Athletes Discover Pot for Pain

You can try goggling this article and as usual whenever the pharmaceutical companies are proven how much damage and impact their products can usually have, the information falls behinds. So kuddos to Marc Peruzzi for his research and well put together article in regards the Marijuana and the wonders on serious pain related to major illness.

Excerpt from Men's Journal Magazine September 2008:

But could weed also be a better option than over-the counter drugs for sports injuries and muscle soreness?

I'm an Advil junkie. I stared abusing the anti-inflammatory after injuring my back spring skiing at Killibgton, Vermont, in the early 1990's. That day, while cresting over a slushy mogul, I compressed my spine and stacked all of my body weight on one wee, jelly-like disk in my lower back.

With much manipulation i folded myself behind the wheel for the three-hour drive home, popped open a bottle of Advil, and crammed five "skier's Chiclets" into my mouth, bucking them down dry.

For the next four years i turned screws in ski shops with bags of frozen peas strapped to my back and a bottle of Advil on the workbench. "Vitamin A" we called it. During that time i developed an ulcer. One night, piranha swimming in my intestines. Click on images from the complete article.

Pampering with the bargains

Through 9/30 Soho boutique Helen Wang is closing and discounting 50 to 80 percent off their line of flirty cocktail and black-tie dresses. Evening dresses are $450 down from $1500 and cocktail dresses are now $200 from $500. Through 9/30. 69 Mercer St., nr. Broome St. (212-997-4180); 11–7.

9/25–9/30 Mika Inatome is hosting a sample sale on over 100 of her slim-cut wedding gowns, which are marked down to 90 percent off retail. A silk-crepe gown is $376 from $3,765. Also, her bridal shoe collections are 30 percent off. 93 Reade St., nr. Church St., second fl. (212-966-7777); by appointment only.
Ongoing Enjoy up to 50 percent off the girly summer frocks at Pixie Market. 100 Stanton St., nr. Ludlow St. (212-253-0953); daily 12–8.

Through 9/30 Shades and frames from Gucci, Prada, and Armani are discounted by up to 85 percent at James Leonard Opticians. 1010 Second Ave., nr. 53rd St. (212-753-7733); and 309 Smith St., nr. President St., Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn (718-222-8300); Mon.–Fri. (10–7), Sat. (10–5).
Through 9/30 10/10 Optics is taking an additional 50 percent off already-reduced eyewear from Lafont, Vera Wang, and Theo. 50 Madison Ave., at 26th St. (212-366-1010); Mon.–Fri. (10–7); Sun. (12–5:30).


9/18–10/5 The Surrey Hotel is about to undergo a face-lift, and in the meantime, they're unloading everything from televisions and fitness equipment to artwork and cutlery for $1 to $2,800. 20 E. 76th St., nr. Madison Ave. (212-794-7045); Mon.–Sat. (10–7); Sun. (noon–5).


Through 10/31 In celebration of Sally Hershberger's announcement of a new salon, the staff at her downtown spot is kicking off its training program with discounts. Score a cut or coloring for $40 every Wednesday in October. 425 W. 14th St., nr. Ninth Ave., second fl. (212-206-870); Tues.–Fri. (9–7), Sat. (9–5), Sun.–Mon. (closed).


Ongoing Strand Bookstore has books priced from $1.95 to $5.95 at its sale. 828 Broadway, at 12th St. (212-473-1452); and Strand Annex, 95 Fulton St., nr. Gold St. (212-732-6070); call for store hours.

10/1–10/14 The furniture, lighting, and home accessories at Ochre are 30 to 70 percent off, including items from its signature Snooze and Divine Recline collections and select pieces from its lighting collections. 462 Broome St., nr. Mercer St. (212-414-4332); Mon.–Fri. (11–7), Sat. (11–6), Sun. (12–6).


Wednesday
10/1 Allow Shiseido skin-care specialists to demonstrate their luxurious facials and eye masks with a complimentary full-facial massage. Call for appointment. Bloomingdale’s, 1000 Third Ave., at 59th St., first fl. (212-705-2000); 10–8:30.


Thursday
10/2 Shecky's Beauty Night Out is a two-day event featuring free skincare, cosmetics, hair care, and fragrance samples and services. Plus, an experience of free cocktails and clothing up to 75 percent off. Tickets are $10 and available at sheckys.com. La Venue, 608 W. 28th St., nr. 11th Ave; 5–10.

Check out Miu Miu's fall collection of gorgeous leather handbags debuting today at Bergdorf Goodman. Bergdorf Goodman, 745 Fifth Ave., nr. 59th St., main fl. (212-753-7300); 3–6.


Friday
10/3 10/3–10/4 Giorgio Armani and the Simon Wiesenthal Center have teamed up for two national shopping days. Ten percent of all proceeds purchased at any four of Armani's New York boutiques will be donated to the organization. Just mention the Simon Wiesenthal Center at time of purchase. Giorgio Armani, 760 Madison Ave., nr. 65th St. (212-988-9191), 10–6; Armani Casa, 97 Greene St., nr. Spring St. (212-334-1271), 11–7; Emporio Armani, 601 Madison Ave., nr. 57th St. (212-317-0800), 10–7; Emporio Armani, 410 W. Broadway, nr. Spring St., (646-613-8099), 11–7.
View the fall 2008 Marni collection as it debuts today at Saks. Saks Fifth Avenue, 611 Fifth Ave., at 50th St., third fl. (212-940-1361); 1–4.

Saturday
10/4 Meet model David Gandy as he signs bottles of Zirh's latest men's fragrance, Zirh Ikon. Bloomingdale’s, 1000 Third Ave., at 59th St., first fl. (212-705-2890); 1–3.

Mercury Soapbox Presents: A moving Art Sho

A WHIRL OF COLORS
The essence of this art sho is "moving art", which really includes all art because it moves us, but we will be taking a look at some art forms that really involve movement. We'll be showcasing video works by Carlos Sebastion Guzman and painted peices by Hope Spithaler, but that's not all. For your enjoyment, we will also have the musical stylings of DJ Komon holding us down, an acrobat displaying his skills, and body painting stations so we can all becoming moving art. As always the sho is free and at Club Europa.

Tuesday September 30th 9pm-12am

Club Europa

98 Meserole Ave.

Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Featuring: Carlos Sebastion Guzman, Hope Spithaler, FatTricks and DJ Komon!

FREE- 18 to Appreciate, 21 to Inebriate

Bring your camera and help capture the magic!

Hammered for Pennies on the Dollar: Friday

Diahrrhea weather got you down? Behold! The answer to your troubles..

No Big Deal

Sparks, Le Tourment Vert Absinthe, $5 cover / 10pm until gone

Alphabeta

70 Greenpoint Ave,btw. Franklin and WestGreenpoint



Dumbo Arts Festival

artsy booze / 7pm-9pm

DUMBO Arts Center

30 Washington St.,btw. Water and Plymouth St. DUMBO



All You Can Drink Sangriasangria

$15 cover / 7pm-12am

Unwined

2537 Broadway,at 95th St.Upper West Side(646) 403-3215



A Night Inside Graceland

$5, Blue Moon / 9pm-11pm

Glasslands Gallery

289 Kent Avenue,at South 1stWilliamsburg



Supermodeldeathdive

wells free with RSVP / 10pm-11pm

Matchless557

Manhattan Avenue,at Driggs

Rsvp HERE

Barack Rock

Andrew Bird, Fiery Furnaces, others to Rock for Barack

Andrew Bird / Eugene Mirman / The Fiery Furnaces / Kumail Nanjiani / Alina Simone / Heather Lawless / Guster / Lizz Winstead / Martin Bisi / John Roberts / Adira Amram / Special Secret Musical Guests -- (Not appearing in order)
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN!

