10 things to do in Boston this weekend
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BosTen is your weekly guide to events and cool happenings in and around Boston. Skip Netflix this weekend—here are 10 ways to get out of your home and not be bored in the city. If you’d like BosTen delivered to your inbox every Thursday, click here. Want more things to do? Check out our events calendar at boston.com/events.
Cannons Fighting Cancer
We’ve officially entered the slowest months of being a sports fan. That is, unless you’re a laxer. Join Boston’s professional lacrosse team for a night that will bring the lacrosse, medical, and research communities together in order to raise funds and awareness for organizations focused on finding a cure for cancer. (Thursday, June 23 at 7 p.m.; Harvard Stadium; $25-$40; all ages)
Gilt City Warehouse Sale
The flash-sale website is making it even easier for all those people in search of bargains. This weekend, Gilt City is bringing loads of discounted designer items from designers like Jimmy Choo and Prada right to the South End so everyone in Boston has the opportunity to leave with armfuls of expensive goodies for way cheap. (Thursday, June 23 from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday, June 24 from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Cyclorama, South End; $15 for Thursday preview and free on Friday; 21+; get your passes here)
Samuel Adams Summer Groovefest
Ring in the warm weather with a Bob Marley tribute band, some fresh Jamaican grub, and all the ice cold Sam Adams that you can slog down your gullet. (Friday, June 24 at 6 p.m.; Samuel Adams Boston Brewery; $25; 21+)
Boston JerkFest and Rum & Brew Tasting
Hey wait, who you callin’ a… oh, nevermind. JerkFest kicks off on Friday with its fourth annual Rum & Brew Fest, featuring live music and endless tropical cocktails. The food festival on Saturday will feature a whole mess of Caribbean Jerk spiced food and about all the hot and spicy-flavored stuff that your mouth can handle. (Friday, June 24 at 6 p.m. to Saturday, June 25 at 9:30 p.m.; Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology; $55-$100; all ages)
Chefs in Shorts
More than 30 of Boston’s biggest chefs are loosening up the dress code for a night to deliver an enormous cook-off filled with endless grilled foods, desserts, beer, and wine and raise money for Future Chefs, a local nonprofit that helps chefs find first careers in culinary arts. (Friday, June 24 at 7 p.m.; Seaport World Trade Center; $80; 21+)
Cambridge Dance Party
City Hall Plaza doesn’t have a monopoly on all the free dance party fun. Head to Central Square this Friday, where the streets will be closed for traffic, but open for any of the following dance moves: the robot, the Macarena, the Watusi, and the Boston Boogaloo. If you don’t know any of those, you can just dance regularly, too. (Friday, June 24 at 7 p.m.; Central Square; free; all ages)
Sundaes on Saturday at Boston Public Market
Ready to taste the most artisanal bowl of ice cream you’ve ever ingested? Crescent Ridge, Taza Chocolate, Fat Toad Farm, and more are teaming up to help you build an ice cream sundae that you won’t soon forget. (Saturday, June 25 at 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.; Boston Public Market; $5; all ages)
Monster Jam
Watch the wildest show on fours wheels featuring monster trucks like the Carolina Crusher, El Toro Loco, Son-uva Digger. (Saturday, June 25 at 7 p.m.; Gillette Stadium; $10-$25; all ages)
B.A.A. 10k presented by Brigham and Women’s Hospital
After you finish cramming jerk-seasoned food and other hearty grillables in your face all weekend, kick off the week with a light 10K run. Who knows, it could be your first step toward someday running the Boston Marathon. (Sunday, June 26 at 8 a.m.; Boston Common; $65; all ages)
Vintage Baseball Game
There’s a field on Georges Island where players mysteriously appear through the cornstalks in the outfield and one of them is your father and he wants to “have a catch” with you. Just kidding, that’s the plot to Field of Dreams. But seriously, there will be an old-timey baseball game between the New Hampshire Granite and the Boston Beaneaters. (Sunday, June 26 at 11 a.m.; Georges Island; free; all ages)
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