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Our city is jam-packed. The housing crisis is worse than ever, and even businesses are cohabiting to afford space. It’s no wonder that in a city so full, we’ve shucked our need for ownership, and begun instead to adopt a “sharing model” for everything from housing, to business, to bikes. With the emergence of Hubway, city-dwellers can pay an annual fee for access to bikes in one of 100+ locations in Metro-Boston, and cruise around from work to play all without having to worry about bike storage. The same is true for bike maintenance; the Somerville Bike Kitchen provides a tool-sharing model, with a weekly drop-in fee for use of a full tool library and stand: things too cumbersome to fit in our already overcrowded Cambridge and Somerville apartments. The newest kid on the block is bike education collective, SHIFT Bicycles, a volunteer-run co-op taking the streets of East Somerville and East Cambridge to share their knowledge of safe riding and daily bike maintenance. SHIFT’s mission is “safety through education,” which they provide in a skillshare model: folks of all levels of bike-savvy come together to co-learn and co-teach. From complete rookies to skilled mechanics, volunteers are always welcome, and needed to keep SHIFT’s donation model intact: ensuring no one is denied a bike education for inability to pay. Doesn’t get much sweeter than that! Meet the team and get involved May 7th, 1-6pm at Aeronaut Brewing for the Bike Month Kickoff, or visit shiftbicycles.org for more info. --Jan Marie and Jay Pielmeier

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How did Nicolas Cage go undetected for so long? For over 20 years, he managed to pass as a typical Hollywood A-lister, despite turning out performance after performance of scenery-shredding lunacy; it was like Crispin Glover somehow had inhabited the body of Richard Gere. Fortunately, in the past ten years or so, America has finally realized what a national treasure (sorry) they have on their hands. With that in mind, the Somerville Theatre pays tribute in the most fitting of ways: with a night of sexy dance and sassy comedy! Join some of New England’s brightest burlesque stars as they salute the likes of THE WICKER MAN, VAMPIRE’S KISS, and CON AIR, hosted by noted film critic Mike D’Angelo (The AV Club, Esquire)! As if that weren’t enough, the evening is capped off with a screening of John Woo’s jaw-dropping FACE/OFF, in which John Travolta attempts to out-Cage the master (who himself is at his absolute Cagiest). Oh, and if you happen to know how it got burned, please contact Compass editorial. --Oscar Goff out, and a special screening of the Death by Audio documentary. Musical highlights include Dan Deacon, Real Estate, Frankie Cosmos, Screaming Females, Downtown Boys, and IAN SWEET plus showcases from NNA Tapes featuring the multi-instrumental Tredici Bacci led by Simon Hanes and Brooklyn’s Dull Tools featuring PILL, Beth Israel, Eaters, and Future Punx @ The Monkey House (aka the nucleus of this fest). As always Boston and Mass. are well represented with indie dreamers Mini Dresses, the experimental electro outfit Home Body, and psychedelic aficionado Doug Tuttle. You’ll also definitely want to catch NH punks Footings, ME’s Jaw Gems, and of course ex-Boston noise punk duo

URSULA. I could keep going but half the fun (and point) of such a widespread festival is the act of discovery. Weekend passes are an absolute steal at $55. Pick one up and spend the first weekend in May poking around Winooski, VT where you’re sure to find something new and exciting for your eyes, ears, taste buds, and more. --Michael Achille

THIS PROGRAM IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY A GRANT FROM THE BOSTON CULTURAL COUNCIL, A LOCAL AGENCY WHICH IS FUNDED BY THE MASSACHUSETTS CULTURAL COUNCIL, AS ADMINSTRATED BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE OF ARTS + CULTURE THIS PAPER 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 OR BOSTONHASSLE@GMAIL.COM

Sat 5/6 Forbes Graham, Ellen Phan, Le Creuset, Sarah Pitan @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages $5-10 Sun 5/7 Honeysuckle and Sam Moss @Atwoods 9pm 21+ $7

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Mon 5/1 Eye Design Presents: Know Your Scene! featuring The Way Ways, Badfellows, The Owens @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free

