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"AN EVENING WITH AL FRANKEN"

Anyone keeping even Metro-level tabs on the news lately can name at least five Republican scandals, and though the administration looks ripe for a Thanksgiving turkey shoot, the left — being anti-NRA and everything — wanders around like a firing squad in search of a triggerman. Enter the Democrats’ best hope this side of Jon Stewart. Franken, the author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, reloads with The Truth (With Jokes), which he’ll be in town to sign November 15 at the Regattabar in the Charles Hotel, 1 Bennett St, Cambridge | 7:30 pm | free | 617.864.1200.

P.S. PAGE ME LATER: PERFORMANCES INSPIRED BY FOUND MAGAZINE

Davy Rothbart’s Found magazine — a periodical devoted to the stuff everyone throws away, from shopping lists to homemade sex tapes — has been spun off into books, syndicated columns, film screenings, and tours. Now the journal of garbage, doodles, and napkin poetry is being adapted by a group of Boston authors, songwriters, filmmakers, and actors for a run presented by Alarm Clock Theatre Company | Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St, Boston | December 2-17 | $15 | http://www.alarmclocktheatre.org/.

THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE

No, no, not the remake: we’re talking about the original low-budget gut-busting exploitation masterpiece (or "vile piece of sick crap," as Harper’s opined at the time) about a man, his retarded family, and the theretofore underexamined capabilities of gas-powered landscaping tools for pruning the limbs off dumb, innocent kids. The St. Louis boy-girl punk-folk duo Puerto Muerto have written an original score for it — don’t worry, you’ll still be able to hear the bad dialogue and the screaming — and they’ll drop by to perform it to an audience that will include the Leatherface actor himself, Gunnar Hansen | Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Ave, Brookline | November 12 | $12 | 617.734.2500.