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HEADLINING THIS WEEK! VOL 18 + ISSUE 24

JUNE 16, 2016 - JUNE 23, 2016 EDITORIAL

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EDITOR + PUBLISHER Jeff lawrence

As the weekend begins to creep into Friday and stretch to Monday, the traffic thins to an almost eerie normalcy and the bar windows open onto breezy patios taking center stage across the city.

Summer is finally and officially here.

While the Fourth of July is the unofficial start of summer in Boston, June is the necessary month to prepare. Whether it’s locking down camping/hiking plans, making formal requests with the boss for three-day festivals, or stocking up on things to do mid-week when the summer light holds on for one more drink, it’s important to get your shit together now so you don’t end up rereading old books inside and alone. No one wants that and that’s why we do a Summer Preview.

From movies to music, arts to eats, and plenty of hiking along the way, this annual issue is our summer roadmap for the next few months—in between your sunburns and hangovers, of course.

Whether you’re looking to slow life down or pick up some speed, there’s a flavor for everyone. So have fun jumping in feet first knowing that we’ve cut through the clutter and hand-picked the very best, or at least the most interesting, and try as many new things as you can along the way. What’s the worst that could happen? As Tennessee Williams once said, “All good art is an indiscretion.”

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Dear Hyena In The Apartment Above Me, You have two laughs, and I hate both of them. Not necessarily equally, but there’s certainly a lot of hate to go around. One laugh is the one that you use when your lame animal friends are around typically trying to impress them by laughing harder at sexist dick comedians on Neflix (that’s right, I can hear that much through the floor). That’s the one where you cackle like you’re gasping for your last breath, which I will admit gives me some hopeful thoughts and a dash of relief every time, but that nonetheless sickens me. The other laugh, the one you use when you’re alone, ‘cause you’re a fucking phony baloney, is always followed by a gaping, “Holy shit!” Sometimes like five in a row as you calm yourself down from whichever Adam Sandler joke you fancied. Two laughs, comparably despicable. But neither of which you will need for the occasion on which I move out of this bitch and flood the toilet over your bedroom.

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Years of state austerity budgets put UMass Boston in jeopardy

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more than a billion dollars over the last decade and a half.

Put another way, the ultimate cause is ideological.

And that ideology has a name: neoliberalism. Its central precepts of fiscal austerity, privatization, deregulation, and union busting in the service of making the rich richer have been followed with near-religious intensity for decades by both major political parties in state governments and in the federal government alike.

In the present context, neoliberalism translates to refusing to fairly tax corporations and the rich—which would allow our public higher education system to be funded to a tolerable standard—trying to run colleges like for-profit businesses instead of nonprofit services, and transferring once-public costs to individual families. Forcing students to take out increasingly burdensome loans to stay in school. A recipe for disaster, if ever there was one.

Writ large over the entire state government, the neoliberal ideology has led to one crisis after another—in the public health system, in public K-12 education, in the public transportation systems, etc., etc. And will continue to do so until the disastrous course its political partisans have put us on is reversed by popular political action.

All signs point to a small increase (1-1.5 percent) in state spending on public higher ed in the final FY 2017 budget, but nowhere near enough to make up for the years of cuts. Or even to keep up with inflation, let alone forestall the crisis at UMass Boston.

Saving UMass Boston—and the Mass public higher ed system—is going to take a real struggle. The Faculty Staff Union and its allies are doing a fine job of protesting the cuts. But they need solidarity. Lots of it. The kind of movement required has to be statewide and systemwide.

And even that probably won’t be enough. A reform of the necessary scale will need help from outside the public higher ed community. It will need the newly emboldened radicals from the Bernie Sanders campaign, #BlackLivesMatter and other rising social movements to join the fight.

That’s a tall order to be sure. But every journey starts with a first step. Here’s how you can help: 1) Sign the UMass Boston Faculty Staff Union petition.

2) Get on the “Stop the Hikes and Cuts” bus at UMass Boston on June 15 and join the UMB community in protesting the upcoming UMass Board of Trustees meeting.

3) Drop an email to FSU@umb.edu to get more involved.

Pressure on the UMass Boston administration is already mounting. That might explain why UMB Chancellor Keith Motley told the Boston Herald this week that “he has not approved any cuts on campus and that most staff who received pink slips would be called back for the fall.” Cold comfort for the 400 faculty members currently in limbo, unsure of whether they should start preparing for classes as usual—or continue looking for new gigs in a tight academic job market. And with UMass President Marty Meehan guaranteeing that budget cuts are coming to the entire UMass system by July, it doesn’t seem like Motley will be able to avoid finalizing the faculty layoffs for very long.

Unless he proposes cutting the often-outrageous administration salaries across the board to help balance the budget as public higher ed advocates have long suggested. Wouldn’t hold your breath on that one.

For a community perspective on the crisis at UMass Boston, check out the testimonial from recent graduate Cady Vishniac.

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There is only one appropriate response to the looming layoff of 400 unionized non-tenure track faculty at UMass Boston. Rebellion.

We are well past the era of shots across the budgetary bow of public higher education in the Commonwealth.

