The Scottish Village
 Date: Saturday, 1st April to Saturday 8th April
Time: 11:00am to 7:00pm all week
Location: Grand Central Terminal (42nd Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: This week come visit the Scottish Village exhibition area in Grand Central to explore Scottish traditions and learn more about Scotland. Highlights include free musical shows, see cooking demonstrations (and samples!), visit stalls where you can trace your Scottish roots with a professional geneologist, and talk whisky with members of the Glenfiddich distillery staff. Check the website for daily listing of events.
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East Village Festival
 Date: Saturday, April 1st
Time: 11:00am to 6:00pm
Location: East Village (Fourth Avenue between Astor Place and East 5th Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: The winter is definately behind us and its time to get outside and enjoy the weather. Today head down to the East Village Street fair to shop for some bargins and a cheap lunch!
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City Reliquary Opening
 Date: Saturday, April 1st
Time: 12:00pm
Location: City Reliquary (370 Metropolitan Ave at Havemeyer, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free for memebers, 50¢ otherwise
Summary: Brooklyns finest spot for obscure NYC artifacts such as bolts from the Brooklyn Bridge and sand from Jones Beach finds itself a new homec complete with a day of celebration.
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"Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with great pride that I can now announce to you the most significant event in City Reliquary history... Please join us for the very special, GRAND OPENING CEREMONIES of the new CITY RELIQUARY MUSEUM"
* The swearing in and sash presentations of the City Reliquary Board of Directors
* Red ribbon cutting by: Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz & City Council Representative Diana Reyna
* An 8 cork-popping salute with the finest sparkling champagne
* An audio tribute on our turn of the century Victor Talking Machines Victrola
* An extravagant 3-tiered cake by our neighbors at Cheeks Bakery
* Additional refreshments
* over 500 square feet of unique New York City historical displays
* a small gift shop selling commemorative T-shirts
* and the BEST small-town, big-city museum ever to be created For-the-People
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Wine and Eye Candy Grand Opening
 Date: Saturday, April 1st and Sunday, April 2nd
Time: 3:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: Apartment 6A (319 E. 8th St. Between Ave. B and C. Apt. #6A)
Cost: Free
Summary: For this weekend only some poor soul is converting his East Village apartment into a gallery. Eleven local artists with be showcased with works ranging from jewelry to sculpture to paintings. Wine will be served! The rooftop is converted into a dancefloor and expect djs and musical performers.
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Holy Crap, it's April Fools Day!
 Date: Saturday, April 1st
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Ft. Greene Park, Brooklyn
Cost: Free
Summary: Join the finest underground marching bands in New York for an evening of mayhem, pranks, and of course brass band music.
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"Indeed, and more than that, it's spring. So in commemoration of the primordial chaos from which all things sprung, and in anticipation of better days to come, your dear friends in Marchingbandlandia are set to pump some life back into this languid town through mischief and diablerie. Dress to distress and come on out to Ft. Greene Park to catch a whiff of the undulating weirdness of the Hungry March Band, the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, the What Cheer? Brigade, and A Lesser Panda, four of the most titanic, charismatic, enigmatic, never sycophantic, and always up your antic brass bands the Northeast has to offer. It'll make you want to have grandkids so you can tell them about it."
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
 Date: Saturday, April 1st
Time: 7:00pm - 12:00am
Location: MF Gallery (157 Rivington between Clinton and Suffolk)
Cost: Free
Summary: Female underground artists come together for this group exhibition. The opening features body painting of roller derby girls and Heavy Metal DJing.
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Martina and Frank of New York City's MF Gallery have put together a group of today's most talented women artists for this all-female show.
Martina Secondo Russo, the Gallery's co-owner will present a new series of horror pop paintings. Elizabeth McGrath is emerging as one of the top female artists of our generation. One of her gory mounted heads will be on display in this show. Angelique Houtkamp, a tattoo artist from The Netherlands is quickly gaining fame around the world for her classic tattoo-inspired paintings and baby skulls. Jenny Bird Alcantara's hand painted dolls were included in the 2004 and 2005 MF Toy Shows. Now she will present some new ink and acrylic paintings. Angie Mason also participated in the 2005 MF Toy Show with her cute and creepy creations. Misato Nagare is a Japanese- born artist and designer living and working in Los Angeles. Fawn Gehweiler's, cartoon illustrations portray a modern fantasy. Tara McPherson, an artist from California who has recently moved to Brooklyn, will be displaying some new limited edition prints. Nicole Steen of The Pop Tarts, a gallery owner and artist from Vancouver, will show her trademark painted gloves. Other artists include: Molly Crabapple, Stephanie Buscema, Smitty, Pufferella, and More.
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Shut up and Rock 2nd Anniversary
 Date: Saturday, April 1st
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Rockstar Bar (349 Kent St, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free
Summary: Booze, Bands, and Art come together at this reoccuring underground art show.
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Pablo Picasso once said: "Art is a lie that makes us realize the
truth." Mirroring the political and economical turmoil of the 1980's,
which birthed the modern punk movement, today's age of global unrest
and injustices have created a far darker and grittier backlash against
the mainstream world at large. With an art world so caught up in it's
own pomp it serves itself more than the public; a music industry
caught up in subculture dividing and cookie-cutter practices; and a
political regime responsible for irrehensibles crimes, the ethos of
punk and art activism has risen from the 20 year fog with a helluva
hangover and a taste for more.
Spearheaded by main stays in the East Coast punk scene, up and coming
photographers, illustrators, tattoo artists, and graffiti writers have
combined forces to form the Shut Up & Rock art series which is
celebrating its 2nd Anniversary with an opening April 1st at the
Rockstar Bar in Brooklyn, NY. Featuring art from: Jason and Brian
McKown, Tyler Cancro, James O'Brien, Rob Harrigan, Gary Floyd, former
front man for the punk trailblazers the Dicks, Robert Lotzko, Doug
Williams, the East Coast Weasels, Stephanie Buscema, Dan Storer, and
many more. Featuring performances by Check Your Face, Banana Oil,
Invade, and Robots and Empire.
Abandoning the idea of galleries, wine and cheese, they replaced them
with punk, beers, and bars. And with that change they shook off the
dust and archaic practices of the art world and embraced the DIY
mindset that has shaken up the establishment again and again.
Keeping with the stride of dada, the surrealists, and the founding
punk father's practice of combining art with music, a show with
protest, a new generation of artists and bands spanning from Brooklyn,
the Bronx, Uptown, Downtown, East Coast, West Coast, U.S. and Europe,
have picked up the flag, dusted it off, and are waving it for all to
see.
You are invited to join us at the Shut Up and Rock Art show 2nd
Anniversary, April 1st at the Rockstar Bar, at 349 Kent St. Brooklyn,
NY under the Williamsburg Bridge. Come join us in some punk,
dissention, celebration, and art.
"Drink the wine from the rich man's cask, this revolution won't be the
last…Viva La Revolution."
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Take a Ride On The Mower
 Date: Saturday, April 8th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Parkside Lounge (317 East Houston St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: Riding Mower Records 6th Birthday Bonanza and Band Showcase. There will be live performances from Two Tales, Convertible Jennifers, Lovetester, Van Rivers, Shiva Copal, P.I.C, Black Sonny and The Jack Lords.
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Sunday Street Festivals!
 Date: Sunday, April 2nd
Time: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Location: Myrtle Avenue Festival (Myrtle Ave from Fresh Pond to Wyckoff) and 23rd Street Festival (23rd Street from 7th Ave to 8th Ave)
Cost: Free
Summary: For some perfect post-brunch wandering check out the Myrtle Avenue Festival and the 23rd Street Festival.
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Free Skate
 Date: Sunday, April 2nd
Time: 1:00pm - 3:50pm
Location: The Sky Rink, Chelsea Piers (Pier 61)
Cost: Free
Summary: When I was in second grade, on top of the ballet lessons, my parents thought I should also take ice skating lessons. I mean I think I was just so skinny then they weren't really sure what else to do with me. Anyway, If you are looking to get your Tanya Harding on, The Sky Rink is offering free ice skating every Sunday from 1 to 3:50. Skate or die!
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Share
 Date: Sunday, October 30th
Time: 7:00pm - 1:00am
Location: Mundial (505 East 12th Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Share is the closest thing we've seen to a nob twiddler's 'jam' session. Its an open mic of sorts where musicians are invited to come out, plug in their gear, and jam along with each other. We love impov and can only hope that this is an example of the beautiful connectivity of man (and man) and machine (and more machines).
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Drop Dead Gorgeous
 Date: Sunday, April 2nd
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Beauty Bar (231 East 14th Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Tonight get down n dirty at the monthly beauty pageant extravaganza at the Beauty Bar. Regular Drop Dead Gorgeous dj's Chip and Jason Cole spin rock, punk and metal.
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Freelancing Goes Mainstream
 Date: Monday, April 3rd
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Mid-Manhattan Library (455 5th Ave)
Cost: Free
Summary: Sara Horowitz, founder of Working Today talks about the struggles and problems of the independant workforce at this library event. Something that hits home with FreeNYC.
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This is one of those events that we REALLY related to. As a full time freelance (both with Defined by Media and FreeNYC), Working Today is responsible for making sure that all of my MRI's, Doctor visits and assorted injuries don't put me on the poor house. In fact, over half of our staff use The Freelancers Union. Tonight, Sara Horowitzs will talk about what it takes to make it as a self-employed worker here in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Please help Sara, I am tired of eating Ramon and drinking PBR (okay, I still love PRB but you get the idea.)
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Vilnai at Satchmos
Date: Monday, April 3rd
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Satchmo's
Cost: Free
Summary: Sunday morning my friend and I walked over to Satchmos for some ice coffee and one of the best cranberry muffins I have ever had. I was sitting there thinking I definitely needed to stop by more, and here is a perfect reason. Jay Vilnai, one third of the EthnoEccntric String Trio, will be performing tonight with vocalist, Jean Rohe. Stop by, grab a coffee and a pastery and listen to some music.
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Dead or Alive
 Date: Monday, April 3rd
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Dekk (134 Reade Street at Hudson)
Cost: Free
Summary: Columbia Universiy's Undercase Showground kicks off their monthly showcase of eclectic Japanese Yakuza Theatre tonight with Takashi Miike's Dead or Alive. Its the perfect combination of original indie theatre and good old fashioned sex and violence. 17+ to enter.
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"The Tokyo underworld is being torn apart by a turf war between the
yakuza gangs and the invading Chinese triads. Ambitious yakuza
member Ryuichi (Riki Takeuchi) isn't above playing both sides off
against each other in his bid for power, while police detective
Jojima (Sho Aikawa), himself none too scrupulous in his methods, is
out to destroy the gangs.
The first 6 minutes are reason enough to stay for the next 99 and
will keep your head spinning for weeks. A film that Elvis Mitchell
called “soulless,” you will never look at the frozen food section
or knife throwing clowns the same way again."
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Pervert Saloon
 Date: Monday, April 3rd
Time: 8:00 pm - 10:00pm (doors open at 7:30)
Location: Galapagos Art Space, 70 North 6th St., Williamsburg
Cost: Free
Summary: A family of strangers are New York City's Sex Bloggers - online writers, telling tales of their sex lives in this City. [...]these writers' narratives have one thing in common: they are sexually explicit. You'll find stories that twist real-life narratives together [...] Their tangled tales of exploration and conquest, freedom, exhibition and love will be told aloud and in person for the first time when the bloggers show their faces and read from their work at the New York City Peverts' Saloon.
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Freestyle Mondays
Date: Monday, April 3rd
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Sin Sin (248 East 5th Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Ease yourself into the week with Sin Sin's open mic night followed by resident DJs (DJ Chris Annibel, Obah and marv!) spinning rock, soul, classic hip hop and world rhythms. $3 domestic beers will help soothe the horror of your Monday.
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The Nublu Orchestra
 Date: Monday, April 3rd
Time: 11:00pm
Location: Nublu (62 Ave C)
Cost: $5
Summary: The Nublu Orchestra is really a site to be seen. Tonight, over a dozen jazz and electronic musicians will pack themselves into the tiny Nublu space to create funky, jazzy, dubbed out space groove. The sound is a result of "structured improvisation" through conduction, a series of hand gestures developed by the Orchestra's director Butch Morris. Dj Dodo spinns rare dub before, after and in-between. Highly Recommended.
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The Arabian Nights
 Date: Tuesday, April 4th
Time: 12:30pm and 8:00pm
Location: Gerald Lynch Theater at The John Jay College of Criminal Justice (10th Ave bet. 58th and 59th)
Cost: Free
Summary: Based on the ancient text of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, The Arabian Nights by Mary Zimmerman is a story of stories, a collection of Arabic tales woven together into a theatrical experience that addresses topics of war, justice, prejudice, and gender issues. Continues through the 7th (see below for times)
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SHOW TIMES:
April 4th, performances at 12:30 PM and 8 PM
April 5th, performances at 12:30 PM and 8 PM
April 6th, performances at 8 PM
April 7th, performances at 8 PM
When we meet the king Shahryr at the beginning of the story, his madness has driven him to sacrifice all of the women of his kingdom until only his servant's daughters, Dunyazade and Scheherezade, are left. Despite his servant's pleas, Shahryr commands his servant to bring his oldest daughter, Scheherezade, to become his next sacrificial bride.
Scheherezade, however, has a plan. Their first night together she tells the king a tale about a madman whose selfishness blinds him to true love and beauty. We meet this madman, and hear his tale as it is played out before us in the bedroom of Shahryr's palace. As the sun comes up at the end of the first night, Scheherezade stops her story and begins to prepare for her inevitable fate. But the king, enchanted by her tale, wants to hear more and decides to let her live one more night. So begins Scheherezade's, and our, journey into these enchanting and mythical stories.
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS addresses topics of war, justice, prejudice, and gender issues. The John Jay College production of THE ARABIAN NIGHTS consists of a cast that reflects the multi-ethnic, multi-generational character of our campus and will be performed at the Gerald Lynch Theater at The John Jay College of Criminal Justice on Tenth Avenue, between 58th and 59th
Street.
http://johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu/theater/season06.asp
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Is There Any Affordable Housing Left in NYC?
Date: Tuesday, April 4th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Urban Housing Assistance (1670 Longfellow Avenue at 173rd Street, Bronx)
Cost: Free
Summary: The Urban Housing Assistance Board gives a free presentation this evening on the future of home ownership opportunities in NYC.
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Turkish Groove
 Date: Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Kush (191 Chrystie Street between Stanton & Rivington)
Cost: Free
Summary: From the same cats that threw "Brazilian Lounge" a few weeks back at SOB's comes the Turkish Groove release party tonight at Kush... Expect the best in hookah bar beats without the obnoxious house music thump.
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Hefty 10th Anniversary Party!
 Date: Tuesday, April 4th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: APT (419 West 13th Street bet. 9th and Washington)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: ???, 9:00pm - 10:00pm
Summary: Chicago's Hefty Records celebrates 10 years with a serious section of live and DJ sets. On board tonight are Eliot Lipp (live), Prefuse 73, Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv), Ryuichi Sakamoto, and John Hughes (Slicker, Hefty founder). With a night of leftfield hip-hop and dance electric madness, and an open bar, this comes highly recommended.
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"Hefty Records is a Chicago based label that is known for being eclectic in it's releases. The imprints respected discography includes everything from the spiritual jazz of PHIL RANELIN to the sonic experimental pop of TELEFON TEL AVIV It's known as a home to post-rock, IDM, jazz and down-tempo exemplified by such acts as: SLICKER, SAVATH & SAVALAS, ELIOT LIPP, L’ALTRA, SOME WATER AND SUN, PLUS DEVICE and others. The label celebrates 10 years of activity this spring."
