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It's hard to believe that the movie "Jesus Christ Superstar" with music by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber is turning 50 years old! And to celebrate, the Regent Theatre is staging a digitally enhanced screening of the movie and a "sing-a-long" with the classic 1973 rock opera. And get...

Spielberg, Ephron, Scorsese... all three world famous movie directors started somewhere. And who knows? Maybe the Arlington area is housing the next John Ford or Michael Curtiz! ACMi staged the 2023 A-Town teen film festival at the Regent Theatre Thursday, May 18th. Movie-goers got to check-out all the films at...

The Arlington Health Department hosted a forum in the town hall auditorium to discuss rodent concerns. Roughly fifty attendees heard from experts and put their ideas on Post-It notes. Arlington has been aiming to move closer to becoming free of rodenticides, which have harmed predatory birds and, in many cases,...

The recent rains we've had in the past week have not been kind to the Alewife Brook. This while environmentalists have been pushing for years to save it. Nearly 150 years to be exact! This week people were told to avoid contact with the Alewife Brook and parts of the...

May 25th, 2023 is National Tap Dance Day! And to celebrate one of the world's greatest tap dancers will be performing live on the Regent Theatre stage. Experience a special celebration of National Tap Dance Day with legendary tap dancer, choreographer, author, and master teacher: Brenda Bufalino. The show is...

A former ACMi guest instructor has decided to take on a project that is much bigger than any one person. Marco Franzoni is a film-maker who taught here at ACMi a few years ago. Now, he's embarking on a project that is bringing smiles to the men, women, and children...

Courtney Wilson is Arlington's new animal control officer. ACMi News caught up with her on her very first day on the job on March 27th as she was given a tour of her new beat. Now that she's been acclimated into the "Arlington scene," we asked if we could briefly...

The superintendent of Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical High School in Lexington is currently on administrative leave. This, in wake of the uproar regarding the planned dismissal of the school's principal and scores of other complaints. The school committee made the decision to place superintendent Dr. Kathleen Dawson on administrative leave...

Dozens of people gathered under the spring sun at Arlington's Cyrus Dallin art museum on Saturday, May 6th. They were there to celebrate the unveiling of Cyrus Dallin's bronze likeness of the legendary Shoshone leader, Chief Washakie. This meticulously detailed c. 1944 cast bears the mark of Dallin's authorized foundry,...

It's hard to believe that the movie "Jesus Christ Superstar" with music by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber is turning 50 years old! And to celebrate the Regent Theatre is staging a digitally enhanced screening of the movie and a "sing-a-long" with the classic 1973 rock opera. And get...