We are now in the era of kill shots. It is not possible to eliminate roughly one-third of the faculty of a major research university without destroying that university.

One cannot run a school without teachers, after all.

Teachers who are already denied the possibility of secure, properly-paid, full-time, tenure track faculty jobs—as has become the dominant practice at colleges across America.

So, the threatened faculty, the remaining faculty, the staff, their Faculty Staff Union (Mass Teachers Association), the other campus unions, the alumni, and— most importantly—the students and their families have to essentially declare war on state government. Now. The entire UMass Boston community needs to demand proper funding for the school. Or risk losing everything that generations of Bostonians have fought for. A public university of our own with an “urban mission” to provide a top flight education to its residents with as little expense to them as possible.

The proximate cause of the crisis is a combined $22.3 million deficit that the UMass Boston administration recently announced for this fiscal year and next. Their unfortunate response is to propose: increasing class sizes, raising tuition (yet again), and savagely cutting faculty jobs.

But the ultimate cause is the long term starvation of the public higher education budget by the Mass legislature. According to the Mass Budget and Policy Center, state funding for public higher education has fallen from $1,339,713,711 in FY 2001 to $1,187,476,006 in FY 2016 (numbers adjusted for inflation)—an 11.4 percent drop. Yet it’s worse than that statistic makes it seem since the budget was well below the FY 2001 figure every year between then and now. Meaning that the system has lost

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The legislative battle to update the Massachusetts public records law is over, and despite what you may have heard, the public lost. The Legislature listened to complaints about and criticism of our records law, and they boldly acted—to ensure that our state will remain one of the worst in the nation when it comes to the public’s right to access government records.

Under the current records law, all agencies are supposed to provide records within 10 calendar days of receiving a request. However, agencies rarely even provide a response to requests within this window. A massive audit by Northeastern University journalism students and the Boston Globe recently found that 58 percent of the Commonwealth’s 351 municipalities did not respond to requests within 10 days. The primary reason agencies treat the current law as a joke is that Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin and Attorney General Maura Healey don’t enforce the law. Galvin’s office has only escalated one violation of the law to the AGO for enforcement in the past several years. The AGO could act on its own, but refuses to do so.

The public records law has not been substantially updated since the ‘70s, and in that time the process of storing and reproducing records has become much more efficient. But instead of improving enforcement, the Legislature decided to allow municipal agencies to grant themselves up to 25 business days to produce records, which is over a month (this month, for example, has only 22 business days). And it allowed state agencies to give themselves up to 15 business days. All an agency needs to do to get extra time is to claim that it’s too busy with its other responsibilities to provide the records.

If that wasn’t enough, municipal and state agencies can request an extension from Galvin’s office. Municipal agencies can get up to 30 extra business days, and state agencies can get up to 20 extra business days. Once you factor in both extensions and non-business days, municipalities can take a total of up to about two-and-a-half months to provide records, while state agencies can take up to about a month and a half.

To make things worse, the new law allows agencies to petition Galvin’s office to be relieved of their duty to provide records if a request is “part of a series of contemporaneous requests that are frivolous or designed to intimidate or harass”—and none of these terms are defined within the law. In the past, agencies have always been required to respond to records requests.

The update also allows agencies to stop processing requests from a requester who owes them money from a previous request. But this makes no sense because agencies are supposed to collect fees before providing records. This provision will lead to confusion, and some agencies may interpret it to mean they can stop processing requests from people who asked for records but opted not to pay the fee because they couldn’t afford it or thought it was excessive.

The new law puts some limits on the fees agencies can charge for providing records, which is a positive step. Agencies will only be able to charge $25 an hour for personnel time, cannot charge for the first few hours of work unless they’re part of a municipality with a population of 20,000 or less, and cannot charge for redactions unless they’re mandated by law (as opposed to allowable by law). However, these limits can be overridden by Galvin’s office on the basis that a “request could not have been prudently completed” without charging more. And Galvin’s office has already shown that it considers exorbitant fees to be “reasonable.” Plus, the new law will allow agencies to enter contracts with vendors to handle government records. The fees associated for that work can be passed forward to the requester and we fear it will be used to justify exceeding the $25 per hour cap.

One reform we enthusiastically support is the requirement that agencies must waive all fees when they fail to respond to a request within 10 business days of receiving it. Unfortunately, the final version of the fee-waiving requirement was watered down and no longer requires agencies to waive fees if they miss the deadline to provide the records. We’re concerned that Galvin’s office will render the fee-waiving provision useless by a lack of enforcement—especially since his office testified against including it in the law.

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I’m sorry if you’re tired of hearing about the Stanford rape trial. I have heard and read a lot of stories and opinions as well, but I’m also tired of the frequency with which women are sexually assaulted, and with the fact that in this particular case, excuses tied to alcohol and drinking culture have been used to push blame off of the attacker and onto the victim.

