Choice Festival

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Date: Sunday, March 1st - Sunday, March 15th
Time: 12:00pm
Location: 303GRAND (303 Grand St., W'burg)
Cost: Free

"Choice Festival, held on March 1st-15th, celebrates the grand opening of a brand new revolving storefront in Williamsburg, Brooklyn called 303GRAND. The event will be exhibiting a new medium each day including fashion, live art, technology, illustrators, photographers, film, paintings, street art, and much more. The audience will be able to enjoy the work of NYC’s most brilliant artists, and will also be able to create their own artwork, mingle with like-minded people, learn from new innovations in art, and get a taste of what’s to come at 303GRAND. Check out Upcoming for information about all the events and schedules." For more info on today's event and the rest of the festival click here.

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Freedom Star Accessories Spring Collection

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Date: Sunday, March 1st
Time: 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Location: 1261 Broadway, Suite 501
Cost: Free

Freedom Star Accessories shows off their new collection this afternoon. Meet founder and designer, Sahar Parirokh, as you peruse handmade earrings and necklaces. Enjoy music, wine, lovely conversation and ease yourself into lovely thoughts of spring.

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Outsmarted

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Date: Monday, March 2nd
Time: 8:00pm
Location: The Bellhouse, Front Room (149 7th St bet 2nd and 3rd Ave., Gowanus)
Cost: Free

Conrad from Takka Takka swings by the Bell House this evening for a round of rock and roll trivia. "Win prizes, get tipsy, it's hip to be square!" 21+

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Over The Counter

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Date: Mondays
Time: 9:00pm
Location: EastVille Comedy Club (85 E. 4th St.)
Cost: $1 (plus 2 drink minimum)

Have a serious case of the Mondays? Why not cure it with an unbelievable line-up of comedians at an unbeatable price? This Monday, EastVille Comedy Club is debuting its newest weekly show, "Over-the-Counter Monday" and offering it this week for only $1 (cover normally $20). With headliners like Dave Attell and Sarah Silverman and guest comedians from NBC, MTV, and Comedy Central, this is the show to start your week off right!

NOTE: This is the last Over the Counter (at this venue at least)

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Stories and Shanties: A Night of Irish Culture

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Date: Tuesday, March 3rd
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Lolita Bar (266 Broome at Allen)
Cost: Free

The toast of Irish America joins us for a night of Irish music and literature at Lolita Bar. The program is, in part, a tribute to the late linguist Danny Cassidy, who was the guest of honor at last year's Irish Song and Slang event. The evening will feature music from Mick Moloney and his band and readings of Cassidy's work by his friends.

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Cumulus Studios Presents: The Party at Twenty First Twenty First Gallery

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Date: Wednesday, March 4th
Time: 10:00am - 6:00pm
Location: Twenty First Twenty First Gallery (551 West 21st Street)
Cost: Free

"The smog of LA creates such beautiful sunsets even if they are lethal. Crimson dusk reflects from Rirkrit Tiravanija’s mirror polished ping pong table... Smoke wafts from Pentti Monkkonen’s Locomotive Barbecue...Perched on a quiet corner of the deck, a bikini-clad woman stares romantically over the Hollywood landscape. Created by Jim Drain, she is totally PC – painted ceramic – not your grandfather’s politically incorrect lawn jockey... Cumulus Studios is proud to have its launch exhibition of outdoor functional objects created by Contemporary artists. Artists in the exhibition include: Andrea Blum, John Bock, Jim Drain, Elmgreen & Dragset, Anya Gallaccio, Liam Gillick, Piero Golia, Mary Heilmann, Richard Hughes, Michael Joo, Charles Long, Allan McCollum, Pentti Monkkonen, Jan Mancuska, Rob Pruitt, Ugo Rondinone, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Rob Wynne, and Aaron Young." Exhibit runs through March 31st.

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Warper

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Date: Wednesday, March 4th
Time: 8:00pm - 2:00am
Location: The Delancey (168 Delancey St. at Attorney)
Cost: Free

Oh Warper... no one can pack more knob twiddling electronic gadgetry into a single night. Tonight is their three year anniversary and they've packed even more "Omnidigital DJs, Biomorphic Musicians, and Multimedia Madness" then usual. 22+ musicians hit the LES tonight to celebrate their 3 year anniversary along with a collection of AV artists, VJs, assorted oddities, and workshops. And for the audio geek in you, there's even a special presentation of the new Akai APC40 Ableton controller.. w00t! 21+

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Salute your Shorts

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Date: Wednesday, March 4th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Gallery Bar (120 Orchard at Delancey)
Cost: Free

"Come Salute Your Shorts as we celebrate the short film work of up-and-coming NYC filmmakers.  No pretensions--just good times, fun films, and cheap drinks.Featuring works by Bryan Gaynor, Daniel Pfeffer, Keegan Gibbs, Nina Reyes Rosenberg, and featured artist of the month Adriano Valentini. Screening at 9pm, party after!"

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Secret Science Club

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Date: Wednesday, March 4th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Union Hall (702 Union St., 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, Mathematician and population expert Joel E. Cohen asks: How many Homo sapiens can the Earth support? How is the exploding human population affecting the Earth’s physical, biological, and chemical environments? What will happen as the population grows larger, older, and more urban? Can conservation succeed with 9 billion people on the planet? Before and after, Groove to an ever-multiplying collection of tunes in Union Hall’s subterranean grotto, stick around for the Q&A, and try our explosive new cocktail, the Population Bomb.

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Municipal Art Society Walking Tour: Night and Light in the City

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Date: Thursday, March 5th
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Herald Square (Broadway and 34th St.)
Cost: Free

"Join noted lighting designer Howard Brandston (his commissions include the Statue of Liberty and Battery Park City) for an illuminating walking tour. Electric light can highlight architecture and increase livability, but not all light is created equal. Two sorts of lamps light New York's streets and parks: metal halide, which is white light, and high pressure sodium, which is yellow. This is a chance to experience the contrast between the two and to learn why the streetscape committee of MAS favors white light for the City that never sleeps. Meet at the south end of Herald Square, Broadway and 34th St." More info here.

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Latinos in Literature

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Date: Thursday, March 5th
Time: 7:00pm- 9:00pm
Location: The powerHouse Arena (37 Main Street, DUMBO)
Cost: Free with RSVP

"As Latino literature begins to find its rightful place on the bookshelves, a fresh new crop of Nuyorican authors is emerging as the trailblazers of an exciting new movement in literature... Now for the first time ever, The powerHouse Arena brings all of these dynamic speakers together under one roof to read excerpts of their work, as well as to discuss how hard it was for them to break into the literary world and where they plan to go next now that the doors are open. They will also discuss what they believe the future of Latino Literature to be. The panel discussion will be moderated by John Garcia who has been a reporter and editor in all forms of media for over 23 years." Participating authors after the jump."

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Words Without Borders Presents: First Thursdays at Idlewild Books

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Date: Thursday, March 5th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Idlewild Books (12 W. 19th Street)
Cost: Free

"Words Without Borders proudly presents the fifth event in our First Thursdays series, a discussion of Israeli author Etgar Keret's The Girl on the Fridge... On this special night, WWB welcomes internationally acclaimed Hebrew translator Miriam Shlesinger, in from Israel for this event, who will be in conversation with Phillip Lopate, one of America's most influential literary voices. Shlesinger and Lopate will discuss author-filmmaker Etgar Keret's collection of stories, which average only 2-3 pages each: these stories are powerful and unflinching—affect with unexpected force—and have placed Keret at the center of the international literary conversation."

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St. Marks Reading Series Poetry Night

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Date: Thursday, March 5th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Solar Bar (232 E. Ninth St., btwn 2nd and 3rd
Ave.)
Cost: Free

Please join The St. Mark's Bookshop Reading Series as they invite Tom Raworth and Peter Richards to the Solas Stage. Raworth has published more than forty books and pamphlets of poetry, prose and translations, in several countries. His graphic work has been shown in France, Italy, and the USA, and he has collaborated and performed with
musicians, painters and other poets. Richards s the author of two poetry collections: Oubliette and Nude Siren, both from Verse Press (now Wave Books). He is a recipient
of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Poetry, an Iowa Arts Fellowship, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and the John Logan Award.

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Tobaron Waxman at Harvestworks

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Date: Friday, March 6th
Time: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center (596 Broadway #602)
Cost: Free

"Harvestworks is pleased to present, Block of Ice + 1/60, a new multimedia performance installation exploring issues of labor and water ecology by 2007 VanLier Fellow, Tobaron Waxman. The work uses the artist's own brainwave patterns, generated while he sleeps in the gallery space, to control a Max/MSP software patch, which will dynamically locate Web images pertaining to water in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The images are then manipulated and projected onto a block of ice using Jitter software. As the projection surface (i.e. the ice block) melts, it is filtered into bottles and made available for the gallery visitors to drink, in order that they may assimilate an aspect of the biofeedback loop into their own body. Each bottle is then made available as a unique artist's multiple, with a label derived from the image projected while it was filled. Proceeds from sale of the multiple go to non-profit organizations addressing issues of labor and/or hydrology."

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American Folk Art Museum Presents Folk53

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Date: Friday, March 6th
Time: 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: American Folk Art Museum (45 West 53 Street)
Cost: Free with RSVP

The American Folk Art Museum invites you to a celebration of contemporary self-taught artists, with live music, drink specials, and curatorial tours with Brooke Davis Anderson and Stacy C. Hollander. Explore the fascinating worlds of Mark Rothko, Martín Ramírez, Henry Darger, and other visionary artists on view in the museum’s award-winning building designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.

