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Triple-XXX. (Almost.) Not for the innocent or easily offended, Impotent Sea Snakes perform a sort of pornographic glam rock. And, in fact, the band does its performance over its music. No need to believe everything you read, though--check it out for yourself. NC-17, Axis, 73 Lansdowne...
Versace, Ray-Bans, Michael Milken, Duran Duran, Odeon, Christie Brinkley. Partying all night through downtown Manhattan's glam disco scene. Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll--and a guy who discovers that he really loved his mother too. If you can get past the notion that Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney's 1984 novel about a Manhattan yuppie on a downward spiral, is a time capsule whose time has passed, it's actually not a bad idea for a musical...
Catch everyone's favorite a cappella group, the Veritones, at their annual Glam Jam, with special guests, the Brothers of Kuumba. Sanders Theatre, 496-2222. 8 p.m. $6 students/seniors, $8 general admission...
...best move in Goldmine, albeit the quietest, is ensuring that rock-star Brian Slade, the film's lead character, never looks all that different offstage than he does when he's performing. His lover and rival Curt Wild opts for black behind the scenes, but Slade believes in glam-rock's life-as-spectacle ethos more passionately than anyone else, and this is reflected in his daywear--all fuchsia and wild prints...
Still, though the crowd treated the night like a wild masquerade ball, flaunting everything from glam, flamboyant goth-wear to afro-wigged funk getups to the occasional microchip clean room bodysuit, the band seemed bewildered, even a little subdued. Though winsome Emm Gryer, who opened the concert with a derivative, folky set, seemed entirely in her element with the crowd, the Cardigans were adorably incongruous in their neat, Eurotrash sweaters and sleek leather pants. In fact, as singer Nina Persson revealed during the performance, their native Sweden observes Halloween not as a night of costumed revelry, but as a solemn...