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takeeachdayonebookatatime · 3 years ago

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Books turned into movies

Ever read a book and wonder what the movie is like? Here are some of the best books that were turned into movies. Keep in mind the book is always better than the movie.

Fear Street

The 3 movies loosely based on Fear Street came out in July off 2021 on Netflix. The Fear family curse was the main focus of the movie. Fear Street is a series of books written by R.L. Stine. Set in a fictionalized town of Shadyside and features average teenagers who encounter murderers or ghosts the first book was released in 1989 called the new girl. The series is named after the Fear family. Their name was originally spelled Fier; after hearing that the family was cursed and the letters could be rearranged to spell "fire", Simon Fier changed his name to Fear in the 19th century. Despite the family changing the spelling of their name and the renaming, the curse has survived, and Simon and his wife, Angelica, brought it with them when they moved to Shadyside sometime after the Civil War. The curse originally started in Puritan (17th-century) times when Benjamin and Matthew Fier sentenced an innocent girl and her mother, Susannah and Martha Goode, who were allegedly witches and to be burned at the stake for allegedly practicing witchcraft. Her father and husband, William Goode, put the curse on the Fiers to avenge their deaths, bringing misery and death to the family for years to come. Kiana Madeira as Deena Johnson, Olivia Scott Welch as Samantha Fraser, Benjamin Flores Jr. as Josh Johnson, Julia Rehwald as Kate, Fred Hechinger as Simon, Ashley Zukerman as Nick Goode, Darrell Britt-Gibson as Martin, Maya Hawke as Heather, Jordana Spiro as Mrs. Lane, Jordyn DiNatale as Ruby Lane, Charlene Amoia as Rachel Thompson / Sunnyvale customer, David W. Thompson as Ryan Torres, Jeremy Ford as Peter, Elizabeth Scopel as Sarah Fier, Gillian Jacobs as C. Berman.

Goosebumps

Goosebumps and Goosebumps 2 are movies based on a series of children's horror fiction novels by American author R. L. Stine, published by Scholastic Publishing. The stories follow children who find themselves in very scary situations. That, usually involving monsters and other supernatural elements. They were released From 1992 to 1997 the first book in the series was Welcome to dead house. They even made a TV show based on the books. the series has sold over 400 million books worldwide in thirty-two languages, becoming the second-best-selling book series in history. The movie first movie cast includes Jack Black, Dylan Minnette as Zachary "Zach" Cooper, Odeya Rush as Hannah Stine, Amy Ryan as Gale Cooper, Ryan Lee as Champ, Jillian Bell as Lorraine Conyers, Halston Sage as Taylor, Steven Krueger as Davidson, Keith Arthur Bolden as Principal Garrison, Amanda Lund as Officer Brooks, Timothy Simons as Officer Stevens, Ken Marino as Coach Carr, Karan Soni as Mr. Rooney,

The hunger games

The Hunger Games movie series is based on the book series by Suzanne collins. The novels in the trilogy are titled The Hunger Games (2008), Catching Fire (2009), and Mockingjay (2010). Each was adapted for film, establishing The Hunger Games film series, with the film adaptation of Mockingjay split into two feature-length motion pictures. Every year, in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capital of the nation of Panem forces each of the 12 districts to send a boy and girl tribute between the ages of 12 and 18 to compete in the Hunger Games: a nationally televised event in which the 'tributes' fight each other to the death until one survivor remains. Katniss Everdeen played by Jennifer Lawrence, Peeta Mellark played by Josh Hutcherson, Gale Hawthorne played by Liam Hemsworth, Haymitch Abernathy played by Woody Harrelson, Effie Trinket played by Elizabeth Banks, President

Coriolanus Snow played by Donald Sutherlandn, Caesar Flickerman played by Stanley Tucci, Primrose Everdeen played by Willow Shields, Mrs. Everdeen played by Paula Malcomson, Cinna played by Lenny Kravitz.

Twilight

The Twilight Saga is a series of five vampire-themed romance fantasy films based on the four novels published by author Stephenie Meyer. The first movie, Twilight, was released on November 21, 2008. The second one New Moon, followed on November 20, 2009, breaking the box office record as the biggest midnight screening and opening day in history, grossing an estimated $72.7 million. The third installment, Eclipse, was released on June 30, 2010 Starring Kristen Stewart As Bella Swan, Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black, Billy Burke as Charlie Swan, Peter Facinelli as Carlisle Cullen, Elizabeth Reaser as Esme Cullen, Ashley Greene as Alice Cullen, Kellan Lutz as Emmett Cullen, Nikki Reed as Rosalie Hale, Jackson Rathbone as Jasper Hale. The four books in the series follow the teen years of Isabella "Bella" Swan, a girl who moves to Forks, Washington, from Phoenix, Arizona and falls in love with a 104-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen. The series has grossed over $3.4 billion worldwide. 2 more books were later added to the book series.

Divergent

The Divergent Series is a feature film trilogy based on the Divergent novels by the American author Veronica Roth. In the futuristic city of dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions: Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the peaceful), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave), and Erudite (the intellectual). Beatrice Prior is warned that she is Divergent and thus will never fit into any one of the factions. Shailene Woodley as Tris Prior, Elyse Cole as 10 year old Tris, Theo James as Tobias “Four” Eaton, Ashley Judd as Natalie Prior, Jai Courtney as Eric Coulter, Ray Stevenson as Marcus Eaton, Zoë Kravitz as Christina, Miles Teller as Peter Hayes, Tony Goldwyn as Andrew Prior, Ansel Elgort as Caleb Prior, Maggie Q as Tori Wu, Mekhi Phifer as Max, Kate Winslet as Jeanine Matthews, Ben Lloyd-Hughes as Will, Christian Madsen as Albert, Amy Newbold as Molly Atwood. The books are Divergent released in (2011) Insurgent released in (2012) Allegiant released in (2013) and Four: A Divergent Collection released in (2014).

Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy books written by British author J. K. Rowling. The story follows the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of them are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The arc of the story is about Harry's enemy Lord Voldemort, a dark wizard who intends to become immortal and what's to overthrow the wizard governing body also known as the Ministry of Magic and subjugate all wizards and Muggles who are (non-magical people). The cast of the movies are Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. Here is when the movies were released. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone released in 2001, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets released in 2002, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban released in 2004, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire released in 2005, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix released in 2007, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince released in 2009, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows �� Part 1 released in 2010, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 2011. The books in the series are Philosopher's Stone released in (1997)Chamber of Secrets released in (1998) Prisoner of Azkaban released in (1999) Goblet of Fire released in (2000) Order of the Phoenix released in (2003) Half-Blood Prince released in (2005) Deathly Hallows released in (2007).

Nancy drew

Nancy Drew is a fictional character who first appears in several mystery book series as a teenage amateur sleuth. The books are ghostwritten by a number of authors and published under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The first book is

The Secret of the Old Clock (1930) Nancy Drew is a 2007 American mystery thriller film loosely based on the series of mystery novels about the titular teen detective of the same name by Edward Stratemeyer. She has been Portrayed by Bonita Granville (1938–39 films), Pamela Sue Martin (1977 TV series) who is my favorite Nancy Drew. Janet Louise Johnson (1977 TV series), Tracy Ryan (1995 TV series), Maggie Lawson (2002 TV film), Emma Roberts (2007 film) Emma was a great Nancy. Sophia Lillis (2019 film) sadly she is my least favorite Nancy Drew and Kennedy McMann (2019 TV series) they could have done so much better with her character to make her seem more like the original Nancy Drew.

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sellinout · 6 years ago

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TRANSCRIPT for EPISODE 2

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MICHAEL PFOHL: I can totally see people that are super married to DIY eethics being like, “you sold out,” but like...if DIY means that I should put in a ton of effort so that you can do what you want and not have to pay me anything, then fuck DIY.

