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Goings On
Okay, fine. So how do I compete with this? First WNYC and now The New Yorker. I’m tired of being a citizen journalist. I wanna get paid. I gotta think up one of those catchy pop-culture analysis books, some trendspotting co-branded viral marketing social networked web 2.0 platform-agnostic millenial post post modern mash-up hybrid visual…
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Push Back Picnic in Union Square
PUSH BACK PICNIC JULY 2ND, 6:00PM, Inside the north end of the park By the Abe Lincoln statue FREE (the way a park oughta be!) As the nation prepares to celebrate it’s 232nd Birthday, and the Union Square BID (Business Improvement District) prepares to privatize the LANDMARKED Pavilion building, come join the Community Improvement District…
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TKTS BKLYN
Got this a few weeks ago, forgot to post. But for Brooklyn theater fans its big news: New downtown Brooklyn TKTS booth, opening Thursday July 10. TDF and METROTECH B.I.d. announce new TKTS location at 1 Metrotech center at the corner of jay street and myrtle avenue – Theatre Development Fund (TDF) and MetroTech Business…
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Market Forces / Part II: Consumer Confidence
this looks pretty cool: carriage trade invites you to a closing reception for Market Forces / Part II: Consumer Confidence On Wednesday, July 2 beginning at 7pm carriage trade 94 Prince St. 2nd fl New York, NY 10012 (between Greene St & Mercer St.), n/r train to Prince Street open: Thursday- Sunday, 1 pm- 6…
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Peg-Ass-Us LIVE!
Just in case you think we’re gettin’ a little too artsy fartsy around here, we’re going to plug (heh-heh) the upcoming show Peg-Ass-Us. Never seen it, know nothing about it, but dang ya gotta give these kids credit for pure pervy-ness! Peg-Ass-Us Performed and Created by John Leo & Sophie Nimmannit A Production of Pack…
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Oh, Miley!
As long-time Culturebot readers will know, I have an ongoing fascination with the evolution of the Teen age Girl In Popular Culture, beginning with Valley Girl in the early 80’s, through Clueless in the 90’s to Britney and, now, Miley Cyrus. One day I guess I’ll go to grad school and write a thesis. Or…
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International Festival of Arts and Ideas
Today is the last day of the New Haven-based annual International Festival of Arts and Ideas. The day’s events includes a walking tour and a bike tour, and the festival finale—a dance performance by Liz Lehrman titled “613 Radical Acts of Prayer.” Anyone can participate; just show up at the Fountain on the Green at…
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New Kid In Town
Well, our ever-expanding ranks of contributors keep growing! Please welcome Vanessa Baish. We have high hopes! Vanessa Baish, who grew up in a small and quiet Maryland town, was introduced to performance in 1989 when a friend took her to see Laurie Anderson. It was the same year she read “Absalom, Absalom” by William Faulker,…
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source amnesia
“Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found.” Yikes. This article in the NYTIMES on “source amnesia” is really interesting. It discusses how we remember things and how susceptible we are to misremembering. Or how we basically re-write our memories every time we recall them, thus we are…
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Incubator (OHT): Helsinki Syndrome’s “True North”.
photo: Mike Hipple The second company invited by the Incubator curators to perform at the Ontological Hysteric Theater was Helsinki Syndrome, a performance art collective based in Seattle. I went to their last performance this past Saturday and found light plastic blankets awaiting the audience on the seats. The program warned us: there will be…
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Dance Theater Workshop: “Dance by Neil Greenberg. Really Queer Dance with Harps and Quartet with Three Gay Men”.
Neil Greenberg’s Quartet with Three Gay Men. Last week I attended one of the last performances of “Dance by Neil Greenberg” at Dance Theater Workshop. I went to the performance excited by the many reviews that spoke so well about Greenberg’s work: see, for instance, reviews by Roslyn Sulcas, Claudia La Rocco, and Gia Kourlas.…
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Creative Time Summer 2008
Good stuff from Creative Time all summer long… Throughout the summer Creative Time will present selections from fashion icon, agent provocateur, and founder of the Sex Pistols Malcolm McLaren’s new video series Shallow at 44 1/2: MTV’s outdoor, gilded, HD screen in the heart of Times Square. Catch the films on Broadway between 44th and…
