Date: March 12th 2010

Friday, March 12
* Arms Around Haiti Benefit Concert, Williamsburg * Showgasm, Manhattan
* Fuck Work and School Let's Dance, Brooklyn * The Third Annual Panorama Challenge, Queens * Newsonic Loft Party, Brooklyn
* Mixer, Manhattan
* Metaphysical Brooklyn Release Party, Brooklyn * Postcards from Gowanus, Brooklyn
* The First Group Show, Brooklyn

Saturday, March 13
* Teeth Party, Brooklyn
* Fourth Dimension, Brooklyn
* MadHatter Tea Party, Brooklyn
* Pies of March Ride, Manhattan
* Soul Clap and Dance-Off Third Anniversary Extravaganza, Williamsburg * Zero Day Exploits, Brooklyn
* ¡zzZion! Brooklyn
* Puppet Fest '09, Manhattan

Sunday, March 14
* Dances of Vice, the Shanghai Foxtrot Band, Manhattan * Sunday Globestomp with Sxip Shirey and Copal, Manhattan

Tuesday, March 16
* Chaos Cooking Part IV, Brooklyn
* 10 Tactics for Turning Information Into Action, Brooklyn

Wednesday, March 17
* Cinema 16, Brooklyn
* Bailout Theater, Manhattan
* Craftermath, Brooklyn

Wishlist
* Wrecking room

Spectre
* Downtown Rural Detroit

Learning
* Ask a Sysadmin

Help
* Domes for Haiti

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Arms Around Haiti Benefit Concert

Other Music, Enabler Network, and the Crucial Getdown are presenting Arms Around Haiti, a benefit concert for the Haitian relief effort. We've booked a great, eclectic line-up of bands and DJs, listed below. It will be a great night of music for a tremendous cause, we hope you can join us.

Live performances in both rooms: Elodie Lauten, Arthur's Landing, Arp, Versus, Xela, Reggie Watts, and Lakou Grand Bwa. DJs: Cowboy Mark, Gerald Hammill, Duane Harriott, Andy Beta, Sal Principato, Marcos Cabral, Play It Loud DJs: Doug Gomez, Henry Maldonado, Darshan Jesrani, and a Neurotic Drum Band DJ set featuring John Selway and Ulysses.

Public Assembly
70 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 8p; $10 minimum donation at door to Doctors Without Borders and Lakou Grand Bwa's Haitian Relief Effort

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Showgasm

Start the weekend right with drinks, friends and a great lineup of performers who will keep things rowdy at everyone's favorite party/show. Hosted by Ars favorite Lucas Kavner, featured performers include: Sweet Soubrette, the New Excitement, Lauren Blumenfeld, Steve & Jordan, and Samuel & Alasdair. And your house band, the Fancy.

Ars Nova
511 West 54th Street, Manhattan
7:30p; $free, with $2 preshow beers
212 489 9800 ext. 141
arsnovanyc.com

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Fuck Work and School Let's Dance

Warehouse party. With Anton Glamb, Wckids, Danzie, Dirtyfinger. Fundraiser for fire to the prisons magazine. Footage of people rioting cause they hate work will be shown on a projector throughout the night.

The House of Yes
342 Maujer Street, Brooklyn
L train to Grand Street station
10p-4a; $10, BYOB
firetotheprisons.com

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

The Third Annual Panorama Challenge

The Panorama Challenge is back. Come participate in the world’s only geographical trivia-based game night involving the world’s largest panorama. Participants will compete in teams to test their knowledge of New York City geography. Team members will be asked questions ranging from easy to difficulty as game controllers assist by highlighting landmarks, bridges, neighborhoods, and other sites with far-reaching laser pointers.

Queens Museum of Art
Flushing-Meadows Corona Park, Queens
7-10p; $free
marklevysuniqueny.com
718 287 6177

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Newsonic Loft Party

Join us for an electric evening of music, visuals, and partying including live performances from Dynasty Electric, Japanese electro-pop band Superfortress, lysergic psych-rockers the Hidden Ratio, improv group Superior Champions of Winning (with members of Holy Fuck and Enon), and melodic indie-rockers Sons of Sons. DJ Selectrick will be spinning funk, soul, house, acid, hip-hop, punk, and noise throughout the night and VJ Suit Machine will be providing psychedelic projections and visuals. Late night jamming and ecstatic dancing. This is a peace and love party.

76 Rutledge Street, Brooklyn
9p-4a; $5, or $free before 10p

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Mixer

Eyebeam's acclaimed event series dedicated to showcasing leading artists in the fields of live media performance, interactive and participatory art, is back once again. In the aftermath of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Eyebeam will help alleviate the post-Games hangover with its own international athletic spectacular, Mixer: Olympiad. Artists, designers, musicians, engineers, and hackers alike will stage events that evoke the passion, the drive, the danger, and the majesty of competitive sport and mass spectacle. Join one of the five competing nations, and race for Olympic glory.

Live music: Tanlines and Maluca. Artists: Benton-C Bainbridge, Cheryl, Conveyors of Misguided Hits and Misses, Double Happiness, Erik Fabian, Jeff Crouse and Aaron Meyers, NYC Resistor, and Stephanie Rothenberg and Scott Kildall.

Eyebeam
540 West 21st Street, Manhattan
9p-2a; $15 advance, $20 door
18 and over, 21 to drink
Continues SATURDAY
eyebeam.org

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Metaphysical Brooklyn Release Party

Come to your senses and celebrate the release of Metaphysical Brooklyn, where all of your dreams come true ... Metaphysical Brooklyn is a better story and you can be part of it.

The night is guaranteed to be badass. With Metaphysical Mead Tasting, African Balafon Music, Andean Dancing by Espiritu Andino, Metaphysical Cowboy Acoustic Set, and dance party.

Ongoing: There will be a silent auction, a photo show and some metaphysical video installations as well. Bring some booze, bring some friends.

