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JAMAICA PLAIN EAST

By BRITTANIE STERNER

Amidst laundromats and auto-glass garages of east-side JP, you'll find more than just that dead-of-winter house party, to which a roommate once dragged me despite fierce reluctance to the promise of stale beer; there's also a cemetery.

THIS WEEK IN THE DIG

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RED EYE AT THE RED ROOM

Saturday, Cafe 939 will host the first installment of Red Eye at the Red Room, a monthly series that seeks to showcase local musicians while doling out a due pat on the back to some of Boston's finest concert photographers. Presented by Agent Bishop, a Boston-based talent booker, the series' kickoff will feature sets from Neutral Uke Hotel, a ukulele-only outfit that covers Neutral Milk Hotel, and the debut performance of the Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library, brainchild and recent project of the Motion Sick frontman.


[Feature]FT_1236DorchesterMD

DORCHESTER

I'm a born-and-raised Bostonian, but as much as I'd like to play the streetwise townie, the project of writing up Boston's largest and most diverse neighborhood was daunting.

[Savage Love]SL_1236AskForItMD

PENAL CODE

A few nights ago, I got drunk and knocked on my roommate's door and confessed my attraction to him while he was lying in bed in nothing more than his skivvies.

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MACHETE

A .44 magnum opus

Back in 2007, Machete was nothing more than a bang-bang-shoot-'em-up trailer that ran before Grindhouse, the blood-soaked, blockbuster double feature from Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. In two minutes, Rodriguez makes a modern-day Mexican revolutionary out of Danny Trejo by offering up a plot rife with the tension of the illegal immigration controversy in the southwestern United States.


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All Tomorrow’s Parties is more than just a Velvet Underground song; it’s also a music festival. Held in Kutsher’s Country Club in western New York of all places, ATP brings together a mixture of the historic, the obscure, and just about everything else you’d want in an intimate music festival.

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A night of audible excellence, despite the miniscule flaws, deserves a humble nod and applause to Boris and Russian Circles for providing Boston with intensity and care towards the people who helped them get where they are


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