Hello everyone! I’m (27M) in a very social phase of my life and would love to meet new faces and do fun things.
Some fun things I enjoy are: matcha, coffee, walks, hikes, runs, picnics, any outdoorsy activity really, restaurants, bars, clubs, day trips, anime, tv shows, video games, going to the gym, cooking, and photography.
Leave a comment or dm me and I’ll set something up.
Hi everyone,
Late 30s straight woman near Burlington. Rebuilding my circle with people who actually show up.
Into: Tuesday movies, Kimball Farm ice cream, hiking, banh mi, oysters, any cuisines, comedy, live music, pickleball, gym, reading, podcasts/documentaries, volunteering, swimming pool hangs (once we're cool).
Not into: drugs. Fine with social drinks/hookah.
Open to: friends first – more if we really click (straight).
Drive: ~45 min from Burlington.
Respectful DMs only – tell me a bit about yourself, what you do and what you're into. Let's grab a juice or a walk.
My partner and I are huge fans of regional Indian cinema, especially Malayalam and Tamil films. We’re looking to start a small group with fellow enthusiasts to watch and discuss these films together, whether that’s a monthly meetup at the cinema, a watch-party, or just a space to swap recommendations.
If you are interested, drop a comment here and, I can get a group going!
Hi! I’m a 29 year old woman and I’ve lived in downtown for about 5+ years. I feel like there is nothing to do besides restaurants and bars. I can’t stand bars. I like restaurants but I feel too nervous to try new restaurants alone. Sometimes I enjoy going on walks. Like many of us here, I struggle with finding friends. What are some ways you have successfully made friends? I realize that I have to get out of my shell and put myself out there. I think I’m ready to do so. I enjoy learning, crafts, and video games etc. Any nearby activity recommendations where I could meet people, would be great. Thank you ☺️
Hi everyone! Kinga here with this week's list. Feast season keeps rolling: the San Gennaro Feast takes over the Paul Revere Mall in the North End from Friday through Sunday. But the real standout this week is Saturday, when JP Porchfest turns Jamaica Plain's porches and front yards into stages for the afternoon, and the Greenway Food Truck Festival takes over four blocks downtown. Both are free. The Sox are also home all weekend against the Giants, and if you haven't walked through the 100 elephants on Comm Ave yet, they're only here through mid-September. Get outside and enjoy it!
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🎸 JP Porchfest — Jamaica Plain | Free | Sat 12–6pm | Music, dance, storytelling, and poetry on porches and green spaces all over the neighborhood.
🌮 Greenway Food Truck Festival — Wharf District | Free | Sat 11am–5pm | Four blocks of food trucks, artisan vendors, mini golf, and inflatables.
🇮🇹 San Gennaro Feast — Paul Revere Mall, North End | Free | Fri–Sun | Feast season continues, with a Motown tribute Friday and soul legends Saturday.
🐘 The Great Elephant Migration — Commonwealth Ave Mall | Free | Through Sept 13 | One hundred life-sized elephant sculptures spread down Back Bay.
🍹 Boston Margarita Festival — Medford | Ticketed | Sat 11am–6pm | Ten margarita samples from the city's best bars, and you pick the winner.
🖼️ Free Thursday Nights at the Gardner — Fenway | Free | 5–9pm | The weekly free night at the loveliest museum in the city. Heads up: tonight's free tickets may already be gone, so check before you head over.
🎨 ICA Free Thursdays — Seaport | Free | 5–9pm | Galleries open late, harbor views, seasonal bar. Free tickets are released at 10am that morning.
🍷 BRIX Thursday Tasting — South End | Free | 5–7pm | This week it's "Off the Beaten Path," and it's the South End shop only (the Financial District location is off this week).
📖 Yu-Mei Balasingamchow at Brookline Booksmith — Coolidge Corner | Free | 7pm | This local author's debut novel Names Have Been Changed is told through a podcast its narrator has made about her own barely believable life: assumed names, forged documents, wild class shifts, and exile. Free, and the Booksmith reading series rarely misses.
🎶 Jake Thistle at Club Passim — Harvard Square | $33–$35 | 8pm, doors 7 | A New Jersey folk rock balladeer fresh off this year's American Idol, in the coziest room in town.