MIKE MOSCHETTO: Sounds harsh, I know, but when real life and gig life collide, it’s not pretty. I’m Mike Moschetto, this is Sellin’ Out.

[music: I’m a casino that pays nothing when you win / please put your money in”]

MIKE: Hi! Hello. How are you? Thanks for tuning in or logging on or surfing the web over to another episode of Sellin’ Out...I don’t really know what the term would be, you don’t really tune anything to find it. It just shows up on your phone, in your feed, whatever. In any case, thanks for listening! I’m Mike Moschetto and my guest today is Michael Pfohl. You might know Michael from his emo band Secret Stuff, got a couple releases out on Spartan Records, a very underrated label. He’s also in a newer band called Low Mass that I’m very excited about, and if you live in the vicinity of Nashville, TN and you’ve gone to see bands play at a DIY space or a house show in the last few years, there’s a good chance you’ve attended a Michael Pfohl joint. So we talked about his old show house Exponent Manor (that I’ve had the pleasure of playing a couple times), and how he actually wound up in court. My dude had to literally fight for his right to party...and he won! So that’s good. Sometimes the system works. We also chatted about ambition and success and what’s fair in DIY and so much more. He’s just a friendly, talented, hardworking, genuine guy. So here’s Michael.

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MIKE: So you do a lot of different things, central to music and DIY and underground and all that. When you introduce yourself...I guess it depends situationally, but how do you think of yourself?

MICHAEL: I guess recently I’ve been pivoting a little...I haven’t been doing as much promoting or booking in Nashville as I used to because I don’t have the house that I lived at anymore, so whenever you don’t have control over the calendar it’s a lot harder to do as much work for as many people. So I’ve been focusing a lot more on Secret Stuff, and then I joined another band called Low Mass. So I’ve been focusing a lot more on the music aspect of it than the business side, which has been nice because there’s been a ton of stuff that’s been happening in my personal life that if I was in control of so many people’s touring schedules like I used to be, then it just would’ve been a recipe for disaster.

MIKE: Right, because at least at one point you had the house, Exponent Manor. You were booking presumably other places around Nashville, not exclusively the house – though that’s a great thing to have. You were booking other people’s tours, AND you had your own music projects-

MICHAEL: At that point I was still in college, too.

MIKE: Jeez! And then probably working…

MICHAEL: Yeah, I was working 30 hours a week at a barbecue restaurant.

MIKE: So...did you sleep? Will you doze off in the middle of this?

MICHAEL: [laughs] It was very fun. I didn’t have as much responsibility in terms of personal relationships or, now I’ve got a dog – which is...not crazy, like “oh dogs are trainers for babies” like some people say, but it is still a lot of work.

MIKE: I can see it, I can see it...So what came first in all of this? My guess would be that it was playing music.

MICHAEL: Yeah, sort of...I played in a band in high school in Christiansburg, VA, which is kind of in the middle of nowhere-

MIKE: That’s right, because I was gonna say the first time I met you before I knew that you did music, it was as a concertgoer - and I mean that not in a passive “I go to shows once in a while” sense. We were in Blacksburg playing I Got Brains Fest – I think that’s where we met right?

MICHAEL: Yeah, yeah.

MIKE: That’s right. And I don’t think you were still living there, I think you had moved to Nashville but you came back.

MICHAEL: I’d moved to Nashville but I came back for that. I definitely credit those two festivals, I Got Brains Fest 1 + 2, as my biggest entryway into DIY and into understanding what DIY really was.

MIKE: Wow, I caught you early.

MICHAEL: Yeah you did, because before I played in a band in high school and I was still doing a lot of sports then so it wasn’t my main focus, but when you’re in high school and you’re not in a town that other tours come through, you kind of have to book your own shows and so that’s what we would do. My best friend at the time, his dad was the pastor of a church and so we would use space in the church to throw shows and the businessman side of me was like, “oh this is cool, I can buy some pizzas for cheap, sell ‘em for a little more, blah blah blah, capitalism yaaay…”

MIKE: [laughs] So you kind of fell into, like you said, the business out of necessity.

MICHAEL: Exactly, and a similar thing happened once I went to college. I went to Belmont in Nashville and it was a similar thing where I started a band and I didn’t have the relationships yet of “who do I hit up to open these shows?” So I just started booking our own shows. There was a place on campus called Boulevard which was just a music store, and I convinced the owner there to let us move some of the gear out of the way and throw shows there. It was a lot of fun, and people eventually started coming to me being like, “Hey, can you book us shows?” and itt just organically grew from there. I started doing more stuff at a venue called Rocketown and when their room fee went up to a point which was unsustainable, I got involved with this DIY spot called the Owl Farm. And how Exponent came about was, there were probably 14 other promoters that were booking at the Owl Farm at the time, so there weren’t days available on the calendar all the time. People would hit me up and I’d be like, “I can’t do it...” I wanted to avoid that happening as often as possible, so I set out whenever I moved out of my dorm room to find a house that I could conceivably throw house shows at, and I happened to stumble upon the perfect one, honestly.

MIKE: You did.

MICHAEL: A lot of rooms upstairs, downstairs was its own thing...We had our own world upstairs where everyone lived and then downstairs there was a room for all the gear, a room to play, a living where everyone could chill, a back porch and then a kitchen where everyone would sell merch and we’d put out the pizzas we got for free because Two Boots Pizza sponsored our house.

MIKE: That’s right!

MICHAEL: It was crazy, yeah.

MIKE: I don’t want to say that was the best part, but…

MICHAEL: No, but it’s definitely-

MIKE: Huge perk, yeah.

MICHAEL: Whenever you’re on tour and you don’t have to pay for food, and when it’s like...not just Little Caesar’s, it’s really great.

MIKE: It’s almost surprising to me in a city like Nashville which is so renowned as being a music city that there would be all this congestion around one venue. Is it maybe a hostility to underground music or were there other spots that were equally backed up?

MICHAEL: Sort of? I mean that was really one of the only DIY spots at the time.

MIKE: That was the one that I heard about.

MICHAEL: There were certainly some other houses that were doing stuff, but they were a lot more...niche. So I think the Owl Farm’s openness to a wide variety of genres is what made it so indispensable.

MIKE: So who actually ran it? I mean you guys booked it in sort of a collective, but whose space was it?

MICHAEL: A person called Rose and another person called Jazzy who both do their own thing now – I believe Jazzy moved to Richmond with their partner. Once the Owl Farm was done we were all looking for our own spaces and our own things and they started doing some stuff at some other spaces I can’t remember the exact names of because they operated in another different world than I typically did. But it was great because they managed the Owl Farm and they managed all the funds for it. It was kind of a trust thing, like “make sure you leave 25% of whatever is made in this cash box” and stuff, so it was definitely not super heavily-monitored. It was a “you have the privilege to use this space, please make sure we can keep the lights on” sort of thing.

MIKE: That’s good, because as opposed to just having a flat room cost, if the show doesn’t do well you’re not on the hook for it. Obviously it incentivizes you to get people there and through the door and everything – not only for the band’s purposes, but for the people who own the space.

MICHAEL: And I always did a similar thing at my house where obviously if a show didn’t do super well, you know if there’s 10 paid at $5, I’m gonna give all $50 to the band. But say we throw a show where it’s $5 and 100 people come, I’ll give the band $400 and keep $100 and use it to pay for all the shit that gets broken in my house.

MIKE: I think some people get weirded out at the concept of house venues and people who operate those things taking any cut of it because it’s all profit margin, but what do you say to those people?

MICHAEL: I spent the vast majority of my time for three years putting on shows at the house.

MIKE: And you put on some huge shows...did you have Counterparts?

