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A Call to Harm 

Shereese Francis was in mental distress. 

After police arrived, she was dead. 

By Nick Pinto 

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Chris Rock Plays Me! We discuss his most challenging 

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ROCK PLAYS ME! 

We discuss his most challenging role ever in 2 Days in New York 

BY MICHAEL MUSTO 

Wryly acerbic Chris 

Rock plays the most 

exalted role imaginable—a 

Village Voice 

writer—in 2 Days in 

New York, Julie Delpy’s likable cultureclash 

follow-up to her romantic comedy 2 

Days in Paris. This time, she’s living with 

Mingus, a black writer slash radio host 

who avoids becoming unglued even as her 

neurotic French relatives swarm in for a 

noisy visit. 

Here’s my interview with the Rock 

about the role. 

Hi, Chris. Are you basically playing me? 

I kind of thought I was basing it on Nelson 

George and Elvis Mitchell. But sure, I 

threw you in there, too. [Laughs.] 

Thanks! Did you like the script? 

I loved it. The fact that Julie was into me 

at all, I was like, “Really?” I always dug 

her. I watched 2 Days in Paris, and the 

next thing I’m in 2 Days in New York, so 

things are good. Let’s hope Julie doesn’t 

become anti-Semitic and racist. [Laughs.] 

In some scenes, you casually converse 

with a cardboard cutout of Obama. 

Will this movie help his campaign? 

Some of his commercials probably cost 

more than this movie! 

Speaking of urgent politics, have you been 

eating Chick-fil-A? 

They have an amazing sandwich, but I 

was at a mall 10 days ago, and I looked at it, 

and I couldn’t do it. I ended up having to 

go to McDonald’s. I’m not sure if it was 

because of the protest or because, thanks 

to cell phone cameras, you gotta be careful 

what you do. When they change their 

views. . . . 

Moving on to tastier animals: Is Madagascar 

your biggest money-making venture? 

You know it! It’s probably my most money 

sitting still. I probably make my most by 

touring, but Madagascar does well; it’s the 

gift that keeps giving. 

When you sit there doing the voice, 

are you thinking “ka-ching”? 

When you’re feeling bad doing something, 

sometimes you have to think about the 

money to get you through. But 

not this. My kids like Madagascar, 

and everybody’s kids like it. 

Did they cast you as the zebra 

because Eddie Murphy did 

so well as a donkey? 

I really don’t know, but I don’t 

question it. If that was it, fine. 

Magnolia Pictures 

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More seriously: Did you learn a lot from 

doing The Motherfucker With the Hat 

on Broadway last year? 

Broadway was the most fulfilling experience 

of my entire career. You can see the 

result in 2 Days. I learned to really get into 

this character and stop being a wiseass. 

Even in movies that aren’t that good. In 

What to Expect When You’re Expecting, 

I’m way better than in anything else I’ve 

been in. I’m approaching acting like I quit 

stand-up, as opposed to learning my lines 

and being a wiseass. You gotta learn how 

to listen—you’re not just listening to a cue 

so you can say the shit you rehearsed. 

On Broadway, did you have to subvert your 

ego because it was an ensemble piece? 

Yeah, but I knew I was the least experienced 

person in the play. I chose a play 

like that because I wanted to be in a play, 

not be a play. In showbiz, who the hell 

lasts? Not a lot of people. If you want to 

last, it helps if you get better. 

| LA DOLCE MUSTO | 

You’ve produced, too. 

Is that part of the longevity? 

Yes. People help me, so why can’t I help 

somebody? Push comes to 

shove, it’s good to have a group 

of people who are gonna help 

you. One day, I might be in a 

Tom Cruise movie. I’ll be in a 

Tichina Arnold sitcom. I hired 

Louis C.K. years ago, and look 

at him now. I’m hoping to be in 

his movie! Try to be a nice guy 

Rock does 

his best Musto 

impression. 

and help as many people as you can. 

It’s not just talent. 

It’s the casting couch, too. You gotta 

fuck people. 

Some of them you do. [Laughs.] 

You seem humbler now—or were you 

always a nice guy? 

I think I was a bit of an asshole in the early 

’90s. I drove a red Corvette convertible. I 

had a bit of a Jheri curl. My ego was out of 

control in ’91–’92. I was a kid. I didn’t 

know any better. The business will eventually 

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you in face, kick your ass, and make you 

wonder if you’ll ever work again. 

Do you feel older now? 

I’m older. There’s so many young guys 

now. I think I have three younger brothers 

older than 

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OF MY ENTIRE 

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He thinks I’m the 

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Now that you’re the elder statesman, 

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I tweet, and I Facebook and try to live now. 

I also realize every reaction isn’t the end of 

the world. Just because there’s an alarm 

doesn’t mean there’s a fire. You’ll lose your 

mind if you Google yourself all day. 

Well, please Google this interview. And 

thanks for playing me on the big screen. 

musto@villagevoice.com 

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Courtesy of the Francis family A 

Call To Harm 

Shereese Francis was in mental distress. After police arrived, she was dead. By NiCk PiNto 

On the evening of March 15, 

shauna Francis called 311 

looking for some information. 

she wanted to call an ambulance 

for her 30-year-old sister, 

shereese, but wasn’t impressed 

by the quality of care at 

Queens General, the nearest 

hospital. shauna wanted to 

know if she could ask the 

ambulance to take shereese 

to a Long island hospital. 

The 311 operator told shauna 

she would have to take that 

question up with the eMTs 

when they arrived and asked 

shauna about the nature of 

the problem. shauna 

explained that shereese, a 

person with schizophrenia 

whose illness was wellcontrolled 

by her medication, 

had been refusing to take her 

meds for some time, and the 

family wanted doctors at a 

hospital to help persuade her 

to resume taking them. 

The operator transferred 

shauna to a 911 dispatcher, 

who listened to shauna’s story 

and promised to send 

someone over. shauna hung 

up and traveled the short 

distance from her home to the 

small, single-story house in 

rochdale where her mother 

lived with shereese. 

as she drew up to the 

driveway, she saw a police 

cruiser had already arrived, 

and four officers were 

approaching the front door. 

That wasn’t unusual: On other 

occasions when the family 

had called an ambulance for 

shereese, police often arrived 

along with the eMTs. 

assuming an ambulance was 

probably on its way, shauna 

led the officers into the house, 

where her mother, eleen, 

explained that shereese was in 

her bedroom in the basement. 

What happened in that basement after 

the police went downstairs to talk to Shereese 

isn’t fully known. Shauna and Eleen 

saw and heard some of what transpired, but 

not everything. Citing an ongoing internal 

investigation, the police department isn’t 

commenting. 

Police logs record the four officers arriving 

at the Francis home at 10:20 that 

night. Shauna and Eleen saw the officers 

wrestle Shereese onto a bed, all four of 

them piling onto her as they pressed her 

facedown into the mattress and handcuffed 

her. Within 20 minutes of the police 

arriving, Shereese Francis had stopped 

breathing, and Emergency Services personnel 

were attempting to revive her. 

When Shereese was finally taken to Jamaica 

Hospital Medical Center at 12:25 

a.m., she was pronounced dead. Hospital 

staff told the family she likely had been 

dead for at least 90 minutes before she arrived. 

The death certificate signed by the 

medical examiner listed Shereese’s death as 

a homicide and cited the immediate cause 

of death as “compression of trunk during 

agitated violent behavior (schizophrenia) 

while prone on bed and attempted restraint 

by police officers.” 

Shereese’s father, George Francis, 

is more succinct. “The bottom line is, 

they come there and kill her,” he says. 

The death of Shereese Francis has rekindled 

a decades-long debate over the 

NYPD’s treatment of the mentally ill. As the 

first responders to all sorts of emergency 

calls, police officers are on the front line 

for just about every social problem in the 

city, and mental illness is no exception. 

The department estimates that it handles 

nearly 100,000 calls for “Emotionally 

Disturbed Persons” every year—hundreds 

a day. Every few years, one of those 

calls goes so badly that somebody dies. 

Determining who bears responsibility 

for those deaths and whether and how 

they can be prevented isn’t always easy. But 

with a growing international consensus 

on the best practices for police interactions 

with the mentally ill—practices the 

NYPD has so far resisted adopting—the 

story of how Shereese Francis died once 

again raises the question of whether the 

NYPD is doing everything it can to train its 

officers on how to do the delicate work of 

serving New Yorkers with mental illness. 

Francis Grace Day Care 

and Learning Center stands 

in a two-story white stucco 

building on a stretch of Merrick 

Boulevard in Queens 

surrounded by used-car 

lots, a Quick Lube, and roti 

restaurants. The front is covered with 

gaily painted balloons, rainbows, and 

alphabet blocks. It’s a hot summer day 

when I meet the Francis family there to 

talk about what happened to Shereese, 

and the air-conditioning isn’t keeping 

up, so we drive down the block in George 

Francis’s Mercedes minivan to another 

location he’s renovating. It’s cooler there, 

and settling around a folding table, the 

family members begin to tell their story. 

George Francis came to Queens in 1985 

from Kingston, Jamaica, and soon brought 

his family—Eleen and their two young 

daughters, Shauna and Shereese—to join 

him. Along with other members of the family, 

they began building a child care center. 

The enterprise was successful, and soon 

they were running a small constellation 

of centers. In 2000, The New York Times 

included their business in a trend story 

about 24-hour child care centers targeted 

at shift workers with off-hour needs. 

Shereese and her sister helped 

with the business and worked hard 

at school, her parents say. After high 

school, Shereese spent two years at Nassau 

Community College, where she 

studied to be a physical therapist. 

“She was a very happy person, a very 

loving, spiritual person,” her sister says. 

“Everybody loved her. She was always very 

happy, very concerned about everyone.” 

In college, Shereese became quieter, 

depressed and withdrawn. “She began 

seeing things,” her father says. Eventually, 

she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and 

prescribed Risperdal, an antipsychotic. 

The medication worked well. 

