Monday Happenings

Music

-- Dan Bejar, sometime New Pornographer and all-around indie pop mastermind, comes to town as Destroyer. Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 8:00pm. $14. (CR)

--If you could watch only one Hitchcock movie in your lifetime, make it Vertigo, in which Jimmy Stewart falls in love with, loses, and attempts to resurrect the multifaceted Kim Novak. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, 7:00 pm. $7/$9 (CR)

Books

-- Mary Roach explores the science of sex in the not-so-delicately titled Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. Cue the embarrassed giggles. Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline, 7:00 pm. Free.(CR)

Skeptics

-- The Boston Skeptics are going to be back at the Asgard tonight. Marc Abrams, the brains behind the brilliant Ig Nobel prizes, will be the speaker. Mix up Skeptics, drinking, and Ig Nobels, and some wacky ideas are sure to emerge. The Asgard, 350 Mass Ave, Cambridge, 7:00 pm. Free. (CR)

Chocolate

-- Taza Chocolate, Somerville's--and America's--only 100% stone-ground chocolate makers, will provide demonstrations, wine, and samples of their wares. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 7:00 pm. Free. (CF)

Men, Cameras

-- Harvard Film Archive continues its series on avant-garde Soviet film with film studies staple Man with a Movie Camera (1929). Dziga Vertov's movie about the movies started a trend in self-reflexivity that has yet to die out among art filmmakers, for better or worse. The House on Trubnaya Square (1928) and In Spring (1929) also screen. Live piano accompaniment. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7:00pm. $10

Patriots' Day

-- If you haven't already cursed the T's Saturday bus schedule, you probably have the day off. Check out Bostonist's guide to Patriots' Day for patriotic things to do in and around Boston.

C. Fernsebner and Caroline Roberts contributed to this post.
Still from Man with a Movie Camera taken from HFA website.

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