🎤 Anyone Awake — Middle East Upstairs, Cambridge | $15–$25 | 6:30pm | An indie quartet from Rigby, Idaho, of all places, making sophisticated guitar rock that sounds like it came from somewhere much hipper. The in-the-know pick of the night.
😂 Popcorn Comedy with Andrew Durso — Somerville Theater basement | $23 | 7:30pm | The monthly showcase in the basement welcomes an NYC comic who started out here in Boston. Come early for classic cartoons before the show.
🍸 Tee Sanders — City Winery | From $24 | 7:30pm | The Chicago-raised comic from the comedy group The Round Table, with some of the sharpest one-liners going.
🇮🇹 San Gennaro Feast: Opening Night — Paul Revere Mall, North End | Free | Opens 4pm | Feast season picks right back up, this time on the Prado. DJ Steven Virgilio plays through the evening, then Dr. K's Motown Revue takes over from 8 to 10:30 with a full Motown tribute show. Closes at 11. Expect a beer garden, raffles, kids' activities, and all the classic street food. The feast benefits A Voice for Mikey and other autism awareness organizations.
⚾ Red Sox vs. Giants — Fenway | Ticketed | 7:10pm | San Francisco is in town for a three-game weekend series, all at Fenway.
😂 Best of Boston Showcase — Laugh Boston | $39.90 | Chris Tabb hosts some of the hardest-working comics in town. Tonight's lineup is Liam McGurk, Kathe Farris, and Al Park, with Dan Boulger closing.
🎭 Nerdy Prudes Must Die — Plaza Theater, BCA | $15–$17.25 | Fri–Sun | A horror comedy musical about high school outcasts who accidentally summon the ghost of a bully with a lingering grudge against nerds. From the team behind The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals. Cheap and very fun.
🎬 Late Fame opens at the Brattle — Cambridge | $13.50–$15.50 | Willem Dafoe in a rare subtle role, playing a lapsed poet whose long-ignored early work suddenly catches on with the hipster set. The question is whether his old ego survives the re-inflation.
🕵️ The Cinema of Graham Greene opens — Harvard Film Archive | $10 per screening | The Harvard Film Archive is back with a series of films written by or adapted from Graham Greene, master of spies and morally dubious men. Tonight is a double bill: The Fallen Idol at 7pm and Brighton Rock at 9:15.
🎤 Isaiah Rashad — Citizens House of Blues | Ticketed | 7pm | The Chattanooga rapper behind The Sun's Tirade, touring his third album IT'S BEEN AWFUL, with opener Alemeda. He takes his time between records and it shows.
🍷 The Friday Edit at DeLuca's — Beacon Hill & Newbury | Free, 21+ | 4–7pm | The free weekly tasting in the hidden wine cellars at both locations.
🎬 Free Family Flicks at the Hatch Shell — Esplanade | Free | Sundown | The Hatch Shell's final free movie of the summer, and it's Superman. Blanket, picnic, movie by the Charles. Weather dependent.
🎸 JP Porchfest — All over Jamaica Plain | Free | 12–6pm | Easily my favorite thing this weekend. Since 2014, JP has handed its porches, front yards, green spaces, and community hubs over to musicians, dancers, storytellers, and poets for one afternoon. It's produced by Dunamis, a nonprofit that develops Boston's next generation of artists and arts managers of color, and the curation genuinely reflects that. Good news for planning: the map and directory is live this year, so you can actually chart a route instead of just wandering. Though wandering is also the point.
🌮 Greenway Food Truck Festival — Rowes Wharf Plaza to the Greenway Carousel | Free | 11am–5pm | The Greenway closes out summer with four blocks of food trucks, an artisan market, local brews, and a DJ set from Carlitoswave. There's also free face painting, mini golf, an inflatable obstacle course and rock wall, the Rings Fountain to splash in, and the carousel. Bring a blanket. It happens rain or shine unless the weather turns properly bad.
🥬 Chinatown Farmers Market — Auntie Kay and Uncle Frank Chin Park | Free | 9am–1pm | The twice-monthly market for Chinese vegetables, fruit, fresh fish, and pastries. Get there early.
🇮🇹 San Gennaro Feast — North End | Free | From 12pm | A full day on the Prado, with DJ Steven Virgilio through the afternoon, live entertainment from 5 to 7:30, and then the night's headliner: soul legends Russell Thompkins Jr. and the New Stylistics from 8:30 to 10.
