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Issue 458 |
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Your event guide
Here's a snapshot of our favorite things to do in New York. |
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Some time since NYC's first St. Patrick's Day parade in 1762, the holiday became inexorably tied to binge drinking stateside. In fact, our neighbors in Hoboken had enough over-saturated exploits at their parade on March 7 to likely get it banned. I will in all likelihood don some green on the 17th, but in the spirit of keeping my celebrations a little more civilized, I'm opting out of the pub crawl this year. Instead, I'm dedicating my St. Patrick's Day to an ongoing, and as yet unsatisfied, quest for a more elusive libation than mere Guinness: the Shamrock Shake. Not since moving to New York have I been able to track one down; in fact, I'm now convinced that the magical Shake must be hanging out with a gang of leprechauns and several pots o' gold, just past the end of the rainbow. Maybe this will finally be my year — even if I end up with a DIY Shamrock. In the meantime, if you've got any hot leads, help a girl out!
- Leah Taylor, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Inside Guantánamo Bay »
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Christopher Sims' show at Civilian Art Projects in DC features photographs of the naval base and joint-detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where the Duke professor spent five days in 2006. Among his strange discoveries: there's a McDonald's. We speak with Sims to find out what made him go to Gitmo, how he hopes to change the war-photography genre, and why none of his images feature people.
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Ingrid Olava w/ Sprengjuhöllin and Shelley Green
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Tuesday Mar 17, 2009 (9pm)
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Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St, 212.253.0036)
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Norwegian singer Ingrid Olava may be born of Viking stock, but when she plunks the ivories, it's with the grace of a pop-obsessed princess. Her piano dirges match soft, throaty coos with light accompaniment, eliciting the feel of her ice-bitten native country. Olava hits town tonight alongside whimsical Icelandic outfit Sprengjuhöllin and breezy hometown songstress Shelley Green. The former whips up a frenzy of fire-spun indie-folk, while the latter's husky warble gives both out-of-towners a real run.
- Andrew Phillips
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MORE FLAVOR: Lecture
Secret Science Club presents Plutopalooza! feat. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Wednesday Mar 18, 2009 (8pm)
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The Bell House (149 7th St, 718.643.6510)
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We can't in good conscience pass up a lecture by People's "Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive," so you can bet your telescope array that we'll be front and center at the Bell House tonight. As the charming host of PBS' NOVA scienceNOW and the high-profile director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson has found even non-nerds gravitating to his out-there topics, as evidenced by a recent appearance on The Daily Show. Tonight, Tyson leads the Secret Science Club's regular gathering of area pocket-protector posses in a debate over Pluto, which he had a controversial hand in demoting to dwarf-planet status.
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
Big Art Group: SOS
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Big Art Group's hallucinatory theatrical happenings create immersive environments through real-time film projections. As the action unfolds, a forest of technology records each scene from multiple angles and rebroadcasts them to the audience on a network of screens. This overwhelming confluence of visual stimuli functions as a discomfiting commentary on our times, evoking reality TV, digital data streams, screen addiction, and the future of virtual reality. Big Art Group's latest piece, SOS, repositions the audience as an active editor, whose individual attention produces a unique narrative from the sensory chaos.
- Eli Dvorkin
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MORE FLAVOR: Spectacle
Art Battles Spring Fling
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Friday Mar 20, 2009 (8pm)
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(Le) Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker St, 212.505.3474)
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Tonight, four artists go head-to-head in a live art battle. But instead of using N 6th Street or some custom Nikes, they square off on canvas in front of the audience. After getting their theme from emcee Danny Simmons, graf artists Andre Trenier, Sean Bono (one of Art Battles' founders), Venus, and Zito take on each other — and the clock — to produce the most artistically impressive piece. Meanwhile, DMC World Champion DJ Shiftee, along with DJs Jus Ske, IXL, and Complex keep the party going away from the paint. This is also the Art Battles Spring Fling, so don't forget to dress to impress.
