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Your event guide
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New York
Jul 27-Aug 2, 2010
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Lightning struck more than twice last week, upsetting three shows — Modest Mouse, M.I.A., and the Jelly Pool Parties — and got us wet. This week we're giving lightning the highway salute and offering up tickets to Spin magazine's 25th anniversary celebration. Get yourself a pair of tix to sold-out shows for the Flaming Lips, the Black Keys, the National, and Spiritualized. If you don't win, you can still check out Warm Up with Blondes and Animal Collective (DJ set), or Wavves, come Monday — which are pretty solid consolation prizes. Spin back in time with Debby Harry as she narrates Downtown Calling, a documentary about the birth of the music and art subculture in New York in the '70s — with an afterparty at Santos. But if you'd rather a different tune, Rick Moody reads from his latest novel, The Four Fingers of Death, which puts a spin on the '60s horror flick The Crawling Hand. Take that thunder strokes!
- Rozalia Jovanovic, Deputy Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
The Top 40 Culturally Relevant Preppies
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Ladies, locate your tennis skirts. Gents, dig up those Nantucket red pants. The Times and the Awl have called it: Preppie chic is back. We've seen this coming since Vampire Weekend in 2007 and have been trying to avoid it since. But sometimes, when you can't beat a trend, you just have to revel in it. So, in celebration of all things square, we have created a handy guide to the top 40 (get it?) most culturally relevant preppies. »
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FILM: Shorts
Flick Film Fest
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Tuesday July 27 (8 & 9pm)
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IndieScreen (285 Kent Ave)
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To celebrate the opening (almost!) of Williamsburg's very own cinema, IndieScreen, Flick Film Fest takes over the space for a night of short film, showcasing both local and international talent. Get a sneak peek at the new movie palace, and catch 13 different flicks, across two evening programs. Be advised: this ain't no Rated-G affair. Andy P. Smith (the dude behind the infamous KnifeFight parties) is curating the evening, so leave the kiddies at home for this movie date.
- Leah Taylor
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READING
Rick Moody: The Four Fingers of Death
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Wednesday July 28 (7pm)
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BookCourt (163 Court St, 718.875.3677)
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FREE
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Rick Moody has said that The Four Fingers of Death is a sequel to the novel that launched his literary career, The Ice Storm. The Ice Storm, if you recall, is a realist novel about a family falling apart in the Connecticut suburbs. The Four Fingers on the other hand, is about a failed mission to Mars in the near future, the first people to colonize the planet, their tribulations, and the lone survivor of the mission — a four-fingered hand, which returns to Earth to find a situation rather dystopian. The novel, a "novelization" of a 1963 horror film the Crawling Hand, is rendered in an absurd style reminiscent of the work of Kurt Vonnegut. But, despite these differences, The Ice Storm and The Four Fingers both involve horror films from the '60s, and depict a Thanksgiving dinner. This time on Mars!
- Rozalia Jovanovic
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PERFORMING ARTS: Cabaret/Burlesque
Storybook Burlesque presents A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Thursday July 29 (8pm)
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Galapagos Art Space (16 Main St, DUMBO, Brooklyn, 718.222.8500)
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$15 / $10 advance
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We've always liked Shakespeare (and A Midsummer Night's Dream, in particular), but thought it could do with a bit more nudity. Come on: there's a character named Bottom, for goodness sakes! Luckily for us, the creative minds and scantily clad bodies of Storybook Burlesque remedy the situation with tonight's show. The course of true love never did run smooth... But at least now it runs topless.
- Leah Taylor
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FILM
Get Low
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Friday July 30
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Regal Union Square Stadium 14 (850 Broadway, 212.253.6266)
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$12.50
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The summer film season seems to be jammed with films about forgiveness. Last week we saw Todd Solondz quirk about it and this week — with the help of Robert Duvall and Bill Murray — first-time feature-length filmmaker Aaron Schneider gives it a go in Get Low. Time-warping back to 1930's Tennessee, the film tells the true tale of Felix Bush (Duvall), a mysterious recluse who decides to throw himself a living funeral party to put to rest the rampant hearsay. Low on action, but high on performances (Duvall is tremendous and Murray is deliciously wry), Get Low is the slow and steady turtle that holds its head high as it crosses the finish line.
- Mindy Bond
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MORE FLAVOR: Party
Life of Fire
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Saturday July 31 (7pm–7am)
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3rd Ward (195 Morgan Ave, 718.715.4961)
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$20 / $15 before 9pm
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This is either your last blowout before the playa, or a pretty decent replacement, if you can't make it to Burning Man this year. Either way, Life of Fire is shaping up to be a killer party. A ton of bona fide party animals have teamed up for the endeavor: TheDanger, 3rd Ward, Mister Saturday Night, Blk Market Membership, and the Lady Circus all present Egyptian Lover and Afrika Bambaataa (playing for the first time ever on the same stage!), plus resident DJs from each crew. Three huge warehouses and four sound stages should keep you dancing and exploring till at least dawn; interactive sculpture comes from the Animus Arts Collective, fire-dancers and -eaters are from Lady Circus, and you can thank Aaron Taylor Kuffner for the 109-piece robot gamelan orchestra.
- Leah Taylor
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Wavves w/ the Smith Westerns and Total Slacker
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Monday Aug 2 (8pm)
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The Bowery Ballroom (6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111)
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$15 / $13 advance
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In line with fuzz-punkers like No Age and Times New Viking, Wavves mastermind Nathan Williams is as inspired by the Beach Boys as he is by Metal Machine Music. Awash in over-saturated skronk, the Pitchfork-adored surfer dude is distinguished by his simultaneous embrace of no-fi noise and traditional melody. Bedecked in hiss and static, normally sunshine-laden "ohhhs" and "ahhhs" adopt a menacing tone, as the San Diegan's carefully contorted feedback rides a rogue wave all its own.
- Andrew Phillips
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ART
SURF/SKATE
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Tuesday July 27 (noon–7pm)
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Clic Gallery (424 Broome St)
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Legendary surfer Tony Caramanico is also an accomplished collage artist who worked for Peter Beard; his Surf Journals were published last year. Drew Carolan shot skaters and punk kids on Astor Place and assisted Richard Avedon. And Alberto Vargas, a "crazy talented" 17-year-old was discovered by a gallerist while in high school in Queens. The artwork of these and many other noted documentarians of the surf and skate scenes is on view at Clic. And come early; the limited-edition decks by Hirst, Koons, and Murakami starting at $500 are sure to be flying fast.
- Rozalia Jovanovic
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About Us |
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Cultural Partner
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Editors
MANAGING EDITOR
Leah Taylor
DEPUTY EDITOR
Rozalia Jovanovic
SENIOR EDITORS
Doug Levy
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Patricia Contino
Mindy Bond
Shana Nys Dambrot
John Peacock
PUBLISHERS
Sascha Lewis
Mark Mangan
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