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ART

The graphic novels of Croatian artist Danijel Zezelj are full of dark, Kafka-esque scenes — or are they more Borgesian? — remarkable for their steeply tilting vertical panels within panels, sharp and menacing architecture, and shadowy lurking figures. Zezelj is the latest artist-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and his "Stray Dogs" is a reflection on place and displacement through the fictional "memoir" of a journalist who muses on her surroundings as she travels through gloomy cityscapes and shady interiors, including the very recognizable galleries, terraces, and balconies of the Gardner, 280 the Fenway, Boston | Through August 28 | 617.566.1401.

BENEFITS

Matt Damon submits to an on-stage interview, with reminiscences from his teachers and high-school pals, to benefit the new Central Square Theatre project being put together by the Underground Railway Theatre and the Nora Theatre Company. "Breaking New Ground: An Evening with Matt Damon to Benefit the Central Square Theater" | Hotel at MIT, 20 Sidney St, Cambridge | 617.694.3268.

GRACE KIM 5K RUN/WALK TO BENEFIT THE PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | 9 am | Artesani Park, 1234 Soldiers Field Rd, Brighton | $20 | 617.739.1769

BILLIONAIRES FOR BUSH HOUSE PARTY | 8 pm | 42 Washington St, Reading | Suggested donation $10 | 781.942.5756

AT THE CLUBS

SPINNING. Of course you didn’t actually need another reason to head to the Foundation Lounge (Hotel Commonwealth, 500 Comm Ave, Boston), one of the hottest new spots in increasingly hip Kenmore Square, but now you’ve got two: the venue has added DJ entertainment on Thursday and Saturday nights. From 9:30 p.m. to 2 a.m., DJ Eddie Grant spins a blend of disco, Motown, international lounge, and acid jazz. Not a bad Foundation for your weekend, is it?

ROCK. It’s a line-up just begging for a punch line: what do you get when you throw together a fabled indie-rocker, a cult novelist, and a loverly singer-songwriter? If you’re David Grubbs (Gastr del Sol), Rick Moody (The Ice Storm), and Hannah Marcus (friend of Godspeed You Black Emperor), you get the Wingdale Community Singers. (What, you’re telling us "The Books" was taken?) Best things about the WCS album? (1) Grubbs doesn’t do any hard arty-ing. (2) When all three throw their voices in together, their harmonies pile up with plush, Ida-style indie-folk beauty. (3) When Marcus and Moody go at it, they come off like a honey-glazed, pastoralized Magnetic Fields. (Bonus points if they play their "Rat on the Tracks" the same week Billy Corgan’s in town: "Rat in a cage, rat in a cage/Who needs another song about a rat in a cage?") The Wingdales are playing exactly two gigs ever, one of which is at P.A.’s Lounge. With Magnetic ladies Claudia Gonson & Shirley Simms + Come’s Chris Brokaw | 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville | 617.776.1557.

ROOTS: You can tell why the bands and singers on Ten Out of Tenn (Ready Set Records) have put themselves on an album together: in Nashville, they must stick out like sore thumbs. Especially the Lonely Hearts, who bury their latent Opryisms under layers of Counting Crows guitars, early-U2 grandeur, and Rock N Roll–period Ryan Adams. The Hearts headline a "Ten Out of Tenn" tour at the Paradise Lounge with Trent Dabbs, Kate York, Disappointed by Candy, and Tyler James | 969 Comm Ave, Boston | 617.562.8814.

On the other hand, Boston’s Slim Jim and the Mad Cows sound like a band what just crawled out of the Ryman Auditorium dumpster. Their repertoire — drawn entirely from the classic metal songbook — includes a straight-outta-Bakersfield version of GNR’s "Night Train" and an "Ace of Spades" that’s way more Waylon than Lemme. They’ll be halfway through one of those Johnny Cash talking-history songs about Indians before you realize it’s Maiden’s "Run to the Hills." Celebrating a new CD, Homebrewed, they’re at the Abbey Lounge in Inman Square, 3 Beacon St, Somerville | 617.441.9631.

