Seaport: where tonight goes
Big bars on the harbor, a comedy club and a dance club. Wear a coat.
10 places · typical beer $10 · 3 open past midnight
Open late
Places whose own site posts hours
Hours as posted on each venue's own site. Confirm before you go.
Typical beer: $8 in Allston, $10 in Seaport.
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Tonight and this weekend
Listings last checked Nov 13, 2026. Shows may have changed or sold out; check the venue before you go.
- 5 PMSat Nov 14
Improv Asylum's Main Stage Show
- 5 PMSat Nov 14
Phia Lauree
- 6:30 PMSat Nov 14
Rocky Dale Davis
- 6:30 PMSat Nov 14
- 6:30 PMSat Nov 14
The Tumblers, Air Traffic Controller (trio)
- 7 PMSat Nov 14
- 5 PMSun Nov 15
GAURI B: YEARS IN THE BREAKING
- 5 PMSun Nov 15
TRVE CVLT TRIVIA
- 6 PMSun Nov 15
- 6 PMSun Nov 15
Shannon Fiedler
- 6 PMSun Nov 15
Old Timey Session
- 6:20 PMSun Nov 15
Allan Chase Quartet ft. Sheryl Bailey
- 5:30 PMMon Nov 16
- 7 PMMon Nov 16
- 7 PMMon Nov 16
Elan Mehler Trio
- 7:30 PMMon Nov 16
Brother Ali
- 7:30 PMMon Nov 16
Boston Arts Academy Foundation: The Art of Possibility with Ronnie Devoe
- 7:30 PMMon Nov 16
Zachariah Hickman’s Power Outage PRE-Party Jam Session!
- 7 PMTue Nov 17
The Django Cadre
- 7 PMTue Nov 17
Jack Blocker
- 7:30 PMTue Nov 17
Eilen Jewell
- 7:30 PMTue Nov 17
Jack O'Neill (from Jackopierce)
- 7:30 PMTue Nov 17
Zachariah Hickman’s Power Outage Party
- 7:30 PMTue Nov 17
HOUSE TEAMS
- 7 PMWed Nov 18
Michael Palascak
- 7 PMWed Nov 18
Grain Thief
- 7 PMWed Nov 18
Jesse Gallagher + Steve Fell
- 7:30 PMWed Nov 18
The James Hunter Six w/ special guest McKinley James
- 7:30 PMWed Nov 18
- 7:30 PMWed Nov 18
Zachariah Hickman’s Power Outage Party
- 7 PMThu Nov 19
- 7 PMThu Nov 19
Maggie Hughes DePalo
- 7 PMThu Nov 19
The Mail/Wood & Bone/Objects in Motion
- 7 PMThu Nov 19
Positive Energy
- 7 PMThu Nov 19
- 7 PMThu Nov 19
Citrus Divination: An Interactive Performance & Party
- 5:15 PMFri Nov 20
Z trio
- 6:30 PMFri Nov 20
- 7 PMFri Nov 20
- 7 PMFri Nov 20
Boston Fiddle Funk Folk Festival at The Armory with Scottish Fish and Neil Pearlman & the Wallbreakers
- 7 PMFri Nov 20
Deric Cahill
- 7 PMFri Nov 20
SAXOPHONISTS GARY SMULYAN AND FRANK BASILE - BOSS BARITONES!
- 5 PMSat Nov 21
Martin Sexton
- 5 PMSat Nov 21
Improv Asylum's Main Stage Show
- 5 PMSat Nov 21
Café Gherkinforke
- 6:30 PMSat Nov 21
Deric Cahill
- 7 PMSat Nov 21
- 7 PMSat Nov 21
- 5 PMSun Nov 22
Hollow Harvest
- 6 PMSun Nov 22
- 6 PMSun Nov 22
Old Timey Session
- 7 PMSun Nov 22
Lizard Lounge Poetry Jam-Jimmy Tingle
- 7:30 PMSun Nov 22
Marcus Veltri & Rob Landes - Requests on the Road
- 8 PMSun Nov 22
Action Bronson and Human Growth Hormone
- 7 PMMon Nov 23
- 7 PMMon Nov 23
Elan Mehler Trio
- 7:30 PMMon Nov 23
Simply Whitney: A Tribute to Whitney Houston
- 8 PMMon Nov 23
Trivia Night
- 8:30 PMMon Nov 23
Irish Session
- 8:30 PMMon Nov 23
Jerry Bergonzi Quartet
- 5:30 PMTue Nov 24
- 7 PMTue Nov 24
The Django Cadre
- 7:30 PMTue Nov 24
Very Delta Live: Delta Work Live Podcast w/ Briar Blush
- 7:30 PMTue Nov 24
HOUSE TEAMS
- 7:30 PMTue Nov 24
Brian O'Donovan Legacy Series: Frankie Gavin with Catherine Mchugh World Class traditional and contemporary mu
- 7:30 PMTue Nov 24
The Ya-G’s
- 7 PMWed Nov 25
- 7 PMWed Nov 25
OG Dennis Brennan Band Thanksgiving Eve Early Set
- 7 PMWed Nov 25
Grain Thief
- 7 PMWed Nov 25
Hot Start
- 7:30 PMWed Nov 25
Rozzi - The Good News Tour
- 7:30 PMWed Nov 25
- 10 PMThu Nov 26
Karaoke with Miss Jade Rock
Our count: 167 events from 14 venues, checked Nov 13, 2026. Times, prices and ages are as the venue posts them. All 167 events →
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Features index →- The Rules12 piecesWhy bars close when they do, what the law says and where it came from.
- Scenes15 piecesDancing, drag, jazz, basements, karaoke and the rooms that suit each.
- Drinks and Money7 piecesWhat a beer, a cocktail and a whole night cost, with the sources.
- A Night In15 piecesOne neighborhood, one night: where to eat, drink and end up.
- Getting Home3 piecesThe last train, the night bus and why nothing is open at 3 a.m.
- Cannabis5 piecesPlain guides for adults 21 and over. Behind the age check.
Our count, from the pieces published on this site.
An eighth runs about $21 in Dorchester and $30 in Downtown.
In Boston: eighth $25 · Pre-roll $9 · Vape 1 g $28 · Edible 100 mg $19 · Ounce $105. See every shop on the map.
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Typical beer: $8 in Allston, $10 in Seaport.
Cheapest standard pours we have checked
- $216 oz draft · Anchor Pub & Grille
- $316 oz · Red's Kitchen + Tavern (Peabody)
- $5.5016 oz draft · Hopewell Bar + Kitchen
Our count: the cheapest standard pours (12 oz or more, size printed, no specials) in our Beer Index, checked Nov 9, 2026.
Cannabis Index · 21+An eighth runs about $21 in Dorchester and $30 in Downtown.
Boston: eighth $25 · Pre-roll $9 · Vape 1 g $28 · Edible 100 mg $19 · Ounce $105. Price map.
