#Joe Sirois

[thebowerypresents]

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Deliver Career-Spanning Set

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – Webster Hall – August 21, 2019

Where the Mighty Mighty Bosstones land on the list of Boston’s greatest musical exports is a subject of much debate. What isn’t up for debate is what the now-35-years-going-strong band did to help repopularize ska, marry it with sneering punk and further juice it with solid pop songcraft, occasionally enough to be radio-friendly and nationally known.

Funny thing, though, about the Bosstones: They don’t play like they’ve been at it through the feast and famine acceptance of what they do for nearly four decades, or that it’s been four, two or even one decade. No, Dicky Barrett and company play like it’s just as vital as it felt back then, when checkered ska found a like-minded dance partner with punk and elements of other genres, keeping just enough soul and even a little R&B in the bleating, blasting horn section to avoid a full-blown tip-over into grimy hardcore. The nine-piece—including, as ever, beloved skanking dancer and tour manager Ben Carr—roared into Webster Hall on Wednesday night, and if you were generous about a few extra facial wrinkles and gray beards, you could swear it was 1994, and they’d just come through Taang! Records on their way to mainstream success.

Last night their headlining set felt like an anthology, mixing the best-knowns (“The Rascal King,” “Someday I Suppose,” “The Impression That I Get”) with nuggets from all across their catalog. “A Reason to Toast” is from the early 2000s and “You Left, Right?” from late in that decade. “Hope I Never Lose My Wallet” (whoa!) goes all the way back to 1989, and “Kinder Words” is almost just as old. There’s newish music, too, and the band had a few to serve from last year’s While We’re At It, one of their most aggressive albums, along with covers they’ve been doing forever (the Wailers’ “Simmer Down”) and jaw-drop rarities (we see you, Murphy’s Law’s “Cavity Creeps”—with special guest Jimmy Gestapo, to boot).

That they don’t fuss a lot is not to be confused with businesslike. Barrett and friends charm the shit out of you even when they get on a tear and one song seems to become the bouncing, skanking, rocking, grinding next one before you’ve even caught a breath. The final song of the encore, “A Pretty Sad Excuse,” seemed to roll it all up into one, protracted ending: a laid-back, loping reggae bounce with a little soul thrown in that opened up to a big, bash-it-out finale. Had the place going apeshit, just the way the Bosstones always do it. —Chad Berndtson | @Cberndtson

Photos courtesy of Brian C. Reilly | www.briancreilly.com

[greensparty]

Album Review: Bash and Pop “Anything Could Happen”

Tommy Stinson has long been a secret weapon in rock and roll! His band The Replacements were one of the all-time great alternative rock bands ever (one could argue they inspired the alt-rock movement of the 90s). After The Replacements (or The Mats for short), he has been in some big and small musical endeavors. He joined Guns N’ Roses from 1998 to 2016, replacing Duff McKagen on bass, for the Chinese Democracy era of GNR. He was also an on-again off-again member of Soul Asylum from 2005 to 2012. He’s also put out 2 underrated solo albums and sat in with many bands! For all intents and purposes, he is Rock Royalty!

But one of the footnotes in Stinson’s career that should not be forgotten was Bash and Pop, which formed in 1992 about a year after The Mats broke up. He stepped out from the bass to play guitar and sing. The band only released one album, 1993′s Friday Night Is Killing Me. I had that album on cassette tape for years and played it along side a lot of Mats singer Paul Westerberg’s solo material. Bash and Pop also recorded the buried treasure “making me sick” for the Clerks soundtrack in 1994, but broke up that same year. 

After The Mats reunited for some recording and concerts between 2012 and 2015, Stinson decided to return to Bash and Pop. The lineup is all different except for Stinson, but the sound remains the same. They recorded their new album via a PledgeMusic campaign. The new album Anything Could Happen drops today via Fat Possum Records. 

I have to say, this is the first cool album of 2017! It is an energetic blast of Mats-style rockers. In addition to The Replacements, where you have these well-crafted ballads one minute and drunken rockers the next, it actually reminded me a lot of Westerberg’s solo material as well. The new lineup includes Steve Selvidge of The Hold Steady on guitar and Joe Sirois of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones on drums. One of the highlights include “on the rocks” (the recent texting music video was a hit) and was just played on Colbert last night! This album made me feel like 1994 in the best possible way!

In addition to the new album, Bash and Pop are currently on tour, including a show at Great Scott tomorrow night here in Boston! I can only hope, I don’t have to wait 24 years for the next Bash and Pop album!

For info on Bash and Pop: http://www.tommystinson.com/

4 out of 5 stars

[goldeagleprice]

Traversing Two Oceans and Finding Coins to Collect

by Michael S. Turrini

“I turned 18 on the Eppleton Hall, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The cook baked a cake, with our limited galley. In fact, it was the only baked cooking in the entire voyage,” reminisced William ‘Bill’ F. Bartz, Jr, as he shared his own ‘sea story.’

