"Star for my Black Irish Heart" reprinted from Tony Fitzpatrick's blog:

Almost every year in Chicago, it’s the same story on St. Patrick’s Day–a bunch of drunken, green-wearing slap-dicks spilling out of bars all over the city and projectile-vomiting foamy green puke on everything in sight.

There is an impression that the Irish are a bunch of happy-go-lucky dipshits with fake brogues and cheery dispositions. Let us dispense with this myth right now. There is no darker heart than that of the Irish, Boyo.

WHITE COLUMNS + FROM THE NURSERY PRESENT

FRIDAY / MARCH 25 / 6-8PM

A LAUNCH PARTY FOR

ADAM McEWEN'S 'OBITUARIES'

A 12" WHITE VINYL RECORD
RELEASED IN AN EDITION OF 400 COPIES
(OF WHICH 100 ARE SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST)

AVAILABLE ON THE NIGHT!

ADAM McEWEN
'OBITUARIES', 2011
SIDE ONE: UNTITLED (RICHARD)
SIDE TWO: UNTITLED (MELVINS)
EDITION OF 400 COPIES
(FROM THE NURSERY FTN005)

DRINKS / SNACKS / MUSIC

ALL WELCOME

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Wir werden in Berlin eine große Demonstration für die Stillegung aller Reaktoren veranstalten. Nähere Informationen gibt es in den nächsten Tagen.

Saturday, March 26 · 11:30am - 2:30pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 15, 2011

ENBRIDGE HAIR HOAX EXPOSED
Group responsible offers free haircuts at Enbridge HQ at noon

Earlier today, the world learned of oil transport giant Enbridge’s strategy for handling inevitable oil spills along its proposed pipeline through pristine British Columbian wilderness: mop it up with human hair.

The cockamamie “MyHairCares” hoax, dreamed up by former oil workers and involving outreach to over 1000 hair salons, was promoted in a slick Video News Release and involved a flurry of conflicting press releases. The original story ran in a number of major news outlets (archive will be posted shortly here), but was pulled with no retraction or explanation after a terse denial by Enbridge that seemed to miss the point entirely. (For a longer, better denial click here.)

March 15, 2011. I knew of the Alberta Tar Sands, and of the grave environmental dangers associated with extracting the oil and then transporting it, first through a pipeline that violates pristine forests in First Nation lands, and hence by tanker, through the vulnerable archipelago of northern British Columbia. I also knew the situation was already subject to the concerted resistance of various environmental and Native American activists, and that it had been targeted by the Yes Men for one of their inimitable interventions.

But it was not until receiving an email today, supposedly from Enbridge, that I realized I was witnessing a beautifully orchestrated campaign in which the Yes Men have doubly pranked Enbridge, first by generating a bogus "MyHairCares" campaign to sop up the expected oil spills - part of their "dummy" Enbridge website http://northern-gateway.ca/ (the real one is http://www.northerngateway.ca/) - then by posing as the affronted oil giant to toss off an angry letter of complaint.

Please join Triangle Arts Association for a special evening of cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, and a lively conversation with Karen Wilkin and Hrag Vartanian as they discuss six important works of art by these artists: Susanna Heller, Ted Partin, William Powhida, Sean Scully, Robert Taplin, and Summer Wheat.

This will be a rare evening with these two noted art critics and writers as they turn their discerning eyes on recent work.

Monday, March 21st 2011
6:00 – 8:00 pm

Beacon
25 West 56th Street
New York NY 10019

David Adamo cuts it up in Stockholm at the Fruit and Flower Deli.

On Monday, March 14, 2011, Greenwich House hosts the 9th Annual “A Taste of Greenwich House” event, presented by the Paul Singer Family Foundation. Top restaurants and chefs from around New York City will donate their services to support GH's wide variety of art and urban social service programs.

This year, “A Taste of Greenwich House” moves to a new venue: the 17,000 square-foot Metropolitan Pavilion at 125 West 18th Street in the Flatiron District of New York City. It is nearly double the size of last year’s venue.

For tickets or sponsorship please contact Yojiro Moro at YMoro@greenwichhouse.org or 212-991-0003 x 403. To purchase tickets online: www.greenwichhouse.org/taste2011

The AIPAD Photography Show New York will be presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) from March 17 through 20, 2011. More than 75 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present work including contemporary, modern, and 19th century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, and new media, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.

The 31st edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York will open with a Gala Preview on March 16 to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Ticket information is as follows:

Benefactor 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ($5,000 4 tickets)

Patron 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ($750, 1 ticket)

Sponsor 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ($250, 1 ticket)

Friend 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. ($100, 1 ticket)

For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact The Museum of Modern Art, http://www.moma.org/aipad2011, 212/708-9680 or specialevents@moma.org.

Notable article by Kelefa Sanneh in the March 7, 2011 issue of the New Yorker on Ulli Rimkus and the Max Fish bar, which was scheduled to vacate its infamous Ludlow Street premises by the end of January - the landlord was asking for a prohibitively high rent increase - but was given a twelfth hour reprieve with a one year extension of lease.

The full text is only available with the purchase of a subscription to the New Yorker online. It also occupies pages 38 - 43 of the dead tree edition, and in case you might be successful (as I was) in locating a trashed copy, here's the relevant cover: