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FRIDAY, JULY 15

BENEFITS

MUSICIANS UNITED AGAINST CANCER TO BENEFIT THE DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE with the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble + the Gulf + the Less Lonesome + Bowman + the Swedes | 8 pm | Middle East, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge | $12 | 617.354.8238

AT THE CLUBS

ROCK. Big, ancient, and scary-looking: Dinosaur Jr. have at last lived up to their name. With J Mascis and Lou Barlow back on speaking terms (as long as Lou keeps his mouth shut), their unfuckwithable first three albums back in print on Merge, and kids actually giving a shit about pre-Nirvana indie rock again, they’re at Avalon | 15 Lansdowne Street, Boston | with Magik Markers + Feathers | $25 | 7 pm, all ages | 617.931.2000.

FOLKISH. Debaucherous NYC bitch-rockers D-Generation didn’t present as Dylans-in-training, but now that guitarist Richard Bacchus has followed Jesse Malin into the Bowery-bard racket, there soon may not be a single cracked-out hooker on the Lower East Side who hasn’t been mourned in a brittle-strummed, reedy-voiced folk song. Bacchus plays "Soul Low" at the Lizard Lounge | 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge | 617.547.0759.

Michael Gira, the same Swan who brought you Devendra Banhart, has taken the not-from-Ohio, not-related beardo quartet Akron/Family under his wing, signing them up after seeing them play a show "where the music veered from gentle American country folk to unabashed electronic noise . . . to extended skronk improvisations that then suddenly cut to an LSD version of a backwoods barbershop quartet or a Louvin Brothers spiritual." Also, he adds, their lead singer "inevitably evokes comparisons to angels and elicits uncomfortable feelings in girl and boy alike, but when they all sing together it’s like the goddamn Beatles or Beach Boys or maybe an eerie and twisted version of the Band." With Sun City Girls’ Sir Richard Bishop at P.A.’s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville | $10 | 617.776.1557.

SOUL. Ruth Brown is one of the great performers in the history of R&B. She’s at the Regattabar for two nights with back-up that includes former Dizzy Gillespie guitarist Rodney Jones as musical director and veteran sax man Bill Easley. It’s in the Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett Street, Cambridge | 617.395.7757.

OTHER LIVE SHOWS:

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

ABBEY LOUNGE | Somerville | Mainstage | Drag the River + Dents + Dry Country Sorrow + Drago Pubstage | Richard Bacchus + Malibu

ALL ASIA CAFE | Cambridge | 8:30 pm | Steve Rowan

AQUA | Boston | Greg Luttrell

AVALON | Boston | 6:45 pm | Dinosaur Jr. + Magik Markers + Feathers

THE BEACHCOMBER | Quincy | Dick & Jane

THE BIG EASY | Boston | "Mardi Gras Friday"

BRAVO at THE MFA | Boston | Ben Cook

CANTAB LOUNGE | Cambridge | Upstairs | Little Joe Cook & the Thrillers

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

CLUB PASSIM | Cambridge | 8 pm | Owen Plant + Ryanhood

DICK’S LAST RESORT | Boston | Soul City

DODGE STREET BAR & GRILL | Salem | Over the Edge + Nobody’s Heroes + Tenafly Vipers + Numbskulls

DRUID PUB | Cambridge | 6 pm | "Traditional Irish Seisiun" with Peter Molloy & Friends

ENCORE | Boston | "Cabaret Open Mic" with Jan Peters + Colleen Powers + Michael Ricca + Brian Patton

THE GOOD LIFE DOWNTOWN | Boston | Weepin’ Willie

GRAND CANAL | Boston | Bumpin’ Uglies

GREAT SCOTT | Allston | "The Pill" with A Wish for Fire

GREEN DRAGON | Boston | Incadence

HARPERS FERRY | Allston | Playin’ Dead

HENNESSY’S | Boston | Fast Times

JASMINE & KENDALL LOUNGE | Cambridge | 6 pm | Marianne Solivan Jazz Quartet | 10 pm | Carol O’Shaughnessy

