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Cultural Stimuli in NYC
Issue 369: spectacular flavor
The Macy's Fourth of July pyrotechnics are nothing to sneeze at, but as
you sniff out your best options for Wednesday night's skygazing, know
that there's crate-loads of independently driven culture popping all
over town. Proposals for the rebirth of Governors Island are still
being vetted, but the arty and crafty FIGMENT* pitches a very compelling vision: ferrying freaks for fun and frolic. On another island, Japan's fuzzed-out noise merchants Boredoms bang some drums — 77 kits of them — for a massive public waterfront show in DUMBO. Just right for Studio B, UK duo Simian Mobile Disco's electro/techno sound boasts side-room savvy and big-room pull. Celluloid auteur Werner Herzog makes a bid for major accaim and ticket sales with the 'Nam-era Rescue Dawn. Meanwhile, airbrushed suburban tweens work up a sweat in McCarren Park, with Bring It On
beckoning Dunst-lovers for the SummerScreen film series kick-off. Get
all kinds of amped up for Independance Day, 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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Drum Circle
Japanese avant-aggro-
hippie-noisenik legends Boredoms are joined by scores of percussion pushers this Saturday for an epic free performance of 77Boadrum in Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park.
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SummerScreen presents Bring It On (2000)
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Tue 7.3 (7pm) |
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McCarren Park Pool (Lorimer St btwn Bayard St & Driggs Ave, Greenpoint) map |
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SummerScreen, hosted by L magazine,
kicks off its second series with eight weeks of movies in
Williamsburg's concrete mecca, McCarren Park Pool. As an opening-night
selection, the Kirsten Dunst vehicle Bring It On may raise some too-cool-for-school eyebrows, but the guiltily pleasurable cheerleader flick is like Dirty Dancing's promiscuous younger sister — trashier, flirtier, and a lot more fun. Forthcoming Tuesdays feature such eclectic films as Prince's flamboyant debut in Purple Rain (1984), the black-and-white con thriller The Night of the Hunter (1955), and more teen angst by way of '93 stoner classic Dazed and Confused. (CB)
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Politics of Passion: Plays of Anthony Minghella
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Now through Sat 7.14 (Tue-Fri: 8pm / Sat: 3 & 8pm / Sun: 3 & 7:30pm) |
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Atlantic Stage 2 (330 W 16th St, 802.236.4062) map |
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Academy Award-winning writer and director Anthony Minghella's collection of three vignettes wonder aloud if love can exist in the face of full disclosure. The opening piece, Hang Up, peeks in on a couple whose long-distance relationship slowly grows crowded with doubt and dishonesty. Truly, Madly, Deeply
— based on a scene from Minghella's '91 film of the same name — looks
at a micro-date in which two would-be lovers skip through the details
that define them in the space of a city block. Cigarettes and Chocolate
closes the show by suggesting that we can learn the most when nothing
is said, as the lead character's sudden silence spurs a multitude of
confessions from those closest to her. (RB)
Note: There is no performance on Wed 7.4.
 In which Oscar-winning film did Minghella cast his parents in small roles? Five randomly
drawn correct responses each receive a pair of tickets to the Tue 7.3 performance, and five more
receive a pair of tickets to the Thur 7.5 show. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 7.3.
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Rescue Dawn
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Opens Wed 7.4 |
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Various cinemas |
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Rescue Dawn |
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As inherently oxymoronic as the concept is, Rescue Dawn is exactly the sort of Hollywood film you'd expect from hallowed German independent director Werner Herzog.