Greenspaces NYC
394 Broadway, fifth floor, Brooklyn
7:30-11p; $free
metabk.com

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Postcards from Gowanus

A creative research program exploring a multitude of approaches to mapping Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood. An exhibit and radio narrowcast will occur at Cabinet’s gallery space. Postcards from Gowanus features work by Bianca, Patrick Carey, Penny Duff, Kasia Gladki, Juan David Gonzalez-Monroy, Gabrielle Herbst and Allie Tyspin, Amir Husak, Maria Papadomanolaki, Heidi Prenevost and David Smith, Sterling Basement, and Bryan Zimmerman.

Friday night performances by Juan David Gonzalez-Monroy, Sterling Basement, and Gabrielle Herbst and Maria Papadomanolaki.

Cabinet
300 Nevins Street, between Union and Sackett streets, Brooklyn 6-9p; $free
postcardsfromgowanus.blogspot.com

***** Also on FRIDAY *****

Bushwick Project for the Arts presents:

The First Group Show

Featuring new works by BPA members and friends including, drawings by Laila Lott, installation by Lena Hawkins, Alex Parkin, and Candace Santa Ferraro, paintings by Grant Stoops, performances by Leah Meltzer, photographs by Ryan Hogan and John Toner, short films by Naho Taruishi, Brian Russo, and Cory White, sculptures by Taylor Williams, video projections by Kate Henderson, Wes Marcarelli, and Cat Tyc, and more.

Bushwick Project for the Arts
304 Meserole Street, between Waterbury and Bogart, on the first floor, Brooklyn L train to Montrose Avenue
7p-midnight, 7-9p open bar
Continues on SATURDAY

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Teeth Party

On December 11, 2009 our friend Jennifer Harris-Hernandez fell on her face in a horrible bike accident. She lost her front teeth and has been trying to get them back ever since.

We invite you to come dance the night away while we chip off some of the dentist bill. Tunes provided by DJ Suggested D. There will be cash bar with beer, juice, and vegan cocktails by Lauren. And a bake sale so sweet your teeth will fall out by Nif and Co.

220 Walworth Street, Brooklyn
$free or donation, cash bar
thislaurenconnolly@gmail.com
damian.dos.haches@gmail.com.

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Fourth Dimension

Fourth Dimension is going to be a wonderful night of live music, drinks, and DJs. Playing everything from funk, soul, good hip-hop, and electronic house music. Featuring David Powers of Verbal Graffitti, Christopher Complex/Optimus Funk, DJ AAJ Sintion, Suite Unraveling, plus many more.

Old Red School House
330 Ellery Street, Brooklyn
10p-4a; $5 until midnight, $7 after
verbalgraffiticulture.com

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

MadHatter Tea Party

All manner of mind bending awaits you. A night of astounding live sounds, costumes, magicians, balloons, jugglers, and more. Hookah Lounge, Kava Bar, featuring Vox Illuminati. Traveling Musicians of Brementown, Bangladeafy, Faith in the Glitch, Seduce Medusa, and many more.

Surreal Estate
15 Thames Street, Brooklyn
L train to Morgan station
10p-late; $10, $7 with Wonderland costume i832.photobucket.com/albums/zz250/OneFusionMedia/madfrontimageDONE.jpg[/IMG]

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Pies of March Ride

While cyclists are beaming with joy for all the new bike lanes, the NYPD has yet to fully enforce the traffic law that prohibits any motor vehicle from parking and idling in the bike lanes. Betrayal is everywhere on the Pies of March ride. Well need to beware as the NYPD uses whipped cream pies to thwart the Bike Lane Clowns mission of demonstrating the environmental damage of polluting transportation as well as their celebration of the beauty of bike riding. Come join us as we ride through the city and later descend into a madcap pie fight.

Tompkins Square Park
7th Street at Avenue B, Manhattan
2p, 3p pie fight; $free
times-up.org

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Soul Clap and Dance-Off Third Anniversary Extravaganza

With DJs Jonathan Toubin and special guest Ian Svenonius and a cast of 1000s. In the last three years, the underdog party, which features an all night get-down to Mr. Jonathan Toubin’s exquisitely exciting soul 45s and a dance contest in the middle, has evolved from intimate neighborhood get-together to one of NYC’s biggest sold-out monthly institutions to global phenomenon.

To commemorate hitting the three year mark, the Soul Clap will feature an early record fair with sellers from the DJ and record vendor community, guest MC/DJ Ian Svenonius, and two Dance-Offs – a regular $100 contest at 11p open to everyone and, at 1a, a $200 championship featuring winners of three years worth of contests leading up to tonight’s. As always, Laura Leigh is the MC and a cast of neighborhood personalities will judge the contests (see below) while Mr Toubin shakes you all night long.

The Glasslands
289 Kent, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
9p-4a; $5

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Opt-In presents:

Zero Day Exploits

Opt-In will unveil a series of installations, video and otherwise, along with live music, performances, and practiced DJs in a one night only event exploring the intersection of faith and technology. A body of local artists working in a variety of mediums have been invited to participate in this inaugural symposium, the first of many Opt-In curated events organized around a theme. The ultimate goal is to create an open and engaging environment in which artists, viewers, and reveler’s can feel free to drink, dance, and discuss at their leisure. To foster any inspiration that could arise from this stimulating environment, Opt-In will be designating space and materials for guests to come in and create.

Opt-In is a fledgling collaboration between three overly ambitious yet disarmingly charming creatives. We create immersive environments in which strangers and friends can form new communities around a project, an idea, or a simple good time. We bring people from all walks of life together by promoting open dialogue and the creative expression of public discourse through a vast array of mediums and the use of public space. With a distinct amalgamation of urban energies and personal touches, Opt-In creates a safe haven for the senses within each new experience.

Participating artists include Opt-In co-founder Bryn Jackson, members of Flux Factory, DJ Tween Wolf, Anima Anonoma, the Modern Gypsies, and many more.

St. Cecelia’s Convent 21 Monitor Street, Brooklyn
8p; $?
347 803 9421
optinproductionsgmail.com
optinproductions.com

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Jester Jaimi, Small Change, and Third Earth Designs present:

¡zzZion!