MICHAEL: Yeah, Counterparts played, that was a free show we announced four hours ahead of time and 250 people showed up. It was totally insane. On the other side of that we did a show for Beartooth...there was a contract, Red Bull sent out a film team from Australia to film the whole thing, and I did an interview for AP in my living room. It was very weird. So there are totally different sides and I can totally see people who are super married to DIY ethics being like, “you sold out” or whatever. But I managed to make that band a ton of money and sure, I made a cut from that, but should I not for all the work that I did?

MIKE: Right, and it’s a personal liability thing too because you don’t own the place, you’re renting it. You could get thrown out anytime.

MICHAEL: There was a show where the floor collapsed and I spent money-

MIKE: In your living room?!

MICHAEL: In my living room.

MIKE: Jeez.

MICHAEL: The floor collapsed and I spent money putting up new floor supports and everything like that. When we moved out on bad terms – not due to shows at all, simply due to the rapid gentrification of Nashville and the fact that the owner could sell the house for five times what they bought it for in four years of ownership-

MIKE: Thanks in no small part to your replacement of some floor supports. Probably had “new floors!” on the listing.

MICHAEL: I did a ton of stuff right before they attempted to evict us to fix it all up. I was on tour and I got a call from my roommate and he’s like “hey, there’s an inspector here.” Which is illegal in our lease – they’re supposed to give us at least 24 hours notice. And technically there were only two of us on the lease, five people living there. It was a four-bedroom, four-living room house so one of the living rooms was a bedroom. There were five people living there, but technically those other three people were not supposed to be there. We were only allowed to have at max three people on the lease, which is very strange for a house that has more bedrooms than that. But the inspector never saw those people, they just saw the house was kind of in shambles and they were like, “fix all this stuff.” We were like, “okay,” so we fixed everything. They came back and did another inspection. I got the email that said “you have two weeks to fix it,” while I was on tour for another ten days. I came back, stayed up four days straight, repainted the whole house, did a ton of work making it look very, very nice. They came back and they were like, “...this is great.” “So we can stay?” “Yeah, sure.” “Awesome, cool.” A month goes by, I’m at home in Virginia and I get a call on Christmas day: “Hey, they just nailed an eviction notice to our door.”

MIKE: Get the fuck out…

MICHAEL: Yeah. I get back a week later and like, a day after I get back we go to court. I just watch this lawyer for this realty company – because it wasn’t the owner who managed it; it was a realty company that managed it – they just call case after case after case where they’re evicting these people, and the people aren’t there so it’s just like, “Tandem Realty wins.” Boom, boom, boom, boom. And they call our case, our lawyer stands up, their lawyer looks over at our lawyer and is like, “oh shit.” He’s like, “could I have a sidebar, your honor?” And they walk outside, come back in? Our lawyer’s like, “Yeah, they’ll drop the case and give you your security deposit back if you guys leave by the end of the month.” We had two shows after it happened: one for my buds in Ivadell-

MIKE: OUR buds in Ivadell!

MICHAEL: Yeah! And then the last show that ever happened there was for this powerviolence band, ACxDC. The house looked great, I took a ton of pictures from it – they actually used those pictures in the Craigslist listing for rent now. When I lived there it was $975/month total. Now it’s $2500/month total, plus $2500 security deposit, first and last month’s rent due at move-in.

MIKE: And is it still capped at three people living there?

MICHAEL: I don’t know, I actually delivered a pizza there the other day-

MIKE: Oh man, that’s brutal.

MICHAEL: I knocked on the door and I was like, “this is weird but could I come in and take a look around for a second? I used to live here.” And they were like, “holy shit...you’re the dude!” And I’m like, “what?” And they’re like, “we know about you.” So I walked in and hung out. It was just a bunch of Vanderbilt college kids smoking weed in there, and I really wanna knock on the door and be like, “Hey...I will pay half of your rent for a month – let me do another show here.” It would be amazing. I’m not saying that it’s going to happen but it’d be very, very fun to do a throwback, you know? Have a bunch of bands that were very important to me playing there. All that to say, the house was super important to me and I think it’s definitely one of the most foundational parts of who I am. I learned way more running that house, throwing almost 400 shows in three years there than I did in four years of music business school. So I guess to circle back around to your question of, “what do you say to people that are uncomfortable with a house taking a cut?” Why am I required to give of myself for three and a half years – so much effort, so much time, honestly so much money – so that other people can have a good time? Why should the burden only fall on one person? Whenever another house in Nashville called The Other Basement fell apart – not really “fell apart,” Belmont bought the house and caused them to move out – they needed a place to throw shows, I let them throw shows at my house. I was like, “you guys take 70% of the money, I’ll take 30% of the money because it’s my house just so we can make sure that everything stays above board.” I remember the person who I let throw shows there, one time at a show two of our inputs got broken and I had to hunt them down for like…$40 or something. Like the band still made a decent amount of money; they only had to pay one touring band. And I wake up the next day, and they and all of their friends had just flamed me on the internet. “Fake DIY, bullshit, capitalist taking money, blah blah blah.” They even brought it up in an interview with a magazine. They didn’t call me out specifically by name but they were like, “there are some houses in Nashville that are masquerading as DIY and they totally are not.” And I’m like...if DIY means that I should put in a ton of effort so that you can do what you want and not have to pay me anything, then fuck DIY.

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MIKE: How much do you think that same mindset spills over into...I think people expect a lot from artists now. I don’t know exactly what caused the sea change, I want to say maybe it was Radiohead “pay-what-you-want,” maybe that kind of opened the floodgates to this expectation that art should free. And I think that it should be accessible and affordable, but there’s a cost to all of it. How do you navigate that mindset?

MICHAEL: The world that we live in is currently set up in a capitalistic way and if you truly value the art that your favorite artists are creating, then you should want them to be able to live a sustainable life off that. I’m not asking to be rich. I’m asking to be able to pay my rent and bills off of my art, and people don’t get that a lot of times. They think that artists themselves are being exploitative and I would argue that oftentimes it’s fanbases’ unreasonable expectations that creates the real exploitation.

MIKE: Like…“exploitative” of what? Like a gas tank worth of money? I think you could just as easily say to anyone who’s saying “this house is fake DIY” or whatever…“Yo, why don’t you come see me at the pizza place that I work at because obviously the house show thing isn’t paying the bills. I’m not raking it in from Secret Stuff money.”

MICHAEL: Exactly.

MIKE: So here’s another venture that I wanna bring up is More Than Me Touring – booking tours for other people.

MICHAEL: Yes.

MIKE: You have to like doing it. You have to find some kind of satisfaction because it’s not a lot of fun.

MICHAEL: I joke around a lot with my friends that are promoters and especially my friends that are also agents that booking is the worst part of the music industry. It’s the most thankless job and it’s a ton of work.

MIKE: When does that come in? When do you decide to start not necessarily Doing It Yourself...I mean I guess YOU’RE doing it YOURself…

MICHAEL: Helping other people Do It Themselves...Together. [laughs]

MIKE: Does that speak to a larger aspirational mindset? Like, “DIY is cool, but…” everybody wants to get to the point where somebody’s doing stuff for them.

MICHAEL: I was literally having this conversation with Tyler from Save Face on the drive over here. We were talking about...honestly the biggest reason why I would want to get to a point where our bands were “big” and we had a team around us is that it would free up more time to be able to create more meaningful art. Like that’s honestly my whole endgame. I want to be able to create art that matters to people, and I don’t want it to just be like, “oh I have to go home and I have to work 70 hours a week delivering food” and all this stuff where I don’t have time to make the album that I want. And that’s literally the story of my summer. We recorded all these instrumental demos in May over three days. I had half the songs done lyrically and it took me like...three and a half months because I just did not have time to sit down and try to make art. I literally finished the last two songs’ lyrics the day before we left for this tour because it was just like, “I have to get it done so we can go and shop these demos around, because otherwise I’m going to have to postpone studio time until I personally can pull in the thousands of dollars that it’s going to take to create this thing the way I want.”

