New York

14 Jun 2010

Booze Popsicles, FREE Vodka and Your Chance to DJ at The Foundation

You ever been to a bar where you want to take away everyone else’s jukebox privileges? Or where you contemplate taking control of the DJ’s macbook when they’re not looking? If yes, you need to go to The Foundation tomorrow night. Everyone in the bar can step up and take

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14 Jun 2010

GreenMarkets: Eating Well on the Cheap in NYC

I like food. Nay, I love food. I went to a job interview at Café 2 in the Museum of Modern Art once where the interviewer told me that my face “lit up” when I started talking about chorizo. That is not a joke. Unfortunately I’ve also got $40 to

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13 Jun 2010

Shopping for a Patron

Living in NYC is hard.  Just going out of town shows me that.  It is expensive, crowded and annoying (as well as dynamic, exciting and the center of the universe).  As a way to make ends meet, I have decided to spend a significant amount of time in my future

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12 Jun 2010

EPIC WIN Burlesque Does Ghostbusters

File this under “defilements of my childhood that I’m perfectly okay with.” Tonight at The Tank Space for Performing and Visual Arts, EPIC WIN Burlesque presents the encore showing of its loving tribute to 1984’s Ghostbusters. No novice to such risqué salutations, the group has taken similar approaches to favorites ranging

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11 Jun 2010

Art to Check Out – Bas Princen’s “Refuge: Five Cities”

Running until June 26th, Dutch Architect Bas Princen’s latest exhibition, “Refuge: Five Cities” takes a photographic look at how the buildings of  five Middle Eastern cities act as refuge for those that inhabit them. The rich flock to sequestered communities, shutting the gates behind them. The others, the migrant and impoverished workers, find their homes in

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11 Jun 2010

Free Talk – The Future of Bikes: Bikes as Urban Transport

Considering that the gods of finance have yet to gift me with enough cash to buy a bike, I can’t say I have too much of a vested interest in the future of the urban bicycle. And yet I care. I really do. Tonight at 7PM, the Museum of Arts and

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10 Jun 2010

Free Event With Lots of Vinyl

My first record was a 45.  It was a hand me down from my older sister and it played the theme song to ‘œFlash Gordon.’  If you have ever listened to this song, you will remember that there is a break in the music when some of the ‘˜story’ is

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10 Jun 2010

5 New York City Novels You Should Read

“New York was his town and it always would be…”  I’ve always wanted to read that fictional novel by Isac Davis (Manhattan, Woody Allen, 1979), because you know what I can’t get enough of?  Talking and thinking about New York City.  Now’s the season (when it’s not blindingly hot and

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