Events: October 18, 2012
October 18, 2012, 6 pm – 8 pm
Busboys and Poets Bookstore presents Zena el Khalil, author of “Beirut, I Love You: A Memoir” (Washington, DC)
Busboys and Poets, Washington
Zena el Khalil is a young Beirut-based female artist, writer, and activist who had an unconventional but worldly upbringing growing up in Lagos, Nigeria and attended art school in New York. After 9/11 she returned to her familial home of Beirut.
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Selected by Martin Filler
Ongoing
Tea Tasting at the Onomea Tea Company
The Onomea Tea Company, Papaikou
For an exquisite experience on the big island of Hawaii near Hilo, visit the Onomea Tea Company’s jewel-like plantation overlooking the Pacific and Onomea Bay.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
October 13, 2012 – October 21, 2012
‘The Dumb Girl of Portici’
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Dance legend Anna Pavlova made her only movie appearance in this elaborate, silent adaption of Daniel Auber’s opera La Muette de Portici.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
Ongoing
‘Wuthering Heights’
Film Forum, New York
Andrea Arnold’s boldly miserablist, verité-style adaptation evokes the violence of Emily Brontë’s imagination.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
October 17, 2012 – October 30, 2012
‘Holy Motors’
Film Forum, New York
Leos Carax’s first movie in thirteen years is another singular, impressively crazy piece of work.
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Selected by Nathaniel Rich
Ongoing
Bug Appétit
The Audubon Butterfly Garden and Insectarium, New Orleans
Three times a day, chefs from such New Orleans restaurants like Brennan’s and Dooky Chase hold cooking exhibitions in the Bug Appétit room of the Tiny Termite Cafe, serving insect dishes with a Cajun twist.
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Selected by Dominique Nabokov
October 10, 2012 – November 30, 2012
A Celebration of Harold Pinter
The Irish Repertory Theatre, New York
In this homage to Harold Pinter, the English actor Julian Sands, who worked with the playwright, honors him with a grace, a warmth, a moving kindness, a sense of humor and also a precision that is surely an act of love.
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Selected by Cathleen Schine
July 27, 2012 – December 2, 2012
London and New York Street Photography (1860–2010)
Museum of the City of New York, New York
A photography exhibit with 160 images of London street scenes and another 30 of New York by photographers like Jacob Riis, Berenice Abbot, Helen Levitt, William Klein, Nan Goldin, Joel Meyerowitz, John Thompson, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and more.
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