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Bars and Clubs

Avalon. 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. 262-2424. They Might Be Giants on Thursday, April 27. Mike Watt on Sunday, April 30.

House of Blues. Harvard Square. 491 BLUE. Bobby Rush on Friday, April 28. Earl King on Wednesday, May 3.

ManRay. 21 Brookline St., Central Square, Cambridge. 864-0400. The 4th Annual B&D Ball Fetish Fashion Show on Friday, April 28.

The Middle East. 472 Mass Ave., Cambridge. 497-0576. Downstairs: Heretix on Friday, April 28. Royal Trux on Tuesday, May 2. Upstairs: The Lune on Thursday, April 27.

Paradise. 967 Comm Ave., Boston. 254-2052. The Bogmen Fossil on Thursday, April 28. Kustomized Churn on Saturday, April 29. Chucklehead on Thursday, May 4.

Regatta Bar. The Charles Hotel, One Bennett Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge. 876-7777. John Patitucci Quintet on Thursday, April 27 and Friday, April 28. The James Cotton Blues Band on Saturday, April 29. The John Payne Quartet and Sax Choir on Tuesday, May 2. Myanna on Wednesday, May 3.

Venus de Milo. 11 Lansdowne St., Boston. 421-9595. American Spirit, Classic rock on Thursdays.

Concert

Boston Symphony Orchestra. Symphony Hall, 301 Mass Ave., Boston. 266-1492. youth Concerts on Wednesday, May 3 at 10 a.m. and 11:50 a.m.

Boston Conservatory. 536-6340 or 536-3063. The Boston Conservatory Theater is located at 31 Hemenway Street, Boston. Seully Hall is located at 8 The Fenway, Boston. The First and Second Church is located at 66 Marlborough St., Boston. CORE Ensemble on Thursday, April 27 at Seully Hall at 8 p.m. $5. Opera Scenes on Friday, April 28 and Saturday, April 29 at Seully Hall at 8 p.m. Free. Minneapolis Guitar Quarter on Sunday, April 30 at Seully Hall at 8:30 p.m. $12. Boston Conservatory Festival Chorus and Orchestra on Monday, May 1 at 8 p.m. at St. Cecilia's Church. Free. Student Chamber Concert on Tuesday, May 2 and Wednesday, May 3 at 7 p.m. at Seully Hall. Free.

Longy School of Music. Edward M. Pickman Concert Hall, 27 Garden St., Cambridge. 876-0956, ext. 120. Faculty member Sally Pinkas and Evan Hirsch, duo pianists, present Visions de L'Amen by Messiaen on Monday, May 1 at 8 p.m. Longy Chamber Orchestra perform at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, May 2. Longy faculty member Jocelyn Lopatin, piano, presents a concert of Works by Bach, Beethoven and Liszt on Thursday, May 4 at 8 p.m. All concerts are free.

Dance

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Through April 30. Their movement carries you along from one emotion to the next, using modern jazz, tap, ballet, Afro-Caribbean and much more. Call 482-2595 for more information. Wang Center.

Exhibitions

The Children's Museum. 300 Congress Street, 426-8855. Current exhibits include: the Climbing Sculpture, a two-story suspended puzzle piece climbing maze; Climbing the Wall, a rock climbing exhibit; El Mercado De Barrio, a replica of a Latino neighborhood market in Boston; Teen Tokyo, an exhibition on fashion, food, sports, music, art, and school and family life for kids in Japan: Jump Up! Boston's Caribbean Carnival; and Powwow, an exhibition of photographs of Arapahoe and Shoshone powwows.

Hart Nautical Gallery. 55 Mass Ave., M.I.T., Cambridge. 253-5942. Ongoing. "Course 13, 1893-1993: From Naval Architecture to Ocean Engineering." "Permanent Exhibition of Ship Models."

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 280 The Fenway, Boston. 566-1401. Through June 4. "Dennis Miller Bunker and His Circle" features more than 30 works of Bunker and some of the most celebrated names in American painting in the late 19th century.

M.I.T. Museum. 265 Mass Ave., Cambridge. 253-4444. Through June 18. "From Louis Sullivan to SOM: Boston Grads Go to Chicago." Through drawings and artifacts, this exhibition explores the explosive growth of Chicago in the last quarter of the 19th century and the contributions to this building boom by MIT and Boston architects.

Ongoing. "Holography: Artists and Inventors." MIT Hall of Hacks." "Light Sculptures by Bill Parker." "Math in 3D: Geometric Sculptures by Morton G. Bradley, Jr." "MathSpace."

Museum of Fine Arts. 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. 267-9300.

Through May. "Monet Installation." The Museum's entire collection of paintings by Claude Monet will be installed in the impressionist galleries for the first time in nearly 20 years. No institution outside of France hold a larger collection of paintings by Monet than the MFA. The installation will be complimented by a selection of works by other impressionists such as Renoir, Degas, Manet and Gauguin.

Through May 7. "Emil Nolde: The Painter's Prints." Nolde, Known for his vibrantly colored oil paintings and water-color, will be the focus of the first major U.S. exhibition of one of the greatest modern German artists.

Through June 4. "Dennis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist." Featuring 50 of the artist's finest works, this exhibition accompanied by an extensive catalogue.