http://www.myspace.com/unionsquareroundtable" target="_blank">Union Square Round Table Friday, February 29 PA's Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave, Somerville (Union Sq) 9:00 p.m., $8 for 21+ / $11 for 18+ It's the bonus day of the year, so Bonus! is tonight's theme of the (now) bimonthly multi-media performance night that's usually two hour-long segments. How the theme will manifest itself is a surpise until the performance, but frequent musical guest Yoni Gordon usually tries to tie in at least......

A pair of blotter items reveals that the crack cocaine in Somerville is not making residents any smarter. -- Three Somerville men were arrested when they were found in a blue van on Kingman Road trying to make crack. According to police, the men were discovered surrounded by drug paraphernalia and in possession of cocaine and baking soda. The men were reportedly trying to cook their own crack using a metal can. Bostonist doesn't condone......

Monster Mash Halloween Benefit PA's Lounge, Union Square (356 Somerville Ave) October 29, 2007, 8:00 pm, 21+ $10 suggested donation Somerville's got good claim to the "Monster Mash" label. Bobby Pickett, responsible for penning the perennial Halloween hit (which is one of only three records to hit the Billboard Top 100 three separate times), was a Somerville native. Pickett passed away in April of this year, so this will be the world's first Halloween without......

Horrorville Haunted House 300 Somerville Ave, Union Square 6-10 p.m. on October 26, 27, and 28 (This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) $8 kids / $10 adults Whether you're a little kid trying to hang with the big kids, a big kid acting tough to hide your tears, or an adult who just loves to get freaked out, haunted houses are an essential part of the Halloween experience. Haunted house enthusiast Matthew Martino was disappointed that......

June marks the first time Golden Bear has ever played beyond Texas state lines. The Austin-based five-piece has been busy honing its indie rock sound in the Lone Star State, generating a fanbase and some serious critical buzz. It seems to have paid off: SPIN recently featured the band as one of its bands of the day, The Daily Texan at the University of Texas named its self-titled 2006 debut one of the ten best......

This week Boston is slowly creeping to Christmas with an eye peeled to what will be in store for when we break into the new year. What does that mean? A slow music week. The amps and turntables are keeping quiet this year as 103.3 FM spins all-Christmas all the time. Look forward to 2007 and the new year in music as this year winds down and you take to the iTunes downloading all......

For the uninitiated, Kaiju Big Battel is a wrestling league of sorts, in which competitors dressed as imagined Japanese B-movie monsters compete in miniature cityscapes - sort of a live interpretation of Mechagodzilla vs. Godzilla. There is, naturally, an extensive and amusing back story to explain this silliness, involving (of course) a galactic battle between good and evil. Apparently, the evil Dr. Cube and his posse (the "Rogues") are now taking the quest for......