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Halloween Reading List
Calvary Cemetery, New York
A short guide from our contributors on what to read this Halloween, including: Luc Sante on H.P. Lovecraft, Michael Wood on Stephen King, and John Banville on ghost stories.
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Selected by Nathaniel Rich
November 3, 2012, 11 am – 7 pm
The Mirliton Festival
The Brickyard, New Orleans
Highlights of Louisiana's fall festival season include the Zwolle Tamale Festival, the Lecompte Pie Festival, and the Rayne Frog Festival. But the season’s crowning glory is the 23rd Annual Mirliton Festival.
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Selected by Marie d’Origny
October 26, 2012 – November 4, 2012, 8 pm
Lakmé
Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier, Montpellier
The arrival this fall of a new and elegant production of Lakmé, one of the jewels of late 19th Century French opera, is cause to visit Montpellier.
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Selected by NYR Staff
November 9, 2012, 8 pm
A Tribute to Adrienne Rich
92Y, New York
Join Ms. Rich’s family, friends and fellow poets for an evening of readings and remembrance.
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Selected by NYR Staff
November 10, 2012, 12 pm – 4 pm
Jazz & Colors
Central Park, New York
Jazz & Colors, which might be described as a musical version of Christo's The Gates, features 30 jazz ensembles stationed throughout the park playing music inspired by New York, and the fall.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
November 9, 2012 – November 11, 2012, 7:30 pm – 6:30 pm
‘L’eclisse’
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge
Less monumental in its purity and more subtle in its radicalism than L’avventura, Antonioni’s 1962 masterpiece showcases Monica Vitti as his moodiest, most evasive heroine.
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November 13, 2012, 7 pm
The Future of Fixers in Foreign Reporting
The Frontline Club, London
This panel, chaired by Charles Glass, will discuss whether journalists are taking proper responsibility for their fixers.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
November 15, 2012 – November 17, 2012
‘We Won’t Grow Old Together’
The New Beverly Cinema, Los Angeles
The ultimate bad break-up movie.
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