Consistency is an underrated virtue in these challenging and changing times. Just as you can count on the stock market to recklessly bounce up and down like a fat kid on a trampoline, for years Boston has been able to count on the reliable Emergency Music to deliver the goods for the able ear. Delegates of pop perfection, old Emergency will headline an increasingly rare appearance this Saturday at T.T. the Bears. Bostonist caught......

Tears and sorrow fill the offices of mainstream publisher Riverhead books as another memoir delivered from the school of hard knocks turns out to be a complete fabrication. Love and Consequences, a memoir released last week by Margaret Seltzer (published under the silly pseudonym Margaret B Jones), which chronicles the author's difficult life story of foster families, drug running, and all around thuggin' on the mean streets of L.A., turns out to be a complete......

This past Monday French avant garde novelist and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet died at the age of 85. Robbe-Grillet is regarded as the theorist behind the "new novel", which rejects conventional storytelling techniques for surface narratives that focus on objects and details rather than the world at large. Truly, he could suck a story out of an electric shaver like no other. While a favorite name to drop in the literary lounge, Robbe-Grillet is best known......

A recent article in the New York Times pondered that constant buzzing question, are Americans willfully stupid? Though it may seem asking this question is a favorite pastime of the popular rag, a recent profile on a bevy of books on the subject argues Americans are less willfully stupid than they are openly hostile towards the smarty-pantses of the nation. Author Susan Jacoby, whose book The Age of Unreason came out last week, says she......

Paper & Chocolate Saturday, February 9, 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm Albertine Press & Taza Chocolate 561 Windsor Street, Somerville Feeling like that annual box of candy is a bit underwhelming? Find that giving a Hallmark card is a little like having your feelings interpreted by a eight year old with slightly better vocabulary? Step it up this year at the second annual Valentne's Day Paper and Chocolate, the infrequent celebration by Somerville's Albertine......

Boston has never had a shortage of successful poets. Fresh off the MFA boat and new to the party is Emerson graduate Chad Reynolds. Recently published by Boston imprint Rope-A-Dope Press, known for their illustrious broadsides, Reynolds' chapbook Victor in the New World is a stunning example of dexterous presentation and affecting wordage. A series of subtle passages based in the new surroundings of a maladroit wild boy named Victor, those unfamiliar to the world......

The Writer's Brush Pierre Menard Gallery 10 Arrow St., Cambridge Through Sunday, January 27 617-868-2033 Everyone at one time or another wants to become something else. The actress longs to become a pilot, the congressman has late liaisons practicing his baking. Such creative experiments are no doubt good for the soul. This week at the Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge is the last chance to witness rare visual works created by some of the greatest......

Keggers and CliffsNotes Grub Street Headquarters 160 Boylston Street Sunday, September 23, 7:00-9:00 pm More info Sunday night: a time for football, Extreme Home Makeover, and staying in, right? You couldn't be more wrong. Sunday night--at least this Sunday night--is a time to don your favorite college sweatshirt, put on your thinking and drinking caps, and head out to Keggers and CliffsNotes, the latest installment in the Dirty Water Reading Series. Co-hosted by Redivider, Quick......