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OCTOBER 20, 2016 - OCTOBER 27, 2016 EDITORIAL PUBLISHER + EDITOR Jeff lawrence NEWS + FEATURES EDITOR Chris Faraone ASSOCIATE MUSIC EDITOR Nina Corcoran ASSOCIATE FILM EDITOR Jake Mulligan ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR Christopher Ehlers COPY EDITOR Mitchell Dewar CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Emily Hopkins, Jason Pramas CONTRIBUTORS Nate Boroyan, Renan Fontes, Bill Hayduke, Emily Hopkins, Micaela Kimball, Jason Pramas, Dave Wedge INTERNS Erin Hussey, Brianna Silva

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DEAR READER Twenty years ago, I launched Shovel Magazine, an arts and entertainment rag dedicated to nonsensical wit and sarcasm. Three years later, that stone was turned over and the Weekly Dig was born. The rest, as they say, is history.

Since then, a lot has happened; we’ve seen many a politician come and go, businesses small and large rise up and disappear, and a staff that carried the torch with every burning issue until the necessary flames burnt out. I regret nothing and wouldn’t change a thing, including my mantra that everything has a timeline and everyone has an expiration date. Including me. Which is why I’m now stepping down as editor and publisher, and passing the torch.

Effective immediately, I’ve begun to transition the day-to-day operation and eventually ownership to the next generation. I haven’t sold the company yet, nor have I put in place the entire team to help me make this a reality, but the ball is rolling.

I sold the Dig in 2004 to the parent company of Boston magazine, only to buy it back in 2007, so this isn’t exactly uncharted territory, however, this time I won’t be swooping back in should the new owners fuck it up. Any and all changes will be permanent and I’m not looking back. I’ve had one hell of a run, but it’s time for someone new to make bold and exciting mistakes. I’ve always said that I’d bow out before I became irrelevant, and I’m woefully behind schedule.

I have several offers to review, but I’m open to new ideas, so if you’re curious and/or interested, drop me a line. One thing I’m considering very seriously, though, is selling the business to a nonprofit and making the paper a not-for-profit venture.

Not that it ever generated a profit anyway, but the idea that independent journalism should be free and unfettered from ad dollars is extremely appealing to me, and I imagine the reader as well.

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NEWS US GENDER CONFINEMENT NEWS TO US

Mass Department of Correction contends it can discriminate against transgender inmates

BY MAYA SHAFFER The most revealing test of current laws regarding transgender rights in Massachusetts is to observe how the state treats transgender people in its custody. In this regard the Commonwealth is failing. For evidence, look no further than the Mass Department of Correction’s official statement in response to my inquiry about the failure to update its policy on housing transgender inmates to match the inmate’s gender identity [emphases in bold mine]: “The public accommodations statute, G.L. c. 272, s 92A, was recently amended to prevent discrimination in public accommodations against individuals on the basis of their gender identity. The statute defines a “place of public accommodation, resort or amusement” as “any place, whether licensed or unlicensed, which is open to and accepts or solicits the patronage of the general public.” G.L. c. 272, s 92A. The Department of Correction maintains correctional facilities for the custody, control and rehabilitation (reentry) of committed offenders. The Department’s correctional facilities do not meet the definition of a place of public accommodation under G.L. c. 272, s 92A since they are not open to the general public nor solicit the patronage of the general public. Accordingly, the provisions of the public accommodations statute are not applicable to state correctional facilities.”

On October 1, the public accommodations law, which was signed by Gov. Charlie Baker last July after a significant amount of public debate and outcry, came into effect. The law closed the loophole allowing businesses and places with gender segregated areas to discriminate against transgender people by protecting everyone’s right use the gender segregated facilities that match their gender identity (a term defined in the MGL as part of a 2011 act relative to gender identity that bans discrimination against transgender people). The DOC has not updated its policy since May of 2016—before the law was passed.

The policy states that, ultimately, the DOC will choose which gender facility to place inmates, a process that may include housing people in hospitals or prisons that do not correspond with their gender identity.

The DOC’s policy is not about inmates who merely claim they are transgender—it applies to inmates who have been medically diagnosed as having gender dysphoria. The policy is officially named, “IDENTIFICATION, TREATMENT AND CORRECTIONAL MANAGEMENT OF INMATES DIAGNOSED WITH GENDER DYSPHORIA,” and contains provisions for the inmate to access gender identity-appropriate clothes while the inmate stays in a facility that does not match their gender identity.

This policy outlines, in no uncertain terms, how the DOC is, and will continue, housing people who the Commonwealth would legally consider to be the opposite gender in the wrong gender prison.

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would, in some instances house legally female transgender inmates in prisons for men. As I also reported before, there is an incredible risk of sexual assault that transgender women face when incarcerated in men’s prisons; one study found that 59 percent of female-identified inmates in men’s facilities were sexually assaulted (compared to 4 percent of male-identified inmates).

According to the current DOC policy, transgender inmates undergo a risk assessment every six months, and those assessments will be factored into the department’s decision on where to house those individuals. The policy includes a series of different assessments that are then weighed against any “operational concerns” (a term left nebulous in the policy) that the inmate’s housing might raise. The DOC sets out these dehumanizing (a small enough transwoman might be more likely to be designated a potential victim which in turn might lead to more consideration of her housing) hoops for inmates to jump through, but the policy doesn’t even present a clear line for when the DOC would actually house someone in the appropriate prison. According to the policy, the department ultimately decides where to place the inmate regardless of what the assessments might suggest.

Contacted for comment, DOC spokesman Christopher Fallon explained that he had spoken to his department’s director of behavioral health, who believes they are “in compliance” because prisons are “not really public facilities.” The DOC’s position, confirmed in its official statement, is that the anti-discrimination and public accommodations laws regarding gender identity passed in 2011 and 2016 simply do not apply to them. This governmental agency’s director of behavioral health is asserting that a loophole allows them to discriminate against people in their care and custody in ways that your local movie theater would be sued for.

Spokesman Fallon added a hypothetical, “I just want you to understand—I know when it came down to everything with transgender people—we’re also

charged with safety and security. So let’s say somebody who [feels] that they are a different gender then how they were born, if they murdered their spouse. I’m going to say if they were a biological male but they felt like they were female, and that was their identity, but they murdered—they had violence against women. I don’t know how we sort of weigh that out. But I think that’s an awesome question. Like, how do we make that determination? And does safety and security of the female population at Framingham trump [the gender identity of transgender inmates]?”

Actually, it’s not an “awesome question.” But here is an awesome question: Why does the DOC believe it is allowed to house transgender people in the wrong gender facility? Mass does not hold cisgender female inmates who have a history of violence against women in men’s facilities. The same risk assessment is used to house potentially aggressive cisgender female inmates in more appropriate areas of the female facility, and to make sure they aren’t put in with at-risk women. Removing a transwoman from the female facility for having the same history as the ciswoman who gets to remain in the female facility is discriminatory.

