Tuesday Happenings

Movies

Nashville (1975) might be the funniest two-and-a-half hour movie without a plot to come out of the United States until Transformers 2. Robert Altman's epic—we remember renting it on, gasp, two videocassettes—doesn't feel as long as it is. Set in the country music industry of the mid-seventies, it's a humanist satire about celebrity and Americana told through a series of dizzying scene changes. Featuring stand-out performances by the other Carradine, Karen Black, Lily Tomlin, and Jeff Goldblum, with a scene-stealing cameo by Elliot Gould that is practically worth the price of admission. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $9.50.

Hair Teases

Def Leppard, Cheap Trick, and Poison are all still inexplicably touring, and they share the stage tonight. We'll take "Southern Girls" over pretty much anything in Poison's oeuvre, but "Pour Some Sugar on Me" might be a contender. Good news for hipsters: You're probably wearing a painstaking replica of what was actually worn to see these bands in the eighties. Comcast Tweeter Center, 885 South Main St., Mansfield, 7 p.m. $20-$200.

Dorks

DorkbotBoston gives artists the chance to play with electricity without getting hurt. The forum will feature discussions from Leah Buechley, Gideon Weisz and Brian Knep, each of whom are working with electricity as a medium. An "OpenDork" session follows, where free collaboration is encouraged. Axiom Art Center, 141 Green St., Jamaica Plain, 7 p.m. Free.