JOHNNY D’S | Somerville | Beatle Juice

KENNEDY’S | Boston. | 5 pm | Peter Rice | At 9 pm | Springhill Rounders

KIRKLAND CAFE | Somerville | "Terry Brenner’s 50th Birthday Bash" with World’s Greatest Sinners + Erin Martin & the Illyrians + Mach V + Richie Parsons + Doom Buggies Classic Ruins + Johnny Black Trio + Mickey Bliss Organ Trio

LES ZYGOMATES | Boston | Ronnie Ron Trio

LIZARD LOUNGE | Cambridge | 9:30 pm | Peter Mulvey + Session Americana

MIDDLE EAST | Cambridge | Upstairs | "Rock En Espanol" with Modelo | Downstairs | "Musicians Against Cancer" with Revolutionary Snake Ensemble + Gulf + Less Lonesome + Bowman + Swedes

MIDWAY CAFE | Jamaica Plain | Girl on Top + Ujamaa

MILKY WAY | Jamaica Plain | Bee’s Knees + Sand Machine

MR. DOOLEY’S TAVERN | Boston | 5 pm | Maxi | 9 pm | Tommy & Alan

O’BRIEN’S | Allston | Confront + Tommy & the Terrors + Retching Red + Welch Boys

OCEANA RESTAURANT | Boston | Mike DiBari Trio

PADDY O’S | Boston | Marcels

PARRIS | Boston | Runamuk

P.A.’S LOUNGE | Somerville | Akron/Family + Sir Richard Bishop + Martin Finke

PERKS COFFEEHOUSE | Norwood | 8 pm | Shiner Jones

THE RACK | Boston | 10 pm | "Anthem Elite Model Search"

REGATTABAR | Cambridge | Ruth Brown

ROGGIE’S | Brighton | Upstairs | Ali

RYLES | Cambridge | Salsa Cubana

SEA NOTE | Nantasket Beach | Lydia Warren Band

SISSY K’S | Boston | 5 pm | Matt Browne | 9 pm | Stu Sinclair & Kevin Kirrane

SIT ‘N BULL PUB | Maynard | Swinging Steaks

SOLSTICE CAFE | Mission Hill, Boston | "Soundclash Series" with Static + MrMatt

SPONTANEOUS CELEBRATIONS | Jamaica Plain | "Next Level" with DJs Nomadik + Kwesi Johnson + Kiki Breevlife + Ladies of Boston Reggae.

TANTRIC LOUNGE | 10 pm | "Hookah Friday"

TOAD | Cambridge | Asa Brebner Band

TOP OF THE HUB | Boston | Bob Nieske Group

T.T. THE BEAR’S PLACE | Cambridge | Turnin Breaks + West Indian Girl + Lincoln Conspiracy

WALLY’S CAFE | Boston | 9:30 pm | Jason Palmer/Warren Wolf Jazz Collective

WATERWORKS | Quincy | Stu Lee

WELLFLEET BEACHCOMBER | Wellfleet | Drunk Stuntmen + Los Diablos

WESTERN FRONT | Cambridge | Elegant Children

ZEITGEIST GALLERY | Cambridge | 7 pm | "Odd Instruments Night" with Onda + Jorrit Dijkstra + Matt Samolis | 9:30 pm | Bob Nell Trio

ZUZU | Cambridge | "Latin Night" with Gian Carlo Buscaglia

OTHER DJ SHOWS:

AN TAIN | Boston | 5 pm | DJ Sean O | 10 pm DJ David Natola

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

ARIA | Boston | "Foundation Friday" with DJ Klutch

ATLAS DANCE | Boston | "Top 40 Dancing"

AVALON | Boston | 10 pm | "Avaland" guest DJs with residents Eli Wilkie + Alex Whalen + Jay P

