It officially kicked off yesterday, but the majority of Independent Film Festival Boston starts unreeling tonight. If the festival's coverage in the Globe is any gauge of the way moviegoers choose their movies, it is clear that most people want their movies to match their lifestyle preferences. IFFBoston, with its long list of films and many venues, leaves these kinds of category distinctions to the hapless fan. Bostonist attempts to do the work for you.......

Rescue Dawn is screening at several theaters in the area. Check the Brattle calendar for showtimes ofThe Mystery of Kaspar Hauser and Aguirre, the Wrath of God. The last two movies run through Monday. In a recent post, we suggested that summer wasn't the right time for heavy film fare. But Boston won't be able to ignore the physically and mentally demanding work of Werner Herzog, whose movies old and new are showing throughout the......

What with Paris Hilton's release earlier this week and the upcoming celebration of American Independence (sorry, Londonist!), we've been thinking a lot about freedom. Freedom to vote, freedom to choose, and most importantly, freedom to blog. Here are a few things we're happy we've been free to blog about this week. Being the nation's capital, DCist felt especially proud to let freedom ring this week by exposing the really important issues, like how sad they......

Rescue Dawn will appear at the Somerville Theatre tomorrow, Thursday, June 28, at 7:30 pm. It's free, and it's part of the IFFBoston Screening Series. Only Werner Herzog, the man crazy enough to drag a boat across a mountain and film it in Fitzcarraldo, would create a fictionalized version of one of his own documentaries. But he's done it. Rescue Dawn, which will screen at the Somerville Theatre, is another look on the story......

There’s a buzz in the Boston Blogosphere: Essential Boston Music. The compilation added to by numerous folks out there is a growing compendium of Boston-based rock music. We’re loading some our less-listened to CDs into our MP3 player and taking ourselves back (and annoying the piss out of some people while singing Voices Carry over and over). An important page in Boston music is, of course, the Pixies. The Pixies might have taken a......

After being entertained by Werner Herzog’s new flick, Grizzly Man, but not particularly impressed we’re going for broke on free media push-delivery this week. Chalk it up to Bostonist’s philosophy that it can’t be that bad if it’s free, we’re heading to see the Staind show on City Hall Plaza after work today. The Fusion Flash Concert, which Staind spilled the beans about the date on their website a couple weeks ago, has officially been......

At first thought it doesn't sound like such a bad idea to spend a dozen (or so) summers in Alaska. Cooler temps, longer daylight hours, mukluks (by the way - Mukluks are SO in for the fall; Uggz are SO out!), whale blubber ... could it possibly get any better? Maybe it can if stalking grizzly bears is your cup of tea. If you're just warming up to the idea and need to think about......