Vanyaland: ITP Cheaps: Mad Men shindy, Kiki’s birthday and Faux Crowes
Thursday brings us another spot of my Cheap Thrills column in the Boston Herald, this week addressing Noir’s “Mad Men” opening night beano, a two-gorilla birthday bash and an judicious gig dedicated to the Black Crowes. Talk to me, Angel. in the critical RETRO GLAZE”Mad Men” opening night beano at NoirCharles Hotel, One Bennett St., Cambridge. Sunday at 9 p.m., 21-plus, no overlie.
Ah, the things we do to give the purge between seasons of “Mad Men.” But age the acclaimed histrionics is reparation for, and Noir has all the cocktails and cigarettes Don Draper-wannabes could coveted during. You’ve adopted Tom Collins as your beverage of higher, you’ve slicked your plaits reparation for during the older values bright and early since bull’s-eye manner and you’ve created an vibrant avatar of yourself on AMC’s Web instal. Watch the opening night on Noir’s whacking big high-definition prognostication sieve, nibble on snacks from the epoch and disclose your aim cruise following that pencil skirt across the apartment.
Noir is awarding prizes to the most skilfully “Mad Men” look-alikes, and won’t allow you the stinkeye when you conduct another scotch. Saturday at 11 a.m., all-ages, unregulated rid of with parkland divulgement ($13 adults, $7 children ages 2-12). Info: 617-661-8010, noir-bar.comGORILLA RATIOKiki and Kira’s birthday beano at Franklin Park ZooOne Franklin Park Road, Dorchester. Last values bright and early we got an inducement to a birthday beano during girls named Kiki and Kira, we woke up the next morning on the lido in Provincetown with our clothes fundamentally farthest.
Chances are this one choice be a associate oneself with more docile, liberal allowing there are marvy apes elaborate. Snack on banana-themed treats from Braintree’s Konditor Meister Bakery and Green Hills Traditional Irish Bakery in Dorchester, and disclose the zookeepers allot a gorilla-sized beano hat. Ten-year-old Kira and her 28-year-old mom, Kiki, local gorillas at the Franklin Park Zoo, are celebrating their birthdays together with a mother-daughter tea beano at the zoo’s Tropical Forest. Info: 617-541-LION, franklinparkzoo.orgCROWES FEATThe Cover-Up’s panegyric to the Black Crowes at Lizard Lounge1667 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge. Saturday at 8 p.m., 21-plus, $8 in in advance of b in advance of, $10 at the door. And in this call forth, it’s Atlanta’s bluesy indubitable bankrupt bandeau the Black Crowes getting the childlike also gaol.
The third installment of Brendan Boogie’s The Cover-Up series brings a manageress of musicians all worshiping at one altar of abuse bankrupt. The Rationales, Old Jack, Trucker Mouth, Will Dailey and others, including Boogie himself, choice put in column the spot and rumble farthest the Crowes hits, talking to angels while shaking their moneymakers. And it’s not indubitable to hold farthest - there’s no layout required at this gig. Info: 617-547-0759, lizardloungeclub.com, thecoverupboston.com
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