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June 30, 2009

Blake Lively
PR Photos

Check out our newly updated Celebrities Out and About in New York City for photos of Johnny Depp, Megan Fox, Harrison Ford, Blake Lively, Rachel McAdams, Chloe Sevigny, Evan Rachel Wood and the Michael Jackson tribute on Sunset Boulevard.

June 29, 2009

Elizabeth and The Catapult
Photo Credit Amy Davidson

Just Published: Read Ben Wood's article and see Amy Davidson's photographs of the Elizabeth and The Catapult Show at Joe's Pub.

Here is a fun event for tonight:

Jack Noseworthy – Come Fly With Me
Monday, June 29. 8:30PM
Feinstein’s at Loews Regency

Actor Jack Noseworthy will be making his debut appearance at the celebrated Feinstein’s. This one-night-only show, Come Fly With Me, will feature an entertaining repertoire of songs including, “Better” by Edward Kleban from A Class Act, “One Track Mind” by Marvin Hamlisch from Sweet Smell of Success, a tribute to George M. Cohan and the title song, “Come Fly With Me” by Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn. Truly a triple threat, Noseworthy has starred in films, television and Broadway. He began his career on stage in the national tour of the musical Cats and made his Broadway debut in the original company of Jerome Robins Broadway. He was the final actor to be cast in the Broadway blockbuster A Chorus Line and also played opposite John Lithgow in the Broadway musical Sweet Smell Of Success. In addition, some film and television credits include, Pretty Ugly People, Phat Girlz, Undercover Brother, Poster Boy, U-571, Breakdown, Event Horizon, The Brady Bunch Movie, Cecil B. DeMented, Alive, Aces N’ Eights, CSI, Law & Order SVU, Crossing Jordan, and Judging Amy.

Tickets $40 and $60.00. For more information and tickets, please call box office at 212-339-4095 or go to
www.ticketweb.com.

Feinstein's at Loews Regency | 540 Park Avenue (at 61st Street).

Here is another fun event for tonight:

Sweet & Nasty Burlesque presents THE SECRET POLICEMAN'S BALL
Monday, June 29th at 10pm
Public Assembly

Before there was an America; before there was a New York City; before there was even a Williamsburg ... there was an England. On Monday, June 29 at 10pm, Sweet & Nasty Burlesque presents THE SECRET POLICEMAN'S BALL, a tassel-twirling celebration of all things British, at the New Monday Night Burlesque. "Finally, an excuse to tell all my naughty Prime Minister jokes!" enthuses host and producer Nasty Canasta. A self-confessed "pretentious Anglophile," Canasta has assembled an all-star cast from across the country - and across the pond - to honour the British Isles: THE SECRET POLICEMAN'S BALL will feature local burlesque celebrities as well as special guests direct from San Francisco (the 'Wales of the West'), London, and Manchester, England. "It will be a glamourous and colourful evening," promises Canasta, "a veritable fortnight of entertainment packed into just a few metric hours - and all for mere shillings!" Since 2006, Sweet and Nasty has been adding its own unique mix of glam camp, historical fact, and blatant lies to the New York burlesque scene, and currently appears on the last Monday of every month at Public Assembly as part of The New Monday Night Burlesque. Their June spectacular, THE SECRET POLICEMAN'S BALL, is the centrepiece of a jam-packed night of burlesque entertainment that begins at 9pm and continues until Tuesday morning. As a special offer, show your valid UK passport at the door for 2-for-1 admission! Local favourites Clams Casino, Legs Malone, Tigger!, special guests Bella Besame (Manchester, England), The Flying Fox (San Francisco), Mat Fraser (London) and host Dame Nasty Canasta, O.B.E., will kick off their knickers and prove that the sun never sets on the British Empire at THE SECRET POLICEMAN'S BALL.

Tickets $10. For more information visit www.SweetAndNastyBurlesque.com

Public Assembly | 70 N. 6th St. (bet Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Bklyn

June 28, 2009

S.Love Fashion

Just Published: Read Janet Perisa's article about the S.Love Fashion Show at Tenjune and read William S. Gooch's interview with S.Love fashion designers Sally LaPointe and Sarah Adelson.

Here is an interesting and free event for today:

VERGE: the Marathon 21st Anniversary Concert
Sunday June 28th @ 4PM
Coney Island Boardwalk and West 21st Street

The Summer of Enlightenment Festival kicks off with psychedelic comedy band Verge's Marathon 21st Anniversary Concert on the Boardwalk at Coney Island at West 21st Street. In June of 2008, the legendary psychedelic comedy band Verge celebrated their *Twentieth* anniversary with an invitation-only outrageous retrospective of their work at a private performance space. But how could they ever top such a spectacle? Simple. With their *MARATHON Twenty-First* Anniversary Concert on Coney Island's venerable Boardwalk on Sunday June 28th at 4pm. And best of all - it's FREE! Verge will be playing on the Coney Island Boardwalk at West 21st Street in front of the landmark Roller-Rink building In the tradition of their formidable shows at the NYC Marathons between 1990 and 1995, they will be playing continuously without a break from 4pm until 8 pm! That's right, folks, you heard right - four hours of solid psychedelic rock and surreal comedy will be spewed forth in public on Sunday June 28th beginning at 4pm.Additional shows in The Summer of Enlightenment Festival will feature Jeremy X. Halpern & the Weirdos headlining a variety of acts (including Eden Star), and will be held at the same spot on Sunday, July 19th and Saturday, August 15th. The festival finale will be held on Halloween at the East River Park bandshell.

Admission is free
www.Weirdos.com/enlighten

Coney Island Boardwalk and West 21st Street

June 27, 2009

Just Published: Read Harvey Karten's review of Michael Mann's Public Enemies, which opens Wednesday, July 1, 2009.

Here is a fun event for tonight:

Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute w/ WHO’S BAD
June 27th 8PM DOORS / 9PM SHOW
The Canal Room

Canal Room Presents: Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute w/ WHO’S BAD
$18 in ADV / $20 at the DOOR

Tickets Available at www.ticketweb.com

Canal Room| 285 West Broadway
@ Canal St
New York, NY 10013
www.canalroom.com

June 26, 2009

Farah Fawcett Pinup 1976

Michael Jackson
March 5, 2009

Yesterday was a very sad day with the passing of two icons - Farah Fawcett of cancer at the age at 62 and Michael Jackson of an apparent heart attack at the age of 50. It is unbelievable that both of these brilliant lights have been extinguished. But while they were with us, they sparkled.

Rest in Peace!

June 25, 2009

Just Published: Read Eric Atienza's review of Flotation Walls new album, Nature.

Here is an interesting event for today:

Visual Slang 2009: The Modern Urban Imagination
Thursday, June 25th,6-8pm
Abrons Arts Center

Opening reception to Visual Slang 2009, the third in a series of cutting-edge global urban art exhibits. This year's event features an eclectic range of characters and creatures representing a broad spectrum of cultural heritages. Artists include: A1one, Ame72, Bastardilla, Bishop, C215, Cekis, Cern, Chris Cortes, Daniel Dover, Klone, Mefisto, Kenji Nakayama, Sien, Stinkfish, Whisper and Zero Cents. The exhibit continues through August 14th, 2009.

Free
www.henrystreet.org/arts

Henry Street Serttlement/Abrons Arts Center | 466 Grand Street

June 24, 2009

Political Talk: There is almost nothing we can do to help the people of Iran except watch in horror as peaceful demonstrators are met with brutality. But we can wear green scarves (and no I don't mean around your head) or green wrist bands. Pass it on.

Here is an intersting event for tonight:

NEW YORK CITY OPERA’S
DIVAS Shop for Opera 2009
VIP Preview Shopping: 5:00 pm – 6:00pm
General Shopping: 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
City Opera’s Pop Up Shop

Whether its high notes or high end, fashion and music have always complemented each other and New York City Opera's DIVAS Shop for Opera event celebrates their unique partnership. We hope you will join us for this special evening and shop from a diverse selection of deeply discounted, alluring merchandise–valued at over one million dollars–donated by a long list of fabulous designers. Merchandise this year will include designs by Alice + Olivia, Carmen Marc Valvo, Twinkle by Wenlan, Tamsen Z by Ann Ziff, Oscar de la Renta, Nanette Lepore, Rubin Singer, Chado Ralph Rucci, Tuleh, DKNY, Luca Luca, Roberta Freymann, and many more. While shopping, guests will enjoy cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, music, and will leave with a fantastic gift bag.

All proceeds from the evening fund the design and creation of costumes for productions at New York City Opera.

