I’ve been covering TBA as a journalist, in some capacity or another, for the last six years. In that time I have developed this survival kit. Wanna know what it contains? Hit the jump! 1. Laptop Computer for posting from a bar after having your brain ripped out by a performance. 2. A “smart phone” […]
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Go Felt a Fish!
Things that cracked me up at The Works last night: 1. The giant tantalizing trash can full of confiscated alcohol just inside the front door. Apparently contemporary art and six packs of Miller High Life don’t mix! The most-confiscated drink (by my perusal) was, no surprise, PBR. 2. Rudy Speerschneider dishing up ice cream in […]
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TBA 10 Opens With an “Okay. Whatever.”
I like Rufus Wainwright. I like how hard consonants don’t exist when he sings. I love the range of his voice, and his skill as a musician, songwriter, and composer. All of that being said, I have no idea what he has to do with Time Based Art. At last night’s TBA Festival opening performance […]
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Some Moderately Bookish Thoughts on Nina Katchadourian’s Sorted Books.
Image via PICA. Since 1993, and in places ranging from NY to OH to CA to TX, Nina Katchadourian has stacked books side by side. For her Sorted Books project, Katchadourian utilizes books from libraries both public and private—arranging them, by title, to create what basically amount to little poems. There’s the one above about […]
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Japanther at the Works
Mosh pit, THWARTED! Laser pointer, DEPLOYED! Beer garden, CROWDED! CLICK HERE for more TRUE LIFE STORIES from last night’s Japanther show at TBA! (Also, an anecdote about my cat. What.)
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Japanther at The Works
Dear Old Guy with the Laser Pointer at the Japanther/Nightshade Shadowpuppet Show, I am not sorry I threatened to throw my cat at you. Sincerely, Alison (Dear Queequeg, I am sorry I threatened to throw you at that old guy with the laser pointer at the Japanther shadowpuppet show. I know, it wasn’t even a […]
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Opening Tonight: Women without Men
A bit lost in the shuffle of TBA’s opening night festivities is Shirin Neshat’s Women without Men, an Iranian film opening tonight at the NW Film Center. It’s a fictionalized account of five women’s lives, set in 1953, after Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh was overthrown in a coup organized by British and US forces […]
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Want a Free TBA Flex Pass?
I’m giving one away—that’s a $150 giveaway, folks—but there’s a catch. Email me with “TBA Flex Pass” in the subject line, and a few lines explaining why I should give the pass to you, and I’ll hook one winner up with a flex pass to the festival—it’s good for admission to any six TBA performances […]
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Rufus Wainwright on Think Out Loud
Think Out Loud threw a little love at the TBA festival this morning, dedicating their program to an interview with Rufus Wainwright—right over here, if you missed it. We’ve got our own interview with Wainwright hitting the streets this evening; our interview does NOT however include the question “Your parents were obviously huge influences… What […]
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Rufus Wainwright on Think Out Loud
Think Out Loud threw a little love at the TBA festival this morning, dedicating their program to an interview with Rufus Wainwright—right over here, if you missed it. We’ve got our own interview with Wainwright hitting the streets this evening; our interview does NOT however include the question “Your parents were obviously huge influences… What […]
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Mike Daisey: The Mercury Interview
A few weeks ago, I got the chance to interview Mike Daisey, a TBA favorite who will be returning this year to perform The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, a new monologue about how the game-changing design of Apple products comes with horrific labor and environmental consequences. Daisey spoke with me from Seattle, […]
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Mike Daisey: The Mercury Interview
A few weeks ago, I got the chance to interview Mike Daisey, a TBA favorite who will be returning this year to perform The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, a new monologue about how the game-changing design of Apple products comes with horrific labor and environmental consequences. Daisey spoke with me from Seattle, […]