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The year in art, plus a look back at our favorite slide shows of the © YEAR IN REVIEW! Head to year, all at thePhoenix.com/inpictures eTvHH AEI RPMAHNO ENIX MEDIA COMPMREUSNIDIECNTA TIONS GROUP tthhee Pbheoset nimxov.iceosm,/ yreeasrteanurda ntfsor, WDE>BF NlXe'sa t1i01 baest Asio ngss frgoma ab otehe e 2009 music, and more from 2009 and the decade, only at thePhoenix.com 52 WAYS 10 LEAVE 2009 GET YOUR NEW YEAR’S EVE DOWN TO AN AULD LANG SCIENCE ® istadon rt & N SUN SALUTATION FLOW [1 STEVE|P O RTER AFTERPARTY 473; Tise LIVE STUFF F A PRECIOUS NEW AMANDA PALMER five metaphori SAPPHIRE PARTY THE PLATINUM Street, Boston T NEIL GAIMAN’s short EMERALD CITY at f a MICHAEL DANCEY STUFF ite (One Boy! n Place, t THE DIAMOND Bjork’s “Overture,” which CLUB at District (180 Lincoln Street, Boston aying live), and pre-show main THUNDERDOME 17.426.0180; districtboston.com), and THE GOLD yS XIP SHIREY at 8 pm. Tickets will | STANDARD at Venu (100 Warrenton Street, Boston ast we checked, orchestra seats were 617.338.8061; venuboston.com), with general r $110 apiece Which works out to be, a ission running you from $35 to $75 and VIP ) for every delightfully screwy thing you’re reservations ranging between $450 and $800, Oh, to see there wait — turns out those gems aren't so metaphori lsewhere, First Night has all but cornered the cal after all: according to the promo material, rket on live-music performances — and surpris attendees have a chance to “unlock a treasure mpelling ones at that. Just look what your chest at each venue w notest he winner takes home st Night button (available at firstnight.org real jewels” from Shreve, Crump, & Low. What’s i locations all over town) gets you: starting at not clear is how the winners are supposed to com Emmanuel Church (15N ewbury Street, pete for their riches — let’s just 7.536.3355; emmmanuelboston.com) gets hope the grab for the spoils ed ‘with a 50-foot wave of local-rock lumi- doesn’t involve a They Shoot the likes of 4AD artist and Throwing Muses Horses, Don't They?-style dance ider KRISTIN HERSH, singer-songwriter DREW contest 0’ DOHERTY, and ex-Karate member GEOFF FARINA, Even if that doesn’t hap ined Thurston Moore collaborator CHRIS pen, though, all this clut BROKAW. Over at the Orpheum (One Hamilton bing might start to take lace, Boston; 617.679.0810; orpheum-theater its toll. Good thing Om m), 90s alt-rock heroes BUFFALO TOM hold court, City Yoga (2400 Mass Ave, h support from openers the LYRES and the Cambridge; 781.648.0722; NEATS starting at 7:30 pm. Newly minted blue- cambridgeyoga.net) will ul It-girl JENNY DEE and her Deelinquents be giving you a special t three sets (7:30 pm, 8:45 pm, and 10 opportunity to limber up, > Park Plaza Hotel (64 Arlington Street, Boston). But if it’s a piece of strange you’re treet, Boston; 617.451 oking for, the Hynes Convention Center r FESTIVUS MAXIMUS 900 Boylston Street, Boston; 617.954.2000; y Mac Machine, Saucy Lad mcahome.com) is your hookup: at 9:30 pm, the CIRKESTRA perform their so-called circus appearances Dj music, which turns out to be a crazy quilt Bodega ¢ f traditional Hungarian Gypsy tunes, oom ah, klezmer, and Argentine tango; while WALTER SICKERT & THE ARMY OF BROKEN TOYS will be busily “fingering the rabbit hole of Th ut Cash 4G $ MAXIMUM PARTY 2 performance art” (their words, not ours the Milky Way (284 pmneny 'St reet across the hall at 7:30 pm and 8:30 pm. 617.524.3740; milkywayjp Roxy (279 Tremont Street, Boston; crew Just Joan and Monster 617.338.7699; roxyplex.com), we hardly their Midas touch to the part knew ye — and yet maybe too much of ye. So less from you. According to t's with a confused blend of wistfulness and will be crawling with i curious excitement that we bid adieu to this THE GOLDEN HILT, so bling it ip cavernous nightspot, as it changes over into cover when you get to froli new management and, presumably, a new