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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 11, 2011?

38 free events take place on Monday, April 11 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out April 11 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of April . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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38 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Monday, April 11, 2011

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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Gallery Talk | The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Room


Jennifer Williams leads informal discussions in the room and answers questions. Two sessions: 10am-1pm and 1:30pm -3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Other | Urban Farm Debut


Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe and Battery Conservancy President Warrie Price will be joined by members of the Millennium High School Environmental Club and 200 first and sixth graders to inaugurate the new Urban Farm at the Battery. Also present will be architect and designer Shane Neufeld and Battery Chefs Wade Burch of Merchant Market, and Zak Pelaccio and Kevin Pomplun of Fatty Cue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Microsoft Office 2003: MS Word 2


Hands on using wireless laptops. Explore more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2003. Topics include tables, text boxes, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Lecture | The Transition from Yeltsin to Putin


A talk by Franz Cede, former Austrian Ambassador to the Russian Federation. Dr. Cede will speak about his tenure as Austrian Ambassador to the Russian Federation from 1999 to 2003, and will share his firsthand account of the significant events in post-Cold War Russia, particularly the transition of power from Boris Yeltsin to Vladimir Putin.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Other | Deconstructing Masculinity and Building Allies


Join activist and educator Jean Semelfort in exploring the deconstruction of masculinity. Learn how to build allies and bridges to all communities across lines of race, gender, sexuality, age, ability, class, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Screening | Short Films on and by Native Americans


Featuring Cry Rock, ?E?anx/The Cave and Shimásání. Start times are 1pm and 3pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | The End of Shakespeare’s Sonnets


Most readers recognize that Shakespeare’s sonnets begin with a set of poems persuading a young man to cheat death by reproducing. But how do they end? Do they end once, with sonnet 154? Or twice, once for the young man and once for the dark lady? What about the end of A Lover’s Complaint, which was printed in the first edition of the sonnets? By the early seventeenth century, Shakespeare’s poetry was far more miscellaneous in nature than Venus and Adonis or The Rape of Lucrece, and this miscellaneity means we should read the sonnets very differently. Most importantly, we should not look for beginnings, middles and ends at all. This, it turns out, is an important principle in the sonnets themselves. The lecture is by Writer in Residence Matthew Zarnowiecki, Assistant Professor at Auburn University. He has published articles on early modern English poetry in manuscript and print, and his book manuscript is titled Fair Copies: Reproducing the English Lyric from Tottel to Shakespeare. Following the lecture, Dana Ivey, star of stage and screen, will read a selection of the Sonnets. Twenty 20 members of the audience (drawn by lot) are then invited to view the Shakespearean holdings in the Library's Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, which includes the First Folio.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:15 pm
Free

Talk | Learn About Taino Culture


Jorge Estevez discusses Taino culture past and present using traditional handling objects in an interactive informal setting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Open Computer Lab


Hands on using wireless laptops. Are you having trouble with your email? Don't know how to cut and paste? Curious about Twitter? Bring Technology questions and get one-on-one assistance!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Lecture | Imagination and Globalization: Some Thoughts on Andreas Gursky


How do the temporal implications of a photograph address nationality and globalization? Philosopher Helen Petrovsky, PhD, will investigate German artist Andreas Gursky’s oeuvre to investigate this question. She is member of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her major fields of interest are contemporary philosophy, visual studies, North American literature and culture. She is author of Part of the World (1995), Eye's Delight (1997), The Unapparent: Essays on the Philosophy of Photography (2002), Anti-photography (2003), and Theory of the Image (2010).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Open Mike | RISK! Storyslam


Kevin Allison of the RISK! storytelling show hosts this free slam where anyone can put their name in the hat to tell a five-minute true story. They record the slam too, so all tellers have a shot at being included on an episode of the RISK! podcast.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Roadmap to a Career in Web or Print Design


You may be thinking about a new career in computer graphics, but where do you start? And in which direction should you aim? Is it web page design, Flash animation, or print? To answer these questions Noble Desktop has created a free seminar, Roadmap to a Career in Web or Print Design. We'll tell you what you need to know to get started in web and/or print graphics.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | The State of Workers in the Current Economic Slump


A lecture by Guy Standing, University of Bath, UK.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | “If It Wasn’t for the Irish and the Jews”: Exploring Irish and Jewish Historic Musical Links and Influences on Vaudeville and Early Tin Pan Alley


Mick Moloney, Professor of Music and Irish Studies at NYU, presents an engrossing, entertaining, and insightful examination of a time when vaudeville and Tin Pan Alley flourished with the fertile contributions of Irish and Jewish songwriters, theatrical producers, and music publishers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | All About Computers: PC vs. Mac