In case you already forgot about the story that rocked headlines before the worst mass shooting in American history unfolded in Orlando, or if you somehow managed to miss the important lessons that emerged, here’s a snapshot of the media attention on the outcome of the case, and on the sentencing of Brock Allen Turner:

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If you haven’t seen the video or read the survivor’s letter (which at this point I feel is impossible), it’s available in full on BuzzFeed. Vox explains how the letter rocks assumptions about sexual assault, while the impeccably written indictment itself kills the myth that an intoxicated woman who is violated may have been irresponsible.

Let it be remembered that in the wake of the Turner case, men had the privilege of shrugging off his actions by saying, “But I’m not like that.”

Nevertheless, it’s important to remember that while not every man is a predator, every woman is a potential victim of sexual assault.

Turner’s ridiculously short sentence sparked outrage and intense conversations.

In addition to his victim’s letter going viral, his father’s letter to the judge (“As it stands now, Brock’s life has been deeply altered forever … now he barely consumes any food and eats only to exist”) has been dissected, while petitions to recall and sanction presiding Judge Aaron Persky gained serious momentum.

But how long will it last?

Hopefully the conversation continues as long as it needs to, because women everywhere following this case, and seeing the insultingly inadequate sentence Turner was handed, are thinking, “That could have been me.” That’s what I thought when I first read about the Stanford rape trial: I’ve had too much to drink at a party. I’ve flirted with men I had no desire to sleep with. But I didn’t wake up in a hospital covered in scrapes and bruises, or learn about the fact that I’d been sexually assaulted on the news.

Men are blissfully absolved of having to see themselves in Turner. Some are saying to themselves, “Thank god I didn’t get caught,” or “I didn’t force myself on someone because I know it’s wrong.”

Meanwhile, this case affects all women, regardless of their social scene, drinking habits, or sex life. We can all identify with Emily Doe.

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SUMMER HIKING

TEN HIKES, TEN PICNICS

Greater Boston Area Hikes That Lead to Great Lunch/Picnic Spots

BY MARC HURWITZ @HIDDENBOSTON

Summer is more or less here once again, and thoughts for many turn to such activities as hiking, picnics, and the like.

And wouldn’t it be nice to combine hiking and picnicking and also be able to do it without having to drive all that far?

Below are 10 such places to do both, with some leaning more toward simple walks than hikes for those looking to do something easy and a few that are also on or near bus and subway lines for those who live in the city and/or are without wheels.

(Note: Total times do not include picnic breaks.)

Walden Pond Peninsula (Lynn Woods), Lynn

Yes, there is another Walden Pond in the region, and this one is every bit as beautiful as the one in Concord. And if you take a trail to the right off the Great Woods Road path (just after where Ox Pasture Road Path forks to the right), you’ll encounter a long lakeside trail that reaches a small peninsula just before the trail ends, and it’s a place where you can savor some great lake views before heading back.

[Approximately 4 miles round-trip from Great Woods parking lot, 2 hours total via lakeside trail that runs parallel to Great Woods Road. Map: flw.org

Nahanton Hill Overlook (Blue Hills), Quincy

One of the more difficult hikes in the Boston area, the section of the Skyline Trail from its eastern terminus at the Shea Rink in Quincy to a little side trail that forks to the right that leads to a ledgy area on this broad hill is well worth the effort, as the views from the ledges include the Boston skyline, the harbor, and much more.

[Approximately 5 miles round-trip from Shea Rink, 3 hours total via Skyline Trail. Map: mass.gov

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Corey Hill Outlook (Summit Hill/Corey Hill), Brookline

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Basically an urban walk that feels more like a mountain hike in some ways, the Summit Path is a steep and seemingly endless staircase that leads from Beacon Street between Coolidge Corner and Washington Square up to to the top of Corey Hill, where you can enjoy tremendous views from a large grassy area that is just made for picnics.

[Approximately 0.5 miles round-trip from Beacon Street, 0.5 hours total via Summit Path. Map: issuu.com/ walkboston

Ponkapoag Pond Camp (Blue Hills), Randolph

If you like the feeling of being 100 miles away from Boston while actually being only 15 minutes from the city, the “Ponky Loop” is about as good as it gets. And at the far end of the pond from the golf course is the Ponkapoag Camp of the Appalachian Mountain Club, which consists of a number of primitive cabins and a dock on the pond that is perfect for getting some sun and enjoying a snack.

[Approximately 5 miles round-trip, 2.5 hours total via road from golf course parking lot on Route 138 in Canton to start of loop. Map: mass.gov

Pier 7 (Charlestown Navy Yard), Charlestown

A true city walk that is flat as a pancake, Pier 7 (also known as Constellation Wharf) is actually very easy to miss, as it looks solely like a private residential spot.

But just after the parking entrance to the right, you will see a pathway squeezed between the lot and the water below, and this path eventually leads to a public area with memorable views—and a mix of tables and benches where you can relax for awhile while catching some sea breezes.

[Approximately 0.5 miles round-trip, 0.5 hours total via Harborwalk north from USS Constitution Museum. Map: .nps.gov

Noon Hill Summit (Noon Hill/Shattuck Reservation), Medfield

About as remote a place as you’ll find inside Route 495, this hike southwest of the city is one of the best walks to do if you want great views with relatively little effort put in. A wooded trail gradually climbs to the top of Noon Hill, affording views from its ledges that are a must for an extended photo break, along with a quick lunch stop or a picnic from its somewhat large and flat overlook.