Fri 5/5 Dinnersss, Karl Fousek (Montreal), Ice Joke, Hybrid Decliners @Studio550 9pm All Ages $5-10 Suggested Donation…*A Boston Hassle Joint Effort* Fri 5/5 Illegally Blind Presents: Nightime Sunshine, Littlefoot, Babydriver @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $ome Cost

Tue 5/2 Hot Jazz, Cool Neighborhood Fundraiser featuring High Key People w/Julian Velasco Fri 5/5 Kazehito Seki, Gaiamamoo, Crank @The Gate 6pm All Ages $10 Sturgeon, DOG, Walter Wright/Victoria Shen duo, This Is Not Okay, angelsbreath-lite @Hotel Tue 5/2 Uni Ika Ai, Arc Iris @Great Scott 9pm Vernon (Worcester) 7pm All Ages Free 18+ $10 Tue 5/2 The Final Monthly Fem Night - A Benefit for Liberation Library featuring Peach Ring, Cassandra, Andrea Pensado, Ashley Wonder, Noa Mori, Abigail Reisman @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5 Wed 5/3 The Besnard Lakes, The Life And Times, Ghosts of Sailors At Sea @Middle East Upstairs 7pm 18+ $12 Wed 5/3 Anna Mikhailova, Rat Bastard Duo, Scum, more tba @ Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale Wed 5/3 Snowhaus, Colbis the Creature, Ozlo @O’Briens 8pm 18+ $8 Wed 5/3 Houseboi w/ Dee Diggs @ZuZu 10pm 21+ $5 Thu 5/4 Deep Shred Fest w/ Math the Band the Band, Tall Juan, Nice Guys, Halfsour, Salty Greyhound @Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $10 Thu 5/4 Illegally Blind Presents: Leapling, Sun Young, Be You Me @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10 Thu 5/4 RTT Presents: Tiltwheel (CA), Witches with Dicks, Tied to a Bear, Hospital Beds @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $10 Thu 5/4 JESUS DRINKS FREE! 1950s-70s country, gospel, soul and RnB spun by 2 atheists @ Jeanie Johnston 9pm-Close FREE Fri 5/5 Real Estate, Frankie Cosmos @Royale 6pm 18+ $20

Fri 5/5 Break the Chains queer dance party featuring Taina Asili w/DJ Afropanther, Rushelle, Frasier, Alicia Vida Ortiz, Miss Geo, Sidney Gish @Make Shift 6pm All Ages $5-20 Sat 5/6 Nina Violet, Bong Wish, Muddy Ruckus, Audrey Ryan @The Loft (Somerville) 7pm All Ages $ome Cost Sat 5/6 STIG, Riva Saputo, Bear Salon @Track Shack 8:30pm All Ages $5 Sat 5/6 Entrail Soup #3 (details to come) Sat 5/6 Waking Windows Main Stage featuring The National Reserve, The Welterweights, Kat Wright, Rough Francis, Frankie Cosmos, POND, Real Estate @Winooski VT 2pm All Ages $2555

5/8 Doug Tuttle, Viewer, Galactic Fidelity Unit, Pigeons @a spot (Turners Falls, MA) 6pm All Ages $ome Cost 5/10 Ralph White, Long john, Wes Buckley @ Mystery Train (Amherst) 8pm All Ages 5/20 Elkhorn, Glenn Jones, Anthony Paquarosa @Brick House (Turners Falls, MA) 8pm All Ages $10 5/21 That Body, Comrade Nixon, Strange Fate, Phantom Rides @Flywheel Arts Collective (Northampton) 8pm All Ages $Donate$

Sun 5/21 Pixies, Cymbals Eat Guitars @Paradise 7pm 18+ $55

Sat 5/13 Somerville Porchfest 2017 featuring Dr. Fidelity and The Novel Ideas @18 Banks St. Somerville 2-4pm All Ages Free

Sun 5/21 Standing Waves #8 featuring Ernst Karel @EMW Bookstore 7pm All Ages $5 sugg. Donation

