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Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 381: active flavor
Time to get proactive, New Yorkers. With daylight growing increasingly scarce and long weekends in the Hamptons a thing of the past, we have no excuse not to hit the town. Your participation is required in choreographer Tere O'Connor's new piece, which asks audience members to keep up with the dancers. Hustle through Brooklyn's massive Atlantic Antic for crafts and clothes, live music, wide-ranging eats, and that local obsession, pony rides. Somewhat more demanding, the Music Quiz invites know-it-alls to compete for cash and the honor of being top rock geek for a night. The ballsiest New Yorkers warm up their jazz hands and go toe-to-toe at DNCHRD III (that's LVHRD-speak for "dance hard"). And competition aside, there are loads of reasons to get moving around town, from the raunch-hop of Yo Majesty and the dark stepping of a Dub War party to Claude VonStroke at Dirtybird and a set from M.I.A.'s new chief rocka, Switch. Erase that butt-print from your couch, and spread it.
- Jake Lancaster, Managing Editor
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Flavorpill NYC is an email magazine covering a hand-picked selection of music, art, and cultural events — delivered each Tuesday afternoon.
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Film Buff Freak-Out
While perhaps less glamorous than competing festivals, the talent on display at the annual NYFF is staggering. Beginning this Friday, the Big Apple is treated to such fare as Brian De Palma's Festival debut (Redacted); Sidney Lumet's return after 43 years (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead); and the Cannes Jury Prize-winning Persepolis, from graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud.
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Back to School Night w/ Michele Morano and Dan Brown
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A new school year used to mean new clothes, new (or used) books, and lots of homework, but for tonight's two authors, the lessons learned are anything but textbook. Reading from The Great Expectations School: A Rookie Year in the New Blackboard Jungle, Columbia grad student and Huffington Post blogger Dan Brown (not of Da Vinci Code fame) recalls his exploits as a first-year teacher among nine- and ten-year-olds in a failing school system. Rona Jaffe Foundation and the MacDowell Colony honoree Michele Morano's Grammar Lessons pairs the rules of structure and syntax with a travelogue of her year in Spain to illustrate the true connectivity of language and storytelling. (IB)
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LVHRD presents DNCHRD III
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Tue 9.25 (8pm) |
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Secret Williamsburg location (see note) |
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$22 / $11 members |
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The secret-location-loving, tourney-obsessed, vowel-rejecting LVHRD gang invites guests with ill moves, sick vinyl, and hardy livers to hit tonight's DNCHRD III dance-off. While party people compete for the title of "Best Dance Crew," DJs take the stage for a live battle. Using only '90s vinyl provided by attendees, competitors DJ Elhaam (East Village Radio), Robot Blair (Music for Robots), and Woodman (Turntable Lab) go for bragging rights, round-robin style. Get your posse's uprock routine polished, 'cause only the freshest dancers nab the title. But everyone gets to enjoy the open bar. (RB)
Note: Once you register and purchase a ticket, you'll receive an email or text message disclosing the event's location on Tuesday afternoon.
 Which '90s club banger would you spin at DNCHRD III and why? The most bumpin' response in 50 words or less receives a pair of tickets to this event. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 9.25.
