Tuesday Happenings

Image of the Milky Way tagged "Bostonist" by Flickr user Blue Socks.

-- The Blizzard Bowl is a free candlepin bowling tournament for you and three of your more coordinated friends. (Candlepin hint: It's the wrist action.) The Milky Way closes for good at the end of March, so there may not be many more chances to compete with groups of strangers. Show up early; there are only 12 spots on the bracket. Milky Way Lounge, 403 Centre St., Jamaica Plain. Sign-up begins at 7p.m., bowling begins at 9 p.m. Free.

-- If you prefer big ball bowling and have a lot of school spirit, you might prefer the Beanpot Bowling tournament at Kings. Just like the real Beanpot, teams representing BC, BU, Harvard, and Northeastern will compete for prizes. (Sorry, MIT.) Alumni are welcome. If you've always thought that you should've been picked up by your college hockey team after all, there is a simultaneous Wii hockey tournament where you can strut your slapshot. Kings, 10 Scotia St., 9 p.m. Free.

Auxiliary Members

-- Official unofficial member of the Wu Tang Clan Cappadonna swings through town for an instore at Underground Hip Hop Dot Com. He's promoting his new album, improbably titled Slang Prostitution, and you can't hate his flow because he learned from the best, his friends Ghostface and Raekwon. Underground Hip Hop Dot Com, 234 Huntington Ave., 6 p.m. Free.

New Music

-- Stephen Drury's Callithumpian Consort keeps things challenging for Boston's fans of chamber music. The ensemble, consisting of students, faculty, and almuni of NEC, plays the best contemporary music around. Tonight, it's tackling John Cage, Louis Andriessen, Walter Zimmerman, Edgar Barroso (with live electronics!), and NEC composition faculty member John Heiss. Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, 30 Gainsborough St., 8 p.m. Free.

Lectures

-- There's never a bad time to reflect on institutional racism, white privilege, and discrimination agains women. Tonight, the Brattle's Wicked Smart series features MacArthur Fellow Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, who will give a talk titled "Sociologist as Storyteller" that will tackle all of those themes. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 6 p.m. $4.