US – Sunday, March 21
Published 21:55, August the 5th, 2009
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 IN LIKE A LIONCambridge’s “Summer in the City” outdoor concert series rolls on with this presentation of Chinese lion dancing, which is that thing you see at Chinese New Year celebrations with all the people slithering around in a giant, wild-looking lion costume that, come to think of it, isn’t too far removed visually from that flying dog in “The NeverEnding Story”! Check it out for yourself at Agassiz Baldwin Community (20 Sacramento St., Cambridge). For more info call 617-349-4380 or visit www.cambridgema.gov/cac. IN LIKE A LION

Cambridge’s “Summer in the City” outdoor concert series rolls on with this presentation of Chinese lion dancing, which is that thing you see at Chinese New Year celebrations with all the people slithering around in a giant, wild-looking lion costume that, come to think of it, isn’t too far removed visually from that flying dog in “The NeverEnding Story”! Check it out for yourself at Agassiz Baldwin Community (20 Sacramento St., Cambridge). For more info call 617-349-4380 or visit www.cambridgema.gov/cac.
 

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 Entertainment
‘The NeverEnding Story’
Sunday and Monday
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Harvard
$8-$10 night, 617-876-6837
www.brattlefilm.org
Another entry in Brattle’s “Class of 1984,” this fantasy was the trippiest experience a first-grader was allowed to have back in the day. It mostly concerns the story of a boy named Atreyu who ventures through the magical land of Fantasia and encounters giant flying dog-things, werewolves and giant sentient rock-beasts. If it truly was neverending though, he’d probably eventually have started a mediocre emocore band, or something.

‘Death of a Salesman’
Through Saturday
BCA Plaza Black Box
539 Tremont St., Boston
MBTA: Orange Line to Back Bay
$20-$25, 617-933-8600
www.bostontheatrescene.com
You’ll want to watch something happy and silly after seeing this classic Arthur Miller play about a man ground into the dirt by his soul-sucking job. May we recommend “The NeverEnding Story”? Also, this theater holds only 139 people, so you and Willy’ll be practically side by side as he loses his marbles. ADD sufferers, be warned: Attention must be paid.

Tracy Morgan
Saturday, 9:45 p.m.
Wilbur Theatre
246 Tremont Street
MBTA: Green Line to Boylston
$37-$45, 617-248-9700
www.thewilburtheatre.com
Tracy Morgan always seemed funnier just being himself than he did doing characters on “SNL” (Brian Fellow, naturally, notwithstanding), so it’s no surprise he’s found his career revitalized by basically playing himself on “30 Rock.”

Music
Cat Power
Wednesday, 7 p.m.
Bank of America Pavilion
290 Northern Ave, Boston
MBTA: Silver Line to World Trade Center
$25-$45, 617-728-1600
www.livenation.com
We saw Chan Marshall once in 2005, and it was kinda sad. She seemed really nervous and actually started a couple songs over. Since, however, she’s cleaned herself up and become way more comfortable and confident, and her music’s only gotten better. It’s a touching story of personal transformation rivaled only by Bastian’s learning how to love in “The NeverEnding Story.”

Hadoken
Monday, 9 p.m.
O’Brien’s Pub
3 Harvard Avenue, Allston
MBTA: Green Line to Harvard Ave.
$7, 21+, 617-782-6245
www.obrienspubboston.com
This Amherst-based ambient sextet makes melancholy, trippy music to listen to while contemplating infinity — dig titles like “Dinosaurs”, “The Death Stone” and “A Clock Tower Sleeps.” Also, and this is just a rumor, but we’ve heard that Hadoken’s new album syncs up perfectly with “The NeverEnding Story” if you press play right when the Warner Bros. Logo appears.  
 
Culture
Venture through Venice
Thursday, 6 p.m.
Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium
465 Huntington Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Museum
$10-$25, 617-267-9300
www.mfa.org
This companion talk to the MFA’s Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese exhibition, free with admission, goes into detail about the intense competition among the Renaissance old masters, who, the museum claims, “were even more cutthroat than the merchants.”

Ibero Film Festival
Saturday, noon, Tuesday and Wednesday, 6 p.m.
Boston Public Library — Rabb Lecture Hall
700 Boylston St., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Copley
Free, www.bpl.org
Through September, the BPL will showcase films from across the Spanish-speaking world. Saturday: “Un Titan en el Ring” from Ecuador; Tuesday: “Miranda Regresa” from Venezuela (produced by Hugo Chavez himself); Wednesday: “Las Estrellas de la Linea,” a Guatemalan film about prostitutes-turned-soccer-players (Basically, it’s “League of their Own” meets “Pretty Woman,” right? Well, probably not.).

Misc.
‘Black Holes: Space Warps & Time Twists’
Through Sept. 7
Museum of Science
One Science Park, Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Science Park
$21-$25, 617-723-2500
www.mos.org
This ongoing exhibit explores one of the most badass concepts in all of science: black holes. Maybe we’re just huge geeks, but we think its way too cool that somewhere in space giant pits of gravity suck everything, even light, into parts unknown.

2009 Mass State Strongman Championships and NAS Inc. Teen Nationals/ Women’s Nationals
Saturday, 10 a.m.
Everett Memorial Stadium
Spring St., Everett
Free, 617-387-5998
www.nastrongmaninc.com
All manner of toughness will be on display at this event, which includes such contests as the Tire Flip, the Stones over the Bar, the Farmer’s Walk, the Axle Deadlift and the Log Press. Good thing those rock men from “The NeverEnding Story” don’t exist, or they’d have this thing beat. 

 
 
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