February Cultural Roundup

Rimbaud's fork & spoon 
as photographed by Patti Smith

Books

Exaltation in Cadmium Red by Sonia Di Placido

Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars by Camille Paglia

3 Cities Poems by Whitney French

The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty (review here)

Readings

The (Not So) Nice Italian Girls celebrate love and desire ... or the lack thereof, February 7, 2013 at Q Space

Films

Casablanca (U.S., 1942) directed by Michael Curtiz

The Trip -TV Series (U.K., 2010) directed by Michael Winterbottom

Zero Dark Thirty (U.S., 2012) directed by Kathryn Bigelow (review here)

Flight (U.S., 1942) directed by Robert Zemeckis (review here)

Skyfall (U.K./U.S, 2012) directed by Sam Mendes (review here)

Beasts of the Southern Wild (U.S., 2012) directed by Benh Zeitlin (review here)

Lincoln (U.S., 2012) directed by Steven Spielberg

The Perks of Being a Wallflower (U.S., 2012) directed by Stephen Chbosky

Exhibits

Patti Smith: Camera Solo at the Art Gallery of Ontario