Updated 21:32, July the 23rd, 2008
ENTERTAINMENT
Sally Sampson discusses “Ice Cream: 52 Easy Recipes for Year-Round Frozen Treats”
Tonight, 7 p.m.
Harvard Book Store
1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Harvard
Free, 617-661-1515
www.harvard.com
Watertown gourmand Sally Sampson, with some help from Toscanini’s Gus Rancatore, offers up a year of frozen delights in her newest book. Our untested favorites are looking like triple coconut, saffron, fresh fig with orange and cinnamon and mmmm basil gelato. Just add ice cream maker and far out grocery list! Rancatore will be on hand with samples.
“Bomb It”
Tonight, 9 p.m.
Church
69 Kilmarnock St., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Fenway
$8, 21+, 617-236-7600
www.churchofboston.com
www.futureclassic.net
The clandestine enterprise of graffiti gets the doc treatment from director Jon Reiss in this neurotoxin-lit glimpse of the worldwide culture known as tagging. Writers from around the globe — from New York to Capetown to Berlin — including Taki 183, Tracy 168 and Lady Pink are featured, along with cultural jammer/street artist Ron English, whose “Abraham Obama” made rainbow waves in the South End two weeks back.
Salsa on the Charles
Saturday, 8 p.m.
Community Boating
The Esplanade
21 Mugar Way, Boston
MBTA: Green or Red Line to Charles/MGH
$20 adv./$25 at the door, 617-513-9841
www.salsaboston.com
Salsa collective Bio Ritmo provides the music and the Boston skyline provides the atmosphere as Salsa Boston curates a caliente night to benefit urban outreach initiatives for Community Boating’s junior sailing program. The festivities kick off at 8 p.m. with beer, wine and hors d’oeuvres, followed by Lessons for Gringos at 8:30. Hey, we resemble that remark!
MUSIC
Atlas Sound
Tonight, 9 p.m.
Middle East Upstairs
480 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Central
$14, 18+, 617-864-EAST
www.mideastclub.com
Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox brings his side project Atlas Sound to town behind “Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel,” an offering of some his earliest sonic sketches — ambient and lilting — inspired by Beck and forged by a karaoke machine in his wee years. Planned opener El Guincho has canceled.
The Subways
Saturday, 9 p.m.
The Paradise
967 Comm. Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green B Line to
Pleasant St.
$12 adv./$14 day of, 18+, 617-562-8800
www.thedise.com
UK’s preening punk upstarts The Subways bare some teeth, and perhaps to their slicked-up detriment, on “All or Nothing,” thanks to helmsman Butch Vig. Mean Creek opens.
Augustana
Today, 12:30 p.m.
The Prudential Center
South Garden Courtyard
800 Boylston St., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Copley
Free, 617-247-6959
www.prudentialcenter.com
Mix 98.5’s Summer Concert Series closes out with Augustana, the San Diego band who forever burrowed into our Bean hearts with “Boston.” They perform behind their latest, “Can’t Love, Can’t Hurt,” which builds on their Counting Crows forlorn pop jangle.
George Michael
Sunday, 8 p.m.
TD Banknorth Garden
100 Legends Way, Boston
MBTA: Orange or Green Line to North Station
$45-$150, 617-931-2000
www.ticketmaster.com
George Michael drops in behind “TwentyFive,” a 29-track greatest hits collection that spans his Wham! time and solo career. Set lists reveal he is holding little back — “Everything She Wants,” “One More Try,” “A Different Corner” and of course, “Faith” and “Freedom.” He’s even been digging out some covers, including Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good” (which appears on the comp) and The Police’s “Roxanne.”
LOCAL
Celtics Dancers
Audition Finals
Tonight, 7 p.m.
The Roxy
279 Tremont St., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Boylston
$10, 18+, 617-931-2000
www.roxyplex.com
www.celtics.com
Forty
gals vie for 20 Celtics Dancer spots tonight at the Roxy in a night
that will benefit the Shamrock Foundation. Through three choreographed
group and solo routines, the ladies will be judged on dance technique,
showmanship and overall appearance. This precludes Elaine Benes moves
then?
Red Sox Wives Can and Cash Drive
Friday, 5-7 p.m.; Saturday, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Fenway Park
All gates, Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Kenmore
www.redsox.com
www.gbfb.org
The
Greater Boston Food Bank and Red Sox Wives team up for a food drive at
Fenway this weekend. Whether you’re going to the game, watching it in
the area or just want to head over and do a good deed, you can bring
$10 or 10 non-perishable food items and you’ll get an autographed photo
of your favorite Red Sox player. The Yankees, though, they can starve.
HopHead ThrowDown
Saturday, noon-5 p.m.
The Publick House
@ The Publick House
1648 Beacon St., Brookline
MBTA: Green C Line to
Donation at the door, 21+, 617-277-2880
www.beeradvocate.com
If
you like full, hoppy beers, you’ll want to consider swinging by this
benefit for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Houblon Chouffe, Legacy
Hoptimus Prime and Racer X are among the hopped-up offerings this
go-round. Ask for a Bud Light or, worse, Michelob Ultra and there’ll be
a different type of swinging going on.
Uncorked! Benefit
Tonight, 6 p.m.
Gallery XIV
37 Thayer St., Boston
MBTA: Orange Line to Back Bay
$25, 21+, 339-224-0696
www.oyfp.org
Drinking,
charity, drinking, charity, drinking, charity. Are you seeing a pattern
here? Take in and get educated on some summery Italian wines for the
sake of the Italian Home for Children, which serves mentally and
behaviorally disturbed children. Care of the philanthropic arrangers at
the On Your Feet Project.
CULTURAL
Sara Rudner/Summer Stages DanceSaturday and Sunday,
noon-4 p.m.
Institute of Contemporary Art
100 Northern Ave., Boston
MBTA: Silver Line to World Trade Center
$12/$10 students,
617-478-3100
www.icaboston.orgTwyla Tharp protégée Sara Rudner revisits her 1975 marathon piece with “Dancing-on-View: The ICA Variations,” a four-hour dance installation. No need for you to pace yourself though, you’ll be free to come and go and umm sit and take a load off.
El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III” and “Antonio López García” Exhibits
Through Sunday
Sat.-Tue., 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m.; Wed.-Fri., 10 a.m.-9:45 p.m.
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green E Line to Museum
Adults $17, seniors and students 18 and older $15, youths 7-17 $6.50,
Under 6 Free
617-267-9300,
www.mfa.orgLast call for the MFA’s two latest exhibits. “El Greco” highlights 17th-century portraits and religious rites, while “López García” showcases sixty of the modern realist’s paintings, drawings and sculptures.
Neighborhood Nights
Tonight, 5-8 p.m.
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum
280 The Fenway, Boston
MBTA: Green E Line to
Museum
Free, 617-566-1401
www.gardnermuseum.orgThe Gardner Museum hosts an open house dubbed “Heritage Alive!,” which will focus on art travels in Egypt, China, Japan and Spain. Zili Misik will perform along with dancer and storyteller Tara Ahmed.
Salem CultureFest
Saturday, 10 a.m.- 6 p.m.; Sunday,
10 a.m.- 6 p.m.
Salem Common
Washington Square, Salem
MBTA: Commuter Line to Salem
Free, 978-744-3663
www.a3dinc.orgSalem fleshes out its to-do with drumming circles, dance performances and live bands such as Mamadou and Preacher Jack. More than 50 craft and food vendors set up shop.