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Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 307: cinematic flavor
Bringing hundreds of feature films and shorts downtown, the Tribeca Film Festival, which kicks off this week, is a true heavy on the current cultural agenda. But it's not the only game in town. Cinephiles can also dig into the African Film Festival's four days of selections, Jilted's assortment of overlooked comedic shorts, and a retrospective of films by Robert Altman — who landed an Oscar for lifetime achievement this year (an event that inspired a weekend-long blog-a-thon). The other 500-pound gorilla in the room is the PEN World Voices Festival, which imports a slew of international writers for discussions on topics ranging from AIDS to political freedom to the legacy of Allen Ginsberg — check our roundup of the highlights.
For a less imposing outing, join in the festivities and pink-blossom appreciation at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Cherry Blossom Festival on Saturday and Sunday. And May 1st isn't just for pagans and lefties, it's also the 75th anniversary of our beloved Empire State Building, so give a salute to the grand old icon, and spread it...
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De Niro Takes Tribeca
With more than 170 films — from Hollywood-blockbuster hopefuls to art-school shorts — the renowned fest and its founder reclaim a certain downtown triangle for the fifth year running.
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| MULTIMEDIA |
Tim Lee
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Now through Sat 4.29 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm) |
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Cohan and Leslie (138 10th Ave, 212.206.8710) map |
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Tim Lee resurrects the political appeal of pioneering rap group Public Enemy
through the legacy of conceptual art. For the two-channel video piece
Party For Your Right To Fight, Public Enemy, 1988, the artist,
upside-down and rotating, recites frontman Chuck D's furious rhymes in a
deadpan voice. In this upended context, the lyrics, including such classic
lines as "J. Edgar Hoover, and he could have proved to you/ He had King and
X set up," manage to become both sanitized and even more radical. Another
video, Retrospective, Public Enemy, 1988-91, shows Lee at a drum set,
recreating the sampled beats that drove PE's albums. Exploring themes of
synchronicity and disjunction, this work is a refreshing look at parallel
worlds colliding. (AM)
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| MUSIC: Jazz |
Randy Weston African Rhythms Quintet w/ The Gnawa Master Musicians of Morocco
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Don't tell pianist Randy Weston that the birthplace of jazz is New Orleans. Weston, who just celebrated his 80th birthday, is still sharp as a tack, whether he's at the keys or lecturing about what he perceives to be the true birthplace of one of the most important musical forms of the modern era: Africa. Weston, who once lived in Morocco, shares the stage with recent collaborators, the Gnawa Master Musicians of Morocco, to illuminate a new thread of pan-African sounds while also showcasing his impressive repertoire. (SNS)
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The Jilted Film Festival
Tue 4.25 (7:30pm) Sugar (311 Church St, 212.431.8750) map
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There's another film festival in Tribeca with something to prove. Free to
the public, Jilted features comedy shorts that have been rejected elsewhere.
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MUSIC: Folk-Rock
The Wood Brothers
Tue 4.25 (8pm) The Living Room (154 Ludlow St, 212.533.7235) map $10
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Tonight, Chris Wood, skilled bassist of Medeski Martin and Wood, joins his
guitarist-brother Oliver to hearken back to their American folk, country,
and blues roots. (FAY)
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13th Annual New York African Film Festival
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Wed 4.26 - Mon 5.29 |
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Various locations |
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Taye Diggs may steal the New York African Film Festival's spotlight with his
turn in Zola Maseko's 2004 journalist-in-peril drama Drum, but all eyes
are on even fresher fare from Africa, including Mark Dornford-May's Golden
Bear Award winner U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, an adaptation of Bizet's
opera. This year's theme, Africa in Transition Today, explores
contemporary African issues like the effects of war, personal tales of
displacement, the HIV/AIDS plague, and the search for reconciliation. Other
highlights include the first-ever section spotlighting filmmakers from the
Maghreb and a program of short films from South Africa that explores
issues of sexuality and gender. (SP)
 Which South African politician gave out copies of the soundtrack to U-Carmen eKhayelitsha after a speech? The second, third, and fourth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to a festival screening.
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Voices from Chernobyl
Wed 4.26 (6pm) Housing Works UBC (126 Crosby St, 212.334.3324) map
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Tonight, to acknowledge the 20th anniversary of the nuclear catastrophe at
Chernobyl, prominent authors read interviews with its victims; originally
recorded by Svetlana Alexievich in Voices from Chernobyl. (DM)
What is the origin of the Ukrainian tryzub, and what does it symbolize? The first seven correct responses each win a copy of Voices from Chernobyl.
