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They carried crowns, sunglasses, and more viking helmets than a Norse longboat. Crowding outside Boston??s Newbury Comics last Wednesday, the fans waiting to meet Flavor Flav did more than embody dedication. Compulsively glancing at the clocks which dangled from so many of their necks, they comprised the latest episode in a bewildering apotheosis. One bystander, talking loudly on his cell phone, struggled to weave through the raucous throng. “These people are all here for Flavor Flav,” he said, before pausing. “Flavor Flav? He’s, like...
...shadow of the White Stripes. They were just another blues-rock duo from the industrial belly of the country—even the groups’ names were strangely similar. Since about 2005, however, the Keys have come into their own; as their show last Thursday at Boston??s Avalon proved, the two boys from Akron, Ohio deserve all the praise they’ve garnered on their own terms. While Jack and Meg White are lauded for pushing musical their boundaries, the Black Keys have shorn their style to its very skeleton, its bones revealing a marriage...
Medvedow brought the discussion from the abstract to the concrete by speaking about how Boston??s new ICA is dealing with many of the current challenges caused by the current prevalence of artists and their work...
Lately, I’ve found myself having to explain that I don’t work for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)—the public corporation that runs Greater Boston??s T—far more often than usual. I don’t imagine that it’s my appearance that leads so many Bostonians to suspect this employment. But as someone in favor of the MBTA’s recently announced fare hikes, I might as well be wearing a T patch on the side of my button-down blue shirt...
...subway by $0.45, bus-to-subway transfers will be included in the price of a subway ride, meaning that the cost to those who commute downtown and need to take a bus to get to a subway station will actually fall from $2.15 to $1.70. Many of Boston??s lowest-income residents fall in this category; these system users—far from being discriminated against by “transit racists”—will actually pay less for their daily commute starting next year. Additionally, the price of monthly and yearly bus/subway...