Hello lovelies,
Holy moly! Did you see The New York Times yesterday? A beautiful two-page feature in the Home section with huge color photos from last weekend's Vault of Golden Vapors, and a fantastic article on ourselves and some of our friends in the underground events community, such as House of Yes and Winkel + Balktick. The web edition has an excellent slideshow of us and others "redecorating the landscape of the city's after-dark underground" - http://nyti.ms/cbsq2D
More fab Golden Vapors pics here: http://bit.ly/cxY6fA - http://bit.ly/aBhTJp - http://bit.ly/deUsLn (yours missing? want them featured on our site? email us -- and don't forget to add to our Flickr pool as well as FB event).
In a wonderfully coincidental twist of fate, our next event, announced below, is *at* The House of Yes. So to those list members just joining us, here's a chance to see both subjects of the NYT article in action. For the old-timers: remember that *ridiculous* brass-fueled live dance music set by circus composer Sxip Shirey at our Halloween Masquerade Macabre party? The one that sent the whole packed loft into a heaving dancing frenzy? Well THAT is what we're turning into a brand new dance party. Oh yeah. See below.
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OUR NEXT EVENT, 3/7
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Gemini & Scorpio and Sxip Shirey
present
JANK
Sunday, March 7, 8pm-2am, $10
House of Yes, 342 Maujer at Morgan, Bushwick, BK
Details TK to http://www.geminiandscorpio.com/events.html
A surreal live-music-driven dance party. Dirty electronics and live musicians (horns, drums, human beat box), regurgitating old genres like early ska, early hip-hop, techno and house and playing it raw, glitchy and original. With: experimental circus composer Sxip Shirey, uber-tech geek Moldover, eclectic beats wizard DJ Shakey.
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WEEKEND + WEEK
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THEATER: Radio Star
http://www.tanyaodebra.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=200210671651
A 1940's radio detective spoof. Miss Tanya O'Debra lends her voice to ten different characters while her soundman (J. Lincoln Hallowell) stages live sound effects. Watch (but mainly listen) as Nick McKittrick: Private Dick hilariously solves a murder in "The Case of the Long Distance Lover". "A wonderfully playful parody of the 1940s New York murder mystery genre, brimming with lovable stereotypes and obscene innuendo…the best one-woman show I've seen." - Three Weeks, Edinburgh. "This one-woman ‘radio’ show is crackling good." - The Brooklyn Paper. "We expect her modern take on vintage norms to leave us in stitches." - Flavorpill. (Fri/Sat @ 8pm, The Red Room, 85 E. 4th St. 3rd Fl. btwn 2nd & 3rd Ave, $15/$12 for students and seniors)
FASHION/MUSIC: Williamsburg Fashion Weekend
http://www.williamsburgfashionweekend.com
Williamsburg Fashion Weekend presents its seventh season of fashion shows featuring designers who are not afraid to break the rules and cross boundaries in search of a deeper meaning to body adornment. Arthur Arbit, the founder and curator of WFW has assembled twelve designers who share his passion for unwavering, personal, take-no-prisoners aesthetic vision. The two day event will be held at Glasslands. With performances by Total Crap Uninc., Saira Huff, and DJ Kountzyr0. Check website for designer bios. (Sat/Sun, Glasslands, 289 Kent Avenue, W'burg, BK, 8pm, $8)
FEST: CineKink
http://www.cinekink.com
Founded in 2003, CineKink is an organization that recognizes and encourages the positive depiction of sexuality and kink in film and television, most visibly through its annual film festival, CineKink NYC. Featuring a specially-selected program of films and videos that celebrate and explore a wide diversity of sexuality, with offerings drawn from both Hollywood and beyond, works presented by CineKink range from documentary to drama, camp comedy to hot porn, mildly spicy to quite explicit - and everything in between. In addition to screenings, the annual festival also includes a short film competition, audience choice awards, presentations, parties and a gala kick-off fundraiser, all followed by a national screening tour. (thru Sun, see site for details)
MULTIMEDIA: POP: Crackle & Snap
http://www.leokuelbscollection.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=311249038337
