Ok so I could tell you the reason for the lack of posts this week is due to the fact that we were out protesting the RNC. The truth of the matter however is we were busy being delinquents in Vegas. Don't worry no one got married or thrown in jail, all though I did leave Chris there unsupervised so you never know. We feel terribly about abandoning you, so I figured I'd make it up to you guys with a movie on the riverside and preview of some of this weekend's fun.
Tonight 9.02 Catch everyones favorite Sofia Coppela film, Lost In Translation, in Riverside Park. Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannson become fast friends as they contemplate life during their stay in Tokyo.
Riverside Park, 70th Street Pier
8:00 pm
FREE!
Friday 9.03 If your not headed to the beach for the long weekend, here is an excellent way to spend your Friday night. Bassboot brings you the High School Dance Rewind. Djs Gregg Nyce and JZone spin classic late 80's and early 90's hip hop as well as reggae and dancehall. Admission is free and so is the Redstripe from 10 to 11. Check out the flyer
M1-5 (52 Walker Street btw Broadway and Church)
10:00 pm
FREE!
(for the record, I don't remember my high school dances having booty shakin' dancehall or giving me free beer, I think it would've been a great time though)
As the red eye jet lag slowly sets in, and my week in my week in Vegas sets in, I can tell you that its good as hell to be home. Time to celebrate the long weekend with a couple great parties tonight, closeout the PS1 Warm-Up series tomorrow, and enjoy a nice long weekend.
Friday, September 3rd
NIGHTTIME
High School Dance Rewind: If your not headed to the beach for the long weekend, here is an excellent way to spend your Friday night. Bassboot brings you the High School Dance Rewind. Djs Gregg Nyce and JZone spin classic late 80's and early 90's hip hop as well as reggae and dancehall. Admission is free and so is the Redstripe from 10 to 11. Check out the flyer
M1-5 (52 Walker Street btw Broadway and Church) 10:00 pm FREE! ------
Sneaker Pimps A skate, sneaker, LES hipster fest deep in the heart of Greenpoint with DJ Premier rocking the tables. Premier is still one of the best in the game.
Black Crack Sessions w/ DJ Ursula 1000 DJs $mall ¢hange & Gerald McBoing Boing host this all-star vinyl showdown in the upstairs lounge at Pianos every Friday. An international contingency of DJs stop by to show off how deep their crates are and how sweaty they can make the dance floor. "Viva la Vinyl!"
This week our special guest is the playboy of the 21st Century, ESL recording artist and the DJ who sweet talked loungey vibes back to the dance floor- Ursula 1000. He'll bring his signature eclectic style, "mixing tracks from around the world that take you from jazzy breaks, mod freakbeats, latin movers, psychedelic soul shakers and bouncy electric disco stompers!"
10 PM Pianos (Ludlow and Stanton) FREE ------
A night full of Roots, Reggae, Ragga Jungle, Dub, Dancehall & Funky Beatz...
9PM-4AM Luke & Leroy's (21, 7th Ave. SOUTH between Carmine St. & Leroy) $1 -----
Brooklyn Historical Society Beer Gardens The Brooklyn Historical Society will celebrate local brewing by creating a beer garden featuring Brooklyn bands and $2 beers from the Brooklyn Brewery in honor of their current exhibit, 100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall: Brewing in Brooklyn.
6:30PM Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 718-222-4111 FREE (with admission) -----
Saturday, September 4th
DAYTIME
Derrick May & Francois K at PS1 WarmUp On their own, Derrick May and Franˆßois Kevorkian need no introduction. Each has played devoted husband to their common-law city for years: May, as Detroit's techno ambassador; K, standing faithful to NYC through each iteration of house. Separated at birth? Nah. But they certainly have a connection ’Äî lately stacking their house-heavy techno sets as a duo with a good natured one-upsmanship that tempers traces of mega-DJ ego into pure megawatts. If you've balked all summer at the trip to LIC, your back is against the wall. It's your last chance of the season to frolic at P.S.1's Warm Up series, on an afternoon set to the soundtrack of a space odyssey.
3 - 9PM P.S.1, 22-25 Jackson Ave, LIC $8 -----
Hells Kitchen Flea Market Hell's Kitchen Flea Market will serve neighborhood residents as well as the myriad bargain-hunters who shop at the world-famous Chelsea flea market: interior designers, antique hunters, buyers of fine crafts and fine art, collectors, stylists, and those shopping for fresh farm products’Äîincluding fruits and vegetables in season and baked goods. Come and shop or sell! Be a part of this historic project in one NYC’Äôs latest, greatest neighborhoods.
