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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 14:28:23 PDT

BOOKS/WRITERS Guest Author sessions Next session: Kelley Armstrong June 1-3, 2005 Guest Author sessions are hosted by novelist Marianne de Pierres. Every month, settle in for a freewheeling Q & A session with some of your favorite authors. Get valuable advice and encouragement from some of the best writers around; participating authors have generously agreed to take time away from their writing to answer questions, and share what worked for them. For free. Need reliable writing advice? This is the place to find it. We'll save you a...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:11:19 PDT

BOOKS/WRITERS Writers Bloc series “The Long March” by Stephanie Elizondo Griest Author’s Note: The past third of my life has been consumed by a single project: the researching, writing, and selling of my first book, “Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana.” This little essay tells the story behind the story. Wanderlust prowls in my genes. My great-great uncle was a hobo who rode the rails; my father drummed his way around the globe with a US Navy Band. But while I was desperate to escape my hometown in South Texas, I...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Wed, 04 May 2005 14:11:15 PDT

BOOKS/WRITERS Guest Author sessions Next session: Richard Harland May 4-9, 2005 Guest Author sessions are hosted by novelist Marianne de Pierres. Every month, settle in for a freewheeling Q & A session with some of your favorite authors. Get valuable advice and encouragement from some of the best writers around; participating authors have generously agreed to take time away from their writing to answer questions, and share what worked for them. For free. Need reliable writing advice? This is the place to find it. We'll save you a...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:19:09 PST

THEATRE/Athens (GR) “Antigone: Worshipping the Dead” Through April 19th "So for me to meet this doom is trifling grief; but if I had suffered my mother's son to lie in death an unburied corpse, that would have grieved me; for this, I am not grieved." Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes in Greek legend, is the heroine of one of Sophocles' most powerful dramas. According to legend, when Oedipus blinded himself, Antigone shared her father's exile near Athens. After his death, she returned to Thebes and attempted, with her...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 10:45:37 PST

MUSIC/Disc Series Magdalen Hsu-Li, “Smashing the Ceiling” My upcoming album is called “Smashing the Ceiling.” When I was writing the songs on this album, I felt I was experiencing a kind of quantum leap or personal gestalt. There were so many breakthroughs that happened to me personally, emotionally, musically and spiritually. "Smashing the Ceiling" was an incredible album to make. The songs felt completely inspired as I was writing them, as if I were a just a channel and they were coming from some higher source. When I wrote the songs,...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 10:16:40 PST

LIVES Shinichi Momo Koga, artistic director, inkBoat What most inspires me to create new works: Dissatisfaction. If I'm just happy about something, I'll usually just dance in that moment. But what gets me into a studio to spend time and life laboring over? Something is broken and I want to spend the time understanding broken. How to turn broken into beautiful. Like a junk collector, finding the beauty in what people have thrown away, making something new of it. If I go into nature, that is inspiring to me, it elevates me and gives me the...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:04:17 PST

BOOKS/WRITERS The Agent series Featured columnist: Jenny Bent “First Year Out: On the Shelves” Getting published for the first times is at turns exhilarating, frightening, exciting, nerve-wracking, and sometimes extremely disappointing. Remember the old saying, "be careful what you wish for?" Having your book published offers much potential for happiness, but also carries the possibility of a fair amount of disappointment. There can be nothing so exciting for a writer as holding your finished book in your hands for the first time. And...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:55:01 PST

ART/Woodstock “Foreign Affair” Through March 27th “When I consider...the small space I occupy, which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and am amazed to see myself here, rather than there: there is no reason for me to be here rather than there; now, rather than then. Who put me here?” - Pascal, “Pensées” What motivates us to leave home is as diverse as what we encounter along the journey, but dreams of far away lands can often begin with a photograph....

