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    What's Happening in New York on February 7th, 2007

    Cringe Night

    9pm — Wednesday February 7

    This event happens EVERY first WEDNESDAY

    • WHERE:Freddy’s, 485 Dean Street at 6th Ave, Brooklyn
    • COST:FREE
    • SUMMARY:”On the first Wednesday of each month, brave souls come forward and read aloud from their teenage diaries, journals, notes, letters, poems, abandoned rock operas, and other general representations of the crushing misery of their humiliating adolescence. It’s better and cheaper than therapy.”

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    Roller Disco

    8pm — Wednesday February7

    This event happens EVERY WEDNESDAY

    • WHERE:The Roxy, 515 W.18th St, between 10th Ave and the West Side Highway
    • COST:$15
    • SUMMARY:”At ROXY Wednesday night is roller-skating & blading, offering New York City’s only complete indoor roller-skate & rollerblade ROLLER DISCO.”
      8-9pm–Disco, 9-10pm–R&B, 10-11pm–Top 40, 11 -2am–House

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    F in the A

    8pm — Wednesday February 7

    • WHERE:Mo Pitkins, 39 Ave A between 2nd and 3rd St
    • COST:$10
    • SUMMARY:”F in the A songs from the new musical inspired by VC Andrew’s timeless classic, Flowers in the Attic with performances by Soren Bjornjork Eleanor Britches H Ryan Flanagan Caleb Rappaport and Michelle Steinway “parents, sisters, brothers, lovers, friends, and above all else…… freedom”"

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    Dorkbot

    7pm — Wednesday February 7

    This event happens EVERY first WEDNESDAY

    • WHERE:Location One, 26 Greene St. between Canal & Grand
    • COST:FREE, but bring snacks to share, RSVP recommended (send email to dorkbotnyc@dorkbot.org)
    • SUMMARY:”People doing strange things with electricity.” ie “dorkbot-nyc is a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students, scientists, and other interested parties from the new york area who are involved in the creative use of electricity.”
    • THIS WEEK:
      free103point9: Transmission Arts: “free103point9 is a non-profit arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating Transmission Arts. This genre includes experimental practices in radio art, video art, light sculpture, and installation and performance utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum.”

      31 Down: Pay-Phone Theater: “31 Down is a theater company that uses radio and network technologies as the backbone for their storytelling in performances and installations.

      Brad Borevitz: The State of the Union: “The website provides searchable access to the corpus of all the State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2007, and uses visualization software which allows a user to explore how specific words gain and lose prominence over time.”

      Tianna Kennedy: “Tianna will talk about the paradoxical role of nostalgia in the avant-garde of sound technology. Along the way she’ll touch on edison’s gramophone, Sir Oliver Lodge’s Etheric experiments, and her collaborator, Tarikh Korula’s own recent archaeoacoustic stylus, which is supposed to retrieve latent ambient historical sound trapped in objects at the moment of their production.”

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    Mysteries of Science: The Missing Link

    7pm — Wednesday February 7

    • WHERE:92 St Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall, Lexington Avenue at 92nd St
    • COST:$30
    • SUMMARY:”Recently discovered, 375 million-year-old large, scaly, fish fossils are considered a possible link in the evolution of fish into land animals. Will these fossils change our ideas about evolution?”

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    Secret Science Club

    7:30pm — Wednesday February 7

    This event happens EVERY first WEDNESDAY

    • WHERE:Union Hall, 702 Union St. at Fifth Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn
    • COST:FREE
    • SUMMARY:”Underground …Shrouded in mist and mystery …And teeming with cocktails previously unknown to science.
      Union Hall’s “Secret Science Club” is back with more radioactive lectures, volatile experiments, chemical libations, and star-gazing sounds!!”
    • THIS WEEK:Infinite Questions: “Buckle up, and journey into the cosmos with author and physicist Janna Levin, as she explores mathematics, literature, and the secrets of the universe…Is the universe infinite or just really big? Can there be a Theory of Everything? How do scientists of the past (notably logician Kurt Godel and code-breaker Alan Turing) help us understand key questions in physics? What is knowable? Don’t miss this brain-bending ride to the edge of human knowledge!”

    Related:
    Shannon’s Review of The Secret Science Club

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