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Decide to kick back on Friday night to avoid the crowds of couples infiltrating the Square? Simply slip back to the era of leg warmers, Belinda Carlisle, and He-Man and bask in the nostalgia of 80s night on Mix 98.5 FM. From 7 p.m. to midnight, get into the groove with a little Thriller and sounds of the evercool Bangles...
...easy to get bored with the standards of the New England music scene, but Johnny D's Uptown in Davis Square is giving Boston a chance to broaden its horizons. Tonight the club is hosting the New Orleans Klezmer All Stars, who bring a wild mix of klezmer, funk, rock and second line sounds with them. 8 p.m. Johnny D's Uptown. 17 Holland St., Davis Square, Somerville. 776-2004. $8 cover...
...Vegas custom of emphasizing how much any new hotel costs--a custom I think of as conspicuous capitalization. If a hotel boasts about costing $1.6 billion, it's no wonder that my wife--who, like many people of royal birth brought up in middle-class American families through mix-ups at the hospital, prefers down pillows--might be inclined to bounce her fist off a hard rubber pillow and comment, "The money must be somewhere else...
...avoid the "celebrity poet" spotlight. (In fact, he was in the Greek islands when the Nobel Prize announcement was made.) This came across in Heaney's three lectures and three "talking shop" sessions (informal talk-cum-question-and-answer sessions), in which the always-congenial poet delivered a friendly mix of jokes, poems, literary commentary and anecdotes about his travels, and even political outrage in his lush and intoxicating Irish brogue...
...braced myself for the first single "Daysleeper," thinking it would be some sort of techno-rock mix with Michael Stipe's cross-gendered tendencies accentuated. But to my surprise, a very melodic track with an intricate acoustic feel rose from the ashes of R.E.M.'s past two albums, and captured me as "Everybody Hurts" had all the way back in 1992. This is a good song--a really good song. Even more surprising is that Up is a really, maybe even really, really good album...