Eppleton Hall was a paddlewheel tugboat launched in 1914, in Great Britain, for service on the River Tyne. Scott Newhall, of the San Francisco Chronicle, and the then San Francisco Maritime Museum, purchased the vessel and had her fitted for trans-ocean steaming under her own power, which was oil fired steam. The voyage took six months.

“At 17, I was a volunteer and was appointed Third Engineer. Our steam plant was also our entire power source, such as the pumps to drain the bilge. When repairs were needed, and repairs did happen, we drifted and had to wait hours for the boiler and steam plant to cool enough to work,” he added.

“A land-lover might think of a modern cruise ship and its conveniences. But our tugboat was that: a tugboat and with only one head. We washed our greasy and oily clothes, being an Engineer, on the deck with as little water as possible, and scrubbed with a heavy brush. To rinse, ‘over the side’ hooked to a line, hoping the sharks wouldn’t take a bite. But, after six months and through the Panama Canal, the Eppleton Hall passed under the Golden Gate Bridge into a Bay filled with all sizes of vessels greeting us,” he remarked.

“We were such an attraction, both local television and newspaper coverage, our Captain, the only qualified and licensed mariner on the tugboat, did circles, ‘wheelies’, between Alcatraz Island and San Francisco, for all the greeting crowd,” he chuckled.

Of course, crossing two oceans in a tugboat built in 1914 might not allow one to collect coins. But Bartz was able to assemble coins and currency from circulation.

“When in ports to slowly refill our fuel supply and to replenish stores, our single cook had to remain on board, not enjoying any shore liberty. So, I volunteered to cook and got paid. From those small earnings, when ashore, I exchanged for local coins and currency. In fact, I still have those accumulations from the voyage in 1969 and 1970,” Bartz mentioned.

“But I had a problem: how to store and keep them dry. I found two empty tubes that had been used for nautical charts. These worked fine. My sea voyage treasures are still kept in those,” he added.

The Eppleton Hall was not the only vessel in Bill Bartz’s initial numismatic venture.

“My dad had a position on the Balclutha, a steel-haul three mast sailing vessel in San Francisco. During my school vacations, he would take me along, just to help out. At the end of each watch, the galley guy would empty our donation box placed on the deck. There were always foreign coins, with the Balclutha being a tourist attraction, close to the world-famous Fishermen’s Wharf. I asked for these coins, which are still held today,” Bartz fondly remembered.

Even sandy beaches played an influence in his discovery of coins. He and his brother lived across from the Great Highway on the edge of San Francisco facing the vast Pacific. One day, among the sand dunes, his brother found what was thought to be a bottle cap.

“No, it was not a cap. It was my first Franklin Half Dollar. Yes, I still have it,” Bartz recalled.

These youthful experiences were to come back many years later. One day, conversing with his brother, he decided to open those long-stored metal tubes along with a box of wheat pennies that his mother gave him.

“We couldn’t afford much, so I never asked my parents for anything other than ‘Wheaties,’ even though I saw Buffalo five cents, Mercury dimes, and other older coins,” he noted.

With the ‘Wheaties’ now being examined after decades, he immediately realized that he needed a method to organize and arrange them. As he remembered, there were years back into 1920s, and he discovered mint marks, too.

“Not sure how to proceed, I visited a local hobby shop and purchased albums. Thanks to the hobby shop, it directed me to an impending local coin show, where I met my first fellow coin hobbyists, including the late ‘Joe’ Sirois and Craig Blackwood, along with Jan D. Henke and Michael S. Turrini, the latter who encouraged me to join the local Fairfield (California) Coin Club, which I did then and there,” Bartz said. This was in 1992.

Since then, he has progressed in our hobby. Currently, he is Vice-President and a few other positions with the aforementioned Fairfield (California) Coin Club. His collecting has also progressed.

“My first recommendation is don’t buy to sell; buy smart. Learn to work with established coin dealers and develop relationships. I personally prefer to purchase from a knowledgeable coin dealer over a fellow coin collector. Regretfully, most all coin collectors have an incorrect opinion as to the value and grade of their coins,” Bartz strongly stated.

“Another thought is that there a lot of MS-61 through MS-63 graded coins. These are common, and few coin dealers want to handle these. But, take Morgan Dollars MS-64 and higher, you are now talking a different market and potential,” Bartz shared.

Bill’s collecting, along with his youthful treasures, includes paper money and silver rounds.

After steaming across two oceans and twenty-five plus years in active collecting, Bartz believes our hobby is contracting with age and the United States Mint is “too greedy.”

But, he still has his sea-going and youthful treasure and no intention to recross two oceans in a tugboat. “I’m  getting too old. Coins and local coin clubs are nice enough,” he chuckled.

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[openspacebaltimore]

Open Space is pleased to present the Eighth Annual Publications and Multiples FairIt’s no joke!

Saturday, April 1 from 12 – 6pm Sunday, April 2 from 12 – 6pm at the Baltimore Design School

Stop by the fair for a program outlining all of the on- and off-site programming this weekend!

MORE INFORMATION HERE!

