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NOVEMBER 11, 2015 - NOVEMBER 18, 2015 EDITORIAL

DEAR READER

EDITOR + PUBLISHER Jeff lawrence

East Coast skiers and boarders are the biggest assholes around. They’ll talk about skiing the Front Four in -20 windchill, consider crushed ice to be a decent condition for hitting the slopes, and scoff at the idea that work should prevent someone from heading a few hours north on a Tuesday every time a few inches of fresh snow (Read: slush) drops overnight. Which makes them also the best assholes around.

By the time I was officially a Masshole, I had only skied soft, fluffy pillows out West; Mt. Bachelor, Hood, Blackcomb, North Star, Mammoth, you name it. I was also lucky enough to ski the Alps as a teenager, so my expectations and experience with skiing were, shall we say, tainted. No, better yet: fucking spoiled. I laughed at the barren spots of grass on either side of the lift as I slowly ascended my first New England ski “resort.” Swaying in a 20-mile-an-hour sub-freezing breeze, I was warmed by my fond memories of full-day sun-ski burns and apres-ski sunsets. Then I actually got off the chair lift… and, well… I slid sideways on my ass down the first black-diamond pass, white-knuckles gripping thin air for something, anything to hold on to. By the time I finally hit the access road and had been passed by no less than 67 small children cruising about a 100 miles per hour, I realized that I had never actually skied in my life. I was a fake.

A lot has changed since then. I now motor over sheets of ice and crusty powder, fully in control of my accelerating speed and unhinged love of what truly is the original downhill version of this sport.

I can also now ski anything, anywhere, anytime.

To celebrate yet another ski season approaching, we picked some young brains to tell us about their Beast Coast experience in our annual Winter Sports Issue. Grab some ice and enjoy the ride.

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Last month, the Board of Directors for the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) approved over $136 million in new development for the city.

According to a press release, “The projects, which represent a combined investment of $136.3 million, will result in over 400,000 square feet of development and an estimated 355 construction jobs.”

Under most circumstances, this kind of anticipated economic development would be cause for celebration, but if the history of development in Roxbury tells us anything, there is more to be concerned about than hopeful.

Two of the approved projects in Roxbury will be developed by the Madison Park Development Corp (MPDC) and the Boston Housing Authority (BHA).

Between them, they will spend $81 million, with the former planning a 76-unit residential building. For that project, the MPDC will write $38 million in checks to vendors including various consultants and contractors, architects, attorneys, transportation planners, civil and environmental engineers, surveyors, and geotechnical experts.

As an advocate for Black and Latino businesses in Boston, I have looked into the sources and spoken with people behind the scenes at the MPDC project as well as at the BHA’s planned $44 million Whittier Choice development, and it appears that nearly all of the contracts for both projects will go to white-owned businesses.

This is an outrage! Those responsible for funding economic development have for the past quarter-century focused nearly all of their budgets on Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan, and on subsidized housing for low-income people who are required to be poor in order to qualify for housing, and who must stay poor in order to maintain those arrangements. Not only does this process fail to satisfy the statute requiring that CDCs expand economic opportunities, but it fuels the kind of socioeconomic disasters and multi-generational poverty we all decried after reading recent reports by the Federal Reserve, the Brookings Institute, and the Boston Foundation. All these reports paint a dire, shameful, and dangerous picture of the economic reality facing more and more Black and Latino residents of Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan.

In Massachusetts, the law defines a community development corporation (CDC) as an organization whose purpose is to “engage local residents and businesses to work together to undertake … projects … which develop and improve urban … communities in sustainable ways that create and expand economic opportunities for low and moderate income people.” So you have to ask yourself: How can a CDC located in Roxbury, Dorchester, or Mattapan meet statutory requirements when its development team lacks Black and Latino businesses?

A check with some local and respected minority businesses such as Cruz Construction, Crosswinds Construction, Stull & Lee Architects, and the law offices of John Diaz indicated that none of them were even extended the courtesy to bid on or participate in the MPDC project. It’s a shame, because if you walk into any of their offices, you will see that they hire local residents and people of color.

CDCs have total control of who they put on their teams. In exercising this freedom, MPCDC and the BHA have chosen exclusion, and they’re not the exception.

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Mass Housing Investment Corporation (MHIC) for a $60 million scattered site development project, also chose a white-led team to redevelop homes in areas of Dorchester where residents are overwhelmingly Black and Latino. Ironically, MHIC was created to provide for economic development projects targeting the minority communities—like Roxbury and Dorchester in particular—that were devastated according to the seminal report issued by the same Federal Reserve Board of Boston in early 1992. The report showed that widespread discrimination in lending to minority borrowers had led them to predatory and subprime lenders whose onerous terms led to thousands defaulting and losing their homes to foreclosure.

So how are CDCs in compliance with the law when they choose to consistently do business with white consultants and businesses? It’s easy—the funders don’t ask! The BRA doesn’t ask such questions before it approves projects. If other major public funders like the state Department of Housing and Community Development keep pumping hundreds of millions of tax dollars into projects done by these CDCs, the farce will continue—even though in 2010, the Massachusetts legislature created a formal process for certification that requires written affirmations that CDCs adhere to certain statutory requirements in the Massachusetts General Laws Ch. 40H. Nonprofit CDCs such as Madison Park, Dorchester Bay, Urban Edge, and Nuestra have each signed certifications stating that they are engaging Black and Latino residents in their economic development projects in a sustainable way, and that they have expanded economic opportunities for those groups. There is active discussion being had regarding the potential of class action legal redress against the CDCs for local residents denied opportunities, given the failure of the CDCs to comply with state law.

