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This Saturday, the good people at Unique New York are hosting The Panorama Challenge,
an evening of New York-themed visual trivia to benefit the City
Reliquary, a museum in Williamsburg dedicated to memorabilia and
artifacts of everyday city life through history. It's really a cool
place, and now that they have an actual space to display things, it's
time for them to start ramping up their notices.
Our museum collection displays thoughtfully arranged artifacts of New York City’s rich history, which entice viewers to learn more about the five boroughs. Some of the highlights of the collection include architectural remnants of city buildings, Statue of Liberty memorabilia, a geological display of New York’s underground composition, and a 1939 World’s Fair exhibit...
A central part of our mission is to plan and host public events, which provide neighbors and visitors with a place to meet, exchange ideas, and celebrate the diversity of our community. Some of our annual events include Bicycle Fetish Day, Collector’s Night, and The September Tribute to Our City. We maintain a commitment to neighborhood beautification and restoration at and around the City Reliquary Museum as a way to provide a pleasant and safe place for people to gather, relax, disseminate information, and enjoy the camaraderie provided by a city of over eight million people.
It's $25 for tickets but that includes two free drinks (Brooklyn Brewery is also a sponsor), and hey, it's a Saturday Night. You were going to shell out that much for a good time anyway.
Details and ticket information at the Reliquary's website, or you can call them at 718-R U CIVIC.
Edit: [gracias, vidiot]
Now, you can achieve that very same effect, and without the dangers of electrocution or the need to prop your TV up on the terlet, and all for less than three grand, which let's face it is a steal, even for an unemployed produce stacker. Ah,. designers. Is there anything they won't create to make our lives easier?
The story of the feud:
Mario married his first cousin Patricia, with whom he has three children. But Mario strayed. He fell in love with a beautiful Swedish air stewardess whom he met while travelling. He left his wife and moved to Stockholm.
Distraught, his wife Patricia went to see her husband's best friend, Gabriel. After discussing the matter with his wife, Mercedes, he advised Patricia to divorce Mario. And then he consoled her. No one else quite knows what form this consolation took.
According to sources close to the Colombian, he told her that "she should leave her husband, if he returned," Saldivar writes.
Other sources close to the Peruvian say that on the same night, Marquez committed the worst (or best) kind of treason towards his friend Vargas Llosa. But eventually Mario returned to his wife, who told him of Gabriel's advice to her, and of his consolation.
This happens to the best of people. Joey & Johnny Ramone, George Harrison & Eric Clapton, Jennifer & Gwyneth; no one is safe.
This invention just might save the universe. The golfing universe!
[via JJ @ Spofi]
- Ideal for people with mobility difficulties.
- Great for people who stopped playing due to age related issues.
- Fun for everyone, including youngsters
- It's a safe way to play. You have more control than with a club.
- No time for practice? Now you can still enjoy the game.
- Eliminates slow play
- Hunting enthusiasts love it!
- Puts the fun back in golf.
- Gets more players on the course, increasing course revenues.
*** Updates: The reviews are in:
• It's important to note that having a serviceable mullet is an integral part of making this product work.
• One thing's for sure - you won't be beating Tiger Woods anytime soon even with this, unless you shoot him with it.
• On a slightly different (and it seems potentially way more powerful) product: "The BATF and Boom has ruled that these launchers are NOT considered firearms or destructive devices after considerable head scratching on their part."
You really get the feeling that there are eight people in a back room who have been trying to take this country over since McCarthy went down, and with Reagan they got their foothold, and with Bush II they flipped the whole country over on its back.
I've been very bad with the concentration this week, but this is the kind of thing that makes me glad there are archives in the world, and that radio stations like WFMU continue to rock their formats so well, on the radio and on these here tubeses.
From their blog, the greatest music blog there ever was, here are 79 different versions of the song "Popcorn." If you think this could find its way into an audio round someday, you're thinking one of the many wonderful things I too am thinking. (I mean, we'll see how the Kraftwerk version sounds, but hey, optimism is free. It's the first Friday of Spring, and I'm looking forward to a nice nap with the windows open before I go off a-carousin'.)
See you tomorrow, you sexy, beautiful bastards.
By the way, just because I don't always repost the recaps from the trivia night doesn't mean I don't still post them at the DSO site. Because I do, and I am, and here's the latest one.
I kind of knew that intellectually, but to have it spelled out like this, in this kind of detail, is kind of jarring.
Now that the Penguins are going to stay in Pittsburgh, I have a question:
How long does a franchise have to exist in a city before it gets to be a part of the tradition of that city and the sport it represents?
Ten years? Twenty years? One generation? Until they win a championship? Until a former star for that team dies of old age? When someone names their child after the coach? The first time the mascot gets arrested? When?
I think about that question a lot. It's not just the Original Six teams that have a long and varied history in their cities anymore. You can say the same for the four former WHA teams in their current homes, as well as St. Louis, Vancouver, Calgary, Long Island, Washington, Los Angeles, hell, even Minneapolis. (Has Tampa built up that much equity yet? I think they're certainly on their way. Same for Dallas and (I think, I hope) Ottawa.)
To have lost a pillar of the league, a vital piece of the NHL's history, over something as needlessly small-time as the replacing of a decrepit stadium, especially in a city that, while not the richest town ever, certainly had enough corporate clients and interested wealth to fix this a long time ago, would have been an extreme tragedy. No knock on KC or Hamilton or Winnipeg or Hartford or anywhere else, but the Penguins belong in Pittsburgh, and the league is better for this deal having been reached. Yay them.
