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Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 300: artful flavor
With Oscars glamour behind us, New York gets swept up in the art world this week, as the eighth annual Armory Show brings 148 international galleries' finest. Capitalizing on all the attention, three satellite art fairs, DiVA, ~Scope, and PULSE await, Williamsburg galleries stay open late, and a number of important shows (which we handily round up for you) launch in Chelsea. While we focus on art, Austin, Texas, becomes a mecca for music as SXSW kicks off. But that doesn't mean we won't make bank here at home: DJs Matthew Herbert and Ewan Pearson keep the nights blazing with beats, DFA's UK outfit Hot Chip bounce on by, Kelley Polar's disco comet ride makes a stop, and Mi and L'au amble quiet, outsider folk up to our doorstep. The New York Underground Film Festival and a Rendez-Vous kick off, the Public Theater's stage beckons with Measure for Pleasure, and the Mark Morris Dance Group begins their highly-anticipated series. And did we mention this is our 300th issue? Hook up a tercentennial shout-out, and spread it...
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Jazz at Lincoln Center presents HIP Health Plan of New York All That Jazz: Now That's HIP — featuring The Wynton Marsalis Septet and Curtis Stigers — on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 8pm. For tickets log onto www.jalc.org, call CenterCharge at (212) 721-6500, or visit the Box Office (Mon-Sat: 10am-8:30pm / Sun: 11am-8:30pm). |
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ArmoryKrush
Check the Wednesday, March 8th issue of Artkrush for more extensive coverage of the
Armory Show — one of the world's biggest contemporary art fairs.
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| PHOTOGRAPHY: Opening |
Tracey Moffatt: Love and Adventures
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Tue 3.7 (6-8pm) |
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Steven Kasher Gallery (521 W 23rd St, 2nd Fl, 212.966.3978) map |
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For her first solo gallery show in New York since 2001, Australian
photographer and video artist Tracey Moffatt kicks off a busy week of art
with her Adventure Series, a suite of 10 large-scale photographs
combining action, lust, and glamour in a raucous send-up of B movies. Each
photograph in the series has three frames, evoking a director's storyboard,
using elaborate staging and generic situations, such as two belles tied and
gagged in a cargo bay or a hunky hero shirtless in the desert. A 20-minute
video piece, Love, undresses Hollywood romantic conventions through a
blistering montage of melodrama history, including the artist's favorites
such as Darling, Women on the Beach, and Thelma and
Louise. (AM)
Note: Love and Adventures is on display through Sat 4.29
(Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm).
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| THEATRE |
Measure for Pleasure
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Now through Sun 3.26 (Tue-Fri: 8pm / Sat: 2 & 8pm / Sun: 2 & 7pm) |
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The Public Theater (425 Lafayette St, 212.539.8500) map |
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$50 |
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David Grimm's meticulously sharp new comedy Measure for Pleasure
seems to have calculated the right ingredients to please even the most
demanding theatergoer. The playwright follows his risqué period pieces
at the Public, such as 2000's Kit Marlowe, with this blend of
Restoration comedy and modern sex farce. Michael Stuhlbarg (The
Pillowman) stands out as a love-struck valet who falls for Euan Morton's
(Taboo) transvestite prostitute-turned-chambermaid, who has the hots
for a conceited womanizer, who in turn... You get the picture. Mistaken
identities abound, the wit is fast and fierce, and watching Wayne Knight
(Seinfeld) loiter in a sex cave clad in a golden phallus is simply
priceless. (SP)
 Wayne Knight appeared in which other Broadway play? The first two
correct answers each win a pair of tickets to a performance on Fri
3.10 or Sat 3.11.
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| MUSIC: Disco Revival |
Kelley Polar w/ Morgan Geist and Dan Selzer
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Wed 3.8 (7:30pm) |
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Knitting Factory (74 Leonard St, 212.219.3132) map |
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$12 / $10 advance |
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Event Info | Kelley Polar |
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Tonight, Kelley Polar breaks from his professional viola career to make his
live debut moonlighting as disco's Little Prince. The heavens rejoiced when
Polar was born to Robert Schumann and Chic in an empty pasture. Finally,
they said, a young romantic with the promise to humble disco's flair but
keep its swoon; to imagine a planetarium-cum-dance floor where booties
shake in time to plaintive falsettos and the phases of the moon. His
godfathers, Morgan Geist — half of local legends Metro Area, and
producer of Polar's recent Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens —
and Acute Records head Dan Selzer open with DJ sets. (MP)
The modern viola evolved from what earlier string instrument?