ALL-AGES. When he isn’t Plunge(ing) Into Death, Dave "Area D" Geissler entertains kids with his group the Humanimals, who play an afternoon gig for underagers and their parental units at the Milky Way along with Harry and the Potters. With hula-hooper Nicole Siggins, insect dances with Lady Bugs, and comix drawing with cartoonist Jef Czekaj, it’s fun for the whole family from people you probably wouldn’t leave the kids with. That’s at 405 Centre St, Jamaica Plain | 1:30 p.m. | 617.524.3740.

JAZZ. At the young-for-jazz age of 35, Joshua Redman has been reaching out beyond the straight-ahead faithful with his pop-oriented Elastic Band (Sam Yahel on keyboards, Brian Blade on drums). He’s in town with new drummer Jeff Ballard on a double bill with unclassifiable bassist/singer-songwriter Me’Shell NdegéOcello. (Jon Garelick reviews their new albums in "Giant Steps," on the "Music" page of this site.) That’s at the Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm Ave, Boston | 617.228.6000.

ROADTRIPPING. We don’t know what an emo funeral looks like — please tell us it’s not as Busby Berkeley as My Chemical Romance’s "Helena" video — but expect more tears than usual when the Get Up Kids’ farewell tour makes its last stop at the Palladium, 261 Main St, Worcester | 8 p.m., all ages | $20 | 800.477.6849.

OTHER LIVE SHOWS:

For the following shows, see the Club Directory for phone numbers and addresses.

ABBEY LOUNGE | Somerville | Mainstage | Slim Jim & the Mad Cows + Bamboo Kids + Super 400 | Pubstage | Electrolux

ACTON JAZZ CAFE | Acton | Bruce Katz Band

ANTHEM | Boston | 10 pm | "Latin Fever"

AVALON | Boston | 4 pm | "Emergenza Finals"

AVENUE ONE LOUNGE | Boston | 7:30 pm | Leah Souza Trio

THE AVENUE | Allston | 5 pm | "Acoustical Pop" with Ali

THE BEACHCOMBER | Quincy | Pipe Dream + Sheaside + UF’s

CANTAB LOUNGE | Cambridge | Upstairs | Little Joe Cook & the Thrillers

CLUB HOLLYWOOD | Boston | 8:30 pm | "Glitter Switch Drag Karaoke"

CLUB PASSIM | Cambridge | 3 and 8 pm | Session Americana

DICK’S LAST RESORT | Boston | Fakers

DODGE STREET BAR & GRILL | Salem | Gobshites

ENCORE | Boston | DesPres & DeGraff

THE GOOD LIFE DOWNTOWN | Boston | Jim Porcella Trio

GRAND CANAL | Boston | Powerhouse

GREAT SCOTT | Allston | "The Plan" with Faces on Film + Writer Set

GREEN DRAGON | Boston | Velvet Jones

GREEN STREET GRILL | Cambridge | "Live Salsa Party" with Kilombo Mambo

HARPERS FERRY | Allston | Kashmir + Asect

THE HARP | Boston | Hipnotic

HENNESSY’S | Boston | Grayspot

JOHNNY D’S | Somerville | Toni Lynn Washington

KIRKLAND CAFE | Somerville | Charlie Chesterman & the Legendary Motorbikes + AJ Crowe & the Airconditioners + Girlfriend + Eric Sommer

LIZARD LOUNGE | Cambridge | 8 pm | Daniel Gonzalez | 9:30 pm | "Angelle Wood’s Birthday Bash" with Ad Frank & the Fast Easy Women + Adventures in Tourism + Auto Interiors

