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FRIDAY, AUGUST 20

BENEFITS

AUGUST MOON HARBOR CRUISE TO BENEFIT CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER leaves at 6 p.m. from Rowes Wharf, next to Boston Harbor Hotel, Boston. Tickets $50, $35 for children under 16; (617) 357-0052.

BARBECUE & RAFFLE TO BENEFIT OUT OF THE BLUE GALLERY with music, poetry, painting, prizes, and more is at 6 p.m. at Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St., Cambridge. Donations accepted; (617) 354-5287.

AT THE CLUBS

JAZZ TANGO. There are plenty of bands around town who incorporate tango into jazz, but the Argentine reed player and vocalist Bernardo Monk, with his ensemble MassTango, likes to give you the whole deal as he practiced it in Buenos Aires: with live tango dancers in a salon-theatrical milieu. His self-released Estación Buenos Aires shows him to be well-versed in the classic and nuevo tango styles of the genre — with lilting textures of saxophone, piano, strings, and bandoneón — and a sure jazz feel. Monk and MassTango, with tango dancer Fernanda Cajide and a partner to be named later, come to Ryles, 212 Hampshire Street in Inman Square, for sets beginning at 9 p.m. Tickets are $10; call (617) 876-9330.

OTHER SHOWS:

For the following shows, see the Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses.

ABBEY LOUNGE, Somerville. Kitty Kill, Chezwick.

AN TAIN, Boston. At 5 p.m., DJ Sean O. At 10 p.m., DJ David Natola.

AN TUA NUA, Boston. "Superlovers," early hits to the latest sounds with DJ Vinny.

ARIA, Boston. "Plush," NYC house with guest DJs. In the Angel Room, NYC hip-hop with DJ Thanos.

ATLAS DANCE, Boston. "Top 40 Dancing."

AVALON, Boston. At 10 p.m., "Avaland" with DJs MJ and Shalako with special guest DJs.

THE AVENUE, Allston. At 9 p.m., DJ Steve Auston.

AXIS, Boston. At 10 p.m., "All Access" with DJ Dru Nyce.

THE BEACHCOMBER, Quincy. Draw the Line.

BLARNEY STONE PUB, Dorchester. Commerical dance and R&B.

BLUE CAT CAFE, Boston. DJ Pete Winfrey.

BOSTON ROCKS, Boston. Top 40 Dance & hip-hop with DJ Bruno.

BRAVO@THE MFA, Boston. Rusty Scott.

BUCK MULLIGAN’S, West Roxbury. R&B, rock, and dance with DJ Keith.

BULL RUN, Shirley. Lattitude, Steve Gaetz Band.

THE BURREN, Somerville. At 10 p.m., Scooby Snax.

BUZZ BOSTON/EUROPA, Boston. "Club Twist for Women."

CANTAB LOUNGE/THIRD RAIL, Cambridge. Upstairs: Little Joe Cook & the Thrillers.

CENTER FOR THE ARTS IN NATICK, Natick. Ball in the House.

CLUB CAFE, Boston. "Non Stop Video Show" with VJ Tom Yazbek.

CLUB 58, Quincy. "Get Some Fridays," hip-hop with the Freakas.

CLUB PASSIM, Cambridge. Rose Polenzani, Naomi Sommers.

COMMON GROUND, Allston. Tons of Chill.

DEVLIN’S LOUNGE AND BAR, Brighton. DJ Bruno James.

DICK’S LAST RESORT, Boston. At 8:30 p.m., Soul City.

DRUID PUB, Cambridge. At 6 p.m., "Traditional Irish Seisiun" with Peter Molloy & Friends.

EKCO LOUNGE, Boston. At 10 p.m., "The Pill" ’80s Mod Night.

EMBASSY, Boston. At 10 p.m., "Urban Grooves" with DJ Ricky Fatts.

ENCORE, Boston. "Cabaret Open Mic" with Jan Peters, Colleen Powers, Michael Ricca, Brian Patton.

THE ENORMOUS ROOM, Cambridge. "Defenestration" with Daniel Wermser.

THE E ROOM AT THE GOLDEN TEMPLE, Brookline. Vocal house, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s with DJ Bob Gallagher.

EVOS ARTS, Lowell. Alienist Outfit, Fever Monument, Kata Atlast, Tanks.

THE EXCHANGE, Boston. House and hip-hop with DJs Tiziano & Luca.

THE GOOD LIFE CAMBRIDGE, Cambridge. Jose Ramos & the No Way Jose Band.

