Friday, September 21, 2018, 7:00 - 11:30 PM

Peter Bogdanovich’s documentary The Great Buster: A Celebration is must-see cinema for all lovers of not only the eponymous Buster Keaton, but of film history, biography, silent movies, comedy and anyone who just loves to laugh out loud. In his loving look at a legend, Bogdanovich chronicles Keaton’s being born to Vaudevillian parents while they were on the road and his childhood spent onstage as part of the family business in variety acts in venues across America.

The film follows Keaton as his brand of physical comedy inevitably led to a career on the silent screen, first in two reel shorts under the tutelage of Fatty Arbuckle then on to starring roles in feature length films he directed and wrote (not that most of his own movies actually had full-blown screenplays per se). Once talkies took over, the comic famed for his falls hit the skids and Bogdanovich reveals Keaton’s trials and tribulations on- and offscreen.

A small group rallying at Columbus City Hall just prior to Monday, September 17th's Council meeting demanded justice for Donna Castleberry (Dalton. Local activist and preacher Gary Witte wrote: "Had the opportunity to stand with Donna Dalton's mom and dad. In their terrible greif they are demanding a real investigation into the murder of their daughter, Donna, by an undercover Columbus cop. All they get is silence and no redress. Donna was shot 8 times in the front seat of the cop's car. God bless this family."

Wednesday, September 19, 2018, 7:00 PM

The mantra goes: Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. It’s an incantation helping to bind second amendment enthusiasts in raucous indignation over what they see as a threat to their liberty – gun control. Its sentences form the premises of an argument that inevitably concludes against further restrictions on guns.

Gun control advocates hear “Guns don’t kill people.” as a willful disregard for the cause of death of so many innocents. In contrast, gun rights activists hear that same sentence as a well-deserved rebuke to those who obsess about guns as if the weapons themselves possess the malice or negligence necessarily involved in illegal gun deaths. Upon hearing the mantra, the two sides usually respond by talking past each other.