Chaim Lazaros, AKA, the Superhero Life, at the last OCD series. Photo by Sarah Bibi.
Fall has always been the herald of fresh television programming after a dismal summer of re-runs, but let’s not count real-life out. Pete’s Candy Store‘s own free lecture series has announced the lineup for its seventh season. OCD (aka Open City Dialogue), brings interesting and compelling personalities from all perspectives of the cityscape. Past lecturers have included a real-life superhero helping New York’s homeless and an urban activist working to reform Chicago’s tougher neighborhoods. This season promises great guests, including a beekeeper, a JFK conspiracy expert and a famous street artist who reconfigures subway ads. So just in case 2 Broke Girls doesn’t pan out, you can still expect some top-quality programming coming out of Williamsburg. View the entire schedule after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s 2011 and we’re neck deep in internet, so why is it that zines will never die? Probably because there’s always going to be some kid who reads Get in the Van or Please Kill Me and falls in love with the whole screw-you-Yankee-blue-jeans DIY ethos. Brooklyn, which has been incubating young creative talent for years, is a fertile ground for idealistic young writers. You can see the fruits of that fertile soil this weekend when Pete’s Candy Store hosts the free second annual Mini Zine Fest, bringing out the best DIY publishers in the five boroughs to show off their wares. Read the rest of this entry »
Squatters photo via Mike Brodie
Did we miss a law change or gutter punk call to arms that’s making squatting all the rage again? First came the Trade School’s “Squat the Condos” class aimed to inspire a new counter-culture movement, and now two more squatting seminars are planned in coming weeks” ”The Once and Future Squatter,” at the always entertaining Pete’s Candy Store on Monday will discuss squatter’s efforts to create a research archive with evidence of the there’s-no-place-that-isn’t-home movement, plus a discussion of squatting as a global phenomenon; this Saturday at the Judson Memorial Church (in that other borough), pro squatters and scholars will host “Squats, Social Centers and Autonomous Spaces” to discuss the political aspect of what they call ”organized trespass,” as part of the Anarchist Book Fair, obvs. Both events, naturally, are free. Is this the sign of a new kind of gentrification coming to the city? Hell, maybe Brooklyn’s landlords are worse than we thought.
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a guy who puts on a mask and helps the homeless. Chaim Lazaros, AKA, Life. Photo by Sarah Bibi.
Home-made superheroes are on the rise these days. First came the movie Kick-Ass, which explored the “realism” of a normal person becoming a superhero. Now there are 20 self-declared superheroes who dress up in costume and try to help strangers in our own Gotha —err— New York area.
Chaim Lazaros was a mild-mannered film student when he stumbled on MySpace pages of so-called superheroes who had been popping up across the country. Collectively, their deeds were a combination of neighborhood watch patrols and people just being really nice. Read the rest of this entry »
Lean mean zine machine
Zines, it zeems, are having a comeback these days. Maybe because all the flannel and lo-fi guitars around town make us wistful for the 90s. Maybe Brooklyn is home to too many underemployed writers with lots of time on their hands (ahem). But probably it’s because we all love DIY so much, from wine-making to condom popsicles, that we never let a crappy job market keep us from putting work out there anyway. So what’s all the fuss about? Find out for yourself at Pete’s Candy Store on Saturday at the free Mini Zine Fest, a showcase of more than 20 zinesters, including graphic artists, photogs and bookmakers. We could spend this whole post telling you why you should care about these low-rent Henry Luces, but we’d rather show you: Read the rest of this entry »
Beware zombie hipsters in the multiverse
What is the multiverse? No, it’s not that retroactive-continuity-enabling backdoor narrative trick that allows several Wolverines, Thors and zombie Captain Americas to run into each other in the comics.
The multiverse we’re talking about here is that mind-bendingly vast idea of the sum of everything exists in our own universe and beyond through the idea of parallel universes stacked on top of each other, or linked together, or connected by a series of cosmic twist ties or whatever, into dimensions for which movie studios have yet to find a way to charge you extra. Feeling intrigued?