land” from 10 pm to 2am Als m identity. (We wonder: what will become is FTW’'s PORTERHOU2S0E1 0 8pm-22 am; $15 of the newly homeless Chippendales? Are Top Johnny’s (One Kendall Square, Cambridge they fated to roam the streets like well-oiled 617.494.9565; flattopjohnnys.com), with Steve stray puppies?) For their swan song, KISS GOODBYE TO THE ROXY (9 pm ;am Meanwhile, back in Lowbrow $65), the club is bringing in the oymedyville: if you re swayed by Steve HONEY BROTHERS, the troublingly f DANE COOK (see page wacky yet shockingly decent folk 1eck out Cook’s 7 pm show rock outfit that includes Entourage’s $30-$100 at TD¢ 150 Causeway € patio. There, some Adrian Crenier and an Ari Gold (but Street , Boston 800.653.8000; tdgarden best freestyle snowmobiler not that Ari Gold), supplemented by 1), where per s life will stop kick Winter X games champ Heath Fr sets from DJs Romeo and Adilson ing the guy in the crotch long enough to be flipping their shit over insane Phoenix contributor P. Nick Curran let him get a word in edgewise. But those slopes. It all goes down from 2 takes the stage with YOU CAN BEA of you with a severe Cook allergy still have Don't miss WESLEY at Creat Scott (1222 Comm comedy options. Once again, First Night n pretty much the opposite end Ave, Alliston; 617.566.9014; great swoops in to the rescue, with showcases by sheen line spectrum is th scottboston.com), along with Mean IMPROVBOSTON 7:30 pm, 8:45 pm, and 10 Arts 465 Huntington Avenue, Bc Creek, Earthquake Party!, and Magic pm) and local stalwarts TONY V and JIMMY 617.267.9300 nfa.org FREE COMMUNITY Magic — the Phoenix's “so Bands/s5o0 DUNN (7:45 pm, 9pm, and DAY from 10 am to 4:45f States” selection as Best New Band 10:15 pm) at Hynes. Across wrong yur hearts go plenty pitter from Massachusetts for 2009. Show the river, at Harvard Square’s the Egyptian wing; it’s just tl MFA se Starts at 9 pm; cover’s $10 advance Comedy Studio (1238 Mass Ave, rity tends to frown on sick jum and $15 at the door Cambridge; 617.661.6507; the But enough about these up-and comedys tudio com), ZACH “MC THE AFTERMATH coming young’uns. Weren't too keen MR. NAPKINS” SHERWIN (who kid will spend the fir on the aughties, and not looking Ne apped our Best Local Comedian 1 the fetal | forward to the future, either? No wor spot this year) hosts SARAH ries, as there’s plenty of classic-rock BLODGETT , JOSH GONDELMAN, RICK spittoon while nursing re-hashes waiting to be reheated and JENKINS, RICK CANAVAN, jONO diaLyte Hey, there served by Boston’s premier tribute ZALA, and ED KOPESKY at 8 pm has an in bands. At 9:45 pm, $8-$10). Exp nay, demand you're still in g PLAYIN’ DEAD exhumes Heath Napkin ature bewildering oUt BRUINS-F LYERS the¢ atalogue of Frisby apk s nocke game att Garcia q D’s FREE STUFF ner BUFFET BRUNCH AT ASANA WGBH 89.7 ANAT CO- he JOSHUA WFNX 101.7 Avenue, Allst OST IT wi ‘OL ndaden ENCHANTMENT UNDER THES EA | }n ouid 1 see de“ifoorr e JAZZ BRUNCH ind tributetso Pat t SLEEP NO MORE Ramon Alle i 10-yea. r PATRICIA ADAMS »>pm i FANCY STUFF JORDANV AVLE NTINE |& : THES UNDAY As proof that eve Bard struts and fret rice over tIh is New Ye iSCC 2d dsin FTiir snc e nerve enter at C opley Squ weaith Shakespeare Comfy S SHARESPGAREAN CABARET SCULPTURES rg) bust itits a MARX BROTHER Bard-in MARATHON 215 pm f-campus are tw oe NIGHT" 'S DREAM [ ree with at BOSTON BLACK TAX! Night I e ACTORS’ SHAKESPEARE DESTROY BABY PROJECT's Midway Stu Ch~ahn nel CenterSt r make you Boston; 617.776.2200 x225 or RSVP at tickets Street, Cambrids FATAL FLAW raight actorsshakespeareproject.org) at 30 pm vard.edu). This2 uli transpkl an t Joel Reader, serve Train in Vai I They’ve set their version in a gritty urban 8 pm with Basti coated pop-punk backk at Parkman. And we day-of). Or if you're »f le wilderness, where the fairies aren’t just mis edy piece penned by Mozart at ag know it'll be tough, but save some of your to T.T. the Bear’s Plac chievous — they’re