What to do, what to do?
Boston
Description: After grad school, Catherine pursued a career as a
rockstar feminist academic, while Gwen built a home with her husband and
children. Decades later, each friend covets the other's life. With searing
insight and trademark wit, this new comedy takes a deep look at family, career,
romance, and the decisions that define a life. A 2013 Pulitzer
Prize Finalist.
Date: thru 6/30/2013
Time: 2:00 PM, 7:30 PM, 8:00 PM (depending on day)
Location: Calderwood Pavillion at the BCA, 527 Tremont Street,
Boston
Price: $25+
Description: Are you feeling the lust for travel? We sure are. Learn
about Isabella Gardner’s globetrotting adventures - take a journey without
leaving the city.
Date: 6/20/2013
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway, Boston
Price: $15Summer Solstice Evening at the Harvard Museums
Description: Celebrate the longest day of the year with live music,
food, hands-on activities, and free admission to the Harvard Museums of Science
and Culture.
Date: 6/21/2013
Time: 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Price: FREEMortified
Description: Mortified is a comic excavation of teen angst artifacts (journals, poems, letters, lyrics, home movies, schoolwork) as shared by their original authors -- in front of total strangers. Where else can you hear grown men and women confront their past with firsthand tales of their first kiss, first puff, worst prom, fights with mom, life at bible camp, worst hand job, best mall job, and reasons they deserved to marry Bon Jovi? Submissions come from a wide range of participants, from professional performers to total amateurs. All in the noble pursuit of self-degradation. Share the shame.
Date: 6/21/2013
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Oberon, 2
Arrow Street, Cambridge
Price: $15
Description: Throughout his stellar career, Harry Connick, Jr. has
earned three Grammy awards, two Emmy Awards, and two Tony nominations, and
spearheaded efforts to help rebuild his hometown of New Orleans after the
devastation of Hurricane Katrina. This performance with his band will be
in support of his new album release EVERY MAN SHOULD KNOW (in
stores June 11th), a collection of original songs that touches on some of
Harry's deepest feelings about life and love.
Date: 6/21/2013 + 6/23/2013
Time: 8:00 PM + 7:00 PM
Location: Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston
Price: $40+
Price: $40+
Description: Thirty-five years after meeting at the Institute for the
Young Blind in Bamako, Mali, and eight years after their Manu Chao–produced
album Dimanche à Bamako thrust them into the global limelight
with its sunny charm and irresistible grooves, Amadou & Mariam remain true
to their roots in West African blues-rock. The husband-and-wife duo, along with
a full band, deliver their signature mix of unforgettable pop melodies and
contagious rhythms, driven by Amadou’s bluesy electric guitar and the
compelling interplay of their voices.
Date: 6/22/2013
Time: 9:00 PM
Location: Paradise Rock
Club, 967 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
Price: $25South End’s Annual Greek Food Picnic
Description: Enjoy Saint John’s outdoor South End Patio with two days
of food, Greek music and fun on the grounds of Boston’s Historic Greek
Community. And really who doesn't love Baklava?!
Date: 6/22/2013 – 6/23/2013
Time: 12:00 PM – 10:00 Pm (Saturday), 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Sunday)
Location: Saint John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church,
25 Union Park Street, Boston
Price: FREEChicago
Unveiled
Description: Thursday—Come to Unveiled in the Modern Wing! See the new exhibition Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door, then meet us for a drink and join in our in-gallery game for a chance to win tickets to upcoming events.
Date: 6/20/2013
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: Art Institute Chicago, Modern Wing entrance at 159 East Monroe Street.
Price: FREE with Museum AdmissionGreen Music Fest 2013
Description: Three stages keep the music going all weekend with performances by Atlanta indie rockers Manchester Orchestra (8:45 p.m. Saturday), former Chicagoan and singer-songwriter Joe Pug (7:30 p.m. Sunday), SoCal rockers Everest (7:30 p.m. Saturday) and others. The environmental focus is more participatory than preachy, with chances for fest-goers to win Divvy bike-sharing passes, stretch out during free vinyasa yoga classes (1 p.m. both days) and sip beers from eco-conscious Colorado brewery New Belgium.
Date: 6/22/2013
– 6/23/2013
Time: 12:00
PM – 10:00 PM
Location: Damen
Avenue between North Avenue and Schiller Street, Chicago
Price: $5
DonationChicago Pride Fest
Description One week before the Pride Parade, this celebration of Chicago's gay and lesbian communities takes over Boystown with plenty of food, drinks, arts and crafts and high-energy performances. Two stages will host entertainers such as Jessica Sutta of the Pussycat Dolls (4:30 Saturday), Blu Cantrell (6:30 Saturday) and drag shows throughout the day Saturday. Of course, the outfits and all-day partying of Pride Fest always are their own show.
