So I hope you have a great long weekend! Am going out for a walk and who knows what else...
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SAT 8/30
* Mighty Mystic, Nomad-I, Black River Sound, Slimpocket
* Basstown presents: DJ Ghostdad & Ryan Durkin, Kingdom, Vision, DJ Die Young, DJ Volvox
* Triple Thick, Boston Babydolls
* "The Kaiju Smackdown"
* Gloucester Schooner Festival -- and SUN 8/31
* 100 Innings -- thru SUN 8/31
SUN 8/31
* Blues Control, Psycho, The Needy Visions
* Georges Rouault, "Mystic Masque: Semblance and Reality": Dessert Reception & Viewing
MON 9/1
* Bread and Roses Labor Day Festival
* Hayride
TUES 9/2
* Zack Hickman's House of Ill Repute
* "Dreamworlds 3": Free Screening
* Laugh Track Comedy Show -- and WED 9/3
* Brimfield Antique Show -- to SUN 9/7
* "Cloud 9" -- to SUN 9/7
WED 9/3
* Esteban Pastorino Diaz, "Shifting Perspectives": Reception & Artist's Talk
* Justice of the Unicorns, Tigers and Monkeys, Spanish Armada, Wild Business
* Films at the Gate 2008 -- to SUN 9/7
THUR 9/4
* "In the Time Before Now: Stories of the Massachuset People"
* Manami Morita @ Free ICA Thursdays
* Big Moves presents: "Queen for a Day II"
FRI 9/5
* Annual "Under The Stars: International Movie Nights"
* "Triple Feature": Night of Photography, Film, and Music
* The Dirty Truckers, The Kickbacks, AM Stereo
* The Tampoffs, Menthols, Black Clouds, The Maintainers
* Annual "Viva la Vinal Festival"
* Boston Charter Day -- to SUN 9/7
SAT 9/6
* Caliente! Latin Festival
* Somerville Rock and Roll Yard Sale
* Magic Christian, Muck and The Mires, Parallel Project, Fox Pass
SUN 9/7
* "Swiss Beach Day at the Charles"
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SAT 8/30
9:30pm
Mighty Mystic, Nomad-I, Black River Sound, Slimpocket
at Bill's Bar, 5.5 Lansdowne Street, Boston (Kenmore Sq)
18+ / $10
Yes, there is really good reggae from Boston. Okay, Mighty Mystic moved to Somerville from Jamaica -- but it still counts!
SAT 8/30
9:30pm
Basstown presents: DJ Ghostdad & Ryan Durkin, Kingdom, Vision, DJ Die Young, DJ Volvox
at Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston
$5 / 21+
Saturday dance party!
SAT 8/30
10pm
Triple Thick, Boston Babydolls
at Plough & Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge (Central Sq)
Free-ish
Kick-ass garage-punk and dancing girls entertain at this open bachelor party. I can't imagine the cover would be $5, maybe free -- but you should buy Mitch the Bachelor a shot...
SAT 8/30
10am to 12:30am
"The Kaiju Smackdown"
Papercut Zine Library Movie Marathon Benefit
at The Democracy Center, 45 Mount Auburn St, Cambridge
$5-ish
Much like the "Superheroes vs. Monsters and Monster-Heroes" Smackdown about a month ago. Hey, it might rain at some point tomorrow... You've a long weekend to be outside! Maybe you feel like watching some Japanese monster movies and the like.
10am: Return Of The DinosaursA Salute to "Mothra the Librarian"
11am: Rodan
1pm: MothraAll Night Ape Action
2:30pm: Godzilla Vs. Mothra
4pm: Godzilla Vs. The Sea Monster
5:30pm: Ghidrah The 3 Headed Monster
7pm: "Depraved Dave's Cave/Drive-In Dementia 3" -- A Rockin' Collection of Trailers and Musical Montages spotlighting dime-store dinosaurs and cut-rate prehistoric worlds!
8pm: King Kong Escapes(I might avoid "Super Simian" aka "King Dong"; it's a cheap porn-parody of King Kong from the '80s with stop-motion effects.)
9:30pm: The Mighty Peking Man
11pm: Super Simian
SAT 8/30 and SUN 8/31
Various Times
Gloucester Schooner Festival
around Gloucester Harbor
FREE
Yes, there are races out there, but mainly a bunch of beautiful ships out there. And lots of festival-type stuff on land. There's a fireworks display over the harbor on Saturday around 9:15pm (following the Boat Parade). There's more to Gloucester than fertile teens!
SAT 8/30 thru SUN 8/31
9am until ???
100 Innings
at Adams Field, Merrymount Parkway, Quincy (closest T: Wollaston?)
FREE to watch
As part of Curt Schilling's effort to strike out ALS, a bunch of
different teams will play 100 innings of non-stop baseball (and softball). If you show in the middle of the night, they'll be playing! (Players collect donations like walkathons, etc.)
I wonder if Shonda is freaking out about all that sun exposure...?
