READINGS Wednesday 5/30JONATHAN AMES & ARNON GRUNBERGMemoirist & novelist put aside …

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JONATHAN AMES & ARNON GRUNBERGMemoirist & novelist put aside aesthetic differences to embrace their common yen for black wit at this reading; Housing Works Used Book Café, 126 Crosby St. (betw. Houston & Lafayette Sts.), 212-334-3324; 7, call for price. AN EVENING OF POLICE POETRY IN THE BRONXReadings from parody book Off the Cuffs: An Anthology
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Q&A with Judy Henske, Queen of the Beatniks

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Henry James once described James Singer Sargent as "an insolent genius." James was referring to the speed and apparent ease with which the painter tossed off his creamy, sensual, shockingly accomplished portraits. But I think the phrase could be used just as easily to describe Judy Henske. Henske began her career in the early 60s
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Son of a Corncob! Jeffords Steals McCain’s Media Posse

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Thursday, May Twenty-Fourth, Two Thousand and One, a date that will live in infamy… Okay, that’s a touch dramatic, but watching Pedro Martinez lose a 2-1 game at Yankee Stadium isn’t for sissies. I’ll say this much: Mike Mussina, the former Oriole who threw his arm out for the money-grubbing trial lawyer Peter Angelos during
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DANCE AMERICAN BALLET THEATERThis week, premiere of Russian tale of unrequited …

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This week, premiere of Russian tale of unrequited passion, Onegin; Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, B’way (65th St.), 212-362-6000; Fri.-Tues., call for times, $20-$80. THE CONSTRUCTION CO.New works by Bryan Hayes & Dancers, as part of Spring Dance Series at The Construction Co., 10 E. 18th St. (B’way), 212-924-7882; Sat.-Mon. at 8, $12, $10 st./s.c.
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Nile Southern’s Now Dig This Brings the Work of His Father Terry to a New Audience

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From the late 50s through the 60s, Terry Southern experienced an unprecedented burst of creative success, writing the novels Candy, The Magic Christian and Blue Movie, as well as scripts for the films Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, Barbarella, The Loved One and The Cincinnati Kid. In the midst of a culture struggling with A-bomb paranoia,
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Ruby’s Short-Staffed at the Gene Pool

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There’s an abrasive edge to Lesley Rankine’s second solo album that lifts it above most of her contemporaries’. Some of this probably comes from her previous sojourn as the fiery Scots singer with London mind-expanding noise terrorists Silverfish. Silverfish were a band notable both for their demonic, exasperating, energetic live shows, where the bass and
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This Week’s Horoscope

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Gemini (May 21-June 20) Bush disemboweled the protections that prevent new logging roads in a third of our national forests. He killed the rule created by the Clinton administration while holding up its corpse, a la Weekend at Bernie’s. Granting decision-making power to local communities (who often lack a big-picture perspective) drastically increases the likelihood
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On Tour New dates noted in bold BEACON THEATER …

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BEACON THEATER 2124 B’way (74th St.), 212-496-7070. The Holmes Brothers (6/19); Widespread Panic (7/18-7/19);   CARNEGIE HALL 157 W. 57th St. (7th Ave.), 212-247-7800. Spinal Tap’s Back From the Dead Tour (6/4); Live concert of "O Brother Where Art Thou?" feat. Alison Krauss & Union Station, John Hartford, Gillian Welch, Ralph Stanley, Norman Blake, Dan
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