Overall rating: 5 Rainbows I mean stars, first pride after 3 years since the pandemic!…read more Food: no food just good vibes Texture: fruity hehe Pricing: free! Ambiance: bubbles, rainbows, love and acceptance, music, happiness Seating & Parking: the road was blocked off, but we marched from Newbury St all the way to the Boston Common Service: everyone was kind and sharing flags, bracelets, and there were people on the Lenox Balcony djing and throwing out free sunglasses to the crowd Music: Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, pride songs Bathrooms: gender neutral stalls listed on the map Final comments: spread love not hate! This year's pride was full of good vibes and happiness, I'm glad everyone was safe and I hope all the future prides to come continue being a safe space for the LGBTQ+ community and the allies that stand strong with us!

Excellent festival/celebration every year they have in Boston. I've gone on my own to watch the…read moreparade and I've gone for the past few years with my work to walk in the parade. It's an excellent time and I think it's great to support equality for everyone. They have a weeklong of events that happen all over Boston. You can google the calendar of events. They usually start putting out the plans for all the events a month or two ahead of time. I love being able to show my support for all people no matter their sexual orientation.

I lived in the Loring Greenough House for a while and always enjoyed the NOTLOB concerts…read more They were always full of so much good energy!

Used as a venue for my wedding party - got married at home in the Midwest, but wanted to celebrate…read morewith our rather large friend group, so hosted about 150 of our pals at Spontaneous celebrations. Reviewing it as a venue for a large party - haven't taken any community classes there. The frustrating: ~SC isn't really owned by anybody - it has a board of directors. The guy who's supposed to respond to all the inquiries about reservations was not the most responsive by email, but was pretty responsive by phone. He's a stilt walker in a grateful dead coverband who manages a community art space in JP - he's a very salt-of-the-earth kind of guy, which worked for us, but you just need to know that that's what you're signing on for - someone who isn't going to get back to your emails right away, who you may have to track down a bit, but who is super nice and very laid back in approach. I am not laid back, but I came prepared with the questions I wanted answered and got all the answers I needed in writing on our contract. ~You never quiiiite know what you're walking into when you walk into the space. They host a ton of different kinds of community events, so how it's decorated when you see it one time might not necessarily be the way you see it when you visit it next. People are supposed to clean up after themselves, but there are varying extents of that. You never even really know which light switch is going to turn the lights on. The fantastic: ~Those frustrating points above are SO minor compared to the fact that for just a few hundred bucks you can have a wedding venue space (everywhere else I called was in the multiple-thousand dollar range and had a ton of restrictions on what you could bring in/restricted to their own catering/facilities/booze etc). It is a gorgeous space that kind of feels like a big summer camp recreation hall, with 2 floors, indoor balconies, a stage and a bar. It felt like a true barn-raising - we had a dozen of our friends show up early and help with setup, hanging lights from the ceiling, bringing my husband's dj equipment and speakers, a friend home-brewed 5 kegs of beer and brought another several cases of booze from the company he works for, and we fed our friends with beer, a big-batch order of pizzas from JP House of Pizza, and 150 Union Square Donuts. It was a 90s throwback dance party with a lot of games and a lot of love - low key and marvelous. I cannot have imagined a more ideal space than Spontaneous Celebrations, and to do it so affordably makes me want to scream to the world how worthwhile this place is. RECOMMEND! HIGHLY!

The performance space is surprisingly attractive, with high ceilings and hardwood floor that can be…read moreused for dancing. It's still small enough to be intimate and has a bar, but is open and feels more like a theatre. Every performance I've seen here has been wonderful, a lot of local acts and a real community thrives on this space.

Every visit to the Magic Room had been a unique and fantastic experience regardless of the show or…read moreband! Sound and lights are state of the art and the staff is simply amazing, 15 min from Boston, plenty of free parking.. nothing like it anywhere in New England, an absolute must visit for any and all music, performing arts fans! Interior decor is artistic and intimate, beautiful masks adorning the walls, like New Orleans!

Owner is Awesome! Tori helped make a 60th Birthday celebration Awesome! Bled Sabblin was Fantastic!…read moreWill definitely be back! Highly recommend!

