We’re getting into that time of year when you can’t leave the house without immediately sweating through your shirt, so you might as well get sweaty on the dance floor with a bunch of other sweaty, sexy people. And if you wake up with a hangover the next morning? Just sweat it out, baby. Sweat it out.
| 1. | Thursday, June 26 – Pretty Things Summer Beer Tasting |
Anytime you can legally get drunk at the cemetery, I’m going to let you know about it. Especially if it’s Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, which is worth checking out even when they’re not having a Pretty Things beer tasting like they are tonight. Climb the Washington Tower for one of the best views of the city skyline, then head over to the mausoleum and see who can be the first to find a marker for someone who died in 2014. Winner gets to solemnly contemplate the impermanence of existence. (5:30 p.m., $12, 21+)
| 2. | Friday, June 27 – Free Fun Fridays |
Like free stuff? Like fun? Like Fridays? Like alliteration, or at least begrudgingly accept it as the crutch of a lazy writer? Then you’re going to love Free Fun Fridays. The Highland Street Foundation’s summer series offers free admission to museums and cultural venues across the state, kicking off Friday with the Franklin Park Zoo, Mass MoCa, the MIT Museum, and more. Check out the website for a full list of free stuff so you can plan for some spontaneous three-day weekends. (Various times, FREE, all ages)
| 3. | Friday, June 27 – City of Cambridge Dance Party |
Cambridge closes down Mass Ave in front of City Hall in Central Square for the city’s annual Dance Party, welcoming thousands of residents to get their groove on to DJ-spun music. This almost makes up for Cambridge declaring war on Uber. Actually if I was running Uber I’d give everyone free rides to the dance party just to stick it to the city council. How about it, Uber? (7 p.m., FREE, all ages)
| 4. | Friday, June 27 – ‘90s Prom: Right Here, Right Now |
Oh, you thought Somerville was going to let Cambridge get all the attention with its quirky dance party? Yeah right. Somerville Local First’s 90s Prom: Right Here Right Now fundraiser invites older guests to reluctantly acknowledge that the ‘90s were 20 years ago, while finally giving people born in the ‘90s the chance to slow dance to “I Swear” by All 4 One. Mixologists will stir up cocktails with throwback ingredients like Crystal Pepsi and Squeeze-its, OK not really but that would be awesome. (8 p.m., $20, 21+)
| 5. | Saturday, June 28 – Calamity No. 6 |
If you prefer watching actually talented people dance instead of doing it yourself, check out Calamity Co Dance’s modern pop art and variety show at the Democracy Center in Cambridge. The show also features music, comedy, and theater, and you can save $4 on admission if you bring a snack for the communal snack table. And if that snack is a 99-cent bag of Market Basket-brand pretzel sticks, you’ll come out $3 ahead plus you can snag the empty bag and dump the leftover salt right into your face. (8 p.m., $10, all ages)
| 6. | Saturday, June 28 – Boston JerkFest |
“The JerkFest called. They’re running out of you!” Sweet comeback, Costanza, but Saturday’s Caribbean festival celebrates Jamaican jerk-spiced food and all things spicy and hot, instead of celebrating jerks (if that’s what you want, just find a Financial District bar). Two sessions will feature tons of food vendors, rum and beer tastings, chef demonstrations, cocktail throwdowns, and live reggae music. (11 a.m. & 4 p.m., $12, all ages)
| 7. | Saturday, June 28 – World Naked Bike Ride |
The World Naked Bike Ride welcomes Boston’s pro-bike, anti-clothing population to ride out from the Common through Cambridge and Somerville. Organizers expect a couple hundred participants, which pales in comparison to the 9,000 that showed up to Portland’s naked ride last month wearing nothing but unkempt beards, tattoos and probably artisan-crafted leather bracelets. Full nudity isn’t required, so if you’re shy you can wear body paint, glitter, pasties, underwear, or even show up fully clothed and say you’re just baring your soul. (9 p.m., FREE, presumably 18+)
| 8. | Sunday, June 29 – Pops on the Lawn |
“Get off my lawn!” is probably what your pops would say if someone staged a live concert in his front yard, but luckily the “pops” referenced here is the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra and it’s happening in a public park, not on your dad’s painstakingly manicured lawn that he spent all his time mowing instead of playing catch with you. The program includes a variety of songs from Broadway shows and the movies, and they’ll even give kids a chance to conduct the orchestra. Which as far as I can tell will be totally indistinguishable from what a professional conductor does. (3 p.m., FREE, all ages)
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