Coming into a Monday after a long weekend feels so wrong. Friday's off are usually arranged through vacation time or, cough, a sick day. Last week the veterans made us do it. But it's back to work and it's raining buckets with no sun in sight for the first part of the week. Luckily we've got some great music to keep us going this week. From enduring jazz superstars to indie rockers you might......

Bostonist had thought psych-folk harper Joanna Newsom was an odd choice of bait to lure the hordes of newly-arrived students into the Museum of Fine Arts, where they were hoping for maybe two thousand attendees at last week's free College Night. Exceeding the MFA's expectations (and our own assumptions of the size of Newsom's niche), approximately 3,200 showed up to stroll the galleries and one long, dimly-lit room full of cookies and Smartwater. Many......

How do you take Fine Art and make it hip for the kids? A DJ, Live Music, or Free Food? If you filled in the oval next to "D – All of the above" you'd be spot on for the effort the Museum of Fine Arts is putting on this Thursday, September 28 - College Night. If you can't scrounge up a student ID there's always Wednesday night entry without admission fee thanks to the......

In a world where there's nothing to do but watch movies. In a city full of theaters, museums, and libraries. One moviegoer who can be in three places at once. Thursday 8/3 Stolen One of the things that endears the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to us (along with the dim lighting, strict ban on electronic devices, and terse signage) is how the frames of missing paintings hang empty on the walls. (As per Mrs. Gardner's......

Maybe it wasn't such a good idea for us to claim that all shows should be played outside over the summer. Lucky for us no one listens to our suggestions on venue – so we're heading back inside where the temperature with the AC on is only about five degrees cooler than it is outside. A welcome five degrees, with a tiny bit lower humidity. This week's list hits a variety of shows, something......

In a world where there's nothing to do but watch movies. In a city full of theaters, museums, and libraries. One moviegoer who can be in three places at once. Tuesday 3/21 Open Screen Like an open mic, but for filmmakers. Bring your movie and the Coolidge Corner Theatre will show anything that's under ten minutes long and screen it all in order of submission until they run out of time. Coolidge Corner Theatre 7:30......

Last week Bostonist arrived at an almost-empty TT the Bear's during Deertick's opening set of earnest acoustic guitar ballads. After an almost-pint of Newcastle in a plastic cup, we were drawn over to the stage by the upright bass and unapologetically fey vocals of the next act, Nat Baldwin. He made Bostonist think of Final Fantasy a few octaves lower, or a more mournful Joanna Newsom a few more octaves down. At one point, we......

If there's one thing that Bostonist loves almost as much as America's Next Top Model, it's The Critique of Pure Reason, a series of local events curated and produced by Stacie Slotnick. She's always bringing fantastic artists to town in interesting venues--anyone remember that fantastic Devendra Banhart/Joanna Newsom/Vetiver show at the Brazilian Cultural Center over the summer? Or the Jens Lekman/The Impossible Shapes/Pants Yell! show from two weeks ago? Tonight at 9:30, head on......