10AM - 6PM 39th St. Between 9th and 10th aves. Manhattan FREE -----
The Market NYC Young contemporary fashion and accessory designers get together once a week to hock their hand-made goods for you. Support your local artists
11AM - 7PM 268 Mulberry Street (bet. Houston and Prince) Manhattan FREE -----
Brooklyn Brewery Tours Check out the inner working of the Brewery with a free tour... sampling follows
1, 2, 3, & 4PM 79 North 11th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 FREE ------
If you missed Brazilian Carnival and Mardi Gras, the West Indian-American Day Carnival and Parade is the next best thing ’Äî and certainly the closest. Originally an African tradition, Carnival was augmented by Caribbean slaves upon their emancipation, and celebrated by donning elaborate costumes in an attempt to mock slave owners and their high society balls. Today's festivities feature music from steel bands, costumed entertainers, and regional cuisine, including coconut bread, callaloo, salt fish, and jerk chicken. Unlike the Caribbean and New Orleans festivals, rum drinks are prohibited, so you'll have to settle for cleansing your palate with a ginger beer after a day of binging like a true American.
...when you got Bollywood? Tonight stop by Loews Cineplex Lincoln Square for the Indian Film Festival. It actually began last night, but tonight they will be screening the films Mother India and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayege.
Lowes Cineplex and IMAX at Lincoln Square (1998 Broadway at 59th)
6:00pm
FREE!
Wanna learn to be a DJ? Scratch DJ Academy is offering a free, 60 min., hands on class tonight. Spaces are limited, so call ahead to reserve a spot 212-529-1599 x5
Scratch DJ Academy (434 Sixth Ave.2nd Floor)
Call for time
FREE!
The Good: There are several amazing art openings to take advantage of this week. The Bad: The will be littered with fashion week attendees. Also, be sure to check out the 1st Annual Pie Social on Sunday and check the bottom of this email for a couple great free events starting next week from Spiewak. Have a good one.
FRIDAY ANIMAL/Co-LAB "BETTER TOMORROW"
when: Friday, September 10th 7pm-10pm
where: Supreme Trading Annex 93 North 9th street, Williamsburg
what: Art exhibition featuring: paintings, prints, sculpture, video
NO RSVP - NO COOL HIERARCHIES
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EPHEMERA VS. THE APOCALYPSE Art Spiegelman makes art about history. The first graphic novelist to win a Pulitzer, Spiegelman personalized the Holocaust in Maus, the tale of his father's struggle for survival, with Jews represented as mice and Nazis as cats. Now, Spiegelman has created In the Shadow of No Towers, a stunning representation of his own experiences during and after the terrorist attacks. His dark but heartfelt reactions, beautifully drawn in an oversized scale, belong in a time capsule right next to any news report or documentary about the events of September 2001. In what should be its own (small-scale) historical moment, Spiegelman talks tonight about his art, ephemera, and apocalyptic visions.
7:30
The Great Hall at Cooper Union (7 E. 7th Street)
FREE
If you missed ResFest this weekend then this is a great chance to see some of the highlights of the festival. This dynamic collection of short films reflect the innovation and energy of New York City. The screening will include works by Chris Cunningham, Antoine Bardou Jacquet, Rupert Samuel, Stephen Nadelman, Jeremy Boxer, and Cheryl Dunn. Oh, and something about an open RedStripe bar at 8PM.
8PM
KNITTING FACTORY - TAP BAR
74 Leonard Street
FREE
In Drop City (2003), selected as a finalist for the 2003 National Book Award, T. C. Boyle helps himself to a slice of delicious '60s Americana as he describes a drug-laced commune's hilarious move from sunny California to the northern climes of Alaska. Tonight, Boyle reads from his forthcoming book, Inner Circle, which similarly delves into the political unconscious. It traces the misadventures of (the real-life) Dr. Alfred Kinsey, famous for the "everyone has bisexual tendencies" Kinsey Reports, and the fresh-faced John Milk, one of Kinsey's subjects, who is made to undergo sexual experiments with his virginal new wife.
A special neighborhood in New York will host the ’Äúblock party’Äù featuring artists: Kanye West, Mos Def, Common, Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Dead Prez and The Roots with Dave Chappelle serving as the event’Äôs master of ceremonies. The tickets are FREE. However, everyone must be bussed in from NYC. We will give you bus info as soon as it is locked down.
EVERYONE MUST BE BUSED TO THE EVENT! The block party will last from 12pm - 9pm. You must be available from 12 noon till 9 pm.