Case in point: Community residents, mostly Black and Latino, picketed the Madison Park-Tropical Foods project in Roxbury for almost a year due to its failure to hire locally. When MPDC finally sat down to negotiate, the resolution to which they agreed involved hiring local residents at substantially lower wages than their union laborer counterparts—a largely white group—with whom they worked shoulder-to-shoulder on the site.

MPDC has done very well for itself. As for the residents who live in the shadow of its Roxbury office—they haven’t fared so well. Many are homeless, and most are poorer than they were 10 years ago, as unemployment has risen for Black and Latino males between the ages of 18 and 44. According to the aforementioned Federal Reserve study, Black families have assets averaging $700 versus $256,500 for white families. The Brookings Institute reports that Boston’s poorest residents now have incomes that are 15 times less than their high-income counterparts, making for the third deepest disparity in America.

Imagine how the BHA might have actually expanded “economic opportunities” for minority residents in its Whittier initiative. For starters, it could have included any of the minority businesses mentioned previously, or others, on its core development team. By doing so, the BHA could have virtually guaranteed that Black or Latino residents of the immediate area would have been employed on the project because Black and Latino businesses hire Black and Latino residents. Instead, the residents of Whittier will be moved from one low-income housing development to another. The only thing that will change for them is their address.

In August, the Boston Globe printed an article listing the top 50 developers in Boston. Not surprisingly, Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan are the only neighborhoods in the entire city where the top developers are CDCs. Every other neighborhood has for-profit developers, universities, and hospitals topping their lists. It is also worth noting that there is only one Black business (and no Latino businesses) on the list of 50 despite the fact that since the 2000 national census, Boston has become a city in which people of color are the majority. How many residents can these CDCs identify in their catchment areas who have seen their opportunities expanded due to their development activities as the statute requires?

Hundreds of millions of public dollars have been invested in affordable housing projects through MPDC and Dorchester Bay since the 2000s. And let’s not forget the $250 million project in Jackson Square done by Urban Edge and the Community Builders, which is still in development. Not only has nobody asked whether Urban Edge delivered on the legal requirements for CDCs, but the project was awarded millions of additional dollars by the state and city in the last two months. Total all of the investments via these community development projects over the past decade, and you’ll see how it’s possible to spend a billion dollars in Roxbury—without spending a dime on Roxbury.

“According to the aforementioned Federal Reserve study, Black families have assets averaging $700 versus $256,500 for white families.”

Dianne Wilkerson is the president of the consulting firm New Day Services, Inc., a former 2nd Suffolk District State Senator, and an advocate for Black and Latino businesses in Boston. This is the first in a series of columns on which she is collaborating with DigBoston and the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism.

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The Nov 18 deadline for initiative campaigns to file their first round of at least 64,750 certified signatures to qualify for the 2016 ballot is fast approaching. With that in mind, here’s an update and some commentary about both lunges toward marijuana legalization in 2016.

Prior to Election Day last week, Jim Borghesani of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol (CRMLA) said his group had collected 95,000 signatures to date. Indeed, it’s a well-funded organization using paid signature gatherers, and is funded primarily by the Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, DC. Then there’s the much less restrictive ballot initiative by Bay State Repeal (BSR), whose own Steven Epstein estimates to have collected tens of thousands of signatures. Epstein is expecting more signatures to be mailed to BSR this final week before the deadline, as the campaign is relying on volunteers and the promotional support of MassCann/NORML. Epstein estimates that approximately 100 local volunteers are out collecting signatures at supermarkets on any given day, while the website allows people to print, sign, and mail in the petition.

Unfortunately, it may not be enough for Bay State Repeal, and that’s a real shame, because Massachusetts voters deserve a choice.

To date, both campaign tout some notable signers. Though Governor Charlie Baker says he opposes both initiatives, CRMLA moved his pen at the urging of WGBH radio host Jim Braude. CRMLA has also received elected support from Sen. Will Brownsberger, Rep. Jay Livingstone, and Rep. Dave Rogers. Meanwhile, BSR has received radio support: Mikey Adams on WEEI and from my show, The Young Jurks, on which we have gathered signatures from pols including United Independent Party Chair Evan Falchuk as well as from Cambridge City Councilors Leland Cheung and Nadeem Mazen.

One of the key differences between the two initiative campaigns is that CRMLA sets up a new state cannabis commission, while BSR does not. Epstein says, “Why do we need that? An additional tax beyond the state sales tax to create and fund a new bureaucracy?” Considering the debacle that the Department of Public Health has created running the state’s medical marijuana program, as well as other scandals with that agency, I can envision the campaign against CRMLA coming from radio yakkers like Howie Carr: “Yeah man, I got it, let’s put the hacks in charge of the legal weed.”

It’s not that signers of CRMLA don’t care about social justice. Nevertheless, there is a difference between the two groups. One is led by the professional cannabis class; the other, supported by MASSCANN (where I used to serve as a board member), is fronted by local activists who have been slugging it out for the cause for decades.

Overall, though, the real shame is that so many people who consider or call themselves marijuana “activists”—the folks who you will always find at the latest cup event—are not out collecting signatures, or even campaigning online. They’re either fake activists with the delusion that the millionaire CRMLA campaign is going to take care of things for them, or they just have deeply misguided priorities. As BSR campaigner Bobby McGrail told me as he headed to a Market Basket to collect signatures last week: “Too many are still not registered.

