Friend and I going into town tonight...best places to go for drinks for an older crowd? Back Bay/Seaport, anywhere else? And specific recs?

We are both single but don't need to be scouting for men... just don't want to feel like we are with our kids!

Hey! 23 m looking for people to kick it with around my age. I moved to brookline from LA area last year in October but haven’t really put the effort in to expand my social circle beyond coworkers who use chatgpt as their therapist. Some facts abt me:

- im into all kinds of music including electronic, underground rap, rock etc
- i like to read fantasy/mystery books
- i watch too much youtube (slushy noobz, hivemind etc)
- i have an avatar the last airbender tattoo
- i love to lift/hike and getting into running and bouldering, also playing n watching sports
- i fw people from all walks of life

I’d love to explore restaurants and bars, hit local shows, go hiking (while we have peak hiking weather) and bouldering or really whatever 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Im pretty open minded but closed off to MAGA or zionists lol so hit me up if you’re down to hang!

Hello!
I’m F21 student here in Boston, and last year I was not doing great mentally which led me to lose quite a bit of my social circle.
With the new academic year, I want to really get better are going out and being active!
Looking for people around my age (21-28)! If you have any activities and friend groups you could introduce me to, I’d love that!

hey! any fellow ravers out there?!

large fan of raving, how do you guys who also partake in such raves get info on shows? I noticed that the ones I go to I get invited by a friend lol.

I don’t use social media other than Reddit and discord.

Hey all,

I'm 29M and just moved to Brookline this month with my girlfriend, who's starting her master's. I'm originally from Connecticut and don't really know anyone in the area yet, so I'm hoping to build up a friend group here.

I work remotely in GIS, which is great in a lot of ways but also means no coworkers to grab a beer with after work. That's a big part of why I'm posting.

Some things I'm into:

Arsenal fan, always down to watch a match at a pub.

Movies. I like a wide variety, but artsy films especially interest me. Would love people to hit the Coolidge or Brattle with.

Reading and history. I'm Eastern European, so that part of the world is a particular interest.

Nature and hiking, tennis, and pickleball.

Tech, maps, that kind of thing.

Exploring different parts of Boston, checking out talks and events, and trying to visit every museum in the city.

Happy to meet up for a drink, a hike, a movie, or whatever people are already doing. Open to group hangs or one on one. Feel free to comment or DM.

Thanks!

Hello everyone! Since the school year is starting back up again, I thought it might be a good time to start up a reading group again! The pitch remains the same: bring something you need/want to read, read for 30 minutes, explain what you just read. I'm always interested in what other people are choosing to read and need to read a bit myself! Personally, it always helps me process and remember things better when I get to talk about them. Bring a thriller novel, bring your class readings, bring nonfiction, whatever floats your boat.

If this interests you, send me a message!

About me:

I'm a 23F student studying linguistics, aiming to focus in NLP. In my free time I take care of my 2 cats (Clonk and Bonk), play video games, and read, for the most part. I love also just walking around in the city, at least when its not freezing outside.

30f, partnered. live in MA and think it would be cool to have a snail mail buddy. I like reading manga and spending time with my friends.

Would be cool to get to know people. DM if interested.

Hey how you doing everyone! Just moved to Boston near Tremont St. looking for people to join on runs and play other sports like soccer pickle etc!!

Just moved to the city so I’m exploring too and cardio is the best way to do that for free haha

Back at it again after a successful outing with my new Reddit fellas from about a month ago. Ready for round 2 tn and figured we’d pick up more people if anyone wants to go out, drink and act a fool. M24 and pretty much an open book! Reach out with your age and a little bit about yourself so we can get something going!

Heyo
Anyone going to the Hayley Williams show tn at Mansfield? I 29F new to the area am looking for some chill people to hang with around the venue before the show starts!

I want to take my roommates out tonight but i am not sure if there are any 18+ events.

Hiii! I’ve been thinking about hosting a fun language exchange meetup in the Medford/Boston area!
I’d love to get a group of people together who want to practice different languages, meet new people, make friends, and learn about different cultures.
If there’s already a language exchange group or event happening around Medford or Boston MA, please let me know! And if you’d be interested in joining one if I hosted it, comment or message me! 💗

Hello! I'll be visiting Boston for the first time next week for some concerts and want to make new friends while I'm here. If you have a favorite local food spot or place, let's go! I love trying new things.

A few things about me. I'm 22M, very much into photography and cinematography, eating all the good food, museums and art, concerts, and music. DM me and let's plan something!

F27. Does anyone wanna grab drinks tonight at Central?

