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36 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, January 29, 2010

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Workshop | Daily Instructed Meditation


Learn some serenity to cope with your busy day.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 am
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Other | Ice Skating in the City


The 170' x 100' rink features free admission ice skating. Whether you are looking to skate before going more to the office, through the lunch hour, with friends at a party, with a date, or for a spin under the stars at a holiday party, this is the perfect destination. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international more monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Five tours daily on the hour. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history more of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Lecture | Wireless: Revolution and Evolution


Wireless communications is one of the most advanced, and rapidly advancing, technologies of our time. more New wireless applications and services emerge on an almost daily basis, and the number of users of these services is growing at an exponential rate. This lecture will be by H. Vincent Poor of Princeton University, where he is Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His research interests lie in the area of wireless networking and related fields. Among his publications in these areas is the book MIMO Wireless Communications. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Tour | Times Square Tour


Learn about history of world-famous neighborhood with its 40 miles of neon supersigns, prominent theaters, more and multiple megastores. Rain or shine. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery more in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate. less
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history more of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present. less
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1:00 pm
$6

Discussion | Legendary Composer and Conductor Pierre Boulez in Conversation


Boulez celebrates his 85th birthday with a rare in-store appearance in discussion with Ara Guzelimian more of the Julliard School about his long celebrated, and often controversial, career. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:30 pm
Free

Film | Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly's Oscar Winner On the Town (1949): Sailors in New York


With Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Betty Garrett. Three sailors spend a day's leave in New York City more and meet three girls. A notable postwar musical, the film was shot largely on location in New York City and was freely adapted from the 1944 stage musical. 98 min. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Magazines & Newspapers Online


This will be a Lecture/Demonstration. Learn how to find full-text articles from thousands of magazines, more newspapers and journals that are available in the extensive digital archive database known as EBSCOHost. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | The Library's New Catalog: Features & Searching


The new catalog combines the LEO and CATNYP catalogs into one catalog to search for books, DVD's, journal more titles, government publications, and other resources. This class will take you on a tour of the new catalog's features, and hands-on searching to explore strategies to help you find the library materials you need. less
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3:15 pm
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Screening | Cinema of Mexico: Alejandro Gerber Bicecci's Becloud (2009)


José reluctantly works at his father’s ice factory in a poor urban district; Felipe works at an Internet more café, where he cultivates a voyeuristic crush on a customer; and Andrés spends his free time with a group devoted to a pre-Columbian golden age. Friends since boyhood, the three young men are linked by a defining incident that connects the destinies of their entire neighborhood. 111 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. U.S. premiere. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Symposium | Crooked Beauty: On Mental Illness


Excerpts from a work-in-progress film and a panel discussion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Rascher Saxophone Quartet


Students coached by these distinguished artists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Film | Lew Landers' The Raven (1935): Obsessed with Poe


With Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. A wealthy judge coaxes the brilliant but eccentric neurological more surgeon Dr. Vollin -- who also has an obsessive penchant for Edgar Allen Poe -- out of retirement to save the life of his daughter, a dancer crippled and brain-damaged in an auto wreck. Vollin restores her completely, but also envisions her as his "Lenore" and cooks up a scheme to kidnap the woman and torture and kill her fiance and father in his Poe-inspired dungeon. 61 min. less
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4:30 pm
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Discussion | Award-winning author Jonathan Lethem in conversation


Lethem is the author of seven novels, one novella, two short-story collections, and a volume of essays. more His newest novel is Chronic City. In conversation with author Darin Strauss. less
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5:00 pm
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Other | Chris Jericho of WWE Wrestling signs copies of his band's CD Chasing the Grail


Fozzy is the band featuring Jericho and Stuck Mojo mastermind Rich "The Duke" Ward. Fozzy is an established more metal act with a following in the US. They blend old and new school metal elements topped with Jericho's charismatic vocals. Jericho and Ward will be signing autographs. less
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5:00 pm
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Jazz | Jimmy Norman with The Sean Harkness Trio


Jimmy Norman with The Sean Harkness Trio perform jazz, blues, R&B, and original songs as part of the more Jazz Legend Winter Series. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Dance Performance | Residency Artists' Open Studio


