Boston – Friday, July 4
Updated 2008-05-15 03:30
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FRIDAY AND SATURDAY >> “Socrate” and “A Last Goodbye” @ MassArt’s Tower Auditorium, 621 Huntington Ave., Boston. MBTA: Green E Line to Longwood. 8 p.m., $25/$15 students, 617-899-4261, www.intermezzo-opera.org Cassidy K.’s pick!  

SATURDAY >> Mobius’ 10th annual Cattle-Free Auction @ Mobius, 725 Harrison Ave., Boston. MBTA: Orange Line to Mass. Ave. 6 to 8 p.m., 617-542-7416, www.mobius.org Sandy H.’s pick!

SUNDAY >> Boston Kidney Walk @ Franklin Zoo, Giraffe Entrance, One Franklin Park Road, Dorchester, 9 a.m. registration/10 a.m. walk, 800-542-4001, www.kidneyhealth.org Steve B.’s pick!

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OPEN UP AND SAY HA  Wanda Sykes, a doubling-over highlight of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” offers up her spitfire stand-up (dude, racist dolphins = funny) Friday, 7:30 p.m., at the Orpheum (One Hamilton Place, Boston. MBTA: Red or Green Line to Park Street). Tickets $37.50-$45, all ages; call 617-931-2000 or go to www.ticketmaster.com. • Larry Miller holds a special place in our heart for giving us one of the few stand-up bits we’ve ever been able to memorize, likely because we relive it on a weekly basis: The Five Levels of Drinking, which starts out with Level 1, “a Tuesday night, 11 o’clock, you’ve had a few beers. You get up to leave because you have work the next day when one of your friends — one of your unemployed friends — buys another round. … As long as I get seven hours sleep, I’m cool.” Fast forward to Level 5: “Five in the morning. After unsuccessfully trying to get your money back at the tattoo parlor ... ” Miller shares his special wit Friday with two sets, 8 and 10:15 p.m., and Saturday, 10:30 p.m., at the Comedy Connection (One Faneuil Hall Market Place, Boston. MBTA: Green Line to Gov’t Center). Tickets $25/$27, 21+; call 617-248-9700 or go to www.symfonee.com for more info. OPEN UP AND SAY HA 
Wanda Sykes, a doubling-over highlight of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” offers up her spitfire stand-up (dude, racist dolphins = funny) Friday, 7:30 p.m., at the Orpheum (One Hamilton Place, Boston. MBTA: Red or Green Line to Park Street). Tickets $37.50-$45, all ages; call 617-931-2000 or go to www.ticketmaster.com. • Larry Miller holds a special place in our heart for giving us one of the few stand-up bits we’ve ever been able to memorize, likely because we relive it on a weekly basis: The Five Levels of Drinking, which starts out with Level 1, “a Tuesday night, 11 o’clock, you’ve had a few beers. You get up to leave because you have work the next day when one of your friends — one of your unemployed friends — buys another round. … As long as I get seven hours sleep, I’m cool.” Fast forward to Level 5: “Five in the morning. After unsuccessfully trying to get your money back at the tattoo parlor ... ” Miller shares his special wit Friday with two sets, 8 and 10:15 p.m., and Saturday, 10:30 p.m., at the Comedy Connection (One Faneuil Hall Market Place, Boston. MBTA: Green Line to Gov’t Center). Tickets $25/$27, 21+; call 617-248-9700 or go to www.symfonee.com for more info.
 

 
 

ENTERTAINMENT

“Jesus Christ Superstar”
Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m.; Sunday, 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Opera House
539 Washington St., Boston
MBTA: Red or Green Line to Park Street
$17.50-$74.50, all ages, 617-931-2000
www.ticketmaster.com
Ted Neeley, who starred in the film version of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” reprises his role as the condemned Jesus in this farewell stage bid; Corey Glover of the rock band Living Colour plays the ultimate betrayer, Judas.

