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'Studio 54' delves into mystique of legendary New York nightclub

By Yas Salon | October 30

All of these things and other equally eccentric, bizarre and mind-boggling ingredients made up the pure liberating madness that was the notorious experimental discotheque Studio 54, one of the earliest cultural touchstones for LGBTQ Americans. Almost 40 years after the rise and fall of the notoriously exclusive nightclub, director Matt Tyrnauer offers not only an invitation, but a front-row seat to its drama.

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Columns

The Starving Aesthete: Escaping with the tube

By James Ray | October 30

In the rare moments of self-reflection I eke out between bouts of screaming and flower arranging, I find myself puzzled by the fact that I continue to play video games. I generally take it for granted that, in any given week, I'm going to spend at least 10 or 12 hours chipping away at a set of ...

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Out on the Town: The Gas at Great Scott

By Evan Zigmond | October 29

Over the past few decades, Boston has produced some stellar stand-up comics. Among others, comedians Gary Gulman,Marc Maron and Bill Burr all got their starts in the greater Boston area. There are still many opportunities to watch quality stand-up this year. Among these opportunities lies The Gas, a ...

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Q&A: Visiting Artist and director Bridget Kathleen O'Leary discusses upcoming university production, 'Violet'

By Ruijingya Tang | October 25

Bridget Kathleen O’Leary (BKO): [The play] is set in 1964, right after the Civil Rights [Act of 1964] has passed ... It’s kind of looking at the external scar that [Violet] carries and what it is for [Flick] to travel through the world as a black man in the '60s ... It is of great cost to him to be a black man out in the world, and she is struggling to be a woman that does not believe she has external beauty. There is this really beautiful refrain in a couple of the songs that they both sing, where they say, "Look at me." "Really look at me" is what they ask of each other. It’s this idea of "can you see beyond the exterior to get to the heart of who I am."

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Movie Theater Butter: Remembering, retelling, respecting

By Alexi Reich | October 25

Film has long been an artistic medium used to process historical events, both recent and distant. Sometimes films use historical events as a jumping off point or a backdrop for a mainly fictional story, like the way Oscar-nominated film "Dunkirk" (2017) uses World War II to tell stories ...

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Lana Del Rey: From Lizzy Grant to 'Lust for Life'

By Christopher Panella | October 24

On Sept. 18, singer, songwriter and producer Lana Del Rey played her most recent single, “Venice Bitch,” on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show on Apple Music. The 10-minute song is the second release from her work with producer Jack Antonoff, whose past credits include Taylor Swift’s “1989” (2014) ...

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Cheeses of Suburbia: Welcome to the mozz parade

By Zachary Hertz and Brady Shea | October 24

Zachary Hertz (ZH): We’re listening to My Chemical Romance’s (MCR) “The Black Parade” (2006) with tech enthusiast and YouTube celeb Dylan Hong, for whom both mozzarella sticks and pop punk have been a staple since early childhood. We have sticks from Wegmans, a store which holds a special ...

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The Starving Aesthete: The art of moping, the art of despair

By James Ray | October 23

It’s seven on a Saturday, and after two or three hours of trying, I’ve finally managed to get a good mope going. There’s no experience so aesthetically palpable as a real good mope -- lying back on the velvet fainting couch you lifted off the sidewalk, hand across your forehead, hastily cobbled-together ...

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Columns

Out on the Town: HONK!

By Evan Zigmond | October 22

The weekend of Oct. 5 was no ordinary weekend for Somerville. Over the course of three days, activists and musicians from around the world descended on Davis Square for the yearly HONK! festival, a lively combination of music and activism.Since HONK!’s inception 12 years ago, the event has provided ...

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'Halloween' gives iconic slasher franchise a softer edge

By Setenay Mufti | October 22

Content warning: This article discusses violence.The most underrated quote from NBC's "The Office" (2005–13) comes from Robert California, as he muses on Halloween: "Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us? How dare we let it into our decision-making, ...

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‘22 July' confronts extremism with a poised face

By Tommy Gillespie | October 19

British director Paul Greengrass first gained mainstream recognition in 2004 with “The Bourne Supremacy.” The frenetic, rapid-cutting, unsteady camerawork of the Bourne series — somewhatderided by some critics as “shaky-cam” filmmaking — came to define action movies for the remainder of ...

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