So maybe the FreeNYC staff has been sort of M.I.A. the last few days (something about snowboarding and Vermont and New Years). Well, regardless of the reason, we are back to help you start 2005 off on the right foot...
SMUT: erotic performance, readings and discussion
Toys in Babeland and Galapagos bring you a new weekly special dedicated to the naughty side in all of us. Each week there will be readings, performances and discussions to titilate your senses. Tonight, come watch the short film from Jill Chamberlin, "The Tell-Tale Vibrator," about a single woman whose parents visit for dinner and are unnerved by a buzzing noise coming from her bureau. This film has been an official selection at over a dozen international film festivals.Monday marks the official launch of SMUT so you will leave with a very special gift bag courtesy of Toys in Babeland. Following SMUT, Galapagos will continue its weekly burlesque show.
8:00pm
Galapagos Art Space (70 North 6th, Williamsburg)
FREE!
SNAPSHOT SHOWCASE:
New School Alum take the stage for music, poetry, DJing, and all things enjoyable at this very special performance. Optional open bar from 10-11pm ($10). Snapshot is all about exposing the fine arts to our diverse community. Queer/trans artists, photographers, filmmakers and performance artists are invited to use our venue to showcase their work.
This is what our line-up looks like:
SKYE!
LoLo!
A.B.Lugo!
T'ai Jamar!
SOCE the elemental wizard!!!
Plus others!
You do NOT want to miss this!!! You have some real talent up here, some amazing members of the queer community are gonna reprezent on this showcase,night, so come out and support them, come out and see what your community has to offer you,...and they will
deliver!!!!
Shake your ass with the lovely KIM ANN> UPSTAIRS (10-1)
Resident DJ back from the far reaches of Cali...NASTY DOWNSTAIRS (10-12)
Resident DJ guaranteed to get you moving DARYL RAYMOND> DOWNSTAIRS (12-2)
OPEN BAR (optional) 10-11:30 $10
10PM
Snapshot (9 ave. A)
$3 (for reduced open bar sign up at list@snapshotnyc.com)
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Underskatement
Running for a couple of years now, Underskatement is a collection of 16 short films from emerging filmmakers. Running time is about an hour and a half and worth the few bucks to get through the door. A healthy alternative to the binge drinking that occasionally occurs on Tuesday nights.
7:30 pm
The Anthology Film Archives (2nd Ave and 2nd Street)
$2
dorkbot-nyc is a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students and other interested parties from the new york area who are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of the term.) Since we started dorkbot-nyc in 2000 many other dorkbots have sprung up around the world.
The purpose of dorkbot-nyc is to:
give artists/programmers/engineers an opportunity for informal peer review
establish a forum for the presentation of new art works/technology/software/hardware
help establish relationships and foster collaboration between people with various backgrounds and interests
give us all a chance to see the cool things that our neighbors are working on
TONIGHT: NO JACKET REQUIRED
Have to give it to the D'n'B kids for keeping things lively in the underground and consistantly bringing top notch talent to NYC for a low price tag. Tonight, our favorite Williamsburg monthly moves (little tear) to the L.E.S. for the new year. Kicking it off is Metalheadz' own Total Science.
10PM - 4AM
13 Little Devils (120 Orchard Street at Delancy)
$3
Tonight, Adam X spins a special one-off set of the 303 acid sound that's seen a strong resurgence of late. He will be joined behind the decks by the Pop Your Funk duo of Roy Dank and Brennan Green, who play their unpredictable assortment of punk-funk rarities, deep house, Italo disco, and anything else they damn well please!
MIND, BODY, AND SOUL
Depending on what your take on afterwork activities is, there is something going on tonight.
FIRST THURSDAY
Ex-Hoeffler type refugees host an informal evening of drinks and design this, and every first thursday of the month. Conversations usually stem around typography but all graphic design topics are welcome.
7PM
Tom & Jerry's Bar (288 Elizabeth at Houston)
FREE
FREE BOOKS!
In a one-time-only-give-away, copies from the archives of American Illustration and American Photography will be available at no cost. Books cannot be shipped, so if you live out of town, send a friend to get the copy you want. Credits read like a who's who of American photography, illustration and design. Don't miss out on this unusual offer to obtain some of the earlier editions. Continues Friday
12PM - 5PM
American Illustration + American Photography (126 Fifth Ave, Suite 14B at 18th St)
FREE
Weekend Wrap-Up: 1.6 - 1.8: Alright, we slack, I know. The FreeNYC crew opted to go snowboarding for a week and decided that, in the true sense of a vacation, we would leave our laptops behind and relax. But we are back now and stronger than ever. And New York is back with more events and good art then ever. Make sure you check out Dalek's opening on Saturday if you are into that. There's also some good comedy from the kids over at Upright Citizen's Brigade. Finally, if you're looking for a couple good late nights, make sure to check out Globesonic and Fixed. Its good to be home.