Wed 5/10 Terror, God’s Hate, Abuse of Power, Vein,Thu 5/18 SHEA’S LOUNGE: A Punk Night - May Ugly @Hardcore Stadium 6pm All Ages $15 theme: UK PUNK! with live performance by Purgatory @Jeanie Johnston FREE 9pm Sat 5/6 Waking Windows Presents: Wes Buck- Wed 5/10 Fully Celebrated Orchestra, Thalia ley @McKees (Winooski, VT) 8:30pm Zedek, plus magic by Joe Ledoux @Midway 8pm Thu 5/18 Sir Richard Bishop, Robert Millis, Trevor 21+ $5 Healy @Flywheel Arts Collective 8pm All Ages Sat 5/6 Waking Windows Presents: Beeef, $ome Cost Doom Service, Tyler Daniel Bean, Friendship, Thu 5/11 Violet Nox, Spectramotiv @Plough and Tiny Hazard, Rick Rude @The Vault (Winooski, Stars 10pm 21+ Fri 5/19 Alosi Den, Fleece, Trophy Dad, Banana @ VT) 6pm Lilypad 6:30pm All Ages $5-$10 Thu 5/11 Illegally Blind Presents: T-Rextasy, Lady Sat 5/6 AD.UL.T, Great News, Pig Parts, Volca- Pills @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10 Fri 5/19 I Am Become Death, Laughing Stock, no Kings @Midway 9pm 21+ $8 Ugly, Ritual Blade, D-Sagawa @O’Briens 8pm 21+ Fri 5/12 Meat Puppets and Mike Watt + The Jom & $8 Sat 5/6 A.I. (Japan), Long Knife (PDX), Green Terry Show, Grant Hart @Brighton Music Hall 7pm Beret, Sterile, Skinned Alive @Hardcore Stadi- 18+ $18 Fri 5/19 New Mom, Birthing Hips, The Leafies You um 7pm All Ages $15 Gave Me @Hawks and Reed (Greenfield, MA) Fri 5/12 Negative One @Koto (Salem) 8-11pm 21+ 6pm All Ages $10-15 Sat 5/6 Ed Schrader's Music Beat, Blacker $ome Cost Beach, JOSS, Haag @a spot 8pm All Ages Sat 5/20 Obelisk, Aural Butcheryer$, Resist the $ome Cost Fri 5/12 Lee “Scratch” Perry & The Alchemystics Draft, Slow Biscuits, Gouge @Democracy Center @Hawks and Reed (Greenfield, MA) 7:30pm 18+ 7pm All Ages $5-10 Sat 5/6 Karl, NeuEisenDitti, Honey Noble (WA), $25-30 DoYeon Kim, Arditti Neuberg Eisenberg trio @ Sat 5/20 RTT Presents: Choke Up, Signals Shed Cellar 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Fri 5/12 Beach Slang, Alcoa, Notches, Twin Foxes @Midwest, Great Cynics, Dan Webb & The Spiders, The Met (Pawtucket, RI) 7pm All Ages $18 Typesetter @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $10

5/7 Screaming Females, Street Eaters, Whore Paint, Funeral Cone @Columbus Theater (Providence) 7pm All Ages $15 5/13 Siege, Scapegoat, V-Sect, Hardware, Brother @The Cafe at the Parlor (Newport, RI) 7pm All Ages $10 5/23 Iron Lung, Woung Man, V-Sect, Hardware @AS220 (PVD) 9pm All Ages $10

Mon 5/15 BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967) dir. Arthur Penn @COOLIDGE Great thieves, terrible Oscar presenters

