beabadoobee in Pittsburgh, March 30.

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beabadoobee will play at Thunderbird Café & Music Hall on March 30. NME wrote of her in October:

One of Britain’s most exciting and promising new acts, Beabadoobee’s brand new EP, ‘Space Cadet’, is a loud and uncompromising love letter to the ‘90s grunge and alt-rock scene, with a modern pop-edge. It’s catnip for a new generation of music lovers, like herself, crying out for a new breed of guitar hero.

Tickets for the 8:00 pm show are now available online. The Thunderbird Café & Music Hall is located at 4023 Butler St. in Lawrenceville (map).

Bong Joon-ho film Parasite (기생충) at Squirrel Hill's Manor Theater, through (at least) January 24.

The acclaimed 2019 Bong Joon-ho film Parasite (기생충) will play at the Squirrel Hill Manor Theater again through at least January 24. From the movie's official site:

Bong Joon Ho brings his singular mastery home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairytale.

Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist, to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks. By turns darkly hilarious and heart-wrenching, PARASITE showcases a modern master at the top of his game.

Tickets are now available online. It is currently playing at AMC Loews Waterfront through (at least) January 22, and will play at the Row House Cinema from January 31 through February 6 and local Cinemark Theaters February 3 through 9.

Bong Joon-ho film Parasite (기생충) at local Cinemark theaters, February 3 through 9.

The acclaimed 2019 Bong Joon-ho film Parasite (기생충) will play at the Cinemark theaters in Robinson and the North Hills from February 3 through February 9 as part of its Oscar Movie Week. From the movie's official site:

Bong Joon Ho brings his singular mastery home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairytale.

Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist, to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks. By turns darkly hilarious and heart-wrenching, PARASITE showcases a modern master at the top of his game.

Tickets are available online. It is currently playing at AMC Loews Waterfront through (at least) January 22, and will play at the Row House Cinema from January 31 through February 6.

1997 film Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫) at Row House Cinema, January 24 - 30.

The 1997 film Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫) will play at the Row House Cinema from January 24 through 30 as part of an upcoming Animation Classics series.

Lunar New Year Celebration in Pitt's Global Hub, January 24.

The University of Pittsburgh's Asian Studies Center will host a Lunar New Year Celebration on January 24 with games, food, a photo booth, and more. It runs from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in the Global Hub on Posvar Hall's first floor (map).

It is one of several Lunar New Year's events at Pitt, in addition to the Vietnamese Student Association and Chinese American Student Association's event on the 18th, a festival with the School of Education on the 23th, and the Chinese Affinity Group's festival on the 24th.

Lunar New Year festival with Pitt's School of Education, January 23.

The University of Pittsburgh's School of Education will host a Lunar New Year festival on January 23. It runs from 12:30 to 2:30 pm at 234 McKee Place (map) and is free and open to the Pitt community.

More on the Chinese New Year Gala at North Allegheny Senior High School, January 18.

The Almanac talks with Susan Chang, president of the Chinese Association for Science and Technology – Pittsburgh Chapter, which is helping to organize a Chinese New Year Gala at North Allegheny Senior High School on January 18.

The groups’ annual Spring Festival features some high-profile visitors from China along with Pittsburgh-area performers.

“We are drawing more and more people to the event,” Chang said, noting that about 1,000 people attended last year at North Allegheny’s Marshall Middle School.

2019 Makoto Shinkai film Weathering With You (天気の子) in Pittsburgh through (at least) January 22.

The 2019 Makoto Shinkai film Weathering With You (天気の子), which opened in Pittsburgh today, will continue through at least January 22. From the distributor:

GKIDS proudly presents the highly-anticipated new film from director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura, the creative team behind the critically-acclaimed, global smash hit Your Name. The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky…

After its initial run at the AMC Loews Waterfront, Southside Works Cinema, and Cinemark in Monroeville, North Hills, Pittsburgh Mills, and Robinson on the 15th and 16th, it will continue at the AMC Loews Waterfront through the 22nd. Tickets for those shows are available online via Fandango.

Calligraphy Meetup: Writing with Japanese Sumi Ink, January 19 at Ace Hotel.

This month's Calligraphy Meetup with the Calligraphy Guild of Pittsburgh will focus on writing with Japanese Sumi Ink. It runs from 2:30 to 5:00 pm at the Ace Hotel in East Liberty (map), and the cost is $5.

Singer Jason Chen at Pitt, January 18.

The University of Pittsburgh's Chinese American Student Association and Vietnamese Student Association will host Taiwanese-American singer Jason Chen on January 18, part of the Pitt VSA x CASA Lunar New Year 2020 festivities.