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Charles River Jazz Festival: Free All Day at the Hatch Shell

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 […]

112 Years on Hanover Street: The Saint Agrippina Feast This Weekend

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 […]

Puerto Rican Festival of Massachusetts: Two Days at Franklin Park

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 […]

Sand, Sea, and Sixteen Sculptors: Revere Beach This Weekend

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 […]

Sail Boston 2026: The Tall Ships Are Here

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 […]

250 Years and Counting: Fourth of July on the Esplanade

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 […]

Red Sox vs. Yankees: Fenway Fills Up Fast

New York wears the wrong color when it walks into Fenway. Boston fans have hated that road jersey for over a century, and June 27 brings it back for one more round. The streets around Kenmore Square start filling hours before first pitch. Nobody plans a quick trip to this game. The ballpark itself fights […]

The Longest Day, Free Admission: Harvard’s Museums Open Their Doors

June 21 lands as the longest day of the year, and Harvard turns it into an open house. The museums waive the ticket. Doors open at the regular hour. Nothing about the schedule changes except the price, which drops to zero. The Harvard Museum of Natural History shares one building with the Peabody Museum of […]

Getting to Gillette: How Boston Town Car Handles World Cup Logistics

The World Cup is here. Seven matches. Four weeks. Fans fly in from around the world, all headed to the same stadium on Route 1 in Foxborough. Most book the flight and the ticket months out. The ride from Logan is an afterthought until match day, when Route 1 turns into a parking lot and […]

Seven Matches. One Stadium. This Summer.

FIFA handed Boston seven World Cup games. Gillette Stadium in Foxborough gets the first one June 13 and the last one July 9 — a quarterfinal. Five group stage matches run in between. Up to 14 national teams step onto that field before the tournament moves on. The stadium sits 22 miles southwest of downtown […]

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