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David is an entrepreneur, author, philosopher, attorney (retired), and educator whose recent research focuses on the nexus of science, technology, ethics, and public policy. He is the founder and CEO of Encrypgen, LLC.
State University of New York at Buffalo
1997 Ph.D., Philosophy Department, February 27, 1997.
Dissertation: The Ontology of Cyberspace: Law, Philosophy, and the Future of Intellectual Property.
1995 J.D. SUNY at Buffalo School of Law. Buffalo Law Review,
Systems Editor. Desmond Moot Court Board, Connelly Trial Technique Award.
1990 B.A. magna cum laude, Political Science/English
with High Distinction. Phi Beta Kappa.
2016-Present: Asesor de Rector at UAM Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico
2014-Present: Adjunct Professor, University at Buffalo, Dept. of Learning and Instruction, Science and the Public Masters Program.
2014-2017: Director of Research and Strategic Initiatives, Comisi�n Nacional de Bio�tica (CONBIOETICA) Mexico, D.F.
2009-2017: Senior Fellow, Center for Inquiry - Transnational, Amherst, NY.
2014-2017: Education Director, Center for Inquiry, Amherst, NY.
Jan-July 2015: Visiting Prof. Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico, Instituto de Investigaciones Filos�ficas, Mexico, D.F.
2008-2015: Associate Professor of Philosophy (tenured), Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology
2008-2015: Senior Research Fellow (currently affiliate member) of the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology
May 2008: Visiting Professor, University of Health Sciences, Antigua
Sept 2003-Sept 2008: Research Asst. Prof., SUNY at Buffalo Dept. of Philosophy; Adjunct Asst. Prof., Learning and Instruction; Adjunct Instructor, Interdisciplinary Degree Programs; Coordinator, Graduate Research Ethics.
Fall 2006-2007: Yale University, Donaghue Initiative
Visiting Scholar in Research Ethics "Individual and Collective Rights in Genomic Data"
Fall. 2005: Adjunct Lecturer, Dept. of Philosophy, SUNY
Buffalo State College
1998-2000 Lecturer, SUNY Buffalo School of Law, Intellectual
Property & Research and Writing.
Spr. 1998 Senior Research Fellow, on the Project "Software
and Intellectual Property: A Pilot Investigation in Legal Ontology" at
SUNY Buffalo.
Fall 1997 Research Fellow, State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Philosophy.
Present: University at Buffalo Blockchain ThinkLab collaborator.
2000 – 2001 Ontologist, Senior Product Manager and Information
Architect for Bowstreet, Inc., a software development company in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire.
2003-2008 Executive Director/Executive Committee, Council for Secular Humanism/Center for Inquiry, Transnational
�Open X as VSD-Ready Technology� with Philip Serracino Inglott (submitted, under review)
"Is Teaching About Ethics Necessary for Bioethics?" (submitted)
2017 Philosophy and Breaking Bad
co-edited with Kevin Decker and Robert Arp (UK: Palgrave Macmillan)
2016 Scientific Integrity and Research Ethics: an Approach from the Ethos of Science (The Netherlands: Springer)
2015 �tica de la Investigaci�n, Integridad Cient�ca (Mexico City: CONACyT) ISBN: 978-607-460-506-8
2015 Who Owns You: Science, Innovation, and the Gene Patent Wars, 2d Edition (revised and expanded) (UK: Wiley)
2015 Bioethics: Inspire the Future to Move the World, co-edited with Manuel Ruiz de Chavez Guerrero and Raul Jimenez ISBN 978-607-460-475-7 (Mexico City: CONBIOETICA)
2012 Breaking Bad and Philosophy, with Robert Arp, (ed.) Popular Culture and Philosophy series, (Chicago: Open Court).
2011 Innovation and Nanotechnology: Converging Technologies and the End of Intellectual Property, (UK: Bloomsbury Academic).
Editorial Reviews
2009 Who Owns You? The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes. (UK: Wiley-Blackwell).
Review, Steven Poole, non-fiction choice, The Guardian, Oct., 17, 2009; Review, C.H. Blake, Choice Reviews Online, Dec 2009; Review, by Molly C. Kottemann, in Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, Dec 2009, Vol 82, No. 4, pp. 233-34; Review Kristien Hens, Center for Biomedical Ethics and Law, in Ethical Perspectives Vol 17, Issue 1, p. 124, March 2010; Review, Daniel Puente-Rodríguez, in Asian Biotechnology and Development Review Vol. 13, Issue 1, March, 2011;Review, Randall Mayes, Journal of Evolution and Technology, Dec. 20, 2009, Vol. 20, Issue 2;Review, by Christian Jongerneel, in De Ingenieur, 21 Augustus 2009, 12;Review by Cheryl Lajos in The Librarian's Review of Books; Review by John Portnow, in Journal of High Technology Law, 2009-2010;Review by Leo Uzych, J.D., M.P.H, in Metapsychology Online Reviews, Vol.14, Issue15; ; Review by Aaron Fellmeth, in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 2009.25.10
2007 Science and Ethics: Can Science Help Us Make Wise and Moral Judgments? Co-edited with Paul Kurtz, (Amherst, NY:
Prometheus Press)
2003 John Searle's Ideas About Social Reality: Extensions, Criticisms, and Reconstructions,
co-edited with Laurence Moss, (Oxford UK: Blackwell)
Review, by Elizabeth McCardell, in Metapsychology Online Reviews, Mar 17th 2004 (Volume 8, Issue 12)
2002 Reboot
World, (New York: Writer's Club Press) (fiction)
2000 The Ontology of Cyberspace, (Chicago: Open Court).
Review, by Rita F. Lin, in Harvard Journal of Law and Technology Vol. 14, No. 1 (2000), pp.335-344; Review, by Thomas V. Finnerty, in Journal of High Technology Law (2005); Review, by Christopher C. Robinson, "Democracy in Cyberia," in Theory and Event Vol 5, Issue 3; Review, by Arthur L. Morin, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (2002); Review "Children of the Revolution: The Developing Genre of Cyberlaw Commentary" by Terence P. Ross in 4 Green Bag 2d, p.453 et seq. (2001); Citations, Google Scholar
1991 Shadow Boxing (unpublished novella)
2017 "Mars One: Human Subject Concerns?" in Astropolitics Vol. 15, Issue 1, pp. 97-111.
2016 "The rise of big data and genetic privacy" with Vanessa Gonzalez Covarrubias in Ethics, Medicine and Public Health, Available online 13 September 2016.
2015 "Human Participants in Engineering Research: Notes from a fledgling ethics committee� with Willem-Paul Brinkman and Sylvia Pont in Science and Engineering Ethics Online First, DOI 10.1007/s11948-014-9568-2, Vol 21 (4) pp. 1033-48.
2014 �Human Research Ethics Committees in Technical Universities� with Willem-Paul Brinkman and Sylvia Pont, in Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, Vol. 9, Issue 3 pp.67-71.
2014 �Principals, Agents and the Intersection between Scientists and Policy-Makers: Reflections on the H5N1 Controversy� with Keelie Murdock in Frontiers, Public Health- Infectious Diseases special issue on Dual-use life science research and biosecurity in the 21st Century: Social, Technical, Policy, and Ethical Challenges, editor: Kathleen Vogel. Vol. 2 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00109.
2014 �Beyond Paper� with Barry Smith, in The Monist Vol. 98, Issue 2, pp. 222-235.
2013 "Coase and Copyright" with Floris Kreiken in Illinois Journal of Law, Technology, and Policy, pp. 1-44.
2012 �The Open Source Society and its Enemies� with Floris Kreiken in The Humanities and Technology Review, Vol. 31, pp. 25-49.
2012 �Non-Proliferation Regimes: Immoral and Risky� with Katerina Stankova in International Journal on World Peace, Vol. 29, pp. 63-83.
2011 "Things in Themselves: Redefining Intellectual Property in the Nano-Age" in Journal of Information Ethics, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Spring), pp. 12-27.
2010 "Back to Basics: How Technology and the Open Source Movement Can Save Science" in Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy, Vol. 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 181 � 190
2010 "Authorship and Artifacts: remaking IP law for future objects" in The Monist, Vol. 93, Issue 3, July. pp. 481-492.
2010 "Peter Hare on The Problem of Evil" in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society Symposium dedicated to Peter Hare, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Winter), pp.53-59.
2009 "Let's Get Small: An introduction to transitional issues in nanotech and intellectual property" in Nanoethics, Vol 3, No. 2, pp. 157-166. Open Access DOI citation: 10.1007/s11569-009-0068-9
2009 "On Genies and Bottles: Scientists' Moral Responsibility and Dangerous Technology R&D" in Science and Engineering Ethics. Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 119-133 (2010 -- in print) Online first/Open Access DOI citation: 10.1007/s11948-009-9158-x
2009 "Dealing With Socially Constructed Concepts in an Ontology" letter to editor, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics,, Vol 4, Issue 2, June, pp.75-76.
2009 "Creating a Controlled Vocabulary for the Ethics of Human Research: Towards a Biomedical Ethics Ontology" with Robert Arp, Jennifer Fostel, and Barry Smith in Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, Vol. 4, Issue 1, March, pp 43-58.
2007 "Robots Bowling Alone: Evolving Post-Technological Humans" in SCRIPT-ed: A Journal of Law and Technology, Vol 4, Issue 4, pp 462-67.
2007 "The Ethics of Genetic Engineering," Policy "White" Paper, Center for Inquiry, Transnational. Published August 28, 2007.
2007 "Individual and Collective Rights in Genomic Data: Preliminary Questions" in Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 16 Issue 1, June, pgs 151-159.
2007 "Ethics and Ontology: A New Synthesis," Metaphysica: An International Journal of Metaphysics and Ontology, Vol. 8, No. 2, October, pp. 20-27.
2006 "The Mystery of Intellectual Capital: A Prospectus," SCRIPT-ed: A Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 3, Issue 2, June, pp. 140-145.
2003 "Libri e atre macchine: artificio ed espressione" (Books and Other Machines) Sistemi Inteligenti Numero 3, Dicembre, pp. 429-440
2003 "Introduction to the Special Issue on John Searle's The
Construction of Social Reality: The Science of Society" American Journal of
Economics and Sociology, Vol 62, No. 1.
2000 "An Emerging Ontology of Jurisdiction in
Cyberspace," in Ethics and Information Technology, Vol 2, No. 2.
1999 "Introduction to Applied Ontology," in The
American Journal of Economics and Sociology, April, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp
Popular and Invited (a selected sample):
2014 The State of American Secularism Free Inquiry Vol. 34, Issue 6
2013 Why The Time Was Right for Breaking Bad Guy Walter White in The Conversation, Sept. 29.
2013 Is Walter White One of TV's Truly Evil Characters? in BBC News Magazine, Sept. 27.
2010 "Naturally-Occurring Genes and the Commons-by-Necessity," in GeneWatch Magazine Vol. 23, Issue 5.
2010 "Humanist 'Leadership' and Me," Free Inquiry, Oct-Nov, pp. 34-36.
2009 "Designer Moods: The Ethics of Neurochemical Enhancement" in Free Inquiry, Aug-Sept, pp. 26-27.
2009 "Why I Believe Gene Patenting is Wrong, Even Though it is Legal" in Institute for Ethics in Emerging Technologies blog, Aug 16.
2008 "An Outline for the Legal Ontology of Personhood: The Transbeman Example" in Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Vol 3, Issue 1.
2007 "Spiritual but not Religious" in Secular Humanist Bulletin, Vol. 23, No. 4.
2007 "The End of Faith in Politics" in Free Inquiry, Vol. 27, Issue 2, p. 16-17.
2007 "The Immorality of Religious Ethics" in Secular Humanist Bulletin, Vol. 23, No. 3.
2007 "3 Billion Little Pieces: How Much of You do You Own?" SciTech Lawyer, Vol. 3, No. 4.
2006 "Is There a God? Go Ask Alice" in Free Inquiry Vol. 26, No. 6., pp. 14-15.
