Miles Howard

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  July 10, 2012 | Venu Tuesdays at Rumor

  29 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  Too often, Europe’s summer festival circuit attracts the hottest acts in house music to the eastern side of the pond, while we North Americans get the expired leftovers. (What’s next? Eiffel 65 on the…

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  July 11, 2012 | Fort Point Music Series at Boston Children’s Museum

  29 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  We never thought we’d be back at the Boston Children’s Museum (308 Congress Street, Boston, 617.426.6500) after we smuggled out a pair of slippers from the Japanese House at age six. (Shh!) But this s…

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  July 12, 2012 | Kate Miller-Heidke at T.T. the Bear's Place

  29 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  At first, the Kate Miller-Heidke song “Politics in Space” seems like rote but competently made pop rock. Then Miller-Heidke blasts the song into the stratosphere, complementing its acoustic guitar sla…

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  July 13, 2012 | Bastille Day Party at French Cultural Center

  29 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  If you thought the Occupy protests were a sight to behold, imagine living in 1789 Paris. Storming a prison to challenge the king’s reign makes public chanting and tent cities look awfully cordial by c…

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  July 14, 2012 | Drink Craft Beer Summerfest at the Center for Arts at the Armory

  29 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  We remember when a cool Corona would keep us sated during a July day. But with so many craft breweries and bars in the area, our palates now crave copious hops, rare malt extracts, and more unorthodox…

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  July 15, 2012 | The Big Party at Eastern Standard

  29 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  STUFF's pages have frequently featured the work of Opus Affair, a networking group for young professionals with a taste for the fine arts. Now four years old, the growing group is throwing its biggest…

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  July 16, 2012 | Ghosts of Jupiter: Music Experience at the Museum of Science

  29 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  We’ve spent plenty of ponderous nights under a starry sky, contemplating our place in the universe (or maybe just wondering whether that fried chicken pilfered from the office fridge was still edible)…

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  The Taco Truck

  25 June, 2012 | Feed | Miles Howard

  Adulthood has its heartbreaks. For us, the most painful has to be accepting that, no matter how strong the urge, it is socially unacceptable for a grown man to chase after the local ice-cream truck in…

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  June 29, 2012 | City of Cambridge Dance Party

  19 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  Central Square is the only corner of Cambridge where you can encounter a rock club, a sex shop, a colorful mural, and a cavalcade of even more colorful characters within a single block. So it seems fi…

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  Get Close with ... with DJ/Producer Eric Prydz

  15 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  Back in 2004, a little-known Swedish DJ/producer named Eric Prydz took a vocal sample from a Steve Winwood song (“Valerie”), laid down some fat beats, and released a floorboard-busting single: “Call o…

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  June 19, 2012 | Without You at the Modern Theatre

  15 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  By originating the role of bohemian filmmaker Mark in Rent, Anthony Rapp earned a place in Broadway history and a home in the heart of die-hard “ Rent-heads.” But the acclaimed actor only narrowly avo…

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  June 20, 2012 | Destroyer at the Paradise Rock Club

  15 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  Not everything from the ’80s has aged well. (Exhibit A: Alf.) But if you mine inspiration from the era appropriately, you can create something shiny and new. Just look at Destroyer. The Vancouver-base…

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  June 21, 2012 | Block Party at José McIntyre’s

  15 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  The last time we held a birthday block party, the neighbors didn’t speak to us for weeks. (We thought someone said something about “noise ordinances,” but we couldn’t hear them over the speakers.) Tha…

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  June 22, 2012 | Chefs in Shorts at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center

  15 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  As you can probably tell from our feature, we swoon for old-fashioned summer barbecues. So the lineup of the 15th annual Chefs in Shorts cookout is already enough to tempt us to the Seaport Hotel and …

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  June 23, 2012 | Jeffrey Tonnesen at the Estate

  15 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  If a spot like The Estate (1 Boylston Place, Boston, 617.351.7000) is going to dub a party “VIP Access Saturday,” we’d better not be served some average, frosty-haired, fader-twiddling DJ. Thankfully,…

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  June 25, 2012 | Exitmusic at T.T. the Bear's Place

  15 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  Her Boardwalk Empire character may have wound up on the wrong end of Manny Horvitz’s handgun this fall, but it’s still been a banner year for Aleksa Palladino. The singer/actress and her husband, Devo…

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  June 26, 2012 | Japandroids at Brighton Music Hall

  15 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  They may have dubbed their band Japandroids, but there’s nothing synthetic (or, for that matter, East Asian–influenced) about the sound of Brian King and David Prowse. Since their 2006 formation, the …

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  June 27, 2012 | Afrojack at House of Blues

  15 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  Anyone who’s enjoyed the emulsion of electro house and hip-hop in recent years has probably encountered the beats and buildups of Afrojack. (Or, as an excited Paul McCartney referred to him at Coachel…

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  June 28, 2012 | Threshold at the Center for the Arts at the Armory

  15 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  When we tackle the slippery topic of love, we often resort to physical metaphors: we talk about having crushes and flings, falling head over heels, breaking up and getting hitched. So we bet romance w…

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  June 30, 2012 | Fiona Apple at the Wang Theatre

  15 June, 2012 | Get | Miles Howard

  Back in 1997, a young Fiona Apple electrified MTV’s adolescent audiences with her music video for “Criminal,” stalking about the aftermath of a party in various states of undress. Since then, the husk…

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