The iron-jawed Christian Bale stars as real-life Vietnam War POW Dieter
Dengler, the subject of an earlier Herzog documentary. A survivor of
childhood WWII hardships in Germany, he enlists as a US navy pilot,
only to be captured by the Viet Cong. Herzog's signatures — a nature vs
man theme, an aesthetic detachment that never devolves into Kubrick's
chilliness — are fleshed out beautifully, aided by cinematographer
Peter Zeitlinger and Steve Zahn in a rare straight-man turn as a fellow
prisoner. (LR)
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Rooftop Films presents Political Shorts: Un-American Films
Wed
7.4 (5pm) Solar One (Stuyvesant Cove Park, E 23rd St & the East
River, 212.505.6050) map $30 / $25 advance
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The
Rooftop Films series offers a privileged view of the fireworks from
Stuyvesant Cove Park, along with live music, an open bar, and a program
of Independence Day-minded agit-prop shorts. (JL)
 
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| FILM: Festival |
Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film
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Thur 7.5 - Sun 7.15 (schedule) |
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Japan Society (333 E 47th St, 212.832.1155) map |
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The Japan Society reels in younger
audiences to Midtown east by hosting its first ever large-scale
festival devoted entirely to contemporary Japanese film. The lineup
includes the stateside premiere of Takashi Miike's Big Bang Love, Juvenile A, a homoerotic prison flick by the notoriously twisted director of Ichi the Killer (2001), as well as the premiere of Miwa Nishikawa's Sway, an art-house hit at home starring the gorgeously tormented Joe Odagiri. For something of the more feel-good variety, check Kamome Diner.
The film, about a Japanese woman who opens a diner in Finland, was an
all-around crowd-pleaser in Scandinavia-loving Japan. (KI)
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Crotona Park Jams feat. DJ Mean Gene w/ GrandWizzard Theodore, Mix Master Ice, and Tipski
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7.5 (6-9pm) Crotona Park (Charlotte St & Crotona Park E, Bronx) map
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Three decades' worth of party-rockers unite at the original breeding grounds where old-school legends were made. The Temple of Hip-Hop is still the street and the whole 'hood is invited down to jam. (RB)
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MUSIC: Goth Folk
Shearwater
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7.5 (7pm) Castle Clinton (Battery Park, 212.835.2789) map
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When
Jonathan Meiburg isn't tickling ivories in emo-country outfit Okkervil
River, he whispers and hollers the gorgeous Gothic lullabies of
Shearwater. Meiburg and Co. go for baroque this evening at Castle
Clinton. (TG)
Note: Tickets (two per person) are
distributed at the venue on a first-come, first-served basis starting
at 5pm the day of the show.
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MUSIC: Throwback Electro
Cheeky Bastard feat. Chromeo w/ Flosstradamus and 33Hz
Thur
7.5 (10pm) Hiro Ballroom, the Maritime Hotel (363 W 16th St,
212.242.4300) map with RSVP
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Chromeo's
Pee Thug lobs throbbing synth wizardry to back up non-crooner Dave 1's
tales of love on the rocks. The Velveeta-slathering, schmaltz-pop duo
hits Hiro tonight with Chi-town mashup unit Flosstradamus. (LE)
Note: Chromeo, Kid Sister, and Flosstradamus also throw down at Studio B on Fri 7.6.
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| MUSIC: Krautish Pop |
Fujiya & Miyagi w/ Black Moth Super Rainbow
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It's about time someone gave Krautrock
a little pinch on the bum. Fujiya & Miyagi goose the
oft-namechecked/rarely understood Teutonic subgenre with devastating
hooks and a DFA-esque swagger you can actually dance to (rather than
simply nodding your kopf). On F&M's debut full-length, Transparent Things,
the Brighton, UK, trio re-imagines Neu!'s hypnotic space pulse as fey,
Japanophilic pop bliss, whisper-singing about inanimate objects
(cassette singles, human bones, porno mags) and ever-so-softly chanting
their own band name like a cheerleading squad trying not to wake the
parents. Openers Black Moth Super Rainbow make good on their own trippy
name, injecting their childlike, Technicolor beats with
retro-futuristic psychedelia. (TG)
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| FILM |
Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation
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Fri 7.6 & Sat 7.7 (8pm) |
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Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Ave, 212.505.5181) map |
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In 1982, armed only with summer savings
and subordinate siblings, three Mississippi boys began what would
become an adolescence-spanning project to recreate the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(1981). Sparing no details over the next seven years, the devoted
filmmakers recast suburban puppies as Egyptian monkeys, turned Boy
Scout uniforms into Nazi attire,
and apparently almost burned down the director's house — all for the
sake of imitative authenticity. Yet despite the familiar plot and
amateur execution, the means and manner of the adaptation reveal an
equally riveting story hidden in the hormonally charged sands of the
teenage desert. (CB)
During the filming of the original Raiders, what did crew members have to remove from
local roofs in Tunisia? Two randomly selected correct responses each receive a pair of tickets to
the Sat 7.7 screening. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 7.3.