Ongoing Exhibition: Darkness Made Visible: Derek Jarman and Mark Bradford @Museum of Fine Arts Sun 5/21 Ruckzuck, Jarvaland, Request FreeSun 5/7 I Heart Noise Showcase w/ Skyjelly, CryoCloses Tue 5/2 RAW: Portraits of Artists-BY Berbird + tba @Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All stasium, Yoma, Clymtn, Horse Mode @Zuzu 10pm nar Vernet @ The French Cultural Center Ages $5-10 sliding scale 21+ $5 Tue 5/2 Architecture Acoustique: Sounding the Carpenter Center @Carpenter Center, 6-8pm Mon 5/22 Xasthur, Marissa Nadler, Johanna Sun 5/7 Waking Windows Rotary Stage presents Ongoing Exhibition: The 2017 James and Audrey Warren @Middle East Downstairs 7pm 18+ $12 Siding Spring, Steady Betty, Shana Falana, Ava Foster Prize @Insitute of Contemporary Art Luna, Downtown Boys @Winooski, VT 3:30pm Wed 5/3 Talk: Games And Politics: Ben Houge + Mon 5/22 KLYAM and Rad Castle Present: ATNE @Boston Cyberarts Gallery 7-9pm. Sun 5/7 Waking Windows presents Portland Sat Peach Ring, Proud Parents (WI), and G. Gor- Wed 5/3 SMFA Graduate Thesis Screening @ don Gritty @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free Showcase featuring Jeff Beam, Lisa/Liza, Family 5/13 Somerville Porchfest 2017 featuring Molly MFA Alfond Auditorium 5.30pm-7.30pm Planning, Helena Deland, Henry Jamison, Big Brulé, Kaiti Jones feat. Emily Haviland Baker, Kate Thu 5/4 “Jesus Hopped the A Train” A Praxis Tue 5/23 Doug Tuttle, Lina Tullgren, Ash & Thief @Winooski Methodist Church (Winooski, VT) Brulé feat. Diana Galeano and Nicole Wright Stage production @Dorchester Art Project $17 3:30pm @136 Holland St. Somerville 4-6pm All Ages Free Herb, Blau Blau @Lilypad 9pm All Ages $ome Thu 5/4 Nari Ward’s Naturalization Table @ Cost Institute of Contemporary Art 5-8pm Sun 5/7 Chris Brokaw, Kevin Micka @Blue Bag Sat 5/13 Somerville PorchFest 2017 featuring UnThu 5/4 Opening Reception: The Sea by EJ Records 8pm All Ages $ome Cost named Colors, White Cassette, Bottle Kids @45 Tue 5/23 Joey Agresta (AKA The Pizza Slice Camp @The Leica Gallery, 4-9pm AKA Son of Salami), Big French, tba @Deep Trull St. Somerville 2-4pm All Ages Thu 5/4 In Presence: Performances by students Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $5-10 sliding Sun 5/7 Salem Wolves (album release) with Atlanfrom RISD @Distillery Gallery, 7pm scale tic Thrills, Today Junior @O’Brien’s 8pm 18+ $8 Sat 5/13 “Orchfest” 2017 featuring Mnemonist, Fri 5/5 Myrna Balk- Retrospective @ Piano Craft The Silver Mirrors, John Shakespear Band @141 Gallery Tue 5/23 Aye Nako, Ex-Temper, Maxi's Sun 5/7 Eye Design Presents: The I Want You (re- Orchard St. Somerville 5-6pm All Ages Free Fri 5/5 Opening Reception: Caleb Charland: World, N_a_n_n_y @Flywheel Arts Collective lease show) with Auva and Birdgangs @State Park Under The Arc of The Sky & Robert Moeller: (Easthampton) 8pm All Ages $7-10 9pm All Ages Free Sat 5/13 RTT Presents: Blessed State, California redacted: no further information available @ X, Squad Car, Life Hacks @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $10 Gallery Kayafas, 5:30-8:00pm Wed 5/24 Miracle Blood, Aneurysm, Dead Sun 5/7 Kikagaku Moyo w/ Herbcraft, New Pope Sat 5/6 Thinking Feeling: An Affect Symposium @ Trains @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8 @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10-12 Sat 5/13 Devil Music, Trigger, Channels @Deep MIT List Visual Arts Center, 10am-5pm Thoughts 9pm All Ages $5-10 Sat 5/6 OUTLAYER & OUTLOUD runway show Thu 5/25 HSY, Frigs, TRIM, The Channels @ Mon 5/8 Screaming Females, Ozlo, Laika's Orbit @ @Midway Artist’s Studio 6-8pm ONCE 7:30pm $15 Sun 5/14 Mystic Braves, The Creation Factory @ Club Bohemia 9pm 21+ $10 Thu 5/11 Foster Talks: Jennifer Bornstein @InstiGreat Scott 9pm 18+ $12 tute of Contemporary Art, 7-9pm Thu 5/25 Atlas Lab, The Solars @Atwoods Mon 5/8 Radkey @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10-12 Fri 5/12 Sat 5/13 Dance: Beth Gill @Institute of Tavern Mon 5/15 Eye Design Presents: Kal Marks / Contemporary Art, 8pmz Mon 5/8 Math the Band the Band, Emperor X, Ani- Gnarwhal / Birthing Hips / Big Mess @Charlie’s Fri 5/12 Spring Art Walk Presented by: Fort Point hu 5/25 Angela Sawyer w/Elisha @Delihaus mal Flag @AS220 (Providence) 8pm All Ages Free Kitchen 8pm 21+ $5 Arts Community(FPAC) @ FPAC Center, 4pm (Kendall Sq.) 7:30 - 10:30pm All Ages $ome Fri 5/12 Open Studios in Fort Point. @249 A Cost Tue 5/9 Dent, Torgo, Meat Dreams, Dazey And The Wed 5/17 ADULT. w/Void Vision @Great Scott Street Cooperative Scouts @Deep Thoughts 8:45pm All Ages $5 9pm 18+ $13-15 Ongoing Exhibition: Nari Ward: Sun Splashed @ Thu 5/25 New Parents, Pigeons, Gary War @ Insitute of Contemporary Art Sierra Grille (Northampton) 9:30pm 21+ $3 Tue 5/9 Illegally Blind Presents: Izzy True, Halfsour, Wed 5/17 The Owens, OroborO, Sadha, Space Ongoing Exhibition: Alida Cervantes: Majas, Lilith, Peach Ring @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10 Kase @Midway 8pm 21+ $5 cambujas y virreinacas @Mills Gallery, Boston Fri 5/26 Psychic Dog, When Particles Collide, Center for the Arts Tue 5/9 Non Event Presents: Moondrawn @Cafe Wed 5/17 Wavves, Post Animal @Brighton Music Powerslut, The Knock Ups @O’Briens 8pm 21+ Thu 5/18 Opening Reception: An Inventory of $10 Fixe 7pm All Ages $5 Hall 7:30pm All Ages $20 Shimmers @MIT List Visual Arts Center 6-8pm Thu 5/18 María Magdalena Campos-Pons Free Fri 5/26 Home Body, Tang Sauce @Hawks and Tue 5/9 Glass House, Retirement, Spelling, Hexpet Wed 5/17 CJ Ramone, Big Eyes, The Dazies @ Public Artist Lecture @Larcom Theatre, Beverly, Reed (Greenfield) 8pm 18+ $8-10 @O’Briens 8pm 18+ $8 Middle East Upstairs 7pm 18+ $15 6:30-8:30pm Thu 5/18 Aki Sasamoto: Talk on Good Food @ Wed 5/10 Pent Up! presents Zip-Tie Handcuffs, The Wed 5/17 Steve Norton w/Dave Hanson-Grodsky Fri 5/26 La Armada, St. Ripper, Disaster Carpenter Center Bookstore Harvard 6-7pm. Strikes @Democracy Center 6pm All Ages Mad Doctors, Idiot Genes, Future Spa @O’Brien’s @Washington St. Arts Center 7pm All Ages Ongoing Exhibition: Men, the Invitational, a $ome Cost 8pm 18+ $8 $Donate$ group show curated by Steven Muller @249 A Street Cooperative Wed 5/10 Angela Sawyer @Comedy Studio Wed 5/17 The Obsessed, Karma to Burn, Lo-Pan, Sat 5/27 Lyres, Cal Cali Band, Classic Ruins, Black Souls @ONCE 7:30pm 18+ $10 8-10pm All Ages $ome Cost Gozu @ONCE 8pm 18+ $20