The annual Jamaica Pond Lantern Parade with its Dutch cultural roots, started in Jamaica Plain in…read more1984, is a great community event and loads of fun!!! Open to everyone and anyone, as the sun starts to set on two evenings each year, hundreds if not thousands of people gather near the boat house at Jamaica Pond around 5:30pm for live music, hot freshly pressed cider, pastries, and empanadas. Some adults and many children arrive in their Halloween costumes. At 6:30pm the parade begins and continues around the pond with many people carrying lanterns. Lanterns were on sale for $5.00, $10.00, and $15.00 at the event. The lantern I purchased for $5.00 was a decorated two litter soda bottle with a candle glued to the bottom. Apparently there are lantern-making workshops occurring before the event in which you can make your own.

It was a lot of fun. I love supporting WGBH. I wish the samples were a little greater... the…read morewould be my only complaint. But all and all, it was a great night.

I had a great time! I was impressed by the number of breweries that attended and how well laid out…read morethe festival was with water and food stations strategically placed between the beer stations. Also, no line to use the restroom!!! I would do this again!

Feels like a second home and I can't wait to see what the future holds after the construction of…read morethe new space. I'm very impressed by Courtney and all the other instructors and performers who have built such a welcoming community. The Rozzie Square Theater hosts so many fun shows such as the signature ComedySportz which was my gateway into the space. I've also attended the monthly Queer Comedy, annual AAPI festival, free drop in, student showcases and more. Courtney makes trying improv extremely accessible so I've had the pleasure of bringing several friends to try it themselves. So far I've also taken the Improv for Anxiety and 1A/B, and 2A class series (8 weeks for each) so far each with different instructors. If you are even slightly curious about improv and/or comedy this is a great place to try!

Rozzie Square Theater is so small that you may pass it while blinking…read more I did for a few years. But then I found out about it through an invitation, and I went. Using Google Maps...I passed it again. Small is intimate. And that was just the setting we needed for this fun afternoon of three 20 minute plays. We were all engaged, and there were no bad seats. In fact, I met and networked with Larry Pizza (yes, that's right) in the back row (of two rows in all.) His play, "Elvis/Dean," was an hilarious encounter at LAX of a theater teacher and his girlfriend meeting his former student. She's rude; he's evasive; the girlfriend is protective. It's all the tension you need for good comedy (Larry does improv.) But then it takes a turn. I won't say more. Emily Cherin, Sean Gauthier, and Albamarina Nahar play both sides of the fence. The Harold that Goes Wrong, by writer Zach Reisch, directed by Sean Gauthier, is all about improv. Larry didn't write, but he makes an unexpected acting appearance. It's about a theater person's greatest fear: the actors forget their lines. Here, uh, that doesn't exactly happen. If you can use one word to describe this play, it's dissonance. Charlie Haycook, Greg Hovanesian, and Annie Coyne were loud, abrasive, and hilarious - just what the play needed.izza Moontown We were lost for a while as to whether Jun-Ang Ni's and Sean Gauthier's characters' songs about the moon were literal or metaphoric, but then we see they are kind of both. This is a dreamy dirge about life on - really Earth - with songs about the moon. Sean's line, to paraphase, "I'm not going to make you only reflect my light," (or something like that) was poetic. Let's see more from Rozzie Square Theater.

I look forward to Japan festival Boston every year: fabulous food; Japanese, cultural…read moreentertainment; local Japanese exhibitors, and vendors. Only downside (not the festival's fault): for the first time this year, the college crowd has taken over with pushy, rude entitlement... The exact opposite of Japanese culture. THE DEAL: if you want to experience Japanese culture, right here at home, Boston's Japan festival is free and fabulous!

I volunteered at Japan Festival Boston. As a volunteer you can get T-shirt and quick pass. T-shirt…read morewas only large size: a bit disappointing. Most volunteers are Japanese, why is the T-shirt American large (equivalent to extra large in Japan) size? For food concession stands: there are many good stuff, okonomiyaki, takoyaki, ramen, udon, coffee, desert. A little expensive and very long line. There is room to improve. Probably to experience Japanese culture for non-Japanese people, it is a great opportunity.