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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Festival!, with Murray Lerner

Brattle Theatre

There are moments when pop-music history takes a profound turn, and one such was at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, when Bob Dylan plugged in an electric guitar and played with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Murray Lerner was there to record the moment for his classic 1967 concert documentary Festival! (which covers the event from '63 to '66), and he'll be present tonight when the film screens at the Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St, Cambridge | 7 pm | $15 | 617.876.6837 or http://www.brattlefilm.org.  

Filed under: FILM

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Boston Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Benjamin Zander, with soprano Linda Watson

Jordan Hall

We can't recall ever hearing Wagner from Benjamin Zander and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, so this weekend's attractive program is overdue: the Prelude to act one of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, with soprano Linda Watson; and Dawn, Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Siegfried's Death, Siegfried's Funeral March, and Brünnhilde's Immolation from Götterdämmerung, with Watson again. The usual three performances: Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge | November 19 @ 7:30 pm; November 22 @ 3 pm | Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston | November 21 @ 8 pm | $15-$70 | 617.236.0999 or http://www.bostonphil.org.   Filed under: MUSIC
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Monday, November 23, 2009

John Buntin: L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City

Porter Square Books

The year that Oliver Wendell Holmes was describing the Massachusetts State House as "the Hub of the Solar System," Los Angeles was a ranching community with a population of less than 5000. LA's evolution from dusty pueblo to concrete behemoth provides some fascinating history, and crime journalist John Buntin has probed some of it in his L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City. Buntin tells a cops-and-robbers story from the '30s to the '60s through the ambitions of gangster Mickey Cohen and police chief William H. Parker. (This is, in essence, the true story behind James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential.) He's at Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, Cambridge | 7 pm | free | http://www.portersquarebooks.com.  

Filed under: WORDS
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis

Symphony Hall

The big name in this before-and-after-Thanksgiving Boston Symphony Orchestra program is superstar violinist Joshua Bell, but it's guest conductor Sir Andrew Davis who caught our eye - he led, with Kiri Te Kanawa, the most beautiful performance of Richard Strauss's "Beim Schlafengehen" we've ever heard. We like the program, too: Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, and Brahms's Violin Concerto, with Bell. That's at Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston | November 24 @ 8 pm; November 27 @ 1:30 pm; November 28 + December 1 @ 8 pm | $29-$115 | 617.266.1200 or http://www.bso.org.  

Filed under: MUSIC

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Melt Banana + Captain Cutthroat + Exusamwa

Middle East Downstairs

It's as if, for the last 10 years or so, you couldn't say "Japanese abstract noise rock" without thinking Melt Banana. The trio are known for their frantically paced, experimental Japanoise, with frontwoman Yasuko Onuki adding vocals that sound like the primal screech of a rabid and furious cat. As their frequently sold-out tours suggest, it's a love-it-or-hate-it thing. This time out, they're with Salem's own freak-metal Captain Cutthroat and the even weirder Exusamwa, so if ringing ears and moshpit wounds are how you want to celebrate Thanksgiving this year, head to the Middle East downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge | 8 pm | $12-$14 | http://www.ticketmaster.com.  

Filed under: MUSIC

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Bodega Girls

Middlesex Lounge

After a buzzy showing at CMJ, Bodega Girls are bringing their non-stop party back home for (what else?) a "Lo-Fi Hedonistic Dance Party" - an appropriate gig for this self-described "band of tricksters, hedonists and good-for-nothings." Their beat-laced breed of indie rock isn't meant for crossed arms or shoegazing, so get off your feet and move to songs like "She's into Black Guys" and "Ain't That Cold" at Middlesex Lounge, 315 Mass Ave, Cambridge | 8 pm | free | http://www.myspace.com/bodegagirls.  

Filed under: MUSIC

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Julius and Philip Epstein Centennial

Brattle Theatre

Screenwriters seldom get credit for auteurship, but twin brothers Julius and Philip Epstein, who were born 100 years ago on August 22, certainly shaped a personal cinema with their screenplays, which, written separately and together, range from Casablanca (1942) to Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). (They also happen to be the great-uncle and grandfather, respectively, of Red Sox honcho Theo, and the uncle and father of his dad, novelist Leslie - but we digress.) The Brattle Theatre's "Epstein Brothers Centennial" retrospective opens with one of their lesser-known gems, Vincent Sherman's Mr. Skeffington (1944), in which Bette Davis and Claude Rains get married for all the wrong reasons. That's at 40 Brattle St, Cambridge | 4:15 + 7 + 9:45 pm | $7.75-$9.75 | 617.876.6837 or http://www.brattlefilm.org.  

