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Barbeque, Bernie Williams, and metafilter: let's meet at the pedestrian plaza next to the Flatiron Building opposite Madison Square Park at 2PM, and then head to the Big Apple Barbecue Festival. I'm not able to make it to this anymore, but if anyone ends up going, have fun! [more inside]
posted by ChuraChura on Apr 22, 2016 - 19 comments

Interested in good conversation? Exploring ideas? Reading the odd article to jumpstart a thoughtful exchange? Then join us for the next Salon on February 9, 2016 (newly) in Brooklyn. [more inside]
posted by Violet Blue on Feb 1, 2016 - 7 comments

Interested in good conversation? Exploring ideas? Reading the odd article to jumpstart a thoughtful exchange? Then join us for the first Salon of the New Year on January 20, 2016 in Brooklyn.*
*(I know, I know, it used to be New York City.) [more inside]
posted by Violet Blue on Jan 4, 2016 - 4 comments

Staten Island Cyclocross is canceled. Want to go watch a bunch of people on bikes and in various forms of spandex try to make it through sand, barriers, up and down hills and go around sharp turns? There are cowbells involved. And waffles. [more inside]
posted by sciencegeek on Oct 24, 2012 - 10 comments

At the College of Staten Island, this coming Saturday, there will be an academic conference devoted to Staten Island's 350th anniversary. The keynote speaker is Ms. Carmen Farina, Former Deputy Chancellor of New York City Public Schools. At 2:30, I will be giving a short presentation about the period (late 1860s) in which General Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was in exile in Staten Island.
posted by Jagz-Mario on Mar 16, 2011 - 0 comments