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Tuesday, 4/29
8 PM (Doors at 7:30 PM) | | Sasha Frere-Jones | | Sasha Frere-Jones is a musician and the pop-music critic of The New Yorker.
He will lecture on his work, with Q&A to follow. | More... | | | Monday, 4/14
7 PM | | Naomi Klein | | Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times and international bestseller, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. Published worldwide in September 2007, The Shock Doctrine is being translated into 20 languages to date. The six minute companion film, created by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men, was an Official Selection of the 2007 Venice Biennale and Toronto International Film Festivals and was a viral phenomenon, downloaded over a million times.
Following Naomi Klein's reception and book signing, come and see 'Our Daily Bread' in McConomy, 9:00 PM:
If you've ever had to defend your eating or food-shopping habits to those that raise a cynical eye to the terms "organic," "healthy" or "fair trade," you will not want to miss this film. Nor should you let your critics miss it either. Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter kneads together a collection of documentary footage from European countries. Images of crowded cows, cramped chickens, sprayers, spritzers and pickers are but a few of the seeds he plants for the viewer to cultivate and digest independently. We are what we eat, but what are we eating? When did nourishment become so mechanized? Humans are inventive and creative beings, but when does a machine cease to be an innovation and become a harmful or inhumane excess? "Our Daily Bread" is a speechless forum that will leave you equally without words the next time you face a food aisle. Take time after the film to taste the importance of tradition. Allegro Hearth Bakery of Squirrel Hill will generously provide your daily slice of bread, hummus and cheeses prepared without the poking and prodding of mysterious mechanizations.
"Our Daily Bread"
Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Austria, 2006
Runtime: 92 minutes
| More... | | | Monday, 3/31
7 PM (Doors at 6:30 PM) | | Junot Diaz | | Junot Diaz is author of bestselling “Drown”, a collection of short stories
about his native Dominican Republic, and the 2007 novel “The Brief Wondrous
Life of Oscar Wao”. Time Magazine hailed “Oscar Wao” as “astoundingly great”
the Star Tribune praised it as “a preview of what the next generation of English might look like”. Diaz is also a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
| More... | | | Thursday, 11/29
8:30 PM | | The Yes Men | | They've finagled their way into all sorts of meetings of high-placed executives to make outrageous presentations advocating slavery, grinding people into fuel, and similarly outrageous things strangely enough, many of the attendees, instead of being outraged, were intrigued by the profit potential. | More... | | | Friday, 11/9
6:30 PM | | Randall Munroe | | AB Lectures is proud to bring you Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd for a free lecture! No ticket is necessary, though preference will be given to CMU ID holders. Doors will open at 5:45 PM for CMU ID holders and at 6 PM for the general public. | More... | | |
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