Events - January, 29, 2013

Eat the City: A Tale of the Fishers, Foragers, Butchers, Farmers, Poultry Minders, Sugar Refiners, Cane Cutters, Beekeepers, Winemakers, and Brewers Who Built New York

This illustrated lecture places today’s urban food production in the context of hundreds of years of history, and traces how we got to where we...

Science/Tech/Health

Making Lifestyle Connections To Reach Your Weight Goal - Keri Glassman, MS, RD, CDN

Discover eight powerful ways to connect habits of everyday living—including getting adequate sleep, eating, hydrating and maximizing workouts—to optimize your New Year’s weight loss strategies...

Books, Food & Drink

Eddie Huang, Tom Colicchio - Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir

Performing Arts/Film

Norah Jones: A Conversation With Music

Hear Grammy Award-winning musician Norah Jones talk with New York Times chief pop music critic Jon Pareles about the first decade of her career—from her...

Science/Tech/Health

Edges Of Space

The Voyager spacecraft recently encountered the “edge” of the solar system, beginning its journey through interstellar space. The Sun and Earth exist in the galactic outskirts, closer to...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Al Gore: The Future

Former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Inconvenient Truth delivers his visionary assessment of how our planet will change in the decades to come....

Performing Arts/Film, Books

Peter Hook of Joy Division

Are you a fan of Joy Division? New Order? Spend an hour with one of the celebrated members: musician, singer, bassist, Peter Hook, as he...

Books

John Irving

The acclaimed novelist discusses his latest work, In One Person.

Science/Tech/Health

Tablet Talk: New Deli

Two of New York’s leading fressers—Noah Bernamoff, who’s reconsidering deli at his hip Mile End shop in Brooklyn, and Jake Dell, who is reinventing his...

History/NYC

Rise to Greatness - Abraham Lincoln and America's Most Perilous Year

Hear the gripping story of Lincoln’s rise to greatness during his first year in office—a perilous year in our nation’s history. As 1862 dawned, the...

Books

Emily Raboteau & Jessica Moore

As a biracial woman in America, as well as a reggae fan and the daughter of a historian of African American religion, award-winning author Emily Raboteau knew of...

Performing Arts/Film, Film

The Golden Age of TV Drama: Marty

Charlton Heston once said that he, along with other young actors, directors and writers, developed a new art form when they worked in the era...

Art/Photo/Design

Lessons From Modernism: Environmental Design Considerations In 20th Century Architecture, 1925-70

Lessons From Modernism examines selected works of architecture completed between 1925-70 through the lens of sustainability. This analysis of the use of environmental strategies —...

Performing Arts/Film, Art/Photo/Design

Visually Speaking: Photographing a Culture through the Pages of Ebony Magazine

Please join photographers Tyrone Rasheed, Val Goodloe, and Fred Watkins as they discuss their roles and experiences as true visual contributors to African-American and American...

Books, Science/Tech/Health

Benjamin Lorr & William J. Broad

Join the conversation about the increasingly popular practice that is thousands of years old. Benjamin Lorr's Hell-Bent explores a fascinating, often surreal world at the extremes of...

Books

Drinking with Men with Rosie Schaap

New York Times columnist -- and WORD’s favorite cocktails expert -- Rosie Schaap presents her memoir Drinking with Men. Schaap will discuss being a woman in the...

Books

Granta 122 - Betrayal

Readings by Karen Russell (Swamplandia) and Jennifer Vanderbes (Easter Island). Emceed by Granta editor John Freeman. Survivor’s guilt. Does it live on in our scars, or can we overcome it? In two...

Art/Photo/Design

The Studio and the Salon: Artists, Masculinity, and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century

Daniel Harkett will be coming to speak at the Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture on Tuesday,...

Performing Arts/Film, Books