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SUMMARY:Mulholland Drive
DESCRIPTION:Starring: Ann Miller\, Dan Hedaya\, Justin Theroux\, Laura Harring\, Naomi Watts \n\nAn aspiring actress (Watts) meets a beautiful amnesiac (Harring) and tries to unravel the mystery of her memory loss in this glorious puzzle-box of a film. David Lynch lays bare the dichotomy between the dream-world vision of Hollywood and the often sordid and brutal reality. \nJust added: Encore Friday Film Matinee screening at 3pm on Fri\, May 22!
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/mulholland-drive/
LOCATION:The Brattle Theatre\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Movies & Museums
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SUMMARY:Art + Science: The Effects of Light on Paper and Media
DESCRIPTION:This event does not require registration; see further details below. \nHave you ever wondered what happens in our conservation labs? Join a member of our Straus Center staff for an informal conversation about their work treating objects in our collections. Taking place just outside the Straus Center in the Lightbox Gallery\, this presentation will give you the chance to get up close and hands-on with a selection of tools and materials used by conservation staff. \nIn this session\, Valeria Pesce\, the Craigen W. Bowen Paper Conservation Fellow\, will talk about how light affects paper and media. \nThe Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies is a world leader in fine arts conservation\, research\, and training. The center’s laboratories are where conservation\, conservation science\, and curatorial practice intersect\, coming together to enrich the understanding of and care for the approximately 250\,000 objects in the Harvard Art Museums collections. \nPlease check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the program. Space is limited\, and this program is available on a first-come\, first-served basis; no registration is required. \nThe Harvard Art Museums offer free admission every day\, Tuesday through Sunday. Please see the museum visit page to learn about our general policies for visiting the museums. \nSupport for this program is made possible by an anonymous Fund for Conservation and Special Projects.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/art-science-the-effects-of-light-on-paper-and-media/
LOCATION:Harvard Art Museums\, 32 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mike Schur and Joe Posnanski at The Brattle Theatre
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Mike Schur—Emmy Award–winning American television producer and writer for Parks and Recreation\, Brooklyn Nine-Nine\, and The Good Place—and Joe Posnanski—New York Times bestselling author of seven books\, including The Baseball 100\, Paterno\, and The Secret of Golf—for a discussion of their book\, Big Fan: Two Friends\, 82\,490 Miles\, and the Wild\, Wonderful Sports We Love.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/mike-schur-and-joe-posnanski-at-the-brattle-theatre/
LOCATION:The Brattle Theatre\, 40 Brattle St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Fairyington at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Stephanie Fairyington—journalist who writes on gender\, sexuality\, family\, and parenting—for a discussion of her memoir\, Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter. She will be joined in conversation by Abbie E. Goldberg—Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, where she also serves as the Director of Women’s & Gender Studies and the Director of Clinical Training\, and the author of four books including\, LGBTQ Family Building. 
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/stephanie-fairyington-at-harvard-book-store/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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SUMMARY:Free Comedy Open-Mic
DESCRIPTION:18+ w/ 2-Item Suggested Minimum. Doors & List at 6pm. Free Show. No Ticket Needed. \nThe Globe described the night as “Comedy Hell” when we were upstairs in Somerville’s Union Square. Now we’re two floors down in a basement in Cambridge’s Harvard Square\, under where the first and last Curious George shop died. It’s even better. Enter our comedy world\, whether you listen\, laugh\, bomb\, groan\, clap or just sip your beverage with a raised eyebrow… We just LOVE it. It’s an Open Mic\, but there’s always some pros dropping in to test new material\, so it’s unavoidable to have a good time\, for free no less. Doors open at 6 pm. The heat starts around 7 pm.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/free-comedy-open-mic-5/
LOCATION:The Comedy Studio\, 5 John F. Kennedy St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Stephanie Fairyington at Harvard Book Store
DESCRIPTION:Harvard Book Store welcomes Stephanie Fairyington—journalist who writes on gender\, sexuality\, family\, and parenting—for a discussion of her memoir\, Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter. She will be joined in conversation by Abbie E. Goldberg—Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester\, Massachusetts\, where she also serves as the Director of Women’s & Gender Studies and the Director of Clinical Training\, and the author of four books including\, LGBTQ Family Building.  \nAbout Ugly\nA tender\, moving\, and insightful account of queer motherhood and an interrogation of life on the margins of American culture as a self-described “ugly” woman.  \nUgly is a word with fangs that can kill a woman’s self-esteem in one bite. Edicts about how women should look\, behave\, and think are the brutal forge through which they are made — not born. And to defy the pretty imperative is to become invisible. It can be a hard thing to admit to yourself\, let alone to your child— to say the words\, “I am ugly\,” or “I am seen as ugly.” But early on in her motherhood journey\, watching her young daughter begin to wrestle with beauty standards\, Stephanie Fairyington felt compelled to face her own demons\, to unpack her own ugly self-perception\, one that she could trace to her own childhood\, in order to conquer this seemingly immoveable frontier\, far too taboo even among women to broach—the ways in which women’s lives are unfairly contoured by the nature of their looks. \nThe multiple iterations of ugliness that Fairyington saw in her young self—her physical appearance\, her unavoidably obvious queerness\, and her dissonant gender expression—are not present in her beautiful and traditionally feminine daughter. But Fairyington’s old feelings of inadequacy take on new meaning as she confronts fresh insecurities around her role as the non-biological mother in her relationship\, exacerbating wounds from a lifetime of being treated differently: from the poverty of her genetic inheritance to questions about her parentage to doubts about the legitimacy of her family. \nInterlacing cultural history and analysis with memoir\, Ugly is a probing investigation into cultural norms and the formation of our aesthetic sense of self. Fairyington contrasts her so-called ugliness with her daughter’s attraction and adherence to beauty ideals\, a tender and tenuous condition that by age seven she was already walking a tightrope to maintain. By sharing the history of her troubled self-image\, Fairyington invites us to go rogue\, to invent a new language and logic to overthrow all the ways that women have been cultivated to hate themselves.
URL:https://harvardsquare.com/event/stephanie-fairyington-at-harvard-book-store-2/
LOCATION:Harvard Book Store\, 1256 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Author Events
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