[Approximately 2 miles round-trip from Noon Hill parking lot, 1 hour total via yellow and red-blazed trails. Map: thetrustees.org

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Horn Pond Mountain (Horn Pond Conservation Area), Woburn

While perhaps not a true mountain, this rise (also known as Mount Towanda) overlooking Horn Pond is pretty big for being so close to Boston—and it was actually once home to a ski area. A switchback trail leads steeply up to the summit across from the substation near the parking lot, then veers right and continues along a plateau until it mostly ends at a large grassy area by the power lines where a stunning view awaits.

[Approximately 2 miles round-trip from main parking lot, 1 hour total via paved road (off-limits to cars) and Horn Pond Mountain trail. Map: woburnmaps.com

Granite Railway Quarry (Quincy Quarries), Quincy

A definite “best bang for the buck” hike, this is really more of a short walk than a true hike, but the 10-minute stroll from the parking lot to the easy—albeit slightly tricky— scamper up the far ledge on the left leads to a view of Boston (and on the other side, the other ledges) that will make your knees weak. The flat areas at the top are ideal for a picnic or lunch break, but just make sure you don’t get too close to the edge (especially if people are rock climbing).

[Approximately 0.75 miles round-trip, 0.5 hours total from Ricciuti Drive parking lot. Map: mass.gov

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Eagle Rock (Breakheart Reservation), Saugus

A little tough to find but definitely worth the effort, this huge, bare ledge allows for dizzying views almost straight down to Pearce Lake (also known as Lower Pond). And while there are a few scenic trails to get to Eagle Rock, if you aren’t overly adventurous you can easily get there by taking Pine Tops Road from the rustic visitor center to a left at Elm Road (both closed to traffic), then a left at the end of Pearce Lake.

[Approximately 3 miles round-trip, 1.5 hours total from visitor center. Map: saugus.org

Vernal Pool (Minuteman National Historic Park), Lexington/Lincoln

Sometimes it’s nice to get a bit of history in with your hikes, and taking the Battle Road Trail is one of the best places to do this. And there happens to be a “secret” trail opposite the Hartwell Tavern (near where a road to a parking lot meets the Battle Road Trail) that eventually leads left to a boardwalk, which ends at a sitting area in the middle of a vernal pool that you can almost always have to yourself.

[Approximately 5 miles round-trip, 2.5 hours total from visitor center via Battle Road Trail and unmarked trail by Hartwell Tavern. Map: nps.gov

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JOHN BROWN’S BODY

Twenty years later, roots to reggae to rock and beyond

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When I first moved to the Boston area, I lived on Beacon Street in Somerville, just outside of Porter Square.

There was a Star Market across the street, a laundromat next to it, a liquor store to the left, and an Irish pub to the right.

It was perfect.

It was a three level building, with six or eight apartments in total. I moved into the second floor on the right side of the complex. There was a middle aged single woman on the first floor below, and the left side of the complex was filled with a mixed bag of students from Harvard and elsewhere, but the top two floors on my side, which included my apartment, were almost exclusively occupied by musicians in the same band. That band was John Brown’s Body (JBB) and the year was 1996.

I had a personal connection to some of the members who were previously in another band, Tribulations, but my welcome was anything but confirmed. I was not only going to be living in a band house, which is tricky, but more specifically with several people on the second floor 14

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including the drummer, Tommy Benedetti, and his final approval was still somewhat in question … and required if it was going to happen at all. So we hung out, drank quite a bit of beer, and ultimately hit it off and I moved in. It only lasted a year before the next wave of residents came in and others moved on, including myself, but our friendship has never waned since.

It’s no secret that I like JBB, and my relationship to the band via this rag is somewhat nepotistic, but it’s for good reason. Two decades later, I sat down with him and talked about where it all started and why his American reggae meets fusion rock band is still going stronger than ever.

Dig: We’ve been friends for a long time and I’ve been a fan of yours since we first met, but while I love JBB, it was more about your passion for music and life in general.

Can you explain that passion?

Tommy: I think that speaks to the standard that I set for myself as a musician and that we set as a band.

The people I surround myself with and have been lucky enough to play with on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis, also speak to that. Music is one of the most important things in my life and I’m lucky to be able to do it at a pretty high level, whether it’s a small club in Boston or Red Rocks in Colorado, it’s the same experience for me. It’s JOHN BROWN’S BODY continued on pg. 16

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JOHN BROWN’S BODY continued from pg. 14 the same passion. I want to bring that fire every night. JBB has always had that passion as well.

Dig: Tell me about your fans?

Tommy: There’s no one like them. They’ve supported us through thick and thin and let us be who we are. We serve that by promising to our fans that each show and each record will be better than the last, and that’s what we shoot for everytime. We’re arguably one of the most respected bands on the scene and that’s what I want to hang my hat on. As a working musician, the respect means everything to me, from the fans and also from my peers.

