Issue 14.19

Music 

DIG THIS: INGRID MICHAELSON @ HOUSE OF BLUES

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Soon her songs were appearing in Grey’s Anatomy, Old Navy commercials and oodles of “totally precious” post-hookup mixes for Sunday brunches worldwide—not to mention our hearts. Continue reading

Music 

DIG THIS: BETH ORTON @ BRIGHTON MUSIC HALL

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People say singer-songwriter’s are a dime a dozen these days. People that only we know, and who still use phrases like “a dime a dozen.” Well, those wholly real, not-made-up people are totes wrong. Continue reading

Arts 

WATCH CITY FESTIVAL

You’re walking down Main Street, enjoying the newly sprung spring, when a man in a top hat walks past you pulling a wagon, which you could swear contains a baby octopus. Continue reading

News 

BAR HAVOC: BEGINNINGS

I remember college like it was yesterday, sort of. Continue reading

Music 

DIG THIS: NEON INDIAN @ THE PARADISE

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Their actual music is more akin to dreamy synths and breathy vocals and not, say, a Cherokee chief with gamma powers. Continue reading

News 

MEDIA FARM: ON THE WARPATH

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It doesn’t matter whether or not Elizabeth Warren personally claimed a Native American heritage. Thus far, there hasn’t been any evidence that it was used to further her career, and only someone who wants to believe that a progressive woman couldn’t possibly be qualified to be a law professor would buy into the mudslinging personal attacks that frequently pass for political discourse in the Boston Herald. Continue reading

Music 

OFF!: OFF!

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A short, ferocious, and astute slice of hardcore punk. Continue reading

Arts 

THE SECRET HISTORY OF LOVE

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“It’s focusing on people who were figuring out how to find each other and find love when it was literally criminal.” Continue reading