Free stuff July 29-Aug 5

STOP! Hammer Time

Stuff to do, free of charge:

Nini & Ben | Alt-folk | Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Ave, Boston | Tonight, July 29 @ 6 pm | 617.478.3100

Black Eyed Peas Karaoke Competition | Sing to win tickets to the group's Boston show | Kings Back Bay, 50 Dalton St, Boston | Tonight, July 29 @ 9 pm | kingsbackbay.com

In Empfindsamer | Lunch-time concert by International Baroque Institute at Longy participants | First Congregational Church, 11 Garden St, Cambridge | July 30 @ 1 pm | 617.547.2724

Joan Leegant | Wherever You Go reading | Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St, Brookline | Aug 2 @ 7 pm | 617.566.6660

MC Hammer | He's 2 legit 2 quit | Wolf Den at Mohegan Sun, 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd, Uncasville, CT | July 31 @ 8 pm | 888.226.7711

Andrew Rimas | Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilization reading | Porter Square Books, Porter Square Shopping Center, 25 White St, Cambridge | Aug 3 @ 7 pm | 617.491.2220