Dog Envy

I love cats to death, but there is something so nice about a sunny day in the park with a pup. Today is like the end all and be all of days in the park with a pup as the 4th Annual My Dog Loves Central Park Country Fair barks its way into Central Park. "Come out and enjoy a beautiful autumn day in the Park with thousands of urban pooches and their devoted two-legged pals! This fun, educational, day-long event, presented by the Central Park Conservancy and Central Park PAWS (an advisory group of dog owners who use Central Park) celebrates the Park's amazing dog community. Activities will include agility trials, contests and games, a microchip ID clinic, a guided "Hound Hike", a special dog photographer, "Ask the Vet" advice center, pets for adoption, and much more!"

Date: Saturday, October 1st
Time: 11am - 4pm
Location: Central Park - mid-park at 72nd Street, between the Bandshell and Sheep Meadow
Cost: Free

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Tour a Greenpeace Ship

Meet the captain and crew of the Greeenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise, take a free tour of the ship, and participate in an interactive exhibit on the effects of global warming on NYC. Continues Sunday. Advanced registration recommended.

Date: Saturday, October 1st
Time: 11:00am - 5:00pm
Location: Pier 59, Chelesea (23rd and Hudson)
Cost: Free

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A Solar Party

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o2NYC has joined up with Solar1, Bright Power and ConEd Solutions to cohost a solar music party, green power sign up drive and ecodesign market. Part festival, part sustainable product marketplace, this all-day, free outdoor event will connect green designers and entrepreneurs to the public in an energized atmosphere of music, dance and celebration. It will feature an eclectic lineup of accomplished DJs and musical acts, including Matthias Heilbronn (Wave Music); Cato (Turntables on the Hudson); Marc-Allan Gray (LoveSlap); Corey Backer (Unknown People); Natasha DeGraff (KillDJ); Red Robot, and other special guests. Amplification for the event will be powered entirely by Solar One’s 3.5 kWh Photovoltaic array. Bar and refreshments will be provided courtesy of the Brooklyn Brewery, Habana Outpost, and Sambazon. Other partners in the event include some of the city’s most notable green retailers, including 3R Living, IIKH, Build it Green, and Vivavi.com. It will also be host to New York’s first ever Green Power Sign Up Drive, sponsored by ConEd Solutions. The Drive will aim to enlist the maximum number of new clean electricity (wind and/or low impact Hydro) customers throughout the day. Incentives and gifts will be available to those who choose to sign up at the event.

Date: Saturday, October 1st
Time: 1:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Solar1 (Stuyvesant Cove Park 2420 FDR Drive at 23rd Street)
Cost: Free

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Loreley Oktoberfest

Take advantage of the good weather and hit up the Loreley outdoor beer garden for Oktoberfest today. There's a suckling pig roast and beer beer beer. Check the site for full info.

Date: October 1st
Time: 3:00pm
Location: Loreley (7 Rivington Street)
Cost: Free to go.

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Skewville revealed

"For the first time in history, Skewville, America's most subversive street art twins, will be unlocking their doors and allowing the public to explore their secret laboratory." Come check out the roots of some of NYC's classic street art... through November 1st.

Date: Saturday, October 1st
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Basement Aire Gallery (178 Stanton St.)
Cost: Free

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A lil Classical?

Usually we tend to write about hip hop-hipster rock-"cool kid" music, so here is something a lil different for you to check out... Today check out a concert featuring Nina Maria Lee on cello Asmira Woodward-Page on violin at Flux Factory.

"Concert starts at 9pm sharp, no entry after start of the concert.

* Bach, Sarabande (solo cello suite)
* Anonymous, 3 Sanskrit Mantras to the Goddess for Enlightenment (violin and voice)
* Ravel, Duo for violin and cello

An evening of classical music for violin and cello, with a live video projection of closeups of the musician's hands."

Date: Satuday, October 21st
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Flux Factory (38-38 43rd Street, LIC)
Cost: Free

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"Dr. Death"

This is a wierd one so I am giving it to you just as I found it... "An exhibition of art by Jack Kevorkian curated by The Fusion Arts Museum and Baird Jones. * Private free wine reception from 10:30 - 11:30PM. Free admission for you and your guests from 10:30 until 12:30 by saying that you are there for this art show."