Video and Light Installations. Work by: Christine Schulz, Tamas Veszi, Keith Ervin, Chris Jordan. "Pop, Crackle and Snap" is an opportunity to look through the mirror and into our shared pop past, upon which the present teeters, poised for an uncomfortable entry into the crazy and congested future. Note: Due to the complex and fragile nature of this collective installation, there is no Opening Event. But please stop by Friday or Saturday; 6-9 p.m. to see the show and have a glass of wine. (Fri/Sat, 6-9pm, 50 Bridge St, #516; By Appointment: March 1st-7th)
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FRIDAY
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OPENING: Housebroken: Flux Factory Exhibit
http://www.fluxfactory.org/
Housebroken, Flux's inaugural show curated by Jean Barberis and Georgia Muenster, will be a gala celebration of Flux Factory’s newest home. Dozens of artists will exhibit works throughout the building, with over 100 installations and performances. DJ Taliesin and Mosholu Park will be on the decks, with video art by NES.Avi, and a special performance by White Limo. Open bar courtesy of Campari. After the opening party, Housebroken will be on view Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm thru March 21. (Flux Factory, 39-31 29th St., LIC, RSVP: rsvp@fluxfactory.org, 8pm, $15 suggested donation)
FILM: ROCATERRANIA: A Documentary about Outsider Artist Renaldo Kuhler
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=284111621834
Rocaterrania is a feature length documentary exploring the secret world of scientific illustrator and visionary artist Renaldo Kuhler. In the last four decades, 76-year-old Renaldo Kuhler has created hundreds of plates for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, illustrating diverse flora and fauna for obscure scientific journals and reference books. Before the making of this documentary, no one knew that Kuhler is also a prolific visionary artist - and the creator of an entire imaginary, illustrated world called Rocaterrania. Rocaterrania is a tiny nation of eastern European immigrants who purchased a tract of land along the Canadian border after growing restless with America’s notions of "democracy." Over the next six decades, Rocaterrania saw two revolutions and the rise and fall of a succession of czars, dictators, and presidents among a cast of characters vaguely resembling Russian historical figures. But, as the film reveals, each change in government reflects a
deeper meaning for Renaldo, an outsider who struggled to escape an emotionally abusive family and searched for freedom within a real nation threatened by forces of conformity. (Observatory, 543 Union St at Nevins, Enter through Proteus Gowanus, 8pm, $5)
VARIETY: Dead Herring Cabaret
http://www.circusnyc.com/shows/100218.html
Hosted by Jeff and Buttons and its a Cabaret. We can't tell you what to expect, because it will ruin the surprises, although we can promise that it will be hilarious. It might be scandalous. Possibly messy ... we're not really sure. All we know is that it will include talented favorites, such as Butt Kapinksi, New Exc!tement, Kae Burke, Kurt Braunohler, and Reggie Watts. (Dead Herring, 141 South 5th St, Apt 1E, W'burg, BK, 9pm doors/9:30pm show, $8)
MUSIC: Lady Rizo: Unescorted
http://www.ladyrizoandtheassettes.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=334934034467
The incomparable "cabaret star" (NY Magazine) Lady Rizo is back for an unchaperoned evening of song and decadence. You may have seen her here at Joe's Pub with her "glam bottom baring dance troupe the Assettes " (Village Voice), celebrating the billboard top ten in the monthly series Our Hit Parade, or midtown at the gothic Night Hotel co-hosting the weekly transnational lounge Foreign Affairs. But here is your chance to have her all to yourself. Her seamless mix of baudy humor and elegance has been likened to Mae West but its her vocal chops that have garnered recent attention: collaborating with both Yo-Yo Ma & Moby on albums this year, singing selections of the American Songbook in front of the internationally acclaimed 36 -piece orchestra The Knights, and at MOMA for a sold out cabaret for the Kirchner Exhibit. Let her lashes beguile you as she interprets an irresistible mix of popular songs from all eras backed by some of the finest musicians in New York City. (Joe's Pu
b, 425 Lafayette, 10pm-11:25, $15?)
