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Things To Do in Boston This Weekend: November 13-November 15
From magic and comedy to candlelit strings and chart-topping R&B, Boston's weekend event lineup has something for every taste. Piff the Magic Dragon and his Chihuahua sidekick bring deadpan laughs and jaw-dropping illusions to City Winery Boston, while Candlelight: Tribute to Dolly Parton reimagines country classics inside a historic cathedral. GRAMMY winner Victoria Monét celebrates her new album on the Frequency of Love Tour at MGM Music Hall at Fenway. Pub comedy, a Grateful Dead tribute, late-night dancing, Celtics and Bruins matchups, a Doris Kearns Goodwin talk, and a Trippie Redd concert keep the momentum going.
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A new historical fiction novel returns to the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire
On the night of Nov. 28, 1942, Boston’s Cocoanut Grove nightclub erupted in flames. Nearly 500 people died in the conflagration and hundreds of survivors suffered horrific injuries. Eighty-four years later, it remains the deadliest nightclub fire in U.S. history. Gemma Tizzard’s “The Nightingales of Boston” brings to vivid...
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Late Nite Catechism Returns to Boston After 31 Years, With a Newton Native as Sister
Sister is back in Boston, ruler in hand, for the first time in 31 years. “'Til Death Do Us Part: Late Nite Catechism” has returned to the Charles Playhouse, with Newton native Denise Fennell bringing the beloved nun character to Massachusetts audiences for the first time, according to CBS Boston.
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Events this week in Cambridge and Somerville: Love Letter From the Afterlife, Indigenous music celebration and Choco Fête
For a searchable calendar of events with your choice of list or map view, or to submit an event of your own, go to the main calendar. The Row Hotel at Assembly Row, 360 Foley St., Assembly Square. Free. The Bill McGoldrick Acoustic Duo, featuring Lauren Scudder along with a...
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Marblehead dancers bring hometown magic to ‘The Nutcracker’
Forget visions of sugar plums. For 44 young Marblehead dancers, the holiday season is already filled with visions of pirouettes, tutus, toy soldiers and dancing mice. And they’re bringing their dads along for the ride. Three Marblehead fathers will join their children onstage when the Greater Salem Ballet Company...
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Boston Reparations Task Force mulls how to focus the project going forward
Members of the Boston Reparations Task Force are debating a path forward in the wake of the city’s move to drop a study of slavery in Boston that found itself mired in controversy. Historians and an archeologist who have examined Boston’s history with slavery discussed possible paths forward after...
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This Massachusetts Library Has A Peaceful Courtyard And Grand Reading Rooms With Free Tours And Belongs On Your 2027 List
A Boston banker once helped create a library with one big condition: its doors had to be open to everyone. And more than a century later, that welcome still stands. Step into the main reading room, and there’s a barrel-arched ceiling soaring 50 feet overhead. Even the books needed room to think big.
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Review & setlist: Journey soldiers into Boston before (allegedly) going their separate ways
The Final Frontier Tour is supposedly the band's last after 53 years and many personnel changes. Journey at TD Garden, Boston, Nov. 10, 2026. Journey made music meant to be heard in three contexts: behind the bedroom door of a teenager whose parents disapprove of rock music, blasting through the rolled-down windows of a secondhand Z28, and in arenas. With the band’s core fanbase too old for the first and (probably) too responsible for the second, that left the last option on Tuesday, as the veteran band brought its Final Frontier Tour to the TD Garden.
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The Art of Banksy brings original works by the world’s most famous street artist to Boston
The Art of Banksy, the world’s largest exhibition of original and authenticated works by the internationally renowned and famously anonymous street artist, is coming to Boston’s Saunders Castle at Park Plaza on November 19, 2026. Featuring over 150 works drawn from private collections, the exhibition offers visitors a...
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Saathi’s Diwali celebration lights up Emerson with cultural appreciation
For South Asian students away from home, an important festival like Diwali can be difficult to celebrate without being near family and community, but Saathi brought the celebration to Emerson College. On Monday, over 50 Emerson students gathered in the Loft to celebrate the annual religious festival originating in India,...
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Men's Golf Announces Signing Class of 2027
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Boston College Director of Golf Drew Kayser has announced the signing of Leo Roennau to the 2027 recruiting class. "We are thrilled to welcome Leo to the Boston College Golf family!" said Kayser. "Leo brings an incredible work ethic, high character, and a competitive spirit that aligns perfectly with our program's core values."