There’s a story to “Now and Then,” the Beatles’ final song, and it involves a decades-old cassette recording by John Lennon, the use of advanced technology to produce a clear Lennon vocal, and the efforts of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the late George Harrison.
The filmmaker Williams Cole talks about two current projects, Barbara Kopple’s documentary “Gumbo Coalition,” which he co-produced, and “Rebel Wife,” a work in progress about his great-grandmother, an Irish revolutionary.
Chuck D of the rap group Public Enemy will be at the Canoe Place Inn to talk with Chris Cuomo about hip-hop’s 50-year rise to the world stage.
Bay Street Theater will be one of the outlets sharing The Met: Live in HD's simulcast of “X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” a 1986 opera having its premiere at the the Metropolitan Opera this season.
