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Monthly Brooklyn Board Game Meetup
Our May meetup will be Saturday the 11th. Bring your games, snacks and/or drinks. Please post in the thread what you're bringing so others can make sure they don't bring the same thing, and/or so they can drool over the thought of homemade cookies. March's board game meetup lasted 9 hours, and April's lasted 8, so feel free to come over even if you can't make it for the first hour or three. [more inside]
Criterion Thursday: Do The Right Thing
This week: Spike Lee's DO THE RIGHT THING ("The hottest day of the year explodes on-screen in this vibrant look at a day in the life of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Featuring a stellar ensemble cast."). Because it's on a weekday, we're starting a little later: food at 7, movie at 8. [more inside]
Criterion THURSDAY: I Live in Fear
This week, we're trying out moving our Criterion night to Thursdays, with: Akira Kurosawa's I LIVE IN FEAR ("his most literal representation of living in an atomic age"). Because it's on a weekday, we're starting a little later: food at 7, movie at 8. [more inside]
Wednesday meetup at Zombie Hut
Nobody likes 61 Local! Let's go somewhere else! Like Zombie Hut!
Monthly Brooklyn Board Game Meetup
Our April meetup will be Saturday the 13th. Bring your games, snacks and/or drinks. Please post in the thread what you're bringing so others can make sure they don't bring the same thing, and/or so they can drool over the thought of homemade cookies. March's board game meetup lasted 9 hours, so feel free to come over even if you can't make it for the first hour or three. [more inside]
Shaking it (meet)up #1
I see the darling rope-rider is on hiatus for a bit and I forecast myself wanting a beer on Wednesday. Perhaps others have a similar drink outlook. Someone else at the last meetup suggested 61 Local, so maybe let's try that? Open to venue change if that's really inconvenient for people or if people are afraid of change.
Cherry Blossom Festival 2013
This year's Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden is scheduled for April 27th & 28th, 10am-6pm. [more inside]
Criterion Sundays: Dodes’ka-den
Due to some travel we each have planned in the next few weeks, we're taking a two-weekend break from Criterion Sunday - but not to worry! We will return on Sunday, April 7th with: Akira Kurosawa's DODES'KA-DEN ("by turns tragic and transcendant...all of his hopes, fears, and artistic passion are on fervent display"). [more inside]
Criterion Sundays: French Cancan
This week's film: Jean Renoir's FRENCH CANCAN ("a Technicolor tour de force by a master of modern cinema"). Trailer. Charles Silver, curator of film at MoMA: "If someone asked me to recommend two or three essential or seminal Chaplin or Ford films, I would be less hesitant than I would be with Renoir, whose thoughts and feelings seem universal, and whose films seem to encompass virtually all that is Cinema—and life itself." [more inside]
Criterion Sundays: Smiles of a Summer Night
This week's film: Ingmar Bergman's SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT. Pauline Kael: "Late in 1955, Ingmar Bergman made a nearly perfect work—the exquisite carnal comedy Smiles of a Summer Night. It was the distillation of elements he had worked with for several years... The film is bathed in beauty, removed from the banalities of short skirts and modern-day streets and shops, and removed in time, it draws us closer." Roger Ebert's Great Movie review. An interview with Bergman about the film. [more inside]
Criterion Sundays: Mr. Arkadin
This week's film: Orson Welles' MR. ARKADIN: The Comprehensive Version. Time Out says: "Long unavailable for theatrical screening... Mr Arkadin assumed an equivalent patina of myth and legend to that cultivated by its central character.... Flamboyantly melodramatic, it's a playfully egocentric display of a magician's perverse revelation of his own trickery."
We are back to our regular schedule this week. Potluck dinner from 6pm, movie starts at 7 en punto. [more inside]
We are back to our regular schedule this week. Potluck dinner from 6pm, movie starts at 7 en punto. [more inside]
Criterion Sundays: Eraserhead
As the IFC Center describes it: "David Lynch once described his stunning debut feature simply as 'a dream of dark and troubling things,' but the unclassifiable ERASERHEAD is so much more: an expressionistic headtrip, a Grand Guignol nightmare, a pitch-black comedy of manners, and even a deeply personal allegory about the (post-) nuclear family. Amidst a monochromatic wasteland teeming with smoke and shadows, Jack Nance’s wire-haired wage slave Henry struggles to navigate the horrors of mutant offspring, sinister hallucinations and, most terrifying of all, his new in-laws." How can you resist?
