Rob Azevedo

Feast your eyes on the new Rex theatre sign — I’m ready to dig in!

Saturday, October 5, 2019 Rob Azevedo 0

Even on a gray afternoon, the sight of the bold sign bolted to the newly restored building on Amherst Street brings a flutter to my heart. Which could also be the onset of something disastrous. But, let’s stay focused. READ MORE

When your backbone slips, try a little mall massage-chair shake, rattle and roll therapy

Thursday, September 26, 2019 Rob Azevedo 0

When you blow your back out, everything changes. How you sit, eat, watch TV, slide off the couch, pee, shower (I do both at once), dry off, pull on your socks, get out of your car, and, good Lord, if your libido starts to itch (as it often does), make love. READ MORE

An Ode to Plymouth State

Thursday, September 5, 2019 Rob Azevedo 0

The letter and the application went out in the mail sometime before winter, and by the start of my last semester at Wentworth, I received a letter from Plymouth State College, welcoming me into the fold. I was elated. Finally, I felt inside like my apprenticeship from being a nothing to something had ended. READ MORE

Artists in flux: Sometimes stepping away is part of the process

Tuesday, September 3, 2019 Rob Azevedo 0

Over the years, I’ve watched a handful of musicians that I’d grown to admire suddenly drop out of the music scene. Poof, just like that, they’re gone. READ MORE

Notes from the rally — I didn’t go for the politics

Friday, August 16, 2019 Rob Azevedo 6

I didn’t go for the politics. I went for the spectacle. And it paid in spades. And it paid off with promise. What I see on TV night after night as I torture myself on a daily basis, watching all sides of the news — MSNBC to FOX — I came to see that it is quite possible that the news is somewhat bullshitting most of us. READ MORE

Aug .17: Catch Senie Hunt at Memorial Field, a gem of a guitarist at a jewel of a venue

Wednesday, August 14, 2019 Rob Azevedo 0

The tap and strum, that pluck and pick, all of it going off at once. It was hypnotic to me, soothing, like a chime, a repetitive force that slowly works its way inward. An unworldly talented young man with many world’s ahead of him to feast on. World’s he’s never seen. World’s he’s loved and lived in. World’s Senie hopes to return to someday. READ MORE

‘Just a good guy – why would someone shoot Stacks?’

Tuesday, July 23, 2019 Rob Azevedo 0

I saw pain in the eyes of one of these people today. He and many others lost a good friend they grew up with when a bullet to the face killed Jason Barry early last Friday morning in an alley off Union Street. READ MORE

Rot Gut, Part 2: Dollar Tree food kept me alive and mostly well

Sunday, July 7, 2019 Rob Azevedo 0

Surviving the lean times means you have to be willing to try the Dollar Tree shrimp lo mein. READ MORE

Lean days and the funky jive: All you need is $25 and a trip to Dollar Tree

Tuesday, July 2, 2019 Rob Azevedo 0

When I stood in front of the back coolers at the Dollar Tree five nights ago, I was amazed at the ensemble of delicacies the store now sold. Or maybe they always have. I stick to the armpit and candy isle mostly. This was a new world to me. READ MORE

A homeless guy wanders into the woods, or, Frank has miles to go before he sleeps

Wednesday, June 5, 2019 Rob Azevedo 0

Maybe 10 yards into the tree line laying beside a fallen tree sat Frank – lost, tired and confused. Frank, as I later learned his name to be, was, is, and likely will always be a homeless person. Worse than homeless, Frank is also touched in the head, not quite all there. READ MORE