LUPO’S AT THE STRAND | Providence, RI | Robert Fripp

MIDDLE EAST | Cambridge | Upstairs | Fluttr Effect + Count Zero + Cautions + Humanwine | Downstairs | Steve Kimcock Band + Luke Patcehn & Erik Glockler

MIDWAY CAFE | Jamaica Plain | Coppersonic + Tokyo Tramps

MILKY WAY | Jamaica Plain | 5 pm | Harry & the Potters + Humananimals + Nicole Siggins & Her Hula Hoop + Lady Bugs + Jef Czekaj

MR. DOOLEY’S TAVERN | Boston | Brogue

O’BRIEN’S | Allston | "Stingray Tattoo Night" with Karinations + Daisycutter

PADDY O’S | Boston | Mark Morris & the Catunes

THE PALLADIUM | Worcester | Get Up Kids + Kevin Devine

PARADISE LOUNGE | Boston | 9 pm | Trent Dabbs + Kate York + Disappointed by Candy + Tyler James + Lonely Hearts

PARADISE ROCK CLUB | Boston | 8 pm | MeShell Ndegeocello + Joshua Redman’s Elastic Band

PARRIS | Boston | Monkey Bus

PA’S LOUNGE | Somerville | Wingdale Community Singers + Claudia Gonson & Shirley Simms + Chris Brokaw

PLOUGH & STARS | Cambridge | 5 pm | Flexible Flyer String Band | 9 pm | Los Diablos

THE ROXY | Boston | 10 pm | "Show Saturdays" with Yuri Nikolai

RYLES | Cambridge | 11 am to 7 pm | "Battle of the Bands"

SCULLERS | Boston | Hugh Masekela

SEA NOTE | Nantasket Beach | Jeff Pitchell & Texas Flood

SISSY K’S | Boston | 4 pm | Matt Browne | 8 pm | Kevin Kirrane

SOLSTICE CAFE | Mission Hill, Boston | Dan Rosenthal Quartet

TOAD | Cambridge | 7 pm | "Greg’s Saturday Showcase" with Cello Chix | 10 pm | Beau Roland Band

SUGAR SHACK | Boston | Hip hop and top 40 with DJ B-Spin

SWEETWATER CAFE | Boston | Old and new dance hits with DJs KC + Gallo

TOP OF THE HUB | Boston | Chris Taylor Quartet

T.T. THE BEAR’S PLACE | Cambridge | Eisley + Lovedrug + Pilotdrift + Ginsko Method

WALLY’S CAFE | Boston | 9:30 pm | Jason Palmer/Warren Wolf Jazz Collective

WELLFLEET BEACHCOMBER | Wellfleet | Spurs

WESTERN FRONT | Cambridge | Hot Like Fire

ZEITGEIST GALLERY | Cambridge | 1 pm | "A Classical Appetizer |" 7 pm | Metthew Joy | 9:30 pm | Jason Hatfield

ZUZU | Cambridge | "Soul-le-lu-jah"

OTHER DJ SHOWS:

AN TUA NUA | Boston | "Sizzlin Saturday" hip-hop with DJ G Squared

ARIA | Boston | "Ecco," international and vocal house, with DJ Roger M. In the Angel Room, "International Saturdays"

THE ASGARD | Cambridge | DJ Azul

ATLAS DANCE | Boston | "Top 40 Dancing"

AVALON | Boston | 10 pm | DJ Adilson

THE AVENUE | 9 pm | House with DJ Munroe

AXIS | Boston | 10 pm | "Seductive Saturday" Hip-hop and Reggae with DJ Glen

BLARNEY STONE PUB | Dorchester | Commercial dance and R&B

BLUE CAT CAFE | Boston | DJ Casey

BOSTON ROCKS | Boston | Interactive video Top 40 Dance & hip-hop party with VJ Johnnie Walker

BUCK MULLIGAN’S | West Roxbury | R&B, rock, and dance with DJ Keith

BUZZ BOSTON/EUROPA | Boston | "Killer Dance Club" gay night with DJs Mary Alice + Michael Sheehan

