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THOUGHTS ON STANDING UP TO RACISM Dear Reader, First and most importantly, this is not some official statement about “The Yawkey Way,” last week’s DigBoston feature by Britni de la Cretaz about racism in Red Sox Nation. Britni’s piece, which has bigots up and down New England simultaneously revealing their ugliest innards and cementing the article’s thesis, speaks for itself—as do the reactions from so many adult children. But while that reporting certainly inspired this column, I will leave it to Britni and other reporters who cover culture and sports to write follow-ups on the Fenway front, whether they appear in these pages, on social media, or in a different venue of their choice, if any.

I will comment on racism, though. And on the courage it takes to stand up to the mobs still among us who reject multiculturalism and denigrate those who don’t look and act like them.

One of the most common gripes about “The Yawkey Way” on social media has been that Britni hit on a common topic and added nothing new to a discussion that is already allegedly happening about race and baseball. Such observations fail to recognize the journalistic enterprise of painting bigger pictures and couldn’t possibly explain why the war waged against Britni stands out even among the innumerable character assassination attempts in sports media land. Besides the fact that Britni is a woman, which has electrified the hate tide and resulted in the sickest sexist comments and threats imaginable, it’s important to acknowledge that the article is being targeted because such articles are rare. And because while people may acknowledge bigotry to some degree in these purportedly liberal parts, the kind of conversation that Britni’s article begs for is largely not happening. At least not in the places it should be.

But now the topic of toxic sports radio culture is front and center, at least this month. You can tell because the less-sophisticated side of Boston Twitter is having more of a conniption than usual, with miserable snowflake pricks galore reminding all of us that they work hard to frighten those who dare to publicly stand against and call out intolerance. I am sure these words will only tighten the insufferable knot that xenophobes have in their ribs, but every time an activist or journalist like Britni sticks their neck out for equality, countless more then do the same.

If you’re a hate-mongering sports goon whose views tend to jibe with those of white nationalist groups, then don’t be surprised if your wife, friend, cousin, aunt, uncle, or daughter is the next to speak up. Because while the conversation about racism in sports hasn’t yet gone mainstream, it’s getting there.

And when it does, you can expect a lot more bold denunciations of the tired and despicable Yawkey way.

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ICE COLD NEWS 2 US

There is no norm in deportation proceedings for immigrants without a criminal record. Before President Donald Trump, Barack Obama’s US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency mainly focused on detaining and deporting offenders of violent crimes.

That has changed.

A mandate from Trump’s Washington has brought a significant rise in detentions of noncriminal offenders in Massachusetts in six short months.

Many arrests are happening at ICE check-ins, which are short meetings that immigrants in removal or asylum proceedings must go to in order to remain in good standing.

The case of Francisco Rodriguez, a 43-year-old MIT janitor, is particularly unusual. Rodriguez was detained during an immigration check-in on July 13.

At a mid-June check-in, Rodriguez was denied an extension of his stay of removal, presenting a possibility that he would be deported. ICE had previously granted him four stays since 2009. According to Rodriguez’s attorney, Matt Cameron, it is an issue of deception.

Rodriguez was initially told that his next ICE meeting date, after June, would be in December. That was changed suddenly though a phone call, where he was told that he must show proof of a planned departure, without a specific date specified.

Cameron said, “The premise was that if he showed up at a check-in with it [a ticket to El Salvador], he would not be detained.”

They arrived at the check-in on July 13 with a ticket to El Salvador and a group of two dozen community supporters. Cameron went on, “We wanted to be sure we were complying. My question to ICE is, how can you ever expect anyone to voluntarily check in again if the conditions aren’t going to be honored?”

Khaalid Walls, the Northeast regional communications director for ICE, told DigBoston that Rodriguez reported to his check-in in June and that “after reviewing his case and in a further exercise of discretion, ICE chose not to place him in custody, allowing him to make timely departure arrangements.”

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another stay in light of his child being due for delivery on Aug 3.

Despite having the ticket, ICE holds that Rodriguez did not comply with their orders—even though he was not given a date to exit the country. Walls told DigBoston in a statement, “after he failed to do so [comply by making ‘timely departure arrangements’], he was placed into ICE custody, where he’ll remain pending the outcome of his immigration case.”

According to paperwork shown to DigBoston, ICE planned to arrest Rodriguez and then have him moved to Louisiana before being deported to El Salvador on July 20. Attorneys filed to have him released.

With the news of Rodriguez’s detention, Goodwin Procter, the law firm MIT arranged to help the cause, filed a lawsuit on Francisco’s behalf against the US government seeking an emergency order to stop the deportation.

But on July 20, Mass District Court Judge Richard Stearns denied the motion for a temporary restraining order against ICE, allowing the government to continue to keep Rodriguez in custody.

“Judge Stearns reiterated in his written decision that he believes Francisco is a candidate to be released on bond, and we continue to pursue all avenues to win his release while the case moves forward,” said Cameron.

Rodriguez’s case will be heard before the Board of Immigration Appeals at an unknown date. In the meantime, he continues to be detained at the Suffolk County House of Correction while his attorney and supporters have organized a political pressure campaign to have him released. The MIT administration and students alike have voiced strong opposition to his deportation, as have Rodriguez’s fellow union members at SEIU Local 32BJ, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, and Congressman Mike Capuano.

Last week, MIT Director of Campus Services and Chief of Police John DiFava spoke in support of Rodriguez at a campus rally organized by the SEIU, as did MIT Undergraduate Association representative Ashti Shah ’20 and one of Francisco’s coworkers. Chief DiFava also requested a personal meeting with ICE. *** Rodriguez is originally from El Salvador, where he worked in engineering and operated a car wash. He fled the country in 2006 when a colleague was murdered, allegedly fearing for his own life.

In a letter published in the Boston Globe, Rodriguez said he has never been arrested for a crime and that his wife is pregnant.

“Now I do not know where I will be when our baby is born,” he wrote. “She and the baby are now in more danger because of the stress that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has made for us.”

According to an attorney, Rodriguez’s wife was

hospitalized days before he was detained with bleeding during her pregnancy.

At a recent rally, Rodriguez’s 10-year-old daughter Mellanie Rodriguez asked for the Massachusetts government to step in on behalf of her father: “I want to tell Mr. Governor Baker to stop my father’s deportation to El Salvador because there are criminals who do dangerous things there … If he goes, I’m going with him.”

Mellanie and a group of supporters also delivered a petition with over 8,000 signatures to Gov. Baker’s office, where she handed it over to Constituent Services Director John Tapley, who promised to relay her message. She told DigBoston that she “feels hope that Mr. Baker is going to listen to us.”

Mellanie’s grandmother Jesus Guardado stood by silently throughout the rally, but spoke with Dig briefly.

