Friday, January 01, 2010
The focus of this year's New Year's Eve/New
Year's Day concerts from
Martin Pearlman and
Boston
Baroque is Mozart: we're getting his early (he wrote it when he was 12)
one-act comic operetta
Bastien &
Bastienne, with Kristen Watson and Lawrence Jones as the lovelorn shepherds
and David Kravitz as the soothsayer, and then his late, great Symphony No. 40.
Also on the bill: Kravitz grabs the baton to become the pompous music director
in Domenico Cimarosa's intermezzo
Il
maestro di cappella. Both performances are in Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge
| December 31 @ 8 pm; January 1 @ 3 pm | $29-$69 |
//www.bostonbaroque.org.
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MUSIC
Friday, January 01, 2010
When the great Joe Strummer died in 2002, so too
did any hope of a Clash reunion. But every so often there comes along an opportunity
to recreate the magnetic energy they stirred up during their 10-year career.
Tonight is one of those opportunities. In honor of the 30th anniversary of the
release of the band's classic
London Calling,
local dub-rock band
Destroy Babylon is performing
that album in its entirety. If you've ever pumped your fist in time with the
magnificent punk anthem "Death or Glory" or shaken your hips along with Mick
Jones's satirical masterpiece "Lost in the Supermarket," we recommend getting
your ass over to the Middle East upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge | 8 pm | $10
| 617.864.3278 or
//www.mideastclub.com
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MUSIC
Friday, January 01, 2010
Daniel Gidron directs the New England premiere
of Ian Bruce's play
Groundswell, a story of a diamond mining scheme concocted by
three desperate men in post-apartheid South Africa. The show starts slow,
but racial and professional tensions elevate to a riotous climax. Jason Bowen
plays Thami, with Timothy John Smith as Johan and Richard McElvain as Smith, at
the Lyric Stage Company of Boston,
140 Clarendon St, Boston | January 1-30 | Curtain 8 pm Fri | 3 + 8 pm Sat | 3
pm Sun | 2 + 7:30 pm Wed | 7:30 pm Thurs | $25-$54 | 617.585.5678
or
//www.lyricstage.com
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THEATER
Friday, January 01, 2010
Sarah Borges And The Broken Singles is that rare creature: a bar band with fantastic
taste. On their latest album,
The Stars
Are Out, they cover everything from Smokey Robinson to the Magnetic Fields.
They've also written some new tracks, including "Do It for Free," which is
bad-girl hard rock at its finest (one listen to it confirmed our suspicions
that Borges could probably kick our ass). They'll take the stage tonight and
tomorrow at the Lizard Lounge, where the band will be recording for a new live
CD | 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge | 8:30 pm | $10 |
//www.lizardloungeclub.com
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MUSIC
Friday, January 01, 2010
The Brattle Theatre continues its own New Year's
Day tradition with the third annual
Marx
Brothers Marathon!. What better way to try
to forget 2009 and its Great Recession (still here!) than with some of the most
anarchic film comedy to come out of the Great Depression (or any era, for that
matter). Today's line-up:
Animal Crackers
(1930; 1:30 pm),
Horse Feathers
(1932; 3:30 pm),
Duck Soup (1933;
5:15 pm),
A Night at the Opera (1935;
7 pm), and
A Day at the Races (1937;
9 pm). Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle
St, Cambridge |
$7.75, or $30 for full-day pass | 617.876.6837 or
//www.brattlefilm.org
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FILM
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Forget your New Year's Eve hangover - you're
still up two days later from various intoxicants that we won't mention here.
Don't pass out just yet, though, as Leedz Edutainment hosts a roster of
up-and-blazing rhyme degenerates to quell your most hedonistic urges. Led by
aggressively psychedelic Worcester MC
Rite
Hook, the pack of promising newbies includes
Justice,
Roy Stealth,
AVI,
OS,
Maroney,
Mynestate Militia, and
MC Rhymezwell, who returns to Cambridge after honing chops in New York throughout 2009. At the Middle East downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge
| 8 pm | $10 |
//www.ticketmaster.com
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MUSIC
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Sarah Borges And The Broken Singles is that rare creature: a bar band with fantastic
taste. On their latest album,
The Stars
Are Out, they cover everything from Smokey Robinson to the Magnetic Fields.
They've also written some new tracks, including "Do It for Free," which is
bad-girl hard rock at its finest (one listen to it confirmed our suspicions
that Borges could probably kick our ass). They'll take the stage tonight and
tomorrow at the Lizard Lounge, where the band will be recording for a new live
CD | 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge | 8:30 pm | $10 |
//www.lizardloungeclub.com
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MUSIC
Sunday, January 03, 2010
One of the sweetest developments on the Boston jazz scene of late
has been the first-Sunday residency of the
Jazz
Composers Alliance Orchestra at Johnny D's. In the past, the 19-piece JCAO
has limited itself to occasional concerts at venues scattered far and wide
around town. The Johnny D's gig gives their impressive corps of writers (David
Harris, Jim Hobbs, Darrell Katz, Bob Pilkington, Warren Senders, Norm Zocher) a
chance to develop new material - and revive some oldies - in consecutive shows.
It also gives audiences more opportunity to hear some of the best players in
town (including alto saxophonist Hobbs, flutist Hiro Honshuku, trumpeter Mike
Peipman, saxist Phil Scarff, trombonists Harris and Bill Lowe, fearless singer
Rebecca Shrimpton) play exciting, original pieces that draw on the entire
history of jazz and adjacent genres like world and classical | Johnny D's, 17
Holland St, Somerville | 9:00 pm | $10 | 617.776.2004 or
//www.johnnyds.com
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MUSIC
Monday, January 04, 2010
Boy Without God's
Gabriel Birnbaum is this city's Elliott Smith. His numerous, quietly beautiful
EPs have been making the winters more palatable for as long as we can remember.
His latest lo-fi charmer
Eight Delicate
Olives Slowly Chewed At Midnight features a combination of warm acoustic
tracks and adventurous instrumentals. He'll be teaming up with another favorite,
local songwriter
Carter Tanton (Tulsa) for a sleeper show at ZuZu, 474 Mass
Ave, Cambridge | 10 pm | free |
//www.zuzubar.com
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MUSIC
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Fans of the oft-bizarre plotlines of House and Grey's
Anatomy may want to check out
Dr.
Jonathan Edlow's
The Deadly Dinner
Party & Other Medical Detective Stories, a collection of 15
suspenseful, real-life medical mysteries told by Beth Israel's vice-chair of
emergency medicine. Meet the author and hear excerpts at Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline
| 7 pm | free | 617.566.6660
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READING
