3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (283+ words) When does the circus sideshow of celebrity breakups take the main stage? When the British singer-songwriter Lily Allen comes through town on her “West End Girl” tour, promoting a 2025 album by the same name – on the short list for the…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (140+ words) Interested in the realm of the fantastical? This weekend presents two theatrical performances that will take you there. Each week the Indie spotlights the stage happenings worth your while. Ticketing information available at the links below. Sep. 11: Level Up Circus…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (156+ words) Sep. 10: The Magic Lab Lightning Round: Boston’s Open Mic Magic Show (The Foundry, Cambridge) Sep. 13: Side Quest’s Second Birthday Bash (Bow Market, Somerville) Bonus points: they are also running a 20% promotion for all purchases made in the store during the…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (1288+ words) Fall is the best moviegoing time of the year. In anticipation of garnering year-end award recognition, Hollywood puts its best foot forward, presenting many of its most ambitious, challenging and promising motion pictures. And of course, that’s only part of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (89+ words) The Independent’s locally themed crossword puzzle: Hit the Books Cambridge | Somerville Independent - The Independent’s sixth locally themed puzzle – they come every other Saturday courtesy of local creator Daniel Mangoubi – has something to teach you about our colleges and universities. Play…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (49+ words) Saturday cartoon: Members of the jury Cambridge | Somerville Independent - Find more of Rusty Epstein’s cartoons here. Rusty Epstein’s work has been published in the New Yorker, the Times Luxury, and Private Eye, among others, and is wildly popular with women…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (95+ words) Sept. 4: ASWB Presents: Author K.S. Shay (All She Wrote Books, Somerville) Sept. 5: Somerville Nepali Street Food Festival (Somerville City Hall, Somerville) Sept. 5: Les Vedettes: Las Exóticas (Crystal Ballroom, Somerville) Sept. 8: Smut Slam Boston: Learning Curves (Arts at the Armory, Somerville) Sept....

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (420+ words) With “The Dog Stars,” director Ridley Scott continues his unfortunate late-career run of mediocrity, delivering a dime-a-dozen apocalypse survival story with charisma vacuums in the lead roles, even as Josh Brolin does his best to add gravitas and emotional nuance…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (489+ words) Reviewed: Freed by grief to be a private detective and on an Alice B. Toklas hunt in 'Bone Horn' Cambridge | Somerville Independent - Reading “Bone Horn” is like watching a tightrope walker holding a long pole with weights on either side. The…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (155+ words) Theater spotlight: ‘Introducing the Tofanas’ and Idlefest 3.0 Cambridge | Somerville Independent - A punk rock opera, called “Introducing the Tofanas,” is being presented at the Center for Arts at the Armory on Thursday. Who are The Tofanas? “[A] gang of 17th-century Roman…...