In late January, the Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer told fans on her MySpace page that she would soon be going under the knife. Nodes had formed on the pianist/singer's vocal cords, and it would require surgery to remove them and get her throat back into shape. As she wrote at the time: long story short: i'll be getting this done in march and they ask that you go easy on your voice leading up the... [continue]

Gender-Bending Performance Artists Lazlo Pearlman will perform "Madame Pierre's Other Tongue: A Surrealist Cabaret about Cunning Linguists" live at the Brattle Theatre as part of CineMental. Lazlo Pearlman went from female to male and has been writing and performing about gender and language. But, really, that doesn't explain the show. We're not sure the description we got from the Brattle explains it either: " The show is a 50 minute, one man production, including... [continue]

We love the symmetry and lush green in this great shot by greendrz.... [continue]

View Larger Map The man struck and killed by a Shaw's truck at the corner of Mass Ave and Prospect at Central Square has been identified as 28-year-old Isaac Meyers. Meyers was a teaching fellow in classics at Harvard, the Crimson reports. Friends remembered him last night at a memorial service. One friend told Matt Dunning of the Cambridge Chronicle that Meyers was getting a Master's in classic languages and translating Hebrew scriptures into Greek.... [continue]

The Globe reports that the Milky Way will remain open through Monday, pending a court hearing. The Jamaica Plain bar and night club, one of three in Boston closed for failing to install fire sprinklers, won an injunction from Suffolk Superior Court last night. It reportedly came too late to prevent the cancellation of one event, the Rock 'N' Roll Fashion Show. The bar has requested a one-year extension from state fire officials for installing...... [continue]

Ukulele Noir Nave Gallery, Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church, 155 Powderhouse Blvd, Somerville Saturday, November 17, 2007 8-10 pm, $10 Bostonist never thought we'd hear the words "ukulele" and "noir" used together, but now it's happened. And it sounds pretty rad. Tonight's installment of Ukulele Noir, an assortment of skilled ukulele players, will feature Craig Robertson, Melvern Taylor and the Fabulous Meltones, Uncle Shoe, and the East Boston Make Out Club Band. All will strum tiny...... [continue]