BURLESQUE: The Steampunk Peepshow
This burlesque show is guaranteed to ruffle your petticoat and fog up your goggles. CoCo La Pearl, Michelle St. Darling, Hazel Honeysuckle, and Remy Vicious will perform among grinding gears, puffs of smoke, and curling flame, while you enjoy music from 2/3 Goat (10pm), Starbolt 9 (11pm), AM Preacher (12am), and The Mallard Drakes (1am). (Public Assembly, 70 North 6th St., Back Room, BK, 10pm, $10)
PARTY: Mad Breaks Tea Party
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=290517578311
https://urbancabaret.ticketleap.com/MadBreaksTeaParty
Experience Alice in Wonderland with thundering beats and other treats. For the first time ever in NYC, East meets West at a bi-coastal breaks party mad enough for a hatter: the sexy dark & dirty sound from the West, and we're mixing it up with the hot ass rough & edgy East Coast sound. Break-beats legend Marty Party from world-famous Panty Raid is going to throw this shit down, like he does from California to Costa Rica and now in his new home of NYC. At the Queen's request Braden and Karim So are joining right out of 16BIT &BEYOND & Space Island from the heart of Los Angeles. To top it off, Barney Iller will be holding down the home base. And just added: Joro Boro. E voila, it's what we call a bi-coastal sandwich that's tres delicious. FEAST your eyes on aerialists above, sensational fire spinners, sip tea in the Mad Hatter's garden, or smoke with the Caterpillar in his Hookah Lounge...black light wonders and adventure awaits. So wear your finest costumes, your best Cheshire
Cat smile, be the Queen of Hearts or put on your mad hats...down the Rabbit Hole we go. Costumes are required. SPACE IS LIMITED...Presale tickets strongly encouraged to guarantee entry. (Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary, for addy: rsvp@urban-cabaret.com or check FB link, $15 adv/$20 door, 10pm-6am, 21+)
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SATURDAY
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PERFORMANCE: Muffinhead and Eric Schmalenberger present: Banzai
http://www.muffinheadland.com
A new event that brings you over 50 of the most wowtastic artists in today's nightlife, performance, and modern art scenes in a mix of frenzied, creative commotion. Aiming to immediately disrupt the context in which viewers can experience art and performance, Muffinhead and Eric Schmalenberger bring together creative and experimental geniuses whose exploding energy plays well within their vision of an artistic wonderland. For them there is no hierarchy of media and there is a home for anyone willing to travel to the limits of their imagination. More then just an art event or a performance event Banzai cross pollinates the best aspects of the creative community and allows them to infect, affect, effect, and deflect one another. This evening promises to bring you tragic glamour, violent minimalism, electro opera, humorist gender bending, psychedelic excess, and interactive dance-offs. Performing live will be electro-art diva Iggy and Dances of Vice exotique Shien Lee along with
visual presentations by Video Art Starlet Bec Stupak, nightclub photographer extraordinaire Kenny Kenny, digital wizard Plasticgod and a mix-media collaboration installation brought to you by Click+Drag creator Rob Roth and nouveau drag princess Sequinette. Climaxing with an eclectic dance party that blasts off at midnight. (Red Lotus Room, 893 Bergen St, BK, 8p-2am, $10)
CIRCUS: The Sky Box Aerial Open Mic
http://www.houseofyes.org
A show of precision, daring and brawn
One lady will dance till her clothes are all gone!
Mind bending contortion from young and from old
The best thing in Brooklyn if not in the world
There's even a fiddle, played upside down
and MC Kae Burke sure don't mess around,
It's death defying and always high flying
And just 10 bucks so stop all yer whining
Please don't be late and bring your own wine,
Doors are at 8 and show starts at 9
(House of Yes, 342 Maujer at Morgan, Bushwick, BK, 8pm, $10)
MUSIC: Romashka
http://www.myspace.com/romashkagypsy
Romashka is back at Mehanata after taking a very long hiatus! We re-strung our instruments, polished our brass, refueled our batteries, and we're back in action at Mehanata. Romashka is a driving force in New York City's burgeoning gypsy and balkan music scene, playing gypsy and folk music from Russia, Romania, the Balkans, and beyond. Lithuanian-born singer Inna Barmash fronts a band of nine wildly versatile NY musicians, denizens of fertile downtown grounds. At full blast, Romashka has a violin, viola, accordion, guitar, trumpet, clarinet/saxophone, tuba, and percussion. (Mehanata - the Bulgarian Bar, 113 Ludlow bet Rivington and Delancey, 8-10pm, $10)
MUSIC: Mais Um
http://www.myspace.com/maisumnyc
Catch NYC's tightest live rhythms, with Mais Um's high-energy songs and percussion. This event is boa/hat/mask/wig/sequin/flamboyance-friendly. Live samba dance show with all the glitter and feathers. DJ Samballistic (a.k.a. TheMonkOfCrunk) spinning Brazilian classics and Brazil-infused beats. Free beer to the first 20 guests. Cash only bar and restaurant. (Favela Cubana, 543 LaGuardia nr W 3rd St., 9pm-2am, $10)
