10 a.m. Wednesday, December 7 at Sky Midtown
For more than a century, the natural-diamond industry functioned as a tightly controlled economic system—managing supply and pricing while building the cultural mythology that made diamonds synonymous with rarity, luxury, and permanence.
2 p.m. Tuesday, December 15 at St. John’s United Methodist Church, 1200 Old Pecos Trail
Gogol’s “Petersburg Tales” expose the link between this surreal city and the psychology of more everyday, downtrodden people living within its spell and under the stifling rigidity of autocracy.