Ryan Bubnis at Kid Robot

Ryan Bubnis is a California born painter and illustrator that currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Strongly influenced by comics, cartoons, toys, and graffiti, Ryan's work borders the line between cute and creepy. In a world full of bunnies, bears, vampires and super heroes, Ryan's characters play and reach beyond the realm of normal cartoon caricature. They manage to express a broad range of human emotion exhibiting bravery, sadness, loneliness and joy. His work has been exhibited in Chicago, Vancouver B.C, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles. Heroes and Heartbreakers is his first showing in New York.

Date: Thursday, March 24th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Venue: KidRobot (126 Prince St. between Greene and Wooster)
Cost: Free

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Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to Democracy

"The current climate of American journalism is fraught with incestuous relations between government and a handful of Fortune 500 corporations that own and operate news organizations. From News Corporation’s Fox News, General Electric’s NBC, Viacom’s CBS, Disney’s ABC, and Time Warner’s CNN to Clear Channel’s massive radio empire, what the mainstream media present as "news" has become largely a "paid political announcement" born of favor trading, conflict of interest, and self-serving, bottom-line corporate logic. As a result of such accommodationism, American viewers receive a homogenized, censored version of reality and the watchdog of American democracy, the press, has become a docile instrument of governmental authority and big money."

Arthur Kent, Danny Schechter, Pete Tridish, and Mark Cooper, contributors to Prometheus Book's newly-published News Incorporated, are joined by journalists Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, and Kristina Borjesson, in a panel discussion on Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to Democracy, led by the editor of News Incorporated, Elliot Cohen.

Date: Thursday, March 24th
Time: 6:00pm
Venue: Small Press Center at The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen Library (22 West 44th Street)
Cost: Free

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Females in/on Film

CineWomen NY, New York Women in Film and Television, African-American Women in Cinema and Women Make Movies have put together a screening celebrating Women's History Month. Tonight at the Donnell Media Center of the New York Public Library catch "New York Hat," starring Mary Pickford, "Unmasked," a rare find from Grace Cunard the silent screen star known as the Queen of the Serials, "His/Herstory," written and directed by Nzinga Kadalie Kemp, and "Dreams of Jagodina" from writer/director Nora Malone. Following the screenings there will be a panel discussion.

Date: Thursday, March 24th
Time: 6pm-8pm
Location: Donnell Media Center, 20 West 53rd st
Cost: Free

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Extravaganza of Ridiculous Proportions VI

I'm not exactly sure how to explain this one, so lets use the words that the Glasshouse Gallery has given us "One night, two parties, one price, too much fun. Folk and country evening followed by Panda-monium, the Cyborg Panda Masquerade Dance Party." So the best I have figured, is that there is some sort of blues/country/folk extravaganza to begin the evening featuring music from Jeffrey Lewis, Micah Blue Smaldone, Death Vessel, Our Poor Neighbors, Andy Bosie, and Friends Band. Concluding the night will be the "madness with the dancing and the cyborg pandas and the robot battles and the cupcakes and the circus performers and the panda-monium begins. DJs Suggested D and Lady Vitamins. Prizes for best mask."

Date: Thurday, March 24th
Time: 7pm
Location: Glasshouse Gallery, 38 South 1st
Cost: $6, free drink with entrance before 9p, $1 off with cyborg or panda mask

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Turntables On The Hudson

For the past five years TOTH has been bringing beats to the Frying Pan and Chelsea piers. Until its a bit warmer out though, the duo of Nickodemus and Mariano, will be joined by special guest, DJ Ino, as they take over Cielo for their monthly party. And just for the record, TOTH is just about our favorite acronym of all time.

Date: Thursday, March 24th
Time: 10pm
Location: Cielo, 18 Little West 12th
Cost: Free

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