The Publications and Multiples Fair is an annual exposition of contemporary artist books, prints, publications, sculptures, jewelry, textiles, and works produced in multiple. This event has grown tremendously, from having 15 vendors in its first year to having 150 in its seventh year. Taking up one weekend in the spring, PMF acts as a beacon for artists across the country. People traveling from both coasts come together to sell the wares they have produced throughout the year and stay for the connections made with makers they may have never met before. In more recent years have we curated additional on-site programming throughout the weekend that includes panel discussions on contemporary identity issues, poetry readings, musical performances, motivational speeches, and artist talks.

Formed in 2009, Open Space is a DIY artist-run gallery and collective located in Baltimore, Maryland.

Vendors: 0202FF 0Zone 200 Nam Nam A. Jarrell Hayes ACRES Adam Amram and Gabriella Grill Adult Punk Alex Ebstein, Jessie & Katey Alexandra Bravar, Angela Heaps and Caeli Carr-Potter Alexandra DeStefano Amy Scovil, Allen Hiu Anime Ceramix Ann Xu Anna K Crooks Anna Silina Anna Strain Art Vandelay Aurora Engle-Pratt Baltimore Print Studios Baltimore Youth Arts BDS kids Beast Beast Grrl Collective Bellfugees Ben McNutt / Wrestling Bernard Stiegler Better Lovers Blind Arch Brad Ziegler Bred Press Brooks & Rosebud Brown and Proud Press Carmen Johns Carolyn Conn & Grace Davis Castle Printshop Celeste Fichter Chaimi Food Studio Charlotte Anne Laurance Cherub Christina Haines Christopher Adams Christopher Mahonski Claire Felonis + Spencer Shope Clr’D CLUBHOUSE and Leyla Rzayeva Cryptogram Ctl+P Dana Bechert Ceramics Dog Pasta Dominique Hellgeth Dylan Thadani Presents Eclectic Collective EGOHEADS Ehse Records Eleanor Farley Elena Johnston Ella Clayton Elle Johnson Endless Editions Flannery Cashill Freda Mohr Friends of Friends Friends Records Fume Room Press Fuse Works Gaby Velez GenderFail Press General Matters Get Lost Press Girl Group Gloomy of PlayGurlClubb Gratuitous Type Handwork Quilts Heart & Soil Hey Thanks! Herbal Co. High Tide HYRSTERIA ZINE Illogical Comics Ink Press Productions InterMedia + Digital Arts of UMBC Jack Reese / Weakly Comics Jason Roy JEDICOM JESSICA’S WORLD OF FLOWERS Joe Maccarone Josh Dean Julie & Jane Kali Stull + Noel Freibert Kat Kennedy Kate Haberer & Will Ryerson Katherine Gottsegen KB pots Kodi Fabricant and Maggie Fitz Kyle Tata, Kristin Tata, Tyler Davis, and John Zimmerman Laila Milevski Lane Harlan Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez Lily Herman Liz Langa Ceramics Local 1 Youth Press Lorre-Mill Lucia Maher-Tatar, Audrey Gair Lunar Insurrection M Reisenwitz M.uckotter \ charles.S Make Studio MAKE Ü SMILE Mara Hyman Matt Carignan Matthew Scott Gualco Melody Often Miata Upshaw MICA Design League Mikael Flores-Amper Mishka Colombo Morgan Vessel Mother Mother MRDN Mt. Home Arts + Matthew Van Asselt Munu Editions Natalia C. Arias Natalie Geagraphic NewAM++ NICKNACKS Nothing Left to Learn Nowhere Zone Object Of Olivia Gibb Open Works P.O. Box PaperBase Paul Shortt & Christopher Kardambikis Pellinore Press PHKKED Pioneer Works Press Press Project Dispatch Publication Studio Hudson Rachel Hayden Rachel Rymont RAW MEAT Collective Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse Revolving Family Distribution Rob Brulinski Rock Pile Western Ruby Waldo s P L e e N C o F F i N Saint Lucy Books Sarah Juanita Sassafras Sea Farm City severed books Sexmagick Press Shelby Rosabal and Jasmine Cindy Shreyas R Krishnan Shy Pup Small Editions Soberscove Press Soft Blonde Soft City Printing Soumya Dhulekar & Nicole Rodrigues Spencer Compton Stephen Grebinski Stephen Hendee Studio-HH & Kevin Lowenthall SYBIL PRESS TABLOID Press Ten09 Terrault Gallery the Bettys The Coalition Zine The Contemporary The Joint Youth Movement The New Canon Project The Unofficial Press Thousand Island/Emily Burtner Total Pansy Toy Story 5 travis hallenbeck TXTbooks Ultraviolet Light Under + Over Vivien and Abbie Wise Wei Xie Hann White Lighter Whitney Simpkins Whittled Wizards & HandsandCurls Will Laren William Chapman and Lauren Barbour Women in Sound Woven Autonomo Zimmerman Woodworks

ON-SITE FAIR PROGRAMMING:

Saturday: Madeline Campbell of Women in Sound: 1-2pm A complement to Women in Sound zine, this talk is an introduction to the impact of women and queer people on electronic music and recorded sound. It will discuss the equipment and creative processes employed to produce unheard sounds and pioneer a genre. No prior knowledge of electronic music necessary to enjoy this program!

