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Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), better known by her stage name Lady Gaga, is an American recording artist. After being signed to and quickly dropped from Def Jam Records at age 19, she began performing in the rock music scene of New York City’s Lower East Side. During this time, she was also working at Interscope Records as a songwriter for several established acts, including Akon, who, after hearing Gaga sing, convinced Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine to sign her to a joint deal with the label and Akon’s Kon Live Distribution label.Her debut album The Fame was released in August 2008 to critical and commercial success. In addition to receiving generally positive reviews, it has gone to number one in four countries, also topping the Billboard Top Electronic Albums chart in the United States. The album’s first two singles, “Just Dance” and “Poker Face,” have become international number one hits, and the former was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 51st Grammy Awards. In 2009, after having opened for New Kids on the Block and the Pussycat Dolls, Gaga embarked on her first headlining tour, The Fame Ball Tour. To date she has sold over 20 million singles and 3 million albums worldwideMusically, Gaga is inspired by glam rockers such as David Bowie and Queen, as well as pop singers such as Michael Jackson and Madonna. She is also inspired by fashion, which she claims is an essential component to her songwriting and performances. She is also very supportive of the gay community, crediting them for her early mainstream success.1986–2004: Early life and educationGaga was born on March 28, 1986 in Yonkers, New York as the eldest child to Italian American parents Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta.At 11 Gaga was set to join Juilliard School in Manhattan,[5] but instead attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Catholic school. Having learned piano at the age of four, Gaga went on to write her first piano ballad at thirteen and began performing at open mic nights by the age of fourteen. At the age of seventeen, she gained early admission to the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. There, she studied music and improved her songwriting skills by composing essays and analytical papers focusing on topics such as art, religion, and socio-political order. Gaga later withdrew from the school to focus on her musical career.2005–2007: Career beginningsLady Gaga (left) and Lady Starlight at their weekly party New York Street Revival and Trash Dance.Gaga signed with Def Jam Records when she was 19, after record executive L. A. Reid heard her singing down the hallway from his office. However, she claims Reid never met with her, and after three months, she was dropped from the label. She moved out of her parents’ house and started performing downtown in the Lower East Side club scene, with bands Mackin Pulsifer and SGBand.Around the same time, she started taking drugs and performing at burlesque shows; Gaga said her father “just didn’t understand” it, and that he could not look at her for several months.Music producer Rob Fusari, who helped Gaga write some of her earlier songs, compared her vocal style to that of Freddie Mercury. He nicknamed her Gaga, after the Queen song “Radio Ga Ga.” She began to use it as her stage name and was known thereafter as Lady Gaga.Throughout 2007, Gaga collaborated with performance artist Lady Starlight, who helped her create her onstage fashions.The pair began playing gigs at downtown club venues like the Mercury Lounge, The Bitter End, and the Rockwood Music Hall, with their live performance art piece known as “Lady Gaga and the Starlight Revue.” Billed as “The Ultimate Pop Burlesque Rockshow,”[16] their act was a low-fi tribute to 1970’s variety acts. In August 2007, Gaga and Starlight were invited to play at the American music festival Lollapalooza. The show was critically acclaimed, and their performance received highly positive reviews. Having initially focused on avant-garde, and electronic dance music, Gaga found her musical niche when she began to incorporate pop melodies and the vintage glam rock of David Bowie and Queen into the mix.During this time, she began writing for artists signed to Akon’s Konvict label, as well as Fergie, the Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears, and New Kids on the Block.