PHOTOS: Iran Election Protest x Government Center (Boston)
Preview: Previously On LOST x Middle East (6/9)
Photo courtesy Previously on LOST
Just as the Internet has been a major contributor to print media's slow demise, the expanding availability of television shows online has also been freaking out major TV networks for some time. Regardless of how one happens to watch their favorite shows, however, one Brooklyn-based duo has come across a way to breathe new life into the otherwise straightforward medium.
Jeff Curtin and Adam Schatz, who make up the band Previously on LOST, play what they've dubbed "recap-rock." Each week they write and record a new song based on that week's episode of the ABC series LOST.
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Blue Zebra Photo Lab Opens In Allston
Entering the darkroom at Blue Zebra Photo Lab in Allston from thathottness on Vimeo.
In the rush to demonize Craigslist, let us not forget that the site is actually useful for more than booty call ads. For example, where else could you find a second-hand darkroom door only a Zip-car ride away?
Luckily, the co-owners of Allston's new Blue Zebra Photo Lab won't have to answer that question. Andrea Katz and Katty Walsh spotted a swiveling door for their photo lab on Craigslist a few months back and scooped it up for $75.
In addition to being endlessly entertaining, the door seals off ...
I’m Not Like Other Guys x O•H+T Gallery
Dan the Man took us over to the South End on Friday to check out the SoWa artist guild and the galleries at 450 Harrison Ave. We scoped the goods at Bobby From Boston's gentleman's store and then stumbled into the O•H+T Gallery, where we found this hidden gem from Ben Sloat.
"I'm Not Like Other Guys" examines the cult of celebrity surrounding Michael Jackson and his "bizarre and tragic personal transformation from black boy to a white man/woman". The exhibition features paintings, digital prints, a view-master reel, and a stained glass piece depicting a scene from Thriller.
The point-and-shoot ...
We tried to tell you about Santogold back in ‘08, but you just wouldn’t listen. Now she’s murdering indie rap/rock beats, and you’re out on your ass on Lansdowne trying to scalp tickets for her show at the House of Blues tonight.
Well, if you didn’t catch on back then (or you couldn’t follow the o–>i switch), you still get a second chance to hear some bonkers music at the Santigold afterparty at Good Life. Expect a packed house of diplo-philic DJs and performances from Revolver residents DJ Ghostdad and Brek.One.
Hey Johnny Diaz…remember that time the Globe stole copy from “Boston’s dailies, weekly newspapers, local blogs, Boston Police Department reports, and Twitter feeds” and tried to pass it off as community reporting? It was called Your Town, and you got sued for it. Seems like it was enough of a “form of journalism” for y’all to try to make a buck.
The blogs in Boston may only “dream of supplanting the major newspaper websites in town, like Boston.com,” but there’s something to be said for contributing new content to the public record.
On the day your article was published (May 14), 61 percent of the “local news” on Boston.com was wire copy. If Boston.com’s local news feed was your only source of info that day, you would have missed:
>> HubArts.com: In tough times, state gives (last?) $12.4M in Cultural Facilities grants
A man was transported to the hospital with head injuries on Saturday morning after his motorcycle crashed in Allston, police said.
The man was riding west on Brighton Avenue at about 2:30 a.m. when the crash occurred. Witnesses said the man had just stopped at a traffic light at the corner of Allston Street and was beginning to accelerate when his motorcycle skidded sideways, ejecting him onto the street. The motorcycle came to rest on top of the man after the crash, witnesses said.
The extent of the man’s injuries is unknown. Police at the scene said that the victim was bleeding from the head and that his injuries were serious.
Witnesses said that at least one other motorcycle rider was stopped at the traffic light near the victim immediately before the incident.
The man was wearing a helmet when the crash occurred.
No other injuries were reported. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
What happens when Boston’s top visual artist of 2009 hooks up with a coterie of cutting edge audio/visual theorists, filmmakers, musicians and performers from across the globe for a one-day symposium at MassArt?
They poison cats. But in the quiet moments, between skinning and re-animating, participants at the Dead Video / Live Video Festival will probe the merger of art and technology with experimental performances, film screenings and a windows-to-the-walls afterparty.
Boston’s preeminent scholar of mixology, DJ Flack, will also take the stage to showcase his sound spewing “guiboard,” which is a hell of a lot cooler than a gui-tar (E-string not intuitive). Read more » » »
Repainted, restocked and rebuilt, the Somerville workshop that spurred a cycling revolution twenty years ago quietly whirred into life again this month with the launch of Union Square’s Open Bicycle.
The boutique retail and repair shop is built on the ashes of legendary bike manufacturer Merlin Metalworks in a basement on the corner of Washington and Hawkins streets. Merlin reached cult status after popularizing super-light titanium bicycle frames in 1987 — an innovation that would retool the bike industry in the years that followed.
Two decades later, Open Bicycle co-owners Zack Teachout, 26, and Joshua Kampa, 29, believe that Boston’s resurgent cycling scene is ready for a transformation of its own. The entrepreneurs say they’ve designed their shop to be an inclusive meeting place for the fractured pockets of cyclists in the city, in the hopes that Boston can flourish into a two-wheeled hub on par with bike-centric cities like Portland and New York.
“Two people — maybe you have something in common, maybe you don’t, but if you both ride bikes, you can be fast friends,” said Kampa. “Maybe you’ve got this crusty messenger kid and this 45-year-old, upwardly mobile Cambridge resident … These two guys would pass each other on the street and maybe scowl at each other a little bit anywhere else, but if they’re in a bike shop or they’re standing there with their rides, side-by-side, they’ll start talking bikes and the next thing you know, they’re cracking jokes.”
Looks like someone is putting together a motley crew on the Allston/Brighton line. Anybody know anything about these posters? I thought they may have been plastered by a band stopping by the ICC, but Chris Devers (who posted this Goldenstash masterpiece) spotted another solicitation across town. Latin Kings? MS-13? Winter Hill Gang 2K9?
Ever vigilant, our dude Brandon spotted these photos of Common doing some boutique goggle shopping in Cambridge. The southside rapper stopped by Concepts in Harvard Square last month and mugged for some photos.
