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Flavorpill NYC | SF | LA | LONDON | CHI February 6 - 12, 2007

 
 Kevin Zucker   
Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 348: unflappable flavor

Unlike a certain sister city, New York has proven unflappable in the face of a recent small-scale invasion of little blinking men. Yes, while Boston quakes before the Lite-Brite Mooninites, we're too busy working hard and playing hard. It's no wonder, what with a week that includes such a sterling batch of out-and-abouting: an assault of sublime sonic terrorists at Tonic; the mighty Nordic disco of Lindstrøm sweeping through Brooklyn; old-school meets no-skool hip-hop with Slick Rick and Pigeon John at the Knit; snowboarding spectacles riding daffy through both Union Square and Central Park; At Least It's Pink's large and in-charge quasi-cabaret; and three great silent films accompanied by live scores from the Alloy Orchestra. In the face of such imposing culture, resist the urge to press the panic button — simply spread it.

- Jake Lancaster, Managing Editor

 

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Sick of all the Valentine's Day hype? Unattached and glad about it? In the week leading up to the year's most overly sentimental holiday, Altoids invite lovesick, lovelorn, and Cupid-wary New Yorkers to join them at a Curious & Original Chocolate Shoppe, a sanctuary from all the romantic overtures.
 Table of Contents TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT
art Tony Conrad; Claire Fontaine; Kevin Zucker
cabaret/burlesque At Least It's Pink
danceDeath in Venice
dj Lindstrøm; Duane Harriott; Switch
festival Guitar Festival
film The Lives of Others; East of Havana; Lights, Camera, Action; Silent Films feat. the Alloy Orchestra
lecture Roberta Smith
multimedia POWER ROOM
music Tigercity; The Rosebuds; Sightings; Slick Rick w/ Pigeon John; Vetiver w/ Vashti Bunyan; PLUG Independent Music Awards
performance The Pod Project
photography Peter Piller
reading Kevin Shay and Yael Goldstein
sportsUnion Square Street Sessions
FEAT some things in life are free SoftwareFor.org; cd review Alela Diane, The Pirate's Gospel; streams Futureboogie
UPCOMINGCheck out our weekly updated list of upcoming events




Northern Strobe Lights
Lindstrøm's signature kaleidoscopic funk and time-stretching melodic disco touch down at Studio B this Saturday.

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Tuesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


PHOTOGRAPHY
Peter Piller: Archive Peter Piller

when: Now through Sat 2.10 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm)
where: Andrew Kreps Gallery (525 W 22nd St, 212.741.8849) map
price:
links: Event Info

Casting a wider net than appropriation alchemist Richard Prince, Peter Piller mined the media archive at his day job with a German advertising firm to accumulate a vast array of journalistic images. Piller's US solo debut culls forensic and ceremonial moments where polizei search nondescript fields and forests, tire tracks suggest unidentified fugitives, and experts pontificate on casual relations. Straightforward inkjet prints are pinned to walls in a subdivided gallery, allowing for a compartmentalized reflection on unnerving pairings like home trophies of unexploded bombs hung across from mundane aerial photographs of quaint houses. Recalling Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel's classic project Evidence, Piller's troves of facsimiles bestow a poetic take on photographic subtexts, hidden in plain view. (CEK)




Wednesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


LECTURE
Roberta Smith

when: Wed 2.7 (3-5pm)
where: Parsons the New School for Design (65 5th Ave, Swayduck Auditorium, 212.229.8942) map
price:
links: Event Info

Influential arbiter and art critic for the Times since 1986, Roberta Smith delivers a lecture on her own career, and on criticism's current role within the art world. Smith got her start in the late '70s working as a studio assistant for Donald Judd and for the fledgling Paula Cooper gallery. First as a critic for the Village Voice, and now in her current position, Smith has made herself known for her outspoken criticism of women's chronic under-representation in the art world. Along with her husband, Jerry Saltz (the Voice's current art critic), she continues to castigate museums, survey shows, and group exhibitions for their male bias. (HGM)



