Harvard Square is buzzing with the Bard and bands. There are open studios in Somerville and Brookline. Pretend you're interested in sailing and get a free sail in the Harbor. B.B. King and Tom Waits get some love from Boston.
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Catch a lunchtime concert. Drink wine. Rock out. Get techno-arty. Look out for cartoon characters. It's not a bad little weekend...
SoWa Open Market
The SoWa Open Market features over 100 vendors are selling arts and crafts, clothes, accessories, food, and much more. Beginning today, food trucks will be joining the market. SoWa Open Market, 460 Harrison Ave., Boston. Free admission. Free parking after 5 p.m. 800-403-8305. More information.
Food
Yes, Boston's got food trucks. Today, there's a festival to prove it. The city's 1st Annual Food Truck Festival features the best food you can find on four wheels. Vendors include Speed's Hot Dogs, M&M Ribs, The Sausage Guy, Grillo's Pickles, Lincoln Street Coffee, and Roxy's Grilled Cheese. SoWa Food & Produce, 500 Harrison Ave., Boston. 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. The truckers are on Facebook.
Rock & Roll Yard Sale
A free Rock & Roll Yard Sale features memorabilia including vinyl records, concert posters, and other music-related stuff, vintage clothing, crafts, and art. The sale includes close to 50 vendors. Live music from The 'Mericans, Sleepyhead, Thea Hopkins, and more. Union Square Plaza, Somerville, 3-7 p.m., free. Rain date 8/8. More info.
Urban AdvenTours offers two exciting Boston-based bike tours. One drives through the heart of Red Sox Nation and ends at Fenway Park. The Bikes @ Night Tour winds around Boston's waterfront, and includes Black Falcon Pier and the Institute of Contemporary Art. Both begin at 6 p.m. Tours depart daily from the shop at 103 Atlantic Ave. $35 charge includes helmet, bike, water and guide. All ages. 617-670-0637.
Movies
The Harvard Film Archive continues to present the films of director Nicholas Ray until August 9. Saturday offers The Lusty Men (1952) and The Flying Leathernecks (1951) as a double feature. Ray humanized his characters through film, whether they were WWII era Marine (leathernecks) fighter pilots or marginalized rodeo cowboys. Each one day only. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m., 9:15 p.m., $7, $9, $12. HFA encourages use of public transportation.
Movies
If you are suffering from a dearth of anxiety this holiday season, the Brattle has the movie for you. Brazil (1985), Terry Gilliam's terrifying dystopic fable about anomie, alienation, and isolation, is the sort of thing that makes us head for the Tobin. There's no need to talk us down; we're just going to skip the movie and have a drink instead. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. Tickets and more information.
Movies
Fans of Russian science fiction—they do exist—or of Mystery Science Theater 3000 already know To The Stars the Hard Way (1981), albeit under its alternate English title Humanoid Woman. The story of a female brainwashed space clone who overcomes all odds should warm any heart, even in Boston's -11 degree wind chill, and the version screening tonight is the 2001 restored print, which Joel, Crow, Gypsy, and Servo didn't get a chance to see. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 7:15 p.m. $10/$8.
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What do you do when you're bored? If the answer is a thrill killing spree that leaves 11 people dead, you might become the subject of documentarian Coco Schrijber, whose film Bloody Mondays and Strawberry Pies (2008) "explores the art of doing nothing." Narrated by John Malkovich. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 6:10 p.m. $10/$8.
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Few movies from the politically turbulent end of the 1960s succeed as both a serious political commentary and as a genuine entertainment as well as Costa Gavras's Z (1969), the darkly comic thriller that tells the story of a real-life political assassination in Greece and the efforts of the right-wing government to cover it up. Its fast pace and jarring cinematography alternately belie and betray the film's shoestring budget. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 7:30 p.m. $10/$8.
Rights
It's International Human Rights Day, which might be cause for a muted celebration, considering the global shape that rights are in today. Shake off the doldrums with Boston activist Mel King as he's feted as the Unitarian Universalist's Service Committee's Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award winner. Sam Yoon and live music round out the bill. Media Arts Center, Roxbury Community College, 1234 Columbus Ave., Roxbury, 7 p.m. Free.
Parking it up Your Arse
It's been 14 years and 17 albums, but we still can't think of Holly Golightly without hearing her rambling monologue "Park it up Your Arse" from her days as a Thee Headcoatee. Her solo music is somewhere between rockabilly and blue eyed soul, but she can still tear it up in the garage, and she always puts on a hell of a show in the club. Tonight, she's backed by the Brokeoffs and will perform with the Wrong Reasons and the Hollow Sound. Middle East Upstairs, 8 p.m. $12.
New Music
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) commissions new work from living composers and performs it, along with other work from the contemporary repertoire, in unusual settings. Tonight, BMOP brings its instruments to the South End to perform music by Xenakis, Bunk and Andriessen. The evening was curated by the cutely named BMOP Score Board. Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Ave., South End, 7 p.m. $20/$25. More information.
Crap to Buy
Bazaar Bizarre is Boston's annual opportunity to buy weird crap while people play theremins and what have you. If you have to buy crap for people this holiday season, it's better to buy DIY crap from your neighbors, etc. Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., noon to 7 p.m. $1. More information.
Video Games
It's the time of year when the only escape from ubiquitous Christmas carols can be found in the sweet sounds of your video gaming system. Or on the stage of the Berklee Performance Center tonight when the Video Game Orchestra brings the digital sounds of your favorite games into the analogue world. Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., 7:30 p.m. $15/$20.
Movies
We'll stop shilling for the MFA's John Cassavetes and Peter Falk series when the films that it screens stop ruling. Husbands (1970) is a movie about bromance and loss that stars Cassavetes, who also directed it, Falk, and Ben Gazzara as a trio of suburban professionals who go to London to get laid after their buddy dies. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 7 p.m., $10/$8.
Municipal Holidays
It's David Lynch Day again in Cambridge, which means that the Brattle will be breaking into its clutch of the director's work. Tonight's presentation might not compare to 2007's Twin Peaks extravaganza, but, if you need an excuse to see Mullholland Drive (2005), which you shouldn't, a municipal holiday might be it. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 8 p.m. Tickets and more information.
Movies
The MFA kicks off its John Cassavetes and Peter Falk series with a pair of their lesser known collaborations. Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky (1976) finds Cassavetes and Falk playing two small-time hoodlums and lifelong friends. May shot the film with three separate cameras that she simply left running, capturing the spontaneity of two great actors left to their own devices. Cassavetes's Opening Night (1977) only features Falk in a cameo, but the acrid chemistry between Gena Rowlands and Ben Gazarra, who play an aging, alcoholic actress and her manager, respectively, earn the film a place beside Sunset Boulevard in the canon of celebrity and loss. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 4 p.m and 7 p.m. More information.
Movies
Even casual film buffs know Harold and Maude, but how many have seen Hal Ashby's first feature, The Landlord (1970)? It's a film about a rich white guy who buys a building in Park Slope, Brooklyn and becomes embroiled in racial tensions. Sound familiar? Not in 1970. Cinematography from Gordon Willis, a rare, fantastic performance by Beau Bridges and a hilarious script make this overlooked film worth the trek out to Quincy Street. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $8/$6.
Bands Whose Name One Cannot Say on Radio
Fuck Buttons brings back the days when rock shows were a shambles of drone and melody and shrieking. Performing with Brooklyn stoner band Growing. Great Scott, 1222 Comm. Ave., Allston, 9 p.m.