Thank you Tank!

After the tank show, My friend and I ran into this food festival down the street? Did any of you guys go? It was amazing! I tried all these different types of food it was delish!! loveed Indian.. never had it on the island.. and it is amazing! I also had Korean, and Thai.. This is where I will be next year.. and hey I might even catch another show at the Tank.
Awesome!
Ninth Avenue International Food Festival 2011

Saturday May 14 – Sunday May 15 (10:00am – 5:00pm)
The Ninth Avenue International Food Festival in May has become a favorite weekend for New Yorkers since it began in 1973. From 37th Street to 57th Street, Ninth Avenue closes to cars and the festival takes over. More than a million people visit the festival each year. It’s unique and amazing, celebrating the joys of ethnicity through food, entertainment and every kind of street fair stall.
Most street fairs in New York all look the same but this one stands out. The food is the big draw, but the festival is a fabulous expression of the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood – teeming with ethnic food shops and fine restaurants and offering an eclectic global smorgasbord of national and regional foods. Outside venders participate as well, but the Ninth Avenue merchants and restaurants and the community organizations of Hell’s Kitchen are out in all their neighborhood glory.
Come for Argentinian, Brazilian, Cajun, Chinese, Cuban, Dominican, Ethiopian, French, German, Greek, Haitian, Indian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Moroccan, Pakistani, Polish, Puerto Rican, Peruvian, Senegalese, Sicilian, Southern, Spanish, Thai, Trinidadian, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese food – and more!
Working up from the south end of Ninth Avenue, you will be enticed by:
chorizo sandwiches – from Esposito Pork Shop, at 38th
the best sausage and pepper hero ever – from Giovanni Esposito & Sons at 38th
clams and oysters on the half shell at the seafood stands (Central Fish and Sea Breeze) around 38th Street
soupy, spicy gumbos, crab cakes and chicken curry – from Chantale’s Cajun Kitchen near 38th
suckling pig and quail stuffed with fresh Greek spices and feta cheese – from Ninth Avenue International Foods, near 40th
peppery crisp squid – from Siam Grill, near 42nd
iced coffee and iced cappuccino – from the Empire Coffee & Tea Company near 42nd
bourbon ham sandwiches, Texas chili with corn bread, mango barbecue wings and macaroni and cheese – from Good And Plenty To Go, at 43rd
carrot cake and apple pie – from the Little Pie Company at 43rd
chicken salad made with corn, black beans and jicama, and barbecued pork tostadas – from Zuni, at 43rd
meatball hero – at The Holy Cross church stand on 43rd
corn fritters gently flavored with shrimp, crisp spring rolls and nasi goreng – from Bali Nusa Indah, near 45th
spanakopita and tiropita surrounded by the most delicate phyllo pastry that you will ever find, and then baklava or strudel – from Poseidon Greek Bakery, near 45th
breads, brownies, cookies and cinnamon-raisin, garlic, rosemary or black olive fresh bread twists – from Amy’s Bread, near 47th
jambalaya – from Delta Grill at 48th
pork in mole sauce, wrapped in a corn tortilla – from Tacocina at 49th
huge, inexpensive portions of Brazilian foods like bolinho bacalhau, a fried salt-cod casserole – at Rice ‘N’ Beans, near 50th
Greek barbeque, octopus, lamb and chicken souvlaki – from Uncle Nick’s, near 50th Street
pad thai, dumplings – from Wondee Siam, at 54throast pork – at Ned Kelly’s bar on 55thAnd somewhere along the way you will also come across:
alligator, shark, lobster, shrimp and catfish nuggets
burritos, jerk chicken and curried chicken
cheescakes – from Martha Francis
french pastries
fried elephant ears
full pigs rotating on spickets over an open fire
grilled corn on the cob
kokoretsi (lamb livers and sweetbreads wrapped in intestines)
paella
soft shell crab
steak sandwiches
turkey drumsticksEven at the Ninth Avenue Food Festival, there are the standards – mozzarepas, zeppolis, funnel cakes, and egg creams – but this is one street fair where they are outnumbered by fabulous foods that you actually don’t see at other fairs.
There will be a stage with live entertainment of international music and dance at 55th Street on Sunday. You will see Egyptian belly dancing, German folk dancing, and Arabian scarf dancing, Midori & Chad performing Lindy Hop, Charleston, Peabody, Blues and Salsa routines, the New York Celtic Dancers sharing the traditional dances and music of Scotland – plus other performers and many local bands.
There are also over 200 street fair vendors selling inexpensive clothes, sunglasses, accessories and socks. If you like jewelry, there are always rings, bracelets, earrings, and pendants available. You’ll also find the Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market vendors selling their various wares down 39th Street.
Bring a big appetite, wear comfortable shoes and loose-fitting clothes. If you need to offset your gluttony-guilt, remember: the Ninth Avenue Food Festival is held to raise money for the community groups in Hell’s Kitchen.
The festival takes place each year the weekend after Mother’s Day. There is no admission fee and the festival extends from 37th street to 57th street. It starts at 9:30 am and ends at 6:30 pm. You can miss most of New York’s street fairs but you can’t miss this one.
Oh, and there are games and fun activities for kids. There will be a childrens’ pavilion on 53rd & 54th St. especially for them!
Subway: A,C,E 42 St Port Authority Bus Terminal; C,E 50 St; A,B,C,D,1,9 @ 59 St
Vendors may contact the organisers (Ninth Avenue Association) at (212) 581-7217.naafoodfestival@yahoo.com