MULTIMEDIA
POWER ROOM

when: Wed 2.7 (7:30 & 10pm)
where: Monkey Town (58 N 3rd St, Wburg, 718.384.1369) map
price: $5
links: Event Info

You might attribute (or blame) the current populist interest in video on any one of several factors: cheap digital cameras, iMovie, YouTube, or, maybe, Marshall McLuhan and '60s video utopianism. Regardless of the cause, video today is experiencing the sort of widespread interest that makes for the delightfully varied roster of POWER ROOM, featuring downtown underground film hero Nick Zedd on the new world order, writer and critic Gary Indiana on Ulrike Meinhof, and polysexual Throbbing Gristle/Psychic TV founder Breyer P'Orridge on pandrogeny (to the tune of an unreleased Psychic TV song), among others. The result: a post-utopian video show championing cultural obsession over revolutionary ideals. (BB)

Note: Reservations are strongly recommended. There's a $10 minimum drink or food order per table.

  Which classic movie does Marshall McLuhan appear in as an expert on himself? The second correct response wins a pair of tickets to this event.



FESTIVAL
Guitar Festival

when: Wed 2.7 - Tue 2.13
where: The Stone (E 2nd St & Ave C, 212.473.0043) map
price: $10
links: Event Info

Mary Halvorson curates the weeklong Guitar Festival at the Stone, playing her own abstract tweaks and twings with a trio tonight. Halvorson's propensity to wander the fretboard is matched only by her ability to eventually bend the melodies back around to a logical endpoint. Also unmissable is Mick Barr's Bach-on-78 solo riffing tomorrow — picking fury fast enough to make Trey Azagthoth's wrists envious. And if you thought Nels Cline forgot his Phrygian shredding roots playing in that alt-country band, Sunday offers his duo with Elliott Sharp and an accordion-laced quintet. (MG)



ALSO ON WED

FILM
Silent Films feat. the Alloy Orchestra: Blackmail (1929), The Eagle (1925), and The General (1926)
Wed 2.7- Fri 2.9 (7pm) Winter Garden at the World Financial Center (220 Vesey St, 212.417.7000) map

Event Info
 
Truly, there's no better way to relish silent film (or acquaint yourself with its under-sung pleasures) than when it's accompanied by live music, especially from the hands of the three wonderful odd-jobs comprising the Alloy Orchestra. (LR)



DANCE
Death in Venice
Wed 2.7 - Sat 2.10 (7:30pm) BAM (30 Lafayette Ave, Bklyn, 718.636.4100) map $20-70

Event Info
 
John Neumeier reimagines the poet protagonist in Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice as a choreographer whose passion for an adolescent boy leads to his ultimate destruction in the Hamburg Ballet's first return to BAM in 20 years. (SP)




Thursday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Lights, Camera, Action: Artists' Films for the Cinema

when: Thur 2.8 - Fri 3.30 (Wed & Thur: 11:30am & Fri: 1:30pm)
where: Whitney Museum of American Art (945 Madison Ave, 212.570.3676) map
price: $15
links: Event Info

Curator Chrissie Iles has shown a knack for picking the best contemporary practitioners of film and video art for the Whitney, most notably for the '04 and '06 Biennials. In this series, Iles collects 42 artists' cinematic endeavors. Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie's fictitious Pull My Daisy (1959) documents the Beats' heyday, and features narration by Ginsberg, Corso, and Kerouac. Douglas Gordon, whose 24 Hour Psycho (1993) recently showed at MoMA, delves into Hitchcock from another angle with Feature Film (1999), which finds James Conlon conducting Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo score — a testament to the impact of music on filmgoers. Film (1965), starring Buster Keaton in Samuel Beckett's screenplay, shows us a man trying to escape the inescapable. (JRC)

  With which notable poet and MoMA curator did Alfred Leslie collaborate to create a road-trip film in the mid-'60s? The third and fifth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to a screening.



