ISSUE #74 04/16
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4/15-4/24 CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE FESTIVAL AFTER DARK @BRATTLE Theatre All Ages Think the only thing scientific about Cambridge was MIT? Then check out some of the films hand selected to represent all the joys, tribulations and pocket protectors of being an egghead. The annual festival is a 10 day event celebrating science, technology, engineering, art and math throughout the city and New England proper. So naturally several sci-fi classics will be shown to those who lap up everything nerdy and beyond. I’m talking gems from the 1980s like Weird Science, Back to the Future, Repo Man, Real Genius, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and the schadenfreude masterpiece Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, nearly all playing in 35mm. So hop on your segway or whatever the hell you use to get around and make sure to stop by the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square during all the festivities. Come on, you know you want to geek out. -Pablo Torroella
NG: PLACES YOU CAN HA MAKE SHIFT BOSTON Right in the heart of Boston’s South End, surrounded by Berklee, NEC, and Northeastern, Make Shift Boston is fighting for all things good, socially just, progressive, and weird. Since 2011, the cooperative workspace and community center has been home to journalists and activists working to topple the prison industrial complex, nonprofits like Fight for the Future and Jewish Voices for Peace, all-night safe-space dance parties like Break the Chains, and our very own Monday night Hassle/Compass meetings. All of this happens in a light-filled two-story loft on Columbus Ave. With kitchen and couches and long tables to foster conversation and collaboration, the space is the perfect union of a focused work environment and the cozy-yet- classy living room you wish you had. Make Shift makes it easy to become part of the community: you can apply here to become a member (for a small monthly fee), work in the space 24/7, and host your awesome events in the space. Make Shift is also hosting the Hassle’s new Independent and Experimental film screenings. Each month, you’ll be able to see mind-stretching, beautiful, under-sung films, meet the quality independent filmmakers who make them, and be part of good community and good art. Come hang on Friday, April 8th and watch a new short film by NYC-based filmmaker Gina Telaroli, Silk Tatters, which combines old footage from Judy Garland films and psychedelic textures, and her film A Little Death, a gorgeous look at solitude and rituals and Nantucket in the winter. The night will also feature the ambient, experimental sounds of Retribution Body. Next time you are wandering through the South End, drop in through Makeshift’s open doors into diverse, welcoming community of makers, practical dreamers, radical hearts, and good human beings. —-By John Shakespear
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I truly believe the music scene here in Boston is special. There’s a certain something; an inherent friendliness which in my humble opinion permeates the shows that take place in this fine city's underground. Sure nothing and nobody is perfect, but overall I’d say we’re a pretty chummy bunch. We’re all kids on the inside (and some of us on the outside) and knowing that there are others out there like you is what makes music so powerful. It’s what makes it a unifying force for good and it’s that kind of acceptance and unity that inspired two kids like you and me to start a record label and help to support and nourish that connectivity. Over