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THURSDAY, JULY 14

AT THE CLUBS

Bringing back heavy eyeliner and Flock of Seagulls–like hair, the Bravery brave the crowds at the Roxy (279 Tremont Street, Boston) tonight. With hits like "An Honest Mistake," the Bravery have used their electro-grunge sound (similar to Franz Ferdinand) to create legions of fans — since back in their early days in NYC, they were selling out shows before their CD even came out. Tickets are $15; this all-ages show starts at 7 p.m. While not quite the same kind of entertainment as the Roxy’s Friday Chippendales shows, it’s a suitable substitute.

Looking for some flamboyance? Try the Midway Café (3496 Washington Street, Jamaica Plain) tonight and every Thursday for DJ Mozz and the signature Queeraoke. This name isn’t used lightly — expect heels, feather boas, fishnet stockings, and general debauchery, along with plenty of amateur Aretha Franklins and Chers. And the best part? Costumes are provided. This night is 21-plus; with no cover, how can you go wrong? The fun begins at 9 p.m.

POP. Long after the cuteness of her Letters to Cleo pigtail-pop phase faded, Kay Hanley kept up behind the scenes by penning the kidpunk and bubblegrunge soundtracks for Generation O and Josie & the Pussycats. Her new supergroup the Dilettantes, though, are real-life Josies: the rotating cast now features fellow LA transplant Paula Kelley and sounds like the Go-Go’s getting frisky backstage with the Bangles. Don’t bother hitting on them: they’ve got dates with Harry Potter geeks and Red Sox boosters the rest of the weekend. But tonight Kay’s yours solo at T.T. the Bear’s Place | 10 Brookline St, Cambridge | 617.492.BEAR.

PUNK. In the early 1980s, the Adolescents helped establish conservative Orange County as the ancestral home of snot-nosed California hardcore, thereby laying the groundwork for an era when punk-rockers rate trophy wives and reality shows and their ’hood is synonymous with high-school indie-rock soap operas. The latest line-up returns with a new album, OC Confidential, and an all-ages gig at Axis | 13 Lansdowne St, Boston | 7 pm | $12 | 617.262.2437.

AFROBEAT. The great Nigerian agitfunk revolutionary Fela Kuti sweated through half-hour riot-funk jams about zombies and risked his life by pissing off more dictators than a Zack de la Rocha gig at Manitoba’s. He’s now known to indie-rockers primarily as the black guy in the band !!!, even though he was dead many years before they formed. Fela’s son Femi Kuti carries on his legacy at the Paradise | 967 Comm Ave, Boston | $25 | 617.562.8800.

OTHER LIVE SHOWS:

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

ABBEY LOUNGE | Somerville | Mainstage | Nowhere USA + Bloodshot Hooligans + Salacious Crumb + Scars | Pubstage | Laurel Brauns

THE AVENUE | Allston | 7 pm | "Acoustic Pop" with Will Daly

THE BEACHCOMBER | Quincy | Inchicore

BLUESTONE BISTRO | Brighton | "Open Mic"

BOSTON ROCKS | Boston | 5 pm | "After Work Thursday"

BRAVO at THE MFA | Boston | Ron Poster

BREEZEWAY BAR & GRILLE | Roxbury | Serious Bizness

BULL RUN | Shirley | Sandy Martin

THE BURREN | Somerville | Front Room | 10 pm | "Traditional Irish Music" | Back Room | 10 pm | Swinging Johnsons

CLUB PASSIM | Cambridge | 8 pm | Chris & Meredith Thompson

DICK’S LAST RESORT | Boston | Classic Trax

DODGE STREET BAR & GRILL | Salem | LW’s

ENCORE | Boston | Michelle Currie

GREEN DRAGON | Boston | Spitting Vinnies

GREEN STREET GRILL | Cambridge | 10:30 pm | "Afro-pop Reggae High Life" with Joh Camara & Jama-Jigi

HARPERS FERRY | Allston | Back in Black

HENNESSY’S | Boston | Grayspot

JACOB WIRTH RESTAURANT | Boston | 6 pm | Clay Brown Trio

JASMINE & KENDALL LOUNGE | Cambridge | 9:30 pm | Dan Tepfer Trio

JOHNNY D’S | Somerville | Fula Flute Ensemble

JOSE McINTYRE’S | Boston | Downstairs | Me & Julio

KIRKLAND CAFE | Somerville | "Bastille Day Bash" with White Widow + Betty Ford Pickup + Hixx + Lonely Hearts

