Coney Vid: Sand Sculpting Contest

New York Daily News brings you some highlights of the Coney Island Sand Sculpting Contest by the Astella.

Coney Island Sand Sculpture Contest

Description: Frank Russo took home first place for his sand castle creation.

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Coney Events: Dick Zigun As Guest Ringmaster At Ringling Brothers Circus.

CONEY ISLAND USA NIGHTS AT RINGLING BROS!
FRIDAY JULY 23 @ 7PM WITH DICK D. ZIGUN AS GUEST RINGMASTER!
SATURDAY, JULY 24 @ 5PM, SUNDAY, JULY 25 @ 5PM

SUPPORT CONEY ISLAND USA -- AND EXPERIENCE THE CONEY ISLAND ILLUSCINATION!

HERE'S THE BEST PART: TICKETS TO ALL THREE SHOWS ARE $10** (WOW! That's cheaper than a movie ticket -- and $1.00 from each ticket sold goes to Coney Island USA!) **When you click through to Ticketmaster be sure to choose $20 seats for 7/23 and $25 seats for 7/24 and 7/25 -- Ticketmaster will apply your discount when you use promo code CIUSA.

CLICK HERE to buy now! Use promotion code "CIUSA" when ordering to take advantage of this special offer! (You may also call 1-800-745-3000 to order by phone.) This offer is also available at the box office, W. 21st between Surf Ave. and The Boardwalk.

Want more info about the show? No problem: Explore it here.
*Excludes Ringside & VIP seats. Not valid for group sales. Service charges, facility and handling fees may apply. Offer valid through July 25.

Coney Events: Cyclone T-Shirt Design Contest

Above design by John Conner

Tomorrow, Friday, July 23rd 2010 a winner in the Coney Island Cyclone T-shirt Design Contest will be chosen along with winner of the Coney-themed trivia contest.

$500 1st Prize + Cyclone Season Pass to Winner at July 23rd Official Cyclone T-Shirt Fashion Show!!

Plus Cyclone Tix & Other Prizes to Audience in Coney-Themed Trivia Quiz & Hula Hooping Contest!

WHO:  The 11 finalists in the first-ever Cyclone T-Shirt Contest will have their T-shirt designs showcased in a Coney-esque fashion show.The winning design will be chosen by public voting on our website and live voting at Friday's event. Your vote will help select the official Cyclone T-shirt for the 2011 season. See the designs and vote online here: http://coneyislandcyclone.com/contest_entries.php. 

Models in the fashion show include the T-shirt designers and their fashionista friends as well as burlesque performers Darlinda Just Darlinda, Minnie Tonka, Gigi La Femme (Miss Coney Island 2010), Honi Harlow and Weirdee Girl; and drag performer M’Lady Uppercrust. For more info, including bios of the finalists, visit the Cyclone's blog "The Buzz" at http://coneyislandcyclone.com/blog/

Special Guests: Hosted by Quizmaster Noah Tarnow of The Big Quiz Thing (http://bigquizthing.com/), who promises to "punctuate the evening with Coney Island appropriate trivia and prizes."  The prizes include tickets to ride the Cyclone, T-shirts and more!  The hula-hooping Ms Saturn will give out prizes in a Hula Hooping Contest. Music by DJ Joe Gonzales.

WHEN: Friday, July 23rd, from 6 - 8pm.  Contestants and models will arrive at 5 pm

WHERE: On a runway on Surf Avenue in front of the Cyclone!  834 Surf Ave (at W 10th St), Brooklyn NY 11214

Don't miss this FUN & FREE New Coney Island Event! Stay for the Friday Night Fireworks at 9:30!

Cyclone Roller Coaster, 834 Surf Ave at West 10th St, Brooklyn NY 11214

Subways: F, Q to West 8th Street; D, F, N, Q to Stillwell Ave.

Phone: 718-265-2100 Website: www.coneyislandcyclone.com

Coney Island Summer Entertainment Full Of Ohhs And Ahhs!

This summer season the entertainment comes packed and ready to amuse.

From the Coney Island Fun Guide:

Pop icons, fashionistas, sand sculptors, and vampires converge 

The hits keep coming at Asser Levy Park, with The Beach Boys tonight (Thursday) and SHOUT! The MOD Musical on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the beach and boardwalk remain a flutter with a fashion show, sand sculpting, singers and dancers, all lit up by fireworks and the full moon. See below for more information, and visit The Coney Island Fun Guide Calendar for day-by-day listings.

 

[ Find all the events from the guide this week after the jump]

Coney Weekend TV - The Circus Is Seeing TV Spots

Coney Events: Criptease

Celebrate The 20th Anniversary for the American's With Disabilities Act!

Thirsty Girl & Mat Fraser Present

Criptease
 

Criptease will be a radical, joyful and uproarious night of sexy fun, striptease, and comedy, from performers with and without disabilities that like to push the boundaries of what crips are and aren’t meant to do.

