Taste of Science: Flu Season
Ryan's Daughter 350 East 85th Street, New York, NY, United StatesAchoo! If you’re not feeling too under the weather, come join us at Ryan’s Daughter for an evening all about influenza. Learn about how researchers trace flu pandemics back to their animal sources, and about efforts to generate a universal flu vaccine. Play our trivia game and win special flu-related prizes! Doors open 7pm, Event […]
Philippe Lançon on Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo
The Center for Fiction 15 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesWriter and Charlie Hebdo columnist Philippe Lançon survived the last day of his life—January 7, 2015. But his jaw, mangled by a terrorist’s bullet, required countless operations and long hospital stays to repair. Throughout months of reconstructive surgeries, he turned to Kafka, Mann, and Proust to better understand who he’s become and remember who he was before […]
How We Watch in the Age of Social Media: Andrew Marantz + Emily Nussbaum in Conversation
Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan 334 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, United StatesThe New Yorker's Andrew Marantz and Pulitzer Prize-winner Emily Nussbaum address how social media has changed the way we watch television and presidential debates, as well as the parallels in each of their new books, Marantz's Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation and Nussbaum's I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution. […]
Unexpected Pairings: Katz’s Delicatessen and Teranga
Museum of the City of New York 1220 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesWhen New Yorkers think of "comfort food," there are unending possibilities beyond the classic pizza slice – from pastrami to the ancient grain fonio. In this warming, winter iteration of our Unexpected Pairings series, Pierre Thiam, co-founder and executive chef of the new West African comfort food spot Teranga (at The Africa Center), joins Jake Dell, owner of the famed NYC landmark Katz’s […]
Artist Talk with Sinan Antoon and Hadieh Shafie
Center For Book Arts Inc 28 West 27th St, New York, NY, United StatesCurator for “I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name.” , Lila Nazemian will be in conversation with poet Sinan Antoon and artist Hadieh Shafie to discuss the themes in the exhibition, relative to narrative-making practices of language, translation, and the mechanics of the written word. “I open […]