This class is a lecture/demonstration. Are you a Mac, PC... or neither? This class discusses the differences between Apple's Mac computers and Windows-based PC computers by highlighting the advantages, and limitations, of each platform.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Bad Company: Fighting Transnational Crime


Crime pays, and criminals are actors on the world stage whose powerful (if often hidden) role in the modern world has yet fully to be understood. Criminals run globe-spanning businesses that supply narcotics, trafficked people, and illegal services. They arm insurgents and destabilize governments. They bypass national and international regulations on everything from financial transactions to environmental standards. Professor Mark Galeotti, CGA academic chair and an expert on transnational and organized crime, hosts a series of conversations with scholars and security analysts that illuminate the workings of the global underworld: what it does, how it does it, and what this means for us all. This is a conversation with a serving law-enforcement officer. If almost all organized crime is now transnational, what does that mean for law enforcement? How can national police agencies deal with global criminal networks? Is international law enforcement a chain that is only as strong as its weakest link, or can US agencies go it alone as the sheriffs of the new world order? What trends, problems and opportunities does the law-enforcement community see emerging in the foreseeable future, and are they going to make the world a safer place for us all?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Coincidence, God and Real Estate: A Discussion with Navid Kermani and Amy Waldman


German-Iranian author and Orientalist Navid Kermani sits down with journalist/author Amy Waldman to talk about their new fiction, politics, religion, and culture. The evening will be moderated by Daniel Levy, Professor of Sociology, SUNY/Stony Brook.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Constructing Cultural Identity in the Postwar Period


How was cultural identity constructed outside America in the 1950’s? What was America’s cultural and artistic impact—its politics, policies, and modern art—on Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia? Moving beyond a characterization of the relationship simply as one of American hegemony or propaganda, as the dominant narrative contends, the panel will examine the complex and unexpected ways these cultures informed each other—artistically and culturally—during the cold war. Participants include Yevgeniy Fiks, artist and author of A Communist Guide to New York City; Piotr Piotrowski, Art History, Adam Mickiewicz University, author of In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe 1945–1989; and Julia Sneeringer, Associate Professor of History, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY and author of the work in progress, From Burlesque to Beatles: Hamburg and the Remaking of West German Popular Culture, 1949–1969.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Nan M. Sussman reads from her book Return Migration and Identity


The global trend for immigrants to return home has unique relevance for Hong Kong. At the critical juncture before the British handover of Hong Kong in 1984, nearly 800,000 Hong Kong-ers fled. Where did they go and what became of them? Return Migration and Identity: A Global Phenomenon, A Hong Kong Case examines cultural identity shifts and population flows during a critical juncture in Hong Kong history between the Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984 and the early years of Hong Kong's new status as a special administrative region after 1997. Professor Sussman estimates that nearly 500,000 have returned to Hong Kong since the British turned over their Asian outpost to the People's Republic of China.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poetry Forum: Gail Mazur


Gail Mazur’s most recent book is Figures in a Landscape. She published her first collection of poetry, Nightfire, in 1978. Mazur’s other books include The Pose of Happiness, They Can’t Take That Away from Me, and Zeppo’s First Wife: New & Selected Poems. Mazur has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. Her work has been recognized with a Massachusetts Book Award, and she has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Paterson Poetry Prize.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Subtitled Cinema Initiative


Part of Disappearing Act III, a Showcase of current European cinema.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Tilar J. Mazzeo reads from her book The Secret of Chanel #5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume


Discover the history of the creation and unparalled international success of Coco Chanel’s signature scent, that travels from Paris to New Jersey to the pastoral flower plantations where the raw ingredients of the perfume originated, from a cultural historian, who has wriiten about this legendary scent. What was Chanel’s secret? You’ll be surprised.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Club: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami


Japan's most highly regarded novelist vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Francisco Goldman reads from his book Say Her Name


Goldman, author of the award-winning The Art of Political Murder, reads from his poignant memoir about his late wife that is also a searing inquiry into destiny.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | National Poetry Month: Poetry and the Public


The evening will examine, through discussion and reading, the place poetry occupies in American culture as well as issues specific to the making of modern poetry. New York Times poetry critic David Orr and other critics will be there.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Stories: The Adam Wade Show


Moth storytelling favorite Adam Wade has put together many of his winning heartfelt and humorous stories for a special show. He’ll also sing a few songs, and play video shorts. No two shows will be the same. A different featured guest will start the evening off.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Student Graduation Comedy Show


Tonight, brilliant students take the stage. The legends of tomorrow show you they're actually the stars of today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | The 1960s: The Struggle for Justice Intensifies


