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Next up for Warner Bros Animation, favorite character from the 2019-21 era (which was also the point when they start pivoting to streaming and put most of their shows on streaming at that point, notable Max): DC Super Hero Girls 2019, Scooby Doo and Guess Who, Green Eggs and Ham 2019, Harley Quinn, ThunderCats Roar (currently the last show they produced for Cartoon Network, the rest either being on Adult Swim or premiering on Max first before CN reruns them), Looney Tunes Cartoons, Animaniacs 2020, Tom & Jerry in New York, and Jellystone?

Okay so we can take out Harley Quinn (I know suprising coming from me being a fan of both venture bros and dc comics), Thundercats Roar, Looney Tunes Cartoons and Tom and Jerry in New York (Again suprising coming from me but neither looked all that intresting.. through the day the earth blew up looks dope)

Dc Super Hero Girls: Diana, being enthusastic, adorable yet still herself. It helps they adapted her adopted mom in all but name Julia from the comics. The show itself is.. okay. I love the animation style, ti's vibrant and intresting and the main cast is likeable, Lauren Faust has a knack for that and picking a faviorite was indeed hard, revamping the characters as both more humorous but still layred and essentially following up Lauren Faust's shorts for DC Nation. And while I haven't seen the episode they did adapt my boy ted kord well. It's a nice female focused adaptation without feeling pandering for the most part. It lets our heroines be throughly huamn and throughly hilarous while also kicking plenty of ass.

That said there's that most part: some characters are made into just plain assholes. It works for Hal Jordan as Hal has some toxic masculinity in him, but you also get Clark being a bit of a showoff and Dick Grayson being a giant spoiled prick. I'm not askign for dickbabs, this series isn't about romance and Babs has romantic tension with harely instead in this continuity. We're good. But being a fan of dicks you don't have to make him the world's biggest asshole and even jason or damien wouldn't of really fit the snotty brat they try to make robin into. I haven't seen harely but it seems like they already did the robin as a brat thing better with damien. I"m also annoyed at wasting the rest of the titans. But that's a me thing and I get it if ti dosen't bother everyone. The show on the whole was solid, is something I hope streams again so I can give a second chance.

Scooby Doo and Guess Who: Morgan Freeman, who narrates his whole episode. The Last scooby doo series till last year and the last traditional one for now as both Velma and GoGo Mystery Machine! take diffrent routes. (The latter is just in concept art and announcment at the time of this but an anime take on scooby and shaggy riding with a new gag in japan isn't same as it ever was. It is awesome)

Guess Who is decent, keeping the wackiness from Be Cool, including Axl Rose being indiana jones, Billy Dee Willams running a cool school, the gang's own voice actors guest starring and of course as @jess-the-vampire likes to bring up Christan Slater being the monster to try and hook up with his high school crush in a musical episode. It's a fun series that can be forgetable bu thas more than enough good guest spots to be great. It's a bit of a step down from the last two, but still not bad at all. Though I do resent it trying to make hold the phone Fred's catchphrase. He used it a few times in other series but it's never going to be a thing fredrick!

Green Eggs and Ham: I revewied a few episodes of this and it was.. fine. The series just didn't do it for me as it felt like it was siding too hard against guy. It was still decent and i'm glad it got two seasons.

Animaniacs 2020: I talked about this before, and looks like I will again. Faviorites wise it's easily Starbox and Cindy, which not only has a great theme song, but is also a better version of buttons nad mindy, as Starbox gets abused a lot.. but is also trying to conquer earth, so a little girl blathering to him and putting him through stuff ifnnocently fits better than with Mindy's terrible mom or Elmyra from the sister show.

The show itself is.. fine. The problem is a lack of variety. The bulk of episodes are a warners segment or two, pinky and the brain then more warners. The segments aren't bad, the warners are still fresh and while some segments fail due to trying to hard to be topical in a medium where that's really hard to pull off if you don't have south park production times (Futurama falls into this trap a lot in it's two revivials, though the current hulu era is mostly better about it), with the trump jokes feeling tired. Especially looking back on them now after he went on a rant about immigrants eating dogs and previously this year called a fictional cannibal a fine human being with the assumption he's a real person. The new segments are great, but aren't used enough and the old ones are gone for reasons that aren't clear. While they might've been waiting on reception, that's a bad move when you don't have a ton of segments. Pinky and the Brain is great, and carriede i'ts own series, but gets tiring when binging, something they simply didn't think of and hurt the show. The shows fine but it's also a reboot that I liked at first but when season 2 iddn't bother ot evolve, just couldn't stick with.

