New Russian Drama

At Cuny Graduate Center tonight there's a discussion with two leading Russian playwrights of the post-Soviet generation, Yury Kladiev and Vyacheslav Durnekov and the Moscow Times theatre critic. There's also a reading from Kladiev's play I am the Machine Gunner (in English.)The two were co-screenwriters on the now-cancelled raw Russian TV series School about kids in high school drugging and drinking it up and having sex, etc.

May 5, 2010 / 7 pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue @ 34th St.
Free

2010 Bike Month FootDown Festival

Sponsored by Time's Up / NYC's Direct Action Environmental Organization. Footdown is basically a game where the object is to NOT put your feet down as you ride around a circle. You try to get other riders to put a foot down and players are eliminated if their foot touches the ground. They're meeting up at Union Square and then moving on to a undisclosed private venue to play, so don't be late.

I'd like to go but have class tonight. :-( A friend of mine would also like to go but she just got her bicycle stolen! They broke into her apartment building and into her basement storage unit. Bastards!

Union Square - South side / By the steps (Facing Whole Foods)
May 4, 2010 / 7 pm

Free Mondays / Museum of the City of New York

I love this Museum! And it's even better now 'cause for the month of May there is free admission on Mondays! There's an exhibit of Charles Adams drawings up now. He's the artist who did the delightfully creepy Addams Family illustrations.

Right now you can also see photographs and learn more about the 400 movers and shakers in NYC. You've got people in entertainment like Woody Allen, the arts (Alvin Ailey to name one), writers (James Baldwin), politics (Aaron Burr who killed a poltical rival in 1804), business (Estee Lauder), sports and science.

And for all you car buffs there's Cars, Culture and the City.

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue
www.mcny.org

Feminist Book Club

De Becker "The Gift of Fear"

From the Bluestocking May E-mail: The Feminist Book Club reads and discusses feminism. We make no claim about what feminism is or whom it serves, and are not a forum for any particular feminist platform. Rather, we rely on feminism(s). We read theoretical texts,literature and primary works. We welcome all genders, political persuasions, and levels of familiarity. We meet on the first Sunday of each month. This month's book is "The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us From Violence" (available at Bluestockings) by Gavin De Becker.

Sunday, May 2nd / 2:30 pm
Bluestockings
172 Allen Street @ Stanton

Cherry Blossom Viewing

Hanami baby! Going to the Cherry Blossom viewing shindig (Sakura Matsuri) at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) with my friend Emily today. It's a fine day for it. Supposed to be 88 degrees today. 88! Um, what happened to Spring? Spring? It does not exist. Sigh.

Anyways, am looking forward to the festival. There's taiko drumming (my fave!) at noon, haiku poetry readings and Okinawan & Butoh dance. The costume play (cos-play) community will be out in force as well... Will take a lot of pictures of those Gothic Lolitas fer sure. And there's some kind of sushi pillow photo op??? A pillow made of real sushi or a marketing ploy by a pillow manufacturer or something altogether different. Will let you know!

May 1 and 2nd 10 am to 6 pm

$15

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

900 Washington Avenue

Brooklyn (Duh!)

Recap: Paul Kasmin Gallery

So I pick Buffy up from the Vet and she's fine. So we go to the gallery last nite and I see a bunch of people outside and I'm thinking, "Oh, great, it's gonna be full." I walk inside and indeed it's packeroonied, but at least the gallery is large. The Mark Ryden's art work is much cooler than on the Kasmin gallery site. When I saw the photo on the site I didn't realize that the chick in the painting (see photo with me) is wearing dress made o' meat. TASTY! The people were almost as interesting as the paintings. Lots of people dressed in Old Tyme Gay 90's which was the theme of the show. Check out the gal on the stilts draped in plastic slabs o' meat and strings of wieners. Whatever turns you on, baby. ;-)

Paul Kasmin Gallery Opening

There's this cool exhibition I wanna check out tonite. The artist is Mark Ryden and the exhibition is called The Gay 90's: Old Tyme Art Show. The paintings are full of little girls with big heads and Lincoln (as in Abe) figures prominently. It's sort of fairy tale meets sicko kitsch. Sounds good! ;-) The opening is tonite (4/29) from 5 to 8 pm. Free, por supuesto.

Gonna try and go after I pick up the Buffalo from the Vet.

4/29 to 6/5 2010

The Gay 90's: Old Tyme Art Show

Paul Kasmin Gallery

293 Tenth Avenue (@ 27th St.)