February 2011
62 posts
Contemporary Authors Say Literature Had A Hand In... →
Paging Malcolm Gladwell…Social networks like Facebook and Twitter may get most of the credit for fueling the recent uprisings in the Middle East and Africa, but a group of authors is making the case that contemporary literature also has a hand in creating change in the region.Explore the issue further, tonight at 92Y.
Texas Takes Manhattan, To Great Effect →
In the middle of January, the jazz pianist and MacArthur Fellow Jason Moran took his talents to South Manhattan. He organized a two-night, ridiculous-in-a-good-way concert revue called 713 —> 212: Houstonians In NYC, featuring musicians — jazz and otherwise — from his Texas hometown.
Overheard in the office: “Last night at Dorrian’s was really fun.”
WatchJaleel Shaw: Don’t Just Stand There
Jaleel Shaw is a saxophonist and composer. He also describes himself as a human being. The video above, one of ten in a series at Uncensored Interview, features Jaleel pondering crowd reactions to his music. “It’s like a give and take with Jazz. So if I look out in the audience and I’m performing and I’m trying to give you all...
Watch“I was always restless. I had to get away, I had to get out of Brooklyn. They were squeezing me!” So Ruth Gruber told the camera in the above documentary about her life, Ahead of Time. 99-year-old Ruth Gruber did get away and in doing so emerged as the eyes and conscience of the world.
“I was a rebellious kid. I wanted to encompass the whole world. I wanted to know what everything was...
Overheard in the office: “I dressed for summer and now I’m freezing.”
Joan Soriano - Que Pasará Manaña
This track...
WatchNew York magazine’s Vulture blog pointed out the video above, featuring Whoopi Goldeberg on “The View,” discussing how upset she was when The New York Times failed to mention her Oscar win in a recent article about African-American Oscar winners.
Fellow EGOT winner Tracy Jordan would have their head if that happened to him!
Whoopi told her friends on “The View”:...
Patti LuPone Wishes She Did More Shakespeare At...
Via the 92Y Blog, Katrina Ramsburg submitted a question for Patti LuPone, who was here a few days ago. She asked: “If you could go back in time, taking with you all the experience and training you have gained over the years, is there a role you would want to tackle again? What would you bring to it that is different?” Patti responded on stage at 92Y: Oh geez, you know I thought about that....
92YTribeca Fun Fact:
The Professional was Natalie Portman’s acting debut. She was thirteen years old.
oliveryeh:
“Hid your shoes. You left anyway.” —Molly Schulman, GalleyCat reader who won a chance to read her six-word memoir at SMITH Magazine’s Six-Word Memoir Story Love & Heartbreak Slam at 92YTribeca this coming Monday.
That’s tonight! Line-up includes: Deborah Copaken Kogan (Shutterbabe), Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation), Baratunde Thurston (The Onion & co-founder,...
“The most radical think about Barack Obama is one thing. He’s an African-American who became President of the Unites States. That is radical… Beyond that, I feel he’s a man of the center left and I don’t think anyone farther left is going to get elected President of The United States.” —The New Yorker editor David Remnick addressing Obama’s time in...
The Content Farm: How to Pour Milk →
thecontentfarm:
You know the old saying, “Milk is the window to the soul?” It can’t be a window unless you put it in a glass. Here’s how you put milk in a glass.
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Grasp the handle of the container in which the milk is in with your hand.
Lift it in an upwards direction, towards the ceiling, by…
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danharmon:
Sometimes, in the morning, you stumble onto a morning kids’ show you’ve never seen before and will never see again, something on some cable network called VooVoo or NickNack, something about incredibly non-iconic chickens or squirrels or human babies or something, and they’re barely doing anything, they’re literally just hanging out, not chasing anything or blowing anything up or...
Get Drunk With Nerds: Mashable Next Up NYC
boozeparty:
Mashable is having some tech event or something. At 7:45 they stop yapping and start drinking. Open bar supposedly goes from 7:45 - closing, not bad for $15. Plus you might take home the next Bill Gates. More info is here
Yes, it’s true. 92YTribeca is hosting Mashable’s NextUp NYC tonight. We can neither confirm nor deny you will meet the next Bill Gates.
