"Like Daniel San in Karate Kid with wax-on/wax-off, I had been unknowingly training to be a Simpsons quiz mistress my whole life."
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WAKE UP THE EARTH: A SHORT HISTORY OF BOSTON RESILIENCE AND CELEBRATION
In order to make such a corridor for motor vehicles possible, housing would have had to be demolished. As the city saw in the West End and other neighborhoods, “the consequential displacement would affect thousands of longtime residents,” Vrabel said.
UPROOTED: DAVE TREE MOVES HIS ART AND PUNK ROCK OPERATIONS TO THE ‘BURBS, THROWS ENORMOUS PARTIES
There was nothing to do and nothing happening, so I started a band and people came out and supported us. The suburbs is a great opportunity for art and music because there is nothing to do, and if you do something there people will be interested and come out.
GEEK BOWL XII: EXALTED QUIZMASTER JOHN DICKER HAS ALL OF THE ANSWERS
It’s likely that some regulars will drink slowly, at least for the first couple of rounds, at this Saturday’s enormous Geeks Who Drink fiesta at Agganis Arena. It’s not just another bar night, or even just another Geek Bowl—it’s the first one to be hosted anywhere on the East Coast, and it’s in Boston.
GUTBUSTA: GREATER BOSTON COMEDY LISTINGS: 1.11 – 11.14
Bios & writeups pulled from various sources, including from the clubs & comics…
GUTBUSTA: GREATER BOSTON COMEDY LISTINGS FOR THANKSGIVING WEEK (11.24 – 11.29)
From Mike Epps to Josh Gondelman to Iliza Shlesinger
GUTBUSTA: GREATER BOSTON COMEDY LISTINGS: 11.16 – 11.23
From open mics to Dana Gould and Whitney Cummings
GUTBUSTA: GREATER BOSTON COMEDY LISTINGS: 11.9 – 11.16
From Michael Ian Black to Ilana Glazer and Phoebe Robinson
THE POSSIBILITARIANS: HEADS UP FOR BREAD AND PUPPET’S INSURRECTION CIRCUS
"I think the show is meant to shake city slickers and country cornstalks alike out of their complacency in the face of the destruction of the planet and the political and economic tyranny under which we all live."
DIG THIS: AIR, NICK CAVE, WEEN
MON 6.5
AIR @ Royale
Aside from a couple West Coast festival shows last year, the French duo of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel haven’t been in the US for a while; 2010 was the last show they did in Boston, so be sure to catch their exquisite take on electro-romance ...