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Watertown Mall Hosting Valentines Event With Watertown Family Network

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Share Your Love with the Watertown Family Network at the Watertown Mall on Wednesday, February 8 at 11 a.m.! Join the Watertown Family Network for Valentine making, stories, songs and crafts! There will also be valentines available to be sent over to our friends at Brigham House Assisted Residence, Mall officials announced. All supplies will be provided. The Watertown Family Network is a grant-funded program of the Massachusetts Department of Education and care run through the Watertown Public Schools.

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Watertown Chef to be Featured on Food Network Show This Week

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A Watertown chef showed off his cooking abilities on a Food Network show focusing on food to eat while watching football – just in time for the Super Bowl! 

Chef Mike Fucci traveled to California to be part of “Cutthroat Kitchen,” one of the network’s most popular shows, hosted by Alton Brown. The show will air Wednesday night at 8 p.m.

The name of the episode is “Fry-day Night Bites,” and Fucci and the other contestants had to make loaded nachos, fried chicken sandwiches, and an ice cream sandwich. “It sounds simple for a chef to make, but when you are bombarded with challenges it is not as easy as it sounds,” Fucci said. Fucci has been cooking in restaurants since he was a teen, starting when he worked working with his Uncle Mike. Now Fucci runs Chef Mike’s Kitchen, a catering business based in Watertown (see more at his website www.chefmikeskitchen.com).

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Watertown Singer-Songwriter Debuting her New Album This Week

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After a break of about a decade away from music, a career change and two children, Watertown’s Lisa Bastoni has recorded an album and the singer-songwriter will celebrate with a performance on Wednesday, Jan. 25 in Somerville. During her break from music Bastoni had a “job in a cubicle,” went to graduate school, became an art teacher and for the past few years has been raising two young children. While she was on a hiatus from music, Bastoni said she found inspiration. “I played just a handful of concerts in all that time, and thought I was done with music for good,” Bastoni said.

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Watertown Cultural Council Awards Grants to 20 Local Groups

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The Watertown Cultural Council is pleased to announce its grant recipients for fiscal year 2017, awarding over $9,200 in grants to 20 organizations to support music, art, and science programs serving Watertown audiences from families, preschoolers and K-12 students to adults and seniors. FY2017 Grant Recipients:

Arsenal Center for the Arts, Black Box Series, workshop, performance, and post-performance Q&A session for Watertown students
Belmont World Film Festival
Carole Smith Berney, The Birds and Bees: How We Love Them, Why We Need Them at WFPL, Charles River, and local gardens
Cunniff Kids News, Watertown Splash, and Raider Times, student reporters to attend local theater performance, conduct interviews, and write reviews
Delvena Theatre Company, Murder a La Carte at the Watertown Senior Center
Flat Earth Theatre, Silent Sky at the Arsenal Center for the Arts
Friends of Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Meet the Instruments concert with Mary Bichner & the Planetary Quartet
The Genocide Education Project, educational guides for Watertown High School
Gore Place, The Art of Puppetry performance and workshops
Lowell Elementary School, Family Math and Technology Night
Mark Chester, The Faces of America: Teaching Tolerance
New Repertory Theatre, sold-out run of Fiddler on the Roof
Palaver Strings, interactive workshop and performance for WMS and WHS students whose special needs fall under the autism spectrum
Powers Music School, A Musical Story Program at the WFPL
Revels RiverSing
St. Stephen’s Armenian Elementary School field trip to Wheelock Family Theatre
Watertown Art Association, Elemental Forces: Water, Earth, Air and Fire
Watertown Family Network, intergenerational presentation of Seuss on the Loose
Watertown Middle School, Museum of Science traveling physics program to visit 8th grade
Watertown Public Arts and Culture Committee, Public Art and Culture Kit: An Idea Book for Watertown and Developers

“This year’s WCC grant recipients highlight the range of interests and experiences within our community,” says Jonathan Hecht, State Representative for Watertown and Cambridge. “In what has become an increasingly divisive political climate, I’m pleased and proud to share this news of community efforts spanning music, theater, science, and history designed to inform, entertain, inspire, and draw people together.

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Celebrate the New Year With a Day of Art, Performances at Mosesian Center for the Arts

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The Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts is excited to announce the return of First Day… on the Second! The second annual event takes place on January 2nd from 11am to 2pm and features live performances from Magician Evan Northrup, Saxophonist Tim Hall, and a Broadway Sing-Along. The Center will also host Visual and Performing Arts workshops for children to experiment with paint, paper, collage, performance, movement, and more! This event is free to the public and open to families with children of all ages (donations gladly accepted).

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REVIEW: ‘Patriots Day’ Movie an Emotional, at Times, Rough Ride

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Like anyone who lived in Watertown during the Boston Marathon Bombings and the aftermath, there was no surprise in how the “Patriots Day” movie turns out, but what was unexpected was the feeling I had leaving the theater with the feelings of April 2013 stirred up by the movie. The film starring Mark Wahlberg chronicles the events of the bombing, the search for the suspects, and the shootout and manhunt in Watertown. It hits theaters in the Boston area Wednesday, Dec. 21, and will play nationwide in January. Director Peter Berg and the makers of Patriots Day said at a press conference last week that they focused on getting the movie right, and making it realistic.

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Recreation Dept. Has Tickets for Celtics, Disney on Ice, Harlem Globetrotters

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Get tickets to some fun and exciting events at TD Garden through the Watertown Recreation Department, including the Boston Celtics, Disney on Ice and the Harlem Globetrotters. 

 
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The Recreation Department has tickets for the following games:

Saturday, Jan. 7, 7:30 – New Orleans, section 307, $35

Monday, Jan. 16, 7:30 – Charlotte Bobcats, section, 320, $20

Friday, Feb. 3, 8:00 – L.A. Lakers, section 324, $70

Sunday, March 12, 3:30 – Chicago Bulls, section 322 $70

Friday, March 24, 7:30 – Phoenix Suns, section 319 $50

Tickets are sold on a first come first serve basis to Watertown Residents. Full payment is due at time of purchase.

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Which Scenes Shot in Watertown Made it Into ‘Patriots Day, What Stood in For the Town

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Oscar-winning actor J.K. Simmons, center, speaks with Connie Pugliese during a break from filming in her home. The actor is portraying her husband Jeff, a Watertown Police sergeant in the film “Patriots Day.” Just like the real-life events of the Boston Marathon Bombing, Watertown features prominently in the movie “Patriots Day,” well sometimes it is the town, and others other locations played the part. Filmmakers spent several days in Watertown last spring shooting scenes at the former Watertown Police Station, the Dunkin’ Donuts on Main Street, Main Street Mobile, the area near Greg’s Restaurant and the home of Watertown Police Sgt. Jeff Pugliese.