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Barefoot in the Park

Sunday, March 29, 2015 2:00pm

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The Library’s ninth season of Script-in-Hand performances, featuring the Metropolitan Ensemble...

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The Midcentury Modern Landscape

Thursday, April 26, 2018 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

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Looking for a bold way to redefine the spaces outside your home? Award-winning gardening journalist Ethne Clarke offers a fresh guide – with so...

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Sister Mary Corita Kent

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Corita Kent joined the Order of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1936 and became Sister Mary Corita. She spent much of her life working for the church...

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Richard Nixon: The Life

Thursday, December 5, 2019 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

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Author John A. Farrell examines our nation’s 37th president and the relevance of his career and complex legacy in the era of Trump in...

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CityBall: The Town Hall

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

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Metro Sports hosts a town hall to mark the one year anniversary of the release of CityBall, a documen...

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Bingo on the Boulevard

Sunday, October 7, 2012 2:00pm

Plaza Branch

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Staged by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, this work, along with The Hindu and the Cowboy on Oct. 1st, is based on stor...

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Monday, May 22, 2017 6:30pm

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In the contemporary elegance of the Central Library’s fifth-floor Helzberg Auditorium, saxophonist Vince Gnojek and pianist...

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Lincoln in the Bardo

Thursday, February 15, 2018 6:30pm

Plaza Branch

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George Saunders discusses his best-selling Lincoln in the Bardo, winner of the 2017 Man Booker Prize for...

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The Overlooked Jewish Resistance

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 11:00am

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While accounts of Jewish resistance during World War II tend to focus on armed uprisings in ghettos and guerilla warfare and sabotage in the forest...

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The TWA Headquarters Building

Sunday, August 4, 2013 2:00pm

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Architectural historian & preservation consultant Cydney Millstein examines how the TWA Headquarters Building at 18th and Main street...

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