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Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 330: site-specific flavor
Location, location, location! The mantra of every real estate agent looms large this week, with Architecture Week setting the mood and an assortment of venues almost as fun as the events being held in them. First Fridays return to Mr. Wright's legendary Guggenheim with Ratatat in tow; the Gowanus Canal — hardly an architectural destination, but a beloved landmark just the same — is the location for a family-friendly fall party with selectors Rich Medina, Spinna, and Bobbito; hot new Greenpoint club Studio B beckons with DFA's finest DJs and a night summoning the hedonism of Berlin's Loveparade; and the former school Performance Space 122 plays host to two nights of high-energy, multidisciplinary stage performances for the Avant-Garde-Arama. But if local architecture itself is all the party you need, the Open House New York Weekend gives you access to some of the city's most interesting buildings. Make a blueprint, and spread it.
- Jake Lancaster, Managing Editor
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Avant Schmavant!
This weekend, Flavorpill steps into the performing
arts arena with P.S. 122's Avant-Garde-Arama — bite-sized bits of out-there
entertainers hosted by the skit-happy PUPU Platter troupe and wrapped up with DJs
— all curated by your favorite cultural filterators.
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The Reader's Room feat. Marisha Pessl and Lorin Stein
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Tue 10.3 (7pm) |
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Mo Pitkin's (34 Ave A, 212.777.5660) map |
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Tonight's installment of the weekly Reader's Room reading series features two very different scribes. Marisha Pessl reads from her debut novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics, which has achieved bestseller status and critical acclaim for its clever conceits, obsessive lit-nerd referencing, and winning heroine (though Pessl's "TV-hot" dust jacket picture surely hasn't hurt). She's joined by Lorin Stein, the translator most recently lauded for rendering Grégoire Bouillier's Prix de Flore winner The Mystery Guest as funny and heartbreaking in English as in its original French. (UC)
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| MULTIMEDIA |
They Heart a Computer
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Tue 10.3 (8pm) |
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The Kitchen (512 W 19th St, 212.255.5793) map |
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$8 |
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Rhizome, the online new media depot, curates an evening of video and performance art as part of its tenth-anniversary festival. Influenced by the Internet, tonight's work is characterized by a dry wit and a lively palette. Performance artists Jona Bechtolt and Claire L. Evans use humor to debunk popular Net and technology myths, as does vlogger Ze Frank, who is also known for his pointed political commentary. Employing broken code as a web aesthetic, pioneering artist collective JODI began work in the '90s, making them among the earliest computer mavericks. Paper Rad, arguably the best known in the group, produces the ensemble Doo Man Group, who deliver their dizzying, signature multimedia performance. (PJ)
 What did Ze Frank study while an undergrad at Brown? The third correct response wins a pair
of tickets to this show.
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| MUSIC: Post-Garage Pop |
Dragons of Zynth w/ Harlem Shakes, White Rabbits, and the Subjects
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Bouncy Brooklynites Harlem Shakes' long-waited EP, Burning Birthdays, rubs
new-school sunshine pop against damaged indie doo-wop and emerges as anthemic as the Yeah
Yeah Yeahs' better material. Singer Lexy Benaim lisps with dark, boyish glee as alternately
cutting and rolling guitar lines cascade over long, harmonized ooohs and ahhhs, bright
synth patterns, and the occasional sax (there's even a flute in there somewhere). If this
is NYC-style garage, then it's a new, spiffier model (post-garage pop perhaps?). The band
plays tonight with New York City space-poppers Dragons of Zynth, hard-drumming piano
plunkers White Rabbits, and dark sweetie pies the Subjects. (AP)
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| MUSIC: Hip-Hop House |
King Britt presents the Nova Dream Sequence
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Tue 10.3 (9pm-2am) |
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Cielo (18 Little W 12th St, 212.645.5700) map |
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Event Info | King Britt |
