Adrian Tomine, 6pm ($5) Killer of Sheep, 8pm ($12, $10 Brattle members) Brattle Theatre Special $15 ticket gets you into both events! Perhaps best known for his graphic series Optic Nerve, some of which was collected in the book Summer Blonde, artist Adrian Tomine recently came out with a full-length graphic novel called Shortcomings--and even more recently drew a rad cover for the New Yorker (pictured right). The longer novel format gave Tomine more room......

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......

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.......