Mr. Lif has been the Hub’s last word in socially conscious hip-hop for a solid decade now, co-founding the Bay State truth-crew The Perceptionists and reppin’ his cerebral rhythms from New York to Coachella. Continue reading
Issue 12.50
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DIG THIS! GUILLERMO SEXO
The Dig’s review of this prog-punk-posse’s debut album, currently positioned at the top-spot of their homepage’s posting of favorable writeups, opens with an anecdote about hardcore pornography … and then, well, kinda stays there. Continue reading
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FOR YOUR CYBORG DAD: THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN
You know how old this show is by the title alone—six-million dollars would hardly buy you a prosthetic toe, let alone an entire cyborg body. Continue reading
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FOR THE CARTOON SNOB ROOMMATE: FUTURAMA
That guy with the Pac-Man tattoo and a copy of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis on his DVD rack? He wants Futurama. Get him Futurama. Do not get him Family Guy. He will treat it as a personal slight, and plot your destruction. Continue reading
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FOR THE HIPSTER WHO NEEDS A COFFEE TABLE: THE LOST ROLLING STONES PHOTOGRAPHS
The Lost Rolling Stones Photographs are a blast to flip through and a must for anyone unironically into Richards’ guitar skills (and the fact that he’s, uh, still alive.) Continue reading
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STIKI LEAKS
IN THE NEW WORLD of never-forget internet, drag-and-drop espionage and sports are the new politics, the New York Times learned a valuable lesson from the cache class. Continue reading
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FOR YOUR LITTLE BROTHER (WHO ARE YOU KIDDING, FOR YOU): LAUGH IT UP, FUZZBALL
What’s so great about these Star Wars spoofs is that the FG writers have had three decades to think of ways to poke fun at the iconic trilogy, so there’s little need for the hot air used to inflate recent FG episodes. Continue reading
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FOR YOUR BOYFRIEND (IF YOU ACTUALLY LIKE HIM): JAMES BOND 007
Only a handful of games spark assassin glee and genuine joy in every male aged 22-35 when mentioned. Goldeneye is the champion of this realm. Continue reading
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FOR “THAT” UNCLE. THE DICK ONE: AMERICA BY HEART
Sarah Palin doesn’t know the proper way to handle a firearm.
There’s not a drop of metaphor in that sentence. Continue reading
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HUG, PLAY, LAUGH, CRY @ THE MFA
No matter your religious affiliation, variable grinchitude or capacity for enduring jingles, there is one thing that unites us all over the holiday season: crushing maternal guilt. There may be absolutely nothing we can do to allay our mother’s creeping suspicions that we drink too much, or stay out too late (mostly because that’s absolutely true), but at least you can tell her that you attended the Hug, Play, Laugh, Cry lecture at the Museum of Fine Arts, which offers a look at how the classical world dealt with the ceaseless umbilical nagging of the people we love dearly but never have time to call. [465 Huntington Ave., Boston. 617.267.9300. 6pm/free with admission. mfa.org]
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ART AND NATURE CENTER’S GREATEST HITS @ PEABODY ESSEX
Thanks to a wacky mix-up in paperwork, Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum appears to be staffed almost entirely by third-graders. As a direct result, its programming is fucking awesome. We defy you to find more earnest excitement than on Essex’s calendar page promoting their upcoming Art and Nature Center’s Greatest Hits event, which revives their most popular interactive exhibits. The author is just so goddamn stoked to tell you that they’re bringing back the Nature Watch Challenge’s rolling eyeball. You can just tell that they barely made it through typing that exclamation point before pissing themselves. And who can blame them? Rolling eyeball! [161 Essex St, Salem MA. 978.745.9500. 10am/all ages/free. pem.org]
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THE BOX @ BPL
2009′s The Box, screening at the Boston Public Library as part of their Made In Massachusetts series, is the oddest of odd ducks in the admittedly bizarre flock of indie filmmakers with big budgets. Richard Kelly, best known for unleashing indie-fairytale Donnie Darko, wrote and directed this adaptation of a 1986 Twilight Zone, which was in turn adapted from a 1970 short story, which can be summed up in a single sentence: Would you off a complete stranger for an absolute shitload of money? If your answer is “Needs more Cameron Diaz,” then congratulations, you are Richard Kelly. [Rabb Lecture Hall, 700 Boylston St., Boston. 617.536.5400. 6pm/free. bpl.org]
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