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What Are We Doing Here Screening

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Date: Friday, March 6th
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Goldwurm auditorium, Icahn Institute (1425 Madison Avenue)
Cost: Free with RSVP

"Film screening of award winning documentary 'What are we doing here?' A travel, adventure documentary that takes the filmmakers 15,000 miles from Cairo to Cape Town, as they explore why more than a trillion dollars in foreign aid hasn't helped reduce poverty in Africa and in many cases has been part of the problem." Check out the trailer here.

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Kate Flint at The Center For Humanities

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Date: Friday, March 6th
Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, CUNY (365 5th Avenue)
Cost: Free

"Kate Flint, Professor of English at Rutgers University and author of The Woman Reader, 1837-1914, The Victorians and the Visual Imagination, and The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930, analyzes the interplay of historical, technological, and psychological projection in the 19th century and today." More info here.

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Resonance in Residence: Sound Sculpture at 3rd Ward

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Date: Friday, March 6th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: 3rd Ward (195 Morgan Ave., BK)
Cost: Free with RSVP

"What happens when you put 7 artists in a room and ask them to create a sculptural object focusing on sound? A collaborative installation combining 100 algorithmically-controlled, sound-generating motors and field recordings, of course! Join us for the opening reception... There'll be free beer (while it lasts), an electronics demo, and of course, a three dimensional, multi-sensorial art experience!"

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The Rafi Malkiel Ensemble

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Date: Friday, March 6th
Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Christ & St. Stephen's Church (120 West 69th Street)
Cost: Free

"The Rafi Malkiel Ensemble is coming back with a new exciting music around the theme of Water. (MAYIM in Hebrew), all original music composed by Rafi Malkiel. This new program includes influences from jazz, classical music, Middle Eastern, Afro-Caribbean, and Eastern-European music and offers a unusual combination of instruments." Additional details below.

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Wheel Up!

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Date: Friday, March 6th
Time: 10:00pm
Location:Trophy Bar (351 Broadway btw. Keap and Rodney, W'burg)
Cost: Free

Bastard Jazzer DJ DRM and Giant Step's Erik the Red come together for their monthly party celebrating Funk, Soul, Latin, Afrobeats, and more. These boys know their organic beats so expect all manner of funk, soul, hip-hop, dub reggae, afrobeat, and then some more. 21+

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Panty Raid

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Date: Friday, March 6th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Savalas (285 Bedford Ave, W'burg)
Cost: Free

The Panty Raid continues tonight at Savalas. This week Senari and Cousin Cole invites Phillys Brendan Bringem to the party. "Expect a sweaty evening of funk, hip hop, disco, rock & roll and recession drink-combo specials ($5 for a tequila and tecate). Also be on the lookout for shotgunning contests, bartop babes with beerbongs and the occasional live percussionist!" 21+

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Music Memorabilia Show

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Date: Saturday, March 7th
Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm
Location: Tip Top Shoe Building, 155 West 72nd Street, 4th Floor
Cost: Free admission

The Music Memorabilia Show show is back with "Jazz Concert Posters of Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and many more. Rock and roll rarities feature LPs and 45rpm records of Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Jim Morrison, The Beach Boys, The Who, The Rolling Stones, et al. Rhythm and blues classics... Country legends… Big bands" and more.

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Abraham Lincoln In New York

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Date: Saturday, March 7th
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Federal Hall (26 Wall Street at Broad Street)
Cost: Free

"New York will be Lincoln 'book country' when a distinguished array of authors, historians, and biographers of Abraham Lincoln will be on hand for a day-long celebration at Federal Hall on Wall Street. Held in conjunction with a major exhibition of original documents and artifacts – 'Abraham Lincoln in New York: A Rail-Splitter Bicentennial Celebration' – the Saturday opening is a family-oriented event free to the public with tours given all throughout the day. Pulitzer-prize winning historian James M. McPherson will speak on his recent bestseller on Lincoln as commander-in-chief, and Michael Burlingame will talk about his magisterial two-volume biography of Lincoln... Mr. Lincoln will also be present to take pictures with one and all in attendance!"

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Making Brooklyn Bloom

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Date: Saturday, March 7th
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Location: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Palm House (1000 Washington Ave, Prospect Heights)
Cost: Free with Flyer

Today is Brooklyn Botanical Garden's annual community horticulture event devoted to urban agriculture and building a healthy food system in our borough, Making Brooklyn Bloom. This year's event, "Edible NYC: Green It! Grow It! Eat It! and is (and beyond) features "15 hands-on workshops to help educate city residents on how they can grow food at home and make their neighborhood a little bit greener by doing so. Apartment dwellers with a single windowsill might take Savoring Home-Grown Herbs Year-Round; those with a small outside area or even fire escape can learn from The Sky's the Limit: Growing Food on Trellises; and for brownstone residents with-- gasp! -- a yard, The Edible Palette: Food Producing Plants for the Decorative Landscape is ideal. Click here for schedule

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Split Thy Brooklyn Skull X

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Date: Saturday, March 7th - Sunday, March 8th
Time: 11:00am
Location: Mugs Ale House (125 Bedford Avenue at North 10th)
Cost: Free entry

As an avid beer drinker, this has become an annual event of sorts for me. For the seventh year, Mugs Ale House will present Split Thy Brooklyn Skull, a two day festival of high alcohol barley wines. Basically beer brewed to wine strength, the two days will feature over 20 different varieties ranging from 8% alcohol to a blinding 14% (which is about as strong as coconut rum.) Entry is free, food is served, and beers are sold in petite samplings ($3.50 I think). Click here to view the beer being served. Continues Sunday.

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Beginner Tango Class

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Date: Saturday, March 7th
Time: 4:00pm
Location: You Should Be Dancing (412 8th Ave)
Cost: Free

Adam and Ciko are "two young teachers in the New York Tango Community who are helping to foster and encourage more and more people to dance and join the great tango community New York City has. Did you know that on any given night there are at least 2 places to dance tango in New York City until the late hours of the night? It's true.
Believe it or not we are considered the 3rd largest community after Buenos Aires and Berlin." Tonight's class begins at 4pm and is an hour long.

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First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum

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Date: Saturday, March 7th
Time: 5:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway)
Cost: Free

I know at this point we have really pounded the idea of First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum into your heads, but here is a refresher course. If you cross over the East River, living in the shadows of the Manhattan museums, and with way less foot traffic from city tourists, you will find the Brooklyn Museum. Every first Saturday of the month admission is free (thanks to big name corporate sponsorship) beginning at 5pm and there are a slew of events for the whole family. This month is a celebration of feminist art with a dance party, film screenings, and discussions. Full schedule below.

NOTE: as an added bonus, check out the The HOB Connection, a free shuttle from the museum to area bars, shops and restaurants.

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NYU Open Studios Evening

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Date: Saturday, March 7th
Time: 6:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: NYUSteinhardt (34 Stuyvesant Street, Barney Building)
Cost: Free

"Join Sue de Beer, Ross Bleckner, Peter Campus, Trisha Donnelly, Carol Bove, David
Rimanelli, John Torreano, Maureen Gallace, Adam Putnam, Jason Tomme and Beverly Semmes for the Bi-Annual NYU Open Studio evening. Come look, listen, dance and experience. Program includes: Opening Reception & Studio Tours 6pm, 'Vampires of Berlin' Screening 7pm, Solo Set by Caroline Polachek of 'Chairlift' 8pm, New Wave Dance Party 9pm, 'Pimp My Whale' installation organized by Sue de Beer & Dave Hardy 'Fantasy Island' exhibition organized by Kathe Burkhart plus more painting, photography, sculptures, video, performance and music - the excessive and eccentric to the elegant and minimal - from the MFA & BFA studios of NYU's famed department."

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Little Secrets of Williamsburg - Brooklyn Armory Night

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Date: Saturday, March 7th
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Various
Cost: Free

Tonight, "participating galleries, in partnership with Armory and Bridge Art Fair, will open their doors late into the night, revealing secret works, secret stories, and secret nooks for the first time. This is the dark side of Armory Week—where Brooklyn's own and their worldwide conspirators throw a wickedly chic, secret celebration in the galleries of Williamsburg. Poke around each gallery, ask the right questions and uncover unseemly or titillating surprises. We invite you to let our secrets be your quarry." Head over to the Williamsburg Gallery Association site for details on galleries and events.

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Doug Boehm at Charmingwall

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Date: Saturday, March 7th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Charmingwall (191 West 4th Street btwn 6th and 7th Ave.)
Cost: Free

"Doug Boehm is a professional illustrator and fine artist based out of Fountain Hill, PA. His work has been spotted all over the place from magazines to newspapers to galleries." His show, 'Random Thoughts from the Central Nervous System', opens tonight at Charmingwall

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The Olympics of the Mind - 12th Annual USA Memory Championship

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Date: Saturday, March 7th
Time: 9:00am
Location: Con Edison Grand Auditorium (4 Irving Place)
Cost: Free

"Some of us need notes to remember our own birthdays, but others can memorize a shuffled deck of cards in less than two minutes. At the USA Memory Championship, 'Mental Athletes' compete in brain-breaking events including the memorization of: a string of 1,000 random digits, two decks of shuffled cards, 99 names and faces, 100 spoken words and an unpublished 50 line poem. In this tournament, challengers from around the country vie for the title of 'USA National Memory Champion.'" Spectators are welcome and free! More info here.

