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Issue 434 |
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Your cultural event guide
Here's a snapshot of our favorite things to do in New York this week. |
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New York
Sep 30-Oct 6, 2008
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While I continue to recover from an epic birthday weekend (some tips: mead is awesome; boys will always love swords), and the US stock market limps on after the House torpedoed a bail-out bill, NYC has nonetheless found a few more reasons to celebrate itself. If you stop reading and click now, you still might snag tix to a few New Yorker Fest events — but for those of us who missed out on Calvin Trillin's personal walking tour of Chinatown, openhousenewyork comes to the rescue. This weekend, explore hundreds of forgotten landmarks, hidden cultural gems, and many otherwise inaccessible buildings, from sleek, "green" lofts and Queens' World's Fair site, to the damnably ornate Grand Lodge of Masons. What the fraternal palace lacks in Trillinisms and cheap dumplings, it makes up for with the thrill of tracking down the all-seeing eyes that must be hidden within its gilded decorations.
- Leah Taylor, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Teddy Cruz
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Estudio Teddy Cruz is a forward-thinking architecture firm, more concerned with building communities than simply building. Teddy Cruz's practice is rooted in the social and economic conditions of the trans-border territory between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico. Artkrush speaks to Cruz about his projects and social concerns.
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TV on the Radio
Relentless and righteous as hell, TV on the Radio soar through Dear Science.
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READING
Neil Gaiman: The Graveyard Book
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Tuesday Sep 30 (7pm)
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Columbia University's Teacher College (525 W 120th St, 908.991.2153)
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Neil Gaiman is a conjurer of contemporary fairy tales and imaginative fiction. Deemed one of the top ten living postmodern authors by the Dictionary of Literary Biography, he is also a best-selling comic-book and genre-fiction writer — a rare combination in the otherwise segregated realms of critical acclaim and mass appeal. Gaiman kicks off the US book tour for forthcoming novel The Graveyard Book — a fantastical homage to The Jungle Book, but set in a cemetery — with a discussion and signing at Columbia University's Teachers College.
- Chelsea Bauch
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MUSIC: Jazz/Blues
Gal Costa
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Tuesday Sep 30 (8 & 10:30pm)
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Blue Note (131 W 3rd St, 212.475.8592)
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Since joining up with Tropicalia bossa-rockers Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, and Tom Ze in the swinging '60s, Brazilian songbird Gal Costa has been on a roll. In the last four decades, Costa has laid down tracks for the movement's manifesto Tropicália: Ou Panis Et Circensis, collaborated with Latin jazz giant João Gilberto, and released songs in Portuguese, English, and Spanish. Tonight, the mistress of Tropicalia delivers soaring vocals and brings along some talented Southern company. Rio-born jazz guitarist Romero Lubambo stirs up the West Village with his timeless jazz classics and upbeat grooves for a new era.
- Chloe Leichman
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FILM
Ballast
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Wednesday Oct 1 (1:15, 3:15, 6, 8 & 10pm)
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Film Forum (209 W Houston St, 212.727.8110)
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When his brother ODs, Lawrence attempts suicide. Instead of dying, however, he slowly mends his fraught relationship with his troubled nephew James, and James' mother, Marlee, a former drug addict. With its nonprofessional cast shot solely in available light, Ballast achieves a naturalism typically accomplished only at great cost and with largely artificial measures. If its basic premise — how a Mississippi Delta family negotiates the legacy of poverty — is typically the stuff of documentaries, this dramatic feature's stakes build with a blue-shadowed intensity and deliberation that only fiction can afford — and that is rarely found anywhere outside of Europe, these days.
- Lisa Rosman
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This Thursday's 8pm showing is already sold out.
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Echo & the Bunnymen
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Wednesday Oct 1 (8pm)
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Radio City Music Hall (1260 6th Ave, 212.307.7171)
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Taking a cue from recent '80s nostalgia trends, Echo & the Bunnymen return once more in hopes of a career revival. The iconic Liverpudlians emerged from their roots in post-punk to help develop the dour, melodramatic sound that became a defining characteristic of '80s British alt-rock. After 30 years, the band retains its core duo — frontman Ian McCullough and guitarist Will Sergeant — making music that's less dramatic, but every bit as gloomy as their early material. Tonight, they play the entirety of their classic album Ocean Rain.
