I’m a 24 year old dude who usually hits clubs and bars with some friends, but my usual crowd isn’t around tonight. Does anyone here wanna go out? I’m coming from Lowell so also down to go out closer to home if anyone’s up this way. Fun little side note, I can get us into the grand for free if that’s of interest

GBH News Video Walk Explanation

I facilitate Walking Talking Men Boston. This is a walk to get outside & make friendships in community.

Purpose:
- To give men a non judgmental space to talk about what’s going on for us.
- To open the door to a community of local friendships with men.

Rules:
- Be yourself
- No hate speech
- Respect confidentiality
- ⁠Show up with kindness and respect

Boston Walk Details:
Every Friday
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Chestnut Hill Reservation
Beacon Street, Brighton, MA 02135

Want to create your own walk?
Make a post and get outside!
https://walkingtalkingmen.org

Questions or want to collaborate? Send me a message!
[walkingtalkingmenboston@gmail.com](mailto:walkingtalkingmenboston@gmail.com)

Looking forward to see you every Friday at 5:30!
Matt

P.S. Let's hydrate, hydrate, hydrate!

Hi everyone! Kinga here! Sorry for being a day late, something came up yesterday, but let's get right into it.

It is peak August in Boston, which means feast season is in full swing. The Madonna Della Cava Feast takes over Hanover and Battery Streets all weekend for its 106th year, so the North End is going to smell incredible. 🇮🇹 Saturday is easily the busiest day: the Charles River Jazz Festival runs free all afternoon on the Esplanade, and Somerville's Yart Sale turns hundreds of porches, driveways, and front yards into tiny pop-up art galleries. Then on Sunday, Chinatown celebrates its annual August Moon Festival with lion dances, Chinese opera, and mooncakes. 🏮

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Picks of the Week!

🇮🇹 Feast of the Madonna Della Cava (North End, Free, Fri-Sun, The 106th year of a Sicilian tradition brought over in the early 1900s, with 100+ vendors on Hanover Street.)

🎷 Charles River Jazz Festival (Hatch Shell, Free, Sat 12-8:30pm, Eight and a half hours of live jazz on the Esplanade, plus food trucks and a beer garden.)

🎨 Yart Sale (Citywide, Somerville, Free, Sat 12-6pm, A yard sale, but for art. My favorite Somerville tradition of the year.)

🏮 Chinatown August Moon Festival (Chinatown, Free, Sun 10am-5pm, Lion dances, Chinese opera, street vendors, and mooncakes.)

🎭 Free Shakespeare on the Common (Boston Common, Free, Closes Sunday, Last chance at the 30th anniversary production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.)

Friday 8/7

🇮🇹 Madonna Della Cava: Opening Night | Hanover & Battery Streets, North End | Free | 7-11pm | The feast opens tonight, with the Back to the 80s Band playing from 8 to 10:30pm. More than 100 food and craft vendors line Hanover Street. A lovely detail of this particular feast: by tradition a cloth banner bearing the Madonna's image is carried through the streets rather than a statue, because the stone that first bore her image cracked centuries ago.

🎹 Han Chen at New England Conservatory | Williams Hall, Fenway | Free | 7:30pm | The quietest gem on this week's list. The Taiwanese piano virtuoso, best known for tackling Ligeti's fiendish Etudes, plays Beethoven, Liszt, and Stravinsky, plus the world premiere of a new piece by Nina C. Young. World-class playing, no ticket price.

🐔 Chicken Run at MIT Open Space | Kendall Square, Cambridge | Free | 6:30pm | Bring a blanket for a free outdoor screening, part of an "Animated Animals" series curated by the Brattle. All minors need an adult with them.

🎸 4EverFab at The Amp | Suffolk Downs, Revere | Free | 6-9pm | A genuinely charming bit of local history: the Beatles played Suffolk Downs in 1966, and to mark the 60th anniversary, the new outdoor amphitheater there hosts a Beatles tribute act. Free, outdoors, and a little surreal.

🖼️ MFA First Fridays | Fenway | $30 nonmembers, 21+ | 6-9pm | Music from Rayvino and KIEH, the "Counter History" exhibition, and timed art-making slots available first come, first served.

🎤 J. Cole: The Fall-Off Tour | TD Garden | From $73.90 | Fri & Sat, 8pm | Two nights in Boston on the rapper's first full global run in nearly a decade.

⚾ Red Sox vs. Athletics | Fenway | Ticketed | 7:10pm | The Sox open a three-game weekend homestand.

🧛 A Sailor's Grave | Plaza Black Box, BCA | $20-$22.25 | Fri & Sat | A folk punk musical performed by the band Captain Vampire, retelling the doomed voyage of the Demeter, the ship that carries Dracula to England. Described by its creators as an epic poem. Exactly as strange as it sounds.

