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Longfellow House Virtual Fall Lecture Series: Histories of the Body in Art, Science, and Society
Hosted by Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site and the Friends of the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Public conversation around health, science, and the body are nothing new; in the 19th century the Longfellows and their social circle often engaged with the discourse of their day. Join us for our 2021 Virtual Fall Lecture series featuring […]
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
50th Anniversary! Adapted from Roald Dahl’s classic, Gene Wilder stars as the titular Wonka in the role he was born to play. A young boy named Charlie, his Grandpa Joe, and four spoiled brats win a trip to Wonka’s psychedelic candy factory but, as each misbehaving child receives their comeuppance, Charlie begins to question Wonka’s […]
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Premiere Run! A hardworking Maltese fisherman, Jesmark is faced with an agonizing choice. On the one hand, he could repair his leaky luzzu – a traditional, multicolored wooden fishing boat – in the hopes of eking out a meager living at sea for his wife and newborn son, just as his father and grandfather did […]
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WARD HAYDEN & THE OUTLIERS with The Mallett Brothers Band
What first led me to country music was the honesty of the lyrics. Truth is hard to find and here Was a genre where many of the early songs of country music had laid bare the honesty of a Feeling, of a situation or of an emotion. Really, truth is hard to find and it’s […]
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Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
50th Anniversary! In Tribute to Melvin Van Peebles We lost one of cinema’s great innovators and personalities this fall when Melvin van Peebles passed away. Van Peebles was a pioneering Black artist and intellectual who never took “no” for an answer. For the incendiary SWEETBACK, Van Peebles serves as producer, director, writer, composer, editor, and […]
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