First Friday Market & Movie Night: Top Gun for the Fourth
A patriotic night of food trucks, lawn games, and Tom Cruise.
Shannon
July 01, 2025
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Spend your Fourth of July evening at Moore Square for a free, family-friendly night out. Starting at 5PM, you can browse local vendors, snack your way through the food trucks, and join in on lawn games for all ages. Live music kicks off around 5:30PM, and once the sun dips low, Top Gun: Maverick lights up the big screen at 7:30PM.
Click here to RSVP for free and stake your claim on the lawn early—spots go faster than a fighter jet in a nosedive.
This isn’t sponsored (we’d let you know if it was). We just love a good excuse to sit on grass and watch Tom Cruise do stunts. (Just so you know: Sponsored content in our newsletter is always marked with “*”).
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