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Born Romantic
 Date: Tuesday, April 4th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Rififi (332 East 11th Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Tonight the Born Romantic team of two MC/DJ's bring their show to Rififi. They combine turntables, hip hop, short stories, vintage vinyl and poetry into a charismatic performance.
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URB Magazine Prsents Disco D
 Date: Tuesday, April 4th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: SOB's (204 Varick at W. Houston)
Cost: Free with URB RSVP by 5pm
Summary: URB celebrated their April issue release with ex-ghetto tech-house genius/current hiphop/baile funk super-producer Disco D. Braza, DJ Sujinho & Cassiano join in more baile funk fun. Expect the unexpected and be prepared to sweat!
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Everyone Needs A Little House
 Date: Tuesday, April 4th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Alibi Lounge (116 MacDougal)
Cost: Free
Summary: FreeNYC goes back and forth about how much house music we need in our diet, but we do agree that you should definitely head over to Alibi for at least one serving. Tuesday night that deliver deep house courtesy of resident DJ, DJ Spider and a weekly guest, this week's being Jason Hayer.
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Ice Theatre of New York
 Date: Wednesday, April 5th
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Rockefeller Ice Rink (30 Rockefeller Plaza)
Cost: Free
Summary: Enjoy a final free performance of ice theatre dancing at the Rockefeller Ice Rink in your lunch hour today before the ice rink is packed up for the summer! This final concert will feature the subtle skating and choreography of long time Ice Theatre skater/dancer, David Liu. The program will also include a piece choreographed for David and the Ice Theatre by the late, Carlos Orta.
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Thrillist x Slate
Date: Wednesday, April 5th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Slate (54 West 21st Street)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Open Bar: ???, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Summary: Slate's upscale new Plus lounge slings mighty cocktails, suds from around the world, and plus-sized food. Tonigh, Thrillist invades with an open bar for your post work woes.
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Irit Batsry: The Yellow Line Opening
 Date: Wednesday, April 5th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: MonkeyTown
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Wine and Moresels served
Summary: In The Yellow Line, Irit Batsry uses Monkey Town's four-screen environment to surround the viewers with images of people behind black and yellow tapes used to mark the boundary of a film set. The margins of the set become the center of attention. The onlookers on location become the subject of this work as well as its "actors". The yellow line—a thin separation between the quotidian and cinematic artifice—becomes a protagonist. Continues through May 18th, Wed - Sunday (5pm - 7pm)
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The poverty that dominates Brazil's Northeast interior is apparent in the images Batsry recorded in the town of Iguatu, on the set of a new (yet untitled) film by Karim Ainouz (Madame Satã). But the people shown are not reduced to their economic and social circumstances. The Yellow Line is one part in an ongoing cycle of works that originate from material shot by Batsry on the sets of three Brazilian feature films.
The first in the cycle, Set, a multi-channel video installation and architectural outdoor projection was shown at the Whitney Museum in 2003-2004. "(Ms. Batsry) displays an unusual ability to draw rich pictorial, symbolic and poetic resonances from the nuts and bolts of filmmaking, and she shows a sure grasp of the inextricable unity of form and content, or structure and meaning, that is scarce in contemporary art." -- Roberta Smith, The New York Times, 1/9/2004.
The second, Through the Looking, an exhibition including installations, video and photography was recently shown at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica.
The Yellow Line: produced by Irit Batsry Studio; curated with Montgomery Knott and Karyn Riegel.
Irit Batsry is the recipient of the prestigious Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum Award in 2002. She received the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1992) and the Grand Prix of the Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedia, Paris (1996 and 2001). Her work has been shown extensively in 35 different countries including shows at the National Gallery (Washington), the National Film Theater and the ICA (London), Reina Sofia (Madrid) and Museu de Arte Moderna (Rio). These Are Not My Images (neither there nor here), her feature length work, was recently acquired and screened by The MoMA (New York).
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Dorkbot
 Date: Wednesday, April 5th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Location One (26 Greene Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Its time for another instalment of Dorkbot, the group of people that gather to discuss some of the weirder things people try to do with electricty. On the line up today is John Arroyo talking about Eingen Rhythm Software, Jeff Han on Multi-Touch Interaction Research and John Huntington discussing how to synchronize live performance with musical time.
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John Arroyo: Eingen Rhythm Software
Using machine learning statistical analysis a rhythmic synthesizer
was created. It is a rhythm composer of sorts that is trained instead
of user programmed. The end result is an intelligent groove box where
interpolations of the seed rhythms are possible to generate in real-
time. Each of the seed rhythms is automatically extracted and
projected into a space, the user can then move around in this space
and morph one rhythm into the next. More intelligent instruments are
on the drawing board...moving towards a new paradigm in music
software synthesis.
http://www.rhythmicresearch.com
Jeff Han: Multi-Touch Interaction Research
While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact,
multi-touch systems enables a user to interact with a system with
more than one finger at a time, allowing for the use of both hands
along with chording gestures. These kinds of interactions hold
tremendous potential for advances in efficiency, usability, and
intuitiveness. Multi-touch systems are inherently also able to
accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful
for collaborative scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops.
We've developed a new multi-touch sensing technique that's
unprecedented in precision and scalability, and I will be
demonstrating some of our latest research on the new sorts of
interaction techniques that are now possible.
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch
John Huntington: Synchronizing Live Performance with Musical Time
Modern entertainment and show control systems run in many different
ways, but are often used in a linear mode, where all the elements of
a show are locked to a fixed time base (and the time base is often
linked to some linear media). For example, a prerecorded video might
be played in a live show, and lighting and sound cues might then be
programmed to trigger at precise times, down to the video frame. This
approach is cost-effective and relatively easy to program, but, of
course, the actors, dancers, musicians and other performers have to
synchronize themselves to this pre-determined, rigid clock structure,
and this severely limits the performance. Even with those
limitations, however the majority of media-synchronized live shows
today sacrifice flexibility in order to gain precision and control,
and execute all lighting, video and other cues from a rigid clock.
Professor John Huntington and Dr. David B. Smith, colleagues at NYC
College of Technology's Entertainment Technology department, believe
that that the technology should track the performers, not the other
way around, and this is the focus of our research into the use of
Musical Time as a synchronization source. Music runs on "musical" or
"metric" time, where the musician or conductor has total control over
the tempo, down to a beat level. Unlike linear time, Musical Time can
slow down or speed up, allowing the music to respond to the actions
of singers and other performers.
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Music Scene Critic
Date: Wednesday, April 5th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Housing Works Used Book Cafe (126 Crosby Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: If you aspire to get into the music industry, tonight join music journos Chuck Klosterman (Spin), Elysa Garner (USA Today), Alan Light (Vibe, Spin, Tracks) and more of their contempories as they give the real story on breaking into the world of rock criticism.
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Mobida Afrikast Live!
 Date: Wednesday, April 5th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Kush (191 Chrystie at Stanton)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Starr African Rum, 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Summary: Modiba AFRIKAST Live! brings together live performance, DJing, video art, body painting, and dancing into a unified experience – an interactive interpretation of Africa in America. This first edition will feature Soul in the Hole's own DJ Kwame Akbar on the turntables, Yoshi Takemasa and Baye Kouyate on drums, and Zarah Cabañas of FireFly Lab dropping cutting-edge live video art. Consider this your personal invitation to be part of one of the most exciting, experimental, and downright FUN events of the year!
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Cringe Reading Night
Date: Wednesday, April 5th
Time: 8:30pm
Location: Freddy's Bar & Backroom (Dean & 6th Ave., Brooklyn)
Cost: Free
Summary: When I was in middle school I used to keep a diary about boys I liked, girls I didn't and all around young girl sillyness. Now when my liltle sister was mad at me and would read it, it was sorta embarassing, now picture it being read in public to a room full of people. The Cringe Reading series is "Funny people reading from their old diaries, letters, songs, poems, and other general representations of the crushing misery of their humiliating adolescence, but it's okay because they're totally cool and well-adjusted and super attractive now." Today is their first b-day, so come out and cringe with the rest of us.
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Farewell Social Comedy Show
 Date: Wednesday, April 5th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Sin Sin, at Leopard Lounge (5th St at 2nd Ave)
Cost: Free
Summary: The Social Experiment is an open forum for comedians to try out their new material. After 3 years, this NYC comedy staple is packing it in. Come out tonight and say your farewells. T-shirt and drink give aways.
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Neat Neat Neat
 Date: Wednesday, April 5th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Manitoba's, 99 Avenue B (bet. 6th & 7th)
Cost: Free
Summary: The Neat Neat Neat monthly party continues this week at Manitoba's as Mike C. and special guest DJ Catskillz bring you some raucous rock and roll. $3 PBR all night.
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Guilty Pleasures
 Date: Wednesday, April 5th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Happy Ending (302 Broome)
Cost: Free
Summary: FreeNYC DJ favorite, Moe Choi, joins forces with Lloydski to bring you the very best in Classic Hip-Hop, Soul, Disco, 88 Tech, Glitch Hop, Breaks, Reggae, Dub, Salsa,
Latin Breaks, etc, as well as some of their Guilty Pleasures. 2-for-1 beer and well drinks from 10 to 11 help you get your school night drink on.
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Quality of Life Ticket Giveaway!
 Tomorrow is the opening of Quality of Life, a 100% independent DIY film that shines dramatic light on true-to-life underground graffiti culture as it paints a portrait of two torn young artists. Since we're all about DIY, and all about graffiti, and all about free sh!t, we've copped a pair of free tickets to one of next week's screenings (Monday - Wednesday) for the person who sends us the best writing story. Deadline is this Thursday so holler at us. In the meantime, Quality of Life is playing through next weekend at the Pioneer and selling out fast so learn more about the film here or grab your presales here.
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C.O.R.E.
 Date: Thursday, March 23rd
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm (the flyer says 5pm, but it has been changed to 6pm, food begins at 7pm)
Location: Mixx Lounge (84 7th Ave South)
Cost: Free
Summary: Earlier this week someone told me that "grown ups is tired." So whether you are looking to call it an early night from a hard days work or you just want some free food, join FreeNYC favorite, DJ Moe Choi, at Mixx for 2-for-1 drinks and free dinner buffet beginning at 7!
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Lazzarini
 Date: Thursday, April 25th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Deitch Projects (76 Grand Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Tonights opening at Deitch features drawings by "Robert Lazzarini, on paper and canted panels as well as a two-part wall drawing. These new works build on Lazzarini’s existing vocabulary of compound planar and sine wave distortion with increasing complexity. Incorporating convoluted structure and an insistent physicality, his work addresses phenomenology, spatial disorientation, perception, and new types of vision."
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Releasing The Wax
 Date: Thursday, April 6th
Time: 7:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Opus 22 (22nd St and 11th Ave)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Summary: Tonight is the release of Wax Poetics issue 16. On the early side of the night Tanya Morgan celebrates the realse of her new album, featuring DJ Brainchild and DJ B Sharp. Then at 10 Wax Poetics take over for issue 16 with DJ Monkone and DJ G. Brown
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Artists Play Too
 Date: Thursday, April 6th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: FILA (340 Madison Ave at 43rd St.)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Summary: Join FILA and NYCOLLECTIVE PROJECT to preview limited edition t-shirts and bid on one-of-a-kind collaborative paintings. There will of course be beverages provided, and featured DJs on the turntables. Artists include: Adhemas Batista, Darren Greenblatt, Pete Hahn, Nam Kim, Dust La Rock, Kasper Ledet, Jimm Lasser, Larry Mayorga, MomiMomi, Youth of Tomorrow, and Linda Z.
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Mixed Doubles
Date: Thursday, April 6th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Lolita Bar (266 Broome St)
Cost: Free
Summary: The All England Club presents Mixed Doubles, a monthly assortment of DJs all from across the pond. Plus there is free Guinness/Harp from 9 to 10.
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Better Than Bluberries
 Date: Thursday, April 6th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Askew (504 LaGuardia Place)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Rum, 9 to 10
Summary: Personally, I don't like blueberries, so almost anything is better than them, but I would go as far as saying this new Thursday party in April is actually better than blackberries(my personal favorite of the berries). Each week they will bring you top notch DJs including Catchdubs, Telekintic Kat and Caps and Jones. Tonight is Sujinho and Cassiano and all the free rum you can drink from 9 to 10.
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Robots in a Coma
 Date: Thursday, April 6th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Fat Baby (112 Rivington)
Cost: Free
Summary: Sometimes I think the reason these dudes are Robots in a Coma is 'cause they are tired from DJing like 10 times a week! Tonight Moe Choi and Chasekillz show their powers along side Reverend McFly and Dru Dollarz. Also, in case you have any doubt that April is THE birthday month, tonight is the bday jump off for DJ Special Needs.
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Open Bar, Gift Bags, Free Bodies Passes...
 Come out this Saturday and help FreeNYC turn two years old! We've got 6 DJs and 2 Live acts playing everything from hip-hop classics, crunked out grime jams and prom favorites, to dancefloor techno, and live funk. Plus, we've got open bar at 10th AND free passes to the Bodies exhibit for the first 50 people AND Snoozer Looser gift bags to the last 25 standing! The L is running and the party is free. Damn son, what are you waiting for?
FEATURING MUSIC BY:
Chin Chin (live)
The Bangers
Drop The Lime
Greenways8 (live)
Math Head
DJ Moe Choi
Justin Carter
DJ Shakeyface
AND LIVE VISUALS BY superDraw
Date: Saturday, April 8th
Time: 10:30 - 4:00am
Location: Galapagos (70 North 6th St, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free, but please RSVP
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Damage
 Date: Friday, April 7th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: DCKT Contemporary Gallery (552 West 24th Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Glowlab bring Christina Ray to a blank art space to create a large-scale audio-visual experience based on physical impact. Choose your damage locations on the website and read the press release below for more info.
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Christina RAY invites you to damage DCKT Contemporary by proxy through her enactment of collected requests. Prior to the opening of the show, the DAMAGE interactive website (http://damageproject.christinaray.com) will allow visitors to mark a spot to be damaged on a virtual map of the gallery and to submit a message, poem, story or other text relating to the concept of damage. Based on the submissions, RAY
will inflict physical damage points on the actual wall space which will generate the pattern for a large-scale wall drawing.
The collected damage messages will inform an audio environment designed by RAY and Brooklyn-based band My Best Fiend. A video piece relating to the installation co-produced by RAY and music video director Robin Antiga will be screened as well. RAY will also present a series of studies for the wall drawing as part of the exhibition.
DAMAGE builds on RAY’s previous work in which she utilized observed actions of urban pedestrians and street traffic as public space pattern generators for drawings. As action-at-a-distance turns into something real, the participants will become materially connected to the interior space. The roughed-up wall surface, painted paths
and acoustic triggers will translate the participants’ web experience of clicking and typing into a tactile, located experience. The inclusion of the public as well as a production team for the web, audio, and video components of the exhibition reflects Ray’s process of working collaboratively, which is an important element of her
practice.
The exhibition will be on view at DCKT Contemporary, 552 West 24th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea. Hours are 11am to 6pm, Tuesday through Saturday. There will be a reception for the artist on Friday, April 7 from 6 – 8 pm. For further information, please contact Dennis Christie or Ken Tyburski at the gallery.
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Brooklyn Poster Show
 Date: Friday, April 7th
Time: 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Secret Project Robot (210 Kent Ave at Metropolitain, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free
Summary: "The Brooklyn Poster Show is an Art installation in appreciation of poster art and a tribute to its role in the forming of culture and the beautification of our streets. With free drinks and local music." Continues through April 30th.
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Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes
 Date: Friday, April 7th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: KGB Bar (85 East 4th Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: The Mad Hatters' Review brings their innaugural "anything goes" reading series to KGB tonght. Expect the dark, twisted side of the NY literary scene. Reader's bios after the jump.