Number 3: Leprechaun in the Hood. Stooopid assortment of selectahs ready to real rock yo' ass outta Babylon. Queen Majesty earns her name without question, always busy spinning only the finest dancehall and roots selections around town, 100 proof no doubt. Geo aka Leche has been on the NYC for over a decade, his salsa parties back in the day were always bumping, expect that and quality house sounds from this total pro. Duane is one of my oldest friends in NYC, has been killing it forevers, Other Music guru, and more recently collabing with Prof Genius to do the Bim Marx edits which are making noise all over the world. Plus Small Change throwing down a few. Heavyweight selections all around, turntable royalty no doubt. Plus aerial performances by the very talented Stephanie Hope (her performance at Red was the shit) and visuals by Visual Hornhonking and Lady Firefly. A recipe for some proper dementia.

DJs: Queen Majesty, Geo aka Leche Duane, and Small Change. Aerial performances by Stephanie Hope (Lady Circus). Visuals by Lady Firefly and Visual Hornhonking.

Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary space
RSVP for location, Brooklyn
10p-late; $10 before midnight, or with a lot of green or costume or hula hoop, $15 otherwise zzzion69gmail.com
youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8

***** Also on SATURDAY *****

Puppet Fest '09

A documentary about the 2009 National Puppetry Festival in Atlanta. This event is free and open to the public, however due to limited seating reservations are required.

Copies of the documentary will be also on sale following the premiere, for $20 each. All proceeds go to Puppeteers of America.

The Carriage House
225 East 67th Street, Manhattan
1p and 4p; $free, but reservations required puppeteers.org/puppetfest09.html

XXXXX SUNDAY, MARCH 14 XXXXX

Dances of Vice, the Shanghai Foxtrot Band

Drink, dine and dance to live hot jazz among beautiful Oriental antiques, red lanterns and lush velvet seating at stunning LES gem China 1 Antique in a new series of Dances of Vice dinner parties with live jazz. Shien Lee and Grandpa Musselman and His Syncopators join forces to form the Shanghai Foxtrot Band, featuring two live sets of Shanghai jazz of the 1920-40s from between 8-10p, mixed with popular Western dance music of the Jazz Age inspired by the Orient.

China 1 Antique Restaurant and Lounge
50 Avenue B, Manhattan
8p; $5, or $free with dining reservation 212 375 0665
dancesofvice.com

***** Also on SUNDAY *****

Sunday Globestomp with Sxip Shirey and Copal

Looking forward to this Sunday, a very intimate evening in a beautiful artsy midtown loft with a Brooklyn vibe. Be entertained by Sxip Shirey's unimaginable sounds and novelty experiments, Copal's seamless blend of cinematic-rich haunting dance-inspiring music, and Vade's abstract textural visuals. We want all of our closest friends and fans there; please rsvp to attend.

325 West 37th Street, No. 10, Manhattan 6p doors, 7p Sxip, 8:30 Copal; $10 suggested donation, you must RSVP Hannahcopalmusic.com

XXXXX TUESDAY, MARCH 16 XXXXX

Chaos Cooking Part IV

A continuing social experiment where up to 24 people cook 24 recipes in one kitchen, four burners, one oven. All recipes must be finished in three hours while everyone is drinking wine, socializing, and putting delectable dishes in their mouths.

How it works. Post the name of your recipe on this events wall. Bring the ingredients necessary for everyone to try a little bit of your dish, extra knives and cutting boards (if you have them) and a bottle or three of wine. Throw in $5 into a donation jar towards clean up, common ingredients and to the space.

When you arrive pour yourself some wine, sign the book, start making your dish, help someone else, pour yourself some wine, eat some of the dish that was just finished, ask for help, try not to start yourself on fire, try some more dishes, sit down and talk for a while, pour your new friend some more wine, have some dessert, make plans for this weekend.

We've tried this a couple of times before with great success. Some dishes ideas of what was made in the past; Portobello Mushroom Burgers, Curried Squash Soup, Chocolate Mousse with marinated Strawberries, gourmet salads, banana fosters, baked pear and chocolate, mushroom mint pasta, hummus pizzas & Bacon wrapped scallops.

To Bring: 2-3 Bottles of wine per person. Extra knives, cutting boards, tupperware if possible

Page Not Found is a 2000 square foot apartment, with a garden, used as constantly transforming space to encourage strong social interaction by experimenting with collaboration, art, food, film, and music.

RSVP for location, Brooklyn
7p; $5
pagenotfoundspace@gmail.com

***** Also on TUESDAY *****

10 Tactics for Turning Information Into Action

Brooklyn screening. Around the globe, activists have surmounted huge hurdles with small budgets. Hear their stories, learn their techniques, and transform your cause.

The film explores how rights advocates use digital technology to create positive change. Around the globe, activists have surmounted huge hurdles with small budgets. Hear their stories, learn their techniques, and transform your cause.

TheCoup is screening this film in partnership with Witness at the fantastic Brooklyn Creative League. We will break into small group discussion with other activists after this 60 minute film.

Brooklyn Creative League
540 President, Brooklyn
M,N,R trains to Union station
7p; $2 through the end of February
tacticstheCoup.org.
thecoup.org/10-tactics

XXXXX WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17 XXXXX

Cinema 16

The extraordinary ragtime-inspired Sabrina Chap scores three short films including Gina Carducci's breathtaking Stone Welcome Mat. Don't miss this amazing night.

Coco66
66 Greenpoint Avenue, at Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn 7p doors, 8p performance; $10 admission/open bar from 7-7.30p mollysurno.com
cinemasixteen.com

***** Also on WEDNESDAY *****

Bailout Theater

We will have free dinner and desserts provided as always by friendly Village restaurants (John's Pizza and more) and potluck enthusiasts. At 8p, we will have a live musical performance by Heather Christian and the Arbornauts (indie/blues/jazz). We're extremely excited to host them. We happen to know they're fantastic.

All of our events are completely free, require no RSVP and are open to everyone. If you would like to bring a small dish or dessert to add to a potluck, we love that, but it is by no means required.

Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
7:30p; $free
infobailout-theater.org
212 477 0351 x 28 with questions
bailout-theater.org

***** Also on WEDNESDAY *****

Craftermath

Craftermath presents an LES alternative to St. Patrick's Day mayhem in a hybrid boutique/bar. Punk crafts, film shorts, subversive song.

The Craftermath creative forces sell punk crafts and unusual art at a neighborhood treat-to-behold that features emerging designers and vintage goods. Our artwork is affordable, along with the drinks.

We'll show a collage of films by NYC underground filmmaker Lisa Hammer on the gold-framed movie screen. Jessica Delfino will share a new song, perhaps on an uncommon instrument. You can celebrate Women's History Month w/us, and still make it in plenty of time to get out to some place far less cool-looking to drink your green beer -- if you still insist.

The Dressing Room Boutique and Bar
75A Orchard Street, between Broome and Grand streets, Brooklyn 7-9p-ish; $free

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• Sentimental Nostalgia Cabaret, March 19
• Tom Stathes Cartoon Carnival, March 20
• Cheryl, March 20
• Mood Indigo: Harlem Renaissance Retrospective, March 20
• Semiospectacle: A Literary Revue , March 22

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Nonsense is too long. The great thing about the internet is that it doesn't really cost much to run long listings and exhaustive descriptions. It turns out that's ... exhausting. After several complaints and a little deliberation, we're trying a new format: On the first Friday of the month we will run updated ongoing listings in each section: events, learning, and help. Other weeks we're going for leaner, meaner sections. If you're desperate for something to do on an off-Tuesday night we suggest you either look back a few issues ago in your inbox, or poke through our online archives, which you can find under the subscribe page.

Also, a note about better rock shows. Nonsense does not straight list rock shows in New York unless they occur in tandem with puppet shows or jump rope tournaments or in subway tunnels or in graveyards. For listings of good shows, especially shows that feature independent bands at quality venues like Death by Audio and those booked by hard-working promoters like Todd P or Sleep When Dead, consult resources like ohmyrockness.com, brooklynvegan.com/, sleepwhendeadnyc.com/calendar/, or the lively New York Happenings listserve on Yahoo groups launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/nyhappenings/. For the most exhaustive list of underground shows at unusual venues, track down a copy of the extremely useful -- and handsome -- Showpaper.

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***** ARTY STUFF *****

• Come Out & Play is back for more city-sized fun. It all goes down at and around the Lyceum in Brooklyn, June 4-6. We're accepting submissions for the festival through March 19. Help us spread the word so we can have the raddest games in the planet. Rumor has it that we're running a few microfestivals this year on the West Coast and maybe even beyond, so stay tuned for that. Let's play in the streets all weekend long. The submission form is here: comeoutandplay.wufoo.com/forms/2010-come-out-play-festival-game-submission-form/ More info about the festival is here: comeoutandplay.org.
• Hey, I'm writing an article for a major newspaper on those fortunate enough to live in NYC without paying rent. Looking for people who have regular jobs and live rent free in NYC either by house-sitting, couch-hopping or some really fortunate circumstances (great auntie left you her house? some crazy clause in a lease?) Please email me at unforgettable.sarah(at)gmail.com.

***** SPACES *****

• City/Country Farm Exchange: I'm heading west for the farm season and am looking for a good person to take over my urban homestead of sorts, April 1-November 1. You'd get a beautiful, sunny, furnished one-bedroom apartment in the middle of Park Slope, plus an awesome 500 square foot deck with some perennial fruit, room for lots of veggies come spring, kombucha and kefir making, indoor worm composter, home brewing, and equipment for canning (two blocks to Grand Army Plaza farmer's market for produce seconds). Sliding scale: $1900 for someone who just wants to water some trees every once in a while. $1400-1800 for a work trade arrangement, depending on skills and interest, for a person or a couple willing to tackle some combination of: building the soil through continued planting and composting, retiling the kitchen floor, stripping some paint off some carved moldings, figuring out how to set up a beehive, and generally keeping the home fires burning. 1/2 a block from Prospect Park, easy access to 2/3, Q, F trains. Deposit, references and a face-to-face meeting, please. Contact Saskia, scc2113(at)columbia.edu.
  • Art studios available: 800 square feet for $1050, includes all utilities. Big clean studios recently rented to a theatre company and a photographer. Our building is fun, friendly and super convenient. Only two stops to Manhattan. All types of creative people around. Lots of painters, sculptors, sound artists ... etc. Long Island City, R,V,G at 36th Street or N at 36th Avenue. 24 hour access, freight elevator. Shares OK. Call Jan at 917 482 1551.
• Live on a boat. $700, utilities included, move-in work trade available for April 1. Live with 11 bright, adventuresome, creative roommates aboard the ferry boat Schamonchi docked in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We are a six-minute walk away from the Morgan L stop, also close to Grand and Montrose. The room is spacious with a private entrance, deck outside, great waterway open sky view, and closet. The boat is huge, 144 feet long with four decks, and you can bring your own small watercraft to dock here and traverse the city's waterways. We have standard amenities -- shower/tub, washer/dryer, electric stove, etc. and also offer a fireplace always stocked with free firewood, a pool on the top deck, a sauna, and a workshop. We are looking for a handy, community-minded new roommate (construction, plumbing, mechanic skills are a big plus). First month's rent plus security (same) to move in, but negotiable. Utilities include electric, trash, sewage, water, and internet. Call Angi e, 201 320 0226.

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Before we had a name, the Spectre Event Horizon Group used to meet at a bar to commiserate and trade what our business friends like to call best practices. The group has expanded since then, but it remains focused on smartening the crowd mind. There are no subject limits; our favorite is the incredible sci-fi present, or anything that goes toward a better understanding of human behavior and our universe's ecology. Our simple intent is to connect good minds with as much quality mind-blowing information as we can freely locate and create a space for the informal trade of specialized investigative research, presented for the non-specialist.

