Carolyn Vacca will present a Books Sandwiched-In review of Valiant ambition : George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick in the Kate Gleason Auditorium in the Bausch and Lomb Library Building.
The Friends and Foundation of the Rochester Public Library (FFRPL) and Writers and Books invite the public to a poetry reading, book signing and wine reception with two nationally-known poets, Mark Pawlak and Sejal Shah. Books will be available to … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Bridget Jones's Baby (Sharon Maguire, Ireland / U.K. / France / U.S. 2016, 123 min.) "Bridget's focus on single life and her career is interrupted when she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch ... she … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Vesnoy (In Spring, Mikhail Kaufman, USSR 1929, 66 min., 35mm, Russian w/subtitles) with live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli. The Kaufman brothers' enormous contribution to film history still needs to be properly evaluated. The oldest, … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Masterminds (Jared Hess, U.S. 2016, min.) "A guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history. Based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery."
Introducing Rochester Community Solar: This revolutionary new solar energy offering is the first of its kind in our area. With no upfront cost, community solar is truly a solar solution. Instead of each home buying solar panels individually, we now … Continue reading
UofR's Department of Modern Languages and Cultures will screen Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov, France/Germany/The Netherlands 2015, 88 min.) in Hoyt Auditorium as part of the The Tournées Film Festival: ABCDs in Contemporary French and Francophone Cinema. Francofonia is the great Russian … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen 11 minut (11 Minutes, Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland/Ireland 2015, 81 min., DCP, Polish w/subtitles) as part of the Polish Film Festival. In the span of eleven tense minutes, a whirlwind of interlocking tales of life in the … Continue reading
The Penfield Public Library will screen Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, U.S. 1974, 93 min.) Penfield Library will celebrate the great comic genius of the late American actor Gene Wilder who died in August 2016 with a triple film fest on … Continue reading
Gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of the universe, have been detected and were produced roughly one billion years ago. These ripples unveil a luminous new window into the phenomena of astrophysics and offer a new perspective on our … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Bridget Jones's Baby (Sharon Maguire, Ireland / U.K. / France / U.S. 2016, 123 min.) "Bridget's focus on single life and her career is interrupted when she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch ... she … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Masterminds (Jared Hess, U.S. 2016, min.) "A guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history. Based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery."
Judge Karen Morris will present a Books Sandwiched-In review of Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon, and Shana Knizhnik at the Brighton Memorial Library.