Donnell Rawlings is back headlining Comics 2 Cure at Laugh Boston for our 3rd annual stand up comedy benefit show.
GUTBUSTA: GREATER BOSTON COMEDY LISTINGS: 11.2 – 11.9
Archives for October 2017
THE LONG SHADOW OF LONG ISLAND
The 2014 closure remains a defining moment of the Walsh administration
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: SNOOZING THROUGH FASCISM
“I think it’s safe to say that all of us are living in a state of low-level dread, always suspecting that we are missing something of enormous impact while chasing something else of enormous impact.”
INCLUSION FUSION: HERE COMES THIS YEAR’S FINAL ‘ALL TOGETHER NOW’
A celebration with a simple idea: ‘It’s an important time to be creative’
WHY BOSTON DESPERATELY NEEDS A MAYOR OF CANNABIS
"A cannabis cafe, where you can buy and consume on site, is allowed under the law. But there’s a process."
JOURDAN CHRISTOPHER’S PHOTOS OF BOSTON ARE FREAKING INCREDIBLE
We’ve been ogling Strangers in Boston all week
STATE WIRE: ADVOCATES TELL LAWMAKERS TO GET THE LEAD OUT
The bill would require the replacement of lead service lines, the largest single source of lead in drinking water, to schools and daycare centers, and installation of filters on taps and fountains.
VERIZON 101: YOU CAN STOP CONGRATULATING THIS BEHEMOTH FOR ITS STUDENT IPAD PROGRAM RIGHT NOW
It’s something between ironic and nauseating that Superintendent Tommy Chang and Mayor Marty Walsh are making it look like Verizon, of all entities, is here to save the day.
WHEEL OF TUNES: SERPENTWITHFEET
The experimental gospel artist talks horror tropes, Toni Morrison, and must-haves in heaven.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOW OUR VERSION OF THE FRENCH NATIONAL FRONT
What Are We Going to Do About It?
My wife’s family on her mother’s side are French Jews who escaped from the Germans who occupied France in 1940. First they moved from their home in Paris to the southern part of the country, which was ruled ...
SPECIAL FEATURE: WHAT RHYMES WITH ORANGE?
The most seething presidential protest songs in all the land that you should hear but probably haven’t
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? GILBERT GRAPE
THE WAY WE WEREN’T
HALLOWEEN PREMIERE: STIZ GRIMEY ‘THORAZINE SHUFFLE’
Here's the word from Team Grimey about this video which comes just in time for the goriest day of the year...
GALLERY REVIEW: The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766-1820—Harvard Art Museums
In the early days of the republic, the Philosophy Chamber at Harvard College housed an assortment of natural specimens, scientific instruments, and various objects of curiosity and delectation. This was a place to apprehend the logic of the universe and to ruminate ...
GALLERY REVIEW: Steve McQueen: Ashes—Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
In 2002, Steve McQueen met a charismatic fisherman named Ashes in Grenada. When the British artist returned to the island eight years later, Ashes was dead, gunned down by a drug kingpin after the fisherman discovered a cache of narcotics on the beach.
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GALLERY REVIEW: Dana Schutz: Dana Schutz—Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Dana Schutz has not yet painted a canvas that didn’t make me wish that I was looking at a Judith Linhares instead. That said, I’m glad I could see any Schutzes at the ICA, which wouldn’t have happened if it were up to some local busybodies bent on punishing ...
THE TOP 10 CONCERTS YOU WON’T WANT TO GHOST ON HALLOWEEN
Don't know how to celebrate the holiday? From alt-rock locals Speedy Ortiz to Japanese noise group Boris, there's plenty of concerts worth climbing out of your coffin for.
A LOVELY SOUVENIR
Souvenir returns to the Lyric a decade later
After 20 years as producing artistic director of the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, there’s plenty of material that Spiro Veloudos could have chosen for the production that would commemorate his milestone. For Boston’s resident Stephen Sondheim expert, ...
TOXIC DEVELOPMENT: SOMERVILLE OFFICIALS SIDE WITH DEVELOPER IN LONG BATTLE OVER POLLUTED DAVIS SITE
The oil spill is just one of the many issues Iappini and others have endured, and which have been a common topic of neighborhood gossip for years around Davis Square.
TASTY ON THE HILL, MEDFORD
A little cafe that features a big (and hard-to-find) sandwich
WHY SCREAM WHEN YOU CAN LAUGH?
It’s Evil Dead 2 meets Big Brother
BOSTON ROCK NOIR: CLEA SIMON’S SCENESTER MYSTERY HAS BEEN SIMMERING FOR DECADES
"I finally got to write about the rock scene, but it’s also about the fallibility of memory, and that weird nostalgia. We all look back on our youth as some kind of golden time, but we’re all subjective, we’re all flawed. How much of that is real?"
FOTOBOM: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, ROYAL BLOOD @ AGGANIS ARENA, 21OCT17
Queens Of The Stone Age have had a weird ride. Launched from the desert rock scene via Kyuss, leader Josh Homme has slowly but steadily abandoned the hard crunch and fuzz of those beginnings, and added a much more fluid and nuanced approach over the last two records. After the hiatus following ...
WHAT KIND OF REVOLUTION IS BERNIE SANDERS LAUNCHING?
Sanders’ revolution is certainly not the kind of armed insurrection that has been the dominant historical fact of the last two centuries, giving birth to nearly all countries in the world today.
THE VERTEX SHELL GAME
Pharma’s Donation to Boston, Other Cities Converts Public Funds to PR Gold
Vertex Pharmaceuticals made a big PR splash last week with an announcement of a significant donation to Boston and other cities where it does business. The Boston-based company, best known for its cystic fibrosis meds, has pledged to “spend $500 million on charitable ...
HUBWEAK: THE BOSTON GLOBE HAS HIT ROCK BOTTOM
Their “Dear Jeff” apple bob was a pathetic cornucopia of thick yellowish liquid produced in infected tissue, bubbling with rhetorical bacteria and mayonnaise.
INSANE CLOWN POLI
When Payaso shows up to forums in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan in particular, how can he properly address a mother who has lost her son to gun violence? Or at the hands of the police? Can he hold a serious conversation in clown gear?
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? AWKWARD DINOSAUR
