Magazine Beach’s summer event series starts this weekend along with pool, boat launch use
Everything from children’s puppet shows to African drumming, opera and traditional Irish jam sessions can be found on this summer’s events schedule at Magazine Beach Park, on the banks of the Charles River.
Typically sea creatures, mermaids promenade through Arts River Festival in Central Square
The summertime-summoning Cambridge Arts River Festival returned to Central Square on June 1 with all the same treats plus one new highlight: a “Mermaid Parade” along Massachusetts Avenue tying in with the event’s central theme of climate change.
Annual Dance Party to be June 28 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.
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.