Tue 10/7, on sale 9/27 12:00 pm, 18+
Doors 6:30 pm / Show 7:30 pm
$40 advance / $40 day of show
@ Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

CACA: Designer vagina trend 'worrying'

A leading urogynaecologist has spoken out against the growing popularity of cosmetic vaginal surgery.
Professor Linda Cardozo, of King's College Hospital, London, says little evidence exists to advise women on the safety or effectiveness of procedures.
These include operations to make the external appearance more "attractive" and reshaping the vagina to counter laxity after childbirth, for example.
She discussed the issues at a medical meeting in Montreal, Canada.
Women want to emulate the supermodel. It's part of a trend
Professor Cardozo
A Google search showed over 45,000 references to cosmetic vaginal surgery, yet on medical databases such as PubMed or Medline there were fewer than 100.
Professor Cardozo said the most established vaginal cosmetic procedure was reduction labioplasty - a procedure to make the labia smaller - which is requested by women either for aesthetic reasons or to alleviate physical discomfort.
"Women want to emulate the supermodel. It's part of a trend. But they should know that all surgery can be risky.
"Most of the procedures are done in the private sector and it's totally unregulated."
The exact numbers of procedures carried out are unknown.
In the past five years there has been a doubling of the number of labial reductions carried out on the NHS from 400 in 2000/1 to 800 in 2004/5.
Growing trend
The evidence from existing case studies shows that the procedure, which costs about £2,000 at a private clinic, does have positive aesthetic results but it is unclear whether it resolves feelings of psychological distress or improves sexual functioning, she said.
Types of cosmetic vaginal surgery
Labioplasty - to make the labia smaller
Vaginal rejuvenation - to make the vagina tighter
Hymenoplasty - to restore the hymen and make the woman appear a virgin
And there was little evidence that "vaginal rejuvenation" - the surgical repair of vaginal laxity, with a price tag of about £3,000 - improved symptoms and was any better than doing simple pelvic floor muscle exercises.
She said robust research was needed so that doctors could properly advise their patients. In the meantime, she urged surgeons to remain cautious and operate only as a last resort.
In her presentation at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 7th International Scientific Meeting, Professor Cardozo said: "Cosmetic vaginal procedures raise a number of serious ethical questions.
"Women are paying large sums of money for this type of surgery which may improve the appearance of their genitalia but there is no evidence that it improves function."

-BBC News

I think vaginas are like snowflakes, each and every one unique in their own way! What ever happened to exercises like belly dancing? and why would any woman want Kate Moss's used up baby batter basket? Priorities, priorities.....

CACA: First Debate Up in Air as McCain Steps Off the Trail

By ELISABETH BUMILLER and JEFF ZELENY

Declaring that it was time to “set politics aside,” Senator John McCain said Wednesday that he would temporarily stop campaigning and seek to delay Friday’s debate with Senator Barack Obama to return to Washington to help forge an agreement on a proposed $700 billion bailout of financial institutions before Congress.

The Obama campaign rejected the call by Mr. McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, to delay the debate, and aides noted that Mr. McCain only made the offer after Mr. Obama reached out to his opponent asking him to issue a joint statement calling for a bipartisan resolution to the financial crisis.
The political maneuvering came as the financial bailout continued to dominate Washington, the headlines and the concerns of ordinary Americans. On Wednesday evening, both Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, accepted President Bush’s invitation to meet with him on Thursday to address the crisis.
Mr. McCain’s actions not only cast doubt on whether the highly anticipated debate would come off, but also thrust an unpredictable new element into the negotiations for the bailout, with some Democrats warning that Mr. McCain’s intervention could derail progress being made on the rescue package.
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic majority leader, said Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama should not return to Washington and inject presidential politics into the bailout negotiations.
“We need leadership, not a photo op,” a statement issued by Mr. Reid said.
But Republicans, eager for political cover from Mr. McCain on a bailout proposal that members of both parties see as deeply unpopular in the country, embraced his return. “The threats to Americans, and their homes, savings and retirements, is not a partisan problem, and it won’t be fixed with a partisan approach,” said Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, who called Mr. McCain’s attempt to help forge a deal an “outstanding idea.”
Explaining his decision to reject Mr. McCain’s call to postpone their debate in Oxford, Miss., Mr. Obama cited the gravity of the nation’s financial crisis.
“It is my belief that this is exactly the time when the American people need to hear from the person who, in approximately 40 days, will be responsible for dealing with this mess,” Mr. Obama said. “It is going to be part of the president’s job to deal with more than one thing at once.”
Mr. McCain’s decision seeking to postpone the first debate was yet another unpredictable, daring step taken by his campaign over the last month: its selection of Gov. Sarah Palin as a vice-presidential candidate shook up the race in late August, and days later the campaign stripped down the first day of the Republican National Convention because of the threat of Hurricane Gustav.

In the midst of the confusion, officials with the Commission on Presidential Debates said that they were moving forward with the debate and that talks with the McCain campaign throughout the day had not persuaded them on Mr. McCain’s position. “We believe the public will be well served by having all of the debates go forward as scheduled,” the commission said.
The meeting with Mr. Bush on Thursday was precipitated by a call from Mr. McCain, who cast his request as a matter of urgent national priority. “Following Sept. 11, our national leaders came together at a time of crisis,” he told a small group of reporters, while reading the brief statement from a teleprompter, in a small ballroom at the Hilton New York hotel. “We must show that kind of patriotism now.”
Wednesday night, the two candidates issued the joint statement that Mr. Obama had requested, calling for bipartisan unity to solve the crisis.
“Now is a time to come together Democrats and Republicans in a spirit of cooperation for the sake of the American people,” the statement said. “The plan that has been submitted to Congress by the Bush administration is flawed, but the effort to protect the American economy must not fail.”
Mr. McCain made his decision to try to delay the debate as he has been struggling to find his political footing on the financial crisis and a number of recent polls showed that more Americans trust Mr. Obama to handle the economy than Mr. McCain. Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, has also come under scrutiny this week because of his ties to Freddie Mac, one of the mortgage giants at the heart of the credit crisis.
Mr. Reid’s opposition to Mr. McCain’s return was described as disingenuous by Mr. McCain’s advisers, who only hours earlier had said Mr. McCain was returning to Washington in part as a response to Mr. Reid. “Senator Reid last night made clear in his view that it was up to John McCain to provide leadership on this matter,” Steve Schmidt, a senior McCain campaign adviser, told reporters on Wednesday afternoon.
The debate on Friday was to focus on Mr. McCain’s perceived strength, foreign policy. Mr. McCain had not planned to devote large blocks of time to debate practice as did Mr. Obama, who was holing up with a tight circle of advisers at a hotel in Clearwater, Fla., on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to prepare. Mr. McCain had a preparatory session on Wednesday afternoon at the Morgan Library in Manhattan, but advisers said it had been interrupted by his decision, announced immediately afterward, to suspend his campaign.
Democrats were withering in their reaction to Mr. McCain’s decision.
“Now that we are on the verge of making a deal, John McCain airdrops himself in to help us make a deal,” said Representative Barney Frank, of Massachusetts and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. “Frankly, we are going to have to interrupt a negotiating session tomorrow between Democrats and Republicans on a bill where I think we are getting pretty close to troop down to the White House for a photo op.”
“What, does McCain think the Senate will still be working at 9 p.m. Friday?” Gov. Edward G. Rendell of Pennsylvania said in an interview, referring to the scheduled start time of the debate. “I think this is all political.”
Throughout the day, Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama were locked in an unusual back-and-forth about the bailout and Mr. McCain’s decision to suspend his campaign. The exchange started with a morning telephone call from Mr. Obama to Mr. McCain to ask whether Mr. McCain would issue a joint statement on the government bailout plan. But Mr. McCain was not available to take the call, and the two did not connect until six hours later, about 2:30 p.m.

At that point, they had what the McCain campaign described as a 10-minute phone call, but the substance of it remained in dispute between the two campaigns. Mr. Schmidt of the McCain campaign said Mr. McCain told Mr. Obama that he was going to suspend his campaign and return to Washington and that he had called Mr. Bush to ask that he convene a meeting on the crisis.

