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Non-Motivational
September 14, 2008
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series Returns September 25
The Election is the subject of this month's Non-Motivational Speaker Series event, returning to the Lower East Side on Thursday, September 25, at 8 p.m. Weighing in on America's future are Ana Marie Cox of Wonkette and Radar fame, NYC Log Cabin Republican chairman Gregory J. Wright, a card-carrying member of the US Communist Party, and disengaged twentysomething Jake Rake.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
Non-Motivational
August 20, 2008
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series Returns August 28
Popular Culture is the subject of this month's Non-Motivational Speaker Series event, returning to the Lower East Side on Thursday, August 28, at 8 p.m. Providing expert commentary on this topic are Sasha Frere-Jones of the New Yorker, the A.V. Club's Amelie Gillette, and New York Reality TV School founder Robert Galinsky.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
Non-Motivational
July 15, 2008
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series Returns July 24
Taxi Driver Confessions is the business of this month's Non-Motivational Speaker Series event, returning to the Lower East Side on Thursday, July 24, at 8 p.m. The same crooked streets that gave us Travis Bickle and Chris Rock have spawned a new generation of hacks: Famous Fat Dave Freedenberg and Melissa Plaut.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
Non-Motivational
June 17, 2008
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series Returns June 26
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series returns to New York on Thursday, June 26 at 8 p.m. Curated and hosted by Adam Rosen, this monthly event features an above-average lineup of decidedly non-motivating authorities, each presenting views alternative and overlooked on a...
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
Non-Motivational
May 19, 2008
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series Returns May 29
Gelf's internationally-beloved, critically-adored, and ASPCA-endorsed event, The Non-Motivational Speaker Series, returns to New York on Thursday, May 29 at 8 p.m. Religion will be this month's topic. Featured speakers are Daniel Radosh, New Yorker contributor, contributing editor to The Week, and author of Rapture Ready: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture; and Louis Ferrante, author of Unlocked: A Journey From Prison to Proust, a true story of Ferrante's life as a member of the Gambino crime family, 8 1/2-year federal prison inmate, and convert to Orthodox Judaism.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
Non-Motivational
April 13, 2008
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series returns April 24
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series returns to New York on Thursday, June 26 at 8 p.m. Get your antiestablishment-on as these merry band of pranksters, culture jammers, and artists takes to the mic: Alan Abel, perhaps the most infamous prankster in American prank history, subject of the recent award-winning documentary, Abel Raises Cain, and "founder" of mock citizens' groups Citizens Against Breastfeeding; Steve Lambert, guerrilla artist, founder of The Anti-Advertising Agency, and Senior Fellow at arts organization Eyebeam NYC; and Ron English, patriarch of the agit-pop art movement and subject of the documentary POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
Non-Motivational
March 12, 2008
Gelf Presents The Non-Motivational Speaker Series
The Non-Motivational Speaker Series debuts in the Lower East Side, on Thursday, March 27, at 8 pm. Featured speakers are stand-up comic Kumail Nanjiani, recipient of "The Best Comedian Award" at the 2007 Chicago Comedy Awards; Patrice Evans (aka The Assimilated Negro, or TAN), a New York City-based writer, blogger, and producer; and Todd Hanson, longtime writer and editor at the Onion and co-author of Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
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