When she took it, Shereese was 9

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functional and outgoing. She attended 

a Catholic Charities outpatient program 

that offered psychotherapy, which 

helped her manage her illness. But the 

Risperdal also “made her fat,” in her father’s 

words, a side effect about which 

Shereese was painfully self-conscious. 

Beginning in November, Shereese 

stopped taking her medication, at first 

with minimal effect. “The first month was 

fine,” Eleen remembers. But by November, 

things were getting worse. Shereese 

spent entire days in her bed, under the 

covers, refusing to talk to anybody. The 

family became increasingly concerned. 

Social workers from Shereese’s program 

came by a couple of times to check on 

her. “She wasn’t that bad at the time,” 

Eleen says. “She spoke to them.” 

It got worse. “She stopped eating, she 

wasn’t sleeping,” Eleen says. “She spent 

her days combing her hair. Combing 

her hair and putting on makeup.” 

On the morning of March 15, things 

seemed even worse. “She hadn’t 

slept the night before,” Eleen says. “I 

went down there to check on her, to 

see if she wanted to sleep.” Abruptly, 

Eleen pauses her retelling, dissolving 

into silent tears. Shauna, sitting 

next to her, takes up the story. 

“I got back from school around 8, 

and my mother told me, ‘I’ve never 

seen her act this way,’” Shauna 

says. “‘She accused me of taking 

her makeup, and then she was pulling 

my hair.’ Mom said, ‘I think we 

need to take her to the hospital before 

anything gets any worse.’” 

Shauna went back to her own house, 

nearby, had her conversation with the 

311 operator and the 911 dispatcher, 

and returned to her mother’s house, 

where the police were just arriving. 

After explaining the situation, Shauna 

and Eleen followed the police down 

into the basement. Shereese was in 

her bedroom, but the police spoke 

to her through the closed door. 

“They were basically telling 

her, ‘We’re going to take you to the 

hospital,’” Shauna says. Shereese 

wasn’t having it. “She was arguing 

with them,” Shauna says. “She 

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It wasn’t clear that Shereese actually 

understood the situation. “It didn’t seem 

like she knew they were the police,” 

Shauna says. “She was saying, ‘I’m going 

to arrest you,’ just all kinds of crazy things 

to them.” 

After a few minutes, Shereese opened 

the door and tried to push through the 

crowd, down the basement hallway, and 

up the stairs. 

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Police managed to keep Shereese from 

making it to the stairs and instead pushed 

her into another bedroom that opened off 

the hallway. 

“One of the officers initially said, ‘Why 

don’t you just use the Taser?’” Shauna 

says. “I said, but they didn’t hear me, ‘That 

isn’t necessary.’” As the police piled into 

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as though he might have been hitting 

Shereese, but she couldn’t be sure. 

“Then they got her onto the bed,” she 

says. “All four of them were on top of her. 

They were trying to get handcuffs on her.” 

Shauna heard one of the police officers 

cursing at Shereese. “‘Give me your effing 

hand! Give me your effing hand!’ I was like, 

‘What kind of police officers are these?’” 

Shereese managed to resist for a 

while, Shauna says. “At first, she was 

fighting them off, fighting them off, fighting 

them off. But then I didn’t hear her 

anymore, and she wasn’t moving.” 

Recognizing that something wasn’t 

right, the police took the handcuffs off and 

moved Shereese to the floor, Shauna says. 

Sixteen or 17 minutes after the police 

showed up, the EMTs arrived and rushed 

downstairs. The police were keeping the 

family out, and the basement door was 

locked. 

Eleen, back upstairs at this point, 

heard one of the EMTs run upstairs 

and talk into the radio, and mention 

something about arrest. “She thought 

that meant they wanted to arrest her,” 

Shauna says. “Later, we realized they 

were talking about cardiac arrest.” 

Shauna’s mother-in-law, who had 

now arrived, tried to poke her head 

in and see what was going on. “She 

looked at her and said, ‘She looks like 

she’s dead!’ They said: ‘Oh, no, no. 

Get outside.’” Eleen and Shauna’s 

mother-in-law circled around and tried 

to peer in a window but were again 

shooed away. For what felt like a long 

time—more than 45 minutes, they 

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making phone calls, waited anxiously 

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remembers. It was still a “long time 

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“I think maybe they wanted to avoid 

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they’d done on previous occasions, 

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Finally, they were allowed to follow 

Shereese to the hospital. When they arrived, 

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“They told us she was dead, and there 

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Shauna says. Nurses showed her motherin-law 

the readout from Shereese’s 

EKG from the time she arrived at the 

hospital. It was flat from the beginning. 

In the following days, the family’s 

shock and grief began to settle into anger. 

Shereese didn’t have to die that night. 

“They cut short the girl’s life,” George 

Francis says. “She had a lot to live for. She 

had a schizophrenic problem, but if she 

took her medication, she come right back, 

you know?” 

“These police officers weren’t trained 

to handle this,” Shauna says. “Who restrains 

someone on a soft surface, facedown? 

Who would do that?” 

Eleen agrees. 

“Usually, when you talk to her, it may 

take a long time, but if you keep talking to 

her, she’ll listen,” she says. “The police officers 

in the past, they all talked to her. It 

seemed like they knew what they were 

doing.” 

In the days afterward, police investigators 

kept calling, wanting to talk more 

about what had happened, but George 

Francis was tired of talking to police 

without a lawyer. The family hired Steve 

Vaccaro, a lawyer with experience suing 

the NYPD. 

“We need justice for Shereese,” says 

George Francis, his Jamaican phrasing 

becoming more pronounced as he becomes 

more upset. “New York City got 

to pay for all our pain and suffering and 

compensate for our loss of life. Money 

won’t bring her back, but at least it would 

serve justice. That mean somebody got to 

pay. Somebody got to be accountable.” 

Prisons have 

become the 

new asylums, 

as more and 

more mentally 

ill people find 

themselves 

incarcerated. 

Shereese Francis was 

hardly the first person 

with mental illness killed 

by police in New York City. 

Throughout the decades, 

there have been numerous 

such incidents, each 

provoking—to greater and lesser degrees—flurries 

of media attention, public 

dismay, and calls to reevaluate the 

NYPD’s approach to such encounters. 

The first landmark incident came 

in 1984. Police broke down the door of 

66-year-old Eleanor Bumpurs in an effort 

to evict her from public housing and hospitalize 

her for what a psychiatrist sent by 

the city deemed to be psychosis. Inside the 

apartment was Bumpurs, 275 pounds, naked, 

holding a 10-inch kitchen knife. Carrying 

shields and a Y-shaped restraining 

bar, police attempted to subdue Bumpurs, 

but in the scuffle, one of the officers was 

knocked to the ground. As Bumpurs stood 

over him with the knife, Officer Stephen 

Sullivan fired two shots from his 12-gauge 

shotgun. The first struck her hand. The 

second went into her chest and killed her. 

Following the incident, Sullivan was 

indicted on manslaughter charges and 

acquitted. The city ultimately paid the 

Bumpurs family $200,000 to settle a civil 

suit, and the NYPD changed its guidelines 

to require a senior officer to be on hand 

before police confront an emotionally disturbed 

person. Police also began to carry 

less lethal weapons, including Tasers. 

In 1998, Kevin Cerbelli, a 30-yearold 

who had been in and out of mental 

institutions, walked into the 110th Precinct 

in Queens carrying a screwdriver 

and a knife and attempted to stab an 

officer in the back. Police surrounded 

him and attempted to subdue Cerbelli 

with a Taser but were unsuccessful, 

and after he continued to lunge at officers, 

he was shot seven times. 

In 1999, Gidone Busch, a bipolar 

31-year-old who lived in Borough Park, 

was shot to death by police responding 

to a complaint that he was threatening a 

local boy with a hammer. Busch, an observant 

Jew, was in his apartment when 

six police officers confronted him, but 

he backed out onto the sidewalk, where 

police used pepper spray on him. Police 

accounts afterward differed on whether 

Busch had first struck them with the 

hammer, a religious item used in prayer, 

but there’s no disagreement that after the 

pepper spray, Busch became more upset, 

striking out with the hammer. Four officers 

fired their guns, killing Busch. 

In the space of a week in 2007, police 

officers shot and killed two emotionally 

disturbed men in Brooklyn. Khiel Coppin, 

18, was holding a hairbrush under his 

shirt like a gun when police killed him in 

Bedford-Stuyvesant. David Kostovski, 29, 

was brandishing a broken bottle at police 

when he was shot in East New York. 

In 2008, when police responded to a 

call from the mother of 35-year-old Iman 

Morales, who wasn’t answering his front 

door. When police arrived at the Bedford- 

Stuyvesant apartment, Morales, naked, 

retreated out the window and onto a

ledge 10 feet above the sidewalk. Police 

called for an inflatable air bag to place 

on the sidewalk under Morales but 

didn’t wait for it to arrive before shooting 

him with a Taser. Morales went 

stiff, fell headfirst onto the sidewalk, 

and died. The entire episode was captured 

on video and prompted another 

round of public debate over the use of 

Tasers and police protocols in dealing 

with emotionally disturbed people. 

Most recently, police officers fired 12 

shots at Darrius Kennedy and killed him 

in the middle of Times Square 

last Saturday. Police first stopped 

Kennedy for smoking a joint, 

but he slipped free and began 

brandishing a large kitchen knife. 

Police pepper sprayed Kennedy 

four times, to little effect. When 

he lunged at police attempting to 

cut off his retreat down Seventh 

Avenue, officers opened fire. 

Kennedy, 51, had been sent 

to Bellevue for a mental evaluation 

in 2008, but it isn’t known 

if he was diagnosed. Still, Mayor 

Bloomberg, defending the officers’ 

actions, said Kennedy “must 

have been mentally deranged” 

since “taking a knife and going 

after other people, particularly 

police officers, isn’t something 

that a sane person would do.” 