Pecha Kucha Series on “SciFi Optimism”: 2:30-3:30pm Pecha Kuchas are back! This year six presenters will explore the idea of “scifi optimism” and how it relates to their life and work. Featuring Claire Mirocha, Alexis Skinner, Lunar Insurrection, Umiko Niwa, Jen Kirby and Vincent Seadler.

ACRE TV screening: 4:00-5:00pm ACRE TV co-director Andrew Mausert-Mooney will present selections from the archives and speak to the Chicago-based project’s four year history. ACRE TV is an artist-made livestreaming tele-vision network (found online at ACRE.org) that features live and canned video, performances, durational works, and experimental broadcasts. ACRE TV was born out of the collaborative spirit of ACRE(Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) based in Chicago and Steuben, Wisconsin.

Nam Nam 200 5:00-6:00pm The world premier screening of video work by Marcelline, Travis Levasseur and Corey Hughes.

Sunday: Zoe Ligon in conversation with Stefani Levin about Female Ejaculation: 1-2pm Zoe Ligon artist and founder of Spectrum Boutique in Detroit will talk to local sex therapist Stefani Levin about female ejaculation.

LES FLEURS DU MAL: Readings on Erotic Decadence and Decay 2:30-4:00pm LES FLEURS DU MAL is a performance of poetry, sound, and provocative imagery inspired by Post-Baudelairean erotic decadence and decay. This show features 14 Poets, a large scale painting as backdrop by Viveca Licata, and intermission sounds by QUNA. Featuring readings by Max Guy, Grace Davis, Anna K. Crooks, Adam Marans, Lane Harlan, Lexie Mountain, Adam Beaver, Maya Martinez, Lindsay Raspi, Saida Agostini, Lily Herman, Jasmine Pullen-Schmidt and Janea Kelly. The show is curated by Lane Harlan exclusively for PMF.

Reading by Jason Harris and Olu Butterfly: Selections of Speculative Fiction: 4:00-5:00pm

Nam Nam 200 5:00-6:00pm Screening of video work by Marcelline, Travis Levasseur and Corey Hughes.

Workshops:

Satruday Beast Grrl Zine, 3:00-4:00pm Beast Grrl Zine will be running a mini-zine workshop– all materials provided! Come out to listen to tunes and chop up magazines with us. Beast Grrl Zine is a youth-run feminist organization, promoting youth empowerment, feminist education, and activism.

Sunday Intro to “Dungeons and Dragons” 1:00-3:30pm –local novelist and game maker Justin Sirois will give a 2 hour introduction to tabletop role playing and the basic system The Black Hack.

HAIR CLUB (with Kelly Lloyd) 4:00-5:00pm Hair Club would like to invite participants to use a variety of materials to construct their own merkin, or pubic wig. Merkins were originally worn by sex workers, but are now used as decorative items by people of all genders, and for “modesty” purposes by actors. During this event, while constructing our merkins with a variety of materials including sequins, fringe, felt, faux-fur, yarn, ribbon and glitter paper, we will engage participants in a discussion around body hair, specifically pubic hair, looking at the vilification of women’s body hair and the portrayal of pubic hair in pop culture. This workshop will explore a humorous DIY strategy to processing culture’s dictates about where hair should and should not be, while Kate Bush plays in the background. Co-founded by Suzanne Gold, Kelly Lloyd, and Michal Lynn Shumate, HAIR CLUB is an interdisciplinary, research-based art collective whose work is centered around the multivalent topic of HAIR.

Formed in 2009, Open Space is a DIY artist-run gallery and collective located in Baltimore, Maryland.

[paulbrymer]

“The Mighty Mighty Bosstones” 

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (informally referred to as The Bosstones) are an American ska punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 1983.[1][2][3] Since the band's inception, lead vocalist Dicky Barrett, bassist Joe Gittleman, tenor saxophonist Tim "Johnny Vegas" Burton and dancer ("Bosstone") Ben Carr have remained constant members. The line-up also includes drummer Joe Sirois, saxophonist Kevin Lenear, guitarist Lawrence Katz and trombonist Chris Rhodes.

[newyorktheater]

Below is the list of nominations announced tonight for the 15th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city’s independent theater — aka Off-Off Broadway. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on September 16th, 2019. This year’s nominees include 147 individual artists and 64 productions presented by 73 theater companies!