The fourth and fifth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to
this show.
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| DANCE |
Mark Morris Dance Group
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To the initiated, the name Mark Morris evokes images of gracefully
innovative choreography, but also summons involuntary warmth, a visceral
emotional reaction to the man's distinguished work. To those who have waited
to experience the Mark Morris Dance Group, there
couldn't be a better time: this month BAM celebrates the company's 25th anniversary with a month-long festival, consisting of three different dance
programs, a film series curated by Morris, concerts by some of the
choreographer's favorite musicians, and dialogues with frequent
collaborators. (SP)
Note: The Thur 3.23 performance begins at 7pm.
Which performer inspired the eight-year-old Mark Morris to become a
dancer? The second and third correct answers each win a pair of
tickets to a performance on Wed 3.8 or Wed 3.15.
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| FILM |
13th Annual New York Underground Film Festival
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Wed 3.8 - Tue 3.14 |
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Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave, 212.505.5181) map |
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$8.50 |
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Now that Hollywood's star-studded smoochfests are a sweet, fuzzy memory, it's
time to bring it back to the East Village for an orgy of low-budget
Academy-ignored labors of love. This year's indie, eccentric, and oftentimes
controversial NYUFF lineup takes movie-goers from an all-gay White House in
Todd Verow's feature Bulldog in the White House, to the Christian
sanctum of the family that prays and rocks out together in Danielson: A
Family Movie. In total, the festival screens 14 features and over 100
shorts, closing with the theatrical premiere of artist Mike Kelley's musical
homage to high school students' extracurricular activities, Day is
Done. (MB)
In 50 words or less, who would you thank in your Oscar-acceptance speech, and why? Our three favorite responses each win a pair of tickets to a screening.
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COMMEMORATION
In March We Remember: Thoughts About Peace in a Time of War
Wed 3.8 (7-10pm) The Great Hall, Cooper Union (7 E 7th St, 212.353.4100) map
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In an era of suicide bombings and nuclear threats, poets, musicians, and artists unite on this anniversary of our invasion of Iraq to remind us that peace is more than just a pipe dream. (CA)
 
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DANCE
Noche Flamenca feat. Soledad Barrio
Wed 3.8 - Sun 3.12 (7 & 9:30pm) Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St, 212.539.8778) map $25-30
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With their mysterious fusion of writhing arms, stomping feet, high-speed
claps, and voice and guitar, performance troupe Noche Flamenca conjure an
auditory and visual odyssey through southern Spain. (FAY)
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DJ
Matthew Herbert
Wed 3.8 (10pm) Canal Room (285 W Broadway, 212.941.8100) map $20 / $17 advance
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Conceptual house producer and sampling philosopher Matthew Herbert returns
for an all-too-infrequent DJ set, fearlessly mixing quirky, modern disco,
oddball techno, and a freewheeling variety of styles. (MG)
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DiVA Digital Video and Art Fair
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Thur 3.9 - Sun 3.12 (Thur: 7-11pm / Fri-Sun: 2-10pm) |
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Embassy Suites Hotel (102 N End Ave, 888.886.0719) map |
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$10 / $40 for opening night gala (admits two) |
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Only three years old, the DiVA digital and video art fair stakes its claim to
Lower Manhattan cultural currency by holding down Embassy Suites' flagship hotel
in the Financial District. The 40 international galleries participating in
the fair specialize in artists with experimental practices. Shanghart from
Shanghai and Walsh Gallery from Chicago bring a contingent of Asian artists
including international darling Yang Fudong. Dutch gallery Ronmandos
highlights the post-apocalyptic vision of installation and multimedia artist
Hans Op de Beek, while local purveyor Claire Oliver features the US premiere
of gender-bending duo Eva & Adele's three-part exploration of urban paradise
Watermusic, filmed in Spain and France. (AM)
What was the utopic setting of Yang Fudong's piece shown at the
Istanbul Biennial? The first ten correct responses each win a pair
of tickets to the festival.