Jellystone: Jabberjaw, whose a fantastic rework and while her gimmick of chasing men could get old, it's seen as an issue in universe and not a healthy thing, to the point of bein gthe focus of a season 3 episode. The show as a whole.. is amazing. one of the best reboots and one of the proofs youc an do a good one, mashing CH Greenblat's wacky tendencies with classic hannah barbera characters. PIcking a faviorite is tough from sardonic loopy loop, to the awkard voiced by greenblaht himself boo boo to doggy daddy whose apparently lived thorugh every disney movie. The series is packed with love for hannah barbera's rich history, cameos and great voice acting. It's hilarous, wonderful and well worth your time. I still need to finish season 3 but so far it's great.

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✨tell me about some of your ocs✨

✨absolutely✨

So I’m gonna do my fandom (hetalia) ocs because I wanna talk about them more ((au stuff for a bit of context))

Washington DC

Human name: Diana Claire Jones

((I don’t have good drawn out ref so I’m gonna try to describe her appearance as best as I can)) She’s physically 18 and 4’9.5 (that five is very important), black with a 3c hair type, large round amber eyes, has a rectangular body type and fairly well proportioned. Her face and nose are also round and she has that type of mouth that seems to become large when she smiles in the best way possible. Hair is styled in a half up half down style with a silver clip to hold it back

Workaholic and is easily pushed around by her superiors (alfred)

She’s more of an introvert and is very socially awkward. Doesn’t really help that she has a resting bitch face and is somewhat seen as intimidating despite her small size

that being said she is never one to back down on what she believes in and is more than willing to call someone out on their bullshit

Completely turning gears she loves gogo

Like if she has headphones on theres a 99.9% chance she’s listening to it

Don’t mention the humidity or traffic, it puts her in a bad mood

Plays the congos and drums pretty well

Rearranges her vast book collection way too much to the point where she’s really the only person who knows where things are

Somehow always becomes the baby™️ of what ever friend group she’s somehow roped into no matter what

Has vitiligo with a larger patch on her left shoulder and a smaller patch on her left hairline ((she dyes it so she doesn’t look like she’s graying))

Copenhagen

Human name: Mette Køhler

Physical age: early twenties, 5’7 and built like a muscular stick, very nice legs due to biking everywhere, strawberry blonde hair that’s more on the blonder side and it is very long and healthy, azure eyes that are in a cat like shape, heart shaped face with sharp cheekbones and a long nose that’s crooked from being broken and not healing correctly and a larger mouth with thin lips. Her hair is usually styled in a high ponytail with messy bangs and a large bow.

She’s the calm big sister type due to having to deal with Denmark’s bullshit for the past centuries despite being younger than him both city wise and physically

Don’t cross her, she’s really scary when angry, luckily that doesn’t happen much except during chess matches

She doesn’t have a good filter so she’ll casually say something really inappropriate and see nothing wrong with it ((this mainly applies to her nightlife if you get what I’m saying))

Has a really good alcohol tolerance and is a pretty good drinking buddy

Is a really passionate poet and writer. She hosts a writing club and literary magazine and sometimes helps with local plays

That being said her calm bis sister vibe can completely shatter when she’s the boss of things. Like if everything doesn’t go her way prepare to be yelled at

Really good with time management, probably even schedules her mental breakdowns

West Berlin

Human name: Evelyn Beilschmidt

Physical age: 19, 5’6, hour glass body with a nice booty and thighs, she’s a natural brunette but bleaches her hair. Like DC it’s styled in a half up half down look but more messy and with darker roots. Triangular face with a large scar going across it starting from left to right. She has light green eyes and a king nose that’s kinda pointy.

She’s pretty lazy and hard to get along with

Has a hard time connecting with people and uses her (fake) arrogance to hide how lonely she really is

Really good at figure drawing and expressions. She also draws weird stuff she sees throughout the day

Comes up with really cursed ideas at the middle of the night, however it’s her sister who carries those plans through

Speaking of which she shares a room with her sister to money on rent

Any way, she has an ever growing collection of bear stuff ranging from mugs to a life sized teddy bear she keeps in her basement

She’s a hippie and has a weird fashion taste

East Berlin

Human name: Louis Beilschmidt

Physical age: 19, 5’3, stick body with no curves but has muscular arms. White hair that’s always messy no matter how many times she brushes it, same face shape as her sister but her scar goes from right to left and magenta eyes.

She’s hardworking and easy to get along with. The person you would go to rant about something.

Don’t talk to her before her morning coffee tho

Super good with technology and engineering. She’s the one that puts her sisters stupid plans into action

Used to personify Cölln, a city that had close economical ties with Berlin. The two became twin cities before becoming the capital of Brandenburg. When the two started to serve as the capital of Prussia Berlin and Cölln were formally unified as simply Berlin and Cölln the personification disappeared. She reappeared as east Berlin many years later with little memories of her formal life.

