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We All Eat Webseries - Production start date: 1/24/2010

Art By Chance - Production started 12/1/2009

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PapergirlNYC - August 2010 - (in collaboration with Rebels with a cause).

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Stacey Eats: a neighborhood guide to cheap eats.

Young Haitian filmmakers lose their film school but keep shooting – and they need our help!

As I type this, the people of Haiti are in crises and will be for sometime. My hearts and prayers are with the people and country as they begin to recover from the earthquake. I know people are donating from around the world to help send supplies and medical aid to them. At times like this I kind of wish that I had a medical or nursing background and that I could actually help in a crisis like this. Although I’m thinking of contacting organizations to find out about helping out in some way in the rebuilding effort. I’m sure Habitat for Humanity will have some trips scheduled latter in the year.

So, I found this story about film students in Haiti, that I thought I’d share with you.

The Ciné Institute, based in Jacmel on Haiti’s southern coast, was completely destroyed in Tuesday’s earthquake. The Ciné Institute provided Haitian youth with film education and edutainment, technical training, and media related micro enterprise opportunities.

It is now gone.

BUT…the students (all of whom survived) went back into the rubble of their building and found their cameras. And they are now shooting – making a visual record of Haitians (by Haitians) during this crisis.

What can we do?

The Institute relies on the support of individuals, organizations and film professionals from around the world to support a movement that harnesses the power of film to educate and create opportunity for Haiti’s youth.

Check out the website and donate anything you can to help rebuild the school – and give these passionate students hope for their future.http://www.cineinstitute.com

From September 11th to WAIT! Let’s take a moment now to remember September 11, 2001. Reflect. Remember. Never Forget.

While walking home tonight from work I couldn’t help but notice that the Memorial Lights had some competing lights (ugh fashion week?).

Back to NY Craft Beer Week which starts 9/11-9/20. A series of great events going on all around NYC that involve BEER and FOOD and BEER and FOOD! If I had the extra cash to spare I’d check out some of the Urban Walking and Biking Tours, some are beer-focused, some food-focused, some focused on soaring architecture with beer thrown in. 

BIKE BROOKLYN BEER BLITZ!
September 13 & 19 from 2:00-5:00pm
$20/person, plus drinks. Limited to 20 cyclists. Approximately 12 miles at an easy pace.
Contact: iammattlevy@gmail.com 

Join tour guide and City Reliquarian Matt Levy on a biking and drinking tour through the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Bushwick, home to German brewers of the late 19th century; cycle past and learn about their brewhouses, mansions and churches. En route, stop at some bars and toast a few pints to breweries gone by. Tour ends at Evergreen Cemetery, the eternal resting place of many of the brewers–with a surprise. 

SCENTS AND THE CITY
This 2.5-hour Beer Walk with Allison Radecki takes place September 11-15, 17 & 18.
Tour limited to 8. $40/person includes all tastes (drinks extra). Rain or shine.
For exact times, e-mail: FlavorsOfTheCity@gmail.com 

Stroll, sniff and sample your way through the Lower East Side’s past and present, where a new generation of flavors continue to inspire food lovers to journey below Houston Street. Smokey pastrami, locally roasted coffee, and pungent farmstead cheeses are just a few of foods you will encounter as you learn the history of local dishes and the purveyors that create them. 

NYC HOMEBREWERS TOUR
Saturday, September 12, 1:00pm
Tour limited to 20. $25/person includes samples.
Contact: josh.bernstein@gmail.com
Beer journalist Joshua M. Bernstein shows you the joys and tribulations of homebrewing in Brooklyn’s gnat-sized apartments–without compromising taste. We’ll venture inside the homes of the city’s finest amateur brewers, see their set-ups, discuss their craft and, most importantly, sample from their stashes of superlative beer. There will be several stops; bring a Metrocard. 

RED HOOK: FROM LONGSHOREMEN TO KEY LIME PIE
Friday, September 11, 2:30pm sharp
Limited to 10 people. $20/ person, samples at the brewery included, but drinks at pubs extra.
Contact: ianlkelley@gmail.com.
Still called South Brooklyn by the old timers and dockworkers, the neighborhood retains much of its industrial and maritime grit. Local manufacturers–including a premier craft brewery and a sublime key lime (!) pie maker–thrive there. But newcomers are also making a splash. Join lifelong Brooklyn resident Ian Kelley for a summer afternoon stroll and enjoy some of the old and new on this Beer Walk with stops at several watering holes. About 2 miles of walking over 3 hours. Heavy rain cancels the tour. 

BROOKLYN SCARY DIVE- BAR CRAWL
Wednesday, September 16, 7:00pm
Max 15 people, $10/person plus cash for drinks.
Contact: josh.bernstein@gmail.com
They exist in shadows, beneath elevated tracks or behind graffiti-scrawled doors: scary bars. But (as with many fears) reality is often totally different. Many are among the friendliest, with cheap drinks accompanied by good cheer. Beer journalist Joshua M. Bernstein leads this tour of neighborhood dives and workingman’s bars from the Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge to a motorcycle club in Bed-Stuy. Learn their histories and about their specialty drinks–one with overproof rum and milk! Free food at one. 