FRIDAY LIQUID COURAGE
Liquid Courage is a Sketch show like no other. No host, no rules, just sketch. Sketches will be picked on a first come first served basis. The show will run as long as sketches are presented. Come on down and get your funny up!
Midnight
Upright Citizens Bridge Theatre (307 West 26th Street)
FREE
TONIGHT: ROCK AND ROLL KARAOKE
There's only one place to watch a man serenade his woman with a near-perfect rendition of Iron Maiden's "Number of the Beast." The energetic three-piece band that backs up the eager performers creates enough energy to propel the average Joey and Joan to the superstar status of a Joey Ramone or Joan Jett. This is not for the faint of heart. Pulses quicken, temperatures rise and the cheap beer flows freely. Gawkers are welcome.
01.10 Not Even Here
Tonight at the Fat black Pussy Cat catch the premier of Flatline Skateboards' new video Not Even Here. DJ Facemouth will be spinning hip hop, reggae and dancehall. A night of skateboarders, beer and some booty shaking music...for me it doesn't get much better than that!
A BATHING APE OPENING AFTERPARTY:
Now that BAPE has invaded NYC and upped the ante on luxury tees and limited kicks, they thought they would take a crack at throwing the hottest opening party in months. Hosted by Pharrell Williams and featuring music by DJ Jus Ske & Questlove (The Roots) this one is not to be missed... if you can get in the door. Good luck
NECESSARY EVIL RELEASE PARTY:
So after you have gawked at the line at the BAPE party, head around the corner to celebrate the release of the Necessary Evil CD Compilations. There is a live performance by U.S. (Universal Solution) with DJ Synapse & DJ Kgee on the wheels.
8 PM- 1 AM
Delancey Longue (168 Delancey Street bet. Attorney & Clinton Streets)
FREE with RSVP
It'll be along time before you see a band like the Damnwells in a place as cool and cozy as the Lakeside Lounge. After having their recent Epic/Red Ink release Bastards of the Beat make numerous best-of-2004 lists, ex-Whiskeytown member Steve Terry and crew will be moving on to bigger venues. This will also be a great chance to get a taste of what they're working on for their next release which they plan to start recording at the end of the month. The less-is-more theory is greatly applied to their brand of 70's inspired roots rock, and no doubt they will stay the course which has proven to be quite a success
SATURDAY HEADS UP: 4th ANNUAL NO PANTS SUBWAY RIDE
It's time to register for the 4th Annual No Pants Subway Ride! It will take place on Saturday, January 15 at 3 PM in the afternoon. This mission is open to everyone, so feel free to forward this email on to friends. Let's make this the biggest No Pants yet!The only requirements for participation are:
1) You're willing to take your pants off on the subway
2) You can keep a straight face while doing so
In order register for this event you must email improveverywhere@yahoo.com with "I'm In" as the subject line.
Next week you'll get an email with the full details for the event.
CUPCAKE READING WITH KATE WALBERT AND FELICIA LUNA LEMUS
Cupcake is dedicated to bringing New Yorks finest womens righters down to the lower east side every month where they will share their literary genious while you drink the evening away. This week features Kate Walbert andFelicia Luna Lemus.
7:30PM
Lolita (266 Broome Street at Allen)
Free
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MARTHA COOPER'S HIP HOP FILES
Powerhouse Gallery continues to impress me in finding the perfect niche that will bring out droves to their book openings. This week Martha Cooper presents us with another set of I-was-there-back-in-the-day-so-listen-up-son-for-some-real-hip-hop-knowledge photographs that will have the crowd gawking at the old school kicks and boom boxes the whole night through. The photos are amazing and worth fighting through the crowds to see. Music by Zeb Roc Ski and Doc TC5. Continues through March 5th
VERSACE DRESS-UP DANCE PARTY
Dress like you mean it as DJ's Spencer Product & Tommie Sunshine spin along with free drinks from Sophia Coppola. Fruit and chocolatre too!
9PM - 1AM
Tribeca Grand Hotel - basement (2 Ave of Americas and Church Street)
Free with RSVP
FUNKY COLD MEDINA OPENING Xanadu* is pleased to announce the opening of two congruent solo shows - Karlos Carcamo’Äôs drawings & sculptures entitled Funky Cold Medina and Nika Sarabi’Äôs paintings entitled A New Ism.
The Hip Hop culture in many ways is one based on proving you belong here too, that you can do anything they can do and that much better. It’Äôs simply amazing how from it’Äôs humble beginnings, Hip Hop has turned into a billion dollar lifestyle. Is that it ’Ķ is that the genius of the streets? Is that what getting over is all about? Has hip-hop ripped up its roots? Where in the world are we headed if we can’Äôt get there in a Bentley?
