Hello, Nurse! Free Tickets!
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 This Saturday, New Release and Re:Up are dropping some serious techno in an all night rager out at 3rd Ward. Luke Vibert (Wagon Christ), !!! (DJ Set), No Ordinary Monkey, and more! We've got a pair of tickets to give away today to the first person that gets at them. And for the rest of you, grab advanced tickets now and get all the information here.
GIMMIE THOSE TICKETS! Tickets are gone, congrats to the winner!
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3rd Annual Fashion for Action Sale
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 Date: Friday, November 17th
Time: 10:00am
Location: 143 West 17th St
Cost: Free; Clothing prices vary
Summary: Today kicks off Housing Work's 3rd Annual Fashion For Action sale. The sale features about 100 designers (including L.A.M.B., Marc Jacobs, Juicy Couture, Dior, Balenciaga, Michael Kors, Triple 5 Soul, Versace) and is about 70-80% off the regular retail prices. Proceeds go to Housing Works to benefit homeless men, women and children in NYC.
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NY Art Book Fair
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 Date: November 17th - 19th
Time: Fri. & Sat. 11am-7pm, Sun. 11am-5pm
Location: 548 W. 22nd St. (btwn. 10th & 11th Ave.)
Cost: Free
Summary: Printed Matter, Inc. is presenting this first annual fair of, "contemporary art books, art catalogues, artists' books, art periodicals, and 'zines offered for sale by over 70 international publishers, booksellers, and antiquarian dealers." There will be tons of interesting events and whatnot, with participants like Creative Time and Performa. I just read in the Times Style section that "Black is Back," so dust off that black turtleneck and head down. Check all the deets HERE
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Creative Commons Salon
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 Date: Friday, November 17th
Time: 6:30pm - 10:00pm
Location: Fontanas (105 Eldridge btw. Broome and Grand)
Cost: Free
Summary: "A [Creative Commons] Salon is a free, casual monthly get-together focused on conversation, presentations, and performances from people or groups who are developing projects that relate to open content and/or software." While these events have been happening worldwide, this is the first one in NYC and will feature two performances by multimedia artists dedicated to the Open Source format. Performer bios below.
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Megan Miller from PopSci.com
Megan will be discussing and presenting Popular Science's recent
foray into the digital world known as Second Life, which includes a
rock concert and the creation of an all new PopSci.com Lounge. Megan
is the editor of PopSci.com, the Web site for Popular Science
magazine. She's the host of a Web show called Future Girl, as well as
hostess-with-the-mostest of events at PopSci's new Second Life Lounge.
You can find her in-world by looking up her Second Life avatar, Megala
Marx. In the real world, you're likely to find her cycling around New
York City or indulging her handbag-purchasing addiction.
Tim Schwartz of The Museum of the Moving ImageTim will be
presenting some of the Museum of the Moving Image's recent exhibitions
and talking about his work as a digital curator.
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Cloudbursts Opening
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 Date: Wednesday, November 17th
Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Cinders Gallery (103 Havemyer st. btwn Hope & Grand, W'burg)
Cost: Free
Summary: "Cloudbursts" is a new show of sculpture and drawings by artist David McQueen. McQueen has taken dozens of pictures of car bomb explosions and drawn and painted "cloudbursts" over the explosion part of the photographs. His sculptures use this as a taking off point and incorporate kinetic elements, with automated parts scraping and picking them apart. Go see what it's all about...
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Burning New York Book Release
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 Date: Friday, November 17th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Bowery Tattoo (334 Bowery btwn Great Jones & Bond)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Brahma Beer
Summary: Gingko Press comes strong with this sequal to Broken Wondows, featuring the latest and greatest graf artists burning walls in NYC. The evening will include live beatboxing by Semerock, Yako, Kid Lucky, and D-Cross and DJ TRS spinning (& scratching!) old-school hip hop. I'd advise to there early before all the unsavory vandals drink up all the beer!
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Mad Hatters' Review
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 Date: Friday, November 17th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: KGB Bar (85 E. 4th St. btwn 2nd Ave and Bowery)
Cost: Free
Summary: This is the fourth installment of the Mad Hatters' Review "Poetry, Prose & Anything Goes" reading series. The KGB Bar is known, and I mean known, for its literary leanings and they feature readings almost every night, so if you're that kind of person and haven't checked 'em out yet, you better do that. Tonight's "edgy & enlightened literature, art & music in the Age of Dementia" features Wanda Phipps, Frederic Tuten and Diane Williams. Click below for bios.
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Wanda Phipps, a writer living in Brooklyn, NY, and the author of Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems (Soft Skull Press), Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets (Situations), Lunch Poems (Boog Literature), the e-chapbook After the Mishap and the CD-Rom Zither Mood (Faux Press). Her poems have been published over 100 times in publications such as the anthologies Verses that Hurt: Pleasure and Pain From the Poemfone Poets (St. Martin's Press) and The Boog Reader (Boog LIt). She's also curated several reading and performanceseries at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church as well as other venues and written about the arts for Time Out New York, Paper Magazine, and About.com.
Frederic Tuten, who studied pre-Columbian art history at the University of Mexico and later traveled through South America, writing on Brazilian cinema. He received his Ph.D. from New York University, concentrating on the Melville, Whitman period; for some years he taught courses in literature and America films at the University of Paris 8. For more than fifteen years he directed and taught in the City College of New York's Graduate Program in Creative Writing. He is currently giving graduate fiction workshops at The City College and offers classes on experimental writing at The New School University. He is the author of five novels: The Adventures of Mao on the Long March; Tallien: A Brief Romance; Tintin in the New World; Van Gogh's Bad Café; and most recently, The Green Hour. His short fiction has appeared in Tri-Quarterly, Fiction, Fence, The New Review of Literature, Conjunctions, and Granta. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Writing and in 2001 was given the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Diane Williams, the author of six books of fiction. It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature will be out from FC2 in Fall 2007. She is the founding editor of Noon.
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Plastic Little's Shes Mature Release Party
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 Date: Friday, November 17th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: 205 Bar (205 Chrystie St., used to be 6's & 8's)
Cost: Free
Summary: There are a bunch of reasons to be into Plastic Little, first there music is pretty good, second they are from Philly (and if I have taught you anything over the years its that Philly is awesome) and the third reason is that their flyers for tonight's party are pretty hilarious (besides the one above, you should also take a look at this one). Tonight's release party will be hipster mayhem but should be pretty fun as they are bring their Philly cohorts Sweatheart and Kid America.
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Le One Night Stand
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 Date: Friday, November 17th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Bar 13 (35 East 13th St at University)
Cost: $1
Open Bar: Fernet Branca, 10-11
Summary: Tonight is Le One Night Stand's multi-lingual celebration of rock-disco-pop as Amylulita (Nacotheque), Josh Styler (Smashed! Blocked!), Sheila B (MTV Japan) and Melod Nelson (Calling all Kids) welcome Tim V (Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited) to the party. Free drinks early and dirty make out sessions all night long.
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Dirty Downstairs at Lit
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 Date: Friday, November 17th
Time: 11:00pm
Location: Lit (93 2nd Ave, basement only)
Cost: Free
Summary: Continuing their global take over in the LES, the Cut boys bring the party to Lit again tonight. This installment of Dirty Down features Starkey (philly represent!), Feass Vampire Killers and of course resident DJ The Captain. Should be a fun night...
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