Dig: Tell me about your fall release. It’s your eleventh album. How did it come together?

Tommy: It’s called Fireflies. It’s in the final stages now and most of it has already been mixed and completed for quite some time. In fact, we had a final product ready to go but decided to add a few more songs. So we flew home after a short tour down south, and went right into the studio here in Boston to finish it. Elliot (Elliot Martin, vocalist) is the brains of our operation. He writes all the music, and the new record is just a continuation of his evolution. He knows what to write for this band - and for my drumming - and what the band sound is ... because he is the sound of the band. The last record, the record before … it’s just a continuation of that. We don’t put it

into words how it’s going to happen, the music just comes out of him, and that comes from us being a band and spending so much time together.

Dig: Elliot hasn’t always been that singular voice for the band. That also came through this evolution. Tell me about that.

Tommy: We were a two vocalist band originally, and the styles were very different, but that changed with Pressure Points (2005). Elliot wrote eight of the eleven songs and that was a big change for the band and their roles. Kevin (Kevin Kinsella, original vocalist with Martin) decided to move on after that (in 2006.) A lot has changed since.

Elliot and I are the last two surviving members of the band now. When you listen to JBB, and can make the connection between the albums, that thread is us. But his songwriting keeps getting better. I feel it after every show.

It’s an amazing thing. Its why I’m still doing it.

Dig: You love music. Tell me who you’re listening to right now.

Tommy: A lot of the stuff I listen today has nothing to do with reggae. One of my main guys that I’ve been playing music with for the last twenty years, Timo Shanko (Fully Celebrated Orchestra, Dub Apocalypse,) blows my mind everytime I play a gig with him, and he recommended the composers Bela Bartok and Charles Ives. So I went beserk

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and bought the entire catalog for both and have been blowing them up lately. I’m trying to take in as much as possible. I also like the new Deftones record. It’s amazing.

But right now, I’m listen to a lot of Bartok and Ives.

Dig: You’ve toured quite a bit over the last twenty years.

What’s your favorite story from the road?

Tommy: In 2009, we were on tour in New Zealand with The Black Seeds, one of my favorite bands by the way, they’re from Wellington, and you have to check them out if you haven’t yet. We were north of Auckland wrapping up our trip, and I remember seeing the Southern Cross in the sky. We were up all night doing some crazy shit.

Our trumpet player took off with this girl, and lost his trumpet but later found it in a field filled with a bunch of sheep (laughs.) That was a crazy tour, a surreal sublime place to be. This music has taken me to a lot of places and I don’t think it’s ever been heavier than that. We went from the southern tip to the northern tip of New Zealand and we cut loose. Lets just leave it at that.

Dig: I only have one more question...If you could be a fish, which fish would you be and why?

Tommy: I’d be a great white shark. A maniacal great white shark. Then I’d immediately go on land and do whatever I have to do to find Donald Trump and chew him to fucking pieces (laughs maniacally.)

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The temperatures are rising, college kids are leaving, and Sox fans are storming into town.

That means it’s finally time to crank up the music guilt-free.

To help you survive this summer, we handpicked recommendations to get you through the heat based off personality types. It doesn’t matter if you’re the college grad working a vegan shop, a dad with two toddlers, the bro packing spliffs for a weekend hike, or a gal looking to party on through to September—we’ve got you covered (just maybe not on the sunscreen front).

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From July 22-24, a flurry of folk acts and rock legends will take over Rhode Island for another unforgettable weekend. Newport Folk Festival blends the line between parents and kids, letting you prop up a chair for acts like Fruit Bats as well as Patti Smith. After all, everyone is family at NFF.

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Local trio Lady Pills may be young, but the three are smarter than most Berklee kids. Their self-described “ugly pop” puts charm in between loose guitar chords so you can sing them on the way to GymIt or gym class alike. Preorder Despite before it drops July 8 via Babe City Records.

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Now that Puberty 2 is out, Mitski is taking the whole dang world by storm with her emotive, intense, honest songwriting. She knows how to rock and so do the acts she’s bringing with her on tour. It may be a weeknight, but bring the whole family to her show on June 22 because, really, getting that much empowerment and inspiration for $13 is a steal.

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SUMMER MUSIC continued from pg. 18 BEACH READ:

On Bowie by Rob Sheffield

David Bowie is more relevant now than ever before. Leave it to Rob Sheffield to pen a thoughtful, open, loving book on the life of the creative icon.

Read it to your kids to explain the genius of Bowie, preferably just before bedtime so they can dream of the real Starman. Grab it when it comes out June 28.

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Nothing makes you want to jam like hearing the psych rock wobbles of Quilt, Widowspeak, and Doug Tuttle on the same night. Especially when they play the Sinclair on June 24. You’ll remember this one since it’s a Friday night at a doable time of 8 pm and—oh shit, it’s only $15?!

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No need to preorder this since it’s already out, but look, you forgot, okay? Between getting hammered by 5 pm on Memorial Day and rolling your fourth blunt today, you got too caught up in the electronic hip-hop instrumentals of Floodwater. The first moment you heard the funk basslines of rhythm becomes deranged, you knew you had to have it. Snag your copy via Bandcamp already.

