Movies -- Bostonist loves Sergio Leone, whose Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) has recently been restruck. It's a spaghetti western featuring Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda, and Claudia Cardinale, and the restored print begins its run today. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. Tickets and showtimes. -- Bill Domonkos makes films that are difficult to describe. He's best known for his films that juxtapose found footage of space-age news reports with Victorian era......

Movies -- The Brattle's Pedro Almodóvar retrospective ends today with a pair of the director's early comedies. Law of Desire (1987) and Matador (1986) share a casual brutality in their treatment of sex. They are also brutally funny. Law of Desire, about a homosexual love triangle, remains one of Almodóvar's most rewarding pictures; he calls it "the key film in my life and career." Matador, which takes the piss out of Spain's national sport, is......

Digital Bookmobile -- It's not clear why a digital service needs to have a "Bookmobile," but OverDrive, an audiobook checkout service, is taking a Digital Bookmobile tour across the country. They'll be at the BPL today demonstrating how you can use your library card to download books online. Pretty cool. BPL members can try out the process here. Boston Public Library, 700 Boylston, all day long. (KS) Dancing Queer Hipsters -- DJs Dafna, Patrick, and......

Free Bowling -- If you can make it through an entire evening of indie pop, Milky Way presents a free candlepin bowling tournament, sponsored by Coors. Music provided by DJ Andrew, of the band Pants Yell!. Milky Way Lounge, 403 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, 9 p.m. Free. Dancing Hipsters -- Work Night is a dance party for those who want to make Wednesday's hump all the more daunting by giving themselves a beats hangover. Featuring......

Dancing Hipsters -- The Beat Research series continues with Teep, a DJ from the North Shore, who plays challenging dance music. He has been holding down WMBR's House Therapy show for the summer; his set tonight is a wrap-up. Enormous Room, 567 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 9 p.m. Free. Swaying Hipsters -- Boston band Plumerai has all the atmosphere and dread of an early 4AD band; the hydrogen-light female vocals make them more Cocteau Twins than......

Whiffle Ball -- It's Menino-approved. A Saturday Whiffle ball tournament sponsored by the city and hosted by Social Sports Boston. The superstitious be warned: All running will be done by ghost men. City Hall Plaza, 9:30 a.m. Free. Festivals -- Caribbean Carnival weekend begins today at Franklin Park and continues tomorrow at Kendall Square. Expect to hear soca, reggae, hip hop and reggaetón, to see a hundred different flags and to taste the finest......

Dead Boys -- Cheetah Chrome, a 53-year-old veteran of punk rock, still calls himself a Sonic Reducer ("ain't no loser"). Chrome got his start in the legendary Cleveland garage band Rocket from the Tombs, which spawned both Pere Ubu and Chrome's band, the Dead Boys. He's playing alongside punk rockers young and old to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dorchester's Unnatural Axe. Church, 69 Kilmarnock Street, 7 p.m. $15. La Perfecta -- Legendary jazz pianist......

Iron Chefs -- Louis DiBiccari doesn't go by "Iron Chef Louie" anymore, but, after a year-and a-half-long hiatus, his dinner party is back. Chef Louie Night lets diners choose the ingredients (by internet poll) and challenges DiBiccari and accomplices to purchase ingredients, develop a menu, and prepare a buffet dinner in a single work day. Joshua Tree, 1316 Comm. Ave., Brighton, 7 p.m. $20, online reservation required. Transportation Reform and Beer -- LiveableStreets makes its......

Movies -- Douglas Sirk was the master of suburban melodrama, and his 1955 film All That Heaven Allows remains a textbook example of the genre. Jane Wyman plays a country club cougar with her eye on Rock Hudson, her young gardener. What heaven allows naturally comes into conflict with mid-century sexual deed restrictions. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. Showtimes and tickets. Ukuleles, Etc. -- Bostonist faves Ukulele Noir use small instruments to make a......

Places to Avoid -- Bloggers will clog JP's Centre Street tonight as Bella Luna hosts "Blogger's Lounge," an evening of self-reflexive discursion in which everybody will have a laptop. God, we hope not. In all likelihood, meet a lot of outgoing, oversharing Bostonians with an undying passion for the internet. Multiple Bostonists to be on hand. Bella Luna, 405 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, 6:30 p.m. Free with reservation. Email bostonblogevents@gmail.com. Music -- Jana Hunter lives......

