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MAY 14 - MAY 20
As you scan this week for DJ events, films, networking soirees, and gardens to
visit, we invite you to take a moment to think of a great American
who was born this week, and who fought for more than just black equality, but for
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This week's flavor:
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| art: | MoMA Moves, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Sean Hemmerle |
| dance: | Harlem Jazz Dance Festival, Rennie Harris Puremovement's Rome & Jewels |
| dj: | Bollywood Disco, Freeskool Incommon Session, Roundtrip |
| festival: | Golden Age of Cinema Film Festival |
| film: | Carnival in Brazil and in New Orleans, Evil Dead Double Feature, The Believer |
| lecture: | Social Network Soirée |
| multimedia: | Mad Scientist's Ball |
| music: | Bertrand Burgalat and Sea Ray, Donnie, Ed Harcourt, Gino Sitson Quartet & Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, Twilight Circus Dub Sound System |
| theatre: | Boys And Girls |
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LECTURE
Social Network Soirée
| | when: | Tue 5.14 (6:30pm) | | where: | Eyebeam Atelier (540 W 21st St, 212.592.8908) | | price: | $8 suggested donation (RSVP now closed — 25 tickets available on first come first served basis, 6:15pm) |
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Event Details |
| | This unique panel of distinguished young software experts and artists will discuss the complex human behaviors that influence social networks, viral media, fashion fads, and even corporate darwinism. Panelists (including author Malcolm Gladwell and Yale professor Natalie Jeremijenko) will take the fun to a higher level by demonstrating their theories during a cocktail party afterward. All guests will wear wireless badges that track social interaction in real time and analyze, among other things, degrees of separation. Guests mingle, flirt, and sip complimentary mini-Moet champagne while a live DJ provides the beats. (JM)
  
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ART
The World New Media Blender Series Presents Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
| | when: | Tue 5.14 (7pm - 9pm) | | where: | Arts International (251 Park Ave S, 5th Floor, 212.674.9744) | | price: |  FREE |
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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer |
| | Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, a Mexican-Canadian electronic artist who specializes in
technological theatre and performance art, will screen videos and lecture on his current
"relational architecture" projects. Part of the discussion will
revolve around Vectorial Elevation, which from 12.26.01 to 1.6.02 lit up Zócalo
Square in Mexico City with 18 searchlights carrying 126,000 watts of power and was robotically controlled by participants on the Net. Thousands of people from 89 countries
logged in to remotely design massive light sculptures.
Part of the World New Media Blender series, this lecture is organized by Arts International and Rhizome. (RS)
Note: Seating is limited. For reservations call 212-674-9744 ext.201 or email.
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| | Jazz at Lincoln Center Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis has been known to inspire even the most staid audiences to spontaneously parade during his performances, so it's fitting that the trumpet master will host Carnival in Brazil and in New Orleans as part of the Jazz on Film series. With entertaining footage of both these world-class extravaganzas, the Pulitzer Prize winner will compare and contrast the Carnivale tradition of Brazil and the Mardi Gras tradition of his native New Orleans. Always full of wit and passion, Marsalis is guaranteed to both entertain and inform. (DR)
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DJ
Bollywood Disco
| | when: | Wed 5.15 (8pm - 2am) | | where: | Opaline (85 Ave A, 212.475.5050) | | price: | FREE before 10pm / $10 after |
| | Spring is in the air and with it comes the blossoming of new parties and nightlife — it's about time! Bollywood Disco is a new weekly hosted by Asian underground golden child and Basement Bhangra founder DJ Rekha, along with one-half of electronic duo Metro Area, DJ/producer Darshan Jesrani. The hosts promise to lead the exodus of Bollywood film from the margins of international film and into the NYC club scene, combining festive music from the classic era of disco with enchanting sounds and visuals of India. (SL)
 The first three people to name a famous Bollywood actor will win a pair of comp'd guest list spots to this party.
