Saturday Happenings

Paradise with John

-- Stranger than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch's first film, was an early entry in the Eastern-European-cousin-in-America genre, which would find its fullest completion in the sitcom Perfect Strangers. Come to remind yourself that NYC has always had hipsters. Part of the Elements of Cinema series. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 11 a.m. Free.

Bloody Boobies

-- Chicago band the Dwarves might be more notorious for their album art—one sterling example featured topless women covered in blood—than their workmanlike punk rock. A nostalgia trip. The Middle East, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 8 p.m. $15.

Neanderthals

-- Nabo Rawk, a member of the jokey hip hop crew Porn Theatre Ushers, promotes his new album of sandpaper-throated, stripped down rap, Teched out Neanderthals. With A Masstapeace. Underground Hip Hop Dot Com, 234 Huntington Ave., 6 p.m. Free.

Earnestness

-- RISD grads Sandrine Schaefer and Phil Fryer describe themselves as "actionists," and whether their art involves lots of blood and anuses, we'd rather you told us. Live action tonight as a part of the ongoing exhibition Congratulations on Your Empire. 55 Norfolk St., Cambridge, 12 to 6 p.m. Free.