What happened in 1971? All of your favs—Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Joni Mitchell, the Who—put out their best singles. David Hepworth was 21 years old that year, and he retells the magic of that music with the joy and passion of someone falling in love with it then, too. It’s an homage to soul, R&B, and rock that changed music as we know it. In other words, you can’t put it down.

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There’s no bigger music festival on the East Coast than Panorama. The festival celebrates its inaugural year July 22-24 on Randall’s Island in New York City. Saying everyone will be there is an understatement: LCD Soundsystem, Kendrick Lamar, Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene? This is the party you’re looking for.

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Anderson .Paak + Duckwrth + Pomo @ Paradise Rock Club

Fresh off the release of his critic-loved LP, Anderson .Paak is set to perform Malibu with help from the Free Nationals. The Cali rapper will show his speed live onstage on July 21. Tickets are only $20, and they will definitely go fast, so buy one now if you want to Snapchat “Am I Wrong” to your friends later.

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No festival emphasizes chilling quite like this one. On Saturday, July 9, over 180 bands will kick their feet up on the porches of JP between noon and 6 pm. Forget about a schedule. Just follow the vibes. Put on a hat, lace up your comfiest sneakers, and crack open a beer (in secret, of course) while taking in the talent of your neighbors.

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Dinosaur Jr. - Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not

It’s been four years since Massachusetts rockers Dinosaur Jr. last released an LP. The group’s next album drops August 5 via Jagjaguwar. The rock giants will craft the perfect blend of melodic hooks and blaring guitars once again, allowing you to show off your edgy side when driving through Allston.

Hot Karl was a Jewish rapper from LA that most of us forgot long ago. Think Vanilla Ice and Eminem with even less talent, but, as it turns out, plenty of good fodder for a book. Jensen Karp’s memoir will keep you laughing—and your friends. It’s full of stories worth retelling at boozy rooftop parties.

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BOSTON’S SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW In with the old, out with the new

BY JAKE MULLIGAN @_JAKEMULLIGAN

Most of the “Summer Movie Preview” features that get published are written by critics who haven’t seen 75 percent of the movies they’re previewing, and so they consist of little more than plot synopsis’ taken directly from iMDB’s “coming soon” page. They’d tell you it can’t be helped. Everyone wants to mention the summer’s potential moneymakers as much as possible—but the studios are typically too ashamed of their products to let critics see them more than 72 hours in advance. So I presume you’ll forgive me if I dispense with that arts-section tradition, and write about some movies I’ve actually seen instead. Below you’ll find notes on four prime selections, all of which will be featured at one of our local repertory theaters this summer. You won’t see them advertised on any billboards lining the interstate.

But I’d bet you they’re better than the movies that are. these typical setups are framed through his windows, even dying has a strange beauty to it.

••• The Harvard Film Archive is currently presenting a complete retrospective of the works of Hollywood filmmaker Robert Aldrich. Its breadth is frankly staggering.

It includes early works on which he assisted (William Wellman’s Story of G.I. Joe on June 19), programs of television episodes he directed (three episodes of Four Star Playhouse on July 10), and all of his feature-length directorial efforts, which range across most popular genres of his era. There are cop movies (The Choirboys, June 17), war movies (The Dirty Dozen, June 18), a biblical epic (Sodom and Gomorrah, June 19), “women’s pictures,” (Autumn Leaves, July 9; The Killing of Sister George, July 16; What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Aug 13), train movies (Emperor of the North, Aug 12), Burt Reynolds movies (Hustle, July 16), and some of the most breathlessly paced westerns ever made, including:

VERA CRUZ

Screens Aug 8. Harvard Film Archive. 7PM. 35mm.

The Brattle Theatre has many programs and premieres scheduled for the season, including late shows of Jackie Chan movies and special engagements of two recently restored King Hu films. Its next repertory program, “Man Meets Wilderness”—which begins on June 24—features period westerns and survivalist tracts that are steeped in heavy precipitation. Films include The New World (June 25), Jeremiah Johnson (June 24), The Grey ( June 27), and one of the seminal works of the snow-western subgenre:

McCABE & MRS. MILLER

Screens on June 26. Brattle Theatre. 2:15 and 7PM. 35mm.

There was a retrospective of works by the famously discursive filmmaker Robert Altman at the Harvard Film Archive last summer. It included a number of industrial films he made in the early stages of his career, back when the would-be iconoclast was just a hired hand. One was called The Sound of Bells. It saw a gas station attendant do a good deed for Santa, who then gifted the clerk with the ability to hear heavenly bells whenever an undecided customer was unknowingly in need of a tune-up—thus teaching attendants everywhere the proper way to provoke an upsell. The first shot is its own cue from the heavens. We see the parking lot of the gas station from the inside out, with glass panes framing the outside and clouds of snow diverting our vision beyond them.

Neon lights and continued snowfall provide an almost impressionistic texture to the image. It’s the composition of a master, even if it’s found in a craftsman’s work.