Mike Lowell’s “Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Find the Champion Within” Book Release Party
Sunday, 7 p.m. VIP/8 p.m. GA
The Estate
One Boylston Place, Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Park Street
$100 VIP/$40, 617-351-7000
www.theestateboston.com
Red Sox third baseman and 2007 World Series MVP Mike Lowell celebrates the release of his new memoir, “Deep Drive: A Long Journey to Find the Champion Within,” which couldn’t be further from the limelight-glomming juicer tell-alls of late. Instead, Lowell instills the pages with the same grace and class with which he plays the field, tracing his childhood obsession with baseball, familial values, his flight from Castro’s Cuba and the 1999 diagnosis with testicular cancer.

“A Gathering Of Coens” Repertory Run
Friday through May 22
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Harvard
$9.50/$7.50, 617-876-6837
www.brattlefilm.org
The Brattle kicks off its ode to the filmmaker brothers with the 2007 Oscar winner, “No Country for Old Men” (Friday 4:30, 7, 9:30 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30 p.m.), which sees Josh Brolin, in his breakout role, taking on a Borg-like Javier Bardem in Cormac McCarthy’s neo-western. The Coen’s split-personality oeuvre continues through the week with the lighthearted zaniness of “Raising Arizona” and “The Big Lebowski,” and the headier bleakness of “Barton Fink” and “Miller’s Crossing.”

Silent Rave
Friday, 7:19 to 11:19 p.m.
Boston Common
Enter at Beacon and Charles streets
MBTA: Green or Red Line to Park Street
Free, silentraveboston@gmail.com
Zombie parades, pillow fights, paper-hat marching bands — who says Boston isn’t cool? Get another slice of whacky Friday when hundreds (and they hope thousands) descend on the Common for a silent rave (aka mobile disco). No velvet ropes, no bad DJs to contend with (you bring your own tunes and headphones) and God willing, no pacifiers.

MUSIC

Glow in the Dark Tour with Kanye West, N.E.R.D. and Rihanna
Tonight, 6:30
Tweeter Center
885 South Main St., Mansfield
$30-$86, 617-931-2000
www.ticketmaster.com
Kanye West teams up with N.E.R.D.’s Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo (who have produced countless hits under their Neptunes moniker) and two-hit-wonder (but otherwise artistically useless) Rihanna for a hotly tipped tour that kicks off the summer music listening season in rump-shakin’ style.

Mavis Staples
Friday, 8 p.m.
Berklee Performance Center
136 Mass. Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Hynes
$28-$37, all ages, 617-747-2261
www.berkleebpc.com
The incomparable Miss Staples hits town behind “We’ll Never Turn Back,” which finds the ’60s gospel singer in the hands of Ry Cooder churning out cutting, gorgeous traditionals and a handful of worthy originals. 

Bishop Allen
Tonight, 9
Middle East Downstairs
480 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Central
$12, 18+, 617-864-EAST
www.mideastclub.com
Steps from their moniker’s inspiration, Bishop Allen return to their former haunt of the Middle East. On “The Broken String,” the former Boston band is now singing about Rockefeller Center (see the tempered pop of “Flight 180”), but their eyes-wide-open ethos remains (see the ambling bounce of “Rain”). The War On Drugs and The Self Righteous Brothers open.

WINE NOT?  Oeno denizens from New England and further afield descend on the getaway island for the Nantucket Wine Festival, running through Sunday. Take in tastings from Shafer, Steltzner, Hess and more, or sign up for cooking demos, master classes or talks on “The Lost Art of Butchery.” The Veuve Clicquot Grande Dame Brunch on Sunday will get you through the weekend-long hangover. Tickets $50+ for individual events and tastings; $550 for weekend package. Call 508-228-1128 or go to www.nantucketwinefestival.com for more info.  WINE NOT? 
Oeno denizens from New England and further afield descend on the getaway island for the Nantucket Wine Festival, running through Sunday. Take in tastings from Shafer, Steltzner, Hess and more, or sign up for cooking demos, master classes or talks on “The Lost Art of Butchery.” The Veuve Clicquot Grande Dame Brunch on Sunday will get you through the weekend-long hangover. Tickets $50+ for individual events and tastings; $550 for weekend package. Call 508-228-1128 or go to www.nantucketwinefestival.com for more info. 
 