🍹 Boston Margarita Festival — The Great American Beer Hall, Medford | Ticketed | 11am–6pm | Ten 3.5oz margarita samples from some of the area's best bars and restaurants, and you vote on the winner, who takes home $1,000 and the bragging rights. Plus a live DJ, street food vendors, and a beer garden.
⚾ Red Sox vs. Giants — Fenway | Ticketed | 7:15pm | Saturday night baseball.
👗 DESEOS: Afro House Fashion Experience — The Foundry, Cambridge | From $25 | 6pm | A luxury streetwear fashion show with dance performances set to Afro house, Afrobeats, house, and Jersey club, plus food, drink, and curated vendors. One of the more distinctive nights out this weekend.
🎺 The Velvet Hour — Crystal Ballroom, Somerville | $42–$59 | 8pm | An immersive cabaret evening with jazzy seven-piece Little Miss and the Boom, joined by burlesque performer Pixie Payne. Cocktail attire encouraged, which is half the fun.
🎬 Summer Flicks: Camp Rock — Prudential Center South Garden | Free | Music 6:30pm, movie at dusk | The Pru's outdoor movie series continues, and this week it's Camp Rock.
😂 Best of Boston Showcase (night 2) — Laugh Boston | $39.90 | Tonight brings Big D, Gabi Hajos, and Jamie Aird, with Dan Boulger again closing the bill.
🎸 Afternoon Bike Ride — The Lilypad, Cambridge | $15–$18 | 8pm, doors 7:30 | A Montreal indie pop trio who used to make genuinely strange ambient-pop hybrids and have drifted toward something more melodic, without losing the weird streak entirely.
🇮🇹 San Gennaro Feast: Final Day — North End | Free | From 12pm | The last day on the Prado, and the most traditional one: an outdoor Mass at noon, the procession at 1pm, then music all afternoon and evening until the feast closes at 10.
🛍️ Open Newbury Street — Back Bay | Free | 10am–6pm | Eight car-free blocks from Berkeley to Mass Ave. Pairs perfectly with a walk through the elephants a block over.
🧺 SoWa Open Market — South End | Free | 11am–5pm | The Sunday flagship: farmers and makers, food trucks, a beer garden, live music, and the open artist studios next door.
⚾ Red Sox vs. Giants — Fenway | Ticketed | 3:15pm | Series finale, and a Sunday afternoon game.
😂 Robyn Schall — The Wilbur | $35–$56 | 3pm | The social media comic invites the whole audience to celebrate her impending wedding, somewhere between a standup set and a bachelorette party.
🎶 Victoryland — The Rockwell, Somerville | $18–$20 | 7:30pm, doors 6:30 | If Neutral Milk Hotel had formed in Brooklyn instead of Louisiana, they might have sounded like this. A lovely small-room way to end the weekend.
🇫🇷 Boston French Film Festival — MFA | $20 per screening | Closes Sunday | The 30th edition wraps this weekend. Saturday brings Leave One Day at 11am and an encore of Colors of Time at 2pm; Sunday closes with Comédie-Française at 11am and Guess Who's Calling! at 2pm. (Note: the previously scheduled Great Arch screening has been canceled.)
🐘 The Great Elephant Migration — Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Back Bay | Free | Through Sept 13 | If you do one thing off this list, make it this. One hundred life-sized elephant sculptures now line the Commonwealth Avenue Mall in Back Bay, arranged so the herd appears to be walking east toward the Common. Each one is hand-carved from lantana, an invasive weed, by Indigenous artisans from India's Nilgiri Hills, and modeled on a real elephant those communities live alongside. Sales fund conservation work, including North Atlantic right whale efforts at the New England Aquarium. Free, open all the time, and genuinely moving to walk through.
🖼️ Derrick Adams: View Master — ICA | $20 | A mid-career survey of the NYC artist's work celebrating, in his words, Black people "not entertaining, just being, living." Through September 7.
🌊 Lucy Raven: Rounds — ICA Watershed, East Boston | Free | Two US premieres, including an enormous kinetic light sculpture, in the ferry-accessible Watershed. Now extended through September 27.
