If you’ve ever sat around and wondered why you can’t make your living writing sex columns, or looked in the mirror and sworn you were Samantha Jones’ long lost twin, the Angelika Film Center is giving you the chance to prove your case.

SEX AND THE CITY finally hits the big screen on Friday, May 30th, and in honor of the long-awaited, much anticipated release, the Angelika Film Center invites you to participate in our exclusive SEX AND THE CITY LOOK-A-LIKE contest.

Patrons are invited to either write their own Carrie Bradshaw-style column, or dress up like their favorite character - send us your column or your photo, and we’ll pick our favorites. One winner in each category gets $150 in Angelika Cinemoney and their entry featured on this blog. Two runners up in each category get $75 worth of Cinemoney.

Also in honor of the big premiere, the Angelika Dallas will be serving cosmos all week long, so make sure to join us! SEX AND THE CITY opens on Friday, May 30th. See you there!

CONTEST DETAILS

How to enter:
You can enter in either one (but not both) of the below categories:

Write your own Carrie Bradshaw-style column. While the topic choice is yours, please keep it under 350 words. If the written word isn’t your thing, you can also try dressing up as your favorite SATC character - snap a photo of yourself and e-mail it to us (clothing required).

Official Rules:

• Entries must be received by midnight on 5/29/2008 to be considered eligible
• Please send all entries to angelikasubmissions@gmail.com.
• Written entries must be 350 words or less. Photo entries are to be sent in .jpg format only and are to be no larger than 2 MB. Any written work with pornographic or x-rated implications will not be considered. Any photos containing nudity or sexually explicit content will not be considered. The Angelika Film Center reserves the right to define said terms at its discretion.
• Contestants must be at least 18 years old to enter
• There will be a winner and a runner up in the both the look-alike category and the written category. First place winners will receive $150 Angelika Cinemoney and runners-up will receive $75 Cinemoney.
• Only 1 entry per contestant
• By entering this contest, contestants acknowledge and agree that, if chosen as a winner or runner-up, their entry will be featured on the Angelika Film Center website (www.angelikafilmcenter.com), the Angelika Blog (www.angelikablog.com) or both.
• The Angelika Film Center will own all submissions. Entries cannot be returned to contestants. Digital entries are strongly encouraged.
• No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited.

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In honor of Radiolab’s season premiere episodes entitled LAUGHTER, the Angelika brings you more exclusive video clips. In our first clip, we watch Joe Randazzo, associate editor of The Onion, and Radiolab host Jad Abumrad discuss the evolution and anatomy of the laugh (and watch as they demonstrate some of their favorite laughs). Click below to view.

This second clip is best left to be explained by Abumrad: “The first episode of our new season is all about why we laugh. I know, it seems like a stupid question. We laugh because something is funny, right? Actually, the scientists we talked to say that laughter has little to do with humor. It’s usually about social interactions, and, more specifically, power. Tyler Stillman, a psychologist at Florida State University, used a joke about a two muffins in an oven to show that a bad joke can get a big laugh, so long as a boss is telling it to an employee. Sadly, it doesn’t work the other way around. It seems the person in power laughs least. Here at Radio Lab, we like to test things out for ourselves. So we used the WNYC offices as our own little laboratory, and tried to find out if it’s true that our bosses are funnier than us, even when they aren’t. Here’s what we saw.” Click below to view.

Don’t forget about the listening premiere this Thursday, Feb. 21 at the Angelika New York.

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Radiolab is holding its Season Premiere Listening Party, au gratis, on Thursday, Feb. 21 at the Angelika New York - first come first serve and hope to see you there!

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Radiolab, the syndicated, top-rated NPR program is premiering its 4th season at the Angelika New York on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 7pm. The free “listening premiere”, held in conjunction with WNYC public radio, is open to the first 203 lucky fans to arrive at the theater - attendees will be treated to some pretty cool guests, including one of The Onion’s hilarious editors, an underground musical act and the chance to meet the Radiolab hosts themselves!

Hosted by award winning, cult-journalist heroes Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab airs locally on WNYC and takes an accessible, documentary-style, intelligent (and kind of odd) approach to tackling existentialist-friendly topics and current events (past shows have featured such titles as Morality, Beyond Time, & Who Am I).

For more info, visit the Radiolab Website. And keep checking back at our blog for exclusive media from a some of the [wacky] participants….

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