Edition 14: The 'Low Down ✨
Hey friends,
Things are looking brighter – our first 7:00 PM sunset of the year is today! 🙌 Hope you’ve been staying warm and busy this winter. Reach out and let me know if you’ve seen/heard/tasted anything cool in the city lately. I’ve already had a few FOTN tell me about the Harlem Renaissance exhibit featured below – be sure to check that out before it closes in July. The Met has a “pay-what-you-wish” policy for NY residents – so you can use the money you save there to treat yourself to a cheese course! (#girlmath ?) Anyway, read on for more on…
💻 Secret Science Club: Artificial Intelligence, Our Brains & Our Bodies
🍪 Rybreadwithbutter Dessert Menu Takeover
🎭 Second City Presents The First Mainstage
🥃 Whiskey Pirates of Irishtown
❤️ Why Are You Single? A Singles Game Show with Marie Faustin
🎨 Affordable Art Fair NYC Spring 2024
🗞️ Stop the Presses! The New York Newspaper History Tour
🍝 Pasta Tarot x The Standard Red Sauce Night
🧀 Cheese 101: Becoming A Curd Nerd
🧠 The Age of Magical Overthinking
🛍️ FAD Market Earth Month Pop-Up
👩 Speak Up! Women, Art & Social Justice
🐷 4th Annual Jeff Michner BBQ Benefit
🖼️ The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
💻 March 12 at The Bell House: Secret Science Club: Artificial Intelligence, Our Brains & Our Bodies – “At the next Secret Science Club, neuroscientist De-Shaine Murray and bioethicist Matthew Liao explore the rapidly transforming world of neuro engineering and artificial intelligence. New brain-computer interfaces hold the promise of treating a plethora of ailments—from brain trauma & depression to paralysis & locked-in syndrome. But they also present new challenges and risks. What are the pros and cons of hacking our brains?” [Free]
🍪 March 14-17 at Farm to People: Rybreadwithbutter Dessert Menu Takeover – “Join us for Ryan Del Franco's first menu takeover at Farm to People. Try one or all the desserts from Ryan Del Franco's limited-time menu takeover. Four days only, so don't miss out! Menu TBA, very soon. Our full dinner menu will be available featuring tasty small plates and delicious entrees.” [Pay per item]
🎭 March 15 at The Second City: The First Mainstage – “Helloooooo New York! The Second City, titan of Chicago Comedy, is making its brand new home in the beautiful borough of Brooklyn! Legends like Bill Murray, Tina Fey, Keegan-Michael Key, and Stephen Colbert all began with us and we can't wait to start spreading the news about the next generation of rising stars! Join us for wild laughs, bold sketch comedy, and our world-famous improvisation. The Second City is ready to take a bite out of the Big Apple!” [$59+]
🥃 March 16-17 at Kings County Distillery: Whiskey Pirates of Irishtown – “Spend your St. Patrick’s Day immersed in history, hearing one of the great, lost stories of Irish America and enjoying delicious craft whiskey at New York City’s oldest legal distillery, Kings County Distillery.” [$25]
🌸 March 17 at Industry City: IPPIN PROJECT – “Join KAJIHA for a variety of flower and botanical workshops in the Makers Guild. KAJIHA is a flower and botanical art lab that creates natural scent items and décor objects inspired by nature and offers custom flower arrangement services. Walk-ins are welcome to attend, but reservation is recommended. Attendees will enjoy creating their own dry flower resin pendant, or earrings.” [$25+]
❤️ March 20 at The Bell House: Why Are You Single? A Singles Game Show with Marie Faustin – Join comedian Marie Faustin in a hunt for red flags in total strangers, live on stage! One by one single contestants are subjected to in-depth emotional questioning and physical challenges. Who will be sent packing to the singles lounge, and who will be named the Super Single? Contestants are selected from online submission! Submit yourself today via Instagram @whyare.yousingle” [$25]
🎨 March 20 at Metropolitan Pavilion: Affordable Art Fair NYC Spring 2024 – “When you visit Affordable Art Fair NYC you’ll find an inspiring and friendly atmosphere where you can browse thousands of original contemporary paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints showcased by a myriad of local, national and international exhibitors. With contemporary artwork by over 400 established artists and rising stars, and price points ranging from $100 – $12,000 – there is something to suit every taste and wallet whether you are a first-time art buyer or a seasoned collector.” [$41]
🗞️ March 24: Stop the Presses! The New York Newspaper History Tour –“It is impossible to tell the story of New York City without telling the story of its newspapers, which have been chronicling and shaping the rise of Gotham almost from the city’s founding. In fact, the first newspaper in the city begins publishing in 1725, 60 years after New York became a British Colony, and 64 years before the First Amendment guaranteed the right to a free press. Together, the city grew together with the people and institutions who would document its emergence. New Yorkers have always had an insatiable thirst for news and information, and the newspaper industry rose to quench that thirst with coverage that continued to evolve with the city, not just chronicling the Big Apple, but reflecting it as it changed politically, demographically, socially and economically. Along the way, the newspapers and the people who worked on them became synonymous with the city, achieving fame and fortune.” [$40]