Date: 6/22/2013
– 6/23/2013
Time: 12:00
PM – 10:00 PM (Saturday), 12:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Sunday)
Location: Halsted
Street between Grace and Addison streets, Chicago
Price: $8
Donation
Downtown Sound: Carolina Chocolate Drops + Angela James
Description: The popular series, Downtown Sound, returns to Millennium Park for a fifth summer, featuring an eclectic mix of music discoveries, cutting-edge indie rock, pop bands and rock veterans. Quirky, Innocent, Pure, Raw, Eclectic, Nostalgic. . . just a few adjectives that come to mind when I think of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. If you aren’t familiar take a moment or a Monday night in Chicago and get yourself familiar.
Downtown Sound: Carolina Chocolate Drops + Angela James
Description: The popular series, Downtown Sound, returns to Millennium Park for a fifth summer, featuring an eclectic mix of music discoveries, cutting-edge indie rock, pop bands and rock veterans. Quirky, Innocent, Pure, Raw, Eclectic, Nostalgic. . . just a few adjectives that come to mind when I think of the Carolina Chocolate Drops. If you aren’t familiar take a moment or a Monday night in Chicago and get yourself familiar.
Date: 6/24/2013
Time: 6:30
PM
Location: Millennium
Park, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, 201 E. Randolph St.
Price: FREEThe Second City Guide to Opera
Description: Lyric Opera of Chicago and The Second City—hot on the heels of their hugely successful, sold-out January 5 collaboration, The Second City Guide to the Opera—present a run of shows at the Civic Opera House, with audience members seated onstage.
Date: thru 6/30/2013
Time: 7:30
PM
Location: Civic
Opera House, 20 North Upper Wacker Drive, Chicago
Price: $35+
Los Angeles
The Jazz Leaders
Description: The Jazz Leaders is a newly-formed sextet comprised of Southern California's finest bandleaders: Dr. Bobby Rodriguez on trumpet and flügelhorn, Rickey Woodard on sax, Billy Mitchell on piano, Ryan Cross on bass, Bobby Matos on congas, and Paul Kreibich on drums. The ensemble recorded its debut album in May 2012, and has been performing at leading clubs around Los Angeles.
Date: 6/21/2013
Time: 6:00
PM
Location: LACMA,
BP Grand Entrance
Price: FREEHairspray Dance-Along
Description:
This engagement is sure to be a powerful pairing of two dance companies that
wed flawless ensemble unity to fierce individuality. The Music Center’s
celebration of the new continues with the Southern California premiere of a new
work by visionary dancemaker Alonzo King.
Date: 6/21/2013
Time: 6:30
PM – 11:00 PM
Location: Grand
Park’s Performance Lawn, 200 North Grand Avenue (between Grand and Hill)
Price: FREEHubbardStreet + Lines Ballet
Description:
This engagement is sure to be a powerful pairing of two dance companies that
wed flawless ensemble unity to fierce individuality. The Music Center’s
celebration of the new continues with the Southern California premiere of a new
work by visionary dancemaker Alonzo King.
Date: 6/21/2013
– 6/23/2013
Time: 2:00
PM + 7::30 PM
Location: Dorothy
Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave Los Angeles
Price: $28+Jazz Bakery Movable Feast: Singer Giacomo Gates in “Miles Tones” the Music of Miles Davis
Description: With
“Miles Tones,” Giacomo Gates springboards into the big league of great jazz
singers with solid material and an in-the-pocket band that underscores his
intrinsic hipness and gift for a song. His exciting and essential jazz
attributes of swinging, improvising and deep feeling for the blues make Gates
an extremly accomplished singer, of the highest order. If a Rolls Royce could
sing jazz... it would assuredly sound like Giacomo Gates.
Date: 6/22/2013
Time: 8:00
PM
Location: Kirk
Douglas Theatre, 9820 W. Washington Boulevard, Culver City
Price: $25Long Beach Bayou & Blues Festival
Description:
Featuring two stages of music with blues and zydeco and Cajun music, plus
continuous dancing on a large covered wooden dance floor, and quick and easy
dance instruction for all ages, the festival also boasts a festive costumed
Mardi Gras parade led each day by the New Orleans Traditional Jazz Band,
and a colorful French Quarter marketplacewith gumbo, crawfish
etoufee, hush puppies, red beans and rice and other Cajun & Creole
delicacies, plus coffees and desserts. With crawfish and watermelon
eating contests for the whole family, the Kids' Bayou Tent also has
extensive children's activities include making costumes, masks and umbrellas
for the mardi gras parade, arts and crafts, storytelling, magic,
sing-a-longs, kids' shows and more. In addition the Teen Corner has
games and activities for older kids.
