Somergloom looms anew at JJ Gonson’s Once, while hip-hop toasts Boston from Middle East
JJ Gonson has a lot of irons in the fire, but local music fans know and love her best as the head of Once, an “itinerant” music venue preparing for another summertime “celebration of all things dark and heavy.”
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville: Folk metal, Nikki Giovanni and comedy festivals
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s poet Nikki Giovanni, sex revolutionary Candida Royalle, joke fests and mystery comedy, new plays and folk metal, “Dope Science,” a tribute to Lana Del Rey and “Essays in Praise of Excess.”
A walk into Armageddon will delight aficionados of punk and metal with vinyl, CDs and cassettes
Underground at Armageddon lies a great selection of high-decibel soundscapes available in every format you might desire: vinyl, CD and cassette. And a few DVDs, rock ’n’ roll magazines and sundry merch for good measure.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from the Chromic Duo to robots and eclipses
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s the tiny-piano-using Chromic Duo and Cambridge Symphony Orchestra; robots, AI and eclipse prep; Joie de Vivre, horrors of the sea, edible insects and more; and Brexit and tech writer Kara Swisher.
We hear Rumblings of the rock ’n’ roll kind; Quartet of local bands big at New Colossus
The Rock & Roll Rumble announced its list of prizefighters for this year’s edition running April to May, and we followed four Bay State bands to the Empire State.
A week of events in Cambridge and Somerville, from DNA dancing to Family Opera and fungi
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s St. Patrick’s Day and Prince, choreography by Crispr DNA editing, the North Cambridge Family Opera, a Danehy Park documentary and fascination with fungi.
Eight holidays created by geeks, nerds, wonks and the counterculture grown since the 1970s
Sure, our calendars are filled with increasingly commodified holidays, but they’re also filling up with new days of nationwide significance.
What to do for St. Patrick’s Day, or how to skip it, in Cambridge and Somerville
St. Patrick’s Day brings special menus and live music to Cambridge and Somerville. We also offer a good way to skip the festivities if it’s not your thing.
Sinclair boycott of Israeli singer-songwriter doesn’t sound progressive to a letter writer
A refusal to serve customers because of personal beliefs, as happened at Harvard Square‘s Sinclair music club, is not usually seen as progressive.
The Sinclair boycott was bottom-up leadership
Imagine that your venue is an empty vessel, free of ideology, open and available to whoever might want to use the stage. Imagining something to be the case, though, doesn’t make it so. A business is the sum of the efforts of the workers who keep it operating,