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Soul Imperial

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Date: Saturday, March 7th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: K&M Bar (225 N. 8th St at Roebling St., W'burg)
Cost: Free

"Catch Soul Imperial, Elegante and Ballantino, tonight in Williamsburg spinning all your favorite rap, R&B, reggae, 80s, 90s, club bangers and more, and never a cover charge." 21+

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Hip-Hop Treats: Ladies First

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Date: Saturday, March 7th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Heathers (506 E. 13th Street)
Cost: Free

"Celebrating Women’s History month, HHT dedicates a night to the heroines of Hip-Hop, R&B and Soul. Special guest DJ HaeJin, one of NYC’s finest, brings her flair and tag teams with sHaKe to bring you a bona fide set infused with estrogen filled delights. You can expect to hear joints made by women, written by women, or simply loved by women. Plenty of MC Lyte, Salt & Peppa, Queen Latifah, Lauren Hill, MJB, Rah Digga, Faith, Li’l Kim and more!"

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Bassbox

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Date: Saturday, March 7th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Oulu (170 N. 4th btw. Driggs and Bedford, W'burg)
Cost: Free

The Methods crew rolls through Williamsburg tonight for bass heavy music all night. DJs Dev 79, Rage Johnson, Dave Gee, Larry Love and Jedi & Choice Kutz. Click here for some free mixes! 21+

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Split Thy Brooklyn Skull X

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Date: Saturday, March 7th - Sunday, March 8th
Time: 11:00am
Location: Mugs Ale House (125 Bedford Avenue at North 10th)
Cost: Free entry

As an avid beer drinker, this has become an annual event of sorts for me. For the seventh year, Mugs Ale House will present Split Thy Brooklyn Skull, a two day festival of high alcohol barley wines. Basically beer brewed to wine strength, the two days will feature over 20 different varieties ranging from 8% alcohol to a blinding 14% (which is about as strong as coconut rum.) Entry is free, food is served, and beers are sold in petite samplings ($3.50 I think). Click here to view the beer being served. Continues Sunday.

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Armory Arts Week Presents A Day on the Lower East Side

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Date: Sunday, March 8th
Time: 12:30pm, 2:00pm, 4:00pm
Location: New Museum Lobby (235 Bowery Street)
Cost: Free

Join the New Museum "as The Armory Show highlights the Lower East Side as a top destination for contemporary art! Tour groups will leave from the New Museum Lobby at 12:30pm, 2pm, and 4pm to visit selected downtown art galleries. The Armory Show is America's leading fine art fair devoted to the most important art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In its eleven years, the fair has become an international institution. Every March, artists, galleries, collectors, critics, and curators from all over the world make New York their destination during Armory Arts Week."

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Choice Film Showcase

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Date: Monday, March 9th - Wednesday, March 11th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: 303GRAND (303 Grand St., W'burg)
Cost: Free

"Choice Festival, held on March 1st-15th, celebrates the grand opening of a brand new revolving storefront in Williamsburg, Brooklyn called 303GRAND. The event will be exhibiting a new medium each day including fashion, live art, technology, illustrators, photographers, film, paintings, street art, and much more." This Monday through Wednesday is the Choice Film Showcase. Tonight's films are We Saw Such Things,
Thing With No Name and Die Hardererer. For info on these films and the rest of the film showcase click here.

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Music Marketing in an iPod World

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Date: Monday, March 9th
Time: 6:30 - 8:00pm
Location: NYU, Kimmel Student Center, Silver Board Room, 914, (60 Washington Sq. S.)
Cost: Free with RSVP

Illegal downloading has music industry pros creating new ways to shore up dwindling profits. Learn how marketers are finding fresh approaches to entice freeloaders to pay for play. Featuring a panel discussion including Brooke Primont (VP, Creative Services and Marketing, Cherry Lane Music Publishing,) Mike Worthington (Head of Sales, International, Radio, Tommy Boy Entertainment,) Doug Barasch (Director of Digital Marketing, Verve Music/Universal Music) and Perry Bashkoff (Vice President, Digital Sales and Marketing, Warner Music Group) with moderator Bill Werde (Editorial Director, Billboard Magazine.) All Ages.

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Rooftop Films: Woodpecker

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Date: Monday, March 9th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Chelsea Market (75 9th Ave bet. 15th & 16th St)
Cost: Free

Rooftop films presents Woodpecker tonight, the second feature-length film from writer/director Alex Karpovsky. "Alex's debut feature, The Hole Story, won numerous awards on the festival circuit and was described by Indiewire as 'Amazing: smart, hilarious and surprisingly profound.' Alex was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's '25 New Faces of Independent Film,' and Woodpecker focuses on the strange and blossoming world of bird watching America's fastest growing recreational activity with some 50 million enthusiasts. Filmed entirely on location in the bayous of Eastern Arkansas, Woodpecker is a uniquely intelligent and entertaining film. Get there early for a live set by Mountains and "free Radenberger Pilsner for all in attendance." Director interview below.

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Barbie's 50th Birthday Beauty Pagent

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Date: Monday, March 9th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: SideBAR (118 East 15th Street at Irving)
Cost: Free

"OMG! Did you hear! Barbie is turning 50 this year and you're totally invited to her big birthday bash in NYC! Calling all women (and men!) in NYC! Put on your pink dresses, grab Ken from the Dream House, and ride your pink corvette over to SideBAR for Barbie's 50th Birthday Beauty Pageant! It's a competition like no other! All you need to do to enter (Sign up here) Barbie's Pageant is to dress up like your favorite Barbie. Contestants will strut their stuff on the SideBAR runway Miss America style and answer trivia questions for the chance to be crowned Miss Barbie 2009. Winners and runners up will take home great prizes like a free premium open bar party at SideBAR with all of their friends, a romantic dinner for two, spa packages and exclusive Barbie Prize Packs! Not the competitive type? Come celebrate Barbie's Big Day anyway! Sip on strawberries and champagne, Malibu Barbie cocktails, and more! Enjoy Barbie's birthday cake, play Barbie trivia, and dance the night away!"

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Scion A/V Kitsuné Pioneer CD Release Party

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Date: Tuesday, March 10th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: The Studio at Webster Hall (125 East 11th St.)
Cost: Free with RSVP

Scion continues their support of music and nightlife tonight with the Kitsuné Pioneer CD release party. Performerns include Guns 'N' Bombs, Heartsrevolution (Live), Beni, Classixx and Alex English. RSVP is a must!

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The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food

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Date: Wednesday, March 11th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: The powerHouse Arena (37 Main Street, Dumbo)
Cost: Free with RSVP

Tonight, join powerHouse Arena for a reading and talk with author Jennifer 8. Lee and fellow food writer Sarah Murray about their adventures in the world of Chinese food. The evening is complete with a raffle, Chinese goodies, and other surprises. And personally, I think Fortune Cookie Chronicles is a pretty awesome name for a book.

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American Organist Gail Archer Launches Concert Series

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Date: Wednesday, March 11th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Central Synagogue (123 E. 55th Street)
Cost: Free

"Known as one of the nation's most esteemed concert organists, Gail Archer celebrates the bicentennial of composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) with a five-concert, five month long performance series exploring his primary organ works, the Six Sonatas (1845). In honor of the composer's dual affiliation with both the Jewish and Christian faiths, Archer's concerts will journey through some of Manhattan's prominent religious institutions ranging from the Central Synagogue to St. Paul's Chapel. In addition to Mendelssohn's much beloved Six Sonatas, programming includes works by Fanny Mendelssohn (his sister with whom he had an especially close relationship, personally and artistically), Robert and Clara Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Max Reger."

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Neighborhood Concert: Esperanza Spalding

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Date: Thursday, March 12th
Time: 7:00pm
Location:The Schomburg Center (515 Malcolm X Boulevard) - map
Cost: Free with RSVP (call 212-491-2040)

Bassist-vocalist-composer Esperanza Spalding challenges and redefines the common perceptions of modern music with her compelling vocals, unmatched instrumental technique, and brilliant compositions. "“Whether exploding into vocalese or making her bass solo sound like a horn, she’s a spark plug who dances as she grooves through a funked-up and rocked-out repertoire.” (Billboard). Catch her live, today, performing with her quartet as part of the Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert series.

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DJ Peter Rosenberg at Sutra

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Date: Thursday, March 12th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Sutra Lounge (16 First Avenue Btwn. 1st & 2nd St.)
Cost: Free

"Sutra Lounge, TASTE & Soul Rebel NYC invite you to join us for the start of great things to come with Hot97's own DJ Peter Rosenberg. Peter is crossing over like very few DJs have ever done. He is the only radio hip hop DJ carrying both a commercial early morning rush hour show AND a late night weekend underground hip hop show. Peter is known for his career in radio but has built a great following for his ground breaking event, NoiseMakers, a Q+A he hosts, interviewing living hip hop legends. This Thursday, Peter takes the booth in what could be the next hot monthly hip hop party in the LES."

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Mishka Flagship Store Opening

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Date: Friday, March 13th
Time: 12:00pm, 7:00pm, 10:00pm
Location: Mishka Flagship Store (350 Broadway, BK); Trophy Bar (351 Broadway, BK)
Cost: Free

Mishka is very excited to announce the opening of their flagship store today in Brooklyn. They officially open theirs doors at noon and the entire day is full of new and exclusive releases (Hats, Tee, etc, etc) and guaranteed good times. The Opening Reception takes place at 7pm in-store and features the debut of Nick Catchdubs and Mr.Ducker’s “Radio Friendly Unit Shifter 2” the follow up to last year’s quintessential 90’s mix. The party will move to Trophy Bar at 10pm where you’ll get down with Nick Gazin and His Creepy Touch.