six years later Glen and Chris are still going strong and at the end of the month the boys will be hosting their biggest gathering to date: KLYAM’s Rama Lama Ding Dong. This three day music fest kicks off at Club Bohemia on Thursday 4/28and moves over to Mid East Up for the next two days. Featuring an amazing lineup including The Monsieurs, The Barbazons, Black Beach, Prefab Messiahs, Guerilla Toss, Gravel, and so many more still to be announced, this is one you don’t wanna miss. So come out and be surrounded by people like you. -Michael Achille
We are committed and we should be committed. For we volunteer countless hours a week to foster a platform for independent artists. We're very proud of our music coverage, which we have somehow maintained for 6 years now (shout out to Achille for taking it to the next level) and we’re equally proud of our film coverage which has survived now for over 3 years (shout-out to Ari and Oscar for a handoff in which the ball was never dropped). But at this moment we are lacking someone who is passionate and knowledgeable about ARTS coverage, galleries, cafes and installations. This is a rare opportunity to steer the ship. As a managing editor of the Art Attack section you would, with the input of the team, use our platform to expose local art of high and low brow. Just takes a little commitment, both to yourself and to the goal of making this city a cooler place. Any contribution can have an impact. Whether it's a half hour a day, an hour a day, or a couple hours a week, you can make a difference and better the cultural landscape of this city which persists even as you read this. volunteer@brain-arts.org -Sam Potrykus
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MOMENT OF CLARITY WITH JON RIZZO: THE MBTA AND CHARLIE B’S LONG CON There’s a lot of crazy shit happening in Beantown lately. Seen those fancy high rises going up but not much affordable housing? How about the fact that we’re shutting down a bunch of public schools yet gave millions to GE? Or that our city is the most inequitable in the country Then there’s the MBTA. If you caught my last article, you know that the T’s financial crisis is the result of forward funding legislation that forced the T to take on private debt. Over 25% of their budget is spent servicing this debt alone. To hear Charlie Baker, you would think worker inefficiency is to blame. Let’s get to the heart of this stinking onion. We’re now far enough removed from the passage of forward funding that Baker start passing the blame for operational failures--but not on a lack of funding for new infrastructure and technology. Once in office, Baker helped suspend a law against privatizing public services for three years. Privatization is the weapon of choice for today’s politicians. Dem or GOP, our establishment politicians have swung noticeably right when it comes to economics, obliterating public services and gifting private companies the job. Using last winter’s crisis as a springboard, Charles Chieppo of The Pioneer Institute, a conservative pro-privatization think tank said, “when an agency fails as spectacularly as the Boston transit system did, it’s time for competition” (Chieppo, was a member of the same board that crafted forward funding in 2000). Charlie Baker was also employed at The Pioneer Institute in the 90s, and today the Koch Brothers are its biggest bankrollers. The MBTA isn’t the rat king in this situation--it’s the entanglement of elite business and Capitol Hill.