The Spectre email list, which is a separate group from this column, is a moderated open forum. People are encouraged to join and to post. The list is compiled for Nonsense by J. Sinopoli. Contact us at spectre.event.horizon.group gmail com or spectregroup.org. Here's some of what came in this week:

***** Downtown Rural Detroit *****

http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/downtown-rural-detroit

detroitagriculture.org/GRP_Website/About_Us.html detroitblackfoodsecurity.org/policy.html urbanfarming.org/homefarming.html

Pre-Industrial Land-Use
washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/09/detroit-looks-at-downsizing-to-save-city/ Detroit wants to save itself by shrinking "Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile. Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish houses in some of the most desolate sections of Detroit and move residents into stronger neighborhoods. Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural. Detroit officials first raised the idea in the 1990s, when blight was spreading. Now, with the recession plunging the city deeper into ruin, a decision on how to move forward is approaching. Mayor Dave Bing, who took office last year, is expected to unveil some details in his state-of-the-city address this month. Though the will to downsize has arrived, the way to do it is unclear and fraught with problems. Politically explosive decisions must be mad e about which neighborhoods should be bulldozed and which improved. Some won't go willingly. "I like the way things are right here," said David Hardin, 60, whose bungalow is one of three occupied homes on a block with dozens of empty lots near what is commonly known as City Airport. He has lived there since 1976, when every home on the street was occupied, and said he enjoys the peace and quiet. On some blocks, only one or two occupied houses remain, surrounded by trash-strewn lots and vacant, burned-out homes. Scavengers have stripped anything of value from empty buildings. According to one recent estimate, Detroit has 33,500 empty houses and 91,000 vacant residential lots. The approximately 40 square miles of vacant property in Detroit is larger than the entire city of Youngstown. Faced with a $300 million budget deficit and a dwindling tax base, Bing argues that the city can't continue to pay for police patrols, fire protection and other services for all areas. The current plan would demolish about 10,000 houses and empty buildings in three years. The city might offer larger tracts for sale or lease, or turn over smaller pieces to community organizations to use."

Modest View
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703503804575083781073108438.html Mayor Plans to Use Census Tally Showing Decline as Benchmark in Overhaul "This city is shrinking, and Mayor Dave Bing can live with that. The nation's once-a-decade census, which gets under way next month, usually prompts expensive tally-building efforts by cities eager to maximize federal funding tied to the count. But this time, Mr. Bing is pushing the city to embrace the bad news. The mayor is looking to the diminished tally, down from 951,270 in 2000, as a benchmark in his bid to reshape Detroit's government, finances, and perhaps even its geography to reflect its smaller population and tax base. That means, in part, cutting city services and laying off workers. His approach to the census is a product of not only budget constraints but also a new, more modest view of the city's prospects. "We've got to pick those core communities, those core neighborhoods" to sustain and preserve, he said at a recent public appearance, adding: "That's something that's possible here in Detroit." Unlike his predecessors, Mr. Bing, a Democrat first elected last y ear to finish the term of disgraced former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, hasn't touted big development plans or talked of a "renaissance." Instead, he is trying to prepare residents for a new reality: that Detroit -- like the auto industry that propelled it for a century -- will have to get smaller before it gets bigger again. With no high-profile census push, the city risks an undercount that would mean forgoing millions of dollars in federal funding. Nationwide, each person counted translates into about $1,000 to $1,200 in federal funding to municipal governments. But some community leaders see the hands-off approach as a sign the city's leadership under Mr. Bing, a 66-year-old businessman and former basketball star, is prepared to face up to the depopulation problem and rethink Detroit's future. "This is going to be hard to wrestle to the ground," said Rip Rapson, president of the Kresge Foundation of Troy, Mich., a national philanthropy that has invested heavily in development projects aimed at salvaging the nicest remnants of the city. "He deserves enormous credit for leading the community into this."

Economies of Scale
hantzfarmsdetroit.com/press.html
money.cnn.com/2009/12/29/news/economy/farming_detroit.fortune/index.htm Can Farming Save Detroit?
"John Hantz is a wealthy money manager who lives in an older enclave of Detroit where all the houses are grand and not all of them are falling apart. With a net worth of more than $100 million, he's one of the richest men left in Detroit. Not long ago, while commuting, he stumbled on a big idea that might help save his dying city. In some stretches he sees more pheasants than people. "We need scarcity," he thought to himself as he drove past block after unoccupied block. "We can't create opportunities, but we can create scarcity." Yes, a farm. A large-scale, for-profit agricultural enterprise, wholly contained within the city limits of Detroit. Hantz is willing to commit $30 million to the project. He'll start with a pilot program this spring involving up to 50 acres on Detroit's east side. "Out of the gates," he says, "it'll be the largest urban farm in the world." If you let it revert to nature, you abandon all hope of productive use. If you turn it over to parks and recrea tion, you add costs to an overburdened city government that can't afford to teach its children, police its streets, or maintain the infrastructure it already has. Houses in Detroit are selling for an average of $15,000. That sounds like a buying opportunity, and in fact Detroit looks pretty good right now to a young artist or entrepreneur who can't afford anyplace else -- but not yet to an investor. The smart money sees no point in buying as long as fresh inventory keeps flooding the market. As Hantz began thinking about ways to absorb some of that inventory, what he imagined, he says, was a glacier: one broad, continuous swath of farmland, growing acre by acre, year by year, until it had overrun enough territory to raise the scarcity alarm and impel other investors to act. Rick Foster, an executive at the Kellogg Foundation whom Hantz sought out for advice, nudged him gently in a different direction. "I think you should make pods," Foster said, meaning not one farm but many. Hantz was taken right away with the concept of creating several pods -- or lakes, as he came to think of them -- each as large as 300 acres, and each surrounded by its own valuable frontage. "What if we had seven lakes in the city?" he wondered. "Would people develop around those lakes?"

