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Street fighters
The Streets at Avalon, 'Shocked and Awed: Drawings from the Al Assail Primary School,' and more


Mike Skinner



David Sedaris



unidentified drawing from 'Shocked and Awed'



Black Sabbath


Down on the Streets

The British are beginning to get a reputation for weird hip-hop genius. First there was Mike Skinner, a/k/a the Streets, memorably mumbling blunted Angloslang over dubbed-out garage tracks — and singlehandedly exploding the notion that white Britboys can’t rap. Then last year, Dizzee Rascal took England’s Mercury Prize with one of the strangest vocal inflections in hip-hop (part dancehall shout, part Looney Tunes quack), singlehandedly exploding the notion that black Britboys can’t rap either. The two are teaming up for a handful of US dates, including a gig at Avalon on June 28. Dizzee is supporting the release (on Matador, of all labels) of The Boy in the Corner, whose biggest hit throws the chorus from Billy Squier’s "Big Beat" over the massive kick-snare ensemble from . . . Anthrax’s "I’m the Man"? And Skinner is touring with the Streets’ brand new A Grand Don’t Come for Free (Vice/Atlantic). Avalon is at 15 Lansdowne Street in Boston, and tickets are $17.25; call (617) 423-NEXT.

Talking pretty

This American Life and New Yorker humorist David Sedaris needs no introduction in these parts: tickets to the book tour for his long-awaited collection Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Little, Brown), which hits shelves this Tuesday, are expected to move so quickly that Brookline Booksmith is resorting to a rare buy-or-die distro program. The only way to get a seat for "An Evening with David Sedaris" at the Coolidge Corner Theatre on June 15 is to buy the new volume at the store (tickets are free with the purchase). The Booksmith is at 279 Harvard Street in Brookline, and the Coolidge is across the street at 290 Harvard Street; call (617) 566-6660. Sedaris will also sign copies of the book earlier that same day at Borders, 10-24 School Street in Downtown Crossing; call (617) 557-7188.

Shock and awe

There are plenty of horrifying pictures being smuggled out of Iraq right now, but the most disturbing ones of all aren’t coming from the prisons — they’re coming out of the schools. Last summer, American filmmaker Patrick Dillon asked students at a Baghdad elementary school to record their impressions of the war and then clandestinely spirited the results out of the country. The kids’ artwork, which ranges from images of "Americans handing out medical supplies . . . [to] thundering tanks with blazing flags," will be on view in "Shocked and Awed: Drawings from the Al Assail Primary School," an exhibit running July 8 through 30 at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center. Failed Democratic presidential contender Dennis Kucinich and radical historian Howard Zinn will speak at a reception taking place July 26 — which is, by some coincidence, the opening night of the Democratic National Convention. That’s at 31 Second Street in Cambridge; call (617) 577-1400.

Headbangers ball

With the announcement last week that Sharon Osbourne has corralled three-quarters of the classic Black Sabbath line-up — drummer Bill Ward either got snitty or got lowballed on money, depending on who’s telling the story — this year’s OzzFest has taken on an almost historic glint. The top three headliners — Sabbath, Judas Priest (recently reunited with Rob Halford), and Slayer — could fairly be summarized as the most influential of metal’s first two decades; all together, their recent box sets take up 17 discs. And with Slipknot leading a second stage stocked with neo-thrash marauders — Lamb of God, Hatebreed, Unearth, God Forbid, and Otep, to name a few — it’s shaping up as the biggest metal event since Ozzy’s late-’80s Monsters of Rock jaunts. OzzfFest hits the Tweeter Center in Mansfield on July 12, and tickets are $39.50 to $75.50; call (617) 931-2000.


Issue Date: May 28 - June 3, 2004
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