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Though King Britt has always deftly hopscotched between electronic subgenres, the Philadelphia native has been generally associated with soulful, funky sounds, from as far back as his stint as the Digable Planets' DJ and under a range of style-specific aliases to his recent remix tribute album for street preacher/gospel singer Sister Gertrude Morgan. For his forthcoming album, Interpretations, Britt targets proto- and classic techno under the moniker Nova Dream Sequence — a project inspired equally by the old-school innovations of Kraftwerk and Detroit. Tonight's free show unveils his new sound live, with Britt's effects manipulations accompanied by Tim Motzer on guitar/synth. (JJ)
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Shortbus
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Opens Wed 10.4 |
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Sunshine Cinemas (143 E Houston St, 212.358.7709) map |
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$10.75 |
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Event Info | Shortbus |
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From the opening scenes of Shortbus, in which a couples therapist strenuously fakes her
orgasm and her client auto-fellates himself while weeping, it's abundantly clear that this
ensemble film about the sex lives of New Yorkers is not for the faint of heart. But sex, as
wunderkind writer/director John Cameron Mitchell (2001's Hedwig and the Angry Inch)
reminds us, is often less the end-all be-all than a mere starting point for true human
communion. Gloriously hammy and unapologetically jerky, this paean to the obscure corners of
urban erotica — as well as to a pre-9/11 NYC — is sketched in blood, tears, and pastels. (LR)
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The End of Cinematics
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Mikel Rouse's The End of Cinematics is a work of film criticism masquerading as a
kinetic multiscreen opera. With few narrative toe holds, the viewer is thrust into a
disorienting thrall of images, live music, and motion. The work is part of a trilogy that includes
an opera about the Clutter family (the victims portrayed in Truman Capote's In Cold
Blood), and it's clear that Rouse delights in tussling with pop culture. This time around,
Rouse draws on Susan Sontag, MTV, polyphonal music, film clips (Batman Begins opens the performance), and security cameras as inspiration, asking
whether film moves us like it used to. If Rouse's own work can be called film, then the answer
is yes. (JDS)
Note: There's a post-show talk with composer Mikel Rouse following Thursday's performance.
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Dandyism Today
Wed 10.4 (7pm) Housing Works UBC (126 Crosby St, 212.334.3324) map
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Dandyism is more than a pose insist panelists Lord Whimsy, Alex Wilcox, and others, so don't show up tonight with an ascot and expect to fit in. Instead, hear their
analysis and get tips on channeling your own inner dandy. (LT)
 
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| MUSIC: Indie Rawk |
Rocks Off presents the Fever
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Thur 10.5 (7pm) |
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Half Moon (departs from E 23rd St & FDR Dr) map |
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$25 / $20 advance |
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If the Fever's previous albums took various pages from classic post-punk and guitar pop (yawn),
their latest, In the City of Sleep, pulls an entire book off Tom Waits' shelf. The gleeful
organ grinding, slightly drunken horns, exuberant and rowdy percussion flourishes, and lilting
vocals lend a new charisma — evoking current post-Waitsian darlings Man Man more than
power-poppers (and old tourmates) Hot Hot Heat. While their studio output can and should remain
atop your listening pile, tonight is your last-ever chance to catch their rollicking show live before the group disbands,
and there's little better venue than a boat out on the high seas for their swaggering,
sometimes spastic performances and new cache of jaunty shanties. (LT)
Name two filmmakers who are counted among the Fever's influences. The fourth and sixth
correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven
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Now through Sat 10.14 (Thur-Sat: 8:30pm) |
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HERE Arts Center (145 6th Ave, 212.647.0202) map |
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Writer/director Young Jean Lee presents a pseudo-autobiographical perspective on being
Korean-American in a white world. The title purposefully misrepresents the play, which opens
with masochistic video footage. Through a series of vignettes, Lee explores issues of gender,
