Henchmen Improv Boston, 40 Prospect Street, Cambridge 8pm, $16 / $10 seniors and students [Tickets] Since July, Improv Boston has presented Henchmen each Friday. It's an improv comedy series focusing on the little guy in the evil villain food chain. From Tarantino to Batman to Bond, this improv series has spanned criminal and crime-fighting genres. The series finishes this Friday in outer space with tributes to Star Trek and Star Wars. Bostonist had the opportunity......

Two more Boston cafes are cited for health code violations -- at City Hall and at the Inspectional Services building. [Boston Globe] The lousy roads in Massachusetts are costing drivers approximately $718 million in additional repairs. [WBZ Radio] In another move that appears to be a genuine attempt at governing the commonwealth, Deval Patrick will offer 50+ education-related proposals this week. [Boston Globe] Quentin Tarantino spent the weekend in Provincetown with John Waters. The......

Switchblade Sisters is running as part of Coolidge Corner's "Ladies of the Grindhouse" special and will screen tonight, Friday, July 13, and tomorrow, Saturday, July 14, at midnight. Troll 2 will screen at the Brattle tomorrow, Saturday, July 14, at 9:30 pm. Hot summer weather turns moviegoers' brains to mush. This season is not the time for heavy, Bergman-esque fare. But, this weekend, Coolidge Corner and the Brattle are serving up heaping portions of bad-movie......

Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things screens at 8:00 pm, and Satan's Cheerleaders screens at 10:00 pm on Thursday, May 17. We'll be spotlighting a few movies from the series, but you can see the full schedule here. Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things shot to the top of our Brattle Grindhouse wanna-see list because of the unforgettable title. The 1972 movie was also directed by the late Bob Clark, whose diverse body of work......

Zombie will screen at 7:30, and Torso will screen at 5:30 and 9:30 on Thursday, May 10, at the Brattle. We'll be spotlighting a few movies from the series, but you can see the full schedule here. The Brattle is kicking off its Grindhouse series in honor of the Quentin Tarantino / Robert Rodriguez movie. They've put together a collection of some freak-flick standards, such as Escape From New York, The Thing, The Hills Have......

Tom Brady’s week can be summed up best with a reference to eclectic director Quentin Tarantino’s latest film(s), the Kill Bills. In the movie Kill Bill Vol. 1, David Carradine’s character “Bill” finds his former cohort and lover, Uma Thurman’s character, Beatrice Kiddo (a.k.a., the Black Mamba, the most deadly woman in the world) in a small Midwestern town on the eve of her wedding. Beatrice, who has obviously left her former life as an......

There are a couple things that Bostonist digs about The Littlest Bar. First off, you see the front facade of the place? It is really little, probably about 5 feet and some change. Secondly, its hours run from 8:30 AM to 1:30 AM, so there's no excuse to not get your drink on early. Quentin Tarantino was spotted there the last time he was in town. The bar is located in an area of......