🐚 Crochet Coral Reef — MIT Museum | $20 | Vivid crocheted fiber work by Australian sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim paired with paper work by MIT's Martin and Erik Demaine, all in service of endangered coral reefs.
🖼️ List Projects 35: Pap Souleye Fall — MIT List, Cambridge | Free | A Senegalese American artist building work out of dead pixels, the black spots that appear when hardware fails, imagining them as hidden places of refuge. Always free.
🚣 Kayak & Paddleboard at Community Boating — Esplanade | $40 | Two hour rentals, walk-up only, from 9am on weekends.
🎵 Berklee Summer in the City — Various | Free | Berklee students and faculty popping up in parks and squares all over town.
🏋️ Seaport Sweat — Seaport Common & Harbor Way | Free | Outdoor classes Monday through Thursday evenings on Seaport Common, plus Saturday mornings on Harbor Way, through September 30.
That's it for this week. Go say hi to an elephant, and if you make it to any of these, let me know how it went!
If you’re free tonight (8/19/26)… come through🎤 Mahjong, Karaoke, good vibes, and more! Tunes & Tiles at South End Bootleg Special 🀄
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I've been getting back into swimming, and I recently started open water swimming at Walden Pond. I haven't gone too far out yet because I'm a little nervous to be out there by myself, but I want to eventually work up to swimming all the way across. If you would also rather kayak or paddleboard along, that's cool too! I would just rather not drown out there alone lol
EDIT: Happy to see so many people interested in not drowning! I’m going to set up a discord and get this thing off Reddit and into the pond :)
Hi everyone! 🤍 I’m currently looking for brow + lash models in Everett, MA for content and portfolio work.
I’ve been doing lashes and brows for many years and have a lot of experience — I recently moved my services to a new location in Everett and I’m looking to build fresh content in my new space.
I’m looking for models for:
Brow wax + shaping
Brow tint
Brow lamination
Classic / wispy lash sets
This is not beginner/student work — I’m an experienced, licensed professional. I’m simply looking for models so I can create new photos and videos of my work at my Everett location.
You must be comfortable being photographed/recorded. ✨
If you’re interested, comment below or message me privately and I’ll send you the details! 🤍
If you were riding the Riverside green line last night at around 12:45am and got off around Reservoir, wearing a green and white striped button down and white pants, I need to know your name! Help me find him guys:)
Are there any hobby groups or clubs where people can get together to do arts like painting, drawing, sketching, crafts, etc. for fun? (Not as professional)
My wife and I are actively looking at houses and occasional rentals. I genuinely don't understand how people are making it in Boston and the surrounding areas.
Are businesses paying more than I think?
Hi everyone! I apologize in advance if this post is not allowed; I posted here last semester and a few people from this sub were kind enough to come in as my patients and helped me with my clinical. So I'm shooting my shot again this time and hoping some of you might wanna come to get a dental cleaning 😊
I’m now in my senior year of the Dental Hygiene program at MCPHS Worcester, and I’m hoping to find a few patients for my clinic sessions starting in September.
Because this is a student teaching clinic, appointments are a little different from a regular dental office. Visits are very thorough and include a dental and gum evaluation, oral cancer screening, X-rays when needed, and a dental cleaning. Everything I do is supervised and checked by licensed dental hygienists and dentists on-site.
There is no charge for treatment and insurance isn’t required!
The biggest thing I want to mention upfront is the time commitment. Appointments are about 3.5 hours because faculty check each step of the process, and I’m mainly looking for people who are able to commit to at least 2 visits. Depending on what you need, it could be fewer or more appointments. I know it's a very long appointment but I promise you it's going to be worth it! :)
My clinic availability this semester are Mondays: 8 AM–5 PM and Wednesdays: 5:30–9 PM.
If anyone has been meaning to get a cleaning/checkup and wouldn’t mind helping a dental hygiene student at the same time, feel free to message me. You’re also welcome to DM me if you just have questions about how the student clinic works!
Thank you 😊
Im in Boston for work and would like to bring home cool, unique shirts as souvenirs. I am staying in Dorchester and working in Brighton.
I’m not necessarily looking for the standard “BOSTON” souvenir shirt with a shamrock on it — I want shirts from places that have some character.If the place has a cool shirt I am willing to make the trip.
