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Idiot Savant play, and Giant Duck
Idiot Savant is the new play at the Public theater, in NYC, starring Willem Dafoe, Joel Israel, Alenka Kraigher, Elina Lawensohn, Eric Magnus and Daniel Allen Nelson. It's definitely weird, but is it wonderful, or political? Perhaps it's really about Obama, who can look so cool and collected, but can't actually think about what he's really doing to us. This is a sort of comic farce by Richard Foreman,another old geezer.
Be warned, this is not a "classic narrative." Be alert, you get to see the Idiot Savant go to a restaurant with a giant duck. Does the duck want to eat a roast beef sandwich, or eat himself? Does he want clean nuclear energy, or is he willing to be fried slowly in an inefficient solar collector?
Richard Foreman says his plays are about having a good fantasy to exist better. Like pretending you're a rocket scientist, while in the middle of a collapsing real estate bubble, known as New York City. Marie asks the Idiot Savant, But what makes certain words magic? What follows is a wild theatrical odyssey. Richard Foreman director, is famous for his THE THREEPENNY OPERA. Idiot Savant is presented in association with Ontological-Hysteric Theater. (comment- is that the Obama behaviorist group around Larry Summers?)
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE- Tues at 7PM Wed - Fri at 8PM, Sat at 2PM & 8PM, Sun at 2PM & 7PM. Added Performance: November 2, Limited Availability: November 12
No Performance or Unavailable: 11/4, 11/5, 11/18, 11/26, 12/3, Post-show discussions: October 28 and November 10.
The Public Theater is located downtown in the Soho section at 425 Lafayette Street. south of 14th St, New York, FYI call 212.539.8500.
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Back to Liberty, not Poverty
The Mercy Action Center in NYC has some very interesting exhibits on the horror of World Hunger, and a sort of Museum at 6 River Terrace, Battery Park City, not far from Wall St., downtown. Actually it should be called the results of globalization and the British tradition of free trade and slave labor. Tickets are only $5 to $8, children 12 and under free.
It's a big Ed Schlossberg designed space. Check out the exhibits like a map that provides info on poverty and malnutrition at the touch of a finger, and videos narrated by Tina Fey.
The Mercy Action center is open every day of the week. Build the Eurasian Landbridge and the Moon-Mars project, and this sort of poverty can be ended forever.
John Cusack, trenchcoat, boom box
Check out the Mobler Effect Like No Other- In a Free event in Times Square, New York City To Celebrate The, Say Anything 20th Anniversary Edition, Today, Tuesday, Nov 3, 4:00p, at Times Square, New York, NY. I guess it has something to do with reissuing movies on the allegedly so much better Blu-Ray format.
It seems that "Say Anything" was the ultimate romantic nebbish movie. Perhaps this is a kow-tow to Obama in some way, the romantic British agent. Grab a trench coat and boombox and go Lloyd Mobler style in Times Square for the 20th anniversary DVD & Blu-ray release of Cameron Crowe's classic Say Anything... Dressed in trench coats and carrying boomboxes, a mob of Lloyd Dobler look-a-likes will take to the streets in search of winning back true love.
The reason for this cult-like celebration is strongly suspected. The film also has a fairly famous soundtrack, including the Peter Gabriel Hit-- In Your Eyes. This is a funny dirge-like song, that actually sounds a lot like Stevie Winwood, formerly of Traffic fame.
In honor of their namesake film's 20th Anniversary release, Lloyd Dobler Effect will perform the song, In Your Eyes, acoustically live in Times Square.
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Boo Family at South St. Seaport, NY
This is an event at the South St. Seaport, in New York City by Front St and Fulton St. in Manhattan, NY. Go and get your picture taken with Naima Rauam's Boo Family at 210 Front St, and you can stop by The Body Shop for some Halloween candy, free sample packs & free skincare consultations! (16 Fulton St). Also check out Barbarini Mercato's spooky decor and enjoy candy and ...homemade cookies! (225 Front St
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Rocky Horror
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is something I saw 30 years ago. So how could Susan Sarandon be Janet Weiss now? Anyway, check it out today, October 30th, 9pm til the wee hours-- at Spin NY, Address 48 East 23rd Street, Between Park and Madison. New York, New York 10010, (212) 982-8802. This Halloween Eve Susan Sarandon, aka Janet Weiss from the indelible cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, will be in person, screening the film and hosting a bodacious bash. Costumes recommended at SPiN New York (the worlds greatest table tennis social club). Screening/party begins at 9PM with a "Time Warp" sing-a-long, spooky cocktails and a pro table tennis theatrical exhibition by Wally Green and Kazuyuki Yokoyama, and of course plenty of general Halloween-eve lasciviousness and debauchery
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Racism, in the USA , but don't blame Bruce Springsteen
Is America Really Post-Racial?: Rap Sessions-- What does it mean to be post-racial in the hip-hop generation? Join hip-hop activists, scholars, and artists for a town hall style discussion
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Comment by Howard
on Is Ignorance Really Bliss...?
Real Crash
The United States has to go with a credit system, with planned projects to create jobs and rebuild the country. This is always subcontracted to private business, this is done in the tradition of the American System. Otherwise, we will not survive. The system of "Casino Capitalism" is dead and should be put through a bankruptcy reorganization. Are you American, or an agent of the British Financial oligarchy and their American agents?