Because I certainly missed you!
This week's calendar is full of tantalizing adventures so I hope that it will make up for my unexpected absence last week.
Multi City
The Moth
Description: If you don't know already I adore The Moth, its right up there with Radiolab, This American Life, and Selected Shorts on my radio listening (or podcast) short list. For those of you who don't yet know it's time to get familiar and embrace your inner nerd.
Locations Near You:
- Minneapolis, MN: "Switching Gears: The Moth at Tour de Fat Minneapolis" 7/27/2013 @ 8:00 PM, Loring Park
- New York, NY: "Flames and Flings" 7/29/2013 @7:30 PM, The Bitter End
- San Francisco, CA: "Flames and Flings" 7/30/2013 @ TBD, Public Works
- Chicago, IL: "Lost" 7/30/2013 @ 8:00 PM, Martyrs
- Louisville, KY: "Wanderlust" 7/30/2013 @ 8:00 PM, Headliners Music Hall
Boston
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Description: Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, which performs in Mardi
Gras-style costumes and masks, is an improvisational second-line brass band
playing a unique blend of original and traditional music. “A seasoned
collection of horn and percussion players, the group puts a funky spin on
everything from Billy Idol to Ornette Coleman,” says The New Yorker. Leader Ken
Field is a longtime member of the modern music ensemble, Birdsongs of the
Mesozoic. The group’s CD releases have been included in best-of-year lists in
the Village Voice and many other publications. RSE has appeared at the Kennedy
Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Presented in partnership with JazzBoston.
Date: 7/25/2013
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Location: Central Library, Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street
Price: FREETraniWreck: Old + Now
Description: TraniWreck is 9 years old AND it's the 2-year
anniversary of Heywood Wakefield's stroke! Celebrate with host and MC Heywood
Wakefield and usual suspects Madge of Honor, Johnny Blazes, Katya, and
Aquanette Jones, along with special guest Rainbow Frite, who performed at the
first TraniWreck ever! And of course, jingles by Cotton Candy, political
cheerleading by Boston Sass Attack, Leah James Abel + Kate Mills make us laugh,
and aerialists Kate Law + Stephanie Jones. Dancing until 1am with DJ Brian Halligan,
and a Special Sale of Heywood Wakefield memorabilia, including suits of all
sizes and other vintage clothing.
Date: 7/26/2013
Time: 8:00 PM – 1:00 AM , Doors 7:00 PM
Location: Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge
Price: $15 + $20Boston Summer Arts Weekend
Description: This free weekend event will again feature a dynamic
variety of musical artists from across the classical, jazz, blues, folk, and
Americana worlds as well as a number of new arts, food and cultural programs.
EVENT HIGHLIGHT Red Baraat, Boston
get to know this amazing Brooklyn based Bhangara Funk instant party band. They’re
performing Saturday night at 6:030 PM and its one performance I guarantee you
won’t want to miss!
Date: 7/26/2013 – 7/28/2013
Time: Varies
Location: Copley Square
Price: FREE
Description: Featuring a series of interactive visual and performing
arts events structured to educate, entertain and promote creativity. Activities
include outdoor music concerts, interactive dance performances, a movie
screening, chalk art, recycle art workshops and more.This year’s theme is
“Follow the Yellow Brick Road”, with visual and performing arts events to spark
excitement in audiences of all ages!
Date: 7/29/2013 – 8/1/2013
Time: 4:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Location: Centanni Park, 2nd Street and Centanni Way, Cambridge
Price: FREE
Chicago
Description: Browse more than 120,000 used books in more than
70 categories, most going for $2 and under—a fair price, indeed.
Date: 7/25/2013 – 7/28/2013
Time: 12:00 PM – 8:00 PM and 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Location: Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street
Price: Books
Pierogi Fest
Wicker Park Fest
Food Truck Rally 2013
Description: These starchy treats are honored by fans chowing
down on the Eastern European dumplings and Whiting residents who don pierogi
costumes. You can compete in the Pierogi Toss, enter an eating contest,
participate in a parade or boogie down in the polka competition, all in honor
of the little pierogi.
Date: 7/26/2013 – 7/28/2013
Time: 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM/5:00 PM
Location: 119th St at Indianapolis Blvd, Whiting, IN
Price: FREEWicker Park Fest
Description: The always strong WPF delivers yet again, with
gonzo art-rock band Man Man, former Feist guitarist Bahamas and sunshine pop
duo Cults on Saturday. The second day brings psych icon Roky Erickson and
literate punk Ted Leo. The kids-friendly fest also offers mini golf and face
painting. Man Man is totally going to hungrily eye that putt-putt course and
face paint.