[6] After hearing her sing a reference vocal for one of his tracks, Akon formed the opinion that she was also a good singer.[20] He ultimately convinced Interscope Records chairman Jimmy Iovine to sign her to a joint deal with his own label, Kon Live Distribution, and would later call Gaga his “franchise player.” Through her affiliation with Akon, Gaga started to work on her own new material for her debut album with producer RedOne. Already having a solid selection of electro-glam, David Bowie-esque, and Queen-inspired songs, Gaga wanted to mix her retro dance beats with urban melodies, a pop chorus and still retain a rock and roll edge. The first song they produced together was “Boys Boys Boys”, a mash-up of Mötley Crüe’s “Girls, Girls, Girls” and AC/DC’s “T.N.T.”2008–present: The FameGaga performing at the New Kids on the Block: Live tour.By 2008, Gaga had relocated to Los Angeles, working closely with her record label to finalize her debut album The Fame. Gaga said that she combined a lot of different genres on the album, “from Def Leppard drums and handclaps to metal drums on urban tracks.” She began to work with a collective called the Haus of Gaga, who collaborate with Gaga on her clothing, stage sets, and sounds. The Fame received mostly positive reviews from critics; according to the music review aggregation of Metacritic, it has received an average score of 71/100.Times Online described the album as “a fantastic mix of Bowie-esque ballads, dramatic, Queen-inspired midtempo numbers and synth-based dance tracks that poke fun at celebrity-chasing rich kids.” The Fame peaked at number one in Austria, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Ireland, and at number four in Australia and the United States; worldwide sales as of July 2009 stand at 3 million copies. The album’s lead single, “Just Dance,” was released on April 8, 2008, and has topped the charts in six countries – Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It received a Grammy nomination for the Best Dance Recording, but lost to Daft Punk’s “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.” The second single, “Poker Face”, was released on September 23, 2008, and has reached number one in nearly twenty countries, including almost all major music markets in the world. “Poker Face” became Gaga’s second consecutive number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 2009.Afterward, the Haus of Gaga turned its focus further upon the American market with Gaga going on her first ever concert tour with fellow Interscope pop group, the reformed New Kids on the Block. Gaga started her stint with them in Los Angeles on October 8, 2008, and continued through the end of November.[30] She appeared as a guest artist on the song “Big Girl Now” from their new album, The Block.[31] Gaga’s first headlining North American tour, The Fame Ball Tour, began on March 12, 2009, and has received critical acclaim. In May, Gaga opened for the Pussycat Dolls in Australia. Her performance there was well-received, with a reviewer claiming that she upstaged the Dolls.Around the same time, the music video for her international third single, “LoveGame,” was banned by the Australian channel Network Ten, who refused to play the video reasoning that it contained sexually explicit imagery.Gaga appeared semi-nude, wearing only plastic bubbles, on the cover of the annual ‘Hot 100′ issue of Rolling Stone in May 2009. In the issue she discussed that while she was making her beginnings in the New York club scene, Gaga was romantically involved with a heavy metal drummer. Gaga described their relationship and break-up, saying of it, “I was his Sandy, and he was my Danny [of Grease], and I just broke.” He later became an inspiration behind some of the songs on her debut album The Fame.[39] Gaga also stated that she is bisexual and is inspired by beautiful women, which she says makes her boyfriends “uncomfortable.”[39] She later regretted disclosing her orientation, saying, “I don’t like to be seen as somebody who is using the gay community to look edgy. I’m a free sexual woman and I like what I like. I don’t want people to write that about me because I feel like it looks like I’m saying it because I’m trying to be edgy or underground.”She had previously told a crowd at one of her concerts that her song “Poker Face” lyrically discusses fantasizing about a woman while being in bed with a man. Gaga appeared on rapper Wale’s single “Chillin.”Gaga was nominated for a total of nine awards at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards including Video of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Female Video and Best Pop Video for “Poker Face” and Best Direction, Best Editing, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction for “Paparazzi.