Events including an AIDS benefit, a benefit BBQ for recently flooded Acadia, a Fourth of July picnic inside Intro, a chance to eat food by Sam Kass, and more.
Tag: the Grateful Dead
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Scharpling and Wurster revive ‘Rock, Rot & Rule’ for the Reader
To help celebrate the return of The Best Show, the Reader asked Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster to revisit their first collaboration, the famous “Rock, Rot & Rule” sketch, which predated the show by several years—and still stands as one of the great moments in the history of trolling. Wurster played fictional blowhard Ronald Thomas […]
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In Rotation: Jeanine O’Toole of Bare Mutants on how to commemorate Jerry Garcia’s deathiversary
Current musical obsessions of Bare Mutants vocalist Jeanine O’Toole, and Eternals front man Damon Locks
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Our guide to the Summer Music Film Festival at Music Box
The Summer Music Film Festival screens documentaries on Death, John Fahey, Nels Cline, and Levon Helm.
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Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead—Dylan & the Dead
Bill Wyman reviews the 1989 live album.