Date: Saturday, October 1st
Time: 10:30pm
Location: Spirit Nightclub(540 West 27 St. at 10th Ave)
Cost: Free

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Brooklyn Top Ranking

Tom Bomb and Raul the Magnificent take over The Fix, a little coffeshop bar, in Williamsburg with the sounds of reggae, rockstead, ska, soul, and (perhaps) some punk. You'll see the freeNYC staff making a late night drive through... sitting in the back... in proper "coffee shop" style. Help come out and support so this can become a weekly thing. $2 PBR cans.

Date: Saturday, October 1st
Time: 11:00pm - 4:00am
Location: The Fix (Bedford and North 11th, behind Sound Fix, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Urban Harvest

Slow Food USA does food well... really well. As the name implies, the organization is dedicated to using unprocessed ingredients, time, and care to and it shows. Today is their Urban Harvest, a "festive tribute to the farmers and artisans who provide us with foods that are delicious, ecologically sustainable, and humanely produced." There will be "over 40 regional farmers and artisanal food producers – most of whom do not normally attend the City's Greenmarkets. Offerings will include pastured poultry from the Catskills; traditionally fermented sauerkraut and pickles from the Berkshires; custards and fresh dairy products from western New York; wines from the East End of Long Island; biodynamic apples from the Hudson Valley; and over 30 farmstead cheeses from Vermont." Visitors are welcome to shop the market for tasty treats or try out tasting plates design by NYC chefs at the cost of 6 tastings for $20. There is also a beverage version of this market afterwards dedicated to wine, beer, and cider.

Date: Sunday, October 2nd
Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm
Location: City Municipal Building (1 Center Street)
Cost: Free to attend

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Medieval Fun

You know that scene from Garden State where they are all sitting around the kitchen table with this dude who is a knight at Medieval Times (and then the knight tells Zach Braff that "it says balls on your face" hahaha). Well anyway, you'll see a lot of those Medieval Festival in Fort Tryon Park today. And by "those" I meant knights, not balls, wait unless your chillin' with the jugglers, ok never mind, just read below...

"The area around the Cloisters Museum in Fort Tryon Park is transformed into a medieval market village where knights in armor, jugglers, jesters, magicians, musicians, storytellers, and puppeteers will perform. A blacksmith, manuscript illuminator, pottery decorator, wood carver and other artisans will demonstrate their crafts. Performers and fairgoers dress in historical costumes. Medieval food is available and craft items will be sold. The afternoon culminates with a jousting event between knights on horseback!"

Date: Sunday, October 2nd
Time: 12pm - 6pm
Location: Fort Tryon Park, Take either the “A” train to the 190th Street Station or the M4 bus to the park entrance.
Cost: Free

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No Razor Blades--Dorothy Parker Scavenger Hunt

Dorothy Parker was the only female founding member of the famous Algonquin Round Table, a literary circle home to other writers such as Robert Sherwood and James Thurber. She wrote things like this:

Razors pain you; Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give;
Gas smells awful; You might as well live.

That’s why they’re havin’ a scavenger hunt (because we've put the razors down and we're all alive)! At 5 pm everyone who participates rounds back up at the Algonquin to drink a lot and find out who won. So even if you're not much of a Parker fan, there's drinking involved, and that always makes scavenger hunts extra worthwhile. [swiped from NewRelease]

Date: Sunday, October 2
Time: 1:30 pm
Venue: it begins in the Algonquin Hotel Lobby (59 w. 44th St. btw. 5th and 6th avenues)
Cost: Free

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Cargo Cult Street Party

Being: The culmination of years of hard labor and brutal ritual, the final push that will get the runway done, the ancestors pleased, the planes back, and deliver to us the abundant cargo that we so, so deserve; featuring: merchant marines, brazen brass, exceedingly clever flying machines, cardboard communication, synchronized semaphore, lighthouses, ropework, Melanesia, control towers, morse code, dazzling displays of ritual dance, arbitrary and capricious blood letting, sacred Jello, red crosses, gigantic, gimpy John Frum, sea chanteys, and your helping hands when they are needed the most.

