Monthly Archives: October 2008

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Abrons Art Center: “Screen Test”.

Screen Test is director and visual artist Rob Roth’s latest multi-disciplinary work, currently on show at the Lower East Side’s Abrons Art Center. The piece is a one-hour long eerie, haunting, and sometimes tickling performance that takes place in the nightmarish apocalyptic setting of a

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free panel discussion

The Culture Warriors Thu, Nov 6 at 6:30pm Dance Theater Workshop, 219 W 19th Street. New York, NY, 10011 Full Spectrum and Dance Theater Workshop present a free panel discussion about mobilizing the creative community in the midst of the economic crisis with Patricia Cruz

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Screen Test

When I first moved to New York in 1995 I only knew two people. One of them was the poet/performer/man-about-town Bobby Miller who hosted the reading series Verbal Abuse at the nightclub Mother. Mother was home to the phenomenal Jackie 60 parties and also the

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the new kid & jollyship the whiz-bang

hello hello! I’m Rachel Karpf, the new addition to the team Andy mentioned a few days ago. I’m a director, grant writer, and sometime producer based in Fort Greene. I’ll be contributing my thoughts on Culturebot’s theater beat and general NYC arts news/gossip. Behind the

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Denver Open Media

I was watching Public Access and saw this fantastic short documentary/manifesto on new media distribution models created by Denver Open Media. It is called Opening Access and is “a half-hour special presentation of a bold new vision for community media. Combining archival footage with interviews

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Aging Out of The Demographic Party

On October 26, 2008 I am officially aging out of the desirable demographic. Come push me over the hill and down the long slide into senescence and irrelevance. Andy’s Haunted Birthday and Benefit Party @ IRT 154 Christopher St. #3B NYC Saturday, October 25th 9PM

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Dumped!

I was walking home and I found this in a garbage can in front of a swanky building on my block: I’m guessing that this girl told this dude to hit the highway. Or he dumped her and she threw out her magical wall of

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exit at the axis

Thursday night I was feeling exhausted. I had been through a bunch of meetings all day, tons of work and stuff. Then I went to a work-in-progress showing of some new work. I was really rundown and pretty much just going to go home and

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BAM-tastic

I am swamped swamped swamped today so I can’t write in rapturous length about the sheer amazingness of the show I saw last night at BAM – the Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Steve Reich evening. OMG. It is rare that you see something that is almost perfect.

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Darmstadt at IPR

  From my friend Nick: Zach Layton and I present our first DARMSTADT festival this week at ISSUE PROJECT ROOM in Brooklyn, entitled ESSENTIAL REPERTOIRE. Over the course of six concerts beginning tomorrow (Wednesday) evening, we present a loose survey of our favorite composers hailing

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Geezer vs. GZA?

I haven’t been to see CLAY at the LCT. I don’t really think I need to. Not to be dismissive but, um, I can’t imagine what possible relevance or interest I might find in a young, healthy white dude (from Northwestern – Go You N.U.!)