THE GOOD LIFE DOWNTOWN, Boston. Weepin’ Willie.

GREEN DRAGON, Boston. Swinging Johnsons.

GREEN STREET GRILL, Cambridge. Kilombo Mambo.

G-SPOT, Boston. "Deep, sexy house" with DJs Mike Traylor & Paul Incus.

GUIDO OSHEA’S, Brockton. "Mirage Night Club," Haitian, Caribbean and Cape Verdean music.

HARPERS FERRY, Allston. Tuscon & the China Band.

HENNESSY’S, Boston. At 5 p.m., Me & Julio. At 8 p.m., Felix Brown.

HONG KONG, Cambridge. Top 40 Hip-Hop, Rock & Club Classics with M.C. Renn.

THE INTERNATIONAL, Boston. "The Basement" house music with DJ Bradford James.

IRISH VILLAGE, Brighton. "Funky Friday" with Elyte, Cnyce, Mas.

JOHNNY D’S, Somerville. Chris Duarte, Jody Grind.

JUKEBOX, Boston. Top 40 and retro dance night.

THE KELLS, Allston. "Ladies Night" with DJs Doc and Kieran.

KENNEDY’S, Boston. Springhill Rounders.

KIRKLAND CAFE, Somerville. Ballast, Jeff Johannes, Chris Perry, Mickey Bliss Organ Combo.

LA BOOM, Boston. "Fashion Fridays" with DJ Roland Lopez.

LES ZYGOMATES, Boston. Ronnie Ron Trio.

LIZARD LOUNGE, Cambridge. At 7:30 p.m., Jon Nolan. At 9:30 p.m., Bow Thayer & the Euphorians.

MADFISH GRILLE, Gloucester. Revision.

MAN RAY, Cambridge. "Fantasy Factory," kinky fetish industrial with DJ Chris Ewen and trance with DJ Brad Gwynn.

MIDDLE EAST, Cambridge. Upstairs: Sand Machine, Grubstake, Caged Heat, Pickups. Downstairs: Grey Star Morning, Car Crash Show, Audrey Can’t Die, Morning Theft.

MIDWAY CAFE, Jamaica Plain. Rug, Bees, Deluxe.

MILKY WAY, Jamaica Plain. Orchestra Morphine, Grace Potter.

MR. DOOLEY’S TAVERN, Boston. Paul Duffy.

THE MODERN, Boston. At 10 p.m., Latin house with DJ JC.

O’BRIEN’S, Allston. Lincoln Conspiracy, Leo Blais, Default Outfit.

OCEANA RESTAURANT, Boston. Mike DiBari Trio.

ORLEANS, Somerville. DJ Tom.

THE PALACE, Saugus. "Rio" Brazil’s Carnaval; "Uptown" DJs spin faves from the ’70s and ’80s; "Oxygen" rap, hip-hop, top 40, and progressive dance; "Male Encounter" all-male dance review; "Rockpile."

THE PALLADIUM, Worcester. Downstairs: Nightwish, Lullacry. Upstairs: Red Chord, Evergreen Terrace, A Life Once Lost, Fear Before the March of Flames.

PARADISE LOUNGE, Boston. These Thieves, Violet Nine.

PARADISE ROCK CLUB, Boston. At 9 p.m., Perceptionists, Skitzofreniks, D-Tension.

PERKS COFFEEHOUSE, Norwood. Katie Barbato.

PHOENIX LANDING, Cambridge. Disco, hip-hop, and Top 40 with DJ Ren Justice.

THE PLACE, Boston. At 10 p.m., VJ Laptop.

PLOUGH & STARS, Cambridge. At 6 p.m., Eric Sommer. At 9:30 p.m., Eilen Jewell.

THE POINT, Boston. "Fluid," house and techno, with DJ troupe Recordheadz.

Q, Boston. "Hip-hop & Top 40" with DJ Fury.

THE RACK, Boston. At 10 p.m., DJ Johnny C.

REDLINE, Cambridge. At 9 p.m., "Touch" with Shadowkings.

REGATTABAR, Cambridge. At 7:30 and 10 p.m., Pat Martino.

RIVER GODS, Cambridge. "Diversion" mello tekno, scsi disko, NeuSoul, with DJ Easy.

ROGGIE’S, Brighton. Upstairs: Ali. Lounge: "Dance Your Ass Off" with DJ Hoff.

THE ROXY, Boston. At 10:30 p.m., "The Cat Club" with DJ Manolo and special guest DJs.

RYLES, Cambridge. Boston Horns.

