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3LD Discounts
(I’m rushing to get out the door so I will update this post later with links, etc.!) There are some very cool shows coming up at 3LD: Reid Farrington’s The Passion Project and The Hourglass Group’s Frequency Hopping. And Culturebot has discounts for both! For The Passion Project, you can get five dollars off the…
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Dawn 2008
I’m going out to San Francisco for Dawn 2008 and I need a place to crash. Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?
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Starr Street Projects: “Catch 30”
Yesterday’s “Catch 30” comprised 10 different dance pieces performed over an hour and a half evening. The scene at Starr Street Projects was quite a performance in itself: the space is situated in the middle of Bushwick and before the show began, an island of hipster dance spectators gathered around the entrance of the space.…
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The Shipment in Progress
Saturday 7 June, 2008 @ 8pm THE KITCHEN 512 West 19th Street (just west of 10th Ave), NYC www.thekitchen.org FREE – Tickets will be available at the door on a first-come, first-served basis. With her signature bold style and acid wit, Young Jean Lee is turning her eye towards hip-hop culture and African-American identity-politics in…
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argh, matey
Ars Nova is doing a promotion for Jollyship Whizbang by staging a “Pirate Raid” in Union Square Saturday at 1:00PM. We love pirates. I would post the picture but I’m at a friend’s crappy computer that doesn’t have any photo editing software on it.
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Warhol Kitsch
I was walking in midtown when I passed a photo store that had this exhibit in the window: Get your own Warhol-inspired print featuring your loved ones!! I wonder what Warhol would think of this. He would probably love it. Maybe.
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Byrne Installation Opens Saturday
Playing the Building: An Installation by David Byrne Opens to the public Saturday, May 31, 12 to 6pm Opening celebration: 6 to 8 pm This 9,000-square-foot sound installation will be free and open to the public-Come and play it! Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from 12 to 6pm May 31–August 10, 2008 The Battery Maritime Building,…
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PS122: “Oedipus Loves You”.
Until June 1, 2008, the Dublin based Pan Pan Theatre company will perform Oedipus Loves You at PS122. According to Wikipedia, “a call of pan-pan means there is an emergency on board a boat, ship, aircraft or other vehicle but that, for the time being at least, there is no immediate danger to any one’s…
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Movement Research Festival: “80’s and 90’s On Screen – Dance Relics”.
On Tuesday, May 27th, Christine Elmo and Jmy Leary presented “80’s and 90’s on Screen – Dance Relics”, an evening of dance videos from the NYC dance scene in the 80’s and 90’s. Elmo and Leary put together about 4 hours (!!!) of rarely seen videos that included performances, films, rehearsal and interviews. Although I…
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More Summer Stuff from Culturebot
Okay, so I did an interview with WNYC this morning about things to do in the summer. There is so much stuff going on it was hard to pick only a few, I had to leave a lot off. Like free hot dogs at Metropolitan Bar on Sundays or the First Thursdays Gallery Walk in…
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Arc Reactor Technology
So I went to see Iron Man over the weekend and it was awesome! I had been to see an arty film earlier in the weekend and it was a disappointment, so to buoy my spirits I went to see some sure-fire rock’em-sock’em entertainment. Robert Downey Jr., Cuba Gooding, Terence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges,…
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Down In The Delta, in BKLYN
By the way, if you haven’t heard about this yet, you should definitely check out 651 Arts upcoming festival The Mississippi Delta Heritage Project which has tons of great events and performances going on in BKLYN from May 28 to June 7. (They actually had an event in early May, but I spaced. Sorry!) Personally…
