Summer in the City: Independence Day Special

Its time for fireworks, sparklers, swimming pools and barbecues!

Boston

Boston Harbor Fest
Description: Boston Harborfest 2013 is a Fourth of July Festival that showcases the colonial and maritime heritage of the cradle of the American Revolution: the historic City of Boston. The festival strives to honor and remember the past, celebrate the present, and educate the future with reenactments, concerts, historical tours and much, much more. Over 200 Daily Events during the Festival are concentrated in Boston's historic downtown and waterfront districts, with sponsored Main Events on Boston's City Hall Plaza.
Date: 7/2/2013 – 7/7/2013
Time: Varies
Locations:  Varies
Price: Varies                                                                                                      

Description: Annual Independence Day celebration at the Hatch Shell Fireworks and Free Concert by the Boston Pops Orchestra, and a fireworks display above the Charles River after dark. About 400,000 to 700,000 people attend the event each year. The fireworks are set off when the Pops are playing the finale of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
Date: 7/3/2013 (Concert) + 7/4/2013 (Concert + Fireworks)
Time: 7/3 Oval Opens at 4:00 PM Concert at 7:30 PM, 7/4 Oval Opens at 9:00 AM Concert at 7:30 PM + Fireworks at 9:30 PM
Locations:  Hatch Shell on the Esplanade, 47 David G Mugar Way Boston
Price: FREE

Description: Inspired by ICA’s current exhibition of works by California-based artist (and avid surfer) Barry McGee, this event features West Coast–inspired music and old-school surf videos. First Fridays channels a Coachella vibe on July 5 with DJs spinning West Coast music and a special live performance by surf-rock band Abadabad.
Date: 7/5/2013
Time: 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location:  ICA Boston, 100 Northern Avenue on Boston’s Waterfront
Price: $15 nonmembers                

Description: Picnic in the Park! "Two Gents" tells the tale of two friends who leave their hometown of Verona to find their happy fortunes in Milan. Instead, they find temptation, trickery, and trouble as they vie for favor with the high-society Duke... and his debutante daughter. All are drawn into a web of disguise and secrecy where the last thing anyone wants is for the truth to surface -- least of all the dog.
Date: 7/6/2013 – 7/28/2013
Time: 7:00 PM + 8:00 PM  
Location:  Boston Common
Price: FREE . . . Reserved Lawn Chairs Available $35


Chicago

Independence Eve Celebration
Description: Breakout those flags a little early at the Eve Celebration with the Grant Park Orchestra and Conductor Christopher Bell, Guest Soprano Janai Brugger
Date: 7/3/2013
Time: 11:00 AM (Open Rehearsal), 6:30 PM (Performance)
Location:  Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park
Price: FREE 

Navy Pier Fireworks
Description: Navy Pier is the destination for spectacular fireworks perfectly synchronized to music on Lake Michigan
Date: 07/04/2013
Time: 9:30 PM
Location:  Navy Pier
Price: FREE

Wavefront Music Fest
Description: This annual music fest draws swarms of dance and electronic fans of all ages to the beach each year. For 2013, the lineup includes Audiofly, Audion, Benoit and Sergio, Caspa, Justice, Chris Lake, DJ 3LAU, Shaun Reeves, Soul Clap, Pleasurekraft, Rusko, Magda, Jamie Jones, Lee Curtiss and more.
Date: 7/5/2013 – 7/07/2013
Time: 12:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location:  Montrose Beach, 4400 N. Lake Shore Drive
Price: $79.99+

Windy City Rib Fest
Description: With an annual attendance of over 40,000, this festival proves that Chicago doesn't take its ribs lightly. Taste a variety of different ribs from renowned barbecuing pros, who compete for the Best Ribs award. Kids can enjoy crafts while parents listen to live music and shop from vendors.
Date: 7/5/2013 – 7/07/2013
Time: 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Friday), 12:00 PM – 10:00 PM (Saturday, Sunday)
Location:  Lawrence Avenue and Broadway 
Price: $5 Dontaion + FOOD

