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PHIL LESH. The former Grateful Dead bassist recounts his long strange trip in a new memoir, Searching for the Sound, that he’ll sign on June 11 at Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard Avenue in Coolidge Corner; call (617) 566-6660. "THE ART OF THE NEW YORKER: EIGHTY YEARS IN THE VANGUARD." New Yorker art editor Françoise Mouly and other artists from the magazine will be on hand June 18 when the Norman Rockwell Museum holds a dance party and opening reception celebrating this survey of 120 of the best covers from the finest magazine in America. Tickets are $25 for the reception and $75 for the dance party; if you’d rather just check out the art, the exhibit runs June 11 through October 31. Call (413) 298-4100 extension 221. NEWTONVILLE BOOKS’ HARRY POTTER PARTY. Muggles, start your engines: with the release of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince less than two months away, Newtonville Books has planned a celebratory blowout at the New Art Center, 61 Washington Park in Newtonville, on July 15, with a reading from past Potter by Tom Perrotta, a screening of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, wand making for the kids, a bar for the adults, and tunes provided by Kay Hanley and her songwriting partner Michelle Lewis. (In case you’re wondering: local Hogwarts hotties Harry and the Potters were unavailable: they’ll be en route to Chicago, where on release day they’ll play to a MuggleNet audience expected to approach 30,000.) Costumes are, of course, encouraged. The event runs until midnight, at which point you’ll be able to get your mitts on you-know-what. A $35 "book ticket" gets you a copy of the new volume, a ticket to the party, and the option of purchasing up to three additional party tickets at $5 each. To order, fill out a "Harry Potter Party Flyer" at Newtonville Books, or call the store at (617) 244-6619. PROVINCETOWN FILM FESTIVAL. The seventh annual P-town spectacular includes a sneak peak at Gus Van Sant’s forthcoming rumination on a Kurt Cobain–like rock star, Last Days; a double bill of Deep Blue and Jaws at the Wellfleet Drive-In; and a "filmmaker on the edge" award for director Mary Harron, as well as more than 50 other new features and documentaries. It runs June 15 through 19 at various locations in Provincetown; call (508) 487-FILM, or visit www.ptownfilmfest.org
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