Sneak Peek: FRI 2/5

Although I've been slacking on getting the daily post up, I usually try to put the day's events on the calendar earlier. Since the calendar is down, here's a quick post of cheap options. More soon...

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FRI 2/5 & SAT 2/6

Various Times
Annual Lowell Winterfest
Around Downtown Lowell
Mostly FREE

This is fun, but it's a little sad there's not much snow on the ground.

Friday:

5pm to 9pm: Hot Roasted Marshmallows -- $3 per stick.
6:30pm to 11:45pm: Joshua Tree, Sugar Foot & Brass Kickin’ Horns -- $5
6:45pm to 10pm: Human Dogsled Competition - Challenger Round
7pm to 9pm: North Bowl Soup Competition -- $5
7pm: UMass Lowell vs. Boston University Ice Hockey Game "White Out Night" -- $14

Saturday:

Noon to 6:30pm: Hot Roasted Marshmallows -- $3 per stick.
Noon to 4pm: Lowlapalooza -- skating, etc
Noon to 4pm: Winter Sleigh Rides
1pm to 4pm: North Bowl Soup Competition
2:30pm to 6:30pm: National Human Dogsled Competition Finals
5:30pm: Fireworks Extravaganza

FRI 2/5

7pm
"Il y a longtemps que je t'aime" ("I've loved you so long"): Screening
at Room 300, Higgins Hall, 140 Comm Ave, Chestnut Hill (BC campus)
FREE

Kristin Scott Thomas speaks French as well as being beautiful?

FRI 2/5

AA Bondy (11:45pm), Willy Mason (10:45pm), Ryan Lee Crosby & Elio DeLuca (10pm), Paul Sentz (9:10pm)
at TT the Bear's Place, 10 Brookline St, Cambridge (Central Sq)
$10

Extra-good singer-songwriters

FRI 2/5

Kingsley Flood (Midnight), Lifted (11pm), Brother Mosley (10pm) The Slim Pickings (9pm)
at Cantab Underground / Club Bohemia, 738 Mass Ave, Cambridge (Central Sq)
$8

Peculiar mix of roots and funk

FRI 2/5

9:30pm
Doggfight US, The Acro-Brats, Buried In Leather, Anarchcunts
at O'Brien's, 3 Harvard St, Allston
$7 / 21+

Punk & metal

FRI 2/5

10pm
The Dangerous Brothers
at Toad, 1912 Mass Ave, Cambridge (Porter Sq)
FREE

Americana from Christian McNeill, Jimmy Ryan, Billy Beard, Tom Bianchi

FRI 2/5 & SAT 2/6

Midnight
"This Is Spinal Tap"
at Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St, Brookline
$10

Live metal each night:

Friday -- Ramming Speed (some Spinal Tap covers)
Saturday -- Razormaze (thrash)

"This one goes to 11..." - Nigel Tufnel