If you consider yourself young and drifting from the left, you will find Greg Keller’s new one-act play deeply unsettling. This probing production at the Cherry Lane Theatre examines the relationship of two old friends in Park Slope, Brooklyn as they wrestle with the choices they’ve made and the terror that accompanies personal and political transformation.
Read the full review here.
Filed under: Uncategorized on April 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
What is the role of the law? What do rights do? What do they mean?
Karl Marx warned us that legal rights are not always to be trusted. His reasoning was simple: that legal rights often perpetuate systems of exploitation and bolster the status quo. But somehow, one hundred and fifty years later, we continue to believe in them.
This lengthy academic essay looks at the role of rights through the lens of the Critical Legal Studies movement. Writing in the 70s and 80s, these scholars found that the law diffuses power in surprising and often unpredictable ways - but rarely is a sinister force at work.
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Filed under: Uncategorized on April 20th, 2008 | No Comments »
Venue: Southpaw
Brooklyn, NY
Yamaha’s Tenori-On is the musical culmination of an iPhone, Wii, and a little bit of love.
The new musical instrument was unveiled today in Brooklyn at a low-key event and inspired even the most jaded fixed bicycle gear hipster to stick around. Several hundred gadget geeks and musicians witnessed performances on Yamaha’s new handmade digital device. The few who left disappointed were those that did not have an opportunity to try one.
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Filed under: Uncategorized on April 17th, 2008 | No Comments »
In this post, I take a critical look at Kazuo Ishiguro’s work The Unconsoled - but this time from the point of view of a fiction writer. The book is a delightful a crash course in courageous writing techniques, and reveals why Ishiguro deserves to be hailed as one of the world’s greatest living authors.
UPDATE: The day after I posted this page, I found an interview in The Paris Review in which Ishiguro spoke at length about The Unconsoled. I have updated the article to include his thoughts.
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Filed under: Uncategorized on April 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
Written, Directed, Edited, and Produced by Julie Delpy
2007, 96 minutes.
Starring: Julie Delpy, Adam Goldberg, Marie Pillet, Albert Delpy
2 Days in Paris is a penetrating, wry, and at times terrifying film about a visit by a young couple to Paris. This is no honeymoon. The pheromones have worn off and the excitement of romantic discovery has faded.
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Filed under: Uncategorized on March 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
