Dinner Served with Hilarity
‘Vicky and Lysander’s Dinner Party’ is a howling success
Not since Kiki and Herb has a duo left me as giddy and excited as hilariously mismatched faux couple Vicky and Lysander, now hosting multiple dinner parties every weekend at Grand Opening. The hosts of the wildly inappropriate and hilarious parties (with 11 of your new favorite strangers), the twosome do everything but juggle to keep their guests entertained. At least, they didn’t juggle the night I went. Who k...
Bash Compactor: Live! Naked! Art!
Hanging with Hoke and the gang at Grace Exhibition Space in Bushwick
“Performance art is the purest form of art,” claimed Erik Hokanson, who runs the Grace Exhibition Space, a medium-sized loft in Bushwick that exhibits only performance art, with his girlfriend Jill McDermid. “You’re emotionally enabling, getting people involved. It’s different than theater or dance because when you do that, you’re pretending.”
In The Parlance of Our Suffering Set
The verbal stunts of Sam Lipsyte’s new novel
Sam Lipsyte’s fourth book, The Ask, is a novel about language. In his previous novels, especially the cult classics Homeland and The Subject Steve, Lipsyte demonstrated his knack for linguistic pyrotechnics and riotous satire. In The Ask, Lipsyte one-ups himself by picking up the defibrillator and delivering an electric shock to the dictionary, daring language to behave inappropriately, outrageously.
Cherie Bomb
The Runaways’ Cherie Currie gave up rock ‘n’ roll to swing around a chainsaw
Cherie Currie was just a Bowie-obsessed 15-year-old smoking a cigarette at the Sugar Shack, an under-21 club in North Hollywood, when she was spotted by producer Kim Fowley. A Svengali, visionary and predator, he was cruising the underage clubs with a young Joan Jett in tow, looking for recruits for his brand-new teen rock band, The Runaways. With her bleached-out hair and tight pants, Currie had the goods—or a...
Bad Girls’ Revenge
S&M follies and anti-patriarchy porn in Oplev’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; The Runaways gets the rage (and rock ’n’ roll) right
Can we please have a moratorium on serial killer, Holocaust and child-abuse combos? Too soon after Shutter Island, the Swedish film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo arrives with its preposterous plot combining all those elements. The result: a nearly three-episode-length film of TV’s Cold Case, featuring a punk-goth, fish-out-of-water heroine Lisabeth Salander (Noomi Rapace). She’s a computer whiz who help...
Pressed for Time: Daniel Packard's Live Group Sex Therapy Show
If you don’t like talking publicly about the best way to eat ass—some say both parties on all fours, some say with the eatee on his or her stomach, legs spread— Daniel Packard’s show isn’t for you.The host of his own dating advice show on Vancouver’s 94.5,The Beat (!), Packard brings his radio show, plus some, to the stage. Expect interactivity. Expect awkwardness. Hey, some people...




















