WHISKEY A GO GO
The Felice Brothers ride their unhinged Band-meets-”Deliverance” train into Club Passim (47 Palmer St., Cambridge. MBTA: Red Line to Harvard) Saturday, 7 p.m. The good ol’ New York boys (first the Catskills, now NYC), touring behind their bourbon-drenched self-titled Team Love debut, put on as good a live show as we’ve seen in the last year —  accordion-driven sing-alongs and a gang-choir, backyard BBQ freeness. Tickets $15, all ages; call 617-492-7679 or go to www.clubpassim.org for more info.

ENTERTAINMENT

'Dinner and a Movie' Series: Audrey Hepburn
Friday and Saturday, 7 p.m.
The Hampshire House
84 Beacon St., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Arlington
$30, 617-227-9600
www.hampshirehouse.com
Fashion muse and bon vivant pixie girl Audrey Hepburn gets the call for the Hampshire House’s Dinner and a Movie series. Friday, Cary Grant co-stars in the romantic swindler, “Charade,” and Saturday gets lovely and loverly with “My Fair Lady.” Three-course dinner included.
 
Tom Perrotta reads from 'The Abstinence Teacher'
Tonight, 7 p.m.
Porter Square Books
25 White St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Porter
Free, 617-491-2220
www.portersquarebooks.com
Usually, it’s the stiff little fingered parents dealing with defiant teens caught up in boys, sneaking cigarettes and breaking curfew. In Perrotta’s latest subversive tome, progressive sex-ed teacher Ruth Ramsey gets the tables turned on her — her daughter is obsessed with Jesus. Perrotta lays down the hallelujah tonight with a discussion and signing.

MUSIC

Pigeon Detectives
Tonight, 9 p.m.
Great Scott
1222 Comm. Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green B Line to
Harvard Ave.
$15, 18+, 617-566-9014
www.greatscottboston.com
If we lopped off a finger or toe for every NME-hoisted band we put our faith in, we (and all our friends), would be digitless (and taking classes on how to drink a can of PBR with our elbows). Hmph. Well, here goes the nose, we guess. The UK’s Pigeon Detectives, running along the same lines as The Futureheads and The Fratellis, spin a good pop tune that pushes all the right major-chord buttons. Boston foursome Mean Creek open with their gauzy indie tunes.

Stereophonics
Friday, 9 p.m.
The Paradise
967 Comm. Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green B Line to
Pleasant St.
$25, 18+, 617-562-8800
www.thedise.com
Stereophonics never quite got their due in the U.S., falling through Blur- and Manic Street Preacher-like cracks, while Oasis and gagorama Bush got all the glory. Last year saw the release of their seventh record, “Pull the Pin,” which finds the Welsh trio nestled perfectly between their signature swagger and low-slung, shimmery bankers. Le Loup and Monade open.

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
Sunday, 7:30 p.m.
Bank of America Pavilion
290 Northern Ave., Boston
MBTA: Silver Line to Silver Line Way
$20-$25, 617-931-2000
www.ticketmaster.com
Ryan Adams wears sobriety well. The former Whiskeytown frontman finds himself between records (“Easy Tiger” dropped last year, while an untitled offering could be released as early as the fall), readying an art exhibit in New York and interpreting his editor’s red pen marks (debut novel due soon). With no opener and his current touring partner, Oasis, off in Canada, expect this show to be of the epic, two to three hour jam variety.  POL POSITION  
When Ron English’s latest street art manifesto, “Abraham Obama,” was posted in a walkway off of Harrison Avenue, it caused a stir — launching ill-pointed outrage from rubbernecking drivers in the South End, luring English’s art terrorist denizens to descend on Boston to glimpse the latest anti offering and drawing coverage from the Boston Globe and AOL. As McCain, Palin, Obama and Biden already know, you can’t please everyone, and everyone — and every exhibit — has its inherent highs and lows. Such is the nature of the pop combative spread, “A Politic,” running through Oct. 4 (Wednesday-Saturday, noon-6 p.m.) at Gallery XIV (37 Thayer St., Boston. MBTA: Orange Line to Back Bay). Call 617-482-1414 or go to www.galleryxiv.com.