Beware of swashbuckling pirates, unsympathetic Red Cross workers, and John Frum. If you follow the signs and complete the ritual, you will be amply rewarded for your faith. Watch for the arrival of the Vanuatu Air Fleet for your first clue. Be late and you will miss it. Bring libations, a Metro card and be prepared to walk. After party at the Carriage House, 59th St. Bet 2nd & 3rd Ave.

Date: Sunday, October 2nd
Time: 4:00pm
Location: 14 Honewy Locusts Part (59th between 1st and 2nd)
Cost: Free

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Brazil In Time

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RSVP is closed on this one folks...

Woah... this is a rare one... a good one... and a "do not miss" one. Heavy, heavy hitters when it comes to beat making are combining live drummers and DJs for a crazy all out night. "For this one night only, witness DJs Madlib, J-Rocc, Cut Chemist and Nuts join forces with Brazilian drummers Paul Humphrey, Joao Parahyba and Derf Reklaw for a show that we can't even begin to describe. Rounding out the talent will be an opening set by Brazilian Beat Brooklyn and additional sounds by DJs Sean Marquand and Greg Caz. There will also be a 10-minute preview screening of Brasil In Time: Batucada com Discos for the attendees." RSVP now, arrive early, and don't sleep on this one!

Date: Sunday, October 2nd
Time: 7:30pm - 12:30am
Location: Spirit (530 W. 27th St.)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Kelly Slusher

"Kelly Slusher plays music to heal the hearts of the broken and soothe the souls of the lonely. She stands somewhere in between the hauntingly beautiful voice of Julee Cruise and the influential, early indie pop groups such as The Clean, The Go-Betweens and The Vaselines."

Hear Kelly Slusher's All Through the Day (mp3)

Date: Sunday, October 2nd
Time: 8:00pm
Location: The Living Room (154 Ludlow Street)
Cost: Free

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Gummo

So I have never actually watched Gummo because I'm scared of the multitude of dead cats that appear in the movie, but I hear its quite good. Check out a free screening tonight at Flux Factory.

Date: Sunday, October 2nd
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: Flux Factory (38-38 43rd Street, LIC)
Cost: Free

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Concrescence Livetronica

Concrescesnce is a combination of live acoustic instruments melding with electronic ones "that can slip into the back of your head or occupy your entire consciousness." A cop out comparison would be Sound Tribe Selector 9 but the diverse musicians here swing a much wider gambit from IDM to Folk. Music is coupled with live visual creating a great way to lay back and ease into the end of the weekend.

Listen to Bicycle Project (mp3)
Listen to Bryan Noll's to.th.es.ta.rs (mp3)

Date: Sunday, October 2nd
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Laila Lounge (113 North 7th btwn Wythe and Berry, Williamsbug)
Cost: Free

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Yankees Rally at Lunchtime

If you are stuck being a midtown marauder like me then take a lunchtime break for a little Yankees playoff Rally. Former Yankees Don Larson, Michey Rivers, Graig Nettles, and Jim Leyritz will be on hand and you can enter to win tickets to a playoff game. Free rally towels for all.

Date: Monday, October 3rd
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: Bryant Park (41st and 6th
Cost: Free

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Karaoke Killed The Cat

The NYC Karaoke lovin' phenomenon continues with this Piano's weekly. This more intimate setting lets your inner star shine with a dedicated cast of performers that make this a Monday must. Check out what the hype is all about tonight.

Date: Monday, September 19th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Pianos (158 Ludlow at Stanton)
Cost: Free

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Sway Some More

I can't tell if we are becoming Synapse groupies over here or he is just spinning records like a mad man lately and playing nearly every party in the city. Either way though, check him out with DJ Gravy at the Retail Mafia Monday night weekly at Sway. As usual, grab some free beer from 10 'til 11:30 and I think this week you can even win some Timbs.

Date: Monday, October 3rd
Time: 10pm
Venue: Sway, 305 Spring
Cost: Free

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Women Poets at Barnard

The first in this season's Women Poets at Barnard College reading series features Carolyn Forche and Honor Moore.

“The hunger to know” in Carolyn Forché’s most recent book, The Blue Hour (2004), “is matched here by a desire to be new, totally without cynicism, open to the shocks of experience as if perpetually for the first time” (Robert Boyers). Her debut collection, Gathering of the Tribes (1976), won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award.

