February 6-14, 2012: 15 Creative Valentine’s Day Ideas, Lincoln & Darwin re-enactments, Chinese New Year, Sex at the Zoo!
02/06/12 by
Johnny Monsarrat
This Week in Review
You can do a lot better than just going to a restaurant for Valentine’s Day. Most of the interactive, creative events that I write about make a good outing, but this week I feature some especially romantic stuff. We are almost up to 2,000 members in the Facebook group. Please click and click “add friends to group” on the right column!
I hope you are having an awesome week. Now get out there and do something fun!
-Johnny
Radium Girls – tix giveaway
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A group of women, factory workers who paint radium on watches to make them glow, worry about glowing themselves in this play about labor law. I have one pair of tickets to give away for the Friday Feb 10th show at 8pm. Email johnny@eventsINSIDER.com to win! (Click ‘more’ for details)A group of women, factory workers who paint radium on watches to mak…
Curry Student Center, 346 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA
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Curry Student Center, 346 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA
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Mortified Doomed Valentine’s Day Sh…
Don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day? Wish somebody would bury it? Join fellow mourners at this hilarious night of stand up comedy. The personal stories shared at Mortified are awkward but hilarious. And I have 2 pairs of tickets to give away. Email johnny@eventsINSIDER.com to win. 7:30pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)Don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day? Wish somebody would bu…
Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline, MA
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Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline, MA
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Celebrate Valentine’s Day… by bur…
But wait! It gets even better with a re-enactor portraying Edgar Allan Poe, reading some of his works about death and love in this anti-Valentine’s Day celebration. I have seen this re-enactor and trust me, DON’T MISS THIS. Two shows, 6pm and 8pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)But wait! It gets even better with a re-enactor portraying Edgar Allan Poe, reading some of his…
Cranston, RI
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Cranston, RI
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Forbes House Museum Lincoln Day
Not enough awesomeness? This historic home will have a re-enactor portraying Mary Todd Lincoln and they’ll have dozens of Civil War re-enactors! That’s always interesting. And they’ll have a concert of Civil War music. Hey Georgia, sorry about Tara. 1-4pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)Not enough awesomeness? This historic home will have a re-enactor p…
Forbes House Museum, 215 Adams Street, Milton, MA
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Forbes House Museum, 215 Adams Street, Milton, MA
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Lowell’s WinterFest Celebration
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This one looks even better! Fireworks, hot soup competition, snowman competition, and a “human dog sled championship”. Yay, fireworks in February! (Click ‘more’ for details)This one looks even better! Fireworks, hot soup competition, snowman competition, and a “human dog sled …
Lowell, MA
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Lowell, MA
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Chinese New Year in Harvard Square
The Harvard Square Business Association puts on perhaps 30 events a year and this looks like one of the good ones. 1-4pm. It’s a Chinese New Year parade that starts at 1:30pm in Winthrop Park (corner of JFK and Mount Auburn) and marches to Mass Avenue to the Hong Kong restaurant. Then 2-4pm, the Hong Kong will have a cultural show with arts and crafts, performers, puppetry, dance, and more. (Click ‘more’ for details)The Harvard Square Business Association puts on perhap…
From JFK Street to the Hong Kong on Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
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From JFK Street to the Hong Kong on Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
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Lunar New Year Festival
Happy Year of the Dragon. ROWOWRRR!! Quincy will have a lion dance and two stages of music and dance. Although the venue is a high school, the promotion is top rate and I would bet it’s worth a visit. And it’s free! 10:30am-4pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)Happy Year of the Dragon. ROWOWRRR!! Quincy will have a lion dance and two stages of …
High School, 316 Hancock St, Quincy, MA
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High School, 316 Hancock St, Quincy, MA
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FIGMENT Kickoff on the Rose Kennedy…
The Greenway has plenty of sculptures, and there are five new ones involving interactive light and music opening with a celebration of dance and music. 2012: 6pm, followed by a social mixer at a nearby bar. At Chinatown Park (Between Beech st and Essex st.). (Click ‘more’ for details)The Greenway has plenty of sculptures, and there are five new ones involving intera…
Chinatown Park, Boston, MA
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Chinatown Park, Boston, MA
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Sex at the Zoo Lecture
There are so many zoo events just for kids that I urge you to get out and support this event for adults ages 21+. What a great idea for Valentine’s Day! 6-8:30pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)There are so many zoo events just for kids that I urge you to get out and support this event for…
Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, MA
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Franklin Park Zoo, Boston, MA
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The Darwin-Lincoln Birthday Forum
No, this man is not Gandalf. He’s Darwin, the scientist who discovered evolution. Come to his and Lincoln’s joint birthday party. 12pm. (Click ‘more’ for details)No, this man is not Gandalf. He’s Darwin, the scientist who dis…
MIT Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
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MIT Killian Hall, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
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This week’s top items are below, or see the complete Boston Events Insider.
And a lot more this week at Boston Events Insider, the most popular events blog in New England, including:
Darwin Day in Concord
Merrimack River Eagle Festival
Eagles at Quabbin
Stars and the Moons of Jupiter
Black History Month Celebration
Town of Greenfield Winter Carnival
Ice Harvesting & Winter Carnival
Campfire Dining- – Newport Winter Carnival Event
Campfire Dining – Full Moon Fiesta
Owl Prowl at Fisherville Brook
Great Rotary Ice Fishing Derby
Jiffycon Live-Action Game Weekend
Annual Lincoln Birthday Brunch
Salem State College Darwin Festival
Sweet Romance: An Evening of Chocolate and Romance
Love Letters by the Fire
Boston League of Women Wrestlers
“Cupid” Story Slam
Romance at the Manse – Four Loves: True tales of love lost and found
Jane Austen Tours
Project Cupid Date Auction: Boston’s Best Bachelors and Bachelorettes
Watson Adventures Naked at the Art Museum Scavenger Hunt
Valentine’s Day Ball w/ Latin Dancing
Chairlift Speed Dating
Valentines Hike & Dessert for Adults
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, “A Venetian Valentine”
The Global Forests of Greenhouse Earth
United We Stand
The Story of Ice Harvesting at Walden Pond
Hike Beneath the Hunger Moon
Follow the Snow Moon
Terrible and Charismatic Waste: A Close Reading of Ocean Plastics
Full Moon Tour: Living in the Dark
Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival
Getting Arabian at the Knights
Full Moon Snowshoe Hike
Winter Tracking Hike at Belle Isle
Full Moon Hike
I Love The Nightlife: Howls and Owls
Owl Moon
Barred Owls and Breakfast
Winter CAMPfire and Open House
Chili Cook-Off at the Newport Harbor Hotel
Winter Trails Day
Boston Globe Travel Show
Salem’s So Sweet Chocolate & Ice Sculpture Festival
Grace Chapel’s Annual WinterBlast
Miss Representation Film – MIT Sloan Women in Management Conference
MIT Neuroscientist Sebastian Seung discusses CONNECTOME!
There Will Be Flood
Happy Medium Theatre Presents ELECTION DAY
Karim Nagi presents ARABIZED
The Game of Love: A Medeival Concert
69 S (The Shackleton Project)
Civil War Music With Dixon’s Gold
Lincoln-Douglas 1958 Debates Reenactment Dinner
Charles Darwin Birthday Celebration & Lecture
Full Storm Moon
USM Winter Carnival
Freezin’ For A Reason – Portland, ME
Lovin’ Ludlow Winter Carnival
Milton Community Winter Festival
Newport Winter Carnival