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Friday, February 21! 

He's been murdered on CSI, interviewed 2 Beatles on separate continents in the same week, and famously once got Mitt Romney's advisor to call Governor Romney an 'etch a sketch' on CNN.

Actor, comedian, and broadcaster John Fugelsang hosts 'Tell Me Everything" weekdays on SiriusXM Insight #121. He recently performed in 'The Bill of Rights Concert" alongside Lewis Black & Dick Gregory which aired on AXS. He's also appeared at Montreal’s ‘Just for Laughs’ Festival, HBO’s U.S Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, hosted America's Funniest Home Videos for ABC, and Bill Maher called him ‘one of my favorite comedians’.more

Saturday, February 22

• When Austin, TX native Taméca Jones opens her mouth and sings, jaws hit ground. Her honeyed and powerful vocals have been captivating her hometown for a little over ten years.
• Taméca spent years skillfully and tastefully breathing new life into the music of others, making a name for herself as the “Queen of Austin Soul.”
• She released her highly anticipated debut EP in February. There is little doubt that she will soon be the next big name to break out of Texas.

Taméca Jones began melting faces in 2005 when she joined Austin based band 8 Million Stories as the group’s lead singer and songwriter. The band made a name for itself playing in and around Austin and got a publishing deal with Riptide Publishing. Taméca was a part of the band for 2 1/2 years before the band called it quits. This left her without someone to help her create original music. So, she turned to covers to continue playing, grow her audience, and pay the bills.

Taméca made a name for herself as the “Queen of Austin Soul,” blowing minds with her tasteful and vibrant interpretations of a diverse list of artists that include Tina Turner, Nirvana, Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, and more. The Austin Chronicle called her interpretations “sonic pretzels” that “juxtapose(s) crunchy jaggedness with her infectious, honeyed voice.” Her WTF ability to go from soulful wailing to silky coos has won her devoted fans, accolades, and some high profile situations opening for Austin super stars Gary Clark Jr., Max Frost, Bob Schneider and other big touring acts. She received major love from Billboard Magazine for her white hot performance at the 2015 Austin Music Awards, where she paid tribute to late beloved musician Ian McLagan alongside legends like Steven Van Zandt, Charlie Sexton, Alejandro Escovedo, and Patty Griffin. Billboard said she “raised the roof,” while The Austin Chronicle called her performance “showstopping.”

Guitar deity and fellow Austinite Gary Clark Jr., who faithfully attended Taméca's shows whenever he was in town, asked her to sing on the song “Wings” for his latest album, The Story of Sonny Boy Slim. Rolling Stone called the song a “slinky duet,” while Andy Langer for Esquire Magazine called the song one of the best songs in the month of September and noted that “the tweaky processing of Austin soul starlet Tameca Jones’ voice adds an early-Parliament-like trippiness.”

Taméca made her festival debut at the 2015 Austin City Limits Festival. Austin360 wrote that her “big, sweet, soulful voice” kicked off the festival in the most epic of ways. Her music filled the morning air and the crowd around her grew bigger and bigger as her set went on. She ended the set with her debut single, “Hot and Bothered,” a Motown inspired cut produced by Josh Moore (Max Frost). The track is on both Spotify and iTunes. The music discovery website PureVolume debuted the single on their page and remarked that the song made it “easy to see why so many see the potential in the singer.” Independent music site, The Joy of Violent Movement, called “Hot and Bothered” “a sexy and slinky and old-school soul-inspired” song that is “contemporary and upbeat.”more

Saturday, February 22!

• In this comedy drama, Aura (Lena Dunham) has just graduated from a university in the Midwest, receiving a degree in film theory that even she seems to realize is essentially worthless.
• With no real prospects she returns home to her mother, Siri (Laurie Simmons), a successful photographer living in New York City and her 17-year-old sister, Nadine (Grace Dunham), who is about to graduate from high school. Aura is ostensibly back home to help Siri and Nadine during a hectic time, but they don't appear to particularly need or want her assistance.
• Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life, so she takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith (David Call), a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed (Alex Karpovsky).

