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Flavorpill NYC | SF | LA | LONDON | CHI June 12 - 18, 2007

 
 Josh Heilaman   
Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 366: liberation flavor

Right on the heels of last Sunday's cross-cultural Loving Day, Pride Week is here — a time to celebrate progress made and recognize work that still remains in the struggle for equal rights, on the 38th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. This year's PrideFest in Chelsea was cancelled amid controversy, but it won't be difficult for the city to get swept up in related happenings. Those dual aspects of Pride Week — partying and polemics — are echoed with the Human Rights Watch International Film Fest, which raises awareness on a host of issues, but with cineaste aspirations as serious as the politics. And while it lends itself more to a stroll than a march, the Museum Mile Festival opens uptown doors in the name of art and community. For the week's biggest soirée, Flavorpill's new monthly event series, One Step Beyond, decamps again to the Museum of Natural History to explore fine pairings of celestial crunk, galactic funk, and Hayden Planetarium cosmic colliding. Scale the astral plane, and spread it.

- Jake Lancaster, Managing Editor

 

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 Table of Contents TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT
art New Economy; Killing Time; Museum Mile Festival; Robin Rhode
arts & craftsRenegade Craft Fair
discussion A.M. Homes & Daniel Mendelsohn
djFUN meets Down & Derby; Moodymann; DJ Food & DK
film Horror Films from the 1970s and Today; Human Rights Watch International Film Festival; Gypsy Caravan; Annie Hall
lecture New York Designs
music Television; In the City of New York; Voxtrot; Booker T and the MGs
party One Step Beyond feat. Devlin & Darko; BowieBall NYC
photography Conceptual Photography 1964-1989
reading Antoine Wilson
theatre Rabbit; Living Dead in Denmark
FEAT wear it on your sleeve Pride Week 2007; cd review Lil' Wayne, Da Drought 3; streams Warp Records Films
UPCOMINGCheck out our weekly updated list of upcoming events




Unnatural History
Flavorpill brings you back to the American Museum of Natural History this Friday night for One Step Beyond, featuring Planet Baltimore's top jocks Devlin & Darko and Aaron LaCrate. Science never sounded so good.

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Tuesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


ART
29th Annual Museum Mile Festival

when: Tue 6.12 (6-9pm)
where: Various museums (5th Ave btwn 82nd & 105th Sts) map
price:
links: Event Info

It's that time of year again, when block parties take over and let you explore neighborhood culture by the quadrant. Museum Mile is one of the biggest, and — for the 29th year — is opening its collective doors to the public for a one-day art crawl. Twenty-three pedestrian-friendly blocks filled with music, jugglers, clowns, and participatory street art (with IRUBNY and De La Vega) pave the road to the nine museums offering free admission and plenty of live music. At this party representing the broad swath of NYC's fine art, even the most rigorous art historian might be inspired to get their faces painted. (RB)



ALSO ON TUE

THEATRE
National Asian American Theater Festival presents Living Dead in Denmark
Tue 6.12 - Fri 6.15 (8pm) The Beckett Theatre, Theatre Row (410 W 42nd St, 212.714.2442) map $18

Event Info
 
New York's Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company resurrects Qui Nguyen's wacked-out sequel to Hamlet. More Tarantino than Shakespeare, the cos-play-loving geeks of VCTC promise to deliver a four-ninja-star spectacle of ass-kicking. (KI)



Wednesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: British Invasion
In the City of New York

when: Wed 6.13 & Thur 6.14 (8pm)
where: Knitting Factory (74 Leonard St, 212.219.3006) & Highline Ballroom (431 W 16th St, 212.414.5994) map
price: $15-35
links: Event Info | Knitting Factory Tickets | Highline Ballroom Tickets

Manchester's In the City music conference arrives in NYC this week for its first US edition, and it's towing some mighty strong talent in its wake. The first night delivers art-rockers the Rakes and NME faves the Pigeon Detectives at the Knitting Factory. Over at the Highline Ballroom, night two offers an impressive bill starring Glasgow toughs Biffy Clyro and Brighton boy/girl duo Blood Red Shoes, but ITC organizer Tony Wilson's own favorite new band, UK screamo outfit Enter Shikari, is sure to steal away at least some of the Anglophilic faithful. Look for a slew of afterparties (free for badge-holders), including Semi Precious Weapons and Franco V & the High Class Elite, brought to you by Flavorpill and Death Disco at the Delancey on Wednesday, June 13. (DL)

Note: Baggy pioneers Happy Mondays were slated to top marquees for two nights, but the long-time karmically challenged band ran into visa troubles and will not be making it across the pond. Tickets are still available for the daytime conferences.



