Tomorrow evening the Department of Conservation and Recreation will be playing Despicable Me at the Hatch Shell along the Charles River in Boston.
Despicable Me at sundown
DCR hosts free movies each Friday. Want to plan to attend another movie night? Check out the schedule for the rest of the summer by linking here.
Mighty Mighty Bosstones perform Sat, July 20th on The Boston Common
Mark your calendars and make plans to check out Boston’s first annual performing arts festival, Outside the Box. This free festival starting later this weekend on Saturday, July 13th will run for one week through Sunday, July 21st and turn the Boston Common and City Hall Plaza into performance spaces, with over 200 events showcasing the best of Boston and Massachusetts.
Outside the Box Festival includes a line up of 200 artists. To see the full line up of artists link here, and to see the schedule of this 9-day festival link here. In addition to attracting some amazingly gifted artists, from July 18th – 21st a festival within a festival featuring some of the city’s best local restaurants and celebrity chefs will take place in Boston’s City Hall Plaza. For more information about the Boston FoodFest link here.
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Starting next month the Os Gemos mural in Dewey Square will come down. Initially put up in July of 2012, the mural is now withering and fading so officials have decided it’s time for something new.
Charlie McCabe, director of public programs for the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, said to Boston Magazine last month,“We are looking to either remove it or replace it sometime in the fall…We are hoping to announce what the new project on the structure will be by August.”
Stay tuned for more details to follow…
Thanks to the Highland Street Foundation, Free fun Friday’s has returned to Boston. The program started this past Friday and runs through the end of August.
Each week six museums and cultural venues will be free and open to the public. Starting tomorrow, July 5th, the Peabody Essex Museum (P.E.M.) in Salem, is free thanks to the Highland Foundation Free Fun Fridays.
To see the full list of museums and cultural institutions free this week link here.
The Boston Harbor Hotel’s 15th Summer in the City Entertainment Series is in full swing. The 2013 season offers music and movies starting at sunset 5 nights a week, but each night has a different theme:
Mondays – Thursdays: Live band performances run from 6:00 – 10:00pm and on Fridays music begins at 4:30pm and movies start at dusk. You can download the full calendar of events including performing artists and movie calendar here.
Mark your calendars, because one month from today Boston will host the first annual performing arts festival, Outside the Box. Free performances from more than 200 artists will temporarily turn the Boston Common and City Hall Plaza into performance spaces.
To see the full line up of artists link here, and to see the schedule of this 9-day festival link here. For all you food enthusiasts – don’t feel left out because the final three days of this festival will also have something called the Boston FoodFest which will transform Boston’s City Hall Plaza from July 18th – 21st into a foodie’s delight, featuring some of the city’s best local restaurants and celebrity chefs. For more information about the Boston FoodFest link here.
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Boston Sculptures Gallery has launched their first outdoor art exhibit called, Convergence, at the Christian Science Plaza. Although the exhibit formerly opens today, some sculptures have been on display for several weeks. This free exhibit open to the public will run through the end of October.
For more information visit the exhibit’s blog, convergenceexhibit.blogspot.com.
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA Boston) is a fantastic local museum that is located on the water in the heart of the Seaport District.
Each Thursday evening The ICA Boston is free from 5 – 9pm. The ICA is currently exhibiting San Francisco graffiti artist, Barry McGee. More about the ICA Boston here.
Every Thursday from 5-9PM The ICA Boston is Free
Ohio-based artist, Paul Richmond, is currently being featured on HuffPost’s Gay News section here. Putting a twist on gender stereotypes with his “Cheesecake Boys” series Richmond depicts men in roles traditionally portrayed by women. Among those images featured is this cute rendition of Albany-based blogger and part-time Bostonian, Alan Ilagan. Is that Ptown or Ogunquit Alan?
I love the colors and depictions that gives a nod to early and mid 20th century pin-up artwork. You can see the other depictions from Paul Richmond and read about this talented artist, here.
The city of Boston has so many events going on Sunday one’s head could spin trying to see and do everything. However, if you end up in or near the South End, in addition to the Oyster Festival and the SoWa Open Market, from 11AM to 6PM on Sunday is the SoWa Art Walk. If you’ve never attended, come down and check it out; support the local art scene – I think you’ll be impressed.
More information here, www.sowaartwalk.com.
This art installation made of drawing marker and wire by Hamburg based Turkish artist Sakir Gökçebag made me laugh. I’m of the mindset that if an installation can evoke an emotional response or foster dialog there is probably merit to it even if you don’t always understand or appreciate it. I have to say I completely understand this and appreciate it. I’ve often said one of the best things about being a guy is being able to pee standing up.
Source: We Waste Time blog
Not sure if you’ve seen this video clip, but apparently students in Tralee, Ireland have dubbed scenes from Tarantino’s film Pulp Fiction in a Kerry accent. I love it when Vince (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) say “royale with cheese” in the Kerry accent, it is absolutely hilarious.
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Game of Thrones Season 3 starts at the end of March and CinestirTV has created a masterful mash up video called “The Princess Bride Promo”.
I’ll admit I’m hooked on this HBO series, and i am looking forward to the third season. I would also rank Reiner’s fantasy parody, The Princess Bride as an all time personal favorite movie so I couldn’t resist sharing this when I found it. Enjoy the mash up.
On a related note, a talented friend of mine here in Boston has created his own mash up video of the movies, Mean Girls and Evil Dead. I love his write up about the video. “When the queen bee’s reign is threatened by the new girl in school, Mia’s (Regina George) plan of attack turns sour when the Burn Book unleashes something far more sinister.”
Check out Dejan’s mash up video here.
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Pick up the current issue of The Improper Bostonian’s “Spring Arts Preview”. Starting on p. 49 is Jonathan Soroff’s article, Unsung Heroes, that spotlights Boston’s local performing arts scene.
The article opens “Bostonians are spoiled. A world-class orchestra playing in one of only three acoustically perfect concert halls in the world. An equally excellent ballet. Then there are the New England and Boston conservatories, the A.R.T. and the Huntington, free Shakespeare on the Common, the Celebrity Series and pre-Broadway runs at the Shubert, the Colonial, the Cutler Majestic…”
I like his boasts, but even like his article more. It provides glimpses into ten of Boston’s performing arts organizations that are often overlooked but very worth checking out.
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They Might Be Giants (TMBG) may be the last indie rock band I started listening to in high school / college that is still recording and touring. Best known for classics like Birdhouse in Your Soul and Istanbul (Not Constantinople), the band is currently touring to promote their newest album, Nanobots – now out on iTunes. They will be returning to play in Boston on Wednesday and Thursday, April 3rd and 4th at the Paradise Rock Club.
They Might Be Giants Tickets April 3 – At Paradise Rock Club Boston
They Might Be Giants Tickets April 4 – At Paradise Rock Club Boston
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