Filed under: FILM

Thursday, November 26, 2009

New York Giants @ Denver Broncos

NFLN

Since 2008, there aren't enough bad things that can happen to the New York Giants, so it was not without a sadistic pleasure that we listened to them complain about having to play the Denver Broncos at Mile High Stadium on Thanksgiving Day. Poor guys. Is it too much to hope that they lose? Absolutely not, and you can watch it happen on NFLN | 8:20 pm | http://www.nfl.com.

Filed under: FOOTBALL

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Boston Volvo 5k Road Race

Boston Volvo

Maybe you can talk the talk and walk the walk, but can you run the run? Not only is the Boston Volvo 5k Road Race a kind of pre-repentance for the truly profane amount of food you'll eat later today, it's good karma, since it's a fundraiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. You'll feel good both physically and mentally, so get yourself over to Boston Volvo, 75 North Beacon St, Brighton | 7:30 am [registration]; 9 am [start] | $20-$25 [registration]; no fundraising minimum | http://main.nationalmssociety.org/volvo5k.  

Filed under: BENEFIT

Friday, November 27, 2009

Jack Donahue

Regattabar

Like several other younger singers (Kate McGarry comes to mind), Jack Donahue mixes a varied menu of modern and "classic" standards (from Burt Bacharach, Joni Mitchell, and Jimmy Webb to Cole Porter and Kurt Weill) with originals - all delivered with a strong jazz approach to rhythm and harmony and a cabaret singer's attention to lyrics. The line-up of his cool band at the Regattabar includes pianist Randy Ingram, bassist Keala Kaumeheiwa, and drummer Jared Schonig. That's in the Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St, Cambridge | 7:30 pm | $20 | 617.395.7757 or http://www.regattabarjazz.com

Filed under: MUSIC

Friday, November 27, 2009

Friday After Thanksgiving (F.A.T.) Chain Reaction Event

MIT Rockwell Cage Gymnasium

More than 1500 persons are expected again this year for the 12th annual Friday After Thanksgiving (F.A.T.) Chain Reaction Event, which goes like this: about 35 teams register and create mini Rube Goldberg-esque chain reactions (like a huge, MIT version of the game Mouse Trap), which are then tested and linked by sculptor and chain-reaction expert Arthur Ganson. Spectators can examine each apparatus and talk to its creators before the main event, where all the reactions go off like dominos in a chain leading to the surprise ending planned by Ganson himself. It's put on once again by the MIT Museum, in MIT's Rockwall Cage Gymnasium, 120 Vassar St, Cambridge | 1-4 pm | $10; $5 students, seniors, children under 18 [includes admission to MIT museum] | http://web.mit.edu/museum

Filed under: SCIENCE

Friday, November 27, 2009

Cultural Survival Bazaar 2009

Cambridge College

It's Black Friday, so the brave will go to Copley Place, the masochists will go to Cambridgeside Galleria, and the smart will go to the kickoff weekend of the Cultural Survival Bazaar. A yearly event, the Bazaar is a union of indigenous artisans, fair-trade companies, and grassroots organizations from Africa, Asia, and the Americas selling crafts, artwork, clothing, jewelry, musical instruments, rugs, and pretty much everything else you can think of, with all the proceeds benefiting a variety of programs to help the communities from which they came. Not only is it unique wares at a nice price for a good cause, but it's a way to shop the day after Thanksgiving without the homicidal impulses. This weekend it's at Cambridge College, 1000 Mass Ave, Cambridge | November 27-29: 10 am-6 pm | http://www.cs.org

Filed under: FAIR

Friday, November 27, 2009

Pixies

Wang Theatre

What better way for Pixies to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their classic Doolittle than by performing it in its entirety in the city that started it all? Frank Black and Kim Deal lead the odd-rock icons through a set list that reads like the answer sheet to a Pixies trivia contest. Just for starters: "Here Comes Your Man," the band's unusually giddy, Billboard-charting single; "La La Love You," sung by drummer David Lovering; and "Monkey Gone to Heaven," their only song with strings. | Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont St, Boston | November 27-28 @ 8 pm | $48 | 866.348.9738 or http://www.citicenter.org 