But Mr. Obama was left with the impression from the conversation that Mr. McCain was “mulling over” suspending the debate as an option, not a final decision.
“Apparently, this was something that, you know, he was more decisive about in his own mind,” Mr. Obama told reporters.
Mr. Obama conceded being taken by surprise by the afternoon announcement from Mr. McCain, which Obama aides said occurred about 10 minutes after the phone conversation between the two men.
Mr. Obama stopped short of suggesting that Mr. McCain was playing politics by calling for a delay in their first presidential debate, and he continued with the same low-key tone he has employed throughout the financial crisis. But Mr. Obama did say with a glint of humor that both he and Mr. McCain were capable of engaging in the debate and negotiations in Congress at the same time.
“If it turns out that we need to be in Washington, we’ve both got big planes — we’ve painted our slogans on the sides of them,” Mr. Obama said. “They can get us from Washington, D.C., to Mississippi fairly quickly.”
Two members of the Commission on Presidential Debates, the nonpartisan group that has sponsored the debates since 1988, said Wednesday that they were pursuing a strategy of trying to force Mr. McCain’s hand by having the full commission release a strongly worded statement saying the debate would go forward as planned.
The commission members noted that past debates had been held during moments of crisis, like as the attack on the destroyer Cole during the 2000 debates, and said they believed both Mr. McCain and Mr. Obama could follow through on their commitment to participate in Friday night’s debate while exercising their duties as senators.
“Our role is not to play referee on their involvement in or concern about the bailout talks, but to hold a debate that all sides have agreed to,” said one commission member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because members had agreed not to speak beyond the commission statement released Wednesday. “At this point, we see no reason to cancel the debate.”

nytimes.com

Revolution! The new Rock n Roll Dance Party up in the South Bronx.

Bring your fists and dancing shoes!!!

Revolution! The new Rock n Roll Dance Party up in the South Bronx.

Party in up and coming Mott Haven. Bronx baby. Authentic nyc style.

Featuring first EVER live performance by Aiden frontman WiL Francis's new wave/electro sideproject "William Control." (Victory Records) Plus NYC punk band Kissy Kamikaze.

Resident DJs Cindy Kim (Beat Pulse Invasion) and Adam Underground spin 80s, indie, electro, new wave and rock n roll all night long. Guest DJ set by William Control.

$3 Revolution Shots 10-12!
$4 well drinks and Six Point beer all night!

Dinner & Beer special - hang out at Bruckner for some pre-party dinner and enjoy $2 Six Point beer from 9-10!

$7, $5 with flyer or RSVP on going.com

***18 to get in, 21 to drink with ID***

@ Bruckner Bar
1 Bruckner Blvd
corner of bruckner and 3rd avenue right next to the 3rd ave bridge - just steps from Manhattan.
6 train to 138th street (first stop in the bronx)

Myspace page HERE

Ete D'amour@Santos Party House

Sep 25, 2008 10PM
Downstairs
The finale of Ete D'Amour with special guests
Michael Mayer & Superpitcher (Kompakt)

Santos Party House 100 Lafayette Street

Purchase Tix HERE

Street Art Street Life: From the 1950s to Now

September 14, 2008 - January 25, 2009
@ The Bronx Museum of Arts



Thirty artists and photographers from the late fifties to the present.
Featured artists:
Vito Acconci, Francis Alys, Amy Arbus, Joseph Beuys, Blank Noise Project, Sophie Calle, Valie Export, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Daniel Guzman, Raymond Hains, David Hammons, Teh Ching Hsieh, Kimsooja, William Klein, Nikki S. Lee, Zoe Leonard, Sze Tsung Leong, Les Levine, George Maciunas, Gordon Matta-Clark, Barbara Moore, Peter Moore, Nils Norman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Robin Rhode, Martha Rosler, Edward Ruscha, Allan Sekula, Jamel Shabazz, Xaviera Simmons, Fatimah Tuggar, David Van Tieghem, Jaques de la Villegle, Garry Winogrand, David Wojnarowicz, and Martin Wong.

This show is definitely unique in its own sense of choice of artists. Entering and exploring the exhibit, you will notice there may be only a handful of names that may ring a bell. Showcasing a more underground art scene, you learn and experience where all of these reoccurring styles in fashion, art, and music are coming from. Mediums used in the featured pieces range from video's including sound art, to photography, to canvas.


BRONX MUSEUM
1040 Grand Concourse
at 165th Street
Bronx, New York 10456
T: (718) 681-6000
F: (718) 681-6181

The Bargain Picks

Hands down no one can decline a bargain shopping....
leave with thrift stores and random items that can quite spice up your wardrobe in a bit. Isn't wonderful when you can look like a million dollars but only spend less a couple of bucks on a whole ensemble.


Abstract Wool Cloche



$12.80

Unique abstract design wool cloche features cut brim with pinched top section.
At forever21.com













Fab Basic Black Satin Skirt


$11.50
This basic solid color short skirt gets updated with its gleaming satin construction featuring pleated details on the front, side pockets, and a hidden back zipper closure. At forever21.com













Shawl Collar Wrap Coat


$36.00

Sweater coat with buttonless open front design closed with removable grosgrain waist sash. Also features side pockets
At Twelve by Twelve Shop















Silence & Noise Captain Dress


$58.00

Vintage-inspired dress cut short with a crewneck and notched cap sleeves. Trimmed with coordinating piping throughout and topped with rows of ornamental brass buttons at the front and back.
At urbanoutfitters.com






I'll be posting some fresh picks later on

Topshop in USA

So we can finally have a cup of tea with the mother land TopShop, is the fashion destination on the British high street. Capturing the zeitgeist every season, Topshop blends cutting edge style with purse-friendly prices to bring its fashion savvy customers their weekly fashion fix.

Location:


















478 Broadway in Soho

Expansion:

Topshop owner Sir Philip Green has granted WWD an exclusive interview about the 40,000-square-foot, tri-level flagship, which will open in September, and his plans for nationwide expansion.

To cut right to the chase, Green's most interesting disclosures are that (1) he wants to open two more Topshops in Manhattan very soon after the Soho store debuts, (2) he wants to plant Topshops in California (most likely LA), Las Vegas, Miami and Boston (what, no Chicago?) and (3) he wants to use the stateside Topshops to showcase homegrown design talent (as he does with British designers in his stores across the pond). That's really...it. Though the WWD piece is super long, we don't really learn anything that you wouldn't just assume after finding out that Green had signed a lease in Soho—obviously he plans on expanding his business in America. Green doesn't specify as to where the other two Manhattan stores will go, but we've got a few locations in mind. Don't Union Square and Herald Square both seem primed for a Topshop?

For U.S Topshop site click HERE
Fall 2008

Hammered for Pennies on the Dollar: Thursday

Good Bye Summer - Hello Rum!
Castillo Silver Puerto Rican Rum, no cover / 9pm-10pm
New Williamsburgh Cafe
170 Wythe Ave.,at North 7thWilliamsburg

Common Folk
Zygo Vodka, no cover / 11pm-12am
Home Sweet Home131
Chrystie Street,btw. Delancey and BroomeLower East Side(212) 226-5708

Mel's Worldwell
vodka, no cover / 10pm-11pm
DJs Christopher Just, Marc Alan Gray and Stretch Armstrong (not gay) with performances by Jonte`(totally gay), Richie Rich, Michael Gwaltney and a very special appearance by our beloved Andre J
Le Royale
21 7th Ave South,at Leroy St.West Village

Technique
well vodka, no cover / 11pm-12am
40 C40 Avenue C,btw. E 4th St. and E 3rd St.LES(212) 466-0800

Cheeky Bastard Presents: Ursula 1000
Lucky Beer, free w/RSVP / 10pm-11pm
Alex English & Peter Makebish will be spinning
RSVP here
Hiro Ballroom371 W 16th Street,at 9th AvenueMeatpacking District(212) 242-4300

NC-17
well vodka, Bud, downstairs / 12am-12:30am
Lit
93 Second Avenue,btw. 5th and 6th StreetsEast Village(212) 777-7987

Bad news for your liver yo!

HERESIES BY PEDRO MEYER

Mexican photographer Pedro Meyer’s “Heresies” — opening simultaneously in 60 museums worldwide — is a four-decade retrospective by one of the world’s most innovative image-makers. After an early start as a documentary photographer, Meyer began using digital technology in the early 1990’s to combine photographic elements from disparate times and places, thus arriving at a different or higher truth. Meyer’s contention that all photographs — digitally manipulated or not — are equally “true” and “untrue” has been labeled heretical among traditional documentary photographers, hence the title “Heresies”. At El Museo, images on view include musings on Latin American religious imagery, the lives of immigrants, and the 1968 Mexican student uprising, among other themes.