Directed by Lena Dunham
Runtime: 98 mins
Rated: NRmore

Opens Sunday, February 23!

• Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod.
• Lloyd Vogel (Emmy winner Matthew Rhys) is an investigative journalist who receives an assignment to profile Fred Rogers, aka Mr. Rogers. He approaches the interview with skepticism, as he finds it hard to believe that anyone can have such a good nature.
• But Roger's empathy, kindness, and decency soon chips away at Vogel's jaded outlook on life, forcing the reporter to reconcile with his own painful past and learn love and forgiveness from America’s most beloved neighbor.

Directed by Marielle Heller
Runtime: 108 mins
Rating: PGmore

One Night Only! Tuesday, February 25

• Finding unexpected beauty in the discarded and decayed, photographer Rosamond Purcell has developed a body of work that has garnered international acclaim.
• Purcell's work has graced the pages of National Geographic and over 20 published books, attracting admirers such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Errol Morris and Stephen Jay Gould.
• AN ART THAT NATURE MAKES details Purcell’s fascination with the natural world – from a mastodon tooth to a hydrocephalic skull – offering insight into her unique way of recontextualizing objects both ordinary and strange into sometimes disturbing but always breathtaking imagery.

Directed by Molly Bernstein
Runtime: 75 mins
Rating: NR

Complimentary Wine Tasting in Lobby before event (6-7pm). Film at 7pm.

The screening of the film will be followed by a guided poetic response facilitated by poet Vasiliki Katsarou. By allowing visual art to be a springboard toward poetry, this is a creative exercise in drawing connections between art forms. Haiku and other short poems will be generated in the spirit of Allen Ginsberg's "first thought, best thought." Let your creative spirit shine in a friendly, supportive environment.

Vasiliki Katsarou is a poet and filmmaker. She read her poetry at the 2014 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and is affiliated with New Jersey's Hunterdon Art Museum. She holds an A.B. Phi Beta Kappa in comparative literature from Harvard University and an MFA in filmmaking from Boston University. Her award-winning 35mm short film, Fruitlands 1843, is about a Transcendentalist utopian community in Massachusetts. She is the author of a full-length poetry collection, Memento Tsunami, and a chapbook, Three Sea Stones (forthcoming by Lucia Press). She is also co-editor of two contemporary poetry anthologies: Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems and Dark as a Hazel Eye: Coffee & Chocolate Poems. Her poems have been published widely and internationally, including in NOON: Journal of the Short Poem (Japan), Corbel Stone Press’ Contemporary Poetry Series (U.K.), Regime Journal (Australia), Mediterra nean Poetry (Denmark) as well as in Otoliths, Poetry Daily, Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, Wild River Review, wicked alice, Literary Mama, La Vague Journal, and Contemporary American Voices.more

Opens Thursday, February 27!

• ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND is a confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robertson’s young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band.
• The film is a moving story of Robertson’s personal journey, overcoming adversity and finding camaraderie alongside the four other men who would become his brothers in music, together making their mark on music history.
• ONCE WERE BROTHERS blends rare archival footage, photography, iconic songs and interviews with Robertson’s friends and collaborators including Martin Scorsese, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, and more.

Directed by Daniel Roher
Runtime: 102 mins
Rating: Rmore

Saturday, February 29!

• In 1954, Otto Messmer retired from the Felix daily newspaper strips, and his assistant Joe Oriolo (the co-creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost) took over. Oriolo struck a deal with Felix's new owner to begin a new series of Felix cartoons for television.
• Oriolo gave Felix a more domesticated and pedestrian personality, geared more toward children, and introduced known-around-the-world elements such as Felix's "Magic Bag of Tricks," a satchel that could assume the shape and characteristics of anything Felix wanted, which his antagonists often tried to steal.
• Felix the Cat has starred in 260 television cartoons and became such a hit in Japan he was given his own anime series!

Produced by Joe Oriolo
Runtime: 2hrs
Rating: NR
Common Sense Media Rating: Ages 5+

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