Welcome to your Boston Weekend thread for July 18-20, 2025. A little cooler than midweek, 92F, feels like 108 - oof. 30+ GOOD EVENTS this weekend, tho, yow!
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#BostonWeekend 8/x Thu ACTIVISM Somerville for Palestine x @BostonDykeMarch Marshall training 730p https://www.instagram.com/p/DMBlBL6sVp0/
Somerville for Palestine🇵🇸 on Instagram: "Join us this Thursday, July 17 for a marshal training in collaboration with @bostondykemarch ! Come learn how to safely support your community at actions and events. 🇵🇸🤝 RSVP in our linktree or tinyurl.com/S4PMT"

122 likes, 1 comments - somervilleforpalestine on July 12, 2025: "Join us this Thursday, July 17 for a marshal training in collaboration with @bostondykemarch ! Come learn how to safely support your community at actions and events. 🇵🇸🤝 RSVP in our linktree or tinyurl.com/S4PMT".

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The Outsiders (Free Outdoor Screening for SomerMovie Fest) | City of Somerville

Mayor Katjana Ballantyne invites the Somerville community to kick back and enjoy free outdoor movies this summer.

#BostonWeekend 10/x Thu+Fri HO-HEY #StVincent opens for The #Lumineers @ #FenwayPark #Boston - $80+ Thursday night 6pm show seats still available https://www.mlb.com/redsox/tickets/concerts/the-lumineers #BostonMusic #HOHEY #TheLumineers #Fenway
#BostonWeekend 11/x Through Sunday 80S x THEATRE #BackToTheFuture The Musical at the Opera House in Boston; sat and sun also have matinees https://boston.broadway.com/shows/back-to-the-future/
#BostonTheatre #BTTF #Musical #Boston
#BostonWeekend 13/x FRI HIPHOP x ART beloved hip-hop head #LupeFiasco wrote songs about MIT public art - walking tour of them around #MIT, - Noon-1, free tickets are sold out, boo, I hope to crash it because 😻 however a couple years ago he leaned into google x LLMs to write lyrics - I'm so tired, y'all 😢 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZVw06KceXA https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ghotiing-public-art-tour-tickets-1368978003059 #HipHop #BostonHipHop #CambridgeMA
Lupe Fiasco - Glass of Water - My first song co-written with AI

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Snail Mail - "Valentine" (Official Music Video)

Taken from the album 'Valentine' by Snail Mail, out now on Matador Records. Purchase / stream here: https://snailmail.ffm.to/valentineCredits:The Designer: L...

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#BostonWeekend 15/x Fri TREK Gender-Swapped #StarTrek performance of a classic TOS episode in #SomervilleMA by PMRP, one night only, new wheelchair accessible venue! https://pmrp.org/events/menagerie #Gender #RadioPlay #PMRP #Somerville
The Menagerie | The Post-Meridian Radio Players

#BostonWeekend 17/x Fri-Mon JAPANESE FILM Kôji Yakusho four film series at the Brattle in #Harvard Square #CambridgeMA - subbed #ShallWeDance #Cure #PerfectDays #Tampopo https://brattlefilm.org/film-series/koji-yakusho/ #BostonFilm #FilmSeries
Shall We Dance?

Kôji Yakusho x4 • New Uncut 4K Restoration • Screening Fri, Jul 18 – Mon, Jul 21

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Cambridge Porchfest

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#BostonWeekend 19/x Sat BIKES Allston-Brighton Community Bike ride - rental #BlueBikes only, beginner riders encouraged to join! 3.5 miles, free but register, free ride rental coupons and helmets avail. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqtnCGM1vuJuIoelTNiAqp0WZbqRe-5rw-nGnn6xnuUNuf4w/viewform #BostonBikes #BikeTooter #Boston #Allston #BrightonMA #brighton #AllstonBrighton
Allston-Brighton Community Bike Ride

Join the Allston Brighton Health Collaborative, City of Boston, and Bluebikes for a 3.5-mile Bluebikes-only community bike ride on Saturday, July 19 at 11:00am. The route and pace are beginner friendly, particularly for folks new to biking and/or new to Bluebike-ing. We'll spend a good amount of time in the beginning going over how to use the Bluebikes and get you comfortable using them in safe environment before venturing out to the neighborhood. We will meet at the Herter Park Bluebikes station. Free Bluebikes coupons will be provided. The ride is expected to take around one hour and will end at Herter Park. Pizza will be provided after the ride. Free bike helmets are also available upon request. Detailed route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/50144638 You must register to participate. Thank you and see you there!

