One in Six Million: The Baby by the Roadside and the Man Who Retraced a Holocaust Survivor’s Lost Identity
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Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
Mao’s Last Dancer is based on the autobiography of Li Cunxin. Cunxin was plucked from a poor Chinese village at the age of 11 by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he fell in love with an American woman. Two years later, […]
A Classic Ragtime and Early Jazz Chronicle (1900 to 1930)
With violin, viola, cello, mandolin and guitar, the Crooked River Ragtime Orchestra makes a historically accurate ragtime ensemble.
A Garden 10,000 Years in the Making
Learn the ages old natural history behind the native plant-wildlife connection and find out how to bring this microcosm of nature into your yard.
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
In 15th-century China, Tan Yunxian, a female physician, defies societal constraints to practice medicine alongside her female physician grandmother. Despite restrictions on women’s education and mobility, she forms deep bonds with her sworn sisters and becomes a groundbreaking healer, treating women’s ailments with skill and compassion in a world that attempts to limit her potential.
Anna Christie (1930)
With the famous promotion “Garbo Talks!”, Anna Christie, was Greta Garbo’s first “talkie” film.
British Royal Scandals Part II
Julie Koenig from Royally Amused spills the tea on scandals that have rocked the British monarchy.
Poet’s Night
Five local writers will recite published poems along with new work in an hour that promises to inspire and entertain.
Kindred
Dana, a modern Black woman, is mysteriously transported through time to a pre-Civil War plantation, where she repeatedly saves her white ancestor Rufus from fatal situations. Each time she travels back, she experiences the brutal realities of slavery. Her time travels force her to confront the complex and traumatic legacy of slavery, challenging her understanding […]
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
J. J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) is a Walter Winchell-like columnist who abuses his power as though he were, well, Walter Winchell. Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) is a sycophantic press agent who is more than willing to do Hunsecker’s bidding, even if it means ruining a reputation or two. The real Winchell was outraged and tried […]
Cleveland’s Riverside Cemetery
Author Jamie Lynne Owens is a fifth-generation staff member of Riverside Cemetery and has committed herself to the historic preservation of this Cleveland landmark.
Duel in the Sun (1946)
Duel in the Sun follows a young, orphaned Mestiza woman who experiences prejudice and forbidden love while living with her white relatives on a large Texas ranch. From 1946, this psychological Western film stars Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lillian Gish, Walter Huston and Lionel Barrymore.