What's Happening in New York in March, 2007

Murderfist + Cool Kids Club

• TIME: 11pm
  PLACE:The Peoples Improv Theatre, 154 W. 29th Street, between 6th and 7th Ave
  COST:$8
• SUMMARY:”Murderfist: It has been scientifically proven that those who enjoy Murderfist sketch comedy are more interesting and sexually active. Murderfist is sketch comedy for people with no arms and some legs or with some fingers and no knees. It’s also for everyone with a grotesquely enlarged sense of humor.
  
  Cool Kids Club is a raucous live commentary show on vintage educational shorts. You’ll laugh as you learn about everything from personal hygiene to the rubber industry. It’s a can’t-miss-public-domain-laugh-riot starring Jeff Rubin (CollegeHumor.com), Dan Hopper (A Week of Kindness), Matt Esolda (matthewkpresents.com), Kevin Haulihan (Best Week Ever), and Steve Menegozzi (thisisalow.com). Holy crap have you gotta see this show.”

The Classic CANCELLED

• TIME: 10pm
  PLACE: 3rd Ward, 195 Morgan Ave between Stagg and Meadow, East Williamsburg
  COST: TBA
• SUMMARY: “The Pleasure Corporation, 3rd Ward Brooklyn and TheDanger present a classic loft party of epic proportion. On this night we play it like 1988; with music beats from the crates mixed with indulgent new tracks by dj’s: Justin Carter, Flagranti, Akalepse, the Vintage DJ and more… plus classic battles of spraycan vs. poster art, breakers vs. poppers, nintendo vs. atari, and NYC now vs. 20 years past…”

Festival of India - Music, Dance & Puppetry of Rajasthan: Gulabi Sapera

• TIME: 8pm
  PLACE:Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, 2537 Broadway at 95th St
  COST:$35
• SUMMARY:” From the windswept Great Thar Desert in Rajasthan (“the land of kings”) in northwestern India comes Gulabi Sapera, known as the “Gypsy Queen of Rajasthan,” and her 20-member company of musicians, dancers and puppeteers.”

Edward Scissorhands

• TIME: 7:30pm — Tuesday-Friday and 2pm, 7:30pm — Saturday and 1pm, 6:30pm — Sunday
  CLOSES: Saturday March 31
  PLACE:BAM, Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave, between Ashland Place and St. Felix St, Brooklyn
  COST:$30-$80
• SUMMARY: “Matthew Bourne returns to BAM with a witty re-imagining of Tim Burton’s beloved film, Edward Scissorhands. A huge hit at its London premiere, the production comes to BAM for a strictly limited three-week run.
  Following the death of his young son, a brokenhearted inventor consoles himself the only way he knows how: by building a new boy, Edward. Tragedy strikes again when the inventor dies before completing his work and the bewildered Edward, left with scissors in lieu of hands, flees to a candy-colored suburban community.”
• SUMMARY:
  • Melanie’s Review: “I was completely sold and dancing in my seat along with the cast- it WASN’T trying to compete with the movie, just taking the story to a new medium. It was over the top in the most spectacular way!”

Cameron Michel: A New Polymorphous Reality

• TIME: 1pm-5pm — Saturday and Sunday
  CLOSES: Saturday March 31
  PLACE:Secret Project Robot Art Space, Located in the Forrest of Monster Island, 210 Kent Ave between Metropolitan and N 3rd, Williamsburg
  COST:FREE
• SUMMARY:”Camreron Michel will make an attempt at expressing utopia and mans struggle with duality: perfection/nihlism, apathy/empathy in a time of chaos. He chooses a collage form which conceptually, parallels and then echoes from our past a frieghteningly similar social struggle found in the less politicized dada works by Hanna Hoch and Kurt Schwitters. More a commentary and an obsession, updated by underscoring the symbiosis and complicity arriving between the artist and the capitalist means of production in the new millenium, than a slight on contemporary society or our current state of affairs, Cameron is infact, still posative about the future of man…, and struggles with embracing the world with a new vocabulary rather than destroying it with the old.”