CANTAB LOUNGE | Cambridge | Downstairs | DJ Turn-ta-Bill

CLUB CAFE | Boston | "Boys Night Out" with VJ Cliff Cunningham

COMMON GROUND | Allston | DJ Spindler

DEVLIN’S LOUNGE AND BAR | Brighton | "Mixes & Remixes" with DJs Daniel Spurling + Chris Deorio

DRUID PUB | Cambridge | "Saturday Social" with DJ Rodney Marable

EMBASSY | Boston | 10 pm | "Sensation Saturday" hip-hop with DJ Val | "Russian Night" with DJ Demetrius

ENORMOUS ROOM | Cambridge | "Breaks & Such" with Mark Estrada

THE E ROOM AT THE GOLDEN TEMPLE | Brookline | Disco, motown, and classics from the ’80s & ’90s with DJ John Reed

FELT | Boston | "Top 40 and Club Classics"

FOUNDATION LOUNGE | Boston | ’70s, ’80s, funky disco, motown with DJ Edward Grant Stuart

G-SPOT | Boston | "Deep, sexy house" with DJs Mike Traylor + Paul Incus

HONG KONG | Cambridge | Top 40 Hip-Hop, Rock & Club Classics with DJ Chris G

I/D | Boston | "Life Ladies’ Night"

JUKEBOX | Boston | Top 40 and retro dance night

THE KELLS | Allston | "Celebration Saturday" with DJs Darren Drag + Kieran

MANRAY | Cambridge | "Transmission" retro new wave with DJ Chris Ewen | High energy and ’70s disco trash with DJ Gary Conzo

MARQUEE | Boston | DJ Murray

MILKY WAY | Jamaica Plain | 9 pm | "Mango’s Latin Dance Club" with DJ Antonio Ortiz

ORLEANS | Somerville | DJ Gabe

PHOENIX LANDING | Cambridge | "Boom Boom Room," new wave, one-hit wonders, and disco with DJ Vinny

THE PLACE | Boston | VJ Laptop

Q | Boston | 9 pm | DJ Profenna.

THE RACK | Boston | 9 pm | DJ Brian Roche

REDLINE | Cambridge | 10 pm | DJ Cherry

RIVERGODS | Cambridge | "For Real, Too Reel" Electro, funk, ’80s flashback with Dali + Ross + Paul

ROGGIE’S | Brighton | House with DJ Marc Farrell

SCRUFFY MURPHY’S | Dorchester | "Party Time" with DJ Jen

SISSY K’S | Boston | Upstairs | "Dance Party" old school and new dance with DJ Tom McKenna

OPAL LOUNGE | Boston | 10 pm | "CandyShop Lesbian Night"

THIRSTY SCHOLAR PUB | Somerville | DJ Sean

TOAST | Somerville | "Sexy Saturday" hip-hop, reggae, dance with DJ 9-1

TRATTORIA IL PANINO | Boston | ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s with DJ Zino | progressive, top-40, club, and international with DJ Steve Anderson

21st AMENDMENT | Boston | DJ Sean Daly

VAPOR | Boston | "Crosswalk" with DJs David Skye + M.J.

VENU | Boston | European disco house with DJs Javier + Nico | "Mythos" ethnic house and Greek sounds with DJ Yorgo

VERTIGO | Boston | "Vertigo Saturdays" hip hop, R&B, house, and reggae with DJ Ron Steel

WEST STREET GRILLE | Boston | Top 40 funk and dance with DJs Gabe + Lazee Boy

WHO’S ON FIRST | Boston | 10 pm | DJs Garfield + Disciple + Nate

COMEDY

BEANTOWN COMEDY VAULT | 781.729.2565 | at Remington’s, 124 Boylston St, Boston | "Boston Attitude" with Mike Whitman

