Published 21:04, April the 8th, 2009
T time: Where to go and what to do
Entertainment
Matthew Pearl
discusses ‘The Last Dickens’
Tonight, 7
Brookline Booksmith
279 Harvard St., Brookline
MBTA: Green C Line to Coolidge Corner
Free, 617-566-6660
www.brooklinebooksmith.com
Matthew Pearl — author of “The Dante Club” and “The Poe Shadow” — discusses his new lit-bent tome, “The Last Dickens.” Set in Victorian-era Boston, the thriller traces a fictionalized maze of Charles Dickens’ death and his unfinished last book, “The Mystery of Edwin Drood.”
‘NBA 2K9’ Tournament
Saturday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Game On
82 Lansdowne St., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Kenmore
$30, 21+, 617-351-7001
www.gameonboston.com
www.societysop.com
Now that we’re done ridiculing our best friend for waiting to take A-Rod so late in the fantasy baseball draft, we’re turning back to our other love — basketball. Xbox style. Lifestyle outfitters Society Original Products host an “NBA 2K9” tourney, and for $30, you can enter to tip off and slam dunk against 60-plus other players and a chance at $300, some cool swag and carpal tunnel syndrome. Free to watch and scream, “Take it to the hole!”
Music
The Felice Brothers
Tonight, 9
The Paradise
967 Comm. Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green B Line to
Pleasant St.
$12, 18+, 617-562-8800
www.thedise.com
While nothing on their new disc, “Yonder Is the Clock,” matches “Frankie’s Gun,” the Felice Brothers deliver another set of floorboard-n-moonshine stompers that owe to the Band, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and the lost art of Lomax field recordings. Martha’s Vineyard songwriter Willy Mason starts the night.
The Tallest Man on Earth
Saturday, 9 p.m.
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Harvard
$15, 617-876-6837
www.brattlefilm.org
With his nasal warble, story-songs and nimble picking, it’d be hard not to invoke “Dylanesque” when describing Swedish folk singer/songwriter Kristian Matsson. An albatross, to be sure, and one that Matsson wears well on “Shallow Grave.”
Local
Franklin Park
Volunteer Cleanup
Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon
Franklin Park
One Circuit Drive, Dorchester
Free, 617-442-4141
www.franklinparkcoalition.org
The daffodils are about to pop, but they won’t be able to blossom through the overbrush and wind-strewn shopping bags, will they?
Craigie’s
Passover
Dinner
Tonight, 5:30-10 p.m.
Craigie on Main
853 Main St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Central
$75, 617-497-5511
www.craigieonmain.com
Chef Tony Maws, a James Beard finalist, pays homage to his baba with a Seder spread that will include Matzah ball and split pea soups and beef brisket, along with Maws send-ups such as Scottish salmon “pastrami” salad and haroseth-stuffed guinea hen. Among the four questions are, “How many glasses of wine is too many?” and “Are you too stuffed for dessert?”
Culture
‘Mad on Color:
Paintings of 19th
Century Venice’
Through Aug. 30
Sat.-Tues., 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.org
In conjunction with the “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice” exhibit, the MFA gathers some of its other City of Water-inspired pieces, such as Monet‘s “Grand Canal, Venice, 1908.” Works by Renoir and Whistler also show.
SELENE ANGIER
