Post Your Tips

Now, here's the details of the Friday, EBRUARY 10, 2012 "Premiere Party!" at CRIMSON Nightclub, located at 915 Broadwahy @21st Street. In the heart of the Flatiron District, CRIMSON is a truly 14,000 sqaure foot mega nightclub,
aptly adorned in crimson red décor. 6 pm - 11 PM. $20. 800+ 28-49, or so.
$20.00 per person, pay at the door. 3 hours of sumptuous gourmet hot hors d'oeuvres 6:30-9:30 PM. Jackets or smart casual is OK. .Ladies, stylish, of course, but attractive office attire will do fine. No jeans or sneakers.Super DJ Frank Corti plays fabulous dance music of the past through the present.Free street parking after 7 pm. ou also will be receiving extra invitations for your friends.

At 9:30 PM, a special drawing will be held for complimentary tickets to the new hit show "Psycho Therapy," playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Starring Angelica Page and Jeffrey Carlson. It's a new comedy by Frank Strausser.
Directed by Alex Lippard With Jan Leslie Harding and Laurence Lau The Cherry Lane Theatre -
38 Commerce Street.Lily's fiancée Phillip blows off couples therapy and Dorian, her hot young ex-boyfriend, jumps in to fill the void. When the trio ends up on the couch together, only therapist Nancy Winston can untangle the kinks. Frank Strausser's insanely entertaining new comedy opens the door to a new option
- couples therapy for three.
LIMITED ENGAGEMENT! January 17 – February 25 ONLY!
Performance Schedule:
Mondays 8pm | Tuesdays 8pm |Thursdays 8pm| Fridays 8pm| Saturdays 3pm & 8pm| Sundays 3pm & 7pm

Also, A TOTALLY FREE $100 GIFT CERTIFICATE FOR MEN & WOMEN WILL BE ISSUED FROM SKIN THERA P TO EACH AND EVERY PERSON ATTENDING OUR SATURDAY MARCH 13, 2010 LQ PARTY. WITH THE GIFT CERTIFICATE IN HAND, YOU CAN CHOSE BETWEEN THE "AGE ERASER" MICRODERMABRASION WHICH HELPS EVEN OUT TONE AND SKIN TEXTURE OR A TNS 7 GROWTH FACTOR MASK THAT HYDRATES THE SKIN, LEAVING IT MORE YOUTHFUL AND GLOWING***

EVER-CONSCIOUS OF THE IMPACT THE RECESSION IS HAVING ON EVERYONE'S POCKET, WE WILL BE GIVING OUT FREE DRUG CARDS, ALREADY ACTIVATED, YOU CAN USE IMMEDATELY, SAVING AN AVERAGE OF 55% ON GENERICS AND 15% ON BRAND NAME DRUGS, WHICH IS ACCEPTED AT OVER 80% OF US. PHARMACIES. THERE IS NO EXPIRATION DATE AND THE CARD IS GOOD FOREVER, EVEN IF YOU ARE ON A DRUG PLAN, HAVE INDIViDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE OR NO COVERAGE AT ALL. REMEMBER, THERE ARE NO CATCHES. I HAVE PERSONALLY TESTED OUT THE CARD AND THE SAVINGS WERE BIG!***

For more information and mailing list, call: 212-249-3636. And, you can find this and more on our website: http://www.nycsingles.com In the past 21 years, more than 5,100 have met and married at GB's parties.
Extra invites are in the mail for you and your friends.
Sincerely

George Bernard
www.nycsingles.com
212-249-3636

No Frills, Real Deal
FANCY! CLIP PARTY
Punk& Blues Review
Roll out the red carpet, ‘cause The Prince of New Orleans,
Guitar Lightnin Lee and his Thunder Band, will hit the stage at Don Pedro to wail messed-up blues to all natural born lovers of Rock & Roll.
Just in case that’s not enough, Die Rotzz will pummel your eardrums with punk rock while crushing beer cans with their beards and reeking of crawfish. Even if you don’t love surf music and you’ve never heard of EC Comics you will love Catalano’s Weird Fantasy Band, as the guitar maven who recently departed the Night Birds unveils his newest vision.
Plus Hours of eye poppin’ and super rockin’ video From the Vaults of Jolly Roger Digtial Archive. Videos by
Harry Nilsson, Buck Owens, Phantom Surfers, Bo Diddley, Music Machine, Angry Samoans, Judas Priest, Fadadaes,The Slits,Lightnin' Hopkins ,Howlin' Wollf,T-Bones ,Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, TV ads for Sears jeans, Lynda Carter Kiss, and much much more!
All for a mere 5 bucks!
Visit www.fancymag.com to download your FANCY! VIP PASS to get in FREE!