COMEDY STUDIO | 617-864-5311 | 1236 Mass. Ave., Cambridge | Tim McIntire + Joe Cronin + Cesar Cervantes + Emily Singer + Charlie Hatton + Steven Donovan + Baratunde

IMPROV ASYLUM | 617-263-6887 | 216 Hanover St., Boston | 8 and 10 pm | "Pork Fried Clowns" | Midnight | "The Midnight Show"

IMPROVBOSTON THEATRE | 617-576-1253 | 1253 Cambridge St., Cambridge | 8 and 10 pm | "ImprovBoston Mainstage"

NICK’S COMEDY STOP | 617.482.0930 | 100 Warrenton St, Boston | 8:45 pm | Chance Langton + Joe Wong + Jessica Casciano

NICK’S MAUI | 508.482.0930 | Rte 28 North, Brockton | 9 pm | Mark Scalia + Ben B

CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERTS

Forest Hills Cemetery has been one of the nicest places in America to get planted since Washington crossed the Delaware — it’s the final resting ground of Anne Sexton, e.e. cummings, William Lloyd Garrison, and Eugene O’Neill. Now that it’s been named to the National Register of Historic Places, the scenic 250-acre park is celebrating with two days of graveyard partying. Tonight at 8, the Riverview Chamber Players perform music of Chopin, Jim Morrison, and Edith Piaf, all of whom are buried in the Forest Hills’ sister cemetery, Paris’s Père Lachaise ($10). Then at 9, you can take a champagne-and-flashlights tour of the grounds ($8, free with concert ticket). Tomorrow afternoon at 2, artists, strolling Victorians, and live musicians patrol the grounds for a day of treasure hunts and trolley tours (free, trolley rides $8). Forest Hills Cemetery is at 95 Forest Hill Ave, Jamaica Plain | June 25-26 | 617.524.0128.

Out in Lenox, meanwhile, Tanglewood opens its pre-BSO season with the Boston Early Music Festival’s world-premiere production of a 300-year-old opera, Johann Mattheson’s Boris Goudenow. Jeffrey Gantz’s review of last week’s performances at the Majestic is on the "Music" page of this site; here we’ll just say it’s cheap at the price and well worth the trip. That’s at 297 West St, Lenox | Tonight at 7 pm | $36-$71 | 617.266.1200 or www.bso.org

POPULAR MUSIC CONCERTS

Who can forget Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, with their powerful vocals and butt-kicking beats? No one. And who hasn’t seen the VH1 Behind the Music special on Benatar at least three times? No one. She’s now 52, but the trailblazing female rocker with the voice of an angel is sexier than ever. Along with hubby Giraldo, Benatar and her feel-good anthems, like "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" and "Love Is a Battlefield," will echo at the Bank of America Pavilion (290 Northern Avenue, Boston) tonight. Tickets are $28.50 and $38.50; the show starts at 7:30 p.m.

Question: how many 13-year-old girls are gonna be bummed if Ted Leo doesn’t play "Since U Been Gone" at the Somerville Theatre? Answer: not nearly as many as the gaggle of twentysomething hipsters who’re gonna be bummed if Ted Leo doesn’t play "Since U Been Gone" at the Somerville Theatre. He’s there tonight with Radio 4 and the Spitzz | 55 Davis Square | 8 p.m., all ages | $15 | 617.931.2000.

Here’s how it goes at a Tunnel of Love show: three scraggly dudes show up, set their pawn-shop gear near the stage but not on it, peel off their street clothes down to striped tights and soccer shorts, affix crowns and capes, and, thus revealed as junk-stomp superheroes, crank their amps up to "nuclear turd" and go Phi Crappa Altamont, chainsawing their own songs and assassinating other people’s (so long, "Hey Joe"), annihilating the first few rows in a blitzy white-noise mushroom cloud. Their second homonymous album, fourth overall, is now out on vinyl from ECA Records, and they’ll celebrate at the First Unitarian Church with Transistor Transistor, 3 Church Street, Cambridge | 7:30 p.m. | $8 | 617.876.7772.