race, and religion with a biting yet comedic tone, while explicitly sharing her political
agenda. The talented cast moves gracefully from scene to scene — from grandma on her
deathbed to a holiday jingle with choreographed suicide attempts. The play leaves the audience
questioning the multiple existences we all juggle, and simultaneously wondering if, in fact, "all
is vanity." (TL)
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
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Fri 10.6 - Thur 10.12 (1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 & 9:40pm) |
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Film Forum (209 W Houston St, 212.727.8110) map |
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In director Luis Buñuel's wicked spoof of high society everywhere, a bevy of wealthy friends
float in a rhapsody of chiffon dresses, stacked heels, paisley dinner jackets, and endless
debates over the administration of the proper martini. Around them cocaine deals are struck,
soldiers mount bloody attacks, bishops murder gardeners, couples schtup al fresco, and strangers
testify of torture and the supernatural, but all that penetrates this group's surrealistically
polite reverie are the meals after meals that they somehow miss. Herein lies an Oscar winner
that (for once) deserves its accolades: the ideal film for those who resist any revolution
lacking a sense of humor. (LR)
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Fred Tomaselli
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Fri 10.6 (6-8pm) |
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James Cohan Gallery (533 W 26th St, 212.714.9500) map |
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Now 50 years old, Fred Tomaselli demonstrates what the acid-expanded mind does when it grows up
and gets down to business. His haute-psychedelic paintings are assembled out of small
cutouts from magazines, botanical textbooks, actual drugs, and paint, of course. By
controlling the scale of his found materials and by maintaining a uniform black under-layer,
Tomaselli tames this visual cacophony into a universe of obsessive (though hallucinatory)
order. In Hang Over, a marvelous balance is struck between the
calmness of the overall composition and the frenetic madness of the details. Also included is
a series of small portraits, in which brains catch fire and eyes multiply — surely
reflecting the sensations of this show's viewers. (AT)
Note: This exhibition continues through Sat 11.11 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm).
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Avant-Garde-Arama with special guest curators Flavorpill
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Fri 10.6 & Sat 10.7 (8pm) |
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P.S. 122 (150 1st Ave, 212.477.5829) map |
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For this fall's installment of P.S. 122's annual Avant-Garde-Arama festival, Flavorpill curates
two nights of rapid-fire performances, culled from a vast pool of talented new artists. Six
different companies and performers are featured each night, presenting innovative, avant-garde
(but not of the uptight, chin-scratching variety) short works in theatre, dance, film,
multimedia, improv, puppetry, music, and more. Performers include multidisciplinary dancer/choreographer Leigh Evans on Friday and Jollyship the Whiz-Bang's pirate puppet pop-operas on Saturday. Cult fave comedy troupe PUPU Platter hosts each
evening, and eclectic DJs [sic] and Nublu's Justin Carter turn the vibe into a late-night party
— helped not a little by complimentary beer. (SP)
Note: There are also two "family-friendly" performances on Sun 10.8 (4 & 7pm).
The origin of the term "avant-garde" can be fixed to what date? The first 20 correct
responses each win a pair of tickets to either the Friday or Saturday performance.
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| MUSIC: Electro-Rock |
Guggenheim and Flavorpill present First Fridays feat. Ratatat w/ Pink Skull
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Brooklyn duo Ratatat garnered well-deserved hype for their eponymous debut album, but no one was sure how they would top those soaring tracks. People started to get downright nervous when word trickled out that their sophomore LP would be titled Classics and would feature (shudder) guitars. Fortunately, the boys hitched up their pants — and added a keyboardist to their guitar/drums arsenal — and turned the dial to "epic": expect a hazy mirage of unabashedly dizzying, layered tunes to fill the Guggenheim's rotunda. Pink Skull's Julian S. Process kicks things off, manipulating electro-psych cuts for fans of "drugs and disco." (TW)
Note: Early arrival is strongly recommended as Ratatat's last NYC show sold out.
What was Ratatat's original band name? The first five correct responses each win a pair of
tickets to this show.
