South Wedge Mission is hosting Daniel J. Kushner's Poetry Release Show with music by fantastic, heavy, electric, lounge-folk from Auld Lang Syne, Passive Aggressives Anonymous, and fascinating, engaging orchestral folk band Paxtor.
Andy Cohen is a virtuoso fingerstyle guitarist who has been described as "a walking, talking folk-blues-roots music encyclopedia." He grew up in a home with a piano and lots of Dixieland Jazz records. During the Sixties Folk Revival, he got … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Man Who Knew Infinity (Matt Brown, U.K. 2015, 103 min.) "Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with … Continue reading
The Bug Jar will host good, amiable hard rock from The Clockmen, Collapsible Animal, Cavalcade, and Soul Butchers.
The Little will screen Aliens (James Cameron, U.K. / U.S. 1986, 137 min.) as part of the Saturday Night Rewind series. After floating in space for 57 years, Lt. Ripley's (Sigourney Weaver) shuttle is found by a deep space salvage … Continue reading
Sticky Lips BBQ Juke Joint will host good bar-rock band The Heroic Enthusiasts, and excellent ska-driven rock from The Beaumonts.
The Dryden will screen Macbeth (Orson Welles, U.S. 1948, 86 min., 35mm). Filming on leftover Western sets and in bizarre interiors that deliberately emphasize theatricality and illusion, Orson Welles produced a moody, highly atmospheric, and stylized reinterpretation of Shakespeare's play … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Man Who Knew Infinity (Matt Brown, U.K. 2015, 103 min.) "Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen Sing Street (John Carney, Ireland / U.K. / U.S. 2016, 106 min.) "A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen Cabaret (Bob Fosse, U.S. 1972, 122 min., 35mm) as part of the Summer of Solidarity series. Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories and John Van Druten's play I Am a Camera served as the source material for the … Continue reading
The working method of The Out Louds is sonic research, conducted on a decibel-by-decibel level. Once deconstructed, the music can be transmitted to the listener in its pure form and beauty. For example, a person contemplating the Fragility of Existence … Continue reading
The Cinema will screen The Man Who Knew Infinity (Matt Brown, U.K. 2015, 103 min.) "Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with … Continue reading
The Dryden will screen A Double Life (George Cukor, U.S. 1947, 104 min., 35mm). Ronald Colman won an Oscar for his portrayal of a stage actor who can no longer differentiate between the real and the theatrical. As he assumes … Continue reading
Democrat and Chronicle reporter Justin Murphy and about 600 fellow bicycle riders took a 400-mile trip along the Erie Canal from Buffalo to Albany. The riders rode 40-60 miles a day, and Justin chronicled the trip, their fellow riders, people … Continue reading
The Little will screen T-Rex (Zackary Canepari, Drea Cooper, U.S. / U.K. / Canada / China 2015, 91 min.) as part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up series, followed by a discussion with Dana "Coach Dana" Chubb and more moderated by … Continue reading