[43] “Poker Face” managed to win the award for “Best New Artist” while “Paparazzi” won two awards for “Best Art Direction” and “Best Special Effects.”On September 15, 2009, Gaga announced dates for a co-headlining North American tour with Kanye West entitled, “Fame Kills Starring Kanye West and Lady Gaga.”Musical style and influences Lady Gaga “Just Dance” A 30-second sample of Gaga’s “Just Dance” featuring the chorus sung by Gaga and Colby O’Donis in the range of B3 to C? backed by a synth marching beat. The song became Gaga’s first international hit single. Problems listening to this file? See media help. Gaga has been primarily influenced by glam rockers such as David Bowie and Queen, pop singers Michael Jackson and Madonna, artist Andy Warhol, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, fashion icon and entertainer Grace Jones, and fashion as a whole. Gaga’s vocals have drawn frequent comparison to Madonna and Gwen Stefani, while the structure of her music is said to be reminiscent of classic 1980s pop and 1990s Europop. In reviewing her debut album The Fame, The Sunday Times asserts “in combining music, fashion, art and technology, Lady [Gaga] evokes Madonna when she was good, Gwen Stefani circa Hollaback Girl, Kylie 2001 or Grace Jones right now.” Similarly, The Boston Globe critic Sarah Rodman comments Gaga draws “obvious inspirations from Madonna to Gwen Stefani… in [her] girlish but sturdy pipes and bubbly beats.” Baby A. Gil of The Philippine Star asserts that her voice is “just right for the mix of dance and rock that she does.”[50] As an artist, Alexis Petridis of The Boston Globe commented that although Gaga lacks originality, “pop music doesn’t have to be blindingly original or clever to work: it needs tunes, and Lady [Gaga] is fantastically good at tunes.” Though Gaga’s lyrics are said to lack intellectual stimulation, “[she] does manage to get you moving and grooving at an almost effortless pace.”Style and imageGaga wearing a plastic bubble dress while performing a concert on The Fame Ball Tour.Gaga has stated that she is “very into fashion” and that it is “everything” to her.[6][52] Her love of fashion came from her mother, who was “always very well kept and beautiful.”[4] She claims that: “When I’m writing music, I’m thinking about the clothes I want to wear on stage. It’s all about everything altogether — performance art, pop performance art, fashion. For me, it’s everything coming together and being a real story that will bring back the super-fan. I want to bring that back. I want the imagery to be so strong that fans will want to eat and taste and lick every part of us.” She has her own creative production team called the Haus of Gaga, which she handles personally. The team creates many of her clothes, stage props, and hairdos.Gaga has six known tattoos,among them a peace symbol which was inspired by the late English musician John Lennon who The Guardian remarked as Gaga’s “hero,”[55] and a curling German script on her left arm which quotes the poet Rainer Maria Rilke with the lines “In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?” Gaga described Rilke as her “favorite philosopher,” commenting that his “philosophy of solitude” spoke to her.In response to Gaga saying that she considers Donatella Versace her muse,[6] Melissa Magsaysay of Los Angeles Times commented, “[Gaga's] aversion to wearing a top and bottom at the same time [...] swigging champagne and being fanned by oily men in Speedos [is] very Donatella-esque.”[57] Towards the end of 2008, comparisons were made between the fashions of Gaga and recording artist Christina Aguilera, noting similarities in their styling, hair, and make-up.[6] Aguilera later claimed she was “completely unaware of [Gaga]” and “didn’t know if it [was] a man or a woman.”[6] Afterward, Gaga released a statement in which she welcomed the comparisons due to the attention providing useful publicity.[58] Gaga said, “She’s such a huge star and if anything I should send her flowers, because a lot of people in America didn’t know who I was until that whole thing happened. It really put me on the map in a way.”[58][59] Gaga is a natural brunette, but her hair is dyed blonde because she was often mistaken for fellow musician Amy Winehouse.

