Hello and I love you. See, I’m in a good mood. I checked my Roth IRA
and it has rebounded. I won’t be broke in old age after all! I read
that MTV is going to start re-broadcasting The State on weekdays. And a new study found that eating one cheeseburger every other day actually decreases your risk for heart disease.
April Fools! I’m still poor. The State is only available on VHS, and I have high cholesterol. Happily, here are some things to drive me to happy distraction.
April Foolery
April 1, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway (at W. 95th St.), 212-864-5400; 7, $27.
One-time
Ryan Adams dater Parker Posey reads a story by former Calvin Johnson
dater Miranda July called “The Swim Team.” Also appearing,Tim Blake
Nelson reading David Sedaris’ “Jesus Shaves.”
Though you can
probably hear Parker Posey sound like Miranda July for free if you hang
out at Black & White, hearing a David Sedaris story read not in his
annoying nasal voice is indeed worth half a Benjamin. Bottom Line: Get on the floor, you freshmen bitches, and listen!
Luminous Flux
April 3, Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St. (at Water St.), Brooklyn, 718- 222-8500; 8, $10.
Where
else but a Dumbo warehouse could you enjoy a weekend of live mixed
media art, dance parties, hula hoops, goopy goops, floppy mops, shiny
tops, hippie dicks, fearless flux and feckless fucks? The Luminous Flux
festival riffs on the theme of FLIGHT with a range of activities
including a Saturday night dance party hosted by the Space Tourism
Society and a familyfriendly Sunday Flux fest with not-slutty puppets. Bottom Line: Glow sticks are involved, but so what? Don’t you like to have fun anymore?
Music of Arthur Russell
April 4, Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St. (betw. Thompson & Sullivan Sts.), 212-228-4854; 10, $15.
Disco cellist Arthur Russell is finally having his moment…18 years after he died. Russell was the subject of a documentary by Matt Wolff called Wild Combination, and now this tribute concert that features his work interpreted by Arthur’s Landing, a collective of Russell’s downtown music friends. Special guests include Nomi from Hercules and Love Affair and Justin Vandervolgen of !!! Bottom Line: The concert—held on the anniversary of Russell’s death— would be heartwarming anyway; but since all the musicians involved are exceedingly talented and since they are playing the work of an extremely talented composer, it will also rock.
Can Do! Plays on the Bright Side
April 5, Public Theatre, 425 Lafayette St. (betw. E. 4th St. & Astor Pl.), 212-642-5052; 3, FREE.Billy Crudup might be a cad. Didn’t he leave that lady from Weeds for that lady from My So-Called Life while the first lady was preggers? Yes, he did. But for a couple of nights, he and a cast of A-list actors from stage and screen—including James McDaniel and Cynthia Vance— perform plays written by 10 little kiddies who participated in the 52nd Street Project, wherein tots from Hell’s Kitchen write short plays. It’s heartwarming, no? Bottom Line: OMG, kiddie drama. Not to be condescending though, since whatever the youth dramaturges lack in age, they make up for in sincerity. Plus it’s free, and Crudup is a fox.