Monday July 26th is the 20^th Anniversary of the American’s with Disabilities Act, and President Obama has declared it new day of celebration for all.  In taking this day, we are hoping to make an annual antidote to charity posters everywhere, show a lot of T&A, and celebrate 20 years of the ADA by being as sexy as HELL. Telethon this AIN’T

Hosted by Mat Sealboy Fraser and featuring Julie Atlas Muz, Nik Sin, Liz Carr, Mstickle, Tigger!, Greg Walloch, Lezlie Frye, Chris Harder, Queer Gimp Girl & DJ Momotaro.

Criptease

Monday July 26 @ Le Poisson Rouge

Doors 6:30pm

Show  7pm

18 & over

$15 advance tickets, $20 at the door

at Le Poisson Rouge

158 Bleeker Street

NYC

www.lepoissonrouge.com

There is full wheelchair access, at the side of the venue, at 187 Thomas St, where someone will ensure your easy entrance

Last Casting Call For The First Coney Island Talent Show

Calling all talent! Calling all talent! Last chance to enter the first Coney Island talent show!

Last Call For Talent!

OPEN CASTING CALL FOR:

THE CONEY ISLAND TALENT SHOW

CASH PRIZES & MORE!

Categories for this year’s talent contest are:

-Sassy Seniors, 60 and up

-Best Drag Performance or Celebrity Impersonator

-Circus Freaks and Sideshow Geeks (including all variety, novelty acts)

-Dance your Pants Off (including soloists, troupes & step teams)

 -Creative Kids, 9-12years

We Need more applications for  the senior category, the dance category and the drag/ celeb category so if you fit one of these groups  

Visit www.thirstygirlproductions.com for application, by July 20th

or email coneyislandtalent@gmail.com

The Coney Island Talent Show 

A spectacle of sunshine & lollipops on the boardwalk! Saturday, July 31^st , 4pm-8pm

Hosted By The World Famous *BOB* & Miss Saturn!

Huge Record Breaking Dinner At Coney Island Is a No-Dish!

Big record breaking dinner event in Coney Island will not be taking place.  Due to the short notice with city procedures.  Just more sluggish city red tape mediocrity.

Here is the official letter of cancellation:

Coney Friends:

First of all, thank you to all of you who made it to the meeting this morning, especially on such short notice.  I again want to thank everyone for the enthusiasm you showed for this Guinness World Record attempt and publicity opportunity.   The planning for the event has been moving very fast, and we felt it was important to loop in the Coney stakeholders as early as possible.  (For your reference, the sign-in sheet from the meeting is attached.)

Unfortunately, we received some bad news on the way back from the meeting, and it looks definitive at this point that despite best efforts of all involved—including the NYPD—the event will not proceed due to concerns with public assembly coordination on short notice.  While we had suggested to you at the meeting that this was a fear and a possibility, I wanted to give you all that information as soon as I had it.  NYC&Co relays their sincere regrets and explains that the event had looked locked-in until just today—indeed, many of the supplies were already on order. And as I’m sure you could tell from today’s briefing, the NYC&Co team had spent quite a bit of time working on this event, and did so at a truly break-neck pace.

Please know that we are always trying to find new ways to create buzz and attention for Coney Island, and we’ll be spending some time with the NYC&Co entertainment team thinking about how we can collaborate going forward and how we can better organize around big events on tight timelines like this one.

Thanks again, and I’m sorry that I have to be the bearer of bad news, and I’m sorry again for taking up your time this morning.  If you have any questions, feel free to give me a call at 212-312-4263 or 347-672-6293.  Otherwise, best wishes for the weekend.

Nate

NATHAN BLISS  l  ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT, DEVELOPMENT

Coney Events: The Schlep Sisters

From Coney Island USA:

Starring, the Family!

The Schlep Sisters (Minnie Tonka & Darlinda Just Darlinda)
Julie Atlas Muz as the 2nd Cousin twice removed from an interfaith one-night-stand
Bunny Love as Bubbe Love
Mel Frye as the Drunk Uncle
Raven Snook as Mama Schlep
Little Brooklyn as Cousin Schlep
Go-Go Harder as the Shabbes Goy
Hosted by Bastard Keith as Brother Schlep

BURLESQUE AT THE BEACH!
FRIDAY, JULY 9, 10PM, $15
THE SCHLEP SISTERS
The Schlep Sisters Present The Schlep Family Shenanigans ... there will be shenanigans!

Coney Island USA
1208 Surf Ave.

Coney Event: Clowns Of Coney Island

From Coney Island USA:

The circus is always in town when the town is Coney Island, they're all here! real! and clownin'! on the inside for you! The cast is known for sword swallowing, fire eating, snake charming, big busty bumps and grinds, being electrocuted on stage and you'll see all that and more!

Not in over 2 years has New York seen a show like this, because that's when Dottie Lux, Clown Burlesque Babe, left her beloved rotten apple for San Francisco, the land of avocados and marijuana and took "Clowns of Coney Island" with her. You have all but rarely seen her big bouncing balloons or shiny red nose since then and it is her esteemed honor to bring back to you the downtown clowns you have come to know and love, but you rarely if ever see them like this: a little more silly a little more filthy and entirely CLOWNED!