The first and only female to win the title of Top Chef, Stephanie Izard is an extraordinarily creative Chicago-born cook who creates unusual and addictive flavor combinations that “make your whole mouth happy”. On Saturday, February 4th, Stephanie will be visiting the James Beard House to read excerpts from her recently published book, The Girl in the Kitchen, which details more than 100 of Izard’s best recipes- from innovative appetizers like Asian-Spiced English Peas to luscious desserts like Quince and Fig Cobbler with Vanilla Mascarpone. Beautifully photographed and bursting with flavor, personality, and insight into this top chef’s regular routine, Girl in the Kitchen represents the culmination of a craft and provides inspiration that reaches far beyond the kitchen walls.

Beard on Books, an ongoing monthly literary series featuring readings and discussions with some of the food world’s most celebrated authors, is free to students with a suggested donation of $20 for nonstudents. Acqua Panna and S.Pellegrino waters, Lavazza coffees, Mighty Leaf Tea, and Green & Black’s® Organic Chocolate will be served. Sweets provided by Three Tarts. Guests are also welcome to bring a brown-bag lunch. Book signing will follow readings and discussions, and books will be available for purchase from Mobile Libris. To RSVP, please call James Beard Foundation Reservations Manager Colleen Vincent at 212.627.2308.

The first and only female to win the title of Top Chef, Stephanie Izard is an extraordinarily creative Chicago-born cook who creates unusual and addictive flavor combinations that “make your whole mouth happy”. On Saturday, February 4th, Stephanie will be visiting the James Beard House to read excerpts from her recently published book, The Girl in the Kitchen, which details more than 100 of Izard’s best recipes- from innovative appetizers like Asian-Spiced English Peas to luscious desserts like Quince and Fig Cobbler with Vanilla Mascarpone. Beautifully photographed and bursting with flavor, personality, and insight into this top chef’s regular routine, Girl in the Kitchen represents the culmination of a craft and provides inspiration that reaches far beyond the kitchen walls.

Beard on Books, an ongoing monthly literary series featuring readings and discussions with some of the food world’s most celebrated authors, is free to students with a suggested donation of $20 for nonstudents. Acqua Panna and S.Pellegrino waters, Lavazza coffees, Mighty Leaf Tea, and Green & Black’s® Organic Chocolate will be served. Sweets provided by Three Tarts. Guests are also welcome to bring a brown-bag lunch. Book signing will follow readings and discussions, and books will be available for purchase from Mobile Libris. To RSVP, please call James Beard Foundation Reservations Manager Colleen Vincent at 212.627.2308.

Some of the best shows on Broadway will put on special “Kids Week” performances for children who are on winter break on Tuesday, February 21st from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, located at Pier 86 (46th Street and 12th Avenue), Manhattan.

Cast members from the Broadway musicals “Anything Goes,” “Godspell,” “Sister Act,” “Rock of Ages,” and “Priscilla Queen of the Desert” are scheduled to perform. Cast members from Off-Broadway’s “Million Dollar Quartet” will also perform. Interactive, hands-on activities will be offered throughout the day.

“Kids Week” runs from February 18 – February 26 is open daily from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM and offers a week full of fun and engaging educational programs while students are out of class during Presidents’ Week. “Kids Week” activities are free with the price of admission to the museum.

UNEMPLOYED? DOWNSIZED?

NEED A CAREER ALTERNATIVE? IS BUSINESS OWNERSHIP THE ANSWER? SMALL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES …an exceptional, no-charge seminar offered by SCORE and the Bloomfield Library.

