Music director Philip Sanborn leads Newton’s 20-member Bay Colony Brass in Salute to Service: Honoring Our Veterans, Saturday, November 8, 7:30PM at the Second Church in Newton United Church of Christ (60 Highland Street, Newton MA). Admission is free. The salute will feature Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man”…
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Enjoy a recital by cello faculty, Kelly Knox, along with Leonardo Vásquez, viola, and April Sun, piano, on Saturday, November 8, 2:30PM at the All Newton Music School (321 Chestnut Street, West Newton). Featuring a variety of genres and works, including pieces by Amy Beach, Robert Schumann, and Astor Piazzolla, this…
Newtonville Books and West Newton Cinema will jointly host the launch of West Newton resident Hank Phillippi Ryan’s latest thriller, All This Could be Yours, at the Cinema (1296 Washington Street) on September 10, 7PM-9PM. Early arrivers may browse books and mingle in the lobby starting at 6:30PM. At 7PM, Hank…
On August 28, 2025, the West Newton Cinema Foundation invited the community to the theatre for a day of free movies and a party — with birthday cake! — to celebrate the first anniversary of the nonprofit foundation’s acquisition of the West Newton Cinema (WNC). WNC Theatre Manager Jesse Cerrotti…
Midway through its first year of renovations, the West Newton Cinema completed the installation of a variety of accessibility features – audio enhancement, descriptive audio, and closed captioning devices – so more people can enjoy the theatre. Jesse Cerrotti, theater manager at the West Newton Cinema, said these features are available upon…
The Friends of the Newton Free Library, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, will host a dining fundraiser at Ninebark Kitchen+Drinks (1391 Washington Street, West Newton) on August 19, 2025 from 12PM to 9PM. Ninebark will donate a portion of the proceeds to The Friends. Through fundraisers such as this one, book…
West Newton Cinema will host another in its Director’s Event series — showing the film, Death & Taxes, followed by an Q&A discussion — on August 21, 7PM-9PM at West Newton Cinema (1296 Washington Street, West Newton). Tickets are $20. The Q&A discussion will feature director Justin Schein and Chuck…
Honking as he passed by, Savvas Fotiadis and his young passenger carefully drove a mini fire engine around the crowd at the Newton Police’s National Night Out event on Aug. 5, in West Newton. Donning a red fez, Fotiadis and other members of the Worcester County Shriners Club gave rides…
On August 1, Director of Transportation Planning Jenn Martin and Director of Planning and Development Barney Heath sent an update to the Newton City Council regarding the recently launched Washington Street Pilot project. Construction began in the spring and is expected to be completed in the fall. The project, which…
The final installment of Cherry Street Music’s Tuesday Evening Summer Series takes place on August 12 at 7PM at The Allen Center (35 Webster Street, West Newton). Sentimental Breeze is a very special, very breezy concert, featuring a mid-summer mix of Classical music & Folk-inspired Celtic tunes to get you feelin’ fine! It…