tuesday
april 23
Eat Drink Man Woman Noting that the Houston Community College System has at least 14,000 students of Oriental ancestry, and that institutions of learning should promote cultural interest and enlightenment, HCCS is hosting an Asian film festival. Asian-American, Chinese and Japanese films will be shown, with Eat Drink Man Woman and Great Wall as the opening night offerings. Double features will also be shown Wednesday and Thursday; check Thrills for details. Eat Drink, 6:30; Great Wall, 9 p.m. Landmark Greenway 3 Theatre, 5 Greenway Plaza. For tickets, call Matt Veach, 718-7791, or Denny Smith, 630-7237. For directions to the theater, call 626-0402. Free.
wednesday
april 24
Meet your monkey uncles Zoologist and paleoanthropologist Meave G. Leakey (who married into the Leakey clan) will talk about our ancestors and distant relations. She knows all about our kin from digging in the dirt of Africa -- the cradle of mankind. Her most recent discoveries have to do a with a hominid called Australopithecus anamensis, who is suspected to be the critter right at the juncture between Homo and australopithecine folk. After Leakey's talk about fossils from the Turkana Basin in Kenya, there'll be a dessert reception. 7 p.m. Museum ofNatural Science, 1 Hermann Circle Drive, Hermann Park. For reservations, call639-4629. $15.
Elie Wiesel Nobel Peace Prize-winner, author and Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel will talk about human rights at a benefit for the Holocaust Museum Houston. After the war, Wiesel became a journalist in Paris, and he didn't discuss his experiences in the concentration camps until the late '50s. Since then, he has published 35 books, garnered many honors and spoken eloquently for the rights of Argentina's "disappeared," Cambodian refugees, Kurds, Nicaragua's Miskito Indians, Soviet Jews and prisoners in the former Yugoslavia. The chance to hear Wiesel speak in Houston is a rare and valuable opportunity. 8 p.m. Jones Hall, 615 Louisiana. For more information on this lecture or museum membership, call 942-8000. Lecture open to charter members; charter memberships are $100 and up. Each member gets two tickets.
