Marlo Pascual

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Date: Wednesday, January 13th
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Swiss Institute for Contemporary Art (495 Broadway bet. Broome and Spring, 3rd Floor)
Cost: Free

In her new exhibit, "Marlo Pascual fashions a stage set for found vintage headshots. Gels, platforms, and pedestals realize the site of an amateur actress’s dreams; a mental screen test ensues. The discreet encounters between fragmentary images and unassuming props play out, rendering the effects of desire palpable." Opens today and continues through February 14th. (via Artcards.cc)

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Start Writing in 2009

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Date: Tuesday, January 13th
Time: 7:00pm & 8:15pm
Location: Trinity School (101 W 91st St at Columbus Ave) & University Settlement (273 Bowery at E. Houston)
Cost: Free, pre-registration required. (212 974-8377)

If your New Year's resolution involves brushing up on your literary skills then Gotham Writers' Workshop has a treat for you. Tonight they make their curriculum available to the public by inviting all perspective writers to participate in one (or two) of the 10+ free writing workshops. Professional writers on the school's faculty will teach one-hour workshops in Fiction Writing, Screenwriting, Children's Book Writing, Memoir Writing, Article Writing, Poetry Writing, and an introductory course titled Creative Writing 101. Pre-registration is required and all the details can be found here.

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Secret Science Club Presents: Living Skyscrapers - Ecologist Dickson Despommier Re-Envisions the City

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Date: Tuesday, January 13th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Union Hall (702 Union St. at 5th Ave., P'Slope)
Cost: Free

Union Hall brings you your monthly installment of Secret Science Club, one of my favorite events. Come nerd it up with mind-blowing lectures, volatile cocktails, and chemically-altered sounds. Tonight, "step into the great glass elevator . . . the Secret Science Club is heading skyward with microbiologist and ecologist Dickson Despommier, whose ambitious project to create vertical farms in urban skyscrapers could radically re-vision the way we live—and eat. A professor of environmental science and public health at Columbia University, Dr. Despommier asks how might urban sky farms reduce global warming, and give “eating local” a whole new meaning? What technologies and architectural designs could work in vertical farms? Before and after groove to towering tunes and vaulting video, stick around for the lofty Q&A and try the stratospheric new cocktail: the Mile Highball.

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Trainwreck

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Date: Tuesdays
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Angles and Kings (500 E 11th St bet Ave A & B)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Venom and Vodka, 10:30-11:30

Trainwreck Tuesday is back! Dance the night away to DJs Rob Hitt and Erica Dagley while slinging back Complimentary Venom and Vodka from 10:30-11:30pm and free shots when they ring the gong. Old Flyer 21+

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Drinking at Happy Ending... 66Sick and Disco Down

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Date: Tuesdays
Time: 10:00pm - late
Location: Happy Ending (302 Broome St at Forsythe)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Yup, see below

So Tuesdays seem to to be the day for free boozin lately and Happy Ending seems to take the cake with two separate parties and two separate open bars. First, 66Sick girls take on one floor and bring you electro-glammed out trashyness in the basement with a full hour of open bar from 11-12. While upstairs, the Disco Down crew bring some 80's love to the floor with an open vodka bar from 11:30-12. Seems like if you like free boozin, this is the place to be tonight. 21+

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