ALSO ON WED

MUSIC: Southern Soul
Booker T and the MGs w/ Sharon Jones
Wed 6.13 (7pm) Rockefeller Park (River Terrace & Chambers St, 212.945.0505) map

Event Info
 
Soul music always makes for a feel-good summer night. Add Booker T and the MGs — fathers of Southern soul and the foundation of Stax Records — with Brooklyn's own queen of funk, Sharon Jones, and and the residual feel-good should last a week. (JRC)

Note: For more Southern soul, check out Clarence Reid and other greats at Southpaw on Fri 6.15.



Thursday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


LECTURE: Architecture
New York Designs w/ Studio SUMO, Lynn Gaffney, and Matter Architecture Practice

when: Thur 6.14 (6:30pm)
where: Architectural League (457 Madison Ave, 212.753.1722) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | Lynn Gaffney | Matter Architecture Practice

The Architectural League hosts several of New York's small, upstart firms to discuss the evolution of a recent project from initial sketch to completion. Sunil Bald and Yolande Daniels, founding partners of Studio SUMO, explain the symbolism behind the stacked wooden slats that form the front desk and lobby in their design for Brooklyn's Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art. Sandra Wheeler and Alfred Zollinger, the chiefs at Matter Architecture Practice, describe the challenges of creating an eco-conscious setting for the International Center for Photography's survey of global environmental change, Ecotopia. Lynn Gaffney discusses the major challenges her award-winning terrace and idyllic roof garden had to overcome: noisy air vents, stray cats, and the prying eyes of Midtown neighbors. (HGM)

  Which of today's speakers also completed a project for a Bushwick-based credit union? The first correct response receives a pair of tickets to the lecture. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 6.12.



DISCUSSION
A.M. Homes & Daniel Mendelsohn

when: Thur 6.14 (7pm)
where: Housing Works UBC (126 Crosby St, 212.334.3324) map
price:
links: Event Info | A.M. Homes | Daniel Mendelsohn

In recent seasons, the memoir has enjoyed a spirited overhaul — no longer limited to dry presidential biographies or scandalous tell-alls, it's joined a newly dubbed oeuvre of contemporary literature called creative nonfiction. A memoirist can write good dialogue, or tamper with time or point of view, and still be working under the guise of nonfiction. So why did A.M. Homes, whose acclaimed memoir The Mistress's Daughter explores her own adoption, claim she resents memoirs and equate writing them to vomiting? Join Homes and Daniel Mendelsohn, author of The Lost, which traces his steps to uncover the unfortunate fates of six family members lost in the Holocaust, as they discuss their misgivings, the form's potential, and its cathartic properties. (EMM)



ALSO ON THUR

DJ
Table Manners feat. DJ Food & DK w/ Rob Swift and DJ Odi
Thur 6.14 (10pm) Studio B (259 Banker St, Greenpoint, 718.389.1880) map $15 / $12 before midnight

Event Info
 
From a massive stable of beat-tweaking vinyl junkies, Ninja Tune's DJ Food & DK have always been the best "pure" DJs (check their numerous Solid Steel mixes for evidence). You might even hear some scratching coming from the drum 'n bass room — a rare thing, indeed. (JL)



Friday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Gypsy Caravan

when: Opens Fri 6.15
where: Angelika Film Center (18 W Houston St, 212.995.2000) map
price: $11
links: Event Info | Gypsy Caravan

There's no more mystique attached to any people, race, or culture than there is to Roma — or gypsies as they are more commonly known. The musical documentary Gypsy Caravan, shot by the legendary Albert Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens) and directed by Jasmine Dellal, juxtaposes spine-straightening performances from such top international Gypsy musicians as "Queen of the Gypsies" Esma Redzepova and brass band Fanfare Ciocarlia with glimpses into their more sobering personal lives back in Spain, Macedonia, India, and Romania. By the end of what's essentially the best kind of roadtrip movie, it emerges how completely their music provides the home that countries do for most other tribes. (LR)