predatory. Which, we're lovesick shepherdess, followed by the rather oohing and aahing for First Night’s MIDNIGHT Cambridge; 617.492.BEA é guessing, couldn’t be more different from THE meta romp II maestrod i cappella, which revolves FIREWORKS DISPLAY, launching out of Boston with A HEROES BLOODY HANGOVER At DONKEY SHOW at Oberon (Mass Ave and Arrow around an absurdly pompous conductor Just Harbor just off the New England Aquarium (9 pm-2 am; $7), every day is Street, Cambridge; 617.547.8300; amrep.org), think of it as the Age of Enlightenment’s though Boston Common will be a fine spot circa 1986; should you s which channels the coked-up disco hedonism answer to Jim Carrey films. And if you're still from which to rubberneck Wave and classic goth/in and larger-than-life characters of Studio 54 for having trouble finding the lulz, the intermis At the top of the free heap, so to speak, i of preternaturally crowd its fourth-wall-breaking Midsummer rework sion Champagne reception included witt RED BULL'S SLED STYLE, which transforms the Ewen, it'll be like 2010 neve Titania is a mostly-nekkid disco diva; Puck is a your $23 to $69 tickets might help howling wasteland of City Hall Plaza (One the first place. © more artist than product. His latest i i Vv DVD, Isolated Incident, is an acknowledgment that something in his career was a little off -d at a comedy club, partially in front IN DEFENSE OF THE LOCAL COMEDIAN, WHO PLAYS ust 30 people, it is a scenario much closer TD GARDEN ON NEW YEAR'S EVE the small Boston crowds where Cook cut his teeth. His bits are toned down — still Dane-Cooky but more insightful. The laughs yn the DVD are proportional to his delivery, more natural than the screams on Rougt Around the Edges, that “celebratory bash” of a There are two things that nor SARA ERS probably affected it nonetheless; and the fact DVD. Isolated Incident has the feel of an acous comedians feel the need t As fans usher that everything original lends itself — by vir tic album, where your reaction is likely to be, iscussiinnge cocmomeeddy tue of possessing salient characteristics ont Okay, these songs can stand on their own.” in a new year, which satirists can attach themselves — an Of course, when Cook appears this New inherent danger of being caricatured. Yethis Year’s Eve at the TD Garden, it will not be in Cook will be sheer talent for performing, combined with front of 30 people. It will be in front of thou a self-awareness he has demonstrated in the ands of expectant fans. They might be there part decl looking to past, will most likely see him through thi elebrate, but, in that this is the city that ing down of the critical point in his career.’ the comedian himself has said will never let wizard — and usher ina But nuance is tough. And if my barber said u mail it in, my guess is that Cook will be [here's a pause all this, my haircut would come out terrible there to work. As fans usher in a new year, OK IST new phase of Speaking of nuance, let’s examine the 0k will be looking to usher in a new phase venue where Cook taped his 2007 DVD, if his career. I don’t envy him. He will have his career. Rough Around the Edges: Madison Square balance the large venue with the new Garden. Telling jokes in front of 20,000 expectations and less animated material. But people is not comedy. Comedy is a conver [ think he’s up to the challenge. tion with the crowd. Wher And I argue that we as a city should hope you have to wait for the he does well. There is something uniquely sound to reach the corner Bostonian about Cook, about the storytell of a space so large thatitcan ing and the in-your-face element of his act accommodate An overconfident, astute Dane Cook almost . a full circus had to come from Boston, the cocky Athens Ss the show u f America. Sure, his hyper-enunciated ally turns intc style might have no trace of Boston accent. one. The conver But the first time I saw Cook, at the Comedy sation