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New Release New York 10.06.09

This Week: Ten Years of Nonsense

Tuesday October 06
Lipsynch LIPSYNCH Since we starting going six years ago, the Next Wave Festival at BAM has been one of our favorite cultural events in New York. They always take chances with what they program, and we’ve never walked away from a performance disappointed, whether it was nouveau cirque, modern dance, Shakespeare, a collaboration with an indie rock band and a film-maker, or straight-up theater. The first show of this season, a theater piece called Lipsynch, is running now; and it’s as ambitious a production as ever.

A multi-layered, multi-plotted piece of theater clocking in at nine hours, Lipsynch uses the human voice as the major metaphor aligning the fragmented stories in the epic work. If you want to do it all in one go, you’ll have to wait for the weekend; but if breaking it into three two-and-a-half hour chunks seems more palatable, tonight’s the night to start.

BAM Harvey Theater // 651 Fulton St, Brooklyn // 7.30p // tickets range from $15 to $150 depending on how many nights you attend, whether you see the show all in one go, and, of course, where you sit // more info // directions

Wednesday October 07
Disco Files DISCO FILES Vince Aletti was a writer who in 1973, before anyone else had widely documented the movement, put ink to paper for Rolling Stone on the subject of disco. From that point forward, he was the journalist who watched its evolution most closely, weekly reporting for a magazine called Record World on the clubs and records that were central to disco culture. DJhistory.com has just released a book of all Aletti’s disco writing from 1973 to 1978, and to celebrate, Tony Smith and Danny Krivit, two DJs who know a thing or two about disco themselves, are playing records from the era.

Santos Party House // 96 Lafayette St, Manhattan // 9p // $5 in advance or $10 at the door // directions

Thursday October 08
Metropolis with Live Music METROPOLIS WITH LIVE MUSIC In 1927, supposedly inspired by a trip to New York City, Austrian-German-American filmmaker Fritz Lang created the most influential sci-fi work (and some say even most influential film, period) of the silent era. Metropolis was an enormous feat to accomplish, with giant sets, scenes with large choreographed marches, ambitious special effects and even human-to-robot transmogrification. For years the film has only been shown in edited versions due to poor print quality, but tonight, at the Queens Theatre in the Park, a full, newly restored version is being screened. And with a live score to boot.

Queens Theater in the Park // in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, directly beside the Queens Museum, Queens // 7.30p // $10 // more info // directions

Friday October 09
Chelsea on the Rocks CHELSEA ON THE ROCKS Abel Ferrara’s new documentary on the infamous Hotel Chelsea, where Sid supposedly killed Nancy and where Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Edith Piaf and hosts of others took up residence through the years, is opening at Cinema Village today. It focuses not only on the hotel’s history but also on the recent ousting of its long-time manager, Stanley Bard, who let tenants go months without paying rent in the name of letting them see their artistic endeavors through.

Cinema Village // 22 E 12th St, Manhattan // 5.20p and 9.55p // $11 // more info // directions

Saturday October 10
Nonsense 10 NONSENSE 10 Nonsense is Jeff Stark’s weekly email list about underground happenings, apartments for rent, ways to help, and other thoroughly helpful and entertaining things in New York. Really, though, it’s much more than that. Jeff’s list is a compendium of a creative city that is alive and well, a city that we continue to fall in love with no matter how long we’ve been here and no matter what good things we’ve seen come and go. There’s a lot of talk about New York’s good old days; but Nonsense is a weekly reminder that New York is breathing and full of wonder and that the best it has to offer is right here and right now, not behind us.

Now Nonsense is turning ten, and in the spirit of looking forward, Jeff has asked regular contributors to the list to present their visions for the next ten years. Folks like $mall ¢hange, Mean Red, Madagascar Institute, Winkel and Balktick, The Danger, Newmindspace and us have made posters of events yet to come, and they’ll be on display in the newly opened second floor of 3rd Ward. Later in the evening, impromptu performances will erupt simultaneously in different parts of the space, and finally it’ll all get capped off with a big dance party.

Congratulations, Nonsense. We really love you.

3rd Ward // 195 Morgan Ave, Brooklyn // 7p – late // $10 // more info // directions

Sunday October 11
Terry Riley and Gyan Riley TERRY RILEY AND GYAN RILEY Terry Riley is a lauded minimalist composer who continues to be prolific in performance and composition even now at the age of 74. He is an early user of tape loops, has been an inspiration to other seminal minimalist composers Steve Reich, John Adams and Phillip Glass, and is a master in raga. Tonight he’s playing with another Riley, his son, a guitarist and composer named Gyan.

Le Poisson Rouge // 158 Bleecker St, Manhattan // 7.30p // $20 in advance or $22 at the door // more info // directions

Monday October 12
Holiday HOLIDAY The banks have the day off. You should, too. Call in sick. Wake up, and eat breakfast late. Drive upstate. Watch a movie in your underwear. You deserve it.

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