SCRUFFY MURPHY’S, Dorchester. "Party Time" with DJ Jen.

SCULLERS, Boston. Chris Botti.

SEA NOTE, Nantasket Beach. Nicole Nelson Band.

SISSY K’S, Boston. At 5 p.m., Matt Browne. At 9 p.m., Stu Sinclair & Kevin Kirrane. Upstairs: Hi-NRG and pop house, with DJ Tom McKenna.

SIT ‘N BULL PUB, Maynard. Crisis.

SUGAR SHACK, Boston. "Boston’s A-List" Hip hop, old school, and top 40 with DJ B-Spin.

SWEETWATER CAFE, Boston. Old and new dance hits with DJs KC and Gallo.

SW1, Boston. Top 40 RMX, Hip-Hop, and House with DJ Littles.

TOAD, Cambridge. Asa Brebner.

TRATTORIA IL PANINO, Boston. ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s with DJ Zino; progressive, top-40, club, and international with DJ Peter D.

T.T. THE BEAR’S PLACE, Cambridge. Logan, Groovehounds, Labb, Specimen.

21st AMENDMENT, Boston. DJ Sean Daly.

VENU, Boston. "Roomba," Latin sounds with DJ Roger M, and house with DJ Arsit.

VERTIGO, Boston. "Dream Lounge," international, Latin and house with DJ Marcocci, and vocal and high energy house with DJ Soulheris.

WALLY’S CAFE, Boston. At 9:30 p.m., Jason Palmer/Warren Wolf Jazz Collective.

WELLFLEET BEACHCOMBER, Wellfleet. Dear Leader, Taxpayer, Francine.

WESTERN FRONT, Cambridge. Radix.

WEST STREET GRILLE, Boston. Top 40 funk and dance with DJs Gabe and Lazee Boy.

WONDER BAR, Allston. Johnny Horner/Joe McMahon Quartet.

ZEITGEIST GALLERY, Cambridge. At 7 p.m., Winter Blanket. At 9:30 p.m., Mike McAllister, Collective Quartet.

ZUZU, Cambridge. Gian Carlo Buscaglia.

AT THE COMEDY CLUBS

BEANTOWN COMEDY VAULT, Boston. "Boston Attitude" with Lauren Verge.

COMEDY CONNECTION, Boston. At 8 and 10:15 p.m., Adam Ferrara.

COMEDY STUDIO AT HONG KONG, Cambridge. Josh Iverson, Baratunde, Ken Reid, Adam Pearlman, Mike Whitman.

DICK DOHERTY’S AT THE CHINA BLOSSOM, North Andover. Chance Langton, John Joyce, Sean Lily.

IMPROV ASYLUM, Boston. At 8 and 10 p.m., "Big Dig, The End of an Error."

IMPROVBOSTON THEATRE, Cambridge. At 8 p.m., "Secret Society." At 10 p.m., "TheatreSports."

KOWLOON, Saugus. At 9 p.m., Kevin Knox, Harrison Stebbins, Kim Egan.

NICK’S COMEDY STOP, Boston. At 8:45 p.m., Robbie Printz, Todd Parker, Mark Riley.

POPULAR MUSIC CONCERTS

EMMYLOU HARRIS, GILLIAN WLECH, PATTY GRIFFIN, AND BUDDY & JULIE MILLER perform at 7:30 p.m. at the FleetBoston Pavilion, 290 Northern Ave., Boston. Tickets $37.50-$45.50; (617) 931-2000.

JOHN MAYER, MAROON 5, AND DJ LOGIC perform at 7 p.m. at the Tweeter Center, 885 S. Main St., Mansfield. Tickets $50; (617) 931-2000.

LEGENDARY VOICES perform at 8 p.m. at Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main St., Stoneham. Tickets $20-$25; (781) 279-2200.

ROCK CITY JAM with Dave Marinelli & Matt Murphy Band, and Jenn Morazes is at 7:30 p.m. at Washington Allston Gallery, St. Luke’s Rd. and Brighton Ave., Allston. Suggested donation $5; (617) 590-3578.

STEVE LANTNER QUARTET performs at 8 p.m. at Artists-at-Large Gallery, 37 Everett St., Hyde Park, Boston. Suggested donation $8; (617) 276-3223.