THE AVENUE | Allston | 9 pm | DJ Steve Auston

AXIS | Boston | 10 pm | "Flavor Friday" with DJ Master Millions

BLARNEY STONE PUB | Dorchester | Commercial dance and R&B

BLUE CAT CAFE | Boston | DJ Pete Winfrey

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

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

BUZZ BOSTON/EUROPA | Boston | "Club Twist for Women"

CANTAB LOUNGE | Cambridge | Downstairs | DJ du Jour

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

DEVLIN’S LOUNGE AND BAR | Brighton | "Uptempo House" with DJ Paul Dailey

EMBASSY | Boston | 10 pm | "Hip-hop" with DJ Just Nyce

ENORMOUS ROOM | Cambridge | "all st*rs have eyes" with Amy Lee Grill + DJ David Day

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

THE EXCHANGE | Boston | House and hip-hop with DJs Tiziano + Luca

GREEN BRIAR | Brighton | DJ JFK

GREEN STREET GRILL | Cambridge | "Latin DJ & Dance"

G-SPOT | Boston | "Deep, sexy house" with DJs Mike Traylor + Paul Incus

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

I/D | Boston | "Bashment" Reggae DJ Juneyacool

THE INDEPENDENT | Somerville | 10 pm | "Mash Ave" with DJs BC + Lenlow

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

JUKEBOX | Boston | Top 40 and retro dance night

THE KELLS | Allston | "Ladies Night" with DJs Doc + Kieran

MANRAY | Cambridge | "Fantasy Factory: Virtue + Vice" goth + industrial with DJ Chris Ewen and trance with Tim Ryan.

McGANN’S | Boston | 10 pm | Hip-hop, R&B, Reggae, & House with DJ Sparky

THE MODERN | Boston | "Mission" with DJs Odi + Keithy Bee vs. Mathius + Illux

ORLEANS | Somerville | DJ Tom

PHOENIX LANDING | Cambridge | "Junkbox Heroes" with Phat Mike

THE PLACE | Boston | 10 pm | VJ Laptop

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

Q | Boston | "Hip-hop & Top 40" with DJ Massai

REDLINE | Cambridge | 9 pm | Deep Soulful Chicago House with DJs KC + Rodney Marable + Craig Kapilow

RIVER GODS | Cambridge | 9 pm | "The Appliance of Science Unlockedgroove"

ROGGIE’S | Brighton | Lounge | "Dance Your Ass Off" with DJ Hoff

THE ROXY | Boston | 10:30 pm | "The Cat Club" with DJ Adilson plus special guest DJs

SCRUFFY MURPHY’S | Dorchester | "Party Time" with DJ Jen

SISSY K’S | Boston | Upstairs | Hi-NRG and pop house with DJ Tom McKenna

SPONTANEOUS CELEBRATIONS | Jamaica Plain | "Next Level" with DJs Nomadik + Kwesi Johnson + Kiki Breevlife + Ladies of Boston Reggae.

STEWART’S | Everett | 9 pm | "On Tap" UK Hardhouse, progressive trance, techno with Jbeta + DJ Fishstix

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 + Gallo

TOAST | Somerville | "Ladies Night" 80s, New Wave with DJ 9-1

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

21st AMENDMENT | Boston | DJ Sean Daly

VENU | Boston | "Roomba" Latin sounds with DJ Roger M | house with DJ Arsit

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

WEST STREET GRILLE | Boston | Top 40 funk and dance with DJs Gabe + Lazee Boy

COMEDY

BEANTOWN COMEDY VAULT | 781.729.2565 | at Remington’s, 124 Boylston St, Boston | "Boston Attitude" with Danny Kelly

COMEDY STUDIO | 617.864.5311 | 1236 Mass Ave, Cambridge | Walsh Bros + Elisha Yaffe + Shaun Donovan + Korte Yeo + Shaun Bedgood Nick Lettic + Doug Chagnon + Myq Kaplan

