The Phoenix 03/15/13

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Raising the bar » Boston’s house-made bitters, liqueurs, and mixers » Whitey’s watering holes » St. Paddy’s Day don’ts

“We wanted to find something that doesn’t exist.” p 20 Before these Boston barkeeps mix your drink, they’re perfecting their own homegrown concoctions.

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From thephoenix.com Re: “lOnGy axes its PReP scHOOl,” by s.i. ROsenbauM (03.06.13)

Well said! I came from a lower income family. Longy gave me the opportunity to begin studying violin, as well as augment my musical education with music theory, music history, etc. I met my best friends at Longy. Today, I am proud to say that I am a student at Harvard. I honestly don’t think that I would have had any chance ending up at Harvard had it not been for Longy.

Playing an instrument taught me discipline and hard work. To remove such a program will leave many kids without resources to fulfill their potential. The beautiful thing about Longy, too, was that income didn’t matter. There were plenty of wealthy students — aka my best friends. I never felt self-conscious of my lower income status — something that I can say isn’t true of a lot of other programs. Longy was truly a unique haven for young musicians.

The purpose of a conservatory is to train professional musicians. I think it’s ridiculous that the practice needs of a serious artist should ever come second to a bunch of kids who are playing twinkle twinkle little star for enrichment; especially when I have a concert the next day. But until now, we have had to tolerate it for the sake of income. I am thrilled Longy is finally becoming a serious conservatory instead of a community music school. It makes my degree more valuable. _“Guest”

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What a tragedy for Longy and for the community that Longy has served for so long. It’s heartbreaking as an alum of the conservatory that the one of the things that made Longy such a unique place among conservatories is now gone. It was such a nice family of students and faculty there until about 5 years ago. _“aMy”

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» Two local colleges are feeling the heat, thanks to a unionizing effort at Simmons and a protest at Longy.

Plus, an Irish-born barkeep schools us on how to pour a proper pint.

Food & drink

you’re doing it wrong and food coma photos by joel veak, big hurt illustration by mike freiheit, eastern standard cocktail photo by matt teuten, nick cave photo by james prinz photography. courtesy of the nick cave and jack shainman gallery, new york

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» In which we venture into the terrifying velvet sax hole that is Billboard’s Smooth Jazz chart. » the Big Hurt p 14 » talking Politics p 16 » remembering Magnus Johnstone p 18 » Medical Marijuana: Burning Questions p 19

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» ’Tis the season for drinking — and for reflecting on Southie’s brutal gangland history. How about enlightened versions of both? Take a tour of Boston’s best house-made bitters, liqueurs, and mixers, and read excerpts from two new top-shelf Whitey books.

» Food Coma: estelle’s p 38 » liquid: Beeradvocate on nerax p 39 » on the Horizon: row 34 p 40 » the week in food events p 41

arts & events

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» Beware the Ides of March, which will proverbially stab you with cultural delights from the likes of Boston Ballet, Nick Cave, and KMFDM. » Boston Fun list p 44 » welcome to southie p 46 » Boston City Guide p 47

» diY drinking: p 20 » inside whitey’s head p 28 » whitey’s southie p 30

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» MC Slim JB hits the South End for Southern fare, the beer bros get real (real ale, that is), and ICOB prepares to birth a sibling.

» Food Fight p 10 » You’re doing it wrong: Guinness p 10 » reside: at home with Bertil Jean-Chronberg p 12

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» visual arts p 48 » Books p 51 » dance & Classical p 52 » theater p 54 » Film p 56 » Music p 60

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» St. Paddy’s Day is no holiday for local bartenders.

We tapped them for tales of patrons’ drunkest antics — and for some drink recipes (no green beer allowed).

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» Paddy whacked p 70 » Club listings p 72 » Get seen p 74

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MERCY AND SAL DIMASI When it comes to shoWing a modicum of mercy to some of those convicted of federal crimes, Barack Obama is shaping up to have the worst track record of any president in recent memory.

According to the nonprofit, public-interest news site ProPublica, from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush, each of Obama’s predecessors granted more pardons and commutations.

The United States Constitution grants the president the unique power of clemency — the power to forgive individuals convicted of federal offenses or to mitigate their sentences.

A pardon does not erase a conviction. Rather, it offers a person a clean slate with which to resume normal life after having served the terms of their sentence, restoring, for example, the right to vote or to hold a business or professional license.

Commutation, on the other hand, allows for the early release of a prisoner.

Reagan granted one out of every three petitions for pardons; George H.W. Bush, one in 16; Bill Clinton, one in eight; George W. Bush, one in 33; and Obama, one in 46.

In terms of commutations, Reagan and Clinton ran neck and neck, granting one out of every 100 petitions. The odds of getting a commutation under Obama: one in 5000.

Proponents of lock-’emup-and-throw-away-the-key justice should be pleased.

But most who voted for Obama expect something more.

COMMuTE DIMAsI’s sENTENCE

A good place to start would be with former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi, who in 2011 was convicted in federal court of what in essence was political corruption. DiMasi received an eight-year sentence, a record for Beacon Hill wrongdoing.

DiMasi is now suffering from a rare form of throat and tongue cancer that, if reports are correct, appears to be killing him.

It seems clear that DiMasi is dying because the US Justice Department, which prosecutes the accused and

imprisons those found guilty, turned a blind eye to his condition. Instead of allowing DiMasi timely treatment, officials shuttled him from one prison to another in a prosecutors’ version of merry-go-round. The game was intended to break DiMasi’s spirit in the hopes that he would implicate other political figures — even if there were not others to implicate.

Maybe prolonged debate about “enhanced interrogation techniques” of terror suspects has coarsened public opinion, but to the Phoenix, denying a man — even a convicted felon — medical treatment for a cancer that is sure to kill him is far worse than waterboarding.

Faceless government officials — prosecutors and prison bureaucrats — superseded the sentence of a federal court and played a delayed-action game of Russian roulette with DiMasi. It is unclear what the government won, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the result may be costing DiMasi his life.

And while DiMasi’s life is stained by his conviction, it is also embellished with substantial public accomplishments. These include successfully battling efforts to overturn marriage equality in Massachusetts and — ironically — fighting for the passage of the state health-care bill that served as a template for Obama’s national Affordable Care Act. “The government will not re-establish respect for the law without giving the law some claim to respect,” the late legal scholar Ronald Dworkin once wrote.

“It cannot do that if it neglects the one feature that distinguishes law from ordered brutality. If the government does not take rights seriously, then it does not take law seriously either.”

Commuting DiMasi’s sentence would not only be humane, it would be a just — even if unsatisfactory — response to denying him medical care in the first place.

The public, and Obama, should not forget: DiMasi was sentenced to eight years in prison, not death. P

Obama is shaping up to have the worst track record on pardons and commutations of any president in recent memory.

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Simmons workers, students, and faculty join forces to create a cafeteria union

t Simmons College, the dining hall may soon start serving a dish unfamiliar to the Fenway-area school: organized labor. Working in secret over the last year, a coalition of students, professors, and union members from UNITE HERE Local 26 have collaborated with cafeteria workers to help organize the employees into an official union.

On Tuesday, February 19, a group of workers and student-union allies formally asked their employer, Fortune 500 foodservice giant Aramark, to let workers exercise their right to organize.

The request came in the form of a petition to Andy Allen, the director of dining at Simmons, and asked that Aramark not try to interrupt unionization efforts with “threats and intimidation.” Allen’s office did not return a request for comment on this story.

On February 27, the group held its first public meeting, organized by Simmons student activist group Fighting Injustice at Simmons Now (FINS) Coalition. In a flag-adorned conference room at Simmons, well over 100 students, faculty, and workers gathered to express their support and chart their plans. After a week of activity, the group had already got 80 percent of the Aramark employees at Simmons to sign on to the union.

Some event attendees noted the adverse working conditions that had to change — the lack of sick days, the insufficient job security, and the inadequate pay. A number of workers had speeches translated from Spanish by friends and coworkers, and used the gathering to express gratitude for all the work that everyone had put into the campaign over the last year.

Many students came forward simply to express support for the hopeful unionists. “We need to tell Simmons College that social justice begins right here,” said one student in a speech before discussing plans to collect student signatures on a petition in support of the union, to be delivered to Simmons president Helen Drinan.

A spokesperson for Drinan was unable to comment in support or against the cafeteria workers, saying only that the president had received the students’ petition and “is planning to review the situation more carefully before making any statement.”

If the Aramark employees are able to win recognition of their union, Simmons will become the second local college in a year to have organized campus employees in this manner. In April of 2012, Northeastern University’s foodservice workers voted overwhelmingly to unionize after a month-long campaign, despite opposition from the workers’ company, Chartwells. Aside from Northeastern, Harvard is the only other school in the area to have unionized cafeteria workers.

Whether the Simmons workers will face a comparable battle remains to be seen, as the college and Aramark have yet to respond to their workers’ demands. If the Simmons unionization process follows the trajectory of Northeastern’s, it may still be months before a final decision is reached. _ d a n sC hn eid e r

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n. 1. A riot in Boston (March 5, 1770) arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, in which the troops fired on the mob and killed several persons. 2. The internationally ranked travel team of the Boston Derby Dames, the local roller-derby league kicking off its eighth season with a doubleheader — featuring both the Boston Massacre and the Dames’ B Party — on Saturday, March 16, at Wilmington’s Shriners Auditorium; get tickets ($16) at bostonderbydames.com.

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Irish-born Bostonian Kieran McWilliam still remembers his very first Guinness at Reddy’s in Carlow — his preferred stomping ground on the old sod. Clearly, it made an impact: for more than 20 years, McWilliam has been behind the bar at Brighton’s Irish Village, pulling perfect pints of the lauded stout. With St. Patrick’s Day right around the corner and Boston on the brink of transforming into a shamrocksprinkled Guinness wonderland, we tapped McWilliam for tips on getting the most out of our swigging. _Cassand ra Land ry

On pOuring: “The effort that goes into pouring the perfect pint, and the satisfaction that comes after a customer takes a swig and says, ‘That’s a great pint — well done, lad,’ makes my day,” says McWilliam.

He recommends using a 20-ounce tulip glass for the optimum pint.

Hold the glass at a 45-degree angle, fill it three-fourths of the way, and let it settle for a few minutes; then top off and serve. Pouring the pint straight and serving it immediately doesn’t allow the beer to achieve the creaminess you’re looking for.

On pairing: Pair your pint with oysters on the half shell — McWilliam’s personal favorite — or any traditional Irish dish, like beef stew, fish and chips, or shepherd’s pie.

On what yOu shOuld be lOOking fOr: Right from the get-go, you should be tasting toasty barley notes, with a soft note of hops. Keep an eye out when you put your glass down — when you see the cream or head sticking to the glass, your bartender knows what he’s doing.

On guinness tasting better Overseas: “Guinness is the most popular, iconic drink in Ireland,” McWilliam says. “The damp or cool weather, friendliness of Irish folks, and traditional music provide a festive atmosphere that make a pint taste even better. It may be a placebo effect, but we’re lucky enough in the US to have great Irish pubs that create an authentic Irish vibe to go along with a perfect pint.”

On the best guinness mixed drink: McWilliam goes in for the Black Velvet (Guinness and cider), the Blacksmith (Guinness and Smithwick’s), or the Black and Blue (Guinness and blueberry ale). the irish village :: 224 market st, brighton :: 617.787.5427 or irishvillagebrighton.com

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They’re covered in VOC-free paint.

Sure, that marble-encased kitchen sink looks nice — Bpurpose. but the plumbing in this home serves a more important Greywater systems collect rain for use in the

garden and recycle water from appliances for use in toilets.

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1. Vincent Ingala, “Wish I Was There” >> Multi-instrument prodigy Vincent Ingala may not look a day past 20, but his handsome-nephew looks hide the blank soul of an old smooth jazzman: this kid sucks far beyond his years. With its disco-lite beat and snazzy sax riff, “Wish I Was There” manages to pack an hour and half of being on hold with your cable company into just four short minutes. From Vincent’s own website: “I’ve always said, the most dangerous kind of people in the world are those who don’t know what they want. . . . Vincent is the exact opposite, he knows precisely what he wants and there’s no way he’s going to stop now!” Indeed, this may just be the least dangerous track of the year!

Dial 1-900-SAX-HOLE for some steamy jazz action. You’re on hold.

. . . You’re on hold so tight.

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2. Gerald Albright/Norman Brown, “Champagne Life” >> Yow, I didn’t expect things to get so spicy tonight! “Champagne Life” is a truly sexy little number. Imagine drinking champagne by candlelight on the balcony of a cruise ship while watching your date — Cathy, from the comic strip — eat oyster after oyster after oyster until she can’t take it anymore and has to lie down and groan for a few hours.

The next day, there’s a fire in the engine room and the hallways fill with raw sewage, but you don’t know that yet, so don’t let it spoil

your night of watching TBS on mute and listening to Cathy burp up oyster juice in her sleep.

3. Paul Hardcastle, “No Stress” >> Ooh, this one is sexy too, but not in a classy Cathy poop-cruise oyster-burp way — this is down-anddirty softcore sax sexy, filled with sensuous sighing and ’90s trance flourishes. This is a night-alonein-the-bathtub kind of sexy, curling your toes as you dial 1-900-SAXHOLE for some steamy jazz action.

The hoarse whisper of a sexy lady beckons you: “Press one for a night of erotic jazz sensations.” You press one, and what’s that sexy music?

Ooh, yeah — you’re on hold. You’re on hold so tight. Mmm, yeah. You’re on hold with Comcast and it’s going to be at least another 45 minutes.

4. David Benoit, “You’re Amazing” >> Okay, whatever, this one isn’t so bad. It moves around a little; it sounds like it was made by an actual human being, albeit an artistically misguided one. It’s not anything that a person would willingly listen to for recreation, but if you heard it out there in its natural habitat you might catch yourself standing up and tapping your toes a little bit before the orderlies come around and sedate you again.

5. Patrick Lamb, “Maceo” >> I guess I’ll go off on a flight of fancy here, since it is impossible to pay attention to this garbage long enough to write about it. I only hope this chart is compiled automatically by computers or something, because I’m unaccountably depressed by the thought of some old Jack-Lemmon-in-Glengarry Glen Ross sadsack meticulously hand-tabulating it on graph paper every week while everyone else in the Billboard office laughs at his cheap plaid suits and rolls their eyes at his desperate refrain: “Just you wait, boys! The Smooth Jazz chart is makin’ a big comeback soon!” P

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if you dig deep enough into Billboard.com’s genre charts, past the foreign hits, past the Latin and Christian stuff and the MySpace streaming charts, you’ll find one last afterthought: Smooth Jazz. It’s a wonder that anyone would bother collecting data on this stuff; not only does it enjoy a critical reputation roughly comparable to that of child pornography, but it’s also a radio format dying even quicker than its audience (dentists have a notoriously high suicide rate, you know).

But, ugh, this chart exists so I’m compelled to take a look:

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past-relevant figures at the AWVC like John J. “Wacko” Hurley and Ray Flynn summarily reject them.

The ritual seems increasingly about a handful of grumpy old men, who no longer speak for their community. “The parade does not reflect the inclusive place that South Boston is now,” Dahill says.

But it’s still rare for elected officials — at least, the Irish-American ones — to boycott, as they surely would for an event that similarly excluded black or Jewish groups.

“Quarantine the Queers”

IT’S NO SurPrISe ThAT The coming weekend’s Saint Patrick’s Day celebrations have become politically charged, given the extraordinary convergence of electoral events visiting South Boston (see “Southie’s Last Stand,” February 12). Even before the first joke has been cracked at the annual breakfast, controversy has exploded over the parade’s continued exclusion of LGBT organizations.

Southie state representative Nick Collins, who is running in a special election for state Senate, plans to march in the parade as he always has (as has Jack Hart, whose Senate seat is at issue). His opponents, South Boston’s Maureen Dahill and Dorchester state representative Linda Dorcena Forry, intend to boycott. Dahill has issued press releases and circulated petitions demanding the parade reverse its policy.

Congressman Steve Lynch, trying to

I asked Collins, Linehan, and Lynch: would you march in a parade that excludes black or Jewish groups?

thaw tensions with Democrats whose votes he needs in his own upcoming special election for US Senate, has privately asked parade organizers to consider allowing LGBT organizations in this year (still said to be under consideration as of this writing).

And while he will have a contingent marching for him, Lynch himself will skip it for the first time, opting to participate in a Holyoke event that day instead.

There is nothing new about the dispute, which went all the way to the Supreme Court back in 1995. In fact, the whole thing has taken on a bizarre, anachronistic feel: every year, LGBT groups — most prominently MassEquality, whose sole founding goal of legalizing same-sex marriage was accomplished nearly a decade ago — submit their applications to parade sponsor Allied War Veterans Council (AWVC). And every year, long-

The city has come so far, it’s easy to forget how important, and dangerous, this battleground once was in the struggle for LGBT access and acceptance in Boston’s social and political fabric.

But in the early 1990s, when court orders forced the AWVC to allow an LGBT group to participate in the parade, “spectators lobbed smoke bombs and beer cans,” the Associated Press reported. “Other spectators, some holding children, screamed obscenities and waved signs with such slogans as ‘AIDS cures gays’ and ‘Quarantine the queers.’ ” Since the Supreme Court upheld the organizers’ right to exclude LGBT groups 18 years ago, the parade has in fact quarantined the queers, albeit without the vicious signage. And pols have hidden behind AWVC’s right to do so, to avoid answering the questions I attempted to put to Collins, Linehan, and Lynch last week: would you march in a parade that excludes black or Jewish groups, and if not, why is it different for homosexuals? (Lynch and Linehan spokespeople responded, but did not directly answer. The AWVC did not respond to my calls. Ed Flynn, son of the former mayor and this year’s chief marshall, responded by email but would not directly address the LGBT exclusion.)

The honest answer — and the one they don’t want to give — is that in this case, it’s their friends, supporters, and voters on the side of the bigots. P

For the inside scoop on southie’s saint patrick’s day escapades, follow Bernstein’s coverage at thephoenix.com/talkingpolitics.

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Magnus Johnstone, 1952-2013 B y Pac ey F o st e r

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Magnus Johnstone, center, debuted Lecco’s Lemma, Boston radio’s first all-rap program at MIT’s WMBR in 1985. on February 22, 2013, Boston lost a legend: Magnus Johnstone, known to many as the unlikely uncle of Boston hip-hop. His Lecco’s Lemma radio show launched the careers of hip-hop legends such as Guru and Ed OG, as well as legions of lesser-knowns. It was a home for a youth movement that had yet to recognize itself as an industry and lifestyle in the making.

Born in Chicago on July 14, 1952, Johnstone attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, but he left before graduation to continue his own lifelong education in art, music, literature, and mysticism. He was an autodidact with an insatiable appetite for new knowledge, experience, and, above all, music.

By the 1980s, Johnstone had already become a pillar of Boston’s vibrant underground art and music scene. He was deeply involved in the local artist collectives Gallery East and Punkt/Dat,

“Magnus changed everything.

Once we were able to get on the radio, everybody in the neighborhood would listen.”

and produced a reggae show, Reggae Mukassa, and an African music show, Alien’s Corner, at MIT’s college radio station, WMBR (88.1 FM). By 1985, he was regularly filling in on an urban music show called The Ghetto. He was always seeking new sonic landscapes, and rap and electro appealed to him immediately.

The enormous, positive youth response these tracks got on his guest appearances on The Ghetto convinced him to pitch the station on a show dedicated to these new sounds. The rest is local legend.

“Magnus changed everything,” Ed OG told the Phoenix’s Chris Faraone last year. “Once we were able to get on the radio, everybody in the whole neighborhood would listen. That show was the only thing going for rap — and especially for local rap.”

Lecco’s Lemma was the first to play artists like Guru, The Almighty RSO, TDS Mob, and the Top Choice Clique.

An assiduous collector, Johnstone kept every tape every artist ever sent him.

These, along with tapes of his broadcasts made by Boston underground-rock icon Willie “Loco” Alexander, may be the most complete record of the grassroots emergence of Boston’s hip-hop scene.

(UMass-Boston has reportedly agreed to archive this collection so that it can be shared with community members, fans, and scholars alike.)

After its first year at WMBR, Lecco’s Lemma moved to Boston College’s WZBC (90.3 FM) until 1988. By this time, the urban edge that had originally inspired Johnstone had given way to slicker suburban production, and Johnstone was already planning his new Arabic and North African music show, Mecca. Just as the golden age of hip-hop made rap mainstream, Johnstone was already on to the next thing.

Johnstone was diagnosed with leukemia in 1990 and in 1994 received a life-saving bone-marrow transplant.

Nonetheless, in the late 1990s, he hosted Dub Hop on WZBC, featuring rap dub sides, spoken word, and sometimes undergraduates and friends reading prose and poetry live over the air — a recipe that remained one of his staples for years to come.

In 2001, Johnstone moved to Bucksport, Maine. There, he continued to paint, and produced the 21-volume Manga series of artbooks containing his black-and-white drawings — the last of which he completed just before his death.

He was still sharing newly discovered music over the airwaves — on WERU, a local community station, he played urban music on Da Vibez and hosted The Matrix, which some have called his masterwork. He also worked at the Liros art gallery in Blue Hill, which is planning a retrospective of his work in June.

Johnstone is survived by his mother, Jessie Petcoff, sisters Margaret and Sidney Johnstone, brothers Andrew and Stuart Johnstone, stepbrothers James and George Petcoff, and his wife and fellow artist, Mango Johnstone. P

Condolences can be sent to Mango Johnstone, 905 River Road, Bucksport, ME 04416.

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now & next :: voices Burning Questions

Will mass ban medibles?

By Valerie Vande Panne

valerie@valerievandepanne.com :: @asktheduchess

Will the Massachusetts Medical Society be successful in requesting that the Department of Public Health ban medibles? _Mad for MediBles

“Medibles” are medical-marijuana edibles — foods that can come in any number of forms, from candies, cookies, brownies, and lollipops to lasagna, soup, and tea. Consuming cannabis in this manner is a preferred method for patients who do not wish to smoke, such as those suffering from lung cancer.

When I contacted the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), the spokesperson I talked to seemed surprised by the medibles question, and said that MMS had made no such request to the DPH. I was referred instead to the concerns MMS did express at a recent DPH “listening session” held at Roxbury Community College.

There, MMS suggested that, among other requirements, doctors should hold an active license from the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine in order to certify medical-marijuana patients. They also expressed concern that the medicalmarijuana initiative is “overly broad in its authorizations for certifying a debilitating medical condition” and that the only patients who should be certified are those who, in the physician’s assessment, have “symptoms of spasticity, neuropathic pain, or other symptoms that are not optimally controlled with conventional medical therapy.” They recommended that patient certifications should become a part of the state’s Prescription Monitoring Program, and that young people under the age of 18 should require parental or guardian consent to use medical marijuana.

MMS also asked questions regarding appropriate dosages, the duration of certifications, the amount of an appropriate supply, and nonprofit criteria for dispensaries, among other concerns.

The society’s president, Dr. Richard Aghababian, says that MMS has “historically been opposed to medical marijuana because it has not been subjected to the same rigorous, scientific testing (clinical trials) that other medicines are

“All of our products are tested.

The majority are labeled with the amount of THC per dose.”

required to go through.” (Due to marijuana’s status as a Schedule 1 controlled substance, the federal government does not recognize its therapeutic value, making the very studies Aghababian wants to see virtually impossible to conduct.)

Aghababian did add that “anecdotal evidence suggests that some patients may benefit” from medical marijuana.

Nowhere did I find that MMS is worried about medibles specifically. According to wickedlocal.com reports, however, Massachusetts Public Health Association (MPHA) has expressed concerns directly to Governor Deval Patrick over “the including of marijuana in food and beverages.”

Certainly, most people do not want to unintentionally eat cannabis-laced food — nor do patients want to accidentally take too little, or too much, of a dose. Reputable manufacturers out West have taken steps to insure the safety and dosages of their products.

Steve DeAngelo is co-founder and executive director of Harborside Health

Center, a California dispensary that distributes medibles in a wide range of forms: cookies, lozenges, tinctures, capsules, and sublingual sprays — in all, 150 different non-smoked forms of cannabis.

When it comes to the medibles, DeAngelo says, Harborside’s policy is that packaging must not be appealing to children, and must be packaged so that children or pets cannot open it. Every item is labeled appropriately as containing cannabis. Each product has a batch number, “so if there are problems we can trace it back to the kitchen,” he says. “All of our products are tested. The majority are labeled with the amount of THC per dose, and the dose is defined as well in milligrams of THC and/ or CBD [cannabidiol] per dose.”

So while at this time there are questions and concerns being raised by MMS, concerns over medibles is not on that list.

And the questions posed by MPHA can be easily addressed by following, and perhaps even improving upon, other medicalmarijuana states’ lead. P

Got a burninG question? email it to valerie@valerievandepanne.com or tweet it to @asktheduchess.

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spotlight :: Mixology

DIY DRINKING

House-made ingredients are raising the bar B Y C a ssa N DRa L a NDRY c l a n d ry@ p h x .c o m :: @ E at d r i n k W r i t E

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“When I moved to Boston,” UpStairs on the Square bar manager Augusto Lino explains, “it was uncommon for bars to have anything house-made beyond a large container of vodka filled with pineapple on the back bar. Eastern Standard wasn’t open yet, the B-Side was in a residential neighborhood, the bar at No. 9 Park was inside a fine-dining restaurant — you had to look hard.” >> DIY DRINKING on p 22

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Todd Maul at Clio

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Lucky for us lushes, times have certainly changed.