Bonus points if the place is interesting and worth visiting while Im there but its not a dealbreaker if it isn’t.
Extra bonus points if the place prints their shirts on Comfort Colors.
I’d love to go home with a collection of shirts that actually have stories behind them instead of the usual airport/gift-shop souvenirs.
As a millennial with many Gen Z friends, I adore all of them but sometimes I wish I had more friends my age. Maybe us "olds" (anyone over 30) can have a nightlife meetup sometime? Show people that we still have what it takes to stay out late?
For reference, I'm 35/M.
M26. I’m an international new grad, so maybe some of this is just a cultural difference, but I have noticed that people in Boston don’t seem to interact much with others in their own neighborhood. Everyone mostly keeps to themselves.
Even when I try to make small talk, it always feels like people are in a hurry or already late for something lol.
And I’m not basing this on just one neighborhood. I’ve moved several times over the past few years, and it’s been pretty much the same everywhere.
I would really like to make some friends in Boston. The advice I usually get is to go to bars because people tend to be much more open and social there. Unfortunately, I don’t drink, and a lot of the activity/sports clubs I have looked at feel a little intimidating to join by myself.
For people who have successfully made friends here as adults, especially without relying on bars, what worked for you? Any recommendations?
for context, I am a biotech scientist job searching for for the past 7-8 months and as everyone knows, it’s dire out there right now. I think, it would feel less dire if we people, in a similar boat, came together and just hung out and shared their experiences right ?
just typing out my stream of consciousness and putting it out in the ether to get a pulse check.
would you go to a social with your fellow unemployed brethren ?
Hey everyone! I help run Glitch Gallery, a DIY artist space on the Charlestown–Somerville border. The building has been home to artists, musicians, burners, makers, for nearly 25 years.
We’re opening the space for a two-night fundraiser and community gathering:
Thursday: A relaxed social night with an acoustic lineup, including a live harp performance.
Friday: A higher-energy night with a full lineup of DJs.
Both nights will feature projection mapping, interactive installations, and other tech-art projects throughout the space. It’s also a chance to explore the space, meet the people who make things here, and connect with others interested in experimental art and independent creative spaces.
If you’ve been looking for a creative community to become part of. We’d love to meet you. Come for one night or both!
This is the first time I’ve shared one of our events here, but it won’t be the last. We’re planning more gatherings in the coming months and hope to welcome some new faces into the community.
Please be respectful of the space, area and neighbors, We have a set of private stairs in our parking lot that we will light up with a Red Led light! Please use that entrance and RSVP so we can have an accurate head count for the night.
Absolutely no parking at the building either. There's street parking nearby on dorrance/temple/arlington as well as parking lot by sullivan square! Plan to Uber or take the train here!
RSVP, location, and arrival details will be available through the Partiful:
My friend who I was originally going to go with canceled on me, so I have an extra ticket for tonight’s red Sox game. If you like baseball or just want an outing, lmk!
I’m a 26 y/o guy from the Boston area, huge baseball nerd, and allergic to Yankees fans.
Happy to meet somewhere beforehand too!
It bothers me for two reasons. First, I live in Camberville and happen to be in my 40s. I was biking along Broadway around 10 PM, and there were so many bars with long lines of young people. In contrast, other nightlife spots in other areas are sleepy, especially if you consider Central Sq Cambridge. It didn’t have the same energy as Southie. Why is it that everyone in Southie seems to want to party harder? I actually used to remember a time when Central Sq was like that too, but it seems to have gone downhill over the years, not only that that I’ve gotten older. Has anyone else noticed what I’ve seen? Maybe I’m not seeing what else is out there, especially since I live in Somerville, where Davis Square has nothing. Maybe today Burren only has a pulse, but nothing like what the area used to feel like a decade ago.
Anyone here a game enthusiast? I am and I was wondering if anyone wants to meet up somewhere and play some games. It could be any game. My interest is specifically board games. Any games would be welcome. I’m in the process of finding a good place to play, if anyone knows of a good place to play let me know. I hope you are interested! All I need is 1 person because I have plenty of two player games, and also a game that can accommodate up to 7 people.
My favorite games are catan, 7 wonders, ticket to ride, splendor, sea salt and paper, and carcassone, so I would be bringing those games.
So if you are interested, please let me know.