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WEDNESDAY 11/27
Royal Bliss 17th Annual Pre-Thanksgiving
There are some who maintain that the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving is the most rowdy time to go out, and if it is indeed festivities and pre-Thanksgiving fun you’re out looking for, then head over to the 17th Annual Pre-Thanksgiving Bash at The Depot, with local mainstays Royal Bliss providing the jams to get you ready to face down the holiday season. Their classic, heavy-hitting rock will be supplemented by another longtime area favorite, Broke City, who like Royal Bliss, have been active since the early aughts.
21 Bridges *1/2
21 Bridges has the elements of a great thriller—a hardened detective, dirty cops, drugs, and beaucoup shootouts—but it also makes the mistake of assuming you’ve never before seen a movie about hardened detectives, dirty cops, drugs and beaucoup shootouts. Andre Davis (Chadwick Boseman) is an NYPD detective who’s killed eight suspects in nine years, yet somehow still has a job.
WEDNESDAY 11/20
Hive Live Ft. Crook & The Bluff, Lord Vox, Alyxandri Jupiter
Locals only thrive at Soundwell’s new monthly music series, Hive Live, which focuses entirely on creating a night all about what’s going on in our local music scene.
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi, Radioflash, Fantastic Fungi, No Safe Spaces
The Cave ****
Pediatrician Dr. Amani Ballour is a hero(ine) for our times, one whom most of us in the West cannot even fathom the sacrifice, bravery and audacity of, though this harrowing documentary does an excellent job of trying to convey it. Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad (last year’s Oscar-nominated Last Men in Aleppo—is a fly-on-the-bombstruck-wall in besieged Al-Ghouta, outside Damascus, as Ballour and her coworkers try to keep their ramshackle hospital running.
THURSDAY 11/14
Amy
Jade’s Beehive Society plays Amy Winehouse
A cover band for someone who is really, really good, someone whose music begs to be played live forever and ever ... well, that’s the best kind of cover band.
Understanding the distinction between what happened, and what's true
The progressive theologian Marcus Borg, when considering Biblical literalism, once said, “I don’t know if it happened this way or not, but I know this story is true.” He was trying to get a fundamental distinction between what factual events actually transpired, and what we can learn from a story, factually inaccurate though the story may be, that speaks to our hearts. And that’s the heart of the conflict in The Lifespan of a Fact.
