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Culture Saturday — Saturday, July 25, 2026
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Free jazz all afternoon in Cambridge, feast season opens on Hanover Street, and 80 and sunny to walk it in.
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| Weather 🌤️ 80° / 60° | The T Right Now ● RL ● OL ● GL ● BL Red: shuttles Alewife–Park St through the 30th · Green: Symphony closed, Summit Ave bypassed · Blue and Orange clear · live status → | Roads Planned: RT-28 south narrows between I-93 in Somerville and RT-3 in Cambridge, 6am–2pm. Nothing else scheduled until Sunday night. |
| The number: 275 — events on Boston’s calendar right now, eleven of them dated today. see the whole list → | ⚾️ Sox took the opener from Toronto 6–4 last night — the middle game of three is at 4:10 this afternoon at Fenway, a rare daylight start · full scoreboard → | 🎭 Culture Saturday What the city has been listening to, reading and eating Three from the arts desk this week — a set on Tremont Street, a new collection worth the shelf space, and a Union Square arrival. Music · Via Boston.com The Stranger Things actor played his own songs on Tremont Street this week. The review runs with the full setlist. Books · Via The Arts Fuse Boston’s arts desk takes its time with A Turn Toward the Slight — one for the weekend pile. Food · Via Boston Restaurant Talk Another name for the Somerville square that keeps collecting them. | Today 🌤️ 80°/60° Sunny | Sun 🌤️ 76°/60° Sunny |
| TODAY | Feast season opens on Hanover Street — free to wander into, and it runs through Sunday. | | TODAY | Free, noon to 6, on the grass at Danehy Park. Back again tomorrow. | | TODAY | A full day in the studio at the MFA, 10 to 3 — registration required. | | TONIGHT | 7pm at MGM Music Hall — expect Lansdowne Street to be busy well before that. | | SUN 7/26 | Cars out from Berkeley to Mass Ave, 10 to 6 — eight blocks to walk down the middle of. | | SUN 7/26 | An evening carnival on the waterfront, 5:30 to 8:30, aimed at the under-ten crowd. |
| Via WBUR News Councilors renewed the pledge after a cyclist was killed, and pressed on what has actually moved since it was made. Via Boston.com Two city councilors say an extension is long overdue. Transit advocates are unconvinced by the proposal on the table. Via CommonWealth Beacon A lopsided vote on Beacon Hill sends the changes forward. Business The local lender is a markedly bigger institution on paper after its acquisition closed. | Free jazz, a feast, and nowhere to be. | ExploreBoston · 1 Beacon Street, Floor 15, Boston, MA 02108 |
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