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Boston University

In the City

ArtBeat Festival Somerville

Ethnic

Davis Square Hosts ArtBeat Festival This Weekend

July 17, 2015

Fertility

Voices & Opinion

POV: It’s Time to Regulate the Fertility Industry

July 16, 2015

Sulley, the star of Pixar’s Monsters Inc. and Monsters University, is just one of the characters visitors can pose with in the current Museum of Science exhibition The Science Behind Pixar.

Things-to-do

Exploring the Science Behind Pixar

July 16, 2015

Boston Landmarks Orchestra performing at the Hatch Shell

Boston

Free Classical Music Concerts on the Charles

July 15, 2015

Alternative rock band Guster performing live

Culture

Boston Common Hosts Outside the Box Once Again

July 14, 2015

Assembly Row’s Baxter Riverfront Park is the site of live music events every Monday and Thursday night through September 28. Photo by Team Shred Photography

Music

Summer Tunes, Stripped Down

July 13, 2015

Free Friday Clicks at the Hatch Shell

Things-to-do

Free Friday Flicks Return to Hatch Shell

July 10, 2015

Lowell Spinners, Boston Red Sox Class-A farm team, in the dugout during a game

Things-to-do

Minor League Fun Is Just a Baseball’s Throw Away

July 9, 2015

Great white shark - Carcharodon carcharias, in pacific ocean near the coast of Guadalupe Island - Mexico.

Local

Dive Into Shark Week

July 6, 2015

Charles Riverboat Company’s Architecture Cruise

Local

Viewing Boston Landmarks from the Water

June 26, 2015

The Racky Thomas Band. Photo courtesy of Heather Balchunas

In the City

Free Blues Music under the Stars

June 25, 2015

Boston-based band Night Lights

Arts & Culture

Free Berklee Summer Concert at the Rose Kennedy Greenway

June 24, 2015

Under the Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki nami-ura), also known  as the Great Wave, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji  (Fugaku sanjûrokkei) Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, 1760–1849) about 1830–31 (Tenpô 1–2) Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper * William Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Local

Celebrating Japan’s Most Famous Artist

June 22, 2015

Boston University's Observatory for stargazing

Science & Technology

Star Search

June 17, 2015

Signage of Mel's, the iconic drive-in diner in the film American Graffiti

Film

Free Screening of American Graffiti, Alfresco

June 16, 2015

grape vines at Arnold Arboretum in Boston

University News

A Walk in the Park

June 15, 2015

Boy ordering from Trolley Dogs food truck

Culture

Weekly Summer Food Truck Festival Tonight

June 11, 2015

harpist Nicolas Castaneda of the Nicolas Castaneda Group jazz band

In the City

Free Concerts in the Courtyard Series Returns to BPL

June 10, 2015

Cambridge River Festival

Theatre

Celebrating the Arts in Cambridge

June 5, 2015

Matthew Ritchie’s painting Remanence in the lobby of the Institute of Contemporary Art, where admission is free each Thursday evening. Photo courtesy of the Institute of Contemporary Art, copyright Geoff Hargadon

Fine Arts

Thursday Nights at the ICA Are Free

June 4, 2015

Thursday Nights at the ICA Are Free