Word: soberness
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This week, I picked up a new album by Dave Matthews, prophet of the carefree joy of my high school years. But unlike the cheerful strains of late-nineties-Dave, the solo project Some Devil is a sober, even grim reflection of how much the world has changed in a few short years. The man who brought us the playful riffs of “Too Much” and “Everyday” is now promoting the album’s first single, “Gravedigger.” Matthews is not the only one undergoing...
...perfect Halloween costume calls for precariously high heels, a forty of malt liquor in a paper bag or some clever combination of the two, a night of dressed-up debauchery need not involve blisters or, more importantly, drunk driving. Thanks to a new initiative in Boston and Cambridge called Sober Ride, local taxis will ferry drunken revelers around Cambridge and the Fanueil Hall area for free to keep the streets safer and, most likely, taxi drivers surlier than usual...
...Halloween is one of the four most deadly holidays for drinking and driving,” according to Audrey Butterworth, coordinator for Sober Ride in Boston (the other three are New Year’s Eve. St. Patrick’s Day and Memorial Day) so this year, with corporate sponsorship from AT&T Wireless, and support from the Cambridge Licensing Commission, party-goers can traipse around town for free. A simple call to 1-888-601-TAXI will get a cab dispatched to “eating and drinking establishments” around Cambridge and will make sure customers...
Chauvière is quiet and unassuming in person, dressed in a sober suit and tie, but he enjoys telling a good ghost story. Except his are true. “One time late at night,” he says, “we had to pick up a murder victim who was stabbed with a barbeque fork, stabbed right below the ribs. Apparently he got in a beer-fueled fight at a barbeque...
...general effect is fairly comic, though Tarantino occasionally pulls the violence down from its warped Looney Tunes universe and throws it into the grime of sober realism. But regardless of tone, it’s difficult to believe that a movie so thoroughly saturated in bloodshed could waltz away with no more than an R rating. Tarantino has gotten away with murder, or, at last count, 102, once again seriously calling into question the legitimacy of the MPAA’s current rating system...