LPL Calendar Of Events compiled by Elaine Rosenberger

Thursday, August 20
Booked For Murder: Genres within Genres
"Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story"
by Leonie Swann
This time around, the ladies of murder mystery and mayhem will explore niche mysteries with animal sleuths, steampunk, a caper story, robot detectives, locked room mystery and a psychological ghostly thriller.
7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Meeting Room

Friday, August 21
LakewoodAlive Front Porch Concert Series – Bobby Selvaggio and the No Words Quintet
LakewoodAlive, in collaboration with Lakewood Public Library and Vance Music Studios, is proud to announce the 6th Annual Front Porch Concert Series. Held on the Library's Front Porch, these concerts are free and open to the public. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy fantastic music with friends and neighbors in the heart of Downtown Lakewood. For the full line-up of acts, visit www.LakewoodFrontPorchConcerts.com.
7:00 p.m. on the Front Porch of the Main Library

Saturday, August 22
"Newsies" (1992)  Directed by Kenny Ortega
This ambitious, ripped-from-the-headlines musical was not a box office success upon its initial release, but over the years it has developed a cult following and has been adapted into a Tony winning Broadway show. For newsboys at the turn of the century, every cent made the difference between having a safe place to sleep or toughing it out on the streets. So when newspaper magnates Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst decide to take an extra bite out their profits, it falls to a young Christian Bale to lead them in a strike and let the world know about their exploitation. Kenny Ortega, the sizzling choreographer of Dirty Dancing, leads an energetic young cast, but it is Bale's soulful solo dream song about finding a home in the wide expanse of the West that will break your heart and leave you wondering, “Is that Batman?”
6:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Sunday, August 23
Sunday with the Friends: RailShakers
Country with a classically-trained violinist, folk with a Bonham-inspired drummer, rockabilly with a tattoo-deficient guitarist/singer, and rock with a bassist who yearns to play "Pig In a Pen." The RailShakers are proof that these paradoxes do indeed exist. Sweet harmonies, harmonica, well-crafted percussion and clever arrangements make their music feel warm and familiar despite being difficult to compare. Individually, they've been playing in the local music scene for a very long time, but they banded together in early 2013 to satisfy a collective yearning to make their joyful noise in all the different styles they know and love. Purists be damned. Let’s make some music.
2:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

Tuesday, August 25
Ancestry Online: Library Edition
How far back would you like to trace your family tree? Genealogist Deborah Abbott will show you how to unlock the secrets held by census reports, military records, birth certificates and death notices in this hands-on workshop. Unravel your history with professional results.
6:00 p.m. in the Main Library Learning Lab

Friday, August 28
LakewoodAlive Front Porch Concert Series – The Womack Family Band
Bring a lawn chair or blanket and enjoy fantastic music with friends and neighbors in the heart of Downtown Lakewood.
7:00 p.m. on the Front Porch of the Main Library

Saturday, August 29
"Do the Right Thing" (1989) Directed by Spike Lee
Like Brooklyn's Walt Whitman before him, Spike Lee contains multitudes. He populates his film with an impressive set of richly drawn characters—diverse not only in their ethnic backgrounds, but in their personalities, passions and philosophies. There are no good guys or bad guys. How you feel about one character depends on how they relate to another and how much the people who get on their nerves get on your nerves. That's just life. It’s the hottest day of the year, and as the observationally comic first half of the film gives way to the exploding racial tensions of the second, everyone agrees on one thing—you have to do the right thing. But what is that? Lee plants himself in the center of the action as Mookie, the pizza guy who works for the few remaining Italians in the neighborhood. As a simple conflict grows out of hand, he's swept up in the madness like everyone else and has to figure out where he stands. The decision he makes isn't as important as our realization that he's just one man.
6:00 p.m. in the Main Library Auditorium

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