NOTES FROM THE CREW Thanks for picking up Compass #74! We are very proud of this issue and actually pleased to bring it to you because we didnt kill ourselves making it for once. As we mentioned last month we are trimming the fat of the newsrag and tightening up our webzine scene. The latest in our streamlining process is the decision to feature ONE artist and ONE designer, creating a more cohesive look for each edition. If you are a serious designer, if design is your art, we want YOU. The whole newspaper could be your creative playground one month, scattered all the over city by the thousands. Email volunteer@brain-arts.org to join the layout team! There are a few particularly radical opportunities available within the org at the moment such as Social Media Team and Art Attack Managing Editor, and we continue to realize more at our weekly meetings (mondays at make shift!), all of varying degrees of commitment so we can get folks involved even their free time is limited. We also offer internships if you crave that cred! For anyone who is brand new we are starting a monthly hang for new volunteers to come chill, make collages and learn what's up with the Hassle at Farmer Horse Coffee house the first Tuesday of every month 6-9.
All in all, the team has been very high on morale this month. We would love to have you join our strange crew in any fashion: come to a meeting, come hang, go to a show and have your mind blown. Hop out the mainstream and into the freak creek, the water is chill. -Emma, Rey and Sam This newspaper is an ongoing project of BRAIN Arts Organization, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Please consider donating to, volunteering, or otherwise supporting us: Brain-arts.org. bostonhassle@ gmail.com
MONDAY APRIL 11 Eye Design Presents: Weatherbox, Enemies, Leaner @Charlie's Kitchen 9PM 21+ $5 Nice Guys and Negra! @Zuzu 9PM 21+ Free TUESDAY APRIL 12 Steve Norton w/Leap of Faith @Lilypad 8PM All Ages $Donate$ Non Event Presents: AUVN @Cafe Fixe 8PM All Ages $5 WEDNESDAY APRIL 13 Life Partners & Doug Tuttle (solo) @ The Plough and Stars 10PM Free
CHOSEN SHOWS
THURSDAY APRIL 14 Illegally Blind Presents: Tacocat, Boyfriends, Mini Dresses @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $12 Prince Rama, W00DY, Way Out @ Great Scott 9PM 18+ $12…*A Boston Hassle Effort* FRIDAY APRIL 15 Bleached, No Parents, Gymshorts @ Great Scott 10PM 21+ $12
MUSIC GIGS FRIDAY APRIL 1 Out of the Blue Fools Fest featuring Barbazons, IAN, Steep Leans, Dyr Faser, Mardi Kings, and more! @Out of the Blue 6PM All Ages $13-20 Kal Marks, Left and Right, Ladybones, Sneeze @O’Briens 8PM 21+ $8 SATURDAY APRIL 2 Deep Thoughts 3rd Anniversary Party featuring guitar solo competition, Josh Rosenthal reading “The Record Store of the Mind” & Sam Moss (acoustic guitar) + storewide sale @Deep Thoughts (JP) 4-8PM All Ages Free Waste Management, Suburbanite (NYC), Sunshine Ward, Eastern Bloc, Woundman, Deathtaker @Gallery X (New Bedford) 5PM All Ages $8-10 Out of the Blue Fools Fest featuring Midriffs, Black Beach, Listening Woman, The Channels, W00DY, and more! @Out of the Blue 6PM All Ages $15-20 SUNDAY APRIL 3 Disguise (Ireland), Video Filth, Bombers, Symptom @Non Factory 7PM All Ages $8
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Ten Dollar Mistake, Margaret Garrett, Jiblantos, Negative One @ PA’s Lounge (Somerville) 9PM $ome Cost THURSDAY APRIL 7 Nonhorse (G Lucas Crane - formerly of Woods & The Vanishing Voice, Silent Barn co-founder), Pam Finch (NY), Macula Dog, Jazz Massagers + Karaoke - Alaina's 30th Birthday Party! @Deep Thoughts JP 8PM All Ages $5 Donation FRIDAY APRIL 8 Muyassar Kurdi with Al Margolis and Walter Wright @170 Main St. (Greenfield, MA) 8PM All Ages $ome Cost Son of Salmi, Listening Woman, Tredici Bacci @ Deep Thoughts JP 8PM All Ages $ome Cost Persistence Of Vision: A Night of Independent and Experimental Film @Make Shift w/ Gina Telaroli. Featuring her latest short film Silk Tatters and film A Little Death. Also featuring music from Retribution Body. 6-10pm All Ages $5-10 suggested. *A Boston Hassle Effort*
