I normally reserve recommending an event until I've attended, but Pictoplasma, on Sept 4-6 is a one time deal this year, and I want to give people heads up to get tickets. Tickets are pricey, at 170 per person, but I am going with my graphic team for work and if you too are in the graphic arts, maybe you can convince your company to shell out the dough.
It's a series of lectures, screenings, question and answers, performances, and exhibits based around contemporary character design and art. Speakers include Tim Biskup, David O'Reilly, Philip Hunt of Studio aka, and the artist duo Friends With You.
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Imagine a world where one third of the crop species in the United States were gone forever? No apples, nuts, broccoli, avocados, soybeans, asparagus, celery, squash and cucumbers, citrus fruit, peaches, kiwi, cherries, blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, cantaloupe, melons, as well as animal-feed crops. That is the scary possible future presented in 
No one blinks if you put milk in your iced coffee but watch out when you do it to iced tea. Once a lady at a deli almost wouldn't even serve it to me because it made no sense to her (but that was in hell hole Midtown, so no surprises). Still, much less hostly, I still get inquiries and quizzical reactions. I am here to tell you that there's nothing wrong with milk and sugar in iced tea and it is, in fact, a perfect summer treat particularly if you're over done on coffee.