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Tha Get Up! feat. the Egyptian Lover
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7.6 (10pm) APT (419 W 13th St, 212.414.4245) map $10
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You've
never properly experienced '80s electro until you've seen LA
old-schooler the Egyptian Lover grab his vocoder and break into
synchronized dance routines from behind his decks and 808. The
Freakaholic awaits. (AB)
What would you do on a magic-carpet ride with the Lover himself? The most magical description in
50 words or less receives a pair of tickets to this event. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 7.3.
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| MUSIC: Soul-Jazz |
The Cinematic Orchestra w/ RAMP, El Michels Affair, Kevin Michael, and DJ Spinna
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With the latest Cinematic Orchestra
release, bandleader Jason Swinscoe has taken his
music-for-imaginary-movies approach one step further, having a
screenplay written to go with the soundtrack that is Ma Fleur. While guest vocalists Lou Rhodes, Fontella Bass, and Patrick Watson
evoke the scenery on record, it will be up to Swinscoe and his band to
provide the visual appeal in today's outdoor setting. The group is
known for bouts of onstage improv, so even if you think you already
know the plot, be ready for some unexpected new twists. (DL)
Note: The Cinematic Orchestra also hit Joe's Pub on Sun 7.8 (9:30pm)
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| MUSIC: Avant-Spectacle |
Boredoms: 77Boadrum
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Sat 7.7 (4pm) |
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Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park (Water & Main Sts, DUMBO, 718.802.0603) map |
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Taking a cue from Glenn Branca's Symphony 13 for 100 guitars, Boredoms hit Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park this evening with a performance of 77Boadrum,
a piece in which 74 drum kits are arranged in a snake-like coil around
a center setup of three additional kits (77 in total), with electronics
manned by the godfathers of "Blaaaroooaorroargh" themselves. The
battalion of drummers recruited for this project includes Hugo Burnham
of Gang of Four, Andrew WK, David Grubbs, members of Gang Gang Dance,
and a slew of others from the pantheon of the avant-garde. Nothing
short of a natural disaster should prevent you from making it to this
once-in-a-lifetime performance. Just be careful not to poop yourself.
(GM)
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| ART: Opening |
The Most Curatorial Biennial of the Universe
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Sat 7.7 (6-8pm) |
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Apex Art (291 Church St, 212.431.5270) map |
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Apex Art invited curators to submit
small artworks by two artists for inclusion in its massive, salon-style
show of nearly a 1,000 diverse works. All of the pieces in the
exhibition, by artists known and yet unknown, are available for bidding
starting at $10. Every penny of proceeds goes to the Robin Hood Foundation
of NYC, a nonprofit run by hedge-fund mogul Paul Tudor Jones that
tackles urban poverty by funding support programs, from charter schools
to soup kitchens and financial service centers. The Robin Hood
Foundation distributes a remarkable 100% of its donations directly to
the organizations it supports, so when you bid on the artwork, your
cash is going directly to combat poverty. (HGM)
Note: This exhibition continues through Sat 8.11 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm).
 Before getting your gallery-crawl allotment of pinot and Swiss cheese, check out Artkrush, Flavorpill's mailer devoted to visual art.
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| MUSIC: Live Electro |
FIXED feat. Simian Mobile Disco
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High school's over. Now the rock kids
play nicely with the electronic kids who also hang out with the hip-hop
kids. Simian Mobile Disco get this. They even started out as a rock
duo, and, in 2003, wrote "Never Be Alone," which Justice took to stratospheric clubland heights. But with their recently released ode to modulators, Attack Decay Sustain Release,
SMD grab all the attention, from the hilarious jump-rope rhyme of
"Hotdog" and seriously cosmic "Scott" to the plinking-and-thumping
rave-up "Sleep Deprivation." Catch the duo's live US debut tonight and
you'll see why the kids are uniting — "It's the Beat." (MC)
At the MTV Europe Video Awards in 2006, which celebrity was angered that a Simian remix won the
Best Video award? Two randomly drawn correct responses each receive a pair of tickets to this show.