The only reason she’s still alive now is pure spite.

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Credit via: @queenpthebrand • • • • • • Black Lives Matter Plaza I'm an African American woman who is just an uptown girl from DC one of the culture curators of a style called beat ya feet!!! I dont take it lightly!!! Dance is a release for me I haven't danced in so long but this was about my people my black people all together out there at the BLM Plaza!!!! @theshaderoom @mayor_bowser SHARE AND REPOST!!!!!!!. . Beat Ya Feet campaigns that have been started over the years always focused on uplifting the youth and being strong advocates for stopping the violence and dancing..especially in our community! Last night out there made me realize and remember why my culture is so important to me! Last year they tried to mute our city and now all of this yeah I had to burn off some steam!!!! 😤😤 "BLACK LIVES WHAT?! MATTER!!!! #PURRRR in my @iamrollingray voice!🔊 #beatyafeet #theBLMPLaza #gogo #longlivegogo #cantmuteus #blackpower ❤🖤💚 #dumptrump #yesihadmymask #DCCULTURE #QUEENPTHEBRAND . 🎥 @kingbliss thanks sis . . . #LABRON [#grindfacetv #thestreetblogs #wecangrowyou📶 #wecandoit #lostones #hiphop #dcyoungfly #worldstar #mad #talent #laughing #fun #cardib #kevinhart #friend #crazy #artwork #australia https://www.instagram.com/p/CBJiMfPnufv/?igshid=7dfrn9fcspud

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DC Clan:

Gogo music, a style developed in the DC Clan during the 1980s.

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DC GOGO BAND OF THE WEEK HUCK A BUCKS

     Hello, my Mitchell Media readers, it's your boy who always brings the news Kenlaun about to give you guys this week GOGO, band of the week is Huck A Bucks’ That is right, the greatest GOGO band in the early 1990s in Washington D.C they were pretty well known back in the day and made several hits nationwide. Not to mention, produce several songs as well. Also, the members of this band consist of Joseph, Lil Joey, Timms rapping/singing, Charles Ricky, Yancy, Lamont, Ray Ray, and many more in the list to speak from additionally it has a single song called the Bud. While listening to the lyrics of the song. It had a funk style towards it. I mean, the lyrics, in there were so retro. Also, the band has an old-school style towards it which proves the band Huck A Bucks has some of the Greatest 90s music in D.C history. People, if you are throwing a 90s party or a cookout, I recommend this song and this band because you don't hear lyrics like that anymore. Also, don't get me started on the other song Get down while I was listening to their music, you can tell there is Black people's magic in their music. Because the lyrics they have in that song were just so groovy, hip, and not to mention so, cool it's, like you were back in the 90s listening to their music. This shows that Huck A Bucks is the greatest GOGO band. Of course, I must go so, this is Kenlaun Mitchell signing off.

[thotyssey]

It makes sense that there’s a “Job” in her name, cuz this queen is Working! Currently a digital darling, reality TV starlet and video vixen, the Minneapolis-born burlesque clown gogo queen Glow Job can’t wait to get back to a real life stage… but until then, let’s get on point with this rising drag star.

Thotyssey: Yo, Glow! How is quarantine treating you on this beautiful day?

Glow Job: Hi! It really is a nice day out. At least we got that going for us! But, you know… Quarantine Life. Just when you think you’ve got some rhythm, things change up. I’ve somehow got a lot on my plate, all of a sudden!

Yes, I noticed! How are you liking the strange new world of digital drag?

At first I was really reluctant–mostly because I didn’t want to come across as sad or desperate, even though in the beginning I was. But after realizing there was a way to get in this space beyond just doing a number in my living room–and started thinking outside the box–I started getting into it. That’s not shade. I just saw everyone flood the market, and it was overwhelming. I definitely wasn’t “crushing quarantine” the way I saw others do, and wasn’t feeling inspired either. But the Met Gala got the juices flowing again, and then I just started to create. I did the online challenges, and had some real fun.

And now with Black Live Matter taking the forefront, I really have the time and energy to put my drag to good use and be a part of that movement, too. So, being a part of that and making my drag mean something more: from raising money in Zoom parties, to taking some leadership with online communities, to being out on the protest lines, to producing my own parties. Again, I feel like I have a place in this new world.

