Weekend event picks, May 23-26
Making plans? Short on ideas? No worries. See June Wulff’s picks for the top things to do around the Hub this weekend.
FRIDAY
EVERYTHING BUT THE S’MORES Things were slow at Club Passim on a 1998 weekend, so the club promoted up-and-coming talent and the result was “On the Cutting Edge of the Campfire’’ which became campfire.
“In the round’’ performances plus solo and band sets are what it’s all about. The fire is ignited by Anthony Savino, Cliff Hillis, Alice Limoges, and Gillian Grogan. May 23, 6 p.m.-midnight. May 24-26, noon-midnight. $10, $25 weekend pass. Club Passim, 47 Palmer St., Cambridge. 617-492-7679. www.passim.org
CALLING YOU City Hall Plaza is the place to be this Memorial Day weekend when the Boston Calling Music Festival fills the area with music by Jack Johnson (May 23), Death Cab for Cutie (May 24), and Modest Mouse (May 25). May 23, 6 p.m. doors May 24-25, noon doors. $50 (May 23), $185 (May 24 or 25), $350 (May 24 and 25 weekend pass), other tickets are sold out. City Hall Plaza, 1 City Hall Sq., Boston. 800-745-3000. www.ticketmaster.com
SPOCK ALERT West End native, Leonard Nimoy, returns home for two nights for Boston Pops “Out of This World’’ with Leonard Nimoy. The iconic “Star Trek’’ actor hosts programs of space-themed music conducted by Harvard grad Sarah Hicks plus short films by José Francisco Salgado. Music includes the theme from “Star Trek,’’ and John Williams’s music from “Star Wars,’’ “E.T.,’’ and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.’’ May 23-24, 8 p.m. $24-$94. Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Ave., Boston. 888-266-1200. www.bostonpops.org
NO DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH How do we acquire our prejudices? Gather your thoughts and compare them to those of the brainiac quartet in Lydia R. Diamond’s “Smart People.’’ The comedy’s smahty pants are Brian the white neuropsychiatrist; his Asian and American lover Ginny; Jackson, an African-American surgical intern; Valerie, an African-American acting graduate. May 23-24, 8 p.m. May 25, 7 p.m. Through June 29. $25 and up, $5 senior discount, $25 for 35 and younger, $15 students and military. Calderwood Pavilion, 527 Tremont St., Boston. 617-266-0800. www.huntingtontheatre.org
A MAGNIFICENT SEVEN You don’t have to use your CharlieCard or go below for music at the Boston Underground Summit 7. All you have to do is show up in Cambridge and watch Grave Ideas, Particulars, Big Huge, Bees, Los Greys, Joe Mygan, and other musicians play in loop format until it’s time to go. May 24, 7-11 p.m. $7-$10 sliding scale. All ages. Cambridge Elks Lodge, 55 Bishop Allen Dr., Cambridge.
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GET YOUR BIG SCREEN HERE Is your wallet not healthy enough to get you tickets to Fenway Park? No worries, grab your blanket and picnic basket and head to other parks where you can watch our Sox play out of town thanks to a live NESN broadcast shown on a large screen. “Out of the Park’’ includes Wally the Green Monster, Red Sox DJ TJ Connelly, the Hot Tamales Brass Band, and free ice cream and franks. May 25, 1:40 p.m. (June 22 at 4:05 p.m. at Franklin Park; July 27 at 1:40 p.m. at Boston Common). Free. Ramsay Park at Jim Rice Field, 1970 Washington St., Roxbury. 617-969-8900. www.highlandstreet.org
TO MARKETSomething for your inside, something for your outside, there’s quite a choice at SOWA Open Market, the outdoor arts market with juried artists, food vendors, and a Food Truck Court. Sundays 10 a.m.-4 p.m. through Oct. 26. Free. Three-block area along Harrison Avenue and Thayer Street in the South End. 800-403-8305. www.newenglandopenmarkets.com
MONDAY
COME ON IN “Season of Color in the Americas’’ celebrates the exhibit “Quilts and Color: The Pilgrim/Roy Collection’’ (through July 27) with music, activities, screenings of Technicolor musicals, tours, and talks. Music at the MFA’s Memorial Day Open House includes the 55-piece US Coast Guard Band performing patriotic songs and American Standards at the Huntington Avenue entrance. May 26 from 10 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Free. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. 617-267-9300. www.mfa.org
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