Month: October 2008

  • 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 post-nuclear-holocaust scenario. It’s hard to describe exactly what happens during…

  • 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 (Harlem Stage), Robert Elmes (Galapagos Art Space), Arana J. Hankin…

  • 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 superfun party Click + Drag. Click + Drag was produced…

  • 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 scenes, I’ll be ramping up our planning to make sure…

  • 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 and b-roll, Opening Access presents a compelling picture of an…

  • 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 until late (early)

  • 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 memories. What do you think?

  • 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 get some sleep. But I had gotten an email a…

  • 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. Almost as close to perfect as is possible. It was…

  • 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 from New York’s experimental continuum: John Cage and Morton Feldman…

  • Sarah Palin to join Mary Hart as co-host of ET!

      This Times article nails it – Sarah Palin would make a great television personality!   But she’s not even remotely prepared to be a part of the federal government! Someone in the MSM offer her a sitcom or a hosting job ASAP!

  • 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.!) making a hip-hop show, in all earnestness, in 2008.  It…