A rollicking night of short form theater and music
Two weeks, five performances, three venues - April 7 - 16 Come enjoy a grab bag of all sorts of short form entertainment - short plays, improv, musical spoofs, film scenes, and monologues We've put together a fun program of twelve short pieces featuring a great cast...
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9/11 honor roll
As has become an annual tradition here on Village 14 here are the names of 17 individuals who died 20 years ago today as a result of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that are known to have a Newton connection. If you know of any additional names, please add them...
Project Pop-Up – 6 new Newton pop-up businesses
I just came across Project Pop-Up - a partnership piloted in Newton and Needham (now expanded to Melrose) to support local innovation and entrepreneurship. Over 100 emerging brands and entrepreneurs applied to be a part of Project: Pop-Up. and 15 brands were selected...
Nature Story Walks in our parks
This guest post submitted by Alan Nogee, president of Friends of Cold Spring Park Want to read a good children’s book about nature while being in nature with your kids? Come visit one of five story walks installed recently at City Hall and four Newton parks. Or all...
League of Women Voters questions for mayoral candidates
The League of Women Voters asked each of the three candidates for mayor to submit a brief bio and to answer the following three questions. Q1: How would you balance the commercial need for stronger village centers with the concerns voiced by some residents for...
The city’s rat plans
The mayor's office forwarded the details of the city's recent overhaul of rat management. "It is a multi-pronged initiative with a focus on prevention, correction, and enforcement. Inspectional Services (ISD) and Planning are taking action to require actions at...
Feast of the Falls 2021 cancelled
We are so sorry to announce that we have decided to pull the plug on the plans for this year's Feast of the Falls. We have a long history of pulling off very ambitious plans on very short notice but this time we definitely got ahead of ourselves and out ran our own...
Lets talk about rats
The Newton Patch reports that mayoral candidate Amy Sangiolo is hosting a Zoom forum called "Let's Talk About Rats in Newton" featuring urban rodentologist (love the word) Dr. Bobby Corrigan, who will talk about the increasing number of rats in Newton and what to do...
Is that our Doug Haslam?
It looks like longtime Village 14 contributor Doug Haslam just won the winning caption in this week's New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest. Congratulations!