What's Happening in New York on May 22nd, 2007

LVHRD: MCFGHT

• TIME: 8pm
  PLACE: TBA (to ticket holders)
  COST:$22, or $11 for members
• SUMMARY: “LVHRD MCFGHT is a single elimination karaoke tournament where LVHRD’s best (and a couple of crowd-rousing ringers and flops) will come forward to prove their singing skills before a rambunctious audience and a panel of astute judges.”
• RELATED:
  • Recommendation: The LVHRD Foundation
  • Shannon’s Review of Dancer Auditions (for DNCHRD) at Sweet: “Unfortunately, it turned into a mass of ironic hipsterness…”

Alice Walker in Conversation with Gloria Steinem

8pm — Tuesday May 22

• WHERE:92 St Y, Kaufmann Concert Hall, Lexington Avenue at 92nd St
• COST:$25
• SUMMARY:”Alice Walker, known for her literary fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple, has written many volumes of poetry and non-fiction. Her most recent book is We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness, a series of spiritual and political meditations on what each of us can do to better the world and be a force for peace, hope and sanity. Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor and feminist activist. In 1972, she co-founded Ms. magazine and remained one of its editors for 15 years.”

An Assembly of Quotable Gents: Those Long Forgotten Hymns

• TIME: 7:30pm
  PLACE: Galapagos, 70 North 6th St, between Kent and Wythe, Williamsburg
  COST:$12
• SUMMARY:”This May, ReddMask Theater Company launches An Assembly of Quotable Gents, a festival of three original one-act plays that celebrate New York City’s infamous saloon life. From Jackson Pollock getting sloshed with the art world at Cedar Tavern to the notorious McGurk’s Suicide Hall, Assembly dramatizes legendary tales from the city’s underbelly and appropriately returns them to their original setting – the city bar.
  
  Jackson Pollock never met a bar he didn’t like, but one that always found a place in his heart, was the Cedar Tavern. Home to some of the country’s most celebrated modern artists, the Cedar Tavern became a pantheon for the wild and dangerous displays that gave the tortured artist his reputation for living out of control.”

All The People You Love

• TIME: 7:30pm
  PLACE: The Cutting Room, 19 W 24th St between Broadway and 6th Ave
  COST:$10
• SUMMARY:”Join us for a lovely evening of stories and music from some of the most truly amazing artists in New York City! Featuring: Curtis Eller, James Braly, Craig Baldo, Daniel Cartier and Greg Walloch. Wear somethin’ cute and bring all the people you love!”

String Theory for Dummies

• TIME: 6:30pm
  PLACE:CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave between 34th and 35th St
  COST:FREE, but register in advance. To register, call (212) 817-8215 or email continuinged@gc.cuny.edu
• SUMMARY:”An entertaining and informative discussion explaining string theory for a general audience. Many scientists feel string theory explains and unifies all of physics. Others feel it is a mathematical exercise that cannot be proven by experiment. All sides of this controversy will be revealed”