Happenings for Week of March 26th, 2007

Week of March 26th, 2007

Dine - In Brooklyn Restaurant Week (D/F)
Quality Food, No Attitude on the Side.
3 courses for $21.12 (not including: beverages, tax or gratuity)
March 26th - 30th
For more information and list of participating restaurants: brooklyn

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Book Discussion and Signing (A, E, L)
Alice Crary with her latest novel, Beyond Moral Judgment.
What is moral thought and what kinds of demands does it impose? Alice Crary's book Beyond Moral Judgment claims that even the most perceptive contemporary answers to these questions offer no more than partial illumination, owing to an overly narrow focus on judgments that apply moral concepts (and a corresponding failure to register that moral thinking includes more than such judgments.
@ Labyrinth Books
536 West 112th Street (between Amsterdam and Broadway)
7p
Free
For more information: labrinyth

Reading Performance: Out Loud: Connecticut (C, L)
A close-knit group of friends come together and torn apart by raging desires, unforgivable betrayals and yappy little dogs.
Written by Kathryn Walat and directed by Leigh Silverman.
@ Ars Nova
511 West 54th Street (@ 10th Avenue)
7p
Free, but RSVP’s are required. Email: rsvp@arsnovanyc.com
For more information: arsnova

Dave Fields Performs with Dave Moore (M)
Kick back and listen to some Jazz
@ Mannahatta Lounge
316 Bowery (@ Bleeker Street)
7p
Free
For more information: manna

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007



Art Deco Walking Tour in Midtown (A, C, E, S)
Discover some of New York's great Art Deco buildings both well known and lesser known. Begin with the remarkable jewel in the crown, the Chrysler Building with its whimsical automobile motifs. View the nearby Chanin Building a veritable repository of Art Deco imagery. Stroll up Lexington Avenue to view several lesser-known hotels en route to the sophisticated, urbane Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Examine the role of its architecture in creating the soigne image of Park Avenue from the films of Fred Astaire to the music of Fats Waller. Then discover the magic of the newly restored General Electric Building, the original RCA Building. Travel west to see an often-missed treasure, the Goelet Building with its verdigris marble exterior and its splendid, secretive lobby.
Meet @ Southwest Corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue (diagonal to the Chrysler Building)
6:30 - 8:30p
$15, Payable on Site
Tours operate rain or shine. Please note that tours sometimes run late. In the event of truly inclement weather, please telephone 212-758-7893.
For more information: newyork

Chick Singer Night (M)
This is the nation's original and longest-running songfest for female artists. The format is a simple one. All singers are welcome; all styles of music, all levels of experience, all walks of life. Each singer shows up the afternoon of the show, charts in hand, and runs her songs with the CSN Band. Later that evening they hit the stage with a hot band in a cool venue and give the performance of a lifetime. Tonight’s CSN Band: Dave Fields, Judy Palma, Leo Traversa and Frank Vilardi. Also featuring: Anne Mironchikk, Emily MaCleod and Mark Marshall with Melvin Greenwich
@ The Bitter End
147 Bleeker Street (between Thompson and LaGuardia Streets)
8p
$10
For more information: bitterend



Ivan Milev and his Band Perform (M)
Ivan Milev Band opens the boundaries for an amazing journey into the depths of Bulgarian and Balkan music. A musical genius and legendary performer, accordionist Ivan Milev has established the rules that govern Bulgarian Folk Music throughout his 30-plus year career. Ivan Milev Band is the vision of two musical talents and two friends Ivan and Entcho, that see the potential of Balkan music extending far from the Eastern European region and thrilling audiences from different cultures and musical backgrounds around the world.
@ Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette Street (East 4th Street and Astor Place)
9:30p
$15
To buy advance tickets: www.joespub.com, for more information about Ivan: ivan

Radical Vaudeville (A, D, M)
Join Surf Reality and Mo Pitkin’s as we celebrate the downtown Art Stars and their depraved counterculture lifestyles. While our beautiful cosmopolitan city’s last two mayors have been relentlessly transforming Manhattan into a corporate strip mall, these intrepid entertainers have been the cultural vanguard that leads by example. We welcome you to come enjoy the nights of sex, comedy and rock ’n’ roll that are Radical Vaudeville. Host and MC Henry Faulkner. Starring: Lucky, GiGi Lafemme, Jeff Grow, Vangeline and Chris Nyne
@ Mo Pitkins
34 Avenue A (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues), downstairs
10p
$5
For more information: mopitkins

