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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