Events INSIDER: Mar 31 - Apr 8, 2014

Win: Jim Belushi & The Chicago Board of Comedy at the Wilbur

TV comedy star and famous brother Jim Belushi is coming to Boston for improv, and I’ve got a pair of tickets to giveaway. Email giveaways@eventsinsider.com to win! Boston, MA, Sat 4/5.more

Win: The Last Waltz Live!

Join the making of history in this live recreation of the famous 1978 concert film by rock group ‘The Band’. Buy a combo ticket that includes dinner, or enter to win — I’m giving away 2 tickets! Email giveaways@eventsinsider.com to win. Arlington, MA, Sat 4/5.more

Google’s Trash Pickup Service

Starting April 1, Google offers curbside trash collection! It’s free but they get to keep the information they scan in from your trash. Check it out! All Over, , Tue 4/1–Mon 12/1.more

National Robotics Week

Robots! Robots! Robots! You’ll find events all across New England to celebrate robots this week, ending with a robot battle in Boston! All Over, , Sat 4/5–Sun 4/13.more

Aviation, Maritime, and Transportation STEM Education Expo

Good news: it’s an airplane festival for students! Bad news: call to get your school invited. You can’t just show up. Aw. Boston, MA, Wed 4/2.more

Newton Open Studios – Spring

If you ever wondered where do artists come up with their great ideas, you have to come to this great event! They’ll open their studios’ doors just for you, and everyone else coming of course. 11am-5pm. Newton, MA, Sat 4/5–Sun 4/6.more

Boston Area Puzzle Hunt League

Puzzle hunts require some serious data crunching power. Join your smartest friends and try to beat everyone else at the one created by BAPHL. 11am. Providence, RI, Sat 4/5.more

Greek Independence Day Parade and Expo

Greeks have their own independence day, with a parade! It ends with a Boston Common festival with live music and Greek food. 1pm. Boston, MA, Sun 4/6.more

Cabaret Fest

For a whole weekend, you’re the special guest and entertainers from all over the world show their best tricks to make you smile and blush, even. I couldn’t find a website with real information about this annual event. Provincetown, MA, Fri 4/4.more

Battle on Lexington Green – Dress Rehearsal

Every year the first battle of the American Revolutionary War is reenacted in Lexington. I’ve seen it twice and it’s great but too early: it happens at dawn. So sleep in and attend the daytime rehearsal at 2pm! Lexington, MA, Sun 4/6.more

EconoCon

Geeky but lack money? EconoCon is it’s a roleplaying game, board game, and card game convention that’s inexpensive to attend. Game all day, all night, all weekend! Plymouth, NH, Fri 4/4–Sun 4/6.more

It’s Big Night

I’ve done this and it’s fun for adults too, not just kids. You walk a nature trail at night meeting park rangers portraying animals, and learn about the salamanders and other critters. 6-8pm. Topsfield, MA, Sat 4/5.more

Sensational India! and Bollywood Dance Party

Choose all, dance, watch, eat, and go crazy in this big Bollywood style celebration in this prestigious Salem museum. Salem, MA, Sat 4/5.more

H.P. Lovecraft Tribute at Ladd Observatory

H. P. Lovecraft was the famous horror writer of the 1920s, in-between Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Bloch (who wrote Psycho). Come hear eerie tales of Cthulhu! 3pm. Providence, RI, Sun 4/6.more

Stars Over Springfield

I love meeting hobbyist astronomers. They have great energy and love for the sky. This one’s on top of a museum complex in Springfield that’s worth a visit! Springfield, MA, Fri 4/4.more

Closing Day Celebration

It’s the end of the skiing season, but nobody’s sad or teary-eyed. So come for ‘Spring skiing’ and then celebrate and bid farewell to the snow with an outdoor BBQ and live music! Princeton, MA, Sun 4/6.more

Find 16 New England Regions on Twitter

Hey! I’ve split my Twitter feed into 17 regions so that you can REALLY get just the events close to home, or pick what you like. Please check it out and add me to a ‘Twitter list’ too (google it). All Over, , Wed 1/1–Mon 12/1.more