IMPROV ASYLUM | 617.263.6887 | 216 Hanover St, Boston | 8 and 10 pm | "Pork Fried Clowns" | Midnight | "The Night Shift"

IMPROVBOSTON THEATRE | 617.576.1253 | 1253 Cambridge St, Cambridge | 8 pm | "Pirate Lives" | 10 pm | "Theatre Sports"

JIMMY TINGLE’S OFF BROADWAY | 617.591.1616 | 255 Elm St, Somerville | 7:30 pm | "Jimmy Tingle’s American Dream"

CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERTS

Could David Robertson be a future music director of the BSO? Find out tonight at Tanglewood when he leads the orchestra in Stravinsky’s Concerto in E-flat for Chamber Orchestra (Dumbarton Oaks), Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3, with Christian Tetzlaff, and Rondo in C for Violin and Orchestra, and Haydn’s Symphony No. 8. Tanglewood is at 297 West St, Lenox | 8:30 pm | $17-$85 | 617.266.1200.

NEC FESTIVAL YOUTH ORCHESTRA | 7:30 pm | Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston | Free | 617.585.1122

VOX CONSORT | works by Purcell, Handel, Pergolesi, Bach, Haydn | 8 pm | Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, Cambridge | $25 | 617.281.8569

POPULAR MUSIC CONCERTS

Whether Ozzfest is merely a symptom of its universe or the catalyst, this year’s bottom-heavy edition belongs to New Wave of Hot Topic Metal faves Killswitch Engage (who turned down the mainstage to get their mosh on with the sidestage kids), Trivium, Black Dahlia Murder, and As I Lay Dying, who in turn will be standing on the shoulders of such recently crowned giants as Mastodon, Shadows Fall, and In Flames. Also, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden are said to rock a little. With Rob Zombie + Black Label Society + Bury Your Dead + Arch Enemy | Tweeter Center, Rte 140, Mansfield | 9 am | $39.75-$85.25 | 617.931.2000 | see bostonphoenix.com/onthedownload for MP3s.

The Olsen Twins of lesbionic Canadian indie rock, Tegan and Sara burned their Ani Difranco tapes and ironed out their quirks on last year’s So Jealous (Vapor), a batch of crinkly, whip-smart pop songs that are finally as adorable as their chirpy stage banter and glammy press shots. They’re at the Somerville Theatre | 55 Davis Square, Somerville | 8 pm, all ages | $18 | 617.931.2000.

Given what went on in the wake of Bastille Day, perhaps "headliner" isn’t exactly the best term to describe the guy at the top of the bill. Especially given that the performers for the French Library’s annual Bastille Day Street Dance all hail from former colonies: Congolese master Papa Wemba, Haitian voodoo pop chanteuse Emeline Michel, and Senegalese Afropop phenom Daby Touré | Marlborough St between Berkeley and Clarendon, Boston | 6-11 pm | $25 | 617.876.4275.

You voted Guy Mendilow the Best Local World Music Act winner in this year’s Best Music Poll for good reason: his trio mix traditional folk songs with pointed originals in four languages with instrumentation ranging from sax, and cello to accordion and Mendilow’s signature instrument, the bowed Brazilian berimbau. They play a freebie in the courtyard of the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center | 41 Second Street, Cambridge | 7 pm | 617.577.1400.

BE BLANK CONSORT + WILLIAM R. HOWE + BUFFFLUXUS | 7:30 pm | Nave Gallery, Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville | Free | 617.625.4823

G LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE | 8 pm | Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd, Hampton Beach, NH | $20 | 603.929.4201

JOHNNY LANG | 8 pm | South Shore Music Circus, 130 Sohier St, Cohasset | $33-$45 | 617.931.2787

NILE ETHIOPIAN FOLKLORIC ENSEMBLE | "Ethiopian Passages" | 7 pm | Williams Hall, 290 Huntington Ave, Boston | $15 | 617.585.1122

