What's Happening in New York on January 27th, 2007

Idiotarod 2007: Awards Presentation and After Party

6pm-4am — Saturday January 27

WHERE:21-03 44th AVENUE at 21st STREET, Long Island City Queens NY
COST:$10 (FREE to race participants)
SUMMARY:”To celebrate the presentation of Idiotarod 2007 Awards: Best In Show, Best Sabotage, Most Points, Drag Racers, 4th, 5th, 6th, Last, and other special Judges Awards. and more. get ready to rock the hell out.” With musical guests Peelander-Z, Golem, Flaming Fire and more.

6pm — Saturday January 27

WHERE:Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia St. at Bleeker St
COST:$12 (includes one drink)
SUMMARY:”Each Liar show features four New York performers telling short, absorbing and funny personal stories. But listen carefully, because only three of these fast talkers are telling the truth. The other is making it all up. After hearing the stories and interrogating the performers, you’ll reason deductively, think analytically and then take a wild guess at who’s lying. If you’re lucky you’ll walk away with an inflated ego and a fashionable “I Can Tell A Lie” t-shirt, amid a bitter chorus of, “Congratulations, Einstein,” from the empty-handed losers.’
THIS WEEK: Mike Albo, James Braly, Ophira Eisenberg and Andy Christie

2:30pm — Saturday January 27

WHERE:The Philoctetes Center, 247 East 82nd St, 3rd Floor, between 2nd and 3rd Ave
COST:FREE
SUMMARY:”The major mysteries of the mind have to do with consciousness. One mystery is the relation between consciousness and its physical basis in the brain…A second mystery of consciousness has to do with how we can go about ascribing consciousness to creatures that are physically very different from ourselves…A third mystery is how we can investigate consciousness independently of our cognitive access to it…These questions will be approached from the point of view of philosophy, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, mental illness and theology.”

1pm Registration, 1:30pm Start — Saturday January 27

WHERE:Starting point: McCarren Park, SouthWest corner, on Bedford Street, Williamsburg
COST:$5 per person to race, FREE to watch
SUMMARY:”The Iditarod is the famous long-distance race in which yelping dogs tow a sled across Alaska. The IDIOTAROD is pretty much the same thing, except that instead of dogs, it’s people, instead of sleds, it’s shopping carts, and instead of Alaska it’s New York City.”