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Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Boston 2021 Wall Calendar

With stunning photography of the city of Boston, the Boston Events Calendar highlights local sights beautifully. Each month includes a "Special Attractions" column and a 2-page "Number Please" directory providing telephone numbers for local venues.

Kay Nielsen’s Enchanted Vision: The Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection- on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston July 20, 2019 through January 20, 2020.

The Boston Festival of Films from Japan, Feb 1– 28 @ the MFA Boston

The Boston Festival of Films from Japan

The Boston Festival of Films from Japan runs February 1, 2018 – February 28, 2018 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Featuring the live-action manga adaptation Blade of the Immortal , the 100th feature film from provocative and prolific director Takashi Miike, & the timely documentary Resistance at Tule Lake (2017), which chronicles a 1943 uprising at a Japanese concentration camp in California. The festival kicks off on February 1 with a free screening of the anime Your Name (2016), a film with gorgeous imagery and deep emotional resonance that quickly became one of the most popular films of all time in Japan.

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo

The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

On January 15, 1919 a large storage tank containing molasses burst in Boston's North End unleashing a huge wave of sticky destruction. A small plaque on Commercial Street commemorates the disaster.

Molasses, waist deep, covered the street and swirled and bubbled about the wreckage. Here and there struggled a form — whether it was animal or human being was impossible to tell....