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February 21, 2008

Movies The MFA calls Les Saignantes "the first science fiction film to come out of Africa," which should be reason enough to see it. But did we mention that it has won comparisons to Russ Meyer? And that it's about a group of women determined to rid their distopian future world of all men? Cameroon director Jean-Pierre Bekolo wins Bostonist's seal of approval. Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, 6:00pm (also screening Sunday). $8/$9......

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February 20, 2008

Samantha Hunt Harvard Book Store Tomorrow, January 21, 7:00 pm Free Hunt's Official Site Samantha Hunt's latest novel, The Invention of Everything Else, weaves together the true-life story of inventor Nikola Tesla's last days with the fictional story of a chambermaid working at the Hotel New Yorker, where Tesla resides. Tesla's own real life is so absorbing that it might have been a novel. He had an idealistic vision of inventors that made it impossible......

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May 4, 2007

Monopoly! will be tonight at 8:00 pm and tomorrow at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm at Zero Arrow. Mike Daisey kicks off his monologue "Monopoly!" with the following statement: "I've always had a love for endless games." And then a torrent of thoughts about the legendary board game of the same name come tumbling out of his mouth, and the game gets "bigger, weirder, and stranger." In the span of an hour and forty-five minutes,......

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April 6, 2007

Mike Daisey is a monologuist. It’s a term that can be broken down into the act of telling stories to an audience through the uses of narrative structure and spontaneity. The Mainer-turned-Brooklynite has a table, glass of water and rough story outline available to him to weave together elements of his life, history and surroundings. "Invincible Summer," currently in a run at the American Repertory Theatre's Zero Arrow in Cambridge, touches upon Daisey's adaptation......

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