PRINTED MATTER: Arts + Entertainment, May 6

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PRINTED MATTER: Arts + Entertainment, May 6

POSTED: Thursday, May 6, 2010, 7:00 PM

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Photo | Larry Fink | daletart.com

"Unfamiliar Skin" (outdoor installation shot), by Martha Posner, found objects, wire, feathers, pigment, synthetic hair and beeswax

Here's what you'll miss if you don't pick up a City Paper this week: FEATURES!

First Friday Focus (written by yours truly) peeps a creepy show at Dalet Gallery (pictured, above), a Toulouse-y tribute at Lisa M. Reisman et Cie and a recession-message exhibit at Little Berlin, plus a dance performance (including haircuts!) at Lakshmi Hair Studio and a community crawl called Adopt A Pig, which is pretty much what it sounds like.
Patrick Rapa shares his thoughts on the new Hold Steady album, Heaven Is Whenever. The takeaway? Despite more actual singing than you might want out of Craig Finn, parts are "as gripping and memorable as anything this band has ever done." I still miss Franz Nicolay.

COLUMNS!

Justin Bauer weighs the merits of sometimes-clichÃ©d universal themes in this month's Shelf Life. Novels reviewed include Sonya Chung's Long for This World, Emily St. John Mandel's The Singer's Gun and Catherine Kirkwood's Cut Away.
M.J. Fine calls Natalie Merchant's new album "stunning" in this month's Reconsider Me, but she can't ignore the singer's "glassy timbre and garbled diction," which hasn't changed much since her 10,000 Maniacs days.

REVIEWS!

Drew Lazor gives Iron Man 2 a solid B in Flick Pick, despite its many ridiculous moments. "[Jon] Favreau's put together an unchallenging, easy-to-watch two hours," Lazor says, "that'll appeal to anyone who got lost in the 2008 original."
Three album reviews on tap this week: Julia Nunes' "acoustic opus" I Think You Know; TJ Kong & the Atomic Bomb's "crabby epic" Idiots and John Ellis & Double-Wide's "swampland-to-smoky" Puppet Mischief.
Movie shorts on Babies (C-) and The Good, The Bad and The Weird (B+)

AND THEN THERE'S ...

Kaleidoscope quick hits on Washed Out (a band), Gravedigger (a play), Hezekiah Jones (a tribute) and Daria (our favorite pissy cartoon teenager)
Arts Picks on Rebecca Davis Dance Co., Bambi Gallery and more
Music Picks on Caribou, Hair Rocket, It's a King Thing and more
An Agenda section chock-full of goodies, like Icepack, a feature on Lucha VaVoom, DJ Nights, tons of Picks and Brian James Kirk's geeked-out column, Peer to Peer.

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