Legally Speaking By: Scott Baron, Attorney at Law I NEEDED TO CHANGE A TIRE Q: One summer night, in the heart of Manhattan, I needed to change a tire. Using two reflectors, I closed a lane of traffic. Before I had finished, a taxicab pulled up between the reflectors to drop off a passenger and pick up new ones. As the cab pulled away, it ran over one of my reflectors. I approached the taxicab, put my arms on the open window-frame and asked the driver to pay for the broken reflector. The passengers started crying, “Move, move, move. Go, go. He’s crazy. He’s going to kill us.” The driver cursed at me and drove off – crushing my foot. A: Did you have time to put down your wrench? Perhaps you were still holding it. All in all, it sounds like, in large part, you yourself brought about your injury – in approaching the taxicab in a threatening manner and placing yourself in a position of danger. Be that as it may, even if your negligence exceeded that of the driver, it still is possible to take this case to a jury, assuming you find a lawyer willing to take the chance. Under the doctrine of comparative negligence, if both of you were negligent and each negligence contributed to your injury, then you are entitled to recover – although not the full amount of your damages. Once ascertained, those damages will be reduced in proportion to the negligence that is attributable to you. In theory, that is possible even if your negligence was greater than that of the driver. Learn from the best musicians in New York Inquire about our kids group singing classes! Serving Long Island City for 10 years 44-02 23rd St, Suite #203 (2nd fl) 917-548-3598 Professional faculty from: Juilliard · Mannes · Berklee · & more! WINNER of the 2013 THE QUEENS QueensCourier.com Courtesy of Plaxall Long Island City OCTOBER ARTS EVENTS 42 OCTOBER 2014 I LIC COURIER I www.queenscourier.com Calendar 2014 9-01 33rd Road • (at Vernon Blvd) Long Island City, NY 11106 718.204.7088 • www.noguchi.org Plaxall.com LICProperties.com MoMA PS1 Museum of the Moving Image Noguchi Museum 22-25 Jackson Ave, LIC, NY 11101 718.784.2084 MoMAPS1.org 35 Ave at 37 St, Astoria, NY 11106 718.777.6800 www.movingimage.us Zero Tolerance On view October 26, 2014–March 8, 2015 Over the past two decades, some national and international governments have garnered attention for imposing draconian laws that restrict the rights of citizens under the guise of improving quality of life. Rio de Janeiro has “cleaned up” slums by imposing a militarized police force and Istanbul has put pressure on minority communities by gentrifying the neighborhoods in which they reside. In Russia, the arrest of two members of the art band Pussy Riot for speaking against President Vladimir Putin, along with the passage of anti-gay legislation, has generated international ire. Such restrictive policies have marked everyday life in major cities around the world. Francesco Vezzoli: Teatro Romano On view October 26, 2014–March 8, 2015 Drawing on extensive research about the use of color in antiquity, Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli (b. 1971) has collaborated with a team of archaeologists, conservators and polychrome specialists to paint five ancient Roman busts in the manner in which they would originally have been decorated. While white marble remains the quintessential material of ancient Greek and Roman statuary, extensive research has confirmed that ancient sculpture was painted in a vivid palette of yellows, blues, reds and greens. Dating from the first and second centuries A.D., Vezzoli’s Roman Imperial busts restore to contemporary imagination the decorated surfaces that have faded away over nearly two thousand years. A Memory of Astoria September 24, 2014–January 8, 2015 • In the lobby Organized by Jason Eppink, Associate Curator of Digital Media Ezra Wube (b. 1980, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; lives in Brooklyn) works with video, installation, drawing, painting, and performance. Reflecting on his identity as a person of two cultures at the intersection of tradition and modern life, Wube makes work about the uncertainty of time and place and the malleability of memory. Lights, Camera, Astoria! October 26, 2013–January 4, 2015 • In the Amphitheater Gallery This exhibition traces the fascinating history of the Astoria studio, which has been at the heart of filmmaking in New York City since 1920. The site was the East Coast home of Paramount Pictures in the silent and early talkingpicture eras, a center for independent filmmaking in the 1930s, and the U.S. Army Pictorial Center from World War II into the Cold War. After falling into disrepair in the early 1970s, the site has become a thriving cultural hub that includes Kaufman Astoria Studios and Museum of the Moving Image. What’s Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones July 19, 2014–January 19, 2015 Animation director and artist Charles Martin “Chuck” Jones (1912–2002) made some of the most enduringly popular cartoons of all time. He perfected the wisecracking Bugs Bunny and the exasperated Daffy Duck, and created a host of other characters, including Pepé Le Pew, Wile E. Coyote, and the Road Runner, bringing an unparalleled talent for comic invention and a flair for creating distinctive, memorable characters to the art of film animation. In a career spanning three decades, Jones directed more than 300 animated films, and was given an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement. Isamu Noguchi, Patent Holder: Designing the World of Tomorrow Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - Sunday, January 4, 2015 The proverb "necessity is the mother of invention" comes to mind with regard to Isamu Noguchi's involvement in industrial design beginning in the 1930s. Noguchi's efforts as a designer--he even started a business called Time Design offering a dizzying array of services--were motivated by many factors. Highlights from the Collection: Noguchi Archaic/ Noguchi Modern Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - Sunday, January 11, 2015 The only thing Noguchi loved more than the promise of the future was the sense of belonging to the Earth he derived from working with million and billion year old pieces of rock. Noguchi Archaic/ Noguchi Modern explores a stylistic wormhole that seems to link the ancient past and the distant future in his work. 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