A love of the homegrown and homespun — the slightly lopsided bread, the wonky-looking salumi dry-aging in the garage, the misshapen vegetables plucked from a backyard patch — is an undisputed part of the current culinary zeitgeist, having made its way into the mainstream on the coattails of the farmto-table movement. While the idea is by no means new, its renaissance has resulted in a surge in creativity for culinarians across the board.

The bar, formerly a bastion of consistency, is no exception. We got behind the stick of some of Boston’s top watering holes to get a glimpse of the personal touches that continue to advance the game.

BItteRs, esseNCes

One glance at the shelves of a place like Somerville’s Boston Shaker is proof there’s no shortage of independent bitters producers on today’s market, from Bittermens to Scrappy’s to the Bitter Truth. It’s easier than ever for bartenders and novice cocktail enthusiasts alike to get their hands on exotic flavors — sarsaparilla bitters, lavender bitters, juniper bitters, you name it. So why bother with an in-house bitters program?

“You’re going to get a lot of people who don’t give a shit that you make your own bitters, let alone know what bitters are,” says Russell House Tavern bar manager Sam Gabrielli, who has been experimenting with his own bitters batches for about a year and a half. “I could probably have just as much of an effect as a bartender if I wasn’t taking the time to make these, but if that’s really what gets your goat, then why not? I like having ownership over my product. If I could put a still in my basement, I would.”

Gabrielli counts himself as a casual hobbyist when it comes to his homemade ingredients. Most of the time, he’s perfectly happy to use what’s already on the market.

“I could try to make Angostura bitters,” he says, “but I’m never going to, because they’re already great.” When he does take the time to whip up something personalized, though, the flavor profiles are off the charts. His orange bitters are pithier and spicier than many mainstream labels.

His peach-anise bitters, which he shares with the drink wizards at Union Square’s backbar, are reminiscent of a heady latesummer afternoon in a peach orchard.

Across the river at Clio, bar manager Todd Maul — often hailed as the brilliantly mad scientist of the Boston cocktail scene — is eschewing a traditional bitters program in favor of something a little more elaborate. At his bar, he plunks down a tub packed with glass eyedropper bottles with a flourish. “Essences,” 22 03.15.13 :: THEPHOENIX.cOm

RUSSELL HOUSE TAVERN’S ORANGE BITTERS

Combine the zests of 8 fresh oranges with ½ cup dried orange peel, ¼ cup coriander seeds, ¼ cup gentian root, 1/8 cup black peppercorns, and 20 cardamom pods in a nonreactive sealable glass container (i.e., a Mason jar). Add 2 750 ml bottles of 100-proof vodka and shake vigorously. Store the jar in a dark, temperaturecontrolled environment. Shake daily, or whenever you see the jar. Taste after a week, and taste daily until desired flavor profile is achieved. When the taste is right, fine-strain over a chinois and coffee filter or cheesecloth. Sweeten to taste with simple syrup, honey syrup, or whatever sweetener you’d like. This makes 1.5 liters; dilute if desired.

Best Use » A no-bullshit gin martini. Combine 3 oz of London dry gin, 1 oz of nice, dry vermouth, and 3 dashes of orange bitters.

Garnish with a twist.

BOOZE ÉPOQUE’S GINGER/BLACKPEPPERCORN SYRUP Use a standard juicer to juice ½ cup fresh peeled ginger root.

Combine ginger juice, 1 cup water, 2 tbs lime juice, and 1 cup turbinado sugar in sauce pot and bring to a boil. Add ¼ cup thinly sliced ginger root, 2 tbs whole black peppercorn, 1 tsp lime zest, and 1 dash cayenne pepper. Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. Pour mixture into blender; blend on high until all ingredients liquefy.

Triple strain with a fine mesh strainer into a Mason jar.

Best Use » Mix ½ oz of syrup with 2 oz of rye and serve on ice.

It can also be mixed with some club soda as the “ginger beer” for a Dark and Stormy, or used simply as syrup to spice up plain seltzer.

Bob McCoy at Eastern Standard

he says with a grin. I peer at a few of the scribbled labels as he begins to unload them: port, blond Lillet, Middle Eastern black lime, Cuban cigar, yam.

“We wanted to find something that doesn’t exist,” he says, squeezing a tiny drop of black-lime essence onto my finger. After I taste the essence, a sip of dry Curaçao becomes something much more; the orange notes are spiky, lighting up the whole back of my tongue.

“It just seemed like a better way to ap-

proach how the alcohol is actually talking to us,” he explains. “You go to a chef because you like his palate, right? Every bartender should have a very distinct palate. We can make a drink that speaks to the way we see it, and the way we want to present it. It’s the reason why there’s a Jimi Hendrix and a Muddy Waters. It’s the same instrument; they just play it very differently.” >> DIY DRINKING on p 24

spotlight :: Mixology << DIY DRINKING from p 24

INFusIoNs, VeRMouth

The creations of Meaghan Sinclair and Harmony Dawn — the duo behind boutique bartending service Booze Époque — run the gamut from standard flavor infusions to ragtag assemblies of fruit and spices. They love highlighting fresh ingredients in their concoctions, Sinclair says, recalling one of her recent favorites: vodka infused with pumpkin, Thai chili, lemon, cinnamon, and honey.

“It’s like the art world. You can find beautiful art out there, but you can still be inspired to create something new,” Sinclair says. “We just really love the process of creation. When I get excited about a flavor, I want to share with people.”

“And I think there’s always something to be said for making something crazy fresh that you know inside and out,” she continues. “You can invent unique combinations that might not be possible in the marketplace, and it tastes exactly the way you want it to. You can’t always get that from a large-batch producer.”

Spirit infusions at Kenmore cocktail haven Eastern Standard are a year-round staple, with raspberry vodka, blueberry gin, and vegetable and habanero vodkas making steady appearances. House-

Paul Manzelli at Bergamot

made vermouths — fortified wines flavored with a host of botanicals — have also become favorites for the restaurant and its two sister spots.

“We began crafting our own rose and amber vermouth years ago, since they weren’t available in the American market,” explains Bob McCoy, the beverageprogram liaison for Eastern Standard, Island Creek Oyster Bar, and the Hawthorne. They’ve since branched out with varieties like Island Creek Oyster Bar’s spring rhubarb vermouth, a rosé combined with brandy and myriad flavoring agents (see recipe at right).

“It establishes identity, but it’s also about control,” he continues. “As bartenders, we’re continually mixing and blending spirits in order to create something that is hopefully better than the sum of its parts.”

MILK puNCh, LIQueuRs

Milk punch has become another favorite for bartenders looking to offer their own interpretation of a classic. The basic formula is simple: a punch (spirit, citrus, sugar, and spice) that’s combed through with hot milk. After the mixture curdles, it’s fine-strained, leaving a clear but creamy drink. The process necessitates a homemade touch, and infusing the base spirit allows for endless experimentation.

ISLAND CREEK OYSTER BAR’S RHUBARB VERMOUTH Pour 500 ml brandy in a jar. Slice fresh rhubarb and add as much to the jar as you can while keeping the rhubarb completely covered by the brandy.

Let stand for one week.

Bring 5 g bitter orange peel, 2 g wormwood, 1 g angelica root, 1 g bay leaf, 1 g cinnamon, 1 g coriander, 1 g gentian root, 1 g ginger, 1 g green cardamom pods, 1 g nutmeg, 1 g oregano, 1 g rosemary, 1 g sage, 1 g thyme, and 1 g vanilla bean to a boil with 750 ml of rosé wine. Turn off the heat and let it rest for 10 minutes.

Then add 250 ml of ruby port to the herb/ spice wine.

Dissolve 600 g white sugar with 1 to 2 tsp of water over heat, and bring to a caramel that is the color of peanut butter. Remove from the heat and add the infused brandy immediately and carefully.

Mix thoroughly until the sugar is dissolved in the brandy. Use a heat-safe spatula, never a whisk.

Pour remaining 1.5 L of rosé into a large container and add the herb/spice wine/ port mixture. Add the sugar/brandy mixture and stir until all the ingredients are thoroughly combined.

Microplane zest of ¼ an orange into the container. Cover and store in the refrigerator overnight. Strain, bottle, and store in the refrigerator between uses.

Best Use » The Scarselli. Combine 1 oz gin, 1 oz Aperol, 1 oz rhubarb vermouth, and 1 dash Regan’s Orange Bitters. Mount in a mixing glass, add ice, and stir. Strain into a chilled lowball over fresh ice and garnish with a lemon twist.

Bars from Craigie on Main to Catalyst have risen to the challenge, incorporating any number of ingredients on hand in the kitchen (pineapple and bacon, say, or pink peppercorn and green peppers). At Bergamot, bar manager Paul Manzelli’s Ras el Hanout milk punch, a Middle Eastern riff on the recipe, was so popular with two of his regulars that the pair had him make miniature batches to give away as favors at their wedding.

Over the holidays, Russell House Tavern was delving into a different dairybased drink, pouring little coupe glasses of eggnog — a frothy blend of baking spices that slowly spread through you like a blanket of lava. Gabrielli decided to make his in the back kitchen.

“I was making quart upon quart upon quart every other day,” he says. “I wouldn’t have done it any other way, but it’s all about what you can budget into your time.”

But with spring en route, Gabrielli has something different up his sleeve: Mexican Punsch. A riff on Swedish Punsch, a toothsome liqueur made with rum, Gabrielli’s uses tequila and white wine. It’s lovely, tricky stuff: sweet and full-bodied and dangerously smooth, with pops of cardamom and citrus. On its own, it has a syrupy consistency; topped with bubbles and a few hits of his homemade cardamom tincture, it morphs into a mimosa’s wild-eyed cousin. He plans on calling it the $1000 Question, and brunchers can expect to find it on the menu in a few weeks’ time.

“I don’t think my drinks would necessarily blow away a cocktail geek,” he says. “I think every now and again I can get there, but that’s not what I’m striving for exactly. I want to make good cocktails for people who maybe haven’t had good cocktails before.

Having my own ingredients helps me enhance that experience for them.”

Back at UpStairs on the Square, Lino forgoes St. Germain in favor of his own richer elderflower liqueur, concocted using Nikolaihof elderflower cordial, a biodynamic syrup made in Austria. He mixes the cordial with a high-proof grain spirit (he uses Spiritus) and a little water, giving a mainstream favorite a small-batch feel.

His ginger beer is another standout on the menu, with pure ginger flavor like a blow to the head. Fresh strawberry liqueur in the summer, limoncello, maraschino cherries, and sherry whipped cream top off the list of ingredients that work to further the whimsical air of the Harvard Square landmark.

“The idea of locally made is a very attractive one, but the flavor is what really matters. You simply can’t compare the pink grocery-store grenadine with one made with unsweetened pomegranate juice,” he says. “I remember having a Jack >> DIY DRINKING on p 26

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spotlight :: Mixology Left: jm Curley’s Kevin Mabry Top Right: Clio’s alcohol paint Bottom Right: Clio’s essences

<< DIY DRINKING from p 24

Rose with real pomegranate grenadine and getting the difference on the first sip. The ginger beer is one of those firstsip moments to many people who try it for the first time.”

poWDeRs, pILLs, paINts

Kevin Mabry, the whiz kid behind jm Curley’s industry-favorite drink menu, is seated in one of the maroon booths in the restaurant-within-a-restaurant known as Bogie’s Place, twirling a pen in his right hand.

“I definitely think that bartenders are becoming the new chef superstars of the world,” he says with a firm nod. “For sure.

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JM CURLEY’S FIVESPICE-INFUSED RUM

Combine equal parts Szechuan peppercorns, pre-ground dried ginger, ground cinnamon, ground clove, and ground star anise. Take 1 tablespoon and funnel it into a 1 L bottle of Gosling’s Black Seal rum. Let it infuse for 24 hours. Strain the mixture through a coffee filter to remove spice blend. Enjoy.

Best Use » The Zen Den. Take 2 oz fivespice-infused Gosling, ½ oz Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao, ½ oz lime, and ½ oz ginger syrup. Shake all ingredients together and double strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with an orange twist.

the guests and engage them about what’s going on in front of them.”

Extra time is something he is absolutely willing to devote to his creations, among them the 21 Temple Gin and Tonic. Mabry uses Peruvian cinchonabark powder, a bittering agent that features in quinine and various tonic waters, to concoct an à la minute tonic. He puts one-eighth of a teaspoon in the glass, adds some simple syrup, lemon, and lime juice, shakes it up with Plymouth gin and yellow Chartreuse, and finally tops it with soda water.

Mabry’s most recent pet project involves dehydrating spirits into soluble sugars, which are then pressed into pill form and used in champagne cocktails for Bogie’s Place. Aperol is the fan favorite at the moment, but he plans on building the selection over time.

“I think bartenders are definitely ex-

perimenting more and want to be pushing the boundaries,” he says. “You have to do it to stay relevant these days; I really believe that.”

Back at Clio, Maul is popping open plastic containers of his alcohol paints, a result of reducing extra essences down in a sugar pan to give them a gel-like consistency. The only word I can think of after tasting each is “sparkling.” The high notes of each spirit are so concentrated that it almost fizzes with flavor. Maul paints stripes on the walls of a glass, and the paint melds seamlessly into the drink when it’s poured.

“I can make a great Sazerac, sure,” he says, shrugging. “If you can’t, you shouldn’t be doing this. But where do you begin and the classics leave off? To me, if you don’t challenge yourself by creating your own ingredients and interpretations, you’re just hiding in what’s already been done. Where are you in that?” P

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SPOTLIGHT :: TRUE CRIME

inside whitey’s head

ILLUSTRATION BY SAMUEL DEATS. AUTHOR PHOTOS COURTESY OF STAN GROSSFELD, THE BOSTON GLOBE

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t the heart of the two riveting First days as an informant new books

By Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy documenting the life and times of Whitey hitey had probably always intended to kill Tommy King, Bulger, Boston’s most the brawler who had been his notorious gangster onetime counterpart and rival. Once Whitey became an FBI informant, it was just a and one of America’s matter of time. He didn’t need a reason to kill King, but King gave him one. And his legendary bad guys, is new role with the FBI helped him get away this paradox: a quartet with it.

Tommy King’s clenched fist of the city’s finest never left his side. But Whitey Re journalists saw it. They were having inteR ad v words at the far end of the old w i t h i ews have produced Transit Cafe, which had been auth the oR two excellent at th reinvented as Triple O’s. The ePhoe s nix c o m/b Killeens were gone: Donnie studies of a ulger . . dead, Kenny retired. Whitey man who would Bulger held court now, and his throne was at the back of Triple Connolly probably just O’s. King, a former Mullens guy who as soon see them had become a combustible member of Whitey’s emerging group, always said dead. Anyone who about criminal activity in South Boston too much when he drank too much, and he that Connolly gave to Walsh was based always drank too much. He had fists the size doubts that there is on the uncorroborated, and often blatantof toasters and was known for his sucker such a thing as pure evil ly untruthful, words of Whitey Bulger. punches—wild, looping haymakers that King’s animosity boiled over one day came out of nowhere and left their targets should read these books, when Walsh pulled Whitey’s car over near unconscious. Whitey glanced at King’s Whitey Bulger by Kevin Carson Beach. right hand and saw it balled up, ready to fire.

“What are you boys up to?” Walsh “Knock it off, Tommy,” he said.

Cullen and Shelley said, leaning over, looking into the back of King unclenched his fist and picked up Murphy, and Whitey by Whitey’s Malibu, taking a mental inventory the longneck Budweiser in front of him. of the passengers, nodding at Whitey in the But it was too late.

He was as good as dead.

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Whitey had seen the fist, and he knew it O’Neill. The authors are “Fuck off!” King barked, and Whitey wouldn’t be the last one, so it would have to turned to cast a cold, hard look at him. be the last one. all one-time colleagues “That’s no way to talk to a police officer, he fist wasn’t the only issue. King Tommy,” Walsh said. at the Boston Globe, and had been talking about killing Eddie Later, as they drove away, King went off all four are working at Walsh, a cop from Southie who kept in the backseat. “We don’t need to take that pulling Whitey and his boys over, looking kind of shit,” he said. “I’m going to kill that the top of their game. into their car, taking mental notes of who fuckin’ bastard. I’m gonna fuckin’ kill him.”

They may be competing was who and who was with whom. Walsh “Hey!” Whitey snapped glaring at King wasn’t good at taking notes and writing in the rearview mirror. “You’re not fuckin’ against each other, but up reports, but he remembered faces and killing anyone. And you’re not killing a both books represent names with uncanny precision. He was fuckin’ cop any time.” also FBI Agent John Connolly’s liaison The night after the clenched fist at Triple important contributions in the Boston Police Department, the one O’s, King showed up at the front door of to Boston’s social to whom Connolly gave his informant Whitey’s mother’s apartment in the project. reports known as 302s. After Connolly He was hung over, his hair more tousled history. Excerpts from enlisted Whitey as an informer in a car than usual, his tongue sandpaper. each are presented here. >> BULGER on p 30 on Wollaston Beach, almost every 302

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or Whitey, killing Paulie McGonagle had been unfinished business. In a perverse way, he blamed Paulie for his having killed Donald McGonagle by mistake in the middle of the gang war.

Whitey figured that eventually Paulie was going to avenge his brother’s murder, so he made a preemptive strike.

According to Flemmi, Whitey tricked Paulie into getting into the back of a car with him by saying he had a suitcase of counterfeit money to show him. Tommy King set him up, telling Paulie it was a good score. Paulie climbed into the back of the car outside the Mullens clubhouse.

Whitey opened the suitcase, pulled out a gun, and shot him.

Up to that point, it had been the underworld’s calling card to leave bodies where they fell or to stuff them in trunks.

It was the rule of the jungle, to humiliate the vanquished and display the trophy of the hunter. But after he killed Paul

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Sometime around New Year’s Eve, Whitey decided to alter the story for a third and final time.

He could write his own history and he was starting to enjoy it.

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McGonagle, Whitey turned that rule on its head. Paulie would go into the ground.

There would be no funeral, no mourning, no absolute proof he was even dead. In the absence of the ritual of death, the chance of retaliation by the dead man’s friends was greatly reduced. With the absence of a body, the chance of a criminal charge was almost entirely eliminated.

They took Paulie to Tenean Beach, a couple of miles away in Dorchester, and dug a grave in the moonlight. King refused to take part in the burial. That didn’t stop Whitey from telling all the Mullens that King had killed McGonagle. King was such a hothead that they believed him.

Whitey let a year go by with Paulie’s body in the Dorchester sand before moving on King. The Mullens had been stewing over Paulie’s murder, and King was growing ever more erratic and isolated.

It wasn’t any one thing. Whitey told the Winter Hill crew that King had to go because he had said something inappropriate to a little girl. He told the Mullens that King’s threatening Eddie Walsh was going to get them all locked up.

Even Howie Winter, who liked King, agreed that threatening a cop was stupid and bound to bring heat. And, in the back of Whitey’s mind, there was that clenched fist in the back of Triple O’s.

Whitey pulled up outside of the Mullens club one afternoon and King walked over.

“We need you,” Whitey said. “We’re looking for Suitcase. We’ll be back in a couple of hours. Be at the nursing home.”

It would be entirely plausible that they were going to kill Alan “Suitcase” Fidler, a rival gangster. But in fact they weren’t hunting Suitcase. It was a ruse, an excuse to get King in the car. A couple of hours later, when Whitey pulled into the parking lot in back of a nursing home on Columbia Road, King willingly hopped in the front passenger seat.

Johnny Martorano was in the back, directly behind King. Sitting with your back to Martorano, anytime, anywhere, was dangerous, but King sensed nothing.

Flemmi was driving a backup car and nodded to King. Whitey took some guns and walkie-talkies out of a duWel bag and handed them out. The gun Whitey handed King was loaded with blanks. As Whitey drove down Day Boulevard, past Carson Beach, King started talking excitedly.

“Where we lookin’?” King asked.

“Everywhere,” Whitey replied. “We’ll head over to Savin Hill first.”

“If we can’t find Suitcase, we can always test this out,” King said, rapping his knuckles on the bulletproof vest he was wearing.

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n the 1960s, 28 West broadway was the transit café, headquarters for the loansharking Killeen gang. but by the 1980s, the place had reopened as triple o’s, named for the three o’neil brothers who ran it. this is where exboxer Kevin Weeks worked as a bouncer before joining the bulger gang, and where Whitey bulger held court. he liked the ambience of a second-floor room upstairs — its grit and darkness were good for shakedowns, murder plots, and meetings with the nascent ira. here, a bookie named louis litif was escorted to bulger and killed. Despite all that, local old-timers remember the old triple o’s as the safest place in the ’hood. “if you messed with anyone, you were out on the street,” they say. these days this spot is owl Station, a slick sushi joint that serves up maki and sashimi until just before the 2 am closing time. the floor-to-ceiling windows look out on a soon-to-open Starbucks.

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“I’m sorry, Jimmy,” he said, as soon as Whitey opened the door. “I was out of line last night. Out of line.” Whitey looked back over his shoulder, stepped into the hallway, and closed the door behind him. King was not coming into his mother’s place.

“Forget about it, Tommy,” Whitey said, knowing more than ever he would kill him.

“It’s done. It’s over.”

They shook hands.

Tommy King would be dead in a week.

Pat Nee and Howie Winter believe Whitey had always intended to kill as many Mullens as he could after the truce Winter negotiated between the Mullens and the Killeens ended the gang war. And the way Whitey went about setting King up was ingenious and cynical. He used King, blaming him for the murder of the Mullens’ titular leader, Paul McGonagle, a murder Whitey had made his priority. “It was deviously clever,” Nee said. “Because not only did Whitey get rid of Paulie, but the rest of us Mullens never looked at Tommy the same way again. Whitey isolated Tommy. And after it was clear that he was cut off from the rest of us, at least in our minds, he took out Tommy.”

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SPOTLIGHT :: TRUE CRIME the Mullin [sic] gang for killing Leonard in that manner although it would probably not be anything severe as Leonard was disliked by almost all of the Mullin crew, and himself had been responsible for a few murders.”

Eleven days later, Whitey went back to Connolly with a new story.

Source advised that Tommy King, who recently murdered Francis X. “Buddy” Leonard, was told by the Mullin [sic] gang that he is to remain out of the Boston area on a permanent basis. According to source, King was forced to accept the decision but agreed that it would be best if he never came back in light of speculation that the police are believed to have a couple of witnesses to the Leonard murder. Both the Mullin [sic] gang and the Winter Hill people made the decision and, according to the source, they plan to support King while he is away.

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ometime around New Year’s Eve, Whitey decided to alter the story for a third and final time. He could write his own history and he was starting to enjoy it. “Source stated that the word is out that Tommy King has been ‘taken out.’ Source stated that various rumors are flying about as to whether or not he is actually gone and the reasons for it,” Connolly wrote.

“Source heard that King had gone ‘kill crazy’ and was placing people’s lives in jeopardy in that he was talking crazy about killing various people including police officers. Source stated that King gave them no alternative but to make a move on him.”

When Whitey fed John Connolly those stories, they were sitting in a car less than a mile from Tommy King’s body. P Reprinted from Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt that Brought Him to Justice by Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy. Copyright © 2013 by Globe Newspaper Company, Inc. Published by W.W. Norton & Company.

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n its charred aftermath, it’s hard to imagine that school desegregation snuck up on Southie. But indeed it did.

It had been dismissed out of hand in the beginning. Busing blacks into the preeminent Irish bastion to desegregate schools? Never happen. Who would even propose something that explosive? Who had the political firewall to withstand what it would unleash?

And if it ever became a real prospect, the battle-tested town would simply do what it always did — shout it down without letup.

The way it had routed urban renewal a decade earlier. And it always could depend on how the Boston School Committee genuflected before its ballot box. The whole thing was preposterous.

But enter Judge W. Arthur Garrity, a focused man impervious to street noise.

A former U.S. attorney with strong Kennedy connections, Garrity had been a federal judge for ten years, a job he seemed destined for by intellect and disposition.

But the appearance of a quiet ascetic with refined manners and excessive politeness cloaked a man of steel. Once he made up his mind, the matter was considered closed.

Forthwith and period. Raucous protests notwithstanding.

It took a while for Southie to realize it had met its match.

It began on a sultry day in 1974 with the suddenness of a summer storm. A case suffused with precedents that supported busing to remedy segregation had quietly worked its way through the federal courthouse. On a June morning, less than three months before schools reopened, the

icknamed “the haunty,” the small two-story structure at 799 e. third Street, owned by an associate’s brother, was a killing ground for Whitey and Steve “the rifleman” Flemmi. the first victim they lured here was bucky barrett, an expert safecracker behind the $1.5 million Depositors trust bank heist of 1980. John mcintryre, a 32-year-old drug smuggler, was next.

Finally, Deborah hussey, Flemmi’s 26-year-old stepdaughter, was strangled here by bulger. all three were buried in the basement’s dirt floor. they might have stayed there forever, but in 1985, the owner put the haunty on the market. So on halloween weekend, bulger and his gang had to dig up the mummified bodies and rebury them in a wooded spot overlooking the Southeast expressway, where they were not discovered until 2000. if you still have an appetite after hearing this horror

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Whitey smirked, and Martorano leaned forward and put the muzzle of his gun a few inches from the back of King’s skull and fired. He then reached from behind, grabbed King’s shoulders, and slid him over, so that King’s right shoulder was propped against the door. He placed a baseball cap on King’s head and tilted the visor down a bit. It looked like King was sleeping.

Whitey slowed, about to make a U-turn at the causeway that heads out to Squantum, an isolated part of Quincy, but Martorano asked him to pull into the Dunkin’ Donuts on the other side of the road. “I’ve got to check a race,” Martorano said, as if leaving a dead body in the front seat of a car while he made a call from the phone booth outside the Dunkin’ Donuts was the most normal thing in the world.

