Boston's King of Boogie-Woogie With his long hair and white beard, Preacher Jack may look like a wild-eyed holy man descended from a lonely mountaintop. He's actually a living piece of boogie-woogie/rockabilly history who grew up and resides on the North Shore. Pounding the keys for fifty years, he may not keep a weekly residence at Frank's Steak House anymore, but Preacher Jack comes down to Cambridge & Boston every couple weeks to spread......

RoseLee Goldberg Reflecting Spectacle: Life as Art A panel discussion Institute of Contemporary Art Tuesday, March 4, 6:30 pm $12/$8 More information RoseLee Goldberg wrote the book on performance art. Her text Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present, first published in 1979, has seen three editions and been translated into seven languages. It's a mainstay on art history syllabi and one of the first attempts to see performance as an organic part of artistic......

Does anyone else think it's just a matter of time before we see a movie titled Like, Totally? (Or maybe there already kind of is one?) We are, like, totes convinced that commas are the wave of the future in movie titles, and this weekend's big releases tend to agree with us. Definitely, Maybe looks to turn itself from an annoying and meaningless phrase into an annoying and meaningless movie, distinguished from other annoying, meaningless......

Manchildren Founder of K Records and former member of Beat Happening, Calvin Johnson mastered precious naivete decades before it became the default indie mode. His off-kilter baritone is what sold it, and he's bringing his voice and an acoustic guitar to Cambridge tonight. Teenbeat Records founder Mark Robinson also performs as Cotton Candy. Lily Pad, 1353 Cambridge St., Inman Square, 7:00pm, $10. Men With Children Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers is returning to......

Music --Haven't you always wanted to go to an event called HARVAPALOOZA? Well, now you can. Local band The Franklin Kite bring a special combination of musical prowess and astrophysics knowledge to Tommy Doyle's, where they'll play alongside Maya and The Trolleys to commemorate the palooza that is Harvard. Or something like that? Anyway, the show starts at 9 and it's totally free. A dance party will follow, so put your best foot forward. Hopefully......

Ellipsis Mime presents Mime & Cheese - A Workshop Sunday November 11, 6:30 PM At the Watertown Arsenal Center for the Arts - Black box Theater. Free. ellipsismimetroupe@gmail.com www.ellipisismime.com Website forthcoming Bostonist sat down with Kevin Miller, one of the artistic directors behind Ellipsis, a Boston-based mime troupe that's hoping to knock the local theater scene on its ass. This Sunday Ellipsis will be hosting a workshop to preview some of their original material......

Call it performance art. Call it comedy of irony. Call it, well, that’s the point. The Institute for Infinitely Small Things has begun the Initiative for the Renaming of Names in Cambridge. Through 13 separate renaming expeditions, they’ll compile a new nomenclature for the entire city of Cambridge. From what we see we’re not quite sure if they’re going to breach the sanctity of the every-other-block memorial square, but Porter is certainly fair game.......

We know you are excited, we have renamed "Upcoming Music Events and Concerts" the Breakdown (at least for the time being). So here it is, the second installment of must-see gigs for the weekend, next week, and in the future. Please let us know if you have any suggestions for events that you want people to hear about that don't manage to make it on the Bostonist radar - just shoot us an e-mail......

After adopted celebrity children, Bostonist thinks that dogs are the best designer accessories ever. (The emergence of several dog boutiques in town only proves the point.) Soon, the Museum of Fine Arts will satisfy the crazy-for-canines demographic and the equally quirky group of people who enjoy non-traditional performance art with a public performance on Monday, September 26 from 6:00-6:30 pm by artist Zhang Huan. The performance, which comes on the heels of other notable works......

Bostonist has seen the ads up all over town: The little creepy barcode with an eye between the lines. Yeah, those. The idea is pretty simple, flash mobbing applied to commerce. Stemming from the performance art, community activism or whatever you choose to call it that became a fad in 2003 called a Flash Mob. Ford has booked a secret concert series in 10 cities this summer. If you sign up as an insider they’ll......