Good luck keeping cool this week!
And if you can't keep cool maybe these adventures will distract you from the stifling heat.
Boston
Description: Now entering its 15th year, the Roxbury International
Film Festival continues to showcase and honor the work of emerging and
established filmmakers of color and has become the largest New England film
festival dedicated to this genre.
Date: 6/27/2013 – 6/30/2013
Time: Varies
Locations: Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of
Art and Design, Haley House Bakery Cafe
Price: $10+
Description: The North End Music & Performing Arts Center
(NEMPAC) presents a fully staged opera production of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte,
to be performed in Italian with English Supertitles. Together Conductor, Dr.
Tiffany Chang and Stage Director, Brent Wilson, bring the opera alive in one of
the nation’s most historic venues, Boston’s Great Faneuil Hall.
Date: 6/27/2013, 6/28/2013, + 6/30/2013
Time: 7:30 PM + 4:00 PM
Location: Faneuil Hall, 1 Faneuil Hall Square, Boston
Price: $25+
Description:. An annual summer favorite, learn culinary tips and tricks (and a few trade secrets!) from Boston’s best chefs, while enjoying breathtaking views of Boston Harbor. Michael Serpa is the chef at popular neighborhood raw bar and seafood restaurant Neptune Oyster in Boston’s North End. Neptune Oyster has been praised by Food & Wine and Travel + Leisure magazines, and is consistently listed among Boston’s best restaurants.
Date: 6/28/2013
Time: 6: 30 PM
Location: ICA Boston, 100 Northern Avenue on Boston’s Waterfront
Price: $10/$15
Description: Celebrate the beginning of summer by dancing the night
away in an evening full of music and friends in front of Cambridge City Hall.
Date: 6/28/2013
Time: 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Locations: Cambridge City Hall, 795 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge
Price: FREE
Description: Voted Boston's Best Dance Night In 2012's Boston Phoenix
Readers Poll, Videodrome Discotheque serves up a non-stop mixture of outrageous sound
& vision, with a particular emphasis on the Disco, New Wave, Rock, Hi-NRG,
& Pop of the late 70s and Early 80s - along with select modern artists
(such as Gaga, Kylie, and Scissor Sisters) that fit their vintage aesthetic.
Date: 6/28/2013
Time: 10:00 PM
Location: Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge
Price: $10
Description: There’s something about Garrison Keillor’s voice that always makes me feel at home. So all of you NPR Prairie Home Companion fans grab a picnic and some friends and head out to Tanglewood for this annual treat.
Date: 6/29/2013
Time: 5:45 PM
Location: Tanglewood, Koussevitzky Music Shed, 297 West Street, Lenox, MA
Price: $21+Columbus, OH
Anthony Hamilton and SWV
Description: Nothing against Anthony Hamilton . . . but ya’ll know
you love some SWV . . . come on now sing along with me. “I get so weak in the
knees I can hardly speak. . . “ or better yet with a nod to MJ "lately there seems to be some insecurity about the way I feel . . . "
Date: 6/27/2013
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Veterans Memorial, 300 West Broad Street, Columbus
Price: $47.50+
Description: Remember all those classics you were supposed to read in
high school, but somehow never got around to? Well now’s your chance to make up
for your follies! Join the Actors’ Theatre as we present a comedic romp through
the world of literature. Full of physical comedy and witty banter, this show
achieves the fantastic feat of cramming an absurd number of books into one
show. This witty and wacky comedy gives three guys 90 minutes to bring to life
86 of the greatest books of all time. Wish you could read 'War and Peace,'
'Walden,' and 'The Odyssey' in the time it takes to make a sandwich? We’ve
gotcha covered! Ambitious? Yes. Ridiculous? Quite. Hilarious? Absolutely.
Welcome to intellectual vaudeville!
Date: EVERY THURSDAY thru 7/25/2013
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Easton Commons Town Square, Columbus
Price: FREE
Description: Oh Comfest you never change . . . well you don’t change
much. So grab your body paint, hippie gear, sun block, and water bottles and
head to the short north to be surrounded by a sea of people, many of whom you
haven’t seen for years but who decided to come out of their hiding place just
for this event of the summer. . . . its kind of like the city's annual high school reunion.
Date: 6/28/2013- 6/30/2013
Time: 12: 00 PM – 11:00 PM Friday, 12:00 PM – 10:00 PM Saturday,
12:00 PM – 8:00 PM Sunday
Location: Goodale Park, Goodale Boulevard and Park Street, Columbus
Price: FREE
Description: One of my favorite Shakespearean comedic works . . .
even though they really do treat Malvolio quite cruely in the end. . . . Did
anyone else see the 1996 screen adaptation with Helena Bonham Carter, Ben
Kingsley, and Imogen Stubbs and several other fabulous Brits?
