Happy Flour on Monday!

Counter the sourness a Monday (August, 31 5-7PM, and the last Monday of every month) brings with some sweets, as Kickass Cupcakes (map) of Somerville dishes out cocktail-themed goodies for two hours on Monday. Mudslides, Lemon Drops and Peach Daiquiris are on the menu, not to mention on the house. Should you be at the bar later, don't expect the same treatment.

Saint Anthony's Feast

After 90 years, the guys over at Saint Anthony’s Society know how to celebrate and, starting August 28, Boston’s largest Italian festival will resume in the North End.

From August 28 to August 31, the people of the North End invite you to celebrate with them as they honor their patrons Saint Anthony and Saint Lucy with colorful parades, religious services, strolling singers, live entertainment and of course an abundance of great Italian and American food.

Grand Procession of Saint Anthony through the streets of the North End with ten marching bands, sponsor floats, and color guard. (12 Noon – 10:00 PM)

The Filippo Berio Culinary Pavilion - featuring Boston’s best chefs and the faculty and students of Le Cordon Bleu College of Culniary Arts showcasing their “Cucina Italiana” stop by for some fabulous demonstrations & samples (on the hour - all weekend)

North End Iron Chef - Watch out for flying frying pans and quick whisks at this year’s high pressure culinary showdown featuring the North End’s great chefs at t he Filippo Berio Culinary Pavilion .(Saturday & Sunday @ 7PM)

Pizza Regina Open Air Piazza - Enjoy an imported ice cold Peroni Beer or a glass of vino and of course a slice of the Regina’s world famous pizza (all weekend)

Cirelli Foods Marketplace & Sidewalk Cafe - Browse an old fashioned open air marketplace filled with imported Italian specialties and American favorites from one of New England’s leading food purveyors and check out their delicious crispy eggplant fries, traditional lobster rolls and Italian sliders ! (all weekend)

Browse the nearly one hundred pushcarts lining the decorated streets, and sample an array of traditional Italian foods including sausage with peppers & onions, calamari, quahogs, pasta, cannoli, zeppole, handmade torrone and gelato. Peruse the selection of Italian gifts and novelties and pick up a souvenir or memento. (all weekend)

Children’s activities, including face painting, games and prizes

Spectacular musical performances with all your Italian and American favorites on the Main Stage (all weekend)

Absolut Boston @ District TONIGHT

TONIGHT there is a party celebrating the release of "Absolut Boston" a vodka inspired by the city itself. Sounds awesome with black tea and elderberry flavors. Send an email Subject: "Absolut Boston Party" to dig.absolut.boston@legacymp.com. Meet your friends there, and let's call it a sample party. The party starts at 10PM at District (map). 21+

Bodega Girls TONIGHT

The bodega girls will be playing TONIGHT at the Middlesex Lounge (map) in Cambridge. Maybe get there around 9 or 10 to be a part of the lo-fi hedonistic dance party. NO COVER!

WHITEshoeBROWNshoe

WHITEshoeBROWNshoe will be playing tomorrow, Thursday August 27 at 10:36PM at TT the Bears in Cambridge (map). Come and check out the awesometogoodness, there will be free love and hugs.

BASSIC Summer Sessions

Wednesday, August 26, The Good Life (map) will be hosting BASSIC Summer Sessions (dubstep and futuredub). Quite possibly Pandai'a's last time DJing in Boston. Come say goodbye and dance your summer night away. As always this event is FREE.99!

Intro to Bicycling Skills

A free class covering bike-safety principles, bicycling laws, guidelines for riding in traffic, and more at Boston City Hall, Room 937 (map). To sign up please email shane@massbike.org before Wednesday August, 26 (class starts at 6PM and runs to 8PM). Please include your name, email, and phone number. Specific information and class materials sent to registrants. Pre-registration is required for this session so be sure to sign up through the email!

While the class technically IS FREE, $15 suggested donation for non-members, free for members.

Fashionably LATE @ The Liberty Hotel

Join Rebecca Penner and Laura Macris for a night of fashion and music featuring clothing by CRUSH Boutique!
Sounds by resident DJ: Michael Savant and guest DJ's Texas Mike and a surprise NYC guest!

Liberty Hotel

215 Charles Street

8pm-2am
RSVP: fashion@libertyhotel.com
Click here for directions

Movie Night at the Hatchshell

Don't be shy (LaBeouf) on Friday night at 7PMish and come check out Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at the Hatchshell (map) on the esplanade. Sean Connery won't be in this one but it will start at sunset

2nd Annual Watergun Battle

I'm not gonna lie, this heat is getting to be ridiculous. With a lack of places to really cool off in Boston, why don't we all do ourselves a favor and just have a good old fashioned watergun battle.


Last year over 375 warriors rushed into battle, complete with marching armies, drums, fifes and bubble blowing robots. And this year, another battle is planned. But this time...even LARGER!
The battle is at an undisclosed location on Saturday, August 22 at 1:30PM.