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FILM
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

when: Fri 6.15 - Thur 6.28 (schedule)
where: Lincoln Center (65th St & Broadway, 212.870.5630) map
price: $11
links: Event Info

Based on its moniker, there's no doubt some regard the Human Rights Watch Festival with trepidation — as if it's one heaping pile of castor oil and spinach that's better for you than it tastes. But rest assured that the aesthetics of these documentaries, fiction features, and even animation and videos match their high moral value. In Enemies of Happiness, 28-year-old Malalai Joya runs in Afghanistan's first democratic election in 30-odd years, despite many assassination attempts. Strange Culture, about how artist Steve Kurtz was accused of bioterrorism after 9/11, blurs documentary and fiction in a wonderfully un-Frey-like manner. And, in Manufactured Landscapes, Edward Burtynsky photographs China's extraordinary Industrial Revolution — extraordinarily. (LR)

  In March 2007, how many barrels of oil were imported by the US from Nigeria each day? Three randomly drawn correct answers each receive a pair of tickets to a screening. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 6.12.

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ART: Opening
New Economy

when: Fri 6.15 (6-8pm)
where: Artists Space (38 Greene St, 3rd Fl, 212.226.3970) map
price:
links: Event Info

In the wake of the '80s' boom-bust economy, artists in the '90s began to scrutinize systems of exchange toward which art could no longer declare itself aloof. Curator João Ribas brings together a host of contemporary artists who reflect upon the changing global economy. For My Cola LITE, Mike Bouchet brewed and bottled a homemade version of the arch-synthetic beverage, diet soda. Cildo Meireles' alternate currency, the Zero Dollar, is an expertly counterfeited zero-dollar bill, complete with a befuddled Uncle Sam. Apropos Congress' current immigrant debate, Chantal Akerman's film From the Other Side — a scathing exposé of our immigration policy — captures Mexican immigrants who are willing to risk their lives crossing the Arizona border. (HGM)

Note: This exhibition continues through Sat 7.28 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm).



MUSIC: Indie Pop-Rock
Voxtrot w/ Favourite Sons and Au Revoir Simone

when: Fri 6.15 (7pm)
where: Webster Hall (125 E 11th St, 212.388.0300) map
price: $20 / $18 advance
links: Event Info | Voxtrot | Favourite Sons | Au Revoir Simone

Despite making their home in Brooklyn, all-girl outfit Au Revoir Simone drop Casio-driven folk tunes that recall the warmth of corduroy-clad Cali pop. Legend has it that Erika Forster, Annie Hart, and Heather D'Angelo became besties on a train ride from Vermont; from there they created a band whose tunes have appeared everywhere from Grey's Anatomy to Michel Spinosa film Anna M. Fresh off of a successful tour with We Are Scientists, the Simones hit Webster as openers for Austin piano-poppers Voxtrot and brooding Brooklyn indie-soul rockers Favourite Sons. (JH)



PARTY
Flavorpill presents One Step Beyond feat. Devlin & Darko (BBC/Spank Rock DJs) w/ Aaron LaCrate, Foreign Islands, Hess Is More, and the Bassbin Twins

when: Fri 6.15 (9pm-1am)
where: Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History (Central Park W @ 81st St, 212.769.5100) map
price: $25 / $20 before 10pm
links: Event Info | Aaron LaCrate | Foreign Islands | Hess Is More | Bassbin Twins

Last month Flavorpill unveiled One Step Beyond, our new series at the American Museum of Natural History, which in turn showed 1,100 guests how well the venerable, kid-friendly institution can accommodate the grown-ass set. Centered around the massive, stargaze-inspiring Hall of the Universe, Bassbin Twins' old-skool rave sounds kick things off before Spank Rock's Devlin & Darko — on the heels of their Fabriclive 33 mix — launch some sinful, ghettotechy crunk into the heavens. Copenhagen's cosmic disco band Hess Is More get the Powerhouse going before a post-punk assault from Brooklyn quartet Foreign Islands and DJ Aaron LaCrate's bawdy, snap-happy B'more club. Fuevoz VJs lmnopf, Nicky Digital, and SEEj play tricks on your mind all night. (JL)

Note: Despite OSB's vast size and crowds, there ought to be no waiting in line for admission. The cover price includes screenings at the Hayden Planetarium and a pass for a return visit to the museum for squid-and-whale-watching during normal hours (daily: 10am-5:45pm).