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and what law 

enforcement calls “emotionally disturbed 

persons,” or EDPs. In their role of keeping 

the peace and handling situations 

beyond the capability of ordinary citizens, 

police have always been called upon to 

interact with people whose mental illness 

or emotional breakdowns are causing 

them to put themselves or others at risk. 

That complicated responsibility has 

only become more difficult in the past 

half-century, as the institutions that 

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In this new era, an increasing share of 

the responsibility for the mentally ill has 

fallen on the criminal-justice system. Police 

are often more likely to be called for help 

than a health professional. And in many 

places, poorly integrated services have left 

officers with few options once they arrive 

at an EDP call besides doing nothing 

and making an arrest. The result, research 

shows, is that prisons have become the 

new asylums, as more and more mentally 

ill people find themselves incarcerated. 

Cities across the country have their 

own versions of stories like those of Bumpurs 

and Cerbelli, stories that show how, 

in the wrong circumstances, a person 

with mental illness can be dangerous, 

forcing police to make split-second decisions 

about how to protect themselves. 

It happened in Memphis in 1987, when 

a Memphis Police Department officer 

shot and killed a mentally ill person. In 

the outpouring of community dismay 

that followed, the MPD decided to revisit 

its policies for handling EDP calls and to 

reach out to mental-health professionals 

and to the mentally ill themselves and 

their families to craft a new strategy. 

The result, soon termed the “Memphis 

Model,” was a revolution in policing. It relied 

heavily on Crisis Intervention Teams, 

or CITs, composed of police officers who 

had volunteered to undergo between 

40 and 80 hours of extra training in responding 

to EDP calls. Enough Memphis 

officers were trained that when an EDP 

call came through, at any hour and in any 

eleen, shauna, and george Francis spoke out in a press conference in April 

after shereese’s death. 

part of the city, dispatchers could refer 

the call to a Crisis Intervention Team. 

“The CITs aren’t specialized units 

in the sense that they only respond to 

one kind of situation,” says Major Sam 

Cochran, who helped develop and implement 

the model and has since become its 

chief evangelist. “They’re just part of the 

regular uniform patrol division. They’re 

the first responders, be it a domestic dispute, 

a bank robbery, or anything else.” 

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know that shouting at people 

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that surrounding them, threatening 

them, and rushing them is 

almost invariably counterproductive. 

More than their tactical 

expertise, Cochran says, CIT 

officers bring a level of understanding 

to their policing that 

makes a critical difference. 

“Because they’ve volunteered 

and because their training 

has helped them to see 

things from the perspective of 

the someone on the other end 

of the situation, they’ve got an 

empathy that changes the whole 

situation,” Cochran says. 

The results of implementing 

the CIT program in Memphis 

were dramatic. In the three 

years before CIT was instituted, 

mental-health-related calls led to 

injuries 35 times out of 100,000. 

In the three years after CIT was 

in place, that rate dropped to 

seven injuries in 100,000 calls. 

The CIT model was a hit. 

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of the program have been adopted by police 

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Angeles, Houston, and Chicago. It has won 

plaudits from Amnesty International, the 

National Alliance on Mental Illness, the 

U.S. Justice Department, and the International 

Association of Chiefs of Police. 

The Council of State Governments has 

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One consistent exception to the spread 

of the CIT model has been the New 

York Police Department. Mental-health 

advocates have repeatedly pressed the 

NYPD to consider adopting a similar 

model, but the NYPD hasn’t been interested. 

The NYPD didn’t respond to 

requests for comment for this story, but 

mental-health advocates say they’re 

often told by NYPD leadership that 

the CIT model wouldn’t work here. 

“They say New York is too big,” says 

Jennifer Parish, director of criminaljustice 

advocacy at the Urban Justice 

Center’s Mental Health Project. “They 

say the force is so large that training the 

proportion of officers necessary to make 

CIT work would be too unwieldy.” 

Instead, the NYPD points to its Emergency 

Services Unit, an elite division of the 

force that receives extra training on interacting 

with people in psychiatric distress. 

The problem with relying on the ESUs, 

mental-health advocates say, is twofold. 

“The ESU is used for lots of different things, 

from terrorist attacks to missing persons to 

people in psychiatric distress,” Parish says. 

“Skills that might make someone effective 

for the ESU might not be the same skills 

that would serve well on an EDP call.” 

More fundamentally, as specialized 

units, ESU teams are rarely the first 

police at an EDP call. That means the 

officers on the scene in the critical first 

five minutes of contact with a person 

in emotional distress often haven’t received 

any specialized training at all 

beyond what they got at the academy. 

To the NYPD’s credit, it recently 

overhauled that training, tapping 

mental-health advocate Fred Levine to 

help rewrite Chapter 23 of the recruit’s 

guide in the mid 2000s. Levine, who’s a 

believer in the policing principles of the 

Memphis Model, incorporated many of 

its basic tactical guidelines in his rewrite. 

He cautioned against sudden actions, 

threats, and rushing the situation. 

“Officers should take great care to assure 

that they do not restrain or confine 

EDP’s in ways that may hurt—or even 

kill—them,” the police student’s guide 

reads. “Never confine EDP’s—or anybody 

else—in facedown, prone positions for 

longer than it takes to handcuff them.” 

But while some of the training materials 

have been updated, advocates say 

changing the textbook isn’t enough. NYPD 

recruits only get 18 hours of training on 

mental-health issues. Follow-up in-service 

tactical-refresher trainings offered to 

veteran police are also relatively short and 

are often tacked onto the end of a shift. 

Even the best training in the world 

won’t help if officers don’t feel they 

have the time to talk through a situation 

with someone in psychiatric crisis. 

“It takes oversight,” Parish says. “A 

commander in a precinct who expects every 

call to be responded to very quickly and 

then get back out on the street, that doesn’t 

give officers much time for empathy.” 

After a spate of Daily News stories 

and pressure from the City Council 

turned up the pressure on the NYPD to 

re-examine its mental-health policies 

in 2008, it revived the Link Committee, 

a group of mental-health professionals 

and advocates who had been consulting 

with the police on policy issues before 

a lack of departmental interest led 

the committee to founder for years. 

Parish and Levine attended the 

first meetings of the revived committee 

with optimism but were soon 

frustrated by the messages they were 

getting from the department. 

“They wanted to limit the scope of 

the conversation to reviewing the training,” 

Parish says. “Anything beyond 

that, they weren’t really interested.” 

Ultimately, the Link Committee 

stopped meeting, without releasing 

any reports or recommendations, 

leaving members pessimistic about 

the prospects for change. 

“At this point, I think getting change 

may require a new mayor and a new 

police commissioner who may be 

more open to listening,” Parish says. 

Experts on law enforcement and 

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mental health agree that it’s unfair to 

put all the blame on police when an encounter 

with a mentally ill person goes 

wrong. “This is an issue that goes all the 

way through our society,” says Cochran 

of the Memphis police. “Everyone has a 

stake in how we treat each other, it takes 

all of our involvement to change those 

relationships, and when something goes 

wrong like that, it reflects something being 

wrong all across the board. This isn’t just 

about fixing the training. Getting it right 

requires dedication and cooperation and 

conversation from the whole community.” 

But by refusing to take part in the kind 

of wider discussion that could bring reforms, 

Levine says, the NYPD is becoming 

an obstacle to broader civic solutions. 

“The NYPD shouldn’t bear sole responsibility 

for every single tragedy as 

if they had the magic to prevent it,” he 

says. “But their failure to aggressively 

participate—within their department, 

across agency lines, and outside the city 

where expertise clearly exists—that’s 

something I’ll always blame them for until 

they change. And I’ll blame them for the 

next tragedy because of that failure.” 

It’s a sentiment shared by the Francis 

family. Since Shereese died, they say, many 

people have told them stories of similar—if 

less fatal—episodes in which the police 

mishandled a person in emotional distress. 

“That’s why it’s necessary for this to be 

out there,” George Francis says. “So that 

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that they will be brought to account.” 

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FRIDAY 

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Hot Sugar brings his little 

friends to Spike Hill 

THUR. 8/16 

▼ MUSIC 

THE JAMAICAN 

SENSATION 

SEAN PAUL MOVES FROM THE 

DANCE HALL TO WEBSTER HALL 

Whether you lived in Kingston or rural 

America, Sean Paul’s Dutty Rock was 

one of the biggest albums of 2003, 

moving hips both on the dancefloor 

and over the radio. “Get Busy” and “Baby 

Boy” both topped the pop charts at the 

time, while “Like Glue” remains a block 

party staple. Now, after a year that has 

seen him collaborate with the Rico Love/ 

Stargate/Shellback team of producers, 

which has brought Euro house to the top 

of the charts as well as pop-punk rockers 

Simple Plan, the dancehall don comes 

to Webster Hall to help celebrate host 

and Hot 97 DJ Mister Cee’s birthday. 

Just don’t be surprised if he shows 

up sporting a mohawk in place of his 

trademark braids. With DJ Spynfo, 

DJ Naim, Sean Sharpe, and D.LO. 

At 10, Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, 

212-353-1600, websterhall.com, free–$15 

NICK MURRAY 

SATURDAY 

PAGE 18 

Why are these people 

swimming in black tie? 

FRI. 8/17 

▼ ART 

HEART OF GLASS 

JEAN-MICHEL OTHONIEL 

COMES TO BROOKLYN 

French contemporary artist Jean-Michel 

Othoniel is a master of sequence best 

known for his elaborate large-scale installa- 

tions of linked glass baubles. Now you can 

see them up close when the Brooklyn Museum 

presents a survey of his magical 

works from the past 25 years in My Way. 

