Explore the encyclopedic wonders of the Opera, a 1570 cookbook by Bartolomeo Scappi. Unusual for its time, Opera was a cookbook written specifically to teach cooking. With directions and recipes from the Late Renaissance style, and using lavish and contrasting flavors, you will create delicious meat rolls, salami, and an eggplant dish.

A portrait of British punk rock pioneer Ian Dury (Andy Serkis) who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming a founder of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s. Nominated for a **BAFTA Award** for Best Leading Actor - (Andy Serkis). Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"It's an energetic and vivacious film that will appeal to fans of punk rock worldwide and should find its place...

It’s a beautiful day for a picnic in the park with momma and daddy. As the family sits down to eat, Luna accidentally sends her orange rolling down hill. She races after it, but isn’t able to get to it in time and it ends up in the lake. Jupiter tries to knock it back to shore with one of his grapes, but to their surprise, the grape sinks! How can a little grape sink, when a much bigger and heavier orange floats? What’s happening here? During...

Ethnic notions is Marlon Riggs' Emmy-winning documentary that takes viewers on a disturbing voyage through American history, tracing for the first time the deep-rooted stereotypes which have fueled anti-black prejudice. Through these images we can begin to understand the evolution of racial consciousness in America. Loyal Toms, carefree Sambos, faithful Mammies, grinning Coons, savage Brutes, and wide-eyed Pickaninnies roll across the screen in cartoons,...

Wren is nineteen and is determined to make it big in the world of rock 'n' roll. The pieces of her world are scattered over lower Manhattan: the abandoned train yards along the Hudson River; a grungy Lower East Side tenement; the copy shop where she works; and most of all, the helter skelter world of East Village rock clubs.. It doesn't matter then that Wren can't sing or play an instrument, or even write songs; or that her aggressiveness is often...

A young man born with Cerebral Palsy battles a paralyzed left hand, bullies and stereotypes about the disabled to defy the odds and make it as a rock and roll guitarist.

Follow those who have been imprinted, inspired, fathered, enlightened, driven, fulfilled and even destroyed by the King of Rock ‘n Roll. Get a first hand look at what it is like to be ALTERED BY ELVIS.

Helping Daddy rake the leaves and clean up his garden, the trio spots a roly-poly! When they go to pick it up and get a better look, the funniest thing happens... it rolls up into a little ball. Why do roly-polies do that? Is that just their way of playing? What’s happening here? They soon find more roly-polies to observe and examine, but to really learn all about roly-polies, Luna, Jupiter and Clyde decide to make believe they’re roly-polies...

A true symbol and inspiration for all that is best about America, the actual Declaration of Independence has been rolled up, moved, hidden, copied and transported by more modes of transportation than anyone might guess since its signing in 1776. In this witty, gritty and factual history, audiences will learn all about the document that has defined American freedom for over two centuries.

A human, and humorous, look at New Jersey’s WFMU, a radio station that refuses any programming boundaries. Most of its disc jockeys are unpaid volunteers, working for their love of surprising, spontaneous radio. They play everything from flat-out uncategorizable strangeness to every form of rock and roll, experimental music, jazz, psychedelia, hip-hop, hand-cranked wax cylinders, gospel, Inuit marching bands, R&B, C&W, radio improvisations, spoken-word...