Business

Hollywood Actor Promotes Fitness on Watertown Cable Access Series

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Actor Cuyle Carvin, right, visited friend and Watertown Cable host/publicist Fred Grandinetti in Watertown recently. The following announcement was provided by Watertown Cable host Fred Grandinetti:

Film, television, video and theatre actor, Cuyle Carvin, recently performed with one of the heavy weights on the movie screen, Tom Cruise. The pair shared a scene in the motion picture, American Made, in 2017 which can be seen at:https://vimeo.com/251399859

Carvin is involved with a weight of another kind on a special episode of Drawing With Fred titled Cuyle Carvin’s Fitness Friends. While exercising with a weight he briefly interacts with Olive Oyl, Wimpy, Brutus and Popeye. The cartoon quartet are all trying to stay in shape with humorous results.

Entertainment

Young Watertown Dancer Performing in City Ballet of Boston’s “Urban Nutcracker”

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Watertown dancer Caroline Marsh Zinser will be performing in the City Ballet of Boston’s “Urban Nutcracker” this December. The following announcement was provided by City Boston Ballet:

Anthony Williams’ Urban Nutcracker, the modern Boston-centric holiday classic presented byCity Ballet of Boston, celebrates its 20th season this December! The live in-person performances at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre showcase winter scenes set in present-day downtown Boston, blending the rhythms of Duke Ellington with the classical music of Tchaikovsky. Anchored by classical ballet, the performances also include a broad range of dance forms such as tap, hip-hop, flamenco, and jazz, accompanied by a 16-piece live orchestra of local musicians. Dancer and Watertown resident Caroline Marsh Zinser will be performing in the Boston holiday classic this season.

Around Town

Works of Watertown Quilters on Display at Library, Hear from Speakers on Nov. 16

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Quilters’ Connection presents “Connected Threads” at the Watertown Library, featuring traditional quilting to modern mayhem. Join three members of Quilters’ Connection as they share the diversity of modern quiltingand invite you to become part of the fun. The speakers will be RoseMary Bilezikian GabonlyianKoch on traditional quilting, Susan V. Polansky on pictorial collage quilts, and Julie Fei-Fan Balzer on playful surface design. Watertown Free Public LibraryWatertown Savings Bank Meeting Room123 Main Street, WatertownTuesday November 16, 20217:00 pm – 8:45 pm

The lecture is free but registration is required. Visit this website for more information:https://reservations.watertownlib.org/connected-threads-traditional-quilting-modern-mayhemFunded by a grant from the Watertown Community Foundation to Quilters’ Connection(www.quiltersconnection.org) and in collaboration with the Watertown Free Library.

Entertainment

COMICS: A Lesson About Refs for Small Saves & A Scary Monster in Here’s Trouble

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James DeMarco grew up in Watertown and became a goaltender at age 5. It’s his life’s passion to stand between the pipes and keep the puck out of the net. Combining this with the love of cartooning Small Saves emerged in 1991 and took on a life of his own. “To play goal–then come home and draw Small Saves — is my ideal definition of a good day.”

DeMarco recently added “Here’s Trouble” to his cartooning lineup, inspired by drawings he did in the 1980s when he was in high school.

Entertainment

COMICS: Small Saves’s Adorable Outfit & a Coyote in Kitty’s Clothing in Here’s Trouble

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James DeMarco grew up in Watertown and became a goaltender at age 5. It’s his life’s passion to stand between the pipes and keep the puck out of the net. Combining this with the love of cartooning Small Saves emerged in 1991 and took on a life of his own. “To play goal–then come home and draw Small Saves — is my ideal definition of a good day.”

DeMarco recently added “Here’s Trouble” to his cartooning lineup, inspired by drawings he did in the 1980s when he was in high school.

Entertainment

Mosesian Center Hosts Musical Celebration of Exoplanet Science With Harvard Astrophysicist

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The following announcement was provided by Multiverse Concert Series:

Multiverse Concert Series presents their newest album by composer Dr. David Ibbett, Octave of Light, in an album release tour fusing classical music with EDM and the science of exoplanets. This project is a musical celebration of exoplanet science created in collaboration with Roy Gould of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Too small to be seen directly, most exoplanets are detected as shadows across their parent star. By analyzing these shadows, David has sonified (light->sound) their spectra into a musical language of molecules and exoplanets. Multiverse Concert Series presents their newest album by composer Dr. David Ibbett, Octave of Light, in an album release tour fusing classical music with EDM and the science of exoplanets.

Cartoons

A Halloween Cartoon & Small Saves Has a Yard Sale

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James DeMarco grew up in Watertown and became a goaltender at age 5. It’s his life’s passion to stand between the pipes and keep the puck out of the net. Combining this with the love of cartooning Small Saves emerged in 1991 and took on a life of his own. “To play goal–then come home and draw Small Saves — is my ideal definition of a good day.”

DeMarco recently added “Here’s Trouble” to his cartooning lineup, inspired by drawings he did in the 1980s when he was in high school.

Commander's Mansion

Enjoy Halloween Fun During the Watertown Lil Monstah Joyride

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Once again, the Watertown Commander’s Mansion will host free drive-through Halloween festivities. Experience lights, live music and treats at the Commander’s Mansion, 440 Talcott Ave., Watertown. The event is aimed at children in grades PreK-5, and is rain or shine. Organizers provided the following information:

You are invited to Watertown’s annual Lil’ Monstah Joyride, it is this Saturday, October 23rd from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Guests will lineup on Arsenal Street, enter the complex through Talcott Avenue and exit through the “abandoned” gate house gates! Watertown Police will be onsite directing traffic. This is a free, drive-through community event, with live music, lights and treats for the kids! 

HUGE thanks to Team LMJ – Watertown Recreation, Watertown DPW, Watertown Police Department, Watertown Fire Department, Watertown Buildings Department, School of Rock, Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Ballroom in Boston, and volunteers!  

For more information go to www.commandersmansion.com/events