FEAST OF SAN GENNARO
Its that time of year again. The 77th Annual Feast of San Gennaro, New York City's oldest, biggest and best street festival, will be celebrated starting Thursday, September 16, and continuing for 11 days through Sunday, September 26, 2004.
This year’Äôs Feast will again bring more than 1 million people to the streets of Little Italy in the annual salute to the Patron Saint of Naples. The street festivities ’Äì including parades, entertainment, food stands and a cannoli-eating contest ’Äì are capped on September 19th with a celebratory Mass and candlelit procession as the Statue of the Saint is carried from its permanent home in Most Precious Blood Church on Mulberry Street.
To give you a jump start on the weekends (and because you need to RSVP for this one), tomorrow night, The Fall Collection is making another valient attempt to save LES nightlife with, what else, but drinking, partying, short films, and play. Their launch party is this Friday at Pianos and will have some free booze and some LES saviors talking about the current state of flannel revival and the importance of a good cardigan. Great way to start your evening though.
Dispite the planned hurricane conditions, there are still great things to do both indoors and out this weekend. The Brewster project, now the Peakskill Project, is this weekend and allows for an amazing getaway from NYC to take in some good art. If you are staying local, be shore to check out Julianne Swartz opening tonight as she blew us away in the Whitney Biennial. Then, of course, there is the Staten Idol contest on Sunday... not to be missed. Have a good one.
FRIDAY
Julianne Swartz Speculative Mechanics * persistent optimism opening
Josee Bienvenu Gallery is pleased to present Speculative Mechanics* persistent optimism, Julianne Swartz’Äôs first solo exhibition. Julianne Swartz is known for her sculptural installations that subvert traditional social conceptions of space.
Her invasion of the six floor museum staircase for the 2004 Whitney Biennial was received to wide acclaim: ’ÄúBest Sound sculpture, Site Specific Installation, and Most promising Emerging Artist: Julianne Swartz’Äôs stairwell sound-piece uses plastic tubing to disperse various versions of ’ÄòSomewhere Over the Rainbow’Äô’ĶSound becomes water, electricity, blood.’Äù (John Perreault, Arts Journal)
Her work gently twists the power dynamics in place by activating transitional spaces rendered invisible by their function, and entangling the viewer physically and perceptually. In ’ÄùCan You Hear Me?’Äù, commissioned this summer by the New Museum of Contemporary Art, she built a bright yellow conduit of plastic pipe that scaled the exterior of the building that houses Sunshine Hotel, one of the last flophouses on the Bowery. This low-tech periscope-phone enabled passers-by to engage in intimate conversation with the hotel residents.
The exhibition consists of eight new works. Three sculptural installations portray a precarious technology. Un-Time Structure, suggests a huge clock or sundial but instead of telling time, morphs and dissolves it. Excavation is a spindly tube system (a fiber optic ’Äútelephone’Äù line) that winds through the entire gallery in order to transmit a miniscule miracle. through Oct. 23rd
6 - 8PM
529 West 20th Street (between 10th & 11th Avenues)
FREE
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7-10PM
GV/AS (140 Franklin Street at Greenpoint Ave)
FREE
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Rider Project 2004: CELL; A Mobile Exhibition - Opening Reception
RIDER Project 2004, a traveling gallery in the back of a moving truck, presents CELL, an exhibition of 18 emerging NYC artists, opening September 17, 2004. The RIDER Project brings contemporary art to diverse communities throughout New York City. A collaborative experiment created by artists, the RIDER Project is a do-it-yourself alternative to the traditional gallery. The RIDER Project parks on busy city streets, inviting viewers to enter the truck, view contemporary art, and interact with participating artists.
CELL is a mobile exhibition exploring the theme of cells and is the RIDER Project's second group show. The RIDER Project's first exhibition in 2003, entitled ch-ch-changes, traveled through Williamsburg, the East Village and Chelsea, and was positively received by hundreds of New Yorkers. Through Sept 25th
5 - 10PM
Bedford Ave & North 9th
FREE
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OKTOBERFEST
German-Americans get together to celebrate heritage and drink German beer.
1-9 pm
South Street Seaport South and Fulton St.