In America’s new career paradigm, business ownership may be the right vehicle to help you achieve financial independence, self-worth, and satisfaction. This seminar will compare models, such as independent businesses, existing business acquisitions, and format business such as franchises.

Frank Dunne, a consultant with FranNet, of NY/NJ, will detail the basics of business ownership, bust its myths and address whether/how it can meet YOUR needs, wants and goals. Topics to include:
 
> Qualities to be a successful entrepreneur
> Funding requirements and options
> Ownership risks and rewards
> Where are the opportunities ?
The Bloomfield Library

90 Broad St.,
Bloomfield, NJ 07003
Phone: (973) 566-6200

Contact Lisa Cohn at The Bloomfield Library to register in advance, or for more information.
====================================================
ADMISSION IS FREE!

Ringling Brothers continue the annual “Kids Week” celebration on Sunday, February 19th with special performances at 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, 46th Street and 12th Avenue, Manhattan.

Performers will dazzle audiences with their daring and unique routines that also teach children about scientific principles including gravity, balance and momentum. Kids can also enjoy the Circus Zone – where they can learn to juggle and spin plates – throughout the day.

“Kids Week” runs from February 18 – February 26, is open daily from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM and offers a week full of fun and engaging educational programs while students are out of class during Presidents’ Week. “Kids Week” activities are free with the price of admission to the museum.

Lindsy Parrott, curator of the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass
Tiffany’s daring use of color was celebrated during his lifetime and continues to be highly regarded today. In an illustrated lecture, Lindsy Parrott, a renowned scholar of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s glass art, explores Tiffany’s love of color throughout his half-century career. Prior to joining the Neustadt Collection, she was with the Morse Museum in Florida, which boasts the world’s most comprehensive collection of Tiffany works.
Admission is $5 for members (nonmembers, $15) and includes museum admission. Weekend parking fee is $2 (members free).

Bring a sandwich and enjoy lunch with friends as a museum docent presents an informative talk on the exhibition of paintings and other works by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Join the public exhibition tour at 2 p.m.
Free with museum admission. No reservations. First come, first seated.

Founded by bi-coastal musicians Rachel Rossos and Michael Gallant, Aurical is the sort of indie rock band your grandmother would love: honest, polite, well-groomed, and capable of telling a damn good story.

Come check out Aurical perform live at Thai Rock (375 Beach 92nd Street, 
Rockaway Beach, NY)
9pm
$10 Cover includes 1 free drink, or $10 off any entrée

http://www.auricalmusic.com
http://soundcloud.com/aurical/redhead-girl

Ringling Brothers will kick off the annual “Kids Week” celebration at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Saturday, February 18th with special performances at 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM.

Performers will dazzle audiences with their daring and unique routines that also teach children about scientific principles including gravity, balance and momentum. Kids can also enjoy the Circus Zone – where they can learn to juggle and spin plates – throughout the day.

“Kids Week” runs from February 18 – February 26, is open daily from 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM and offers a week full of fun and engaging educational programs while students are out of class during Presidents’ Week. “Kids Week” activities are free with the price of admission to the museum.

Cost: Special Offer - Sign up online and bring a friend for FREE! NFP Members: $10, Non-Members: $15, At Door $20 Cash only

Description:
SPECIAL OFFER - FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY
Sign up now and get a FREE ticket for a friend! Simply buy a ticket online, then email us at events@networkingforprofessionals.com with your friend's name, profession and email address, so we can add them to the list of attendees for FREE!

* Make quality business connections and mingle with top professionals.

* Complimentary Nibbles & Cash bar with drink specials.

* The next day we'll email you the list of confirmed attendees to help you follow up with your new contacts.

* Only those who sign up in advance online will receive the list of attendees.

Who Attends Our Events? Attorneys, Financial and Real Estate professionals and Investors, CEO's, entrepreneurs, small business owners, marketing professionals, techies, creatives, writers, designers, film makers, architects, and many more professionals!

Link: http://www.networkingforprofessionals.com/eventlistings.php?event=SSNY

18+
Doors Open:
6:30 PM
Show Time:
7:30 PM

Tickets: $15

This is a general admission, standing event. Happy hour from 6:30pm-7:30pm.

