Boston Calling 2019 highs, lows, other stuff: From soaring music to souring port-a-potties
Although Boston Calling has expanded remarkably since its debut in 2013, nothing is perfect. From the facilities and food to musical cameos and a surprising surplus of animal-themed names, here are some highs and lows from the event this year.
Mural artists and friends spark pop-up gallery that returns art space for Fifth Friday festival
The Out of the Blue art gallery space rides again for a few hours Friday for an underground-style pop-up art show, part of the free Fifth Friday Celebration taking place throughout Central Square.
Annual Dance Party to be June 29 at City Hall
The details of Cambridge’s Dance Party has been set, with the free annual event set to take place for four frenzied hours between 7 to 11 p.m. on its traditional last Friday in June.
Eight holidays made by geeks, nerds, wonks and the counterculture grown since the ’70s
Sure, our calendars are filled with increasingly commodified holidays, but they’re also filling up with new days of nationwide significance.
Robin Young, state Rep. Decker top the bill at Friends of CRLS fundraiser on March 29
Television and radio personality Robin Young hosts and state Rep. Marjorie Decker speaks at “Celebrate our Students, Invest in our Future,” a fundraiser by the Friends of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School being held Thursday.
Library answers winter despair with hygge, the Danish art of comfort, at a Friday event
Residents despairing over the 22 inches of snow dumped this week and the knowledge another storm is on the way are welcome to cocoon Friday at the Cambridge Main Library, which is finding ways to make its space even cozier with a “hygge event.”
Six St. Patrick’s Day events to know about, from the super traditional to the unusual
Get an “Irish Burrito” at Anna’s Taqueria; see Beat Brasserie go Bragh; enjoy a “Movies and Metal” Night; take in an Irish variety show with food and drink, or go on the 13th annual St. Patrick’s Day Celtic Sojourn without; and get in a quick skate.
Oscar eager? Boston Society of Film Critics holds awards event Sunday at The Brattle
While we have to wait until March 4 to see what film wins big at the 90th Academy Awards ceremony, The Boston Society of Film Critics gives cinema fans a chance to get into the awards season mood early.
Ten Valentine’s Day events to know about, whether shopping, celebrating or rejecting
Valentine’s Day is Wednesday, officially. For those participating or opposed, here are some of the more interesting, inexpensive ways to take part, whether you’re in love, are single, have kids or are a kid.
Club Passim’s BCMFest grows to four days, adds The Sinclair to January event venues
The growth, coming in the January festival’s 15th year, “will enhance the BCMFest experience for performers and audiences,” said Sean Smith, a festival organizer, “while retaining the character of BCMFest as a grassroots community event.”
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