calendar update
News flash of little surprise to those who know him: spkorb RULES. (No context behind the cut, though.)

Announcements, Updates:
(Left over from last week intentionally)

All badgerhaus shows are canceled per
http://www.indyweekblogs.com/citizen/2009/12/bett-padgetts-house-concerts-ruled-a-business-the-limit-is-three-a-year/
http://www.badgerhaus.com/closed.html

CANCELED 28 December (Monday) - Raleigh - Wouter Jaspers (The Netherlands, experimental), Bram Stadhouders (The Netherlands, free jazz), and Bas Verbeek (The Netherlands, dark noise). Also possibly Subscape Annex (Raleigh) - badgerhaus, Raleigh - Time 8pm sharp, free with donations requested for traveling performers


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GoogleBadgerCalendar (thanks to jason0x21)

If you use iCal on OS X, use the following URL to subscribe to BadgerCalendar:
http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/mu2eh7ismei0k2dnibpgt0ae0s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

HOWTO: Subscribe to a Google Calendar using iCal
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/04/13/howto-subscribe-to-a-google-calendar-using-ical/

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Recurring

Second Friday: NCSU Surplus sale, 8am-noon
http://www7.acs.ncsu.edu/materialsmgmt/MaterialsSupport/surplus_sale.pdf

second Saturday: Techshop Member Meet-Up and Pot-Luck
http://www.techshopdurham.com

First Friday of the month: Raleigh art walk
http://www.raleighdowntowner.com/firstfriday/

Second Friday of the month: Chapel Hill art walk
Third Friday of the month: Durham artsy something or other

Periodic Tables
general science talks at Broad Street Cafe, Durham, Second Tuesday every month
http://www.facebook.com/periodictables
http://www.ncmls.org/periodictables

"Science in the Triangle" blog also does a "this upcoming week" weekly post. Recent example:
http://scienceinthetriangle.org/blog/rtp-weekahead-98
(They also have a jobs page http://scienceinthetriangle.org/jobs )


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Other Calendars

NC Startup Blog Calendar
http://www.northcarolinastartups.com/events/

SocialCarolina (general RTP tech aggegator) calendar
http://socialcarolina.org/

NC Goth
http://www.ncgoth.com/shows.html

Convention Finder
http://containment.greententacles.com/

Independent Weekly for RTP area events
http://www.indyweek.com/

Event calendar at Carrboro Creative Coworking
http://carrborocoworking.com/calendar

SocialCarolina calendar
http://socialcarolina.org/

Triangle Rock
http://www.trianglerock.com/

Duke ISIS events
http://isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html

Duke Campus Concert Series
http://www.duke.edu/web/CCS

Carrboro Coworking
http://www.carrborocoworking.com/calendar

The Stagger - Live Entertainment in Chapel Hill and Carrboro
http://www.thestagger.com/

Google & ical calendar of pagan holidays
http://anselm23.livejournal.com/417451.html

Duke AMES films
http://www.duke.edu/web/ames/whatsnew.html

information security conference google calendar
http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/pe2ikdbe6b841od6e26ato0asc%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
some overlap with my schedule posts, but minimal - this has tons more than I do along these lines


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New items added since the last post are duplicated at the beginning, sometimes with comments, then the main list.

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new in schedule:

10 Jan: (tv) Big Love season 4, HBO

28 Jan: Refresh The Triangle 024, Viget Labs, Durham
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/refreshthetrian/24702.html
http://refreshthetriangle.org/posts/refresh_024/#When:15:52:00Z

30 April - 1 May: ROFLcon II, MIT in Cambridge, MA
http://twitter.com/textfiles/status/6903261048

28-29 May: Magus:  Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Work of Alan Moore
University of Northampton, United Kingdom
http://www2.northampton.ac.uk/arts/home/AlanMoore

13-14 Sep: TechCrunch50 dates are September 13th & 14th.
http://twitter.com/Jason/status/6871638187
Note: Applications in by the end of June 2010 (for planning).



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FULL LIST

CANCELED 28 December (Monday) - Raleigh - Wouter Jaspers (The Netherlands, experimental), Bram Stadhouders (The Netherlands, free jazz), and Bas Verbeek (The Netherlands, dark noise). Also possibly Subscape Annex (Raleigh) - badgerhaus, Raleigh - Time 8pm sharp, free with donations requested for traveling performers


2010:

6 Jan: Technoiz night, Pour House, Raleigh, with Ex Monkeys (Raleigh) and Orgavin (Chapel Hill)
http://events.jdnews.com/raleigh-nc/events/show/89240819-technoiz-wednesdays-exmonkeys
http://www.the-pour-house.com/
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000499307593&ref=nf

