American Institution Founded in Manhattan Opens 1000th Store on 45th Anniversary --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Manhattan Bourough President Scott Stringer will join officials of the Riese Organization and Union Square Partnership upon opening of America's newest TGI Fridays and its 1000th location worldwide. The American institution was founded 45 years ago on New York City's Upper East Side and now is a global phenomenon with restaurants in over 61 countries throughout the world. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place this Thursday, July 15 at 1:00 PM at 34 Union Square East (corner of 16th St.). This new, state-of-the-art TGI Friday's will offer local community events and hold charitiable events throughout the year. Over 20 years ago, the film "Cocktail" was filmed in a New York City TGI Friday's and helped launched mega-superstar Tom Cruise's career. The Riese Organization is one of the largest restaurant management companies in the Northeast. The Company owns and operates approximately 100 restaurants in the New York City area. Included in the restaurant portfolio are other nationally known branded concepts such as Tim Hortons, Pizza Hut, and KFC. The Riese Organization also develops its own proprietary concepts including Charley O's, Tad's Steaks and Tequilaville. Located at 560 Fifth Avenue , the Riese Organization is one of the largest private employers in New York City with over 2,000 employees. |
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
American Institution Founded in Manhattan Opens 100th Store on 45th Anniversary
NY State and City of New York to Honor NYC Latin Music Legend and King in Ceremony
NEW YORK STATE AND CITY OF NEW YORK TO HONOR NYC LATIN MUSIC LEGEND AND KING IN CEREMONY MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT OF TRIBUTE CONCERT IN MAMBO KING'S MEMORY ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York State Senate President Malcolm A. Smith, Assemblywoman Carmen E. Arroyo and William Ferro of 1800-Cantaso will join Tito Puente, Jr. in a special ceremony and press conference honoring Latin music king and legend Tito Puente tomorrow, Thursday, July 15 at 4:00 PM at 424 W. 33rd St., Suite 440 in Manhattan, NY. They will be announcing a major tribute concert for Tito Puente featuring some of the nation's best performers will be announced. City of New York officials will be making a special presentation. Hundreds of Latino government, civic, community and business leaders will be attending as well. It has been a decade since the music icon has passed away. Tito Puente was born on April 20, 1923, in New York City. He is best known for the dance-oriented mambo and Latin jazz music he created throughout a musical career spanning over 50 years, during which he recorded 120 albums, composed more than 450 compositions, and had over 2,000 arrangements to his credit. He performed in over 10,000 events around the world. Puente received numerous awards for his work, including five Grammy Awards. He was popularly referred to as "The King of Latin Music" or "El Rey" ("The King"). Tito Puente was featured in the film "The Mambo Kings" as himself. WHEN: Thursday, July 15 at 4:00 PM WHERE: 424 W. 33rd St., Suite 440 in Manhattan, NY |
Friday, July 9, 2010
Lady Gaga Leaves Thousands of Fans Hungry At Today Show Concert After Promising Free Pizza
LADY GAGA LEAVES THOUSANDS OF FANS HUNGRY AT TODAY SHOW CONCERT AFTER PROMISING FREE PIZZA.
FREE LUNCHEON FOR LADY GAGA FANS WHO WENT WITHOUT FOOD TODAY AT LADY GAGA LOOK-A-LIKE CONTEST AT UNION SQUARE PARK.
