Hello lovelies,
Just when you thought we may slow things down for the summer, here we are announcing our wicked hot-weather plans. More may be to come, too.
- July 31, our only proper G&S costumed blow-out for the summer: a long-lost circus with a dark cabaret soundtrack. Expect a steampunk'd art/performance/music happening akin to our memorable Halloween Masquerade Macabre adventure. Details next week.
- Aug 14, we've plotted & schemed our way back on to the Clipper City for one more summer sail, this one co-produced with NY Gypsy Festival -- which means a bangin' gypsy-balkan-ethnomesh soundtrack courtesy of DJs Joro Boro & Kosta. Details next week. BTW, Last week's sail exceeded all expectations in its sheer awesomeness. A short video by our DJ Barney Iller of electric violinist Irine Fong against the Statue of Liberty in the background: http://bit.ly/asGJSf -- and lots of photos in TimeOut: http://tmout.us/aQEWrW
- Other dates of note: the next House of Scorpio makeout party is Thur, July 22. Then, our dear friend, the amazing Sxip Shirey, is hosting a ridiculous CD release party on July 24 for his *stellar* new record Sonic New York. Incidentally, if you haven't picked up a copy yet, we can't recommend it highly enough. Listen for free & download for $12 (all $ directly to artist): http://sxip.bandcamp.com
- And finally...ticket giveaway! Lincoln Center Out of Doors presents a fantastic show on Wed with our friends JC Hopkins, Justin Bond & Joey Arias. Quick, answer how many years LC Out of Doors is celebrating this season and WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS to the show. 10th correct answer wins the tickets. If you miss out on these, follow us on Twitter for a chance to win another pair: http://twitter.com/gemini_scorpio
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G&S SEEKING LOFT
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A 1,500-3,000 sq ft loft we can live, work and party in on a regular basis (or just rent out for events), with outdoor space for smokers & movies & BBQs. We're looking off the Q/C/F trains in Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Carroll Gardens, Gowanus, etc, though open to other locations for event rentals, incl Manhattan. Got any leads? Send them our way. If you can help us, you'll get VIP status in our new party palace.
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OUR NEXT EVENT: 7/31
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At the stroke of midnight, discover a circus long lost. Circus meets art meets dark cabaret, on a spacious dance floor. Stay tuned.
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OUR NEXT EVENT: 8/14
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We set sail once again on the magnificent Clipper City sailboat, in a gypsy-balkan-brass dance-fueled throwdown with DJs Joro Boro & Kosta. Stay tuned.
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WEEKEND + WEEK
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*PERFORMANCE: Straight Up Vampire
http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,4995
The History of Vampires in Colonial Pennsylvania as Performed to the Music of Paula Abdul. It's 1763 and there are vampires in Philadelphia. Paula Abdul Blackwood is a beautiful young quaker girl being forced into marriage with the wheelwright's son. Jack Sheridan, a politically idealistic young vampire, is the man she loves. Everywhere there is dissent. Fractious parties debate the future of the colony. MC Skat Kat and Benjamin Franklin vie for power in the Assembly. With Nick Jones, the O'Debra Twins, and Corn Mo as Benjamin Franklin. (Fri/Sat, Joe's Pub, 425 Lafayette St, 9:30pm, $15)
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FRIDAY
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ART: Gallery of Yes
http://www.houseofyes.com
Cheap art, adventurous sideshows, live music, fire spinning, and psychedelic projections. Gallery of Yes offers art accessibility through affordability. We are featuring work from over a dozen NYC based artists, most of which is priced under $100 with nothing more than $200. Artists from a wide range of disciplines are showing their work to create a multimedia wonderland for art hunters. Gallery of Yes will feature a gallery-style viewing period from followed by performances at by Data Dog and Second Nature. Also featuring Dr. Adventure's SuperHero Circus and Side-Show. Including: Dr.Adventure's Tonics, Tinctures, Potions and Elixers, the SuperYoga of Amazing Amy, the Mighty Strongman, the Mysterious Half Man/Half Girl, the Terrifying Wild Man, Death Defying Feats of Might and Invulnerability, Wristo the Ultra-Clown, Sexy Super People, and Much More. (House of Yes, 342 Maujer St., Bushwick, BK, 6pm-8:30 gallery viewing, 9pm live music, FREE/before 8:30, $5-12 sliding scale af
ter)
MUSIC: Martin Bisi, HUMANWINE and Marissa Nadler
http://www.myspace.com/theendcredits
http://www.marissanadler.com/
http://www.myspace.com/humanwine
Martin Bisi , plays guitar and sings, and combines singer-songwriter story-telling with indie/post-punk/No Wave rock and experimental psychedelia. Marissa Nadler's music may contain less 'freak' folk or experimental elements than much of the music evolving from the folk scene today, but it is no less relevant or intriguing. The synthesizer, organ, and lap steel layer nicely with Nadler's ethereal voice and give her music a sound that is somehow both melancholy and triumphant. HUMANWINE's everchanging line up will consist of Holly Brewer, M@ McNiss, Paul Dilley, n8 Greenslit & Vessela Stoyanova. The Muzik of HUMANWINE is fluid and changing with each line up. Often 1 or more players on stage will be playing together for the first time and that methodology is the fabric of what makes them so special from their approach to songwriting through their presentation of their work whether it be in live performances or the videos and mini movies they create. (Union Pool, 484 Union
Ave., Wburg, BK, 8pm, ?)
