a few early week picks

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Recommended art stuff
at mike weiss gallery 524 West 24th Street
Current Exhibition
Maya Gold: Wake October 29, 2009 - January 9, 2010
New York NY 10011
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ROBERT WILLIAMS
Conceptual Realism
IN THE SERVICE OF THE HYPOTHETICAL
October 31, 2009 - January 23, 2010
http://www.tonyshafrazigallery.com/index.php?mode=current
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SunTek Chung Kingdom Come
Host: Collette Blanchard Gallery
Location: Collette Blanchard Gallery 26 clinton st, nyc
18 November - 10 January, 20, 2010
Collette Blanchard Gallery is pleased to present its first gallery exhibition 'Kingdom Come' with SunTek Chung which will be on view from November 18 through January 20, 2010.
Neon light sculpture, and staged photographs, appear with bronze sculptures





Sunday, January 3, 2010
No Parking On The Dancefloor
NYE HANGOVER EDITION!
Host: NO PARKING on the dancefloor
Type: Party - Club Party
Start Time: Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 7:00pm
End Time: Monday, January 4, 2010 at 12:00am
Location: House Of YES!
No parking baby, no parking on the dance floor. Classic boogie ppl.
Now a sunday early evenin' thang at house of yes, come thru and get down down down before you shitty shitty chitty chitty bang bang of a life starts up anew.
sUNDAY Jan 3rd
No Parking on the Dancefloor number 13? 14?
@ House of Yes
DJs: Mice elf, Dhundee, Mr. Vacation
$5-$500 suggested cover. So treat us right and bring enough gum for everybody!
7pm to midnight request line
342 Maujer near Morgan, BK. L to Grand St.
PLUS
Smoothies by Love Grrl
Tamales by Laura McMillian, Hot Tamale Girl Extraordinaire
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We're kicking off 2010 with a big show at Mercury Lounge, Sunday Jan 3 2010!
The Sweet Ones
GuitarBomb
Robots and Empire
These Green Eyes
The Lows.
only $8!!!
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dunno. My guess is its a soul party at this decent bar
Sunday SOULcial
Start Time: Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 10:00pm
End Time: Monday, January 4, 2010 at 1:00am
Location: 200 Orchard
First Sunday SOULcial of 2010!!!
10pm @ 200 Orchard
(Orchard street below houston)
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Sunday, January 3rd
FRANK WOOD presents
WIND DoWN SUNDAY
at
ottos shrunken head
538 E. 14 St. bet. Aves. A & B
GASS WILD's Birthday Celebration
5:00 WORM (Mass.)
6:00 JYNX & DINO
6:45 BLUE SHADOW DOGS
7:30 BOWERY BOYS
8:35 KING B & THE STINGERS
9:30 SHE WOLVES
10:30 THE LOVE PIRATES
11:30 ASH GRAY & THE GIRLS
And later:
1 AM The "SOFA KING" WILDE JAM
NO COVER


Monday, January 4, 2009
Glad All Over!!! TWO TEARS and MISS JILLY
Start Time: Monday, January 4, 2010 at 9:00pm
End Time: Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at 2:00am
Location: 200 Orchard
The first 'Glad All Over!' of 2010 is proud to present.....
The fabulous TWO TEARS one lady band!!
MISS JILLY...I'm pulling double duty, slinging AND singing!
DERRICK M holds down the tunes with a special set by guest DJ BOOZY JO!
$4 bud/bud lights...$6 with a house shot. Fun starts at 9pm, shows at 10pm. NO COVER.
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Mon 1/4 BOOM CHICK Residency w/ special guests
http://www.myspace.com/boomchicknyc
BOOM CHICK are a rock n' roll duo based out of Brooklyn, NY. Boom Chick's influences come from 1950's and early 1960's rock n' roll, surf rock, and early American blues. Frank Hoier sings and plays electric guitar, switching between slide on a 1930's hollow body, and a custom made Kelly Stratocaster. Moselle Spiller plays a stripped down vintage drum kit. Curating a month long series Mondays in January, Boom Chick will bring some of the best talents in Brooklyn.
8PM - Foster
9PM - Dustbusters
10PM - Boom Chick
No cover
Rose | 345 Grand Street (btwn Havemeyer & Marcy) | Williamsburg | Brooklyn | NY | 11211 | 718.599.0069
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at the slipper room
Vroom! Vision: Now in Technicolor
January 4th brings you a hot new line up to warm your cold Winter blood. Join Veronica Vroom! and her co-hosts Joey Nova and Miss Kristen Lee for a seductive evening of burlesque noir with performances by Apathy Angel, Lydia Love , Lefty Lucy, Miss Kristen Lee and Veronica Vroom!
Only Five dollars! Doors @ 10. Show @ 10:30.
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the following parties are every damn Monday, usually busy and always free:
Smartass rock trivia at pianos, free, 8 pm, followed by karaoke dokie
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live band karaoke at arlenes grocery, stanton bet orchard and ludlow. If you like rock and metal, and who does?, I mean, who doesn't?, then this is the place to fulfill you dreams

Tuesday, January 5, 2010
at Goodbye Blue Monday
Bushwick Book Club has musicians sing about a book every month.
This month is Cat’s Cradle, the Vonnegut classic.


Wednesday, January 6, 2010
DES ROAR, DEAD SPARROWS, DOPPELGANGER @ MERCURY LOUNGE
Start Time: Wednesday, January 6 at 9:05pm
Where: MERCURY LOUNGE
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A Trip To Coney Island with Uncle Zero Boy
Step right up folks! Join vocal acrobat, comedian and East Village
superhero, Zero Boy as he takes his nephew on the ride of his life.
Tour Coney Island's past, present and future. While you the audience,
are the nephew. An audio-visual adventure exploring America's original
playground.
galapagos art space
Wednesday, January 6th
Doors: 7:00pm/Show: 8:00pm
Tix: $10.00
For my email list. The code is ZERO = $5.00 tix
www.galapagosartspace.com/events.html#10
16 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
At the corner of
Water Street in
DUMBO
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dorkbot-nyc meeting
When: 06 January, 2010, 7-9pm
Where: Location One, Greene St. between Canal and Grand
$$$: $FREE$
The 1g6s-th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday,
January 6th, 2010 at Location One in SoHo.
The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to
share. YUMM.
We're always looking for (and playing) more dorkbot theme songs! Bring
or email one and we'll play it at the meeting.
Featuring the zygomorphic and highly elongated:
John Saunders: Home Shop CNC Machining in NYC and Rapid Prototyping
Technical developments over the past decade have revolutionized the
home/hobby CNC and fabrication world.
http://www.nyccnc.com
Natalie Campbell: SP Weather Station
Co-founded by artists Natalie Campbell and Heidi Neilson in 2007, SP
Weather Station is an interdisciplinary project that collects weather
data, hosts a Guest Lecture Series, and organizes weather-related
publications, events, and exhibitions.
http://spweatherstation.net
V. Adán & D. Repetto: Chiplotle -- now that's a spicy plotter library!
Pen plotters were some of the first computer-controlled physical output
devices. They were used from the 1960s through the early 1990s for
rendering architecture and engineering drawings, cheezy business plots,
and occassionally "plotter art.
http://chiplotle.org
dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity
http://dorkbot.or