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Paul Beckman, contributor of three darkly witty flash fictions in Mad Hatters' Review, Issue 3, received an MFA from Bennington in 1999. Paul lives just over the border in Connecticut. He's the father of poet Joshua Beckman. Paul has writings in The Connecticut Review, Other Voices, Playboy, Northeast Magazine, 5 Trope, Exquisite Corpse, Del Sol Review, and many other journals. His stories have been published in Germany, New Zealand & Ireland. Paul’s also a four time nominee for a Pushcart Prize.
Amy King, a future Mad Hatter contributor, is the author of the poetry collection, Antidotes for an Alibi (Blazvox Books), a Lambda Book Award finalist, and the chapbook, The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Award 2002). She currently teaches Creative Writing and English at Nassau Community College and a workshop of her own design, "Making the Urban Poetic," at Poets' House in Manhattan. Amy King's poems have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, TheMississippi Review, Tarpaulin Sky, Milk Magazine, and No Tell Motel, among others. She is the managing editor for the journal, MiPOesias. Please visit www.amyking.org for more.
Mark Crispin Miller is a professor of media studies at NYU, where he directs the Project on Media Ownership. A well-known media watchdog and frequent contributor to The Nation, he’s the author of Boxed in: The Culture of TV, The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder, and, Cruel and Unusual: Bush/Cheney's New World Order. Most recently, Miller wrote Fooled Again, a call to election reform, in which Miller argues that it wasn't moral values that swung the last election -- it was theft. Miller wrote and performed in "A Patriot Act," a chilling indictment of the movement to subvert the US Constitution and replace American democracy with religious values. Mad Hatters' Review will be publishing a review of Fooled Again in our fifth issue. See www.markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com.
Edgy & enlightened writers interested in being featured in the series should show upon April 7th bearing a couple of writing samples.
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Re-Version with Talib Kweli
 Date: Friday, April 7th
Time: 7:00pm (doors at 6:00pm)
Location: Pratt Memorial Hall (200 Willoughby Ave at Hall Street, Brooklyn)
Cost: Free with Any College ID, $4 without
Summary: Relive your old glory days on the football field as Pratt Radio brings a serious show to the student union. Performers include Talib Kweli, Amanda Diva, Substantial, Steve Wallace, and ILL Tazan.You can not go to this. They presold all the tickets to Pratt kids which is not what we were initially told... we're bummed too.
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Electric Boogaloo
 Date: Friday, April 7th
Time: 9:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Boogaloo (168 Marcy Ave bet. Broadway and South 5th, Williamsburg))
Cost: Free
Summary: Steven Caicedo and Jason Hayer take to the tables to bring you some of the finest in underground NYC house tonight at this hidden Williamsburg spot.
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Mondo
 Date: Friday, April 7th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Luke & Leroy ( 21 7th Ave South at Leroy St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) guest DJs at this popular indie dance party that has quietly become the most rollickingly fun Friday night in the city. Miss Modular, Dr. Maz, Kevington, and Michael Grace Jr. spin a freewheeling array of indie rock, outré pop, retro, punk and dance to a cute but friendly in-the-know crowd that isn't afraid to cut loose on the dance floor.
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Ain't Nothin' But a House Party
 Date: Friday, April 7th
Time: 10:00pm - 6:00am
Location: Union Square Ballroom (27 Union Square West between 15th and 16th)
Cost: Free with flyer before midnight, $10 after with flyer
Summary: An old school NYC House throw down with some of the original DJs on the scene. This place goes late and gets sweaty.
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House party is right. In that deep, funky, old school NYC house that keeps you dancing all night. This is one of the best spots to get down on the weekend without the mess, hassle, and door charge of the city's larger venues (and better music). Marlon D and Jellybean Benittez - who have been bringing deep house to NYC since the Paradise Garage and Studio 54 days - continue their aptly titled monthly. This monthly packs the Union Square Ballroom with people sweating from the rafters until sunrise.
Listen to a Marlon D set from 1994 (Real)
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Hip Hop Karaoke
 Date: Friday, April 7th
Time: 11:00pm (sign up at 10)
Location: Rothko (116 Suffolk at Rivington)
Cost: Free
Summary: Practice your mic skills at hip hop style at this raukus karaoke weekly.
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FreeNYC 2 Year Anniversary Party!
Two years ago I started this website because, well, I was kind of bored with what was going on in New York and I was like "Come on! This is New York City, there is no reason to be bored." Through this site I have found amazing art, heard new music, protested, partied and even learned a thing or two. Most of all I have found my love for the city I call home once again (tear). I hope that you have taken something away too...
Now it's two years later and we wanted to give something back. Tonight we are throwing Cheap and (Sl)easy, the FreeNYC 2 Year Anniversary party. We brought 8 (damn... that's a lot of music) of our favorite noise makers together for a two room blowout at Galapagos in Williamsburg. Everything from hip hop to electro-dance funk to grime to booty breaks to prom jams to techy techno is on the bill. Its simply amazing, the space is amazing and this is our total thank you to everyone who has helped us along the way. Even Sixpoint has come on to bring us a keg of Brooklyn Craft Brew to kick things off. So RSVP, come out, say what's up, and help us celebrate to the wee hours of the morning. Don't sleep on this one!
Date: Saturday, April 8th
Time: 10:30pm - 4:00am
Location: Galapagos, 70 North 6th Street, Williamsburg
Cost: Free with RSVP
Open Bar: Sixpoint, 10:30 "til the keg kicks"
FEATURING MUSIC BY:
Chin Chin (live)
The Bangers
Drop The Lime
Greenways8 (live)
Math Head
DJ Moe Choi
Justin Carter
DJ Shakeyface
AND LIVE VISUALS BY superDraw
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Tartan Day Parade
 Date: Saturday, April 8th
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Sixth Avenue (starts at 45th Street) participants are required to check-in no later than 1:00 pm
Cost: Free
Summary: Come join the Tartan army of New York City in this Scottish parade in celebration of Tartan Day.
Throughout Tartan Week, there will be a variety of events highlighting the vibrancy of Scottish culture past and present. Today the main event is the Tartan Day Parade down Manhattan's 6th Avenue involving several thousand pipers and drummers. Building on the success of last year's events, the aim is to strengthen the links between Scotland and America and to develop and enhance trade links through a showcase of Scottish culture.
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Curiouser
 Date: Saturday, April 8th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Stay Gold (451 Grand Street, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free
Summary: Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Sculpture Program students get together for this group show at FreeNYC favorite Stay Gold Gallery. Expect crowds and the free beer to run out early (AKA BYO40).
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CURIOSER will feature the work of Eamon Brown, Emily Fleisher, Ayumi Ishii, Dan Langston, Andy Ness, Gunnar Norquist, and Chana Powell. This show includes all seven of the second-year graduate students in the RISD sculpture program. Together their work presents a stunning visual contrast: ranging in content from realistically rendered figures to abstract patterns. However, taken as whole, it is clear that these artists all share a marked proficiency in craftsmanship.
Eamon Brown uses common objects and materials to investigate the idea that pattern moves through histories and cultures in an expansive geological motion. His work draws heavily on psychedelic and Op Art practices of overlapping systems of replication to create visual tension.
Emily Fleisher reinterprets everyday objects by juxtaposing them in a way that creates fictitious, logically unfeasible narratives. She is currently working on several pieces that reconfigure elements from interior spaces into patterns that create a sort of domestic camouflage.
Ayumi Ishii’s work reflects on the changing perception of the human body as it is influenced by modern science and philosophy. Her human casts retain fine details of the skin while completely obliterating the overarching form.
Dan Langston’s work explores the eroding boundary between the organic and the synthetic. His hybrid human- synthetic forms contemplate both positive and negative outcomes of our ever-advancing technological abilities.
The work of Andy Ness seeks to give shape to the ineffable moments of life by imbuing quotidian, ambiguous, or otherwise meaningless objects with intense significance through their position in relation to each other. An overlying interest in ideas concerning dependency and interdependency permeates his recent explorations.
Gunnar Norquist's work explores the complexity of gender culture within both society and the art establishment. He uses material with decidedly masculine connotations to compose fanciful hunting trophies of fictional animals.
Chana Powell uses a wide range of materials and techniques in an exploration of the nature of the human intellect. She seeks to impart her work with variable significance that can be appreciated on both a conceptual and formal level.
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Dugout Brooklyn Loft Party
 Date: Saturday, April 8th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: 27 Arion Place, Greenpoint
Cost: $5
Summary: The Dugout boys throw a hip-hop loft blazer tonight deep in greenpoint. Cheap beers all night,
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"Gods and Earths of the Money-Makin' Borough: Your last chance to see New York's most notorious hip-hop trio in their native Medina before they go all Hollywood: The Dugout, Nuk Fam, and New Rap Order. Experience the sound that has been captivating underground venues throughout the country and steadily piquing major-label interest. B-List Celebrities (Laura Linney) shall converge with the Nassau County 20-something crowd in a nearby BK loft bigger than Chernobyl!"
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Broadway Street Festival
 Date: Sunday, April 9th
Time: 11:00am to 6;00pm
Location: Broadway (from 17th street to 23rd street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Get out in the sunshine today for some bargin hunting and people watching at the Bradway Street Festival.
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"A big bucket of FREEDOM"
Date: Sunday, April 9th - Monday, April 10th
Time: Sunday 2:00pm - 12:00am, Monday 7:00pm - 12:00am
Location: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St.), The Living Room (154 Ludlow St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: The Freedom Festival is a FREE two day long showcase of local NYC bands!
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The First Annual Freedom Festival is a totally free and completely independent music festival (in other words, totally the type of thing FreeNYC loves to tell you about)! Performances will all take place at Cakeshop and The Living Room on the LES. Bands on the line up so far are Earl Greyhound, Vague Angels, Pyradical, Rockwell Rockwellian, The Exit, La Vernissagerie and Honky Tonk Happy Hour, and the world premier of Larune’s rock opera “Bulgaria." The goal of the festival is to "promote a sense of community by offering an eclectic line-up of FREE, live musical experiences to the public" and also to launch ThePeriodicLabel.com, a free music download site to hopefully "encourage artists to find newer and more relevant ways to promote/sell their work and engage their audiences." Continue to check FreeNYC for updates and Freedom Festival on MySpace for lineup and show times.
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Artists Take the Train
Date: Sunday, April 9th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: A train platform on 125th St.
Cost: Free
Summary: "Everyone will meet on the back of the A train platform at 125th St. on the uptown side and we will travel to 207th and back down to Broadway Nassau making beats, rhyming, battling, collaborating, networking. We want more emcees, more beatboxers, more drummers to bang on the seats, more spoken word artists. We are also looking for b-boys and b-girls and other dancers. Unamplified Music!! There will be NO drums or kazoos or small portable amps! [via Tools of War]
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Updates
Just a couple quick ones from us to you!
• Thanks so much to everyone that came out this past Saturday for the Anniversary Party. Besides a bit of bloodshed, we had an amazing time and hope you did too. Look out for some more events coming up over the next few months.
• Pictures from the party are online... you can check them out in the Photo Galleries section
• The Second installment of Elevator Sex Muzak goes down tomorrow night. Come out and here the freshest, underground, blunted beats from DRM, Natural Sphere, and DJ Moe Choi. Full info here.
• We're updating the weeklies this week so if you have a party on the regular, make sure you holler at us!
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Divining the Tea Leaves
Date: Monday, April 10th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Theresa Lang Student and Community Center (55 West 13th St, 2nd Floor)
Cost: Free, Please RSVP
Summary: A panel of steemed speakers discuss a post-election analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. See presenter list below or on the site.
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Dr. Ruti Ben-Artzi
post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania
Amjad Atallah
founder and President of Strategic Assessments Initiative (SAI) and former advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team and then-Prime Minister Abbas' office
Dr. Steven P. Cohen
founder of the Institute for Middle East Peace and Development and National Scholar of the Israel Policy Forum
Dr. Daniel Bar-Tal
professor of education at Tel Aviv University
Moderated by Samuel Norich
Publisher of the Forward and Executive Director of the Forward Association
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"A big bucket of FREEDOM"
 Date: Sunday, April 9th - Monday, April 10th
Time: Sunday 2:00pm - 12:00am, Monday 7:00pm - 12:00am
Location: Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St.), The Living Room (154 Ludlow St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: The Freedom Festival is a FREE two day long showcase of local NYC bands!
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The First Annual Freedom Festival is a totally free and completely independent music festival (in other words, totally the type of thing FreeNYC loves to tell you about)! Performances will all take place at Cakeshop and The Living Room on the LES. Bands on the line up so far are Earl Greyhound, Vague Angels, Pyradical, Rockwell Rockwellian, The Exit, La Vernissagerie and Honky Tonk Happy Hour, and the world premier of Larune’s rock opera “Bulgaria." The goal of the festival is to "promote a sense of community by offering an eclectic line-up of FREE, live musical experiences to the public" and also to launch ThePeriodicLabel.com, a free music download site to hopefully "encourage artists to find newer and more relevant ways to promote/sell their work and engage their audiences." Continue to check FreeNYC for updates and Freedom Festival on MySpace for lineup and show times.
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High Lonesome Reading
 Date: Monday, April 10th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: McNally-Robinson Booksellers (50 Prince St bet Lafayette and Mulberry)
Cost: Free
Summary: Joyce Carol Oates discusses High Lonesome, an unprecedented collection of the best of Joyce Carol Oates' short stories combined with eleven new stories.
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No other writer can match the impressive oeuvre of Joyce Carol Oates, and High Lonesome: Selected Stories, 1966-2006 gathers stories from Oates's seminal collections, including The Wheel of Love (1970), Marriages and Infidelities (1972), and Heat (1991), arranged by decade. All demonstrate what the Chicago Tribune has praised: "the fierce originality of Oates's voice and vision, but also how she has imbued the American short story with an edgy vitality and raw social surfaces."
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EthnoEccentric String Trio
 Date: Monday, April 10th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Satchmo's Place (347 Graham Avenue, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free
Summary: The EthnoEccentric String Trio bring Balkan, Greek, Brazilian, Morrocan, and American folk music to this veggie cafe. Break the date mold and try something new!
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Listen to the EthoEccentric String Trio's Dance from Marmaros (mp3)
Born of collobaration between violinist Skye Steele, cellist Christopher Hoffman and guitarist Jay Vilnai, the trio's members draw on scrapbooks from their various travels in the New York music scene and around the world, and bring a globe-spanning variety of music into focus through the prism of the improvisational string trio. All three musicians have played with various world music and world-fusion ensembles, including Vilnai's Vampire Suit, the middle-eastern Anistar, Maracatu NY, the klezmer-punk band Midrash Mish Mosh and more. The trio plays tunes collected from all these experiences and original songs influenced by them. The chamber like ensemble allows for a new insight and different approach to thses timeless melodies. The diverse repertoire inclides Bulgarian dances, Greek Rembetika, Brazilian forros, Bartok and more.
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Bar And Beats Night
 Date: Mondays
Time: 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Blue Owl
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Top Shelf Sampling, 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Summary: It's Back after last weeks hiatus. Every Monday the new speakeasy style lounge Blue Owl features a sampling of top shelf spirits while DJs spin samba and world music to ease you into the work week. April is dedicated to Rittenhouse Rye Whiskey cocktails.
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Crash Test
 Date: Mondays
Time: 11:00pm
Location: Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
Cost: Free
Summary: A weekly standup showcase for NY's top standup and alternative comedians hosted by Aziz Ansari. With special guest drop-ins, short films, and more. Limited tickets available at the door.
