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?. Have you ever taken a photograph on February 8?
Please upload them to our collection. I will be editing into a video shown on February 8, 2025 (see below). Possibly uploaded online but note if you’d like your content excluded from that part.
¶. Tonight 8pm: Nosferatu live scored by FRIPP & Anthime
The City Reliquary, Williamsburg, NYC, $0–20 (your call)
Last month I told you about the first time this happened. Turns out I’m hosting the second. It’s beyond sold out but tell Catie at the door I said it’s cool and you can still squeeze in.
¶. Every Friday & Saturday, 9:30pm: 60 plays in 30 minutes at the speed of time
The New York Neo-Futurists began in Chicago sometime, and a contingent came to NYC in 2004. Two years ago we left our historic home below KGB bar, last year I joined the board, and last week we began performances at our new permanent home at another Chicago mainstay recently come to NYC: The Second City. Fun fact I recently learned: Stephen Colbert was accepted as a Neo circa 2005 but he dropped out due to scheduling conflicts.
¶. February 8, 7:30pm: A celebration of exactly one decade
The City Reliquary, Williamsburg, NYC, $20 (includes CD)
On February 8, 2015 my muselike friend Concetta Abbate released her first album. On February 8, 2025 we will replay it with a few significant twists, view images and moments we captured on Februaries 8 of any year, and celebrate a group of people in a room together that will never assemble again, celebrating one decade after an epoch only a few of us were aware of.
¶. February 12, 6:30pm: A play which would have been illegal to perform 43 days prior
Caveat, Lower East Side, NYC, $15
Every year, a book just come out of copyright and into the public domain is adapted into a nightlong variety show. This year: An Hour With the Movies and the Talkies by Gilbert Seldes (1929).
∞. 1984 @ ten
The episode of the podcast about the year, not the book
One of the best standalone episodes of a podcast came out on April 4, 2014, compiling archiveal audio with a misremembered childhood intersecting with the year 1984. Last year it turned 10. This year, it’s worth a listen.
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