Cool Event: Bike Polo

http://www.bikealbany.com/2008/10/collar-city-brings-you-bike-polo-in-albany:

Sunday November 2nd, at Basketball Courts in Washington Park. Game starts at noon, everyone is welcomed to come play, watch, take pictures, heckle, look pretty, whatever. All you have to bring is a bike, mallets are provided, and if you’re lucky there might be some hot cider as well.
Afterward everyone will be heading out to [...]

Democratic Work!–or is it socialism?

Many wonderful organizations work in the Capital District, ie. Sanctuary for Independent Media, Grand Street Arts, Capital District Gay and Lesbian Center, Troy/Albany Bike Rescue etc., etc. However, every group maintains their own set of mailing lists and calendars.  Those contact informations are at the foundation of a group’s growth, but keeping it all to [...]

Send yourself or your children to Summer Camp–paid for by Google

Here’s the text:
Passionate about freeing the white space airwaves? Excited about about privacy and data protection? Interested in the debates surrounding net neutrality? If you’re a undergraduate, graduate, or law student interested in in the world of tech policy, have we got a program for you.
After a successful first summer, we are excited to announce [...]

Who wants to play PacMan?

http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/WhereCamp_PDX_Takes_on_PacManhattan

Tenants’ Rights Seminar this Tuesday (10/21)

Please forward to friends or clients who might be interested:
There will be a Tenants’ Rights Seminar hosted by the Women’s Bar Association at the Main Library, 161 Washington Ave. The facilitating attorney’s name is Ed Salvo. Topics include
Settling disputes
Eviction
Housing Discrimination
Free and open to the public
Tuesday, October 21st @ 6:00 PM
Main Library, 161 Washington Avenue, 2nd [...]

Reminder: A Jihad for Love

Fourteen centuries after the revelation of the holy Qur’an to the Prophet Muhammad, Islam today is the world’s second largest and fastest growing religion. Muslim gay filmmaker Parvez Sharma travels the many worlds of this dynamic faith, discovering the stories of its most unlikely storytellers: lesbian and gay Muslims.
A Jihad for Love was filmed over [...]

2 Step

1. Troy Bike Rescue and Albany Bike Rescue location and hours are posted on our Google calendar.
2. Queen Beez is tonight at 9pm, Oh Bar. We have a $50 tab grand-prize.

Words Without Borders

Words Without Borders is an “online magazine for international literature,” started by an editor at Norton.  Click here for their “About Us” page.

In their recent newsletter, I noted two opportunities for engagement.
Speaking of Books
WWB is looking for a volunteer book editor to assign and edit two to three book reviews per month. Send CVs, clips, [...]

21st Congressional District Candidates Forum

On Monday, Oct. 13, the law school’s student Democrat and Republican organizations will host a 21st Congressional District Candidates Forum at 6 p.m. in the Dean Alexander Moot Court Room. The district’s two actively campaigning candidates, Jim Buhrmaster and Paul Tonko, will each make a five-minute opening statement before engaging in an hour-long moderated discussion. [...]

Wristwatcher.

Someone has thrown a pizza box in our flowers and it has been there for about three days now.  I can’t even bring myself to pick it up.  It is an egregious use for a pizza box.  But isn’t it like the middle class to complain about garbage.