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Elevator Sex Muzak With Natural Sphere and DRM
FreeNYC and DJ Moe Choi bring you a bi-weekly evening of leftfield hip hop, blunted beats, and assorted downtempo rhythms. This is a night where DJs play for DJs and drop all those rare and obscure tracks they don't normally have a chance to play out. $3 beers and $4 wines from 10-11 get things going. This week's line-up features DRM from Bastard Jazz and Natural Sphere from the Agriculture. Click here for full info.
BONUS: I have some leftover giftbags from the party (aparently drunken cats at 4am don't take their goods) so the first 10 people to show up and find me and ask get one. What do you get? Free Bodies Pass (for two), Cool Eh mag, a dope Snoozer Loser bag, RES DVDs and some Snoozer Loser cash!
Date: Tuesday, April 11th
Time: 10:00pm - 2:00am
Location: Kingsize (21 Essex Street at Hester) - Map
Cost: Free
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Warhol Screen Tests
Date: Tuesday, April 11th
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Higgins Hall Auditorium, Pratt Institute (61 St. James Place)
Cost: Free
Summary: "Pratt will show selections from Screen Tests, the legendary series of cinematic portraits by the late artist Andy Warhol... Callie Angell, the adjunct curator of the Andy Warhol Film Project at the Whitney Museum of American Art, will introduce the films. A question-and-answer session with Angell will take place after the screening, after which Angell will sign copies of her book Andy Warhol Screen Tests: The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Volume One... a series of silent, four-minute, black-and-white films shot from 1964 to 1966...Warhol withdrew them from public circulation in the early 1970s"
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Do Away With Tax Day
Date: Tuesday, April 11th
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30p,
Location: The Graduate Center, The City University of New York (365 Fifth Avenue)
Cost: Free
Summary: In the midst of tax time the "IRS estimates 6 billion hours will be spent in tax compliance, at a cost of $265 billion. This amounts to 22 cents for every dollar collected." Tonight Neal Boortz of The Neal Boortz Radio Show and the author of The FairTax Book squares off against Michael J. Graetz of the Yale School of Law and author of The Decline (and Fall?) of the Income Tax. They take a look at what tax reform should look like.
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Kangol x Stereo x Vapors Party
 Date: Tuesday, April 11th
Time: 9:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Stereo (512 West 29th)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Open Bar: 42 Below Vodka and Tiger Beer, 9:00 - 11:00
Summary: Tonight Vapors Magazine is throwing a lil get down to celebrate the release of the new Kangol and Stereo Sound Agency Headwear Collection. The evening will have two co-captains, Jason Lee (yes the one of My Name Is Earl, Kevin Smith Films and old skate videos) and Chris Pastras, as well as a live performance from the band Truth and Soul and beats courtesy of DJ Stretch Armstrong. And necessary for any good Tuesday night, open 42 Below Vodka and Tiger Beer for the first two hours.
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Triple Bands and free Beer
Date: Tuesday, April 11th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: The Delancey (168 Delancey between Clinton and Attorney)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Brahma Beer, 9:00pm - 10:00pm
Summary: It seems there is always a good spot to score some free brews before heading over to our party at Kingsize. Tonight, Kapow!, Tiger City, and The Blanks bring the indie rock / electro dance rock / so current right now sound to the Delancey for a free show. I say score their free beer and then head over to our party but that's just me!
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Between a Rock and a Rock Place
Date: Wednesday, April 12th
Time: 9:00pm 1:00am
Location: Hi Fi (169 Avenue A)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Rolling Rock, 9:00 - 10:00
Summary: First Taste is listening party for all new and unreleased rock at Hi Fi. From 9 to 10 check out Islands, a 7 piece Canadian super group with the founding members of The Unicorns, collaborating with Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, and other friends. From 10 on hear various new music from different bands including Robocop Kraus, Snow Patrol, Radio 4, Built To Spill, Wolfmother, The Stills, Drive By Truckers, Elefant, The Secret Machines, Calexico, Placebo, The Concretes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mates Of State, Quasi, Whirlwind Heat, The Knife, Guillemotts, Graham Coxson, Neko Case, Mogwai, Mudhoney, Stereolab, Grandaddy and many more.
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KahriAnne Kerr Fashion Show
 Date: Wednesday, April 12th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Nest (215 28th Street between 7th and 8th)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Vodka, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Summary: Local desinger KahriAnne Kerr brings a fashion showcase to one of the classier spots in the city. There will be local art on view that will be raffled at the end of the night and DJ Lexey playing that good old NYC nightlife music mix (top 40 hip hop, indie radio rock, and various songs from your childhood). Oh, and two hours of open bar for the lush out there in you!
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Love Ahoy
 Date: Wednesday, April 9th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Galapagos Art Space (70 N. 6th)
Cost: Free
Summary: I'm not sure whether this is a dating game or a hot dog eating contest, but either way your bound to find love. Love Ahoy is a Dating Game-style show with a Love Boat twist. Three bachelors compete to win the affections of one bachelorette. Expect cheesy stunts, musical numbers, burlesque and special guests. Additionally there will be a hot dog eating contest sponsored by competitive eater "Crazy Legs Conti" of Nathan's Famous Coney Island fame.
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Charity Wednesdays
Date: Wednesday, April 12th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Tuts Restaurant and Lounge (196 Orchard Street @ Houston)
Cost: $3 Donation
Open Bar: Effen Vodka, 10:00pm - 11:00
Summary: Drop a $3 donation and get an hour of top shelf vodka cocktails at this classy LES Restauraunt / Bar. All proceeds go to The Libby Ross Foundation Breast Cancer Charity of NY. DJ Groove (?) provides the soundtrack and there will be drink specials through the night as well as food available.
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Maximizing Maximal
Date: Wednesday, April 11th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Happy Ending Lounge (302 Broome St. at Eldridge)
Cost: Free
Summary: It's Maximal time once again, tonight at Happy Ending with Live PA from Odd Dots, alongside guest DJs Kevin "Micromini" McHugh and Phil "Bootleg" Oh.
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Tee Time
 Date: Wednesday, April 12th
Time: 11:00pm
Location: Bushwick Country Club (618 Grand St at Leonard, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Sparks, 11:00pm
Summary: With the warm weather fast approaching, it's time to take to Williamsburg's only bar/mini golf spot and hit a quick nine of wiffle ball golf balls around. Watch out for the ice machine and the PBR windmill, both can be doozies. Free Sparks give's you the energy for those long drives! [via My Open Bar]
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Career Builder Career Fair
Date: Thursday, April 13th
Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm
Location: Metropolitan Pavilion, North and South Pavilions (125 W. 18th St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: Having a job you hate must really suck, even worse is not having a job. I am lucky enough to have two jobs I love. But in case you don't you may want to check out the Career Builder Career Fair. They suggest you bring at least 20 copies of your resume and that you wear proper business attire.
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Taste the Terrior: Biodynamic Wine Tasting
Date: Thursday, April 13th
Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Astor Wines and Spirits (399 Lafayette)
Cost: Free
Summary: "Biodynamic wines are organic wines that come from self-sustaining vineyards. No added sulfites, no pesticides, and no foreign yeasts are used in grape growing or wine making. Biodynamic producers even take into account the cycle of the moon when making their wine. Its a complete commitment to holistic farming in which winemakers view themselves as "assistants to nature" instead of a makers of wine. These wines are not your everyday red, but instead complex and delicate products of the earth."
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BLK/MRKT ONE
 Date: Thursday, April 13th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Diesel Denim Gallery (68 Greene St)
Cost: Free
Summary: BLK/MRKT, the West Coast gallery, is celebrating the release of their book BLK/MRKT ONE, a collection of works of various distinguished urban artists who first got exposure while showing at the BLK/MRKT Gallery. Tonight an installation curated by Sebastien Agneesens opens at the Diesel Denim Gallery in honor of the book. The show will include work by Deanne Cheuk, Dave Kinsey, Evan Hecox, Tiffany Bozic, Ben Tour, Doze Green and many others. [note: sorry about the incorrect date on this. The show is really today, Thursday]
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Behind The Book
 Date: Thursday, April 13th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: KGB Bar (85 East Fourth Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: Behind the Book is literacy nonprofit working with
low-income students in New York City public schools. Tonight Angie Cruz (Let It Rain Coffee, Soledad), Sheila Maldonado (poetry published in Rattapallax, Meridians, and
Promethean), and Nelly Rosario (Song of the Water Saints; a
Village Voice 'Writer on the Verge') stop by to read their work. A good alternative for a not so rowdy, but still fun Wednesday night.
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No Place Like Home
 Date: Thursday, April 13th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Riviera Gallery (103 Metropolitan Ave, W'burg)
Cost: Free
Summary: No Place Like Home is the first solo show of Tennessee born, New York based photographer Asha Fuller. The show is a "photographic exploration assailing regional stereotypes in the south. The exhibition exposes perceptions and themes of home and community and delivers quintessential stories of hometown south that are lapidary and subversive."
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Better than Blueberries
Date: Thursday, April 6th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Askew (504 LaGuardia Place)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Rum, 9 to 10
Summary: I'm taking over Lindsay's post. I like blueberries. I like them in smooties and I like them on a warm summer day. I'd like someone to make me a cocktail with them... maybe some sort of blueberries, rasberry vodka, and juice thing. We can call it Smurf orgasm or something so that the girls will drink it too. Anyway, this party rocks. Each week they will bring you top notch DJs and tonight is FreNYC favorite Catchdubs.
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Digging Deeper
 Date: Thursday, April 13th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Leopard Lounge, Upstairs (248 East 5th St)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: ???, 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Summary: Similak Chyld from Future Primitive Sound (home to Cut Chemist, Romanowski, J-Boogie, Z-Trip, DJ Zeph, and others) brings the funk to one of our favorite monthly parties. He's joined by DJ Elsewhere as well as residents DRM, Paul Digs, and Sema4 who will bring the new & old deep funk, beats and breaks of all kinds, heavy latin sounds, midtempo madness, and dancefloor dub.
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Ballers Eve
 Date: Thursday, April 13th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: China 1 Lounge (50 Ave B)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Vodka 10:30 - 11:30
Summary: Ballers Eve is at it again bringin the kids another party. TOnight on the line up is Minski Walker, DJ Dirrty, DJ Sergio Vega, Kat Daddy Slim and special guest DJ Sabo of Solselctas. There will be an hour of free vodka and free Ozone mags and mixtape giveaways.
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Math Head on Radio FreeNYC
 After straight destroying our back room last week at the Anniversary party, Math Head drops this mix especially for NYC's own Trouble and Bass. This is the second FreeNYC podcast from our boy Math Head. Taking to the decks on this 45min set he runs through some serious heart pounding, frenzy inducing bass action. Always going beyond your standard issue anthems, Math Head's carving himself a fantastic unique sound on the forfront of future dancefloor music. Enjoy. (www.math-head.com)
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Earth Day Inside Fair
 Date: Friday, April 14th
Time: 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Grand Central Terminal, Vanderbilt Hall
Cost: Free
Summary: Earth concious vendors take over Grand Central today and tomorrow. Get informed and stock up on sustainable products. Check the flyer for more upcoming Earth Day events.
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Home Sick
 Date: Friday, April 14th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Sodafine (246 Dekalb Ave, Fort Green)
Cost: Free
Summary: Beck Suss lives and works out of Philly (215 represent!) and is an active memeber of the artist collective, Space 1026. Today she is in BK for an opening of her solo show, Home Sick, at Sodafine. Joining her are some more Philly locals, the band Sweatheart.
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Love Brigade Opening
 Date: Friday, April 14th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Love Brigade (103 Havermeyer Street, Williamsburg)
Open Bar: drink tickets to the chosen few (no promises)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Summary: Clothing company Love Brigade opens a new retail space in Williamsburg. Video Art by Tuff Ghost and after party with Larry Lawrence Bar.
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Apehouse Magazine Launch
 Date: Friday, April 14th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Mocca Lounge (corner of Reade and Church)
Cost: Free
Summary: Alex Rock, Duscko Justic, and Kevin Green bring you quality house all night in honor of this new mag launch. $5 cocktails if you mention FreeNYC
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PublicAdCampaign's "Removal Satisfies the Condition"
 Date: Friday, April 14th
Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: The Canal Chapter (343 Canal St, 4th Floor)
Cost: Free
Summary: New York City's public environment is a carnival of commercial influences and private concerns. Each step brings new desires and unwanted needs. By replacing public advertising with artwork, PublicAdCampaign temporarily alleviates a fraction of this burden while attempting to cultivate more personal interactions between public individuals
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New York City's public environment is a carnival of commercial influences and private concerns. Each step brings new desires and unwanted needs. By replacing public advertising with artwork, PublicAdCampaign temporarily alleviates a fraction of this burden while attempting to cultivate more personal interactions between public individuals. Many times these efforts are thwarted even before they can be seen. Though not public in its execution, the permanent removal of these public advertising structures for this show satisfies the project's condition: trading public dialogue for a deeper individual investigation of our public environment.
PublicAdCampaign is an ongoing public art project dedicated to reclaiming public advertising space from commercial forces, and in doing so questioning the nature and usage of our shared environment. These projects are a reaction to an experience of the public environment. A response to the deafening voice of advertising and its tendency to colonize public physical space and thus public mental space.
Jordan Seiler graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002. He has since returned to his hometown of New York, NY where he currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
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URB First Fridays
 Date: Friday, April 14th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Opus 22 (559 West 22nd at 11th Ave)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Summary: URB Magazine kicks off their monthly series tonight at Opus 22 with Rob Flow and Mad Ryan. Limited gift bags for VIPs (meaning not you)
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Anti-Pop (Telepopmusik)
 Date: Friday, April 14th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: APT (419 West 13th between 9th and Washington)
Cost: Free
Summary: For the purist of electronic music heads, tonight is a rare treat to hear the Telepopmusik crew drop a serious DJ set of hypnotic tech house. APT has a fine sound system to support them. Alongside NYC's own Dominique. Highly Recommended. What will it sound like? Check out their Anti-Pop mix (Real Audio)
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Hush Hush Weekender
 Date: Fridays
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Happy Ending (302 Broome Street at Eldridge)
Cost: Free
Summary: The Hush Hush Weekender is the most consistently out of control Friday night dance party. But with The Bangers, The Rapture, and Kaiser P behind the weekly chaos, it's easy to see why. Tonight is extra special as they bring East Village Radio's master of the dirty dance, Cowboy Mark to the tables alongside Bangers Nik at Nite and Rok One.
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Finger on the Pulse
Date: Friday, April 14th
Time: 11:00pm
Location: Lucky Cat (245 Grand Street, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Sparks, 1:00am
Summary: American Apparel celebrates the hotness of the basic t-shirt with this launch party for the Spring '06 line (American Apparel has lines?). Free Sparks wakes you back up at 1am and resident DJs spin indie, riot, electro, soul and rock to keep you in the house.
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Cut A Rug
 Date: Friday, April 14th
Time: 11:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Lit (93 2nd Ave)
Cost: Free
Summary: The boys are back in town after their mini tour to the North. Tonight Dirty Down parks it back in NYC with Blu Jemz and Kimyon takin over downstairs and DeathGrip upstairs. Plus resident DJ The Captain will be in as well as a live performance from Mr. Andersonic. Free Spraks from 11 t0 12 gets your night going.
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Six Point Brewery Tour
 Date: Saturdays
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Six Point Brewery (34 Van Dyke St, Brooklyn)
Cost: Free
Summary: Learn all the fine points of craft brewing as the Sixpoint team takes you on a tour of their brewery. Plus, you get a free beer in the tap room afterwards! Click here for full info and directions.