Co-Chairs: Isabel and Ruben Toledo – Fashion Designer and Illustrator
Patricia Field – Fashion Stylist and Designer of Sex and the City, The Devil Wears Prada
Faith Hope Consolo – Chairman, Prudential Douglas Elliman
Rebecca Taylor – Fashion Designer
Elsa Klensch – Novelist, former host of CNN’s Style with Elsa Klensch
Lorry Newhouse – New York City Opera supporter and vintage couture collector

Young Patron Co-Chairs: Lydia Fenet – Christie’s Auction House
Mary Giuliani – Mary Giuliani Catering and Events, Inc.
Natasha Wolff – InStyle Magazine

Sponsors: Prudential Douglas Elliman; Georges Duboeuf; Chopin Vodka;
Gotham; New York Observer; Sandy Alexander Printing

Beneficiary: The design and creation of costumes for productions at New York City Opera

Benefit Tickets: $300, $125, $75 For more information regarding the event, to purchase tickets, or make a donation, please call New York City Opera Special Events at 212.870.5622 or Lisa Lori Communications at 203.228.5090.

www.DivasShopforOpera.org

City Opera’s Pop Up Shop
717 Madison Avenue
Between 63rd and 64th Streets

June 23, 2009

Terexov Fashion
Photo Credit Eli Ceballos

Just Published: Read my article and see Eli Ceballos' photographs of the Terexov Fashion Show.

Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Photo Credit James Bluck

Just Published: See James Bluck's photographs of last Saturday's Coney Island Mermaid Parade.

June 22, 2009

Eleanora Kennedy, Shafik and Gigi Gabr and Nicolas Cage

Poster for the Exhibit

Just Published: Read my article about the Anti-Human-Trafficking Benefit at the United Nations, "Welcome to Gulu." The "Welcome to Gulu benefit featured art created by the rescued child soldiers and abducted girls of Uganda.

June 21, 2009

Agyness Deyn and Audrey Marnay
Wild 1/PR Photos

Check out our newly updated Celebrities Out and About in New York City for photos of Jamie Foxx, Jack Black, Blake Lively, Jon Von Jovi, Richie Sambora and the fab fashionistas at the Council of Fashion Designers Awards Ceremony.

Here is a fun event for today for the cool kids:

AIN'T NUTHIN BUT A HOUSE PARTY
SUNDAY JUNE 21st, 2009
WATER TAXI BEACH - LONG ISLAND CITY

Aint Nuthin But A House Party ... Presents
ANBAHP RESIDENT DJ:Jellybean Benitez
SPECIAL GUEST DJ'S: Kamala & Ruben Toro
HOUSE MUSIC ALL DAY... HOUSE MUSIC ALL NIGHT LONG...
Hosted By: Robbi & Evelyn Santos
The vibe begins @ 1 PM ... until 10 pm
1 pm until 10 pm - ANBAHP Resident DJ's ... Marlon D. & Jellybean Benitez
General Admission: FREE .... FREE ...FREE B4 3 pm
After 3 pm
ANBAHP MEMBERS $5.00
NON MEMBERS $10.00

WATER TAXI BEACH - LONG ISLAND CITY

June 20, 2009

Larry David in Woody Allen's Whatever Works

Just Published: Read my review of Woody Allen's Whatever Works, which opens this weekend.

Hot Tip: The very excellent Irena's Vow, starring Tovah Feldshuh, closes on June 28, 2009. This story of a Polish woman who saves twenty Jews from the Holocaust by hiding them in the basement of her employer's (a general in the German army) home is not-to-be-missed-theater. Half priced tickets for the show is available at TKTS (you have to go in person to the booth on the island in Times Square - 46th and Broadway).

Here is an interesting event for today:

Taschen Warehouse Sale
Friday June 19th to Sunday June 21st
Taschen Store NY

Thousands of slightly damaged and display books from Taschen publishing will be on sale at 50-75% off at our store in Soho beginning June 19th and lasting through the 21st. These will include new, rare, out of print, and collector's titles.

Free to come and take a look. For more information call 1.212.226.2212
or visit www.taschen.com.

Taschen Store NY | 107 Greene St between Prince and Spring

And here is another interesting event for today:

Parsons Dance's 9th Annual
SUMMER INTENSIVE SHOWCASE
Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 2pm
Manhattan Arts and Movement Center

Parsons Dance - praised around the world for its virtuosity, exceptional theatricality, athleticism, energy and accessibility - presents the culminating performance of its ninth annual New York City Summer Intensive for pre-professional and professional dancers on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 2pm. Audiences are welcome to the free performance at Manhattan Arts and Movement Center, 248 W. 60th Street between Amsterdam and West End Avenues.

This year's Summer Intensive, held from June 8 - 20, 2009, will give participants the unique opportunity to study with Artistic Director David Parsons and members of Parsons Dance in the heart of the modern dance capital, New York City. Participants take classes in modern and ballet technique, the repertory of Parsons Dance, and yoga and were offered special Professional Development seminars.

Admission to the performance is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and reservations are strictly required. To reserve seats, call (212) 869-9275 or email info@parsonsdance.org.

For more information, visit www.parsonsdance.org.

Manhattan Arts and Movement Center|248 W. 60th Street
Between Amsterdam and West End Avenues

June 19, 2009

Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock in The Proposal

Just Published: Read Harvey Karten's review of Anne Fletcher's The Proposal, which opens today, Friday, June 19, 2009.

Paul Rudd and Jack Black in Year One

Also Just Published: Read Harvey Karten's review of Harold Ramis' Year One, which also opens today, Friday, June 19, 2009.

Here is an interesting event for today:

The Chelsea Art Museum Presents
Michael Alan's Draw-A-Thon Theater & Exhibition
Friday, July 19, 2009 7pm-12am
The Chelsea Art Museum

Calling all artists and open minded viewers to a five hour long, monumental and ground breaking experience! From 7pm-12am, the Chelsea Art Museum's main floor will be filled with performers, costumes, theater and tons of empty space for new work to be created by hundreds of artists. All artists are summoned to make art in the museum: all mediums and styles. Come be one, come make history for the first show in a museum where hundreds of artists gather and make work inspired by theater.

The performance - 'The Factory'- a 5 hour long satire with 2o or more performers. They will build an environment under slave, sweatshop management inside the museum. The factory is controlled by paint splattered floor managers along with Michael Alan's mother, who will dictate and choreograph a repetitious and senseless building of sculptures, costumes, boxes and paper piles: the assembly line of the robotic art slaves.

Live punk, experimental, folk and classic rock and roll will be playing live from a truck that will be driven into the building. This revolutionary performance will be open to all artists to come and interpret through any creative process. The space will be cleared out and taken over by hundreds of artists making new work in the Chelsea Art museum.

This event will be accompanied by the music of Epileptic Peat: an 8-string bass playing wonder, The Bones of Davey Jones: a one man army of folk and bluegrass, House of Waters: a trio emitting the sounds of folk and afro-beat, plus many more to come...

Tickets are $17 in advance & $20 at the door
visit www.michaelalanart.com/drawathon.html for more info

The Chelsea Art Museum| 556 W 22nd St in Manhattan

June 18, 2009

E. L. Doctorow and Heln Doctorow

Just Published: Read my article about the Luncheon in Honor of E. L. Doctorow (the author of Ragtime,Billy Bathgate, Homer and Langley, and The March) on the Queen Mary II.

Here is an interesting event for tonight:

A Year With TAKE Dance
Thursday, June 18. 6:00pm (reception at 5:15pm with Q&A to follow screening)
Hebrew Union College.

Filmmaker Damian Eckstein takes audiences behind the scenes in A YEAR WITH TAKE DANCE, a documentary of choreographer Takehiro Ueyama and his dance troupe. Hebrew Union College will host a FREE screening of A YEAR WITH TAKE DANCE on Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 6pm (reception at 5:15pm with Q&A to follow screening) at 1 W. 4th Street (between Mercer and Broadway), NYC. Admission is free, but seating is limited. RSVP at www.ayearwithtakedance.com. The film premiered on March 22, 2009. Damian Eckstein earned his BFA in Studio Composition from SUNY Purchase. He has written and arranged countless jingles and underscores for companies such as Pepsi, Intel, and the CBS network. He currently writes songs and plays bass in Manhattan with his rock band GIFTSHOP. Mr. Eckstein shot the video, scored the music, and edited A YEAR WITH TAKE DANCE, his first film.

Admission is free, but seating is limited. www.ayearwithtakedance.com

Hebrew Union College| 1 W. 4th Street, NYC.