becomes on Connection in Faneuil Hall, my initial sided and delayed. T thought was that his act captured some compensate for thi ing very specific disconnect, Cook ha It’s that moment when you are at a had to exaggerate urty — a pretty good party — and someone’s his bits even more, and g a story with the whole of themselves hold for three beats wher i people gather to listen, and the speaker two would do. Fans en feels the energy and takes little creative up screaming more tha les and doesn’t just offer punchlines laughing. It’s this tableau yuu, the listener, know where to laugh that has turned many people anyway. Soon, it becomes about more than off. If this was my introduction story, the teller so completely confident funny to Cook — rather than seeing in its conclusion that he will take you on the statement is im destroying rooms of 30« rewarding detours, spitting out truths of the ice. Yes, heist people — I’m not sure I'd be a human heart while talking about what hap- ably more popular t fan, either pened last weekend uld be. Yes, But then that small, pretty good party re are other COOK UNPLUGGED vecame, like, a rave where no one could hear medians “Today I realize that I misur at guests Patton Oswalt and Louis C.K. equally deserv derstood what my last year to say. While Cook helped lead a resur if fame. Yes of stand-up was about. I had gence in the appetite for stand-up, he simul- a few of his jokes become a party host, presiding taneously overshadowed other equally funny not over timing and ideas but omics, ones without rock-star trappings. So over a celebratory bash of my when a comedy fan says “Cook isn’t funny,” medians own making. If I had under think it partially springs from the frustra Dane Cook is stood what was happening n over the absurd fact that millions have is an I might have been happier heard of Cook but have no clue about that extreme oversim butIdidn’t.Istillthought fan's favorite comics. I personally think it’s I was doing comedy.” F isane that certain bits by DJ Hazard, Ryan those who assume the w milton, Kelly McFarland, Chris Fleming for him, these words cou i Rob Potylo, who are stunningly talented, be Cook’s 20 years from now not part of the canon of Western litera But they were actually writ ture. But I don’t take it out on Cook Instead of negativity — instead of saying memoir, Born StandinUgp . The Dane Cook is not funny’ I would much passage describes his decision 1 hear, “(Comic you've never heard of] to walk away from stand-u fantastic.” Our city is one of only a handful Every artist feels the fri in the world that has at least 150 five-minute tion between the art he want worth watching. Find one to perfect and the commer Meanwhile, Cook’s party will likely realities of the business, ar ntinue its progression to a more mature comedy is no different. The t-together. Or maybe it won’t. All I know industry needs a constantly that, at this juncture, it’s wrong to say, producing yet ultimately stat dane Cook is not funny.” Bec ause he is product to market, while the ar Now, as for this Larry the Cable Guy ist needs to advance along a tra tory and develop. Cook Steve Macone is a Somerville-based comedian all I'm saying, comedy snobs I and writer. He can be told inarticulately that Dane on the right side of the divide, capabl Cook is not funny at [email protected]. IN THE DRINK AT HOLIDAY ROADSIDE SOBRIETY CHECKPOINTS, DRIVERS CHECK IN, BUT THEY DON'T ALWAYS CHECK OUT. EVEN ONES WHO ARE SOBER. BY OTIS JAMES On the night before this past ‘thanksgiving, Kenny Howe, fa thofe thrree , was returni home to i ig Worcester. He was a passenger in a truck 1e st of tequila. Putting on your best along with two of his buddies, chilling smile and say, “Yes’ , offi out while driving down the Salem Turn pike in North Andover. Howe had just lit yint, and he and his friends were 2r having pur Vas act Continued on p 8 point. Howe never! ade it Thanksgiving, because he