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49 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, March 9, 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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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
Free

Workshop | Knitting and Crochet Group


Bring your current project, your questions, your needles and your yarn to the Knitters' Table. Beginners more and experienced knitters are welcome - crochet, too! less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

Workshop | Introduction to MS PowerPoint


Learn how to create a slideshow presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint 2003. Topics include creating more and editing slides, inserting images and clipart, and running your slideshow. Skill prerequisites: Basic mouse and keyboarding skills. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
Free

Workshop | Spreadsheet Basics with MS Excel 2003


Hands on using wireless laptops. Introduction to the features of Excel 2003. Topics include entering more text & formulas, moving & copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 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

City Walk | City Walk & Tour: Marble Hill, Spuyten Guyvil & Wave Hill


5 easy paced miles through this hilly section of the Bronx. Begin in Marble Hill, an area which once more was part of Manhattan Island but is now part of the mainland, then up to Spuyten Duyvil with its shore front park & Henry Hudson Br. walkway and finishing at Wave Hill. Inclement weather cancels. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
$3

Lecture | Resistance in Okinawa to a New U.S. Marine Air Base, and Japan's “(Un)equal Partnership” with the United States


A lecture with Steve Rabson, Professor Emeritus of East Asian Studies, Brown University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Craig Williams, Organist


Williams is from the Cadet Chapel at West Point in Garrison, New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Downtown: Where New York Began Tour


A tour of Downtown — its history, architecture, and art, and its fascinating denizens. Tour includes more Federal Hall, the U.S. Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, Fraunces Tavern, U.S. Custom House, and Bowling Green. Led by a professional tour leader. Adults, please bring photo ID. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | Juilliard musicians perform works by Shostakovich, Bach and Mozart


Program: Mozart Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, and Piano Shostakovich Sonata for Viola and more Piano J.S. Bach Ciaccona, from Partita No. 2 in D minor for Solo Violin With: Janice LaMarre, Viola; Domenic Salerni, Violin; Misha Namirovsky, Piano. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

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

Concert | Feat and Flourish Series: Iris Lan, Organist


A Lenten organ series on the partially restored neo-Baroque Schlicker organ, built in 1964.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Midtown Jazz: Junior Mance, Piano


With Hide Tanaka, Cello.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$7 requested donation

Screening | Short Films: Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers / Yukon Circles


Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers (2008, 30 min.) A collaboration between indigenous more filmmakers (a central Brazilian Xavante and a Wayuu from Venezuela) and an anthropologist explores a campaign headed by the Xavante to protect the Rio das Mortes River Basin from the uncontrolled soy cultivation that brings deforestation and pollution to the watershed. The Xavantes' May 25, 2006 blockade of a national highway in Mato Grosso raises awareness of their concerns and builds support for their efforts. In Xavante and Spanish with English subtitles. Yukon Circles(2006, 30 min.) The 2300–mile Yukon River flowing through Canada and Alaska is threatened by pollution from military installations, mining, manufacturing, and settlement, and the tribes and First Nations develop a historic agreement to work together to protect it. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Henry Schneider Scholarship Concert


This special concert features talented students from Kaufman Center’s Lucy Moses School. Performers more include Jenny Che, piano; Aurora Celestine, piano; Louis Diaz, flute; Iryna Kit, violin; Dena Li, violin; Kenji Michaud, piano; Yurie Mitsuhashi, violin; Moshe Stein, cello; Jacob Taylor, cello and Luiko Yoshimoto, piano. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:15 pm
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Workshop | Health Information Online


Hands on using wireless laptops. Introduction to consumer health information on the Internet, where to more find doctors' credentials, hospital information, drug side effects, conventional and alternative medical treatments of diseases, diets, weight loss, nutrition and exercises, including how to evaluate these websites. less
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2:30 pm
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Screening | Short Films: Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers / Yukon Circles


Owners of the Water: Conflict & Collaboration Over Rivers (2008, 30 min.) A collaboration between indigenous more filmmakers (a central Brazilian Xavante and a Wayuu from Venezuela) and an anthropologist explores a campaign headed by the Xavante to protect the Rio das Mortes River Basin from the uncontrolled soy cultivation that brings deforestation and pollution to the watershed. The Xavantes' May 25, 2006 blockade of a national highway in Mato Grosso raises awareness of their concerns and builds support for their efforts. In Xavante and Spanish with English subtitles. Yukon Circles(2006, 30 min.) The 2300–mile Yukon River flowing through Canada and Alaska is threatened by pollution from military installations, mining, manufacturing, and settlement, and the tribes and First Nations develop a historic agreement to work together to protect it. less
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3:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Basic Internet