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#BostonWeekend 21/x Sat ART Institute for Contemporary Art Boston - Watershed Party noon-4p, free https://www.icaboston.org/events/watershed-block-party/ #Boston #BostonArt #ICABoston
Watershed Block Party

Come join the party! Fun for all, the Watershed Block Party, a free event at the ICA’s Watershed featuring music, art, games and more! Tickets are not required to visit the Watershed. Find directions on how to… more

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The Dudley Jazz Festival

The Dudley Jazz Festival. 908 likes · 8 talking about this. The Dudley Jazz Festival was founded in 2016. It’s free open to the public. • “All you need is a good spot in the grass and open...

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#BostonWeekend 23/x Sat DRAG x DISABILITY Slay the Stigma - a Disability Pride drag show & mini book fair - East #SomervilleMA #BostonDrag #Boston #Drag #Disability #DisabilityPrideMonth

Read My Lips: Boston’s diverse romance pop-up bookshop on Instagram: "Hey, friends. We’re sad to share that some unforeseen challenges have come up and we must cancel Saturday’s Slay the Stigma event (7/19). We’ll be in touch with folks who registered with a ticket, and we’ll provide a rescheduled date as soon as we can! ⁠ ⁠ Thank you for your understanding, and many thanks to @allshewrotebooks and @kierankittycreative⁠ for their partnership! ⁠ ⁠ Still want to shop Read My Lips this weekend? Fear not, our friends at @allshewrotebooks are going to host us in their patio space this Saturday, July 19th from 1-4pm!"

94 likes, 2 comments - readmylipsboston on July 17, 2025: "Hey, friends. We’re sad to share that some unforeseen challenges have come up and we must cancel Saturday’s Slay the Stigma event (7/19). We’ll be in touch with folks who registered with a ticket, and we’ll provide a rescheduled date as soon as we can! ⁠ ⁠ Thank you for your understanding, and many thanks to @allshewrotebooks and @kierankittycreative⁠ for their partnership! ⁠ ⁠ Still want to shop Read My Lips this weekend? Fear not, our friends at @allshewrotebooks are going to host us in their patio space this Saturday, July 19th from 1-4pm!".

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Trans Resistance Festival | Trans Resistance MA

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HONK! Community Concert

Join us for a fun and joyous music extravaganza at the HONK! Community Concert where local brass bands will help you dance the day away!

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Festival Betances: Our Music, Our History, Our Community

Festival Betances 2025: A celebration of Latino culture with salsa legends, food trucks, arts, dancing, and more!

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#BostonWeekend 27/x Sat ART ArtBeat! At Davis Square #Somerville - Free! Our 39th year - This year's theme is Freeze https://somervilleartscouncil.org/events/artbeat-freeze/
#Boston #BostonArt #SomervilleArtsCouncil
ArtBeat – Freeze – Somerville Arts Council

FLOW - Official US Trailer

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I ended up joining for this #LupeFiasco x #MIT art tour - his project #GHOTIING is site specific - he wrote and recorded songs on site and about several sculptures displayed on campus. You can listen to the songs on the linked site. Like plein air painting compared to a location, you get quick notes about what the artist noticed. The tour also got us in to the #SolLewitt installation that is normally off limit to the general public.

I got sunburned forearms biking to campus, though. Oops.

https://listart.mit.edu/ghotiing-mit-public-art
#Boston #CambrigeMA #BostonHipHop #HipHop

GHOTIING MIT: Public Art | MIT List Visual Arts Center

A collaboration between Lupe Fiasco and the MIT List Visual Arts Center, GHOTIING MIT: Public Art is a site-specific rap and field recording project that explores the relationship between rap and MIT’s public art collection.

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@knizer Et tu Lupe Fiasco?!?! Terrible.