Activities and celebrations in and around Boston
Festive walks, the Nutcracker at Boston Ballet, Hanukkah at the MFA and roadtrips near and far- are all our favorite ways to celebrate December holidays. Follow along to make your own winter memories! The Nutcracker at Boston Ballet: November 29-December 29, 2024 Attending the Nutcracker at Boston Ballet at a lavishly decorated Boston Opera House […]
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Updates added following performances! (keep checking back) Fall is a great time to reconnect with your favorite arts venues- and check out some new ones. Here is my Short List for Fall 2024 Arts in and around Boston (click the event links below for all ticket and other info): The weekend of September 26-29th I
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We spend many summer weekends on Cape Cod enjoying its beautiful beaches. In the fall we don’t get to visit as often, but we look forward to getting off the beach chairs to follow our favorite biking path to the National Seashore and to engage in our other Cape Cod favorite fall activities. Another advantage
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TANGLEWOOD SUMMER 2026: check out full List of Summer 2026 PERFORMANCES. Attending a Tanglewood concert is our family’s beloved summer tradition! Tanglewood, (in its 88th season in the summer of 2026), is summer home of Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops and a center for advanced musical studies that welcomes nation’s leading young artists
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Island of Nantucket, some 30 miles off the Southern coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is a popular summer destination (when its population grows to 80,000). Over the years, we have come to love our 3-season day trips to Martha’s Vineyard (another island off the coast of Cape Cod), but we have a lot of catching
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Mother’s Day is a great “excuse” to spend some quality time with the favorite mother figures in your life. How about having not one but several celebrations throughout the month of May to celebrate the season indoors and outdoors. Here are my favorite ways to celebrate Mother’s Day (with my loved ones) updated for May
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The Nutcracker Opening of the Nutcracker at Boston Ballet signals the beginning of winter holiday season for us! Dressing up and attending the performance in lavishly decorated Boston Opera House is a true celebration of the season (and our cherished Mom-Daughter tradition which I hope gets to continue for a long time!). Boston Ballet’s staging
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Boston Symphony Orchestra opened its 143rd Season last week with a series of 10 concerts (October 5–21) conducted by its Music Director Andris Nelsons (now in his 10th season with the Orchestra). This early fall series will feature both classical favorites as well as prominent contemporary composers – performed in Boston Symphony Hall– one of
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In the Northeast, we spend October weekends chasing foliage locations that afford open vistas yet are not too far from home. I came up with these three half day fall trips themed around “Little Women” filming locations northwest of Boston. These short excursions would suit any number of tastes, but we experienced them as mom-daughter
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Boston Ballet opens its 60th Season with FALL EXPERIENCE- a program of 4 unique modern ballets. The Company has been known for its work with leading modern choreographers from different parts of the world, but I feel that this program is its most unique to date. The evening went by in the blink of an
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