“His family needs him,” she said. “He’s a good son, and a good father.” Through tears, she explained that she had spoken to Rodriguez on the phone and that he was concerned about his wife’s condition. “It is a high-risk pregnancy,” Guardado added. “He’s worried he’s going to lose her [Rodriguez’s wife].”

Up to this point, Gov. Baker has avoided being involved in specific deportation cases, but his office did reply to reporters after Mellanie’s petition was dropped off on Thursday.

William Pitman, a spokesman for the Baker administration, released a statement saying, “I’ve said many times that I think the important mission for ICE is to focus on convicted and charged criminals—violent criminals here in the United States, and that’s what our State Police policy is all about. And I’ve heard DHS say on a number of occasions that that’s their focus as well and based on what I’ve read, I don’t think this gentleman meets this criteria.”

Baker has so far avoided blanket statements about ICE and DHS, instead choosing discretion on a caseby-case basis. In February, he penned a letter to DHS Secretary John Kelly about the economic ramifications to Massachusetts from Trump’s Immigration and Refugee Executive Order.

Meanwhile, Francisco Rodriguez remains imprisoned and his supporters frustrated. Cameron told DigBoston that he believes that the influx of arrests of noncriminals poses a threat to public safety and takes ICE agents away from more critical needs.

“For every Francisco you go after, you’re ignoring a gang member or a rapist,” he told DigBoston. ICE has not increased its regional officer numbers, but the Trump 2018 budget proposal includes a proposal to hire 10,000 more ICE officers, which would include new staff in New England.

Laura Rótolo, staff counsel at ACLU of Massachusetts, spoke to DigBoston about the changes that have come to the state.

“We are hearing anecdotally from immigration attorneys that people who were previously not deportation priorities are increasingly being arrested by ICE when they go in for their regular check-ins,” Rótolo said in an interview. She further explained that before the Trump administration, community support and media attention often pressured immigration judges to use their discretion in noncriminal cases and release the immigrant. But that has changed.

“It worked in many cases,” Rótolo said. “But it seems not to be working now.”

Rodriguez will have to wait for a response from the Board of Immigration Appeals and the federal court, which may respond within the week, according to Cameron.

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Charlie Baker’s $4.1 million gift to the cable industry

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On July 12, the Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality, millions of Americans sent comments to the Federal Communications Commission urging that body to keep the internet open and fair. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration chose a different approach. It gave a gift of $4.1 million to a telecommunications industry giant.

Critics of the cable TV and internet industry have long maintained that the marketplace has failed America. Most households are served by a single provider, one offering second-class service at premium prices. Rural America has it worse. In many rural towns, including those in western Massachusetts, there is no high-speed internet or cable TV provider all. Low-speed internet service, Verizon’s DSL, has only had limited availability and is disappearing almost as quickly as Verizon can rip that copper wiring from the ground. These towns remain locked in the 20th century while eastern Massachusetts is, for better or for worse, inventing the 21st century.

The Baker administration should be applauded for recognizing this market failure and for engaging the hand of government in the service of social justice and equity.

Rural Massachusetts deserves the same access to the internet as anyone else. But to subsidize the corporations whose investment choices led to this injustice rewards bad behavior.

The Baker administration calls this $4.1 million gift a grant, evoking the notion of an organization in need of government support. But the recipient was Charter Communications, which, just to confuse matters, sells its services as “Spectrum.”

Charter, with 50 million subscribers, describes itself as the nation’s fastest-growing TV, internet and Voice provider. Recently merged with Time Warner Cable, it reports that, in the first quarter of 2017, it had $10.1 billion in revenue, $155 million in profit, and spent an additional $826 million to buy back its own stock. In return for that $4.1 million grant, Charter agrees to acquire 3,600 new customers in the towns of Egremont, Hancock, Peru, Princeton, and Tyringham.

It wasn’t really that long ago that the internet was a fragile government-funded innovation and over-regulation was a concern. But without society having a chance to think, it’s become a necessary lifeline, one controlled by a handful of monopolistic corporations whose business practices seem beyond regulation. In giving Charter $4.1 million dollars, we now have governments paying those corporations tribute for the privilege of allowing citizens to buy their internet services.

Government largess to corporations, particularly from the Baker administration, is nothing new. What makes this particularly jaw-dropping is that almost everyone hates their internet service provider. Customers understand intuitively how terrible these corporations are and how their focus on Wall Street-satisfying profitability has made service a bad joke. Yet the Baker administration has lined up five state legislators, four of them Democrats, to laud this giveaway. It is a profound statement on this political moment that, in supposedly progressive Massachusetts, Democrats will pay no political price for directing tax dollars at a highly profitable, universally despised corporation.

Elsewhere on Beacon Hill, the legislature’s Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies is considering S.2062, a bill that would require internet service providers to gain your permission before selling your personal data in order to increase their profits. Passage of this bill remains uncertain as telecommunications companies assert that over-regulation will harm competition and innovation.

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The Alternative to Punch Buggy

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So you’re tooling around town on a summer evening with nothing to do, but you’re sick of playing Punch Buggy—the ancient game where you shout “PUNCH BUGGY” and the color of any Volkswagen Beetle you see... followed by a (mock) punch to whatever part of any nearby companion’s anatomy you care to strike (in jest)? How ever will you pass the time?!

Well, fear not! Because now, after years of local testing with (willing and nontriggerable) friends, I’m ready to share my Boston variant of a little-known alternative auto assault game* with the world!

It’s called Pinch Mini! And you can play it every time you see a Mini inch into view.

Which will be often because those little cars are ubiquitous in the hipster parts of town.

However, it’s trickier than Punch Buggy to play correctly because, unlike Beetles, many Minis sport two colors.

That said, here are my rules to Basic Pinch Mini:

It’s called Pinch Mini! And you can play it every time you see a Mini inch into view.

1 - See a Mini car.

2 - Call out “Pinch Mini” and the two colors of the car (body color first followed by roof color, e.g., “Pinch Mini Red and Black” to name one common color combination) while gently pinching any participating person within range. If you spot a rare one-color Mini, say the color twice (e.g. “Pinch Mini Black and Black”).

And there you have it. Enjoy!

We’ll cover my Advanced Pinch Mini rules in a future installment, if there’s interest.

One caveat: play Pinch Mini in tandem with Punch Buggy at your own risk. It’s the sporting equivalent of “crossing the streams” in Ghostbusters.

Coming soon… Fungula Fiat!

Email DigBoston executive editor Jason Pramas at execeditor@digboston.com with any Pinch Mini feedback, playtesting notes, etc. *Another version of the game called “Mini Pinch” can be found on Urban Dictionary.

There are doubtless many more unpublished instances of parallel evolution of this particular time-waster out there. So modify it and make it your own!

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A SCHOOL OF SILHOUETTED BLUE SHARKS (CARCHARHINUS LEUCAS) CIRCLE FOR FOOD NEAR THE OCEAN’S SURFACE. PHOTO COURTESY OF KEITH ELLENBOGEN.

