No one at Succeed2gether’s tutoring program, volunteer or student, feels helpless, writes Antoinette Martin. The work they do makes a difference.
Antoinette Martin
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ICYMI: 2019 MFF: ‘Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am” smashes a new point-of-view
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am” a documentary about the Nobel-winning author, is the official closing film of Montclair Film Festival.
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2019 MFF: Black history lives in ‘The Apollo’
Roger Ross Williams’ “The Apollo” looks at the 85-year-old Harlem performance venue in the light of black history in America.
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2019 MFF: Dead mom on a soap opera? Utt and Tullock’s ‘Before You Know It’
in “Before You Know It,” a quirky film by Hannah Pearl Utt and Jen Tullock, Mandy Patinkin and Judith Light play members of a theater family.
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Controversy and questions in SMI’s ‘Love & Fear”
“Love & Fear” at the Montclair Public Library is a provocative new art exhibit on display through April 29, presented by Studio Montclair.
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Singing bowls calm the (hectic holiday) mind
Jessica Morris of Down to Earth Meditation led a Nepalese singing bowls concert staged Dec. 1 in the sanctuary of First Congregational Church, starting a holiday season with serenity.
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What’s your speed? Yogi Berra Museum offers up pitching practice
The new PITCH interactive installation at Yogi Berra Museum & Learning Center, next to the NJ Jackals’ stadium at Montclair State University, offers pitching practice for everyone, “goose,” grandma or pro.
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MFF: ‘A perfect Montclair night’ with Taylor Mac
By ANTOINETTE MARTIN For Montclair Local “This is such a Montclair night,” sighed a female filmmaker in a front-row seat as Taylor Mac’s spectacularly uncategorized, profound and profoundly entertaining show […]
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MFF: Tre Maison Dasan looks at how families feel imprisoned with parents
When parents go to prison, the whole family’s in jail.
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MFF: ‘Dark Money’ is political ‘spy thriller’
Dark Money Sunday, April 29, 7 p.m. Clairidge Cinemas, 486 Bloomfield Ave. Q&A with director Kimberly Reed to follow screening. https://www.facebook.com/DarkMoneyFilm/ This film is in NJ Competition. By ANTOINETTE MARTIN […]
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BID: Styling for a cause at the Montclair Fashion Show
Locals will walk the runway at the Wellmont, in the Montclair Fashion Show
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‘Jawaiian’ reggae comes to Montclair’s Wellmont
Pepper, Tribal Seeds Saturday, Aug. 26, 6:30 p.m. The Wellmont Theater 5 Seymour St. Wellmonttheater.com, 973-783-9500 By ANTOINETTE MARTIN For Montclair Local Does this sound intriguing? Hawaiian alternative reggae. A […]
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Angels wanted for light pack work in Montclair
Advice from Nilsen: • Choose a packing list here: https://www.voa-gny.org/what-goes-in-a-backpack • Monetary contributions can be made to the Montclair Team Crowdwise site www.crowdrise. com/montclair-community-operation-backpack For more information, go to facebook.com/MontclairOperationBackpack, or […]
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Montclair’s July Fourth Parade offered glitz and heart
By ANTOINETTE MARTIN for Montclair Local Led by a boisterous bunch of marchers from the Montclair Community Pre-K holding signs identifying alumni classes over the last two decades, Montclair’s 67th […]