For those days when you need an instant dose of happiness.
Musical Monday: We Were Evergreen
Ridiculous cuteness aka We Were Evergreen.
For those days when you need an instant dose of happiness.
For those days when you need an instant dose of happiness.
Summer in the City: Week 13
It has been a very, very long week and I am so ready for the weekend!
Boston
Saint Anthony’s Feast
But what to do with all of that unscheduled time?
Everywhere
Description: My secret boyfriend, Tony Leung, once again joins forces with Wong Kar Wai to tell the story of Ip Man the martial arts master behind such greats as Bruce Lee. For those of you who know Ip Man and Ip Man 2 this looks to be even more dramatic, bursting with serious awesomeness.
Location: A movie theater near you
Location: A movie theater near you
Boston
Description: Diners can choose from old favorites to the latest
culinary hot spots, from nationally known chain restaurants to local chef owned
bistros, from Asian or Argentinean fare to French, Italian, tapas and sushi,
from the award-winning restaurants of Boston and Cambridge to the gourmet gems
in the suburbs north, west and south of the city
Date: now thru 8/3-/2013
Time: Lunch + Dinner
Location: You Decide
Price: $15.13 - $38.13
Description: 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: 8/23/2013
Time: 10:00 PM
Location: Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge
Price: $10Saint Anthony’s Feast
Description: Begun in 1919, by Italian immigrants from the small town
of Montefalcione in Avellino, Saint Anthony’s Feast has become the largest
Italian Religious Festival in New England. Named the “Feast of all Feasts” by
National Geographic Magazine, this authentic Italian street festival has it all
for people of every age: parades, strolling singers, live entertainment,
contests and religious services are held daily.
Date: 8/23/2013 – 8/25/2013
Time: Varies throughout the Weekend
Location: North End, Boston (Endicott, Thacher & North Margin Streets)
Price: FREE
Saint Anthony is coming! from Steve Dunwell on Vimeo.
Description: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN two City Councillors from each side of
the Charles join forces to host a fundraiser? An epic throw down in the heart
of Harvard Square! Join Leland Cheung (Cambridge) and Tito Jackson
(Boston) at the hottest venue in the Metro, The Sinclair, and enjoy the fight
for bragging rights amongst 8 of Boston's hottest DJs. With our MC On and On as
host, it's time to get down and dirty as these stars go toe-to-toe for the good
of Youth on Fire (Cambridge) and Boston's Alliance of GLBT Youth.
Date: 8/24/2013
Time: 8:00 PM Doors, 8:30 PM Show
Location: The Sinclair, 52 Church Street, Cambridge
Price: $20 Advance, $25 Day of Show
Description: Stop five in the 2013 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series
takes us to Boston, Massachusetts. The roof of the ICA Building will be used as
an urban cliff where the best high divers in the world will leap into the
Boston Harbor.
Date: 8/25/2013
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: ICA Boston, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston
Price: FREE, Reservations Required
Description: This exhibition is a global overview of ways in which
the existing infrastructure of cities around the world is being redesigned,
repurposed, and reimagined to serve alternate and expanded functions for urban
dwellers and visitors. Reprogramming the City celebrates more than 20 examples
of imaginative reuse and repurposing of urban infrastructure, from physical
objects to the city’s most functional systems and surfaces. Cities represented
include London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Los Angeles and Boston.
Date: NOW thru 9/29/2013
Time: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM weekdays, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Weekends
Location: Boston Center for Architecture and Design, 290 Congress
Street, Boston
Price: $5
New York
Description: True Stories Real People and the Audience is the Judge
Date: 8/22/2013
Time: Doors 7:00 PM, Stories 7:30 PM
Location: Housing Works Bookstore Café, 126 Crosby Street, New York
Price: $16 Advance, $18 Door
Description: Lulzcruza is an electronic folk duo at the junction of
the hypermodern and the ancient. Their music weaves together hypnotic female
singing, South American instruments, found sound objects, field recordings, and
electronic manipulation. The result is a cross-genre, world-esque music
unfolding with mesmerizing vocals, aquatic textures and up-tempo, handcrafted
South American rhythms.
Date: 8/22/2013
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
Price: FREE
Description: Head to Harlem for the Studio Museum’s Uptown Fridays!