And here is another interesting event for tonight:

Charles Busch's
Vampire Lesbians of Sodom
June 17th -19th @ 8pm
June 20th @ 7pm & 10pm
June 22nd – June 26th at 8pm
Baruch Performing Arts Center

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom is a fantastic send-up of vampiric tales and actress’s vanity. The story begins in Sodom, transports us to 1920’s Hollywood, and drops us on a modern stage. The rivalry begins in Sodom where a guard is lamenting his social life and a succubus is awaiting a sacrificial virgin. The virgin is turned into a succubus and a 2000 year battle of feminine wiles, toothy marks, and blackmail ensues. It is a hilarious love-hate relationship that sustains them both.

Vampire Lesbians of Sodom was first produced in 1984 and went on to become one of the longest running Off- Broadway plays in history. Vampire Lesbians of Sodom is written by Charles Busch and is directed by Diana Harkin.
$25, general admission
$15, students
Box Office: 646-312-4085
www.baruch.cuny.edu/bpac

Baruch Performing Arts Center | 55 Lexington Avenue,
Entrance on 25th Street between Lexington and 3rd Aves

June 17, 2009

Just Published: Read Kim Weling's article about the Combier and Tequila Tasting Party at Light Space NYC.

Hot Tip: The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival is presently running at Lincoln Center - June 11-25, 2009.

Here is a fun event for today:

The International Street Cannibals “From the Holding Tank” series
chamber music and dance event
Wednesday, June 17 @ 8 PM
St Mark's in-the-Bowery

The sound, shape, and positioning of the piano, as well as its relation
to other instruments and to dance, will be the centerpiece of this
event, which will feature works by Dan Cooper, Luis Cobo, Charles
Coleman, Witold Lutoslawski, Gene Pritsker, and David Taylor.

These works will be performed by Dan Barrett, cello, Lynn Bechtold,
violin, Dave Taylor, bass trombone, Mat Fieldes, bass and pianists Luis
Cobo, Taka Kigawa, Kathy Supove and Vladimir Valjarevic. Choreography by
Street Cannibals’ dance director Alan Good, joined by Christina Ilisije
and Rebecca Rainey. More about them at http://www.alangooddance.com/.

Suggested donation for the June 17 event is $10. For reservations and
information, call ISC at 212-961-0357 or 212-663-8826. Tickets will also
be available at the door.

St Mark's in-the-Bowery|131 East 10th Street (at 2nd Ave.) in Manhattan

June 16, 2009

Here is a fun event for tonight:

PAINTED ON WATER CD RELEASE CELEBRATION
TUESDAY, JUNE 16th 2009 7:00PM
Le Poisson Rouge

PAINTED ON WATER is a world music fusion concept with jazz, pop and Turkish influences. The material demonstrates the shifting, tangible and intangible qualities of music, emotion and art. The live appearances promise to be rich and involving multi-media events, accompanied by a live projected display of Ebru art, created onstage by the master paper-marbling artist Bingul Sevimli. Imbued with its many historic sources, the ethos of the album is at once Turkish, and universal: “You and me is a long story, painted on water,” and “life is like water, and you put the colors onto it.” Sertab Erener and Demir Demirkan are among Turkey’s most celebrated musicians. Erener’s 12 albums have sold in the millions in Europe and Asia. Guitarist, composer and PAINTED ON WATER album co-producer Demirkan became one of Turkey’s true rock stars in the Istanbul heavy metal band Pentagram. He has released three solo albums and a film score. He and Erener co-wrote the 2003 international hit, “Every Way That I Can,” Turkey’s first and only winner in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. This event will promote their self titled debut on Motema Music that is out today, June 9th of 2009!
TICKETS: $20.00 212-337-1406, ext 15
www.paintedonwater.com

LE POISSON ROUGE |158 BLEECKER STREET
BETWEEN SULLIVAN STREET & THOMPSON STREET
NEW YORK, NY 10012

June 15, 2009

David Kittredge's
Pornography A Thriller

Just Published: Read Frank J. Avella's review of David Kittredge's Pornography A Thriller, which recently played at Newfest.

Here is a fun event for tonight:

TNT’s WEDDING DAY Free Outdoor Screening!
JUNE 15 AT 8PM
TIMES SQUARE

Be one of the first to see Wedding Day in a special event outdoor preview screening in Times Square at 47th & Broadway. Screening starts at 8:00pm JUNE 15! Get there early for FREE GIVEAWAYS!

Here is another fun event for tonight:

BENDING THREADS in Cabaret: We Wear the Mask
Monday, June 15, 2009 at 9PM
Don't Tell Mama Piano Bar

Spend your Monday Night with us! On Monday June 15, by request of Don't Tell Mama Piano Bar, we bring Another Sizzling cabaret performance. Bending Threads is an innovative new Cabaret Collaborative bringing you pleasant nights of stories filled with unexpected twists to a myriad of songs, including Broadway's favorite show tunes. Bending Threads seeks to entertain, educate and cultivate its audiences by the use of traditional African-American literature and exploring a diverse range of music. Don't Tell Mama is known as a must see spot when visiting New York City. Its Piano bar, Lounge area, and Cabaret Room provides an inviting setting for after-work stress-free release!

$10 Cover with 2 drink minimum
This ranges between $20-30 depending on drink choices.
To reserve your seat: Call 212 757 - 0788 (after 4pm) Or Visit this Link for Online Reservations:
donttellmamanyc.com

Don't Tell Mama |343 West 46th Street (Restaurant Row)
www.don'ttellmamanyc.com
BTWN 8th And 9th Avenues
New York City
Take A/C Train to 42nd Street

June 14, 2009

Todd Phillip's The Hangover

Hot Tip: Go see The Hangover, the story of a Vegas bachelor party gone terribly wrong. It is totally gross and utterly hysterical.

Here is a fun event for tonight:

Funkbox ft Tony Touch
Sunday June 14, 2009
Sullivan Room

End your weekend right with the new weekly Sunday at Sullivan Room:
Funkbox featuring resident DJ Tony Touch and Puerto Rican Day special
guests Melting Pot Global.

flyer link: http://www.sullivanroom.com/sullivanroom/flyers/061409.jpg

21+, 10pm-4am
$10 at the doorwww.sullivanroom.com

Sullivan Room |218 Sullivan St.
Btwn Bleecker & W 3rdB |New York, NY 10012
Thurs - Sun, 9pm - 5am, 21+
Tables: 212.252.2151 | Guestlist: rsvp@sullivanroom.com

June 13, 2009

True Blood

Just Published: Read Frank J. Avella's Film and Theater Column with coverage of the latest DVD/Blue Ray Disc and the 2008-2009 theater season.

Here is an interesting event for today:

FIGMENT
An explosion of creativity…
Friday, June 12 – 10am – 5pm
Saturday, June 13 & Sunday, June 14 – 10am – 7pm
June 12 – June 14
Governors Island

FIGMENT is a unique event, a collection of interactive art, music and dance featuring the works of hundreds of emerging artists, including a fantastical mini-golf course unlike any other and a season-long sculpture exhibit. Located on the historic and placid Governors Island in New York Harbor, FIGMENT is a non-commercial, de-commodified, volunteer-run, environmentally responsible event that fosters community and celebrates the New York art scene in its purest form: participatory, brilliantly creative and absolutely free.

FIGMENT
Governors Island
www.figmentnyc.org

June 12, 2009

John Travolta in The Taking of Pelham 123

Just Published: Read Harvey Karten's review of Tony Scott's The Taking of Pelham 123, which opens today, Friday, June 12, 2009.

Here is a fun event for tonight:

June 11, 2009

Diane Von Furstenberg Fashion
Photo Credit Katherin Wermke

June 11, 2009

Just Published: Read my article and see Katherin Wermke's photographs of the Diane Von Furstenberg American Express Fashion Show.

Here is an interesting event for today:

Platinum Events Presents
The Madison Square Boys and Girl’s Club 125th Anniversary Celebration
Thursday, June 11. 9 p.m. – Late
The Gates

Platinum Events is presenting a cocktail reception, silent auction including a 2010 Audi A4, passed hors d’oeuvres, celebrating the 125th Anniversary Celebration of the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club. Since 1884, the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club has been providing after school and summer programs that help build happy, healthy and productive lives for thousands of New York City's
most vulnerable kids. Speakers to include Executive Director Joe Patuleia

Tables $1000; Tickets $80-$100. For more information or advance purchase visit http://www.enjoyplatinum.com/125anniversary/

The Gates | 290 8th Avenue

June 10, 2009

Just Published:

Cynthia Rowley Fashion
Photo Courtesy of Cynthia Rowley

Just Published: Read Kim Weling's article about the Cynthia Rowley Fall 2009 Fashion Show.

Also Just Published: Read John Proctor's review of Fanfarlo's new album, Reservoir.

