Events - April, 19, 2013

Shakespeare Talks to Us: the Case for Style of Direct Address in Shakespeare's Plays - Shakespeare Week V

Melinda Hall is a writer, director, producer and actor. Her company, Willful Pictures, produces the annual Shakespeare's Birthday Sonnet Slam in Central Park.

Books, Science/Tech/Health

William Gibson

The award-winning science-fiction author of Neuromancer and creator of the term "cyberspace" will reflect on his work. William Gibson is the author of ten books, including, most...

History/NYC

Dinner With Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table

A friend once said of Churchill, “He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.” But dinners...

Film

Look Who's Talking

Now celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Tribeca Film Institute's Tribeca All Access® program has supported several projects whose crews included at least one writer or...

Film

New Chick Flicks

This event takes place at Barnes & Noble Union Square (33 E. 17th St.) From sports films to comedies, action flicks to war documentaries, female...

Books, Religion/Spirituality

Rick Hamlin - 10 Prayers You Can't Live Without

Rick Hamlin, the executive editor at Guideposts magazine and senior warden at St. Michael's Episcopal on the Upper West Side, joins us for the release...

Art/Photo/Design

The Evil in Art's Value System: Herrmann Broch's Essays about Kitsch

Though kitsch seems to have lost its horror in the wake of post-modernism, the discourse that high modernism launched against it in the first third...

Performing Arts/Film, Art/Photo/Design

Chris Milk - Sonos and VEVO present: The Director's Studio

Chris Milk is an accomplished artist, director, and photographer who has created music videos for Kanye West, Arcade Fire, Beck, Norah Jones, Jack White, U2,...