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Mass diver Ellenbogen on high-speed underwater photography and shooting shark portraits

BY KATIE MARTIN Keith Ellenbogen grew up scuba diving around Boston and parlayed his childhood passion into a career photographing aquatic life around the globe. Now his exhibition Expedition Across Oceans is on view every day from 9 am to 5 pm in the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT. I spoke with him via phone from New York, where he’s working on an exhibition in the lobby of the United Nations, about his residency at MIT, why he has a photography exhibit in the theoretical physics department, and the challenges of taking great shark photos.

well liked, so they decided to offer me a gallery exhibition to showcase artists’ work.

What’s your favorite shoot you’ve done or photo you’ve taken?

For different reasons, each of them are wonderful assignments. But I think the project I’m most passionate

Why underwater photography?

Did you ever do something as a kid that you loved to do so much that you never stopped doing it? That’s what happened to me. I grew up in Boston, and when I was 16 I learned to scuba dive and started volunteering at the New England Aquarium. My grandfather was into photography, and he loaned me an underwater camera. So I started scuba diving around Boston and learning about the aquatic life around here, and then when I went to Parsons [School of Art and Design], I decided to do my master’s thesis on underwater photography.

How did this MIT collaboration happen? Why is your exhibit in the theoretical physics deparent?

[MIT theoretical physicist] Allan Adams and I were working together informally doing high-speed photography. It’s very difficult to do high-speed photography underwater. There’s a lot of constraints, and the equipment is extremely expensive. Our collaboration began because of that, and then I applied to be a visiting artist at MIT’s Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST).

After my year as a visiting artist I had an exhibit, which was 8

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PHOTO COURTESY OF KEITH ELLENBOGEN.

about right now is focusing on the underwater wildlife of New York. It’s a project trying to create awareness about marine life. We have really incredible biodiversity here. We have sharks and sea turtles, we have nudibranchs, all the animals we have all over the world we have in New York.

Boston also has a lot of biodiversity. Often people travel around the world to find these animals, but they’re here locally, too.

Of course, in tropical locations, the diversity is much larger, a lot more colorful, more condensed in very tight areas. Going to a coral reef is like going to a city. It’s a consolidated diverse area in a smaller region.

Do you think people are more interested in conserving the ocean if they can see what’s in it up close?

I do think photography connects people to places and to animals. In combination with scientific research and storytelling, it can help people feel connected to something that’s otherwise too foreign and too removed. Photographs are a way to make that initial connection.

In my own photography I try not to highlight the negative things, because I don’t want to shock people. I want to show them the beauty of the life down there. But I’ve seen plastic in the water, I’ve seen coral bleaching. You don’t always see the most dramatic impacts—it’s not like watching a building burn. The ocean is a large place and these things change very slowly, and so the change people are looking for isn’t always instantaneous.

What was your goal with the MIT exhibit?

I hope that the exhibit there tried to engage with individual animals. There’s a picture of a humphead wrasse—that is a critically endangered species. It’s a really large animal; it’s about 6 feet long, and I photographed it in Palau. Typically, they’re very shy animals and hard to get near, but in this one particular part of the world they’re not as shy. And one came up close to me and I was able to get an engaging photo where you can see the subtle nuances of the colors and really feel a connection to this animal.

There’s also a shot of a baby sea turtle about to walk into the water for the first time. And I liked that for the physics department because everything in that photo was frozen in a moment where life was about to happen.

Also great for the physics department is the photo of the flatworm swimming toward you. It’s in midwater undulating through space, and it feels so otherworldly to me. That was taken in daylight, but I shot it in a way that would remove all ambient light and give the illusion of

darkness. I don’t use Photoshop to retouch the photos in any way.

Part of the process is the act of taking the picture.

Finding the animals, knowing where to find them—it’s really hard to do. I spend lots of time working on the lighting, the composition, all things that people take for granted. Sometimes you have to work quickly, but you’re prepared for those quick moments. A lot of times there’s a lot of preparation and thought that goes into a photo. And then the second consideration is how to print it so it stands out. This exhibition uses digital C-, or digital chromogenic, prints, with real chemical inks. It brings out the true colors and the range of colors, which is part of what makes photographing these animals so nice. It gives us those subtle gradations so you can really see detail. And I spent a lot of time working on the prints so that they revealed the actual image that was captured. That might seem obvious, but if you were to print it differently, you would see dramatic differences.

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MORE THAN MURALS GTFO: NORTH SHORE

These artists transformed Downtown Lynn—now go and check out their work WORDS BY DIG STAFF | PHOTOS BY CHRISTOPHER GAINES Sometimes it takes an international creative community to bring out the beauty in a village.

Or a town, or metropolis.

If you’re among the punks who clowns on the Commonwealth’s struggling gateway cities like Worcester and Lowell, then you’re no longer just a classist jackass. These days, you’re also missing out on everything from robust art and music scenes to affordable housing and authentic grub, all of which are also found in Lynn and any number of other places beyond Greater Boston.

In order to call more attention to said livelihood and add a decorative sheath that will attract graffiti aficionados from around the world, the visionary team at the Lynn-based nonprofit Beyond Walls held a mural fest for 10 days this month and invited some of the top talents who tackle big beautiful brick buildings. With help from public and private partners and organizations including the Painters and Allied Trades International Union, which together pumped $100,000 into the project plus a week of labor and material to prime surfaces, they got to work. “All in the name of economic development,” as one organizer told us.

The results are worth the trip—no matter where you’re coming from. Here’s a sampling of the artwork that transformed the Lynn facade in a matter of weeks, complete with artist names and corresponding addresses so you can check them all out on your own.

Angurria (516 Washington St.) Bruce Orr & Good 2 Go from Raw Art Works (129 Munroe St.) Caleb Neelon & Lena McCarthy (33 Munroe St.) Cedric ‘Vise’ Douglas & Julez Roth (114-120 Munroe St.) Cey Adams (65 Munroe St.) David Zayas (33 Spring St.) Don Rimx (129 Munroe St.) FONki (18 Munroe St.) Georgia Hill (85 Munroe St.) Tallboy & Brian Denahy (31 Spring St.) Temp & Relm (173 Oxford St.) NS/CB (Nicole Salgar & Chuck Berrett) (33 Central Sq.) Marka (27-31 Exchange St.) Miss Zukie & JPO (16 City Hall Sq.) Team Rekloos (Brian Life, Brand Rockwell, & Raodee) (85 Exchange St.)

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THE WAY LIFE SHOULD BE GTFO: MAINE

Check out the first “bud and breakfast” cannabis hotel in the Northeast

BY DAN MCCARTHY @ACUTALPROOF

circulating all day, and more than ample communal joints and blunts going outside), and other canna-culture novelties. If you’re not already smiling by now, you’re dead inside and joy has become an alien emotion.