646.536.5748
free
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Halcyon Dumbo Opening
While design-record-coffeeshop Halcyon's salad days in Carroll Gardens may be over, the casual-chic boutique has thankfully reopened adjacent to the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage. This time around, though, the interior design is its own objet d'art; the new "Outside-In" shop brings nature straight into a weathered brick, industrial-style space, creating a trippy bastion of faux-greenery (think tree-bark walls and grassy carpet) with Halcyon's signature booming sound system hiding behind the potted plants. Discover your favorite new hangout at tonight's opening party, which features a tag-team set from Alexi Delano and Darshan Jesrani, a live synth-pop performance from Levon Vincent and vocalist Jessica Elle, along with free beer, voter registration, and loads of goodies.
6-10PM
Halcyon (57 Pearl Street)
FREE
09.21: Tomorrow - Manhattan Remixed at The Frying Pan
Quickly filling in my slot as Favorite Party of The Week (at least, besides the BPM ˆºber-rave after this) is Spiewak's Manhattan Remixed event. In a rare, live audio/video performance, Ben Stokes and Jack Dangers, better know collectively as TINO CORP take on the theme of New York City in a multi-sensory onslaught with the Hudson River as a backdrop. Not to be missed.
8PM
Pier 63 on the Hudson (18th St. & the Hudson River... next to the Frying Pan)
Free with RSVP
09.22 - Wed: John Stewart Book Signing
Jon Stewart rose to fame with a tongue-in-cheek look at the news on his cable-TV show, and he wound up with a Peabody Award. Now, he and his writers have collaborated on another witty look at politics and government in The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents: America (The Book) (available 9/20). Stop by when Stewart is on hand to sign copies of this look at "democracy inaction."
Media, Media On The Wall, Who Is The Coolest Ad of Them All
While I'm not a big believer in turning everything into commercial space and using any means to entice people to buy a product, there is something to be said for really good and creative advertising (come on who didn't love that Nutrigrain "I feel great!" commercial from Turnpike Films? ) Anyway, this week is apparently Advertising Week in NYC. For the week, "Advertising is stepping onto the center stage in the media capital of the world for an unprecedented celebration of creativity and the extraordinary contributions advertising has made to popular culture." While we can debate these "extraordinary contributions," it may be worth checking out some of the free exhibits around town. There will be a free, public exhibit on display all week long in Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central from 7am to 7pm. There will also be events in Time Square and at the Museum of Television and Radio. Here is a full list and calendar of all events. Additionally, Yahoo.com is hosting a public vote on the best print and broadcast ads of all time.
Vanderbilt Hall, Grand Central
September 20th - 24th, 7am-7pm
FREE!
Tonight stop by Barnes and Noble on Union Square for a book signing and discussion with Art Spiegelman. The renound author and illustrator just published a new book based around the events of and post 9/11. This is his first book of comics since his Pulitzer Prize winning Maus. Try and show up early as I'm sure it will be packed.
WEEKEND WRAP-UP: 09.24 - 09.26 All of you are clearly not as hung over as I am from Spiewak's throw down last night so I'll make this quick for my sake. San Gennero is wrapping up with week so make sure you grab one last sausage and peppers before you its too late. Also, happy Pagan Pride Day to one and all. Go pick an apple.
FRIDAY
ART + COMMERCE 2004 FESTIVAL OF EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHERS
The festival seeks to encourage the recognition of the diverse and unpredictable community of photographer throughout the tri-state state area whose work has not yet been appreciated by traditional print and exhibition venues. The Festival will unite the photography community by opening itself to all forms of photography and will provide a forum for the discussion and discovery of new artists.
10AM - 7PM
The Tobacco Warehouse at Empire Fulton Ferry State Park (Dock and Water Streets), DUMBO
FREE
------ COMPACT IMPACT NIGHT OPENING
Compact-Impact Night is a new media and design exhibition that promotes the latest ideas and creations in technology and places them in the Japanese design and technology store Compact-Impact for public view. The idea is to encourage new media artists, designers and technologists to create works beyond the prototyping phase and to give them an outlet for presenting their works to the public; be it art, installation, interior design, product design, space design, web, toys, video manipulation, games, or music.
Compact-Impact has had a technology and design presence in New York for over three years. In hosting Compact-Impact Night, the retail store is helping to bridge the gap between concept and production by allowing new ideas to be displayed in a retail environment.With the help of Compact Impact's owners, the selected new media artists of CIN take over the Compact Impact store, turning it into an event that allows the public to view the latest in new media creations.Compact-Impact Night gives new media designers a public outlet as well as promotes the production of innovative retail products
6PM - 11PM
Compact Impact, 21 Avenue B
FREE
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I have scoured up and down to find something fun and exciting to do today. The best I have come up with is going to see Howard Dean at Barnes and Noble on Union Square. My advice, go sit in the park and enjoy one of the last days of summer time weather. Have no fear though, Tuesday is trying hard to make up for Monday's slacking.