MIKE: You’re telling me.

MICHAEL: I basically would use the money that I made booking tours to be like, “okay, this is my savings. I’m putting this into a mutual fund or Bitcoin because it’s essentially money that I don’t need immediately to be able to live,” that’s why I have a job.

MIKE: “Funny money.”

MICHAEL: This other stuff I can put away so that I can feel like, “okay, I can still chase these creative endeavors and not wreck my 40s through 70s.”

MIKE: Just in doing that you’re leagues ahead of most other folks doing this because I haven’t been in a regular touring rotation since March of 2016, that was the last long run I went on. I’ve done a week here, a week there, but since then...I have a savings account now. [laughs] It’s not much, but that should’ve started when I got out of college,

MICHAEL: Yeah, and it feels good too honestly. Having that safety net provides so much mental comfort and emotional support. They say “money can’t buy happiness,” but it sure as hell can keep some anxiety away.

MIKE: I don’t know that it necessarily feels better than being out doing what you’re doing and getting out there.

MICHAEL: And that’s the gamble that I’m taking is that I don’t think it does. Otherwise I’d like to think I’m a fairly logical person and if I thought that music was not going to be as fulfilling as working a full-time job at home and spending all my time with my girlfriend and dog, then I wouldn’t do music. No reasonable person would.

MIKE: Opportunity cost...yeah I don’t know how much of it I would consider to be “rational.” But in terms of booking other people’s shit, are you still doing it?

MICHAEL: Yeah I’m still doing it. I’m about to get started on doing some more stuff for next year. Like I said, I took a little bit of a break. It’s been a rough year, I’ve had a lot of bad things happen to people in my family...car wrecks, etc. Like I said before, it’s nice to not have that responsibility on my shoulders but I think I’m ready to take on more, which is not something I thought I would be saying [laughs]

MIKE: So you kind of ramped up for a while, got really into it and then scaled back?

MICHAEL: Yeah, I had a roster that was a lot bigger. Some of my bands have been poached, moved onto larger agencies-

MIKE: That’s good!

MICHAEL: It’s good! I mean, it’s something you know will happen, and you just have ot hope that you did a good enough job that they’ll be loyal for as long as they feasibly can be. I don’t want anyone’s careers or their pursuit of art to be held back by any loyalty to me if I’m not doing a good enough job. And I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve totally fumbled some tours and stuff, but everyone does.

MIKE: I’ve had my own experiences with folks doing that. And it’s funny because the person who...well, he didn’t actually fumble our tour, but everyone else around us that was working with this individual –

MICHAEL: I think I know who you’re talking about.

MIKE: I think you probably do. So we actually got a tour out of it, which is crazy.

MICHAEL: That person’s fumbles I would credit as being what started More Than Me Touring.

MIKE: Really?

MICHAEL: Yeah. A lot of my friends were working with them and had very negative experiences and were left hanging. At the time, I was pretty much just booking for Secret Stuff and I was like, “I have these contacts, I know how to put together tours.” We toured a lot more than a lot of similar bands in our bracket, I would say, so why I don’t put these to work helping my friends? And that’s kind of where the name More Than Me came from too. I wanted to give back to more than just me, and ironically enough it has pretty consistently always been just me doing it though. I’ve had some people that I’ve worked with but they’ve come and gone for various reasons and it can be definitely stressful to have all that fall right on only one person’s shoulders.

MIKE: Absolutely. It’s kind of funny – did you find when you were booking other people’s tours, were you more effective at it or at least more able to devote time when you were on tour yourself? That was the experience that I had.

MICHAEL: Really?

MIKE: So the guy who booked us – it was hard to get in touch with him or at least it was hard to hear back until his band was on this full US run and he would respond like [snaps fingers] that, because he was sitting in a van doing nothing.

MICHAEL: He just had time in the van. I honestly had kind of an opposite experience? I do get that feeling especially the first week of being on tour, like “okay, I have time in a van and if I’m riding with another band or whatever, then yeah.” Other times, touring takes up a lot of your mental energy and you give a lot. You’re very emotionally invested in your sets, so sometimes I don’t want to be in constant communication with a ton of other people. I’m already being very outgoing and extroverted at a show; I don’t want to have to do that in my alone time so I’d just rather read or play Civilizations 5 on my computer.

MIKE: So how much in a year are you on the road? Could be just you, and it could be you with a band, Secret Stuff full band?

MICHAEL: Over the past three years where we’ve been fairly active it’s been over 100 days a year. Last year we broke 150...this year [2017] I purposely scaled back because I knew that I was getting a dog-

MIKE: And you were writing a record.

MICHAEL: Exactly, I’m writing a record and I know that realistically it’ll be out in the summer, so I’m expecting for the second half of 2018 to be out almost the entire time, because I want to really push it as hard as I can and maybe hit the next level if possible. But like I said before, I just want to be able to create art in a sustainable way.

MIKE: You’ve gotta be like me where you plan out a whole year, like we’ll do a month at the beginning of the year, take a few months off to recoup – is that kind of how you structure it?

MICHAEL: Yeah, and I kinda take it comes sometimes too, because I want to be on tour with bands that I really like.

MIKE: So you get offers?

MICHAEL: Yeah, so if other people are going out on tours...For this tour, for example, I’ve been Save Face’s agent for like three years and they were going to be on a west coast tour right before, but it ended up not working out. Some stuff wasn’t coming together and they were like, “we should definitely take some time for ourselves,” because they hit it hard. They’ve done like 220 days in the past 17 months or something.

MIKE: Jesus Christ.

MICHAEL: It’s pretty crazy. They’re true road warriors, so this is pretty nice because they’re about to be at the end of their album cycle and they’ve got a new record, and it was just like, “let’s just go on tour with people that we really like and not worry so much about whether or not the shows are good or bad, just be out there and enjoy the process.” So I would say yeah, I plan my year, but I leave myself more open than some other people.

MIKE: And is part of it that, as Secret Stuff, you’re adaptable to play solo or with your band?

MICHAEL: Definitely, and if I had my way I’d be playing full band every tour except for the tours that are specifically marketed as “solo tours,” because I really like those. But whenever I’m doing solo on a tour that was booked for me to be full band, sometimes the venues are different. Sometimes I’m playing with a bunch of fuckin’ loud rock bands, so it’s like, “oh are these people that are here to rock out really going to care about this guy whining on the mic over ultra reverby guitar by himself?” And a lot of times I’m surprised that people stay inside; they don’t just go smoke the whole time. But sometimes they do, and it’s super disheartening when that happens.

MIKE: No, what they want to hear is an ultra whiny guy on the mic with a bassist and a drummer.

MICHAEL: Yes, exactly. See, they’re like, “where’s...where’s the rhythm?”

MIKE: Changes everything.

MICHAEL: My dad would listen to my music and say, “it’s gotta have a beat, son. It’s gotta have a beat!”

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MIKE: So do you come from a musical family?

MICHAEL: Not at all. Like, I love my parents so, so much, but they are so tone deaf. [laughs] My sister can sing very well, but I do not know where either of us got it, at all. We’re not a musical family, like at all.

MIKE: What got you into it then?

