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Join Gelf and Jan Larsen Art for free events Thursdays at 7:30, at JLA Studios in DUMBO (map). Coming up:
September 2: Varsity Letters
September 16: Geeking Out
September 30: Non-Motivational Speaker Series
October 7: Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, September 2, at 7:30 p.m. At this monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Dan Epstein, Michael Weinreb, Dave Zirin will read from and talk about their work. Epstein will revisit the quirks and fun of 1970s baseball. Weinreb traces the roots of the modern athlete to the 1980s, his formative years as a sports fan. And Zirin will decry the owners who ruin sports.
On Thursday, September 16th, we'll be hosting a very special Geeking Out devoted to the Science of the City. The night will feature urban experts discussing everything from traffic flow to city planning to gentrification. Admission is FREE. Drinks (both alcoholic and otherwise) will be available. Please spread the word and bring your friends.
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series returns to Brooklyn on Thursday, September 23, at 7:30 p.m to dissect the best in bad film. A corps of experts—all of whom have forfeited not a small part of their lives in service of the ultimate chuckle—will present their conclusions.
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Just over a year ago, Gelf hosted a contentious and illuminating discussion about the business of hyperlocal. (Video of the panel discussion is available here.) Now, last year's nascent offerings have become this year's major players, and the hyperlocal space has been characterized by a rash of investments, if not profits. Join Gelf for a frank discussion of the pitfalls and prospects of hyperlocal, as we once again view the past and future growth of the field through the eyes of the people who are driving it.
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, August 5, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Beth Raymer, Paul Solotaroff, and Joseph E. Wallace will read from and talk about their work. Raymer will recount her experience as a girl Friday for a Vegas sports-gambling operator. Solotaroff will describe his steroids-fueled, bodybuilding youth. And Wallace will read from his novel inspired by Jackie Mitchell, the 17-year-old woman who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931.
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, July 1, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Mark Hyman, Elias Altman, and Will Leitch will read from and talk about their work. Hyman will examine youth sports and their dangers. Altman will bring stories from the latest, sports-themed issue of Lapham's Quarterly. And Leitch will discuss father-son relationships around baseball.
Join Gelf and other Big Apple gastronomes in a discussion of food criticism and the encroaching influence of blogs when Media Circus returns to the Brooklyn waterfront on June 17. Robert Sietsema, longtime restaurant critic for the Village Voice and contributor to the erstwhile Gourmet; Alexandra Vallis, editor of NBC's new food blog, Feast; and Josh Ozersky, James Beard Award–winning food writer and the author of The Hamburger: A History, will cut up and digest food writing in the world's hungriest city.
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, June 3, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Rafe Bartholomew, Steven D. Stark, Harrison Stark, and Matthew Stevenson will read from and talk about their work. Bartholomew will relate his observations from his year in basketball-mad Philippines. The Starks, a father-and-son writing team, will preview the upcoming World Cup—both in terms of soccer and for its broader geopolitical implications. And Stevenson will share some of the highlights of more than a century of sportswriting in Harper's.
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series re-ups on Thursday, May 27th to deconstruct The Wire. Speakers include philosophy professor Harvey Cormier, author of the paper "Bringing Omar Back to Life," and Stephen Janis, former crime beat reporter at the Baltimore Examiner and current senior reporter at Investigate Voice, a muckracking news outfit in Baltimore.
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