Sat 5/6 Waking Windows featuring Gestalt, URSULA @Scout & Co. 9pm All Ages

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Fri 5/12 Savoy Hotel (mems. Heavy Cream) with Boston Cream @Great Scott 9pm 21+ $10-12

Sat 5/27 Lily on Horn Horse (Palberta) @Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale Sat 5/27 Kal Marks, Darklands, Missinvader, Notches (NH) @AS220 (PVD) 8pm All Ages $7 Sun 5/28 Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Revocation, Withered @Brighton Music Hall 7pm 18+ $30 Mon 5/29 The Cavemen, Hot Tramps @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Tue 5/30 Fucko, Notches, Kowabunga Kid, Yo Ticonderoga @O’Briens 8pm 18+ $8 Tue 5/30 Ryan Laliberty, Ruune, Snow Pot, Carl Gene @Flywheel Arts Collective 6pm All Ages $5 Wed 5/31 Experimental Music in Boston: A Survery w/Susanna Bolle of Non-Event @Le Laboratoire (Cambridge) All Ages $ome Cost

Fri 5/12 Burn, Streetsweeper, Ache, Vantage Point Sat 5/20 Candy Miami, Jimmy Whispers, Bong @Hardcore Stadium 6pm All Ages $12 Wish, Jazz Massagers @Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale 8:30pm All Ages $10-12 5/19 Steve Norton w/Dave Hanson-Grodsky @ The Cannery (Penobscot, ME) 7pm All Ages $Donate$

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5/5 Waking Windows featuring Ravi Shavi, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Snakefoot @Monkey House (Winooski, VT) 10pm new hampshire: 5/5 Waking Windows featuring Swale, Scream5/6 GNäRDS, Wild Rice, GASH @Sue’s (Rollins- ing Females, The Cush, Apalled Eagles @Water ford, NH) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Works (Winooski, VT) 10pm 5/13 Charles, Wedding Camp, Idling, The 5/6 Waking Windows Dull Tools Showcase feaSkaggs @Sue's 8pm All Ages $5-10 turing Future Punx, PILL, Beth Israel, Eaters @ 5/24 Doug Tuttle, Lina Tullgren, Ash and Herb Monkey House 7pm All Ages @Sues (Rollinsford, NH) 8:30pm All Ages $5-10 5/6 Waking Windows Friends + Family Showcase featuring Ouzkxqlzn, Milkmaid II, Sam Maine R H ODE I S LAND Lisbeth, Divided Self, What’s Tricks, Jennifer 5/6 Screaming Females with Fur and Weak5/6 Tall Juan, Neutrinos @Machines With Magened Friends @Space Gallery (Portland, ME) Vanilla, Mother Tongue @Scout & Co. (Winoosnets (Pawtucket) 8pm All Ages $8 ki, VT) 5-9pm All Ages

Sat 5/20 Hollow Deck, 23 Ensemble (Northampton), Mark Abare, Egregoros @Performance Lab (Lowell) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost 5/7 Waking Windows NNA Showcase featuring Tredici Bacci, Kalbells, Nerftoss, Ryan Power, Wren Kitz @Mister Sister (Winooski, VT) 8pm All Ages 5/7 Waking Windows presents IAN Sweet, Doug Tuttle, Hess is More @Monkey House 8pm

new york: 5/7 Bad History Month, Washer, Anna McClellan, Thanks For Coming @Silent Barn (Brooklyn) 8pm All Ages $8 5/16 DUMP HIM, Fern Mayo, Anna Altman, Snakeskin @Silent Barn 8pm All Ages $8 5/27 Aye Nako "Silver Haze" Record Release Show @Silent Barn 8pm All Ages $ome Cost

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Fri 5/19 Opening Reception: Cyclorama Show: Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibitions, @Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts 7.30pm - 10pm Sat 5/20 A Hunger Artist - dance theater performance - Simona Minns @The Dance Complex 7pm $25 Sat 5/20 Amplify Gallery 263 - Fundraiser show for a local gallery @Gallery 263 7:30pm $50$150 Ongoing Exhibition: Listen Hear: The Art of Sound @Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Tue 5/23 Opening Reception: Harlem: Found Ways @The Cooper Gallery, Harvard University, 6pm Thu 5/25 Mobius Artists Group present: Concrete Actions @Boston City Hall, 5-9pm Ongoing Exhibition: “I must tell you what I saw” Objects of witness and resistance @Museum of Fine Arts Closes 5/27 Exhibition: Beverly Semmes: Wild Child @Samson Projects Ongoing Exhibition: I.M.A.G.I.N.E Peace Now @ Society of Arts and Crafts Ongoing Exhibition: Empty Vessels and How to Contain Them @ Aviary Gallery

you can find the compass every month in the following locations:

