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• New Films from China: A Cherry on a Pomegranate Tree

  06-05-2015 21:19
  Saturday, May 30, 2015 1:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterThis 2013 drama is based on the novel of the same name by Li Er.  Guanzhuang Village's Kong Fanhua will stop at nothing to maintain her position as village head. First she orders her husband back from his job in a coastal city to visibly support her in the upcoming elections. Then she visits the village's power brokers and young upstarts one-by-one so as to keep them under her control by fair means or foul.read more
  
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• New Films from China: Under the Hawthorn Tree

  06-05-2015 18:50
  Tuesday, May 26, 2015 7:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterDirected by Zhang Yimou and set during the end of China's Cultural Revolution in a small village in Yichang City, Hubei Province, Under the Hawthorn Tree (Shan zha shu zhi lian) tells the story of a pure love that unfolds between beautiful city girl Jing Qiu (Dongyu Zhou) and handsome young villager Lao San (Shawn Dou).read more
  
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• New Films from China: The Stolen Years

  06-05-2015 18:50
  Sunday, May 31, 2015 1:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterHong Kong writer director Barbara Wong sets the story in Taipei, 2012. After being in a coma for a month, He Man (Bai Baihe) wakes up in hospital with amnesia. The last thing she can remember is having an accident on a motorbike with her husband Xie Yu (Joseph Chiang) while on their honeymoon - but that was five years ago, and He Man is told that she and Xie Yu are now divorced. He Man and Xie Yu have to find out whether they can re-ignite
  
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• New Films from China: My Running Shadow

  06-05-2015 18:50
  Sunday, May 31, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterDirector Fang Gangliang tells the beautiful story of Xiuzhi, a math wizard with Aspergers syndrome, who meets his father who comes back from America for the first time when he is seventeen years old. His father intends to take him to America for further studies. When Xiuzhi is about to leave his mother, he finally realizes what she means to him. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gxUgCZ-lx4
   
  
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• New Films from China: Fly with the Crane

  06-05-2015 18:50
  Wednesday, May 27, 2015 7:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterRising Chinese director, Li Ruijun (“Old Donkey,” “The Summer Solstice”) makes his most accomplished feature yet with the spiritually inclined, generally light-of-touch, “Fly With the Crane.” Based on a novel by co-producer Su Tong, whose “Wives and Concubines,” was adapted as “Raise the Red Lantern,” pic explores a rural granddad’s desire, as explained to his pint-sized
  
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• New Films from China: Cherry on the Pomegranate Tree

  06-05-2015 18:50
  Saturday, May 30, 2015 1:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterThis 2013 drama is based on the novel of the same name by Li Er.  Guanzhuang Village's Kong Fanhua will stop at nothing to maintain her position as village head. First she orders her husband back from his job in a coastal city to visibly support her in the upcoming elections. Then she visits the village's power brokers and young upstarts one-by-one so as to keep them under her control by fair means or foul.read more
  
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• New Films from China: Back to 1942:

  06-05-2015 18:50
  Saturday, May 30, 2015 4:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterBack to 1942 is a 2012 Chinese historical film directed by Feng Xiaogang. It is based on Liu Zhenyun’s novel, Remembering 1942. In the historically accurate Back to 1942, Chinese director Feng Xiaogang uses the classic epic format to explore what happened when war met famine in the Henan Province of China in 1942, a disaster that cost millions of lives.read more
  
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• ISIS takes aim at NYC blogger

  06-05-2015 17:56
  
  Pamela Gellar, the woman who organized a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas where two people were shot dead, is being targeted by the Islamic State. An online message from the terror group says it has fighters across the United States ready to attack "any target we desire."
  
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• #76759: Featuring the House that Herman Built: James Forman Jr. and Marc Mauer on reducing incarceration

  06-05-2015 17:48
  Thursday, June 4, 2015 7:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterYale Law Professor James Forman and the Sentencing Project’s Marc Mauer discuss initiatives to reduce American incarceration rates. A number of groups are now calling for a 50% reduction in the prison population. Jumping off from the life and imprisonment of Herman Wallace, this discussion will explore what would it take to accomplish that: a change in drug policy, sentencing, prevention, crime control, the political environment, e
  
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• Plaza Swing Series: The Afri-Garifuna Jazz Ensemble

  06-05-2015 17:13
  Wednesday, July 8, 2015 7:00 pmCentral Library, PlazaThe Afri-Garifuna Jazz Ensemble fuses the language, rhythm and percussive instruments of Garifuna music with Jazz to create a new sound. The ensemble uses Garifuna instruments such as the Maracas, Garifuna Drums, Turtle-Shells, Conch Shells, and the Garifuna Language along with piano and bass.
  Dance lessons are at 6:30, band starts at 7 pm. In case of rain, the event will be held on Thursday, July 9.
  
