March 2010
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The Consortium List Recommends (Week of March 29)
Think that this week marks the first outdoor party which I’ve seen in a while. Spring must be right around the corner. In the meantime, here are some other ideas for your after-work amusement this week:
PRFlipCupNYC Round 1: Tuesday night, 6:30 PM, No Idea Bar (Some publicists are gathering to play flip cup.)
Get Off Your Knees: Tuesday night, 8 PM, The Bell House’s Front Lounge...
NYC Twestival 2010 Heads Underground
Headed over (or, more appropriately, under) to the NYC Twestival 2010 after Digital DUMBO #14 Thursday night with Mouth of the Border’s Emily Cavalier. It was at Good Units (pictured, left), a new club which opened in February in the sub-basement of the Hudson Hotel, located in Manhattan’s Columbus Circle neighborhood. This year’s event raised money for Concern...
Hootsuite Creators Host Digital DUMBO #14
Invoke sponsored the fourteenth Digital DUMBO (pictured, left) last Thursday night at The Dumbo Loft in Brooklyn’s Digital District (a k a DUMBO neighborhood). The creators of Hootsuite, Invoke expanded from Canada to New York City just last year and decided to host this month’s installment “in gratitude for welcoming them into the community.”
Now, although it...
The Consortium List Recommends (Week of March 22)
It certainly seems like it’s spring, especially after this weekend. However, even if the nice weather doesn’t stick around, there’s still plenty to do this week, including:
Hookah Happy Hour Networking Tuesdays @ Harem: Tuesday night, 6:30 PM, Le Souk’s Harem (J2M will be hosting their weekly networking event here for Internet, restaurant, event planning, and other...
Vampire Shows Up at NY Video March Meetup
Ogmento, one of the five companies which presented at the NY Video March Meetup last Thursday, demonstrated their augmented-reality technology and how it had been used by publisher Penguin to promote one of the books in the Vampire Academy series. The meetup, by the way, was held on the campus of Columbia University in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights neighborhood.
Although this photo...
Thrillist, Bushmills Host St. Patrick's Day Party
On St. Patrick’s Day, Thrillist celebrated “in style” at Ainsworth (pictured, left) in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood with a “Irish line-up” of drinks from Bushmills, NYC DJs spiningg with fiddlers, and a “Riverdance versus Breakdance dance-off.” Regrettably, I had to skip it, but the team at Thrillist has posted a slideshow here of the photos...
Financial District's 'First' Sports Bar Opens
After work on Tuesday, I stopped by the opening of 1834 Bar and Burger, which bills itself as Manhattan’s Financial District’s “first” sports bar. Arriving about 30 minutes after the scheduled 6 PM start time, I was pleased to see that there was still a line (pictured, left), meaning that they had only probably recently started letting people in, were actually checking...
The Left Behind Ascended into Professor Thom's...
NxNYC, the second annual gathering of digital professionals in New York City who skipped SXSW Interactive, took place last Monday night at “The Loft,” the upstairs room at Professor Thom’s (pictured, left) in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood. Hosted by event organizer Christina Coster and freelance programmer Jon Lazar, there were drink specials and despite what you...
New Restaurant, New Beginning
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[Editor’s Note: Since I’m always looking for new places to go eat in my neighborhood, especially when I’m there on weekends, I might just try this.]
I went up to Harlem last night to see the new restaurant and it looks great! It’s a beautiful space and quite small — which is ideal anyways. It’s not too far from the subway and it’s...
[Career Highlights] Profile in Advertising Age's...
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MATTHEW CALDECUTT AGE: 26 32 LOCATION: New York City JOB: PR executive, Trylon SMR
Matthew Caldecutt comes from a long line of early adopters. “My grandfather came over from England in the 1920s and wanted to work at New York Telephone because he heard they’d be using IBM machines for accounting,” he said. “My father went to work there, too, to work on some of the new...
The Consortium List Recommends (Week of March 15)
Survived this weekend’s nor’easter? Still in New York and not in Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive? Here are a few suggestions for what to do this week:
NxNYC 2010: Monday night, 6 PM, The Loft at Professor Thom’s (NYC’s digital community, at least the part not in Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive, is getting together for happy-hour specials.)
Power Cocktails with New...
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Exhibition Explores Memorialization, Leaving an...
The Blue Box Gallery, which is helmed by Julia Kaganskiy and Karen Bookatz and aims to “showcase contemporary artwork that redefines, remixes and reinterprets – in other words, hacks – conventional art-making practices,” hosted its inaugural opening (pictured, left) at The Roger Smith Hotel’s Starlight Loft on Thursday night. The gallery takes its name from a “blue...
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Cross Media Panel Attempts to Explain Transmedia
Wednesday night, it was off to the Scholastic Theater, located in the basement of the Scholastic Building in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. There, I attended a reception (pictured, left), some presentations about “transmedia,” and a panel discussion on the subject, all parts of the first annual Cross Media NYC conference.