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Bringin Da Booty Bass
 Date: Saturday, April 15th
Time: 9:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Sin Sin (85 2nd Ave, Upstairs)
Cost: Free
Summary: I think everyone needs at least a small dose of booty bass in their weekend plans, and here is your Saturday night serving. Mark Salinger, of DeBassed, stops by Sin Sin to make the "asses start dropping!" Definitely a good way to get your Saturday night activites started.
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Mad Suspect
 Date: Saturday, April 15th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Savalas (285 Bedford at South 1st, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free
Summary: The Captain, Star Eyes, and Drop The Lime bring some serious bass tracks to Williamsburg tonight for their new monthly throwdown. Too bad the soundsystem is a bit too wuss to handle the deep end on some of the tracks. Fun times regardless.
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Synapse and The Noble Society
 Date: Saturday, April 15th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Galapagos (70 N 6th, W'burg)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Magic Hat, 10:30 - 11:30
Summary: We write about DJ Synapse all the time, so we figured we should let you know its his birthday this weekend. Tonight he celebrates by bringing you all sorts of music from DJs Gravy, I-Cue, Rob Flow, Equal, Kiva, Animation, Jedi and a live preformance from Noble Society (with special guest 77 Klash). There will also bee an hour of free beer and free vegan eats.
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Put a Bonnet on It - The Easter Parade
 Date: Sunday, April 16th
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Location: 49th and 5th to 57th and 5th
Cost: Free
Summary: Watch as New Yorkers get decked out in their Easter finest and gawk at their lavish Easter bonnets at this annual tradition. And yes, that IS a picture of a hat. More pics here.
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Tomorrow: Double Trouble Tuesday!
It's Double Trouble Tuesdays tomorrow over here at FreeNYC and we've got you covered with two major good time events (and two open bars) to keep you live all night long. We're throwing back to back parties at 7th ave and Leroy so all you have to do is stumble across the street from one to the other. Check out tomorrow's listings for all the details and make sure to RSVP. If you want to come to both (of course you do) then just hit us up with "Come all Night" in the message line!
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Jane Fonda
Date: Monday, April 17th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Barnes & Noble USQ (33 E. 17th St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: Tonight Jane Fonda, actress, activist, feminist, wife, and workout guru (and now philanthropist) reads from and signs copies of her book 'My Life So Far.' The book covers her very diverse career, three marriages, eating disorders, mothers suicide and apart from being slightly over self-analyzing could prove interesting.
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EthnoEccentric String Trio
Date: Monday, April 17th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Satchmo's Place (347 Graham Avenue, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free
Summary: The EthnoEccentric String Trio bring Balkan, Greek, Brazilian, Morrocan, and American folk music to this veggie cafe. Break the date mold and try something new!
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Listen to the EthoEccentric String Trio's Dance from Marmaros (mp3)
Born of collobaration between violinist Skye Steele, cellist Christopher Hoffman and guitarist Jay Vilnai, the trio's members draw on scrapbooks from their various travels in the New York music scene and around the world, and bring a globe-spanning variety of music into focus through the prism of the improvisational string trio. All three musicians have played with various world music and world-fusion ensembles, including Vilnai's Vampire Suit, the middle-eastern Anistar, Maracatu NY, the klezmer-punk band Midrash Mish Mosh and more. The trio plays tunes collected from all these experiences and original songs influenced by them. The chamber like ensemble allows for a new insight and different approach to thses timeless melodies. The diverse repertoire inclides Bulgarian dances, Greek Rembetika, Brazilian forros, Bartok and more.
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Bar and Beats Night
Date: Mondays
Time: 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Blue Owl (196 2nd Ave, downstairs)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Top Shelf Sampling, 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Summary:Every Monday the new speakeasy style lounge Blue Owl features a sampling of top shelf spirits while DJs spin samba and world music to ease you into the work week. April is dedicated to Rittenhouse Rye Whiskey cocktails.
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Crash Test
Date: Mondays
Time: 11:00pm
Location: Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (307 West 26th Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: A weekly standup showcase for NY's top standup and alternative comedians hosted by Aziz Ansari. With special guest drop-ins, short films, and more. Click here for reservations. Limited tickets available at the door.
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RES Magazine Release Party
For some reason, these digital video fiends are pros at combining good networking with a good afterhours party. Come out and celebrate the latest issue release with the RES crew. Score free gift bags (first 50 people), free copies of the new issues, free DVDs, and free beer! We're stoked to work with Movida who has one of the best dance soundsystems in the city, and we've got some serious DJ talent in line for this as well. Plus, you get to network with some of the finest creatives in the city. This is a tight after work jam so grab your office, RSVP, and say what's up. DJ Bios after the jump
Date: Tuesday, April 18th
Time: 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Movida 28 7th Ave at Leroy
Open Bar: Brahma, 6:30 - 7:30
Cost: Free with RSVP (please
put "Come Early" in the Title)
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JUSTIN CARTER (NUBLU)
After pounding the back room of our party last weekend. We are bringing Justin back to take on the Movida subs. Expect those good sounds and proper bass rumble that make you dance around with a fat smile on your face.
SETH P (SOUND LOUNGE)
Master sound engineer Seth P is taking to the decks tonight in a rare appearance with a healthy plate of digital funk. This boy's collection of dirty, Italo disco runs deep and he'll be brining out the finest plates tonight!
RESident Megan New
RES's own turntable mastermind, Megan New breaks the party in with
her kitchen sink style of hip-hop, rare funk, and electronic dance jams.
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Release The Pressure
We're throwing this one just because. Because the word is #Uç#ed up, because nightlife is a mess, and because we've been working WAY too hard. Stay out late and get saucy with us at one of our favorite spots, Luke and Leroy. We've got free drinks, drink specials (maybe) and some of our best friends dropping everything from the dance rock to booty bass to quality hip hop. This one's all about getting down with good people and a good vibe so bring your friends and avoid all the other bull$#!# out there tonight. DJ Bio's aftger the Jump
Date: Tuesday, April 18th
Time: 10:00pm - 2:00am
Location: Luke and Leroy (21 7th Ave at Leroy)
Open Bar: Surprise, 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Cost: Free with RSVP (please put "Come Late" in the Title)
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J.O. (TONELAB, NUBLU)
Jo Beats brings some of the finest hip-hop around. Not that top 40 Hot97 stuff, that good beat digger stuff that first got you into the beats. Tonight he brings out the finest gems for y'all.
THE CAPTAIN (CUT, DIRTY DOWN)
The Captain has been running all over the place dropping the most booty shaking dancefloor bangers as of late. He's back in town from his trip to Canada and we're glad to have him throw it down for you one more time before taking off on tour with Drop the Lime and Kid 606. Come prepared
RYAN C (TEAM AWESOME)
Ryan makes me love rock music. With all the bands I sort through every week it can get daunting. Thankfully, I have Ryan's prime selector skills to weed it out and bring it live. This is not shoe gazing head popping stuff, but jump around with your hands up kind of rock. Come out and hear some of the finest.
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Dudley Perkins
Date: Tuesday, April 18th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Tenement Lounge (157 Ludlow St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: Tonight get and earful of Stones Throw artist Dudley Perkins' new album Expressions (2012 a.u.). Plus sets from one of FreeNYC's favortie DJs, DRM, as well as Bazooka Joe, and Al Jay. Expect a giveaway or two.
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Slick Rick Tip
 Date: Tuesday, April 18th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Canal Room (285 West Broadway)
Cost: Free with RSVP (strictly enforced)
Summary: So apparently Scion thought we would all be interested in seeing some dude named Slick Rick. I think he does like hip hop or something. And like I hear he has had some run ins with the law, like got deported or some $h!t. I mean maybe you should check it out or something if you don't have anything better to do. Ok for real dude, GO SEE SLICK RICK! Joining him on stage tonight will be Big Luther, Robin Andre and a DJ set from DJ Hiro.
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Kristen Boyce brings the Southern Soul
 Date: Tuesday, April 18th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Pussycat Lounge (96 Greenwich Street @ Rector)
Cost: Free
Summary: Up and coming singer songwriter Kristen Boyce belts out some serious southern soul tonight at the Pussycat Lounge. If your looking to hear something new tonight then this is the spot.
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Best Hope for Peace in Darfur
Date: Wednesday, April 19th
Time: 7:00pm (doors, 6:00pm)
Location: NY Society for Ethical Culture (2 West 64th St at Central Park West)
Cost: Free
Summary: Amnesty International, the New York Society for Ethical Culture, and Human Rights First present a panel at which Nicholas Kristof, (Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times), Mark Malloch Brown, Juan Mendez, and Tragi Mustafa discuss ending the atrocities in Darfur and why you are the best hope for peace and justice. Panelists after jump.
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PANELISTS
Nicholas Kristof, Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times whose tireless advocacy on Darfur has made him 'a one-man army' focusing attention on the atrocities and pressuring the US government to respond.
Mark Malloch Brown, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General.
Juan Mendez, United Nations Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide and President of the International Center for Transitional Justice.
Tragi Mustafa, Darfuri refugee living in Ontario and Executive Director of the Darfur Association of Canada and founder of Save Women-Sudan.
Karima Bennoune, moderator, Professor of International Law at Rutgers University School of Law--Newark and member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA.
For more information, please contact Denise Bell, dcbell70@yahoo.com
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In the Flesh Reading Series
 Date: Wednesday, April 19th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Happy Ending (302 Broome St. at Eldridge)
Cost: Free
Summary: In April, New York’s hottest personalities share their 100% true sex confessions. From bad sex to porn obsessions to prostitutes and more, they’ll make you cringe, laugh, and turn you on (maybe even all three at once!). In the Flesh is a monthly reading series featuring the city's best erotic writers sharing stories to get you hot and bothered, hosted and curated by Village Voice sex columnist and acclaimed erotic writer/editor Rachel Kramer Bussel. From erotic poetry to down and dirty smut, these authors get naked on the page and will make you lust after them and their words.
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Charity Wednesdays
Date: Wednesday, April 12th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Tuts Restaurant and Lounge (196 Orchard Street @ Houston)
Cost: $3 Donation
Open Bar: Effen Vodka, 9:00pm - 10:00pm (note change, our bad)
Summary: Drop a $3 donation and get an hour of top shelf vodka cocktails at this classy LES Restauraunt / Bar. All proceeds go to The Libby Ross Foundation Breast Cancer Charity of NY. DJ Groove (?) provides the soundtrack and there will be drink specials through the night as well as food available.
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Guilty Pleasures
Date: Wednesday, April 19th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Happy Ending (302 Broome)
Cost: Free
Summary: FreeNYC DJ favorite, Moe Choi, joins forces with Lloydski to bring you the very best in Classic Hip-Hop, Soul, Disco, 88 Tech, Glitch Hop, Breaks, Reggae, Dub, Salsa,
Latin Breaks, etc, as well as some of their Guilty Pleasures. 2-for-1 beer and well drinks from 10 to 11 help you get your school night drink on.
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Wheel Up Wednesdays
 Date: Wednesdays
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Uncle Ming's (225 Ave B between 13th and 14th)
Cost: Free
Summary: Nice up the dancehall with Chad Dubz and Jon (JB) Bless as they drop reggae dancehall classics all night long.
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Updates...
A couple quick one's for you...
• Thanks to everyone who came out on Tuesday. Photos from the RES Party are now online. We're taking a party-hosting break for a bit to plan some really fun stuff for late may and June but if you are interested in being a part of it, or interested in us putting an event together for you, holler.
• HELP US! It's almost summer and that means we get real busy and our volunteer staff switches over. If you are an altruisitic soul and want to help keep FreeNYC alive then get in touch with us. We are looking for writers, photographers, code demons, DJs, or anyone else with talent to spare.
• Be our MySpace friend... we have low self esteem and need your vote of confidence.
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Atlas of Novel Tectonics
 Date: Thursday, April 20th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Storefront for Art & Architecture (97 Kenmare St)
Cost: Free
Summary: Come and celebrate the launch of Atlas of Novel Tectonics... "Atlas of Novel Tectonics, organized as a series of 67 short, non-linear chapters, addresses the intersections and interplay between architecture and culture. The manifesto offers insights into a cross-section of disciplines, including aeronautics, art history, cooking, mathematics, and biology, and examines the ways in which such divergent practices migrate into architecture and back out into the cultural field."
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Interactive Sonic and Light Sculptures
 Date: Thursday, April 20th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Bitforms Gallery (529 West 20th Street bet 10th and 11th)
Cost: Free
Summary: In his first solo show in 20 years, Peter Vogel brings pioneering electronic sculpture to the always-progressive Bitforms Gallery. While formally trained in Physics, Vogel's work explores the intersection between dance, musical composition, and visual art. Expect art work that blips and blinks.
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Music Appreciation Night
 Date: Thurday, April 20th
Time: 8:00pm - 1:00am
Location: Skylight Studios (275 Hudson between Spring and Dominick)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Summary: Filter mag brings some of the best up and coming rock to town once again with Music Appreciation Night. With live performances from The Walkman and The Duke Spirit - along with the Fixed boys and Justin D DJing - except the hipsters out in droves.
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Charity Thursdays
 Date: Thursday, April 20th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Odea Bar & Lounge (389 Broome St at Mulberry)
Cost: Free (mention "Effen Thursdays Charity Event")
Open Bar: Effen Vodka, 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Summary: Effen Vodka's charity monthly to support The Young Survival Coalition (a breast cancer charity of NY). Each week for the rest of 2006, Effen will serve up free drinks from 8-9pm with specials afterwards. All drink proceeds will go to charity.
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Future of Food Screening
 Date: Thursday, April 20th
Time: 8:00pm Sharp
Location: Time's Up (49 E. Houston St. between Mott and Mulberry)
Cost: Free
Summary: "The Future Of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade." organic refreshments served.
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"THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology. The health implications, government policies and push towards globalization are all part of the reason why many people are alarmed by the introduction of genetically altered crops into our food supply. Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis today."
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Pinky Ring
 Date: Thursday, April 20th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Lucky Jacks (129 Orchard Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: It seems that two of NYC's busiest DJs (please see: FreeNYC 2 Year Anniversary Party for reference)have teamed up for the new Thursday get together, Pinky Ring. DJ Moe Choi and Nik At Nite bring you the best in hip hop and anything else you'd want to shake your booty too. Also add cheap drinks to your list of reasons to go, $3 Jager and Yuengling from 10 to 12.
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Neat Neat Neat
Date: Wednesday, April 20th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Manitoba's, 99 Avenue B (bet. 6th & 7th)
Cost: Free
Summary: The Neat Neat Neat party goes bi-weekly! Head down to Manitoba's as Mike C. and special guests bring you some raucous rock and roll. $3 PBR all night.
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Radio FreeNYC: Project Jenny, Project Jan (& Friends)
 Eclectic New York duo Project Jenny, Project Jan bring a mix of some of New York's finest underground. From Soft Ballads to eclectic rock to abstract hip hop to Romainian Gypsy Punk, this 60min mix features tracks by Project Jenny, Project Jan Mixel Pixel, Pela, Luminescent Orchestrii, Adam Matta with Sxip Shirey, The Goonies, A plus P, and Curtis Eller. Project Jenny, Project Jan
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TRACK LISTING HERE
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Earth Day New York
Date: Friday, April 21st
Time: From 12:00pm
Location: Grand Central, Vanderbilt Hall (42nd Street) for inside fair and the bands play outside (43rd Street btw Vanderbilt Avenue and Madison)
Cost: Free
Summary: Earth Day New York takes place this weekend and is designed to broadens the base of support for environmental issues. Inside Grand Cetral check out various stall selling products and promoting excellent causes. Outside various bands join together and put on a day long show to support Earth Day.
