LOCAL STAGE 1/24/07
Absolute Clarity
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Jonathan Slaff by Sophia Romma, directed by Yuri Joffe - a noted, Stanislavski prize-winning director from Moscow's Mayakovsky Academic Theater - will be presented by ArtVoice and Cinema Anastasia as an Off-Broadway production at the Players Theater, 115 MacDougal Street, January 31 to February 25...
STAGE INSECTS 1/22/07
The Butterfly Within Tonight at Makor
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Tibi Z. Singer
The Butterfly Within is a new play by Thomas M. Kelly. It is a story about the changes that have occurred in the neighborhood and culture of Manhattan's Lower East Side, as seen through the interaction of a young Asian woman and an elderly Jewish man. Staged reading Monday, January 22 at 7 PM at Makor, 35 W. 67th Street...
READERS OF THE LOST ART 1/17/07
An evening with Stefan Kanfer
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Tibi Z. Singer
New York Book Club and Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy invite you to an evening with Stefan Kanfer, author of Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of the Yiddish Theater in America. Thursday, January 18th at 6 PM...
FESTIVAL 1/16/07
The Fall Collection Artist Development Forum at the Edgie Jan 27
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Tibi Z. Singer
A free two-hour session with the producers & curators of The Fall Collection providing information to film, music and theater artists on how to get involved in this November's biggest multi-media festival. The Fall Collection Festival will be held this October 27th thru November 17th at the Abrons Art Center in a beautiful 350 seat theater...
WINTER SHOWS 1/16/07
Abrons' Winter 2007 Calendar of Events
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Don Cruise
The Abrons Arts Center heats up the Lower East Side this winter with an unparalleled season of spectacular, prize-winning performances...
COMEDY 1/15/07
The Dark Life
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Jonathan Slaff
There are places that really bring out the movie in you, and one is the Blue Heron, a tropical-style lounge on the top floor of the tallest building in a small mid-American city. It's the setting for La Vie Noir, the latest comedy by Jim Neu, in which a group of star-crossed strangers become trapped in a Noir world of lonely streetlights, smart talk, killer shadows and wet footsteps...
RESTORATIONS 1/14/07
A Peek Inside the Old Eldridge
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Yori Yanover
Took the tour at the Eldridge Street Synagogue this morning. For $5 we got an incredible view of a hundred and twenty years of history of a congregation begun 1n 1886. The architects, Herter Brothers, used a combination (Okay, mish-mash) of Gothic, Romanesque, and Moorish styles, complete with bizarre minaret towers. The sum total is, nevertheless, graceful...
BOOKS 1/12/07
Reading in Lower East Sideistan
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Pat Arnow
On Wednesday evening novelists Gary Shteyngart and Sigrid Nunez read from their books and answered questions in the visitors' center and shop with the standing-room-only crowd piled in around the counters and shelves...
GALLERY 1/11/07
24 Muslim Artists at Abrons Arts Center
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Julie Muller Stahl
24 Muslim artists will uncover their personal insights, beliefs, politics, and methods of defining their individual’s cultural and religious stance within a secular environment at the Abrons Arts Center from January 16 through March 16...
NEW-MOON YOGA 1/10/07
Rosh Chodesh Drasha Internalized Through Yoga Inspired Movement
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Chava Gottlieb
We will discuss the month of Shevat, its basic as well as mystical meaning, and experience its essence through connecting with our own bodies, awakening
them out of winter hibernation through intentional movement.
