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SPECIAL EVENT
THURSDAY, JULY 23rd
Washington Square
Midsummer Party
7:30
Ground Floor
Hosted
by Aprill Naoko Heck
For every serious reader/writer/drinker who won’t be heading to the
Hamptons this week: join us for the free, fabulous Washington Square
Midsummer Party! Washington Square is NYU creative writing program’s
nationally-distributed literary journal publishing fiction and poetry
by emerging and established writers. Featured readers include acclaimed
writers Timothy Liu, John Yau, and Miranda Field, along with other
recent contributors to the journal. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you won’t
even miss the totally overrated beach thing. Hosted by April Naoko
Heck, reading curator and Washington Square adviser, with
Editors-in-Chief Levi Rubeck and Martin Rock.
TUESDAYS
Disco Down
10:00
Ground Floor
Every Tuesday
Twig
The Wonderkid (Trash/GlamDammit/Diabolik)
and DJ
Bastard (Autodrone/NC-17)
spin a sexy selection of electro, disco, new-wave, post-punk, and indie.
Hosted by The
Glitterkids
"Best
New Party" - The L Magazine
"The Reigning King of Tuesday Night" - Paper Magazine
For more info:
Disco Down
MySpace Page
Six Six Sick
10:00
Lower Level
Every Tuesday
DJs Micprobes,
Peter High
and Dimitry!!!
spin an eclectic mix of electro and party jams perfectly paired with
champagne and sin.
Hostesses Tiffany,
Christina,
and Feng Feng
the now infamous Six Six Sick Girls do their best to make sure that the
party gets a little out of control, so leave your inhibitions at home.
Featured drink specials and imaginative party themes add to the
ambience and atmosphere in what is one of NYC’s best alternative
nights.
Voted "Best
Party" - Paper Magazine Nightlife Awards
For more info:
Six!Six!Sick!
MySpace Page
www.sixsixsick.blogspot.com
WEDNESDAYS
Pleasure Salon
6:00 - 10:00
Ground Floor
1st Wednesday of every month
The Pleasure Salon has
been created to build community, allowing sex-positive activists to
cross-pollinate. Our gatherings bring together members of the BDSM,
swinger, alternative gender, LGBT, sex-activist, nudist, sex-magic,
polyamory, Pagan, radical faerie, tantra, dark odyssey, sex-blogger,
porn, pervert and sex-worker communities, and others whose passion is
sex. (Let us know if we missed any one of you!) Through building
networks in the sex-positive community, The Pleasure Salon hopes to
help create a sex-positive world. It is a place for the open exchange
of ideas and sensual expression.
Write to: info@tantrrapm.com
to request an evite.
Southern Writers Reading Series
8:00
Ground Floor
2nd Wednesday of every month
The Southern Writers Reading Series features the city's best authors
from south of the Mason-Dixon line and an open mic night. Hosted and
curated by Ekoko Omadeke, this monthly series promises to have you
savoring mint juleps while a honeysuckle breeze taps your shoulders.
Bring short stories, poetry, jokes, fiction, songs, and all the
hospitality you can muster to experience the mythic south without ever
leaving Manhattan.
I Had It Bad Reading Series
8:00
Ground Floor
3rd Wednesday of every month
Celebrity crushes, obsessions with
inanimate objects, years-long bouts of unrequited love, distracting
fantasies: author and curator Lisa Locascio has struggled with all of
the above, so in an effort to feel less alone she began I HAD IT BAD, a
reading series devoted to the embarrassing machinations of the human
heart.
Authors read fiction and nonfiction about things we feel, but wish
we didn't. Come out for an evening spent exploring disclosure,
poignancy, and desire.
Visit the I Had It Bad blog at http://ihaditbad.blogspot.com
How I Learned at Happy Ending Reading Series
8:00
Ground Floor
4th Wednesday of every month
How I Learned at Happy
Ending
is a monthly series featuring writers, comedians, bloggers, and
performers as chosen by hostess Blaise Kearsley based primarily on
personal hygiene and make-out prowess.
A complete mash up of the personal, the biographical, fact, fantasy,
and whatever is left in between, How I Learned at Happy Ending
offers such educational topics as How I Learned To Be Super
Successful!, How I Learned To Steal From The Liquor Cabinet, How I
Learned That Everyone Is Against Me, How I Learned My Adolescence Was
Over, How I Learned We Were Breaking Up, How I Learned About Sex, and
more.