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Ylva Ogland: Venus at Her Mirror
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Now through Sun 9.30 (Wed-Sun: 12-6pm) |
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Smith-Stewart (53 Stanton St, 212.477.2821) map |
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Smith-Stewart's sparse interior contributes to the disturbing first impressions of the nude, Lolita-like self-portraits by Swedish painter Ylva Ogland. The portraits are based on photographs taken by her father, depicting the artist's sexual awakening and drug-taking experience on a commune in Sweden. Still-lifes of hypodermic needles and heroin spoons alongside toys and childhood paraphernalia are presented as a rite of passage, while smaller paintings of the artist's genitals add further shock value. In the portrait Ylva 1985 2, the artist as a young girl appears comfortable, not self-conscious or vulnerable. Best illustrated in Ylva 1985 1, the sleeping figure's expression is calm, the light soft; Ogland's paintings, ultimately, are undeniably beautiful. (BC)
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| ART: Opening |
Tamar Halpern, Michael Phelan & Florian Morlat
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Wed 9.26 (6-8pm) |
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Eleven Rivington (11 Rivington St, 212.982.1930) map |
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"L," "E," and "S" are the three hottest letters in New York's art world, as galleries migrate in search of intimate spaces and proximity to the soon-to-be-unveiled New Museum. Midtown's Greenberg Van Doren debuts its new downtown space with a trio of young, informed abstractionists: Tamar Halpern, Florian Morlat, and Michael Phelan. Halpern, a recent Columbia grad who recalls a digital Stan Brakhage, makes richly layered photo works that are the product of repeated tampering to the photographic process. LA-based German artist Morlat crafts his '70s-inspired geometric mobiles from colored cloth. Channeling the great American abstract painter Kenneth Noland's circle paintings, Michael Phelan's three tie-dyed canvases continue the exhibition's retro theme. (HGM)
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| COMPETITION: Monthly |
The Music Quiz
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Wed 9.26 (9pm) |
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Freddy's Bar & Back Room (485 Dean St, Park Slope, 718.622.7035) map |
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Calling all music nerds: if your knowledge of popular music from the last five decades or so has surpassed mere trivial pursuits and now threatens to reach nigh-Pitchforkian levels, music journo Dan Kramer's Music Quiz beckons. Bone up on your b-side knowledge, spend an hour or four digging through your crates, and double-check your AllMusic.com facts in preparation for tonight's showdown. Contestants compete for cash prizes while they consume varying amounts of booze in a masochistic attempt to adversely affect would-be winning brain cells. (LT)
Note: The Music Quiz intimidates and rewards contestants every fourth Wednesday of the month.
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THEATRE: Festival
PRELUDE '07: At the Forefront of Contemporary NYC Theatre
Wed 9.26 - Sat 9.29 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center (365 5th Ave, 212.817.1860) map
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The PRELUDE festival, now in its fifth year, invites both established and up-and-coming playwrights to share ideas and engage in discussion with each other and audiences through performances, readings, seminars, and open rehearsals. (SP)
 
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| ART: Opening |
Interference
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Thur 9.27 (6-8pm) |
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Eyebeam (540 W 21st St, 212.937.6582) map |
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The second of three exhibitions lauding a decade of tech-art patronage by Eyebeam, Interference brings together variously controversial and cute works from a slew of gallery alumni who thrust individual actions against the weight of a stifling public sphere. Yury Gitman's Magic Bike is a wi-fi hotspot on wheels that explicitly advocates for free access to information. Robert Ransick's Casa Segura, a small shelter north of the Mexican border, provides migrants with a safe place to stay and a digital means of documenting their journey. The exhibition also features a string of workshops and presentations, and tonight's opening includes a collaborative VJ performance by Angie Eng, Benton-C Bainbridge, and Caspar Stracke. (JW)
Note: This exhibition continues through Sat 11.10 (Tue-Sat: 12-6pm).
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Robots presents Extrawelt w/ Konrad Black
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Back from a late-summer break, Robots' minimal mavens step up with an electro-techno bill topped by Extrawelt. Also touring as Midimiliz, the Hamburg duo of Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe are known as burghers of the live-electronic circuit. Releasing music on such respected labels as Traum, Border Community, and Cocoon, Extrawelt drive beats with an unpredictable grace — check last year's "Titelheld," where they teased distorted rock out of a minimal tune full of trancey transitions. With their recently released "Weich8" riding a groove, Extrawelt are certain to slam the dance floor. Meanwhile, a DJ set from Wagon Repair's Konrad Black might just get as dark as his name. (MLC)
Which German psy-trance duo lent Extrawelt equipment to make their first recordings? Two randomly drawn correct responses each receive a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Wed 9.26.