[Photo: SidewalkKilla]

Indeed you do! I’ve also been enjoying a lot of the pre-recorded pieces many of the queens have been putting out there, including your clip for the Grace Jones showcase you were part of, where you performed “I’ve Seen That Face Before.” It was really polished, stylized and fun. But it must have been a huge effort putting that together, and shooting with limited access to resources in quarantine.

Well, my style is basically “I have an idea, and I’m gonna wait until the very last minute to do it all.” Seems to work for me! So for that number I figured out the storyline, sort of made a quick shotlist, got into drag and filmed and edited it all in one day, all by myself. I almost forgot I have a background in video editing, and I never had really used it in my drag before. So it was fun to incorporate that skill. But yeah, tripods and ring lights are my new best friends. Also, I already happened to have an accordion from the time five years ago when I thought I’d try to learn that! I have a lot of random stuff in my apartment that sees the light of day eventually.

Werq, Prop Queen! Actually between that clip and your role in Bright Light Light Bright’s music video for “This Was My House,” you are a veritable video vixen of the modern era. 

That shoot was super fun! I love Rod and Bright Light Bright Lights music! I’ve been a fan for a while, and was kind of in awe and starstruck when he started DJing my Retro Factory parties. So I was honored to be in his music video, but also because it is exactly the message I want to spread with my drag. And it’s catchy as hell! We shot that all in one day, and just every hour went to a different location. It was a little party. It’s a little surreal to see it now, ’cause it was shot right before lockdown.

It’s a great video! And I see that you appeared in the third episode of a Bravo reality show, Camp Getaway! I’m not familiar with that yet; what’s it about, and how did you get involved?

It’s a show that basically follows a group of camp counselors–or social coordinators–at this camp in Kent, Connecticut which gets turned into an adult campground each weekend. I’m friends with Glen North, who is one of the featured counselors. He is the only queer cast member, and actually was integral in getting me and another drag queen, Sol, there for their LGBTQ weekend.

That particular weekend was especially cool, and for me personally it came right on the heels of me ending my marriage. You don’t get to see much of my story (and there were so many stories shared from other people that day too, like one guest who decided to live her life as a trans woman thereafter), but it was cool to be in the show and get featured regardless. There was even a contest with Carson Kressley judging… and I won’t give any spoilers, but let’s just say he gave me a real boost of confidence in the choices I was making in life.

I see that you’re a Minneapolis native, and and I’m  guessing that growing up queer and Asian in that predominantly white, hetero-normative city was tough on you.

More than ever right now, I’m seeing how desperate I was trying to fit into a white supremacist normative that I was never going to fit into. All my friends were white. I’m actually half-white, but definitely look Asian. There was no way around that, no matter how much Abercrombie cologne I’d spray on. I think I suppressed so much of who I am, including being gay, that I didn’t truly explore those parts of myself. It wasn’t “tough” because I ignored it, and laughed off any micro-racism or homophobia I felt or saw.

So I overcompensated. I got everyone to like me; I became all the things in high school. But it wasn’t until I was in New York for college that I came out. And it was here, after college, that I started hanging with non-white people. It wasn’t until the last few years that I started exploring drag and gender expression. And it wasn’t really until this past month that I started breaking down how much I was subscribing to a system that wasn’t designed for a small, Asian, non-binary queerdo–and how I was then contributing to that culture. So fucked up. And it’s been tough hearing how silent it is now from my MN peers.

It must be very surreal and upsetting for you to see how things have unfolded in Minneapolis.

Seeing how people are reacting is making it super clear that it isn’t a surprise that that stuff is happening there. So many people just live, acting like it isn’t their problem. It’s super upsetting. I have a couple friends who have really stood up as allies though, and I know a couple are looking to me for guidance and support. So I try to offer that now, at the least.

[Photo: Fwee Carter]

[Photo: Bronson Farr]

[Photos: Fwee Carter and Bronson Farr]

You said you didn’t create Glow Job until recently… what were the exact circumstances of how she got born?

The first time I took my drag to the streets was the Women’s March in DC. It was incredibly powerful showing up in the biggest, loudest, queerest way I could imagine. Then the first time “Glow Job” was fully realized was when I did my first show put on at Bar 9 for an amateur showcase, featuring drag queens and comedians from the NYC gay dodgeball league Big Apple Dodgeball. There were, like, seven of us that wanted to do drag, and Jose Paz / Miss Ogeny just decided to create her own show from scratch. Since then that group has expanded, and I had been going back every so often to perform.

But truly, my drag came from the realization that drag can be whatever I want it to be, and it combines many of the things I am already good at! And now it incorporates my love of circus, gogo-ing, pole dance, painting, photography, video editing, costume design, set design, etc. I have a background in ceramics, so that’s gotta be incorporated next somehow too!

