Entertainment

Big Red & Shiny is coming back and is using Kickstarter to raise funds to create "a bigger and bolder Blog devoted to New England art & artists and a monthly web-based Journal with perceptive and incisive writing from around the globe." With art/music/dance in the South End on Sept. 29 and panel discussions on art writing and community at MIT on Oct. 27.

Earlier:
We Love Beantown gets ready to launch.

David reveals his true identity: Yes, he's the guy who replaced all the missing letters in the Diesel Cafe's Scrabble set. And:

Across the 'ville at Bloc 11, I found an even more perplexing situation, a set with 133 tiles, 33 more than regulation. But it wasn't pure surplus, there were still tiles missing, such as both of the Bs normally in the set. So I contributed the missing tiles and set the excess aside, returning another scrabble set to 100-tile perfection, at least for now.

Human Sexual Response is playing the House of Blues on Nov. 10.

Royale, 279 Tremont St., is seeking permission from the city to expand its capacity from 775 to the 1,200 patrons its troubled predecessor, Roxy, was once allowed to let in.

The Mayor's Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing holds a hearing on the request on Sept. 5. The office slashed Roxy's maximum capacity to 775 in 2007 after a skein of violations, from overcrowding in the streets at closing to cases of assault and battery.

Royale's request comes just four months after Mayor Menino cited it and several other Theater District night as trouble spots he wanted to crack down on after the closing-time murder of a Revere man in a parking garage used by the clubs.

The Track Gals dish on a new reality series that will feature a bunch of chefs including English and "Anna Boiardi, heir to the Chef Boyardee canned pasta empire." But, alas, it will focus on Manhattan - Our Todd is really more of a Nooyawka these days - so probably no dramatic recreations of the end of Kingfisher Hall, which is a shame.

The Washington City Paper reports the founders of a site called We Love DC are heading north next week with a new site called We Love Beantown. Think Bostonist (remember them?) but with better design and no icky crime news (don't worry, that's what we're here for).

Bread & Puppet Theater: The Circus of the Possibilitarians. Held outdoors on Sunday, September 2nd at 3 pm on the Cambridge Common, near the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Garden St., Cambridge. Free performance [pass-the-hat donations welcome], rain or shine. For further details, call the Boston-area Bread & Puppet Theater information line 617-286-6694 or log onto www.breadandpuppet.org.

Soon to begin celebrating its 50th anniversary, the award-winning Bread & Puppet Theater, from Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, presents their The Circus of the Possibilitarians on the Cambridge Common, a public space they used to frequent prior to the mid-1980’s. Last year the theater finally returned to help launch Harvard Square’s inaugural “Revival Month.” And now a return engagement is in order.

Patty Neal arrived at Jackson Square around 7:30 this morning to find "police in SWAT jackets along with a camera crew at Heath Street."

Seems Donnie Wahlberg has a deal with TNT to churn out eight episodes of a reality show called Boston Blue, in which cameras follow members of the BPD gang unit.

Bread & Puppet Theater: The Circus of the Possibilitarians . Held outdoors on Sunday, September 2nd at 3 pm on the Cambridge Common, near the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Garden St., Cambridge, 02138. Free performance [pass-the-hat donations welcome], rain or shine. For further details, call the Boston-area Bread & Puppet Theater information line 617-286-6694 or log onto www.breadandpuppet.org.

Soon to begin celebrating its 50th anniversary, the award-winning Bread & Puppet Theater, from Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, presents their The Circus of the Possibilitarians on the Cambridge Common, a public space they used to frequent prior to the mid-1980’s. Last year the theater finally returned to help launch Harvard Square’s inaugural “Revival Month.” And now a return engagement is in order.

"The Heat," that Sandra Bullock production that's already featured a bus crash in Roxbury, will be filming at the old Norfolk Tap in Uphams Corner, starting at 7 a.m. on Sunday. A note to nearby residents concludes:

They will blowing up a car sometime on Sunday afternoon on Norfolk Avenue, so you will probably hear a big boom. ALL SAFETY PRECAUTIONS ARE BEING TAKEN AND COORDINATED WITH THE CITY.

Ron Newman snapped a photo of the sign advertising the Dog Day Poetry Marathon at Outpost 186 in Inman Square.

The Boston Licensing Board voted today to let Napper Tandy's on Washington Street in Roslindale Square install two coin-operated pool tables.

However, the board wanted to make sure the trouble stayed lower case: The pub, which opened just recently, had sought permission for five tables.

Audience heckles the heckler, by Toddiswatchingus

Dan K. and our own Ron Newman report the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's performance of Coriolanus on the Common yesterday was interrupted by a guy who joined the actors on stage to express his disgust.