7-10 January: Raleigh Undercover, Tir Na Nog
http://www.newraleigh.com/articles/archive/raleigh-undercover-save-the-dates/

9 Jan: Occult Conference, Glastonbury England
http://scarletimprint.livejournal.com/19835.html

10 Jan: (tv) Big Love season 4, HBO

13 Jan: Fargo (Coen Brothers), Colony Theatre, Raleigh, 8pm, $5, Cool Classics series
http://www.therialto.com/main.php?title=our_theaters_colony

14 Jan: Storytelling at the Monti in RTP, with novelist John Kessel, author Scott Huler and ant researcher Rob Dunn.
http://twitter.com/The_Monti/status/6419739144
http://themonti.org/
Note: Shows at the Monti always, repeat always, sell out well before, so if you
are thinking of going buy tickets in advance.

15-17 January: ScienceOnline'10 conference, RTP
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=118219988767

15 Jan: Retrofantasma, Carolina Theatre, Durham, 7pm & 9:30pm
http://festivals.carolinatheatre.org/retrofantasma/
GHOST STORY (US, R, 110 min, 1981)
IT CAMEWITHOUT WARNING (US, R, 89 min, 1980)
http://festivals.carolinatheatre.org/retrofantasma/

17 January: Golden Globe Awards
http://www.imdb.com/features/rto/2010/globes
How did Sam Rockwell get overlooked for his impressive performance in _MOON_?

20 Jan: Switchblade Sisters, Colony Theatre, Raleigh, 8pm, $5, Cinema Overdrive series
http://www.therialto.com/main.php?title=our_theaters_colony

20 Jan: All's Well That Ends Well, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee NC
http://www.americanshakespearecenter.com/v.php?pg=191
American Shakespeare Company on tour

22 January - Steven Wright, Carolina Theatre, Durham, members presale now, public sale opens Friday. Yes, Steven Wright of "Stayed up all night playing poker with a deck of Tarot cards. I got a full house and three people died."

25 January: tv, Damages season 3 premiere

28 Jan: Refresh The Triangle 024, Viget Labs, Durham
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/refreshthetrian/24702.html
http://refreshthetriangle.org/posts/refresh_024/#When:15:52:00Z

29 January: Breakfast with Jason Caplain of Southern Capitol Ventures, Carrboro Creative Coworking, Carrboro
http://www.carrborocoworking.com/
http://flur.be/2X
http://twitter.com/carrborocowork/status/6465819913

29 January: Nevermore Festival fundraiser double feature: The Dark Crystal (7pm), and Army of Darkness (9:30pm), Carolina Theatre Durham
http://www.carolinatheatre.org/

29 January: Carolina Performing Arts, “the break/s: a mixtape for stage” – Mark Bamuthi Joseph (multimedia personal hip-hop narrative)
http://www.indyweekblogs.com/scan/2009/03/carolina-performing-arts-announced-2009-10-season/
http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org/


Feb:
Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology (CHAT) festival,
http://cit.duke.edu/blog/2008/08/20/humanities-arts-technology-festival-seeks-planners-projects/
http://www.iah.unc.edu/
http://www.hastac.org/node/1667

Feb: Pantheacon, San Jose CA
http://www.pantheacon.com/

4-21 February: Conor McPherson's "The Seafarer", Burning Coal Theatre, Raleigh (Thursday-Sundays of the time block)
http://www.burningcoal.org/
http://www.burningcoal.org/season.html

4 February: Duke New Music Ensemble
http://music.duke.edu/performance/dnme.php
"Lunch with the New 2" another lunchtime concert with a mix of works by Duke composers and other composers

4-7 Feb: IxDA Interaction 10 Conference, SCAD
http://interaction.ixda.org/

5-7 February: ShmooCon 2010, Wardman Park Marriott, Washington DC, USA
http://www.shmoocon.org/

12 Feb: Retrofantasma, Carolina Theatre, Durham, 7pm & 9:30pm
http://festivals.carolinatheatre.org/retrofantasma/
THE HOWLING (US, R, 91 min, 1981)
MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (US, R, 97 min, 1986)