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| MUSIC: Indietastic |
The Rogers Sisters
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Once mentioned in the same breath as electroclash acts, the Rogers
Sisters have a tighter hold on rock 'n riffs with their new album,
The Invisible Deck. While there's still some new wavery to be
found, as on the restrained "Never Learn To Cry," the Brooklyn-based
power trio have honed a danceable, guitar-fueled sound. With Miyuki
Furtado contributing David Byrne-esque vocals to sisters Laura and
Jennifer Rogers' harmonies, their pungent aural brew reaches for
maturity without sacrificing fun — "Your Littlest World" even
features a (gasp!) guitar solo. This local "family" has learned to step out
and rock on at the same time. (JKD)
Besides Mary-Kate and Ashley, who were or are the best sibling
collaborators? Our two favorite responses each win a pair of
tickets to this show.
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~Scope Art Fair
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Fri 3.10 - Mon 3.13 (11am-8pm) |
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636 11th Ave (212.268.1522) map |
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No longer using a hotel venue, ~Scope continues to build its reputation as a
cutting-edge New York art fair by providing unique opportunities for
curators, artists, and exhibitors to display their talents. ~Scope requires
all exhibitors to either feature a single artist or to show a clear thematic
selection of artworks, as a corrective to an inherently commercial system.
This year's exciting programming includes Rhizome.org and Marisa Olson's
All Systems Go!, which explores high-tech, low-tech, and no-tech
artistic possibilities, and Point of View, a selection of film and
video that thwarts the expectations of the medium. (PJ)
As a botanical term, rhizome has what
significance? The first two correct responses each win a pair of
passes to this fair.
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PULSE Contemporary Art Fair
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Fri 3.10 - Mon 3.13 (Fri-Sun: 12-8pm / Mon: 12-5pm) |
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69th Regiment Armory (68 Lexington Ave, 212.255.2327) map |
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Art fairs today are like dotcoms five years ago — sprouting
everywhere, extending business into more accessible areas, and attracting
the young, hip, and well-endowed. Fortunately for the fairs, there's no end
in sight. Riding piggyback on the Armory Show, PULSE New York offers tight
programming and a focused collection of over 60 international and American
contemporary art galleries. Born in Miami just last December, PULSE invites
galleries to participate based on their curatorial direction: no flea-market
exhibitors here. As part of the fair's own curatorial offerings, look for
Brooklyn artist John Bjerklie's broadcast performance from a hidden studio,
and Anthony Patti's Born to Run, an erotic commentary on the technics
of performance vehicles. (JK)
What was then-president Theodore Roosevelt's reaction to the
Armory Show? Correct responses five through seven each win a pair of tickets to the PULSE fair.
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| FILM |
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
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Fri 3.10 - Sun 3.19 |
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Walter Reade Theater (70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 212.496.3809) map |
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It may have been acceptable to dismiss French cinema four years ago, when an
abject sensationalism masqueraded as emotional depth (Irreversible,
The Piano Teacher, In My Skin), but recent imports such as
Kings and Queen and Look at Me have thoroughly redeemed their
country's film industry. These days there's really no excuse for serious cinephiles to avoid
this festival, the most expansive showcase of Gallic film to hit US shores.
Of special note: Hell from Danis Tanovic (Oscar winner No Man's
Land); Le Petit Lieutenant, about a police unit; and the
historical drama Grey Souls. (LR)
Note: Directors and actors are on hand for Q&As following most screenings.
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Duck Season
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Opens Fri 3.10 |
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Various locations |
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$10.75 |
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Duck Season |
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The improbably named Duck Season scratches just far enough below the surface of adolescent boredom's pleasures. Best friends Flama and Moko are
the kind of 14-year-old boys you'd find in any middle-class neighborhood,
swigging cokes and playing video games with all the intensity of Wall Street traders; although Mexico City provides the backdrop, it could be anywhere,
as the two never stray outside their hermetically, hormonally sealed
apartment. The world leaks in anyway, in the form of sexual desire (a foxy
neighbor) and dashed dreams (a hapless pizza deliverer), and the film's
leisurely pace and simple palette complements its tenderfooted revelations.
(LR)
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| MUSIC: Twee-Tinged Pop |
The Boy Least Likely To
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Close sonic relatives of lit-pop greats Belle and Sebastian, UK-based the
Boy Least Likely To break from Murdoch and co.'s mature lyrical sensibility
for a decidedly unjaded approach. It may sound like a recipe for twee
overload, but TBLLT's favoring of innocence over cutesiness — with
acoustic guitars, synths, and occasional handclaps providing a summery
backdrop — injects songs like "Fur Soft As Fur" and "Warm Panda Cola"
with a purity that recalls the whimsy of childhood. (JPC)
In 50 words or less, tell us what "the boy" in your life is least likely to do, and why. Our favorite response wins a pair of tickets to this show.
