Porchfest
Buzz
Bissinger
| The Friday Night Lights
author discusses his new book Father's
Day: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son at the Brookline
Booksmith on Thursday, May 17 @ 7 pm | brooklinebooksmith.com
MWM and JURNE: Algorhythms
| New exhibit featuring a series of canvas paintings juxtaposing
abstract compositions with calligraphy, representative of conversations between
Bay Area graffiti artist Jurne and
Portland designer/illustrator Matt W.
Moore. Reception at the Fourth Wall Project on Friday, May 18 from 8-10 pm
| fourthwallproject.com/flog
Neighboring
Sounds screening | Screening of Brazilian director Kleber
Mendonça Filho's crime drama about a well-to-do neighborhood in Recife that experiences
a crime surge, thus causing the residents hire a private security company, revealing
the city's social divisions at the Paramount Center on Friday, May 18 @ 8:15 pm
| artsemerson.org
Pretty Ugly: Deviant Materialism |
Exhibit using painting, sculpture, photography, and video to create art both
beautiful and hideous, to elicit visceral reactions of attraction and repulsion.
The reception tonight is followed by a live art performance from Charmaine
Wheatley, who'll serve chocolate casts of her ass to visitors at Mills Gallery on Friday, May 18 @ 6 pm | bcaonline.org
Porchfest
| More than 95 acts in countless genres performing on porches around Somerville
on Saturday, May 19 from noon-6 pm | somervilleartscouncil.org
"Banditos
Misteriofotos" | Scavenger hunt in which teams (or individuals)
race across the city to snap pics of events, stunts, or objects from a Banditos
Misteriosos approved list. Players post the day's shots online, to
be judged the next day by the Banditos, who will deem one team a winner.
Judging based upon most artistic, funniest, and largest amount of photos
collected. Meet to get your scavenger list on the Boston Common on Saturday, May
19 @ 11 am | misteriosos.org
Papercut
Zine Library 7 Year Anniversary Party | With live music from The
Low Tide, snacks, and brand new 'zines! Guests can expect to check out new
editions of High 5!, Bay State Badass, Today Belongs to You, and
Nothing Mattress, plus more TBA at Lorem Ipsum Books on Saturday, May 19 @ 8
pm | papercutzinelibrary.org/wordpress
Earthfest
2012 | This year's performers include Third Eye Blind, the Spin
Doctors, Eve 6, and Switchfoot at the DCR Hatch Memorial Shell along the
Charles River on Saturday, May 19 @ 11:30 am | earthfest.com
The
DMC Swag Poetry Slam |
Student poetry slam, presented by Citizen Schools and Dever McCormack Middle
School at the Middle East
upstairs on Saturday, May 19 @ 1 pm | mideastclub.com
Freak
Flag Benefit Show | Party to fund (donations gladly accepted) the new
up-start alt paper with music by Fat History Month and Hyena (and DJ sets by
Freak Flag staff) at Zuzu on
Monday, May 21 @ 10 pm | freakflagboston.tumblr.com
Rory
O'Connor | The Huffington
Post contributor discusses his new book Friends, Followers, And The Future: How
Social Media Are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, And Killing
Traditional Media about the effect of social media in our world at the
Brookline Booksmith on Tuesday, May 22 @ 7 pm | brooklinebooksmith.com
Jasper
JohnS/In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print |
Opening of exhibit exploring Johns's lesser known experiments in printmaking
and use of newsprint collage, with lecture from exhibition curator Jennifer L.
Roberts at the Harvard Art Museums, 485 Broadway, Cambridge on
Wednesday, May 23 from 5-8 pm | harvardartmuseums.org
"Shakespeare and Leadership"
| Reading of Shakespeare's Coriolanus
followed by a discussion on corporate leadership skills in the 21st century
with local business leaders at the Cutler Majestic Theater on Thursday, May 24
@ 6 pm | commshakes.org
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