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Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 281: profligate flavor
Its true meaning long-dissipated, Halloween serves as a fascinating sort of fill-in-the-blank holiday. Everybody likes to play dress-up, but after elementary school, when treats become somewhat less of a draw, All Hallows' Eve essentially becomes an excuse for the culture-makers we adore to throw killer parties. Thus, with this issue, we present you with an extra-large array of events, weighted heavily toward pagan celebrations. We're also spoiled for choice among DJ gigs all week long, with premier performances from Magda, DJ T, James Pennington, Ben Watt, Lee Burridge, and Richie Hawtin all queued up. Two Boots presents an all-night vampire film fest, Warriors Halloween 2005 comes on like gangbusters, the Critical Mass kids don 'ween fashions, Black Label Bike Club brings on the jousting, Three Extremes features the best in new Asian horror, and the Tiger Lillies and Fischerspooner invite you to experience their excesses. Even on the plainclothes tip, there's plenty: poetry, Parisian jazz combos, a chat with Chuck Close, marionette theatre, a film about Arthur "Killer" Kane, and a peek into some downtown artists' studios. Put on a Harriet Miers mask, and spread it...
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Spotlight
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An Official Welcome
Art-world upstart Andrea Fraser gives a performance that meditates on institutional jargon to celebrate the launch of Museum Highlights, a new collection of her work. But don't get too excited, she's not selling herself this time, just the books.
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| MUSIC: Southern Gothic |
Patterson Hood w/ Hayes Carll
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Alabaman Patterson Hood and Texas-bred troubadour Hayes Carll have both
traded in some of their hell-raising for raising babies, but the road is
still calling — what's a man to do? Playing solo while on sabbatical
from the three-guitar roar of Drive-By Truckers, Hood offers stripped-
down versions of DBT faves and songs from the nearly completed Murdering
Oscar (and Other Love Songs), which finds him limning his familiar,
feverish South (with the cute "Grandaddy" as ballast). Likewise, don't let the twang
and drawl of Carll's 2004 release Little Rock (call it Americana, if
you must) fool you — his clear wanderer's eye is never obscured. Two
guys, two guitars, too many stories for one night. (PS)
 On what real-life event was DBT's "The Deeper In" based? The fourth correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this show.
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MUSIC: Drum 'n Bass
Bill Laswell presents Six Nights of Iconoclast Drum 'n Bass
Tue 10.25 - Sun 10.30 (8 & 10pm) The Stone (Venue entrance at NW corner of 2nd St and Ave C) map $10
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All week, downtown bass legend Bill Laswell curates live drum 'n bass fusion
at John Zorn's newly consecrated temple of underground jazz, the Stone.
Guests include Submerged, Guy Licata, Corrupt Souls, and End.user. (JM)
 
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Magda
Tue 10.25 (10pm) APT (419 W 13th St, 212.414.4245) map $7
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Magda, Richie Hawtin's protégé and M-nus labelmate, relives those halcyon
days before NYC's technorati fled to Berlin, preaching the gospel that
maximal is the new minimal. Birthday boy Kevin "Micromini" McHugh opens.
(CL)
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| READING |
Richard Hell and Ange Mlinko
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Wed 10.26 (8pm) |
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The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church (131 E 10th St, 212.674.0910) map |
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With bands like Good Charlotte still feeding off the corpse of punk, proto-punk icon Richard Hell decided to focus on his fiction and poetry. Godlike, the ex-Voidoids frontman's second novel, is the rough-and-ready love story of a young man and a teenage poet. The gritty romance is carved from the same vivid, hardboiled imagery that courses through his lyrics and earlier writings; what Hell lacks in finesse he more than makes up for in brass-balled bravado. And just in case anyone thought that all this writing stuff had made him soft, Hell turned on a journalist after a recent interview, tearing the article apart in a merciless point-by-point rebuttal. For the audience's sake, let's hope orneriness, like love, comes in spurts. (TW)
Note: Ange Mlinko, author of the recent Starred Wire, also reads.
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Fixed and Enabler present DJ T
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Wed 10.26 (10pm) |
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Canal Room (285 W Broadway, 212.941.8100) map |
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Whether (co-)founding clubs, parties, the influential German-language magazine Groove, or electro-house's vanguard label, Get Physical Music, Berlin-based Thomas Koch can throw his techno weight around. But it's as DJ T that he's made the biggest impact recently. June's Boogie Playground serves as electro-house's best mission statement yet — with spiny, jacking beats, rubbery bass, and nu-disco effects, all swathed in a gloriously inorganic sheen that manages to make even minor-key lines glow with radioactive delight. Tonight, T brings his lo-fi, dirty dance-floor glamour to Canal Room. (LJ)
At what age did Koch first begin to collect vinyl? The tenth correct answer wins a pair of tickets to this show.
