On Tuesday, January 20th, the Inauguration will mark the end of an error and the start of an exciting new chapter in American history.

The weekend before, on the eve of Martin Luther King Day, join NYC's progressive party people for a dancing, drinking, delirious joy.

The Living Liberally Inaugural Ball.

Sunday, January 18th - 8pm

Rush - 6th Avenue @ 16th Street

Three floor dance party; special guests; drink specials all night and the first drink on us; the Inaugural energy right here in New York.

This party is 18+ - BRING ID for entrance and to be served (21+). Also note: Rush is CASH ONLY. (Attire is whatever you make of it -- there will be people in suits and gowns, and others dressed down to get down)  read more »

Steve Harrison is having a press conference tomorrow at 2pm at the Staten Island Ferry (Staten Island side) to discuss his position on congestion pricing. Steve has stated that he does not oppose congestion pricing, but he does oppose THIS congestion pricing plan. You can read more about his position on our website: www.steveharrisonforcongress.com.

Please support us by attending this conference and telling your friends and neighbors to join us as well.

New Democratic Majority is hosting a fundraiser tonight for the Activist Academy, an ongoing series of workshops to, well, train activists.

Join us:

Red Sky
47 E 29th
April 18th, 2007
6:30 to 9:00 PM

This year's first Academy session, on Albany reform, is being held this coming Saturday, featuring Brian Keeler. For more details, please go here.

Alrighty, that was an extraordinarily short post. That's because I'm running out the door; see you there tonight.

MARK NAPIER
new software art and prints

Thursday, April 12, 2007
6:30-8:30 pm

bitforms gallery
529 West 20th Street, NYC
(btw. 10th & 11th avenues)

If you live at a relative stone's throw from the Empire State Building, what does the ultimate symbol of capitalism become before your very eyes? How is this place tranformed by digital culture after 9/11?

In the creative mind of Mark Napier, the ESB is a cyclops formed of brick and mortar yet powered by flesh and cicuits. It is a symbol of a crumbling physical power caught in the webs of immateriality forged by software and the net. It is the very essence of the shifting structures of power.

Mark has been at work on this project for about 2 years now. It's interesting and horrific to live with a working artist. There is no reason for him to code the software that created the print for the sites or the actual artwork, yet it's more than just like a disease. He codes because he has to. That's how he builds his sculptures and paints his digital canvases.  read more »

I've been meaning to post this for a while now. This item on NYP's Page Six made me laugh because it happened to me just days before.

Michael, David and I were invited by Dave Pollak (grok, please tell me I go his last name's spelling right or I'll have to rend my shirt and gnash my teeth) to a fundraising event with Nancy Pelosi the same day John Edwards came into town.

Now, mind you, I'm poking fun at Dave and Eliot because ... well ... do I have to have a reason?

I arrived at Cipriani's early to scope the room and get a feel of how I was going to photo & video blog the place. So I'm checking my camera's batteries and find out the dang rechargables are dead. On my way to the corner store I find Eliot Spitzer already pressing the flesh. I nod a hi and run out. On my return, I have about 8 packs of batteries, just to make sure my darn camera doesn't go dead (it did, days before, during a John Leguizamo interview).

Eliot notices the mess of cells and asks incredulously, "Why do you need so many batteries?" As non-minxish as I could (the man is gorgeo although not as tall as I thought he would be) I responded, "So I can film you saying The Daily Gotham is the best blog in New York City."  read more »