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Moving Patterns: Electronic Music and Beyond
Wed 4.26 - Sat 4.29 (8pm) Austrian Cultural Forum (11 E 52nd St, 212.319.5300) map
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Though this year's theme encompasses favorite Viennese sons Freud and Mozart, digitalia is still the great unifier in Moving Patterns, the sometimes bewildering, always-impressive annual showcase of Austrian avant-electronic music and multimedia art. (JL)
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| ART: Openings |
James Lee Byars: The Rest is Silence
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Thur 4.27 (Michael Werner Gallery: 10am-6pm) & Fri 4.28 (Mary Boone: 5:30-7:30pm & Perry Rubenstein: 6-8pm) |
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Michael Werner (4 E 77 St, 212.988.1623), Mary Boone (541 W 24 St, 212.752.2929), and Perry Rubenstein (527 W 23rd St, 526 W 24th St & 534 W 24th St, 212.627.8000) |
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James Lee Byars, whose Death of James Lee Byars — an opulent,
gold-sheathed room for "practicing death" — was the centerpiece of a
retrospective at the Whitney in 2004, overtakes New York in this
museum-quality show organized by some of the city's leading galleries. Byars
spent ten years in Japan teaching English and studying the arts, and he has
pioneered the application of Zen philosophy to art practice. This exhibition
includes long-lost sumi paintings that the artist did while in Japan,
as well as monumental sculptures including The Spinning Oracle of
Delphi, a massive gilded amphora, and more ephemeral installations such
as The Angel, an arrangement of 125 glass spheres. (AM)
Note: All exhibitions continue through Sat 6.24. Check individual gallery sites for hours.
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| MUSIC: Americana |
Dean Drummond's Newband Perform the Music of Harry Partch
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Thur 4.27 (8pm) |
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Renee Weiler Concert Hall, Greenwich House Music School (46 Barrow St, 212.242.4770) map |
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Tossing Western music's standard 12-tone scale to the curb, avant-garde
oddity Harry Partch created his own 43-note intonation system and then
handcrafted and altered instruments to play within it — not bad for a
Depression-era grifter and rail-riding hobo. The resulting works are
strange, otherworldly compositions with fluid string arrangements and
beastly drums that bang and clang in the weirdest of ways. Dean Drummond's
Newband perform their own compositions and two of Partch's early works
tonight (the sparse, unwieldy Eleven Intrusions and the poetic
Seventeen Lyrics by Li Po), using the composer's original,
ingeniously crafted instruments. (AP)
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Damon & Naomi feat. Michio Kurihara (Ghost) and Bridget St. John
Thur 4.27 (7pm) Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St, 212.539.8778) map $12
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Damon & Naomi have been bearing the dream-pop torch since their Galaxy 500 days, and 2005's The Earth Is Blue found them at the peak of their powers. Tonight they're joined by frequent collaborator Michio Kurihara, of Japanese psych-folk band Ghost. (LT)
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Comedies of Fair U$e: A Search for Comity in the Intellectual Property Wars
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Fri 4.28 - Sun 4.30 |
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Hemmerdinger Hall, NYU (100 Washington Sq East, 212.998.2100) map |
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As the trappings of intellectual property get more corporate and convoluted,
the need to educate the creative community of its rights and
responsibilities in this sticky legal arena is urgent. This weekend, the
New York Institute for Humanities at NYU gathers the academic and artistic
minds that challenge the concept of fair use to publicly discuss digital
copyright law's legal impasses and Google's controversial Library Project, and
to showcase the best parodies from Free Culture @ NYU's Film Remix. Panelists
include Maus author and illustrator Art Spiegelman, master
documentarian Errol Morris, novelist Jonathan Lethem, and keynote speaker
Lawrence Lessig, founding father of the Free Culture movement. (IB)
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The Death of Little Ibsen
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Fri 4.28 - Sun 5.21 (Tue-Sun: 8pm) |
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Sanford Meisner Theater (9164 11th Ave, 212.206.1764) map |
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The Wakka Wakka Ensemble's The Death of Little Ibsen features a
partnership between the Norwegian literary giant and his alter-ego, a
puppet. This dark comedy (for adults only) shows Ibsen wrestling with the
ghosts of his work and his past. Marking the centenary of the playwright's
death, the production mines Ibsen's fascination with folklore and the puppet
theater of his childhood. Big and Little Ibsen encounter tableaux fleshed
out by trolls, devils, a monkey, and an evil onion as they charge into their
climactic earthly battle riding a pig. (CM)
In 50 words or less, share a dialogue between your favorite literary giant and his/her own miniaturized alter-ego. The two most interesting responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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A-Trak w/ the Rub, GLC, Cuizinier, and DJ Orgasmic (TTC)
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Turntablism's boy wonder DJ A-Trak took the DMC World Championship
(scratching's highest honor) at a shocking, mid-pubescent 15-years-old. A
decade later, with skills sharper than ever, he mans Kanye's decks, and
releases a career-spanning, (and grammar-defying — subject-verb
agreement, yo!) DVD, Sunglasses Is a Must. Tonight, GLC, also in Ye's
crew, provides mic support for A-Trak's vinyl-melting set. DJs Ayres,
Eleven, and Cosmo Baker bring Southpaw's the Rub to the Knit, but openers
Cuizinier and DJ Orgasmic — from robocrunk franco-freakshow TTC
— save the best for first. (JPC/JL)
Note: $5 reduced admission at the door for ladies.
