By June Wulff Globe Staff,March 17, 2014, 12:00 a.m.
PICK OF THE DAY
Literary frontierswomen
Novels, poetry, essays, children’s literature, biographies, histories, and short stories have been penned by women since the 17th century, and since March is Women’s History Month, let’s celebrate them at “Public Women, Private Lives.” The exhibit of published text and personal correspondence is weighted toward established and lesser-known writers who lived in or came from Boston and surrounding parts. Included are Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott, and Julia Ward Howe. Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-5 p.m. through May 30. Free. Boston Public Library Rare Books Lobby, 700 Boylston St., Boston. 617-536-5400. www.bpl.org/exhibitions
MONDAY
The continuing story of . . . “Blackbird” or “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” “Blackbird” or “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” we can’t decide which is our fave from the Beatles’ “The White Album.” Probably “Blackbird.” At “Looking Through a Glass Onion: Deconstructing The Beatles’ White Album,” Scott Freiman will talk about the 1968 double release. 7 p.m. $20. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline. 617–734–2500. www.coolidge.org
From France to the Emerald Isle Since dessert is our favorite course, we’ll tell you about it first: Guinness cake with caramel ice cream and shaved chocolate or juniper baked apple with soft basil cream. The menu for
St. Patrick’s Day Dinner at Beacon Hill Hotel & Bistro also includes salmon with creamed leeks and oyster broth or lamb with minted greens, sweet potato, and carrots. 5:30-11 p.m. $43 (reservations recommended). Beacon Hill Hotel & Bistro, 25 Charles St., Boston. 617-723-7575. www.beaconhillhotel.com
Next stop
The chamber music for this Music for Food Concert
originated below the equator. “Bohemia, Stopping in Buenos Aires” with the Weilerstein Trio includes works by Piazzola and Dvorak. 8 p.m. Suggested minimum donation $20, $10 students (proceeds benefit Food for Free). New England Conservatory’s Brown Hall, 290 Huntington Ave., Boston. 617-868-2900. www.foodforfree.org
Mushy peas and music Your food will be served by executive chef Rebecca Newell, your music by Boston-based musicians Matt and Shannon Heaton. At the St. Patrick’s Day Celebration at Beat Hôtel the former offers corned beef and cabbage, traditional Irish stew, fish and chips with mushy peas, and more. The latter offer Irish song
. 8 p.m.-midnight (menu 5 p.m.-midnight). No cover. Beat Hôtel, 13 Brattle St., Cambridge. 617-499-0001. www.beathotel.com
More food and tunes At “Erin Go Beehive”
food will be served by executive chef Marc Orfaly, music by Boston-based Katie McD. The former offers grilled lamb and Colcannon mashed potatoes and finnan haddie smoked fish and chips. The latter offers traditional Irish folk music and original tunes. 8 p.m.-midnight (menu 5 p.m.- 1 a.m.). No cover (reservations recommended). The Beehive, 541 Tremont St., Boston. 617-423-0069. www.beehiveboston.com
TUESDAY
Faustian While at the Boston University School of the Arts, Anne S. Faust majored in painting. But for 30 years, the Louisiana artist has revealed her knowledge of birds and their habitats through silkscreen printmaking. Work by the Master Wildlife Artist (the first woman and printmaker to receive the award in 1999 from the Woodson Art Museum) is at
“A Life List in Silkscreen: The Art of Anne S. Faust.” Tue-Sun 1-5 p.m. through May 18. $4, $3 seniors and ages 2-12. Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon, 963 Washington St., Canton. 781-821-8853. www.massaudubon.org/maba