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We are crazy excited to announce that we have a judge for this year's poetry contest! Daisy Fried was a staff writer at City Paper when I started working here during the Jurassic (Park: The Lost World) era, and went on to become a poet of renown in places where poetry is properly renowned. She teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program in North Carolina and writes for the New York Times, Threepenny Review and Poetry. Her latest book, Women's Poetry is funny and touching and a joy to read. Here's what the New York Times had to say:
Fried is a poet who will “tense up” when she hears “an affirming poem,” finding “Sourness a kind of joy I try for intricately.” Her present-tense poems vividly record the impressions of our moment: road rage, smartphones, magnet loops, Facebook, a “gun megachurch.”
Point is they loved it. Read the whole review here.
SO: Get to it poets! And fiction writers!
The deadline is Tuesday. Here are all the details.
Dr. Frank Lee and colleagues from Drexel's video game design program managed to convince the Cira Centre to let them play a 29-story game of Pong on their building, which will happen as part of Philly Tech Week on April 19 and 26.
We'll have a story on it (and a better-quality video) coming out Thursday in our Science and Tech issue, but for now, here's some video we took at last night's test run of the system, wherein Tech Week organizer Chris Wink defeats project developer Marc Barrowclift in what we assume is the largest shutout in Pong history. (They're going for a Guiness Record.)
(On the actual nights that the public will be able to play, the Cira Centre's window shades will all be down and the lights will be off.)
NOTE: This post originally stated that Barrowclift defeated Wink. We very much apologize for impugning Wink's honor!
These huge arts festivals can be overwhelming — how to figure out what's worth seeing? CP's sending someone to nearly every event PIFA's putting on over the next month to help you decide, so check back with Critical Mass all month long for comprehensive, ongoing reviews.
SHOW: The Hand of Gaul
GENRE: Theater
GROUP: Inis Nua Theatre Company
ATTENDED:Wed., April 10, 7 p.m., Off-Broad Street Theater
CLOSES: April 28
BRIEF SELF-DESCRIPTION: When French soccer superstar Thierry Henry single-handedly knocks Ireland out of the 2010 World Cup with an unchecked foul, three fiercely proud (albeit not overly bright) Irish fans decide to avenge their team.
WE THINK: Jared Michael Delaney's new play is a barrage of ridiculousness. Delaney, Adam Altman, and Harry Smith engage in non stop non sequiturs, arcane movie references, and Three Stooges-style violence. They pull together enough to hire a hit man — Le Falcone (Damon Bonetti), an English-mangling Belgian with a pencil-thin moustache also obsessed with Henry — to avenge Ireland's stolen honor.
This would be enough for great fun, but director Tom Reing adds witty live accompaniment by Langabeer & Machiz on guitar, bass, accordion, drums, banjo, penny whistle and saw, plus video by Janelle Kauffman of hilarious dueling press conferences from Irish president Mary McAleese (Megan Bellwoar) and French president Nicolas Sarkozy (Leonard Haas) — AND convenient pop-up facts about soccer, beer, and bad movies. Some of J. Alex Cordaro's fight choreography is rendered in gloriously silly slow motion. Delaney's script is boldly politically incorrect (the debate about national slurs is outrageous), yet concludes with a constructive moral.
The Hand of Gaul is performed with a comfortable looseness, a knowing wink to the audience that the cast is having as much fun as we are. I can't think about it now without shaking my head and laughing.
PREVIOUSLY IN PIFA: Parents with cameras disrupt a solemn Holocaust play.
A couple weeks ago, I watched directorial duo The Harrys shoot a video for Kurt Vile's "Never Run Away." I wrote about it for today's paper. Below are my (amateur) shots from the shoot.
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Never question Hova. Though we found out here that Made in America 2 was all but a done deal the day after MIA 1, you had to wonder what the sequel would look like bill-wise since Jay-Z is playing with Justin Timberlake throughout late summer (including stops in Philly and NJ). By now you know that Jay, Live Nation and Budweiser has two Philly dates, Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, with Beyonce, her sis Solange and Nine Inch Nails topping the bills. Along with announcing MIA2 news, Hova dropped a new tune today on his website is response to Congressional hassles with his Cuban links.
Billy Weiss, the co-owner of Woody’s, just opened his Rosewood lounge on 13th and Walnut, a Hollywood-themed cocktail spot done up in purples and golds with lots of chandeliers that you can enter on Walnut or through Woody’s.
