Wanda's Picks

1. We open with director Lavinia Currier speaking about OKA!  2. Women & Girls Lead: A Public Media Iniatative to Focus, Educate, and Connect Audiences Worldwide: Shannon Farley, founding Executive Director of Spark, Deborah Holmes, Vice President of Communications for the Global Fund for Women, and  Gini Reticker, an executive producer of Women, War & Peace and directed both Pray the Devil Back to Hell and the third film in the series about Afghanistan, Peace Unveiled. 3. Beverly Lee: The Shirelles featuring Legendary Original Member & Co-founder Beverly Lee, The Originators Of The Girl Group Sound Celebrate Over 50 Years Of Making Music Together, perform, Tue-Sat, 10/18-22, 8 pm, Sun, 10/23, 7pm, $40-47.50. The Shirelles were an American girl group in the early 1960s, and the first to have a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100. Formed in New Jersey in 1958, the quartet went on to release a string of hits. The Shirelles were the first major female vocal group of the rock and roll era, preceding