(Actually, he calls the current outcropping, including Burning Man, an "explosion from the underground of the mycelial body," but you'll have to visit one of CoSM's weekend lectures for that).
Trump U, launched in 2005 at the height of the housing bubble, claimed to be able to transform its students into real estate titans with a few weekend lectures.
The Free University kicked off Feb. 5 with a weekend of lectures.
A weekend of lectures, master classes and recitals; participants include Kenneth Cooper and Rosalyn Tureck.
Other events this weekend include lectures, walking tours and workshops based on the exhibition "Waterlilies and Lotus: A Summer Aquatic Exhibition," on view in the Conservatory Courtyard through Sept. 19.
Yale officials had hoped that the President might accept an invitation to speak at the university's tercentennial Alumni Leadership Convocation, a weekend of lectures, panel discussions, and parties, to be attended by a thousand or so of the school's most prominent graduates.
On the release of a CD box set, Sukhdev Sandhu reflects on his teenage passion for a band whose songs echoed his own introversion and working-class life Grace Dent attends a weekend of lectures on the Smiths Academics and fans gathered in Manchester to dissect the impact of the Smiths.
Mr. Bloomberg, the biography said, "would spend his weekends attending lectures at the local museum and his summers working for a small electronics company".
In justifying his threat to obstruct the confirmation of every single Obama judicial nominee in response to the President's recess appointment of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) had the chutzpah this weekend to lecture President Obama about the fact that the "Constitution is not a partisan document".
BFI Southbank, SE1, 8.30pm, £8.60, concs available, call 020-7928 3232 or visit bfi.org.uk Grasmere - Weekend Book Festival Lectures, workshops and talks on Wordsworth, Milton, Kurt Schwitters and Robert Burns.
"Sibelius, Conservative or Modernist?" is the overarching theme for the second weekend's concerts, lectures and panels, with context ranging from chamber works by Sibelius's peers and countrymen to symphonies by Nielsen, Barber and Vaughan Williams.
