Two cities, four breweries and an entire music festival land in the Ville on Saturday as Wanderville brings the neighborhood music scene into both. Each brewery will cultivate its own atmosphere with regional artists, live music, food and more. The best thing? It's all free: no lines, no gates, no tickets. Just walk outside and you've already done the hard part.
Move-in week is also here, so the T, bus & bike lanes may start feeling more congested than usual with fall creeping closer and closer. It just means Camberville is getting busier, and that's a good thing. Wanderville will light up the neighborhoods, but Sunday says social clothing swaps, book fairs and honky tonk dancing are also on the menu.
Special thanks to the Run & Chug Run Club last night for some of the most incredible scenic views of Cambridge, Charlestown and Boston in forty minutes. 12/10 recommend.
Pinocchio’s in Harvard Square landed on USA Today Network’s list of the 27 best pizza places in America, one of only two Massachusetts spots to make the cut · Boston.com
Keezer’s and Le Couturier are moving a few doors down to 1730 Mass Ave ahead of an August 31 deadline, trading a basement for a street-level shop, while neighbor Simon’s Coffee still cannot say where it lands, with demolition of 1738 starting in September for a six-story, 71-unit building · Cambridge Day
The 2nd Street Cafe in East Cambridge looks shuttered, with a source sending Boston Restaurant Talk photos of a cleaned out space and its website down, while a Reddit thread notes the sign out front said closed for vacation until July 18 and it never reopened · Boston Restaurant Talk, r/CambridgeMA
Café Zing is back open in Porter Square after a full renovation, having reopened Tuesday afternoon · Life in Camberville on Facebook
The Middlesex DA identified the man fatally shot by Cambridge police on Temple Street as a 64-year-old Watertown resident, with a loaded firearm recovered at the scene and an inquest expected · Boston 25 News
Clover’s Inman Square shop has closed again, a couple of months after it was one of the locations brought back in June following the chain’s brief shutdown · MassLive
Thieves have hit the same Somerville cellphone store twice this month, once for a single phone and once for roughly $10,000 in iPhones and iPads, with the owner saying the losses are hard for a small shop to absorb · Patch
After his greyhound’s paw got caught at the top of an escalator at Sullivan station, a Somerville commuter is warning other pet owners to be careful on the MBTA · NBC Boston
Wanderville Music Festival @ Across Cambridge & Somerville Breweries - Get ready to wander the cities as the biggest music festival of the year spans four breweries across the squares. Bands start playing from the first pour at Winter Hill to the last at Lamplighter
Small Mart Outdoor Vintage & Handmade Market @ Davis Square Plaza, Somerville - The weekly Small Mart sets up outside in Davis Square Plaza every Friday through October for handmade goods and vintage gifts from local artists, makers and vintage vendors | FREE • 3-8PM
Pitch Your Friend @ The Foundry, Cambridge - Naru Matcha and Mob hand you a stage to pitch your single friend like the hottest startup on the market. Green flags, questionable lore, hidden talents, and why someone in the room should shoot their shot | FREE • 7-9PM
Garden Levels Vol. 4: Noche Latina @ Remnant Brewing, Somerville - Bring your dancing shoes to the beer garden as Latin Music Month starts a few days early with 70s salsa, 80s and 90s merengue and bachata | 7-10PM
Wanderville Music Festival @ Across Cambridge & Somerville Breweries - Two cities, four breweries and an entire day of live music as the cities rebrand to Wanderville for the biggest music festival of the year. Everything starts at Winter Hill and ends at Lamplighter | FREE • All-Day
Bike and Ride Decorating Event @ Lexington Park, Somerville - Friends of Somerville SEPAC invites families to decorate bikes, wheelchairs and scooters and any other forms of transportation at Lexington Park. Pay what you can with donations supporting families of students with disabilities | FREE/Pay what you can • 10AM-12PM
Summer Shops at Kendall: Boston Women's Market @ Kendall Square Plaza, Cambridge - Boston Women's Market is teaming up with Kendall Square for Summer Shops, a monthly outdoor market series running through September on Kendall Plaza. Shop handmade goods, paint your own canvas tote and enjoy live music in one of the best outdoor spots in the city | FREE • 12-5PM
Giving Groove x Boston Open Decks: Session 12 @ Naco Taco, Cambridge - Boston Open Decks continues lighting up the open deck x DJ scene with another night of spins for the neighborhood. Watch the patio turn into a dance floor while heating up for house music until 11 | FREE • 6-11PM
Outdoor Movie Nights: Legally Blonde @ Aeronaut Brewing, Somerville - Aeronaut closes out its outdoor movie series with Legally Blonde on the patio, free and running as long as the weather is good | FREE • 9-11PM
Brewery Book Fair @ Lamplighter Brewing, Cambridge - The brewery is handing its afternoon over to books. Neighborhood writers signing copies, tables of new reads to browse or just head over if you need an excuse to head to the taproom
TAG Trade: Free Clothing Swap @ Remnant Brewing, Somerville - A closet cleanout that doubles as a shopping trip as TAG Team stocks Remnant with racks of gently worn clothes free for anyone who wants give them new life. Music and drinks cover the entertainment
DIY Succulent Garden Workshop @ Bow Market, Somerville - Get your hands dirty and learn how to design a beautiful miniature garden along with the secrets of how to keep succulents alive. The workshop ticket covers a planter, soil, succulents, decorative stones and a take-home care guide | $61 • 11AM-12PM
Tag Trade: Free Clothing Swap @ Remnant Brewing Satellite, Cambridge - The last clothing swap of the summer is here. You know the deal: bring gently used clothes and leave with a new fit, plus live music and food while you exchange | FREE • 12-4PM
Open House @ Cambridge Common House, Cambridge - Not your typical open house as Cambridge Common House opens its doors to let neighbors, students and friends visit the newly renovated historic lodging house. See the Garden Level Lounge, enjoy refreshments and help yourself to a DIY Floral bar | FREE • 1-3PM
Brewery Book Fair @ Lamplighter Brewing, Cambridge - Calling all book and beer lovers to the brewery. Come meet writers from the neighborhood while authors sign throughout the afternoon or just browse for new reads | FREE • 2-5PM
5th Sunday Honky Tonk Dance Party @ The Burren, Somerville - Western swing, vintage honky-tonk and a Cajun hoedown at The Burren. Tickets are $20 in advance or two for $30 if you're bringing a dance partner | $20 • 7PM
Oktoberfest @ Bow Market, Somerville - Oktoberfest is around the corner and Remnant kicks things off early. The stein holding competition opens things off, split into Damen and Herren divisions after last year's free-for-all. Saturday is live music and Oktoberfest games from open to close, and Sunday's Lederhosen Lager Run works through three breweries before the finish back at Bow Market
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