Please join us for New Bedford Science Café, Tues., 11/1, 6–8 p.m., at The Last Round Bar & Grille, 908 Purchase St., New Bedford  Open to everyone. Free, save for the beer!  Our guest, Chris Cronin, chef at Union Flats Seafood Co. in New Bedford, will address “Underutilized: All the Delicious Local Fish We Aren’t… [Read More]

The Black Veil presents Salem Night Fair, Pioneer Village, 98 West Avenue, Salem, MA 01970; Fri., Sat., 10/28 & i29; 5–10 p.m. Admission: $5.00 Presented by The Black Veil  we welcome you to the 4th annual “Olde Salem Village” dark arts night faire amongst Salem’s beautifully haunting pioneer village (also used in the opening scene of… [Read More]

Free and open to the public. The Boston Book Festival returns to Copley Square with a kick-off on Friday, October 28 and continuing all day on Saturday, October 29. Join 200 fiction, nonfiction, YA, and kids authors for a day of readings and discussions, book signings, work­shops, kids activities, walking tours, the Copley Square Street… [Read More]

Sat., 10/22, 2–5 p.m. (rain date 10/29), downtown New Bedford. By Downtown New Bedford (DNB), featuring community trick or treating at 40+ local businesses, Silent Soapbox living statue, Xtraordinary Arts scarecrow stilt walkers, Dj & 3rd Eye dance crew in Wing’s Court, New Bedford Starchasers candy ride throughout dNB, Halloween art show at TL6 The… [Read More]

Hello all kids and critters! In collaboration with the Andrea McCoy Recreation Center, New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! Learning Studio Program and Artist Ricky Katowicz, we welcome the Rainbow Beard Show, aprogram for children and families focused on ideas and feelings. For this show, Rainbow Beard presents BUGS!  What are bugs? How do you feel about them? Where do they come… [Read More]

New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center hosts screening of “Fish and Men,” sponsored by the Mass. Division of Marine Fisheries.  On Friday, October 21, 2022 at 7:00 PM, learn about the high cost of cheap fish in “Fish and Men,” a documentary exposing the forces threatening local fishing communities and public health by revealing how consumer demand… [Read More]

Itty Bitty Fall Bay Adventure , Wed. 10/26, 11:00am – 12:30pm, Allen C. Haskell Public Gardens, Allen C. Haskell Public Gardens, 787 Shawmut Ave., New Bedford, MA 02746  Join us for a guided Storywalk with the book, Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn by Kenard Pak. The walk is displayed on the enchanted property of Allen C…. [Read More]

Be the Solution to Pollution is organized two beach cleanups this weekend. Wear closed toe waterproof shoes or boots. Gloves, bags tools provided. T-shirts while they last!!  • Fort Phoenix Cleanup October 15th, 9am to noon. Meet in the parking lot near the cannons.  • Hedge Street Beach Cleanup October 16, 11am to 1:30pm. Meet at the… [Read More]

“The Orchid Thief”, this month’s selection, is a “story of beauty and obsession” written by Susan Orlean based on her investigation of the arrest of horticulturist John Laroche and a group of Seminole Indians for stealing rare orchids in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve in Florida. Laroche planned to clone the rare orchids and sell… [Read More]