2006 "Science Ain't an Exact Science: Public Perception of Science After the Stem-Cell Fraud," Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 44-50.
2006 "Beware the Pitfalls of Belief Systems" in Secular Humanist Bulletin, Vol. 22, No. 3.
2006 "Learning (how) to Behave: Commandments vs. Principles" in Secular Humanist Bulletin, Vol. 22, No. 2.
2006 "New Threats to Academic Freedom" in Free Inquiry, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 14-15.
2006 "The Thin Edge of the Wedge: Intelligent Design after Dover," Free Inquiry, Vol 26, No. 3, pp. 32-33.
2006 "The Ethics of Investigation," Skeptical Inquirer, Vol 30, No.1, January-February, pp. 45-47.
2005 "The United States is not a Christian Nation" in Secular Humanist Bulletin, Vol 21, No. 2.
2005 "Beyond Gods: Secular Humanism's Future" in Secular Humanist Bulletin, Vol. 21, No. 1.
2005 "Great Minds:
John Stuart Mill," Free Inquiry, Vol 25,
No.6, December-January, pp. 47-49.
2004 "The Law and Secular Humanism" in Secular Humanist Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 4.
2004 "On the Frontlines of The Culture Wars," Ethical
Record (London) Vol 109, No. 4, p.3.
1996 "The Ontology of Cyberspace: Preliminary Questions
and Comments," State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of
Computer Science - Technical Report 95-9.
2016 �ICT's Architecture of Freedom� with Philip Serracino Inglott for Freedom and Property of Information: The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology, Mireille Hildebrandt and Bibi van de Berg, editors, (UK: Routledge).
2014 "In Art We Trust" for Trust me, I'm an Artist: Toward an Ethics of Art and Science Collaboration, Anna Dumitriu and Bobbie Farsides, eds. (UK: Blurb,), pp. 71-77.
2014 "Synthetic Biology and IP" in Synbio and Human Health: a challenge to the current IP framework? Editors: Carlos Mar�a Romeo Casabona & I�igo de Miguel Beriain, (NL: Springer) pp. 45-54.
2013 "Respect my Religiosi-tah: South Park and Blasphemy" in The Ultimate South Park and Philosophy: Respect my Philosiphah! Robert Arp, Kevin Decker, and William Irwin, eds. (UK: Wiley-Blackwell) pp. 97-107.
2013 "Medical Privacy in the Age of Genomics" in Medical Ethics, 2d Ed. ed. Michael Boylan (London, UK: Wiley-Blackwell) pp. 90-98.
2013 "Applying Intellectual Property to DNA and Life" in Contemporary Debates in Bioethics Arthur Caplan and Robert Arp, eds. (UK: Wiley-Blackwell) pp. 152-160.
2013 "'It's Existential': Negative Space and Nothingness in The Ice Storm" in The Philosophy of Ang Lee, Barkman, Adam, Robert Arp and James McRae, ed. (Lexington, KT: University Press of Kentucky)pp.243-250.
2012 "A Question of Authorship" Foreword to A Question Mark Above the Sun by Kent Johnson (Buffalo, NY: Starcherone Books). pp. xvii - xxiii.
2012 "Some Ethical Considerations in Astronomy Research and Practice" in Organizations, People and Strategies in Astronomy � Volume 1 (OPSA I), Ed. A. Heck, (Venngeist: Duttlenheim) (ISBN 978-2-9542677-0-8)pp.265-277
2011 Luc Schneider, Mathias Brochhausen, and David Koepsell "On Some Best Practices in Large-Scale Ontology Development: The Chronious Ontology Suite as a Case Study" in Formal Ontology Meets Industry 5th International Workshop Proceedings, IOS Press, pp. 28-38.
2011 �International Law and Legal Positivism�, in Sam Muller, Stavros
Zouridis, Morly Frishman and Laura Kistemaker (eds.), Law of the Future and the Future of Law, Torkel Opsahl Academic, pp. 375-384.
2010 �Developing a Master's Degree Program in Science and the Public� in Improving Science Spirits and Building a Harmonious Society, Paul Kurtz and F. Ren, (eds.) (Chinese Science and Technology Press), pp. 84-93.
2010 "Judeo-Christian Values do not Motivate People to Behave Ethically" in Ethics (Opposing Viewpoints), Roman Espejo (ed.) (Greenhaven Press) pp. 78-87.
2009 "Genetic Engineering is Not Unethical" in Genetic Engineering (Opposing Viewpoints), David M. Haugen and Susan Musser (eds.) (Greenhaven Press) pp. 79-93.
2009 "Are Ethical War-Bots Possible?" in Transformers and Philosophy, John Shook and Liz Stillwaggon (eds.) (Chicago: Open Court) pp. 207-218.
2008 "Gaius Baltar and the Transhuman Temptation" in Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy, Jason Eberl, (ed.) (Oxford UK: Blackwell).
2008 "From Guano Islands to the Moon: Institutionalized
Squatting and Property Rights," in The Mystery of Capital and the New
Philosophy of Social Reality, Mark, Smith and Erlich (eds.) (Chicago: Open Court).
2007 "Carl Menger and Exact Theory in the Social
Sciences" in Science and Ethics: Can Science Help Us Make Wise and
Moral Judgments? Co-edited with Paul Kurtz, (Amherst, NY: Prometheus
2007 "The Practice of Humanism in Marriage and Family
Counseling" with D. Mercurio-Riley, in The Role of Religion in Marriage
and Family Counseling (New York: NY: Taylor & Francis)
2007 "They Satirized My Prophet... Those Bastards!:
South Park and Blasphemy," in South Park and Philosophy, Robert Arp
(ed.) (Oxford UK: Blackwell)
2007 "Unbelief and the Law" (3000 words), "John
Stuart Mill" (1500 words) The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, Thomas Flynn (ed.) (Amherst NY, Prometheus).
2006 "Linking the Gene Ontology and Social Ontology: A
Prolegomena to an Ontology of Personhood," in Proceedings of FOIS 2006,
Brandon Bennett (ed.) (Amsterdam: IOS Press)
2006 "Poker in Cyberspace: Is it Bluffing When No One Sees You
Blink?" in Philosophy and Poker, Eric Bronson (ed.)(Open
Court: Chicago)
1997 "Protection of Minority Shareholders: U.S.
Report" with Catherine Habermehl, in Protection of Minority
Shareholders, Matthias Stecher, (ed.), (The Hague: Kluwer).
2009 "The Ethics of Neurochemical Enhacement" special section, Free Inquiry, Vol 29, No. 5., pp. 26-40.
2003 "Special Issue on the Social Philosophy of John
Searle," in The American Journal of Economics and Sociology.
1999 "Special Issue on Applied Ontology," in The
American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 58, No.2 pp. 217-356
2011 Book Review: Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katoh, Interfaces on Trial 2.0 in Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology (forthcoming).
2010 Book Review: Luigi Palombi, Gene Cartels - Biotech Patents in the Age of Free Trade in Script-ed, A Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 7, Issue 1.
2008 Book Review: Daniel Greenberg, "Science for Sale: The
Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism", in New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 358, No. 15, April 10.
2006 Book Review: Barry Seidman and Neil Murphy, Toward a New Political Humanism, Free Inquiry, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Feb-Mar.), p. 63.
1998 Book Review: Brian Cantwell Smith, On the Origin of
Objects, Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 11, No. 3 (September
1997 Book Review: Peter Ludlow, High Noon on the Electronic
Frontier, Minds and Machines, Vol. 7, Issue 3 (Fall).
Universidad Nacional Aut�noma de M�xico (UNAM)
May 2014 Bioethical Issues in Genomics, graduate seminar
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands:
Sept. 2008-Present: Ethics and Engineering - chemical engineering, applied physics, aerospace, biotechnology (Masters level); Scientific Integrity (PhD); Ethical and Legal issues in ICT (Bachelors); Law and Morality, (PhD seminar)
University of Health Sciences, Antigua:
May 2008 Medical Jurisprudence
Yale University 2006-2007:
Group "Alienation and Post-Technological Man" (Coordinator)
State University of New York at Buffalo, School of
1998-2000 Legal
Research & Writing and Intellectual Property
State University of New York at Buffalo, Department
of Philosophy:
Spring 2006, 2008
SSC435, Law and Technology
PHI 640, Graduate Research Ethics, Director
640K, Informatics Recitation, Research Ethics
Fall 2005, 2007, Spring 2006, 2008 SSC
221, Writing in the Law
Spring 2004, 2005 PHI
339, Philosophy of Law
GSC 640, Research
Ethics (with Dr. David Triggle)
Fall 2003, 2004 PHI
340, Law and Responsibility
Fall 2003 PHI
239, Law and Morality
115, Critical Thinking
337, Social and Ethical Values in Medicine
Fall 1997: PHI
531, Topics in Ontology, co-taught with Barry Smith and Leonardo Zaibert
SUNY Buffalo State College
Fall 2005 PHI
204, Philosophy of Religion
2009-2010: Hu Mingyan, PhD Candidate, Tsinghua University, "Nanotechnology and Ethics", one year visitation at TU Delft.
2009-2010: Philip Serracino Inglott, Twente University, "Expressions and Embeddings of Deliberative Democracy in Mutual Benefit Digital Goods" Masters Thesis.
2010 - 2015: Floris Kreiken, Delft University of Technology, "Rights, Information, and Expression: Natural and State Monopolies, and Public Values in Information Infrastructures," PhD Project (funded by Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation).
2015 "A Quien le Pertenecemos? Ciencia, Innovacion y La Guerra de Patentes" En El Marco de las Jornadas Tematicas Sobre: Jurisprudencia Medica, Bioetica y Salud, Escuela Judicial del Instituto de la Judicatura del Consejo de la Juridicatura Federal, May 13.
2015 �Conflicts of Interest: The Perils of Private-Public Partnerships� 16th Congreso de Investigacion en Salud Publica, Cuernavaca, Mexico, March 5.
2014 �Nature vs. Artifact: the BRCA1&2 Example� Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genomica, UNAM, Mexico, D.F., Dec. 9.
2014 "Principles and Principals: the H5N1 Case" 12th World Bioethics Congress, Mexico City, June 27.
2014 Chair, Plenary Session, Bioethics and Public Policy, 12th World Bioethics Congress, Mexico City, June 27.
2014 "Genes and Justice: New Developments" at UNAM, Instituto de Filosoficas. Mexico City, June 18.
2013 �Monsanto vs. Farmer Bowman,� CONABIO, Mexico City, Aug 22.
2013 �Bioethics and Emerging Technologies,� CONBIOETICA Bioethics Symposium, INMEGEN, Mexico City, Aug 20.
2013 �Intellectual Property, Genes, and the Commons,� Colegio de Bioetica, UNAM, Mexico City, Aug 5.
2013 �Intellectual Property, Genes, and the Commons,� CONBIOETICA, National Institute for Bioethics, Mexico City, July 18.
2013 �Intellectual Property, Genes, and the Commons,� INMEGEN, National Institute for Medical Genomics, Mexico City, June 28.
2013 �Intellectual Property, Genes, and the Commons,� CONABIO, National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity, Mexico City, June 20.
2013 �Justice as Validity in Adolf Reinach's Apriori Foundations of the Civil Law� North American Society for Early Phenomenology, Describing and Exploring Early Phenomenology conference, London, Ontario, Canada, June 12.
2013 �Intellectual Property, Genes, and the Commons� UACM, Laboratorio Philosophico, UACM, Mexico City, Mexico, June 5.
2013 �Internet Freedom, Copyright and Privacy Philosophy of Law Meets Philosophy of Technology� Philosophers� Reading Panel, Jan 25, Brussels, Belgium.
2012 "Security: whose responsibility?" at the Centre for Advanced Security Theory, University of Copenhagen, Oct 22.
2012 "A bulwark at the border of science and technology in the age of dual use" Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark, Oct. 20.
2012 "Nature, Genes, and the Commons" Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 27.
