If you strongly prefer witty repartee and tilted fedoras to this summer’s explosions-and-gore film offerings, you might want to check out the Boston Public Library. The epic, inimitable pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy is the focus of the BPL’s Summer Film Series.

Relationships were key in last Wednesday’s locavore event, “Farm to Fork: A Panel Discussion About How We Get The Food We Eat.” Thoughtfully organized and moderated by FRESH’s Drew Love, the panel featured the farmer (John Lee of Allandale Farms), the chef (JJ Gonson, chef/owner of Cuisine en Locale), the grocer (Jeff Morin, owner of CityFeed and Supply) and the network (Willow Blish, co-leader of the Boston chapter of Slow Food).

Detroit, Michigan: bustling hub of transportation innovation in the twenty-first century? Not so fast with the disbelief–Motown just might surprise you.

Many locals complain that there are not enough unique, out-of-the-box events that take place in and around the city of Boston. Whether this complaint is actually warranted or not– there are people trying to make interesting things happen. One of these people is Nu Goteh, the co-founder of JUS CUZ.
“JUS CUZ was created out of [...]

Mix: a Soviet documentary filmmaker, his 1929 silent film magnum opus, the nascent beginnings of the reality television age, and a harmoniously explosive Boston-based junk band. The result? No clear views on what to call it – but it’s got a good beat, and you can dance to it.

The Boston Underground Film Festival is showing movies full of stuff you didn’t know you wanted to see through April 1st.

Music: there’s lots of it this weekend. Whether you want to listen to it in clubs stuffy or spacious, from sources live or digital, in a house or with a mouse, you are in luck.

Sometimes it feels great to go to a theater– just to get out of the cold, relax, and participate in some good, clean fun. You hand over your crisp, hard-earned ten dollar bill to the kid at the ticket booth, maybe with a date on your arm (so, in that case, a crisp 20), fully expecting to get back a handful of change and a one-way ticket to movie bliss, or at least something halfway decent. Unless the movie is Avatar in 3D, in which case you actually have to pay thirteen dollars– I hope those ray-ban shaped 3D glasses come in handy for something else.

Kids hopped up on Halloween candy, teenage girls preening in one-pieces, swimming tigers seen from the monorail at the zoo, sailboats, puppies, nuns, cocktail parties and snowday igloos – an army of dads and uncles with cameras have turned these real life objects into the wonders of the world of home movies. This Saturday, December 5th is Home Movie Night at the temporary Chinatown Storefront Library, where from 6-8pm organizers will be serving up homemade slices of cinema.

Even if you missed the Italian classic Bicycle Thieves last weekend, it’s not too late to pedal over to the Brattle for cycling-themed cinema. The Bicycle Film Festival Boston will be rolling through Harvard Square on Saturday, November 21st, starting at 5pm.