The exhibition, displayed throughout the 

museum, will feature his movements in 

contemporary art through Arte Povera, 

minimalism, conceptual art, and surrealism, 

from his early works made of sulfur 

and wax to his more recent sculptures 

made of colorful glass that resemble huge 

SUNDAY 

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Search for a ‘real love’ at 

Jones Beach Theater 

W E E K O F A U G U S T 1 5 – A U G U S T 2 1 , 2 0 1 2 W W W . V I L L A G E V O I C E . C O M / C A L E N D A R 

VOICECHOICES 

TINY BAUBLES 

Jean-Michel 

Othoniel at the 

Brooklyn Museum 

Friday 

DNA models in 3-D and necklaces fit for a 

giant. Opens today, through December 2, 

Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, 

Brooklyn, 718-638-5000, $12 ARACELI CRUZ 

▼ MUSIC 

SWEET TOOTH 

HOT SUGAR HEATS UP SPIKE HILL 

Hip-hop heads perusing the liner notes to 

the Roots’ recent Undun might have 

▼ FILM 

WHO YOU GONNA CALL? 

Indrani 

& 

THE MINIONS OF GOZER COME TO THE RESCUE 

Klinko 

Are you a crazy Keymaster? Maybe more of a sultry Gatekeeper? Either way, 

the Minions of Gozer have a job for you. In the spirit of many a Rocky Hor- 

Markus 

ror Show, this shadow cast troupe (“Stepping on Churches Since 1984”) 

Fountain; 

brings a cult-grade enthusiasm to Ghostbusters, that weirdest of big-budget pictures 

we all love so well. In true midnight-movie fashion, the cast of 16—and Slimer— 

Brian 

enact the film live, every detail in sync from Dan Aykroyd’s dangling cigarette to Koenig; 

Sigourney Weaver’s ’80s ’fro. But that’s not all. The Minions often take it a step fur- Nick 

ther to show us what went on behind the scenes. An undersea sponge migration? 

Louis Tully’s workout plan? The true anatomy of a giant Twinkie? There’s so much we Courtesy 

never knew. Go prepared for an interactive experience and maybe a dousing with ecright: 

to 

toplasmic goo. Whatever happens, stay puft. Friday and Saturday at midnight, IFC 

left 

Center, 323 Sixth Avenue, 212-924-7771, ifccenter.com, $13 HEATHER BAYSA 

Columbia/Photofest Above, 

Guillaume Ziccarelli

Submit your 

screenplay 

A short film competition 

with Roman Coppola 

and The Directors Bureau 

intel.com/fourstories 

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wondered about Questlove’s co-producer 

on the track “Sleep.” Known professionally 

as Hot Sugar, he’s Nick Koenig, a selfdescribed 

“associative music” maker who 

uses the ambient sounds of New York 

City to create whimsical yet propulsive 

beats that feel like an updated version of 

mid-’90s stuff by the Beastie Boys collaborator 

Money Mark. In May, Hot Sugar 

released a likable little EP, Moon Money, 

and tonight, he and a crew of promised 

“special guests” headline the latest installment 

of Last.fm’s Live in NYC series. 

At 9, Spike Hill, 184 Bedford Avenue, 

Brooklyn, 718-218-9737, spikehillmusic. 

com, $5–$8 MIKAEL WOOD 

▼ MUSIC 

FROM CANADA 

WITH LOVE 

JACQUES GREENE RETURNS 

TO LE BAIN 

Most famous for the official “Lotus 

Flower” remix that Radiohead commissioned 

for last year’s TKOL RMX 1234567 

project, Jacques Greene is even better at 

crafting his own tracks than editing others. 

“(Baby I Don’t Know) What You 

Want” was a highlight of Night Slugs’ 

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start-to-finish excellent Allstars Volume 1 

comp, and dual EPs The Look and Lay It 

Down sound just as good. But his real 

masterpiece is “Another Girl,” a six-minute-and-43-second 

journey that begins 

with a vocal sample from Ciara’s 

“Deuces” and slowly adds and subtracts 

element after element. Tonight, after 

touring the country with the xx, Greene 

returns to Le Bain, the same posh Chelsea 

nightclub where he played the Dark 

Disco party mere weeks ago. With Krystal 

Klear. At 11, Le Bain, 444 West 13th 

Street, 212-645-4646, standardculture. 

com/lebain, free NICK MURRAY 

SAT. 8/18 

▼ WACKY 

TUX ON THE BEACH 

MAKE WAVES WITH 

YOUR ELEGANT ATTIRE 

Sunblock? Check. Beach towel? Check. 

Tux? Yes, it is time once again for Black 

Tie Beach, presented by Improv Everywhere, 

the merry pranksters behind the 

wintertime No Pants Subway Ride. Participants 

should wear tuxes and evening 

gowns in place of more normal beach attire, 

but otherwise, come prepared for a 

fun-filled day on the sand and in the 

waves. (Ultimate Frisbee and sand-castle 

construction are encouraged!) Cheap, 

secondhand threads with bathing suits 

underneath are recommended. Secretive 

as always, the group won’t leak the exact 

location of the meeting point on its website 

until noon the day before. A warning: 

Those who show up merely as spectators 

and photographers will be frowned 

upon—this is an event for participation. 

Now, don’t forget your diamond-studded 

floaties! At 2, location to be announced at 

noon on August 17 at improveverywhere. 

com, free CAROLINE BALLARD 

▼ SPORTS 

WHAT A RACQUET 

RETRO TENNIS IS ALL THE RAGE 

Before the pros slug it out at the U.S. 

Open on August 27, revisit the good ol’ 

days of slow-paced tennis when the first 

annual Evian Wood Racquet Cup comes to 

town. Watch the tournament with players 

selected from various creative and 

media industries (including Refinery 29 

and The New York Times) or take advantage 

of the table-tennis area open to all. 

Refreshments include treats from Asia 

Dog and People’s Pops and a cash bar 

serving Pimm’s Cups, beer, and champagne. 

Make your own silk-screened tote 

bag to haul around all those trophies 

you’ll surely win in contests for “best fist 

pump” and “best dressed in vintage tennis 

gear.” Judah Friedlander of 30 Rock 

will be on hand for comic relief throughout 

the day. And you can commemorate 

all the fun you had at the Instagram 

photo booth. At noon, West Side Tennis 

Club, Forest Hills, Queens, evianwrc. 

com, free ANGELA ASHMAN 

▼ BURLESQUE 

AIRSHIP TEASE 

EPIC WIN MAKES 

STEAMPUNK SIZZLE 

Having devoted shows to Star Wars, Batman, 

and Firefly, the nerdy Epic Win Burlesque 

now invites adventurers and sky 

pirates of all stripes to Clocktease, a steampunk 

burlesque show at the Nuyorican 

Poets Café. Promising “a steam-powered 

scientific exhibition of professional ecdysiasts” 

with mad science and corset engineering 

aplenty, six dancers (among them 

Hazel Honeysuckle, Kobayashi Maru, and 

Minnie de Moocha) provide a little bump 

’n’ grind for the gears-’n’-goggles set. Professor 

Nelson Lugo emcees and presents 

his Blade Box o’ Death, an infernal contraption 

that audience members are invited to 

examine before a lovely tassel twirler risks 

all to step inside! At 7, Nuyorican Poets 

Café, 236 East 3rd Street, 212-780-9386, 

nuyorican.org, $15 ROB STAEGER 

SUN. 8/19 

▼ MUSIC 

VOODOO NIGHTS 

MARY J. BLIGE AND D’ANGELO 

GET JONES BEACH BUMPING 

AND GRINDING 

Need a good reason to head out to Long Island’s 

Jones Beach Theater tonight? We 

have two. First, there’s Mary J. Blige, the 

queen of hip-hop soul, who remains one of 

the biggest artists in r&b two decades after 

dropping “Real Love” on an unsuspecting 

public and long after “hip-hop soul” 

Jens Nordstrom 

ceased to be a genre that anyone actually 

refers to. Second is D’Angelo, the leading 

figure—mmm, that figure—of another 

long-defunct genre, neo-soul, who is putting 

the finishing touches on the album 

that will be his first in 12 years and third 

overall. Bring the whole family, or—on 

second thought—don’t. With Melanie 

Fiona. At 7, Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, 

1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh, 516- 

221-1000, $50–$175 NICK MURRAY 

MON. 8/20 

▼ FILM 

AMERICAN IDOL 

THE QUEST FOR GOLD 

NEVER GETS OLD 

Since Indiana Jones first appeared onscreen 

with his fedora, bullwhip, and 

leather jacket in Raiders of the Lost Ark in 

1981, his character has inspired a slew of 

films, television shows, video games, toys, 

and theme-park rides. But it will always be 

the first film, directed by Steven Spielberg 

and co-produced by George Lucas, about a 

snake-hating archaeologist who goes in 

search of a golden idol in an ancient Peruvian 

temple and ends up fighting the Nazis 

in the Egyptian city of Tanis that holds a 

special place in fans’ hearts. Tonight, hop 

aboard for adventure with Indy and his 

crew. But go with caution—Bryant Park 

might be booby-trapped. Lawn opens at 5, 

film begins at sunset, Bryant Park, West 

42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, bryantpark. 

org, free ARACELI CRUZ 

TUES. 8/21 

▼ LIT 

GREAT MINDS 

MCSWEENEY’S LAUNCHES 

ITS NEW ISSUE 

Raise a glass tonight to the folks behind 

McSweeney’s when they launch their new 

Issue 41 at the Charles Bank Gallery. This 

one’s full of literary goodness from authors 

Thomas McGuane, Aimee Bender, 

Deb Olin Unferth, and Ryan Boudinot, as 

well as Australian Aboriginal fiction and 

nonfiction pieces set in Tehran, Mexico 

City, and Mississippi. At the gallery, hear 

from poet Paul Legault (The Emily Dickinson 

Reader), Believer editor Karolina Waclawiak, 

and contributor Jason Polan. At 7, 

Charles Bank Gallery, 196 Bowery, 212- 

219-4095, charlesbankgallery.com, free 

ANGELA ASHMAN 

WED. 8/22 

▼ FESTIVAL 

VICIOUS CIRCLE 

CELEBRATING ONE 

OF NY’S SHARPEST WITS 

Dorothy Parker once said, “If you wear a 

short enough skirt, the party will come to 

you.” Someone check Mrs. Parker’s hemline, 

because Parkerfest kicks off tonight at 

NY Distilling Co. and its adjacent bar, the 

Shanty, where her work will be read by local 

poets over cocktails made with Dorothy 

Parker American Gin. The celebration continues 

tomorrow with That Dorothy Parker, 

starring Carol Lempert at the Arclight (at 7 

p.m., $22). Saturday sees a walking tour of 

Parker’s haunts, starting at Riverside and 

West 72nd Street (at noon, $20); the celebration 

concludes with a flapper-tastic 

party at Flute Midtown (at 8 p.m. $12, vintage 

clothing required). At 7, NY Distilling 

Co. and the Shanty, 79 Richardson Street, 

Brooklyn, 718-878-3579, dorothyparker. 