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The Armory Show
Fri 3.10 - Mon 3.13 (Fri-Sun: 12-8pm / Mon: 12-5pm) Piers 90 & 92 (12th Ave at 50th & 52nd Sts, 212.645.6440) map $20 / $40 four-day pass
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Once again, the Armory Show turns New York's art world inside-out, hosting top-tier galleries and artists from New York, LA, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, and everywhere in between, as well as scores of rabid collectors and fans. (AM)
Note: Check our sister publication Artkrush on Wed 3.8 for a thorough rundown of the Armory Show.
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MUSIC: Hermit Folk
Mi and L'au w/ Samara Lubelski
Fri 3.10 (8pm) Tonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) map $10
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Mi and L'au wander from their cabin in Finland to deliver haunting, spare folk to the lovers' many New York friends. Minimal instrumentation melds with their gentle voices, summoning a sense of ethereal isolation. (RD)
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FILTHY presents Ewan Pearson
Fri 3.10 (10pm) Element (225 E Houston St, 212.254.2200) map $15
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Ewan Pearson's recent Soma mix Sci.Fi Hi.Fi ranges from wobbly,
balearic-inspired house to peak-time techno — an excellent primer for tonight's set from
this true student of dance music. (CJN)
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Williamsburg Galleries After Hours
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Sat 3.11 (until 11pm) |
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Various Williamsburg galleries map |
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In tandem with this week's art-fair activities, After Hours organizes
Williamsburg galleries to keep their doors open late Saturday evening for
the many locals and visitors who dedicate this weekend to art. Among the
excellent alternative viewing opportunities are Outrageous Look,
which features the beautiful and obsessive brushstroke paintings of
Michel
Carluccio, Hogar Collections' show of the drawings of Alfonso Cantú, whose
delicate depictions of appliances and other objects reveal the artist's
interest in functionalism, and Unmodern Obsessions, a group show
curated by artists at SouthFirst Gallery, demonstrating the energy and
diversity of young artists today. (PJ)
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| MUSIC: Brit Pop |
Hot Chip w/ Grand National and the Presets
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Hot Chip and Grand National — two of London's finest — invade our shores tonight. Although part of the DFA's stable of artists, Hot Chip's sound is far from mutant funk or psychedelic noise. These four lads' melancholy pop unites sweet, understated blue-eyed soul with brisk, bubbling beats, disarmingly witty lyrics, and influences that range from Dr. Dre and the Beta Band to Prince. Grand National's Rupert Lyddon and Lawrence "La" Rudd clearly draw from vintage Police, but disco and more guitar-centric fare creep in. With a stellar live backing band, they look to rescue us from trite pop and anemic faux-garage. And, strutting in from Sydney, the Presets wield an arsenal of rough, ready, and raucous electro sounds — sans irony. (JL/LH)
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Notable Chelsea Openings
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In Chelsea, three exhibitions map out a mini-worldwide tour from China to
Istanbul and New York, presenting both classic and contemporary video art.
At Kustera Tilton, Patty Chang and David Kelley exhibit photographs and
video from their Shangri-La project, for which they hit the road in
a
vehicular mirrored mountain to investigate the real and fictional
identities
of paradise in southwestern China. At Tanya Bonakdar, media humanitarian
Phil Collins' empathic pieces, filmed in Turkey, show alienated youths
singing along with the Smiths and ex-reality-TV stars, while at Maya
Stendhal, Anthology Film Archive founder and media artist Jonas Mekas
curates a group-show love letter to Fluxus chairman George Maciunas with a
range of works from various Fluxus artists. (CEK)
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Film School w/ the Big Sleep
Sat 3.11 (9:30pm) Mercury Lounge (217 E Houston St, 212.260.4700) map $12
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Hazily droning their way through skewed, sad-pop melodies, San Francisco
quintet Film School layer guitars in effects and treat vocals like any
other
instrument. Think of tonight like a coma, but it only lasts an hour or so. (TG)
Note: Locals the Big Sleep open with tightly-cinched psych rock.
