Tastemaker

NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR
Printed Matter, Inc. is presenting this first annual fair of, "contemporary art books, art catalogues, artists' books, art periodicals, and 'zines offered for sale by over 70 international publishers, booksellers, and antiquarian dealers." There will be tons of interesting events and whatnot, with participants like Creative Time and Performa. I just read in the Times Style section that "Black is Back," so dust off that black turtleneck and head down.

Date: November 17th - 19th
Time: Fri. & Sat. 11am-7pm, Sun. 11am-5pm
Location: 548 W. 22nd St. (btwn. 10th & 11th Ave.)
Cost: Free

(Ok guys, Creative Time is also responsible for some of the best raves I ever went to. Anyone remember the parties at The Anchorage?)

BURNING NEW YORK BOOK RELEASE
Gingko Press comes strong with this sequel to Broken Windows, featuring the latest and greatest graf artists burning walls in NYC. The evening will include live beatboxing by Semerock, Yako, Kid Lucky, and D-Cross and DJ TRS spinning (& scratching!) old-school hip hop. I'd advise to there early before all the unsavory vandals drink up all the beer! (HCS: Kid Lucky is an old friend from the poetry slam days)

Burning New York Book Release
Date: Friday, November 17th
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Bowery Tattoo (334 Bowery btwn Great Jones & Bond)
Cost: Free
Open Bar: Brahma Beer

MEGA-TASTING AT USQ WINES
My mouth just waters at the chance to taste over 100 different bottles of wine in a single afternoon. In honor of the upcoming holiday season, Union Square Wines is having their biggest tasting of the year today so stop by and give your palate a crash course in oenology.

Date: Saturday, November 18th
Time: 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: USQ Wines (140 4th Ave at 13th St)
Cost: Free

It's finally here! Sundance programmers are finalizing their choices, and the calls are going out. Congratulations to - damn, I am not allowed to tell you who got accepted yet. I am biting my lip. I am dying to tell you guys who got the nod already!!! Ok, ok, I promise to reveal the lucky ones on Monday.

'Flannel Pajamas'
BY GENE SEYMOUR
Newsday Staff Writer

As raw and biting as a December morning in Montauk, writer-director Jeff Lipsky's depiction of modern metropolitan romance honors the sensibilities of both John Cassavetes and Ingmar Bergman, whose "Scenes From a Marriage" could have easily provided Lipsky with a title.

to read the rest of the review, click here.

This just in from my friend Spyro at Tokion magazine:

TOKION and Dewar's White label are running an awesome contest for film makers with short (3-5) documentary style films. The prizes rock and you get your film screened in NY, Boston, Seatle, Portland and LA -
read on.

TOKION Magazine and Dewar's White Label present the KING OF DOC! Contest

Call for Entries
Send us your own 3-5 minute documentary inspired by the following themes:

MISTAKES
Some people are always looking for new kinds of mistakes to make.

CHEAP LOVE
Talk is cheap until it gets into love letters

INTEGRITY
A man's reputation is that which is not found out about him.

All submissions will be judged by TOKION editors as well as by a panel of our celebrity judges including:
Jonathan Caouette, Filmmaker - Tarnation
Ondi Timoner, Filmaker - "DiG!"
Bruce Sinofsky, Filmaker - Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

The Winners:
We will be flying the three winners to NYC to screen the winning films with us. We will screen your film, have a party in your honor, as well as give you the opportunity to be questioned by an audience of your peers regarding the creative process that was involved in creating your film.

The grand prize winner will be offered a $5000 contract with Dewar's White Label to produce Dewar's White Labels next brand-education film. We're also throwing in a new Apple MacBook Pro laptop and a copy of Apple's Final Cut Pro 5.1 production suite. The second and third prize winners will receive a complete software prize package from SONY worth over $1800 - including SONY Vegas Pro and Cinescore.

