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World Famous *BOB* presents: Give Thanks A variety-filled fundraiser with burlesque, performance art, singing, a one-act play, and comedy!World Famous *BOB*, "The Dream Come True Girl," and Dana Perry invite their favorite acts to rub their talents together and create some magic! Featuring Glenn Marla, Dynasty Handbag, The Peach Tartes, Dana Perry, Cherry Pitz, and emceed by *BOB*! All of the money raised will go to Cambodian Children's Fund (90%) & (10%) will go to Off The Mat & Into The World.
GreenHomeNYC brings “The Greening of Southie,” a documentary about a revolutionary green building project in the Southie neighborhood of Boston to Galapagos on November 12. A Q & A with the director, Ian Cheney, will follow. This event is a fundraiser for GreenHomeNYC, a community-oriented, volunteer-driven nonprofit group that Created by the co-producers and stars of King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, The Greening of Southie features cinematography by Taylor Gentry, innovative time-lapse animation, and music by the Brooklyn-based duo Force Theory. Running time: 81 minutes
Lost in the Trees, The Never, and Lost in the Trees (Chapel Hill, NC) is a folk orchestra led by Ari Picker, a student of film scoring at Berklee College of Music. Ari's songwriting draws from both his cinematic and pop backgrounds, with a combination of rich string and horn arrangements and dark folk tunes. The Never (Chapel Hill, NC) are currently touring in support of the release of their second long player album, entitled ANTARCTICA. It's a storybook album: a full length CD literally coupled with a fully illustrated storybook by guitarist Noah Smith. The story is centered around a young, naive boy named Paul and his journey to find the owner of a large bomb he finds near his home in the country. For more information on these and other artists visit www.trekkyrecords.com
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> Presentation #1 Hermaphroditism is Bad for Copulatory Plugging by Matt Rockman Natural selection supports a lot of unusual habits, including copulatory plugging as a form of paternity assurance in many species. Copulatory plugs are just what they sound like. In the tiny worm C. elegans, only some males are genetically capable of making these gelatinous chastity belts. Matt will show how recent evolution of hermaphroditism in this species has allowed male function to decay, and how genetics pinpointed a mutation underlying this phenomenon. There will be pictures of green fluorescent worm semen. Matt is an evolutionary geneticist at NYU. An actual, legitimate evolutionary geneticist, not one of those media-whore types who make up goofy men-are-from-Mars stories to justify their reactionary politics. Matt likes data. Presentation #2 Race in Role-Playing Games It’s as teenagers that many of us first become aware of the importance of race. We learn that, depending on the color of your skin, some people will always look at you suspiciously; we learn that some races are considered “normal” and “good,” while others are deemed “bad” or even “evil.” And we learn that if you are an elf you get a +1 bonus to Dexterity and that you can NEVER take your eye off your wallet if there’s a Halfling around. What messages about race, explicit or implied, are encoded in Dungeons & Dragons? What does the game say about the role race plays in shaping self-identity? What makes a race “different” or “evil?” Grab your Dungeon Master’s Guide, a dice bag, and a stack of character sheets while we deconstruct the racial undertones behind the world’s most popular role-playing game. Presentation #3 Know Your Type: A Font of Information about Typography by John Engelmann There's more to life than 12-point Times New Roman. Discover the origins and science of typography from the Minoan period to today. Learn about far-out typographical concepts like kerning, ligatures, and interrobangs. Find out what American Airlines and American Apparel have in common and why. John Engelmann is an obsessive collector of 1980s synthesizers who hails from the Midwest. If he were a font, he'd be Andale Mono.
New music series DARMSTADT "Classics of the Avant Garde" celebrates its 4th anniversary with an annual performance of Terry Riley's groundbreaking work, In C (1964). Darmstadt's curators invite a broad range of musicians and media artists across New York's performance community to participate in a rendering, which New York Times critic Allan Kozinn recently dubbed as "the most vital, audacious, and energizing performance of the work I've ever heard." Performers include Christine Bard, Shelley Burgon, Jason Cady, Luke Dubois, Bradley Eros, Lesley Flanigan, Gisburg, Nick Hallett, Zach Layton, David Linton, Emily Manzo, Shahin Motia, Dafna Naftali, Evan Rapport, Joshua Rubin, David Soldier, Hans Tammen, Ryan Tracy, Katherine Young, Alex Waterman and many others!
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> Thursday, November 13th, 8pm, $10
> Sunday, November 16, 8pm, $10