The Halloween Dog Parade!
The fall fair!
A great free concert!
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Books Through Bars Annual Bingo Fundraiser
[Bingo + Halloween = BINGO-WEEN]
WHEN: Tonight @ 7pm
WHERE: ABC No Rio. 156 Rivington St. Lower East Side
Featuring SISTER LOUD MELISSA and D.J. “No Flag” D. Powell
Join Books Through Bars for our annual Bingo Fundraiser!
Books Through Bars provides free reading materials to people incarcerated across America — we're an all-volunteer collective housed in borrowed space, meaning our only overhead costs are postage and packing materials.
Prizes include: $100 tattoo from NY Adorned, IFC year-long membership, magnificent meals at Pure Food & Wine and Caravan of Dreams, sex toys from Babeland!, accordion serenade, membership at Anthology Film Archives, massage, knitted goods, Film Aficionado membership at BAM, Film Forum membership, good eats from Foodswings, tickets to the Rubin Museum, graphic novel package, and more! Costumes encouraged.
Free entry; $1 per card to play. Beverages will be available.
ALL PROCEEDS used to buy postage to send free books to prisoners.
For more info , please visit Books Through Bars
"I heard about a stabbing that occurred on Saturday night around 10:30 at 9th and A, just inside the park. The story I heard was that this guy was attacked by six kids while sitting on a bench near the 9th Street entrance. The kids took his iPod. In the process he was hit with a skateboard and stabbed."
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Cute pixie seeking sponsors for kids on astor - m4w - 30 (East Village)
Date: 2010-10-21, 11:03PM EDT
You, petite, dark haired, super cute student asked me how i was doing. I stopped. You, nervous, repeated the question. Then: was I on my way to work? Yes. You wanted to tell me about sponsoring kids. I told you I was already sponsoring 3 through a different agency. I didn't have any more room on my roster.
I was wrong: there's plenty of room on my roster.
Richard Cooper is a director of BedBug Central, an educational website and prevention company that last week organised a nationwide "summit" in Chicago, attended by about 400 of America's top bedbug experts. He also sits on Bloomberg's advisory board.
Over the last 10 years he has got to know the bloodsuckers very well, watching them multiply from virtually nothing to take hold of New York, and now other US cities such as Philadelphia, Detroit and Cincinnati. So what does he think of them?
"I'm fascinated by them. I respect them. They have extraordinary strategies for succeeding."
One reason often cited for the resurgence of the pest is the banning of the toxic chemical DDT, with which they had previously been brought under control. But Cooper believes the main cause of their success today is human ignorance. People are unaware of what to look for and miss the early signs, allowing the bedbugs to establish themselves and spread throughout a dwelling. Part of the problem is the assumption that infestation is confined to poor neighbourhoods with dirty and crowded living spaces.
Wrong, says Cooper, who is taking a PhD in the impact of bedbugs on low-income communities. The bedbug invasion began among the wealthy and middle classes, where frequent international travel for work and/or leisure allowed the insects to penetrate salubrious homes via luggage.