*MUSIC: Ghost Train Orchestra
http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com
The Ghost Train Orchestra is trumpeter Brian Carpenter's large instrumental ensemble. Tonight they perform jazz stomps from four seminal Harlem and Chicago bandleaders of the late 1920s: Don Redman, Tiny Parham, Fess Williams, and Charlie Johnson. With Brian Carpenter (trumpet, harmonica, voice), Oscar Noriega (clarinet), Andy Laster (alto, baritone saxophones), Jessica Lurie (clarinet, alto, tenor saxophones), Curtis Hasselbring (trombone), Mazz Swift (violin), Cynthia Sayer (banjo), Ron Caswell (tuba), Rob Garcia (trap kit). (Barbes, 376 9th St., BK, 10pm, $10 donation to band)
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SATURDAY
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MUSIC: ISTANBULIVE II: The Sounds & Colors of Turkey
http://www.istanbulive.org
http://www.summerstage.org/music.html
For five hours, several of Turkey's best and brightest artists will perform a free-to-the-public show featuring a myriad of sounds within the east-meets-west mold including Turkish rock, jazz, dance, pop and folk music. This celebration of Turkish Music features performances from Kenan Dogulu (with a 12 piece live band); Duman; Ilhan Ersahin's Istanbul Sessions; Sukriye Tutkun; DJ Ozan Dogulu; and folk dance by Collage Dance Ensemble. (Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, 2pm, FREE)
*DJ/DANCING: PS1 Warm Up
http://ps1.org/news/view/64/
MoMA PS1's historic Warm Up music series begins this Saturday. This highly anticipated outdoor series celebrates its twelfth year of exposing audiences to the best in experimental music and live bands, performances, and DJs. Coinciding with the annual Young Architects Program, this year's Warm Up will merge with a new courtyard installation, Pole Dance, created by the architectural firm Solid Objectives - Idenburg Liu (SO - IL). This week's Warm Up features Delorean (live); Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang (live); Glasser (live); John Talabot (DJ set); and Korallreven (DJ set). [G&S note: yeah, we know, this is big enough not to need out listing -- but it's impossible not to love the series.] (Every Sat thru 9/4, PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave at 46th Ave, 2pm-9pm, $15)
DJ/DANCING: Ride the Snake
We're celebrating the birth of America with the same hardcore spirit that founded our nation -- Ride the Snake style. Too many people have become soft in the luxurious perception of freedom. Freedom is not a luxury, though. It is a right -- a right that requires a bit of ferocity. Freedom is for people who will remain accountable to its glorious bastions, even when those bastions require sacrifice. Featuring Dirty Finger, God Ox, the Brooklyn What, Jellybean Fiasco, Cobra Krames, Fake Money, and special guest. Art/performance by Scattered Sam King of America and Billy Ehret. Barbecue all night by Davo. Open bar all night! (372 Ten Eyck St., BK, 10pm-6am, $20)
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SUNDAY
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EVENT: Nathan's Hot Dog Contest
http://www.nathansfamous.com
The world's greatest eaters will compete at the historic Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island today. (Nathan's Famous, 1310 Surf Avenue at Stillwell Ave, doors 10am, contest 12pm, FREE)
DJ/DANCING: Sunday Best
http://www.sundaybestnyc.co
The Fourth is shaping up to be a perfect summer's day and Sunday Best is celebrating. Dance the afternoon away in a spacious courtyard and then scale a nearby warehouse to catch the fireworks from the roof. Resident DJs Justin Carter, Eamon Harkin and Doug Singer are set to declare musical independence, alongside ever-funky guest Rich Medina. (Brooklyn Fireproof, 19 Ingraham St, BK, 3pm-9pm, $8/adv, $12/door)
TALK: A Barnum Bicentenary
http://www.coneyisland.com/museum.shtml
Talk and performance by Trav S.D. and friends in observance of P.T. Barnum's 200th birthday: if P.T. Barnum had lived he would have turned 200 years old on July 5 of this year, which is about the age he once claimed Joice Heth, George Washington's nurse was. In observance of the fact, Trav S.D. will speak on the legacy of Barnum and Barnumism (bunkum, hokum, humbug and hooey) in vaudeville and show business in general. And because showmanship is the name of the game, he will be joined by the great Lorinne Lampert, a.k.a., Uke-Lola – tap-dancing; song-singing, uke-playing, juggling vaudevillian extraordinaire. What better place to spend the 4th than Coney Island? Watch the hot dog eating contest! Ride the rides. Go for a dip. And then come see the real dips at our presentation. (Coney Island Museum, 1208 Surf Avenue, second floor, Coney Island, BK, 4:30pm, $5)