Artists Karlos Carcamo and Nika Sarabi were schooled in the very fundamentals of this culture have dedicated a lifetime to its history and art form. They see Hip Hop as a vehicle of communication, a way to respond to static thought.
Entertainment for the evening provided by the best poets yet at Tribes Gallery. Naa Norely Adom and Tashal Brown.
AJ FOSIK AND THE MONSTER PROJECT OPENING
AJ FOSIK : AJ Fosik is originally from Detroit, now hailing from Brooklyn. He combines images and iconography carefully collected and scavenged from past traditions both real and fabricated which are interpreted and woven together to create a trenchant body of work that is equal parts signage, folly and hard luck story.
MONSTER PROJECT : Monster Project looks to give a face to the cannibalism of urban life, a face to that which is always eating itself, a face to that which is our Cities. Monster Project seeks to highlight the unnoticed, to find the forgotten. Monster Project is about pointing out what is already here around us with the hope that it may encourage the act of looking around. Monster Project looks to inspire the act of taking a moment to stop and to see again. Monster Project is about noticing the beauty that naturally happens in these places we call City. Over the past four years, the Monster Project team has created site-specific installations focusing on forgotten corners. Often requiring extensive planning and late night execution, each piece becomes a story, each installation and adventure. No two are exactly the same, as no two locations are ever identical. Conceived in Providence, Rhode Island in November of 2000, Monsters have feasted on Providence, Boston, New York and Rome, Italy.
7 to 10pm
Riviera (103 metropolitan ave. at Wythe Ave, Brooklyn)
FREE
KAOS ALBUM RELEASE:
Okay, after you've had your fill of art openings (see below) head out to Kaos' album release party tonight. His mixture of Rock, Hip Hop, and Electronic always keeps us lively and partnering up with Daniel Wong should take things up a notch. Your usual top notch support team comes out to open and close as well. 9PM open Red Bull/Vodka Bar to get you started.
WE CARE A LOT
For a less Vice-infused crowd, head down to Deep Cover as John Selway and crew drop the best in mixed up electronic beats. They say...
"New name, new venue, same cast of characters. A new bar/lounge has opened on Houston St. Well, specifically an old bar/lounge is under new management and has been renovated! We'll be downstairs in the basement. Come check us out in our new digs! Cheap drinks, good sound
& nice unpretentious basement vibe with room to dance! You know we're always a mish-mash of musical styles and Thursdays won't be any different. Extra helpings of freestyle and hi-NRG.
DJs: John Selway, Ulysses Cowboy Mark
10PM
Deep Cover - basement (159 E. Houston St. btw Allen & Eldridge)
FREE
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GAMERS NIGHT GROOVE
NYC’Äôs premier gaming/music event showcases new and pre-release video game titles for attendees to play-test. The event also features cutting-edge electronic music and interactive digital art. The exhibition Asian Games: The Art of Contest remains open until 11:00 p.m. Presented by New York-Tokyo in association with Asia Society.
7PM - 11PM
Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue, New York Free with RSVP
It a lovely evening for some hip hop, don't ya think? Every Thursday night the Stinger Club has been home to Mindspray, a Brooklyn based underground, hip hop, open mic night. Tonight, the party has been moved to Asterisk Art Project. Expect the same Mindspray we always loved, in a great new space.
9:00pm
Astrisk Art Space (258 Johnson Ave, L to montrose)
FREE
Here are a couple pre-wrap-up events that will have passed before our big weekend post. Get them while the getting is good:
HUMAN CONDITION FILM SERIES:
The NYPL drops two of my favorites this afternoon. At 2PM its Tim Burton's Opus, Edward Scissorhands ('nuf said) and at 3PM its Kurisawa's Seven Samaurai. If for some reasons you are not, like me, crammed in an office wondering if there will ever be snow this winter, both of these are not to be missed.
Weekend Wrap-Up: 1.14 - 1.16: So good to have Rock and Rollerskate back. So good to have Cory Archangel back in town. So good to have mystery events like Masquerade Ballers that I can not wait to discover. New York, you may be the only place in the world that has "urban flood warnings" but I love you for that. (now make it snow please)
FRIDAY
THE HEDONISTIC IMPERATIVE
This show is a tribute to David Pearce’Äôs 1996 online manifesto of the same name, which calls for the elimination of suffering in all sentient beings through genetic engineering, nanotechnology and neuroscience. ’ÄúThe world’Äôs last unpleasant experience,’Äù he writes, ’Äúwill be a precisely dateable event.’Äù
’ÄúTechno-feel-goodness in futureworld is anodyne delicious,’Äù says curator Guerra. The 12 artists in this exhibition wield technologies new and old, and often in combination, with virtuoso pharmacological precision to imagine the idyllic silicon-enhanced future of our technicolor ’Äúsuper well’Äù descendants.