The Painted Ladies

• TIME: 10pm
  PLACE: Mo Pitkins, 34 Ave A between 2nd and 3rd St
  COST: $12
• SUMMARY: “Choreographer Jenny Rocha presents “The Painted Ladies”, A Fusion of Dance, Percussion, Vaudeville & Burlesque. Rocha’s collection of witty, dynamic performances creates a vibrant celebration of the uninhibited female. This saloon-sexy performance takes comedy to a brilliant climactic level, with feet stomping, pelvis’ thrusting, and winking ladies.”
• RELATED:
  • Corey’s Review: “The dancers are fearless and brazen and their faces are just as expressive as their bodies…”

Music, Dance & Puppetry of Rajasthan: Gulabi Sapera

• TIME: 8pm (also playing on March 31)
  PLACE:Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, 2537 Broadway at 95th St
  COST:$35
• SUMMARY:” From the windswept Great Thar Desert in Rajasthan (“the land of kings”) in northwestern India comes Gulabi Sapera, known as the “Gypsy Queen of Rajasthan,” and her 20-member company of musicians, dancers and puppeteers.”

George Saunders & Jonathan Lethem

• TIME: 7pm
  PLACE:Housing Works Bookstore, 126 Crosby St at Prince St
  COST:$5 Suggested Donation
• SUMMARY:”Join us for an evening of music and conversation with George Saunders and Jonathan Lethem. The two acclaimed authors will discuss their newest work, including Lethem’s “You Don’t Love Me Yet” a comic novel about the members of a hipster band set in L.A. With opening act “The Night Time” a Brooklyn based band who will cover three “Monster Eyes” songs.”

Dance Parade Sampler

• TIME: 8pm
  PLACE: Dance Manhattan, 5th Fl, 39 W 19th St. between 5th and 6th Ave
  COST: $20 Suggested Donation, or $10 if you’re a student/underemployed, or $50 or more if you want to help Dance Parade enormously
• SUMMARY: “A rollicking evening of swing, Latin, hustle, and ballroom dance, and get a taste of the fun and excitement of the partner dances in the groundbreaking first annual New York Dance Parade! The Dance Parade Sampler will feature performances by phenomenal dancers, wine and soft drinks, raffles, and fantastic folks from across NYC’s diverse dance spectrum! Bring your high spirits, your dancing shoes, and your friends, to support and find out more about Dance Parade, and get to know the growing community of dancers who will boogie down Broadway on May 19. “

Susquehanna Industrial Tool and Die Co.

• TIME: 8pm (This event happens EVERY LAST THURSDAY)
  PLACE: Otto’s Shrunken Head Tiki Bar & Lounge, 538 E 14th St at Avenue B
  COST: FREE
• SUMMARY: “The Last Thursday of the month your favorite Hillbilly balladeers are back! These talented young lads will enchant you with their renditions of 50’s rockabilly and hillbilly lovesongs as well as their own originals.”

Square Dancing NYC

• TIME: 7pm-9:30pm
  PLACE:Galapagos, 70 North 6th St, between Kent and Wythe, Williamsburg
  COST:$7
• SUMMARY:”Squaredancing: Good Clean Fun. Join Andy Mullen and his bluegrass band, The Ridout Creek Ramble, for an evening of frivolity you won’t normally find around these parts. No experience necessary, as Andy and his group of misfits will walk you through all the necessary moves. Squaredancing + Alcohol (- Humiliation) = Fun”
• Related:
  • Tim’s Review: “Within about 15 minutes I’d become a full-fledged member of the hand-holding cult and can honestly say that I had THE MOST FUN dancing that I’ve had in at least a decade…”
  • Melanie’s Review: “…stuffy/snobby people need not attend- must be young at heart and willing to laugh your ass off…”

The Revolution in Physics at the Turn of the 20th Century

• TIME: 5:30pm-7:30pm
  PLACE: NYPL, Science, Industry and Business Library, 188 Madison Ave at 34th St
  COST: FREE
• SUMMARY: “A presentation by Richard Liboff, Distinguished Professor of Physics, University of Central Florida, formerly Professor of applied physics, applied mathematics, and electrical engineering at Cornell University, author of the best- selling college text book, Introductory Quantum Mechanics, featured in “Spider-Man 2″ movie.”