***PARTY: The Liberty Belle Spectacular
http://www.libertybellespectacular.com
A Vintage Fourth of July Rooftop Extravaganza w/Live Bands, Dancing, Burlesque, Fireworks. Featuring: Gelber & Manning and The Star Spangled Orchestra, MC Dandy Wellington, The Minsky Sisters, Jezebel Express, Sit & Die Co, Perle Noire, Bob Leive. Guest Mixologist Fredo Ceraso. (July 4th, Empire Hotel Rooftop, 44 West 63rd St, 7pm, $20 in advance, $25 at the door, 21+)
PARTY: Sci-Fi Fourth of July
http://www.surrealestatenyc.wordpress.com
Surreal Estate, Brooklyn's largest and most diverse collective space invites you to a barbecue and three-floor party on the 4th of July. Live Music, B-Boy vs. B-Girl Battle, Dance-tastic DJs, BBQ, & BlackLight Decoration. Bring your grilling favorites and set them sizzling on the hood of the UFO that just made a rooftop landing! We're introducing our interstellar guests to the best Brooklyn can offer, especially the otherworldly sounds of our favorite music, including the international rhythms and grooves of DJ Geko Jones, the epic Israeli pop duo Hank and Cupcakes, the gyspy jazz beats of DJ Poodle Cannon, and the electrifying accordion/violin of The Homeless People. Scope out the tricky moves of New York's best three-legged, four-armed breakdancers at the Breakdancing Battle as they compete for $300 prize money on our new wooden dance floor. After all that dancing, we'll show our visitors how to cool their green skin in the kiddie pool, and give them some cold spiked ice te
a. After all, Surreal Estate has a perfect view of the fireworks from the roof and three floors of the best kind of alien contact. Come and meet our new friends and help us welcome them to the U.S. of A!(Surreal Estate, 15 Thames St, BK, 8p-4am, $10 door)
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MONDAY
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MUSIC: KRISTEENYOUNG
http://bk.knittingfactory.com
KRISTEENYOUNG wants the piano to kick your ass. Their new album, Music for Strippers, Hookers, and the Odd On-Looker, feels like it was born in the boxing ring, not some sun-dappled Laurel Canyon living room. She sought to recapture the fiery, dangerous noise early rockers like Jerry Lee Lewis and Fats Domino wrought from the instrument's eighty-eight keys, albeit in a wholly modern way. Young's foil in KRISTEENYOUNG is drummer “Baby” Jef White, whose energy and fills bring to mind the great British drummers, but whose groove is undeniably American. Think John Bohnam meets Timbaland on Keith Moon Street. Together, the duo has forged a sound full of percussive impact and melodic grandeur. (Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Avenue, Wburg, BK, 7pm, $10/adv, $12/door)
CIRCUS: Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Show
http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?ShowCode=BIN6
http://www.galapagosartspace.com
Come to DUMBO, Brooklyn where a five spot still offers you a spectacular night of tap dancing bears, Kung Fu juggling, clown bands, aerialists suspended above your beverage while you are carefully suspended over a body of water, sword swallowers, physical comedy, contortionists and cowboys. Hosted by Keith Bindlestiff. (Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St., DUMBO, BK, 7pm, $5)
*DANCE: Broadway Underground
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132214360124884
Restoring the spirit of entertainment, Broadway Underground floors audiences of every age with spontaneous and rhythmic comedy. Tappers, Jared Grimes and DeWitt Fleming host this "blast from the past" phenomenon filled with amazing talent straight off the New York City streets. Artists move to this city every day to be discovered. Broadway Underground sifts through the web of talented hopefuls and unleashes sheer raw artistry onto a stage filled with live music and packed audiences. Every show offers new acts and hilarious skits from the real life stories of roommates Jared and DeWitt, who found their start singing and dancing underground in the subways of New York City. The open session ends the evening where artists flock to the stage for their minute of fame as they launch themselves into the den of live talent to be seen by all the world. (BB Kings in Time Sq, 237 W. 42nd St bet Bway and 8th Ave., 8pm-10pm, $12)
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TUESDAY
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MUSIC: Bushwick Book Club