Honor Moore’s new book of poems, Red Shoes (2005), a series of meditations and elegies, is “a searing exploration of exposure, as the concept impacts all stages of human life and also death” (Jorie Graham). She is a 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and is at work on The Bishop’s Daughter, a memoir.
[swiped from Women Poets at Barnard]

Date: Tuesday, October 4
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor, Barnard Hall (1 to 116th, walk one block north)
Cost: Free

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Burton Bash

Well it's officially October and you know what that means... FreeNYC starts obsessing about snowboarding. So we figured to kick it off we should start with the Burton World Tour event tonight. There will be a Burton fashion show (hot boys and girls in snowpants and goggles), their video premier, a couple live bands and some riders you may have heard of (Keir Dillon, Trevor Andrew, JP Solberg, Shaun White, Anne Molin Kongsgaard, Hann). Looks like its time for me to bust out the snowboard, strap it on in my living room and await the first snow!

Date: Tuesday, October 4th
Time: 9pm - 4am
Venue: Avalon, 20th and 6th
Cost: Free (this is an 18 and over event)

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PuPu Platter

"Stand-up with a twist is yours for the viewing tonight at Starlight Bar & Lounge. PuPu Platter, a comedic troupe featuring four of Gotham’s best and brightest new faces plays to an always-packed house. A winning combination of sketch comedy, stand-up and any other zany antics these loony kids come up with, you’re sure to be rolling in the aisles. This is one PuPu platter where you don’t have to worry about any mystery meat." [Swiped from Paper cuz they write better than I do]

Date: Tuesday, October 4th
Time: 9:30pm
Location: Starlight Bar & Lounge (167 Ave. A)
Cost: Free

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Vaporize

Another day, another industry party. This one does sound promising though, its the Vapors issue release party with Stretch Armstrong and Mark Ronson on the bill. Expect the joint to be packed with scenesters and skaters, so show up on the early side.

Date: Tuesday, October 4th
Time: 10pm - 4am
Venue: Home and Guesthouse, 532 West 27th
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Shit Hammered

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It's the 2 year anniversary of this classic Tuesday night party. The original crew is in the house and local wonderkids Tommy Sunshine and Spensor Product are comming through for support. Open bar from 10-12 make this the spot to be at tonight.

Date: Tuesday, October 4th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Happy Ending (302 Broome Street between Forsyth and Eldridge)
Cost: Free

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Favela Clash

If the down and dirty dirty of Happy Ending is not your scene tonight, sink into the sweaty, deep bass baile funk and dancehall sounds of Favela Clash. DJs Sujino and Cassiano, better known as Nossa Musica, are back from Brasil and ready to share some fresh wax along side DJ G Brown. Free Brahma Beer from 11 - 12 sweetens the deal while $5 Caipirinhas keep you going.

Listen to DJ Sujino's I [heart] Baile Funk (flash player)

Date: Tuesday, October 4th
Time: 11:00pm
Location: Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St. and West 8th)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Kurt Kauper Lecture

Kurt Kauper's paintings have, for the past ten years, been images of familiar cultural icons-Opera Divas, Cary Grant, and hockey players.
Kauper has had several solo shows and has participated in many group exhibitions, including the 2000 Whitney Biennial. He has received numerous awards, including a Tiffany Foundation Grant in 1999, the Pollack-Krasner, and two Elizabeth Greenshields grants. His work is included in the collections of The Oakland Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery.

Date: Wednesday, October 5th
Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Parsons Auditorium (66 Fifth Ave)
Cost: Free

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After the March

"Panelists and members of the audience will discuss the Sept, 24 anti Iraq war demonstration in Washington, D.C. and the next steps for the anti-war movement. Panelistsfrom a number of groups, including ANSWER, Blue Triangle Network, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Palestine Activist Forum of New York, the Poor People’s March, and United for Peace and Justice, have been invited.

Date: Wednesday, October 5th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Brecht Forum (451 West Street between Bank and Bethune streets)
Cost: Free

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War, Occupation, and Democracy: American Strategy In The Middle East

Palestinian Member of Israeli Knesset since 1996, Leader of National Democratic Assembly, and Celebrated Writer and Intellectual Azmi Bishara speaks on the current state of America in the Middle east this evening. Introduction by Rashid Khalidi

Date: Wednesday, October 5th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Barnard College, 304 Barnard Hall (3009 Broadway at 117th)
Cost: Free (?)

