by Chuck Tanowitz | Dec 17, 2015 | Newton |
… you can’t take Newdoom out of the man. Activist/architect/gadfly/former Village 14’er Anatol Zukerman moved away from Newton about 2 1/2 years ago. The setting of his book “The City of Newdoom” has a very familiar ring to it though....
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by Chuck Tanowitz | Dec 13, 2015 | Newton |
The Newton Nomadic Theater periodically run an event at Gregorian Rugs called the Nomad Story Slams. They are nights of community story telling. Each slam has a theme and anyone can come and throw their name in the hat to tell a five minute story – and they have...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Nov 29, 2015 | Newton |
Speaking of the Auburndale Community Library (see below), they’ve organized their first ever “all community read”. The way it works is to get as many people in Newton to read the same book at the same time. They’ve picked a good one too. Just...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Nov 29, 2015 | Newton
A while back we encouraged Village14 readers to send us guest posts. Kathleen Maguire took us up on the offer and has periodically been contributing posts she calls Finding Newton Awe. Thanks Kathleen The Osborne Family’s recent announcement of their plan, to...
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by Chuck Tanowitz | Nov 29, 2015 | Newton |
The Newton Nomadic Theater periodically run an event called the Nomad Story Slams. They are nights of community story telling. Each slam has a theme and anyone can come and throw their name in the hat to tell a five minute story – and they have been wonderful...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Nov 25, 2015 | Newton |
With an eye on the imminent completion of the Angier School construction project, the Newton Traffic Council has just approved a new Waban Village Parking District. The plan involves various parking limitations on Dorset Rd and the portion of Beacon St near Angier...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Nov 22, 2015 | Newton
My apologies for the surfeit of story slam posts lately but we’ve been clearing the backlog of video editing from previous events. Back in May we held Nomad Story Slam 4 and featured three invited Newton authors David Kalis, Gail Spector and Nelson Lipshutz. ...
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by Chuck Tanowitz | Nov 22, 2015 | Newton |
The Newton Nomadic Theater periodically run an event called the Nomad Story Slams. They are nights of community story telling. Each slam has a theme and anyone can come and throw their name in the hat to tell a five minute story – and they have been wonderful...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Nov 19, 2015 | Newton |
Fabulous news in Upper Falls tonight. The historic St. Elizabeths Center building on Elliot St is a 19th century Greek Revival style house owned by the Mary Immaculate church on Elliot St. In recent years it has been vacant and its fallen into serious disrepair. The...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Nov 17, 2015 | Newton |
On a Sunday night this past July the Nomad Story Slam moved to the Hyde Bandstand in the Highlands for its first ever outdoor slam. The theme was “summertime”. This one night event was part of the Hyde Center’s summer long amazing lineup of music,...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Nov 15, 2015 | Newton |
A few weeks back, the Lion’s Roar, Newton South’s student newspaper, printed this editorial about the Austin St development. This past week Isabelle Albeck from The Newton Village Alliance responded with this letter to the editor, strenuously objecting to...
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by Chuck Tanowitz | Nov 15, 2015 | Newton |
Come join us this Friday, 7:30 PM at Gregorian Rugs for the next Nomad Story Slam. It’s a night of story telling inspired by the Moth Radio Hour. Anyone can come, throw their name in the hat, and tell a story. The stories should be 5 minutes long, be true,...