I’m actually just super excited about my drag right now, and where it’s going, and how it’s finding new life (especially when I thought Glow had died this March once Covid hit), so I hope it doesn’t sound like I’m bragging! I just love it so much!

[Photos: Fwee Carter]

 Brag away, it’s well-deserved! How did you come up with that four-“pronged,” butterfly-shaped signature lip that you often have? It’s striking! The only other queen I’ve seen sport something like that is Sandy Devastation.

Love Sandy! Madame Viv once told me I looked like her… just less devastating, lol! I dunno, I just didn’t like how painting my regular lips looked. And I wasn’t looking pretty like I had hoped when I started, so I definitely veered into a more clown aesthetic. I was sort of doing clown work, so it came from that… and it just stuck. It was one of the first decisions I made [for Glow’s look], and the only real original signature aspect I kept. I love them, too; they go well with the name.

You’ve done Viv’s “Hot Mess” drag competition at House of Yes a bunch of times. Do you consider yourself a Brooklyn girl?

House Of Yes is a bit of a home base for me. I had been working the line entertaining people as they waited to get in, and also gave the consent speech for them in my own way. I also did set design, and ushered for them, too. My style, I suppose, is more Brooklyn Drag? Or maybe it’s Sunnyside, Queens drag!

But I’m kind of all over, and doing my own thing. I’m the resident burlesque drag queen with Siren Pack; we performed at Madame X in the Village. I hosted [the party] Ultramaroon at Blue Midtown. And I recently got in Susanne Bartsch’s crew!

[Photo: Chris Sorensen]

Your last digital show with the POC Drag Art Collective (headed by Thee Suburbia) was that Grace Jones tribute, but now when you all return to our screens for a new show on Wednesday, June 24th (on Zoom, with proceeds going towards the Black Trans Protesters Emergency Fund) it’ll be the Solange songbook that gets the star treatment! What an interesting choice! Do you have an idea what you’ll be doing for that?

I have an idea… but knowing me, it could end up being anything. It’s gonna be meaningful, though! Know that!

Then on Thursday the 25th, you’ll be livestreaming all the body-ody as a digital gogo boy for Michael Block and Haireola Grande’s Zoom  party, Elation!

Yasss! Love that! It’ll be super fun, turning a look and giving some energy and moves. Being a professional hype-person is my most natural state. And it’s for a good cause. So yes, very happy to be in this show.

As far as the Bartschland crew goes, you were just part of her BLM fundraiser that earned a whopping $32,000 in donations. And now comes “Pride On Top of the World” on Sunday the 28th, once more care of Zoom! Several Drag Race faves will be in virtual attendance including Latrice Royale, Laganja Estranja, Scarlet Envy and Aquaria. And of course, the large cast of beautiful Bartschies! 

I’m so excited! I’ve been going to Susanne Bartsch parties forever, and always just showed up in typical club kid fashion. She’s nightlife royalty. I can’t wait to be in this one, too! I gotta figure out my look; I feel like nothing is too big with On Top!

Anything else coming up for you?

I’ll be out protesting again on Juneteenth, but on the 20th after more protesting some of us are gonna put up an outdoor show in front of the Barclays at 7pm. And then I’ll be on the front lines again in drag the following weekend with the Bushwig crew, starting at 5:30 in Maria Hernandez Park.

Fight the good fight! So, to end on a light note: whose team are you on for All-Stars 5?

Shea Couleé is perfection! But Jujubee cracks my shit up!

Thank you, Glow!

[Photo: Kenny Rodriguez]

Check Thotyssey’s calendar for Glow Job’s upcoming appearances, and follow her on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

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On Point With: Glow Job It makes sense that there's a "Job" in her name, cuz this queen is Working! Currently a digital darling, reality TV starlet and video vixen, the Minneapolis-born burlesque clown gogo queen Glow Job can't wait to get back to a real life stage...

[toowiredtobesafe]