BREWED IN BROOKLYN
BEER BREWING PAST & PRESENT
September 12, 13 & 19, 11:45am
$45/person, 16 people/tour.
Additional information and and advanced registration (required) at: urbanoyster.com.
The guides of Urban Oyster will kick off this 3-hour walk with a tour of Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg, followed by a tasting in their tap room. Along the way, sample pizza and more beer as you get a history of the neighborhood from the early 1800s to today. See the former Brewers’ Row, old brewery buildings, and historical architecture. The tour ends with food and a German and craft beer tasting. 

GASTROPOLIS: RUSSIAN BRIGHTON BEACH
Saturday, September 19, 4:00pm
Tour limited to 20. $50/person includes a light meal and a signed copy of Gastropolis.
Contact: drjond@gmail.com
Annie Hauck-Lawson and Jonathan Deutsch, co-editors of Gastropolis: Food and New York City (Columbia University Press, 2009) lead a tour along the Coney Island & Brighton Beach boardwalk. They discuss the food history of the area from native times, through settlement and mass immigration, and its relation to the arrival of the lagering process when Brooklyn was the brewing capitol of the US. The group explores present day foods and kvas and concludes with a meal at a Russian restaurant. 

ASTORIA CULINARY & BEER STROLL
Tuesday, September 15, 6:00pm
$60/person
Includes sausage demo, food samples at 4 restaurants and a flight of craft beers samples
Contact: staceyornstein@gmail.com
Bring your appetite and walking shoes to stroll through Astoria for tastes of the wider Mediterranean: a sausage stuffing demonstration at an Italian salumeria, a savory Middle Eastern wrap, flaky Bosnian bureks, a detour for Greek sweets, then ending with grass-fed beef sliders and a sample-size flight of craft beer. Food writer and recipe developer Stacey Ornstein leads a group of up to 20 on this 3 hour tour. 

THE HIDDEN ENCLAVES OF MIDTOWN EAST
September 18, 6:00 - 7:30pm
Steady rain cancels. $17/person, max 20 people.
Contact: mark@nycbeerweek.com
The East Side is not all skyscrapers and office workers. Discover the history of several urban oases hidden in plain sight in and around the old gashouse district that is now the United Nations: Tudor City, Sutton Place, Beekman Place, and possibly NYC’s most hidden park. This 2.5 mile tour will take you from the Empire State Building to the Queensborough Bridge. We will begin at a NYC craft brewer and end at one of Midtown’s most venerable workingman’s bars. 

UNCLE SAM’S NY
Tours each evening.
Details and registration at: unclesamsnewyork.com
Offering a unique blend of storytelling, sightseeing, beer and socializing, Uncle Sam’s New York’s pub crawls take you on a cultural journey through some of the most celebrated bars and taverns of New York. From the oldest Irish pubs to the bars featured in classic novels and movies, your tour will be filled with tales of great establishments and the renowned patrons that frequented them. So come out and join us. We will make sure that you Go Home With A Story! 

FULL SCHEDULE  OF EVENTS  AT http://www.nycbeerweek.com/

I always thought I had a very good judge of which TV shows (and films) are going to be winners and which ones losers.I was watching and enjoying the first seasons of 24, Arrested Development, 30 Rock and Weeds when everyone else was ignoring. 

Every Fall/Spring season when the NEW prime time lineups are announced. I go through lists, and based on the show descriptions start to formulate my opinion. Of course commercials and smart billboards also played their fair share in convincing me to tune in.

So this year I decided to do an experiment. I’m going to try and predict the success of a show. First I rate the show based on it’s  decription or promo. Then, I’ll do a follow up post after the show has aired to see if I make the decision to set my DVR to SEASON PASS. 

In May  2010 I will see if any of my predictions were right. I call this STUDS AND DUDS of the Fall 2009 Network Primetime Schedule.  

I tend to have a high opinion when it comes  to QUALITY of CONTENT but just because I don’t like it, doesn’t mean it won’t be a hit with the general Gossip Girl, Grey’s and CSI audiences. 

Thursday, Sept. 8.

(CW) 9PM.  Melrose Place : You couldn’t pay me to watch this one. Prediction: It will make it to season 2 just like it’s cohort Beverly Hills 90210. SUPERFICIAL STUD. 

Wednesday, Sept. 9 

Glee, 9 p.m. (Fox) Although I CAN’T STAND  anything High School Musical, I was technically a Thespian in High School (the kind that hung the lights and painted the set) so I DID watch the preview of the pilot episode back in May. It will be a hit. I probably won’t DVR-it. STUD

Thursday, Sept. 10

The Vampire Diaries, 8 p.m. (CW). I love vampires. I’m just starting to get sick of them. Do we really need more Vampires? What about a Teen Wolf series?  DUD.

Monday, Sept. 14  10pm. Jay Leno Show. (NBC) STUD.

Wednesday, Sept. 16

The Beautiful Life, 9 p.m. (CW). Ugh Mischa Barton. I thought she was gone forever. I guess she now has a show that parallels elements of her own life…is this a life imitates art or art imitates life scenario?  Looks like a DUD of a show but Models & Mischa seem like a recipe for trash, really good TV trash. 