Get the 2014 New England Guide

Mention my website to friends and get my 2013 New England Guide, with 1,200 off-beat destinations including dinosaur footprints, zoos, ziplines, where to go stargazing, and where to find an indoor water park in December! All Over, , Wed 1/1–Mon 12/1.more

Children’s Easter Party and Egg Hunt

Oh, it’s an Easter Egg hunt in Milford, CT! Milford, CT, Sun 4/6.more

Easter Egg Extravaganza – Maine

Hey, this Easter Egg Hunt has a festival with bouncy rides! Old Orchard Beach, ME, Sat 4/5.more

Eggciting Egg Hunt

What kind of Easter egg hunt has thousands of dollars in prizes? I would strap my kid to a drone, fly her to all the eggs, and win at this family farm! Various morning times. Candia, NH, Sat 4/5–Sat 4/19.more

Easter Egg Hunt – Morning Hunt

Oh, it’s an Easter Egg hunt in South Kingstown, RI! South Kingstown, RI, Sat 4/5.more

Easter Egg Hunt – Night Hunt

Wha wha what? An easter egg hunt at night? I love it! In South Kingstown. South Kingstown, RI, Sat 4/5.more

Easter Egg Hunt — Winslow Farm

Winslow Farm has perhaps the most interesting secular Easter egg celebration because they are a working farm with forest trails. Norton, MA, Sat 4/5–Sun 4/20.more

Adult Trivia Bee – Brookline

Reducing their unique adult spelling bee to just a trivia night has made it commonplace and ordinary. Well, it’s for a good cause. 6:30-10pm. Brookline, MA, Fri 4/4.more

Commonwealth Sheakespeare Company

An evening of striking shows supports the free Shakespeare program on Boston Common this summer. Mingle with the VIPs! 6pm. Boston, MA, Sat 4/5.more

Boston Turkish Film Festival

19 films, some of them screened for the first time, and Turkish music are just a part of the 12th anniversary of this now traditional Film Fest. Boston, MA, Thu 3/20–Sun 4/6.more

‘Reel To Reel’ double bill performed by Barkhimer, Nutt, Smith, and Trachtenberg

It’s a play about human memory, digital memory, memorable regrets, and how we try to fit pieces of our hearts into things that will live after we die. Boston, MA, Thu 3/27–Sat 4/12.more

Stupid F**king Bird

This hilarious stage show parodies the popular play, ‘The Seagull’. Contains nudity and adult content, so you’ve been warned. Chelsea, MA, Fri 3/28–Sat 4/26.more

Keechong Dinner

This annual fundraiser celebrates the important trading link between the U.S. And China and is a tradition that started in 1879! 6pm. Boston, MA, Thu 4/3.more

Taper Madness: A Party for Runners and the People Who Tolerate Them

Do you love marathons? Do you longsufferingly tolerate someonen who loves marathons? Join this fundraiser with alcohol that ironically is for the American *LIVER* Foundation. 7-11:59pm. Boston, MA, Thu 4/3.more

New England LGBT Film Festival

Have a gay time at this film festival where the emphasis is on Latin action! Cambridge, MA, Thu 4/3–Sat 4/12.more

NanoDays at the Museum of Science

Do you really need an excuse to visit the Museum of Science, Boston? Here’s one: a day of molecular engineering and exhibits that include jugglers! Boston, MA, Sat 4/5.more

CSO Night at the Museum

It’s not like the movies! Skeletons won’t come alive at this ‘Night at the Museum’, but enjoy live music and explore in this fundraiser. I’ve been and it’s a fantastic venue! 6:30-9:30pm. Cambridge, MA, Sun 4/6.more

PEN Hemingway Awards

I’ve been to the Kennedy Library and it’s extraordinarily engaging and accessible to all. They have a huge library of Ernest Hemingway there and this annual writer’s award ceremony, too. Boston, MA, Sun 4/6.more

Boston Toy Show

Don’t get too excited. This flea market for collectible toys doesn’t come with panels or social mixers. What a shame. Dedham, MA, Sun 4/6.more

First Pages Before & After

How do you get started writing? What’s your first page? These first page Grub Street readings entertain and educate! Boston, MA, Tue 4/8.more