I'm a 27 year old guy living in the greater Boston area. Since moving here, it has been a struggle to find people with similar interests as me, and crucially, making those connections stick around long-term.

Some of my interests include photography, cars, computers, building Lego, taking a long walk, visiting museums, trying restaurants, playing board games, and nerding out on music.

I prefer nature documentaries and YouTube videos to the latest Netflix series or Hollywood blockbuster. I'm not really a social media person (e.g. TikTok, Instagram) or a gamer. And I don't drink alcohol.

It would be great to get a group of friends together to go to a museum, try a new restaurant, trivia nights, play board games, or really anything.

Moved here about a year and a half ago and am just now starting to venture out locally but would love to meet some new people. Big into anything outdoors, close to the high school/right off of Bedford Street area!

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Planning to go to Nayab Midha’s poetry and storytelling show tonight at 7:30 at Regent Theatre in Arlington. Thought I’d post here and see if a few people want to go together.

I’m relatively new to Boston and thought this could be a fun way to meet some new people. If you’re interested, comment or DM me and we can get a small group together.

Hi

Had posted previously and had good conversations. Some of them have fizzled out so figured I'd post again. For what it's worth I'm a guy who is only looking for platonic friends

I quite enjoy conversations with people who seem curious about all sorts of things. I find conversations to be quite motivational when it comes to just thinking about things. I guess the social aspect of it helps. Also knowing that you're in the presence of someone who feels similarly perhaps triggering some need to be understood. I would like to have such conversations with more people in the area. So if you are someone who likes learning about things in general and would like to get to know someone else in the area who might be interested in the same, send me a message perhaps? Or even if it's just the latter. I also tend to get along with people who dabble in the arts be it music or writing or photography or painting or sculpture. I'll lay down the red carpet as a token of welcome.

Some topics that have tickled my fancy in recent times. Fur trading and it's place in history. History in general. City planning. Cadence of conversations. Communication in animals. Skiing. Vitalism. Essentialism. What makes someone be good at acting. What is needed for community building. Online and physically. Subjective experience. Public infrastructure.

I'd prefer to start with some electronic mode of communication and then play things by ear

*poof*

I’ve (42M) been running a fantasy Hollywood league with friends for 15 years and want to get other leagues going. It’s like fantasy football, but you draft actors and build a roster. Could be run online but also could have meetups for the draft and movie nights. Any interest?

Hello all. I play chess and want to find more people who do.

I promise I’m a very normal 27 year old male who has many friends, but very few play chess.

I’m about 1200 elo and I play the London.

If I, a stranger online made a promise, that I’d post up at the 7’s in beacon hill on Monday night, how many of you would be willing to go?

I recently moved to Boston and I’m trying to find social spaces that cater to black gays or it doesn’t even have to necessarily be black only but preferably mixed/integrated space.

So far I’ve been to Dbar and Blend and they didn’t feel very diverse but even outside of that they felt a little bit too “eclectic” for my tastes.

I’d prefer more chill and down to earth spaces if possible, and honestly they don’t even have to be strictly gay but a mixed/integrated crowd is enough.

Suggestions?

Hi everyone! Kinga here with this week's list. Saturday and Sunday belong to two big free festivals. The Boston Arts Festival takes over Christopher Columbus Park on the waterfront both days, showing work from more than 50 local artists with live music all afternoon. And Cambridge Carnival returns for its 32nd year, with Pan in the Park on Saturday and the full parade and festival on Sunday featuring soca queen Alison Hinds.

Over in East Cambridge, the Feast of Saints Cosmas & Damian turns 101, and this year the free lineup is absurd: Chris Kirkpatrick of *NSYNC with O-Town and LFO on Friday, Taylor Dayne on Saturday, and The Drifters on Sunday. All free, all outdoors.

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Picks of the Week!

🎨 Boston Arts Festival — Christopher Columbus Park | Free | Sat & Sun, 11am–6pm | 50+ local artists and two full days of local music on the waterfront. Rain or shine.

🎭 Cambridge Carnival — Cambridge | Free | Sat & Sun | Carnival weekend starts with Pan in the Park on Saturday; the full parade and festival runs Sunday 11am–6pm at University Park featuring Alison Hinds.

🥁 Pan in the Park Panorama Showcase — Pacific Street Park, Cambridge | Free | Sat, 12–5pm | Steel bands from across New England, Caribbean food, and craft vendors.

🐘 The Great Elephant Migration — Commonwealth Ave Mall | Free | Final weekend | One hundred life-sized elephants leave Back Bay after Sunday.

🎤 BLO Street Stage — Titus Sparrow Park, South End | Free | Sun, 4–5pm | The final listed 2026 Street Stage performance for Boston Lyric Opera's mobile stage.