Filed under: MUSIC

Friday, November 27, 2009

Boston Ballet and The Nutcracker

Opera House

You may have seen Boston Ballet's The Nutcracker a gazillion times, but this year's your first chance to hear it properly, now that it's escaped the cavernous Wang Theatre and now that the Opera House orchestra pit has been reconstructed. The Boston Ballet Orchestra sounds great in its new home, and, oh yes, the production's not bad either. | Opera House, 539 Washington St, Boston | November 27-December 27 | $35-$162 | 617.695.6955 or http://www.bostonballet.org 

Filed under: DANCE

Friday, November 27, 2009

Bebel Gilberto

Paradise Rock Club

Talk about to-the-manner-born: daughter of singer/guitarist João Gilberto and singer Miúcha, Bebel Gilberto was on stage performing with her mother and Stan Getz at Carnegie Hall at age nine. Her most recent CD, All in One (Verve), proves she's as adept at modern fusions of electronics (with Brazilian Girl Didi Gutman and Dust Brother John King) and Stevie Wonder (the Mark Ronson-produced "The Real Thing") as with classic bossa nova, and she'll be showing it all off tonight. | Paradise, 967 Comm Ave, Boston | 9 pm | $30 | 617.562.8800 or http://www.thedise.com 

Filed under: MUSIC

Friday, November 27, 2009

Christian McBride and Inside Straight

date:11-28-2009

You have to give bass monster Christian McBride credit for the title of his most recent album, Kind of Brown (Mack Avenue). Sure, it plays on the most famous album title in jazz, but it also fits the bluesy, hard-boppish straightforwardness of the album - and that quality in turn fits the name of the band: Inside Straight. McBride brings vibist Warren Wolf and drummer Carl Allen from the album, plus saxophonist Tim Green and pianist Cyrus Chestnut, to Scullers for two nights, in the DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston | 8 + 10 pm | $25 | 617.562.4111 or http://www.scullersjazz.com

Filed under: MUSIC

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Acis and Galatea

Jordan Hall

Last year, the Boston Early Music Festival inaugurated its swell Thanksgiving Saturday Chamber Opera Series with John Blow's Venus and Adonis and Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Actéon. This year, we're getting the original 1718 one-act chamber version of Handel's pastoral opera Acis and Galatea, with tenor Aaron Sheehan (last year's Actéon) as the besotted shepherd and soprano Amanda Forsythe (last year's Venus) as the nymph of his dreams. Bring your own sheep shears to Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston | 8 pm | $21-$66; seniors, students $5 discount | 617.661.1812 or http://www.bemf.org

Filed under: MUSIC

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Darrell Nulisch

Regattabar

Estimable Dallas-Somerville blues singer and harp player Darrell Nulisch (an original member of Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets and a later member of Ronnie Earl's Broadcasters) rolls into the Regattabar for a show rescheduled from earlier this fall, in the Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St, Cambridge | 7:30 pm | $15 | 617.395.7757 or http://www.regattabarjazz.com

Filed under: MUSIC

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Eyedea & Abilities + Themselves

Middle East Downstairs

Of all the hip-hop artists who get labeled "emo," St. Paul renaissance performer Eyedea best embodies that quasi-accolade. Once the great Midwestern battle-rap protégé of Atmosphere MC Slug, Eyedea detoured around hip-hop circa 2006, playing with a slew of bands whom few cats beyond Minnesota have likely heard of. Now back with his original production partner, Abilities, Rhymesayers Entertainment's youngest gun is packing more latent indie-rock influence than head-nod hip-hoppers might be comfortable with, but tortured souls and coffeeshop chicks are sure to indulge his progressive backdrops and caustic narratives. As for his live chops - that's something all heads can celebrate. He and his Abilities are at the Middle East downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge | 8 pm | $15 | http://www.ticketmaster.com

