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Local

WGBH Summer Arts Weekend Boston

Dance

Diverse and Dynamic Performers Converge on Copley Square

July 24, 2015

Folk dancing in Copley Square, Boston, MA

Local

Folk Dancing Comes to Copley Square Tonight

July 21, 2015

The Clayroom in Brookline, MA

Nightlife

Find Your Inner Artist

July 20, 2015

Sulley, the star of Pixar’s Monsters Inc. and Monsters University, is just one of the characters visitors can pose with in the current Museum of Science exhibition The Science Behind Pixar.

Arts & Culture

Exploring the Science Behind Pixar

July 16, 2015

Boston Landmarks Orchestra performing at the Hatch Shell

Local

Free Classical Music Concerts on the Charles

July 15, 2015

Alternative rock band Guster performing live

Culture

Boston Common Hosts Outside the Box Once Again

July 14, 2015

Free Friday Clicks at the Hatch Shell

Film & TV

Free Friday Flicks Return to Hatch Shell

July 10, 2015

Lowell Spinners, Boston Red Sox Class-A farm team, in the dugout during a game

Things-to-do

Minor League Fun Is Just a Baseball’s Throw Away

July 9, 2015

Great white shark - Carcharodon carcharias, in pacific ocean near the coast of Guadalupe Island - Mexico.

In the City

Dive Into Shark Week

July 6, 2015

Charles Riverboat Company’s Architecture Cruise

Film

Viewing Boston Landmarks from the Water

June 26, 2015

Boston-based band Night Lights

Boston

Free Berklee Summer Concert at the Rose Kennedy Greenway

June 24, 2015

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki nami-ura), also known  as the Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji  (Fugaku sanjûrokkei) Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849) about 1830–31 (Tenpô 1–2) Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper * William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Arts & Culture

Celebrating Japan’s Most Famous Artist

June 22, 2015

Boston University's Observatory for stargazing

Science & Technology

Star Search

June 17, 2015

Signage of Mel's, the iconic drive-in diner in the film American Graffiti

Local

Free Screening of American Graffiti, Alfresco

June 16, 2015

grape vines at Arnold Arboretum in Boston

University News

A Walk in the Park

June 15, 2015

Boy ordering from Trolley Dogs food truck

Culture

Weekly Summer Food Truck Festival Tonight

June 11, 2015

harpist Nicolas Castaneda of the Nicolas Castaneda Group jazz band

Local

Free Concerts in the Courtyard Series Returns to BPL

June 10, 2015

Cambridge River Festival

Music

Celebrating the Arts in Cambridge

June 5, 2015

Matthew Ritchie’s painting Remanence in the lobby of the Institute of Contemporary Art, where admission is free each Thursday evening. Photo courtesy of the Institute of Contemporary Art, copyright Geoff Hargadon

Painting

Thursday Nights at the ICA Are Free

June 4, 2015

The Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Food & Dining

Eating Ice Cream for a Cause

June 2, 2015

Eating Ice Cream for a Cause