I’m back up top just in time to enjoy the first evar Spider-Man Week here in New York City. Since Spidey hails from the NYC it wasn’t hard to tell from a marketing standpoint how to hype this latest film project. What has me excited are all the cultural institutions that are opening their doors for the hypefest…
The American Museum of Natural History is host to the largest spider collection in the world, and during “Spider-Man Week in NYC” the museum’s Dr. Norm Platnick will install a special spider exhibit featuring a dozen of the most unusual arachnids you’ve ever seen! There’ll also be spider origami projects for the kids as well as discussions and Q & A on those special wall crawlers. Exhibit runs daily from 10 a.m.-5:45 p.m. The planetarium stays open until 8:45 the Friday and every first Friday of every month.
At the Central Park Zoo, located at 64th Street and Fifth Avenue, Kids can explore the rainforest, antarctic habitat and snake houses to find hidden “Spider-Man 3” surprises. Plus, there’ll be daily “Spidey chats” with the zoo’s staff and interactive “Spidey Theater” performances. The zoo is open daily from 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Comic book nerds unite at the great, grand New York Public Library on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue for “The Ultimate Spider-Man Comic Book Collection.” See never-before-displayed original comics from the vaults, and vibrant art from four decades of adventures. This limited run exhibit is a MUST SEE! Tues.-Wed. 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m.; Thurs.-Sat. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sun. 1-5 p.m.
I’m prah’lee the only cat hardbody comic book nerd enough to sit through three (3) consecutive Spider-Man movies in one night, but if you are too then fucks with me and the Spider-Man movie marathon…
TriBeCa Film Fest hosts the first two films in the series during a special screening on Thursday, May 3rd at 5:00pm (scroll down this page and click on Spider-Man Marathon)
Brooklyn comic nerds stand up once again. It’s going down at midnight on Court Street right off Atlantic Avenue. Copp your tickets through Fandango and form Voltron with me and COMBAT JACK in front of the theatre. I expect someone to already have the Dutch rolled.
For all of you folks that aren’t in NYC I thought I’d run a Spider-Man contest just to see if you were really down for your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.
1) Write down the first six lines from the theme song to the 1970’s Spider-Man cartoon.
2) What famous actress’ mother was part of the Spider-Man television series from the 1980’s?
3) What is the name of Spider-Man’s original writer?
You all know the drill by now. Answer these three easy questions and free DP Dot Com x Spider-Man shit will be sent to you by mail. Get off the world wide web and get caught up in the spider’s web this Friday.
