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...wave band is still going strong after almost 25 years together. Fusing funk, ska and bubblegum pop, Fishbone has won over a cult following over the years, enduring even 1997’s career-killing ska revival. Their live shows have always been frenzied and energetic, with lead singer Angelo Moore jumping and hollering all over the stage while his band plays the funky, undeniable rock that has kept crowds dancing for decades. 9 p.m. Tickets $20; 18+. The Middle East Downstairs...
Mambo Italiano opens with promise: warm coloring, fluid camerawork and appealing Italian-themed scenes, with the family eating gelato. We are introduced to in-the-closet Angelo (Luke Kirby), a young Italian man from Montreal finally moving out after 27 years of what he calls “the trap,” living at home with his parents, who just want him to meet and fall in love with a nice Italian girl. After Angelo’s new apartment is robbed, he moves in with Nino, a childhood friend who, like Angelo, is gay. But tell their parents...
...tell their parents? Fugghedaboutit. Of course the news leaks anyway, and while Angelo comes to grips with his own sexuality, Nino has his image as a t-o-u-g-h heterosexual cop to keep up. Nino and Angelo suffer from a definite lack of sexual chemistry. Angelo is convincing as a young man in constant pursuit of a childhood crush, but as an audience we immediately get the feeling that in bed with Angelo, Nino is always looking over his shoulder to check out ESPN...
...Angelo is the only character in this film with more than one-and-a-half dimensions, but a couple other cast members make the most out of the caricatures they play. As Lina, Mary Walsh finds humor as Nino’s widowed mom and possible love child of Joan Rivers and one unbelievably drunk Sophia Loren, whose love for her son is topped only by her love of one-upping family friends Gino and Maria...
Influenced by everyone from Dinah Washington to D’Angelo, Benson is marketing a sassy brand of alt-soul, and hopes to make it to Boston on her own tour...