image credit: keith macLelland. south rotunda gallery, hynes convention center. opening reception 3.24
THU 3.20
14th Irish Film Festival, Boston
four day commitment
It’s okay, St. Patrick’s Day is over, you don’t have to be embarrassed about your Irish heritage anymore. Now that the binge-drinking buffoons have gone back to the burbs, it’s safe once again to admit your affection for Emerald Isle art without having to explain why you don’t like the Dropkick Murphys. So why not celebrate with four days of the latest in Celtic cinematic fair.
[Somerville Theatre. 55 Davis Square, Somerville. Thu 3.20 – Sun 3.24. Multiple showtimes/$11, $85 festival pass. irishfilmfestival.com]
THU 3.20
90s Themed Big Bash
hey, hey we’re the Grungies
The invite says there will be “sentimental snacks” at this Planned Parenthood benefit but we want to know how sentimental. Has our favorite reproductive rights organization stumbled a upon a stockpile of the gross-but-great OK Soda? Have the wonderful women’s health advocates scored a stack of Dunkaroos? Will this awesome 90s-themed soiree have heaping bowls full of Super Mario Brothers/Legend of Zelda cereal? Please say yes.
[Villa Victoria. 85 West Newton St., Boston. 7pm-10pm/21+/$65. pplm.org/bigbash]
SAT 3.22
I Love 80s Party
you probably don’t remember them
It’s the weekend and we’re getting so wasted that we’re heading back in time. We’re just like Huey Lewis riding Marty McFly’s fake hover board into the sunset. We’re so 80s that the, uh, fuck. We used all our 80s-joke-mojo on Huey Lewis—what can we say the jokes are getting old! Ba-dump-cha! But seriously, we’re drunk and we’re pretty sure that the leg warmers and leotard looked great before we left the house. DJ Brek-One rocks the ones and twos.
[Crush. 275 Tremont St., Boston. 10pm/21+/$15. ouijaentertainment.com]
TUE 3.25
Dream Theater
REM
It’s prog-metal inception! Metal legends and Berklee alum Dream Theater team up with Berklee student Eren Basbug and the Berklee World Strings Orchestra and Concert Choir to perform epic arrangements of ol’ DT’s work. Fortunately, it’s at the Opera House and not the Berklee Performing Arts Center–a BPAC show would have been so Berklee that the universe may have collapsed in on itself. All this disproves our theory that if you say ‘Berklee’ three times in a newspaper Chick Corea appears in your newsroom.
[Boston Opera House. 539 Washington St., Boston. 7:30pm/all ages/$35+. berklee.edu]
TUE 3.25
Robert A.A. Lowe (Lichens) + Ben Russell
you’re projecting again
The other day we were having a “professional development meeting” with a pop-music critic colleague —a.k.a, pounding beers at The Model—when we the topic came around to experimental and spontaneous music. We agreed that even though it might seem counter intuitive, all the years we’d spent listen to outre-improv subversion had helped us enjoy and understand straight forward Top 40 pop. So maybe this evening of vocal-improv and 16mm film manipulation will help us sort out Lady Gaga’s continued existence.
[Middlesex Lounge. 315 Mass Ave., Cambridge. 9pm/21+/$10. nonevent.org]
TUE 3.25
Open Theatre Project’s SLAM Boston
duh-duh-duh, duh-duh-duh
Eight plays, ten minutes, five judges and two nights—nobody told us there would be math on this exam! Which ever way you add it up, the Open Theatre Project’s poetry-slam styled theater competition is going to be a slam dunk. (Hey-oh! If we keep this up we’ll be playing center for the Celtics.) With an eye towards diversity and a format that will keep things frisky, SLAM should be a night of winners.
[Boston Playwright's Theatre. 949 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. Tue 3.25 + Wed 3.26. 7pm/all ages/$18, $14 students. opentheatre.com]
