We feel a deep sense of injustice when we learn that our favorite sports player has cheated or when a bad call goes against our team. But is sports the last field in which we have a clear sense of right and wrong?

On December 16 at 92YTribeca, a panel of the country’s best sports writers and reporters—including ESPN The Magazine editor-at-large (and former editor-in-chief) Gary Belsky, Jeremy Schaap (E:60 senior correspondent), Seth Wickersham (ESPN The Magazine senior writer) and Jane McManus (ESPN W writer)—and 92YTribeca’s Rabbi-in-Residence Dan Ain for a free-wheeling discussion about the big issues in sports. That’s on Friday.

If you want to learn more about Gary’s media and culture diet (he subscribes to 26 magazines!), see his answers to the 92Y Culture Klatsch Q&A, below.

Where do you go for news when you start your day?
The New York Times, in print. I’m careful about rushing into digital news sites right off the bat, since in general I think we get too much information too quickly. But if I do go digital its CNN.com.

What are your favorite websites?
WSJ.com, ESPN.com, Fandango, NYTimes.com, FunnyorDie.com, Time.com’s Moneyland, New York, Wikipedia, Economist.com.

How much do you use Twitter and Facebook (or other social networking services)?
On FB several times a day, briefly, on Twitter most days (I tweet and follow).

Tue, Dec 13
• Daytime: Great Houses of Havana with Hermes Mallea. Watch a video of the on the making of Great Houses of Havana.

Wed, Dec 14
• Daytime: The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951 with Mason Klein
• Tours & Excursions: Holiday Lights and Cannoli Tour: Visit the legendary Dyker Heights holiday lights display, where each year residents compete to have the biggest and brightest holiday decorations.
• Film: DocuClub Presents: My Brooklyn. A work-in-progress screening followed by discussion with filmmaker Kelly Anderson.
• Film: The Fourth Annual New York Channy Awards

Thu, Dec 15
• Film: Call Me Kuchu: a story—at once tragic and hopeful—of a tight-knit community of gay and transgender Ugandans in a country where homosexuality is a crime punishable by life imprisonment.
• Theater: Eight Days More: A Broadway Tribute To Hannukah

Fri, Dec 16
• Talks: Friday Night Dinner: Fair Play on the Ball Field; An Evening With Top Sports Writers and Reporters
• Comedy: Mel & El: Our Time Of The Month
• Film: Marnie: Hitchcock’s late masterpiece Marnie is also one of his most divisive and ambivalent films.

Sat, Dec 17
• Film: Meet The Lady: Louise Lasser!
• Music: Morgan O’Kane / Veveritse Brass

Sun, Dec 18
• Family: BYOK: A Family Affair: Chip Taylor & The Grandkids

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Tuesday, December 06, 2011

92Y Culture Klatsch Q&A With Michael Kupperman

Michael Kupperman is a cartoonist and Mark Twain autobiographer. He’s also the special guest at tomorrow’s installment of the Closely Watched Films series hosted by Elliott Kalan, on December 7. Elliott and Michael also worked together on the new Marvel comic book Shame Itself. The newest installment of Michael’s Tales Designed to Thrizzle comes out December 9.

When Michael is not illustrating comics, he’ll glance at the website English Russia, if time allows. And he get his news on Twitter, the “magic grapevine.” Read more about his culture and media habits below, in the 92Y Culture Klatsch Q&A.

Where do you go for news when you start your day?
Twitter. It’s a magic grapevine.

What are your favorite websites?
I have no time anymore, but an amazing one to look at is English Russia. Apparently Russia is a cross between The Road Warrior and Brazil. Endlessly fascinating.

How much do you use Twitter and Facebook (or other social networking services)?
A lot. I genuinely enjoy Twitter and the interactions I find there; with Facebook I enjoy the interactions but detest the site itself. Someone on my Twitter feed recently compared it to East German in the 1970s, which I thought was very apt; the spying, the control, the fact that you can never do what you want/need to. It’s maddening!

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Monday, December 05, 2011

This Week At 92YTribeca

Clockwise from top left: Steve Guttenberg, Julienne Dweck, Thalia Dergham, Lisa Remar, Kevin Maher, Holiday Lights and Cannoli Tour

Mon, Dec 5
• Coffee and Classics: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• Film: Short Circuit with star Steve Guttenberg in person for post-screening Q&A, moderated by IFC News’s Matt Singer.
• Film: Police Academy with star Steve Guttenberg in person to introduce the movie!

Tue, Dec 6
• Daytime: Simple Cooking with Chef Moss - Latkes 101: Just in time for Hanukkah, Chef Moss demonstrates how to make crispy, delicious latkes.
• Daytime: A History of the Piano: From Mozart to Modern Jazz with Stuart Isacoff. From Beethoven, Liszt and Chopin to Duke Ellington, Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk, the great composers and musicians all made famous use of the piano.

Wed, Dec 7
• Daytime: American Caesars: Lives of the Presidents from FDR to George W. Bush with Nigel Hamilton.
• Tours & Excursions: Holiday Lights and Cannoli Tour
• Film: The Scarlet Empress
• Music: Julienne Dweck / Thalia Dergham / Lisa Remar: An evening of song and celebration with three of New York’s most talented rising songwriters.