LOCAL

CultureFest
Saturday, 2-10 p.m.
Enterprise Bank Lot
Across from 172 Middle St., Lowell
MBTA: Commuter Rail to
Lowell
$10, all ages, 978-454-2299
www.second-world.com
CultureFest brings you around the world in eight hours, sans the airsickness. This year’s highlights include the Fashionably Fair Fashion Show, salsa lessons and belly dancing, plus music by Brazilian dance-drum lords Samba Tremeterra, The Juanito Pascual Flamenco Quartet and female-fronted hip-hop soul outfit D. Scott and The Family. Art installations, fair trade goods and, of course, tasty foodums are also on tap.
 
Sam Adams OctoberFest
Saturday, 1-10 p.m.
The Castle
@ Park Plaza Hotel
158 Columbus Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Arlington
$15, 21+, 888-945-BEER
www.beersummit.com
Pay no mind that the calendar barely reads September. Last time we checked there were no Gregorian limitations on washing down knackwurst with sudsy goodness. Sam Adams, which celebrates the release of its fall perennial Octoberfest beer, takes over the Castle with more than 15 brews, the wurst food ever and music by The Not Prettys, The Jolly Kopperschmidts and the Oberlaender Hofbrau Band.  

Porsche Fest
Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Larz Anderson Auto Museum
15 Newton St., Brookline
Attendees free, car owner registration $35
617-522-6547
www.larzanderson.org
Every now and again, you’re tooling down Alewife Brook Parkway and you see a 1960 Porsche Super 90 Roadster. It’s convertible, it’s cherry mint fjord green and it has a tan leather interior and top. You hate that bastard. Why do other people own cool cars? Hmph. Well, NER’s Annual Concours d’ Elegance takes place on the lawn at Larz Anderson and you can tell that Roadster bastard right to his face.  

CULTURAL

Bill Fischer’s 'New Works'
Through Sept. 29
Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
Arden Gallery
129 Newbury St., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Copley
Free, 617-247-0610
www.ardengallery.com
Bill Fischer, in concert with his third solo bow of abstract works, celebrates the opening of his latest exhibit with a reception Friday, 5-7 p.m.

'We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!'
Through Sept. 28
Tonight, 7:30 p.m.; Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday, 3 and 8 p.m.; Sunday, 3 p.m.
Central Square Theater
450 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Central
$32/$22 students and senoirs, 617-57MYCST
www.centralsquaretheater.org
Theatre troupe The Nora present Dario Fo’s farcical “We Won’t Pay,” a 1974 satire about housewives protesting outlandish grocery prices. Ha – try $5 for a box of cereal, ladies!

Films at the Gate
Through Sunday, 7:30 p.m.
Chinatown Gate
Hudson Street, Boston
MBTA: Orange Line to
Chinatown
Free, 617-482-2380
www.filmsatthegate.org
The Asian Community Development Corporation hosts four nights of classic and deep cut action and kung-fu flicks including the Jackie Chan cop/mob vehicle “Police Story” (tonight); “Red Heroine” (Friday), a 1929 silent film that will be set to a live soundtrack by the Devil Music Ensemble; “The 36th Chamber of Shaolin” (Saturday), a classic kung-fu nugget starring Gordon Liu of more recent “Kill Bill” fame; and “Iron Monkey” (Sunday),  a Robin Hood-esque tale set against a martial arts-comedy backdrop.

Hudson Street Gallery Opening Show
Through Oct. 12
Sundays, 1-5 p.m.
Hudson Street Gallery
18 Hudson St., Boston
MBTA: Orange Line to Chinatown
Free, 617-319-9205
www.hudsonstreetgallery.com
Lee Cullivan’s “Sunshine Travel”  is among the works showing as part of the Hudson Street Gallery’s debut show. The newly opened spot will, for this exhibit, focus on the people, shops and bustling nature of its neighborhood home, Chinatown. Photographs by Jason Liu, Brian Matiash and Jason Sundram also show.

SPORTS

Patriots vs. Chiefs
Sunday, 1 p.m.
Gillette Stadium
Foxborough
MBTA: Commuter Rail to Foxborough
$65-$169, 617-931-2000
www.ticketmaster.com
What? Is there a football game on?

 OLDIES STATION
This weekend marks the closing weekend of the Brimfield Antiques Show (Palmer Road, Route 20, Brimfield), the largest outdoor trove in the country. Through Sunday, 6 a.m.-6 p.m., more than 5,000 dealers hawk their wares — from furniture and advertising ephemera to folk art nonesuches, textiles and jewelry. Because there’s some bit of wall or cupboard that ain’t filled up yet. Market entry varies by field: free-$6. Call 413-283-2418 or go to www.brimfieldshow.com for more info.