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• 'Mockingbird' author Harper Lee buried in Alabama hometown

  20-02-2016 23:35
  
  The author of the America classic "To Kill a Mockingbird" was laid to rest Saturday, in a private ceremony attended by only the closest of friends and family, a reflection of how she had lived
  
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• Lock of John Lennon's hair fetches $35,000 at auction

  20-02-2016 22:07
  
  A lock of John Lennon's hair, snipped as he prepared for a film role, has sold for $35,000 at auction
  
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• The Latest: Harper Lee laid to rest at private funeral

  20-02-2016 22:03
  
  The funeral for "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee, who died Friday at age 89, was as private as her life
  
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• Migrant island documentary "Fire at Sea" wins at Berlin fest

  20-02-2016 21:13
  
  "Fire at Sea," a documentary about the Italian island of Lampedusa _ many migrants' first destination on risky journeys toward safety and a better life in Europe _ won the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday
  
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• Alabama town forever linked to Lee and "Mockingbird"

  20-02-2016 20:35
  
  The southern Alabama town of Monroeville seems destined to always be linked to Nelle Harper Lee. Lee, who died Friday at age 89, drew inspiration from her hometown for the fictionalized Maycomb, the setting of "To Kill a Mockingbird."
  
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• Scalia remembered for love of God, country, family

  20-02-2016 20:14
  
  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was remembered at his funeral Mass on Saturday as a man who loved God, country and family
  
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• Director Gianfranco Rosi's "Fire at Sea" wins Berlin film festival's Golden Bear

  20-02-2016 20:08
  
  Director Gianfranco Rosi's "Fire at Sea" wins Berlin film festival's Golden Bear
  
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• London Fashion Week: Disco at Sibling, '60s at Wickstead

  20-02-2016 18:27
  
  London Fashion Week: Disco fever at Sibling, '60s elegance at Emilia Wickstead
  
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• 'Kill Bill' actress Lucy Liu to be honored at Harvard

  20-02-2016 18:01
  Actress Lucy Liu is being honored at Harvard for her humanitarian work
  
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• Historian Yuri Felshtinsky: "World War III? Putin's Russia: Past, Present, Future"

  20-02-2016 17:39
  Wednesday, March 2, 2016 7:00 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterDr. Yuri Felshtinsky, a prominent author, historian, and journalist, is an expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union. Felshtinsky's latest book about contemporary Ukraine, "World War III: The Battle for Ukraine," was published in February 2015.  Since 2002, Felshtinsky has also been in charge of the Kuchma Tapes project (decoding approximately 600 hours of conversations recorded in the office of Leonid Kuchma, the Ukrainian pre
  
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• A handwritten note from Harper Lee is the politest rejection

  20-02-2016 17:13
  
  For a reporter, it's not fun to ask someone for an interview and get rejected _ but in this case, the rejection came in the form of a handwritten letter from Harper Lee, author of "To Kill a Mockingbird"
  
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• Saoirse Ronan makes her stage debut on Broadway's 'deep end'

  20-02-2016 16:56
  
  Saoirse Ronan, who has earned her second Oscar nomination in the haunting and sweet immigrant film "Brooklyn," has started work on her first stage role
  
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• Harper Lee leaves behind questions about her life and work

  20-02-2016 16:13
  
  Harper Lee has died, but the conversation about her life and work has only begun
  
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• Berlin film fest jury ponders who should get top honors

  20-02-2016 16:05
  
  The jury at the Berlin International Film Festival is preparing to announce the winner of the event's Golden Bear award for best movie and other honors
  
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• Egypt author jailed for violating 'public modesty'

  20-02-2016 15:57
  
  An Egyptian appeals court has ordered the jailing of author Ahmed Naji for two years for publishing in a literary magazine a sexually explicit excerpt of his novel that prosecutors said violated public modesty
  
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• B-17 from "The Memphis Belle" lands at New York museum

  20-02-2016 13:25
  
  A B-17 aircraft featured in the 1990 movie, "The Memphis Belle" is now on display at the National Warplane Museum in western New York
  
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• 1969 Woodstock photographer publishes new book of photos

  20-02-2016 13:06
  
  A photographer who captured now-iconic images of the 1960s rock music scene has a new book of photos of one of the era's most influential bands
  