Entries close at 6pm on Tue 7.3.
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MUSIC: Bubblegum Grime
Spiegelworld presents Lady Sovereign
Sat
7.7 (11pm) South Street Seaport (Pier 17, 646.775.2880) map $30
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Lady Sov wasn't doing so well the last time she was here, but the wee MC's back to show New York her meltdown-free best for tonight's Spiegelworld kick-off show. (FK)
In 50 words or less, spit out a rhyme about former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and how he
will spend his retirement from office. The illest verse receives a pair of tickets to this show.
Entries close at 6pm on Tue 7.3.
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JellyNYC Pool Parties feat. Octopus Project w/ Erase Errata, Dan Deacon, and OCDJ
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Stripped down to the basics, a Dan
Deacon gig consists of a ton of esoteric gear and one very spastic man
— but the sum of these parts is far greater. Deacon uncovers tremendous
pop potential by layering deceptively simple keyboard and drum machine
hooks, calling forth delicately undulating tone poems, hair-raising
noise assaults, and glorious lo-fi anthems. Sewing it all together is
his chirpy voice, which wavers from stream-of-
consciousness
rambling to faux-crooning to anthemic chanting. Deacon joins laptop
mashup maestro OCDJ, post-punks Erase Errata, and instrumental
noise-poppers Octopus Project for this afternoon's Pool Party. (TW)
Note: Todd P hosts an afterparty with Dan Deacon at one of his many Brooklyn demi-venues, Death by Audio, at 9pm.
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FIGMENT*
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7.8 (11am-5pm) Nolan Park, Governors Island map
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Frolic
in your most eccentric outfit and show off your art at this daylong
celebration of creative culture. Sprawling tree-lined lawns are your
playground as you make and meet with art and imagination in the open
air of Governors Island. (RB)
Note: There's no guarantee of food or beverage vendors,
so bring a picnic. Ferries to the island run every hour from 10am-5pm
from the Battery Maritime Building.
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| MUSIC: Ethereal Pop |
Under Byen w/ Benzos
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Under Byen could well be the most
Icelandic band to ever not actually be from Iceland. An ethereal,
enveloping chrysalis of sound, their music exploits all the
commonalities of Björk, Sigur Rós, and Múm
in seductive Scandinavian fashion. What the Danish collective can claim
as its own, however, is its unique dynamic: eight members strong, the
group is evenly split down gender lines, guaranteeing a fair amount of
Mars/Venus gravitational pull within its multi-instrumental mélange.
Under Byen's latest, Samme Stof Som Stof, finds them touring in appropriate company (with the Album Leaf), but tonight they top the bill, supported by New York shoegazers Benzos. (DL)
For which film did Under Byen compose the score? Two randomly drawn correct responses each
receive a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 7.3.
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| PHOTOGRAPHY |
Colour Before Color: 1970s European Color Photography
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Now through Fri 7.20 (Tue-Sat: 11am-6pm) |
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Hasted Hunt Gallery (529 W 20th St, 3rd Fl, 212.627.0006) map |
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It's a classic American move: claim that our homegrown boys William
Eggleston and Stephen Shore were the pioneers of fine-art color
photography. Not so, says British photographer Martin Parr,
whose survey of European photographers from the late '60s and '70s
ought to prompt the rewriting of a few textbooks before September.
Carlos Pérez Siquier's humorously cropped photographs of rotund
Europeans in garish bathing suits at the beach aren't exactly
flattering, while in Peter Mitchell's photographs of buildings in the
rundown city of Leeds, dour occupants stand in the doorways, looking
desperate for a reprieve from their bleak environs. (HGM)
Note: The gallery is closed Wed 7.4. Summer hours kick in Thur 7.5 (Mon-Fri: 11am-6pm).
