Books Sarah Boxer bravely prowled through the blogosphere to share its treasures with us in Ultimate Blogs. Of course, Go Fug Yourself makes the list. Brattle Theatre (via Harvard Book Store), 6:00 pm, $5. Edit: Event has been moved to Harvard Book Store --If you've been reading Bostonist for a while, you might know how we feel about the potential of wind power. A while ago, we read this barnburner of a book about......

--Hendry Street isn't the only place suffering from the home-foreclosure crisis. In fact, so many areas are suffering that real estate agents are taking possible buyers on bus tours of other people's property. As if someone losing a home doesn't have enough misery, now they have to have complete strangers tramping about on the front yard. [Boston Globe] --A group of mayors, including Mayor Menino, are banding together with labor union reps in support of......

Books --Self-described philosopher-comedians Tom Cathcart and Daniel Klein discuss Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington. Imagine Jon Stewart after he stops shouting "Whaaaa??" takes some time off for a philosophy PhD, and returns to TV. Brookline Booksmith, 7:00 pm, free. --Find out why Drew Gilpin Faust is the president of Harvard, and you're not. Faust will discuss her book This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War at the Harvard Coop......

Chinese New Year Harvard Square is celebrating the Year of the Rat with a Lion Dance Parade. Perhaps even more meaningful for some Cambridge residents, the Hong Kong (yay scorpion bowl!) is holding an open house in honor of its 54th anniversary. But be aware that they are having a craft party, not a scorpion bowl party. 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, free. Art Instruction You've seen the MFA's British Prints show, and you......

Console yourselves, people. Go out tonight. Puppetry! The Bread and Puppet Theater launches a run of several projects at the Cyclorama, including The Divine Reality Comedy, the "family-friendly" The Divine Reality Comedy Circus, and a "cheap art" show. And, yes, there will be bread--rye brad with garlic aioli, to be precise. Boston Center for the Arts Cyclorama, 539 Tremont St., South End. Runs through February 10. Movies The Coolidge Corner Theater is celebrating the......

Late-Breaking Event Johnny Pesky will be at the Barnes & Noble in Peabody tonight from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm signing books. Movies A Hong Kong drug-runner (Asia Argento) finds herself in trouble in Boarding Gate, Olivier Assayas' stylish thriller, which comes with side orders of sex and violence. Make that heaping side orders, plus a dash of Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon. (She acts? Who knew?) Assayas will be at the Harvard Film Archive......

Brrrrlesque Saturday, December 15, midnight Coolidge Corner Theater, 290 Harvard St., Brookline (T: Coolidge Corner) $12.50 in advance, $20 at the door Official Boston Babydolls site In the press release we got, Boston Babydolls impresario Scratch declares, "People hate the cold, the rising gas prices, and - of course - the snow. But there's a lot that's beautiful about new England in the winter, and we wanted to remind people of some of those things."......

"Traditional," "evolving," "models," and "criticism" are all words that might have turned most people off already, but bear with us here: today's 2.5-hour (longer than most movies!) panel discussion on the nature of film criticism at the Coolidge Corner Theater was actually at least as enlightening as annoying, if not more so. Moderators Cynthia Lucia and Richard Porton led panelists Phillip Lopate, Scott Foundas, Glenn Kenny, David Sterritt, Owen Gleiberman, and Ty Burr in......

Last night, Bostonist was on hand for J. Cannibal's screening of The Evil Dead at Brookline's Coolidge Corner Theater, and it was terrible. We expected the film to be bad, but our fellow patrons were even worse. One group drowned out the film's soundtrack with an eighty-five minute long running commentary that was so violent and misogynist that one female patron felt unsafe exiting the theater. Now, Bostonist understands the value of yelling at......

Chuck Palahniuk will be reading from Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey at Brookline Booksmith, Friday, May 11, at 5:00 pm, at Coolidge Corner Theater. Tickets are available from Brookline Booksmith for $2. Palahniuk tries his hand at a new genre for him - the oral history, which compiles other people's thoughts on a famous person. The character at the center of all these quotations is Buster "Rant" Casey, who is a connoisseur of......

Walter Isaacson will read from Einstein: His Life and Universe on Monday, April 23, at 6:00 pm, at the Coolidge Corner Theater via Brookline Booksmith, 6:00 pm, $2. We're posting early because you'll want to get the tickets now. Walter Isaacson's new book on Albert Einstein paints the genius as the rebel among his peers - and that's why we love Einstein so much. Wired magazine recently published a short piece from Isaacson that featured......

