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Friday, November 06, 2009
Next Week at 92YTribeca

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Clockwise from top left: Ben Foster, Dorothy Hamilton, David Bouley, PFFR, Kumail Nanjiani

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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
What a Difference a Year Makes: 92YTribeca’s 1-Year Anniversary

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A year has passed since we opened the doors at 92YTribeca. Sufjan Stevens, Osso, and DM Stith helped us get pass that milestone on Oct 26. In the year prior, a lot of (sometimes surprising and quirky) things have happened since.

We’ve done an extensive numbers crunch for you. Counting number of shows, most frequents guests, and more—including esoteric stats, such as the number of Foursquare Check-ins (203 as of 11/3/09) most requested beer (PBR) and the number of hits on our New York Times parody video on YouTube (110,337 as of 11/3/09).

Please enjoy the full list is after the jump!

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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
This Week at 92YTribeca

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Clockwise from top left: Jeff Kahn, Annabelle Gurwitch, Elliott Kalan, , Shana Barry And The Fofers

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
This Week at 92YTribeca

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Clockwise from top left: Robert Bahar, Jean Rohe, Effi Briest, Cast of Next To Normal

    Fri, Oct 30
  • Film/Music: Night of The Wickerman with Wooden Shjips, Effi Briest and Silver Summit, Plus Director Robin Hardy—Late Screening + Music Show
    Sun, Nov 1
  • Music: The Suzi Shelton Band: Dance along to Suzi’s latest collection of playful pop-rock tunes about real-life kid issues.

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Thursday, October 22, 2009
Huffington Post’s 15 Sexiest Comedians

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The Huffington Post has listed the 15 sexiest male comedians, ladies too.

With regard to the men, we’d like to point out that we’ve had five of them on stage at 92YTribeca. From left to right in the above photo, we’ve had Aziz Ansari, Aasif Mandvi, Zach Galifianakis, John Oliver and Wyatt Cenac. (Edit: We’ve only dreamed of having Aziz Ansari here.)

To keep abreast of future appearances by the sexiest people in comedy, bookmark this handy 92YTribeca Comedy page, and peep the 92YTribeca Comedy Facebook page.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
This Week at 92YTribeca

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Clockwise from top left: Justin Krebs, Blitz the Ambassador, Sufjan Stevens, Roberto Carlos Lange

    Wed, Oct 21
  • Talk: Toxic Friends: Gender expert Susan Shapiro Barash explores the intricacies of women’s friendships and shares insights on how women can extricate themselves from damaging friendships to create more fulfilling ones.
  • Film: Streetwise FREE. with a 16mm film print from the archive of the New York Public Library, and director Martin Bell and photographer Mary Ellen Mark in person for Q&A. Read more on the 92Y Blog.
  • Music: Noisemakers with Peter Rosenberg Featuring Talib Kweli:
  • Moon Saloon: An open-mic session led by luminaries of the NYC poetry and music circles. FREE. Part of the Live at 92YTribeca Cafe series.
  • Film: Short Slam #1: Bring your under-twelve-minute film (on DVD only), get it shown and pad the house with your friends–audience vote determines the winner.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
92YTribeca Snapshot: Wyatt Cenac, John Oliver, Vashti Bunyan, and Against the Current

Here’s a roundup of photos from recent 92YTribeca events:

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Credit: Richard Louissaint Photography
Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver at Comedy Below Canal. Upcoming comedy events here.

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Vashti Bunyan, the “Godmother of Freak Folk,” plays a set after screening of From Here To Before. Upcoming music events here.

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Q&A with director Peter Callahan and actor Justin Kirk after screening of Against the Current. Upcoming film events here.

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
This Week at 92YTribeca

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Clockwise from top left: Gargi Shinde, Jennifer O’Connor:, John Oliver, Justin Kirk

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Friday, October 09, 2009
Kevin Geeks Out About…Vincent Price!
The Vincent Price Movie Review is a website reviewing the movies of the legendary Vincent Price, if you weren’t sure. It is really impressive.

