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MAY 2016
Navigating you to underground, aboveground and all around awesome happenings in the Greater Boston Area THE BIG THREE
WAKING WINDOWS FEST 5/06-5/08 @Winooski, VT In a far away land, where maple syrup flows free and the air is cleaner than the inside of an empty bottle of rubbing alcohol, there is a little fest brewing. Well, to be honest little is a gross understatement. The land is Winooski, VT and the fest is Waking Windows. Now in its 6th year, this art and musical amalgamation has grown to become what feels like a mini SXSW for us trapped here in the Northeast. Spread out over three days between May 6th and 8th this year’s iteration features an unreal number of SICK bands from Protomartyr, Waxahatchee, Speedy Ortiz and Hop Along to Eskimeaux, Guerilla Toss, California X and the almighty Chain and the Gang. We got reps from Boston too as Midriffs, Kal Marks, Bad History Month, Lady Bones, Burglary Years, and more prepare to storm the Green Mountain State. This is only a FRACTION of the bands, DJ’s, art installations, and performances scheduled to take place at TWELVE different bars, clubs, alternative spaces, and outdoor areas over the course of the three days. With showcases by NNA Tapes and Exploding in Sound PLUS international acts from Canada, the list of reasons not to miss this shindig is almost immeasurable. Take a bus, borrow a car, hitchhike, WHATEVER…just get yourself to Winooski. - Michael Achille
GEOFFREY FARMER 4/13-7/17 @ICA Art historical paper dolls - attempting to get into the world through each of our individual stories… was an initial thought I had upon leaving Geoffrey Farmer’s exhibit, currently on view at the ICA Boston. By this I do not mean that the work was like a still from an art-house version of “Toy Story” made by resurrected members of Dada. Nor was it just another humorous art meme on my Instagram feed. It was neither of those things but also very much them. The works presented in this show are primarily made up of hundreds of small-scale sculptural photo collages that are linked to narrative texts available to read in the gallery space. Pulling from the canon of art historical and mass media imagery, Farmer’s work is at once a delirious plunge into visual overstimulation as it a relief in recognizing our influence over these images that flood our daily lives. Farmer establishes a series of phrases both visual and textual that the viewer can take from and rearrange, creating their own new histories. By disrupting “appropriate” understandings of a timeline, Farmer investigates the inevitable historical fragility of an image with both humor and kindness. - Maggie Jensen
TIME AND PLACE ARE NONSENSE! THE CINEMA ACCORDING TO SEIJUN SUZUKI 5/13-6/2 @Harvard Film Archives
For decades, the prism through which the vast majority of cinephiles in the West approached and appreciated Japanese cinema was the holy trinity of Ozu, Mizoguchi, and--first among equals in terms of popularity and influence--Kurosawa. In recent years, however, the situation has altered considerably, as Criterion and others have steadily expanded the canon (or our understanding of it) beyond those hallowed humanists by casting light on an ever-growing roster of past and present masters representing every mode of cinema imaginable, and a handful less easily fathomed. Alongside (roughly now, roughly) such directors as Oshima, Imamura, Shinoda, and Matsumoto, Seijun Suzuki--whose career receives a richly revelatory retrospective this month at the HFA--represented an art-house alternative to the holy trinity, one attuned to 1960s youth culture, alive to the possibilities of vivid color, aggressive design, and Godardian editing, and as virtuosic with the infinite varieties of irony as Ozu, for instance, was sensitive to the subtleties of human emotion. Mining a then faintly scandalous but now merely fashionable fascination with underworlds and their underfolk, Suzuki’s best-known late ‘60s works (Branded to Kill, say, and Tokyo Drifter) are jazz-soaked gems set among yakuza, prostitutes and night clubs, and subject to the avant-pop tricks then in trade. - Matthew Martens
PLACES // YOU // CAN // HANG
with ISAAC FUHRMAN: Brassica Kitchen + Café And lo: a purveyor of delectable, artfully crafted foods, drinks, and entertainments that isn’t just putting on the spatial charm for your $ (although they might be interested in that $ to keep the lights on). They are Hassle friends, the Whisk Team at Brassica Kitchen (aka the Fazenda Cafe space) of Forest Hills distinguishment. For months, maybe even years now, co-owners Phil and Jeremy have been working long after the daytime café closes to concretize their vision of a neighborhood friendly restaurant and JP hub for local music, films, and general hangouts. Go there as early as 6:00am and sip on their in-houseroasted java beans. Go there on Sunday nights when they often host a pop-up
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Forest Hills Supper Club—a testing grounds for their culinary and beverageary innovation, which they plan to roll out in full, nightly force starting in May. You ought to have been there for the monthly Hassle HOMEGROWN night of fuzz- and psych-tinged rock they’ve been hosting all winter. And I hope you’ll be there on Monday, May 2nd to enjoy the first installment of the CAFFENOL experimental film series, also presented by your Hassle. These are just the beginnings of their exploits into the not-for-profit-for-fun entertainment sector. So yes, set forth and go hang at this gem of an all-purpose space across from the Forest Hills T: Brassica Kitchen + Café. We’ll see you there.