15 Feb: Tortoise, Cat's Cradle, Chapel Hill
http://www.catscradle.com/

18 Feb: Dean & Britta, 13 Most Beautiful... Songs for Andy Warhol's "Screen Tests"
http://dukeperformances.duke.edu/series/at-the-crossroads/dean-britta

19-21 Feb: Nevermore Film Festival, Carolina Theatre, Durham
http://festivals.carolinatheatre.org/nevermore/

19 February: Carolina Performing Arts, STREB: Brave (extreme sports, dance, MIT Media Lab collaboration)
http://www.indyweekblogs.com/scan/2009/03/carolina-performing-arts-announced-2009-10-season/
http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org/

22-24 Feb: CED's 19th annual Biotech Conference, Raleigh Convention Center
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091103006320&newsLang=en

2010
22-24 Feb: CED's 19th annual Biotech Conference, Raleigh Convention Center
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091103006320&newsLang=en

26-27 February: Hairspray (musical), UNC School of the Arts, Winston-Salem NC

3 March: Ignite Raleigh 2
http://twitter.com/IgniteRaleigh/status/6719961243
http://ignite.oreilly.com/giw/

19 March: Retrofantasma, Carolina Theatre, Durham, 7pm & 9:30pm
http://festivals.carolinatheatre.org/retrofantasma/
LIFEFORCE (UK, R, 101 min, 1985)
KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE (US, R, 88 min, 1988)

19-21 March: Con the Con Leverage convention, Portland OR
http://www.conthecon.org/index.php

25-28 March: World Horror Convention, Brighton England
http://whc2010.org/


April 2010:

1 April: Duke New Music Ensemble
http://music.duke.edu/performance/dnme.php
"Remixology" featuring Duke composers remixing/recomposing other Duke composers.

1-4 April: Viva Las Vegas 12, rockabilly/50s music, Las Vegas NV
http://www.vivalasvegas.net/

7 April: Carolina Performing Arts, Pat Metheny (solo guitar improvisations and unveiling of “Orchestrionics”)
http://www.indyweekblogs.com/scan/2009/03/carolina-performing-arts-announced-2009-10-season/
http://www.carolinaperformingarts.org/

8-10 April: Renaissance Society of America (RSA) annual conference "relating the period’s knowledge practices to modern information theory"
http://www.rsa.org/meetings/annualmeeting.php

8-11 April 2010: (movie) (festival) 13th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
http://www.fullframefest.org/

10 April 2010: Kronos Quartet, Duke
http://dukeperformances.duke.edu/node/54

14-18 April, 21-25 April: Macbeth, NCSU
Titmus Theatre, Thompson Hall
http://www.ncsu.edu/theatre/currentseason.html

14-18 April, 21-25 April: Macbeth, NCSU
Titmus Theatre, Thompson Hall
http://www.ncsu.edu/theatre/currentseason.html

15-17 April: HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations "a free, entirely virtual event held in a multiplicity of digital spaces instigated from sites across the globe" (hosted by Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science at the University of Illinois)
http://www.hastac.org/

15-25 April: 2010 RiverRun International Film Festival
"The 2010 RiverRun International Film Festival will utilize many of the same Winston-Salem venues it has for the past few years, including the Stevens Center (405 W. Fourth St.), the Ace Cinematheque Complex on the campus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (1533 S. Main St.), the Reynolda House Museum of American Art (2250 Reynolda Rd.) and The Garage (110 W. 7th St.). Additionally in 2010, RiverRun will use the soon-to-be-completed a/perture cinema (311 W. 4th Street) in downtown Winston-Salem."