The policy is discriminatory and certainly allows the DOC to hold transgender inmates in inappropriate facilities. The Commonwealth recognizes transgender people as being the gender they transition to earlier than the DOC, and there is no valid reason why the department should even be making that determination.

The DOC’s official stance boils down to: We’re allowed to discriminate. This is unacceptable, and every day that the department doesn’t fix this policy, transgender inmates are being psychologically harmed by being left in the wrong facility, and face immense risk of sexual assault.

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Can we stop the killings in Cambridge bike lanes?

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The tragic death earlier this month of Bernard Lavins, who allegedly was dragged under an 18-wheeler in Porter Square, marks the second cycling fatality in Cambridge in just over three months. Details of the accident are still emerging.

Back in June, Amanda Phillips was doored and struck and killed by a lawn service truck in Inman Square. In between, Cambridge was ranked the eighth best city in the nation for cycling by Bicycling magazine. But the reality is that it’s not all safe and great—and that’s not just the case in Cambridge, but for cycling in the entire Metro Boston region.

Last October, Anita Kurmann was crushed and killed by an 18-wheeler at the corner of Mass Ave and Beacon Street in Boston. In the five years preceding that, 13 cyclists were killed on Boston streets. In the wake of Kurmann’s accident, the city quickly installed a protected bike lane along the perilous portion of Mass Ave. Similarly, after the Phillips dooring, the confusing intersection in Inman got a bright turf-green paint-over sharply delineating bike lanes and passing zones.

Now, sadly, Porter Square will likely receive a similar redress.

But why does it take such a tragic event to enact safety where known perils lie?

I can’t imagine Boston traffic personnel were blind to the dangers that loomed at Beacon and Mass Ave—every cyclist knew about them—while in Cambridge, following the Lavins tragedy, the city’s director of traffic, Joseph Barr, told the Boston Globe, “We know Inman Square and Porter Square as problem locations, and we are working on them.”

The sad truism is these hot zones are extremely well known, and while folks are trying to make changes, the reactionary band-aids slapped on in the wake of deaths aren’t going to make the roads safer. It’s piecemeal—put some paint on Porter Square and tweak the light signals, and somebody gets tagged in Union Square.

Vision Zero, the Bostonembraced goal of zero traffic fatalities by 2030, is an admirable place to aim, but it’s not going to happen without commitment of extensive resources, and outside-the-box thinking about how we shape and navigate our urban landscapes.

Putting bike lanes in the door zone is not the answer. Separate and protected bike infrastructure is a nifty idea, but given that we have highways where there once were cow paths, there just isn’t enough paved real estate to do much else— unless we do something different. Not radical, just different, like claim a traffic lane and make it a bi-directional bike lane. Decrease the number of vehicles in the city by getting people out of their cars. It’s good for their health and the environment, and to enact such measures there would need to be incentives and alternative means of travel.

It’s also important to note that rules which apply to cars don’t completely make sense for bicycles (i.e. adherence to minimum and maximum speed limits) and should be reviewed for applicability and overall public safety. Consider the “Idaho stop,” which allows cyclists to proceed through intersections once they pause and ensure the way is clear. Another possibility involves installing signals that allow bikes a five-second jump on cars, so cyclists are visible and not in blind spots. While we’re at it, let’s get the 18-wheelers out of the city and reduce the speed limit to 20 mph (it’s currently 30 mph, though Boston and Cambridge are targeting 25 mph in the near future). No doubt about it, on-street fatalities will drop.

Even more to the point, action needs to take place across agency boundaries and town lines. Every cyclist has stories of an Eden-esque bike lane in Town A that ends in the back of a parked car in Town B. State officials and advocacy groups also need to step it up and prioritize commuting lines and networks that really connect and aren’t merely road repaving projects that are loosely linked.

Yes, we are talking about a cultural shift, and cyclists need to be ambassadors, claiming their right to the road by behaving lawfully and civilly. We’ve launched a Hubway bike share system, but still have yet to provide adequate safe passage from station to station. If you build it, they will come; the more bikes on the road, the safer we all are. That day won’t be realized, however, until families pedal the two-wheeled family truckster to the store without fear of a rampaging bus blowing them off the road.

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served under former Attorney General Martha Coakley and is nominated to become an associate justice of the state’s Superior Court. The Council will also meet to discuss the pending nomination of Brockton attorney Edward Sharkansky, who Baker picked to become an associate justice of the Plymouth District Court. If the name Sharkansky sounds familiar, it may be because he’s among the most noted DUI attorneys in the region. Here’s an online bio from a former web site for his firm that’s been removed from the internet: When facing an OUI/DUI or drunk driving charge in Braintree or Brockton Massachusetts, Criminal Defense Attorney Edward Sharkansky is your best defense … Sharkansky has a proven record as a reliable and successful advocate. For nearly 20 years, he has worked on both sides of the Massachusetts courtrooms. First as a prosecutor for the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office, then as a criminal defense attorney in private practice. This unique combination of experience and insight gives Attorney Sharkansky the upper hand when defending clients accused of DUI/OUI, Drug Possession, Motor Vehicle Offenses or any other criminal offenses in Massachusetts.

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Baker’s judicial picks include a corporate lawyer and a star DUI attorney

BY CHRIS FARAONE @FARA1 For better or worse, one power of a polarizing presidential race is how it spurs everyday Americans to touch topics typically reserved for wonks. Like pensions. And healthcare. And the Supreme Court of the United States!

Since the danger posed by one POTUS nom or another to SCOTUS is such a buzz plate of late and our job as a local outlet is to shift attention toward regional matters, it seemed appropriate to survey the most recent nominations to the Massachusetts bench made by Gov. Charlie Baker. Courts at the county, district, and superior levels play significant roles in our lives, and yet the process by which judges are appointed in the Bay State happens largely beyond headlines.

Which is how the executive branch, which wields power over 411 judicial slots statewide, probably likes it, considering the background of certain, um, rather interesting selections.

As this is one of only three states where black robes aren’t born out of elections, to become an appeals, district, juvenile, probate, superior, or supreme court judge in Mass, applicants must first face scrutiny from the Judicial Nominating Commission. Comprised of 21 members from both public and private practice, the latter group including corporate lawyers and attorneys from elite firms, the JNC is appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the governor. It’s such an unofficial ad hoc unit that each new administration gets to clean house by scrapping the appointees of its predecessor, issuing new rules via executive order. Only insiders know why some people are tapped for the commission over others, though giving money to the right decision-makers doesn’t appear to impede one’s chance of gaining sway over the courts

“What most lawyers won’t tell you is that they won’t try a case when a client drives into the front door of a house on New Year’s Eve. I’ll try that case, I have tried that case, and I’ve won.”