The Laughing Grass has already held a soft open party and smokefest, and Madison says after a little legal gray zone blowback from the town, everything is all set for the trial run and many in the town are offering loads of support for the project. Some prohibitionists may try to spoil the stoned sunny days of the masses, but even if a wrench gets thrown into the mix, Madison says they won’t pull the plug.

“If it all goes well and the town allows us to stay permanently, we will launch the Laughing Grass Inn in full,” says Madison. “If Cornish says no, I have two other inns already inquiring about how to get involved, and I’ve had reps from Sebago and Standish and other towns saying they want us if Cornish doesn’t.”

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In 1782, the idyllic spots along the borderland between New Hampshire and southwestern Maine were settled and became what is now modern-day Cornish, Maine.

Flanked by the Saco River and situated in easy day-trip distance from both Sebago Lake in Maine to the east and the New Hampshire lakes region to the west, the historic village of Cornish has now chalked up an entirely new reason to put this getaway atop your road trip roster of options.

The reason: It’s now home to one of the first “bud and breakfast” cannabis tourism inns and hotels on the East Coast. Welcome to the Laughing Grass Inn. Don’t expect some startup-spirited, tech-hotel revolution capitalizing on the nascent legal weed scene in America. Instead imagine 16 rooms overloaded with beautiful country decor and original structural beauty

to behold in the 200-year-old inn, which has been giving travelers and patrons a plum place to lay their heads in the foothills of the White Mountains since the 1820s.

Now, thanks to a new direction in ownership and a desire to see if the grounds are yet fertile enough to anchor an entire hotel business on the backs of the East Coast recreational cannabis craze in its current form, Laughing Grass Inn project founder Trinity Madison is ready to show people where this silo of the hospitality and travel industry could go in New England.

As a trial run, there are all-inclusive packages available for stays in August and September. But as its name and entire brand ethos suggests, you are in capable hands. Each morning guests are treated to a fresh-made cannabisinfused breakfast with the strength and dosing milligrams set to your preference and comfort, as well as a classic wake-and-bake bowl of killer local topshelf bud to get your day going.

“We want people to enjoy their experience,” says Madison, referring to the process of patrons controlling how strong any of the infused foods, concentrates, tinctures, and other cannabis delivery formats will be for them. “We make it easy to choose, with a beginner dosage at 20 mg, experienced 50 mg, and an option for pros and regular users at 100 mg. You let us know the night before how strong you want your breakfast and what you’d like to eat, and we take care of the rest.”

For those who want to learn about the cooking process, Madison says they hold regular cannabis culinary lessons and have educational speakers, cannabis activists, and advocates, as well as thought leaders and experts discussing heavier subjects like properly using cannabis for children’s therapies.

In addition to the infusions provided, after a day of mulling around at the vintage shops and farms in the area or just an afternoon spent out in the abundance of natural wonder all around (Sebago Lake is only 14 miles away, and the Ossipee and Saco Rivers coalesce on the borders of town to the north), you’ll be treated to a 420 happy hour back at the inn with house-made hors d’oeuvres and more flower-based delights. Also: pre-rolls, novel smoking apparati (think ice luge bongs, a house Volcano vaporizer

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BRIDGIN’ GAPS GTFO: SALEM

Salem culturefest for homeless cleans up

BY M.J. TIDWELL @MJTIDWELL781 “People driving past would just sort of say, ‘Oh, there’s the homeless,’ and keep driving … We were thinking, ‘What can we do to give ourselves something good to do and change that perception?’”

Justice Born found himself homeless in Salem a few years back. He saw firsthand what it was like to be marginalized, on the outskirts of society. He also saw great organizations doing good work to help bring people like him back into communities. And he wanted to do the same.

In 2011, he and a group of friends met with the city of Salem to propose a deal: In lieu of payment, they would clean up the city streets and parks in order to host a concert. A rapper and musician himself, Born organized the event with local talent. He wanted to bring people from all different parts of the community together.

The festival, and the cleanup, was a success.

“Everyone felt really great about it,” Born says.

“People couldn’t believe we were cleaning up a city to put on a concert. Wait, homeless people doing this for the community, not community service?”

A year later, no longer homeless, he wanted to try it again. Now, he’s been putting on the free festival annually for six years while founding and growing hip-hop collective the Wreck Shop. He’s added a co-founder, Nicole La Poetica, and changed the name, but kept the bottom line: helping marginalized people—homeless, immigrants, formerly incarcerated—be a part of the community.

This goal is reflected in the festival’s new name, Bridgin’ Gaps, and in the collision of art and activism that will be present in this year’s event on Aug 5 and 6 at the Salem

Willow Park. Alongside performances that range from doowop to hip-hop, some 25 nonprofits are signed up to be at the festival so that music enjoyers can learn about the work these organizations are doing for the community.

It’s a “come for Smigzee Doowop, Big Ol’ Dirty Bucket, or Slam Kitchen, stay for Timmy’s Angels and One Community One Voice” type of thing. And there will also be voter registration tables at the event to get people signed up and engaged as the 2018 election season approaches.

“We want to create a magnetic attraction to the arts, and while [people] are there for that, they can be surrounded by helpful information and resources,” Born says.

A key element of the festival that is particularly important to him is their unique marketing model. Bridgin’ Gaps pays local homeless people to distribute flyers and assist with the setup for the festival, giving them a vital role in the event and opening doors to networking opportunities as they spread the word throughout the community. Born hopes it could allow people who might not have otherwise met to connect about a shared field of interest.

He also hopes that the festival itself will act as a pilot to introduce ideas for year-round programs that could facilitate similar community engagement.

“There’s a whole bunch of attention on everything that is wrong right now,” Born says, “We just want to bring the attention back to these organizations who are doing really good things here in the community.”

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FIRST LOOK: ITALIAN CAFÉ GELATO HIDDEN EATS

Quincy spot has the best cold treat you’ve tried all summer

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Let’s face it—when many (if not most) people are looking to cool down with a frozen treat on a hot summer day, they tend to go with ice cream, soft serve, or perhaps frozen yogurt, though that craze seems to be fading a bit. Some of the other options out there are good ones, too, including frozen slush, sorbet, sherbet, custard, and gelato. It seems that this last one should be more popular—but it really isn’t for some reason, which could be why a new spot in Quincy called Italian Café Gelato opened with not a whole lot of fanfare, even though it debuted in June at about the time when things were starting to heat up a bit outside. So why is gelato often a forgotten treat? That’s a question to be left for another day (which is one way of saying “I really don’t know”), but a couple of visits to this new spot behind the downtown area of Boston’s southern neighbor indicated that maybe gelato should be more popular—and this place in particular really needs to be considered during these dog days of summer.

