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Revere Beach fills with the last serious beach crowd of the season. Castle Island draws families from across the city. The Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum both see weekend spikes. The city center doesn’t feel static—it pulls movement through its streets, linking neighborhoods, the waterfront, and scattered events across three […]
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Maritime Park sits at the edge of Fan Pier, with the Financial District towers behind it and Boston Harbor in front. Two evenings a year the park fills with jazz—this weekend marks the 16th time. Boston Jazz Fest runs Friday August 28 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturday August 29 from noon to […]
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The San Gennaro Feast started in New York’s Little Italy in 1926, and Boston’s North End claimed its own version decades later. Christopher Columbus Park holds the feast this weekend—August 21 through 23—with more than fifty North End restaurants setting up along the waterfront. The park sits between the harbor and the neighborhood, and on […]
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Fenway Park held two sold-out nights this weekend, and neither one was baseball. Chris Stapleton brought his All-American Road Show to Boston on August 14 and 15, filling the ballpark the way it fills for October playoff games—every seat, standing room, and roof deck. Stapleton doesn’t work the stage the way most arena acts do. […]
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The Boston Jazz Foundation picked the Hatch Shell for the first time this year, and the upgrade makes sense. The stage sits on the Charles River Esplanade with water behind it and the Back Bay skyline to the south—a setting that most paid festivals would charge admission just to stand in. August 8, noon to […]
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Immigrants from Mineo, Sicily, brought their patron saint to Boston in 1914, and the North End has marked the occasion every August since. The 112th Saint Agrippina di Mineo Feast runs July 30 through August 2 on Hanover and Battery Streets—four days of free concerts, street food, and a procession that stops traffic in the […]
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Franklin Park changes on the last weekend of July. The Playstead lawn takes in the stage, the vendors, and the rides—and by noon Saturday, the crowd fills in fast enough that you stop looking for the perfect spot and just pick one. The Puerto Rican Festival of Massachusetts runs this weekend with free admission both […]
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Sixteen master sculptors arrived at Revere Beach this week with nothing but sand and water, and by Sunday each one delivered a finished work the size of a small car. The Revere Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival runs July 17–19, and the admission is free. Has been every year since 2004. Each sculptor gets 12 […]
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Sixty ships from over twenty countries sailed into Boston Harbor yesterday morning, and the city stopped to watch. The USS Constitution led the Parade of Sail at 10:15 a.m. as F/A-18 Navy jets flew overhead. Four minutes later the fleet followed—square-riggers, schooners, and training vessels from Romania, Portugal, Germany, and Italy—each one rounding into the […]
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Two hundred and fifty years ago, fifty-six men signed a document in Philadelphia and changed everything. Boston heard the news before the ink dried—the Declaration was read aloud from the State House balcony on July 18, 1776, and the crowd in the street below responded the way Boston crowds always do. Loudly. The city has […]
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