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| | Other Music presents French producer, remixer, and artist Bertrand Burgalat in his first (and only) U.S. club appearance. Though you may not know him by name, Burgalat has quietly earned his place in music through his impressive work with Nick Cave, Depeche Mode, and Air. His album, The SSSound of MMMusic, only recently released domestically, shares his "sun-drenched synthesizers, elegant melodies, soaring strings and crooning vocals" with an anxious American audience. And the opportunity to hear the sweeping sounds of Sea Ray, a secret that's quickly getting out, is just one more reason to not miss this show. (JG)
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FESTIVAL
The Golden Age of Cinema Film Festival
| | when: | Thu 5.16 - Tue 7.2 (6:30pm) | | where: | NYU Cantor Film Center (36 E 8th St, 917.750.3651) | | price: | $12 per screening / $85 for a 2-month subscription |
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Golden Age of Cinema | Ticketweb |
| | The Golden Age of Cinema Film Festival is back for its second year with a wonderful series of films and accompanying guest speakers. The 8-week festival kicks off tonight with Woody Allen's classic Manhattan (1979) and an appearance by co-screenwriter Marshall Brickman. Other evenings of note include Living in Oblivion (1995), an homage to low-budget filmmaking with guest appearances by writer/director Tom Dicillo and star Steve Buscemi, and Jacob's Ladder (1990), a psychological thriller about a Vietnam veteran with a guest appearance by Tim Robbins. (MB)
Tell us your favorite New York City shot film scene and why? The best two answers will win a pair of festival passes (all 8 weeks).
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| | Atlanta-based soul-singing prodigy Donnie is gonna let it rip tonight at S.O.B.'s, featuring tracks from his upcoming album The Colored Section. Heavily inspired by his gospel roots and influenced by immortals Donny Hathaway and Stevie Wonder, Donnie composes and sings his own music. His complex chord changes and powerful voice set him above and apart from R&B clichés and give him a style all his own. DJ Bobbito, aka Cucumberslice, will be spinning his hip hop to start the show. (JM)
Note: This is most likely going to be a crowded event, so showing up early is advised.
What musician today has soul and why? The most convincing answer wins a pair
of tickets to this show.
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DJ
Roundtrip
| | when: | Thu 5.16 (10pm - 4am) | | where: | Baktun (418 W 14th St, 212.206.1590) | | price: | $15 / $10 with RSVP |
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Baktun |
| | This party will feature some of the most novel nujazz, broken beats, and deep breaks that the creative DJ community is serving up these days — not to mention inspired visuals by Squaresquare, who are making their mark all over town. Some of us went to Roundtrip Part 1 two weeks ago and the vibe was picture perfect: inclusive, positive, creative, and far-removed from the velvet rope nonsense. People were absorbed by the music, dancing immersed in serene pelvic grooves. DJs will include Seiji, Sasa Crnobrnja, and Niko. Expect the same good vibes tonight. (JM)
Tell us about your most recent roundtrip — the three best answers win a pair of comp'd guest list spots to this event.
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| | 651 ARTS presents Philly choreographer Rennie Harris' Rome & Jewels.
Former collaborator for Run DMC and Kurtis Blow, Harris has taken his
"incendiary" style and transposed it to the concert dance stage. Fusing the
theatrics and Elizabethan verse of Shakespeare with the lingo, rap, and
b-boy moves of the street, this hip-hop adaptation of Romeo and
Juliet has sold out shows across the country. Two gangs — The Monster
Qs and The Caps — duel it out with competing dance movements: the b-boys
vs. the poppers. The action is intense. The athletics energizing.
(SR)
If Shakespeare were a hip hop artist what would his stage name be? The best answer wins
a pair of tickets to the Sat show.
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| | Young movers and shakers will be marking time at this weekend's Harlem Jazz Dance Festival, where Savion Glover will lead a tap workshop and Full Circle Souljahz's Kwikstep and Rokafella host a b-boy battle. There will also be more than 20 free events in hip hop, tap, Lindy hop, salsa, and African dance. Catch a performance of tapper Jason Samuels Smith, b-boy group Rock Steady Crew, salsa sensation Frankie Martinez, or Lindy Hop champion Steven Mitchell — or show off your own moves in the competitions and late-night jams. (CS)
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| | Didn't think there was a fine line between nightmarish violence and slapstick? Sam Raimi proves there is with his influential freshman effort, The Evil Dead Trilogy, which vie to be both the scariest and funniest collection of horror films of all time. Tonight begins with Evil Dead II, the story of a romantic mountain getaway utterly ruined by the discovery of "The Book of the Dead" and bouncing giddily from camp to gorefest to Three Stooges. The second film, Army of Darkness, is even more exuberantly over the top, and, though cartoonish, shows development of Raimi's lauded kinetic screen compositions. (CH)
Note: ED lead and affable cult-celebrity Bruce Campbell will introduce the screening at 9.