What were the real 1960s? Was it the successful struggle for Civil Rights and voting rights? Was it the expansion of Social Security with the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid? Was it nine years of uninterrupted prosperity and economic growth? Or, was it the eruption of riots in all of our major cities? Was it a divisive war that led to terrible domestic disunion? Was it the decade of horrifying political assassinations? Was it sex, drugs and rock "n" roll? This series of lectures will confront these issues head on. We will feature individuals of great artistic and scholarly achievement. Many were also active participants in one or more of the struggles that occurred in that decade.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | The Latino in The Broadway Musical


An exciting lecture on the portrayal of Latinos in a uniquely American art form: the Broadway musical. Initially dominated by Jewish composers, lyricists, and book writers, Broadway musicals typically used Latino performers for ethnic color; talented Latino performers could find very few opportunities for work. In the 1970s, The Black experience was finally explored on Broadway by African-Americans. Only with the arrival of the show "In the Heights," with its infusion of Latino music, and a storyline ostensibly about Latinos, is there finally a musical about Latinos written by a Latino creative team. This lecture will also touch upon Broadway's Latino trailblazers, including Chita Rivera and Priscilla Lopez. Speaker Marc Courtade is the Business Manager for Tilles Center for the Performing Arts at Long Island University, and Producer and Artistic Director of Performance Plus!, a pre-performance lecture series. He is a frequent lecturer for the Hutton House Lectures, specializing in Musicals and Opera courses, and Adjunct Professor in the Arts Management curriculum. An avid performer, he has appeared in numerous productions throughout Long Island. This event is FREE and open to the public, and registration is required. To register, call 646-395-4245 or email dccreg@edalliance.org This Speakers in the Humanities event is made possible through the support of the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Event: The Latino in the Broadway Musical (LECTURE) Location: The Educational Alliance 197 East Broadway (Between Jefferson & Clinton Street) New York, NY 10002 Date: Monday, April 11th, 2011 Time: 7:00PM Cost: FREE Website: www.edalliance.org Phone: 646-395-4245 Directions: Trains: F, D, J, Z, M; Buses: M9, M14A, M15, M22
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poet Billy Collins in Conversation


Billy Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida. Collins was recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library (1992) and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004-2006.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Songs of the Soul Concert


Join musicians from around the world in a concert celebrating the rich musical legacy of composer Sri Chinmoy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Opera | 2011 First Light Festival: Ada by Kim Sherman & Margaret Vandenburg


An opera on the life of Ada Lovelace, daughter of the poet Lord Byron and widely credited with writing the first computer program. Like her father before her, Ada embarks on a Romantic quest that rebels against Victorian restraint, transforming stark theorems and numerical figures to pave the way for the invention of computer languages.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance: Jen McGinn / Adrienne Westwood / Chase Granoff / Mindy Toro


A high visibility, low-tech forum on Monday nights throughout the fall/winter and spring seasons that supports experiments in performance rather than finished products. Artists are selected by a rotating committee of peer artists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Performance | Gay Camp Comedy Show


It's gay. It's camp. It's Gay Camp! Every summer, confused, young campers are sent away to Camp Acceptance to "cure" their homosexuality. Start with a deliciously evil headmaster and a closeted lesbian guidance counselor, throw in a few electrified fences, disco balls, white girls rapping, boy-boy love, girl-girl love, gay Twister, Sarah Palin, slow-motion fantasies, whips, handcuffs, flannel, and more innuendos than you can shake a dildo at, and you've got Gay Camp. Gay Camp is fast, funny, and not pulling its punches as it takes on the anti-gay morons in America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Screening | Austrian Cinema: Michael Glawogger's Kill Daddy Good Night (2009)


This film, based on a bestselling novel, begins with a telephone call: a pair of onetime lovers reconnect at the whim of a woman who calls from New York to invite her friend to come from Vienna right away and help her with a rebuilding project—the same sort of project that brought the couple together the first time, as students in Vienna. 117 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:15 pm
Free

Performance | BTK Band, Storytelling Rock Band


Raconteurs regale the audience with true stories from their lives while The BTK Band, NYC’s hardest-drinking improvised storytelling rock band, improvises music and lyrics to turn their stories into songs. As if Tom Waits and The Moth delivered a baby from the gaping maw of Chaos.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Performance | Fresh Stand-Up Open Mike


Michelle Wolf and Erin Lennox host this stand up open mic. Sign up and you can be part of the show! Each week Michelle & Erin (and special guests) will be joined by additional acts whose names will be drawn from the golden bowl of destiny. FRESH gives you the chance to work that new joke or rework an oldie but goodie.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 pm
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