NOTES // FROM // THE // CREW with EMMA LEAVITT Issue #75 and we’re still alive. April was so sick that May be death. There is much to report for the spring. We launched our Compass Preferred Carriers Program last month, shout out to all the businesses who supported us in our initiative to make the newspaper more financially sustainable. See the in-progress list of supporters on the footer of the shows page. Exciting things on the horizon: Hassle Tapes. We are starting our own tape label! It is still in the beginning stages but it is happening and we are all stoked. Stay tuned for details. Video Team: We are going after video content to attract the eyes and ears of those who see us
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Will We Save Capitalism from Itself? The fight for a $15 minimum wage will not solve wealth inequality. It will not stop jobs from being exported or replaced by technology, nor will it help those who can’t find jobs. We need to fight for an unconditional basic income (UBI) so every adult has a safety-net-- no matter their employment status or wealth. UBI would eradicate poverty while also giving a boost to the middle class. Basic Income would cover the costs for modest housing, food and basic necessities. Although it sounds like utopian fantasy, it has been tested with promising results, which have inspired a grassroots movement. Basic Income could give people the time to make art or an invention that improves society. Many would work to afford cars, electronics, homes and families, but they could also take risks and live without fear of poverty. UBI would force employers to create workplaces that people want to go to, and it would give workers immediate protection from abuse. It’s becoming more accepted that the future will have less work to go around. Information technology has replaced more jobs than it has created over the past 40 years. As the owners of production use technology to replace human labor, they will eventually run out of people with the income to afford their products. Will we save capitalism from itself? UBI is a better solution than a $15 minimum wage. The owners of production should pay for some of the jobs they’re displacing. But it’s a small price to pay for the wealthy to remain wealthy and for poverty to be eliminated.
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Sun 5/8 Show Mom Presents: Big Ups, Dirty Dishes, Kal Marks, Washer, Strange Mangers @ MidEast Up 8pm All Ages $10 Sun 5/8 Standing Waves Series #2 - Laura Cetilia @Mobius 7pm All Ages $ome Cost Tue 5/10 Illegally Blind Presents: Klaus Johann Grobe, Beach Toys, Dyr Faser, HEAD @Lilypad 9pm All Ages $10
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Sun 5/1 Basement, Turnstile, Defeater, Colleen Green @Royale 6pm All Ages $16.50 Sun 5/1 Tashi Dorji, Marisa Anderson, Horse Lords, Wind & Ghosts @Machines with Magnets 9pm All Ages $ome Cost Sun 5/1 POETRY READING @ Deep Thoughts (Cambridge) to celebrate the 6 month anniversary of the new location 8pm All Ages FREE Sun 5/1 Midway or the Highway Open Mic Night w/Angela Sawyer and Gabe Stoddard @ Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ FREE EVERY SUNDAY Mon 5/2 Marisa Anderson, Tashi Dorji, Rob Noyes @Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $Donate$ Mon 5/2 Boston Bands for Bernie @Midway 8pm 21+ $10 Mon 5/2 Babydriver, Eamon Fogarty, Alosi Den @Zuzu 9pm 21+ Free…*A Boston Hassle and Rad Castle Joint Effort* Mon 5/2 Terror Pigeon, W00dy, Sun Young, Zanois @Out of the Blue 9pm All Ages $7-$10 5/2 Park Slug Presents: Bat House, Lady Pills, Boompa @Charlie’s Kitchen 9pm 21+ $5 Tue 5/3 Corners, Dinoczar, Magic Shoppe, Rye Pines @O’Briens 8pm 18+ $10 Tue 5/3 Monthly