Movies --The ultimate sci-fi slumber party will happen with the 33rd Annual Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival, where this year's theme is "The Future is Passe," and the main event is a screening of A Boy and His Dog, starring Don Johnson. Get more details. Somerville Theatre, Davis Square, 12:00 noon, running through 12:00 noon the next day. Gender Bending Trannies take the stage for Traniwreck, Boston's only all-gender, all-genre burlesque variety show. Expect comedy,......

In 1982 WCVB Channel 5 was all fun and games at the park. That was at ten years. In 1992 it was an evening gala with the feeling of a 70s variety show That was the twenty year retrospective. In 1997 the weather team seemed to be all mustached They turned 25 that year. Dick Alpert had been with them for 19 of those years at the time, this year it'll be 29. Tonight marks......

Bostonist turned the volume down on our iPod yesterday while reading an Associated Press report on boston dot com. Newsflash: listening to your iPod at too loud a volume or for too long a time may damage your hearing. The good doctor Mallika Marshall over at Channel 4 also gave us a similar stern warning the day after Christmas. But yesterday's message came with an authoritative urgency, courtesy of the hearing impaired rock god Pete......