“Hurry up,” Whitey called after him, throwing the car into park.

They buried Tommy King not far from the Dunkin’ Donuts, in the tidal banks of the Neponset River.

Later that night, Whitey went looking for and found Buddy Leonard, another Mullens gang member. Leonard might have taken revenge for King’s murder, and Whitey wasn’t going to give him a chance.

But Leonard’s murder was more than a preemptive strike. It was also a diversion.

After the shooting, Whitey told John Connolly, his FBI handler, that Tommy King had killed Buddy Leonard.

Whitey had only been an informant for a little more than a month when he killed Tommy King and Buddy Leonard, and he quickly realized how useful his new arrangement with the FBI could be.

He had been feeding Connolly mostly gangland gossip, but he was able to use Connolly to disseminate reports to the FBI and Boston police that kept the focus of the investigation of the King and Leonard murders away from him.

Four days after Leonard’s body was found in King’s car, Connolly quoted his unnamed informant, who was Whitey, saying that King had killed Leonard after a violent argument. “Source stated that King would probably face some reprimand from

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hitey allegedly forced owners Stephen and Julie rakes to sell their liquor store to him in 1984. renamed South boston liquor mart, locals called it the irish mafia Store. in 1990, Whitey’s investment paid off when he “won” the state lottery. in fact, after the $14.3 million winning ticket was sold at the store, Whitey just informed the winner he was taking half the proceeds — $89,000 a year in after-tax income — as a pension for a lifetime of extortion and murder. the store is now Kippy’s South liquor mart. they’ve got the best chilled miller lite 40s this side of old colony, and premium spirits line the

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crimes were at a record level and the homicides were the second-highest ever at 119. The lawless era was exacerbated by a reduction in arrests, decreasing by 11 percent in the city as a whole and by a jarring two-thirds in South Boston.

Whitey’s kind of town. It was the perfect raging storm: using madness through the decade, a sustained crime wave, and Whitey.

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The daily violence at South Boston soon spilled over.

court sprang a cataclysm on a sleepy town.

Garrity ruled that decades of intentional discrimination against blacks by the Boston School Committee now required that schools be racially balanced and resources equally shared. The findings, taken from committee minutes, were irrefutable. But the remedy of largescale busing turned Boston upside down for nearly a decade. It achieved neither balanced schools nor better education. In fact, the opposite happened.

The Achilles’ heel of the ruling was the most radical provision — that black students from Roxbury High be sent to South Boston and vice versa. The idea was to slay the “never” dragon dead on Telegraph Hill in South Boston. Within weeks, the unthinkable was under way.

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hitey Bulger’s rise in Southie did not just result from doing in Donald Killeen and then troublesome Mullens one by one. Or from becoming a Top Echelon informant for John Connolly. Or from falling heir to Winter Hill’s jackpot after Howie Winter went to jail and handed off a gambling network that

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His home turf was in historic turmoil that worked to his benefit. Among the legion of unforeseen consequences of Garrity’s radical solution was that it proved good for Whitey Bulger’s business. A town at loose ends was a crime haven.

Indeed, the peak year for serious crime for the last half century was 1975. This was the first full year of busing in South Boston.

And it was the year that class warfare became the bitter backdrop to a vicious election between Mayor Kevin White and his downtown liberal supporters and Dorchester marine Joseph Timilty.

It almost got lost in the white noise of the election, but a crime surge was in full fury across the city and especially in South Boston. According to Boston Police Department data for 1960 to 2011, the “part 1” category of murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, house breaks, and car thefts doubled from the prior decade and nearly tripled in South Boston.

The major-crime category reached its zenith in the first year of busing at 80,530 incidents across the city and 3,975 in Southie, according to the data. The property

shelves behind the clerks. Word on the street is that the neighboring rotary Variety just bought the shop. Just another case of consolidation strategy in action.

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orced busing in Southie became the twentieth-century counterpart to the Irish Potato famine, leaving similar scars on the Irish psyche from events swirling far out of their control. You couldn’t get your arms around it, let alone kick its ass.

For independent Southie to lose oversight over its schools was to discover anew that it wasn’t really in charge of its fate. Once again, meddlesome outsiders were deciding matters that profoundly affected South Boston’s children and they couldn’t stop it.

The Yankee oligarchy had been replaced by a federal judge.

After months of agitation, antibusers grappled with the realization that no amount of bloody street fi ghting was going to change a line of the nonnegotiable edict. It led to what was once unimaginable — defections to the suburbs by 20 percent of the population.

They were the vanguard of white flight that changed Irish neighborhoods in a fundamental way.

But bad news was good news for Whitey.

The deeper Southie went into a rabbit hole of despair and defiance, the better it was for Whitey’s business. The more it hated outsiders, the better it was inside Triple O’s. It meant the town was down to the hard core who would rally around any Irish flag during its wildwest resistance, even one firmly planted in the underworld. And the mounting futility of the cause led to more drinking, which begat more barroom gambling and, inevitably, loan-sharking.

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rian halloran was a bank robber and murderer who made the mistake of ratting out the King rat. When halloran tried to save his own life by informing on bulger to the feds, he found himself in the crosshairs of Whitey’s corrupt pet agent, John connolly. connolly leaked halloran’s cooperation to bulger, and Fbi supervisor John morris, who was also in bulger’s pocket, discouraged the Fbi and the uS attorney’s office from offering halloran protection. on may 11, 1982, bulger pulled up

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SPOTLIGHT :: TRUE CRIME 1974. After the ugly opening week, rumors rocked a weekend crisis meeting at a City Hall that was struggling with managing a protest march set for Monday. Police told Mayor Kevin White that Whitey’s Mullen Gang might be arming teenagers with handguns and if police tried to interfere with the march, the wiseguys were prepared to shoot it out.

“We can’t screw around,” White said.

“We gotta call the feds.” An aide with law enforcement connections called FBI director Clarence Kelley, once White’s top pick for Boston police commissioner. Kelley ordered agents to knock on Mullen doors. Leaving no stone unturned, a panicky White called House Majority Leader Thomas “Tip” O’Neill of Cambridge to alert President Gerald Ford that federal troops might be required if resisters starting shooting at police.

But Whitey backed down on Monday.

Mullens stayed home in an FBI- canvassed Southie. The march was angry but without gunplay.

Yet Whitey was so in control of subterranean Southie and so well known for brutal retaliation that he worried Kevin White for the duration.

While White had repeatedly stressed he was against busing, he knew that stipulating they were all stuck with the law of the land cut no slack in lawless Southie. So the mayor fretted about Whitey Bulger with his staff in half- serious asides about assassination and mused about it once when he thought the mikes were off at the end of a television interview.

Still on the air, the mayor reminisced about the night in 1975 during his tough reelection fight when he thought he spotted Whitey as White exited the Boston Athletic Club in South Boston. White got spooked and thought Whitey was going to shoot him as he got into his car. “Whitey takes me out, and they win all the marbles,” the mayor told host Christopher Lydon.

The “marbles” were Kevin White’s opulent City Hall office being occupied

by Louise Day Hicks, a former congresswoman and two- time mayoral candidate. She was still the preeminent

if fading Southie stalwart in the busing wars and in line to be president of the City Council, a position that made her the designated successor if there was a sudden vacancy in the mayor’s office.

It’s unclear how big a threat Whitey ever was to White. His assassination joined other rumors that Whitey was going to firebomb Judge Garrity’s bungalow in reclusive Wellesley and retaliate against U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, a steadfast proponent of busing, with an arson attack on the landmarked family homestead in Brookline and birthplace of President John Kennedy.

It was not all idle talk. While Garrity’s home was never attacked, a fire caused $100,000 in damage to the Brookline museum.

It no doubt fueled White’s anxiety. But while the mayor was in the line of fire the longest, he was also prone to hasty extrapolations and drawn to melodrama.

Whitey Bulger became another one of his vivid metaphors for busing — the black hole of politics where there are no winners and everyone disappears into oblivion.

The fact is that the first busing crisis of gangsters arming kids with pistols was never a real prospect. Whitey was too smart for pitched street warfare. He also saw the boomerang in having federal agents in numbers working Southie streets. He regrouped. It was clear Southie was ready for a lengthy siege and police would be in a defensive crouch for years. He could work with that.

After the first exhilarating month of sound and fury, when the worm turned and the power of what Southie was up against came more clearly into focus — the inflexible judge, the state police helicopters, the Boston tactical patrol force in battle gear — the tenor shifted. The clamorous crowd thinned into the never-say-die brigade. They couldn’t win so the fight became the thing. It devolved into sheer lawlessness. Dodge City.

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alongside halloran and innocent bystander michael Donahue as they left anthony’s Pier 4 on the waterfront and killed both men with a fusillade of automatic gunfire. today, anthony’s Pier 4 is one of the few places in boston that hasn’t changed a hair since Whitey’s heyday: the staff still sport bowties and sea-captain jackets, cigars are for sale near the entrance, and bartenders serve ritz crackers straight from the wax sleeve with the complimentary cheese spread. anthony’s Pier 4, 140 northern ave :: 617.423.6363

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hroughout the 1980s, Whitey had been profiting off Southie’s cocaine epidemic by extorting the neighborhood’s biggest dealers. by 1988 there was only one local dealer who wasn’t in line — an ex-fighter named red Shea.

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The deeper Southie went into a rabbit hole of despair and defiance, the better it was for Whitey’s business.

Shea was summoned to a building on old colony avenue. as soon as he was brought down to the basement, bulger soldier Kevin Weeks pulled a machine gun, and Whitey stepped out of the shadows. by the end of the night, Shea was a lieutenant in Whitey’s new drug operation. cocaine is harder to come by in Southie these days, but you can get a legal buzz at the local franchise of the Stadium Sports bar & grille nearby. more than a dozen flat screens line the periphery of the sprawling front room; pool sharks disappear to the equally expansive back room for a few rounds. You can order a Sam adams brick red to wash down the oversized serving of mussels marinara, and play a pool game or two if you’re feeling luckier than the poor sap Whitey shook down a few blocks away.

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treated. Like most hard-liners in Southie, he brimmed with disdain for the Boston Globe, based two miles from South Boston High. The newspaper was also implacable about busing, but on the other side.

On the street, its editorials supporting the court order symbolized the unshared burden of Southie’s struggle.

The daily violence at South Boston soon spilled over to the Globe, which had major highways at its front and back. Night riders put bullet holes in windows on both sides, most symbolically in the large glass façade in front of its presses. Police put sharpshooters on the paper’s roof.

No one was ever arrested for the shootings but Whitey confided to his onetime Winter Hill associate Johnny Martorano that he was the one who fired at the Globe. With ironic inadvertence, he may have helped the paper win a Pulitzer Prize for public service.

Bill Bulger, who had moved up the state Senate leadership ladder, also boiled over about busing toward the end of the fraught first year, when tempers were frayed to the nub and the middle ground had dissolved.

One morning after police had arrested demonstrators outside of a school, Bulger arrived and denounced the police for overreacting.

The diminutive Bulger confronted the strapping police commissioner, Robert diGrazia, and railed against “Gestapo” tactics and spun on his heel to march away. A weary diGrazia yelled after him that none of the protests would be necessary if politicians had had the “balls” to deal with desegregation when it first became an issue.

Infuriated, Bulger raced back toward the police commissioner and jumped off the ground to get in his face: “Go fuck yourself.” Bill Bulger, the scholar who loved to quote the classics, put a guttural coda on a lawless year. P Reprinted from Whitey: The Life of America’s Most Notorious Mob Boss. Copyright © 2013

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In Food-nerd CIrCles, the question of authenticity is a loaded one. For example, mention Estelle’s Southern Cuisine, a new South End restaurant, and many will ask, “But is it authentic Southern cuisine?” I wasn’t born and raised in the South (or Taiwan, or Brazil, or Lebanon): who am I to judge? Better to ask, “Is it traditional?”, i.e., following the cuisine’s widely recognized foodways, a more academic, less controversial question, demanding no pretensions to authority.

The more trenchant question, of course, is “Is it good?” In the case of Estelle’s, the answers to these questions are, respectively, “Not my place to say,” “Yes, but only loosely,” and “Hell, yes.”

For instance, the “Poe’s dumplings” ($7.95) special appetizer looks like Chinese pan-fried dumplings stuffed with five kinds of spicy sausage resting on house-made ranch dressing. That won’t evoke echoes of Macon, Georgia, the hometown of chef Brian Poe, who’s abetted by executive chef Eric Gburski, but it is nonetheless delicious. Spicy 38 03.15.13 :: Thephoenix.com/food

smoked-chicken-liver deviled eggs ($3.95) are more Southern if not quite traditional, but the tiny serving (three small half-eggs) is under-seasoned and not very liverish. Fortunately, corn and sweet-potato chowder ($3.95 cup, $7.50 bowl) is sensational, with sweet vegetables contrasted beautifully with cream and quality bacon — hearty and heartwarming. Another winner is BBQ grilled steak ($7.95), sliced grilled flank under a smoky barbecue sauce, with crunch and fire supplied by batter-fried cherry tomatoes and pickled hot peppers.

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andouille sausage for seafood in the classic thick Creole stew on rice, rich enough to induce the famed Southern post-prandial torpor. The mild Cajun spicing of cornmeal-crusted catfish ($19.95) is helped by pecan-parsley relish and excellent red beans and rice.

But the accompanying garlic seared greens — decidedly un-Southern in that they are gently sautéed, not boiled into limp submission — should be contained in a separate dish, as their vinegary juices make the crust soggy. Buttermilk fried chicken ($17.95) suffers similarly from what I call the Poutine Problem: skillful deep-frying is undercut by applying sausage gravy in the kitchen. Get that gravy on the side, and this chicken becomes amazing: crunchy without, tender within, just a bit greasy, and nicely rounded out with mac ’n’ cheese and more underdone greens. For once up North, cornbread ($3.25) isn’t as sweet and cakey as dessert, more a savory shortbread, tall and fine-crumbed. (You can sweeten it with molasses butter.) Desserts include a chocolate peanut-butter pie ($6.95) that garners novelty and welcome lightness via the addition of bananas.

Estelle’s also manages to eclipse neighbor/sibling Parish Café as the South End’s best beer bar, with 60 bottles and cans and 30 drafts ranging from the fruity, high-test Belgian oomph of Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet ($10.50), to the macro blue-collar refreshment of canned Hamm’s ($4.50), to the hoppy, saisonstyle charms of draft Jack’s Abby Private Rye ($6.50). The short, modest wine list ($7–$11.50 by the glass, most bottles in the twenties) won’t wow but suits the food: heavily oaked plonk like Rodney Strong Chardonnay ($9/$27) finally meets its food match in that fried chicken.

On its sunny corner, with its clean, spare looks and casual service, Estelle’s is a versatile addition to the neighborhood, family-friendly enough on school nights, a hopping beer-geek bar on weekends.

Your Dixie friends may roll their eyes at the liberties it takes with their cuisine, but Estelle’s delivers plenty of Southern comfort for Yankee palates. P

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The 17th annual New England Real Ale eXhibition (NERAX) is nearly upon us, bringing cask-conditioned beers and ciders from across the UK and US to five sessions from March 20 to March 23. For $15, fans of real ale will gain access to over 110 curated casks (with 50 to 60 available at each session) under the roof of Somerville American Legion Hall Post 388. Once inside, grab a glass — the $5 deposit is refundable, unless you want a souvenir — and belly up to the cash bar to enjoy cask offerings in quarter ($2), half ($3), and imperial ($6) pint measures in a pub-like atmosphere.

Now, if you’re scratching your head and wondering what this cask stuff is all about, don’t worry: we asked NERAX festival organizer Mark Bowers to break down some basics.

What’s “cask-conditioned ale”? We are now trying to use the term “caskconditioned beer” to indicate that not just ale can be cask-conditioned. Our definition is that cask-conditioned beer is the maltbased fermented alcoholic beverage that is unfiltered and unpasteurized, and that is naturally conditioned via fermentation.

This beer is served from the container in which it was naturally conditioned without additional significant pressure from carbon dioxide and/or nitrogen.

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Why do some call it “real ale”? The term “real ale” was created by CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) in the United Kingdom, [which defines it as] “beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use of extraneous carbon dioxide.” The two definitions are similar. Using the term caskconditioned beer and its definition readily allows for non-traditional ingredients as well as other beer types, such as lagers and spontaneously fermented beers.

What are the major differences between traditional UK and American cask ale? Traditional UK cask ale is made using ale yeast and predominantly or exclusively UK ingredients — especially the malt and hops. The cask-conditioned ales brewed this way had unique characteristics that distinguished them from, say, continental lagers and the various Belgian beer styles.

American cask beer, on the other hand, is

now a reflection of what innovative American brewers are doing across the country.

Almost any kind of beer is now caskconditioned. These include super-hoppy IPAs and IIPAs, black IPAs, imperial lagers, etc., brewed with new-world and experimental hops; Belgian-inspired beers like farmhouse beers, saisons, lambics, dubbels, tripels, etc; coffee, chocolate, and chilipepper porters and stouts; and barrel-aged versions where beer is stored in some type of wooden barrel, typically previously used for storage of another alcoholic beverage.

A secondary but very important difference is that most traditional as well as modern UK cask ale is created or formulated to be a cask ale. However, most American cask beer was first created for the keg and bottle/ can trade. Only a very small amount of this beer is then diverted to be cask. Creating a beer from the ground up to be a cask beer means that the brewer can focus on the flavor and aroma profiles that work best in cask form — this in part means what works better with warmer cellar temperatures, lower, softer carbonation, and the complexities that arise from the continual contact of the beer with yeast.

Who is NERAX for? If you’re interested in exploring an incredible selection of live, unfiltered, unpasteurized ales in an everchanging state of maturation ranging from traditional to experimental, then you don’t want to miss NERAX. Trust us. In our opinion, NERAX is hands-down one of the best cask-beer fests in the US. P

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ROW 34, WHERE ARE YOU? for both. If anyone’s capable of bridging this divide, my money’s on the Island Creek Oyster Bar crew, who this fall will partner up again to open a seafood eatery in Fort Point Channel.

The new venture won’t be a carbon copy of the Kenmore Square flagship, say principals Skip Bennett, Garrett Harker, and Jeremy Sewall.

Though details remain fuzzy, here’s what we know: it’ll be called Row 34 (after the oyster bed in Duxbury Bay where Bennett experiments with unorthodox farming techniques).

It’s going into a 4000-square-foot space at 383 Congress Street, and the design will preserve the interior’s raw, industrial quality. Sewall’s food will echo the more casual parts of his ICOB menu: fried clams, lobster rolls, simply prepared fish, and, yeah, the occasional pristine oyster. As for the bar program, plans are to maintain the group’s trademark superlative caliber.

In short, Row 34 won’t be an ersatz, Disney-fied version of their Kenmore

the Row 34 team

offers no sense of place.” Which can be hard to come by in a neighborhood still figuring out what the hell it is. That said, Harker and crew nimbly threaded a similar needle back when Kenmore was still a transitional question mark.

Perhaps they’ll do it again.

As someone who has sipped a perfectly constructed Jack Rose at Eastern Standard beside a sweaty tourist knocking back an après-Sox margarita — both served sans eye roll — I fully believe they’re onto something. Take that, Mr. Merlot’s. P

successes, either. Which gets at the crux of what I believe it will bring to the waterfront. The area already has excellent food, if you dodge the duds. It’s got smiling service and sundappled views. Yet too many players have doubled down on the notion that tourists are best serviced in a casinostyle glitz fest — which is anathema to discerning locals.

“Even tourists are going deeper at vetting a local restaurant scene,” says Harker. “They seek authenticity.

They don’t want the prefab ‘Boston’ experience, or a national concept that

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With the situation at the Seaport devolving rapidly into some kind of Epcot-style food court, there’s zero shame in indulging a few good tears.

So go ahead. Sob it out. Over mean corporate carpetbaggers poaching service staff and driving up rents. Over itinerant celebrity chefs (Batali, Zakarian) jetting in to extrude tourist-friendly piles of “concept” onto our choicest harborside plots. Over the chickenFlorentine-slinging steakhouse chain called Eddie Merlot’s (seriously), bringing its namesake, private-reserve white zinfandel (that’s right) all the way from Indiana to turf where even Strega musters a 16-deep list of rosés.

At some point, however, all the handwringing about how Del Frisco’s doesn’t “get” us has to give way to action — to some brick-and-mortar counterargument to the proposition that it’s either Sportello or sports bar, that you can’t service biotech conventioneers and Fernet-breathing industry cool kids under the same roof without undercutting the experience

Food & drink :: calendar

Chew Out SAtuRDAY 16 ‘FARMERS’ MARKET

SuNDAY 17 UNOFFICIAL

weDNeSDAY 20 ‘DISTILL MY HEART’

Sludgy snow mountains still dot every parking lot, but we don’t have to wait for them to melt to get farm-fresh goodness, thanks to the winter farmers’ markets that have popped up over the last few seasons. If you haven’t taken advantage of them, make up for lost time with chef Robert Harris, who’ll guide students on a shopping trip to the Cambridge Winter Farmers Market, followed by a cooking demo and locavore lunch. Dibs on the radicchio.

Normally, the prix fixe at Menton — Barbara Lynch’s très fancy fine-dining temple in Fort Point — will run you a wallet-wounding $95. But in honor of Restaurant Week, exec chef Colin Lynch (no relation, oddly enough) is putting it a little more in reach. From March 17 to 22 and March 24 to 29, the much-lauded restaurant will be offering three- and five-course menus for $52 and $72 each. We suggest inventing a special occasion, stat.

We heard some local distillers like you. We mean like-like you. If the feeling is mutual, meet up at Distill My Heart, a showcase featuring samples and drinks from Boston’s Bully Boy and GrandTen, Gloucester’s Ryan & Wood, and Great Barrington’s Berkshire Mountain Distillers, plus DJ Fuzzy Fotch’s beats. If you don’t hit it off, you can always try your luck at the gourmet pizza buffet.

TO YOUR TABLE’ COOKING CLASS

RESTAURANT WEEK AT MENTON

10 am @ the Table at Season to Taste, 2447 Mass Ave, Cambridge

Menton, 354 Congress St, Boston

$35 $52–$72 617.826.9037 or farmers marketcookerywithrobert. eventbrite.com

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7 pm @ the Milky Way Lounge, 284 Armory St, Jamaica Plain $18 617.524.3740 or distillmyheart.brown papertickets.com

617.737.0099 or mentonboston.com

wednesday 20 TAZA & FORMAGGIO: CHOCOLATE AND CHEESE PAIRING CLASS

Chocolate and cheese are two of the finer things in life. Combine them, and you’re navigating dangerously decadent territory.

Let Taza Chocolate’s Suhayl Ramirez and Formaggio Kitchen’s Julia Hallman lend you a road map. Expect a factory tour and how-tos on dessert flights, unexpected recipes, and wine and beer pairings. And samples. Many samples.

7 pm @ the Taza Chocolate Factory Store, 561 Windsor St, Somerville :: $45 :: 617.284.2232 or tazachocoandcheese.eventbrite.com

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IN THEATERS MARCH 22 www.thecroodsmovie.com

The 12th Annual Boston Turkish Film Festival March 21–April 7 See US premiers of contemporary Turkish cinema and hear directors discuss their work.

Series Highlight Last Stop: Salvation

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WOLF’S 20TH ANNUAL MARDI GRAS BALL :: Rescheduled from last month (damn that Nemo), the two-decade-long party with Shaun Wolf Wortis and the gang goes down tonight :: T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge :: March 16 :: 8 pm :: $12 :: ticketweb.com

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NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK: RECORD RELEASE SHOW :: March 30 at the Orpheum Theatre, Boston :: $40 :: livenation.com SHONE :: April 7 at Great Scott, Allston :: $11 :: boweryboston.com COLLIE BUDDZ + CRIS CAB + NEW KINGSTON :: April 20 at the House of Blues, Boston :: $25 :: livenation.com THE PARLOTONES + DINNER AND A SUIT :: April 20 at T.T. the Bear’s Place, Cambridge :: $12 :: boweryboston.com GIPSY KINGS :: April 21 at the House of Blues, Boston :: $49.50-$75 :: livenation.com “TWISTED TUESDAYS: TWO HOTHEADS ACTIVISM AWARDS SHOW” :: April 23 at Brighton Music Hall, Allston :: $10 :: ticketmaster.com KAKI KING :: April 24 at Brighton Music Hall, Allston :: $15 :: ticketmaster.com TOM ODELL :: April 29 at the Sinclair, Cambridge :: $12 :: boweryboston.com PILE + FLORIDA = DEATH + FAT HISTORY MONTH + GRASS IS GREEN :: April 29 at Great Scott, Allston :: $8 :: boweryboston.com VOLBEAT + ALL THAT REMAINS + EYE EMPIRE :: May 1 at the House of Blues, Boston :: $29.50-$45 :: livenation.com PETER MURPHY :: May 5 at the Paradise Rock Club, Boston :: $25-$50 :: ticketmaster.com FOXYGEN + CRUMBS :: May 7 at Brighton Music Hall, Allston :: $12 :: ticketmaster.com

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Freshlyground’s home base is South Africa, but this septet of 17 musicians — from that country as well as Mozambique and Zimbabwe — are not playing your daddy’s township jive. With charismatic lead singer Zolani Mahola, Freshlyground deploy traditional acoustic instruments, like mbira and violin, as well as electric guitars and bass to create vibrant, hooky, cosmopolitan dance pop. Extra cred: their latest album, Take Me to the Dance (Womusic), was produced by Los Lobos’s Steve Berlin.

Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston :: 7 pm :: $20 :: worldmusic.org

LIGHTS: “SIBERIA ACOUSTIC” :: May 13 at the Sinclair, Cambridge :: $25 :: boweryboston.com YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE :: May 14 at Brighton Music Hall, Allston :: $12 :: ticketmaster.com LAURA STEVENSON + FIELD MOUSE :: May 23 at T.T. the Bear’s Place, Cambridge :: $12 :: boweryboston.com MOUNT KIMBIE + HOLY OTHER + VINYL WILLIAMS :: June 2 at the Sinclair, Cambridge :: $15 :: boweryboston.com BEST COAST + GUARDS :: June 6 at Royale, Boston :: $20 :: boweryboston.com MARIO FRANGOULIS :: June 6 at Berklee Performance Center. Boston :: $40-$125 :: livenation.com

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There are St. Patrick’s Day–weekend alternatives to swilling green beer in the streets 16 with a pack of green-clad bros. Like rocking out in a dark club to old-school jams via one of our favorite emo/screamo bands of all time, Finch.

Like many of our other fave bands of the genre (NFG, TBS), Finch are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their signature album (What It Is To Burn). As such, they’ll be playing the album in its entirety. If you weren’t lucky enough to escape town to Austin for SXSW this weekend, here’s your best bet for catching a live show of non-Celtic tunes with a crowd not wearing “Kiss Me I’m Irish” T-shirts.

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Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston :: 5 pm :: $25 :: boweryboston.com

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What’s more intense than an Extreme Beer Fest? An Xtreme snow 15 storm, apparently. Specifically that jerk Nemo, who huffed and puffed and canceled — among many other things — the big brew fest last month.

Luckily, the Beer Advocate–produced festival (check out their recent column on the subject at thePhoenix.com/Liquid) has been rescheduled for St. Patty’s weekend — which seems more appropriate anyway. Both nights of this throwdown of creative craft brewers are sold out, but our pals at BA have hinted more tickets might go on sale . . . check their website for updates.

Cyclorama, 539 Tremont St, Boston :: March 15-16 :: Sold Out :: beeradvocate.com/ebf

There are two things we like a whole lot that are coming together at 19 Reel Chefs: Inspired Gourmet Pairings of Food & Film. That would be a screening of one of the best adventure-comedy films of all time, The Goonies, and a meal by chef Jamie Bissonnette (Toro and Coppa). For the inaugural installment of the brand new series, Bissonnette has created three original Goonies-themed dishes — one being the “Truffle Shuffle” (celeriac & black truffle soup) — that you’ll get to nosh on while taking a trip down ’80s movie-memory lane with Chunk and the gang. Bissonnette will be on hand to introduce both the film and each dish. Goonies — and foodies — never say die.

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Theater 1 at the Revere Hotel, 200 Stuart St, Boston :: 7 pm :: $50 :: theatre1boston.com

The Theater Offensive’s annual ClimACTS! Unbound fundraiser/ 20 party/drag extravaganza is back for another fabulous edition. This year’s bash features live entertainment by performers like Sherry Vine, a fantasy auction (past items on the block have included a walk-on role alongside NPH and “VIP treatment” at the Ellen Degeneres show), cocktails, desserts, dancing, and more. And if you shell out the extra bucks (it’s for a great cause — supporting LGBT arts in Boston), you can attend a VIP reception pre-party with hors d’oeuvres and celebrity guests.

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Rumor, 100 Warrenton St, Boston :: 7:30 pm; 6:30 pm vIP reception :: $100; $150 vIP :: climacts.bpt.me

Allston: 180 Harvard Ave. Somerville: 238 Elm St.

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DON’T MISS THIS AMAZING PRODUCTION!

The 5th Annual Women in Comedy Festival kicks off this evening 20 when SNL alums Horatio Sanz and Rachel Dratch hit the Wilbur as very special guests of Upright Citizens Brigade: Queens of Improv. Sanz and Dratch join current Upright Citizens Brigade improvisers (including NY’s Shannon O’Neill and Fran Gillespie) for a two-act improv show to jumpstart the four-day comedy festival. (Check online for a full schedule of comedy shows and events around town as part of the WICF.) WED

Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St, Boston :: 8 pm :: $26-$36 :: womenincomedyfestival.com

St. PAttY’S ’13

“GReeN KeGS AND HAMMeReD ST. PADDY’S DAY WeeKeND” :: Full weekend of events sponsored by BarCrawls.com including two massive pub crawls with your choice of neighborhood, a kick-off party Friday at Kitty O’Shea’s, and more :: Registration bar depends upon route you choose :: March 15-17 :: $5 party; $20 crawl; $40 all-access ticket :: barcrawls.com/boston/stpatricksday DROPKICK MURPHYS :: Wouldn’t be St. Patrick’s Day weekend if the Dropkicks didn’t stop home for a few shows. Catch ’em at the Garden ($37.50-$42.50,) Brighton Music Hall (ticket info TBA,) or the House of Blues (sold out) :: March 15-17 :: ticketmaster.com “GeT LUCKY”:: St. Patty’s Day bash with four floors of entertainment, music by DJ Tao, and likely tons o’ green beer. Table reservations recommended :: Greatest Bar, 262 Friend St, Boston :: March 16 :: 9 pm :: $10 :: 617.367.0544

4TH ANNUAL ST. PADDIeS DAY CeLeBRATION AT THe LANSDOWNe :: All-day party with live music by Hellcat Choir, Nighttime Radio, Three Day Threshold, Audrey Knuth, and Bearfight. :: Lansdowne Pub, 9 Lansdowne St, Boston :: March 17 from 10 am to close :: Free :: lansdownepubboston.com ST. PATTY’S AT THe BURReN :: WAAF’s Mike Hsu (and Guinness) are at the Burren for a party with Irish karaoke :: Burren, 247 elm St, Somerville :: March 17 from 10 am to 2 pm :: Free :: the burren.com 2013 ST. PATRICK’S DAY ROAD RACe :: Registration has closed for the annual run to benefit the Boys & Girls Club, but if you’re heading to Southie for the big parade anyway, cheer on the runners in green too :: Race kicks off at 230 West 6th St :: March 17 @ 11 am :: bgcb. org/2013-st-patricks-day-road-race

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Kurt Villon

foursquare.com/user/1300514 If the Irish had invented pizza, what would be on it? I think you’d have to go with potatoes. . . . Maybe corned beef and potatoes. I don’t know if cabbage would go well on pizza, but corned beef and mashed potatoes would actually be kind of delicious.

L Street Tavern

WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD

SOUTH BOSTON

Saint Patrick is famous for getting all the snakes out of Ireland. If Boston became overridden with snakes, how would you dispose of them? Maybe have another great molasses flood?

5 PLACES WE LOvE

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There are more than enough bars along West Broadway and Dorchester Ave to ensure that locals never need to leave their ‘hood to find a pint and a party. From Stats to Shenannigans, the Playwright to Quencher, you never have to go dry here for long.

But one of our favorite local watering holes among the many is L Street Tavern. Sure, it’s the “Good Will Hunting bar” but it’s also a great little pub.

Dark lighting, a mix of salty locals and young professionals, cheap beers, and Keno.

658A East 8th St :: 617.268.4335

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And where, you ask, is the best spot for late-night grub,

après bar hopping?

If you’re like us and your stomach starts howling for pork fried rice sometime around beer number five or 1 am, whichever comes first, then we suggest Lee Chen’s. Gourmet fare it’s not, but it happens to be the only Chinese and Mexican joint we know of. They stay open late, oftimes let you chow down inside even after they’ve lowered their gate at closing time, and never fail to leave you full and satisfied.

475 West Broadway :: 617.269.0061

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If, however, it is a gourmet meal you’re into, you won’t do better than Menton.

But you’d better be prepared to shell out the big bucks. Barbara

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Lynch’s elegant waterfront eatery will cost you, but what you’re paying for is a complete fine-dining experience. First-class service, inventive top-notch food, and ambience out the wazoo. (Pro tip: this week — March 17-22 — is “unofficial restaurant week,” during which you can score a three-course menu for $52 or five-course for $72. It also runs March 24-29.)

354 Congress St :: 617.737.0099 :: mentonboston.com

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It’s not that the only things to do around here are eat and drink. . . . there just happen to be a ton of bars and restaurants we dig in the area. Particularly

greasy spoon diners. We often have a hard time deciding between Mul’s, Galley, or My Diner for our late morning eggs n’ bakey but, more often than not, end up at the latter. Can’t beat ‘em for the friendly service, cheap prices, and breakfast staples served up hot and fast.

98 A St :: 617.268.9889 :: astreetmydiner.com

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In between all the noshing and boozing, you might make time to squeeze in a cut or a color at Shag, last year’s winner for Best Hair Color Services in the Phoenix Best Poll.

This South Boston hotspot is always bustling. 840 Summer St :: 617.268.2500 :: shagboston.com

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Remember that Simpsons episode when Barry White and Lisa used music to control snakes? Your band Young Adults could do something like that. I never thought about that. We are incredibly loud, so that could definitely work. Maybe they could put us on a Saint Patrick’s Day float, and we’d push the snakes into the harbor.

Samuel L. Jackson got all those snakes off of that plane. Why doesn’t he have his own holiday? That’s a good question. . . . Maybe in some small underground world, he already does have his own holiday. We’ve just got to do some research to see if it exists. _Barry THOmpSON

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St. Patrick’s Day and South Boston. A pairing akin to steak and potatoes. The 2013 St. Patrick’s Day Parade is the annual bastion of hometown and Irish pride, a South Boston tradition, and a hell of a shitshow. But in a really festive way.

March 17 @ 1 pm :: Kicks off on West Broadway (easterly) and ends on Dorchester Ave :: southbostonparade.org

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Art and wine, another ageold pairing. Hence, the popularity of the Urban Art Bar. just recently opened, this studio where newbie artists learn to paint while sipping on unlimited wine (and beer) has already sold out almost all of their sessions through the end of April, but seats are still available for May classes.

163 Old Colony Ave :: $35 :: 617.596.0553 :: theurbanartbar.com

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There are a couple of really cool art spaces nestled amid the many bars and restaurants in South Boston.

Distillery Gallery, located in an old rum distillery, for one.

LaMontagne Gallery, for another — you should make time to check out their Tory Fair exhibit, opening March 14. recommended by Phoenix art critic Greg Cook, the exhibit features weird sculptures like a “metal crate covered with flowers and sealed with pink goop.”

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THURSDAY 14

BOSTON FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW › Featuring more than 20 gardens created by professional landscape designers › Thurs-Fri 10 am; Sat-Sun 9 am › Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Blvd, Boston › $20; $17 seniors › 617.385.5000 or bostonflowershow.com COFFEE AND CHOCOLATE TO BENEFIT WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL › Sample a variety of coffee and chocolates and learn about the Congo Coffee Project › 6 pm › Equal Exchange Cafe, 226 Causeway St, Boston › $20; $15 students › 617.372.8777 or equalexchangecafe.com DIG IT TO BENEFIT CITYSPROUTS › With live auction, raffle, Cambridge Summer Youth Program on hand to talk about their experiences of learning how

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to grow and cook food from the garden, and more › 6 pm › Liberty Hotel, 215 Charles St, Boston › $125 › 617.876.2436 or citysprouts.org FORKS OVER KNIVES SCREENING › Followed by a reception and discussion moderated by Amy Levine of Boston Organics › 7:30 pm › Charlestown Branch Library, 179 Main St, Charlestown › Free › 617.242.1248 or bpl.org/branches/ charlestown.htm

FRIDAY 15

EXTREME BEER FEST › Beer Advocate hosts this craft beer festival celebrating “beers that push the boundaries of brewing.” With Friday and Saturday evening sessions and an afternoon session on Saturday › Fri 6 pm; Sat 1 pm › Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston › Sold Out › beeradvocate.com/ebf BOSTON FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW › See listing for Thurs

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ASGARD › 350 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 9 pm › Stump Trivia BRENDAN BEHAN PUB › 378 Centre St, Jamaica Plain › 8 pm › Stump Trivia CITYSIDE › 1960 Beacon St, Brighton › 8 BRIGHTON BEER GARDEN › 386 pm › Stump Trivia Market St, Brighton › 8 pm › Geeks Who CLUB CAFÉ › 209 Columbus Ave, Boston Drink › 8 pm › Stump Trivia WHITE HORSE TAVERN › 116 CROSSROADS PUB › 495 Beacon St, Brighton Ave, Allston › 8 pm › Geeks Who Boston › 8 pm › Geeks Who Drink Drink DOYLE’S CAFE › 3484 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 8 pm › Stump Trivia GREEN BRIAR › 304 Washington St, Brighton › 8:30 pm › Stump Trivia COSTELLO’S TAVERN › 723 Centre JJ FOLEY’S › 117 East Berkeley St, Street, Jamaica Plain › 8 pm › Geeks Who Boston › 8 pm › Stump Trivia Drink JOE SENT ME › 2388 Mass Ave, GEOFFREY’S CAFE › 142 Berkeley St, Cambridge › 8 pm › Stump Trivia Boston › 8 pm › “TRIVIA! Sundays” hosted PLAYWRIGHT › 658 E Broadway,

by Rainbow Frite and Raquel Blake Boston › 8 pm › Stump Trivia WHITE HORSE TAVERN › 116 RF O’SULLIVANS & SON › 282 Beacon Brighton Ave, Allston › 8 pm › Geeks Who St, Somerville › 8 pm › Geeks Who Drink Drink SAVIN BAR & KITCHEN › 112 Savin Hill Ave, Dorchester › 8 pm › “Tuesday Night Trivia” SWEET CAROLINE’S BATTERY PARK BAR AND LOUNGE RESTAURANT & BAR › 1260 Boylston › 33 Batterymarch St, Boston › 7 pm › St, Boston › 7 pm › Geeks Who Drink Geeks Who Drink TOMMY DOYLE’S KENDALL › 1 BULL MCCABE’S › 366A Kendall Square, Cambridge › 6:30 pm › Somerville Ave, Somerville › 9 Stump Trivia pm › Stump Trivia WHISKEY SMOKEHOUSE › ivia r t COMMON GROUND › e r 885 Boylston St, Boston › 8 pm › mo c o mr u o 85 Harvard Ave, Allston r fo Stump Trivia of istings l › 8 pm › Stump Trivia e t e l p ia and DURTY NELLY’S pub triv s visit ht › 108 Blackstone St, quiz nig ix.com/ en Boston › 8 pm › Stump thepho gs!

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ALL THINGS HORROR SCREENING › Screening of The Battery followed by Q&A with the director, plus screening of two additional shorts › 8 pm › Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville › $10 › 617.625.5700 or allthingshorroronline.net BOSTON DERBY DAMES › Season opener double header roller derby › 4 pm › Shriner’s Auditorium, 99 Fordham Rd., Wilmington › $16 › 781.665.5725 or bostonderbydames.com BOSTON FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW › See listing for Thurs EXTREME BEER FEST › See listing for Fri

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BOSTON FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW › See listing for Thurs

MONDAY 18

“GAME OVER” › Weekly game night with board games, nerd games like Magic the Gathering, fighting games, Dance Central, DJ Hero, Rock Band, and more › 5 pm › Good Life, 28 Kingston St, Boston › Free; $10 to enter Magic the Gathering booster draft › 617.451.2622 or goodlifebar.com NATIONAL ANTHEM AUDITIONS › Submit a video for a chance to get called to audition to sing live before a Revolution game. . . or just stop by and watch › 6 pm › Lansdowne Pub, 9 Lansdowne St, Boston › Free › 617.266.1222 or revolutionsoccer.net NORTHEAST HARVEST AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE › The conference will include sessions on: New FDA regulations, backyard poultry, farmers’ markets, farm-to-table-cooking, and more › 9 am › Topsfield Fairgrounds, 207 Boston St, Topsfield › $25 › northeastharvest.com

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ANNUAL CELEBRATION TO BENEFIT WALKBOSTON › Walk along the Charles River followed by a reception at the Microsoft NERD Center with food, drink, award presentations, and guest speakers › 4 pm › North Station, 135 Causeway St, Boston › $25 › wbcelebration.eventbrite.com “DOING BUSINESS IN DUDLEY — A HISTORY FROM 1950” › Lecture with David Dwiggins › 7 pm › Haley House Bakery Café, 12 Dade St, Roxbury › Free › 617.445.0900 or haleyhouse.org GREEK OUT LOUD › LGBT event featuring authentic Mediterranean plates, a toga party inspired photo booth, and music spun by DJ Brian Halligan › 8 pm › Brothers Kouzina, 25 Newbury St, Peabody › $25 › 978.535.9297 or greekoutloud.eventbrite.com

THURSDAY 21

AD20/21 GALA PREVIEW TO BENEFIT BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE › Catered event, music, and the first choice of the array of fine art and design that’ll be on display at AD20/21 over the weekend › 5:30 pm › Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston › $100 › 617.585.0116 or ad2021.com “GUNS DON’T KILL PEOPLE, THE MEDIA KILLS PEOPLE” › Lecture with John Rosenthal and Charlton McIlwain;

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moderated by Edward Powell › 6:30 pm › Suffolk University Law School, 120 Tremont St, Boston › Free › law.suffolk.edu SILENT FILM CLASSICS › Screening of Victor Sjostrom’s The Wind with accompanying live piano from Martin Marks › 7 pm › George Sherman Union, 775 Comm Ave, Boston › Free › 617.353.5498

SCIENCE ON SCREEN › Screening of This Is Spinal Tap, with a lecture from auditory physiologist Christopher Shera on science of sound and hearing › 7 pm › Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline › $10; $8 students › 617.734.2500 or coolidge.org

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“THE FAILURE OF CAPITALIST PRODUCTION” › Author Andrew Kliman discusses his book The Failure of Capitalist Production: Underlying Causes of the Great Recession and his theories in relation to our current economic crisis, as well as his recent work with the issues of wages and inequality › 7:30 pm › Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, Boston › Free › encuentro5.org/home/node/293

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Z DAY › The Zeitgeist Movement’s Massachusetts Chapter annual outreach and awareness event › 5 pm › Democracy Center, 45 Mount Auburn St, Cambridge › Free › zday2013massachusetts.eventbrite.com

SUNDAY 17

ST. PATRICK’S PEACE PARADE › Peace, veteran, LGBT, environmental, social and economic justice, faith, and other groups march through South Boston for their respective and communal causes. Assemble at 2 pm; march at 3 pm. RSVP encouraged › 3 pm › Leaves from D Street and West Broadway › Free › justicewithpeace.org/st-patricks-2013

MONDAY 18

“PRIESTS OF OUR DEMOCRACY” AUTHOR TALK AND PRESENTATION › Marjorie Heins, author of Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge, discusses her book about the persecution of left-wing teachers in the 1950s. Copies of the book will be available for purchase › 7 pm › Lucy Parsons Center, 358A Centre St, Jamaica Plain › Free › 617.267.6272 or lucyparsons.org

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“UNCOVERING THE BENEFITS OF ANTI-RACISM IN COMMUNITY HEALTH” › Lecture with Tom Kieffer › noon › Community Change Inc., 14 Beacon St, Room 605, Boston › $5 › 617.523.0555 or communitychangeinc.org THEPHOENIX.cOm/EvENTs :: 03.15.13 47

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Great art from the other Nick cave the SouNdSuitS by chicaGoaN Nick Cave (not the rock star) are the dazzling mutant offspring of disco, Bigfoot, Teletubbies, African and Caribbean carnival costumes, troll dolls, flea markets, Wookiees, and cheerleader pompons. They’re literally suits: tall costumes that loom over you like daunting giant monsters, like fabulously armored warriors, like blow-your-mind Rio carnival dancers. The sound part refers to the noise they might make if they danced about, but the three on view in his showcase at the Peabody Essex Museum are silent, frozen mannequins.

One Soundsuit here is a tower of wildly patterned lumps — that slowly reveal themselves as crocheted hats and bags — plus a knit bullseye face. Another is a white suit covered with a sparkling skin of buttons. Its face is obscured behind a found funeral wreath decorated with beaded wire flowers. The third is a skintight costume embroidered with pinwheel designs. Its head is hidden in what looks like a tree cobwebbed with necklaces. Porcelain birds perch on each limb. A vintage gramophone horn extends down from the tangle as a sort of mouth.

A happy music video shows people in pompon Soundsuits dancing and leaping and rolling around a seamless

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white space to club music. More interesting is separate footage of a gang of eight or so of these fluorescent pompon people wandering around downtown Chicago, carnival masks ominously hiding the performers’ faces, and what they’re thinking. The videos, though, are disappointing — more prosaic, less otherworldly than the suits here. And they don’t highlight how the Soundsuits sound.

Cave, an Alvin Ailey–trained dancer, says the Soundsuits were originally a reaction to monstrous descriptions police put forth of Rodney King after they infamously beat him. That, in part, is the source of the sinister undercurrent running through the costumes, through the hidden faces, channeling white America’s racist caricatures of scary black men. But the costumes are also a sort of armor against the world, and a vision of wondrous possibilities.

The museum reports that these are among the last Soundsuits Cave intends to create, after making more than 500 since the early 1990s. They’re one of the landmark projects of the past decade. So how come this show feels frustrating? Cave’s art is so incredible that to have just three of his costumes here is a tease.

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free haNd Everything is happy in Frank Casazza’s murals and graphics — cute cartoon clouds and cats, soft-serve ice cream and trees, airplanes and whales and . . . well, maybe not the skulls. As for everything else, it’s not just happy, it’s rainbowsshooting-out-of-your-eyes happy.

And the smiles are infectious.

“It’s like my whole world of characters,” says the 41-year-old Lowell artist, who operates under the name Eyeformation. “I try to represent everything from our world in this ‘Eyeformation’ world.

It’s this whole world of things. It’s almost like making everything into a character. Putting a smile and eyes onto a bone and all of a sudden it’s a new Frank character.”

Inspirations Casazza come from eyeformation.net skateboard graphics and graffiti he saw in the 1980s and ’90s growing up in Lowell. He does graphic design and has painted murals in Boston, Los Angeles, Belgium, and Shanghai. With help from his wife Ellen at Lowell’s Western Avenue Studios, he produces pillows, beer steins, resin toys, and soap bars featuring his shiny, happy people.

His flat, hard-edged graphics are easily mistaken for computer vector-drawn designs, which he does make. But much of his art is the work of a sure, free hand.

“A lot of what I do is kind of spontaneous in a sense. I don’t like to replicate my own work from my sketches,” he says. “I like to start just dropping characters.”

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DECORDOVA SCULPTURE PARK AND MUSEUM › 781.259.8355 › 51 Sandy Pond Rd, Lincoln › decordova.org › Wed-Fri 10 am-4 pm; Sat-Sun 10 am-5 pm › Admission $14; $12 seniors; $10 students and youth ages 13 and up; free to children under 12 › March 16-31: “Character Study” RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN MUSEUM OF ART › 401.454.6500 › 224 Benefit St, Providence, RI › risdmuseum. org › Tues-Sun 10 am-5 pm; third Thurs per month until 9 pm › Admission $10; $7 seniors; $3 college students and youth ages 5-18; free every Sun 10 am–1 pm, the third Thurs of each month 5-9 pm, and the last Sat of the month › March 15-June 16: “Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists’ Enumerations from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art” TRUSTMAN ART GALLERY AT SIMMONS COLLEGE › 617.521.2268 › 300 the Fenway, Boston › simmons.edu/trustman › Mon-Fri 10 am-4:30 pm › March 18-April 18: Juan José Barboza-Gubo, Jennifer R. A. Campbell, and Sydney Hardin: “Point and Counterpoint” › Reception March 21: 5-7 pm

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Admission to the following galleries is free, unless otherwise noted. In addition to the hours listed here, many galleries are open by appointment.