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007



Laura’s List Cocktail Party (P)
Venture downtown to the Lower East Side. Expand your social circle. Come meet new folks, enjoy some cocktails and have a good time.
There will be drinks specials for the following: Hanoi Lychee Martinis, Sangria, Vietnamese Bloody Marys, House Red and White Wine. Also, there will be 2 for 1 Bavaria Blond Lager
Appetizers will be provided.
@ Verlaine
110 Rivington Street (between Ludlow and Essex Streets)
6p
Cost: $20 advanced payment (prepay with credit card on paypal - button below). Advanced payment deadline 4p, Wed the 28th.
PLEASE NOTE: There will be a $25 admission day of event, (CASH ONLY at door).
Please RSVP to nyckid135@yahoo.com if you plan on coming (either paying in advance or at door - so I can order food)

Foot Comfort Lecture with Robert Schwartz, CEO of Eneslow (E)
Come and learn how to take care of your feet. Learn solutions to your individual foot problems and concerns. Each attendee will receive a personal iStep Computer Pedorthic Assessment. Bring your fashionable, sexy shoes with you and you will learn how to make them as good as they look.
@ Eneslow
470 Park Avenue South (@ 32nd Street)
6 - 8p
Free, though must RSVP in advance
To RSVP call: 212.477.2300, ext 0



Cora Daniels discusses her latest book, Ghetto Nation (E, L)
We live in a society where shows like Pimp My Ride top cable ratings, baby mama has become a family term, pimp and ho Halloween costumes are sold in toddler sizes on the internet, and even Martha Stewart proudly boasts to television viewers that she "can get ghetto when she needs to." So says Cora Daniels in GhettoNation. In this thought provoking critique Daniels points out that singers who demean women, devalue education, and promote violence deepen the views of African-American stereotypes that white folks have believed but most importantly contributes to the destruction of civility.
@ Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd (between 124th and 125th Streets)
6p
Free
For more information: hueman

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Performance: Flight of Fantasy (A, D, M)
An exciting collaboration between Yuliya Lanina and C. Eule Dance. This new piece combines Yuliya Lanina’s installation, video and costume design with Caron Eule’s choregraphy and the C. Eule Dancers’ structured improvisations. Viewers will be watching the performance from outside the windows, looking in.
@ The Lab Gallery
501 Lexington Avenue (@ 47th Street)
6 - 6:30p
Free
For more information: yuliyalanina

Reading with Laure-Anne Bosselaar and Douglas Goetsch (L)
Laure-Anne Bosselaar is the author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf and of Small Gods of Grief, winner of the Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry for 2001.
Douglas Goetsch's books of poetry include Nobody's Hell (Hanging Loose Press, 1999), The Job of Being Everybody (Cleveland State, 2004), winner of the CSU Poetry Center Open Competition, and three chapbooks.
@ FreeBird Books and Goods
123 Columbia Street (between between Kane and Degraw Streets), Brooklyn
7p
Free
For more information: freebird

Risotto: Make It at Home (Code: T-LP5FW14-01) (D/F, E)
Join cooking show host and chef Mike Colameco at the Viking showroom. He presents classes covering the basics and helps home cooks become more proficient. Colameco, a restaurant owner and a former executive chef at the Ritz-Carlton in New York, demystifies the world of home cooking, just as he does on his daily show on WOR-AM and his weekly series on WNET-TV/Channel 13.
@ The Delia - Viking Showroom
969 Third Avenue (at 58th Street)
7p
$35
For more information and to sign up:92y