Dudes -- The Coolidge hosts its annual The Big Lebowski (1998) bowling party. Prizes for best Dudes, Jesuses, and nihilists. Bowling is supposedly part of of the package, but the Coolidge's notoriously cryptic website does not clarify. Have they built in alley in the cinema? We're guessing that it's bowling of the Wii variety, but don't hold us to it. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, 7 p.m. $9/$6. Dancing Hipsters -- San Francisco......

Film Festivals -- The Bicycle Film Festival continues today with five screenings. Institute for Contemporary Art, South Boston. Tickets and showtimes. Movies -- The Brattle continues its Singalong Weekend with screenings of the Muppet Movie and Moulin Rouge. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge. Tickets and showtimes. Enjoy the Silence -- John Cage, the American composer famous for his use of silence and chance, composed a series of Variations, each of which relied on performers......

Books, Books, So Many Books! -- Got Books?, an organization that collects books for charities including Walter Reed Army Hospital and Books for Teachers, is opening a Used Book Superstore in Burlington today. The store will feature more than 100,000 books priced at 90% off the original cost. 256 Cambridge Street, Burlington. (KS) Art Damage -- The impossibly pretentious New Factographers, "a evolving (sic) network of Boston-based sonic bricoleurs, moving image interventionists, experimental documentarians, urban......

Film Festivals -- The Bicycle Film Festival kicks off its Boston run with an opening night party. Featuring BoldSprints, a group that races bikes inside of bars, beer, food, and a live DJ. Video Underground, 383 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, 7 p.m. Free. Previews -- Music blog Bradley's Almanac previews the new Stereolab album, Chemical Cords. Expect rad prizes including Stereolab tickets and merch. River Gods, 125 River St, Cambridge, 9pm. (KS) Unpleasant Experiences......

Re-Ups -- Ask any hip-hop head to name the best rap duo out today and there is very good chance the answer will be The Clipse. The Virginia crack rappers, and producer Pharrell's childhood friends, made their name on the mixtape circuit while their album lingered in major label limbo. Their slack, menacing delivery matches Pharrell's science fiction beats, with chilling results. Harper's Ferry, 158 Brighton Ave., Allston, 8 p.m. $25. Movies -- Without Halloween......

Weird Music -- Somerville record store Weirdo Records presents a showcase of the sorts of music it sells in its shop. Chicago one-woman band U.S. Girls makes bedroom tape recorder music that warbles and pounds in and out of harmony. The results are twisted and enchanting. Bostonist fave Baba Yaga is a two woman freaky folk act. Coughing Club and Milo Jones also perform. P.A.'s Lounge, 345 Somerville Ave., Somerville, 8:30 p.m. $7/$10. Music......

Quixotic Candidacies -- El Vez, a Mexican Elvis impersonator, has embarked on a baffling presidential candidacy. What that means for his concert-goers is anyone's guess. Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 8 p.m. $15. Never Go Against a Sicilian When Death is on the Line -- Bostonist can practically recite from memory the entire script of Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride (1987), but we never thought that that would come in handy. It......

Movies -- Who knew your Boston "staycation" could include a trip to Normandy? HFA presents a pair of films set in the French region that give the impression that, in northern France, the more things change the more they stay the same. I, Pierre Rivière... (1976) is the retelling of the story of Pierre Rivière, a man whose vicious triple murder was made famous in intellectual circles by Michel Foucault. Nicolas Philibert's Back to Normandy......

Movies -- La Strada (1954), Federico Fellini's neo-realist masterpiece about a violent strongman and his child protégée/slave marked a transitional period in Italian filmmaking that opened the possibility for much weirder, and more personal, movies. Screening as a part of the free Elements of Cinema series. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St., Cambridge, 11 a.m. Free. -- Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai are the hot directors out of Hong Kong these days. Their most recent picture,......

TARDISes -- Hooked on Who is a showcase of classic—and brand new— episodes of the British science fiction series Doctor Who. You don't have to know the difference between a police box and a phone booth to enjoy the episodes, but a level patience with primitive BBC filmmaking standards can't hurt. Tonight features one of the best known story arcs: "Genesis of the Daleks," starring Tom Baker (the one with the scarf). Brattle Theatre, 40......

