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If you’re holding this week’s issue, you will have undoubtedly noticed at least two things.

First, that the general size, layout, feel and form of DigBoston has a decidedly more streamlined appearance, as well as an elongated presence. This isn’t due to some weird mutation or pubescent growth spurt of our happy little sheet. Instead, it’s the first issue of our new look and feel, which will help us accomplish everything you’ve come to rely on us for week in and week out—that being cutting edge arts and entertainment, music, news, marijuana, and lifestyle journalism focusing on Boston and the surrounding towns the way no other outlet can or does.

Second, there is what appears to be some kind of ski-toting polka-dot ninja on the cover.

While we love the idea of polka-dot hooded ninjas taking to the streets to exact justice in the face of injustice, that’s actually just the wrapping paper to the fantastic Winter Sports special issue we’ve assembled. Be you a novice or someone who takes on the slopes without fear (and with a wallet that can support the activity), this issue is loaded like a Boston.com story openly making light of assassination plots against elected officials.

Except while that’s something that should be avoided, our Winter Sports spread shouldn’t be, especially if you’re looking to find all the best parties, deals, gear, and backcountry skiing New England has to offer.

Have fun out there.

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OH, CRUEL WORLD Dear Bostonians, You live in a place where the mayor fired someone from a city job for blocking traffic in a protest, while at the same time the cop who is charged with assaulting an Uber driver, stealing his car, and screaming racial slurs still has his job for the time being. Just think about that for a second, and try not to start punching kitchen cabinets.

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they’re intelligent]. I stand by that completely!! None that I know of were constituents but if they were...I would call them STUPID again in a heartbeat!!! In regards to referring to them as college kids...that was my information at the time.

In the throes of so much hideous hyperbole, it was awfully telling to see who and how many Greater Bostonians came out this week to march in memory of Dr. King. According to irate white people and those pretending to believe that causing delays is an act of violence, there should have been nothing but young Caucasian millionaires stroking one another’s dreadlocks while they blew off spring semester. In reality, the scene at Monday’s 4 Mile March better reflected the dream for which King is remembered than does any angry Twitter troll or neolib opinion-monger. Young, white, old, black, immigrant, and homeless marched together; at one point, it looked like there were at least 1,000 heads.

If you’re wondering why your ignorant uncle suggested otherwise on social media, it’s because he’s probably as interested in their demographics as he is in the message carried through their bullhorns: “Racism continues unabated in this country.”

The march drew many of the people whom the highway blockade naysayers scorn, from college kids in ski coats to the very activists who jammed the interstate with oil drums. Also present, however, were the peaceful protesters and people of color whom Residents Against Civilians Instigating Serious Traffic claim they stand behind. They chanted, spoke out, died in, and issued demands: • Jail Killer Cops • Justice for Families in Boston and Massachusetts • A Living Wage • Defund Prisons and Fund Communities • End Mass Incarceration • No Boston Olympics • Stop US Imperialism Those topics haven’t registered too loudly in the media, or with the public. Some protest adversaries claim that this is because average people stopped listening due to gadflies interrupting traffic, but that’s complete horseshit. If they genuinely cared about any of those issues, it wouldn’t make a difference to them if Al Sharpton hosted an N.W.A. reunion on an off-ramp. At the very least, they would be NEWS TO US continued on pg. 6

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DigBoston is a tiny outlet with a small budget in a mediumsize city that happens to wield a major influence on a giant America. And while it’s typically encouraging that the intelligent ecosystem here serves as a sociopolitical juggernaut, in the wake of the most polarizing rush-hour debacle on record, it felt like our progressive voice belonged only to a wee minority, those who saw an act of courage in the blocking of a highway by protesters last week.

If you’re tuning in from outside of the Hub, consider this the ominous eye-wink of a hostage at the front door who’s signaling that an abductor has a gun to their head: These Boston liberals are full of shit! They joke, smile, even take a day off every winter to remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But give most of ’em an inch of column space, and their knowledge of the Civil Rights leader is more selective than that of an ISIS soldier cherry-picking Koran verses. Take, for example, the Facebook rants of Democratic State Rep. Colleen Garry of Dracut, who has shamelessly suntanned in the tabloid spotlight gleaned from her attachment to a bill that would criminalize peaceful direct action, the sort of thing that would make Putin blush. From her greatest hits: How on Earth can you NOT say those protestors on Thursday were not STUPID!!! [Ed. Note: She’s saying

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BY CHRIS FARAONE @FARA1 The point of this column is to essentially compile a spank bank of weed paraphernalia. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, and since Blunt Truth columnist Mike Cann needed a week off, and I needed a break from covering insanity and racism, I decided to take a trip down memory lane and run through the methods I’ve used to escape the grind for 20 years.

I went to high school in the ’90s, so that should tell you quite a bit. I wasn’t corny enough to sport a jester pipe with jingle bells, but I was a metal man for sure, Protopipe and all. Otherwise, like every other Golden Age rap nerd, I more or less exclusively burned blunts from 10th through 12th grade.

Kids today take glass for granted, but as any old dog will tell you, there wasn’t always access to such fine accoutrements. By the time I arrived in college in the late ’90s though, hand-blown collectibles were finally arriving in force; at my school in New York, a few kids used to sell small pieces door to dormitory door.

It wasn’t ’til I moved to Florida and became acquainted with their crippies that I learned to dry and shred and load my nugs into a sweet variety of handblown glass chillums. From there it was a series of mid-size glass pieces until six years ago, when I made the best decision of my life, to spare no expense in finding my ideal apparatus. She’s about five inches, curved spine, bubble grip on every contour.