What is the regulation equipment for the DMC World Championship? The first, third, and fifth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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John Vanderslice w/ Wooden Wand and Page France
Fri 4.28 (9pm) Southpaw (125 5th Ave, Park Slope, 718.230.0236) map $12
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Indie-rock Mr. Everything John Vanderslice is joined tonight by
avant-crunchy Wooden Wand and Page France, whose Hello, Dear Wind
bested Sufjan for Jesus' favorite record of '05. (JL)
Note: Vanderslice and Wooden Wand perform with Death Vessel at the Mercury Lounge on Thur 4.27.
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Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom Festival) feat. Gaijin à Go Go
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Sat 4.29 & Sun 4.30 (10am-6pm) |
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden (1000 Washington Ave, Bklyn, 718.623.7200) map |
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While there won't be any geisha at today's 25th Annual Cherry Blossom
Festival, a kimono fashion show, Ryu Kyu Okinowan dancing, and a tea ceremony can
sate your appetite for the Land of the Rising Sun. Other traditional events between the Cherry Esplanade and Japanese Hill-and-Pond garden include bonsai displays, haiku readings, and
Shinkendo sword fighting. DIY types can experiment with tofu making, Shodu calligraphy, and woodblock printmaking, while more contemporary consumers of Japanese culture can
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pictures with their favorite anime superstar at AnimeNEXT's CosPlay
exhibition, or do the twist to the neon '60s mock-pop of Gaijin à Go Go. (IB)
Which prolific 18th- and 19th-century poet wrote a number of haikus on cherry blossoms? The first 25 correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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Fruit Bats w/ Amandine and Sam Jayne
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The music of Fruit Bats spills over with dandelion wine, tire swings, and late-summer nights — a nice bit of country love for us smog-choked urbanites. An oft-changing group that fits itself around main songwriter (and sweater-vest hottie) Eric Johnson, the group swaps faux twang for sweet, airy harmonies without falling into the trap of inauthentic retro-country-kitsch. Dipping into that same wellspring of rustic goodness, Swedish band Amandine open with an inspired set of softly melancholic, shoegazing lullabies. (JCF)
What contest did Johnson win while in seventh grade? The fourth and fifth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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Richard Move presents The Show (Achilles Heels)
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Sat 4.29 & Tue 5.2 - Sat 5.6 (8pm) |
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The Kitchen (512 W 19th St, 212.255.5793) map |
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Cross-dressing cabaret radical Richard Move's dance epic, The Show
(Achilles Heels), was originally performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, whose
foundation commissioned the piece. For this revival, the gifted
choreographer directs Movin' Out's Rasta Thomas in the leading role,
and supplements the star appeal with Blondie icon Deborah Harry as the
goddess Athena. Move combines dance, lip-synched dialogue, video game-styled
violence, cinematic hyperbole, and reality-show elements to tell the story
of Achilles through themes of violence, honor, and immortality. For '80s
die-hards: yes, Deborah Harry sings three songs, one of them especially
written for this show. (SP)
What is your Achilles heel? The most epic poem-worthy weakness wins a pair of tickets to the show on Thur 5.4.