PARTY: A Purim Shpiel
The year's best and most debauched social justice performance party/masquerade ball. Created by Jenny Romaine and the Spectacle Committee, sponsored by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, Workmen's Circle/arbeter-ring and Great Small Works. This year: the Right to the City! prismatic performances! endless curtains! Nazimova's Salomé! the river of shit vs. the Doo-doo Chasers! battling princesses! public space vs. neoliberalism! a costume contest! death to euphemism! and more. Featuring the sounds of the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, Inner Princess, Yiddish Princess, Xavier, Rima Fand, Jessica Lurie, Freethiopiques, the Avi Fox-Rosen Band, Judith Berkson, Sarah Aroeste, and DJ Lil Ray. Installation/performances by Kate Huh, Niknaz Tavakolian, MJ Sadeghi, Killer Sideburns and Nathan Carrera, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Quito Ziegler, Ariel Federow, Dr. Rachel Mattson, Jennifer Harris, Daniel Lang/Levitsky and Zachary Wager Scholl, Michelle Kay, Zil Goldstein and Theo Czerevko, Gret
chen Hildebran, Lawrence Busch, and more. And as always delicious food by the fabulous Domestic Workers United kitchen, beer-wine-cocktails, and a hot dancefloor.(Synagogue for the Arts, 47 White St bet Broadway and Church, 8pm-1:30am, $15, no one turned away for lack of cash or costume, but you'll look pretty silly if you're not dressed up)
PARTY: Shindig vs. BangOn NYC
http://www.facebook.com/BangOnNYC
Live performances by French Horn Rebellion, Rick Girljuice featuring Dick Smalltalk and the Social Network. DJ sets by Steven Rojas and Mike Nouveau, David Katz, Tim (Noyesno), Brion Isaacs, and Franco V. Live party sketches by Blue Logan. Artwork curated by Vanessa Packer. Open bar all night long. (Living Theater, 21 Clinton St, 11p-4am, $20)
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SUNDAY
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FILM: Silent Clowns Film Series - Jack Roth Collection
http://www.silentclowns.com/nowshowing.html
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=338579360420&ref=mf
If Mack Sennett was "The King of Comedy" then Hal Roach was its "Crown Prince." After starting as an extra in 1914, Roach was instrumental in making Harold Lloyd a comedy star, and along the way developed a school of comedy that consisted of recognizable everyday people trapped in outlandish and embarrassing situations. Today’s selection of 1927 releases includes the Stan Laurel vehicles DUCK SOUP, EVE'S LOVE LETTERS and WHY GIRLS LOVE SAILORS, plus Max Davidson in JEWISH PRUDENCE and Charley Chase in THE STING OF STINGS. Live piano accompaniment by Ben Model at all shows. (Arclight Theatre, 152 W 71 St betw Bway & Columbus, 2pm, 10 all adults, and $5 for seniors, kids and members.)
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MONDAY
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WORD: Trav S.D.'s Tall Tales (and Counterfeit Codices)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=290470409683
I hope you can join me for the inaugural reading of selections from my long-percolating collection of short stories Tall Tales (and Counterfeit Codices). These sui generis humor pieces are my attempt to mix the pop Joycean sensibility of John Lennon's In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works, with the surreal erudition of S.J. Perelman. The titular Tall Tales are further informed by the crackerbox flapdoodle of 19th century trad yarn spinners like Mark Twain, Artemus Ward and Petroleum Nasby. (Whereas the Counterfeit Codices are faux hoaxes, full-on parodies of the likes of Hemingway, Ian Fleming. H.P. Lovecraft and many others. All performed with maximum whim-wham by the author. Sharing the bill will be Julia Pearlstein, presenting her work-in-progress Weep Screed. And if you don't like us, THERE'S BOOZE AT THE BAR. (Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St bet Rivington and Delancey, 8-10pm, $10)
MUSIC: 21st Century Schizoid Music: Rachelle Garniez
http://www.myspace.com/garniez
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=300110811167
Rachelle Garniez is writes and performs darkly optimistic story-songs and plays a variety of instruments including accordion, piano, claviola, guitar and plastic bells, "...leaving nothing behind but sweet wreckage." (The New Yorker). In addition to 4 self-produced CDs, Rachelle recorded a single "My House of Peace", which was produced by Jack White and released on vinyl by Third Man Records, June '09. Rachelle also composed the music for Taylor Mac's epic 5-hour long theater piece "The Lily's Revenge" which premiered at Here Arts Center October '09. Two distinct sets: 1. Songs, featuring Matt Munisteri on guitar and other strings. 2. Pisces Ambiente, featuring all kinds of stuff. (Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia St, 8:30pm - 10:30pm, donation?)