Otherwise known as the "we didn’t get asked to do Ozzfest or Warped" tour, Sounds of the Underground gathers together so much second-stage metalcore that it’s easy to overlook the lack of a headliner. There’s nothing terribly wrong with Lamb of God’s remedial ultrathrash, but the reason to go is for underbilled strike teams like the Red Chord, Unearth, Every Time I Die, and A Life Once Lost. With High on Fire, Clutch, Gwar, Poison the Well, From Autumn to Ashes, Norma Jean, more, it’s at Tsongas Arena, 300 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Lowell | $29.50-$33.50 | 800.477.6849.

Pianist Yoko Miwa, whose regular gig is Sunday brunch at Ryles, leads her trio, pianist/vocalist Geoffrey Hicks works the Bobby Short/Nat "King" Cole vein, and clarinettist Darryl Harper duos with pianist Kevin Harris at "Jazz@Union" at the Union United Methodist Church, 485 Columbus Ave at West Newton St, Boston | 7 p.m. | $25 | 617.536.0872.

DAUGHTERS + READ YELLOW + DOOMRIDERS + GET KILLED | 1:30 pm | Masonic Temple, Main St, Melrose | $12 | www.massliveevents.com

DEEP PURPLE | 8 pm | South Shore Music Circus, 130 Sohier St, Cohasset | $41-$53 | 617.931.2787

ZACK FULLER + JONATHAN VINCENT + KATT HERNANDEZ | 8 pm | CasaNia, 46 Porter Rd, Cambridge | Suggested donation $8 | 617.491.5144

GEOFFREY DANA HICKS + YOKO MIWA TRIO + DARRYL HARPER-KEVIN HARRIS DUO | 7 pm | Union United Methodist Church, Columbus Ave and West Newton St, Boston | $25 | 617.536.0872

SOUNDS OF THE UNDERGROUND | Lamb of God + Clutch + Opeth + Unearth + From Autumn to Ashes + Norma Jean + Poison the Well + Every Time I Die + Chimaira + Throwdown + Red Chord + Nora + A Life Once Lost + All That Remains + Devil Driver + Strapping Young Lad + Full Blown Chaos + Gwar | noon | Tsongas Arena, 300 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Lowell | $33.50 | 617.931.2000

TUNNEL OF LOVE + TRANSISTOR TRANSISTOR + THE MULES + BESTDEATHEVER | 7:30 pm | First Unitarian Church, 3 Church St, Cambridge | $8 | 617.876.7772

DANCE/PARTICIPATORY

AFRICAN HEALING DANCE | 7 pm | Cambridge Friends School, 5 Cadbury Rd, Cambridge | $25 | 781.316.8068

BEANTOWN INTERNATIONAL SWING DANCE PARTY | 9 pm (with a lesson at 8 pm) | Endicott College, Callahan Center, 376 Hale St, Beverly | $25 | 508.435.2363

GAY AND LESBIAN CONTRA DANCE | 7:30-11 pm | First Unitarian Universalist Church, Centre and Eliot Sts, Jamaica Plain | $8 | 617.522.2216

NEW ENGLAND CONTRAS + SQUARES COUPLES DANCE | 8 pm | Scout House, 74 Walden St, Concord | $8 | 617.547.7781

NOCHE DE LA SALSA | 9:30 pm | Brookline Community Center for the Arts, 14 Green St, Brookline | $10 | 617.738.2800

RYLES DANCE HALL with Latin, swing, and tango sounds with DJ Chris Johnston | 9 pm | Ryles Jazz Club, 212 Hampshire St, Cambridge | $12 | 617.876.9330

