Boston Green Festival
Description: Free fun fully inclusive multicultural environmental music festival with over 200 exhibitors and vendors, more than 80 live performances on 4 stages. GreenFilmFest, Forums, EcoArt, EcoPoetry, and plenty more!
Date: August 15 - August 17
Time: 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location: Boston City Hall Plaza, One City Hall Square, Boston
Price: FREE
Black Girl Yoga
Description: “Black Girl Yoga" is a comedic music video about being the only black woman in a yoga class. This video features the talented local artist Obehi Janice. This event will also feature local artists who will perform stand-up, poetry, and music. Come check out this HILAROUS video as well as some amazing local talent. Featured Artists: Obehi Janice, Kirosha Huggan, Shiyan Animashaun, Kenice Mobley, Stirling Smith, and more.
Date: August 16
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: The Center for Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave., Somerville
Price: $5 Advance, $10 Door
Summer Brewfest at Indian Ranch
Description: Seventh Annual Festival celebrates beer, music, food and the beach. Beer enthusiasts will travel to Indian Ranch once again to sample some of the best local, regional and national beers, micro-brews, craft beers and malt beverages available. All while enjoying delicious food, listening to live music, and taking part in fun activities on the shores of the Lake
Date: August 16
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: 200 Gore Rd , Webster MA
Price: $35
The Moth in Nantucket
Description: Theme "Walk the Line"
Date: August 18
Time: 6:30 PM Doors
Location: The First Congregational Church, 62 Center Street, Nantucket
Price: $35
Debo Band
Description: Inspired by the golden age of the 1960s Ethiopian funk, Debo Band takes a collaborative enterprise, and influences from klezmer, avant-garde jazz, and grooves of all genres to celebrate reinventions of traditional songs, a repertoire of Azmari praise-singers, and a trove of original compositions.
Date: August 20
Time: 7:30 PMLocation: Norma Jean Calderwood Courtyard, Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston
Price: $24 Members, $30 Nonmembers
Summer Shindig at Taza Chocolate
Description: Taza is teaming up for a celebration of this season's local favorites with music from Somerville favorites Hornography bringing some brass while you enjoy sips from Bantam Cider and Motto Sparkling Matcha!Of course, if you're hungry then Captain Marden's Mobile Cuisine will have the Cod Squad truck on-site with their fresh-caught menu. As always, Taza will bring it with plenty of samples and a few surprises...Here's a hint: Think of delicious things our friends at Union Square Donuts can do with Taza Chocolate and ice cream!
Date: August 20
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Taza Chocolate Factory, 561 Windsor St. , Somerville
Price: FREE
New York
Moroccan Court Music Series: Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury and Ramzi El-Edlibi
Description: Sitarist Indrajit Roy-Chowdhury will explore the raga idiom in new contexts through original and traditional compositions, while Ramzi El-Edlibi will give rhythmic accompaniment and percussive flourishes on the riq and Egyptian tabla.
Date: August 15
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Gallery 456 (Patti Cadby Birch Court), Met Museum, 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street), New York
Price: Free with Museum Admission
2014 NY KPOP Festival
Description: A celebration of Korean culture and talented performers from across the nation. The Korean Cultural Service New York sponsors this fun competition each year and the winner has the chance to go to Korea for the K-Pop World Festival!
Date: August 15
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, 566 LaGuardia Place, New York
Price: FREE
Company V
Description: A multi-media art show incorporating dance, film, composition, visual art, and poetry into an evening performance. The show is inspired by misconnections and unplanned encounters.
Date: August 15 - August 16
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street
Price: $17
11th Annual Madonnathon
Description: Celebrate Madonna's Birthday!, Tirbute Show & Dance Party, Special Appearance by Renowned Madonna Tribute Artist Chris America!, Wear Your Best Madonna Look & Win Prizes!
Date: August 16
Time: 6:00 PM Doors,Show 8:00 PM
Location: Brooklyn Bowl,
Price: $15
Jazz Age Lawn Party (Take 2)
Description: Just in case you missed the June event, now's your chance to join in the festivities of this stellar event which just screams Summer in New York!
Date: August 16 - August 17
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Governors Island 10 S St Slip - 7 New York
Price: $35+
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The Shining
Description: Can you imagine a better venue to screen the magical paring of Stanley Kubrick and Jack Nicholas in this 1980s classic . . . Redrrum
Date: August 18
Time: 5:00 PM Lawn Opens
Location: Bryant Park Lawn,
Price: FREE
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival
Description: "Scenes From Our City” and filmmaking in NYC featuring NYC classics BIG,The Royal Tenebaums, Coming to America, The Way We Were, and Rear Window. A little something for everyone.
