April 2010
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Bad Jew Bears
Via Katie Bakes, we learn that CBSSports.com Presents The Top 200 Popular Fantasy Baseball Team Names.
Names on their list include: Honey Nut Ichiros, Sultans of Swat and Sexual Chocolate.
We might have those beat. The Bad Jews Bears, Mint Jewlips and the Hebrew Hammers are a few teams currently on the roster of The 92nd Street Y Central Park Softball League.
If any women are interested in joining, (sorry guys, men’s sign-up is full) registration is open for the 2010 season. Download an application and learn more here.
BTW, Today is Poem in Your Pocket Day
Rick Lazio is carrying “If”. What poem are you carrying in your pocket?
Please feel free to choose from any in our audio archive.
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Garrison Keillor Wants To Talk About...?
We have.
We won’t spoil the fun, but will just tell you to go ahead and listen to the latest broadcast at the 46:45 mark.
If you click here before listening, you’ll ruin the surprise. But do click there afterwards for more context!
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FREE Master Class Tomorrow with Benjamin Hochman:
Any budding pianists in here?
If you think you have what it takes to participate in our Recanati-Kaplan Program for Excellence in the Arts, auditions start this June. Download your application and find more info here.
Takings Questions, Asking Names Later
Of the following upcoming guests: Alan Brinkley and Frank Rich (May 11); Sean Hayes and Jordan Roth (May 24 at 92YTribeca); or Rosie O’Donnell with Sheila Nevins, DA Pennebaker. Chris Hegedus, Al Maysles, and Alexandra Pelosi (May 26), who would you like to ask a question of?
If we use your question during the Q&A—like we did with Ted Koppel— we’ll give you two tickets to an upcoming lecture of your choice, pending availability.
So who…and what would you ask them?
a behanding in spokane
yeehaw! picked up my free tix this afternoon, and in 2 hours i will be at the schoenfeld theatre.
i get to watch christopher walken live. very excited.
also, so far so good. no pics of me on the interwebz. do not want. when i went to pickup the tickets, i was asked to take a picture with the tickets. since they were nice enough to select me, i said sure. i am not a fan of pictures of myself. but, it would have been churlish of me to say no, no? so far, i do not see it posted. yeehaw.
also, i just wanted to use the word churlish. and start and end with an exclamation indicating the excitement i have over seeing chris walken on broadway.
thanks tumblr and blackbook.
UPDATE 4/22:
show was amazing, and cast was terrific. i was nearly crying a few times during the show and laughing throughout. if you have to see a play, i’d go to this one. catch it before it leaves. also in cast, sam rockwell.
You also won tix to the On Stage with A Behanding in Spokane Featuring Anthony Mackie and Zoe Kazan at 92YTribeca on Sunday. WHAT ARE THE CHANCES?
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What would you like to ask former New York Governor Eilot Spitzer?
Previously: Ted Koppel on New Media, spurred by a question submitted via our Facebook page.
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Dip Set
Yesterday’s footage can be viewed here; check out Jim Jones!
MC Hammer and then Jim Jones and others live at #140conf at 92Y beginning at 4.15pm! Watch live here.
Free Stuff (Broadway Tickets)
Hot date Wednesday night? Well we’ve got just the thing for you folks! Two, count ‘em 2 free tickets (Orchestra seats, even) to A Behanding in Spokane. Just you, your mom and Christopher Walken this Wednesday night, 8 PM. You don’t even hafta jump through hoops. Just eff up your neatly packaged and branded blog by reblogging this so that we can be greedy and get some more followers/exposure. You know how these things work. That’s the price one pays for free shit.
Oh, two can play that game. Reblog THIS for a chance to win two tix to a talk with the cast of A Behanding in Spokane - including Sam Rockwell, Anthony Mackie and Zoe Kazan - at 92YTribeca this Sunday.
Major David Faggard (@usaairforce) informs the audience at a panel discussion of the evolution of emergency communications in the era of real time internet, at the 140 Characters Conference (#140conf) being hosted at 92Y, that the U.S. government used Google maps during Katrina as a supplement to their own maps, some of which were outdated.
