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NYC WEEKEND UPDATES (11.19-11.22)
Happy Thursday before Thanksgiving! And Happy World Toilet Day! Enjoy all kinds of consuming from now until…next year!

11.12-11.23 Starting Thursday; various times
CANSTRUCTION ® 17th Annual NYC Competition
WFC Winter Garden
220 Vesey Street and the West Side Highway
November 12 from 9:00 am–11:00 pm
November 13–22 from 7:00 am–11:00 pm
November 23 (LAST DAY) from 7:00 am–5:00 pm
“WFC Winter GardenCanstruction® is the most unique food charity in the world. Since 1992, teams of architects, engineers and students have participated in Canstruction® competitions throughout North America to design and build giant sculptures made entirely from full cans of food.”

11.18-11.22 Wednesday through Sunday
Annual New York City Independent Horror Film Festival
“Moodude Films and the Independent Film Channel Present ‘The 2007 NYC Horror Film Festival.’ The NYC Horror Film Festival comes back to Lower Manhattan. Presented by Moodude Films, in conjunction with IFC.”

11.19 Thursday 7:30pm
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
The Approachable & Alternative Opera
ICO Art and Music Gallery
606 W. 26th Street, in Chelsea
“THE ORIGINAL BYOB SERIES – Bring wine and a friend!”

11.19 Thursday 7-9pm
HEEB presents Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish
The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street
DUMBO, Brooklyn
Free
“Sex, Drugs & Gefilte Fish is the first book from Heeb, the magazine that shows us how being Jewish can be hilarious, touching, and downright strange. Editor Shana Liebman showcases the raconteurial gifts of a proud, searching, and irreverent new generation of American Jews on such diverse subjects as stalkers, cowboys, male strippers, and serving a rabbi a sandwich he would have wished was chopped liver.”

11.19 Thursday 7:30pm (7pm doors)
Non-Motivational Speaker Series
JLA Studios
63 Pearl St. bet Water and Front
Free
“Curated and hosted by Gelf Magazine, this monthly event features an above-average lineup of decidedly non-motivating authorities, each presenting views alternative and overlooked on matters of head-scratching, navel-gazing import. This month you can chuckle at über-pranksters and bane of law-and-order types everywhere Eitan Gorlin—creator of The Eisenstadt Group, a fictional right-wing think tank that perpetuated the Sarah Palin ‘Africa hoax,’ and author of I Am Martin Eisenstadt: One Man’s (Wildly Inappropriate) Adventures with the Last Republicans; and Charlie Todd, founder of public nuisance-makers Improv Everywhere and author of Causing a Scene, a chronicle of the group’s hijinks.”

11.19 Thursday 8pm
Breakthru Radio Show Launch
Shea Stadium
20 Meadow St., Bushwick
Free
“Progressive online station Breakthru Radio celebrates the launch of three new shows tonight with an evening of art, music, and fashion. There are DJ sets from Nunparty, Scott Deadelus, Byrds of Paradise and Total Slacker. Plus, photography by Ben Rowland, comix illustrations from Josh Neufeld and men’s and women’s clothing by Jeannette Tiso. Free Brooklyn lager while it lasts. All ages.”

11.19 Thursday 6:30pm
Great Evenings in The Great Hall: Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Rights
Cooper Union, Great Hall
7 East 7th St.
Free
“Cooper Union’s Great Evenings in The Great Hall presents Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Rights, a dynamic celebration of history past and a rallying cry for the future. Performance artist Karen Finley (George and Martha), NOW co-founder and ex-president Karen DeCrow and Broadway actress Brenda Wehle (Pygmalion) bring to life feminist pioneers Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Victoria Woodhull, and Emma Goldman. Tony, Obie and Drama Desk award winner André De Shields (The Full Monty) portrays outspoken statesman and suffragist Frederick Douglass. Director Lauren Keating (Al’s Business Cards) helms the evening.”

11.20-11.22 Friday through Sunday, Various times
D A N C E S O F V I C E
The Grand Shipwreck Ball
Fort Hamilton Officer’s Club
207 Sterling Drive
Brooklyn
Various ticket packages
Press Kit
“This November, prepare to set sail (literally and figuratively!) for the most extravagant and fanciful gathering of castaways, sailors, glittering mermaids, sea sirens, pirates, romantic sea captains and scalawags ever known to New York! As seen on NHK, MTV and SPIN, the Dances of Vice Festival returns on November 20-22, 2009 in a three-day nautical themed flight of fancy that will be held in several stunning and exclusive locations: Fort Hamilton (ca. 1825), a handsome historical armory which overlooks the New York Bay – The Montauk Club (ca. 1889), an opulent Victorian clubhouse modeled after a Venetian palace – and The Vault of Element – architectural marvels of the 19th Century, all. In line with our nautical theme, the festival weekend starts off with a luxury cruise aboard The Jewel. The festival program features live music ranging from classical opera to rock ballads, international guests, historical costume fashion shows, dance, puppetry, fencing, performance art, vendors, and ballroom dancing, among other chimerical amusements.”

