It takes a village
Posted in Children: Entertainment, Grown-Ups: Entertainment, Uncategorized on Apr 25th, 2010
Come see a family chorus sing original songs about the wonders of space - 3 FREE shows during the Cambridge Science Festival. The shows are performed by are geared to families by the North Cambridge Family Opera Company. We loved the performance in 2008 so much that my then 6 year old son and I […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment on Oct 1st, 2009
We like to go apple picking but somehow the autumn got past us last year before our trek to the orchards. We had been going to the same place, Shelburn Farms in Acton for the last several years and noticed the energy and activities were really accelerating. Boy, missing last year didn’t prepare us for […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment on Sep 10th, 2009
The Growing Center, one of my favorite city places to go with the kids, is hosting the annual Fairies in the Garden event this Saturday. Although I have never attended (and will not this year because we are out of town I have seen the fairies all dressed up leaving the garden. It just […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment on Jul 23rd, 2009
TIMEOUT NY has called Jose Conde y Ola Fresca “One of New York’s most important Afro Cuban voices.” This weekend The Jose Conde Band performs Baby Loves Salsa, a jimmying, wiggling, fun time for young kids and adults!
Conceived as a way to introduce kids to the joys of Afro-Latin music and to bilingual English-Spanish songs, […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment on Jul 22nd, 2009
Tufts University, in Medford, runs a summer theater program “by and for children” called Magic Circle Theater and their performances start this week. My son attended one last year, while he was at the summer camp at Eliot Pearson Children’s School, and talked about it for days. I am sorry to say we won’t make […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment, Grown-Ups: Entertainment on Jul 17th, 2009
As usual, I have been meaning to post this for a while and it begins tonight. ArtBeat is great fun — not your typical 2nd rate craft vendors and lots of Indian Food stands (not that I don’t love Indian food stands and I am sure there will be a few.) Really interesting and beautiful […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment on Jul 13th, 2009
A private family foundation, the Highland Street Foundation, is providing support to select Massachusetts cultural institutions so they can open their doors to residents and tourists for free on Fridays throughout the summer.
Free Fun Fridays Free entry to the following locations:
FRI, JULY 17
Boston harbor Island Alliance
Free ferry transportation to harbor islands
408 Atlantic Ave-Boston, MA
617.223.8530/ www.islandalliance.org
FRI, […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment, Grown-Ups: Entertainment on Jun 19th, 2009
The Somerville Arts council and the City of Somerville is sponsoring a free outdoor Jazz concert this Saturday afternoon, as well as evening events all week. Check out the schedule and lineup for Saturday and the entire week.
The outdoor concert kicks off with the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, who I have seen previously during the Honk […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment, Children: Health on Jun 18th, 2009
The latest book parents I know are buzzing about….
A little over a year ago newspaper columnist Lenore Skenazy got a lot of praise and censure after writing about her decision to let her 10 year old son take the subway home alone (read the original column here).
I was quite pleased to see the column when […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment, Uncategorized on Jun 12th, 2009
Looks like we won’t get a gorgeous sunny day, but it will be mostly cloudy until late afternoon, so get out while you can and check out the 30th Cambridge River Festival. All kinds of art and performance along the river, sponsored by the Cambridge Arts Council.
I will be rocking the Festival all afternoon, helping […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment, Children: Outings and Adventures, Grown-Ups: Entertainment, Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2009
Now that Harvard and MIT have wrapped up their commencements and other festival rites, it’s festival season for the rest of us -
Jose Matteo is putting on the Dance for World Community Festival today - with performances until 6:00 and dancing in Harvard Street thereafter.
Down by the river, The Boston Dragon Boat Festival is celebrating […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment on Apr 24th, 2009
We were at the Museum of Science earlier this week and caught sight of huge patches of daffodils in the park across the street. We made it to North Point Park yesterday, and it was worth the time. The flowers are even along the wall in one area in the playground and I couldn’t take […]
