by Chuck Tanowitz | May 18, 2015 | Newton
The 3rd annual Tour de Newton will be on Fathers Day, Sunday June 21, at 9:30 AM. The 20 mile, 13 village leisurely bike ride has been a big hit with families and casual bike riders. This year’s ride is shaping up to be bigger and better with substantially...
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by Chuck Tanowitz | May 18, 2015 | Newton |
It’s a busy weekend ahead for the Newton Nomadic Theater. The 4th Nomad Story Slam is Friday night, 7:30 at Gregorian Rugs in Lower Falls. This night of community storytelling is part of the Newton Festival of the Arts. To help celebrate the art in Newton...
by Chuck Tanowitz | May 18, 2015 | Newton |
A public meeting will be held by the Land Use Committee on Tuesday May 19 at 7:30 PM in the Aldermanic (Counciloric?) Chambers to review a revised plan for the project. In response to earlier neighborhood opposition, the new plan dropped the previously proposed...
by Chuck Tanowitz | May 13, 2015 | Newton |
The rehearsals have been fantastic, the show is ready to go, and the Newton Nomadic Theater is opening its new show, The Beauty Queen of Leenane in Lower Falls this weekend. Come on down to the beautiful Gregorian Rugs and see some fabulous live theater from the...
by Chuck Tanowitz | May 12, 2015 | Newton |
I think this is a first. Village 14 has received a Letter to the Editor Once Upon a Mattress (and a Refrigerator) The Newton Tab article about the proposed housing development on the St. Philip Neri site in Waban last Wednesday and comments in public meetings...
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by Chuck Tanowitz | May 8, 2015 | Newton |
A big tent is going up outside City Hall and it will be full of entertainment from morning to night as part of the Newton Festival of the Arts. 10 AM – noon is for the kids. A performance of Cinderella by the Tanglewood Marionettes, followed by music –...
by Chuck Tanowitz | May 7, 2015 | Newton |
I’d like to submit my local nomination for a Utility Bogosity (UBogie) award. I do know that the UBogie “Worst Wirescape” award is a fiercely competitive category. This compelling competitor from High St in Upper Falls has it all –...
by Chuck Tanowitz | May 5, 2015 | Newton |
For the award for most bogus Eversource (nee NStar) work in Newton, the award goes to this pole on Beacon St, at the intersection of Hammond St. Nominations are now open for future Utility Bogosity awards. Send your photos to [email protected]
by Chuck Tanowitz | May 4, 2015 | Newton |
I just got an email from Chris Pitt(s) about some kind of picketing going on down at Newton-Wellesley Hospital today. It was widely reported a few weeks ago that the nurses at Newton-Wellesley Hospital were picketing over their contract. Apparently, the contract...
by Chuck Tanowitz | May 4, 2015 | Newton |
The Boston Globe reported today on a monumental but temporary art work, created by Brookline artist Janet Echelman, that was hoisted into the Boston sky on Sunday morning over the Rose Kennedy Greenway. This big, bold, billowing, dynamic, kinetic sculpture was hoisted...
by Chuck Tanowitz | May 2, 2015 | Newton |
The Newton Nomadic Theater is delighted to announce that we’ll be doing two performances of our upcoming show, “The Beauty Queen of Leenane”, in Newtonville. We’ve been looking for sometime for at least one venue north of Comm Ave and the...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 30, 2015 | Newton |
A plan’s been percolating for quite a while to convert the unused Philip Neri church on Beacon St in Waban into a new development of housing. The currently proposed design will have 48 units with a big 3 1/2 story building (pictured) facing Beacon St and three...