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Thousands of fans from all across the nation waiting on line for 24 hours for Lady Gaga's free concert were promised free pizza from Lady Gaga herself on Twitter. The fans went hungry all night long when there was not enough pizza to go around and thousands were glued to their coveted spot and had no food. Jay Zevi of Pizza Packet will be throwing New York City's largest Gaga pizza party for the fans who went cheese less. Over 10,000 slices will be distributed to Lady Gaga fan club members and spectators. A look-a-like contest along with the pizza party will be held today, Friday, July 9 at 12:00 P.M. at Bravo Pizza in Union Square Park at 115 East 14th Street with Jay Zevi of Pizza Packet giving the winner two free tickets to her Madison Square Garden concert tonight. A Gaga Party will take place with thousands of free slices given out to the public as dozens of Lady Gaga impersonators vie for tickets to the sold-out show. If you waited on line for the concert last night and missed out on free pizza that was promised come to the contest today, eat and watch contestants compete. Lady Gaga's avant-garde style has spawned numerous imitators, and at Bravo Pizza her most dedicated fans will show up dressed like her for a chance to see her perform live. WHEN: Friday, July 9 at 12:00 P.M. WHERE: Bravo Pizza: 115 East 14th Street |
Monday, June 28, 2010
MAJOR PROTEST OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS AND BIKINI MODELS TOMORROW TUESDAY, JUNE 29 at 11:30 AM OUTSIDE MTA BUS TERMINAL
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Caravaggio Shadows and Mystery Selections Award International Painting & Photography
| Selections for the international prize in painting, photography and sculpture "Caravaggio - Shadows and Mystery" are open. The exhibition will be held in Rome at the Galleria del Centro Internazionale O.A.D. Via del Corso, 45 (Old Town near Piazza di Spagna) from July 17 to August 1, 2010. |
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| DESCRIPTION: Nextarte, through Proevolution S.r.l. Simona and Future Project S.r.l., promotes the exhibition "Caravaggio - Shadows and Mystery," which will be held from July 17th to August 1st 2010, at the gallery of the International Center O.A.D., situated in Via del Corso 45 (Old town / Near Spanish Square) in Rome. This exhibition isn't just a mere tribute to Michelangelo Merisi, the great master of the "light", for the 400th anniversary of his death, but it aim to propose, to all artists from all over the world, to create inspired works, exploiting the maximum color and contrasts, using their favourite painting and photography techniques. For this reason, we start from what Caravaggio said about light in his works: "light intended as... "because we would like to encourage established and emerging artists to celebrate the great Michelangelo Merisi (Caravaggio in art) with a contemporary work that keeps an eye on the artists of the past who have made our country famous for its artistic and cultural richness. |
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Arte Video Roma Festival 2010 June 25th, 26th, 27th – Rome, Italy
C.A.R.M.A.
Centro d'Arti e Ricerche Multimediali Applicate
Applied Multimedia Art and Research Center
presents
"Arte Video Roma Festival"
Oltre l'apparenza
curated by
Le Momo Electronique
Curators Group
2010 June 25th, 26th, 27th
Rome
- Italy -
Casa dei Popoli - A.I.A.S.P.
"ARTE VIDEO ROMA FESTIVAL", Rome based audiovisual research international exhibition, is ready to start. The event, organized by C.A.R.M.A. - Applied Multimedia Art and Research Center and curated by "Le Momo Electronique" Curators Group, will be held from the 25th to the 27th of June at Casa dei Popoli-A.I.A.S.P., Rome (Italy).
The Festival, from the very first edition, is intended to be a synonymous of quality in works selection and a door wide open to national and international interaction and cooperation with any person or organization involved in contemporary art and culture active spreading.
The Festival will present 6 different sections, made up by C.A.R.M.A. curators group "Le Momo Electronique", which has already reached five years of activity in monitoring worldwide videoart scene; by eminent critics, artists, production/distribution companies and, last but not least, through a widely joined international open call.
Almost a thousand works viewed and a final selection of forty-four pieces, ten of which selected among three hundred pieces received from all the world through open call (check the selected artists list at: http://carma.qblog.it).
"It's our firm intention to express a very precise curatorial concept, to show plainly the different approaches, the procedures and both the technical/aesthetic and conceptual trends that we consider as the most interesting ones, from a historical an artistic point of view." (Le Momo Electronique)
4 screening stations will be arranged all around the multi-functional space of Casa dei Popoli: on the first station two sections will be shown, the "MAGMART FESTIVAL" section, curated by Enrico Tomaselli, with 10 international works selected from the 5 editions of the event; the "FISHEYE FESTIVAL" section, curated by Bruno Di Marino, with 7 Italian videoart pieces.
