Bowie Dance Ride

If you like Davie Bowie and bikes, well you are in luck. Your two passions combine tonight! Dress up as your favorite Bowie character and pedal around Thompkins Square Park. Ziggy Lives!

May 6th, 2010 / 7 pm
Sponsored by Times's Up
Tompkins Square Park
(Avenue A @ 7th St.)
Free

Henry Luce and the Future of Journalism

What's gonna happen to the field of journalism? Will I one day be mowing lawns or working at Mickey D's?? Columbia Journalism Professor Nicholas Lemann and Alan Brinkley, a history professor talk about Henry Luce that famed founder of Time, Life and many other magazines and, the future of journalism.

May 6th 2010 / 6:15 pm
Columbia University
Heyman Center Common Room
Bway @ 116th Street
Free

New Russian Drama

At Cuny Graduate Center tonight there's a discussion with two leading Russian playwrights of the post-Soviet generation, Yury Kladiev and Vyacheslav Durnekov and the Moscow Times theatre critic. There's also a reading from Kladiev's play I am the Machine Gunner (in English.)The two were co-screenwriters on the now-cancelled raw Russian TV series School about kids in high school drugging and drinking it up and having sex, etc.

May 5, 2010 / 7 pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th St.
Free

2010 Bike Month FootDown Festival

Sponsored by Time's Up / NYC's Direct Action Environmental Organization. Footdown is basically a game where the object is to NOT put your feet down as you ride around a circle. You try to get other riders to put a foot down and players are eliminated if their foot touches the ground. They're meeting up at Union Square and then moving on to a undisclosed private venue to play, so don't be late.

I'd like to go but have class tonight. :-( A friend of mine would also like to go but she just got her bicycle stolen! They broke into her apartment building and into her basement storage unit. Bastards!

Union Square - South side / By the steps (Facing Whole Foods)
May 4, 2010 / 7 pm

Free Mondays / Museum of the City of New York

I love this Museum! And it's even better now 'cause for the month of May there is free admission on Mondays! There's an exhibit of Charles Adams drawings up now. He's the artist who did the delightfully creepy Addams Family illustrations.

Right now you can also see photographs and learn more about the 400 movers and shakers in NYC. You've got people in entertainment like Woody Allen, the arts (Alvin Ailey to name one), writers (James Baldwin), politics (Aaron Burr who killed a poltical rival in 1804), business (Estee Lauder), sports and science.

And for all you car buffs there's Cars, Culture and the City.

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue
www.mcny.org

Feminist Book Club

De Becker "The Gift of Fear"

From the Bluestocking May E-mail: The Feminist Book Club reads and discusses feminism. We make no claim about what feminism is or whom it serves, and are not a forum for any particular feminist platform. Rather, we rely on feminism(s). We read theoretical texts,literature and primary works. We welcome all genders, political persuasions, and levels of familiarity. We meet on the first Sunday of each month. This month's book is "The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence" (available at Bluestockings) by Gavin De Becker.

Sunday, May 2nd / 2:30 pm
Bluestockings
172 Allen Street @ Stanton

Cherry Blossom Viewing

Hanami baby! Going to the Cherry Blossom viewing shindig (Sakura Matsuri) at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) with my friend Emily today. It's a fine day for it. Supposed to be 88 degrees today. 88! Um, what happened to Spring? Spring? It does not exist. Sigh.

Anyways, am looking forward to the festival. There's taiko drumming (my fave!) at noon, haiku poetry readings and Okinawan & Butoh dance. The costume play (cos-play) community will be out in force as well... Will take a lot of pictures of those Gothic Lolitas fer sure. And there's some kind of sushi pillow photo op??? A pillow made of real sushi or a marketing ploy by a pillow manufacturer or something altogether different. Will let you know!

May 1 and 2nd 10 am to 6 pm

$15

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

900 Washington Avenue

Brooklyn (Duh!)