Mighty Mighty Bosstones December 26-30, 7:30 Middle East Details on tickets in post Bosstones MySpace site Common November 10 UMass-Boston, Clark Athletic Center FREE Yo La Tengo November 15, 9:30 pm Museum of Fine Arts, Remis Auditorium, $25 Better hope you have some money in your wallet because there's some huge acts that are on their way. First off, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones are reuniting at the Middle East for a "Hometown Throwdown." Tickets go......

Yo La Tengo Presents "The Sounds of Science" Tuesday, September 25, 8:00 pm Coolidge Corner Theatre $25 Introduction by Fabien Cousteau The third-annual Muddy River Environmental Film Series is running at Coolidge Corner Theatre. The series covers wine, global warming, and Tuvalu. Closing night features a screening of several works by Jean Painlevé, a nature filmmaker who sounds like a real-life Steve Zissou, only without the silly outfits. Painlevé's images shocked the scientist crowd, not......

Garrison Keillor will be at Symphony Hall tomorrow at 3pm. Tickets are available through the celebrityseries.org website. Garrison Keillor, the man behind Prairie Home Companion and the inspiration behind Robert Altman's last movie will be speaking in Boston tomorrow. Why does Bostonist like Keillor so much? He's the literary equivalent of Yo La Tengo, sounding for all the world like gentle souls yet proclaiming in an album title, "I am not afraid of you, and......

This weekend both NEMO and the Beantown Jazz festival will be taking place in town. NEMO is a showcase for New England artists, a networking opportunity for the little-known and the big fish. The performances will invade, occupy, and entertain at just about every venue in Boston. It's a great opportunity to see your favorite local band – or discover a favorite you never knew you had. It's a whole lot to take in,......

Okay, maybe they're not everybody's favorite band, but Philadelphia's Marah are The Cheers of bands. They capture and embody the anywhere-hometown feel that the TV-bar brought home, with the exception of Cliffy's thick accent. A bar band's bar band, Marah transcend the (typical) boozing and banter with solid songwriting and a rounded-out lineup of professionals that promise to deliver the show-stopping tunes that usually require plentiful pitchers and familiar company to get your neighborhood......

So you're all, "Hey Bostonist, it's Thursday night, I want to rock but I want to rock consistently." Well then, head to TT The Bears, where there's a bill that's front to back good. Headlined by Rogue Wave (who can be summed up as a sunnier Shins with stupider lyrics, like drinking decent vodka while waiting for the good stuff, but thanks to Zach Braff, when are we going to hear new Shins songs anyways?),......

Happy Memorial Day, everybody, and Bostonist hopes you celebrate it all proper-like, with hot dogs, not dogs, beer, and some radio blasting Amerie's "One Thing." Anyone read the recent Blender interview with the pretty little thrush? Apparently she was born in 1980 and went to Georgetown in 1996. So she's wicked smart, clearly. C'mon guys, Catherine Zeta-Jones can lie about her age better, yes? Friday there's several awesome shows going on, it just depends on......