Saturday, May 18th: How to Save at Least 50% Every Time You Grocery Shop
How to Save at Least 50% Every Time You Grocery Shop Port Richmond Library (75 Bennett St., Staten Island) 2pm Free STOP throwing your money away at the grocery store! What if you could save at least 50% on your monthly grocery budget and build a stockpile of food at the same time? This workshop [...]
Friday, May 17th: Stargazing & Lecture: Exoplanets Everywhere
Stargazing & Lecture: Exoplanets Everywhere Pupin Hall, Columbia University, Manhattan 8pm Free OBSERVING ONLY POSSIBLE WITH CLEAR SKIES (check back in the afternoon on the day of the event for observing status) Lecture, Q&A, slideshows, and observatory tours occur regardless. Lecture: 8:00-8:30 PM Observing: 8:30-10:00 PM Astronomy Q&A / Slideshows: 8:30-10:00 PM Free to all. [...]
Friday, May 17th: Interviewing Your Way to a Job Offer
Interviewing Your Way to a Job Offer Science Industry and Business Library (188 Madison Ave., Rm 018, Manhattan) Noon-1:30pm Free Theodore Henderson discusses techniques to turn your interviews into job offers. Topics covered include: Positioning Yourself for Career Change; The Cornerstone of Your Search Handling References Basic Interviewing Preparing for the Interview Turn Your Interview [...]
Friday, May 17th: NYC Uncubed Startup Conference & Job Fair
NYC Uncubed Metropolitan Pavilion (125 W. 18th St., Manhattan) 10am-9:30pm $20+, discount if purchased before noon today Get uncubed, meet founders, learn skills & join one of NYC’s most exciting startups. Friday May 17, 2013 SKILLS TRACK: 10:00-1:00 MAIN EVENT: 2:00-7:30 “IT’S A WRAP” PARTY: 7:30 – 9:30 Click here for more cheap New York [...]
Thursday, May 16th: Lauren Bush & David Burstein
Lauren Bush Lauren & David Burstein 92YTribeca (200 Hudson St., Manhattan) 9pm $15 in advance A Conversation with the Millennials who are changing business, technology, culture, politics and our world. They’ve been called trophy kids, entitled, narcissistic, the worst employees in history and even the dumbest generation. But, in the new book Fast Future, millennial [...]
Friday, May 3rd: Jewish Geography in America: Who Went Where When and Why
Jewish Geography in America: Who Went Where When and Why Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (Fifth Ave. at 42nd St., Manhattan) 10am-3:30pm Free, register: email annmariestarita@nypl.org 10:00 – 11:15 AM Keynote address by Dr. Jonathan Sarna South Court Auditorium “Jewish Settlement Patterns in the United States: Why Jews Ended Up Where They Did” Dr Jonathan Sarna [...]
Thursday, May 2nd: Park Slope Bingo Club
Park Slope Bingo Club Union Hall (702 Union St., Brooklyn) 8pm $5 to play, free to hang out Join Dick and Perry for some hot bingo action. We will be giving away prizes, drinks, show tickets and cold hard cash. We will have multiple games and you get to play them all with your $5Bingo [...]
Tuesday, April 23rd: Public Speaking: From Freak-Out to Fun
Public Speaking: From Freak-Out to Fun Science Industry and Business Library (188 Madison Ave., Rm 018, Manhattan) 6-7:30pm Free Is “Just come up and say a few words” is the scariest thing anyone could say to you? Learn to use your natural strengths to serve your audiences – rather than worrying about their judgments. Nancy [...]
Friday, April 19th: NerdNYC Boardgame Night
NerdNYC Boardgame Night THINKCOFFEE (248 Mercer St., Manhattan) 7-11pm Free If you have game you want to play, bring it with you! If not, come down anyway and play what others have brought. No experience with the games is necessary! Enjoy the company of your fellow nerds and eat delicious foodstuffs! ThinkCoffee also sports an [...]
Tuesday, April 16th: NYC Lean In Circle
NYC Lean In Circle Wix Lounge (10 West 18th St., 2nd Fl., Manhattan) 7-9pm Free with RSVP Inspired by Sheryl Sandberg’s book “Lean In”, two NYC women – Mary Dove, LCSW, and Significant Business Results Coach, Franne McNeal – have formed one of the area’s first Lean In Circles. “Supporting the Lean In movement through [...]
Monday, April 15th: A Brief History of Roller Derby
A Brief History of Roller Derby Brooklyn Brainery (190 Underhill Ave., Brooklyn) 8:30-10pm $10 in advance Most recognizable now as a predominately female driven contact sport with an edge, roller derby started as a co-ed marathon race during the Great Depression. The sport’s strange and delightfully history is filled with odd twists and turns and [...]