LES ZYGOMATES | Boston | Chris Stovall Brown

LIZARD LOUNGE | Cambridge | 9:30 pm | Kabir

LOBBY LOUNGE AT THE HYATT REGENCY | Boston | 5:30 pm | Andy Baer Quartet

MIDDLE EAST | Cambridge | Upstairs | Lock & Key + Distinguished Members + Outsmarting Simon + Best Death Ever | Downstairs | Inspectah Deck + Savin Ill + Lyrical Backdraft + OVM + Iroq & John Doe

MR. DOOLEY’S TAVERN | Boston | 9 pm | Eamonn Sheehan

O’BRIEN’S | Allston | Badass Teenage Mustache + Haverchuck + Trucker

PADDY O’S | Boston | Brick Park

PARADISE ROCK CLUB | Boston | 9 pm | Femi Kuti + Toussaint Liberator

P.A.’S LOUNGE | Somerville | Reports + Tristan Da Cunha + Sweet Thieves + Shark & Bear

PERKS COFFEEHOUSE | Norwood | 8 pm | Chris Wilhelm

PORTER’S BAR & GRILL | Boston | "L.A.B. Thursday: Local Music"

Q | Boston | "Hawaiian Tropic Model Search"

REDLINE | Cambridge | 10 pm | "Reunion Thursday" with NPG All-Stars

RIVER GODS | Cambridge | 9 pm | "The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow" with Jon Whitney

THE ROXY | Boston | 8 pm | Bravery + Dead 60s + Nic Armstrong & the Thieves

TIR NA NOG | Somerville | Ronan "Fluffy" Quinn

TOAD | Cambridge | 7 pm | Electrolux | 10 pm | Ken Clark Organ Trio

TOP OF THE HUB | Boston | Bob Nieske Trio

TRATTORIA IL PANINO | Boston | "Young Professionals Club"

T.T. THE BEAR’S PLACE | Cambridge | Kay Hanley + Kevin Devine + Tim Williams

WALLY’S CAFE | Boston | Francisco Mela Quintet

WELLFLEET BEACHCOMBER | Wellfleet | Well

WESTERN FRONT | Cambridge | Soulfire

WEST STREET GRILLE | Boston | "Late Night Lounge"

ZEITGEIST GALLERY | Cambridge | 7 pm | Bubek/Smith Quintet | 9:30 pm | "Night of the Living Hammond B3’s" with Sam Gilman

OTHER DJ SHOWS:

ALL ASIA CAFE | Cambridge | 9:30 pm | 80s Night

AN TAIN | Boston | 5 pm | DJ Keith

AN TUA NUA | Boston | 9 pm | "Thursday Night Live" with DJ G Squared

ARIA | Boston | NYC hip-hop with guest DJs

AVALON | Boston | 10 pm | "Hot & Heavy Thursday" with DJ Caprice

THE AVENUE | Allston | 9 pm | "Dance Your Ass Off" DJ Hoff

AXIS | Boston | 7 pm | Adolescents + Briggs | 10 pm | DJ Nailz + Tasty + Taner K spinning vocal and progressive house

BLARNEY STONE PUB | Dorchester | 80s and today with DJ Scorch

BLUE CAT CAFE | Boston | DJ Casey

BUCK MULLIGAN’S | West Roxbury | R&B and commercial dance with DJ George

BUZZ BOSTON/EUROPA | Boston | "Absolute" house & trance with DJ Stezo

COMMON GROUND | Allston | "Love Night" 80s, all vinyl with DJ Brian

DEVLIN’S LOUNGE AND BAR | Brighton | "Chart & Dance" with DJ Doc

EMBASSY | Boston | "The Glamorous Life" hip-hop & electro party with DJs Susan Esthera + Aphrodite

ENORMOUS ROOM | Cambridge | Hip-hop with DJs Hua Hsu + Cchay

THE E ROOM AT THE GOLDEN TEMPLE | Brookline | House and acid jazz with DJ Johan Van Cauwenberghe

THE EXCHANGE | Boston | "Heaven & Hell" house and hip-hop with DJs Chaos + Mr. Aru

FELT | Boston | "Liquid" with DJs Chris DeSimone + Jynx

FOUNDATION LOUNGE | Boston | 70s, 80s, funky disco, motown with DJ Edward Grant Stuart

GREEN BRIAR | Brighton | DJ JFK

HANNAH’S | Somerville | Reggae and house with guest DJs

HONG KONG AT FANEUIL HALL | Boston | "Hip-hop Thursday"