The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series

• TIME: 8pm (This event happens EVERY 2nd and 4th Wednesday)
  PLACE:Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome Street at Forsyth

COST:FREE

• SUMMARY: The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series “features the most interesting storytellers, writers, musicians, raconteurs and personalities, and requires the readers to take one public risk, while the the musicians, who perform two short sets with their original, lyric-driven music, are required to play one cover song and try to get the audience to sing along.”
  THIS WEEK: Angela Pneuman, Thisbe Nissen, Ben Greenman and music by Life in a Blender

Aziz Ansari

• TIME: 8pm
  PLACE:Union Hall, 702 Union St. at Fifth Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn

COST:$5

• SUMMARY:”I’m gonna do a show in Brooklyn where I do some standup and show a bunch of videos from “Human Giant.”

Anthropology: Body Adornment

• TIME: 7pm
  PLACE: Linder Theater, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St
  COST: $15
• SUMMARY: “Randall White, New York University, specializes in the study of Paleolithic art and personal adornment. He will discuss the ways body ornamentation points to the origin of symbolic thought. Recent examination of beads from Algeria dates them to at least 100,000 years ago, dramatically earlier than previous evidence for body art.”

Joe Boyd

• TIME: 7pm
  PLACE: McNally Robinson, 52 Prince St, between Lafayette and Mulberry
  COST: FREE
• SUMMARY: “Author of White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s (Serpent’s Tail). Joe Boyd was a record and film producer who discovered and produced such musicians as Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Billy Bragg and many others. His memoir of the British music scene of the 1960s offers an insider’s view of both the idealism and the backstage politics of the era, and the many musical personalities encountered along the way. Join us for a reading and discussion with an icon of British popular music on his American book tour.”

How To Kick People

• TIME: 7:30pm
  PLACE:Mo Pitkins, 39 Ave A between 2nd and 3rd St

COST:$8

• SUMMARY: “Todd Levin and Bob Powers, both humor writers, often found themselves in a frustrating place, drifting somewhere between stand-up comedy and literary performance. How to Kick People was conceived as the antitode: a comedy show for bookworms, and a literary show for clowns.”
  THIS WEEK: AJ Jacobs, Ophira Eisenberg and Cintra Wilson
• RELATED:
  • Corey’s Review: “Dry comedy at its best, How to Kick People is a fantastic event at Mo Pitkin’s…”

The Whacked Sopranos

• TIME: 6pm
  PLACE: Museum of TV and Radio, 25 West 52 St between 5th and 6th Ave
  COST: $15 for Closed Circut Viewing Room
• SUMMARY: “It is an honor roll, indeed: those who have been killed off The Sopranos. Each season fans of the esteemed HBO series eagerly wait to learn which character will meet the ultimate fate, as well as the gruesome details. As the series reaches its own end, creator David Chase will discuss the fine art of whacking with many of the actors whose characters now sleep with the fishes.
  In Person: David Chase, Creator/Executive Producer, Steve Buscemi, “Tony Blundetto”, Drea de Matteo, “Adriana La Cerva”, Vincent Pastore, “Salvatore ‘Big Pussy’ Bonpensiero”, David Proval, “Richie Aprile”, Annabella Sciorra, “Gloria Trillo” and Terence Winter, Executive Producer”

Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History

• TIME: 10am-5:45pm — Saturday–Wednesday and 10am-7:45pm — Friday
  CLOSES: Wednesday March 28
  PLACE:Guggenheim, 1071 5th Ave, at 89th St.
  COST:$18, except Pay-What-You-Wish on Fridays after 5:45pm
• SUMMARY:”Unlike other overviews that display paintings in a strictly chronological order, this exhibition is broken into fifteen distinct sections, each based on a theme running through the past five centuries of Spanish culture. These thematic axes highlight affinities between the art of the old masters and that of the modern era, and challenge conventional art histories that would seek to separate them. Accordingly, works from different periods appear side by side within each section, offering often radical juxtapositions that cut across time to reveal the overwhelming coherence of the Spanish tradition.”
• RELATED:
  • Stephanie’s Review : “…the exhibit cleverly pinpoints the common motifs in Spanish paining throughout history, showing that there are certain Truths that persevere…”

