Thousands of people woke Sunday morning as calm, collected adults. And yet a funny thing happened on the way to the TD Banknorth Garden that night. By 9 p.m., many of those unsuspecting people (mostly women in their late twenties and early thirties) had undergone a mass regression the like of which Bostonist has never before experienced. Mature members of society were reduced to shrieking, swooning schoolgirls. The New Kids on the Block's second Garden appearance in three nights served as a clown car DeLorean. Fourteen years after Jordan Knight,......
Music: September 2008 Archives
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Sam Rivers Trio and NEC Jazz Orchestra New Music Now series Institute for Contemporary Art South Boston, 7:30 p.m. $25/$20 It's almost perverse to include an 84-year-old man in a series called New Music Now, but Sam Rivers isn't your average octogenarian. The reedsman, who has played jazz since the 1950s, is a living repository of free jazz, a performer whose recordings over the past two decades have become essential listening for those interested in the shape of jazz to come. Rivers, originally from......
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