SPEAKING IN FRONT OF THE CLASS...SHOWING THEM HOW IT IS DONE

this is the speil....american decameron

American Decameron Blurb

In the face of the news of collapse everybody makes his or her ‘bug-out-bag’. They have their bug-out-car if they are lucky…. they might even have a bug out cabin. These are the provisions you pack for the apocalypse. Survivalist last package. With the help of the Bernie Maddoff’s of the world their faith in information…their faith in the high returns of waiting and saving and suspended gratification have been replaced by a type of aesthetic hedonism: the portable ‘bug out pleasure’. Stories. Witnessing. The great social media sites form a type of collective sarcophagus: the delicious pleasures of witnessing are what are left. What would be in this small vial that they might carry around their neck? A bug-out-pill? Bug-out-meth? Bug-out-cyanide capsule? Credit card suicide? The great Ponzi schemes of state, business, academia, religion, entertainment, enjoyment, your house, your cool job, sex, and everything else you are told to wait for while the music keeps playing has crumbled like a ton of bricks. While the stench of decay is around them all the Ponzi elders tell the young ‘don’t you still hear the music’ as they have one hand on the chair of survival.

If death is the manure of life then there are piles of it in Florence during the Black Death. The young and the beautiful…the articulate chat rooms and the jersey shore, and all of the other morbidly curious MTV reality shows coalesce in this snapshot of those with the gorgeous skin and bodies before the mortification of the black plague takes them. Their bug-out-survival-pack is the story…. the recorded oral story about the triumph of the five senses against bad faith. With the preponderance of death they ignore the old fear mongers and the formal church and the pyramid scheme lies of the elders. ‘Be chaste’ means save yourself for some better pyramid scheme in the future especially with the here after. This is it. This is the sensual, poetic world wrapping the senses around a series of stories. The sensual body has some sort of knowledge and the means of telling a story about this sensual means and so it unravels. American Decameron Borrows the form and essence of Boccaccio and expands this networked performance to include all media.

We use iphones and droid phones, rigged with custom controller apps. ‘Touch OSC’ will allow audience and performers to change the projection and interactive content. ‘Layer’ augmented reality inserts of ‘clues and latent desires’, gyro mouse gesture controllers, sentient cameras tuned with Max and Jitter code, the text of the Decameron is expanded to include contemporary stories to ‘mash up’ with the older thread. projections and interactive game content from within the ‘smart device’ blast out on the walls of the theater itself and into the homes of Skype participants. Xbox Kinect cameras allow the actors to move sound with gestures and every surface of the empty space becomes charged with possibility. We run this venerated script of witnessing, pleasure, culpability, and escape with the current tools of culpability and escape. We have grown the Meme pool of the decameron and we are letting it grow….

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