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• Brothers' deaths helped shape Florida State's Adut Bulgak

  20-02-2016 08:05
  
  The deaths of 2 older brothers helped shape Florida State star Adut Bulgak on and off the court
  
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• The Latest: Clinton tells casino workers she'll be a fighter

  20-02-2016 06:28
  
  Hillary Clinton carried a day of campaigning in Las Vegas into the evening, stopping shaking casino workers' hands at a rally where she was joined by her husband and daughter
  
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• Umberto Eco, author of 'The Name of the Rose,' dead at 84

  20-02-2016 06:25
  
  Publisher: Italian author Umberto Eco, best known for the international best-seller "The Name of the Rose," has died
  
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• What's going on Saturday? (Disappears, Timmy's Organism, UMO, Matt Pryor, Kool Keith, Sheer Terror, Josh Ritter, more)

  20-02-2016 06:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  photo: Disappears at Bowery Ballroom in 2014 (more by PSquared)
  You can browse our full NYC show calendar for all of tonight's shows, but here are some highlights...Disappears @ Baby's All RightDisappears covered 'Low' in full live last year as part of the David Bowie exhibit at Chicago's MCA, putting their own stark, krauty bent on what was an already stark and krauty record. They decided back in November to play it a few more times in other cities and here we are tonight. That Bowie has since
  
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• SPIN CYCLE: Mr. Governor, tear down these sexist ads!

  20-02-2016 06:00
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Tom AllonBrooklyn DailyDear Gov. Cuomo,Like you, we are the parents of three daughters. Walking the streets of New York, they tell us they are catcalled, leered at, and objectified. Last year, one of them was groped by a stranger on the street. In high school and college, they are highly likely to experience unwanted sexual advances.The New York City subway system is no joke either, but we never expected the train itself to objectify our daughters. There ar
  
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• Wall scores 22 points to help Wizards beat Pistons 98-86

  20-02-2016 05:19
  
  John Wall scored 22 points and Bradley Beal had 17 to help the Washington Wizards beat the Detroit Pistons 98-86 on Friday night
  
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• TRANSIT: City may have to build new bridges over Gowanus Canal, Newtown Creek for streetcar

  20-02-2016 04:35
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThe city may have to build new bridges across the Gowanus Canal and Newtown Creek to accommodate the streetcar system Mayor DeBlasio wants to construct along the borough’s waterfront, officials revealed on Friday.Planners are factoring in funds for the brand-new spans in the trolley’s $2.5-billion projected budget in case they can’t run tracks across existing bridges, Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen told reporters during
  
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• Kesha loses bid to be freed from contract with top producer

  20-02-2016 02:45
  
  Pop star Kesha has lost a bid to be freed from her contract with a record producer she says sexually abused her
  
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• Mexican drug lord lawyers: prison guards won't let him sleep

  20-02-2016 01:42
  
  Lawyers for drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman say he told them that guards at Mexico's Altiplano prison won't let him sleep, and that plans to make a movie about his life with actress Kate del Castillo are still on
  
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• Ray Charles to be celebrated at White House next week

  20-02-2016 01:38
  
  Usher, Demi Lovato, Yolanda Adams and The Band Perry are among contemporary artists heading to the White House to celebrate the late Ray Charles
  
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• Police unions criticize Beyonce's video, call for boycott

  20-02-2016 01:35
  
  Police unions are criticizing Beyonce in the wake of her Super Bowl halftime act and new video, calling for a boycott because they think her work contains "anti-police" messages
  
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• Ex-Subway pitchman Fogle seeks shorter prison sentence

  20-02-2016 01:29
  
  An attorney for former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle is asking a federal appeals court to shorten the more than 15-year prison sentence he received for possessing child pornography and paying for sex with underage girls
  
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• Judge denies request to delay Bill Cosby's wife's deposition

  20-02-2016 01:08
  
  A federal judge in Massachusetts has rejected a request by lawyers for Bill Cosby's wife to delay a deposition scheduled for Monday
  
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• DA opposes Cosby's fast-track appeal bid in Pennsylvania

