To do in SF tonight: Yuri's Night!
(Image: Laughing Squid / Scott Beale) As Boinged previously, the annual global space party Yuri's Night is happening in hundreds of cities around the world, all week long. If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I know a fair number of BB readers are, you'll want to drop whatever you're doing tonight and head over to Yuri's Night Bay Area at the California Academy of Sciences. I believe my old pal Steve Nalepa is on the turntables! Don't know if there are still tickets available, but this will be really great, if you can still get in on late notice.
Event founder and organizer Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides explains,
There will be DJ's, planetarium shows, talks by NASA Ames Center Director Pete Worden and Q&A with NASA Astronaut Steve Robinson who has flown into space 3 times- once with John Glenn and once on the first flight after the Columbia accident. By coincidence, the woman who runs special projects at the Academy and who is hosting YN used to water his parents plants in Moraga, CA...small planet. More info here. Also, check out the "art installation" that Ace of Cakes (the Food Network show) made for Yuri's Night NASA Goddard on Saturday! The piece will stay on display in their visitor center- but the sheet cake they send has all already happily been eaten.
Previously:
- Yuri's Night "global space parties" happen from April 4-12.
- Yuri's Night Bay Area: photos and video - Boing Boing
- Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2008 call for artists, scientists - Boing Boing
- Yuri's Night: spacemen branded me with Yuri Gagarin's head ...
- Yuri's Night "space raves" around the world on April 12 - Boing Boing
- Yuri's night: Houston, we have contact. - Boing Boing
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Yuri's Night is always fun. The Yuri's Night site has the low down on parties all over the place, and even if there isn't one near you, they can help you set one up.
No excuse not to celebrate the first person to leave Earth and return!
You are a weeboo if you read that as lesbian sex.
Aw man. Yuri's night is kid-safe where I live. Cake and Ice Cream, over at 7 pm. What a ripoff! (I do like me some cake and ice cream though)
I am pretty sure that it is sold out - I suggest calling first, or else creating an ad hoc flash party in front of the museum :-)
Online tix are sold out but there are limited door tix available starting at 5:30. Which means you'd probably better be reading this in line right now.
Shoot, online tix are long gone. Luckily my brother is in the area and he might be able to get in line for door tickets.
40 years ago, we put a man on the moon. 3 years later, we stopped. And now we hold a celebration for the accomplishments of past generations as we watch NASA sink into an ever deeper cesspit of scandal, bureaucracy, and incompetence.
God dammit. I had tickets to go to the cal academy tonight, and I'm still here in the goddamn lab. And now boingboing is just taunting me. Fuckers.
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Guilty.
I'm sure the picture of under-dressed girl twirling the glowing hoolahoop didn't help either.
Just got back from the event, which was fun, though not as much skin as the above photo might imply (with the exception of a single Princess Leia in slave girl costume). Glad I finally got a chance to see the remodeled Academy of Sciences building.
boo.
what's up with commenting errors?
is it because i'm mac/safari?
...I live on the Space Coast, and I have never heard of this. The local website says everything happened last Saturday with nothing after that. *facepalm*
That's not Yuri...
No but it could be his grand-daughter Yuria! Let's start an unfounded rumour!!
Так держать комрад Юрий! Да пребудет с Тобой Сила!