Date: August 18 - August 22
Time: 6:30 PM Gates Open
Location: Located on the landscape between Sheep Meadow and the 72nd Street Cross Drive
Price: FREE
Washington DC
2014 Summer Restaurant Week
Description: Who doesn't love fabulous food . . . make that 3 courses of fabulous food and a wicked awesome deal?
Date: thru August 17
Time: Lunch + Dinner
Location: Various
Price: $20.14 (Lunch), $35.14 (Dinner)
6th Annual DC Beer Week
Description: Hundreds of venues in the District, Virginia and Maryland will host a variety of beer-relatedevents, including beer dinners, tastings, tap takeovers, and more.
Date: August 17 - August 24
Time: Varies
Location: Varies
Price: Varies
The BIG Maze
Description: Leave it to the Building Museum to make a grown up feel like a kid again. Get lost in a never-before-seen large-scale maze for the Museum's historic home. Soaring approximately 18 feet high and measuring 60 feet by 60 feet, the maple plywood structure will boast a series of twists and turns for visitors to weave through and explore.
Date: thru September 4
Time: Monday through Saturday, 10 am–5 pm, and Sunday, 11 am–5 pm
Location: National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC
Price: $10
American Cool
Description: Are you cool? I mean really cool? Cool like jazz musicians Miles Davis and Billie Holiday, actors such as Robert Mitchum, Faye Dunaway, and Johnny Depp, and singers such as Elvis Presley, Patti Smith, and Jay-Z. “American Cool” is a photography and cultural studies exhibition featuring portraits of such iconic figures, who have contributed an original artistic vision to American culture symbolic of a particular historical moment. “American Cool” is captured by a roll call of fine-art photographers from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Annie Leibovitz, from Richard Avedon to Herman Leonard to Diane Arbus.
Location: National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
Price: FREE
Time: 6:00 PM Doors,Show 8:00 PM
Location: Brooklyn Bowl,
Price: $15
Jazz Age Lawn Party (Take 2)
Description: Just in case you missed the June event, now's your chance to join in the festivities of this stellar event which just screams Summer in New York!
Date: August 16 - August 17
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: Governors Island 10 S St Slip - 7 New York
Price: $35+
Bryant Park Summer Film Festival: The Shining
Description: Can you imagine a better venue to screen the magical paring of Stanley Kubrick and Jack Nicholas in this 1980s classic . . . Redrrum
Date: August 18
Time: 5:00 PM Lawn Opens
Location: Bryant Park Lawn,
Price: FREE
Central Park Conservancy Film Festival
Description: "Scenes From Our City” and filmmaking in NYC featuring NYC classics BIG,The Royal Tenebaums, Coming to America, The Way We Were, and Rear Window. A little something for everyone.
Date: August 18 - August 22
Time: 6:30 PM Gates Open
Location: Located on the landscape between Sheep Meadow and the 72nd Street Cross Drive
Price: FREE
Washington DC
2014 Summer Restaurant Week
Description: Who doesn't love fabulous food . . . make that 3 courses of fabulous food and a wicked awesome deal?
Date: thru August 17
Time: Lunch + Dinner
Location: Various
Price: $20.14 (Lunch), $35.14 (Dinner)
6th Annual DC Beer Week
Description: Hundreds of venues in the District, Virginia and Maryland will host a variety of beer-relatedevents, including beer dinners, tastings, tap takeovers, and more.
Date: August 17 - August 24
Time: Varies
Location: Varies
Price: Varies
The BIG Maze
Description: Leave it to the Building Museum to make a grown up feel like a kid again. Get lost in a never-before-seen large-scale maze for the Museum's historic home. Soaring approximately 18 feet high and measuring 60 feet by 60 feet, the maple plywood structure will boast a series of twists and turns for visitors to weave through and explore.
Date: thru September 4
Time: Monday through Saturday, 10 am–5 pm, and Sunday, 11 am–5 pm
Location: National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC
Price: $10
American Cool
Description: Are you cool? I mean really cool? Cool like jazz musicians Miles Davis and Billie Holiday, actors such as Robert Mitchum, Faye Dunaway, and Johnny Depp, and singers such as Elvis Presley, Patti Smith, and Jay-Z. “American Cool” is a photography and cultural studies exhibition featuring portraits of such iconic figures, who have contributed an original artistic vision to American culture symbolic of a particular historical moment. “American Cool” is captured by a roll call of fine-art photographers from Henri Cartier-Bresson to Annie Leibovitz, from Richard Avedon to Herman Leonard to Diane Arbus.
Date: thru September 7
Time: 11:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m. dailyLocation: National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
Price: FREE
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