 Bmph-bmph-bmph... No, that beat's not in your head, it's in Earplug — Flavorpill's bimonthly email covering electronic music.
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| MUSIC: Nastylicious |
Yo Majesty w/ God-des & She
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Yo Majesty — a Tampa trio that'd make Spank Rock blush and
Luke Campbell run for his mommy — don't so much perform as turn the audience into a sweaty, writhing mass with their speaker-busting bass and lascivious, lesbionic raps. Yo Maj flow about diddling your girl parts to old-school beats in "The Monkey" and make you bounce like a pissed-off, preteen partygoer screaming, "F*ck that sh*t" (the memorable, uncomplicated chorus in "Club Action"). These women have no problem getting you riled and wiled with their crunked-up beats and raunch rhymes that don't beat around the va-jay-jay. (MLC/JKG)
Note: Be on the lookout for Flavorpill spot-rockers Justin and Myla, who'll be taking shots for the photo gallery on our recent events page.
Who is Jewel from Yo Maj's favorite vocalist? Two randomly drawn correct responses each receive a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Wed 9.26.
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LECTURE
Jonathan Lethem: Philip K. Dick: Four Novels of the 1960s
Thur 9.27 (6:30pm) Cooper Union's Great Hall (7 E 7th St, 212.353.4100) map
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Before becoming a pop-lit poster boy, Jonathan Lethem concocted intricate, paranoid tales that recall the mind-bending work of his idol, Philip K. Dick. Tonight Lethem discourses on the sci-fi great and explains the motivation behind collecting and editing Dick's Four Novels. (NE)
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Dirtybird feat. Claude VonStroke w/ Christian Martin and Tanner Ross
Thur 9.27 (10pm) APT (419 W 13th St, 212.414.4245) map $10
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Mr. Dirtybird himself, Claude VonStroke, flies in from points west to helm APT's filthiest party pandemic, spreading highly communicable — you might say infectious — techno, electro, and house. (JL)
Which pro football player invented the dance known as the "Dirty Bird"? The first randomly drawn correct response receives a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Wed 9.26.
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Richard Prince: Spiritual America
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Fri 9.28 - Wed 1.9.08 (Fri: 10am-7:45pm / Sat-Wed: 10am-5:45pm) |
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Guggenheim Museum (1071 5th Ave, 212.423.3500) map |
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Richard Prince's re-photographed pictures of fashion models, luxury goods, and cowboys — culled from advertisements in national magazines — set off a firestorm debate about appropriation that lasted throughout the '80s, into the '90s, and continues today. Pegged alongside Sherrie Levine, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, and Laurie Simmons as part of the "Pictures Generation," Prince plumbs the American psyche in later series that include biker-babe photographs, large-scale blue-humored paintings, minimalist fiberglass sculptures of car hoods, and recent expressionistic paintings of nurses taken from pulp-fiction covers. The Guggenheim grants Prince's diverse projects a comprehensive review, revealing that many current contemporary art trends are in fact based on Prince's work (HGM)
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Printed Matter presents the NY Art Book Fair
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Fri 9.28 - Sun 9.30 (Fri & Sat: 11am-7pm / Sun: 11am-5pm) |
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548 W 22nd St (212.925.0325) map |
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With square footage at a premium in this town, books are a liability. But, like puppies, it's hard not to take them home. Throw restraint to the wind at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair, where 120 international art publishers, booksellers, and zine-makers inspire binge book adoption. Throughout the fair's three days, performances by Soiled Mattress and the Springs (Saturday, 5pm) and Crystal Understanding (Sunday, 3pm) supplement your browsing. Make books at a free workshop (Sunday, 11am) and carry them home in a self-silk-screened bag courtesy of Brooklyn artist j.morrison. Grotesque glamour photographer Marilyn Minter signs her monograph at Deitch's table (Saturday, 3pm), and German provocateur Martin Kippenberger exhibits a generous array of publications. (LKR)
Note: For a Thursday sneak peek, purchase benefit preview tickets starting at $20.