DANCE/PERFORMANCE

If you missed Savion Glover at the Majestic last month — or even if you didn’t — you get another chance this week at Jacob’s Pillow, where the fabulous tapper will take the stage with special guests Jimmy Slyde and Dianne Walker. Performances are at 8 at 2 and 8 today and at 2 tomorrow in the Ted Shawn Theatre, George Carter Road in Becket. Tickets are $49.50 to $55; call (413) 243-0745, or visit www.jacobspillow.org

AUDRA CARABETTA + JUSTIN DILLEY + MONICA STEIN | "Snapshot" | Tonight at 8 pm | Dance Complex, 536 Mass Ave, Cambridge | $15, $12 for seniors, kids under 12 | 617.957.8607

AFRICAN FESTIVAL LOWELL with Osibi Dancers + Mariamah & Sister + Camola Kids + DJ Kaikai + Moussa Traore + Rumbafrica + Sao & Gina + TW + more | 11 am-7 pm | Sampas Pavilion, Pawtucket Blvd, Lowell | Free | 978.453.6677

EVENTS

ARTSUNION CRAFTS MARKET | 9 am-1 pm | Union Square Plaza, Union Square, Somerville | Free | 617.625.6600 ext. 2985

EXTREME NO LIMITS TOUR with live aerial bike + skateboard shows + performances + exhibit tents + autograph sessions + giveaways + more | Today + tomorrow at 11 am, 1, and 3 pm | Six Flags New England, 1623 Main St, Agawam | 413.786.9300

GERMAN SOMMERFEST with grilled meats + potato pancakes + German souvenirs + pony rides + more | Today noon-11 pm; tomorrow noon-6 pm | Boylston Schul-Verein, Rte 109, Walpole | $7 | 508.660.2018

HIGHLAND GAMES & CELTIC FESTIVAL with athletic competition + bagpipe workshop + falconry demonstration + Celtic goods + cattle + fiddle workshop + Scottish foods + blacksmith demonstrations + sheep herding + more | 9 am-6 pm | Franklin County Fairgrounds, Greenfield | $10, $8 for kids 6-12 | 413.584.9182

SUMMER REVELS with a procession + puppets + Mummers’ play + traditional music + dance | Today + tomorrow 7 pm | along the waterfront at the Boston Children’s Museum, 300 Congress St, Boston | Free | 617.972.8300

MIA ANDERSON’S DRAG KINGS, SLUTS & GODDESSES CELEBRATES OSHUN with song + dance + sensuality | Tonight at 8 pm; tomorrow 7 pm | Footlight Club, Eliot Hall, 7A Eliot St, Jamaica Plain | $25 | 617.731.2626

GAY & LESBIAN

CANDYSHOP LESBIAN NIGHT | 10 pm | Opal Lounge, 48 Winter St, Boston | $10 | 617. 482.6725

GLITTER SWITCH DRAG KARAOKE | 8:30 pm | Club Hollywood Boston, 41 Essex St, Boston | $5 | 617.417.0186

GAY AND LESBIAN CONTRA DANCE | 7:30-11 pm | First Unitarian Universalist Church, Centre and Eliot Sts, Jamaica Plain | $8 | 617.522.2216

AT THE MOVIES

As the world gets more evil and stupid, Franz Kafka just gets more relevant. Timely, even. The Harvard Film Archive’s "Kafka Goes to the Movies" continues tonight with a program of short films, with a double bill of Caroline Leaf’s The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (1977) and Russian director Valeri Fokin’s Metamorphosis playing tonight at 7 and Iranian-American director Shoja Azari’s K at 9. The HFA is in the Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge | Through Wednesday | 617.495.4700.