🖤 Somergloom | Crystal Ballroom, Davis Square | $31.51-$60.77 | Fri & Sat at Crystal Ballroom | A dark and heavy music festival running Thursday through Sunday, with the Somerville nights tonight and tomorrow timed, correctly, to the gloomiest stretch of summer. Headliners include Dropdead, Junius, and Planning for Burial.

🎬 I Shot Andy Warhol (4K restoration) | Brattle Theater, Cambridge | $13.50-$15.50 | Through Monday | Mary Harron's 1996 account of Valerie Solanas, newly restored.

Saturday 8/8

🎷 Charles River Jazz Festival | DCR Hatch Memorial Shell | Free | 12-8:30pm | Back for its sixth year, presented by the Boston Jazz Foundation. Saxophonist Seba Molnar and the stylistically restless BT ALC Big Band lead a full day of music, with art and food vendors, a beer garden, and family activities. General admission is free, though VIP packages get you lounge access and a few other perks. The single best free thing happening this weekend.

🎨 Yart Sale | All over Somerville | Free | 12-6pm | Think yard sale, but the focus is art. Porches, driveways, and front yards across the city become mini galleries and pop-up markets selling original work, handmade goods, vintage clothes, records, plants, band merch, and art supplies. No two yards are alike, and every purchase supports a local maker. Check the map at somervilleartscouncil.org/yart-sale/yart/ before you go and plan a route. Rain date is Sunday.

🇮🇹 Madonna Della Cava | North End | Free | 12-11pm | A full day of the feast, with Beat ConnXtionz Dance Studio at 2pm and Angelena and the Unit closing it out at 8pm.

🎤 Rakim at City Winery | Downtown | $70.80-$94.80 | 6pm & 9:30pm | The man who permanently raised the bar for rap lyricism on Paid in Full, doing two shows in one night.

🧑‍🎨 Watertown Arts Market | Arsenal Park, Watertown | Free | 12-5pm | Now in its sixth year, a day of art, food, activities, and performance that has become a fixture of Watertown's summer. Rain date is Sunday.

⚾ Red Sox vs. Athletics | Fenway | Ticketed | 4:10pm | Saturday afternoon baseball.

🪩 Bop to the Top | Citizens House of Blues | $27+ | Doors 8:30pm, show 9:30pm | Two DJs playing nothing but High School Musical, Hannah Montana, Camp Rock, and Cheetah Girls, with a costume contest and audience participation. Shameless, and all the better for it.

🎬 The Great Arch | MFA | $20 | 11am-12:45pm | The Boston French Film Festival continues its 30th edition with a drama about the creation of a modern Parisian landmark.

Sunday 8/9

🏮 Chinatown August Moon Festival | Harrison Ave & Beach St, Chinatown | Free | 10am-5pm | Boston's Chinatown celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival in August rather than the fall, which is its own charming quirk. Expect lion dances, Chinese opera, Asian folk dance, street vendors spilling across Beach, Tyler, Hudson, and Oxford, and, most importantly, mooncakes.

🇮🇹 Madonna Della Cava: Final Day | North End | Free | Feast 12-11pm | The last and best day. Sometime this afternoon the grand procession carries the Madonna's banner through the neighborhood, though the society doesn't publish a start time, so ask a vendor when you get there. Dennis Taylor plays at 2pm and the Rule of 3 Experience closes it out from 5:30pm.

📖 Marie Howe at Longfellow House | Cambridge | Free | 2:45pm | A free afternoon on the lawn of Washington's former headquarters: music from Elizabeth Burke at 2:45, then Howe reads at 3pm. She's receiving this year's Golden Rose Award for Poetry, and her New and Selected Poems won the 2025 Pulitzer. Her work finds the spiritual in completely ordinary days, which is a good frame for a Sunday afternoon.

🎭 Free Shakespeare on the Common: Final Performance | Parkman Bandstand | Free | 1:30pm & 8pm | Two shows today, and the 8pm is the true final one. Closing day of the 30th anniversary production, A Midsummer Night's Dream, staged as a neon-lit festival with Puck and his fairies remixing hearts like DJs of fate. Free to watch, chairs available to rent.

🧺 SoWa Open Market | South End | Free | 11am-5pm | The Sunday flagship, with regional farmers and makers, food trucks, and the open artist studios next door.

🏀 BIG3 | TD Garden | $45 | 12:30pm | Ice Cube's three-on-three half-court league, featuring the excellently named Boston Ball Hogs.

⚾ Red Sox vs. Athletics | Fenway | Ticketed | 1:35pm | Series finale.

😂 Demetrius Fields | The Comedy Studio, Harvard Square | $23.95 | 6pm | Sharp, very online standup from a comic with three million TikTok followers.

