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GREEN DAY? HOW ABOUT THREE GREEN DAYS?

Not feeling green enough? Dig “Boston GreenFest 2009”, a three-day festival celebrating sustainability, organic eating, and other things that bandana-wearing collegiate vegan girls, horn-rimmed glasses-and-stubble-sporting bike messenger political activists, and um, the president of the United States are always prattling about. Actually, this is kinda important, isn’t it? Don’t miss the rad concert Thursday night, which features tons of local acts that are quite kick-ass. Michael and Marisa, pictured, are an 11- and 12-year-old brother/sister duo who would be considered good even if they weren’t tweens, and Keith James and The Potentials is comprised mostly of mentally challenged musicians. Visit www.bostongreenfest.org to see exactly who else is playing, and if you have further questions, call 617-477-4840. It starts today at City Hall Plaza.CULTURE

the Glass Flowers
Ongoing
Harvard Museum of
Natural History
26 Oxford St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Harvard
$6-9, 617-495-3045
www.hmnh.harvard.edu

You’ll find yourself in disbelief that these specimens are actually made of glass, but would Harvard lie to you? It took 50 years, beginning in the 1880s, for a German father and son team to create these flowers, and they remain unrivaled in their realism to this day. Go ahead, gawk. They’re used to it.

Sculpting Color: Works in Polymer Clay
Ongoing
Fuller Craft Museum
455 Oak St., Brockton
$5-8, 508-588-6000
www.fullercraft.org

This exhibit, which began last week, showcases works in Polymer clay, a synthetic compound with less than a century of use by artists. Among its advan-tages is that it comes in a variety of colors, rather than needing to be painted, allowing the sculptor to work with lumps of color like a painter might. Tip: If you’re not sold, the museum is free on Wednesday nights!
FILM

‘2012: Science or Superstition?’
Tonight, 7
The Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Harvard
$10, 617-395-1393

Prepare yourself for the end of time by seeing this doc on the various esoteric (read: nutty) theories surrounding the year 2012. Some say it’s gonna kill us all; others say it’s going to usher in a new era of enlightenment and psychic transformation. Stick around for the panel discussion afterward,  which will probably be a lot like “Coast to Coast AM.”

‘The Complete Thin Man’
Friday through Sunday
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Harvard
$8-10, 617-876-6837
www.brattlefilm.org

Classic film buffs, rejoice: the Brattle’s showing all six “Thin Man” movies this weekend. Non-buffs: These films from the 1930s and ’40s star William Powell and Myrna Loy as a bantering couple who solve mysteries, providing that perfect combination of comedy and murder that had people filling up seats at the moving pictures back in those days. Oh, and there’s a lot of booze!

‘Pee-wee’s Big Adventure’
Saturday, 11:55 a.m.
Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard St., Brookline
MBTA: Green Line C to Coolidge Corner
$10, 617-734-2500
www.coolidge.org

Why did America love Pee-wee Herman? He’s nothing but creepy; a manic man-child with mysterious repressed sexual undertones, a disturbing laugh, and an unstable voice, apparently coming from nowhere and headed nowhere, he seems more suited to head up Hell’s welcoming party than entertain anyone. It must be that “Tequila” dance.

MUSIC

Verb the Adjective Noun
Tonight, 9
O’Brien’s Pub
3 Harvard Ave., Allston
MBTA: Green Line B to Harvard Ave.
$8, 21+, 617-782-6245
www.obrienspubboston.com

This local outfit’s “Madeline” sounds like the Arcade Fire might if they were a power-pop band. Other tunes tend toward the acoustic; all are nicely arranged in that indie-folk way. The lead singer’s warbly, affected voice remains just on the acceptable side of pretentious, but straightforward lyrics like “It’s time to dance ... and hell, you look beautiful, girl” balance things out.

The Moody Blues
Tuesday, 7:30 pm
Bank of America Pavilion
290 Northern Ave., Boston
MBTA: Red Line to
South Station
$34-60, 617-728-1600
www.livenation.com

“Nights in White Satin”, anyone? Anyone? ...Nothing? Fine, whatever, but if you can’t appreciate a nice flute solo in an awesomely melodramatic 1960s rock song, maybe we need to reevaluate our friendship. You know what? The Moody Blues don’t need you anyway. They can still book a big venue like the Bank of America Pavilion! Who’s lame now, huh? HUH?

LOCAL

Our Common Wealth: the Massachusetts Experiment in Democracy
Ongoing
220 Morrissey Blvd., Boston
MBTA: Red Line to Savin Hill
Free, 617-727-9268
www.sec.state.ma.us/sec/mus/museum

Politics geeks, especially local politics geeks, listen up: OK, now that we’ve cleared the room, we’ll let you in on this recently installed exhibit, which traces the history of Massachusetts government, and includes such documents as one of the original printings of the Declaration of Independence and the Massachusetts Constitution, written by John Adams himself. Not too shabby, eh?

Tie-Dye Drop-in Day
Today, 10 a.m.
Children’s Museum In Easton
9 Sullivan Ave., North Easton
$6, 508-230-3789
www.childrensmuseumineaston.org

All this hubbub about the 40th anniversary of Woodstock got you jonesin’ to make a tie-dye T-shirt? This event will satiate your desire for self-made groovy apparel, and the free ice cream and cheese samples (aging hippies, watch that cholesterol) will satiate your desire for munchies. Not that you’ll be doing anything beforehand that would cause munchies. This is a children’s museum!

Victory Day Celebration
Saturday, 11 a.m.
USS Constitution Museum
Charlestown Navy Yard,
Building 22, Charlestown
MBTA: Orange Line to Community College
Free-$15, 617-426-1812
www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org

On Aug. 19, 1812, the USS Constitution laid the naval smack down on the HMS Guerriere. It was an important early American victory in the War of 1812, as well as the battle during which the Constitution’s remarkable ability to repel cannonballs like so many bullets against Superman’s chest earned her the nickname “Old Ironsides.” The museum celebrates today with a new exhibit and some amusing activities.