Fowler Public Library

Latino rock greats Los Lobos, the salsa-rap-reggae-funk Ozomatli and the all-female mariachi band Flor de Toloache lead this musical celebration of this much anticipated and highly celebrated fiesta by people of Mexican heritage everywhere. Taped before a live audience in the "underworld" of The Caverns subterranean amphitheater, ¡Día de los Muertos! is a high-energy offering to celebrate a wonderful, ancient tradition. Plus, in between performances,...

George L. Aiken's 1852 dramatization of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's cabin. Uncle Tom's cabin's dominating theme is the evil and immorality of slavery. Slavery tears apart a black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.

Spanning several decades beginning in the 1950s, Crystal reminisces about what it was like growing up in a loving Jewish family in Long Beach, LI. He recalls the numerous eclectic relatives who inspired him, the huge influence of jazz on his family, his passion for the New York Yankees, and much more.

Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the journey of his Graceland album, including the political backlash he received for allegedly breaking the UN cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end the Apartheid regime.

A compilation of musical performances from The Ed Sullivan show. The performances are interspersed with brief commentary on the era and the performers.

From the publisher. The book walks a teacher, either novice or veteran, through structuring and organizing a classroom for success that can be applied at any time of the year. In the accompanying dvd, William Martinez celebrates how a teacher changed his life, using story, song and American Sign Language, based on his presentation "SIGNing the song."

From 1950 to 1955, every Sunday night NBC's Colgate Comedy Hour presented live musical variety television featuring the top names in vaudeville, theater, radio and film. In this 1954 production of the famed Cole Porter musical comedy 'Anything Goes,' Frank Sinatra and Ethel Mermen made their television debuts, belting out classic tunes in this blockbuster song and dance production. On a luxurious ocean liner, a nightclub singer helps a fellow American...

Join Scott Yoo, renowned violinist and conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic, in, a new four-part documentary miniseries presented by Great Performances that merges music, storytelling, and travel, as he chases the secret histories of some of the greatest music ever written.

Prince Hal, son of King Henry IV, seems to be squandering his life away with the fat knight Sir John Falstaff and the whores, boozers and petty rogues of Eastcheap. But beside these scenes of glorious misrule gathers a nationwide rebellion led by the Duke of Northumberland and his charismatic son, Hotspur. The first installment of Shakespeare's gripping account of the rise of Hal from idle barfly to monarch-in-waiting.