FIRST YOU WILL NEED:
TO REGISTER HERE (very important because otherwise you will not know where to go for the battle)
1 UNLOADED water gun of your choice.
At least 3 FILLED two-liter bottles (bring more if you desire!)
1 back-pack to hold water bottles.- 1 either red or blue shirt (depending on army assignment).
Any other revolutionary paraphernalia you don’t mind getting wet (hats, flutes, etc)
As always, your fighting vigor and a bandanna!

The night before the event, emails will be sent out with army assignment and meet up location.

*Registration ends August 21st at 6:00PM. Register beforehand (or else you won’t know the location or be assigned an army beforehand! A sole soldier is a sad soldier.

Downtown Socials

Start your Thursday night off right with a party on Summer Street (map) with Dan Morrell, a DJ who mixes and shreds at the same time from 5-9PM TONIGHT! This event is 21+ and, as always, FREE.

Boston GreenFEST 2009

Come have fun, learn and share new technologies and ideas that can immediately change our daily lives and help our planet at the same time. Bring your family, friends and neighbors to the FREE Boston GreenFest 2009 at City Hall Plaza (map) and don’t forget to wear green!
There's gonna be solar energy workshops, activities, special presentations, Project Recycled Runway speakers including Sam Mendoza & Sparklle Thames, seminars, art, music and more! Come check it out on Friday & Saturday, August 21st & 22nd starting around 10AM!

HEARTTHROB: SLUTTT DIM MAK SERVICE RELEASE PARTY

Red FoxxSLUTTT, Baltimoroder, and Morgan Louis will be providing the dance at the Middlesex Lounge (map) for <3throb TONIGHT!!! Fire starts at 9PM and will be cooling off around 1AM. Don't forget your fire resistant dancing hat.

Central Square Farmer's Market

A farmers market in Central Square, Cambridge, Mondays 11:30am - 6pm from May through November, in the parking lot behind the Harvest Food Coop (map).
From Mass Ave, either go through the Harvest and out the back door, or walk half a block up Norfolk Street towards Bishop Allen Drive.
The market started third Monday in May, and goes until the Monday before Thanksgiving.

MOMENTUM Gallery @ Chorus

In part with Open and Traitor Cycles, Matt W. Moore will be presenting a series of five hand-painted frames, a cycling cap and some other soft goods. In conjunction with the frames, Matt will be hanging some of his signature canvas work. The opening reception for the show is Saturday, August 15 at 8PM at the Chorus Gallery (map). I'm really pumped about this show...maybe Matt's custom Mini Cooper will be parked outside to checkout as well?

Somerville...in Shorts! OUTDOOR ANIMATED FILMS

On a hot summer evening, Union Square lights up at nightfall with an outdoor screening of animated and experimental shorts by local filmmakers. The Somerville Arts Council and Somerville Community Access Television (SCAT) have joined forces to project work from local animators and experimental filmmakers. Ranging from drawn animation to stop motion, humorous to ponderous, this family-friendly film fest is the first of its kind in the area. Local indie band, Faces on Film, will warm up the square while waiting for darkness to descend.

70 Union Square
Somerville, MA 02143
Friday, August 14, 7-10pm
(Raindate: Saturday, August 15)

Shepards Fairey LAST FREE NIGHT AT THE ICA

Street artist Shepards Fairey exhibit at the ICA is coming down after Sunday, August 16th and tonight is the last day to catch it for free (admission to the ICA is ALWAYS free on Thursdays after 5pm).

Shakespeare on Boston Common

The 14th annual FREE Shakespeare on the Common production will be "The Comedy of Errors". This is the final weekend of the show and will begin at 8pm Friday (8/14) and Saturday (8/15) and at 7pm Sunday (8/16). Try to get a close spot because otherwise it's hard to hear and confusing because many characters have doubles so it's difficult to differentiate characters and follow the story. "to free or not to free, that is the question" and the answer is, yes, it's free.

Outdoor Movies, Music and Dance

Every Friday since July 3 (through September 4) at 7PM, the Boston Harbor Hotel (at 70 Rowes Wharf on Atlantic Avenue) has hosted a FREE movie. This Friday it's 1979 classic: THE CHAMP.
The rest of the lineup is as follows:
Aug21 - Some Like It Hot
Aug28 - The China Syndrome
Sept4 - The Inn of the 6th Happiness

WEEKLY DIG's THROWDOWN @ GOOD LIFE WED 8/12

The WEEKLY DIG is throwing an issue release party at at the newly renovated GOODLIFE with an amazing DJ line up! Plus you can see KENJI NAKAYAMA'S gigantic painting installed near the bar! The Line up is Jayceeoh - Gucci Vuitton - Mr. Matt- Ghostdad - ON&ON - Jeff GIll - Ms. Thang - DJ Die Young

21+
Goodlife
28 Kingston St, Boston
9pm-2am

This is going to be a good one. Dont miss out!