- Joe Blankholm
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MUSIC: Electronic
Stereolab w/ Atlas Sound
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Thursday Oct 2 (9pm)
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Fillmore NY at Irving Plaza (17 Irving Pl, 212.777.6800)
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Art-pop connoisseurs Stereolab have a knack for nostalgia. With a name borrowed from a '50s record label's designation for stereo LPs, and a predilection for penning French lyrics rife with Marxist politics, the group easily established itself as one of the more memorable alternative acts of the '90s. Founders Tim Gane and French-born vocalist Laetitia Sadier continue to lead Stereolab through the new millennium with their latest release, Chemical Chords. As always, trippy, space-case pop props the group's aesthetic, joined by experimental electronics and ambient drones.
- Rachel Brodsky
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MUSIC: DJ
Just Blaze w/ K-Salaam
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Thursday Oct 2 (10pm)
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Sutra Lounge (16 1st Ave, 212.677.9477)
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Just Blaze claims he messed with records before he could even walk, and tonight the high-profile DJ and producer shows off his well-honed skills for the downtown set. Influenced by his jazz-musician father and an older cousin who gave Blaze an EPMD album at an early age, the Jersey boy has created hits for big-timers such as Jay-Z, Talib, and Kanye, and started up his own successful record label, Fort Knocks Entertainment. Minneapolis DJ K-Salaam joins Blaze on the decks, adding some spicy hip-hop and reggae of his own for dance-loving clubbers. Don't sleep on this one — Mike "Pops" knows how to host a good party, even on a Thursday.
- Chloe Leichman
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ART
Gilbert & George
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Friday Oct 3 (10am–5pm)
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Brooklyn Museum of Art (200 Eastern Pkwy, 718.638.5000)
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The original living artworks, Gilbert & George, come to the Brooklyn Museum in the form of more than 80 photographs. In 1970, the pair painted themselves gold (a routine since filched by countless street performers the world over), stood on a table, and sang "Underneath the Arches" for hours on end. The Singing Sculpture became an art-historical landmark and bound the two together for life. Magnificent photographic montages followed, including Cherry Blossom Pictures: Finding God, in which the artists arrange stark black-and-white self-portraits around abstract, red-tinted prints. Initially passed off as modern dandies, the two went on to brilliantly tackle the AIDS epidemic, religious guilt, and countless issues of contemporary masculinity.
- Joel Withrow
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MUSIC: DJ
Attack of the Unibros World Tour 2008 feat. A-Trak & Boys Noize
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Friday Oct 3 (11pm)
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Webster Hall (125 E 11th St, 212.353.1600)
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Braving the unwashed underagers at Webster Hall can be trying, but tonight the onslaught is worth it, because the payoff is sets from hirsute pals A-Trak and Boys Noize. The former is internationally known as Kanye West's tour DJ and one of the heads of Fool's Gold Records, while the latter is recognized for the utterly banging 2007 electro-tech LP Oi Oi Oi. In March, A-Trak remixed Mr. Noize's "Oh!" and turned an icy, Germanic electro stormer into a bouncy, club-friendly tune with slippery synth breakdowns. This stop on the pair's world tour is the most serious night of dancing to hit the city in a minute, so bust out your fitted and fly kicks.
- Ali Gitlow
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ART: Architecture/Design
Annual openhousenewyork Weekend
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Saturday Oct 4
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Year-round educational programs from openhousenewyork culminate this weekend with the organization's sixth-annual smorgasbord of architectural offerings — the largest event of its kind in America. Droves of amateur historians gain access to spaces normally restricted from public view, and learn about both cutting-edge and time-tested green design. Suggested stops include: Chelsea's soon-to-be-green Highline; Renzo Piano's brand-new New York Times building; Staten Island's ancient naval base, Fort Wadsworth; the gold-plated Grand Masonic Lodge of New York, surreptitiously tucked away on Sixth Avenue; the seawater-rusted mercantilism of the Brooklyn Navy Yards; and the Bronx's sprawling Woodlawn Cemetery — the final-resting place of Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Herman Melville, and countless other notables.
- Natalya Krimgold
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Pack your digital camera and submit your snaps to the OHNY Focus on Architecture Photography Competition. Reservations are required for some tours.