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:39:58 PST

ART/NYC “Body Proxy” + “Echoplex” Through March 26th A motorcycle’s revving engine roars like an animal, louder and louder as visitors approach. A year’s worth of disposable contact lenses worn by one person suggest an archive of what was seen during the year. A comfortable sofa, saturated with pheromones. The hair of the artist, in a single, knotted strand over 100 km long, wound around a Teflon spool... The body, central to the work of Norma Jeane, is represented by proxy: never present but always hinted at. Norma Jeane’s work...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Wed, 23 Mar 2005 04:08:06 PST

ART/NYC “In Word Only” (Basquiat retrospective) Feb. 15-Mar. 26 The “In Word Only” exhibition of the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat presents paintings, drawings, and notebooks that feature only Basquiat’s written words. The artist was well known for large, colorful works dense with gesture, collage, figures, symbols and words, but this exhibition will be the first to exclusively feature Basquiat’s unique and significant use of language. The exhibition includes works from the artist’s entire career, dating from 1979 to 1988 (the year of his...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:10:57 PST

DANCE/Insight Cherie Carson, “Trikona” My love of movement is my inspiration to create performance works. I'm also inspired by the act of creation itself. Sharing my ideas through my art and how that reaches people in a new ways is powerfully exciting to me. To me, dance is any gesture made with intent and style. I look to connect gestures in a meaningful way taking dance beyond the original impulse. BEHIND THE SCENES I get a germ of an idea that I want to explore. I may spend months tossing around thoughts, interviewing people,...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:56:01 PST

LIFE Naked brunch A group of nicely-dressed diners arrived at a NYC restaurant on a cold February night and stripped off their coats, hats, gloves and scarves. Then they kept on going. Skirts, shirts, pants, underwear and stockings all ended up stashed in bags by the bar as the dinner party got naked for their monthly "Clothing Optional Dinner." "It's exciting to be in a restaurant nude," said George Keyes, a retired English teacher. Nude yes, but not unadorned. Keyes, a lifelong nudist, wore a necklace, earrings, and white sneakers....

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:48:08 PST

ART/LA “Beauty in the Breakdown” Through March 19th “Beauty in the Breakdown” is the debut Los Angeles solo exhibit by Chicago-based artist Laura Mosquera. Laura Mosquera’s work is grounded in contemporary human experiences and reflections of everyday life. Her work explores the representation of reality and the perception of what is real and its construction using non-linear narrative. Her tableaus are cinematic depictions of seemingly inconsequential moments describing everyday narratives. While there is no linear narrative, there is...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:42:01 PST

FILM/Festivals/London Constellation Change Festival Mar. 16 – Mar. 19 One of the premiere multi-venue festivals for dance on film, the Constellation Change Festival was launched in 1998 to celebrate the Carol Straker Dance Company's 10th anniversary. A short film, "Constellation Change," was made to celebrate the dance company's work. The first film highlighted the stars and repertoire of the company. The film won Best Documentary at the Du Pre Awards in France. From that simple beginning, “Constellation Change” has developed into an...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:52:58 PST

SCI/TECH 21st century linguistics Educators rail against the increased use of 'txt' shorthand by children in their school work, but the advent of new language styles and forms engendered by the Internet and related communication developments such as SMS messaging, should be welcomed, says language expert David Crystal, Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. Speaking at the Annual Conference of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), Crystal asserted that our current time period is the...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:08:48 PST

ART/Brooklyn “Lost in Queens” Feb. 18-Mar. 21 Plus Ultra Gallery presents: “Lost in Queens: A Natural History Museum in Seven Parts,” a solo exhibition by artist/architect Brian Walker. As an experiment in extreme artistic constraint, Walker presents seven architectural drawings of 13 proposed Natural History Museum buildings located throughout the borough of Queens. Each proposal is located on one of the highly improbable, oddly shaped and sometimes all but inaccessible lots actually purchased by Gordon Matta-Clark for his 1974 project...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 20:33:43 PST

NYC/KGB Bar/Reading Mar. 16, 7pm The Fantastic Fiction series, curated by Ellen Datlow and Gavin J. Grant, is on the third Wednesday of every month at 7pm at KGB. Come early. Reading: Robert F. Wexler, "Circus of the Grand Design" The debut full-length novel from the author of "In Springdale Town." Featuring otherworldly circus entertainment: elephants, acrobats, jugglers, and a mysterious mechanical horse. Also reading: Paul Witcover, "Tumbling After" The long-awaited second novel by Paul Witcover, “Tumbling After” is a provocative work...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 21:43:17 PST

