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Special Guests: Talks, Lectures, Conversations
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Rosanne Cash
Reading, Talk, & Book Signing |
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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
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For thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed critical success. In Composed: A Memoir, Cash writes about her upbringing as the child of country legend Johnny Cash, leaving Nashville for New York, and her relationship with her famous stepmother, June Carter Cash. Her memoir also recounts the long process of finding her place in the music industry.
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Tickets are $10, or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($26.95) from Politics & Prose. For tickets, click the "Buy Tickets" button to the right. For the book+ticket option, call Politics & Prose at 202.364.1919. |
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Sixth & I Historic Synagogue Tour |
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
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12:00 PM
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Sixth & I offers tours from 12:00 - 3:00 pm with head docent Mike Bloom on one Sunday each month. To book a large group tour, please email info@sixthandi.org.
Sixth & I is open for walk-in tours Monday - Friday, from 1:00 - 2:00 pm.
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Please RSVP by 5:00 pm on the Friday before the tour. Tours are FREE. Donations to our tzedakah box are greatly appreciated. |
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DC Mayoral Debate |
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
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8:00 PM
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The Jewish community invites all District residents to a mayoral debate with candidates Mayor Adrian Fenty and DC Council Chairman Vincent Gray. Mayor Fenty and Chairman Gray will share their vision for the District, discuss issues affecting the Jewish community, and answer your questions. They will address general concerns ranging from affordable housing, immigration, and economic development to education, social service programs, and civil and voting rights.
This program is co-hosted with the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington. Sponsoring organizations include Adas Israel Congregation, American Jewish Committee, American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, American University Hillel, Anti-Defamation League, Bet Mishpachah Congregation, Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation's Capital, Jews United for Justice, National Jewish Democratic Council, Ohev Shalom – The National Synagogue, Temple Sinai, Tifereth Israel, Washington DC Jewish Community Center, Washington Hebrew Congregation, Yachad Non-Profit Housing Organization .
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This is a FREE event. Please RSVP. |
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The BIG Sorry |
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Monday, September 13, 2010
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7:30 PM
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| Need to get rid of your guilt? Been holding a grudge since last September? Join Dr. Erica Brown to explore the nature of forgiveness and what happens to us when we fail to forgive. This is the time to begin anew. |
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This event is FREE. Please RSVP. |
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Mark Bittman
The Food Matters Cookbook: Lose Weight and Heal the Planet with More Than 500 Recipes |
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Tuesday, October 05, 2010
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7:00 PM
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In Food Matters: The Cookbook, Mark Bittman offers over 500 recipes for fresh, delicious dishes that rely largely on fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Fish, meat, and poultry are treated as garnishes and for those who prefer to avoid meat, there are plenty of vegetarian recipes.
The book also discusses why food matters to our health and to that of the planet. There’s information on what ingredients are best and how to buy seasonally, responsibly, and sustainably, whether you’re shopping for tomatoes or grass fed beef.
Bittman is the author of the New York Times column, "The Minimalist" and a frequent contributor to the newspaper's In/Dining Out section. His previous books include Food Matters, Mark Bittman's Kitchen Express, The Minimalist Cooks at Home, How to Cook Everything, and Fish. |
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TICKETS ON SALE AUGUST 5th. Tickets are $12, or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($35) through Sixth & I. |
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David Grossman
To the End of the Land |
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
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7:00 PM
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From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers, To the End of the Land is a novel about family life—the greatest human drama—and the cost of war.
Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer’s release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief, she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the “notifiers” who could knock on her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, she drags along an unlikely companion: their former best friend and her former lover, Avram. Their walk has a “war and peace” rhythm, as their conversation places the most hideous trials of war next to the joys and anguish of raising children.
Grossman vividly depicts the reality and surrealism of daily life in Israel, the currents of ambivalence about war within one household, and the burdens that fall on each generation anew. His rich imagining of a family in love and crisis makes for one of the great antiwar novels of our time. |
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TICKETS ON SALE SEPTEMBER 7th. Tickets are $10, or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($26.95). |
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Nicole Krauss
Great House |
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Monday, October 18, 2010
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7:00 PM
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For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet’s secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet’s daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer’s life reeling. Across the ocean in London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer reassembles his father’s study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944.
Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. As the narrators of Great House make their confessions, the desk takes on more and more meaning, and comes to stand for all that has been taken from them, and all that binds them to what has disappeared.
Nicole Krauss is the author of Man Walks into a Room and the international bestseller The History of Love. In 2010, The New Yorker named her one of the 20 best writers under 40. |
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TICKETS ON SALE SEPTEMBER 7th. Tickets are $10, or receive two (2) FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($25). |
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V.S. Naipaul
The Masque of Africa |
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Thursday, October 21, 2010
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7:00 PM
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Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization. V. S. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He is the author of more than 20 books, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and The Writer and the World.
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TICKETS ON SALE SEPTEMBER 7th. Tickets are $12, or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($26.95). |
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Seeking Happily Ever After
Film Screening & Book Talk |
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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7:00 PM
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There are more single women in their 30s today than at any other time in history. Why now? Are women redefining happily ever after? In the documentary Seeking Happily Ever After, you’ll meet women eager to debunk the stereotypes that they are either desperate to get married or too career driven to care about marriage. These women drop their guard and share the ups and downs of being single today.
Filmmaker Michelle Cove has also written a companion book, Seeking Happily Ever After: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Being Single Without Losing Your Mind (and Finding Lasting Love Along the Way). Cove will speak and answer questions following the film (running time: 80 minutes).
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Tickets are $8, or receive two (2) FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($17) through Sixth & I. |
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Amy Sedaris
Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People |
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Monday, November 08, 2010
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7:00 PM
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America's most delightfully unconventional hostess and the bestselling author of I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence delivers a new book that will forever change the world of crafting. Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People proves that crafting is one of life's more pleasurable leisure activities and anyone with a couple of hours to kill and access to pipe cleaners can join the elite society of crafters.
The book explains how to make popular crafts, such as crab-claw roach clips and crepe-paper moccasins, and how to avoid common crafting accidents (feather asphyxia, pine cone lodged in throat).
Sedaris is an actress and comedienne best known for portraying Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central series Strangers with Candy, and for her roles on Exit 57, Just Shoot Me, Sex & the City, Monk, and Cracking Up. |
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TICKETS ON SALE SEPTEMBER 7th. Tickets are $30 and include one copy of the book, Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People. All seating is general admission. |
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Stacy Schiff
CLEOPATRA: A Life |
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Thursday, November 11, 2010
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7:00 PM
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In CLEOPATRA: A Life, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff takes on one of the greatest figures in history: Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Egypt. Schiff separates fact from fiction to illuminate the life of one of the most intriguing women of all time.
History remembers Cleopatra as an irresistible seductress, but she was also a canny political strategist, a brilliant manager, and a tough negotiator. As Schiff states, “Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history: that of women and power.” We have not seen a more influential woman since—much less one who happened to be a single mother and, by a wide margin, the wealthiest person in her world.
Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. |
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Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 the day of the event, or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($30) through Sixth & I. |
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