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: SomerPride at ONCE Boynton Yards
ONCE Somerville’s outdoor festival and concert series was a highlight last summer in a season that didn’t have many, and this weekend things return to Boynton Yards for the first of eight shows through September. And it’s a good one: SomerPride celebrates Pride Month and all its various shades of love with an all-inclusive stacked-deck spectacular headlined by Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys. There’s also food offerings, art vendors, and a full outdoor program of entertainment that features DJ WhySham with Brandie Blaze and Cakeswagg, Muzzins, Evan Greer, Crow Follow, Phantom Ocean, Sweet Petunia, and others. It gets started at noon and rolls rainbows all day long.
SOMERPRIDE :: Saturday, June 11 at ONCE at Boynton Yards, 0 Windsor Place in Somerville, MA :: Noon to 10 p.m., all ages, $15 in advance and $20 day of show :: Advance tickets :: Venue event page
Comedy: Craig Robinson at Laugh Boston
The summer season may be fast approaching and things have slowed down a smidge on the live comedy circuit, but that’s not stopping some stand-up muscle from rolling into the region. Craig Robinson kicked off three nights at Laugh Boston on Thursday (June 9), and continues to hold court this weekend. Here’s what Vanyaland Comedy Editor Jason Greenough has to say in this week’s Mic’d Up: “Very few things are comedically magical as Craig Robinson at a keyboard. It’s been a few year since his late show in the area, but now The Office standout brings the soft touch of his fluffy fingers to tickle the ivories for an intimate crowd over the span of six shows.” There are four left, as of press time, so get on that before four becomes two and two becomes none.
CRAIG ROBINSON :: Friday, June 10 and Saturday, June 11 at Laugh Boston, 425 Summer St. in Boston, MA :: 7:30 and 9:45 p.m., both nights, $45 to $75 :: Advance tickets
Film/TV: Noir City at The Brattle
There are two types of June folx: Those who spend the entire weekend outside, and those who prefer to head back indoors and watch lost films. For the latter, The Brattle has it covered as it welcomes Noir City back to Cambridge, with the Bay Area institution and non-profit Film Noir Foundation (read more about it in our 2019 profile) posting up Friday to Monday to screen six films curated by Brattle creative director Ned Hinkle: Two restorations in Too Late for Tears (1949) and Woman on the Run (1950), and four films “fostered and screened by the Film Noir Foundation from new studio prints” in Naked Alibi (1954), Alias Nick Beal (1949), Night Has 1,000 Eyes (1948), and a Leonardo DiCaprio-free The Great Gatsby (1949). “Filled with the usual tough guys and deadly dames, these films don’t disappoint,” the theater writes. “All of them are rarities, and some have never been screened at The Brattle!” We’re in(side).
NOIR CITY: BOSTON :: Friday, June 10 to Monday, June 13 at The Brattle, 40 Brattle St. in Cambridge, MA :: Showtimes vary :: Tickets and listing info