Italian Café Gelato is one of a few food spots located in the new West of Chestnut Apartments complex, which is located, well, west of Chestnut Street in the bottom floor of a luxury development that is part of downtown Quincy’s ongoing rebirth. The upscale touches of the residential structure can be found in the cafe, as it has an almost elegant and classy feel to it, which you don’t often find in shops featuring frozen treats. The ordering area—complete with bins of gelato from which customers can sample—is at the entrance door, while separate seating areas can be found to the left and right of the main room, and a mix of tables, counters, chairs, couches, and sofas allow for options of varying comfort. The space has the overall vibe of a warm and inviting European cafe, and the hanging lights and a floor that gives the appearance of reclaimed wood add an extra bit of homeyness to it.

Italian Café Gelato has a connection to Casa Razdora, a little-known Italian eatery in downtown Boston: Two of the cafe owners run the Water Street dining spot. A third owner comes from Italy and learned the craft of gelato-making before moving to this country.

And what exactly is gelato? Well, it’s a bit like ice cream, but it’s made with more milk than cream and is generally denser because of the slower churning process used. The density of the gelato helps create bolder flavors, and the options at Italian Café Gelato certainly lean toward the bold, with such options as tiramisu, Nutella, pistachio, rocher (as in those rich-tasting round Italian chocolates), amaretto, cannoli, stracciatella, and even the basic vanilla all having intense flavors that aren’t overshadowed by the butterfat found more prominently in ice cream. Italian Café Gelato has more than just gelato as well; Salads, sandwiches, pastries, coffee, tea, and more are also offered, though gelato does appear to be the main draw.

Will Italian Café Gelato ultimately become a destination spot with lines out the door during the warmer months? It’s indeed possible, especially once downtown Quincy’s major renovation project is complete and both the parking and driving situations are a bit more settled. But for now, the place is a bit of a hidden gem, slightly off the beaten path behind Quincy Center’s main drag, and a spot that— especially on weeknights—isn’t all that crowded. That may change once the word gets out about it, and based on first impressions of this place, the quality of the gelato makes the case that this is a superb alternative to the many ice cream shops and stands that are scattered throughout the South Shore. >> ITALIAN CAFÉ GELATO. 17 CHESTNUT ST., QUINCY. ITALIANCAFEGELATO.COM

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MIND, BODY, AND SERVICE TERMS OF SERVICE

Yoga and the restaurant industry go together like booze and the restaurant industry

BY HALEY HAMILTON @SAUCYLIT

If you work in a restaurant, you have your go-to places. They are the spots on your body that, when given a quick breather from the line or the floor, the bar or the host stand, you stretch and crack, bend and massage, anything for a few seconds of relief from the grinding, the clenching, the tray carrying, knife wielding, bottle holding, and endless hours of standing.

For me, it’s my lower back and whatever poor muscle tissue runs along the outside of my neck toward my shoulder. Knees and feet are next, and my outer hips generally start screaming around midnight. These aches and pains come with the job, but the time, money, and will to address them don’t always. Massage, regular trips to the doctor, and structured exercise can seem like luxuries (or a huge pain in the ass) rather than general maintenance when your work week is more physically active than some folks’ trip to the gym.

There is, however, an accessible and relatively affordable measure that can be taken on a somewhat regular basis that will help. You can even do it at home, before or after work, if getting to a studio is unlikely: yoga.

I’ve been practicing yoga—like, actually going regularly instead of taking a class when I’m too hungover to go running—for three years. I’ll preach the gospel of down-dog and reverse warrior to anyone who will listen, but don’t take it from me.

Sam Kanter, owner of Sam Kanter Events, a local event coordinating company, has been planning, coordinating, and booking events by collaborating with and representing restaurants since 2007. She currently works with roughly 35 local restaurants as their in-house event coordinator. Clients can also come to her directly and she will facilitate and organize their event at a local space.

She’s also now a yoga instructor.

This year Kanter completed Teacher Training at CorePower Yoga, a national studio organization that features heated classes of various intensity and rigor.

(Full disclosure: I have a monthly membership to CorePower; there is a studio on my block).

With studios in Allston, Watertown, Medford, Ink Block in the South End, Fresh Pond, Newton, and pretty soon Fenway, CorePower is one of the most prevalent studio networks in the city.

“Teacher Training was hard,” Kanter says.

“I’ve been practicing for six years and it was an intense program.”

A 200-hour program with three classes a week over eight weeks, Teacher Training at CorePower combines seminars with hands-on classes and lots (and lots) of outside yoga requirements.

“I decided to do Teacher Training because I got on a sort of yoga high,” Kanter says. “I wanted to elevate my practice and my understanding of it. It’s one of the only things that de-stresses me—this is a very stressful

industry.

“Oh, and it’s also my backup plan if I go crazy.”

Which is understandable. In many ways, yoga and the restaurant industry are polar opposites: At one end you have a school of thought that prioritizes inner calm, listening to what your body needs, and doing what is right for you, at that moment; and on the other you have to do everything, right now, as fast as possible, no matter how badly it hurts. It doesn’t matter if you have to pee or if you want to punch the guy at seat eight in the face.

If one of those environments is going to make you snap, it’s not going to be the one that comes with a mat and understanding of personal boundaries.

But Kanter insists there is a space for yoga in industry life and, maybe more importantly, there’s a place for industry life in yoga.

“There’s a lot of people in the industry who like the idea of yoga and understand it would be beneficial to them but also think yoga is scary,” she says. “It’s intimidating to walk into a yoga studio.

People have certain connotations about what it means to do yoga, and they aren’t exactly fair, but they make sense.”

Common misconceptions?

That you have to be incredibly flexible and in good shape to do yoga; that there is a right, and therefore a wrong, way to practice; that people are watching you; that it’s about the insane arm balances and body bending; that you have to look good in spandex.

To break down some of these misconceptions and bring her two worlds together, Kanter is planning a series of industry yoga events.

“You can do really simple yoga and it can be beneficial,” she says. “I think this would be a great way to introduce people in the industry to something that can really better their lives. Their physical and, yeah, mental health.”

While there are community yoga events—outdoor yoga, yoga followed by brunch because of course—Kanter hasn’t seen anything like what she plans.

“I want the balance. I’m a yogi, but I’m a drinker and I want to combine the two in a new way. And I want it to be accessible,” she says.

Designed around industry culture, the events will take place on Sundays or Mondays, later in the day so more people can attend before or after work. Kanter plans to collaborate with liquor sponsors, design a menu, and host the events at restaurants she works with in her event coordinating.

The first event is set for mid-September. In the meantime, here are some poses you can try at home: Legs Up The Wall Just what it sounds like: Lie down on your back with your bum against a wall and put your feet straight up in the air. This reverses blood flow and releases fresh blood to your legs when you stand up, resetting your legs and feet from all that standing. “If you go home and sit with your butt against the wall and your feet in the air … in 10 minutes it will change your life,” Kanter says.

