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• The Mad Tea Party

  01-09-2015 22:23
  Saturday, September 19, 2015 11:00 amCentral Library, PlazaJoin us for a theatrical reading of "The Mad Tea Party" chapter from Lewis Carroll’s beloved book, Alice’s Adventures  in Wonderland, presented by the Lewis Carroll Society. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the original publication of the book.
  
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• Chatterbox Matinee: Grandma

  01-09-2015 22:23
  Friday, November 20, 2015 11:00 amCentral Library, Dweck CenterElle Reid has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when her granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing 600 dollars before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets. (R; January 30, 2015; 79 minutes)
  
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• A Light Shines in Harlem: New York’s First Charter School and the Movement It Led

  01-09-2015 22:23
  Thursday, November 12, 2015 7:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterAuthor Mary C. Bounds shares the fascinating story of the Sisulu-Walker Charter School of Harlem, the first charter school in New York, and of the charter movement. It is a penetrating look at the host of real-world decisions that make a charter school, or any school, succeed.read more
  
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• Chatterbox Matinee: While We're Young

  01-09-2015 19:49
  Friday, October 9, 2015 11:00 amCentral Library, Dweck CenterAfter middle-aged filmmaker Josh and his wife Cornelia meet a free-spirited twenty-something couple, they adopt a new lifestyle complete with hip-hop dance classes and mind-expanding parties.  But with each hilarious attempt to act young, Josh and Cornelia start to appreciate the rewards of growing old together. (R; April 10, 2015; 97 minutes)
  
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• Chatterbox Matinee: People Places Things

  01-09-2015 19:49
  Friday, November 13, 2015 11:00 amCentral Library, Dweck CenterAfter graphic novelist/professor Will walks in on the mother of his children, and longtime girlfriend, Charlie, with their friend Gary, Will’s life is turned upside down. One year later, Will is still alone and trying to navigate the unknown landscape of single fatherhood and dating in New York City, while still remaining an inspiration for his students and coming to terms with himself both as a father as an artist. (R; August
  
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• Chatterbox Matinee: Love & Mercy

  01-09-2015 19:49
  Friday, October 23, 2015 11:00 amCentral Library, Dweck CenterLove & Mercy presents an unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era-defining catalog of Wilson’s music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost. (PG-13; June 5, 2015; 121 minutes)
  
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• Chatterbox Matinee: Infinitely Polar Bear

  01-09-2015 19:49
  Friday, November 6, 2015 11:00 amCentral Library, Dweck CenterAfter a breakdown forces him to leave his family and move into a halfway house, bipolar Cameron attempts to rebuild a relationship with his two daughters, and win back the trust of his wife Maggie. When Maggie opts to go to business school in New York, they decide that he will move back in and take care of the day-to-day needs for the kids. Due to his mercurial nature, this leads to a series of quirky, funny, and sometimes frightening
  
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• Chatterbox Matinee: Ghostbusters

  01-09-2015 19:49
  Friday, October 30, 2015 11:00 amCentral Library, Dweck CenterSuit up for classic comedy!  When kooky, spooky college professors Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler lose their university jobs, they decide to go freelance, de-haunting houses in a new ghost removal service.  As soon as they open their doors, their first order of business becomes saving beautiful cellist Dana Barrett and nerdy Louis Tully, who’ve inadvertently opened the gates of Hell…right in their
  
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• Chatterbox Matinee: Dear White People

  01-09-2015 19:49
  Friday, October 16, 2015 11:00 amCentral Library, Dweck CenterA hilarious and thought-provoking satire about race relations, Dear White People is the story of an eclectic group of black students trying to navigate a predominantly white Ivy League school.  Dealing with the college’s traditions and cliques is hard enough.  But after a sequence of events including a controversial student election, an out-of-control party, and the arrival of a reality TV producer, once-quiet Winchest
  
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• Chatterbox Matinee

  01-09-2015 19:49
  Friday, November 20, 2015 11:00 amCentral Library, Dweck CenterElle Reid has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when her granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing 600 dollars before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets. (R; January 30, 2015; 79 minutes)
  
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• Freehold Mixes Business and Pleasure in a Co-Worker’s Playground

  01-09-2015 17:20
  
  The café at Freehold is designed for working. Photo: Elaheh Nozari
  When you walk into Freehold, a coffeeshop, bar and all-around venue that opened on Williamsburg’s south side last month, the first thing you see on the menu board, below the wifi password, is an unattributed quote: “If you always do what you love, at least one person is pleased.” (A Google search identifies Katharine Hepburn as its speaker.)
  It neatly sums up the vibe of the place&nda
  
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• Come Fly With Frank: Last Chance to See NYPL’s Sinatra Exhibit

  01-09-2015 16:32
  
  (Jonathan Blanc/The New York Public Library)
  “So while my heart’s gay and foolish and free and still can sing its songShare every precious moment with me, don’t wait too long”
  –“Don’t Wait Too Long” from September of My Years (1965) by Frank Sinatra
  As another summer winds down, and with fall just around the corner, it’s advisable not to wait too long if you haven’t yet visited the New York Public Library’s retrospective show Sin
  
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• SeatGeek Sponsors Downtown Brooklyn Public WiFi

  01-09-2015 15:40
  Now averaging 50,000 users per month, Downtown Brooklyn’s Public WiFi network is officially catching on in the neighborhood. Initiated in September 2013, thanks to a grant from the City of New York, the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership has worked over the past year and a half to get the full network running – which now covers the area bordered by Schermerhorn Street, Cadman Plaza West, Flatbush Avenue, and Tillary Street.And for the month of September, this free public amenity is being
  
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• What's going on Tuesday? (Grooms, Cannanes, Cult of Luna, The Vaccines, Jen Kirkman, Ed Schrader & more)

  01-09-2015 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photos: Grooms @ last-ever DbA show (more by PSquared)
  You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights...Grooms, Parlor Walls, Faten Kanaan @ Shea StadiumThey'll soon be on a multi-continent tour with former Death by Audio roommates A Place to Bury Strangers, but Brooklyn's underrated guitar twisters Grooms will be limbering up their road muscles tonight.Cult of Luna, Kylesa, InAeona @ Gramercy TheatreIt's an excellent double bill of boundary-pu
  
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• Tamaryn played Le Poisson Rouge w/ Samantha Urbani (pics)

  01-09-2015 00:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photos by Amanda Hatfield; words by Bill PearisTamaryn / Samantha Urbani @ LPR 8/28/2015Tamaryn celebrated the release of her third album, Cranekiss, with a show at Le Poisson Rouge on Friday night. This was a completely different lineup of the band that I saw her with at Levitation Fest in May, and I was maybe not surprised but a little disappointed that Shaun Durkan, who cowrote and played on Cranekiss (and did the artwork), wasn't a part of the band on Friday. (He's a busy guy with his own gr
  
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