ART
Claire Fontaine: Footnotes on the State of Exception

when: Now through Sun 2.11 (Thur-Sun: 12-6pm)
where: Reena Spaulings Fine Art (165 E Broadway, 212.477.5006) map
price:
links: Event Info

It's straight from a conspiracy theory: a shadow company called the Bernadette Corporation invented a character named Reena Spaulings, who opened an eponymous gallery, which is now showing the work of another anonymous artist collective, Claire Fontaine. Claire Fontaine, whose name is appropriated from the French stationary company, is a self-proclaimed "readymade artist" specializing in the meta-art niche. A flashing, circular neon sign on the ceiling spells out the translation of an ambiguous Roman slogan, while a separate series of tungsten bulbs across the room mimics the flashing words. Guy Debord's anti-film Howls in Favor of de Sade (1952) plays on an iPod, while the pages of his book Society of the Spectacle have been replaced by a brick. (HGM)



ALSO ON THUR

SPORTS
Union Square Street Sessions
Thur 2.8 (3-9pm) Union Square map

Event Info
 
Pro riders land in Union Square tonight for Street Sessions, an after-work rail jam featuring live DJs, schwag-toting sponsors, and lots of snow. (HH)

Note: Locals hit rails, boxes, and wallrides at a huge amateur event at the Central Park band shell for the Winter Jam on Sat 2.10. Online registration required.



DJ
The Cooperative Review presents Switch
Thur 2.8 (10pm) Cielo (18 Little W 12th St, 212.645.5700) map $20 / $15 advance

Event Info | Switch
 
London's Dave Taylor (aka Switch) leverages his hip-hop background to inject tight, slightly syncopated beats and throbbing sub-bass to house music's framework, tweaking the genre and scoring a permanent slot in the record boxes of selectors worldwide. (CJN)

  In which West Yorkshire city did Switch get his start as a DJ? The first two correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.




Friday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
The Lives of Others

when: Opens Fri 2.9
where: Angelika Film Center (18 W Houston St, 212.995.2000) map
price: $10.75
links: Event Info | The Lives of Others

Shot in a bottle-green haze, The Lives of Others ogles a pre-unification East Berlin artists' community through the lens of Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), a Stasa officer collecting dirt on a playwright whose actress girlfriend is desired by a high official. Naturally, the observer comes to admire his subject, as these things go, and the results smack in the very best way of such '70s conspiracy thrillers as Coppola's The Conversation (1974). Writer/director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has achieved in this, his first feature, a brooding noir whose moral and political relevance is of a caliber only found in efforts made outside the US these days. (LR)



MUSIC: Hip-Hop
Slick Rick w/ the Original Skull Snaps! and Pigeon John

when: Fri 2.9 (9pm)
where: Knitting Factory (74 Leonard St, 212.219.3132) map
price: $18
links: Event Info | Pigeon John

With one donning an eye patch and crown and the other flapping his arms like a bird, it's safe to say that, even in our town of innumerable nightly hip-hop shows, tonight's session with Slick Rick and Pigeon John will have the most antics. It's not all ploys for attention, though. Both the relative newcomer, John, and the infamous forefather, Rick, bring a delicacy to the genre that's rarely heard, sprouting melodies out of shape-shifting vocal rhythms and building epic, hold-onto-every-
last-word tales out of clever rhymes. So while it may look like they're acting the fool, it's all just a ruse. (JC)



ALSO ON FRI

DJ
Other Music presents Duane Harriott w/ Rick "The Godson" Wilhite and Jerome Derradji
Fri 2.9 (10pm) APT (419 W 13th St, 212.414.4245) map $8

Event Info
 
Other Music's own Duane Harriott, the man who reintroduced "black" '80s electro-jams to a new generation of scene-makers via his infamous Negroclash parties, gets top billing tonight. Detroit-flavored (read: soulful, funky) stalwarts Rick Wilhite and Jerome Derradji bring up the rear. (AB)

Note: Tim Sweeney (Beats in Space) spins upstairs tonight.




