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Movies & Books

All the President's Men

The Man Who Knew Infinity

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan is a biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, written in 1991 by Robert Kanigel and published by Washington Square Press. The book gives a detailed account of his upbringing in India, his mathematical achievements, and his mathematical collaboration with English mathematician G. H. Hardy. The book also reviews the life of Hardy and the academic culture of Cambridge University during the early twentieth century.

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind (1998) is a biography of Nobel Prize-winning economist and mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia University. An unauthorized work, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in biography. It inspired the 2001 film by the same name.

Weiner

The film follows Anthony Weiner and his wife Huma Abedin, beginning with his time in Congress and his 2011 resignation after photos of his bulging underwear appeared on Twitter. The bulk of the film is about his 2013 campaign in the Democratic Party primary for Mayor of New York City. At first his campaign is going well, with many New Yorkers willing to give him a second chance as reflected in polls putting him at or near the top of a crowded field. Then additional examples of his online sexual activity surface, including explicit text conversations with women that occurred well after his resignation from Congress. The mood of the campaign switches from exuberance to pain. Intimate views are captured of Weiner, his wife and his campaign staff struggling with the new revelations and the media firestorm that ensues. In a couple of instances is the camera asked to leave the room.

Other Stuff

Schwab House

Food Festivals

Harlem Eat Up

The Harlem Eat Up Food Festival

This is the 4th annual Harlem EatUp! Festival. Welcome! We are thrilled to share this week-long festival celebrating the food, art and culture of our dynamic village of Harlem. Get your seat at the table for the festival’s signature Dine In series, a multi-night and multi-room dinner party featuring one-night-only culinary collaborations between Harlem’s best chefs and restaurants with some of the biggest nationally acclaimed guest chefs. Spend the weekend at The Harlem Stroll in Morningside Park eating foods from local restaurants and food makers, watching EatUp! Main Stage cooking demonstrations with national chefs, and celebrating Harlem with art, live music and more. Join in…check it…get down…Harlem EatUp!