Open City Dialogue  (OCD) is a bi-monthly lecture series unraveling on alternating Mondays in the backroom of Pete’s.  Short (35-40 minute) lectures are woven together from the common thread of people’s obsessions, with guests coming from all over Greater New York.  Whether academic or crackpot; celebrated or unsung, our lecturers all have something to tell you…

"OCD, like all good educational facilities, is on summer break until Labor day.

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!!!"

ABOUT THE CURATOR:

Jamie Hook is a socially omnivorous urban dandy who makes his home in Greenpoint. A filmmaker, theatre director, and sometimes journalist, Mr. Hook lives by his wits and his keen eye for the odd and interesting. After a dozen years in Seattle, where, among other things, he was the founding director of the Northwest Film Forum, he has settled in New York and is now preparing to open The Cassandra, a triplex art house cinema in Williamsburg. The OCD Lecture Series offers him a venue to display all of his marvelous urban finds. You should also know that he likes pickles, hot sauce, and red wine in that order.