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Move over, ICA--you're no longer the new kid in town. The Boston art scene has moved on to something new. Something bad.

There might have been a couple nosebleed seats in the balcony left at last night's very well attended Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black's Somerville Theater show, but, for those of you who missed it, you really missed a treat. As evidenced by various available YouTube clips, Black and Showalter are extremely funny on their own, but together they brought humor to an entirely new level. The two have been comedy collaborators for 20...

Roadhouse will screen at the Somerville Theatre at midnight on Friday, July 27, and Saturday, July 29. It will also screen Monday, July 30, at 7:30 pm. Cult classic Road House, featuring Patrick Swayze as a philosophy-spouting bouncer, is running at the Somerville Theater this weekend. Why is Road House, made in 1989, so much better than other action flicks of the '80s? Swayze's collected, Zen demeanor in many of his movies led the Onion...

Pee Wee's Big Adventure will screen at the Somerville Theater all week long starting Tuesday. Check the theater's website for all showtimes. When you think about Pee-Wee Herman and movie theaters, chances are that an innocent day of keeping cool in the movie theater doesn't come to mind. But drag yourself out of the gutter because the Somerville Theater is screening Pee Wee's Big Adventure (1985) throughout the week at noon. Who wouldn't be happy...

Smokey and the Bandit will screen at midnight on Saturday and Sunday at the Somerville Theater. With the sticky, sweaty mugginess that's descended upon Boston, the thought of a truckload of cold beer seems heavenly. And the Somerville Theater is reading your mind - they're showing the beer-smuggling classic Smokey and the Bandit at midnight tonight and tomorrow night. The plot involves Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, interstate commerce, Coors, runaway brides, and a dog named...

Maybe you can't get tickets to Fenway anytime soon, but a little bit of baseball, international-style, will be coming to the Somerville Theater as part of the Independent Film Festival of Boston. Rumbo a Las Grandes Ligas will be making its East Coast debut on Monday night at the festival.

Finnish band Varttina will be at the Somerville Theater at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $25.

It takes someone who’s lived in Massachusetts for more than a year or two to understand why a song titled “I'm From Lynn, What Can I Say?” is funny. That’s exactly why Bostonist has high hopes for an onslaught of clever tunes and townie jokes at Songstreet’s “14th Annual Festival of Funny Songwriters” this Saturday at the Somerville Theater. We’re counting on the featured veteran and local favorite Don White (who also gives workshops at...

Do you want to meet The Daily Show's Rob Corddry? (Like Bostonist and Abigal Adams, a native of Weymouth, MA!) Because he's going to be at The Somerville Theater on Friday night along with Brant Serensen, Darren Goldberg, and the ever-funny DJ Hazard promoting their festival film Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story. It features Upright Citizens Brigade members and paintball. That's just one of the options that you, gentle reader, have at the Independent Film...

This first week of April has been quite spring-like and before you knew it, it's Thursday. Here are some things going on in the city this weekend. Welcome in Spring tonight at MJ O'Connors on Columbus Ave with their "Spring Beer Dinner" starting at 6 p.m. For $40, you get a 5 course meal prepared by the chefs at Anthem and MJ O'Connors, along with Sam Adams beer to compliment each course. If you ever...