Saturday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


DJ
FIXED feat. Lindstrøm

when: Sat 2.10 (10pm)
where: Studio B (259 Banker St, Greenpoint, 718.389.1880) map
price: $10 / $8 advance
links: Event Info

Over the last half decade (eons in the fickle world of dance music), prolific Norwegian producer Hans Peter Lindstrøm has elated clubbers with timeless, slow-burning disco anthems. Schooled in traditional rock and folk music, the Norseman stays true to his multi-instrumentalist roots with his stunning slew of epic 12-inches, mixing psychedelic key flourishes and atmospheric percussion patterns with warm disco accents. This past year, Lindstrøm surpassed his rep as a singles producer and remixer du jour, releasing It's a Feedelity Affair, a record spacey and colorful enough to sparkle like the Northern Lights. He rarely makes it stateside — it's been more than a year since he killed the crowds at P.S.1's Warm Up with sometime partner Prins Thomas — so tonight's live set with the FIXED crew is an especially hot ticket for a cold night. (JJ)

  Which Lindstrøm track has also been served in small cubes for centuries? The first and third correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.



MUSIC: Synth Pop
Tigercity w/ Bon Savants and Up the Empire

when: Sat 2.10 (11:30pm)
where: Mercury Lounge (217 E Houston St, 212.260.4700) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | Tigercity | Bon Savants | Up the Empire

It might be the dead of winter, but don't tell that to Tigercity. One listen to gems like "Are You Sensation?" and you'll be wearing your Ray-Bans at night. In a pastel blazer. With the sleeves pushed up. In Miami. The Brooklyn quartet churns out pitch-perfect electro-pop tighter than a pair of leather pants, with disco beats bumping and grinding against new-wave Numan synths and Prince-ly riffs. Like Chromeo without the punch line, Tigercity incite instant nostalgia (while keeping enough of an edge to stay au courant) and a raucous dance party. Their future's so bright, you'll be glad you brought those shades. (LT)

Note: Arrive early for new-wavey distortion lovers Up the Empire's album release and the non-Brit Britpop shoegaze of Bon Savants.

  If one animal populated all of NYC, what would it be and why? Naturalized in 50 words or less, the two most urbane beasts each win a pair of tickets to this show.



ALSO ON SAT

MUSIC: Indiepalooza
2007 PLUG Independent Music Awards
Sat 2.10 (7pm) Irving Plaza (17 Irving Pl, 212.777.6800) map $10

Event Info
 
Tonight's annual PLUG Awards show will no doubt offer the independent-music industry both back-patting and lambasting in equal measure, with David Cross hosting. Short sets await from performers including El-P, Deerhoof, Tokyo Police Club, and Impact Award honoree Stephen Malkmus. (JL)

Note: Although the show is technically sold out, arrive early for a shot at the few remaining tickets left for day-of sales.



MUSIC: Freak Folk
Vetiver w/ Vashti Bunyan
Sat 2.10 (9pm) Southpaw (125 5th Ave, Park Slope, 718.230.0236) map $15

Event Info | Vetiver | Vashti Bunyan
 
Fresh off a widely anticipated Carnegie Hall performance with scene luminary Devendra Banhart, long-lost freak-folk godmother Vashti Bunyan joins neo-Americana adventurers Vetiver in an evening of woodland song, haunting acoustic melody, and lilting, otherworldly exploration. (AP)

  Which British folk legend did Bunyan follow to an ill-fated commune while writing Just Another Diamond Day? The third correct response wins a pair of tickets to this show.




