Hot Stove Cool Music

Submitted by Chalkey Horenstein on Fri, 2012-01-06 05:05

Chalkey Horenstein
Spare Change News

In order to promote the 13th annual Hot Stove Cool Music charity concert on January 14th, renowned baseball journalist Peter Gammons and musicians Robin Lane and Bill Janovitz prepared a promotional get-together, which featured a performance from “Songbird Sings,” a program within The Home For Little Wanderer’s Young Adult Resource Network (YARN).

“We figure it will be a lot of fun. It always is,” said Gammons. “I think we have a lot of people who come back every year.”

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PATRICK-MURRAY ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES 21% DECREASE IN VETERAN HOMELESSNESS

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2012-01-06 01:17

STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE

BOSTON – Thursday, January 5, 2012 – The Patrick Murray Administration today joined officials from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the U.S. Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness to announce a new report showing homelessness among veterans in Massachusetts has dropped 21 percent since January 2011, nearly twice the rate of reduction nationally. The Administration today also launched a new federally funded pilot program that will serve 50 chronically homeless veterans in the Boston Metro area.

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Big Wishes For Little Wanderers

Submitted by Nakia Hill on Wed, 2011-12-21 18:26

Joan Wallace-Benjamin, President and CEO of The Home for Little Wanderers, stands with others before a Bernie & Phyl's Furniture truck filled with new, unwrapped toys for children on Boston Common. Bernie & Phyl's and WCVB-TV partnered with The Home for the all-day "Stuff-a-Truck" event as part of the non-profit's annual Big Wishes for Little Wanderers Gift Drive. You can help holiday wishes come true for thousands of children and families in The Home's care by participating in the gift drive. For details, go to http://www.thehome.org Gift cards and items for teenagers are still needed.

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Putting a Face on Homelessness

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2011-12-02 08:56

Alexander R. Moore
Spare Change News

A joint collaboration between the Horizons for Homeless Children (HHC) organization and the National Center on Family Homelessness (NCFH) to commemorate Homeless Awareness Month resulted in a display of riveting photographs of homeless children and families. The exhibit, Looking Into Light, contains vivid images of children undergoing the difficulties of homelessness and families struggling to survive.

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Learning from the Sixties: A Talk with John Maher

Submitted by Tom Benner on Fri, 2011-11-18 06:45

Tom Benner
Spare Change News

A new book, Learning From The Sixties: Memoir Of An Organizer, is intended to pass on the lessons learned along the way by anti-Vietnam War activist and political organizer John Maher, a longtime Cambridge resident, to a new generation.

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SOMEONE'S GOTTA LOSE: Does the Mass. Lottery Target Poor People?

Submitted by Tom Benner on Thu, 2011-09-22 23:38

Tom Benner
Spare Change News

A public interest group believes state lotteries use marketing strategies to target low-income communities, where residents tend to spend a larger percentage of their incomes on lottery tickets than do the wealthier segments of society.

But a public records request for the Massachusetts Lottery’s internal advertising documents so far has gone unfilled.

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Ten Years Later: What Have We Learned?

Submitted by Nakia Hill on Fri, 2011-09-09 00:40

Nakia Hill
Spare Change News

In the 10 years since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Americans have witnessed some change in the nation. Beyonce, who once claimed to be an independent woman, is now carrying husband Jay-Z’s child. The East Coast experienced a 5.8 magnitude earthquake. America elected its first African- American president. The job market has seen better days. Osama Bin Laden was captured and killed. Bush admitted that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction found in Iraq. Saddam Hussein was captured by American soldiers and later executed. Casey Anthony was released from prison.

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SCN Interview with Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2011-08-26 09:41

Tom Benner
Spare Change News

Edward Glaeser, an economics professor at Harvard University, recently sat down with Spare Change News editor Tom Benner to discuss his myth-shattering book about cities, Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier.

SCN: Your book makes the case that cities make up America’s economic heartland, and that cities don’t create poor people but instead are where the poor go for economic opportunity.

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An exclusive interview with Lt. Gov. Tim Murray on the state's new Housing First policy

Submitted by Tom Benner on Tue, 2011-08-16 12:15

Third in a three-part series.

Lt. Gov. Tim Murray chairs Governor Deval Patrick’s Interagency Council on Housing and Homelessness and once worked as a housing advocate at a non-profit agency in Framingham. Mr. Murray sat down with Spare Change News recently at his State House office to discuss HomeBase, the state’s new program that seeks to shift the focus of homeless policy from a shelter-based model to a Housing First model. Following is an edited transcript of the interview.

Spare Change News: Tell us about the new HomeBase program and how it evolved.

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The Arts Maven: A selective guide to free arts happenings in Greater Boston

Submitted by Nakia Hill on Tue, 2011-08-09 10:54

By David Fillingham

EVENTS

Monday Aug 8 8:15 PM
Berklee School of Music Summer program presents 5-Week Vocal Night.
This show features a number of Five-Week Summer Performance Program vocal groups, including the Five-Week Chorus directed by Lucy Holstedt; the Five-Week Musical Theater Workshop directed by Rene Pfister, Ana Guigui, and Jeri Sykes; the Five-Week Middle Eastern Fusion Ensemble directed by Christiane Karam; and the Five-Week Singer Showcase finalists directed by Ken Zambello.

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Spare Change Offices (1151 Mass Ave., in the basement of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church)
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