September 17^th 9:30pm (NBC)

Community, 9:30 p.m. (NBC) – I already set my DVR. The premise and the credits (Dan Harmon (”The Sarah Silverman Program”) and Joe and Anthony Russo (”Arrested Development”) make this a MUST SEE PREIMERE. Although it has the potential of fooling us all like a great cast in a BAD movie like Death to Smootchy or http://www.premiere.com/Feature/17-Bad-Movies-With-Great-Casts.

September 20th

Bored to Death, 9:30 pm (HBO) Jason Schwartzman, Ted Danson and Zach Gallifiankis. This eclectic cast seems perfect for this series. STUD. (Oops this is HBO!)

September 21^st

Accidentally on Purpose, 8:30 p.m. (CBS). Cougar Town meets Friends meets the Office? I have only ever liked Jenna Elfman in Keeping the Faith. DUD.

Tuesday, Sept. 22

The Forgotten, 10 p.m. (ABC). What was the name of the show Christian Slater starred in last year? Seems that was also forgotten. DUD.

The Good Wife, 10 p.m. (CBS). Was never a Julianna Margulies fan but moms and 30+s females will probably enjoy this show. DUD.

Wednesday, Sept. 23

Mercy, 8 p.m. (NBC). Oh NBC, have you been watching Nurse Jackie? Cause I have and it’s pretty great. Can Mercy compete? Probably cause it’s on Network TV and a lot of people didn’t get a chance to see Nurse Jackie. P.S. two nurses named Chloe eh? My bet is that the Grey’s fans will flock to Mercy as Greys will mostly see it’s LAST season. Anyone still watch that crazy show?

Modern Family, 9 p.m (ABC) . Al Bundy returns to Network TV! Is Christopher Guess Directing? Interesting concept. A mockumentary about three families of different “shapes and sizes”. I’m on the limb with this one.

Cougar Town, 9:30 p.m. (ABC)
 The name sounds like a big giant joke. Can Courtney carry my interest as a main character of a show? DUD. 

Finally Oct 15th 30 Rock.  The pressure is on. Year three will it be as strong as the first two? I love you 30 Rock, please, please don’t turn into THE OFFICE.

 ** So there you have it. My initial review of the fall lineup prior to seeing the primere episdes. I will be sure to watch as much as I can and update my predictions. 

** Please note, that this is NOT the FULL lineup of ALL The FALL 2009 TV Shows** I can only watch so much TV.

** This list also doesn’t include any “reality” TV or “cable” TV. 

On behalf of myself and the whole Slightly Overexposed team (myself again) I apologize for the lack of updates this past week.  I  promise I will finish my 3 saved posts and update here soon! There are projects to write about, ideas to spread and events to highlight! 

Also, I will be headed down to help out on the DIY CONFERENCE in PHILADELPHIA THIS WEEKEND.

If you’re going to be down there be sure to say HI!

Head To Fifth Avenue—Museum Mile Is Tonight!

If you’re just tuning in here on Slightly Overexposed, normally I write about projects that I am working on, ideas, my search for work in this down economy and things of interest. This week I’m helping to launch a film festival here in NY so that’s probably all I’ll write about unless there is some serious breaking news like I got advanced screening passes for Inglorious Basterds. 

WHAT’S ART BY CHANCE? The Art By Chance Ultra Short Film Festival is an international film festival based out of Turkey. From May 22-June 3rd Art By Chance films will be screened on digital signage (buses, taxis, bars etc) in 14 countries and 64 cities around the world. 

4 Days and 2  hours to go! Please spread the word. I’ll be spending my week promoting the film festival online and on the street as well as looking for a last minute food sponsor.  I’m sure I’ll lose at least 8-10 hours of sleep due to anxiety. Lots of deep breathing and thinking of waves crashing on the beach and not what can go wrong will go wrong.

Get ready to run acrosss a short film during your busy day: ART BY CHANCE Ultra Short Film Festival will turn cinema into street art!

 ART BY CHANCE is the brand new “Ultra Short Film Festival” that will be aired in 14 countries and 64 cities, between May 22 – June 3, 2009.

For this festival, you don’t need to buy a ticket or go to a movie theatre! Movies will just pop into your lives in subways, busses, airports, shopping malls, trains, sports centres, art galleries, museums, cafes and bars! ART BY CHANCE will present urban dwellers with stimulating content thus colouring the time slices that are usually considered dead.

Internationally selected and “journey” themed creative short films will catch you unexpectedly while traveling in the subway, waiting at the airport, shopping or just strolling around.

Digital screens scattered around the city will be your host for this festival.

Art By Chance will have it’s New York Screening Party, Friday May 29th at Angels & Kings

The screening party will not only feature all the films from this year’s festival but it will also invite musicians to create impromptu scores for the 33 silent films. 

Musical performers will be announced the week of May 18th. 

Check back here soon on how to RSVP or email slightlyoverexposed@gmail.com to be added directly to the invite list.