http://www.bushwickbookclub.com
The Bushwick Book Club takes the longwinded pontification out of book clubs and replaces it with engaging, unexpected songs about the book of the month. This month: Original songs inspired by the Diaries of Anais Nin. Songwriters include Corn Mo, Alyson Greenfield, Scott Massarsky, and Susan Hwang. We'll have Nin-inspired snacks and drink specials too. Things could get a little randy. (Goodbye Blue Monday, 1087 Broadway, between Lawton and Dodworth, BK, 8-10pm, FREE)
COMEDY: The Raspberry Brothers Back To The Future II
http://ny.knittingfactory.com
Bring your July 4th leftovers and we'll gorge ourselves on surplus potato salad, casseroles, cole slaws, and cold burgers. To help you digest- the Raspberry Brothers will make fun of an extremely pro-American film. Back To the Future 2! This movie has corny lines, nonsense plot twists (It takes 88 miles an hour to go back in time?), historical rewriting (Rock n' Roll was invented by a very white teenager) and corporate sponsorship. The Raspberry Brothers can't wait. (Knitting Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave, Wburg, BK, 8pm, FREE)
PARTICIPATORY: Hipnic: Kaleidoscope Music Lab
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134946306519415
It's not just your random Hipnic... come to this special Hipnic to frolic, join in the music circle and build hand made instruments for the weekend's Kaleidoscope 3. Please bring items that can be assembled into something that might make sweet sounds. i.e. empty cans, pieces of steel or tin, kazoos - be creative.... we'll have help from members of the band Bone Gunn and musicians who DIY their own "sin-struments". What you might experience - uber friendly enchanted folk you won't always know, frankincense, musical chairs, hoe downs, drum and guitar circles, uniquely unbranded boozery, salsa dancing, gazpacho and your own spirit. Please bring something to share be it water, vino, food stuffs and if you want to be a part of the music, something that makes sound -- especially this week! (Highline, 15th St., lower balcony, 7pm-10pm, FREE)
CIRCUS: Wanted!
The Runaway Circus presents Wanted! Suspects are known to be highly hilarious, approach without caution! These smooth criminals are willing to go to extraordinary measures to distract you from your summer doldrums. What measures? How about
trapeze, acrobatics, slapstick, magic, juggling and more. This troupe has performed all across North America including the Western Canadian Islands. Members have studied the circus arts extensively in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Seattle. So bring the whole family and be prepared because the Runaway Circus is here to take your breath away! (House of Yes, 342 Maujer St. bet Waterbury and Morgan, Bushwick, BK, 8pm, $10)
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WEDNESDAY
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OPENING THEATER: Anna & Meredith's Production of Gormanzee & Other Stories
http://www.theflea.org
The evening features Bill It, a kinetic portrait of the restaurant industry, The House on the Shore, the story of the sole resident of a shuttered beach town, and Gormanzee, a macabre puppet comedy exploring ritualistic primate slaughter. These three one-acts showcase Anna & Meredith's wide stylistic range, from fast-paced comedy and tight choreography, to stark dramatic conflict, to eerie and inventive puppetry. Anna & Meredith's past work includes Brains, First Place Winner of Spoke the Hub's 2009 Winter Follies and recipient of The Looking Glass Theatre Space Grant, and The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, Time Out NY Critics' Pick at FringeNYC 2008. (thru 7/25, The Flea Theater, 41 White Street, bet Broadway & Church Streets, Wed, Thurs and Sun at 7pm,
Fri and Sat at 9pm, $20)
MUSIC: JC Hopkins Biggish Band, Joey Arias & Justin Bond
http://new.lincolncenter.org/live/index.php/msns-10-jc-hopkins-biggish-band-with-special-guests
Onetime folk-rocker JC Hopkins may be living proof that swing will eventually hook us all. Known for crafting original songs that sound like instant classics, the bandleader's sumptuous unit needs no introduction among local Lindy hoofers. Tonight's provocative revue pushes the limits of ribald, racy spectacle, when Biggish Band singer Champian Fulton and singer/tapper Dewitt Fleming Jr. share the stage with several of downtown's most famous divas, including legendary Billie Holiday acolyte Joey Arias, iconic torch singer Justin Bond, and the hard-swinging Broadway star Lea DeLaria. [G&S note: this will be a beautiful show, for sure. We may even have some tickets to give away to it on our Twitter! @gemini_scorpio] (Damrosch Park, 62nd Street bet Columbus and Amsterdam, 6:30pm, $17)