7PM - 9PM
Jack the Pelican (487 Driggs Ave Bet. North 9th and North 10th, Brooklyn)
FREE
I HATE KARAOKE:
Are you that one friends that LOVES karaoke? Do you have a special iPod playlist with all your regular songs so that you can practice at home or in the subway car? If so, you probably have at least a dozen friends who HATE karaoke. Drag them out tonight with the offer of free beer and then wisk them away on your soothing rendition of "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" and "I Love Rock and Roll."
10PM
Soho 323 (West Broadway between Canal and Grand)
FREE
SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES AFTERPARTY
DJ Spencer Product and guests spin this post show throw down with more free beer from Red Stripe from 11pm-midnight.
So I am not exactly sure what to expect from this one...it could be really fantastic or fantastically bad. According to their website Psychasthenia means "1. A perceived confusion between self and surrounding space2. A cultural condition of mass identification with images and technology." These ideas performed translate to a program of storytelling, video, and music mediated by portable electronics, featuring some of the best work by New York artists whose instruments are laptop computers and related devices.
10:00pm
Galapagos Art Space (70 N 6th, W'burg)
FREE
Breakbeat Science's own Dara hits the decks tonight alongside MC Crash Overide at No Jacket Required, one of our prefered drum and bass monthly parties, crosses the Hudson to set up shop at the new hotspot 13 Little Devils. With Selector Moldy, DatFunkyDrumma, and residents.
10PM - 4AM
13 Little Devils (120 Orchard St. near Delancey)
FREE
We have a sore spot for top notch dance music in tiny spaces. Thankfully, Six Degrees has been satisfying our dub/world beat desires for a few months now. This week, they bring Karsh Kale's new live outfit Kollective to the stage, expect tabla infused live breakbeats along side top notch vocals from Vishal Vaid. Derek Beres lends DJ support along side residents Dub Gabriel and Zakhm. Its five buck this week only but well worth it.
Aright man, ja know this party is going to dandemite. The vintage reggae sound system, Deadly Dragon Sound is launching a photo exhibition by David Corio to celebrate the opening of its first retail store in New York . Get there early and expect cool give-aways, amazing Jamaican sounds, and of course, free Red Stripes. Afterwards, head over to Happy Ending for the after-opening party featuring reggae selections provided by the legendary TIPPA TONE sound w/ Selector JAH WISE, and Deadly Dragon Sound selectors Scratch Famous, Rik Shaw, Teflon, and Selector JD. There will be complimentary Red Stripe Beer from 10-12 or while supplies last.
Grand Opening and Photo Exhibit
7PM ’Äì 10PM
Deadly Dragon Sound 102-B Forsyth Street (between Broome/Grand)
FREE
After-Opening Party
10PM
Happy Ending Lounge 302 Broome Street (between Fosyth/Eldridge)
FREE
SLEEPER ART EVENTS:
Here are a couple of great gallery shows that are ending this weekend. Catch them before Sunday if you can.
Wanderlust: These digital video stills by Leora Laor are surreal scenes of everyday people in Jerusalem's main public park and in Mea Shearim, the city's ultra-Orthodox religious neighborhood. Wanderland is Laor's creation, conveying a dual meaning in name and image. Wander concerns human wandering and the wandering Jew, in contradistinction to the word land that signifies permanence. Counter to this stands the magic wand held by the artist.Although the photographs are reminiscent of 19th century Realist and Impressionist styles, they are very much products of 21st century technology. After capturing the image from a great distance Laor enlarges the pixels to a point where the picture plane is close to being deconstructed; the predominant color of the image is then intensified, often evoking that color's corresponding mood.
10AM - 6PM
Andrea Meislin Gallery (526 West 26th Street)
FREE
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Pause: In his third one-person exhibition at RARE, Chris Larson presents large-scale wooden sculpture. In Pause Larson creates a life-size replica of the General E. Lee, from Dukes of Hazzard fame, crashing through a representation of Ted Kaczynski's Montana refuge.
NOT ONE DAMN DIME DAY: In honor of Baby Bush's inauguration tomorrow, January 20th has been dubbed Not One Damn Dime Day. We love this day as (1) this is how the FreeNYC crew get by on the regular and (2) we're not so down with this whole war in Iraq deal. So leave your wallets at home and make a small protest tomorrow. Here's the deal...