Filed under: MUSIC

Saturday, November 28, 2009

24th Annual Harvard Square Holiday Craft Fair

First Unitarian Church

We haven't even digested the turkey and already it's time for the holiday season, which for the past 24 years has meant the Harvard Square Holiday Craft Fair. One of the oldest and most popular craft fairs in Boston, it runs for four consecutive weekends, with gift (and personal) items by New England craftspeople sold often as not by the craftspeople themselves. "This is not your average craft fair," they insist. "It's more like a party where you can buy stuff." Check out that bold claim while keeping it local at the First Unitarian Church, 3 Church St, Cambridge | November 28: @ 10 am-7 pm; November 29: noon-6 pm | free | http://www.harvardsquareholidayfair.com

Filed under: FAIR

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Cultural Survival Bazaar 2009

Cambridge College

It's Black Friday, so the brave will go to Copley Place, the masochists will go to Cambridgeside Galleria, and the smart will go to the kickoff weekend of the Cultural Survival Bazaar. A yearly event, the Bazaar is a union of indigenous artisans, fair-trade companies, and grassroots organizations from Africa, Asia, and the Americas selling crafts, artwork, clothing, jewelry, musical instruments, rugs, and pretty much everything else you can think of, with all the proceeds benefiting a variety of programs to help the communities from which they came. Not only is it unique wares at a nice price for a good cause, but it's a way to shop the day after Thanksgiving without the homicidal impulses. This weekend it's at Cambridge College, 1000 Mass Ave, Cambridge | November 27-29: 10 am-6 pm | http://www.cs.org

Filed under: FAIR

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Gary Deuhr's "THINK THE WORST"

Bromfield Gallery

What does it matter whether the glass is half full if, sooner or later, you're going to die? That's the question asked by local artist Gary Duehr's "THINK THE WORST," a sardonic public-awareness campaign to "embrace the negativity pervading some corners of the media and popular opinion." In this hybrid show and sale, the relentless, hyperbolic negativity of Duehr's poems and art mirrors the more hysterical aspects of our own culture; Bromfield Gallery, 450 Harrison Ave, Boston | 4 pm | free | http://www.garyduehr.com 

Filed under: ART

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Pixies

Wang Theatre

What better way for Pixies to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their classic Doolittle than by performing it in its entirety in the city that started it all? Frank Black and Kim Deal lead the odd-rock icons through a set list that reads like the answer sheet to a Pixies trivia contest. Just for starters: "Here Comes Your Man," the band's unusually giddy, Billboard-charting single; "La La Love You," sung by drummer David Lovering; and "Monkey Gone to Heaven," their only song with strings. | Wang Theatre, 270 Tremont St, Boston | November 27-28 @ 8 pm | $48 | 866.348.9738 or http://www.citicenter.org 

Filed under: MUSIC

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Mountain Goats + Final Fantasy

Wilbur Theatre

Fresh off a collaboration with John Vanderslice, prolific, serial singer-songwriter John Darnielle is back with his folk-rock trio Mountain Goats to support their Bible-inspired albumThe Life of the World To Come. Owen Pallett's Final Fantasy join the Goats at the Wilbur Theatre, 246 Tremont St, Boston | 7:30 pm | $22.50 | http://www.ticketmaster.com

Filed under: MUSIC

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Cultural Survival Bazaar 2009

Cambridge College

It's Black Friday, so the brave will go to Copley Place, the masochists will go to Cambridgeside Galleria, and the smart will go to the kickoff weekend of the Cultural Survival Bazaar. A yearly event, the Bazaar is a union of indigenous artisans, fair-trade companies, and grassroots organizations from Africa, Asia, and the Americas selling crafts, artwork, clothing, jewelry, musical instruments, rugs, and pretty much everything else you can think of, with all the proceeds benefiting a variety of programs to help the communities from which they came. Not only is it unique wares at a nice price for a good cause, but it's a way to shop the day after Thanksgiving without the homicidal impulses. This weekend it's at Cambridge College, 1000 Mass Ave, Cambridge | November 27-29: 10 am-6 pm | http://www.cs.org

Filed under: FAIR

Monday, November 30, 2009

Boston 8bit's Chiptine 2

Middlesex Lounge

All you haters who think technology eliminates creativity: consider Chiptune 2. Chiptune is a form of electronic rock or dance music made exclusively from ancient video-game hardware. Sega, TurboGrafx, Nintendo, and more are retrofitted onto synthesizers and tweaked to create great music with (relatively) primitive noises. Staged by the appropriately named Boston8BIT, tonight's retro/future dance party features Active Knowledge, Disasterpeace, Br1ght Pr1mate, and Cathode Rays, at Middlesex Lounge, 315 Mass Ave, Cambridge | 8 pm | free | http://boston8bit.com.

