Though Minneapolis’ Love In October, who play a 10 p.m. show tonight at Points East Pub, prefer to shroud their album covers and Web site in the vintage aesthetics of the early 20th century, their take on bittersweet, Saturday afternoon alt-rock is distinctly modern. In January, the relative newcomers . . .

To raise money for their national tour behind their latest production, Paint the Town, the Bay View troupe Insurgent Theatre is throwing an 8 p.m. fundraiser tonight at Art Bar, with the support of nearly two dozen bars and restaurants from around the city. They’ll be raffling off donated liquor and goodies . . .

Jazz purists who blast the weekly Jazz in the Park concert series in Cathedral Square Park for not booking enough traditional jazz music will find plenty of fodder to complain about tonight, when the jazz series welcomes… a blues band. The area smooth, electric blues combo The Back Alley Band take the stage . . .

A relatively new addition to the Water Street drinking and dining district, the Fat Abbey Biercafe at 134 E. Juneau Ave. has also announced itself as one of the city’s newest concert venues, launching a Wednesday night concert series on its patio stage this month. Tonight at 9 p.m. the venue welcomes Northern . . .

As vintage posters become a more sought-after collector’s item, more and more galleries have dedicated exhibits to these elaborate, colorful historical artifacts. To set its vintage poster show apart from other recent ones, the Milwaukee Street Gallery has focused its display on posters from . . .

Don’t confuse the Minneapolis all-girl pop-punk outfit Sick of Sarah with The Donnas. Sick of Sarah rarely confines themselves solely to punk conventions, instead opting for periodic slowdowns where lead singer Abisha Uhl’s Yeah Yeah Yeahs-esque jaded flatness really shines past the sugary dead-ends of similarly . . .

Tonight at 7:30 p.m. Boulevard Theatre continues its production of The Misanthrope, 17th-century French playwright Moliere’s most enduring work and an early predecessor to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” if there ever was one. The plot follows Alceste, a grump with no regard for the social conventions of France’s . . .

It was only a matter of time until Oprah attempted Broadway, and so in 2005 she produced an adaptation of Alice Walker’s violent, controversial novel, The Color Purple (or, perhaps more accurately, an adaptation of the 1985 film adaptation of the book, which starred Oprah herself). The musical is considerably lighter . . .

Tonight at 7:30 p.m. Boulevard Theatre opens its production of The Misanthrope, 17th-century French playwright Moliere's most enduring work and an early predecessor to "Curb Your Enthusiasm" if there ever was one.

Chief is not, as the band boasts on its Myspace page, "the greatest rock band in the world," but the claim is very much in keeping with the band's '70s and '80s cock-rock aesthetic.