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The Daily News of Newburyport reports that Essex County District Attorney Jonathan Blodgett told a roomful of people that “the increased potency of cannabis … which is often laced with high percentages of THC, ecstasy or crystal meth” has been in part responsible for 100 heroin overdoses in his jurisdiction this year alone.
In the past, her concerns have included stopping abortions and gay marriage, getting government out of public education, and witchcraft.
Having shed over 20 pounds and all traces of likability, sporting oily hair and sunken eyes, Jake Gyllenhaal is the cold and calculated—and often richly and darkly comedic—Lou “you-can-call-me-Louis” Bloom.
Despite its flaws, Horns is a step in the right direction for Radcliffe, Aja, and American magical realist cinema (even with its French director, Canadian setting, and English leading man).
I’ve never cried during a stand-up routine, at least not until I saw “Brahman/i: A One Hijra Stand-Up Comedy Show.”
I covered his administration. I would often stalk him by his black SUV in the horseshoe driveway in back of City Hall to press him on the news of the day. Some days, he’d be furious with me about something I had written. Other times, he’d shrug the hit off with a snarky quip. The man was not short on wit.
They're tapping into a whole new groove.
Goody Glover's, tragically, is closing up for the last time at the end of the month. And in a neighborhood marred by gentrification and rising rents, the loss will be felt by all who have lingered for hours there over a beer.
If a party is only as good as its guest list, Make It New is a certified rager.
With news that Tom Menino passed this morning, Charlie Baker now has a reason to cry, as do millions of Massachusetts residents who the longest-serving mayor in Boston history impacted through the years.
The Glitch Mob show opened with the defining roar of thundering bass raising from the floor and cheers erupting from the crowd as the cloak covering the extensive keyboard and drum set was pulled off.
“Tough life out here, huh, boy?” She stroked his ears, his thoughts moving up through her hands. He was old, and it hurt to swallow. He had run away from a man who came home drunk some nights and kicked him. It made her throat tighten and her eyes wet. “That’s bad. I’m really sorry.” Some people fed him, but mostly he ate garbage, and he hurt every night when it got cold. He hurt all the time. He wanted peace, and he looked right into her face to say it.
New music from Pale Hands, Michael Christmas + Black El, Casso, The Rare Occasions, Mini Dresses and more.
Unless you’ve been living under a pumpkin, you’ve probably heard about the Pumpkin Festival riot near Keene State College the other week.
The songs on Ruins all sounds as simple as the way they were recorded—alone in Portugal on a portable 4-track.
That headline pretty much says it all, actually.
A notification that was sent out tonight by manager Nate Brown details the decision to make the shift, shut down at the end of December for some renovations, and what that means in the coming months.
Would any of Salem’s witch tourism be palatable if the trials happened 100 years ago? How about 50? What exactly is the equation for this kind of response’s appropriateness? And is that figure a moving target?
Or, you know, you could just sit in the 3D Photobooth scanner, which circles your head from all sides, generating an accurate rendering of your noodle and all its nuances to create tiny busts featuring your glorious melon, which take a day or two to complete (starts at $20)
The whole endeavor is the brainchild of Gouillart and some retired finance types who for years wanted to form a company designed to achieve public and social missions through a for-profit business model. One focused on empowering small, multicultural, and female-owned businesses at the local level as an engine for economic growth.
That sense of sexual arousal triggered by intense experiences is one written deep in our bone. Anyone who has ever been through something beyond the pale of normal interaction, popping out the other side scared half-stupid while simultaneously being more than half-turned on, will recognize the sensation. Personally, I get off on it.
“The material is as exciting and fresh today as when it was written and a musical roller coaster ride to perform. It really needs to be experienced live in a concert hall to be believed, and can’t be copied in any kind of recorded format, or viewed on YouTube.”
"There were stories of Poe being in the gutter, literally. But he always pulled himself up and tried to not do that again."
Let Walter Sickert and The Army of Broken Toys serenade you this day of the dead.
“We’ve played tiny places and weird situations, but you kind of deal with it. None of us get sour about that kind of stuff. We get to travel around and play music for people—that’s a luxury. We’re entitled to nothing.”
Waiting in the will-call line for my ticket to the Weezer I overheard a fellow fan's conundrum: "Mike from the fourth floor offered me $500." Her friend replied, " I was offered box seats to the Sox versus Yankees next season." When Weezer stops through Boston, it's typically a hot ticket.
Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia. FCKH8 represents itself as altruistically fighting against these things, as if they’re not another company exploiting marginalized communities.
Some eggs have chickens, some just have chicken shit.
What's Roadsteamer been up to for the past couple of years? 'Massive orgies at the Cloud Club ... dark times ... art scene ... sucked in ... kinda like that Clay Shaw orgy scene in the Oliver Stone Movie JFK ... dont' ask me in person at the clubs about that you fuckers ... let me live.'
The Globe endorses Charlie Baker. We rant.
