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A few reasons to go see Jack Ferver’s “Meat,” showing tonight at the Dixon Place, and September 4-6:
1. Ferver, in the flesh:
2. In addition to its more outrageous aspects, “Meat” offers a nuanced and surprisingly universal exploration of sexual desire. It’s worth seeing for the eye-play alone.
3. Ferver can scream like nobody’s business.
4. “Meat” […]

At the Poetry Brothel in Brooklyn, Nicolas Adamski dons an eye patch and becomes Tennessee Pink. He’ll take you into a back room draped with curtains, and share with you one of the most personal things that can be exchanged between two people: poetry. He and Stephanie Berger (The Madame) are the founders […]

This year’s Korean Film Festival is about half way over but there is still time to catch the main attractions. Tonight, at the Korean Society you can hear a discussion with actor Ahn Sung-Ki, who has starred in over a hundred Korean films since starting his career at age five. Last night he spoke to […]

In honor of the art of politics, and the politics of art, and these conventions that we all love to hate but watch anyway, I bring you:
Burning Dems: Fear and ecstasy from Denver to Black Rock City.
This blog (full disclosure, it’s run in part by a friend of mine) has a strange and short life. […]

Last weekend, I had one of those wonderfully strange New York adventures, courtesy of a friend of a friend of a friend who happens to be a pastry chef at one of the city’s elite restaurants. It’s the kind of place I won’t be able to afford to go to until I’m wearing dentures (which, […]

So, a couple of months ago I found myself in a hotel bar in Durham, North Carolina, with Meredith Monk. Really.
I had made the tragic mistake of ordering a margarita (don’t ask) and, seeing that the night wasn’t salvageable, muttered something about going up to my room to drown my sorrows in whichever channel happened […]

Last night in Damrosch Park, the New Jersey radio station WFMU in collaboration with Lincoln Center’s “Out of Doors” concert series presented the who’s who of modern Ethiopian music. The show included pairings such as the Ethiopian sax king Gétatchèw Mèkurya with Danish rockers The Ex, as well as Boston’s Either/Orchestra performing with the audience […]

**WARNING: This post contains a very big photo of a man’s head**
Did you all see the sky last night, around 7:45? It was incredible - luminous, clear, and the air was at that perfect temperature where you forget that such a thing as temperatures exist. If New York weather were like this all the time […]

In Benjamen Walker’s recent report, How I Spent My Summer Staycation, he spoke about one option (and his first choice) for a Staycationer: watching French double features at Film Forum. He spoke with the director of Film Forum, Bruce Goldstein, about their summer French Crime Wave series.

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In Benjamen Walker’s report, How I Spent My Summer Staycation, he spoke with Suzanne Reisman. She’s the author of Off the Beaten (Subway) Track: New York City’s Best Unusual Attractions, a book that promises vacation-style getaways …. all reachable by subway. She shared with us three of her favorite Subway […]