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PERFORMING ARTS: Comedy
Margaret Cho
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Saturday Oct 4 (7:30pm)
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Radio City Music Hall (1260 6th Ave, 212.307.7171)
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While Harold and Kumar were still ordering sliders off the White Castle kids menu, Margaret Cho was already tearing down Asian stereotypes. After years of standup success, she landed All American Girl, the first sitcom to star an Asian American. Sadly, mishandling by the network doomed the show, and pressure to get thin landed Cho in the hospital; depression, drugs, and alcohol abuse followed. Now 13 years older and 40 pounds lighter, the Notorious C.H.O. is back in top form, having taken her standup act to the next level. The invigorating routine showcases her outspoken, political-minded style — and is so expletive-laden, you'd need three aisles of Duane Reade to wash out her dirty mouth.
- Brett Burton
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MORE FLAVOR: Lecture
James Wood: How Fiction Works
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Sunday Oct 5 (11am)
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92nd St Y (1395 Lexington Ave, 212.415.5500)
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James Wood is one of the few academics who has been able to transcend the stodgy, tedious style of writing that so often marks literary criticism. His reviews for publications such as The New Yorker use highly analytical close-reading methods — he meticulously picks apart the word choice and voice of writers like Cormac McCarthy, of whom he disapproves — while still attracting the average reader. At today's lecture, Wood further illuminates points made in his latest book of essays, How Fiction Works.
- Angelina Venezia
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MUSIC: Global
Antibalas
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Sunday Oct 5 (10pm)
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Spiegelworld (Pier 17, South St & Beekman St, 212.279.4200)
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When Nigeria's Fela Kuti created Afrobeat — a fusion of jazz improvisation, blistering funk bass, and local Yoruba percussion — his firebrand lyrics landed him in prison more than a hundred times, and his music remained largely obscured from global audiences. Decades later, the Afrobeat scene is booming, and Martin Perna's Antibalas are at its forefront. Tonight, the Brooklyn dozen plays the final performance of Broadway tribute Fela! and moves the encore to Spiegelworld, where its dubby digressions merge with Fela's unforgettable energy, at once reviving and reinventing the genre for a new generation.
- Ashwin Sodhi
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MORE FLAVOR: Discussion
An Evening with Chimurenga
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Monday Oct 6 (7pm)
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The Kitchen (512 W 19th St, 212.255.5793)
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Chimurenga more or less means "liberation struggle" in Zimbabwe's Shona language — it's also the name of a literary/arts/politics magazine based in Cape Town, founded and edited by DJ/writer Ntone Edjabe. This media-filled evening at the Kitchen embodies the publication's ethos of "thinking out loud." A series of readings and discussions brings together thinkers from across Africa and around the world.
- Maura Hogan
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
Department of Eagles
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Monday Oct 6 (7:30pm)
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The Bell House (149 7th St)
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While Department of Eagles are led by Grizzly Bear guitarist/singer Dan Rossen, it would do the band a great disservice to drape the "side project" albatross around their necks. In Ear Park, Rossen's second album with fellow Eagle Department-head Fred Niklaus, sticks its nose into Americana's dustiest corners and comes out with catchy, strangely shaped pop gems that recall Van Dyke Parks' faux old-timey-isms, John Fahey's finger-picked symphonies, and even Radiohead at their folksiest. Tonight, Rossen recruits Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor (who produced In Ear Park) and Chris Bear for his "other" group's first live show, at new Gowanus hotspot the Bell House.
- Todd Goldstein
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ART
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
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Tuesday Sep 30 (9:30am–5:30pm)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Ave, 212.535.7710)
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1914 marked the beginning of the long-running, deeply influential First World War, as well as the start of the short-lived — but also deeply influential — Vorticist movement. During this dogma-eat-dogma stretch of art history, Wyndham Lewis and his cohorts (including the ever-declamatory Ezra Pound) issued their bold typographic manifesto, famous for its blast-or-bless dialectic on everything from London and mild-mannered people to hairdressers and James Joyce. Starting today, the Met's Rhythms of Modern Life showcases 14 artists who embraced this -ism's vim and vigor. The etched statements include Edward Wadsworth's hieroglyphic woodcuts and Cyril Power's angular, dreamlike linocuts of the London tube.
- Jason Jude Chan
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FILM
Rachel Getting Married
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Friday Oct 3
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The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand up for her sister Rachel (Mad Men's Rosemarie DeWitt), who's marrying kindly Sydney (TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe). Perhaps it's all the documentaries he's directed in the last decade, but Jonathan Demme has here harnessed a naturalism that even his most fervent devotees would allow has been lacking in the bulk of his work. Given that he is already cinema's king of the human carnival, it's no surprise that Rachel Getting Married is the first great American ensemble movie made since Robert Altman's death.
- Lisa Rosman
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