Month: March 2009

  • addenda to i(v)an

    Just digging through the archives and unearthed CBOT’s two-part interview with Mark Russell from January 2004.   – Mark Russell interview PART I  – Mark Russell interview PART II It was our first full-length, in-depth interview and it is fascinating to look back and see how far we’ve all come.

  • video of the day

    This has nothing to do with anything artistic; it’s just funny. Look at that horse.

  • CHAUTAUQUA! & PS 122’s Sword of Damocles (Mark Russell is not a Dick)

    To say that CHAUTAUQUA! Is thought-provoking is to say that Lauren Caitlin Upton is stupid. (I heard that she is doing porn now which I find heartwarming in an odd Americun-type-o’way.) No seriously, folks… This show is dope! I took my Dad (yes the Vanilla is no longer in Manila) and he loved it for…

  • Stewart vs. Cramer

    I can’t seem to embed the video so I’ll just put a link to Cramer vs. Stewart on the Daily Show [via Hulu.com]. Amazing.

  • Arthur Russell film

    To follow up on the le poisson rouge evening coming up: Wild Combination, a portrait Arthur Russell, by Matt Wolf is now available on DVD. It’s absolutely incredible.

  • Funding Opportunity

    Hey Y’all, FEAST – Funding Emerging Art with Sustainable tactics has a funding opportunity for the April 4 event.  Due date is March 21. Details here.

  • Oh, America, you break my heart.

    “My little girl and I had just walked across from the feed store. I had gone over to buy her a Mountain Dew, and when we got back in I had made it back to my dryer chair and I opened the can and we heard all these shootings…” (from a cnn.com story on the Alabama shootings)

  • St. Ann’s Warehouse to present American premiere of La Didone

      “Completely fearless…[La Didone] combines an often piercing sweetness with a dry sense of humor…Unexpectedly moving and wistful.” – The Guardian “For this kind of experimental stuff to work, it has to be done by a master, preferably with a sense of humor. This is one.” – The Daily Telegraph “…a mind-blowing vision inspired by the…

  • Red-Haired Thomas at The Ohio

    One can imagine that economic and real estate troubles are on the top of playwright Robert Lyons’ mind. With the impending demise of his much-beloved Ohio Theatre in Soho, it shouldn’t be surprising to learn that he’s got a lot to say about the economy, real estate, injustice, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,…

  • The Music of Arthur Russell at Le Poisson Rouge

    The Music of Arthur Russell Saturday April 4th at 10:00pm Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker Street Tickets: $12 advance/$15 door. Le Poisson Rouge presents a tribute to the composer Arthur Russell, who established himself in New York’s vibrant downtown music scene of the 1970s as an eccentric chameleon, creating across and playing his cello in…

  • HAGGADAH @ LaMama

    Purim just ended and it’s already time to prepare for Passover! Bust out your matzoh and your mandel bread and sweep out that kitchen good because Dan Safer and his evil band of co-conspirators at Witness Relocation are taking on Passover, The Ten Commandments, Plagues, Cecil B. DeMille, Metallica, and more in: HAGGADAH (or THE…

  • bottom-up, not top-down

    Last week I went to a presentation by Jack Ukeles  which was pretty amazing. It was called ““Doing More With Less: Turning Crisis Into Opportunity” and I really loved it.  I’m kind of a process nerd – I love workflow analysis and management systems innovation.  I get all wobbly at the thought of re-structuring org charts, coming…