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Robert Altman Retrospective
Sat 4.29 - Thur 5.8 Museum of the Moving Image (35th Ave at 36th St, Astoria, 718.784.0077) map $10 per screening
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Even at their most ill-advised, director Robert Altman's films are ambling,
gorgeous affairs that single-handedly uplift the queasy genre of ensemble
works — and this retrospective boasts his most-advised, each a
Tolstoy-like inscription of the human condition. (LR)
Note: Tickets for the Altman-attended screenings and discussions of
Kansas City (Sat 4.29: 2pm) and Prairie Home Companion (Thur
5.8: 7:30pm) are each $24.
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Jeff Mills
Sat 4.29 (10pm) Pacha (618 W 46th St, 212.209.7500) map $20
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While no single song can define techno, "The Bells" comes close, and turns any dance floor rabid when appropriately timed. Tonight, celebrate the
decade-old, forever-futuristic anthem with its creator — still one of
the world's best DJs. (NP)
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Spank Rock
Sat 4.29 (11:30pm) Mercury Lounge (217 E Houston St, 212.260.4700) map $12 / $10 advance
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Big Dada's newest act, Spank Rock, juice up the club with dirty
Baltimore bass, twitchy electro-club, and lascivious lyrical absurdities. Frisky foursome Plastic Little open with more X-rated party raps. (RBD)
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Exodus w/ Suffocation and Immolation
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Sun 4.30 (5:30pm) |
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B.B. King Blues Club & Grill (237 W 42nd St, 212.997.4144) map |
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With recent albums from genre granddads Kreator and Obituary, it may seem
like Exodus are simply riding a wave of renewed interest in metal. But the
Bay Area quintet has paid its dues and suffered its share of tribulations — original singer Paul Baloff passed away from a stroke
in 2001. Guitarist Gary Holt co-founded the band with a pre-Metallica Kirk
Hammett in 1982, but tonight's show isn't about nostalgia — its new
album, Shovel Headed Kill Machine, lives up to its title, crushing
the craniums of unsuspecting death metal fans with shockingly brutal thrash.
Immolation and Suffocation, originators of the NYC death style, open. (GM)
How did Exodus' new vocalist, Rob Duke, first get involved with the band? The third and fourth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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Blackkat Mayday 2006 feat. Frankie Bones and Lenny Dee
Sun 4.30 (2-6pm) Tompkins Square Park (7th St btwn Ave A & B) map
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To the delight of local commies, druids, and unreformed ravers, those
loveable deviants from Blackkat have arranged their most promising Mayday
lineup yet, featuring devastating sets from NYC old-schoolers and
up-and-coming miscreants. (JL)
Note: The electronic freakery continues at SubTonic till 2am.
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Mt. Eerie (the Microphones) w/ Thanksgiving and Jason Anderson
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When the Microphones mastermind Phil Elvrum embraced the Mt. Eerie moniker
(taken from the title of his band's last album), some thought it a sign that
he might spurn the inscrutable skronk of his past recordings. While this
project does, at times, focus a smidge more on acoustic melody (a direction
which the Microphones were taking anyway), it retains all of Elvrum's
endearing energy. His lo-fi, often acoustic tunes bop along eerily, only to
be interrupted by the fuzzy interjections of overloaded guitars and the
wheeling of bike spindles. (AP)
What's the name and location of Phil Elvrum's favorite music store? The second and sixth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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Tribeca Film Festival
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From indie to mega-budget films, documentaries to narratives, kid-friendly events to high-brow panel discussions, Robert De Niro's ever-growing Tribeca Film Festival boasts broad appeal. But even with over 170 features and loads of satellite events, you can't please everyone all of the time. To speed straight through the program to some true essentials, we suggest you clue into The War Tapes, a poignant documentary project that puts cameras in the hands of American soldiers in Iraq; Walker Payne starring Jason Patric as a coal miner who's down on his luck; The Yacoubian Building, a fictionalized film from Egypt that examines the secular world of a modern Islamic country; and A Flock of Dodos, an amusing documentary that pits evolution against intelligent design. (MB)
A decade before he started the film festival, Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Film Center opened in what type of neighborhood building? The first eight correct responses each win a pair of tickets to a festival screening.
