Events - April, 15, 2013

Living With Shakespeare: An Anthology reading with Brian Cox, Eamonn Walker, Harriet Walter and Others

Let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action. To mark the publication of Living With Shakespeare:...

Escape from North Korea: The Untold Story of Asia's Underground Railroad

This lecture with Melanie Kirkpatrick, a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, explores the experiences of North Koreans, who have fled the country and their travel along a secret route known...

Books

Reflections and Refractions on the Schizophrenic Nomadism of Hamlet - Shakespeare Week I

J.K. Fowler is Founder and Editor of nomadic sojourns journal, a writer and audio engineer living in Brooklyn, New York and a doctoral candidate at the European...

Food & Drink

Eat Like a Chef!

Danny Meyer’s restaurants are consistently judged to be among the very best in New York City—but what do their staff love to eat when they’re...

Performing Arts/Film

Lyrics & Lyricists Downtown: Michael John LaChiusa

Lyrics & Lyricists heads downtown for an intimate evening of music and conversation with Michael John LaChiusa in the cabaret-style setting of 92YTribeca. As one...

Books

Kat Von D - Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love and Tattooing

History/NYC

The Village: 400 Years of Beats & Bohemians, Radicals & Rogues - John Strausbaugh

Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh presents the complete history, from 1600 to the present day, of the prodigiously influential Greenwich Village, gleaned from documentary research and...

Books

Tamara Shopsin & John Hodgman

Come hear iconoclastic talent, Tamara Shopsin, New York Times illustrator, artist and chef discuss her touching memoir about her adventures aboard with author, humorist John Hodgman, known...

Books

Aurora Wallace - Media Capital

With a unique focus on corporate headquarters as embodiments of the values of the press and as signposts for understanding media culture, Media Capital demonstrates the mutually...

, Art/Photo/Design, History/NYC

An Evening After Year Zero: A Conversation About History, Healing, and The Future of Cambodian Arts

Professors Boreth Ly (UC-Santa Cruz) and Khatharya Um (UC-Berkeley) will curate and moderate a symposium that features some of the most renowned contemporary Cambodian artists:...

Performing Arts/Film

Alec Baldwin, Tom Sturridge, Ben Foster

When the darkly comic play Orphans opens on April 7, two accomplished actors making their Broadway debuts will take the stage with an acclaimed Broadway...

Books, History/NYC

When General Grant Expelled the Jews

Jonathan Sarna discusses his riveting account of General Ulysses S. Grant’s decision, in the middle of the Civil War, to order the expulsion of all...

Food & Drink

Why We Eat What We Eat: Roy Shvartzapel

Join renowned pastry chef Roy Shvartzapel, of 2 Michelin star Cyrus, in Northern California, and formerly of Bouley Bakery, el Bulli, Bouchon and Pierre Herme, and...

Science/Tech/Health, Film

Inception

This mind-bending sci-fi thriller—about a “dream architect” (Leonardo DiCaprio) who hacks his target’s subconscious in order to extract valuable information—explores a whole host of topics...