Here is something truly weird and wonderful:

Hotel Bathroom Provides Setting for Unique Dance Installation
DARK HORSE/BLACK FOREST
Friday - Sunday at 7pm
(Note: M/F pairing runs June 5-7 & 12-14;
M/M pairing runs June 19-21 & 26-28).
June 5-28
The Gershwin Hotel

** can be viewed live or via closed-circuit TV in the hotel’s rooms **

“There are provocative dance companies. There are funky performance spaces. But for sheer originality, few can rival Yanira Castro and company. They perform in your bathroom. Talk about intimate drama… Forget the safety of distance; this is the palpable sensation of art – up-close and personal.” -- Encore Magazine

Recognized for creating intimate dance viewing experiences, Yanira Castro will debut her newest piece DARK HORSE/BLACK FOREST in the lobby bathroom of the Gershwin Hotel. Performances, which run June 5-28, can be viewed live in the bathroom (for an audience of 7) or live via closed-circuit TV in any of the hotel’s 135 guest rooms. The piece is presented by Yanira Castro with Performance Space 122 and Neke Carson.

DARK HORSE/BLACK FOREST is also available for performance in private bathrooms. Yanira Castro will adapt the piece to fit any bathroom. By inviting the dancers into your home you are granted the unique experience of being a part of a piece of live art. To reserve your own private performance, email darkhorse@ps122.org.

Tickets are $55 for opening night, $45 for Friday & Saturday and $20 for Sunday. To purchase tickets for the live performance call 212-352-3101 or visit www.ps122.org. To reserve a room at the Gershwin Hotel call 212-545-8000 or visit www.gershwinhotel.com; mention the code “DARKHORSE” and receive 10% discount on your hotel reservation.

The Gershwin Hotel |7 East 27th Street

June 9, 2009

Ann Verrall’s
Nonsense Revolution

Just Published: Read Frank J. Avella's review of six films from Newfest which runs June 4-11th at the SVA Theater (Between 8th & 9th) - Newfest.

June 8, 2009

Governor David Patterson and Yaz Hernandez
Photo Credit Daniel Perry

Just Published: Read Rene Levy-Abdo's article and see Daniel Perry and Chance Yeh's photographs of El Museo del Barrio's 2009 Gala at Cipriani.

June 7, 2009

Here is an interesting artevent for today:

Wink Pony - Part of Bushwick Open Studios Art Shows
June 6th & 7th 12pm-7pm
Wink Pony
119 Ingraham - Down stairs, Rm 113
(btwn Porter &Knickerbocker)
Brooklyn, NY 11237
(L train Morgan stop)

Here is another interesting event for today:

Rhythmism.com Beach Party
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Water Taxi Beach
Long Island City

Connie (reSOLUTE, Airdrop)
Derek Plaslaiko (The Bunker, Spectral | Queens )
Spinoza (Beyond the Bunker | Brooklyn)
Stadenco (flawless)
Wolf + Lamb (Wolf + Lamb music)

Rhythmism.com is proud to present the annual RHYTHMISM.COM BEACH PARTY at the stunning Water Taxi Beach with the top-notch techno talents of New York City on Sunday, June 7th. With the summer season quickly approaching, what better way to kick it into gear then a full-on techno beach party at the city's ultimate open air venue, Water Taxi Beach for an afternoon filled with sun, surf, and some of the best music New York City has to offer.

Water Taxi Beach is the perfect place for New Yorkers to celebrate summer without leaving the city. Dance in the soft white sand, enjoy amazing views of the Manhattan skyline and sip a tropical drink, ice cold beer or frozen lemonade. This 44,000 square foot beach just a 4-minute Water Taxi ride from midtown Manhattan boasts brilliant sunshine during the day, beach & cocktail menu, a volleyball net, tents for shade from the sun, all included with the perfect dance music soundtrack.

$15 Advance tickets while supplies last! at www.danceherenownyc.com
Doors Open 1pm - 10pm
Rain or Shine (We have tents)
21+ w/ ID a must

Water Taxi Beach l 2 Borden Ave.
Long Island City, NY
www.watertaxibeach.com
DIRECTIONS:
By Water Taxi:
Shuttles run all day from E. 34th St. Manhattan to Water Taxi Beach.
Visit www.nywatertaxi.com for more info
By Subway:
7 Train to Vernon Blvd/ Jackson Ave
G Train to 21st St.
E/F Train to 23rd St. / Ely Ave.
By Car:
midtown tunnel
Take "Borden ave / Pulaski Bridge" exit
Turn right at Borden Ave & 2nd St
www.rhythmism.com

Jessica Biel
Photo Credit PR Photos

Check out our newly updated Celebrities Out and About in New York City. for photos of Jessica Biel, Mariah Cary, Michelle Williams, Kate Winslet and the cast of Nurse Jacky.

June 6, 2009

Here is a fun event for today:

The Architectural League of New York's Beaux Arts Ball 2009: MANUFACTURE
Saturday, June 6, 2009 9:00 p.m. – 3:00 a.m. +
The Old American Can Factory

The Architectural League of New York’s Beaux Arts Ball 2009 will be
held on Saturday, June 6, 2009 at The Old American Can Factory on 232
Third Street at Third Avenue in Brooklyn. In this late-19th c. six-
building, 130,000 square foot industrial complex on the Gowanus
Canal’s Fifth Street Basin, things are still being made. On June 6, we
will join in the activities of artisans, fabricators, artists, designers, filmmakers, publishers and non-profit organizations selected from the more than 200 creative producers at The (OA) Can Factory. Open Studios throughout the complex will allow us to learn about different manufacturing activities while providing an insight
into the existing creative community at The (OA) Can Factory. At 9:00
PM, we will open a temporary collaborative creation space called The
Factory. A vast indoor space fitted out with machinery, materials and
expert manufacturers will be the scene of building, binding, stitching
and printing. Free materials will be available; feel free to bring
your own. The Factory will close at midnight. The courtyard will
feature music by DJ Chris Annibell/Afrokinetic, lighting designed by
Wingspace Theatrical Design, food, drinks and dancing late into the
night! A reduced price ticket is available for the final hours of the
evening.

DRESS CODE - Dress industrious! We will be crafting, making and moving, so no
stilettos please.

Tickets $25 - $250. For more information or to purchase tickets please
visit www.archleague.org > Special Events.

The Old American Can Factory | 232 Third Street at Third Avenue
Gowanus, Brooklyn

June 5, 2009

Will Ferrell, Anna Friel and Danny McBride

Just Published: Read Harvey Karten's review of Brad Silberling's Land of the Lost, which opens today, Friday, June 5, 2009.

Here is are two fun event for tonight:

THE DANCE PARTY
June 5, 2009
Le Royale

The Dance Party is a high-energy rock group from Washington, DC. With a sound that combines Dance-Punk, 80's New Wave, and Powerpop, The Dance Party created a buzz throughout DC and the Mid-Atlantic with their frenetic live performance and hook-laden debut album, "Friction! Friction! Friction!"

The Dance Party recently recorded 10 tracks with Andros Rodriguez (Justin Timberlake, Cobra Starship). at the helm.

Undeniably catchy pop songs executed with an over-the-top delivery, guarantee to cause the uncontrollable desire to throw caution to the wind and get radical on the dance floor.

For more info on The Dance Party please visit - www.myspace.com/thedanceparty

June 5 | Le Royale | 21 7th Avenue | New York NY

June 4, 2009

Toccarra Cash, Estelle Parsons and Dick Cavett
Photo Credit Jerry Lacay

Just Published: Read my article about the Princesss Grace Foundation Benefit Cocktail Party and Panel Discussion at the Players Club in Gramercy Park.

June 3, 2009

Here are two interesting events for tonight:

DecadesOut Inaugural Launch Benefit
Wednesday June 3rd. 7PM – 11PM
Classic Car Club.

The DecadesOut Inaugural Launch Benefit kicks off on June 3rd at 7pm and will include the company’s debut trailers for their first two documentaries New Land, New Life and Burning to Communicate (see below). There will be a live silent auction and food from Celebrity Chef Sue Torres, whose food the New York Times writer Eric Asimov called, “the most exciting Mexican food in the city.” The night also includes music from the swing band The Lounge Leader, who have played at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Waldorf Astoria and the benefit will be held at the Classic Car Club that is full of some of the most sophisticated cars ever made. DecadesOut, a new non-profit organization focusing on the production of theatre and film projects that raise public awareness of the cultural impact between science and humanity. The main thrust of DecadesOut is to see the impact of science on our world through artists’ eyes.

Tickets are $100 and are available online at www.smarttix.com , enter DecadesOut, visit www.decadesout.org or for more information email info@decadesout.org or call (718) 622-0830. All proceeds will support documentary production and new program development.

