Sen. Kennedy to speak at UC Irvine...

Sen. Kennedy to speak at UC Irvine

Massachussets Sen. Edward Kennedy will deliver this year’s

Peltason Lecture on Democracy at UC Irvine on Oct. 24.

The lecture, held annually by the Center for the Study of

Democracy, is named after the UC president emeritus and former UCI

chancellor. This year’s lecture, titled Health Policy and Economic

Security, will begin at 6 p.m. at UCI’s Crystal Cove Auditorium.

The lecture is open to the public. Doors open at 5 p.m. and

seating is on a first-come first-served basis.

The Peltason Lecture is supported by the William and Flora Hewlett

Foundation and the Irvine Health Foundation.

Police, fire departments hold open house

The Newport Beach Police and Fire departments will hold an open

house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday.

The event will feature tours, demonstrations, information booths

and food. Photo opportunities will police officers and firefighters

will also be available.

The open house will be held at the Newport Beach Police Department

at 870 Santa Barbara Drive and at Fire Station 3, also on Santa

Barbara. For more information, call the police department at (949)

644-5681.

Best-selling author to speak at library

Author Caroline Alexander will speak at the Newport Beach Central

Library at 7 p.m. Oct. 8 as part of the Manuscripts Literary

Lectures.

A contributor to the New Yorker, Granta, Smithsonian, Outside and

National Geographic, Alexander is the author of four books, most

recently “The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic

Expedition,” which was on the New York Times bestseller list for 18

weeks.

Admission is $5 for students; $8 Newport Beach Library Foundation

members and $10 for the general public. The event is sponsored by the

Newport Beach Library Foundation.

Reservations are not required. For more information, call (949)

717-3890.

Senior center October events planned

OASIS Senior Center will hold an Oktoberfest celebration from

11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 17. The afternoon will include German

food and German music performed by Frank & Renate. Admission is $4.

On Halloween, the center will hold its “Fright Night Gala,” an

evening of dinner and dancing to the sounds of the Silver Foxes Band.

Fright Night will take place from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 31. Tickets

are $10.

Both events will take place at the center, 800 Marguerite Ave.,

Corona del Mar. For more information, call (949) 644-3244.

Hitchcock series starts Friday

Orange Coast College is presenting the film series “The Art of

Alfred Hitchcock” starting Friday with his 1935 release “The 39

Steps.”

H. Arthur Taussig, retired OCC professor, film critic and author,

will moderate the series. Taussig wrote a book and created a Web site

that serve as guidelines for parents who wish to monitor their

children’s film viewing.

The series will include “Foreign Correspondent,” “Shadow of a

Doubt,” “Spellbound,” “Notorious,” “Strangers on a Train,” “Rear

Window,” “North by Northwest” and “Psycho.” It will meet Friday

evenings Oct. 3, Nov. 7, Dec. 5, Jan. 9, Feb. 6, March 5, April 9,

May 7 and June 4 at 6:30 p.m. in OCC’s Fine Arts Hall 116.

Admission is $6 for adults and $5 for senior citizens and OCC

students. For more information, call the college’s bursar’s office at

(714) 432-5880.

The King returns to the building

Elvis lives in the Oct. 2 UC Irvine event “Elvis in the Third

World: An Afternoon with Peter Nazareth” and a screening of the Elvis

movie “Flaming Star.”

Peter Nazareth, a Ugandan native and professor of English and

African American World Studies at the University of Iowa, will host

the event. Nazareth grew up in Uganda listening to Elvis Presley and

has studied his effect on the Third World and vice versa.

The discussion will include film and music clips and be moderated

by Akira Mizuta Lippitt, associate professor of film and visual

studies and director of the UCI Film and Video Center.

The reception and screening of the 1960 western “Flaming Star,”

starring Presley, is being co-sponsored by the Film and Video Center

at UC Irvine.

Thai Elvis impersonator Kavee Thongprecha, who regularly performs

at the Palm Thai Restaurant in Hollywood, will also appear after the

lecture.

The event is free and open to the public. The film screening is

$5.

The lecture will run from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in HIB 135 on the UCI

campus. The reception will run from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in HIB 137, and

the film screening and Thongprecha’s performance will start at 7 p.m.

For more information, go to https://www.hnet.uci.edu/icwt.