I do find many that are excited and proud to sign, but yet—it bothers me, others with their cynicism and apathy. They know they should support us but they don’t.

It’s frustrating.”

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I don’t often take pictures while driving, but when I do, it’s to risk my life and that of others to snap images of the illuminated Boston Globe billboard over the South End. Have you seen it? On the shotgun side, right before the southbound “EXIT 18 Mass Ave / Roxbury / Andrew Sq. 1/4 MILE” marker. It’s one of those alternating digital signs, so sometimes the newfangled placard has an advertisement for the Art of Living Life Beyond Cancer Conference, while other times it’s flashing for a charity event called Steppin’ Out which features a performance by Vanessa Williams.

The first time I got stuck in traffic long enough to glimpse the Globe take its turn was October 26. The billboard read, “TRENDING NOW ON GLOBE.COM: Why Food Allergy Fakers Need To Stop,” and also offered the temperature (50 degrees) in the upper left-hand corner, presumably for anyone whose phone, car stereo, and dashboard don’t help enough with the weather.

I passed the sign again the following day, October 27, and this time it was stumping for an article from that morning—by Staff Writer Neil Swidey—named “How We Made Gluten Into A Monster.” Titles like that are designed to trend; but with the Globe being the subject of the new investigative crusade film Spotlight, one might think the newspaper would use face time to remind so many southward-bound suburbanites that they have grit and gusto.

As it turns out, the Globe appears to be going out of its way to promote pieces on food allergies. Conspiracy or not, the “TRENDING NOW ON GLOBE.COM” billboard has no apparent correlation whatsoever to what’s actually trending on Globe.com. To double and triple-check this disconnect, I spun back down the socalled expressway on October 29 and October 30, both times finding plugs for a column by Joanna Weiss titled “Millennials Don’t Believe In Voting.” Despite being long gone from the most-viewed list on the Globe homepage, the same headline was still there on the sign, between plugs for Vanessa Williams and the Art of Living, on Election Day nearly a week later.

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With mountains across New England opening their slopes to eager skiers, snowboarders and snow lovers in the coming weeks— some, like Loon Mountain in New Hampshire, opening as soon as November 16—we’ve turned our attention to the New England winter sport scene. To get you amped for the coming season, we got in touch with some local college kids and recent grads to ask them about their favorite parts of skiing the East. After chatting, it seems that trees always pose an exciting threat to the avid skier.

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JULIE STASIUK

What’s the craziest thing that you do on a regular basis on the slopes?

The craziest thing I’ve done is skiing in the woods with some friends by hiking off trail and exploring the woods!

What’s your routine during ski season?

How much and how often?

I have a ski pass to Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont that I got discounted through being a UVM student, so I go skiing at least once a week every Saturday. The ski pass is 380 for the year, but you can go unlimited number of times.

What do your friends who aren’t ski bums not understand about you?

People who are not ski bums don’t understand how fun it is after you get over the fear of conquering the mountain!

Hometown: Merrimac, MA College attended: University of Vermont Favorite mountain: Sunday River, ME

What’s your favorite mountain in New England to ski, and why?

I love Sunday River in Maine—it’s a big resort with a lot of different slopes, it has a family mountain feel, and the hot chocolate is great to have after a long day’s ski. I also love being in Maine.

What’s your favorite post-ski activity?

I love to play board games and drink hot cocoa after a day’s ski, and maybe watch a movie!

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Hometown: Falmouth, ME College attended: University of Maine Favorite mountain: Sugarbush What’s your routine during ski season?

How much and how often?

Going up to a friend’s cabin with a group on the weekends, usually Friday, then waking up early Saturday to hit the slopes.

What’s the craziest thing that you do on a regular basis on the slopes?

Back woods skiing—glades—where there are tons of trees, and I’m skiing in thick forests.

What do your friends who aren’t ski bums not understand about you?

My friends who aren’t ski bums don’t understand how relaxing and refreshing going skiing for the day is. It recharges the batteries. It’s similar to hiking or something, as you get beautiful views of the mountains while also being outside.

What’s your favorite mountain in New England to ski, and why?

My favorite mountain is by far Sugarloaf, with the sole reason being that it creates the best community. I would argue it’s better than anywhere in the country. That is why wherever you are in the world, you will instantly bond with someone who is a Sugarloafer.

Favorite post-ski activity?

Eating a stupid amount of food at a local restaurant and bar, and just lounging in some comfy clothes.

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What’s your routine during ski season?

How much and how often?

I go skiing as often as I can—with work now, it’s usually every other weekend.

What’s the craziest thing that you do on a regular basis on the slopes?

I can’t answer [that question], ’cause I like the green trails and I ain’t no daredevil!

What do your friends who aren’t ski bums not understand about you?

Friends don’t understand how fun it is and really good exercise too! Most mountains have really pretty views from the top so that’s worth it in itself.

What’s your favorite mountain in New England to ski, and why?

My favorite mountain is Cannon Mountain in Franconia, NH. It has a wide range of difficulty and easiness so it’s good for everyone. Wildcat Mountain in Pinkham Notch, NH, is a close second for the same reason.

What’s your favorite post-ski activity?

And the best post-ski activity is going to a local restaurant for drinks and food. Most people have been skiing all day too, and it doesn’t matter if you’re all sweaty and gross. Everyone is there for a good time and to eat after a day of skiing.

