 3/31 Spelling, Great News, Aneurysm, Ghosts of Sailors at Sea @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8

drawing by jake ursino go to www.boston hassle.com/volun teer

Ongoing Exhibition: Diago: The Pasts of This Afro-Cuban Present @Cooper Gallery Ongoing Exhibition: Steve McQueen: Ashes @ Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Fri 3/10 Reception/Performance: Dirk Adams: the sensation of moving slowly back in time @ Distillery Gallery, 7 pm Ends 3/11 Exhibition: One Makes An Instrument Of Themselves, And Is Estranged @GRIN, Providence RI Sun 3/12 International Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Art + Feminism @Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 11am - 4pm Sun 3/12 Contemporary Manifesto Writing @ Dorchester Art Project, 1-3 pm Ongoing Rose Video 10: Ana Mendieta @Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University

MARCH FILM CONTENT Managing Editor: Oscar Goff Contributing Writers: Kyle Amato, Kyle Brunet, Anders Croft, Oscar Goff, Matthew Martens, Nick Perry Wed 3/1 DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1920) dir. John S. Robertson @ROCKWELL Silent schizo cinema Live musical accompaniment! Wed 3/1 GASLIGHT (1944) dir. George Cukor @SOMERVILLE Psychological manipulation thriller Thurs 3/2 THE THING (1982) dir. John Carpenter @MFA Kurt Russell vs Wilford Brimley Fri 3/3 XX (2017) dir. various @BRATTLE Anthology ft. St. Vincent’s directorial debut Screens through 3/10 Sat 3/4 THE WOMAN WHO LEFT (2016) dir. Lav Diaz @HFA Test your endurance, then discuss it with Diaz. Director in person!

Wed 3/15 Political Action/MailArt-Making Event #TheIdesOfTrump @Democracy Center, 11am 1pm

Thurs 3/16 Talk: Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor @Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 7 pm Thurs 3/16 Performance: Dell M. Hamilton: Blues/ Blank/Black @808 Gallery, Boston University, 7 pm Ends 3/19 Exhibition: I Dread to Think… @The Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts Ongoing Exhibition: Gwenneth Boelens: At Odds, and Charlotte Moth: Seeing While Moving @MIT List Visual Arts Center

you can find the compass every month in the following locations:

Sun 3/12 I, CLAUDE MONET (2017) dir. Phil Grabsky @MFA Underneath the water lilies. Also screens 3/19 Mon 3/13 Menace II Society (1993) dir. Albert and Allen Hughes @COOLIDGE Society is the real menace Thur 3/16 T2 TRAINSPOTTING (2017) dir. Danny Boyle @BRATTLE Sequel to the strung out classic Free preview screening! Fri 3/17 LEPRECHAUN (1993) dir. Mark Jones @COOLIDGE Starring Jennifer Aniston Sat 3/18 THE DEPARTED (2006) dir. Martin Scorsese @COOLIDGE Boston crime kind-of remake

Wed 3/22 DOWNFALL (2004) dir. Oliver Hirschbiegel @SOMERVILLE Historical drama/Modern fantasy Sat 3/25 FITZCARRALDO (1982) dir. Werner Herzog @COOLIDGE Herzog & Kinski carry a steamship Sat 3/25 THE MAN IN THE COWBOY HAT (2016) dir. Janice Rogovin @BPL Marathon hero doc (100% Marky Markfree) World premiere! Filmmakers in person! Mon 3/27 Pulp Fiction (1994) dir. Quentin Tarantino @LUNA Come for the violence, stay for the dancing Free! Mon 3/27 A QUIET PASSION (2017) dir. Terence Davies @HFA Magister Davies reanimates Dickinson. Director in person! Wed 3/29 BLADE RUNNER: FINAL CUT (1982) dir. Ridley Scott @BRATTLE Like tears in rain... Fri 3/31 Mad Max: Fury Road (Black and Chrome Cut) (2015) dir. George Miller @ COOLIDGE Modern classic - in black and white Also screens 4/1

Tues 3/14 Visiting Artist: Mark Thomas Gibson @808 Gallery, Boston University, 7:30 pm

Wed 3/15 Grant Writing 101 @MassArt, Design and Media Center, Huntington Room 3rd Floor, 7 pm

Sat 3/11 Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974) dir. Toshiya Fujita @ COOLIDGE Ballet of gory vengeance

Mon 3/20 MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) dir. David Lynch @COOLIDGE It’s hard to explain

Tues 3/14 Photo Visting Artist Lecture Series: Lucas Blalock @Tower Auditorium, MassArt, 2 pm

Wed 3/15 FA2D Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Daniela Rivera @MassArt, Design and Media Center Lecture Hall, 12 pm

Fri 3/10 THE LURE (2015) dir. Agnieszka Smoczynsca @BRATTLE ‘80s-inspired neon mermaid musical Screens through 3/16

Sat 3/4 AN EVENING WITH DEBORAH STRATMAN @HARVARD Convictions ramify, not least in Illinois Parables. Sun 3/5 Love Songs (2007) dir. Christophe Honore @HFA Like La La Land, but French and polyamorous Director in Person! Wed 3/8 TREMBLING BEFORE G*D (2001) dir. Sandi Simcha DuBowski @ Harvard Ed Portal The hidden lives of Gay and Lesbian Hasidic and Orthodox Jews Wed 3/8 THEY LIVE (1988) dir. John Carpenter @TOAST Basically a documentary by now Free!

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