Movies -- The Brattle screens Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother, wherein organ transplants and a transsexual prostitute collide with a nun--played by Penelope Cruz. Not to be missed. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge; 3, 5, and 7 pm. (KS) Movie Trivia -- If you are the type of person who spends nights sorting Billy Wilder's comedies from his dramas—by year—or if you have the AFI top 100 films list memorized, you might have......

Comedy -- Rude Boyz Productions Present the Sweetwater Experience, an evening of comedy hosted by Lamont Price and featuring Bigg Nez, Dan Crohn, Brian Moote, Bethany Van Delft, MC Mr. Napkins. Corey Manning headlines. Sweet Water Cafe, 3 Boylston Pl., 8:30pm. $7. (JC) Revenge of the Pink Hats -- Tired of decades of condescension from men, the female fans of Fenway have decided that they can talk about Jason Bay's VORP amongst themselves. It's GirlSoxNation,......

Drinking, Verse -- A Hendrick's-sponsored bartender battle goes down at Central Square's Green Street tonight. Twenty bucks gets you four gin-based drinks and the opportunity to witness the birth of some new cocktails. Recipes for the latter will be presented as limericks by the five finalists. 280 Green St., Cambridge, 7 pm. $20. (CF) Metal -- If you see blood raining over Mansfield this afternoon, do not panic. A metal showcase featuring Slipknot, Bostonist favorites......

Presidential Hopefuls -- Rumor has it that presidential candidate Barack Obama will make an appearance in Boston today, his birthday. The event is expected to raise four million dollars, which would be a record for Massachusetts. 800 people are expected to attend, and Bostonist wasn't invited. If you were, or if you happen to see the senator strolling around Government Center, snap us a picture, will you? [WBUR] Speakers -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi discusses......

Those are the Breaks -- From the crew that brought you Friday's United Styles IV, it's another opportunity to see break dancing at its best, a sight that will become increasingly rare in Boston with the crackdown on Faneuil Hall buskers. The Floorlords celebrate their 27th anniversary with a b-boy throwdown for cash prizes. Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center, 85 W. Newton St., 5:00pm. $10. Taking a Beachhead -- The Guerrilla Queer Bar crew heads......

Strictly Business -- Mayor Menino says, "Old school Hip Hop contains a strong positive message and it is our objective to deliver this message to our community," and so Long Islanders EPMD headline the mayor's Peace 2008 Hip Hop festival. It would be quibbling to point out that the duo, which got its start in 1986, is hardly "old school," and Bostonist is skeptical that any art, let alone hip hop, can lead to peace.......

Dire Literary Series -- Xujun Eberlein , William Walsh and Gloria Mindock read at Out of the Blue Gallery near Central Square. Expect the unexpected at this alternative reading series. 106 Prospect Street, Cambridge. 8pm, free. (KS) Boob Scotch -- One man blues racket Bob Log III alternately wants you to put your boob in his scotch and your shit on his leg. The former member of Doo Rag performs in a custom-built motorcycle......

Movies -- The Brattle screens more products of the Boston Film Race, which asked teams to create a short film in 24 hours. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Harvard Square, 9:30pm. (KS) - -Once regarded as the Great American Movie (Bostonist likes the chances of John Carpenter's They Live! for that title these days), Citizen Kane is a mannered tale of power, legacy, and truth. You don't actually have to care about those things,......

Movies -- The Brattle screens the products of the Boston Film Race, which asked filmmaking teams to create a short film in 24 hours. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle Street, Harvard Square, 9pm. (KS) Music -- We Are Scientists bring beakers of cheeky indie rock to brighten your day. With Oxford Collapse and Apache Beat. Middle East Downstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, $15. (KS) -- Sera Cahoone, former Band of Horses drummer, showcases her singing,......

Books -- Andre Dubus III reads from his new book, The Garden of Last Days, at Porter Square. Review Bostonist's interview with Andre Dubus III to get ready. Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge. 7pm, free. (KS) Booze -- Two local institutions already beloved by Bostonist, wine magazine The Second Glass and wine purveyors Bin Ends join forces to school young wine connoisseurs. It's the second installment of the Ivy League Wine College,......