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

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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Sage Stand Up

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Date: Thursdays
Time: 10:00pm
Location: Sage Theater (711 7th Ave., bet. 47th and 48th St.)
Cost: Free

Sage Theatre, the longest-running weekly stand-up comedy show in Times Square, is helping out in these recession times with free shows (no cover and no drink minimum) throughout January featuring "comedy megastars from Comedy Central, HBO, and NBC-TV's Last Comic Standing. Reservations are strongly recommended; just leave a message on our reservation line (206-279-9860) your name, your phone number, and the number of people in your party to get VIP seating."

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