FREE First Wednesday at the deCordova

The DeCordova Sculpture Museum is a favorite to me, because their amazing & accessible indoor museum is part of a park that is dotted with sculptures. It’s free this day! 2-4pm. Lincoln, MA, Wed 4/2.more

Restaurant Week Portsmouth & the Seacoast

Even though ‘Restaurant Week’ is commerical, not an arts event, you get to try fancy restaurants at a discount. Sounds nice! Portsmouth, NH, Thu 4/3–Sat 4/12.more

80s Day at Loon Mountain

Get poofy hair and celebrate the 1980s for a day with live music and skiing at the @loonmtn ski slopes! 8am-5pm. Lincoln, MA, Sat 4/5.more

Mount Sunapee Slush Cup

Spring turns snowslopes to ponds. Come win a prize for the best splash at the SUNAPEE SLUSH CUP! 12-6pm. Newbury, NH, Sat 4/5.more

Last Run Luau Pond Skimming

Spring turns snowslopes to ponds. Come skim across the water at @waterville! 12-6pm. Waterville Valley, NH, Sat 4/5.more

Intergalactic Cardboard Sled Race at Mt. Sunapee

The ski areas are closing and they’re trying to remind us to come back with fun events like sled racing. It’s getting warmer here but there’s still snow in New Hampshire mountains! Newbury, NH, Sun 4/6.more

Woodcocks and Wine at Fisherville Brook

I don’t support alcohol events, but this evening stroll to find these unusual birds sounds enchanting. 6:30-8:30pm. Exeter, RI, Fri 4/4.more

The Robot Block Party

Free robot demos! Yum yum yum I want them. Yummy robots. Lots of iron. 11am-4pm. Providence, RI, Sat 4/5.more

Spring Victorian Tea, Daniel Webster Estate

Join the Daniel Webster Heritage Center on a ritual of victorian Tea. This ceremony will make full use of the house’s china, silver and crystal, so you know this is going to be a fancy yet enjoyable reunion. 2-4pm. Marshfield, MA, Sun 4/6.more

Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival

You’re too busy to please your mother and attend this Jewish film festival? Fine, do what you want to. You always do. Springfield, MA, Thu 3/20–Sun 4/6.more

Festival of The Flowers

Art is the best way to celebrate the spring coming! Springfield, MA, Thu 4/3–Sun 4/6.more

Transcending Boundaries

Here’s an LGBT conference where you can learn about or mingle with various liberals pushing social boundaries and making it okay to be gay, polyamorous, transgendered, and more. Hartford, CT, Fri 4/4–Sun 4/6.more

Sheep Shearing Open House

Sheep, it’s time to lose your wool! Don’t look at us that way: you’ll be thankful when the days are too hot. Really. 1-4pm. Princeton, MA, Sat 4/5.more

The Whale

With his health failing, Charlie makes one last desperate attempt to connect with his estranged teenage daughter in this big-hearted, humorous, and emotionally wrenching play. Boston, MA, Fri 3/7–Sat 4/5.more

Guitar Night: Rock and Pop

The best students of Berkeley get chosen to perform on this almost mythical night for lovers of the greatest love and rock songs. Boston, MA, Tue 4/1.more

The Dream of the Burning Boy

The Boston Premiere of the Drama League Award Nominee about death in high school and its impact on the class. Boston, MA, Thu 4/3–Sat 4/12.more

FAR AWAY by Caryl Churchill

While staying with her aunt and uncle in the country, young Joan wakes in the night and sees the stuff of nightmares. Or does she? Charlestown, MA, Thu 4/3–Sat 4/19.more

Wordsong presents: InJust- Spring. An Evening of Poetry and Song

It’s more than e.e. cummings poetry: it’s live music and a discussion. 8-10pm. Somerville, MA, Fri 4/4.more

Review: ‘In Between’ at New Repertory Theatre

The son of a Palestinian-Muslim father and a Jewish-Israeli mother, Ibrahim Miari recalls his childhood in Acco, Israel. Click for our review on 4/8! Watertown, MA, Fri 4/4–Sun 4/20.more

