What’s Hot in the City this first weekend of summer?
Closing weekend of Roxbury Int Film Festival and Boston Jerkfest top our What's Hot list.
Tonight, the national tour of the 2012 Tony Award-winning musical Newsies continues its Boston run at the Boston Opera House at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $34-$134; www.boston.broadway.com.
Also tonight is a performance by three-time Grammy winner Keb’ Mo’ performing at The Wilbur at 8 p.m. Tickets: $40-$50; www.ticketmaster.com.
The third annual Boston Jerkfest and Rum & Brew Tasting featuring top local Caribbean chefs offering authentic jerk-spiced foods, Caribbean home-made beverages, and live music takes place this Friday and Saturday at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in the South End. For more information: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-jerkfest-and-rum-brew-tasting-tickets-9431169883.
The ICA presents their Talking Taste series with chef/owner Michael Scelfo of Alden & Harlow on Friday at 6:30 p.m. featuring an al fresco cooking demonstration and tasting. Tickets: $10 members; $15 nonmembers; www.icaboston.org.
On Friday, comedian Joey Diaz takes over the Laugh Boston stage at 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Tickets: $25 & $35; www.laughboston.com.
Café 939 hosts the musical event Krys’P Presents Soul’d Out: Men of Soul featuring Marc Evan Diaz, Nigel Tay and Jordan Felisbret this Friday at 9 p.m. Tickets: $10 in advance; $12 general admission; www.berklee.edu/events/krysp-presents-sould-out-stronger.
It’s a night of jazz at The Beehive! Venezuelan pianist, arranger and composer Leo Blanco performs from 10 p.m. – 2 a.m. For more information: www.beehiveboston.com.
Join The Roxbury International Film Festival for their closing day screening featuring the hip-hop documentary Shake the Dust at 2 p.m. Tickets: $10 MFA members; $12 nonmembers; www.mfa.org/programs/film/shake-the-dust-preceded-by-hello-harlem-tales-from-the-renaissance