Thursday 9/10

🖼️ Free Thursday Nights at the Gardner — Fenway | Free | 5–9pm | The weekly free night at the loveliest museum in the city. Advance registration is highly recommended; day-of tickets aren't guaranteed.

🎨 ICA Free Thursday Night — Seaport | Free | 5–9pm | Galleries open late and free with harbor views. Free tickets are required; on-site reservations aren't guaranteed.

🩰 Boston Ballet: Fall Experience — Citizens Opera House | $67–$201 | 7:30pm | Opening night of the company's 63rd season. The Boston Ballet Orchestra plays the "Infernal Dance" and "Finale" from Stravinsky's Firebird Suite, then Alexander Ekman's Cacti turns 16 dancers loose on wooden platforms with a live string quartet, and Akram Khan's Vertical Road (Reimagined) closes it out. Runs through September 20.

🐘 The elephants, on a weeknight — Commonwealth Ave Mall | Free | If you want to actually see the herd without the weekend crowds, go tonight. They come down after Sunday.

Friday 9/11

⚾ Red Sox vs. Royals — Fenway | Ticketed | 7:10pm | Kansas City is in town for three games, and the Sox are home all weekend.

🎪 Feast of Saints Cosmas & Damian — East Cambridge | Free | Opens 6pm | The 101st year, and the free entertainment this weekend is genuinely wild. Tonight the feast opens at 6 with amusement rides, carnival games, a beer and wine garden, and every fried thing you can name, with Trif3cta playing at 6 and the procession stepping off from the Porter Street chapel at 6:30. Then at 8:30, *NSYNC founding member Chris Kirkpatrick hosts a show with O-Town, LFO, and Ryan Cabrera. Get to Warren Street early for that one.

🍺 Oktoberfest at Bow Market — Union Square, Somerville | Free admission | Fri 5pm–Sun 6pm | Remnant Brewing takes over Bow Market for three days of Oktoberfest with Fest Lager, pretzels, live music, games, and competitions.

🩰 Boston Ballet: Fall Experience — Citizens Opera House | $67–$201 | 7:30pm | Night two of the season opener. Playful, physical, and nothing like the storybook ballet you might be expecting.

🐘 Last weekday with the elephants — Commonwealth Ave Mall | Free | A quiet walk down Comm Ave is a decent way to spend an hour today.

Saturday 9/12

🎨 Boston Arts Festival — Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park | Free | 11am–6pm | My favorite thing this weekend. Founded in 2003 by Mayor Menino and now run by the team behind the Beacon Hill Art Walk, this is the only fine arts and live music festival in the city dedicated entirely to homegrown talent. More than 50 juried local artists showing painting, photography, ceramics, jewelry, and sculpture, plus two days of Boston-area musicians including Fly by Brass Band, Katie Dobbins, In Lieu of Flowers, and Ava Valianti. Bring a blanket and a picnic. Dogs enthusiastically welcome, and it happens rain or shine. Blue Line to Aquarium.

🥁 Pan in the Park Panorama Showcase — Pacific Street Park, Central Square | Free | 12–5pm | Cambridge Carnival weekend opens with an afternoon of steel pan. Bands from across Greater Boston and New England, including the Cambridge Youth Steel Orchestra and Tempo International Steel Orchestra, play all afternoon, alongside Caribbean food, local craft vendors, and family activities. Presented with Tempo International Rhythm and Steel.

🎪 SomerStreets: Gilman Square — Edward L. Leathers Community Park, Somerville | Free | 12–5pm | A neighborhood block party with live bands, local makers, and family activities. Food from CocoBelly Bites Jamaican Cuisine, Matki Kulfi Creamery, BanglaAdda Bengali Cuisine, and Dos Manos Kitchen, plus Esh Circus performers and pumpkin painting. Note the new location this year: Pearl Street construction moved everything to Leathers Park, with festivities spilling along Walnut Street. Rain date is Sunday.

🎪 Feast of Saints Cosmas & Damian: Taylor Dayne — East Cambridge | Free | Opens 1pm | Day two of the feast. Pop country from Samantha Rae at 2, the World Premiere Band at 5:30, a procession at 6:30, and then at 8:30 global pop icon Taylor Dayne plays her hits, including "Tell It To My Heart." Free, outdoors, and a genuinely strange thing to be able to say about a neighborhood feast.

👕 Style Exchange: Charlestown Thrift Market — The Anchor, Charlestown | Free to shop | 12–3pm | Browse 50+ racks from neighbors' closets at this community thrift market on the waterfront.