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in which they and their partners practice; eight of Baker’s appointees (with help from their spouses) combined have contributed more than $40,000 to the war chests of the governor, Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito, and the Republican State Committee since 2009.

The JNC passes its prospects to the Governor’s Council, a board of eight elected individuals who screen and vote on hopefuls (plus the lieutenant governor, who presides over the group but doesn’t vote). So far during Baker’s tenure, the Council unanimously confirmed three of the governor/JNC’s choices for the Supreme Judicial Court, as well as Boston lawyer Karen F. Green for a Superior Court judgeship. Green is the type of candidate who residents would hope the Council thoroughly impugns; a gifted litigator who served as the first female chief of staff to a Mass governor (William Weld) and who before that clerked for iconic US District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. during monumental rulings on school integration, as a corporate lawyer Green has also represented some unsavory white-collar criminals, even working on behalf of defense contractors and pharmaceutical companies.

This month, the Governor’s Council will also vet longtime youth and family attorney Kathryn PhelanBrown, who is vying to become an associate justice on the Massachusetts Juvenile Court, as well as Christopher Barry-Smith, a consumer protection specialist who

A successful defense lawyer by several measures, Sharkansky nonetheless described his work in far less detail on his recent application for a judgeship than he has in past promotional materials. Unless the JNC members and councilors who vet him on behalf of the Commonwealth search for “Ed Sharkansky” on Google, they’ll get a version of his resume that notes his work on behalf of indigent clients, but that doesn’t mention DUI defense at all: My law practice has specialized in criminal and civil litigation … The majority of my clients were being prosecuted for felony and misdemeanor criminal offenses within the jurisdiction of the juvenile, district and superior courts. Some of these clients were deemed indigent by the court and were appointed to me through CPCS. Sharkansky did not respond to a request for comment from DigBoston. We hoped to ask what his experience as a DUI attorney would add to the bench, but now that’s left to the Governor’s Council. If it pursues some course of inquiry at his confirmation hearing this week, perhaps it’ll want to ask about this commercial for his services on YouTube: What I can tell you is that about 80 percent of the clients that sit with me through a trial are found not guilty. What I can also tell you is that I will not sell you out to protect my perfect record. What most lawyers won’t tell you is that they won’t try a case when a client drives into the front door of a house on New Year’s Eve. I’ll try that case, I have tried that case, and I’ve won.

They also won’t tell you that they’ll try a case when their client drives into the back of a police cruiser, which is parked with its emergency lights on. I’ve tried that case and I’ve won that case also.

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THE HIGH ROAD REVISITED FEATURE

What a long, strange war it’s been on legalization in Mass

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THE DISPENSARIES TAKE TWO ASPIRIN AND CALL ME NEXT YEAR (By Andy Gaus, July 2013) Mayor Joseph Curtatone of Somerville is the latest town official who wants a moratorium on any dispensaries.

Rep. Cleon Turner of Dennis has gone even further, introducing a bill in the Massachusetts legislature that would allow towns to veto dispensaries within their borders. Attorney General Martha Coakley, to her credit, 10

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has ruled that as things stand, towns may not totally veto dispensaries—because if all towns were allowed to do that, the will of the voters in passing Question 3 would be nullified. But what about these moratoriums? … If every town is allowed to enact a yearlong moratorium, doesn’t that nullify the will of the voters?

WHAT’S UP WITH THE CAMBRIDGE DISPENSARY? (By Mike Crawford, April 2014) After winning state approval for a proposed operation on First Street in East Cambridge, the Greeneway Wellness Foundation was opposed by a cranky condo association, and also ran afoul of the Cambridge City Council, which approved a marijuana zoning district that left them 60 feet out of bounds. The city may bend over backwards for Big Pharma and the like, but for pot dispensaries, it’s been a battle every inch of the way.

THE YEAR IN MASS CANNABIS (By Mike Crawford, December 2015) If 2014 was the year that outgoing Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick screwed cannabis patients, then 2015 was the year when his replacement, Republican Governor Charlie Baker, recognized that the state’s bungled medical marijuana program was hurting vulnerable people. Baker offered more than lip service, and took action by cutting red tape that kept dispensaries in limbo. Facilities have since opened in the cities of Salem, Northampton, and Brockton, with several others expected to follow in the first half of 2016.

THE CAREGIVERS DPH REGS MEAN PATIENTS LOSE ACCESS (By Mike Crawford, June 2013) For the last several months MASS GRASS, the newsletter of MassCann/NORML, published a list of caregivers able to provide patients with medical marijuana … Last week, that service ended [under] MA Department of Public Health’s newly enacted medical marijuana regulations … MassCann’s Bill Downing reports, “DPH regulations

violate the intentions of the law. Until dispensaries become operational, patients were intended to be cared for by caregivers. This is now impossible for all but a few patients.”

BAD FOR PATIENTS, GREAT FOR PROFITEERS (By Mike Crawford, May 2013) The new MA DPH medical marijuana regulations are out, and patients hoping for affordable access to their medicine just got sold out … After months of hearings and a final comment session from caregivers, patients, advocates, and pot profiteers, the DPH has decided to implement regulations that will all but ensure that almost every caregiver in Massachusetts will be noncompliant.

WHERE’S THE MEDICINE? (By Mike Crawford, November 2013) Jeff is a 34-year-old Massachusetts medical marijuana patient with a legal doctor’s note. He has what’s called a congenital fusion in his lower-left vertebrae, with a fracture through it to boot … Yet Jeff has now gone several months without access to the non-addictive, non-toxic medicine that he has every right to buy and ingest …

It’s been nearly an entire year since the passage of a statewide medical marijuana law.

THE YEAR IN WEED (By Mike Crawford, December 2013) On the second day of January, Massachusetts officially became a medical marijuana state. Where has that gotten us? For a short time, it allowed many patients to obtain recommendations and receive quality medicine from caregivers … until the DPH issued detailed regulations.

The updated regs shrank the caregiver pool, leaving most patients without their medicine. Protests ensued, but the state hasn’t budged. Still, they’ve promised to get patients their medicine via dispensary licenses that are finally to be awarded at the end of January, about 15 months after the law was passed in November 2012.

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PHOTOS BY FRANK C. GRACE

It’s easy to identify the desperation of extremists who are still fighting marijuana in Mass. One could point to their relentless smear campaigns. Or to scandalous hijinxs like that recently committed by Gov. Charlie Baker, whose “statement of fiscal consequences” regarding ballot Question 4 misleads voters to believe “tax revenues and fees that would be generated from legal sales may fall short of even covering the full public and social costs.”

For two decades, DigBoston (and the Weekly Dig, as we were called before that) has been the only decidedly antiprohibitionist news outlet around here calling out that kind of nonsense where we see it. There have been others who played fair on occasion, and certainly reporters at various publications individually puff, but more than any other entity we’ve been the top authority on heady issues.

