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INTERVIEW: AFI’S JADE PUGET
AFI have been called hardcore, skate-punk, goth-punk, melodic hardcore … but really, they’re just a very talented band creating deep, rich layers of sound. Jade Puget tells how.
WHEN THE MOB RAN RAP MUSIC IN BOSTON: TDS MOB WAS THE HUB’S FIRST HUGE HIP-HOP HOPE …
I interviewed Kool Gee the day after he rocked Wally’s. At his request, we met at the place where the TDS Mob story begins—the stoop of the old Tower Records on the corner of Newbury Street and Mass Ave. From there, he took me back to 1989, when TDS ran the calendar with a year of rap perfection.
REVIEW: I DECLARE WAR
THE COMPLETE SOMERVILLE FILES (PARTS 1-4)
For 10 months between 2012 and 2013, Chris Faraone, Tom Nash, and Adam Vaccaro dug into the unseemly political underbelly of the City of Somerville, where the power and privilege of an elite few has dominated and perverted municipal progress for decades.
ON BEER AND BREWING: SO YOU WANT TO BE A BREWER, EH?
You now have 20-30 years of pouring flowers into boiling sugar water to look forward to. Cheers!
TOP 10 KUNG FU MOVIES YOU COULD BE STREAMING ON NETFLIX RIGHT. NOW.
‘The only thing better than seeing a kung fu master somehow manage to combine parkour with decapitation is watching the severed head explode, gruesomely, in a mix of what is clearly food-dyed oatmeal and Hawaiian Punch.’
The sugar-cookie high is starting to fade, and Uncle Marty’s drunken sex-life questions are only just beginning: Face it, if you’re going to make it through the rest of this holiday, you’re going to need some help.
Some deadly, deadly help.
Luckily, there’s:
10.) Enter the Dragon: Holidays are all about tradition, so I’m kicking off the list with one of Bruce Lee’s best. What could be better than a movie starring the grand-daddy of ass kickers? One that’s spiced with a dash of blaxploitation.
9.) Pray For Death: I’m sure I don’t have repeat the old truism, “you never know a ninja’s true strength until he moves his family to a depressed city in America, is threatened by a local crime syndicate, and, in order to avenge the wrongs done to him, goes back to his secret ninja teaching.”
Not ringing a bell? Then clearly you need to brush up on your Pray For Death.
8.) Supercop: Sometimes, when my mind is clouded with visions of Rush Hour 3 and the Jaden Smith Karate Kid, I forget that Jackie Chan is more than just a genial sidekick: He’s really, really awesome at kung fu.
Luckily, Supercop, packed with fight scenes, explosions, helicopter rides of death, and vaguely Kim Jong Il-looking military leaders reminds me why I loved him – and Michelle Yeoh – in the first place.
7.) Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame: Full disclosure: Detective Dee isn’t super-heavy on the fight scenes. But the ample doses of albino henchmen, underground hermit cave-cities, and spontaneous human combustion more than make up for that little oversight.
Fuller disclosure: if that’s not enough to make you want to watch Detective Dee, I don’t want to know you.
6.) Goemon: The story of a Japanese Robin Hood out for vengeance, Goemon has some of the best fight scenes of any movie on this list.
Though the dubbing is pretty terrible, and some of the flying-through-the-air ...
REVIEW: TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET: FREAK OUT!
The bottlerockets return to their punk rock throne with a Fat sophomore album that rings clean and tight, just as we have come to expect.
INK WELL: WITH THE CANCELLATION OF “NY INK” WHAT’S NEXT FOR TLC?
With the cancellation of the popular show "NY Ink," I look back on TLC's reality based tattoo television programing and consider what's next.