Today’s “Fab 5″/ Selected NYCity Events – TUESDAY, JAN. 06, 2015.
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Five Boroughs Food Talk: Brooklyn as a Brand — SmartStuff/ Conversation 7:30
My New Orleans, Gone Away: A Memoir of Loss and Renewal —
SmartStuff/ BookTalk [FREE]
The Theory of Everything Screening— SmartStuff/ Film + Q&A
Cowboys-N-Indians : Evolving Images of America and “that Masked Man” from Childhood to Adulthood — SmartStuff/ Lecture [FREE]
“How To Travel The World on $50 A Day” — SmartStuff/ BookTalk
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Five Boroughs Food Talk: Brooklyn as a Brand
Brooklyn has a rep for being achingly cool and that goes for its food, too. Listen as Every Day with Rachael Ray food features editor Gabriella Gershenson discusses the many reasons why Brooklyn dishes are in a hip category of their own.
“Gershenson hosts this talk on brooklyn as a brand with brooklyn flea + smorgasburg founder eric demby, first prize pies and butter + scotch’s allison kave, former brooklyn borough president marty markowitz, and edible brooklyn editor rachel wharton” (theskint.com)
Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th St.
subway: 1, 2, 3 to 96th St.
7:30pm. / $15.
212-864-5400 / symphonyspace.org
My New Orleans, Gone Away: A Memoir of Loss and Renewal
Peter M. Wolf revisits his childhood city with an architect’s eye and a poet’s sensitivity in his new book, My New Orleans, Gone Away: A Memoir of Loss and Renewal.
“Engaging…delightful…Wolf returns to the Big Easy after a protracted Yankee Education at Exeter and Yale, joins his father’s firm in the cotton trade, takes up lodgings on Burgundy Street at the edge of the French Quarter, and hangs out at places the mere mention of which sends shivers of pleasure down my spine” – Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
Barnes & Noble, 1972 Broadway
7PM / FREE
212-595-6859
The Theory of Everything Screening
With Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones Q&A
A screening of 2014’s The Theory of Everything, which tells the story of a young Jane and Stephen Hawking, is followed by a Q&A with the film’s stars, Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones.
Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St.
7:30 PM / $12 (free with museum admission)
members get free admission and free film screenings all year long.
there is not a better museum mebership program in town.
212-708-9400
COWBOYS-N-INDIANS : Evolving Images of America and “that Masked Man” from Childhood to Adulthood
Most of us who grew up on American stories remember having played ‘Cowboys and Indians’ as a dramatic enactment. We’ve read comics on the Cowboy-and-Indian, or seen a Western movie, or had a Sherriff badge amongst our toys. But where did Cowboy-and-Indian imageries begin, and when? Is there any link from the America-past of the Indigenous Era, and America-present, to the emerging and evolving imageries of America-future?
Known world-wide because it is a radical evolution, though not acknowledged, the Cowboy-and-Indian is the heart-beat of American mythology, known by many different names and continually metamorphosing with each generation of American Heart and Soul.
Bradao traces what we know of the Lone Ranger and Tonto — from George Trendle and Fran Striker, the Dallas Cowboys and their cheerleaders, Johnny Depp’s vision of 2013, astronauts going where no one has gone before, forensic mythology of the Knights of Malta and Genovese Sailors, and coming full circle to the intoxication of the players in the World Cup. An argument for American mythology’s continuity is present in this dance of “imaginaries for life”, which grows up under the pre-texts of magic amongst men to boys, and girls to women, in the childhoods of early and modern America. Portions of this work have been presented at other conferences and in a United Nations lecture.
NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, South Court Auditorium
1:15 p.m. / FREE
“How To Travel The World on $50 A Day”, Matt Kepnes
Like most of us, Matt Kepnes longed to travel, to quit the daily grind of a cubicle job and simply get out there, to call the world home and never stop moving. Unlike most of us, Matt actually did that, and six years later, he’s still traveling. Learn how to do the same as “Nomadic” Matt shows you the ropes with his book How To Travel The World on $50 A Day, a guide to getting more bang for your buck and stretching out even the smallest of backpacking budgets.
Matt will teach you how to:
* Avoid paying bank fees anywhere in the world
* Earn thousands of free frequent flyer points
* Find discount travel cards that can save on hostels, tours, and transportation
* Get cheap (or free) plane tickets
7:00PM – 8:00PM
Buy a copy of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day or a $15 Strand gift card
in order to attend this event.
Strand’s Bookstore, 828 Broadway at 12th St.
3rd floor Rare Book Room
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A PremierPub / Upper West Side
Dinosaur / 700 W125th St. @ 12th ave.
Walk only five minutes from the 125th St. station on the #1 line to find this authentic honky-tonk barbecue joint. Some folks think Dinosaur is just a place to eat ribs. Au contraire. With 24 carefully selected taps, this is a place to drink beer, and eat ribs.
No food goes better with American craft ales than American barbecue. Dinosaur may be the best combo of good beer drinking and hearty eating in town, which makes the trip uptown to West Harlem totally worthwhile.
This second incarnation of Dinosaur in Harlem is in a two story, old brick warehouse near the Hudson River. Don’t let that run down exterior fool you. Inside it’s a large space with huge, rough wooden columns and unfinished wooden floors and brick walls – just right for a bbq joint. As soon as you open the front door you are hit with that tantalizing aroma of barbecue coming from the large open kitchen. Reminds me of those great rib joints I frequented when stationed in North Carolina all those years ago. If your stomach wasn’t grumbling before, it is now.
Head to the bar, sit down and try to decide on a beer. It’s not an easy decision – a good problem to have. This is a pretty damn good beer list to choose from, one that most beer bars should be jealous of. I love that they feature NY craft beers. You may want to try the four beer sampler, which is always fun, and in this place may be necessary.
The blues music playing in the background will get you in the mood for their North Carolina style barbecue, and even when it’s a full house your order shouldn’t take too long (assuming you snagged a table). The food is all slow smoked, so it’s already mostly done and ready to go. I always start with an order of their giant, spice rubbed wings, so good they may make you give up Buffalo wings.
Unfortunately, a place this good does not fly under the radar. There can be some long waits for a table at dinnertime. So you need a strategy – avoid prime time, and try not to arrive with your entire posse, which will limit your seating options.
A seat at the bar, a small table in the bar area, or in the summer, an outside table underneath what’s left of the elevated West Side Highway, all may open before a table inside the main dining room. Otherwise, try Dinosaur for lunch, or come very late for dinner, maybe after a show at the nearby Cotton Club nightclub.
Website: http://www.dinosaurbarbque.com/
Phone #: 212-694-1777
Hours: Mo-Th 11:30am-11:00pm; Fr-Sa 11:30am-12:00am;
Su 12:00pm-10:00pm
Happy Hour: 4-7pm every day; $1 off all drinks
Music: Fri / Sat 10:30pm
Subway: #1 to 125th St.
Walk 2 blk W on 125th St. to Dinosaur Bar-B-Q,
just past the elevated highway.
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