In the 1970s, Kubrick purchased the rights to Brian Aldiss’ short story “Supertoys Last All Summer Long,” a Pinocchio-like tale about an android boy in an overpopulated future. After three decades failing to realize the project, Kubrick offered it to Steven Spielberg, who jumped at the opportunity...
WHERE ONCE WU LYF EMBODIED THE RESTLESS ENERGY OF YOUTHFUL DEFIANCE, THEY NOW CHANNEL SOMETHING MORE REFINED— AN ENDURING FLAME TEMPERED BY THE HUMBLING OF TIME. Got that?
Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard St., Brookline, MA
The farce is with you in this uproarious salute to science fiction that teams comedy legend Mel Brooks with an all-star cast of cutups including John Candy, Rick Moranis, and Bill Pullman!
From April 30 to May 3, Harvard’s campus transforms into a four-day celebration of the arts, bursting with creativity from Harvard students, staff, alums and faculty.
Lowell keeps popping up in the headlines of clickbait articles about “top places to live.” The Town and the City Festival (named after Jack Kerouac’s semiautobiographical novel about his childhood in Lowell) is on the long list of reasons why. The multiday music festival returns every year...
There’s a new Irish festival in town: Tunes on the Charles. Information is still trickling in. The Instagram account has only eight posts. Media inquiries have so far gone unanswered. But you know the drill. This is a traditional Irish music festival in a metro area that...
The one, the only: Somerville Porchfest. Arguably, one of the top torchbearers of the Porchfest phenomenon nationally. Without a doubt, the leading light of the local Porchfest scene. The Somerville version divides the city into three zones, West, Central and East, and a rolling tide of music...
Somerville Theatre
55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA
The Airwaves Belonged to the People: WBCN and The American Revolution is an award-winning documentary about how a Boston rock radio station became both a participant in and a platform for the anti-war movement, civil rights, LGBTQ and women’s rights, and the explosion of countercultural media in...
Which Side?: A Protest Music Teach-Out returns with another night of music, storytelling, and solidarity on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at The Burren Backroom in Somerville. Launched last July as an experiment in pairing protest songs with conversation, the series has grown into a vital monthly forum where...