Editor’s Note: Welcome to V3 Weekend, Vanyaland‘s guide to help you sort out your weekend entertainment with curated selections and recommendations across our three pillars of Music, Comedy, and Film/TV. It’s what you should know about, where you need to be, and where you’ll be going, with us riding shotgun along the way.
Music: Boston Is Doomed at Bone Up Brewing
As our city’s rock club crisis continues to generate headlines, and rightfully so, not enough ink has been spilled over the rise of live music across the local brewery circuit. We’ve hyped a bunch of shows at beer halls over the past few years, but this weekend brings maybe the biggest, and certainly the loudest: Bone Up Brewing hosts the wonderfully named Boston Is Doomed, a two-day, nine-band festival of doom, stoner metal, sludge, and psych rock in the Everett space’s beer garden. On tap for Friday evening (June 9) are Blue Manic, Mollusk (pictured), and The Buffalo Ryders; while Saturday’s matinee (June 10) welcomes Swarmcatcher, Ballast, Green Inferno, Crowfeeder, Sundrifter, and Black Pyramid. Bone Up will also be crafting special beer for the festival in Up In Smoke, made from a smoked wheat ale recipe. “Saturated riffs thick as molasses, drums pounding louder than thunder, fuzzy bass rumbles as the city quakes and crumbles around you,” Bone Up writes. “With nine bands over two days… Boston is Doomed.” Bring it on.
BOSTON IS DOOMED :: Friday, June 9 and Saturday, June 10 at Bone Up Brewing, 38 Norman St. in Everett, MA :: Friday from 5 p.m., Saturday from noon; 21-plus; $10 on Friday, $15 on Saturday, $20 for a two-day pass :: Event info
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Comedy: Tina Fey & Amy Poehler at MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Earlier today we noted how MGM Music Hall at Fenway is getting into the comedy game, and tonight (June 9) the lights of laughs shine bright on Lansdowne as Tina Fey & Amy Poehler bring a celebrated one-two punch to the glossy confines of the new Boston venue. We hyped the news of their Restless Leg Tour back in February, and Vanyaland comedy editor Jason Greenough provides a further play in this week’s Mic’d Up: “You just can’t keep this two-headed comedy dragon down. After years of calling for the dynamic duo to bring their chemistry and friendship on the road, the comedy gods have finally listened to our prayers. What makes it even better is watching Burlington native Poehler throw down on a hometown stage.”
TINA FEY & AMY POEHLER :: Friday, June 9 at MGM Music Hall at Fenway, 2 Lansdowne St. in Boston, MA :: 7 and 10 p.m., sold out :: Advance Tickets
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Film/TV: Noir City Boston at The Brattle
Noir City Boston returns to The Brattle in Cambridge this weekend, and Vanyaland senior writer Michael Christopher breaks it down: “The region’s movie houses routinely offer generous helpings from the classic era of film noir, but The Brattle has always flexed a bit around this time of year with its extended programming of the genre’s archetypes; smoke-filled clubs, down on their luck protagonists, ham fisted henchman and dastardly dames who might as well be the devil in disguise. The 2023 edition of Noir City: Boston, co-presented by the Film Noir Foundation, will be showing a dozen hard boiled noir works tonight (June 9) and through Monday (June 12).”
He continues: “On hand throughout the weekend to introduce each screening – seven of which are on 35mm – will be film historian Foster Hirsch, author of sixteen books focusing on the stage and screen, with two of them dedicated to film noir. Aligning with the twists and turns of noir stylings, there’s a spin on this year’s Noir City: Boston, as each of the films are celebrating their 75th anniversary. Among the highlights are director Jules Dassin’s Academy Award winning The Naked City, The Big Clock – which was remade in 1987 as No Way Out starring Kevin Costner – the based-on-a-true-story Jimmy Stewart vehicle Call Northside 777 and Cry in the City, featuring a career best performance by Victor Mature. Along with individual tickets, The Brattle is offering a Noir City: Boston 2023 Ticket Pack for $95 which will get you into all 12 movies.”
NOIR CITY BOSTON :: Friday June 9 to Monday, June 12 at The Brattle, 40 Brattle St. in Cambridge, MA :: Various showtimes, $14 to $95 Event info