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Williamsburg's Every Second Friday

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Date: Friday, March 13th
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Various locations in Williamsburg
Cost: Free

Tonight is the monthly installment of Every 2nd Friday. Over a dozen galleries stay open late and display new works. Check the Raw Mag site for a neighborhood map and more details.

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Cheap Date Night at Babeland L.E.S.

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Date: Friday, March 13th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Babeland (94 Rivington St.)
Cost: Free

"Bring your sweetie to Babeland for a night of frugal flirting! Enjoy a free mini- How to Please Your Man/Woman workshop while snacking on some complimentary treats. Babeland Sex Educators will be on hand to answer your questions and help you pick out something special for later that night. The first 25 couples will each receive a free gift bag with Babeland goodies and discounted coupons to use that night for other cheap date night activities on the L.E.S. - including discount tickets to see Sunshine Cinema's midnight showing of classic 70s porn 'Disco Dolls in Hot Skin' in 3-D!"

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Borscht

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Date: Fridays in March
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Sidewalk Café (96 Ave. A at 6th st.)
Cost: Free

Borscht is a new variety show every Friday night in March at the Sidewalk Cafe. Producer and host Ben Lerman has stocked the bills full of New York's best comedians. And since we all need a little tenderness, rock and folk musicians will perform short solo sets, reminding us not to be ironic smart-asses all the time. See below for the line-up.

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The Dead River Company

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Date: Friday, March 13th
Time: 10:00pm - 1:00am
Location: Banjo Jim's (700 9th St.)
Cost: Free

"The Dead River Company, one of Brooklyn's most rapid rising musical acts is performing a free show this coming Friday at Banjo Jim's in Manhattan." I don't know too much about this anti-folk band, but you can get more info here. This show is free and all ages.

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Continuing Education Open House

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Date: Saturday, March 14th
Time: 10:30am – 3:30pm
Location: The New York Botanical Garden (200th Street and Kazimiroff Blvd., Bronx)
Cost: Free

"The Botanical Garden’s Continuing Education Open House on March 14 offers a chance to discover how you could enhance your landscape design, gardening, or floral design skills, and more. Meet instructors and enjoy a full day of mini-classes, demonstrations, and discussions led by instructors in each of Continuing Education’s program areas: Botanical Art and Illustration, Botany, Floral Design, Gardening, Horticultural Therapy, Horticulture, and Landscape Design."

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Bronx Culture Trolley Saturday

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Date: Saturday, March 14th
Time: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College (450 Grand Concourse at 149th Street)
Cost: Free

"The Bronx Council on the Arts welcomes families, friends and visitors to join them for the launch of their new Saturday Culture Trolleys. [The] tour will take guests to free events at cultural organizations and artists’ studios throughout the South Bronx Cultural Corridor. The day will also include 17 family-oriented attractions in all, most of them along the lower Grand Concourse in the Mott Haven area of the Bronx... All riders will receive a free copy of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and will compete in an on-board trivia contest for book-related prizes. ..The first Saturday trolley bell will sound off to a cultural tour along the lower Grand Concourse at 12:30pm. Admission to all participating venue attractions is free." Full day's line up here.

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Pies of March Clown Ride

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Date: Saturday, March 14th
Time: Meet 1:30pm, Ride 2:25pm
Location: Tompkins Square Park (near the big tree at the 7th Street entrance)
Cost: Free

"This Saturday join the Time’s Up! Bike Lane Clowns as they liberate the new bike lanes throughout the city. The clowns will be warning drivers parked in the bike lanes to beware the Ides of March. While cyclists are beaming with joy for all the new bike lanes, the NYPD has yet to fully enforce the traffic law that prohibits any motor vehicle from parking and idling in the bike lanes. Betrayal is everywhere on the Pies of March ride. We'll need to beware as the 'NYPD' uses whipped cream pies to thwart the Bike Lane Clowns' mission of demonstrating the environmental damage of polluting transportation as well as their celebration of the beauty of bike riding. What to bring: Clown outfit, good cheers, a few pies, and your bike."

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Swoon's Swimming Cities Silent Auction

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Date: Saturday, March 14th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Secret Project Robot Art Space (210 Kent Ave, W'burg)
Cost: Free

Join Secret Project Robot "for a silent auction to benefit SWOON's latest nautical art
project Swimming Cities of Serenissima... This exhibition will feature the work of SWOON and some of her contemporaries including Santiago Mostyn, Imminent Disaster, Tod Seelie, D-Dock, Maya Hayuk and Monica Canilao and many others... The Swimming Cities of Serenissima is a fleet of three intricately hand-crafted vessels that will navigate the Adriatic Sea from the Karst region of Slovenia to Venice, Italy in May of 2009. Designed by the artist SWOON, the floating sculptures are descendants of the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea (Hudson River, 2008) and the Miss Rockaway Armada (Mississippi River, 2006 and 2007). The Swimming Cities of Serenissima are built from salvaged materials, including modified Mercedes car motors with long-tail propellers."

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Live Music and Painting

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Date: Saturday, March 14th
Time: 8:45pm
Location: Roots (639 5th Ave)
Cost: Free

Todd Bogin and Jake Nelson will be performing at Roots Cafe in S. Slope Brooklyn tonight. Bogin will be playing music and Jake will be painting to it. Roots Cafe is all ages and B.Y.O.B! Now all of you out on recession pricing can drink from your flasks in plain sight!

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Soul A Go-Go

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Date: Saturday, March 14th
Time: 10:00pm - 1:00am
Location: Huckleberry Bar (588 Grand St, W'burg)
Cost: Free

DJs Girlsoul & Jumpy spin all '60s soul 45s, free! Generous cocktails, good food and you can dig the vibe of what Time Out called 'the best new bar in NYC.' 21+

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The Irish Arts Center Annual St. Patrick’s Open Day

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Date: Sunday, March 15th
Time: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Irish Arts Center (553 West 51st Street)
Cost: Free

The Irish Arts Center Annual St. Patrick’s Open Day is a "free family event, where the Irish Arts Center opens its doors and schedules a day of Irish music, dance, face painting, Irish language workshops for children and adults, a tin whistle workshop, film and much more by way of inviting New York to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with us. It is a great way to share Irish arts and culture to a younger generation (goes a long way towards teaching that there is more to the Irish than green beer)."

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Brooklyn St. Patrick's Day Parade

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Date: Sunday, March 15th
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Park Slope (Prospect Park West & 15th Street)
Cost: Free

St. Patrick's Day isn't all about green beer ya know, there are parades too! The Brooklyn St. Patrick's Day Parade kicks off at 1:00pm at Propsect Park West and 15th Street. It heads down 15th St. to 7th Ave., along 7th Ave to Union St., up Union St to Prospect Park West and along Prospect Park West to 15th St. More info here.

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Really Really Free Market

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Date: Sunday, March 15th
Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Hudson Guild Fulton Center (119 9th Ave bet. 17th & 17th St)
Cost: Free

Really Really Free Market is about as close to karma based sustainability as possible. Several times throughout the year, people get together to share food, music, clothing, services, etc. with one another in a commerce free environment. Bring whatever you'd like to share, or just come down for a day of dancing, hanging out, eating, workshops and general anti-corporate antics. (view images from RRFM here.) More Below

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Premiere of Sidewalk Cafe Film Series

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Date: Sunday, March 15th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: The East Village's Sidewalk Cafe (94 Ave. A)
Cost: Free

"This Ides of March, the East Village's Sidewalk Cafe will debut its new bi-weekly Film Series, highlighting local filmmakers and some of their favorite local music. The first featured filmmaker is Justin Remer, who is also the leader of antifolk group Elastic No-No Band. The film program on the 15th will feature a selection of Remer's short comedies, music videos, and documentaries, including excerpts from a feature-length D.A. Pennebaker-style music documentary and a complete 30-minute doc about the shooting of an independent film with Robin Tunney (The Craft, Prison Break), Aaron Stanford (the X-MEN movies), and MelissanLeo (recent Oscar nominee for Frozen River, Homicide: Life On The Street)." Music performances by Nan Turner, Preston Spurlock and Thomas
Patrick Maguire.

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Miguel Fransconi & Dan Joseph Performance

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Date: Monday, March 16th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Harvestworks (596 Broadway #602, at Houston)
Cost: Free

New York-based sound artists Miguel Frasconi (2006 Artist-In-Residence), and Dan Joseph will perform a one-hour set of improvised elecroacoustic soundscapes at Harvestworks tonight. "Falling somewhere between a chamber music concert and a sound installation, Frasconi will play processed glass instruments and electronics with Joseph on hammer dulcimer and laptop. Frasconi will also premiere a short solo work, Out of Edges, which utilizes a custom surround-sound software environment he developed in collaboration with Harvestworks programmer Zachary Seldess during his 2006 Harvestworks residency."