Forward Fold Stand up straight, bend your knees as much as you want, and lean forward, your arms straight down, fingers hanging toward the floor. “This releases your lower back and will stretch out your neck,” she says.

Savasana (Corpse Pose) Lie down on your back, your arms slightly away from your body, your legs apart, feet flopped out. Seriously: Just lie down. “It’s one of the most mental poses,” Kanter says of the savasana. The mental aspect of yoga is a big part of why it’s important to me. It’s a time to center and take a minute for yourself.”

She continues: “Savasana is a time to let thoughts come to you, and then let them go. Which is important.

There’s so much chaos in restaurants and in the industry. I don’t get that calm in any other aspect of my life.”

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PEOPLE LIKE YOU MUSIC

Why Allston’s experimental emo act thinks beyond the self

BY NINA CORCORAN @NINA_CORCORAN

People Like You chose a better band name than they could have realized in the moment. The Allston five-piece didn’t just pick a positive affirmation to the general public, nor is it a comparison phrase. It’s a reminder from one band member to another, a way of lifting one another up, a transition from a band that likes you to a band that wants to be there for you. And People Like You follows through.

The experimental emo rock act formed in 2014. After an old band, I Kill Giants, came to an end because one of its main songwriters moved to Seattle, guitarist/vocalist Chris Lee-Rodriguez brought the remaining songs he had written to drummer Sander Bryce. The two released their first record, This is what you learned., as People Like You, and in a matter of months trumpetist Matt Hull, vocalist/ pianist Michi Tassey, and bassist Sai Boddupalli of Animal Flag hopped on board for the long run. Soon, the group was creating music that got in touch with a type of genuine authenticity and kindness that fills its live shows with a special aura viewers struggle to describe without smiling.

The band’s empathy extends to their lives outside the music. Every member works part time, often in fields that benefit others. Lee-Rodriguez used to work at Zumix but now works as a nonprofit teacher in New York City, Boddupalli works at the Middle East, Hull works at a private after-school conservatory, and Tassey is starting a music therapy internship. It’s the type of work that gets them involved in their communities directly. “Whether working at a venue or teaching, I think that’s important to us,” says Lee-Rodriguez. “Being graduates of Berklee, it’s hard

to get out of school and get right into jobs in the music community. I don’t think that’s exclusive to music either, but rather a state of colleges now, where you don’t get a job with your degree.”

That eye toward others roots itself in their music. On their brand new record, the excellent Verse, People Like You take inspiration from everything from gospel to modern rock while refining their songwriting, each track telling a story, verbal or instrumental, that feels deeply personal.

Tweaked drafts from the first record were a thing of the past. The Verse recording sessions were filled with months of precision and reworked tracks, and it benefitted from thinking beyond the self. It’s a passion project in the truest sense of the phrase.

“This time I wanted everyone to help more with the songs, to have their influence be stronger so we could work together as a band rather than me writing all the material,” says Lee-Rodriguez. “When we got the final masters, at least for me personally, it was interesting to hear songs we spent years working on now come to fruition. It felt so refreshing more than anything else.”

“If something sounds too thin or empty, you can use your voice as a texture to fill out space,” says Tassey, when asked about the band’s openness toward improvisation.

“I think this is on everyone’s part, but at least speaking for myself, on ‘Eulita Terrace’ there’s a part where vocals come in that weren’t planned, but when we’re in the studio listening back, we wanted it to add another texture.”

People Like You has a group mindset because it’s used

to not being the average band. When you deviate just so far beyond the accepted norm, you become a new type of outlier: a group that isn’t fully separated from other bands, but one that does its own thing, fully committed in a way that can only be respected, even if it takes some listeners time to come around to. As the trumpet player, Hull feels this when he steps onstage, but so do the rest of the members.

“We joke amongst our friends that we’re a ska band because we have a horn player,” says Boddupalli. “I personally don’t think of how we stand out because, in general, people don’t have a good read on me since I’m a racially mixed person. People always ask where I’m from.

They see my face and hear my voice and think, ‘Well, that’s strange.’ But we’re also all like that, basically. Matt is the only white person in the band. We have a female vocalist.

A lot of us are mixed race. We come with this territory where people aren’t sure what to expect of us when we step onstage, and I think that can be liberating. If you don’t know what to expect, you won’t be disappointed.”

On first listen, People Like You earns comparisons to emo veterans like American Football or revivalists like Into It. Over It., but its sound reaches beyond that, touching the underbelly of jazz. Perhaps it’s an instinctual comparison because of how tender the music sounds, each note hitting softly though the instruments could have easily sounded otherwise—the work of The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die guitarist Chris Teti, who recorded the album at Silver Bullet in Connecticut.

“His style is something that I was pleasantly surprised by the actual sound of the record,” Boddupalli says of Teti.

“There’s a lot happening in these songs, and us as a band have a tendency of throwing a lot at the listener, but what I was relieved to hear in the first mixes is that it doesn’t feel overwhelming. It still sounds sparse. Not empty, but each instrument, voice, and layer is on its own plane while still sounding cohesive. He helped us bring that to fruition, so even the denser parts of the record don’t feel heavy.”

Oftentimes in bands, one or two members dominate the songwriting board, writing much of the material themselves. People Like You pass their drafts around so everyone can add their input, not because it’s for the band’s greater good, but because they actually want to hear what the others can add. It’s the type of outward thinking that reflects an inner positivity, a belief that a greater good comes from uniting and that passing the microphone will allow for a stronger story.

“I trust everyone enough—everyone is such an incredible musician in this band—that I know if I say to go stronger in a direction, they can come up with something I never could,” says Lee-Rodriguez. “It makes sense, because they will go in and shine and change things in an incredible way. Why wouldn’t we do that?”

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METAL YOGA MUSIC

Get your om on while humming to Om

BY NINA CORCORAN @NINA_CORCORAN

Ever mistake the om meditation mantra for the doom metal band? Good news. There’s finally a yoga class for you.

This Tuesday, Black Widow Yoga will take over ONCE Somerville to host a Metal Yoga class. Show up at 5:30 pm with a mat in hand, give yourself a half hour to get situated and stretch, and then watch as the satanic magic begins when the clock strikes 6 pm. Metal Yoga is an hour-long vinyasa class set to doom and heavy metal music, which means it’s the perfect alternative to every waspy class you roll your eyes at.

The dependently run yoga concept was created in February of this year by Salem yoga teacher Tina Maroney. After hearing about nontraditional yoga classes like Saskia Thode’s Metal Yoga Bones in Brooklyn, she was inspired to create one of her own to help challenge preconceived notions of yoga. The way Maroney sees it, Black Widow Yoga is a place for outsiders to “harness the energy within that truly connects to doomy and dark music.” In other words, it enlivens the yoga experience without focusing on cliched themes.