Record Hospital Fest Day 1 w/ Thalia Zedek Band, Puppy Problems, Littlefoot, Listening Woman, 28 Degrees Taurus, Secret Mountain, Halfsour @The Harvard Advocate 4PM All Ages $10 Sugg. Donation BAM/CO Presents: Bugs and Rats, Bedtime Kids, Diabolical Fiend @Cholmondeley’s Coffee House (Waltham) 9PM All Ages $ome Cost SATURDAY APRIL 16 Record Hospital Fest Day 2 w/Mountain Man, Blood Club, DENT, Deathdealer, Ursula, and Hounds @The Harvard Advocate 4PM All Ages $10 Sugg. Donation Box Fan, Laika’s Orbit, Long Gone @Cosmic Palace (ask for address) 8PM All Ages $5 Open Sound Presents: Junko Fujiwara, Kit Demos, Jeff Platz, Laurence Cook, Charlie Kohlhase, Vic Rawlings, Sound Energy, and Mike Avitabile @Third Life Studio 8PM All Ages $ome Cost Steve Norton w/Joe Burgio’s Inedit @Green Street Studios 8PM All Ages $15
The Sinclair May 26 Record Release Show w/ What Cheer Bridgade
SATURDAY APRIL 9
Wimps, Gravel, Halfsour @OOTB2 8PM All Ages $8-10
Muyassar Kurdi with Al Margolis and Walter Wright @Whitehaus 9PM All Ages $ome Cost
MONDAY APRIL 4
Steve Norton w/Leap of Faith + New Language Collaborative, and Metal Chaos Ensemble @ Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church (Somerville) 8PM All Ages $Donate$
SUNDAY APRIL 17
Stumpf, Floral Print, Plant Parenthood, Harmoos @The Record Company 8PM All Ages $5-$10…*A Boston Hassle Effort*
Listening Woman, Ada, Pitts @Collective Agogo (Worcester) 8PM All Ages $ome Cost
Acid Mothers Temple, Mounds, Magic Shoppe @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $12
X Marks (The Spot) Grand Opening w/Howardian (mems of Japanther!), Mardi Kings, Keytar Bear & John Garrett! @Out of the Blue Too 8PM All Ages $10…*A Boston Hassle Effort* TUESDAY APRIL 5 Gerritt Wittmer, Sheer Anxiety, Peter J Woods @Out of the Blue 8PM All Ages $5-$10…*A Boston Hassle Effort* Monthly Fem Night featuring special guests Olivia Mainville & The Aquatic Troupe, Lady Pills, Full Color, Dimebag @Midway 8PM 21+ $5
DISCOVER THE OTHERS
Break The Chains, Intelligent Mischief, Mass LEAP, and Black & Pink present Dark Matter @Danger!Awesome 9PM All Ages $10-25….$5 youth/low income SUNDAY APRIL 10 Dame, The Cringe, Krimewatch, Cape Of Bats, Smart Hearts @2E 8PM All Ages $ome Cost
W.MASS: 4/8 Idm Theftable, Moose, Arkm Foam, more tba @Mystery Train Records 6:30PM All Ages $ome Cost
Eye Design Presents: Pujol, Courters, Dan Webb & The Spiders @Firebrand Saints 8PM 18+ $5
MONDAY APRIL 18 Gravel, Swim Team (OH, mbrs of Vacation), Notches, Knockin Bones @Charlie’s Kitchen 8PM 21+ $5 Taxidermists, Jo Passed (Montreal), Crispy Lips @Zuzu 9PM 21+ $5-10 Sliding Scale…*A Rad Castle and Boston Hassle Joint Effort* WEDNESDAY APRIL 20 As Built Presents: Julius Earthling + TBA @O’Briens 9PM $ome Cost
THURSDAY APRIL 21 Crosss (Canadada), Birthing Hips, Gamma Pope, Rosie and the Rosies @O’Briens 8PM 18+ $10 *An Illegally Blind and Boston Hassle Joint Effort* Steve Norton w/Duck That @Franklin St. (Allston) 8PM All Ages $Donate$ FRIDAY APRIL 22 OBN IIIs (Austin), The Monsieurs, Far Corners & Devil Music @Out of the Blue Too 8PM All Ages $10...