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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Launch Party

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Date: Monday, March 16th
Time: 11:59pm - 2:00am
Location: Nintendo World Store (10 Rockefeller Plaza)
Cost: Free

Tons of goodies for everyone at tonight's Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars launch party at the Nintendo World Store. Stones Throw DJ/composer OhNo spins beats and the first 25 people to purchase the game will get the chance to cop limited edition surprises and finery from Rockstar Games (special edition GTA Kubrick sets, fresh Grand Theft Auto apparel, and limited edition customized Chinatown Wars DS Lite systems). 17+

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St. Patrick's Day Parade

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Date: Tuesday, March 17th
Time: 11:00am
Location: 5th Ave and 44th Street, ends at 86th Street
Cost: Free

Break out the green beer, green bagels, and green... err... green, and hit up the St. Patrick's Day Parade! Parade kicks off at 44th and 5th Ave. and ends on 86th. Who is St. Patrick? More info after the jump.

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Starting Seeds Indoors

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Date: Tuesday, March 17th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00am
Location: Brooklyn Botanical Garden (1000 Washington Avenue)
Cost: Free with Registration (call 718-623-7220)

Feeling limited by the small selection of veggie starts available in local nurseries? Start your garden on the right foot this year by discovering the best methods to propagate tasty, beautiful varieties of plants from seeds. Learn what skills, equipment, and techniques are needed to start your own seeds at home while getting some hands-on practice at this Brooklyn Botanical Gardens workshop.

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Doc Screening

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Date: Wednesday, March 18th
Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: New-York Historical Society (170 Central Park West at 77th Street)
Cost: Free

"Uncover the bizarre, Depression-era plot to replace the U.S. government with a fascist state. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the presidency in 1932, many Americans looked to his bold New Deal plans as the way out of the dark days of the Depression. But a powerful group of financiers and industrialists saw his economic policies as a threat. With the help of leading scholars, historians and government officials, you'll learn the details of one of the most bizarre schemes in American history."

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Capoeira Party

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Date: Wednesday, March 18th
Time: 7:00pm - 12:00am
Location: Forbidden City (212 Avenue A)
Cost: Free

"It's time to shake off those winter blues!! Come by after work for some midweek fun and enjoy live Capoeira performances, delicious food and tasty drinks at the sleek Asian lounge, Forbidden City." The Capoeira and Maculele performances are free but food and drink are not. A portion of the food and drink sales go towards the Omulu Guanabara Capoeira fundraising efforts.

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Jezebelmusic.com presents Resonance @ Bar Matchless

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Date: Wednesday, March 18th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Matchless (557 Manhattan Ave., G'point)
Cost: Free

Jezebelmusic.com presents Resonance at Bar Matchless tonight including up and comer Chantilly. "Chantilly's got a considerable gift in her roller coaster-like vocal style. Calm and tender one minute, rip-roaring soulful the next." Keep checking back with Jezebel Music as more performers are added to the line up.

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Free Fiction Writing Class

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Date: Wednesday, March 18th
Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center (1972 Broadway at 66th Street)
Cost: Free

"Diana Spechler, author of Who By Fire (Harper Perennial) and an instructor at Gotham Writers' Workshop, will demystify the writing process at a free, introductory Fiction Writing class... Through short lectures and readings, Ms. Spechler will reveal how writers craft fictional characters and bring them to life on the page. Participants are encouraged to bring pen and paper, as they will complete a short writing exercise designed to help them start their own work of fiction."

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Drunken! Careening! Writers!

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Date: Thursday, March 19th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: KGB Bar (85 E. 4th Street)
Cost: Free

Drunken! Careening! Writers! is a monthly reading series dedicated to the proposition that readings should be: excellent, well-read pieces that have at least one thing in them that makes people laugh (nervous laughter counts), and don't run more than 15 minutes each. This month they welcome an artist who accompanies himself, Kevin Draine, aka "The Bitter Poet" and his lovely electric guitar; plus return visits from Jami Attenberg, currently on book tour for her new novel, and Staci Swedeen, who had a helluva 2008 with the premier of her one-woman show, "Pardon Me For Living."

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Vandal Squad Panel Discussion

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Date: Thursday, March 19th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: powerHouse Arena (37 Main Street, Dumbo)
Cost: Free

"The recent release Vandal Squad: Inside the New York City Transit Police Department, 1984–2004 has caused consternation throughout the global graffiti community with charges that author Joseph Rivera is profiting off the very criminals he spent his career incarcerating. In response, the powerHouse Arena will host a conversation between former members of the Vandal Squad and the graffiti writers, the first such event of its kind. With the intent of providing an open forum for public discussion to discuss the issues regarding the methods that the Vandal Squad employs and their impact on the lives of the writers themselves. Panelists include Vandal Squad author Joseph Rivera, former Commanding Officer Lieutenant Steven Mona, original Vandal Squad Lieutenant Ken Chiulli, graffiti legend COPE2, graffiti activist Ket, and street artist ELLIS G. The event will be moderated by Stern Rockwell, Streets Are Saying Things." More info here.

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Patrick Rimoux Light Sculpture

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Date: Thursday, March 19th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: 972 Fifth Avenue (at 78th street)
Cost: Free

"A spectacular outdoor display will light up the façade of the Payne Whitney Mansion on Thursday, March 19, to celebrate la Francophonie and the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City by French settlers. For one night only, the installation created by celebrated French light sculptor Patrick Rimoux for the Centre de la Francophonie des
Amériques in Quebec City will work its magic on 972 Fifth avenue, illuminating a New York City historical landmark designed by architect Stanford White, which is now the headquarters of the French Cultural Services in the United States. Mr. Rimoux will also present an indoor video installation, specially designed for the occasion." The rest of the press release after the jump.

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The Puirty Test Release Party

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Date: Thursday, March 19th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Dempsey's Pub (61 2nd Ave between 3rd and 4th)
Cost: Free

Remember in high school when you and your friends used to take "purity tests" and add up your points in hopes of being the most deviant. Now there is a new book called The Purity Test: Your Filth and Depravity Cheerfully Exposed in 2,000 Nosy Questions which will allow you to relive old days over and over again. Tonight is the release party at Dempsey's Pup. Check it out and get a couple more points to check off on your list.

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Wild Girls Gone Spring Break Cocktail Reception

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Date: Thursday, March 19th
Time: 9:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Greenhouse NYC (150 Varick Street)
Cost: Free with RSVP
Open Bar: Vodka

BeeWelle Organic Apparel presents the Wild Girls Gone Spring Break Cocktail Reception. Join Way Over Budget and UCBcomedy.com for complimentary Exclusiv Vodka and a room full of the funniest people you've like, ever met. In addition to the fab festivities,
professional funny man Mike Birbiglia will be selecting and screening the winner of the Wild Girls Gone Video Competition and awarding a fantastic vacation package courtesy of Barnacle Kove.

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Too Big For New York

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Date: Thursday, March 19th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: APT (419 W. 13th St)
Cost: Free

Continuing tonight is Turntable Lab's monthly event, Too Big for New York. Say's curator Michna aka Egg Foo Young... "Why did I pick this lineup? Cause ALL of these DJs are on point. Selection, Mixing, Experience, Crowd Control, Keeping it interesting/Pushing the music, and ...- Etiquette, .. (i could write a whole post on DJ etiquette but I won't. If you make yourself look like a douche in this department it's probably all your fault). As most of you know, In New York City there are tens of thousands of DJs. And the good ones rarely get to play all under the same roof." 21+

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Chelsea Cask Ale Festival

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Date: Friday, March 20th - Sunday, March 22nd
Time: 12:00pm - 11:59pm
Location: Chelsea Brewery CompanyPier 59, (roughly 18th street on the Hudson River)
Cost: Free

The 3rd annual Chelsea Brewery Cask Ale Festival goes down all weekend with 45 rare cask conditioned ales on tap. There's no entry fee and its “Pay as you Drink” to try 8oz and 16oz pours of some super-rare conditioned brews. Its also the National IPA Championships with winners being announced Saturday evening. 21+

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Sleuthing Poe

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Date: Friday, March 20th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: NYU School of Law (245 Sullivan Street Furman Hall, Room 216)
Cost: Free with RSVP

"Don’t miss this special lecture and book signing by Richard Kopley, Poe scholar and author of 'Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries.' Special 200th Birthday Celebration for Poe to follow the lecture until 8:00pm in the Poe Room at the Law School."

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Brooklyn Collective Grand Reopening

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Date: Friday, March 20th
Time: 7:00pm - 12:00am
Location: Brooklyn Collective (196 Columbia Street between Sackett and Degraw)
Cost: Free

Brooklyn Collective invites you to their grand reopening tonight at their new location. Over 20 Artists and Designers show their work, plus free beer, wine, live music, and Tattoo Girl Burlesque! Additional details here.

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Broke A$$ Stewart's Guide to NYC Launch Party

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Date: Friday, March 20th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: McNally-Jackson Books (52 Prince St. near Mulberry St.)
Cost: Free

"Join Broke-A$$ Stuart, aka Stuart Schuffman, as he reads from his book Broke-Ass Stuart’s Guide to Living Cheaply in New York City. After a signing and Q&A, he’ll lead a walking tour of McNally-Jackson’s neighborhood, pointing out deals and highlights as he goes. Craving an authentic French pastry but have only a few bucks in your pocket? How about a leftovers-assured-size plate of authentic Caribbean fare for less than $8? Maybe you’re in the mood for Southeast Asian chicken and rice for less than $5? Stuart knows where to go. Ever seen a museum devoted to comics and cartoon art or a shop that only sells items the owner finds on her travels around the world? Stuart’s been there, done that, and he’s ready to let us all in on what he’s found."