Admission: Free. El Museo’s galleries are under renovation! This exhibition is open only on Saturdays and can be seen by guided tour only, beginning October 11 through December 13, 2008. Tours in English start at 2:00 pm. Tours in Spanish start at 3:00 pm. Please meet museum educators five minutes before the tour at El Museo’s entrance on the corner of 5th Avenue and 104th Street. Groups of 10 or more must make an advance reservation for a private tour by emailing tours@elmuseo.org

Ghada Amer: Love Has No End

February 16–October 19, 2008

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 4th Floor
Ghada Amer: Love Has No End, the first U.S. survey of the renowned artist’s work, features some fifty pieces from every aspect of Amer’s career as a painter, sculptor, illustrator, performer, garden designer, and installation artist. These include the iconic Barbie Loves Ken, Ken Loves Barbie (1995/2002), The Reign of Terror (2005), and Big Black Kansas City Painting—RFGA (2005), as well as a generous selection of works never before exhibited in this country.

While she describes herself as a painter and has won international recognition for her abstract canvases embroidered with erotic motifs, Ghada Amer is a multimedia artist whose entire body of work is infused with the same ideological and aesthetic concerns. The submission of women to the tyranny of domestic life, the celebration of female sexuality and pleasure, the incomprehensibility of love, the foolishness of war and violence, and an overall quest for formal beauty, constitute the territory that she explores and expresses in her art. In addition to the erotic paintings for which she is most famous, numerous works devoted to world politics are exhibited, including some of her more recent antiwar pieces.

Ghada Amer: Love Has No End is organized for the Brooklyn Museum by Maura Reilly, Ph.D., Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.

Brooklyn Musuem
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
Telephone: (718) 638-5000; TTY: (718) 399-8440
Admission: Suggested Contribution: $8; Students with Valid ID: $4; Adults 62 and over: $4; Members: Free; Children under 12: Free
Hours: Wednesday–Friday: 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Saturday–Sunday: 11 a.m.–6 p.m
Subway: 2,3 Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum

Indies Film to watch

Mike Leigh's latest, Happy-Go-Lucky, about a preschool teacher in England who's a cock-eyed optimist

Philippe Claudel's Il y a longtemps que je t’aime (I’ve Loved You for So Long). This subtle drama is about a woman recently released from jail after 15 years who goes to live with her younger sister and her family.

Jan Troell: Everlasting Moments. It’s about a family in early 1900s Sweden, and how the ownership of a camera changes the life of the matriarch. The film is about creativity and love—and it's a masterpiece.

Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire is the tale of a poor boy growing up in the slums of India and his Dickensian rags-to-riches journey.

Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler s about a washed-up bruiser who is way past his prime and who has alienated himself from any meaningful relationships including his own daughter. He dreams of making it to the top again.

Rod Lurie's The Secret Life of Bees adaptation.

Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married is about the preparation of a bi-racial wedding that gets disrupted by the return of the sister resh from rehab and determined to get every skeleton to come out of the family’s closet.

Bohdan Sláma’s The Country Teacher from the Czech Republic about how a small town learns to deal with diversity

That Was Then...This Is Now, PS1 until September 29th

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center presents That Was Then… This Is Now, an exhibition featuring spectacular pieces including Leo Villareal’s new LED Flag installed in the P.S.1 elevator; Apolitico, an expansive outdoor flag installation by Wilfredo Prieto; Cannone Semovente, a monumental sculpture by the late Italian artist Pino Pascali; and Lawrence Weiner’s Milk and Honey, which evokes a sensuous and ephemeral dream. This group exhibition is inspired by the artistic and socio-political climate of the late 1960s, and features artists united by the desire to mobilize art as a means of change. Divided into three iconographic themes—Flags, Weapons, and Dreams—That Was Then…This Is Now places these representations as central to artists’ collective aspiration towards progress.

The Flags section presents artists’ interpretations of the American flag and explores elements of nationality, patriotism, and iconography, and the debates invoked by these concepts. Spencer Sweeney takes a police car, an emblem of authority and control, and literally inverts it into a monumental banner. Utilizing the colors of the Pan-African movement, David Hammons champions the United States’ underrepresented minority. Jasper Johns, perhaps the most well-known for his representations of the flag, has returned to this theme throughout his career and considers this loaded symbol as a graphic form.

The Weapons section surveys tools used to impart violence, both literal and psychological. Artists examine how these instruments are utilized in acts of oppression and protest. Andy Warhol’s Electric Chair pares down an apparatus of the justice system to its essence as a killing machine. Damián Ortega’s large, suspended installation, Controller of the Universe, casts tools—constructive and useful—as menacing weapons. Nickels and matches metamorphose into a fleet of 50,000 Soviet tanks as Chris Burden’s The Reason for the Neutron Bomb considers currency as a force that funds and motivates large-scale destruction.

The Dreams section presents future-oriented and activist art through political posters and graphics, the publication as conceptual art project, cinematic protest, and the legacies of utopian architecture. The tradition of graphic art as political protest represented by Emory Douglas and Sister Corita Kent can be seen in the bold palette and graphic lines of contemporary artists Carrie Moyer and Michael Lazarus. Dan Graham, as well as groups like Archigram and Superstudio, are oriented toward a different future, one that challenges the accepted links between artistic forms, and seeks instead to demystify the fields of art and architecture.

Artist list:

Archigram, Fiona Banner, Jeremy Blake, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, Paul Chan, Jen DeNike, Emory Douglas, Tyler Drosdeck, Todd Eberle, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Mitch Epstein, John Fekner, Jason Fox, Andrea Fraser, Joy Garnett, Leon Golub, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dan Graham, Gregory Green, Hans Haacke, David Hammons, Marc Handelman, Peter Hendrick, Jonathan Horowitz, Alfredo Jaar, Jasper Johns, Scott King, Barbara Kruger, Michael Lazarus, An-My Lê, Robert Longo, Lovett/Codagnone, Robert Mapplethorpe, Edgar Martins, Adam McEwen, Josephine Meckseper, Jonas Mekas, Peter Moore, Carrie Moyer, Steve Mumford, My Barbarian, Richard Nonas, Marcel Odenbach, Dennis Oppenheim, Damián Ortega, Pino Pascali, Wilfredo Prieto, Primary Information, Yvonne Rainer, David Ratcliff, Ry Rocklen, Thomas Ruff, Dread Scott, Sister Corita Kent, Nancy Spero, Superstudio, Spencer Sweeney, VALIE EXPORT, Leo Villareal, Banks Violette, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, Winterfilm Collective

MSTRKRFT @ Webster Hall

Fist of God Tour

with

Felix Cartel & Congorock

Doors 11pm (Grand Ballroom opens at midnight)
19 to enter, 21 to drink.


Limited supply of $10 advance tickets here:
http://www.websterhall.com/2007_websterhall/clubnight/club_friday_101008.php

In Agenda: Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937

Joan Miró:
Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937 is the first major museum exhibition to identify the core practices and strategies Miró used to attack and reinvigorate painting between 1927 and 1937, a transformative decade within his long career. Taking his notorious claim—“I want to assassinate painting” —as its point of departure, the exhibition explores twelve of Miró’s sustained series from this decade, beginning with a 1927 group of works on canvas that appears to be raw and concluding with 1937’s singular, hallucinatory painting, Still Life with Old Shoe. Acidic color, grotesque disfigurement, purposeful stylistic heterogeneity, and the use of collage and readymade materials are among the aggressive tactics that Miró used in pursuit of his goal. By assembling in unprecedented depth the interrelated series of paintings, collages, objects, and drawings of this decade, this exhibition repeatedly poses the question of what painting meant to Miró and what he proposed as its opposite, and in the process reveals the artist’s paradoxical nature: an artist of violence and resistance who never ceased to be a painter, a creator of forms. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.