  20-02-2016 01:08
  
  A prosecutor pursuing criminal charges against Bill Cosby in a Pennsylvania sexual-assault case is opposing Cosby's latest efforts to have the case dismissed before trial
  
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• Oregon man pleads guilty to hacking celebrity emails

  20-02-2016 01:06
  
  An Oregon man who accessed hundreds of email accounts and stole explicit photos of celebrities pleaded guilty Thursday to a felony hacking charge in Los Angeles
  
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• 'Risen' star Fiennes proud to be part of religious legacy

  20-02-2016 00:29
  
  With his role as a Roman tribune in "Risen," Joseph Fiennes joins Charlton Heston, Richard Burton, and Max Von Sydow in the long list of actors that have starred in biblical films
  
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• Silent Film Series: Speedy (1928)

  20-02-2016 00:08
  Sunday, May 15, 2016 12:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterAlthough he did not realize it at the time, today's comedy would be Harold Lloyd's last silent film, which was shot on location in New York City.  He plays Harold "Speedy" Swift, who is baseball-crazy and can't hold a job, but finds the time to take his girl, played by Ann Christy, to Coney Island, drive the legendary Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, and save the city's last horse-drawn trolley in a climactic chase, and film, that is the
  
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• Silent Film Series: My Best Girl (1927)

  20-02-2016 00:08
  Sunday, April 10, 2016 12:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterCelebrate Mary Pickford's April birthday.  She had, at age 35, become typecast, and imprisoned, by playing child-roles from an older-fashioned, late 19th century model.  For her last silent film, she allowed herself to again play an adult as Maggie Johnson, who works in a department store stockroom.  At home, she is care-taker and problem-solver for her parents and sister.
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• Silent Film Series: Broken Blossoms (1919)

  20-02-2016 00:08
  Sunday, March 20, 2016 12:30 pmCentral Library, Dweck CenterWe celebrate Women's History Month and Lillian Gish, whose film-acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987.  Based on a short story by Thomas Burke, from his collection of tales set in London's impoverished Chinatown district, "Limehouse Nights."  Richard Barthelmess plays Cheng Huan, a Chinese immigrant, who falls in love with Lucy, played by Gish, and tries to protect her from her abusive father in this poetic and tra
  
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• Dialogues in the Visual Arts, Series III: Walt Whitman: The Legacy Continues in the Book Arts

  20-02-2016 00:08
  Wednesday, April 20, 2016 6:30 pmCentral Library, Info Commons LabJoin Program Curator Susan Newmark Fleminger for the third season of conversations moderated by arts professionals with contemporary Brooklyn visual artists.
  Tonight's event features Deirdre E. Lawrence, principal librarian at the Brooklyn Museum (moderator) and artists Allen Crawford, Sam Gordon and Sophia La Fraga.
  
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• Dialogues in the Visual Arts, Series III: Paper Narratives: A Celebration by Three Women Artists

  20-02-2016 00:08
  Wednesday, March 23, 2016 6:30 pmCentral Library, Info Commons LabJoin Program Curator Susan Newmark Fleminger for the third season of conversations moderated by arts professionals with contemporary Brooklyn visual artists.
  Tonight's event features art historian Dr. Myrah Brown Green (moderator) and artists Katrina Jeffries, Aleathia Brown, and Ramona Candy.
  Image ©Katrina Jeffries
  
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• Dialogues in the Visual Arts, Series III

  20-02-2016 00:08
  Wednesday, May 25, 2016 6:30 pmCentral Library, Info Commons LabJoin Program Curator Susan Newmark Fleminger for the third season of conversations moderated by arts professionals with contemporary Brooklyn visual artists.
  Conversation led by Will Corwin, art writer and curator.
   
  
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• Creative Art Workshops: Masks From Around the World

  20-02-2016 00:08
  Saturday, April 9, 2016 11:00 amCentral Library, Dweck CenterArtist Sam Tomasello will demonstrate how to create paper sculpture elements to glue onto masks. After the decoration process is finished, we will make the masks three–dimensional so that they can be worn.        
  
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• Creative Art Workshops: Fabric Beads

  20-02-2016 00:08
  Saturday, March 5, 2016 11:00 amCentral Library, Dweck CenterTired of the same old beads? Learn how to make your own fuzzy and fabulous beads from fabric.
  
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