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Friday line up includes:
12:00 - 12:45 pm
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
"If we could, we'd pour this sound on pancakes." -The Boston Globe
1:00 - 1:45 pm
Umphreys Mcgee
5:00 - 5:45 pm
The Mutaytor with Mickey Hart and Baaba Maal
"This act is unique, and arguably one of the best live shows running on the West Coast. The show is a must-see for anyone who likes to be entertained and moved viscerally. Indeed, The Mutaytor is as entertaining as the Blue Man Group." -Lauri Shaw, Music Connection
6:00 - 6:45 pm
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Global Artists Coalition's Hip Hop and Sneaker Madness
 Date: Friday, April 21st
Time: 2:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Webster Hall (125 East 11th St)
Cost: Free
Summary: There is so much happening with this one, I'm not really sure where to begin. The "Global Artists Coalition and Converse [...] will bring their popular sneaker-painting competition, a landmark exhibit of rare hip-hop handbills and urban photography, and several innovative performances to New York City, to raise awareness of hip-hop’s past and spotlight its creative future." The event is hosted by Bobbito, will feature a sneaker art battle, and an exhibit of hip-hop historian Curtis Sherrod’s rare hip-hop handbills. See extended entry for full details.
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GLOBAL ARTISTS COALITION AND CONVERSE BRING RARE HIP-HOP ARTIFACTS, INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCES AND A SNEAKER PAINTING COMPETITION TO NYC
Hip-Hop Legend Bobbito Garcia and Hot 97 DJ Raqiyah to Host Landmark
WHAT:Hosted by Sneaker aficionado Bobbito Garcia, and Hot 97 DJ Raqiyah, Global Artists Coalition and Converse – in conjunction with Footlocker and Foot Action – will bring their popular sneaker-painting competition, a landmark exhibit of rare hip-hop handbills and urban photography, and several innovative performances to New York City, to raise awareness of hip-hop’s past and spotlight its creative future.
The event will Feature:
·The “Converse Sneaker Art Battle,” which offers emerging artists the opportunity to “tag” a classic white Pro Leather shoe with their own inspired creations. Participants’ pieces will be judged and considered for a special limited-edition athletic shoe from Converse.
·An exhibit of hip-hop historian Curtis Sherrod’s rare hip-hop handbills, which promoted legendary old-school parties during the late ’70s and early ’80s, and photojournalist Jamel Shabazz’s gritty snapshots of the emerging hip-hop scene from 1980-1989, from his critically-praised books Back in the Day and A Time Before Crack.
·A special performances by Bam the Liquid Robot, whose hip-hop dance routines are enthusiastically acclaimed for their passionate virtuosity and stylistic flair; the vocal innovation of Kid Lucky and his freewheeling and funky oral orchestra; and the trailblazing ensemble Asa Yaa. Boasting musicians, dancers and singers, and glorifying the connection between African culture and modern African-American art, this Brooklyn-based company has toured the world to great acclaim.
WHO: Hot 97 DJ Raqiyah will host from 2 pm – 5 pm. Hip-hop legend Bobbito Garcia, host of ESPN 2’s It’s The Shoes and author of Where'd You Get Those? New York City's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987, will MC from 5pm – 8 pm
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An Evening with National Book Authors
 Date: Friday, April 21st
Time: 6:00pm
Location: CUNY Graduate Center Auditorium (365 Fifth Ave at 34th St)
Cost: Free
Summary: "The National Book Foundation and the Center for the Humanities, CUNY, invites New Yorkers to spend an evening with 2005 National Book Awards Winners Joan Didion (Nonfiction) and W.S. Merwin (Poetry) at the Graduate Center, CUNY." Bios after the jump.
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Joan Didion is the 2005 winner for the National Book Award in Nonfiction for The Year of Magical Thinking. She has been a novelist, essayist and screenwriter for more than three decades and was awarded the 1996 Edward MacDowell Medal and the 1999 Columbia Journalism Award. In May 2005 she received the Gold Medal for Belles Lettres from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is the highest honor the Academy awards to a writer, once every six years. Ms. Didion currently lives in New York and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker.
W.S. Merwin won the 2005 National Book Awards in Poetry for Migration: New and Selected Poems. Born in New York City in 1927, he worked from 1949 to 1951 as a tutor in France, Mallorca, and Portugal; for several years afterward he made his living by translating from French, Spanish, Latin, and Portuguese. His many awards include the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry, the Bollingen Award, the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Rockefeller and the Guggenheim Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of dozens of books of poetry and prose; his most recent volume of poems is Present Company (Copper Canyon, 2005). For the past thirty years he has lived in Hawaii.
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CalliGraffiti: the New Urban Asian Art Movement
 Date: Friday, April 21st
Time: 9:00pm - 12:00am
Location: Cave Gallery (58 Grand Street, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Open Bar: Tiger Beer (9pm until it kicks)
Summary: Enjoy massages and free beer as you browse the work of six Asian artists exhibiting their sculpture, paintings and video work while an Asian DJ performs visually engaging sets. Watch the beautiful dexterity of creation, as performance artists execute a work expressing the embodiment of East meets West through the use of paint, light, video, music and movement involving a 20 ft. square canvas.
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Death Blow Mania!
 Date: Friday, April 21st
Time: 9:00pm
Location: 169 Bar (169 East Broadway)
Cost: Free
Summary: The Affair, Pat Miscellaneous, and Deck of Jacks play everything from hipster rock to backpacker hip-hop to "Electronic-Garage-Power-Pop" alongside DJs at this free concert. The Affair are pretty damn cool and worth seeing if you are a fan of stuff like Blondie, Kudu, etc.
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Nu-ArtSkool at Crash Mansion
Date: Friday, April 21st
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Crash Mansion (199 Bowery at Spring)
Cost: Free with RSVP before 11
Open Bar: ???, 9:00pm - 10:00pm
Summary: While this NY Underbelly party goes down every week, tonight's "Nu-ArtSkool" version is worth making note of. Two of my favorite local acts are on the bill. On the early side, electro-dance-rockers Burnside Project take the stage. They have forged a nice infectious balance between electronic dance beats and blaring guitars. Think The New Deal meet the Rapture meets Blur... or listen for yourself. On the late night, Mixel Pixel take the stage who are featured in our podcast today so you can check them out there. Open bar sweetens the deal. Highly recommended.
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The Versace Party
 Date: Friday, April 21st
Time: 9:30pm - 12:30am
Location: Stereo (512 West 29th St)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Open Bar: ???, 9:30
Summary: Dress to the 9's and join NYC high society for this Social Life Magazine party. Entry NOT guaranteed.
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Mondo
Date: Friday, April 21st
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Luke & Leroy ( 21 7th Ave South at Leroy St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: This popular indie dance
party that has quietly become the most rollickingly fun Friday night in the city. Miss Modular, Dr. Maz, Kevington, and Michael Grace Jr. spin a freewheeling array of indie rock, outré pop, retro, punk and dance to a cute but friendly in-the-know crowd that isn't afraid to cut loose on the dance floor.
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Bio Ritmo
 Date: Friday, April 21st
Time: Performances at 11:00pm and 1:00am
Location: Bembe (81 South 6th St., W'burg)
Cost: Free
Summary: Ahh Bembe how I love you. While I dont actually make it there that often, Bembe is one of my favorite bars in the whole wide world. Myabe its the live drumming, or the hammock, or the overall carefree hang out in the tropics feel about it. Tonight is special as Bio Ritmo Salsa Machine will be performing, not once, but twice! To get a taste of what they are bringin' to the table check out this track.
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Dubwar V
 Date: Friday, April 21st
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Avalon (6th Ave and 20th Street)
Cost: $15 at door
Summary: FINAL UPDATE: Iron that shiny shirt and wax your chest hair! Dub War is going down at Avalon tonight! The cover is now $15. Please note that we do not condone $15 covers and are only keeping this on the site for informative purposes (so no hating out there). We do know that Dub War fought as much as they could to get the door price down and this is the best deal they could get. With the proper Avalon soundsystem and DJ Craze spinning in the main room, this will still be fun regardless of the steep price tag.
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The Hardest Way To Dirty Down
 Date: Friday, April 21st
Time: 11:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Lit (93 2nd Ave)
Cost: Free
Summary: Tonight is a special edition of Dirty Down, as it is also the listening party for The Streets new album, The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living. So besides the Mike Skinner preview, you've also got Max Pask, Japanster downstairs, Death Grip upstairs, a live performance from Crash Berlin and as always, resident DJ, The Captain. Plus if your into the Sparks get it free from 11 to 12.
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BUFF Opening Party
 Date: Friday, April 21st
Time: 11:00pm
Location: Brooklyn Lyceum (227 4th Ave, Brooklyn)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Vodka, 11-12
Summary: Meet the filmmakers and dance the night away to DJ Yamin at this kickoff party for the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival.
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Earth Day New York continues with the Dresden Dolls performing....
Date: Saturday, April 22nd
Time: 11:00am
Location: Grand Central, Vanderbilt Hall (42nd Street) for inside fair and the bands play outside (43rd Street btw Vanderbilt Avenue and Madison)
Cost: Free
Summary: Earth Day New York celebrations continue today aiming to broadens the base of support for environmental issues. Inside Grand Cetral check out various stall selling products and promoting excellent causes. Outside various bands including The Dresden Dolls join together and put on a day long show to support Earth Day.
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Saturday line up includes:
11:00am-12:00pm
Constant Wonder
Alice Weiser and Connie Gillies of Constant Wonder will perform for children ages 2 to 9. Come celebrate their favorite day of the year, Earth Day...which they hope everyone will celebrate each day after interacting.
12:00 - 12:45 pm
Assembly of Dust
"The former Strangefolk singer is an articulate songwriter with a sturdy, well-crafted song cycle of an album as proof. His band, which includes three members of Percy Hill, fleshes out the tunes like a good movie can elucidate a short story." - Village Voice
1:00 - 1:45 pm
Ben Taylor
His parents - father James Taylor, mother Carly Simon - are giants of popular music. Check out his style at EarthFair!
2:00 - 2:45 pm
TBC
3:00 - 3:45 pm
Dresden Dolls
"The Dresden Dolls, comprised of two of the best songwriters of this decade, take the boiling rage of red-hot romantic rejection and infuse it into the feel and structure of Broadway musical scores.... "(Slug Magazine)
4:00 - 4:45 pm
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Xing... Free Brunch!
 Date: Saturday, April 22nd
Time: 11:00am - 3:30pm
Location: Xing Restaurant (785 9th Ave bet. 52nd and 53rd)
Cost: Free to first 50 people
Summary: The Super Sheik Xing kicks off their new brunch service this weekend by offering free brunch to the first 50 people through the door. The Asian/American/Fusion menu looks insane (think five spiced french toast with lemongrass butter) and there is a $12 all you can drink option. Repeats Sunday.
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Earth Day Festivals
 Date: Saturday, April 22 (Rain Date: Sunday, April 23 - 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm)
Time: 11:00am to 4:00pm
Location: Naumburg Bandshell (located midway across Central Park from 66th to 75th Streets) and Earth Awareness Day Festival (on Waverly Place from Broadway - 5th Avenue)
Cost: Free
Summary: Today officially is Earth Day, there are a few street festivals happening in celebration. Earth Day Fair at Central Park, where there will be live entertainment, music, demonstrations, arts and crafts, games and special tours. Also on hand will be the Arm-of-the-Sea Theater's City that Drinks the Mountain Sky which is a big sized puppet show. Also check out the Earth Awareness Day Festival at Waverly Place.
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Taste Of China Town
 Date: Saturday, April 22nd
Time: 1:00pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Mott, Mulberry, Baxter, Bayard, Pell, Doyers and Mosco Streets
Cost: $1 and $2 a plate
Summary: Tate of China town, mmmmm. "Back by overwhelming demand, over 50 restaurants, tea houses, bakeries and specialty food shops will offer $1 or $2 tasting plates throughout tasting corridors on Mott, Mulberry, Baxter, Bayard, Pell, Doyers and Mosco Streets in Chinatown, NYC. Mott Street will be closed to traffic from Canal to Worth for your strolling and munching pleasure. The only traffic will be from the other eaters and the occasional dancing lion!"
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I Walk and Rivers Run
 Date: Saturday, April 22nd
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: Giant Robot New York (437 East 9th St)
Cost: Free
Summary: Inspired by folk art, crafts, and old children’s books, Saelee Oh’s artwork is an examination of anthromorphic imagery and visual storytelling. Her second solo show, I Walk and Rivers Run, explores the relationships between a grand cast of characters in enchanting environments, together spurring metaphoric meaning and symbolism. Personified mammals such as horses, birds, and snails, along with aquatic life from sea horses to whales, coexist in surreal, elaborate settings. Peppered throughout are the escapades of a girl wandering the dreamy scenes, welcomed and embraced by nature’s warm creatures.
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Raw Words at KGB
 Date: Saturday, April 22nd
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: KGB Bar (85 E. 4th)
Cost: Free
Summary: It suppossed to be rainiy this weekend, so step in a dry off at KGB Bar. Tonight catch some raw words from Contemporary Press. Enjoy "quick and dirty reads" from Carl Moore, Mike Segretto, Tony O'Neilland Jeff Somers with Jess Dukes as the emcee.
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FreeForm Five at Robot Rock
 Date: Saturday, April 22nd
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Movida (7th Ave at Leroy)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Open Bar: Stoli, 10:00pm - 11:00pm
Summary: Continuing my string of "weekly events I don't normally write about but are insanely worth it this week," Robot Rock, the weekly house music dance party brings Electro-house wizards the Freeform Five over from the UK for a very special DJ performance, These guys blew me away years ago with their remix of David Byrne's Lazy and have been killing the dancefloor ever since. Mind the expensive drink costs but this one is well worth it if you are looking to dance tonight.
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Make sure you check out today's events in the "Weekly Events" section for the parties we love that go down on the regular.
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Xing... Free Brunch!
Date: Sunday, April 23nd
Time: 11:00am - 3:30pm
Location: Xing Restaurant (785 9th Ave bet. 52nd and 53rd)
Cost: Free to first 50 people
Summary: The Super Sheik Xing kicks off their new brunch service this weekend by offering free brunch to the first 50 people through the door. The Asian/American/Fusion menu looks insane (think five spiced french toast with lemongrass butter) and there is a $12 all you can drink option.
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Uncle Clyde's Cook Out
 Date: Sunday, April 23rd
Time: 4:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Laila Lounge (113 North 7th Street bet. Wythe & Berry, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free
Summary: "Yeah, I know what Sundays are about. Sitting back, relaxing, laying low and prepping for that dam work week. But it's spring, so why not come out and lay low with the dudes (Kid Ankles and Chet Lemone). Eat some free BBQ and have a couple cheap drinks to eaze into monday."
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The Next Stop On This 6 Train Will Be Hip Hop
 Date: Sunday, April 23rd (shhh its my bday! hehe)
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Starting Point: 6 train @ Astor Place, back of the uptown. Ending Point: Hunts Point
Cost: Free
Summary: The Hip Hop Subway Party has been happening for a minute now, and its tome for another installment. To sum it up emcees, beatboxers, singers, spoken word artists, dancer and so on, all come together on the subway to celebrate their shared love for hip hop. Today they ride the 6 train to Hunts Point, in the South Bronx, where hip hop began. If you need any more details, contact Terry "The Kid".
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Radio FreeNYC in Spin
 Radio FreeNYC makes the Spin Essential Mix list with our "trippy dub and trippier mash-up!" Click to Enlarge
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Drink after Work with Drink at Work
 Date: Monday, April 24th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Siberia (40th St adn 9th Ave)
Cost: Free
Summary: The humor of drinkatwork.com leave the internet for the pub tonight. Featuring Comedy and Music by:
Andres du Bouchet, The Rob and Mark Show, Susan Prekel, Chris O'Connor, Rory Albanese, Sean Crespo and Eli James.