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SUN 8/31
7pm to 9pm
Georges Rouault, "Mystic Masque: Semblance and Reality": Dessert
Reception & Viewing
at McMullen Museum of Art, Devlin Hall, 140 Comm Ave, Chestnut Hill
FREE
Yes, it says "dessert reception". This seems to be a massive exhibit of this Fauvist painter. The school's jazz ensemble, BC bOp!, (I didn't make up the name) will also play while you're enjoying art and/or treats. There may even be prize opportunities...
SUN 8/31
9:30pm
Blues Control, Psycho, The Needy Visions
at Milky Way Lounge, 403 Centre St, Jamaica Plain
FREE / 21+
Wild psychedelic, hardcore, and garage rock -- but you might have Monday off...
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MON 9/1
Noon to 7pm
Bread and Roses Labor Day Festival
at Lawrence Common, about 200 Common St, Lawrence
FREE
Celebrate Labor Day in one of the historic sites of the Labor movement! All sorts of music, dance, activities, presentations, and food will abound all over the Common.
I'd be cusious to see Rosalie Sorrels (2:45pm), who has been called the "hillbilly Edith Piaf"...
MON 9/1
9:30pm
Hayride
at Atwoods Tavern, 877 Cambridge St, Cambridge (near Inman & Kendall Sq)
FREE
Jimmy Ryan is the leader of the Hayride project, and trust me, this is an excellent band. Ryan is like the Jimi Hendrix of mandolin -- while still sounding somewhat bluegrass.
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TUES 9/2
9pm
Zack Hickman's House of Ill Repute
Feat: Miss Tess, Chris O'Brien, Charlie Rose, Ryan Fitzsimmons
at Lizard Lounge/Cambridge Common, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge (between
Harvard Sq & Porter Sq)
$5 / 21+
Zack Hickman used to do a music "variety show" at Club Passim a few years ago, and it's being revived at Lizard Lounge.
TUES 9/2
7pm to 8:30pm
"Dreamworlds 3: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video": Film Screening
at Room 120, Bldg 6, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge (MIT Campus)
FREE
Seems like an academic version of of an expose on "video vixens" -- but with a gender studies angle... (There will be nudity & profanity, so that's a plus!)
TUES 9/2 & WED 9/3
9pm
Laugh Track Comedy Show
Tuesday: at Durty Nelly's, 108 Blackstone St, Boston (Haymarket)
Wednesday: at Milky Way Lounge, 403 Centre St, Jamaica Plain
$5
Most of these guys are very funny -- especially Ken Reid! You can tell him I said that.
TUES 9/2: Ken Reid, PJ Westin, Shane Mauss, Josh Gondelman, Dan Crohn,
Bigg Nez, Rob Crean, Tim Vargulish, Tim Wilding
WED 9/3: Shane Mauss, Ken Reid, Renata Tutko, Nate Johnson, Tom E.
Morrello, Maria Ciampa, Matt Wilding, Rob Crean
TUES 9/2 to SUN 9/7
All Day
Brimfield Antique Show
at Brimfield Fairgrounds, take Mass Pike West to Route 20 West (Exit 9), Brimfield
Most FREE, some $5
Every year this little Western MA town becomes engorged with antique sellers and hunters. Quite a spectacle, and you may spend a lot of money -- or find the deal of your life!
TUES 9/2 to SUN 9/7
8pm (SUN: 2pm)
"Cloud 9"
at Zack Box Theatre, Downstairs, 8 The Fenway, Boston (Boston Conservatory)
FREE
The students are coming back, and free theatre abounds:
A hilarious take-no-prisoners assault on hypocrisy, Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine is a whirlwind tour from 1880s Africa to 2008 London, confronting colonial and sexual repression with a gender-bent cast of characters who traverse 128 years while aging only 25.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
WED 9/3
6pm
Esteban Pastorino Diaz, "Shifting Perspectives": Reception & Artist's Talk
at Grossman Gallery, School of MFA, 230 The Fenway, Boston (The Fens)
FREE
There's more to Pastorino Diaz than his aerial photographs, but it's really mind-blowing stuff. You initially think you're looking really cool miniatures, but there's an excitement as you look more closely... This engineer-turned-photographer will be here from Argentina to give a talk at 7pm.
WED 9/3
9:30pm
Justice of the Unicorns, Tigers and Monkeys, Spanish Armada, The Wild Business
at Middle East - Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge (Central Sq)
$8 advance /$9 dos / 18+
Ryan's Smashing Life presents four very good bands! I love Justice of the Unicorns & Tigers and Monkeys, who share some band members! The Spanish Armada remind me of Nick Cave and Magnetic Fields.
WED 9/3 to SUN 9/7
7:30pm
Films at the Gate 2008
at Vacant Lot near Chinatown Gate, about 10 Hudson St, Boston (Chinatown)
FREE
An annual series of 5 nights of kung-fu movies al fresco. Seats are first-come, first-serve; but feel free to bring your own. All movies will have English subtitles with the original Chinese audio.
WED 9/3: My Young Auntie
"A kung fu smackdown and wacky comedy"
THUR 9/4: Police Story
"Jackie Chan's first big contemporary hit set a new standard for modern action films. Directed by & Starring Jackie Chan."