Fem Night One Year Anniversary Blockbuster Show! featuring Listening Woman, Birthing Hips, Burcu Gulec, Having Fun is Spending Money, Rosie and the Rosies, Samuel Boat Quintet, Angela Sawyer @Midway 8pm 21+ $5 Tue 5/3 Dent, An Atomic Whirl, Ursula, The Blues Dream Box @Out of the Blue 9pm All Ages $7-$10 Tue 5/3 Horse Lords, Bromp Treb (LP release), Curse Purse, Death Savings Flag @Replay Gear (Greenfield) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Tue 5/3 Non Event Presents: Dollar Bin @Cafe Fixe 8pm All Ages $5 Tue 5/3 Latishia's Skull Drawing, Longings, Super Unison, The Guiding Wave, Rejiem @The Boiler Room 7pm All Ages $8 Wed 5/4 Ought, Priests, Ursula @Sinclair 8pm 18+ $15 Wed 5/4 Eye Design Presents: Broads, Backwards Dancer, Something Sneaky and TBA @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8 Thu 5/5 Solids, Stove, Clique, Kiss Concert @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $10 Thu 5/5 New England Patriots, PC Worship, Creepers, Puzzle Mansion @Deep Thoughts 8pm All Ages $5-$10 Sliding Scale
Thu 5/5 I Heart Noise Showcase featuring Skyjelly, Tin Flowers, Eu La, Sadha @Out of the Blue Too 8pm All Ages $ome Cost
Wed 5/11 Tiffany's House, The Michael Character, Lina, Moonish Brute, Wendy Alembic @No Berry 7pm All Ages $Donate$
Fri 5/6 Spirit System, 28 degrees taurus, Digital Prisoners of War and Babydriver @Out of the Blue Gallery 9pm All Ages $ome Cost
Wed 5/11 Lawnmower, Nighttime Sunshine, Gill Aharon Trio @The Midway 8pm 21+ $5
Fri 5/6 HEAD EXPLODE.GIF> ELECTRONIC MUSIC FEST @Not D’artiste 7pm All Ages $15-$20 Fri 5/6 Sunwatchers (NY), Major Stars, Minibeast, The Modern Voice @Midway 8:30pm 21+ $10 Fri 5/6 Waking Windows Day 1 featuring Footings, Hop Along, Speedy Ortiz, Yairms, Chain and the Gang and many more! @Winooski, VT (see website for venues/times/ age restrictions) Sat 5/7 HEAD EXPLODE. GIF> ELECTRONIC MUSIC FEST @Out of the Blue 7pm All Ages $15-$20 Sat 5/7 Waking Windows Day 2 featuring Rick Rude, Nancy Pants, Goddard, Eskimeaux, Lady Bones, Pleasure Gap, Waxahatchee, Burglary Years, Washer, Midriffs, Dirty Dishes, Kal Marks, California X, Gymshorts, Rough Francis, Guerilla Toss, Protomartyr, and many more! @Winooski, VT (see website for venues/ times/age restrictions) Sat 5/7 Banned in DC: Photos and Anecdotes of the DC Punk Underground, 79 - 85 featuring author Cynthia Connolly @ONCE 7-8pm All Ages Free Sat 5/7 Steve Norton with Leap of Faith Orchestra @Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church 8pm All Ages $Donate$ Sat 5/7 Birthing Hips, Way Out, Tiffany's House, Cosmic @Grandma’s House 8pm All Ages $Donate$ Sat 5/7 Morpheme, Korrosive, Aspects of War, Video Filth, Symptom @Somewhere 6pm All Ages $8 Sun 5/8 Protomartyr, Black Beach, Pucker Up @ Great Scott 9pm 18+ $12…*A Boston Hassle Effort* Sun 5/8 Eye Design Presents: The Kickback, Abadabad, and Burglary Years @Firebrand Saints 8pm 18+ $5 Sun 5/8 Waking Windows Day 3 featuring Cosmis Matrix, Mal Maiz, Heavy Plains, Record High, and many more! @Winooski, VT (see website for venues/times/age restrictions) Sun 5/8 Moondog Mothers Day: Composer Focus Series featuring Jesse Gallagher as Moondog @Lilypad 7pm All Ages $10
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Chosen Shows of New England and Beyond
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Wed 5/11 Illegally Blind Presents: La Luz, Las Rosas, Bong Wish @Mid East Up 8pm 18+ $13 Wed 5/11 Show Mom Presents: Leapling, Laser Background, Sun Young, We Can All Be Sorry, Polar Express @O’Briens 7pm 18+ $8