Date: 7/27/2013 – 7/28/2013
Time: 12:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location: Milwaukee Ave, between North Ave and Paulina St
Price: $5Food Truck Rally 2013
Description: The Food Truck Rally returns for a day filled with
local food trucks, such as the Fat Shallot and Curried, along with live music
and fresh produce from The Plant’s urban farm. The Plant, the nonprofit behind
the Food Truck Rally, promotes sustainably grown and produced food, and what
better way to support their mission than by buying amazing food from Chicago
locals?
Date: 7/27/2013
Time: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: The Plant, 1400 W. 46th Street
Price: $7, $5 Advance
New York
Kronos Quartet with special guests Magda Giannikou and Vân-Ánh Võ and The Gloaming
Description: Part of Kronos Quartet’s 40th Anniversary
festivities at Lincoln Center and the Out of Doors series, get your
contemporary music fix with this great line up.
Date: 7/26/2013
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Lincoln Center, Damrosch Park Bandshell
Price: FREEOzomatili
Description: L.A. culture-mashing collective Ozomatli retakes
the stage for a full-on border-crossing set of hip-hop and rock, funk, salsa,
cumbia, and more. With an activist spirit to match its hard-hitting beats, the
multi-Grammy-winning band captures the sound of a drop-top drive down sonically
diverse Sunset Boulevard.
Date: 7/27/2013
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: Lincoln Center, Damrosch Park Bandshell
Price: FREELIANNE LA HAVAS / LP / QUADRON / DJ SETS BY DJ CENTER
Description: It’s a British invasion! A couple of these ladies
were in the queue to be featured on an upcoming Musical Monday, but why wait
check out their fantabulousness now. If I were in New York this weekend and I
only did one thing it would be attending this concert.
Date: 7/27/2013
Time: 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location: Central Park Summer Stage
Price: FREE
Description: You know you’ve been looking to properly shake
your groove thang on the dance floor all summer so join DJ Steve Reynolds (a Time
Out Critic’s Pick) as he spins the best pop, dance, hip-hop and
R&B jams of the ‘90s.
Date: 7/27/2013
Time: 9:00 PM
Location: 92nd Street Y, Buttenwiser Hall Lexington Avenue @
92nd Street
Price: $5San Francisco
Nightlife at the Academy: Science of Brewing
Description: Delve into the art and science of brewing beer
with talks and tastes from some of the Bay Area’s best.
Date: 7/25/2013
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse
Drive, San Francisco
Price: $12Gilroy Garlic Festival 2013
Description The 35th annual “Ultimate Summer Food Fair”; three days
of incredible food, beverages, arts & crafts and live entertainment.
Date: 7/26/2013 – 7/28/2013
Time: 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM (Gates Close at 6:00 PM)
Location: Christmas Hill Park; Gilroy, CA, 30 miles
south of San Jose off Highway 101
Price: $17The Matrix Live with the San Francisco Symphony
Description: There is no
spoon! Enjoy The Matrix as composer Don Davis conducts the San
Francisco Symphony in a live performance of his famous score, and experience
the film as you’ve never seen it before.
Date: 7/27/2013
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Davies Symphony Hall, 201 Van Ness Avenue,
San Francisco
Price: Limited Availability Renegade Craft Fair
Description The Renegade Craft Fair rolls around twice a year, an apocalypse of the
adorable and the handmade, crafts made by artisans from far, wide, and the Bay
Area. Soft cotton T-shirts with whales sketched on them, trippy one-of-a-kind
vinyl album covers, sugar skull kitchen mittens, salted caramel pickles
(probably), and jewelry jewelry jewelry. It's the perfect occasion to shop for
gifts for your pals' weddings, family's birthdays, or co-workers' kids' bat
mitzvahs. And when you need a pick-me-up in the midst of the exhaustive shopping,
wait in line for beer and wine and treats or listen to the disc jockey play
records and then start a conversation with the guy about his records if you
want, or about his whale T-shirt. There will also be a hands-on DIY workshop
(sponsored by Toyota) for those who want to learn how to make crafts so that
they too can offer something adorable and handmade in this DIY Renaissance.
– The Village Voice
Date: 7/27/2013 – 7/28/2013
Time: 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Location: Fort Mason
Center Festival Pavilion, Marina Blvd. and Buchanan
Street
Price: FREESunday Service: A Party for the People
Description: An evening of organized chaos. Funk, Jazz, Hip hop, Soul, anything goes for the next installment of a monthly party in San Francisco. Inspired music provided by a collective of talented musicians and performers at the 50 Mason Social House in the heart of San Francisco.
Date: 7/28/2013
Time: 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Location: 50 Mason Social House, 50 Mason Street, San Francisco
Price: FREE
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