*FILM/MUSIC: Flood Tide: Remixed With Live Soundtrack by Dark Dark Dark
http://www.floodtidefilm.com
http://www.rooftopfilms.com/2010/films/153-flood-tide-remixed
Flood Tide tells the story of four musicians who craft extraordinary boats out of whatever junk they can find and set out for open water. A remixed version of the film -- accompanied by a live musical score by chamber folk sextet Dark Dark Dark -- will open Rooftop Films' series at Socrates Sculpture Park. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, Flood Tide was shot on the Hudson River during the real-life art-raft project The Swimming Cities of the Switchback Sea, a concept dreamed-up by the artist Swoon and built by an eclectic group of artists and performers. In the summer of 2008 the crew built and floated seven large, boat-sculptures down the Hudson River. Director Todd Chandler, cinematographer Ava Berkofsky and collaborators from the bands Dark Dark Dark and Fall Harbor made a fictional film along the surreal voyage. Screening in advance of the upcoming feature film (to be released Fall 2010), Flood Tide: Remixed is a 50-minute composition of footage from Flood Tid
e. Featuring material not used in the narrative film, Flood Tide: Remixed is a meditative journey down a strange and meandering river that flows both ways with the tides. This debut showing is less than a mile away from where the Swimming Cities fleet ported in the East River two years ago. (Socrates Sculpture Park, Broadway @ Vernon Blvd, LIC, Queens, 7pm doors/7:30m live music/8:30pm film, FREE)
PARTICIPATORY: The Big Quiz Thing's Summer Fun Spectacular
http://www.bigquizthing.com
The Big Quiz Thing, New York's premier live game show, brings its multimedia trivia goodness to 92YTribeca for its debut Summer Fun Spectacular. Featuring the world's first ever live-trivia Color War, along with Smart-Ass Points for wrong but funny answers, a beachy audio round, the Lightning Round, the Three-Way Finale, the BQT trophy, clever banter, nerdy smack-talking, and tons more fun in the metaphorical sun. Best of all, fantastic prizes, including $250 in cash, and tickets to future 92YTribeca events. And hey, free imaginary barbecue. This is the Big Quiz Thing's only NYC event in July, so miss it at your desperate peril. (92YTribeca, 200 Hudson St, 7:30p, $10)
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THURSDAY
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*MUSIC: Beats Antique & special guests
http://www.beatsantique.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121195371238628
tix: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/111612
With: Billi Shakes and the Phakespear Orchestra. DJs: Joro-Boro, Hellfire Machina, Morphous w/Shizaru, Tarquin and DJ Big Joe Daddy (NYC Debut). With Performers:
Dhyana and Irina Kom, belly dancers. Telah, "Portrait of the Moon"- hoop meditation. Growing like wildfire under the canopy of live electonica and world roots music comes Beats Antique, a masterful merge of modern technology, live instrumentation and seductive performance, Beats Antique combines the sounds of the Middle East and orchestral gypsy music with the styles of hip-hop, brass band, downtempo, glitch and dubstep in a new collage of music that is mixed and broken down with clever breakbeats for an adept international flair. Beats Antique is producing an un-charted style of music by adding live horns, accordion, glockenspiel, viola, string quartets, kalimba, clarinet and various unusual instruments to their big beat arrangements. Billi Shakes and the Phakespear Orchestra is an electro-pop performance group blending 1920's originals, Hip-Hop, Libertine Punk and Electro-Mash is one of a kind and timeless as it is ground-breaking. (Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleeker St, 9pm, $2
5 adv/$30 door, 21+)
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UPCOMING
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**MUSIC: Rocks Off Concert Cruise with Hungry March Band & Texas Couscous
http://www.rocksoff.com/shows/555
