Boston Marathon Bombing

Patriots Day Movie Filming in Famous Beantown Drinking Spot

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The Patriots Day movie, which will include scenes from the Watertown shootout and manhunt, has started filming, and this week is in Jamaica Plain. 

Crews were at Doyle’s restaurant and pub on Washington Street in JP today, and will be shooting there for a few days, according to Jamaica Plain News. Read the whole story here. The scene being shot at Doyle’s may include police officers. Patriots Day stars Mark Wahlberg as a police officer – a character which is a composite of a few people. His wife will be played by Michelle Monaghan, who appeared in another Boston-area film, “Gone Baby Gone.” The movie recently added Kevin Bacon as the FBI Special Agent in Charge in Boston.

Entertainment

Auditions for the Christmas Revels Coming to Watertown in May

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The Revels seeks a diverse and talented volunteer chorus of adults and children to join our family for 17 performances of the Christmas Revels at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre, Dec. 9-27, 2016, according to an announcement from the group. The tryouts will be held at Grace Vision Church, 80 Mt. Auburn St. in Watertown on May 15 and 16, from 4-6 p.m. for children and 7-9 p.m. for adults.

Arsenal Center for the Arts

Come and Get Creative at the Arsenal Center’s Open Arts Day

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The Arsenal Center for the Arts hosts its annual Open Arts Day, a Watertown favorite, this year as part of ArtWeek Boston! The Arsenal Center sent out the following announcement:

This family-friendly, free event takes place on Saturday, May 7, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA. The drop-in open house features visual and performing arts workshops taught by the skilled arsenalARTS & Watertown Children’s Theatre staff. Participants can experiment with Clay (handbuilding and pottery wheel), Printmaking, Mixed-media and other art activities for the whole family. This year’s event will again feature a very special outdoor Steamroller Printing Project where artists will carve printmaking plates, ink them up, and then roll over them with an industrial steamroller to create Relief print masterpieces!

Cooking

MasterChef Holding Try Outs in Boston for Upcoming Season

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So you think you can cook? Now is your chance to prove it at the tryouts for Fox TV’s “MasterChef,” the hit show starring Gordon Ramsey. 

An open call will be held in Boston on April 23 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency, 1 Ave de Lafayette in Boston. The MasterChef website has the following annoucement:

Come and meet the MasterChef Casting Team for your chance to be on the show! You MUST bring one prepared dish to be served to our food judges. You will be given 3 minutes to plate your dish at the casting call location, but there will NOT be a kitchen to cook or warm your dish up so come prepared!

Around Town

Watertown Photographer’s Book Captures the ‘Aftermath’ of the Boston Marathon Bombings

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Watertown photographer Joshua Touster’s has shot a wide variety of subjects, but his latest project literally came to his doorstep on April 19, 2013 when he found his hometown was the center of a manhunt for the terrorist who bombed the Boston Marathon. The book, “Aftermath: The Boston Marathon Bombings” features scenes from Watertown during the lockdown, photos from the scene of the shootout, commemorations and memorials, the 2014 and 2015 Marathons and the 2013 Red Sox World Series Championship Parade. Touster, who has an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, has shot all kinds of events and people. He spent seven weeks on tour with Michael Jackson, captured seasons of the New England Patriots, L.A. Lakers and Boston Red Sox, and documented the Occupy movement and the world of horse racing at Suffolk Downs and Saratoga Race Track. “I don’t just sit in a chair thinking of projects.

Entertainment

Watertown Gospel Choir Singing at Belmont Church on Saturday

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A Watertown-based gospel choir will perform on Saturday at a church in Belmont. The following information was provided about the concert:

Don’t miss the return of Joyful Voices of Inspiration under the direction of the dynamic Donnell Patterson. A thoroughly entertaining, soul stirring gospel concert to benefit three food pantries in Belmont and Watertown.  Stay around after the concert to meet the choir members and enjoy complementary refreshments. The concert will be April 9 at 3 p.m. at the Belmont-Watertown United Methodist Church, 421 Common St (Cushing Sq.), Belmont. Handicapped accessible through the rear doors.  Street parking.

Entertainment

Brother Sun Highlights Tremdal Concert at First Parish Church

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The upcoming Tremdal Concert at First Parish Church in Watertown features the trio Brother Sun. Tremdal Concerts provided the following description for Brother Sun:

Greg Greenway, Pat Wictor, and Joe Jencks have made their mark as veteran touring singer-songwriters, but Brother Sun is no songwriter’s round. The trio’s harmonies, as much as their lyrics, tell what they are about: warm as a campfire, stirring as a gospel church, rousing as a call to arms. Fusing folk, Americana, blues, pop, jazz, rock, and a cappella singing, Brother Sun is an explosion of musical diversity and harmony, in the finest of male singing traditions. From three major points on the map Boston, New York, and Chicago – Greg, Pat, and Joe have blended themselves into Brother Sun: a unique celebration of the amazing power of singing together. As they will tell you, the music of Brother Sun is not resident in any one of them  but rather it exists in the space between them.