Introduction to the internet and how to perform basic searches.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Lecture | Last Ice Age Retreat in the New York Area - A Significant Dating Controversy


A lecture with Dorothy Peteet, Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Division of Biology and Paleo Environment, more Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, The Earth Institute. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:20 pm
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Concert | Daphne Willis performs from her CD What to Say


The soulful singer/songwriter performs from her debut album. Like the musical love child of Rickie Lee more Jones and Jason Mraz, this 22-year-old will blow you away with her powerful voice and smart writing. less
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5:00 pm
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Lecture | Female Voices in the Public Sphere: Playback Singing as Cultural Phenomenon in South India


A lecture by Amanda Weidman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Daily Instructed Meditation


Learn some serenity to cope with your busy day.
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5:45 pm
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Workshop | How to Reframe Your Big Financial Picture


Traditional ways of planning for the future may not work in the new economic environment. Should you more start a new business? Are stocks and bonds your only choices? How can you best manage your budget? Joan Lappin is founder and CEO of Gramercy Capital Management, one of very few firms to have been ranked #1 in Nelson’s Directory of Registered Investment Advisors. Let her reframe your big-picture thinking. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Meditation at the Library


Sahaja Yoga Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience more of inner silence, calm and contentment. Sahaja Yoga is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue is facing us - frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness - Sahaja Yoga Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment. Class taught by experience volunteers. Come join instructors Aldo Alvarez and Shail Pandya. Share relaxation techniques! less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | A New (dis)Order: Questioning the Self-Regulating Market


The faith of politicians, academics, and regulators in the efficacy of self-regulating markets fostered more the deregulation that was a central factor leading to the crisis. In this event, panelists will scrutinize the commonplace notion that the "natural" and most efficient state of a market is to be free of regulation. If markets are in fact jointly produced by states, market actors, and institutional milieus, do existing social scientific theories effectively capture this process? What are the politics of market design in certain key markets, such as the credit default swap market? How does a shift in framing from "more or less" regulation to "better or worse" construction alter the way we understand the causes of the economic downturn? In light of alternative understandings of markets, e.g. behavioral economics and economic sociology, what factors are essential for the creation of stable markets? Theo Lubke is a Senior Vice-President in the Bank Supervision Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he heads the Financial Infrastructure Department and oversees the New York Fed's efforts to improve the resiliency of the OTC derivatives infrastructure. Prior to that, he managed the supervisory relationships with large, complex foreign banking organizations. Before joining the New York Fed in 1995, Lubke worked on the staff of the National Economic Council at the White House. Previously, he had worked as an investment banking analyst at Lehman Brothers. Perry Mehrling is Professor of Economics at Barnard College. His research interests include the economics of money and banking, monetary theory and policy, and the history and foundations of monetary economics. His book, Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance was named the Best Book of 2007, by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and his forthcoming book, The New Lombard Street, deals with the financial crisis. Gillian Tett is an assistant editor of the Financial Times and oversees the global coverage of the financial markets. In March 2009 she was named Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards. In June 2009 her book Fool's Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the inaugural Spear's Book Awards. Joseph E. Stiglitz is a University Professor of Economics and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and a Nobel Prize recipient. His book Globalization and Its Discontents has sold more than one million copies worldwide. His most recent book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict), with Linda Bilmes of Harvard University, was published in 2008. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:15 pm
Free

Author Reading | Anthony Flint discusses his book Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City


The epic rivalry between Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, played out amid the struggle for the soul of a more city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. An acclaimed reporter and urban planning policy expert recounts this thrilling story; the legacy of which echoes through our society today. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Gahlma Llanos-Figueroa reads from her novel Daughters of the Stone


A lyrical, powerful debut novel about a family of Afro-Puerto Rican women, spanning five generations, more detailing with their physical and spiritual journey from the Old World to the New. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Kirstin Downey discusses her book The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience


Journalist Downey celebrates her paperback release as she discusses her portrait of this devoted public more servant, the first female cabinet secretary and a woman who changed the landscape of American business and society. less
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | PowerPoint Basics with MS PowerPoint 2003


Hands on using wireless laptops. Topics include the basic features of PowerPoint 2003. Start PowerPoint, more create a presentation, copy a slide from one presentation into another, create a specified type of slide, delete slides, change the layout for one or more slides, apply formatting, preview and save a new presentation. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Video | Short Film: New York's Bridges and Trolleys