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New York Film Festival
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Fri 9.28 - Sun 10.14 (schedule) |
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Rose Theater, Time Warner Center, 5th Fl (Broadway & 60th St, 212.258.9800) map |
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Deliberate and even a little austere, NYFF remains the standard-bearer for this city's many film festivals because it eschews the growing trend of everything-but-the-kitchen-sink programming. This isn't the go-to for the Next Big Thing; expect instead strong offerings from mostly established directors of past and present — both domestic and international — as well as a carefully selected avant-garde lineup and an homage to Chinese modern cinema. Wes Anderson's paean to brotherhood and India, The Darjeeling Limited, opens the fest on Friday, and the Coen Brothers return to fine form with their adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel No Country for Old Men. (LR)
Note: Screenings are already selling out. Purchase your tickets in advance.
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Love Kills
Fri 9.28 (1pm) / Sat 9.29 (8pm) 45th Street Theatre (354 W 45th St, 212.352.3101) map $20
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Like a rock-musical version of Natural Born Killers without the excessive violence, Kyle Jarrow's Love Kills is easy on the eyes, but most importantly, easy on the ears. (SP)
Note: This show is part of the New York Musical Theater Festival. Wednesday's performance is already sold out. Purchase tickets for Friday or Saturday in advance.
Love Kills is based on the same story as which Bruce Springsteen song? Two randomly drawn correct responses each receive a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Wed 9.26.
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COMEDY
New York Underground Comedy Festival
Fri 9.28 - Sun 10.7 (schedule) Various locations Various prices
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Trekking off the beaten path for the last half-decade, the New York Underground Comedy Festival will be the first to sport talents from China, Europe, Australia, and South Africa on its roster. Or, check JamNow.com for live streams, if you prefer to laugh in private. (RB)
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2007 DUMBO Dance Festival
Fri 9.28 - Sun 9.30 (Fri: 7pm / Sat: 2pm / Sun: 1pm) John Ryan Theater (25 Jay St, DUMBO, 718.855.8822) & Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park map
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Dance gets its own spotlight within the Art Under the Bridge Festival, with a selection of more than 80 choreographers and dance companies offering works ranging from the experimental to classical. (SP)
Note: Gala tickets to the opening on Thur 9.27 are available for $100.
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The Darjeeling Limited
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Director Wes Anderson may be the best aesthetician working today in film, but not since 1998's Rushmore have any of his projects boasted a substance even approaching his tremendous style. Happily, The Darjeeling Limited redeems that early promise and then some. Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody, and Owen Wilson (sporting injuries that spookily forebode his recent real-life troubles) star as three estranged brothers embarking on a spiritual quest through India. Though these boys don't remotely resemble each other, they achieve a fraternal chemistry — all deadpan humor and hangdog glamour — that hurdles them, in a turquoise-and-pink train, toward their (and Anderson's) true adulthood. (LR)
Note: The film premieres the previous night as part of the NYFF, but opens at several theaters today.
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Korrupt feat. Switch & Sinden w/ DJ Ayres and Max Pask
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Jackin' his tracks so high they might as well be on stilts, Switch (aka Dave Taylor) oozes more sex appeal than ought to be safe for any one balding British man. He exploded stateside last year with his pinging, percussive-house hustler "Making Me Money" and the impossibly dirty "Gotta Get Up," an electro ode to hood-rat seduction released under his other nom de boom, Solid Groove. This year, he thrust his hips even farther out, working with M.I.A. to lay down her crunchier, less pop-friendly sophomore album, Kala. Switch arrives at Studio B tonight with his protégé and frequent studio partner Sinden, a certifiably raunchy pusher of house, dancehall, grime, and ghetto in his own right. (AB)
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Bmph-bmph-bmph... No, that beat's not in your head, it's in Earplug — Flavorpill's bimonthly email covering electronic music.