Uptown Fridays is a series of summer parties at the Studio Museum in Harlem
that places attendees in direct dialogue with current exhibitions. This
installment, titled Body Language, will feature an opening set by Sol Nova and
a closing set by Venus X of the popular GHE20 G0TH1K parties. Abbe Schriber,
curator of Body Language, hosts.
Date: 8/23/2013
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Studio Museum Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, New York
Price: $11
Description: Spend your Saturday night with the man himself.
Date: 8/24/2013
Time: 10:00 PM
Location: Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn
Price: $10
Description: CLASSIC ALERT! For those craving the true roots of Rap, “Wild
Style” captured the hard core South Bronx scene at its births. This
1983 film stars a pantheon of Hip-Hop pioneers, including: DJ Grand Master
Flash, Grand Master Caz and The Cold Crush Brothers, and The Rock Steady
Crew. “Wild Style” also showcases the works of legendary subway artists,
Lee Quinones and Sandra Pink Fabara. “Wild Style” follows the outlaw
artists through the train yards to the rap/break-dance clubs.
Date: 8/26/2013
Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: East River Park at the FDR Drive Entrance at Cherry Street
Price: FREE
Wild Style Trailer from T2B on Vimeo.
Description: This acclaimed series of world premiere one-act plays
from some of the country's top playwrights returns for a seventh season!
Date: NOW thru 8/31/2013
Time: Varies
Location: 59E59 Theaters, 59 East 59th Street, New York
Price: $25
Washington, DC
Washington, DC
Description: DC eaters will be able to enjoy the best that the region
has to offer at incredible rates; three-course, prix-fixe lunch and dinner
menus are priced at $20.13 and $35.13, respectively. Diners can also explore
Chilean wines at participating Restaurant Week locations and vote for their
favorite winery and restaurant at TASTECHILE2013.com. The prize: a Chilean wine dinner for 10 at
the winner's favorite participating restaurant, courtesy of Wines of Chile.
Date: NOW thru 8/21/2013
Time: Lunch + Dinner
Location: You Decide
Price: $20.13 + 35.13
Description: The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Free For
All is a much-loved Washington tradition, offering free performances of a
Shakespearean classic to the general public. STC is thrilled to kick off
our 27th season with Much Ado About Nothing.
Date: NOW thru 9/1/2013
Time: Varies
Location: Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F Street NW, Washington DC
Price: FREE
Description: Each August through October, the Maryland Renaissance Festival
recreates a 16th century English village with crafts, food, live performances
on 8 stages, a jousting arena and lots of games. The Maryland Renaissance
Festival is a fun family event held in Anne Arundel County, about 30 miles from
Washington, DC.At the Maryland Renaissance Festival you can see a fire-eater,
watch jousting in full armor, marvel at jugglers and magicians, and listen to
music and choral groups. Enjoy a variety of fare from 42 food outlets. Shop at
more than 130 craft shops for stained glass, sculptures, jewelry, pottery,
wood-butchery, leather-work, inlay, clothing, and glass-blown creations.
Delight your children with free pony rides, a maze, archery, a play area and
dozens of games.
Date: NOW thru 10/20/2013
Time: 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Location: 1821 Crownsville Road, Annapolis, MD
Price: $17+
Description: zydeco, cajun, and Louisiana funk
Date: NOW thru 10/20/2013
Time: 5:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: National Gallery Sculpture Garden, 401 Constitution Avenue
NW, Washington DC
Price: FREE
Description: The 2nd Annual National Harbor Dragon Boat Races are
being held this summer, celebrating Asian culture and bringing a family-fun
event to the Washington DC area. Dragon boat racing is an important part of the
Chinese traditional culture, dating back more than 2,300 years. With its
location along the Potomac River and convenient access to downtown Washington,
National Harbor is a perfect location for this event
Date: 8/24/2013
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: National Harbor Waterfront
Price: FREE
Description The ensemble presents The Best of Craigslist, taking 37 separate posts to adapt for the stage
using puppets, punches, ukuleles, and a bedazzled loin cloth for a night that
ranges from the hysterical to the tragic to the just plain weird. This
performance contains mature content.
Date: 8/26/2013
Time: Tickets will be distributed in the States Gallery at
approximately 5:30 p.m., up to 2 tickets per person.
Location: Kennedy Center for the Performing Art, 2700 F Street NW,
Washington Dc
Price: FREE
Musical Monday: JazzyFact
Another venture down the rabbit hole known as Korean Hip Hop unearthed the magical find of JazzyFact aKa Beenzino + Shimmy Twice.