  In 50 words or less, tell us your theory on how the dinosaurs really became extinct. The two most believable answers each receive a pair of tickets to this event. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 6.12.



ALSO ON FRI

DJ
FUN meets Down & Derby: Roller-Skating Party feat. the Negroclash DJs w/ the Bangers and Eamon Harkin
Fri 6.15 (10pm) Studio B (259 Banker St, Greenpoint, 718.389.1880) map $10 / $5 with RSVP

Event Info
 
Break out the disco shorts and kneesocks, 'cause here's your shot at a true roller-skating jam. Resident "Skate Guards" the Bangers and Eamon Harkin, with guests the Negroclash DJs, keep the tunes funky while you roll, bounce, and (try not to) fall. (RB)

Note: $3 skate rental, or bring your own. Brooklyn Circus gift bags for the first 25 people through the door. Two-for-one drink specials starting at 2am.

  Who patented the first in-line skates, and in what year? The first randomly drawn correct response receives a pair of tickets to this event. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 6.12.



PARTY
BowieBall NYC
Fri 6.15 (10pm) Don Hill's (511 Greenwich St, 212.219.2850) map $15 / $10 with RSVP and costume

Event Info
 
Break out your glitter, makeup, and orange mullets: it's time again for the BowieBall. Fischerspooner DJs, the World Famous Pontani Sisters, BP Fallon, and Michael T get glam to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Ziggy Stardust. (LT)

  Which three musicians made up the Spiders from Mars, Ziggy's backing band? The first two randomly drawn correct responses each receive a pair of tickets to the party and a BowieBall gift bag. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 6.12.



Saturday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
It's Only a Movie: Horror Films from the 1970s and Today

when: Sat 6.16 - Sun 7.22
where: Museum of the Moving Image (35th Ave at 36th St, Astoria, 718.784.0077) map
price: $10
links: Event Info

In case you hadn't noticed, there's a horror-movie renaissance going on right now that parallels the genre's golden era in the '70s, when fringe directors used zombies, chainsaw-wielding maniacs, and mutant hillbillies to slip a bit of crude social commentary to the unsuspecting masses. This series features films by today's masters of splatter and exploitation — Rob Zombie, Takashi Miike, Alexandre Aja, Neil Marshall, and Eli Roth — alongside classics by Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter, Lucio Fulci, and George A. Romero, as well a few films, such as A Clockwork Orange (1971), that stretch the definition of horror. There's literally something (scary) for everyone — even those who don't have a Fangoria subscription. (GM)

  Wes Craven's directorial debut is based on a movie written by which Swedish novelist? Two randomly drawn correct responses each receive a pair of tickets to a screening. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 6.12.

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MUSIC: Rock
Television w/ Apples in Stereo and Dragons of Zynth

when: Sat 6.16 (3pm)
where: Central Park SummerStage (Rumsey Field, 5th Ave @ 69th St, 212.360.2777) map
price:
links: Event Info | Apples in Stereo | Dragons of Zynth

Few probably thought that Television would outlast the club that gave the band its start, CBGB's. And yet, 30 years after the release of punk-hall-of-fame-worthy Marquee Moon, Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd are still packin' them in, while CB's owner, Hilly, has packed up and shipped out to Vegas. The shamelessly '90s indie pop of Elephant 6-ers Apples in Stereo offers an odd, if sweet, buffer between Television's riffing, Velvet Underground-y rock and the cacophonous, psychedelic post-rock of Brooklyn's Dragons of Zynth, who open. TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek recently produced the band's debut; let's just say his involvement is apparent. Lloyd claims this free show will be his last performance, so head to Central Park before Television go off-air for good. (LT)

Note: Dragons of Zynth hit Maxwell's on Wed 6.20.