The monthly free lecture series at Pete’s Candy Store tonight gives you the chance to explore the multiverse with Jason Schuler, an entertainer/performance artist/science comedian who describes himself as not a scientist but a “curious enthusiast.” Schuler will discuss “physics, the possibility of parallel realities, and our place in the multiverse, in a lively exposition that links together disparate physical phenomena.” Woah. We’re going to need a beer (or something much stronger) for this one.
Event starts at 7:30. Details here.
Uh, do I hit?
Here’s how you know you’re truly down in the economic dumps: you start talking to your friends about the lucrative career you could, nay, will have as a professional gambler. “It’s all just numbers!” you scream into the winds of skepticism as you click click click away at a gambling web site in some language (maybe Dutch?) that’s taking up the browser window you’re supposed to be using to look for jobs.
Your friends will scoff, pick up their suitcases and head back to the office. Not Josh Axelrad. He will encourage you, and tell you that the game of blackjack is beatable using simple arithmetic. And he’ll tell you all this for free next week.
Read the rest of this entry »
The blurb for this event says it’s for anyone who’s “broke, unlucky or simply numerophobic,” and we believe it. David Thomas Rees will give a free tutorial tonight at Pete’s Candy Store on how to win at your daily numbers game. He’ll talk about the best-paying lottery numbers, which numbers come up most often, which numbers don’t. The 7:30 tutorial is part of the bi-monthly Open City Dialogue series. Rees’ motto is “Make that money, drink that wine.” Salud!
Pete’s Candy Store, (709 Lorimer St., Williamsburg, 718-302-3770)
[via the GothamList]
David Rees and his pencils. Goggles? Really?
We’re still looking for the April 1 dateline on this press release, but apparently, artisanal pencil sharpening is no joke. Or is it? David Rees, a political cartoonist for the likes of Rolling Stone, GQ, The Nation and Harper’s, has set aside his illustration career to put the finer points on Dixon Ticonderogas. He says he’s written a book called “How to Sharpen Pencils,” and is kicking off a national tour at Pete’s Candy store. Really! Read the rest of this entry »
Chaim Lazaros, AKA, the Superhero Life, at the last OCD series. Photo by Sarah Bibi.
Fall has always been the herald of fresh television programming after a dismal summer of re-runs, but let’s not count real-life out. Pete’s Candy Store‘s own free lecture series has announced the lineup for its seventh season. OCD (aka Open City Dialogue), brings interesting and compelling personalities from all perspectives of the cityscape. Past lecturers have included a real-life superhero helping New York’s homeless and an urban activist working to reform Chicago’s tougher neighborhoods. This season promises great guests, including a beekeeper, a JFK conspiracy expert and a famous street artist who reconfigures subway ads. So just in case 2 Broke Girls doesn’t pan out, you can still expect some top-quality programming coming out of Williamsburg. View the entire schedule after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s 2011 and we’re neck deep in internet, so why is it that zines will never die? Probably because there’s always going to be some kid who reads Get in the Van or Please Kill Me and falls in love with the whole screw-you-Yankee-blue-jeans DIY ethos. Brooklyn, which has been incubating young creative talent for years, is a fertile ground for idealistic young writers. You can see the fruits of that fertile soil this weekend when Pete’s Candy Store hosts the free second annual Mini Zine Fest, bringing out the best DIY publishers in the five boroughs to show off their wares. Read the rest of this entry »
Squatters photo via Mike Brodie
Did we miss a law change or gutter punk call to arms that’s making squatting all the rage again? First came the Trade School’s “Squat the Condos” class aimed to inspire a new counter-culture movement, and now two more squatting seminars are planned in coming weeks” ”The Once and Future Squatter,” at the always entertaining Pete’s Candy Store on Monday will discuss squatter’s efforts to create a research archive with evidence of the there’s-no-place-that-isn’t-home movement, plus a discussion of squatting as a global phenomenon; this Saturday at the Judson Memorial Church (in that other borough), pro squatters and scholars will host “Squats, Social Centers and Autonomous Spaces” to discuss the political aspect of what they call ”organized trespass,” as part of the Anarchist Book Fair, obvs. Both events, naturally, are free. Is this the sign of a new kind of gentrification coming to the city? Hell, maybe Brooklyn’s landlords are worse than we thought.