To increase the odds that they will, Hantz plans on making his farms both visually stunning and technologically cutting edge. Mike Score, who recently left Michigan State's agricultural extension program to join Hantz Farms as president, has written a business plan that calls for the deployment of the latest in farm technology, from compost-heated greenhouses to hydroponic (water only, no soil) and aeroponic (air only) growing systems designed to maximize productivity in cramped settings. Some of Hantz's biggest skeptics, ironically, are the same people who've been working to transform Detroit into a laboratory for urban farming for years, albeit on a much smaller scale. The nonprofit Detroit Agriculture Network counts nearly 900 urban gardens within the city limits. That's a twofold increase in two years, and it places Detroit at the forefront of a vibrant national movement to grow more food locally and lessen the nation's dependence on Big Ag. None of those gardens is very big (average size: 0.25 acre), and they don't generate a lot of cash (most don't even try), but otherwise they're great: as antidotes to urban blight; sources of healthy, affordable food in a city that, incredibly, has no chain supermarkets; providers of meaningful, if generally unpaid, work to the chronically unemployed; and beacons around which disintegrating communities can begin to regather themselves. That actually sounds a lot like what Hantz envisions his farms to be in the for-profit arena. But he doesn't have many fans among the community gardeners, who feel that Hantz is using his money and connections to capitalize on their pioneering work. "I'm concerned about the corporate takeover of the urban agriculture movement in Detroit," says Malik Yakini, a charter school principal and founder of the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, which operates D-Town Farm on Detroit's west side. "At this point the key players with him seem to be all white men in a city that's at least 82 percent black.""

Pedal Power Gyms
youtube.com/watch?v=bJFGEQRWxz8
instructables.com/id/Bicyle-Power-for-Your-Television,-Laptop,-or-Cell-/ treehugger.com/files/2010/01/pedal-power-in-detroit-green-gym-for-homeless.php

Previously
archive.org/details/LostLandscapesOfDetroit2010 Riots of 1943
apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=185 Riots of 1967
67riots.rutgers.edu/d_index.htm

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We look for the sort of classes you circled in college course catalogs but never managed to fit into your schedule. And we also look for the kind of things that no college could teach. Cheap and eclectic is the rule, though all rules get broken occasionally, and we especially love workshops, round-tables, and teachers who won't take your work out of your hands and show you how to do it right. One-time listings are categorized, with general recurring classes at the end. We thrive on your suggestions, so make sure to tell us about upcoming classes that you think are nifty-keen.

Learning is compiled and edited weekly by Libby Sentz. Send listing suggestions, announcements, and corrections to her at libby(at)nonsensenyc.com.

***** LEARNING: FRIDAY *****

Organic Sculpture

Bring your kids, your kid sister, or just bring yourself and experiment with sculpture without risking your health or that of the environment around you. Learn to make a cast of your own body using a seaweed-based mold material. You can even use a mold made from the backbone of a fish. All are welcome, but this six-week class is best-suited to students who are just discovering materials, ages 5 to 11.

Uproar Art at Spacecraft
355 Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg
3:30–4:30p; $110, plus $20 materials 646-353-3207
uproarart.org/?page_id=17

***** LEARNING: SATURDAY *****

Lap Dance

Enjoy an all-ladies lap dance party with two of burlesque's most acclaimed pros, Catherine D'Lish and Jo Weldon, and learn the skills strip joint dancers use to keep customers coming back for more. These two gals learned lap dancing in a brief magical era in between classic burlesque and pole dancing. This is a sexy, hands-on, playful class designed to teach you a very special skill. Boundaries will be violated. Recommended wear: leggings, a T-shirt, and a hoodie.

School of Burlesque
440 Lafayette Avenue, Manhattan
5-7p; $40
schoolofburlesque.com

***** LEARNING: Also on SATURDAY *****

DIY Bio Speaker: Rob Carlson

An afternoon talk by Robert Carlson bridges both the NYC Resistor and DIYBio worlds: He's an electrical engineer who turns E. coli into circuits. He famously discovered the Carlson curves -- the biotech equivalent of Moore's Law—which show that biotech is advancing at a pace consistent with digital tech. DIYBio discussion to follow.

NYC Resistor
87 3rd Avenue, fourth floor, Brooklyn
2-5p; $free
eventbrite.com/event/576872441/rss

***** LEARNING: Also on SATURDAY *****

Ask a Sysadmin Saturdays

Alpha One Labs, a radically inclusive hackerspace, is taking the plunge and offering its best and brightest sysadmins for an hour a week, starting this Saturday, to take whatever linux-y or unix-y questions you may have. Apache, perl, php, c, MySQL, postfix, Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu, BSD, etc. Occasionally there will be someone available who can take Mac or Windows questions as well. Motto: "We take any problem, and with any luck, leave you no worse off than you were before." Come in person or contact them on irc, #alphaonelabs at freenode.

Alpha One Labs
65 Maspeth Avenue No. 1A, Brooklyn
6-7p; $5 suggest donation
nada(at)alphaonelabs.com
RSVP: sysadminsaturdays.eventbrite.com/

***** LEARNING: Also on SATURDAY *****

Permaculture Workshop in the Orchard

Explore permaculture, biodynamics, and resiliency with Andrew Faust Saturday and Sunday. In this workshop you'll learn to design, plant, and maintain a beautiful and highly productive integrated orchard free of chemicals. Weave nature’s resiliency and mutually beneficial relationships into fruit and berry plantings. Improve the health and fruit of old, abandoned, or wild fruit trees. Topics covered will include reliable sources for fruit and berry plants animals in orchards; low-tech integrated water systems; beneficial under-story plantings; aromatic pest confusers; pollinator habitats; biodynamic tree pasting; dwarf, semi-dwarf, and super-dwarf fruit trees; and grafting. Be sure to pre-register. Dress for hands-on learning in the orchard at the community-supported garden at Genesis Farm.