In surveying the vape landscape, I’ve made friends with the Magic Flight Launch Box, though the larger Vapir Rise, which I currently share in joint custody with a co-worker, is capable of doing what the brownie that I ate today appears to have done, which is inspire me to ramble on about weed with no actual point, and to write an entire column about nothing of any importance whatsoever.

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more vocal about state brutality than they have been about some ambulances being redirected.

Back on the rally route, all movements seemed peaceful. Dogs. Strollers. A couple of grandmas and grandpas. Not everybody had a blast; at one point, as the march passed cemeteries on the Freedom Trail, one cop moaned to another that the “Founding Fathers must be rolling in their graves.” For the most part though, even the police seemed seemed calm, and why shouldn’t they have been?

Monday’s demonstration went exactly how authorities had hoped, with protesters simply circling the Common, and cops having control over the situation.

Given their chants and frustrations, it was obvious that those participating on the ground gave up on the moderate media and Democrats like Colleen Garry a long time ago. It’s doubtful many of them were expecting much collective sympathy from Massholes who still proudly say their families moved out to the suburbs to escape busing. Marchers on Monday sung: “I can hear my neighbor crying, ‘I Can’t Breathe.’” As we’re reminded every time an unenlightened dimwit exhales privileged lies and bigotry, their similarly fortunate neighbors are breathing just fine, and that’s all that really matters to them.

Anyone observing demonstrators Monday could have separated fact from fiction, the reality of their makeup from the fantasies so many haters have concocted. But those activists on I-93 stopped more than cars and trucks; they also provoked people to stop being polite, and to start getting real ... dumb. The last few days have been a coming out party for closeted Archie Bunkers, and fairweather lefties haven’t proven themselves too much classier.

Not that anyone should be surprised by any of this. We don’t have to travel back to King’s time for a glimpse at how fickle Boston is in its approval process.

Sometimes it just takes a while for locals to recognize heros. Just look at the Arredondo family, which not too long ago was the target of police surveillance and harassment due to their anti-war activism. A prolific demonstrator who lost a son in Iraq, Carlos Arredondo says he was arrested with excessive force while protesting outside of Boston Police Department headquarters in 2009, during the funeral procession for Senator Ted Kennedy.

All these years later, Arredondo is internationally recognized for his heroism in the aftermath of the attack on the 2013 Boston Marathon. At the same time, we seem to have conveniently forgotten that he was once considered dangerous and subversive by the same powers that now praise him. That’s not to say that Arredondo or anyone else compares to King, or that either one of them necessarily subscribes to radical traditions like those espoused by the highway disruptors. Whatever the case, their legacies are all for history to judge, and whether it takes five years or 50, time tends to favor those who stick their necks out over those who rubberneck.

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First a thought: This Dzhokhar Tsarnaev trial is going to be over, and the best visual remembrance we’ll have is a trove of courtroom sketches that, like all other courtroom sketches in the history of this ridiculous tradition, neither depict what actually happened nor serve much of any purpose. The latest few are masterstrokes, but we could probably learn just as much from some kind of interpretive rain dance.

In the past week some hacks made their hay out of the judge dramatically telling potential jurors they’ll get to decide whether the kid lives or dies, while others focused on the quirkiness of those being interviewed, including one schmuck who said his roommates think the prospect of a death sentence is “cool.”

Considering you have to essentially be brain dead to qualify for the assignment, we assume the kid was approved. If not, he can probably get a job covering the trial for a local outlet …

IF ONLY It turns out the big news this week ain’t news at all. With a lack of interesting stories on the Boston Marathon bombing trial front, the web-skimming public went nuts over a bogus piece from the tragically unfunny Empire News, “Accused Boston Marathon Bomber Severely Injured In Prison, May Never Walk Or Talk Again.” We’ll stop at that.

CHUMBAGS Ladies and gentlemen, the clumsiest lede of the year so far, courtesy of Boston Herald writer Laurel J. Sweet and whichever baboon edits her copy: A childhood chum of Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev’s who belatedly told investigators it was “clear” his friend was one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects—but he didn’t call the cops—is not deserving of mercy ...

Not a lot of people know this, but if you close your eyes in a public bathroom and say “childhood chum” 10 times in a row, Herald editor-in-chief Joe Sciacca jumps out of the toilet and slaps you twice across the ass.

BUSTED As much as we would love to shatter every bone in little Jizz Tsarnaev’s body with a baseball bat, it was unbearable to watch how childishly amused so many reporters were to boast that Dorchester UFC fighter John “Doomsday” Howard broke older brother Tamerlan’s nose back in the day. This is already an insane story, with religion and bombs and FBI agents. There’s no need to sensationalize such silly tangents. If you’re going to move that far off the ball, you might as well spin articles out of thin air.

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BY EMILY HOPKINS @GENDERPIZZA Earlier this month, Mayor Marty Walsh pledged that none of the projected budget for the 2024 Olympics would come from taxes. But other than hoping and believing such dreams will come true, there’s nothing anyone can do to pull off such an event without public funds, and no evidence such a thing is possible.

For decades, many of the Games have cost double or even triple the originally planned amount. In the years between winning the bid and the big show, some contractors may go out of business. Or a recession may hit, which means that the private money will dry up, leaving the city to pick up the tab and fulfill contractual requirements.

Walsh also promises a transparent process, but it’s impossible to forget that there’s been zero public input thus far, and that Boston remains in the dark. There are forums scheduled now that we’ve received the USOC bid, but none of them are being held outside of Boston proper. As if only the Hub will be affected.

For Olympians and developers, the mayor’s made a lot of dreams come true. Too bad for us all that they’re in for a rude awakening.