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a guy who puts on a mask and helps the homeless. Chaim Lazaros, AKA, Life. Photo by Sarah Bibi.
Home-made superheroes are on the rise these days. First came the movie Kick-Ass, which explored the “realism” of a normal person becoming a superhero. Now there are 20 self-declared superheroes who dress up in costume and try to help strangers in our own Gotha —err— New York area.
Chaim Lazaros was a mild-mannered film student when he stumbled on MySpace pages of so-called superheroes who had been popping up across the country. Collectively, their deeds were a combination of neighborhood watch patrols and people just being really nice. Read the rest of this entry »
Lean mean zine machine
Zines, it zeems, are having a comeback these days. Maybe because all the flannel and lo-fi guitars around town make us wistful for the 90s. Maybe Brooklyn is home to too many underemployed writers with lots of time on their hands (ahem). But probably it’s because we all love DIY so much, from wine-making to condom popsicles, that we never let a crappy job market keep us from putting work out there anyway. So what’s all the fuss about? Find out for yourself at Pete’s Candy Store on Saturday at the free Mini Zine Fest, a showcase of more than 20 zinesters, including graphic artists, photogs and bookmakers. We could spend this whole post telling you why you should care about these low-rent Henry Luces, but we’d rather show you: Read the rest of this entry »
Beware zombie hipsters in the multiverse
What is the multiverse? No, it’s not that retroactive-continuity-enabling backdoor narrative trick that allows several Wolverines, Thors and zombie Captain Americas to run into each other in the comics.
The multiverse we’re talking about here is that mind-bendingly vast idea of the sum of everything exists in our own universe and beyond through the idea of parallel universes stacked on top of each other, or linked together, or connected by a series of cosmic twist ties or whatever, into dimensions for which movie studios have yet to find a way to charge you extra. Feeling intrigued?
The monthly free lecture series at Pete’s Candy Store tonight gives you the chance to explore the multiverse with Jason Schuler, an entertainer/performance artist/science comedian who describes himself as not a scientist but a “curious enthusiast.” Schuler will discuss “physics, the possibility of parallel realities, and our place in the multiverse, in a lively exposition that links together disparate physical phenomena.” Woah. We’re going to need a beer (or something much stronger) for this one.
Event starts at 7:30. Details here.
Uh, do I hit?
Here’s how you know you’re truly down in the economic dumps: you start talking to your friends about the lucrative career you could, nay, will have as a professional gambler. “It’s all just numbers!” you scream into the winds of skepticism as you click click click away at a gambling web site in some language (maybe Dutch?) that’s taking up the browser window you’re supposed to be using to look for jobs.
Your friends will scoff, pick up their suitcases and head back to the office. Not Josh Axelrad. He will encourage you, and tell you that the game of blackjack is beatable using simple arithmetic. And he’ll tell you all this for free next week.
Read the rest of this entry »
The blurb for this event says it’s for anyone who’s “broke, unlucky or simply numerophobic,” and we believe it. David Thomas Rees will give a free tutorial tonight at Pete’s Candy Store on how to win at your daily numbers game. He’ll talk about the best-paying lottery numbers, which numbers come up most often, which numbers don’t. The 7:30 tutorial is part of the bi-monthly Open City Dialogue series. Rees’ motto is “Make that money, drink that wine.” Salud!
Pete’s Candy Store, (709 Lorimer St., Williamsburg, 718-302-3770)
[via the GothamList]