Imagine how revered James Dean might have been if he’d made more than three films? Then again, he might have ended up in movies like Jaws 3. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of his death in a car crash at the age of 24, the Brattle Theatre will show this brief but brilliant repertoire, starting with Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Nicholas Ray’s ur text for adolescent misbehavior, in which Dean established himself as an icon of daddy-addled sensitive suffering. More family troubles follow in East of Eden (1955), Elia Kazan’s adaptation of John Steinbeck’s biblically allegorical saga in which Dean plays an unwitting Cain at the hands of oppressive patriarch Raymond Massey. The Brattle is at 40 Brattle St, Cambridge | Through Thursday: Rebel 12:45 pm + 5:15 pm, Eden 3 pm + 7:30 pm | 617.876.6837.

OPENING THIS WEEKEND: The ’60s get a postmodernist treatment this week starting with Bewitched, in which Nicole Kidman plays a witch cast for the part of Samantha in a remake of the old series and Will Ferrell is the obnoxious actor playing Darrin. Nora Ephron co-wrote and directs; Shirley MacLaine is Endora, Michael Caine Samantha’s father. Another supernatural ’60s franchise is resurrected in George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead as the Night of the Living Dead auteur offers the fourth in his cannibal zombie series; John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, and Asia Argento star. In Heights, zombie-like New Yorkers have until sunset to get their act together; Chris Terrio’s multi-narrative debut stars Glenn Close and Chandler Williams. An anti-Nazi priest has until Der neunte Tag/The Ninth Day to persuade a bishop to embrace the German occupiers or he’ll be sent back to Dachau in this based-in-fact drama from Volker Schlöndorff. In Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin, a teenager must find out what really happened to him as an eight-year-old or go crazy with his nightmares about alien abduction. In Pierre Salvadori’s Après vous . . . , a jilted depressive is saved from going off the deep end by a maître d’ and then clings to him in a comic dependent relationship; Daniel Auteuil and José Garcia star. And O homem que copiava/The Man Who Copied tries to escape his boring life as a copy-machine operator through comic fantasy; Brazilian filmmaker Jorge Furtado directs.

For more movies and showtimes, see our Movie Theater directory.

READINGS & LECTURES

"OPEN BARK POETRY NIGHT" with Deborah Priestly | 8 pm | Out of the Blue Gallery, 106 Prospect St, Cambridge | Suggested donation $3-$5 | 617.354.5287

THEATER

There’s something for everyone as Revels Inc. welcomes the solstice with its annual Summer Revels. There’ll be performers from Tibet, the Brazilian Cultural Center, and the Gung Ho Club in Chinatown, as well as a mummers’ play, a parade led by an ox, and the usual Morris-dancing suspects. It’s outdoors at the Boston Children’s Museum, 300 Congress St, Boston | Today + tomorrow at 7 pm | 617.972.8300.

Billed as "a psychological thriller from the Front Lines," Pugilist Special won Best Fringe First at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival. Now Adriano Shaplin’s play, which is about a female explosives expert assigned to a team of Marines aiming to take out an Arab despot called "The Bearded Lady," makes its New England debut at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, next to the Town Pier in Wellfleet, where it’ll play through July 16. Tickets are $19 to $25, with $12 student rush; call (508) 349-WHAT, or visit what.org.

You could just do Hello, Dolly! Or you could make Louis Armstrong the star attraction. That’s what happens at Cape Playhouse, where three-time Tony nominee Andre De Shields stars in a new musical he wrote with James Mirrione. Called Ambassador Satch — The Life and Music of Louis Armstrong, it continues through July 2. The Cape is at 820 Main Street, Route 6A, in Dennis, and tickets are $25 to $45; call (877) 385-3911, or visit www.capeplayhouse.com

They were doing cabaret, burlesque, and female-to-male drag back before that description constituted a typical night out in Jamaica Plain. But after one final fling this weekend, Mia Anderson’s pioneering Drag Kings, Sluts, and Goddesses crew are calling it a day — consider the culture officially pushed forward. They’ll close out with a production celebrating the African goddess Oshun in a three-night stand at the Footlight Club, 7A Eliot St, Jamaica Plain | Tonight through Sunday at 7 pm, | $20 | 617.983-2321 or www.dksg.org