“I started doing yoga to help myself a year and a half ago when going through a tough time,” says Maroney. “I was filled with anxiety, and there was a death in the family. It felt more honest to listen to music that better connected to what I was going through.”

Her experience isn’t an isolated discovery. In 2015, a study by the University of Queensland revealed that “extreme” music—metal, punk, and noise rock—helped regulate sadness and enhanced positive emotions. “The music helped them explore the full gamut of emotion they felt, but also left them feeling more active and inspired,” reads the study. “Results showed levels of hostility, irritability and stress decreased after music was introduced, and the most significant change reported was the level of inspiration they felt.”

In that sense, metal music seems like the obvious choice for yoga, an exercise form championed for its ability to reduce stress.

Black Widow Yoga’s playlists are primed to help you breathe easy. The diverse, but in-tune, playlist rotates on a song-by-song basis as opposed to full albums. The choices span the classics (Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Iron Maiden), a little bit of doom (Sleep, Monolord, Black Pyramid), some stoner metal (Weedeater, Kylesa, Acid King), the new generation of metal (King Woman, Pallbearer, Bevar Sea), and even a little local love (Elder, Doomriders). Unlike a lot of the other trendy yoga classes like goat yoga or beer yoga, this doesn’t try to use the music to distract. It uses the music to connect better to the yoga. That’s why the metal Maroney selects is slower, from the drums all the way to the guitars, ensuring a tempo that matches the ideal heartbeat of attendees.

To ensure inclusivity, Black Widow Yoga’s classes are open to all levels, beginners and pros alike. “I have a lot of new people that have never tried yoga as well as people that consistently go to yoga classes, so I teach to every level,” says Maroney. “There’s something for everyone to do, from a gentle flow to working up to an arm balance.”

There are only 200 spots available in the class, so grabbing a ticket in advance is advised. That said, ONCE Ballroom has a Metal Yoga night once a month, so you can always get in touch with your inner darkness another time—or make the trek to her weekly classes at Satanic Temple of Salem to dive in goat-head first.

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BIG CITY, SMALL MOVIE

FILM

On Person to Person and director Dustin Guy Defa

BY JAKE MULLIGAN @_JAKEMULLIGAN

Person to Person [2017] is a New York City-set independent feature that takes place over the course of a single day, during which it cycles through the movements of five people: Benny (Bene Coopersmith), a record trader who’s given a tip that may lead to a rare Charlie Parker vinyl (The Bird Plays the Blues); Claire (Abbi Jacobson), who’s working her first day at a fictional tabloid newspaper alongside an awkwardly threatening senior reporter (Michael Cera); Ray (George Sample III), a depressive who recently posted nude photographs of his girlfriend online and now must deal with the fallout; Jimmy (Philip Baker Hall), a clock repairman who finds himself in the center of a murder investigation when a watch becomes crucial evidence; and Wendy (Tavi Gevinson), a sharp-tongued high schooler who skips class with her friend and eventually absconds to Central Park—accompanied by two boys, much to her dismay. As written and directed (and edited) by Dustin Guy Defa, the film is pointedly conversational—Claire converses her way into and out of various journalistic assignments, Ray makes his amends by way of literal negotiations, Wendy dialogues her way through every anxiety she experiences, Jimmy is constantly interviewed by the cops and the press (including Claire), and Benny makes conversation with just about everyone he encounters (including Ray). In most of those conversations, you get the discernable feeling—from the script and the performances—that these characters are distinctly familiar with the people they’re living around. There’s an intimate quality to almost every space and exchange that’s present in the film. And in that, Person to Person accomplishes a not insignificant task: It makes New York City feel small.

It is true that every New York filmmaker sees their own individual vision of the city, but it’s also true that most of those visions share a sense of overwhelming busyness.

So what you notice about Person to Person, maybe before

anything else, is that its New York is an exceedingly calm one. Defa’s characters are hurting, to one extent or another—from betrayal, from heartache, from professional anxieties, from moral crises—but unlike people in most New York movies, their surroundings don’t seem to be compounding those anxieties. When Benny retrieves his bike, it’s from a quiet street; when Wendy goes to the park, it’s unpopulated and tranquil; whenever anybody goes to a store, it seems to be locally owned and populated by kind people having genial and unhurried conversations. In the frames themselves, there are no skyscrapers dwarfing their bodies, no corporate logos resting ominously in the background, and no rush of pedestrians obscuring their actions. You can ascribe some of those circumstances to budgetary concerns. But a purpose emerges nonetheless: Person to Person becomes the rare film to see a city as a functioning community, rather than as being antithetical to the very concept.

What the film has, then, is a sense of romance. That sense isn’t applied to sex but instead to a more general depiction of urban human entanglement—and also just to the way these characters talk. Defa’s filmmaking reserves a lot of space for ostensibly banal conversations, often cutting into rooms before the “action” starts up, just so we can listen in on whatever shit is being shot beforehand. Isiah Whitlock plays a hang-about at Jimmy’s shop, and the character basically exists as a chorus who orates before other characters walk in—he gives old-manon-the-street riffs on subjects like his perceived sexual rivalry with Frank Sinatra or his plans for seducing a local hairdresser. Aesthetically speaking, the film is designed to let you luxuriate in all this dialogue and the diction.

The compositions depict homey spaces from traditional angles, the blocking is clean and unobtrusive, and the autumnal palette never overshadows the people acting

within it. Each of Defa’s filmmaking choices is serving the performances, without making any vain stylistic attempts toward expanding or accentuating them. And each sequence even feels dictated by the speech within it: When Wendy is on screen, the film’s rhythm picks up as if taking after her snappy-bordering-on-screwball cadence—then while Benny is on screen, the focus is more on responses and reactions, because he’s got a more communal and inquisitive manner of speaking. The film’s concerns, such as it has, do not revolve around ideas nor ideology. Its greatest interest seems to be in capturing the surface pleasures of human expression.

Each of the five vignettes—and the characters within them—is given comparable emphasis. But it’s no coincidence that Coopersmith and Gevinson are the ones we keep citing. It’s not necessarily that they give the best performances—it’s more that they’re the two who most obviously captivate Defa’s camera, the ones receiving its close-ups and grace notes. What Coopersmith seems to add to the movie as Benny is something like philosophical guidance—he’s a nonprofessional actor, a record store owner, and a former roommate of Defa’s, and you feel that familiarity in his portrayal. Coopersmith’s character is trying to obtain Bird Blows the Blues so that he can flip it to a fellow vinyl collector, then use the profits to hold a party for his friends. When one character endangers that outcome, a confrontation ensues, which leads to Benny giving a speech—essentially about one’s moral responsibility toward respecting the vulnerability of anyone in your community—that emerges as the centerpiece of the whole picture. That speech is an atypically dramatic moment by the movie’s standard, and so it seems obvious that Benny and his ethos (or Bene and his ethos) is the beacon guiding the film’s vision of New York City. The last shots of the film, which feature Benny as their own centerpiece, only seem to confirm that.

