A.M. reads: Kinks, Nick Flynn, "The Good Negro"

You have to scroll past Gisele and Todd, but Names has good news about Globie Geoff Edgers' Kinks movie getting some festival screenings, including at the Independent Film Festival Boston in April. ... The Dig has a nice little chat with Nick Flynn in advance of his Cafe 939 gig, which we already told you about. ... And read my Globe theater column today, which is mostly an interview with the 23-year-old Providence actor Jonathan L. Dent (left), who plays a flawed civil rights leader modeled on Martin Luther King in Company One's "The Good Negro," opening tonight at the BCA. ... Oh, and let's not forget my old Herald running buddy Bob Young's appreciation of the late jazzer Dick Johnson.