2012 �Synthetic Biology and the Logic of Open Source,� SYBHEL Workshop, NWO, Den Haag, Feb 6.
2011 "Trust Me, I'm an Artist: Mutate or Die" ethics panel, Trust Me I�m an Artist: Towards an Ethics of Art/Science Collaboration� is led by artist Anna Dumitriu in collaboration with Professor Bobbie Farsides (Chair of Ethics, Brighton and Sussex Medical School) in collaboration with the Waag Society and The University of Leiden, De Waag, Amsterdam, Dec. 10.
2011 "Ethics and Biosecurity" at GREIB 3d International Seminar on Biosecurity and the Law, Granada University School of Law, Oct. 27-28.
2011 Just War Theory and Practice, Workshop, The Hague, NL. Principal organizer. Sept 26-28.
2011 Second workshop, SYBHEL (Synthetic Biology for Human Health: Ethics and Law.), Bristol, UK, June 27-28.
2011 "International Law and Legal Positivism," The Law of the Future Conference, Hague Institute for International Law, The Hague, NL, June 23-24.
2011 "Non-proliferation regimes: unethical and risky" Society for Philosophy and Technology, Denton, TX May 26-29.
2011 "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: moral emotions in bioethics" Moral Emotions and Intuitions Conference, The Hague, May 25.
2011 "The Open Source Society and its Enemies," Florida Atlantic University, Philosophy Club, Jan. 20.
2010 "Gene Patents: Science and Technology after Myriad" Biotechnological Engineering Student Association of the National Polytechnic Institute, 2nd Biotechnology Forum, Nov. 10 (via video).
2010 "Teaching Biosecurity Through Basic Ethical Principles," Preparing for Social responsibility, International Workshop, Delft, NL, Oct. 13-25.
2010 "Law of the Future: Scenario Building Workshop" invited participant, The Hague, Netherlands, Sept. 3.
2010 "Report for the EU: Work Package One," Synth-Ethics, 3d Consortium Meeting, Padova, Italy. Aug 30.
2010 "Abstract Technical Artifacts? Resolving Confusion about Ideas, Ex[pressions, Types, and Tokens," The First Dutch-German Workshop on CHallenges for the Philosophy of Technology in the 21st Century, TU-Berlin, Germany, Aug. 26-27.
2010 "Gene Patents: Moving Beyond the Myriad Fallout," The Open Science Summit, Berkeley, CA July 29-31. (Click here for video, beginning at 27 min. mark)
2010 "Towards an Ontology of Biomedical Ethics," International Workshop on Bio-Ontologies, Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS), Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany. June 28-29.
2010 "The HIF - Does it Ignore Root Injustices?" Increasing Health, Reducing Poverty - The Ethics of Global Institutional Reform The Hague, NL. May 18.
2010 "The Mystery of Intellectual Capital" NWO-MVI valorisation workshop (co-organizer, and speaker). Delft, NL. May 12.
2009 "Revising Intellectual Property: Liberating Intellectual Capital," Innovation, Sustainability, and Development: A New Manifesto, The Hague, NL, Nov. 24
2009 "Research Ethics Education and Biosecurity/Safety," International Working Group - Landau Network-Centro Volta, Workshop and Roundtable on Biosecurity, Biosafety and Dual Use Risks: Trends, Challenges and Innovative Solutions. Como, Italy, Nov. 13-14.
2009 "On Patents and Innovation," Cardozo Law School, Intellectual Property Society, invited lecture, Oct. 26.
2009 "The Ethical Case Against Intellectual Property," Cardozo Law School, Intellectual Property Society, invited lecture, Oct. 21.
2009 COST Foresight 2030 - Living the Digital Revolution, invited workshop, Oct. 7-9.
2009 "Synthetic Biology: Literature study -- ethical issues" SynthEthics Expert Workshop, Oct. 2-3.
2009 "The Open Source Society and its Enemies," Humanities and Technology Association 33d annual conference -- Democracy, Technology, and Citizenship, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Sept. 25.
2009 "Nanotechnology: touching the unseen world," British Science Festival, Guildford, UK, Sept. 5.
2009 "A Study in Applied Ethics: The Human Genome as a Commons," IDEA League Summer School, Delft Univ. of Technology, Aug. 17.
2009 "Nature vs. Artifacts: Issues of Ownership and Ethics in Synthetic Biology", Synthetic Biology Panel, Society, Philosophy and Technology Conf., Twente University, July 10.
2009 "Who's on First? Authorship and Ethics" Workshop -- PROMOOD Platform for Ethics and Technology, TU Delft, June 11.
2009 "Things in Themselves: Re-conceiving Classical Idea/Expression Distinctions for the Nano-age", Philosophers' Rally, Twente University, Enschede, NL. May 12-13.
2009 Opponent, Licentiate Thesis: Marion Godman "Philosophical and Empirical Investigations in Nanoethics" KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. May 8.
2009 "Some Regulatory Challenges of Synthetic Biology: Intellectual Property and Justice" invited presentation to the European Group on Ethics, Brussels, BE April 22.
2009 "Not Hard or Soft, Just Wares: From Bits to Atoms," 3TU Research Day, Utrecht, NL, April 8.
2009 "Conflicts of Interest: When Academic Science and Industry Collide" Management Trainee Luncheon talk, Delft University of Technology, NL. March 30.
2009 "Who Owns You?" Philosophy Dept. Colloquium, Delft University of Technology, NL. March 30.
2009 "Who Owns You? The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes" Univ. of Virginia Law School, Charlottesville, VA. March 13.
2009 "Author Meets Critic: Who Owns You? The Corporate Gold Rush to Patent Your Genes," 18th Annual APPE Conference, Cincinnati, OH. March 6.
2008 "On Genies and Bottles: Scientists' Moral Responsibility and Dangerous R&D," Tilting Perspectives Conference, Tilburg University, NL. Dec 10-11.
2008 "Salami Science: On the Ethics of Publishing as Much As You Can" Workshop -- PROMOOD Platform for Ethics and Technology, TU Delft, Nov. 14.
2008 "Back to Basics: How Technology and the Open Source Movement Can Save Science" Interdisciplines: Scientific Publications 3.0 Conference, C.N.R.S. Institut Nicod, Paris, France, Oct. 1.
2008 "The Genome as a Commons" National Institutes of Health, Bioethics Dept., Jan. 9.
2007 "An Outline for the Legal Ontology of Personhood: The Transbeman Example" Terasem's 3rd Annual Colloquium on the Law of Transbeman Persons, Melbourne, FL Dec. 10.
2007 "Some Conclusions Regarding Rights to Genes" Princeton Bioethics Forum, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, Sept. 24.
2007 "Grounding Bioethics: From Principles to Case Studies," The American Medical Association, Ethics Group, Chicago, IL, August 30.
2007 "Rights to One's Own Genes: The Human Genome
as a Commons," Human Rights for the 21st Century Rights of the
Person to Technological Self-Determination, IHEU- Appignani Humanist
Center for Bioethics and Institute for Ethics and Emerging
Technologies, United Nations, NYC May 11-13
2007 "Blasphemy and South Park," Ontario, Canada:
Centre for Inquiry- Toronto, University of Guelph, and University of
Waterloo, March 30-31
2006 "The Obsolescence of Obsolescence: The Ethics of
Life-Extension," Yale University, Perspectives of Aging Working Group,
Dec. 13.
2006 "Are there Rights to Your Own Genome?" Yale University, Information Society Project, Nov. 28
2006 "Linking the Gene Ontology with Social Ontology: A
Prolegomena to an Ontology of Personhood," Formal Ontology in
Information Systems (FOIS 2006), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Md, Nov 9-12.
2006 "Bioethical Concerns of War-Time Psychiatry," Yale University, Neuroethics Working Group, Oct. 24.
2006 "Reintegrating Technology and Humanity," Yale University, Technology and Ethics Working Group, Sept. 27.
2006 "Who Owns You? Preliminary Issues of Genomic
Data Protection," Yale University, Institution for Social and Policy
Studies, Bioethics Workshop, Sept. 6.
2006 "Critical Inquiry: Logic, Science, and Metaphysics," Center for Inquiry Summer Institute, July 12-Aug. 12.
2006 "Now What, Confronting Our Power," Harvard Veritas Forum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 23.
2006 "The Law and Ethics of Privacy in Psychiatric Research" SUNYAB Psychiatry Dept., Grand Rounds, Buffalo, NY, Feb 3.
2006 "The Law and Unbelief," Atlanta Freethought Society, Atlanta, GA, Jan. 8.
2006 "Secular Ethical Alternatives: Moral Apriorism," HUSBAY Lecture, Sarasota, FL, Jan. 4.
2005 "Toward a New Enlightenment," Principal
Coordinator/Panel Moderator. Amherst NY, SUNY Buffalo/Center for Inquiry, Oct
2005 "Civil Rights and Religious Dissent," Reflections on Rights Enforcement: Comparative Perspectives, University of
Saskatchewan, Sept 22-24.
2005 Moscow State University/CFI Summer School. "Critical
Thinking," Aug-1-14
2005 Center for Inquiry Summer Institute/SUNY Buffalo
Undergraduate Honors, "Naturalist Epistemology: How Do We Know?" June
24-Aug 1.
2005 "Attorney-Client Privilege and New Technologies:
Civil Liberties in the Age of Terrorism," Los Angeles Terrorism Early
Warning Group (TEW) panel on Legal Access, Santa Monica, CA, June 1-2.
2005 China Lecture Tour "An Agenda for the Future"
and "What is Secular Humanism" in Beijing University, and Beijing
Normal University, China Research Institute for Science Popularization,,
Sichuan Normal University, Wuhan University, Hubei Association of Science and
Technology, April 15-29.
2005 "The American Historical Tradition of Humanist
Democracy," How Will our Democracy Survive, Miami, Florida, Feb 11-13.
2004 24th World Religions Conference, "Why
Religion?", University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Oct 2.
2004 Belief and Dissent Conference, "The Future of Secular
Humanism", Cleveland, Ohio, Sept 25.
2004 Moscow State University, CFI Summer session. Lectured on
Naturalism and Critical Thinking, July 25-Aug. 7.
2004 "Carl Menger's Theory of Value: A Methodology for Ethical
Inquiry," SUNYAB Philosophy Dept. Faculty Colloquium Series, March 11.
2004 "The USA Culture Wars" Skeptics in the Pub, London, UK,
March 9.
2004 "The Ontology of Cyberspace," Tech. Talk, Reuters, London,
UK March 9.
2004 "The USA Culture Wars" South Place Ethical Society,
London, UK, March 7.
2004 "Is Preemptive War Moral" Foreign Policy Forum, panelist,
Center for Inquiry, Amherst, March 3.
2003 Mormon/Humanist Dialogue, Center for Inquiry, Amherst, NY.
Oct 9.
2003 "Reinach's Moral Apriorism," Center for Inquiry, Summer
Institute, July 16.
2003 "How Lawyers Can Benefit from Ontology", Center for Law
and Ontology, Turin University, Turin, Italy. April 23.
2003 "Sovereigns, Squatters and Property Rights: From Guano
Islands to the Moon," The Mystery of Capital, and the Construction of Social
Reality, SUNYAB, April 12-15.
2001 "What Commercial Ontologists Do" FOIS Conference, Maine,
USA, October 10.
2001 Accounting for Social Objects, Knowledge Technologies
2001, Austin, TX., Mar. 4-7.
2000 Legal Ontology, Social Objects, and the Mereology of
Cyberspace, Erasmus Summer School on Social Ontology, Erasmus University,
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 9-13.
1999 An Emerging Ontology of Jurisdiction in Cyberspace,
Ethicomp, Rome, Italy, October 6-8.
1999 Methodology in Legal Ontology, Faculty Workshop, SUNY at
Buffalo School of Law, April 2.
1999 The Internet and The Legal Profession: Ethical
Considerations of Advertising on the Web, Erie County Bar Association, Amherst,
New York, March 6.