com/parkerfest, free ROB STAEGER 

▼ MUSIC 

GIMMIE INDIE ROCK 

SEBADOH PLAY NEW SONGS 

The perennially bed-headed Lou Barlow 

will spend much of this fall on tour with 

Dinosaur Jr., who have a new studio album 

due next month. Before that, though, 

Barlow hits New York tonight for the final 

date of a brief East Coat tour with his 

proto-mumblecore trio, Sebadoh. The 

group—now with Barlow, Jason Loewenstein, 

and Bob D’Amico—just released a 

five-song EP through Bandcamp, their 

first new tunes since 1999’s The Sebadoh; a 

full-length is due next year. Expect a sneak 

preview here, along with opening sets by 

Barlow (doing his passive-aggressive solo 

act) and Loewenstein and D’Amico’s Circle 

of Buzzards. At 8:30, Bowery Ballroom, 

6 Delancey Street, 212-533-2111, boweryballroom.com, 

$20 MIKAEL WOOD 

Three of a kind: Sebadoh

▼ Theater 

The Disenchanted Forest 

This time, the Public does Sondheim in the Park 

BY MICHAEL FEINGOLD 

Trust the tale, not the teller, 

they say. But Stephen Sondheim’s 

innately ironic spirit 

wasn’t created to trust either. 

Even before he collaborated 

with James Lapine on 1987’s Into the 

Woods (Delacorte Theater), Sondheim 

filled his work with debunking allusions 

to fairy-tale diction—most of them deleted 

before the Broadway opening. Company 

originally ended with a long, ferociously 

arduous song called “Happily Ever After”; 

an unhappy wife in Do I Hear a Waltz 

sings “I was taught/When the prince and 

the dragon fought/That the dragon was 

always caught/Now I don’t even wince/ 

When it eats the prince.” 

“Though fairy tales are foolish,” warble 

the young lovers in a song cut from A 

Little Night Music, “That’s a fairy tale to 

trust.” But trust, whether compatible 

with Sondheim’s self-questioning sensibility 

or not, is precisely what fairy tales 

aren’t meant to engender, at least not in 

grown-ups. Pre-moral creations that 

bubbled up from the collective unconscious, 

the tales transform dangerous 

real phenomena—unkind stepmothers, 

wolves, tyrannical rulers—into narrative 

elements that, treated magically and 

playfully, make genuine threats paradoxically 

easier for children’s minds to absorb. 

The notion of scrutinizing their 

playfulness from a naturalistic, psychological 

point of view, as Sondheim and 

Lapine did in Into the Woods, has a 

weirdly literal-minded quality—all the 

more when encased in an inherently 

playful form like the musical. 

Consequently, Into the Woods has always 

been an oddity in the Sondheim oeuvre, 

a lucky Cinderella of a musical that’s 

royally adored by many (especially if they 

experienced it in childhood) and heartily 

disliked by some. Piling Sondheimian 

treatments of no less than six fairy tales 

(don’t forget the princes’ second-act flings 

with Snow White and Sleeping Beauty) 

into a problematic new one invented by 

Lapine, the show has always seemed a little 

top-heavy, a little confused, and—despite 

all its spells and transformations—a 

little less than magical. 

Sondheim’s devastating brilliance, at 

both lyrical wordplay and musical architecture, 

only intermittently invites the 

warmth that goes with the image of a 

parent telling a child a bedtime story, 

even a grisly cautionary tale. Built on astoundingly 

skillful expansions of small, 

often reiterated themes, the score sometimes 

seems to put up a brick wall of 

notes between us and the characters. 

Lapine’s jocose, convoluted mix-andmatch 

of the tales, too, often seems to 

deride, rather than explore, his sources, 

occasionally creating unintended intersections. 

(Does the Baker ever register 

that Rapunzel is his sister?) The spirit of 

schoolyard jokes that trash fairy tales (cf. 

punchlines like “There are seven little 

dents in her maidenhead” and “Eat, eat, 

eat, doesn’t anybody wanna fuck anymore?”) 

lurks ominously nearby. 

That latter joke, almost literally acted 

out, sounds a sort of degrading keynote 

to Timothy Sheader’s production, imported 

from London’s Regent’s Park, in 

revised form, for Shakespeare in the 

Park’s 50th anniversary season. A 

strange mash-up 

of good and bad 

INTO THE 

WOODS HAS 

ALWAYS BEEN 

AN ODDITY 

IN THE 

SONDHEIM 

OEUVRE. 

ideas, Sheader’s 

staging, accompanied 

by Liam 

Steel’s incessant, 

fidgety choreography, 

removes any 

hint of affectionate 

bedtime-story 

atmosphere by 

framing the evening in the tale of a single 

father’s runaway child (Noah Radcliffe at 

the press performance), who narrates 

the shenanigans of these antique characters, 

improbably, via a backpack full of 

very contemporary toys. For reasons I 

won’t reveal, using a child as narrator 

creates considerable muddle in the middle 

of the drama. 

The show’s designs are even more 

Puff and Stuff 

A new musical tries to 

light up Off-Broadway 

Librettist Bill Russell has skill and, at 

times, a jauntily inventive wit, demonstrated 

in previous musicals like Side 

Show and Elegies for Angels, Punks, and 

Raging Queens. Composer Peter Melnick has 

a melodic gift, harmonic craft, and, less luckily 

for himself, a brilliant knack for pastiche, 

all displayed in his previous Off-Broadway 

outing, Adrift in Macao. A Russell-Melnick 

collaboration, The Last Smoker in America 

(Westside Theater), aims to be a futureshock 

dystopian satire, full of rowdy fun and 

contemporary relevance. Regrettably, as directed 

with a relentlessly heavy hand by 

Andy Sandberg, the show’s fun is all noise, its 

relevance is all facile, and its would-be satire 

of a future where cigarette possession is 

punishable by death amounts, though I hate 

muddled: John Lee Beatty and Soutra 

Gilmour’s set displays a wood heavily infested 

with man-made staircases, letting 

most of the action occur on a tanbarkstrewn 

meadow in front of it, so that the 

characters spend the bulk of their time 

out of the woods. Emily Rebholz’s costumes 

veer from quaint (a Baker’s Wife 

dressed like a Victorian governess) to aggressively 

anti-quaint (Cinderella’s stepsisters, 

fashionettes straight from a 

Madonna video). The staging, in keeping 

with the negativity currently chic, goes 

for the glum whenever possible, which 

does little to texture the show’s already 

dour spirit, and a lot of the singing tends 

to be either screeched or rattled off with 

little musical sense. Donna Murphy, as 

saying so, to nothing but smoke and mirrors. 

The sadness is that Russell and Melnick 

have labored so hard to make an 85-minute 

evening of what could, at best, have sustained 

a 10-minute sketch, padded out with a parodic 

song or two. Russell’s story depicts a cheery, 

antique-sitcom-style suburban home, where 

Ernie (John Bolton) has virtuously quit smoking. 

To make his wife, Pam (Farah Alvin), do 

likewise, he has installed an obnoxious talking 

smoke alarm, all flashing lights and Draconian 

warnings. (Practically everything else on 

Charlie Corcoran’s frenetically hyperactive set 

also lights up, flips open, or explodes. This set 

needs Ritalin.) 

But Pam still craves that morning drag 

on her cig. Who can blame her? Her unemployed 

hubby hides in the basement, writing 

unsalable garage-band rock songs. 

Their son (Jake Boyd) lives for gaming and 

imagines himself a gangsta rapper. Her only 

companion is the burbly, officiously p.c. 

person of color next door (Natalie Venetia 

Belcon), who, being a person of color, gets 

Fairy-tale mash-up: 

Amy Adams and Josh Lamon 

the Witch, suffers least from the overall 

shortcomings; Jessie Mueller, a miscast 

Cinderella, and the oddly paired Denis 

O’Hare and Amy Adams, as the Baker 

and his Wife, handle the production’s 

maltreatment gamely. The Princes and 

Rapunzel sing decently. But one can’t say 

the Public has knocked Into the Woods 

out of the park—or even securely into it. 

Into the Woods 

By Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine 

Delacorte Theater, Central Park 

212-539-8750, shakespeareinthepark.org 

mfeingold@villagevoice.com 

to supply the inevitable gospel anthem for 

the show’s one-from-each-category song 

plot. It’s called, inevitably, “Let the Lord Be 

Your Addiction.” 

Yes, the notion is funny. And the laugh 

you got out of reading it just now, like the 

other laughs inherent in the show’s conception, 

lasts exactly as long as it takes to articulate 

the notion. Once you’ve phrased the 

title, there’s no need to write the song. Attempting 

to follow the characters through 

the hopelessly rickety plot takes effort; attempting 

to find even 15 minutes’ worth of 

empathy for them, amid all the shouting 

and clatter, could cause total exhaustion. 

The four actors, unyieldingly energetic, give 

the material their all, which might be a tad 

too much. MICHAEL FEINGOLD 

The Last Smoker in America 

By Bill Russell and Peter Melnick 

Westside Theater 

407 West 43rd Street 

212-239-6200, lastsmoker.com 

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Julianne Nicholson in Heartless. 

Photo by Joan Marcus. 