Tuesday Talib will be doing a free in store performance at Virgin Megastore on 14th St. for his album, The Beautiful Struggle, which comes out tomorrow morning. Now if you've ever been to an in store performance at Virgin you know that place can get packed. I recommend you get there early. Or if you are actually going to purchase the new album, if you buy it at Virgin you will get a free pass to the show.
THIS WEEK FEATURING: James Tully's Kung Fu Tea Ceremony & ritual chair-breaking hourly. Also: Short art films, music videos by Matthew Barney, Bill Viola, Richard Kern
(Two for One Happy Hour till 8pm, $5 martinis for ladies all nite)
(Comlimentary Kung Fu Tea)
6-10PM
Fuzion Asian Lounge (211 Ave. A @ 13th St)
FREE???
212-254-5525 www.jamestully.com
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In an ever-increasingly fast paced world artist Justine Reyes, Kim el Badawi, and poet Zohra Saed have commonly travelled around the world, speak several dozen languages, came from strong cultural backgrounds, and yet still they search within their own skin to feel at home. In this highly provocative and personal account these artists examine identity, sexuality, and reason.
Eight 30’Äùx40’Äù color photographs from Mask Series by New York artist Justine Reyes. Fetish, fashion and fear intersect in these images of the artist wearing masks that she has created out of pantyhose. Each mask has a distinct identity that is taken on by the artist. These photographs create a push and pull between seduction and repulsion by moving through images that are overtly sexual to others that are more ambiguous and still others that are terrifying and grotesque. Mask Series explores both the empowerment and the vulnerability of masking one’Äôs identity through the use of the seduction and fear that the mask creates.
Photographer Kim el Badawi’Äôs "Stoned" series can also be viewed as a open ended search for a new more encompassing cultural identity. To become both the performer and the observer within a specific spacial and temporal dimension. An idea to ’Äúuse’Äù stereotypical multi ethnic physical attributes of himself and the specificity of a given location to investigate the reaction of unsuspecting viewers. In "Stoned" the artist appears covered by a pile of stones, seemly unconscious, will those who pass him by stop... will they offer a lending hand; or will they continue on easily shaking the image of a fallen man. "Stoned" was recorded on New York City streets in 2002. It is printed in stark black and white and suspended above a pile of rubble against the gallery windows.
Em & Lo, authors of "The Big Bang" (which Time magazine called "this generation's smarter, funnier and raunchier version of The Joy of Sex"), are bringing you a new show, "Sex Ed for Grownups." This hour-long (hopefully hilarious) show is presented by NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation and is making its debut at the Bowery Poetry Club this Wednesday at 8pm.
"Sex Ed for Grown Ups" will redefine the term "reproductive rights" to encompass all of the most important personal issues facing women and men today -- from abstinence-only education to pro-choice activism, from safer sex to the Supreme Court, from gay rights to the radical right. Skits, footage of impertinent on-the-street interviews, a music video starring God's Pottery, audience participation, live Q&As and prizes!
8PM (door 7PM)
Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery Street)
FREE
The Big Apple Fest actually started in mid-August (ok, ok, we're totally late on this one) and runs through mid-October. This 2 month special public art project is made up of 300 apples each designed by a different artist and on display in different locations throughout the city. At the end of this exhibition each of the Big Apples will be auctioned off by Sotheby's and will benefit City Harvest, NYC & Company Foundation and Police Athletic League.
Just 2 quick events to talk about for the weekend so that you can get your plan on. The first is Vintage at the Cellar Bar. While we are usually adverse to any place that serves a $7 bottle of budweiser, people who love the swank rave of the beautiful women and great soundsystem here. This week you get the please to check out NYC's own John Creamer and Stephan K in a tag team set to help your work out your work week woes (say that 5 times fast) while putting up with $7 beers to oogle the beautiful women.
If your at all like me, you have probably been counting down the days 'til its time layer up, strap back on the old snowboard and head for mountain. Robotfood is here to get you all amped for the upcoming season. Tonight is the NYC premier of their latest snowboarding video Afterflame. Admission will be $5, but you get a ticket for one of 6 season passes being raffled off for NJ's finest mountain, Mountain Creek. There will be Red Stripe specials all night long, and DJ Kid Capri will be spinning post video.
Spirt, 530 W 27th
Doors @ 7:30, Raffle @8:45, Video @ 9:00, DJ @ 10:00
$5