PHIL ROBINSON

Hometown: West Newbury, MA College attended: University of Rhode Island Favorite mountain: Franconia Notch, NH What’s your routine during ski season?

How much and how often?

I try to go at least 15 times a year. I usually get to the mountain around 9:30 and ski until close to 4.

What’s the craziest thing that you do on a regular basis on the slopes?

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The craziest thing I do on a regular basis on skis is probably seeing how fast I can ski through trees without hitting any.

What do your friends who aren’t ski bums not understand about you?

My friends who don’t ski probably don’t understand why I get excited when the mountains get any amount of snow, or why I enjoy hiking for hours up Mount Washington to ski Tuckerman’s Ravine in the spring.

What’s your favorite mountain in New England to ski, and why?

Franconia Notch in New Hampshire, because I learned to ski there and some of my earliest memories are of learning to pizza and french fry on the bunny slope there.

What’s your favorite post-ski activity?

My favorite post-skiing activity is usually to smoke a joint or drink a few beers.

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MICHAEL JOSEPH OF KILLINGTON RESORT

With the ski season approaching, we got in touch with a staff member at Vermont’s Killington Resort to get the inside scoop on living and working slope-side. Michael Joseph is a West Virginia University alumnus whose passion for snowboarding and public relations led him to a full-time position as the communications manager at Killington.

“I’m a snowboarder—but I think any passionate skier or snowboarder should take the opportunity to live, work, and play in a mountain town at some point in their lives. And why wait for retirement when you can make it work in your twenties?

“Ski resorts are huge organizations, so no matter what you studied in school there is likely a fit. And if you’d prefer to spend the bulk of your time on snow instead of in an office, mountain operations jobs like snow-making, snow sports school coaching, or lift operations offer a very unique perspective on how the big machine works.

“Most ski areas have one or more fall job fairs, and if you’re not a picky employee and just want to secure a job at the resort to enable your powder-hounding during the winter, you can usually bring in your resume and walk out with a job or a lead. If you can’t be there in person, absolutely check employment pages of ski areas you frequent or would like to visit—fall is prime hiring season in the industry, so make sure to jump at any opportunities you have before the snow flies and business picks up!”

For those of you wondering what the hell to do after graduation, this might be a viable option to feed your need for snow... or at least get you through that initial post-graduation slump. And like Michael said, there’s no better time to try it out!

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Every year since 2002, Jim Koch and his merry band of brewing brothers release the incredible offering Utopias. For the unfamiliar, this high-octane, supercomplex beer tastes nothing like beer. Aged in port barrels or bourbon casks, mixing champagne yeast with traditional malts and hops, or seemingly dipped into vats of dates, cognac, and kryptonite, the notes of this syrupy sipper are almost indescribable.

Yet here I sit again, waiting to enjoy, describe, and imbibe in my annual pilgrimage down beervana lane and the copper-brew kettle replica that delivers it. In honor of this malty trip, and since I haven’t actually received my bottles yet, I dipped into my collection of past brews in preparation for the next big thing.

I only have a few bottles left—a 2012 and a 2013—so I started with the former and worked my way to the latter. The 2012 Utopias was their 10th anniversary bottling. Less than 60 barrels were aged that year, but they included a mashup of the previous big-bomb original, Triple Bock, aged for 20 years by then.

Immediately you pick up the strong vanilla and maple hints; however, the aging also involved barrels from the Buffalo Trace Distillery, which creates an unmistakable bourbon warmth as you sip. Finished in old Tawny Port casks, the aperitif-like close to this beer is unlike any other Utopias I’ve ever had before or since. I’m not sure what the snobs think, but I’m comfortable saying that this is version outshines them all. Best enjoyed in one- or two-ounce pours after dinner and preferably with a slice of double-chocolate death, you’ll have no problem settling into a nice slumber of happiness when the last drop hits.

The 2013 Utopias is much like the previous year, albeit not nearly as thick and decidedly more malty. Using the same aged barrels I just mentioned but introducing a mind-bending array of hops and malts, this choice is actually more like a beer and less like an after-dinner pour. Still best served in small ounce pours, though—it’s not to be confused with something you’d order at the bar with a plate of nachos. What I like most about this version is the softness of the liquid as it hits your mouth. It’s very velvety and smooth, complimenting cheese, cured meats, and why the hell not, more chocolate. But it’s much more subtle than 2012, and if memory serves me well, much better than 2014. I can’t remember now why last year was a disappointment when compared to these two vintages, but I think it was just too young. 2013 was definitely aged well and continues to age well.

The 2015 Utopias has been finished in White Carcavelos wine barrels so the experience should be yet another one-of-a-kind journey, but at $199 a bottle, this is not something everyone is going to want to try, nevermind find the money to give it a try. You won’t find it at your corner packy, either; you’ll need to head to a better-beer store to snag one of the fewer than 10,000 bottles available. It’s truly an adventure, though, for those that want to push the boundaries of their palate and the notion of what beer can and should be.

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YOU’VE ONLY GOT A FEW DAYS LEFT TO CATCH CAROLE KING AT THE BOSTON OPERA HOUSE. WELL, NOT ACTUALLY CAROLE KING BUT A SHOW ABOUT CAROLE KING.

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Laughing Liberally Boston

Art Garfunkel

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Singer-songwriter Carole King’s life is reborn on stage in the Tony Awardwinning Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. The musical follows King’s life from plain old Brooklyn teenager to the Grammy Award-winning artist she is today. The show will only be at the Boston Opera House for five more days, so if you want to see it, you’d better see it fast.