Sunday Move
Always Awake
Big
Take a Little Time (featuring Sean2Slow)
Close to You
Sunday Move
Always Awake
Big
Take a Little Time (featuring Sean2Slow)
Close to You
Summer in the City: Week 12
Summer is disturbingly coming to a RAPID end, so lets make the most of the few weeks that remain.
Boston
Third Thursdays: Garden Party
New York
Flow.13
Boston
Third Thursdays: Garden Party
Description: Enjoy moonlit gardens, enchanting landscapes, and
colorful conversations at the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum.
Date: 8/15/2013
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum,
Price: $5 - $15
Description: Cocoa Jackson Lane combines gritty soul with roots and
reggae. Hailing from the Pacific, South East Asia, and Barcelona, this eclectic
outfit instinctively delivers an honest and raw performance. Fronted by the
vivacious Jess Harlen and directed by bassist Camilla Charlesworth, Cocoa
Jackson Lane seamlessly ranges from heart-wrenching delicacy to hard-hitting
dancehall.
Date: 8/15/2013
Time: 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: ICA Boston, 100 Northern Avenue Boston
Price: FREE
Description: Child prodigy and “a giant in the making” (All
About Jazz), Julian Lage joins guitars with Chris Eldridge of the Punch
Brothers and The Infamous Stringdusters for this special performance.
Date: 8/15/2013
Time: 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Location: MFA, Calderwood Courtyard, 465 Huntington Avenue,
Boston
Price: $24 + $30
Description: All of our neighborhoods will come together from across
Greater Boston to work on solutions to make our city a healthy sustainable
place to live. People from all over New England will be welcome to join us.
Boston GreenFest 2013 brings many opportunities to the heart of our city to
learn about green products, services, ideas, networks, and jobs. There will be
interactive exhibits, workshops, presentations, and special features:
continuous live entertainment on three stages, Boston EcoPageant International,
EcoFashion, BostonGreenFilmFest for children and adults, eco-games, One Gallon
Challenge – a “race” starting at noon on Thursday, August 15th to see how far 1
gallon of gas takes them and arrive at City Hall throughout the afternoon to be
on hand during the entire festival, lots of great kids’ activities, great food,
and much more.
Date: 8/15/2013 – 8/17/2013
Time: Varies
Location: Boston City Hall Plaza
Price: FREE
Description: Hitchcock’s influence cuts across Hollywood and the
avant-garde, academia and the art world; more than thirty years after his
death, his life and work remains the subject of endless speculation and
interpretation. For undergraduate film students, close analysis of a Hitchcock
sequence has long been a rite of passage, the equivalent of memorizing your
Shakespeare. Get your fill of a man who created a genre all his own. This week the
Harvard Film Archive will be screening Rebecca, Notorious, Rear Window, The
Lady Vanishes, and Waltzes from Vienna.
Date: 8/15/2013 – 8/18/2013
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy, Cambridge
Price: $9
Description: The Fisherman's Feast is an annual event that began in
Boston in 1910 and is based on a tradition that goes back to the 16th century
in Sciacca Sicily. The
Feast is based on the devotion of the fishermen from Sciacca to the Madonna del Soccorso (Our Lady of
Help). When the fishermen immigrated to America in the early 1900's, they
brought their traditions with them. Today's Feast is much the same as it was
over 100 years ago with lights adorning the street and the smell of sausage in
the air. The current Feast is organized by the descendants of those original
immigrants and still includes a procession of the Madonna through the streets
of the North End.
Date: 8/15/2013 – 8/18/2013
Time: Varies
Location: North End on North, Fleet and Lewis Streets
Boston
Price: FREE
Description: Find yourself swept up into the world of Mac the Knife
in an entirely new re-telling of a penny dreadful story older than bath-tub
distilleries. Imagine Brecht/Weill's "Threepenny Opera," and
John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera" had a kid with the adopted child of
Django Reinhardt and Daft Punk, and that kid owned a night club that played EDM
and Swing Music and buffered it all with cage dancers, burlesque &
vaudeville... what you have is this rollicking immersive ElectroSwing
clubnight theatrical!
