Movies --The ultimate sci-fi slumber party will happen with the 33rd Annual Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival, where this year's theme is "The Future is Passe," and the main event is a screening of A Boy and His Dog, starring Don Johnson. Get more details. Somerville Theatre, Davis Square, 12:00 noon, running through 12:00 noon the next day. Gender Bending Trannies take the stage for Traniwreck, Boston's only all-gender, all-genre burlesque variety show. Expect comedy,......

--An update on the murder of Daniel Yakovleff, who was stabbed to death in Dorchester. The lawyer for the man who owned the apartment in which Yakovleff died says that the BPD no longer considers the owner a suspect and that they are looking for a third man who may be involved with the crime. However, the BPD is saying that the owner is still a "person of interest." Police are still trying to find......

Update: Gintautas Dumcius at the Dorchester Reporter was also early to the Yakovleff story and covers the reaction in the Tuttle Street neighborhood where Yakovleff died. While police have asked for assistance in finding the killer of Daniel Yakovleff, the city's gay community is understandably concerned, the Globe reports. Yakovleff, who was a stylist at Liquid Hair, was out and may have been targeted for his sexual orientation. The incident has galvanized gay activists, who......

Books Jennifer Finney Boylan will read from I'm Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted at Harvard Book Store, 7:00 pm, free. Boylan's last work was another memoir about her transition from male to female, and she described the connection between her childhood haunting and the transgender experience in an interview with Bay Windows: "Many trans people I know are kind of haunted by the ghosts of their younger selves, or, if you’re a young person,......

Did you know there was an election today? Bill Linehan and Susan Passoni are up for the late Jimmy Kelly's District 2 seat on the City Council, which represents South Boston, South End, and Chinatown. Their Backgrounds Linehan: Lifelong City Hall employee. More South Boston than South End. Passoni: Used to be a financial analyst. More South End than South Boston. Insider/Outsider Status Linehan: Insider thanks to the City Hall pedigree. Passoni: Outsider Moving City......

The Legislature passed the proposed amendment to ban on gay marriage on the 2008 ballot. Even though 134 legislators don't want the ban on the ballot, all it takes is 50 legislators to move the amendment forward, and 62 legislators voted "yes." This is a setback, not just for those who deserve the right to marry whomever they want but also for Deval Patrick, who took a strong stand against the amendment, using tough......