Entangled by The Amoralists

In The Bleak Midwinter by Stuffed Olive

Queen by Astoria Performing Arts Center

Truth/Dare by Project Y

#YourMemorial by Pigeonholed

Red Emm and the Mad Monk by The Tank

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE

Alex & Eugene Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc. Aja Downing, Reggie Herold, Katherine Leidlein, Joseph M. Mace, Rori Nogee, Noah Pyzik, Jae Shin, Anna Stefanic, Brittany Zeinstra

Hamlet (What Dreams May Come) Ript Theater Company in association with The Secret Theatre Lindsay Alexandra Carter, Ade Otukoya, Chauncy Thomas, Nathan Winkelstein

The Maids The Seeing Place Theater Erin Cronican, Christine Redhead, Gaia Visnar

Plan G Randomly Specific Theatre Allan Hayhurst, Lauren LeBeouf, Tiffany May McRae, Sarah Misch, Larry Phillips, Forrest Weber

Spring Awakening Gallery Players Taylor Bloom, Aaron Braden, Harrison Bryan, Jacob Anthony Cain, Brendan Charles, Osborn Focht, Nick Godfrey, Gaby Greenwald, Nathaniel Gregory, Mikaela Kafka, Raquel Kahn, Isabella King, Thomas Kuklenski, Nicole Lopez, Gaby Mank, Tyler Moscaritola, Mariela Flor Olivo, Amanda Starr

Who Am I This Time? (And Other Conundrums Of Love) Wise Fish Theater Collective in association with Martina Bonolis & Meghan Ginley Zach Gamble, Meghan Ginley, Robin Johnson, Kent Koren, Franco Pedicini, Isabel Shill, Stephen Zuccaro

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE

Amie Cazel Pregnant Pause Good Pilgrim

Kim Katzberg Dad in a Box Eat a Radish Productions

Larry Phillips The Art of Acting: A Master Class with Fozzie Bear Larry Phillips

Laura Sisskin Fernandez You Hold a Pole Everday Playful Substance

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A FEATURED ROLE

Bruce Barton Hamlet Hudson Warehouse in association with Susane Lee

Daniel Burns She Calls Me Firefly Parity Productions in association with New Perspectives Theatre Company

Connor Chaney The Harrowing of Hell American Theatre of Actors in association with Collectio Musicorum, Inc.

Desmond Dutcher Mary, Mary Retro Productions

David Leeper Stupid Fucking Bird Stripped Scripts

Jacob Lewis Lovendahl Experimenting with Katz New Ambassadors Theatre Company in association with Julia Botero

Federico Mallet Eight Tales of Pedro The Secret Theatre

Scott McCord The Head Hunter One Shot Deal

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A FEATURED ROLE

Maybe Burke Red Emma and the Mad Monk The Tank & Emma Orme

Adiagha Faizah You Wouldn’t Expect American Bard Theater Company

Melissa Glasgow A Chorus Line Gallery Players

Meghan E. Jones Mary, Mary Retro Productions

Meredith M. Sweeney Catch the Sparrow Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.

Jo Vetter The Poor of New York Metropolitan Playhouse

Yokko Shinka Ren Gyo Soh

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A LEAD ROLE

Adam Belvo The Brutes spit&vigor in association with Jay Michaels Arts & Entertainment

Harrison Bryan Spring Awakening Gallery Players

Braeson Herold Worse Than Tigers The Mill in association with New Ohio Theatre

Milo Longenecker The Fantastical Dangerous Journey of Q Rebel Playhouse in association with 14th Street Y

Vinnie Penna Twelfth Night Boomerang Theatre Company

Olivier Renaud Stupid Fucking Bird Stripped Scripts

Evan Teich Assassins The Secret Theatre

Ronnie Williams Man Frog and Other People Necessary I. T. E. M. S. Project

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A LEAD ROLE

Heather E. Cunningham Mary, Mary Retro Productions

Naomi Lorrain Entangled The Amoralists

Lori Elizabeth Parquet Operating Systems Flux Theatre Ensemble

Mahima Saigal Queen Astoria Performing Arts Center

Lisa Strum whatdoesfreemean? Nora’s Playhouse in association with The Tank

Shannon Marie Sullivan Worse Than Tigers The Mill in association with New Ohio Theatre

Gaia Visnar The Maids The Seeing Place Theater

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHY/MOVEMENT

Shiloh Goodin Spring Awakening Gallery Players

Eddie Gutierrez A Chorus Line Gallery Players

Alex Johnson Alex & Eugene Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.

Joey McKneely Shadows, a dance musical Go Joe Enterprises

Shoko Tamal The Tempest The Secret Theatre

Yoshiko Usami Shinka Ren Gyo Soh

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR

Adam Knight Stupid Fucking Bird Stripped Scripts

Katie Lindsay Red Emma and the Mad Monk The Tank & Emma Orme

Lauren A Shields Assassins The Secret Theatre

Sara Thigpen Twelfth Night Boomerang Theatre Company

Owen Thompson The Tempest The Secret Theatre

Yoshiko Usami Shinka Ren Gyo Soh

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN

Annie Garrett-Larsen And Then There Were None The Secret Theatre

Asa Lipton Alex & Eugene Isle of Shoals Productions, Inc.