How I Learned at Happy Ending strives to share
invaluable life
lessons against a dimly lit, self-indulgent, sexually tense and booze
fueled backdrop. It's education that works.
For more info visit us at: www.howilearnedathappyending.blogspot.com
Get Pregnant!
10:00
Ground Floor
Every Wednesday
Ninjasonik
presents Poppin'
Bottles Gettin' Pregnant! Host Ojay
Morgan, along with DJs Reverend McFly,
Teenwolf,
and Dirty
Finger bring a new flavor to your Wednesday nights with
hiphop/bmore/booty bass music that will get you up and dancing!!!
Check out Ninjasonik - Tight Pants (The Rap Remix) Video Here!
For more info:
Get
Pregnant! on Going.com
Reverend
McFly Blogspot
Chief
Magazine interview with Reverend McFly
C'est Noir
10:00
Lower Level
Every Wednesday
The Lower East Side's official house party. Join hosts Tigga Calore,
Quan Luv,
Mega
and The Royal Underground for classic 90s House, Baltimore Bass and
Miami Booty Music. Expect special hosts, guest DJs from Baltimore and
Philly coming through to play that authentic bass downtown's been
desperate for.
See pixs of previous nights here: www.thegalaxyriders.com/events/cestnoir
Follow us on twitter: www.twitter.com/cestnoir
THURSDAYS
Mr.Beller’s Neighborhood
8:00
Ground Floor
2nd Thursday of every month
Author and Open City Founding Editor Thomas Beller founded mrbellersneighborhood.com
in 2000. The site publishes stories about New York City life that
follow in the tradition of Joseph Mitchell and E.B. White;slices of
life, portraits of memorable characters, scandalous encounters with
public decadence and heartwarming displays of civil courage.
Contributors are either famous, work in a variety of jobs and write out
of a passion to express themselves, or both.
For more info: www.mrbellersneighborhood.com
In The Flesh Reading Series
8:00
Ground Floor
3rd Thursday of every month
In the Flesh is a monthly reading series hosted at the appropriately
named Happy Ending and features the city's best erotic writers sharing
stories to get you hot and bothered, hosted and curated by acclaimed
erotic writer and editor Rachel
Kramer Bussel (Caught Looking, Naughty Spanking Stories from
A to Z 1 and 2). From erotic poetry to down and dirty smut, these
authors get naked on the page and will make you lust after them and
their words.
Check out the blog here: www.inthefleshre
adingseries.blogspot.com
Curator's MySpace page: www.myspace.com/rachelkramerbussel
Interview in Flavorwire
about In the Flesh.
Ether
10:00
Ground Floor
Every Thursday
False
Aristocracy's Lena Marquise
and Frances
Eugenia along with Mike Dextro
prepare their own anesthetic for the pains of the everyday. Blending
original performances and custom visuals with music mixed by some of
the city's hottest deejays, this dance party is a recipe for oblivion.
Basement
10:00
Lower Level
Every Thursday
BASEMENT THURSDAY is a new dance
party at Happy Ending for
Mo's, Ho's, Bro's & Pro's. Celebrating every Thursday night
with a new
two-step in the craziest direction. Come underground, lose your mind,
watch
performances by amazing artists, and dance to DJs that make you say "Oh
Shit, Oh
Shit!" Hosted by Ojay Morgan, resident DJs One Shot Deal, Sophie So
Fresh, Tony
Conquerrah, and other amazing guest host & dJs each week. With
2 for 1
drinks from 10-11pm.
For more info:
Basement
MySpace Page
Basement
on Going.com
Basement
on Facebook
FRIDAYS
Work It Out
10:00
Both Floors
Every Friday
Get your dance on at Happy Ending (cleverly disguised as the Xie He
Health Club). Every Friday, DLO The Big Asian drops a broad mix of
hip-hop, 80's for the ladies, classic rock, and sexy pop tunes, while a
diverse crowd of weekend revelers jive to party classics. So come have
a drink, let loose, and work it out!
For more info:
www.thebigasian.com
SATURDAYS
Can't Tell Me Nuthin'
10:00
Both Floors
Every Saturday
When's the last time you went to a party where everyone working at the
joint was actually cool??? Come in, calm down, and have a good time!
Los Angeles native dj/producer/madman, Kev Sakoda spins Real HipHop,
Soulful R&B, Classic Breaks, a little bit of Reggae, Salsa, and
other stuff that people who don't mind dancing request when they're
tipsy.
For more info: DJ Kev Sakoda's MySpace page
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