Month: June 2008

  • TKTS BKLYN

    Got this a few weeks ago, forgot to post. But for Brooklyn theater fans its big news: New downtown Brooklyn TKTS booth, opening Thursday July 10. TDF and METROTECH B.I.d. announce new TKTS location at 1 Metrotech center at the corner of jay street and myrtle avenue – Theatre Development Fund (TDF) and MetroTech Business…

  • Market Forces / Part II: Consumer Confidence

    this looks pretty cool: carriage trade invites you to a closing reception for Market Forces / Part II: Consumer Confidence On Wednesday, July 2 beginning at 7pm carriage trade 94 Prince St. 2nd fl New York, NY 10012 (between Greene St & Mercer St.), n/r train to Prince Street open: Thursday- Sunday, 1 pm- 6…

  • Peg-Ass-Us LIVE!

    Just in case you think we’re gettin’ a little too artsy fartsy around here, we’re going to plug (heh-heh) the upcoming show Peg-Ass-Us. Never seen it, know nothing about it, but dang ya gotta give these kids credit for pure pervy-ness! Peg-Ass-Us Performed and Created by John Leo & Sophie Nimmannit A Production of Pack…

  • Oh, Miley!

    As long-time Culturebot readers will know, I have an ongoing fascination with the evolution of the Teen age Girl In Popular Culture, beginning with Valley Girl in the early 80’s, through Clueless in the 90’s to Britney and, now, Miley Cyrus. One day I guess I’ll go to grad school and write a thesis. Or…

  • International Festival of Arts and Ideas

    Today is the last day of the New Haven-based annual International Festival of Arts and Ideas. The day’s events includes a walking tour and a bike tour, and the festival finale—a dance performance by Liz Lehrman titled “613 Radical Acts of Prayer.” Anyone can participate; just show up at the Fountain on the Green at…

  • New Kid In Town

    Well, our ever-expanding ranks of contributors keep growing! Please welcome Vanessa Baish. We have high hopes! Vanessa Baish, who grew up in a small and quiet Maryland town, was introduced to performance in 1989 when a friend took her to see Laurie Anderson. It was the same year she read “Absalom, Absalom” by William Faulker,…

  • source amnesia

    “Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found.” Yikes. This article in the NYTIMES on “source amnesia” is really interesting. It discusses how we remember things and how susceptible we are to misremembering. Or how we basically re-write our memories every time we recall them, thus we are…

  • Incubator (OHT): Helsinki Syndrome’s “True North”.

    photo: Mike Hipple The second company invited by the Incubator curators to perform at the Ontological Hysteric Theater was Helsinki Syndrome, a performance art collective based in Seattle. I went to their last performance this past Saturday and found light plastic blankets awaiting the audience on the seats. The program warned us: there will be…

  • Dance Theater Workshop: “Dance by Neil Greenberg. Really Queer Dance with Harps and Quartet with Three Gay Men”.

    Neil Greenberg’s Quartet with Three Gay Men. Last week I attended one of the last performances of “Dance by Neil Greenberg” at Dance Theater Workshop. I went to the performance excited by the many reviews that spoke so well about Greenberg’s work: see, for instance, reviews by Roslyn Sulcas, Claudia La Rocco, and Gia Kourlas.…

  • Creative Time Summer 2008

    Good stuff from Creative Time all summer long… Throughout the summer Creative Time will present selections from fashion icon, agent provocateur, and founder of the Sex Pistols Malcolm McLaren’s new video series Shallow at 44 1/2: MTV’s outdoor, gilded, HD screen in the heart of Times Square. Catch the films on Broadway between 44th and…

  • Deitch Projects’ Call for Artists!

    Release your inner PT Barnum this September in NYC! Proposals for floats, placards, spectacles, and street performances by artists, designers, and performers are being accepted for the 2008 Art Parade. DEADLINE: THURSDAY, JULY 1. Visit www.deitch.com for more information

  • La Mar Enfortuna at The Stone

    My friend Daniel just wrote about these guys in the current issue of HEEB. I have been told it is going to be an awesome show. La Mar Enfortuna Saturday, June 28, 2008 8:00 pm The Stone (ave C and 2nd st) Oren Bloedow (guitar) Jennifer Charles (voice) Brahim Fribgane (oud) Ted Reichman (accordion) Zafer…