Five things to do this weekend: June 1-2
Do your bargain music instrument shopping in the sun. Hit the Cambridge River Festival. Laugh your way through a trek “Into Dorkness.” Show off your bike and buy to make it better at a Bike Show and Market. And venture into new musical territory with Nightlands.
Five things to do this weekend: May 25-26
Fill yourself with folk at the campfire. Festival. See The Interrobang put their mark on the local music scene. Experience the art of Something Very Specific. Help launch the ECBA Freedom Run. And turn up The Walkmen at the end of a busy musical weekend.
Five (or so) things to do this weekend: May 18-19
Get in free to the Harvard Art Museums. Get photographed on the red carpet. See the art of the East/Central Cambridge Open Studios. Tune in to Porchfest. Experience “Love on the Run” via Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Verdi. And have a literary weekend.
Five things to do this weekend: May 11-12
Experience life within the bubble (literally). Ride “The Sense of Unity Healing Machine” (also literally). Honor slain MIT police officer Sean Collier with a ’60s-inspired benefit concert. Get your face painted by an actual, amazing artist. Help launch the Together Festival with music and video art.
Why you won’t see this artist’s improved map of the T while riding the T
Artist Dave Ortega has an entry for the “New Perspectives” T Map Challenge that looks more orderly and airy, provides geographic scale, adds significant green spaces and names some waterways and landmarks. He won’t be entering his map in the T’s contest, though.
Five things to do this weekend: April 27-28
A flea market on Saturday and juried art salon on Sunday. Frank Black in Harvard Square. The Walsh brothers in Davis Square. A free showing of “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” at MIT. A free flute concert at Tufts. This weekend is all about choices.
Miller Street Open Studios celebrate the word, the shape and even art, pop and science
The biannual Miller Street Open Studios puts artists’ work on display and, in some cases, for sale. Dozens of artists are allowing the public a peek not only at finished pieces, but at works in progress, raw materials and other insightful aspects of the world where the art is made.
Five things to do this weekend: March 30-31
Take the tots Easter egg hunting. Enjoy Lilypad’s Easter sampler. Hear what goes “Bump in the Night” with the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra. Rock at the Rosebud. And have fun with “Gravity” in Harvard Square.
Fame and prizes offered in K-8 poetry contest
Elementary school students are invited to send poems for consideration in The Harvard Coop’s annual K–8 Poetry Contest, with a ceremony to be held at 2 p.m. May 4 in Harvard Square.
Five things to do this weekend: March 16-17
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with arts, crafts, kids and no beer. Indulge your musical theater sweet tooth with “Antiphony.” See what a director can do with $6,000 and a bit of braaaaaaaaains. Take in some unforgettable art. And get your Fox fix at Passim.