Kori Gardner (keyboard/vocals) and Jason Hammel (drums/vocals) were both playing guitar and singing in the Kansas music metropolis of Lawrence before forming the Mates of State in 1997. With their dual vocal harmonies and minimal pop appeal, Omnibus Records released Mates of State's first EP as a split with Fighter D in 1999. Upon a relocation to San Francisco, the duo's second EP, It's the Law/Invitation Inn, and a debut studio effort, My Solo Project, followed in 2000.

Tours of the Midwest followed into the next year and creative ideas continued to swirl. Hammel and Gardner, who were married in early 2001, inked themselves a deal with Polyvinyl prior to recording a follow-up. Summer days were spent playing shows with Superdrag, the Anniversary, and Beulah while writing songs on the road. Those sessions lead to the second album, Our Constant Concern, in 2002. The next spring Polyvinyl reissued their debut album, My Solo Project, and later on the full-length Team Boo. After their contract was up with Polyvinyl (ending with the 2004 EP All Day), Mates of State decided to head over to Barsuk, the label that released Bring It Back in 2006 and Re-Arrange Us in 2008.

Their next full length album entitled "Crushes (The Covers Mixtape) is set to be released to be released on their own label June 15, 2010. "Crushes" is an album consisting of covers of songs by some of the Mates’ personal favorites by artists ranging from Nick Cave to Death Cab For Cutie to Fleetwood Mac to Girls, whose “Laura” is now available in its Mates reinterpretation as a free download at matesofstate.com. It is the first full album recorded and produced by Mates Hammel and Gardner themselves, with a mixing assist from longtime collaborator Peter Katis (The National, Swell Season, Interpol, etc.).

Philosophy Workshop-Linda Alcoff:Rape after Foucault

Thursday, May 03, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
The current period is characterized by a stark contradiction in regard to rape. On the one hand, sexual violence is a global epidemic, in both institutionalized and domestic sites, while on the other hand there is a great deal of uncertainty and confusion in the public’s mind, as well as among scholars, about the new categories of date rape and sexual harassment, whether incest and child sexual abuse are as rampant as some claim, and whether we are in the midst of a ‘culture of victimization,’ a social panic, or media sensationalism that over-dramatizes some incidents. The very significance and meaningfulness of sexual violence has become less clear, even while the global numbers stay at epidemic rates.

The work of Michel Foucault has undoubtedly played a role in producing, and justifying, this uncertainty about sexual violence. Foucault sometimes writes as if experience is an epiphenomenon of power/knowledge and discursive formations. Foucault’s followers, like Ian Hacking and Gayle Rubin, have further muddied the waters of the categories of sexual violence.
Clearly, we need to complexify the issue of the experience of sexual violence more than is sometimes acknowledged in the advocacy literature. I argue that such a complexification will actually have positive political effects, enlarging the scope of participants in the public discussion. While rejecting Foucault’s deflationary arguments, I will use Foucault to develop more effective and realistic strategies of resistance. I will also consider the insights he offers about the feedback loop between experience and discourse, and the utility of his accounts of subjugated knowledges and reverse discourses for the purposes of producing a more effective movement against sexual violence. In particular, I will explore the role of the speaking subject in regard to sexual violence---the survivor who speaks as a survivor---in relation to his concept of the complex enunciative modalities that involve distributions of credibility and authority, as well as the dangers of the confessional. These modalities are especially important to consider when survivors speak in the first person.
Location:

6 E 16 St Room D 1103

Admission:
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

Philosophy Workshop-Rebecca Comay:Defaced Statues:Iconoclasm and Erasure in Hegel's Aesthetics

Thursday, April 12, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
TBA
Location:

6 E 16 St Room D 1103

Admission:
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

Philosophy Workshop-Charles Brittain:The natural development of happiness in Augustine's Confessions (X.xx.29-xxiii.34)

Thursday, April 05, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
TBA
Location:

6 E 16 St Room D 1103

Admission:
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

Philosophy Workshop-Justin Broackes:Locke, Substance, and the Embarrassment of an Aristotelian idea

