Sunday Happenings

May Flowers

-- Lilac Sunday is the only day of the year when you're permitted to eat a picnic in Arnold Arboretum. It's wonderful outside, and JP has been overrun by songbirds, so what's keeping you? Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, 10:00am-4:00pm. Free.

-- Harvard Square's 25th annual Mayfair was rescheduled for today. Featuring six stages of live entertainment, food vendors, and hippies. Various locations, Harvard Square, Cambridge, 12:00pm-6:00pm. Free. More information.

-- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, home to bunches of flowers, offers two-for-one admission today, so you can bring your Mom. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 Fenway.

Movies

-- HFA begins its series on May '68 and French filmmaking with a doozy of a double-feature. Un film comme les autres (1968), Jean-Luc Godard's final solo filmmaking effort of the 60s (although later claimed by the Dziga-Vertov group), documents a discussion between assembly line workers and students about the objectives of the May '68 uprising. Aggressively edited, the film will either engage your intellect or enrage you. It screens with The Virgin's Bed (1969), Phillipe Garrel's Jesus Christ acid trip.Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7:00pm. $8/$6.

Music

-- Dizzee Rascal, a rapper from the UK, had a burst of fame a couple of years ago during the heyday of the grime subgenre. Now that the hype is off the rose, folks are starting to remember what brought him to their attention in the first place: his face-melting flow. Performing with cranky old man El-P and Busdriver, an underrated MC from L.A. who makes rap sound like avant-garde jazz from space. Aaron LaCrate, the B-more DJ from Hollertronix, rounds out the stellar line-up. Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 8:00pm. $22.

Image of Busdriver from Myspace.com