WARPED TOUR 10TH ANNIVERSARY REUNION features performances by Face to Face, Less than Jake, Pennywise, Rancid, Finch, Andrew W.K., Unwritten Law, the Vandals, Bodycount, H20, Dropkick Murphys, Morgan Heritage, Ozomatli, MXPX, Something Corporate, Good Charlotte, New Found Glory, Sick of It All, Bad Religion, Unseen, Lost City Angels, Strung Out, Murphy’s Law, Fishbone, Punk Rock Karaoke, Hot Rod Circuit, Agnostic Front, Recover, Counterfeit, Big Wig, Midtown, My Chemical Romance, Avenged Sevenfold, Atmosphere, the Explosion, and the Street Dogs, beginning at noon at the Gillette Stadium parking lot, Foxborough. Tickets $32.50; call (617) 931-2000.

CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERTS

TANGLEWOOD. You were going to treat yourself to at least one lazy evening on the Tanglewood lawn this summer, and now Labor Day is looming. But it’s not too late. This evening, Russian conductor Andrey Boreyko (substituting for Emmanuel Krivine, who had to cancel because of an illness in his family) leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Mendelssohn’s Die schöne Melusine Overture, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with Lars Vogt, and Schumann’s Symphony No. 4. No word on whether they’ll be playing the usual 1851 revised edition of the Schumann or the more radical (some think) 1841 version. But if the evening gets too placid, you can always get into an argument with the Schumann enthusiasts on the next picnic blanket. That’s at 8:30 p.m. in the Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood in Lenox, and tickets are $16 to $82; call (617) 566-1200.

DANCE/PERFORMANCE

"An action painting come to life"? That's how the New York Times’ Anna Kisselgoff described Chinese choreographer Shen Wei’s The Rite of Spring, which is performed to a two-piano version of Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps. Shen’s company will be bringing that and the 2001 work Behind Resonance to Jacob’s Pillow this weekend. Performances are tonight at 8 p.m., tomorrow at 2 and 8, and Sunday at 2 in the Ted Shawn Theatre, 358 George Carter Road in Becket. Tickets are $45, $40.50 for children, students, and seniors; call (413) 243-0745.

33 FAINTING SPELLS performs Our Little Sunbeam tonight at 8:15 p.m., tomorrow at 2:15 and 8:15 p.m., and Sun. at 5 p.m. at Jacob’s Pillow, Doris Duke Studio Theatre, 358 George Carter Rd., Becket. Tickets $18-$20; (413) 243-0745.

UNITED DANCERS OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY present "OVER/ and Over" tonight and tomorrow at 8 p.m. at Green Street Studio, 185 Green St., Cambridge. Suggested donation $10; (978) 749-4682.

DANCE/PARTICIPATORY

BALKAN DANCE is at 7:30 p.m. at Scalzi School of Dance, 101 Bigelow Ave., Watertown. Tickets $8; (617) 840-2362.

CLASSIC ARGENTINE TANGO is at 9 p.m. at Ryles, 212 Hampshire St., Cambridge. Tickets $10; (617) 876-9330.

DANCE OF UNIVERSAL PEACE is at 7:30 p.m. at the Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge. Suggested donation $6-$10; (617) 491-8694.

HAVANA CLUB SALSA is at 8 p.m. at the Brookline Community Center for the Arts, 14 Green St., Brookline. Tickets $10; (617) 738-2800.

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE is at 8 p.m. at Park Avenue Congregational Church, 50 Paul Revere Rd., Arlington. Tickets $7, $4 for students; (781) 662-7475.

SANGRÍA AND SALSA is at 6 p.m. at Sophia’s, 1270 Boylston St., Boston. Tickets $10; (617) 351-7001.

SUPERSHAG DANCE PARTY is from 9 p.m. to midnight at SuperShag Mega Dance Complex, 406 Moody St., Waltham. Tickets $12; (781) 894-7424.

EVENTS

MFASUMMERFRIDAYS with music, cocktails, and art is from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Museum of Fine Arts, Garden Court, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. Tickets $13; (617) 267-9300.

JEFF ROBINSON presents "Live Bird: An Intimate Portrait of Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker" at 8 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle St., Cambridge. Tickets $10; (617) 547-6789 ext. 1.

FAIRS & FESTIVALS

GRECIAN FESTIVAL with food, music, a flea market, crafts, a raffle, and more is Fri.-Sun. from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Church, 14 Magazine St., Cambridge. Free; (617) 876-3601.

HARDWICK COMMUNITY FAIR with a lumberjack contest, hay rides, frog jumping, sheep, cattle, and rabbit shows, and flower, vegetable, and craft exhibits is Fri. from 5 to 10 p.m. and Sat. from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Town Common, Rte. 32A, Hardwick. Free; (413) 477-0213.