ALSO ON SAT

ARTS & CRAFTS
Renegade Craft Fair
Sat 6.16 & Sun 6.17 (11am-6pm) McCarren Park Pool (Lorimer St btwn Bayard St & Driggs Ave, Greenpoint) map

Event Info
 
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: explore the fiercest adornments, doodads, and zines the city has to offer. One-hundred-fifty vendors pack the Pool for two days to expand your chest of fashion weaponry. (RB)



Sunday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


READING
A Public Space presents Antoine Wilson w/ Jack Livings and Joshua Ferris

when: Sun 6.17 (7pm)
where: KGB Bar (85 E 4th St, 212.505.3360) map
price:
links: Event Info | A Public Space | Antoine Wilson

Brooklyn's fiction-focused literary journal A Public Space scours the field for promising writers on the cusp, and tonight, journal editor Brigid Hughes gathers three to read. Antoine Wilson reads from his debut novel, The Interloper, a sardonic revenge story about a newly married, quickly unraveling man determined to break the heart of his brother-in-law's murderer. His plan? To pose as a woman and seduce the accused. Joshua Ferris also reads from his debut novel, Then We Came to the End, about working in a Chicago ad agency at the end of the dot-com boom. Celebrated for both his short fiction and Esquire-napkin fiction, Jack Livings reads his story "The Heir." (EMM)



ALSO ON SUN

DJ
Moodymann w/ Koichi Nakamura
Sun 6.17 (6pm-midnight) Club Shelter (150 Varick St, 646.862.6117) map $15 / $12 before 8pm

Event Info
 
Uniting techno, house, jazz, and funk under the banner of Afrofuturism, Moodymann — Detroit's superfreaky Kenny Dixon Jr. — summons Teflon grooves as supple and sultry as electronic music can get. (JL)

  During the mid-'90s, when Moodymann was the resident DJ at the Outcast Motorcycle Club, what was his alias? Two randomly drawn correct responses each receive a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 6.12.



Monday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Annie Hall (1977)

when: Mon 6.18 (5-11pm)
where: Bryant Park (Btwn 5th & 6th Aves & 40th & 42nd Sts, 212.768.4242) map
price:
links: Event Info

Once upon a time, the endearingly neurotic Alvy Singer and the exuberantly ditzy Annie Hall fell in love, chased crustaceans, fell out of love, and won four Oscars for their sweet-yet-scathing depiction of love and loss. Beyond Diane Keaton's iconic and irreverent style as the titular heroine, Woody Allen's thinly veiled autobiography also features cameo appearances from Paul Simon, Christopher Walken, and an uncredited Truman Capote. With its stream-of-consciousness narrative and achingly authentic romantic observations, the film is also Allen's most charming and universally beloved work. Tonight's screening is the first of a summerlong outdoor film series in Bryant Park. (CB)

Note: The film begins at sundown, but arrive early in order to secure a spot on the lawn.

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PHOTOGRAPHY
Conceptual Photography 1964-1989

when: Now through Sat 6.23 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm)
where: Zwirner & Wirth (32 E 69th St, 212.517.8677) map
price:
links: Event Info

Zwirner and Wirth's survey affirms that shared themes emerge from the most disparate periods of artistic production, even among such canonical artists as Marcel Broodthaers, Carolee Schneeman, and Sol Lewitt. Deftly represented here, the popular concepts of that time included taxonomy, illustrated in Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs of water towers and Broodthaer's tongue-in-cheek photographic catalog of a soup's ingredients. The female nude is represented in Ana Mendieta's eerily tragic projection of a skeleton onto her own body and Schneeman's self-portrait split between two mirrors. In works by the playful Gilbert and George and Bruce Nauman — famously posing as a fountain — the artist becomes the art object. (JW)



THEATRE
Rabbit

when: Now through Sun 7.1 (Tue-Fri: 8:15pm / Sat: 2:15 & 8:15pm / Sun: 3:15 & 7:15pm)
where: 59E59 Theaters (59 E 59th St, 212.753.5959) map
price: $35
links: Event Info

What starts out as a humorous, alcohol-fueled, war-of-the-sexes romp develops into a thoughtful meditation on the curse of memory in young British playwright Nina Raine's debut, Rabbit. A group of five ex-lovers and friends convene at a bar for a 29th birthday party, but the night is haunted by thoughts of a dying father and the betrayals and insecurities of the entire group. Characters are fully brought to life by the talented cast, and Raine's writing is at once biting and poignant: "It always turns out what I'm remembering is a photo," as one says. (JP)

Note: This play is part of the Brits off Broadway festival.