Classic Car Club l 250 Hudson Street, NYC

And:

Rudi Macaggi "The Acromedian" presents
1 Man Circus
Wednesday June 3, 17 and July 1 2009 @ 9pm
The Slipper Room

A third-generation Italian circus acrobat, Rudi has traveled the world performing, combining comedy with acrobatics to create a plethora of variety acts. He was named winner of the "Wild & Crazy" category on America's Got Talent and has played on television networks such as NBC, Fox, EFX, Comedy Central. Rudi has participated in festivals all over the world including the "Just for Laughs" comedy festival. Rudi presents his hour plus show featuring everything from stand-up comedy to handstands, dance numbers, visual and physical comedy, acrobatics and stunts. Soloist ballerina Lea McGowan joins Rudi performing strong adagio duet acrobatics and contortion. Live music is performed throughout by different unique musicians, formulating a unique interactive entertaining experience each week.
Check out Rudi Macaggi with Lea McGowan on YouTube and this great sampler video-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slJICEXwvDo or Rudi's website- www.ilikeyou.tv for more information

$10 tickets Smarttix.com to reserve table
http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=ACR&GUID=a7dbd4c5-2340-4e3d-8128-f32b06c32c22
**Recession special- Tickets only $5 @ door for standing room!**

The Slipper Room
167 Orchard St (@ Stanton) - Lower East Side
New York, NY 10002

June 2, 2009

Pelham Bay Train Station
Photo Credit Angelo Rivera

Check out our recently updated You Report - Our Eyes on the City.

Here is an interesting event for today:

Christopher Caines Dance Company
New Deal and other dances
June 2 at 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM
June 3 at 08:00 PM - 09:30 PM
New York City Center Studios

The featured premiere for the Christopher Caines Dance Company's 10th annual New York City season is NEW DEAL, set to the music of the British band Radiohead, reimagined for solo piano by Christopher O'Riley. In this taut, athletic full-company work, Caines explores the sound world of Radiohead's music as revealed in O'Riley's acclaimed, pathbreaking transcriptions. "One of the most musically erudite and articulate dance-makers around." The New Yorker

Admission: $25. For tickets, please visit www.christophercainesdance.org

New York City Center Studios | 130 West 56th Street

between 6th and 7th Avenues
New York, NY

June 1, 2009

Executive Chef Gustaf Mabrouk
And Owner Alison Nelson
Photo Credit Azikiwe Mohammed for Guest of a Guest

Just Published: Read Kim Weling's article about the reopening of the Alison Nelson Chocolate Bar in the West Village. It's all about the chocolate.

May 31, 2009

Here are two interesting events for today:

Soulfarm’s Saute to Israel Day Parade after Party
With special guests Pharaoh’s Daughters and Sarah Aroeste
May 31, 8:00 PM 7pm Doors
Sullivan Hall, New York, NY

Soulfarm consists of four New York based guys who are forging an exciting new sound by combining the musical roots of their heritage with a shared passion for melodic song writing and modern, progressive arrangements. Their unique sound offers the rare combination of a multigenerational and cross-cultural appeal. Live, the band's riveting world-beat energy turns heads and makes every audience take notice.

Soulfarm has recorded with many well-known musicians such as Perry Farrel and Dispatch; and has opened for Bruce Hornsby, Shawn Colvin, The Wailers George Clinton, to name a few. They regularly sells out national venues, such as Whiskey-A-Go-Go, L.A., BB Kings Blues Club, NYC, Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC, The Knitting Factory, L.A., NYC, Fox Theater, Boulder, CO, and Firehouse – St. Louis, MO. Through extensive tours of the U.S. and Europe, the group has gained great popularity.

http://www.soulfarm.net/
http://www.myspace.com/soulfarm
www.sullivanhallnyc.com

General Advance: $10 adv./$12 d.o.s

Sullivan Hall, New York, NY

Chamber Players International Concert at Kosciuszko Foundation
Sunday, May 31 – 3 pm
The Kosciuszko Foundation

This program will include Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in D and the World
Premiere of American composer David Winkler’s Piano Trio. More about Mr.
Winkler and his music at http://www.davidwinklernyc.org/bio/index.html.

Chamber Players International performers will be Anna Rabinova, violin,
Qiang Tu, cello and pianist Tatiana Goncharova.

Tickets for the May 31 concert are $20. A limited number of tickets will
be available at the door. For reservations and information, contact
Chamber Players International toll-free at 1 (877) 444-4488.

The Kosciuszko Foundation|15 East 65th Street
Between Madison and Fifth Ave in Manhattan
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May 30, 2009

Here are an interesting event for today:

Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company and Bente Kahan
The Legacy Project: Echoes
Featuring the World Premiere of Tikkun
May 29 - 30, 2009 at 7:30pm
NYU Tisch School for the Arts, Department of Dance,

The Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company and Norwegian/Jewish actress/vocalist Bente Kahan present The Legacy Project: Echoes, an evening of dance, theater and live music. The Legacy Project: Echoes includes elements of their individual repertoires and the collaborative piece Silent Echoes and features the world premiere of Tikkun with commissioned score by renowned jazz and Klezmer musician Greg Wall. Carolyn Dorfman has created a body of work, The Legacy Project, honoring her Eastern-European Jewish heritage. The two year project culminates at NYU Tisch School for the Arts, Department of Dance, 111 Second Avenue, Fifth Floor Theatre, NYC, on May 29 and 30 at 7:30pm. Tickets are $25-45 and are available at 1-800-838-3006 or www.brownpapertickets.com.

Performing onstage with CDDC, Kahan alternates between her songbook of Ladino, Yiddish, English and German music and work from The Legacy Project. In Silent Echoes, Dorfman and Kahan integrate elements of Dorfman's Cat's Cradle and Kahan's one woman theater piece Voices of Theresienstadt with new chorography, live music and text. The desire to blur the lines between art forms is the impulse for this section as the pair continues individual and collective explorations of their common heritage and vision.

Dorfman's newest piece Tikkun (To Repair) is the bridge between the past and the future and is the natural progression for The Legacy Project. While Silent Echoes challenges the audience to look at the past, Tikkun encourages them to look forward. The piece explores the ways we separate or divide, bind or link, engage or disengage by using images of the fractured and broken and by interweaving individual bodies and the whole ensemble.

Tickets: $25-45 ($25 general admission, $35 premiere reserved seating, $45 reserved seating and post-event reception) 1-800-838-3006
www.brownpapertickets.com#

NYU Tisch School for the Arts, Department of Dance
111 Second Avenue, 5th Floor Theater, NYC

May 29, 2009

Just Published: Read Harvey Karten's review of Pete Docter and Bob Peterson's Up, which opens today, Friday, May 29, 2009.

May 28, 2009

Charlie Fink of Noah and the Whale
Photo Credit Amy Davidson

Just Published: Read Eric Atienza's story and see Amy Davidson's photographs of Noah and the Whale at Bowery Ballroom.

Robindira Unsworth Line of Jewelry
Photo Credit Mary Blanco

Just Published: Read my article and see Mary Blanco's photographs of the Robindira Unsworth line of jewelry.

May 27, 2009

Just Published: Read Frank J. Avella's review of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival selection, Darko Lungulov’s Here & There.

Also Just Published: Read Frank J. Avella's review of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival selection, Paola Mendoza & Gloria La Morte’s Entre Nos.

May 26, 2009

Ty ra Banks and Teyona Anderson
America's Next Top Model
Janet Mayer / PR Photos

Check out our newly updated Celebrities Out and About in New York City. for photos of the CW Upfront Presentations.

