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Web 2.0 Meetup

7pm -9pm

Web 2.0 Meetup at Mixx Lounge, 84 7th Ave between Bleecker & Grove
Mixx Lounge, 84 7th Ave between Bleecker & Grove

Record Fair for the Real Record People...

Shakey's Record Fair @ Botanica

"it's a record fair,no, it's a party,it's a record fair AND a party!"

Come check this amazing hybrid of a record fair/ party. The
Dealers are by invitation only so it's only the best of the best in all formats - albums, 12"s, 45s. So go to Turntable Lab, buy yourself a portable deck for $100, and prepare yourself for a foray into your new addiction at Shakey's record fair, a non-intimidating forum of really good music on wax.

@Botanica
Location: 47 E Houston St (map)
Starts: 6 pm
Cost: FREE!

A sketching class for the Marvel dork in us...

Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School at The Lucky Cat

Though no one would bat an eyelash if she came, Dr Sketchy's Anti-art school isn't your grandma's drawing class. Hosted by illustrator Molly Crabapple, burlesque dancers and circus freaks pose for portraits in place of the usual ho-hum models-- today's session features burlesque stars White Boom Boom and Stormy Leather dressed as Wolverine and Mystique of the X-Men. Sessions are three hours, allotting plenty of time to perfect the detail of a sequined pastie or the shading of a facial tattoo. Artists can use any medium as long as it's not messy. If you can't get there early to snag a seat reserve a table for $5.

Start: 3pm
Location: Lucky Cat
245 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY
More info: www.drsketchy.com

Chess Grandmasters

10AM to 2PM

Chess Grandmasters give lectures, followed by a simultaneous chess play; Central Park, Chess and Checkers House, mid-park at 65th Street.
Noon

All the fun sans head lice...

The Nerds of NYC call you to the battlefield! Play games of all
sorts for even the most discriminating undead palate - RPGs, board &
card games. Nerd book & media swap. Homemade delicacies. If you're unfamiliar with the games at hand, they're excited to teach the newbies their ways!

On-site event registration begins at 11:00am.
BRICStudio - Brooklyn
57 Rockwell Place
Between Dekalb and Fulton Streets
11am - 10pm / Games begin at noon
$15 / $7 children

If you give a nerd a cocktail...

Now you can drink and get more smarter! Nerd Nite is an informal gathering at which nerds get together for nerdery of all sorts. Enjoy two 20 to 30 minute lectures while the audience drinks along and learns a little something too.

Tonight: Sane nerd Matthew King presents a stunningly creepy visual
account of the state of mental hospitals in the Northeast, and
lawyerly nerd Brendan Kehoe discuss lawsuits that threaten Google and
YouTube, and therefore, all of our spare time at work.

Angels and Kings
500 East 11th Street btwn Aves A and B
7:00pm - Free with two-drink minimum
Learn more about Nerd Nites from Inkling Magazine

Techies, bloggers, and nerds unite - the Webbys have arrived!

Close up your laptops and start pouring the cocktails - today kicks off the 11th Annual Webby Awards! Honorees for their outstanding presence in the information age include David Bowie, the founders of YouTube (what would we do without you, honestly...), Jessica Rose (AKA MySpace starlet Lonelygirl15), and the masked warriors behind askaninja.com!

The awards series continues through Tuesday and tickets are still on sale for many of its associated events. Here's what's 'online' for today's opening.
· Sunday Sunset Cocktails - At the beautiful Soho Grand Hotel Penthouse, sponsored by the Dutch Embassy in NY (Webby Ambassador to The Netherlands), and ilovethewebbys.com.
· Webby/Artists Den Kick-Off Concert - Hosted by The Barbarian Group, this intimate concert will feature a big, surprise band performing at NYC's most-exclusive new venue, The Box.