*A Boston Hassle and KLYAM Joint Effort* Booking Collective Benefit featuring Rejiem, Ambush, Heartbreaker, Surveillance @Democracy Center 7PM All Ages $7-10 Illegally Blind Presents: Ian, Ovlov, Horse Jumper of Love, Lady Pills @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $10 SATURDAY APRIL 23 DENT, dæphne, Bat House, Puppy Problems @ Democracy Center 7PM All Ages $5 Wicked Mess! A collectively booked mini-fest featuring Pile, Ovlov, (NE) Pats, Bugs and Rats, Bong Wish, Atlas Lab, Video Nasties, and many many more! @Cambridge Elks Lodge 3pm All Ages $10-15 *A Boston Hassle Effort* SUNDAY APRIL 24 Evil Sword, Listening Woman, Tiffany's House, Blood Club, The Cavemen @Out of the Blue 8PM All Ages $5-$10 Noah Bartel, FRKSE, Sea, Lucien Shapiro (San Francisco) @Deep Thoughts (JP) 8PM All Ages $ome Cost MONDAY APRIL 25 Pucker Up, Sour Spirit (PA), Birthing Hips, Wrists (PA) @Zuzu 9PM 21+ Free Tuesday April 26 Illegally Blind Presents: Fleabite, Katherine, Ursula, Long Gone @Middle East Upstairs 8PM All Ages $10 WEDNESDAY APRIL 27 EKP, Hello Ocho (Atlanta), Yairms (NY) and TBA @The Berwick 8pm All Ages $5-10 *A Boston Hassle Effort* THURSDAY APRIL 28 KLYAM Fest Day 1 w/Special guests TBA and KLYAM DJ @Club Bohemia 8PM 21+ $8 Illegally Blind Presents: Julianna Barwick, Nat Baldwin (Dirty Projectors), Skinny Bones, St. Nothing @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $12 FRIDAY APRIL 29 HOMEGROWN #4 featuring Ruth Garbus, Julia Tadlock, Wendy Eisenberg, Allysen Callery, and Rob Noyes @Fazenda Cafe 7PM food 8PM doors 9PM jams ALL AGES $10 Sugg. Donation…*A Boston Hassle Effort* KLYAM Fest Day 2 w/The Monsieurs + many more! @Mid East Up 6PM 18+ $12 SATURDAY APRIL 30 Horse Lords (Baltimore), The Channels, Los Greys (first full band show!) @Out Of The Blue Too 8pm All Ages $10 *A Boston Hassle Effort* KLYAM Fest Day 3 w/Guerilla Toss + many more! @Mid East Up 3PM 18+ $14 E, Violet Nox, Wrong Shapes, Linnea Herzog @ Lilypad 10PM 21+ $10
Nightime Sunshine, Wicket Rot, Frank Hurricane @Lilypad 10PM All Ages $ome Cost
and Rats, Guardian Alien, Worse @ Aviv (Brooklyn) 8PM All Ages $10
W.MASS: 4/16 Bunny's a Swine, Footings, Michael Gundlach @King Street Manor (Northampton) 8PM All Ages
NY: 4/3 Muyassar Kurdi with Al Margolis and Walter Wright @Silent Barn (NYC) 8PM All Ages $ome Cost
W.MASS: 4/17 Listening Woman, Ada, Pitts @ Collective Agogo (Worcester) 8PM All Ages $ome Cost
NY: 4/5 Stove, Baked, Sodium Beast, Dolly Spartans @Shea Stadium (Brooklyn) 8PM All Ages $ome Cost
CT: 4/24 Emperor X (GER), Loner Chic, Animal Flag (MA), Guest House @The Arena (Meridan, CT) 7PM All Ages $7-10
NH: 4/16 Footings, Hanna Liuzzo, Soft Eyes @ Ratskellar (Dover, NH) 2PM All Ages $5
NY: 4/22 Sediment Club, (NE) Patriots, Bugs
CT: 4/16 WQAQ Spring Fest featuing Balance
CT: 4/17 Woozy, Kississipi, Bilge Rat, Lady Bones, Milkshakes @the Fish House (CT) 6:30PM All Ages $5
LISTINGS NOTE: Below is the venue abbreviation key: Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE Coolidge Corner Theatre - COOLIDGE Harvard Film Archive - HFA Institute of Contemporary Art - ICA Kendall Square Cinema - KENDALL Museum of Fine Arts Boston - MFA Somerville Theatre – SOMERVILLE
(4/11) WEST SIDE STORY (1961) dir. Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins @COOLIDGE Romeo & Juliet & Sharks & Jets (4/12) TRASH NIGHT (Title TBA) @BRATTLE VHS-positive Bacchanalia
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(3/314/10) WICKED QUEER: BOSTON LGBT FILM FESTIVAL 2016 @BRATTLE/ICA/KENDALL/MORE! (4/1) APRIL FOOL’S DAY (1986) dir. Fred Walton @COOLIDGE Obligatory seasonal slasher Also screens 4/2 (4/2) DISTANT (2013) dir. Zhengfan Yang @ ICA 13 chapters, 13 shots Director in person! (4/3-5/15) ODES TO LAND AND LABOR AND LOVE: THE FILMS OF PHILIP TREVELYAN @HFA (4/3) INTOLERANCE (1916) dir. D.W. Griffith @SOMERVILLE Silent Hollywood at its most Babylonian Live musical accompaniment!