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WEDNESDAY
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PARTY: Naughty Nautical Nite / Ladies of Porn / Kong Magazine Release Party
http://www.kongmagazine.com
This popular nautical-themed night, designed by bizarre, glamorous, clamorous NYC performers Jessica Delfino (satirical musician, publicly denounced by the Catholic League for her work) and Dame Darcy (creator of Meat Cake comics on Fantagraphics) occasionally strays from the nautical theme to incorporate new themes, such as their recent Goth Night, past Alice in Wonderland, and other culture-kitsch topics. Tonight, they celebrate the many lovely Ladies of Porn, focusing on old-time-y camp porn stars of the Mamie Van Doren ilk, and honor them through sexy performances, comedy and music. Expect lots of porn themed acts; fun, comedic, ribald times and porn-y music harkening back to B movies and beyond, where boobs were king and scandals of liberated ladies and drug fueled orgys ran rampant. Enjoy giveaways and raffles sponsored by Adam and Eve, the Pleasure Chest, and Kong Magazine. The reason for this celebration: to share and unleash Kong Magazine upon the world. Out of the a
shes of Playgirl, art director Jessica Moats and her team of creative types from Blackbook and Playgirl have gotten together to fill the gap with Kong Magazine, a publication celebrating sex + women, two things the girls at Naughty Nautical Nite go out of their way to pay tribute to. Be there, or miss the magic. (The Slipper Room, 167 Orchard St, 8-10pm, $5)
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THURSDAY
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DJ/DANCING: Que Bajo?!
http://www.myspace.com/quebajoparty
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=317687715855
Que Bajo?! is still warming up the city with its Tropical Bass sound: Cumbia, Dancehall, Tropical Bass, Afro Colombian. DJs: Orion (Peligrosa All-stars, Texas), Uproot Andy (Bersa Discos, Zizek). Hosted By Jean Bernabe & Raul Toloza. (Santos Party House (downstairs), 96 Lafayette St, 11pm, $10/For Reduced $5 List RSVP at quebajoparty@gmail.com)
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ONGOING
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ART: The 2009 Winter Group Show
http://www.3rdward.com/groupshowcurrent
New Works from Emerging Artists in Drawing & Painting. Featuring Grand Prize Winner Craig Dongoski, Runners-Up MaDora Frey, Ann-Marie James & Tim Mearini and Top 21 Artists: Wesley Berg, Alex Callender, Kimberly Deakins, Christian DeFilippo, Jesse Engelbrecht, Heather Gargon, June Glasson, Kelsey Henderson, Carolyn Hulbert, Lisa Iglesias, Jovan Karlo Villalba, Anna Kell, Kristian Kozul, Heidi Landau, Jayne Lawrence, Nikolay Lyutskanov, Monika Malewska, Jeremy Mangan, Nu Ryu, Anthony Schwartz, Emily St. John. Plus music from DJ Spreadin' It For You and complimentary Colt 45. (thru 2/21, 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave.,BK, FREE)
THEATER: Fêtes de la Nuit
http://www.Fetesnyc.com
Charles L. Mee’s enticing Fêtes de la Nuit is a deliciously naughty valentine to Paris that celebrates life, love and all things Parisian. Fêtes is directed by Kim Weild, who incorporates American Sign Language into a production that features three Deaf actors, including Alexandria Wailes, who appeared opposite Meryl Streep in The Public’s production of Mother Courage. (thru 2/27, Ohio Theater, 66 Wooster St., 8pm, $18)
THEATER: You're Welcome
http://www.bricktheater.com/yourewelcome
You're Welcome is a collection of 5 small plays about creation and failure; a unified theatrical myth that tells the story of an invented band of performers and their catastrophic attempts at connection. The plays are also about love, death, desire, tragedy, comedy, drunk driving, sexiness, beauty, loss, the battle between good and evil, a baby born wearing a hat. And theater. They're about theater. Kind of the last word on theater. This is You're Welcome - 5 plays that pretty much nail it. Featuring Hannah Bos, Michael Cyril Creighton and Paul Thureen. Written by Paul Thureen and Hannah Bos. Directed and Developed by Oliver Butler. (thru 2/27, Brick Theater, 575 Metropolitan Avenue, BK, Thurs-Sat 8pm, $18)
ART: New Moon: Interpretations of the Chinese Zodiac
http://www.myplasticheartnyc.com/
Curated by John Wong, this exhibition at My Plastic Heart brings together twenty-six artists from around the world to lend their own styles and sensibilities to the 12 zodiac animals. Included will be works encompassing a wide range of media from paintings and collages to custom figures and digital artwork. This is one of My Plastic Heart’s most anticipated events of the year. (Show thru 3/6, My Plastic Heart, 210 Forsyth St., FREE)
