Film -- A Gathering of Coens (y'know, like the brothers) at the Brattle begins with screenings of No Country For Old Men. 40 Brattle Street, various showings, $7.50 matinee, $9.50 evening. Dancing With Ourselves -- We've never much liked electronic music, so imagine our delight at discovering the silent rave. People will gather to dance to their own individual drummer, or flautist, or pianist, or whatever imaginary music propels them. No word on whether pacifiers......

Kanyes -- Kanye West will never be the best, or least hysterical, rapper in the world. But he's oddly endearing, and virtuosity is overrated anyway. With Rihanna and Lupe Fiasco. Tweeter Center, 885 South Main Street , Mansfield, 7:00pm. $30-$86. Movies -- An inspired double-feature looks at two New Yorks: the one where Marshall McLuhan resolves disputes in movie theater lines and the one where you have sex for money. Bostonist loves the scene in......

Bad Art -- Bostonians no longer have to trek out to Dedham for a dose of bad art. The Museum of Bad Art opens its Somerville branch tonight. Come for the watercolor dogs, stay for the unflattering nudes. Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville, 7:00pm. Free. Burlesque -- It's billiard balls and pasties tonight as Boston's venerable Babydolls perform. Unfortunately, the free guest list passes have all been given out. Boston Billiards, 126 Brookline Ave.,......

Free Mustache Rides You don't have to accept the aforementioned mustache rides, but be aware that a group of people will be showing off their mustaches in the 1st annual mustache pub crawl. The crawl will be mighty long, starting at 1:00 pm at DJ's and winding through until the bars close. Check out the Yelp page, which indicates that somewhere, Tom Selleck is happy. (CR) Dudes Dressed Like Monsters Kaiju Big Battel, an event......

Music -- Hip-hop fundamentalist KRS-One is given to pronouncement and ranting about aesthetics, which can be as entertaining as his rap performances. Let's hope he brought enough material for both. Harper's Ferry, 158 Brighton Ave., Allston, 8:00pm. $25. -- Erykah Badu and ?uestlove, of the hip-hop band the Roots, will do battle using only their hair. Orpheum Theatre, 1 Hamilton Place, 8:00pm. $45-$55. Comedy -- You know that watching Lewis Black's stand-up is like enduring......

Music -- Don't you just love seesaws? Teitur (not totter) plays heartfelt folk designed to make you happy as a Dane. Accompanied by our buddy, guitar virtuoso Newton Faulkner (sort of a British Jack Johnson), and Jessie Baylin. Middle East Downstairs, 480 Mass Ave, Central Square. 18+, $12 advance, $14 doors. (KS) -- Something has to rub off when your parents are James Taylor and Carly Simon. Their son, singer-songwriter Ben Taylor, plays tonight. Try......

Books Bostonist assures you that you haven't seen anything until you've seen a Japanese tea ceremony. Not only will Ellis Avery discuss her novel, The Teahouse Fire, but she'll also lead a ceremony. Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline, 7:00 pm. Free. (CR) Music "Everything I do, I do it for Bryan Adams." That's this fan's motto, apparently--his head is a tribute to Adam's new album, 11. Paradise Rock Club, 969 Commonwealth Ave, 7:00pm.......

Walk for Hunger -- The 40th annual Walk for Hunger began today at 7:00, but will continue all day long. Participants will wind their way around through Boston, Brookline, Newton, Watertown, and Cambridge, on a 20 mile trek to raise money for Massachusetts food pantries and soup kitchens, an event made more pressing by rising food prices. Sponsored by Project Bread. Citywide, 7:00am-7:00pm. Donate something. More information. Ring the Bells -- The ringing of Lowell......

Open Studios -- Few spring events are as hotly anticipated by gadabouts as the Somerville Open Studios. If you have ever needed an excuse to prod every nook of Somerville's cranny, free art and free wine should suffice. Somerville-wide, noon-6:00pm. Free. More information. Waking the Earth -- If you live in the southwestern reaches of Boston and are Red Line averse, Jamaica Plain's 29th annual Wake Up the Earth Festival might be more your speed.......