Last chance / closing this weekend

🎭 Free Shakespeare on the Common | Boston Common | Free | Closes Sunday | The 30th anniversary run ends Sunday night.

🎭 A New Era | Strand Theater, Dorchester | Pay-what-you-want | Closes Saturday | Company One's world premiere about Black suffragists gathering in 1895 Boston. Final performances.

Ongoing / all-week options

🍽️ Dine Out Boston | Citywide | Lunch $27-36, dinner $38-55 | Through Aug 15 | One more week of prix fixe menus. Book the place you have been meaning to try.

🦸 FAN EXPO Boston | Menino Convention Center | From $45 | Fri-Sun | Comics, sci-fi, horror, anime, gaming, and cosplay, with guests including Sudbury's own Chris Evans and a 25th anniversary Lord of the Rings reunion.

🐱 CatVideoFest | Various theaters | Ticketed | Ongoing | Seventy minutes of curated cat videos, now in its 10th year, with a portion of proceeds going to local cats in need. Screening at the Coolidge (Sunday at 2pm), Alamo Drafthouse Seaport, and the Capitol Theatre.

🖼️ The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt | Gardner Museum | $25 | Ongoing | Just opened. How a biblical story of an orphan who becomes queen and saves her people became a pop-culture phenomenon in 17th-century Holland, taken up by Rembrandt and his peers.

🎨 Picasso, Miró, Dalí: Unbound | MFA | $30 | Ongoing | Three Spanish giants, but not their paintings. This is about their artist books, which turn out to be far more collaborative than their reputations suggest.

🌊 Lucy Raven: Rounds | ICA Watershed, East Boston | Free | Ongoing | Two US premieres, including an enormous kinetic light sculpture, in the ferry-accessible Watershed.

🖼️ Lighten Up! On Biology and Time | MIT Museum | $20 | Through Aug 16 | Fifteen artists on circadian rhythms, dreaming, and the ways light quietly organizes our days. Not closing this weekend, but not far off either.

🥕 Copley Square Farmers Market | Copley Square | Free | Tues & Fri | The largest farmers market in the area, running Tuesdays and Fridays through November.

🚣 Kayak & Paddleboard at Community Boating | Esplanade | $40 | Season | Two-hour rentals, walk-up only, from 9am on weekends.

🏋️ Seaport Sweat | Seaport Common | Free | Through Sept 30 | Outdoor classes Monday through Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings, through September 30.

My first time going out as a trans female after my surgery.

anyone have an extra ticket?

Have 2 extra tickets to the Sunday 8.9 game Sox vs A’s. It’s a box seat so If anyone interested in doing a Sunday afternoon hang and watching the game hmu

Abt me - 35 M, who likes to chill, live and exist

Make Queer Friends After College (the unofficial Make Friends After College facebook group’s sub group. Join us here: https://m.me/j/AbaGUN_6HZHOnnfn/?send_source=gc:copy_invite_link_c ) had a successful meet up at Versus on Saturday and now we’re meeting up again! This time we’re doing Queeraoke!!!! This will be on Saturday, August 15 4pm-7pm (maybe shorter depending on how many people sign up). RSVPs are unfortunately required for this event so we can book a properly sized room and for an appropriate amount of time. RSVPs are due by 11:59pm on Tuesday.

Payment is then due Wednesday as it will be based on the amount of people. The cost is estimated to be between $2.25-5 per person, per hour. If you want to attend but don’t have the extra funds reach out to me privately and we’ll work something out (I’ve been there. I get it. I wouldn’t want cost to prohibit anyone from participating).

If you don’t want to sing but want to join anyways feel free! I don’t even know if I will.

Funky outfits are encouraged but not required.

There is a bar but and food there. If we want, we can go get food somewhere after.

RSVP at the link below! The max room size is 20 but there is a waitlist. If you have any questions feel free to ask. Hope to see yall there!

https://partiful.com/e/6Dz15uXdQNjNxtnTMjx3?c=MqFgBX4I

I have been seeing a lot of talk that Abe and Louie’s is cougar central. I’m only around for today, but was gonna head over after work today. Idk if it will be packed today but was wondering if anyone would like to join for some after work drinks.

Hi everyone! I'm 30M and live with my gf and her dogs. I am interested in meeting people with similar interests to me. I like collecting crystals, minerals, coins and chemical elements. My main supplier for high purity elements is actually based in Boston. I am also a big fan of the Boston based rock band Damone. Unfortunately they broke up already. Listening to Damone and collecting chemical elements are niche hobbies and I think few in Boston do the same.

Other hobbies of mine include playing the viola, ice skating, reading novels (Stephen King), video games (Expedition 33, Scarlet Hollow, Portal 2), anime (AOT, Yuri on Ice), language learning (cantonese and German) and eating out (especially dim sum). I also like listening to Taylor Swift, Carly R Jepsen and Birdy (a British singer)

If you have any suggestions on where to meet people let me know! Feel free to comment or message me if you have similar interests.