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Clarinet Virtuoso Ismail Lumanovski

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Date: Friday, March 20th
Time: 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Location: Mehanata (113 Ludlow Street (between Rivington and Delancey)
Cost: Free for students w/ID, $5 without

Tonight "an exclusive one night show featuring internationally praised clarinet virtuoso Ismail Lumanovski. You'll hear the best original Gypsy and Balkan sounds, while enjoying drinks & hookah in one of NYC's hottest venues - Mehanata!" More info here.

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KILL

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Date: Friday, March 20th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Trophy Bar (351 Broadway, Brooklyn)
Cost: Free

Sweatshop Labor and Social Work join forces tonight at Trophy Bar for their first collaboration. No cover and $5 Tecate and Tequila or Bud and Whiskey combo all night long.

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Howl's Moving Castle at The Green Tara Film Series

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Date: Friday, March 20th
Time: 9:30pm
Location: Rubin Museum of Art (150 West 17th Street btwn 6th and 7th Aves)
Cost: Free with $7 bar minimum

The Green Tara Series is a line-up of feature films—to be introduced in person by a notable guest—illustrating the eight fears cited in Tibetan Buddhism, including elephant stampedes, bandits, drowning, imprisonment, earthquakes, winds, fires, and lions. Tara, the female embodiment of compassion, protects the faithful against each of these
potentialities. Tonight's actress Emily Mortimer introduces the Japanese animated classic Howl's Moving Castle.

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The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad

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Date: Saturday, March 21st
Time: 1:00pm and 3:00pm
Location: Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola Club (33 W 60th St off Columbus)
Cost: Free

Two free concerts today as part of The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center. "Helen Sung & NuGenerations (1pm) and Chris Byars Quartet (3pm) will perform. After they perform, ensembles tour internationally with The Rhythm Road to share their music with the world to promote cross-cultural understanding with special emphasis on countries not regularly visited by American musicians."

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Free Workshop on Yoga, Meditation, and the Science of the Mind

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Date: Saturday, March 21st
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Art of Living Center (127 W 25th St., due to renovations look for a large wooden frame in front of the building. The code to get in is 1-3-5)
Cost: Free

Come and do some Yoga, learn two simple yet powerful breathing-techniques, experience a guided meditation, and learn about the ancient science of your mind – all of which will dissolve your stress and leave you with a smile! The workshop will explore the connection between our breath and our mind, and how our breath can bring us to the present moment, peace of mind, more energy and awareness, and a happier life.

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Sound Artists Jeremy Slater and Tamara Yadao

FreeNYC Event Flyer

Date: Saturday, March 21st
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Open Source (255 17th Street, South Slope)
Cost: Free

"Jeremy D. Slater is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings. He uses his laptop computer to create a variety of sound, image, and interactive work. Jeremy was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. Tamara Yadao is a multimedia performance artist who abstracts recorded expressions of the body to investigate formal relationships between movement, sound, noise and electronic media. Pieces are purposed for the single channel, multi-channel performance installation and live performance."

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Coin

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Date: Saturday, March 21st
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Hope Lounge (10 Hope St.)
Cost: Free

Mike Dextro's regular for techno-leaning electro, Coin, finds a new home in Williamsburg tonight. He's joined by guest Ole' Koretsky. 21+

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The Great Greenpoint Mac Off

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Date: Sunday, March 22nd
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Various Locations in Greenpoint
Cost: Free

"Four of Greenpoint’s best bars will be participating in the first Great Greenpoint Mac Off... Starting at 4pm at Red Star chef, John Manzo serves up his menu’s Mac ‘N Cheese the day. At its own pace, the crawl moves to The Habitat where chef/owner Ashley Engmann offers samples from their standard menu. Participants then cross the road to The Mark Bar, the tried and true Greenpoint watering hole celebrating its 5th year, where Chef Michael Diprima of Lamb and Jaffee and Dream Cuisine Catering fame serves the group from their all day menu. The crawl moves one block to t.b.d. Brooklyn to receive a final sample prepared by chef Cody Utzman, owner of local Cali-Mex eatery Papacitos and the soon to open Brooklyn Standard. Judging takes place at 8pm at t.b.d. Brooklyn by local 'celebrity' judges giving their own critiques of the fare from each bar while customer voting will determine the winner of the highly coveted title of 'Greenpoint’s Best Mac & Cheese'... Cost is free to participate, with each bar providing a free sample of their signature mac and cheese, as well as a different drink special per bar." Addresses after the jump.

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World Water Day Concert

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Date: Sunday, March 22nd
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College (899 Tenth Avenue)
Cost: Free with Reservation or call 212-279-4200

"As a part of CUNY’s commitment to promoting a culture for sustainability, the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College presents their free classical music series Great Music for a Great City Water Our Most Precious Resource: A Celebration of World Water Day... This narrated concert will call attention to our international water crisis. The program will feature musical works that celebrate water, including works by Schubert, Copland, Brahms, spirituals & world music. Speakers include John Jay College President Jeremy Travis and President of the Water Keeper Alliance Steve Fleischli. Featuring Eli Wallach, narrator, with Mayim Water music by Israeli Ensemble Rafi Malkiel; the Harlem Vocal Arts Ensemble; and Metropolitan Opera soloists Camellia Johnson, soprano, Terry Cook, bass baritone, and Sirena Huang, violin."

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Original Music On Invented Instruments

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Date: Sunday, March 22nd
Time: 8:30pm
Location: Rose Live Music (345 Grand Street, Wburg)
Cost: Free

Brooklyn Experiments Free Music Series presents a anight of original music performed on invented instruments. Multi-instrumentalist and instrument builder Terry Dame & Electric Junkyard Gamelan play at 8:30pm and Ken Butler performs on his hybrid musical instruments at 10:00pm.

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Poetry Reading - An Echo, A Stain

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Date: Monday, March 23rd
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Stain Bar (766 Grand Street, W'burg)
Cost: Free

"An Echo, A Stain is an upcoming night of poetry hosted by Universe, Disturbed poet Janice Brabaw and the good folks of the Stained Glass Confessional music and literary series. While, SGC combines comedy, music, and poetry, An Echo, A Stain will focus exclusively on poetry. This event will be somewhere between an open mic and a formal evening of featured writers. All are welcome." Additional details here.

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Greenpoint Ladies' Night at Van Gogh's Radio Lounge

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Date: Mondays
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Van Gogh's Radio Lounge (147 Franklin Street)
Cost: Free

Not too much to this one beyond the title... Free well drinks for the ladies at Van Gogh's Radio Lounge tonight.

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Sonia’s Party! & The Everyone’s Invited Band at Rose Live Tonight

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Date: Monday, March 23rd
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Rose Live Music (345 Grand Street, W'burg)
Cost: Free

Start of the new week with some new music. Sonia’s Party! & The Everyone’s Invited Band play at Rose Live tonight. The 8-piece, neo-soul, throwback revival with great energy and beats should get you shaking it tonight.

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Free Workshop on Yoga and Meditation for Stress-Reduction

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Date: Tuesday, March 24th
Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: Art of Living Center (127 W 25th St., due to renovations look for a large wooden frame in front of the building. The code to get in is 1-3-5)
Cost: Free

Go do some Yoga, learn two simple yet powerful breathing-techniques, experience a guided meditation, and learn about the ancient science of your mind – all of which will dissolve your stress and leave you with a smile! The workshop will explore the connection between our breath and our mind, and how our breath can bring us to the present moment, peace of mind, more energy and awareness, and a happier life. The Art of Living Center also offers free workshops on Thursdays at the same time and Saturdays at 2pm.

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Screening of Gorillaz "Bananaz"

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Date: Tuesday, March 24th
Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: Apple Store SoHo (103 Prince Street)
Cost: Free

"Bananaz, a documentary film directed by Ceri Levy removes the virtual walls of Gorillaz, a cartoon band created by artist Jamie Hewlett and musician Damon Albarn. Audiences see just what Ceri Levy saw over some many and varied months of shooting from 2000 to 2006... Bananaz is Levy's story of the partnership and community behind Gorillaz. He takes you on the road with this virtual phenomenon and shows a part of Gorillaz never seen before - reality. Bananaz is an honest, at times hilarious account of the working relationship between Albarn and Hewlett. A free-wheeling film which teams these two likely lads with friend and film maker Ceri Levy. Featuring Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett, Dennis Hopper, De la Soul and Ibrahim Ferrer and Ceri's camera." Q&A with Ceri following the film. Trailer here.

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Power and Fashion

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Date: Tuesday,March 24th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: The CUNY Graduate Center (365 Fifth Avenue at 34th St)
Cost: Free

How does fashion influence culture and shape identity in a globalizing world? New York Times writer Guy Trebay is joined by celebrated fashion designers Isabel Toledo and Gabi Asfour (of Threeasfour) for a discussion about the power of fashion. Eugenia Paulicelli, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature and founder of the Graduate Center's Fashion Studies concentration, will moderate.

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Memefactory

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Date: Tuesday,March 24th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: 3rd Ward 195 Morgan Ave, Bushwick)
Cost: Free with RSVP

What do you get when you combine a lecture, vaudeville and Double Dare? Memefactory! Three gentlemen with five computers and three projectors take the audience on a fast-paced, whirlwind tour of every major Internet meme, famous piece of Internet media and YouTube footage imaginable. The modus is not depth, but breadth, and constant audience participation is required. Over the course of the evening, the audience will produce an entry for every internet phenomenon possible, including but not limited to: LOLCats, Bouncing GIFs, Me Singing [blank], Reaction Videos, Folk Covers of Hip Hop Classics, FAILs, Redubbed music videos, and more.  Some will become famous like Boxxy, most will drink beers and a brave few will bare it all.

