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By Rick Sawyer Jonathan Katz, who played an animated doctor on T.V., continues his Wednesday evening residency at Improv Boston with a support staff of comedians including Steve Sweeney, Kelly Macis, Ken Reid, Maria Ciampa, and Myq Kaplan. ImprovBoston, 40 Prospect St., Cambridge, 8 p.m. $10/$7. More info...

By Rick Sawyer The NEC Chamber Orchestra, a conductorless orchestra that bills itself as "the ultimate listener's ensemble," presents a pair of classics from the new music repertoire, Ginastera's Concerto for Strings (1965) and Piazolla's The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, as arranged by Leonid De...

By Kerry Skemp Monday, November 16 Tuesday, November 17 Wednesday, November 18 7:30 pm, Harvard Book Store, Lower Level The Philosophy Café at Harvard Book Store Irreplaceable You? The Puzzle of Personal Identity Thursday, November 19 Friday, November 20 Saturday, November 21

By Rick Sawyer Image of a shrine for Gregory Phillips tagged "Bostonist" by Behind Dark Eyes. -- A man was found shot dead this morning on Clifford Street in Roxbury. [BPDNews] --- Gregory A. Phillips, 24, of West Roxbury, was stabbed in the heart during a weekend brawl at the corner of Brighton and Harvard A...

By Rick Sawyer Movies HFA presents the New England premiere of Koji Wakamatsu's United Red Army (2008), a meditation on the Japanese militant left-wing terror group by the latest inheritor of Nagisa Oshima's legacy. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $8/$6.

By Rick Sawyer The HFA's showcase of the films of Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso concludes today with his first feature, La Libertad (2001), the exploration of a single day in the life of a migrant woodcutter. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $12. More informa...

By Rick Sawyer The Office heartthrob and Newton native John Krasinski will introduce his new film adaption of David Foster Wallace's short story collection Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, his debut as a director. Kendall Square Cinema, 1 Kendall Square, Cambridge, 7 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. Singing

By Rick Sawyer Public health officials released a report today calling heroin and OxyContin addiction an "epidemic" in Massachusetts. The report calls for a public health campaign on the scale of the fight against H1N1 to combat the problem. The report estimates that 3,265 Massachusetts residents di...

By MJG Image by fr3sh_fruitt from photos tagged "Bostonist" on Flickr The early voter turnout in Boston was heavy in places as the choice between Menino and Flaherty was finally made. [Boston Herald, Boston Globe]Peter Anderson, a captain in the U.S. Army Reserves, claims he was fired from Taunt...

By Rick Sawyer Above The Law reports on Brian Schroeder, a man who has attended not one but two of the world's douchiest colleges, and who has mounted his bid for Douchebag of the Year by allegedly trying to burn down a chapel the holds the remains of unidentified 9/11 victims. Schroeder, a graduate of Duke...

By Rick Sawyer Polish duo Gypsy Sound System recasts old recordings of Balkan throwdowns as modern dance jams, sprinkling them with a beat here and there. Presented by Beat Research, it's probably the most challenging dance music out there tonight. Enormous Room, 567 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 9 p.m. Free.

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By Rick Sawyer As we mentioned yesterday, Cambridge Brewing Company hosts the Great Pumpkin Festival, featuring no fewer than 20 pumpkin beers, 7 of which will be of CBC's own devising. The main event? "A 200 pound giant, ghostly white pumpkin filled with “cask” pumpkin beer, to be tapped sacrificiall...

By Rick Sawyer The Brattle offers its own complement of horror movies, screening two of cult director Michael Dougherty's recent efforts. Trick 'r Treat (2008) gets its Boston theatrical premiere, albeit on DVD, which is how it was originally released. The theater adds "in case you need some encourage...

By Rick Sawyer Blotter siren -- A 26-year old female Harvard employee was attacked yesterday night in Harvard Square by a man who tried to strangle her with a rope. The quick-thinking victim was able to crouch, push her male assailant away, and escape with little harm having come to her. No arrests have bee...

By Rick Sawyer New York composer Garth Stevenson, a double bassist, fits in with conservatory types and jazz and hip hop heads alike. He brings his ambient solo bass and electronics show to Berklee for an afternoon performance today. David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music, 921 Boylston St.,...

By Rick Sawyer Charlie's Kitchen is Bostonist's unofficial offices, but it's also home to live music in Harvard Square. Tonight, the burger joint mounts a program of garage rock, featuring local three-chord masters The Coffin Lids, The Acrobats, and The Egos. Charlie's Kitchen, 10 Eliot St., Cambridg...

By Rick Sawyer The HFA continues its Ulrike Ottinger retrospective with Freak Orlando, which answers in the affirmative the burning question of whether or not you can make a movie about Virginia Woolfe's Orland and Tod Browning's Freaks at the same time. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Qui...

By Rick Sawyer A new production of Tancredi opens at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. Much like its title character, this Rossini opera has endured stretches of exile, going unperformed for up to 150 years at one point. Opera Boston revives the work (if not Tancredi himself) with Ewa Podles making her Boston...

By Rick Sawyer Blotter siren -- A Somerville man was stabbed repeatedly outside of the CVS on JFK Street in Harvard Square early Saturday morning before taking a cab to the emergency room. The man described three suspects to police, who have released little information about the incident. [Cambridge Ch...

By cheap_robv Boston Beer Company is teaming with a historic German brewer to create a new brew. [Beer Advocate] The "Case of the Deleted Emails" is being referred to the Attorney General. [Boston Herald] No cookies for Allston either. Harvard reveals it's slowing their expansion project. [WBUR]

By Rick Sawyer Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy is one of the leading think tanks devoted to developing and advancing the key principles of human rights theory and law. Its former director Samantha Power has written extensively on contemporary human rights issues and the problems of geno...

By Kerry Skemp Wednesday, June 10, 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store Ali Sethi, The Wish Maker Monday, June 15, 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store Joseph O'Neill, Netherland Wednesday, June 24, 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store Robert Wright, The Evolution of God

By Kerry Skemp “When faculty members decide on graduate students, they will have to teach the students,” Lamont points out. “There’s a balance between power and influence” when deciding what students to take. The “ongoing relationship from year to year” between faculty members requires them to “keep...

By Kerry Skemp 7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store Laila Lalami, Secret Son 7:00 pm, at Harvard Book Store Colm Toibin, Brooklyn 7:00 pm, Harvard Book Store Shahriar Mandanipour with translator Sara Khalili on Censoring an Iranian Love Story: A Novel

By Matt Feltz From geeks looking for love in Cambridge to the essence of our vast expanding universe, and everything in between, 2008 proved to be an eventful year for science in Boston. No doubt there will be more of the same next year, and we'll be there to keep you informed...and hopefully entertained.

By C. Fernsebner Tonight is "The Game," which guarantees that the bars of Cambridge will be clogged with "Teh Douche." Bostonist is researching the thematically-correct home-drinking alternatives: Harvard Cocktail Yale Cocktail Harvard Cooler Yale Punch