As seen around town

7-3-2012 Boston, Mass. Singer Jennifer Hudson getting ready for her sound check at the Esplanade for the Fourth of July celebration. Globe photo by Bill Brett

LOVE HER: Singer and actor Jennifer Hudson prepares for her July Fourth performance with the Boston Pops, Hatch Shell on July 3 Photograph by Bill brett

As seen around town

Allston, Ma., 07/02/12, The Boston Celtics introduced their new draft picks at the Jackson Mann/Horace Mann Complex in Allston, MA, just before they unveil a renovated library and multipurpose room that was donated by the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation. Left to right, new Celtics Jared Sullinger, Fab Melo, Kris Joseph, cq, signed shirts of Devonte Baptista, 11, Chloe Jean-Pierre, 10, and Christian Turbides, 8, all cq. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

SIGNED UP: New Celtics draft picks Fab Melo and Kris Joseph inked shirts for Chloe Jean-Pierre, 10, and Christian Turbides, 8, in Allston, Jackson/Mann School on July 2

Photograph by Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff |

LOVE HER: Singer and actor Jennifer Hudson prepares for her July Fourth performance with the Boston Pops, Hatch Shell on July 3

Photograph by Bill brett |

Wakefield, MA 070412 Sen. Scott Brown greeted spectators during the Wakefield Fourth of July Parade. (Essdras M Suarez/ Globe Staff)/ MEt

HOME TURF: US Senator Scott Brown at the Wakefield Independence Day parade, Wakefield on July 4

photogrpah by essdras m suarez/globe staff |

7-4-2012 Boston, Mass. 4th of July Celebration on the Esplanade, with Dropkick Murphy, Jennifer Hudson and cast member of Mamma Mia!. Globe photo by Bill Brett

SHOWING THEIR STRIPES: The scene on the Fourth at the Esplanade, Hatch Shell on July 4

photograph by bill brett |

LIVING HISTORY: Strawbery Banke Museum supporters Lawrence and Janet Larose with celebrity host Austin Scarlett at a fashion-themed gala in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Strawbery Banke on June 30

Photograph by David murray/cleareyephoto |

6/30/12 Boston, MA (l to r) Derek Lumpkins (cq) executive director Discover Roxbury, E. Barry Gaither (cq) director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists in Boston, and Harriet Finkelstein (cq) in her home on Sunday June 30, 2012. Finkelstein's Tremont Street home-turned art gallery hosted a private party to sell 300 pieces of art in her home and 25% of the proceeds will go to Discover Roxbury. (Matthew J. Lee) slug: 02namesFinkelstein section: living reporter: Meredith Goldstein

ART LOVERS: Derek Lumpkins of Discover Roxbury, Edmund Barry Gaither of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, and Harriet Finkelstein at an art sale in Finkelstein’s home to benefit Discover Roxbury, Boston on June 30

photograph by mathew j. lee/globe staff |

6-28-2012 Boston, Mass 300 guests attended Rose Garden Party 2012 held at the Kelleher Rose Garden Back Bay Fens, Boston. Vivien Li,President of the Boston Harbor Association. Globe photo by Bill Brett

FASCINATING: Vivien Li, president of the Boston Harbor Association, at the annual Rose Garden Party fund-raiser in the Back Bay Fens, Kelleher Rose Garden on June 28

Photograph by Bill Brett |

6/29/12 Cambridge, MA -- A crowd forms around dancers at the Cambridge city dance party outside City Hall in Central Square June 29, 2012. The event was originally conceived in 1996 as part of the 150th anniversary celebration of Cambridge. Erik Jacobs for the Boston Globe

FANCY FOOTWORK: Dancers attract a crowd at the annual City of Cambridge Dance Party, Central Square on June 29

photograph by erik jacobs |