Sunday Happenings

Bikes Not Bombs

-- The Bikes Not Bombs Bike-A-Thon and Green Roots Festival will feature bike rides, live music, healthy food, and speakers such as Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy. It's sure to be a "wheely" good time! It's located across from the Stony Brook T station in Jamaica Plain, and runs from 12-5:30pm. (KS)

Poetry

-- Poetry? Who cares about that stuff these days? Well, this group of Small Press Poets sure does. Zachary Schomburg, Rauan Klassnik, Chad Reynolds, and Carl Annarummo read from their works. Our only question: where are the woman poets? Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline, 6pm. Free! (KS)

Movies

-- Harvard Film Archive's retrospective of director Leo McCarey leads off with his best known work. This afternoon, catch a clutch of silent Laurel and Hardy shorts, and, in the evening, don't miss the film for which McCarey has long been revered: the largely improvised Cary Grant farce The Awful Truth (1937). Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge. Showtimes.

Improvised Music

-- Percusionist, NEC faculty member, and jazz luminary Rakalam Bob Moses shares the stage with John Lockwood, David Maxwell, and out-of-town electric violist Matt Maneri. It's a concert that promises to get you "aurally realigned." Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St., Inman Square, Cambridge, 7:15pm. Suggested $10 donation.

Kerry Skemp contributed to this post.