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| DISCUSSION |
Chuck Close
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Thur 10.27 (6:30-8pm) |
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Parsons the New School for Design, Tishman Auditorium (66 W 12th St, 212.229.5488) map |
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Chuck Close creates a perfect continuum between methodical abstraction and
unequivocal reality. Painting portraits of epic scale, he depicts intense
individual studies, often of himself, through a laborious grid process in
which he divides the canvas into a pinpoint visual map. Close's "heads," as
he calls them, as well as his collaborative prints, have become icons of an
inimitable style that conveys the obsessive fervor of a genius determined to
share his ideas. Tonight, he speaks with Parsons' Dean Paul Goldberger about
arts education, activism, architecture, and, of course, painting. (JF)
When did Close first begin to fingerprint in color? The sixth response to correctly name the year and the first work wins a pair of tickets and Parsons hats and mugs.
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| READING |
PSA Anniversary feat. Robert Pinsky, Grace Paley, Mark Strand, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Jean Valentine
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Thur 10.27 (7pm) |
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Cooper Union's Great Hall (7 E 7th St) map |
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Today's most celebrated, cerebral, and visceral poets lend both their
distinctive voices and love of literary verse to Cooper Union's Great Hall
in celebration of the Poetry Society of America's 95th anniversary. Digging through the annals of 20th-century poetry,
readers turn up the verses that have most inspired them. Notable participants include three-time US Poet Laureate and
a commanding stage presence Robert Pinsky, straight-shooter (and
frequent short-story dabbler) Grace Paley, ruminative surrealist and macabre
versifier Mark Strand, jazz-timbered, perpetual optimist Yusef Komunyakaa,
and Jean Valentine — whose Door in the Mountain won the 2004
National Book Award for poetry. Learn what poems spoke to these luminaries
as the torso of Apollo did to Rilke, saying, "You must change your life."
(JJ)
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MUSIC: Waitsian Carnival Freakery
Chinatown BBQ feat. Man Man w/ Priestess, the A-Sides, and Michael Leviton
Thur 10.27 (7:30pm) The Delancey (168 Delancey St, 212.254.9920) map
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Tonight, remember to allow ample time between gorging yourself on free beer
and veggie dogs, and flailing to the already-drunk sounds of the
demented-but-danceable Man Man and other Ace Fu notables. (LT)
Note: Free BBQ from 7-8pm and beer from 9-10pm.
What is the most distasteful food you've encountered at a BBQ? The three grossest responses each win a signed Acid Mothers Temple, Cosmic Inferno, or Man Man CD.
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MUSIC: Gypsy Jazz
Paris Combo
Thur 10.27 (8pm) Symphony Space (2537 Broadway, 212.864.1414) map $23-28
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Django Reinhardt-style guitar pickin', underwater trumpet playing, gypsy
jazz, and melancholy torch songs are all found in Paris Combo's Middle
Eastern-influenced repertoire. Performances are both rare and rarefied, so
pony up for tix now. (JKG)
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Giant Step presents Ben Watt
Thur 10.27 (10pm) Cielo (18 Little W 12th St, 212.645.5700) map $20 / $15 advance
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Back in '98, when deep house ruled, Ben Watt founded Lazy Dog, London's
famed Sunday social. Tonight, the Everything But the Girl vet and Buzzin' Fly
Records honcho mixes the latest soulful cuts. (JJ)
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| FILM |
Three Extremes by Takashi Miike, Fruit Chan, and Park Chan-Wook
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Opens Fri 10.28 |
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Quad Cinema (34 W 13th St, 212.255.8800) map |
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Stylish, slick, and more than a little gamy, the shorts that comprise
Three Extremes go a long way toward making a case for why Western
horror films have taken so many cues from Asia over the last decade. Behold
the soft crunch of fetus dumplings in hotshot Hong Kong director Fruit
Chan's segment, Korean director Chan-wook Park's meta-meta humble pie fed to
a horror helmer by an extra who takes direction perhaps too well, and
Japanese director Takashi Miike putting the (circus) freak back into Freud.
