Month: July 2008

  • Save the Subway

    below is an email forwarded from the Working Families Party. I wholeheartedly agree – I wish the gov’t would give the working man a break. But for my money, I think they don’t go far enough. Read Christopher X. Brodeur’s platform from his 2005 mayoral campaign. He makes an EXCELLENT argument for making the subways…

  • Someone’s in The Kitchen

    The Kitchen has announced its Fall 2008 (September – December) Season. Total Info Immersion after the jump. You download as PDF here.

  • New Play Development Program

    Arena Stage is hosting a program of the NEA’s: the Arena Stage / New Play Development Program. Click through for more information. The postmark deadline is THURSDAY JULY 31, 2008.

  • Is Stripping An Art?

    What do they say in real estate? Location is everything? So I suppose stripping is an art if you do it in a dank hipster place on the LES or in a swank red-velvet-rope exclusive nightclub for celebutards. For that matter it is art if you do it in Deitch Gallery – or anywhere else…

  • Kate Bornstein Live and In Your Face

    Kate Bornstein’s new workshop tonight! (MONDAY JULY 28) doors open at 7:30 for an 8PM show! In, How Post-Modern Queer Performance Theory can Save your Freaky, Fucking Ass!, Kate Bornstein will share fun and insightful tips on living and surviving queer.  Ze’s incredibly excited to meet you and other sex positivists and conscious explorers of…

  • Brave Radiohole Interns Wanted Now!

    Radiohole is seeking interns to help with our new show Anger/Nation (hip deep in shit) premiering at the Kitchen September 11, 2008 (SOON!) We are seeking enthusiastic, curious and motivated folks to help with every facet of production. Help in administration and stage-management also needed. We are seeking folks for the load-in period and for…

  • check out my beard

    This is not normally Culturebot’s purview but Sunday’s NY Daily News gossip column reported this: Newark Mayor Cory Booker and Oprah BFF Gayle King are still going strong. While the talk-show maven is gallivanting around Europe, sans her pal, Gayle and Cory enjoyed a low-key date night, waiting in line with the masses to see…

  • How Far Is Too Far?

    Check out this article in ARTnews.

  • what to do when you hate all your friends

    old friends, new friends, friends you haven’t met yet. Friends the TV show. Frenemies. acquaintances. No matter the words you use, social stuff is pretty tricky. For some folks. As a long-time sufferer of Social Anxiety Disorder with severe Intimacy Issues and great difficulty sustaining long-term, meaningful and productive relationships either friend-wise or intimate, (just…

  • Foreign C.

    FOREIGN C. A reporter watches the 20th c. pass by from hotel bars and the scaffolding of unremembered buildings – never aging, hardly feeling, always humming a sweet little song. July 23, 24, 25, and 26 at 8:00 pm The Ontological Theater at St. Mark’s Church 131 E. 10th St. and 2nd Ave. General Admission:…

  • Final Blow-Out Party for Naked City Spleen

    This looks like a good time: NAKED CITY SPLEEN: AN INSTALLATION BY MIRU KIM AND ISIDORE ROUSSEL. WHEN:     Friday, JULY 25, 7 PM WHERE: GESTARC GALLERY, 390 VAN BRUNT ST, RED HOOK, BROOKLYN 8 PM:    exclusive one-time performance by Miru Kim and screening of BLIND DOOR. 10 PM:  special guest performance by BURNKIT2600(experimental electronic sounds)…

  • wanted: prelude web dude (or gal)

    you may have noticed – but then again maybe you didn’t – that prelude’s website looks like a**. we’d like to fix that. we’ve got a lot of great stuff planned and we’re launching a whole new look for the festival – it would be great if the website were equally snaz-tastic. Are you a…