- Leah Taylor
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Following the Fling, another $15 gets you into the KongZilla Art Party, where tonight's winner battles the current champ, Leif McIlwaine.
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MORE FLAVOR: Competition
Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament
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Saturday Mar 21, 2009 (7:30pm)
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Webster Hall (125 E 11th St, 212.353.1600)
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Break out the Wacom tablet: it's that time of year again, when designers step out of pristine, white-walled studios to showcase their chops under the public's critical eye (not to mention those of design hot-shot judges) at Cut&Paste's annual Digital Design Tournament. Branching out from two dimensions, this year's competition brings both 3D and motion-design categories into play. The event has also gone global, and designers from Europe, Asia, and Australia are set to battle against America's top pixel pushers in June's finale here in New York City.
- Axel Anderson
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Flavorpill is a proud media partner of the Cut&Paste Digital Design Tournament.
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FILM
DREYER
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Sunday Mar 22, 2009
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BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Ave, 718.636.4100)
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The great Danish early-cinema auteur Carl Theodor Dreyer produced otherworldly art out of basic, reactive elements — namely faith, family, and that age-old arc toward redemption. With its stark aesthetic and lingering, melancholy camera work, a Dreyer film achieves an oceanic emotional effect via the director's belief in intensive technique. Take The Passion of Joan of Arc (1927): Dreyer transforms his sullen martyr into cinema's Mona Lisa through repeated, haunting close-ups — a near-wordless buildup that reduced Anna Karina (among many) to tears. Beginning with his assured debut, The President (1918), and bracketed by his last experimental opus, Gertrud (1964), BAM's Dreyer-til-you-drop retrospective also features the supreme expressionist horror movie Vampyr (1931), and Ordet (1954), which tracks a pious father and his schismatic sons.
- Jason Jude Chan
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Many of the screenings feature live piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin.
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MORE FLAVOR: Food/Wine
Dine in Brooklyn
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Monday Mar 23, 2009
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Various Brooklyn restaurants
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It's great that the "week" in Restaurant Week has lasted for two months, but the series still doesn't cater (ha-cha!) to the Kings County crowd. Luckily, borough prez — and no small fan of food, himself — Marty Markowitz is bringing back Dine in Brooklyn for its sixth year. More than 175 restaurants are participating to bring you a three-course lunch or dinner for just 23 bucks. Restos serving brunch offer an even better deal: two meals for $23. Check out the long list of restaurants, and then plan your culinary adventure on the cheap. Topping our to-eat list: Palo Santo in Park Slope, Food 4 Thought in Bed-Stuy, Tatiana in Brighton Beach, and The Farm on Adderley in Ditmas Park.
- Leah Taylor
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Dine in Brooklyn has been extended through April 30, but call your restaurant-of-choice ahead; not all the restos are still participating.
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MORE FLAVOR: Spectacle
The Orchid Show: Brazilian Modern
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Tuesday Mar 17, 2009 (10am–6pm)
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The New York Botanical Garden (200th St and Kazimiroff Blvd, 718.817.8700)
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The recession might have trampled your plans for a tropical getaway, but that doesn't mean you can't still pretend. As spring struggles to rear its head, the flowers are already in bloom at the New York Botanical Garden, where an intersection of flora and design provide a portal to more exotic climes. Far from focusing on everyday orchids alone, Brazilian Modern explores the full family range, presenting specimens that vary from curiously unusual to genuinely minuscule. Set among mosaics, waterfalls, and a host of other Brazilian plants, it's all quite dazzling — and thanks to the onsite shop, you can even take home a non-pretend souvenir or two.
- Brett O'Bourke
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Guided tours of the exhibit take place Wednesdays-Fridays at 2:30pm. A number of talks, workshops, and book signings are also scheduled in conjunction with the show. See the website for full details.
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About Us |
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Cultural Partner
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Editors
MANAGING EDITOR
Leah Taylor
SENIOR EDITORS
Brett O'Bourke
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Jason Jude Chan
Stephan Paschalides
Andrew Phillips
PUBLISHERS
Sascha Lewis
Mark Mangan
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