Whether you’re a Carole King fan, a musical fan, or just someone looking to immerse yourself in a world of music, you’re in for a beautiful night if you go see Beautiful.

Here’s a question for you: Where will you be Thursday night at 7:30 pm?

If you answered anywhere but Modern Underground, well, you might be right technically, but you should reconsider, because it’s hard to find good trivia these days. Stump Trivia is offering a pretty fun night for anyone willing to go.

Get your drunk on, jam out to some music, and if you’re good enough, win some prizes from trivia. The worst that could happen is that you have a great time.

Grab your hair scrunchie, your multicolored snowsuit, and other outdated 90’s references and travel back in time to the 1990s at 6B Lounge.

Bring your friends, bring a date, or bring your friends and a date and party like it’s 1999. Or any other year from the 1990s. Just party like you’re in the ’90s. If you’ve got a big group, get there before 9:30 to avoid the cover charge. That’s some ’90s hospitality right there.

The 2016 elections are kicking into high gear, and with candidates like Donald Trump getting the spotlight, maybe it’s time to sit back and enjoy some more progressive laughs.

Laughing Liberally Boston is launching a progressive political comedy show featuring Boston’s top liberal and progressive comedians. Hosted by Matthew Filipowicz and featuring comedians Christa Weiss, Kenice Mobley, Sam Ike, and Julia Claire, progressive political comedy is right around the corner with some very talented people.

This year alone, Art Garfunkel has performed in Korea, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, and Denmark, and now he’s here in Boston. Are you really going to let this opportunity pass you by? Whether you know him from Simon and Garfunkel, his solo work, or don’t know him at all, Art Garfunkel’s had an influential role in the music industry, and any music fan owes it to themselves to see him live. So come on down and don’t go slip slidin’ away.

Boston Opera House.

539 Washington St., Boston.

7:30-11/all ages/$74-$254. boston-theater.com/ theaters/boston-operahouse/beautiful-thecarole-king-musical.php

Modern Underground.

263 Hanover St., Boston.

7:30-9:30pm/21+/FREE. thebostoncalendar.com/ events/trivia-modernunderground--20

6B Lounge. 6 Beacon St., Boston. 9:30pm-2am/21+/$5. thebostoncalendar.com/ events/back-to-the-90sparty

The Riot Theater.

146a South St., Jamaica Plain. 8pm-9:30pm/21+/$8. theriottheater.com/ laughing-liberally-boston. html

Wilbur Theatre.

246 Tremont St., Boston.

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158 Brighton Ave., Boston.

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Monday’s were made for melancholy and Mary Lambert owns that moody, poetic moment. Hailing from Seattle, Lambert is a singer/songwriter of prose and self-reflection. Her debut album, Heart on my Sleeve, is a mirror into her world of love, redemption, and humor; powered by a soft tonal hesitation as she sits at her piano, only to come out of her shell with an operatic force. Bring a close friend’s shoulder or simply fly solo. Just don’t miss this amazing new artist.

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ALL TALK, ALL WALK

SOMETHING TO HARP ON Cambridge Philharmonic’s Female Composers Night

Shamir masters vibrant vocals and video aesthetics

BY NINA CORCORAN @NINA_CORCORAN When Shamir Bailey picks up my 10 am Skype call from the comfort of a Lower East Side hotel bed, he sounds a bit drowsy. Turns out he spent the night prior tipping back cocktails at a Vogue fashion show to celebrate the new issue he’s in. “I accidentally tripped on Zendaya,” he says with a laugh. “I fell, like, on her back, and she almost fell over. Thank God she didn’t, because that would have been the end of my life.” Of course that’s how he spent his Monday night. When you’re a rising pop star with a ridiculously affable personality and lowbrowturned-highbrow aesthetic, these things happen— to quote his hit single—on the regular.

The Las Vegas-based singer-songwriter dropped his debut LP, Ratchet, earlier this year to high praise from critics. On it, Shamir (Shamir Bailey’s stage name) weaves a delightful form of pop with roots in hip-hop and dance, coming across like a fourflavored Fun Dip that never loses its tart taste.

It’s odd for such a sugary sound to come from Las Vegas. “There’s no scene at all there, except for maybe metal and pop punk,” he explains. “That’s about it. It’s not what people think of, especially where I’m from, North Vegas. It’s pretty much life centered around a pig farm.”

Shamir has his family to thank for that. From pre-K to third grade, he was surrounded by music since he lived in a house with his mother, her twin sister, and her sister’s son. His mother’s sister, who is as vocal as she is caring, is a writer-turned-poet who eventually dug into music while he was growing up. “She began slowly building her room into a home studio,” recalls Shamir. “She would invite friends over and I would be there, little me, like, ‘Hi, can I come in? I just want to watch y’all play. I promise I’ll be quiet!’ That was the seed that was planted for me to start writing music on my own.” Over the years, he tried it out firsthand.

Shamir started playing piano at age 8, got a guitar at age 9, and, from then on, there was no looking back. “Obviously middle school is a hot mess for everyone, and on top of that mine required we wear uniforms,” he says. “I felt creatively stifled because of that until high school, but middle school is where I found out who I was. I was really weird, obviously very awkward, and didn’t have many friends. My best friend in the whole wide world and I didn’t meet until eighth grade. Up until then, I was a loner. I’d be in my room for hours on end, practicing guitar, writing, hoping to better myself as a musician. By the time high school came, songwriting was a breeze for me.”