HONG KONG | Cambridge | Mainstream, house & Reggae with DJ Bob

JOSE McINTYRE’S | Boston | Upstairs| DJ John Tringall

THE KELLS | Allston | "Fun House" with DJs Edgar + Mike Gioscia

LIZARD LOUNGE | Cambridge | 8 pm | DJ Axel Foley

MACHINE | Boston | "Human Thursday" with DJs Sean Caron + Angles

MANRAY | Cambridge | "Campus" alternative boypop with DJ Chris Ewen and high energy house with DJ Dena

MANTRA | Boston | 10:30 pm | "Mantra Thursday" DJs spin eclectic international, vocal house, & hip-hop

MARQUEE | Boston | "Turn It Up Thursday"

MIDDLESEX LOUNGE | Cambridge | 9 pm | "Make It New: Forced Exposure" with DJs Caulder + David Day

MIDWAY CAFE | Jamaica Plain | "Women’s Dance Night" with DJ Mozz & Queeraoke

MILKY WAY | Jamaica Plain | "Aquanet Dance Party" 80s, old school hip-hop, funk, and soul with DJs Casey + CTO + Frank White + Tommee + Knife + Paul Foley

THE MODERN | Boston | 10 pm | "Soma" with DJ Omar

ORLEANS | Somerville | DJ Ren Justice

PHOENIX LANDING | Cambridge | "Elements" drum ‘n bass with DJs Crook + Lenore

PURPLE SHAMROCK | Boston | DJ Flanagan with musical guest Jim Plunkett

THE RACK | Boston | DJs Massi + Mike Pardi

ROGGIE’S | Brighton | Lounge | Tribal House and Break beat funk with DJ Jonathan Theory

THE ROXY | Boston | 10:30 pm | "The Latin Quarter" with special guest DJs

SISSY K’S | Boston | Justin Beech | Upstairs | popular dance with DJ Deja

SUGAR SHACK | Boston | "College Night" with DJ B-Spin

TOAST | Somerville | "Ladies Night" house, trance, techno with DJ 9-1

21st AMENDMENT | Boston | DJ Sean Daly

VAPOR | Boston | "MOCCA" hip hop and R&B with DJs KC + Ron Steel

VENU | Boston | NYC house with DJ Nailz | "ISE-O spa" with DJ Tasty

VERTIGO | Boston | "Diversify Thursdays" soulful house with DJ Fran | UK hard house and progressive trance with DJs JLong + Tek + Catatonic and guest DJs

COMEDY

BEANTOWN COMEDY VAULT | 781.729.2565 | at Remington’s, 124 Boylston St, Boston | "Comedy Showcase" with Greg Howell

CANTAB LOUNGE | 617.354.2685 | 738 Mass Ave, Central Square, Cambridge | 8 pm | "Tribe Improv"

COMEDY CONNECTION | 617.248.9700 | Upstairs at Faneuil Hall, Boston | 8:30 pm | "The R-Rated Hypnotist" Frank Santos

COMEDY STUDIO | 617.864.5311 | 1236 Mass Ave, Cambridge | "Dan Sally Show" with Joe List + Tom Dustin + Jimmy Bowles + Rachel Isenberg + Nate Johnson Charlie Hatton + Mike Morrell + Andrea Henry

IMPROV ASYLUM | 617.263.6887 | 216 Hanover St, Boston | 8 pm | "Pork Fried Clowns" | 9:45 pm | "NXT: Up & Coming Talent"

IMPROVBOSTON THEATRE | 617.576.1253 | 1253 Cambridge St, Cambridge | 8 pm | "UnNatural Selection" | 10 pm | "The Great and Secret Comedy Show"

CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERTS

In town: Très with works by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Francesca Caccini, and Thiara Margherita Cozzolani. At Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston | 8 pm | $15, $10 for students, seniors | 508.212.6038.

At Tanglewood: the Beaux Arts Trio in Beethoven’s Piano Trios No. 3, No. 4 (Ghost), and No. 6 (Archduke). In Seiji Ozawa Hall, 297 West St, Lenox | 8:30 pm | $17-$53 | 617.266.1200.

