Events - September, 20, 2012

New York Originals: A Guide to the City's Classic Shops & Mom-and-Pops

Jamie McDonald, who writes, directs, and hosts the 2011 Emmy award–winning television series New York Originals, unveils his new book revealing the small gems of New York City that...

Film

Reportero

(Bernardo Ruiz, 2012, 71 min.) This documentary follows a veteran reporter and his colleagues at a Tijuana-based independent newsweekly, Zeta, that challenges the drug cartels and corrupt...

Books

T. C. Boyle

Discussing the book San Miguel.

Books

Tim Gunn

The Project Runway icon discusses his book, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible.

Art/Photo/Design

Doris Duke, Tastemaker of Her Time

Situated amidst five acres of interlocking terraced gardens and pools that overlook the Pacific Ocean and Honolulu’s Diamond Head, Shangri La was the idyllic home...

Books, Art/Photo/Design

Reading: Underwater New York

The American Folk Art Museum presents a reading in conjunction with its exhibition Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions at the South Street Seaport Museum. Speaker: Nicki...

Performing Arts/Film, Books

A Natural History of the Piano

In this multi-media presentation, Stuart Isacoff, pianist, critic, teacher and author of "Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization,"...

Books

The Best American Poetry Reading 2012

David Lehman, series editor of The Best American Poetry and poetry coordinator of the New School’s MFA Writing Program, joins Mark Doty, the guest editor of the 2012...

Performing Arts/Film

Judy Gold and Special Guests

Judy Gold is the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedian, best known as the star of two critically acclaimed long-running Off Broadway hit shows.

Legal/Politics/Economics

Journalism in the Digital Age

If legendary reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward tried to break the Watergate scandal today, they might face a potentially greater challenge than the Nixon...

Food & Drink

Cocktails: A Global History - Joseph Carlin

Gimlet, Negroni, Manhattan, Hurricane, Screwdriver—cocktails have come a long way from their first incarnation in the 17th century, when rum punch was everyone’s go-to drink....

Be Good: A Conversation with Randy Cohen and Jane Eisner

Best known as the original “Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine, Randy Cohen talks to Jane Eisner, editor of The Forward, about what he learned and...

Religion/Spirituality, History/NYC

City of Promises: A History of Jews of New York with Annie Polland & Daniel Soyer

Books

Robert Sullivan - My American Revolution

LGBTQ+,

Michael Luongo: Gay Travels in the Muslim World

Michael Luongo will discuss what it is to be gay and Muslim in today's world. He has edited "Gay Travels in the Muslim World," which...

Books, LGBTQ+

Jonathan Galassi Reads from Left-Handed: Poems

Left-handed, a new book of poems by Jonathan Galassi, chronicles in three sections the painful yet liberating transformation the poet underwent when he discovered, as...

Books

The Future of Poetry: Shakespeare, Lanyer, and Textual Reproductions

Sara Ostendorf is a professor in the English department of New York University.

Books, Film

Meet the Scholar: Author David Spaner

Author David Spaner discussed his book Shoot It!: Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film.

Performing Arts/Film

Roy Eaton, Pianist

Roy Eaton, winner of the first Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Award in June 1950, made his American debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing Chopin's F...

Art/Photo/Design

Valentine Godé-Darel: Time and Eternity

With Jill Lloyd, curator, Ferdinand Hodler: View to Infinity.

Books

From Fatwa to Freedom: Salman Rushdie

In conversation with Paul Holdengräber, Salman Rushdie will discuss the sometimes grim, sometimes comic realities of living with armed policemen, and of the close bonds...

Science/Tech/Health

Crystal Meditation Healing Circle

With Krista N. Mitchell, RMT Benefit from the healing energy of stones & guided meditation combined! Have you ever felt the special energy of being at...

Why Have Kids? A Conversation About Parenting and Happiness

Join Jessica Valenti for a panel discussion with Anna Holmes, Lori Leibovich and Rebecca Traister about the truths and lies of modern parenthood.

Art/Photo/Design

Cultural and Racial Legibility in Contemporary Abstraction

How are artists today addressing visual constructions of culture and race in ways that re-work the boundaries of abstraction, text, and figuration? What role in...

Food & Drink

Brooklyn Foodways: Way Sustainable Waaaaaay Back with Annie Hauck-Lawson

Brooklyn's land, air and waters have provided rich raw materials for foodways of Brooklynites, past and present. Annie Hauck-Lawson, co-editor of Gastropolis: Food and New York...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Failed Evidence: Why Law Enforcement Resists Science

David A. Harris, Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, will discuss his new book, Failed Evidence: Why Law Enforcement...