It doesn't really matter that everyone will be out spending what they didn't the next day - a point or two will have been made: Since our religious leaders will not speak out against the war in Iraq, since our political leaders don't have the moral courage to oppose it. Inauguration Day, Thursday, January 20th, 2005 is "Not One Damn Dime Day" in America. On "Not One Damn Dime Day" those who oppose what is happening in our name in Iraq can speak up with a 24-hour national boycott of all forms of consumer spending. During "Not One Damn Dime Day," please don't spend money. Not one damn dime for gasoline. Not one damn dime for necessities or for impulse purchases.
Not one damn dime for anything for 24 hours. On "Not One Damn Dime Day," please boycott Walmart, KMart and Target.
Please don't go to the mall or the local convenience store. Please don't buy any fast food (or any groceries at all for that matter).
For 24 hours, please do what you can to shut the retail economy down. The object is simple. Remind the people in power that the war in Iraq is immoral and illegal; that they are responsible for starting it and that it is their responsibility to stop it.
"Not One Damn Dime Day" is to remind them, too, that they work for the people of the United States of America, not for the international corporations and K Street lobbyists who represent them and funnel cash into American politics. "Not One Damn Dime Day" is about supporting the troops. The politicians put the troops in harm's way. Now 1,300 brave young Americans and (some estimate) 100,000 Iraqis have died. The politicians owe our troops a plan -- a way to come home.
There's no rally to attend. No marching to do. No left or right wing agenda to rant about. On "Not One Damn Dime Day" you take action by doing nothing. You open your mouth by keeping your wallet closed.
For 24 hours, nothing gets spent, not one damn dime, to remind our religious leaders and our politicians of their moral responsibility to end the war in Iraq and give America back to the people.
On selected Mondays and Thursdays the MoMa hosts the Brown Bag Lunch Lectures, a series of informal lectures on modern and contemporary art. Today Steven Zucker leads a discussion about Yoshio Taniguchi and the history of the MoMa's architecture.
"Architect Yoshio Taniguchi came to international acclaim in 1997 when he won both his first invited competition and his first international commission for the expansion of The Museum of Modern Art. Although MoMA's new building is the architect's first outside of Japan, in his native country he has distinguished himself over the past twenty years as a rare talent of sublimely beautiful architectural spaces, ideal for the display of works of art. "
Tell your boss you have a doctors appointment, pack up your lunch and head over to the MoMa.
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
MoMa (11 West 53 Street) $5 for adults, $3 for students
In agreement with our friends at Gawker, readings are often one of the biggest let downs as far as good social events go. You can't talk to your friends, half the time the stories are terrible, and you feel weird getting up to use the facilities. Thankfully, KGB bar is helping resolve all of that. Not only does Drunken Careening Writers present only "excellent, well-read pieces that have at least one thing in them that makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts), and don't run more than 15 minutes each" but this month they bring in Def Poetry Jam's own Regie Cabico. Also on deck are Stanley E. Ely, Sarah Van Arsdale, and Doric Wilons. Plus, there is always the alcohol which helps it all go down smooth.
I Heart is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of silk screen works on paper from artist Jon Santos. Entitled 'Dymaxion Cast Shadow,' the show reflects Santos's fascination with the conflict between graphics as form and graphics as meaning, a sort of semiotic of the everyday. Each of Santos's scattered masses forms an abstract whole that consists in part of recognizable shapes.
The show incorporates excerpts from short films by Ken Miller. The Opening Reception will feature a musical performance by CIAO (Surface to Air) and Markus Miller with a DJ set by Jeremy Campbell. Complimentary beverages kindly provided by Red Stripe. Afterparty at APT 419 w. 13th st. hosted by Negroclash.
Virgin Mega will be bring some top notch talent to town today (hows that for alliteration) to raise money for tsunami relief. Key to us, of course, is the Brazillian Girls performance at Union Square. Fully listing below
TIME SQUARE PERFORMANCES (1540 Broadway):
4PM - 1964
5PM - The Meanwhiles
5:45PM - The Goodwill
6:30PM - Dalek
7:15PM - God Forbid
8PM - World Famous Pontani Sisters
8:30PM - Dillinger Escape Plan
UNAUGURAL BALL
"Still upset about the election? So is Drinking Liberally, so come down and check out their UnAugural Ball for guest speakers, live music, and good company. Don't spend this dark day in american politics alone. There is help.
TURNTABLES ON THE CIELO
Turntables on the Hudson, our long loved boat party crew, has moved indoors due to, well, a frozen Hudson River for starters. This week they take up a new monthly at Cielo, the top notch venue for European house loving tourists. To kick things off, they are bringing Quantic recording artist DJ will Holland to town along with residents Nickodemus and Chris Annibell. The whole event is in honor of Nickodemus' newest release "Coney Island Love." Check out some sound clips here.
