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Worcester Magazine
A small team of Worcester Polytechnic Institute students, guided by their academic advisers and advice from the community, has developed the first iOS phone app for Audio Journal.
It s got people talking, and listening.
The Worcester-based nonprofit Audio Journal is a radio service for the blind, visually impaired, or individuals otherwise unable to read print or visual materials as well as people who may just like its programming. Wonderful, said Mary Frandsen, Audio Journal executive director, about the response to the app. When people who had been testing the new app for the Audio Journal were asked if they would use it again, 100 percent said yes. Access time to broadcasts using the app has been cut from five minutes to one minute. It is now available to anyone at no cost on Apple’s app store.
Long Live the Queens!
The hottest ticket in town? Right now, it s for the 2nd night of the two-night engagement for Ladies For the Night, featuring four extraordinary local drag performers: the smart-mouthed, quick-witted Lady Sabrina; the dancing queen, Boots; the comedy stylings of Edwina Typhoon; and acclaimed “RuPaul s Drag Race” competitor and recent WoMag cover model Joslyn Fox. That s a fun combination by any standard, but right now, excitement for this show is so high that the first night has sold out, and heck, maybe by the time we ve published this, they ll have added a third. (VI)
What: Ladies for the Night
Worcester Magazine
One of the first images in the Worcester Youth Center s recently released HopeVid-2020 multimedia project video is a shot of a deserted looking Worcester Youth Center. No one is there. The phone announcement says, Hello, please leave a message after the tone.
The COVID-19 pandemic has struck.
Maybe feeling stuck in their respective homes or frustrated by restrictions, a drawing by Joshua P., 16, has a square with the words Stuck Inside while at the same time a poem by Frene O., 16, begins with the word Restricted. A short video/song reverberates with We want our summer back. Devon Dee Dee M. s poem reads Different things like this are crazy/I hate being in the house lazy/ Somebody please save me.
Partnered with North Shore International Jewish Film Festival, 13 films set to screen
Worcester Magazine
It was lucky for the 13th Central Mass International Jewish Film Festival in 2020 that the event presented by the Worcester JCC had been traditionally held in January.
The festival started last year on Jan. 17 with a free “encore showing” of “Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me” at the Worcester Senior Center and continued with five more films (paid admission) including the acclaimed documentary “Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles.” The films were screened at different locations including The Willows in Worcester, Congregation B’nai Shalom in Westboro, St. John s High School in Shrewsbury, and the Worcester JCC Auditorium.