E-Mail This Article to a Friend Don't call it a comeback Paula Poundstone returns, plus the 'Literary Lights' fundraiser and more

Pound one for Paula

Paula Poundstone has long since completed her court-ordered three-month rehab, and the Stoneham Theatre reports that tickets are flying out the door for her two-night stand there next month; then again, it could just be the bump from all the folks she waitressed on at the Bickford’s in Natick back in the day. "I’m just amazed that what I got thrown out of class for I now get paid to do," she once said, according to a probably-not-particularly-recent bio posted on the Web site of her talent agent. "The same thing could be said by criminals, I suppose." You suppose? Catch Poundstone’s "Unauthorized Biography" tour, without a two-drink minimum, April 24 at 8 p.m. and April 25 at 2 p.m. — hey, bring the kids! but not if you’re loaded! — at the Stoneham, 395 Main Street in Stoneham. Tickets are $32; call (781) 279-2200.

Literary Lights

The brahmin literati will be out in full force on April 18 at the Park Plaza Hotel for the Boston Public Library’s 16th annual "Literary Lights" fundraiser. Ex-laureate Robert Pinsky provides the keynote for an evening of toasts to former Phoenix staffer, alleged orchid huffer, and canine cookbooker Susan Orlean (Throw Me a Bone), intellectual heavyweight Louis Menand (The Metaphysical Club), megastar pediatrician Berry Brazelton (that’s T. to legions of parental units everywhere), and many more. Tickets for the black-tie, dinner-and-drinks affair start at $250; call (617) 536-3886.

Snappy couple

Boston Symphony Orchestra violinist Lucia Lin and her personal maestro, Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, have one of the all-time great names for a husband-and-wife chamber-group side project: Innuendo. Innuendo’s gigs are rare enough, and duo gigs by Lockhart (on piano) and Lin are rarer, but they’ll be doing the latter on April 7 as a benefit for the Boston-based Snappy Dance Group, which will use the proceeds in its effort to "launch the state’s first contemporary dance company to fully employ its dancers in decades." That’s at 7:30 p.m. in Converse Hall at Tremont Temple, 88 Tremont Street in the Theater District. Tickets are $50 to $100; call (617) 423-NEXT. And keep an eye peeled for Snappy’s world premiere of a new work based on the drawings of Edward Gorey — as part of the FleetBoston Celebrity Series’s "Boston Marquee" — on June 4 and 5 at the Cutler Majestic; call (617) 482-6661.

Masterblaster photocaster

Tall, black, bearded, and handsome, Charles Daniels had better than a front-row view of Boston rock and roll during its late-’60s/early-’70s breakout years. Better known as the Masterblaster, he was the house announcer at the Boston Tea Party (now Avalon) and other Don Law–booked venues — gigs that brought him into association with everyone from Peter Wolf and Steven Tyler to the Rolling Stones and Rod Stewart. Daniels’s memory of dates and places is a little foggy — proof, as they say, that he was there — but his lens was not, and on March 25, Zeitgeist Gallery opens an exhibit of his photographs titled "Images from On Stage and Off" that includes portraits and candids of the famous, the soon-to-be-famous, and the legendary. The Zeitgeist is at 1353 Cambridge Street in Inman Square, and the exhibit is up through April 5; call (617) 876-6060.