Friday, March 29th, 2007



Photography Exhibit: Tom Sandberg: Photographs 1989 - 2006 (A)
Working for almost thirty years, exclusively with large format, black-and-white film, Sandberg has produced a remarkable body of work that is consistent in its vision and imbued with a sense of mystery and great depth of feeling. Whether he depicts sublime snow-covered mountains, a car parked in the street, the head of an infant, or a spectral house shrouded in fog, his pictures are about what it means to be alive. Many of Sandberg’s pictures are aerial views the earth seen from above, in a sense, in a state of suspension. One of his most hauntingly beautiful pictures is an image of a plane seeming to hover just a few feet above a runway. He returns time and again to pictures of the sun, the ocean, endless clouds, and the horizon. In some the image is barely visible, as if testing the limits of what the eye can see. Sandberg’s work is about photography, about the act of seeing, and ultimately about being in the world.
@ PS 1 - MoMa
22 - 25 Jackson Avenue (@ 46th Avenue), LIC
Admission: $5
For more information: ps1

Our Times: A Poetry and Jazz Performance (A, L, M)
This ensemble consists of some of today’s most innovative actors, actresses and musicians, fusing jazz and Afro-Cuban drumming with the poetry of Magdalena Gómez, Jesus Papoleto Meléndez, Hilda Herrera, Frank Pérez and Eugenio Rodríguez providing commentary on our issues, our rituals and our lives. Featuring: Rhina Valentín, Indio Meléndez, Julia A. Grob, Frank Tamez, Desmar Guevara (keyboard), Ricardo Rodríguez (bass), Vincent George (percusión), José Scringer (vocals & percusión).
@ Hostos Community College - Center for Arts and Culture
450 Grand Concourse (between East 144th and 149th Streets), Bronx
C - Building, Hostos Repertory Theater
7:30p
$10
For more information and to buy tickets: hostos

Elsewhere presents: Volume of Smoke (A, C)
On December 26th, 1811, the Richmond Theatre burned to the ground. A standing-room only audience of 600 people had gathered that night to see a touring company present a billing of several different pieces. During The Bleeding Nun, a short play of haunted star-crossed lovers, the fire began. Of those 600 in attendance, seventy died many women and children, many trampled in the panic that ensued. In response to the tragedy, Richmond, VA, erected a church on the ashes of the theatre and banned all public performance (including street musicians) for eight years. Weaving together a narrative out of more than twenty different characters in his signature lyrical prose style, Clay McLeod Chapman constructs a narrative of the lead up to and aftermath from the Great Richmond Theatre Fire in the play volume of smoke. Based on interviews conducted with survivors of the fire in an unpublished 19th-century manuscript, volume of smoke is a beautiful, moving, surprisingly funny voyage into the heart of disaster and our responses to it.
@The 14th Street Theater
344 East 14th Street (between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
8p
$15
For more information and to buy tickets: smoke

3rd Annual Chica Luna Film Festival (E, F)
This film festival promotes and showcases works by women of color filmmakers who strive to break one-dimensional stereotypes that generally portray women of color in the mainstream media. Chica Luna Productions is a non-profit organization that seeks to identify, develop and support women of color who strive to use popular media to engage social justice themes and are accountable to their communities.
@ Peter Norton Symphony Space - Leonard Nimoy Thalia
2537 Broadway (@ 95th Street)
8p
$11
For more information and to buy tickets: symphony

Saturday, March 31st, 2007



Creative Fabric Making for Knitters and Crocheters (E, S)
Intermediate level workshop with Arlene Mintzer, artist, textile maker whose work has been featured in Vogue Knitting, Threads, Surface Design Journal and the American and Japanese editions of W. Come spend the day playing with your favorite yarns and learn about innovative and new types as well. The emphasis of this workshop is to explore fabric making as a very creative and joyful experience. Each participant will work on his or her own swatch. Participants are highly encouraged to use both knitting and crocheting, working with both traditional and non-traditional materials, such as wire. Participants must have a good basic knowledge of either knitting and/or crochet.
A detailed supply list will be sent to each participant.
@ Museum of Arts and Design
40 West 53rd Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
10 - 4p
$75
For more information and to sign up mad
Please note: Space is limited

Gin Tasting (D/F)
Introducing DH Krahn Gin, the highest rated gin of 2006 (Beverage Tasting Institute)
@ Chelsea Wine Vault
The Chelsea Market
75 Ninth Avenue (between 15th and 16th Streets)
2 - 5p
Free
For more information: winevault



