365 Things to Do in Boston - New Tips Daily

Do you love color? I mean it would be pretty gosh darn boring if the entire world were in black and white right? Well learn about it!!

Explore the extraordinary diversity of Nature's palette. Learn how color is produced and how and why color variation has evolved in an amazing variety of animals. Learn about mimicry, camouflage, and how animals communicate with color. See brilliant live poison dart frogs, and learn how and why zebras have different stripes.

Where: Harvard University: Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street,Cambridge, MA
When:Thursday, May 12 9:00a to 5:00p
Price:Adults: $9.00
Non-Harvard Students with I.D.: $7.00
Seniors (65+): $7.00
Children ages 3–18: $6.00

Enjoy a day of ballet fun for the dancers and story lovers in your family at the Main Branch of the Boston Public Library when dancers from the Boston Conservatory take center stage with David Ira Rottenberg who reads his picture book, Gwendolyn, the Graceful Pig, while members of the company perform a dance/mime of the story and afterward present a mini-dance lesson for the children in the audience.

Where:Boston Public Library - Central Branch,
When: Wednesday 3pm-4pm

Enjoy this evening's weather at Sel de la Terre's Mini Burger Monday!

Slip into a seat at Sel de la Terre's Boylston Street bar between 5:00 and 7:00pm on an upcoming Monday night to order your fill of sliders from the Mini Burger Monday menu. Even though he's working on a slightly smaller scale, chef Louis Dibiccari still finds plenty of room to get creative, topping his tasty, diminutive little treats with marinated mushrooms, cilantro pesto, almonds and pickles. Of course, he also appeals to burger purists with a more basic version topped with Vermont cheddar, house smoked bacon and spicy aioli. At $2.50 each you can try them all in one sitting. Or, pair the slider of your choice with a beer for $6.50. Call Sel de la Terre at 617.266.8800 for more info.

 

Where: 774 Boylston Street | Boston, MA 02199
When: Tonight 5pm-7pm

A fab market experience for finding vintage and antiques, mid century modern, industrial, fashion and accessories in the SoWa arts + media district in Boston’s South End.

Get off the Freedom Trail and walk into The Dark Side of Boston! This original guided walk through misery, misfortune, malevolence, and murder is based on true historical events. Fact is often stranger than fiction.

Escape downtown and meander among the labyrinth of streets in Boston's North End while treating yourself to stories of death and misery from Boston's checkered past.

Where:The Dark Side Plaza | 200 Hanover Street
When: 6pm
Price: puchase tickets here : $12

Interested in helping to feed the hungry?  This is a great volunteer opporturnity for people who enjoy cooking.  Its also a great event for meeting people.See the website here.

After the event volunteers are encouraged to go to the Red Hat (located down the street)  for a drink or bite to eat.  Note that this is optional.
Event Summary:
12:30pm - 2:30pm Meal preparation & Dining hall set-up 2:30pm - 3:30pm Meal is served by volunteers to guests 3:30pm - 4:30pm  Clean-up

About Saturdays Bread:
Saturday’s/Sunday’s Bread is a program that serves free hot meals to people in need in Boston every Saturday and Sunday at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, 35 Bowdoin Street, Boston. Their mission is to provide healthy meals in a safe and inviting atmosphere, free from Society’s prejudices and judgments.  This is an interfaith, interracial, interdenominational activity of people concerned with the hungry in the Boston area. Over the course of its 25 years, Saturday’s/Sunday’s Bread has served more than 300,000 guests.  
Directions
Saturdays Bread is located at The Church of St. John the Evangelist is at 35 Bowdoin Street, Boston, between Cambridge Street and Derne Street behind the State House. The entrance to the dining hall is through the door to the right of the main church entrance.  Go up the ramp and ring the bell marked "Clayton Hall," not "Church Business" or "Common Room."   Please be patient; it sometimes is hard to hear the bell in the dining hall or kitchen.
Parking:   Parking is a challenge, so it's a good idea to carpool or to go by T if possible.  The on-street parking is very scarce.  The closest public parking is the 100 Cambridge Street Parking Garage, which you enter from Somerset Street, one block east of Bowdoin.  Parking at the garage is $7.00 for the full day on weekends.
There are a few other small parking lots nearby.  The Boston Common Garage, a little further away, is $10 for the full day on weekends.
To reach the 100 Cambridge Street Parking Garage:  Coming from Storrow Drive and West, go one block past Bowdoin Street (and past the 100 Cambridge Street building). Turn right at the next light onto Somerset.  Coming from Government Center and South/East, turn left at the end of Center Plaza, the large, curved building opposite Government Center.  The garage is on the right in the first block.  If the auto entrance door is down, please knock;  the garage is open Saturdays and Sundays.
Public Transportation:   The closest T stop is the Government Center stop on the Green Line.  From the subway exit, walk west on Cambridge Street two blocks and turn left on Bowdoin.  The walk from the Park Street (Red/Green Line) station is a little longer, but a pleasant walk in good weather.  Follow Park Street toward the State House, turn right on Beacon, then quickly left onto Bowdoin.

The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, is the first museum exhibition to explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art. Bringing together artists from around the world who have worked with records as their subject or medium, this groundbreaking exhibition examines the record's transformative power from the 1960s to the present.

Through sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, sound work, video and performance, The Record combines contemporary art with outsider art, audio with visual, and fine art with popular culture.

The exhibition features 99 works by 41 artists, including rising stars in the contemporary art world (William Cordova, Robin Rhode, Dario Robleto), outsider artists (Mingering Mike), well-established artists (Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, Carrie Mae Weems) and artists whose work will be shown in a U.S. museum for the first time (Kevin Ei-ichi deForest, Jeroen Diepenmaat, Taiyo Kimura, Lyota Yagi).

Where: ICA | 100 Northern Ave
When: Now to September 5th
Price: $15 general admission but being that it is Thursday, it should be free.

Head to the MFA to see Chihuly's exhibit.

Over the course of his career, Dale Chihuly has revolutionized the art of blown glass, moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture and establishing the use of glass—inherently a fragile but also magical material—as a vehicle for installation and environmental art. This exhibition of new and archival works represents the breadth and scope of the artist’s creative vision over the last four decades.

The exhibition will include installations such as Lime Green Icicle Tower, to be installed in the Shapiro Courtyard; a Persian Wall; a Chandelier room with six examples, including the Chiostro di Sant’Apollonia Chandelier; and a room containing a magnificent Mille Fiori installation that is nearly sixty feet long.

By 1965, Dale Chihuly was already captivated by the process of glassblowing. Influenced by an environment that fostered the blurring of boundaries separating the various arts, as early as 1967 Chihuly was using neon, argon, and blown glass forms to create room-sized installations of his glass. Although his work ranges from the single vessel to indoor and outdoor site-specific installations, he is best known for his multipart blown compositions. Based in Seattle, Washington, Chihuly works with a team of glassblowers, a process that allows him to work on a grand scale and to explore and experiment with color, design, and assemblage. "Chihuly: Through the Looking Glass" provides an opportunity to see and explore the full range of his artistic achievements by immersing visitors in the beautiful and enchanting environments created through his extraordinary vision.

Where: MFA | 465 Huntington Ave
When: Now to August 7, 2011
Price: $20

Desserts are the real hero of this week long eating extravaganza. Visit a participating sponsor restaurants, order the featured dessert and enjoy knowing that 100% proceeds are donated to charity. To get more information please click here to view their website.

Where: Participating restaurants and bakeries...and the list is right here.
when: Tuesday, May 3 12:00p