US – Wednesday, March 10
Published 21:48, May the 27th, 2009
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 HE’S YOUR MAN After a 15-year performance hiatus in the U.S., Leonard Cohen, a poet’s poet with a flair for dark wit, darker beauty and even darker deviance, touches down behind a new double disc, “Live in London,” Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m., at the Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre (270 Tremont St., Boston. MBTA: Green Line to Boylston). Tickets $77-$253, all ages. Call 800-447-7400 or go to www.citicenter.org for more info.  HE’S YOUR MAN After a 15-year performance hiatus in the U.S., Leonard Cohen, a poet’s poet with a flair for dark wit, darker beauty and even darker deviance, touches down behind a new double disc, “Live in London,” Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m., at the Citi Performing Arts Center Wang Theatre (270 Tremont St., Boston. MBTA: Green Line to Boylston). Tickets $77-$253, all ages. Call 800-447-7400 or go to www.citicenter.org for more info.
 
Good day sunshine The WBOS-curated Earthfest sees Soul Asylum, The Lemonheads, Shawn Mullins, Seven Mary Three and one lucky local performing at the Hatch Shell (The Esplanade, Storrow Drive, Boston. MBTA: Red Line to Charles/MGH or Green Line to Arlington) Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.  There will also be a Kids Planet stage, organic food samples and product giveaways, along with plenty of greening education booths. Go to www.wbos.com for more info. PS: Recycle this Metro. Good day sunshine The WBOS-curated Earthfest sees Soul Asylum, The Lemonheads, Shawn Mullins, Seven Mary Three and one lucky local performing at the Hatch Shell (The Esplanade, Storrow Drive, Boston. MBTA: Red Line to Charles/MGH or Green Line to Arlington) Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.  There will also be a Kids Planet stage, organic food samples and product giveaways, along with plenty of greening education booths. Go to www.wbos.com for more info. PS: Recycle this Metro.
 

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Entertainment

Steven Wright
Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m.
Wilbur Theatre
246 Tremont St., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Boylston
$29-$39, 617-931-2000
www.ticketmaster.com
“Yeah, I’ll take one Boston-bred comedian, sunny side down and very, very dry.”

‘Away We Go’ Advance Screening with Dave Eggers
Sunday, 7 p.m.
Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard St., Brookline
MBTA: Green C Line to Coolidge Corner
$20, 617-734-2500
www.coolidge.org
In a benefit for the youth creative-writing nonprofit, 826, Dave Eggers hosts a Q&A about his new film, directed by Sam Mendes and starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph as a couple struggling with a not-even-midlife crisis. Every day we live it, Eggers, every day.

‘Film Night’ with John Williams
Tonight and tomorrow, 8 p.m.
Symphony Hall
301 Mass. Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green E Line to Symphony
$20-$89, 888-266-1200
www.bso.org
Esteemed conductor and sometime soundtrack man John Williams tacks through a silver-screen program that will include numbers from “Singin’ in the Rain,” “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” and “E.T.” What? Nothing from “Dude, Where’s My Car?”

Music

Phish
Sunday, 6:30 p.m.
Fenway Park
4 Yawkey Way, Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Kenmore
$49.50/SOLD OUT
www.redsox.com
A spirited Spaceman Lee-like haze will fill Fenway Park for a night of 14-minute songs and trampoline hi-jinks care of Trey Anastasio and Co.

Santigold
Monday, 8 p.m.
House of Blues
15 Lansdowne St., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Kenmore
$25-$35, all ages, 888-693-BLUE
www.hob.com/boston
www.ticketmaster.com
Out with “o,” in with the “i.” The Brooklyn babe born Santi White, who combined the best of electro-rap and ’80s dark pop on her 2008 self-titled debut, takes a break from reading cease-and-desist letters from ’80s schlock filmmaker Santo Gold’s lawyers to tour with label mate Amanda Blank and collaborator Trouble Andrew. Yes, those are her riffs in the Bud Lime and Ford Flex commercials but the girl’s got to pay the suits somehow, right?

Viva Voce
Tuesday, 9 p.m.
Great Scott
1222 Comm. Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green B Line to
Harvard Ave.
$10, 18+, 617-566-9014
www.greatscottboston.com
Portland, Ore.’s Viva Voce, headed by husband-and-wife duo Kevin and Anita Robinson, weave a sublime fabric of psych-rock, Monkees-like pop and Manchester heyday on their seventh disc, “Rose City.” New Zealand popsters Cut Off Your Hands start the night.

Local

City Year Serve-a-thon
Saturday, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m.
City Hall Plaza, Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Government Center
$30 donation, 617-927-2300
www.cityyear.org
City Year aims to nail, paint, rake and every other handy verb its way through Boston this weekend. Sign up online in advance to be assigned to a team and area of town. Lunch and transport to work sites is provided. Along with a lot of feel-good karma.

Sailing Open House
Saturday, 1-5 p.m.
Boston Sailing Center
54 Lewis Wharf, Boston
MBTA: Blue Line to Aquarium
Free, 617-227-4198
www.bostonsailingcenter.com
Free sailing on a gorgeous summer Saturday. Do you need us to type any more than that?

Asparagus Festival
Saturday, 11 a.m.
Verrill Farm
11 Wheeler Road, Concord
$25, 978-369-4494
www.verrillfarm.com
After Steve Verrill leads a tour of the farm’s asparagus spread, Chef Kevin Carey conducts cooking demos and serves up several dishes of the stout-y, stemmed stuff. You’re on your own with the fluorescent green pee on Sunday.

Hot Dog Safari
Sunday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Suffolk Downs
111 Waldemar Ave., East Boston, MBTA: Blue Line to Suffolk Downs
$10-$15, all ages, 617-568-3258
www.suffolkdowns.com
You. Sunday. 20th anniversary of the Hot Dog Safari. And 20 dawgs in its honor. Hold the mustard, kid — you’re gonna need the room.

Culture

African-American Theatre Festival
Through June 13
Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont St., Boston
MBTA: Orange Line to Back Bay, $15-$35, 617-933-8600
www.bostontheatrescene.com
The Our Place Theatre Project presents a trifecta of works that includes Robert Johnson’s “Mother G,” Lillian Hellman’s “The Children’s Hour” and two one-act plays by Jacqui Parker, “Feathers on My Arms” and “Bess the Brave.”

‘Viva Mexico!’ and ‘Vida y Drama’ Exhibits
Saturday through Nov. 2
Saturday-Tuesday, 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m.; Wednesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-9:45 p.m.
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green E Line to Museum
617-267-9300, www.mfa.org
Ole! It’s opening weekend of the MFA’s latest spreads and it’s our southern sister — umm, we mean, hermana — getting the nod. “Viva Mexico! Edward Weston and His Contemporaries” showcases the photography of Weston, Tina Modotti, Paul Strand and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, while “Vida y Drama” brings the iconic design work of Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Jose Clemente Orozco to the forefront.

Selene Angier

 
 
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