Feb 9-15, 2011: Chinese New Year, Darwin Day, Animal Tracking, Hawthorne & Poe, 10 Giveaways, and How to Spend or Avoid Valentine’s Day Creatively
Welcome to Boston Events Insider! I have just created the Events Insider Spring 2011 Guide, a heads up on my favorite Spring events and I list more than 700 off-beat attractions in New England, like where to go to see sled dog races or real dinosaur footprints. These ongoing attractions aren’t exactly “events” so you won’t see them in my regular blog. The only way to get them is to see this guide. Print it out and keep it in your car for serendipity. It is free to anyone who helps get the word out by going through the 9 steps in the checklist to tell friends about Events INSIDER.
This week’s top items are below, or see the complete Boston Events Insider.
| Tue 2/15Boston MetroFree movie preview tix – Just Go With It, Cedar Rapids |
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| I have free movie preview tickets for Cedar Rapids, the comedy with Ed Helms and John C. Reilly, Feb 15 at 7pm in Cambridge, and Just Go With It, a comedy with Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler, TODAY, Wed Feb 9, 2pm in Boston. Email me at johnny@EVENTSinsider.com and let me know what you want to win! AMC Boston Common Theatre, Boston, MA.  see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Tue 2/15Boston MetroEdgar Allan Poe: Love and Death – ticket giveaway |
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| My favorite historical re-enactor plays 19th century horror author Edgar Allan Poe, reading some of his works about death and love in this anti-Valentine’s Day celebration. And I have tickets to give away! 7pm. Email me at johnny@EVENTSinsider.com and let me know what you want to win! Elizabeth Peabody House, 277 Broadway, Somerville, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Mon 2/14Boston MetroMortified – Doomed Valentine’s Day Show |
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| Mortified is the spoken word performance where people read their past diaries, transforming past tragedy into catharsis and comedy. I have tickets to give away. Email me at johnny@EVENTSinsider.com and let me know what you want to win! 7:30pm. Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Sat 2/12Boston MetroThroat Singing Workshop with Huun Huur Tu – ticket giveaway |
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| Although this event goes undescribed… throat singing workshop? I don’t care what it is. It just sounds AWESOME. And I have tickets to give away! Email me. 3pm. Church, 11 Garden St, Cambridge, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Sat 2/12Boston MetroNaked Girls Reading: Love Stinks – ticket giveaway |
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| Yes, it’s just what you think. Naked women read for Valentine’s Day. 12am. Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Sat 2/12 – Sun 2/13WorcesterValentine’s Day at Old Sturbridge Village – ticket giveaway |
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| My favorite re-enactment museum, Old Sturbridge Village, is holding an entire weekend of events to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Bring your ice skates! And email me to win tickets, johnny@eventsinsider.com. Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Thu 2/10 – Sun 2/27Boston MetroSunfish – ticket giveaway |
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| In this musical Korean tale, a young girl goes on a quest to find a cure for her father’s blindness, exploring an undersea world. I have free tickets to give away and take a look at the creative extra events: food tastings and workshops! Stoneham Theatre, Stoneham, MA. see details on the complete Events Insider |
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| Tue 3/1 – Mon 5/30EverywhereJohnny’s Spring 2011 Event Guide |
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| Finally! As well as the 4,000 hand-picked, manually researched events that I track every year, I’ve also chosen 720 ongoing attractions, like where to see dog sledding or a butterfly museum, that I don’t get a chance to write about because they’re not really “events”. Invite your friends to Events INSIDER and get a copy of my Spring 2011 Guide, with all these attractions and a heads up on my favorite events through May. Click the link and go through the checklist, then email me for the guide. Everywhere. 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:
Boston’s Chocolate & Wine Night Tour – Free Tickets, Chinese New Year Lion Dance Festival, Peabody Essex Museum’s Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year Celebration, Asian Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year Celebration in Arlington, Forbes House Museum Lincoln Celebration, Sundance Thriller on Atheism vs. Christianity Debuts on “Darwin Day”, Darwin Day Party, Darwin Day Toast, Salem State College Darwin Festival, Stephen Fry, Frederick Douglass, New Bedford and the Civil War, Oceanside Campfire, Merrimack River Eagle Festival, Town of Greenfield Winter Carnival, Ice Harvesting & Winter Festival, Moonlight Snowshoeing for Adults, Sundown Owl Prowl, Eagles at Quabbin, Owl Prowl at Fisherville Brook, Snowshoe Tours at the DeCordova Museum, Snowshoeing, Flat Rock Walks-Valentine’s Day Snowshoeing, Invented Here!, Neandertals and Modern Humans: The Genetic Evidence for Interbreeding, The Art of Romance in the Austen Era, Romance at the Manse – Four Loves: True tales of love lost and found, Stories + UnValentine’s Day at Lizard Lounge, Get Over It!, Love Letters to the A.R.T., Anti-Valentine’s Day Party, Valentine’s Day: Go Hunting for Cupid on a N*ked at the Art Museum Scavenger Hunt, Boston League of Women Wrestlers, Valentine Day FlirtFest, Skate Date at Kendall Square Ice Rink, Ice Skating Party in Kendall Square, Frozen Fun at Reilly Memorial Skating Rink Chestnut Hill Reservation, Wackmaster Ice Fishing Derby, Salem’s So Sweet Chocolate & Ice Sculpture Festival, American Heritage Chocolate Festival, Lincoln & the Civil War, Tweetup Under the Stars, Museum of Science, Tracking Predators on Averill’s Island, Belle Isle Winter Tracking, Campfire Dining – Full Moon Fiesta, Shelburne Falls ArtWalk – Art Under the Stars, Camellia Show at Tower Hill, Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival, I Heart Women’s Rights!, Freezin’ For A Reason – Portland, ME, Who Discovered Jackson Pollock? And Why?, Flood Relief Fundraiser for Australia, Irish Film Festival’s Pre-Fest Screenings, Boston Globe Travel Show – ticket giveaway, India Pavilion
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