Big screens to behold at Angelika Film Center

“Why do we sit so close [to the movie screen]? Maybe it was because we wanted to receive the images first. The screen was really a screen. It screened us from the world.” --Matthew, in The Dreamers, 2003 Maybe you have the hyper-romantic silver-screen nostalgia of The Dreamers running through your veins. Maybe you just know that you and a few special someones want to immerse yourselves in bigger ways than Netflix could ever hope to do. Either way, the cinema is the place, and An...
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Metropolitan Music Community performs, with a social conscience

The Metropolitan Music Community (MMC) had Benchmark print their 2021 Winter Concert program. MMC provides adult instrumentalists the opportunity to make music in a friendly setting and share it with the public. The program brims with socially conscious themes: George Floyd, music from marginalized parts of the world, and more. “Unspoken,” the first piece, recognizes George Floyd and Black Lives Matter, the largest U.S. protest movement ever, even larger than the one surrounding the Vi...
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