Here is an interesting event for today:

Sinfonia New York: The Art and Ecstasy of the Chaccone
Tuesday, May 26 @ 8PM
New York Society for Ethical Culture

Fie on this recession! Let’s play, sing, and dance the ciacona to raise everyone’s spirits! Sinfonia New York, joined by dancers Patricia Beaman and Carlos Fittante, offers a joyful, educational, and vivid program of music, dance, and song on May 26 at 8 pm. Admission is FREE, as a gift to music lovers in the City. Called "the most unbridled and passionate of dances," the chacona in 17th-century Spain involved whole body undulations, massive hip movements and indecent lyrics. It was banned by the Catholic Church. A person could get up to 200 lashes for dancing the chaconne - and ignoring the dictates of the Spanish Inquisition. As far as the rest of Europe was concerned, anything banned by the Inquisition deserved a closer look. The concert on May 26th is a visual/musical history of the chaconne, from its origins as a wild and sacrilegious street dance in Spain to its apotheosis in the Bach D Minor Partita for Unaccompanied Violin. Music, dance, and song take us on a tour through Europe via Spain, Italy, England, France and Germany. Technically, the chaconne, also called passacaille or ground, is a set of variations over a repeating bass line. Each country interprets the chaconne in its own way - quick and fiery, slow and sorrowful, elegant and refined. In the Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for unaccompanied violin by J.S.Bach we arrive at the zenith of the form: a single voice playing the bass, the upper line, and, when needed, an inner line - a tour-de-force that employs one of the simplest and earthiest of forms to articulate the most profound human emotions.
Tickets FREE. For more information or for reservations call 212-866-0468 or visit www.sinfonianewyork.org

New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th St. (at Central Park West)
New York, NY

May 25, 2009

Happy Memorial Day! Memorial Day is a wonderful celebration of the summer to come with both swimming and shopping (please do shop, the economy needs your money), but it is mainly a chance all of us to thank the veterans who have given everything from their youth to their lives to defend our their country. I firmly believe that we had absolutely no business invading Iraq and Vietnam, but my heart and eternal gratitude go out to the wonderful men and women of our armed forces. Our soldiers don't decide our national policy, we do with our votes. So everything that has gone wrong is our collective fault, not the fault of our military. In the words of Alfred, Lord Tennyson in his immortal poem, "The Charge of The Light Brigade":

Theirs not to reason why
Theirs but to do and die.

Thank you.

Here are two events, one high brow and one low brow, for today:

Raymond J. Lee
“Here’s Where I Stand”
Monday, May 25 at 7pm
The Metropolitan Room

Please join Raymond J. Lee at the Metropolitan Room on May 25th at 7pm in his solo cabaret debut entitled “Here’s Where I Stand” benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Ray is currently performing the role of Eddie in the cast of Mamma Mia! (Broadway Cast) and has also performed in Applause (City Center Encores!), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Public Theater, NY) and Victor Woo: The Average Asian American (NY International Fringe Festival). The evening will include guest performers, including Melissa Menezes (Princesses), Erin Quill (Broadway’s Avenue Q), Gerard Salvador (Broadway’s Mamma Mia! and “Friends with Benefits”) & Chris Yonan (“The Idiot’s Guide to Dating”) with musical direction by Nate Buccieri.

Tickets are $15 with a two-drink minimum. Proceeds from the benefit will be given to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. For reservations please call The Metropolitan Room at 212-206-0440.

The Metropolitan Room| 34 W 22nd Street, New York

Sweet & Nasty Burlesque presents FUNK NIGHT
Monday, May 25
at Public Assembly

Sweet & Nasty Burlesque is bustin' loose at FUNK NIGHT! Get down and dirty with funky twists on burlesque favorites: funked-up fan dances, soulful tassel-twirling, and plenty of bump-and-groove, all to a soundtrack of some of the finest funk music ever laid down. "Groove things will be shaken," promises host and producer Nasty Canasta. "That funky music will be played by at least one white boy. And rest assured that we will not stop - at least, not till we get enough." Broadway Brassy, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Gal Friday, GiGi La Femme, Jonny Porkpie and Nasty Canasta will tear the roof off the sucker and bare it all at FUNK NIGHT!

Tickets $10. For more information visit www.SweetAndNastyBurlesque.com.

Public Assembly
70 N. 6th St. | (bet Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn

May 24, 2009

Just Published: Read Eric Atienza's review of Shout Out Out Out's new album, Reintegration Time.

May 23, 2009

Cynthia Nixon and Elton John
2009 Drama League Awards
Photo Credit PR Photos

Just Published: My theater column with coverage of the 2009 Drama League Awards.

And if you just want to dance:

KGB & Basic NYC ft Phonique
Saturday May 23, 2009
Sullivan Room

Berlin's master of moody, haunting tech-house Phonique returns to New
York! The fixture on fine labels like Dessous and Poker Flat, Phonique
makes a rare US visit for this special Basic NYC and KGB
collaboration.

flyer link: http://www.sullivanroom.com/sullivanroom/flyers/052309.jpg

21+, 9pm-5am
$15 advance tickets at www.wantickets.com/sullivanroom
$20 at the door

www.sullivanroom.com

Sullivan Room |218 Sullivan St.
Btwn Bleecker & W 3rdB |New York, NY 10012
Thurs - Sun, 9pm - 5am, 21+
Tables: 212.252.2151 | Guestlist: rsvp@sullivanroom.com

May 22, 2009

Essence Atkins and Marlon Wayans in Dance Flick

Just Published: Read Harvey Karten's review of Damien Wayans' Dance Flick , which opens today, Friday, May 22, 2009.

May 21, 2009

Here are two events for tonight:

Megan v. Sprenger & mvworks ...within us
Tuesday - Saturday 7:30p
Sunday 5:30p
Sun, May 17 - Sun, May 24
Performance Space 122

Set in a 360 degree hyper-intimate environment with audience members integrated among the performers ...within us. examines the human instincts that lay at the core of physical and emotional conflict. Inspired by the images of violence in Jacob Landau's visual artwork and focusing on the repression that exists all over the world and across time periods, the performers act as both aggressor and inflicted. Creating palpable tension and relief, ...within us. continues mvworks' investigation of kinetic transfer through movement.

...within us. is choreographed by Megan V. Sprenger and features Tara O'Con, Maria Parshina, Alli Ruszkowski, and Richert Schonorr with Lighting by Joe Levasseur, Sound by Jason Sebastian, Set by Brad Kisicki, and Costumes by Mary McKenzie.

mvworks, a contemporary dance company based in New York City, was founded in 2005 by Megan V. Sprenger. mvworks strives to engage viewers in dance through an intensely kinetic, unpolished movement style that is driven by clear emotional intent, creating powerful performance that connects with the audience beyond their viewing experience.

For more infos and pics go on ps122.org
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122 members)
tickets on line on https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/203/1241220600000

Performance Space |122 150 First Avenue
New York, NY 10009

Get you GROOV on with MARLON D.
Thursday May 21st, 2009 10 PM ... until ...
BAR 13

• Father Chris ... Presents: GROOV
• GET YOUR GROOV ON
• EACH AND EVERY THURSDAY
• Hosted By: the Legendary FATHER CHRIS
• DOOR BY: KRISS MASS
• The vibe begins @ 10 PM ... until ...
• 10 pm - Until ....MARLON D.
• Doors open @ 10 PM
• F R E E .... F R E E ...F R E E Before 11 pm
• After 11 pm
• GENERAL ADMISSION $15.00
• ANBAHP MEMBERS $10.00
• RSVP @ : http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=182796580611

BAR 13 | 135 East 13th Street

May 20, 2009

Here is a glamorous event for tonight:

Designer Isabel Toledo and Ruben Toledo Photo Credit Mary Blanco	Patricia Ortiz (Wearing a gown by Gonzolo Calderon) Photo Credit Mary Blanco
Designer Gemma Khang Photo Credit Mary Blanco	Photo Credit Mary Blanco

El Museo’s Gala ‘09
Wednesday May 20, 2009
Cocktails at seven o'clock
Dinner and dancing at eight o'clock
Cipriani 42nd Street

Honoring Luis Ubinas, the President of the Ford Foundation, and Emilio and Gloria Estefan, two extraordinary performing artistes. Yaz Hernandez with Ruben and Isabel Toledo are the co-chairs.

As always it will be a fabulous Latin evening of music and dancing, a celebration of our culture and heritage. This year’s Gala embraces El Museo’s strong relationship with our communities and our schools; the décor will be created with the help of scores of students working in our after school program. This will be a historic first Ruben Toledo - student production. Our Gala raises crucial operating funds for exhibitions and makes our essential arts education activities and other programs possible.

Ticket Prices:
Table of ten: $100,000, $50,000, $25,000, $15,000 and $10,000
Individual: $2,500, $1,500, $1,000
Junior: $350

Tickets Contact: Karen Hershey Event Consultant 212.343.1920
Khevents@aol.com

Cipriani 42nd Street | Between Lexington & Park Avenues
New York, New York 10017

To check out the pre ball gaiety: Read my article and see Chance Yehs of Patrick McMullen's photographs of the El Museo Del Barrio's Pre-Gala Cocktail Party at Mauboussin.

Here is another interesting event for tonight:

Jennifer Muller/The Works presents The Works’ 35th Anniversary Season PRE-GALA LAUNCH CELEBRATION
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Gallery 151

Jennifer Muller/The Works presents The Works’ 35th Anniversary Season PRE-GALA LAUNCH CELEBRATION at Gallery 151, 350 Bowery, NYC, on Wednesday, May 20, 2009 from 6:30pm-9:00pm. Suggested donation is $20, benefiting The Works’ New Choreography Fund. Reservations are requested by phone at 212-691-3803 or by email at jbryant@jmtw.org. The Pre-Gala Launch Celebration will feature excerpts of Jennifer Muller’s "Bench", inspired by Al Gore’s "An Inconvenient Truth". A new creation by Artistic Director/Choreographer Jennifer Muller, "Bench" will have its World Premiere during The Works’ 35th Anniversary Season at The Joyce Theater from June 9-14, 2009.