This week there will be no potluck, but feel free to bring snacks to eat during the movie. We're starting a little later than usual. Screening starts at 8pm sharp. [more inside]
This week there will be no potluck, but feel free to bring snacks to eat during the movie. We're starting a little later than usual. Screening starts at 8pm sharp. [more inside]
Monthly Brooklyn Board Game Meetup
Our March meetup will be Saturday the 16th. Bring your games, snacks and/or drinks. Please post in the thread what you're bringing so others can make sure they don't bring the same thing, and/or so they can drool over the thought of homemade cookies. December's board game meetup lasted 8 hours, and January's lasted 9, so feel free to come over even if you can't make it for the first hour or three. [more inside]
Criterion Sundays: All That Heaven Allows
This week's film: Douglas Sirk's ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS ("a heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s small-town America"). Amazing trailer here. [more inside]
Criterion Sundays: Topsy Turvy
Last night's screening of Diabolique was a lot of fun! On to the next Criterion Sunday: each weekend we* will gather for a potluck dinner and watch one of the hundreds of Criterion Collection films available through Roku/Hulu Plus. This week (2/10): Mike Leigh's TOPSY-TURVY, "an unexpected period delight from one of contemporary cinema’s great artists." *ocherdraco and (The Rt Hon.) MP, and friends, including non-mefites [more inside]
Criterion Sundays: Diabolique
What's the point of having access to the masterpieces of cinema if you never actually watch them? It's time to remedy this sad state of affairs, one movie at a time.
Introducing: Criterion Sundays, where each weekend we* will gather for a potluck dinner and watch one of the hundreds of Criterion Collection films available through Roku/Hulu Plus.
This week: Henri-Georges Clouzot's DIABOLIQUE, the best Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never got around to making.
*ocherdraco and (The Rt Hon.) MP, and friends, including non-mefites [more inside]
Monthly Brooklyn Board Game Meetup
Our February meetup will be either on Saturday the 9th or Sunday the 10th. Bring your games, snacks and/or drinks. Please let me know if you're bringing a snack or a drink, so I can say, "Hey, we need more people to bring drinks!" or similar. December's board game meetup lasted 8 hours, and January's lasted 9, so feel free to come over even if you couldn't make it for the first hour or three. [more inside]
Monthly Brooklyn Board Game Meetup
Our January meetup will be on Saturday the 12th. Bring your games, snacks and/or drinks. December's board game meetup lasted 8 hours, so feel free to come over even if you couldn't make it for the first hour or three.
Board Games in Brooklyn! (Now with less Hurricane)
Let's try again, shall we? We have Pandemic, Ticket to Ride, Scrabble, and Risk, and I will probably buy Small World or Dominion before this comes around. We have three tables for playing games, and will provide a small amount of snacks. Bring snacks and drinks that you'd like to have. I propose that we do this on either Saturday, Dec. 1, or Sunday, Dec. 2. Once again, we'll start at 2pm. [more inside]
Board Games in Brooklyn!
I want to play board games with you fine people! I can host such an event on Sunday, Oct. 28th. We have Ticket to Ride, Scrabble, and Risk, and I've been looking for an excuse to buy Pandemic or Dominion. We can either use my place (we have three tables that could be used for playing games) or somewhere else.
98.1034 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
98.1034 Bottles of Beer on the Wall provides drunken encounters with compulsive systems. A program continually preens itself, inserting lines of code to change its visual representation, but along the way, introducing glitches and new patterns of behavior. A therapist program tries to dispense advice as her logic slowly breaks down. Sound editing software turns simple geometric shapes into hallucinatory landscapes. Photoshop generates intricate patterns in an attempt to hide visual compression. A book displays the abuses and absurdities of the DNS system, an addressing apparatus that has seemingly exhausted meaningful combinations of English words. [more inside]
Dog Meetup 2.0
Let's have another dog meetup. Same time, same place works for me. Let me know if it does for you.
Greenpoint (Weekly Brooklyn) Meetup
I moved up to Greenpoint a few weeks ago, and was really eager to explore my new neighborhood, preferably in the company of a few MeFites. So, I decided to hold a meetup there. NOTE: this will also be the weekly Brooklyn meetup this week. [more inside]
Sycamore meetup!
Since several of us are from the Ditmas Park/Kensington area, we've been talking about having a meetup at Sycamore, the neighborhood whiskey bar/flower shop (don't worry, they've also got beer). There is a backyard, so let's meet there if the weather is nice!