ARS LIBRI › 617.357.5212 › 500 Harrison Ave, Boston › arslibri.com › Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm; Sat 11 am-5 pm › Through March 30: Bruce Davidson: “Witness” ARSENAL CENTER FOR THE ARTS › 617.923.0100 › 321 Arsenal St, Watertown › arsenalarts.org › Tues-Sun noon-6 pm › Through April 5: Margot Stage and Linda Hoffman: “Shiroito” ATHAN’S CAFÉ ART GALLERY, BRIGHTON › 617.783.0313 › 407 Washington St, Brighton › athansbakery.com › Daily 8 am-10 pm › Through March 31: “Common Art” AXELLE FINE ARTS › 617.450.0700 › 91 Newbury St, Boston › axelle.com › Daily 10 am-6 pm › Through April 7: Hollis Dunlap: “Illuminations” BOSTON ATHENÆUM › 617.227.0270 › 10-1/2 Beacon St, Boston › bostonathenaeum. org › Mon 9 am-8 pm; Tues-Fri 9 am-5:30 pm; Sat 9 am-4 pm › Through Aug 3: “Brilliant Beginnings: The Athenaeum and the Museum in Boston” BOSTON CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION › 617.267.4430 › 122 Arlington St, Boston › bcae.org › Mon-Fri 9 am-5 pm › courses typically run from $20 to $250 ›

Through March 31: Mikki Ansin: “The Road Show” BOSTON CYBERARTS GALLERY › 617.290.5010 › 141 Green St, Jamaica Plain › bostoncyberarts.org › Fri-Sun 11 am-6 pm › Through April 14: Rob Gonsalves, Victor Liu, and Anthony Montuor: “The Game’s Afoot: Video Game Art” BOSTON SCULPTORS GALLERY › 617.482.7781 › 486 Harrison Ave, Boston › bostonsculptors.com › Wed-Sun noon–6 pm › Through April 7: Joseph Wheelwright: “Roots” › Through April 7: Rosalyn Driscoll: “Water Over Fire” BOSTON UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY › 617.353.4672 › 855 Comm Avenue, Boston › bu.edu/art › Tues-Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun 1-5 pm › Through March 28: “Teaching the Body: Artistic Anatomy in the American Academy” BROMFIELD GALLERY › 617.451.3605 › 450 Harrison Ave, Boston › bromfieldgallery. com › Wed-Sat noon-5 pm › Through March 30: Carol McMahon: “Home Front” › Through March 30: Kathleen Volp: “Within These Walls” BSA SPACE › 617.391.4039 › Boston Society of Architects, 290 Congress St, Boston › bsaspace.org › Daily 10 am-6 pm › Through May 31: “Design Biennial Boston” CAC GALLERY › 617.349.4380 › 344 Broadway, Cambridge › cambridgema.gov/cac › Mon 8:30 am-8 pm; Tues-Thurs 8:30 am-5 pm; Fri 8:30 am-noon › Through June 21: “AlMutanabbi Street Starts Here” CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY › 617.495.3251 › 24 Quincy St, Cambridge › ves.fas.harvard.edu › Mon-Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun 1 pm-5 pm › Through May 29: Hans Tutschku: “Unreal Memories” CHASE YOUNG GALLERY › 617.859.7222 › 450 Harrison Ave, Boston › chaseyounggallery. com › Tues-Sat 11 am-6 pm; Sun 11 am-4 pm › Through March 31: Rob Douglas: “Call of the Cinote” COPLEY SOCIETY OF ART › 617.536.5049 › 158 Newbury St, Boston › copleysociety. org › Tues-Sat 11 am-6 pm; Sun noon-5 pm › Through April 13: “Pictures at an Exhibition” › Through April 19: “24th Annual Student Show” › Through April 25: “Co›So Artists’ Small Works: Sterling” › Through April 25: “Winter Members’ Show 2013: Elemental” DAVIS ART GALLERY › 508.752.5334 › 44 Portland St, Worcester › davisart.com › MonFri 8:30 am-5 pm › Through March 29: John Pagano: “Color and Line” DESIGN INNOVATION GALLERY › 617.443.0100 › 63 Melcher St, Boston › designmuseumboston.org/ designinnovationgallery › Call for hours › Through March 31: “Street Seats Design Challenge” DISTILLERY GALLERY › 978.270.1904 › 516 East Second St, Boston › distilleryboston.

Patti Smith’s White Dog In Black Limo is on view at the JP Art Market as part of the group show “Hanged” now through March 31. com › Mon-Sat 9 am-5 pm › Through April 18: “The Rally” 808 GALLERY › 617.358.0922 › 808 Comm Ave, Boston › bu.edu/cfa/visual-arts/galleries › Tues-Sun 1-5 pm › Through April 20: “Alternative Visions / Sustainable Futures” FOURTH WALL PROJECT › › 132 Brookline Ave, Boston › fourthwallproject.com › Wed-Fri 1-6 pm; Sun 1-5 pm › Through March 15: “What’s To Come...”

FP3 GALLERY › 617.261.7425 › 346 Congress St, Boston › fp3boston.com › Mon-Fri 10 am-6 pm; Sat-Sun 10 am-4 pm › Through March 31: Jerry Lainoff: “Geometric Abstraction” GALATEA FINE ART › 617.542.1500 › 460B Harrison Ave, Boston › galateaart.org › Wed-Fri noon-6 pm; Sat-Sun noon-5 pm › Through March 31: Jenny Lai Olsen: “Suddenly Pink” › Through March 31: Ruth Segaloff: “Lest We Forget” › Through March 31: Steve Barylick: “Sensate Focus” GATEWAY GALLERY › 617.734.1577 › 62 Harvard St, Brookline › gatewayarts.org › MonFri 9 am-4:30 pm; Sat noon-5 pm › Through March 16: “Then and Now: A Group Art Exhibition Celebrating 40 Years of Making Art at Gateway” JP ART MARKET › 617.522.1729 › 36 South St, Jamaica Plain › jpartmarket.com › WedThurs 2-7 pm; Fri 12:30-7:30 pm; Sat 11:30

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am-8 pm; Sun 11:30 am-6 pm › Through March 31: “Hanged” LAMONTAGNE GALLERY › 617.464.4640 › 555 East Second St, Boston › lamontagnegallery.com › Wed-Sat noon-6 pm › Through April 20: Tory Fair <z7.MADE IN FORT POINT GALLERY › 617.423.1100 › 30 Channel Center St, Boston › fortpointarts.org › Mon-Fri 11 am-6 pm; SatSun 10 am-4 pm › Through March 31: Jenifer Mumford: “Seasonal Gleanings” MILLS GALLERY AT BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS › 617.426.8835 › 539 Tremont St, Boston › bcaonline.org › Wed + Sun noon-5 pm; Thurs-Sat noon-9 pm › Through April 7: “Me Love You Long Time (MLYLT)” MOBIUS › 617.638.0022 › 55 Norfolk St, Cambridge › mobius.org › Thurs 5-8 pm; SatSun noon-5 pm › Through March 31: Margaret Bellafiore: “The New Earth” MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER › 617.577.1400 › 41 Second St, Cambridge › multiculturalartscenter.org › Mon-Fri 10:30 am-6 pm › Through April 5: Lucy Cobos: “Impressions of the Voyageur” › Through April 8: Alexandra Rozenman: “Transplanted” PHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY › 617.975.0600 › 832 Comm Ave, Boston › bu.edu/prc › Tues-Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun noon-4 pm › Through March 23: “The Doors of Perception: Vision and Innovation in Alternative Processes” ROBERT KLEIN GALLERY › 617.267.7997 › 38 Newbury St, Boston › robertkleingallery.com › Tues-Fri 10 am–5:30 pm; Sat 11 am–5 pm › Through March 30: Bruce Davidson: “Witness” SPOKE GALLERY › 617.268.6700 › 110 K St, Boston › mwponline.org › Wed-Fri noon-5 pm › Through March 16: “HERE” TUFTS UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY AT THE AIDEKMAN ARTS CENTER › 617.627.3094 › 40 Talbot Ave, Medford › artgallery.tufts.edu › Wed-Sun noon-5 pm › Through March 31: “Illuminated Geographies: Pakistani Miniaturist Practice in the Wake of the Global Turn” › Through March 31: Stacey Steers: “Night Hunter”

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ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART AT PHILLIPS ACADEMY › 978.749.4015 › 180 Main St, Andover › andover. edu/addison › Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm; Sun 1-5 pm › Through March 17: “Stone, Wood, Metal, Mesh: Prints and Printmaking” › Through April 14: “Frame by Frame: Photographic Series and Portfolios from the Collection” DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE › 781.283.3382 › 106 Central St, Wellesley › davismuseum.wellesley.edu › TuesSat 11 am-5 pm; Wed 11 am-8 pm; Sun noon-4 pm › Free admission › Through June 9: Jenny Olivia Johnson: “Glass Heart (bells for Sylvia Plath)” › Through June 9: “Prepared Box for John Cage” HARVARD ART MUSEUMS › 617.495.9400 › 485 Broadway, Cambridge › harvardartmuseums.org › Tues-Sat 10 am-5 pm › Admission $9; $7 seniors; $6 students › Through June 1: “In Harmony: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art” › Through June 1: “Re-View” INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART › 617.478.3100 › 100 Northern Ave, Boston › icaboston.org › Tues-Wed + Sat-Sun 10 am–5 pm; Thurs-Fri 10 am–9 pm › Admission $15; $10 students, seniors; free for ages under 17; free after 5 pm on Thurs › Through April 7: Mickalene Thomas › Through April 7: Ragnar Kjartansson: “Song” MIT MUSEUM › 617.253.4444 › 265 Mass Ave, Cambridge › web.mit.edu/museum › Tues-Fri 10 am-5 pm; Sat-Sun noon-5 pm › Through March 17: “Rivers of Ice: Vanishing

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of the Cornell Bear discussion › 7 pm › Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St, Watertown › Free › 617.923.0100 MARY BETH KEANE AND JEANINE CUMMINS › Fever and The Crooked Branch readings › 7 pm › Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline › Free › 617.566.6660 or brooklinebooksmith.com “LOST VOICES OF BOSTON: SPOKEN WORD POETRY” › Hosted by Matt Ganem › 9 pm › Middle East Corner, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $5 › 617.864.3278 or ticketweb. com MASSMOUTH STORY SLAM › 7 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $10-$15 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim. com

KEVIN CULLEN AND SHELLEY MURPHY › Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice discussion › 7 pm › Brookline Public Library, 361 Washington St., Brookline › Free › 617.730.2380 SHEREEN EL FEKI › Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World discussion › 7 pm › Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, 25 White St, Cambridge › Free › 617.491.2220 or portersquarebooks.com LILLIAN FADERMAN › My Mother’s Wars reading › 7 pm › Brookline Booksmith, Marjorie Heins 279 Harvard St, Brookline discusses Priests › Free › 617.566.6660 or JOAN JOHNSONof our Democracy: brooklinebooksmith.com FREESE › Educating the suPreme court, MEGAN MARSHALL America’s Military acaDemic freeDom, › Margaret Fuller: A New discussion and signing › 7 anD the antiAmerican Life reading › 7 pm pm › Harvard Coop, 1400 communist Purge at › Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free the harvard Book Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › › 617.489.0519 or harvard. store on Friday.

617.661.1515 or harvard.com bkstore.com MIRIAM KATIN › Letting It Go reading › 7 pm › Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline › Free › 617.566.6660 or MARJORIE HEINS › Priests of Our brooklinebooksmith.com Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge discussion › 3 pm › Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.661.1515 or MATTHEW GOODMAN › Eighty Days harvard.com reading › 7 pm › Brookline Booksmith, 279 MIKE McCORMACK › Notes from a Coma Harvard St, Brookline › Free › 617.566.6660 reading › 7 pm › Harvard Book Store, 1256 or brooklinebooksmith.com Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.661.1515 or LOU MARINOFF › The Inner harvard.com Philosopher: Conversations on Philosophy’s Transformative Power discussion and signing › 7 pm › Harvard Coop, 1400 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.489.0519 or “LIzARD LOUNGE POETRY NIGHT” harvard.bkstore.com › With music by the Jeff Robinson Trio › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $5 › 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com ANNE CHAMPION › Reluctant Mistress reading › 7 pm › Middle East Corner, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.864.3278 JOHN FOOTE › Touchdown: The Story or ticketweb.com

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Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya” › Through Aug 31: Joël Tettamanti: “Compas Points” › Through Sept 28: “The Jeweled Net: Views of Contemporary Holography” MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS › 617.267.9300 › 465 Huntington Ave, Boston › mfa.org › MonTues + Sat-Sun 10 am-4:45 pm; Wed-Fri 10 am-9:45 pm › Admission $22; $20 students, seniors; free for ages 7-17 and under during non-school hours [otherwise $10]; free for ages 6 and under › Through March 31: Daniel Rich: “Platforms of Power” › Through April 14: “The Postcard Age: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection” › Through May 12: Cézanne: “The Large Bathers” › Through June 16: “Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Royalty on Paper” › Through June 16: Mario Testino: “British Royal Portraits” › Through June 23: “Divine Depictions: Korean Buddhist Paintings” › Through July 7: “Art of the White Mountains” › Through July 21: “Triumph of the Winter Queen” › Through Sept 8: Bruce Davidson: “East 100th Street” › Through Sept 8: “Chinese Lacquer 1200–1800” › Through Oct 14: Loïs Mailou Jones › Through June 1:

“Jewels, Gems, and Treasures: Ancient to Modern” MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ICONS › 978.598.5000 › 203 Union St, Clinton › TuesWed + Fri 11 am-3 pm; Thurs 11 am-7 pm; Sat 9 am-3 pm › Admission $7, $5 students and seniors › Through April 27: “Imaging the Invisible: Angels, Demons, Prayer and Wisdom” PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM › 978.745.9500 › 161 Essex St, Salem › pem.org › Tues-Sun and Mon holidays 10 am-5 pm › Admission $15; $13 seniors; $11 students; free for ages 16 and under › Through May 27: “FreePort [No. 005]: Michael Lin” › Through May 27: “Natural Histories: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth” ROSE ART MUSEUM AT BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY › 781.736.3434 › 415 South St, Waltham › brandeis.edu/rose › Tues-Sun noon-5 pm › Admission $3 › Through June 9: Ed Ruscha: “Standard” › Through June 9: “On the Matter of Abstraction (figs. A & B)” › Through June 9: Sam Jury: “Coerced Nature” › Through June 9: Walead Beshty: “Untitled”

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tHUrSDAY 14

BOSTON CONSERVATORY COMPOSERS’ ORCHESTRA › Selection of works by Boston Conservatory student composers › 8 pm › Studio 401, 31 Hemenway St, Boston › Free › bostonconservatory.edu BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH › Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 [Jupiter]; Thomas’s Cello Concerto No. 3, with Lynn Harrell; Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3 [Organ] › Thurs + Sat 8 pm; Fri 1:30 pm › Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston › $30-$114 › 888.266.1200 or bso.org TRIO CLEONICE › Beethoven’s Piano Trio in E-flat, Op. 70, No. 2; Wernick’s Piano Trio No. 2 [The Traits of Messina]; Schubert’s Piano Trio in E-flat, Op. 100 › 8 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › Free › 617.585.1260 or necmusic.edu

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a dead tree hanging upside down overhead, with a spotlight slowly circling it. A piano on stilts on one side of the stage, an ice sculpture’s worth of bubble wrap on the other. A backdrop of Persian carpets for a dance that could have been titled “Rite of Appalachian Spring.” Yes, it’s just another business-as-usual evening of outrageous-looking works by Jiří Kylián.

Reaction to the longtime Nederlands Dans Theater director’s output typically ranges from “Eureka!” to “Eurotrash!” But in its “All Kylián” program at the Boston Opera House (through March 17), Boston Ballet makes even the trashy aspects transcendent.

The three pieces — Wings of Wax (1997), Tar and Feathers (2006), and Symphony of Psalms (1978) — span most of Kylián’s choreographic career; what they have in common is their sexual politics, as men and women, in duet after duet, try to define their often contentious relationships. Wings of Wax, which opens with the passacaglia from Biber’s Mystery Sonatas and closes with the 25th variation from Bach’s Goldberg Variations, is low-key, its anguish muted, its eight dancers eventually forming four couples. The significance of the uprooted tree and the Daedalus-and-Icarus title is left to the viewer. On opening night, Kathleen Breen Combes and Bradley Schlagheck gave it a stately elegance at the outset; Whitney Jensen and Robert Kretz shone as the more agitated closing pair.

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Tar and Feathers is Kylián in his Bizarre Baroque mode. The stage floor is bisected into black and white halves — black for tar, one presumes, and white for feathers. Towering over the black side is a baby grand piano with Tomoko Mukaiyama improvising (and at one point reaching into the sound board); smack in the middle of the white side is that ominous bubble wrap and, later, a quintet of dancers in black wigs, red lipstick, and transparent white skirts. The piece is, for starters, about crossing the divide. The most striking image, skyscraper piano and the Bubble Wrap Five aside, was Lia Cirio riding on the backs of Kretz and John Lam, but the focal point was Breen Combes’s phenomenal performance, from St. Vitus’ dance beginning to tiptoeing end.

Set to Stravinsky’s 1930 Boston Symphony Orchestra commission (well performed by the Boston Ballet Orchestra and the New World Chorale) and backed by those Persian carpets, Symphony of Psalms is a simple, somber, and sometimes spiky hymn of invocation and celebration, its 16 dancers like waves of grain. Erica Cornejo and Yury Yanowsky were emotionally grounding as the first couple. It finished with all eight couples walking into the dark at the back. “All Kylián,” however, is full of light. _JE FFREY GANTZ » JEFFREYMGANTZ@GMAI L.COM

BOSTON BALLET’S “ALL KYLIÁN” :: Opera House, 539 Washington St, Boston :: Through March 17 :: $29-$137 :: 617.259.3400 or bostonballet.org

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AARON JACKSON AND ADRIENNE TAYLOR › Works for piano and cello by Shostakovich, Schumann, and Jackson › noon › Boston Athenæum, 10-1/2 Beacon St, Boston › Free › 617.720.7639 or bostonathenaeum.org BOSTON CECILIA CONDUCTED BY NICHOLAS WHITE › Selection of works by Byrd, Purcell, Bridge, Britten, and White › 8 pm › All Saints Parish, 1773 Beacon St, Brookline › $15-$62 › 617.232.4540 or bostoncecilia.org BOSTON CHAMBER SYMPHONY CONDUCTED BY AVLANA EISENBERG › Overture to Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri; Debussy’s Petite Suite; Excerpts from Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflote; Haydn’s Symphony No. 104 › 4 pm › St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1 Roanoke Ave, Jamaica Plain › $10 › 617.524.2999 or jpconcerts.org CHAMELEON ARTS ENSEMBLE › Schumann’s Märchenbilder, Op. 113; Grime’s

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BOSTON LYRIC OPERA › Mozart’s Così fan tutte, with Caroline Worra [Fiordiligi] and Sandra Piques Eddy [Dorabella] › Fri + Wed 7:30 pm; Sun 3 pm › Citi Performing Arts Center, 270 Tremont Street, Boston › $30$225 › 617.482.9393 or citicenter.org BOSTON OPERA COLLABORATIVE › Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking › FriSat + Mon 7:30 pm; Sun 3 pm › Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville › $25; $20 seniors: $15 students › 617.517.5883 or bostonoperacollaborative.org EAST COAST CHAMBER ORCHESTRA › Holst’s St. Paul’s Suite; Purcell’s Fantasias for Strings; Stravinsky’s Concerto in D; Mozart’s Divertimento; Bartók’s Divertimento for String Orchestra, Op. BB118 › 8 pm › Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main St, Rockport › $39-$58 › 978.546.7391 or rcmf.org HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY CONDUCTED BY JOHN FINNEY › Excerpts from Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum; Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music; Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 › Fri 8 pm; Sun 3 pm › Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston › $25-$90 › 617.266 3605 or handelandhaydn.org NATHAN GUNN › Baritone, recital › 8 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › $35-$75 › 617.482.6661 or celebrityseries.org BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH › See listing for Thurs

Seven Pierrot Miniatures; Hindemith’s Kleine Kammermusik, Op. 24, No. 2; Webern’s Three Little Pieces for cello and piano, Op. 11; Dvorák’s Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90 [Dumky] › Sat 8 pm › First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St, Boston › Sun 4 pm › GoetheInstitut, 170 Beacon St, Boston › $23-$43; $18-$38 students, seniors › 617.267.6730 or chameleonarts.org LONGWOOD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA › “The Willow Twist” from Gandolfi’s The Garden of Cosmic Speculation; Von Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 74; Overture and March from Von Weber’s Turandot; Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber › 8 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › $30-$45; $25-$35 seniors; $15-$25 students › 617.987.0100 or longwoodsymphony. org MIT WIND ENSEMBLE CONCERT › Byron’s Concerto for Clarinet; Ives’s Fugue in C [Variations on America[]; Mendelssohn’s Overture for Winds; Arnold’s Four Scottish Dances; Bach’s Fugue in G minor and Sonata No. 1 in G minor › 8 pm › Kresge Auditorium at MIT, 48 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $5; free in advance › 617.253.3913 or mitmta.eventbrite. com BOSTON OPERA COLLABORATIVE › See listing for Fri BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH › See listing for Thurs

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BACK BAY CHORALE ORCHESTRA › Mozart’s Requiem; Fairouz’s Anything Can Happen › 3 pm › Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge › $21-$50 › 617.648.3885 or bbcboston.org BENJAMIN VERDERY › Classical guitar recital › 5 pm › Shalin Liu Performance Center, 37 Main St, Rockport › $19-$34 › 978.546.7391 or rcmf.org CANTATA SINGERS › Schumann’s Four Double Choruses; Merryman’s Beauty, Grief and Grandeur; MacMillan’s The Seven Last Words from the Cross › 3 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › $17-$32 › 617.585.1260 or cantatasingers.org MUSICIANS FROM MARLBORO › Haydn’s String Quartet in G, Op. 77, No. 1; Schoenberg’s String Trio, Op. 45; Schumann’s String Quartet in F, Op. 41, No.2 › 1:30 pm › Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 the Fenway, Boston › $27; $24 seniors; $12 students › 617.566.1401 or gardnermuseum.org YUKIKO SEKINO › Beethoven’s Sonata in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1; Selected Etudes

by Rakowski; Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition › 4 pm › Killian Hall at MIT, 160 Memorial Dr, Cambridge › Free › events.mit.edu BOSTON LYRIC OPERA › See listing for Fri BOSTON OPERA COLLABORATIVE › See listing for Fri CHAMELEON ARTS ENSEMBLE › See listing for Sat HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY CONDUCTED BY JOHN FINNEY › See listing for Fri NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA › See listing for Sat

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BOSTON TRIO › Schumann’s Fantasiestücke, Op. 88; Martin’s Piano Trio based on Irish Folks Tunes; Dvorák’s Piano Trio in F minor, Op. 65 › 8 pm › Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston › Free › 210.912.9967 or bostontrio.com

LORI CHANG, MARGARET FELICE, BOSTON LYRIC OPERA › See listing for Fri

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BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONDUCTED BY DANIELE GATTI › Wagner program: Dawn, Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, and Siegfried’s Death and Funeral Music from Götterdämmerung; Overture to Tannhäuser; Kundry’s narrative from Act II of Parsifal; Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin; Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde › 8 pm › Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston › $30$114 › 888.266.1200 or bso.org INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE › Gubaidulina program: Sonatina for solo flute; Dancer On a Tightrope for violin and piano; The Garden of Joy and Sorrow for flute, cello, and harp; Quasi Hoquetus for bassoon, viola, and piano; Meditation on the Bach Chorale › 7 pm › Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 the Fenway, Boston › $27; $24 seniors; $12 students › 617.566.1401 or gardnermuseum.org

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BOSTON BALLET › Jirí Kylián program: Wings of Wax; Tar and Feathers; Symphony of Psalms › Thurs-Sat 7:30 pm; Sun 1 pm › Opera House, 539 Washington St, Boston › $29-$137 › 617.259.3400 or bostonballet.org

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JASMINE DANCERS › “A Celebration of Life” › Fri-Sat 8 pm › Green Street Studios, 185 Green St, Cambridge › $18; $14 students › 617.864.3191 or jasminedance. theaterworld2000.com NORA CHIPAUMIRE › Chipaumire’s Miriam › Fri-Sat 7:30 pm › Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave, Boston › $20; $10 students › 617.478.3100 or icaboston.org BOSTON BALLET › See listing for Thurs

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DANISH DANCE THEATRE › Tim Rushton’s Love Songs › Sat 8 pm; Sun 3 pm › Tsai Performance Center, 685 Comm Ave, Boston › $60-$75 › 617.482.6661 or celebrityseries.org GREENE-O’LEARY SCHOOL OF IRISH DANCING › Traditional and contemporary styles of Irish Dance › 10:30 am › John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Columbia Pt, Boston › Free › jfklibrary.org BOSTON BALLET › See listing for Thurs JASMINE DANCERS › See listing for Fri NORA CHIPAUMIRE › See listing for Fri

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BOSTON BALLET › See listing for Thurs COMMONWEALTH BALLET › See listing for Sat DANISH DANCE THEATRE › See listing for Sat

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GEORGE WOODS AND JENNIFER KUHNBERG › Woods and Kuhnberg’s Heartbeat: A Modern Dance Rock Concert › 8 pm › Oberon, 2 Arrow St, Cambridge › $20$35 › 866.811.4111 or georgewoodsmusic. com THEPHOENIX.cOM/ArTS :: 03.15.13 53

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Sweet diScomfort AS A rule, it’s probably a bad idea to pay someone to make you feel uncomfortable. As it happens, SpeakEasy’s production of Clybourne Park at the Boston Center for the Arts is the exception that proves the rule — director M. Bevin O’Gara and her cast have made discomfort a way station to insight, even revelation.

Bruce Norris’s Tony- and Pulitzer-award–winning Clybourne Park was inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 A Raisin in the Sun (now being presented by Huntington Theatre Company at the B.U. Theatre), in which the African-American Younger family face the hatred of a white neighborhood that doesn’t want them moving in. This time, we see events through the eyes of Russ (Thomas Derrah) and Bev (Paula Plum), who sold their house to the Youngers. As they pack their things, suburban tyrant Karl Lindner (Michael Kaye) arrives, incensed that a black family bought the house, and he’s willing to exploit a tragedy to keep them out.

The ensuing fracas is driven by remarkable performances. Derrah is an avalanche, spiraling into a rage as Lindner’s racism threatens to crush Russ’s future. Kaye, too, is a force, rattling 21st century sensibilities each time he casually drops the word “colored.” The tension often gives way to uncomfortable

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laughter, but the intense bigotry and deep sadness of the first act make intermission feel like a reprieve.

Still, there’s no escaping the second act. The blatant racism of the ’50s is sublimated through political correctness, and the conversation is strikingly familiar. It’s 2009. A wealthy white couple wants to knock down the Younger house and build a bigger one, but the community hits them with a petition.

By manipulating the set and echoing pieces of the first act’s staging, O’Gara physically emphasizes the comparison between eras in Norris’s script.

Each actor plays a new role, adjusting their attitudes for today’s “enlightened” times. “Half my friends are black!” is the best Lindsey (Philana Mia) can do as she tries to make nice with future neighbors Lena and Kevin (Marvelyn McFarlane and DeLance Minefee).