Walking Tour: Bay Ridge (Brooklyn) (C, D/F, E, S)
Experience the multi-ethnic treasures in this neighborhood once known for its seafaring tradition. Markets or bakeries we’ll visit include: Norwegian, Italian, Moroccan, Danish, Turkish, French and Lebanese.
@ Meet in front of the Family Store
6905 Third Avenue (@ 69th Street), Bay Ridge
2:30 - 5p
$33
For more information and to sign up: walks

The Children's Aid Society's Presents: The Blue Jean Ball 2007 (NP, P)
The Diamond Horseshoe Revue...along with the Blue Jean Ball Host Committee are puttin' together a dazzling evening for New York City's urban cowboys and cowgirls filled with diamonds, denim, dancin' and dreams. One hundred percent of the net proceeds from the Blue Jean Ball 2007 goes to support Children's Aid volunteer programs that directly help the children we serve.
@ Pier 60
Chelsea Piers (23rd Street and the Hudson River)
9 - 1a
$200
For more information and to buy tickets: bluejeanball

Sunday, April 1st, 2007 (April Fools Day)



Hike and Hound: Moderate 6-mile Hike (S)
We invite outdoor enthusiasts with large and medium-sized, socialized dogs to join us for a moderate 6-mile hike to Pine Meadow Lake. If you don't have a dog but wish you did, you can come, too. It will be a barking good time.
Time: 9 - 5p (meet at 8:45a for check-in)
Meeting Place: 73rd Street and Broadway, NE corner (in front of Apple Bank)
$95 for dog/human couple; $48 for single/additional dog or human
For more information and to sign up: outdoorbound
Save $5 - after signing up email: info@outdoorbound.com and let them know you found out about trip from Laura’s List.

Wine Tasting - Prepare for Passover (D/F, E)
Find out what makes a wine kosher for Passover and sample a few examples.
@ LeNell’s
416 Van Brunt Street (between Coffey and Van Dyke Streets), Brooklyn
12 - 9p
Free
For more information: lenells

Spring Dance - Juilliard Dance (A, D, M)
Choreography by Jiri Kylian, to the music of Martinu; Twyla Tharp, to the music of the Beach Boys; and Susan Marshall, to the music of David Lang.
@ Peter Jay Sharp Theater
155 West 65th Street (between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues)
3p
$20
For more information and to buy tickets: juilliard




Radio Heartbeat Powerpop Festival (A, C, M)
Featuring: Milk'N'Cookies, The Go, The Prambath, Electric Shadows, Top Ten, Gentleman Jesse & His Men
@ Southpaw
125 Fifth Avenue (between Sterling and St. John Place), Brooklyn
Doors open: 6:30p, show starts at 7:30p
$22
To buy tickets: spsounds, for more information on the festival: radioheart

Movie Screening: Headspace (E, F)
A global journey of sight and sound wrapped around the electronic music party scene…This is an 85-minute documentary, was filmed in ten countries over the course of three years and brings us to the mystical land of electronic music parties and the people creating them. The film is a multi-sensory journey stemming from years of dance music evolution, delivering the stories of those encapsulated by the scene. A cosmic voyage filled with superstar and underground DJ’s, side-trips with characters of the night, and a soundtrack comprised of over 20 top electronic musicians will open your soul as a dedicated search for the party will explain why the sounds have captured the global heart.
@ Pioneer Theater/ Two Boots
155 East 3rd Street (between 3rd and 4th Streets)
9p
$6.50 - $10
For more information and to buy tickets: pioneer

Monday, April 2nd, 2007 (Passover at sundown)

Speed Dating: Single Professionals (S)
Ages: Women 22-33, Men 24-35
Join us at this laid-back Wall Street bar. Free hot snacks and great drink specials ($4 Harp & Sam Winter draft beer pints, $4.50 (well) mixed drinks), for speed daters.
@ Suspenders
111 Broadway (at Wall Street)
7:30p
Cost: $37 (use the name - Laura when registering on-line and save $5)
For more information and to sign up: nydates

Key to Activities

A Art
C Cultural
D Dance
D/F Drink/Food
F Film
E Education
L Literature
M Music
NP Non-Profit
P Party
S Sport