Friday, February 10  – Comedy Night: For the Love of Laughter!

Saturday, March 10 – Fight Night

Monday, May 21, 29th Annual Golf Tournament

2012 Boston Marathon!

Comedy Night: For the Love of Laughter!
Friday, February 10 (THIS WEEK!)
6:30pm Dinner; 8:00pm Show
American Legion Post 440, 
295 California St.

Tickets: $50 Dinner

Featuring Steve Sweeney musical guests, The Reminisants, and serving up a delicious Italian dinner, this is the perfect Valentine’s Day treat! Buy your tickets online!

Fight Night
Saturday, March 10 
5:30pm VIP Dinner; 7:00pm General
Trinity Catholic, 575 Washington St. 
Tickets: $50 VIP Dinner; $20 General

In partnership with the Nonantum Boxing Club (yes, the ol’ one-two combo!) we’re offering a fight card of over five bouts between amateur fighters, a sumptuous dinner for VIP guests, prizes and more! 

Calling all BIG shots – ask about our Heavy Hitters package!

29th Annual Golf Tournament
Monday, May 21
1:00pm Tee-Off
Charles River Country Club, 483 Dedham St.
Foursome: $1,200

Play on the host course of the 2013 U.S. Amateur Championship! Individual and twosome spots also available! 

2012 Boston Marathon!

Join our 2012 Boston Marathon Team and raise $4,000 for the Boys & Girls Club. Only a few spots left and will be filled in two weeks!

Confirm Your Support Today! 
Diane Marangoly
Events Coordinator
617-630-2066 ext.111
dmarangoly@newtonbgc.com

Rock music lovers of all ages are invited down to the All Asia, 334 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA, on Saturday, 2/11 from 2-6 PM to witness School of Rock Boston’s Show Team cranking out some classic and alternative rock hits. The Show Team is comprised of students ages 10-16 and will be sharing the stage with a School of Rock spinoff band, Mudface, and industrial rock outfit [ZeroNegative]. Tickets are $5 at the door or $10 for a family 4-pk by emailing boston@schoolofrock.com

A-Cappalooza is a fabulous a cappella concert held at Newton South auditorium on March 3 at 7:30pm, featuring Newton South’s “Newtones,” Newton North’s “Forte,” and two professional groups: Berklee College of Music’s “Pitch Slapped” and “Redline,” a Boston-based all-male group. All proceeds go to the Countryside Elementary School PTO. Tickets can be purchased at www.seatyourself.biz/countrysidepto.  This show sells out every year, so act quickly.

“BIG LOVE” by Charles Mee, directed by Caleb Bromberg and Katherine Norris, runs in Newton North’s Little Theatre.  Based on the tragedy by Aeschylus, the play takes an ancient plot and updates it. In the process, Mee forces us to reconsider our definitions of love, gender and happiness in an explosively theatrical hybrid. In this conflict between tradition and progression, honor and freedom, the characters struggle to make their voices heard on what it means to be a man or a woman.

“Big Love” runs February 1, 2, 3, 4 at 7:30PM. Tickets are $7 at www.theatreink.net.
For Mature Audiences

Celebrate winter through music! Featuring a narrated telling of the Iroquois legend, How Bear Lost His Tail, by local composer Pasquale Tassone, and a side-by-side performance with Newton’s All-City Orchestra directed by Greg Livingston.

Our instrument “petting zoo” will follow the performance!

Concert is at 3:00pm on Sunday, Jan. 29, at the First Baptist Church, 848 Centre St. in Newton Center. Tickets ($10 students, $15 adults) can be purchased online.

Sunday, January 22, 4:00-6:00 PM.
Adams Street Synagogue: Celebrating our Centennial
Free. Event location: Jackson Homestead, 527 Washington Street, Newton

The Adams Street Synagogue is Newton’s oldest synagogue. Dedicated in 1912, it is celebrating one hundred years of service to Newton’s Jewish community as an Orthodox synagogue serving a diverse congregation and the broader community. The synagogue, in Newton’s most diverse neighborhood, Nonantum, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The exhibit describes the history of the congregation, illustrated by historic photographs.