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Chess Night at Sputnik

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Date: Tuesday, March 24th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Sputnik (262 Taaffe Pl., BK)
Cost: Free

"Could Clinton Hill Brooklyn be epicenter of nightlife and chess!? We think so! We've noticed there are many "closet chess players" in Brooklyn and seen a growing demand for a place to play. So we're offering it in a bar! Come down for the competition, drinks
and food! Sign begins at 8pm."

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Superglorious: Wall of Sound

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Date: Tuesday,March 24th
Time: 9:00pm
Location: Public Assembly (70 N. 6th St, W'burg)
Cost: Free

Superglorius presents Wall of Sound tonight featuring Japanese indie superstars, Grapevine, and New York favorite, Apollo Heights; the event also features up and coming indie rockers Cale Parks and Autodrone. “The event features diverse lineup of bands spanning language, ethnicity, and musical backgrounds. They are all united under the idea of a 'Wall of Sound', more specifically electro-rock. These bands are dark, heavy, with electronic sound but the overall combination of this line up will create a positive vibe. I wanted to launch Superglorious with a bang, this is an unprecedented lineup at an unprecedented price” says Hayden Brereton the founder of Superglorious. Video below

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How I Learned

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Date: Wedneday, March 25th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Happy Ending Lounge (302 Broome Street)
Cost: Free

"A brand new monthly reading series featuring writers, comedians, bloggers, and performers as chosen by hostess Blaise Allysen Kearsley based primarily on personal hygiene and make-out prowess. Offering fact, fiction, and everything in between, How I Learned strives to share invaluable life lessons against a dimly lit, self-indulgent, sexually tense, booze fueled backdrop. It's education that works." Tonight focus is 'How I Learned My Adolescence was Over' with readings from Jami Attenberg (Author of The Kept Man and Instant Love), Ann Carr (Comedian, 'Use It' at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre) and Lian Mceneaney (Comedian, Comedy Central, "Best Week Ever", Tell Your Friends!)

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Broken Teeth w/DJ Morsy

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Date: Wednesday, March 25th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: 87 Ludlow (87 Ludlow at Delancey)
Cost: Free

Broken Teeth is about pushing fun, music and drinks. "Special Guest are encouraged to play rare vinyl or tunes that they usually don't play out. These DJs grind it out on tour and play for the crowd, but Brokenteeth is about playing the music they really love and rarely get to play. It is a Wednesday night affair with special guests every week." This week's guest, DJ Morsy, founder of the DJ collective Nanachill, Morsy "has earned a reputation in the DJ and promoter world, holding down big parties all over New York City, including the monthly Crooked Disco party with partner DJ Kestar. His acclaimed remixes and mixtapes have been in circulation throughout the world. Most famous for the "Emo-Thug" mixtape series featured in publications like URB Magazine & Switzerland's BM." 21+

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Lower East Side Stories: Workplace Drama

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Date: Thursday, March 26th
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Tenement Museum Shop (108 Orchard Street)
Cost: Free

Four professional storytellers relate their favorite tales of life in the New York workforce. As always guests are invited to share their own three-minute stories of office romances, disastrous bosses, and life in a cube. Featured performers include Margot Leitman, DJ Hazard, Cyndi Freeman and Michele Carlo.

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The Thoreau You Don't Know

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Date: Thursday, March 26th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: 163 Court St (between Dean and Pacific Sts., Cobble Hill)
Cost: Free

"In his book 'The Thoreau You Don’t Know: What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant,' Sullivan, the author of the best-selling 'Rats,' debunks the idea of Thoreau as a misanthropic crank in the woods, and talks about how he was (a) a New Yorker, for a while, anyway, and (b) all about the economy, stupid, no offense, as well as joking and having a good time. With music by the Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra, as well as a special guest appearance by the How Not To Get Rich Orchestra."

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Free Article Writing Class

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Date: Thursday, March 26th
Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Barnes & Noble Greenwich Village (369 6th Ave)
Cost: Free

"Pauline Millard, editor and writer for the Associated Press and instructor at Gotham Writers’ Workshop, shares tips on how write articles that grab a reader’s attention, in this introductory Article Writing course... Through short lectures and readings Ms. Millard will reveal how aspiring writers can go beyond the facts and explore the world in a personal and compelling way. Participants are encouraged to bring pen and paper to complete a short writing exercise designed to help them start their own piece of writing."

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Club Animals Human Petting Zoo

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Date: Thursday, March 26th
Time: 9:00pm -11:00pm
Location: Home Sweet Home (131 Chrystie Street)
Cost: Free

"The petting zoo is coming to town tonight to all you city folk, so bring a quarter for some feed and reconnect with nature. Wonder behind the chicken wire and interact with the critters docile enough to touch and feed. But wait, these are not the sheep and goats you might remember from your childhood because Club Animals are your people friends, thoughtfully dressed in animal mascot heads and clothes to match. Yes, you heard right. (Club Animals is a theater group dressed in animal costumes who perform interactive art prank theater in unusual places). The bar Home Sweet Home will be transformed into a petting zoo complete with a bear, chicken, dolphin, dog, and a lot of hay. All the critters are cute, cuddly and underfed, so extend a flat palm of feed and a nice pat on the head and rekindle that important human-animal bond that you may have forgotten long ago."

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Karaoke and Free Beer!

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Date: Thursday, March 26th
Time: 9:30pm
Location: Mojito Loco (102 Meserole St., W'burg)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Beer 10:30pm - 11:00pm

Looking for an activity for your Thursday night? How about Karaoke and free beer?!? From 10:30pm to 11:00pm tonight get free draft beers while singing your heart out to your favorite karaoke jam!

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Expansions Thursdays at Sin Sin

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Date: Thursday, March 26th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Sin Sin (248 E. 5th Street)
Cost: Free

One of NYC's Hottest Deep and Funky House Music Parties Returns tonight. Rawcast Radio 920, Mishu Media and House Masons NYC Present Expansions Thursdays @ Sin Sin.
"Expanding Deep House to New Horizons" every Last Thursday of the month with resident DJ Markus Rice "The Music Man" and hosted by Michiewah (Mishu Media) and Richard Hernandez.

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Enjoy Banking presents Stimulus Thursdays at the (B)Anchor

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Date: Thursday, March 26th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: The (B)Anchor (310 Spring St., btwn Greenwich & Hudson)
Cost: Free with RSVP

"Fellow New Yorkers: Enjoy Consumer Confidence. Enjoy Free Enterprise. Enjoy American Dream. Enjoy Banking as we spark the economy at Stimulus Thursdays." Hosted by Mint & Serf and Solvent Selections Courtesy of DJ Nouriel Roubini III, Fonda the Don Diva, The Schieles, Nate Turbow and Tommy Mas.

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Gin and Sonic

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Date: Thursday, March 26th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Fontana's Bar (105 Eldridge)
Cost: Free with RSVP

"London is calling...again. Blokes and Dames invited to party to all British beats. Don't miss free bulldog drinks for part of evening and drink specials all night long. Brought to you by Bulldog Gin and The All England Club."

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Media Friday

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Date: Friday, March 27th
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Rubin Museum of Art (150 West 17th Street)
Cost: Free with RSVP

"Media Friday brings together the NYC media, arts & entertainment community once a month for a night of socializing and networking. We welcome all to come an take advantage of the evening to network with your fellow professionals and entrepreneurs."

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Williamsburg Spelling Bee

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Date: Monday, April 27th
Time: 7:00pm to sign up, games begin at 7:30pm
Location: Pete's Candy Store (709 Lorimer St, W'burg)
Cost: Free

Any faithful FreeNYC readers know that we would fail miserably at this one but maybe you don't rely on spell check the way we do. If you've got your etymology and Latin roots in order then take a stab at the weekly Williamsburg Spelling Bee at Pete's. Tonight kicks off their 9th season and the winner's grab themselves some free booze to help work away some of those smarty pants brain cells and even the playing field for next week. 21+

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Nouveau Poor

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Date: Friday, March 27th
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Comix Ochi’s Lounge downstairs (353 West 14th Street)
Cost: Free but 1 item minimum

"Auld Lang Syne has come and gone, but the entertainment keeps on rolling! Calvin S. Cato (Game Show Network, Stand-Up New York, Naked Comedy Show) presents a comedy/music variety show with wonderful recruiters and raconteurs who’ll regale you with jokes, songs and humorous job tips! Oh and did we mention that everyone who comes to the show gets a free resume? So if you're unemployed, underemployed, or looking to hire someone who knows Microsoft Office, come by and check out the only show that has 100% talent, 0% health insurance." Details after the jump and here.

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Entierros y Exhumaciones

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Date: Friday, March 27th
Time: 7:30pm
Location: El Taller (2710 Broadway btwn 103rd and 104th Sts., 3rd Floor)
Cost: Free

Tonight check out a screening of "Entierros y Exhumaciones: muestras de la vida y la muerte en el Cementerio General de Cochabamba (Burials and Exhumations: Signs of Life and Death in Cochabamba's General Cemetery). The film is about group of children and teens who work in the General Cemetery of Cochabamba, Bolivia. Food and music to follow.

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The Young Urban Philosopher's "On Virtue" Literary Reading

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Date: Friday, March 27th
Time: 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Think Coffee (248 Mercer Street)
Cost: Free

"The Young Urban Philosophers provide answers to modern social issues through the performance original and historic literary works. This initiative, spearheaded by the Vaccinated Society, improves New Yorks cultural health by cultivating a platform for progressive ideas and culture. Audiences of Young Urban Philosophers leave with wisdom and practical information they can use to improve their own lives and the welfare of their local communities."