1998 A Symposium: An Ontology of Integrated Products The
Microsoft/Netscape Browser Wars, The Center for Legal Ontology, Buffalo, New
York, November 20.
1998 Software and Intellectual Property: A Pilot Investigation
in Applied Ontology - Interim Report The Center for Legal Ontology, Buffalo,
New York, September 1.
1998 What is Cyberspace?: Predicates to an Ethical
Investigation. The Tangled Web Conference: Ethical Dilemmas of the Internet,
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, August 7-9.
1998 Claims Tools on the Internet, The Buffalo Claims
Association, Education Day, May 14.
1998 Co-director, Applied Ontology: A Marvin Farber Conference
on Law and Institutions in Society. April 24-25, With Barry Smith.
1997 The Metaphysics of Cyberspace The History of the Concepts
of Space, sponsored by Department of Philosophy, Center for Cognitive Science,
and the National Center for Geographic Information, State University of New
York at Buffalo, April 19.
1996 Computers and the Demise of Intellectual Property Center
for Cognitive Science, Philosophy and Cognitive Science (Graduate Student
Panel), Buffalo, New York, December 11.
1996 Chair, Graduate Philosophy Association, 4th Annual
Graduate Conference.
1995 The Ontology of Cyberspace: Preliminary Questions
(Spring), Tri-State Philosophical Association Conference, St. Bonaventure
University, Olean, New York,, April 22.
2013 TV Worth Watching "'Bad' Reading: Philosophers Ponder the Big Questions of Walter White,", Aug. 29.
2013 Hollywood Reporter "'Breaking Bad': Philosophers Tackle Heisenberg in Book (Q&A)", Aug. 20.
2013 Philadelphia Inquirer "Weighing Walter White's Goodness vs. Badness", Aug. 12.
2013 BBC Radio 4 - In Business, Gene Patenting, Aug. 8.
2013 Panel discussion on The Forum, KQED, San Francisco affiliate of National Public Radio, "Who Owns Your Genes?",, April 12.
2013 Interview on "Suchthatcast", episode 7, S�raker, J.H. (Producer).
2012 The Harvard Political Review "The Haunting Philosophies of Breaking Bad", by Idrees Kahloon, Oct 25.
2011 The Guardian, Can nanotechnology provide cheaper solar energy?", by Duncan Graham-Rowe, Tuesday, Sept. 20.
2011 RadioWest, "The Book of Mormon", KUER FM 90.1, Salt Lake City, Utah (@ 41 min to end).
2010 Singularityhub.com, "Who Owns You? 20% of the Genes in Your Body are Patented", by Drew Halley, Aug. 11.
2010 "Labyrinth" VPRO, NED Ch.2 TV documentary "DNA Hackers," Apr. 21.
2010 Washington Times, Op-ed with Kenneth Alfano, "A Patent Too Far" , April 1.
2010 The Takeaway, WNYC Radio, "Court Says Company Cannot Patent Human Gene", April 1.
2009 Biopolitical Times, "Battle Over Gene Patents Builds," Oct. 28.
2009 GritTV with Laura Flanders, "Gene Patents Debate" with patent attorney Gene Quinn (starts at 28:50), Oct. 26.
2009 WBAI, NY Public Radio Evening News, with Andrea Sears on "Gene Patenting" (starts at 17:25), Oct. 23.
2009 Leonard Lopate "Under-reported: Gene Patenting", Oct 22.
2009 The Gary Null Show, Gene Patents/Who Owns You? , Oct. 19.
2009 Kelly France, When Patents go Bad - An argument against gene patents in PGx.news.org, June 25.
2009 The Case Against Gene Patents IPwatchdog.com, op-ed, June 13.
2009 Gene Patents Hinder Research and Hurt Patients TU Delta, op-ed, May 26.
2009 How Genes are Like Plutonium (Neither Should Be Patentable) Science Progress, op-ed, April 13.
2009 Lindsay Wagner, Human Genes Should Not Be Patented, Koepsell Says Virginia Law, News and Events, March 17.
2007 "Golden Compass is viewed by some as an attack on Christianity" by Jay Tokasz in Buffalo News, Sec. A, p.1, Dec. 7.
2007 "Granting patents on genes hinders biotech research" article by Sarah C.P. Williams in Yale Medicine Magazine, Books & Ideas section. Autumn 2007.
2007 "Faith & Values: Atheists' Books Intensify Battles in Culture Wars," Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Section E1, June 9.
2006 "Ten Amendments Day" State of Belief, Air America Radio, May 7.
2006 "Ben Franklin: 300th Birthday" AP News, newspaper commentary, Jan 16-18.
2005 "Toward a New Enlightenment," radio interview, WBFO
Morning Edition. Oct 27-28.
2005 "Using the Bible in Jury Deliberations," TV,
MSNBC, The Abrams Report, March 29.
2005 "Faith in the Workplace" Radio Interview, Mid-Morning,
Minnesota Public Radio, Feb 10.
2004 "The Bully Pulpit" Television interview, Faith
Under Fire, PAX - TV Cable network. Dec. 25.
2004 "Christmas and the First Amendment" Television
Interview/forum, It's Your Turn, with Kathy Fountain, WTVT 13, Fox, Tampa,
Florida, Dec. 20.
2004 "Politics and Religion: HR 235" Radio Interview,
The Walsh Forum, WYLL, Oct. 30.
2004 Fox News Channel, Dayside, "Faith in the
Workplace," August 24.
2004 Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, Russia "Science and
Religion" live radio forum for the show "The Christian Point of
View", Host Yakov Kurikov August 3.
2004 "'Under God'" in the Pledge" Radio interview, The Chuck
Cason Show, 990 AM, Dallas, TX., March 15.
2003 "Piracy and Intellectual Property," Radio Interview/Forum,
Odyssey, Chicago Public Radio, July 23.
2010 Principal Investigator/Recipient Rights, Information and Expression: Natural and State Monopolies, and Public Values in Information Infrastructures," from the Next Generation Infrastructures Foundation and TU Delft - TPM, � 169,170.
2009 Co-Convenor, Synth-Ethics: Ethical and Regulatory Issues Raised by Synthetic Biology, EU funded project under the 7th Framework Programme.
2006 Co-Investigator, Donaghue Initiative, Yale University, Ethical Concerns in War-Time Psychiatry: PTSD and Pre-screening $10,000
1998 SUNY Foundation "Software and Intellectual Property: A Pilot Investigation in
Legal Ontology" $10,000 (with Barry Smith)
NCA and LCTV: Documentary "Poemvision" $5000
NCA and LCTV: Documentary "Grassroots" $1000
1988 New
York State Council of the Arts, Niagara Council of the Arts, and LCTV:
Documentary "Voice of Niagara: Stories of the Rainbow" $1000
2011 to 2015: Chair, Delft University of Technology, Research Ethics Committee.
2011 to present: Executive Editorial Board Philosophy and Technology, Springer, NL.
2010 to present: reviewer, Science and Engineering Ethics
2010 to present: Advisory Board member, Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom
2009 to present: Reviewer, Second Nature: International Journal of Creative Media
2000 to present: Scientific Board, Buffalo Intellectual Property Journal.
2006 to present: Ethics Board, Lifeboat Foundation.
2008 to present: Reviewer, Ethics and Information Technology
2006 to 2015: Treasurer, Buffalo International Film Festival
Admitted to practice in New York State: Fourth Department, Western
District of New York, Bankruptcy, Southern District, Second Circuit Court of
Appeals, United States Supreme Court
2004-2008: Advisory in-house counsel to Center for Inquiry
Transnational, Amherst, New York. Contract, employment and liability issues.
2002-2003 Attorney, Getman & Biryla, LLP. Civil,
Commercial, and general litigation, trial practice and appeals.
2001 – 2002 Attorney, Damon & Morey LLP. Commercial and
Intellectual Property Litigation.
1997 - 2000 Attorney, Cohen & Lombardo. Litigation of commercial and negligence
and copyright cases, Research, writing and argument of appeals to the Fourth
1995 - 1997 Attorney, Altreuter & Habermehl. Litigation of
commercial and negligence and copyright cases, Research, writing and argument
of appeals to the Fourth Department. Trademark filings.
1992 – 1995 Legal Aide, New York State Attorney General.
Researched and wrote motions, memoranda and briefs in habeas corpus, employment
discrimination and environmental enforcement actions.
1991 – 1992 Confidential Clerk, New York State Attorney
General: Provided trial support for State of New York v. Hooker Chemical,
"Love Canal Trial".
Available through SUNY Philosophy Department, Yale Bioethics Center


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We are delighted that you would like to visit Epworth Old Rectory. You can be assured of a warm welcome. All visitors receive a guided tour led by a trained guide. Tours usually take around 1 hour. The guides will show you around the house and tell you the stories of the Wesley family. Please feel free to ask questions. If there are more than ten people in your group, please contact us in advance to book in. Children have the opportunity of dressing up in 18th century costume for the tour. Please ask your guide at the start of your tour.
Please download our complete guide to group visits here


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The Institute for Reproductive Health believes that no woman should be without family planning options. Yet an unmet need for family planning burdens millions of women worldwide - and is set to increase by 40% by 2050.
In India, nearly 36 million women aged 20-34 want to avoid pregnancy but don't have an effective, affordable and accessible method.
Seeing an opportunity - the proliferation of mobile phones across India - the Institute of Reproductive Health launched CycleTel; a non-intrusive way to avoid pregnancy using the Standard Days Method, that could be monitored via mobile phone.
CycleTel needed a partner in order to navigate the world of technology successfully. They chose ThoughtWorks.
Through a series of workshops, the project requirements and user needs were determined, with the technology decisions placed in the hands of ThoughtWorks.
"It was clear to me that what we had here was not an ordinary partnership. Instead, we effectively formed a synergistic partnership - combining our distinct skills to innovate for social good"
The system needed to be easily operated and maintained, without the need for regular technologist input. It also needed to be economical. Using open source tools, CycleTel got exactly what they needed.
CycleTel was deployed successfully with a select group of women, and continuous monitoring has been taking place since to ensure its accuracy. So far, over 2500 people are able to control their family planning using CycleTel - and the third phase roll out is in progress now.


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In addition to the winning the puppies did and the 85 pts that Kaylee got over the course of the weekend.. Dawn is now a UKC CH!
I only entered her on Sunday..She has all of three hairs on her right now.. not exactly a Fluffy Evil Blue dog right now... more like a smooth coated evil blue dog..
I actually entered her last min, day of show, to make sure there was competition for the junior handler I had with me because all the other sheltie people from the weekend were at the CNYSSC eye clinic and he needed a competition win to finish his bitch.. and low and behold.. even with all of her nakedness.. she still somehow beat his bitch..
it was definately an unexpected surprise. The judge did mention without all the fluff she could actually see the structure.. and that you can't hide a bad dog that is out of coat.. which I took as a compliment!
So she's now UKC CH Canami's Age of Aquarius RE NAJ CGC/TDI (2 CD legs)


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OK! Whoa there Mother Nature. Settle down tiger. Don't get all ahead of yourself. It's only October and you're thunder-snowing, sleeting and freezing all over the gosh-darn place. What did we do to piss you off, huh? …Besides all that pollution, over population and global warming stuff. I just hope this isn't a foreshadowing of things to come because:
One snow storm = Yay for a snow day!
Two snow storms = An inevitable acceptance that it is, in fact, wintertime.
Three snow storms = Come on, it's getting a little out of hand.
Anymore than that, and you're just a total bitch.
Three strikes and I'm moving to the equator. (Maybe.)
Apparently this kind of pre-Halloween snow made an appearance in 2002, but I just don't remember. Not one bit. But I'll tell you one thing: It better not become a habit, missy!
I understand that a lot of people actually enjoy the snow, so you have to turn over that little salt shaker every-once-in-a-while. But I don't get it one bit. This particular event isn't going to produce anything worth 'playing' in, so what's the point? Though for me, the threat of snow only gives me the impetus to curl up in bed with some good/bad TV (but, admittedly, it doesn't take much for me to want to do that anyway).