Shannon

Founder
Editor/Publisher
Website Designer and Manager
Events Curator

Shannon Paige has always considered herself an uncoolkid, due to massive mocking as a middle-schooler. Her brain melted while she was getting her graduate degree in math, so she moved to New York and spent way too much time going out and finding fun things to do around the city. To keep her uncool street cred, she plays Buffy in the New York cast of the Buffy Sing-A-Long.

shannon@uncoolkids.com

Clinton

Movie Curator

Clinton McClung is an independent film programmer, music lover, and hard drinker originally from Colorado. He writes a weekly column for the WFMU blog and is the creator of the incredibly fun Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sing-a-Long. He moved to New York in the summer of 2006 because he was tired of living in cities without real 24 hour diners. Besides making mix CDs at the drop of a hat, he also swears to have never in his life worn a sweater vest. And his favorite film is probably K-PAX. Isn’t it everyone’s?

clinton@uncoolkids.com

Tim

Marketing Guy
Reviewer

Tim was born here in 1978. He started his writing career in secret at the age of 7. His early writing dealt mostly with breasts and humiliation. Not much has changed since then, except that Tim now lives in Brooklyn and somehow manages to maintain full-time employment as a media researcher. Tim enjoys reading, people watching, artistic technology, motorcycling, neurobiology, traveling to strange places, music, and making New York City his bitch. Tim does not enjoy sporting events (unless they’re uncool sports), network television, loud talkers, The New York Post, internet dating, pessimism, People Magazine, music snobs that only know about one genre of music, or waking up before 9:30am.

tim@uncoolkids.com

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Alisha

Reviewer

Alisha is an actor/writer who thinks being an uncoolkid is the funnest. She’s written two solo shows and is in the midst of writing her very first screenplay. She loves cupcakes. She also plays Anya in the New York cast of the Buffy Sing-A-Long.

alisha@uncoolkids.com

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Anthony

Reviewer

Anthony Venditto is the human embodiment of the slogan, “New Jersey and U Perfect Together”. He’s lived in Manhattan for about five years now and is still trying to figure out what all the fuss is about. He enjoys sumptuous meals, the sweet release of Jack Daniels and discussing the subtle, socio-political subcontext inherent in high concept bukake films.

anthony@uncoolkids.com

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Corey

Reviewer

Corey Ann Haydu has been a proud resident of NYC’s East VIllage for five years. She is currently pursuing a dual career in writing and acting. She does this by spending inordinate amounts of time at Starbucks. Corey served as Artistic director of Sunflower Works Theatre Company for one year and has since been busy on stage and publishing her work.. Her work has been published at newyorkcool.com, “Foliate Oak” and “Ducts”.

corey@uncoolkids.com

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The Geek on the Street aka Gideon Levy

Reviewer

Gideon Levy, featured here as a Pillow-Fight General has been immersing himself in New York City geekdom for twenty-four years now, since the days of geek infancy. A comic-book stalwart and NYC history afficionado, Gideon makes his living as a New York City Tour Guide with “The Levy’s Unique New York”, and in his free time hosts lightsaber battles, sings a badass karaoke, struts his man-stuff on the dance floor, and writes. Sometimes. Not often enough.

gideon@uncoolkids.com

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Lauren

Reviewer

Lauren Goode is a Connecticut-based writer; she also works in film and television production in New York City. She received a B.A. in U.C. (UnCoolology), has several years’ experience in the field, and is currently studying phantom uncoolness as she throws convention to the wind.

lauren@uncoolkids.com

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Melanie/Emmeline

Reviewer

Melanie Blythe is an Art Buyer/Costume Designer/Writer living in the East Village in NYC. She’s pretty uncool, a little quirky & a bit crunchy, but she’s a real sweetheart. Oh & she loves monkeys!

melanie@uncoolkids.com

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Stephanie

Reviewer

Stephanie Nikolopoulos was and probably still is an uncool kid. Here is the evidence stacked up against her then: She grew up in New Jersey. She wore glasses … and braces. She was picked last in gym class. And now: She spends her days correcting commas, colons, and quotation marks. She often wears mismatched socks. And, one of her favorite places to hang out is the library.

stephanie@uncoolkids.com

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