Thursday, March 29, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Locke makes rather a mess of the Aristotelian idea of a substance. Having mischaracterized it, he first attempts to trash it. Discovering later that he cannot do without it, he ends up reaffirming and attempting to rehabilitate it, but after giving it such a battering, it's hardly suprising that his successors thought it was a tissue of confusion fit only to be abandoned or mocked. The result was, I think, that a baby was thrown out with some bathwater -- and I shall be attempting something of a rescue. Some of the material will be close reading of Locke, from 1671 to the late 1690s, as well as in theEssay; and I will be looking also at the different ways that recent historians of philosophy have tried to found whole schools and movements upon the spoils they have appropriated from these late 17th-century battles.

Location:

6 E 16 St Room D 1103

Admission:
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

Philosophy Workshop-Peg Birmingham:Arendt and Benjamin: History, Immortality, and Limits of Political Action

Thursday, March 08, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
In 1951 Hannah Arendt published her groundbreaking work, Origins of Totalitarianism,” and immediately drew the anger of just about every influential and well known thinker of that time. The book cut across the grain of the way almost every contemporary historian, political scientist, and even philosophers explained historical phenomena. In her famous reply to Eric Voegelin, Arendt admits that “one of the difficulties of the book is that it does not belong to any school and hardly uses any of the officially recognized or officially controversial instruments.” Surprising in the entire debate surrounding Arendt’s historiography is that Walter Benjamin is never mentioned. Not only is this surprising because Arendt explicitly mentions Benjamin’s essay, “On the Concept of History,’ in the middle of her all important analysis of imperialism in Origins, but also because her description of her methodology in the Prefaces to Origins as well as her reply to Eric Voegelin, makes it apparent that she is drawing heavily upon Benjamin’s essay. The claim of my lecture is that only by understanding the central place of Benjamin’s concept of history in Arendt’s work are we able to grasp what is truly of concern in her political thought. In other words, Arendt’s political thought is as equally concerned with the historical establishing of worldly immortality as it is with the natality made possible by political actors. More forcefully, for Arendt the very condition for the possibility of natality, of new beginnings, is an enduring world which is the concern not of the political actor but of the historian. This last insight, I claim, is the debt Arendt’s political thought owes to Benjamin’s “Theses on a Philosophy of History.”

Location:

6 E 16 St Room D 1103

Admission:
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

Philosophy Workshop-Margaret Urban Walker:The Expressive Burden of Reparations: Why Compensation Can’t Be Enough

Thursday, March 01, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
I propose a novel account of the essentially expressive nature of reparations. My account is descriptive of new practices of reparations that have emerged in the past half-century, and it provides normative guidance on conditions of success for reparative attempts. My account attributes to reparative attempts a dual expressive function: a communicative function that requires the gesture to carry a vindicatory message to victims; and an exemplifying function that requires the gesture to model the right relationship that was absent or violated in the wrongdoing to which reparations respond. This account is able to explain the breadth and variety of measures now recognized as reparations; how reparative attempts can fail in two distinct ways; and why material compensation is never sufficient and not always necessary to reparations.

Location:

6 E 16 St Room D 1103

Admission:
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

Philosophy Workshop-Damian Caluori:Friendship in Kallipolis

Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Friendship in Kallipolis

Damian Caluori

The scholarly discussion of Plato’s conception of friendship has mostly focused on one dialogue, the Lysis, where Plato considers a notion of loving friendship, which is related to that of eros, and like the latter constituted by desire. In my paper I will argue that there are good reasons to assume that for Plato eros cannot form the foundation of friendship. This does not imply, however, that there is no such thing as Platonic friendship. I shall argue that Plato has an alternative notion of friendship to offer, a notion of practical friendship. This notion is crucially not based on eros. In a practical friendship friends collectively form a whole whose parts they are. They are united by collective intentions, which result in the realization of collective projects. Accordingly, practical friendship plays an important role in Plato’s political project of the Republic. I will argue that the perfect form of a practical friendship is that of Plato’s famous philosopher rulers when they are engaged in their most important practical project, namely the ruling of the perfectly just city of Kallipolis.
Location:

6 E 16 St Room D 1103

Admission:
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served