Maybe I'd feel differently about your 'frosted flakes' if the pretty powder didn't turn into black mush within hours of finding their final resting place. It's no longer a peaceful stroll when you have to trudge past waist-high mountains of muck just to cross the street. And once it does start to melt, the threat of wading ankle-deep in Coke-colored Slushie-like puddles looms at every cross walk. How fun is that, really?
Now, to reiterate. It's only freaking October, lady. I want to be walking around in a hoodie on a crisp, sunny day, not piling on layers so I can fit into my goloshes that are one-size too big. I'm just not quite ready for all of this, like a surprise pregnancy or a rogue, airborne beer bottle finding its way across the crowd right to your head. (The latter has actually happened to me.)
But if you're doing this to get it out of your system, oh (hopefully) benevolent Mother Nature, have at it and go nuts. It would be nice to have a mild winter this year, one where I can actually leave the house without tears streaming down my face from the bitter cold. Though I'm not optimistic.
So, what's it going to be? I don't think I can bear this sight much more. It's not even daylight savings yet for Frosty's sake!
What's your least favorite part about winter?


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Booth Events and Author Events
- 1 Got E-Stress? Relax at the TDNet Booth!
- 3 BLOOMSBURY and WALKER, BOOTH #2525
- 4 AUTOGRAPHINGS in Booth 2525
- 11 More
- 12 Free Author Programs Presented by FOLUSA
Got E-Stress? Relax at the TDNet Booth!
TDNet Educational Sessions, Booth 1333 - TDNet Inc. will be offering a series of educational sessions in our booth (#1333). The sessions are designed to be short in length, and instructional, so attendees can quickly learn about TDNet's e-resource access and management solutions. After each session, attendees will be given the opportunity to enter a drawing to win a new Apple iPhone G3 valued at $200.00.
The A to Zs of E-journal Management and Access. Learn how TDNet's Journal Manager is the complete solution for managing and accessing e-journals. From our A to Z list to enhanced current awareness tools, including TOCs, Journal Manager helps libraries gain control over the complex and time-consuming process of managing electronic resources. Session times: Saturday at 9:30 am, Sunday at 9:30 am, and Monday at 9:30 am.
Multi-site and Consortium E-journal Collection Management. If your organization has multiple libraries with separate journal collections, you'll want to learn how Journal Manager enables you to view multiple collections from the same view while at the same time still protect access. Session times: Sunday at 10:30 am and Tuesday at 10:30 am.
Not Satisfied with Ordinary Search Results? Introducing Federated Searching with Searcher Analyzer.: Find out how TDNet's powerful federated searching and analysis tool can help your users achieve improved search results by generating "on-the-fly" subject clusters or topic categories. Session times: Saturday at 11:00 am, Sunday at 11:00 am, and Monday at 11:00 am.
NEW! eBook Manager. Learn about the industry's first e-book management and access tool, featuring a customizable interface, A to Z listing of e-books, and full integration with TDNet's Journal Manager. Session times: Saturday at 1:00 pm, Sunday at 1:00 pm, and Monday at 1:00 pm.
British Library and TDNet: Another Perfect Linking Solution. Powered by TDNet's Searcher Analyzer, British Library Direct Plus enables users to search the library's internal and external resources, and order full text through British Library's document supply service. Session times: Saturday at 10:30 am and Monday at 10:30 am.
Clients Only Update. A new version of Journal Manager will be available soon! Optimize e-resource management with new Quick Search, Exporting and Reporting options. New! Overlap Analysis Report helps libraries identify common and unique titles in multiple collections. Session times: Saturday at 2:00 pm, Sunday at 2:00 pm, and Monday at 2:00 pm.
Attendees, Please Note: Seating is limited. If you are interested in attending the above sessions, you must pre-register by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com. In your e-mail, please include your name, your library or organization name, the session title and time.
While at the TDNet booth, don't forget to enter our drawing to win a new Apple iPhone valued at $200.00.
TDNet - One Interface, One Solution, One Knowledge Base! TDNet is an innovative information solutions company that develops and markets technology to help libraries and their users to easily view, manage and access e-resources. Key partnerships with industry leaders complement TDNet's completely integrated suite of services: Searcher Analyzer federated search service; Full Text TOUResolver; Journal Manager; eBook Manager, and Holdings Manager. Additional Web services, integrated statistics, authentication and reference tools are available. TDNet's unique service solution is based on a premier Knowledge Base of metadata for over 260,000 unique titles coupled with extensive experience in the information industry. For additional information about TDNet and its services, please visit http://www.tdnet.com
SupERTuesday Closing Reception: Tuesday, July 1, 2008, Beginning at 8:00 am (Note new, earlier time!) The Closing Reception will be held throughout the Exhibits be free breakfast, and exhibitors will be offering special giveaways booths and, like last year, great prizes from the exhibitors raffled off throughout the reception. This is a great way to conference experience in Anaheim, be sure to join us!
Meet the Authors: Your opportunity to meet and get autographs from favorite adult and children's authors and illustrators.
Visit our booth where you will find exciting new books, including the latest Judy Moody from Megan McDonald, Dr. Ernest Drake's Monsterology, and God's Dream by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton Abrams, and LeUyen Pham.
Saturday, June 28
9:00 – 10:00AM MEGAN MCDONALD signing Stink and the Great Guinea Pig Express, advanced reading copies of Judy Moody Goes to College, and other titles
10:00 – 11:00AM MARY BRIGID BARRETT, KATHLEEN KRULL, ROBERT BYRD, and LEONARD MARCUS signing Our White House: Looking In, Looking Out
11:00AM – 12:00PM MARC ARONSON signing advanced reading copies of War Is...: Soliders, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War
1:00 – 2:00PM LAURA AMY SCHLITZ and ROBERT BYRD signing the 2008 Newbery Medal winner Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village
3:00 – 4:00PM BETSY FRANCO signing Falling Hard: Love Poems by Teenagers and other titles
4:00 – 5:00PM CHARLES R. SMITH, JR. and BRYAN COLLIER signing 2008 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali
Sunday, June 29
9:00 – 10:00AM NIKKI GIOVANNI signing The Grasshopper's Song and On My Journey Now
10:00 – 11:00AM RON KOERTGE signing Strays, advanced reading copies of Deadville, and other titles
12:00 – 1:00PM Newbery Medalist LAURA AMY SCHLITZ signing Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village and other titles
Monday, June 30
10:00 – 11:00AM JENNIFER RICHARD JACOBSON signing Andy Shane and the Queen of Egypt and other titles
1:00 – 2:00PM M.T. ANDERSON signing advanced reading copies of The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves and other titles
2:00 – 3:00PM LAURA MCGEE KVASNSOKY signing Zelda and Ivy and the Boy Next Door, Really Truly Bingo, and other titles
Tuesday, July 1
9:30 – 10:30AM CHARLES R. SMITH, JR. signing Twelve Rounds to Glory: The Story of Muhammad Ali and other titles
ALSO AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE SHOW: Signed books from CECIL CASTELLUCCI, including ALA Best Book & Quick Pick title Beige.
BLOOMSBURY and WALKER, BOOTH #2525
Saturday, June 28, 1:30 - 3:30PMREADERS THEATRE--moderated by Elizabeth Poe with:
SHANNON HALE & NATHAN HALE, LINDA SUE PARK (Clarion), M.T. ANDERSON (Candlewick), and ERIC ROHMAN (Random House)
Marriott Anaheim, Salon E, 700 W. Convention Way, 714.750.8000
AUTOGRAPHINGS in Booth 2525
Saturday, June 28
3:30-5:00PM SHANNON HALE , & NATHAN HALE autographing BOOK OF A THOUSAND DAYS, RAPUNZEL, and BALLOON ON THE MOON
Sunday, June 29
10:00-11:00AM KATHLEEN KRULL autographing WOMAN FOR PRESIDENT and POCAHONTAS
Monday, June 30
2:00-3:00 Schneider Family Book Award winner TRACIE VAUGHN ZIMMER autographing REACHING FOR SUN and THE FLOATING CIRCUS
Enter to win Fancy Nancy's Fancy Swag!
Hear Jamie Lee Curtis speak at the PLA President's Program!
Pick up a FREE copy of RUMORS: A LUXE NOVEL on Saturday, June 28th (while supplies last)!
And don't miss out on all of our AMAZING galleys and giveaways!
Author and Illustrator Signings
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM HARRY BLISS, Diary of a Fly
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM BRUCE HALE, Pirates of Underwhere
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK, Blood Roses
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM BRYAN COLLIER, Lift Every Voice and Sing
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM NIKKI GRIMES, Oh, Brother!
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM MICHELE DOMÍNGUEZ GREENE, Chasing the Jaguar
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM PAULA YOO, Good Enough
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM JENNIFER ANNE KOGLER, The Otherworldlies
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM WENDY LICHTMAN, Do the Math #2: The Writing on the Wall
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM LAURA NUMEROFF, If You Give a Cat a Cupcake
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM KEVIN HENKES, Bird Lake Moon
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PAT MORA, Sweet Dreams / Dulces sueños
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM PETER SÍS, Play, Mozart, Play!
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM ROBIN PREISS GLASSER, Fancy Nancy's Favorite Fancy Words
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM METTE IVIE HARRISON, The Princess and the Hound
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM TERRY TRUEMAN, Hurricane
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM SID FLEISCHMAN, The Trouble Begins at 8
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM GERALDINE McCAUGHREAN, The White Darkness, 2008 Printz Award
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM A. M. JENKINS, Repossessed, 2008 Printz Honor
Pick up exiting new galleys:
Masterpiece, by Elise Broach
Emmy and the Home for Troubled Girls by Lynne Jonell
Larry and the Meaning of Life by Janet Tashjian
Piper Reed: The Great Gypsy by Kimberly Willis Holt
Saturday, June 28
10:00 - 11:00 am Mary E. Pearson signing The Adoration of Jenna Fox
11:00 am - Noon Laurie Kellersigning The Scrambled States of America Talent Show
2:00 - 3:00 pm Bryan Collier & Nikki Giovanni signing Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship
Sunday, June 29
10:00 - 11:00 AM Marisa Montes and Yuyi Morales signing the 2008 Pura Belpre Medal winner, Los Gatos Black on Halloween
11:00 AM - Noon Margarita Engle signing the 2008 Pura Belpre Medal winner for narrative, The Poet Slave of Cuba and The Surrender Tree
Monday, June 30
1:00 - 2:00 pm April Pulley Sayre signing the 2008 Geisel Honor book, Vulture View
See the Trailer! Get the Bag!
Be sure to bring your compled SLJ Aisle-by-Aisle coupon book to the booth between 9:00 and 10:00 AM during the show to pick up your FREE Twilight Saga Bag while supplies last.
Author and Illustrator Signings
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM TONY ABBOTT, The Postcard
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM LISI HARRISON, The Clique
2:30 PM – 3:300 PM PAUL FEIG, Ignatius McFarland: Frequenaut!
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM MICHAEL EMBERLEY, Mail Harry to the Moon
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM PATRICK CARMAN, The Atherton Sequence
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDEL RODRIGUEZ, Sergio Makes a Splash!
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM ED YOUNG, Wabi Sabi
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM SHERMAN ALEXIE, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, 2007 National Book Award
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM J. PATRICK LEWIS, Tulip at the Bat
2:30 AM – 3:30 PM WENDY MASS, Jeremy Fink & the Meaning of Life
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM CHARLES R. SMITH, JR., The Mighty 12: Superheroes of Greek Myth
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM SHERRI WINSTON, The Kayla Chronicles
A division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
Stop by the Houghton Mifflin Books for Children booth to meet some of your favorite authors and illustrators!
