365 Things to Do in Boston - New Tips Daily

The 91st annual festival celebration of St. Anthony's Feast starts today (Fri 8/27 to Sun 8/29 (5PM)) in the North End on Endicott Street.

Saint Anthony’s Feast is one of Boston’s largest events of the summer, this authentic Italian festival offers colorful parades; authentic Italian festival food; strolling singers; the Filippo Berio Culinary Pavilion; Italian folk dancing; the Pizzeria Regina Open Air Piazza; religious and cultural services and time honored customs throughout the weekend.

Go...and be MERRY!!

For more information on this wonderful event check out their website at: http://www.stanthonysfeast.com/

If you have a love for classic cars (because we all know, they don't make them like they used too), we suggest checking out Larz Anderson's Auto Museum at 15 Newton St Brookline, MA 02445.

The Larz Anderson Auto Museum is home to "Americas oldest car collection". For over 75 years, the Larz Anderson Auto Museum has been supporting the collector car community through a variety of educational programs, exhibits, and lectures.

Today, the museum's primary goal is it's continued support of the collector car community through educational outreach and the preservation of our permanent collection of early automobiles. The Larz Anderson Auto Museum hopes to serve as a resource for your collector car interests.

The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday 10am - 4pm. (They are not open on Monday's)
Admission: $10 Adults , $5 Children/Seniors/Military

Check out their site for more official information.

Oh yay...it's raining once again, for the third day in a row. I suppose this would be a good day to take it indoors...maybe grab a book at the Boston Public Library....Founded in 1848, the Boston Public Library was the first large free municipal library in the US. In addition to its 6.1 million books, the library boasts over 1.2 million rare books and manuscripts, a wealth of maps, musical scores and prints.

Visit Bates Hall (known as one of the most important rooms in the world with barrel-arched ceilings enclosed by half domes on each end and English oak bookcases)

The Chavannes Gallery:
Murals painted by renowned French artist Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

The Abbey Room:
Murals entitled the "Quest of the Holy Grail" and I don't think they are Monty Python murals...although that would be quite entertaining.

The Sargent Gallery:
See murals painted by John Singer Sargent

And don't forget to grab some lunch at the Courtyard Restaurant  and then actually walk through the Courtyard. It's absolutely breathtaking.

Need some good entertainment during lunch on Wednesday August 25th?

Limelight studios will be hosting Karaoke Finals just outside of Macy's downtown. Go and cheer them on. Sing along. Get your Groove on. Break up your Wednesday with some good old fashioned Karaoke.And if you have enough courage, get up there and sing yourself!

It starts at 12pm and goes until 2pm.

So we all appreciate good art, but the question is, do you appreciate bad art? If you haven't, make a run to Davis Square (55 Davis Square) and see this most humerous and sometimes scary Museum of Bad Art. (We personally like the image we posted, Queen of the Chocolate Chip Cookie).

Better yet, plan an evening out with viewing some bad art, and then seeing a movie at the historic Somerville Theater!! It still has that whole old school movie theater charm to it! And they have concerts too!!

Part movie, part stroll, and part participatory theater. A unique iPhone application that leads audiences through a first-hand experience of one of America's strangest crimes that is based on John Webster. A Harvard Professor accused of murdering and dismembering one of Boston's richest men 160 years ago.

 

To find out this fun and exhilarating schedule (which happens every single day!!) and participate please visist their site at http://www.parkmanmurder.com/

Need something to do before you go out Saturday night?  Head to the Pru. Free concerts are provided by Prudential Center for the enjoyment of shoppers, tenants, and clients. During summer, the main venue for concerts and entertainment is the south garden located near Central Court.

The garden contains a large well-maintained lawn, peripheral cafe-style outdoor seating, sculptures, water fountain, and a small stage in one corner for the free concerts. Many people also have lunch in the garden, which offers superb views of the adjoining office buildings, all the while in a quiet and relaxing environment.

Tonight the Pixar favorite, UP, will start at 6pm.

Oh man, it's going to be kind of hot, and even if it's not today, enjoy your Friday and grab some Gelato! Oh that sweet, sweet Italian dessert.

With summer almost coming to an end (tear) boston.com made a pretty AWESOME list of places to get this amazing frozen treat.(I wish I had the job of eating Gelato, but that would mean more time in the gym...but who am I kidding, I hate gyms. However, Gelato is made with less than half the butterfat of ice cream. Sign me up).

Check it out and get your Gelato fix on today, or any day of that matter. (I have a tendancy to crave ice cream in the winter more than the summer, messed up I know).

Happy Friday!

Did you know about Highland Street Foundations Free Fun Friday's program? Each Friday, during the summer, the foundation underwrites admission to a different cultural attraction of the museum so that everyone can get in free!

 

In addition to the rest of their scheduled programming, they are also adding a GRAND FINALE WEEKEND! This Labor Day Weekend they will be opening up venues on Friday, September 3 and Saturday, September 4. (A total of 16 venues over the course of the weekend)

This Friday they will be opening the doors at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art
(100 Northern Ave. - Boston, MA  Free hours:  10 a.m. - 9 p.m.)

 

To get more information about and see more of their summer schedule check out their site at http://www.highlandstreet.org/special-programs/free-fun-fridays.html.

 

For some reason, the Jaws movie poster still strikes fear in my heart...I mean look at it!!! I couldn't even swim in the deep end of the swimming pool at school, for fear that a shark would come flying out of the drains at the bottom....stupid shark!

With that said...head over to the Somerville Theater and catch the 35th Anniversary Screening of....dunah....dunah...dunah...(that's my attempt at the music) Jaws! They will be airing it the 19th and the 20th of August. There is rumor that a large crowd will gather, so we suggest getting their early to get tickets, and they are handing out some free beer. FREE BEER!!

55 Davis Square, Somerville | 8 pm | $8 | 617.625.5700
www.somervilletheatreonline.com