(212) 244-7529 or 

signaturetheatre.org 

| LISTINGS | 

‘4th Annual Collaborations in Dance Festival’: Over four nights, 

choreographers will present new work with collaborators in 

dance, film, music, and the visual arts. Aug. 16-19, 8 p.m., 

$15. Triskelion Arts, 118 N. 11th St., Brooklyn, 718-599-3577, 

triskelionarts.org. 

Ajkun Ballet Theatre: The company performs a mixed bill 

featuring two contemporary works by Ellen Sinopoli and 

excerpts from Don Quixote. Wed., Aug. 15, 6:30 p.m.; Thu., 

Aug. 16, 6:30 p.m., $20. City Center Theater, 130 W. 56th St., 

212-581-1212, nycitycenter.org. 

ANIKAI Dance Theater: The company performs The Knocking 

Within as part of the NY International Fringe Festival. Thu., 

Aug. 16, 2 p.m., $15-$18. New School for Drama Theater, 151 

Bank St., 212-229-5600, newschool.edu. 

Compagnie Kafig: The company performs an athletic 

combination of hip-hop, samba, and capoeira. Aug. 15-18, 

8 p.m.; Aug. 18-19, 2 p.m., $39-$64. Jacob’s Pillow, 358 George 

Carter Road, Becket, MA, jacobspillow.org. 

Ajkun Ballet Theatre: The company performs the ballet Don 

Quixote. Fri., Aug. 17, 7:30 p.m., $25-$35. Hostos Center for 

Performing Arts, Repertory Theater, 450 Grand Concourse, 

Bronx, 718-585-1202, pregones.org. 

Rachel Erdos/Flusso Dance Project: Israeli choreographer 

Rachel Erdos splits the bill with Flusso Dance Project for 

Between the Seas Festival of Mediterranean Performing Arts. 

Mon., Aug. 20, 7 p.m., $10-$15. The Wild Project, 195 E. 3rd 

St., 212-228-1195, thewildproject.com. 

Smuin Ballet: The San Francisco–based Smuin Ballet returns to 

the Joyce with founder Michael Smuin’s Medea; Oh, Inverted 

World, a piece by Trey McIntyre set to music by The Shins; and 

Soon These Two Worlds, a ballet by choreographer in residence 

Amy Seiwert. Wednesdays, 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Thursdays, Fridays, 

8 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 & 8 p.m. Continues through Aug. 18, $10- 

$49. Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave., 212-242-0800, joyce.org. 

Catherine Gallant: The choreographer presents Overlove/ 

Underpass. Wed., Aug. 15, 6 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 17, 6 p.m. Times 

Square Visitors Center, Embassy Theatre, 1560 Broadway, 

212-581-7043, catherinegallantdance.com. 

THE WORLD PREMIERE OF A NEW WORK BY 

“one of this country’s most 

important dramatists.” 

– NEW YORK TIMES 

HEARTLESS 

BY 

SAM SHEPARD 

DIRECTED BY 

DANIEL AUKIN 

FEATURING 

NOW PLAYING 

Jenny Bacon Gary Cole 

Betty Gilpin Julianne Nicholson 

Lois Smith 

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Off-Broadway 

Opening 

Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking: Gerard Alessandrini’s 

parody of Broadway returns to New York after three years. In 

previews, opens Sept. 6. Mondays-Fridays, 8 p.m.; Wednesdays, 

Saturdays, 2 p.m.; Sundays, 7:30 p.m. Through Jan. 6, 

$29-$110. 47 Street Theater, 304 W. 47th St., 212-239-6200. 

Heartless: Sam Shepard’s new play explores an L.A. woman’s 

dark secrets. In previews, opens Aug. 27. Schedule varies. 

Through Sept. 16, $25. Signature Center, 480 W. 42nd St., 

212-244-7529. 

The Train Driver: A conductor searches for the identities of 

a mother and child he killed with his train in the New York 

premiere of Athol Fugard’s play. In previews, opens Sept. 

9. Schedule varies. Through Sept. 23, $25. Signature Center, 

480 W. 42nd St., 212-244-7529. 

Now Playing 

| LISTINGS | 

Avenue Q: The Tony-winning Broadway puppet musical, about a 

Princeton college graduate who moves to New York City with 

big dreams and little money, keeps on going Off-Broadway. 

Mondays, Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 2:30 

p.m.; Sundays, 3 & 7:30 p.m., $70-$90. New World Stages, 340 

W. 50th St., 212-239-6200, newworldstages.com. 

Blue Man Group: The blue-painted men of the Blue Man Group 

continue to delight audiences of all ages with their gooey, 

messy, long-running show, featuring more rock music, comedy, 

and surprises than ever. Saturdays, Sundays, 2, 5 & 8 p.m.; 

Mondays-Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Wednesdays, 2 p.m.; Fridays, 7 

& 10 p.m., $85-$99. Astor Place Theatre, 434 Lafayette St., 

212-254-4371, blueman.com. 

Bullet for Adolf: An unlikely friendship between two midwesterners 

and a New Yorker forms in this new comedy by 

Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman. Mondays, Thursdays- 

Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m.; Wednesdays, 7 p.m. 

Continues through Sept. 9, $67-$87. New World Stages, 340 

W. 50th St., 212-239-6200, newworldstages.com. 

The City Club: Mitchell Maxwell directs this steamy noir morality 

tale. Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; 

Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m., $25-$90, 212- 

307-4100, thecityclubbroadway.com. Minetta Lane Theatre, 

18 Minetta Lane. 

The Fantasticks: A romantic boy-meets-girl musical, with book 

and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt. Now 

starring Aaron Carter. Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 

8 p.m.; Wednesdays, Saturdays, 2 p.m.; Sundays, 3 & 7:30 

p.m., $37-$77, 212-307-4100, fantasticksonbroadway.com. 

The Snapple Theater Center, 210 W. 50th. 

Fuerza Bruta: A thrilling new physical-theater spectacle from 

the creators of De La Guarda. Wednesdays-Fridays, 8 p.m.; 

Saturdays, 7 & 10 p.m.; Sundays, 7 p.m., $79-$89, 212-239- 

6200, fuerzabruta.net. Daryl Roth Theatre, 101 E. 15th St. 

Into the Woods: The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare 

Festival presents this free outdoor revival of the musical by 

Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. Amy Adams, Denis 

O’Hare, and Donna Murphy star. Schedule varies. Through 

Sept. 1, free (tickets available via the virtual ticketing system 

on their website or at the theater’s box office on the day of 

the performance). Delacorte Theater, 81 Central Park W., 

212-967-7555, shakespeareinthepark.org. 

The Last Smoker in America: Tony winner Andy Sandberg 

directs this musical about a family struggling in a world 

where smoking is outlawed. Wednesdays, Saturdays, 2:30 

p.m.; Mondays, Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Tuesdays, 

7 p.m., $85-$125. Westside Theatre Office, 407 W. 43rd St., 

212-239-6200, lastsmoker.com. 

Naked Boys Singing!: This long-running hit musical revue 

features a cast of eight “costume-free” men performing 

16 original songs. Songs include “Muscle Addiction” and 

“Gratuitous Nudity.” Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Fridays, 10:30 p.m.; 

Saturdays, 6 p.m., $72, nakedboyssinging.com. Theatre Row, 

410 W. 42nd St., 212-714-2442. 

New Girl in Town: Charlotte Moore directs this revival of Eugene 

O’Neill’s Anna Christie. Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays, 3 

p.m.; Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Thursdays, 7 

p.m. Through Sept. 14, $55-$65. Irish Repertory Theatre, 132 

W. 22nd St., 212-727-2737, irishrep.org. 

Old Jews Telling Jokes: Peter Gethers and Daniel Okrent pay tribute 

to Jewish jokes of past and present in their musical comedy. 

Schedule varies, $80-$85. Westside Theatre Downstairs, 407 

W. 43rd St., 212-239-6200, oldjewstellingjokesonstage.com. 

Potted Potter: Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner condense 

all seven Harry Potter books into a 70-minute show in 

this unauthorized parody. Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 

Sundays, 5 p.m.; Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m.; 

Tuesdays-Thursdays, 7 p.m. Through Sept. 2, $40-$70. Little 

Shubert Theatre, 422 W. 42nd St., 212-239-6200, 

pottedpotter.com. 

Rent: Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize–winning musical gets 

a revival. Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m.; 

Mondays, Wednesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Sept. 9, 

$70-$90. New World Stages, 340 W. 50th St., 212-239-6200, 

newworldstages.com. 

Richard III: Amanda Dehnert stages Shakespeare’s gory history 

play with Ron Cephas Jones as the ruthless king. Schedule 

varies. Through Aug. 25, $15. Public Theater, 425 Lafayette 

St., 212-539-8500, publictheater.org. 

Stomp: This acclaimed show features a talented ensemble of 

dancer-musicians who create rhythm and noise using everyday 

objects, from trash-can lids to matchsticks. Tuesdays-Fridays, 

8 p.m.; Saturdays, 3 & 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 & 5:30 p.m., $48- 

$78, 212-307-4100, stomponline.com. Orpheum Theatre, 

126 Second Ave. 

Sweet Charity: The New Harlem Arts Theatre revives this Neil 

Simon musical with a Latin twist. 212-868-4444. Thursdays- 

Saturdays, 7 p.m.; Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Aug. 

19, $15-$30. Aaron Davis Hall, 160 Convent Ave. 

The Sensational Josephine Baker: Cheryl Howard performs 

her musical about the iconic showgirl. Tuesdays, Thursdays- 

Saturdays, 7 p.m.; Wednesdays, Saturdays, 2 p.m.; Sundays, 

3 p.m. Through Sept. 9, $69. Beckett Theatre, 410 W. 42nd 

St., 212-239-6200. 

Tribes: David Cromer directs Nina Raine’s play about a deaf boy 

who has grown up adapting to his idiosyncratic family’s ways. 

Tuesdays-Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Saturdays, Sundays, 2:30 p.m. 

Through Jan. 6, $75, 212-868-4444. Barrow Street Theatre, 

27 Barrow St., barrowstreettheatre.com. 

Two Rooms: Jamie Richards directs this revival of Lee Blessing’s 

play about an American professor who is held hostage in a 

dark room in Beirut. Schedule varies. Through Aug. 25, $20. 