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Bklyn Meets the Loveparade Berlin feat. Dr. Motte w/ Mark Verbos, Ryan Brogan, Insideout, Dominik Schöller, and Bruce Tantum
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By its late-'90s heyday, Berlin's annual Loveparade had swelled to gargantuan, circus-like
proportions, teeming with trance wizards and e-popping techno tourists. The Parade's roots,
however, are firmly planted in the underground. Back in the pre-unified Germany of 1989, local
DJ Dr. Motte took techno's fringe sound to Berlin's streets, hoping to promote peace, unity,
and understanding through the electronic fabric he and his unknown cohorts were weaving. Tonight,
visionary Motte joins live electronic performer Mark Verbos, Time Out New York's always-ace
Bruce Tantum, and a host of German, Gothamite, and Detroit record-spinners for a rave-style
party pulsing with diverse digital sounds. A particular German nu-guard DJ in town this week
just might make an appearance. (JJ)
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Open House New York Weekend
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Sat 10.7 & Sun 10.8 |
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Various locations |
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The city turns itself inside out as private institutions, churches, forts, and lighthouses open
their doors for the weekend. This year, there's a strong emphasis in Manhattan on sustainable
and green architecture, with Cook + Fox Architects offering a tour of their LEED-certified
office, and Atelier Ten Environmental Designers conducting a dialogue about affordable,
eco-friendly living solutions. It's also a
great weekend to explore an outer borough: on view are eight private mausoleums at Woodlawn
Cemetery in the Bronx, two original Dutch farmhouses in Brooklyn, a Hindu temple in Queens, and
the Noble Maritime Collection on Staten Island. (HGM)
Note: Check the event info link for details on specific tour hours and required reservations.
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Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture
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Sat 10.7 (2-6pm) |
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The Bronx Museum of the Arts (1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, 718.681.6000) map |
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The Bronx Museum re-opens in a landmark new building designed by Miami-based Arquitectonica
with a blockbuster exhibition of the late-'60s Brazilian avant-garde. Tropicália
— taken from the name of an interactive, multi-sensory environment created by Hélio
Oiticica in 1967, and a 1968 album featuring Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, and Caetano Veloso
— chronicles the few vital years (1967-72) when a free-wheeling set of musicians,
artists, and designers let anarchistic colors and psychedelic passions run wild while in
pursuit of a liberated, indigenous culture. Though the movement was stifled by a military
dictatorship, Tropicália has a wealth of contemporary reincarnations whose work is included in
the show: assume vivid astro focus, Rivane Neuenschwander, Ernesto Neto, and Arto Lindsay.
(HGM)
Note: This exhibition continues through Sun 1.28.07 (Wed-Sun: 12-6pm). The museum has extended hours on Fridays from 10am-8pm.
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Marcin Ramocki: 8 BIT
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Sat 10.7 (8pm) |
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MoMA (11 W 53rd St, 212.708.9400) map |
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$10 |
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Long before Beck introduced the masses to bleep with his Hell Yes EP, circuit-bending
obsessives were cracking open Game Boys to unleash customized Super Mario sounds. Marcin
Ramocki's 8 BIT: A Documentary about Art and Videogames situates these hackers somewhere between self-reflective, pop-art technocrats and
geeky gamers, pondering the nature of digital inspiration. 8 BIT shows that this genre
isn't limited to Frogger-fied funk either: abstract robotic experimentalism peacefully
co-exists with booming sine-wave grooves. And if you stick around until the end they might
divulge the secret code to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. (MG)
Note: 8 BIT also screens Wed 10.11 (8:30pm).
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Oktoberfest feat. Rich Medina w/ DJ Spinna and Bobbito Garcia
Sat 10.7 (2-9pm) Gowanus Canal Project (400 Carroll St, Bklyn) map $15 advance
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Three of New York's finest DJs provide an urban soundtrack for an idyllic waterfront
afternoon of fireside cider (and beer!)-sippin' and pumpkin paintin' — graffiti-style, of course.
(JL)
Note: Kids are free. This event requires advance tickets.
