Boston's poppy surf rock trio tease their upcoming album, Single Forever, with their catchiest song yet.
PREMIERE: TODAY JUNIOR – “FAKE INTENTIONS”
Archives for March 2018
GIA GREENE: HOW TO MAKE AN UNEXPECTED SPECTACLE
After an unexpected surgery, the Berklee graduate and Allston indie rocker finally releases her debut album.
FAIRMOUNT GRILLE, HYDE PARK
The Fairmount Grille had once been home to a beloved spot called Townsend’s, and while that place was unusual in that it was basically an Irish restaurant with global influences, the Fairmount Grille is probably just a touch more familiar-feeling to most, being a casual upscale bistro of sorts with a mix of classic American, New American, and Mediterranean offerings.
CANNABIZ CORNER: HOW ROBERT BARISH MADE IT EASIER TO BUY BONGS IN THE ‘BURBS
"The education around the history, science, business, growing, and medical efficacy of cannabis was well worth it. It also made me realize that I was passionate about the business I was getting into. The best advice I was given many years ago was to make sure you are happy to be getting up each morning and going to your job."
SCOTT THOMPSON: KID IN THE HALL, OUT TO THE WORLD
"[The school shooting] was 40 years ago for me, and I can tell you that when things like that happen to you they never really leave you. You can patch it over, but it’s like patching up an old sofa: Occasionally the stuffing will continue to come out. That’s how I feel now, like the stuffing is coming out."
A MESSAGE TO BIZ OWNERS ABOUT PUBLICISTS
If you think that Facebook is the leading culprit in the case of Who Killed Journalism?, then I may just know a Russian bot or two who’s in the process of selling your digits off to dogs.
STATE WIRE: MASS CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL AIMS TO PROTECT IN-PERSON JAIL VISITS
The visitation provision is part of a much larger criminal justice reform bill. According to Lucius Couloute, policy analyst with the Prison Policy Initiative, some sheriffs' departments around the country have eliminated in-person visiting in favor of video systems that can turn a profit, and that makes provisions like this necessary.
NUCLEAR DISASTER: WITH CONTROVERSIAL REACTOR DOWN SINCE STORMS, TENSIONS RUN EXTREMELY HIGH IN PLYMOUTH
This year’s meeting was particularly fraught because a series of strong winter storms forced the plant to shut down—or scram—twice in the last three months. Pilgrim remains offline as plant workers attempt to fix a transformer located between the electrical switchyard and the reactor.
AROUND MY WAY: THE PULL UP
The latest quarterly expression of their mutual affection, the Pull Up, will showcase the area’s emerging and established talent. But for this unique crew, it’s not just about seeing artists perform live—it’s about the building of community that comes from regular connections, and fixing systems that for too long have denied people an equal shot.
THERE WILL BE NO OUTSIDE WORLD TO HELP US
Boston’s global warming plans must prepare region for worst case scenarios
In a couple of recent columns—and several others over the years—I’ve looked at some of the specific ...
NRA-AFFILIATED LOBBYIST WALKS THROUGH BAKER’S REVOLVING DOOR
Amidon’s appointment went through with little fanfare or controversy. Of more than a half-dozen reports reviewed by the Shoestring on the subject, only one noted that GOAL is an NRA affiliate, while none acknowledged its lobbying efforts.
THE THIRSTY GAINS: WITH LATEST MOVE, PRESSLEY MAY FINALLY DENT LIQUOR LICENSE DISPARITY
The vast majority of those 153 licenses will be restricted to seven historically underserved Boston neighborhoods: Roxbury, Mattapan, Dorchester, Hyde Park, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill and East Boston.
CONFRONTING THE DEATH CULT
Before Chicago rapper Vic Mensa performed at the March for Our Lives, he mentioned Sacramento’s Stephon Clark, shot 20 times by police in his own backyard on March 18, holding a cell phone that cops claim they thought was a gun.
UNWILLING CONVERTS: SOMERVILLE’S LARGEST CONDO GRAB IN HISTORY YIELDS RELATIVE TENANT WIN IN TENSE MARKET
“We have to recognize, you know, people enter the building renting because the circumstances mean that renting is what works for them ... I think we have to have protections and safeguards to allow those individuals to continue getting the benefits they’re entitled to.”
