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Hasidim vs. Hipsters

Trucker hat, schmucker hat: Williamsburg’s religious Jews want the ’hood’s arty arrivistes to go away.

By Steven I. Weiss & Zackary Sholem Berger for NYMag

On Sunday, January 4, as many Jews around the city fasted to commemorate the historical siege of Jerusalem by Babylonians, more than 100 Williamsburg Hasidim were protesting what they consider a siege of their community—by New York hipsters. Under steady rain, rabbis, laymen, and schoolboys gathered across from the newly renovated Gretsch Building at 60 Broadway, an old musical-instrument factory where rapper Busta Rhymes just bought a million-dollar-plus apartment. “We’re trying to keep this neighborhood clean and honest, and these people are destroying it,” said a protester, Hershl Grinfeld.

Hasidim have called Williamsburg home since the early part of the last century, and they have little interest in seeing their slice of Brooklyn become the next Manhattan. To their way of thinking, the only things hipsters (artist’n in Yiddish) contribute to the neighborhood are skyrocketing real-estate prices and morally suspect nightlife. And as one typical message on a Yiddish online bulletin board recently put it, the trendoids “pollute the eyes and the mind.” At the same time, some hipsters have their own complaints about the Hasidim: “When you willingly have ten-plus children based on your religious beliefs, feed most of them on food stamps, and displace everyone else in the neighborhood, there’s hardly any sympathy to be had,” says Dori Mondon, a designer who recently left Williamsburg.

The two groups have little in common besides a taste for black attire, and amicable co-habitation seems unlikely. There are even ads in Yiddish papers comparing the hipsters to the 9/11 hijackers. At the Sunday protest, Rabbi Zalman Leib Fulop declared that the growth of the local artist population was “a bitter decree from Heaven.” Those selling real estate to the hipsters, said the rabbi, would “never be able to leave hell.” Meanwhile, organizers distributed a prayer entitled “For the Protection of Our City of Williamsburg From the Plague of the Artists.” Could frogs and locusts in trucker hats be next?


Definition of a Hipster
Hipster - One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool"; a Hipster would instead say "deck.") The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. A Hipster ideally possesses no more than 2% body fat.

Clues that you are a Hipster
1. You graduated from a liberal arts school whose football team hasn't won a game since the Reagan administration.

2. You frequently use the term "post-modern" (or its commonly used variation "PoMo") as an adjective, noun, and verb.

3. You carry a shoulder-strap messenger bag and have at one time or another worn a pair of horn-rimmed or Elvis Costello-style glasses.

4. You have one Republican friend who you always describe as being your "one Republican friend."

5. Your hair looks best unwashed and you position your head on your pillow at night in a way that will really maximize your cowlicks.

6. You own records put out by Matador, DFA, Definitive Jux, Dischord, Warp, Thrill Jockey, Smells Like Records, and Drag City.

Hipster Work Ethics

Working is a necessary evil reserved for the masses which by definition the Hipster is not a part. Work is avoided at all costs for it is truly "bohemian" to be an artist and stay at home creating art. In fact, the goal of a true Hipster is to not work at all. Work is an antiquated notion dear to an older generation.

Similar to eskimos who have 8 different terms for the word "snow," the Hipster has many terms for receiving a check from the parents:

1. getting the cush
2. picking the berries
3. waxing Oedipal
4. parimony (sometimes daddimony)
5. changing the diaper

http://www.hipsterhandbook.com/

Halloween Hos: Best Costumes According to the Whitest Kids U'Know

For Attached Ho's;

• Dr. Zizmor and a patient with tighter, firmer, younger-looking skin
• Lieutenant Jim Dangle and Deputy Trudy Weigel from Reno 911!
• Matthew Broderick as Ferris Bueller and Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw
• Jim and Pam from The Office
• An inflatable rat and union worker
• Leona Helmsley and Trouble the dog
• Nancy Pelosi and Henry Paulson fighting
• Tim and Heidi from Project Runway
• Eliot Spitzer and a prostitute
• A pregnant Bristol Palin and baby-daddy Levi Johnston
• Richard Simmons and the Treats Truck

For a Ho Posse;