ROCK & BLUES CONCERT CRUISE | with the Samples | 8 pm | 1 Long Wharf, Boston | $25 | 800.594.TIXX

TOM JONES + TOWER OF POWER | Tonight + tomorrow at 7:30 pm | Bank of America Pavilion | 290 Northern Ave, Boston | $35-$55 | 617.931.2000

TROPIEZO + JUVENTUD + NO SLOGAN + MIKA MIKO | 9 pm | Regeneration Records, 155 Harvard Ave, Allston | $7 | 617.782.1313

DANCE/PARTICIPATORY

AFRICAN HEALING DANCE | 7 pm | Cambridge Friends School, 5 Cadbury Rd, Cambridge | $25 | 781.316.8068

BALKAN DANCE | 7:30 pm | Scalzi School of Dance, 101 Bigelow Ave, Watertown | $8 | 617.840.2362

HAVANA CLUB SALSA | 8:30 pm | Greek Club, 288 Green St, Cambridge | $12 | 617.312.5550

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE | 8 pm | Park Avenue Congregational Church, 50 Paul Revere Rd, Arlington | $7, $4 for students | 781.662.7475

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 at 8 pm, tomorrow 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 at 8:15 pm, tomorrow at 2:15 + 8:15 pm, Sunday at 5 pm | $18-$20 | 413.243.0745 | www.jacobspillow.org

DINING & WINING

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

By now, everyone knows Davis Square has experienced something of a renaissance over the past decade. Once a gritty Somerville ’hood, Davis is now a bona-fide destination. On the art front, too, the area doesn’t disappoint — especially tonight, when ArtBeat by Night, part of the weekend-long ArtBeat festival, sets up at Seven Hills Park. Local rapper Lyrical and DJ Rugged One will perform with Somerville youth at 6 p.m., followed by an eight-o’clock multimedia smorgasbord of rock opera, glam rock, and vaudevillian dance. Finally, at 9:45, local scholar and producer Wayne & Wax will perform and demonstrate the mash-up, which has its roots in hip-hop and remix culture. Wayne & Wax promises to end the evening with a "live mash-up of the sounds of Somerville." We’re not even going to try and guess. Call 617.625.6600 x 2985 for info. With Lyrical + DJ Rugged One + Somerville Youth + the Stumbleweeds + Ad Frank + Wayne & Wax | 6-11 pm | Park Stage, Seven Hills Park, behind the Davis Square T, Somerville | with Kitsune/Butoh Dance | 6:30 pm | Davis Square Plaza, Somerville | Suggested donation $3.

BASTILLE DAY STREET DANCE with Papa Wemba + Emeline Michel + Daby Toure | 6-11 pm | Marlborough St, between Berkeley and Clarendon Sts, Boston | $30 | 617.912.0400

COPLEY SQUARE FARMERS’ MARKET | Today + Tues 11 am–6 pm | Copley Square, along St James Ave, Boston | Free | 781.893.8222

GREEN RIVER FESTIVAL with music + food + crafts + hot air balloons plus performances by Steve Earle + the Duhks + Donna the Buffalo + Allison Moorer + Kris Delmhorst + Peter Mulvey + Jeffrey Foucault + Buddy Miller + Anais Mitchall + the Mammals + Inner Visions + Paul Cebar & the Milwaukeeans + more | Tonight 6 pm, tomorrow 11 am | Greenfield Community College, 1-91, Greenfield | $20 [for Fri], $40 [for Sat] | 413. 773.5463

ITALIAN FESTIVAL with a sausage-eating contest + DJs + music + poker + more | Tonight 6-11 pm; Sat-Sun: 3-11 pm | Central Square, East Boston | Free | 617.561.3201

WRESTLEVANIA! FEMALE WRESTLING THEN + NOW with La Gata Negra + a screening of Lipstick and Dynamite | Midnight | Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline | $9 | 617.734.2501

AT THE MOVIES

You’ll see stars, stars, and more stars when you attend this or any installment of the "Movies by Moonlight" series at the Boston Harbor Hotel (70 Rowes Wharf, Boston), held Friday nights through September 2 on the waterfront terrace of Intrigue Café. Tonight, catch Ernest Borgnine as a butcher/mama’s boy looking for love in the 1955 romantic comedy Marty. The free screenings start at sundown; call 617.856.7744 for further information.

