| Ten From TWI-NY: 5-30-07 |
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 TEN FROM TWI-NY: THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK For a great selection of recommended events in New York, check out Mark Rifkin's picks below, and then head over to www.twi-ny.com for more... IDENTITY: 10TH ANNUAL BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Cobble Hill Cinema unless otherwise noted 265 Court St. June 2-10 Full Festival Pass: $100; 4 Pack Pass: $25 Individual tickets: $10 718-388-4306 brooklynfest.org kidsfilmfest.org  Per Anderson’s Stanley Cuba screens June 2nd & 9th. While the main headquarters for the screenings is the Cobble Hill Cinema on Court St., BIFF is also holding the third annual KidsFilmFest at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum on Brooklyn Ave. Below are only some of the screenings; to see more, visit twi-ny.com. Friday, June 1 Opening night screening and party, featuring opening ceremony at 7:30 pm, shorts at 8 pm, Made in Brooklyn (Alosio, Angela, Mazzola, Tabb, Palanca, 2007) at 9 pm, and party at 11 pm, Steiner Studios, Brooklyn Navy Yard, $25 Saturday, June 2 Audio Addiction (Jasmin Jodry & Mo Stoebe, 2006), Gotye--Hearts a Mess (Brendan Cook, 2007), and Hip Hop Diaries (Carlo Lavagna, 2007), 3:30 pm Sunday, June 3 and Sunday, June 9 Third annual KidsFilmFest, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Ave., 1 pm & 3 pm Monday, June 4 Even in Dreams (Alice Taylor, 2007) and Amour Fou (Felicitas Korn, 2007), 9:30 pm Tuesday, June 5 What If Spring Does Not Come? (Alireza Darvish, 2007) and Arranged (Stefan Schaefer & Diane Crespo, 2007), 8:30 pm Wednesday, June 6 Cover Boy…Last Revolution (Cover Boy...L’ultima Rivoluzione) (Carmine Amoroso, 2007), Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry St., 8 pm Thursday, June 7 Matopos (Stéphanie Machuret, 2007), Mirage (Youngwoong Jang, 2007), Golden Age (Aaron Augenblick, 2007), and The Willowz: We Live on Your Street (Michael Sládek, 2007), Galapagos Art Space, 70 North Sixth St., 7:30 pm Friday, June 8 The White Wolf (Le Loup /Blanc) (Pierre-Luc Granjon, 2007) and Nicky’s Birthday Camera (Andrew J. Traister, 2007), 6 pm Sunday, June 10 Children of the War (Hijos De La Guerra) (Alexandre Fuchs, 2007), 2 pm --RAD BONES: NEW WORKS BY KEITH SHORE & JESSE LeDOUX Giant Robot 437 East Ninth St. between First Ave. & Ave. A Through June 20 Admission: free 212-674-4769 grny.net  Keith Shore’s “Bearded Portraitsâ€? form a flag at Giant Robot. He also has a thing for bees. Shore likes to draw shadowy hockey players and oddball men in beards (which is a good match for LeDoux’s many dudes in funny mustaches). There’s a mini-revolution going on at Giant Robot, where young people pack the place for openings, scouring the walls for affordable art; most of the pieces in “Rad Bones” are available for $100-$125. And as an extra treat, award-winning actor Alan Cumming was spotted at the May 19 th opening. Be sure to get on Giant Robot’s mailing list so you know just when the next opening is—and get there early, or else your favorite piece might already be gone. --LOVE CAMP 7: SOMETIMES, ALWAYS, NEVER The Parkside Lounge 317 East Houston St. between Aves. B & C Saturday, June 2, 10:00 Admission: $5 212-673-6270 parksidelounge.com lovecamp7.com myspace.com/lovecamp7  Named after a cheesy 1969 women-in-a-Nazi-prison flick, New York-based Love Camp 7 makes jangly ’60s-era feel-good pop, albeit with a surprisingly subtle—and sometimes not so subtle—political edge. Their latest disc, "Sometimes, Always, Never," contains, in their own words, “13 pieces of perfectly ripened fruit, lovingly cultivated in a small Brooklyn garden,” and that’s an apt description for this infectious collection of songs by guitarists Dann Baker and Steve Antonakos, bass player Bruce Hathaway, and drummer Dave Campbell.The record opens with “Connecticut,” a love song to the Nutmeg State, of all places, in which Baker sings, “Don’t tell me that nothing ever happens in Connecticut / It may be pathetic, but this is where it all began for me.” Great guitar lines drive “Naming Names,” in which Baker names those who named names in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Much of Sometimes, Always, Never is about name-dropping, calling out both real and fictional characters, set to sounds that echo the Searchers, the Beatles, and the Mersey beat; among those who make appearances in the lyrics are Elton Brand, Madeline Albright, Barbara Lee, Jon Strange, Phil Schaap, Adolphe Menjou (!), Lee J. Cobb, Elia Kazan, Lloyd Bridges, and Ronald Reagan. The motley group of oddballs also includes Little Mr. Elephant, Harvey Weinberg (complete with Summer of Love harmonies), and the “The Queen of Whale Cay,” a countryish tune sung in a British accident (and with Jeremiah Lockwood blowing the shofar). The album ends with “The Seeds,” which features a cool hippie jam and is indeed inspired by the 1960s band of the same name. Love Camp 7 will be celebrating the release of the CD on June 2 at the Parkside Lounge on the Lower East Side. -- Jen Schulte and Joshua Decker rehearse Shakespeare in the park. Central Park West 103rd St. & Central Park West May 31 through June 24 Thursday through Sunday nights at 7:00 Admission: free, but voluntary donations accepted after show 212-252-4531 newyorkclassical.org For its eighth season, New York Classical Theatre, under the direction of Stephen Burdman, will be staging the Bard in Central Park, this time taking on Love’s Labours Lost, beginning inside the park at West 103rd St. and then moving scenes as the audience follows along. This is not the kind of show where you can set up your blanket and have a picnic, because you’ll be on the run every 15 minutes or so. Of course, that is part of the charm, so do bring your walking shoes.
