Everyone is invited to this month’s First UU Society free lunch on Sunday, September 14 at noon at FUUSN (1326 Washington Street, West Newton). UU Rev. Jo Murphy, executive director of the UU Mass Action organization will speak about justice work. She will discuss how working for justice under authoritarian rule can be profoundly taxing, leading to exhaustion. All…
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Join West Newton Cinema (1296 Washington Street) on September 14 at 4PM for a delightful afternoon with Marianne Leone —author, actress, screenwriter, and award-winning essayist—as she shares how growing up Italian-American in Nonantum shaped the world of her recently published novel, Christina the Astonishing. Marianne will be joined by her…
Join West Newton Cinema (1296 Washington Street) on Thursday, September 18 at 4PM for the first movie (The Pursuit of Happyness) in a monthly curated subscription series — The American Dream & The Movies. Throughout the past century, Hollywood movies have been a major force in embedding the notion of…
Join West Newton Cinema (1296 Washington Street) on Thursday & Friday, September 18-19 at 7PM for Hello Beautiful, centering on Willow’s world, once defined by beauty and success, now upended as she confronts the physical and emotional toll of her illness. Stripped of the very attributes that shaped her identity,…
On Thursday, September 25 at 7PM, the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton (FUUSN) will host the next part of the Greening Houses of Worship series — to empower Newton’s faith communities with practical, inspiring ways to reduce environmental impact and live more sustainably. This event will take place in FUUSN’s Parish…
The Book Ladies’ Book Swap is held monthly at West Newton Cinema (1296 Washington Street, West Newton). The next Book Swap at the Cinema will be on Saturday, September 27, 12:30PM-3PM. Find future dates on The Book Ladies’ Facebook page. A bit of history… Nancy Brown and Annette Seaward started…
Join West Newton Cinema (1296 Washington Street) on Sunday, September 28 at 1PM for a special, opening-weekend screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s big-budget, shrouded-in-mystery, action-adventure-indie-dystopian-satire, One Battle After Another, based largely, or loosely, on Thomas Pynchon’s love-it-or-hate-it 1990 novel Vineland, followed by a free-form, focused, off-the-cuff, expertly improvised (recorded) conversation…
Join West Newton Cinema (1296 Washington Street) on Monday, September 29 at 7PM for this special screening. Everyone knows Disney’s classic animated film Snow White (1937), but few are aware that a teenage Walt Disney growing up in Kansas City saw the original silent movie of the fairy tale, and…
Join The Allen Center (35 Webster Street) for a fabulous party on Friday, October 3 at 7PM to welcome in the Fall 2025 season. A feast for the senses, the evening includes vignette performances by several of the artists represented during the year, a revealing of mixed-media works by Laura Scheuerell including Steinway…
Join The Allen Center (35 Webster Street) on Saturday, October 4 at 7:30PM for Explorations in Sound. Gabriela Martina and Maxim Lubarsky have collaborated musically since 2009 and officially formed their duo in 2019. Their project, Explorations in Sound, blends spontaneous composition, deep improvisation, and genre-defying creativity, drawing from sources like…