Though his post of Top 10 Vincent Price Movies might beget debate. The Vincent Price Movie Review and other Price fans might like debate that at Kevin Geeks Out About…Vincent Price! on Oct 23 at 92YTribeca. The previous Kevin Geeks Out, a comedy-variety show, was a big hit. The show was fantastic, and serving the crowd werewolf cupcakes certainly went over well.

The Oct 23 installment, co-hosted by horror fan and writer Tom Peyer, (Tek Jansen, Silver Age: Doom Patrol), will feature not only well known Price material, (such as this clip with Kermit the Frog), but also rare film and TV clips. Special guests will examine Price’s legacy, the dark side of Price, and actor Arthur Anderson will talk about Price and their days at Orson Welles’ Mercury Players! What’s more, very seriously, every admission will include a free pencil-moustache. Oh yah.

[Kevin Geeks Out About…Vincent Price!]

Upcoming events at 92YTribeca:

  • Comedy Below Canal™: Some Folks Hosted by Wyatt Cenac with John Oliver, Hannibal Buress, Music from Che Grand and DJ Car Stereo (Wars): Oct 15
  • FREE screening of Streetwise: Oct 21
  • On Stage with Next to Normal: Oct 28

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  • Friday, September 25, 2009
    Werewolves and Cupcakes? Sounds Good!

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    If you didn’t already know, you do now. Kevin Geeks Out About... is a comedy variety show hosted at 92YTribeca. Tonight, Kevin is geeking out about werewolves. In a big way. Twitter big.

    For the video variety show tonight featuring famous werewolves, Saturday Morning cartoons, a TV mystery (written by the creator of The Sopranos) and other footage, Kevin has made werewolves cupcakes (pictured bottom right). That’s right, and you get to eat them. If you haven’t heard, cupcakes are an international phenomenon.

    As Kevin wrote on his blog, there are five great things about werewolf cupcakes:

    image1. Werewolf Cupcakes can be friends with Vampire Cupcakes (this would NEVER happen in the real world.)

    2. The Werewolf Cupcake is a good diet snack – you might not eat it, because it’s so fun to look at.

    3. Werewolf Cupcakes don’t suffer horrible dreams about hunting deer by moonlight.

    4. Hitler, who loved werewolves, never got to enjoy a Werewolf Cupcake – but you can.

    5. No one has ever been violently disemboweled by a Werewolf Cupcake.**

    [Kevin Geeks Out About...Werewolves!]

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    Tuesday, August 04, 2009
    What You Missed: 92YTribeca Comedy Below Canal™

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    Last Thursday, 92YTribeca hosted the last Comedy Below Canal™ before it goes on hiatus until the fall. There was a very special “best of” show featuring some of our faves from the past year: Bobby Tisdale hosted with guests Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show), David Cross (Arrested Development), Jon Glaser (Delocated), Arj Barker (Flight of the Conchords) and super secret surprise guests Todd Barry (Freak Show), Natasha Leggero (SuperNews), and musical guest Nick Thune. Woohooo! Comedy Below Canal™ is next scheduled for Oct 1.

    View more photos from the evening at 92YTribeca’s Facebook page.

    Upcoming events at 92YTribeca:

  • Music: John Brodeur: Aug 5 FREE
  • Film: Cold Souls: Aug 5
  • Film: Love Me Tonight: Sep 9
  • Talks: Harvesting Legacies from the Land with Author David Mas Masumoto Aug 18

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  • Monday, July 27, 2009
    This Week at 92YTribeca

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    Clockwise from top left: Anna Wintour, Lockhart Steele, Raekwon, Patrick Swayze

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    Tuesday, July 14, 2009
    Brooklyn Vegan’s Lament: So Much To Do, So Little Time

    imageBrooklyn Vegan expressed sorrow over missing 92YTribeca’s Jun 3 screening of Visioneers, as 92YTribeca was the only opportunity to see it theatrically in NYC.

