A week of noir. There’s the 1940s allure of wartime art preservation, discussed at New Haven Museum. There’s the 10th anniversary of the Hammettesque indie film Brick. And there’s Garrison Keillor, who created the character Guy Noir for A Prairie Home Companion, at SCSU.
Monday, May 11
Toad’s Wild Tour
The Grow Wild Tour, featuring IM5, Austin Jones, Bailey McConnell, The Weekend Riot, The House on Cliff, and The Bomb Digz, grows wild at Toad’s Place. 8 p.m. 300 York St. (203) 624-TOAD.
Tuesday, May 12
Science!
The public viewing for the annual New Haven Public School Science Fair is today from 1 to 6 p.m. and Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., with the awards ceremony at 6:30 p.m. in Yale’s Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect St.
Monumental Art Talk
New Haven Museum has a small exhibit about one of the original Monuments Men who saved priceless artworks during World War II. Today at 5:30 p.m. the museum introduces you to a present-day Monuments Woman, Corine Wegener. She’s the Cultural Heritage Preservation Officer of the Smithsonian Institution, and she’ll be giving a talk entitled “From Berlin to Baghdad: When Art Historians Go to War.” 114 Whitney Museum, New Haven. (203) 562‑4183.
Wednesday, May 13
Bricked Up
Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the modern teen-noir masterwork Brick. This singular mystery flick stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and is directed by Rian Johnson (who’s lately been tapped to write and direct the eighth Star Wars feature). 7 p.m. 53 Wall St., New Haven.
Thursday, May 14
Whistler at Beauty
The Yale Art Gallery is screening the 2014 documentary James McNeill Whistler and the Case for Beauty 5:30 p.m. Before watching, you should catch the museum’s current exhibit of Whistler sketches.
Friday, May 15
Blood Orange
The pioneering West Coast surf-punk outfit Agent Orange assails Cafe Nine (250 State St., 203 – 789-8281) at 9 p.m., with In the Whale and Drug Shock. $15, $13 in advance.
Saturday, May 16
Fisher Keys
The winners of the Renee B. Fisher Competition for Young Pianists perform 7:30 p.m. today at Neighborhood Music School, 100 College St., New Haven. (203) 624‑5189.
Judas Maccabaeus at St. Mary’s
New Haven Chorale sings Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus, 7 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church, 5 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven. $20, $15 seniors, children free. (203) 776-SONG.
’Til Matilda
The first national tour of the musical Matilda, with music and lyrics by the great British comedian/composer Tim Minchin (based on the classic children’s book by Roald Dahl), has been getting built and rehearsed at the Shubert. The theater gets to offer a week of “technical rehearsals and performances” May 16 – 23 prior to tour’s official launch later this month in Los Angeles. Performances are tonight at 8 p.m., tomorrow at 2 p.m., May 19 – 21 at 7:30 p.m., Friday the 22nd at 8 p.m. and Saturday the 23rd at both 2 & 8 p.m. 247 College St. (203) 562‑5666.
Brave and Blank
West Coast neo-psychedelician stand-outs Mystic Braves and The Blank Tapes trip through Cafe Nine tonight, with local openers Elison Jackson. 9 p.m. $10. 250 State St. (203) 789‑8281.
Sunday, May 17
Garrulous
Garrison Keillor has toured through Connecticut so many times, you wonder how much he actually spends in Lake Wobegon. The learned host of NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer’s Almanac tells stories and jokes 7:30 p.m. May 17 at Lyman Center for the Performing Arts, on the SCSU campus, 501 Crescent St. (203) 392‑6154.
