See what's coming up at LEGOLAND Discovery Center Boston! The Dark (Adult) Knight The LEGO® Batman™ Movie DaysCostumed participants at the Lego Star Wars Days. BosTen is your weekly guide to events and cool happenings in and around Boston. Skip Netflix this weekend—here are 10 ways to get out of your home and not be bored in the city. If you’d like BosTen delivered to your inbox every Thursday, click here. Want more things to do? Ski and Snowboard Expo is here to get winter sports enthusiasts pumped for the upcoming ski and snowboard season, with dozens of booths featuring apparel retailers, ski resorts, and more. There will also be live music, a beer garden, an indoor obstacle course, and multiple daily performances from Flippenout, an aerial trampoline team. readers can get $3 off their ticket by entering the code “BosTEN” at the . (Friday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Seaport World Trade Center; $12 with promotional code;
The Legoland Discovery Center at Assembly Row is going Star Wars-themed all weekend. Families can check out a number of Lego Star Wars activities for all ages, including a character scavenger hunt and a brick-by-brick mural build. If you’re a fan of Lego and Star Wars but don’t have kids, the next Lego Adult Night on Wednesday, November 16 is also Star Wars-themed. (Friday, November 11 and Saturday, November 12 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday, November 13 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m..; Legoland Discovery Center Boston; If you’re a Bostonian but just can’t wait until next summer for Boston Comic Con, Rhode Island Comic Con should offer plenty of geeky goodness to tide you over. Along with the standard mixture of panels, game demos, cosplay, and kid-friendly activities, there will be appearances by Marvel legend Stan Lee, Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead), and many more comic/sci-fi celebrities. (Friday, November 11 from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, November 12 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Sunday, November 13 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.;
Rhode Island Convention Center; single-day tickets are $30-45 GA and $10-17 for kids ages 6-12, weekend passes are $75-85 GA and $25-30 for kids ages 6-12; The Institute of Contemporary Art’s weekly Friday After 5 event is getting a sweet twist this week. Per usual, you’ll be able to visit the gallery, experience live music, and cozy up to multiple bars. The bonus: The museum is partnering up with local creamery Vice Cream to serve up a cornucopia of frozen flavors in honor of National Ice Cream Sundae Day. (Yes, that’s a thing.) (Friday, November 11 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston; $15 GA, free for ICA members; Bostonians looking for some fancy fun this weekend should check out the Black and White Ball, an homage to the thrown by Truman Capote 50 years ago this month. The dress code is formal, with men expected to wear black tie and mask, and women a black or white dress and mask. (Friday, November 11 from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.; Dozens of artists will be on hand to show off their wares in the rustic confines of Fenway Studios.
While admission is free, the organizers suggest bringing a nonperishable food item to donate to the Greater Boston Food Bank. (Saturday, November 12 and Sunday, November 13 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; The 22nd edition of Denis Leary’s annual laugh bash features its usual strong lineup of comedic heavy hitters (many with local ties), including Lenny Clarke (Cambridge), Bill Burr (Canton), Nick Di Paolo (Danvers), Wanda Sykes, and Wendy Liebman (Wellesley College). Boston Bruins President Cam Neely will also make an appearance to talk about the millions of dollars Comics Come Home has raised for the Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care over the years. (Saturday, November 12 at 8 p.m.; The Patriots aren’t playing until Sunday night, so the afternoon is free for sampling some chocolate and beer from local chocolatier Phillips Candy House and the Dorchester Brewing Company, respectively. Featuring pairings like a double IPA with a dark chocolate-covered pineapple slice and a cream ale with a milk chocolate salted caramel, the tasting menu looks pretty scrumptious.
(Sunday, November 13 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.; $20 in advance, $25 at the door; After a triumphant showing at the 2016 Summer Olympics, current and former members of the U.S. Gymnastics Team are coming to Boston for two shows at the TD Garden featuring some of the same routines that won them Olympic medals. Though Kellogg’s takes care to mention that not every show will feature all 28 of the , chances are that at least a few members of the Final 5 (including Needham native Aly Raisman) will be there. (Sunday, November 13 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.; Coinciding with Veteran’s Day weekend, the fifth annual Boston River Run is a 5K fundraiser along the banks of the Charles River. Proceeds will go to the Andrew Graham Semper Fi Fund, which endows scholarships at Massachusetts community colleges in honor of Corporal Andrew Graham Narcus, who was killed in a hit and run in 2002. (Sunday, November 13 at 9 a.m.; Where do you want to go? LEGO Star Wars Vs. Ninjago(Ages 5-10) Event Time & Tickets
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Why should the brand stop at hit cross-promotional ventures like LEGO “Star Wars” and LEGO Harry Potter when it can produce its very own “LEGO Movie” populated by those characters and scads more? Similarly, if the Marvels, DCs, and Lucasfilms of the industry can play the mega-franchise game, then darned if LEGO isn’t gonna get in on the interlocking action, too.And so, just three years after the awesomer-than-anticipated success of “The LEGO Movie,” we now get the first follow-up, daringly dubbed, yep, “The LEGO Batman Movie.” Lord Business would no doubt be pleased — except maybe by the fact that aside from the on-point title, this aesthetic spinoff is an anything-goes affair. Bat-mythology has rarely been riffed on as comprehensively, or with such goofy randomness. The new crew handling all the bricklaying includes subversive animation director Chris McKay (Cartoon Network’s “Robot Chicken”) and geek-cred writer Seth Grahame-Smith (“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”).
But the star of the show in every sense is Will Arnett, reprising his entertainingly growly Dark Knight from the previous movie, and making us wish he could scare up some other roles worth noting alongside “Arrested Development.”Arnett’s voice work is pure Christian Bale parody, of course, but the filmmakers also hit on everything from the cut-rate iconography of the Adam West era to Prince’s “Batdance.” And the silliness stretches still further, incorporating live-action snippets from “Jerry Maguire,” among other flourishes. Thank you for signing up! Sign up for more newsletters here At the same time, the movie is sufficiently in touch with current comic books that it’s keen to explore Batman’s psychology — breezily, but still. As in the comics, there’s a big emphasis on Batman’s warped symbiosis with the colorfully rendered Joker (Zach Galifianakis). Our hero’s chilly aversion to connection is also examined through his impatient involvement with chirpy Robin (Michael Cera), Batgirl (Rosario Dawson), and Alfred, lampooned here as an indulgently eye-rolling father figure.