All hail the good-looking, brainy slash 'n gash. We should all be so lucky
on our next date. (LR)
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LMCC/Workspace Open Studio Weekend
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Fri 10.28 - Sun 10.30 |
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LMCC/Workspace (120 Broadway, 212.219.9401) map |
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Open studios generate raw excitement rare for conventional art openings, by
offering access to artwork at its source. The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
maintains one of Manhattan's premier residency programs, and this fall's
round of participants includes the expected mix of budding New York stars
and international players. K48 founder Scott Hug headlines with edgy
collages and installations; Carter taps a similar vibe through pen-on-Polaroid portraits; Martha Colburn creates time-intensive painted
animations; and Monika Goetz recalls the deadpan simplicity of Felix
Gonzalez-Torres, while one-time physicist Greg Smith composes cosmologies
out of junk. Additional events include offbeat, artist-led walking tours,
and a concurrent exhibition, After Effects, addressing art in the
post-9/11 era. (AM)
Note: Open studio programs continue through Sun 10.30, with a closing reception scheduled for Tue 11.1 (6pm). After Effects runs through Thur 11.3
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Halloween Critical Mass
Fri 10.28 (7pm) Union Square Park (E 17th St at Union Sq W, but subject to change) map
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Join the freakily costumed fixed-gear diehards, pimped-out cruiser clubs,
and hardcore messengers taking over 6th Avenue today for an extra-surreal
Critical Mass ride. (JAC)
Note: The afterparty is held at 49 E Houston St (8pm, $5).
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FILM
All Night Vampire Movie Marathon!
Fri 10.28 (7pm) Pioneer Theater (155 E 3rd St, 212.591.0434) map $20 marathon / $6.50 per movie
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Tonight's nine-plus-hour marathon includes seductive East Village bloodsuckers
(Habit), hot, hitchhiking lesbian vampires (Vampyres), and
even delusional fakes (Vampire's Kiss), along with archetypal fare
(Bram Stoker's Dracula). (SAM)
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MUSIC: Digital Dancehall
Stereotyp & Al-Haca Soundsystem, DJ G. rizo, and Cocoa Cracker Brown
Fri 10.28 (8pm) Nublu (62 Ave C, 212.979.9925) map $10
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Sub-genres continue to blur and blend when Austria's Stereotyp and Germany's Al-Haca Soundsystem bring their live dub and techy dancehall to far-East Village haven Nublu. (CEH)
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MUSIC: Post-Noise/-Punk/-Pop/-Blues
Black Dice w/ the Double, Enon, and TK Webb
Fri 10.28 (8:30pm) Irving Plaza (17 Irving Pl, 212.777.6800) map $15 / $13 advance
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NYC's indie oddities step up, as Black Dice's knob-twiddling summons
expansive, industrial psych sonics, and the Double channel noise into stark, post-punk beauty. Enon's oddball avant-pop and the gravelly LES blues of TK Webb set the stage. (MS)
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James Pennington
Fri 10.28 (9pm) Subtonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) map $5
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Detroit techno legend James Pennington (co-producer of Inner City classics
"Big Fun" and "Good Life," and producer of "The Art of Stalking") returns to
grace us with a rare and eagerly anticipated appearance. (MG)
Which two renowned DJs graduated from Pennington's high school? The fifth and seventh correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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No Ordinary Monkey Halloween Party feat. the Quiet Village Project
Fri 10.28 (10pm) China Room (50 Broadway, 212.509.5343) map $5
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If you wanna roll budget for Halloween, you can't beat the Monkey —
five bucks, and masks are provided. Matt Edwards (aka Rekid, Radioslave) and
Joel Martin in Quiet Village Project guise join residents Phil and Anton for
a dirty underground party. (JKG)
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Motherf*cker presents Halloween Horror
Fri 10.28 (10pm) Roxy (515 W 18th St, 212.645.5156) map $20 / $15 with printed flyer
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Hold your pumpkin bucket high and let Mofo toss in some Peppermint Gummy
Bear and Kevin Aviance-hosted Rocky Horror. When night falls, Black Cat
burlesquers, scary-costume revelers, and DJs all come out for a
proper monster mashup. (ÇK)
Note: Free vodka and Red Bull 10-11pm.