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England based thrill-seeker to the different mainstream and alt-sports available in this area from something of a macro vantage point. A general listing, if you will, of key mountains and their stats in a state-by-state breakdown, from sledding to skiing to skijoring (read: horse-drawn skiing). And that was great. But considering the season is well upon us, this second Winter Sports issue is meant to give you the skinny on where to go and why, and which gear, tech, deals, and parties to focus on from now until the sun returns and we can start wearing shorts in warm weather, instead of in the snow. Wearing shorts in winter: so Boston.

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Skis—the fatter the better.

PLACE:

[John] Sherburne Ski Trail, Mount Washington, New Hampshire, for backcountry skiing.

GO-TO APRÈS-SKI:

Moat Mountain Brewery, North Conway. Great suds.

GO-TO FOOD:

White Mountain Cider Co. in Glen, New Hampshire.

Insanely delicious food and handcrafted cocktails set in a fire-crackling cozy environment. Get there early.

We asked a few of our friends in the media, music, and culinary scene about their favorite spots in New England.

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Maybe you need a reason to get up to the slopes this year. Maybe you don’t.

Either way, below you’ll find a fun cross-section of a spattering of different parties and events taking place this season at a selection of mountains throughout New England. Happy trails.

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LOON MOUNTAIN

Pirates of the High Skis Feb. 7

Bunyan’s Legendary Nights Every Saturday Through March 28

Where: Franconia, NH Distance: 2hr 30min Price: $72/day $59/Student Snow guarantee: Yes Trails: 73

Dress like a pirate, hunt for treasure, and even visit the temporary tattoo parlor, all while on your skis.

CROTCHED MOUNTAIN

Where: Franconia, NH Distance: 2hr 30min Price: $72/day $59/Student Snow guarantee: No Trails: 25

11th Annual Cardboard Sled Derby March 14

A competition determined to find the best of the best of cardboard sleds. Duct tape recommended.

We’ll add helmets to that recommendation knowing you, you animals.

Where: Lincoln, NH Distance: 2hr 30min Price: $81/day Snow guarantee: Yes Trails: 61

21+ après-ski party in Loon’s Bunyan room spanning everything from ’90s cover bands to DJs spinning all ’90s tracks, all for no cover charge.

Basically, if you love the ’90s there’s a party for you here.

MOUNT SNOW Where: West Dover, VT Distance: 3hr 30min Price: $90/day Snow guarantee: Yes Trails: 80

Bud Light Mardi Gras Feb. 17

Get your fill of beads, alcoholinduced wipeouts, and live music while celebrating the festive holiday. Hey, it’s cheaper than flying to NOLA.

Jack Jump World Championships March 8

A tradition in which people race down a slope on a seat mounted atop a ski. Balance and coordination extremely necessary.

Knowing how many beers you’ve had beforehand, also necessary.

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EVENTS RAGGED MOUNTAIN Where: Danbury, NH Distance: 2hr 30min Price: $52/day Snow guarantee: Yes Trails: 53

‘70s Weekend & Toga Party Jan. 30-31

STAR WARS DAY Feb. 28

70th Edition of the Stowe Derby Feb. 22

Where: Bridgton, ME Distance: 3hr Price: $60/day $40 Students $35/ night Snow guarantee: Yes Trails: 42

Mascot Day Feb. 22

Imagine a regular day swooshing your way down the slopes, except now add throngs of people in mascot costumes ranging from Acorn to Wolverine careening at top speeds all around you. You may want to pack an extra bag of weed for this one.

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Where: West Dover, VT Distance: 3hr 30min Price: $90/day Snow guarantee: Yes Trails: 80

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Nothing beats going to an Animal House-themed toga party after a long day of skiing, and, as a bonus, stay for the next day to hit the slopes in your best ’70s attire.

Discounts and contests for those dressed in full Star Wars costumes (yes, you can bring your faux lightsabers), and all proceeds go to charity. No, “Help get me out of my parents’ basement” isn’t a charity.

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For four hours, some of the best ice carvers in the region will be battling for the win right before your very eyes in an event sanctioned by the National Ice Carving Association. Which is a thing.

The tradition of the epic race from the top of Vermont’s highest peak to the historic village of Stowe itself continues, for the first time adding fatbikes as a competition class. Fatbikes, people. Fatbikes.

SUNDAY RIVER

Where: Newry, ME Distance: 3hr 30min Price: $89/day&night Snow guarantee: Yes Trails: 132

White Out Weekend Feb. 6-8

Crazy mountain party in partnership with OutRyders, New England’s largest GLBT ski and snowboard club, with special events and parties including après-ski socials, fireworks, a zip-line parade, and the headline event, a mid-mountain themed DJ party.

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Bretton Woods is my jam.I like the wild trails, and it does not get too crowded.

GO-TO APRÈS-SKI:

I like to sneak into the Mount Washington Hotel.

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SKI vs. BOARD:

Can we choose sledding?

WE CHOOSE SLEDDING!

PLACE:

Ringer Park in Allston, with a fresh flask of whiskey, because who the fuck can afford to ski?!

GO-TO APRÈS-SKI:

Lone Star in Allston, for that post-sledding margarita and taco!

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Mount Snow in Vermont

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The Snow Barn for live music, and to get a local beer like Long Trail.

GO-TO FOOD:

A Hawaiian pizza to get me thinking of warming up.

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SPORTS GUIDE Sure, there’s nothing wrong with making a sojourn to the mountains with the same snow pants you’ve been wearing since puberty. But thanks to The Ski Monster (where you can even bring in your ride for same-day tuneups pre-slopes if needed), you can find a lot of killer gear right on Canal Street by the TD Garden. Here are some choice picks that are relatively easy (ish) on the wallet. THESKIMONSTER.COM PHOTOS BY DEREK KOUYOUMJIAN

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SAGA ZIP UP HOODIE

Nothing tech-fancy here. Just an insanely comfortable, oversize fleece zip up that comes in all manner of funky urban designs. It’s a little more lasting than just adding graffiti to your favorite hoodie.