November 2, 2008–January 12, 2009

The Museum of Modern Art
(212) 708-9400
11 West 53 Street,
between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York, NY 10019-5497

Film and Media Collection Still Moving @ The MoMa

In late 2006 The Museum of Modern Art published Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the first-ever survey of MoMA's world-renowned holdings in the art of the moving image. In conjunction with this book the Museum presents a regular series derived exclusively from its film collection, featuring works that have been acquired and preserved by MoMA over the last seven decades. August features four classic Italian films recently restored by and acquired from Mediaset S.p.A. In September, we mark the recent passing of producer, director, and actor Sydney Pollack with a screening of his early directorial success They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, along with Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives, in which Pollack portrays a man in the throes of a midlife crisis. In addition, we present Garson Kanin's comedy of marital confusion, My Favorite Wife, and a screening of Michael Snow's 1967 classic of Structuralist cinema, Wavelength.



Wed 3/14/07 - Fri 12/31/10 (10:30AM)
Museum Of Modern Art (MOMA)
11 W 53rd St New York, NY
Cost included in admission
Official Site: http://www.moma.org

En la Island: Cultura

El viaje a un pasado milenario, la ruta que sigue el futuro lleno de interrogantes y desafíos, el testimonio de epopeyas locales y la conexión en todas las direcciones que con el tiempo ha establecido el terruño insular, marcan la trayectoria de la cultura dominicana y sus más de cinco siglos de historia documentada.

Lienzos de ayer y de hoy, museos y edificaciones que hablan de presencia fascista en el Caribe, postmodernismo tropical, evocaciones taínas imborrables forman parte de ese patrimonio intangible que da identidad a un suelo que se enriquece cada día.

El compendio cultural de Dominicana On Line ofrece unas pinceladas de ese amplísimo mundo que engloba la identidad dominicana. El repaso repara en la gastronomía con sabores y aromas propios y adquiridos;en la visión pluralista y apasionada que dejan historias de artistas de la pluma y la pintura; en la música que a veces es merengue, bachata, mangulina y un abanico asombroso de ritmos.

Las obras que con la madera, el barro y el concreto han dado perfiles muy diversos a pueblos y ciudades también entran en el sumario que, lejos de haberse completado, apenas comienza a definirse.
Expulsados muchos, idos unos pocos por opciones muy particulares, tenemos también una parte plantada allende los mares que siempre está aquí, de muchos modos. Pero la tierra de migrantes lo es también de acogida, y de ahí sale otro de nuestros acentos.
Las páginas de la cultura dominicana llenan un libro que se escribe cada segundo con historias tan locales como globales, tan insulares como transoceánicas.

Una pagina con una variada gama de informacion acerca de la cultura Dominicana
http://www.dominicanaonline.org/Portal/espanol/cpo_cultura.asp

Do you ever wonder?

This weekend I went to Border's book store. The purpose of this ever so memorable trip was to pick up some studying materials. Instead, I wandered over to another section, you know, the one with bright colorful construction paper, jelly pens, a massive shelf of Burt's Bees products, bean bags, chocolates, and fluffy head bands... you know exactly what section I'm talking about. I became melancholic the moment I saw the Baby Sitter's Club, and so I grabbed a couple of them and headed for the Starbucks cafe across the isle. But what really got me was this do it your self guide, like the bible on origami, that I saw next to the fresh roast and the jelly belly. When after half an hour I actually figured out how to make a dove out of tissue paper, I knew that this guide had to be mine. The thing is, I only had 45 in cash, and my study material was 40. The origami bible was 42.80. I lied to myself about really needing the study materials, and made the line with my origami bible. Oh and I grabbed the jelly belly too. Which I happen to be munching on on this very moment. At work, writing this blog instead of actually doing work. Sigh.

HOT IN THE CITY - 09/18/08

Because you may be braver than i tonight, here are some great events going on all over the city that will surely have you hating yourself tomorrow morning.

Happy Ending
10pm Something Tight
Put on something more comfortable and slip into something tight for mp3js Timmy and Telfar's guilty-pleasures gay danceparty. Prepare for party gifts and sensory overload. Upstairs. ***1st, 3rd and 5th Thursdays*** FREE.

302 Broome St, at Forsythe St, Lower East Side
[F,J,M,Z to Delancey St-Essex St] 212-334-9676


Hiro Ballroom
10pm Cheeky Bastard
Alex English and Peter Makebish give the right amount of individualized, lifted-from-the-cue-ball-game "English" into mixes, making this party a rare arabesque between down- and uptown. FREE with rsvp at gbh.tv.

371 W 16th St, at Ninth Ave, Chelsea
[A,C,E,L to 14th St-Eighth Ave] 212-242-4300


Lit
10pm NC-17
NC-17 is a sweltering mass of flesh, self-promotion and shared sexual exploration. Low ceilings and high decibels, short skirts and tall drinks compound themselves into the party antics similar to, and just as large as, something on a XXX movie theatre screen, pardon the contradiction. FREE with mention of either Jess or Bastard.

93 Second Ave, between E 5th and E 6th Sts, East Village
[F,V to Lower East Side-Second Ave] 212-777-7987


The Annex
9pm CLUB NME
Join the hottest punters in NYC for all things indie. Bands are followed by specially [INVALID]ed DJs playing new and old music with a distinct UK-centric flavor. $10; FREE after 11:30pm; drink special after midnight.

152 Orchard St, between Stanton and Rivington Sts, Lower East Side
[F,J,M,Z to Delancey St-Essex St] 646-638-3758


Lolita Bar
10pm D.U.I.
DJ 5'-5" (wishes he were taller) and Chris Alker (Deprogram) throw down a blend of damaged disco/electro/new wave/dance rock and other unexpected sounds. A raffle prize giveaway and drink specials seal the deal. ***Second and Fourth Thursday*** FREE.

266 Broome St, at Allen St, Lower East Side
[F,J,M,Z to Delancey St-Essex St] 212-966-7223


Beauty Bar
10pm Boogaloo Shampoo
NYNT's Jonathan Toubin presents a night of hard drinking punk electicism with help from special guests from across the NYC underground music community. FREE.

231 E 14th St, between Second and Third Aves, East Village [L to Third Ave] 212-539-1389


Your Co-workers will never notice you are wearing yesterdays clothes.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Vicky a mi me gusta mas Vickiana... Cristina y Barcelona

I was encouraged to see Vicky Cristina Barcelona and thoroughly enjoyed it. Apparently content to write its screenplay and then direct it without appearing in it, Allen's unique influence continues to be significant but inconspicuous as he allows his characters and plot to develop naturally. Here's the situation. Two young and attractive American women, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johannson), arrive in Barcelona to spend much of the summer with Vicky's older friends, Judy and Mark Nash (Patricia Clarkson and Kevin Dunn). For reasons best revealed in the film, they become involved with a local artist, Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem), and develop separate, quite different relationships with him.

Several complications gradually and sometimes suddenly occur. For example, Vicky is engaged to Doug (Chris Messina) back in the U.S. who impulsively decides to visit her in Barcelona and marry her immediately in a civil ceremony there, to be followed by a lavish wedding later in the year. He represents everything that the analytical and grounded Vicky repeatedly claims she wants (i.e. wealth, status, stability, security). However, he lacks the passion and sensitivity that she has found irresistible in Juan Antonio. In stunning contrast, Cristina is a free spirit, "up for anything," who also finds the artist irresistible and eagerly moves in with him, to Vicky's predictable dismay. Meanwhile, Judy Nash confides to Vicky that there is no love in her marriage and urges Vicky to follow her heart, not her carefully calculated life plan. Nonetheless, Vicky marries Doug soon after he appears and they remain in Barcelona for awhile.

Unexpectedly, Juan Antonio's former wife whom he still loves, Maria Elena (Penélope Cruz), appears. In fact, after her failed suicide attempt, Juan Antonio insists that she move back into the home they once shared and live with him and Cristina until she (Maria Elena) recovers. He loves all three women and they love him. It would be a disservice to those who have not as yet seen the film to reveal more plot details in this review of it.