Since I don’t usually take deep dives into such...
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Media Leaders Hosts Pre-SXSW Networking Event
Marketing, advertising, public-relations, and technology professionals gathered last Tuesday night at Olives, located in the W Union Square in, obviously, Manhattan’s Union Square neighborhood for an evening of “making lasting connections” hosted by Media Leaders. Still a bit exhausted from my weekend (Yes, I know; my weekend ended two days beforehand), I only stuck around long...
Headlines that speak for themselves: "Karl Rove:... →
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Had I not been at the Cross Media conference at the Scholastic Theater in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood last night, I totally would have been there to hear this.
Speaking at the 92nd St Y Wednesday night, Rove corrected an audience member who referred to ex-veep Dick Cheney as “Darth Cheney” when asking a question.
“No, no, no, no, no. You’ve got it all wrong!” Rove...
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The New York City Transit Museum Delivers High... →
lifestylermag:
Brooklyn boasts of many things in terms of amenities and attractions, with cultural standpoints like BAM, Mark Morris dance company, Prospect Park, and the Brooklyn Museum….
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Watch(via andrearosen & juliakaganskiy)
Here’s a little sneak peek at Nobody Leaves, Everybody Goes, the inaugural exhibition of Blue Box Gallery, a pop-up “New Media” art gallery that Julia Kaganskiy co-founded with her roommate Karen Bookatz.
Nobody Leaves, Everybody Goes
Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:00-9:00pm The Starlight Room at The Roger Smith Hotel 501 Lexington...
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Cab Sharing Picks up Speed with Budget Savvy New... →
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[Editor’s Note: Just curious, has anyone I know actually taken a cab share uptown?]
Public transportation is the best way to save cash, but any New Yorker knows that when you’re in a rush or stepping out of the bar late at night, a cab ride is much more…
The Consortium List Recommends (Week of March 8)
There’s only a week to go before many digital professionals in NYC decamp for Austin, Texas and SXSW Interactive, but there’s still plenty in NYC to do before then and even while that’s going on (I’ll get to that next week). In the meantime, there’s:
Women & Whisky, a Compass Box/LUPEC NYC Winter Warmer Tweetup: Monday night, 6:30 PM, Astor Center (This second...
Julian Young Prepares for 'Crushing...
Julian Young celebrated his birthday with friends over dinner at Flatbush Bar(n) and drinks at Cornelius in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood this past Saturday night.
Pictured on the left are Julian and David Kaplan. Peaking out from behind David is Catherine Weaver.
That “crushing disappointment” in the headline? A totally inside joke and one which you’d have...
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Social-Media Event Promises More Networking, Less...
“Technology evangelist” Amber Rae Lambke and PSFK’s Kyle Cameron hosted Alchemy on Friday night at Matsuri in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District neighborhood, the first of what promises to be a series of events for NYC’s digital professionals to meet and mingle in an informal and far less noisy setting. There were drink and food specials and as promised, a bar space...
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AOL Entertainment Hosts Cocktail Party
AOl Entertainment hosted a cocktail party last Thursday night at Le Poisson Rouge in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, which I only stayed at for about thirty minutes. While there, I spotted Squarespace’s Erica Reitman and McKinsey & Co.’s Devin Brown. I’m sure more people I know were hiding in there somewhere, but I’m sure I’ll catch up with...
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Did The Shorty Awards Grow Up Too Fast?
The Second Annual Shorty Awards (pictured, left) were held last Wednesday night at The Times Center in Manhattan’s Times Square neighborhood (or Hell’s Kitchen, depending on whom you ask). Produced by DUMBO, NY-based Sawhorse Media’s Gregory Galant and Lee Semel, the awards seek to honor “the best people and organizations on Twitter.” Since I have already written...
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OMGPOP's Forman: 'What Excites You About the...
Web-based gaming company OMGPOP’s Charles Forman made his first appearance on stage at the montly tech lecture series known as the March 2010 NY Tech Meetup (pictured, left) last Tuesday (held in the SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology’s Haft Auditorium in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood) to introduce a new monthly feature. NY Tech Meetup attendees can now submit what...
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WHAT YOU MISSED LAST NIGHT: Martini Week with...
[Editor’s Note: This post was written by Katharine Ricci on her blog, NYC Recession Diary, and is republished here with her permission. Sadly, a doctor’s appointment kept me away.]
Monday night Thrillist and Tasting Table kicked off one of their most brilliant ideas yet – Martini Week. When I emailed my friend Katherine to see if she’d join me for the evening over at Madam Geneva,...
5 Fun Things to do in NYC for $5 or Less →
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[Editor’s Note: In my ongoing quest to present you with other ways or places at which you can Paint The Town Red, here’s a link to Lifestylermag’s post about fun things to do in NYC for under five dollars.]
The 5 for $5 is a recurring series that highlights some awesome things you can do for $5 or less in NYC. In past editions, we’ve covered live improv...
