365 Things to Do in Boston - New Tips Daily

Break up your lunch today and head to the First Church of Boston for some FREE music!

• Thursday, November 3 12:15 pm – 12:45 pm
• Thursday Mid-Day Recital
• First Church in Boston: 66 Marlborough St., Boston, MA, USA (MAP)
• Harpsichord Recital Series
  
  Giuseppe Schinaia, harpsichordist
  
  J.J. Froberger: Lamentation faite sur la mort très douloureuse de sa majesté impériale Ferdinand 3me
  J.-H. d'Anglebert: Chaconne in C major (from Pièces manuscrit)
  J.-H. d'Anglebert: Tombeau de M. de Chambonnières
  J. Duphly: Chaconne in F major (from 3me Livre de Pièces de clavecin)
  
  Born in Rome, Giuseppe Schinaia studied piano and composition at the Rome Conservatory of Music and later turned to early music, following courses of C.Ferrero, B. van Asperen, P. Hantai A. Frigè and C. Rousset. He has extensively performed in Italy and the US both in recitals and ensembles as a soloist and continuo player on the organ and the harpsichord. He is author of vocal and instrumental music and has recently published revisions of French early music compositions for both Musedita and Armelin publishers. Giuseppe Schinaia is currently tenured professor of mathematics and statistics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza".

Get your rock, paper, scissor skills going! Complimentary appetizers, a great silent auction, and the annual rock, paper, scissors tournament (winner walks away with $100 cash prize). Your $20 donation enters you in the tournament and supports safe and healthy play in low-income schools. Get more information here and you can also sign up!

Thursday night November 3 starting at 6pm-9pm | Bleacher Bar | 82A Landsdowne Street

Why are Tuesday's awesome! Because it means TACO TUESDAY'S!!! Get your crunch on tonight at La Verdad. In-season or off-season, next time you find yourself over by Fenway on a Tuesday night, stop by La Verdad for Taco Tuesdays. Chef Darren Carbone offers up carnitas, chicken and cochinita pibil tacos for just a buck apiece. The tasty little deal is available after 5:00pm and there's a cut off of five tacos per person. And it's not available when the Sox are playing so check the schedule and plan accordingly - the next road trip is right around the corner.

Get more information right here.

Whatchya doing tonight????

See that image above? Learn these moves NOW if you don't know them yet and head to Berklee's performance center. "We know you have performed the entire "Thriller" album in your bedroom - your secret is safe with us. But tonight you can see "Thriller Live" performed by Berklee students, faculty, and alumni as a tribute to the King of Pop. Wear a spooky costume and you might win free concert tickets to the Berklee Performance Center 2012 concert season."

Get tickets here. Which are $12 to $17. 136 Massachusetts Ave - Starts tonight at 8:15.

My bet is, you just woke up this morning, still in your Halloween costume, because supposedly all the parties are this weekend. So...no need to touch it up, maybe brush your teeth, but then head over to SOWA market for their Market of the Living Dead. You could possibly win $250 for the best costume!

Participants should check in at the SoWa info booth between 10AM and 130PM, judging begins at 2PM sharp.

 

A few other details:

Top 5 Reasons to come to the Market of the Living Dead

5. A Spooky Halloween Soundtrack
4. Pumpkin Carving
3. Costume Contests with fabulous prizes (one for vendors & one for customers)
2. Over 130 Vendors
1. The Last Outdoor Market of the Season – Don’t miss it!

Get more information right here. (460 Harrison Ave)

The Lights Out (pictured) dressed as Madonna last year for their annual musical dress-up party. This year, they're channeling Michael Jackson. Other bands will pay homage to Spinal Tap, The Beatles, and Prince.

9 p.m. Oct. 29. $12, 18+. Church, 69 Kilmarnock St., Boston, 617-236-7600, churchofboston.com

Start of this Halloween weekend on some classics!

Catch a week's worth of spooky, creepy, and Halloween-related double features at the Somerville Theater in Davis Square. "Psycho," which Boston.com named as one of the top 50 scariest movies of all time, will show alongside the original "Frankenstein" on Oct. 28, 29, 30, and 31. Get the complete list of movie showtimes here.
Oct. 24-31, $5 for movies showing before 6 p.m. and $8 for movies showing after 6 p.m.. Somerville Theatre. www.somervilletheatreonline.com

Band Karaoke with Jukebox Hero :: WIN A TRIP TO MEXICO!
Not much info on it, but it's worth checking out...band karaoke!?! Yes!

Starts at 9pm at Hennessy’s | 25 Union St | event is 4 hours long.

Chocolate and CHEESE! YES PLEASE!

Chocolate and cheese, two of our favorite food groups, play especially well together. Join Julia, Formaggio Kitchen cheesemonger and chocolate buyer, and Alex, Taza Chocolate co-owner, for an evening of tasty, novel combinations. They'll demonstrate how to pair some of Formaggio Kitchen's favorite cheeses with various varieties of organic, stone ground chocolate from Taza. You'll learn to create unique dessert flights, pair them with wine and beer, plus integrate chocolate and cheese in unexpected ways, think along the lines of bonbons. The evening will include a brief tour of Taza's Somerville factory and plenty of sampling, of course. Cost is $45 per person, sign up right here. (Class may be full, but they do have a wait list, and I'm pretty sure they will probably do it again soon, right? RIGHT!?)

Located : 561 Windsor Street, Somerville, MA. TAZA (click the name to be taken to their website).

The MFA has finally opened their contemporary wing! We highly suggest you go check it out. Here's a little blurb from their site...

On September 18, 2011, the MFA unveiled seven new galleries dedicated to the Contemporary collections in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, housed in the fully renovated 1981 building designed by I. M. Pei. The transformation of the wing more than triples the existing 7,000 square feet for the display of art, resulting in approximately 21,250 square feet of space dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary art. A rich diversity of more than 200 works is represented throughout the wing, including those by internationally recognized artists: El Anatsui, Lynda Benglis, Mark Bradford, Kathy Butterly, Carlson/Strom,  Cerith Wyn Evans, Mona Hatoum, Jim Hodges, Jenny Holzer, Eva Hild, Matthew Day Jackson, Jun Kaneko, Ellsworth Kelly, Josiah McElheny, Sigmar Polke, Ken Price, Doris Salcedo, Timorous Beasties, Anne Truitt, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Fred Wilson, and Betty Woodman, among others. Get more information here.

So go forth, and check it out.

MFA | 465 Huntington Avenue | $22 for general admission tickets (Get more general information here).