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Where to go and what to do

 

IT'S BUSINESS TIME Are they comedy? Rock? Both? Who cares. On their HBO comedy, “Flight of the Conchords” — New Zealanders Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement — pen hilarious tunes about toothpaste, “makin’ lllllllove” on Wednesdays, racist dragons and David Bowie. We’ve begun a letter-writing campaign imploring Kristen Schaal and Rhys Darby to get together a Mel and Murray opening act. The only thing that’s come of it so far is a restraining order. That’s tomorrow, 8 p.m., at the Agganis Arena (925 Comm. Ave., Boston. MBTA: Green B Line to Pleasant St.). Tickets $37, all ages; 617-358-7000 www.agganisarena.com.

 

Entertainment

Robert Schimmel
Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m.
Wilbur Theatre
246 Tremont St., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Boylston
$22-$30, 617-931-2000
www.ticketmaster.com
Cancer survivor, three times divorced (from the same woman), a son who died of leukemia — Robert Schimmel, a Howard Stern fave, turns his life into cutting stand-up.

Music

Lucero
Tonight, 9 p.m.
The Paradise
967 Comm. Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green B Line to
Pleasant St.
$15, 18+, 617-562-8800
www.thedise.com
Memphis band Lucero mix the sonics and poetics of diamonds-in-the-rough like Steve Earle and the Replacements. The opener, Titus Andronicus, reveals spirited threads of the Pogues and the Clash.

Lily Allen
Sunday, 7 p.m.
House of Blues
15 Lansdowne St., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Kenmore
$25, all ages, 888-693-BLUE
www.hob.com/boston
www.ticketmaster.com
U.K. sassafrass Lily Allen hits town behind “It’s Not Me, It’s You,” her playful, snarky sophomore platter.

Local

Wine Riot!
Tomorrow VIP, 6-10 p.m.; Saturday, 1-5 p.m., and 6-10 p.m.
The Cyclorama
Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont St., Boston
MBTA: Orange Line to Back Bay
$65 VIP/$45, 617-330-2809
www.wineriot.com
The Boston Wine Festival’s black sheep cousin is crashing the party and bringing 250 wineries with him. The Wine Riot! — a youthful, snobless approach to discovering new wines — will feature drinkshops (like “Mendoza? I Didn’t Even Know Her!!”), food (like bites from The Savant Project and The Garden) and drunken Twittering (like, uhh, you’re on your own).

Boston Skillshare
Saturday and Sunday,
10:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
MIT’s Stata Center
32 Vassar St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Kendall
$3-$10, www.bostonskillshare.org
Boston Skillshare, a low-cost, community-based approach to learning, hosts upwards of 60 workshops — covering everything from home brewing, improv comedy, bike maintenance, photography and our favorite laugh-out-loud find, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About MassHealth But Got Put on Hold for Too Long to Ask.”

Re-enactment of The Battle at Lexington
Monday, 5:30 a.m.
Lexington Town Green, Lexington
Free, www.battleroad.org
More than 8,000 fans of history, LARPing (live action role playing) and getting up at 3 a.m. are expected to line the green for the famed Battle at Lexington, as re-enacted by The Lexington Minute Men and local British Revolutionary War heavies. If you go, be sure to smile. We might send our photographer.

Selene Angier