#joiito NYC Meet & Geek

11:30 AM

#joiito NYC Meet & Geek (Lunch & Walking Tour)

Heartland Brewery
35 Union Square West

Net and game geek Joi Ito

"We'll meet at the Heartland Brewery, get lunch, then, quoth buridan:

"West to Hudson River park, down to Battery park, then up to the SoHo Apple Store (which will take us past JR Music World. All of which is a normal 5-miler on a Saturday"

Don't forget to bring your cameras!

ITP Spring Show 2007

5-9PM

Location: Interactive Telecommunications Program
4th floor (south elevator bank)

Last day of this two-day festival of interactive sight, sound and technology from the student artists and innovators at the Interactive Telecommunications Program. This event is free and open to the public. No need to RSVP.

Free Comic Book Day

Free Comic Book Day.
Find a store near you - example ...
Jim Hanley's Universe, 4 West 33rd St.

Identification Day

1-4PM
Identification Day
@ American Museum of Natural History
Hall of the Birds of the World
2nd Floor
Central Park West & 79th St
212-769-5100
Free with admission

It's like Antiques Road Show with stuff that you dug up in your back yard!

PS - Who has a back yard???

PPS - It's in the Hall of the Birds of the World!!!

Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate

2007 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Pioneer Anomaly
@ American Museum of Natural History
LeFrak Theater: 77th St & Central Park West
212-769-5100
$14, $12 students

The Pioneer spacecraft, meant to pass the outer planets and ultimately to leave the solar system entirely, have taken a different trajectory than originally calculated. Join a number of the finest minds in astrophysics as they discuss the "Pioneer Anomoly" in the annual Isaac Asmiov Memorial Debate. Proceeds benefit the Hayden Planetarium.

Big Apple 2.0

6:30PM
Big Apple 2.0
@ CRESA Partners
100 Park Ave, 24th Fl

A NextNY community conversation about improving NYC as an environment for technology startups.

The Science of Beer

6PM
The Science of Beer
@ New York Academy of Sciences
250 Greenwich St
40th Floor b/w Park Place and Murray
$25

Tonight, in part three of the New York Academy of Science's five-part Science of Food Series, Charlie Bamforth, Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting & Brewing Sciences at UC Davis, explains the chemistry behind a great mug of beer. A strictly scientific tasting will follow. [uncoolkids]

2007 Comic Con

4PM-9PM
New York Comic Convention
@ Jacob Javits Center
11th Ave b/w 34th and 39th St
$30 one-day advance, $40 day-of
4:30 meet Stephen Colbert

Sure, Saturday and Monday are sold out - but the Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert shows up on Friday @ 4:30PM! Sweet! Plus meet comic Stan Lee all day, and snatch up some copies of Lost Magazine at the show store at 4PM.

Death by Black Hole

7PM
Death by Black Hole And Other Cosmic Quandaries
@ American Museum of Natural History
Kaufmann Theater
Central Park West at 79th St
$15

Come on, you've always wanted to know what would happen if - oops! You fell into a black hole! Word on the street is that it involves becoming really long and the inversion of space and time.

Envisioning Global Change

7PM
Envisioning Global Change
@ Apple Store Soho
103 Prince Street

Harnessing the advanced graphics and processing power of the Mac, scientists at the American Museum of Natural Histor render 3D animations from their scientific observations to bring the evidence of global change directly to the general public.

Space Tour

6:30PM
The Grand Tour
@ Hayden Planetarium Space Theater
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West @ 79th St
$12

Take a trip back home for a minute, Spacetron. The Hayden Planetarium, home of the world's largest cosmic atlas, offers a fully interactive tour of the entire universe as we know it right now. It may not be the Pink Floyd laser light show, but it should still be pretty rad.

Dancing Robot Competition

2PM
Robot Dance Competition
@ CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave b/w 34th and 35th St
Free

Hi. This is where kids make dancing robots.

This is where kids show off their dancing robots.

Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia

3:30-5PM
Jimmy Wales
Courant Institute
251 Mercer Street, Room 109
Free

Geek alert! Free Culture at NYU hosts Jimmy Wales, founder of Wiki Media, who will be giving a talk entitled "Free culture, transparency, and search." Free Culture expects a full house, so arrive early in order to snatch your seat - don't forget to ask him to sign your Wikipedia.

