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Your cultural event guide
Here's a snapshot of our favorite things to do in New York this week. |
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One thing I will always love about New Yorkers is their seemingly innate sense of irony. (Gawker may have illuminated this most poignantly, with its 123 Reasons to Love New York, from way back in 2005.) But sometimes, we all need a little kick in our blasé asses, literally and emphatically. This weekend, the cowboys take us to task at the Professional Bull Riding Invitational, which is bucking into MSG starting Friday. Here is a "sport" best enjoyed most unironically (but not, it should be noted, soberly), as you watch real dudes wearing real, fringed leather chaps holding on for dear life — and points! Ironic is getting tipsy and then imitating sorority girls riding the mechanical bull at Johnny Utah's — basically, the "New York City?" refrain of those vintage Pace salsa ads; it's high time we kick it up a notch or four, and embrace the sincere and picante side of life.
- Leah Taylor, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Interview: Perez Hilton
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Like his beloved pop-culture icons, Perez Hilton is divisive. But unlike other celebrity-gossip bloggers, he has staying power. Flavorwire interviews the "queen of mean" (who's actually frighteningly nice) about his new book, Red Carpet Suicide, his plans for a new website, and the thrill of taking his first real vacation in years. Read more »
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Ry Russo-Young
The young director on the Virgins, Patti Smith, and capturing the modern nihilist.
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Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion marks the moment when the act emerges as its own unique entity.
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FILM
24 Hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and Fro
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Tuesday Jan 6 (10am)
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Guggenheim Museum (1071 5th Ave, 212.423.3500)
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Back in the '80s, there were those lamentable Psycho sequels in which Anthony Perkins milked Norman Bates' dementia. Then, in 1998, came Gus van Sant's why-bother remake, which essentially ran the original through a color copier. But between the inferior spin-offs, Scottish artist Douglas Gordon masterfully transfigured Alfred Hitchcock's notorious classic into a heady, all-day endeavor with 24 Hour Psycho. In his conceptual screed, Gordon elongates — and, on one side of the split-screened presentation, reverses — Hitch's scenes to probe the time-tied relationship between memory and the image. Seen again at about 1/13 its recollected speed, Janet Leigh's iconic shower regains its white-knuckle shock factor.
- Jason Jude Chan
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The film starts at 10am, but the museum will remain open at night to complete its 24-hour cycle.
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FILM: Shorts
PopRally presents Silent But Deadly: An Evening of Comedy Shorts
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Tuesday Jan 6 (7–10:30pm)
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MoMA (11 W 53rd St, 212.708.9400)
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PopRally kicks off the new year with a program of silent and not-so-silent comedic shorts. MoMA's assistant film curator Ron Magliozzi and his colleagues have selected slapstick shorts from the silent era that explore then-hot-button issues with impertinence, and pair them with video responses from contemporary comedians, including Fred Armisen. Max Silvestri (of the Big Terrific comedy show) hosts the evening. As with all PopRally events, an open-bar reception bookends the program.
- Chris Kompanek
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PERFORMING ARTS: Festival
Under the Radar Festival
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Wednesday Jan 7
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In his fifth year of producing the Under the Radar Festival, downtown legend — and former artistic director of avant-performance space P.S. 122 — Mark Russell continues to gather new works from near (like Mabou Mines in the East Village and local performance artist/comic Reggie Watts) and far (such as Korea's Sadari Movement Laboratory). The fest's mission is to ensure that daring theatre gets its rightful place onstage, and the result is a 12-day, full-on, cost-friendly viewing spree that radiates from its Public Theatre nucleus out through Manhattan.
- Maura Hogan
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READING
Happy Ending Music & Reading Series feat. Richard Price and Matthew Caws
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Wednesday Jan 7 (7pm)
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Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St, 212.539.8500)
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Amanda Stern's long-running and acclaimed reading/music series makes its debut at Joe's Pub tonight. The Happy Endings might have moved north of their former-brothel digs in Chinatown, but the evening should be just as saucy and rambunctious as ever, with contributions from the king of LES skeeze, Lush Life's Richard Price, and Nada Surf's Matthew Caws. Price is required (as all series readers are) to take one "public risk" over the course of the night, while Caws must bolster his two sets of original tunes with an audience-involving cover tune of his choice.
- Leah Taylor
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Flavorpill is a proud media sponsor of the Happy Ending series.