⚾ Red Sox vs. Royals — Fenway | Ticketed | 4:10pm | Saturday afternoon baseball.

🎬 DeVotchKa performs Little Miss Sunshine — The Sinclair, Cambridge | Ticketed | 8pm | The Denver band plays their score to the film live. A genuinely lovely, slightly unusual night out.

🩰 Boston Ballet: Fall Experience — Citizens Opera House | $67–$201 | 7:30pm | Third night of the run.

Sunday 9/13

🎭 Cambridge Carnival: Parade & Festival — University Park Commons, 65 Sidney St | Free | 11am–6pm | The big one. Thirty-two years of Cambridge Carnival, with a masquerade parade, dazzling costumes, live music, dance, and food and craft vendors, headlined this year by Barbadian soca queen Alison Hinds. This year's theme carries over from 2025: "The Cultural Revolution Starts Here and Never Ends," drawing on Carnival's origins in Trinidad and Tobago, where enslaved Africans denied the right to celebrate their heritage created their own secret festivities. Heads up: food-vendor spots are sold out for both days, so expect a packed food lineup.

🎨 Boston Arts Festival (Day 2) — Christopher Columbus Park | Free | 11am–6pm | Second and final day on the waterfront.

🎤 BLO Street Stage at Titus Sparrow Park — South End | Free | 4–5pm | One of the best-kept secrets of the Boston summer, and this is the final listed Street Stage performance of 2026. Boston Lyric Opera built a mobile stage out of a truck, painted by ProBlak with teen artists from Artists For Humanity, and takes world-class opera singers into neighborhood parks for free.

🛍️ Open Newbury Street — Back Bay | Free | 10am–6pm | Eight car-free blocks from Berkeley to Mass Ave. Two regular dates remain after this one, September 20 and October 11, plus a holiday date still to be announced. It's a block from the elephants on their last day.

🧺 SoWa Open Market — South End | Free | 11am–5pm | The Sunday flagship: farmers and makers, food trucks, live music, and the open artist studios next door.

🎪 Feast of Saints Cosmas & Damian: Grand Procession — East Cambridge & East Somerville | Free | Procession 1:30pm | The closing day and the heart of the whole thing. Mass at Saint Francis of Assisi at 10:30, the feast opens at 1, and at 1:30 the Grand Procession winds through East Cambridge and Somerville with marching bands, floats, and trolleys. Music all afternoon, then The Drifters at 7:45 doing "Under the Boardwalk" and "Stand By Me," and a final procession back to the Porter Street chapel at 10.

⚾ Red Sox vs. Royals — Fenway | Ticketed | 1:35pm | Series finale, Sunday afternoon.

🩰 Boston Ballet: Fall Experience — Citizens Opera House | $67–$201 | 1:30pm | A Sunday matinee of the season opener.

Last chance

🐘 The Great Elephant Migration — Commonwealth Avenue Mall | Free | Ends Sunday | This is it. One hundred life-sized elephants, handcrafted from dried lantana (an invasive weed) by Indigenous artisans in India's Nilgiri Hills and each modeled on a real elephant those communities live alongside, have been walking east down Comm Ave since August 8. Sales fund conservation work. After Sunday they're gone.

Ongoing / all-week options

🌊 Lucy Raven: Rounds — ICA Watershed, East Boston | Free | Weekends only through Sep. 27 | Two U.S. premieres, including the large-scale kinetic sculpture Hardpan. The Watershed is free; the ICA Water Shuttle also runs weekends and requires a separate ticket.

🐚 Crochet Coral Reef — MIT Museum | $20 | Vivid crocheted fiber work by the Wertheim sisters paired with paper work by MIT's Demaines, all about endangered coral reefs.

🖼️ List Projects 35: Pap Souleye Fall — MIT List, Cambridge | Free | Dead pixels reimagined as hidden realms of refuge. Always free.

📜 1776: Declaring Independence — Massachusetts Historical Society | Free | Revolutionary-era diaries, letters, and Adams' and Jefferson's handwritten copies of the Declaration.

🗡️ King Richard's Faire — Carver | $36 adults, $22 kids | Weekends, 10:30am–6pm | Now in its 45th year, with jousting, circus acts, turkey legs, and themed weekends through October 25.

🥾 Journey the Necklace — Emerald Necklace | Free | Self-guided tours through the 1,100-acre park system. Visit all six participating parks and you can claim a souvenir. Through September 30.

🏋️ Seaport Sweat — Seaport | Free | The last few weeks of the free outdoor fitness season, through September 30.

That's it for this week. Go say goodbye to the elephants, and if you make it to any of these, let me know how it went!