MUSIC | John Cale

Though perhaps best remembered for his avant-garde work with The Velvet Underground, John Cale goes it alone Tuesday, when he brings pop cuts from HoboSapiens—his best and most accessible album in decades—to the Paradise stage. 18+. Tickets $20. 8 p.m. Paradise Rock Club. (EAG)

Wednesday, October 6

DANCE | Raymonda

The Bolshoi Ballet and Orchestra are performing Raymonda, the classic romance featuring the timeless pas de deux “Grand Pas Hongrois.” In an earlier review of a performance at London’s Coliseum, Ballet.co magazine said, “The choreography and its execution was elegant and refined.” Tickets $45-92, available at www.wangcenter.org. 7:30 p.m. Wang Center for the Performing Arts, 270 Tremont St., Boston. (BBC)

MUSIC | Q and Not U

Passionately political Washington, D.C. band Q and Not U hit up Cambridge, playing stylistically varied and utterly danceable rock. Even more overtly political Joan of Arc—of Chicago—open, as do unknowns La Mi Vida Violenta. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Downstairs at the Middle East. (EAG)

READING | The Turkish Lover

In the third segment of her memoirs, Esmerelda Santiago writes about her years after high school. It is a time of immense change for the young woman, who inch-by-inch gains independence from her sprawling family and strong-willed mother, only to fall into the arms of an equally possessive older man who dominates her life for nearly a decade. Free.  6:30 pm. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave. (JJH)

Thursday, October 7

FILM | Stay Until Tomorrow