Eligibility and Details:
All entrants must submit at least three copies of their film on either DVD, Mini DV or VHS format.
You must be at least 25 years old to submit a film into the KING OF DOC contest.
All entrants must include return address and contact information including current phone number, email and photocopy of valid ID (driver's license, non-driver state ID, passport) stating age.

TOKION/Dewar's White Label is not responsible for returning any submissions.
Submissions must be postmarked no later than Dec 11th 2006.
Submissions should be sent to TOKION KING OF DOC contest C/O TOKION
Magazine 341 Lafayette Street, Suite 587, New York, NY 10012.
Winners will allow films to be screened by Dewar's White Label at Dewar's White Label events.
Winning films may also appear in additional future Dewar's promotional spots.
For all contest info log onto www.tokion.com/kingofdoccontest.

Highly Recommended. Some very INFORMED conspiracy theorists. The host Brian Michaels, has, on occasion, materialized in front of me with hot-off-the-declassified-list documents that have blown my mind - documents without outside commentary, documents straight out of the Dept. of Justice files that outline such outrageous plans as their 1950's program aimed at plowing a US airliner into a Miami buliding in an effort to win support against the Cubans. You get my drift.

Truth in SoHo on a Sunday afternoon.
WHAT: Screening of "9/11 Press For Truth"
WHEN: Sunday, November 26 02:00 PM
WHERE: Truth Film Series
32 Watts Street
NYC, New York 10013

HOSTED BY: brian michels.
Tickets are FREE. RSVP required.

For more details and to RSVP, please visit:
http://pressfortruth.bravenewtheaters.com/screening/show/...

Sugarshack Burlesque at the SOUTHSIDE LOUNGE!!!!

41 Broadway at Wythe
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
9:30pm
Free Admission!!!!!!!!!!



The line up this month is:
Host Anita Cookie
Performances by: RunAround Sue, Roja Rouge, Ginger Fringe, Amelia Danger
Go-GO by: Paloma Negra
DJ: Joanne
http://www.myspace.com/sugarshackburlesque

www.myspace.com/southsidelounge

According to Washington insiders, there are moves afoot to dump Vice President Dick Cheney and replace him with either John McCain or Rudolph Giuliani prior to the 2008 presidential election. Whoever succeeds Cheney will be able to campaign for the presidency with the perks that come with being an incumbent Vice President.
Since the increasingly-besieged Cheney has signaled he has no intention of voluntarily stepping down, the strategy by the Bush camp may be to force him out by presenting evidence before Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald that it was Cheney who was responsible for the compromise of CIA non-proliferation covert officer Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates cover firm.

Observers note the unusual professional relationship between Fitzgerald and Karl Rove's defense attorney Robert Luskin. Insiders believe that Fitzgerald may be proffered a carefully crafted deal by Luskin whereby Rove will testify to Cheney's primary role in the outing of Mrs. Wilson and her firm. The sealed indictment of Rove will then be retired permanently. If such a deal is worked out, Fitzgerald may then offer a deal to Lewis I. "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former Chief of Staff, to also testify against Cheney. With such double-barreled testimony, President Bush will then be compelled to ask Cheney for his resignation or face a very nasty and public indictment.
-Wayne Madesn

I feel so warm and fuzzy. I am DYING to watch Cheney go rabid against his own peeps. This is DELICIOUS.

So I (and many other people) have been working for days and days on the details involved with getting a film Premiere and Party off with a bang, and tonite is the nite!! Flannel Pajamas premieres at the Village East Cinemas on 2nd Ave and 12th St. at 7pm, so if you want to see Justin Kirk (Weeds, Angels in America) or Julianne Nicholson (Law & Order CI, Ally McBeal) stepping out, you know where to loiter! Premiere Party at undisclosed-location.

Flannel Pajamas opens to the general public on Wed. November 15th at Angelika (and other screens in other cities). If I see you at the party tonite, give me a kiss for ordering all the beer and wine!