11PM - 4AM
Cielo (18 Little West 12th Street bet. 9th and Washington)
FREE
Weekend Wrap-Up: 1.21 - 1.23: Really, there is so much going on this weekend. There is Porkfest (of course), a church carnival, and a Cicely Brown art opening. So grab your snowboots, take charge of the city, and have a great weekend.
FRIDAY
PORKFEST 2005
A FreeNYC tradition, porkfest involves hauling yourself out to Astoria (or walking down the street if you live there) in the freezing cold to drink copious amounts of beer and eat huge plates of mysterious (to me) pork sausages. Saturday is the night to go as any evening with Slovak folk dancers and a hammered dulcimer is not to be missed. The event is Friday through Sunday with a $5 admission on Saturday only.
8PM
Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden (29-19 24th Ave, Astoria)
FREE ($5 on Saturday)
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VJ/DJ
Grooves for your body, art for your mind! VJ/DJ is a new weekly dance party event featuring multi-screen video projection and music you can dance to. Galapagos' favorite DJ's and VJ's create intoxicating multimedia environments for dancing and viewing. With on-the-bar dancing from burlesque-a-go-go phenomenon Nasty Canasta!
10PM
Galapagos Art Space (70 N. 6th Street between Wythe & Kent, Williamsburg)
FREE
TONIGHT: EDMAR CASTANEDA'S ELECTRIC HARP
Join twenty-four year old harpist, Edmar Castaneda, as he turns the harp into a lead instrument in Jazz. Colombian musical prodigy Castaneda began playing the difficult and exotic Colombian harp at the early age of 13. Although he only completed his formal music education in 2003, he has already achieved critical acclaim and has performed with Paquito D'Rivera, Lila Downs, Romero Lubambo, Dave Samuels, Dave Valetin, Richard Bona and John Benitez among other renowned musicians.
WINTER RESTAURANT WEEK
Here's a great chance to eat in all those fancy, delicious restaurants you wallet usually cringes in fear from. Three course lunches go for $20.12 (so cleverly in support of the Olympic bid) and three course dinners are $30. As always, I have my eye on Blue Smoke, Nobu, and Mesa Grill but check the site for a complete list in line with your personal pallet.
TUESDAY RSVP HEADS UP:
Two hot throw downs for your enjoyment tomorrow... RSVP now and arrive early:
Scion's mega-advertising bucks make another attempt to buy their way into my life. The good news is that they continue to bring top notch talent out for free. with Jazzy Jeff, PB Wolf, and Lord Sear and DJ Eli on the decks, how can you miss it. Free with RSVP... Arrive early.... Eleven only first like 500
10PM
Eleven (152 Orchard Street)
FREE with RSVP
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Nina Sky, Jack Move and DJ M.O.S. invade GLO along with the Real World cast and Quddus from MTV. That really doesn't excite us at all but the hour and a half open bar does. Print out the invite or RSVP for entry
TUESDAY: FROM THE OTHER SIDE
In FROM THE OTHER SIDE, renowned filmmaker Chantal Akerman shifts her focus between the border towns of Agua Prieta, Sonora - where people from all over Mexico wait in limbo before attempting to cross over - and Douglas, Arizona - a town ringed by mountains and desert plains. For years, immigrants passed through Tijuana to San Diego, but now the
INS/Dept. of Homeland Security, using cutting edge technologies developed during the Vietnam War and the first Gulf War, has managed to quell the flow of illegal immigration through these sites. Attempts at border crossings have been in large part relegated to geographically treacherous and sparsely populated sites such as Agua Prieta/Douglas.
Alternating between landscapes and interviews, on both sides of the border, Akerman conducts an unrelenting investigation into the desolation and the devastating realities of these border conditions. Directed by Chantal Akerman
7PM
Maya Deren Theater - Anthology Film Archives (32 Second Avenue at Second Street
) FREE with RSVP
To reserve a seat please write to rsvp@storefrontnews.org with the
subject heading "Storefront Films", or call (212) 431-5795.
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TONIGHT: BINGO AT PETES CANDY STORE
Having gotten all excited about tonight parties, and telling you about them yesterday, I am left with nothing super-exciting to write about. Except... BINGO! Tonight and every Tuesday, Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg has free bingo night. This is the only spot where the blue-haired grandmothers mingle with the blue-haired hipsters. And there are prizes to boot!
UVA WINE TASTING:
Another great event in Williamsburg tonight. Uva Wines on Bedford ave offers free wine tastings every Tuesday. The tastings are performed by the wines distributors so its a great way to get some insite into the wine itself. Sometimes, the Bedford Cheese Shop offer tasty treats as well. Tastings are also on Saturdays from 5 - 7PM
7-9PM
Uva Wines (218 Bedford Ave at North 5th - in the "mall")
FREE
TSUNAMI BENEFITS: Disclaimer: The Below Events are NOT FREE. They are however, all events where 100% of the proceeds go to Tsunami relief. At this time of grave tragedy, I feel that we all need to do everything that we can to help out. Oh, and all of these events should turn out to be amazing parites as well...