A presentation by Judith Berdy of the Historical Society, featuring the unusual neighborhood on film!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Tendencies: Poetics and Practice


Erica Kaufman, Douglas A. Martin and Mina Pam Dick explore the relationship between contemporary poetic more manifesto, practice, queer theory and pedagogy. less
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | The Contemporary Art of the Novella


A panel with Lore Segal, Tao Lin and Kelly Burdick. The novella is an art of the in-between—not quite more short story, not quite novel—and this series aims to highlight works that haven’t reached their full audience. Lore Segal is the author of Other People's Houses, winner of the 2007 Fadiman Medal, as well as Lucinella, Her First American, and most recently, the story collection Shakespeare’s Kitchen. Tao Lin is the author of Shoplifting from American Apparel, You Are A Little Bit Happier Than I Am, Bed, and the novel Eeeee Eee Eeee. Lin’s next novel, Richard Yates, will be published in the fall of 2010. Kelly Burdick is senior editor at Melville House. He has previously worked at Cambridge University Press, The New Press, and Nation Books. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | The Perception of the Artist in the United States


A conversation addressing essential issues related to artistic survival.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
$5 suggested donation...

Discussion | Through Other Lenses; The Influence of Downtown Photography


Photographers Moyra Davey, LaToya Ruby Frazier, and A. L. Steiner will discuss how their works have been more influenced by Downtown photography. Moderated by curator Dean Daderko. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
$3 suggested admssion

Author Reading | Bruce Lourie & Rick Smith discuss their book Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things


The authors explore the toxins and hazards of everyday household items.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Buried Treasure: Women Playwrights 1640-2010


Featuring scenes from plays by women playwrights often under-represented on the world’s stages, the more spring “scene fest” project will explore material from the 17th century to contemporary writing. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Chelsea Handler reads from her book Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang


The star of TV's Chelsea Lately lets loose with more comic personal essays in her latest collection.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | David Shields reads from his book Reality Hunger: A Manifesto


This book is Shields' call to arms about the essay form. It's already earning him some very good noise. more He'll discuss the book and the topic with a series of other authors, TBA. less
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Linda Fairstein and Kate White on Crime Fiction


Linda Fairstein (Hell Gate) and Kate White (Hush) read from their latest mystery novels and discuss the more art of crime fiction writing. less
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Oxfam NYC's Sisters on the Planet (2009)


In recognition of International Women's Day, come out for a screening and discussion of this a documentary more about women living in areas affected by climate change. Join representatives from Oxfam Action Corps NYC in a discussion about climate equity and on U.S. environmental policies. less
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested admission

Discussion | The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Queen of Crime's French Connections


With: Joan Schenkar and Judith Miller. Schenkar is a playwright and biographer, the author of The Talented more Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith. In (illustrated) conversation with: Miller, Professor of French. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Chang-rae Lee reads from his novel The Surrendered


This is the stunning story of June, Hector and Sylvie. Brought together by the ravages of war, the nature more of heroism and the power of love, these three find their lives intertwined. Lee delivers yet another deeply affecting masterpiece. less
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7:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Three New Poets: Kostas Anagnopoulos / Kevin Varrone / Karen Weiser


An evening featuring three poets with new titles coming out through UDP this spring: Kostas Anagnopoulos, more Moving Blanket Kevin Varrone, g-point almanac: passyunk lost Karen Weiser, To Light Out less
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7:30 pm
$6

Screening | Dance Film Lab


The Dance Film Lab is moderated and organized by Zach Morris (Third Rail Projects) in cooperation with more the Dance Films Association. This salon brings dance filmmakers together to present raw footage, drafts, works-in-progress and newly finished films to their peers for constructive feedback, to share information, and address technical, practical and artistic challenges. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Faculty Recital: Clive Greensmith, Cello


A program in string performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | UG! Comedy Show


UG! features top quality comedic talent coming down weekly working out their funny in front of a cool more supportive crowd. Todd Montesi and Justin Murray presents comics from Comedy Central, HBO, MTV, yo' mamas house, outer space, etc. etc. It's a down town gritty meat and potatoes kind of show for a down and dirty time we're living in! less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Punch Up Your Life Comedy Show


Comedy hosted by Pete Holmes with special guests TBA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
$3

Open Mic | Penny's Open Mic


Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents more in at this gathering hosted by Penny Pollak. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
$3
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