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33 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, November 15, 2010

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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
9:30 am
Free

Workshop | Supervised Open Lab


Hands on using wireless laptops. Are you having trouble with your email? Don't know how to cut and paste? more Curious about Twitter? Bring technology questions and get one-on-one assistance. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Book Signing | Joel & Victoria Osteen sign copies of their book The Christmas Spirit


The Osteens share uplifting and inspiring true stories from family and friends about celebrating Christian more Christmas traditions. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Author Reading | Actress Stefanie Powers discusses her book One from the Hart


The delightful star of television (Hart to Hart) and musical theater, cabaret performer (she will be more at Feinstein's beginning the next evening), and wild animal activist has now told her moving story in her new memoir. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
Free

Screening | Short Films on Native Americans


Showing: Las Ollas de San Marcos, Danzak and Desempolvando Nuestra Historia/Dusting Off Our History. more Starts at 1pm and 3pm. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Talk | Learn About Taino Culture


Jorge Estevez discusses Taino culture past and present using traditional handling objects in an interactive more informal setting. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Microsoft Office 2003: MS Word 1


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn the basic features of Microsoft Word 2003, a word processing program more you can use to create documents. Topics include entering and editing text, saving files, and formatting. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Discussion | Italian Cuisine and the American Critical Press


Panel Moderator: Michele Scicolone, Author, Teacher, Spokesperson, Consultant, and Food Editor for www.i-italy.org more Panelists: Arthur Schwartz, “The Food Maven”. The New York Times Magazine called Arthur Schwartz "a walking Google of food and restaurant knowledge." Bob Lape, Emmy Award Winner, is known as "The Restaurant Encyclopedia." His EYEWITNESS GOURMET feature on WABC-TV is often cited as inspiration for the Food TV Network, and his "Dining Diary" on WCBS 880 has aired more than 6,000 times. Fred Plotkin, described by The New York Times as "one of those New York word-of-mouth legends, known by the cognoscenti for his renaissance mastery of two seemingly separate disciplines: music and the food of Italy." less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jean Graham-Jones discusses her book BAiT: Buenos Aires in Translation


Jean Graham-Jones is Professor of Theatre at the City University of New York's Graduate Center, where more she currently serves as the Executive Officer of the Ph.D. Program in Theatre. She is the author of Exorcising History: Argentine Theater under Dictatorship and the translator/editor of Reason Obscured: Nine Plays by Ricardo Monti and BAiT: Buenos Aires in Translation. She has published essays in Theatre Survey, Theatre Journal, Theatre Research International, and Latin American Theatre Review, among others. She is a former editor of Theatre Journal and an actor, director, and translator as well as scholar and teacher. Professor Graham-Jones's current research focuses on theatrical and extratheatrical responses to the ongoing socioeconomic crisis in Argentina and the transnational performances of such Argentinean “femiconic” figures as Camila O’Gorman, Eva Perón, and the Virgin of Luján. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Marissa Smith's Frat Girl


Sloane Hudson, a rich, beautiful recent Ivy League graduate and product of the campus hook-up culture more and frat basement pong tournaments, doesn't believe in love or marriage. She does believe in babies and wants one soon so her tummy can bounce back and she can still wear a bikini. The problem is she needs a sperm donor who passes muster. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Nora Titone discusses her book “My Thoughts Be Bloody“: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy


Part of the series Life Upon the Wicked Stage: New Books in the Performing Arts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | The Life and Death of Honor


Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, more will speak. His numerous books include the memoir In My Father's House; Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers; and his most recent work, Experiments in Ethics. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | TV host Rachael Ray signs copies of her book Rachael Ray's Look + Cook: 100 Can't-Miss Main Courses in Pictures


The Food Network star returns with her latest cookbook.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Severine Autesserre discusses her book The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding


The Trouble with the Congo suggests a new explanation for international peacebuilding failures in civil more wars. Drawing from more than 330 interviews and a year and a half of field research, it develops a case study of the international intervention during the Democratic Republic of the Congo's unsuccessful transition from war to peace and democracy (2003–2006). Grassroots rivalries over land, resources, and political power motivated widespread violence. However, a dominant peacebuilding culture shaped the intervention strategy in a way that precluded action on local conflicts, ultimately dooming the international efforts to end the deadliest conflict since World War II. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Lecture | Some Issues About Language


Charles Taylor, Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, speaks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Workshop | Yoga for Everyone


A variety of yoga classes taught by some of the area’s most enlightened instructors. The philosophy more of yoga, which aims to unite all aspects of the individual – body and mind and soul – to improve health, happiness and tranquility is deeply beneficial on its own or as a complement to other wellness programs. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Discussion | An Evening with Playwright Mark Ravenhill


British playwright Ravenhill (Shopping and F***ing, Some Explicit Polaroids, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat), more recently seen in New York as Bette Bourne's counterpoint in A Life in Three Acts at St. Ann's Warehouse, will read from recent monologues and discuss his work with Distinguished Professor Marvin Carlson. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Forum | Author Gabrielle Calvocoressi discusses her work