What happens in McCabe & Mrs. Miller can be found in any yellowed western paperback. A low-talking gambler walks into a town (Warren Beatty, often baring the character’s bluster). He gets drunk with the locals (and tries to take their money), finds himself an old lady (Julie Christie), and gains a hustle along with her (running the 22

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only brothel in a northwestern mining town—Christie being the madame to his pimp). They call this a revisionist western, but that’s all traditional enough. It’s the way that Altman and cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond frame the film that does it—it’s like they’re seeing every shot through that Sound of Bells window. Typical western scenarios, like a night of gambling or a gunfight in the great outdoors, get rendered in patches and scrapes. The soundtrack is distorted so that it only hears half of every sentence; the camera is equally distracted, panning and zooming away from individuals after scant moments of focus. And so McCabe treats characters the way that most movies treat their plot—as mysteries to be slowly unraveled. This is a western for viewers who’d rather watch people live than watch people die. The tragedy is that Altman is going to make you watch both. But when

Robert Aldrich made movies about many heartless people, but he did it with a lot of soul. He tells stories about violent iconoclasts caught in intensely emotional situations, and more often than not, the emotions beat the people. His westerns—true to that genre’s tradition—were among his most pitiless. And none more so than Vera Cruz. There’s barely even any explicit emotion for these iconoclasts to battle with. But there’s five or six of them in total, so they do battle with each other instead. A confederate soldier (Gary Cooper) travels down to Mexico, hoping to make some money off his neighbor’s war. He’s immediately interrupted by a bandit (Burt Lancaster), then later by his gang (including Ernest Borgnine), then by European forces (offering handsome wages), and lastly by the “Juaristas” (offering a sense of

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SUMMER FILM continued from pg. 22 The Somerville Theatre has repertory programming scheduled throughout the summer, with silent films (Stella Maris on Aug 14), midnight shows (El Topo on July 2, among others), and a series of movies that “play it cool” (a double feature of Get Carter and Point Blank, set for Aug 11, might be the best pairing of the whole season).

It’s also scheduled three days of screenings for the most famous work of New England-set cinema:

JAWS

Screens Aug 12-14. Somerville Theatre. Various showtimes. 35mm.

moral integrity, which gets immediately turned down).

Everyone turns on everyone; romance and resolution is left in the subtext; chaos reigns instead. There’s a relentless—and eternally modern—sense of amoralism to its rush of double-crosses. When François Truffaut reviewed the film during its original release, he had to use a numbered list to detail all the back-stabbings. And it required 22 entries. In a review of a later Aldrich film, he praised the director’s “lyricism” and “modernity,” among other qualities, connecting him to Orson Welles and Jacques Cocteau. In the program notes for the Harvard retrospective, Aldrich and Vera Cruz—with its high-speed action, its angular compositions, and their grotesque byproducts—are connected to modernists of a later age, in Leone and Peckinpah. A bridge to the new West, covered in stage blood.

••• The Coolidge Corner Theatre’s “Rewind!” program features “VHS favorites” on one Thursday evening each month, with post-screening after-parties held at Osaka Steak House. Films in this year’s lineup include The Sandlot (July 21), Heathers (Sept 15), and one incessantly quoted cheer comedy:

remember it as “that cheerleader movie.” It’s also an early salvo (post-Eminem, but pre-Iggy by a decade and change) in commercial art’s cultural appropriation wars. Dunst’s squad of privileged trust-funded cheerleaders steal their routine from Union’s Compton-based crew. They can’t hit every mark (especially the blackest ones), but they do have a look that judges like better (it’s the whitest one). The choreography is fitted to each character and to the group they claim. Dunst’s team is mannered and stiff, Union’s girls are looser and more lively, and there’s a real nuance in the way that the difference is depicted. It’s still an entirely unflattering comparison for the stars. Sure, Bring It On is a rewind. But you look at the shade displayed by our contemporary teen comedies—it’s lily white—and you see that we’re still catching up to this throwback.

•••

When we watch Jaws—and in this city, that’s damn often—we experience its fun side. The visceral thrill of the kills, the drunken revelries below the deck, the show-offy zooms and rushes of young master Spielberg.

A great white is killing swimmers off the coast of a fictional Cape resort town, and that’s killing the profits of everyone who’s trying to sell things nearby. Three men—an academic (Richard Dreyfuss), a workman (Robert Shaw), and an administrator (Roy Scheider)— get sent to dispose of the beast. The horrors get left behind while they go hunting, but you experience that side when you’re remembering it. A mother who lost her son so that a beach shop could stay open an extra day. Men who preached “business as usual” during a community crisis. Youths getting their limbs snapped off thanks to short-sighted politics. (Can you tell that they made this movie in ’75?) The joke is that the only machine more heartless than capitalism is a killer shark. The punchline is that if you feed it enough workers, you might eventually find one who can beat it for you. Shark defeats capitalism, men defeat shark, capitalism defeats men.

BRING IT ON

Screens on Aug 11. Coolidge Corner Theatre. 7PM. 35mm.

