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DEC 28 - JAN 3
Talk about a crescendo: the week opens with a rant, moves to a more soulful state, inspires almost inexpressible excitement (!!!), and finally arrives at the culmination of 2004, New Year's Eve. The night offers something for everyone: good ol' rock 'n roll, a mash-up smash-up, latin jazz, a kung fu film triple, spiritual awakening, a mini-Madchester, an invigorating sweat, oversexed Canadians, or an unusually funky monkey. Here's to waking up in 2005 wondering what you were thinking. Stock up on aspirin, and spread it... |
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PERFORMANCE
In a Blue State: Rants, Reflections, and Elegies about 11/2
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| when: | Tue 12.28 (7pm) |
| where: | KGB Bar (85 E 4th St, 212.505.3360) |
| price: |  FREE |
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| | While many New Yorkers would like to forget about the most recent election, a group of writers has gathered together to immortalize — for better or worse — the events of November 2nd. This rant/reading, hosted by poet Carol Rosenfeld and playwright Kathleen Warnock (Drunken! Careening! Writers! series), pulls together scribes from across the US, including Donald Olson (Queer Corners), Dr. Donna Gaines (Teenage Wasteland), Sarah D. Bunting (Thisisnotover.com), and Daniel J. Blau, who reads "Dear John Kerry." Cheryl B., Donna J. Bungo, and Regie Cabico also join the furor. (JA)
  
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| | Seven years went into the making of Tativille, the mini-city and genuine star of Jacques Tati's Playtime. Taking the carefully choreographed chaos of urban living — something that every New Yorker can witness, from a less pleasurable perspective, on any given December Sunday in midtown Manhattan — to its illogical but highly comic extreme, Tati wrote, directed, and performed in this graceful day-in-the-life account of a Tomorrowland-esque city. Each detailed frame rewards the observant eye, offering viewers a plethora of sight-gags which inevitably lead to the destruction of many a well-oiled machine. A slice of anarchy served with a wink and a smile. (LG)
 What was Jacques Tati's profession before becoming a filmmaker? The fourth
and seventh correct answers each win a pair of tickets to a screening of the film.
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| | Although anchored in the quixotic, trembling ecstasies of Arthur Rimbaud and the Beat generation, and informed by the sprawling, sonic swagger of
late '60s rock, Patti Smith's artistic vision has always been uniquely personal. Like some strange angel drunk on the tumult of a dying planet, she has sought to infuse pop music with a heightened sense of catharsis while also confronting the everyday anathemas that threaten freedom's fragile hegemony. The first high priestess of punk — and the one who most rapidly outgrew its limitations — Patti and her band are still hugely capable of scalding live performances. (DI)
Note: Patti Smith also performs a special NYE show on Fri 12.31 (9pm), $55.
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| | Atlanta soulster Anthony David certainly struck a chord, so to speak, with his first album, 3 Chords & the Truth (Brash), earlier this year. After a successful NYC debut at Joe's Pub, the ex-India.Arie backing vocalist
headlines the Black Lily Meets SolVillage neo-soul showcase tonight at S.O.B.'s. Lily was founded by the ladies of Roots collaborators Jazzyfatnastees and has been pivotal in introducing hip R&B crooners to large audiences; SolVillage produces with a similar intent. Arrive early for up-and-coming talent before getting down to the headliner — David's performances make for a showcase all their own. (DB)
Where did the phrase "three chords and the truth" originally come from, and
what was being described? The fifth and seventh correct responses
each receive a pair of tickets to tonight's show.
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| | One of the best, and certainly the most enthusiastic, bands to emerge from the heady disco-punk days of '03, !!! (pronounced "chk chk chk") bring their huge sound to the smallish Mercury Lounge. Eight members strong, the Sacramento transplants have all the bite of their stylistic precursors, with generally twice the manpower. Louden Up Now, !!!'s most recent album, is a compulsively danceable and boundlessly creative exclamation of the band's musical breadth and maturity. Tonight's show should have more bells, hooks, and persuasive arguments for getting down than Gloria Watkins. (JS)
Note: There's also a 10:30pm show tonight, but it's already sold out.
With what cello-wielding band does !!! share multiple members? The tenth correct answer wins a pair of tickets to the early show.
