Monthly Archives: May 2008

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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The Accursed Items

Just got this note from Andrew Dinwiddie about some preview and benefit events for his show The Accursed Items that will premiere at the Ontological in September. From Andrew: June 13th and 14th is going to be an amazing weekend with four fantastic ways to

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Tiny Theater!

Thursday, May 22, I attended the first evening of the Incubator’s Tiny Theater! Festival at the Ontological Hysteric Theater. Curated by Michael Gardner, of The Brick, and Shannon Sindelar and Brendan Regimbal of the Ontological, last night’s show included a line up of 6 different