Bring It On has earned its status as a “rewind.” It wears the whole tacky wardrobe of an early 2000s teen movie: there’s a soundtrack comprised of pop-punk and mash-ups, a faux-alt demeanor (thanks, Avril), haranguing parents who disappear after two scenes, and a unilaterally unthreatening roster of male leads (thanks, Clueless). That’s a cloistered bubble. And one of the chief pleasures of Bring It On—alongside Kirsten Dunst’s unceasing type A mania, the Busby Berkeley-influenced musical numbers, and all the shade that Gabrielle Union gets to throw—is watching that bubble get burst. You

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SUMMER ARTS PREVIEW Theater takes center stage this Summer

BY CHRISTOPHER EHLERS @_CHRISEHLERS

From outdoor Shakespeare and classic musical revivals to important contemporary plays, this summer is jammed with compelling, thrilling theater. This summer also marks your last chance to see the spectacular Off the Wall exhibition at the Gardner Museum and to study the works of Rodin at the Peabody Essex Museum. From Judy Garland and Anna Deavere Smith to Childe Hassam and Luca della Robbia, there is much to get excited about in Boston this summer.

PERFORMING ARTS Get Happy: The Musical Biography of Judy Garland

Open-ended run through the summer Club Café, Boston A bittersweet, life-affirming evening of stories and songs performed by the sensational Peter Mac. Mickey Rooney himself presented Mac with the Southern California Motion Picture Council Golden Halo Award for this show, so catch it while you can. thejudygarlandshow.com

Bedlam’s Twelfth Night & What You Will

June 9-July 10 Central Square Theater, Cambridge Bedlam is back at it again, presenting the same play two different ways with the same set of actors and the same director. After they earned raves in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, you should see one, or see them both. centralsquaretheater.org

If/Then

July 5-17 Boston Opera House A fascinating contemporary musical by the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning creators of Next to Normal about what is and what might have been. Original Broadway cast member Anthony Rapp (Rent) reprises his role on tour.broadwayinboston.com 26

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Thoroughly Modern Millie

July 7-17 Reagle Music Theatre, Waltham The perfect summer musical. An infectious score and a side-splitting book make this a sure bet for all ages. reaglemusictheatre.com

Hamlet

July 13-31 Apollinaire Theatre Company @ PORT Park, Chelsea The best play ever written being performed outside on the harbor. And it’s free. Bring blankets and food and make it an evening. The terrific Brooks Reeves stars as Hamlet. apollinairetheatre.com

The T Party

July 15-Aug 13 Company One @ Roberts Studio Theatre, Boston Leave it to Company One to throw the party of the summer. Playwright Natsu Onoda Power directs this New England premiere of her play, which promises to take a one-of-a-kind look at gender expression in contemporary America. companyone.org

Love’s Labour’s Lost

July 20-Aug 7 Commonwealth Shakespeare Company @ The Boston Common Free Shakespeare on the Common is undoubtedly one

of the best parts about summer in the Hub. Feel free to bring food, but a variety of food trucks will also be on site. commshakes.org

Notes from the Field: Doing Time in Education Aug 2016 American Repertory Theater, Cambridge Created, written, and performed by the indispensable Anna Deavere Smith, ART kicks off its new season on a serious note, exploring the connections between America’s education system and its mass incarceration crisis. americanrepertorytheater.org

Crazy For You

Aug 4-14 Reagle Music Theatre, Waltham I’m not a fan of shoehorning music catalogues (in this case, the Gershwin songbook) into a ridiculous plot and calling it a musical, but this one works. As far as musical comedies go, this one s’wonderful. reaglemusictheatre. com

Singin’ in the Rain

Aug 16-Sept 4 North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly It will be hard to duplicate the magic of Gene Kelly and the original film, but I have a lot of faith in NSMT. And they’re promising real rain. nsmt.org

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VISUAL ARTS

Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt

Through Aug 14 Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge An exhibition containing about 40 of the Harvard Art Museum’s Netherlandish, Dutch, and Flemish drawings from the 15th-18th century. harvardartmuseums.org

Rodin: Transforming Sculpture

Through Sept 5 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem Organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Musée Rodin, Paris, this exhibition explores the work of Rodin and his impact on the art of sculpture. pem.org

Liz Deschenes

June 29-Oct 16 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston In the first mid-career survey dedicated to Boston-born Deschenes, 20 years of her artwork will be on display. icaboston.org

American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals

July 16-Nov 6 Peabody Essex Museum, Salem The first exhibition in more than 25 years to focus on Hassam’s paintings of the Isles of Shoals, located off the coast of New Hampshire. More than 40 of his works will be on display. pem.org

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Off the Wall: Gardner and her Masterpieces Through Aug 28 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston An unprecedented look at some of Gardner’s finest treasures, featuring work by Rembrandt, Rubens, Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Raphael, and Michelangelo. gardnermuseum.org

Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence

Aug 9-Dec 4 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston About 50 of Luca della Robbia’s 15th-century sculptures will be shown, including some never before seen in the United States. mfa.org

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