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nonsense nyc
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Tudor details his experience when he came across the posting on Nonsense NYC, the quintessential list for anyone seeking independent art, weird events, and what is cheerfully designated as "senseless culture" in New York. He stresses that it was a short, understated write-up inviting 40 people to a cooperative banquet in an abandoned building. The organizers of the self-proclaimed "Mistake Dinner" requested a note, to weed out those lacking "good intentions.
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A guerrilla theater project turns author Rick Moody site-specific In a northern New York suburb there stands an abandoned factory riddled with loose overhead bricks and jagged metal. (The lack of restrooms will be another kind of hazard.) Since the cast and crew have limited time to work in die space, rehearsals have happened mostiy offsite, at a studio in Midtown.
... by Jeff Stark, an artist and editor of Nonsense NYC, a newsletter for weird art events in New York...
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BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Tom Grise and his team had high hopes for their shopping cart. They attached 10-foot metal bars to make it easier to pull and placed a scary plastic skull on the front. They girded it in cardboard, painted to look like a mining cart. The five members of the team decked themselves out in Indiana Jones costumes. When they crested the hill of Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park on Jan. 28, they realized what they were up against: nearly 200 rival teams including a group of 7-foot bananas and a barrel full of naughty monkeys. Vampires escorted a bat with a 12-foot wingspan. An Old West saloon featured cowboys, a busty barkeep and a working keg of beer. A team from the "Mayo Clinic," dressed as doctors, smothered themselves in mayonnaise.
... the event on the Web and through Nonsense NYC, an e- mail list Stark runs highlighting "inde...
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Mayor Bloomberg said, This bill would send an unfortunate message about the impact and importance of their votes and set a perilous precedent for future leaders of this city...I believe it is simply inappropriate for those members elected in 1997, who were aware of the rules under which they were elected, to seek to change those rules in a manner that may work to their own advantage.' And he was exactly right."-Public advocate Betsy Gotbaum reciting a 2002 Mayor Bloomberg quote when he vetoed a bill to extend term limits. "The question before us is simple: Is New York City for sale?...It was boys like Bloomberg that played with our country and put us into this mess. Do we give him four more years to do it again? Hell no."-State Sen. Eric Adams while holding up a "NYC for sale" sign. "H...
... you have elections.' That's a bunch of nonsense. Ninety something percent of incumbents win. Term ...
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... trains won't protect you from the TSA's nonsense, as "Bryce Williams and 689 other passengers" in O...
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The purpose of Amazing Grace is to unearth two arcane (to Americans, anyway) tidbits: the origins of the titular Christian hymn and the story of how slavery was abolished in England half a century before the Emancipation Proclamation. There's something a mite queasy about a film dealing with abolition that's staffed about 98 percent by white folks. But the film has such a lean, no-nonsense, workmanlike feel that it's more likely director Michael Apted simply didn't want to veer into bloated Amistad territory, content to stick with the politicking and little else. Even with a sterling all-British cast that makes room for both Albert Finney and Michael Gambon, Amazing Grace can't shake the stiff genre trappings, but it's unambitious enough in its liberalism to be genuinely uplifting. B- (...
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Church teachings To the editor -- Anne Rice is entirely correct. Sometimes the church appears to be hypocritical on one hand but judgmental on the other.
... it is to put a grinding halt to this nonsense. Freedom of religion -- absolutely. Common sense, ...
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ZACHARY KAUFMAN/The Columbian Hockinson High School students Courtney Lemos, 16, left, and Vanessa Keller, 17, describe their close call in New Yorks Times Square on Saturday. They were among students and chaperones who spent five days taking in Broadway plays and other attractions.
...And no- nonsense police on the scene directed patrons back upstairs...
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Yet could there be enough fell doings in a year that saw only one book from Stephen King, the Richard Bachman trunk novel Blaze King's son Joe Hill took up some of the slack with his bestselling horror novel Heart-Shaped Box and 20th Century Ghosts, a lovely, earnest collection of short fiction. An endless string of seedy clubs provides the backdrop for Laurie Lindeen's brash and hilarious Petal Pusher: A Rock and Roll Cinderella Story, a terrific memoir that encompasses rock 'n' roll, a Midwestern childhood, the author's multiple sclerosis, true love, and killer hangovers.
..., to Steinke's encounter with a no-nonsense nun named Sister Leslie. An endless string of seed...
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Lady Gaga, 'Born This Way' (Interscope) Underneath all the meat dresses and dangerously inappropriate footwear, theres something charmingly old-fashioned and traditional about Lady Gaga. While everyone else is content with niche popularity, which is pretty much all that most artists can obtain in the 21st century, Gaga strives for the pop icon status that Madonna and Michael Jackson enjoyed during the 80s. She makes epic-length music videos with enormous budgets, she appears on any TV show that will have her, and with her second full-length album, Born This Way, shes targeting multiple audiences the same way that Jackson did circa Thriller, when he and Quincy Jones got Eddie Van Halen to play the guitar solo on Beat It in a completely successful attempt to appeal to the rock kids. You c...
