48 Hours of Freedom

It’s the weekend. You can spend it listening to audiobooks, or you can get out and enjoy it. Here are some other suggestions for your precious days of total freedom, prepared for you by Boston Daily.

Tonight
Go-To Guide subscribers will be sad to learn that tonight’s Nine Inch Nails concert in Worcester has been postponed to November 9. Singer Trent Reznor is suffering from strained vocal chords.

Usually, a tent sale means dinged-up furniture and oriental rugs of questionable quality. But Glee’s Annual Tent Sale features steeply discounted casual clothing and accessories. Get there early for the best selection.

He looks pretty good for 245. Celebrate Charles Bulfinch’s birthday by touring the architect’s works in Beacon Hill.

Frat rock supergroup O.A.R rocks the Comcast Center tonight. Pop your collar and prepare to rock, bro!

The Coolidge Corner Theater’s highly amusing sing-along series continues with Monsters of Rock: The Hair Metal Sing-Along.

Saturday
As if you needed a reason to hang out in Newport on an August weekend. The JVC Jazz Festival features acts like Aretha Franklin and Sonny Rollins. And if you need information on a place to eat or where to stay, check out our weekend retreat guide.

Whether you’re a sailor or a partier, you’ll have a great time at the Flip Flop Regatta. The sixth annual charity race and party raises money for the ALLY Foundation.

It’s the one day out of the baseball season a family can attend a game at Fenway for less than the cost of a mortgage payment. Futures at Fenway brings the Portland Sea Dogs and the Pawtucket Red Sox to America’s oldest ballpark.

Just watch out for the tomalley. The Beacon Hill Bistro presents a four-course lobster dinner at Where Did All the Lobsters Go?

Sunday
Tourists can have Newbury Street. The South End Sidewalk Sale and the SoWa Open Market will keep you plenty busy in the South End.

Stop thinking about your carbon footprint for just one afternoon. The Larz Anderson Auto Musuem features the gas-guzzlers of yore at its Hot Rod, Gasser, and Muscle Car Day.

The Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Summer Clearance ends today.

Ukrainian-born, Massachusetts-bred Alina Simone performs her covers of Siberian punk-folk songs at the Middle East.

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