11.21 Saturday 1-7pm
Score! Pop-Up Swap
MeanRed
$3, RSVP
“‘Tis the season for sharing and exchanging. On Nov 21st, 3rd Ward will lend its space to a massive free exchange. Bring your old Blondie records, impulse sample sale buys, penny loafers, Jane Fonda workout videos, harmonica chord progression manuals, etc…and score some new treasures! Find a holiday gift for your mom, a smashing scarf for your friend, or a Queen Latifah cassette tape for your own personal collection. All items are free, and all remaining goods go to charity.”

11.21 Saturday 2pm registration
Cranksgiving 11
Madison Square Park
“Last year, Cranksgiving was New York’s largest alleycat, and it raised over $400 for the NYBMF. It’s a great reason to race – ride to grocery stores and buy food to donate to the homeless. It’s free to race, but you’ll need money to buy food. You can still donate if you don’t want to race. Go to cranksgiving.org for more information. Spread the word about this year. It’ll be even bigger and better.”

11.21 Saturday 7:30pm
Cinema 16
Galapgos Art Space
16 Main St off Water St
DUMBO, Brooklyn
Free with RSVP
“In an era when movies are often reduced to the solitary screens of laptops and iPods, the acclaimed Cinema 16 series offers a true revival of the medium. Pairing obscure vintage film programs with live scores composed and performed by specially chosen musicians, Cinema 16 recreates the shared experience and awe of the 1920’s silent film era. Tonight’s edition of Cinema 16 will be housed in DUMBO’s beautiful new Galapagos Art Space. Admission and cocktails will be complimentary, courtesy of Drambuie, the fabled Scottish spiced whiskey. The program includes two PSA’s and one educational video from the 60s and 70s.”

11.21 Saturday (Wednesdays–Sundays, until 12.27) 12-9pm
WIRED Magazine’s Holiday Pop-Up Store
415 W 13th St
Free
“The annual WIRED Holiday Pop-Up Store is back, this time setting up in the MPD. Be the first to check out the 150 gadgets on display, from the latest TVs, laptops, and cell phones to active gear, home goods, clothing, and toys. For its fifth go-around, WIRED collaborates with several stars: Moby contributes a design, Entourage’s Adrien Grenier teams with Peter Glatzer to curate the green section of the store, and pro skateboarder and video-game impresario Tony Hawk handles the gaming area, naturally.”

11.22 Sunday 2-5pm
Fall Family Day at the Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue, at 88th Street
ADMISSION: $15 per family, $10 members.
Includes admission for 2 adults and up to 4 children
($5 for each additional participant)
“Families are invited to explore the exhibition Kandinsky, a full-scale retrospective of the visionary artist, and engage in a day of family-friendly programs, including art-making activities, performances and storytelling at Fall Family Day. Storytelling, performances, art-making and a special landmark Kandinsky retrospective for the Guggenheim’s 50th anniversary year.”

11.22 Sunday 10:30am-5:30pm
Tim Burton Retrospective
MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
11 W 53rd St.
212.708.9400
Museum admission: adults $20; seniors $16; students $12; members and children under 16 are free. Admission is free for all visitors on Friday nights from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.
“This major career retrospective on Tim Burton (American, b. 1958), consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton’s career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator. Following the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work, the exhibition presents artwork generated during the conception and production of his films, and highlights a number of unrealized projects and never-before-seen pieces, as well as student art, his earliest non-professional films, and examples of his work as a storyteller and graphic artist for non-film projects.”

11.23 Monday 7-8pm
Dread & Superficiality: Woody Allen as Comic Strip with Stuart Hample & Dick Cavett
Strand Bookstore
828 Broadway
212.473.1452
Free
“Combine this title with 1978’s Non-Being and Somethingness, and you’ve got the core tenets of the famed, horn-rimmed neurotic. Writer/cartoonist Stuart Hample’s Inside Woody Allen — a comic series inked during the auteur’s golden years in the late ’70s — supplies the book’s cerebral and hilarious contents. Besides finely drawn panels that compress an entire worldview, Hample’s step-by-step process is also laid bare with pencil roughs, corrections, marginal notes, and even correspondence. Tonight, Hample sits down with former talk-show host and ace converser Dick Cavett.”

Enjoy,
YL

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