E-Mail This Article to a Friend Holistic spirit "Saluting the Spirit" at the Back Bay YWCA, Art Alexakis at the Paradise, and more

Yogis for a cause

Yogathon, anyone? Already more than 120 yogis — including local TV health reporter Janet Wu — have signed up for "Saluting the Spirit," an event that’s looking to raise in the neighborhood of $10,000 for the AIDS Care Project, a holistic, complimentary medicine clinic for those living with HIV. During the event, which takes place November 16 at 9 a.m. at the Back Bay YWCA, 140 Clarendon Street, participants will be trying to complete a series of 108 yoga poses called the sun salutations. If you’re interested, contact Pathways to Complimentary Medicine by calling (617) 859-3036 extension 20, or visit www.pathwaystcm.org.

Patriot act

Open letter to Tom Brady: please stay the hell away from this gig. Yeah, it’s only Art Alexakis, who’s traveling solo without the rest of Everclear, but it is at the Paradise, where in Art’s presence your predecessor infamously learned, the ultra-hard way, how not to execute a proper stage dive. And while you’re at it, keep your offensive line on a short leash that night too, willya? (For those with short memories: in 1997, Drew Bledsoe and Max Lane dove; a 17-year-old girl got her spine smushed; the players and the band got sued; the club was temporarily stripped of its entertainment license; and the Pats fumbled away an easy game the following weekend.) Everyone else is invited to hear Alexakis perform songs from his grunge-perennial catalogue, including, we’re sure, some of the overlooked gems from this year’s Slow Motion Daydream (Capitol). That’s on November 26 at the Paradise, 967 Commonwealth Avenue. It’s 18-plus and tickets are $15; call (617) 423-NEXT.

Ghost story

East meets West in the American Repertory Theatre’s next production, Snow in June, an attempt at updating Beijing musical theater with contemporary American flair. Chinese director Chen Shi-Zheng’s adaptation of ART fave Charles L. Mee’s text draws on a 13th-century Yuan drama in its story of a young girl who in life was forced into an arranged marriage and who after her death returns to take her revenge. Beijing Opera vet Qian Yi leads a cast of ART company members and a chorus from the ART Institute for Advanced Theatre Training; the music, by Californian composer Paul Dresher, is an Americana mix of bluegrass, Tex-Mex, Cajun, and Delta blues. The production opens November 29 and runs through December 28 at the Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street in Harvard Square. Tickets, just on sale, are $35 to $69; call (617) 547-8300.

Authors’ note

Under the auspices of its "American Journey" awards ("an ongoing celebration of individuals who have enriched our lives"), the Boston Center for Adult Education brings together three worthy recipients of its Award for Literary Achievement for a series of lectures and book signings at Faneuil Hall. Pulitzer-winning biographer David McCullough, whose latest effort is a widely hailed tome on Braintree native, and Prez No. 2, John Adams, arrives November 18; journalist and novelist Anita Shreve, whose latest fictional work is a turn-of-the-(19th)-century period piece titled All He Ever Wanted, shows up November 19; and Pulitzer-winning novelist (for his The Mambos Kings Play Songs of Love) Oscar Hijuelos is in on December 2. All three events start at 7 p.m. at the Great Hall in Faneuil Hall, near Government Center. Tickets to each lecture are $15; the BCAE is also staging VIP receptions before each event ($100 for McCullough, $50 each for Shreve and Hijuelos). Call (617) 267-4430.