MY GO-TO PLACE ON CYBER CLUB
Thursdays at 1 pm
My Go-To Place on Cyber Club is our virtual My Go-To Place programming that includes education, socialization and art. Check our site for weekly program descriptions.
Thursday, October 29—Alternative and complimentary medicine. Marc Ringel, MD is an experience family doctor who is open-minded about alternative medicine. He will explore a commonsense approach to deciding when to consider an alternative or adjunct to standard scientific medicine and how to choose wisely from among the many, many approaches to healing offered by a multitude of practitioners.
Thursday, November 5—Chanukah: The History, the Story, and the Holiday. Chanukah is a holiday with a rich history, a powerful story, and traditions that have evolved over centuries. From the Maccabean revolt to the miracle of the oil, and from ancient celebrations to modern customs, we’ll explore how different generations have understood and celebrated Chanukah, and how it became the holiday we know today.
Thursday, November 12—Jewish Lodz with Olga Bokhonovskaya from Jewish Heritage Tours. Jewish Lodz. This is the third talk about the Jewish heritage of northeastern Poland. Lodz was once called the Polish Manchester for its textile industry, which was built by the Germans and the Jews. It was a major center of Jewish life in northeastern Poland and in the Pale of Settlement. During the WW2, the second largest ghetto in the occupied Poland was there (after Warsaw).
Thursday, November 12—Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, with Kelli Marshall from Chicago Movie Tours. Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) is often called John Hughes’ best work. It holds a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score and ranks #1 or #2 on lists from Variety, Screen Rant, and Movie Maker. Dan Aykroyd even compared John Candy’s shower curtain ring salesman to “the Willy Loman of his age,” a nod to Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
So why does it rank so high? On the surface, it’s a simple comedy with slapstick and caricatures. It is all of that, but it’s also perhaps Hughes’ most mature screenplay.
Please note that there will be no class on Thursday, November 26, in observance of Thanksgiving Day.
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