With a publisher who once sat on the board of MassCann and as the media company behind the New England Cannabis Conventions, we’re proud to be in the tank for the dank, and more importantly for patients who use marijuana to help with any number of ailments. We’ve also seen a lot of shit go down, which brings us to this grand occasion …

From ballot questions to elections and over bureaucratic hurdles, we’ve trudged through many muddy trenches toward the endless fields of grass ahead. Blunt Truth and The Tokin’ Truth columnist Mike Crawford (the writer-activist formerly known as Mike Cann) has diligently led the beat, interviewing advocates and adversaries alike and always staying months ahead of others who attempt to cover cannabis.

So with legalization looming and the election just weeks away, we broke into the archives to revisit the intense squabbles behind us as they have been documented by Crawford and other Dig contributors. Not only so readers can masturbate to nostalgia, but rather because these blurbs also serve as a preview of the next war ahead, win or lose in November, as well as of whatever senseless antinatural drug campaign follows that, and so on.

We’re doing this for educational purposes and, admittedly, self-congratulatory props, but our largest motivation may be the most infantile and petty reason of all. In 10, or even 20 or 30 years, when the long-term effects of legal and accessible cannabis are realized, however utterly benign or markedly positive, because those are the only two possible outcomes, we want to make sure that reformers get the credit we deserve. Not because we’re soothsayers, but because we weren’t too stubborn to embrace obvious truths. At the same time, when cannabis is in the clear once and for all, let us not forget the hypocrites and dirtbags who imprisoned countless marijuana users and in many cases profited from causing so much misery. Prohibitionists can crack all of the stoner jokes they want, but some of us don’t forget that easily.

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HIGH ROAD continued from pg. 10 CAREGIVER HEROES VS. THE MASS DPH (By Mike Crawford, March 2014) According to DPH medical marijuana regulations enacted in late-spring of 2013, independent caregivers are prohibited from offering services to “more than one patient at a time.” Meanwhile, these patients are filing paperwork with DPH authorities, navigating the bureaucracy the best they can, and, in many cases, paying $200 in cash for doctor recommendations and an additional $50 to file with the commonwealth … And still no medicine.

LAW ENFORCEMENT CRACKS DOWN ON MEDICAL CANNABIS OILS (By Mike Crawford, January 2016) Bill Downing, a longtime Boston-area activist with MassCann/NORML, is facing several misdemeanor complaints filed by Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley in Brighton Municipal Court related to Downing’s testing the boundaries of Massachusetts medical marijuana laws. Alleging that Downing acted outside of his legal rights as a licensed caregiver, Conley also filed a complaint for forfeiture of Downing’s products and for $126,708 that was seized in a raid … Downing is a married 57-year-old father of two, and has never been charged with a crime in the past. He says that he was helping seriously ill patients.

THE PROHIBITIONISTS (GOVERNMENT) MARTHA COAKLEY’S REEFER MADNESS (By Kelly Brolin, May 2012) Last Saturday, a group of Mass citizens concerned about cannabis occupied Attorney General Martha Coakley’s office in protest of her recent comments showing some reservations regarding this November’s vote to legalize medicinal marijuana. We spoke with one of the rally’s organizers, Mike Cann [2016 ed. Note: Mike had not yet been tapped by the Dig at this point] about what’s at stake for prescription smoke. “She shouldn’t be speaking out against something that is so popular with her constituents,” Cann said.

“The only benefit is to the emerging Big Weed industry, forcing the rest of us to buy its product at its prices or risk prosecution.”

MA DPH DOCTORS MIGHT AS WELL BE SCIENTOLOGISTS (By Mike Crawford, May 2013) Wondering why your doctor at Mass General or Brigham and Women’s won’t write you a medical marijuana recommendation? Look no further than Dr. Steve Adelman, Director of Physician Health Services (PHS) who recently opined that the Boston Marathon bombing might have been partially caused by marijuana withdrawal.

MASS POLITICIANS AND THEIR LAME POT JOKES (By Mike Crawford, January 2014) Last week, Fox 25 News reporter Sharmen Sacchetti asked Governor Deval Patrick if he had anything to say to Massachusetts residents who advocate for the full legalization of weed … Instead of facing political reality, the governor responded with a cheap attempt at pot humor: “What have you been smoking, my dear?” …

Meanwhile, Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O’Keefe recently told the Boston Globe that legalizing marijuana would send “a signal to children that marijuana is okay.”

MASS GUBERNATORIAL POT POLITICS (By Mike Crawford, June 2014) Among the three Dems who will appear on the primary ballot in September, former President Barack Obama healthcare official Don Berwick is the only candidate who 12

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seems to care about medical marijuana patients. On the Republican side, expected nominee Charlie Baker has gone on the record as opposing legalization.

100 MARIJUANA OVERDOSES (By Mike Crawford, October 2014) Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett told a roomful of people that “the increased potency of cannabis … which is often laced with high percentages of THC, ecstasy or crystal meth” has been in part responsible for 100 heroin overdoses in his jurisdiction this year alone … Seems the DA is short on details, which is sort of like what happened when former Middlesex County District Attorney Gerry Leone posited that one could spin 1,000 joints out of an ounce.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIE (By Mike Crawford, August 2016) Here in Mass, the Safe & Healthy campaign [against ballot Question 4] has been fraudulent since day one, when the group posted on Twitter, “Since CO legalized marijuana, it became #1 state in teen marijuana use, rising 20% in 2 yrs. #wrongforkids.” That’s an interesting interpretation of statistics, since even the study that the campaign cites, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, notes that the uptick in Colorado numbers is not statistically significant.

THE MOVEMENT HIGH ON REFORM (By Mike Crawford, July 2013) Patients are protesting the DPH over medical marijuana regulations. On Thursday, medical marijuana patients, including The King of Pot and myself, will be picketing at the headquarters for DPH Commissioner Cheryl Bartlett.

PATIENTS PROTEST DPH COMMISSIONER (By Mike Crawford, August 2013) Sending patients to other states to receive caregiver service and access is respecting their needs? So is telling them to wait years potentially for their medicine? Access is gone, except for those who can afford to pay. Here are some possible next steps for Mass. medical marijuana advocates: File lawsuits to challenge DPH actions.

Follow up on the medical marijuana law to improve it.

Organize more DPH patient protests.

‘THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH HAS BLOOD ON ITS HANDS’ (By Chris Faraone, October 2014) It’s becoming a familiar refrain around here: “TWO YEARS, TOO LATE.” That’s to say that nearly 24 months after more than half of Commonwealth voters pulled for medical grass, there are still no dispensaries. Adding insult to injury, the state also dismantled a caregiving system that offered temporary relief.

