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Richard Rodriguez discusses the changing face of America in a special lecture in Ketchum.
THURSDAY JAN. 17 You have to wonder what’s in that drink served On the Waterfront.
brown RICHARD RODRIGUEZ ON SIGNS, SYMBOLS, SELF
THURSDAY AND SATURDAY JAN. 17 AND JAN. 19 brando MOVIES AT THE LIBRARY AT COLE The library in Alexandria, Egypt, was endowed to collect all the knowledge in the world, but somehow, it bequeathed to posterity the false impression that libraries traffic primarily in books. Keeping up its mission to provide access to free knowledge and culture to the public the Library at Cole and Ustick will share two films this week that offer, if not knowledge, perspective and a bit of culture. On Thursday, Jan. 17, at 6:15 p.m., eight-time Academy Award winner On the Waterfront (NR) will play as part of the library’s Movie Discussion Group series. The 1954 film tells the story of Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando), a dockworker and former up-and-coming boxer hustled into collaborating with mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb). On Saturday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m., the library presents The Lorax (PG), the 2012 animated feature based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name, in its latest installment of Family Movie Matinee. In it, Ted Wiggins (voiced by Zac Efron), who lives in pre-fab town Thneedville, is on the hunt for a real tree to impress his crush, Audrey (voiced by Taylor Swift), but the search for nature leads him into cahoots with failed industrialist The Once-ler, and trouble with the mayor of Thneedville over the last Troffula tree seed. Whether you’re on the lookout for some stunning golden age cinema or a flick to watch with the kids, the library is ready for you. Thursday, Jan. 17, 6:15-9 p.m. FREE; Saturday, Jan. 19, 2-3:30 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, 208-570-6900, boisepubliclibrary.org.
SATURDAY JAN. 19 horror FROM POE TO THE PRESENT What could be more horrible than turning into a purple cow? It’d be like a
mad scientist movie in which the hero is drugged and manipulated through gene therapy into an anomalachromial bovine, mooing in desperate, helpless protest. It’s a horror movie you could write with guidance from author Michaelbrent Collings, who is presenting From Poe to Present: Writing Horror for Page, Cinema and
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Screen at the Ada Community Library, Victory branch, on Saturday, Jan. 19. The lecture will focus on getting your screenplay/ novel/ebook noticed, how to focus ideas and how to get them on the page. This event is part of library’s Purple Cow series, designed to help the people of Ada County stand out as artists
In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois said that the problem of 20th century America was the problem of the color line. Then the 20th century proved him right: After years of segregation following hundreds of years of slavery, the United States began the slow process of discontinuing the legal basis for racial bias and combating racism in American culture. The racial complexity of America in the 21st century is the topic of discussion by Richard Rodriguez, who shares themes from his book, Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2003), at the Church of the Big Wood in Ketchum as part of the Sun Valley Center for the Arts’ multidisciplinary project. Rodriguez—a contributing editor at New America Media in San Francisco—has written for publications in the United States and abroad and has further explored issues of race, ethnicity and class in Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez, Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Mexican Father, and Brown. He won the George Foster Peabody Award in 1997 for his essays on American life on NewsHour and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction writing. In Brown, Rodriguez uses the color as a metaphor for the states of being between black and white, rich and poor, and foreign and domestic. America is as much divided by these categories as it is united by the decay of the lines between them. Rodriguez is a perfect example, describing himself as a “queer Catholic Indian Spaniard at home in a temperate Chinese city in a fading blond state in a post-Protestant nation.” 6:30 p.m. $35, $25 members, $10 students. The Presbyterian Church of the Big Wood, 100 Saddle Road, Ketchum. 208-726-5123, sunvalleycenter.org.
and business professionals. Collings has published several bestselling works of horror and suspense, including “The Haunted,” “RUN,” and most recently, “Hooked: a True Fairie Tale.” He is also recognized for the most screenplays advanced to the quarter and semifinals of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition in a single year by anyone in the history of the competition. For now, settle into your inner darkness, jot down a few frightening ideas, and head to the library to find out
how to give them freakish, menacing wings. 1:30-3:30 p.m. FREE. Ada County Community Library on Victory, 10664 W. Victory Road, 208-3620181, adalib.org.
MONDAY JAN. 21 the king MLK DAY OF GREATNESS Boise’s premier street,
Capitol Boulevard, was designed by early city planners to draw residents’ eyes toward its focal point: the Idaho State Capitol. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday, Jan. 21, it’s fitting that the annual Day of Greatness event put together by Boise State University students should commemorate the national holiday with a march down the city’s main thoroughfare. Organized to celebrate late civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., past speakers have included the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Dr. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M