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PHONO feat. Misc. w/ Benno Blome
Sat 3.11 (10pm) Avalon (662 6th Ave, 212.807.7780) map $30 / $15 advance
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The increasingly banging PHONO party spotlights Berlin's Sender Records
tonight, with a live set from tech-house duo Misc. Sender founder Benno
Blome also DJs, with support from top-notch NY locals. (CEH)
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| MUSIC: Avant Rock |
Circle w/ Cul De Sac and Coptic Light
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Since 1991, Circle have been slowly expanding their reach beyond their native Finland, nonetheless remaining in murky avant obscurity here. After countless lineup changes and a decade of churning out instrumental, Krautrock-influenced drone epics, more recent experiments embrace metal, tape-manipulation, and histrionic, quasi-verbal vocalizations: imagine Acid Mothers Temple battling Sunn O))) in an Anton LaVey nightmare. Although their live show might be less theatrical, Cul de Sac knows how to throw musical curveballs. Ostensibly a post-rock outfit, the Boston group boasts bouzouki, violin, and sitar among its arsenal, and despite unimaginable stylistic inbreeding, they retain a sharp compositional focus — never meandering into navel-gazing wankery. Heavy drone outfit Coptic Light opens. (JL)
As a nation, how many beers do Finns consume a year? The eighth and ninth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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JDub and Heeb present American Shmidol Karaoke Showdown
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Mon 3.13 (8pm) |
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Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111) map |
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$20 / $14 advance |
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There's a reason American Idol racks up the ratings: people see
karaoke as a spectator sport. Jews look to nudge in on this Achilles heel of
pop culture with their own rendition, American Schmidol. So all you
shower singers, closeted canaries, and would-be divas, here's your chance to
take mike to mouth on the same stage where Karen O flexed her vocals just
two weeks prior. Filling in for judges Paula, Simon, and Randy are the three
stooges of Stella: Showalter, Black, and Wain. Oh, and do you know what
Purim is? That's ok, it's really just an excuse to party. (MB)
In 50 words or less, how would you wow the judges on American Idol? The most idol-worthy response wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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The Music Teacher
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Now through Sun 4.9 (Mon-Fri: 8pm / Sat: 2 & 8pm) |
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Minetta Lane Theatre (18 Minetta Lane, 212.420.8000) map |
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$50 |
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After the red-hot success of the doubly extended Abigail's Party, the
New Group keeps their creative juices flowing with the world premiere of The Music
Teacher, an innovative play/opera by the enviably talented brothers
Wallace and Allen Shawn. Tom Cairns, who directed the upcoming film version
of Wallace's Marie and Bruce, bravely pulls off what is essentially a
multimedia tragicomedy about a music teacher, his female student, their
collaborative opera, and various kinds of sex. A study in creative
dissonance, the work melds the silly and sublime — a beautiful aria
about breakfast, for example — resulting in a theatrical experience
that is at once hilariously absurd and sadly sobering. (KI)
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Salla Tykkä: Zoo
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Now through Sat 3.25 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm) |
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Yvon Lambert (564 W 25th St, 212.242.3611) map |
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Salla Tykkä eschews simple, direct storytelling. The Finnish artist's
films and still photographs contain captivating but ambiguous imagery: a
lady spying on a lasso-wielding youth or topless woman boxing a much
larger
man. For her New York debut, Tykkä presents Zoo, a
12-minute
film shot in a Helsinki zoo. Tracking a lone, silent protagonist as she
wanders from monkey cage to tiger pen to reptile house, the work's taut,
Hitchcockian soundtrack and visual references combine to form an open-ended
and unresolved narrative, interspersed with footage from an underwater
rugby
match. Recalling media artist Aernout Mik, Tykkä explores a familiar
world made strange and mesmerizing. (CYL)
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[title of show]
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Now through Sun 4.9 (Mon, Wed-Fri: 8pm / Sat: 5 & 9pm / Sun: 3pm) |
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Vineyard Theatre (108 E 15th St, 212.353.0303) map |
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$55 |