POPULAR MUSIC CONCERTS

MICHAEL BASINSKI + CHRISTOPHER FRITTON | 7:30 pm | Nave Gallery, Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville | Free | 617.625.4823

CAROLE KING | 8 pm | South Shore Music Circus, 130 Sohier St, Cohasset | $62.50 | 617.931.2787

ARI HEST + THE SHORE | 5:30 pm | Copley Square, Boston | Free | 617.931.1111

MASS THEATRICA | "Broadway: Parisian Style" | 7 pm | St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 15 St. Paul St, Brookline | $15, $13 students, seniors | 508.757.8515

NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY WOODWIND & BRASS FACULTY ENSEMBLE | "African American Passages" | 7 pm | Williams Hall | 290 Huntington Ave, Boston | $15 | 617.585.1122

QUINTRON & MISS PUSSYCAT + THE KONKS + GHETTO FIGHTERS | 8 pm | Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center, 85 West Newton St, Boston | $10 | 857.373.9086

SMASHACHUSETTS | with Steel Train + the City on Film + the Sleeping + Kevin Devine + Emergency Music + Receiving End of Sirens + Will Brierly & the Roller Holsters + Mary Lou Lord + the Heuristic + Malibu Heights + Francine + A Trillion Barnacle Lapse + They & the Children + Bloodletter + Darkbuster + Manx + Read Yellow + the Number 12 Looks Like You + Flaming Tsunamis + the Hound + Sparrows + the Chinese Stars + As Long As We’re Living, We’re All Dying + Hell Within + Emok + Akela + Minimata + the Felix Culpa + Death to Tyrants + the Lezuline Midnight + Pretty Faces + the Lipstick Massacre + Tides + Protokal + Dying for It | Superspecs + A Loss for Words + Piles + Therefore I Am | noon-midnight | RollerKingdom, 5 Highland Ave, Hudson | $20 | 978.562.3439

DANCE/PARTICIPATORY

EXPERIENCED INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE | 8 pm | First Parish of Watertown, 35 Church St, Watertown | $7, $4 for students | 781.662.7475

GREEK FOLK DANCE | 7 pm | Greek Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary, 29 Central St, Somerville | Free | 617.625.2222

MILONGA LA PORTEÑA | 8:30 pm | Brookline Community Center for the Arts, 14 Green St, Brookline | $10 | 617.738.2800

NEW ENGLAND CONTRAS + SQUARES | 8 pm | VFW Mount Auburn Post, 688 Huron Ave, Cambridge | $6 | 781.662.6710

SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE | 8 pm (with a beginners’ dance at 7:30 pm) | Universalist Church, 211 Bridge St, Salem | Tickets $3 | 978. 745.2229

TEMPORADA LATINA SALSA AND MERENGUE DANCE | 8 pm | Ryles Jazz Club, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge | $12 before 9 pm; $8 after 9 pm | 617.876.9330

DANCE/PERFORMANCE

This week’s Ted Shawn Theatre guest at Jacob’s Pillow is Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, a San Francisco troupe that doesn’t appear on the East Coast very often. That’s on George Carter Rd, Becket | Tonight + tomorrow at 8 pm, Saturday at 2 pm + 8 pm, Sunday at 2 pm | $45-$50 | 413.243.0745 | www.jacobspillow.org

Ben Munisteri Dance Projects comes to Jacob’s Pillow with works including Not Human and the world premiere of Thunderblood. That’s in the Pillow’s Doris Duke Studio Theatre, George Carter Rd, Becket | Tonight + tomorrow at 8:15 pm, Saturday at 2:15 + 8:15 pm, Sunday at 5 pm | $18-$20 | 413.243.0745 | www.jacobspillow.org

In town: David Dorfman Dance presents "Old Testaments/New Visions" as the first of this year’s Concord Summer Dance offerings. That’s at the Concord Academy Performing Arts Center, 166 Main St, Concord | 8 pm | $20, $10 for students | 978.402.2339.

DINING & WINING

We Americans celebrate the Fourth of July with burgers and chips. The French, on the other hand, really know how to celebrate a national holiday. Over at Pigalle (75 Charles Street South, Boston), for example, a special Bastille Day three-course menu today includes chicken-liver mousse, roasted halibut, and chocolate soufflé. The cost is $40, or $55 with wine. Call 617.423.4944. Or head to Brasserie Jo (120 Huntington Avenue, Boston) for its Sidewalk Crêperie, featuring crêpes Suzette and chocolate crêpes for $4 apiece, plus lunch and dinner entrées for $17.89 in honor of Bastille Day. Call 617.425.3240.

If you can relate to Forrest Gump, you’ll want to head over to Magnolias Southern Cuisine (1193 Cambridge Street, Cambridge) before the end of July. For the rest of this month, the restaurant is holding a Shrimp Festival, featuring dishes like coconut-beer-battered shrimp, Louisiana shrimp boil, and shrimp-stuffed rainbow trout. Call 617.576.1971 for reservations and information.

