Taschen Warehouse Sale

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Date: Friday, January 18th - Sunday January 20th
Time: Fri & Sat 11:00am - 8:00pm; Sun 12:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Taschen New York (107 Greene St btw Prince and Spring)
Cost: Free; book prices vary

This weekend is Taschen's bi-annual warehouse book sale. If you are looking to buy some art or design books, this is definitely the place to be as literally thousands of books will be sold at 50-75% off the cover price. In addition, there will also be a selection of rare and out-of-print Taschen books (like The Stanley Kubrick Archives, The Complete Works of Leonardo DaVinci, The Wood Book, REM Koolhaus’s Project on the City etc.) and discounted copies of the collector’s editions. You should be aware that many of these books are slightly damaged or display copies.

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Macaque + Andy D

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Date: Friday, January 18th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Goodbye Blue Monday (1087 Broadway, Bushwick)
Cost: Free

Goodbye Blue Monday was voted "Best Place to see Up and Coming Bands before They Embrace Their Own Hype" by the Village Voice this year. Tonight check out Andy D (at 11pm) and Macaque (at 12am) who have possibly already embraced their hype. It's free to get in but feel free to contribute to the bucket fund.

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BRC's Children of the Revolution

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Date: Friday, January 18th & Saturday, January 19th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Bam Café (Lafayette & Ashland, Ft. Greene)
Cost: Free

"The Black Rock Coalition presents a weekend residency titled “Revolution as a Work in Progress, Part II: Children of the Revolution.” The weekend will feature a mixed-generation of musicians, singers, and poets performing from a songbook of protest music from the last 25 years." Founded in 1985 by guitarist Vernon Reid, journalist Greg Tate and producer Konda Mason in reaction to the constrictions that the commercial music industry places on Black artists, the BRC is a collective of artists, writers, producers, publicists, activists and
music fans assembled to maximize exposure and provide resources for Black artists who defy convention. To date, the BRC is the only national nonprofit organization dedicated to the complete creative freedom of Black artists.

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BRAINWAVE Film Series: Altered States

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Date: Friday, January 18th
Time: 9:30pm
Location: Rubin Museum of Art (150 West 17th Street bet. 6th and 7th Ave)
Cost: Free with $7 bar minimum

"BRAINWAVE is an extravaganza of art, music, and ideas running from January to June 2008. BRAINWAVE asks how art, music, and meditation affect the brain and offers countless answers in more than a hundred public events, ranging from contemporary art shows to a cinema series to cutting-edge concerts, performances, talks, and panels." Tonight is their weekly screening series and it features Ken Russell's tripped out exploration of inner consciousness. Trailer below.

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Trash is Back

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Date: Friday, January 18th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Home Sweet Home (131 Chrystie St)
Cost: Free before 11
Open Bar: Zygo, 11-12

The debaucherous, roudy dance party that is Trash (used to be at Rififi) is back and setting up shop at Home Sweet Home tonight. "Guest DJ Dances With White Girls joins the celebratation (DJ Jess and Alex Malfunction's collective birthday bash). With live cabaret at midnight, an uneven dancefloor and random acts of taxidermy on display (or at times in performance) this is easily the weekend party with the least liabilities and the most assets." [via MyOpenBar]

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Kick A$$

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Date: Friday, January 18th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Supreme Trading (213 N. 8th St at Driggs)
Cost: Free

DJ Morsy and Cousin Cole drop by Supreme Trading to trade dance floor bangers all night. Expect their signature fair of 80s reworks, hip hop, baltimore, club, and assorted other dance stylings. 21+

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