Ruth Leitman’s documentary Lipstick and Dynamite revisits the pioneering ladies who rassled alligators, bears, and humans of both genders back in the age before G.L.O.W., and Allston’s own masked-lady wrestling troupe La Gata Negra (see Camille Dodero’s article in the "News & Features" section of this site) throws down in "Wrestlevania! Women Wrestling Then and Now." It’s a midnight show at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline | $9 | 617.734.2501.

OPENING THIS WEEKEND: Two Hollywood blockbuster hopefuls this week. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is Tim Burton’s remake of the 1971 Roald Dahl adaptation Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, with Johnny Depp in the Gene Wilder role as chocolate mogul Willy and Freddie Highmore (Peter to Depp’s J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland) as Charlie. And Wedding Crashers has Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn as the title studs hoping to profit by the hymeneal high spirits of the bridesmaids; David Dobkin (Shanghai Knights) directs. Rounding out the week’s openings is a quartet set for the Kendall Square: Hans Petter Moland’s The Beautiful Country, in which the Vietnamese son of an American GI tries to find his father (Nick Nolte); Marc Masciandro’s Happy Endings, which has interlocking stories in contemporary LA; Ziad Doueiri’s Lila dit ça|Lila Says, which is about adolescent love in a Parisian Arab quarter; and Ingmar Bergman’s Saraband, a follow-up to his 1973 Scenes from a Marriage with Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson.

The Brattle Theatre is devoting its weekend to Robert Rodriguez: you can catch Frank Miller’s Sin City today and tomorrow, Spy Kids tomorrow and Sunday, and El Mariachi and Desperado as a double feature Sunday and Monday. See "Film Listings" for times. Over at the Harvard Film Archive, Tony Richardson is celebrated today with screenings of Tom Jones (1963; 7 pm) and The Entertainer (1960; 9:15 pm). And this weekend’s midnight show at the Coolidge Corner is Katsuhiro Ôtomo’s Victorian England anime from 2004, Steamboy, which screens in the Japanese version with English subtitles.

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

READINGS & LECTURES

EUGENE SEIFER OLSON reads from The Pajama Game | 12:30 pm | Borders, 10-24 School St, Boston | Free | 617.557.7188

DISCUSSION WITH COMPOSER NKEIRU OKOYE + AUTHOR CAROLIVIA HERRON | 12:15 pm | Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington St, Boston | $5, $4 for students, seniors | 617.482.6439

HARRY POTTER-RELATED EVENTS

(Book release at Midnight)

POTTERMANIA. It’s possible there’s a bookstore in some remote part of the world that isn’t staying open till midnight tonight, but if so, we haven’t heard about it. As it is, local sellers are shelling out for costume contests, free film screenings, and rock bands to help attract a share of the Muggles who’ll be desperate to get their mitts on the first copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Joyce Millman’s wish list for plot points in the new volume is on the "Books" page of this site; and see below for our special listings section running down the various Potter-themed parties taking place tonight.