THEATER: Venus in Fur
http://classicstage.org/2010_venus.shtml
2-4-1- tix: http://www.nycgo.com/onthehouse
Inspired by the infamous erotic novel of the same name, Venus in Fur takes us behind the scenes of an audition, where a man and a woman blur the lines between fantasy and reality, seduction and power, love and sex. A crackling exploration of sexual control and desire, the play is captive to David Ives's famous combination of classic rigor and contemporary wit. "90 minutes of good kinky fun! A tasty new comedy, directed with laser-sharp precision by Walter Bobbie. Nina Arianda is sensational; comic, sexy, scary at the same time. Wes Bentley's piercing eyes suggest simmering depths. Mr. Ives presents a nifty, skillfully wrought entertainment; an enjoyable game of kitten-with-a-whip and mouse." - The New York Times. [G&S note: we hear this is a great show, and the 2-4-1 offer through end of feb makes it affordable.] (thru 3/7, Classic Stage Company, 136 East 13th St, Tue-Sat 8pm, Sat/Sun 2pm, $60+)
WORD: The Talking Show: The Magical Ridiculous Journey of Alien Comic
http://www.ps122.org/performances/the_talking_show.html
Fairy godfather of downtown performance, Tom Murrin (a/k/a Alien Comic), takes us on a talking tour of his life - and of his travels though avant garde theatre in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s! Murrin has been there from the beginning and lived to tell the tale. (thru 3/7, P.S. 122, 150 1st Avenue, Thurs-Sat 7:30pm, Sun 5:30pm, $20, $15 w/code FF15)
THEATER: The Divine Sister
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/705475
The Divine Sister is an outrageous comic homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns. Evoking such films as The Song of Bernadette, The Bells of St. Mary's, The Singing Nun and Agnes of God, The Divine Sister tells the story of St. Veronica's indomitable Mother Superior (author Charles Busch) who is determined to build a new school for her Pittsburgh convent. Along the way, she has to deal with a young postulant who is experiencing "visions," sexual hysteria among her nuns, a sensitive schoolboy in need of mentoring, a mysterious nun visiting from the Mother House in Berlin, and a former suitor intent on luring her away from her vows. This madcap trip through Hollywood religiosity evokes the wildly comic but affectionately observed theatrical style of the creator of Die, Mommie, Die! and Psycho Beach Party. (thru 3/7, Cino Theater, 55 First Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets, Thurs–Sat 8pm, Sat–Sun 3pm, $25)
PERFORMANCE: Outré Island
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=294727181941&index=1
Join the citizens of Outré Island as they desperately look to join the outside world by any means necessary. This includes bending their bodies in an unusual manner. Learn about their rich heritage and majestic culture! Discover an endless supply of blue goo! Raja Azar from Jollyship the Whizbang conjures sounds from an electronic device! Directed by Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation). (thru 3/11, Ars Nova, 511 W. 54th St., Thur 8pm, $15)
THEATER: Radiohole's "Whatever, Heaven Allows"
Effervescent, anarchic work... makes familiar text creepily bizarre." -- Time Out. Radiohole's latest synthesis of cultural flotsam is sure to be bawdy, silly, possibly transcendent, and a touch disturbed. Known for its radical and reckless theatricality, avant-garde New York troupe Radiohole's newest work is a star-spangled American meta-melodrama inspired by film director Douglas Sirk's 1950s potboilers and Milton's epic Paradise Lost. Our heroine is an all- American "Eve" who must save her home from an evil-doer while struggling to find fulfillment in a lasting relationship with a supposedly good man who looks like god. Radiohole's newest synthesis of cultural flotsam is sure to be bawdy, silly, possibly transcendent, and a touch disturbed. [G&S note: 2-for-1 adv tix w/code HOLE241--don't know for which shows] (thru 3/13, Thu-Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm, late shows Sat 10pm, Performance Space 122, 1st Ave at 9th St, $20/$15 Student or Senior/$11 with the PS122 Passport)
ART: "Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop"
http://www.discoverytsx.com