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Damn Good Noise

Damn Good Noise is back again this month to bring you seven albums and one artist to satisfy your need for the new. This monthly listen-in features back to back listen parties for emerging musician's albums played in full. Tonight program includes City on Film, Tiny Amps, Loaded Dreams, The Double Double, Elk City, Bling Kong, and Early Man. Art comes straight from NYC's own Susie W. Fuller.

Date: Wednesday, October 5th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Mannahatta (316 Bowery at Bleeker Street)
Cost: Free

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More Great Things from Slusherland

"Kelly Slusher plays music to heal the hearts of the broken and soothe the souls of the lonely. She stands somewhere in between the hauntingly beautiful voice of Julee Cruise and the influential, early indie pop groups such as The Clean, The Go-Betweens and The Vaselines." Tonight is another chance to catch the local riser in an intimate setting for free.

Hear Kelly Slusher's All Through the Day (mp3)

Date: Wednesday, October 5nd
Time: 8:00pm
Location: The Lucky Cat (245 Grand Street, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free

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Mo' Bang

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We are going to need to create a weeklies section for parties like Bang that we love so much we post them every week. Its pack with a good time and has an open vodka bar from 10-11. Go for it!

Date: Wednesday, October 5th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: China 1 (50 Aveunue B at 4th Street)
Cost: Free

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Duck Down MCs

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Pay no attention to this "RSVP by August" madness on the invite because this got dropped in our mailbox this week but the Scion folks are at it again bringing you the best in not-so-underground hip hop. Tonight its Smif 'n Wessun along with Buckshot and Sean Price... the collective boys from Duck Down Records. They are joined by The Bohemian Chocolate Cafe performing live. Expect the usual packed house so RSVP by 6:00pm today and arrive early.

Check out Sean Price's "The Jackal" featuring Professor X and Nardo Ranks (mp3)

Date: Wednesday, October 5th
Time: 11:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Canal Room (285 West Broadway)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Flavas Clash Again

We have been tellin you guys about this one from the beging, so try and cath tonights third instalment. Flavela Clash 3 has Brasilian Baile Funk and Jamaican Dancehall from the likes of DJs Sujinho + Cassiano, DJ G Brown and guest, DJ Gravy. Admission is free and so is the beer from 11 'til 12.

Date: Wednesday, October 5th
Time: 11pm - 4am
Venue: Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Take A Free Ticket

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Current TV is this new cable network sort of in the vein of Name Your Own Adventure, well at least in the sense that you are both viewer and producer. Anyway, what is actually of relevance here is that to drum up some viewers they are throwing a lil concert called Take Back Tv and giving away free tickets. Set to preform today at Rumsey Field are De La Soul, Fishbone, Slum Village, Simon Dawes, Malene Younglao, Rich Medina and Suffrajett.

Date: Thursday, October 6th
Time: 5pm
Venue: Central Park, Rumsey Playfield at 69th
Cost: Free, but you must sign up for a ticket

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Art Against the Wall

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Date: Thursday, October 6th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Exit Art Fast Track Gallery (475 10th Ave)
Cost: Free

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Vik Muniz Speaks

"Reflex: A Vik Muniz Primer (Aperture, September 2005) takes us on a guided tour of the inner workings of artist Vik Muniz’s pyrotechnic imagination. Walking us through each of his major series, Muniz reveals himself as a brilliant writer as well as image-maker. In each chapter, Muniz tickles our minds with amusing anecdotes detailing his working method and unveiling the thinking and historical influences behind his images. His own images explore all possible materials and modes of making photographs, while at the same time making us think about how perception works and what happens in pictures. This book secures Muniz’s role as trickster and philosopher as well as creator of compelling, delightful images." Tonight Muniz speaks and signs.

Date: Thursday, October 06th
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Apeture Gallery (547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor)
Cost: Free

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A Very Thirsty Listening Party

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It's time for another listening party. This one is for Living Things' Head of the Lion. The deal is sweetened with a 2.5 hr open bar of Newcastle and a DJ set by Doug Brod.

