Rock Opera
We never pictured ourselves leading the Happenings post with a rock opera, but here we are. Berklee's Larry Ball has created a rock opera based on Romulus Linney's play Holy Ghost, a tale of religion in the Deep South by a dude who should know—Linney grew up in Boone, NC. Watch for the snake handler. Featuring Robert Honeysucker, Matthew DiBattista and Natalie Polito. Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., 8:15 p.m. $10/$5.
Skeptics
Fresh from DragonCon, where, presumably, she gave her talk to an audience of R2D2s and women dressed like slave Leia, comes Australian skeptic Dr. Rachael Dunlop. The author of the provocatively titled The Skeptics' Book of Pooh-Pooh, Dunlop visits Skeptics at the Pub tonight. Tommy Doyle's, 96 Winthrop St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Free.
JP Bowl
The Milky Way couldn't bring its candlepin lanes with it when it moved to its new location, which means that it's been a while since there's been any bowling in Jamaica Plain. And then came technology. Oui, we Wii is the virtual return of bowling to the Milky Way, courtesy of everybody's favorite Nintendo product. We just hope they bought the special New England edition with little pins and three chances per frame. Milky Way, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, 9 p.m. Free.