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| | From breathless clinches to traded barbs and violent shoot-outs, Tracey Moffatt gives us 21 exhilarating minutes of Love Hollywood-style. Due to an artful selection of clips — the mix contains famous blowups as well as snatches that only Channel 13-aficionados would know — Moffatt and editor Gary Hillberg convey how (disturbingly) interchangeable one era's image of "passion" is with another's. A wild ride while it lasts, Love is nicely complemented by Saskia Olde Wolbers' lower-keyed Placebo. Working against similar strains of vaguely familiar melodrama, Placebo is narrated by a woman who is realizing, in languorous and hazy tones, that her lover has deceived her. (GL)
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NYE: Film
Bruce Lee and Beyond: New Year's Eve Triple Bill
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (6pm) |
| where: | Pioneer Theater (155 E 3rd St, 212.254.3300) |
| price: | $9 |
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| | Forget rockin', try a sockin' New Year's Eve with a triple-heaped
helping of the King's chop-socky. Kick off at the wee hour of 6pm with
Bruce Lee: Fist of the Unicorn (1972), then martial in Bruce Lee, We Miss You (1977), and roundhouse off to the midnight hour with Enter the Fat Dragon (1978). Grindhaus party — yay! (ÇK)
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NYE: Music
Wilco, Flaming Lips, and Sleater-Kinney
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (8pm) |
| where: | Madison Square Garden (4 Penn Plaza, 212.465.6741) |
| price: | $37.50-57.50 |
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| | The underground's ascent (or descent,
depending on your proclivities) to respectability is
secured tonight at Madison Square Garden, as Wilco's
Jeff Tweedy, the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, and
Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein supplant Dick
Clark for a New Year's Indie Rockin' Eve. Does Pabst make champagne? (YS)
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NYE: DJ
Hollertronix
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (8pm) |
| where: | 169 Bar (169 E Bway, 212.473.8866) |
| price: | $30 / $20.05 advance |
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| | The DJ duo of Diplo and Low Budget, aka Hollertronix, bring their eponymous party from Philly to the Big Apple for what is, hands down, the best deal in clubbing for NYE. The pair's raucous mash-up sets bring an excess of crunk, punk, '80s pop hits, dancehall, and grime — and tonight, it's all in the service of gettin' the people dirty-dirty in '05. (JL)
Who was Diplo's partner in mixing the rare AEIOU Vol.2? The fourth and sixth correct answers each win a pair of tickets to tonight's event.
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NYE: Music/DJ
12 Hour Party People
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (8pm-8am) |
| where: | Supreme Trading (213 N 8th St, Wburg, 718.599.4224) |
| price: | $30 / $25 advance |
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| | Madchester, Williamsburg is not — but that doesn't mean it can't make one helluvah scene on its own. Delivering the goods tonight, hot sh*t club Supreme Trading hosts an eclectic who's who with live takes from undie rapper Beans and Mommy Daddy, while Richard Fearless, DJ Language, Gordy from Bloc Party, and Blake from Moving Units kick out the jams. (JKG)
Note: Open bar from 9-11pm.
Who opened Manchester's most (in)famous club in 1982? The eighth person to correctly name the club and its founder wins a pair of tickets to this show.
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NYE: Music
Gogol Bordello
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (9pm) |
| where: | Northsix (66 N 6th St, Wburg, 718.599.5103) |
| price: | $35 / $30 advance |
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| | Blending spoken word, klezmer, heavy bass, and funky saxophone, Gogol
Bordello manufacture mad, alcohol-fueled, eclectic grooves. Their live
shows are a trip, coupling skilled musicianship with crafty
irreverence: "I winked at the wolves/they broke out of cages." See this
show and dance wildly. (AS)
From whom did Gogol Bordello appropriate the first half of their band name? The second and sixth correct answers each win a pair of tickets to tonight's show.
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NYE: DJ
New Year's Eve Ritual w/ Turntables on the Hudson
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (9pm) |
| where: | Crash Mansion (199 Bowery, 212.982.7767) |
| price: | $30 |
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| | Turntables on the Hudson steps away from its traditional home at the waterside Frying Pan to rock Crash Mansion for a special New Year's party. DJs Nickodemus and Mariano grace the decks, dropping their sexy, groovy, world beat-influenced blends, while Nappy G kills it on percussion. (BB)
What frequent Nickodemus collaborator shares his name with an Egyptian god? The fourth and seventh correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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NYE: Music
Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos feat. Joe Bataan
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (9:30 & 11:30pm) |
| where: | Tonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) |
| price: | $30 early / $40 late show w/ champagne toast |
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| | Man-about-downtown Marc Ribot puts on his Latin hat as leader of the group that attacked the oeuvre of seminal Cuban Arsenio Rodriguez, producing two instant classic albums in the process. Reunions are rare; a gig with New York salsa-soul pioneer Joe Bataan is practically
miraculous — the first time on US soil. (CL)
Note: $60 for both shows.
