Manny posted in a comment to the prior entry that Kettle of Fish has become a big Red Sox bar, and that we might be crowded out of it if the Sox were still playing. Well, that hasn't happened, so we'll still be meeting at Kettle, 59 Christopher Street (just East of Seventh Avenue and the Chris St 1 subway stop) at sevenish.

Hey Gang,

This Thursday, at sevenish some of us are going to meet at Kettle of Fish on Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue South at sevenish. In addition to general conviviality, we plan to discuss whether and when the next NY MegaDopefest will occur and the planning for it.

Hope to see you there.

Bill

We'll meet at Kum Gang San, 49 West 32nd Street on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. You can take the B/D/F/V or N/R/Q/W to 34th St/Herald Square.

Please let me know if you'll be coming by Friday so I may make a reservation. The reservation will be under the name Cecil Adams.

Those of you who were keeping track know that we had been planning and then cancelled a New York Megadopefest on the weekend of October 23. We said that we'd be doing something that weekend, and now we've figured out what that something would be ( Read more... )

Several members of the Megadopefest committee have run into unexpected Life complications - most especially the estimable grand-poobah-and-master-of-ceremonies [b]Billdo[/b], whose work schedule has exploded on him. But several of us are also encountering unexpected travel obligtations that will cut in to our ability to plan the daytime activities ( Read more... )

New York SDMBer Dewey Cheatem Undhow will soon no longer be such. He's moving to Dallas next week. We'll be having a drink to send him off Tuesday, Sept. 7 at 7 at the Bull's Head, 296 Third Ave. at 22nd. Details here

Also, I've posted the NY Megadopefest Changed Date Thread.

It now appears that a large number of the NY Dopefest organizers have major scheduling conflicts for the weekend of October 15-17.

We are thinking of rescheduling the Megadopefest for October 22-24.

Please let me know what you think of this as soon as possible.

Well, gang, the "Mark your Calendars" thread has been posted. I'd appreciate it if you could generate some buzz on the thread as necessary.

Well boys and girls, it's time to plan another NY MegaDopefest Weekend. As several of us have discussed, we're going to move the MegaDopefest to October so that we can avoid the January weather that has plagued us when we had them in January ( Read more... )