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Kiki & Herb at Joe’s Pub

“They drummed you out of the Helen Hayes, so you come crawling back below 14th street”(to mangle a quote form Valley of the Dolls). Actually, the boozy chantoosie and her gay-jew-tard pianist received a rave mention in the New York Times, and possibly could have

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Tim Miller Talks Politics and Bed-Hopping

Perusing the internets, as is my wont, I came across this great interview with performer and P.S. 112 co-founder Tim Miller. Miller speaks to the Austin Chronicle about politics, hope and his new book and show, both entitled 1001 Beds. Read the article here. For

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P.S.122’s Annual Red & White Holiday Blowout

You are NOT going to want to miss this year’s The Red & White Party II Performance Space 122 Holiday Festacular!! last year’s party was unforgettable, although maybe a bit blurry in memory. Let’s just we were all together to see the sun rise on

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The fall and rise of the Rising Fallen

Those of us who have been on the downtown scene for awhile have very fond memories of one of the greatest bands never to hit the NYC stages – The Rising Fallen. They were formed about 7 years ago and have cancelled nearly all their

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Performance Report: Unisex Salon Opening

Your humble editor is still fighting a diabolical cold, but since Thursday is the new Friday and blah blah blah, I headed down to the Delancey, fellow blogger and photographer Jane Gavin in tow, for the opening of Unisex Salon. Produced by James Coppola and

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World AIDS Day

Just a reminder, tomorrow is World AIDS Day (December 1). here’s some links: Light to Unite Link and Think World AIDS Campaign Join Red Project Inform visual AIDS

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Won’t You Take Me To Monkey Town

THURSDAY DEC. 7 MONKEY TOWN HOLIDAY PARTY A Benefit for Monkey Town featuring LIVE, in his only New York appearance for 2006,MY ROBOT FRIEND…and the “crackpot genius” of DYNASTY HANDBAG plus NO ORDINARY MONKEY DJs, a Lightshow by Luke Dubois, Adam Kendall, Ray Sweeten among

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EMPAC Commissioning

EMPAC – the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – announces the launch of the EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission, a new commissioning program to support the creation of new works in the field of experimental dance for the screen. Through the

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To Pee Or Not To Pee

Lest you think the theatre blogosphere is all highbrow discussions and heated aesthetic debates, we bring you this poll from What’s Good/What Blows, where you can vote for the worst bathrooms Off-Broadway(via The Playgoer). The poll doesn’t include a lot of small downtown spaces, many

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Important Opportunities for Artists

Now that Thanksgiving is over and the magical capitalism fairies put up the winter holidy decorations in participating stores and locations overnight, here’s an early Christmas/Hannukah/Kwanzaa/et al gift from me to you: Attention dancers! chashama is privvy to some great dance space with sprung floors.

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Sex Onstage

So I was just having dinner with a friend and the movie shortbus came up. I haven’t seen it yet but I hear it is pretty racy. Then we started talking about the history of sex onstage. Could you conceivably stage something like shortbus? In