I think this is Allen's most coherent and engaging film since Hannah and Her Sisters (1986). His direction is crisp and sure, the dialogue is appropriate to various situations (e.g. there is an almost total absence of Allenesque quips), and the performances by the lead actors are outstanding. It is impossible for me to take my eyes off Cruz whenever she is onscreen. Given her pyrotechnical personality, she is capable of literally anything. Clarkson does the best she can with her role as Judy Nash, one that allows her few opportunities to display her talents. (The same is true of her role in The Untouchables as Catherine Ness.) As for Bardem, he transcends the stereotype of a "Latin Lover." Heaven knows his Juan Antonio is charming but he is also a caring person who is completely truthful with others. (Note the direct approach he takes in his first encounter with the Vicky and Cristy who can't take their eyes off him in a restaurant after first seeing him in an art gallery earlier.) He challenges other characters to examine their values and, perhaps, trust their feelings more than they would otherwise be willing to do. Also, credit Javier Aquirresarobe with superb cinematography. When portraying life in Barcelona and (briefly) in Oviedo, he and Allen provide a visual feast of gourmet images.

I also appreciate the fact that questions remain as the film ends. Will Vicky experience the same disillusionment that Judy has? Will Cristina finally find what she wants in life, having experimented with and then eliminated so much that she doesn't? Will Juan Antonio and Maria Elena ever be able to accept each other (as is) as they love each other?

"Lo que sera...."

Other review:

Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but many more fans of the director's work insist his real creativity dried up when the drama of his real life outstripped that in his features. Vicky Cristina Barcelona, a bruising, hypnotic meditation on romantic triangles, marks not so much a return to form as his first true evolution in tone and style since the early '90s. Wooden Scarlett Johansson is mined brilliantly as a foil to the charismatic effusions of Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, and for once, Allen's dialogue and cinematography prove rather fluid.

– Lisa Rosman

For Schedule and locations:
http://www.fandango.com/vickycristinabarcelona_114960/movietimes

Fuerza Bruta

In pending agenda ....






Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit created by one of the original De La Guardans, Diqui James. This one has several of the elements that worked for its predecessor — thumping music, impressive visuals, people dangling from things — but it lacks the sheer energy that propelled De La Guarda into the mainstream. Fuerzabruta's strong suit is its dreamlike, nearly surreal visual storyline that forces audiences to become immersed, physically and emotionally. The sight of performers frolicking in a water pool suspended above the audience's heads is not soon forgotten.

– Stephan Paschalides

Price
$35 - 70

When
Tuesdays–Thursdays (8pm)
Fridays (8 & 10:30pm)
Saturdays (7 & 10pm)
Sundays (7pm)


Where
Daryl Roth Theatre (101 E 15th St)
212.375.1110

2008 CMJ Music Marathon

Is another once more and again and again....


CMJ is thrilled to announce additional acts playing CMJ Music Marathon 2008. This year's class of imminent breakouts and modern-day heroes include:

(k)nights on Earth, 1090 Club, 13ghosts, 3OH!3, A Place to Bury Strangers, Aa, Aaron Thomas, Adept, Adventure, Aggrolites, AIDS Wolf, AKIMBO, Albertans, Ali Eskandarian, Alina Simone, AM Lacona, Amazing Baby, Ambulance Ltd, Amy Birdsong, Amy Miles, An Albatross, An Horse, Andrea Gibson, Andy From Denver, Ane Brun, Animate Objects, Anna Ternheim, Annie Lynch and The Beekeepers, Annuals, Another Black Day, Anthony Green, Appolo Heights, Appreciation Guild, Arbouretum, Ariel Pink and Geneva Jacuzzi, Arsonists Get All the Girls, Arum Rae, Au, Audrye Sessions, Aunt Keke, Autodrone, AutoVaughn, Averkiou, Aviette, Awkward Stage, Bang Bang Eche, Barton Carroll, Battle Circus, B.O.B., Bailiff, Beach House, Bear Hands, Bear In Heaven, Bearsuit, Bel Air, Bell, Ben Arnold, Ben Weaver, Benji Cossa, Best Friends Forever, Big Yes/Small No, Bison B.C., Bill Mike Band, Bisc1, Black Hollies, Black Milk, Black Taxi, Blitz the Ambassador, Blonde Acid Cult, Blu, BM Linx, Boat People, Bonne Aparte, Breaking Laces, Brighton, MA

Broken Social Scene, Brooke Waggoner, Brown Shoe, Bryan Scary, Buddy, Bumblebeez, Bury Your Dead, Cadence, Caitlin Rose, Cale Parks, Canada, Canasta, Canon Logic, Caroline Weeks, Cassidy, Catalepsy, Catcall, Cause Co-Motion!, Chappo, Charles Burst, Charlie Louvin, Charlie Pickett, Chris Bathgate, Chris Bergson, Chris Pureka, Christopher Barnes, City and Color, Cloud Cult Acoustic, Coathangers, Coheed & Cambria, Collections of Colonies of Bees, Cool Calm Pete, Cool Kids<, Cordero, Cory Chisel, Cotton Jones, Crocodiles, Cruel Black Dove, Crystal Antlers, Crystal Castles, Crystal Ponzio, Crystal Stilts, Cuchillo, Cut Off Your Hands, Dallas Austin Experience, David Banner, Dan Torres, De Novo Dahl, Deadbeat Darling, Deanna Devore, dent may, Depedro, Device, Dexter Romweber Duo

Death Vessel, Deerhoof, Del McCoury Band, Delta Spirit, Depedro, Die! Die! Die!, Dirty Fuzz, Dive Index, DJ André Allen Anjos, DJ Mike Dextro, DJ Thanksgiving Brown, DMBQ, Donavon Frankenreiter, Donovan Quinn & The 13th Month, Doug Paisley, Dred Scott Trio, Dri, Duchess Says, Dungen, Duquette Johnston, Dust Jacket. Eagle Seagull, Ecstatic Sunshine, Ed Roger And The Bedsit Poets, Electric Touch, Elephone, Elizabeth!, Elk City, Emily Simone, Emmy the Great, Empire Isis, Envy On The Coast, Eren Cannata, Eulogies, Eux Autres, Everybodyfields, Ex Reverie, Experimental Dental School, Ezra Furman & The Harpoons, Faunts, Festival, Fiasco, Fight Bite, Fighting With Wire, Fishboy, Five Finger Death Punch, Florence and the Machine, Flying, Frances, Franki Chan, Friendly Fires, Frontier Ruckus, Fujiya & Miyagi, Gang Gang Dance, Gay Blades, George Clinton and the Gangsters of Love w/ special guests RZA, Sly Stone, Shavo, El Debarge, Kim Burrell

Gerd Baier and Philip Gutbrod, Gigantic, Giveamanakick, Gliss, Good Times Crisis Band, Grammar Debate, Great Lakes, Greg Camp, Growing, G-Spot, Ha Ha Tonka, Hackman, Handcuffs, HeartsRevolution, Heavy Hands, Hecuba, Heloise and the Savoir Faire, Hey Rosetta, Higgins, High Places, Ho-ag, Holidays of Seventeen, Hollywood Holt, Home and Garden, Honey LaRochelle, Hooray for Humans, Hopewell, Hospital Bombers, Hot Cha Cha, Hot Lava, Hot Panda, Hotel Lights, Hymns, Hypernova, I Wrestled a Bear Once, Ian Axel, Ifwhen, Iller Than Theirs, I'm Not Jim, Imaginary Johnny, Immaculate Machine, In This Moment, IRAN, Ironweed, James Jackson Toth, James Maddock, Japandroids, Japanese Motors

Jay Reatard, Jeff Taylor, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Joan Osborne, Jody Nelson, Joe Pug, Jonah Smith, Jose Conde Y Ola Fresca, Josh Charles, Judgement Day, Jukebox The Ghost, Juliana Hatfield, Junk Science, Jungle Brothers, Jupiter One, Justin Townes Earle, KaiserCartel, Karkwa, Keith John Adams, Kerli, Kevin Devine and the goddamn band, Kid Dakota, Kid Sister, Kid Theodore, Kidz In The Hall, Kim Taylor, King Khan & The BBQ Show, King Tuff, Kria Brekkan, La Caution, La La Brooks, Land of Talk, Lacona, Late of the Pier, Laura Warshauer, Le Concorde, Leah Siegel, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Left to Vanish, Lemonade, Leslie Mendelson

Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez, Left to Vanish, Let's Go To War, Levi Weaver, Lick Lick, Life and Times, Lights, Lionel Neykov, Little Death, Lizzy Grant Local Sound Style, Loer Velocity Loki the Grump, Looker, Loquat, Love As Laughter, LoveLikeFire, Lozen, Lucciano, Lucinda Black Bear, Lucky Soul

Lukestar, Lykke Li, Mae, Magnetic Morning, Mahogany, Mancino, Mangu, Marching Band, Marco Benevento, Margot and the Nuclear So-and-Sos, Marisa Mini, Marissa Nadler, Marnie Stern, Matt Duke, Matt Keating, Matt Morris, Matthew Dear, Meika Pauley, Metis, Micachu, Micah Dalton, Michael Daves, Michael Zapruder, Mickey Factz, Middle Distance Runner

Midway State, Mike Bones, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Minus the Bear, Miracles of Modern Science, Mirah, Miss Li, Monotonix, mother mother, Mudville, Muggabears, Murder Mystery, Mystery of Two, Mythical Beast, Natalie Walker, Nathan Angelo, Needers & Givers, Nelo, Neon Neon, Night Horse, Noa Babayof, No Kids, Nouvellas, Novillero,

Oakley Hall, Octopus Project, Other Lives, Ovum, Oxford Collapse, Paper Route, Paramount Styles, Park Avenue Music, Parts and Labor, Passenger, Passion Pit, Pattern Is Movement, Peephole, Pegasuses-XL, People Under the Stairs, Pie Boys Flat, Pit er Pat, Plastic Little, Pontiak, Po Girl, Ponderosa, Pragmatic, Princeton, Pretty Good Dance Moves, Psychic Ills, Psyopus, PWRFL Powerv, Rachelle Van Zanten, Radio 4, Radio Luxembourg, Rahim, Rainbow Arabia, Randall Bramlett, Real Ones

Rebecca Pidgeon, Reign, Republic of Loose, Restaurant, RewBee, Rich Girls, Rio en Medio, Ringo Deathstarr, Rings, Rit Mo Collective, Roadsaw, Rocketship Park, Rockin Squatt, Roisin Murphy, Ruby Suns, Rumspringa, Rustlanders, Ryan Auffenberg, Said the Whale, Saints and Lovers, Sam Champion, Sam Keenan, Sarah Fullen, Sasha Dobson, Saves the Day, Savoir Adore, sBACH, Scars On Broadway

School of Seven Bells, Scissors For Lefty, Scouting for Girls, Screens, Sebastian Grainger, See You Next Tuesday, Shad, Shame Club, Shannon McNally, Shellshag, Shelly Fairchild, Shining, Shiny Toy Guns, Sian Alice Group, Silver Screen, Sky Cries Mary, So Many Dynamos, Sole and Skyrider Band, Sons of Bill, Soul Wax, Southside Johnny w/ the LaBamba Big Band: the Songs of Tom Waits, Spanish Prisoners, Spirit of the Falcon XL, Squaaks, Starcode, Starling Electric, Stars Like Fleas, Stetasonic, Stook!, Sundelles, Sunny Day in Glasgow, Susan Enan

Tacks the Boy Disaster, Takka Takka, Talib Kweli, Talk to Angels, Talkdemonic, Teedo, Tenderhead, Terry Lynn, Thank You, The Amity Front, The Apes, The Blizzards, The Blue Van, The Bowmans, The Broken West, The Bronzed Chorus, The Brother Kite, The Brought Low, The Coast, The Dears, The Dreadful Yawns, The Duke Spirit, The Emeralds

The end of the world, The Envy Corps, The Ettes, The Glad Version, The Hard Lessons, The High Wire, The Jealous Girlfriends, The Johns, The Homosexuals, The Lolligags, The Low Anthem, The Mae Shi, The Moin Non Plus, The Music Tapes, The Muslims, The Naked & Famous, The New Number Two, The Octagon, The Pack AD, The Pains of Being Pure of Heart, The Physics of Meaning, The Psychic Paramount, The Real Ones, The Right Ons, The Rosebuds, The Royal Chains, The Ruby Suns, The Sea, The Shalants, The Snake Trap, The Subjects The Takeover UK, The Teenage Prayers, The Toxic Avenger, The Two Man Gentlemen Band

The Unsacred Hearts, The Vettes, The Virgins, The Weight, The Whip, The Whitsundays, The Winter Sounds, Theresa Andersson, These Modern Socks, These United States, This or the Apocalypse, Throttlerod, Tickley Feather, Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Shit!, Tigercity, Tim Blane, Tiny Animals, Titan, TK Webb, Tobacco, Tobias Froberg, Tombs, Trevor Menear, Tunnels To Holland, Turkuaz, Twi The Humble Feather, Two Spot Gobi, Tyler James, Uglysuit, Underwater Tea Party, Unholy, U-N-I, Unicycle Loves You, Unkle Bob, Vancougar, VAZ, Velcro Stars, Via Audio, Violens, Virgin Passages, Vivian Darkbloom, Vivian Girls, Vulture Whale, Wale, Watt White, Wax Tailor, We Are Standard, We Versus the Shark, Weird Owl, White Lies, Whomadewho, Wild Light, Wild Sweet Orange, Will Hoge, Woods, Woodwose, Wye Oak, wzt heart, XYZ Affair, Yip Yip, Yo Majesty, YZ, Zimbabwe Legit

http://www.cmj.com/marathon/

Drumcode Tour featuring Adam Beyer and special guest Joel Mull

Drumcode Tour featuring
Adam Beyer
and special guest
Joel Mull
@ Cielo
Thursday October 9, 2008









Advance Tickets
http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&pl=&eventId=300075&REFID=clubzone

Tickets also available at
Rebel Rebel, 319 Bleecker St NYC 212.989.0770

Doors at 10pm
Cielo, 18 Little W 12th St, NYC
21 and over with valid state issued photo I.D.
Event Info Line: 917.723.9381

Hot Chip

Friday, 3 October 2008
7pm
Terminal 5/ 610 W 56th St, New York, NY 10019
http://www.myspace.com/hotchip

On Hot Chip:
A quick recap: people who make dance music are nerds, highbrows, emotionless eggheads. All of them irredeemable knob-twiddling white coats, coolly dabbling with the DNA of music itself. End of story. And y’know what? Hot Chip have five of the bleeders.

So if that’s the case, why have two pages of NME been devoted to them? Well, partly because these are scientists at the very top of their game, but mainly because these aren’t any old emotionless white coats – these are five Bruce Banners. And like Bruce Banner, you wouldn’t want to make Hot Chip angry.

What’s brought on this Hulk-like belligerence? The south-west Londoners’ second album is underpinned by a ‘fuck you’ attitude fuelled by past ambivalence towards them. But they can rest easy now, because surely their moment has come.

It’s about time somebody started shouting out loud about Hot Chip. Inhabiting the wild savannah in the rock-dance hinterland, where the likes of DFA (who have signed them to their label Stateside) imperiously roam, they are Prince-adoring, R&B-loving, two-step worshipping electro-funkers with a cheeky attitude who inject you with a special potion. A potion to make you dance, think and have a little chuckle at the same time. They have pulled off the trick of not taking things too seriously, but yet still produce some seriously good music.

First, back to that anger thing. In the beginning, there was ‘The Warning’’s lead-off single – the insanely catchy kitchen-sink club-stomper, ‘Over And Over’. Its lyrics are a thinly-veiled raised middle finger to detractors who considered them “too chilled” – “Laid-back? We’ll give you laid-back”, moans vocalist Alexis Taylor – but ‘The Warning’ has more ire to come.

“Hot Chip will break your legs/snap off your head”, threatens the title track. “Hot Chip will put you down, under the ground”. With its skippity-hoppity beats and minor chords, it’s like being roughed up by The Krays while prancing, minimalist electro plays in the background. And there’s more. Take the first verse of ‘Tchaparian’, which includes the menacing lines, “Watch yourself, I come with a smack/I’ve left a scar”. It’s a good job that the five demure Hot Chips look more likely to be attending Friends Of The Earth meetings than turning all this indignation into proper fisticuffs.