SOUTHEAST ASIAN WATER FESTIVAL with boat races, performances, dances, food, art, and more is Fri. from 6 to 10 p.m. and Sat. from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Lowell Heritage State Park Sampas Pavilion, Pawtucket Blvd., Lowell. Free; (978) 596-1013.

CARNIVAL 2004 with parties, parades, music, and more is tonight through Sunday throughout Provincetown. Free; (800) 637-8696.

AT THE MOVIES

OPENING THIS WEEKEND: If you’re not living La dolce vita this summer, at least you can see a new print of Federico Fellini’s 1960 classic starring Marcello Mastroianni as the paparazzo (a term this film originated) who’s jaded by a Rome alive with Vespas and beauties like Anita Ekberg and Anouk Aimée. It’s at the Kendall Square. If you feel you’re up the creek Without a Paddle, you can take a break with this boneheaded comedy, which is what you might get if Road Trip went Deliverance via City Slickers, as a bunch of urban knuckleheads go camping. Matthew Lillard and Seth Green star; Steven Brill (Mr. Deeds) directs. If you’ve been told that you wouldn’t be loved even if you were the Last Life in the Universe, Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s magical-realist romantic comedy might cheer you up. It’s at the Brattle Theatre. If you showed up at your apartment late one night and discovered We Don’t Live Here Anymore, you might enjoy this melodrama about infidelity based on two stories by Andre Dubus; it stars Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern, Peter Krause, and Naomi Watts. John Curran (Praise!) directs. With only a few weeks of summer remaining, you might want to romp like Benji off the Leash, or at least see this sequel featuring the indomitable stray pooch; it’s directed by the equally indomitable Joe Camp. Or if, like us, you’re more the demonic-possession kind of folks, there’s Exorcist: The Beginning. Renny Harlin replaced Paul Schrader as director of this prequel in which young Father Merrin (Stellan Skarsgård) first encounters the Devil in post-WW2 Africa.

If "Soviet comedy" seems an oxymoron, you haven’t been introduced to "The Extraordinary Mr. Barnet." Director and actor Boris Barnet was a real cinema cut-up, as can be seen in this retrospective of six features — three of them silent with live musical accompaniment — at the Museum of Fine Arts. It begins today with the silent The Extraordinary Adventure of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1924), in which Barnet stars as a gunslinging cowboy who finds that the conventions of Hollywood Westerns need adjustment in his new environment. Hailed as "the finest comedy of the decade" (beating out the best of Keaton and Chaplin?), it was directed by the great Lev Kuleshov. It screens at 6 p.m. Following it at 8 p.m. (and also screening at 2:25 p.m. on Saturday) is Barnet’s directorial debut, the silent The Girl with the Hat Box (1927), a wacky romantic comedy involving the title shop girl, an obnoxious suitor, a Harold Lloyd–like hero, and lots of sight gags. The MFA is at 465 Huntington Avenue in Boston; call (617) 267-9300.

READINGS & LECTURES

"IRAQ FROM THE INSIDE OUT" is a lecture by Jacki Lyden at 5:30 p.m. at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St., Boston. Free; (617) 646-0560.

THEATER

That the Devil is gay is not an assertion of Jerry Falwell (well, not this time) but the premise of an intriguing comedy. In Say You Love Satan, which Zeitgeist Stage Company presents in its area premiere at the Boston Center for the Arts, a Russian-literature grad student named Andrew acquires a seemingly perfect new boyfriend who happens to have "666" tattoo’d on his forehead. Newly minted Devil’s advocate Andrew "learns how far he is ready to go," and "even Satan learns that relationships are all about sacrifice, not just of the human kind." The play is the handiwork of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who for the effort picked up an Excellence in Playwriting Award at the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival. Say You Love Satan continues through September 11 at the BCA, 539 Tremont Street in the South End. Tickets are $25, $15 for August 20 through 22 previews; call (617) 426-ARTS.

JAZZ THEATER. Local musician, actor, director, and playwright Jeff Robinson began bringing his one-man show Live Bird to Boston-area stages about a decade ago. Subtitled "An Intimate Portrait of Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker," it’s set in a Harlem bar in the summer of 1947, when the then-27-year-old Parker was in the midst of recording some of the most influential sides in the history American music. Robinson’s ingratiating stage presence — and his ability to play Parker’s music live — make for a revealing evening. He celebrates Parker’s birthday — August 29, 1920 — by bringing his show for one night only to the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle Street in Harvard Square, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10; call (617) 547-6789.