We love IKEA as much as the next particle-board-coveting shopaholic, but in these green and economy-focused times, the best thing you can do for your apartment is fill it with furniture’s eco exemplars — antiques. More than 150 vendors specializing in, among other things, Victorian furniture, estate jewelry, rare books and vintage decoratives set up shop at the Greater Boston Antiques Festival at the Shriners Auditorium (99 Fordham Rd., Wilmington) Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Entry is $8. Call 781-862-4039 or go to www.neantiqueshows.com for more info.
LUST FOR LIFE
Judging from the title of the instrumental track, “Vintage Future,” tucked at the end of one of four under-the-radar EPs released in onslaught fashion at the end of 2008, the Raveonettes were copping to their sonic formula’s key — borrow from the past, shoot it like a cannon into the future. On their last full-length, 2008’s “Lust Lust Lust,” the Danish group — now living stateside — combined Phil Spector swing, “Nuggets”-mined guitar flourishes, Suicide drone and Jesus and Mary Chain glaze into a compelling, tranced out mélange. They hit The Paradise (967 Comm. Ave., Boston. MBTA: Green B Line to Pleasant St.) tonight, 9 p.m., with Nickel Eye, the side project of the Strokes’ bassist, Nikolai Fraiture. Tickets are $16.50, 18+. Call 617-562-8800 or go to www.thedise.com for more details.
T time: Where to go and what to do
HOPS TIL YOU DROP
This weekend you can forget about the frosty cold by downing some frosty cold ones at the Winter Jubilee Beer Summit. The selections go from A to Z (OK, A to Y – Allagash to Young’s) with 60 brewers offering up more than 200 foamy flavors. We don’t recommend trying them all, though. Then you’ll be forgetting about more things than the freezing temperatures — like your name. Tickets are $40 and the three sessions — Friday, 5:30-9 p.m.; Saturday, 12:30-4 p.m.; and Saturday, 5:30-9 p.m. — are 21+ (Saturday evening is sold out). That’s at The Castle at the Park Plaza Hotel (158 Columbus Ave., Boston. MBTA: Green Line to Arlington). Go to www.beersummit.com for more info.
Entertainment
Big Kids Dodgeball Tournament
Tonight, 7
Basketball City
35 Lomasney Way, Boston
MBTA: Green Line to North Station
$20 person/$140 team
877-4BKDFUN
bigkidsdodgeball.com
Stragglers and teams of seven are welcome at the Big Kids dodgeball tourney, a monthly happening that turns a child-hood playground game into a red-ball hurlers’ rabid bout. There’s no showdown in Vegas with White Goodman, but the winning team will get a three-foot trophy, PUMA schwag and balls-out bragging rights.
‘Hairspray’
Wednesday, 8 p.m.
Lowell Memorial Auditorium
50 East Merrimack St., Lowell
MBTA: Commuter Rail to Lowell
$30.50-$56.50, 617-931-2000
www.ticketmaster.com
A Baltimore teen turns a quest to appear on a local dance show into a civil rights march. Set to some ’60s moves and a big beat, of course. This national touring edition hits town just after its Tony Award-winning run on Broadway.
MUSIC
Magic Christian
Tomorrow, 8 p.m.
Middle East Downstairs
480 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Central
$10, 18+, 617-864-EAST
www.mideastclub.com
San Francisco-based Magic Christian, with their power-pop and fuzzed-out ’60s rock grab-bag, features a slew of long-in-tooth musical stalwarts including singer Paul Kopf, Cyril Jordan (the Flamin’ Groovies ringleader), Eddie Munoz (of the Plimsouls) and Clem Burke (Blondie’s drum-mer). Check tomorrow’s Metro for Luke O’Neil’s story with Lyres, who headline. Mod ravers The Prime Movers and the Merseybeat-lovin’ Muck and the Mires start off the night.
The Rosebuds
Saturday, 9 p.m.
Middle East Downstairs
480 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Central
$12, 18+, 617-864-EAST
www.mideastclub.com
Raleigh duo the Rosebuds prove themselves masters of sublime, gossamer pop on 2008’s “Life Like.” The title track launches the record with a groovy slinker, while “Cape Fear” has a driving pop-hook and “Another Way In” leans toward the Church’s partly-cloudy jangle. The Love Language and the Fatal Flaw kick things off.
Frightened Rabbit
Sunday, 9 p.m.
Great Scott
1222 Comm. Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green B Line to
Harvard Ave.
SOLD OUT, 18+, 617-566-9014
www.greatscottboston.com
Frightened Rabbit, which started as ringleader Scott Hutchison’s solo moniker, eek out a cache of blustery, indie-pop anthems on “The Midnight Organ Fight.” David Karsten Daniels and Pants Yell! open for the Scottish foursome.
Local
MLK Day Celebration
Monday, 1 p.m.
Boston University
George Sherman Union’s
Metcalf Hall
775 Comm. Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green B Line to BU East
Free, 617-353-4745
www.bu.edu
I have a dream. To enjoy sleeping in Monday. But you — you want to change the world. Paul Farmer, founder of the Boston-based global humanitarian organization Partners in Health, speaks as part of BU’s renowned Martin Luther King celebration. There will also be MLK sermon recitations and performances by the Inner Strength Gospel Choir and the Xception Step Team.
Inauguration Viewing
Tuesday, 11:30 a.m.
Harvard Book Store
1256 Mass. Ave., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Harvard
Free, 617-661-1515
www.harvard.com
We’re not sure if we’ll be celebrating the swearing in of historical prez No. 44 or the putting to rest of nicknames like Barack O’Baby and Obamalama. Either way, we won’t turn down the Harvard Book Store’s offering of complimentary mimosas. Hmm, a champagne stimulus package sounds good to us.
Culture
‘The Raven Returns to Boston: A 200th Birthday Party for Edgar Allan Poe’
Tonight, 7:30 p.m.
McMullen Museum of Art
Boston College
Devlin Hall 108
140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill
MBTA: Green B Line to BC
Free, 617-552-8587
www.bc.edu
The master of macabre spook was born in Boston in 1809 and gets a birthday fit for a horror king. Matthew Pearl, author of “The Poe Shadow,” and Scott Peeples, author of “The Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe,” will lead a talk on the author’s legacy, while others will recite from his work. Look for the guy with a shot of cognac and three roses.
Buddhist Meditation
Thursdays through Feb. 26
Tonight, 7 p.m.
Stratford Street United Church
77 Stratford St., West Roxbury
$10, 508-979-8277
www.serlingpa.org
Instructor Kelsang Dorje leads zen neophytes and those already on the path at this weekly peace, love and understanding drop-in.
‘Joyful Noise’
MLK Celebration with the Harlem Gospel Choir
Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
Sanders Theatre
45 Quincy St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Harvard
$20, 617-496-2222
www.fas.harvard.edu
The Harlem Gospel Choir have rocked the face off Pope John Paul II and Nelson Mandela and backed up U2 on “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” This weekend they’re giving up the hallelujah for MLK; the night also features the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School Vocal Ensemble and OrigiNation’s NIA Dance Troupe.
