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motto as I live and learn is: dig and be dug in return. -Langston Hughes
DIG THIS STUFF:
Special
Election Issue of Pipe Up is out!
http://www.littlecommie.com/pipeup
Red All Over political improv every Wed at Drinkytown until we don't have to anymore. Workshops on Sat.
For the best and most affordable improv classes in town go to Armando Diaz and check out performances at Armando Diaz Studios, Thursdays at Juvie Hall.
Message board for your own events and discussions.
DIG SOME EVENTS GOING ON THIS WEEK AND NEXT:
Sunday, October 31st 6pm Be a Pirate for Peace in the Halloween parade! Seriously, don't just watch it, join UFPJ's float.
Sunday, October 31st 8pm Steve Earle at Bowery Ballroom $35
Monday, November 1st 8 and 9:30pm George Bush is a Motherfucker. An Evening Of Contemporary Political Satire, produced by Adam McKay, directed by Jake Fogelnest. UCB Theater 307 West 26th @ 8th Ave 212.366.9176. $5
Monday, November 1st 7pm Election Eve The Eureka! International Film Festival and Rock The Vote will present Cordelene, La Laque, The Swiss Auto Club, and Gordo Gringo, with host Grant Cooper of The Laugh Lounge, and DJ Rob Keith from the electronic music group, “3 Speaker High”, spinning on the main floor at The Delancey Bar, 168 Delancey Street (at Clinton), New York, NY 10002 (F, M, J or Z subways to Essex / Delancey) $10 (Price includes sponsored drink open bar till 8pm. All proceeds benefit The Eureka! International Film Festival)
Tuesday, November 2nd 8pm George Bush is a Motherfucker. An Evening Of Contemporary Political Satire, produced by Adam McKay, directed by Jake Fogelnest. UCB Theater 307 West 26th @ 8th Ave 212.366.9176. $5
Tuesday, November 2nd 9:30pm ELECTION INFECTION 2004 variety show with Comedy! Music! Dancing! Poetry! Broadway Stars! Opening night with Special Guests: Dance by Shaua Lane, Poetry by Bernie Kravitz, A song by Wicked's Robb Sapp, Original music by Rob Schiffman, Comedy by Jane Condon, Todd Levin, and Ben Morrison and straight from the Fringe, Negin Farsad in Bootleg Islam. At the Improv 318 West 53rd @ 8th Ave 212-888-LAFF $10 + 2 drink minimum.
Tuesday,
November 2nd 7:30pm to 2:00am or until Bush is Gone New Democratic
Majority ELECTION NIGHT WATCH PARTY! Spirit Night Club 530 West 27th Between
10th & 11th. $5
Wednesday,
November 3rd 7pm (every Wed) Drinkytown
variety
night. Tonight: political improv comedy from RED
ALL OVER (with FREE copies of The
Nation), Mohammed/Ali, Homeroom and UNO! Parkside
Lounge * 317 W. Houston (btw B and C) * FREE
Thursday,
November 4th 7pm Conversations
in the Humanities
with Joshua Brown & Ben
Katchor. Ben Katchor , author, graphic novels including The Jew of New
York and Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer; John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation fellow; Joshua Brown, Co-director, New Media Lab; Executive
Director, Center for Media and Learning/American Social History Project, The
Graduate Center, CUNY; author, Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday
Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America. The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth
Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets. $5; Free to CUNY.
Thursday, November 4th 8pm (every Thursday) Armando Diaz Studios night at Juvie Hall featuring student performances at 8, Jenny in the Evente at 9:30, and me in Slow Comedy at 11pm. $5.
Saturday, November 6th 1:30-4pm Drinkytown longform improv workshop returns! At Parkside Lounge. Drop-in workshop exploring longforms and mixing it up with new people. We'll work on RED ALL OVER and more More info here. $10. (First-timers $5.)
Tuesday, November 9th at 7:30pm The Rosenbach Company: A Tragicomedy. The story of two brothers, their obsessions and the dawn of an American cultural legacy. A new show for music-theater. Words and drawings by Ben Katchor. Music by Mark Mulcahy. Musicians: Ashley Grella, Brian Marchese, Henning Ohlenbusch, and Dave Trenholm. Singers: Katie Geissinger, Ryan Mercy and Mark Mulcahy The Harry De Jur Playhouse in The Abrons Arts Center of The Henry Street Settlement, 466 Grand Street, Manhattan. One performance only. 2 hours, 15 min. $20.
Wednesday,
November 10th 7pm (every Wed) Drinkytown
variety night. Tonight: political
improv comedy from RED
ALL OVER (with
FREE copies of The Nation),
Aaron and Tony, Cousin Eskimo, UNO.
Parkside Lounge
* 317 W. Houston (btw B and C) * FREE
Thursday, November 11th 8pm Giant Sand, THE Handsome Family at Southpaw. 125 Fifth Ave. Brooklyn. $15
Thursday, November 11th 8pm (every Thursday) Armando Diaz Studios night at Juvie Hall featuring student performances at 8, Jenny in the Evente at 9:30, and me in Slow Comedy at 11pm. $5.
Friday, November 12th 8pm GIANT SAND, THE HANDSOME FAMILY, Low Skies at Mercury Lounge $15
DIG SOME STUFF THAT GOES ON EVERY WEEK:
Music, Comedy, Variety, Radio, Fun:
Mondays at 2pm Cat Radio Cafe with Janet Coleman and David Dozer on WBAI 99.5
Tuesdays at 8pm UCB Harold Night Longform improv. $5.
Wednesdays 7pm Drinkytown at Parkside. Improv and sketch featuring weekly political show Red All Over. Free.
Wednesdays at 7:30pm Quizz-Off at Pete's candy store 709 Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Scrabble and Bingo Sundays and Tuesdays, respectively.) Free.
Wednesdays at 8pm Invite them Up hosted by Eugene Mirman & Bobby Tisdale at Cinema Classics 332 E 11, between 1st and 2nd. Free.
Thursdays 8:30pm and 10:30pm Mingus Big Band An ensemble of the best musicians takes on the powerful music of Charles Mingus Thursdays at Fez Under Time Cafe. 380 Lafayette Street (at Great Jones) NY. 212-533-2680. $18. Student discount $10.
Thursdays 8pm Armando Diaz Studios night at Juvie Hall featuring Jenny in the Evente, student performances, and acts booked at Armando's whim!
Music:
Books:
Sheldon Rampton, author of "Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq" has written a new book called "Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing Is Turning America Into a One-Party State" It's called and can be found at a bookstore near you!
At the Hands of Persons Unknown : The Lynching of Black America by Phil Dray. You can listen to him talk about it on Fresh Air here. Finalist for the Pulitzer prize and 2003 winner of the RFK Memorial Book Award!
Tonight
at Noon
by Sue Mingus
A memoir of her life with Mingus, this love story includes never-before published
photographs of Mingus and a special epilogue about the activities Mingus'
music has taken on since his death. You can dig more about Charles
Mingus and the Mingus Big Band at their site.
News:
Other Links:
Little Commie LLC's Legal representation: Heraty Hall. Their site includes good links for small businesses.
The Pilates Edge. My friend Karrie Adamany's pilates studio.
Chu Tai Chi Tai Chi Center in Times Square (I recommend the Nei Kung workshop and ongoing classes.)
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