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DFA presents James Murphy w/ the Juan Maclean, Tim Sweeney, and Marcus Lambkin
Sat 10.7 (10pm) Studio B (259 Banker St, Bklyn, 718.389.1880) map $8 / $5 advance
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Soulwax's party two weeks ago managed to raise Studio B's Polish roof on a weeknight; tonight,
the DFA's all-star DJ tour is sure to send it into a mutant-disco orbit. (JL)
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Giant Step presents NY Gypsy Festival feat. Eugene Hutz w/ Kultur Shock, Kolpakov Trio, and Acquaragia Drom
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Gypsy punk Eugene Hutz has worked as an activist, actor, translator, and musician, and now dons
the hat of host and promoter of the second NY Gypsy Festival. After the runaway success of
last year's eclectic lineup, Hutz closes out 10 days of unparalleled international revelry with
a trio of generation-spanning Roma bands. Traveling Italian quintet Acquaragia Drom revive
swirling clarinets and frenzied violins of traditional caravans with kitschy roguish charm; the
formally trained Kolpakov Trio play original and traditional gypsy tunes, accompanied by a
prodigious acoustic seven-string guitarist; Seattle-based vagabond rockers Kultur Shock mash
tribal and samba beats with power chords and a melting pot of languages; and jack-of-all-trades
Hutz plays selector throughout the night. (IB)
Note: Balkan badassery abounds all week, with bouzouki-banging, polka-pogoing, horn-section
hording acts from Philly to Turkey. Check the festival link for details.
What is the Roma name for non-gypsies? The fifth correct response wins a pair of tickets to
this show.
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Islands w/ Socalled and Sister Suvi
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Those who mourned the breakup of critically acclaimed Canadian pop trio Unicorns can take great
comfort in members Nick Diamonds' and J'aime Tambeur's subsequent project Islands. The new
incarnation carries on the goofy, pop-driven legacy of Unicorns' jangly guitars, unusual hooks,
and hilariously introspective lyrics, while adding a color all its own with influences as
diverse as calypso and hip-hop. With upwards of six touring members, the stage is a stew of
instruments, including multiple guitars and violins. Be ready to join the fray, as Diamonds has a tendency to jump stage
and encourage ass-shaking from the floor. (LB)
Note: Islands also play Northsix on Tue 10.10 (9pm).
Though every man is an island, unicorns are still the stuff of fantasies. What mythical
creature would you most like to see and why? Our favorite response in 50 words or less wins a
pair of tickets to this show.
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| THEATRE |
Drug Buddy
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Now through Sat 10.21 (Tue-Fri: 8pm / Sat: 3 & 8pm) |
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Cherry Lane Theater (38 Commerce St, 212.989.2020) map |
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$37.50 |
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A first-time drug experience turns into a life-changing incident in David Folwell's
breakneck new play, Drug Buddy. The action goes back and forth in time within one
long night, chronicling two friends' drug experimentation, sexual encounters, and brushes
with death. Alex Kilgore's direction keeps the pace moving and builds suspense as the
audience slowly pieces everything together. Matthew Stadelmann stands out as the teenage
genius who finds himself transformed in the midst of a confusing, if eventful,
evening. (SP)
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subUrbia
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Now through Sun 10.29 (schedule) |
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2econd Stage Theatre (307 W 43rd St, 212.246.4422) map |
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Eric Bogosian's subUrbia made a big splash when it was first staged in 1994, with its raw depiction of disaffected youth in an all-too-familiar everyday American suburb. A dozen years later, some of the edges feel less razor-sharp, but director Jo Bonney (Bogosian's wife) has contemporized the playwright's astute dialogue and taken many liberties in staging the play to make it more relevant for a 2006 audience. Richard Hoover's set transposes an actual 7-Eleven-type convenience store onto the stage, while the exuberant cast — including Kieran Culkin, Gaby Hoffmann, and Daniel Eric Gold — embodies the troubled youths with remarkable ease. (SP)
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Karen Kilimnik
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Now through Sat 11.4 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm) |
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303 Gallery (525 W 22nd St, 212.255.1121) map |
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If Vigée Le Brun had replaced Jacques-Louis David as the official painter of Napoleon's reign, European
history painting might have looked like Karen Kilimnik's oeuvre. Kilimnik emasculates where she can, but
every subject receives a sensuous (if undermining) treatment: a rearing military horse without its general, or a half-painted general on a half-painted horse leading his troops into a battle.