Saturday, June 28
10:30–11:30 A.M. BARRY LYGA autographing ARCs of his new YA novel, Hero-Type
2:00–3:00 P.M. LOUISE BORDEN autographing The Journey That Saved Curious George
3:00–4:00 P.M. BRIAN LIES autographing his new picture book, Bats at the Library
3:00–4:00 P.M. DAVID MACAULAY autographing Mosque and Black and White
Sunday, June 29
3:00–4:00 P.M. R. L. LAFEVERS autographing her middle-grade novel Theodosia and the Serpents of Chaos
Monday, June 30
10:30–11:30 A.M. JACQUELINE BRIGGS MARTIN autographing her picture book Chicken Joy on Redbean Road
3:30–4:30 P.M. JOAN BRANSFIELD GRAHAM autographing Flicker Flash
A division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
Stop by the Harcourt booth for the following advance reading copies (ARCs) while supplies last—
From Harcourt Children's Books:
My New Best Friend by Julie Bowe
The Faerie Door by B. E. Maxwell
The Letter Writer by Ann Rinaldi
The Unnameables by Ellen Booraem
Flora's Dare by Ysabeau Wilce
My Bonny Light Horseman by L.A. Meyer
Dead Is a State of Mind by Marlene Perez
Partly Cloudy by Gary Soto
From Harcourt Adult Division:
A Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan
The Eleventh Man by Ivan Doig
Runner by Thomas Perry
Ms. Hemple Chronicles by Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum
Meet your favorite authors and illustrators!
Saturday, June 28
9:30–10:30 A.M. KRISTIN CASHORE autographing ARCs of her debut YA novel, Graceling
10:30-11:30 A.M. DAVID SHANNON - This has autographing time has been canceled, but has been rescheduled to Sunday from 2-3PM.(see below)
11:30 A.M.–12:30 P.M. BRUCE HALE autographing his new picture book, Snoring Beauty, and titles from the Chet Gecko series
1:30–2:30 P.M. BRUCE COVILLE autographing ARCs of Oddest of All and other titles
Sunday, June 29
9:30–10:30 A.M. LISA WHEELER and R. GREGORY CHRISTIE autographing Jazz Baby, a 2008 Geisel Honor winner, and other titles
10:30–11:30 A.M. MARLA FRAZEE autographing her new picture book, A Couple of Boys Have the Best Week Ever and other titles
11:30 A.M.–12:30 P.M. SUSAN BETH PFEFFER autographing her popular YA novel, Life As We Knew It and the new companion novel, the dead and the gone
- Meet Susan and other YA authors at YALSA's YA Author Coffee Klatch. This informal 'speed dating' type event features authors who have appeared on YALSA's Best Books for Young Adults lists. Tickets are only $19 and available online at www.ala.org/annual.
NEW TIME!! 2:00–3:00 P.M. DAVID SHANNON autographing best selling titles How I Became a Pirate and Pirates Don't Change Diapers
3:00–4:00 P.M. ROLAND SMITH autographing his YA novel Peak
Monday, June 30
9:30–10:30 A.M. M.T. ANDERSON autographing his hilarious middle-grade novels Whales on Stilts and The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen
10:30–11:30 A.M. JULIE LARIOS autographing her picture book poetry collections Yellow Elephant and Imaginary Menagerie
- Hear Julie and other acclaimed poets strut their stuff at the ALSC Poetry Blast, Monday, June 30, 5:30–7:30 p.m. at the Marriott Anaheim in Salon F
11:30 A.M.–12:30 P.M. LOIS EHLERT autographing her new picture book, Oodles of Animals, and other titles
Also available throughout the show:
Harvesting Hope: A Story of Cesar Chavez by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Yuyi Morales
Select titles by Eve Bunting
In a Blue Room by Jim Averbeck
Stop by our booth to check out what's new from us, pick up free galleys, and to meet:
JUDY SIERRA Saturday, June 28: 10:00 - 11:00 AM
- Judy Sierra will be speaking on the ALSC PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAM: SUMMER READING SURVIVOR: OVERCOMING CHALLENGES - Thursday, June 26: 7:00 - 9:30 PM, Convention Center, Room 204A
PAT MORA AND RAUL COLON Saturday, June 28: 11:00 - 11:30 AM
- Pura Belpré Award-winning author and illustrator team
RAUL COLON Saturday, June 28: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
- Pura Belpré Award-winning illustrator
DAVID LEVITHAN Saturday, June 28: 2:00 - 3:00 PM
- David Levithan will be speaking on the AASL PRESIDENT'S PROGRAM - Saturday, June 28: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Convention Center Ballroom E
ERIC ROHMANN Saturday, June 28: 4:00 - 5:00 PM
- Eric Rohmann will be participating in the NURTURING A LOVE OF BOOKS THROUGH READERS THEATRE program - Saturday, June 28: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM, Marriott Anaheim, Salon E
DANA REINHARDT Sunday, June 29: 2:00 -3:00 PM
- Dana Reinhardt will be participating in the YA AUTHOR/LIBRARIAN COFFEE KLATCH - Sunday, June 29: 8:00 - 10:00 AM, Hilton Anaheim, Green Room
CHRISTOPHER PAUL CURTIS Monday, June 30: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
- Christopher Paul Curtis is a Newbery Medalist, Newbery Honor Book, and CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD-winning author.
STEPHANIE HEMPHILL Monday, June 30: 2:00 - 3:00 PM
- Stephanie Hemphill is the author of YOUR OWN, SYLVIA: A VERSE PORTRAIT OF SYLVIA PLATH, a 2008 MICHAEL L. PRINTZ HONOR BOOK.
SUNDEE T. FRAZIER Monday, June 30: 3:00 - 4:00 PM
- Sundee T. Frazier is the author of BRENDAN BUCKLEY'S UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING IN IT, winner of the 2008 CORETTA SCOTT KING/JOHN STEPTOE NEW TALENT AWARD.
Come hear about our new titles from our editors!
Fall Librarian Preview Presentation Sunday, June 29: 10:30–11:30 AM Convention Center, Room 207D
Poster Sessions: Poster sessions give librarians the opportunity to make peer-to-peer presentations on research, innovative programs and problem solving ideas.
Silent Auction: Support ALA scholarships to deserving library school students by purchasing some of the great items up for bid at this year's ERT Silent Auction!
Library Product Spotlight will feature explanations and demonstrations of new products from ALA exhibitors that are designed to help improve your library. These presentations will take place Sunday, June 29 and Monday, June 30 from 10:00 am to 1:10 pm on the exhibit floor.
LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage: In the Exhibition Hall Saturday, Sunday & Monday, 12:00 - 4:00 pm, take a break from a day of meetings and programs and stop by the LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage in the Exhibition Hall to enjoy readings from new and favorite authors and poets, learn how to develop author programs for your library, and find new recommendations for your patrons. Each year, acclaimed and new writers grace the Reading Stage. The LIVE! @ your library Reading Stage is presented by the ALA Public Programs Office.
Free Author Programs Presented by FOLUSA
Best Sellers of a Different Color: Ethnic Writers in America
Saturday, 6/28/08, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Anaheim Convention Center, Room 211 B
Join FOLUSA for a unique look at ethnic writers in America. Authors Tracy Brown (Twisted, St. Martin's Griffin), Bich Minh Nguyen (Stealing Buddha's Dinner, Penguin), Nikki Turner (Black Widow: A Novel, One World, Ballentine), Yxta Maya Murray (King's Gold, Harper Collins), and Nina Revoyr (The Age of Dreaming, Akashic Books) will talk about ethnic fiction and non-fiction writers for this enlightening panel discussion.
Protecting Planet Earth
Sunday, 6/29/08, 10:30am - 12:00pm
Anaheim Convention Center, Room 203 A
Authors Patrick Carman (River of Fire and The House of Power, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), Dan Koeppel (Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World, Hudson Street Press), Thomas M. Kostigen (You are Here: The Surprising Link Between What We Do and What That Does to the Planet, HarperCollins), William Fox (Making Time, Counterpoint), and John Francis, PhD (Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking, 17 Years of Silence, National Geographic) will be joined by others who write about environmental concerns in both fiction and non-fiction. Library Journal's book review editor, Barbara Hoffert, will moderate the panel discussion. Authors will sign their books following the program - most of which will be free and others sold at a generous discount.
First Author, First Book
Sunday, 6/29/08, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Anaheim Convention Center, Room 203 A
Be the very first to hear from writers who are sure to end up on the best-sellers list in this popular annual program. Meet newcomers Kaya McLaren (Church of the Dog, Penguin), Scott Douglas (Quiet, Please, Perseus Books), Mark Sarvas (Harry, Revised, Bloomsbury USA), Daniel White (The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind - and Almost Found Myself - on the Pacific Crest Trail, Harper-Collins), Janelle Brown (All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, Spiegel & Grau), and Anya Ulinich (Petropolis, Penguin). Library Journal's book review editor, Barbara Hoffert, will moderate the program. The authors will sign copies of their books following the event most of which will be given away free while others will be sold at a generous discount.
Caitlin Rother
Saturday, June 28 at 2 p.m.
Pulitzer Prize-nominated investigative journalist Caitlin Rother will be signing her thrilling new true crime account Twisted Triangle: A Famous Crime Writer, a Lesbian Love Affair, and the FBI Husband's Violent Revenge. The first 100 librarians will receive a FREE copy of Twisted Triangle!
Marsha Collier
Sunday, June 29 at 3 p.m.
Stop by and discover the secrets of online auctions with Marsha Collier, author of eBay for Dummies! The first 100 librarians will receive a FREE copy of eBay for Dummies!
Tom Mackell
Monday, June 30
10:30 a.m. to Noon
DIS Magic Kingdom 1
Dude, Where is My Retirement?
Thomas Mackell, J.D., M.A., Ph.D., Chairman of the Board of Directors, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Steven Wallace, Ph.D., Associate Director, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, and Professor, UCLA School of Public Health.
Mackell is the author of When the Good Pensions Go Away: Why America Needs a New Deal for Pension and Health Care Reform, published in April 2008 by Wiley Press. Cosponsored with AFL-CIO-ALA Joint Committee on Library Services to Labor Group.
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Saturday, June 28
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Laurie Halse Anderson
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Neal Shusterman
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Betsy Franco
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Melissa De La Cruz
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Holly Black
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Thomas Fahy
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Kathleen Duey
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Andrew Clements
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Susan Patron
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Jon Scieszka
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Louise Borden
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Megan McDonald
Sunday, June 29
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Brian Floca
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Stephen T. Johnson
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Matt Faulkner
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM G. Brian Karas
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Marc Aronson
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Kathleen Krull & Paul Brewer
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Brandon Mull signing in Booth # 406
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Ashley Bryan
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Lisa Wheeler
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM David Small
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Robin Preiss Glasser
Monday, June 30
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Charles R. Smith Jr.
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM David Shannon
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Raul Colon
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Geraldine McCaughrean
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM D. J. McHale
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Kadir Nelson
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Cynthia Kadohata
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Ellen Hopkins
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After covering the IT industry for 13+ years, I've had the privilege of talking to hundreds of VARs, MSPs, and other channel IT professionals. It would seem sometimes that the market must be saturated with resellers, but a study by analyst group Gartner reveals just how big of an opportunity that exists — within the SMB market in particular — which is projected to surpass the $1 trillion mark in IT spending by 2015, representing 44% of total IT spend worldwide. Even though our national debt makes the term "trillion" seem like something that's tangible, the reality is that it takes a million millions to equal one trillion! While estimates vary, many would agree that there are approximately 200,000 resellers worldwide, which further reveals the potential that exists per reseller within the SMB market.
For those of you not currently selling to the SMB market, here are three recurring themes I've observed based on my conversations with IT service providers selling into this space. Check them out and consider how your current product and services offerings could be adapted to fit this market.
1. SMBs have many of the same IT needs as enterprises, but smaller budgets. This is likely the primary objection some resellers have for avoiding selling to this market because it suggests that you have to lower your profit margins to make them fit this market. That doesn't have to be the case. However, you may need to offer applications and hardware that's geared toward this market.