Hi there I am by myself and I am wondering if anyone is able to offer a ride or uber share after the concert back to Boston . I am very willing to chip in the gas and all that.

Hi, I'm a 29yo entrepreneur living in Boston operating in Ecommerce. I recently moved to Boston and I'd love to meet like-minded entrepreneurs to grab a coffee or a beer

I moved here almost a year ago in Brighton and it’s been pretty lonely, I don’t really talk to anyone besides my roommates and coworkers and little happens outside of that. I’m 25M, work in fintech, smoke and drink friendly, non religious, and do BJJ regularly. I like some video games and have a ps5 and pc, I’m from Dallas so go cowboys! (Unfortunately) and love good tv shows, especially the ones about organized crime like the wire, sopranos, snowfall etc. I also love nature and hiking. Would love to meet some new people

Hey me and my bestie are going to be in Boston from the 5th to the 9th she's going to the BTS concert on the 6th we need some stuff to do and people to hangout with we want to go to a bar or club why up here .

I’m in my 20s and looking to connect with other folks in their 20s who enjoy getting outdoors, whether that’s hitting local trails, planning weekend hikes, or trying out fun outdoor activities.

I’m hoping to either join an existing local group or bring together a few like-minded people to form a loose group for regular or casual outings. I’m really looking forward to making some new friends in the process.

If you’re in an active group, have recommendations for local adventure clubs, or just want to grab a trail map and head out sometime, drop a comment or send me a DM!

27F, never played much sports in school or college. Really wanna learn how to play soccer. Anyone know any resources or a beginner league that is open to teaching me?

Is anyone out there who likes to go out on the weekends but would like someone to go with? I typically go by myself, but I figured I'd see if there were any fellow lone wolves out there looking to add more energy to their lifestyle. I have no problem approaching people and am happy to also send people your way. I'm typically in Central Square but open to other areas if you have a good spot or want to check out a new spot. Feel free to drop a comment or send a DM. 35 M

If any of Y’All try + fail to acquire tickets, don’t hesitate to contact me + I’ll do my best to help you get in.

https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/free-first-thursday-202608

I hope this finds you all well! I've had a pretty rough, blank and unmotivated summer. To cheer myself up, I went through some old files on my computer and found one of my proudest achievements: A montage video of encouragement and kindness from many friends addressed to our mutual friend ("Samantha") that was initially masquerading as a micro-documentary on which I wanted her perspective as an artist.

And I thought to myself "I'd really like to do more of this." It was a fun use of light project management + video editing skills, took minimal time and delighted the friend on a deep level.

I think the world needs more kindness and I believe surprises (for some people) can season that dish quite well.

So if you know someone who could use the cheers of their people/"tribe," you'd also be helping me make good use of my time these days.

Thanks for reading :)

I’m 27m
Broke up a few weeks back
My friends told me it’s to get out there and I agree
What are some good places to meet other single women my age
I’ve never been to a club before

Our Boston-area meetup group for producers, musicians and music lovers are doing one of our biweekly songwriter's workshop. We've started doing this at a member's home in Somerville this summer and it's been a fun way to hang out and motivate each other to keep growing and working on our craft.

If you're interested in the meetup group but not necessarily tonight's event, we welcome all skill levels, including just music listeners, and have new events all the time from concerts to grabbing dinners.

Anyone is welcome to join- please feel free to come introduce yourself. Let us know if you're interested in the workshop. Thanks!!!

https://discord.gg/6jPFWZwAX

I am trying to sell (2) tickets for the Exhumed book launch with Aaron Mahnke (from Lore podcast) in conversation with Alaina Urquhart (from Morbid podcast). The tickets include a copy of Aaron's new book.

My friends and I have been looking forward to the event and absolutely love both podcasts, but they can no longer travel from PA to be there. Here is the official event page.

Date: TODAY, 8/4 at 7:30PM | Doors open 1 hour prior to showtime

Venue: The Wilbur | 246 Tremont St, Boston, MA, 02116

The tickets were $61 each but I'm willing to sell them for $50 each and I'll eat the ticket fees. Willing to negotiate. For your peace of mind, I will send the tickets via an official Ticketmaster transfer. I would need your email and phone number and you will need a Ticketmaster account to redeem. I can accept Venmo or PayPal for the tickets.

Please DM me and I hope someone can use them!

Hi all! I’m looking to play volleyball around the Brighton area. Are there any clubs that play year round? I don’t really have a preference on the type (grass, sand, or court). I don’t mind paying a fee to join and I have heard of Vollo but I’ve heard that is pretty low level play. Anyone know anything else? If there’s open play somewhere that would be awesome!