Lion Theatre, 410 W. 42nd St., 212-239-6200. 

Voca People: Seventy well-known songs are performed by an 

a cappella group dressed and painted in white. Wednesdays, 

Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Sept. 2, 

$30-$80. New World Stages, 340 W. 50th St., 212-239-6200, 

newworldstages.com. 

Zarkana: Cirque du Soleil presents this acrobatic spectacle. 

Schedule varies. Through Sept. 2, $59-$125. Radio City Music 

Hall, 1260 Sixth Ave., 1-866-858-0008, www.radiocity.com. 

Off- Off- Broadway 

Opening 

Dreamgirls: Harlem Repertory Theatre presents the musical 

based on the success of renowned r&b groups. Previews 

begin Aug. 17, opens Aug. 24. Fridays, Saturdays, 7 p.m.; 

Saturdays, 2 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m. Through Oct. 21, $15-$40. 

133rd Street Arts Center, 308 W. 133rd St., 212-868-4444, 

www.smarttix.com. 

Frank Women: More than a dozen actresses come together to 

embody Frank Blocker’s female characters for this two-night 

event. Aug. 17-18, 7:30 p.m., $25. Stage Left Studio, 214 W. 

30th St., 212-838-2134, stageleftstudio.net. 

Mr. Satan Goes to Wall Street: Satan is laid off from hell in this 

OWS-inspired musical by Hieronymous BANG and Sam Precario. 

Opens Aug. 17. Schedule varies. Through Aug. 25, free. Multiple 

locations, for more informataion call 646-862-6087 or go to 

mrsatangoestowallstreet.blogspot.com. 

Now Playing 

The Last White Family on Dorchester Road: M. Lennon Perricone’s 

drama concerns a faded gay porn superstar who returns 

home after a failed suicide attempt. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 

p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Aug. 19, $25. Dorothy Strelsin 

Theatre, 312 W. 36th St., brainspunktheater.com. 

My Mind Is Like an Open Meadow: Erin Leddy presents the 

recorded memories of her grandmother in her play about 

two generations of theater performers. Tuesdays-Thursdays, 

7:30 p.m.; Fridays, Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.; Sundays, 3:30 p.m. 

Through Aug. 19, $25. 59E59 Theaters, 59 E. 59th St. 

National Pastime: A radio station on the verge of bankruptcy 

in Iowa in 1933 invent a fictional, unbeatable baseball team 

and broadcast phony baseball games until some reporters 

get suspicious. Schedule varies. Through Aug. 25, $35. 

Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, 416 W. 42nd St., 212-279-4200. 

New York International Fringe Festival: More than 200 

companies from all over the world descend on the city for 

16 days of theater in more than 20 venues. Schedule varies, 

through Aug. 26, $15-$18. Multiple venues, for schedule and 

venue information, go to fringenyc.org.

▼ Eats 

House of Pleasure 

Wine bar Sorella keeps lighting up Allen Street 

BY TEJAL RAO 

Broccoli is no bombshell. But 

the other night, it took off its 

nerd glasses and seduced my 

party with long, roasted stems 

and fluffy green heads, crisp 

under a veil of tempura. There were other 

dishes at the table, but for a few moments, 

we only had eyes for these beautiful florets 

of green and gold, woven through with a 

sweet-hot aioli, heaped with snowy Grana 

Padano. It was a cracking start to dinner at 

Sorella, where chef Emma Hearst has a 

talent for teasing out the charms of familiar 

ingredients. 

And what that dish ($9) does for broccoli, 

the acciughe al verde ($10) does for anchovies. 

Ligurian filets recline on a billow 

of butter. As if in some fantastic dream, 

there is also salsa verde, a gravel of hazelnuts, 

and some crumbled-up egg yolk. 

You’re invited to compose bites using lovely 

wafers for which the word “flatbread” does 

not suffice. Do good anchovies really need 

all this stuff, all this softened butter? Yes! 

They do! Sorella is one of those restaurants 

that celebrates our immense capacity for 

pleasure. It does not withhold. 

Hearst opened Sorella at the tail end of 

2008 with her partner, manager Sarah 

Krathen. The duo met in culinary school, 

traveled through Piedmont together, and 

debuted on the Lower East Side with this 

sleek wine bar serving elegant food inspired 

by their trip. Since then, they have 

launched Stellina, a café and gelateria next 

door, but otherwise kept their focus here. 

A handful of greatest hits are still on 

Sorella’s menu years later. (But has the 

duck-fat muffin with chicken-liver 

mousse, like its fans, grown bigger?) 

The restaurant sits on a grim stretch of 

Allen Street that smells of leaky garbage 

bags and traffic fumes. In this sense, it’s a 

hidden gem: Inside, it’s all whitewashed 

brick, wooden walls painted with wine, and 

candlelight. Restaurant years are like dog 

years, accelerating the aging process so that 

a place we adored at first is somehow torpid 

and doddery after a couple of years— 

but if you want to sit in Sorella’s small back 

dining room with a ceiling made of glass, 

instead of at the bar, you still need to make a 

Photographs by Liz Barclay 

reservation. At all hours, the room bustles 

with couples on dates and little groups of 

friends clinking their glasses. 

Hearst cooks out of sight or expedites in 

the narrow hall, and occasionally pops into 

the dining room in a grape-colored apron 

and red lipstick. Talking Italian wine with 

diners or mixing cocktails, Krathen is behind 

the bar in the front. She directs a 

young but competent front-of-house team. 

Although a few servers seem to lack experience, 

they make up for it with enthusiasm: 

“The tongue? Oh, really? Awesome!” 

The kitchen is confident and its missteps 

minor. A whole fried quail ($17) was 

underseasoned, eclipsed by a complex 

salad. And no one seems to understand 

why Sorella makes the gnocchi ($13) so 

small. The tiny nuggets arrive in a cream 

sauce of Castelrosso cheese, scattered 

with soft cubes of pear cooked in brown 

butter. Against giant batons of chives, 

they are miniaturized even further, but 

they are delicious. Good luck eating them 

one by one. 

The classics here tend to shine, but if 

you’re interested in Hearst’s less polished—and 

perhaps more exciting—work, 

you’ll find it in the daily specials, where 

she plays out of bounds. Recently, there 

was a rack of seriously spicy, sticky ribs 

with a lemongrass-dressed nectarine 

salad and a corn pancake that took my table 

completely by surprise with its powerful 

flavors. On another night, I had a fine 

dish of veal tongue with halved hot peppers 

and Korean melon. Although it was 

accompanied by far too 

(Top) They 

butter you up 

with anchovies. 

(Bottom) 

Hearst, center, 

and crew. 

THE ROOM 

BUSTLES 

WITH 

COUPLES 

ON DATES. 

much grilled bread, it 

was an interesting play 

on sausage and peppers 

with some real 

Lower East Side swagger. 

Like the best of 

Hearst’s dishes, it unfolded 

slowly, over a 

series of bites. 

Yarisis Jacobo’s 

dessert menu offers 

Italian sweets like a 

sloppy strawberrythemed 

plate of 

doughy cake and 

ricotta heaving under sweet jam ($9) and 

a coppa of gelati ($9), which didn’t quite 

deliver on the exciting flavors its description 

offered. The bicerin ($8), a soft chocolate 

pudding topped with espresso fudge 

and whipped cream, is more elegant. Jacobo’s 

gelato flavors are outstanding. 

Hearst was only 23 when she opened 

Sorella, and even now she seems to appreciate 

that people want to come in and pay 

money for her food—a thank-you note, 

written in Sharpie, accompanies every 

check. It’s a gentle reminder that going 

out to dinner is more than a transaction, 

more than food and drink in exchange for 

your money. At Sorella, night after night, 

there is devotion. 

Sorella 

95 Allen Street 

212-274-9595 

sorellanyc.com 

trao@villagevoice.com 

For more restaurant coverage, check out our food blog, Fork in the Road, 

at voicefoodblog.com. Follow us on Twitter @ForkintheRoadVV. 

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Yo, Tokyo! 

A Japanese mega-chain 

invades our fair city 

BY ROBERT SIETSEMA 

‘ 

There are supposed to be 100 

of these in Tokyo alone,” I 

mentioned to my Japanese 

friend as we stood in front of 

Ootoya, a restaurant on the 

southern edge of the Flatiron district that 

debuted earlier this year. “Yes,” she said, 

smirking. “It’s sometimes called the Denny’s 

of Japan.” 

But as we entered the intimate lobby, it 

didn’t seem much like Denny’s. We traipsed 

through two dining areas—a barroom with 

an impressive display of sakes in orderly 

rows, and a quieter middle room with a 

mural of ancient Japanese diners sitting 

around a low table—before arriving at the 

main one, an elegant space with a soaring 

ceiling. A yakitori grill thrusts into the 

room, overhung by a humongous latticed 

light fixture that gives 

the space an almost 

Gothic air. Looking 

down from a dizzying 

height, the most requested 

tables are 

along a narrow balcony 

that flanks the 

room on two sides. An 

army of white-clad 

cooks shouts a loud 

greeting as each party 

enters. 

Ootoya is a type of 

restaurant called a 

teishoku. Partly aimed 

at shoppers, it specializes 

in set meals that 

include entrées plus 

sides that run to white 

rice, steamed pumpkin, 

potato salad, chawanmushi, 

assorted pickles, miso soup, and salads. 

These repasts, most costing from $15 to 

$22, constitute an amazing bargain considering 

the quantity and quality of the food. 

The menu lists nearly every Japanese dish 

you can think of—soba, yakitori, breaded 

cutlets, sushi, hot pots, home-style croquettes, 

and further dishes that, according 

to another friend who’d spent lots of time 

in Tokyo, were probably modified for this 

first American outpost of the chain. 

Multi-specialty restaurants like Ootoya 

are a fairly recent phenomenon in Japan, 

where most places have traditionally 

served a single type of dish, and chefs rise 

through a master-apprentice system that, 

in the case of sushi, can take seven years. 

