Tuesday, January 06, 2009
The last few weeks have been pretty dead, as far as author appearances go — ironically enough, though, the crime-happy folks at Kate’s Mystery Books will get the scene’s blood pumping again with one of the first literary events of 2009. This installment of MURDER UNDER BONES is a release party for local fan favorite HALLIE EPHRON’s Never Tell A Lie, a ripping yarn about obsession, vengeance, and yard sales. The pulled pork comes with a side of foul play tonight at Redbones, 55 Chester St, Somerville | 5:30-7 pm | free | 617.628.2200 or http://www.redbones.com or http://www.katesmysterybooks.com.
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009
We’re not sure exactly what kind of job a CLAWJOB is, but we do know it’s given Nick Burgess and erstwhile Clicker Mike Gintz some seriously bonkers résumés. Since escaping from BU’s Zoo Towers, they’ve put together Space Crackers, a sci-fi rock opera complete with such epic imagery as a fully evolved race of fish people and a Great Bird War, and Manifest Destiny, a tribute to the great laff riots of American history: Civil War battlefield surgery, Native American genocide, the Industrial Revolution, and (timely!) the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872. Huff Clawjob’s conceptual ether and succumb to their aural bonesaws, at T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge | 9 pm | $7 | 617.492.BEAR or http://www.ttthebears.com.
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009
May Torres, an artist featured in Who Does She Think She Is?
WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS? (2008) is a question the five women profiled in Pamela Tanner Bolls’s documentary have no doubt heard directed toward them at some point. They’re artists from disparate backgrounds who share the knack for balancing their professions with family life and financial stability. Among those featured are the Guerrilla Girls, Lesley College dean Shaun MacNiff, and Maura Reilly of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. It screens through January 18 at the Museum of Fine Arts. Also at the MFA through January 15 is Robert Hamer’s rarely screened British noir IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAYS (1947). Combining Hitchcockian suspense with a foreshadowing of New Wave style, it offers a fascinating glimpse at postwar London, where it was shot on location. The MFA is at 465 Huntington Ave, Boston | 617.369.330 or http://www.mfa.org.
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
Perhaps this holiday shopping season your relatives were too busy trying to claw their way out of their snow-blitzed, electricity-less houses, and they didn’t have time to trot over to Wal-Mart. Instead, perhaps they blindly rooted around in their scrapbooks, yanked out a fistful of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fanfic you wrote when you were eight, and wrapped it up as a gift for you. Perhaps you are now wondering what, exactly, you are supposed to do with your three-page paean to Master Splinter. Well, friends, rejoice, for now it is time to ring in 2009 with “MORTIFIED,” where your embarrassing personal detritus becomes comedy gold. Diaries will be read, old demo tapes will be played, and guts will be busted at Mottley’s, 61 Chatham St, Boston | 7:30 pm | $15 | 877.548.3237 or http://www.mottleyscomedy.com or http://getmortified.com.
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COMEDY
Thursday, January 08, 2009
If you still don’t know who BETTYE LAVETTE is, here’s all you need: teenage Detroit R&B star, cut discs for Atlantic and Motown, derailed, eventually came back with two albums on Anti-, I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise (2005, produced by Joe Henry) and Scene of the Crime (2007, backed by the Drive-By Truckers), and she sounds like Tina when she was with Ike and, at 63, plays just as hard | Scullers, DoubleTree Guest Suites Hotel, 400 Soldiers Field Road, Boston | 8 + 10 pm | $28 | 617.562.4111 or http://www.scullersjazz.com.
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
The terrific Chicago alto saxophonist DAVE REMPIS, of Vandermark 5 fame, joins a local contingent of trumpeter Forbes Graham, pianist Pandelis Karayorgis, and drummer Luther Gray at the Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St, Cambridge | 7 pm | $10 | 617.395.1393 or http://www.lily-pad.net.
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
Like any good poltergeist, GRUPO FANTASMA rattle the rafters, shake the walls, and forcibly haul any stationary asses off their barstools with trippy blasts of psychedelic Latin funk drenched in cumbia, salsa, and Afro-Cuban clavé music, with a little Wu-Tang influence stirred into the mix. These formidable hornblowers (whose ranks number between 10 and 12 musicians at any given time) have backed Prince, performed with Spoon, and collaborated with funk legend Maceo Parker on their Grammy-nominated album Sonidos Gold. Let them hotbox you with druggy rump shakers tonight at the Middle East downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Cambridge | 8 pm | $10 advance/$13 day of show | 617.931.2000 or http://www.ticketmaster.com.
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