Residency Artists will be rehearsing and have generously invited interested viewers to drop by and watch more the work in progress. Visitors may come and go as they wish for two hours on Friday evening, and light refreshments will be served. less
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Opening Reception | Filmmaking: Amy Granat's The Sheltering Sky


Granat draws from the legacy of experimental and abstract filmmaking to create new approaches to 16mm more film and video at the limits of personal and narrative cinema. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Screening | German Cinema: Christian Petzold's Yella (2007)


Yella is estranged from a possessive and violent husband who can't quite bring himself to give her up. more When their fraught interaction finally comes to dramatic conclusion, Yella's life takes an odd shift. 89 min. In German with English subtitles. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Reading | Writiopia Teen Reading


Teen writers from the Writopia program read their work.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | The Storyteller: An Exhibition on the Narratives of History


An exhibition exploring how artists use narrative to process and explain important social and political more events. The show features work by an international group of artists, including Cao Fei, Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller with filmmaker Mike Figgis, Omer Fast, Mounir Fatmi, Ryan Gander, Lamia Joreige, Joachim Koester, Emanuel Licha, Missing Books (Maria Barnas, Maxine Kopsa and Germaine Kruip), Steve Mumford, Adrian Paci, Michael Rakowitz, Liisa Roberts, and Hito Steyerl. less
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6:30 pm
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Symposium | Saarinen@100


This symposium examines the contemporary relevance of Eero Saarinen, one of the most prolific and controversial more American mid-century architects, through a discussion of his architectural legacy and relationship to media. With: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Yale School of Architecture; Reinhold Martin, GSAPP/Buell Center; and Marc Tsurumaki, LTL Architects. Moderated by Juulia Kauste, Director of the Finnish Cultural Institute. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | The Review Panel: An Evening of Critical Conversation about Art


Join critics Maureen Mullarkey, Andrea K. Scott and John Yau as they discuss contemporary art currently more on view at some of New York’s finest galleries. Shows and galleries to be announced. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:45 pm
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Reading | Broad Set Writing Collective members read their work


The Broad Set Writing Collective, whose members have been published in McSweeney's, Foundling Review more and American Trees, created both Lo-Fidelity and 50-1 magazines. Come out for poetry and prose by Peter Richter, Mickey Hess and Glen Binger. less
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities: A Story of the French Revolution


The Fiction Reading Group takes on this much-read classic of love, revenge, and resurrection.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Frederick Wiseman’s Documentary Titicut Follies (1967): The Inhumane Treatment of the Mentally Ill


This landmark of nonfiction cinema is as grotesque a vision of human cruelty and suffering, of naked more fear and loneliness, as art has ever produced. Recalling the infernal torments of Goya’s Black Paintings, Titicut Follies exposes the horrifying conditions at a state prison hospital for the criminally insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts—conditions that seem to have changed little, even decades later, in similar institutions across the country—and it is still the only film ever to have been censored by a U.S. court for reasons other than national security or obscenity. Wiseman compels us through various alienation effects to recognize our own neglectful complicity as we regard the pain of others. 84 min. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Master Class | School Symphony Orchestra performs works by Mozart


Program: Mozart, Piano Concertos No. 17 and No. 21 With Philippe Entremont, Conductor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Works by Bach, Britten and Others


Amelia Hollander, viola, and Kimball Gallagher, piano, perform music by Britten, Greenstein, Ligeti and more Press; Sasha Papernik, piano, Justin Poindexter, electric guitar, Kyle Saulinier, piano, Rohin Khemani, drums and electric bass, perform Bach and Papernik. less
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7:30 pm
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Screening | Michael Moore's Oscar-Nominated Documentary Sicko (2007): America's Health Care Crisis


A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO more horror stories. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Film | Roger Corman's Pit and the Pendulum (1961): Secrets of the Spanish Inquisition


With Vincent Price and John Kerr. An adaptation of Poe's psychologically and viscerally terrifying tale more of torture, in which the sins of the father are revisited upon the son. 80 min. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Sinfonietta Chamber Orchestra


The Sinfonietta is a chamber orchestra which performs without a conductor. The group is led by Todd Phillips, more violinist with The Orion String Quartet, who performs with the ensemble as Concert Master. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Student Recital: Minjee Lee, Piano


A uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers - the freshness and excitement of a solo recital by more a gifted young artist at one of the world's leading conservatories. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Open Jam


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   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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