Cold, cold, holy crap it is cold! Bloody well everyone can agree that a high of 14 is cold. Barry Burbank at WBZ says "this weekend temperatures will get into the 40's and then the 50's on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week." Barry, we're holding you to that. You may as well have fun in the cold, though. Miss Von Schtoop notes that one of her neighbors has a fondness for making pissicles.......

Oldies station WODS (103.3 FM) is already playing holiday music. Laurel Sweet at the Herald wrote, "Admit it: You love it." No, we do not love it! At least it's easy to turn the FM dial away from the Trans-Siberan Orchestra's "What Is Christmas?" But what about the sudden appearance of Starbucks holiday cups? And what about Rachael Ray's uber-perky Dunkies ad? Amy at Boston Daily is already feeling irritated by Ray's self-proclaimed "million pounds"......

No, silly! Not that kind of junk! Do you have a velvet Elvis that you don't think is getting enough attention? Or an especially vulgar Granny Fanny lawn ornament? Don't worry - the Brockton Rox wants to know about your so-called "weird junk" as part of a promotion it's running along with 1-800-GOT-JUNK. On Tuesday, August 14, the Rox will gather the finalists at Campanelli Stadium to "explain" their junk. (Bostonist assumes that any reproductions......

Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things screens at 8:00 pm, and Satan's Cheerleaders screens at 10:00 pm on Thursday, May 17. We'll be spotlighting a few movies from the series, but you can see the full schedule here. Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things shot to the top of our Brattle Grindhouse wanna-see list because of the unforgettable title. The 1972 movie was also directed by the late Bob Clark, whose diverse body of work......

If you missed Inland Empire because you were too busy, don't worry. The Brattle has given you a little Christmas gift by adding more shows after the original run, which was supposed to end yesterday. Now, the Brattle will run the movie in which David Lynch out-Lynches himself at 1:00 pm next Monday through Friday. This exercise in stream-of-consciousness filmmaking, which sounds like Mulholland Drive times 12 plus Laura Dern plus rabbits, may be the......