NH: 5/9 Protomartyr with Charles &Triode @3S Artspace (Portsmouth) 8pm All Ages $12-14 NH: 5/14 Dead Cats Dead Rats, Shifty, Sneeze, Greed Island, Charles @Red Alert Skate Shop (Dover, NH) 8pm All Ages $10 NH: 5/21 Black Norse/Big Mess Split Release Show featuring Black Norse, Big Mess, It's Not Night: It's Space, and Green Bastard @Brick Haus (Dover, NH) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost
Sun 5/15 Dead Meadow @ONCE 8pm 18+ $12 Sun 5/15 Non Event Presents: Animal Hospital Ensemble with Glenn Jones and Kate Village @ Le Laboratoire 7pm All Ages $Donate$ Mon 5/16 Pinkwash, Ursula, Earthquake Party, The Cavemen @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free! Tue 5/17 The Coward Flowers, Idle Pilot, Joe Froeber and the Drunk Monkeys, Drug Dogs @ Great Scott 9:30pm 18+ $8 Wed 5/18 Rick (Of Pile), Jjaazz (Kevin From Math the Band), Request Freebird, Rosie and the Rosies @Mid East Up 8pm 18+ $10 Wed 5/18 France Jobin and Tim Feeney @ Metropolitan Waterworks Museum 6:30pm All Ages $10-15 Thu 5/19 Beach Slang, Potty Mouth, Dyke Drama, Fatal Flaw @Sinclair 7pm 18+ $15
Thu 5/12 Hallelujah the Hills, Swale, Beach Toys @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10
Thu 5/19 D.S.-13, Dropdead, Waste Management, Fucking Invincible, Firewalker @Mid East Up 8pm 18+ $13-15
Thu 5/12 Free Cake For Every Creature, Eskimeaux, Claire Cottrill @ONCE 7:30pm $12
Fri 5/20 Jonathan Zorn, Peter J Evans @Washington Street Art 8pm All Ages $ome Cost
Thu 5/12 E, Los Condenados, Devil Music Ensemble, B. McShane @The Record Company 8pm All Ages $5-$10…*A Boston Hassle Effort*
Fri 5/20 108, Sweet Jesus, Ascend/Descend, Mountain Man @Mid East Up 7 PM all ages $15
Thu 5/12 Nosy Mangabe Tour Kick Off & Kody's Going Away Bash! Also featuring Audrey Harrer,The By & By, and Crispin Swank Music @94 Perkins (JP) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Thu 5/12 Mirah, Jherek Bischoff @Cafe 939 8pm All Ages $15 Thu 5/12 Non Event Presents: Tyondai Braxton, Jan St. Werner, Isabella, Proxemia @Le Laboratoire 8pm All Ages $15 Fri 5/13 Illegally Blind Presents: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, The Murlocs, Doug Tuttle @Sinclair 8pm 18+ $15 Fri 5/13 Boston Dyke March Music Festival featuring Catching Moons, Jocelyn Limmer, Viva Gina, Jumper @Jacques Underground 8pm 21+ $10
Sat 5/21 Somerville Porchfest 2016 @Somerville All Day All Ages Sat 5/21 Somerville Porch Fest Hassle Party featuring Nickle and the Dime, Whistle Jacket, Dyr Faser, Scanpire, Dead Elect, Streight Angular, SO SOL, RVRSR, Johnnie & the Foodmasters, Tin Flowers, No Hugs, Digital Latex, Full Color, Vincent, James Discovers, Sadha, Kirk Windsor, Fat Shuggy, Joanna Boole, Guy Brown @ Pearl St. Studios 12pm All Ages…*A Temple and Boston Hassle Joint Effort* Sat 5/21 Illegally Blind Presents: Adult Mom, Forth Wanderers, Horse Jumper of Love, Brittle Brian @MidEast Up 12pm All Ages $10 Sat 5/21 Dust Witch, Troller, Dinnersss @Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $Donate$ Sat 5/21 Steve Norton with Joe Burgio’s Ensemble Inedit @Green Street Studios 9pm All Ages $Donate$ Sat 5/21 Eldridge Rodriguez, Gondolieres, Dyr Faser, Ted Billings @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8-10 Sun 5/22 Weedeater, Author & Punisher, Today Is The Day, Lord Dying @ONCE 9pm 18+ $18 Sun 5/22 Weakened Friends, Tigerman Woah, Doom Lover @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10
Fri 5/13 Karl, Wendy Alembic, Secret Rodg, sundog, John Cushing @Aviary 7pm All Ages $5-10
Mon 5/23 Plastic, Funeral Cone, Heart Breaker @Somewhere in Allston 8pm All Ages $7-10
Fri 5/13 Some Nerve, Laika's Orbit, Socialite, False Punk, Gas Station Girls @Democracy Center 7pm All Ages $8
Mon 5/23 So Sol, Fred Thomas (MI), John Cushing Trio @Zuzu 9pm 21+ FREE but $5-10 suggested donation for the touring band! *A Rad Castle and Boston Hassle Joint Effort*