LOCAL

Bike Week
Through Sunday
Various locations, Boston
MBTA: No! Ride your bike!
617-542-BIKE
www.massbike.org
Bike Week continues today, 7:30 to 9 a.m., with the Kendall Square Bike Breakfast and a screening of “Seasons,” 7 p.m., at the Regent Theatre in Arlington. Tomorrow is National Ride Your Bike to Work Day and Sunday the celebration closes out with Brookline Bikes Beacon Bicycle Parade departing Amory Playground, Brookline at 12:30 p.m.

Yoga Conference
Friday through Monday
Sheraton Boston
39 Dalton St., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Hynes
800-561-9398
www.yjevents.com
The disgustingly lithe hit Boston over the weekend for four days of pretzeling. The green and initiated alike can take part — for beginners, there are introductory workouts (“Sun Salutations: Step by Step”) and the seasoned, who have not only mastered “asana” and “pranayama” but know what the heck they mean, can look forward to all-day intensives. Fashion diva Donna Karan hosts a lunch benefit for the Urban Zen Foundation Saturday.

CULTURAL

“She Loves Me”
Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.
Boston University Theatre
264 Huntington Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Symphony
$15-$65, 617-266-0800
www.huntingtontheatre.org
This Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock rom-com number, based on “Parfumerie,” which gave birth to “The Shop Around the Corner” and “You’ve Got Mail,” acts as the Huntington’s first musical staging in six years. Now that’s something to (errr) sing about.

SOWA Walk
Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
SoWa Artist Studios
450 Harrison Ave., Boston
MBTA: Orange Line to Back Bay
Free, 617-482-3652
www.sowaartwalk.com
The SoWa Artists Group launches its annual South End open studios this weekend (showings include Sara Theophall’s “Reclining” above), with more than 100 artists and galleries participating. Head to the area between Mass. Ave and East Berkley, Washington and Albany streets or download a map on the site.  

Rachid Ouramdane
Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m.
Institute of Contemporary Art
100 Northern Ave., Boston
MBTA: Silver Line to World Trade Center
$25/$10 students,
617-478-3100
www.icaboston.org
Choreographer Ouramdane shares his intense avant work in his latest narrative, “Far … ”, continuing his cultural identity and death thematics with the help of his father’s diary, which outlines the French-Algerian soldier’s tour in Vietnam. Helicopter scene not likely. 

“Black, White + Grey: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe”
Today, 4:30; Saturday, noon; Sunday, 10:30 a.m.
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green E Line to Museum
$7, all ages, 617-267-9300
www.mfa.org
James Crump’s documentary focuses largely on Wagstaff, Mapplethorpe’s lover and patron. Because someone had to pay for the drugs, parties and studio shoots that launched the photographer to fame in the ’70s. 


SPORTS

Sox vs. Brewers
Friday, 7 p.m.; Saturday, 4 p.m.; Sunday, 1:30 p.m.
Fenway Park
4 Yawkey Way, Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Kenmore
SOLD OUT, 877-REDSOX9
www.redsox.com
The Sox take on Milwaukee, who are struggling to break .500, in an interleague bout.

SOMETHING ELSE  The KISS 108 concert offers up something old (New Kids On The Block), something new (The Jonas Brothers), something borrowed (Wyclef Jean) and something blue (Leona Lewis) at the Tweeter Center (885 South Main St., Mansfield) Sunday, 2 p.m. Ferras, Metro Station, Ray J, Natasha Bedingfield, Sara Bareilles, Sean Kingston, Boys Like Girls, Flo Rida, Cascada and Baby Bash are also on the jam-packed bill. Tickets $35-$200, all ages; call 617-931-2000 or go to www.ticketmaster.com for more info.  SOMETHING ELSE 
The KISS 108 concert offers up something old (New Kids On The Block), something new (The Jonas Brothers), something borrowed (Wyclef Jean) and something blue (Leona Lewis) at the Tweeter Center (885 South Main St., Mansfield) Sunday, 2 p.m. Ferras, Metro Station, Ray J, Natasha Bedingfield, Sara Bareilles, Sean Kingston, Boys Like Girls, Flo Rida, Cascada and Baby Bash are also on the jam-packed bill. Tickets $35-$200, all ages; call 617-931-2000 or go to www.ticketmaster.com for more info. 
 
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