THE KING REMAINS IN THE BUILDING (By Mike Crawford, February 2014) On Sunday, February 9, dearly departed cannabis activist Michael L. Malta’s daughter, Kristin Imhof, delivered a newborn baby boy, Patrick Michael Imhof, to the world.

Malta, popularly known by the King of Pot moniker he trademarked, passed suddenly this past October … Before his death, he had become a beloved hero and a friend unlike any other, locally or nationally … We continue to focus on him because of what he meant to all of us as individuals, and as a community of activists.

HERE’S WHY EVERYONE WAS GETTING STONED ON BOSTON COMMON TODAY (By Mike Crawford, January 2014) If you were on the Common this afternoon, you might have seen a smoky gaggle of stoned revelers up on the summit known as Mount Michael Malta. The powwow, organized

by DigBoston Blunt Truth columnist Mike Cann, was dubbed a “Smoke Out/Vape Up,” and came as a response to a recently enacted ban on lighting anything in public parks.

LEGALIZATION THE ROAD TO LEGAL MUST BE PAVED WITH DOLLARS (By Mike Crawford, December 2013) In 2008, a national organization called the Marijuana Policy Project spent in excess of $1 million to smoke out victory for a marijuana decriminalization initiative in Massachusetts … Last year, philanthropist Peter Lewis of Colorado funded an initiative across the Commonwealth to test the waters for future weed initiatives. Building on that, last week, Bay State Repeal, the latest ballot initiative committee to take on the topic, announced that it is forming with the goal of repealing marijuana prohibition by 2016 … With little financial support, the committee hopes to put the issue back to voters. Still, it will once again take outside help to make the next step— full legalization—a reality.

REPEAL VS. LEGALIZATION (By Mike Crawford, April 2014) In one camp, the Marijuana Policy Project—a national reform organization based in Washington, D.C. that led and funded the 2008 Massachusetts ballot initiative for decriminalization—is following its historic Colorado tax and regulation win with eyes on Mass, where organizers are already making plans for a big push over the next two years. In a much different approach, the local organization Bay State Repeal is attempting to make the case that they can do better. To test alternative waters, they’re staging a campaign to poll voters on legalization language through non-binding questions that will appear on a handful of ballots around the state when Massachusetts picks a new governor in November. Basically, voters will be asked if marijuana should be “regulate[d] and tax[ed] like alcohol” [2016 ed. note: This is the version that eventually prevailed], or “regulate[d] like herbs” so long as vendors are prevented from selling or providing pot to children.

HOME-GROW OR NO-GO (By Mike Crawford, August 2014) In the opinion of many Bay State activists, a “legalization” initiative that prohibits all or most home-growing has nothing to do with public safety or ensuring that the measure passes: The only benefit is to the emerging Big Weed industry, forcing the rest of us to buy its product at its prices or risk prosecution. Even that benefit may be small: Just as only a small percentage of us brew our own beer, only a small percentage of stoners will grow their own dope, and those who do will spend money on hydroponics systems and fertilizer. Home-growing may not be a big consumer issue, but it is a giant civil rights issue. If it isn’t legal, the police can still say, “We know there’s marijuana in there, we’re busting down the door,” and so the war on marijuana is simply advanced on new terms. For those of us who espouse “home-grow or no go” for Massachusetts, any acceptable ballot initiative has to be about the right of people to be secure in their homes.

[2016 ed. note: Question 4 allows for individuals to harvest up to six plants on their own].

A PLEA TO UNITE LEGALIZATION FACTIONS (By Shaleen Title, December 2015) Last week, we learned that Bay State Repeal did not gather enough signatures to qualify its initiative for next November’s ballot. Like most longtime Commonwealth drug policy activists, I was rooting for it. It was a good law written by intelligent volunteers with tremendous passion, and it was backed by some of the people who have been fighting for legalization in Mass longer than anyone … As a co-drafter of a separate marijuana legalization initiative that is likely to be on the ballot next year, I hope that BSR supporters will now join our effort, the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol (CRMLA) in Massachusetts. We need to come together to pass legalization and stop wasting resources and ruining lives through marijuana prohibition. Massachusetts deserves to be the next state with a regulated and aboveground marijuana market that will create hundreds of jobs. But we can only do it if we work as a team.

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Monponsett Inn, Halifax

It seems that too often, people go west or north to do some leaf peeping, while not realizing that some really beautiful routes for fall foliage—including Routes 6A, 105, and 58—can be found south of Boston. And it is this last road that includes a classic American restaurant in a particularly scenic location, perched above a lake out back while also facing a second lake across the street.

The Monponsett Inn isn’t actually an inn, but is instead a family-friendly dining and drinking spot that is also used for functions, and because of its gorgeous location, it is a very popular spot for weddings.

MONPONSETT INN. 550 MONPONSETT ST., HALIFAX. MONPONSETTINN.COM

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TEN DINING LEAF-PEEPER SPOTS Foliage Fodder for Foodies

BY MARC HURWITZ @HIDDENBOSTON A few weeks ago, it looked like this year could be a bust for fall foliage in New England and that leaf peepers may want to wait until 2017. But whether it was the recent heavy rains or the string of mild days, it appears that this prediction can be thrown out the window because colors are now brilliant in southern and central New England.

One question that often comes up: What are some good restaurants to go to while checking out the foliage? Ten such places are listed below, all 90 minutes or less from the Boston area and all in the heart of scenic areas for the ever-changing colors.

Rye Tavern, Plymouth

What better way to view fall foliage than along a treeshaded dirt road? Well, you don’t have to go all the way to New Hampshire or Vermont to do this, as Old Sandwich Road in the Pinehills area of Plymouth is an unpaved lane that feels like it is 100 miles or more from Boston. And the Rye Tavern resides along this old road in a cozy 18th-century structure that comes complete with exposed beams, fireplaces, and nothing but woods and fields surrounding it. The focus here is on New American and classic American fare in an upscale but casual environment, and it is a perfect spot for a date or a special occasion.

RYE TAVERN. 517 OLD SANDWICH RD., PLYMOUTH. RYETAVERN.COM

Johnson’s Drive-In, Groton

Located on one of the most scenic roads in eastern Massachusetts (Route 225), this roadside restaurant is a classic, offering burgers, dogs, fried chicken, and ice cream to customers, who sit at wooden picnic tables inside the place or, on mild fall days, outside in the shadows of a wooded hill. Half the fun of Johnson’s (which is also known as Johnson’s Restaurant and Dairy Bar) is getting there, as it sits in the heart of apple country and also has an abundance of maple trees whose leaves turn brilliant shades of red, orange, and yellow this time of year.

