Maybe We'll Just Walk to Work Today.

Bostonist got up extra early this morning to tell our dear readers about the many fantastic events happening this evening, but then we turned on the news. Now, we’d really rather just go back to bed for awhile, but here’s a few suggestions that may be close to home, in case you don’t feel like traveling.

Over in Allston, at Great Scott, great bands are rocking socks off tonight. The Constantines are teaming up with Brooklyn’s Oxford Collapse and young Providence upstarts Get Him Eat Him. We’re hoping Get Him Eat Him will break street date and sell us one of those debut albums so we can dance, dance, dance to their crazy rock any time we want.

Yonder in the South End, plant life has taken hold of the Boston Center for the Arts. In a collaborative effort with the South End’s community gardens, the Mills Gallery has become an interactive nature art wonderland, with a weeding station where you can sit and listen to plants grow. That sort of thing may not be for everyone, but they’re also giving out Free Manicures on Thursday and Friday evenings from 4-8pm. If that’s too frilly for you, check out the room Just For Men.

Across the river, Kevin Smokler will be at the Harvard Book Store to chat about Bookmark Now: Writing in Unreaderly Times, a volume of essays by young writers that he edited. The book explores the changes in readership with the rise of e-mail and online writing. After the talk, you can have supper with Smokler over at the Smile Thai Café, but be sure to RSVP.