FRI 9/5: "Red Heroine" w/ live music soundtrack by Devil Music Ensemble
"This silent film from 1929 is the oldest complete swordplay (wuxia) film in existence."
SAT 9/6: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin
"When people talk about old school kung fu movies—they mean this one."
(A Major Influence on Wu Tang Clan!)
SUN 9/7: My guess -- Iron Monkey: The Young Wong Fei Hong
"We can't announce the title of Sunday night's film just yet. Here's a hint: a kung fu comedy about the childhood of one of China's most famous martial arts heroes, this film features Boston's Donnie Yen."
Sunday's film will be preceded by a performance by Bow Sim Mark Tai Chi Arts Association & Rick Wong's Chinese Martial Arts.
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THUR 9/4
7pm to 8pm
"In the Time Before Now: Stories of the Massachuset People"
at Abbey Room, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St, Boston (Copley Sq)
FREE
Feather-on-the-Moon, Gill Solomon, Sachem of the Massachuset-Ponkapoag Tribal Council, will tell stories of the creation of the earth, the Native people's relationship with nature and their traditional ways of life.
If you get there early, there's a reception in the Boston Room at 5:30pm for the new exhibit, "Native Americans in the Time Before Now: Perceptions from Boston and Beyond".
Part of the multi-day celebration of "Boston Charter Day".
THUR 9/4
6pm
Manami Morita
at Institute for Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave, Boston (South Boston/Seaport)
FREE
Berklee students/faculty/etc have been playing concerts every free Thursday night when it's free to get in. Free jazz outside + free art inside = cultural experience that's worth way more than you paid. Japanese-born Manami Morita leads her jazz quartet behind the keyboard. If you don't like the music, go in and check out the Anish Kapoor exhibit. This is your last free chance to see it before closing on Sunday, 9/7. If you don't like the wild sculpture, you still walked around the harborfront on a summer night.
THUR 9/4
9pm
Big Moves: "Queen for a Day II"
at Church, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston (Fenway)
$8 advance / $10 door / 21+
"An all-Queen revue featuring burlesque, bellydance and a band celebrating Freddie Mercury's Birthday" with Gunpowder Gelatine, an all-female Queen tribute band, as well as Babes in Boinkland and Johnny Blazes.
"Birthday cake will be served at midnight."
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FRI 9/5
7pm
Annual "Under The Stars: International Movie Nights"
at Parking Lot, Behind the Old Fire Station, 165 Broadway, Somerville
(East Somerville)
FREE
East Somerville Main Streets presents a free international cinematic street party with live Brazilian Bossa Nova music, DJ Vector, and more.
Movie, "Deus E Brasileiro (God is Brazilian)", starts at 8pm
FRI 9/5
7pm to 11pm
"Triple Feature": Night of Photography, Film, and Music
at The Marston, 155 Middlesex Street, Lowell
FREE
FRI 9/5
Door 8pm
The Dirty Truckers (11:30pm), The Kickbacks (10:30pm), AM Stereo (9:30pm)
at Church, 69 Kilmarnock St, Boston (Fenway)
$10 / 21+
FRI 9/5
The Tampoffs (11:45pm), Menthols (10:45pm), Black Clouds (9:45pm), The Maintainers (9pm)
at Abbey Lounge, 3 Beacon St, Somerville (Inman Sq)
FREE
The Weekly Dig has put everyone on the guest list...
FRI 9/5 and SAT 9/6
4pm to 10pm
Annual "Viva la Vinal Festival"
at Somerville Community Growing Center, 22 Vinal Ave, Somerville (near Union Sq)
FREE, donations accepted
The third year of musicians, comedians, storytellers.
THUR 9/4 to SUN 9/7
Various Times
Boston Charter Day
Various Locations
FREE
There's an emphasis on Native American history this year.
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SAT 9/6
4pm to 8pm
Caliente! Latin Festival
at City Hall Plaza, Boston (Govt Center)
FREE
SAT 9/6
3pm to 7pm
Somerville Rock and Roll Yard Sale
at Union Sq Plaza, Somerville (nexus of Somerville Ave, Washington St, Bow St)
FREE
Pretty much what it sounds like: Rock stuff for sale like records, CD's, memorabilia, old tongue piercings...
SAT 9/6
9:30pm
Magic Christian, Muck and The Mires, Parallel Project, Fox Pass
at Middle East - Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge (Central Sq)
$9 advance / $10 day of show / 18+
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SUN 9/7
2pm to 5pm
"Swiss Beach Day at the Charles"
at Weeks pedestrian bridge, Memorial Drive side, near Dewolf St, Cambridge
FREE
I don't get what's going on – yet...
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Links of the Week:
I don't remember how I stumbled on this site, but it's a not-yet-comprehensive database of the folks that are in the kitchens
of the world. When you go to a restaurant, you can find out who made your tasty meal.
My friend, Ryan, turned me on to the "Not For Tourists" book series on a visit to New York. When a Boston edition came out, I bought one and carry it with me almost everyday. Now I find out that PDF's of the whole book is available online! Every city they publish!
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Quote of the Week:
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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th-th-that's all, folks.
~r
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