Fri 5/13 SSM Performance Showcase f/ Crank Sturgeon, Andrea Pensado, PCRV, Peter J Woods, Gregory Kowalski, Tom Ashton @Deep Thoughts 8pm All Ages $5-$10 Sat 5/14 Illegally Blind Presents: Peach Kelli Pop, Secret Lover, Gravel, Electric Street Queens @Mid East Up 8pm All Ages $12
Wed 5/25 T.S.O.L., The Scandals @Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $20 Wed 5/25 A Giant Dog, Black Beach, Zip-Tie Handcuffs @O’Briens 9 PM 21+ $10
Sat 5/14 Grizzlr @Washington Street Art Center 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Sat 5/14 Papercut Zine Library Benefit featuring Laughing Stock, Piss Dogs, Profit Margin, Destroi @Democracy Center 7pm All Ages $5-7 Sat 5/14 Bent Shapes, The Spook School, Gay Sin @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10
Thu 5/26 Debo Band (record release), What Cheer? Brigade @Sinclair 7pm 18+ $15
Sat 5/14 Brittle Brian, The Gradients, Looks Like Mountains @Trixie’s Palace 8pm All Ages $5-10
Thu 5/26 Palehound with Ursula @Birdseye Lounge 9pm 18+ $7-10
RI: 5/6 Guerilla Toss, Downtown Boys, Houseboy, Lovesick @ Aurora (Providence) 8:30pm All Ages $10 RI: 5/19 Full of Hell, Empty Vessels, Sandworm, Ascend/Descend @Firehouse 13 (PVD) 9pm All Ages $10-14 RI: 5/27 Kal Marks, Twin Foxes, Snowplows, Honest Living @AS220 (PVD) 9pm All Ages $7
WMASS: 5/7 MT May Instore! featuring Ralph White, Caethua, Colby Nathan, Tom K., and Wes Buckley @Mystery Train Records 7pm All Ages Free (donate to touring musicians!) WMASS: 5/14 Rhyton, Decimus, Sunburned, Noise Nomads @Replay Gear (Greenfield) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost
WMASS: 5/3 Horse Lords, Bromp Treb (LP release), Curse Purse, Death Savings Flag @ Replay Gear (Greenfield) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost
CT: 5/13 The Amphibious Man, Vundabar, Orders, Cool Dad and Mom Pop + Co @Haus of Phibs (Bloomfield, CT) 7pm All Ages $5-10 CT: 5/20 Zanders, Skating, Lifetime Warranty, Summer Murder @Dorazio’s (Newtown, CT) 6:30pm All Ages $5
Thu 5/26 Magrudergrind, Yautja, Lunglust, I Am Become Death @ONCE 9pm 18+ $12-15
3/19-5/13 5 to 9: The double lives of commercial artists @13FOREST Gallery
Thu 5/26 Atlas Lab and Luddy Mussy @Atwood’s Tavern 9:30pm $8
Fri 5/13 Performances by Walid Raad @Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 1&4pm
Thu 5/26 Simon Joyner + local act TBA @Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $Donate$
Ongoing Intersections @Peabody Essex Museum
Fri 5/27 David Liebe Hart, Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Listening Woman, Tredici Bacci @Out of the Blue 8pm All Ages $12.50 - $15…*A Boston Hassle Joint Effort*
Sun 5/15 Grey Eagle: work and performance by Mary Ellen Strom @555 Gallery 4pm
Fri 5/27 Ex Cult, Far Corners, Andy California, Sticker Shock @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $10 Fri 5/27 Funeral Cone, Electric Street Queens, Goo Lagoon, Mass Decay, Deathtaker, Wizard Cult @Koto 8pm $ome Cost Sat 5/28 Thought Bomb with Matthew Flynn ft. Lydia Lunch, Joyce Brabner, Cassie J @Mid East Up 7pm 18+ $10 Sat 5/28 Park Slug Presents: Sneeze, Shakusky, Spelling, Federal Street Lamplighters @Lilypad 9:30pm All Ages $7-10 Sat 5/28 V-Sect, Sandworm, Lingua Ignota, Muslin, The Body @Machines with Magnets (PVD) 8:30pm All Ages $8 Sat 5/28 Static Circus, Damon Smith, Wendy Alembic @Radio Bean (Winooski, VT) 11pm All Ages $ome Cost Sun 5/29 The Zookeepers, Sun Young, Dust From 1000 Years, Polar Express @The Midway 4 PM 21+ $5 Mon 5/30 Jawzwa, Vat, Baylies Band, The Payne-Taylors @The Midway 8pm 21+ $5 Mon 5/30 Rad Castle Presents: Full Color, Citrusphere, Vaepers @Zuzu 9pm 21+ Free Tue 5/31 Rotten Sound, Ramming Speed, Fucking Invincible, Backstabbers Inc., Fuming Mouth, Eaten @Mid East Up 7pm All Ages $15 Tue 5/31 Eye Design Presents: Linear Downfall, Horsehands, Dent, & Minibeast @Out of the Blue Too 9pm All Ages $8