The Pre-Gala Launch Celebration is hosted by Chris and Michael Namer, Susan and Izak Namer, and Kate and Gary Spindler and is presented in partnership with The Urban Green Initiative. Event sponsors include 311 E 11: Village Green, and Izze Sparkling Beverages.Suggested donation is $20, benefiting The Works’ New Choreography Fund. Reservations are requested by phone at 212-691-3803 or by email at jbryant@jmtw.org.

Gallery 151| 350 Bowery, NYC

May 19, 2009

Michael Jai White in Black Dynamite

Just Published: Read William S Gooch's coverage of the Tribeca Film Festival Panel featuring the writer/producer and star of Black Dynamite.

May 18, 2009

James Gandolfini in In the Loop

Just Published: Read Frank J Avella's review of the Tribeca Film Festival selection Armando Iannucci’s In the Loop. Loop is scheduled to open in July of 2009.

May 17, 2009

Designer Christian Cota and Model LilianaDomiguez
Photo Credit Chance Yeh of Patrick McMullen

Just Published: Read my article and see Chance Yehs of Patrick McMullen's photographs of the El Museo Del Barrio's Pre-Gala Cocktail Party at Mauboussin.

May 16, 2009

Rinko Kikuchi in The Brothers Bloom

Just Published: Read Harvey Karten's review of Rian Johnson's The Brothers Bloom, which opened this weekend.

Here is an interesting event for today:

REEN-WOOD AWAKENING
GIANT PUPPETS TELL ALL!!
Saturday, May 16 & Sunday, May 17, 2009 @ 11:00 a.m. @ 3:00 p.m
Historic Green-Wood Cemetery

On Saturday, May 16 and Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m., Historic Green-Wood Cemetery, in collaboration with the Puppeteer’s Cooperative, presents “Green-Wood Awakening – Giant Puppets Tell All!” This event celebrates the spirit and beauty of Spring at Historic Green-Wood Cemetery. Visitors will walk under blooming trees, past glistening lakes and be engaged by giant puppets, live musicians and amazing story tellers. This event is perfect for history buffs and children of all ages.

With the help of giant cat and dog puppets, visitors will learn the story of Henry Bergh, Founder of the ASPCA; they’ll be introduced to New York Mayor DeWitt Clinton by a chorus of singing mules in fishnets; and then be guided to witness the awe-inspiring “Dance of Spring” finale where a 30-foot puppet of Lady Liberty flows skyward to greet and dance with her sister Minerva, high atop Green-Wood’s Battle Hill.

An individual ticket is $10. A family ticket is $25 per family (for two adults and unlimited children under 16). Visitors should meet at Green-Wood’s main gate 20 minutes before show time. Reserving advance tickets is strongly encouraged and can be done by visiting www.brownpapertickets.com/event/53729 or by calling the 24/7 Ticket Hotline at 1-800-838-3006.

Historic Green-Wood Cemetery
Meet at the main gate 5th Avenue at 25th Street, Brooklyn
Take the “R” train to 25th Street in Brooklyn and walk up the hill one block and into the Cemetery.

May 15, 2009

Ron Howard's Angels & Demons

Just Published: Read Harvey Karten's review of Ron Howard's Angels & Demons, which opens today, Friday May 15, 2009.

May 14, 2009

Carroll Dunham and Laurie Simmons
Photo Credit Daniel Perry

Just Published: See Daniel Perry's photos and read his article about The Bomb Magazine 28th Anniversary Party at the National Arts Club.

May 13, 2009

Spring
Photo Credit Angelo Rivera

Check out our recently updated You Report.

Kite Day
Photo Credit Angelo Rivera

Just Published: See Angelo Rivera's photo esssay on Kite Day in the Bronx.

May 12, 2009

Here is an interesting event for today:

Broadway at Birdland Presents
JULIE HALSTON
Returning to Birdland
Tuesdays, May 12 & 19 at 7pm
Birdland

Jim Caruso's Cast Party is proud to announce that Broadway and television personality JULIE HALSTON will make a triumphant return to Manhattan's premier entertainment room, Birdland (315 West 44th Street, NYC) on Tuesdays, May 12 & 19 at 7pm. These concerts are part of the Nightlife Award-winning concert series, Broadway at Birdland. Reservations are highly recommended by calling 212-581-3080 or by visiting www.birdlandjazz.com.

Julie Halston has decided, once again, to throw caution to the wind and just go CRAZY with new material, old material and of course new clothes! Don't miss the fabulous comedienne in these two very special evenings!

TICKET INFO: $25 general admission, $40 orchestra
$10 food/drink minimum per person
RESERVATIONS: 212-581-3080
www.BirdlandJazz.com

Birdland| 315 West 44 Street, NYC

May 11, 2009

Just Published: Read Frank J Avella's review of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival selection, Donald Petrie’s My Life in Ruins. Ruins is scheduled to open on June 5, 2009.

May 10, 2009

Narcisco Rodriguez Fashion
Photo Credit Eka Halim

Just Published: Read my article and see Eka Halim's photographs of the Narcisco Rodriguez Fashion show.

Just Published: Read Harvey Karten's review of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, which opened this weekend.

May 9, 2009

House Representative Barney Frank in Outrage

Just Published: Read Frank J. Avella's review of Kirby Dick’s Outrage, which opened Friday, May 8, 2009.

Here is an interesting event for today:

D.U.M.B.O. Show
A PMc Photographer’s Show
Curated by Patrick McMullan
Opening Reception: Friday, May 8, 7-9PM
Exhibition: May 7-May 25, 2009
The PowerHouse Arena

D.U.M.B.O. Show is the opportunity to present the Patrick McMullan Company photographers as the collective that they are. The Patrick McMullan Company photographers are all committed to photography, not only as a commercial product, but also, more importantly, as a form of art and self-expression. In curating this show, Patrick McMullan brings their diverse visions together in an attempt to find the common ground in the work of this talented stable of photographers. What emerges is a profound, universal appreciation for the beautiful and ugly aspects of humanity, as well as a clear dedication to advancing the medium of photography through rigorous practice and experimentation.

For more information, please contact Jenna Lundin, jenna@powerhousebooks.com

The PowerHouse Arena
37 Main Street, Brooklyn
For more information please call (718) 666-3049

May 8, 2009

Lady Gaga
PR Photos

Check out our newly updated Celebrities Out and About in New York City.

Opening Today: Read Frank J. Avella's review of Carlos Cuaron’s Rudo y Cursi, which opens today, Friday, May 8, 2009.

May 7, 2009

Gael Garcia Bernal
Photo Credit Belkis Carrasco

Check out our newly updated Faces of Tribeca for photographs from the Tribeca Film Festival premieres.

May 6, 2009

Burju Shoes
Photo Credit Belkis Carrasco

Just Published: Read Kim Weling's article and see Belkis Carrasco photographs of the Burju Shoe Launch Party.

May 5, 2009

Here is an interesting event for today:

Alonzo King’s
Lines Ballet
Tue–Wed 7:30pm
Thu–Fri 8pm
Sat 2pm & 8pm
Sun 2pm
HUMANITIES: Wed, May 6
May 5-10, 2009
The Joyce Theater

Special Opening Night Reception & Benefit Tickets On Sale

Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet will perform a special New York City engagement May 5 – 10, 2009 at The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue (at 19th Street). The acclaimed company is returning to The Joyce with a new program of work from the gifted choreographer featuring: “Rasa”, an exhilarating and transformative work set to tabla master Zakir Hussain’s rhythmic beat and another New York Premiere.

There will be a special Opening Night (Tuesday, May 5th at 7:30 pm) Benefit ticket available for $150. It includes premiere seats for the performance and a cocktail and hors d’oeuvres at Elmo (175 Seventh Avenue) following the show with Alonzo King and his dancers. For tickets and information, you can call (415) 3040 xx250 or alexis@linesballet.org.