TUESDAY: ONE FAMILY BENEFIT
One Family is an official benefit event for Tsunami Relief organized by NYC's dance music community. 100% of all proceeds at the door will benefit the American Red Cross International Response Fund for Tsunami Relief. Your donation at the door will be collected directly by Red Cross. Featuring music by Junior Vasquez, Peter Rauhofer, Danny Krivit, Joe Claussel, Franˆßois K (HOLY BODY AND SOUL REUNION BATMAN!), Johnny Dynell, Hector Romero, Jeannie Hopper, Micolas Matar, and Willie Graff
If your tired of trekking up giant heaps of brown snow and are seeking some warmth, park it indoors for a couple hours at the New York Film Academy's screening of Mean Creek. As part of their independent night, they will show Jacob Aaron Estes' film about a group of teenage boys and one girl, who plot revenge on a kid who has been bullying them. What starts as a childish prank and trip down a river quickly turns into trouble and a coming of age tale of friendship and responsibility.
7:00pm
NYFA Screening Room (100 East 17th st)
FREE with RSVP
TONIGHT: JUSTIN FAUNCE OPENING Leo Koenig Inc. is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new paintings by Justin Faunce entitled Thanks for All the Memories. Faunces paintings are a labyrinth of color, pop imagery, cultural iconography with an underpinning of socio-political critique. Deceptively cheery, the paintings appear to be brightly colored, glittering confections. However, soon the imagery asserts itself as an incongruous juxtaposition between an ostentatious giddiness and a brooding malevolence. One sees alongside Vegas showgirls and charming cartoon characters, the emblems of corporate America, heroes and villains of our recent cultural past and reminders of the violence of our foibles. As to further illustrate this point, Faunces compositions are done using a mirror image or Rorschach technique. One side of the canvas mimics the other, though upon closer inspection, one realizes that this is not altogether true. Within the mandala-like intricacies, there are glitches in the reflection, we are not seeing the reverse of the image, but its doppelganger.
6PM - 8PM
Leo Koenig Gallery (249 Center Street between Grand and Broome)
FREE
TONIGHT: IT'S MY PARTY TOO - TAKING BACK THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Describing herself as a "radical moderate," Christine Todd Whitman claims, "My GOP’Äôs been hijacked by social fundamentalists’Ķ Republican party is a tragedy. What happened to the party of Lincoln?" She does not spare the Democrats, either, seeing them as having gone as far to the left as the GOP has gone to the right.
Christine Todd Whitman is one of the leading moderates in the Republican Party. She served in the Bush cabinet as EPA administrator from January 2001 to May 2003. Prior to that, she was the first woman elected Governor of New Jersey, serving two terms from 1993 to 2000. Tonight she give a lecture and signs her new book.
6:30PM
Cooper Union Great Hall (7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue)
Free
NYC SECESSION Author-activist Jason Flores-Williams, of High Times magazine’Äôs ’ÄúCall to Resistance,’Äù and current law student at Rutgers Law, reads his ’ÄúCall for New York Secession,’Äù followed by a secessionist presentation by the Glass Bead Collective, a TriBeCa film group. John Mailer, writer and activist, will emcee this cultural happening.
For more information on the event, contact Vladimir Teichberg, Glass Bead Collective, at 917-650-2486 or at Vlad@glassbeadcollective.org.
For more info on Jason Flores-Williams, check out this article.
For more info on NY secession, check out this article.
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The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors is at it again. Tonight they celebrate the full moon with dancing, drumming, prayer, and assorted mayhem.
The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (CoSM) is a sanctuary in New York City for contemplation and a center for events encouraging the creative spirit. The Sacred Mirrors, on display in the Chapel, are a series of paintings that allow us to see ourselves and each other as reflections of the divine.
Prayer: 7:30 - 9:30pm
Drumming and Dancing: 9:30pm - midnight
Chapel of Sacred Mirrors (540 West 27th Street, 4th floor)
$5 donation requested
THURSDAY HEADS UP: LUDLOW RESIDENCY
In its earliest incarnation on the Lower East Side's Ludlow Street, Triple Five Soul served not only as a boutique for house-label cut-and-sewn streetwear, but as the focal point for a generational movement. Fifteen years later, they continue to recognize the importance of this interaction with The Ludlow Residency The Residency places solo focus on the works of young designers currently selling at the TFS Williamsburg boutique. Thursday's reception features DJ CAT and free drinks from Bacardi
8:30-10 pm;
Triple Five Soul BK (145 Bedford Avenue & N. 9th Street) FREE with RSVP Sponsored by: Cotton Incorporated, Tripe Five Soul, Bacardi and Nylon
THURSDAY: EXCELLENT WORKSHOP OPENING
The FishcherSpooner boys are back with their salon series. This time, they have teamed up with Deitch Projects to create a casual weekly gathering inspired by 19th century Parisean salons. Expect a less-than-casual meeting this week as this inaugural events doubles as the official release party for Fischerspooners latest, "Odyssey."
