Making the holiday season more merry

While Boston is basking in 9 hours of sunlight on this shortest day of the year, I'm making do with 4 in Belgium. If you need your Winter spirits raised, like I do, there's nothing better than getting out to do some singing and shopping in the snow.


Roslindale Holiday Wander Thursday 5-8PM

Lots of shops are offering deals and treats as the shops stay open late so you can get your gift-buying done. Some highlights: Moroccan tasting at the Birch Street House & Garden, free churros at El Chavo and refreshments at the Thrift Shop


Beacon Hill Christmas Concert Saturday 7:30PM

Bell ringers start at Louisburg Square and go house to house ringing bells while the audience goes along with them singing. The website describes this as a quiet, gentle event, though with a bunch of bells, I wonder how quiet they can be?



As always, more events on the calendar at Beantown On the Cheap. Until 2012 - Cheers!

Green Music Sunshine Diving

In the lineup for this weekend: two excellent looking festivals, urban cliff diving and an oldie but goodie.

Boston Greenfest

Boston City Hall plaza fills up with eco-clothing, energy efficient ways to remodel your house, recycled bottle earrings, and other things you should buy to be more earth friendly. (sarcasm) Ok, in addition to that stuff, there's some great organizations you should take part in to make Mass more green through political action and great music. (I just picked myself up a free CD of rockin' soul music.)

JP Music Festival

There's no better place to have a music fest. Jamaica Plain is full of musicians and greenspace. Put them both together and you get a great Saturday afternoon. I'm most excited about Erin Harpe & the Delta Swingers, slated to rock at 6 PM.

Urban Cliff Diving

Men in speedos jumping off the Institute of Contemporary Art into the Boston Harbor?! If this sounds to amazing to be true, you'll just have to go and find out if this is a prank or not.

KC and the Sunshine Band

I'm a fan of Get Down Tonight and Shake, Shake, Shake Your Booty and this is free, so why not? Bring a picnic, but don't plan on sitting down for what promises to be a rump shaker of a concert. Do you think they still look like this? --->

As always, full schedule of the months events and beyond at the bottom of the homepage.