• Obese, slow-moving Times Square tourists
• Robert Palmer and his shellacked entourage of red-lipsticked girlies
• Tyra Banks and the cast of America’s Next Top Model
• Brangelina and their many children
• The cast of The Breakfast Club
• New Kids on the Block
• Disgruntled, out-of-work Lehman Brothers employees
• Smushed L-train passengers
• The cast of the Optimum Online commercials (“8-7-7…3-9-3…4-4-4-8!”)
• Damien Hirst and his shark tank
• Golden Girls (R.I.P. Estelle)
• Tom Otterness and his worker statues
• Andy Warhol and his Factory crew
• Garbage Pail Kids
• Serena, Dan, Chuck, Nate, Vanessa and Jenny from Gossip Girl
• Cesar Milan and a pack of misbehavin’ dogs
• Joe Six-Packs and Hockey Moms sporting John McCain paraphernalia
• Con Ed workers on break
• Bedbugs carrying a filthy mattress like pallbearers at a funeral
• Clue characters
• Synchronized dancers/drummers/LED-covered performers from the Olympics opening ceremony
• The cast of Heathers (complete with croquet mallets)
• The cast of I Want to Work for Diddy
• The cast of The Real World: Brooklyn
• Mormons on a mission
• Marilyn Monroe, Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn Monroe and Michael Musto as Lindsay Lohan as Marilyn Monroe
• The Beastie Boys circa “Sabotage”
• Brood from polygamist cult Yearning for Zion
• Publishers Clearing House gang, toting a giant check and balloons
• Early-era Beatles
• The Peanuts gang
• The freaks and/or geeks from Freaks and Geeks
• Blue Man Group
• A dozen bagels
• A line of commuters angrily waiting for one jerk to correctly swipe his MetroCard
• Washington Square Park lightsaber warriors
• The Real Housewives of New York City
• A pack of Staten Island ninjas
• The Wild Bunch
• Hillary Clinton and an angry female mob
• Landlord and an angry tenant mob
• Yorick, Agent 355, Dr. Mann and capuchin monkey Ampersand from Y: the Last Man
• Menudo!
• Mayor Bloomberg, Christine Quinn, Sheldon Silver and other term-limit hypocrites
• Hasidim and hipsters—fighting
• Hugh Hefner and The Girls Next Door
• New York street food (hot dog, pretzel, knish, shawarma, etc.)
• A Washington Square Park ensemble (the arch, the homeless person, the drug dealer, the NYU freshman guitarist, etc.)
• Michael Phelps and his six abs (plus pacifier!)
• The Dow—everybody lay there looking dead

Visit Time Out New York for the complete article

fuer • za • bru • ta \ f'where - zah - broo - tah \ rewind

I can honestly say that I am not the easiest person to be impressed. But I most admit that my experience with Fuerzabruta (Brute Force) has certainly changed my perspective on what I used to consider modern theater. Aside from been a one of a kind, it is not only the concept the woe me, it is also the incorporation of the general public as a whole within the show that truly makes this a personal encounter. "Fuerzabruta doesn't have a purpose. It is."

Fuerzabruta is not for spectators, or those seeking exclusively vicarious thrills. It is more spectacle than theater in any conventional sense, with a heavy dose of "dance club& thrown in for good measure.


To put it simply, this is the art of the circus and the fairground raised to the highest level: a series of phantasmagorical stunts celebrating acrobatic daring.

As for those of you who have not yet experience it and may wonder if is worth the $75 dollars well guess again. To experience the Brute Force is quite priceless.

Images:Lesheshi


Fuerza Bruta
Daryl Roth Theatre
101 East 15th Street at Union Square
New York NY 10003

Box Office Hours:
Tuesday-Thursday: 1pm - 8pm
Friday-Saturday: 1pm - 10pm
Sunday: 1pm - 7pm

Detailed Pricing Information:
Regular Price: $75
Rush Tickets: $25
(a limited number of $25 tickets will be sold at the box office window,
two hours before show time)

Dates & Times:
Monday NO SHOW
Tuesday 8pm
Wednesday 8pm
Thursday 8pm
Friday 8pm & 10:30pm
Saturday 7pm & 10pm
Sunday 7pm

http://www.fuerzabrutanyc.com/tickets.html

In focus: David Tunley

David Turnley was born in Indiana in 1955. He attended college at the University of Michigan, receiving a B.A. in French Literature in 1977. He became a staff photographer for the Detroit Free Press in 1980.

In 1985, Turnley went to South Afirca shoot a project called "South Africans Under Apartheid." For this body of work, he won an Oscar Barnack Award, the Overseas Press Club Award and the Canon Essay Award.

In 1989, Turnley along with his twin, Peter, went to Beijing, China to shoot a joint project called "Beijing Spring." They covered the students' peaceful demonstrations at Tiananmen Square and the authorities who attempted to silence them with martial law.

Late in 1989, Turnley traveled to Europe to witness the fall of communism. They captured the fall of the Berlin Wall, the overthrow of the Ceausescu regime and exuberance of freedom all over Easter Europe. In 1990, He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert Capa Award.

In 1991, Turnley went to the Middle East to cover the Persian-Gulf War. However, there were srtict guidlines pertaining to what the media could show the public, so Turnley focuced on the actual lives of the G.I.'s rather than combat shots. That year, the World Press Photo Foundation awarded him with Photo of the Year.

David Turnley has several books including "Beijing Spring," "moments of Revolution: Eastern Europe" and "The Russian Heart." His work has also been published many times in magazines such as Life and National Geographic.

Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night

September 21, 2008–January 5, 2009

Throughout his career, Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) attempted the paradoxical task of representing night by light. His procedure followed the trend set by the Impressionists of "translating" visual light effects with various color combinations. At the same time, this concern was grafted onto Van Gogh's desire to interweave the visual and the metaphorical in order to produce fresh and deeply original works of art. These different artistic concerns found themselves powerfully bound together in Van Gogh's nocturnal and twilight paintings and drawings. This exhibition will present new insight into Van Gogh's depictions of night landscapes, interior scenes, and the effects of both gaslight and natural light on their surroundings. Representing all periods of the artist's career, the exhibition will comprise over two dozen works of superlative quality—several of which have never been seen together, even though they were very clearly conceived with each other in mind. This exhibition will be shown at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, February 13–June 7, 2009. It will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog.

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