Calvocoressi is the author, most recently, of Apocalyptic Swing, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times more Book Prize. Her book The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart was short-listed for the Northern California Book Award and won the 2006 Connecticut Book Award in poetry. She has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Stegner Fellowship in poetry, a Jones Lectureship in poetry at Stanford University, and a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award. Her poem “Circus Fire, 1944” received The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Conners Prize. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
$5

Workshop | Computer Surfing for 50+


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore websites of special interest to active older adults.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Nancy Pearl discusses her book Book Lust to Go: Recommended Reading for Travelers, Vagabonds, and Dreamers


Librarian, bestselling author, and literary critic Pearl speaks on the latest in her Book Lust series, more which explores 120 places to read about before you go. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Constance Rosenblum discusses More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section


This anthology contains fifty memorable stories from New York Times' award-winning City Section. The more pulse of a great city in sculpted prose. Guest readers include Helen Benedict, Caroline H. Dworin, Jake Mooney, Gregory Beyer, Saki Knafo, and Katherine Bindley. less
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7:00 pm
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Film | John Ford's The Searchers (1956): Tracking a Lost Innocence


With John Wayne, Vera Miles and Natalie Wood. As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young more niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable. 119 min. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Marianne Williamson discusses her book A Course in Weight Loss


For so many people, whether your addiction is to a substance or merely to a certain way of thinking or more acting, a profound humbling occurs when you realize that your problem is bigger than you are. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Naomi Ragen reads from her novel The Tenth Song


From the writer of the acclaimed The Saturday Wife comes a complex story of deceit and uncertainty.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon reads from his book Maggot


Muldoon is also the Poetry Editor of The New Yorker and a fierce advocate for poetry around the world. more His latest book continues his playful but serious poetics, and Muldoon, in his signature style, "revels in the disorder that wriggles beneath and below even the most rigid order”. (New York Times). Muldoon's wife, Jean Hanff Korelitz, will also read. Admission, her intelligent, engaging and delicately shaped novel, explores the hazards and rigors of the college admission process. Korelitz writes from experience—she worked part-time in the Princeton Office of Admission. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Concert | The Hora Decima Brass Ensemble


Program: Koetsier's Don Giovanni's Hollenfahrt, La Virgen de la Macarena David Matthews' Manhattan more Scapes Jeff Fairbanks' Three Dances Also works by Bob Mintzer, Rich Shemaria, Bach, Mendelssohn, and Gabrielli The concert will feature guest solo artist Alan Baer, Principal Tuba with the New York Philharmonic. The Tacoma News Tribune says that Baer "has really taken the low brass to new levels." Come thrill to the sounds of one of America's finest large brass ensembles and a world class virtuoso soloist. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$15 suggested contribution

Performance | Told: An Evening of Themed Storytelling


A storytelling show hosted by Seth Lind. Each month, New York's best performers take the stage to tell more true stories related to a central theme. A special guest provides interludes to glue the evening together into a collective experience. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Women’s Radical Research


We love libraries. Join librarians Kate Angell and Jenna Freedman for a look a 10 important resources more for fostering your own critical pedagogy, including: zine libraries, open access scholarly journals, and carefully selected websites. Please bring notes about your favorite resources too! Angell is a reference librarian at Sarah Lawrence College and a zine librarian at ABC No Rio. Freedman is a research librarian at Barnard College and the creator of the Lower East Side Librarian zine. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested admission

Author Reading | Tina Powers reads from her book Reporting for the Other Side


Powers documents her journey from television reporter to professional psychic in her memoir. She will more also offer a public reading and be joined by cabaret/jazz star Ann Hampton Callaway. less
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7:30 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance: Mari Meade Montoya / Miriam Wolf / Ronja Ver


A high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights throughout the fall/winter and spring seasons. They more support experiments in performance rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Faculty Composers 2010/2011 Concert 1


This concert will feature performances of new works by faculty composers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | “Songs of Love and Death“


Opera Hispánica is a new company devoted to presenting the best of Spanish and Latin-American opera. more In Sonetos de Amor y Muerte (”Songs of Love and Death"), a quintet of singers performs an hour-long program of Spanish-language art songs from a wide spectrum of composers. Featuring: Angelica de la Riva, Soprano; Nina Riley, Soprano; Alvaro Rodriguez, Tenor; Andreas Aroditis, Baritone; with Juan Pablo Horcasitas on piano. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Performance | Sketch Comedy with Beaches 2


"Tyler Perry’s Beaches 2: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" is the first effort by sketch comedy more team Beaches 2, which aims to take a type of joke and see if they can make you laugh about it for one half of one hour. First up: "fart jokes." Starring Mary Crosbie, Tanya O'Debra, and Bob and Tobly McSmith. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 pm
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