This face mask comes in an array of colors, and is designed to increase airflow and deal with heavy breathing by holding minimal moisture. Translation: no more spit icicles on the slopes.

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DAKINE HELI PRO PACK

Outfitted to keep a small snow shovel, a rescue whistle, and your hot and cold drinks (which will stay hot or cold), this pack also has room on the back where you can strap on your board or skis before you hit those backcountry trails. Sadly, the “heli” doesn’t mean you get a helicopter with it.

We asked.

PRET CYNIC HELMET

Easy to adjust, even with a gloved hand, with a turn of the tightener wheel, great unisex head protection that’s lined with a fleece/wool blend to stay warm and comfy. It’s also designed with ear-flap pouches to allow for in-helmet tech.

$100

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CHIPS BLUETOOTH UNIVERSAL HELMET SPEAKERS

Universal and wireless Bluetooth in-helmet speakers. You can play, pause, control volume, answer calls, and even skip tracks and talk to Siri, all without taking off your gloves. Choose your thrashing soundtrack wisely, people.

$129.95 MAMMUT BORMIO PANTS

Made for both men and women, these pants have reinforced cuffs to protect against ski edges, and the gait grips around your boots. And they’re insulted for extreme cold as well as spring skiing.

$249.95

SMARTWOOL ULTRA LIGHT SKI SOCKS

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Crazy snug and warm ski socks with Merino wool material and calf cut for hold, ventilated for moisture management.

Sweaty foot stank is part of lodge life, but it doesn’t have to be with these.

$20.95

TRANSPACK BOOT BAG

If you make the slog to the slopes with a ton of gear, this is great for holding it all: boots, helmet, spare goggles, and even an extra jacket.

You know how you’re always trashing your jackets.

$79.95

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Think of Liftopia as the TripAdvisor of ski resorts.

It gives you the lowdown on which places are worth visiting and where the best snow is, and gives a hearty discount on almost everything you’ll need once you get there, from lift tickets to lessons. Great for those on a budget. Or if you’re just cheap. liftopia.com/iphoneapp

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Handy for tracking vertical data, airtime, calories burned while frolicking (you do frolick), and everything in between.

Recent updates let you sync it with a GoPro video recorder and make the app record your greatness on the mountain as it happens. Or just use GoPro’s editing powers to make yourself seem great. snow.traceup.com/ landing Priding itself on being one of the most social winter sports apps, snowbuddy, with its mascot Cristof, goes beyond the usual user statistics and weather updates to include plenty of weird (read: yodeling) and quirky games you and your friends can play on the slopes. Which may or may not involve pants. snowbuddyhq.com

BUDGETING YOUR WINTER SPORTS-DOM

Skiing, snowboarding, and whatever else you do outside of sledding at killer resorts around New England is expensive. Even more so if you’re an undergrad or grad student living on a budget. So the next time you want to get to the slopes, remember you have options for doing so on the cheap. Or cheapish, anyway. See below.

STUDENTS

COLLEGE MIDNIGHT MADNESS Every Friday night starting Dec. 26, Crotched Mountain hosts an all-night event from 5pm to 3am. Pay $39 with college ID and your get a lift ticket, live music, and drink specials. CROTCHEDMOUNTAIN.COM/ MIDNIGHT_MADNESS 4.0 COLLEGE PASS. With access to Killington, Okemo, Pico, and Mount Sunapee for college students, this is a one-time fee of $419 for endless lift tickets and additional discounts for the season.

Call it a way to spend next semester’s book money from grandma. On second thought, maybe don’t call it that. Especially if grandma is around. KILLINGTON.COM

Mon through Wed 11:30 - 10:30

College Weekend From January 30 through Feb. 2, college students with valid ID visiting Okemo can take advantage of discounted lodging, and one- or two-day lift tickets. OKEMO.COM

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THE SKI LIFT Nothing worse than getting all your gear together, waxing your ride, loading up on carbs the night before (beer is carbs, right?), and waking up early to hit the slopes, only to realize … you have no way of getting there. Well, here’s a rideshare system for people planning trips to the mountains.

Hitch a ride or plan your own trip and find strangers to split the travel cost.

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NEW ENGLAND PASS A way to land unlimited access to Loon, Sunday River, and Sugarloaf for the season, all for one price: $529. Scrounge up extra cash and you can land even more discounts. It really comes down to you here.

NEWENGLANDPASS.COM RIDE AND SKI CARD The Ride and Ski Card, once purchased for $49.99, can be used repeatedly for lodging, lift discounts, and two-for-one lift tickets at New England spots like Shawnee Peak, Saddleback, and Attitash.

RIDEANDSKINE.COM LAST MINUTE SKI GETAWAYS Sometimes you plan ahead. Other times you don’t. For the latter, Last Minute Ski Getaways works directly with Vermont ski resorts so you can land deals like 50 percent off tickets and lodging at goto spots in the Green Mountain State.

LASTMINUTESKIGETAWAYS.COM BOSTON SKI AND BOARD BUS For $85 you get a lift ticket, a round-trip bus from Boston, bagels in the morning, and a beer tasting in the afternoon. It’s a weekend operation, and covers trips to resorts like Loon, Cannon, Waterville Valley, Wildcat, and Sunday River. Giddyap.

