Return of the Poet

Written by NYPress on March 27, 2013. Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Langston Hughes’ “Ask Your Mama” gets a one night only revival By Valerie Gladstone Emmy-award winning composer, Laura Karpman, started thinking about staging Langston Hughes’ twelve-part, epic poem, “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz” when she came across it in a bookstore six years ago. Begun by the great poet in 1960 while attending
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Locked Inside the Kubrick Cult

Written by Armond White on March 27, 2013. Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Room 237 lets nerds shine Following the IFC Center’s very canny “The Films of Stanley Kubrick” series, comes the documentary Room 237 which sums up the Stanley Kubrick cult. Comprised of theories spoken by five different Kubrick nerds over an assemblage of movie clips and diagrams by director Rodney Ascher, Room 237 pretends to dissect
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Loot of the World

Written by NYPress on March 22, 2013. Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, Uncategorized, West Side Spirit

Fate of Detroit’s premier art museum serves warning to the nation By Emma Lockridge The collective spirit of financially beleaguered Detroiters mirrors a declaration from Celie in The Color Purple: “I’m poor, black, my situation is ugly, but God, I’m still here.” While the people stay put in Motown, will the city’s art museum survive
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Eye on Auctions

Written by NYPress on March 22, 2013. Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Asian Week Wonders By Caroline Birenbaum New York auction houses present an astounding variety of top-quality items from India, Tibet, Japan and China during mid-March “Asia Week.” From archaic bronze vessels to modern Indian paintings, there is much to see in the preview exhibitions that begin March 15. Check the websites for details, blogs and
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Different for Girls?

Written by Armond White on March 22, 2013. Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Potter at her peak with Ginger and Rosa Did Simone DeBeauvoir have a bubbly personality?” Ginger (Elle Fanning) asks her BFF. And Rosa (Alice Englert), without a care about DeBeauvoir’s philosophical stature, reasons that the cluelessly academic titan “Hasn’t read Girl. These two 1960s British teenagers, fans of pop magazines like Girl, new music and
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Tina Fey or Tina Brown-nose?

Written by Armond White on March 22, 2013. Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

In ‘Admission,’ Fey loses her Betcha Poor Tina Fey is still doing her Sarah Palin impersonation in Admission, the new comedy where she is supposed to portray Portia Nathan, a Princeton University admissions officer who discovers the sensitivity she has misplaced due to careerism. Admitting her lifelong failings, get it? Problem is, Fey’s overdone, endlessly
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Doing Time in Manhattan

Written by Kate Prengel on March 15, 2013. Posted in Arts our town, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, West Side Spirit

The New Museum’s 1993 show narrows the past The New Museum has put together a time capsule: a collection of dozens of works produced in New York in the year 1993. If you were a teenager in 1993, the exhibit “1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star” will probably act on you like a
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God is the Bigger Auteur

Written by Armond White on March 15, 2013. Posted in Arts & Film, Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Film, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Cristian Mungiu goes for the bogus In God is the Bigger Elvis, about former movie actress Dolores Hart who gave up her Hollywood career opposite such glamorous stars as Elvis Presley, Montgomery Clift, Stephen Boyd and is now Mother Prioress at the Regina Laudis Benedictine abbey in Bethleham, Conn., director Rebecca Cammisa touches upon faith,
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Oscars Wild

Written by Armond White on March 15, 2013. Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

MacFarlane backlash proves the “booboisie’s” desperation Readers have asked for my reactions to the Academy Awards presentation—a kind of Post-Mortification that I herewith provide with these notes: We survived awards season and the damage done tells us that movie history has lost any sense of dignity. Satirist Seth MacFarlane couldn’t expose how gutless contemporary film
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The Continuing Development of David Cross

Written by Megan Finnegan Bungeroth on March 14, 2013. Posted in Arts our town, Arts our town downtown, Arts west side spirit, NY Press Exclusive, Our Town, Our Town Downtown, West Side Spirit

Actor David Cross talks about the state of comedy, reprising the role of Tobias in ‘Arrested Development’ and his abiding love for NYC David Cross is a comedian known just as much for his off-color stand-up humor as he is for giving life to a television character who can never ever be nude and wears
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