Double Whammy

FILM
Double Feature Picture Show

Back when double features were standard fare, one good film would get paired up with a more questionable one. Granted, sometimes the second billing wasn’t so bad. I saw movies like The Brood and Barracuda like this — great B movies I never would have otherwise known. But tonight the Edina Cinema brings us a double whammy of a double feature: Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, and Tony Curtis in Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959), and Peter Sellers and David Niven in Blake Edwards’ The Pink Panther (1963). I must say, these are probably two of the best comedies of their time (if not of all time). Some Like It Hot has Tony Curtis and Billy Wilder dressing as women to join a girls’ band in order to escape the mob. And The Pink Panther, well, what can I say? Peter Sellers is probably the best physical comedian of all time. And who doesn’t love a good heist movie?

7:30 p.m., Edina Cinema, 3911 W. 50th
St., Edina; 651-649-4416.

THEATER & PERFORMANCE
Waiting for the Hearse

Mixed Blood Theatre brings you their tenth bilingual production, a Theater All Year production at Stepping Stone Theater. Esperando la Carroza, directed by Jerry Ruiz, is a class system family satire that finds everything about the human condition laughable. A needy octogenarian with three adoring, married sons becomes increasingly burdensome to her three daughter-in-laws — one poor, one middle-class, and one affluent. English supertitles will translate the Spanish dialog for all to understand.

7:30 p.m., SteppingStone Theatre, 55 N Victoria St., Saint Paul; 651-225-9265;

MUSIC
Two Options

You have two great musical options this evening. For some baritone wonder, see Welch Bass-Baritone Bryn Terfel at the Landmark Center (8 p.m.). And if you’re feeling a little down on yourself, or a little down on your luck, find a little comfort in the company of Newton Faulkner at the Varsity (9 p.m.). "I need something to believe in / cause I don’t believe in myself / and
I’m sick and tired of getting nowhere / guess it’ll all work out." With a last name like Faulkner, you might expect a touch of the gothic, but the British-born singer-songwriter is actually best known for his unique guitar playing habits: interesting finger picking techniques, and percussive use of the guitar’s whole body.