Mary Oliver
Jill Lepore | The Whites of Their Eyes: The Tea Party's
Revolution and the Battle over American History reading | Harvard Book Store, 1256 Mass Ave, Cambridge | October 14 @ 7 pm | 617.661.1515 or harvard.com
Tour de Somerville | Ten-mile
bike tour | Seven
Hills Park,
Davis Square, Somerville | October 16 @ 10 am | somervillebikes.org
Boston Book Festival | Readings, signings, panels, and a street fair | In and around Copley Square, Boston | October 16: 10 am-6 pm | bostonbookfest.org
Boston Diamond Dash | Scavenger
hunt to find a diamond ring hidden downtown | Starts at City
Hall Plaza,
Boston |
October 16 @ 11 am | bostondiamonddash.com
Great Pumpkin Float | Bring a six-to-eight-inch jack-o'-lantern and send it down Davenport Creek in a community Halloween display | Pope John Paul II Park, Hallet St, Dorchester | October 16 @ 5:30 pm | bostonnatural.org
Neil Landau + Matthew Frederick
| 101 Things I
Learned in Film School discussion | Harvard Book
Store, 1256 Mass Ave,
Cambridge | October 18 @ 7 pm | 617.661.1515 or harvard.com
Borromeo String Quartet | Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor arranged for string quartet and electronics,
plus Bartók's Quartet No. 6 and Beethoven's Quartet No. 12 | Jordan
Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston | October 18 @ 8 pm | necmusic.edu
John Irving | Last Night in Twisted River reading | BU College of Communication, Room 101, 640 Comm Ave, Boston | October 19 @ 7 pm | crwr@bu.edu
Mary Oliver | Reading from Swan and other works | Wellesley College, Houghton Memorial Chapel, 106 Central St, Wellesley
| October 20 @ 5 pm | 781.283.2685 or wellesley.edu
Berklee Heavy Metal/Hardcore Night | Berklee ensembles play songs by Opeth,
Pantera, Protest the Hero, and more | Berklee Performance
Center, 136 Mass Ave, Boston
| October 21 @ 8:15 pm | berkleebpc.com