As everybody blunders through a series of awkward conversations, struggling not to offend anyone, they end up offending everyone. Plum steals the act, this time as Lindsey’s persnickety lawyer. But McFarlane is fiercely funny as Lena, a soft spoken, dignified black woman who comes to realize politeness won’t get her far. Clybourne Park ends with a visually beautiful, emotionally harrowing coda, challenging the notion that anything has changed all that much in 50 years. _Laur en D i TuLLi o » D i TuLLi o.L@husky.neu.eD u

SpeakeaSy Stage Company :: Boston Center for the arts :: 539 tremont St, Boston :: through march 30 :: $25-$52 :: 617.933.8600 or speakeasystage.com

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doG sees God: CoNFessioNs oF a TeeNaGe bloCKHead › Happy Medium Theatre presents Bert V. Royal’s unauthorized parody of Charles Schulz’s comic strip Peanuts.

Michael Underhill stars as CB (Charlie Brown), who spirals into an existential depression after his dog dies. Lizette M. Morris directs. › March 14-30 › Factory Theatre at the Piano Factory, 791 Tremont St, Boston › $18-$20; $15-$17 students, seniors › 617.817.6600 or happymediumtheatre.com emerGeNCy › Daniel Beaty essays 25 different characters in his one-man theatre piece, which fuses acting, Beat poetry, and music.

ArtsEmerson hosts the production, which tells a surreal story of a slave ship appearing in modern-day New York City. › March 22-24 › Cutler Majestic Theatre, 219 Tremont St, Boston › $25-$79 › 617.824.8000 or artsemerson.org HamleT › Academy Award nominee Paul Giamatti stars as the Prince of Denmark in Yale Repertory Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s tragedy. James Bundy directs. › March 15 – April 13 › Yale University Theatre, 222 York St, New Haven, CT › $20-$96 › 203.432.1234 or yalerep.org lebeNsraUm › The Hub Theatre Company of Boston’s debut production of Israel Horovitz’s award-winning play stars Kevin Paquette, Jaime Carrillo, and Lauren Elias. John Geoffrion helms the play, which tells a what-if story of Germany inviting six million Jews to resettle in their country. › March 29–April 14 › First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St, Boston › Pay what you can › 617.267.6730 or hubtheatreboston.org lysisTraTa › Leslie Drescher stars in Aristophanes’s classical Greek comedy about a fictional protest against the Peloponnesian War. According to the protest’s terms, all of the women of both Greece and Sparta refuse to have sex with anyone until the men of the two nations agree to end their war. John Deschene directs the Theatre@First staging. › March 1423 › Unity Church of God, 6 William St, Somerville › $15; $12 students, seniors › 888.874.7554 or theatreatfirst.org masTer Class › Antonio Ocampo-Guzman directs Terrence McNally’s Tony Awardwinning play about opera diva Maria Callas.

Amelia Broome stars in this New Rep staging. › March 31 – April 21 › Charles Mosesian Theater, 321 Arsenal St, Watertown › $28-$58 › 617.923.8487 or newrep.org a NeW braiN › Allison Choat directs William Finn’s surrealist musical about his experiences with working a job he didn’t enjoy and then suffering a life-threatening brain disorder, which forced him to re-evaluate what was important to him in life. Dan Rodriguez handles the music direction in this Moonbox Productions staging. › March 15–April 6 › Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Theatre, 539 Tremont Street, Boston › $27.50-$37.50 › 617.933.8600 or moonboxproductions.org oUr CoUNTry’s Good › Meg Taintor directs Timberlake Wertenbaker’s play-withina-play with Whistler in the Dark; the story follows a group of Royal Marines and convicts an 1780s Australian penal colony, who put on a production of George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer — which Whistler is also performing in repertory with Wertenbaker’s play. › March 15 – April 6 › Charlestown Working Theater, 442 Bunker Hill St, Charlestown › pay-whatyou-want, $15-$35 › 866.811.4111 or whistlerinthedark.com prooF › Christian Parker directs David Auburn’s play about family, sacrifices, and mental illness for Merrimack Rep. Keira Keeley stars

as Catherine, the daughter of once-prominent mathematician Robert (Michael Pemberton), whose genius devolved into madness. After Robert’s death, a former student named Hal (Colby Chambers) and Catherine’s older sister Claire (Megan Byrne) help Catherine sort through Robert’s past academic work. Catherine begins to fear that she may have more in common with her father than she thought. › March 21 – April 14 › Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 East Merrimack Street, Lowell › $15-$55 › 978.454.3926 or mrt.org/proof.html THe reCrUiTiNG oFFiCer › Meg Taintor helms the Whistler in the Dark staging of George Farquhar’s Restoration comedy, in association with her other production of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good, which describes a group of Australian convicts staging Farquhar’s play. › March 22 – April 6 › Charlestown Working Theater, 442 Bunker Hill St, Charlestown › $15-$35 › 866.811.4111 or whistlerinthedark.com ryaN laNdry’s m › The Gold Dust Orphans’ Ryan Landry has written his own stage rendition of Fritz Lang’s 1931 film M; this version of the story, which co-stars Karen MacDonald, also features puppets and crossdressing. Caitlin Lowans directs the Huntington Theatre production. › March 29 – April 27 › Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St, Boston › $15-$60 › 617.933.8600 or huntingtontheatre.org THe seabirds › Argos Productions stages William Orem’s two-hander set during the Civil War. David Lutheran plays a Union lighthouse keeper, and Brendan Mulhern plays a Confederate soldier in need of rescue. Jeremy Johnson directs. › March 15-30 › Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 949 Comm Ave, Boston › $15$20 › 866.811.4111 or argosproductions.com/ the-seabirds.html soCial CreaTUres › Trinity Rep stages the world premiere of this new dramedy by Jackie Sibblies Drury about “what possibly lies ahead for us at the end of the road.” Curt Columbus directs. › March 14–April 21 › Trinity Repertory Company, 201 Washington St, Providence › $44-$58 › 401.351.4242 or trinityrep.com THe WHales oF aUGUsT › Mimi Allen and Lucy Bly star in David Berry’s drama about two elderly sisters who, during a summer in Maine together, look back on their younger years and their relationship over time. Robin Richard helms the Your Theatre, Inc. production. › March 14-24 › Your Theatre, 136 Rivet St, New Bedford › $15 › 508.993.0772 or yourtheatre.org

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ameriCaN bUFFalo › Jim Barton, Jordan DiGloria, and Bill Stambaugh star in Acme Theater’s staging of David Mamet’s play about a team of men conspiring to steal a coin collection. Nancy Curran Willis directs. › Through March 23 › Acme Theater, 31 Summer St, Maynard › $18; $16 students, seniors › 978.823.0003 or acmetheater.com bye bye liVer: THe bosToN driNKiNG play › Hennessy’s hosts the Boston chapter of Bye Bye Liver, a show about drinking culture, from wine snobs to wildly fun (and occasionally terrifying) booze parties. The performance also incorporates audience interaction with social games like “Would You Rather” and “Never Have I Ever.” › Indefinitely › Hennessy’s, 25 Union St, Boston › $20 › 866.811.4111 or ByeByeLiver.com THe Glass meNaGerie › Tony winner John Tiffany’s tender and moody revival of Tennessee Williams’s timeless Depressionset “memory play” for American Repertory Theater appears suspended in a somber universe. Williams’s paean to fragility and endurance offers a poignant if sardonic portrait of a writer in the painful making — and of that immortal if antiquated Southern

Tiger Mom whose time was crumbling even as she lived and loved it. Amanda is essayed here by erstwhile ART leading lady Cherry Jones, but the two-time Tony winner, doggedly charming in her antebellum tatters, is but first among equals. Zachary Quinto is a brooding if quicksilver Tom, his sad fondness for his damaged sister palpable. As Laura, who literally slides in and out of the play through the couch cushions, Celia KeenanBolger is a trembling whiff of a girl fiercely trying to come out of her shell. And Brian J. Smith is all bonhomie and compromised dreams as the Gentleman Caller. › Through March 17 › Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge › $25-$55 › 617.547.8300 or americanrepertorytheater.org THe liar › Shakespeare & Company takes on David Ives’s adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s 1664 farce about mistaken identity, a love triangle borne of miscommunication, and the fallout from an impressive web of lies created by the play’s disingenuous hero. Kevin G. Coleman directs. › Through March 24 › Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, 70 Kemble St, Lenox › $15-$95 › 413.637.3353 or shakespeare.org THe loVer › McCaela Donovan, Joe Short, and Juan C. Rodriguez star in Bridge Repertory Theater’s debut production. Shana Gozansky directs this Harold Pinter one-act about an unusual love triangle. › Through March 17 › Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont St, Boston › $25; $15 students › 617.933.8600 or bridgerepofboston.com operaTioN epsiloN › The Nora Theatre Company stages the world premiere of Alan Brody’s new play, which Catalyst Collaborative@MIT recently performed as a staged reading. Andy Sandberg directs the production of this drama about the end of World War II and America’s interrogation of Hitler’s “Uranium Club” about Germany’s plan to make an atomic bomb. › Through April 28 › Central Square Theater, 450 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $15-$45 › 866.811.4111 or centralsquaretheater.org a raisiN iN THe sUN › Huntington Theatre Company presents Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 classic drama about a struggling African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago and yearning for a better life. Liesl Tommy directs. › Through April 7 › Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave, Boston › $30-$95 › 617.266.0800 or huntingtontheatre.org THe serVaNT oF TWo masTers › Shep Barnett directs Edward J. Dent’s translation of Carlo Goldoni’s comedy about a servant who gets hired by two different masters and decides to keep both jobs. Hilarity ensues as the servant mixes up his new masters’ affairs and tasks, most of which turn out to be shady dealings anyway. › Feb 28–March 16 › Vokes Theatre, 97 State Rd (Rte 20), Wayland › $54-$70 › 508.358.4034 or vokesplayers.org sToNes iN His poCKeTs › Lyric Stage Company bills this Marie Jones comedy as “the madcap story of a rural Irish village turned upside down” by the arrival of a Hollywood film crew. The work features Daniel Berger-Jones and Phil Tayler playing roughly a dozen parts: extras, movie stars, women, children, parents, teachers, and one callous British director. The play piles punch lines high through the first act, only to deliver a walloping emotional blow just before the intermission break. Stones ends up delivering an increasingly heavy message in its second half (rewards in life often go to the less deserving), but it’s padded with a cushy layer of physical humor and moved forward by smart, sincere dialogue. And just when the device of two actors playing a whole town begins to get a little tiring, the play gracefully buoys itself up to a joyful conclusion that feels earned. Courtney O’Connor directs. › Through March 16 › Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St, Boston › $25-$58 › 617.585.5678 or lyricstage.com

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WEST MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN THE SAddEST PArT of the West Memphis Three Thus, no lawsuits, no restitution, and no Arkansas case is that it’s not unusual. Three teen-age boys — cops burdened with finding the real killer. The ugly Jessie Misskelley Jr., Jason Baldwin, and Damien truth is that without the help of celebrity activists Echols — were sent to jail for life for murdering three such as Henry Rollins and Johnny Depp, no outrage prepubescent boys. It didn’t take long would have arisen, and these men would for those close to the case to realize never have been freed. Apparently, the ++1/2 that these three didn’t do it, but it took only thing that outweighs America’s fear of WeSt OF decades to cut through the red tape and Satanist cults is its cult of celebrity.

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Unfortunately, Berg throws the whole Directed by Amy Berg Amy Berg’s documentary about case into an aesthetic blender. One moment :: Written by Amy Berg the case illustrates countless failings she tries to inspire with shots of flying birds and Billy McMillin :: of the American justice system. set to “The Times They Are a-Changin’”; With Damien Echols, These include incompetent cops then she attempts a procedural detailing the Jessie Misskelley, Lorri Davis, Johnny Depp, who manipulated the intellectually case. She offers an intimate look at Echols’s Peter Jackson, and disabled Misskelley into confessing to relationship with his wife and then launches Henry Rollins :: Sony the crime despite the lack of evidence; into a screed implicating Terry Hobbs, one of Pictures Classics :: 146 a shady prosecutor who lied about the victims’ stepfather, in the murders. She’s minutes an alleged murder weapon which he put together five half-hour episodes rather Kendall Square knew was not used in the crime; inept than a two-and-a-half-hour movie. coroners who concluded that the The case is more intriguing than the film victims’ injuries suggested Satanic rituals when in about it. West of Memphis (which deals more in the fact they were postmortem turtle bites; and judges aftermath than Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s who refused to reopen the case because it meant investigative Paradise Lost documentaries) panders to contradicting previous judgments. middlebrow tastes with its pedestrian metaphors and And then there’s the state of Arkansas, which pat philosophical statements, but the case remains eventually forced the three to take an “Alford” — a microcosm of universal problems. As Echols says, that is, to plead guilty while maintaining innocence “This happens all the time.” Bad luck landed him in — thereby allowing the state to free them without prison. Justice didn’t get him out — celebrity did. _Jak e Mulli gan acknowledging that they were wrongfully convicted.

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WOMEN WITH SWOrdS Decades before women took center stage in the one-two punch of Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) and Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (2003), King Hu (1932-1997; the subject of a retrospective at the HFA) put swords in the hands of a soaring heroine in Come Drink with Me (1966; March 17 @ 4:30 pm). After leaving his native Beijing, Hu had previously acted in more than 30 films and worked as a set designer in Hong Kong. Come Drink with Me was his second movie as a director — his first wuxia (“martial arts”) picture — and it dazzles.

Headlined by Cheng Pei-pei, the now-legendary martial artist who also appears in Crouching Tiger, it exults in exceptional stuntwork (including some of the roofrunning action Lee paid homage to) and dramatizes the theme of duplicity, since Cheng’s Golden Swallow character is more than what she appears in her mission to rescue a governor’s kidnapped son from bandits. Hu king hu broke from the anD the genre’s estabart OF lished tropes of WuXia fantasy, magic, Harvard Film and melodraArchive :: March ma and moved 15-24 it into a more grounded — though often literally airborne — realm.

Hu’s masterful editing and wide-screen compositions only got better in such films as Dragon Inn (1967; March 15 + March 18 @ 7 pm) — which draws swordplay inspiration from the traditions of Beijing Opera, his first love — and his 1971 epic, A Touch of Zen (March 16 + 23 @ 7 pm), Technical Grand Prize winner at 1975’s Cannes Film Festival. Both are being presented in gorgeous new prints in this essential, eight-feature retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive. _Brett Mi chel

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Literally FeStival Sounds like underground are Museum of Fine Arts :: Fyodor Dostoevsky the characters in March 21–April 7 back in 19th-century veteran Turkish Russia, which director Erden Kıral’s may be why Zeki Demirkubuz Load (2012; March 22 @ 8 pm). has taken inspiration from the Because of circumstances that great novelist. The Waiting must be pieced together from the Room (2003) is Demirkubuz’s real and imagined incidents of self-reflexive adaptation Kıral’s dreamlike, achronological of Dostoevsky’s Crime and narrative, two men find Punishment, and his latest film, themselves in a death match in a Inside (2012; March 21 @ 7:30 coal mine. Both are torn by guilt, pm), tackles the Russian writer’s by duty, and by dubious notions most cryptic novel, Notes From of manhood. Kıral presents the Underground. dripping innards of the mine Engin Günaydýn plays the and its brute mechanisms as a updated “underground man,” character in itself, and the smile an artistically frustrated and that ends the film is the creepiest envious office drone whose part of all. closest relationships are with Both Demirkubuz and Kıral his housekeeper and a potato, all will be attending the screening complemented by his own bitter of their films and will receive an philosophizing. A congratulatory award. As always, the festival farewell party for one of his offers an exciting and eyedespised friends (a “best novel” opening glimpse into a rich winner for Boredom in Ankara) national cinema yet to get proper sends him plummeting into recognition. _P e t e r k e Ou g h » P k e Oug h @PhX.cOM self-destruction. At last finding

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+1/2 THE ABCS OF DEATH › Judging from their contributions, some of the filmmakers behind this 26-part anthology find death less fearsome than the thought of a cute girl farting. Two segments confront this concept, including “F is for Fart” by Noboru Iguchi, and others feature women engaged in similar bodily functions. However, Lee Hardcastle’s amusing claymation “T is for Toilet” does justice to the terror of plumbing fixtures; and, saving the best for last, Yoshihiro Nishimura’s “Z is for Zetsumetsu” includes an SS she-wolf sporting a three-foot dildo, a Dr. Strangelove type shouting out non sequiturs, and the end of the world — and that’s just the beginning.

Speaking of beginnings and endings, expect neither in Ernesto Díaz Espinoza’s exercise in time-travel paradox, “C is for Cycle.” Other contributions score points, but in general this is a good idea wasted, disturbing mostly for its puerility, crudeness, and misogyny. The $5000-per-short budget probably didn’t help, but having only two women filmmakers might be a bigger problem. › 40m › Brattle + Coolidge Corner _Peter Keough ++ EMPEROR › Donning sunglasses and clamping down on a pipe moments before exiting an American transport plane, General Douglas MacArthur announces, rather redundantly, “Now, let’s show them some good old-fashioned American swagger.” Yes, Tommy Lee Jones plays the “supreme commander” of the US forces in this historical drama from Peter Webber (Girl with a Pearl Earring) that takes place after the Japanese surrender in World War II, and the Oscar winner puts in another towering performance. Alas, instead of putting him front and center, the film

+++ LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE › A decent little movie, but hardly a major one, from Iran’s master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, who, self-exiled, here shoots in Tokyo with an all-Japanese cast. Akiko (Rin Takanashi), a college student by day, leads a deceptive night life as a call girl, lying to her boyfriend about where she is and what she does. Guilt-ridden, she can’t bring herself to meet with her loving grandmother, who comes to Tokyo for one day to see her. But there might be some kind of salvation when her pimp sends her for an engagement with an aging retired college professor (Tadashi Okuno), who, instead of bedding Akiko, prepares her dinner and treats her with benevolence. It’s a good setup, and the actors are personable; but there’s too much inconsequential talk, a sometimes phlegmatic pace, and a frustratingly abrupt ending. Also, is it a coincidence that the stooped professor is called Mr. Watanabe, the name of Akira Kurosawa’s bent-back elderly hero in the masterly Ikiru (1952)? › Japanese › 109m › Kendall Square _Gerald Peary

demotes him to a supporting role and weaves a threadbare fiction involving MacArthur’s real-life second-in-command, General Bonner Fellers (Matthew Fox), who must decide whether Emperor Hirohito (Takatarô Kataoka) should be hanged as a war criminal. The real criminals are the screenwriters, who distract with a dopey, doomed romance for the “Jap lover.” › 106m › Boston Common + Kendall Square + suburbs _Brett Michel +1/2 A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III › When the subtlest part of your film is Charlie Sheen’s performance, you’ve got a problem. In Roman Coppola’s sophomoric second feature (his 2001 debut CQ was promising), Sheen shows restraint as the titular asshole, a dissolute ad designer and solipsistic

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Brattle: Wed Hilarious. Not even Bill Murray can get ++++ THE FATE OF LEE KHAN › 1973 away with appearing as John Wayne giving › What if Miss Kitty had set up shop in Swan macho advice — and a Winchester China, AD 1366? At the twilight of the to deal with an attack by female warriors.

Yuan Dynasty, freedom fighter Wendy Sadly, an allusion to dad Francis’s The owns a prosperous inn frequented by Conversation only underscores the beggars, assassins, and dignitaries. Her discrepancy in talent. › 87m › Coolidge four feisty “waitresses” — Peach, Corner _Peter Keough Peony, Lilac, and Chili — are +1/2 UPSIDE DOWN › Had Ed guerrillas who serve up Wood Jr. directed Fritz Lang’s More Mo equal parts fried mutton Metropolis, he couldn’t have v ie s!

For more and acrobatic martial-arts achieved the earnest dopiness reviews displays. The inn becomes a of Juan Solanas’s sci-fi oF Films in TheaTers hotbed of political espionage, allegory — nor the striking This week, go including the execution of a images. Kudos to set designer To The phoenix.Co Mongol warlord — turns out Alex McDowell for the look of m/ the flowery femmes fatales the film’s twin planets, stills of movies were just warming up. With its which would make a fine coffeeauthentic sets and costumes (some table book. Held in stasis by a are actual Ming Dynasty antiques), shared gravity field, the dual system engaging comedy, and stunning fight consists of Up Above, a chi-chi world choreography (inspired by Chinese opera), that holds sway over desolate Down this is often considered King Hu’s greatest Below, which looks like Gary, Indiana, by work. › Mandarin › 101m › HFA: Sun way of London during the Blitz. The Uppers THE INCREDIBLE BURT exploit the Downers, but before you can say, WONDERSTONE › 2013 › Steve Carell “Workers of Down Below unite!”, Downer stars as the title magician in this comedy from Adam (Jim Sturgess) meets Eden (played director Don Scardino. After ruling the Vegas inertly by Kirsten Dunst, who may still be Strip for years, Burt’s title is placed in jeopardy feeling down from Melancholia). Corporate upon the arrival of a new street magician cops separate them, but Adam plots to (Jim Carrey), whose cult grows with each regain Eden — and this is where the Ed outrageous stunt. › 100m › Boston Common + Wood element really kicks in — by inventing Fenway + Fresh Pond + suburbs a wrinkle cream from pink bee pollen, +++ IN THE REALMS OF THE the secret ingredient in his Aunt Becky’s UNREAL › 2003 › Henry Darger, infamous pancake recipe. Worth a look if only for the outsider artist, was a hospital janitor who Caspar David Friedrich–inspired imagery wrote and illustrated a 15,000-page novel, and shots of Timothy Spall’s teeth. › 103m › In the Realms of the Unreal, that revolved Kendall Square _Peter Keough around the seven Vivian Girls and their crusade against evil child enslavers. He also wrote an 8000-page unfinished sequel and a voluminous autobiography, and he cut out THE CALL › 2013 › A veteran 911 operator hundreds of pictures of little girls. Jessica (Halle Berry) receives a call from a teenage Yu’s documentary explores Darger’s life and girl (Abigail Breslin) who has just been work, from his institutionalized childhood abducted, reopening a period of her life that she to his reclusive, prolific adulthood, with knows she must revisit to help save her. Brad lovely pans of his paintings and intimate Anderson directs. › 95m › Boston Common + shots of his workspace — the cracked Fenway + suburbs paints, pencil boxes, ink pots, and cutouts. +++1/2 DESIGN FOR LIVING › 1933 › His paintings, all beautifully colored and Noël Coward’s play about a girl who leaves composed with sophistication, feature girls, her attractive but impecunious companions often naked and often with little penises, to marry a dotty millionaire was brought to sometimes frolicking in flowered meadows, the screen by director Ernst Lubitsch and sometimes eviscerated, crucified, or roped

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• CHLoTrUDis awarDs The last awards ceremony of the year may well be the best, and not just because Phoenix film editor peter keough is one of the present17 ers. For the 19th year, the Chlotrudis society will present awards to the best of the year’s offbeat, obscure, and independent films in a program notable for its puckish humor and musical ingenuity — just try writing a song with the name of Thai director apichatpong weerasethakul in the lyrics. They will also present their Breakout star award (previous winners include kerry washington and ellen page) to up-and-comer Christopher abbott (Martha Marcy May Marlene; hBo’s Girls). and where else will you get a chance to meet philip seymour hoffman’s mother?

Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge :: 5 pm :: $20; $15 Chlotrudis and Brattle members :: 617.876.6837 or brattlefilm.org SUN

• BeLMoNT worLD FiLM The Belmont world Film series continues its must-see programming with a screening of vittorio and paolo Taviani’s compelling and brilliant 18 Caesar Must Die (2012), a quasi documentary about hardened inmates in a roman prison who are putting together a production of shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The film works on several levels: as a version of the play, as an account of how the play was staged, and as a reflection of the lives of the inmates in the cast. see if you can help explain it all to Phoenix film editor peter keough, who will lead a discussion after the screening.

Studio Cinema, 376 Trapelo Road, Belmont :: 7:30 pm :: $11; $9 students, seniors, and members :: 617.484.3980 or belmontworldfilm.org • sPiNaL TaP This Is Spinal Tap (1984) is tonight’s science on screen featured film, and following the screening, the painful medical procedure of the title will be demonstrated on some lucky member of the audience. …well, maybe some other time. instead, Christopher shera, a fellow of the acoustical society of america, will discuss the film and its relationship to studies about how the ear amplifies, analyzes, and transmits sound. all well and good, but can he explain why former band members stumpy and his replacement peter James Bond both spontaneously combusted on stage? still the best music documentary, mock or otherwise, around.

Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline :: 7 pm :: $10; $8 seniors and children; $7 members :: 617.734.2501 or coolidge.org MON

to trees. Yu refuses to acknowledge Darger’s more sinister aspect (leaving you to wonder what she could be thinking); her goal is to explore his imagination, and she does so with great success. One feels reluctant to call his daytime life in menial labor real when his realms feel so much more richly lived. › 81m › ArtsEmerson: Fri +++1/2 REPO MAN › 1984 › Mohawked punks who hold up liquor stores, flyingsaucers, a Chevy Malibu with a cargo that has the deadly effect of the Great Whatsis in Kiss Me Deadly, ’60s veterans who send their money to TV evangelists to send Bibles to El Salvador — these are just some of the people and things that inhabit Alex Cox’s riotous, scattershot satire about young punk Otto (Emilio Estevez), who goes to work repossessing cars under the tutelage of a grizzled veteran (hilariously played by Harry Dean Stanton). The picture moves along like a bumptious, nihilistic sci-fi comic, with ticklish details peering out of every scene. It’s hit or miss, but it

never lets up. Look for Tracey Walter as the philosophizing car attendant. › 92m › Coolidge Corner: Fri-Sat midnight ++++ THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER › 1940 › Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart play adversaries who become lovers in this peerless romantic comedy written by Samson Raphaelson and directed

by Ernst Lubitsch. Raphaelson drew his screenplay from a Miklós László play set in a department store in Budapest; Stewart and Sullavan are co-workers who keep up a sparring match; what they don’t know is that they’re “lonely hearts” correspondents who have grown to love each other through the mail. Superbly matched, the two actors make triumphant sense out of the conflict.