Why can't Campbell land a mainstream leading-man role? Best answer wins of pair of tickets to the 9pm screening.
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| | In support of their upcoming creative campsite at this year's Burning Man festival, the
ImageNode crew is opening up a 2,500 sq ft private loft in Williamsburg for a throw-down.
This intimate gathering — open to the masses — will feature live music, DJs,
a lightshow, and video displays. The live music will include Augenblick's live skritchy/groovy
electronics with upright bass vibrations and Metatronics ambient processed guitar. DJs will
be spinning house to experimental and the videos will range from live experimental to video
microscope to custom software projections. Cheap admission, cheap drinks, and a multimedia
vibe that sounds pretty flavorful to us... (JM)
Tell us about an experience you had at the Burning Man Festival —
the best answer will win a pair of tickets to this event.
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DJ
Freeskool Incommon Session
| | when: | Sat 5.18 (10pm) | | where: | Opaline (85 Ave A, 212.475.5050) | | price: | $10 / $5 with RSVP |
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| | One of NYC's more flavoricious underground party crews, the Freeskool kids launch a new monthly of "broken beat deep house afro sound for the spring" at the subterranean dance-friendly confines of Opaline. Class president Sean B, whose upcoming Fader Magazine's Suite 903 release is the talk of the street, joins partners in crime D'esse (aka Steve Monkey), Embe, Kazimir, Riain of Organic Grooves, and special guest Blackkat founding father DJ Chrome at this intoxicating bass-rolling affair. This crew and its faithful following is all about dancing, so leave the kids (and attitude) at home and be prepared for a full-on dancefloor session. (SL)
Tell us about the naughtiest thing you did in high school — the best three answers
will win a pair of comp'd guest list spots to this event.
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MUSIC
Springfest featuring Gino Sitson Quartet & Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng
| | when: | Sun 5.19 (1pm - 5pm) | | where: | Brooklyn Botanic Gardens (1000 Washington Ave, 718.623.7200) | | price: | $3 (includes entry to garden) |
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Springfest |
| | There are few spots in NYC more tranquil and beautiful than the lush grounds of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Every Sunday through mid-June BBG will host Springfest events, featuring live music on the Cherry Esplanade lawn, garden tours, and lectures. This Sunday, jazzy blues vocalist Gino Sitson from Cameroon and master drummer Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng from Ghana supply a divine African-flavored soundtrack. The lecture comes from Linda Yang, former New York Times garden columnist.
All in all a really nice way to spend a springtime Sunday afternoon. (SL)
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| | "One-man organic-electronic dub machine" may sound like an earful, but just watch Twilight Circus Dub Sound System (né Ryan Moore) distill the dub form down to its sweet and magical essentials at the Mishpucha crew's monthly gathering and it'll all make sense. With homemade dubplates on the turntables, live bass with a cosmic link to Channel One, and a compact array of classic dub effects at his fingertips, Twilight Circus does live what it takes a Kingston studio of consoles and irie dreads to accomplish. And don't miss the rare showing of Don Letts' excellent Clash documentary, which details the archetypal punks' meteoric rise. (ED)
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| | Only a very lucky few got a chance to see Ed Harcourt in his chic-ly intimate appearance at Joe's Pub in late March — a show, seemingly, only for those "in the know." To make up for it, the British singer/songwriter returns — this time, with both his full band and a larger house capacity to share his reflective sound, reminiscent of other genre favorites Badly Drawn Boy, the late Jeff Buckley, and (possibly to Ed's chagrin) Rufus Wainwright. While the Bowery isn't quite as posh a scene as Joe's, it should be the perfect place to catch this nothing-but-class act before word spreads any further. (JG)
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| | Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, The Believer, inspired by a true story, is a daring and courageous portrayal of a young Jewish man living an impossible contradiction as a neo-Nazi. Ryan Gosling delivers an outstanding performance in the title role. Celebrated by critics, the film is the brainchild of the brilliant Henry Bean, writer of such successful psychological thrillers as Deep Cover and Internal Affairs. Due to swirls of surrounding controversy, distributors shied away from this film — leaving it to premiere on cable. It's refreshing to see that it's finally getting its proper due. (MB)