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NYE: DJ
DJ Spooky, Dälek, and Rob Sonic
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (9pm) |
| where: | Rothko (116 Suffolk St, 212.475.7088) |
| price: | $30 / $25 advance |
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| | Conceptual art, magazine editing, collaborations with Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore — what can't this fella do? Illbient progenitor DJ Spooky spreads his abstract futurism liberally; a good thing, as he remains one of NYC's most versatile beat theorists. Meanwhile, avant-garde hip-hop collective Dälek drop astute reflections on rap and religion over gritty, industrial soundscapes. Cerebral Def Jukie Rob Sonic opens. (JPC)
Note: $50 extra for open bar all night.
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NYE: DJ
Ghostly's New Year's Bash w/ Todd Osborn and James T. Cotton
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (9pm) |
| where: | Subtonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) |
| price: | $10 |
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| | Who needs hometown favoritism when you can kick it
Times Square stylee? Ghostly's appearance in New York on New Year's Eve
confirms the Detroit electronic label's bona fides, with bunker-busting
sets from standouts Todd Osborn and James T. Cotton. (YS)
What name does Todd Osborn record under for Ghostly International, and what is unusual about it? The eighth and twelfth correct answers each with a pair of tickets to this event.
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NYE: Multimedia
Lowdowntown
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (9pm) |
| where: | 69 W 14th St (4th & 5th Fls) |
| price: | $20 / $15 advance |
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| | If you've any libertines in town visiting from the 18th century, this licentious, burlesque bash should fit them like a well-worn wig — well, maybe without the techno. Art installations including "voyeur video projections" abound, Akim Funk Buddha and a band of acrobats and throat-singers perform, the Nervous Cabaret play, and crack crew of DJs including Heather Hart, Jason Jinx, Billy Belmont, and Jason BK throw down. Lace up your bustier! (JKG)
Who were the original Libertines, and what 16th-century religious figure were they opposed to? The first correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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NYE: DJ
Shake What 2004 Gave Ya feat. BMG and Sal Principato
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (10pm) |
| where: | Music Gallery (49 Ann St, 3rd Fl) |
| price: | $18 / $15 w/ RSVP |
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| | Enabler and the Crucial Getdown bring an extra helping of shake and shimmy
tonight with two floors of fun at Music Gallery. All hands are on deck(s) for a not-to-be-missed collaboration with BMG (of
Detroit's Ectomorph) and Sal Principato of NYC's Liquid Liquid. Dynamo DJs
like Brennan Green, Marcos Cabral, Overdose, Cowboy Mark, the Famous Brett
Burton, and Chupacabras are throwing down ping-pong sets, while Hong Kong
Counterfeit offers up saucy Italo disco. And that's not the half of it. (LH)
What is a chupacabra, and how are they said to kill their prey? The third correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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NYE: DJ
No Ordinary Monkey feat. DJ Anton, DJ Carlos, and Eric Duncan
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (10pm) |
| where: | China Room (50 Bway, 212.509.5343) |
| price: | $10 / $5 in '04 |
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| | Check your five dollar words at the door and start drinking. It's time to ring in 2005 unexclusively: on the cheap and on the dance floor, with DJs Carlos, Phil, Anton, and — a fave for disco/electro madness — Rub n Tug's Eric Duncan manning the decks. A dirty free-for-all that promises fun for all. (JKG)
Who is your favorite famous monkey and why? Our two favorite answers each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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NYE: DJ
APT New Year's Eve w/ Tim Sweeney and Tim Goldsworthy
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (10pm) |
| where: | APT (419 W 13th St, 212.414.4245) |
| price: | $100 |
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| | No one had more to celebrate this year than the DFA,
who released the wonderful DFA Compilation #2
and inked a mega-deal with EMI. Label head Tim
Goldsworthy, formerly of U.N.K.L.E., pops the 2005
cork along with pal Tim Sweeney, and Duane Harriott of APT's
Negroclash fame. (YS)
Note: Open bar from 10pm-2am.