    If it is any consolation, and it does seem to be, there is an upcoming Comedy Below Canal show on Jul 20 featuring Bobby Tisdale, Kurt Braunohler & Kristen Schaal (Flight of the Conchords), Wyatt Cenac (The Daily Show), David Cross (Arrested Development), Jon Glaser (Delocated) *and* super secret surprise guests.

    Upcoming film events at 92YTribeca:

  • Film: Till the Last Drop… My Heart (Hasta el Último Trago Corazón): Jul 17
  • Film: Short Stories of Manhattan: Film Segments From Tales of Manhattan: Jul 22
  • Film: Cartoons from Hell: Jul 24. Read more on the 92Y Blog
  • G.I. Joe Stop Motion Film Festival: Jul 25. Read more on the 92Y Blog



  • Thursday, July 09, 2009
    Western MA Boy Makes Good in New York City

    imageFrom left: TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi

    Gothamist has an interview up with TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi, two improv comics, “living legends” who come into New York City every couple of months to perform.

    Asked about their families back home, TJ responded:

    I am unwed, but I live with my brother in Chicago. The rest of my family is back in Massachusetts—in Holyoke, Mass. So they’ll come visit. They’ll take the train down and see the shows in New York usually. My mom literally loads up a van of 40 to 50 people—they’ll load up a bus. My dad will cook up a bunch of snacks and they’ll drive in during the day, all go out to eat in Little Italy, see the show and then go home. So these people ranging in age from 19 to 82 get back home at 4 in the morning and then drive home from the Holyoke Mall parking lot. They rally.

    Represent Holyoke, a beautiful and aging New England mill town (with the second largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade in the nation!) so clearly divided into three separate communities, (the affluent, the working class, and the poor) that we are surprised they haven’t all yet been parceled out and reincorporated as separate communities.

    As TJ noted above though, it is the glorious Holyoke Mall, Holyoke’s own Las Vegas, that acts as a bond that holds the commmunity together.

    The full interview can be read here, and we encourage you to go read it. It starts out great, and gets even better. Here’s one more snippet, when David recalls a moment in New York City:

    ...there’s a guy across from me in the passenger side of a work van. I’m just standing there and he’s about three feet away from me. And he just says to me, “Nice nose. F*ck you.” And off he drove. Makes me warm all over just thinking about it.

    This weekend, the pair will be at 92YTribeca for their New York Premier of a documentary made about their Barrow Street show, Trust Us, This Is All Made Up.

    Upcoming events at 92YTribeca:

  • Comedy Below Canal™ hosted by Michael Somerville, with Ted Alexandro, Matt Baetz, Jena Friedman and Reese Waters: Jul 16
  • Comedy: Heeb Storytelling: Jul 22
  • Film: The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival (formerly known as First Sundays) : Aug 1



  • Monday, July 06, 2009
    92YTribeca Video: Comedy Below Canal™ with Andy Borowitz and Friends


    Last Thursday at 92YTribeca for the latest installment of Comedy Below Canal™, award-winning satirist Andy Borowitz, creator of BorowitzReport.com, performed stand-up and signed copies of his just-released book, Who Moved My Soap? The CEO’s Guide to Surviving in Prison: Bernie Madoff Edition. Joining him on stage was special guest Dean Obeidallah of Comedy Central’s Axis of Evil Comedy and The Watch List.

    Above are video highlights of his performance, featuring Andy skewering CNN’s Rick Sanchez, news coverage of Michael Jackson, and how pretentious it is to note your relationship status on Facebook as “it’s complicated.” “That is like the most f*cking pretentious thing I think anyone can ever do. What is so complicated? Are you doing a goat?” You might want to view the video with caution at work, Andy drops a number of f-bombs throughout.

    For more Andy Borowitz, you can listen to a podcast from his appearance at 92Y in May, here.

    Check out all upcoming comedy events at 92YTribeca here.



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