4/8-6/24 Cuba: Waiting for Change @Multicultural Arts Center Reception 5/19, 6-8pm 4/29-6/4 Days and Dailies: works by Bronlyn Jones, Anges Martin, Kay Rosen, and Sarah Sze @Barbara Krakow Gallery 4/1-5/28 Radcliffe Baily @Samsøn Projects Thu 5/19 Third Thursdays: A New Light @Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 5:30pm $5-15 Fri 5/20 The Cyclorama Show: MFA Thesis Exhibition, SMFA Reception 7:30-10pm (4/25-5/27) Archiv* @Gallery Kayafas
3/20-6/27 re: development @Gallery at Atlantic Wharf
5/1-5/8 A Fragile Balance @Fort Point Arts Community Gallery Reception Fri. 5/6, 6-8pm Fri 5/6 SoWa First Fridays @450 Harrison Ave 5-9pm Sat 5/7 Mobius @Green Street: an evening of collaborations @Green Street Studios 8pm $20, $18 for students 5/7-7/10 CounterCraft: Voices of the Indie Craft Community @Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton Reception Sat. 5/7, 2-5pm 4/29-5/25 Active Fields: solo exhibition by Kawandeep Virdee @OPEN Gallery 4/29-6/10 I Am Not Who I Think I Am: Salvador Jiménez-Flores @Urbano Projects 4/3-7/17 Megacities Asia @Museum of Fine Arts, Boston FREE after 4pm on Wednesdays CT: 5/29 Queen Moo, Horse Jumper of Love, Peaer, Quiet Giant and Glambat @Lyric Hall Theater (New Haven, CT) 7pm All Ages $7-10 NY: Psychic Teens, Beach Creeps, What Moon Things, Shop Talk, Big Band @IDIO Gallery (NY) 8pm All Ages $8 NY: 5/26 Hank Wood & the Hammerheads, Urochromes, Warthog, Wrung, Suspect @ Palisades (NY) 8pm All Ages $12 NY: 5/26 PC Worship, Martin Bisi, Dead Waves, Parlor Walls, Prima, Ritual Humor @Shea Stadium (NY) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost
Sat 5/7 NAZI LAW: LEGALLY BLIND (2016) Dir. John and Susan Michalczyk @MFA Something’s rotten in the organic state Sat 5/7 PINK NARCISSUS (1971) dir. James Bidgood @ HFA Underground queer technicolor musical Sat 5/7 SOFT FICTION (1979) Dir. Chick Strand @HFA Sex, selves and other stories of the female body
Ongoing Alex da Corte: Free Roses @MassMoca 4/23-6/4 NiGHTSHiFT3: CASUAL DEVIANT @ CASTLEDRONE By appointment: email Anthony Palocci Jr and Maggie Cavallo castledrone@ gmail.com
Mon 5/9 DON’T LOOK BACK (1967) dir. D.A. Pennebaker @COOLIDGE Dylan goes electric, verite
4/20-5/28 Claire Beckett: Converts @Carroll and Sons
Wed 5/11 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) dir. Steven Spielberg @BRATTLE Highly realistic portrayal of archaeology
5/20-7/17 Tala Madani: First Light @MIT List Visual Arts Center Reception Thur. 5/19, 6pm Thu 5/26 Workshop with BLAA, The Boston LGBTQIA Artist Alliance 6:30-7:30pm As part of Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community @Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts Exhibit runs (4/29-7/10) 4/28-6/26 Exposure: The 20th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition @Photographic Resource Center at Boston University 2/12-6/5 Who Does She Think She Is?: work by Rosalyn Drexler @The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
Ongoing Lawrence Weiner Mural & Matthew Hoffman installation @ The Greenway Parks 5/20-7/17 Villa Design Group: The Tragedy Machine @MIT List Visual Arts Center
4/19-5/7 MassArt Graduate Thesis Exhibition @ Bakalar & Paine Galleries, MassArt Ends 5/8 Art of Jazz: Form/Performance/Notes @The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art
Fri 5/6 ROBOCOP (1987) dir. Paul Verhoeven @ COOLIDGE Christ-like cyborg cop action movie Also screens 5/7
Sun 5/8 PSYCHO (1960) dir. Alfred Hitchcock @BRATTLE Oedipal epochal slasher Special Mother’s Day screening!