Saturday, April 13th: National Scrabble Day
National Scrabble Day The Brooklyn Strategist (333 Court St., Brooklyn) 11am-11pm $10 On April 13, 1899, little baby Alfie Butts was born. Decades later, Alfred Mosher Butts would invent a board game in his basement, a board game that has entertained, vexed, and challenged players for the last 80 years. To celebrate the man and [...]
Friday, April 12th: Confessions of a Mexican American Hoarder or the Caucasian Bestiary: The Existential and Insane Consequences of Collecting Stereotypes
Confessions of a Mexican American Hoarder or the Caucasian Bestiary: The Existential and Insane Consequences of Collecting Stereotypes Observatory (543 Union St., Brooklyn) 8pm $8 After a forced delay due to Hurricane Sandy, William Nericcio is finally coming to New York City to share his confessions with us at Observatory. What happens to the mind [...]
Saturday, April 6th: Channeling Elvis? An Automatic Writing Demonstration with UK Medium Myra Basey
Channeling Elvis? An Automatic Writing Demonstration with UK Medium Myra Basey Observatory (543 Union St., Brooklyn) 2pm $10 Automatic writing (or psychography) is writing which the writer claims to be produced from a subconscious, external or spiritual source without conscious awareness of the content. Automatism, the cornerstone of Surrealism, was co-opted from Spiritualism’s use of [...]
Friday, April 5th: DUMBO Tech Breakfast Meetup
DUMBO Tech Breakfast Meetup DUMBO Kitchen (108 Jay St., Brooklyn) 8:30am Free, RSVP here Everybody grabs some food (you have to pay for your own, sorry), grabs a seat, and talks tech. There’s no particular focus other than meeting some new people hand having some interesting conversations. Click here for more free New York City [...]
Friday, April 5th: Do Tables Tilt, Turn And Float? Table Levitation Phenomena, 1850-2006: An Illustrated Presentation with Walter Meyer zu Erpen
Do Tables Tilt, Turn And Float? Table Levitation Phenomena, 1850-2006: An Illustrated Presentation with Walter Meyer zu Erpen 8pm $8 Using still photography and video, Walter Meyer zu Erpen will outline the history of table levitation phenomena from 1850 onwards. He will combine historical research with his personal experience of more than 130 sessions in [...]
Thursday, April 4th: Traditional Spiritualist Message Service with UK Medium Myra Basey
Traditional Spiritualist Message Service with UK Medium Myra Basey Observatory (543 Union St., Brooklyn) 8pm $10 Myra Basey, a Spiritualist medium visiting from the UK, will conduct a traditional Spiritualist message service and demonstration of clairvoyance. A brief introduction to Spiritualism and message services in general will also be included. This is a rare opportunity [...]
Thursday, April 4th: Astronomy on Tap
Astronomy on Tap The Way Station (683 Washington Ave., Brooklyn) 7:30-8pm Free, RSVP here Because astronomy is always better with beer. Astronomers revealing how they explore the universe at a bar near you! A series of short FREE public science talks ranging from black holes to planets by astronomers from Yale University, NYU, College of [...]
Mondays Through May 20th: Game Night (Get Free Tickets Now)
Click here for free tickets to Game Night. iAdventure’s game night is a fun experience for New Yorkers where you can drink, eat, play and socialize over your favorite games like Uno, Connect Four, Jenga and more. The event starts with snacks and a complimentary Bud Light or house cocktail. Then you’ll break out the [...]
Saturday, March 23rd: Board Game Night
Board Game Night LaunchPad (721 Franklin Ave., Brooklyn) 8pm $5 suggested Board games, card games, snacks, drinks, friends and more board games! All levels and attention-spans are invited to play. This month’s featured games: *** Short Games *** Carcassonne Resistance *** Medium Games *** Settlers of Catan Small World *** Long Games *** Arkham Horror [...]
Wednesday, March 20th: #Startupfix @Culturefix
#Startupfix @Culturefix culturefix (9 Clinton St., Manhattan) 7-9pm $10 in advance, includes 2 drinks oin us at our next #Startupfix @Culturefix event on March 20th, for an evening of demos and drinks with tech entrepreneurs, investors and journalists. Hear lessons learned about running the most badass co-working space on the planet from Alley NYC, see [...]
Wednesday, March 13th: A Journey to the Amazon Rainforest
A Journey to the Amazon Rainforest REI (303 Lafayette St., Manhattan) 7-8:30pm Free, registration required Join naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie for an interactive report from the field – rare wildlife, new-to-science ecosystems, uncontacted tribes, and how you can go where few ever have. Click here for more free New York City events & things [...]