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| THEATRE |
Doppelganger
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Now through Sat 7.21 (Tue-Sat: 8pm) |
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3LD Art and Technology Center (80 Greenwich St, 212.645.0374) map |
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The 3LD Art and Technology Center
is becoming the city's topmost tech-centric theater, with a lineup of
experimental plays that draw on cutting-edge sound, lighting, and
digital media. The current resident troupe, Feed the Herd,
has its hands full with a performance that unleashes images, video, and
sound triggered by the actors' interaction with the physical set. The
play itself, Simon Heath's Doppelganger, ranges from the
intriguing to the lackluster, as it explores the relationship between
two office workers who witness the death of an acquaintance.
Ultimately, the smart use of technology and complex staging are worth
the visit to get a glimpse of the brilliant possibilities of theatre's
future. (SP)
Note: There is no performance on Wed 7.4. To
receive a discount, savvy Flavorpill readers can enter the code FLAVDP
when ordering tickets online, or say "Flavorpill" when buying tix in
person.
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Thomas Flechtner
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Now through Fri 8.17 (Tue-Sat: 10am-6pm) |
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Marianne Boesky Gallery (509 W 24th St, 212.680.9889) map |
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Swiss photographer Thomas Flechtner is known for his pristine but
dreamy images, including an entire series depicting the stillness and
silence following snowfall. His two new series, Sakura and
Sites, take a similar look at the intersection of the natural and human worlds. Sakura,
Flechtner's images of Japanese cherry blossoms, are tall, vertical
photographs displayed on light boxes, pushing the beauty of the
wondrous flowers a little over the top. In Sites, the landscape
is entirely manmade: vast fields of pink tulips, hillsides blanketed in
magenta and mauve flowers, and heaping piles of yellow petals.
Flechtner's photographs depict the commercial flower industry cranking
out, en masse, singular objects of beauty — a metaphor for the art
market? (HGM)
Note: The gallery is closed Wed 7.4 - Sat 7.8.
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| ART |
Generation 1.5
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Now through Sun 12.2 (Wed-Fri: 10am-5pm / Sat & Sun: 12-5pm) |
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Queens Museum of Art (Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Flushing, 718.592.9700) map |
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"Generation 1.5"
is an expression describing teenage immigrants. The eight artists in
the Queens Museum's show, all of them 1.5ers, provide critical
perspective on both their new surroundings and cultures of origin. Salvage Research Soul Training,
the Jamaica-born Nari Ward's sculpture of anchored wheelchairs
ascending toward the sky, suggests an uneasy transition between two
states. RISD grad Seher Shah was born in Pakistan and exhibits six
drawings from the series Jihad Pop Progression: large-scale,
graphic works full of potent symbols. Lee Mingwei soothes his
homesickness with a four-channel sound-and-light installation of a
piece by famed turn-of-the-century composer Antonin Dvorak, written during his trip to America. (JW)
Note: The museum is closed Wed 7.4. Summer hours kick in Thur
7.5 (Wed & Thur: 12-6pm / Fri: 12-8pm / Sat & Sun: 12-6pm).
Why did contributing artist Shirin Neshat flee her homeland of Iran as a teen, and what did she
do once she arrived in the US? Two randomly drawn correct responses each receive a pair of tickets
to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Tue 7.3.
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| FILM |
Sicko
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Now playing |
| where: |
Various cinemas |
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Sicko |
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Yes, Michael Moore is fat. Yes, at the end of his new movie, Sicko,
he takes a (perhaps ill-advised) trip to Guantánamo Bay. Yes, other
medical systems have flaws, and he could do more to discuss them.
Still, the controversial filmmaker's new documentary exposing the
gaping holes in America's for-profit health-care system is a powerful
portrait of an industry, and a population, that are clearly in crisis.
That anyone would argue minutiae as reason to dismiss the film is
itself cause for semi-
conspiratorial, Moore-esque melodramatics.