Watch the conference live on USTREAM.
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- Brian Williams at 92Y last night, on why the Tea Party has been depicted the way it has in the media“If you’re covering a rally and one of them is doing something to a plastic doll…I’m just saying.”
Sam Amidon: "Appreciator of R Kelly"
If you missed Sam Amidon at 92YTribeca this weekend, Gothamist has you covered. “Thankfully,” they wrote, “we have musicians like Thomas Bartlett and Sam Amidon, appreciators of R Kelly as well as Woody Guthrie…”
Time Out New York has more photos from the show here.
Tonight: 92YTribeca Hosts Official After Party For No One Knows About Persian Cats
L-R: Hypernova and Yellowdog
No One Knows About Persian Cats, which won the Special Jury Prize in the “Un Certain Regard” section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, opens tonight in Manhattan at the IFC Center and Lincoln Plaza Center.
A.O. Scott called the film’s critique of Iran “devastating.”
The film features Iranian indie rock phenoms Hypernova and Yellow Dogs, who star in the film, along with DJ Loveletters. The bands’ music is forbidden in Iran, where playing Western music in public is illegal.
Both bands will perform tonight at 92YTribeca during the Official Afterparty for the film’s New York Premiere. Doors open at 8.30pm and the show starts at 9.30pm. Purchase your tickets here.
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NBC New York Niteside blog on Alice Walker winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1983:
[92Y Lectures & Conversations]“…she didn’t want to pick up the prestigious award in person. ‘I think things like that should be brought to your door,’ she said…”
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“If there’s one thing I loathe, it’s men who bite!”
So exclaims Holly Golightly in the opening pages of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, having entered the narrator’s apartment via the fire escape, and such is how Truman Capote introduced his heroine when he read from the novel here at the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center on April 7, 1963. Today’s featured recording is a selection from that evening.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s was published in 1958, and the film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn was released in 1961, so when Capote asked the 1963 audience if they’d like him to read a section of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, everyone was downright thrilled.
Before the reading that night, then Poetry Center director John Malcolm Brinnin, who was also a longtime friend of Capote, offered these introductory remarks:
In the very curious sociology of these times, the name of Truman Capote has become a household word… . He no longer has to write a book to make news, but simply to be Truman Capote. No one is surprised anymore to learn that this young American writer has been quietly dining with Princess Margaret, or that he has been spirited off on the yachts of Greeks richer than Mycenaes, or that he has recently flown to Amsterdam to have a tooth filled.
But let us be wary of the disguises of genius. Anyone who knows Truman Capote knows that the columnists capture the details but miss the point. Beyond the public image of Truman Capote there stands a very private man, who owns one of the toughest, most resourceful and surgically adept minds in modern letters. And if we now must note that the boy wonder has become the prodigal son, that is all the more reason why I am happy to invite you to join me in welcoming him.
In an ongoing effort to share with our readers some of the great literary moments which the Poetry Center has presented across the decades, this blog has begun to feature regular postings of archival recordings. For access to other recordings, please click here. For more information about upcoming Poetry Center events, please click here.
Unterberg Poetry Center webcasts and access to our archive are made possible in part by the generous support of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.
You can also download the MP3.
OH in the office: “I think I’m gonna move to Berlin”
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An Athletic Intelligence: James Wood Talks About David Foster Wallace at the 92Y
The Faster Times on seeing James Wood at the 92nd Street Y, behind a lectern, not a podium: An Athletic Intelligence: James Wood Talks About David Foster Wallace at the 92Y [The Faster Times]“At one point during the lecture, it occurred to me that witnessing James Wood at the lectern was similar to witnessing a professional athlete in person and how much faster, stronger, and more graceful they are when they are right there in front of you. Wood’s intellectual acuity is sort of like that. His moves are agile and assured, impressively athletic.”
UPDATE: Or was it a podium??
What would you ask Eliot Spitzer? Leave your questions in the comments here.
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