Anthony Logan Cole The Tempest The Secret Theatre

Kia Rogers Operating Systems Flux Theatre Ensemble

Kia Rogers Real Rodrigo Nogueira in association with The Tank

Cha See Honors Students Tavine Productions

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN

Michelle Beshaw Duke Oldřich & Washerwoman Božena, the True Story GOH Productions in association with Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre

Sarah Marie Dixey Hamlet (What Dreams May Come) Ript Theater Company in association with The Secret Theatre

Julia Kulaya Experimenting with Katz New Ambassadors Theatre Company in association with Julia Botero

Marissa L. Menezes Once Upon a Mattress Gallery Players

Ben Philipp Mary, Mary Retro Productions

Yunzhu Zeng Where Is My Maple Town MapleTown Production Company

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN

Matt Carlin Worse Than Tigers The Mill in association with New Ohio Theatre

Jack Cunningham & Rebecca Cunningham Mary, Mary Retro Productions

Gabriel Firestone Whirlwind Jordan’s Play Lab in association with Rebecca Crigler & Barn Owl, LLC

Lily Guerin The Year of the Solar Eclipse Kyoko & Ezra

Daniel Hogan Friendly’s Fire The Rising Sun Performance Company in association with the Theatre at the 14th Street Y

Matthew D. McCarren Goodbody The Crook Theater Company

Tim McMath Cannibal Galaxy: a love story Between Two Boroughs Productions

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN

Beata Bocek Duke Oldřich & Washerwoman Božena, the True Story GOH Productions in association with Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre

Margaret Montagna Queen Astoria Performing Arts Center

John Salutz Red Emma and the Mad Monk The Tank & Emma Orme

Aj Surasky Worse Than Tigers The Mill in association with New Ohio Theatre

Jeanne Travis Honors Students Tavine Productions

Fan Zhang Cannibal Galaxy: a love story Between Two Boroughs Productions

OUTSTANDING INNOVATIVE DESIGN

Hao Bai, Eric Marciano & Ildiko Nemeth – for Projection Design Electronic City, The New Stage Theatre Comapny

Yana Birykova – for Projection Design Cannibal Galaxy: a love story, Between Two Boroughs Productions

Magnus Pind Bjerre – for Video Design The Neurology of the Soul, Untitled Theater Co. No. 61

Raquel Cion, Maia Cruz Palileo, & Kim Katzberg for Video Design Dad in a Box, Eat a Radish Productions

Sarah George & Sonya Plenefisch – for Properties Design Whirlwind Jordan’s Play Lab in association with Rebecca Crigler & Barn Owl, LLC

John J.A. Jannone – for Video Design The Female Role Model Project, Transforma Theatre, Inc.

Keo X-Men – for Graffiti Design This Is Modern Art, Blessed Unrest

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC

Karen Bishko, Maxim Moston, & Edison Woods Shadows, a dance musical Go Joe Enterprises

Beata Bocek Duke Oldřich & Washerwoman Božena, the True Story GOH Productions in association with Czechoslovak American Marionette Theatre

Luis D’Elias Eight Tales of Pedro The Secret Theatre

Joe Jung A Midsummer Nights Dream Smith Street Stage

Teresa Lotz Red Emma and the Mad Monk The Tank & Emma Orme

Francesco Santalucia MacBeth First Maria Ensemble

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SHORT SCRIPT

Eliza Bent The Beyoncé Adjusted Realists

Kathleen Jones Pregnant Pause Good Pilgrim

Kim Katzberg Dad in a Box Eat a Radish Productions

Teresa Lotz She Calls Me Firefly Parity Productions in association with New Perspectives Theatre Company

Larry Phillips The Art of Acting: A Master Class with Fozzie Bear Larry Phillips

Carrie Robbins The Dragon Griswynd Days of the Giants LLC

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL FULL-LENGTH SCRIPT

Emily J Daly #yourmemorial Pigeonholed

Gabriel Jason Dean Entangled The Amoralists

Tori Keenan-Zelt Truth/Dare Project Y Theatre Company

Dorothy Lyman In The Bleak Midwinter Stuffed Olive, Inc. in association with Allison Threadgold & Tana Sirois

Alexis Roblan Red Emma and the Mad Monk The Tank & Emma Orme

Madhuri Shekar Queen Astoria Performing Arts Center

Charly Evon Simpson Entangled The Amoralists

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE ART PRODUCTION

The 11th Dimension ETdC Projects’ Lab in association with Roi Escudero & Valentin Ewan

Arkham Part of the 10th Annual H.P.Lovecraft Festival Radiotheatre in association with Theatre At St.John’s

Befuddled 101 Amnesia Wars Productions

Electronic City The New Stage Theatre Company

The Harrowing of Hell American Theatre of Actors in association with Collectio Musicorum, Inc.

now my hand is ready for my heart: intimate histories LaMaMa Experimental Theater Club In Association with Mount Tremper Arts

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A MUSICAL

Assassins The Secret Theatre

Caroline, or Change Astoria Performing Arts Center

A Chorus Line Gallery Players

Into The Woods Theater 2020

Red Emma and the Mad Monk The Tank & Emma Orme

Spring Awakening Gallery Players

OUTSTANDING PREMIERE PRODUCTION OF A PLAY

36 Juniper Wrong House Productions

In The Bleak Midwinter Stuffed Olive, Inc. in association with Allison Threadgold & Tana Sirois