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GOOD Magazine Anniversary feat. DJs Jeremy Greenspan, A.D.J., Tim Sweeney, and Sam Valenti
Sat 9.29 (9pm) Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (1 Bowling Green, 866.915.2060) map $20 w/ subscription & RSVP
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The clear-eyed poptimists at GOOD fête their mag's birthday with great music from DJs representing Junior Boys, Brazilian Girls, DFA, and Ghostly International. Logical positivism in action, as it were. (JL)
Note: Open bar. This event is for GOOD subscribers only, so sign up for the mag before you RSVP.
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Dub War feat. Mala & Loefah
Sat 9.29 (10pm) Love (179 MacDougal St, 212.477.5683) map $15 / $10 advance
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Tonight, the Dub War bwoys celebrate the return of London scene-leading imprint/night DMZ to NYC with massive, skanking sets from Mala and Loefah on Love's soundsystem — one of the few in town that can fully unleash the heavy bass-weight of dubstep. (AA)
Note: Mala also plays François K's Deep Space party at Cielo on Mon 10.1.
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| FAIR |
33rd Annual Atlantic Antic
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Sun 9.30 (10am-6pm) |
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Atlantic Ave (Hicks St to 4th Ave, Bklyn, 718.875.8993) map |
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Brooklyn's busy center of commerce and commute spends the day as a bustling street festival. Ten blocks long and hundreds of merchants strong, sidewalks are lined with everything from local produce to chic designs from the boutiques and crafters of the surrounding neighborhoods. Expect the sounds of a sax or electric guitar to resonate throughout the day, as live bands play both inside venues and on the streets. So, whether you're mesmerized by the sounds of voodoo drums or the shimmying of burlesque girls (or belly dancers), come see what the turf war is all about. (RB)
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| MUSIC: Electro-Pop |
Matthew Dear's Big Hands w/ Mobius Band and Skeletons & the Kings of All Cities
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An impressively prolific musician, Matthew Dear has launched soulful minimal techno, squelchy aggro stompers, and, as with tonight's performance, mellifluous electronic pop under numerous aliases in the last few years. His recent album, Asa Breed, stands as one of the more lauded electronic releases of the year, and with his band, Matthew Dear's Big Hands, he successfully translates the heavily programmed album to a live setting. The performance, featuring Dear on laptop, effects, and vocals, is bolstered with bass and drums and has been tightened and road-tested throughout an extensive European tour. Fellow electro-popsters Mobius Band open. (CJN)
Note: Be on the lookout for Flavorpill spot-rockers Justin and Myla, who'll be taking shots for the photo gallery on our recent events page.
How did Matthew Dear end up with such big hands, and why? The two most creative mythologies in 50 words or less each win a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Wed 9.26.
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| THEATRE |
Have You Seen Steve Steven?
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Now through Sat 10.6 (Wed-Sat: 8pm) |
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14th Street Y Theater (344 E 14th St, 212.868.4444) map |
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The characters in Ann Marie Healy's latest play start out in familiar, comical terrain, then take a turn through zany territory before reaching their destination of creepy absurdity. And that's a good thing. By the end of Have You Seen Steve Steven?, audience smiles turn into question marks as the playwright comments on modern society's detachments from family, its disconnect with the outside world, and its dismantling of the English language. Director Anne Kauffman successfully coaxes an eerie atmosphere out of a normal Midwestern household; it might not be a comfortable ride, but it sure is memorable. (SP)
Note: There is an additional benefit performance on Mon 9.24 (8pm).