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BREWSKIS FOR YOUR NEXT POWDER DAY Aptly themed beers for après-ski imbibing

BY KAREN CINPINSKI @CATSINPJS Beer has always held a hallowed place in snow sports. Many a tall tale has been recounted over après pints, not to mention the restorative effect that brews have on those savaged, frozen muscles (see: alcohol). And because we love the thrill of zipping down snowcapped peaks, especially when beers are waiting post-slope, we’ve corralled a handful of seasonal and regular-release beers that speak to the affection for skiing. Reach for these chill-chasing, ski-centric sudsy options for end-of-day libations.

THE SHED MOUNTAIN ALE

Nothing says ski-related beer like a swill dubbed Mountain Ale. This year-round unfiltered English strong ale from The Shed Brewery in mountain-dotted Vermont falls somewhere between a medium- and a full-bodied ale with pronounced caramel and toffee notes, moderate bitterness, and a roast finish, which is perfect for any pre- or post-run merriment. You don’t disagree.

Packing a gear bag and strapping your chosen slopes-ride to your back to take on remote and ungroomed ski areas is an oft-overlooked winter sport in New England. And contrary to the belief of the uneducated (and a few West Coast ski snobs), there’s some great trails right in our collective backyard. Here’s a few choice spots for getting your backcountry ski on. And if you get caught in unauthorized terrain, blame your inability to escape. Not us.

Mount Cardigan, NH

A proper introduction to backcountry skiing, Mount Cardigan has a relatively quick ascent hike, large trails, and open snowfields that’ll allow you time to teach yourself the basics of the sport (first lesson: Don’t ski into a tree) while still giving a great trip down for any skill level.

BAR HARBOR CADILLAC MOUNTAIN STOUT

Named after the glorious mountain in Bar Harbor, Maine, Cadillac Mountain Stout is a smooth, full-bodied, and flavorful dry Irish stout perfect for sipping after conquering the sevenmile round-trip cross-country skiing trek. Heck, have a few bottles in tow and enjoy them with the white pines and spruce.

They like beer too, you know.

John Sherburne Ski Trail, NH

Originally designed as an easier descent from Tuckerman Ravine, “Sherbie” is an intermediate-level trail and has become a local favorite. While only “skinning,” a kind of hybrid between hiking and skiing, is (technically) permitted on the trail, it takes just around two hours to hike to the top. Then it’s just you and the snow, and wide-open terrain.

Tuckerman Ravine

Located in the same White Mountain National Forest as the Sherbie trail, “Tuck’s” is a six-mile round-trip trail of fairly challenging terrain. With the steep slopes, howling wind, and heavy snowfall, be sure to hit this one armed with proper skills and equipment. Yes, a flask of solid bourbon can be considered equipment.

CISCO WINTER SHREDDER

Be like Gnar-Gnar Lumpkin, the shreddingest snowman this side of Nantucket Sound, who likes nothing better than tearing up the white stuff. Or don’t. But keep Mass-based Cisco Brewing’s Winter Shredder on hand while inside the snow-globe-perfect mountainscape. You’ll love the winter seasonal’s mild spice and toastiness, both in flavor and in booze. Mostly booze.

Jay Peak, VT

Big Jay is a well-known spot close to Stowe, with 3.5 miles of trails and an elevation of 3,858 feet.

Some years back, some fellas illegally cut down approximately 1,000 trees to create a new trail of their own, and while that was clearly a crime, chances are that if you find yourself navigating that path you won’t be calling the ski patrol on yourself.

EASTIE RIDE Fully custom skis out of East Boston

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If your current skis seem to have lost their luster in your eyes, or if you just want to create a pair that are 100 percent customized for New England terrain (all mountain, powder, woods/backcountry) and can be designed from the color to the artwork, check out Parlor Skis off Rt 1A. You start by creating a profile for your ideal type of core material and preferred style, then dream up just about anything for design. If you’re not that artsy, don’t worry, they have a stable of independent artists that can work with you. They can’t help if you suck at skiing, however. PARLORSKIS.COM

CLOWN SHOES REINDEER GAMES

Massachusetts’ Clown Shoes Beer whipped up this new limited-release seasonal Bavarian IPA just in time for winter sports libation. Unlike the typical dark, heavy seasonals now out en masse, it’s bold with a strong emphasis on earthy, piney hops bitterness, so it won’t weigh you down.

ROCK ART RIDGE RUNNER

Save this year-round robust and dark English barley wine from Vermont-based Rock Art Brewery for after whooshing down winding, narrow, snowy hills. That is, unless you want to lose your footing, adding to your typical count of ass-bruising, snow-exploding tumbles. At a pungent 7.20 percent ABV, the deep caramel, chocolaty-flavored hooch will make the aches and pains you earned through a hard-charging day running ridges a distant memory.

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The inaugural exhibit of Lesley alum Timothy Bouldry (’02), this spread of striking images puts on display the College of Art and Design graduate’s photography and human empathy for the impoverished living in communities in Latin America and beyond. The result is a moving show meant to push outreach and humanitarian efforts through Project Nica.

An effort of dark humor and end-times narrative from Kim Rosenstock, who serves as a writer and coproducer on “New Girl.” A story of the survivors on Long Island after it sinks due to climate change, the narrative revolves around a widow, a bride, a doctor, and a poet seeking friends and resolution for the end of the world. With laughs.

Brand new interactive artworks by five artists paired with five South End professionals focusing on human services, music, art, and photography.

Each work takes the form of a kit, or a coordinated set of things assembled to be experienced by visitors, all of which focuses on the personal working methodologies and problem-solving philosophies of the artist/ professional pairing.

Jamie O’Neil’s solo exhibition running through February 27 puts on display stunning compositions that present the illusion of texture and hyperrealism when casting an eye on urban decay, graffiti, rusted boxcars, and even Gloucester’s “moody waters.” O’Neil loves graffiti culture and weed, so the canvases display the names of cannabis strains woven into the work. See, you two already have something in common.

