PICKS OF THE WEEK

ART. Andy Friedman is a ramblin' man. You could call him an artist: he was trained as a painter, although lately he's been working in pencil and Polaroid. You could call him a poet, though when he recites the word, he might be quoting a country bluesman or talking off the top of his head, and while he's doing it, he'll be showing his work via slide projector. He collects his poetry and his rambles and his Polaroids and his drawings into chapbooks and packages them like LPs through an imprint he calls City Salvage Records. His latest, Future Blues, includes a picture of three young ladies clad only in cloth panties in a rundown apartment, their faces collaged out with Picasso masks, blowing kisses from in front of a framed print of that famous "Great Day In Harlem" photo. It's a pretty good picture. Friedman rambles into Zeitgeist Gallery, 1353 Cambridge Street in Inman Square, at around 7p.m., and admission is $7.