The synth dance of Shamir’s sound often comes from his producer and label owner, Nick Sylvester, whom Shamir loves dearly. “If he doesn’t send me a beat or a demo that he’s working on, then I will write a song on piano or guitar and record it on my phone,” Shamir says. Their friendship results in a creative explosion of pop that shoots even the most stiff listener with an urge to wiggle in their seat.

Songs like “On the Regular” and “Call It Off” combine youth and adulthood seamlessly thanks to their synthpop structure and dominant lyrics.

In that, his music combines youth and adulthood seamlessly, making songs for someone of any age. For Shamir, it’s not hard to write in that style.

It’s a reflection of his 20 years growing up. “I’ve never felt young my whole life,” he says. “My mom would tell you that ever since I was a 5-year-old, I thought I was a grown up. It’s not that I tried to be older than my age, but rather that I like to be as independent as possible. By 9 or 10 years old, I was washing my own clothes and cooking dinner for the whole family. My mom would literally only cook on Sundays. That was her day since it was the family day. Throughout the whole week, I was the cook. I loved being independent.”

It comes as a shock that Shamir isn’t old enough yet to drink, yet he’s writing far beyond his age.

Given his onstage persona is even more playful than the record—yet totally stands as its own dominant force—his charming, freeform pop bends kitschy hooks into confident lyrics. Thank god.

Finally, we have a new kid on the block who really does talk the talk and walk the walk—and he oozes coolness with every step.

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POP GLOSS YACHT + LARRY GUS

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History never represents the whole truth. For one, it’s left us under the impression that the greatest classical composers were all male, from Monteverdi in the 1500s to Mozart in the 1700s up to Adams in the 1950s. Were they famous?

Absolutely. Were they the most talented? Yes and no. Various female composers get their notes and nods in the books— most commonly child prodigy Clara Schumann and Catholic saint Hildegard von Bingen—but few receive the time and attention that should be given to applaud their works with the same volume as those of their male peers, even with sheet music to prove their similarities.

Some hundred years later, we’re still leaving most female composers out of the spotlight, but the Cambridge Philharmonic looks to change that. This Saturday, Harvard will host a handful of live works by rising female composers, allowing viewers the chance to see eclectic techniques highlighted that would otherwise be swept under the blanket descriptor of “avant-garde.” Out of the 110 pieces it received this summer, the Philharmonic whittled down its choices to five recent works by Liz Anaya, Carolyn Chen, Emily Cooley, Sara Corry, and Fjóla Evans, and another piece

by Emma Flornoy, Clara Sinephro-Cool, and Eva Gertz. On top of that, two women will premiere commissions for large chamber ensembles: composer Kirsten Volness and local harpist, vocalist, and loop-artist Audrey Harrer.

Out of the bunch, be it for her location or her wealth of talent, Harrer stands tall. Her debut studio release, Alphabet Rain, shimmers with six poetic compositions, each more playful and cinematic than the last. Vocally, she mirrors the leaps of Julia Holter and Jenny Hval, but her instrumentation ranks right up there beside the immaculate precision of indie rock’s most well-known harpist, Joanna Newsom. Though harp is uncommon to find onstage, it’s comforting to think we all have a predilection for harp-based music based off the fragility, tone, and calmness at its very core. If you listen closely, you can hear Harrer pluck harp strings in Jamaica Plain right now after she gets home from working at Berklee College.

If not, tie your shoes, grab your coat, and head to Female Composers Night.

Live, her harp turns into a mystic creature all its own.

All eight emerging compositions and their creators exceed the limits of rational talent, and their youth only emphasizes that all the more. If we’re going to keep our score books correct nowadays, then it’s time we give attention to those creating some of the most layered, intricate, and gorgeous work in years—especially coming from our own backyard. >> CAMBRIDGE PHILHARMONIC PRESENTS: FEMALE COMPOSERS NIGHT. SAT 11.14. HARVARD UNIVERSITY’S PAINE HALL, 1 OXFORD ST., CAMBRIDGE. 8PM/ALL AGES/$15.

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Sad to say that James Bond’s latest adventure is Very Political and Very Important

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M (Ralph Fiennes) and C (Andrew Scott) spend three or four scenes arguing about the politics of government overreach, because the three or four writers credited on Spectre are determined to convince us that this latest James Bond movie is About Something Important. For the uninitiated, M is the main man for secret agent Bond (Daniel Craig) within MI6. C is a new entrant into the game: He heads a government-sponsored surveillance organization that’s merging with M’s more traditional spying collective. And that conflict allows for thinkpiece-bait pitterpatter: observations like “drones could do our jobs!” and exclamations like “this is what we need to do to keep the people safe!”

Tops among these sophomoric pseudo-stances is a one-liner that Fiennes forces out. He’s claiming that human field agents prevent collateral damage by being capable of mercy. “A license to kill,” he pontificates, “is also a license… to not kill.” That’s how desperate the Bond writers’ room has gotten: They’ll even convert to pacifism, if it’ll keep us on their secret agent’s side. Spectre has a lot of political ideas, and it’s passionate about exactly none of them. But that’s the tradition with these Bond movies: They swap out politics to match what’s fashionable, the same way that they swap out the walking breasts they call “female characters” with each passing film.

