Month: March 2009

  • Don’t Freak Out!

    We just had to do some renovations around here. I taught myself some CSS and kicked it Old Skool. DIY. Lo-Fi. No Budget. Can You Dig It? Anyway – if you’re worried about linkage – we didn’t de-link anybody!!  We wanted to organize it a bit, so we started to divide links geographically and made…

  • Five Questions For: Sheila Callaghan

    Name: Sheila Callaghan Title/Occupation: Playwright 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? Freehold NJ.  Came here after college with a gradschool detour in Los Angeles at UCLA. 2. Which performance, song, play, movie, painting or other work of art had the biggest influence on you and…

  • Weekend Wrap-Up

    A couple highlights from last weekend: X Space opened up in the old Dia building and I was so impressed.  Mika Tajima had an amazing installation on the first floor.  If you saw her pieces at either The Kitchen last fall or in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, it’s really amazing to see her work on…

  • This Week’s To-Do’s

    Ok, so I’m a little nervous to do this, but my PICK OF THE WEEK is someone I’ve never actually seen before.  At DTW this weekend Monstah Black and the Sonic Leroy have a showing.  Watch the video and tell me that it won’t be worth a $5 suggested donation.  WERK! ==== Not going to…

  • New York Songlines

    For years now I’ve been fascinated by Jim Naureckas‘ website New York Songlines. Basically he traces the constantly vanishing history of the city block by block. I don’t remember when I first found the site but I was really taken with the notion of using the Aboriginal Australian idea of songlines as a way of…

  • Five Questions for: Ariana Smart Truman

    Name: Ariana Smart Truman Title/Occupation: Producer Organization/Company: Elevator Repair Service Theater URL: www.elevator.org 1. Where did you grow up and how did you end up where you are now? I grew up in San Francisco. I went to Vassar, and moved to New York the day I graduated. 2. Which performance, song, play, movie, painting or…

  • Freakin’ Fusebox!!

    Holy Heck! Check out the line-up for Fusebox 2009!!!! Okay seriously – someone should fly me down to Austin to do a panel in the internets or have me cover it for a  major national publication. Seriously. April 23-May 2nd.  Ron Berry, seriously, dude, bring me to Texas! Please!!

  • Friends With Benefits

    here’s some benefits coming up. kind of in chronological order but I put Banana Bag & Bodice first because I’m on the Benefit Committee and I really, really , really, want to encourage you to go to their benefit. First off because BEOWULF rocks so friggin’ hard that you will want to see it four…

  • A Modest Proposal for Arts in America

    Not too long ago Chloe Veltman wrote a blog post suggesting that the San Francisco Fringe Festival set some criteria for their completely un-juried curatorial process.  A motivational speaker had successfully submitted his corporate lecture to the festival and, in light of this, she felt that corporate encroachment would somehow negatively affect the spirit, quality…

  • Page 73 fellowship app online

    Great opportunity for you early-career playwrights: COMPLETED APPLICATIONS ARE DUE MAY 1, 2009 (POST-MARKED). As you may know, the P73 Playwriting Fellowship is a year-long program that provides support to one early-career playwright each year, from January 1 to December 31. During the year, Page 73 serves as the fellow’s producer and advocate, providing support…

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  • Crack Open The Shells

      Radiohole fans should check out Correspondence: The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957-60) – which provides insight into the origins of the The Situationists and Guy Debord’s thinking.  Remember when artists had manifestos and politics and radical aesthetics and also a sense of humor???? [via Lux Lotus] We’re currently reading (more like trying to…