Sneak Peek: SAT 3/6

I put this gig on the calendar, because it was ostensibly $10 for advance tickets, but advance tix are sold out. The Lizard Lounge saves some tickets for when the doors open 8:30pm, if you want to try getting in. (I'll likely try...)

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SAT 3/6

3pm to 3:45pm
"The Raven in the Frog Pond: Edgar Allan Poe & the City of Boston": Curator Tour
at Cheverus Room, Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston St, Boston (Copley Sq)
FREE

This is a chance to view "The Raven in the Frog Pond" with Prof. Paul Lewis (American Lit, BC), Boston's preeminent Poe scholar and the curator of the exhibit that includes rare manuscripts, letters, etc that focuses on his Boston years.

SAT 3/6

7pm to 9pm
"Cult of Personality": Opening Reception
at Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Ave, Boston (near Fenway)
FREE

This exhibit from Hideout Gallery collective (Matthew Salacuse, Chad Griffith, Emily Shur, Kareem Black) includes portraits taken over the past 15 years of musicians, actors, athletes and other cultural figures like Jay-Z, O.D.B., David Byrne, David Carradine, and Mark Zuckerberg.

Exhibit through SAT 3/20. Check out the Fourth Wall Project while you can, since it's a project to use an empty storefronts for creative purposes until they're commercially occupied. (On second thought, there is no rush...)

SAT 3/6

7:30pm
"More From R. Allan Pommer's Film Collection"
at Paul Revere Room, Grand Lodge of Masons, 186 Tremont St, Boston
FREE

Watch 8mm silent movies of Boston that features streetcar operations on Arborway-Huntington, Park Street-Watertown, and Blue Hill Ave, plus a non-Boston trailer film.

The Boston Street Railway Association meets monthly to discuss current news on the MBTA and other transit systems followed by an entertainment program begins at approximately 8:15pm and generally lasts about 2 hours.

Meetings are free and open to the general public.

SAT 3/6

9pm
The Cover-Up: "Girls Doing Girls"
at Lizard Lounge/Cambridge Common, 1667 Mass Ave, Cambridge (between Harvard Sq & Porter Sq)
$10 advance / $12 door / 21+

Those cheeky monkeys! I'll wager there will be almost no Sapphic displays of an erotic nature, but it'll be lots of good music.

The songs of Emmylou Harris, Cyndi Lauper, The Go-Go's, Tina Turner, Janis Joplin will performed by some of wonderful local artists including Jenee Halstead, Jillian Santella, Andrea Gillis, Jordan Valentine, and many more.

SAT 3/6

9:30pm
Dear Leader, Arletta, The Hush Now
at Great Scott, 1222 Comm Ave, Allston
$10 / 21+

Dear Leader makes some of the best big rock around, and they're joined by two really good bands.

SAT 3/6

9:30pm
The Marvels, Dead Friends, Tijuana Sweetheart, NeverGotCaught
at Middle East - Upstairs, 472 Mass Ave, Cambridge (Central Sq)
$9 advance / $10 door / 18+

Tons of kickass punk. If you don't recognize the name NeverGotCaught, it includes the band Tree. And Tijuana Sweetheart is the new band that's emerged from Vagiant.

SAT 3/6

9:30pm
The Curses, The Coffin Lids, The Tampoffs, Thick Shakes
at O'Brien's, 3 Harvard St, Allston
$7 / 21+

Tons of kick-ass garage-rock. I don't really thnk of The Curses as squarely in the garage-rock box, they do kick ass.