The indie pop anthems of Helado Negro get their time to shine with tinsel mammals and an unforgettable live show.
HELADO NEGRO: RACE, REPRESENTATION, AND A RISING ROLE MODEL
Archives for October 2016
COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: VITAMIN D
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN: ON THE COOLIDGE HALLOWEEN HORROR MARATHON
The concept of a “playlist” has traditionally been linked to music, but you’ll find analogues for it strewn throughout film culture. Repertory programs are something like an equivalent. But a closer relative—the closest—would be one-sitting movie marathons. ...
KERO KERO BONITO: HOW DIGITIZED SUGAR POP CAME TO LIFE
The J-pop trio talks about PC Music, N64 songs, and how they find a balance between British dance and Japanese pop.
PUMPKIN BEER
No
SUMMER L. WILLIAMS LEADS THE REVOLT
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. at Company One
DEAR READR: 10/27/2016
Letters from us and you
SPECIAL QUESTION 2 PRIMER: THE CHARTER THEY COME
I’ve been exposing school privatization in Mass since 2008. These are my stories…
THE HIGH ROAD REVISITED: WHAT A LONG, STRANGE WAR IT’S BEEN ON LEGALIZATION IN MASS
From ballot questions to elections and over bureaucratic hurdles, we’ve trudged through many muddy trenches toward the endless fields of grass ahead.
UMASS CAMBRIDGE: MAKING HARVARD UNIVERSITY PUBLIC WILL SOLVE ITS WORKERS’ PROBLEMS—AND THE COMMONWEALTH’S HIGHER ED CRISIS
If you really want to help the Harvard dining hall workers and much of the population of Massachusetts in the bargain, help start political movements to demand structural reform of the state university system.
THE STRANGERER
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? INTERVENTION
COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: I GOT A ROCK
“THE FOOTPRINT OF A TIME”: AN INTERVIEW WITH KELLY REICHARDT
One of the nation’s foremost narrative filmmakers talks about her craft
FROM SELMA TO SCOTTSBORO
Brandon Green stars in The Scottsboro Boys at SpeakEasy
TEN DINING LEAF-PEEPER SPOTS
Foliage Fodder for Foodies
DEAR READER: 10/20/2016
Letters from us and you.
JUDGE DREAD: SINCE YOU’RE ALREADY WORRYING ABOUT TRUMP’S APPOINTMENTS …
Baker’s judicial picks include a corporate lawyer and a star DUI attorney
VICIOUS CYCLE: CAN WE STOP THE KILLINGS IN BIKE LANES?
Why does it take such a tragic event to enact safety where known perils lie?
FOTOBOM: WARPAINT, FACIAL @ THE PARADISE, 06OCT16
After a two year period of woodshedding, Warpaint emerged with their third full length record, and as bands do even the shambles of the music industry falling in all around them, they hit the road in support of Heads Up. Slowly but surely, they’ve inched away from the sparse, ...
THE STRANGERER
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? GERE
COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: MUMMY DEAREST
RUNNING THE NUMBERS: AN INTERVIEW WITH GAVIN O’CONNOR
Gavin O’Connor is an American filmmaker whose work includes Tumbleweeds [1999], Miracle [2004], Warrior [2011], and Jane Got a Gun [2016]. His latest film, The Accountant [2016]—which stars Ben Affleck as Chris Wolff, an autistic mathematician under siege—opens today.
Maybe I’ve got ...
SPECIAL FEATURE: GHOST SHIP HIJINX
The USS Salem has been transformed into a world-class scary attraction. It’s an opportunity to haunt the masses that some of the vessel’s ghosts have been waiting more than a lifetime for.
FIGHT WHERE YOU STAND
Organizing for democracy on the job can spark a movement for democracy nationwide.
GENDER CONFINEMENT: MASS DOC CONTENDS IT CAN DISCRIMINATE AGAINST TRANSGENDER INMATES
Why does the DOC believe it is allowed to house transgender people in the wrong gender facility?
DECIPHERING HER GAZE
Kristen Beth Williams comes to Boston with Gentleman’s Guide
DEAR READER: 10/13/2016
Letters from us and you
MEDFORD BREWING COMPANY
Simple for beers sake