What motherfucking cocktail contains Southern Comfort? The first two correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| MULTIMEDIA |
Unity Gain: Real-Time Electromedia
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During the late '90s, Unity Gain began coordinating some of the first full-bore, live multimedia events, which melded electro-tinged audio with video projections. Still going strong, the Unity crew demonstrates its A/V expertise with a lineup that unites the original organizers — David Linton and Benton-C Bainbridge — with downtown stars and left-coast innovators for four hours of seamless multimedia, using a special 16-channel radial sound system and scads of video projectors. Aerostatic build aural environments out of sound artifacts, David Last brings experimental techno, Japanese sound artist Keiko Uenishi (aka O.blaat) gets illbient, sound designer and Jill-of-all-trades Sariah Storm keeps it minimal, Socks and Sandals rock live techno, and flavorpill LA's Steve Nalepa goes deep and dubby, while Chika, Chris Jordan, and David Lublin (wo)man the VJ booth. (JKG)
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Black Label Bicycle Club presents Bike Kill
Sat 10.29 (12pm) Willoughby Ave at Sandford St, Bed-Stuy map
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Remember that tense tractor face-off in Footloose? This is kind of
like that, but with bikes instead of farm machinery, and gearheads instead
of hicks. Bring your ride for bumper bikes, two-wheel orgies, and jousting.
(JKG)
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William Shakespeare's Haunted Pier
Sat 10.29 - Mon 10.31 (Sat & Sun: 2-6pm / Mon: 4-8pm) Pier 25 (West Side Hwy at Moore St) map $5
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As if Shakespeare's tragedies weren't chilling enough, they become more
terrifying in this site-specific, interactive fright-fest. Beware of Haunted
Hamlet and Macabre Macbeth lurking in the bushes. (SP)
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Ruboween with Cosmo Baker & DJ Ayres with special guests Caps & Jones
Sat 10.29 (10pm) Southpaw (125 5th Ave, Park Slope, 718.230.0236) map $5 women / $10 men
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For All Hallows' weekend, the Rub dresses up its fake-diamond-crusted hip-hop and
sugar-coated funk for a ghoulish get-down. Genre-splicers Caps & Jones
join DJ Ayres and Cosmo Baker to treat your tricks right. (DJM)
Note: Costumes are required.
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Warriors Halloween 2005
Sat 10.29 (10pm-4am) Supreme Trading (213 N 8th St, Wburg, 718.599.4224) map $15 / $10 with RSVP
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Best theme party: you and your friends dress as a gang, pictures are snapped and then projected on the walls. The lineup ain't bad either; Fixed's JDH and Dave P, Tim Sweeney, DJ Language, James F*cking Friedman, and Ilirjana. (JKG)
Note: Costume required. Free Sparks from 10-11pm.
Our apologies, the information for this party was originally inaccurately published on Flavorpill and listed as occuring on Sun 10.30. -The Editors
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ALLDISCO presents Dancing In Space
Sat 10.29 (10pm) Capone's (221 N 9th St, Wburg, 718.599.4044) map
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The ALLDISCO crew brings a Halloween bash of spacey disco, electro-funk,
tech-pop, and eclectic jams to Capone's. If that's not enough to satiate
you, then the free pizza surely will. (CJN)
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Made Event presents Lee Burridge
Sat 10.29 (11pm) BED (530 W 27th St, 6th Fl, 212.594.4109) map $20 / $15 advance
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A veteran of the infamous Tyrant parties at London's Fabric, Burridge knows how to work a crowd. Put four on the floor or just bliss out in a bed as he trolls through everything from tech-house to big, bouncy breaks. (CEH)
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Jon Kessler: The Palace at 4a.m.
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Sun 10.30 through Mon 2.6.06 (Thur-Mon: 12-6pm) |
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P.S.1 (22-25 Jackson Ave, LIC, 718.784.2084) map |
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Mechanical magician Jon Kessler offers a trip into the media's heart of
darkness with his new work, The Palace at 4a.m., a multi-room
installation expanding the unnerving themes materialized in his earlier
Deitch Projects show, Global Village Idiot. A maelstrom of images
mixes references high and low, from Hannah Hoch and Giacometti, to G.I. Joe
and The Swan. Special effects created in real-time illuminate scrims
of information transmission, while visions of corporal punishment and
pleasure get under the skin. A skeptic's take on EPCOT attractions,
Kessler's whirling kinetic sculptures of surveillance cameras and video
monitors pull viewers down the rabbit hole of representation, leaving us to find our way out again. (CEK)
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| PERFORMANCE |
The Bass Saxophone
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Sun 10.30 (3pm) |
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Grand Army Plaza Memorial Arch (Eastern Pkwy at Prospect Park W, Bklyn) map |
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Enter the world of Nazi-dominated Czechoslovakia circa 1944 through the
site-specific production of The Bass Saxophone. Dozens of puppets
embody the characters in this adaptation of the Josef Skvorecky tale, the latest creation of
the amazing Vit Horejs and his Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre. The
performance tells the story of Danny, leader of the rogue swing-music
underground, who dreams of playing the legendary "brass monster" saxophone.