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ART
Sean Hemmerle: "Three Generations of High Explosives"
| | when: | Opens Fri 5.17 (7pm - 10pm) | | where: | The Front Room (147 Roebling St, Bklyn, 718.782.2556) | | price: | FREE |
| | During the time that Daniel Pearl was abducted, Sean Hemmerle went to Afghanistan to document the results of the recent American bombing campaign. His photographs depict a country devastated by almost three decades of war. Large color prints of battlefields and minefields are shown with black and white portraits of Afghani men. Majestic landscapes dotted by bomb craters, ancient neighborhoods reduced to rubble, discarded tank carcasses, a school leveled by "smart bombs": the action has only just passed and Hemmerle captures the most immediate remnants of savagery. (RS)
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| | Sure to send "family-values" preachers of the Helmsian far-right into cataclysmic conniptions, Tom Donaghy's latest at Playwrights Horizons is nevertheless bound to entertain his savvy NYC admirers. The play explores what happens when a lesbian couple recruits their gay friend to serve as a father-figure for their adopted pre-schooler. Directed by two-time Tony winner Gerald Gutierrez and starring Malcolm Gets and Carrie Preston, this show is sure to be on target with PH's consistently high standards. (NG)
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ART
MoMA Moves
| | when: | Through Tue 5.21 | | where: | MOMA (11 W 53rd, 212.708.9480) | | price: | $12 |
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MoMA | P.S.1 |
| | MoMA folks have been hemming and hawing for years about MoMA Builds, and now the day has finally come when the Manhattan location has its temporary closing and moves operations to Queens. So, if you haven't already checked out the "Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting," "The Russian Avant-Garde Book: 1910-1934," "Life of the City" or "Project 75: Laylah Ali," get yourself over there before 5.21 when West 53rd Street shuts its doors. Following a brief pause, MoMA Queens will open in Long Island City on 6.29. But not all is darkness and despair during this time, as P.S.1 remains open as a contemporary art/MoMA-affiliated option. (MB)
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| CD REVIEW: Rings Around the World, Super Furry Animals |
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Epic Records
Released Mar 2002
$13 (Amazon)
Super Furry Animals' album Fuzzy Logic established their neo-psychedelic combination of rock and techno, with swooping vocals and guitars giving way to noise, distortion, samples, and feedback. Their album Rings Around the World is more of the same, and feels almost like a soundtrack to a groovy movie. "Receptacle for the Respectable" has an almost lounge rock beginning that morphs into something Freddie Mercury–esque feeling, and than offroads into an almost hardcore finish. Listening to the album is like going for a joyride — it's a funky trip and reminds you of places you almost remember... (JK)
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| SITES: Webby Awards |
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| Internet enthusiasts unite and let your voices (er, fingers) be heard by voting for sites in categories ranging from "activism" to "weird" in the 7th Annual Webby Awards. |
| While most nominations are top-notch, a few of our favorites include hintmag (fashion), PrayStation (design), Waking Life (film) and FuckedCompany (humor). Maybe next year they'll include an email
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| STREAMS: Groovetech |
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Stop complaining that all radio in NYC isn't worth listening to.... Move to a different medium. It's streams, it's Groovetech, it's the real deal. Turn it on, tune it in, and invite your friends. The new radio dial is here.
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| Contributors: | | Democracy | Nina Gardner | | Identity | Renee Schacht | | Education | Christopher Hampton | | Strength | John McCormick | | Liberty | Jeremy Kagan | | Anti-Colonialism | Mindy Bond | | Religion | Caitlin Sims | | Justice | Steven Rogenstein | | Civil Rights | Sue Donim | | Emancipation | Juliet Garrett | | Self-Determination | Damone Richardson |
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