Tabla music began as dancing music, in Northern Indian courts in the early 1700s, and its hypnotic intensity and complex rhythms convey the strong feeling that they are meant to move the body. There is an enthralling quality to the cyclical, accentual repetitions of rhythms. Zakir Hussain, son of the legendary tabla player Ustad Alla Rakha, has created music with an array of artists from the Karnatic tradition of Southern India, the international Silk Road Project, and Western drummers. He is the preferred accompanist for many of India's classical musicians and dancers. He began touring before he was twelve, and has received numerous awards including a Grammy for his collaborative album, Planet Drum. This is his third collaboration with Alonzo King. The tabla, with its rich texture of rhythmic patterns, is the main form of percussion in the Hindustani music of North India. The tabla bridges folk, semi-classical, and classical Hindustani music genres, and was intrinsic to the lost dances of the tawaif-s, who performed in 18th-century courts.

For more information visit www.linesballet.org

Regular tickets are now on sale for $49, $35 & $19 (Prices subject to change based on demand) and for Joyce members $37 & $26; through JoyceCharge (212) 242-0800 and www.joyce.org.

Joyce Theater | 175 8th Avenue
At the corner of 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
(212) 691-9740

May 4, 2009

Here is an interesting event for today:

Catalan Days: Arts, Food and Literature from Catalonia and the Balearic Islands
May 2 -12, 2009, various times
Baryshnikov Arts Center

The Baryshnikov Arts Center, in association with the Institut Ramon Llull, presents Catalan Days: Arts, Food and Literature from Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, May 2–12, 2009. The eight dance, music, and theater events at BAC offer a sample of Barcelona’s wide-ranging contemporary arts scene. The festival opens on May 2 with a performance by Jessica Lange of Joan Ollé’s theatrical adaptation of The Time of the Doves (La plaça del Diamant), Catalonian author Mercè Rodoreda’s classic novel. BAC presents four dance programs–all U.S premieres–including the acclaimed My Mother and I, choreographed by Sònia Gómez, and Bach, a solo performed by Maria Muñoz of the creative group Mal Pelo. Carlota Subirós directs readings of three new Catalan plays featuring American actors Kate Valk, Greg Keller, David Wilson Barnes and others, and eclectic pianist Carles Santos performs No al No, his homage to the American avant-garde. The events at BAC will conclude with SonarSoundNYC, the first U.S. iteration of Barcelona’s famed electronic dance music festival, which will take over the BAC building with installations and multimedia performances by artists from New York and Spain.

Admission for all BAC events is free. Reservations, which are required, can be made through Ticket Central: 212-279-4200 / www.ticketcentral.com. For more information, please visit: www.bacnyc.org.

Baryshnikov Arts Center | 450 W. 37th Street, New York, NY 10018.

May 3, 2009

Just Published: Read Frank J. Avella's review of the Tribeca Film Festival selection Steven Soderbergh’s The Girlfriend Experience.

Here is a fun and free event for today:

New York City Irish Dance Festival
Sunday May 3, 1 PM to 8 PM
Pier 1, Riverside Park South

The 8th annual free, all-day festival of Irish music and dance with some of New York’s top Irish ensembles, dance instruction, sing-a-longs and food, for the entire family. The opening event of the free, 9th annual Summer On the Hudson festival of arts and recreation at Manhattan’s Riverside Park South. Presented by the NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation.

Free admission. For more information, call 311 or (212) 408-0219, or visit www.nyc.gov/parks/soh, or www.riversideparkfund.org.

Venue: Pier 1, West 70th Street and the Hudson River
New York, NY

May 2, 2009

Here is an interesting literary event for today:

The PEN World Voices Festival
A Tribute to Harold Pinter
Saturday May 2nd 2009 11am – 10pm FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
CUNY Graduate Center

Participants include Harry Burton, Salman Rushdie, John Guare, Emily Mann, Brian O’Byrne, Todd Haimes, Jason Isaacs, Charles Grimes, Alistair Macaulay, and many others

Join us for a day-long celebration of the life of Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, curated by British actor-director Harry Burton, whose close friendship with Pinter spanned 25 years and many collaborations. The tribute will feature live readings, discussions, rare audio and video recordings of the author acting in his own plays, screenings of Pinter’s plays and feature films, and the U.S. premiere of an intimate documentary portrait, Working with Pinter.

Henry Woolf, a lifelong friend of Pinter’s who is featured in the documentary, is participating in the celebration, along with Burton. Other participants include PEN president Salman Rushdie; movie directors Paul Schrader and Patricia Rozema, who have worked with Pinter; playwrights John Guare and Emily Mann; Tony Award-winning actor Brian O’Byrne; Todd Haimes, artistic director of the Roundabout Theatre; actor Jason Isaacs; Charles Grimes, author of Harold Pinter’s Politics; Susan Hollis Merritt, editor of The Pinter Review; and Alistair Macaulay, dance critic of The New York Times and former theater critic of The Financial Times.

Four sessions will take place in Proshansky Auditorium, beginning at 11 a.m. with “The Early Days,” followed by “Man of the Theatre,” “Pinter at the Movies,” and “Pinter and Politics.” Performances in the evening, beginning at 7 p.m., will include a staged reading of The Dumb Waiter and Henry Woolf performing Monologue. Films will run consecutively throughout the day in the Segal Theatre Center screening room, beginning at 11 a.m. with The Birthday Party, and continuing with The Comfort of Strangers, Krapp’s Last Tape,”One for the Road, Voices, and Party Time.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC For more information, and a complete schedule of the day's events, please visit: http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/3239/prmID/1831

CUNY Graduate Center|365 Fifth Ave
Between 34th and 35th St, NYC

Here is a fun and free event for today:

Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum
May 2, 2009 FREE admission from 5 to 11 p.m.
Brooklyn Museum

5-7 p.m. Eco-Art Demonstrations
Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden, 1st Floor (Rain Plan: Hall of the Americas, 1st floor)
Turn your everyday objects into art and flowers by participating in outdoor demonstrations of recycled art-making with RePlayGround, and urban composting with Greenbridge. Ride your bike to the event and get a free bike repair lesson with Time's Up!

5:30–7:30 p.m. & 9:30-10:30 p.m. Music
Rubin Pavilion, 1st floor
Blending indie-rock with traditional Latin instrumentation, Pistolera traverses musical borders with their politically conscious and irresistibly danceable songs.

5:30–6:30 p.m. Screening and Performance
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd floor
The Puppeteers' Cooperative presents a popular theater using folk pageantry, parades, and earth-friendly themes. A screening of the short, El Ultimo Elote (2003, 2 min.), a claymation by Triqui children about the very last ear of corn, precedes the performance. Free tickets (340) are available at the Visitor Center at 5 p.m.

6:30–8:30 p.m. Hands-On Art
Education Division, 1st floor
Be inspired by the work of artist Gustave Caillebotte and other nineteenth-century painters and paint a landscape's reflection on water. Free timed tickets (380) are available at the Visitor Center at 5:30 p.m.

7 p.m. Young Voices Gallery Talk
Meet at the entrance to the Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing, 5th floor
Student guides give a conversational talk on Gustave Caillebotte.

7 p.m. Film
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd floor
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985, 90 min., PG), the classic love story of a man and his bike. Free tickets (340) are available at the Visitor Center at 6:30 p.m.

7:30 p.m. Film and Discussion
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th floor
Filmmaker Laura Hanna and activist farmer and director Severine von Tscharner Fleming share a sneak preview of scenes from The Greenhorns, a documentary about the young American farmer movement, and discuss the art of farming from a woman's perspective. Free tickets (30) are available at the Visitor Center at 6:30 p.m.

8 p.m. Artist Talk
Meet at the entrance to the Contemporary Art Galleries, 4th floor
Valerie Hegarty, whose artwork is featured in the exhibition 21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Museum, gives a talk. Free tickets (30) are available at the Visitor Center at 6:30 p.m.

9 p.m. Target First Saturdays Book Club
American Identities, 5th floor
Join local food advocate, teacher, and author Leda Meredith to discuss Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food.

9–11 p.m. Dance Party
Beaux-Arts Court, 3rd floor
DJ Franco spins rare vinyl, salvaged and recycled from discarded collections in West Africa, of African disco and highlife.

And for 1stfans. . .
7 p.m. Exclusive Viewing
Meet in the Main Lobby, 1st floor

1stfan Members will take an exclusive peek at the Brooklyn Museum's Staff Exhibition at 7p.m. Some of the 60 staff Members who submitted art for this exhibition will be on hand to discuss their work and mingle with 1stfans. Meet in the lobby at 6:45 p.m.

Brooklyn Museum of Art |200 Eastern Pkwy
Brooklyn, NY 11238
(718) 638-5000

May 1, 2009

Just Published: Read Harvey Karten's review of Aristomenis Tsirbas' Battle for Terra, which opens today, Friday, May 1, 2009.

Meg Ryan Photo Credit Ernie Green	Cheryl Hines Photo Credit Ernie Green

Just Published: See our photo essay, The Faces of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.

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