SAN ANTONIO, July 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- International Baccalaureate, a non-profit educational organization, will host its 2011 Conference of the Americas on July 21-24 at the Marriott San Antonio Rivercenter.

By Reviewed by Syida Lizta Amirul Ihsan THE KITE RUNNER Directed by Marc Forster Starring Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Atossa Leoni, Shaun Toub, Zekeria Ebrahimi and Ahmad Khan Mahmoodzada.

By DUANE DUDEK The University of Wisconsin-Parkside foreign film series resumes for its 27th season this fall in the newly renovated Union Cinema on the university campus at 900 Wood Road, Kenosha.

By popular demand, Carnegie-Stout Public Library in Dubuque will re-show the movie "The Kite Runner" on Wednesday, May 7, in the third-floor auditorium. Admission for this special encore screening is free. The auditorium doors will open at 5 p.m. and the movie will begin at 6 p.m.

What, asks Michael Dirda, makes Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" so popular? Background: The book, written 50 years ago and focusing on the turn-of-the-century culture of the Ibo in Nigeria, helped change African literature.