2. SMBs lack internal IT resources. When I think about the explosion in managed services, this is the reason that first comes to mind. Through remote monitoring and management (RMM), even a small MSP can serve as the outsourced IT department for dozens of SMB clients, at a cost that's much lower than what it would cost an SMB to hire more full-time IT employees.
3. SMBs prefer simple. Sometimes referred to as "One stop shop," or my personal favorite "One throat to choke," this need is very common among SMBs because the business decision makers (often the owner) wear multiple hats and would rather not sign up for working with one solution provider who handles their printers and copiers, another company that handles their phones systems, and another one that handles their workstations and servers. The more of those core IT-related headaches you can alleviate, the more value you'll bring to this market, and the bigger piece of this $1 trillion pie you'll enjoy.


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Sites of Memory and Depth Perception at the Stephan Stoyanov Gallery
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Do not adjust your eyes! The Stephan Stoyanov Gallery in New York has not one but two really cool exhibits that are currently showing. The first called "Depth Perception," showcases the works of Nicole Cohen, Claire Ellen Corey, Thomas Eller, Cliff Evans, Roland Flexner, Jeff Gibson, Geoff Kleem, Susanna Starr and Fred Tomaselli. The artists toy with perceptions in these really amazing works of art and the results are a feast for the eyes. You'll see manipulated photos, collages, videos, paintings in this exhibit and it's really worth checking out.


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Best Of :: Bars & Clubs
The Clubhouse in Griffith Park is more than a pit stop for your golf-lovin' gramps to get his club and grub on. These days, the landmark building at the Wilson Harding Municipal Golf Course attracts a groovy young crowd, many of whom have more interest in chilling out than teeing off. Since Kyle Koester and Mike Begakis took over the space about seven years ago, they've revamped the coffee-shop menu with wings, homemade soups and savory sandwiches, and embellished the bar offerings (ice-cold schooners hit the spot after sweating it up at the nearby driving range). A new deck overlooking the park offers a breezy al fresco experience, but it's the weekly shindig called Twilight at the Club from Silver Lake's Ghetto Gloss Gallery that has helped to turn this establishment into a bona fide hole-in-one hang. Twilight offers DJs spinning funky, midtempo sounds every Wednesday, plus a rocking barbecue and beer bonanza at its outdoor bar. And if the gorgeous views and dark, foresty areas for heavy, uh putting, weren't enough, there's the place's history to marvel over (it's been around since the '20s, though it was rebuilt in the '30s after an earlier Griffith Park fire). Babe Ruth was a regular, as is Tiger Woods, and with the indoor area's original décor still intact, it's used in countless period films and TV shows, most recently the cable series Mad Men. Still, it's the outdoor happenings that make this the coolest caddyshack in town, and current promotions include a Monday night beer and bratwurst special ($2 each), "66 and a Beer" (a bucket of balls for the range and a brewski for $6), and "Sunday Bloody Sunday," the ultimate hangover happening, serving up $4 16-oz. Bloody Marys and all-day Mexican breakfast specials, like huevos rancheros. Fore!—Lina Lecaro
By Matthew Fleischer
Putting together a proper pub crawl is a sacred trust — a responsibility I don't take lightly. As one of the co-founders of New Orleans' annual Cinco de Gayo pub crawl — a 10-stop monster tour of New Orleans' rowdiest, filthiest gay bars — I've come to realize that there are certain rules one needs to abide to ensure that everyone on your crawl has a good time. For instance, NEVER, EVER end your crawl at a tranny club or a butch-girl bar. Waaaay too confusing after a dozen drinks.
In some cities, that's pretty much the only rule you need. Getting a pub crawl together in Los Angeles, however, offers a unique set of challenges that require a Germanic level of organization, efficiency and precision to overcome.
As we all know, this is not a walking city, and finding a confluence of good bars within reasonable distance of one another isn't easy. Complicating matters further, the bar-filled neighborhoods we do have tend to get packed. Try rolling into any bar in Silver Lake after 10 p.m. with a dozen drunken idiots and see how long you wait in line. Same in Echo Park or Santa Monica. Downtown has come a long way in terms of nightlife, but the emerging bar scene there is fairly homogenous — especially with the demise of old-school dives like Crabby Jack's. Golden Gopher, Broadway Bar and 7 Grand are all fun, but, let's be honest — same owners, same feel, same crowds — is there really any point in crawling from one to the other?
Yet an epic pub crawl within the Los Angeles city limits is attainable. What follows is a time-tested route through Los Feliz and parts of East Hollywood — no lines, virtually no covers, close to public transportation, and ethnically and culturally diverse. Make sure to wear comfortable shoes, bring plenty of cash, and stock up on your prophylactic of choice, because by the time you're done with this crawl, beer goggles will seem like a distant dream.
The greatest enemy of the pub crawl is the line. There's nothing worse than feeling your hard-earned buzz fade while idling behind a velvet rope. Even though Los Feliz doesn't have any velvet ropes, most of the bars are small and crowded, and waiting in a parking lot out front is just as bad. So you need to start your crawl early to beat the hordes — like 4 p.m. early. And by 4 p.m. I don't mean 8 p.m. Trust me, start on time or you won't make it past the fifth stop.
Where to start? Tiki Ti.
Intimate, festive, close to the Vermont and Sunset Metro Red Line stop, and sporting a selection of at least 80 drinks, all of which are basically just rum and pineapple juice, Tiki Ti has that friendly, talk-to-the-random-guy-next-to-you vibe that eases the time while you wait for the stragglers in your crew to show up. A note of caution, though: The Web site says it opens at 4. In reality, Tiki Ti tends to open whenever the owner-operators feel like it — generally sometime between 4 and 6, depending on the season. You should probably call ahead to double-check.
El Chavo is the next stop, but if Tiki Ti is closed when you start your crawl, feel free to flip the order around and head here first. Formerly a dark, gothic cave of a Mexican restaurant into which no natural light was allowed, El Chavo recently remodeled in favor of a lighter, airier approach. I personally preferred the cave, but the margaritas are still tasty and the eats are, too. You'll be drinking heavily for the next eight to 10 hours, so it's probably a good idea to get some food into your system. I recommend the lengua con mole. It may seem slightly counterintuitive to begin a marathon drinking binge, where the threat of alcohol-induced power vomiting is a legitimate concern, by eating tongue. Doesn't exactly settle the stomach. But fuck it — tongue is tasty.
After El Chavo, those of you familiar with the area will want to take a right and hit up the bars on Hillhurst. You must resist. Good Luck Bar isn't open yet, and that definitely needs to be a part of any route. Instead, head up Hollywood to Vermont and go straight to The Dresden. Marty and Elayne won't be on yet, which is exactly the point — you can show up with as many people as you want. No lines, no Swingers tourists, no irony — just a campy old-man bar. In that spirit, I recommend ordering a Tom Collins immediately upon arrival. Fizzy, lemony and loaded with gin, the Tom Collins is a woefully underappreciated old-man drink — like summertime in a nursing home, but in a good way. (Another nugget of info gleaned from the aforementioned Cinco de Gayo pub crawl: Aside from being delicious, the Tom Collins doubles as the ultimate litmus test for figuring out whether you're in a gay bar. If it comes out yellow, things are as hetero as Bill Clinton in a room fully of chubby girls. If the bartender serves it up pink, loaded with grenadine, the guy next to you who told you your — or your boyfriend's — ass looked great in jeans wasn't just being friendly.)
After swapping stories about hemorrhoid cream and the Eisenhower-Stevenson election with the early-bird crowd, it's time to head back east to Hillhurst — to Ye Rustic Inn and the Drawing Room.
Ye Rustic Inn is first. This place is loud, fun and stocked with hip, attractive coeds. If you're looking for drunken, promiscuous sex (and, if you're anything like me, four or five drinks in, it's probably in the back of your mind), this is your spot. Crawl discipline now becomes essential. Nothing should interfere with the flow of the crawl, not even your genitals. One quick drink and move on. Better yet, one shot and move on. Even better still, pick out the person you want to have drunken, promiscuous sex with, buy her a carbomb and bring her across the street with you to the Drawing Room.
With the cheapest drinks on the crawl, The Drawing Room is the time to take your inebriation to the next level. Dark and dingy, the place virtually demands you take a shot of Jameson and follow it up with a beer. After all, this is the crawl's halfway point — you earned it. Though the dartboard in the back corner of the room could be cause for concern (after this many drinks, it's generally wise to steer clear of flying projectiles), the board is electronic and the darts have blunted, plastic tips. Even the lightweights should make it out safely.
If all goes according to plan, you should next roll southward a couple of blocks and into Good Luck Bar shortly after it opens at 8. With its over-the-top Chinese opium den/whorehouse theme and bartenders clad in black, Good Luck sometimes seems like it's trying just a little too hard. But it's got one of the best jukeboxes in all of Los Angeles — any bar that has both Louis Prima and Bad Brains on the same machine is OK by me. Getting there early carries the added advantage of ensuring you'll actually be able to hear the music you pick. After 10 o'clock, you could spend the rest of the night at the bar without getting through the backlog. Drinks can be a little pricey, so I'd stick with beer for buzz-maintenance purposes — a Tsingtao perhaps.
The next stop, heading west on Hollywood, is Cheetah's. From the outside, Cheetah's looks like the kind of place guys go to get $20 handjobs out back by the dumpster. It's not ... at least I don't think it is ...
Inside, it's a "panties and pasties" burlesque room with a golden hue and a pantheon of cute, friendly bartendresses and tattooed dancers. Lady crawlers should have no fear — the place is female friendly, and it's large enough that your group should be able to get a private table. If that doesn't sound especially reassuring, a shot of tequila should cure any lingering apprehensions. And don't forget to tip your dancers.
When you're done with pasties and heels, take a 15-minute walk west on Hollywood. This is the longest walk on the crawl, so if your buzz is waning, make sure to get it back where it needs to be before you leave Cheetah's. After walking for 10 minutes, you'll see the Salvadoran dance club Guatelinda on your left. "I'm tired of walking," you're bound to think, "let's go here."
Patience. Unless you're packing at least a C-cup housed in a low-cut tank top, you're looking at a hefty cover — possibly as much as 20 bucks. No sense spending that kind of money to stay for less than an hour. It's still way too early to settle down for the evening. A little farther up you'll also pass Jumbo's Clown Room — another burlesque club. Don't bother. By this point of the night it'll be too crowded to get in. Besides, do you really need to see more boobs?
Instead, head farther west to The Stone — an amazing, dark little hole-in-the-wall that serves as the ultimate pub-crawl wild card. Some nights it's a hipster dance club, other nights it's got a surly dive-bar element, but more often than not it's a Thai gay bar. Hipster dance night generally has a cover — usually no more than $5 and almost always worth it. If it's Thai gay night, expect to see some very short, half-naked men dancing in Speedos.
By this point in the night you're most likely wasted and possibly thinking about cutting the crawl short. Those are the thoughts of a crazy person. It's time for some food to get blood sugar up. You're in the heart of Thai Town, so there are plenty of options, but I recommend Hi Thai Noodle & Thai Angel Café — right next to the Stone. The food is just so-so, except for the noodles, which are actually quite good, but — and maybe this is me — alcohol-induced reduction in motor function makes them too hard to eat. If you can manage, they have free karaoke in the back and serve stiff vodka drinks in discreet plastic mugs.
Hopefully the Thai food will sober you up a little, because you don't want to fuck around at the next stop — White Horse on Western Avenue. The proprietress, a gregarious but tough-as-nails Hungarian woman named "Mama," will throw your ass out on the street if you get out of line. So behave. If you don't piss her off, Mama usually puts out free food at the bar. If you're lucky, she has hot dogs, but I went in there one night and she was serving slices of black forest ham on sugar cookies.
The last Metro Red Line train leaves Hollywood and Western around 12:30, so if you're planning on taking public transportation, don't miss it. But if eight and a half hours of drinking just isn't enough, now is the time to bailar, amigos. Guatelinda is beckoning.