Nine Inch Nails DVD Screening

7PM
Nine Inch Nails DVD Screening
@ Knitting Factory Main Space
74 Leonard St
212-219-3132
First 400 free

Where to go when you're feeling pissed off about missing the sold-out Peter Bjorn and John shows.

Brit-Pop Geek Out

2PM
Paul Weller
@ Virgin Megastore
1540 Broadway
212-921-1020
Free

Mod punk junkies, your time is now: britpop icon Paul Weller of The Jam and The Style Council plays a free show at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square. This afternoon The Scene takes on new meaning.

Prog Rock Geek Out

9PM
Prog Night
@ Lido Bar
200 Columbia St. between Sackett and DeGraw
Columbia Waterfront/Red Hook, Brooklyn

Maybe you really like prog rock. Maybe you really want to look like you like prog rock. Maybe you really like the way that people who really like or really want to look like they like prog rock look. If you fall under any of these categories, you'll be taking the F/G to Lido Bar tonight where DJ Doctor Micah Progsnob will spin super-obscure records - Magma, Spermull, Elonkorjuu, Van Der Graaf Generator, Salamander, Thundermother, Brainbox, Kalacakra, Mammut ? - to appease your inner music geek.

Comic Con/Zombie Survival Guide

10am-7pm
@ Penn Plaza Pavilion
401 Seventh Ave at 33rd St
201-861-1414
Fr-ree

Tell me you don't want to go see angsty kids dressed up like Wonder Woman, Soupy Sales, Cochise from The Warriors - honestly, this list is ridiculous. If you want to have an entire high school experience in one day, hop across the street for the New York Titans LAX game when you're done here.

Buffy-aoke

Midnight
Buffy Sing-Along
@ IFC Center
323 Sixth Ave
212-924-7771
Sold Out

With subtitles, finger puppets.

Dorkbot

7PM
Dorkbot
@ Location One
26 Greene St
Free

The 6021st dorkbot-NYC meeting will be full of musical dorkiness of the highest order, to start the year off right.

Geek Out In Style

6-9PM
Geek Out In Style
@ Wired Store
160 Wooster St
Free

Shop while listening to the beats of Neil Aline and Matthias Heilbronn.

Holiday Workshop

4-5PM
Holiday Workshop
@ Apple Store - SoHo
103 Prince St
212-226-3126

Learn how to create greeting cards, family newsletters, and invitations that will delight your friends and family. Discover why the best gift ideas can be found right inside your Mac.

The Big Quiz Thing

7:30PM
The Big Quiz Thing
@ Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction
34 Ave A between 2nd and 3rd St
$9

Everyone gets to play, all for the grand prize of $200. And as a bonus, incorrect but sufficiently amusing answers earn players Smart-Ass Points, and fabulous prizes await the runner-up teams.

Dorkbot

7PM
Dorkbot
@ 26 Greene St
Free

People doing strange things with electricity. This month: Sam Freeman: 1000 Ways It Doesn't Work, a multimedia art project that attempts to come to terms with the General Electric Corporation. Through installations, performances, videos, programs, correspondence, and web pages the project seeks the human dimensions and implications of the multinational behemoth that is GE.

Nerd Nite

7PM
Nerd Nite
@ Orchid Lounge
500 East 11th St between Ave A and B
Free with two-drink minimum

Nerd Nite is an informal gathering at which nerds get together for nerdery of all sorts. Tonight the nerdery will specifically focus on two 20-minute lectures. As they say in Boston, Nerd Nite is like the Discovery Channel with beer.

Nerd Night

7PM
Nerd Nite - "Nerd Nite is like the Discovery Channel with beer."
@ Orchid Lounge
500 East 11th St between Ave A and B
Free with 2 drink minimum

Featuring Jay Grossen giving a visual history of neon signs and Isaac
Souweine discussing Hindu pilgrimages to the Himalayas. Now you can
drink and get more smarter.