Ongoing The Fence @SoWa Open Market
Ends Sun 5/1 Membrane: Biology and Art @ Cyberarts 12-6pm
Thurs 5/5 VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1967) dir. Mark Robson @BRATTLE Pilled-out melodrama
Managing Editor: Oscar Goff Contributors: Oscar Goff, Matthew Martens, Nicholas Perry, Pablo Torroella Sun 5/1 NO HOME MOVIE (2016) Dir. Chantal Akerman @MFA Lost will, last testament Screens through 5/29 Mon 5/2 THE APOSTATE (2015) Dir. Federico Veiroj @ HFA Kill your idols, study your navel Director in person!
Thurs 5/12 FAMILY PLOT (1976) dir. Alfred Hitchcock @ BRATTLE Hitchcock doing what he does best: suspense Fri 5/13 MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (2015) Jia Zhangke @BRATTLE Three friends, two decades, China in seachange Area premiere! Screens through 5/16 Fri 5/13 BELLADONNA OF SADNESS (1973) Dir. Eiichi Yamamoto @BRATTLE Countercult erotodelia in ornate delirium Screens through 5/16 Fri 5/13 UNDER THE UNDERGROUND #7 @OOTB Way-underground films ‘n’ tunes Sat 5/14 THE ROOM (2003) dir. Tommy Wiseau @ COOLIDGE You’re tearing me apart, Lisa! Sun 5/15 PATHS TO PARADISE (1925) dir. Clarence G. Badger @SOMERVILLE Flapper-era silent con-games Live musical accompaniment!
Tues 5/24 PERSONA (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman @ COOLIDGE Why can’t I be you? Liv Ullmann in person!! Fri 5/27 KAGERO-ZA (1981) Dir. Seijun Suzuki @HFA A toothsome travesty of history and narrative logic Fri 5/27 ALIEN3 (1992) dir. David Fincher @COOLIDGE Underrated third part in the series from David Fincher Also screens 5/28 LISTINGS NOTE: Below is the venue abbreviation key: Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE Brassica Kitchen + Cafe – BRASSICA Coolidge Corner Theatre - COOLIDGE Harvard Film Archive - HFA Institute of Contemporary Art - ICA Kendall Square Cinema - KENDALL Museum of Fine Arts Boston - MFA Out of the Blue Too Art Gallery – OOTB Somerville Theatre – SOMERVILLE Please see our sister website BostonHassle.com/Film for our full listings w/ showtimes and other info. FILM FLAM SEEKS VOLUNTEERS!!! If you would like to get involved with our film section or submit listings, shoot us an email at BostonHassleFilm@gmail.com
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Mon 5/16 CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (1967) Dir. Orson Welles @COOLIDGE A late-career masterpiece restored! Thurs 5/19 BRANDED TO KILL (1966) dir. Seijun Suzuki @ BRATTLE Whacked-out yakuza-noir Also screens 5/13 @HFA
Mon 5/2 CAFFENOL FILMS #1 @BRASSICA Hassle-sponsored experimental shorts
Sat 5/21 HOCKNEY (2014) Dir. Randall Wright @MFA Plummy pool-painter stays pop Screens through 5/29
Wed 5/4 STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015) dir. J.J. Abrams @BRATTLE Spoiler alert: Star Wars is good again
Mon 5/23 FUNNY FACE (1957) dir. Stanley Donen @ COOLIDGE May/December technicolor romance musical
VT: 5/7 Waking Windows Almost There Showcase featuring California X, Burglary Years, Midriffs, Pleasure Gap, Bunny Boy, Gymshorts, Beth Head, Sleeping In, Apartment 3 @Scout & Company (Winooski, VT) 5pm All Ages $ome Cost VT: 5/7 Waking Windows EIS Showcase featuring Big Ups, Bad History Month, Kal Marks, Dirty Dishes, Washer @Monkey House (Winooski, VT) 7pm All Ages $ome Cost VT: 5/7 Waking Windows NNA Tapes Showcase featuring Guerilla Toss, Kalbells, Ryan Power @ Oak 45 (Winooski, VT) 9:30pm All Ages $ome Cost
ME: 5/8 Chris Cohen, Guerilla Toss, Family Planning @SPACE Gallery (Portland, ME) 8pm All Ages $8-10 ME: 5/20 Full of Hell, Clean, Sire, Clan of Dyad @Ask a Punk (Portland, ME)7:30pm All Ages $Donate$ ME: 5/27 Rhys Chatham @SPACE Gallery (Portland, ME) All Ages 8:30pm $15-20
