EVENTS: Comic Karma, Veggie Conquest Throwdown & Sarah Silverman’s Green Debate

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Laughing helps animals! Featuring comic geniuses Louis CK, Dave Attell, Gary Gulman, Wyatt Cenac, Lizz Winstead and Dan Piraro.
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April Fool’s Day, 4/1/2010 at
8pm at Gotham Comedy Club in NYC!
208 w 23rd b/t 7th & 8th Aves.
VIP tickets are $100 and go to crucially helping the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary save more lives and eduate more people. General Admission is $50
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Veggie Conquest 4 tickets are now on sale! Emceed by yours truly. This event will sell out, so don’t wait…

Buy your tickets here!

Chef tickets are $5 ($10 after the secret ingredient is revealed, a week from the event). Chefs, you get a free plus-one ticket for someone to cheer you on, and you are reimbursed $25 when you arrive with your dish.

Taster tickets are $25. BYOB!

To find out more about the event and all the rules, visit our “How It Works” page.

Welcome to darker side of green

Sarah Silverman moderates green debate, Live! Ms. Silverman recently stated that “Marriage, to me, is like eating meat. I think it’s gross and fucking crazy. It’s this super-barbaric, old-timey tradition that no one remembers we don’t have to do anymore.”(source) Is it wrong or ironic that this makes me want to marry her?

YOU ARE INVITED TO THE DARKER SIDE OF GREEN
With a lively debate on green issues between Amanda Little and Phelim McAleer

Moderated by the one and only Sarah Silverman

And music Provided by Paul Sevigny & The Misshapes

Tuesday March 30, 2010
Doors from 8pm – Midnight, Debate @ 9pm

Located at Skylight West, 463 10th Avenue, New York, NY

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joshuakatcher, March 24th 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Supra Duper, NHLV Gala, Veggie Conquest 3!

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Discerning Brute Contributor, Troy Farmer points us to the new Holiday ‘09 Vegan Pack from Supra Footwear – featuring the Dixon, Thunder Lo, Thunder and the Diablo 1.5,  wearing 100% canvas uppers and done up in a variety of colorways. thunder / s38005blk

2009 GalaCome party with me at the New York League of Humane Voters Gala in NYC on November 12 at six o’clock in the evening at the famous Prince George Ballroom, 15 E. 27th Street (between Madison & Fifth Avenues). Featuring Keynote speaker NYS Governor David A. Paterson.

Celebrity guests include GirlieGirl Army’s Chloe Jo Berman, Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary founders Jenny Brown and Doug Abel, “Super Size Me” co-star and author Alex Jamieson,  ”Discerning Brute” Joshua Katcher, author & political guru Julie Lewin, world-renowned artist Peter Max, ”Bizarro” comic creator Dan Piraro, rapper Princess Superstar, actress and author Ally Sheedy, singer/songwriter Rachel Trachtenburg, CNN’s Jane Velez-Mitchell and ”Whale Wars” star Captain Paul Watson.

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I will be your Emcee!

Don’t miss your chance to buy tickets to the 3rd Veggie Conquest! Or enter to be a competitor! Conquest 1 and 2 were completely sold out, and this one should be even better! Please get your tickets early. THEY WILL SELL OUT!! You must buy your tickets here.

Veggie conquest 3 will take place at Not Fade Away Gallery, in Union Square, NYC. They will have a very special second course at VC#3. Match Meats has shipped our volunteers a whole freezer full of vegan meats to try.

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TheDiscerningBrute, October 19th 2009 | Tags: , , , , , ,
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EMCEE DB: Win a seat at Veggie Conquest, Squash!

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On Saturday, September 26th, I’ll be the emcee at the Veggie Conquest event here in New York City along with the judges: bakery owner Amy Lynn Herman, restaurateur Deborah Gavito, and eco-veggie blog-star Michael Parrish DuDell.

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There is one spot left to be a competing chef! Get your ticket now! Unfortunately, the event is sold-out for tasters. But fear not! I will be randomly picking a guest to come with me as my “plus 1“. CLICK HERE TO ENTER YOUR NAME!

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Autumn has arrived, and this month, the featured ingredient is squash!

All chefs will make an appetizer featuring squash!

This is the one time of year that we have both summer and winter squash available! There are so many kinds of squash and so many parts of a squash that can be used.

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TheDiscerningBrute, September 21st 2009 | Tags: , , , , ,
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Judgmental: Veggie Conquest

When I was asked to be a judge for the first Veggie Conquest showdown in NYC on August 22nd, I had visions of myself as a TV judge like Judge Judy or Gordon Ramsey – handing out brash words of wisdom and catchy, yet condemning spitballs of criticism. “Don’t feed me mushy pasta and tell me it’s al dente,” I may accuse. Or “If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen!”  There may also be moments where the audience believes I am going to rip someone a new one – but then after a dramatic pause I say, “This…is…the best dish here.” O, to dream. And that is why you need to enter this competition. Because you know you can make the best dish there. I know it too. So do it. The SECRET INGREDIENT will be revealed a week before the competition!

Meet the Judges for Challenge #1

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On food competition shows like Top Chef and Iron Chef, the food is so often an obnoxious cliché. Foie Gras. Lamb. Caviar. Bacon. I mean bring a book, people. How many times can you showcase diseased liver, a cuteness-icon, fish periods, and the ass of an animal that’s smarter than your dog before it gets boring?

I am so excited that there is finally a vegan food competition! I hope you will all buy your tickets for August 22nd, and  come join me in Chelsea for this landmark event as a chef or a taster. See you there!

Challenge #1
Amateur Cooking Competition
Aug. 22, 2009
Chelsea, Manhattan
Buy tickets here

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TheDiscerningBrute, August 7th 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
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