The Goods Times - Local Calendar
For Davis Square, Somerville, and Cambridge
Friday - November 7, 2025
Doors 7:00pm Event 8:00pm
Boston's Biggest Drag Dunce
The Stupor Bowl of Boston drag is back! Forget everything you know about drag shows, because we’re celebrating Stupid Excellence. Join us for a one night comedy drag competition, Boston’s Biggest Drag Dunce, where we’ll meet our illustrious simpletons in a race to the bottom. Who will bring drag buffoonery to a whole new level and be crowned with the sparkling dunce cap? Only one way to find out… so grab your ticket while you still have a brain!
The Crystal Ballroom, 55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA 02144
$30 (on Ticketmaster so subject to change)
Friday - November 7, 2025
Boston's Biggest Drag Dunce
Doors
7:00pm
Event
8:00pm
$30 (on Ticketmaster so subject to change)
The Crystal Ballroom, 55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA 02144
The Stupor Bowl of Boston drag is back! Forget everything you know about drag shows, because we’re celebrating Stupid Excellence. Join us for a one night comedy drag competition, Boston’s Biggest Drag Dunce, where we’ll meet our illustrious simpletons in a race to the bottom. Who will bring drag buffoonery to a whole new level and be crowned with the sparkling dunce cap? Only one way to find out… so grab your ticket while you still have a brain!
Saturday - November 8, 2025
Faire 12:00pm Ball 8:00pm
Daytime Ren Faire and Market, and Enchanted Forest Ball afterwards
Bow Market hosts Somerville’s first urban Renaissance Faire, offering a full day of performances, vendors, and interactive activities, culminating in the Enchanted Forest Ball at Upstairs at Bow.
Faire 12:00pm
Ball 8:00pm
Bow Market, 1 Bow Market Way, Somerville, MA 02143
Free admission (faire and ball)
Bow Market hosts Somerville’s first urban Renaissance Faire, offering a full day of performances, vendors, and interactive activities, culminating in the Enchanted Forest Ball at Upstairs at Bow.
Sunday - November 9, 2025
6:30pm
Somerville Poetry Workshop
Somerville is a great town for poets and writers, of all levels. This discussion-based workshop aims to provide a forum for poets who have never stopped writing to new poets or poets who need to get back into writing and hearing new ideas.
Each session will begin with two city poets or summer poems, and classes will end with twenty minute readings by visiting poets. Topics will include form, line, structure, generative writing, and notebooks. Flexible pricing. Taught by local MFA faculty.
Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave #1c, Somerville, MA 02143
Varies
Thursday - November 13, 2025
7:00pm until 8:00pm
Generative AI and the Art of Co-Creation
Explore how humans and AI create together, blending imagination, code, and questions of creativity, bias, and belonging” lecture at the museum
Somerville Museum, 1 Westwood Rd, Somerville, MA 02
$6 for museum members and $12 for non members
Sunday - November 16, 2025
10:00am until 4:00pm
Holiday Plant Market
Calling all Plant Parents! Come meet fellow plant lovers, support local artists and small businesses by picking up unique gifts for yourself or for your loved ones this holiday season!!!
Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave #1c, Somerville, MA 02143
Free
Friday - November 21, 2025
7:00pm
Queensrÿche – Volume & Vengeance Tour
Heavy Metal show (while not the most conventional, this is definitely considered stress relief for a certain group of people)
Somerville Theatre, 55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA 02144
From ~$50+ (resale higher)