The original Renaissance man gets some props from the Discovery Times Square Exposition museum. Opens with a re-creation of the mad-brilliant scientist's studio. Twenty of Leonardo's works have been reconstructed, including a life-size, walking 3-D model of a mechanical lion and a robot knight. It's a good thing Leonardo isn't alive today, or we'd all be living under his cyborg army's jackboot. (thru 3/14, former New York Times building, 226 W. 44th St. bet 7th and 8th Aves, 10am-10pm, $17.50-$19.50)
PUPPETS: Emperor and Queen
http://www.puppetworks.org
Puppetworks presents its winter presentations of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” and “The Snow Queen,” two classic fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Adapted for the marionette stage by Puppetworks’ Artistic Director Nicolas Coppola, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” tells the tale of a vain emperor who buys a set of ‘invisible’ clothes, only to march down the street in his underwear. The play is accompanied by the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. “The Snow Queen” tells the story of a mysterious lady who throws ice into the heart of a boy so that he becomes cold and mean. The story is accompanied by Norwegian folk tunes and other music from Norwegian composer Edvard Greig. (thru 3/28, Puppetworks, 338 6th Ave. at 4th St., Park Slope, BK, 12:30 and 2:30, $8)
ART: Slash: Paper Under the Knife
http://collections.madmuseum.org/html/exhibitions/485.html
The exhibition takes the pulse of the international art world's renewed interest in paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the remarkably diverse use of paper in a range of art forms. Slash is the third exhibition in MAD's Materials and Process series, which examines the renaissance of traditional handcraft materials and techniques in contemporary art and design. The exhibition surveys unusual paper treatments, including works that are burned, torn, cut by lasers, and shredded. A section of the exhibition will focus on artists who modify books to transform them into sculpture, while another will highlight the use of cut paper for film and video animations. (thru 4/4, Museum of Art and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, $15/Thur 6-9pm by donation)
ART: American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion
http://www.fitnyc.edu/336.asp
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) presents American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion, the first exhibition to explore how the "philosophy of beauty" is allied to the craft of dressmaking. Each of the 75 looks on display was chosen to exemplify the relationship between technical ingenuity and artistic excellence. Curator Patricia Mears has focused on approximately 25 American fashion designers, ranging from the obscure, such as Jessie Franklin Turner, whose work dates from the late 1910s, to rising stars of the present day, such as the Mulleavy sisters of Rodarte. Other designers featured include Adrian, Bonnie Cashin, Maria Cornejo, James Galanos, Halston, Elizabeth Hawes, Charles James, Charles Kleibacker, Claire McCardell, Norman Norell, Rick Owens, Ralph Rucci, Isabel Toledo, Pauline Trigère, Valentina, Yeohlee, and Jean Yu. (thru 4/10, Museum at FIT, Seventh Avenue at 27 Street, FREE)
ART: Tim Burton Retrospective
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/313
This major career retrospective on Tim Burton (American, b. 1958), consisting of a gallery exhibition and a film series, considers Burton's career as a director, producer, writer, and concept artist for live-action and animated films, along with his work as a fiction writer, photographer and illustrator. Following the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work, the exhibition presents artwork generated during the conception and production of his films, and highlights a number of unrealized projects and never-before-seen pieces, as well as student art, his earliest non-professional films, and examples of his work as a storyteller and graphic artist for non-film projects. The opposing themes of adolescence and adulthood, and the elements of sentiment, cynicism, and humor inform his work in a variety of mediums—drawings, paintings, storyboards, digital and moving-image formats, puppets and maquettes, props, costumes, ephemera, sketchb
ooks, and cartoons. Taking inspiration from sources in pop culture, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as a spiritual experience, influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics. (Thru 4/26, MoMA, 11 W. 53rd St nr. Sixth Ave, $20 sugg/$12 students, Fri evenings 4-8PM FREE)
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