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Just saw Ricky Jay’s “A Rogue’s Gallery” in which Mr. Jay allows the audience to choose 20 or 30 from 108 rogues projected behind him on a screen. Jay demonstrates his memory and affection for these rogues by reciting their dramatic points without notes, often connecting them with others on the board. It was delightful [...]
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Is Sarah Palin secretly a beat poet? Do her words make little to no sense because she is so immersed in language and lyrics that she operates on a plane we cannot grasp? We sincerely doubt it, but that was the implication last night as William Shatner appeared on the “Tonight Show” and read Sarah's [...]
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For Teller (that’s his full legal name), magic is more than entertainment. He wants his tricks to reveal the everyday fraud of perception so that people become aware of the tension between what is and what seems to be. Our brains don’t see everything—the world is too big, too full of stimuli. So the brain [...]
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These outfits beg a few questions: – Who will ever wear this stuff? – What was the designer drinking? – Where can I get some of what the designer was drinking? This couture collection, designed by Jiang Zhou of the Beijing Institute of Clothing Technology, was featured at China’s recent fashion week and looks to [...]
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This performance is something else: Pilobolus: A performance merging dance and biology (video) Makes me want to hone my body into a perfectly efficient machine. When I was a kid I was scrawny as fuck and gave up on being strong and good at sports very early on. Now I am trying to whip my [...]
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I read about this Spanish kinetic theater company in the NY Times. They seem pretty awesome: FUERZABRUTA
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