The real story behind any Les Savy Fav show is what sort of crazy stunts frontman Tim Harrington has up his sleeve. Their catalog of thirteen years of post-punk gems lays the foundation, but it’s the bizarre costume changes, frequent audience interactions and off-kilter banter that has become the stuff of legend. Furthermore, since Harrington is completely unscripted and pulls out new and different tricks every night (Dodos drummer Logan Kroeber confirmed this), Les Savy…

FRIDAY: >> Post-punk concept albums make us all weak in the knees, so you can bet we’ll be out for The Thermals at the Black Cat tonight. With The Big Sleep and Statehood. $12, 9 p.m. >> It’s the last weekend to check out Forum Theater and Dance’s production Kid-Simple, a “live-action radio play” about a young prodigy who invents a machine that hears things humans never could discern, and when it is stolen, takes…

A vigilant reader pointed out to us that the website of the ever-popular Screen on the Green film series has been updated. The series, organized by AOL and HBO, is in its seventh year, and is seen here in a photo from this blog. This year’s films are “The Way We Were” (July 18), “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (July 25), “Suspicion” (Aug. 1), “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” (Aug. 8) and “The Big…