Monthly Archives: July 2008

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Taylor Mac vs. Joan Rivers

Oh so I went and saw the Be(a)st of Taylor Mac at HERE Arts Center on Tuesday. It was a fun ride through Taylor’s back catalogue of songs, skits and sequins. And guess who sat behind me? That’s right! Joan Rivers!! Looking absolutely, stunningly surreal.

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IRT Pre-Fringe Fundraiser

Join Culturebot at IRT (154 Christopher St. #3B)  this Friday night JULY 25 for our Pre-Fringe Performance Party and Fundraiser! 8PM, $5 at the door. Cheap beer and vodka drinks. And a chance to get your funny on. Wasp Cove Episode 3: Eenie, Meenie, Miny…Murder

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Be a part of The Shipment

Announcing Auditions for YOUNG JEAN LEE’S THEATER COMPANY – THE SHIPMENT Written and Directed by Young Jean Lee Award-winning, internationally touring theater company seeks trained, non-Equity African-American actors (male and female) of all ages who are available to rehearse 20 hours/week from September 26-October 24

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adventures with harkness av

From Culturebot pal Nick Hallett: Joshua Light Show to perform free outdoor concert with German electronic musician Manuel Göttsching at Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival on August 15, 2008 The Joshua Light Show, known by many a New Yorker for creating the iconic psychedelic

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soundscaper and mocean

From my pal Maia Marinelli: “The Soundscaper” (the project that was recently showcased at the Museum of Contemporary art in Genoa, Italy) will be now shown at LACDA (Los Angeles Center For Digital Art) for the International New Media Expo in Downtown Los Angeles .

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Sexual Perversity in Manhattan

While I am far past the days of making performance art about my own predilections, predations and perversities, I will still on occasion watch others do it. Personally, I just burned out on living my private life in public. When you’re open about non-traditional sexuality

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[Title of Show] is [Totally Awesome]

Old Uncle Culturebot has been doing a lot of soul searching of late. Wrestling with big issues and ideas, life, you know – existential shit. If he were a character from Winnie The Pooh he would definitely be Eeyore with frequent but sporadic bouts of

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From Tommy Smith and Reggie Watts

Hi everyone. Reggie Watts and I are constructing our next show TRANSITION for the 2008 Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Arts Festival, and we need 24 actors to star in a filmed staged rehearsal for a fake avant-garde production of Neil Simon’s “The Odd

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deerhoof on wnyc

WNYC and NPR Music will team up to present a special live webcast of Celebrate Brooklyn! and Wordless Music’s presentation of Deerhoof and Metropolis Ensemble at the Prospect Park Bandshell, on Friday, July 18th at 7:30pm.  The concert can be heard on WNYC2, WNYC’s 24-hour

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love hangover

I’ve been cleaning my apartment and found this poem that I wrote back when I was writing poetry. I haven’t had much time to do anything creative personally for awhile and with my marginal cultural authority beginning to wane I might as well full and