Sunday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


READING
Kevin Shay and Yael Goldstein

when: Sun 2.11 (7pm)
where: KGB Bar (85 E 4th St, 212.505.3360) map
price:
links: Event Info | Kevin Shay

In The End as I Know It, McSweeney's funnyman Kevin Shay details a misguided elementary-school music teacher's cross-country crusade to save his family and friends from impending Y2K gloom and doom. Tonight, the Brooklyn resident reads from his fictional account of a panicked past, perfect for web-savvy literati looking for a laugh. First-time writer Yael Goldstein tugs at emotional strings with his reading from Overture, a violin virtuoso's story of breaking the cycle of mother-daughter strife within the competitive (and passive-aggressive) world of classical music. (IB)



MUSIC: Noize
Sightings w/ Demons (Nate Young of Wolf Eyes), Zaimph, and Aidan Baker

when: Sun 2.11 (8pm)
where: Tonic (107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501) map
price: $8
links: Event Info | Sightings

With solo projects from members of Nadja, Double Leopards, and Wolf Eyes on the bill, tonight's show is guaranteed not to be "pleasant" by any conventional definition of the word — but hey, sometimes sleeping in a cave is refreshing. And lest your mind gets blown too far out into the isolated recesses of the universe, New York's preeminent rock deconstructionists Sightings rein you back to this dimension with a good old-fashioned noise sing-along. On the count of three, everyone go, "BraarghwhoorrrAAHAAAAHKSSSSSSHHHH!" (GM)



MUSIC: Indie Rock
The Rosebuds

when: Sun 2.11 (9:30pm)
where: Union Hall (702 Union St, Park Slope, 718.638.4400) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | The Rosebuds

The Rosebuds' first LP, Birds Make Great Neighbors, has, even in its title, the kind of sincere, unabashed, ridiculous sentiment that could only be pulled off (with a straight face, at least) by someone taking such things very seriously. The yearning conviction of a less-jaded Teenage Fanclub and the hazy post-emo of Rainer Maria are touchstones, but with powerful, earnest pop sing-alongs in full force, there's no question that the husband-wife duo's upcoming Merge release, Night of the Furies, will be taken very seriously by very many people. (FK)




Monday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
East of Havana

when: Now playing
where: IFC Center (323 6th Ave, 212.924.7771) map
price: $10.75
links: East of Havana

Soandry, Magyori, and Mikki Flow, three members of the Cuban group El Cartel, may be hip-hop wunderkinder, but they have to jump through countless hoops in their native country just to make ends meet. The irony of East of Havana — a documentary about the trio produced by Charlize Theron and helmed (with a bit too much MTV gloss) by journalists Emilia Menocal and Jauretsi Saizarbitoria — then, is that the very Hollywood machine that enables their existence is barely accessible to its subjects in their doggedly anti-capitalist homeland. While this relative isolation all but ensures the artists' international obscurity, it also preserves a scrappy singularity long ago lost in the US. (LR)

  Who serves as namesakes for Theron's production company, Denver and Delilah Films? The first five correct responses each win a pair of tickets to a screening.




Ongoing / Upcoming TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


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PERFORMANCE
The Pod Project

when: Now through Sun 2.11 (7:30 & 9pm)
where: 20 Greene Gallery (20 Greene St, 212.925.2050 map
price: $25
links: Event Info

In The Pod Project, audience members are led one at a time through a series of separate, private stage sets, encountering short, personalized performances as they go. Blurring the line between theatre and participatory performance art, the situations are born in everyday action, from a patient in a dentist's office to a scene set in the shower. The option to interact with the performers is sometimes explicit and sometimes unclear; as a result, the typically passive experience of the spectator becomes an active, emotional reality. (TC)

Note: No performance is scheduled on Tue 2.6



ART
Tony Conrad

when: Now through Sat 2.17 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm)
where: Greene Naftali (526 W 26th St, 8th Fl, 212.463.7770) map
price:
links: Event Info

Go to any exhibition produced by avant-garde composer, cult filmmaker, and visual artist Tony Conrad, and expect to have your expectations thwarted. In the early '70s, Conrad promoted a "film viewing," which was actually a series of large, rectangular "screens" painted in brushy outlines. Using the slow yellowing of paint to approximate a film that lasts a lifetime or more, the artist displays his Yellow Movies again, 30 years later. At the time, Conrad was poking fun at experimental cinema, but today the work takes on new relevance, as contemporary media artists often turn to old technologies as part of their practice. (PJ)