Frank Morgan (The Wizard of Oz’s wizard) gives the most touching performance of his career as the shopkeeper who learns his wife is cheating on him with one of his clerks; the perfect cast also includes Joseph Schildkraut, Sara Haden, William Tracy, and Felix Bressart. › b&w › 99m › Brattle: Sun

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FM radio ruins everything. Unfortunately, it’s been this way for a while now, even in this age of streaming services and iProduct car adaptors — a fact which is near frightening. The most recent casualty is electronic music. When radio stars repurpose certain techniques (womps, wobbles, and drops included) for the sake of producing tween singalongs, it sours many on the prospect of pop and EDM ever coexisting. And rightfully so. These efforts are often transparent, shallow, and calculated with clear cash-grubbing intentions.

Guy and Howard Lawrence seem to exist as the inverse of this equation.

Rather than knowing absolutely fuck-all regarding electronic production, the young brotherly pairing d/b/a Disclosure are actual electronic producers. And instead of bludgeoning us with the most garish piss-take this side of Diplo remixing Psy, they opt to build off the sultry bounce of UK garage and 2-step — genres perfected on that namesake isle the duo also call home — injecting a dosage of pop sensibility after the fact.

Take “Latch,” for example. The first single from their forthcoming debut LP possesses as much propulsion as any Top 100 fodder while still remaining coyly catchy thanks to a vocal contribution from Sam Smith. And their remix work is as delectable — namely their send-up of starlet Jessie Ware’s “Running,” besting the original while double-timing the proceedings.

Having already achieved chart success back across the pond — “Latch” climbed as high as 11 on the UK Singles Chart — they seem poised for a similar fate here, though Howard is pensive about the prospect. “We have no idea, we have only been over to the US for about two weeks,” he wrote in an email exchange while prepping for their first full-blown Stateside tour. “We had an amazing response at every show we played there, but who knows? We listen to a lot of American artists, new and old — maybe they’ll listen to us some time too.” _MI CHAEL C. WALSH » MWALSH@PHX.COM

DISCLOSURE + ARNOLD (M.O.D.) :: The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge :: March 18 :: 7pm :: 18+ :: SOLD OUT :: 617.547.5200 or boweryboston.com

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KMFDM IS A DRUG AGAINST BORE “IN hINDSIGhT, hONESTly, it’s almost impossible

how it all happened.” Sascha Konietzko, founder of the industrial noise collective known as KMFDM, still expresses disbelief at the way that his bizarre project has been able to captivate and endure as a three-decades-and-counting global industrial force.

“It has been a series of coincidences and sheer luck, really,” he explains from his Hamburg home.

If your tastes ran industrial in the early-tolate’90s, then KMFDM were just what the doctor ordered: they had the buzzsaw sheen that one expected from the genre’s leaders, but also a playfulness and a knack for mixing sonic assault, psychedelic insanity, and a catchy hook into a piece of agitprop buffoonery.

How many of us, against our better judgment, spent the late ’90s humming “Drug Against War” in our head in a mental lockgroove?

“Sloganeering, Dadaism, expressing complete nonsense — that’s what we were and are about,” says Konietzko. “It has always set us apart from other bands who stoically and glumly go about their thing.

We have a fun factor.” Indeed: Kunst (Metropolis), the band’s 18th album, released last month, is maybe their funniest and most self-aware record. Amidst the clipped guitar stomp and odes to Pussy Riot (“They have balls,” says Konietzko) are inside meta-jokes, like the title-track’s screamed chorus of “Kill Motherfuck-

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ing Depeche Mode!,” one of those “That’s what their name stands for” fan theories turned into song.

“KMFDM are an art form, not a political party” is how Konietzko expressed the essence of the band’s philosophy in a 1999 statement — one released under dire circumstances. At the time, the group were caught in a vortex of negative publicity following the release of their album Adios on April 20 — a day that two of their fans in Colorado decided to use as the date of their planned high school massacre. In the wake of Columbine, Konietzko and Co. found themselves the target of American wrath, with KMFDM lyrics appearing on Eric Harris’s personal website. “I was entirely in love with America — until Columbine. A giant shitstorm came down on us and I thought ‘Oh, oh oh oh, I see it now.’ It isn’t my fault if some deranged kids picked one sentence out of a song and built a manifesto. But that said, seeing one of those kids in pictures wearing a KMFDM hat was the crappiest feeling I’ve ever had.”

KMFDM rebounded when they reformed the following year, and the steady stream of albums and tours has seen Konietzko put the late-’90s nadir behind and focus on the positive. “Everything can be misinterpreted, but the things that I want to put across in KMFDM — literally, freedom of speech, ideals like respect, our shared situation, etc. — these things are good.”

Blackbird Blackbird’s 2012 EP Boracay Planet takes its name from two sources: Boracay — a beach-filled, postcard-perfect island in the Philippines — and a dream Mikey Maramag had about the tourist trap, despite never having visited. “Instead of being an island, it was also a planet,” the band’s 25-year-old architect says with a laugh. “It was kind of a trippy dream.”

Hallucinatory, subconscious neuron firings sound apt as inspirational fodder for this project. Maramag’s mellow, electro-inflected dream-pop comes from a post-reality zone where colors are both turned up and weirdly washed out, and every building happens to float.

Raised in Hawaii and the Bay Area, the Oakland-based Maramag’s history of playing music is heavy on punk and hardcore. He enjoyed playing drums in Murder Practice, a high school hardcore band, but when he left BLACKBIRD for college BLACKBIRD + he had to abandon STRFKR them. In Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm his new Ave, Boston environment, he got into March 16 :: 8 pm :: Apparat, 18+ :: SOLD OUT 617.562.8800 or Modeselektor, thedise.com and Aphex Twin before moving onto more ambient stuff. He launched Blackbird Blackbird as Bye Bye Blackbird in summer 2010, and its discography has quickly grown.

Maramag’s music-making these days stems from a “neurotic urge to record things” that can be traced back to his days tinkering with TabIt, a “shitty” lo-fi piece of tablature shareware. “Live shows are the biggest challenge because I want to bring that homey-ness that I have in my recordings,” he says. “It’s going to be really fun to see how that plays out.” _REYAN ALI » REYANALI@HOTMAIL.COM

_DAN IEL BROCKMAN » D BROCKMAN@PHX.COM

KMFDM + LEGION WITHIN + CHANT :: Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston :: March 20 :: 7 pm :: 18+ :: $22 :: 617.562.8800 or thedise.com THEPHOENIx.COM/MUSIC :: 03.15.13 61

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IT TAkES A CERTAIN kINd of courage to get onstage and make people laugh. It also takes courage to lead a rock band playing your own autobiographical, if cryptic, songs. For Lainey Schooltree, it has been a long trip transitioning from one to the other. In January 2011, her ass-kicking musical-comedy duo the Steamy Bohemians were dormant, and Schooltree was desperate to create.

She had been writing more serious-minded music since she was a kid, but was afraid to show it off. As a personal dare, she took the RPM Challenge, writing, producing, and recording an album in the space of one month. “I felt like, ‘This needs to move forward,’ ” she says. “ ‘I’ve been trying to move this forward for years, and nothing has been happening.’ ” The result was May 2011’s My Metal Mother, a reflection of her eclectic tastes — art rock, ’70s prog rock, Stephen Sondheim, Kate Bush. The last step was to put together a band to play the music, a prospect Schooltree had found intimidating. “I had wanted to do it for years and years,” she says. “I think I just didn’t have the courage, I was just sort of putting it off and instead doing more comedy stuff.”

She tapped guitarist Brendan Burns, with whom she had collaborated in the puppetry troupe Elephant Tango Ensemble and the variety show Bent Wit Cabaret. With Burns she formed Schooltree, the band, eventually rounding

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out the quartet with Derek Van Wormer (bass) and Chris Anderson (drums). They celebrate the release of their first album, Rise, this weekend.

Rise continues to develop Schooltree’s varied tastes.

“Today” conjures dystopia with a bouncy feel and plucking banjo (Schooltree told Burns to use the Muppets’ “Rainbow Connection” as a reference). There’s a dramatic sweep to the music and narrative of “Six Feet Up” that would be at home in a stage musical, albeit a fairly complex one. “After You’re Gone,” a Mother song in a new arrangement, owes a debt to ’70s AOR. Schooltree struggles to describe the band’s sound — she calls it “cabaret rock for nerds and weirdos” on their Facebook page. But it is heavily influenced by melodic prog rock, which can be a tough label to sell. “There’s such a stigma against prog, which makes me very sad because I think it is some of the best music ever made,” she says.

Schooltree, the band, will continue to cater to the offbeat, and will include some cabaret acts before the music starts at the Lizard Lounge. And Schooltree, the person, will continue to take risks. “I like big ambitious things,” she says. “Part of what moves life forward for me is setting a goal you’re not quite sure you’ll be able to do because you’ve never done it before, and then breaking your neck.” _N ICK A. ZAI NO I I I » NI CK@NI CKZAI NO.COM

SCHOOLTREE + COUNT ZERO :: Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge :: March 15 :: 8:30 pm :: 21+ :: $10 :: 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com

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GRAb THE MIx AT THEpHOENIx.COM/ ONTHEdOwNLOAd • The Migs “pretty ricky” • Betty Nico “What you Don’t Know” • Howling Boil “second chorus” • Pleasure Gap “telephone”

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SCHOOLTREE’S NO LAUGHING MATTER

the new hampshire music scene can look kind of abysmal on the surface, fraught with white-boy jam bands and openmic nights. but here are a few gems from deep in the woods. the MIGS have been blowing up Dover’s dive bars and barrington’s backwoods house parties with the unbeatable garage groove of “pretty ricky.” “What you Don’t Know” by young surf punkers BETTY NICO cruises on lazy vibes and heartbroken lyrics. HOWLING BOIL bring glam jock-bar rock into a new realm with “second chorus,” washed with chorused guitars and clever chord progressions, and finally, PLEASURE GAP’s “telephone” breaks past typical pop-punk arrangements and ventures into unknown territory, both emotionally and musically.

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Columbia » Out of all the household names from the ’90s “alternative” boom, arguably the most damaged of them all is, amazingly, still relevant, an Oscar winner, and not dead from drugs or suicide.

Trent Reznor is reactivating Nine Inch Nails, which is well and fine, but even at its nadir, like the abominable “Immigrant Song” cover from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack, his work outside of his signature brand has been much more provocative than anything NIN did in the ’00s. Particularly this project with wife Mariqueen Maandig and The Social Network soundtrack co-scribe Atticus Ross. Whereas the monsters and ghosts of NIN songs can scream in your face and rip you to bits with their fangs, Welcome Oblivion tracks like techno-folk haunter “Ice Age” and the doom-pop jaunt “How Long?” make uncredited cameo appearances in your nightmares until you go insane and eat your own hands. _BARRY THOMPSON » BARRYTHOMPSON84@GMA I L .C OM

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+++1/2 MARNIE STERN, THE CHRONICLES OF MARNIA Kill Rock Stars » In the arena of charming and entertaining indie-music figures, Marnie Stern stands unopposed. The Manhattan resident frequently knocks out vivacious interviews, has stirred up beef with fellow indie sweetheart Best Coast over BC’s purported shallowness, and has used her attractiveness to her advantage by setting up a pay-to-play kissing booth at shows. What’s more, to coincide with The Chronicles of Marnia, she’s letting Kill Rock Stars throw a contest called “Win a Release-Date Date with Marnie Stern.” But although Stern easily wins attention through her off-record personality, her onrecord personality is where the true allure is to be found. On Marnia, her terrific fourth album, she comes across as a forgotten nymph of Greek mythology — an elusive figure renowned for her shadowy charisma and piquant, guitar-driven indie-pop math rock. Armed with her instrument, Super Marnie turns into Fire Marnie, shooting off golden-light-emitting, shredding-and-fingertapping-born riffs in every direction. She has one preferred tone — spend a bit of time with Stern and it’s instantly recognizable — but it’s a distinct, smart thing delivered with gusto and grace, so it works magic four out of five times. A whole mess of other elements are in play too: the lithe drumming of guest Kid Millions, weird vocal stylings (i.e., monkey noises), weird instrumental passages (is that a kazoo in “Nothing Is Easy”?), and — most important — her self-doubting lyrics. Marnia puts a diary’s worth of mantras and questions forward with little context or elaboration. Both of more would be helpful. “All my life, it’s based on fantasy/And all the gods have stopped talking to me,” she states in “Proof of Life” in a plain, shattered voice. In “Noonan,” she asks, “Don’t you want to be somebody?,” temporarily inspired but terrified that she won’t ever be somebody. These on-record musings never reveal the off-record Marnie, which is a shame, but the sprawling, chimerical Marnia brings you close enough to be captivating anyhow. _R EYA N A LI » RE YA NA L I @ H O T M AIL. COM

MARNIE STERN + ROOMRUNNER :: Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston :: April 14 :: 9 pm :: 18+ :: $10 :: 617.566.9014 or greatscottboston.com

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Labrador » Hit the Waves is so heartfelt as a pastiche of ’80s alternative music that it almost muscles its way into being brilliant. The warm, near-ambient wash of “Intro,” with its faded sample of children playing, harks back to the final Smiths singles. The tense, boyish vocals and wind chimes on “Evil Coast” recall the Cure’s Disintegration. “Years” has those high, weird Robert Smith harmonies you’ve missed from forever ago. The beats, hooks, and choruses are all here, but the songs are too mid-tempo to soar as dance-floor hits. No foul; this is a vibe record. The commitment to the vibe is no more apparent than in the luscious title track’s operatic dropout section — which gives ample time for a drink before kicking back in. But the down-tempo melancholy and oceanic imagery that flow from song to song confound whether the record’s samey-ness is by design or is simply a limitation. In the end it amounts to me alternately saying, “Wait, I love this!” and “God, I’m not sure. . .” over and over again. _JONATHAN DONALDSON » CRAZYINBOX@YAHOO.COM

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EMPRESS OF “Hat Trick” [Terrible Records] Recently, via On the Download, we suggested listening to a new track by former Allston residents Celestial Shore, noting that the band includes vocals from Lorely Rodriguez, a/k/a the singer and songwriter behind the Brooklyn-based Empress Of. Now Empress Of have a new track of their own, “Hat Trick,” a moody, slow-moving experi-

mental pop gem putting Rodriguez’s ethereal voice center stage. It’s the first song from their forthcoming Systems EP, out in April via Grizzly Bear’s Terrible Records. Empress Of are currently in Austin for SXSW; their tour with Jamie Lidell stops at Brighton Music Hall on April 11. _LI Z PELLY » LPELLLY@PHX.COM

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LIVE MUSIC THURSDAY 14

AZ + DJ DOO WOP + LOU ARMSTRONG + YUSUF ABDUL MATEEN + STU CAT + ADRIAN LAU + DJ CHUBBY CHUB › 8 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $18-$25 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com BALKAN BEAT BOX + DELHI 2 DUBLIN + DJ JORO BORO + DJ WHO AM I › 9 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $16.50-$20 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com BLUE BOY PRODUCTIONS + TIMBRE COUP + PHILLOSOPHER › 8 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com CHASING BLUE + TRICKY BRITCHES › 9:15 pm › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com CHRIS POTTER QUARTET › 7:30 pm › Regattabar, 1 Bennett St, Charles Hotel, Cambridge › $25 › 617.661.5000 or regattabarjazz. com CITIZEN COPE › 8 pm › Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St, Boston › $35-$39.50 › 617.248.9700 or ticketmaster.com COHEED & CAMBRIA + BETWEEN THE BURIED & ME + RUSSIAN CIRCLES › 8 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $27-$39.50 › 888.693.2583 DEATHFIX + DUBPIXEL + ROBIN BELL + J/Q › 9 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com DOMINIC FLORIO + VINCE CANNADY + HANA › 8 pm › Café 939, 939 Boylston St, Boston › $12 › 617.747.6038 or ticketmaster.com ELDER + BLACK THAI + THE SCIMITAR

+ ROZAMOV › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $8 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com THE FIDDLERS OF INISHBOFIN › 7:30 pm › Burren, 247 Elm St, Somerville › 617.776.6896 or burren.com GENTICORUM + CASEY DRIESSEN › 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $18$20 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com IGNITE TONIGHT + THE MOTIONS + IN THE MEANTIME + REBUILDER › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $7 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com JUKEBOX THE GHOST + MATT POND PA + THE SPRING STANDARDS › 7 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $17-$20 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com MAURA O’CONNELL › 8 pm › Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $25 › 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com “NIGHT WAVE” › With Cassian + Jaminic + Dusty Digital › 9:30 pm › Good Life, 28 Kingston St, Boston › $5-$10 › 617.451.2622 or goodlifebar.com RYAN LESLIE › 7 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $22.50-$50 › 617.451.7700 or ticketmaster.com “THROWED” WITH DJ E-MARCE › 9 pm › Tommy Doyle’s at Harvard, 96 Winthrop St, Cambridge › 617.864.0655 or tommydoyles.com WAYLON SPEED + SOUR D › 7 pm › Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston › $8-$10 › 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com

FRIDAY 15

“ACOUSTIC FOLK PUNK NIGHT” › With Jenn Kitten + Spitshiner + Evan Greer + Ben Walsh › Radio Downstairs, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com ALLAN HARRIS › 8 pm › Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $25 ›

PHX PICKS >> CAN’T MISS • PSYCHIC ILLS Mind-expansion through sound is an art form these days, and New York’s Psychic Ills are the aural drag experience that only comes around every few tours. This year’s One Track Mind (Sacred Bone) is a tripped-out summer cruise that provides visuals for your third eye. This time out, Massachusetts’s Ghost Box Orchestra and Bobb Trimble add their own cocktails to the trip.

T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge:: 8:30 pm :: $10 :: boweryboston.com FRI

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• DROPKICK MURPHYS Okay, so by now the Dropkicks playing all over Eastern Massachusetts is pretty standard fare for St. Patrick’s Day week, 16 but still, those smaller club shows prove the band can still throw it down like the good old punk days behind the barn. This time they hit Brighton Music Hall for a bit of pre-Patrick revelry, and c’mon khed, who doesn’t want to be in Allston this weekend? Vomit never really hurt nobody.

Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston :: 7 pm :: ticket info TBA :: brightonmusichall.com SAT

• PRETTY & NICE Now deemed “Buzzworthy” by the good folks at MTV, Boston’s Pretty & Nice are on the road prepping new record Golden Rules for Golden People, the Rory 21 Records/Equal Vision Records follow-up to last year’s self-released Us You All We. It’s not out until late April, but we’ll get a taste tonight when our favorite ampersand band hits Allston with Jukebox the Ghost and WFNX golden girl Stephie Coplan and the Pedestrians.

Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston :: 6 pm :: $17 :: ticketmaster.com • SAN CISCO Despite the song title, there’s nothing “Awkward” about San Cisco’s bubbly brand of love-pop, and like the Naked and Famous and Strange Talk, the band is the latest in a string of Australian acts blurring the lines between indie and electro. Their 2012 Awkward EP was one of the more overlooked records of the year.

Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston :: 9 pm :: $14/$12 advance :: boweryboston.com THU

617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com “BOYFRIENDS” › With DJ Brent Covington › 9 pm › Milky Way, at the Brewery, 284 Armory St, Jamaica Plain › $5 › 617.524.3740 or milkywayjp.com COHEED & CAMBRIA + BETWEEN THE

BURIED & ME + RUSSIAN CIRCLES › 8 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $27-$39.50 › 888.693.2583 DAVE KELLER BAND + MATTHEW SMART BAND › 10 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $10 › 617.776.2004 or

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johnnyds.com DROPKICK MURPHYS + BLACK 47 + THE MAHONES + OLD MAN MARKLEY + OLD BRIGADE + BRIAN MCPHERSON + SUN COOKED › 7:30 pm › TD Garden, 100 Legends Way, Boston › $37.50-$42.50 › 617.931.2000 or ticketmaster.com EMPIRE STREET + MY NEW DISASTER + RUBIKON › 8 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com EVERY TIME I DIE + THE ACACIA STRAIN + VANNA + HUNDRETH + NO BRAGGING RIGHTS › 7 pm › Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston › $17-$20 › 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com FAT CREEPS + STEEP LEANS + GUILTY PARTY + NICE GUYS › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $8 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com GOD MODULE + LUDOVICO TECHNIQUE + MORDACIOUS + TEN CENT TOYS › P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.776.1557 THE HERE & NOW + SETH NEWTON + THE ALEX COHEN PROJECT › 6 pm › Palladium Upstairs, 261 Main St, Worcester › 978.797.9696 or tickets.com JET BLACK SUNRISE + NIKOLAS METAXAS + JEFF BEAM + THE NEW COMPLAINERS + THE FLO › 7:30 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com KELLER WILLIAMS › 8 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $20 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com OZ NOY TRIO + KEITH CARLOCK + ANTHONY JACKSON › 7:30 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $22 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com

PADDY SAUL + WILL DAILEY + BOW THAYER & JEFF BERLIN › 7:30 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $15 › 617.451.7700 or ticketmaster.com PSYCHIC ILLS + GHOST BOX ORCHESTRA + BOBB TRIMBLE’S FLYING SPIDERS + TWILIGHT TIPI › 9 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com THE SELF-PROCLAIMED ROCKSTARS + STEVE WALTHER ORCHESTRA + THE YEAR MILLION + WHEN PARTICLES COLLIDE › Radio Upstairs, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com “SHAKE IT & LEAVE” › With Skinny Cleveland + OTP + Herban Warfare + Delman Ryder + Slapback › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com “SOLID!” › With Flavorheard › 11 pm › ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $5 › 617.864.3278 or zuzubar.com “THE PILL” › With DJ Michael V + DJ Ken › 10 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $5 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com TRISTAN PRETTYMAN + ANYA MARINA › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › Sold Out › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster. com YOU WERE RECKLESS + ERBAN LANE + SWYM + GIGANTIC ANT › 6 pm › All Asia, 334 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.1544 or allasiabar.com

SATURDAY 16

ANA MOURA › 8 pm › Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass Ave, Boston › $28-$37 › 617.266.7455 AUTO VAUN + WINTER + PLUMERAI + DRIFTERSWIFT › Radio Upstairs, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › $9 › 617.764.0005 or

radiobarunion.com BABYDRIVER + MERCUTIO + ANALOG HEART + BRYAN LAURIER AND THE LOST ACRES › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $7 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston. com BLACK SEA SALSA BAND › 9 pm › Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $12 › 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com BRIAN FOYE + JOHN CROSS + TWINFISH BAND + BIG GHOST › 6 pm › All Asia, 334 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.1544 or allasiabar.com CELTIC WOMAN › Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont St, Boston › $48.75-$103.75 › 866.348.9738 or citicenter.org COURTNEY JAYE › 7 pm › Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St, Boston › $35 › 617.248.9700 or ticketmaster.com ERIC ZINMAN + LAURENCE COOK + RICHARD POOLE › 8 pm › Outpost 186, 186 1/2 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.876.0860 or zeitgeist-outpost.org FINCH [PERFORMING WHAT IT IS TO BURN IN ITS ENTIRETY] › 7 pm › Royale, 279 Tremont St, Boston › $25 › 617.338.7699 or boweryboston.com GLENN YODER + ROY DAVIS › 7:30 pm › Toad, 1920 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.497.4950 or toadcambridge.com “HEROES” › With DJ Chris Ewen › 10 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $7 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com JASON BENNETT AND THE RESISTANCE + ORANGE DIESEL › 8 pm › Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston › $5 › 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com JOHN DONEY + SCARLETT DRIVE + ECHO & DRAKE + THE AMERICAN BLUES + JT LOCKWOOD › 7:30 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10$12 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com

THE MACROTONES + EVOLFO DOORFEHT › 10 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $10 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds. com NEAL BRENNAN › 8 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $20 › 617.451.7700 or boweryboston.com PORCH PARTY MAMAS › 7 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $10 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com SAW DOCTORS + THE LATCHIKOS › 8 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › $29.50-$45 › 888.693.2583 “SOULELUJAH” › With PJ Gray › 11 pm › ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $5 › 617.864.3278 or zuzubar.com STARFUCKER + BLACKBIRD BLACKBIRD › 9 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › Sold Out › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com THE SWAGGERIN’ GROWLERS + THE OLD EDISON + THREES AWAY + OC45 + THE WOLF HONGOS › 8 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $12 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com “THE WHITEHAUS FAMILY RECORD SHOWCASE” › With Guerilla Toss + Gangsta Love + Iji + In Glove With Bach › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com THREE DAY THRESHOLD › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com TIM KASHER + BIRTHMARK + SINNET › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $15; $13 advance › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com VALERIE STEPHENS GROUP › Darryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen, 604 Columbus Ave, Boston › 617.536.1100 or darrylscornerbarboston. com

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Thursday & Friday (March 14th & 15th) LIVE Irish Music 5P – Close!

Saturday & Sunday (March 16th & 17th) LIVE Music from Maxi Courtney & Lever’s Boys ALL DAY!!