I've mentioned @Detour's self-guided audio walking tours before, but today I did my first one in my hometown entitled "U-Street: Go-go, the Heartbeat of DC." This tour was a great way for me to bring a “traveler’s mindset” to my hometown, and to go deeper into the history of an area I walk around all the time. And it also revealed a surprising connection that was so interesting to me, I feel compelled to share. When I stopped through Montgomery, AL in March, I visited the Hank Williams Museum because I am a big fan of the country singer’s music. While at the museum, I learned that Williams loved fashion and has had a big influence on the clothing worn by country stars to this day. Williams had grown up poor (his parents were sharecroppers), and when he gained wealth and fame, he loved wearing custom suits -- often embellished with musical notes and fringe (Nudie Cohn is one of his most famous tailors) -- and he was the first country star to do so. So, it made me guffaw out loud to learn that Hank's style had a big influence on the Godfather of Go-Go, Chuck Brown. Brown famously wore a cowboy hat and boots (pictured on the right in the entryway of the Howard Theater) -- which for some reason I never thought much of, but was definitely out place in DC, especially for an African-American man who had lived in DC from the time he was 6. Brown’s parents, like Williams’, were sharecroppers but they traded it in for city life. But, the story goes that as a teenager, Brown worked as a shoe shine boy, and one of his spots was outside the country-western joint "The Pickin' Place" on New York Ave NW. Apparently, he shined a lot of famous country singers' shoes. And upon shining Williams', he got the idea that he too should wear a cowboy hat and boots. And Chuck Brown did that until he died in 2012, 59 years after Williams passed. #havelovewilltravel #optimisticanthro #alabama #montgomery #hankwilliams #hankwilliamsmuseum #washingtondc #dc #gogo #country #chuckbrown #cowboyhat #detour #howardtheater (at Washington, District of Columbia)

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Forthcoming Fenway Food Hall’s Lineup Becomes Even More Stacked

Time Out Market Boston will be full of local restaurateurs

Fenway’s Time Out Market ticks ever closer to an opening this spring, with an already stacked lineup of local culinary talent set to open restaurants within the 401 Park Dr. project. Today, Time Out announced several new names, adding gelato, coffee, pizza, and more to the forthcoming food hall. Time Out Market is one of several food halls set to take over Boston this year (and into the next few years), along with High Street Place in the downtown area.

With local chefs and restaurateurs Tim and Nancy Cushman, Tony Maws, Peter Ungár, and Michael Schlow already on board to fill the food hall, see below for more details on the newly added vendors preparing to operate within Time Out Market.

Bisq: Inman Square’s Bergamot sibling will expand to Fenway with a selection of charcuterie, cheese boards, and sandwiches from chef Alex Saenz.

Gelato & Chill: This gelato shop from Vincent Turco will feature small-batch gelato flavors like ricotta fig, pistachio, and creamy dark chocolate. There will be gluten-free and vegan options as well, including sorbets.

George Howell Coffee: The local coffee roasting company and small chain of cafes will also have a presence in the market, serving its coffees with a pour over bar, batch brewed coffees, espresso-based drinks, and rotating coffee-based mocktails. There will also be pastries and desserts sourced from Providence’s Seven Stars Bakery and Belmont’s Praliné Artisanal Confections.

Mamaleh’s Delicatessen: The Jewish-style delicatessen from Cambridge will serve sandwiches and more at Time Out.

Revolution Health Kitchen: This juice bar from founders Heather and Dominic Costa currently operates near Boston’s Prudential Center. It will bring a menu of acai bowls, salads, soups, juices, and smoothies to Time Out Market.

Time Out announced a few more details regarding previously announced vendors as well:

Michael Schlow: The Boston restaurateur behind Tico (and the now-shuttered Radius and Via Matta) — who also has a number of DC restaurants these days — will run two restaurants in the food hall, both Italian in nature. One, announced previously, will focus on pastas and marinated vegetables, while the second will serve Roman-style wood-fired pizza, with a crispy and slightly chewy crust. Look out for options like Margherita pizzas and others topped with vegetables, prosciutto, and a variety of cheeses.

Tim and Nancy Cushman: The duo behind O Ya and Hojoko were already slated to open two restaurants at Time Out; now they’re officially confirming the names and details that had been making the rounds in recent job postings: Ms. Cluck’s Deluxe Chicken & Dumplings will serve its namesake items with some inspiration from Asian cuisines, while Gogo Ya will serve items like crispy nori sushi tacos and bento bowls, jumping off of Hojoko and O Ya’s sushi and sashimi selections.

When Time Out Market opens, it will span 25,000 square feet in the former Landmark Center. Fenway’s food hall will join an original in Lisbon, Portugal, and others slated to open in Miami, New York, Chicago, Montreal, Prague, and London. The Fenway location will ultimately have 15 restaurants, two bars, and a demonstration kitchen, with further retail options. Trillium Brewing Company has also signed on to operate a taproom just outside Time Out Market.

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Young Caucasians Soundcloud playlist

https://soundcloud.com/user-405314491/sets/young-caucasians/s-roJuO

The Young Caucasians 1980-1989

Matt Hahn- Vocals

Judd Lees- Guitar

Andy Kaulkin- Keys, Guitar

Jerry Hergenreder- Bass

Bill Kalish- Drums

also:

Ted Vanderclute: Vocals; Jack Lees: Drums; Bob Bullock: Bass; Go Go Tim: Rapping & percussion; Mark Philips: Guitar

Albums:

Pop Quiz- 1983;  The White Stuff- 1986; The Shroud Of Elvis- 1987

The Young Caucasians was my band from '79 or '80 until '89 when we split up and i moved to LA.