Date: 6/22/2013
– 6/23/2013
Time: 11:00
AM – 9:30 PM (Saturday) 8:00 PM (Sunday)
Location: Rainbow
Lagoon Park in Long Beach)
Price: $25+CicLAvia
Description:
Be a part of CicLAvia and ride your bike to LACMA! On June 23rd,
Wilshire will be closed from Fairfax to downtown for this bike-centered
community event. Be prepared for lots of fun and crowds.
In
conjunction with CicLAvia’s Wilshire Boulevard event, LACMA is offering all-day
programming:
Date: 6/23/2013
Time: 9:00 AM
– 4:00 PM
Location: Route
will connect One Wilshire in Downtown Los Angeles to Fairfax Avenue along
Miracle Mile
Price: FREE
New York
Description: Rolling drums and
quicksilver accordion licks, earthy vibes and thoughtful reflections mingle on
Matuto’s latest refinement of their Appalachia-gone-Afro-Brazilian sound.
Tonight celebrates the release of The Devil and The Diamond on Motéma Music
with live projection art by Ggeeoorrggiiaa featuring original Illustrations by
Ty Wilkins.
Date: 6/20/2013
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
Description: West Coast
hip-hop duo Blackalicious are returning to the scene after eight years
with a soon-to-be-released album. Known for being on the "positive
tip," we are thrilled to have them on our stage to spread their
inspirational and uplifting messages not often heard in the genre. But don't let
these feel-good lyrics fool you—"Gab confirms himself as a phenomenal
lyricist who could battle any of today's multi-platinum-selling MCs." (Rolling
Stone) Local upstarts PHONY PPL get
the call to open, and hip-hop Renaissance man D-NICE spins.
Date: 6/20/2013
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Prospect Park Bandshell, Brooklyn
Price: $3 Donation
Description: More than 60
emerging artists competed across all five boroughs. Now, it comes down to five
acts. See them battle it out on stage for bragging rights - and the crown as
the Ultimate Battle Winner.
Date: 6/21/2013
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: The Green Space, 44 Charlton Street
Price: $15 SOLD OUT, But you can watch live and
vote for your favorite act ONLINE!
Amadou & Mariam + Bombino
Amadou & Mariam + Bombino
Description: AMADOU & MARIAM’s 2012 album, Folila, which
featured guest spots by Santigold and TV On The Radio among others, was hailed
by NME as “a great chuffing masterstroke of genre-less genre
mixing,” but it also sparkled with of the Afro-blues sound that has made this
blind husband and wife duo one of West Africa’s finest exports. The powerhouse
young Taureg guitarist BOMBINO’s playing
unfurls with “fast, stuttery, rhythmic hammering, coiling lines inside lines;” (NY
Times) he’s been called the Hendrix of the Sahara. Rolling Stone also
recently called Bombino's Nomad "The most exciting blues
album of the year."
Date: 6/21/2013
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Prospect Park Bandshell, Brooklyn
Price: $3 Donation
Description: The South Street
Seaport will host a new weekly outdoor film series in the evenings called
Front/Row Cinema – at the intersection of Front and Fulton Streets - and will
feature a diverse line-up of films with lawn and lounge chair seating for
guests. All are FREE and open to the public. And yes, popcorn will be provided!
Date: 6/22/2013
Time: 8:00 PM/Sunset
Location: South Street Seaport, 19 Fulton Street
Price: FREE
Description: Dubbed the “male Chaka Khan” by filmmaker Harmony
Korine and taking his inspiration from groundbreaking gonzo outsiders like Sun
Ra and Grace Jones, PEGASUS WARNING makes glitchy electronica with otherworldly
blips, 8-bit noise, day-glo soul melodies, and infectious beats. Having worked
with Das Racist, El-P, Arto Lindsay, Tortoise, and Twin Shadow, PEGASUS
WARNING’s spaced-out soundscapes are like transmissions from a faraway planet.
Date: 6/22/2013
Time: 9:00 PM
Location: BAM Café, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn
Price: FREE
Description: Drawing
inspiration from the legendary full moon parties of Thailand, MATTE's Full Moon
infuses New York’s distinct culture and edge – a transcendental beach party in
the middle of New York Harbor with sounds by a carefully crafted lineup of
musicians & DJs.
Date: 6/22/2013
Time: 4:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Location: Governor’s Island, Governor’s Beach Club
Description: Funktastic! Get Down, Get Down.
Date: 6/23/2013
Time: 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Location: Central Park, Summer Stage
Price: FREE
Price: FREE
Description: A classic, the
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra opens Midsummer Night Swing’s 25th anniversary
with a celebration of its own 25th. The JLCO formed when Wynton Marsalis and
his septet joined forces with the surviving players of the Duke Ellington
Orchestra, creating a group that knows that some jazz masterpieces are meant to
be danced to. This beautiful big band will bring back the glory of ballrooms
past.