Thelma Schoonmaker will be honored with a Coolidge Award at 8:00 pm on Wednesday, April 11, at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $35 ($30 for Coolidge members). Coolidge Corner Theater will also hold a panel to discuss The Departed at 7:00 pm on Thursday, April 12. Tickets are $20 ($15 for Coolidge members). Director Martin Scorsese is a legend who finally won his long-overdue Oscar with The Departed, but would his movies be as good without......

You might think you've seen it all on YouTube or by watching Web Junk 2.0, but Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher are connoisseurs of filmed oddities. These two have been digging through stray videotapes and a few Dumpsters since they were teenagers, and you won't believe what they've found. They'll be sharing their treasures with the masses tomorrow night, Saturday, March 31, at midnight at Coolidge Corner Theater. Tickets are $9.50. If you think you've......

Boffo Box Office, with a lecture from burlesque historian David Kruh, a screening of Lady of Burlesque and a performance from the Boston Babydolls Burlesque Troupe, will start at Coolidge Corner Theater tomorrow night at 7:00 pm. Tickets are $12. Boffo Box Office at Coolidge Corner Theater kicks off a month packed with burlesque events. Tomorrow night, historian David Kruh will talk about the Old Howard theater, which used to be Boston's home of burlesque......

PJ O'Rourke is being hosted by Brookline Booksmith for a reading at Coolidge Corner Theater tomorrow night, Monday, January 29 at 6:00 pm. The price is two bucks. How can you write about an "invisible hand" if you can't even see it? Well, you can if you're PJ O'Rourke and you're writing about Adam Smith, the great-grandpappy of free trade. PJ O'Rourke is tackling Adam Smith's legendary The Wealth of Nations. But he's not really......

If today’s fabulous spring weather is inspiring you to get out of the apartment tonight, then you should stop by the Sebastian Junger event we told you about yesterday…and if for some reason you are feeling very studious tonight, why not make it a double header? For those of you who are on the ball, you already bought your tickets to the Jonathan Safran Foer event at the Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline. After this......

Bostonist has been enjoying Chris Elliott's humor ever since our parents let us stay up late one night back in the 80s and we saw him on Letterman. Elliott has continued to appear on Dave's show for years, and he went on to star in his own sitcom with his real father, Bob Elliott, on Fox back in 1990. Starring as a 30-year-old man who works as a paperboy living with his parents, Get A......

There are quite a few author readings and events going on tonight around the city and there seems to be a bit of something for everyone. So why not Tivo that episode of "The O.C." (Bostonist knows it's one of your guilty pleasures) and introduce some literature into your night. If feminism, comedy, and just blatant, hilarious honesty, is your interest, head over to see Jill Soloway (pictured) in her "Tiny Ladies Extravaganza" at 8p.m.......

So Bill Murray is no Bostonian, but he is one of Bostonist's favorite people. Perhaps it's his midwestern comedic sense or his part-ownership of the local Brockton Rox baseball team, but Murray is one of the few actors/comedians that is worth staying up to watch on Letterman. On last week's appearance, Murray was completely smitten over his new girlfriend, Katie Holmes; Letterman unfortunately had to break the news about Tom Cruise. Murray has a......

Kim Airs' Brookline sex store Grand Opening is one of the things that makes Boston great. And now's the time of year where she and her co-horts have "You Oughta Be In Pictures!" Over at 9:30 tonight at the Coolidge, you can catch a collection of amateur porn curated by Airs and sent in by your friendly Bostonians. Who knows who will be on screen? Get your tickets as soon as you can for......

Do you want to meet The Daily Show's Rob Corddry? (Like Bostonist and Abigal Adams, a native of Weymouth, MA!) Because he's going to be at The Somerville Theater on Friday night along with Brant Serensen, Darren Goldberg, and the ever-funny DJ Hazard promoting their festival film Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story. It features Upright Citizens Brigade members and paintball. That's just one of the options that you, gentle reader, have at the Independent Film......

Today is Valentine's Day, welcomed by Hallmark stores and dreaded by all singletons in the city. Bostonist won't be spending it with anyone special this year, except for Jack Bauer, so we looked into some other options than a romantic candlelit dinner for one. Here's what we came up for those of you looking to go out tonight: The Boston Young Professionals Association has planned a "My Tie Valentine's Day Event" for those looking......