Manomet: Biomass Isn't Green

by | Jun 17, 2010 | News

A much-anticipated study of biomass by the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences has found that burning wood to make electricity is potentially worse for the environment than burning coal. The Manomet study, commissioned by the state Executive Office of Energy and...
Nightcrawler: Bollocks to Practicing

Nightcrawler: Bollocks to Practicing

by | Jun 17, 2010 | Music

If you want to play Carnegie Hall, practice. If you’d be happy just playing/gigging with The Dropkick Murphys and The Mighty Bosstones, sharing stages with Cypress Hill and Bo Diddley, appearing on MTV and having one of your tunes on Dawson’s Creek, well,...
CD Shorts

CD Shorts

by | Jun 17, 2010 | Music

Trembling BellsAbandoned Love(Honest Jon’s) Folk music seems to be in a process of continual resurrection. British folk is the latest strand to undergo a revival, with young musicians exploring both traditional songforms and folk-rock hybrids pioneered by the...
Not Quite Finished in This Town

Not Quite Finished in This Town

by | Jun 17, 2010 | Music

Countless area bands have been conceived, lived and disappeared since former local impresario Mal Thursday (pictured above, second from right, with The Malarians, 1985)—also known, equally enigmatically, as J.M. Dobies—last stepped off an area stage....
CinemaDope: Reel Difference

CinemaDope: Reel Difference

by | Jun 17, 2010 | Film

There was a time not so long ago when writing a film column meant writing a column about movies. You might have your comedies and dramas, your documentaries and science fiction, but at the end of the day they were all movies. Nearly all drew from the same essential...