(4/13) CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR (2015) Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul @MFA A bower of broken dreams
Please see our sister website BostonHassle.com/ Film for our full listings w/ showtimes and other info. FILM FLAM SEEKS VOLUNTEERS!!! If you would like to get involved with our film section or submit listings, shoot us an email at BostonHassleFilm@gmail.comv
(4/15-4/18) MUPPET MANIA @BRATTLE (4/15) DEATH BECOMES HER dir. Robert Zemeckis @ COOLIDGE Addams Family Meets Immortality, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis & Meryl Streep Also screens 4/16 (4/16) LABYRINTH (1986) dir. Jim Henson @ BRATTLE Goblin King memorial service Also screens 4/18 (4/17) THE WOLFPACK (2015) dir. Crystal Modell @MFA Being locked away in an apartment will probably make you weird too (4/17) THE WITCHES (1990) dir. Nicolas Roeg @BRATTLE Most. Disturbing. Child. Movie. Ever. (4/17) IRAQI ODYSSEY (2014) Dir. Samir @ Coolidge A family splayed along a century’s faultlines (4/19) WEIRD SCIENCE (1985) dir. John Hughes @BRATTLE Boobs created by geniuses (4/20) FRANCOFONIA (2015) Dir. Aleksandr Sokurov @MFA Trace the Louvre’s oblique arc, archly (4/21) REPO MAN (1984) dir. Alex Cox @ BRATTLE Always-intense punk sci-fi noir (4/22-4/27) THROUGH INDIAN EYES: NATIVE AMERICAN CINEMA @BRATTLE
(4/3) LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH (1928) dir. Herbert Brenon @HFA Lon Chaney’s midnight clown-terror Live musical accompaniment!
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(4/22) THE FINAL GIRLS dir. Todd Strauss-Shulson @COOLIDGE Rule-breaking genre mix, mostly funny Also screens 4/23
(4/3) MUSTANG (2015) dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven @MFA Childhood and rebellion during a fundamentalist upbringing (4/3) THE MOON AND THE SLEDGEHAMMER (1971) Dir. Philip Trevelyan @HFA Nostalgic Anglo-magic against the modern world Director in person! (4/7) TOMORROW IS ALWAYS TOO LONG (2014) dir. Phil Collins @HFA Musical love letter to Glasgow (4/8) THE WAR GAME (1966) dir. Peter Watkins @HFA If you like your apocalypse nuclear look no further (4/8) THE INVITATION (2015) Dir. Karyn Kusama @Brattle Higher-order dinner-party dread (4/9) HIGH TENSION dir. Alexandre Aja @ COOLIDGE Thriller complete w/ cornfield, axe, and House in the Woods Also screens 4/10
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ART LISTIN (4/23) THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE EIGHTH DIMENSION (1984) dir. W.D. Richter @BRATTLE Interdimensional rock’n’roll swashbuckling
There are no art listings this month because we have no managing editor for the art section! Tasks for this role include: -Compile comprehensive listings of art show happenings in and around Greater Boston -Process feedback/submissions from within and from outside the org -Coordinate more in depth coverage for the listings for special events
(4/24) MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: THE MOVIE (1996) dir. Jim Mallon @BRATTLE People watching robots watching movies (4/25) ACNE (2008) dir. Federico Veiroj @ HFA Coming-of- age Boy Drama
If Interested in this volunteer position, inquire via email at volunteer@brain-arts.org.