LABAPALOOZA! St. Ann’s Warehouse 38 Water St., Brooklyn May 30 – June 3 Tickets: $20 for one program, $30 for both 718-254-8779 artsatstanns.org/currseas  The Lab at St. Ann’s holds its annual show this week. Among the subjects given the puppet treatment are 1950s suburbia, Sin Eating, elephants, and TV cooking shows, inspired by the likes of Walt Whitman, Bertolt Brecht, and Haruki Murakami. --BUSHWICK OPEN STUDIOS & ARTS FESTIVAL Bushwick, Brooklyn June 1-3 Admission: free artsinbushwick.org/festival_events  The BuWU Collective will show “Snaps from the Great Warâ€? at the Soup Kitchen during open studios weekend. Friday, June 1 Josh McPhee, Eric Reuland, Dark Dark Dark, and Dara Greenwald: book reading and discussion, live music, and short videos, 49 Bogart St., 7 pm-1 am Friday, June 1 Anthony Sneed and the Braves, 255 McKibbin St. #407, 8 pm Friday, June 1 and Saturday, June 2 English Kills Art Gallery, featuring multimedia installations and performances, 12 noon-9 pm Saturday, June 2 Bushwick Art Parade and Public Showcase, starting at McKibbin St. between Bushwick Ave. & White St. and ending at Maria Hernandez Park, where there will be live music and theater, games, art installations, and more, 11:30 am Saturday, June 2 Cut a record with Pass Kontrol, St. Nicholas Studios, 43 St. Nicholas Ave. #3L, 12 noon-7 pm Sunday, June 3 B.O.S. BBQ by Umani: People + Food, Collision Machine, 97 Wyckoff Ave. roof, menu priced TBD, 5-10 pm Sunday, June 3 Jazz pianist and composer Emanuel Ruffler, Rocket, 95 Starr St., 7:30 pm Sunday, June 3 Amnesty International: The Road to Guantanomo (Michael Winterbottom & Mat Whitecross, 2006), OfficeOps, 57 Thames St. roof, 9 pm --EGG ROLLS & EGG CREAMS FESTIVAL  The Eldridge Street ProjectEldridge St. between Canal & Division Sts. Saturday, June 3, 12 noon-4 pm Admission: free 212-219-0888 eldridgestreet.org/eggrolls.htm One of the city’s best street festivals is back, uniting Jewish and Chinese culture that is so intertwined on the Lower East Side. This annual block party features Yiddish and Chinese storytelling, klezmer music, Chinese opera and sword dancing, Jewish folk dancing, scribal art, folk art demos, language lessons, and lots of kosher Chinese food. --TONI McGEE CAUSEY BOOK SIGNING Mara's Homemade 342 East Sixth St. between First & Second Aves. Monday, June 4, 5:30 - 10:00 pm 212-598-1110 marashomemade.com tonimcgeecausey.com  Literary diners can enjoy crawfish and a free book at Mara’s Homemade. Mara’s is home to the event because of the popularity of crawfish at the Contraband Days Festival, held in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and the popularity of Mara’s live select crawfish boil. But you don’t have to get the crawfish—although you’d be silly not to. We also highly recommend the chopped smoked brisket, the St. Louis style ribs, the fried okra, the crab fingers, the crawfish cheese toast, the cranberry chicken, the New Orleans BBQ black peppered shrimp, the jambalaya—heck, it’s hard to go wrong with anything that comes out of Mara’s kitchen. But whatever you do, don’t pass up her signature dessert, the amazing bluegrass pie, a pecan pie with Bourbon and luscious dark chocolate. And if you go on June 4, you get a free signed book to boot.
ANTONIO PETRACCA: POMPEII TAGGED Kim Foster Gallery 529 West 20th St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves., ground floor Closed Sunday & Monday Through June 9 Admission: free 212-229-0044 kimfostergallery.com  Antonio Petracca, “Kiss Me,â€? oil on canvas on wood. In other pieces, such phrases as “Rocky Balboa Was Here,” “Kiss Me I’m Half Siciliano (and Maybe 1/6 Napolitano),” and “Sleep with the Fishe’s” are added to remarkable preserved works that Petracca believes need to be reevaluated for their artistic importance. The show at Kim Foster in Chelsea is supplemented by “Antonio Petracca: Identity Theft” at the Italian American Museum (28 West 44th St., 212-642-2020, italianamericanmuseum.org) through June 16. --LUNAR STAGES Columbus Park Bayard & Mulberry Sts. Admission: free explorechinatown.com/Gui/Content  Zhang Yimou’s gorgeous Curse of the Golden Flower is part of outdoor multimedia festival in Chinatown Thursday, May 31 Pacific Overtures: Na Lehua Melemele (Hawaiian dancers and musicians), followed by Whale Rider (Niki Caro, 2002), 7 pm Thursday, June 7 Distant Kingdoms: Music from China: excerpt from Cantonese opera The Jade Bracelet, followed by Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou, 2006), 7 pm Thursday, June 14 Asian Fusion Invasian: Hua Hua Zhang Visual Expressions, contemporary East/West puppetry, followed by Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004), 7 pm --All contents copyright 2007 by Mark Rifkin and twi-ny. All rights reserved. Contents may not be reprinted without written permission. Please note that events, dates, and prices are subject to change. For more on what’s going on this week in New York, visit twi-ny.com. |
