US – Friday, July 30

 Entertainment
Gansett Kickoff Parade and Party
Tonight, 5 p.m.
Copley Square Plaza to
Rattlesnake Bar and Grill
382 Boylston St., Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Copley
www.narragansettbeer.com
You’ve been charged! With drinking 7.5 million cases of Narragansett. The regional beer, once a Rhode Island and New England staple, has returned with a new look, and a new mission. The three-block kickoff parade launches Ganny’s campaign to bring the brewery and jobs (and lushes) back to New England. So yeah, solely or collectively, you must sip, guzzle and puke 180 million bottles — you can do it!

‘Easy Rider’
Friday through July 9
Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Harvard
$9.50/$7.50, 617-876-6837
www.brattlefilm.org
Put the stash in the tank — it’s on, ya dig? With Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda at the wheel, “Easy Rider,” along with “Bonnie and Clyde” and “The Graduate,” launched the new Hollywood in the late ’60s. A true anti-establishment flick, the Captain America tripper celebrates its 40th anniversary (yes, hippie, you’re that old).

Dancing on the Charles
Saturday, 1 p.m.-1 a.m.
American Legion
Marsh Post 442
Gerry’s Landing, Cambridge
$20, 21+
www.soulclap.us
You could squeeze in with the masses down at the Esplanade for Neil and Keith or head up river to shake yo’ asses. Soul Clap heads the 12-hour DJ madness at Gerry’s Landing and more ear candy care of Miztah Lex, Bruno, Kon, Pat Fontes, Sergio Santos, Jay Prouty, Booster, Randy Deshaies and Tanner Ross.

Local
Jason Varitek Celebrity Putt Putt
Tonight, 6 p.m.
Ferncroft Country Club
10 Village Road, Middleton
$23, all ages, 978-749-6700
www.varitekputtputt.org
They’re pretty OK with the bats and the sticks — let’s see how they can handle the club on this 18-hole mini. Jason Varitek hosts David Ortiz, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jon Lester, Jonathan Papelbon, Tim Wakefield, Kevin Youkilis along with other Sox, Pats and Bruins players and local celebs. It’s $23 to watch and $5,000 to play — we’ll take the cheap seats, thanks.

Burger Battle
Sunday, 4-6 p.m.
Sel de la Terre
255 State St., Boston
MBTA: Blue Line to Aquarium
$5, 617-720-1300
www.seldelaterre.com
Sel de la Terre may specialize in haute rustic eats, but it isn’t above that quotidian summer mainstay, the burger. This weekend, it’s inviting Boston cooks to show off their pre-selected recipes from a cast of thousands (OK, maybe hundreds. OK, maybe dozens). You can try the slider-taster version for a fiver and then vote for your fave patty. The winning slabs appear on Sel de la Terre’s menu for July.

Chowderfest
Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
City Hall Plaza, Boston
MBTA: Green Line to Government Center
$10, 617-227-1528
www.bostonharborfest.com
Save that nasty red stuff for the New Yorkers (and the Hudson — from whence it came!) Yankee Lobster Fish Market, Ned Devine’s, Algonquin Club, Boston Beer Works, Farmer Brown’s, House of Blues and Parker’s Restaurant at the Omni Parker House Hotel ladle up 2,000 gallons of the creamy stew as they compete for the “Best of” mantle.  
    
Culture
Civil War Day
Sunday, 1-4 p.m.
Longfellow House
East Lawn
105 Brattle St., Cambridge
MBTA: Red Line to Harvard
Free, 617-876-4491
www.nps.gov/long
No need to stuff into the minivan and haul it to Pennsylvania. Get thee to this 1860 period-dress event, complete with a reenactment of Abraham Lincoln and orator Edward Everett discussing the Gettysburg Address.

Tanglewood Opening Weekend
Friday, 8:30 p.m.; Saturday, 7 p.m.; Sunday, 2:30 and 7 p.m.
Tanglewood
297 West St., Lenox
$17-$99, 888-266-1200
www.tanglewood.org
Dust off the card table, silk tablecloth and candelabras. James Levine launches Tanglewood’s opening ta-da Friday with an all-Tchaikovsky program, featuring pianist Yefim Bronfman. Saturday, jazz stewardess Diana Krall sits at the grand, joined by songwriter Federico Aubele. Sunday’s afternoon program features Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” and Brahms’ “Violin Concerto,” while a run of Beethoven’s complete sonatas rounds out the night.

Music
The Church
Tonight, 8 p.m.
Showcase Live
@ Gillette Stadium
Patriot Place, Foxborough
MBTA: Commuter Rail to Foxborough
$20-$45, all ages, 617-931-2000
www.ticketmaster.com
Ozzie boys The Church return with another incandescent pop record, “Untitled #23,” offering up 10 tracks of their signature light/dark gauze. Adam Franklin of Swervedriver opens with his band, Bolts of Melody.
 
Judas Priest
Tuesday, 7 p.m.
Comcast Center
885 South Main St., Mansfield
$25-$45, all ages, 617-931-2000
www.ticketmaster.com
Upwards of 35 years and “Tha Priest” still brings the Rocka Rolla. The heavy lifters perform in advance of the forthcoming live slab, “‘A Touch of Evil,” which culls 11 tracks from their 2005 and 2008 tours. Opening you’ve got Whitesnake (better known as That One Band With That One Video That Made Tawny Kitaen a Household Name).