Brooklyn Dog Meetup
Let's have a Brooklyn dog meetup some Saturday while the weather is nice (but not too hot.) [more inside]
Weekly Brooklyn Meetup: Homecoming Edition
Sakura Matsuri // Cherry Blossom Fest. @ Bk. Botanical Gardens
Nova Social release party show @ Littlefield in Brooklyn
My band Nova Social is celebrating the release of our new record with a pretty exciting night at one of our favorite Brooklyn spaces. If you're looking for something fun to do on a Thursday night, check in for more details... [more inside]
The Much Anticipated NYC Trivia Night
As a result of this post and from the fact that several of us just really wanted trivia to happen already/actually went to the trivia night at this place and had a good time, we are going to try our first NYC MeFite trivia night at Last Exit Bar. [more inside]
3SW comes to Brooklyn!
My yacht rock cover band project, Three Sheets to the Wind, will be performing at the Knitting Factory this Friday. We are headed up from our home in Virginia for a Virginia Tourism Corporation private event in Manhattan on Thursday, and decided to book a show for the public while we're up there.
Back home in Richmond, the band was voted Best Band or Best Cover Band, depending on which publication you read in 2011.
Vrakatar @ 40
My old man is turning 40!
Help him relive his youth in the nascent days of video gaming with Saturday afternoon of Centipede, Arkanoid, Asteroids, Galaga, and Frogger at Barcade! [more inside]
Post-Meetup Potluck in our new home in Kensington, Brooklyn
After you go to the meetup in Crown Heights, head over to our new place in Kensington for a potluck dinner. My boyfriend, (The Rt Hon.) MP will be making some delicious vegan chili, and we welcome other vegan dishes (homemade or storebought), or (of course) beer. [more inside]
Crown Heights Brooklyn meetup. Wednesday August 17th, 4pm onwards.
Brooklyn Brainery Summer Party [Crawfish/Trivia] Explosion
If you like facts or fun or fcrawfish, Brooklyn Brainery is having an awesome party at the City Reliquary in Williamsburg on July 31. [more inside]
Basic drinking party
My girlfriend feistycakes will be turning the big four-oh soon. All she's ever wanted is to travel in time and space with a handsome, witty stranger... [more inside]
OKCupid Portrait Photography!
I'll be in Prospect Park (Brooklyn, NY) from 4pm-6pm on Sunday, June 19th, ready to take photos of any MeFites who need new good pictures of themselves, as per this thread. Come to get your photo taken, or feel free to bring your camera to help out! [more inside]
Nerdy standup comedy in Brooklyn
Have you ever thought, "I wish Sumana Harihareswara would do some standup comedy about project management, Linux, relationships, Agile, public transit, science fiction, and These Kids Today"? I'm performing half an hour of geeky standup in the basement of a church in Greenpoint. 8-8:30pm. [more inside]
Brooklyn meetup
Let's meet at a Brooklyn bar on Friday (2/11) and have some fun. [more inside]
Exit Every Mundi - The Dr. Sketchy's 5th Anniversary Bash
It's the end of the world! In fact it's the all the possible ends of the end as Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School celebrates 5 years with a tribute to Eschatology! Draw models depicting The Whore Of Babylon, Gas-Strapped Road Warriors, or inevitable zombie hordes. Mingle, drink, draw, eat and boggie down the Apocalypso in a sumptuous Brooklyn art space. It's the end of the year as we know it and it's about damn time. [more inside]
Turtles in Brooklyn
turtlegirl and I will be in New York City for one night only (Sunday, 17 October) to visit family (MeFi noob, bellebelle!) and would like to do a meetup in Brooklyn. Hugh Janus suggested Spuyten Duyvil knowing how much we like good beer. Hope others can join us!
Godspeed!
Godspeed You! Black Emperor tickets for 3/16/11 and 3/17/11 have gone on sale for NYC! Let's have two meetups! (This is for the 3/16 show) [more inside]
Let's hear it for New York
Hey New Yorkers, oinopaponton moved to our hood! Let's show her how the New York nerds throw the best meetups. We're gathering July 31st at Rebar in DUMBO. [more inside]
Coney Island Baseball Game!
Hey New York City, we're going to see a Brooklyn Cyclones game in Coney Island on Saturday, July 10th, at 6 p.m. [more inside]