Once a month, Clandestino's parties offer "the very best in alternative Latin-American rock and pop music".

On Friday, November 7th, the program includes rhythms from Spain and Argentina: "indie gitano", "rock gaucho", "rumbitas rockanroleras", and "cumbias villeras"...

Where: at Tommy Doyle's (96 Winthrop St., Harvard Square, Cambridge) at 9PM.

For more details and info about tickets visit www.clandestino.us or email christian@clandestino.us.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
1:00 - 4:00 PM
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center
41 second st Cambridge
$12.00 - $14.00 admission
CHILDREN 5 AND UNDER ARE FREE!

Celebrate this famous traditional Mexican holiday with Oaxacan dances by Xuchipilli Danza y Cultura, music from Guadalajara by Mariachi Mexamerica, traditional altars, and a children's sugar skull decorating workshop courtesy of NOMAD.

The Dancing Chickens of Ventura Fabian are back! See these wooden figures carved and painted in a demonstration of this incredible Oaxacan Folk Art tradition. They will also be available for purchase.

Performances throughout the day.

Enjoy traditional Mexican food from Tacos el Charro and Pan de Muerto!

Shop at the Crafts Mercado -- the Holidays are coming!

Buy tickets at http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/EventListings.action?orgId=17176. read more...

On October 23, 2008 the Cuban humorist and storyteller Mario Barros aka Lenguaviva (Living Language) presented his latest book KleanKuts, Inc., Los misterios de Cayo Lungo at Schoenhof's Foreign Language Books in Harvard Square.

Join Obama-Biden supporters at The Middle East Club (Downstairs) http://www.mideastclub.com/ in Cambridge featuring live performances by Stan Strickland (Boston jazz artist, singer, saxophonist, flutist and actor), Peter Cassino(jazz pianist) and veteran pop artist Gioia(including "Create It Togther"). This is a family-friendly and inclusive community grassroots fundraising event for the Obama-Biden presidential team! The Obama-Biden Democratic Presidential campaign is unlike any that has come before it. Since the beginning, Barack Obama has been committed to changing the politics of Washington, and that's how the campaign has been run. Changing Washington means we have to change how politicans get there in the first place. When faced with impossible odds, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can. This campaign is about building a different kind of politics. read more...

October 16-18* and 24-25, 2008
Doors 7:30 PM | Curtain 8:00 PM
Cambridge Family YMCA Theater
820 Mass Ave., Cambridge
Tickets
General admission: $15/adv., $20/door
VIP seating: $20/adv., $25/door (if available)
Student rush: $10 (15 min. before curtain, w/student ID)
Limited dinner/dessert tasting menu available

Buy advance tickets and tasting packages online at www.bigmoves.org

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the pursuit of pleasure will be a crime... } read more...

Revels and the Charles River Conservancy teamed up again to present RiverSing on September 21, 2008 to celebrate the first day of fall. The free giant community sing happened along the banks of the Charles by the Weeks Footbridge linking Allston and Cambridge.

In this short featurette you will see samples of performances by Bill Staines, David Coffin, Stan Strickland, Ken Field, Emperor Norton’s Stationary Marching Band, the Mystic Drummers, the River Folk Band and members of the Mystic Chorale, Revels Repertory Company, Sharing a New Song, the Halalisa Singers, and the Greater Boston Intergenerational Chorus.

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Documentary films from around the world will be screened this weekend at the Harvard University Kennedy School Of Government and The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge.

http://www.bostonfilms.org/schedule.html