JOHNSON’S DRIVE-IN. 164 BOSTON RD., GROTON. JOHNSONSRESTAURANTANDDAIRYBAR.COM

Vanilla Bean Cafe, Pomfret, CT

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short distance south of the Massachusetts line. Located not too far from Worcester and less than an hour from the western suburbs of Boston, the Bean certainly feels a world away in an affluent little hilltop town with nearby views that look a lot like the farm country of Vermont; any approach to the cafe is a gorgeous one with great foliage everywhere. The Vanilla Bean is a good place for a light meal and/or a dessert, and it also serves some decent beers, while at night it features local acts for those who are looking for live music.

VANILLA BEAN CAFE. 450 DEERFIELD RD., POMFRET, CT. THEVANILLABEANCAFE.COM

The Commons Lunch, Little Compton, RI

It is no secret that Rhode Island has some tremendous regional foods, including johnny cakes, calamari, and clam cakes, and this little out-of-the-way place has all of this and more in a peaceful setting in one of the most picturesque towns in all of New England. Just outside the door is a village green complete with white church spire overlooking it, and the surrounding area is a unique blend of farmland, wooded hills and valleys, and ocean.

Mainly a local spot because it is so far off the beaten path, the Commons Lunch is a great alternative for diners who try to avoid chains and touristy spots, though granted, this little section of Rhode Island doesn’t have much of either.

THE COMMONS LUNCH. 48 COMMONS, LITTLE COMPTON, RI.

Aprile’s European Restaurant, Chelmsford

If the name “Aprile’s European Restaurant” sounds a bit familiar to you, perhaps it is because it has a connection to a long-gone dining spot in Boston’s North End that was known in part for its outstanding pizza. Some of the old recipes are from that Hanover Street eatery, including, yes, the pizza, which certainly does taste a lot like that of the old European. So what is this place that’s in the outer suburbs of Boston doing on a list of restaurants to go to while on fall foliage trips? Well, it is located in a beautifully restored mill building on a river and at the peak of the foliage season, the views from the windows are pretty memorable—and it is also just off Route 3, so for those traveling to New Hampshire to check out the leaves, it is an easy stop along the way.

The North Shore has some incredible scenery, and the looping, meandering section of Route 127 on Cape Ann has some of the best in the area, including during the fall when the reds, yellows, and oranges of the trees contrast with the deep blue ocean around nearly every corner. There aren’t many restaurants on this road once you leave the centers of Rockport and Gloucester, making the Lobster Pool—which is located right on the Rockport/ Gloucester line—a particularly popular spot for hungry travelers. One bonus is that the eatery sits just south of the beautiful Halibut Point State Park, so if the foliage/ ocean views at the Lobster Pool aren’t enough for you, it’s a very short drive next door for some equally great scenery.

THE LOBSTER POOL. 329 GRANITE ST., ROCKPORT. LOBSTERPOOLRESTAURANT.COM

Parker’s Maple Barn, Mason, NH

A rite of passage for some in the spring and for others in the fall, this combination restaurant/gift shop/sugar house is a must this time of year when New Hampshire’s “Currier and Ives Country” explodes in color. Located on a winding, narrow, and hilly road in the middle of the woods a bit north of the Massachusetts line, Parker’s is a very rustic spot that is known mainly for its hearty New England breakfasts, with pancakes, waffles, and French toast being popular choices here, though the ribs and turkey dinner at lunchtime are big hits as well.

PARKER’S MAPLE BARN. 1316 BROOKLINE RD., MASON, NH. PARKERSMAPLEBARN.COM

Pickity Place, Mason, NH

Staying in the little town of Mason for a bit, this nearly impossible-to-find spot high up in the beautiful hills west of Parker’s is quite a bit different from that place; while Parker’s has almost a Wild West feel to it, Pickity Place is rather peaceful and laid-back, with a garden center, a gift shop that has almost a New Age feel, and a restaurant that features a gourmet five-course lunch that changes each month. The eatery offers three seatings each day (at 11:30 am, 12:45 pm, and 2 pm) and includes dishes using ingredients that are grown in the eatery’s own garden.

PICKITY PLACE. 248 NUTTING HILL RD., MASON, NH. PICKITYPLACE.COM

The Marshside, East Dennis

Route 6A was mentioned earlier as a great road to hit for fall foliage, and it really is tough to think of many other routes in New England that are as stunning as this one when the leaves change. And just off Route 6A is this casual and slightly upscale spot that features seafood and New American fare, along with views from its porch and dining room that are tremendous any time of year.

As you can tell by its name, Marshside is indeed located alongside a marshy area just south of Cape Cod Bay, and some of the window seats at this restaurant have mindblowing views that will definitely give your camera a good workout.

THE MARSHSIDE. 28 BRIDGE ST., EAST DENNIS. THEMARSHSIDE.COM

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AMERICANA-RAMA Boston’s low-lying country acts are ready to romp

BY NINA CORCORAN @NINA_CORCORAN

ULTRASOUND SONGWRITER Music saves lives. Will you?

BY NINA CORCORAN @NINA_CORCORAN We may be a city that loves to get drunk, but we’re also a city that loves to make sure its people stay safe.

Contradictory? Maybe, but at least it works in our favor. Raise a glass to that.

Boston is home to one of the best hospitals in America (Thanks, MGH!), life-specific hospitals (Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and New England Baptist Hospital, for instance), and numerous college-affiliated hospitals (Harvard! Tufts! Oh my!). It’s virtually impossible to injure yourself and not make it to a clean bed with nurses by your side in under half an hour, tops. The doctors, nurses, and service crew that offer their services give it all they’ve got.

Sometimes, however, they can only do so much.

Musicians, that’s where you come in.

Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital released a job posting that you may be able to help with. Not only that, but you could get paid. It’s calling for musicians to step into its Jamaica Plain location to provide music for inpatient psychiatry patients. You read that correctly. Trained musicians who apply will be performing to those who are situated at the hospital and, presumably, need some cheering up. Songs are pretty good at that. And so Brigham and Women’s brings comprehensive care to a whole new level.

The 162-bed community teaching hospital is also a non-profit. That means its hard work doesn’t receive the same funding as other hospitals in the area, but, as anyone who has been there knows, it helps patients, families, and those with questions with the utmost respect and quality help.

The job listing doesn’t clarify if there’s a “two-week rule” that would keep musicians around for only that length of time. They do note that the schedule is “Per Diem,” it would last about an hour a day, and it’s technically a day job.

Hurry up and polish off your resume. Better yet, bring it into the office in person, potentially with your instrument in tow. Show you’re ready to lay down uplifting tracks. At the very least, people outside the hospital—stressed, leaving work, or nervous about their family member inside the building—can turn to your songs for a moment of peace.

If you love music but don’t fit the bill, you can still lift patients’ days. Brigham and Women’s Faulkner Hospital accepts donations year-round. From recurring donations to gift planning or employer-matched giving, it accepts it all.

