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POLAR COCKTAILS: SUMMERTIME AND THE LIVING IS FIZZY
Archives for June 2017
SUMMER EATS: FARE HIKE
10 restaurants to discover on beautiful long walks
THIS YEAR’S MOST ANTICIPATED SUMMER ALBUMS
From Guerilla Toss to People Like You, here’s what to add to your BBQ playlist.
SUMMER SPECIAL: EARNEST GOES TO CAMP
Boston millennials take on our city’s biggest problems over s’mores
INTERVIEW: LEAH CARROLL’S NEW BOOK REVISITS ROUGH RHODE ISLAND MEMORIES AND TOUGH PERSONAL TRIALS
Leah Carroll’s book revisits rough Rhode Island memories and tough personal trials
TALKING JOINTS MEMO: DIGESTING AN UNNECESSARILY COMPLICATED WEEK IN CANNABIS
If you want to retrace all the nitty gritty nuggets though, we are also including a “MASS HEADLINE DUMPSTER” with links to dozens of articles that came and went over the past week.
ALL EARS: LISTEN HEAR ADDS A NEW DIMENSION TO THE GARDNER MUSEUM EXPERIENCE
What you get out of Listen Hear is likely to depend on your familiarity with Gardner and her museum itself. But it provides all visitors with a new way to think about how the relationship between art and the viewer is a symbiotic one.
STATE OF UNCERTAINTY
When it comes to Puerto Rican statehood, what can Boston Boricuas expect?
BROKEN RECORDS: MONKEY WRENCHING
A rare win on the public records front in Mass
DID YOU HEAR THAT THE GLOBE MOVED DOWNTOWN?
Tribute after tribute aside, no Globie embarrassment is over until pro-business apostle Shirley Leung kicks the corpse.
‘LET ME MAKE THIS DISTINCTION’
Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson on embracing cannabis reform
THE BEST LOCAL ALBUMS OF 2017 (SO FAR)
From homegrown rock to hometown rap, here's a cheat sheet to Boston's best music of the year.
BIG APPLE, BIGGER MOUTH: A Q+A WITH NY COMIC PAUL VIRZI
Not to say there aren’t great comics in LA, it just seems like they’re all out there trying to get famous. You’re from Boston, you understand. It’s the blue collar wise-ass remarks, fast talking with a little bit of swag to it. I think the audience gets a kick out it.
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? FIGURE SKATING
RUMBLECORE: ALLSTON TO BE HIGHLIGHTED IN NEW FILM GUTTERBUG
This summer, director Andrew Gibson will begin work on a gritty indie drama with music from Nice Guys, Black Beach, The Symptoms, and more.
ICE COLD DEMOCRACY: CAN A PROGRESSIVE NEW BREWERY HELP POWER THE LOCAL LABOR MOVEMENT?
"In the traditional business model, people make bad decisions all the time and the workers pay for it. We want the people who actually make the decisions to get the good stuff and bad stuff from that.”
GETTING TO BIKE
Urban multimodal network needed to make bicycles a viable alternative in the ’burbs
DEEP WATER: A Q+A WITH KATHERINE NICHOLS
There will always be someone who was somewhere on the beach at some point who says, “Well that’s not how it happened exactly.” But you write representative pieces, and I had a lot of creative freedom to connect the dots.
DANCING IN THE STREETS: A BELOVED CAMBRIDGE INSTITUTION TURNS 25
There’s gotta be something pretty remarkable going on to convince the city of Cambridge to shut down a city block at rush hour on a Friday.
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: DREAM DARKER
“The fact that we are already here and the amount of resources being spent to get to where we are now leads me to believe we are going to have to sit through all these trials. All this taxpayer money is going to be wasted.”
BRICCO PANETTERIA AND BRICCO SALUMERIA/PASTA SHOP
North End twofer hidden in an alleyway
VIDEO DISPATCH: RUSH HOUR CHALLENGE 2017 AFTERPARTY
How fast can you get from Downtown Boston to Davis Square?
VICIOUS CYCLE (DATA EDITION): BOSTON’S UGLIEST INTERSECTIONS FOR CYCLISTS
Despite apparently enthusiastic planning by the City of Boston in a few token places, by certain measures nil has changed in the past four years when it comes to bike safety.
SCALISE POLICE SHOULD CEASE
If you don’t have anything negative or critical to say when an asshole who preys on the environment and oppressed people gets shot or dies, then you might as well say nothing at all.
REVIEW/PREVIEW: AN EXPERIMENTAL CLASSIC
Non-Event events fill venues, command undivided attention
OMNIBUST: ON RIDICULOUSNESS, RANCOR, AND THE VULNERABLE MASS CANNABIS LAW
“The House bill, even with its most egregious flaws addressed, adopts a hostile approach that would not serve any system of commerce well, much less the fledgling legal marijuana market."
TRASHING THE THEATER
What sets Trash Night further apart from similar “B movie + commentary” screenings is its welcoming, egalitarian nature.
DOWN TO THE WIRE: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CO-CHAIR OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON MARIJUANA POLICY
“The question is: How fast can we move people from the illicit market to the legal market, and that really depends on access and taxes, so those are the two things that are important to me.”
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? RENTAL
COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: GRADUATION