If Coopersmith is the figure Defa’s compositions regard most knowingly, then Gevinson is on the other side of the spectrum. Her Wendy is a melancholic teenager fully aware that she doesn’t yet understand her own sexuality, an anxiety that the character bandages up via her biting wit and her confrontational manner. The film regards her as being just as mysterious as the character feels herself— when the camera gets close up, her face remains blank, rendering her as the lone vague face in a cast that rarely hesitates to emote. Furthering that effect, Wendy is also the recipient of the film’s most explicitly symbolic moments— including her own final shot, where she’s looking at the scene of the violent crime, and we’re looking at her at the same time, wondering just how despairing that blankness on her face might be. In trying to reconcile that moment with the casual rhythm of the rest of the film, I thought back to God is an Artist [2015], a short documentary that Defa made on the occasion of the Detroit arrest of graffiti artist Shepard Fairey in 2015. Referring to a youthful encounter with Fairey’s iconic Andre the Giant illustration, Defa explains: “I didn’t know what to make of it, what it meant, who had done it … I remember stopping and staring at it, and feeling connected and confused at the same time.” I suspect that in these last images of Gevinson, it’s that exact indescribable feeling that Defa and his film are chasing. And it’s the only moment of the film, tellingly, that feels entirely forced. Person to Person depicts a specific element of urban community life with graceful ease: not the confusion, but the connection.

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COMEDY

BUS A MOVE

Jordan Handren-Seavey on his unique means of touring

BY TOMMY O’DEED In the career of a stand-up comic, there are few steps more important on the path to success than putting in actual road work. A lot of it. Though touring independently and living out of your car can be daunting, Boston comic Jordan Handren-Seavey now travels in relative style, rolling a converted yellow short bus with his new wife for a full year as he performs all across America. I sat down with Jordan, who is at the Comedy Studio this Friday and Saturday, to ask about his upcoming adventure.

I’m at a point in my career where I’m willing to bet on myself.

What was your motivation to buy and refurbish a bus?

My wife and I had been looking into what we were going to do next, and we’d been into “tiny homes.” We were thinking of building one, and then through Instagram we discovered people living in busses, so we figured if you’re going to live in a tiny home, why not live in one on wheels and use it to see different places, performing my stand-up along the way?

What are you hoping to accomplish in spending a year on the road?

I have a goal as far as being a successful touring comedian. Technology has changed. There are more options to go about getting your name out there and getting people to come out and see you perform. So, I have the idea to just go everywhere, meet everyone in the country and do shows everywhere I possibly can. I’m at a point in my career where I’m willing to bet on myself. My story, travelling cross-country in a bus, might seem weird and interesting enough for people to want to come see my performance in their town.

You have a really cool first-person style of stand-up, where you question things a lot with really good “actouts.” Can you explain your approach?

Whenever I write a joke, I try to think, Who am I making fun of? Who’s on the other side of this and what would be their rebuttal? I’m constantly questioning if something is funny enough, or can I make it funnier. I try to look at the situation I am making fun of from all angles to make sure nobody else can say something funnier than what I said.

Do you feel any sort of connection with the crowd, beyond the laughter, when they’re just looking at you, smiling, waiting for the punchline?

I equate it very much to when you’re surfing a wave when they’re all laughing. I sort of go, Oooohh can I keep this going? And, How long can I stay up on it? I see how I could immediately fall off this wave. It’s not a personal connection, it’s more that I’ve created this thing. I’ve taken a group of individual strangers and turned them into this one solid thing. To me that’s the coolest part about doing stand-up.

Are you excited about the actual trip, the touring?

Oh yeah, I’m very excited. There’s a lot of places I’ve never gone to before, and things I’ve never done before like camping on beaches and in national parks. A lot of people have a Monday-through-Friday mentality about life, and even my wife is going to be working from the road with her laptop. One day here the office could be a beach, and on another day it could be the Grand Canyon.

So, you’re combining a sense of wanderlust with today’s technology?

It’s what the millennials call being a digital nomad. You don’t have to live anywhere in particular. If I can go from paying rent in the city [and] working a regular job to living in a bus doing stand-up, I get those 40 hours a week back where I can focus more on my art.

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BY DAN SAVAGE @FAKEDANSAVAGE | MAIL@SAVAGELOVE.NET I’m a reader in Kansas with two teenage daughters, 16 and 18. My girls recently met a boy where they work and both took an interest in him. The 18-year-old was devastated that he was more interested in her younger sister. I spoke to the 16-year-old about it, which is when I found out this boy is going to be a sophomore in college.

The fact that he’s interested in a 16-year-old is a red flag. I asked the 16-year-old to keep her distance. She agreed, but I saw a shirtless photo he sent her. I don’t know what other photos he’s sent and I don’t know what she’s sent him, but I immediately removed all photo apps from her phone. The girls have had public fights about this boy. They’ve made peace with each other, but now my 18-year-old wants to date him. I can’t control the actions of an 18-year-old but (1) it seem likely this guy is a complete creep and (2) isn’t her relationship with her sister more important?

Knowing A Numbskull Stalks Adorable Sisters 1. I’m not ready to pronounce this guy a creep—at least not for the age difference. It sounds like he met your daughters someplace they’re all working this summer, which is a lot less icky than some college boy creeping on high-school girls via Instagram. And you say this boy is going to be a sophomore in college, KANSAS, but don’t give his age. There are 30-year-old college sophomores, of course, but if this boy went straight to college from high school, that would make him 19 years old. If your 16-yearold is closing in on 17, this guy could be “older” by two years and change.

1.5. You know what is creepy? Pursuing a pair of sisters.

The possibility of conflict was so predictable, it was likely a motivating factor for him. Getting off on drama and public fights isn’t a crime, but it is a red flag.

2. You ordered your 16-year-old to stop seeing this guy and deleted apps from her phone. (It’s cute you think your daughter isn’t tech-savvy enough to re-download and hide all the same apps.) You should warn your daughter about the risks of sexting—it may be legal for her to have sex (16 is the age of consent in Kansas), but she could face child porn charges for sending photos and this boy could wind up on a sex-offender registry for receiving them.

(Laws meant to protect young people from being exploited are routinely used to punish them.) But don’t attempt to micromanage your daughters’ love lives. Parental disapproval has a way of driving teenagers into each other’s arms, KANSAS. If you don’t want your daughters having a fuck-you-mom threesome with this guy before the summer is over, you’ll let them work through this on their own—but go ahead and stitch “boys come and go but sisters are forever” on a couple of pillows and put them on their beds.

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