Importance of Being Ironic -- It's the closing days of the Publick Theatre's production of Travesties, Tom Stoppard's satire of Oscar Wilde that manages to include Lenin, James Joyce, and Dadaist Tristan Tzara. Boston Center for the Arts Plaza, 539 Tremont St., 7:30pm (closing Saturday). $22-$35. Unlikely Hipsters -- An inspired double-feature sees Sean Connery's Bond paired with Peter Sellers's Clouseau. Neither character is especially smooth, but they both get a lot of play. Dr.......

Music -- Reid Paley, who specializes in gravelly, shouty rock-blues, is doing a solo show. Plough and Stars, 912 Mass Ave, Cambridge, 10:00 pm. $5. (CR) -- Stars of the Lid make the kind of drone that does not rock in any way. Rhythm, for the Austin, TX duo, is secondary. Instead, they offer undulating swells of music that you could probably play in an airport. Museum of Fine Arts, 7:30pm. $15/$12. The First Rule......

Jazz -- Composer and drummer Bob Moses has played with more jazz greats than will fit in a politely sized paragraph. He was once described in Downbeat as a "shamanistic groovilator," but his music sounds much better than that. Playing with his Ensemble (and joined by those of Oscar Stagnaro and Jerry Leake) as a part of Jazz Week. Keller Room, New England Conservatory, 290 Huntington Ave., 7:00pm. Free. Movies -- Expect to see......

Dancing Hipsters -- Hearthrob, the weekly hipster dance night, hosts German techno flavor-of-the-month D.I.M. along with Matt Walsh from the U.K. and a dude named Thomas Van Party. The usual Beantown suspects will also be on hand. Middlesex Lounge, 315 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 9:00pm. $10. Movies -- IFFBoston wraps up tonight with Werner Herzog's latest, Encounters at the End of the World. Herzog makes movies about the weird and the obsessed, and this documentary......

Art -- Celebrate spring for free with the MFA's "Art in Bloom" project featuring fine art and fancy blooms. A free http://www.mfa.org/calendar/event.asp?eventkey=32217&date=4/28/2008">open house for the event will feature music from Project Step, The Jazmen, The Voices of Renaissance Chorus, Carol and Alida Farrell, and Annabelle Ambler. Dinner options available. (CR) Movies -- Slaves, chariots, and the healing blood of Christ? It must be a Charlton Heston retrospective. Ben Hur (1959) is the least biblical......

Film -- The effects of Suharto's 30 years in power in Indonesia were not mitigated by his recent death. The effects of his actions live on, and are poignantly documented in Shape of the Moon, a documentary focusing on a family divided between past and future, Christianity and Islam, country and city. Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, 3:00pm. Free. (KS) Music -- If you listen to Scout Niblett for more than a......

Breakonomics -- Forget freakonomics--check out breakonomics at MIT. These breakdancing battles include three-on-three breakin' and one-on-one poppin' and house. We're not entirely sure what that means, but all forms of breakdancing are awesome, so we're in regardless. Nemesis, Toys, and Popsicle are among the judges. La Sala de Puerto Rico (MIT Student Center 2nd Floor), 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, 12pm-6pm. $3 MIT, $7 student, $12 others. (KS) Style and More -- Legends of Style......

Heads Up, KISS Army -- Paul Stanley--yeah, that Paul Stanley--is going to show his artwork in an exhibition at the Mall at Chestnut Hill. Gene Simmons' tongue better be involved. Wentworth Gallery, Mall at Chestnut Hill, 199 Boylston, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. (CR) Music -- Ra Ra Riot will play riotously danceable indie-punk at the Middle East. Prepare to sweat through a shirt or two, and bring your earplugs. With The Little Ones......

Music -- The International Noise Conference is an odd sort of touring showcase. Each stop features music from the local noise music underground and includes a performance by the mysterious Laundry Room Squelchers. There are four rules: 15 minutes or less per act; no lap tops; no mixers; no droning. What does that leave? Austinist offered an answer. The Boston installment was curated by Jessica Rylan. Wong Auditorium, MIT, 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, 7:00pm.......

Movies -- Independent Film Festival Boston begins tonight with homeboy Brad Anderson's newest Transsiberian, a train-bound thriller in the Hitchcock tradition. With Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, and Woody Harrelson. Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville, 7:30pm. No advance tickets. IFF Boston's full schedule. Books -- Broadcaster Cokie Roberts is in town to discuss what could be a companion piece to John Adams and DeeDee Myers's Why Women Should Rule the World, Ladies of Liberty:......

