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Sxip's Hour of Charm will be tonight, Saturday, September 15, at 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm, and tomorrow, Sunday, September 16, at 8:00 pm, at the Zero Arrow Theatre. The show will run on weekends through September 30th. Go to ART's home page for details. The press release said that Sxip's Hour of Charm is "indescribable." Oh, but it is describable - it is like the circus, complete with ringmaster and musician Sxip Shirey and...

Fall seems to have set in, at least for now. the temperatures are dropping and people all over the metro have been forced to put their flip-flops away for some more sensible footwear. At least until it gets warm again in another week. Or so we hope. Music abounds again this week and we're listening. Tuesday, 9/12 Branford Marsalis Quartet Braggtown CD Release Concert Berklee alum Branford Marsalis created Cambridge-based (and Rounder distributed) Marsalis...

Now that we're on this eight days a week kick for doing these picks it seems like it might be time for a new graphic. We'll give you a cookie if you design us a new one. Or maybe a Newcastle next time you catch us at the Middle East. Promise. Monday 8/7 The Roots with Talib Kweli It may not be a Brooklyn block party hosted by Dave Chappelle, but it will be...

The MBTA is revving up the flux capacitor and delivering to New Orleans reliable green line service. In a Romney supported dispatch the MBTA will be shipping a portable power substation, capable of pumping the 600 volts into the rail system to get the streetcars moving. Bostonist is not an electrician and our high school physics knowledge is a little, well, dusty, but with some quick review it looks like 1.21 Gigawatts is still quite a bit of trolley action. Mr. Fusion can handle that much power, why do we have to wait until 2015 for that?. The mobile or portable (we’re not sure which it really fits, and we doubt either can be done without some sort of big truck) substation will pull power off the electrical grid and deliver it in a compatible way to the New Orleans streetcars. The T’s big boys are pretty happy too, loaning a piece of equipment from one historic line to another, as expressed in the press release:

“Whether it’s Boston or New Orleans, the key to a city’s economic vitality is its ability to provide the public with safe and reliable transit services,” said MBTA General Manager Daniel A. Grabauskas. “The T is very pleased to be able help NORTA restore streetcar service to those who rely on it for getting to school or going to work.”

Bostonist loves to complain about the T, just like so many Bostonians do. We’re happy to know that we won’t be alone in the country with the great standards of MBTA equipment. Bostonist does wish to pass on a bit of advice to Mayor Ray Nagin: if Dan Grabauskas calls you and asks if you need an escalator repair man, tell him no.

This year attendance numbers were drastically down in movie theaters. That was the mantra being blasted at anyone who'd listen. When asked what was causing this, industry experts presented cases such as movie piracy, home movie theaters gaining in popularity, and if pressed enough, the waning quality of movies in general. If you looked hard enough or sampled enough of the releases, however, you would have seen a good number of entertaining and challenging films....