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Taurus Spreading rumors about people that you are jealous of will not a. make your hair grow back, b. elongate your dick, c. increase your thigh gap, d. garner support for your artwork, e. buoy your parents' health, f. legalize weed, g. combat homelessness, h. end wars, or i-z. improve anything for anyone ever; it just makes you look desperate. Polar seltzer flavor: caffeinated pancake Lucky Show: PC Worship @ Deep Thoughts JP
Aquarius Next time you feel unimportant and small, imagine yourself as a planet, growing and thriving with tiny microbes all over you, referring to you as their "mother" that they need to protect. And then think of your cat as your moon, because its whole tiny life revolves are you. Polar seltzer flavor: shirts and skins Lucky Show: Dust Witch @ Deep Thoughts JP
Sagittarius Discounted defrosted chicken arms slathered in red and orange from the local misery exchange are a challenge to you, to find solace in the knowledge once-and-for-all: HOW MANY CAN YOU EAT! Polar seltzer flavor: dog bowl Lucky Show: Protomartyr @ Great Scott
Capricorn You repeatedly engage in face-swapping activities, hoping the app will accidentally implant you with a purer soul. Polar seltzer flavor: bibimbap Lucky Show: Piss Dogs @ Democracy Center
Cancer You anticipate entering an intimate evening with a person who has a Celtic tattoo sprawling across his or her lower back. Be sure to get an accurate translation of the body modification's message before you emphatically underline it with ropes of cum. Polar seltzer flavor: Ezekiel 4:9 Lucky Show: Bong Wish @ Middle East
Aries When life gives you five dollars, use it to buy a small dead octopus from H-mart and slap it against your loins. Polar seltzer flavor: matcha Lucky Show: Cloud Becomes Your Hand @ Out of the Blue
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Libra If a mustard-colored peep-cleavage dress doesn't provide the superpowers you require for careless destruction, a steel baseball bat might! Polar seltzer flavor: lemonade Lucky Show: Birthing Hips @ Grandma's House
Virgo It's warm out so more people will be wandering the streets drunk and there will be a contingency attempting to mug them. You may even be mistaken for a drunk person and a sprinting Gemini Based on your recent experiences, if you penned a self-help book it stranger will try to tote-snatch you. would probably be titled, So You Were That's just life so be on guard, and if you see somebody stumbling around ahead Blasting Frankie Cosmos And Crying Over Your Crush And Your Roommates of you trail them home for their safety. Hold your belongings tight and your Came Home And Although Your Parsense of community tighter. ents Never Walked In On You Masturbating You Now Know The Same Shame. Polar seltzer flavor: lamb's blood Lucky Show: Terror Pigeon @ Out of Polar seltzer flavor: Rasta banana Lucky Show: Floating Points @ Sinclair the Blue Leo If you're having a holy psychedelic experience, don't go on Facebook chat. Polar seltzer flavor: strawberry goo Lucky Show: Marisa Anderson @ Deep Thoughts JP
Pisces May you hear your own record playing in a bar. Polar seltzer flavor: spider eggs (seasonal only) Lucky Show: Debo Band @ Sinclair
Scorpio Now that you're back into compulsively drinking apple cider vinegar, try not to pant too heavily on your guitar or your bff's new Prius; otherwise the paint will chip right the fuck off. Polar seltzer flavor: turmeric Lucky Show: Los Condenados @ The Record Co. 4