Dottie Lux welcomes performances by:
albert cadabra as ALBERT CLOWNDABRA
nik sin as NIK SIN THE CLOWN
world famous *bob* as PETUNIA PIEFACE
serpentina as CLOWN SERPENTINA
insectavora as INSECTAVORA THE CLOWN
remy vicious as CLOWNY VICIOUS
glenn marla as GLENN CLOWNLA
AND SO MANY MORE!

BURLESQUE AT THE BEACH!
THURSDAY, JULY 8, 9PM, $10
DOTTIE LUX'S CLOWNS OF CONEY ISLAND
Dottie Lux is turning Coney Clowny once again!
Coney Island USA
1208 Surf Ave.

Coney Weekend TV - A Visit To New Coney

A visit to Coney Island through animation and with some Coney character regulars.

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It Will Be The Largest Dinner Party In The World And It's Going to Be At Coney Island

 Fun map by the Coney Island Fun Guide

20,000 people will be expected to this grand event organized by Paramount Pictures.  To promote the new motion picture by Steve Carrell, entitled: DINNER WITH SCHMUCKS.  The film company hopes to break the world record for the largest dinner party previously held by Alpha Kappa Alpha Society in 2008 who had 16,206 members.  This grand event will take place from the beach from the Aquarium and along the well known businesses on the boardwalk.

The event is in need of volunteers.  Please The major networks will be there, as well as the movie's cast which also stars Paul Rudd. 

There will be a meeting tomorrow for business owners and stakeholders only.  They will go over details of the event.

The diagram below indicates the location of the event.

Image courtesy of Coney Island Fun Guide

The dinner party will start at 5pm which will include three courses served by waiters.  dessert is at 6:30 pm where the cast will appear.  At 7pm Guinness  Book of World Record judges will make announcement if the record has been won.

For more details visit the Coney Island Fun Guide.

Complete press release for Coney Island businesses and stakeholders after the jump.

Reminder: Tomorrow Night Last Chance To Enter Your Coney Film

The Coney Island Film Festival was named one of the "25 Coolest Film Festivals" by MovieMaker Magazine!

LAST CHANCE TO ENTER!

indiefilmpage.com and Coney Island USA present the 10th annual Coney Island Film Festival September 24 - 26, 2010

at Sideshows by the Seashore and The Coney Island Museum in the historic Brooklyn neighborhood Coney Island, New York!

Extended Late Deadline This Friday,  July 9, 2010 

Entry categories: Feature, Short, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Experimental, Silent Film, Horror, Animation, Music Video.

The Coney Island Film Festival is open to filmmakers working in ALL GENRES, SUBJECTS AND FORMATS.

For more information visit the Coney Island Film Festival website.  Enter via Withoutabox.  or via paper entry.

Happy 4th Birthday Kinetic Carnival

Coney Weekend TV - Kobi In A Bun 2010

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Reminder: Coney Island Talent Show

Be in the Coney Island Talent Show!

Thirsty Girl Productions Presents

The Coney Island Talent Show

A spectacle of sunshine & lollipops on the boardwalk!

Saturday, July 31^st

Coney Island’s talent & entertainment history runs deep. Since the late 1800’s, live music, sideshows and burlesque shows have peppered the boardwalk to the midway, and enchanted the masses.

It is the perfect, magical & mystical place for a talent show.

Join Hostess Miss Saturn , The World Famous *BOB*and the fanfare of legendary talent that has come out of Coney Island, by being a part of the first ever Coney Island Talent Show on the boardwalk (between 10^th & 12^th street) on  July 31^st from 4pm-8pm.

We are currently holding an Open Casting Call for all performers to participate in this historic event.

If you’ve got talent, ---Entertain Us!

Categories for this year’s talent contest are:

-Best Drag Performance or Celebrity Impersonator

-Circus Freaks and Sideshow Geeks (including all variety, novelty acts)

-Dance your Pants Off (including soloists, troupes & step teams)

 -Creative Kids, 9-12years

-& Sassy Seniors, 60 and up

The sub category in each level is Best Costume, so be sure and dress with pizzazz to this Coney Island affair! 

Singing is encouraged for all categories!

CASH PRIZE$ & MORE FUN STUFF!

1^st prize in each category will receive a cash prize of $200,  a season pass to participating Coney Island Amusements and an opportunity to perform live before a Brooklyn Cyclone’s Baseball Game, The 22^nd Tattoo & Motorcycle Festival, or The 8^th Annual New York Burlesque Festival

2^nd prize in each category will receive a cash prize of $50, and day passes to participating Coney Island Amusements.

3^rd prize in each category will receive day passes to participating Coney Island Amusements.

The Best Dressed person in each category will receive a special mystery prize.

Enter the talent show by July 16^th!

visit www.thirstygirlproductions.com for details!