Watch Living Things Bom Bom Bom video (quicktime)

Date: Thursday, October 6th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: Pianos (58 Ludlow Street)
Cost: Free with RSVP

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Social Justice and Entrepreneurship in 19th century New York

Join Barbara Balliet (Rutgers University), Peter Buckley (The Cooper Union), Kenneth Jackson (Columbia University), and Sean Wilentz (Princeton University) tonight for a roundtable discussion on social justice and entrepreneurship in 19th century New York. "For almost 150 years, The Great Hall of The Cooper Union has served as a popular stage for educational lectures, political movements, campaigns for social reform and the creative arts. These meetings have embodied what Peter Cooper meant by “civic culture.” The impact of The Great Hall on American society has been immeasurable."

Date: Thursday, October 6th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 East 7th at 3rd Ave)
Cost: Free

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Happy First Thursday

If you are tired of discussing this week's episode of Lost (we are obsessed with this show) around the water cooler all day and are looking for topics with a lil more meat and substance, head over to First Thursday at Iona Bar. Essentially a loose collective of designers and artisist get together, grab a beer and discuss relevent topics of interest. Anyone with an interest in design is welcome.

Date: Thursday, october 6th
Time: 7pm
Venue: Iona Bar, 180 Grand Street, W'burg
Cost: Free

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Workflow Magazine Release Party

Workflow Magazine is having a little release party at Jigsaw tonight. While I know nothing about the magazine, they promise "booze, art, and merriment" and thats cool by me.

Date: Thursday, October 6th
Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Jigsaw Gallery (526 E. 11th)
Cost: Free

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Joyous Maximus

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It's time for Maximum Joy once again, the free booze invasion of the Adidas store. Maybe this time they'll rememeber the ice! There's an ambitious 3 hour open bar and music by Blu Jemz and Ge-ology who are both fantastic but can be caught any Tuesday for free at Opus22. Why do brands always throw parties with DJs i can see any day of the week? What kind of draw is that? Oh.... 3 hour open bar... got it.

Date: Thursday, October 6th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Adidas Originals store (136 Wooster Street)
Cost: Free, bring flyer printout

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Voices from Death Row

Voices from Death Row is a national speaking tour to raise awareness and end the death penalty. "Hear the stories of men and women who have survived the horrors of death row. Former death row prisoners, family members and activists reveal the truth about the death penalty and the injustices of our criminal justice system. Their stories give voice to the voiceless and put a human face on the death penalty." Speakers include Lawrence Hayes (a former death row prisoner and Black Panther), Monique Matthews (sister of exonerated Louisiana death row prisoner Ryan Matthews), and Billy Sothern (anti-death penalty lawyer from New Orleans.) [found on Contested Terrain]

Date: Thursday, October 6th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: City College - Harlem, NAC Building 1st floor (137th Street and Amsterdam Ave)
Cost: Free

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Big Pimpin'

Sneaker Pimps is back in town this week. No, not the trip hop band, but the touring exhibition of kick ass kicks. If you are a sneaker whore, you need to check them out. Come for the shoes and stay for the Public Enemy preformance with DJ Elle and Robots in a Coma plus a Motug live art instillation featuring FUTURA, LASE, DOZE, GREEN GHOST, SHEPARD FAIREY, TKID 170, EWOK 5MH, CES, DIZMOLOGY, TOOFLY and STASH.

Date: Thursday, October 6th
Time: 8pm
Venue: Avalon, 20th and 6th
Cost: $5

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Gang of Four Listening Party

Finally, someone combined all of our favorite things into one night... V2 records invades our current favorite venue for a Gang of Four CD release/listening party. Free Red Stripe is on hand from 9-10. In the words of the promoter... "As Gang Of Four is a great and political band, we know it will be an exciting cultural event."

Date: Thursday, October 6th
Time: 9:00pm - 12:00am
Location: Nublu (Avenue 6 between 4th and 5th)
Cost: Free

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Ras Sinead

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This is FreeNYC's official WTF party of the week. Tonight is a release (and hopefully listening) party for Sinead O'Conners Throw Down Your Arms which is a 12 song collection of reggae (reggae? oh reggae!) songs from the likes of Lee Perry and Pete Tosh. You should come out just to snag a copy of the CD. Featuring DJs J-maz and Free Red Stripe.

