Word of Mouth
performadj.png1. PERFORMA is launching their new book,  PERFORMA 09: Back to Futurism, tonight, September 22, 6 to 8 p.m., in a "fabulously decorated truck" parked outside Printed Matter (195 Tenth Avenue between 21st and 22nd Streets) in Chelsea.  Several artists including Kalup Linzy, Casey Spooner and Joan Jonas will be on-hand to autograph your copy.

2. London's Independent Label Market -- where the heads of indie record labels man booths selling their latest releases -- is coming to NYC on Saturday October 8.  The market will be a featured part of the fourth annual Superstar DJ Record Fair at Smorgasburg on the Williamsburg waterfront.  Label honchos already confirmed include James Murphy (DFA), Nick Catchdubs (Fool's Gold), Dean Bein (True Panther) and more.

3. Here's a cool slideshow/piece by Jon Cotner and Claire Hamilton about walking  a  three-mile stretch of Brooklyn's Bedford Avenue (the borough's longest street). [Guggenheim Lab]

4. A new Facebook Music feature launching tomorrow will let you listen simultaneously to what your friends are listening to. [TechCrunch]

5. Acclaimed architect (and coloring book artist) Zaha Hadid designed a $12 million parking garage to be built in the Miami Beach neighborhood of Collins Park. The city is a hot-spot for innovative garage architecture as Hadid's building will join the already completed Herzog & de Meuron garage on the west end of Lincoln Road. [Miami Herald]

6. Haunch of Venison gallery is moving from Rockefeller Center to a new space in Chelsea.  The inaugural group show, "Boundaries Obscured," opens tomorrow, September 23, 6 to 8 p.m. at 550 West 21st Street and includes works by Jake and Dinos Chapman, Ahmed Alsoudani, Peter Saul and more.

7. Gordon Ramsay is expanding his "Mr. Fix-It" reality format from restaurants to hotels.  According to Entertainment Weekly he'll travel the country with a group of experts "to try to fix struggling hotels."  Memo to Gordon: Call us, we have some suggestions.

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