Soduku

7PM
Tetsuya Nishio and Kenji Onishi
@ Borders Books Time-Warner Center
10 Columbus Circle
212-823-9775
Free

Sudoku is all the rage now with everyone on the subway. Tonight learn tips and strategies from the puzzle-master and author of Higher Sudoku: New Variations from Japan so you can impress your neighbor on your next commute ride. Also, Kenji Onishi, the inventor of O'ekaki and author of O'ekaki: Paint by Sudoku stops by tonight.

The Science of Graffiti

5:30-8PM
The Science of Graffiti: From Electricity to Cloning and Everything in Between
@ Eyebeam
540 West 21st St between 10th and 11th Ave
Donations suggested

Eyebeam and the Wooster Collective present a night of technology based graffiti projects. A range of experimental work in new materials and techniques for urban communication.

Mobile Living

8-11PM
Mobile Living
@ Skylight Studios
275 Hudson St
$10

Opening reception for the exhibit, Mobile Living.

24/7

6PM
Grand Opening of Apple
@ Apple Store
767 5th Ave at 59th St
Free

This store will be open 365/24/7, so you can pop in at 3:45 in morning when you're finishing up those reports and your computer crashes. It's not the end of the world, the apple techs will be there to save you.

Radio Lab

7-9PM
Radio Lab- Live
@ Soho Apple Store
103 Prince St
Free

An inside look at how Radio Lab bends sound to create what you hear on the air. Meet host and producer Jad Abumrad for a peek behind-the-scenes and into the digital sound of Radio Lab.

Stem Cell

8PM
The State of Stem Cells: Unraveling the Science and the Controversy
@ 92nd St Y- Kaufmann Concert Hall
Lexington St and 92nd St
$25

Bent

7-9PM
The Third Annual Circuit Bending Festival of Music and Art Kick-off Party
@ The Tank
15 Nassua St
Free

Spelling B-E-E

7PM
The Williamsburg Spelling Bee
@ Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimor St between Frost and Richardson St, Brooklyn
Free

Collectors' Night '06

5PM
Second Annual Collectors' Night 2006
@ City Reliquary
484 Union Ave, Brooklyn
$10

Do you have crap that you want to show off and talk about? Well then come to Collectors' Night where you can do just that.

Dorkbot

7PM
dorkbot
@ Location One
26 Greene St
Free

Strange people doing things with electricity. John Arroyo: Eingen Rhythm Software, Jeff Han: Multi-Touch Interaction Research, John Huntington: Synchronizing and a Live Performance with Musical Time.

DiVA

2-10PM
DiVA—Digital & Video Art Fair
@ Embassy Suites Hotel
102 North End Ave
Ticket info

DiVA is the first art fair dedicated to video and digital art.

DiVA

2-10PM
DiVA—Digital & Video Art Fair
@ Embassy Suites Hotel
102 North End Ave
Ticket info

DiVA is the first art fair dedicated to video and digital art.

DiVA

2-10PM
DiVA—Digital & Video Art Fair
@ Embassy Suites Hotel
102 North End Ave
Ticket info

DiVA is the first art fair dedicated to video and digital art.

DiVA

7PM
DiVA—Digital & Video Art Fair
@ Embassy Suites Hotel
102 North End Ave
Ticket info

DiVA is the first art fair dedicated to video and digital art.

Online Debate: Web 2.0

3PM
Web 2.0 Live Online Debate
w/Chris Nuttall & other experts

Post your questions at
www.ft.com/webfuture

Giant Robot

6:30-10PM
Art Exhibition
Group show featuring 20 comics artists
Giant Robot New York (437 East 9th Street)

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Bayside! The Un-muscial!

8PM-9PM
Apocalypse Lounge
189 E. 3rd St. btwn A & B
A play based on TV's Saved By The Bell
It's twisted. It's nostalgic.
Someone dies at the end.
Maybe it's you. Go Bayside

And what play about Saved by the Bell
would be complete with out an
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