With 50-plus entries spanning drama, narrative, animation, comedy, documentary, music video, and performance art works, the 4th Annual Glovebox Short Film & Animation Festival gets underway today, and if you land a full pass you can catch it all. If you don’t, you can pick and choose, and with even a cursory glance at the lineup you may just double-think that and go for the whole shebang.

Sundays are bittersweet. On the one hand, it’s still the weekend. On the other, it’s almost not the weekend.

In any case, brunching is imminent. By hitting this event Sunday you can land bourbon-infused maple syrup, bacon and egg breakfast pizzas, bourbon maple pork belly, and even bacon Old Fashioneds.

In short, awesome for everybody but teetotalers, or maybe if you’re kosher.

In which case, stick to the Cheerios at home.

Lesley University College of Art and Design in the Marran Gallery, 34 Mellen St., Cambridge. lesley.edu/alandfill-life

The Ex Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge. 1.22-1.24. $20. For showtimes, visit americanrepertorytheater. org

Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., Boston.

6pm/all ages/FREE. For more information, visit bcaonline.org

Lot F Gallery, 145 Pearl St., Boston. 12pm-4pm/all ages/ FREE. For more information, visit lotfgallery.com

Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. 1pm-9pm/ all ages/$25 full pass. For more information and individual showtimes/ prices visit glvbx.com or brattlefilm.org

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KEEP PRESSIN’ ON The Press War, reloaded

ORCHIDS is part collective, part solo project, all Nicole Marie

BY MARTÍN CABALLERO @_EL_CABALLERO

BY MARTÍN CABALLERO @_EL_CABALLERO

If undeniably catchy, exultant choruses are any indication of a pop-punk band’s potential, The Press War sounds primed for success. After reshuffling core members and recording their forthcoming sophomore release twice, the Boston-based crew of Anthony Rainville (vocals/ guitar) and Cedric Wager (guitar) return armed with a new LP’s worth of instantly memorable hooks as they dive further into their influences (Brand New) to showcase the results of an evolution as songwriters and a sound Rainville describes as “a little bit harder, faster, and more aggressive.”

On the importance of a killer chorus...

As I’m going through ideas and trying to find the best material, I’m usually trying to focus on a chorus first. When they do come and we think that they’re good, we try to build around that. With the new album, four out of five songs were based around a chorus idea that we thought was good. When you have something strong to build around, it’s very helpful and it gives you a lot of confidence in what you’re doing with the rest of the song.

L’DUKE AND NICOLE MARIE AS THEY APPEAR ON THE BONUS LEVEL OF MORTAL KOMBAT 6 Considering her voice is so familiar, we’ve heard surprisingly little of Nicole Marie.

That’s not meant as a slight, but rather as a credit to her versatility. As half of indie electronic duo Stereo Telescope, Marie’s vocals were often just one element in Kurt Schneider’s larger sonic vision. She sings front and center as part of Doom Lover, but the alt-rock band’s sound was already established by the time she joined. For all her obvious talent as a singer, the depths of her skills as a songwriter and creative lead have, until recently, only been hinted at.

When it finally came time to find an outlet for the intensely personal songs and ideas Marie couldn’t shoehorn into her other projects, ORCHIDS came into bloom.

“Moving forward, I wanted to do something new and something that resonated with me personally,” says Marie, taking a break from recording vocals to chat on the phone, ahead of her second-ever show as ORCHIDS on Thursday at Brighton Music Hall. “I needed something that is collaborative, but sometimes it’s hard when there’s a direction and it’s not necessarily yours.”

The material was already there: ORCHIDS’ forthcoming single “Fleur de Sel” was written back in 2008, and was exactly the kind of intensely personal and emotional song that wasn’t adaptable to Marie’s other projects. In L’duke (DJ Leah V), she found someone with whom she could develop a free-flowing creative partnership that didn’t compromise her own sonic vision. “[L’duke] and I ended up hanging out and talking about collaborating,” Marie explains. “And I said, ‘I’m not doing

anything musically, I don’t know what the next step is, but have all these ideas. I don’t know if they suck, I don’t know what I want to do with them. All I know is I want them to be electronic and I want to sound like Purity Ring but with more energy.’”

With L’duke and co-producer Alex Fiorentino (of The Organ Beats), Marie began to find the right balance for what she describes as a “solo project with a rotating cast of collaborators.” Yet even with their contributions, ORCHIDS, at its core, belongs to Marie. Speaking someone else’s words, she still manages to inject her first release, a cover of “Say Something” by A Great Big World, with a raw emotional intensity that fuels her work.

“With the original material, you will hear a lot of bare bones feelings that I’ve been carrying around with me for a couple years that I really have to get out,” she says. “Almost every song is referring to the journey that I’ve been on for the last couple years, sifting through the pain of what’s happened, the love and the loss. I’ve never been able to write any other way unless someone tells me to. If I’m working with somebody else, I can mold myself to whatever fits that situation. But alone, I write from a very personal place. With ORCHIDS, everything is personal.”

After playing the background for this long, how could it be any other way?

“It is really hard to be sifting through all these emotions,” she admits. “It dredges a lot of things up, but it’s going to be worthwhile in the end, I think.”

>> ORCHIDS W/ SHEA ROSE + DUTCH REBELLE. THURS 1.22 BRIGHTON MUSIC HALL, 158 BRIGHTON AVE., BRIGHTON 617.864.3278.

8PM/$13/18+. FACEBOOK.COM/ORCHIDS.BAND.MUSIC

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PSYCHEDLIC NOISEY FUNTTIME NIGHTTIME SUNSHINE + DOUG TUTTLE + WEYES BLOOD + CREATUROS [T.T. The Bear’s, 10 Brookline St., Cambridge.