Boston’s taken good care of you, even if you haven’t realized it. Make sure to say thanks in return.

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PUMP UP THE POP PUNK THE SMITH STREET BAND + THE SIDEKICKS + FUCKO [Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge.

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[Paradise Rock Club, 969 Comm. Ave., Boston. 8pm/18+/$35. crossroadspresents.com]

[Royale, 279 Tremont St., Boston. 7pm/all ages/$20. royaleboston.com]

NEVER ENOUGH TOUR BOB MOSES

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ROCK IT TO YA KAL MARKS + BIRTHING HIPS + DICAPRIO [O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave., Allston. 8pm/21+/$8. obrienspubboston.com]

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THE MALIBU SESSIONS ACOUSTIC TOUR COLBIE CAILLAT + JUSTIN YOUNG + HIGH DIVE HEART

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Boot season is coming, but not the kind you’re thinking of. Forget about the stacks of snow we’ll see soon and the endless slush on sidewalks.

Boston’s sunnier than it seems. You just have to dust off your cowboy boots.

Americana and country are alive and well in the city. Back in 2013, four guys by the names of Ben Voskeritchian, Ryan Bambery, Rob Motes, and Nick Mercado joined forces to form These Wild Plains. The mission was simple: breathe life back into country rock and roll, specifically within Boston. The city’s ripe with punk and rock acts, but the sweet smile of Americana rarely pops up.

In the three years since then, the group’s earned a name for itself. Deer Tick and Futurebirds call on it to open their shows. The Boston Music awards nominated it in 2015. This year, with steadfast focus and new riffs, the band released Distant Ways, a full-length album that finds the perfect balance between uplifting guitar lines and jovial drumming.

This Saturday, These Wild Plains plays an intimate show at the Middle East Upstairs that’s sure to get rowdy. That is, if you’re lucky enough to get in. It’s called upon fellow local country acts Hayley Thompson-King and Dreamtigers to light up a room that will burn bright long into the night, and $10 tickets make that a hard offer to turn down.

Thompson-King landed a record on our 30 Best Local Albums of 2015 list, a logical shoo-in thanks to ballad-style strums, softened vocals, and a melody that lingers on despondency in just the right way. Then there’s Dreamtigers, an indie pop act by comparison that knows how to loop pedal steel, organ, and upright bass into the mix for Southern charm.

Don’t let the secret out, but yes, it’s true: Boston rocks the country sun if you know where to look and listen. Given October is getting chilly, we’ll probably see you at the gig.

Oh, and just a tip: You know how a real Americana fan kicks off the show? With a ’gansett in hand, boots on their feet, and an open hand extended to whomever wants to take it in theirs and dance. Saddle up, y’all.

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AN INTERVIEW WITH KELLY REICHARDT One of the nation’s foremost narrative filmmakers talks about her craft

BY JAKE MULLIGAN @_JAKEMULLIGAN Kelly Reichardt is an American filmmaker whose works include Wendy and Lucy [2008], Meek’s Cutoff [2010], and Night Moves [2013]. Her first film, River of Grass [1994], played at the Brattle Theatre earlier this summer. Her latest film, the Montana-set Certain Women [2016]— which adapts three short stories by Maile Meloy, with roles played by Laura Dern, Michelle Williams, Lily Gladstone, and Kristen Stewart—opens in Boston this Friday. Reichardt was a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (“I think it must have been ’84– ’87”), which we discussed at the start of the phone call transcribed here.

The word “slow” is often deployed in reference to your work. I think I’d prefer to use “still.” One reason I bring up the School of the Museum of Fine Arts is because I wondered if forms like painting and still photography influence the way you compose your own imagery.

Yeah … I’m not sure that still is better than slow, though.

It’s really just about hunkering down and being able to spend time in a place long enough that you can get accustomed to routine, and the smaller strokes of a day.

I’ve been teaching with Peter Hutton* for a decade—a filmmaker that passed away this summer who influenced me greatly. He made landscape films; he referred to them as “reels.” And he talked constantly about being in places long enough to really see them. Really see. And I don’t know how you do that in a flash. My shots actually aren’t that long. It’s only in comparativeness … It’s really just about being in places long enough to be able to see.

In calling the films still, I was thinking about blocking more than shot length. Like the scene in the bedroom at the start of Certain Women, or the way we cut into the cafe. There’s not a lot of forward movement.

The first images I was working off of, more for color and tone, were Milton Avery’s paintings. Then I was looking at so much Alice Neel. Some of the set design, and even the posturing of people, came from her paintings. I’ve used Robert Adams over the years—someone who really focused on the natures of backdrops and whatever the footprint of the time is. And I had my Stephen Shore books with me. Because his parking lot photos are so beautiful and ugly at the same time. He had much better cars to work with than we do now. But there are a lot of parking lots in the movie, so thinking about how he uses those spaces was helpful.

The direct source for the movie is obviously literature.

“Travis B.” and the other stories you adapted often feature details on the biographies and inner lives of the characters. I would say your movie exists almost entirely outside the characters, though. There’s one insert shot from a man’s point of view early in the movie, and I was surprised that we even got to see that. What were your

methods in deciding what to elide and what to include?

It was a long process. I played around with it for a year.

I dropped out some stories. I was trying to figure out if there was a way that these stories would add up to more as a whole than they would individually. And I made trips to Montana, which ended up being very helpful. I had passed through Montana a lot, but I hadn’t hunkered down there and really looked closely at some of the areas.

I went up to Helena, Billings, Butte, Livingston, Bozeman.

And the first thing that really dawned on me, and helped me figure out how to see the movie, was seeing how native references echoed through all this prefab hotel art and restaurant art. There’s almost nowhere you can go where there are not native references all around. But you don’t really see any brown faces. It’s so white. So it’s weird how there’s this commodity of native faux art out there in the west. I thought that spoke really loudly. And I made that a thread in the stories.

One thing during the process that always helps is to go spend time in the place you’re making the film about. So that you’re not like a tourist, and you can get down into a routine. What kind of car you’d be driving, where you’d be living, and shopping for your groceries, taking your recycling, or whatever it is, your day-to-day. Or in this case, working on the ranch. It’s really helpful for figuring out the details. And the people you’re meeting along the way while doing all this research—it brings a lot of unexpected answers. A lot of what you find out isn’t the thing you went out looking for, but you still ended up figuring something out. So anyways, it’s just a process, I guess.

You bring up the idea of finding something that links the three stories together. While watching the movie I found myself resisting the urge to try and connect those dots.

That’s good. I just don’t think that they’re plot driven, for the most part. And what runs through them appears differently to [any] different viewer. I hope the overall takeaway is … that your best self is your worst self. And sometimes you have these really close, connected moments with strangers. And then really estranged and faraway moments with the people you’re most intimate with. You can be right next to someone and not really see what their needs are. You can be wrapped up in your own bubble.

