tag: boston events
By: Ashley Barquin - Monday, Mar 13, 2017 - 3:15pm
John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, South Boston, 1958.
Boston’s greenest (and drunkest) day of the year is almost here, and not even a blizzard could stop us from celebrating. From bar crawls to beer releases to Irish music and theatre — and yeah, that parade in Southie — here’s 20 events to celebrate St. Paddy’s Day around Boston. (more…)
By: Jim Martinho - Thursday, Mar 2, 2017 - 3:20pm
Photo by @yayitsyanan via @thebostoncal
March is here! Break out your light jacket. Or your winter coat. Or shorts and a T-shirt. I don’t know, March is weird. Make the most of the moodiest month with our picks for 100 things to do around Boston — concerts, theater and film, food and drink, fitness, festivals and more. (more…)
By: Jim Martinho - Thursday, Oct 27, 2016 - 10:10am
Kids get one night to party on Halloween — you get all week. (Image source.)
What’s the difference between Halloween as a kid and Halloween as an adult? There’s alcohol, for one thing. And more creative costumes. But most importantly: Halloween as a kid lasted one day, but now you get at least three or four nights to party. Here’s our ultimate list of everything happening over Halloweekend in Boston.
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By: Jim Martinho - Wednesday, Jun 29, 2016 - 12:17pm
We’re rounding up Boston’s best free summer events to keep your calendar — and your wallet — full, starting with all our favorite free summer festivals: Street fairs, cultural celebrations, and outdoor music and arts fests. Sure, you have to pay for food and drinks, but just walking through and soaking up the festival atmosphere? That’s as free as the air we breathe, brother.
By: Jim Martinho - Thursday, Oct 22, 2015 - 1:38am
Kids get one night to party on Halloween — you get all week. (Image source.)
Great news! Halloween falls on a Saturday this year. Even better news? We’re still partying for the whole week. Dress up in a different costume every night (or wear the same one over and over, nobody cares) to as many costume parties, band tribute shows, and horror movie marathons as you can handle.
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By: Jim Martinho - Tuesday, Oct 6, 2015 - 5:30pm
Fall festival season, coming in hot cold and rainy. Break out your fall jacket (check the pockets for stray bills — a fiver, score!) and come out to celebrate the harvest, local music, film, food, beer and cider, and lots more. Really just any excuse to gather together and be festive with your neighbors a few more times before we stay home and hate each other all winter.
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By: Jim Martinho - Thursday, Sep 17, 2015 - 4:30pm
You’ve been wiping the sweat off your brow and dreaming of fall weather for most of the last month, and now it’s finally here. So throw on a cozy sweater and feel the leaves crunch under your feet on your way to one of Boston’s many street fairs, artists’ open studios, university lectures, the first-ever HUBWeek festival, and so much more. Oh, and all of these events are FREE to attend, because those pumpkin spice lattes aren’t going to pay for themselves, and no, the guy whose weird name is written on your cup instead of yours isn’t going to pitch in, either. (more…)
By: Jim Martinho - Thursday, Aug 6, 2015 - 5:26pm
Photo credit: Aeronaut Brewing Company/Four Star Farms
There’s so much going on around Boston, I’m just going to get right into it, no time for jokes. (Just kidding, there’s always time for jokes.) (Otherwise how will I make people like me?) (Yes everyone needs to like me I was born broken and only the constant outward validation of my self-worth can make me feel whole again.) On to this week’s events! (more…)
By: Jim Martinho - Thursday, Jul 30, 2015 - 4:02pm
Photo credit: Boston Swing Central
In a couple days you’re going to wake up and check your phone and it’ll say “Saturday, August 1” and you’ll freak out and resolve to stop wasting your summer. Then you’ll go back to sleep for a while because it’s too hot to go anywhere without AC, or at least a powerful fan pointed directly at your undercarriage. But eventually you’ll get out of bed and pull up this post and start kicking summer’s ass. (more…)
By: Jim Martinho - Thursday, Jul 2, 2015 - 12:50pm
Photo credit: Sayamindu Dasgupta/Creative Commons
Hey everyone, Jim from The Boston Calendar here with events that don’t suck for the Fourth of July weekend and beyond. Half the city’s going out of town and the other half is already staking out spots on the Esplanade, but for the other other half, there’s still plenty going on. Or just find a barbeque somewhere — or even better, a BBQ (fewer letters = more American, and that “-que” part looks suspiciously French).
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