First off I've got to say that the cheapest beer at Johnny Brenda's is a three dollar Kenzinger which I'm going to have to imagine is not nearly cheap enough for L.A. skate punk shredders FIDLAR (ICYMI - fuck it, dog - life's a risk).They opened with a sick set complete with stage diving cameos from Wavves' Nathan Williams and a Descendents cover.
Though the mood of Wavves' latest Afraid of Heights is considerably less beachy than say, King of the Beach, their set was all about good times and summertime vibes in a hot and sweaty Johnny Brenda's. Oh and that Sonic Youth 100% was kind of the best thing ever.
Deadline: 5 p.m., Tuesday, April 16
Fiction: $5 entry fee per story. Stories should be 3,000 words or less and previously unpublished. No more than three fiction submissions per author.
Poetry: $5 entry fee per five poems. No more than 10 poems per poet.
Prizes: Winners get all the money — minus the judges’ honorariums — and have their work printed in City Paper. Runners up, also chosen by the judges, get posted online. Hopefully there will be a reading, too (but we said that last year).
The first Hidden City festival in 2009 opened the doors of several usually inaccessible buildings to the public, from the fairly well-known, like the Inquirer Building's tower, to the obscure, like Tacony's Disston Saw Works, to the truly spectacular, like the broken-down stage of the former Met-franchise opera house on North Broad. Each space had a specific art or music installation somehow related to the building's history.
So they're doing it again from May 23-June 30, they announced this morning, and they need a lot of volunteers and cash to pull it off: Nine (probably) projects across eight sites, each with its own separate Kickstarter-like thing to route donations of money, man-hours or specific items (tools, old musical instruments, etc.) to whichever project the donator is most interested in.
While the partner artists are mostly well established - Ars Nova, Data Garden, King Britt, the Dufala Brothers - I'm not embarrassed to admit that I'd heard of only one of the sites, Washington Square's Athenaeum, where the press conference was actually being held. The other sites were a pretty interesting scatter plot around the city: A in Germantown, a South Philly synagogue that's going to be slowly covered by textiles from Andrew Dahlgren's knitting machines, Frankford's Globe Dye Factory. The only place I could even picture off the top of my head was the building at Lancaster and Powelton in West Philly, which will be turned into what sounds like a giant pillow fort minus the pillows.
The sites will be open Thursday-Sunday over the stretch of the festival. Unfortunately, it's still a little pricey — $25 for single tickets, $150 for a pass to everything NOTE: That's what they said at the press conference, but just got an email update:
We’re offering special discounted deals on the Festival tickets and passes to Hidden City members. The regular price for a one day Festival pass is $20; a weekend pass $40; an all Festival pass $70. Members will pay only $15, $30, and $50 so we encourage you to become a Hidden City member today.
I need an ab-soul cleanse after the Made In America smarm. So, here, check out the 2013 Ladyfest Philly lineup. It's June 7-9. Go here for more info, including the workshop lineup.
- 3Jane
- Amanda X
- Attia Taylor
- Aye Nako
- Batty
- Big Mouth
- Black Wine
- Blizzard Babies
- US Girls
- Ghost Ship (Rosali Middleman and Mary Lattimore)
- +HIRS+
- In School
- Kate Ferencz
- Mindtroll
- Parasol
- Peeple Watchin’
- Potty Mouth
- Priests
- Screaming Females
- Shady Hawkins
- Trophy Wife
- Void Vision
- Whore Paint
The lineup for 2013 Made In America (brought to you by Budweiser, because fuck Yuengling) is being announced (via Spotify, because fuck artists). Oh geez this is annoying. They're announcing them one by one.
EDIT: Okay, the highlights: Nine Inch Nails, Solange, Beyoncé, Emeli Sandé, Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa, Deadmau5, Public Enemy, Queens of the Stone Age.
Here's the full lineup:
- Nine Inch Nails
- Solange
- Gaslight Anthem
- Emeli Sandé
- Schoolboy Q
- Jesse Rose
- Kendrick Lamar
- Fitz and The Tantrums
- Wolfgang Gartner
- AlunaGeorge
- Haim
- Wiz Khalifa
- Nero
- Ab-Soul
- Feed Me / Crystal Fighters
- GTA
- Jay Rock
- 3LAU
- Imagine Dragons
- Calvin Harris
- A$ap Rocky
- Miguel
- Redlight
- Rudimental
- Phoenix
- Porter Robinson
- 2 Chainz
- Macklemore
- Robert DeLong
- TJR
- Public Enemy
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Deadmau5
- Beyoncé
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