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Bar And Beats Night
Date: Mondays
Time: 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Blue Owl (196 2nd Ave, downstairs)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Top Shelf Sampling, 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Summary:Every Monday the new speakeasy style lounge Blue Owl features a sampling of top shelf spirits while DJs spin samba and world music to ease you into the work week. April is dedicated to Rittenhouse Rye Whiskey cocktails.
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Crash Test
Date: Mondays
Time: 11:00pm
Location: Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (307 West 26th Street)
Cost: Free
Summary: A weekly standup showcase for NY's top standup and alternative comedians hosted by Aziz Ansari. With special guest drop-ins, short films, and more. Click here for reservations. Limited tickets available at the door.
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Listen to Bruce Springsteen!
Date: Tuesday, April 25th
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Virgin Megastore Union Square (14th and Broadway)
Cost: Free
Summary: Bruce Springsteen fans listen up! Virgin are going to be showing the DVD portion of the new Bruce Springsteen album "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions" in its entirety. Stop by and check out the new Dual Disc and recieve a limited Bruce Springsteen patch, and enter to win any number of Springstreen giveaways that are featuring that day.
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Brand New Voices kickoff with Last Poets and DJ Raedawn
Date: Tuesday, April 25th
Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Thompkins Square Park
Cost: Free
Summary: Now in its 9th year, the annual youth poetry festival and slam known as Brand New Voices kicks off tonight with a very special opening ceremony performance by the legendary Last Poets. This Harlem collective laid the groundwork for both slam poetry and hip hop back in the 70s and its a great treat to hear them perform. Providing the background soundrack is FreeNYC favorite DJ Raedawn aka Crunk Tesla. Check the calendar for week long festival events including many free slams.
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BAC Film Festival Kickoff
Date: Tuesday, April 25th
Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Higgins Hall Center Auditorium, Pratt (61 St. James Place, BK)
Cost: Free
Summary: Tonight kicks off the two week long Brooklyn Arts Council International Film and Video Festival. Now in its 40th year, this festival brings together underground and experimental films and presents them in a free (or free with museum admission) environment. This evening features an installation as well as several international short screenings (see schedule after the jump). Check the site for full calendar of events.
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FESTIVAL OPENING AND PRESS SCREENING
PRATT INSTITUTE HIGGINS HALL CENTER AUDITORIUM
HOSTED BY THE PRATT FILM SOCIETY
Memory Alteration 1 dir. David Pierce
Experimental, 10mins, 2005
An exploration of the idea of an individual haunted by an unspecified force and an attempt to create an interpretation of the unidentified force as both a beautiful dance and frightening nightmare. Is it an addiction, a memory, an outside pressure, or a being?
Untitled-1 dir. Masha Godovanna
Experimental, 4mins, 2005
While walking along Nevskiy Prospect in St. Petersburg, Russia, a young girl danced a harsh, passionate, and seductive dance.
Piece of Cake, dir. Cynthia Boorujy
Narrative, 10mins, 2005
Piece of Cake follows a day in the life of a young immigrant woman as she tries to balance the mundane and the momentous in her new life in New York City.
Alone at Last dir. David Shuff
Narrative, 10mins, 2005
Alone at Last is a playful drama that follows a young couple from the bustle of their wedding send-off to the stillest hours of the night. It is an intimate portrait of a less than perfect relationship that ultimately works told with warmth and candor.
Pregnant dir. Jonathan Skurnik
Narrative, 10mins, 2005
Pregnant tells the story of a young couple trying to navigate their first day after discovering an accidental pregnancy.
Candy Viola/Viola Fondente dir. Fabio Simonelli
Narrative, 13mins, 2004
Viola is a beautiful overweight woman in her mid-30s. Her frustrating life is pivoted on a monotonous job and a hateful husband. But she will take her revenge soon thanks to the candies and chocolate she likes so much and everyone will be conquered by her newly-found art.
Grand Luncheonette dir. Peter Sillen
Documentary, 4mins, 2005
Grand Luncheonette documents the last days of one of 42nd Streetís unforgettable hot dog lunch counters. Its closing marks the final stage of the much-publicized gentrification of Times Square.
Ed's Trip dir. Timothy Greenberg
Narrative, 6mins, 2005
In this charming short film about life, women, and memory, an old man named Ed meets a young black man named Andre while waiting at a bus station. As time goes by they continue a superficial, but revealing conversation about Ed's life and build rapport. As soon as the friendship is made, the bus arrives, whisking Andre away to life while Ed remains to gather his strength.
Round it Goes dir. Joe Stillman
Experimental, 6mins, 2005
For four people starting their day in Los Angeles, what goes on in their heads is exciting, heroic, dangerous, and furious; a whole adventure lived out in their minds. Next time youíre stuck in traffic, take a look at the stories going round and round in your own head.
Binta and the Great Idea/ Binta Y La Gran Idea dir. Javier Fesser
Narrative, 30mins, 2004
Binta is a 7 year-old girl who lives in a small charming village on the Casamance River in southern Senegal. While she goes to school, her cousin Soda does not have the same good fortune. Binta admires her father, a humble fisherman who, concerned about the development of mankind, is determined to carry out an idea that occurred to him.
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Riverfawn
 Date: Tuesday, April 25th
Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Yaffa's Tea Room (353 Greenwich St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: Riverfawn is an "online, one-of-a-kind 'gallerystore' [...] is dedicated to showcasing unique and limited edition art, music, jewelry, clothing and other design-conscious curiosa created by up-and-coming, multi-dimensional artists, musicians and designers." Today they celebrate their official launch and new Spring pieces. Tonight come by Yaffa's Tea Room for an hour of open bar, good tunes, and my personal favorite, an outdoor patio.
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Bathtub Gin and Blues
Date: Tuesday, April 25th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Blue Owl (196 2nd Ave, downstairs)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Gin, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Summary:Blue Owl continues their love for after work cocktails with a two hour sampling of "bathtub gin" alongside bluesy tunes tonight.
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Community Cultural Extravaganza
Date: Tuesday, April 25th
Time: 7:00pm (6:15 doors)
Location: Founders Auditorium, Medgar Evers College (1650 Bedford Ave, BK)
Cost: Free (please bring photo ID)
Summary: A reoccuring film series at Medgar Evers Collge. This installment celebrates the pan Afrikan world with Art presentation/installations, short films, performances, readings, poetry, political presentations, dance, monologues, a community marketplace, an award presentation, and $150 gift giveaways. See site for full info.
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Heeb Time!
 Date: Tuesday, April 25th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Movida (28 7th Ave South)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Vodka, 9 to 10
Summary: Tonight is the issue release party for the new Heeb magazine, which just happens to be the money issue. Alright, go ahead, insert your Jewish money joke here. Shake your money maker to DJs Ming and FS with a special 2x2 Dirty Jew set, Ari K and Duane Harriot. As a fellow Heeb myself I would like to say mazel tov to the kids over at Heeb. I would also like to say thanks for the free vodka from 9 til 10.
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Soul Slinger at Camouflage
 Date: Tuesday, April 25th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Leopard Lounge / Sin Sin (248 5th Street at 2nd Ave)
Cost: $5 before Midnight, $10 After
Open Bar: ???, 10 - 11
Summary: Christian Bruna's Camouflage brings the legendary Carlos Soul Slinger back to the states. Come and get schooled.
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You all know it takes something special for me to put an event with a cover up here, but its a rare treat to have Soul Slinger back in town. This boy was playing jungle before it was jungle, dub step before it was dubstep, and when everyone else was drilling drum & bass into a homogenous sound, he was breaking new ground by adding brazilian rhythms. Jungle Sky, NASA, Zulu Nation, Soul Slinger has seen it all. Come out tonight, get a lesson in true electronic musicianship and welcome him back to NYC. Open bar makes up for the $5 that you have to drop.
Listen to Soul Slinger's Chemtrails (mp3)
Tuesday April 25th, 2006
The Jungle Sky emperor returns to NYC!
SOUL SLINGER (Liquidskymusic.com, Brazil)
CHRISTIAN BRUNA (50/50 Productions, Camouflage)
DARKSTAR (Jungle Sky, Shaolin Fist)
101 (Urban Resistance, Konkrete Jungle)
Guest DJ's Upstairs: House and more...
NIGEL RICHARDS (611records.com, Philly)
TODD FATJO & CT (Jack Prod., 801sound.com)
ETZI (Sushi-Bass, Camouflage, Fusion, Djetzi.com)
Special Event: $5 before Midnight $10 after
OPEN BAR from 10-11 + FREE Giveaways!
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Hefty Low End
 Date: Tuesday, April 25th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: APT (410 W 13th)
Cost: Free
Summary: I mean the words are right there on the flyers... "Get down to the heavy low end sound! Witness amazing feats of strength as brawny disk-laden jockeys defend the analog faith by actualy mixing physical records!" I dont sense any sarcasm there at all. Two nights this week Halcyon packs up their crates and brings the Hefty party to the city. Tonight's installment features Plastic De Reve, Adultnapper, Cowboy Mark and Alex Dirtt and Anthony Parasole.
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Bathroom Lines
 Date: Tuesdays
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Lit (93 2nd Ave bet. 5th and 6th)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Vodka, 11:00pm - 12:00am
Summary: The Viva Velocity team bring their "stay out late, get drunk, rock out and do thing's you won't REALLY regret in the morning" party vibe to a new Tuesday weekly at Lit. Open bar gets it going. Expect rawkus for a Tuesday. [via MOB]
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We Bite / Shit Hammered / FUSE?
 Date: Tuesday, April 25th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Happy Ending (302 Broome St at Eldridge)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Heineken and Sparks, 10-12
Summary: Our favorite sweaty hipster make out session goes corporate by making bedfellows with both Vice and Fuse. At least it brought a 2 hour open bar to the party and Spencer Product is DJing and he's awesome on the dance-rock-gettin-techy vibe
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Summer Concert Preview
For the last few weeks we've been getting hit hard with hints and rumors about all the great upcoming summer stuff (respect to Brooklyn Vegan for spearheading the movement.) I know you all hate the rumors, unconfirmed events, and showing up to find out there is a cover charge as much as I do, so we took a minute to confirm everything for you (or most of it.) Here's the start of our summer rundown list and its a hot one. Look for more events as we get them and more confirmations as we can find sources. Got the inside scoop? holler at us!
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Goo Goo Dolls Perform Live!
Date: Wednesday, April 26th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Virgin Megastores Times Square (1540 Broadway)
Cost: Free
Summary: If your thing is 90's-collegey-radio-rock, head down to Virgin Times Square and pick up your copy of the Goo Goo Dolls new album Let Love In starting Tuesday, 4/25 at 9am and get your pass to the special performance and signing the following day. Passes are limited!
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Nam June Paik Celebration
Date: Wednesday, April 26th
Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: Guggenheim Museum (5th Avenue at 89th St)
Cost: Free
Summary: To honor the life and work of Korea-born, New York-based video artist Nam June Paik, there will be a memorial event co-organized by Nam June Paik studios. Speakers will include Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, Russell Connor, Shuya Abe and Wulf Herzogenrath. [via WUNY]
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The Edge or Reason
Date: Wednesday, April 26th
Time: 8:00pm, sharp (doors at 7)
Location: The Wild Space (313 Meserole Street, at Bogart, Brooklyn)
Cost: Free
Summary: The recently raided Wild Space opens its doors for an exhibition of the currently installed art. Assume a much more tame crowd then at the recent nighttime event.
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We are living in irrational times, an era when each day brings witness to newly spectacular technology and culture while we simultaneously feel our world crumbling, we see our neighbors struggling, and we are told by our leaders that we have entered a permanent state of war. Each day we hold on with all might to our best intentions and hope for the future against a pushing understanding that the future is not bending in the direction of our wishes. In these irrational times, in the midst of the madness within ourselves, we as artists seek meaning not through interrogation and understanding, but in that part of the mind we call intuition, the only place left to us as the seat of value.
For one night only, in the 9,000 square foot irrational venture you know as the Wild Space, Thomas Beale, resident sculptor, presents the work of seven visual artists, one dance company and a composer who are creating cutting edge work that comes from a place straddling the edge of reason. Wednesday night will be your only chance to experience this phenomenon.
Including work by: Mirori Harima, Tucker Robbins, Adam Stanforth, Victor Vlad, Kika Vliegenthart and Lilly Ladjevardi, and Thomas Beale. Performances by POW Dance Company, Bruce Gremo.
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First Taste
 Date: Wednesdays
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Hi Fi (169 Ave A btwn 10th and 11th St)
Cost: Free
Summary: First Taste is a weekly listening party every Wednesday for all new and unreleased rock at Hi Fi. Drink offers till midnight include $3 Brooklyn Lagers, IPA's and Pilsners.
It's a good chance to hear new music.
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Mish Massive
 Date: April 26th
Time: 9:30pm
Location: Sadie's Lounge, Mo Pitkins (34 Ave A)
Cost: Free
Summary: DJ Handler (Modular Moods) brings together some of New York's finer DJs to celebrate the letter B. On the decks are DJ Acidophilus (Brazilian), DJ Handler (Baltimore Club), DJ K. Ross (Breaks) and Elsewhere (Bollywood). This is one for the true music heads.
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Hopchank
 Date: Wednesday, April 26th
Time: 10:00pm ???
Location: Happy Ending (302 Broome St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: Hopchank is at it once more with another party at Hapy Ending brought to you by Rev Mcfly. Tonights guest DJs are Morsy and Dayta from Nanachill. Plus clothing and CD giveaways.
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The Secret Machines Instore
 Date: Thursday, April 27th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Virgin Megastore Union Square (14th and Broadway)
Cost: Free
Summary: Purchase your copy of their brand new album, "Ten Silver Drops," beginning at 9am on Tuesday, April 25th, and receive a wristband to reserve your space in line to see this intimate performance at Virgin Megastore. As always, space is limited!
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Nine to Five
 Date: Thursday, April 27th
Time: Doors at 6:30pm, Film at 8:00pm
Location: The North Cove at the World Financial Center (behind the Winter Garden)
Cost: Free (Tickets will be available beginging the 17th up at the Tribeca Film Festival Box Office, 13-17 B Laight Street btw Varick and Ave. of the Americas)
Summary: So while it is not quite summer yet, The Tribeca Film Festival has set up Drive-In style screenings in honor of the upcoming festival. Today they screen the 1980 classic, Nine to five, starring Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda.
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Triple 5 VS. The KDU
 Date: Thursday, April 27th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Triple Five Soul Brooklyn (145 Bedford Ave, enter on N 11th)
Cost: Free with RSVP (must RSVP by 4:00pm on April 25th)
Summary: Its been a minute since we have had a new edition of the Triple 5 Soul VS. Project. Tonight its back featuring work from The KDU and music from JAMESJAMES and DJ Myles of Triple Crown (hey remember when Triple Crown was free???) Expect a big crowd so arrive early.
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Jon Gamel Opening
 Date: Thursday, April 27th
Time: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Sapphire Lounge (249 Eldridge between Stanton and Houston)
Cost: Free
Summary: Through the use of large format plexi-glass panels, Jon Gamel's acrylic and oil paintings haunt their viewers with a twisted sense of reality and human sexuality. Tonight, several pieces will be on display at the Sapphire Lounge where you can enjoy their true depth... well beyond anything a Jpeg can handle.
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Because The L Likes Drunk Writers
 Date: Thursday, April 27th
Time: 8:30pm
Location: The Baggot Inn (82 W. 3rd St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: The L Magazine hosts the 2nd Annual Literary Upstart and has selected writers to come out and read their short fiction in front of some publishing bigwigs. The winners get published in The L's Summer Fiction Issue. And if literary excitment isn't stimulating enough for you, there is free Red Hook from 8:30 to 9:30.
