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: Twin Temple at Royale
Maybe it’s the Leap Year vibe making us feel mischievous, but we sure could go for some Satanic doo-wop as we welcome March’s lion into our lives. Enter Twin Temple, who bring their God Is Dead Tour into Royale this evening (March 1) for a sinister twirl across the Theatre District (get there early for V faves VOWWS, too). The jaunt is named after last fall’s sophomore album, and it seems like a lay-up appearance for that religious freak that’s been hanging outside Boston live shows for decades. “Despite relentless death threats and moralizing, our allegiance to Satan and the golden oldies remains unwavering,” the Los Angeles duo declare. “God Is Dead is our most blasphemous, horny and painstakingly period-correct work to date. Saturated with the blood of babies, and forged in the ashes of burning churches, we spared no one in the making of this album. See you in Hell!”
TWIN TEMPLE + VOWWS :: Friday, March 1 at Royale, 279 Tremont St. in Boston, MA :: 7 p.m., 18-plus, $28 :: Event info and tickets
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Comedy: Colin Quinn at The Wilbur
There is a great temptation to stay in this weekend and watch new ReVue Stage-approved specials from Taylor Tomlinson and Rory Scovel, but if we bang those out on Saturday, that leaves room to head back out and catch Colin Quinn at The Wilbur on Sunday (March 3). The dude’s been making us laugh ever since we watched Remote Control during unruly tug-and-rub sleepovers in the late-’80s, and still brings the comedic heat all these years later. Here’s Mic’d Up servin’ it up: “Even if the world wasn’t a flaming dumpster fire, the SNL legend and comedic lighthouse would have something to say. As it turns out though, we are living amongst some crazy flames, so it’s only fair that we share in Colin Quinn’s poetically-crafted frustration with the current state of affairs, and everything in between.”
COLIN QUINN :: Sunday, March 3 at The Wilbur, 246 Tremont St. in Boston, MA :: 6 p.m., $29 to $39 :: Event info and tickets
Film/TV: ‘Dune Part Two’ at Mugar Omni Theater
The long-awaited Dune: Part Two is out this weekend, and it seems like Denis Villeneuve sci-fi epic is a thrilling watch no matter where it screens. But the Museum of Science’s Mugar Omni Theater has captured our attention as an inspired setting, bringing the massive film to the IMAX dome with showings this weekend (March 1 an 2) and beyond. Read Vanyaland Film Editor Nick Johnston’s lengthy and glowing review of the new chapter, and inhale the spicy synopsis as we daydream of Arrakis: “This follow‐up film explores the mythic journey of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) as he unites with Chani (Zendaya) and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.”
‘DUNE: PART TWO’ :: Mugar Omni Theater at Museum of Science, 1 Science Park in Boston, MA :: Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2, plus March 8, 9, 15, and 16 :: 7 p.m., $15 :: Event info