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FILM: Documentary
Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund presents Docs on the Shortlist
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Thursday Jan 8 (6 & 8pm)
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Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick St, 212.941.2000)
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Before nominees become lapidary, Tribeca slates a two-day program off the Academy's shortlist for Best Feature Documentary. The honorary roll call: Man on Wire, the titular monsieur being Philippe Petit, who crossed between World Trade Towers 1,350 feet above other pedestrians; They Killed Sister Dorothy, which investigates the current, cutthroat Amazon; Pray the Devil Back to Hell, the acclaimed spotlight on the stouthearted women who helped elect Africa's first female head of state; The Garden, a telltale look into the tussle for an inner-city community farm in Los Angeles; At the Death House Door, which examines the uneasy charge of ministering to the to-be-executed; and I.O.U.S.A., a dollars-and-common-sense profile of our fearsome national debt.
- Jason Jude Chan
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Filmmakers are present at each screening and partake in a Q&A with an Oscar-nominated filmmaker like Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Marshall Curry, or last year's winner, Alex Gibney.
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PERFORMING ARTS: Dance
Cedar Lake Winter Season
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Thursday Jan 8 (8pm)
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Cedar Lake Theater (547 W 26th St)
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Cedar Lake's Winter Season features two world premieres from established European choreographers Didy Veldman and Luca Veggetti. In Veldman's frame of view, her first piece with an American company, dancers glide around and through three free-standing doors, slamming them occasionally to great effect and highlighting our behavioral differences in public and private spaces. Frame of view also explores the mercurial nature of truth and how it often changes as our perspective evolves, but such heady endeavors are balanced with scenes of ironic humor. Meanwhile, Veggetti's memory/measure, set to text inspired by Ingmar Bergman, explores space and ritual in a search for elusive perfection.
- Chris Kompanek
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There's no performance on Tuesday, January 13.
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ART
Stephen Sprouse: Rock on Mars
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Friday Jan 9 (noon–6pm)
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Deitch Projects (18 Wooster St, 212.343.7300)
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Giving a proper showcase to the late Stephen Sprouse's full range of artistic influence, Rock on Mars is both a retrospective and a time-capsule of the '80s downtown scene. Early sketches, personal Polaroids, outfits, and canvases pulled from the Sprouse family archives shed light on the artist's punk-rock-meets-Wild Style roots. A portrait of a crucified Iggy Pop holds court with images of custom-made outfits for Debbie Harry, and 50 of Sprouse's most influential designs hang at attention while a selection of video installations from runway shows plays. Sprouse's famous collaboration with fashion powerhouse Louis Vuitton has also been resurrected this season, in honor of his undeniable art-star influence.
- Regina Bresler
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PERFORMING ARTS: Comedy
Aziz Ansari: The Glow in the Dark Tour
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Friday Jan 9 (8 & 10:30pm)
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Comix (353 W 14th St, 212.524.2500)
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He may not have the swagger of Kanye, but comedian Aziz Ansari definitely one-ups the rapper on rollerblading skills. Mounting his very own Glow in the Dark Tour, the NYC-to-LA (New York's still kinda bitter, dude) comic regales audiences coast-to-coast with the standup and sketches he's honed at UCB, Flight of the Conchords, and on his own MTV show Human Giant (with cohorts Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer). Expect illustrious guests, indie-rocker jabs, absurdist humor, and at least one stoner joke.
- Leah Taylor
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MORE FLAVOR: Sports
Winter Hike and Snow Tubing
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Saturday Jan 10 (9am–6pm)
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Sterling Forest
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Our winter months are glacial in every sense of the word: they are four-letter-word-shouting cold and pass unbearably slowly. But rather than allowing you to settle into the usual seasonal apathy, the pro-action folks at Urban Escapes present an existential alternative: to tube or not to tube? That means snow tubing, of course, the exhilarating highlight of a get-up-get-down day in the Sterling Forest. First up is a four-mile hike through the scenic New York-New Jersey Highlands; then, the evocative pastime of hurtling down snowy hills willy-nilly on a rubber ring. Besides the imperative safety pointers, hot chocolate and other treats are provided.
- Jason Jude Chan
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Make sure you make a reservation and buy your tix beforehand; then meet on the corner of 96th St and Broadway at 9am for chartered-bus pick-up.
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MUSIC: Jazz/Blues
2009 Winter Jazzfest
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Saturday Jan 10 (6pm)
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Jazzbos frustrated with short sets and expensive drinks can take solace in the Winter Jazzfest. Musicians from New York, New Orleans, Cuba, Chile, and the world over comprise the 22 groups playing for ten straight hours. Staggered set times and the participating clubs' close proximity make venue-hopping easy and minimize downtime for the sonically insatiable. Highlights of this year's particularly diverse lineup include Robert Glasper, an experimental pianist who's equally comfortable playing with his trio or the Roots, and nu-jazz drummer Will Calhoun, who's played with everyone from Paul Simon to Lauryn Hill. Hit Sullivan Hall early for Theo Bleckmann's unusual take on scat singing.
