by Nick Smerker | Jul 28, 2018 | Happenings
Sembène – The Film & Art Festival Presents Mandabi (The Money Order) Monday, July 30th 7:00 pm A money order from a relative in Paris throws the life of a Senegalese family man out of order. Illiterate and unemployed, Ibrahima Dieng’s sudden windfall — a...
by Nick Smerker | Jul 20, 2018 | Happenings
Remembering Hiroshima, Imagining Peace Presents In This Corner of the World Sunday, August 5th 7:00 pm In This Corner of the World is a beautifully animated Japanese film that tells the story of Suzu—a young woman with a vivid imagination and a passion for drawing and...
by Nick Smerker | Jul 1, 2018 | Happenings
The Art of Being L.C. Tuesday, July 2nd 7:00 pm The Art of Being L.C. is a story of an artist freed from the cold, gray life of institutions to the warm colorful world of pastels and water colors. In 1999, L.C. (Lois Curtis) stood before the U.S. Supreme Court to...
by Nick Smerker | Jun 13, 2018 | Happenings
ReelQ Presents The Beautiful Boxer Monday, June 18th 7:00 pm The Beautiful Boxer is the controversial 2003 biopic detailing the helter-skelter life of transgender (‘kathoey’) Muay Thai fighter, Nong Thoom. Nong had always been aware of her gender from a young age....
by Nick Smerker | Feb 12, 2018 | Happenings, Historic Preservation
Location: Landmarks Preservation Resource Center, 744 Rebecca Avenue Date: Tuesday, November 21st Time: 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Contact: marylu@phlf.org or (412) 471-5808 ext. 527 In 1960 Jane Jacobs’s book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves...
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