Having only scouted out the club one time at the tail end of my own pub crawl, I honestly can't tell you what Guatelinda is like, other than harboring an abundance of pelvis shaking. I vaguely remember a spacious bathroom. Hey, if you make it this far into the crawl, you won't remember much, either.
If you close out Guatelinda and still have more crawling in you (my hat's off to you, sir/madam), or you just don't feel like sitting around for a taxi, Harvard House Motel has water beds, color TVs and "adult movies." They're serious about the adult movies, too — they've got two signs bragging about it. I can't vouch for their selection.
Pink Elephant Liquors, where Charles Bukowski used to get his booze back in the day, delivers until 2 a.m. if you need some in-room refreshment.
Good luck, have fun and be sure to sleep on your side.
Cameo Bar, inside the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica, is a swanky California seaside hotel's take on a traditional English lounge, which is to say, laid-back enough that the pretty waitress will look the other way if you're wearing flip-flops, yet classy enough to put even the most pretentious dandy at ease. With a whiff of retro Haunted Mansion about it, the place is awash in dark-yet-reflective surfaces. There are crown moldings, wingback armchairs, dove-gray walls, orchids on tables, green settees and white leather bar stools embroidered with crests of lions. Moody groove music bleeds from the lounge into the lobby and main restaurant. A couple of staunch white ceramic greyhounds flank the elevator near one of the bar's entrances, reminding rowdy drunken types to keep their composure.
On any given night, you will find the place bustling with attractive 30-somethings — aspiring actors, designers, folks from the local Westside tech scene — soaking up lavender martinis and mandarin gimlets, dishing in a languid, world-weary manner about all the other droll bars they've been to. Perhaps you'll meet a Swiss tourist or two, camped out in one of the tented cabanas by the pool. During summer, the Viceroy does a sort of poolside grill party called "Taste of Tuesday," with tiny $5 tasting plates of miso salmon, elk tenderloin and the like, essentially bite-size portions from the menu of the hotel's in-house restaurant, Whist (named after the tricky 18th-century British card game).
You could while away an entire evening here, just watching the people come and go, trying to guess which are locals or foreigners — the first central pleasure of hotel bars in general. The second central pleasure will come into play toward the end: If you're too pickled to stand, or if a handsome stranger has caught your fancy, you won't have to drive to find a discreet place to retire. For propriety's sake, don't canoodle in the bar. Get a room. You're already there.—Gendy Alimurung
Hidden among the spanking-new swank spots on Cahuenga Boulevard remains an unvarnished beacon of booze and tattoos, and one of the longest-running badass dives in Hollywood: the Burgundy Room. Dark, loud, often cramped but always welcoming and laid-back, this enduring hole in the wall is everything a bar should be: The drinks are stiff as bricks and reasonably priced, the bartenders are either rough or superhot (sometimes both) and the crowd is rowdy but never in a scary way.
A little back history: The bar has been there since 1919 under many names, most famously as Ma and Pa Henderson's in the '40s (the prop of bandleader Skitch Henderson and his wife, Miss America Faye Emerson). In the '60s and '70s it was called Tommy's, and in the '80s the druggy den Dave's Cave. It was bought and rechristened the Burgundy in 1989, ushering in the new era of Hollywood bars at the time (Lava Lounge, 3 Clubs, The Room). Now it's owned by a former regular who has brought in DJs. (The rawk-heavy mixes of Apollo Staar on "Rock 'n' Roll High School" Thursdays and Casper on "Sundaze," in particular, provide the perfect soundtrack to getting sauced, and sometimes hooking up.)
No need for beer goggles here; everyone looks doable in this dim light, though guys seriously on the make usually have more luck out front under the smoke clouds. Even if you're not a puffer, or a pimp, the Burgundy experience must include at least a li'l hang time at the entrance, which is a lot easier since they opened an adjacent art gallery, the Thought. Strike up a chat with much-beloved Burgundy doorman Torrance Jackson (who hugs so many babes and shakes so many hands each night that we've dubbed him the Mayor of Cahuenga) or just marvel at the disparate, circuslike happenings that surround this unchanged punk pit: paparazzi fighting for a spot at the velvet ropes of Goa next door, choppy-haired crews jaywalking to and fro the Beauty Bar and Hotel Café and Kitchen 24 and the rest, and the ubiquitous cruiser traffic. Then go inside and get shit-faced. Cahuenga really is a zoo these days, but Burgundy is and always has been the hidden cave where real party animals get wild.—Lina Lecaro
Stones Throw's master teacher of heavy grooves, Dam-Funk, spins nothing but deep cuts of boogie funk during Funkmosphere, vinyl Monday nights at Carbon, near Culver City. Dam-Funk takes you beyond the jump-off from disco, funk and roller-skating jams into an outer zone known only as Space Funk. Don't be embarrassed if you don't recognize any songs, Dam-Funk's mission is to expand your horizons, twist your latitudes, and sound-bomb you with love. Spinning in a space about the size of your living room, he might make you forget you're not on a multicultural spaceship headed directly to the Boogie Funk planet.—Molly Lambert
When it comes to hedonism, rough can be tough, as in good. Case in point: A Club Called Rhonda, the queen bitch of flashy dance parties housed inside the tacky East Hollywood salsa club Guatelinda. To regulars, Rhonda's not just a club, it's a living entity to be referred to in the third person. She can definitely be a bad influence. Cheap booze (and free mandatory Jell-O shots at the door!), a sultry, non-air-conditioned space that makes you wanna strip (bad '70s porn interior includes mirrored walls, lady statues, Christmas lights and red, black and white everything), and hautea hordes humping about in some of the most creative DIY duds you'll see anywhere — from weird workout wear to ghetto-glam costumes. It all makes for a wanton wonderland feel. Promoter Aaron Castle and the Goddollars crew call their bimonthly bash a "polysexual" party, but the poly principle applies to more than babes of all persuasions hooking up. This rager's rotating roster of DJs (guests have included Jeremy Scott, Acid Girls, Guns & Bombs and Cosmo Vitelli) churn out multifaceted electro/disco mixes that are as raw and raunchy as the room itself. And that's just how Rhonda likes it.—Lina Lecaro
After traveling the world as a professional snowboarder, Brandon Hochman was frustrated. There weren't enough places he could go with Mish Mash, his beloved Malti-poo. So when Hochman returned to L.A., he created Sky Bark, a bar/lounge downtown specifically designed for dog owners who want to enjoy the city's nightlife without leaving their furry friends at home. The club has an extremely irregular schedule — events are usually themed and word gets out through Sky Bark's Web site — but the dog parties are a spectacle. Guests enjoy 360-degree views of the city from Sky Bark's rooftop bar, dancing the night away on two dance floors with other dog lovers. There's usually live music, with DJs, catered snacks and a 3,000-square-foot doggy play area. Canine attendees are treated to Sky Bark's specialty drink, the "Muttini," a combination of chicken broth and vitamin water served in a martini glass. Fresh grass is installed for each event, allowing dogs to do their business without having to leave the lounge. Earlier this year, Sky Bark worked with MTV2's Rob and Big to host an event for Meaty the bulldog's 14th "barkday," which featured an ice sculpture of Meaty himself. Other events have included doggy fashion shows, sample sales and a "Woofer" Ball, with proceeds from silent auctions donated to local animal-rescue centers. Fido has had a long day. So buy him a stiff Muttini and ask him for a dance.—Gina Pollack
If you make your way down Harlem Place, past the man in the fedora guarding the door, and step into the caverns of the Edison on a Wednesday evening, you will find yourself head-deep in Roaring-'20s Berlin. A quartet of flapper girls adorns the stage while contortionists spiral from the ceiling to the floor to the chairs to the bar. Characters like Candy, a redhead with décolletage bejeweled in strawberry cotton candy, sit casually on the banquettes. A man in stripes paints a portrait of his lady friend, a circus escapee draped over a black leather chair. The barman removes his hat momentarily to dish out absinthe cocktails and applejack shots, served in vintage-style take-home bottles to extend the entertainment long after the show ends. The perma-packed Edison enlisted the help of the Lucent Dossier cabaret company six months back to jump-start its weeknights, and after a brief hiatus, the players have returned by popular demand. Their weekly appearances have been dubbed "sensual vaudeville," a sexy reconstruction of a time when everybody was looking to escape from their suit and tie. As you crawl out of the foggy underground and back up to street level, you feel as though you've escaped away to another world entirely. And for $15, it sure beats dinner and a movie.—Sara Lerner
Big hair, bigger egos, vapid groupies, never-ending guitar solos, spandex — there's much to mock when it comes to '80s-era metal, especially the brand of hairspray and guyliner rock that was hatched right here on the Sunset Strip. Steel Panther (formerly Metal Shop, and Metal Skool before that) have been plying this trade for over a decade now, and, shockingly, the joke hasn't gotten old. Every Monday night the foul-mouthed foursome take the stage at the Key Club (the former site of famed hairsprayer haunt Gazzarri's) and serve up relentless renditions of scream-and-dream classics from the likes of Bon Jovi, Poison, Motley Crue and Van Halen. Their covers are spot-on, inciting zealous sing-alongs from the crowd (a mix of aging rockers, neo-glamsters and celebs), but it's the between-song schtick that shows the true talent of these wigged wannabes — who never break character, by the way. Panther are more than a cover band, they're an audacious satire of the rock-star mentality (think Spinal Tap, only more X-rated). Whether it's bragging about their STDs or dissing each other or modern metal heroes (System of a Down, who often get on stage to jam, are referred to as Down's Syndrome), they do it balls to the wall. Those skewered the most — rock stars — are its biggest fans, and surprise guests still pop on stage to jam almost weekly, from aged where-are-they-now musicians to the likes of Gene Simmons, Tommy Lee, Pink and even Jessica Simpson (twice). Rocking like a hurricane with these heavy-metal hell-raisers has become a Sunset Strip staple, and like chowing pizza at the Rainbow or looking through the lube selection at the Hustler store, it's something everyone should do on the Strip at least once. Do all three in one night and you're practically a rock star yourself.—Lina Lecaro
If you have ever felt that the only thing missing from your Saturday afternoon was a stiff Bloody Mary and a woman in a gorilla mask, look no further than La Cita, the downtown dive bar turned hipster joint. La Cita is expanding its entertainment options beyond indie-rock-heavy DJ nights to afternoons dedicated to artistic musings. The shaded back patio offers a calming respite from the street noise, and the drink specials don't hurt the lazy-day atmosphere. Until, of course, the clock strikes on the hour, unleashing Ape Escape — an orchestrated dance of models in high-end lingerie and gorilla masks offering inspiration to bar patrons, who are encouraged to sketch the models. Dubbed the Bronx Zoo by its host, Silver Lake gallery Ghettogloss, the summer hit proved so popular it's been extended through the fall. BYO art supplies, but the alcohol-driven creativity is on them.—Sara Lerner
Lobby was nice and the Lounge was pretty swank, but club impresarios SBE (Nazarian, Bolthouse, et al.) definitely took the look and feel of the space next to the Troubadour to haute new heights when they turned it into Foxtail. It's retro without the kitsch, swank without being stodgy, and glam but not grossly so. Low ceilings, metallic detailing, groovy Art Nouveau–patterned glass and supple seating make this '70s London–inspired spot swingin' and sophisticated at the same time. Add to that the sumptuous menu, Biba-designed staff garb and the upstairs dance club that's great for burning through the copious (and creative) cocktail menu, and Foxtail leaves other upscale spots of this kind (including its former incarnations) in the dust.—Lina Lecaro
Low-lit and warm, the Crown Bar's royal re-treatment of WeHo straight stalwart Tempest deserves props for not going too fancy or campy with its new look. They definitely tore the place up, though (looking at the new layout, it's actually difficult to figure out where Tempest's tiny stage and elevated seating area even were). The room has an English, men's lodge feel, now with cushiony couches, tasteful chandeliers and a big bar smack in the center, a setup that makes for easy socializing with sauntering-by strangers and ogling galore on its starlet-friendly nights.—Lina Lecaro