Two Tims are better than one, but ten are better still. Name eight more famous Tims for your chance to win. Our favorite list wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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| | Get a head start on your resolution to exercise more in 2005 by celebrating an energizing New Year's Eve with this four-mile, group midnight run in Central Park. Beyond the health benefits, there are other perks to get your pulse up, too: post-race massages, live music, dancing, prizes, a costume party, and fireworks. (LM)
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NYE: Madness
The Bedazzle Ball — A New Year's Eve Masquerade
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (10pm-4am) |
| where: | Theater for the New City (155 1st Ave, 212.505.2225) |
| price: | $25 |
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| | Renowned for their debaucherous bacchanals as well as for being secretive about their parties' locations, the Rubulad crew gives it up early this year, and the list is breathless: music from Jo Jo Mayer's Nerve, Hungry March Band, and Billionaires for Bush; vinyl from DJ Shotnez, Amoeba Technology, and Repoman; performative feats by aerialists and hoopers; and rafts of bubbly, three stages, dueling dance floors... you get the (elaborate) picture. (JKG)
Which Swiss Count hosted England's first masquerade ball at the Haymarket Opera House? The first two correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this performance.
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NYE: Multimedia
Body Temple New Year's Eve Extravaganza
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (10:30pm-6am) |
| where: | Grand Space (778 Bergen St, Bklyn, 718.482.3185) |
| price: | $30 / $25 advance |
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| | For seekers of alternative transportation (read: not just getting
totally wasted) tonight, Body Temple aims to awaken the spirit more au
naturale-ly. Globesonic's Fabian Asultany and DJ Haj spin global beats,
the Electric Earth Dancers and BT percussion crew orchestrate the ritual
midnight cry, and all manner of "human installations" and body painters
roam the space. Become "one with the freaks." (JKG)
Note: A TranceBreath workshop and performance begins at 7pm. Admission for all events is $40 / $35 advance.
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NYE: Music
Peaches
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| when: | Fri 12.31 (11pm) |
| where: | Tribeca Grand Hotel - Sublevel (2 6th Ave, 212.519.6500) |
| price: | $99 |
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| | If decadence is what you're after, look no further. Tonight the
MisShapes crew presents a live performance by Peaches, the oversexed
Canadian who brought us "F*ck the Pain Away." Her Joan Jett-cum-dirty
electro beats and wildly inebriated stage schtick promises the most
immoderate and indulgent New Year's Eve in town. (AC)
Note: To reserve tickets, call 212.519.6677.
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READING
31st Annual New Year's Day Poetry Marathon
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| when: | Sat 1.1 (2pm-3am) |
| where: | St. Mark's Church (131 E 10th St, 212.674.8194) |
| price: | $16 |
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| | Nothing like a trip to the Poetry Project's Annual New Year's Day Marathon Reading to show your support for the dissident voice. In its 31st year, the event draws over 150 readers and performers to St. Mark's Church. Today's lineup includes mainstays like Ann Waldman, Lenny Kaye, Eric Bogosian, Penny Arcade, Nick Zedd, and Eileen Myles, in addition to Philip Glass, Reno, Marc Ribot, and Tuli Kupferberg (of Fugs fame). Proceeds go to support the Project, which has provided venues for experimental work since 1966. (GC)
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FILM
La Dolce Vita (1960)
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| when: | Sat 1.1 (6:30pm) |
| where: | American Museum of the Moving Image (35th Ave at 36th St, Astoria, 718.784.0077) |
| price: | $10 |
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| | Set your alarm for an early date with Fellini's
1960 masterpiece, La Dolce Vita, on the big screen at AMMI. The film that introduced the word "paparazzi" into popular culture examines the seamy underbelly of Rome's glitterati through the eyes of Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni), an ascendant playboy. Inscrutable by turns yet entirely revelatory, the film limns the boundaries of excess with stark, bold, timeless strokes. Perfect fare for remembering your own excess from last night where, hopefully, there were no photogs in tow. (CL)
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| | Drive-By Truckers' magnum opus, 2001's Southern Rock Opera, achieved
one of popular music's elusive goals — the fully-realized concept album. In two rollicking discs, the band demystifies Lynyrd Skynyrd's legacy and conjures up some powerfully genuine Southern rock. Since then, acts like Kings of Leon have helped boost the genre's resurgence, but the Truckers' assuredly brilliant songwriting distinguishes them from their peers. The Muscle Shoals, Alabama natives compose gothic tales of the South, illustrating the region's icons and an ominous view of everyday life. Not to mention they, y'know, rock. (JPC)
Note: The Truckers are also performing on New Year's Eve, Fri 12.31 (1am), $35 / $30 advance.
