Saturday, July 04, 2009
Soul Clap’s summer throwdown series Dancing on the Charles brings a special 12-hour grooveageddon to the riverbanks, as DJs Miztah Lex, Bruno, Kon, Pat Fontes, Sergio Santos, Jay Prouty, Booster, Randy Deshaies, and Tanner Ross spin a non-stop pile-up of reggae, hip-hop, and techno party jams all day long. Tonight, there’ll be bombs bursting in air and at Marsh Post 442, 4 Gerry’s Landing, Cambridge | 1 pm–1 am | $20 (cash only) | http://www.dancingonthecharles.com.
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MUSIC
Saturday, July 04, 2009
Wondering where local favorites Daniel Stepner, Nancy Armstrong, Kristen Watson, Deborah Rentz-Moore, Frank Kelley, David Ripley, and Robert Honeysucker will be spending the Fourth? Try Great Barrington, where as part of the Aston Magna Festival they’ll be performing in John Gay’s The Beggar's Opera, with Stepner directing and the others singing, at Simon’s Rock College’s Daniel Arts Center, 84 Alford Rd, Great Barrington | 6 pm | $25-$35 | 413.528.3595 or http://www.astonmagna.org.
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THEATER
Saturday, July 04, 2009
If you need an antidote to July Fourth festivities rife with fifes, drums, and tri-cornered hats, head to Government Center for Boston’s annual Cape Verdean Festival, where Carib percussionists will be wailing on conch shells, cowbells, and pedal-powered tambourines. For Cape Verde expats, Independence Day is less musty history than recent memory; Portugal didn’t release its grip on these West African islands till July 5, 1975. As a former fest organizer once told the Globe, ‘‘We’re looking for recognition, as a people that loves to eat, rejoice, and dance, dance, dance.” And they saved you a spot, at City Hall Plaza, Boston | 2-5 pm | free | 617.635.3911 or http://www.cityofboston.gov/calendar.
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MUSIC
Sunday, July 05, 2009
The same flinty streak of stubborn New England loyalty that makes us crave ice cream in single-digit winter weather also compels us to seek out hot, dairy-based clam slurry in the broiling July sun every year at Chowderfest. (Remember: it's one if by sea, two if bivalve.) Bring an iron stomach and a hearty appetite to City Hall Plaza, Boston | 11 am–6 pm | $10; $7 children | 617.227.1528 or http://www.bostonharborfest.com.
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DINING
Monday, July 06, 2009
Trent Reznor may have retired forever after Bonnaroo 2009, but Nine Inch Nails live on in laser form, at the Museum of Science’s new “Laser Guitar Hero” light show, which also gives tracks from Weezer, Kaiser Chiefs, and Bloc Party the trippy eye-candy treatment. That’s at Science Park, Boston | July 6-25: 5:30 pm | $9 | 617.723.2500 or http://www.mos.org.
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DIZZY WIZARD
Monday, July 06, 2009
The year after sparring in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor took their squabbling back to the screen in Franco Zeffirelli’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. And if this taste of the Bard whets your appetite for more, you’re in luck, since Orfeo Group will open the show with a 10-minute excerpt from its production of The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged), which opens Thursday at the Publick Theatre. It’s at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline | 7 pm | $9.75 | 617.734.2501 or http://www.coolidge.org.
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FILM
Monday, July 06, 2009
Handsome Furs are gonna wreck Great Scott the way they wrecked this hotel room, at 1222 Comm Ave, Allston | July 6 @ 9 pm | $12 | 617.566.9014 or http://www.greatscottboston.com.
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MUSIC
Monday, July 06, 2009
Maybe it’s hard to believe, but the same throat-tattoo’d rockers who thrash across our club stages every night are also capable of emitting adorable offspring from their skinny-jeans-sheathed loins. For the third installment of “Rock ’n Roll Parents,” photographer (and former Phoenix staffer) Kelly Davidson captures local-music lions — such as Mary Lou Lord, Teenbeat label founder Mark Robinson, and Papas Fritas’s Shivika Asthana — with their cubs in the wild. If you’ve ever wanted to see Sheila Divine/Dear Leader frontman Aaron Perrino getting his hair twirled by a toddler, this one’s for you. | ZuZu, 474 Mass Ave, Cambridge | Opening reception July 6 @ 10 pm–1 am | free | 617.864.3278 x 237 or http://www.mideastclub.com/zuzu
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ART
Monday, July 06, 2009
For us, Cryptacize’s sophomore album, Mythomania, was a bit of a slow burner. The first listen just glanced off our brains, but the second one hooked us hard. And now we’re playing the disc on endless repeat, yelping “It’s like Deerhoof channeled through Young Marble Giants!” to anyone within earshot. (Turns out, the line-up includes former Deerhoof guitarist Chris Cohen.) We missed these Cali kids the last time they blew through town, as a late-late addition to the Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti show at T.T.’s. But we’re not going to let that happen again — especially since they’re with Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. | T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge | July 6 @ 9 pm | $10 | 617.492.BEAR or http://www.ttthebears.com
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MUSIC
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Hard-blues guy Louisiana Red — a master of acoustic- and electric-guitar picking (and hey, he’s now 77 years old, so you know he’s “real”) — blows the roof off the Regattabar with the assistance of master keyboard man David Maxwell | 7:30 pm | $18 | Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St, Cambridge | 617.395.7757 or http://www.regattabarjazz.com.