And so the critical approach often used to unpack the series is one we’ll call “the time capsule theory.” The idea is that these movies reflect the popular anxieties and fashions of their respective eras. Historically, that’s not incorrect: 007 jumped in on the Cold War in ’63, got his own blaxploitation movie in ’73, and played hold ’em poker in ’06. That fosters a follow-up question: What do we do with this womanizing assassin and his lone-wolf approach, here in a 2015 populated with news stories about NSA collaboration and the demand for “safe spaces”? Well, we give him drone anxiety. The concern isn’t that those unmanned fuckers might help to facilitate war crimes, though—the real worry is that they might take his job.

C’s idea is to set up the world’s widest security camera web, combining data from nine separate nations. And Bond is the only man righteous enough to take down the overreacher. So the subtext here is Diet Snowden. But don’t go thinking that our favorite suave superagent has gone all leftist on us. The franchise’s DOUBLE ZERO continued on pg. 28

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DOUBLE ZERO continued from pg. 26 gatekeepers are still happy sending him to foreign locations for the sake of a pleasurable rampage. The unlucky winner of the 24th Bond Movie Opening Action Sequence Lottery is Mexico City, so we watch while 007 runs and guns his way through a Day of the Dead parade. He chases his target to a badly rendered helicopter, and they fight while it flies, blandly trading punches in the cockpit.

And this all while the copter hovers over thousands of faceless Mexicans stranded below. Then the roughly animated aircraft starts sputtering, and the blades inch closer to the faces of all those citizens this movie couldn’t care less about. Bond’s not pleading his case very well. It’d take a lot to get us into the pro-drones tent, but negligence like that might do it.

You could say that we’re taking this too seriously. But we’re only following the movie’s lead. There’s a moment where 007 dives down a dangerous channel only to land comfortably on a waiting couch—a bit of traditional Bondian goofiness.

But that’s stolen direct from another 007 movie, and it’s nothing but a tease.

There’s a gray sheen to these images (once Technicolor vibrant), a dutiful rigor to the way the actors walk through the Bond hallmarks (the dual love affairs, the catchphrases, the megalomaniacal villain and his XL monologues), and a solemnly toned soundtrack to match it all. The tone demands to be described as “Batman chic”—that gray sheen is a plea for gravitas, and it falls somewhere between “desperate” and “boring.” Sam Mendes is the credited author, but we suspect that Spectre may have been directed by an overly earnest car commercial.

Christoph Waltz plays the big baddie behind C; the character is eventually revealed to be the most lauded villain within Bondian folklore. From him we get more Serious Conversations about security cameras, while a conspicuous kitty roams the bottom of the frame. For devotees of the series, this is a nudge in the ribs so rough that it’ll leave a bruise. Mendes has split this bullet down the center: Fans get cloying nods to a pulp past, while the larger narrative and the monochrome aesthetics make overtures toward false cinematic prestige. At their playful best, Bond movies can be something like cinematic sex. But these callbacks aren’t orgasmic—just unfulfilling reminders of movies we’ve already seen. Spectre is closer to necrophilia. >> SPECTRE. NOW PLAYING EVERYWHERE. RATED PG-13.

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BY JAKE MULLIGAN @_JAKEMULLIGAN Most nonfiction films give you captions to identify the talking heads. In Les Blank’s A Poem Is a Naked Person—the centerpiece of the Brattle Theatre’s Reel Music Film Festival, which will run all week—there are only a brief few words on screen. And when those bits of text show up, they’re typically subtitles to clarify a phrase heard in passing. So sentences like “this-that’r the other” appear onscreen, like large-font headlines. The ostensible subject of the movie (shot between ’72 and ’74) is session artist and songwriter Leon Russell. Blank, who passed in 2013, approaches his topic the way a gonzo journalist might have: with an eye that wanders, and an ear that’s attuned to funny phrases.

You couldn’t invent a better headliner for a ’70s time capsule than Russell.

He’s got the Gandalf beard to hide his face, and the words coming through the scruff have a THC-infused, post-’60s slowness to them. Yet the twang and the diction disappear while he’s onstage, leaving only the imposing visage. He’s got the essential elements of a disreputable messiah—grotesquerie and grace.

If this were a concert film, that dichotomy might be the whole point. But this isn’t a concert film. Blank’s camera follows Russell’s crew through Tulsa and Tennessee, and the editing cuts out of performances mid-song, allowing for jokes and testimonials from the locals on the margins. There’s a quote in the credits from Godard, saying that the day of the director is dead. But Blank disproves the quotation himself. Russell—who’s also the producer and financier—gets sidelined. Instead we look at whatever catches the director’s eye.

There’s a pair of Oklahoma octogenarians excited by this local boy and his hippie-adjacent hair; there’s a painter named Jim Franklin filling up an empty pool with psychedelic iconography. Sometimes ideas are hidden between those images: When Blank cuts between Russell’s spirited performances and a righteously orating preacher at an African-American church, you know what tradition the filmmaker thinks his subject belongs to. But Poem isn’t all that intellectual—it’s unadorned documentation. Another thing we see is the implosion of a Tulsa hotel. There’s a crowd of locals out to see the building one last time. Blank’s discursive craftsmanship accomplishes something similar. He catches us a glimpse of a revolutionized Southern rock culture: post-’Nam and pre-Reagan, imbued with rural tradition of bystanders, but energized by the urban intoxicants of rock stars. By now, all that’s left of it is this movie. >> A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON. BRATTLE THEATRE. 40 BRATTLE ST., CAMBRIDGE. FRI 11.13, 7PM. ALSO SCREENS SAT 11.14 AT 1:30 AND 3:30PM. NOT RATED.