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| | With their hairy legs and square jawlines, it's easy to dismiss Les Trocks as just another irreverent, all-male transvestite ballet company. That is, of course, before you watch them perform flawless fouettes and multiple pirouettes that would set even Paloma Herrera's heart aflutter. Beneath the tutus and gender-bending kitsch, these are exceptional dancers. Tonight, the company interprets the dreamy ballet La Sylphide and the ornithological tragedy The Dying Swan. (JS)
Note: The ten-performance season, which includes a show on NYE, is divided into two programs. Check the Joyce website for
details on specific nights.
What major milestone did Les Trocks celebrate in 2004? The first correct answer receives a pair of tickets to the group's New Year's Eve performance.
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SPECTACLE
LVHRD: Come As You Will Be
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| when: | Mon 1.3 (TBA) |
| where: | TBA  |
| price: | FREE |
| | LVHRD is a semi-secret community of cross-disciplinary, arts-oriented urbanites who gather to sip libations, discuss their next projects, and blow off a little steam; the people are hand-picked and worth their weight in hyphens. As if to prove this point LVHRD
holds their weekly gatherings on Monday evenings, the weeknight that wins the "Least Likely to Succeed" award every time. Past nights have included a timed fashion-duel and an "striphard" event, where attendees donated unwanted clothing to charity via striptease. Tonight's gathering is an imagined reunion, with everyone dressing as the themselves 30 years from now. The turn of 2005 is the perfect time to start thinking about your future, so put on your Calvin Kleins, hop into your DeLorean, and floor it. (JKG)
Note: You must be a LVHRD member to attend; apply in advance on their website.
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THEATRE
Basil Twist's Symphonie Fantastique
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| when: | Now through Sun 1.2 (various times) |
| where: | Dodger Stages (340 W 50th St, 212.239.6200) |
| price: | $25-65 |
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Event Info | Basil Twist |
| | Basil Twist's abstract underwater puppet adaptation of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique is as self-explanatory as any abstract underwater puppet adaptation can be: swaths of fabric glide through a gigantic aquarium, controlled by hidden, wet suit-wearing puppeteers harnessed in swings at the top of the tank, as colored lights refract and illumine everything. The effect is ethereal and trippy, which is appropriate since the symphony tells the story of an artist who overdoses after his love goes unrequited. Never before have bitterness, opiates, and a 1,000-gallon tank been put to such good use. (JS)
Note: After the show, join the puppeteers backstage for a Q&A.
Where did Basil Twist train as a puppeteer, and what related honor can he
boast? The third and fourth correct answers each win a pair of tickets to a
performance of their choice.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
Bill Brandt: Nudes
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| when: | Now through Sat 1.8 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm) |
| where: | Edwynn Houk Gallery (745 5th Ave, 212.750.7070) |
| price: | FREE |
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| | Though it's become a cliche for photographers to pose the body as a landscape, British artist Bill Brandt was the first to create such mountainous abstractions with the human form. One of the most notable photographers of the 20th century, Brandt trained under Man Ray, whose purist influence can be seen in the strikingly iconic shots on display here. Brandt's oeuvre covered every genre, from surrealist still lifes to brilliantly executed night photography, but his nudes are in a class by themselves. Using a wide-angle lens and dramatic lighting, he revealed the graceful terrain of the body and set the stage for decades of photographic innovation and imitation. (JK)
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ART
Comic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Art, 1870-1940
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| when: | Now through Mon 2.14 (Sat-Mon: 11am-6pm / Fri: 11am-9pm) |
| where: | Neue Galerie (1048 5th Ave, 212.628.6200) |
| price: | $10 |
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| | Independent curator Pamela Kort's heavily contextualized exhibition explores the important role of grotesque humor in early 20th-century Germanic art and the connections between a lively art scene and the development of cabaret, silent film, and print media. The assembled
work speaks for itself, beginning with Swiss symbolist Arnold Bocklin's darkly rendered mythologies and then moving on to Emil Nolde's bizarre alpine postcards and Alfred Kubin's comic escapes into the unreal. Major loans from private and public collections also include vintage cabaret posters, original editions of satirical journals such as Simplicissimus, and projections of Chaplin-esque entertainer Karl Valentin's contorted escapades — ultimately a revelatory, whirlwind tour
of an often-obscured era. (AM)
Note: Bring some extra cash and have a taste of the German life at the
magisterial Café Sabarsky: Viennese hot chocolate, Bavarian sausage, and
apple strudel stand out in a formidable menu.