Thu, Dec 8
• Daytime: The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs with Roberta Brandes Gratz
• Champagne Cocktail Pairings with Cehf Russell Moss
• Film: É Candeia
• Film: Troop Beverly Hills: The Experience

Fri, Dec 9
• Daytime: The Best Public Art in NYC with David Masello
• Comedy: Kevin Geeks Out: Holiday Grab Bag!
• Music: Jazz Guitars Meet Hendrix featuring Sheryl Bailey and Vic Juris / Microtones Meet Planet Groove with David Fiuczynski’s MicroJam

Sat, Dec 10
• Film: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Music: People’s Champs / The Hipstones
• Film: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

Sun, Dec 11
• BYOK: David Weinstone and Music for Aardvaarks

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Thursday, December 01, 2011

Do You Want To Join Your Local Community Board?

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer’s office is currently accepting applications to join your local Community Board (CB). Serving on a Community Board is a great opportunity to shape your neighborhood, improve service delivery, and be at the forefront of community based planning. More information and applications can be found here. New applications are due by January 13, 2012.

Prior to applying, it is strongly encouraged that you to attend an information session to learn more about CBs and the application process. The Community Board Information Sessions will be on:

Tuesday, December 6th - 6:30 - 8:00pm - Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, 19th Fl

Wednesday, December 14th - 6:30 - 8:00pm - 163 West 125th Street, Room 8C

Thursday, January 5th - 6:30 - 8:00pm - Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, 19th Fl

RSVP to 212-669-4465 or and specify which information session you plan to attend. Good luck!

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Monday, November 28, 2011

This Week At 92YTribeca

Clockwise from top left: Josh Freed, Raven Snook, Ophira Eisenberg and Allison Castillo, Jamire Williams

Mon, Nov 28
• Daytime: Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson and Washington’s Scandal Culture. Hear the tale of the bitter 25-year battle between the postwar era’s most embattled politician and its most reviled newsman.

Tue, Nov 29
• Daytime: American Emperor: Aaron Burr’s Challenge to Jefferson’s America with David O. Stewart.

Wed, Nov 30
• Daytime: New New York with Jake Rajs and Philip Nobel. See exquisite images and hear insightful commentary capturing the indomitable spirit of NYC as photographer Jake Rajs celebrates the city’s newest landmarks. Read more on the 92Y Blog.
• Talks: Naked Ambition: Extreme Marketing for a Cause. A panel of experts from all sides of the debate will lead a discussion on the controversial marketing tactics used by PETA and other non-profit organizations. Panelists include PETA’s Senior VP Dan Mathews, the group’s newest “Rather Go Naked” model Cornelia Guest, The New York Times advertising columnist Stuart Elliott and Newsweek and Daily Beast celebrity columnist Lloyd Grove.
• Film: Five Weddings and a Felony with director Josh Freed for a post-screening Q&A. Read the 92Y Culture Klatsch Q&A With Josh Freed on the 92Y Blog.

Thu, Dec 1
• Daytime: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman with Robert K. Massie
• Daytime: Crafting All-Occasion Greeting Cards with Barbara Briskin, manager at The Ink Pad
• Film: Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave
• Comedy: “Sweet Paprika” with Ophira Eisenberg and Allison Castillo
• Comedy: Mortified: a comic excavation of teen angst artifacts as shared by their original authors before total strangers.

Fri, Dec 2
• Daytime: Pearl Harbor with historian Steven M. Gillon, for a vivid account of the pivotal 24 hours from the early morning onslaught to FDR’s famous message to Congress the next day, illuminating the tragedy that transformed the 20th century.
• Jewish Life: Friday Night Dinner: Sashimi and Sake with Chef Moss
• Film: Rare Douglas Sirk Double Feature: A Time to Love and a Time to Die & The Tarnished Angels
  Music: ERIMAJ / Josh Mease: A night of post-millennial R&B and lush, gauzy slices of pop craftmanship. Read the 92Y Culture Klatsch Q&A with ERIMAJ’s Jamire Williams on the 92Y Blog.

Sat, Dec 3
• Film: Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival. See the line-up of films.
• Music: Jones Street Station
• Film: Annie Sing-along hosted by Raven Snook

Sun, Dec 4
• Family: BYOK: The Okee Dokee Brothers

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Friday, November 25, 2011

92Y Culture Klatsch Q&A With Jamire Williams

“Jamire Williams,” wrote The New York Times, “is yet another smart drummer conversant in jazz and much else besides, though his approach skews more insistently contemporary than most.”

His band, ERIMAJ, is set to release its full‐length debut later this year; meanwhile the album’s title track, “Conflict of a Man,” has been released on iTunes. You can listen to ERIMAJ’s song “Conflict of a Man” at http://erimaj.bandcamp.com. Hear more from ERIMAJ when he plays 92YTribeca on December 2.

His answers to the 92Y Culture Klatsch are below.

Where do you go for news when you start your day?
Online. I got my various blogs and news sites I peep.

What are your favorite websites?
Pitchfork, Okayplayer, BetterNeverThanLate, NBRHD

How much do you use Twitter and Facebook (or other social networking services)?
Just as much as the average social junky.

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