THE IMPORTANT STORY LEADING UP TO BILL MCKIBBEN’S VIRAL TWEET ABOUT THE BOSTON PIPELINE PROTESTERS
Residents in Dedham and West Roxbury are up in arms about what many see as a legitimate threat to their health and safety. Beyond the possibility of an explosion, there are other terrifying potential side effects of having the line run through a residential area.
WHEEL OF TUNES: SAMMUS
For our interview series, the PhD rapper talks Metroid, social caveats, and the lasting impact of NASA icon Mae Jemison.
WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? SCREWED
THE WAY WE WERENT
THEATER REVIEW: THREEPENNY OPERA
Reviewing Threepenny Opera is about deciding where to raise the curtain. For a lot of people this work, written in 1928 by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, is as familiar an opera as exists. To many others, it rings no bells, except, perhaps, via the song “Mack ...
MASS SAYS NO TO CBD BEER
"While cannabinoids, including CBD and THC, can never be used in the manufacture of alcoholic beverages in Massachusetts, industrial hemp can be used in the manufacture of alcoholic beverages."
STATE WIRE: BAY STATE STUDENTS SET TO TAKE A STAND ON GUN VIOLENCE
"When we have those emotional supports in school, violence outside of school is less likely to happen."
CANNABIS JANICE: ON A MISSION TO REDUCE PAIN AND EDUCATE
"My mission is to help people suffering from pain, anxiety, insomnia, autoimmune disorders, IBS and IBD, Parkinson’s, fibromyalgia, seizure disorders, autism, MS, and other debilitating conditions find relief using cannabis."
HIGH THERE: A NOTE TO READERS ON THE EVE OF NECANN
More than 100 towns and cities across the Commonwealth are dragging their feet making decisions about whether to permit recreational cannabis activity, and placing moratoriums to stall the industry from popping up, or banning rec altogether through rushed referendums that draw prohibitionists.
BARRENCE IS BACK: WHY THE BLUES ROCK ICON WANTS TO MAKE YOUR DAY
Boston’s 1980s blues rock star Barrence Whitfield is ready for the spotlight once more — and he knows you will smile in his glow.
CAUGHT ON CAM-SHARE: BPD SEEKS ACCESS TO PRIVATE SECURITY CAMERAS, EXPERIMENTS WITH NEW SURVEILLANCE NETWORK
For now, the BPD wants to help officers more quickly locate and access footage. However, if the program expands beyond its small introduction—about 13 locations, according to BPD records—it could develop into a centralized surveillance network.
A GRIPPING GUARDS AT THE TAJ AT CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER
★★★★☆
Rajiv Joseph’s alluringly original 2015 play Guards at the Taj is being given a stellar production at Central Square Theater, courtesy of Underground Railway Theater and director Gabriel Vega Weissman.
It seems that Joseph, a Pulitzer Prize finalist ...
MIDDLE CLASS DREAD: THE HUMANS AT THE SHUBERT
★★★★★
Before there’s any spoken dialogue in The Humans, Stephen Karam’s 2015 Tony Award-winning Best Play, there are those eerie sounds.
Those ominous, startling sounds will persist long after the dialogue stops, too. But what’s clear from the start ...
CARAMEL’S CARAMEL
A taste of the new French bakery cafe’s gateway dessert
The Boston area has been in the midst of a bit of a bakery renaissance in recent years. The growth of small upscale cafe chains like Flour and Tatte is testament to Hub dwellers’ love of sweets, and we don’t seem to have hit the “peak pastry” threshold yet.
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FOTOBOM: GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR @ THE SINCLAIR, 07MAR18
The Montreal collective known as Godspeed You! Black Emperor (exclamation location subject to change) has been and continues to be a band for our times. Setting the tone from their first recordings, monochromatic in both music and visual presentation, their vision is bleak as the upper Hudson ...
EDITORIAL: STRATEGIC RETREAT
DigBoston to move away from Facebook, help build democratic social media alternatives
A decade back it seemed only natural for news publications like DigBoston to stake out turf on Facebook. After all, it provided an easy way for us to reach our audience ...