Will naysayers nitpick the man and his methods? Probably. Are the bulk
of the film's actual arguments — not to mention the film's underlying
thesis — absolutely ironclad? Without a doubt. (AP)
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| PARTY: Upcoming |
The Chowdown feat. Craig Samuel and Ben Grossman (the Smoke Joint) w/ the Rub DJs
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The Chowdown is — among other things — an Internet radio show,
an intimate dinner, and a dance party. More than anything, though, it's
just a ridiculously good way to set a soundtrack to every epicurean
urge you've ever had. This month's 50-person food fest features a Dirty
South theme, bringing around Craig Samuel and Ben Grossman of
criminally low-profile Fort Greene BBQ Mecca the Smoke Joint
to cook up their inculpable 'cue. Throughout the meal, the Rub DJs (the
ubiquitous Ayres, Cosmo Baker, and DJ Eleven) spice things up with
hip-hop, crunked-up soul, and other tidbits from below the Mason Dixon,
while Joe Encarnacion and Flavorpill's own Anna Balkrishna play host.
(FK)
Note: Reservations are required for dinner, but the party opens up for free to the public from 10pm onward.
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Stoked Mentoring
introduces kids most in need of guidance to the skills needed for
accomplishments in the world of board sports and beyond. Starting in
2004 as Snow Mentor, and since branching out to include skate and surf
programs, Stoked helps kids throughout the NYC and LA metropolitan
areas to learn how to set goals, overcome obstacles, maintain inner (as
well as outer) balance, and get in tune with themselves and their
environments. The program encourages even inexperienced boarders to be leaders
and learn alongside those they are guiding. If volunteering is too
time-consuming, get involved via donations, which translate into gear
from sponsor Zoo York as thanks. (RB)
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CD REVIEW: Blitzen Trapper, Wild Mountain Nation |
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Lidkercow Ltd
Released June 2007
$13.49 (Insound)
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The funnest thing about Blitzen Trapper's Wild Mountain Nation,
the Portland, Oregon, sextet's outstanding third album, is how easily
it leads you off the well-trod indie-rock path. The stomper "Devil's
A-Go-Go" shambles with spazzy, Kinks-ish harmonies and fuzz-tone
guitar, and the title track plays out like a long-lost cousin of the
Grateful Dead's American Beauty. But then "Futures & Folly"
channels a spaceship-riding Simon and Garfunkel, "Woof and Warp of the
Quiet Giant's Hem" twirls plates in a heavy-metal circus, and "Country
Caravan" takes the Eagles for a ride on Malkmus' motor scooter. Wild Mountain Nation
has a reassuring familiarity, but its secret is the songs —
unpredictable, smile-triggering contraptions that start in one place
and end up in strange, uncharted territory. (TG)
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STREAMS: Daytrotter |
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Daytrotter
differentiates itself from other indie-oriented music sites by taking a
hands-on approach: in addition to features and reviews, the publication
also hosts live-recording series the Daytrotter Sessions. The project
asks bands touring the Midwest to stop into the organization's Illinois
studios to lay down four songs on analog tape; the resulting recordings
are exclusive, intimate portraits of up-and-coming and established
bands alike. Recent highlights include sets from the Lovely Sparrows,
David Bazan, Sondre Lerche, and the Spinto Band. Also be sure to check
the archives for installments from the Cold War Kids and Bonnie
"Prince" Billy. (CJN)
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| Chelsea Bauch | | Melody Caraballo | | Lauren Epstein | | Todd Goldstein | | Kiwa Iyobe | | Foster Kamer | | Gerry Mak | | Andrew Phillips | | Toby Warner | | Joel Withrow |
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| Anjuli Ayer | | Jessica Bauer-Greene | | Justin R. Charles | | Morgan Croney | | Myla Dalbesio | | Josh Deeden | | Teel Lassiter | | Amanda Schmitt | | Sarah Steele | | Judah Wiedre | | Anna Wolfgang | | Daphne Yang |
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Hi-fidelity updates
A twice-monthly email magazine highlighting the latest in electronic music — including news, reviews, and original features
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Books worth reading
A monthly review focusing on smart, readable works of fiction and nonfiction, from current titles to past gems
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Global fashion trends
A twice-monthly, insider view on fashion trends breaking in Paris, London, New York, and around the world
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International art
A twice-monthly email magazine covering art, design, and architecture with profiles, news, and reviews of international shows
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World news once a week
A weekly roundup of the most important and engaging news stories from around the globe
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