The band was started by myself and guitarist Judd Lees with his brother Jack on drums and a really interesting bass player named Bob Bullock and our good friend Ted Vanderclute on vocals.   Judd was a musical omnivore.  More-so than me, and very studious.  He was good at playing pretty much any style he wanted to.

We started out doing Grateful Dead and classic rock covers plus a lot of 60s r&b, which i was obsessed with, as well as some originals that were written by myself and lyricist, Andrew Ellen.  By the time we started gigging and recording, we had morphed into an r&b flavored 60s garage punk type of band with a bit of early rock and roll and more of a focus on originals.  

Right around this time, Andrew died in a car accident, but left me with stacks of lyrics that i continued to write music to for the next few years.  all the songs on this playlist up until the "white stuff" sessions are his lyrics.  After that the lyrics are mostly mine.

About the lyrics.  Lyrics were never supposed to be an important part of the band.  We knew Andrew was a talented lyricist, but I was not sophisticated enough to really pay attention to what he was writing about.  I was really only going off of the sounds of the words.  He is the one who got me into all the big lyric writers like Bob, Tom, Neil, Bruce, etc.... but, even though i loved those artists, i really only listened to them phonetically as well.  I didn’t really start taking it seriously until i started writing them, and even then it was a while before i started to understand it.  The point of this band wasn’t lyrics though.  it was about fun and energy and crowd interaction.  I talk about lyrics on this blog because the process of learning about them became important to me, and i feel self consious about my lyric writing in this band.   Listening back now, I really like Andrews lyrics a lot.  He died when he was 18 so they were all written by a teenager, but they were youthfully fatalistic, ambitious and passionate and actually fit what we were doing really well most of the time. Most of my lyrics in the band were way worse.

Around '82 we had a big personnel shift and the real band started coming together with the addition of Matt Hahn on vocals and Jerry Hergenreder on Bass.  Matt is a big personality and a great performer.  He created the personality of the band, which was really fun and energetic.  To me, he sang a lot like Buddy Holly (in the early days), which was very unique for this type of band.  Matt loved the Beatles.  Matt and I both loved the Ramones.

Jerry has a very natural musicality and had a great feel for r&b.  in addition to bass, Jerry wrote most of the background vocals and wrote songs for the band as well. He probably was the most tuned in with the funky stuff and we probably couldn't have done the Go Go as well without him.  Because of these guys, we were incorporating a lot of showmanship and flashy r&b cadences in the arrangements and got a reputation as a really great live band.

At this point, Judd had become a very serious guitarist and was deep into chuck berry, steve cropper, and roots music in general which is actually my favorite part of this music when i listen back to it now.  any actual toughness in our sound would definitely be attributed to him. He was probably the most professional player in the band as well.  on some of the live recordings he is the only one holding it down while the rest of us are flailing, caught up on our stage moves.

Jack was younger than us and was more into commercial hard rock, but he was a very accomplished drummer and his precision gave us a punky edge.

In my mind, we were The Ramones meets The Rascals, but the other band members brought their thing into it so that was really just a starting point.

Our Pop Quiz ep was made half with this band and half with a new drummer, Bill Kalish, who was an NRBQ fan and brought a little of that looser vibe into the band.  Jack was great, but we wern’t really his taste in music, and Bill ended up fitting in with us really well.

the song "Natalie" from pop quiz got played a lot on local radio station called WHFS, and we started doing really well at our gigs and playing out of town more.  Local promoters liked us and we opened for a lot of national touring bands including multiple shows with bands like the Fleshtones and The Ramones (5 times!).  We were a smaller band in the same scene as local heroes, The Slickee Boys, Tru Fax and The Insaniacs, and The Insect Surfers, to whom we were sort of the little brother band.  In fact Pop Quiz was on the same label as the Surfers, Wasp records, owned by local record store owner, Bill Asp.

I think this is when we were at our best.  we were a fun, goofy band and in addition to club gigs, we got invited to play at a lot of schools and dances.  We were very proud of our live show and always working on it.   The originals were catchy, but we also knew a lot of old r&b tunes and we enjoyed winning over tough crowds.