Date: 8/16/2013 + 8/18/2013
Time: 8:00 PM
Location: A.R.T. Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge
Price: $20
Description: The Boston International Children’s Film Festival
features intelligent, passionate, and provocative cinematic works for ages
3-14. Co-presented by New York International Children's Film Festival.
Date: 8/18/2013 – 9/01/2013
Time: Varies
Location: MFA, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Price: $10
Chicago
Description: Explore the museum late night with After Dark in the
Modern Wing. Check out special tours of Impressionism,
Fashion, and Modernity and
see the winning design of the Threadless Impressionism challenge. Then rock out to live music and performances by
acclaimed theatrical ensemble Collaboraction. Complimentary appetizers with
cash bar. After Dark—see the Art Institute in a new light.
Date: 8/16/2013
Time: 9:00 PM – 12:00 AM
Location: Art Institute Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue,
Chicago
Price: $20
Description The Glenwood Avenue Arts Fest (GAAF) is a free,
weekend-long arts festival that features 100+ artists, open studios, and live
entertainment on three outdoor stages. Experience art of all disciplines,
music, theater, food and drink on the cobblestone streets of the Glenwood
Avenue Arts District in Chicago’s historic Rogers Park neighborhood.
Date: 8/16/2013 – 8/18/2013
Time: 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM + 12: 00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Rogers Park, Glenwood and Farwell Avenues
Price: FREE
Description: Celebrate India Independence Day with the Rogers Park
parade's colorful floats and lively music along Devon Avenue.
Date: 8/17/2013
Time: 11:30 AM
Location: Devon Avenue from Western to California Avenues, Chicago
Price: FREE
Description: Gogol Bordello is a gypsy-punk band fusing supercharged
folk influences with a sideshow cabaret. This concert—originally scheduled to
take place at the troubled Congress Theater—marks the grand opening of the
Concord Music Hall, although the venue launched earlier this month with a
performance by Adam Ant.
Date: 8/17/2013
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Concord Music Hall, 2047 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
Price: $50
Description: Ólafur
Arnalds has steadily built a reputation as one of the world’s most
bright and able young composers. Purveying a neo-classical style with an array
of influences which range from electronica to minimalism, he is an artist who
draws from a variety of sources whilst maintaining his own unique sound.
Sarah Neufeld is a
violinist and composer based in Montréal, Canada. Best known as a member of
Arcade Fire, she is also a founding member of the acclaimed contemporary
instrumental ensemble Bell Orchestre and has performed and recorded with many
other groups, including The Luyas, Esmerine and Little Scream.
Date: 8/18/2013
Time: 6:30 PM
Location: Millennium Park, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, 201
E.Randolph St, Aveneue, Chicago
Price: FREE
Description: Fusion has a somewhat deserved bad rap. A mish-mash of
two musical styles tends to not really satisfy fans of either genre. Which is
what makes this quartet such a wonderful, winning success. An inspired blend of
the bluegrass and classical worlds, the four reknowned musicians (combined with
vocalist Aoife O'Donovan) won the Best Folk Album Grammy for 2011's The
Goat Rodeo Sessions. It's a
quick-footed album of jumping Appalachia, with a welcome dose of grace not
typically found in barnstormin' pickin'.
Date: 8/18/2013
Time: 7:00 PM, Gates @ 4:00 PM
Location: Ravinia Pavilion, 418 Sheridan Rd
Price: $30 + $80
New York
Description: Over the course of its run at SOB’s, Basement Bhangra
has made an indelible mark on New York’s clubland as one of the city’s most
culturally diverse and consistently high-energy dance parties. In that fifteen
year span, Basement Bhangra has hosted live performances from a who’s-who of
the genre’s top performers, including bhangra legend Malkit Singh, Bally Sagoo,
Bikram Singh, Hard Kaur, and Apache Indian, who performed at this year’s
Basement Bhangra Thanksgiving Eve special.
Date: 8/15/2013
Time: Doors at 7:00 PM
Location: (Le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York
Price: $15
Description: Join award-winning artist Oliver
Jeffers for a presentation about his creative journey, his work
in various formats, and exciting upcoming projects. Hang out after the lecture
because the Mets Open Late (until 9PM) and you still need to check out the Imran
Qureshi roof garden installation and the new (-ish) galleries for the Art of
the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Date: 8/16/2013
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Price: Free with Museum admission, but registration is required
Description: Test your sculpting skills during this annual
competition at Coney Island. Amateurs and pros alike will fashion giant mounds
of sand into works of art, often with spectacular results. In past years,
sculptures have included a replica of the New York Aquarium and a giant
octopus. Spectators who haven't quite mastered the art of sand sculpting can
sit back and quietly judge the competition. Judges award prizes to winners in
five categories, including one for children. There are no experience or age
requirements for this event.
