Flack’s ‘Bunheads’ brings her back to Cambridge
You may have known her from her role in “The Three Little Pigs’ when she was 3. But glamorous Sophie Flack returns to Cambridge on Tuesday to read from “Bunheads,” her much-praised novel about her time as a ballerina in New York.
With chefs’ help, fourth Urban Barn Dance was ‘most successful’
The Urban Barn Dance held Thursday was the most successful in the farmers-market fundraiser’s four-year history, organizers said.
Free Central Sw!ngs dance event postponed by weather warnings
The outdoor Central Sw!ngs performance planned for this evening is postponed due to threats of thunderstorms, said Robin Lapidus, executive director of the Central Square Business Association.
It’s Bowie, plus sexy dancers and fun and minus Bowie
What’s better than Bowie? How about danceable Bowie you can enjoy live and up close Thursday with a 10-piece band and seven top burlesque and go-go dancers?
Dark ‘Murder Ballads’ an event to die (or kill) for
The local release of an EP by the art-rock band Jaggery inspired by Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” brings “an evening of murder-inspired performance, exploring the inner killer and the inner killed” at Oberon in Harvard Square.
Day of dance described as ‘perfect Mother’s Day gift’
Free, 20-minute dance classes are to be offered May 8 at an event being billed by The Dance Complex as “a perfect Mother’s Day gift.”
Facts contra-dict alarm over dances
For the concern displayed Monday over dances at the West Cambridge Youth and Social Center, one would think the events were to be filled with angry rap music riling gang members and preteen girls lasciviously grinding away their honor. That’s not the case.
Hard to explain, impossible to miss: Rave meets comedy at Crisco Theque
Mehran Khagani is in the midst of a media frenzy in which he’s explaining being in a vortex of creativity. What he’s trying to explain is Crisco Theque, his Aug. 6 show at Oberon in Harvard Square, which will be part comedy show, part rave.
Dance Alliance honors leader, kicks off 25th season
Amy Zell Ellsworth was honored at the Boston Dance Alliance 2010 Benefit— the kickoff of the alliance’s 25th Anniversary season — held Thursday at the Sanctuary Theatre in Cambridge.
Surprising no one, geeks and nerds overlap in Central Square
Geek Week — comedy, panels, burlesque and more, based at ImprovBoston in the heart of Central Square — is in full swing and runs through Sunday. And there’s a sweet overlap with the Internet culture conference ROFLCon at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, taking place Friday and Saturday.