🤠 March 25 at Georgia Room: Stud Country – “An intimate evening of partner dancing with some instruction. Genres include country swing, west coast swing, shadow, waltz, and two-step. First lesson at 8:30 pm. Drinks at Bar Calico.” [$20+]
🍝 March 26 at The Standard: Pasta Tarot x The Standard Red Sauce Night – “Mama Mia! The Pasta Tarot is bringing the Italian American red sauce night of your wildest dreams to The Standard, East Village. There will be no shortage of pasta, cannoli's & martinis as we break out our finest red & white checkered tablecloths for the occasion. Complimentary readings from the Pasta Tarot founders all night—discover which pasta shape you embody and get your tarot read. Stick around to win prizes like The Standard x Jumbo pasta pool float, a Pasta Tarot Deck, or the Pasta Tarot Scarf.” [$65]
🕺 April 5 at Knockdown Center: Flight Facilities DJ Set – “The Australian electronic production duo mix contemporary club and vintage disco-influenced sounds. They are guaranteed party starters, bringing a huge bouncy energy to every stage.” [$42]
🧀 April 11 at Bedford Cheese Shop: Cheese 101: Becoming A Curd Nerd – “We will take you through a tasting of cheeses you’ve danced with, but never got their name! A Bedford Cheese Shop cheesemonger will walk you through a line-up of cheeses- ranging in flavor, texture, and style -offering an understanding of cheesemaking techniques, tasting notes, pairing principles, and traditional styles of cheese. Students will also enjoy accouterments, antipasto, bread, and house wines.” [$124]
🧠 April 12 at Littlefield: The Age of Magical Overthinking – “Join Books Are Magic and Littlefield for an evening with Amanda Montell and Petty Crimes Podcasters Ceara O’Sullivan and Griff Stark-Ennis! From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blend of cultural criticism and personal narrative that explores our cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages, and highlights of magical thinking. Utilizing the linguistic insights of her “witty and brilliant” (Blyth Roberson, author of America the Beautiful?) first book Wordslut and the sociological explorations of her breakout hit Cultish, Amanda Montell now turns her erudite eye to the inner workings of the human mind and its biases in her most personal and electrifying work yet.” [$42]
🛍️ April 13 and 14: FAD Market Earth Month Pop-Up – “FAD Market celebrates Earth Month with a pop-up market featuring over 50 sustainable and local makers, designers, and small businesses at The Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn’s Boerum Hill. Come for a curated selection of sustainable goods including handmade jewelry, apparel, body and skincare, tableware, and artisanal packaged food.” [Free]
👩 Through April 21 at Basin Gallery & Studios: Speak Up! Women, Art & Social Justice – “This mixed-media show addresses women’s rights and social justice throughout their artworks of Rodriguez Calero, Airco Caravan, Daina Higgins and Arlene Rush. In their own way, each of the creators addresses women’s rights and social justice issues throughout their art. For example, Calero’s acrollage paintings like “A Life Cut Short” and “Target of Prejudice” respond to hate crimes and acts of humanity against people of color, while Caravan comments on racism, sexism, misogyny and way through her bold, colorful series featuring humorous household products, like pest-spray bottles.” [Free]
🐷 April 27 at Pig Beach: 4th Annual Jeff Michner BBQ Benefit – “Join us for the 4th Annual Jeff Michner BBQ Benefit, a full-day meat smokin’ extravaganza organized in honor of our late friend, Pig Beach BBQ Executive Chef Jeff Michner, who passed away suddenly in 2018. This all-day ‘swine around’ will feature more than 25 indoor & outdoor food stations helmed by celebrated chefs and barbecue royalty, plus complimentary beer, specialty cocktails, and non-alcoholic refreshments from our kind sponsors. Proceeds from this event will be donated to the Jeff Michner Foundation, an established 501c3 nonprofit created by the Michner family, which supports families managing loss and grief and provides scholarships to graduating high school students with a love for cooking and golf - two of Jeff’s biggest passions in life.” [$176]
🖼️ Through July at The Met: The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism – “Through some 160 works, it will explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and Chicago’s South Side and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African Americans began to move away from the segregated rural South. The first survey of the subject in New York City since 1987, the exhibition will establish the Harlem Renaissance as the first African American–led movement of international modern art and will situate Black artists and their radically new portrayals of the modern Black subject as central to our understanding of international modern art and modern life.” [NY Residents: Pay what you wish]
Who’s down?!
xx Anna