Thankfully, there appears little to make them split their shirts and trousers just yet, because in channelling this anger they’ve produced the finest album of electronic rock since Mylo’s ‘Destroy Rock & Roll’. If they’re not shovelling plaudits from their garden paths like February snow over the next 12 months, then they have every right to dish out some flying Glasgow kisses.

Why? Because there’s not many other bands out there who can fuse rave-era beats, crowd roars, battling 303 drum patterns and swelling synths to make a coherent electrifying whole. But that’s what frantic opener ‘Careful’ does. Current single ‘Boy From School’ is a sweet, melodic mid-tempo dance anthem, and we’re not talking Dave Pearce here. Instead, it takes Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’, tweaks the BPMs down a bit and becomes something rather beautiful and fragile. It should be a bit of a leap between the two, but they do it with ease.

Much of that fragility, which rears its head across plenty of the Hot Chip canon, is down to Alexis Taylor’s voice. On ‘Boy From School’ he is joined by the deeper tenor of fellow core member Joe Goddard, Hot Chip’s musical Mr Fixit. But, for the most part, it is Taylor’s voice that dominates. Bordering on the falsetto in places, it’s rich and full of yearning – “I’m everything a girl could need”, he gently intones on the stripped-down synth love song ‘Colours’. Like some contemporary Jimmy Somerville, he cuts an unlikely figure with his diminutive stature and over-sized physics teacher glasses. But boy, can he sing.

Taylor would be the first to suggest – possibly after pinning you against a wall – that you underestimate the rest of Hot Chip at your peril. He shares the chief songwriting duties with Goddard who, like the rest of his bandmates, is a self-confessed lover of everything from R Kelly to UK garage pioneer Wookie, krautrock to Kraftwerk, Prince to avant-garde West Coast hip-hopper, Madlib. And all of those influences are brought to bear on ‘The Warning’, recorded and self-produced at the Hot Chip home in leafy Putney. LA’s South Central or Düsseldorf it ain’t, but such normality of surroundings is obviously working.

It’s far too early to say whether they will reach the same lofty heights, but there’s something of New Order in Hot Chip. There’s the same mix of art school-meets-working man demeanour, an unabashed acknowledgement of the debt popular music owes to clubland and a wry lyrical conceit.

Mind you, if by some cruel injustice people still don’t get Hot Chip, then be careful. It could get a bit nasty.

Stephen Worthy

MISS KITTEN AND THE HACKER

Miss Kitten es la perla gatubela como me gusta decirle que te pone como una perrita corrida en calor hahahah que descripcion mas bella... Aca le dejos un video clasico




Sep 29th, 2008
Venue:
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Genre: Electro
Cover: $25.00
CORRECT VENUE: Irving Plaza

MISS KITTEN AND THE HACKER
$25.00/$30.00 day of event
starts: 9pm

http://www.livenation.com/event/getE...ventId/330385/

The Iberican Sounds of Chus, Ceballos @ WTB

Take a chill pill and relax away at Water taxi Beach
http://www.watertaxibeach.com/

Wolf + Lamb @ Yard

Recommended ****
Wolf + Lamb
I'll be laying quite low. You should find me in some raggedy ass jeans
hiding under some big sunglasses....

The Bunker Line Up

An undeground party worth cheking out!

http://www.beyondbooking.com/thebunker/

Latenes!!!

Sorry peeps I been out & about.
Recovering from Minitek.


By the way checkout Daily Session
for Minitek Sets:
http://dailysession.com/category/radio-shows/

Enjoy! i ll be posting some new updates today.

CORTOCIRCUITO V SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

Thursday & Friday at 7:00 p.m. Saturday at 2:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.

Corto Circuito, a Latino Short Film Festival organized by The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center of New York University and film programmer Diana Vargas

2008 call for entries now open, with a final submission deadline of SEPTEMBER 6th, 2008.
http://www.cortocircuito.us/submissions.html


The festival seeks short films that are high quality, insightful, and represent a variety of issues, ideas, and perspectives from the Latin American and Latino cultures.


The 5th annual CortoCircuito Short Film Festival will present the New York audience with some of the most acclaimed and controversial Latin American shorts produced in the last decade. Short films play a crucial role in encouraging and fostering independent story telling in the many diverse cultures that make up the Latin American landscape. CortoCircuito wants to reveal that diversity to its viewers. For program and further information visit www.nyu.edu/kjc/cortocircuito in the weeks prior to the event.

Closing party after the last Saturday screening. With the collaboration of Cinema Tropical

The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center
New York University
53 Washington square South. Suite 201
New York 10012

tel. 212.998.3650
http://www.nyu.edu/kjc/
www.cinematropical.com
www.nyu.edu/kjc/cortocircuito

Vanguards spreading heat on your bun.

Jeff Samuel 9/5/2008

SPECTRAL RESIDENCY:
Jeff Samuel (Trapez, Spectral, Poker Flat | Berlin)

Jeff Samuel first caught our attention when he appeared at Magda's Gel and Weave party at Openair in 2002, and then again with an amazing set at the Mutek picnic in 2004. He completely stole the show when we caught him in his hometown of Seattle at the Decibel Festival (the night after he played The Bunker) on his US tour last year. He's released over 20 singles in the past 7 years, on labels like Dan Bell's 7th City, Karloff, Spectral, Pokerflat, Morris/Audio, Tektite, Frankie, and many more. He has a long-standing relationship with Triple R's Trapez label that has resulted in eight 12"s. He has been remixed by Akufen and Ricardo Villalobos, and gets his tracks charted by practically every big DJ in the techno world (Hawtin, Bug, Wink, Tejada, Mayer, and Vath, just to name a few). Tonight is his second performance at the Bunker.


Plus Resident DJ:
Derek Plaslaiko (the Bunker, Spectral | NYC)

door: Elijah
bar: Keith

WARNING: Public Assembly have strict security at the door. No matter how old you are or how often you come to the Bunker, please bring government ID with you to avoid conflict at the door. You must be 21 or older to attend this event.


Residents Derek Plaslaiko, Spinoza
Special Guest Jeff Samuel (Trapez, Spectral, Poker Flat | Berlin)
Where Public Assembly (back room)
70 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Map)
Time 11p-4a
Price / Age $10 / 21+
Genre techno, house

Afternoon Delight !

No hay excusa valida... si estas en olla y estas dispuesto a darte una vueltecita en el subway miren esos especiales... hay si una nueva razon como si verdaderamente uno necesita razones validas para darse una jumeta.


420 Happy Hour$1 PBR and $3 wells, weekdays only / 4pm-7pm
Sound Fix Lounge
110 Bedford Ave.,
btw. Berry St and Driggs Ave.
Williamsburg
(718) 388-8090


Ordinarily, we wouldn't be listing just a happy hour but this one goes down smack in the middle of Williamsburg, in dangerous proximity to the McCaren Park. It starts at 4pm. So, by 4:20pm you could be well on your way to... the park.
that sounds like a dream
1 dollar pbrs!!

Kick-ass Happy Hour$1 PBRs / 6-9pm
Duff's
N 3rd St and Kent Avenue,
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718) 302-0411

$1 PBRs from 6 to 9pm every night of the week. That's huge. And seeing as I could practically crawl home from here in terms of geography, it's considerably huge-er. Rumoured to have the best jukebox in the city, if you're metal enough.
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Minitek Festival

Esto no es dique que si y no. Un coro que nadie se debe perder. Desde obviamente el lineup hasta lo ultimo en visuales y technologia este evento promete a quedar en los corotiviris selectos.

Aca esta el official site:
http://minitekfestival.com/music.html

Los tickets estan de venta en:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/event-detail.aspx?id=54105

* Un amarillo los tickets estaran de venta hasta el 10 de Septiembre
actualmente son 90 gringolandias por el weekend pass

Ya yo tengo el botiquin en proceso a le fear of loathing in NYC