THURSDAY: LENA LIV OPENING RECEPTION
The Andrea Meislin Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of 30 recent works
by Russian-born artist Lena Liv. The three-dimensional installations combine a variety and mixture of materials and methods including emulsion on glass, steel, hand-made paper, and the macro-development of photographic images.
’Äú’Ķ Lena Liv is a visual poet, a kind of subtle magician who works in the darkness. It is here that she discovers the infinitesimal moment of light. ’Ķ . Liv’Äôs work takes us beyond the ordinary, beyond the dark spaces of her photographs and the shadows of her steel containers. ’Ķ Liv’Äôs assemblages are asking difficult questions. Her work is not about one culture, one time, one place. Instead, she gives us a larger vision of humanity where history is disappearing and human experience is being altered beyond our sense and where identifying values of what it means to be a person with a unique history in a world that is in the process of being usurped and pillaged by commercial media under the guise of globalization and economic totalism. Liv uses the tonality in black and white photography as a contrasting element in relation to welded steel to provoke the viewer into thinking and feeling what is significant about human life, about fundamental human necessities, about the reason to live. Her art is an art of caring about those values that assume completeness in our lives, yet at the same moment are in danger of being taken away.’Äú
6PM - 8PM
Andrea Meislin Gallery (526 West 26th Street, #214)
FREE
THURSDAY: THEN AND NOW - THE ART OF GRAFFITI PANEL DISCUSSION
Dan Cameron, curator of The New Museum's current "East Village USA" discusses the impact of graffiti during the 1980's in the East Village with Charlie Ahearn, Lady Pink, and Patti Astor. This is a chance to hear it straigh from the mouths about how it all ties together. Also, if you have not seen the exhibit, make sure you check it out. Exhibit continues until March 19th.
6:30PM - 8PM
New Museum for Contemporary Art / Chelesa (556 West 22nd Street)
FREE? (may have to pay reduced admission of $3)
THURSDAY: STRANGER TOWN OPENING Creative energy has increasingly been pooled into areas other than those of the New York galleries and contemporary art world. More and more artists find themselves unable or unwilling to go through the traditional steps of the starving artist trying desperately to get noticed, and instead find alternative routes to creative achievement. Whether it be illustration, comics, music, etc., many artists have gone on to push the limits in their chosen fields. Stranger Town features eight successful artists who have each risen to prominence in areas outside the walls of the established art world.
6PM - 8PM
Dinter Fine Art (547 West 27th Street)
FREE
Leviathans of the Floating World: Sumo Wrestlers and the Japanese Print by Harold Bolitho (Professor of Japanese History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, Harvard University)
During the Tokugawa period, Japanese popular culture produced its share of celebrities. Many of them, particularly the actors and the courtesans, are known to us from the woodblock prints of the time, the ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the floating world." But another group, no less well-known in their generation than their counterparts from the stage or the pleasure quarter, have been virtually ignored. These are the popular sporting heroes of the day, the sumo wrestlers. In studies of the Japanese print these figures have been marginalized, consigned to the category of the curious and the eccentric. It is not difficult to see why. In the West we have always tended to privilege the delicate, the diminutive, and the understated in Japanese culture, an aesthetic that leaves little room for representations of big, fat, strong, sweaty men. This neglect is undeserved. Sumo wrestling is just as typical of traditional Japan as the more elegant pastimes of the tea ceremony, haiku, and flower arrangement. If anything, it enjoyed greater popularity. Each of the great print designers responded to the sport, producing a variety of pictures to satisfy public demand. These prints are well worth our attention, for despite wrestling's thematic limitations, the artists' desire to emphasize the bulk and might of their subjects prompted the development of new techniques. The resulting icons of power are unique in the otherwise sedate and tasteful world of the woodblock print. Co-sponsored by the Ukiyo-e Society of America, Inc.
6PM - 7:30PM
Columbia University : Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture #507 Kent Hall (116th and Amsterdam)
FREE
THURSDAY: DUBTRIBE AT CIELO
BPM's monthly series brings old house legends Dubtribe Sound System to town tonight in support of their new album. The duo will be performing LIVE... not to be missed
