A temporary reprieve from the summer storms make this weekend all the more exciting. So here are a few activities to keep you busy and out enjoying the summer sun for as long as it lasts:
Boston
Description: Can you name another festival that features a beauty pageant, a domino tournament, a parade . .. you can't can you?
Date: August 1 - August 3
Time: Varies
Location: Boston City Hall Plaza
Price: Gala Tickets $25+
Description: Estela Calzada brings you taquitos durados with cheese and potatoes and a salsa featuring the glorious, smoky chile morita, ensalada de nopales (cactus salad) and mole de guajolote de Estela: a rich, burgundy turkey mole that features a whopping 40 ingredients, including 4 kinds of Taza chocolate, and A Flan punched up with mezcal will end the night with a kick. . . who could ask for anything more?
Date: August 1
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Location: Kitchen Inc, 201 Somerville Avenue, Somerville MA
Price: $60
Description: Break out the Ukulele that's been sitting on the shelf for the last year and play like you've never played before. . . in front of other people.
Date: August 1
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge
Price: FREE
Price: FREE
Description: BKBDay is a party in honor of you. The festivities kick off with the One Year Boulder Competition. The BKB Setters are going all out with brand spanking new, comp-only problems! While the competition is underway, competitors and non-competitors alike can enjoy food and drinks hosted by Aeronaut, tunes by DJ Ryan Brown and much more!
Boston Roller Derby Hometeam Season: Cosmonaughties vs. Arkham Horrors
Donut + Wine Pairing with Union Square Donuts and All For Wine - Wine for All
Date: August 1
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Brooklyn Boulders, 12A Tyler St , Somerville, MA
Price: FREE
Price: FREE
Description: Come see the Cosmonaughties take on the Arkham Horros at their Cambridge debut!
Date: August 2
Date: August 2
Time: 6:00 PM (Doors)
Location: Simoni Ice Rink 155 Gore Street, Cambridge, MA
Price: $14
Price: $14
Description: Do you like Donuts? Do you like Wine? Have you struggled with the proper wine pairing for you donuts? Well today is your lucky day! Bing
Date: August 2
Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Boston Wine School, 1354 Commonwealth Ave, Boston
Location: Boston Wine School, 1354 Commonwealth Ave, Boston
Price: $50
New York
Description: My favoirte hometown Ice Cream purveyor has set up camp in NYC's Gotham Market. If you've never experienced Jeni's Ice Cream now is the time to recitfy this most unfortunate of situations.
Date: Thru September
Time: 12:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Location: Gotham Market West, 600 11th Ave, New York
Price: That bikini waistline . . . . $6+
Price: That bikini waistline . . . . $6+
Description: "Modern-day troubadour González’s poignantly delicate voice, masterfully eloquent classical guitar, achingly emotional melodies, and thought-provoking lyrics will be reframed by new chamber orchestra arrangements by Rob Moose in a world premiere collaboration with yMusic."
Date: TONIGHT, July 31
Date: TONIGHT, July 31
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Damrosch Park Bandshell, Lincoln Center
Price: FREE
Description: Celebreate DTH's return after a nine year hiatus with performances of Donald Byrd’s Contested Space (2012), Robert Garland’s Return (1999), and The Lark Ascending by Alvin Ailey. And while your at it introduce yourself to Leyla McCalla a New Orleans based cellist and singer.
Date: July 31
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Prospect Park Bandshell, 9th Street & Prospect Park West, Brooklyn
Price: FREE
Price: FREE
Camille A. Brown and Dancers: Mr. TOL E. RAncE + Stew & The Negro Problem
Description: Mr TOL E. RAncE, sparked by Dave Chappelle, Spike Lee, and W.E.B. Dubois, Brown and company’s powerfully inventive movement humorously and provocatively examines “the mask” of survival and the “double consciousness” of the black performer throughout modern pop culture.
Date: August 2
Time: 7:00 PM
Date: August 2
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Damrosch Park Bandshell, Lincoln Center.
Price: FREE
Date: August 2, August 9, August 16
Time: 7:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Location: Park Ave. from Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park
Price: FREE
Description: These New York-based ensembles are leading exponents of performing arts born from more than a thousand years of historical interaction between Persian and Turkic cultures. Ahmet Erdogdular has been hailed as his generation’s premier performer of Ottoman Turkish vocal tradition. Ensemble Shashmaqam is a group of Central Asian Jewish and Muslim musicians and dancers, masters of the courtly arts of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Rubab (lute) virtuoso Quraishi represents Afghanistan’s Pashto tradition. From the shores of the Black Sea, fiery violinist Nariman Asanov and the New York Crimean Tatar Ensemble perform the traditional music and dance of the Crimean Tatars.
Date: August 3
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Hearst Plaza
Price: FREE
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