20-22 Apr: CED's 27th Venture conference, Pinehurst NC
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091103006320&newsLang=en

23 April: Retrofantasma, Carolina Theatre, Durham, 7pm & 9:30pm
http://festivals.carolinatheatre.org/retrofantasma/
VIDEODROME (Canada, R, 87 min, 1983)
TERRORVISION (US, R, 83 min, 1986)

26-30 April: 19th International World Wide Web Conference - Raleigh, NC
http://www2010.org

30 April - 1 May: ROFLcon II, MIT in Cambridge, MA
http://twitter.com/textfiles/status/6903261048

7 May: International Tuba Day, 2010 (first Friday in May)
http://www.tubaday.com/homepage.php

7-8 May: "The Archive and Everyday Life" conference, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~english/Taylor_2010/index.html
CFP deadline October 15 2009

19-23 May 2010 Conference of the North American Jules Verne Society, Bethesda MD
CFP now
http://dynamicsubspace.net/2009/09/09/cfp-north-american-jules-verne-society-meeting-may-2010/

21 May: Retrofantasma, Carolina Theatre, Durham, 7pm & 9:30pm
http://festivals.carolinatheatre.org/retrofantasma/
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 (US, NR, 101 min, 1986)
SQUIRM (US, R, 92 min, 1976)

28-29 May: Magus:  Transdisciplinary Approaches to the Work of Alan Moore
University of Northampton, United Kingdom
http://www2.northampton.ac.uk/arts/home/AlanMoore

3-6 June: Electronic Literature Organization's Fourth annual Conference and Program of Digitally Mediated Literary Art, Brown University, Providence RI
http://nickm.com/post/2009/11/elo_ai%C2%A0archive%C2%A0%C2%A0innovate/
6-19 June: Taos Toolbox, "two-week masterclass in SF and Fantasy writing with Walter Jon Williams and Nancy Kress", Taos NM
http://www.taostoolbox.com/
http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2009/12/special-circle-in-hell-is-reserved-for.html

11-13 June: Science Fiction Foundation (SFF) 4th Annual SF Criticism Masterclass, London
http://rozk.livejournal.com/289831.html

15-17 June: E3 Expo, Los Angeles, LA Convention Center
http://www.macworld.com/article/140999/2009/06/e3expo.html

18 June: Retrofantasma, Carolina Theatre, Durham, 7pm & 9:30pm
http://festivals.carolinatheatre.org/retrofantasma/
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE in 3-D (US, NR, 81 min, 1953)
INVADERS FROM MARS (US, PG, 99 min, 1986)

22-24 June: Resonances, a Deleuze and Guattari Conference
http://www.resonative.net/

27 June - August 7
Clarion Writers' Workshop at UC San Diego
http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2009/08/31/teaching-at-clarion-in-san-diego-in-2010/
http://clarion.ucsd.edu/index.html

9-11 July, 2010
H. G. Wells: From Kent to Cosmopolis conference
http://dynamicsubspace.net/2009/04/06/cfp-hgwells-from-kent-to-cosmopolis/
CFP through 1 March 2010

16-18 July: The Next HOPE (updated from date of "summer 2010")
http://www.thenexthope.org/

5-8 August: NASFIC, Raleigh
http://www.reconstructionsf.org/registration.html
http://www.raleighnasfic2010.org/


12-15 August, 2010
Triangle Form and Function Festival (early planning stages)
http://formandfunctionfest.wordpress.com/

13-16 August: Convergence 16, Park City Utah
http://www.altgothic.com/c16slc/

13-14 Sep: TechCrunch50 dates are September 13th & 14th.
http://twitter.com/Jason/status/6871638187
Note: Applications in by the end of June 2010 (for planning).

21 Oct 2010: Infosecon 2010, McKimmon Center
http://raleigh.issa.org/conference.html

22-24 Oct: Browncoat Ball (Serenity fans), Charlotte NC

19-21 Nov: SFContario, Toronto Canada
http://floggingbabel.blogspot.com/2009/12/back-to-toronto.html
http://sfcontario.ca/

2011

28 April-1 May: World Horror Convention, Austin TX
http://whc2011.org/

17-21 Aug: Worldcon, Reno Nevada
http://www.rcfi.org/

2012
8 Nov: Titanic Cruise Reenactment, One Century Anniversary
http://infocult.typepad.com/infocult/2009/10/cruise-the-north-atlantic-in-gothic-splendor.html

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