ART
Kevin Zucker: Search Within Results

when: Now through Sat 3.3 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm)
where: Greenberg Van Doren Gallery (730 5th Ave, 212.445.0444) map
price:
links: Event Info

A painter who utilizes computer drafting, Kevin Zucker hybridizes contemporary ideas of the techno-sublime with the tropes of European painting. In Encyclopedia, a monumental painting rendered in dour grays, Zucker depicts a paradoxical place: a virtual library of shelves designed to house the free CAD models commonly used in digital rendering. His manipulation of illusionistic space is evident even in abstract works like CMYK [error type 25]; a layered network of gray lines distorts and disrupts solid areas of primary color, which appear to be receding into the center of the painting. In his photograph Columbia University, Zucker presents objects of seeming personal significance with a deadpan objectivity. (HGM)



CABARET/BURLESQUE
At Least It's Pink

when: Now through Sun 3.11 (Thur: 7pm / Fri & Sat: 8pm / Sun: 5pm)
where: Ars Nova Theater (511 W 54th St, 212.977.1700) map
price: $20-25
links: Event Info | Tickets

At Least It's Pink describes itself, rather misleadingly, as a "trashy little show." For starters, "trashy" doesn't begin to describe the razor's edge of this cabaret act's hysterical wit, with nine or so numbers brash enough to make the dirtiest downtown cheeks blush. And the talent's far from little: because songs like "Can Hole" don't write themselves, Michael Patrick King (executive producer of Sex and the City) and Kenny Mellman (the Herb of Kiki and Herb fame) helped their extra-plus-size star, Bridget Everett, put together the show — about Everett's exploits living in the city as a "big girl." (FK)




Features TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


  SOME THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE: SoftwareFor.org  

To chip away at the rising cost of higher education, SoftwareFor.org has grouped free software for undergrads (as well as post-grads and everyone else) to download from a time-saving single page, in lieu of begging, borrowing, and bootlegging. Programs including 3D rendering tool Blender, Mozilla's Firefox browser, and a multiplatform, multilingual office suite are either open-source or distributed with permission from the publisher, so you can dismiss any worries about illegal piracy. SoftwareFor.org aims for federal nonprofit status, so if you can afford to donate some cash to cover the company's costs, that helps to keep the freebies coming for those who need it. (IB)



 


  CD REVIEW: Alela Diane, The Pirate's Gospel  

Holocene Music
Released October 2006
$15.98 (Amazon)

Over the course of her full-length debut, The Pirate's Gospel, Alela Diane utilizes the vocal talents of children and even some deep baritone from what could be the actual titular pirate. The vibe is mostly dark, but the songs move briskly and easily, somewhere between a strut and a lope. Repetition of numbers, wordless syllables, and rhythmic guitar phrases all mesh together in mantric fashion. In contrast with fellow Nevada City alum Joanna Newsom, the arrangements are simple and the lyrics earthbound, but the world she creates is equally bewitching. (NC)


 


  STREAMS: Futureboogie  

A jack of all trades, Futureboogie advances jazz-oriented dance music with a booking agency, design collective, and, most notably, a rock-solid radio show. Also an online outpost for the group's Bristol-based club night, the website features revolving updates and a vast archive of past sets. This week, Tru Thoughts/Ubiquity artist Quantic drops jazz and deep funk in Bristol and Berlin-based Jazzanova delights with a mixtape featuring cuts from International Pony, on-the-rise UK producer and remixer Jesse Rose, and drum 'n bass don Marcus Intalex. For a fresh weekly fix, be sure to catch Futureboogie's radio broadcast, live in the UK and archived on the site, which comes complete with detailed tracklists for cratediggers and hardcore heads. (CJN)



 



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