Rocks Off concert cruise involves a full bar onboard, restrooms, food, brass bands, you name it... You basically sail to nowhere, except it takes 3 hours to get there. Up, down, around, the upper and lower east side of Manhattan, out into NY Harbor, etc. Playing for the first time, Texas Couscous is the joyful meeting of thirty companions of misfortune, united by ties of melodious marriage and crazy instruments. Writing with their left hands and left with their right hands, their music is like a snarling Djiboutian cheetah. They aim to serve you a tagine of explosive music again and again. Local favorites the Hungry March Band are a booming ensemble of saxes, trombones, trumpets, sousaphones, and a full percussion section. They are often joined by the Pleasure Society, a troupe of baton twirlers, hula hoopers, and dancers, who blur the boundary between band and audience. Vigorously digesting music from wherever brass bands are heard — the Balkans, India, New Orleans, Latin Am
erica — and combining it with a knowledge of big band, free jazz, and punk rock, the Hungry March Band blares forth with one of the most original musical voices in NYC. (Sun 7/11, Skyport Marina, 23rd St. and FDR Drive, 7pm-11pm, $20/adv, $25/dock)
***OUT OF TOWN: Going Places (Doing Stuff) III
http://www.fluxfactory.org
Flux Factory is pleased to announce our third annual Going Places (Doing Stuff) artist-led bus tours! Think of it as "adventure as performance art." The content of the tours is entirely up to the artist, and destinations are kept secret. Artists have "carte blanche" to lead a bus-full of people on an odyssey around the greater New York/Quad-State area. Before each tour, we provide only the following information: artists' name, title of adventure, duration, and a list of needed supplies. In other words, when people sign up for a tour, they know what to bring and how long they'll be gone, but will have no idea where they're going or what they'll experience. Last year's adventures included ziplining to swimming holes, breaking world records, a trip to an abandoned mental asylum, a demolition derby, and camping in the rain. The tours will be on board a school bus propelled by vegetable oil provided by the Rude Mechanical Orchestra. All tours are first-come, first-serve. Tickets g
o on sale one week before each tour. They go like hotcakes. Please check the Flux Factory website for details. (7/10 – 8/28, location with ticket, $20)
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ONGOING
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ART: Daniel Merriam
http://www.animazing.com/gallery/merriam/originals
http://www.danielmerriam.com
If you dream in full color, Daniel Merriam's paintings are a wildly-hued journey into the imagination. "In Merriam's watercolors, drowsy moonfaces, Victorian houses and the matic repetition create a childlike whimsy layered with meaning." - Art & Antiques. "The ... artist's stunning erotic, fanciful drawings of the primordial garden have earned him a worldwide reputation among serious collectors and connoisseurs. Working in the unforgiving medium of transparent watercolor, his artistical style is the product of solid technical skills, an illustrator's precision and storyteller's sense of adventure." -- EGO Magazine. [G&S note: we are rarely blown away by new art, perhaps because so much of it is post-post-post you-name-it. This artist speaks directly to our theatricality & surrealism-loving little hearts: think Alice in Wonderland meets Gaudi via MirrorMask. (Or, a more whimsical Mark Ryden.)] (Through ?, Animazing Gallery, 461 Broome Street, (bet Greene and Mercer), FREE)
PARTICIPATORY: Play Me, I'm Yours
http://www.streetpianos.com/nyc2010/
An artwork by British artist Luke Jerram who has been touring the project globally since 2008. 60 pianos will be distributed and then unveiled across New York City by Sing for Hope. Located in public parks, streets and plazas the pianos will be available until 5th July for any member of the public to play and engage with. (thru 7/5, various locations, FREE)
EXHIBIT: Where New York Began - Archaeology at the South Ferry Terminal
http://mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm
Before building the new South Ferry station, a huge archaeological dig was conducted. The site is rich with history from the days of the Native Americans and the city's first western settlers, and much was uncovered, including parts of Battery Wall and over 65,000 artifacts. A new exhibit at the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex and Store in Grand Central Terminal will be showing 100 of these artifacts, plus documents and images that illuminate life in New York hundreds of years ago. (thru 7/5, New York Transit Museum Annex, Grand Central Terminal, FREE)
ART: Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage
http://www.drawingcenter.org/exh_current.cfm