B. DALTON BELMONT CENTER with Harry Potter–inspired food + games + costumes + prizes | 43 Leonard St, Belmont | Free | 617.484.6818

BARNES & NOBLE BRAINTREE with magic show + Harry Potter–inspired food + games + costumes + prizes | 8 pm | 660 Beacon St, Boston | Free | 781.380.3655

BARNES & NOBLE BROOKLINE with food + games + costumes + prizes | 9 pm | 325 Harvard St, Brookline | Free | 617.232.0594

BARNES & NOBLE CHESTNUT HILL with food + games + costumes + prizes | 9 pm | 170 Boylston St, Chestnut Hill | Free | 617.965.7621

BARNES & NOBLE PRUDENTIAL CENTER with food + games + costumes + prizes | 9 pm | 800 Boylston St, Boston | Free | 617.247.6959

BORDERS BRAINTREE with food + games + costumes + prizes | 9 pm | 255 Grossman Dr, Braintree | Free | 617.499.3300

BORDERS CAMBRIDGE with food + games + costumes + prizes | 9 pm | 100 Cambridgeside Place, Cambridge | Free | 617.679.0887

BORDERS FRAMINGHAM with food + games + costumes + prizes | 9 pm | 85 Worcester Rd, Framingham | Free | 508.875.2321

BROOKLINE BOOKSMITH with trivia + movies + cookies + games + costumes + prizes | 9 pm | 290 Harvard St, Brookline | Free | 617.566.6660

BU BARNES & NOBLE with Harry Potter-inspired food + games + costumes + prizes | 10 pm | 660 Beacon St, Boston | Free | 617.236.7448

CONCORD BOOKSHOP with food + games + costumes + prizes | 10 pm | 65 Main St, Concord | Free | 978.369.2405

CURIOUS GEORGE GOES TO WORDSWORTH with food + games + costumes + prizes | 9 pm | 1 JFK St, Cambridge | Free | 617.498.0062

HARVARD BOOK STORE with trivia + raffles + face painting + Harry Potter-inspired food + games + costumes + prizes | 10:30 pm | 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge | Free | 617.661.1515

HARVARD COOP with food + games + costumes + prizes | 9 pm | 1400 Mass Ave, Cambridge | Free | 617.499.2000

HARVARD MEDICAL COOP BOOKSTORE with food + games + costumes + prizes | 9 pm | 333 Longwood Ave, Boston | Free | 617.499.3300

JABBERWOCKY BOOKSHOP with food + games + costumes + prizes | 9 pm | 50 Water St, Newburyport | Free | 617.679.0887

MIT COOP with food + games + costumes + prizes | 9 pm | 3 Cambridge Center, Cambridge | Free | 617.499.3200

NEW ART CENTER with Tom Perrotta + Kay Hanley + Michelle Lewis + movie screening + cash bar + food + games + costumes + prizes | 9 pm | 61 Washington Park, Newton | Free | 617.244.6619

TATNUCK BOOKSELLERS with live owls + magicians + jugglers + food + games + costumes + prizes | 8 pm | 335 Chandler St, Worcester | Free | 508.756.7644

WILLOW BOOKS AND CAFE with Butter Beer + chocolate frogs + Bertie Botts jelly beans + games + prizes + costumes | 9 pm | 279 Great Rd, Acton | Free | 978.266.0066

THEATER

The Syringa Tree, Pamela Gien’s evocative memoir of a South African girlhood in the age of apartheid, sold out its January run at the American Repertory Theatre, so the actress/playwright is returning for a reprise of this moving tour de force in which she plays not only the six-year-old narrator but a host of other characters young and old, black and white. Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St, Cambridge | through August 7 | $36-$72; $12 students | 617.547.8300.

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.

Donald Margulies’s Pulitzer-winning Dinner with Friends explores the ripples in a long-time marriage when the couple’s best friends break up. Directed by Elliot Norton Award winner Scott Edmiston for Gloucester Stage Company, it’ll run through Sunday at 267 East Main St, Gloucester | $30, $20 for seniors and students | 978.281.4433.

The venerable Williamstown Theatre Festival opens its mainstage season (on a brand new mainstage) with Oscar Wilde’s comedy of manners Lady Windemere’s Fan. And the director knows the territory: Moisés Kaufman’s first big success was Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. The epigram flinging continues through Sunday at the WTF, Route 2, Williamstown | $20-$52 | 413.597.3400.


Issue Date: July 15, 2005
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