Jul 26-Aug 2, 2011: Meteor Shower, Harry Potter Festival, Homecoming Days, Bat Hunting, Outdoor Night Dancing, and More!
Don’t pout about the warm weather this week. More than half the US states have had an official drought and have faced 100 degree temperatures! We are doing just peachy here. Next week I am traveling up to Maine. Please send all your best Maine ideas!
I hope you are having an awesome week. Now get out there and do something fun!
-Johnny
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This week’s top items are below, or see the complete Boston Events Insider.
| Sun 7/31Boston MetroTix Giveaway – House of David.. Delaria + Bowie = JAZZ |
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| Club Oberon is known for its edgy, wonderful performance that take existing themes and reinvent them. This time, David Bowie gets the treatment, performed by Lea DeLaria, a local talent gone Broadway and revisiting Boston. I have two pairs of tickets to give away! Email johnny@eventsINSIDER.com. Oberon, 2 Arrow Street, Cambridge, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Sat 7/30Boston MetroMunch Around Cambridge Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunt tix giveaway |
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| I’m also giving away two pairs of tickets for this scavenger hunt around Cambridge, where you will learn some history, see tourist sites, and sample from local businesses. Email johnny@eventsinsider.com. Cambridge, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Fri 7/29 – Sun 7/31Northern MassLowell Folk Festival |
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| The event of the week is the Lowell Folk Festival: the largest free folk festival in the US. I’ve been and it’s surprisingly rich, with a parade on Friday, 6 performance stages, a yo-yo performance, and the ubiquitous “vendors”. Downtown Lowell, Lowell, MA.978-970-5000. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Thu 7/28Boston MetroDancing on the Dock |
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| I love this! It’s an outdoor dance by the water on the Esplanade. 7-10pm. Community Boating Dock, Esplanade, Boston, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Thu 7/28AnywhereSouth Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower |
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| There are only 9 major meteor showers a year, but if you discount the ones that are too cold to watch, or that are cloudy… you are left with few opportunities! Here is one. A field or lake without city lights, Anywhere. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Sun 7/31Boston MetroDay of Triumph at the Larz Anderson Museum |
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| Of course I can’t resist the Museum of Transportation, again. I’m just going to keep posting these until you go! So don’t fight it! This car show highlights people who own Triumph cars, with a lawn show featuring dozens of automobiles. 15 Newton Street, Brookline, MA.617-522-6547. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Fri 7/29 – Sun 8/7North ShoreBeverly Homecoming Days |
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| Beverly’s homecoming celebration go for an entire week, with dozens of events, the highlights being “Spiral Glyphics” (8/5), which seems to be fire-spinning, an outdoor movie (8/6), and fireworks (8/7)! Various, Beverly, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider more |
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| Wed 7/27Boston MetroHogwarts at the Harvard Museum of Natural History |
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| If you can’t live without Harry Potter… why aren’t you dead yet? Well, The Harvard Museum of Natural History is trying to help. All summer, during the day, you can pick up a “Marauder’s Map” and search for Harry Potter-related curiosities around the museum. Free with museum admission. And July 27, 5-8pm, will be their special Harry Potter night, a party to celebrate the release of the final movie. Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
And a lot more this week at Boston Events Insider, the most popular events blog in New England, including:
The Best Harry Potter Party EVER Part 2, New England Haunter’s Gathering, The Big Lebowski Annual Bowling Party, Matchmaker Matchmaker I’m Willing to Settle, Red Bones Annual Pig Pickin’, Bumpkin Island Art Encampment, St. Joseph Feast Celebration, Summer Shack’s Iron Chef, Abigail Adams Meets Captain William Smith, Bats at Audubon, Yankee Homecoming Festival, Woolly Fair, George Wein’s Newport Folk Festival, Stargazing at Notchview, ZooMoon at Capron Park Zoo, Stories in the Stars, Swim with luminous jellyfish off the Cape, Olde Ipswich Days, Green Meadows Farm Summer Festival, Carnival: Oakland Beach, Sunday Parkland Games, Christmas in July, Circus Smirkus in Waltham, North Haverhill Fair, Canterbury Fair, Air Force Band of Liberty, BridgeFest, Nantucket Comedy Festival, Roxbury International Film Festival, Woods Hole Film Festival, Picnic in the Park at Hayes Park, MassBike Summer Century & Family Ride, Tonya and Nancy: A Rock Opera – our review!, Sherlock Holmes Festival, Marathon reading of Herman Melville’s classic novel “Moby-Dick”, The Battle at Fort Knox Civil War reenactment, Bucksport Bay Festival and the Battle at Fort Knox, Bangor State Fair, Stellafane Astronomy Convention, Champlain Valley Folk Festival, Ferrisburgh Day, Americana Days, Anniversary of the Battle of Bennington
And more than 300 Outdoor Movie, Theatre, and Music Series in New England plus dozens of one-shot outdoor arts events!
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