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Better Than Blueberries
Date: Thursday, April 6th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Askew (504 LaGuardia Place)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Rum, 9 to 10
Summary: I'm taking over Lindsay's post. I like blueberries. I like them in smooties and I like them on a warm summer day. I'd like someone to make me a cocktail with them... maybe some sort of blueberries, rasberry vodka, and juice thing. We can call it Smurf orgasm or something so that the girls will drink it too. Anyway, this party rocks. Each week they will bring you top notch DJs and tonight is FreNYC favorite Caps N'Jones.
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Grime Time
 Date: Thursday, April 27th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Supreme Trading (213 N 8th, W'burg)
Cost: Free
Summary: Boys, boys, boys, boys. Boys I do adore! Tonight Vice brings their Streets listening party to BK. First, get an earful (for the second time) of The Streets new album followed by a bevy of my favortie DJs. On the line up is The Captain (of the infamous Cut/Dirty Down parties), Zak Shadetek, plus Drop The Lime and Math Head (who both played our 2 years anniversary party). You should expect to stay out late so partake in the free Sparks from 10 to 11.
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We Care a Lot Returns
 Date: Thursdays
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Happy Valley, Downstairs (14 East 27th bet. 5th and Madison)
Cost: free
Summary: The We Care a Lot team returns after hiatus for a new party of dancable techno downstairs at Happy Vally. Tonight's kick off celebrates Cowboy Mark's birthday and Switzerland with Plastique de Reve and John Plater. JDH from Fixed joins in just because he's awesome as well as a team of top notch residents (see flyer)
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Machete take Manhattan
 Date: Thursday, April 27th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Opus 22 (559 WEst 22nd St. at 11th Ave)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Summary: Machete Mag takes over this true school hip hop staple tonight with DJ D-NICE on the tables.
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Robots And Friends
 Date: Thursday, April 27th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Fat Baby (112 Rivington)
Cost: Free
Summary: It seems that for tonight 3 nightlife super powers have joined forces to get you all party. DJ Moe Choi and Chaseskillz as Robots In A Coma are joined by Nike At Nite of The Bangers and Project Matt of Fun Time Party Team and will almost guarantee you have a great night. And if you're still awake, there will be $3 beer and well drinks from 2 to 3.
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Radio FreeNYC: Poetry Vs. Comedy
The Poetry vs. Comedy Variety Show is neither an ordinary poetry slam nor a stand-up comedy show. The Poetry Vs Comedy Variety Show is a battle of wits and rhymes where the stanzas and the stand-up collide. Produced by writer and literary series curator Cheryl B., the show premiered last summer much to the delight of performance poetry and comedy fans. Check the next one out May 4th at Galapagos. Poetry Vs. Comedy Website
LISTEN NOW!
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Kudu For You At Nublu
 Date: Friday, April 28th
Time: 9:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Nublu
Cost: Free before 10pm, $10 after
Summary: I know that some of you just can not get enough of Kudu! And I know that I can not get enough Nublu. And I rarely get to send you guys there because, well, there is a cover. But here is the secret... if you get there before 10 its free. Also on the line up tonight is Nick Name from Care in the Community and Nublu's own, Justin Carter (he owns this song This Is Sick on vinyl, see if he'll play it for you!) So show up early, get in for free, grab a drink, talk to the bartender for a minute and hold out to shake it to Kudu!
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Tropfest
 Date: Friday, April 28th
Time: Doors at 6:30pm, Film at 8:00pm
Location: The North Cove at the World Financial Center (behind the Winter Garden)
Cost: Free
Summary: So while it is not quite summer yet, The Tribeca Film Festival has set up Drive-In style screeningd in honor of the upcoming festival. Today is Australia's Tropfest. "The largest outdoor short film festival in the world, gets its North American premiere in a collaboration with the Tribeca Film Festival to bring you eight shorts made exclusively for Tropfest@Tribeca, screening with eight classic Tropfest shorts."
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Dave Hillyard 5
 Date: Friday, April 28th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: B.B. King (237 West 42nd)
Cost: Free
Summary: Saxophonist, Dave Hillyard, has been exploring the world between ska/reggae and jazz for over a decade now. He has been a seminal member of NYC's ska legends The Slackers as well as frontman of his own Rocksteady 7. Additionally, Hillyard has appeared with Rancid, Skinnerbox, The Stubborn All Stars, and the Version City All Stars. Tonight, The Dave Hillyard 5 plays at Lucille's at B.B. King for Free!
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An April Sweat
 Date: Friday, April 28th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: The Delancey (168 Delancey)
Cost: Free
Summary: Its April, its Friday night, and there hasn't been a Sweat party in 4 weeks... so here is your monthly dosage. By now you should know the drill, good party, good venue, good times. Tonight you got DJs Robots In A Coma, Reverend McFly on the Main Floor and downstairs you got Rob Swift, Special Needs and Erminatti.
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Summerstage Tickets - On Sale Today
This is just another friendly summer heads up... Lots of Summerstage pay show tickets go on sale today at noon including Fiona Apple & Damian Rice, moe., Bonnie Raitt, Clap your Hands Say Yeah and more... check out the Summer Preview page for ticket links.
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Cherry Blossom Festival
 Date: Saturday, April 29th and Sunday, April 30th
Time: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Location: Brooklyn Botanical Garden (1000 Washington Avenue)
Cost: $5 to tour enitre garden
Summary: Every year I say I am going to go to the Cherry Blossom Festival and every year I'm about a weekend too late. This year for the 25th Anniversary at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, I am determined. Now, I know its not free and you are probably saying "why should I pay $5 to look at some trees" But come on, go outside and play, and I know you spent 5 times that on drinks last night. Plus the BBG is really pretty, and its a great way to spend your afternoon.
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March for Peace, Justice and Democracy
Date: Saturday, April 29th
Time: 10:30am - 6:00pm
Location: Meet at Broadway and 18th St.
Cost: Free
Summary: Wake up White House! Wake up Congress! Join in this rally/march to help protect civil liberties, end oil wars and help rebuild communities. Full info after the jump
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"Too much is too wrong in this country. We have a foreign policy that is foreign to our core values, and domestic policies wreaking havoc at home. It's time for a change. No more never-ending oil wars! Protect our civil liberties & immigrant rights. End illegal spying, government corruption and the subversion of our democracy.
Rebuild our communities, starting with the Gulf Coast. Stop corporate subsidies and tax cuts for the wealthy while ignoring our basic needs.
Act quickly to address the climate crisis and the accelerating destruction of our environment. Our message to the White House and to Congress is clear: Either stand with us or stand aside!"
We are happy to announce that an agreement has been reached with the NYC Police Department for our plans on Saturday, April 29th.
The March for Peace, Justice and Democracy will kick off in Manhattan, just north of Union Square and proceed south along Broadway to Foley Square, where we will hold a Peace and Justice Festival. Please see schedule below:
10:30 am - 12 noon: Assembly along Broadway, north of 18th Street. Contingents will form in the area from 18th Street to 22nd Street, between Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue South. (Details about where particular contingents will be gathering will be posted here soon.)
12 noon: March begins and proceeds south on Broadway. We will turn left (east) on Worth Street and continue into Foley Square.
1 pm - 6 pm: The Peace and Justice Festival will be held at Foley Square from 1 pm to 6 pm. A map of the festival area will be available here soon.
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Mikon Hall of Worlds
 Date: Saturday, April 29th
Time: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Collective: Unconscious (279 Church St)
Cost: Free
Summary: Some people draw on walls, some people paint on canvas, some people take pictures and some people... well... some people build micro-museums of "computer and voice driven kinetic sculpture, sound, and viewer-manipulated virtual zooarium(s) of imaginary life forms." These kinetic sculptures are made from found objects, motors, fans, pantyhose, and horshoecrab shells. This monthly exhibition of computer controlled exo-oceanic life continues all weekend with viewings Sunday from 12-8pm... more after the jump.
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"Mikon is a micro-museum of computer and voice driven kinetic sculpture, sound, and a viewer-manipulated virtual zooarium of imaginary life forms. Inspired by the Wunderkammern of the 18th century, Mikon is a super-condensed macrocosm, a storefront cabinet of curiosities. Mikon seeks to instill the wonder of speculative biology in its viewers, who have both the opportunity to animate aspects of the exhibition and to observe the unpredictable behavior of its components. In creating an otherworldly ecology, Mikon promotes the appreciation of the real ecologies that it emulates. A computer has been programmed to simulate a small system of living things, which cycle through quiescence and activity. Attendees can affect this system through triggering sensors and uttering voice commands. Mikon is a growing thing, becoming more nuanced with every show, expressing itself through new visual, sonic, and sculptural elements."
See video footage of the exhibit (Real)
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TriBeCa Art
 Date: Saturday, April 29th
Time: 1:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Tribeca, see map!
Cost: Free
Summary: Not sure what this has to do with toast exactly, but this weekend it is definately worth checking out the 10th annual TriBeCa art walk. Toast, the TriBeCa Open Artist Studio Tour, is a free, self-guided tour of approximately 100 artists' studios throughout TriBeCa. Great chance to interact with the artists and see artwork at the source, the artist's own studio!
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Upgrade
 Date: Saturday, April 29th
Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Eybeam (540 W. 21st St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: Join Graffiti Research Lab for Upgrade. Josh MacPhee, author of Stencil Pirates tours the history of illegal street markings and how we got the point we're at today, and a look at the history of the street stencil. Evan Roth and James Powderly talk about the current state of graffiti, and the formation of Graffiti Research Lab, and some of their recent projects. They demo the tools they have created including the LED Throwies (and even gove some away!)
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The Hip Hop Project
 Date: Saturday, April 29th
Time: Doors at 6:30pm, Film at 8:00pm
Location: The North Cove at the World Financial Center (behind the Winter Garden)
Cost: Free (Tickets will be available beginnging the 17th and must be picked up at the Tribeca Film Festival Box Office,13-17 B Laight Street btw Varick Street and Ave. of the Americas)
Summary: So while it is not quite summer yet, The Tribeca Film Festival has set up Drive-In style screeningd in honor of the upcoming festival. Today is Word.Life aka The Hip Hop Project. "From executive producer Bruce Willis comes an inspiring documentary about New York City teenagers who transform their life stories into powerful works of art, led by a formerly homeless teen turned rap mentor. On this journey of self-discovery and empowerment, hip-hop is the key that will set them free."
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Girl Stories
 Date: Saturday, April 29th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Rocketship (208 Smith Street, Brooklyn)
Cost: Free
Summary: Lauren R Weinstein, Brooklyn native and creator of the comic classic Girl Stories signs copies of her latest this evening.
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Girl Stories began as a series of comics drawn for the teen girls' Web site gurl.com, where they generated thousands of e-mails from teenage girls (and some boys too).
Expanded into a full-length graphic novel, these tales of one girl's adolescence are hilarious, heartbreaking, and honest. Lauren R. Weinstein tells the horrible truth about growing up, surviving embarrassing parents, bullies from hell, best friends, boyfriends, breakups, and trying too hard to be cool-and it has never been funnier.
Lauren R. Weinstein draws comics, makes etchings, and teaches cartooning and drawing in New York City. Ms. Weinstein is also in an experimental rock band called Flaming Fire, and they are recording their third album. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Funk Nasty
 Date: Saturday, March 29th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Royal Oak (594 Union Ave @ Richardson, Williamsburg)
Cost: Free
Summary: DJ Morsy and Dayta bring their get down vibe (Miami Bass, Bmore Cub, Hip Hop, 80's, Reggae, etc.) across the river this month to hipster local Royal Oak. Now that it's getting warm out, this is a perfect spot to kick back with a PRB in the back yard. K. Ross and DJ Elsewhere from the fantastic Supreme Trading by Weekly Sound Advice join in the fun. Hands down, the best hassle free Saturday you can have.
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Mad Suspect
 Date: Saturday, April 29th
Time: 10:00pm (?)
Location: Savalas (285 Bedford Ave @ Grand, W'burg)
Cost: Free
Summary: In case you didn't get enough of the banging bass or of this crew on Thursday (as I never can!) here is another chance to come out and play tonight! The Captain, Star Eyes and Drop The Lime bring you all the electro house and "heavy bass bangers" you desire.
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Make sure you check out today's events in the "Weekly Events" section for the parties we love that go down on the regular.
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Cherry Blossom Festival
Date: Saturday, April 29th and Sunday, April 30th
Time: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Location: Brooklyn Botanical Garden (1000 Washington Avenue)
Cost: $5 to tour enitre garden
Summary: Every year I say I am going to go to the Cherry Blossom Festival and every year I'm about a weekend too late. This year for the 25th Anniversary at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, I am determined. Now, I know its not free and you are probably saying "why should I pay $5 to look at some trees" But come on, go outside and play, and I know you spent 5 times that on drinks last night. Plus the BBG is really pretty, and its a great way to spend your afternoon.
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Drums Along the Hudson
 Date: Sunday, April 30th
Time: 11:00am - 6:00pm
Location: Inwood Hill Park
Cost: Free
Summary: Experience Manhattan's only "open air pow wow" alonside Native American craft demos, falconry, storytelling and dance at this annual, family friendly, Native American Festival & Shad Fest. Directions after the Jump.
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"The drum is the heartbeat of the earth."
Co-presented by Lotus Music & Dance and The NYC Department of Parks & Recreation to celebrate Native American music, dance, and tradition. A FREE, fun, family friendly event and Manhattan's only open air pow wow, Drums Along the Hudson includes Native American craft demonstrations, falconry, storytelling and a festival of world dance traditions that share the drum as live musical accompaniment. Fine Native American and international arts, crafts and foods round out the festival presentation.
Reach Inwood Hill Park on the #1 train at 215th St. Station, the A train at 207th Street, or by car north of the Dyckman Street exit from the Henry Hudson Parkway.
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Posted by Chris at 11:00 AM
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TriBeCa Art
Date: Sunday, April 30th
Time: 1:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Tribeca, see map!
Cost: Free
Summary: Not sure what this has to do with toast exactly, but this weekend it is definately worth checking out the 10th annual TriBeCa art walk. Toast, the TriBeCa Open Artist Studio Tour, is a free, self-guided tour of approximately 100 artists' studios throughout TriBeCa. Great chance to interact with the artists and see artwork at the source, the artist's own studio!
Posted by Lindsay F at 01:00 PM
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MayDay '06
 Date: Sunday, April 30th
Time: 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Tompkins Square Park (7th St. side btw A and B)
Cost: Free
Summary: The Blackkat MayDay party has been a long standing tradition for FreeNYC and also sort of our unoffical summertime jumpoff. Today marks the 8th year of this outdoor party in Tompkins Square, and the line up is crazzzzzy! Today from 2 to 6 come dance around in the sunshine to the the tag team set of Frankie Bones & Lenny Dee, get a lesson in the history of the scratch from GrandWizzard Theodore and Johnny "Juice" Rosado, and a guest set from CX Kidtronik, and hosted by Jason BK and Chrome! This one is HIGHLY reccomended! Now if only FreeNYC could get their Tompkins Square permit!
Posted by Lindsay at 02:00 PM
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Hefty Low End
Date: Sunday, April 30th
Time: 9:00pm - 2:00am
Location: Element (225 East Houston St.)
Cost: Free
Summary: I mean the words are right there on the flyers... "Get down to the heavy low end sound! Witness amazing feats of strength as brawny disk-laden jockeys defend the analog faith by actualy mixing physical records!" I dont sense any sarcasm there at all. Two nights this week Halcyon packs up their crates and brings the Hefty party to the city. Tonight's installment features Adultnapper, Alex Dirtt and Anthony Parasole, DJ Connie, and Taimur Agha.
Posted by Lindsay at 10:00 PM
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