Prix fixe dinners are lovely and all, but don’t you sometimes wish you could choose the courses yourself, rather than having to rely on the chef’s whims? Thanks to Grotto (37 Bowdoin Street, Boston), now you can. Throughout July, the restaurant is celebrating its second anniversary by offering a three-course, $30 build-your-own meal featuring any appetizer, entrée, and dessert from the regular menu. Call 617.227.3434 for reservations and information.

Chris Douglass says he just might play the number 27 on his next lottery ticket. The chef/owner of Icarus (3 Appleton Street, Boston) has reason to favor the number: the restaurant celebrates its 27th birthday this month, and was also rated 27 (out of 30) for food in the 2005 Zagat Survey. What better way to recognize both achievements than with a three-course prix fixe dinner menu, served during the first 27 days of July for — what else? — $27. Call 617.426.1790 for reservations and information.

EVENTS

Imagine a lake at sunset, surrounded by hemlocks and gingkos, its surface illuminated with gently bobbing paper lanterns. It may sound like the final sequence of some obscure Japanese art-house flick — in fact, maybe it is — but at the seventh annual Lantern Festival, taking place tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Forest Hills Cemetery (95 Forest Hills Avenue, Jamaica Plain), it will also be a reality. Inspired by a Buddhist ceremonial rite, the festival commences with performances by the a cappella group VariAsians, Master Tsuji’s Samurai Taiko Drummers, and the Chu Ling Dance Academy; meanwhile, attendees spread out picnics and prepare their lanterns for launching (a $10 donation is recommended per lantern; admission is otherwise free). Rain date is July 21. For further information, visit www.foresthillstrust.org

ARTBEAT. Davis Square’s annual shindig is a block party disguised as a public-art festival, with dozens of musicians, performance artists, authors, artisans, and causes vying for your attention over a long weekend. A few Somerville artists have been seen rolling their eyes at the mention of this year’s theme, "Mix & Mash," a play on the mash-up remix craze. If you’ve somehow missed the boat on this one, a panel of visual artists, DJs, filmmakers, copyright experts, and others will bring you up to speed at a "Mash Forum" at the Somerville Library, 79 Highland Ave, Somerville | 6-8 pm | 617.625.6600 x 2985.

TURBO ICE FESTIVAL with high flying ski jumpers + performances by Averi + Adam Ezra Group + Papermoon + games + prizes | 11 am-7 pm | City Hall Plaza, Boston | Free | 617.488.2877

AT THE MOVIES

Starvation has never before or since inspired such comic fantasies as those in Charlie Chaplin’s silent masterpiece The Gold Rush (1925). The Tramp is transformed into a prancing pullet in the imagination of his ravenous cabin mate while he in turn makes a shoe into a sumptuous pasta repast. Boston Public Library, Copley Square, Boston | 6 pm | Free | 617.536.5400 x 4250.

For more movies and showtimes, see our Movie Theater directory.

READINGS & LECTURES

DAMIAN McNICOLL reads from A Son Called Gabriel | 12:30 pm | Borders, 10-24 School St, Boston | Free | 617.557.7188

IFEANYI MENKITI + DIANA DER HOVANESSIAN read poetry | 7 pm | Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, Cambridge | Free | 617.491.2220

MARK ROCKOFF + JASON LARSON sign Children’s Hospital Boston | 12:30 pm | Harvard Medical Coop, 333 Longwood Ave, Boston | Free | 617.499.3300

JENNIFER WEINER reads Little Earthquakes | 7 pm | Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington St, Wellesley | Free | 781.431.1160

ARTBEAT MASH FORUM with Gary Duehr + Peter Gilbert + Ellen Rauch + Jeff Silva + Marcus Stern + Jake Trussell + David Turner + McKenzie Wark | 6 pm | Somerville Library, 79 Highland Ave, Somerville | Suggested donation $3 | 617.625.6600 x 2985

"KEEN OBSERVER: AN EVENING WITH BRUCE McCALL" | 5:30 pm | Norman Rockwell Museum, 9 Glendale Rd, Stockbridge | $12.50 | 413.298.4100 x 220

THEATER

An evening featuring more tricks with dicks than Jacque’s on a Saturday night, Puppetry of the Penis is the most fun you can have watching middle-aged guys tie their cocks in knots. Practitioners of "the ancient Australian art of genital origami" return to twist, bend, and yank their scrotal matter into the Pelican, the Windsurfer, and the Hamburger. An open-ended run continues at the Lyric Stage, 140 Clarendon St, Boston | 617.931.ARTS.