Description: The jungle springs to life in a music-filled spectacle that chronicles young Mowgli’s adventures growing up in the animal kingdom. Based both on Rudyard Kipling’s time-honored children’s tales and the classic Disney film—and with a score featuring the movie’s best-loved songs and original Indian-inspired music and dance
Date: Extended thru 8/11/2013
Time: 2:00 PM + 8:00 PM
Location:  Goodman Theatre, 170 North Dearborn Street
Price: $27.50+




Description: If you’ve never seen this amazing film shame on you! Winner of eight Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director for Milos Forman and Best Actor for F. Murray Abraham, who stars as the brilliant Antonio Salieri, whose envy of the genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart drove him to madness.
Date: 7/9/2013
Time: 7:30 PM (Film)
Location:  Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park
Price: FREE


Columbus, OH 

Description: You know you love packing into downtown Columbus with your fellow Ohioans! Just watch out for the sticky children running around with burning sparklers.
Date: 7/3/2013
Time: 12:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Location: Downtown Columbus
Price: FREE

Description: Taste of Boom on Nationwide Boulevard in the Arena District features Rodizio Grill, BD's Mongolian Grill, Steak Escape, Gordon Biersch, and Big Bang. At 3pm you can begin to taste delicious menu selections from the vendors and visit the new and improved Boom Plaza Party sponsored by Three-Legged Mare and R-Bar. The Boom Plaza Party will feature food, drinks, live music, performances by Ohio Idol, and more!  
Date: 7/3/2013
Time: 3:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Location: Nationwide Boulevard, Columbus
Price: FOOD

Description: Sure, you can see politicians waving American flags in just about any run of the mill Independence Day parade. But politicians being required to poke fun at themselves and wear a funny hat? You'll have to go to the annual Doo Dah Parade on July 4th in the Short North Arts District of Columbus to see that. The Doo Dah parade shows "sarcasm at its finest" and celebrates liberty & lunacy. It's not a rally or protest of politics, but invites participants to poke fun at issues and current events in a humorous way. 
Date: 7/4/2013
Time: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Location: Along High Street in the Short North Arts District, Columbus
Price: FREE

Movies by Moonlight: The Muppet Movie
Description: Summers are for outdoor films, grab some friends and check out this Henson classic.
Date: 7/9/2013
Time: Dusk
Location: Easton Town Center, 160 Easton Town Center
Price: FREE


Description: Break up the week and go play with Fitz
Date: 7/9/2013
Time: 3:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Location: The LC, Lifestyle Communities Pavilion, 405 Neil Avenue, Columbus
Price: $25+




Los Angeles

Grand Park 4th of July Block Party
Description: Experience the 4th in a whole new way! Pack your family and friends, puppies and picnics and head to Grand Park to see Downtown LA light up in a spectacle not to be missed!
Date: 7/04/2013
Time: All Day
Location: Grand Park, 200 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
Price: FREE

Description: In this 80th birthday year of The High Priestess of Soul, Grand Performances celebrates one of the most extraordinary artists and icons of American music, the inimitable Nina Simone. A fiery, passionate, revolutionary and uncompromising artist and storyteller who used her remarkable talent to create a legacy of liberation, empowerment, and love throughout her magnificent body of work. Hosted by KCRW DJ Tom Schnabel
Date: 7/05/2013
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: California Plaza, 350 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
Price: FREE

Description: You can hear that music already can’t you?! Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel, Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark saga set the standard for the Hollywood blockbuster while frightening millions of moviegoers out of the water. A rogue shark terrifies the Atlantic resort Amity Island.  Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) suspects the worst, but Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton), mindful of the lucrative tourist trade and the approaching July 4th holiday, refuses to put the island on a business-killing shark alert. But after it becomes obvious there is a serious problem, the Mayor orders the local fishermen to catch the culprit. Satisfied with the shark they find, the greedy Mayor reopens the beaches, despite the warning from visiting ichthyologist Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) that the attacks were probably caused by a far more formidable Great White. And soon, they come face to teeth with the enemy.
Date: 7/06/2013
Time: Doors  5:30pm  Band 6:30pm  Contest 8:00pm  Movie 8:30pm
Location: Exposition Park, 700 Exposition Park Dr. Los Angeles
Price: $10

