If you have your tea party outfit all tailored up and ready to go, you might want to put it to good use before the big protest next Wednesday. And what better way to practice for a tea party than with a little pub crawl? The group of belligerent dunks you're sure to encounter as you pitter-patter your 19th century–attired self around near Landsdowne and Faneuil may overlap in identity and tendencies with the group of belligerent conservatives sure to be found at the Common for Sarah Palin's appearance there on Wednesday. But perhaps, upon discussion, pub crawlers and tea partiers can come to terms based on a mutual affection for an era when fashion was fussy and liberty ran rampant—for, uh, some people.
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Underground Hip Hop Dot Com, the storefront with a website's name, uses its window display as a stage. It's a raised, carpeted platform with nothing more than three lights, a pair of turntables, a microphone, and a mixer. Last night, Large Professor, the 19-year hip hop veteran, stormed that stage and rocked a crowd of 15 people for a solid half hour. For free.
On Saturday night at the Paradise, UMass alums Dinosaur Jr. brought their intense melodies and insane guitar work back to Boston for the first time since the release of their latest album, Beyond. For a show featuring dudes old enough to be your dad, it rocked much harder than most indie bands do today. Satisfying both longtime fans now in their forties (or beyond), twentysomethings who felt the pain in middle school, and XX-handed minors...
This week, Phillyist saw the waters of a landmark fountain run red for a Showtime marketing stunt, the Phils pull ahead, and some serious nostalgia. They also got a chance to review an awesome tribute album, reminded folks to see the King and appreciated their beautiful skyline. Chicagoist knows what it's like to like the Cubs. But naming your kid Wrigley Fields? At least they can breathe a little easier now that Grossman's out and...
Starbucks, schmarbucks. Dunkin' Donuts thinks it can rule the world. It's rolled out corny commercials with the likes of Naomi Campbell and Rachael Ray leaving skidmarks on a floor. The next step in world domination starts this month, when our beloved Dunkin' Donuts begins selling packaged Dunkin' coffee across the United States at Wal-Mart, Kroger, and other stores. This is excellent news for anyone who no longer lives in New England yet who still feels...
Home Movie Day will be at the Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, Room B04 tomorrow, from noon to 3:00 pm. You can drop off 8mm, Super 8, or 16mm film starting at 11:00 am. For more information, go to the official Home Movie Day website. Movies need a few scratches and grit. The new technologies of the day make movies seem almost too smooth and clean, but imperfect conditions make a movie more like a...
It doesn't feel like a year has passed since zombies took over Davis Square, but the undead is preparing to unleash upon poor, hapless living folk another installment of the Boston Zombie March. If you don't make a point of protecting your brain on Saturday evening or perfecting that zombie lurch in time, well...don't say we didn't warn you. The march will begin at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in Davis and lurch its way down Massachusetts...
Mariza is a young (thirty something) Fadista and follower of Amália Rodrigues. For those unfamiliar with the genre, fado is Portugal's melancholy folk music that incorporates elements of Argentine tango, Spanish flamenco, and Greek rebetika, all expressed with the gut wrenching lament of the blues.
The MBTA made a bold marketing move in branding the new fare cards. Bold, but perhaps brilliant. Before the CharlieCard, before the CharlieTicket, all passengers have is the MBTA to blame. Now riders simply raise their fists and curse Charlie (think Shatner screaming "Khaaan!") the MBTA isn't scapegoat - it's the new cartooned mascot. A mascot who was taken from the verse of a song about a guy who was stuck on the T because...
Why ramble? We've got shows to get out and see. We could put up a whole narrative about the state we were left in after NEMO and BeanTown Jazz swept through this weekend. But not now. Monday 10/2 Built to Spill with Helvetia Built to Spill delivers Indie Rock from when they first hit our radar on college radio and they actually were an indie band. They've been with Warner Bros. for what seems...
On August 1, 1981 MTV started transmission as it began its illustrious incarnation as the first cable music television network. Twenty-five years later to the day we're bringing you that famous video from The Buggles that started it all. There isn't much that we can do to connect this to Boston except to note that many of us grew up with MTV as an integral part of our teen years (tomorrow be on the lookout for Hangin' Tough). Long gone seem the days when music videos dominated or even when Beavis and Butthead were broadcast without nostalgia – now its Laguna Beach and the Hills or a little Super Sweet Sixteen. "Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll!"
We’re working for the weekend and it's only Monday. Rainy day outside and the sun is reported MIA until Wednesday. Despite the current gloom, things are looking mighty green outside - a good sign of spring. Flowering trees have done their thing and soon we’ll be smelling the lilacs. For now we’re settling for another cup of Stella while we soak up the tunes and the increasing temperatures. Monday 4/24: John Vanderslice mk Ultra...
Sometimes the night just seems to fly by, doesn’t matter if you’re up all night at a party or sleeping soundly in your bed. Time-lapse photos smushed together into video form certainly enhance that feeling that the night goes by so quickly. This is the second in a series looking from Cambridge across the river. You can see planes whizzing by in the night sky and cars hustling around in the foreground. But, if you don’t like that reason to watch you can just take it in for nostalgia – with the clocks springing ahead this past weekend we’ve got less darkness of night during the waking hours.
After a weekend of such incredible springtime weather and a Red Sox win on opening day, the rain sets in. The meteorologists are talking lots of rain and some possible snow over the next 48 hours. All Bostonist can think about is road trips. Fond memories of heading down 95 to visit the grandparents and Disneyworld. We're reminded of the signs which started somewhere in Jersey letting us know that South of the Border was...
When Bostonist went through grade school Ben Franklin was the gold standard of inventor/kite-flyer, revolutionary, patriot, journalist, abolitionist and all-around model American. Born on Milk Street here in Boston in 1706, affection for Franklin and the many accomplishments in his life have long been used as a teaching tool for the Bay State chillins. Major news media is reporting today that Star Wars may usurp Franklin’s position. “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination'' which will open tomorrow at the Museum of Science has been touted not only as a Star Wars fan’s wet dream but also a teaching tool about modern science. The $5 million exhibit displays parts of sets and costumes used in the six movies, the original trilogy and the more recent prequel trilogy. In the hands-on fashion that the Museum of Science uses in may of their exhibits people can build their own simple ‘Maglev’ trains which use magnetic propulsion while looking at some of the wicked cool space ships and hovercraft used in the Star Wars series.
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