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Free Absolute Beginner Class in Argentine Tango

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Date: Friday, March 27th & 28th
Time: 8:45pm & 8:30pm respectively
Location: Triangulo (135 West 20th, #301 btw 6th and 7th Ave)
Cost: Free with RSVP

What do I love more than a dance class? Tonight check out a free absolute beginner workshop in Argentine tango. "Featured in Vogue, the National Herald Tribune, and The Economist, TriANGulO specializes in Argentine tango, the original, more intimate predecessor to international ballroom-style tango. Founder Carina Moeller is a professional dancer with training in modern dance and ballet who has worked and studied with such tango greats as Fabian Salas, Pablo Veron, and Mingo Pugliese. Known for her engaging and precise teaching style, Carina creates a stress-free atmosphere that is particularly appealing to novice dancers."

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Designer Drugs & Friendly Fires

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Date: Friday, March 27th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Webster Hall (125 E. 11th St btw 3rd & 4th Aves)
Cost: Free before 11 with RSVP

Globtrotting electro wonderkid Designer Drugs swings by Webster Hall tonight for another GBH blowout. He's joined by Friendly Fires (DJ set), guest MC MURS, and the GBH residents for what is sure to be one serious Friday dance party. We're huge fans of DD so we're throwing this info your way but, readers beware, it's Webster Hall so they'll probably hold the line early so you have to pay after 11 and the headlining talent won't go on until 2 or 3. Fix up and, dudes, don't roll deep. All my haterism's aside, this should be really fun. And it's only 19+

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One More Time

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Date: Friday, March 27th
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Royal Oak (594 Union Ave, W'burg)
Cost: Free

Everyone loves a little Daft Punk so why not a tribute night. Swing by the installment of this regular series with special guests TeamPhil. 21+

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Cassorla at Rockwood

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Date: Friday, March 27th
Time: 11:00pm
Location: Pete's Candy Store (709 Lorimer St.)
Cost: Free

Our good friend Ben Cassorla brings his band back through town from his recent LA transplant tonight to woo you over tonight. Cassorla is a marriage of Ben's jazz guitar training and multiple styles he holds near and dear to his heart. The result is a seamless blend of jazz, classic rock, soul, and even a bit of D'Angelo that is one part haunting introspection and one part soul revival. 21+

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CROOKED DISCO WITH PROJECT JENNY PROJECT JAN

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Date: Saturday, March 28th
Time: 10:00pm - 4:00am
Location: Public Assembly (70 N 6th, W'burg)
Cost: $5 with RSVP, $10 Without
Open Bar: Vodka 10:00pm - 11:00pm

We've had a long standing love for Sammy Rubin and Jeremy Haines aka Project Jenny, Project Jan. Their combination of live show, dance party, and visual stimulation has always blown people away at our parties and we thought it was well overdue to have them back. Their kinetic energy inspired Billboard to call Project Jenny, Project Jan’s live show a “shockingly dynamic, danceable, and hilarious affair” and VanityFair.com called the band “awesome” and enthusiastically recommended its show “to anyone with functional knee and elbow joints.” The duo’s originality impressed Ear Farm enough to name Project Jenny, Project Jan one of its top ten bands to watch out for in 2008. Sure enough, that year Project Jenny, Project Jan was featured in the film Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, performing their rowdy crowd-pleaser “Negative.”

Plus, joining us on the decks are NYC's own electro-party mavens, Bradley D & VDRK of Famous Friends. These boys have been throwing parties and spinning all over the cityand with some big, big names lately and tonight they'll bring that energy to Public Assembly with all your favorite indie and electro.

Plus, your hosts and resident Crooked Disco DJs, Morsy and Kestar - back from SXSW and fresh off an amazing new residency at Le Poisson Rouge (thanks for coming out!) hold it down with their trademark mix of Disco, Electro, Classic House, Good Hip-Hop, Baltimore Club, and Breaks (basically, whatever makes you move.)

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Redbook Beauty Bash

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Date: Saturday, March 28th
Time: 11:00am - 5:00pm
Location: Midtown Loft & Terrace (267 Fifth Ave at 29th Street, 11th Floor)
Cost: Free

"Redbook magazine is kicking off spring with a day of pampering at the Redbook Beauty Bash in New York City. Bring your friends and enjoy FREE spa treatments and indulgences from the experts at Spa Chicks on the Go, including mini manis, massages and more. Plus, sample the hottest beauty products, enjoy delicious refreshments and take home a goody bag filled with can't miss items."

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Obama Generation and Youth Voices Uncensored

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Date: Saturday, March 28th
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Location: New York Film Academy (100 East 17th Street)
Cost: Free

High school students, educators, and free speech advocates from around the city will gather at the New York Film Academy for Youth Voices Uncensored, an afternoon of film screenings and discussions about how youth media can address important social and political issues. "'Youth today are transforming our political landscape, and they are doing so largely through the world of film and new media,' said Brian Pickett, Youth Program Coordinator for the National Coalition Against Censorship and event organizer. 'As technology becomes easier to use and more widely accessible, we are seeing youth video production emerge as a significant way for young people to put a mark on their world.' Young people are finding that posting videos on Youtube, MySpace, and Facebook is an empowering and effective way to advocate for social change, Pickett noted." The 10 short films to be featured at Youth Voices Uncensored. A schedule of the films is available here.

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I am Art - An Expression of the Visual & Artistic Process of Plastic Surgery

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Date: Saturday, March 28th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: apexart (291 Church Street)
Cost: Free

"Leon Dufourmentel, a pioneer in plastic surgery, said in 1948, '...If I went to Picasso for my portrait, he would probably make me a monster and I should be pleased because it would be worth a million francs. But if Picasso came to me with a facial injury and I made him into a monster, aha, he might not be so pleased.' This quote expresses the view of the exhibition that plastic surgery can be a most challenging art form, since a surgeon’s materials are not canvas or clay, but rather the human body." Exhibit opens tonight and runs through May 9th. Full details here.

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Erin and Her Cello

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Date: Saturday, March 28th
Time: 8:00pm
Location: BAM Cafe (Peter Jay Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Ave, Fort Green)
Cost: Free

"Singer, songwriter, and cellist Erin Hall has made a name for herself as the kooky girl-next-door who appreciates life’s simple gifts: perfect Chinese dumplings, clean towels, and helpful pharmacists. These and other values have made it into her repertoire of peaceful, warm music, and her silly songs and outrageous faces have endeared her to audiences everywhere. "

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New York Piano Society

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Date: Sunday, March 29th
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Hunter College, Lang Recital Hall (East 69th Street between Park and Lexington, 4th floor)
Cost: Free

"The nonprofit New York Piano Society is dedicated to discovering and nurturing talented performers whose primary professions lie outside the field of music performance. NYPS provides a nourishing environment through recitals, special events with concert artists, workshops and social events. The Society also seeks to foster relationships between non-professional and professional pianists so they can learn from and inspire each other. The performers are near professional-level performers whose professions range from being surgeons to executives to academics. [The performance] will feature works by Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Bartok, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin."

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Collaboration 2.0: Love and Death

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Date: Monday, March 30th
Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Location: Schapiro Theater (605 W. 115th Street)
Cost: Free

Not much on this one but if your in the Columbia area this afternoon then check out six plays from the MFA class of 2011. That's it!

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Date: Monday, March 30th
Time: 6:00pm - 11:00pm
Location: Spur Tree (76 Orchard St btw Broome and Grand)
Cost: Free

The rough-edged work of emerging Brooklyn-based photographer JJ Ignotz hits the LES tonight for Cheesecake: The Exhibition. This recent cum laude photography graduate gets a little naughty while daring her viewers to look and then startles them when they do. "The images of partially-clad, provocatively-posed women are anxiety-inducing and addicting. They touch on themes of gender and rebellion, youth and adulthood, fetishism and exhibitionism–all rolled into a bizarre world of shag carpets, wood paneling, and loud wallpaper. The portfolio resembles the original pin-up, but falls short, leaving it to be most closely described as cheesecake. JJ’s portfolio consists of black and white silver gelatin prints on Forteza paper presented as single photographs as well as large scale collages. Prices range from $15 and up for limited edition prints."

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Bag Building

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Date: Monday, March 30th
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: 3rd Ward (195 Morgan Ave., BK)
Cost: Free with RSVP

"Made for food-shopping fashionistas and creative environmentalists alike, join non-profit organization, Bags for the People, in a night of custom cotton bag making. You bring the fun and the fabric; we’ll provide the sewing machines, instruction, drinks, snacks and live music. ‘Cause everybody knows plastic is passé."

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Shana Moulton and Jessica Ann Peavy

FreeNYC Event Flyer

Date: Monday, March 30th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Harvestworks (596 Broadway at Houston #602)
Cost: Free

As part of the ongoing "Listen In" series Shana Moulton premieres a new live interactive video work tonight which forms the latest installment of her acclaimed Whispering Pines series. First exhibited at Bellwether Gallery, the work chronicles the artist's comical quest for relief from pain and negative thoughts. Additionally, fellow Housingworks Artist-in-Residence Jessica Ann Peavy presents a new three-channel video work as part of her Fatback series entitled Rituals of Consumption: Leviticus rowed the boat ashore (below). The work investigates the fantasies, desires, and rituals of consumption (food, faith, space, and sexuality). More on the artists below.