Queen Astoria Performing Arts Center

Shinka Ren Gyo Soh

Whirlwind Jordan’s Play Lab in association with Rebecca Crigler & Barn Owl, LLC

Worse Than Tigers The Mill in association with New Ohio Theatre

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY

And Then There Were None The Secret Theatre

Hamlet (What Dreams May Come) Ript Theater Company in association with The Secret Theatre

The Maids The Seeing Place Theater

Mary, Mary Retro Productions

Stupid Fucking Bird Stripped Scripts

The Tempest The Secret Theatre

The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation is a not-for-profit organization recognizing the great work of New York City’s Off-Off-Broadway,

NYIT Award Nominations 2019: Off-Off Broadway’s Finest Below is the list of nominations announced tonight for the 15th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards, which celebrates the best of the city’s independent theater — aka Off-Off Broadway.

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The most dominant Washington Capital, season by season

I decided to take a look at who the most dominant player for the Washington Capitals was by season. Each season's highest PPG total (with a minimum GP threshold of half a season) is shown at an 82 game pace. Here are the results.Obviously this doesn't take most defenseman and goalies into account. But thats just the way she goes.1974-75 - Tommy Williams (65.15pts): 11 point lead over Denis Dupere1975-76 - Bob Sirois (55.3pts): 3.12 point lead over Nelson Pyatt1976-77 - Guy Charron (84.05pts): 18.45 point lead over Gary Meehan1977-78 - Guy Charron (74.83pts): 5.36 point lead over Bob Sirois1978-79 - Dennis Maruk (97.11pts): 24.62 point lead over Guy Charron1979-80 - Mike Gartner (72.42pts): 4.77 point lead over Ryan Walter1980-81 - Dennis Maruk (99.43pts): 3.08 point lead over Mike Gartner1981-82 - Dennis Maruk (139.4pts): 47.83 point lead over Chris Valentine1982-83 - Mike Gartner (85.37pts): 2.34 point lead over Dennis Maruk1983-84 - Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (89.13pts): 2 point lead over Mike Gartner1984-85 - Mike Gartner (104.55pts): 7.17 point lead over Bob Carpenter1985-86 - Bengt-Ake Gustafsson (87.86pts): 2.78 point lead over Dave Christian1986-87 - Larry Murphy (83.03pts): 6.29 point lead over Mike Gartner1987-88 - Mike Gartner (83.03pts): 9.23 point lead over Scott Stevens1988-89 - Mike Ridley (91.23pts): 8.19 point lead over Geoff Courtnall1989-90 - Dino Ciccarelli (80.98pts): 0.09 point lead over Mike Ridley1990-91 - Kevin Hatcher (76.81pts): 3.11 point lead over Mike Ridley1991-92 - Randy Burridge (83.24pts): 1.24 point lead over Michal Pivonka1992-93 - Michal Pivonka (87.94pts): 3.96 point lead over Peter Bondra1993-94 - Mike Ridley (70.86pts): 10.94 point lead over Dale Hunter1994-95 - Joe Juneau (80.14pts): 5.12 point lead over Peter Bondra1995-96 - Peter Bondra (97.91pts): 6.92 point lead over Michal Pivonka1996-97 - Peter Bondra (82pts): 22.62 point lead over Joe Juneau1997-98 - Peter Bondra (84.16pts): 8.16 point lead over Adam Oates1998-99 - Adam Oates (75.05pts): 6.72 point lead over Peter Bondra1999-00 - Adam Oates (71pts): 10.34 point lead over Sergei Gonchar2000-01 - Adam Oates (83.01pts): 2.01 point lead over Peter Bondra2001-02 - Jaromir Jagr (93.88pts): 9.4 point lead over Adam Oates2002-03 - Jaromir Jagr (84.17pts): 15.17 point lead over Robert Lang2003-04 - Robert Lang (96.32pts): 16.1 point lead over Jaromir Jagr2005-06 - Alexander Ovechkin (107.31pts): 41.48 point lead over Dainius Zubrus2006-07 - Alexander Ovechkin (92pts): 14.26 point lead over Alexander Semin2007-08 - Alexander Ovechkin (112pts): 43 point lead over Nicklas Backstrom2008-09 - Alexander Ovechkin (114.18pts): 9.7 point lead over Alexander Semin2009-10 - Alexander Ovechkin (124.14pts): 23.14 point lead over Nicklas Backstrom2010-11 - Alexander Ovechkin (88.23pts): 19.01 point lead over Nicklas Backstrom2011-12 - Nicklas Backstrom (85.9pts): 17.57 point lead over Alexander Ovechkin2012-13 - Alexander Ovechkin (95.67pts): 11.96 point lead over Mike Ribeiro2013-14 - Alexander Ovechkin (83.05pts): 4.05 point lead over Nicklas Backstrom2014-15 - Alexander Ovechkin (82pts): 4 point lead over Nicklas Backstrom2015-16 - Evgeny Kuznetsov (77pts): 0.47 point lead over Nicklas Backstrom2016-17 - Nicklas Backstrom (86pts): 17 point lead over Alexander Ovechkin2017-18 - Alexander Ovechkin (87pts): 0.82 point lead over Evgeny Kuznetsov2018-19 - Alexander Ovechkin (90.12pts): 12.47 point lead over Evgeny KuznetsovTop Five Most Dominant Seasons1981-82 - Denis Maruk: 47.83 point lead over next highest scorer2007-08 - Alexander Ovechkin: 43 point lead over next highest scorer2005-06 - Alexander Ovechkin: 41.48 point lead over next highest scorer1978-79 - Dennis Maruk: 24.62 point lead over next highest scorer2009-10 - Alexander Ovechkin: 23.14 point lead over next highest scorerPlayers With Most Dominant SeasonsAlexander Ovechkin: 11Mike Gartner: 4Dennis Maruk/Peter Bondra/Adam Oates: 3Guy Charron/Bengt-Ake Gustafsson/Mike Ridley/Jaromir Jagr/Nicklas Backstrom: 2 The most dominant Washington Capital, season by season Source

