{"id":1620,"date":"2015-10-11T18:05:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T22:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2015-10-13T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T14:00:12","slug":"enjoy-boston-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2015\/10\/11\/enjoy-boston-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy Boston This Fall!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 16px;line-height: 24px;font-weight: normal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" class=\" size-full wp-image-1621 aligncenter\" alt=\"arnold-arboretum-1\" src=\"\/comgrad\/files\/2015\/10\/arnold-arboretum-1.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/files\/2015\/10\/arnold-arboretum-1.jpg 550w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/files\/2015\/10\/arnold-arboretum-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/span><\/h2>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\">Take advantage of everything the city has to offer this October.<\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: center\">Watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hocr.org\/the-regatta\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Head of the Charles Regatta<\/span><\/a> October 17<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 18<sup>th<\/sup> on either side of the river!<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy fall foliage at Harvard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arboretum.harvard.edu\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Arnold Arboretum<\/span><\/a> in Jamaica Plain.<\/li>\n<li>Drink for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samueladams.com\/boston-brewery\/brewery-tours\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Sam Adams Brewery<\/span><\/a>: Take a free brewery tour of Sam Adams, and receive complimentary beer too. Get their early if you don\u2019t want to wait too long.<\/li>\n<li>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icaboston.org\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Institute of Contemporary Art<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0The institute of Contemporary Art is an art museum in South Boston with the mission to exhibit contemporary art. The ICA is free every Thursday night from 5-9pm.<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy the <a href=\"http:\/\/newenglandopenmarkets.com\/southend\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">South End Open Market<\/span><\/a> before it closes!<\/li>\n<li>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardnermuseum.org\/visit\/hours_and_admission\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum<\/span><\/a> for free!<\/li>\n<li>Hear a book reading: Brush up on some new literature at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklinebooksmith.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Brookline Booksmith<\/span><\/a> in Coolidge Corner, Brookline. Every month, the store&#8217;s year-round &#8220;writers and readers series&#8221; brings authors of all strips to read from their latest works.<\/li>\n<li>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salem.org\/\">Salem, MA<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbta.com\/schedules_and_maps\/rail\/lines\/?route=NBRYROCK\">MBTA Commuter Rail<\/a>. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/hauntedhappenings.org\/faq\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Halloween Happenings<\/span><\/a> throughout the month of October. (Salem is <em>overwhelmingly<\/em> busy on 10\/31\/15.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostsandgravestones.com\/boston\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Boston Halloween Ghost Tour<\/span><\/a>: Get into the Halloween spirit and \u00a0celebrate with the best ghost tour in Boston. Aboard the Ghost and Gravestones Tour, you\u2019ll take a 90-minute ride through the dark, haunted streets of Boston where you\u2019ll hear stories of this city\u2019s harrowing past.<\/li>\n<li>Watch\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolidge.org\/events\/15th-annual-halloween-horror-marathon\">horror films at the Coolidge Corner Theatre<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in Brookline throughout October!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you are ever looking for something to do off-campus, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebostoncalendar.com\/events?day=29&amp;month=8&amp;weekend=1&amp;year=2015\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">The Boston Calendar<\/span><\/a>. The calendar covers arts, sports, festivals, restaurant openings and much more. You can also filter by free events to stay on budget!<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to contact <a href=\"mailto:comgrad@bu.edu\">comgrad@bu.edu<\/a> if you have any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take advantage of everything the city has to offer this October. Watch the Head of the Charles Regatta October 17th \u2013 18th on either side of the river! Enjoy fall foliage at Harvard&#8217;s Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. Drink for free at Sam Adams Brewery: Take a free brewery tour of Sam Adams, and receive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2015\/10\/11\/enjoy-boston-this-fall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enjoy Boston This Fall!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5847,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5847"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}