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 John Jasperse's Dry
by Aeron Kopriva
"Dry, which premiered this summer at the American Dance Festival... [is] a
sleepwalking composition that is not only a transfixing play of surfaces, but also an
evocative glimpse into the psychology of dreams."
American
Ballet Theatre: Exploring New Bounds
by Theresa Herron. "... the longing for love, the disillusion with a current love,
the longing for a passionate love of the past, and the exultation of lost love
re-found."
 More
Dance articles.
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 Dustin
Stephens reviews three gems from the American
Living Room Festival @ HERE. "...Though
interesting, reliably funny, and hell, even socially relevant in this day and age, the
identity crisis of Suburban Man is staler than last week’s Wonder Bread."
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 Ryn Gargulinski ponders Giacometti's Conundrum at MOMA. ""Walking Man" is a stick-figure man formed from what
looks like molten dog doo. The man is emaciated, haunting and downright creepy.
In short, everything that would turn you off from a potential boyfriend. I
was immediately hooked."
Interview of LA Artist Shirley Tse --
"...artist, philosopher, adventuress into the unknown with creations of
plasticity." By Theresa Herron.
"New York, New York, One City, Several Worlds" @ The New York
Historical Society by Theresa Herron. "...Manhattan... a giant world made up of many smaller,
separated, contrasting worlds..."
 "Without
Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America" by Theresa Herron. "...This is not a pleasant or pretty show to see unless one
has a penchant for the macabre. However, because it is so difficult to view is
exactly why it is so good."
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 M. Ward - Interview by Mark Mordue.
"A musical love letter to a friend who has passed away - as Ward puts it in the
sleeve notes, "this record was designed to keep the loss alive and behind
me.""
Marilyn
Manson by Mark Mordue.
"...that awful
feeling of an artist on the slide - despite the thousands of fans here to see the
self-proclaimed ‘God of Fuck’ do it to them one more time."
Mexico
City / The Black Keys by Mark
Mordue. ""I knew something was up when I came in
through the door. You were in tears and my shit was all over the floor..." Put
me in it man. Take me there."
Loretta
Goldberg's "Zygotones" by Ryn
Gagunlinski. "At
first it sounds like noise. Not bad noise, mind you. It is not annoying like a
screeching subway or angry like a pissed-off mom. But it's piano noise, playfully
discordant, beautifully fanciful. On second listen, however, and after reading the
CD insert, the noise develops into much, much more."
Morrissey
by Mark Mordue. "Curious creature. Half
denying us yet wanting our love, chilling us with the dark edges of sadness yet exalting
us to ecstasy if not joy; amusing us with your wit and theatricality and some other
strange quality that appears to pass over you like a constant spasm of
narcissism...."
The
Vines by Mark Mordue. "... Craig Nicholls
performed like a god. Big gestures, ecstatic motions, rolling over the drum kit in a
radical spinal twist, aiming his feedbacking guitar at the audience and letting it hum
over their heads like a wand."
Dirty
Three: Alive in the City of Sound by Mark Mordue. "Sometimes I could just run into a river and drown. That's what I'm
thinking about mid-way into the set tonight when some electrical thing passes over me and
this other realization comes that sound is the city's river and we're here in it
already..."
Nick Cave and the Bad
Seeds by Mark Mordue. "And so to the question on
everyone’s lips: can Nick Cave still rock?"
Read to find out.
Tex Perkins
and His Dark Horses by Mark
Mordue. "...quiet, secretive talk of music
from the margins, a certain cowboy existentialism."
Radiohead: Ghosts in the
Machine by Mark Mordue.
"...This is tomorrow's music from today's
romantics, struggling to maintain emotional efficacy in a world increasingly iced by
electronic light: the internet, surveillance, reality TV, automated transactions,
voyeurism, a denatured and alienated global communications 'village' where contact
is byte-sized...."
Ben Harper:
"The Gift" by Mark
Mordue. "...at the10th East Coast
Blues and Roots Music Festival in Byron Bay, Australia, as a wild storm screams and
expectations are desperately high for a musical force to free us from inclement
misery..."
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 Lost
in Translation by Will Manuel. "It's a decent film
and it doesn't reek like Personal Velocity....."
Swimming
Pool by Will Manuel. "You have to understand there’s a difference between seeing a movie and
having sex with the girl in it."
The RIng by Garrett Mok "It’s
“Omen” for the post-MTV generation. And as for Naomi Watts, a far cry from
her 1996 "Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering." A ring of spotlight is
finally shining on a talented actress."
The Academy
Awards: Mark Mordue shows how to be hilariously opinionated and still get it all wrong
in his preview story for the 2002 Oscars, revived here for 'posterity.'
 "You know the schtick: the facelifts, stiff-as-a-pinewood-box suits and the
ghastly dresses that are all tits ‘n’ arse sensational (and that’s just the
journalists); those scripted ‘unscripted jokes’ and other autocue tragedies; the
high stink of glamour in all its fantastical glory; the odd dash of genuine emotion that
cuts through all the bullshit; and fame, fame, fame so thick and cheesy on the red carpet
you want to crane that neck of yours right through the television screen just to see
who’s there for yourself... Oooo yeah, baby, it’s the 74th Annual Academy
Awards."
Straight
Out of Hunter's Point by Dustin
Stephens "... “Everybody
knows about ghettos like Brooklyn and Watts, but they think San Fran is just straight
faggots and white folks,” says Epps, no stranger to in-your-face abrasiveness.
“No one even knows about HP (Hunters Point), but it’s a real ghetto right here
in San Francisco” ..."
Memento
by Mark Mordue. "Reviewing Memento certainly presents a challenge. After
all, it's not the ending I can't tell you about - it's the beginning..."
 It's
Halloween. How About Something Really Scary?--six scary movies for Halloween
from Jerry Holt.
Mark Mordue doesn't want to vacation on "The
Beach."
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