- Chris Kompanek
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MUSIC: Global
globalFEST 2009 feat. Calypso Rose, Tanya Tagaq, and Watcha Clan
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Sunday Jan 11 (7pm)
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Webster Hall (125 E 11th St, 212.353.1600)
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Go ahead and leave the passport at home tonight — for the sixth year, globalFEST brings the world to NYC. Bands from Trinidad, Brazil, India, Iran, France, and beyond hit Webster Hall tonight. Inuit singer Tanya Tagaq's trippy throat-singing has already caught Björk's attention, and her duet with the avant-pop ice queen, "Ancestors," is available on iTunes. Calypso Rose, a Caribbean native known locally for her hundreds of songs, finally gets her due tonight with a headlining spot. Femi Kuti has had to pull out of the show (and indeed postpone his tour) due to illness, but don't miss French tribal electronica quartet Watcha Clan, who close out the evening.
- Chris Kompanek
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PERFORMING ARTS: Puppetry
Food Party: Episode 4
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Sunday Jan 11 (7:30 & 10pm)
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Monkey Town (58 N 3rd St, Wburg, 718.384.1369)
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Thu Tran's Food Party is kind of like if Of Montreal and Dan Deacon got together to create a cooking show. Or, if the puppets on Sesame Street decided to take a bunch of acid and mess about in the kitchen. Regardless, it's a sweet and trippy little interlude in a fantastical, Technicolor house made of chocolate. Less a learning experience (egg nog doesn't really come from a magical chicken with udders) than a psychedelic and charming one, Food Party is a perfect mashup of childlike imagination and adult proclivities. Episode 4 premieres tonight at Monkey Town — look for the show to take a more dramatic turn, plus a guest voice-over by Andrew W.K.
- Leah Taylor
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Reservations are recommended. There's a $10 food/drink minimum.
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MUSIC: Global
Mamadou Diabaté w/ 17 Hippies and Vagabond Opera
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Monday Jan 12 (7pm)
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Highline Ballroom (431 W 16th St, 212.414.5994)
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Following in the footsteps of his father, Djelimory, Mamadou Diabaté first picked up the kora — a West African 21-string lute — at a young age, and has since gone on to global acclaim. Since relocating to the US, Diabaté has released three solo albums and brought a traditional African influence to collaborations with jazz musicians Randy Weston and Donald Byrd and blues guitarists Eric Bibb and Guy Davis. At tonight's show, Diabaté showcases his virtuosic kora abilities, while openers 17 Hippies bring genre-bending pop from Berlin.
- Axel Anderson
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Unfortunately, Mamadou Diabaté has pulled out of this show. But 17 Hippies are still slated to perform, along with a slate of similarly global acts.
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PERFORMING ARTS: Theatre
The Crumb Trail
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Wednesday Jan 7 (6:30pm)
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P.S. 122 (150 1st Ave, 212.352.3101)
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On the heels of a much-lauded New York debut last year (who knew Greek tragedy was such good fun?), Ireland's Pan Pan theatre group is back in town for the Under the Radar Festival, once again amplifying an age-old narrative with rock chords, contemporary conundrums, and terrific wit. In The Crumb Trail, playwright Gina Moxley serves up a sly take on the Hansel & Gretel fairy tale in an installation/performance piece about being lost and disconnected — while managing to work in YouTube phenomena like the Star Wars kid. Director Gavin Quinn and designer Aedin Cosgrove (the company's principals) guide the cast of Dublin A-listers.
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ART
Closed Caption Comics: Adolescent Rage
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Friday Jan 9 (7–10pm)
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Cinders (103 Havemeyer St, 718.388.2311)
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The products of Baltimore collective Closed Caption Comics include varied narrative, tactile, and visual experiences — from psychedelic vignettes inspired by black metal's in-your-face explosions to three-dimensional pop-up art books and crisp, line-driven renderings on par with those by 1950s Marvel penciler Jack Katz. Beginning with loosely curated illustrations for DIY, Xeroxed zines produced by the students of the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2004, Closed Caption has since morphed its production into beautifully screenprinted and hand-bound books. Influences stem from loves of anime, fantasy storytelling, and Boglin hand-puppets; viewing the works at this exhibition reveals the kaleidoscopic styles and multifaceted talents of each artist.
- Jen Ng
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Cultural Partner
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Editors
MANAGING EDITOR
Leah Taylor
SENIOR EDITORS
Jake Lancaster
Doug Levy
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Jason Jude Chan
Stephan Paschalides
Andrew Phillips
Lisa Rosman
IMAGE EDITORS
Tom Starkweather
PUBLISHERS
Sascha Lewis
Mark Mangan
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