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Oh, the humidity!

Hot times at ArtBeat 2008
Fleetingly delicious Olde Tyme slushies quickly melted into sticky Kool-Aid soup. The weekend-long ArtBeat festival was under way!

By: MATT PARISH | July 22, 2008

Here comes the neighborhood

The Midway Café stretches its legs
The Midway Café occupies what could be the most remote location of any club in Boston.

By: MATT PARISH | July 01, 2008

Birdsongs of the Mesozoic at Outpost 186, June 24, 2008
In the back room at the Outpost 186 Gallery, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic put on a delicate, salon-scale performance of Terry Riley’s minimalist monolith, In C .

By: MATT PARISH | July 01, 2008

Walk ’n’ roll

Ambling bands go on a field trip
You know how in those Disney movies all the woodland creatures suddenly come out to sing along? It was like that.

By: MATT PARISH | June 24, 2008

What's that smell?

Musk turns three at the Midway
There are booty-dancing cuts from the ’80s, white girls hitting body-lock poses, and a sign slung on the taps that reads “$2.50 Cans of Mystery Beer.”

By: MATT PARISH | June 17, 2008

Sisto act 2

Love During Wartime — a last splash and a fresh start
LDW is a party, but also a massive love letter to the city’s bare-bones arts scene.

By: MATT PARISH | May 28, 2008

Portishead

Third | Island
It’s a welcome step into new territory and a more than satisfying downer dose to set against the onset of sunny days and ice cream.

By: MATT PARISH | April 22, 2008

Playlist: August 24, 2007

Matt Parish of Ho-Ag: “Five favorite records I got at my grandparents’ house in West Virginia this year”
Jerry Lee Lewis, Percy Faith, Huey Lewis & the News, and more.

By: MATT PARISH | August 21, 2007