Date: 8/17/2013
Time: 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Location: Coney Island Boardwalk, at West 10th – West 12th Streets
Price: FREE
Description: If you missed it the first time, fear not because
someone’s been looking out for you and you can still catch Helen Mirren in the
highly praised theater production from the London stage. Synopsis: For sixty
years Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly
audience at Buckingham Palace - a meeting like no other in British public life
- it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what
is said. Not even to their spouses. The Audience breaks this
contract of silence - and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the
Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each
Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a
confessional - sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive.
Date: 8/17/2013
Time: 3:00 PM + 7:00 PM
Location: Leonard Nimoy
Thalia at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York
Price: $22
The 8th Bi-Annual Jazz Age Lawn Party on Governors Island
Description: The Jazz
Age Lawn Party is New York City’s original prohibition era inspired
gathering. Hosted and conceived by Michael Arenella, the event started as a
small gathering of perhaps fifty friends and fans. The event, initially
produced by the island, was handed over to Michael in its third year to
organize and grow. Under his watch, the event was carefully crafted and
nurtured, becoming what is now referred to by The Wall Street Journal as,
“the biggest (not to mention the cleanest and most family-oriented)
regular event in the ‘Retro Noveau’ movement...” It was at this time that
St-Germain joined forces with The Lawn Party, delightfully whetting the
whistles of fops and flappers with their refreshing summer cocktails.
Date: 8/17/2013 + 8/18/2013
Time: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Governors Island
Price: $30 (Advance) + $35 (Gate)
Description: What better way to wrap up your outdoor summer movie screening
season than with the Spielberg Classic E.T. Steven Spielberg's masterpiece, one
of the top box office leaders, tells the story of an alien stranded on Earth
and desperate to go home, and the special bond made with 10 year old Elliot.
Features Drew Barrymore in her big-screen breakout role.
Date: 8/19/2013
Time: Lawn 5:00 PM
Location: Bryant Park
Price: FREE
Description: For decades Bobby McFerrin has broken
all the rules. The 10-time Grammy winner has blurred the distinction between
pop music and fine art, goofing around barefoot in the world’s finest concert
halls, exploring uncharted vocal territory, inspiring a whole new generation of
a cappella singers and the beatbox movement. His latest album, spirityouall,
is a bluesy, feel-good recording, an unexpected move from the music-industry
rebel who singlehandedly redefined the role of the human voice with his a
cappella hit “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,” his collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Chick
Corea and the Vienna Philharmonic, his improvising choir Voicestra, and his
legendary solo vocal performances. The spirityouall project
embraces Bobby McFerrin’s folk, rock, and blues influences without abandoning
his fearless improvisational approach or his never-ending exploration of the
human voice. He moves seamlessly between lyrics and wordless lines, trading
phrases with his band, inviting the audience to sing along. Bobby loves to sing
this music, and it shows: spirityouall raises the roof with
joyful grooves.
Date: 8/20/2013
Time: 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Location: Central Park Summerstage
Price: FREE
Description: This summer, the Chamber Music Society heads outdoors to
beautiful Central Park. In a free concert open to all, presented by Naumburg
Orchestral Concerts, an intergenerational cast of CMS artists takes center
stage to perform treasured works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Dvořák as part
of this beloved summer classical music series.
Date: 8/21/2013
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Naumburg Bandshell
Price: FREEFlow.13
Description: Flow.13, a two-part environmental art
exhibition—presented by the Randall's Island Park Alliance, The Bronx Museum of
the Arts and Made Event—features five new site-specific installations by a
group of emerging artists. The artworks, which include mixed-media pieces like
billboards, benches and a ring-shaped bark structure titled "Looping
Back" that references improvisatory jazz, encourage visitor interaction.
The pieces are on view along the southwestern shoreline of Randall's
Island Park through November.
Date: thru 11/1/2013
Time: “Timeliess”
Location: Randall’s Island Park, along the southern shoreline near
the 103rd Street Footbridge
Price: FREE
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