On the Bowery chronicles three days on New York’s skid row, the Bowery. In the early part of the 19th century, it was an elegant place of large mansions and respectable theater. When the elevated trains came in, it covered the street in darkness and the Bowery soon became known as the place for low rents and cheap drinks. Ray Salyer, still good-looking and well spoken, his face not yet ravaged by alcohol, is a railroad worker who drifts onto the Bowery after a long bout of laying tracks. He is taken in hand by old-timer Gorman Hendricks, a puckishly charming bull slinger. Lionel Rogosin’s brilliant film depicts Ray’s descent as the dark side of the American dream. As part of this program, the 2009 documentary, The Perfect Team, about the making of the film On the Bowery, also will be screened. The screenings will be this Friday, April 29, at 7 p.m.; Saturday, April 30, at 1:15 and 5:45 p.m.; and Sunday, May 1, at 3:45 p.m. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. General admission is $9. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online, or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

Join students and Professor Gary Greenan from the School of Architecture for a special one-day exhibition of furniture built during the 2011 spring semester Furniture Design and Construction Studio. One of the students, Mike Galea, constructed a writing desk made of wood salvaged from the recently demolished UM apartment buildings along Dickinson Drive. The exhibition will be held Friday, April 29, from 3 to 5 p.m. at the School of Architecture, Gallery 48E.

Juliette Binoche won the Best Actress prize in Cannes for her performance in this playful and provocative romantic drama from legendary auteur Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us), his first feature made outside of Iran. Binoche plays a gallery owner living in a Tuscan village who attends a lecture by a British author (opera star William Shimell) on authenticity and fakery in art. Afterward, she invites him on a tour of the countryside, during which he is mistaken for her husband. They keep up the pretense and continue on their afternoon out, discussing love, life and art, and increasingly behaving like a long-married couple. But are they play-acting on a whim or is there more to their seemingly new relationship than meets the eye? The film is in French, English, and Italian with English subtitles. It will screen this Friday, April 29, at 9:15 p.m.; Saturday, April 30, at 3:30 and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, May 1, at 1:30 and 6 p.m. Admission is $7 for seniors, University of Miami alumni, faculty, non-UM students, and staff. General admission is $9. Free for UM students. To purchase tickets online or for more information, visit www.cosfordcinema.com or call 305-284-4861.

To commemorate the great memories that the beloved campus restaurant has provided throughout the years, the “Last Call” at the Rathskeller, hosted by the UM Division of Student Affairs, will take place April 29 from 11am to midnight.

“The Rathskeller serves as a great gathering and campus programming place for students, faculty, and staff at the University,” said Patricia A. Whitely, Vice President for Student Affairs at UM. “It has always been an important part of student life at UM and will continue to be in its upgraded splendor.”

The University of Miami recently announced plans to build a new, state of the art, 119,000-square-foot Student Activities Center on its Coral Gables campus thanks to a lead gift of $20 million from the Fairholme Foundation. Fronting UM’s Lake Osceola, the new center (which will be built under LEED Silver classification) will include various gathering places, programming space, a student organizations suite, retail outlets and a new Rathskeller on the ground floor. The Rathskeller will temporarily relocate to the current location of Sbarros in the Whitten University Center.

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