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• Plaza Swing Series: Swingtime Big Band

  06-05-2015 17:13
  Wednesday, July 1, 2015 7:00 pmCentral Library, PlazaDedicated to the performance of America's greatest popular standards, this 20-piece authentic swing band specializes in performing original arrangements of Big Band classics from the Great American Songbook, bringing to life both the style and the spirit of this music for 21st century audiences. Bring your dancing shoes!
  Dance lessons are at 6:30, band starts at 7 pm.In case of rain, this event will be held on the ballroom of Union Temple
  
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• Plaza Swing Series: Sonido Costeño

  06-05-2015 17:13
  Wednesday, July 15, 2015 7:00 pmCentral Library, PlazaSonido performs a high-energy mix of Cuban son, guaracha, Dominican merengue and bachata and Jamaican reggae.
  Dance lessons are at 6:30, band starts at 7 pm.In case of rain, the event will be held on Thursday, July 16.
  
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• Plaza Swing Series: Harlem Blues and Jazz Band

  06-05-2015 17:13
  Wednesday, June 24, 2015 7:00 pmCentral Library, PlazaThis Plaza Swing favorite is a super-group of the significant side-men of the Classic Jazz Period. The musicians' average age is in the low 80s, they have a combined 500 years of performing experience and their roots reach to the 1920s and ‘30s.
  Dance lessons are at 6:30, band starts at 7 pm.In case of rain, the event will be held on Thursday, June 25.
  
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• Plaza Swing Series: Brain Cloud

  06-05-2015 17:13
  Wednesday, July 22, 2015 7:00 pmCentral Library, PlazaDennis Lichtman and his band bring Western swing to the plaza. Their infectious blend American southern roots music and old-timey jazz features hot picking, hard swinging, and the inimitable vocals of Tamar Korn.
  Swing dance lesson at 6:30, band starts at 7 pm.In case of rain, the event will be held on Thursday, July 23.
  
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• Plaza Swing Series: Matt Munisteri and his Syncopatin’ Detonators

  06-05-2015 17:05
  Wednesday, June 17, 2015 7:00 pmCentral Library, PlazaMunisteri leads his band through the swinging music of the 1920s-1940s. Munisteri is a virtuosic guitarist whose new album, Still Runnin’ Around in the Wilderness, contains the lost music of Willard Robinson. Dance lessons are at 6:30, the band starts at 7 pm.
  In case of rain, the event will be held on Thursday, June 18.
   
  
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• Your Ideal Week: May 7- May 13

  06-05-2015 17:01
  
  As spring really begins to kick into high gear, constant reminders of what makes Brooklyn such a great place to... Read More… Read More
  The post Your Ideal Week: May 7- May 13 appeared first on Brooklyn Based.
  
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• Loosie Rouge: Please Don't Tell Your Friends About The Best New Bar In Williamsburg

  06-05-2015 15:36
  
  Loosie Rouge feels in peril of becoming the next Williamsburg bar we will all love to hate, but for now,... Read More… Read More
  The post Loosie Rouge: Please Don't Tell Your Friends About The Best New Bar In Williamsburg appeared first on Brooklyn Based.
  
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• ISIS targets NYC blogger

  06-05-2015 12:47
  
  Pamela Gellar, the woman who organized a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas where two people were shot dead, is being targeted by the Islamic State. An online message from the terror group says it has fighters across the United States ready to attack "any target we desire."
  
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• Vinyl fantasy! Film set in Bed–Stuy record store makes borough debut

  06-05-2015 06:00
  
  “Lazarus” is set inside Israel’s Record Store, located in a subterranean space on Fulton Street. Read more.
  
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• Richardson wins Assembly seat in Brooklyn

  06-05-2015 05:00
  
  A Democrat running on the Working Families Party line has won the race for the 43rd state Assembly District seat. With 78 percent of districts reporting, Diana Richardson had 48 percent of the vote, double her nearest competitor. The district, in heavily Democratic Brooklyn, did not feature a candidate on the Democratic line since the candidate who was chosen by the local party didn't file the required paperwork on time. 
  
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• Staten Island DA Donovan wins U.S. House seat

  06-05-2015 03:56
  
  Daniel Donovan, the Staten Island district attorney who empaneled the grand jury that didn't indict the police officer who placed Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold, was elected Tuesday to fill a congressional seat left vacant when the incumbent pleaded guilty to tax fraud. Donovan, who will keep the seat in the GOP's hands, defeated Democratic City Councilman Vincent Gentile in a low-turnout special election to succeed Michael Grimm.
  
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