Party With A Purpose!

Brooklyn Public Library - Devo presents Brooklyn Vanguard: Party With A Purpose! Thursday, May 14, 2009

Length: 3 hrs 00 mins
Intermission: None
Seating: General Admission
You choose your seats when you get to the theater.

Join the Brooklyn Vanguard, Brooklyn Public Library's young donor group, for a Support Our Shelves Fundraiser. Proceeds will help purchase books and DVDs, and support educational programs at the Clinton Hill Library.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

6:00 - 9:00pm

$40 in Advance
$50 at the Door (cash only)

Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden
618 St. Johns Place (near Franklin Avenue)
Brooklyn, NY 111238

Get your dance on with DJ Cosmo Baker. Enjoy complimentary hors d'oeuvres, wine and beer. Specialty drinks are $5. (Bar is cash only.) Bring your friends and colleagues to help support this worthy cause

Sprint: Redefining Incompetence

Boy Genius Report intimates that Sprint will introduce the long awaited Palm Pre smartphone on June 5th. That's right. The weekend before the onslaught of rumors that'll precede Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference (WWDC). TheStreet.com sums it up pretty nicely:

Delaying the Pre introduction to the eve of the new iPhone launch, is only the latest in a rich tradition of Sprint missteps.

No matter what Apple introduces during WWDC 2009, I'll be stuck with Sprint till early 2010. Unless I hit the lottery.

Home To Harlem

I know it's late notice, but this is a very, very worthy cause:

2009 Spring Benefit | Mosaic Literary Magazine

Join us Sunday, June 7, 2-5pm for some wine, food, and art as we celebrate spring and Mosaic. Proceeds will go to benefit Mosaic Literary Magazine and its education programs.

Featuring poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
and the photography of Marcia E. Wilson
(Preview video presentation)

Wine · Food · Art

AALBC.com Brownstone Gallery
64 West 119 St
Harlem NY 10026

Mother's Day 2009

Mother's Day 2009, originally uploaded by ronntaylor

This is a photo of my mom Linda and her mother — Mean Nana, don't ask — Lucille. Although it's been several years since they've both left us, I was thinking about them so much lately. I miss having them around. Hearing their laughs, eating their wonderful foods and just being near them both.

Happy Mother's Day.

A Hymn For Alvin Ailey

VIA Facebook:

Black Public Media Matters: A Free Monthyly Film Series Presented by the New York Public Library and National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC)

Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: NYPL, 115th Street Branch
Street: 203 West 115th Street
City: New York, NY
Phone: 2126669393

A tribute to the late Alvin Ailey featuring performances by choreographer/dancer Judith Jameson, and a performance by artist/actress Anna Deveare Smith.

From Harlem to Haiti, Black Public Media Matters is a film series featuring stories about the global black experience. The stories are told through engaging documentaries and vibrant dramas about today's youth, issues and the performing arts.

Help Asian Writers & Maybe Win A Vespa

[ VIA angry asian man ] :

win a vespa from the asian american writers' workshop

Sick of the subway fare hike? Tired of biking? Feeling poor? The Asian American Writers' Workshop has your solution. They're raffling off a brand new Vespa LX50. Robin's egg blue. Just picture yourself on this thing, tooling around on the streets of New York. You! On a Vespa!

You have until this Thursday to enter the raffle. Proceeds will go towards supporting AAWW's great workshops and literary events, which has featured authors such as Jhumpa Lahiri, David Henry Hwang, and Michael Ondaatje.

They'll announce the winner at Debut Fiction Night on May 21. (You don't have to be present in order to win.) Go here to buy your ticket (just $10) and stay tuned to AAWW's Twitter to find out the winner at 9:00pm on Thursday night.

Disseminate often and wide. A very worthy cause

Reminder: Home To Harlem

I won't mention tomorrow/today's 3rd Annual Black Pack Party Mix and Mingle (google the phrase if you're interested), BEA Saturday when the event is held here in NYC. Instead, here's a reminder for an upcoming and very, very worthy cause:

2009 Spring Benefit | Mosaic Literary Magazine

Join us Sunday, June 7, 2-5pm for some wine, food, and art as we celebrate spring and Mosaic. Proceeds will go to benefit Mosaic Literary Magazine and its education programs.

Featuring poet Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
and the photography of Marcia E. Wilson
(Preview video presentation)

Wine · Food · Art

AALBC.com Brownstone Gallery
64 West 119 St
Harlem NY 10026