Genesis Farm
Blairstown, NJ
Saturday 9a-5p; Sunday, 9a-3:30p
$200 (includes lunch); $50 for overnight lodging $50 (includes breakfast) Register: 908 362 6735; lori(at)genesisfarm.org genesisfarm.org

***** LEARNING: Also on SATURDAY *****

The Clown

This five-session workshop will uncover what is uniquely funny about each participant and show them how to make that accessible to an audience. When people have fun and play instinctively, it is then that they start to play the fool, tell stories, joke and discover their creativity. This workshop will concentrate mainly on the clown and the pleasure to be ridiculous in the space. The clown moves from one flop to the next always happy and optimistic to be playing before an audience. There are many confusions and disasters in a clown show, but there are never any doubts. The clown is joyful, playful, mischievous, and full of fantasy. Led by Mick Barnfather. (He is also leading a three-day Comedic Character class starting this Tuesday; see his website below for details.)

Triskelion Arts
118 N. 11th Street, Studio Z, Brooklyn
March 13, 14, 19, 20, and 21
10-4:30p; $350
718 599 3577
mickbarnfather.com

***** LEARNING: SUNDAY *****

Gardening for Wildlife

Create a natural habitat alive with songbirds, hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies. This course focuses on providing food, water, cover, and places for animals to raise their young. Topics to be discussed include garden design, native plant selection, organic garden maintenance, and how to certify your garden as a wildlife habitat. You will survey your garden as it is now, then learn how to add elements that support wildlife. Led by Joan McDonald.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden
1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn
10a-2p; $51 member, $57 nonmember
718 623 7220
bbg.org

***** LEARNING: Also on SUNDAY *****

Intro to Relational Databases and SQL

This class is billed as "the cheapest, most painless introduction to relational databases and SQL that you will ever experience in your life." Relational databases include MySQL, Postgres, Access, and MS SQL. You'll find out what they are and how to use them, regardless of whether you'll go on to maintain your contact list at work in Access or your WordPress backend in MySQL. This class will give you the groundwork to make sense of these systems and how they can help you get your projects done.

Alpha One Labs
65 Maspeth Avenue No. 1A, Brooklyn
3-5p; $10 per person
nada(at)alphaonelabs.com
RSVP: alpha1sql.eventbrite.com

***** LEARNING: MONDAY *****

Demystifying Rainscreen Walls

Rainscreen walls are an excellent facade design solution because they can be aesthetically appealing while managing wind-driven rainwater and offering protection for exterior applied insulation, yet few designers understand how they work or how to correctly design one. This panel discussion covers the theory behind this centuries-old design technique. It will cover the essential elements of a rainscreen wall, the suitability of this wall type to different climates, various material choices, and some good ways to detail the all-important drainage plane and air barrier. Organized by the AIANY Building Enclosure Council.

The Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place, Manhattan
6-8p; $free members, $10 nonmembers
cfa.aiany.org

***** LEARNING: TUESDAY *****

Free Yoga for Guys

A free yoga class for men, at Pure Yoga. Led by Derek Beres.

Pure Yoga West
204 West 77th Street, Manhattan
6-7p; $free
pureyoga.com
Register: jenna.baker(at)pureyoga.com

***** LEARNING: WEDNESDAY *****

Intro to Shoemaking: Sandals

Craft custom sandals in this four-session course. First you'll measure your feet, then you'll build patterns based on your design, cut the leather, assemble your pieces, and create a lining. Next, you will create a custom outsole shape and an insole designed to meet your design and comfort whims. Finally, you'll attach your upper to your sole. Basic tools and materials will be supplied, but if there are special elements you want to include (buckles, ornaments, etc.), please bring them to the first class. Led by Jessica Taft Langdon and Kat Roberts.

Third Ward
195 Morgan Avenue, Brooklyn
Four Wednesdays
7-10p; $240 members, $290 nonmembers; $60 materials fee thirdward.com

***** LEARNING: THURSDAY *****

Button Party

Time to deal with the piles of buttonless sweaters, shirts, and whatnot that you’ve all been putting off fixing. Come for motivation, tips, and good conversation. Bring your easy mending projects and a snack to share. Don’t worry if you can’t find your buttons, there will be some extras. Bring a sewing kit if you have one, but there will be extras of those too. Those who need help will receive pointers on attaching buttons and fixing seams.

The Be Hive
388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
7:30-9:30p; $5 (recommended exchange)
behivethrives(at)gmail.com
behivethrives.com

***** LEARNING: UPCOMING *****

Swing Era Cocktails: Prohibition Through the 50s, at Astor Center, with Charles Hardwick. Friday, March 19. 6:30-8:30p. astorcenter.com

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It is a wonderful thing, to help. Helping strengthens communities and allows you to meet new friends. With that in mind, we look for one-day volunteer opportunities with no long-term commitment required. We want to be open to fresh ideas and think of help in a broad way. These listings could include anything from a large-scale day-long service project to a local theatre company that needs volunteers for load-in; from an artist looking for film extras to a community garden that needs a few extra hands. Our goal is simply to help groups or individuals that serve the greater good in small but significant ways. Unique and interesting job opportunities are acceptable fare for this section as well. Looking for ways to help out? Need volunteers to get your own community project off the ground? Know of any existing opportunities? Send your requests to Rob Voigt at robpastyvoigt(at)gmail.com.

***** HELP: FRIDAY and SATURDAY *****

The GLAAD Media Awards

The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives. Each year, hundreds of guests, celebrities and volunteers take part in a glamorous and meaningful night for the LGBT community.

If you would like to volunteer at this event, we need people for Friday to stuff gift bags (6-10p) and Saturday with shifts all day, ranging from set-up, guest check-in, guest security and traffic, silent auction, closing, and so on. To volunteer, please register on our website, and you can sign up for shifts online.

Jackie Olson, olson(at)glaad.org
glaad.org/volunteers

***** HELP: SATURDAY *****

Super Saturday

Since 1981, Children of the City has been serving the underprivileged children in the inner-city communities of Southwest Brooklyn. Starting out as a children’s prevention outreach in the early years, our services have evolved to include trauma intervention, counseling, an after-school and summer program, courtroom and legal advocacy, social work, guardianship, financial counseling, youth mentoring, and other as-needed services to help children and their families achieve success in education, social relationships, home, financial and career. Together we reach the children at home, at school, on the streets and playgrounds, and at our facility.

