US – Sunday, March 21
Published 21:17, June the 10th, 2009
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 For the people, by the people Cambridge shows its true People’s Republic colors with a one-for-all and all-for-one cultural hurrah. With stage names such as “Create,” “Inspire” and “Engage,” the Cambridge River Festival has all entertainment walks covered — dance, gospel, kids-friendly, theatre, comedy and roots rock. Beginning Saturday, noon-6 p.m., with plenty of food, artisans and crafters and located along the Charles River (Memorial Drive, Cambridge, between JFK and Western Ave. MBTA: Red Line to Harvard).  Cambridgema.gov/cac or call 617-349-4380 for more info.  For the people, by the people Cambridge shows its true People’s Republic colors with a one-for-all and all-for-one cultural hurrah. With stage names such as “Create,” “Inspire” and “Engage,” the Cambridge River Festival has all entertainment walks covered — dance, gospel, kids-friendly, theatre, comedy and roots rock. Beginning Saturday, noon-6 p.m., with plenty of food, artisans and crafters and located along the Charles River (Memorial Drive, Cambridge, between JFK and Western Ave. MBTA: Red Line to Harvard).  Cambridgema.gov/cac or call 617-349-4380 for more info.
Photo: Don Gurewitz
 

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Entertainment

‘Experiment’
Friday, 8 p.m.
Institute of Contemporary Art
100 Northern Ave., Boston
MBTA: Silver Line to World Trade Center
$25/$20 students, 617-478-3100
www.icaboston.org
The “Experiment” folks take a cue from their recent PUMA City neighbors and bring it outdoors for their latest boogie down production. Sounds by Dan Deacon, cartoons by Hooliganship and a giant game of Twister by, umm, you.

Music

They Might Be Giants
Saturday, 3 and 7:30 p.m.
Berklee Performance Center
136 Mass. Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Hynes
$26, all ages, 617-747-2261
www.berkleebpc.com
Home-grown pop band TMBG play for the kids, and the kid in you with a day show for the tykes and another for those who couldn’t escape the letches of that vampiric single, “Don’t Let’s Start.” The boys from Lincoln perform “Flood” in its entirety for the evening show. Jed Parish of the Gravel Pit opens.  

Culture

Bloomsday
Sunday, noon-8 p.m.
McMullen Museum of Art
Boston College
140 Comm. Ave., Chestnut Hill
MBTA: Green B Line to BC
Free, 617-552-8587
www.bc.edu/bloomsday
James Joyce readers and fans of run-on sentences already know what Bloomsday is. For the rest of us, Bloomsday is a celebration of”Ulysses,”when nutjobs get together and nerd out on Leopold Bloom and Co. John Huston’s “The Dead” kicks off and closes a day of readings, panel discussions, music by Annalivia and a performance by Brian O’Donovan of “A Celtic Sojourn.”

Boston Harbor Islands Free Ferry Day
Sunday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Long Wharf, Boston
MBTA: Blue Line to Aquarium
Free, all ages, 617-222-6999
www.islandalliance.org
The American flag stands for freedom — and that includes free ferry rides, buddy. Boat rides to Spectacle and Georges islands are comped care of the Island Alliance. You can beach, hike, Frisbee and picnic gratis while taking in the best view of the city.

Playwrights’ Platform: ‘Festival of New Plays’
Tonight-Saturday, 8 p.m.
Boston Playwrights’ Theatre
949 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Pleasant  $17, 617-661-7930
www.bu.edu/bpt
playwrightsplatform.org
The Playwrights’ Platform hosts its annual summer to-do, showcasing upwards of 20 short plays by artists-in-residence. Stagings on tap explore homelessness, compulsive list makers, love and basketball, frustrated playwrights and, what else, cigarettes and Lauren Bacall.

Boston Gay Men’s Chorus’ ‘Boys Just Wanna Have Fun’ Totally ’80s Concert
Tonight and tomorrow, 8 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m.
John Hancock Hall
Back Bay Events Center
200 Berkley St., Boston
MBTA: Orange Line to Back Bay, $15-$45, 617-236-1199, www.backbayeventscenter.com
Well, the boys keep disco alive — why not Boy George and the “Fame” soundtrack, too?

 
 
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