Help for Haiti benefit at the Lucky Dog, February 5th

Help for Haiti benefit

Friday, February 5, 2010 at 5:15pm

Lucky Dog Music Hall, Green Street, Worcester, MA

On February 5th, the Worcester community will come together at the Lucky Dog Music Hall to help raise money for earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.

The night will include a wide range of area bands and musicians (with a few special surprises!) performing from 5:15pm until closing time, including performances by Sarah Gengel with Sunta and Kid Collosus, Orange Diesel, Chris Reddy, John Short, Cowboy Matt Hopewell, the Ticklebomb Orchestra and more!

A raffle will feature contributions from local businesses and donors, and several local restaurants will be supplying food.

There will be a $10 cover at the door, with proceeds benefiting major reputable disaster relief organizations on the ground in Haiti.

Come out for a one-of-a-kind, monumental night of music to benefit relief efforts in Haiti!

Facts I bet you didn’t know about Worcester Art Museum’s Flora in Winter event…

Random Flora in Winter questions, as answered by Allison Berkeley, Manager of Marketing & Public Relations at WAM

How many visitors attended last year’s event? Roughly 6,000.
How many kids under 12? Estimated at 105 youth.
How many individual flowers were used in last year’s event? Thousands.
An average amount of time a docent had to say hands off per hour? Every hour.
How many arrangements were knocked over by smelling faces? None thankfully.
How many Museum memberships were purchased during last year’s event? Around 300.
How many pieces of work have been “floralized” in the past? 155 in the galleries.
Largest floral arrangement on record? Kae Collins’ of the young nobleman in the European Gallery; Danielson Flowers in the Renaissance Court last year.
Smallest floral arrangement on record? Florist—the Museum Café tables by the Worcester Garden Club; Susan Dewey — interpretation Of Portrait Of Sarah And Ann Haden by Joseph Wright of Derby.
Strangest item found in a floral arrangement: A toe ring on the interpretation of Feet from Statue of Asklepios by Ulrike Lies and Arlene Sjosten, Worcester Garden Club.

Flora in Winter, Thursday, January 28 through Sunday, January 31, 2010. At the Worcester Art Museum.  The event is free with Museum admission of $15NM. 17 and under free. Worcester Art Museum is located at 55 Salisbury St. Worcesterart.org.

What should mtv do after “Jersey Shore?” Bring in a Worcesterite, of course

Posted by Jeremy Shulkin

Yes, the MTV reality show “Jersey Shore” can make you hate humanity, but

This is what you get when you google image search "masshole"

it’s also self-affirming in the way only something that chronicles a summer of self-proclaimed “guidos” and “guidettes” going through a daily routine of drinking, throwing up, tanning, lifting weights, drinking, throwing up, punching/getting punched in the face, drinking and throwing up (again) can. You (ok, I) watch it because it’s not you (me) who feels the bruising and ten Long Island Iced Teas the morning after.

But what if the demographic was more closely aligned; something easier to identify with? Instead of setting the show in New Jersey and featuring a rather focused sub-group, news/entertainment website Slate.com proposes that next season MTV move on to a better-known classification around these parts: the Masshole.

“MTV needs a new tribe to study. Lucky for them, there’s a group of feisty young people just a few hundred miles north on the Atlantic coast. They’re called Massholes. Though there is some disagreement about what, exactly, constitutes a Masshole, there are several characteristics present in all definitions. A Masshole is a resident of Massachusetts—though sometimes Rhode Island, New Hampshire, or Maine—who possesses a nearly carnal love for the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, and Bruins; operates motor vehicles in an aggressive fashion; drinks Sam Adams; and overuses the adjective wicked.”

The author, Jessica Grose, also gives a list of hypothetical cast members, including a Worcesterite:

“Sarah ‘Animal’ Conti, 21, Worcester, Mass.
Sarah never goes anywhere without her No. 12 Tom Brady Jersey or her trademark hairdo: a slicked-back ponytail with lots of bobby pins. Her girls back home nicknamed her ‘Animal,’ because when her hair is down, she looks like the eponymous muppet. Also because she drinks like a bear. These are qualities that Fitzy finds hard to resist.”