Date: Friday – Sunday, thru 7/28/2013
Time: 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location: Shiller Park, 1000 City Park Avenue, Columbus
Price: FREE
Description: Columbus’ grand summer tradition continues as the
Columbus Symphony celebrates the Fourth of July. Wave the flag, clap your
hands, and stomp your feet to patriotic favorites and rousing Sousa marches
including “The Stars and Stripes Forever” and other favorites. The evening is
topped off with a brilliant fireworks display.
Date: 6/29/2013
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Columbus Commons, 160
South High Street, Columbus
Price: $29.20+
New York
Accordions Around the World
Les BalletsTrockadero de Monte Carlo
Midsummer Night Swing: Calypso Rose
Description: This Trinidadian grande dame of vintage calypso packed such a punch as she rose to fame in the mid-60s, the coveted title “Calypso King” became “Calypso Monarch” in her honor. Into her seventh decade, Calypso Rose’s bold delivery, fearless and funny social commentary, and welcoming warmth on stage make it a hip-shaking Carnival night whenever she plays.
Annual LGBT Pride March
The Art of the Brick
Description: Dr. Seuss’s ode to Environmental Protection brought to
animated life by the voice of Danny DeVito, the Lorax himself.
Date: 7/2/2013
Time: Dusk, 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Location: Easton Town Center, 160 Easton Town Center, ColumbusE
Price: FREENew York
Accordions Around the World
Description: 13 evenings
featuring over a hundred different accordionists throughout the summer, playing
music from all over the world. Accordionists will be stationed throughout the
park to surprise and delight passers-by. Today's featured styles: Klezmer, Waltz, and French: Uri Sharlin -
Original Worldly Folk Music, Art Now - Blues, Reggae, Standards, and Pop, Tony
Kovatch - Valse Musette & Gypsy Jazz, Partick Farrell - Klezmer, Classical
& Improvisations, Jean-Francois LeClerc - Musette/ Romanian/ Gypsy/ Jazz, ,
Chantale Urbain - Musette/ Romanian/ Gypsy/ Jazz
Date: 6/27/2013
Time: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location: Bryant Park, 42nd St. at Sixth Ave., New York
Price: FREELes BalletsTrockadero de Monte Carlo
Description:
Performing en travesti (i.e. in drag), LES BALLETS
TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO is the world’s premier all-male classical ballet
company, and a sight to behold anytime they take the stage. “Keen parody always
turns on some level of mastery of the target, and here the Trocks set the
standard, with whipping turns…buoyant jumps and, most of all, uncanny speed.” (Chicago
Tribune) Their long-awaited debut at the Bandshell will include excerpts
from Swan Lake, Pas De Deux, Go for Barocco, Dying Swan,
and Paquita—the perfect way to kick off Pride.
Date: 6/27/2013
Time: 7:00
PM Doors, 8:00 PM Performance
Location: Prospect
Park Bandshell, 9th Street & Prospect Park West, Brooklyn
Price: $3 Suggested Donation
Price: $3 Suggested Donation
Description Slavic
Soul Party! closes their monthly residency at Joe's Pub
(covering Duke Ellington, Boban
Markovic, and Deerhoof) with a program of originals and special guests. With
fiery Balkan brass, throbbing funk grooves, Gypsy accordion wizardry, and
virtuoso jazz chops, Slavic Soul Party! is just what it says. These nine
musicians have created an acoustic mash-up of Balkan and Gypsy sounds with
North American music, weaving the gospel, funk, dub, jazz, and Latin influences
of New York’s neighborhoods seamlessly into a Balkan brass setting and always
"delivering a great time." (New York Times)
Date: 6/27/2013
Time: 9:30
PM
Location: Joe’s
Pub, The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street between East 4th and Astor Place
Price: $16
Description: blessing the boats: the remix is a re-imagining of
Sekou Sundiata’s acclaimed solo theater work, blessing the boats. Director
Rhodessa Jones revisits Sundiata’s story of life-threatening illness and
recovery as told through the unique interplay of three poet/performers: Will
Power, Carl Hancock Rux, and Mike Ladd. These compelling voices revive
Sundiata’s incisive writing, finding the universal in the particular and
exploring the ritual, humor and compassion of his play. This remix encompasses
language, music, and visual projections of healing and hope.