Around this this time, a local studio offered us free studio time to make our next album thinking that being associated with us would bring them business...big mistake!  we took forever and never finished the record.... i included a couple from this session (unmixed).  there were actually a bunch of good songs from this period but unfortunately the recordings are lame and wimpy.  We probably should have released it anyway.  This was the last of Andrew’s lyrics and sort of the beginning of the end of the band. First of all, this is the point that i started writing lyrics which weren't very good.  a lot of word vomit….nothing to say…swaying from portentous to silly and back...  But even worse, this is when i started taking myself seriously as a songwriter and started wanting the band to be taken more seriously.... without the actual songs to back it up, of course.  I started playing guitar more live with the band because i was writing on the guitar, and the band was getting less fun. Also, the focus on lyrics and the switch to writing on the guitar made the music simpler and less distinctive than the earlier stuff.

  Luckily, while this was happening, we stumbled into the DC Go Go scene where we had a lot of fun playing those kind of shows.  There was a guy named Kenny Marshall that i worked with at a record store who introduced me to the scene and he was in the band for a short while.  Kenny was a good rap writer and he wrote the rap in “Right On Time” He also introduced us to Go Go Tim, who was a really talented mc and percussionist.  Tim was actually in the band for a while and played on our 2nd ep, The White Stuff, which included one of our attempts to mix gogo and rock&roll, the very catchy but ridiculous, “Right On Time”.  It’s a dumb song but it was popular at our shows and got played on our cool local radio station.  It may have been the first lyric i ever wrote.  Its literally random rhyming words and phrases put together with no meaning.  Another early song that i now think was much better than Right On Time was “Your My Reason”.  I think i was trying to write like Andrew, but was ultimately embarrassed by it’s earnestness so I didn’t want it on the album. Instead, we had a bunch of songs that made no sense.  I have a hard time listening to this album because of the words,  but i included some of the songs because we were definitely trying some new things musically.  Its a little more “professional” and “accomplished” than Pop Quiz. For better or worse, we were evolving.

I should also mention that before we recorded the White Stuff, we had an unfortunate episode where we worked with a pop producer and recorded some of these songs with really slick, un-listenable production.  The only redeeming value of these recordings is that the version of Right on Time features Kenny doing his own rap in that classic 80s broadcaster style.  i still couldn’t stomach putting it on the playlist.

Live, the Go Go thing was pretty awesome.  We did some crazy gigs, like the time we opened for Trouble Funk and r&b star, Shannon at a football stadium at North Carolina A&T for thousands of people.   We had a lot of cool experiences that were way outside of the scene we came up in and it really kept things interesting on the surface.

Unfortunately, as a rock band, we were getting more unfocused. The next record, “The Shroud of Elvis” is sort of all over the place…. some stones-y rock with the 2 guitars….some awkward attempts at a funk rock hybrid,  some really portentous songs, but some good ones.  I was listening to a lot of Television, Clash, Velvet Underground, Husker Du, Replacements...None of it really fit in with the Go Go stuff the way our earlier music had.  Having said that, the band was playing really well at this point, especially Judd.  Some of these tracks did come out pretty good.  In particular, I Don’t Love You, which is a total stones rip off, but is still kind of clever and catchy.  I also included Real Things which is closer to the stuff i was doing on my own, but the band and Matt sound great with it.

Judd quit at some point after that and was replaced by a guy named Mark Philips.  He was younger, more from a punk/post-punk background and, listening back, did not fit our sound as well as Judd.  I have some recordings with him, but i didn’t include them because they sounded really forced and the songs were also pretty bad.  

We did end up back in the studio one more time in 88 or 89 before the band finally broke up.  We did a lot of straight up go go in our shows but never recorded any, so we wanted to do that, and that is “This Joint Is Bumpin”…. i actually think it came out pretty good, for what it is, and was in the spirit of our early stuff in its own way.

I don’t remember exactly how and when the band broke up, but i think it was late ’88; early ’89.  I spent most of 89 working on my own music and i moved to LA at the end of that year.  

I hadn’t really much thought about the Young Caucasians (or my own music from that time)  since my life took other directions in the mid ‘90s  The band existed before i fell in love with chicago blues, or delta blues, or Erroll Garner, or took piano lessons, or listened to classical music or electronic music or latin music and so much more of what informs my tastes these days.  However,  I recently discovered forgotten tapes of the band and remembered what a big part of my life this music and these people were.  It was a very odd feeling.  It all sounded so alien but intimately familiar at the same time.  I feel a very strong sense of gratitude for all of it and I’m actually proud of a lot of it now.

At our best, we had no “artistic” motivation.  We just wanted to have the most fun, exciting show around and I believe we achieved that on many nights.  The recordings don’t really capture it, but I now enjoy them.  The ones on this playlist are my favorites in sort of chronological order.  It’s an odd journey.

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