Thurs 5/18 TOMORROW EVER AFTER (2016) Managing Editor: Oscar Goff dir. Ela Their @SOMERVILLE Contributing Writers: Kyle Amato, Kyle Brunet, An- Time-travel political comedy ders Croft, Oscar Goff, Matthew Martens, Nicholas Director in person! Perry (TBA) DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE (2016) dir. John Nguyen, Rick Barnes, Olivia Neergaard-Holm @BRATTLE Documentary attempt to scrute the inscrutable Fri 5/5 A DARK SONG (2016) dir. Liam Gavin @ COOLIDGE Through the devil to a dear dead son Also screens 5/6

Thurs 5/18 MOTHER (1996) dir. Albert Brooks @COOLIDGE Someone has mommy issues Fri 5/19 BRONSON (2008) dir. Nicolas Winding Refn @COOLIDGE Toned Tom Hardy Beats People In Refn Fashion

Sat 5/20 SAINT TERRORISM (1980) dir. Masashi Yamamoto @HFA An 8mm magazine spraying Japanese punk, Fri 5/5 ISOLATION OF 1/880000 (1977) dir. Sogo squalor Ishii @HFA An alienated student in Tokyo drifts Bickleward Sat 5/20 DRIVE (2011) dir. Nicolas Winding Refn @COOLIDGE Fri 5/5 REPO MAN (1984) dir. Alex Cox @MFA Synth Soundtrack Pulses through the neon Emilio drives a weird car streets of LA as Ryan Gosling seeks revenge Compass readers, sign up at bootstrapcompost.com and receive two free visits. Type 'Compass' in the Heard About sec�on.

Fri 5/5 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2 (2017) dir. James Gunn @EVERYWHERE AKA “I Am Groot 2”

Mon 5/22 GLORY (1989) dir. Edward Zwick @ HFA Denzel’s first Oscar win

Sat 5/6 DRESSED TO KILL(1980) dir. Brian De Palma @COOLIDGE De Palma’s Hitchcockian erotic thriller

Thurs 5/25 POLYESTER (1981) dir. John Waters @SALEM John Waters grossness invades suburbia with the help of Odorama! Mink Stole in person!

Sat 5/6 MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA (2017) dir. Dash Shaw @MFA Woozily drawn, lushly colored, smartly scripted quirktoon Screens through 5/20 Sun 5/7 THE ORNITHOLOGIST (2016) dir. Joao Pedro Rodrigues @HFA Hagiography queered in a Portuguese wilderland Director in person! Tues 5/9 BIG BOY (2011) dir. Shireen Seno @AGX Super 8 Filipino memoir Director in person! Fri 5/12 SING (2016) dir. Garth Jennings @MIT A singing gorilla steals the show Also screens 5/13 Sat 5/13 THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (1926) dir. Lotte Reiniger @HFA First known animated feature – MINDBLOWING Live musical accompaniment! Sat 5/13 THEY LIVE (1988) dir. John Carpenter @ COOLIDGE Documentary about the current state of the world

Fri 5/26 THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE (2001) dir. Guillermo Del Toro @COOLIDGE Ghostly kids and unexploded intrigue Sat 5/27 PAN’S LABYRINTH (2006) dir. Guillermo del Toro @COOLIDGE A girl’s fantastical journey through a dark land LISTINGS NOTE: Below is the venue abbreviation key: AgX Film Collective (Waltham) – AGX Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE Coolidge Corner Theatre - COOLIDGE Harvard Film Archive - HFA Museum of Fine Arts Boston - MFA Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT Cinema Salem – SALEM Somerville Theatre – SOMERVILLE Please see our sister website BostonHassle. com/Film-Flam 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.com

Sun 5/14 THE WEDDING PLAN (2016) dir. Rama Burshtein @MFA Orthodox Jewish rom-com Sun 5/14 GREED (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim @ SOMERVILLE Black and white rarity Live musical accompaniment!

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