Nate Chura

NYC/Wash. DC

Writer - Multimedia Artist

Nate Chura

NYC/Wash. DC

Writer - Multimedia Artist

Bipartisanship is Not Dead in DC: Republicans & Democrats Play Together For a Great Cause at 5th-annual Washington Kastles Charity Classic
On center court of Kastles Stadium Thursday night, members of congress and the news media clashed in the 5th Annual Washington Kastles Charity Classic to prove bipartisanship is not dead in this country. The highly-entertaining competition featured a series of fast-paced WTT matches, mixing Republican and Democratic members of congress with well-known Washington media personalities and Kastles stars who passionately served it up with one thing in mind: charity.
washingtonkastles.com
Brooklyn Heights Casino celebrates Walt Whitman at age 198
Walt Whitman’s May 8 birthday party (his actual birthday falls on the 31st) was a reading officiated by Nate Chura. Nate is the moderator of The Heights Casino Speakers Program, in addition to his career as a professional tennis player and writer. Chura began by describing Whitman as a “descendant of burly settlers on Long Island,” though Whitman’s family relocated to Brooklyn for much of his childhood.
Brooklyn Eagle Publications
Exonerated convict watches story of his life at Heights Casino
Imagine being sent to prison for a murder you did not commit. For Brooklyn-native David McCallum, this nightmare was a tragic reality for 29 years. In 1985 he and his friend, Willie Stuckey, were convicted of kidnapping, murdering, and dumping the body of 20-year-old Nathan Blenner in Aberdeen Park in Bushwick.
Brooklyn Eagle Publications
A Legendary Tennis Photographer on Capturing the US Open
He was a captain in the U.S. Air Force, but that didn’t stop him from getting an assignment from a local newspaper to shoot the event. It was an historic year for the little tennis tournament in Forest Hills, the year the Open officially became “The Open.”. Today, at age 70, he’s one of the most accomplished tennis photographers in the business.
WNYC
Learning How to Fly the US Open Blimp
Sporting events and blimps have gone earth and sky together for more than 50 years. At the U.S. Open in Queens, the iconic Goodyear airships immediately float to mind, but since 2007 there’s been a new ship over the National Tennis Center: the Direct TV blimp. During the U.S. Open, the blimp provides aerial views of the event and the surrounding area for CBS, ESPN and the Tennis Channel.
WNYC
US Open: Tennis Apprentice
If television were ever to consider a tennis version of the hit NBC reality series The Apprentice, a different Donald would host the show…Donald Dell . Dell is a former US Davis Cup captain and founder of Pro Serv Sports Management Agency, one of the first full-service sports marketing and sponsorship agencies in the world.
WNYC
Film and TV Stars Get a 24-Hour Crash Course on Broadway
Around 10 P.M. on Sunday, in the penthouse lobby of the American Airlines Theater on 42nd Street, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "I Am My Own Wife" introduced himself to a large group of celebrity colleagues. “Hi,” he said. “I'm Doug Wright. I'm a playwright. I just brought my laptop and some Xanax.”.
WNYC
Stephen Sondheim Creates Treasure Hunt for Natural History Museum
Monday night, after the American Museum of Natural History closed its doors to the general public, a group of around 300 invited guests drank wine and mingled among dinosaur fossils at a benefit for Friends In Deed on the museum’s fourth floor. The highlight of the evening was “A Little Jurassic Treasure Hunt.”.
WNYC
The Long Shot: Why Can’t US Tennis Fans Make a Buck Off the Open?
In England, any Tom, Dick, or Prince Harry can walk up to a window and hand over a stack of cash to a bookie for 11/2 odds on Stanislas Wawrinka. Betting on tennis is a treasured pastime that’s been part of British culture since, “forever!”. says Graeme Sharpe, Media Relations Director of William Hill, a venerable betting house in London.
WNYC
Ruin in the Forest: A Stadium Once Fit For the US Open Falls Into Disrepair
On top of 2.5 acres of prime real estate in Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, is the iconic Forest Hills Tennis Stadium. Once home to the U.S. Open, this crescent arena built in 1923 where the first African-American won a major tennis championship and women first earned equal prize money is now a crumbling ruin.
WNYC
The Burden of Old Glory
In the weeks leading up to the season’s final Grand Slam at the US Open, patriotism is often at its highest among American tennis fans. It’s the time when we really root for American players to do well in hopes they can win a major title on home soil. But ever since Andy Roddick had his run 10 years ago, there hasn’t been much to hope for in American men lately.
TennisNow.com
Trading Places at The Heights Casino
“Constance Fry! Constance Fry! Any time you’d call! Constance would fulfill your needs…winter, spring, or fall.” So ends the men’s quartet serenade in the tennis club scene of the 1983 classic riches-to-rags comedy, Trading Places, starring Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd. Seconds later, the effete glee is followed by the hilarious punch line: “And she stepped on the ball!” which cues the entrance of the shockingly transformed Louis Winthorpe III (Aykroyd). This memorable scene in American cinema was filmed in The Heights Casino at 75 Montague Street...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

About

Nate Chura

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Nate Chura is a Brooklyn-based writer and multimedia artist. With an extensive background in tennis, he was the US Open tennis correspondent and an arts & culture freelancer for WNYC Radio and WNYC.ORG, and a frequent contributor to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, before becoming the lead writer and editor for MDE Tennis, which owns the six-time World Team Tennis champion Washington Kastles and the historic Citi Open in Washington D.C. Additionally, Nate is the entertainment director of The Heights Casino in Brooklyn Heights, New York, where he directs and produces a wide variety of arts and culture programming.

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