The second station will host "ARTEVIDEO" section, with works selected through the international open call, and a section with artists called together by C.A.R.M.A. Both sections have been curated by Le Momo Electronique.
A third station will show a selection of works from the catalogue of the famous international videoart distribution company "HEURE EXQUISE!", whereas the last station will be dedicated to "RICICLI CATODICI" Project, with multiple tv-screens showing simultaneously videoinstallations selected among all the works considered by the curatorial group.
A jury panel with eminent artists and critics:
Adriana Amodei, Andrea Balzola, Robert Cahen, Valentino Catricalà, Mariagrazia Costantino, Veronica D'Auria, Bruno Di Marino, Marco Maria Gazzano, Stefano Roveda, Mario Sasso e Enrico Tomaselli
will have the authority to express from one to three preferences about the five sections "FISHEYE", "MAGMART", "C.A.R.M.A.", "HEURE EXQUISE!" and "ARTEVIDEO", as well as to give a special mention to one of the pieces included in "RICICLI CATODICI" section. The ten most voted pieces, along with the one chosen among videoinstallations, will join the collective exhibition to be held in autumn 2010.
"An event inspired by a concept of fruition sliding through space and time, differentiated on what concerns technical/formal aspects and artists' peculiar languages, but homogeneous on some theoretical bases and approaches, whose primal origin can be found in the awareness that seeing, hearing, sensing in a different way is a necessary exercise to re-thinking, re-forming, re-founding the world, constantly."(Le Momo Electronique)
Magmart Section :
Martin Feldbauer (Germany)
James Grafsgaard & P.J. Tracy (United States)
Henry Gwiazda (United States)
David Montgomery (United States)
Lucija Mrzljak (Croatia)
Anne Niemetz (New Zealand)
Richard O'Sullivan (United Kingdom)
Stephanie Rajalingam (Australia)
Anders Weberg (Sweden)
FishEye Section :
Acqua Micans Group (Italy)
Alessandro Amaducci (Italy)
César Meneghetti (Brazil, Italy)
Alessandra Pescetta (Italy)
Mauro Santini (Italy)
Danilo Torre (Italy)
Debora Vrizzi (Italy)
Heure Exquise! Section :
Roxane Billamboz (France)
Laetitia Bourget (France)
Sabine Massenet (France)
Van Mc Elwee (United States)
Philippe Rouy (France)
C.A.R.M.A. Section :
Riccardo Arena (Italy)
Nicola Bettale (Italy)
Guglielmo Emmolo (Italy)
Igor Imhoff (Italy)
Lino Strangis (Italy)
Tim White-Sobieski (Poland/United States)
RiCicli Catodici Section :
Gian Luigi Bragio (Italy)
Sarah Buckius (United States)
Domenico Canino (Italy)
Piero Chiariello (Italy)
Salvatore Insana (Italy)
Sami Rahal (Italy)
ArteVideo Section :
Rebecca Agnes (Italy/Germany)
Marco Balducci (Italy)
Gian Luigi Braggio (Italy)
Sarah Buckius (United States)
Russell Chartier & Paul Botelho (United States)
Nhieu Do (United States)
Gerald Habarth (United States)
Born Holmer (Italy/Germany)
Marius Leneweit & Rocìo Rodrìguez (Germany, Venezuela/Germany)
Gabriele Pesci (Italy)
"Arte Video Roma Festival": 2010 June 25th friday - 26th saturday - 27th sunday
Opening hour: from 5:00 to 10:30 pm
C.A.R.M.A.
Centro d'Arti e Ricerche Multimediali Applicate
Applied Multimedia Art and Research Center
Casa dei Popoli-A.I.A.S.P. , Viale Irpinia no.50, Rome (Italy)
E-mail: ass.carma@gmail.com http://carma.qblog.it
Video Promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1m7Nxi-Y3M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0zsGJJxnr4
Press Office: Veronica D'Auria: +39 349 2304021, veronica.dauria@gmail.com (italian);
Frine Beba Favaloro: +39 349 1753657, frinebeba@gmail.com (english)Monday, June 21, 2010
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