MICHAEL: It’s gonna sound super cheesy, but listening to The Devil And God in sixth grade…

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MIKE: Whoops! Hey everybody, Mike here...obviously now you can tell that this episode of Sellin’ Out was recorded conveniently right before we found out that Jesse Lacey is a great big piece of shit. Maybe you already knew that. I left this once reference in; I thought it was contextually important, but if you hear any choppy edits between here and the rest of the interview, that would be me removing any extraneous, superfluous references to unsavory characters like that. If you have any questions, concerns, any pause about editorial decisions that I’ve made in cutting these shows, feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]. I think we’re clear of that from here on out though. Should be out of the woods, so enjoy of the rest of the interview thanks byeeeee

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MICHAEL: And there came a time in my life in junior year of high school where...I was a pretty good lacrosse player in high school and I was getting some college offers, and I was thinking, “do I want to pursue this and go into medicine? Or do I want to go to Belmont and pursue music and music business?” And I was just thinking, “what is going to be more different every day? What can I do longer and still feel fresh?” And I thought music, and certainly that’s the a lot harder, less sustainable choice, but I don’t regret it at all. So that’s really how that all came about.

MIKE: Does that still factor in today? What’s your ideal situation? What are you working toward or is it just a constant work?

MICHAEL: It’s a constant work. I just want to be able to create music, and I said this on...my buddy Alex hosts a podcast called The Local Wave-

MIKE: Oh yeah, I listened to it in preparation for this so I wouldn’t go over the same shit. That was the one little thing I did.

MICHAEL: [laughs] Nice!

MIKE: I tried.

MICHAEL: Yeah, so like I said on there before...I want to be the biggest fuckin’ band in the world. And yeah, that might be like, “oh wow, who’s this asshole?” but...I don’t know! I want to create meaningful art and I want my art to be meaningful to as many people as possible. That doesn’t mean that I won’t be happy if that’s not what happens.

MIKE: When you get right down to it, that’s got to be everybody. I don’t think they would admit it, necessarily; I think there’s this aversion to – and I kind of get it too, because have you ever heard something that just...wicked fucking sucks? And you’re like, “I don’t want any crossover with this whole segment of people who like this thing.” But that’s such a learned way to think because in theory, music is art; you’ve got to share it. It’s sustained and given new meaning through osmosis and from person to person, especially at a larger scale. So I heard that, that was something where my ears pricked up. It’s an unusually unapologetic attitude.

MICHAEL: And I think specifically in DIY there is this aversion to desiring success, or aversion to publicly proclaiming your desire for success.

MIKE: Yeah! There’s an aloofness, a devil-may-care-

MICHAEL: Which, like, cool – *you* might not care, but this is the most important thing in the entire world to me.

MIKE: I wonder if part of that comes from...what you and I do, musically it’s still a niche. Maybe there’s a lot of kids who are into it, and that’s cool, but it’s not enough to coast by. You’re not selling millions of albums or anything like that, so I wonder if that “limited audience” thing has been internalized to say, “there’s a ceiling on this.”

MICHAEL: I think so, and you see the same thing happen with...I think people feel threatened that the mainstream is starting to accept this band into their own cultural zeitgeist, and I think that that threatens the “specialness” of the music to some people. I’ll totally admit that I’m guilty of that too, where this band has a lot of hype-

MIKE: Oh, we all are. And I think that threat is maybe warranted to some degree because part of that is an aversion to something like, say, Red Bull showing up at your house and putting you on camera, or maybe like...Vice News doing a writeup about the Springfield, IL scene. I get the aversion to that, but at the end of the day it’s a small community in the larger music community. There’s also a shitload of bands, and as much as I don’t like to frame it in terms of competition, they are competing for a limited amount of resources, so looking into a crystal ball, where does that go? Is it just more and more bands until it’s a fluid barrier between artist and...like, that relationship is certainly not what it was.

MICHAEL: Yeah, and I think the internet is all to blame or to credit for that.

MIKE: Equal parts.

MICHAEL: I think it’s become so much easier to find people that share this niche interest. It’s become much easier to create the music that you want to create. You have a laptop, or you even have an iPhone – there are people that are able to create the music that they want on that.

MIKE: The fucking guy who did the beat for Kendrick on his iPhone…

MICHAEL: Yeah! It’s crazy!

MIKE: What a jerk.

MICHAEL: It will just continue to grow and I don’t necessarily see that as a problem. I don’t think that the barrier between consumer and creator necessarily means that there will be less consumers. I think that people that make art should also be able to appreciate other peoples’ art. I can totally see it when bands are in bands, you can sometimes not want to be as vocally about what some of your friends are doing. But some of the coolest bands I’ve seen and some of the coolest communities I’ve seen have that in it. They have bands that are so vocally about what their friends are doing and are so for it that it is infectious. Like for example, even locally here, Counter Intuitive Records. The bands that are on that are so into the other bands that are on Counter Intuitive. It’s absolutely infectious and viral. It makes you feel good.

MIKE: I will say that that example specifically gives me an optimism about it, and it’s not necessarily a new thing. Growing up – and obviously we’re a couple years separated, but – that’s what I remember about it is the sense of community before...I mean, the internet was always around when I was growing up, but really with social networking it broke open geographic barriers, where not only are there more bands, there are more bands that tour now.

MICHAEL: And that does create a problem with scarcity of resources-

MIKE: Yeah, and that’s why I would frame it as a problem. Because if there are three shows going on in Boston tonight, you’re not gonna put six touring bands on a show.

MICHAEL: That’s another aspect that is good about the greater number of bands coming up. Secret Stuff can’t play local shows the amount of times a year that we used to. We want to play shows in Nashville once every two months. I love playing at home, but if you play too much you’re going to kill your draw, and we totally did that. We totally killed our draw where people were just like, “I don’t care, I’ll go see them next week in their living room.” But the thing is, there are always so many touring bands coming through, so there needs to be bands that do that.

MIKE: Yeah, it’s like a cyclical creation of demand. And it’s not necessarily demand from...maybe kids don’t want to go to shows six nights a week. Because you probably could have them. Boston is a market where that happens.

MICHAEL: Yeah. It happens in Nashville! It used to happen just at my house. Exponent was very blessed to have a sort of built-in crowd of people that would just come. “There’s a show at Exponent, I’m gonna go hang out.” I wanted to make it a space where everyone could feel like they were at home, and the #1 feedback that I always got at Exponent was “it deosn’t feel like a party.” A lot of house shows, you go and it’s all about the party. And it’s supposed to be all about the music there. I don’t drink; that culture beguiles me, so I didn’t necessarily set out to make it *not* a place to go and have these debaucherous parties, but-

MIKE: I think people are gonna do that...

MICHAEL: Yeah, and that’s fine, and there totally were people...Free Throw loves to drink and they’d play shows at my house all the time, but that’s not the main focus.

MIKE: I also think that having a few drunk folks is like, “well, you know, maybe they’ll open the wallet.”

MICHAEL: Exactly! [laughs] I’ve totally sold merch to people that thought I was in a different band because they were drunk. Just another aside, we played a show with The Menzingers right before this tour and this industry person came up to me and talked to me for like, 45 minutes. It’s a person that I know, I definitely know who they are, I tried to get a job as their assistant...they definitely do not know who I am. They thought I was in The Menzingers. They were drunk and thought I was the frontman of The Menzingers, and he introduced me to his fiancée, took me backstage to hang out with Bayside...I went and asked my friend who was the promoter for the show, “he thinks I’m someone else. Should I correct him?”

MIKE: Definitely not.

MICHAEL: He’s like, “You’ll just confuse him, he’s not going to remember who you are in the morning anyway. Just let him roll.”

MIKE: Just roll with it.

MICHAEL: [laughs]

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The Winter 2017-2018 Restaurant Opening Guide: Boston Proper

Tacos, Thai ice cream rolls, Tiki drinks

Winter is here, but it’s not all bad: The days will start getting longer again, and some interesting restaurant openings are on the horizon. Here’s the rundown on what’s coming up in Boston proper this season, sorted by neighborhood. At the bottom, find a preview of what’s coming up beyond winter. (Looking for last season’s openings? Find those here.)

