Music: The Obits—I Blame You
Michael Louie04.30.09
Back in the day, I recall my hometown of Newark, Delaware went through a bunch of music trends. One was racist skinhead hardcore. Another one, some…
Talk Show 24 with Leah Hager Cohen, Joshua Ferris, Alice Mattison, and Ann Packer
Jaime Clarke04.30.09
Hate to set these blurbs up with the personal (CM here), but when I think of first apartments not sure whether to count the one at the New School I dropped out of after the first semester (four of us in the dorm, each with their own addiction- booze, coke, pot and heroin, made for nice company, nobody messing with each others stuff really, except the booze…and the pot, oh and sometimes the…). Or the next in LA that I paid $200 a month for with a murphy bed, splitting the space with a friend sleeping next to me on the floor on a futon, a couch separating. Writing table in the closet was a good hideout for when the other had a date. Ah the good old days! Anyway, host Jaime Clarke talks here in TS24 to authors Leah Hager Cohen, Joshua Ferris, Alice Mattison, and Ann Packer about their first apartments. Enjoy. Art by Danny Jock
Music: Zizek Club
Casey McKinney04.26.09
A few years back a friend and I spent a month tooling around Argentina, from Buenos Aires out to the pampas, the rain forest, the desert, western…
Music: Marmoset: Envelope
Casey McKinney04.26.09
With genius lists now, and shuffle since the stone age, sometimes it’s hard to keep up with the catalogue you are passively amassing through…
Kinke Kooi
Alyssa Bianca-Pavley04.25.09
Note: we meant to get something done on this show before it goes down, but alas it’s going down today. Anyway, if you are out and about…
‘and so his noise was ours too for those times’ – On Ronald Tavel (1936 – 2009)
Jennifer Krasinski04.24.09
So the story goes that Andy Warhol needed a narrator’s voice when he made the move from silent pictures to "talkies." And Ronald Tavel had just the voice, i.e. the serpent in the garden he sought after. But Tavel turned out to be an artist far greater than Andy originally bargained for. He built his name with Warhol sure, as his narrator and screenwriter, but Tavel’s own projects of poetry, fiction, and especially the theatrical arts are in a class all their own, as he took his audience from the tame waters of the "absurd" out into the utter "ridiculous." Jennifer Krasinski gives Tavel, who died earlier this month, a proper sendoff. Illustrations by Danny Jock.
hockey playoffs to ensure crosby vs. ovechkin in 2009
Michael Louie04.21.09
Man, I gotta throw out some love to The Onion. With Casey out in LA, I’ve been catching up on some playoff hockey, and then today I saw this from…
Coachella On
Casey McKinney04.18.09
Well even though it’s––what?––his 3rd Coachella now? and Coachella has an unspoken policy of always having different bands,…
Off to Coachella
Casey McKinney04.16.09
To see this band (Throbbing Gristle, with a much changed Genesis P-Orridge) among others. Other rarities are the ever elusive Kevin Shields and My…
A Triennial is Born And It’s Younger Than Jesus
Alyssa Bianca-Pavley04.16.09
Yes there is a new ‘-ennial’ out there. A triennial – at the New Museum in New York’s (re)burgeoning bowery art scene. On inception it’s being called The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, because everyone in the show is under 33. And we wonder if they are going to keep the same title ever year? ‘Younger than Jesus’ that is? I mean what if all the believers out there are right and Jesus happens to come back in the years in between? Guess the Priory of Sion is not in on this one. Alyssa Bianca-Pavley, quite younger than Jesus herself, gives us the run down in brief.