There’s the Jared Harris character, who’s in his 50s and is almost having his feelings hurt by this “surprising” fact that the system isn’t working fairly. And he’s in a car, one foot away from a female lawyer [Dern] who, you know …

If you’re a working woman, or a person of color, you know that at a much younger age. Or if you’re from a certain socioeconomic class, you’re going to realize that much sooner. That loss of innocence comes earlier. Likewise, she’s in her own bubble and not really realizing how catastrophic her own blasé attitude towards him is. What it’s costing him. While physically, they’re so close to each other. Same for the relationship in the second story, where the couple [Williams and James LeGros] comes together, and are closest, when they’re trying to get something from a stranger. And not understanding the costs or the implications of that, or of not connecting with their kid [Sara Rodier]. It’s a lot of misses. Close encounters and misses. That runs throughout the film. Maybe more than commonalities, it’s more like, there’s so many different ways to misunderstand someone. *The Harvard Film Archive will present “Time and Tide. A Tribute to Peter Hutton” next month, with programs on Thu 11.10, Fri 11.11, and Sun 11.13. See hcl.harvard.edu for showtimes.

>> CERTAIN WOMEN. RATED R. OPENS FRI 10.21 AT THE KENDALL SQUARE CINEMA.

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NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION OF ANDRZEJ ZULAWSKI’S ON THE SILVER GLOBE [1988]

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FROM SELMA TO SCOTTSBORO

and she was one of my great-grandmother’s best friends.

Knowing her story and how she knocked out Sheriff Jim Clark and then was beaten and thrown in jail … I grew up with all this. There’s so much pride in being from there.

It’s my onus to tell these stories and to get this out and to do it in a way that does my grandma proud and does my hometown proud, as well.

BY CHRISTOPHER EHLERS @_CHRISEHLERS In 1931, nine African-American boys were accused and convicted of a crime that not only they were innocent of but that was later proven to have never occurred. One of the most heinous miscarriages of justice in US history, it took over 80 years for the boys to be officially exonerated.

With a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb (the masterminds behind Chicago and Cabaret), The Scottsboro Boys is chillingly told in the fashion of a minstrel show, a controversial choice that was protested regularly during the show’s run on Broadway. Beginning on Oct 21, Scottsboro will make its long-awaited New England premiere at SpeakEasy Stage Company.

Here, actor Brandon Green, a recent Elliot Norton Award winner for his revelatory performance in An Octoroon last season at Company One, talks about the importance of this musical, its use of minstrelsy, and how his hometown of Selma informs the artist he is today.

Yes. And I truly feel like An Octoroon prepared me for this—and Mr. Burns, in many ways. I look at the melodrama in An Octoroon as the framework for the painting in very much the same way that the minstrel show in Scottsboro Boys is the frame of the painting for these young men’s story. It tells the story in a very beautiful way.

Would you call The Scottsboro Boys an important musical?

Very important. In the 85 years since their trial began, things are still in the same state, and I’m hoping that people can come in and see that and make the correlations.

It is still very much a thing today, being assumed guilty before innocent, in a lot of cases dealing with young black men and women. This show is very poignant.

And you’re from Selma, a place of extraordinary significance in the civil rights movement. Do you think about that when you’re working on shows like this?

Every single time. Part of the reason that I wanted to jump in on this show is because it is set in my home state, but it’s also a duty and a charge. My great-grandmother, Jessie Lee Johnson, and her friends rode around town and performed skits to get people to vote. I didn’t know it was in my blood like that. Growing up down there, I lived on Annie Lee Cooper Avenue. Oprah played her in Selma

Do you think that The Scottsboro Boys and An Octoroon both have similarities in the devices they use to tell their stories?

The minstrel show not only brings the guards down, but it also exploits the men on stage even further. It is often very hard to watch, in the best way possible.

Yes, in the best way possible. I want to blame and/or thank Summer L. Williams for encouraging me and enduring me into some very difficult theater over the years. This show is just as hard to watch as it is hard to do.

Beyond the exploitation, it’s a way for the story to get out, and so it’s serving a very significant purpose, I feel.

There’s also an added layer of fragility because you’re doing this show about this great injustice, and yet here we have someone who is a few feet away from the presidency who doesn’t have respect for minorities and people of color. It’s very frightening that it seems like we will always be capable of another Scottsboro Boys.

Yeah. I was thinking to myself earlier this week that depending on how Nov 8 goes, the end of this run will take on entirely new meaning. It goes back to why this show is important: History forgotten is doomed to repeat itself. And then, sometimes, history that we do know still repeats itself. I wonder about the people talking about repealing the 19th Amendment to get women out of the vote, which is crazy. People are actually saying these things, and it’s really disheartening. The people that are buying into it, that’s the scary part.

You’re a self-described “artist for social change.” It seems that Scottsboro Boys falls squarely within that mission.

Oh, yeah. This year really has been a year of making social statements with art. From race and identity in An Octoroon to why the arts and storytelling are important in Mr. Burns to this, which I feel really shows just how important telling these stories is and the things that can come about once you do tell them. Again, 82 years later, these young men were exonerated for their crimes. I think that this show had a big part to play in that. That’s my grandma in me.

>> THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS. RUNS 10.21–11.19 AT SPEAKEASY STAGE COMPANY AT THE BCA, 527 TREMONT ST., BOSTON. SPEAKEASYSTAGE.COM

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BY DAN SAVAGE @FAKEDANSAVAGE | MAIL@SAVAGELOVE.NET Big fan, longtime reader and listener, and I need your help. How in the hell can a bipartisan relationship survive this election? Things have gotten so heated that my husband and I recently exploded in an ugly argument. I know I’m not fighting fair—calling him stupid and irresponsible for supporting Trump—and I’m being a shitty partner, and he’s being shitty in response by spouting Clinton conspiracy theories.

A huge part of it is that he’s someone who lives to disagree—a true contrarian—and our current political environment has been like manna from heaven for his sense of humor. What advice do you have? We’ve been together for ages and have survived other elections and issues. But, as you know, this one’s different.

Struggling After Debate Unlike your husband, SAD, I don’t think there’s anything funny about Donald Trump. I’m going to enjoy watching him lose the election, and I’m going to enjoy watching his hotels and golf courses go out of business one by one, but our politics and public life have been sickened by the poison that is Donald Trump. It’s going to take years for us to recover, SAD, and I just don’t see the humor in it. And personally, SAD, I wouldn’t be able to climb into bed with someone who was planning to vote for Donald Trump. I would be out the door. But if you can’t leave because you love him despite his moral and political bankruptcy, or because leaving isn’t an option for you financially, avoid the subject for the next three weeks, don’t take whatever bait your husband throws out, and try not to gloat too much when Hillary hands Donald his ass on November 8.

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