DANCE/Paris “Wuthering Heights” Through March 15th Calling all closet romantics... Emily Brontë published "Wuthering Heights" in 1847, just before her death at the age of 30. Choreographer Kader Belarbi transforms Brontë’s gloomy novel of love, vengeance and untimely demise into a passionately rendered ballet based on one of the darkest love stories ever told. Belarbi’s choreography explores the dualities inherent in Brontë’s masterpiece: darkness/light, love/hate and freedom/possession. Fierce, passionate and otherwordly. And there are...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:26:49 PST

ART/Amsterdam “On Patrol” Through March 20th “On Patrol” examines the many different systems that police our society, from traditional investigatory techniques to the unofficial practice of gathering and classifying personal data, that have become a form of social control. In “On Patrol,” exhibition artists, responding to societal trends, show how their work fits into the framework of a surveillance society. Participating artists: Marc Bijl, Sophie Calle, Ergin Cavusoglu, Paul Chan, Claudia Cristovao, Harun Farocki, Robin van't Haar,...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:37:01 PST

FILM/Festivals/Brussels Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film March 11-26 Something wicked this way comes -- the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film. The nearly month-long festival is a mecca for fans of the dark, odd and unusual, and there’s a film line-up to suit every palate: sci-fi, anime, psychological thriller, campy horror, and films which can only be classified as indefinable. This year, the festival features feature-length and short films, but adds an anime series (Mar. 19, 20), and a few more offbeat...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:20:28 PST

LIFE One crime, 19 suspects The sign said it all: "Wecota, Pop. 19. We're all here because we're not all there." That is, until earlier this month, when somebody stole the sign that had been bolted to a wooden fence on the west side of the Faulk County South Dakota village since September. One crime, 19 suspects. What to do? Nothing, this time around. It turns out that Wecota resident Dave Griffith, who came up with the idea for the sign, has some insight into human nature. He’d ordered two signs at the same time -- just in case...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 22:10:00 PST

SCI/TECH Experimental research Walking the ‘bot2: Baby robots Three independent research teams, including one from MIT, have built walking robots that mimic humans in terms of their gait, energy-efficiency, and control. The MIT robot also demonstrates a new learning system that allows the robot to continually adapt to the terrain as it walks. The work, to be described in the Feb. 18 issue of the journal “Science,” could change the way humanoid robots are designed and controlled and has potential applications for robotic prostheses. It...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:58:35 PST

SCI/TECH Experimental research Walking the ‘bot Robots that walk like human beings are common in science fiction but not so easy to make in real life. The most famous current example, the Honda Asimo, moves smoothly but on large, flat feet. And compared with a person, it consumes much more energy. But researchers at Cornell University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Holland's Delft University of Technology have built robots that seem to more closely mimic the human gait -- and the Cornell robot matches human...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:51:51 PST

ART/London “Lies” Through March 12th ”Lies” is a minimal but powerful video installation. There is only one element shown against the sky's background -- a flag -- but there are many different meanings associated with this thin strip of fabric. In the video, Cagol elaborates on the symbology of the Stars and Stripes in particular; the flag stirred by the wind becomes something menacing, or the exact opposite -- it takes on the aspect of a butterfly and of a heart, its message continuously transformed. The extreme, continuous and complex...

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noreply@blogger.com (x) — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:52:40 PST

FILM/Festivals/Belgrade Belgrade International Film Festival Feb. 25- Mar. 6 About seventy films will be screen during the ten days of the Belgrade International Film Festival. The program includes several sections: The Lighthouse, for works by new directors; X-Files, a look at erotica and its role in modern art film, and Facts and Puzzles, a program of documentary film. Also on the program, Objection of the Conscience, featuring intriguing works examining ethical dilemmas; Spiritual Territories, consisting of films by regional authors and...

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