Beginning under the Memorial Arch at Grand Army Plaza, showgoers follow the
then-forbidden sounds of jazz up the arch's spiral staircase, passing
surreal musical ensembles of crippled Wehrmacht veterans and a ghostly dance
band in a hotel ballroom. Tableaux of carnage, from the Crusades to the
Balkan Wars of the '90s, are arrayed against music's power to liberate the
spirit. (CM)
Note: The Bass Saxophone is also performed on Fri 10.28 (8pm) & Sat 10.29 (3 & 8pm).
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Richie Hawtin Halloween Ball
Sun 10.30 (10pm) Cielo (18 Little W 12th St, 212.645.5700) map $20 / $15 advance
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After his stint at the palatial club Spirit a few weeks ago, Richie Hawtin
returns to a smaller boîte de nuit for Halloween. Costume
yourself for maximal absorption of his Berlin-burnished, deep minimal
techno. (JKG)
Note: Tomorrow night (Mon 10.31) at Cielo, Derrick May and King Britt join forces for a Halloween bash.
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GrandWizzard Theodore & Jazzy Jay
Sun 10.30 (10pm) Table 50 (643 Broadway, 212.253.2560) map $10 / $5 before 11pm or with RSVP
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GrandWizzard Theodore is credited with inventing the scratch and needle drop
in hip-hop. Jazzy Jay, under Afrika Bambaataa's guidance, brought the sounds of the
South Bronx to the airwaves. Tonight, they team up for some old-skool
special ed. (DJM)
Along with what ex-X-ecutioner does GrandWizzard Theodore teach students the art form of the DJ? The fourth and eighth correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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Andrea Fraser
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Andrea Fraser rocked the collective art-world mind in 2003, when she sold
herself to a collector for one night on the condition that their act be filmed and
turned into an artwork. A powerful critique of the economy of patronage, it
was yet another example of Fraser's drive to push the limits of her chosen
medium. Her unstinting intellect takes full form in Museum Highlights,
a collection of writings and performance scripts from the course of her
career. Official Welcome, a performance originally conceived in 2001,
highlights this evening's book launch. Here, reciting a speech culled from
institutional art-speak, Fraser coolly strips away the rhetoric cloaking
empty idealism — an aptly unnerving Halloween treat. (AM)
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| MUSIC: Gothic Cabaret |
The Tiger Lillies
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Immersed in a sub-bohemian cosmos of drunken accordions, squalid poetry, and
backdoor gypsy rhythms, the musical creations (dare we say chansons?) of the
Tiger Lillies are a bit like a series of beautiful collisions between a
three-legged opera house and the punk-rock antics of a Weimar Republic
brothel that never existed. Uniquely visual and freakishly exacting, this
British trio, for all its autumnal excesses and anarchic verve, is
actually a tight musical unit capable of enormously memorable live
performances. And considering
the macabre pageantry and devilish eroticism that define Halloween, it's possible that this just might be the Lillies' ideal gig. Of course, the Marquis de Sade and a horde of harlots might have something to say about that. (DI)
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MUSIC: Electro-Glam Rock
Fischerspooner
Mon 10.31 (10pm) Irving Plaza (17 Irving Pl, 212.777.6800) map $30
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If there's one band that knows how to play dress-up it's Fischerspooner.
Fresh from supporting their sophomore effort, Odyssey, in Europe, Casey
and Warren invite you to their lavish tribute to All Hallows' Eve. (MB)
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Ashley Montana Goes Ashore in the Caicos... Or What Am I Doing Here?