The gold-painted front room houses A Debonair General's Tent — a faux-historical recreation containing three
paintings and a mis-en-scène of maps and toys — transforming a Napoleonic campaign into
an adolescent's game. In the back gallery, Kilimnik designed a
gazebo for two collages and a video of fairy ballerinas dancing in a forest of artificial plants. (HGM)
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Ear to the Earth
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Fri 10.6 - Sat 10.14 (schedule) |
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Various locations |
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$10 per concert |
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If you're looking for a meaningful followup to Al Gore's eco-cinematic lecture, listen up! Ear
to the Earth is a weeklong festival of sound art that focuses on helping audiences better
understand the environment, while igniting a debate about contemporary ecological issues. The
works include concerts, installations, public art, and panel discussions that explore our
interaction with natural and man-made worlds through sound. Among the highlights, The State
of the City presents three different mappings of New York City in sound, Ferals
explores the lives and travails of the city's pigeons, and Extended Worlds features
compositions and premieres by renowned sound artists. (SP)
Note: The opening reception and the panels are free. You can also purchase an all-festival pass for $35.
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AIA's New York chapter and the Center for Architecture Foundation host this year's Architecture
Week. From October 6th through the 12th, fervent fans of building and design can attend the annual
Design-In Marathon discussion on the discipline or tour the erected gems of
Open House New York, while casual connoisseurs of construction can explore Gotham's other
hidden treasures. Lower Manhattan's Skyscraper Museum celebrates our historical superstructures
and features Giants: The Twin Towers and the Twentieth Century, a commemorative exhibit
of the ambitious engineering that helped mold our world-famous skyline. GreenHome NYC's annual
Green Buildings Open House offers seven jaunts through environmentally advanced and sustainable
buildings throughout our boroughs. Also notable: the Morgan Library and Museum's highlight of
its ongoing, Renzo Piano-designed expansion. (IB)
Note: Check Artkrush for extensive coverage on global architecture.
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CD REVIEW: Joseph Arthur, Nuclear Daydream |
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Lonely Astronaut Records
Released February 2005
$12.99 (Amazon)
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Joseph Arthur easily impresses the uninitiated at his live shows with his mesmerizing use of
loops to build layered songs, one self-played bit at a time, à la Andrew Bird. On record,
however, such trickery isn't as obvious, leaving the songwriting (and production) to speak for
itself. Nuclear Daydream is Arthur's fifth full-length, and it does something the underrated singer/songwriter hasn't done much of
before: revel in simpler arrangements. In fact, the best track by miles, the heart-rending
"Black Lexus," features little more than an acoustic guitar and Arthur's own enviable,
melancholy voice (albeit with increasingly dense harmonies). What's most clear is that both
as a singer — who can switch from rumbling baritone to airy falsetto and catch every note
in between — and a songwriter, Joseph Arthur has yet to receive his well-deserved due. Go
on, share his pain. (DL)
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Compared to the increasingly watered-down playlists of 21st-century commercial radio, Santa Monica-based KCRW is a very different beast. In addition to the renowned eclecticism of its musical offerings, the station also offers public affairs, political analysis, and assorted cultural programming — all streaming online. It's also proven to be a powerful force in the live arena, toting its KCRW Presents series far and wide. Check streams of some of the best shows, including Jason Bentley's electronic-focused Metropolis, Morning Becomes Eclectic with Nic Harcourt — who has an impeccable track record in breaking up-and-coming bands — as well as the global beat-focused Pop Secret. (CJN)
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