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Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: Gallery Bar
Street: 120 Orchard St. (at Delancey)
City/Town: New York, NY

Organized by Ari and Jonathan Melber.
Featuring Clay Shirky.

More about it at our calendar of events.

M is for monsoon, which is what's like here in NYC right now.

M is for mojitos, which is what am going to be downing with my amigos.

If you don't follow me on Twitter or haven't friended me on Facebook, you wouldn't know that am going to be at Yuca Bar (First Avenue and 6th Street), ensconced from 7PM onward, sipping my lime-minty sensations.

Yuca Bar
Corner of Avenue A and Six Street
7PM

You bloggers really are becoming the 800 pound Gorilla in the room.

That is what a good friend said to me today (paraphrased), I think with some surprise behind it. He will laugh that I am using that line, but in retrospect it really sets the tone for this evening.

My friend is a major player in Brooklyn politics. I'd say who because I have lots good to say and he has some ambitions, but I think he prefers to keep his name out of the blogs. But today he said that bloggers have become the 800 lb. Gorilla in the room. I laughed and let it pass as we talked about local politics. But tonight I kept coming back to that statement as I stood, among some of the biggest big wigs of the party, and realized that it was true.

Yesterday a bunch of us got invited as guests to a major DCCC dinner in Manhattan honoring Nancy Pelosi. This really was playing with the big boys, and we got invited. The venue was Cipriani, a prime ballroom on Wall Street with Corinthian columns that make everyone, even Eliot Spitzer, look short. The ceiling is dilapidated and needs major restoration, but the rest of the place was spectacular...in a way that is gaudy and I largely dislike. But this is the kind of place where the big boys play.  read more »

A late-breaking invite from the fine folks at DL21C: Come out tonight to meet a true superstar of the Progressive movement, Montana Senator Jon Tester.

Monday, March 5
8:30 pm
at
Red Sky Lounge

47 E. 29th Street (between Park and Madison; 6 train to 28th Street) with a special introduction from New York City Councilman Dan Garodnick!

Cover is $7 for non-members, $10 at the door without RSVP; please RSVP at their web site, here.

State Senator Diane Savino and Downtown Staten Island Council Vice Chair Kevin Barry host a March 7, 2007 6-8 PM fundraiser fundraiser for Democratic Assembly candidate Matt Titone @ Vida
381 Van Duzer Street Staten Island, NY 10305.

Suggested Donations are $500, $1000 and $2500, but Matt won't turn away those who can't afford to give at those levels.

For More information contact Nick Vagelatos (212)239-7323.