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| MUSIC: Upcoming |
KEXP Live Sessions
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Mon 5.15 - Fri 5.19 |
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Gigantic Studios (59 Franklin St, 212.219.3039) map |
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KEXP may only be located on the FM dial in the Seattle area, but the hugely
influential non-commercial radio station has fans around the globe, thanks
in large part to its live Internet stream at kexp.org. This May, the station
is once again consummating its long-distance affair with NYC by setting up
shop downtown at Gigantic Studios for a weeklong remote broadcast. While the
top-notch KEXP DJs are in town, they'll also be bringing a host of the finest new acts — including Dr. Dog, the Mugs, and
Up the Empire — into the studio for a series of live on-air daytime
performances. Tickets are free, but space is extremely limited, so be sure
to reserve yours now. (DL)
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Guy Ben-Ner
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Now through Sat 5.20 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm) |
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Postmasters Gallery (459 W 19th St, 212.727.3323) map |
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While no man is an island, family man Guy Ben-Ner comes close with a pair of
Robinson Crusoe-inspired works featuring the artist in varying degrees of
domestic isolation. In the sculptural installation and video Treehouse
Kit, Ben-Ner reconfigures an Ikea treehouse into a Swiss Family
Robinson-style abode that reflects his tinkering ingenuity with household
items. Using his small kitchen as a studio set, Berkeley Island
presents the artist shipwrecked on an archetypical mound of sand doubling as
a desert island with a single palm tree. A witty series of vignettes
alternates between introspective storytelling through clever props and
interruptions from the real world, such as his mischievous daughter,
illustrating the tensions between individual internal monologue and daily
interpersonal relations. (CEK)
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Established in 1921, PEN has long fought for freedom of expression and international understanding through the lens of literature, and in the wake of the PATRIOT Act, their mission has taken on renewed urgency. After gaining steam with the State of Emergency readings, PEN established the World Voices festival
in 2005, which returns to the city this week (Wed 4.26 - Sun 4.30) with a
jaw-dropping lineup of international luminaries. Though attendees
will be spoiled for choice, a quick roundup of highlights includes: Chinua
Achebe, Martin Amis, E.L. Doctorow, Jeanette Winterson, and more reflecting
on faith and reason; a meditation on HIV with Laurie Garrett, Nadine
Gordimer, and Larry Kramer; Russell Banks, Naomi Shihab Nye, Todd Solondz,
and others reading work by writers currently denied entry to the US; a chat
between Israeli writer Etgar Keret and bizarro-great author George Saunders;
and a conversation between Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch MP currently under
death threat, and Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch. (JKG)
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CD REVIEW: Rainer Maria, Catastrophe Keeps Us Together |
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Grunion Records
Released April 2006
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Catastrophe may be an impetus for individual bonds, but it's inaction that
leaves a band middling in the minor leagues. While Rainer Maria's careening,
post-emo indie tunes have kept them afloat for over a decade, sameness left
the band playing to similarly sized club crowds, while slightly poppier
openers (Rilo Kiley, for instance) passed right on by. With
Catastrophe Keeps Us Together, Rainer Maria reimagine themselves, not with a newfound
maturity, but by adopting the relaxed sensibility of a younger act. Gone
are overcomplicated song structures and the caws of guitarist
Kyle Fischer. In their place, songs like "Catastrophe" and "Clear and True"
deliver affecting, uptempo hooks and inspired, bouncy vocals. The
resemblance to Rilo Kiley is undeniable, but singer Caithlin De Marrais, a
longer-lived emo-ette, outclasses Jenny Lewis at every turn,
girl-next-dooring her way through each pop passage with the poise of an
inspired indie vet. (AP)
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We check in with our friends at Gomma for new videos posted in support of Who Made Who's debut album, along with selections from neo-soulster Mocky and label boss/resident punk-funk-disco don Munk. These make welcome additions to the site's bursting cache of excellent streaming mixes from the likes of Thomas Barfod and In Flagranti, as well as Headman and Lindstrom. Exposing the Gomma stable to the wired masses is the recently released Dancing Galactic — an exclusive digital compilation available only on iTunes, featuring ten new tracks that include an acid-tinged Playgroup remix for the floor, assorted new material from label stalwarts such as Leroy Hanghofer, and a live performance from Who Made Who. (CJN)
Note: To access downloads from the Gomma homepage, click on "mixtapes/videos (games)" in the left-hand navigation, then on "mixtapes." The featured MP3s will appear on the right side of your screen.
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