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Now through Sat 11.19 (Wed-Fri: 7pm / Sat: 3 & 7pm) |
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The Flea Theater (41 White St, 212.226.0051 x109) map |
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$50-55 |
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An infamous 1991 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover featuring model
Ashley Montana is the bizarre inspiration for Roger Rosenblatt's latest
work, a series of comic vignettes about modern life's great anxieties,
including an analysis of Ms. Montana's mysterious Caicos adventures. Some of
the more dramatic pieces get lost in the mix, but the politically infused
comedic skits, including a love song to John Ashcroft, make for a very
entertaining, wholly blue-state evening. Broadway luminary Bebe Neuwirth is
electric, but relative newcomer Jenn Harris (Silence! The Musical) is
the one to watch, with her unique mixture of pretty-girl charm and
buffoonish physical humor. (SP)
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Patricia Piccinini: Nature's Little Helpers
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Now through Wed 11.30 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm) |
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Robert Miller Gallery (524 W 26th St, 212.366.4774) map |
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Patricia Piccinini, Australian representative at the 2003 Venice Biennale,
exhibits sculptures, photographs, drawings, and video in Nature's Little
Helpers, her first solo show in the United States. Piccinini invents ecosystems of life-sized silicone sculptures, where forms morph and blend as man meets animal and machine. Touched up with leather and human hair, these inhabitants are the adorably vulnerable and horribly flawed
results of human experimentation gone awry. Existing within our world of
mapped-out genomes and cloned sheep, Piccinini's abstract forms offer a
visually captivating study of the unimaginable consequences of our science,
leaving one to wonder: will we be able to contain the creatures of this new frontier? (LK)
Note: There is a reception for Nature's Little Helpers on Fri 10.28 (6-8pm).
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New York Doll
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Opens Fri 10.28 |
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Angelika Film Center (18 W Houston St, 212.995.2000) map |
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$10.75 |
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Event Info | New York Doll |
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As a music biopic, New York Doll falls short of the bar set by such
recent triumphs as Ramones: End of the Century. It offers no new
twists on the now-hackneyed rock-movie arc of rise, fall, and (measured)
rise again, and produces no new insights into either the Dolls or the '70s
downtown NYC scene. As a redemption story about late bassist Arthur
"Killer" Kane, however, this film sings like a canary — if
inadvertently. Director, friend, and fellow Mormon George Whiteley originally intended to document how the pure-hearted, reformed alcoholic Kane made peace with his former bandmates. Instead he stumbled upon a rare entity these days: a good death. (LR)
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THE WEEKLY THAT COULD: Village Voice 50th Anniversary |
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For the last 50 years, the Village Voice has steadily woven itself
into our subways, our avenues, our clubs, and our restaurants, and hence, our
own identities as New Yorkers. Founded by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher, and Norman
Mailer in 1955, the country's first and arguably best alternative newsweekly
celebrates its golden anniversary this month by continuing to bring its
readers the incisive, Pulitzer Prize-winning reportage, oft-incendiary
gossip, and savvy cultural analysis we have come to look forward to and rely
upon each week. A week without the Voice — without "Savage
Love," "Mondo Washington," insane personal ads, and always insightful arts
reviews — is like Williamsburg without hipsters, Central Park without
joggers, SoHo without shoppers, or Times Square without tourists. In short,
it's a week without the essence of the City itself. Here's to hoping the new management at New Times is smart enough not to change a thing. (LT)
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CD REVIEW: Tom Vek, We Have Sound |
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StarTime International
Released October 2005
$11.99 (Amazon)
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Though he's drawn not entirely inappropriate comparisons to Beck —
most likely for his oddball physicality, playful lyrics, and
multi-instrumentalism — Tom Vek more readily evokes the quietly
anthemic sounds of DC's arty post-punks the Dismemberment Plan and Q and Not U.
By embracing a lo-fi, DIY ethic (Vek pieced together We Have Sound
solo, on reel-to-reel gear in his father's garage), along with funk and soul
grooves, tinges of garage and punk rock, cheeky humor ("If you want fire /
We better start smoking"), and a certain subtle-but-honest insecurity, Vek
proves his chops as a one-man band. Electronic flourishes and diverse
influences abound, but Vek's bass lays a solid, well, base for an amazingly
tight album that clocks in under 35 minutes. Go ahead, annoy downstairs
neighbors and turn it up, because Tom Vek wants to know: "Does my bass look
big in this?" Hell yeah it does. And that's just how we like it. (LMT)
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MULTIMEDIA: BBC Collective |
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Not unlike our humble publication, the BBC Collective is a must-read for the culturally savvy. The site regularly covers the latest in music, arts, and literature — often with multimedia features and interactive discussions. This week, check out current UK rock darlings Arctic Monkeys performing in-studio, along with interviews and streaming tracks. Next, venture into electro-pastoralia territory with a feature on the new Boards of Canada album, The Campfire Headphase, that allows you to stream the entire release for free. (Don't miss "Dayvan Cowboy"; it's an absolute stunner.) Finally, peruse the Playlist for a sampling of 12 new cuts from the likes of Depeche Mode and Vashti Bunyan. (CJN)
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Arctic Monkeys: Live in-studio (Rock)
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Boards of Canada: Feature and streaming audio (IDM)
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Various Artists: BBC Collective Playlist (Eclectic new music)
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