Tuesday, January 24, 7:00-9:00 PM
Happy 10th Birthday, Newton CPA! Neighborhood event for West Newton, Auburndale, and Newton Lower Falls

How would you allocate nearly $20 million for affordable housing, historic resources, open space, and recreation land in Newton over the next five years? Come tell us on Tuesday at this special event — enjoy a slide show about past Community Preservation Act projects and neighborhood history.  Add your ideas for future projects to our interactive maps.  Refreshments provided!  For more information, see www.newtonma.gov/cpa or contact Alice E. Ingerson, phone: 617-796-1144 or email: aingerson@newtonma.gov.

Thursday, January 26, 6:30 PM
HISTORIC NEWTON @NIGHT: A TRIBUTE TO ANNE LARNER

Please join us for this special evening that will honor Anne Larner, Board President of Historic Newton and an outstanding leader and community activist. Also featuring Tufts University’s own singing sensations, The BEELZEBUBS, this event will include cocktails, a light supper, and a chance to participate in an auction featuring radio personality, Matty Siegel of Kiss 108, as guest auctioneer. Proceeds from ticket sales will help underwrite a new education program in Anne Larner’s name at the newly renovated Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds. Tickets are $150 per person and can be purchased online at www.historicnewton.org.

The Newton Family Singers invite singers of all ages and abilities to a Community SingAlong. Come sing with us, and enjoy a cozy afternoon of favorite songs with friends, family and neighbors, on Sunday January 22, from 4:30 to 5:45 pm at the Waban Library. For lyrics, we’ll use the folk song collection Rise Up Singing, so bring a copy if you can. Acoustic instruments are welcome. Many thanks to the Waban Library Center, located at 1608 Beacon Street, for hosting this event. Suggested donation: $10 per family or $5 for individuals. For more information email newfamilysingers@gmail.com, visit us at www.newtonfamilysingers.org, or find us on Facebook!

Sharon G. Kujawa, Ph.D. will speak on January 19 at 7:30PM at the Newton Library on issues related to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL), age-related hearing loss and their long-term ramifications.  NIHL is a major health problem that significantly impacts communication and quality of life and, in theory, is largely preventable.  In practice, exposure to high-level sound is one of the most common causes of permanent hearing loss and inner ear damage. In spite of numerous attempts to regulate exposure and educate the public, there are reports that NIHL is increasing in younger segments of the population.

Sharon G. Kujawa, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Department of Audiology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. She also serves on the faculty of the Harvard-MIT Program in Speech and Hearing Biosciences and Technology. Her research focuses on understanding how inner ear function is compromised by noise exposure, how noise-induced injury alters the aging of ears, and how these injury processes can be manipulated pharmacologically to reveal underlying mechanisms for treatment or prevention.

The co-existence of noise-induced and age-related hearing losses in the same person’s ears will impact an increasingly larger proportion of the population over time. Exposure to loud sound can cause temporary or permanent hearing loss and injures delicate structures of the inner ear. When sensitivity recovers after noise, it has been assumed that this indicates reversal of damage with no persistent or delayed consequences for auditory function. In contrast, new research has shown that loud sound exposures, even those that result in completely reversible sensitivity losses, can cause ongoing degeneration of the cochlear nerve. This neurodegeneration alters how ears age after noise, and likely contributes to speech-in-noise difficulties and other perceptual anomalies commonly associated with inner ear damage. The clear message from these studies is that noise is much more dangerous than has been assumed.

Theatre Ink Proudly Presents CABARET TROUPE’S “CRAZYTOWN” an evening of contemporary musical theatre. Directed by Anna Nemetz and Jon Paul Roby January 12 and 13 at 7:30PM in the Performing Arts Center Auditorium at Newton North HS. Tickets are $7 each. Available on line at www.theatreink.net or at the door.

The Ward School PTO is hosting a screening of Race To Nowhere on January 19 at 7PM at the John Ward School, 10 Dolphin Rd. Newton. Tickets may be purchased on line for $10.00, with a special online teacher and student rate of $5. To order tickets, go to: www.racetonowhere.com/screenings/ward-school. If seats are still available, tickets will be sold at the door for $15. The movie will be followed by a facilitator and panel discussion as well as audience Q and A. Questions may be directed to Stacy Schwartz, PTO-co-president, staschwartz@gmail.com.