Date: Thursday, October 6th
Time: 9:00pm - 12:00am
Location: No. 1 Chinese (50 Avenue B at 4th Street)
Cost: Free

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Maxi-Mal

It took me a while to find some info on this one but it seems that there is a new party at Happy Ending called Maxi-Mal on the first Thursday of the month. The keywords are right up our alley these days (industrial, NRG, acid breaks, freestyle and italo eclectro) and the 2 hr open bar from 10-12 and the giveaways from Lucky Jeans makes it a worth one to check out. Thursdays in NYC have been slacking lately... maybe this is the party to fire this town back up. DJ bio's after the fold curtesy of Repellentzine.

Date: Thursday, October 6th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Happy Ending (302 Broome Street Between Forsyth and Eldridge)
Cost: Free

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Rio for Lunch

Who goes to South Street Seaport for lunch? Let along get dressed for carnival? But, if you are in the area this afternoon then check out the South Street Seaport Rio-esque carnival (the "esque" is because Bloomberg would never let anything close to an authentic carnival go down) with live music and giveaways. They are even giving away a car and $5000 for those dressed for the occasion

Date: Friday, October 7th
Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Location: South Street Seaport (Fulton Street at the East River)
Cost: Free

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The Sodium Fox

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I have to admit that we have been light on art events over the past few days. September is kind of like back to school time for the galleries so everything was live and fresh then. Most of that stuff is still up so look through the archives and - if you have not done so already - check out the exhibits by Gary Baseman, Miss Van, Marcel Dzama (all three end Saturday), or Lauri Anderson while they are still up.

But tonight my eye was caught by a 14 minutes video piece, Sodium Fox by Jeremy Blake which examines "internal and external landscapes as similar vessels for subjectivity." The visuals look stunning and the soundtrack is intriguingly created by a Nashville poet/musician named David Berman. While unfamiliar with Blakes work, the press release promises that he creates "formal inventions with a unique and deeply psychological exploration of Pop portraiture." May be worth a visit.

Date: Friday, October 7th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Feigen Contemporary Gallery (535 West 20th Street)
Cost: Free

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Project Playdate

"Every artist needs a room of her own; that is, a rec room. In PROJECT PLAYDATE artist Amy Beecher invites three unacquainted emerging artists to create art together for a day. On October 7th Beecher will transform the recently opened bodega cum art gallery Diamonds and Oranges into a play room and workshop for artists Orit Ben-Shitrit, Jen Dunlap and Jess Ryan, supplying them with plastic and audiovisual materials for the most productive play date ever." Milk and cookies will be served.

Date: Friday, October 7th
Time: 7:00pm -9:00pm
Location: Diamonds and Oranges (156 1st Ave between 9th and 10th)
Cost: Free

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Sometimes You Just Trust a DJ

Every once and a while there is an event that makes me love New York City. Take this for example...

Start with the Whitney, which is showing a fantastic photographic exhibit portraying the effects of the construction industy on the American landscape. Next add DJ Spooky, the genre-free NY native who's turntables are more aligned with delivering deep narratives of hazy beats rather thank epic dance-floor peaks. Now put them together and you have my ideal transition from work week to week end. I mean, I have no idea what its going to soundlike but sometimes you just trust a DJ.

As part of the pay-what-you-wish Friday evening Whitney Live series, DJ Spooky will joint "avant-rock trio PRINT" and "brass collective Tilt" to recast works from experimental modernist composers - and electronic music pioneers - Edgar Varèse, Carl Ruggles, and Carlos Salzedo (International Composers Guild).

Here 20 minutes from DJ Spooky's Abstrakt Blockback (real)

Date: Friday, October 7th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Whitney Museum of American Art (Madison Ave between 74th and 75th)
Cost: Pay-what-you-wish (begins at 6:00pm)

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Keep It Local

As if there aren't enough things dissauding you from going into the city tonight, like bomb threats, the sketchy L train, and hordes of NYU kids, Savalas is trying to keep you out in the 'Burg with their party, Zero Transportation. Brought to you by DJs Brian Beck, Michael Elkind, Paul Rocha, and this week's guest DJ, Vito, from The Rapture. Now, I haven't been to this one yet but "Zero Transportation supports music that will send you stumbling home - on foot - at 4am" and that is something I'm very much in favor of (plus I really liked their flyer).

Date: Friday, October 7th
Time: 9pm -4am
Venue: Savalas, 285 Bedford
Cost: Free

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