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MUSIC
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
We defy you not to be intrigued by any blog titled “My Hair Will Defeat You.” As well you should, since it sprang from the hyper-crenellated brain of poet/author Brandon Scott Gorrell, one of the shining stars of Tao Lin’s Muumuu House. And Gorrell’s not the only Muumuuist with a flair for the absurd: Lin (author of Eeeee Eee Eeee and the story collection Bed) recently stirred up microdrama by first telling a Bookslut interviewer that he and n+1 editor Marco Roth had collaborated on an essay about statutory rape starring Haley Joel Osment and Dakota Fanning and then apologizing by calling Roth a hamster. Quoth Brookline Booksmith: “We have no idea what to expect either.” Whatever it is will go down at 279 Harvard St, Brookline | 7 pm | 617.566.6660 or http://www.brooklinebooksmith.com.
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WORDS
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
It’s one thing to read about choreographer Anna Myer’s Street Talk Suite Talk Act I, a piece that wads together a violinist, seven inner-city poet rappers, and seven avant-garde dancers to explore urban malaise. It’s quite another to witness the thing yourself. On paper, it sounds like an irritatingly eclectic, overly earnest tangle. But in action, you’ll see violinist Mark Berger (playing a restless, nerve-ratcheting score designed by Moscow composer Jakov Jakoulov) accompanying kids who spit lines about “slowly becoming a restless sleeper” while a mute Greek chorus of dancers pantomimes their words with eerie organic-yet-robotic motions. And somehow, like chocolate-covered bacon, it just works. Before Myer takes this show across the pond for next month’s Edinburgh Festival, you can catch it at Hibernian Hall, 182 Dudley St, Roxbury | 8 pm | $10 | http://www.annamyeranddancers.org.
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DANCE
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
There’s no better way to end a Tuesday than by sucking down sangría and truffled polenta logs in the cozy copper-plated confines of the Savant Project — unless it’s doing the same in the company of a bounty hunter riding a frozen corpse (Cold Rush), anthropomorphic bubble-wrap bubbles recoiling in terror from a questing finger (Fantaisie in Bubblewrap), or a mysterious photograph that reveals murder most foul (The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow). The Boston Underground Film Festival reprises its “Illustrated Oddities” animation showcase, with 11 nuggets of beauty and weirdness, at 1625 Tremont St, Boston | July 7: 9-10:30 pm | free | http://www.thesavantproject.com or http://www.bostonunderground.org.
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FILM
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
It’s a big weekend at Jacob’s Pillow: NYC-based Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet is bringing a world premiere by hot Belgian-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Orbo Novo (“New World”), set to music by Polish composer Szymon Brzóska. (Is this international enough for you?) Cherkaoui’s Loin was presented at the Pillow in 2007, and our critic called that one “mesmerizing,” so make for the Ted Shawn Theatre, 358 George Carter Rd, Becket | July 8-10 @ 8 pm; July 11 @ 2 + 8 pm; July 12 at 2 pm | $58; $53 students, seniors | 413.243.0745 or http://www.jacobspillow.org.
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DANCE
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Martha Wainwright’s gone from the MFA’s “Concerts in the Courtyard” roster; in her place is folk-rock troubadour and novelist John Wesley Harding. We’re hoping no downpour drenches the Calderwood Courtyard, but even indoors it should be a great time — this dapper Brit is a hell of a showman, as anyone who caught his “Cabinet of Wonders” tour with Eugene Mirman can attest. (And yes, Wes did gank his moniker from a Bob Dylan album.) Singer/songwriter Chris Garneau opens. | Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston | July 8 @ 7:30 pm | $28; students $24 | 617.369.3306 or http://www.mfa.org
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MUSIC
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Summer Stage Dance gets off to a flying (and probably loud) start with Armitage Gone! Dance
in three Karole Armitage works: the 2007 Ligeti Essays (music by György
Ligeti), the 1985 pas de deux exploration The Watteau Duets (with live
“shitstorm skronk” by the keyboard-and-drum duo Talibam!), and excerpts
from her new Mashup, whose Daniel Iglesia score “combines Mozart’s 1779
Sinfonia Concertante with punk classics by X-Ray Spex.” Bliss out at
Concord Academy’s Performing Arts Center, 166 Main St, Concord | 8 pm |
$15-$25 | 978.402.2339 or http://www.summerstagesdance.org.
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DANCE
Saturday, July 11, 2009
DATE CHANGED FROM JUNE 20 TO JULY 11 BECAUSE OF INCLEMENT WEATHER
The Banditos Misteriosos are really living up to their name — in addition to keeping the gory details on their upcoming outing hush-hush for now, they’ve planned an activity that involves some actual banditry (well, sort of): a scavenger hunt. If you enjoyed the Banditos’ guerrilla pillow fights and silent raves, don’t miss this one | location TBA (revealed on July 10 at 11:59 pm) | free | 12:30-4 pm | http://www.misteriosos.org.
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