died t while in police custody ne it’s your vehicle am, and you’re dr h friends after a ng a good time, ¢ You've all a l C 1€ you know you'r Because uf ally went though < back of your m things are even leg: Amendment the only one of cars waitin nel traffic into a h a stop sign on a sawhorse. The area where you stop is brightly with portable floodlights and several te troopers are walking on side. As the traffic slowly moves yrward, the mood in the car becomes more s¢ er; nonec ou ends are cracking jokes anymo 1e staties walk by a couple of times, glancing menac ingly in the windows. Questions race through your head Are all my lights working on the car?’ Is my inspection sticker up to date Has everybody got their seatbelts on Ww ]I surree hhoonpe e StSetveev e fifri nished aJallll hI h the head of the line indow as two troop r side of your car Tr 1e s his ligg ynhtt id the back. You see your mirror. The *r trooper, on your side, shines his flashlight straight into your eyes. You can’t help but feel increasingly nervous as he announces, “We're conducting a sobriety checkpoint. Have you had any- thing to drink tonight, sir?” Continued from p 7 SECONDARY ISSUES TOBACCO CO turn to our hypothetical checkpoint SOBERING REALITY Nas a pretty happy-go-lucky Nev People talk about the d las apparently taken a g lal as Howe's anndd Oopnpnrre The police have even more latitude in justifying an arrest, essentially requiring no real hard evidence except for their observations. >wa window by the 10 to 20 you on to the troopers pre t at the roadblock ning area, thnee poral lice > suissppiicciioonns than his jumping out and trying t calated, and so will the intensity elude them the investigation, as will your chances Additionally, there was another eing arrested. Though no official neutral witness to the arrest. As it hay tics have been released to the pub pens, the North Andover checkpoint wa conceliriing one recent sobriety located right outside the offices of the ckpoint in Boston — which screened Lawrence Eagle-Tribune newspaper. And, re than 1000 vehicles have been some coincidence, a photographer wh ned and examined by the Phoenix decided to work late that night happened this one instance, the arrest rate to leave for home at almost the exact eased from one percent at the initial moment Howe was being arrested. This kpoint to almost 4o percent at the photographer was able to document the ondary-screening area last 10 minutes of the arrest in a serie Once in that secondary-screening 43 photos, although he missed the init area, the police control both the environ takedown nent and the narrative. Your rights are The bulk of the photos show Howe extremely restricted (it can be even worse facedown, lying on his stomach, with in other states, where they can legally his arms handcuffed behind his back, restrain you while the police draw your not moving. In many of the photos, four blood); you will likely be asked to submit officers are on him; one on each arm, ) a series of controversial tests known one on his legs, and one kneeling on his as the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests back, maintaining a chokehold on him SFST, which are not mandatory, but throughout the entire arrest. Howe was refusal to take them will likely lead to an eventually allowed to get up, slowly, arrest), and your access to legal counsel THIS PRODUCT only to collapse as he was led to a cruiser is disallowed until the investigation is IS NOT A SAFE for transport. At this point, the driver ompleted. ALTERNATIVE TO eyewitness was ordered to turn around, At which point, you will definitely need CIGARETTES and was himself led to a different cruiser a lawyer. © for transport The investigation into events sur- Otis James is a pseudonym. The author has had the rounding Howe’s death, and his death unfortunate experience of having his civil rights itself, are ongoing violated at a Massachusetts sobriety checkpoint.