Approximately twenty hand-drawn ballet costume designs by Dorothea Tanning (b.1910) created in collaboration with the early modernist choreographer, George Balanchine. Dating from 1945–1953, the designs will be shown together for the first time, and will be accompanied by archival photographs and ephemera related to the staged productions. This series explores the dynamic intersections of dance, performance, visual art, and costume, while drawing important parallels to Tanning's early discoveries in both painting and sculpture. Taking the form of traditional fashion plates, the blithely rendered drawings are suggestive of bodies in motion and portrayals of outlandish characters through the quirky detailing and sensual drapery of the costumes. (thru 7/23, Wed-Fri 12-6pm, Thur 2-8pm, 35 Wooster St, FREE)
THEATER: Undergroundzero Festival
http://www.ps122.org/performances/undergroundzero_2010.html
Now in its 4th year, the undergroundzero festival of experimental theater offers a unique flying repertory of innovative work by renowned local and international theater makers. Artists bring a production of their choice to this summer laboratory where risk-taking is encouraged and expected. (7/6-7/25, PS122, 150 First Ave. at E. 9th St., various times, $20)
TALK: Oxberry Pegs Presents: Animators Are God?
http://observatoryroom.org/series
Meet them in person and decide for yourself in this series of screenings, lectures, and presentations on the illusion of life co-hosted by GF Newland and Trilby Schreiber. From time immemorial, some mere mortals have sought to play God! They have "pursued nature to her hiding-places" like a bunch of Dr. Frankenstein's, driven by a bold desire to create life. They are the Animators, and somehow, they have done it, but how? How do they do it? How will they do it in the future, if any, and for God sake's why??? For answers to these and other questions, don't miss a night of this scintillating series of lectures, screenings, and presentations by the gods themselves! From Winsor McKay to Ren and Stimpy, the Golem to video games, automata to Avator, phantasmagoria to animatronics, Pygmalian to puppet theatre, this series will examine the ways in which animators play god (with a little g). (thru July 29, Observatory Room, 543 Union St, Gowanus, BK)
PERFORMANCE: A Night at the Tombs
https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/723515
Chicago meets TransAmerica in this new musical. While cooling her 6-inch heels in the clink, fabulous Bianca Leigh tries to make sense of how a skinny Jersey boy with dreams of becoming a great Shakespearean actor ended up as a high-priced dominatrix. Both hilarious and moving, Bianca brings to vivid life more than a dozen characters, from her disapproving mother to a sadistic corrections officer. Presented by Theatre Askew featuring original music by Avenue Q's Jeff Whitty, Taylor Mac and more. (Thursdays through 8/5, Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery bet Houston & Bleecker Street, 8pm, $18)
PERFORMANCE: 19th Annual HOT! Festival of Queer Performance and Culture
New York's HOT! Festival is the longest running LGBTQ Festival in the world. The Village Voice calls it "New York's Best Gay Theater Festival!" For 19 years, Dixon Place has presented emerging and established artists in the Queer universe who present their finest works in theater, music, dance, performance, and literature. 2010's HOT! Festival features Dynasty Handbag, Scotty Heron, Frank DeCaro, Robert Richards, Holly Hughes, World Famous Bob, Reno, Liz Liguori & Jesse Mann, and over 60 more artists. Many shows in our cozy cocktail lounge are free and you're invited to our post-show parties where you meet your favorite artists. (thru 8/7, Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie St bet Delancey/Rivington, most shows $10 adv/$15 door/$25 for any 3/$60 fest pass)
ART: Andy Warhol The Last Decade
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/andy_warhol/
The first U.S. museum survey to examine the late work of American artist Andy Warhol (1928–1987). Encompassing nearly fifty works, the exhibition reveals the artist's vitality, energy, and renewed spirit of experimentation. During this time Warhol produced more works, in a considerable number of series and on a vastly larger scale, than at any other point in his forty-year career. It was a decade of great artistic development for him, during which a dramatic transformation of his style took place alongside the introduction of new techniques. (thru 9/12, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Parkway, BK, various times, $10)
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