by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 29, 2015 | Newton |
The Newton Nomadic Theater’s next production, “the Beauty Queen of Leenane” by Martin McDonagh, will run from May 15 – June 7 at locations all around Newton. It’s our 11th hour contribution to the month long Newton Festival of the Arts. ...
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by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 28, 2015 | Newton |
You may have seen the banners going up in the last few weeks. You could have seen the flyers and signs popping up around the city. You probably received a complete program in the mail. The first ever Newton Festival of the Arts will begin on Friday, May 1 and run...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 26, 2015 | Newton |
Today was Newton SERVES day, one of the best traditions in the city. It’s an annual day of volunteer service for the citizens to pitch in on any of dozens of citizen organized projects all over the city. The city pitches in with various supports services,...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 25, 2015 | Newton
Local playwright Ronan Noone is on a roll. Back in January, the Huntington Theater produced Noone’s “The Second Girl” to much acclaim. It was the third Noone play that the Huntington has produced. Today’s Boston Globe reported on Ronan...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 25, 2015 | Newton |
Gail Spector’s new book, the Legendary Locals of Newton, has been getting all sorts of local coverage this week. The book features 125+ profiles of famous Newtonians from every walk of life. This week the Newton Tab ran a front page story about the book. NewTV...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 25, 2015 | Newton |
After 127 rounds, the Newton LigerBot team is in 8th place and has made the elimination (playoff) rounds. Watch it live at www.thebluealliance.com/event/2015new
by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 21, 2015 | Newton |
Stand back, it’s time for a rant. This morning, a caravan of students parents and coaches pulled out of Newton South at 6:30 amidst cheers and celebration from their friends neighbors and community. Our award winning LigerBot team is heading off to the World...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 19, 2015 | Newton |
Last weekend we held the 3rd Nomad Story Slam at Gregorian Rugs. Chris Pitts, our regular video guy, couldn’t make it so he recruited Laura Johnson as his replacement. I had never met Laura before and we were talking before the event. She told me that she had...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 15, 2015 | Newton |
As reported earlier, the Newton champion LigerBot team won the Chairman’s award at the New England regional championship this past weekend and qualified for the Nationals. When they began making plans to get the team to the national event next week in St Louis,...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 11, 2015 | Newton |
I took my daughter to New England Mobile Book Fair this afternoon. She had two gift certificates that were burning a hole in her pocket. While she was making her choices I was wandering in the remainders section killing time. I pulled a book called Boston Rock...
by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 11, 2015 | Newton |
Today’s Boston Globe features a listing of real estate open houses this weekend. There were 10 properties listed in Newton. One of them was a 1 bedroom condo listed at $319K. The other 9 started at $1.3m and went up to $2.6m. That m stands for million....
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by Chuck Tanowitz | Apr 10, 2015 | Newton |
The launch of Gail Spector’s new “Legendary Locals on Newton” book will be on Wednesday, April 29, 7 PM at Newtonville Books in Newton Centre. The book features profiles of 125 prominent Newtonians, from the 17th century until the day before...