Date: 6/25/2013
Time: 6:30 PM Dance Lesson, 7:30 PM Live Music
Location: Lincoln Center, Damrosch Park, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza
Price: $17+
San Francisco/Bay Area
California Wines in the Redwoods: A Summer Solstice Twilight Discovery Walk
MoAD: Summer Season Kickoff Weekend
Berkeley World Music Festival
San Francisco/Bay Area
California Wines in the Redwoods: A Summer Solstice Twilight Discovery Walk
Description:
Participate in an age-old tradition of celebrating midsummer on the
solstice, marking the astronomical beginning of summer. Savor two
complimentary glasses of California Wine and nibble on local cheeses while
strolling through our 100-year-old Redwood grove. City Cellars will be
offering a wine tasting and demonstrating their wine machine!
Date: thru 6/21/2013
Time: 6:30
PM – 8:30 PM, the last entry is at 7:00 PM
Location: Check-in
at the Main Gate, entrance at 9th and Lincoln Way, between 6-7pm, San Francisco
Botanical Garden, Golden Gate Park
Price: $7MoAD: Summer Season Kickoff Weekend
Description:
MoAD Kicks Off the Summer Season with Free Admission, New Exhibitions and
Family Events including Black Music Month and Juneteenth celebrations!
Date: thru 6/20/2013
– 6/23/2013
Time: Various
Location: Various
Price: FREE
Description:
Friday Nights at the de Young are after-hours art "happenings"
that include a mix of live music, dance and theater performances, film
screenings, panel discussions, lectures, artist demonstrations, hands-on art
activities, and exhibition tours. Local artists conduct drop-in workshops,
debut new commissions, display their art in the Kimball Education Gallery, and
take part in conversations about the creative process. The café offers a
delicious prix-fixe menu and specialty cocktails, and the observation tower is
open until 8 pm. Artist Fellows, Artists-in-Residence, curators, scholars, and
arts educators all play an active role in making Friday Nights an engaging
museum experience for all.
Date:
thru 6/21/2013
Time: 5:00
PM – 8:45 PM
Location: de
Young Museum, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, at John F. Kennedy Drive, Golden
Gate Park
Price: $23 Berkeley World Music Festival
Description:
The FREE 10th annual Berkeley World Music Festival, showcases the Bay Area’s
diverse world music scene and it’s all Free! The People’s Park concert ranges
from the US to North Africa and the Indian continent. West Coast sensation Tri
Tip Trio opens with Cajun, Zydeco and blues. Tunisian MC RAI, who pioneers a
new generation of Arabic music, follows with a blend of rock, urban “rai” and
“chaabi” folk music. Baraka Moon, with Stephen Kent and Sukhawat Ali
Khan, headlines with ecstatic Sufi riffs. KPFA music host, Stephen Kent,
is the world’s premiere exponent of the didgeridoo. Charasmatic singer Sukhawat
Ali Khan thrills audiences with his cross-cultural ragas.
Date: 6/22/2013
Time: 12:00 PM
– 9:00 PM
Location: The
Festival’s starting point is the event information booth located on Telegraph
Avenue at Haste Street.
Price: FREE
Bicycle Music Festival VII
Price: FREE
Bicycle Music Festival VII
Description:
Come out for for the world’s largest bicycle music festival in Golden
Gate Park, in the Mission District, as well as live on bicycles en route
between the two stage destinations. The lineup features Grammy-winning
bluegrass artists, Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands; Jason Brock of The
X-Factor; Quinn DeVeaux & the Blue Beat Review; Bill McKibben of 350.org
and much more
Date: thru 6/22/2013
Time: 12:00
PM – 9:00 PM,
Location: Golden Gate Park
Price: FREE, Donations Encouraged
Description:
When James Bond’s latest assignment goes gravely wrong, and several
undercover agents around the world are exposed, MI6 is attacked, forcing M to
relocate the agency. These events cause her authority and position to be
challenged by Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security
Committee. With MI6 now compromised from both inside and out, M is left with
one ally she can trust: Bond. 007 takes to the shadows – aided only by field
agent, Eve – following a trail to the mysterious Silva, whose lethal, hidden
motives have yet to reveal themselves.
Date: thru 6/22/2013
Time: 8:30
PM
Location: China
Camp – San Rafael, 899 North San Pedro Road, San Rafael
Price: Donations
Appreciated
Description:
The 35th Anniversary of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival with
a series of thrilling and inspiring performances honoring cultural legacies and
highlighting the vibrancy of the Bay Area's world dance community.
Date: thru 6/30/2013
Time: 2:00 PM
+ 8:00 PM
Location: Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission Street, San Francisco
Price: $28+
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