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On Christmas Day in 1815, about 945 Bostonians filed into King’s Chapel for the very first concert of the newly formed Handel and Haydn Society. Two hundred years later, in what will be the culminating event of H+H’s yearlong bicentennial celebration, Bostonians will once again file into King’s Chapel for a concert of great significance and remarkable beauty.

It all began on Feb 22, 1815, when a celebratory concert was held at King’s Chapel in honor of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, which effectively ended the War of 1812. A choir of over 100 performed selections from Handel’s oratorios.

The gala was so successful that members of Boston’s first orchestra, the PhiloHarmonic Society, felt that a new singing society should be formed. Just one month later, on March 24 at the home of co-founder Gottlieb Graupner, the Handel and Haydn Society was officially born.

By April 20, there were 31 H+H members, most of whom were middle-class men that were members of their local church choirs. Rehearsals and preparations for the inaugural concert continued through the summer and fall of 1815.

On Dec 25, the concert began at 6 pm and lasted about three hours. Tickets were $1. An orchestra of 12 plus an organist joined the 100-person chorus, comprised of 90 men and 10 women; women were considered invited guests, and were not able to join as members until 1967.

The concert was a terrific success, with the Boston Centinel exclaiming: “We have no language to do justice to the feelings experienced in attending … those who are judges of the performance are unanimous in their declaration of the superiority to any ever before given in this town … the excitements to loud applause were frequently irresistible.”

Like the inaugural concert of 1815, the bicentennial concert on Nov 21 will include “The Heavens Are Telling” from Haydn’s The Creation, “Lift Up Ye Heads, O Ye Gates” and “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah. Also on the bill are works by Kent, Mozart, and Byrd. “While some of these compositions are less wellknown today, all are not only a part of H+H’s history, but are also beautiful music.

I can’t think of a better way to spend a Saturday evening,” said Teresa Neff, an MIT musicologist and the Christopher Hogwood Historically Informed Performance Fellow at H+H. H+H has performed ever since that momentous Christmas evening in 1815, making it the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States. “Before H+H began performing,” Neff said, “there were few regular concerts of classical music in Boston” (the Boston Symphony Orchestra wouldn’t be founded until 1881). The historical and cultural significance of H+H is tremendous: Not only were other Handel and Haydn Societies around the country inspired by it, but it was responsible for the US premieres of works like Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Verdi’s Requiem, and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.

Around 1823, H+H even commissioned Beethoven for a composition, which was unfortunately never completed.

“H+H is coming home,” said Neff. “It is wonderful that King’s Chapel today is so very similar to how the space was in 1815. For H+H to perform in 2015 some of the same pieces that the first audience heard in 1815 connects past and present in a special way. There will never be another celebration like this one.” That Bostonians get to claim H+H as their own national treasure is indeed why we must be a part of the celebration, as always, with our ears to the past and our eyes to the future.

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BY DAN SAVAGE @FAKEDANSAVAGE | MAIL@SAVAGELOVE.NET I’m a hetero guy in need of advice. Back in college, I met this girl. Suffice it to say she was into me but I had some shit to work through. So we ended up being a missed connection, romantically. Despite that, we still became fast friends. I’m less awkward now, in large part because our friendship changed my life. We each married other people, and everything worked out great. Except I still love her. I think about her often, want to share things about my life with her, find myself wanting to rely on her when things are tough. I don’t know what to do with it. On one hand, she means an awful lot to me—she is the kind of friend that comes along once in a lifetime—and I know that I mean a lot to her. So this is a relationship worth protecting, even as asymmetrical as it is. On the other hand, these feelings are starting to seem kind of pathetic. We are barely part of each other’s lives anymore—do I even have a right to feel the way I do? I see three options, each of which is shit. (1) Keep my feelings to myself and endure/enjoy a painful but deeply meaningful friendship. (2) Disappear, either abruptly or gradually, with no explanation. Or (3) damn the torpedoes and bare my soul, which might painfully explode the relationship. After years of option 1, I am strongly leaning toward option 3—just blowing shit wide open and dealing with whatever happens.

No Good At Acronyms You’re going to need a gay dude to act on the advice I’m about to give you—and not just any gay dude, NGAA, but the kind of gay dude who obsesses about Broadway musicals. And not just any gay dude who obsesses about Broadway musicals, but the kind of Broadway-musicalobsessed gay dude who has good taste. (Look through his record collection: If Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is in there and Mame isn’t, he does not have good taste.)

Okay, here’s my advice: Listen to the original Broadway cast recordings of Company, Follies, and A Little Night Music—music and lyrics, in all three cases,

by Stephen Sondheim (peace be upon him). Yes, you can get all three recordings on iTunes, NGAA, but you need to listen to them on vinyl, and you need to discuss these shows, and three songs in particular, with someone who already knows them by heart. Hence the need for a gay dude with good taste in Broadway musicals and an extensive collection of original Broadway cast recordings—on vinyl. As any Broadway-musicalobsessed gay man will tell you: Epiphanies, insights, and breakthroughs come most reliably in moments of silence, i.e., when you have to flip the record over.

Here are the songs you need to pay close attention to: “Sorry-Grateful” from Company, “The Road You Didn’t Take” from Follies, and “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music. (You might be a little too fragile for “Too Many Mornings” and “Losing My Mind,” both from Follies.) Listen over and over again—until you know the lyrics of all three songs by heart. Discuss what these songs mean with your new gay friend. Then you’ll know what to do.

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