Four Stories The Bitter End: Stories of loss, endings, and final acts Featuring Jeremiah Healey, Drew Johnson, Julia Glass, and Joan Wickersham The Enormous Room 
(567 Mass Ave,
 Central Square) Monday, December 3 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. Free! Four Stories is a unique reading series: Boston-based but also Japan-based, set in a bar, and featuring four writers instead of just one, the event proves that readings don’t have to be torture. The unorthodox setting and......

Four (Curious) Stories Monday, November 5, 2007 7-9pm (Music starts @ 6) The Enormous Room 567 Massachusetts Ave Central Square, Cambridge Admittance free and open to the public While "Tales of exploration, experimentation, and questioning" might conjure up images of coming out stories, tonight's installment of the Four Stories reading series isn't specifically tailored to that topic. It's just a bunch of curious tales, designed to step off the beaten (written?) path and spark some......

A special post today to highlight the amazing work of our friend hargo and his newest public art project, The Wall at Central Square. The project consists of 20 talented artists that have come together to create a unique piece of street art on an 81 foot-long wall in Cambridge. Geoff Hargadon, aka hargo, told us: "We've been installing [the wall] all this week as the artists have come in from all over the......

Bostonist Pick: Ballermore Has Arrived .::. Shake 'Em Down @ Milky Way (Thurs) Bostonist has some good news for you: this is going to be an easy weekend on the liver. The bad news is that your two days of drinking, dancing and staying up into the wee New England-established hours begins tonight. There are two main events invading our city on the 4th, and first up is Shake 'Em Down, a dance party......

Four Stories Enormous Room (567 Mass Ave) Monday, October 1 7:00-9:00 pm FREE! In its last installment, the internationally acclaimed reading series Four Stories addressed faraway places; this time, it's all about two subjects close to everyone's heart: love and money. While some of us may focus more on one than the other, either love--of a person or a passion, returned or unrequited--or money--having it or not having it--is usually at the center of most......

The next Four Stories reading will be on October 1, 2007. Kris Frieswick, Jake Halpern, Michael Lowenthal, and Hank Phillippi Ryan will be participating. The evening's topic is "Love and Money: Tales of Making It, Having It, and Losing It," and the readings will take place at The Enormous Room. For more details, visit the Four Stories site. To prepare, check out Bostonist's interview with Jake Halpern. Many of us spend our days in front......

It's been almost a month since local electro-pop trio Certainly, Sir played the Enormous Room. Attendees of the venue had a chance to pick up their newest album, Tan, which is oddly only sold in Japan. Tan includes guest vocals from Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie/ The Postal Service, and some really fresh synth beats The new disc will be available – along with another Cambridge appearance of the group tomorrow night......

The collegiate population may deem Thursdays "Thirsty Thursdays", but as a majority of them have departed our fine city for internships in New York, jobs back home, or foreign lands - we here at Bostonist HQ have come to view Thursday as dance night. As such, here is a brief rundown of just a few of your Thursday night options. Bostonist favorites, Next Generation Productions, are holding it down at their usual Thursday night......

All we can say is at least it's not raining. The humidity, not so much the heat, has got everyone running on a pretty sluggish pace today. Perhaps after another TurboIce things will pick up. Or some sweet nerdy action in the way of the IT Band Bash – you know the guy sitting in the cube across from you who's a rocker at night? Oh, you don't, well he might be. If you're......

Not too long until these parties rock with the roof off. That is to say we're only a few weeks away from the official start of summer. The unofficial beginning came last week with Memorial Day. Put on your white pants and go see some of the last few shows inside before you rock each park, lake, and outdoor venue you can find in the greater Boston area. Wednesday 6/7 Cat Power Indie chanteuse......

Speaking in Code is coming to the Enormous Room on Sunday, June 11. Speaking in Code is a feature-length documentary film about the international electronic, dance, and music scene – and specifically the people who make the whole thing move. Local folks including Amy Grill of Emerson College and Jason Redmond, executive director of Boston's Independent Film Festival are pushing big to make the movie a success. Right now it's a grass-roots effort. For $50......

The season finale has just aired for your favorite TV show. NBC hasn't run Must See TV on Thursdays for a decade. The sun is shining and temperatures will be perfect for showing up jacketless to the next performance. Something to do every night this week – and rock it out for free with the pop tunes from WBOS' EarthFest line up on Saturday, starting at noon. All this and we're tivo-ing the Sox/Yanks games......

We'll call it hit or miss. Some weeks are totally on and our agenda's are filled to the brim with great stuff. Some weeks we're pulling together a bunch of shows and thinking that the list of "go see" music is surprisingly spare. Just like the weather is wonderful an warm some weeks and gloomy others. This week we've collected a number of selections that will bring some sunshine to your gloomy day - or......

Friday: Think of the musical options for tonight in terms of The Cure: if you want to see dreamy local rock bands do their best-pyschedelic Brit-pop thing, check out Stereo Soul Future, The December Sound, the dance-y Cyanide Valentine, and Aloud at the Middle East Upstairs. If you want to dance to ten-minute long Cure remixes, head on over the The Pill at Great Scott and kick it to Suede songs. Finally, if you want......