 

Filed under: MUSIC

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Gabrielle Goodman

Scullers

For the ongoing "Berklee Artists Series" at Scullers, one of the school's voice professors, the powerhouse jazz/pop/R&B singer (and songwriter - see Chaka Khan's "You Can Make the Story Right") Gabrielle Goodman, jams with some of her best students. That's in the DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston | 8 pm | $18 | 617.562.4111 or http://www.scullersjazz.com

Filed under: MUSIC

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Michael Dowling's Medicine Wheel

Cyclorama

Local artist and educator Michael Dowling has been reminding us about, honoring, and otherwise drawing attention to World AIDS Day for the past 18 years with the largest recurring site-specific art event in town, Medicine Wheel. This year's version features Luminaria, a 22-foot-tall physical lantern made of faces and representing those who've been afflicted by the terrible disease. The show runs through December 2, but today there's a special 24-hour vigil of prayer, dance, song, and ritual that's expected to draw thousands of persons, at the Boston Center for the Arts' Cyclorama, 539 Tremont St, Boston | midnight-midnight | free | 617.268.6700 or http://www.mwproductions.org

Filed under: ART

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

P.O.S. + Saosin

House of Blues

Every kid sitting in Detroit or Los Angeles planning that rap/rock/punk hybrid got a new king to dethrone when P.O.S. dropped his Never Better (Rhymesayers Entertainment), the best yet for the clever and dexterous MC, whose percussion-fueled beats seem to bear themselves aloft. He gives one of the better performances in the game, so his tour with post-hardcore rockers Saosin is sure to keep you on your toes, never mind your feet, when it arrives at the House of Blues, 15 Lansdowne St, Boston | 7 pm | $16.50-$18 | http://www.hob.com

Filed under: MUSIC

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Mew + local contest winner TBA

Paradise Rock Club

They're on their second trek through the city in less than four months, so you have to think Danish art-rockers Mew must love Boston. Not that we're complaining - their 2003 release Frengers cemented their reputation as Scandinavia's answer to . . . well, we're not quite sure, but we liked it a lot. Their sound is not easily explained - we'd call it a proggy spin on a Muse/Sigur Rós mash-up, but even that's not quite right. You can try to describe the songs from Mew's verbose August release, No More Stories Are Told Today I'm Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey I'm Tired Let's Wash Away, for yourself when they hit the Paradise, 967 Comm Ave, Boston | 8 pm | $16.50 | http://www.livenation.com

Filed under: MUSIC

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

John Cassavetes and Peter Falk

Museum of Fine Arts

John Ford had John Wayne. Martin Scorsese had Robert De Niro. And the master of American realism also had his on-screen doppelgänger, as you can see over the next four days in the Museum of Fine Arts' retrospective "John Cassavetes and Peter Falk." The series opens with Mikey & Nicky (1976), Elaine May's mobster/buddy movie, with Cassavetes playing Nicky to Falk's Mikey, and then his Opening Night (1977), in which Cassavetes's wife, Gena Rowlands, is a distraught diva and Falk has a small but key role. It'll continue with Big Trouble (1986), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), and Husbands (1970), in the MFA's Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston | December 2-5 | $10; $8 students, seniors 617.369.3907 or http://www.mfa.org

Filed under: FILM

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Ha Jin's A Good Fall

Brookline Booksmith

There's no shortage of material about the immigrant experience in America, and that makes the standout work of Ha Jin all the more impressive. Jin won the National Book Award for his 1999 novel Waiting, and with his new book of stories, A Good Fall, he probes deeper the meaning of the Chinese-American experience, this time in the New York immigrant community of Flushing. Nell Freudenberger in the New Yorker once praised reading his realist, mostly declarative style as "almost like falling in love," so if you're feeling lonely, catch him tonight at Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline | 7 pm | free | http://www.brooklinebooksmith.com

