Joan Jett and Cherie Currie are re-teaming. No, not to reform their 1970s pop-punk group The Runaways, but rather in a just-filed lawsuit to stop the release of a tribute album.

This column covers May 17-23. On a raucous night at the Rosebud Bar & Kitchen in Somerville in 2011, Nicole “Nikki T” Tammaro witnessed a Joan Jett Night go from moving to “magical.” ...