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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