Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory in Smell-O-Vision Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge Thursday, December 13, 7:30 More information If you missed the outdoor screening of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in Smell-O-Vision at Union Square this summer, you have the opportunity to miss it again. The indoor debut of the event is sold out. Last July, a group of artists led by Megan Dickerson and funded by the Somerville Arts Council, presented......

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory will screen at 8:30 pm tonight at Union Square in Somerville. The "Carnival of the Nose" starts at 7:00. So, you don't have Police tickets? Console yourself with the smell of an Oompa Loompa! You've no doubt seen the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, starring Gene Wilder (not the one with Johnny Depp doing his best Michael Jackson impression). But now Somerville is giving you the opportunity......

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......

Eight Days a Week. The music scene is hot, and we realize that we're not giving you enough lead time on some of the best way to cure a case of the Mondays – with a Monday evening show. This week we're putting eight days into our weekly music picks. Starting on Monday and running through the following week. This week we're eating locally – and listening locally. Several local acts find prominence on......

Given all the hype about Johnny Depp's starring role in the Tim Burton ‘reimagining’ (or whatever they call it) of the Roald Dahl book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, we were expecting some free candy. Alas, the promotions just haven’t been there. Bostonist has yet to break down and buy the golden ticket ($10.25!) to see the new Burton film. We might just go back in time with a kinder, gentler 1970's Willy Wonka. The......

Gene Wilder, known to many as either "Young Frankenstein" or "Willy Wonka", is appearing at Boston University's Tsai Performing Center on Wednesday night. He's in town to promote his new auto-biography, "Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art," where he hits on all the high (the role of a lifetime in "The Producers") and low points (his third wife, Gilda Radner, dying of ovarian cancer) of his life. While some look......