Published on Friday, October 19, 2012
Pop! Street Fashion is an experimental collection of patron street fashion at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. It is devoted to photographically documenting the sartorial narratives of patrons who visit the library. Please email My Nguyen for more information.
Meet Kiara.
Not very many people can do the 60s mod look without rendering it as merely a costume. But when Kiara, 19, walked into the Popular Library, I was stunned by the ease in which she rocked the mini-dress/high boots/sassy hair combo. In a city of serious suits and sensible shoes, her style was completely refreshing.
Published on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
You may certainly find out in this exhaustive document of the birth and evolution of punk rock. Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain's Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk offers an interlocking narrative detailing the formative experiences of the first wave of Punk Rock in America.
DC Reads Event Highlights Life-Changing Choices
Published on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Leaving one's homeland is never an easy decision. In these films, this decision is made only slightly easier when two Iranian families consider the alternative:
A Separation (Jodái-e Náder az Simin)
A film by by Asghar Farhadi.
A Joint Book Club Discussion
Published on Tuesday, October 16, 2012
This month, staff leaders of the book groups based at Martin Luther King Jr.
October's Selection: Enrique's Journey
Published on Monday, October 15, 2012
This month, the Fiction Lover's Book Club is reading Enrique's Journey, by Sonia Nazario, for discussion at our October meeting. The book tells the true story of a Honduran teenager who is determined to ride the tops of freight trains to reach the United States, in a desperate search for his mother who left home many years before.
September's Selection: 'The Tiger's Wife'
Published on Monday, October 15, 2012
From "The Tyger" by William Blake:
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
LOL Teen Movie Night Every Friday at 3pm!
Published on Monday, October 15, 2012
Published on Friday, October 12, 2012
On Oct. 29 at 6:30 p.m., enjoy a lovely evening of jazz music performed by the University of the District of Columbia's Small Jazz Ensemble in the Great Hall at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library.
Join us for a 2.5 day program of events!
Published on Friday, October 12, 2012
What: 39th Annual DC Historical Studies Conference
Where: Carnegie Library and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
When: October 18-21, 2012
Website: http://annualconferencedchistoricalstudies.wordpress.com/about/
The 39th Annual DC Historical Studies Conference features more than 20 sessions, lectures, panels, exhibits, and more on DC history topics. Highlights include:
