"New Jack Cinema" course: Browning Cinema Tuesday evenings (Sept. 3 - October 8)

University of Notre Dame Browning Cinema begins "Learning Beyond the Classics" cinema series on Sept. 3 and 4 for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Led by Browning program director Richard W. Herbst and American studies assistant professor Korey Garibaldi, the "New Jack Cinema" series explores the brief resurgence of African-American-directed films of the early 1990s.

Tuesdays at DeBartolo Performing Arts Centers 7:30 p.m.

September 3, 2019 : "Do the Right Thing" (1989)
September 10: "Boyz n the Hood" (1991)
September 17: "New Jack City" (1991)
September 24: "Just Another Girl on the I.R.T." (1992)
October 1: "Poetic Justice" (1993)
October 8: "Set It Off" (1996).

The cost is $12 for each course and includes all tickets, readings, and discussions.

Individual tickets if not enrolled in the course are $7

http://performingarts.nd.edu/ or call (574)-631-2800

"I pity that man who wants a coat so cheap that those producing the cloth starve in the process"

Forbes Quotes -- Benjamin Harrison was President of the United States

I pity that man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth shall starve in the process.

Sunday Sept. 15, 2019 Community Orchestra Concert - 4 p.m.

www.nileslibrary.com (Niles, Michigan District Library website)

"Join us for a delightful Sunday afternoon concert, courtesy of the Niles Area Community

Orchestra.  Please enter via the Rotunda door on Cedar Street, as the rest of the building will be closed.

Admission is free; all ages welcome."

Gregory Palamas, Thomas Aquinas, the Filioque (Lecture, Sept. 5, 2019) - Univ. of Notre Dame Medieval Institute, 7th Floor

September 5, 2019 -- 7th Floor Reading Room, Medieval Institute, Hesburgh Library,
University of Notre Dame campus -- Free to the public

Lecture (Byzantine Series): "Fighting Words? Palamas, Aquinas, and the Filioque"

Time: Thursday September 5, 2019, 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Location: 715 Hesburgh Library (Medieval Institute Main Reading Room)

Bruce D. Marshall is Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine at the Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. He grew up in Michigan, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, receiving his B.A. from Northwestern University and his M.A.R. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He is the author of Trinity and Truth (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and Christology in Conflict (Blackwell, 1987), and editor of Theology and Dialogue: Essays in Conversation with George Lindbeck (University of Notre Dame Press, 1990). A historical and systematic theologian, Marshall’s work focuses on the doctrines of the Trinity, the incarnation, and the Eucharist, the relationship between faith and reason, and the significance of the Jewish people and Judaism for Christian faith and theology. He works extensively on some of the major theologians of the Middle Ages, especially Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus.

Reception to follow.

Apple Harvest (Summer - Fall 2019)

full coverage at HeraldPalladium dot-com (local newspaper online website):

'Average' Michigan apple crop will be about a week late

PAW PAW, Michigan — The Michigan apple crop is being described as “about average,” according to Mark Longstroth, fruit educator for Van Buren County MSU Extension office in Paw Paw.

Renaissance Festival - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

August 25, 2019 is the final day of the ninth annual Michiana Renaissance Festival,
from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. at Pinhook Park, 2801 Riverside Drive, South Bend, IN

There are four re-enactment areas with their own exhibits, shows, and vendors:

Medieval/Renaissance
Golden Age of Piracy
Time of the Vikings
Fairytale Storyland

Adult Admission is $12 // Get up to $2 off by bringing 2 non-perishable food items for
the Food Bank of Northern Indiana

"Craig's List" founder C. Newmark -- NPR call-in show The_1a (11 a.m. August 22, 2019)

http://the1a.org/

Program airs from 11 a.m. til noon on NPR affiliate schedule

More than 5 billion classified ads, 24 years, and billions of dollars later, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is giving his money away.

The entrepreneur was a programmer at IBM for 17 years. He moved to San Francisco to work for Charles Schwab. It was on the west coast where Newmark was first introduced to the internet. He began developing what would become the online marketplace as what he referred to as an “internet commune” where people could share ideas. In 1995, the world was first introduced to Craigslist.

Newmark said that the invention of the internet didn’t faze him all that much in an interview with cnet.com:

The internet wasn’t that much of a surprise to me in terms of what it was doing, what it could do and all that. Because, science fiction. Because, nerd. I’ve been reading, for almost 60 years, explorations of possible new technologies.

Newmark no longer runs his most famous creation. Now, he works with his charity, Craig Newmark Philanthropies. He personally has given over $100 million away.

And he’s focused on an industry in trouble: journalism. A decade after he created his online market, Newmark gave a reported $20,000 to a nonprofit producing investigative journalism about the internet. Since then, he’s donated to the likes of New York Public Radio, Poynter and the journalism schools at both CUNY and Columbia. Newmark is also serving on the board of directors for a new investigative online outlet called The Markup.

We caught up with Newmark at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June and talked philanthropy, journalism, the election and what’s next.