Shocked at our Netflixing habits

It’s going to stop snowing eventually, and you’ll want to finally emerge from your snow cave of takeout containers and empty soda cans. What better way to convince yourself of your own humanity than by attending a cultural event? Bwogger Maddie Stearn has just the thing for all you bleary-eyed Netflix overdosers. 

Wednesday, January 27

• Nonfiction Dialogue: Mary Roach, 7:00 pm, Dodge Hall, Room 501 – Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal; Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void; and Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.

Thursday, January 28

• The Delacorte Lectures: Calvin Trillin, 6:00 pm, Pulitzer Hall World Room, 3rd floor – Trillin has written for The New Yorker for almost 50 years and been called “perhaps the finest reporter in America.”

Friday, January 29

• Saïda a enlevé Manneken Pis, Maudite Soit la Guerre (War is Hell), 8:00 pm, Dodge Hall, Room 511 – Directed by Alfred Machin, War is Hell is “a silent pacifist masterpiece in beautiful color that actually anticipated World War I.”

Saturday, January 30

• Jazz: Stefon Harris & Sonic Creed, 8:00 pm, Miller Theatre ($7 CUID) – Time Out New York describes Stefon Harris’s style as “a high-gloss, dizzyingly virtuosic blend of postbop and funk- and R&B-informed groove.”

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