DJ BREK.ONE & VUITTON - WED 8/12

DJ Break.One and Gucci Vuitton will be spinning tastefully mixed party crack, space disco, alfa romeo at Middlesex wednesday, August 12.

Middlesex Lounge is located in Central Sq. at 315 mass ave. 9-1am

Basstown presents: SECRETS

Located beneath The Brewery Complex's daunting smokestack, SECRETS in JP's favorite deep house soiree. CORALCOLA will be delivering his signature brand of shoegaze flavored electronica, while Secrets residents Lynch, Sarahjoy and Carrigan DB stay true to form with a sumptuous mix of smooth and moody grooves.

The Milky Way is just a five minute walk from the Stony Brook stop on the Orange Line.

Party is 21+, with no cover charge, so come shake your ass or chill with a brew. We'll be spinning frisky beats 'til a little beyond midnight.


Check out CORALCOLA's track egggirl here: http://drop.io/coralcolaegggirl

And don't miss his summer mix tape (tracklist with link below:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/1yypc7

Boston Landmarks Orchestra Show!

Experience the Music of the Stars featuring the Longwood Symphony Orchestra with sounds of Holst, Ravel, and John Williams, conducted by Jonathan McPhee at the Hatchshell tomorrow night at 7PM!
Review their whole FREE scheduled lineup at the Hatchshell this summer here...

Junko Revival

I love anything 'green' and today is the last day to see Junko Revival. The show is "green" inspired- all art work is made of recycled and reused materials! The opening was on Sunday July 12. 2009 7-10 pm in Allston at Rescue, and ends Sunday, August 9.

Located

252 Brighton Avenue
Allston, MA

Plimouth Plantation FREE Fun Friday!

The Plimoth Plantation will be open, free of charge (price typically $28 for adults), to the public in celebration of the Highland Street Foundation’s 20th anniversary. The foundation is sponsoring the Free “Fun Fridays” program that will provide free admission to a designated Massachusetts museum or attraction for ten Fridays this summer. Hopefully you could catch a ride with a friend out there to keep the cost down.

Midnight Bike Ride (Sat, Aug 8)

Saturday, August 8th, meet in front of Trinity Church, Copley Square at 11:15 pm, leave Copley around midnight. Traditionally, dawn finds the group at Castle Island, and there’s breakfast at the end in Christopher Columbus park. Riders are requested to bring a bike light, wear a helmet and something reflective, have a spare inner tube (that fits your tires), and bring something for breakfast. Commemorative T-shirts available.
It’s not a particularly taxing ride (about 30 miles or so) with stops to look at different sights along the way. Riding around the city at night when there is almost no traffic is really a neat experience, it’s fun to be out in a huge group, and to learn something of the history of the city.
Sponsored by the Back Bay Midnight Pedalers. More information available at 617-522-0259.

DRINK_MUSIK_VOL:RUBADUB

This one's gunna be special. Coming up from New York City we have the venerable KNIFESHOW. Brooklyn party monsters Jack Inslee and Wreck Tech Crew team up together to bring the block rockin' beats to Boston. SO expect bass and dirty mashups and some sick sick dub stylings! As always, DRINKMUSIK will be held at JP's favorite: THE MILKY WAY 617-901-DOPE for more info, or just email drinkmusik@gmail.com Residents YES&NO will be hosting the show and providing some serious slammers when Knifeshow isn't cutting the floor. AND everyone's favorite visualist, V.Ka$h will be holding it down for your eyes.

Paint, Pens and MONSTERS!

Paint Pens in Purses, an all-female urban art collective, is throwing their summer art show at the fourth wall project (1301 Boylston Street, across from Yawkey Way)!! This upcoming show, themed “Paint Pens & Pet Monsters”, proudly showcases nine emerging and established low-brow and non-traditional artists.
The continuously growing group first started in the summer of 2008 and has done a range of art events including a Pop-Up gallery in a vacant space, a 20ft x20ft live painting on a storefront and a variety of other parties throughout the city. They are also in the process of producing a full-color book set to be released in the winter of 2009.
Confirmed artist lineup includes Jessica Hess (my personal favorite), Veronica Hebard, Allison Bamcat, Mykim Dang, Illy, Tofusquirrel, Rich Millionaire, Morgan Thomas & Shayna Shenanigans. Event hosted by Shayna Shenanigans.
YOU MUST RSVP TO THIS EVENT AT PAINTPENSINPURSES@GMAIL.COM
ALSO: 21+

By: Jessica Hess

May the free be with you

Fridays movie at the Hatchshell is Starwar's: The Clone Wars. I'll be there for my friend Momo's birthday (happy birthday Momo!). Come check it out, yo(da).