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Newcomers Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen's sweet and spiffy [title of show] may be the most unconventionally told conventional musical. When the two theatre-obsessed youngsters faced a three-week deadline for the New York Musical Theater Festival, they decided that every word matters — literally: the casual book is made up of their own, everyday dialogue, and the simple but witty lyrics are emotional retellings of the trials and tribulations of developing a show from scratch and coping with its subsequent success. With a reality show sensibility, an acerbic sense of humor, and abundant esoteric musical references and influences, the boys are likely to get their wish of becoming "nine people's favorite thing rather than a hundred people's ninth favorite thing." (SP)
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Game6
Opens Fri 3.10 Various locations $10.75
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A stellar where-are-they-now cast (Michael Keaton, Bebe Neuwirth) and a
Don
DeLillo script lift the setup — a playwright's premiere coincides
with
the 1986 Mets/Red Sox series — from indie-film irrelevance. (LR)
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One of the few chances you have to catch music geeks, greasy rockers, film buffs, and hipsters-at-large all sweating through their black leather jackets and vintage tees: SXSW is celebrating its 20th birthday with 245 film screenings, 1,300 bands, and Texas-sized trade shows and conferences. From tech talks on nudity in blogs and beta tests of the latest video games to indie-film premieres and every new band under the sun, there's something for everybody. If you're not making the trek, keep your finger on the pulse of cool by logging on to SXSW.com for daily updated video coverage after the fest launches this Friday, March 10th. (JCF)
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CD REVIEW: The Duke Spirit, Cuts Across the Land |
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StarTime International
Released March 2006
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Despite the early hype surrounding them in their native England, the Duke Spirit chose to bide their time, ultimately compressing years of momentum into this dense, feedback-drenched banshee wail of a debut album. The five-piece initially sent local critics reeling with its Bloody Valentine-meets-Mary Chain-by-way-of-PJ Harvey brooding rock bonanza — a squall that Cuts Across the Land can barely contain. Wind-whipping, lightning-strike singles like "Lion Rip" and the title track seethe with classic rock 'n roll potency, while "Love Is an Unfamiliar Name," with its howling outro, could give Polly Jean herself reason for pause. Slower selections like "Bottom of the Sea" round things out in a narcotic haze, allowing just a moment's respite before the swirl kicks back up into a full-on tempest. (DL)
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STREAMS: BBC Collective |
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This week the BBC Collective delves into the good, the bad, and the ugly of modern covers. Read about Maxence Cyrin's Modern Rhapsodies project, which translates electronic classics by Aphex Twin, Massive Attack, and LFO into sleek, classical piano interpretations. Listen to full-length tracks of other well-executed recent covers, namely José González's version of the Knife's "Heartbeats," or Nostalgia 77's cover of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army." Elsewhere, check a feature on Brazilian art, complete with multimedia gallery from the Barbican, and listen to the new Collective playlist — featuring new music from Liars, Kelly Stolz, and the Go! Team vs Kevin Shields (yes, you read that right). (CJN)
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Various Artists: Creative Covers (Eclectic)
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Various Artists: Brazilian Art (Multimedia)
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Various Artists: BBC Collective Playlist (Eclectic)
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| Topiary | Jocelyn K. Glei | | Finger painting | Jake Lancaster | | Terraform | Doug Levy | | Screamo | Sascha Lewis | | Competitive eating | Andrew Maerkle | | Yoga | Mark Mangan | | Interpretive dance | Kristin Miller | | Blogging | Colin J. Nagy | | Rollerblading | Stephan Paschalides | | Cooking | Joshua Stein | | Carousing | Leah Taylor |
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| ABOUT US |
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| Contributors: |
| Step aerobics | Casey Acierno | | Hairdressing | Mindy Bond | | Decoupage | Irene Bradish | | Luxury-lifestyle editing | Joseph P. Colly | | Crip-walking | Jayanthi K. Daniel | | Singing | Mystery Girl | | Funflations | Todd Goldstein | | Parkour | Carl E. Hagen | | Chillaxing | Lynnel Herrera | | Debauchery | Kiwa Iyobe | | Dirt-styling | Paddy Johnson | | Packratting | Jessica Kraft | | Coupon-clipping | Catherine E. Krudy | | Curling | Christopher Y. Lew | | Laundry | Mike Powell | | Riverdance | Lisa Rosman | | Motocross | Faith-Ann Young |
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| Butoh | Anjuli Ayer | | Sitar | Chelsea Bauch | | Splatter-painting | Jessica Bauer-Greene | | Coding | Morgan Croney | | Textual harassment | Rachel Doyle | | Scuplting | Sander-Martijn Milks | | Walking | David Morrow | | Krumping | Judah Wiedre |
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