MOM BABY GOD

The immersive one-woman show that brings audiences face-to-face with the anti-abortion movement. Somerville, MA, Sat 4/5–Mon 4/7.more

Review: Talley’s Folly

The Pulitzer Prize-Winning American Classic! See the blog for our review. Lowell, MA, Thu 3/20–Sun 4/13.more

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

It’s the story of America’s first political maverick. See the blog for our review. Concord, MA, Fri 3/21–Sun 4/6.more

OST Fun Fest: Bruce Kalver presents Magical Moments

Unfortunately, it’s meant for kids, but I’ll take magic of any sort, any day. Warwick, RI, Sat 4/5.more

April in Paris Film Festival

A week of films la franaise, for the francophiles and those who hold a platonic romance with the city of love: Paris. Hartford, CT, Sun 3/30–Sat 4/5.more

Haven String Quartet

Classical music and video? And photos? And food? Might be weird enough to be great! Hamden, CT, Wed 4/2.more

Chocolate Lover’s Spring Expo

It’s a trade show for businesses that sell chocolate! Sounds yummy. (Urp.). Southbury, CT, Thu 4/3.more

BECK & CALL @ The Servants Tour

Trust me: a must-see! Interactive, costumed tour of Mark Twain House with celebrity guests re-enacted. Trust me, this is going to be great. Hartford, CT, Fri 4/4.more

Trinity College Fire-Fighting and RoboWaiter Contests

A robot contest might not be as cool as petting a dinosaur, but it does get pretty close. This will be a unique and very challenging competition. Hartford, CT, Sat 4/5–Mon 4/7.more

Juleps and Viragoes Ball of the Rebellion

Not only is this Civil War period dance, with live music, food and dancing, it’s OK to show up without a costume, especially if you’ll take a class and learn one the dances! ‘Dancers of all levels will be welcome.’ 6:30-11pm. $30. Cromwell, CT, Sat 4/5.more

Arunah Hill Stargazing

Stargazing’s never the same after experiencing what it feels like to do it with a telescope. Come and give it a try! dusk-11pm. Windsor, CT, Sat 4/5.more

Edible Book Tea

Eat your words! Literally. Find baked goods shaped like books and eat them. With tea! Sounds yummy and literary. New Haven, CT, Sat 4/5.more

Cactus & Succulent Show

If you like cacti a lot, like way a lot, this expo is just for you. Waterbury, CT, Sat 4/5–Sun 4/6.more

New Haven Spring Restaurant Week

Commercial and hardly arts events, but hey — cheap eats at fancy venues. That could make a fun outing! New Haven, CT, Sun 4/6–Fri 4/11.more

Model Train Show

Choo choo! Train shows aren’t just for kids. They’re also for big kids at heart. Wallingford, CT, Sun 4/6.more

Concert for Conservation to Benefit DPNC

Classical music in a nature preserve by someone named Castle. Sounds nice. Mystic, CT, Sun 4/6.more

Playtime at the Palace: Puppets in Education

Don’t just watch! Your kids get to put on their own puppet show. (How bad could it be? Don’t answer that. Well, your kids will have fun.). Stamford, CT, Sun 4/6.more

History of the Giant Hike

Let’s hike and learn some history! Hamden, CT, Sun 4/6.more

BDN Maine Garden Show and Spring Fling

This beautiful gardening expo comes with live music concerts and BBQ — to make you feel like you’re in your own (ideal) garden. Bangor, ME, Fri 4/4–Sun 4/6.more

Parrot Head Weekend

If you’re a Parrothead, you’re a fan of Jimmy Buffett. Me, I’m just a fan of buffet. Any buffet. Find outdoor music, a steel drum band, and skiing at this ski resort. Newry, ME, Fri 4/4–Sun 4/6.more

Roving Eye Film Festival

This year’s theme is ‘You Know You Want to Look’. Bristol, RI, Sun 4/6–Sun 4/13.more

Slush Cup at Okemo Mountain Resort

Snow is melting, so ski in the slush for fun and applause. And a prize! Ludlow, VT, Sat 4/5.more

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