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Varsity Letters
March 1, 2010
March 4: Gelf's Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, March 4, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Mark Bechtel, Wright Thompson, and Seth Wickersham will read from and talk about their work. Bechtel is the author of a book about Nascar's historic, rowdy, transformational 1979 season. Thompson is ESPN's master craftsman of long-form sportswriting. And his colleague Wickersham covers the personalities and issues behind the NFL.
Media Circus
February 9, 2010
Feb. 18: Foreign Correspondents at Media Circus
From Hemingway to Seymour Hersh, foreign correspondents have provided fascinating and gripping accounts from all over the world. On February 18, Media Circus returns to Brooklyn with a night devoted to the past, present, and future of foreign correspondents. Tala Dowlatshahi, the New York Director of Reporters Without Borders and a longtime UN correspondent, will be joined by Larry Kaplow, who has been on assignment all over the globe, most recently as Newsweek's Baghdad Bureau Chief. Additionally, the evening will be filmed for the upcoming documentary Fit to Print: A Documentary Film on the Newspaper Industry and the filmmakers will be discussing their project and interviewing members of the audience.
Varsity Letters
February 2, 2010
February 4: Gelf's Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, February 4, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, two versatile writers who frequently turn their attention to the playing field will read from and talk about their work. Malcolm Gladwell and Chuck Klosterman both have new essay collections in bookstores that touch on sports, among other topics. And both are dedicated correspondents of Bill Simmons's. Because space is limited, free registration is required.
Non-Motivational
January 25, 2010
January 28: The Non-Motivational Speaker Series Returns
Bringing up Brooklyn: The Non-Motivational Speaker Series returns on Thursday, January 28th to examine the better borough's bevy of BoBos. Speakers include Amy Sohn, (paid) Brooklyn writer and author of Park Slope-set novel Prospect Park West; owner of Williamsburg's Traif Bike Geschaft bikeshop and mediator of Hipster-Hasid hostilities Baruch Herzfeld; and Dr. Jay Parkinson, Brooklyn's own prescription-scrawling, instant-messaging digital doc.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
Geeking Out
January 9, 2010
January 21: Star Wars Night
On Thursday, January 21st, Gelf Magazine is hosting the geekiest Geeking Out yet. January's event is dedicated to all things Star Wars; we plan to take our readers way down into the rabbit hole of extreme Star Wars fandom, looking at how Star Wars has influenced popular culture and how fields as varied as cartography and zombie fiction have been overrun by the Force of George Lucas's creation. Speakers include Joe Schreiber, author of the zombie Star Wars novel Death Troopers and Jason Fry, the author of Star Wars: The Essential Atlas. Admission is FREE. Drinks (both alcoholic and otherwise) will be available. Please spread the word and bring your friends.
Varsity Letters
January 6, 2010
January 7: Gelf's Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, January 7, at 7 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Chris Ballard, Tom and Jerry Caraccioli, and Mike Vaccaro will read from and talk about their work, and take questions. Ballard will provide a thinking fan's tour of the NBA, the Caraccioli brothers will recount the exploits of a forgotten medal-winning US hockey team, while Vaccaro will revisit a history-making World Series from a century ago.
Media Circus
December 8, 2009
December 10: Media Circus
Media Circus is back in Brooklyn on December 10 with a panel discussion on not-for-profit news models. From New Haven to St. Louis to the middle of the Pacific, non-profit news sites and organizations are breaking stories and, perhaps more impressively, breaking even. Matt Sollars of CUNY's New Business Models for News project will be joined by Gail Robinson of the Gotham Gazette and Susan White, senior editor at ProPublica.The discussion will be moderated by Jason Fry of Reinventing the Newsroom.
Varsity Letters
November 24, 2009
December 3: Gelf's Varsity Letters
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, December 3, at 7:30 p.m. At this free monthly event in DUMBO, Brooklyn, hosted by Gelf and Jan Larsen Art, Joe Drape, Phil Hanrahan, and David Maraniss will read from and talk about their work, and take questions. Drape will talk about a Kansas town and its unbeatable football team, Hanrahan will relate the aftermath of Brett Favre's departure from Green Bay, and Maraniss will revisit the memorable Olympics from a half-century ago and read from his forthcoming collection of stories.
Non-Motivational
November 16, 2009
November 19: The Non-Motivational Speaker Series Returns
Learn from pranksters and bane of law-and-order types everywhere at this month's Non-Motivational Speaker Series: Eitan Gorlin (aka "Martin Eisenstadt"), perpetrator of the Sarah Palin "Africa" hoax and co-creator of The Eisenstadt Group, a fake rightwing think tank that fooled the BBC; and Charlie Todd, comedian and founder of public nuisance-making corps Improv Everywhere.
Full article » | by Adam Rosen
Media Circus
November 10, 2009
November 12: Viral Media Circus
Media Circus is back in Brooklyn on November 12 with a night examining patterns and predictions for viral media at JLA Studios in DUMBO at 7:30 PM. Adam Penenberg, author of the forthcoming book Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today's Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves, will be joined by Jessica Amason, viral media editor for BuzzFeed.com and creator of This Is Why You're Fat, and professional social strategist and digital influencer Julia Roy.
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