How can I get into the cannabiz (without selling weed)?
JOINT PERSPECTIVE: GRASS ROUTES
Archives for February 2017
SHAM CMTE FOR CANNABIS
Legislature’s joint committee on joints convenes (mostly) prohibitionist forces
ANGELS AND ASSHOLES: PLAYWRIGHT HEIDI SCHRECK ON ‘GRAND CONCOURSE’
"You make a kind of reactionary choice and then find yourself living it out for decades before you start to examine where the choice really came from."
FOTOBOM: STEVE HACKETT @ THE WILBUR, 25FEB17
Magical brilliance, timeless and still vibrant in the present
WHEEL OF TUNES: SLOTHRUST
Alt-rock act Slothrust answers album-inspired questions about irrational fears, goth life, and the worst Halloween they ever had.
TRUST ACTING: DOES WALSH THINK PEOPLE FORGOT ABOUT HIS REFUGEE COMMENTS?
Meanwhile, while mainstream outlets surely know about the stances Walsh has taken in the past, as well as about the history of Boston and ICE, reporters seem more interested in flanking Walsh in his war against Trump than in questioning local authority.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO
Bill Heck stars in an all-star Night of the Iguana at ART
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: CPACTIVISTS
I am stoned at CPAC. I am in hell. Here’s how it happened …
PROTEST BEAT: FOLLOW THE RUBLES
Hundreds demand investigation into Trump-Russia ties
SAVING SCIENCE, ONE DATASET AT A TIME
The librarians and archivists in the group were there to caution the technologists that this wasn’t a new problem, and to remind that the solutions would end up being more complicated than they might imagine.
HAKATA RAMEN (QUINCY)
Hakata Ramen joins the ever-growing ramen craze without feeling like it has jumped on the craze just for the sake of it.
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? GEORGE FOREMAN
THE STRANGERER
COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: HEADHUNTER PART DUEX
HIP-HOP JOINS THE LITERARY CANON: KENDRICK LAMAR NOW ARCHIVED AT HARVARD
To Pimp A Butterfly is one of the first albums to be archived as a part of “These Are The Breaks,” a project curated to study hip-hop's influences.
RAGE AGAINST THE MAGAZINE: COUNTERCULTURE IS ALIVE AND WELL
A friendly reminder that Boston is a city that runs on cyclical demolition and rebirth. Counterculture never left.
TRACK REVIEW: VUNDABAR – “SHUFFLE”
Celebrate the shine of local surf pop with help from a reissued Vundabar song.
FOTOBOM: MAYHEM, INQUISITION, BLACK ANVIL @ ROYALE
Sometimes getting there first is 90% of the battle. And if Mayhem sputtered to a close after their 1987 Deathcrush EP (a nascent black metal record that formed from the decaying husks of thrash, punk and metal), they still would have carved a noteworthy rune into the rock mantle. Their ...
SXSW AND BEYOND: WEAKENED FRIENDS ANNOUNCE TOUR DATES
After putting out one of the best albums local albums of 2016, one of our favorite pop punk act are gearing up to hit the road.
TRACK REVIEW: ABADABAD – “10 FINGERS”
After five years, Abadabad return with a dazzling song we give 10 out of 10 fingers (thumbs, specifically) up.
THE EDGE OF EDWARD
Maurice Emmanuel Parent talks reinventing Marlowe
GENERAL STRIKE: IS THE TRUMP VICTORY SPARKING THE RETURN OF LABOR’S MOST POWERFUL TACTIC?
A general strike is called to cause serious economic disruption aimed at bringing corporations and the government to their knees on a single issue, a group of issues, or even to overthrow the current political economic system itself.
THE VERIZON SHUFFLE
Why the telecom company’s FiOS promise to Boston is a bait-and-switch
A BAND NAMED (T-T)b: OUT OF THE CARTRIDGE AND INTO THE BASEMENTS
It's time to revisit your old NES. Boston's own chiptune band is on the rise.
TRACK REVIEW: PASSION PIT – “SOMEWHERE UP THERE”
The Boston-bred electropop group return with a brand new single featuring frontman Michael Angelakos’ own mom.
INSIDE EATALY: WHAT’S IT REALLY LIKE TO STAFF THE MONSTER?
To date, Eataly has 584 employees, 23 part-time and 561 full-time, filling nearly 100 different positions in five departments.
DESPERATION WINS
How the creatives behind a Boston ‘reality sitcom’ made it to TV, got screwed, and fought back
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? SHRIMP
SUPERSTAR OR SUPER STUDENT: JACLYN WALSH OF DUMP HIM ROCKS HARD AND LEARNS HARD
The key to balancing a band and academia is simple: make a wacky schedule, live your life when you wanna, and go on tour whenever you can.
COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: BUSIEST DAY OF THE YEAR