8:30pm/18+/$10. ttthebears.com]

FRI 1.23

SPRINGSTEEN-ING BRUCE IN THE USA

[The Sinclair, 52 Church St., Cambridge. 8pm/18+/$20. sinclaircambridge.com]

SAT 1.24

ONE HIT WONDERS BOOM BOOM ROOM W/ DJ VINNY

[Phoenix Landing, 512 Mass Ave., Cambridge 9:30pm/21+/$5. phoenixlanding.com]

SUN 1.25

ETHERAL ROCK THE WHAMMY BARS + JACK ROMANOV + PULITZER PRIZE FIGHTER [T.T. The Bear’s, 10 Brookline St., Cambridge.

7:30pm/18+/$10. ttthebears.com]

On recording the album twice...

It was a tough process, because I started writing about and putting stuff together a year ago. Some of the ideas were even older than that that we ended up using. We started the recording process ourselves, and it ended up going months over schedule. We got about 80 percent done, and then we split ways with some of the members, and we had to do it all over again, basically. We recorded the whole album twice. Through the course of that, stuff got rewritten and changed and moved around, so I think what we have is the best of two worlds of production: doing it ourselves and then going to producers [Steve and Chris of The Color & Sound] for the rerecording of it.

On measuring success...

I think a measure for us, at least initially, is just the response that you get. Hopefully it’s positive and it’s measurable, and it starts growing and expanding and more people start coming out to the shows. I think if you do something right musically and people react to it and relate to it, in my experience, I’ve seen a surge in people coming out and supporting what you’re doing.

Hopefully that happens with this release. >> THE PRESS WAR W/ DREAMCATCHER, FOR THE YEAR, SILENT STORIES, + STEVE KNECH. SUN 1.25 MIDDLE EAST UPSTAIRS, 480 MASS AVE., CAMBRIDGE. 617.864.3278.

1PM/$10/ALL AGES. FACEBOOK.COM/THEPRESSWAR

WOMEN’S ACAPELLA ALCHEMY BROADBAND

[Passim, 47 Palmer St., Cambridge. Lansdowne St., Boston, 3:30pm/all ages/$16. passim.org]

MON 1.26

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“KEEP 35MM ALIVE!”

An interview with ‘Out of Print’ director Julia Marchese

BY KRISTOFER JENSON @DAILYFANBOY

LET’S SEE YOU DO THAT WITH A DIGITAL FILE

Former longtime New Beverly Cinema employee and first-time director Julia Marchese makes an impassioned case for the preservation of revival house culture and the appreciation of 35mm in her new film Out Of Print. Marchese’s documentary follows the evolution of the New Bev (as it’s known among family) from risqué porno house to respectable establishment to revered cornerstone of the moviegoing experience, becoming a favorite destination of celebrities and cinephiles alike.

This relationship with classic film may sound familiar to Hub moviegoers who frequent our many repertory and art house theaters, a sentiment which brings Marchese to Boston to present her film in person at Emerson’s Bright Family Screening Room this Friday, January 29. Joining Marchese will be Emerson professor and director Peter Flynn, and The Orson Welles Complex documentarian Garen Daly, who will participate in a panel discussion on the future of theatrical exhibition following the film.

“I’d always wanted to make a film about the New Bev,” says Marchese in an interview with DigBoston, “since it is such a fascinating and unique theater, and the studios’ ceasing making 35mm prints was such a hard blow that it really pushed me to do the film sooner rather than later ... I wish I could have filmed at more movie theaters around the country and world, but it just wasn’t within my budget. Maybe for the next one?!”

Those who follow the news may already be aware of Marchese’s less-thanamicable split with the New Bev; top-level changes to programming and employee protocol led to Marchese’s departure in a blog post heard round the revival house world. Out Of Print had already been completed by this time, potentially complicating the doc’s reception. Yet for Marchese, despite the disruption, the film’s core messages remain intact: “It’s weird for me to watch it now, because it was always meant to be a film with a celebratory feeling to it, and now it’s become quite melancholy. I’m sad that the New Beverly that is portrayed in the film doesn’t exist anymore, but I don’t think any of that matters to Out of Print. It captures the New Bev at its best and I think my genuine adoration for the place shines through.

“My goal with the film was always to make the viewer want to go to his or her local cinema—to remember how great sitting in an audience with fellow film lovers and watching great films is. So even if the New Bev represented in the film doesn’t exist, there are still so many great little cinemas out there to discover.” >> BRIGHT LIGHTS PRESENTS: OUT OF PRINT AND THE FUTURE OF CINEMA. EMERSON’S BRIGHT FAMILY SCREENING ROOM, BOSTON, 559 WASHINGTON ST., BOSTON. FRI 1.29. 7PM. FREE.

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OVERLOOKED BEST OF 2014 LOVE IS STRANGE

[Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge.

7:30pm/R/$8-$11. brattlefilm.org]

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UNDERSEEN WELLES THE CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT (FALSTAFF)

[Harvard Film Archive. 24 Quincy St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge. 9pm/NR/$7$11. hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/]

FITTING BIOPIC ED WOOD

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THE ONE TO SEE ON 35MM BLADE RUNNER: FINAL CUT

[Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge.

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REEL WEIRD FREAKS

[Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Sq., Cambridge.

11:30pm/NR/$8-$11. brattlefilm.org] MON 1.26

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ROCKIN’ THE BLACK BOX Bridging the genre gap, spotlighting local musicians

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LIVE MUSIC DOWNTOWN? IT’LL NEVER WORK!