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2013 Lunar New Year Concert

tue 3/26

Nona Hendryx Re-Wired

thu 3/28

International Folk Music Festival

sat 3/30

Snarky Puppy

mon 4/1

Guitar Night: Rock and Pop 2013

136 Massachusetts Ave., Boston For full schedule/tickets: berklee.edu/bpc

thu 3/14

Dominic Florio / Vince Cannady / Hana (free)

fri 3/22

Mount Moriah / Blessed Feathers

sat 3/23

Dan and the Wildfire / Cara Brindisi

mon 3/25

Funeral Suits / Mals Totem

wed 3/27

Denison Witmer / Noah Gundersen All shows are all ages 939 Boylston St., Boston Full schedule/tickets: cafe939.com

Guess What I Bought!

Thursday March 14• 9:30pm - 2am

Night Wave

DJs: Cassian (Fool’s Gold), Jaminic, Dusty Digital Nu Disco, House, Techno • $5

SWeet Shop 2-Year aNNiverSarY vS. UNitY Saturday March 16 9:30pm - 2am

Tuesday March 19 • 5pm - 10pm

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Live Hip Hop & Spoken word $5

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• BRIAN BLADE AND THE FELLOwSHIP BAND Perhaps no group better captures the current fusion of jazz with pop music than Brian Blade’s Fellowship Band — with 20 compositions by Blade and keyboardist Jon Cowherd, an impressive front line of saxophonists Myron Walden and Melvin Butler, and Christopher Thomas on bass. The soloists are powerful, sure, but it’s the unfolding drama of the tunes that keeps you on the edge of your seat. In their last visit, they tore up the joint.

Scullers, DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston :: 8 pm + 10 pm :: $25 :: 617.562.4111 or scullersjazz.com WED

• CHARLES LLOYD NEw QUARTET The 75-year-old (as of March 15) saxophonist, flutist, and jazz mystic 21 is playing now as well as he ever has — every note is pure expression. He’s joined by his superb nextgeneration rhythm section: pianist Jason Moran, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Eric Harland.

Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge :: 8 pm :: $40-$65 :: 617.482.6661 or celebrityseries.org THU

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WHAT TIME IS IT MR. FOX? + CHELSEA BERRY › 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $13-$15 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com “WOLF’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY MARDI GRAS BALL” › With Shaun Wolf Wortis & the Legendary Vudu Krewe + the Boston Babydolls + Jen D’Angora + Peter Moore + Mick Mondo › 8 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $12 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com ZEVON HELM + BRIDGET NAULT + THE WEISSTRONAUTS + HWY 9 › Radio Downstairs, 379 Somerville Ave, Somerville › 617.764.0005 or radiobarunion.com

DJ STERLING GOLDEN › 10 pm › ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.864.3278 or zuzubar.com DROPKICK MURPHYS + JIM LOCKEY & THE SOLEMN SUN + REBUILDER › 7 pm › House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston › Sold Out › 888.693.2583 FLYNN & BOB BRADSHAW › 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $13-$15 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com FRESHLYGROUND + FEDERATOR NO. 1 › 7 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $20 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com JOSHUA TREE [U2 TRIBUTE] › 9 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $25 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com KYKLOPS + XATATAX + TRASHAWK + TRACES OF EMPIRE › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $6 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com “THE MIDWAY’S ANNUAL ANTI-ST. PATRICK’S DAY CELEBRATION” › With The Nickel & Dime Band + Erin Harpe & the

THURSDAY, APRIL 4

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Wednesday March 20 9:30pm - 1am

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• ANA MOURA Fado has been called Portugal’s answer to the blues, and in the deep, soulful contralto of singer Ana Moura you can hear why. Her latest album 16 Desfado (Emarcy/Universal) crosses over with production by Larry Klein and even some English-lyric songs. But Moura’s expression, and her feel for undulating folkloric dance rhythms, is so sure that she needs no translation.

Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass Ave, Boston :: 8 pm :: $28-$37 :: 617.876.8742 or worldmusic.org SAT

BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY › 7 pm › Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $40 › 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz.com THE DEER TRACKS + MAGIC WANDS › 8:30 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $10 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com

DJs: Noir, CS, Mr. McNeil House and Techno • $10

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• BOLT AND KLANG Clarinet specialist (no doubling!) James Falzone’s control and purity of tone could probably land him a symphony orchestra gig, but as 14 composer and player he’s spanned multiple genres. His band Klang can conjure chamber-group intimacy and a hell-bent avant-swing that lives up to their name.

The Chicago group (with Falzone, bassist Jason Roebke, drummer Tim Daisy, and trombonist Jeb Bishop) joins Boston guys Bolt (saxophonist Jorrit Dijkstra, guitarist Eric Hofbauer, cellist Junko Fujiwara, and drummer Eric Rosenthal) at the Lily Pad. Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge :: 7:30 pm [Bolt] and 8:30 pm [Klang] :: $10 :: lily-pad.net THU

SUNDAY 17

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Delta Swingers + Ten FootPpolecats + Jesse & The Hogg Brothers › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com SLEEP STUDIES + MARGARET THATCHR › 8 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com THE SUMMER SET + WE ARE THE IN CROWD + GO RADIO + FOR THE FOXES › 7 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Sold Out › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com

MONDAY 18

THE CONSTELLATIONS › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › Sold Out › 617.566.9014 or boweryboston.com DISCLOSURE › 7 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › Sold Out › 617.451.7700 or boweryboston.com K-X-P + BOYTOY + EARTHQUAKE PARTY! + FLEABITE › 8 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com RACK ’EM LET’S GO! + CHARLIE THE MOST + ELEPHANT PROOF + DJ SATORI › 9 pm › Wonder Bar, 186 Harvard Ave, Allston › $5 › 617.351.2665 or wonderbarboston.com THE SPACE BUMS + STEEP LEANS › 10 pm › ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.864.3278 or zuzubar.com THALIA ZEDEK + CHRIS BROKAW › 8:30 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com

TUESDAY 19

ANBERLIN + PAPER ROUTE + ALL GET OUT › 7 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm

Ave, Boston › $20 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster. com BIRD OF PREY + NICO LUMINOUS + DIGITAL VAGABOND › 10 pm › Wonder Bar, 186 Harvard Ave, Allston › $10 › 617.351.2665 or wonderbarboston.com GONE TO SEED + THREE TALL PINES › 8:30 pm › Cantab Lounge, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge › 617.354.2685 or cantab-lounge.com HELEN MONEY › 8:30 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com JAH-N-I ROOTS › Darryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen, 604 Columbus Ave, Boston › 617.536.1100 or darrylscornerbarboston.com JAVELIN + RALEIGH MONCRIEF + BIRTHDAYS › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $10 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb. com LUCY ROSE › 7 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10-$12 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com THE MARK SNYDER QUARTET › 7:30 pm › Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $8 › 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com NAT-MAN-BAND NAT MUGAVERO AND CREW › 8 pm › Beehive, 541 Tremont St, Boston › 617.423.0069 or beehiveboston.com THE SYMBOLICS + HAPPY LITTLE CLOUDS + THE NICOLE ALEXANDRA BAND › 8 pm › Midway Café, 3496 Washington St, Jamaica Plain › 617.524.9038 or midwaycafe.com “ZUESDAY” › With DJ Leah V. & Black Adonis › 10 pm › ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $3 › 617.864.3278 or zuzubar.com

WEDNESDAY 20

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Comm Ave, Allston › $8-$10 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com BRIAN BLADE AND THE FELLOWSHIP BAND › 8 pm › Scullers, 400 Soldiers Field Rd, Cambridge › $25 › 617.783.0090 or scullersjazz. com “FREAK FLAG DJ NIGHT” › 10 pm › ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.864.3278 or zuzubar.com HELOISE & THE SAVOIR FAIRE + BANDITAS + HOME BODY + FUR PURSE › Elks Lodge, 55 Bishop Allen Dr, Cambridge › $5 › 617.354.0404 JOEL PLASKETT + CAUSE A ROCKSLIDE + WORLD’S QUIETEST BAND › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $8 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com KAMINANDA + SKYTREE › 9 pm › Wonder Bar, 186 Harvard Ave, Allston › $7 › 617.351.2665 or wonderbarboston.com KMFDM + LEGION WITHIN + CHANT › 8 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › $22 › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com LANCE MARTIN QUARTET › Darryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen, 604 Columbus Ave, Boston › 617.536.1100 or darrylscornerbarboston. com LONG TIME COURTING + KATIE MCNALLY & ERIC MCDONALD › 8 pm › Club Passim, 47 Palmer St, Cambridge › $18-$20 › 617.492.7679 or clubpassim.com THE MAAD T-RAY + TRIBAL SEEDS + STICK FIGURE › 8 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $16-$18 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com REIGNING SOUND + SAND RECKONER › 8:30 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $12 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com SHEMEKIA COPELAND › 7:30 pm › Regattabar, 1 Bennett St, Charles Hotel, Cambridge › $25 › 617.661.5000 or regattabarjazz. com SOUL BRAZIL › 9 pm › Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz. com SOUND REMEDY + BILLY BROWN + 4LMNTZ + MOBSKY + SPACECASE › 8 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10-$13 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com

THURSDAY 21

ALBA’S EDGE + EZEKIEL’S WHEELS KLEZMER BAND › 8 pm › Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge › $10 › 617.395.1393 ANNIE AND THE BEEKEEPERS + RUSTY BELLE › 8:30 pm › Lizard Lounge, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $12 › 617.547.0759 or lizardloungeclub.com THE ARCANE COMEDY + PARLOUR BELLS + THE DEEP NORTH + THE SUSAN CONSTANT › 8 pm › Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $10 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com

BRUCE OWEN & FRIENDS › Darryl’s Corner Bar & Kitchen, 604 Columbus Ave, Boston › 617.536.1100 or darrylscornerbarboston.com CHARLES LLOYD + JASON MORAN › 8 pm › Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge › $40-$65 › 617.496.2222 or ofa.fas.harvard.edu/ boxoffice COMPAQ BIG BAND › 8 pm › Ryles, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge › $12 › 617.876.9330 or rylesjazz.com CRUSHED OUT + NEW HIGHWAY HYMNAL + THUNDERBLOODS › 8:30 pm › T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge › $8-$10 › 617.492.2327 or ticketweb.com DEAD CATS DEAD RATS + ZIP-TIE HANDCUFFS + VUDU SISTER + THE SILKS › 8 pm › O’Brien’s, 3 Harvard Ave, Allston › $7 › 617.782.6245 or obrienspubboston.com “FLAVOR OF THE MONTH” › With DJ Jdeck + DJ Mdeck › 9:30 pm › Good Life, 28 Kingston St, Boston › Free › 617.451.2622 or goodlifebar.com GOZU + DAS MUERTE + JACK BURTON VS. DAVID LO PAN › 9:30 pm › Milky Way, at the Brewery, 284 Armory St, Jamaica Plain › $10 › 617.524.3740 or milkywayjp.com HIDDEN TOWERS + SPACE MUSHROOM FUZZ + A TERRIBLE HOSPITALITY + HIGH CONTRAST CAMO & KROOKED + FRED V & GRAFIX › 8 pm › Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge › $23-$25 › 617.864.EAST or ticketweb.com HOT BUTTERED RUM + CABINET › 8 pm › Church of Boston, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston › $13-$15 › 617.236.7600 or churchofboston.com JOSE JAMES › 7 pm › The Sinclair, 52 Church St, Cambridge › $25 › 617.451.7700 or boweryboston.com JUKEBOX THE GHOST + PRETTY & NICE + STEPHIE COPLAN & THE PEDESTRIANS › 7 pm › Brighton Music Hall, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston › $17-$20 › 617.779.0140 or ticketmaster.com JULIA AND THE ZEROUNIAN ENSEMBLE › 7:30 pm › Regattabar, 1 Bennett St, Charles Hotel, Cambridge › $23 › 617.661.5000 or regattabarjazz.com LIFESTYLE + SPF-5000 + FUTURE CARNIVORES + DJ INFINITE JEFF › Precinct, 70 Union Sq, Somerville › 617.623.9211 or precinctbar.com NATHAN AND DANDY DAN › 10 pm › ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge › Free › 617.864.3278 or zuzubar.com POOR EVERYBODY + BLACK FORTRESS OF OPIUM + BRENDAN BURNS › 8:45 pm › Johnny D’s, 17 Holland St, Somerville › $10 › 617.776.2004 or johnnyds.com SAN CISCO + CHAOS CHAOS › 9 pm › Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston › $12-$14 › 617.566.9014 or ticketweb.com TYLER, THE CREATOR › 8 pm › Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston › Sold Out › 617.562.8800 or ticketmaster.com

INFORMAL PROBATE PUBLICATION NOTICE Docket No. SU13P0490EA Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Estate of: Marie G. Makie

Suffolk Division 24 New Chardon Street Boston, MA 02114 (617) 788-8300 Also Known As: Marie Makie

Date of Death: 11/17/2011

To all persons interested in the above captioned estate, by Petition of Petitioner Marlene Makie Kechris of South Boston, MA Petitioner John Makie of Mansfield, MA A Will has been admitted to informal probate.

Marlene Makie Kechris of South Boston, MA John Makie of Mansfield, MA has been informally appointed as the Personal Representative of the estate to serve without surety on the bond.

The estate is being administered under informal procedure by the Personal Representative under the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code without supervision by the Court. Inventory and accounts are not required to be filed with the Court, but interested parties are entitled to notice regarding the administration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. Interested parties are entitled to petition the Court to institute formal proceedings and to obtain orders terminating or restricting the powers of Personal Representatives appointed under informal procedure. A copy of the Petition and Will, if any, can be obtained from the Petitioner.

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Paddy WhacKEd Bartenders dish on St. Patrick’s Day drinking B y sc o T T KE a r n a n @T h e W r i T e sT u f f s k

Erin KilEy

Unexpected intimacy is a side effect of all-day drinking. “You have the pleasure of seeing the same customers in each stage of their drunkenness,” says Kiley, who remembers one too-close encounter at Lir. “I was serving this idiot all day long. He was ordering Irish Flag shots, hot toddies, and every other drink that’s annoying to make when balls-to-thewall busy. Eventually I noticed him hanging in the corner, looking drunk and suspicious. I got a closer look, and saw he had his pants around his knees and was pissing on the floor in front of everyone.

The saddest part was that nobody around him seemed to notice or care. I confronted him with a doorman. When we asked what he was doing, he said he was taking a piss — and we should give him some privacy.”

black anD sTormy toP one and a half ounCes of Jameson blaCk barrel whiskey with gosling’s ginger beer, add a lime wedge, and serve over iCe.

Tally Philosophe

T

o partiers, Saint Patrick’s Day is a noon-to-night marathon of drinking. But to bartenders, it’s amateur hour. Seriously. If there’s one day when your friendly local drink-slinger will be forced to endure especially insane public drunkenness, it’s March 17.

(And the extra green is everywhere but in bartenders’ pockets. In fact, some say Saint Patrick’s Day sloppiness leads to their worst tip nights.) We rounded up some nightspot bartenders’ most outrageous Saint Paddy’s Day memories, plus an inspired drink recipe from each one.

Read before you hit the bar. (Warning: This could be you.)

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A drunk leprechaun walks into a bar, and — actually, we’re going to let Philosophe finish this one. “I was working behind the bar when a man walked in dressed as a leprechaun from head to toe, face paint and all,” says Philosophe, who bartends at Cure. “He asked for a Jack and Coke.

Since his eyes were closed the entire time he spoke to me, and given his slurred attempt at an Irish accent, I decided to give him water instead. Not pleased, the leprechaun waited until I turned around, reached over the bar, and grabbed alcohol to make his own drink. The security staff rushed over, and the leprechaun put up a fight — kicking and yelling the whole way to the door in his ‘Irish’ accent.”

The Tally, Dark, anD hanDsome Combine one ounCe of Patrón Xo Café Coffee liqueur, one ounCe of Jameson whiskey, one-half ounCe of baileys irish Cream, and one shot of esPresso. shake and Pour over iCe.

andor FuhrEr

You may have found Fuhrer bartending at party nights at clubs like Bijou. But like many of us, his most outrageous Saint Patrick’s Day memory is from a house party. “I was bartending a house party in the South End, and it had a complete Irish theme: green drinks, Guinness, corned beef and cabbage. One guy kept eating the cabbage, which at one point had been left sitting out on the cold patio.

He was trying to mack it hard on this other hot guy. Eventually they started making out — and the guy barfed chunks of cabbage into the other guy’s mouth.” P

Pickleback take a shot of Jameson whiskey, Chased with a shot of PiCkle JuiCe. yes, straight from the vlasiC Jar. believe it or not, it’s a shot some swear by. “the saltiness of the JuiCe ComPlements the whiskey!” says fuhrer.

Tally PhilosoPhe PhoTo by Derek kouyoumjian; Pickle juice PhoTo by eDgar hernanDez

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BIJOU NIGHTCLUB & LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › House/Hip-Hop › “Bijou Thursdays” BOND › Boston › 9 pm › House › “Taste Thursdays” with Joe Bermudez + Greg Pic DOWN ULTRA LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › House/EDM › “Hype Nightlife Presents” with DJ Bamboora EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › Sophia Lin ESTATE › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40/HipHop › “Glamlife Thursdays” GEM RESTAURANT & LOUNGE › Boston › Top 40 › “East Coast Nightlife Presents” MIDDLESEX LOUNGE › Cambridge › 10 pm › EDM › “Make It New” with DJ Dusty NAGA › Cambridge › 10 pm › Top 40/EDM/ Latin › “Verve Thursdays” NIX’S MATE › Boston › 7 pm › Top 40 › “Rotating Action” with DJ Action Jackson + DJ Matty D PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › 10 pm › Drum n’ Bass › “Elements” with Crook & Lenore RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › House › “Trainwreck Thursdays” with DJ Brian Derrick RUMOR › Boston › 11 pm › House/EDM/ Hip-Hop › “Rumor Thursday Sessions” with DJ Tak Yamashita STORYVILLE › Boston › 10 pm › House › “Storyville Thursdays” with DJ Costa TOMMY DOYLE’S AT HARVARD › Cambridge › 9 pm › “Throwed” with DJ E-Marce

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FRiDAY 15

BIJOU NIGHTCLUB & LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › Tale of Us + Tamer Malki BOND › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40 › “Redemption Fridays” CURE LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › “VIP Fridays” with DJ Profenna DISTRICT › Boston › 10 pm › Latin › “Latin Fridays” with DJ Juan Madrid DOWN ULTRA LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › House/Top 40/Hip-Hop › Dueling DJs EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › DJ Kazz ESTATE › Boston › 10 pm › House/ EDM/Top 40 › “Estate Fridays” with Gommert Mes GUILT › Boston › 10 pm › House/EDM › “Queer Fridays” GYPSY BAR › Boston › 10 pm › House › “Insta-Party Fridays” HURRICANE O’REILLY’S › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40 › “Hurricane Fridays” MIDDLESEX LOUNGE › Cambridge › 10 pm › EMD › Brek.One PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › 10 pm › Top 40 › “Pretty Young Thing” with DJ Vinny PRIME › Boston › 10 pm › House › “VIP Fridays” RISE › Boston › 1 am › Edu Imbernon + Full Tilt + Asho & Nico ROYALE › Boston › 10 pm › House/ Electro/Disco › “Full on Fridays” RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40/ Mash-Ups › “Touch Fridays” with DJ Dres + DJ Hectik + DJ Lus VENU › Boston › 11 pm › EDM/Hip-Hop/ House › “Venu Fridays” WEST END JOHNNIE’S › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40s/House/MashUps [upstairs] + 90s [downstairs] › “Showtime Fridays”

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BIJOU NIGHTCLUB & LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › House/Hip-Hop › “Bijou Saturdays” BOND › Boston › 10 pm › House › “Flaunt Saturdays” CURE LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40/House/Rock/Pop/Hip-Hop › “Saturdays at Cure” with rotating DJs Hectik + DJ 7L + Brek.One + DJ Theo A + DJ Frank White DISTRICT › Boston › 10 pm › Mash-Ups › “Status Saturdays” with DJ Cootz DOWN ULTRA LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › House/Top 40/Hip-Hop › Dueling DJs EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › Hevan ESTATE › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40 › “VIP Access Saturdays” with DJ JD GEM RESTAURANT & LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40/House › “East Coast Nightlife Presents” with DJ Jacques Dumas GUILT › Boston › 10 pm › House › “Guilt Trip Saturdays” MIDDLESEX LOUNGE › Cambridge › Top 40/EDM › DJ Kon NIX’S MATE › Boston › 10 pm › House › “Nix’s at Night” with DJ Dirty Dek PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › 10 pm › 80s/90s/One Hit Wonders › “Boom Boom Room” with DJ Vinny PRIME › Boston › 10 pm › House/HipHop/EDM › “Gossip Saturdays” RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › Punk › “Loud!” with DJ Ghost + DJ Jonah Laze RUMOR › Boston › 11 pm › House/HipHop/EDM › “Rumor Saturdays” with DJ Roger M + DJ JC STORYVILLE › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40 › “Storyville Saturdays “ VENU › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40/MashUps/Latin › “Entourage Saturdays”

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CURE LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › HipHop/International House › “Industry Sundays” with DJ Hectik EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 10 pm › Old-School Hip-Hop/R&B › “Svedka Sundays: Industry Night” with DJ Inkognito MIDDLESEX LOUNGE › Cambridge › 8:30 pm › UK Bass/House/Techno › “Special St. Patty’s Edition of Foreplay with Huxley!”

PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › 10 pm › Dubstep/EDM/House/Techno › “The Drop” PRIME › Boston › 10 pm › DJ Duo Showtek RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › House/Dance › “Dance!” with DJ George Pappas RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › Hip-Hop › “Tilt Sunday” with Supa DJ JKool + DJ Jack Frost + DJ Blackout + DJ Kojak

MOnDAY 18

MINIBAR › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40s › “MiniBar Mondays” PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › 10 pm › Roots/Reggae/Dancehall › “Makka Monday” with Voyager 01 + DJ Uppercut RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › Retro/90s/ Glam › “The Attic” with DJ Kuro

tuEsDAY 19

MINIBAR › Boston › 10 pm › 90s/House › “MiniBar Tuesdays” NAGA › Cambridge › 10 pm › Top 40/House › “Tabu Tuesdays” RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › Punk › “Punk Night” with DJ Ghost RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40 › “Evolution Tuesdays” with DJ Hectik

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DISTRICT › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40/Mash-Ups/Hip-Hop › “Classic Wednesdays” with DJ Tanno EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › DJ Case RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › House/Dance › “Dance!” with DJ George Pappas RUMOR › Boston › 10 pm › House/Latin › “Rumor Wednesdays” with DJ Adilson + DJ Boatslip + DJ Maryalice

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BIJOU NIGHTCLUB & LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › House/Hip-Hop › “Bijou Thursdays” BOND › Boston › 9 pm › House › “Taste Thursdays” with Joe Bermudez + Greg Pic DOWN ULTRA LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › House/EDM › “Hype Nightlife Presents” with DJ Bamboora EMERALD LOUNGE AT REVERE HOTEL › Boston › 9 pm › DJ Trouble ESTATE › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40/HipHop › “Glamlife Thursdays” GEM RESTAURANT & LOUNGE › Boston › 10 pm › Top 40 › “East Coast Nightlife Presents” MIDDLESEX LOUNGE › Cambridge › EDM › “Make It New” with Maxxi Soundsystem + Juan MacLean NAGA › Cambridge › 10 pm › Top 40/ EDM/Latin › “Verve Thursdays” NIX’S MATE › Boston › 7 pm › Top 40 › “Rotating Action” with DJ Action Jackson + DJ Matty D PHOENIX LANDING › Cambridge › 10 pm › Drum n’ Bass › “Elements” with Crook & Lenore RAMROD › Boston › 10 pm › House › “Trainwreck Thursdays” with DJ Brian Derrick RUMOR › Boston › 11 pm › House/EDM/ Hip-Hop › “Rumor Thursday Sessions” with DJ Tak Yamashita STORYVILLE › Boston › 10 pm › House › “Storyville Thursdays” with DJ Costa

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» At the New England Talent & Production 2013 Season Kickoff Party On the eve Of the OsCars, a crowd of actors, models, casting directors, talent scouts, and other local film and stage peeps gathered in the swanky bar at Newton’s Hotel Indigo for a networking party presented by NE Actor and Model Club Inc. At a soiree packed to the gills with people who make their living standing out, we feared it might be hard to pick just one star of the show. But when we spotted a particularly fetching bowler hat across the room, we knew we’d found our leading man.

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He picked up the black leather vest, however, at a Dress Barn, back when they used to sell men’s clothes. He scored the bowler at JP haberdasher Salmagundi and said that a good hat is the one item he couldn’t live without. “I started losing my hair right around 23 or 24, but I was blessed with a good-shaped head!”

Describing his style as “retro,” he said “a very wise bluesman once told me that the definition of retro is that you dress detective fiction and think science fiction. So I wear clothes that hark back to around the turn of last century.”

Which sounds a little steampunk. That’s how he’d dress if he ever got invited to the Oscars. “Like, full-on sci-fi-con goggles, steam pipes, and everything. Just to see what the press would write about me.”

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You might not know him yet — “I’m sort of like that character actor in Hollywood who you see in everything but don’t know their name,” he said — but Alan is a regular on Boston stages.

He’s also a regular on the thrifting circuit, and he counts Boomerangs, the Garment District, and the Salvation Army as favorite spots.