This guide will be updated periodically throughout the winter, so email [email protected] if something’s missing, and stay tuned for our forthcoming seasonal opening guides for areas outside of Boston.

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Back Bay

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Dishes from Tatte Bakery & Cafe, expanding to Back Bay this winter.

Anna’s Taqueria

Prudential Center, 800 Boylston St., Back Bay, Boston

The beloved local taqueria chain has had a Prudential Center location in the works for quite some time. It’ll be the eighth for the company, which also has locations in Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville, and Newton, as well as one other in Boston proper (near MGH). Projected opening: Early January 2018

Globe Bar & Cafe

384 Boylston St., Back Bay, Boston

This longtime Boylston Street staple is just moving a little bit down the street, into the former Rattlesnake space. The original location closed on December 21. On the menu: comfort food, such as baked lobster mac and cheese, steak tips, and burgers. Projected opening: Winter 2017-2018

I-CE-NY

217 Newbury St., Back Bay, Boston

More Thai-style rolled ice cream. This company has around 250 locations in Asia, under the name I-TIM-PAD, but it’s also getting a foothold in the United States, starting with New York (hence the US name, I-CE-NY) and a few other states. At one point, it appeared that there could also be an Allston location in the works, but for now, I-CE-NY is only coming to Newbury Street. Projected opening: January 2018 (just waiting on inspections as of late December 2017)

Tatte Bakery & Cafe

399 Boylston St., Back Bay, Boston

Following just a few months behind a new Fenway location, this expanding local cafe chain will open near the Public Garden next, serving up baked goods, shakshuka, and lots more. This location will be open seven days a week. Projected opening: January 18, 2018

Boston University

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Food at Life Alive in Cambridge, expanding to the BU campus this winter.

Life Alive

888 Commonwealth Ave., Boston University, Boston

The fourth location for this local vegetarian restaurant — which is also in Cambridge, Salem, and Lowell — will be in the former Panera space by BU. Projected opening: January 2018

Downtown Boston

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The Oisa ramen pop-up will open a permanent space this winter.

Boston Chops

52 Temple Pl., Downtown Crossing, Boston

Like its big sibling in the South End, the second Boston Chops steakhouse will be in the former home of a bank, although more recently, the Temple Street space was home to a restaurant called Mantra. Expect a private dining room in the old bank vault and a table lit specifically for Instagrammers. Projected opening: Winter 2017

Magnolia Bakery

2-4 Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Downtown Boston

New York’s famous Magnolia Bakery, a hallmark of the cupcake boom of the early 2000s, has been promising a Boston location for years, and now it’s almost here, opening at Faneuil Hall Marketplace. This location will serve the same menu as the flagship on New York City’s Bleecker Street. Projected opening: Early 2018

Mooyah Burgers, Fries & Shakes [NOW OPEN]

140 Tremont St., Downtown Boston

This Texas-based burger chain has a growing local presence. It recently opened in Jamaica Plain and Berlin (Massachusetts) and expanded to the Boston Common area on the first day of winter. Opened: December 21, 2017

Oisa Ramen Slurp & Go

2 Broad St., Downtown Boston

A popular ramen pop-up is getting its own brick-and-mortar location in part of the former Place space. (The other part will be home to Tiki Rock Bar, a Tiki bar, which will have its own entrance.) There will be a dozen seats and a menu that offers three types of ramen, plus rice bowls and a small beer selection. It’s meant to be a quick, casual spot, and at least to start, it’ll only be open for lunch and only on weekdays. Projected opening: Early January 2017

Tiki Rock Bar

2 Broad St., Downtown Boston

A Tiki bar sharing the former Place space with the forthcoming Oisa Ramen Slurp & Go. Alongside cocktails, it’ll have its own menu of Polynesian-inspired dishes and sushi. Projected opening: Early January 2017

White Bull Tavern

1 Union St., Downtown Boston

This new Faneuil Hall venue will serve oysters, pizza, small plates, rotisserie entrees, and more. It’ll be open for lunch and dinner every day, plus Sunday brunch. Expect an interesting-looking interior, courtesy of Dave O from At Absolute Zero Design, who designed the eclectic Beat Brasserie space in Cambridge. Projected opening: Winter 2017

East Boston

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Batagor from Kaki Lima, taking up residency at KO Pies at the Shipyard this winter.

Craft Table & Bar

107 Porter St., East Boston

From the group behind Worcester-based coffee shop Brew on the Grid and more, Craft Table & Bar is opening in East Boston, replacing the nearly decade-old Ecco (and keeping some favorite menu items). The restaurant’s website describes Craft Table as “polished-casual.” It’ll soon have a sibling in Worcester as well. Projected opening: Late December 2017/early January 2018

Kaki Lima at KO Pies at the Shipyard

256 Marginal St., East Boston

The popular Indonesian street food pop-up will return to KO Pies, where it has popped up a lot in the past, to offer a limited menu alongside KO Pies’s standard Australian meat pie-based menu. Kaki Lima dishes will be available from noon to 9 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Projected opening: January 17, 2018

Fenway

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Food from Cafe Landwer, coming to Audubon Circle this winter — and later, Cleveland Circle.

Cafe Landwer

900 Boylston St., Audubon Circle/Fenway, Boston

This will be the first United States location for the Israeli cafe chain, which serves shakshuka, pizza, Mediterranean foods, and more. (There’s also one in the works for Cleveland Circle in Brighton — as well as one up in Toronto.) Projected opening: Winter 2017

Cava

1350 Boylston St., Fenway, Boston

This rapidly expanding DC-based fast-casual Mediterranean chain is also coming to Back Bay, Hingham, and Dedham, but Fenway is slated to be the first of the group to open. Projected opening: January 2018

Fort Point

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The original Newton location of Hopsters, which is expanding to Fort Point this winter.

Hopsters

51 Sleeper St., Fort Point, Boston

This Newton-based brewery — which allows customers to brew their own beers — will expand to Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood with a brewery and restaurant. Hopsters also operates a beer shop in the Boston Public Market. Projected opening: January 2018

Jamaica Plain

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Bagel sandwiches from Exodus Bagels, opening a storefront in JP this winter.

Evergreen Eatery

154 Green St., Jamaica Plain, Boston

From the owners of JP Seafood Cafe comes a farm-to-table restaurant serving classic American diner food with some Latin, Caribbean, and Asian influences. There’ll be an express coffee and juice bar for customers in a hurry. Projected opening: Mid-January 2017

Exodus Bagels

3346 Washington St., Jamaica Plain, Boston

This popular pop-up had a Roslindale brick-and-mortar in the works for a while, but plans have shifted — that space will remain the Exodus kitchen, but the first Exodus storefront will be in the former Canto 6 space in JP. Projected opening: Mid-to-late January 2017

Juicygreens

57 South St., Jamaica Plain, Boston

This Jamaica Plain juice bar, located in the former Harvest Co-op space on South Street, will also serve toasts, salads, acai bowls, and more, with plenty of vegan and gluten-free options available. Projected opening: January 2018

Mission Hill

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Tacos from Chilacates, opening its third and fourth locations in 2018.

Chilacates

The Tremont, 1480 Tremont St., Mission Hill, Boston

This acclaimed Jamaica Plain taqueria duo will open a third location, this time in Mission Hill. (It’s also expanding to Chestnut Hill in 2018.) Projected opening: Early 2018

Roslindale

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A bag of boiled seafood at growing local chain Shaking Crab, which is not related to the forthcoming Shaking Seafood.

Shaking Seafood

19 Poplar St., Roslindale, Boston

Another Vietnamese-Cajun seafood boil restaurant, which are growing in popularity in Boston. Projected opening: January 2018

Seaport District

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The forthcoming D’s Keys Dueling Pianos and Singalong Bar space at Element by Westin.