Every month Children of the City gathers children to host a Super Saturday community event for two groupings of children, ages toddler-7, and ages 8-14. Two simultaneous sessions are held once a month on Saturday, with the total number of children served per month depending on the event runs from 250-400 with a 50/50 split in age groups. We welcome up to 10-12 volunteers for each age group per session, to a maximum 25 volunteers total. No skills are required other than being able to have fun, engage the children, and be attentive to directions. It’s a full day, as it takes time to setup the facility, go out by bus and pickup children and walk them in, and do the session, dismiss, bring them home, and clean-up.

740 40th Street, Brooklyn
9a-4p
bit.ly/cRfUvA

***** HELP: WEDNESDAY ******

Hudson River Pageant - Costume Workshop

Join us at Earth Celebrations Puppet and Costume Workshops, helping teens and adults create the spectacular costumes, masks, and giant puppets for the Hudson River Pageant, inspired by the diverse marine species of the Hudson River. Workshops culminate in Earth Celebrations' Hudson River Pageant. The pageant is a magnificent creation of art, performance and community engagement to honor and restore the Hudson and address climate change.

World Financial Center, Courtyard Gallery 200 Vesey Street, Manhattan
12-4p
Earthcelebrations.com
bit.ly/aoO52x

***** HELP: THURSDAY *****

Nature Conservancy Gala

The Nature Conservancy's New York Office is looking for volunteers for our annual Young Professionals Gala on Thursday, March 18 at the Prince George Ballroom. We anticipate having upwards of 400 people at the event this year and looking for extra hands to help with check-in, coat check, monitoring the silent auction tables, distributing gift bags and managing crowd flow. The Young Professionals Gala is always a blast, both for attendees and volunteers. As a thank you for donating time, we invite volunteers to join the Young Professionals Group Members and Board at Marquee Night Club in Chelsea for the exclusive afterparty. Volunteers must be 21+. Please contact Nicole with why you are interested in volunteering. Also include if you have any experience as a waiter or with coach check. Thank you.

15 East 27th Street, Manhattan
Nicole D'Andrea, ndandrea(at)tnc.org

***** HELP: SOON *****

Domes for Haiti

We are looking for people who want to help build geodesic domes to send to Haiti. No experience is necessary, but we are particularly in need of volunteers with experience working with metal and vinyl.

We are in the first phase of building a prototype which we then will duplicate. There are two phases of the fabrication, and two teams of people; one team will be making the frames out of conduit pipes and the other team will be fabricating the covers out of recycled vinyl banners from MTV. 3rd Ward and the Bushwick Project for the Arts have generously given us access to their spaces to do this project.

We are currently relying on donations from individuals to fund our project. If you don’t have time to help with the work parties but would like to support the project you can make a donation via paypal on our website. The money goes directly into a fund in our umbrella organization's bank account to buy more conduit pipe, which costs $250 per dome. If you have some time but no money, e-mail me and let me know your general availability and which team you prefer to work with.

This job should be easy for people with even the smallest amount of experience making shit out of other shit. After the first one is completed we will be throwing a party inside it, on top of it and surrounding it to raise more money to continue building.

There is an orphanage in Haiti waiting for this dome to be shipped to them. They have at least 20 kids waiting for a house that won’t blow away when the rains come. Let's do something good for another community of folks who don’t have the resources we do.

domesforhaiti.org
Lopi, info(at)domesforhaiti.org

***** HELP: SOON *****

Erotic Texts

Hi my name is Savoi and I am currently working on a project regarding erotic text messages. I am currently looking for individuals who are willing to share some of their most intimate erotic texts with me. Please e-mail me, and include your age, gender, and who the text is from or who you are sending it to, i.e. a lover, someone else’s husband, and so on. Please do not include any names. Let me know why you find texting so erotic.

sighbererotica(at)gmail.com.

***** HELP: UPCOMING ******

• March 19-21. Go Green Expo New York. Go Green Expo is a forum for increasing awareness of our environmental challenges, providing businesses the opportunity to showcase green products and services, enabling non-profit organizations to educate the public and business owners. Through its interactive platform, Go Green Expo shall help forward the goal of a cleaner and healthier environment, one city at a time. It takes place from March 19-21, 9a-6p, at Pier 92 in Manhattan, 12th Avenue and West 55th Street. Contact Nancy Mathew at NMathew(at)GoGreenExpo.com or call 212 655 4505 ext 225. gogreenexpo.com.
• March 20. Sound person needed for lesbian comedy variety show. Just need someone to put in opening music in the CD player, turn on music before each comedian, help the guitar player plug in, help with cordless mics, and adjust sound levels. Need to meet just one time before and then at 6:30p on day of show. The show goes 8-9:30p. Please email nylavenderlounge(at)aol.com with your name and phone number if you’re interested.
• April 24. We are looking for volunteer judges for the 16th Annual Tri-County Science & Technology Fair. Participation in the fair is not only a rewarding experience for our talented students but it also helps to gives you, the science community a "pulse" on the future scientists. We have a responsibility to give these students the very best judges to evaluate their exhibits, this is why we are not only asking you to commit to this important event but we are hopeful that you will ask your colleagues to get involved as well. Since its inception in 1994, the Fair has grown in size from 60 to over 250 exhibits. Officials at the Fair expect a significant increase in the number of participants from local schools this year. Obviously, they hope to attract many more judges to handle the increase. Here’s what’s involved in being a judge. We are asking for 4 hours of your time on the day of the Fair (Saturday, April 24). Orientation (with a continental breakfast) begins at 9a, and judging begins at 10a. We will try to place you in the field closest to your expertise. You will judge a nywhere from 7 to 12 students either from elementary, middle, and/or high school. Mentor young scientists-to-be, listen to them, and share your experiences. Judging ends by 1p. A light lunch will be served followed by the awards ceremony, which you are welcome to attend. Respondents must be a practicing or retired engineer or scientist. Please tell your colleagues and science friends about this great event and forward or post this note for others to see. bit.ly/aWxBnO

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