Date: 6/27/2013 – 6/30/2013
Time: 8:00 PM + 3:00 PM
Location: Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Theater Two, 199 Chambers
Street
Price: FREE, First come, first served – box office opens 45 min. prior to curtain
Much Ado About Nothing
Price: FREE, First come, first served – box office opens 45 min. prior to curtain
Much Ado About Nothing
Description:
In its second year at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Random Access
Theatre Company presents an exciting spin on Shakespeare'sMuch
Ado About Nothing, directed by Casey Cleverly. Set in colonial Macau,
this production exploresMuch Ado's wickedly enjoyable themes of love,
intrigue, power, betrayal, and wit with a talented culturally diverse cast and
a vivid Chinese/Portuguese inspired design concept.
Date: 6/28/2013
– 6/30/2013
Time: 7:00
PM
Location: Brooklyn
Bridge Park, Granite Prospect
Price: FREE
LadysmithBlack Mambazo + Aurelio Martinez
Price: FREE
LadysmithBlack Mambazo + Aurelio Martinez
Description:
The legendary South African choral group, still led by its indomitable
founder Joseph Shabalala, first won international fame through its work on Paul
Simon’s 1986 album, Graceland, but the group has been active for
more than half a century. Today they are the living embodiment of Zulu song,
and a mobile academy of South African culture. “It isn’t merely the grace and
power of their dancing or the beauty of their singing that rivets the
attention, but the sheer joy and love that emanates from their being.” (Paul
Simon) With the soulful singer and guitarist AURELIO MARTÍNEZ, the
standard bearer of Garifuna music and the first black member of Honduras’
National Congress
Date: 6/28/2013
Time: 6:30
PM Doors, 7:30 PM Performance
Location: Prospect
Park Bandshell, 9th Street & Prospect Park West, Brooklyn
Price: $3 Suggested Donation
Price: $3 Suggested Donation
Description: This Trinidadian grande dame of vintage calypso packed such a punch as she rose to fame in the mid-60s, the coveted title “Calypso King” became “Calypso Monarch” in her honor. Into her seventh decade, Calypso Rose’s bold delivery, fearless and funny social commentary, and welcoming warmth on stage make it a hip-shaking Carnival night whenever she plays.
Date: 6/29/2013
Time: 6:30
PM Dance Lessons, 7:30 PM Live Music
Description:
If Downton Abbey weren’t enough of an excuse to dress up in period attire. 92nd
Street Y invites you to dance your way into a different century and feel
history come alive in our unique 1929 Buttenwieser Hall ballroom as you learn
and enjoy 19th- and early 20th- century social dances to Victorian and Ragtime
era music. All are welcome; no experience necessary. Refreshments will be
served. Period or formal attire encouraged. Hosted by Marc Casslar and
Specialty Productions.
Date: 6/29/2013
Time: 7:15
PM Workshop, 8:30 Ball
Location: 92nd Street Y, Buttenwieser Hall, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, New York
Price: $20 Advance, $25 Door
MoMA PS1:2013 Warm Up KICKOFF
Description: Now celebrating its 16th year, the museum's highly anticipated outdoor music series will continue its tradition of introducing audiences to the best in experimental live music, sound, and DJs—both local and international—across a range of genres. Warm Up supports both established and emerging artists by creating a platform that allows for experimentation and provides a space for collaboration, new material, and side-projects. The annual series is held in MoMA PS1's courtyard, which this year will feature a temporary urban landscape by CODA called Party Wall, the winning design of the 14th annual Young Architects Program. . . And while you’re there don’t forget to check out M. Wells Dinette
Location: 92nd Street Y, Buttenwieser Hall, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street, New York
Price: $20 Advance, $25 Door
MoMA PS1:2013 Warm Up KICKOFF
Description: Now celebrating its 16th year, the museum's highly anticipated outdoor music series will continue its tradition of introducing audiences to the best in experimental live music, sound, and DJs—both local and international—across a range of genres. Warm Up supports both established and emerging artists by creating a platform that allows for experimentation and provides a space for collaboration, new material, and side-projects. The annual series is held in MoMA PS1's courtyard, which this year will feature a temporary urban landscape by CODA called Party Wall, the winning design of the 14th annual Young Architects Program. . . And while you’re there don’t forget to check out M. Wells Dinette
Date: Saturdays
thru 9/7/2013
Time: 3:00
PM – 9:00 PM
Location: MoMA
PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave. at the intersection of 46th Ave., Long Island
City
Price: $15 Advance, $18 day-of
Price: $15 Advance, $18 day-of
Annual LGBT Pride March
Description: Officially celebrate the Supreme Courts recent rulings in
favor of gay rights at this year’s pride march. This year we're joined by over
300 unique marching contingents, representing a vast array of non-profits,
community organizations, corporate sponsors, small business, political
candidates and activists! With over 50 floats prepped to make the trek down 5th
Avenue, this year's March will be one of the largest and most exciting in
history.
