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Movie Poster for Jurassic Park: The Lost World, with a large dinosaur in front of a red and black background

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To Do Today: Free Outdoor Screening of The Lost World: Jurassic Park on the Rose Kennedy Greenway

July 11, 2023

Photo: 4th of July fireworks are shown going off on a dark night above the Charles river. Red and orange fireworks light up the night sky and show the Boston skyline.

Photography

See Our Fireworks Photos, Shot from the Center for Computing & Data Sciences. They Are Awesome

July 5, 2023

Composite Image: Red and Green text reads "Boston JerkFest: Spice, Fun & Food" in front of a background of photos of people having fun eating Jerk chicken

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Check Out Boston’s Spiciest Festival

July 5, 2023

New Music

New Music July 2023: Local Boston Concerts, New Album Releases

June 30, 2023

This is a stock image from Canva.com which shows colorful fire works fill the dark skyline in Boston. The photo is taken so you can see the River, as the the multi-colored fireworks reflects off the water. You can see the different sized buildings with their lights on in the background.

Things to do

Things to do in Boston This Fourth of July Holiday

June 29, 2023

Photo of The Boston Pops performing their annual Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular at the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River Esplanade. In the photo, the Hatch Shell is lit in red white and blue. The backs of spectators' heads are seen as the look up towards about a dozen fireworks that shoot up from the shell into the black sky.

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Celebrate the Fourth of July Weekend in Boston

June 28, 2023

Photo: A older person with white hair sits alone in the front of a movie theater. The text on screen reads "Roxbury International Film Festival"

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Catch a Virtual Screening at the 25th Annual Roxbury International Film Festival

June 27, 2023

Pear statue, Dorchester

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Getting to Know Your Neighborhood: Dorchester

June 23, 2023

Photo: A long table with a black cloth with multiple paper plates featuring a large slice of cheese pizza. The photo was taken outside, the day sunny and bright.

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Mangia, at the Boston Pizza Festival

June 21, 2023

Photo: A person with glasses in a red shirt with a beard smiles at the camera in front of multiple pieces of art on canvas behind them

Arts & Culture

First-of-Its-Kind Group Show Brings Together Artists from MFA Programs around Boston

June 21, 2023

Photo: A large crowd walks around a arial type structure with large ribbons attached to a tall pole. The ribbons are a various of different colors. The crowd is moving to the left. The day is bright.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Summer Solstice Night at the Harvard Museums

June 20, 2023

Photo: Boston skyline and Fort Point Channel at sunset as viewed fantastic twilight or dusk time from Fan Pier Park in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Things-To-Do

To Do Today: Summer Concerts at Atlantic Wharf

June 16, 2023

Photo: A man with a moustache wearing a beanie looks out over the open ocean on a boat

Film & TV

COM Prof’s Documentary Revisits Improbable Story of Man vs. Whale

June 14, 2023

Photo: A cardboard sign that reads FREEDOM DAY JUNE TEENTH. On the left of the sign, a fist held up in solidarity by a Black individual. The individual holding the sign is also Black. The day is overcast and there is a blurred tree in the background.

JUNETEENTH

Celebrate Juneteenth on and off Campus with These Events

June 12, 2023

Photo: A brightly lit theater with blues and purples. In art deco style, the sign up top reads "COOLIDGE". Below the sign is a banner for the shows playing. The area is dark as its night tine.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Jordan Peele’s Nope in 70 mm

June 8, 2023

Photo: Sheila del Bosque, a white-presenting woman wearing a yellow, blue, and white collared shirt and jeans, squats and poses with silver flute in left hand. She poses in front of large blue mural.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Summer Concerts at Kendall Center

June 5, 2023

Photo: Composite of three images in a frame with a black background and text that reads WHATS HOT IN MUSIC down the right side of the image. The three images are of Kelly Clarkson, a white woman with long blonde hair, the next a Black woman, Janelle Monae, wearing a steam punk outfit with red, black, and white coloring. And Don Toliver, a Black man with a blue blazer behind red and purple lights.

Music

New Music June 2023: Local Boston Concerts, New Album Releases

June 1, 2023

Photo: A hand holding a donut, freshly made, that is bigger than an average plam. Its an old-fashioned donut with a clear glaze. The setting is outside a brick-housed business.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: A Late-Night Snack at Back Door Donuts

May 30, 2023

Photo: People wander around Boston Common on a sunny spring day. Hundreds of United States flags flutter in the breeze in the foreground, as bity skyscrapers rise in the distance.

Things-To-Do

How to Spend Your Memorial Day Weekend

May 25, 2023

Photo: Protestors outside Harry Agganis Way support the Writers Strike admist the annoucement of David Zaslav as Commencement Speaker for BU's 150th Commencement.

COMMENCEMENT 2023

Nearly 200 Protest BU’s Commencement Speaker, David Zaslav, amidst Hollywood Writers Strike

May 21, 2023

Nearly 200 Protest BU’s Commencement Speaker, David Zaslav, amidst Hollywood Writers Strike