Description: Shakespeare’s classic tragedy of the pitfalls of ambition
Date: thru 9/1/2013, Thursday – Sunday; Macbeth Starts 7/1/2013
Time: Thursday – Sunday at 7:00 pm
Location: Old Zoo in Griffith Park
Price: FREE


New York

Description:  Crack, Whiz, Boom! Oh . . . and Mariah Carey and Usher too . . . . lets not discuss the Swift . . . 
Date: 7/04/2013
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Anywhere with an unobstructed view of the Hudson River or Live on NBC if you're going to be out of town. 
Price: FREE

42nd Annual International African Arts Festival
Description:  The 4 day IAAF event (Thursday July 4th to Sunday July 7th) is in full swing for its celebration of African and Diasporan Arts; featuring Music, Dance, Theatre, Spoken Words, Visual, Culinary, Fashion, Hair as well as programming for elders, youth and children.
Date: 7/04/2013 - 7/7/2013                           
Time: All Day
Location: Commodore Barry Park, Park Avenue, Navy Street, Flushing Ave. and North Eliot Place, Brooklyn
Price: Suggested Donation

Description:  THEOPHILUS LONDON, “who seems to have studied his Prince, his Andre 3000, and, especially and perhaps most surprisingly, his PM Dawn,” (Philadelphia Inquirer) comes off “like a boastful, macho Janelle Monáe [who] attempts to bridge the 1950s and the 2050s.” (Details) With the French-Cameroonian sisters LES NUBIANS, whose “unique Afropean soul lifts the spirit and moves the feet,” (USA Today) and the reduction stutter funk of Brooklyn’s AABARAKI.
Date: 7/06/2013                                                 
Time: 6:00 PM Gates, 7:00 PM Concert
Location: Prospect Park Bandshell, 9th Street & Prospect Park West, Brooklyn
Price: $3 Suggested Donation






Lincoln Center Festival Kick-Off!
Date: 7/06/2013 - 7/28/2013                         
Time: Varies
Location: Lincoln Center
Price: Varies but definitely a summer splurge     

Description:  Gene Wilder at his best and perhaps creepiest! Roald Dahl really didn’t like kids very much.
Date: 7/08/2013
Time: 5:00 PM  Lawn
Location: Bryant Park, Behind the New York Public Library 40th and 42nd Streets & Fifth and Sixth Avenues
Price: FREE


Washington, DC

National Independence Day Parade
Description:  Get ready for the marching bands. Marching bands from all over the country, military and specialty units, patriotic floats and VIPs. It's a great start to a full day of Fourth of July events.
Date: 7/04/2013
Time: 11:45 AM  
Location: Constitution Avenue from 7th Street NW to 17th Street
Price: FREE

A Capitol Fourth and Fireworks
Description:   What greater sign of patriotism is there than celebrating our declaration of independence in the DC? And if patriotism isn’t enough to get you down there . . . can you really resist the call of Barry Manilow? I didn’t think so.
Date: 7/04/2013
Time: Gates 3:00 PM, Concert 8:00 PM, Fireworks 9:10 PM
Location: West Lawn Capital Building
Price: FREE

Watch 2013 Capitol Fourth Concert on PBS. See more from A Capitol Fourth.





Doctor Faustus in the National Academy of Sciences
Description:   Join the Shakespeare Theatre Company and the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences for a free staged reading of Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus.The play, written in 1592, is based on the story of Faust, an alchemist who strikes up a deal with the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.
Date: 7/08/2013
Time: 6:30 PM  
Location: National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave, NW, DC
Price: FREE, Tickets Required 

Description:   Nine 2011 Tony Awards say it's the Best Musical of the Year. Vogue says, "It's the funniest musical of all time." And the New York Times says, "It's the best musical of this century." It's The Book of Mormon
Date: 7/09/2013 - 8/18/2013
Time: 1:30 PM + 7:30 PM  
Location: John F. Kennedy Center, Opera House, 2700 F Street, NW Washington, DC
Price: $43+          

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