Date: 6/30/2013
Time: Step Off at 12:00 PM
Location: Begins at 36th St. & Fifth Ave. Ends at
Christopher & Greenwich
Price: FREEThe Art of the Brick
Description:
If only your parents had told you that you could have made a career out of your
lego obsession. . . . The exhibition by artist Nathan Sawaya, is a critically
acclaimed collection of intriguing and inspiring works of art made exclusively
from one of the most recognizable toys in the world — LEGO® bricks. The
Discovery Times Square exhibit will be the world's biggest and most elaborate
display of LEGO® art ever and will feature brand-new, never-before-seen pieces
by Sawaya. Don't miss the show named 'One of CNN's Ten Global Must-See
Exhibitions.
Date: thru
1/5/2014
Time: 10:00
AM – 8:00 PM + 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Location: Discovery
Times Square, 226 West 44th Street
Price: $20.50
Price: $20.50
Washington, DC
Description:
A special annual celebrating cultural traditions around the world. The Folklife
Festival includes daily and evening music and dance performances, crafts and
cooking demonstrations, storytelling and discussions of cultural issues. The
themes of the 2013 program will be: Hungarian Heritage: Roots to Revival; One
World, Many Voices: Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage and Will to
Adorn: African American Identity and the Aesthetics of Dress.
Date: 6/26/2013
– 6/30/2013 + 7/3/2013 – 7/7/2013
Time: 11:00
AM – 5:30 PM with special events taking place most evenings.
Location: National
Mall, Washington, DC
Price: FREE
Description:
If you haven’t seen this amazing documentary yet find away to get to this
screening! Artist Vik Muniz’s art represents one radical legacy of Georges
Braque’s exploration of found materials. Inspired by the lives of the workers
of Jardim Gramacho, one of the world’s largest landfills, outside of Rio de
Janiero, Brazil, Muniz makes a series of portraits using materials from the
landfill. 2010, 90 min, dir. Lucy Walker.
Date: 6/27/2013
Time: 6:30
PM
Location: The
Phillips Collection, 1600 21st Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Price: FREE
Description: What are you doing after work on Friday? Heading to the
Sculpture Garden for a picnic some sangria and a little swing music and you
climb over your fellow Washingtonians in search of your little plot of grass.
Date: 6/28/2013
Time: 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: Sculpture Garden, National Mall at 7th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC
Price: FREENERDS! An Evening of Trivia
Description: How many rings were forged by Sauron in J.R.R. Tolkein’s
Middle Earth? Excluding monuments, what is the tallest building in D.C.? Put on
your thinking cap, grab a drink, and join us for our monthly trivia night!
Enjoy the grilled cheese sandwich special at MTC from 7-8 p.m., grab a latte
(with a lid!) and trek upstairs to four rounds of mind-bending trivia
questions. Prizes will be awarded.
Date: 6/29/2013
Time: 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM (All Ages)
Location: Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington,
DC
Price: FREE
Description: Ira Glass . . . . Love Him! Go behind the scenes of the parallel universe that is public radio’s This
American Life. In the style that has won millions of radio fans, Ira Glass
talks about how it all comes together each week, mixing stories from the show,
live onstage, with taped selections of stories, recreating the sound of the
show as the audience watches. “Mr. Glass is a journalist but also a storyteller
who filters his interviews and impressions through a distinctive literary
imagination, an eccentric intelligence and a sympathetic heart” (The
New York Times).
Date: 6/29/2013
Time: 8:00
PM
Location: Music
Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, Maryland
Price: $38+
Description: The “little orchestra” that just makes a girl smile.
Date: 7/01/2013
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Wolf Trap Filene Center, 1551 Trap Road | Vienna, Virginia
Price: $28
Description:
Meet Bond’s villains, uncover their evil schemes, and explore their exotic
lairs and weapons in this special exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of
the Bond films. See over 100 film artifacts from the archives of EON
Productions, the Bond film producers.
Date: Ongoing
Time: 9:00
AM – 7:00 PM
Location: Spy
Museum, 800 F Street, NW, Washington, D.C.
Price: $19.95
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