75 on Courthouse Square

60 Seaport Blvd., Seaport District, Boston

This will be the latest in a group that includes 75 Chestnut and 75 on Liberty Wharf, as well as Boston’s two Cheers locations and Hampshire House. It will be located in a Seaport complex that includes a Kings Bowl and Tuscan Kitchen, and it’ll serve American comfort food. Projected opening: January 2018

D’s Keys Dueling Pianos and Singalong Bar

391 D St., Seaport District, Boston

A dueling piano bar from dueling piano bar veterans. Projected opening: Early 2018

South Boston

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Food from the original Southie location of My Diner, which is coming back to the neighborhood this winter.

My Diner

455 E 1st St., South Boston

After development forced My Diner to leave South Boston after more than a decade, it reopened in Melrose. Now, it’ll expand from Melrose back to a new South Boston location. Projected opening: EarlyJanuary 2018

Shredded

246 W. Broadway, South Boston

Salads and noodle bowls. Think Sweetgreen, but locally owned. Projected opening: Winter 2018

South End

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Pastries from Mistral, which could get a Lyonnaise sibling, Bar Lyon, this winter.

Bar Lyon

1750 Washington St., South End, Boston

The newest restaurant from the Columbus Hospitality Group (Mistral, Mooo…., Ostra, etc.) will feature Lyonnaise cuisine, from duck confit to saucisson, complemented by an all-French wine list. The restaurant, located a block from Toro in the South End, will seat around 60, making it fairly small compared to the rest of the group’s venues. Projected opening: Winter 2018

Bootleg Special

400 Tremont St., South End, Boston

This restaurant will feature Cajun-style boiled seafood dishes, not to mention crawfish poutine, po’ boys, beignets, and more. Projected opening: Mid-January 2018

Southern Proper

The Girard, 600 Harrison Ave., South End, Boston

A Southern (“but not kitschy”) restaurant located in a new South End development. Jason Cheek (Sam’s, Toro, KO Prime) is behind it. There may be some barbecue on the menu, but it “won’t be a barbecue joint.” Projected opening: Winter 2018

West End

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A meal from Tasty Burger, expanding to the West End this winter.

Hurricane’s at the Garden

150 Canal St., West End, Boston

Hurricane O’Reilly’s was recently sold by the Glynn Hospitality Group to the Briar Group, and while it will remain open during its rebranding process (including some renovations), it’ll celebrate a grand reopening under its new name, Hurricane’s at the Garden, in early 2018. Projected opening: Mid-January 2018

Tasty Burger

1 Nashua St., West End, Boston

This local burger chain is expanding again, this time opening in Boston’s West End — right by TD Garden — this winter. This location will serve beer and wine. Projected opening: Winter 2017

Openings Beyond Winter 2017-2018

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A spread of food from Brato Brewhouse, which has been popping up around town and will open a Brighton location in 2018.

6 West Broadway hotel restaurant and rooftop bar (6 West Broadway, South Boston): Part of Meyer Jabara Hotels, this forthcoming South Boston hotel will have a restaurant as well as a rooftop bar. Projected opening: Early 2019

Akinto (1 Appleton St., South End, Boston): Once a residency at Wink & Nod, this Southeast Asian restaurant will eventually open in the former Merrill & Co. space next to Wink & Nod. It’s been in the works for quite some time. Projected opening: Unknown

Alcove (100 Lovejoy Wharf, Waterfront, Boston): Longtime Boston restaurant industry vet Tom Schlesinger-Guidelli (Island Creek Oyster Bar and more) is opening his own place within the Lovejoy Wharf condo building near TD Garden. Projected opening: Spring 2018

Backlash Beer Co. (152 Hampden St., Roxbury, Boston): This longtime contract brewer is in the process of opening up its own brewery and taproom. Retail sales began in September 2017, but there’s more permitting and construction that has to happen before the taproom debuts. Projected opening: Unknown

Backyard Betty’s (172-174 W. Broadway, South Boston): A forthcoming Southie restaurant that is apparently related to Publico. Projected opening: Unknown

Bartaco (25 Thompson Pl., Fort Point, Boston): This East Coast chain is Barcelona Wine Bar’s more casual counterpart and serves tacos, rice bowls, poke, and more, along with a tequila-heavy booze selection. Projected opening: Unknown

Blue Bottle (Unknown address in Back Bay, plus three other locations in or near Boston): This Californian coffee chain has five locations in the works — a Harvard Square one that is expected to open in winter 2017-2018, plus one in Back Bay and three other mystery locations. Projected opening: Unknown

Boston’s Restaurant & Sports Bar (1124 Boylston St., Fenway, Boston and another yet-to-be-announced location): The Canadian pizza-focused sports bar chain named for Boston is expanding to Boston; there are two forthcoming locations, one right by Berklee and not far from Fenway. Projected openings: The Fenway location will open in June 2018; the mystery location is slated for 2020

Brato Brewhouse & Kitchen (190 North Beacon St., Brighton, Boston): The forthcoming brewpub from Cambridge Brewing Company alums will be located not too far from the new Boston Landing development. Projected opening: Sometime in 2018; meanwhile, Brato is hosting a number of pop-up events

Burro Bar (1357 Washington St., South End, Boston): The latest from the Alpine Restaurant Group (Painted Burro, Posto, and more) will be a second Burro Bar location, taking over the La Motta’s space. There’s another Burro Bar in Brookline’s Washington Square. Projected opening: Unknown; La Motta’s is closing December 31, 2017

Cafe Landwer (Yet-to-be-announced address in Cleveland Circle, Brighton, Boston): This will be the second United States location for the Israeli cafe chain, which serves shakshuka, pizza, Mediterranean foods, and more. (First, it’ll open in Audubon Circle in winter 2017-2018. There’s also a Toronto, Canada location in the works.) Projected opening: April 2018

Carrot Flower (703 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, Boston): Juices, smoothies, soups, nut milks, and more. Projected opening: Spring 2018

Cava (667 Boylston St., Back Bay, Boston): This rapidly expanding DC-based fast-casual Mediterranean chain is also coming to Fenway (January 2018), Hingham (February 2018), and Dedham (February 2018). Projected opening: Later in 2018, after the other locations

Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse (Prudential Center, 800 Boylston St., Back Bay, Boston): The upscale steakhouse chain, which has a Boston location in the Seaport District, will expand to the Pru’s ground floor with a massive 17,000-square-foot location that will seat 450. There will be a seasonal patio as well. Projected opening: Second half of 2018

Democracy Brewing (35 Temple Pl., Downtown Crossing, Boston): A worker-owned brewpub opening in the historic Windsor Button space. It’ll have a tasting room and event space, and the team plans to distribute to bars and restaurants. Projected opening: April 2018

Distraction Brewing Company (2 Belgrade Ave., Roslindale, Boston): A new brewery will take over the corner space that was once home to an Emack & Bolio’s ice cream shop. Projected opening: Spring 2018

Dos Toros Taqueria (Unknown location): New York-based, Northern California-inspired taqueria chain Dos Toros has lots of expansion planned — and Boston’s on its list. Projected opening: Unknown

Eddie V’s (800 Boylston St., Back Bay, Boston): This national seafood chain is taking over the former P.F. Chang’s space at the Prudential Center. Projected opening: Unknown

Feng Shui (1924 Beacon St., Cleveland Circle, Brighton, Boston): Sushi, hibachi, and Chinese food from a restaurant group with locations in Chelmsford, Waltham, Cohasset, and Tyngsborough. (It’ll open in Burlington eventually as well.) Projected opening: Unknown

Gyu-Kaku (101 Allstate Rd., Dorchester, Boston): An international Japanese barbecue chain with hundreds of locations (including one in Brookline and one in Cambridge) will expand to Dorchester’s under-development South Bay Town Center. Projected opening: Unknown