Via a series of tweets, Dan K. reports:

Part way into a scene some shirtless dude was on stage, threw arms open and shouted "this is f'ing...", got detained by an actor... Soon was escorted off stage, and then an officer (maybe park ranger) walked across the stage to cheers; scene was restarted. This happened maybe halfway through first half before intermission, made for a somewhat eventful last performance. Great show, btw.

Ron adds:

I definitely heard the interloper say the word 'bullshit', which is not a word that Shakespeare was likely to use in a script ...

Wednesday, Aug. 22, 6-8 p.m. at Medal of Honor Park, a.k.a. the M Street Park, featuring Michael Dutra and the Strictly Sinatra Band.

A little hard to hear, but you've got to love the idea of somebody reciting poetry on a milk crate in front of the Village Market. Also see readings at Redd's, the clock on Birch Street and Minerva's Owl. It was all part of Rozzie Reads Poetry on Aug. 2.

Some background info on the ad.

Jeff Cutler photographed the scene in Dewey Square on Friday when the Soup Nazi truck drove up to provide the teeming masses with free soup and muffin tops.

Posted under this Creative Commons license.

It's time for August Noise, which features nine concerts around the neighborhood with surprise artists, who might play anything from classical to funk. The first one is 6:30 p.m. today at the First Baptist Church on Centre Street.

Meet like-minded progressives and get connected to great social justice organizations in Boston. Haven't been to a Socializing for Justice event? It’s time to meet the friendly faces of the group that’s grown to over 2000 members, hosted 130+ events and fostered hundreds of connections since our founding 6 years ago.

Join us if you are ready to go BEYOND ALLIES and build a CROSS-ISSUE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT.

September 13th, 2012
6-9pm
Lir Irish Pub & Restaurant
903 Boylston St, Boston, MA

RSVP at www.sojust.org - Newcomers always welcomed!

Cost: $5-$20 collected at the door. Newcomers always welcomed!
(every $10 includes raffle ticket for a $25 Trader Joe's gift card)
Complimentary appetizers and yummy home-made cupcakes will be provided.

THIS IS NOT A MEETING - IT'S A FUN NETWORKING SOCIAL!
No Program. No Speaker. Just Us. For Justice.

As always we'll help you meet people - so no worries if you're new to SoJust, plus we'll have "I'M LOOKING FOR" and "ASK ME ABOUT" tags, a CATALYST CORNER staffed by our amazing STARZ (regular attendees), our wildly popular JOBS BOARD and ACTION STATIONS to make it even more likely you'll find the right connections.

Friday, 12-2 in Harvard Square and 3-4 in Dewey Square, in a truck. Get free food, including muffin tops, black and white cookies and soup.

South Boston native Billy Baker has a long exposition in the Globe today on the decline of Olde South Boston. His initial point seems to be that all the reality shows being filmed there will make Southie the laughingstock of America by turning it into Jersey Shore North. But read the whole thing and you get to the point where he explains that Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and starry-eyed young women who just couldn't control themselves destroyed the Southie of old:

GOOD WILL HUNTING has turned out to be a double-edged sword. It captured something great about Southie and at the same time ruined it forever. Because what I saw after that was unbelievable: Young women would get out of college and choose to move to Southie. Sure, it's close to downtown, but the real reason they were moving was because they were subconsciously thinking they were going to find "a Southie" like Matt and Ben. Everything else followed them, namely young guys. That's how everything changed. That's how the old Southie reality ended.

Added bonus anecdote: Be sure to look for the part about how some Southie guy moved to Dorchester to stay out of trouble, but just couldn't help himself when he went back for a visit and some young punk called him a yuppie. Twice. So of course he decked him. But since he's part of that generation of more sensitive Southie lads, he felt a little bad about it.

We took in Figment Boston before the rain today (it'll be going on on Sunday as well). Some photos.

If Brad Kelly hadn't taken the photo, we never would have believed the new Revere Hotel on Stuart Street has a print of Joyce Kulhawik's disembodied hand. Or as Brad puts it:

From out of the void, the hand of Joyce Kulhawik reaches towards you. But, is it an invitation -- or a warning?!?

Copyright Brad Kelly. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

The former Harpers Ferry goes before the Mayor's Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing on Monday for permission to expand its capacity from 340 to 476 people.

The hearing starts at 10 a.m. in the Dapper O'Neil hearing room on City Hall's eighth floor.

Madonna, followed by Nirvana, with announcements about how other stations have "playlist envy."

Ed. note: They don't actually say "The Hahbah" - that would be an in-joke reflecting some actual awareness of the local market. Instead, they say "The Har-bore."