Thursday Happenings

Television

-- WGBH offers a sneak preview of the documentary The Truth About Cancer. Filmmaker Linda Garmon documents the experience of helping her husband through cancer treatments and evaluates how far treatments have come. She'll participate in a Q&A after the screening. If you can't catch the sneak preview, you can watch the documentary on WGBH on April 16 at 9:00 pm. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, 7:00 pm. Free. (CR)

-- Comedian Jonathan Katz--that's "Dr. Katz" to you--will perform a live version of the cartoon "Dr. Katz" at the Somerville Theatre. In a promotional missive, Katz writes, "We are going to try and create a brand new episode right in front of your eyes with no special effects. Impossible? No. Tricky? Very." Given the squiggles that accompanied the cartoon, "tricky," indeed. Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville, 7:30 pm. $25. (CR)

Things Godard Knows

-- When people make movies about Boston, you get heists and the Irish gangland. When people make movies about Paris, you get bourgeois prostitutes and political screeds. Different worlds. Two or Three Things I Know About Her would be strident wankery were it not for Jean-Luc Godard's love of the absurd. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7:00pm. Free.

Fashion

-- Bostonist is keen on Fashion House, a series of high profile fashion shows. This week features the latest collection by Anthony Ferrara. District Restaurant, 180 Lincoln St., 8:00pm. More information and reservations. (JC)

Risky Writing

-- PEN New England and the Cambridge Forum host a panel discussion called The American Blandscape: Risky Writing and the Forces that Silence It. It's not immediately clear to Bostonist what they mean by "risky," but we suspect it might be code for that old grad school word "transgressive." The panel is moderated by poet and fiction writer Richard Hoffman and includes Carole Horne, Linda McCarriston, Mark Pawlak, and Jill Petty. First Parish Cambridge, 3 Church St., Cambridge, 7:30pm. Free.

No Longer "Popular"

-- If you haven't heard Nada Surf since their sarcastic hit "Popular," then you'll be shocked that they actually sound better than the mid-90's. If you've never heard of them, welcome to Nada Surf's bright rock melodicism that would make Rivers Cuomo proud. Two performances. Newbury Comics, Government Center, 12:30 pm, Free. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm. Ave., 9:00 pm, $18. (RV)

Books
The Germaine Greer reading scheduled for tonight at Harvard Book Store has been cancelled.

Jocelyn Celeste, Caroline Roberts, and Rob Vassegh contributed to this post.
Image of Dr. Katz from Jonathan Katz's website.

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