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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]