(4/29) MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) dir. David Lynch @COOLIDGE Lynchian thriller romance Also screens 4/30
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& Composure, Superheaven, Pile, Budris @Quinnipiac (CT) 6PM 18+ $10
RI: 4/22 Roz And The Rice Cakes, Arc Iris, Night Idea @Aurora (Providence) 8PM All Ages $ome Cost
ME: 4/13 Painted Zeros, Izzy True, Ratleg, Wait @Central Gallery (Bangor, ME) 8PM All Ages $5
Buck Gooter, Black Pus, Albert DeMuth @Aurora dence) 9PM
ME: 4/1 Video Nasties, Geist & Sacred Ensemble, Corum's Magic Mirror @dBasement (Portland, ME) 8PM All Ages Suggested Donation
VT: 4/20: Stampede Fest ft. Apartment 3, Bison, Ellen Degenerates + more @The Monkey House (Winooski, VT) 7PM 18+ $7
RI: 4/21 Atlantic Thrills, Black Beach, Party Pigs, Sugar Cones, DJ Studs Jerkel @Dusk (PVD) 9PM All Ages $ome Cost
ME: 4/16 Michael Hurley, Chris Weisman @SPACE Gallery (Portland, ME) 8:30PM All Ages $12
VT:
4/28: Blood Club, Wicked Rot, Space Fiend, Harvey Bigman @Burlington City Arts (Burl-
ington) 8PM All Ages Free VT: 4/29 Guerilla Toss, Yairms, Family Planning, More TBA @May Fest (Marlboro, VT) 3PM All Ages Free
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DROPPIN' THE SCOPE ARIES You can't ask a magic 8 ball where you will get your next irregular pap smear, but if you could it would probably say: on your bedroom floor. Compatible with: Leo Lucky Show: Macula Dog @ Deep Thoughts JP TAURUS Always go to a party with a conversation piece, but don't let it be too funny. No one will remember your name if you wear a Sharpie-drawn shirt depicting a clownfish speaking in bubbles that spell out the word "Cumstain". Compatible with: Pisces Lucky Show: Michael Hurley @ Davis Square Theater GEMINI Drinking lots of mint tea and cold press watermelon juice does for the groin what only shoplifting those things can do for the soul. Compatible with: Aquarius Lucky Show: Prince Rama @ Great Scott
CANCER Don't bite the hand that fisted you.
mountain on skis made of friendship with you?
Compatible with: Libra
Compatible with: Virgo
Compatible with: Taurus
Lucky Show: Horse Lords @ Out of the Blue
Lucky Show: Ruth Garbus @ Fazenda
Lucky Show: Muyassar Kurdi @ Third Life LEO Don't let somebody who chain smokes cigarettes call you a "fucking idiot"; they'e the ones overdosing on something they're clearly allergic to. Compatible with: Capricorn Lucky Show: Son of Salami @ Deep Thoughts JP VIRGO Every time you skimp out and don't tip your hipster Lyft driver, a tiny part of you dies a thousand deaths of an infidel. Compatible with: Aries Lucky Show: Acid Mothers Temple @ Great Scott LIBRA Someone in your life is resistant to being your friend because they are in love with your significant other; are you aware of how stupid that is? Why would anybody submerge themselves in tepid unrequited love bathwater when they could speed down a sparkling snowcapped
SCORPIO Trolling people online is pretty much the most ableist thing you could do, Scorpio. Not only does it rely on the fact that you have no flaws and are therefore Able to spend your time pointing out what is wrong with others, it also highlights the fact that you have no problems and are therefore Able to spend copious amounts of time concocting issues for everybody else. Compatible with: Gemini Lucky Show: Ursula @ The Harvard Advocate SAGITTARIUS For Sagittarius, honesty is a difficult policy. Compatible with: Cancer Lucky Show: Pucker Up @ ZuZu CAPRICORN Gainful employment, no matter how degrading, is not only financially settling but also makes you more appealing (because you'll get out of my house more and buy your own food).
AQUARIUS Some people just know, y'know? Do you ask a magician how he or she knows your card? Do you ask Stevie Wonder how he knows the reggae woman boogies too fast for him? Maybe he can hear the air whooshing around her ass. Or maybe he just knows. Compatible with: Scorpio Lucky Show: IAN @ the Middle East PISCES On your upcoming trip to Mexico City, feel free to indulge any street vendor who will sell you tequila, but avoid playing "el torque" (a test of virility and/or a sobering device in the form of escalating electrical shocks to your hands); it only costs 40 cents but back in the States you'll have opportunities to be electrocuted for free. Compatible with: Sagittarius Lucky Show: Frank Hurricane @ Lilypad