Music -- One of Phillyist's favorite musicians, David Ford, is visiting Boston. We hear he's into maracas and looping. They open for Sara Bareilles. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm. Ave., 7:00 pm. (CR) -- Peter Moren--yes, the Peter in "Peter Bjorn and John"--will perform tonight. We don't know if whistles will be included, but, if they are, the Globe might do another installment of Whistle Fever. Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 8:00pm.......

Music -- Dan Bejar, sometime New Pornographer and all-around indie pop mastermind, comes to town as Destroyer. Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 8:00pm. $14. (CR) Movies --If you could watch only one Hitchcock movie in your lifetime, make it Vertigo, in which Jimmy Stewart falls in love with, loses, and attempts to resurrect the multifaceted Kim Novak. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, 7:00 pm. $7/$9 (CR) Books -- Mary Roach......

Music -- Dead Meadow occupies the space in the Venn diagram of rock where Galaxie 500, Neil Young, and Black Sabbath intersect. Their latest album, Old Growth is out on Matador Records. Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 8:00pm. $12. Patriotic Ceremonies -- It started way back in history: start Patriot's Day early by commemorating Paul Revere's famous ride. A lantern lighting ceremony includes a performance by the Michigan Colonial Fife & Drum......

Urban Art -- Urban artists from across the United States converge for Future Arts 2008, a production of Boston's Future Classic. More than 25 up-and-coming street artists exhibit and sell their work. Luminaries include Enamel Kingdom, Alphabet Soup, and BIGFOOT. DJs Frank White and Ms. Thang will spin records and aerialist Matthew Brouillard will spin himself. Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., 8:00pm. $10. Comedy -- You'll have to shell out......

New Music Now -- Co-curators of ICA's New Music Now and accomplished reeds players Ned Rothenberg and Marty Ehrlich perform their own work. Rothenberg opens with Inner Diaspora a meditative composition for his trio Sync, including Jerome Harris on acoustic bass guitar and acoustic guitar and Samir Chatterjee on tabla. Ehrlich, a rousing clarinetist and accomplished band leader performs in a sextet featuring Bostonist fave Ray Anderson on trombone. Institute of Contemporary Art, South......

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Movies -- The 5th annual Coolidge Award goes to producer Jeremy Thomas, whose movies include The Last Emperor, Sexy Beast, and the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle. Nicolas Roeg, Bob Rafelson, Debra Winger, Julien Temple, Art Garfunkel, and Tim Roth will attend an award ceremony honoring Thomas and his work. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, 8:00 pm. $35 everyone / $30 Coolidge Corner members. (CR) Books -- Alexander McCall Smith has another......

Books -- Sloane Crosley has conquered the literary world from the inside out. She started as a publicist before writing her own book, a collection of nonfiction memories describing her move from suburbia to New York City, dodging bad bosses and poop on her carpet all the way. She's been compared to David Sedaris, and it's not hype. Read Bostonist's interview. Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St., Brookline, 7:00 pm. Free. (CR) -- Republican Party......

Music -- Geek-chic electropop band Hot Chip brings the party to town. If you're expecting straight-up dance, brace for a few surprises. Our brothers and sisters at Austinist say their new record, Made in the Dark "sounds capital B bigger." Bostonist has to ask: than what? Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm. Ave., 7:00 pm. (CR) -- If you prefer electronic music without the pop (but with the beeps and feedback), British IDM icons Autechre......

Music -- Chuck Berry, rock 'n' roll icon, somehow made a ditty entitled "My Ding-a-Ling" seem cool instead of creepy. will be at the Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., 7:00 pm. $35-$250. (CR) -- Really, we didn't know who China Forbes was. But then we saw that she was the voice of Pink Martini, and our ears pricked up. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm. Ave., 7:00 pm. $15. (CR) Brimful of Asha --......

Burlesque, for Women -- The Boston Babydolls are hosting another night of burlesque by women for women, which was part of a tradition from the golden days of burlesque, and they're throwing in a mini-burlesque class, too. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, midnight. $12 (CR) Books, Strolling -- Harvard Square's bookstores may be dwindling, but there are still more books per capita in Cambridge than almost any other city you could live......