WEEKLONG MUSIC & DANCING 1/10/07
Vision Dance Music Series, Jan. 16-21
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Don Cruise
A six day festival featuring the finest avant-garde dancers collaborating with stars of the New York avantJazz scene, including Kioka Qxi, Loren Dempster, Sally Silvers, Lewis Barnes, Cooper Moore, Baraka de Soleil, Kazuko Miyamoto, Patricia Nicholson, Ned Rothenburg, Julia Wilkins. Each evening concludes with a musical set featuring great Visionary musicians and this week particularly features Joe McPhee in various settings. Tue Jan 16 - Sun Jan 21, La Tea at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor. $20 per night, $10 students and seniors, 3 nights for $40, Tel. 212.696.6681
HOT JAZZ 1/09/07
Han Bennink and Friends at Tonic, 1/9 & 1/10
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Don Cruise
Drummer and multi-instrumentalist Han Bennink is one of the unfortunately rare musicians whose abilities and interests span the music's entire spectrum, from Dixieland to Free. His straight-ahead playing is absolutely convincing — his time is solid, his sense of swing strong, and his technique flawless. Tue 1.9 & Wed 1.10, 8 PM, Tonic, 107 Norfolk St, 212.358.7501, $15 / $12 advance...
SPORTS 1/09/07
Pillow Fight League
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Don Cruise
Founded in Canada in 2004, the PFL numbers 22 female fighters, all hell-bent on fluffy pugilism. The rules are UFC-like in their brutal simplicity: most anything goes, as long as the pillow is used at the point of contact. Fri Jan 19 at Galapagos Art Space/Bar, 70 N 6th St, between Kent and Wythe, Williamsburg. $15 at SmartTix.com
REVERED & REVILED BIRD 1/08/07
The Book on Pigeons
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Pat Arnow
I hate pigeons. Except for one. It was a homing pigeon who got lost and landed on my balcony. Out on the street, I want to scream at the little old people who throw seed and bread for the pigeons to stop feeding the little poop factories. Into such a swirl of inchoate love, interest, and irritation, a friend dropped a copy of a new book, Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird by Andrew Blechman...
FAT TUESDAY 1/08/07
Henry Street Settlement Mardi Gras Masquerade
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Don Cruise
Cocktails & Hors d'oeuvres, Casino, Dancing & Fabulous Prizes, Midnight parade by the Krewe d'Henri, Saturday, March 10, Prince George Ballroom, 15 E. 27th Street...
ELDRIDGE POLES 1/05/07
'70s Polish Socialist Conceptualism
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Aukasz Ronduda
Polish Socialist Conceptualism of the 70s presents a selection of films and documentations of actions, performances and conceptual gestures, most of them unknown, forgotten or excluded from art historical discourse in Poland...
BOWERY BALLROOM 1/05/07
Man Man, Mixel Pixel and Plastic Little
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Bowery Ballroom
Man Man's recorded output may challenge those without a clear appreciation for Waits and Beefheart, but the Philly quintet's live show is instantly enjoyable — a raucous, theatrical outburst that's equal parts bravado and dementia. Fri 1.5, 10 PM, Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St, 212.533.2111...
SYNAGOGUE ART 1/03/07
Janina Project: Celestial Structures
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Nikia Redhead
Invited by Museum Director Marcia Haddad Ikonomopoulos, Judy Moonelis’s work brings a contemporary perspective to Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue and Museum, public attention to its needs and the importance of its continued existence in the community...
IMPORTED HATE 1/01/07
What Turned Sayyid Qutb Against America?
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Don Cruise
Fully a fourth of the 8 million New Yorkers were Jewish, many of whom had fled the latest European catastrophe. Hebrew letters covered the signs for the shops and factories on the Lower East Side, and Yiddish was commonly heard on the streets. That would have been a challenge for the middle-aged Egyptian who hated the Jews but, until he left his country, had never met one...
LOCAL GREEKS 1/01/07
Seamus Heaney's New Translation of Sophocles' Antigone
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Jonathan Slaff
The new translation of Sophocles' Antigone by Nobel Prize winning Irish Poet Seamus Heaney, written in 2004, was celebrated when released but is still unfamiliar to most American audiences. It will be directed at La MaMa by American director Alexander Harrington, founder of The Eleventh Hour Theater Company and son of the late Michael Harrington...