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MULTIMEDIA
Bill Viola: Five Angels for the Millennium
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| when: | Now through Sun 3.6 (Wed-Sat: 11am-6pm / Fri: 1-9pm) |
| where: | Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Ave, 212.570.3676) |
| price: | $12 |
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Event Info | Bill Viola |
| | Bill Viola uses state-of-the-art technology to turn galleries into media environments where the viewer is enveloped in sight and sound. His newest installation employs five videos of a man plunging into a pool of water, simultaneously projected onto various walls in a darkened room. Viola manipulates each sequence to create a constant loop of images that oscillate between the undulating serenity of aquatic curls, bubbles, and swells, and the steadily rising and vaguely jarring crash of the plummeting clothed figure. The effect is arresting, evoking feelings, both ominous and meditative, relating to death, transcendence, and renewal. (JR)
How many honorary doctorate degrees has Bill Viola received, and where
and when did he get the most recent one? The first correct answer receives a
pair of tickets to this show.
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| CD REVIEW: März, Wir Sind Hier |
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Karaoke Kalk
Released December 2004
$14.50 (Forced Exposure)
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"Marz" means "March" in German, but members Albrecht Kunze and Ekkehard Ehlers are such sentimentalists that their music seems perpetually autumnal. Their last album, Love Streams, opened with a tune built entirely on a sample of Nick Drake's filigreed acoustic guitar, and Wir Sind Hier — whose translated title, "we are here," sounds more existential than prosaic — continues in the same vein, a finely woven basket of guitars, vibraphones, banjos, strings, and glitching laptops, fortified with the steely fibers of minimal house. Songs like "Oktober Im Park" — pure heartbreak in two simple chords — make you wish you knew German, but other tunes, such as the jaunty "The Pop Song," or the upbeat-but-weary "Some Things Do Fall," reward English-speaking listeners. Finally, März's adolescent sense of yearning finds expression in "The River" (available, along with "Blaue Fäden," for free download from the group) promising, "If we return, we will live here forever." (PHS)
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Which five artists did Ekkehard Ehlers pay tribute to in a series of solo mini-albums? The fifth, seventh, and ninth correct answers each receive a rare From März with Love tape.
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| CARRYING EACH OTHER: Tsunami Relief |
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The numbers alone make up a kind of Harper's Index from Hell: an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale (the most powerful the world has felt in 40 years) triggered tsunamis traveling as fast as 500 mph, created waves 40 feet tall, moved the receding water line as much as 1000 yards out to sea, traveled 3000 miles, and killed — at last count — upwards of 33,000 people. This horror was lived firsthand yesterday by hundred of thousands, even millions, of coastal dwellers in Sri Lanka, India, Thailand, Indonesia, and other parts of Southern Asia. What survivors need now is food, shelter, and medicine — and two organizations make it possible for you to help. Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund, is supporting regional relief efforts; likewise, the American Red Cross International Response Fund goes to support International Red Cross and Red Crescent relief efforts in the area. (PS)
 
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Formed in '03 as a nonprofit group, East Village Radio exists to provide a creative forum for the inhabitants of its neighborhood, as well as greater NYC. Though still wading through bureaucracy to obtain a low-power FM frequency, thanks to online radio streams, the eclectic programming (akin to your favorite college station, but better) can be heard across the world. Highlights from the EVR archives include Italo disco on Cazzo Pazzo, dusty punk rock gems on Dot Dash Radio, and finally, choice dub reggae selections on Mystic Sound. (CJN)
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| Cristal | Christopher Ryan | | |
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| Self-esteem | Anjuli Ayer | | Kazoos | Lucy C. Beach | | MD 20/20 | Todd Goldstein | | Dick Clark | David Morrow | | Metrocard | Sebastian Rasp | | Advil | Emily Welsch |
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