The Halal Guys (Multiple locations): The New York City chain debuted in Boston’s Theatre District in late summer 2017. Coming up next: locations in the Financial District, West End, Back Bay, and Downtown Crossing (as well as Cambridge’s Porter Square). Exact addresses and opening timelines haven’t been announced yet. Projected openings: Unknown

J.P. Licks (101 Allstate Rd., Dorchester, Boston): The Jamaica Plain-based ice cream chain will open a new location at the under-development South Bay Town Center in Dorchester. Projected opening: Unknown

Kamakura (150 State St., Downtown Boston): Contemporary kaiseki cuisine — high-end, multi-course meals featuring seasonal ingredients — from Youji Iwakura (Snappy Ramen, Uni, Basho). Projected opening: Unknown

La Colombe (250 West Newton St., Back Bay, Boston): The Philadelphia-based coffee roaster and cafe chain already has two Boston locations (in the Leather District and the Seaport District), and a Back Bay one is coming up next. Projected opening: Unknown

La Dolda (Unknown address): Formerly an Austin pasta shop, La Dolda is coming up to Boston. It’ll begin as a wholesale business, but the owner plans to open a retail shop and hopefully a small pasta bar at some point in the future. Projected opening: Unknown timeline for the shop and pasta bar, but the wholesale business could start in winter 2017-2018, with owner Matteo Gallizio calling summer 2018 the “worst-case scenario”

Midici (101 Allstate Rd., Dorchester, Boston): This Neapolitan pizza chain has one location on the verge of opening in Somerville and will eventually expand to Dorchester as well, part of the under-development South Bay Town Center. Projected opening: Unknown

Minigrow (Yet-to-be-announced address): A streamlined sibling to Philly-based stir-fry chain Honeygrow, which now has two Boston locations. Projected opening: Early 2018

New Yorker Fried Chicken (1251 River St., Hyde Park, Boston): A slightly renamed chicken takeout spot, under new ownership. The old ownership had a bit of a fraud scandal. Projected opening: Unknown

Nourish Your Soul (282 Cambridge St., Beacon Hill, Boston): A juice bar with locations in West Medford and Winchester is expanding to Beacon Hill with smoothies, coffee, chia pudding, toasts, and more. Projected opening: Unknown

Orá Trattorizza (655 Boylston St., Back Bay, Boston): A two-floor trattoria/pizzeria from the owner of Piattini Wine Cafe on Newbury Street. Projected opening: Unknown

Pig ‘N Whistle Diner (226 N. Beacon St., Brighton, Boston): A diner that has been closed for 15 years might get resurrected without too many changes. Projected opening: Unknown

The Quiet Few (331 Sumner St., East Boston): A casual restaurant and bar slated for the space briefly occupied by East Boston Kitchen in 2014 (and vacant since then). Projected opening: Unknown

Sam Adams (60 State St., Downtown Boston — maybe): After the fall 2017 debut of a taproom at its longtime JP location, Sam Adams is eyeing potential downtown Boston locations for another taproom, including the former Hillstone space on State Street. Nothing is set in stone yet. Projected opening: Unknown

Santeria (10 Post Office Sq., Financial District, Boston): A restaurant, cigar bar, and members-only club from the team behind Yvonne’s, Ruka, and Lolita. Projected opening: Unknown

Shaking Crab (140 Boylston St., Theatre District, Boston): This growing local chain that features Cajun-style boiled seafood will open in the original Troquet space on the edge of the Common. (It also expanded to Cambridge’s Porter Square in fall 2017, and Brookline’s Coolidge Corner will get a location too.) Projected opening: Unknown

The Sip & Spoke Bike Kitchen (611 Columbia Rd., Uphams Corner, Dorchester, Boston): Repair your bike; drink coffee. Projected opening: Unknown

Soup Shack (779 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, Boston): Replacing Kamado Super Fusion and serving Asian noodle soups. Projected opening: Unknown

Spyce (241 Washington St., Downtown Crossing, Boston): A restaurant with a robotic kitchen. Acclaimed chef Daniel Boulud is an advisor on the project. Projected opening: Spring 2018

The Westland (10 Westland Ave., near Symphony Hall, Boston): From the group behind Hopewell Kitchen & Bar, the Avenue, and more comes a “classic American tavern” in the long-vacant Symphony 8 space. Projected opening: “Soon”

Time Out Market (401 Park Dr., Fenway): The Landmark Center is being converted into a new development, 401 Park Drive, which will be home to a food hall with roots in Lisbon. (A Miami location will open in 2018.) Time Out Market is owned by the same company behind Time Out media entities. Vendors have not yet been announced, but they’ll reportedly be local. Projected opening: 2019

Xi’an Famous Foods (Location unknown): The popular New York City-based restaurant group known for its Xi’an-style hand-pulled noodles has been talking about Boston expansion since 2016. As of November 2017, a Boston-area lease is almost finalized. Projected opening: Unknown

Xi’an Street Foods (182 Brighton Ave., Allston, Boston): No relation to Xi’an Famous Foods, but presumably more Xi’an cuisine, which may include hand-pulled noodles, a lamb and flatbread stew, and flatbread “burgers.” Projected opening: Unknown

Wahlburgers (101 Allstate Rd., Dorchester, Boston): The Wahlbergs are finally coming home to Dorchester, bringing their ever-expanding burger chain to their hometown. It’ll be at the new South Bay Town Center development, along with several other restaurants. Projected opening: Unknown

Wild Pops (3212 Washington St., Jamaica Plain, Boston): This popsicle pop-up can be found at various events and locations around town, but at some point in 2018, its previously seasonal storefront will reopen — and stay open year-round. Projected opening: Spring or summer 2018

Zuma (1 Dalton St., Back Bay, Boston): A London-based upscale Japanese restaurant that draws inspiration from izakayas and serves sushi, robata grill dishes, and more. It’ll be located in the One Dalton building. Projected opening: Unknown

Unnamed Chris Parson project (Location unknown): In partnership with Brian Lesser, Steel & Rye’s Chris Parsons will open a restaurant at an upcoming Boston hotel. The duo also recently launched a boozy business called Speakeasy Imports. Projected opening: Unknown

Unnamed Emerald Lounge replacement at the Revere Hotel (200 Stuart St., Downtown Boston): The five-year-old Emerald Lounge closed in December 2017, and it will be replaced by a yet-unnamed restaurant that the hotel says “will be the next phase of the property’s recent multi-million dollar transformation and will be an iconic destination inspired by the city of Boston’s rich history and innovative spirit.” Projected opening: Spring 2018

Unnamed Kristin Canty project (In a new development at the former Anthony’s Pier 4 space, Seaport District, Boston): A farm-to-table project from the team behind Woods Hill Table in Concord. Projected opening: 2019

Unnamed Liquid Art House replacement (100 Arlington St., Back Bay, Boston): Liquid Art House will transform into a new concept after renovations, possibly with a new name. (It closed in mid-November.) A future West End location might be in the works as well. Projected openings: Unknown

Unnamed Tavistock Restaurant Collection project (88-91 Commercial Wharf East, Waterfront, Boston): The group behind Joe’s American, Atlantic Fish, and Abe & Louie’s has purchased a burned out space on Commercial Wharf, right by one location of Joe’s, but has not yet announced details regarding what they plan to open there.

Unnamed Tim Maslow projects (Locations unknown): As promised, Tim Maslow — chef-owner of the now-defunct Ribelle — will eventually open something (or two somethings) in Boston, although he’s currently helping out with two openings up in Maine. In partnership with Brian Lesser, he’s reportedly finalizing two Boston locations for new restaurants. Projected openings: Unknown

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