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#TheMightyMightyBosstones - Dicky Barrett, Tim Burton, Ben Carr, Joe Gittleman, John Goetchius, Lawrence Katz, Chris Rhodes, Leon Silva & Joe Sirois (Riot Fest 2017) @ Douglas Park, Chicago, IL on Sunday, September 17, 2017 #RiotFest2017 #Festival #Setlist: Let's Face It: Noise Brigade The Rascal King Royal Oil The Impression That I Get Let's Face It That Bug Bit Me Another Drinkin' Song Numbered Days Break So Easily Nevermind Me Desensitized 1-2-8 Graffiti Worth Reading Someday I Suppose Everybody's Better Hell of a Hat They Will Need Music Don't Worry Desmond Dekker (at Douglas Park)

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Concert Review: Bash and Pop

1/21/17 @ Great Scott, Allston, MA

There is nothing like seeing a band you never thought you’d see in a small intimate venue the size of some living rooms! Tommy Stinson is probably known by most for his amazing work with The Replacements and his time in Guns N’ Roses (he was the bassist when Duff McKagen left and before he returned last year), but one of his great 90s alt-rock chestnuts was his short-lived band Bash and Pop. They formed in 1992 after The Mats broke up. Stinson stepped out from the bass and was the guitarist and singer in this band. The only release of this incarnation was 1993′s Friday Night is Killing Me, which I had on cassette tape for years! The band broke up in 1994. After The Mats reunited for some recording and live performances from 2012 to 2015, Stinson announced last year that he was returning to Bash and Pop for a new album funded via PledgeMusic. The new album Anything Could Happen dropped last week (see my review here: http://greensparty.tumblr.com/post/156136496913/album-review-bash-and-pop-anything-could-happen).

Besides Tommy Stinson, the lineup is all new, but the sound remains the same. On guitar is Steve Selvidge (of The Hold Steady), on bass is Justin Perkins (who played on Stinson’s solo albums), and on drums is Joe Sirois (a local guy from The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, as well as Chris Shiflett’s side band Jackson United). They began their club tour earlier this month and the Boston show occurred a few days after their appearance on Colbert (watch that clip if you haven’t yet, just to see Colbert and Stinson brawl at the end!).

I arrived at Great Scott as the opening act The So So Glos were onstage. They are a Brooklyn punk band and they were perfect for opening the show! A lot of the audience knew the words to some of their songs too. Check them out!

Then Bash and Pop made their way through the crowd and took the stage, all dressed in the same striped suits! Stinson has such a live-wire energy. The whole band did for that matter. Stinson has also mastered the art of between song banter. He made reference to a heckler in NJ the night before and the band’s appearance on Colbert. At one point he requested a drink and an audience member brought him a whisky. The band played a lot of the new album, which had more than a few rockers. Towards the end of the show, Stinson did some acoustic songs just by himself. 

This show was a great rockin’ time. I, myself, never got to see The Mats live. I’m kicking myself for not seeing them on their reunion show (the only area appearances was a lottery secret show and Boston Calling and, well, I wasn’t lucky enough or rich enough at the time to attend either). The Mats were one of the greatest bands of all time and their album Pleased to Meet Me is in my Desert Album Top 10. Seeing Stinson with Bash and Pop is a close second to seeing The Mats live. He is a rock legend indeed!

For info on Bash and Pop: http://www.tommystinson.com/

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I wanna go to a jackson united concert

Really badly. Like right now. I don't care if they haven't released in album in almost 4 years, they're gonna have a concert right now and I'm gonna go, and its gonna be awesome.

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Thank You Joe Sirois for the follow, Don't forget to follow me & Check out my pics on #IG Click here now: https://t.co/eWG7lu1hOX

— CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS (@REALMENSINGCW) May 30, 2017