T time
Entertainment
‘How to Be’
Tonight, 9:30 p.m.
Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard St., Brookline
MBTA: Green C Line to Coolidge Corner
$15, 617-734-2500
www.coolidge.org
While every girl between 12 and 19 years old can be found Twittering about the special edition DVD of “Twilight,” the rest of us can enjoy this quirky comedy starring a pre-hunk-status Robert Pattinson as a slacker-musician who spends his inheritance to hire a life coach to shadow him. Director/ writer Oliver Irving will be there.
‘Star Trek’ Celebration Night
Wednesday, 6, 8 and 10 p.m.
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Harvard
$5-$10, 617-876-6837
www.brattlefilm.org
If you can manage to back away from the message board arguments for one night, the Brattle hosts likeminded warp drive enthusiasts in advance of JJ Abrams’ new big screen send-up. Episodes from Season 1 of the original series will be screened; dignity will be lost.
Music
Deer Tick
Tonight, 9 p.m.
Harpers Ferry
158 Brighton Ave., Allston
MBTA: Green B Line to
Packard’s Corner
$12, 21+, 617-254-9743
harpersferryboston.com
Fronted by the adenoidal, roughened vox of John Joseph McCauley III, Deer Tick deliver sublime alt-country on “War Elephant.” In advance of some Midwest dates with Jenny Lewis, the Providence trio plays a local date in support of their forthcoming disc, “Born On Flag Day,” with Hooray for
Earth and Faces on Film.
Right Turn Benefit with Alice Cooper
Sunday, 7 p.m.
Berklee Performance Center
136 Mass. Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Hynes
$40-$100, all ages, 617-747-2261
www.berkleebpc.com
Alice Cooper tops the supergroup bill of this benefit for sober creatives; KISS’s Ace Frehley, Teddy Andreadis (Guns ‘N Roses), Ricky Byrd (Joan Jett), Simon Kirke (Bad Company), James Montgomery and Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) round out the house band, while Bryan McPherson and Ernie and the Automatics kick things off.
Megapolis Audio Festival
Tomorrow, 6:30 p.m.
Cambridge Elks Lodge
55 Bishop Allen St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Central
$10, megapolisfestival.org
The triple-theremin threat of the Lothars anchor an experio, outsider bill with Radio Wonderland, Die Schrauber, Boston Typewriter Orchestra and Peace, Loving as part of the Megapolos Audio Festival.
Local
Free Sailing Open House
Saturday and Sunday, 1-5 p.m.
Boston Sailing Center
54 Lewis Wharf, Boston
MBTA: Blue Line to Aquarium
Free, 617-227-4198
www.bostonsailingcenter.com
You may need an extra layer of fleece if you head out on the water this weekend, but you’ll be fully primed on abeams, abouts and asterns once shorts weather hits.
Cambridge Science Festival Kickoff
Saturday, noon-4 p.m.
MIT’s Kresge Auditorium
48 Massachusetts Ave.,
Cambridge, Free
MBTA: Red Line to Central or Kendall
cambridgesciencefestival.org
Forget exploding paper mache volcanoes. Kicking off Saturday with the Science Carnival, the Cambridge Science Festival boasts two weeks of workshops, experiments and demos having to do with everything from the physics of dance and baseball to the latest in robotics.
Culture
“Spring Awakening”
Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
Through May 24
Colonial Theatre
106 Boylston St., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Boylston
$22.50-$84, 617-880-2460
www.ticketmaster.com
“Spring Awakening,” with music by singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik (”Barely Breathing”), eschews pat musical themes for the irreverent likes of rape, masturbation, sado-masochism and homosexuality. Based on the once banned German 1891 play by Frank Wedekind, the fully rockin’, fully swearin’, fully “blah blah blah”in’ “Awakening” is sure to upend Disney and Nickelodeon notions of teenage kicks.