Filed under: WORDS

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christoph Von Dohnányi

Symphony Hall

In what will be pretty much your last opportunity to hear non-holiday classical music this year, Hungarian guest conductor Christoph Von Dohnányi leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in an unusual "Mittel-Europa" program - Hungarian composer Béla Bartók's Divertimento for String Orchestra, Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu's Violin Concerto No. 2, with German soloist Frank Peter Zimmermann, and Czech composer Antonín Dvorák's Symphony No. 8 - in Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave, Boston | December 3 + 5 @ 8 pm; December 4 @ 1:30 pm | $29-$115 | 617.266.1200 or http://www.bso.org

Filed under: MUSIC

Thursday, December 03, 2009

68th Annual Tree Lighting on Boston Common

Boston Common

Boston has at least six tree-lighting ceremonies that we know about, but the 68th Annual Tree Lighting on Boston Common is the city's official holiday epicenter. It's also the one with a tree given to us by people of Nova Scotia, just because we're so awesome. And also for this: on December 6, 1917, a munitions ship exploded in Halifax Harbor, and Boston responded with aid so promptly that for the past 38 years they've been sending us a tree for Christmas (even when we wanted a Power Ranger). Mayor Thomas Menino will light the tree tonight, along with 80 or so others in the Common, in a ceremony with refreshments and live television coverage, so come watch Boston get radiant on Boston Common, Boston | 6-8 pm | free | http://www.cityofboston.gov/mayor/holiday.asp

Filed under: HOLIDAYS

Thursday, December 03, 2009

John Cassavetes and Peter Falk

Museum of Fine Arts

John Ford had John Wayne. Martin Scorsese had Robert De Niro. And the master of American realism also had his on-screen doppelgänger, as you can see over the next four days in the Museum of Fine Arts' retrospective "John Cassavetes and Peter Falk." The series opens with Mikey & Nicky (1976), Elaine May's mobster/buddy movie, with Cassavetes playing Nicky to Falk's Mikey, and then his Opening Night (1977), in which Cassavetes's wife, Gena Rowlands, is a distraught diva and Falk has a small but key role. It'll continue with Big Trouble (1986), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), and Husbands (1970), in the MFA's Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston | December 2-5 | $10; $8 students, seniors 617.369.3907 or http://www.mfa.org

Filed under: FILM

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Pelican + Black Cobra + Disappearer

Harpers Ferry

If all instru-metal bands secretly want to be described as epic, that's because they want to sound like Pelican, whose moody, sweeping, voiceless hard rock will transcend (but still be housed by) Harpers Ferry, 158 Brighton Ave, Allston | 8 pm | $12-$14 | http://www.greatscottboston.com

Filed under: MUSIC

Friday, December 04, 2009

John Cassavetes and Peter Falk

Museum of Fine Arts

John Ford had John Wayne. Martin Scorsese had Robert De Niro. And the master of American realism also had his on-screen doppelgänger, as you can see over the next four days in the Museum of Fine Arts' retrospective "John Cassavetes and Peter Falk." The series opens with Mikey & Nicky (1976), Elaine May's mobster/buddy movie, with Cassavetes playing Nicky to Falk's Mikey, and then his Opening Night (1977), in which Cassavetes's wife, Gena Rowlands, is a distraught diva and Falk has a small but key role. It'll continue with Big Trouble (1986), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), and Husbands (1970), in the MFA's Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston | December 2-5 | $10; $8 students, seniors 617.369.3907 or http://www.mfa.org

Filed under: FILM

Saturday, December 05, 2009

John Cassavetes and Peter Falk

Museum of Fine Arts

John Ford had John Wayne. Martin Scorsese had Robert De Niro. And the master of American realism also had his on-screen doppelgänger, as you can see over the next four days in the Museum of Fine Arts' retrospective "John Cassavetes and Peter Falk." The series opens with Mikey & Nicky (1976), Elaine May's mobster/buddy movie, with Cassavetes playing Nicky to Falk's Mikey, and then his Opening Night (1977), in which Cassavetes's wife, Gena Rowlands, is a distraught diva and Falk has a small but key role. It'll continue with Big Trouble (1986), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), and Husbands (1970), in the MFA's Remis Auditorium, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston | December 2-5 | $10; $8 students, seniors 617.369.3907 or http://www.mfa.org

Filed under: FILM

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