The article is interesting if you want your reality television series to be a little more regionally relevant, or if you want to know who “Fitzy” is. At the very least it’s an overview of  Masshole-ness.

Leo Nellz, Paparatzi, MOB, Heroin Hood, Kwik Keys, Matt Bastardo, Ariez, Rugged & Jusslu plus Manny Macgyver at the Lucky Dog on Feb. 7

Freelance Dining Reviewers Wanted

Do you have an appetite for good food, a sense of fine wine, and are a stickler for good service –oh, and can write to boot? Worcester Magazine is looking for freelance food writers to write occasional Dining reviews for Worcester Mag. If you can create critical, fair and balanced Dining reviews for our readers, our A&E editor wants to hear from you. Send two clips and a cover letter as to why you are the right fit for our Dining review freelance position to doreen@worcestermagazine.com.

Green Street Music Series #9: Special GLAM Valentine’s Day Show

Oneal Armstrong Live @ The Dive!

The Dive Bar, 34 Green Street, Worcester

Friday, January 22, 2010 at 9:30pm

Boston’s Oneal Armstrong has quickly become one of The Dive Bar’s favorite bands –  these guys know how to perform! Last week Craig Rawding, Johnny A. and Brad Witford of Aerosmith just popped in and started playing with them.

This week Oneal Armstrong brings a special guest to play our house Hammond B3!

Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to see a band that would normally cost you a ticket price… FOR FREE!

The Dive Bar

2010 Miss Latina Worcester County

Announcing a new Meetup for The Worcester Photography Meetup Group!

What: Wormtown Rocks! — A Juried Exhibition & Competition

When: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 5:00 PM (Intent to Submit Due Date)

Worcester has always been known for its lively music scene and its ability to nurture artists of all genres. This photo competition and exhibition–WORMTOWN ROCKS!–to be held at the Worcester Art Museum, will be a dynamic and unique snapshot of the music scene of the Worcester area, highlighting both photographic as well as musical talents of the area. In partnership with ARTSWorcester, the Worcester Art Museum is soliciting artworks for the juried exhibition that will be shown in the Higgins Education Wing from April 6,― May 14, 2010.

There will be cash awards!

The juried exhibition is being held in conjunction with Who Shot Rock & Roll:
A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present, a photography exhibition on
display at the Worcester Art Museum from March 5-May 30, 2010.

If you are interested the competition pamphlet & entry form is located here:
http://files.meetup.com/120247/WormtownRocks2010%20ver3.pdf

Please not some important dates…

Intent to Submit Due Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Work Submission Dates Friday, March 26, 10am-4pm

Learn more here:
http://photo.meetup.com/22/calendar/12381350/

Golden Girls written up on Pitchfork

Posted by Jeremy Shulkin

In the January 7 issue of Worcester Mag’s Brittany Durgin covered local band Golden Girls and their hopes to make it big. They seem to be on the right track. Six days later influential music website Pitchfork.com, which attracts 1.9 million unique visitors per month, rewrote a brief write-up on the band’s song “Amateur Teen Sex Attics,” doubling the number of words from a similar post the week before, rating the song a 7 out of 10 and adding a number of compliments like “it’s a hell of an early effort” and “this kind of excitable charm can’t be faked.” The website also gave a nod to Worcester (noting that’s where the band is from), but it looks like they often don’t even mention a band’s location in their track reviews section–unless they’re from a different country or Brooklyn.

Whatever you think of Pitchfork–a shining light spreading underground music to the starved masses living in an era of Clear Channel, or the headquarters of hipster BS–this is great news for any band. Congrats, guys.

I picked up a copy of their five-song demo at the FYC on 420 Pleasant St. (for only three bucks!) and it rules. Also, the friendly dudes working at the center and who are in the local band Black Lung threw in a free CD of their own. That rules as well.

Here are Pitchfork write-ups #1 and #2.