popplers

Weekend quickies

• Huge flocks of birds roosting in your town? Call this 83-year-old "crow whisperer" (but only if you live in Decatur or Bloomington).
• Alert reader Poz calls our attention to Boston-based tiki band Waitiki. Next local show: Friday, March 24th (venue TBA).
• For one more weekend only: Acme Theater's New Works Winter Festival. 18 short works by 18 different playwrights (including 4 of Acme's own!), performed over 2 days. After next week's performances, the audience choice favorite award, The Charlie, will be presented. We enjoyed Friday night's "Track A" so much that we went back on Saturday night for "Track B". I particularly liked Mark Harvey Levine's Surprise, a well-written and funny entry about a psychic who can only see 2 minutes into the future.
• Word origins: dog's breakfast and gaslight. For whatever reason, these two have both come up in (separate) conversations recently, and each time there was someone who had absolutely no idea what I was talking about.