ART
Killing Time: An Exhibition of Cuban Artists from the 1980s to the Present

when: Now through Sat 7.28 (Tue-Thur: 10am-6pm / Fri: 10am-8pm / Sat: 12-8pm)
where: Exit Art (475 10th Ave, 212.966.7745) map
price:
links: Event Info | Glexis Novoa

Killing Time is a prodigious exhibition of Cuban artists working in the last 30 years, and their interpretations of the country's revolution. The show features works in a panoply of media by more than 80 individuals, many of whom have had little or no exposure in the United States. A display case contains copies of Tania Bruguera's Postwar Memories, a magazine from 1993 that was censured by Castro's government after two issues for expressing the critical mood of the art scene during the "Special Period." Maritza Molina's large-scale photograph Carrying Tradition, is a commanding vision of oppression; the piece features a nude woman pulling a cart of suited men through a field as though she were a workhorse. (AW)



ALSO ONGOING/UPCOMING

ART
Robin Rhode
Now through Sat 6.23 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm) Perry Rubenstein (527 W 23rd St, 526 W 24th St & 534 W 24th St, 212.627.8000) map

Event Info
 
South African artist Robin Rhode, known for his unique performance-based drawings, takes over all three of Perry Rubenstein's spaces in Chelsea. New sculptures fill the main space on 23rd St; on 24th, a new 16mm film, Candle, is projected alongside black-and-white photographs. (HGM)

Note: For more in-depth coverage, check out the review in the upcoming issue 60 of our sister publication, Artkrush.



Features TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


  WEAR IT ON YOUR SLEEVE: Pride Week 2007  

It's that time of year again, when the loudest and proudest take to the streets and remind the masses that Stonewall may have been in '69, but the struggle continues. Although what would have been the 15th PrideFest has been denied a permit, Sunday's Pride Starts Here rally in Bryant Park hosts plenty of music and guest speakers. Next Friday (6.22) sees a candlelight vigil, while that Saturday's Pride Run pays respect to those most affected by AIDS. And since everyone loves a parade, we've got two. The NYC Dyke March (Sat 6.23) — followed by Rapture: A Women's Dance on Pier 54 — and the 38th annual Pride March (Sun 6.24), whose grand marshals, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum and Reverend Dr. Troy Perry, remind us all that pride is no sin. Dance 21 at Pier 54 tops off the festivities on Sun 6.24. (RB)



 


  CD REVIEW: Lil' Wayne, Da Drought 3  

Young Money Entertainment
Released May 2007
$13.99 (Ari's Mixtapes)

When Lil' Wayne claims to be the best rapper alive, he's not bragging — but he may not mean what you think he means. As on his earlier mixtape classics, Dedication 2 and Lil' Weezyana, he lets his mutable, guttural flow do the heavy lifting, cannibalizing dozens of Top 40 beats. His verbal abstractions effortlessly shift gears from marble-mouthed drawl and look-no-hands freestyles to monosyllabic barks and ecstatic gurgles. All these vocal tics serve to jump-start dense, absurd imagery; he's liable to switch subjects from Gremlins to the reconstruction of New Orleans in a few breathless bars. Yet wrapped in such dazzling sonics, even the most brainy rhymes strike at the gut level. After a two-disc barrage of this, you're more likely than ever to agree with Wayne's boasts. (TW)


 


  STREAMS: Warp Records Films  

While YouTube is perhaps best known for playful, user-generated content and copyright infringement, it also serves as a platform for traditional content-providers to disseminate video content. Groundbreaking electronic label Warp Records — home to esteemed acts such as Boards of Canada, Autechre, Aphex Twin, and, most recently, bands like Battles and Grizzly Bear — has recently embraced the technology, creating a custom YouTube site centered around a special video section. Tune in for live artist performances, videos from the likes of Clark and !!!, and a particularly engaging interview with Squarepusher. Also, be sure to pay close attention to Battles' drummer, John Stanier, as he beats skins live: the rest of the band is talented, but he's jaw-droppingly good. (CJN)



 


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