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Jeon Joonho
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Now through Sat 10.13 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm) |
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Perry Rubenstein Gallery (527 W 23rd St, 526 W 24th St & 534 W 24th St, 212.627.8000) map |
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In his US solo debut, Korean multimedia artist Jeon Joonho presents Hyper Realism, a suite of five videos that noisily compete at Perry Rubenstein's 23rd Street space. As well, Statue of Brother depicts dozens of toy soldiers zooming around on a stark white plane, colliding with one another and reaching into the sky as if to embrace an invisible ally. Escape matches this blank desperation, showing a series of faceless, outlined men and women struggling to help one another out of confinement. In one of two separate spaces on 24th Street, Joonho projects a large-scale $20 bill with a tiny figure painting over the windows on the White House — not a bad idea after a year of listening to Tony Snow. (JW)
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Great World of Sound
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A record producer is enlisted to sign unknowns throughout the South, and when he's confronted with the ride these innocents are being taken on (they put up their own money and never see a cent of return), he must reconcile the limitations of his own moral code with the insatiable cult of celebrity that proves the downfall of a growing population of otherwise-disconnected Americans. A smart and smart-mouthed take on how an American Idol-obsessed culture has benefited the long-standing US tradition of hucksterism, Great World of Sound is the kind of indie feature that Hollywood could never get right. (LR)
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Tere O'Connor Dance: Rammed Earth
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Wed 9.26 - Sun 10.7 (Wed-Sat: 7 & 9pm / Sun: 5 & 7pm) |
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The Chocolate Factory (5-49 49th Ave, LIC, 718.482.7069) map |
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After the success of last year's Baby at Dance Theater Workshop, Tere O'Connor, New York's bad boy of modern dance, returns to the city with Rammed Earth. Inspired by the ancient building technique from which it takes its name, O'Connor's newest work considers the role of the structural landscape in our human experience. The evening-length piece is site-specific, with audience members moving to various locations throughout the space. Shifting perspectives offer an architectural tour of sorts as O'Connor's dancers explore the relation of dance to space. Among O'Connor's proficient performers is the always-enigmatic choreographer-cum-puppeteer Christopher Williams. (VDG)
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Our country's current terrorist readiness may send police-state signals to countries beyond our borders, but on a recent trip to New York, German new-media artist and documentarian Florian Talhofer found Gotham relatively unchanged. To chronicle our national culture as an outsider, the Berliner begins 1000 Stories, a
road-trip-as-social-experiment on October 1st, blogging stories and vlogging interviews with "typical" Americans — whatever that might mean. Visitors can suggest itineraries or reply to the "Americans Wanted" ad through the website, but the tour runs through the Big Apple on Thursday, 9.27, and the famed Goethe-Institut fêtes the endeavor with a 1000 Stories Launch Party featuring DJ Maxx Klaxon and video artist Katja Loher. RSVP and you could find yourself digitally immortalized as an "average" New Yorker. (IB)
Note: American filmmaker Mark Simon is making the same trek across Germany (albeit by car) as part of the cross-cultural venture.
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CD REVIEW: Modeselektor, Happy Birthday! |
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Bpitch Control
Released September 2007
$13.99 (Amazon)
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Featuring the year's most disproportionate ratio of cover-art beauty to album quality, Happy Birthday! is Modeselektor's daring second full-length for Bpitch. Ostensibly a party record, it augments Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary's glitchy, thumping techno by marrying it with hip-hop, IDM, and dancehall. Cuts like "Dark Side of the Sun" and "Hyper Hyper" incorporate trunk-rattling bass, processed vocals, and crisp, sinister beats for a winning amalgam of rap and electro. Elsewhere, instrumental bumper "Edgar" sets belching keyboards and crashing percussion above a droney synth backdrop for the album's most elegant track. The record's only flaw is its overabundance: with 17 tracks, it's hard to class every one as a dance-floor banger. (JPC)
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Though it was founded as a way to collect and convey the sounds of Tokyo's electronic underground, Samurai FM now offers a comprehensive, global overview of the DJs and subgenres making an impact at any given moment. The recent addition of a London hub means expanded coverage, and new mixes of note include a collab between Fabric resident and musical director Craig Richards and Cadenza labelhead Luciano, and a live, funk-infused performance by ?uestlove. With Poker Flat's Mike Vamp also in the mix, the site makes it easy to keep up with the latest tunes from Berlin's hedonistic scene, and, with ramped-up label and artist profiles, it's a cinch to dig deeper into the lives of the figures behind the sounds. (CJN)
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