In a city that prides itself on its robust local music scene, Boston performers have remained mysteriously ostracized from downtown.

“The first thing you learn as a Boston musician is that you’re not gonna play downtown,” says Ryan Walsh, marketing and communications manager of ArtsEmerson, and frontman for Boston Music Award-winning band Hallelujah the Hills.

This is somewhat ironic. In theory, and as it is in most major cities with a thriving cultural landscape, downtown should be the first place to go for local live music, and the very fact that it isn’t highlights the already prominent issue of finding reasonably priced space. Artists are therefore sent packing, assimilating into neighborhoods in Allston and Cambridge in order to live, practice, and play.

To most entrenched in the scene, the inaccessibility of downtown is quite real, the ability to perform there being based foremost on fiscal solvency rather than on talent. But that’s about to change, thanks to the fruit of an initiative previously unheard-of in Boston: a dynamic new venue for local musicians in the heart of downtown’s Theater District.

“I saw the Paramount especially as a place that really begged for more use,” says Kieran Fallon, associate box office manager for the Paramount Center, who saw a chance to make his idea into reality when David Dower took on a greater leadership role as artistic director at ArtsEmerson in January. “I think that David is really looking for the Paramount to become a destination downtown, [and] I saw local music as being additive to that vision.”

Enter Winter Rock ’N’ Roll Weekend, an experimental event showcasing four bands over two nights in the Paramount Center’s Jackie Liebergott Black Box. On the bill: swamp punk darlings Tigerman WOAH!, woodsy indie alt project Faces on Film, psychedelic rockers Quilt, and multi-instrumentalist Julia Easterlin.

If this first weekend turns out to be a success, it could fundamentally change the way that people think about downtown Boston’s cultural value, as well as give folks pause to reconsider the parameters of a venue like the Paramount— which will have proven its ability to include a wide variety of artists and catch the interest of audiences outside of the traditional mainstream theatergoing crowd who currently frequent the area.

“We’ve been describing it as a really fancy basement show,” Walsh says. “You enter into this beautiful historic theater, and then you’re basically going to a black box room with bricks on the wall. I think that kind of contrast is going to be really fun for the music.”

In the wake of ARCH Gallery in Allston shutting its doors, taking with it the dream of multipurpose gallery space and music venue Allston Rock City Hall, the continued creation of these spaces is vital. Boston is in dire need of accessible art, and of the persistence of people like Walsh and Fallon who pour their experience and energy into pushing for same. Both are closely tied to the city’s local music community: Walsh is an active member of the live music scene, and Fallon recounts a history as guitarist for The Nightlights and downstairs booking agent at the Middle East.

“I would say that the challenge of getting an audience in this first weekend is that Boston music fans are stubborn,” Walsh says with a grin. “And if they’ve never been to a venue before, it’ll be like, ‘I guarantee you, it’s safe, it’ll be a good time!’”

Despite the challenge, Fallon has high hopes that the locals will come through.

“It’s going to feel both new and familiar to everyone going into it,” he says.

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As anyone who owns an iPhone knows, the human relationship with technology can be more tumultuous than it is harmonious. Our growing symbiosis with our social tools has changed the way we develop relationships and construct our very identities.

“I often say that I’m programmed to feel intimate with my devices, and I think this is largely because of my experiences with building identities online from such a young age,” says Alexis Avedisian, curator and experimental artist.

“Having a community on the Internet is very important to me, and I often feel as if I invest more time, and subsequently, more emotional energy into my digital communities than my real-world one.”

In Second Selves, a new exhibit housed at the Distillery Gallery, Avedisian casts a romantic eye on our evolving intimacy with our devices, as well as the duality inherent in housing both our private selves and our public personae online.

Second Selves brings together artists Leah Schrager, Sam Metcalf, Julie Nymann, Philip Fryer, and Blake Hiltunen—several of whom Avedisian met in a digital context—whose work each explores the oft-overlooked and highly personal facets of our networked culture.

“I started texting myself last summer,” Avedisian says, explaining the inspiration behind her contribution to the exhibit: “I want to feel you vibrate in my hands*.” “I enjoyed the feeling of my phone instantly vibrating, repeating the words I had sent it. The slight delay followed by gratification mimicked the feelings I get when I text someone I care about.”

Her piece invites visitors to lie in an unmade bed and engage in that most scandalous and satisfying of modern transgressions—picking up an unlocked iPhone and reading a thread of private texts. “A visitor told me that the experience was uncomfortable,” Avedisian says. “[That is] what I was going for.”

At the core of the exhibit is a meditation on our addiction to self-archiving (or pathological navel-gazing, depending on whom you talk to), and the separate selves that we create and immortalize within the infinite spaces of our connected networks. Avedisian emphasizes the deliberate selection of works that nicely coexist in the gallery’s space, and display what she describes as “multiple layers of conceptual thought.”

In Hiltunen’s “lovers,” two intertwined sculptures are haloed by static dead noise, orchestrated by Fryer. Avedisian’s mattress is surrounded by entangled wires, which feed into a projector that displays a video of Fryer’s hands, prone and extended.

“Both of these circumstances give the feeling of being wrapped up and enclosed by technology, but it is meant to be tender and subtle, as if you were being held and comforted by these devices.”

When internalized as a whole along with these central installations, Avedisian’s Second Selves is unique in the way it highlights and focuses on our networked existence, as well as the way we interact with our gadgets with a sense of tenderness and intimacy—qualities often absent from our discourse on technology. >> SECOND SELVES. DISTILLERY GALLERY, 516 EAST 2ND ST., SOUTH BOSTON. NOW THROUGH FEB. 21/ALL AGES/FREE. DISTILLERYGALLERY.COM HOLYURL.CO/

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