March 27, 2007
Okay Food & Fashionistas! It’s time to put your money where your Prada is and eat for a worthy cause!
Don’t miss Restaurants Against Hunger’s Celebrity Kick-Off Party – Schmooze with the likes of Ming Tsai, Katie Lee Joel, Ted Allen, and Cat Cora and New York design stars Joanna Mastroianni, Malan Breton, Vistoria Bartlett, Zulema Griffin, Diana Eng, and Alyssa Keys from Love Brigade – AND get a goodie bag, to boot.
Buy your tickets now!
April 12, 2007 7:00 PM to April 13, 2007 12:00 AM
The AltmanBuilding 135 West 18th Street New York, NY10011 Call the Info Line212-967-7800, x 117
Or visit:
http://www.actionagainsthunger.org/events/rah07_kickoff_evite.html
Here is what the event organizers have to say:
Food, fashion, and fun will merge in the First Annual Celebrity Kick-Off Party taking place on April 12th, 2007 and launching the month-long national "Restaurants Against Hunger" initiative to support Action Against Hunger, an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending hunger.
Join celebrity auctioneers Guy Black and Ann Tripp as they heat up the runway for our CHEF JACKET FASHION SHOW & AUCTION featuring, among others, culinary celebrities Ming Tsai, Katie Lee Joel, Ted Allen, and Cat Cora and New York design stars Joanna Mastroianni, Malan Breton, Vistoria Bartlett, Zulema Griffin, Diana Eng, and Alyssa Keys from Love Brigade.
The event will include a food tasting from restaurants in New York, Philadelphia, and Atlantic City, as well as an open bar that will include ultra-premium microbrews; wines from El Coto de Rioja and Arboleda, and the debut of the "Dan Carro" Chartreuse Cocktail. In addition, attendees will bid at our silent auction table, hear the beautiful music of African jazz vocalist SOMI, and dance to tunes spun by New York's DJ D-NICE. Music will include selections from Putumayo World Music's upcoming album, PUTUMAYO WORLD PARTY, to be released on April 24th. A portion of Putumayo's proceeds from the sale of this release will support Action Against Hunger. Expect unannounced surprises as well.
Help meet the challenge of world hunger by partying at this event. At Action Against Hunger, more than 90% of all funds raised go directly to lifesaving programs that benefit the world's most vulnerable populations - more than 4 million victims of hunger every year in more than 40 countries.
Notes Attend the VIP Reception and receive a remarkable goodie bag, mingle with culinary and fashion industry celebrities while sipping Champagne and enjoying the delights of food provided by New York's Institute for Culinary Education.VIP ticket price includes general admission.
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Alyssa Keys, Diana Eng, Food and fashion, Joanna Mastroianni, Malan Breton, Restaurants Against Hunger, Ted Allen, Vistoria Bartlett, Zulema Griffin
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March 05, 2007
Coming up at Biscuit BBQ: An Exciting Day for Aspiring Immortals – Sandy McIntosh Reads from his new book “Forty-nine Guaranteed Ways to Escape Death"
Join us at Biscuit BBQ (corner of 5th Avenue & President in Park Slope, Brooklyn) in the celebration of Sandy McIntosh’s new book, Forty-Nine Guaranteed ways to Escape Death. This is must-read for all aspiring immortals, their entourages and uneasy life insurance salesmen.
Where: Biscuit BBQ (formerly Night & Day)230 5th Avenue @ President, Park Slope (N, R @ Union)
When: March 25th 2007
What Time: 6:00PM
Why go: Why not? See Below...
About Sandy McIntosh:
Anyone who has heard Sandy read at the Bowery Poetry Club knows that he is both a brilliant poet and an engaging reader.He will not fail to make you laugh, even if you have to cringe a few times first.
His collections of poetry include The After-Death History of My Mother, Between Earth and Sky (Marsh Hawk Press), Endless Staircase (Street Press), Earth Works (Long IslandUniversity), Which Way to the Egress? (Garfield Publishers), and two chapbooks: Obsessional (Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry) and Monsters of the Antipodes (Survivors Manual Books). His prose includes Firing Back, with Jodie-Beth Galos (John Wiley & Sons), From A Chinese Kitchen (American Cooking Guild), and The Poets In the Poets-In-The-Schools (MinnesotaCenter for Social Research, University of Minnesota. His poetry and essays have been published in The New York Times, Newsday, The Nation, the Wall Street Journal, American Book Review, and elsewhere. His original poetry in a film script won the Silver Medal in the Film Festival of the Americas. He has been Managing Editor of Confrontation magazine published by Long IslandUniversity, and is Managing Editor of Marsh Hawk Press.
Reading Curated by Christine Panas for the Biscuit BBQ Spoken Word Series, or the more affectionate “The Biscuit Readings”.
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Aspiring Immortals, Biscuit BBQ, Biscuit Readings, Forty Nine Guaranteed Ways to Escape Death, Park Slope Poetry, Sandy McIntosh
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March 01, 2007
As 2007 gets underway, we New Yorkers need to take stock of the all the things that we should be thankful for.
First, we can never claim that there is nothing to do around town.
Second, we don’t have to drive a car if we don’t want to. It’s easier to be green when you have public transportation, and of course pedicabs (at least for the moment).
Third, there is always some new opening for us to run go and gawk at.
Fourth, there are lots of old venues that we adore and whose loss is felt deeply (like CBGB’s).
Among the old venues that we adore is Cornelia Street Café, a restaurant and art space that has since its inception intended to be the haunt of those dedicated to the arts rather than a flash-in-the-pan foodie outpost.
A little history:
May 1977: Robin Hirsch (writer and director), Charles McKenna (actor) and Raphaela Pivetta, (visual artist) conceive of and launch Cornelia Street Café as an artists' café. Poetry, theater, performance art and music in-medias-res follow.
1980’s, the Cornelia Street Café provides refuge for a host of artists working off the grid, and becomes known as a venue that inspires rather tires performers traveling through town.
1990’s, the restaurant becomes better known and in 1998 wins the Village Arts Award for "inspired cuisine."
2000 and onward: The owners of Cornelia Street Cafe (founder Robin Hirsch, Judith Kallas and Bob Siegler) continue to provide New Yorkers with a venue where art is the thing.
Currently, the restaurant is open seven days a week for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and weekend brunch.
The performance space boasts more than three hundred cultural events a year. Few venues can claim that, and even fewer can claim that cost is that of a drink.
What to know:
1. Cornelia Street Café is located on Cornelia Street in the heart of the village.
2. Spoken word events usually begin at 6PM and Music at 8PM.
3. There are several popular series where drops in can contrinute (see calendar).
http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com/
4. Another important note: Cornelia Street Café has birthed a Brooklyn child, Biscuit BBQ on 5th Avenue and Presidents Street in Park Slope (stay tuned for a review).
And now for the Ode:
Oh Café of Art, you Wondrous survivor in this our capitalist environs I pass by your blessed portal and smile For you exist, there in time and now
Please do more poetry
Sing to me, long into the night as I travel From 401K to trochees and spondees And from email to words passed from lip to lip
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