A Conversation With Mickey Hart
By now, the history has been written about the quintessence of the Grateful Dead in 1960s and early 70s America and the particular place they hold in the far…
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DOPAPOD, GHOSTS OF JUPITER, THE JAUNTEE (THE PARADISE 2/22)
In the land of the jams, price the bands with the tightest of grooves is King—and last Friday, my honorable drooges, your faithful narrator followed three Kings from the East into Paradise and was treated to sights and sounds from atop the Mountain of High Minded Vibes. Your devoted chronicler thrust himself into the midst […]
MILK, WOLF BLITZER, KANGAROO COURT AND DEADBEAT DARLING (MIDDLE EAST 1/15)
Walk through the doors of the Middle East, and the smells of fresh Fool m’dammas and recently baba’d ganooj stings the nostrils. As you make your way past hip aesthetes and sophisticated post-jive neo-trendsetters towards the heavy door marked “Upstairs,” pay close attention to the buzz…
BISCUITS AND GRAVY, RUSTIC OVERTONES (CHURCH 2/1)
“I could do my work and go to bed, but I party instead.” sang David Hunddleston last Friday night at Church in Boston. This mentality infuses meaning into the heart and soul of Boston’s Biscuits and Gravy, a funk and soul septet determined to bring you deep into the night with sexy rhythms…
DEAD GUYS: WHY ISAAC NEWTON LOVES QUILT
Aside from theorizing on gravity, casually inventing calculus in his spare time and penning the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica—the treatise that would revolutionize mathematics and physics while setting the foundation for Einstein’s Theory of Relativity—Newton was also borderline insane, as all geniuses inevitably are…