And the lack of a sushi master is why my 

friend turned her nose up at the sashimi assortment 

($35), even though the majority 

tasted fresh and was cut in thick slabs. “Not 

of the highest quality or expertly cut,” she 

said, saving a special grimace for the somewhat 

skanky sea urchin. It was one of the 

restaurant’s few disappointments. 

In fact, we didn’t see any of the almost 

exclusively Japanese diners at the other tables 

eating sashimi. Rather, they were tucking 

into huge platters of tonkatsu (fried 

pork cutlet), grilled beef tongue strewn 

with lemon slices, pork belly oddly marinated 

in cinnamon, and most frequently, 

several preparations of whole mackerel. All 

these fish come splayed and broiled with a 

side of grated daikon you’re supposed to 

spread on the fish to mediate the dark flavors 

of the flesh. 

Expect lots of chicken on the sevenpage 

menu, too, including an assortment of 

yakitori ($2.50 to $5 per stick). Tastiest is 

the ground-poultry kebab shaped like a 

corn dog, brushed with sweet sauce and 

outfitted with a raw yolk. Whip the yellow 

with your chopsticks, then dip the brochette. 

Weird, huh? It works. The soba options 

are profuse, too. Thoughtfully, they’re 

often available in half-size portions, so you 

can get a modest quantity of cold buckwheat 

noodles with a surreal cloud of 

whipped white yam hovering overhead— 

which lubricates the noodles—for $8. 

Although we didn’t fancy the sashimi, 

some of the sushi is better, including examples 

of the Osaka style: pressed in a box, 

topped with pickled mackerel or salmon, 

then sliced into bitesize 

rectangles. There’s 

also a magnificent futomaki 

($21) so big it 

could almost double as 

a baseball bat, stuffed 

with egg, shrimp, eel, 

and pickled veggies. 

The roll enters theatrically 

swaddled in mottled 

bamboo bark, with 

mushrooms, greens, 

and pickled ginger on 

the side as bit players. 

“Presentation is everything,” 

my Japanese 

friend noted. “Just look 

at the excellence and 

diversity of the china. 

Few American restaurants 

do that.” 

Inevitably, my dining 

companions and I were drawn to the ad 

hoc inventions. There was a salad of freshly 

made tofu, quite wonderful by itself, but 

here flopped in disintegrating slabs over 

Western lettuces and garnished with fish so 

tiny you needed a magnifying glass to tell 

what they were. And a stir-fry of chicken 

tidbits thickly coated with sweet goop and 

sided with lumpy potato salad. “This must 

be one of those dishes created for the 

American market,” said my pal, who had 

first identified the phenomenon while 

scanning the menu. “Indeed,” I responded. 

“But they didn’t exactly invent it. What this 

represents is a Chinese-American stir-fry 

adapted for Japanese-American tastes.” 

She nodded, then added, “But that 

doesn’t mean it’s worth wasting the calories 

on,” and we turned back to the wonderful 

deep-fried pork cutlet. 

You can get a little high here. 

Photograph by Christina Ascani 

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▼ Film 

of a God 

Cosmopolis limos through the mind of a master of the universe 

BY KARINA LONGWORTH 

Boyishly lean, with a brooding 

angularity that suggests both 

high maintenance and nefarious 

vacancy, Robert Pattinson 

has managed to fill the 

role of a grade-A male sex symbol without 

ever evincing anything like carnal energy, 

to top the Hollywood A-list as a 

representative of the undead. Pattinson’s 

casting in Cosmopolis as Eric Packer, a 

28-year-old finance prodigy ensconced in 

a stretch limo on a 24-hour odyssey 

across Manhattan to get a haircut, gives 

director David Cronenberg (who has sole 

screenplay credit for the first time since 

1999’s eXistenZ) an automatic meta-text 

to play with. Updating Don DeLillo’s 

post-9/11 New York story into an ambiguous, 

dry black comedy, Cronenberg subverts 

a postmillennial mass media 

moment that considers this guy to be the 

male ideal. 

Pattinson, dead-eyed and always on the 

verge of a smirk, plays Packer as the embodiment 

of post-Empire cool, a lessthan-zero 

cipher of a personality. He’s a 

citizen of the world whose philosophical 

objection to traditional notions of national 

borders or cultural hierarchies gives him 

permission to live in a bubble. 

He certainly travels in one. His limo, he 

brags, has been “Prousted”—meaning 

lined with cork, like the room In Search of 

Lost Time was finished in, to keep out the 

noise of the street and its rabble. Stuck in 

traffic all day in that supposedly secure 

space, Packer meets with members of his 

corporate team, learns there are threats on 

his life, watches as the head of the International 

Monetary Fund is assassinated 

during a live TV appearance, and keeps an 

obsessive eye on the yuan; he has hitched 

his fortune on a bet that the Chinese currency 

is going to drop in value, but it only 

rises. Juliette Binoche drops in for a writhing 

quickie; Packer’s female financial adviser 

is brought to the brink of orgasm by 

watching her boss’s daily, mid-commute 

prostate exam. He even talks about “assaulting 

the borders of perception” and 

claims clairvoyance. 

He has to rely on chance meetings to 

Team Haircut! 

Robert Pattinson in 

Cosmopolis 

see his new wife, 

Elise (Sarah Gadon), 

such as when his 

limo happens to stop 

in traffic next to her yellow taxi. An icy 

blonde who speaks in a breathy monotone 

and rarely blinks, every time she encounters 

her husband, she seems vaguely unsure 

if they’ve ever met. In that sense, 

she’s a surrogate for the viewer. 

In another sense, too: Elise proves to be 

the rare woman closed to Eric’s advances. 

The world, easily coaxed by charisma 

backed by cash, is open to his ministrations 

and manipulations. His wife, who 

has her own money and claims to regard 

sex as a drain on her creative energy, is 

not. Or maybe she’s just turned off, as anyone 

would be, by her husband’s appraisal 

of her assets: “You have your mother’s 

breasts. Great, stand-up tits.” 

Cosmopolis is the first film based on a 

DeLillo novel. The original text was released 

to mixed reviews in 2003, but today, 

it reads as a prescient encapsulation 

of the current moment’s economic 

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tumult, with public space defined by a 

tug-of-war between the reckless power 

brokers who spawned that tumult and 

the performance-art-like protest that has 

risen in response. Postmodernist cred 

notwithstanding, DeLillo held to the traditional 

novelistic tactic of introducing a 

character by telling the reader what was 

happening in his head. “Nothing existed 

around him,” DeLillo writes on page 2 of 

Chapter 1. “There was only the noise in 

his head, the mind in time. When he died, 

he would not end. The world would end.” 

These lines seem key to Cronenberg’s adaptation: 

Translating a written text into a 

visual medium, he declines to define a 

difference between internal and external. 

What is real? Who cares? The noise in 

Packer’s head is all there is. Cronenberg’s 

Cosmopolis unfolds as an unbroken 

stream of the character’s consciousness, 

so narrowly wedded to the way this 

loathsome master of the universe sees 

the world that we can’t actually see him. 

Call it a long night of the soulless. 

Cronenberg’s opacity of tone is most 

successful in a scene in which Packer is 

lectured on the esoterics of techno-capital 

by Vija Kinsky (Samantha Morton)— 

his “chief of theory”—while his limo is 

rocked by a protest-turned-riot. The 

business associates speak fluently, and 

hilariously, in the poetry of the late-capitalist 

snake 

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CARES? THE 

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THERE IS. 

charmers who 

constitute the socalled 

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“Money has 

lost its narrative 

quality, the way 

painting did once 

upon a time,” she 

intones. Outside 

the window of the 

car, a protester self-immolates. “It’s not 

original,” the chief of theory sniffs. “It’s 

an appropriation.” We’re seeing Packer at 

his most inhumane—clinking glasses 

while New York burns—and yet in the exhilaration, 

he clearly feels in his own secret 

financial self-destruction, which in 

terms of endgame more or less jibes with 

what the protesters are asking for, the 

character is also at his most in tune with 

the outside world. 

Cronenberg, the great auteur of the divided 

self, seems to run out of fuel after 

that, even as the story’s structure gives 

him further opportunity to explore his pet 

themes. To the extent that Cosmopolis 

functions as a super-literal conceptual exercise, 

it’s simultaneously irritating and 

fascinating. But much of the film fails to 

function as drama and never more so than 

in the interminable final scene, a twohander 

in which Packer finally confronts 

his would-be assassin in what could be 

rooms of his own mind. As the standoff escalates, 

music crescendoes to underline 

that we’re supposed to be feeling . . . something. 

That we don’t might be Cronenberg’s 

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Whitney Houston, 

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Surveying the great diva’s 

checkered film career 

BY MELISSA ANDERSON 

In anticipation of the remake of the 

1976 girl-group melodrama Sparkle— 

Whitney Houston’s posthumous film 

appearance and her return to movies 

after a 15-year absence—we look back 

at the handful of celluloid performances by 

the woman once known as “the Voice.” In 

her slim filmography, Houston’s pipes 

were often called upon to invigorate dull 

pictures. Her scripted roles occasionally 

hint at the fine actress she might have become—but 

nothing is quite as harrowing or 

tragic as her unscripted performances in 

interviews or on reality TV during the last 

decade of her too-short life. 

THE BODYGUARD (1992) 

In her big-screen debut, Houston stars as 

Rachel Marron, a pop singer and actress 

who, after being menaced by a sociopathic 

fan, hires a former Secret Service agent for 

protection. “You probably won’t believe 

this, but I have a reputation for being a 

bitch,” she tells a stony Kevin Costner. 

Viewers might also have a hard time being 

persuaded by Houston’s diva pantomime, 

seemingly inspired by Diana Ross (who was 

to play Rachel when the film, Lawrence 

Kasdan’s first script, was pitched in 1976) in 

Mahogany. Her celebrity tantrums are at 

least rooted in some semblance of reality, 

unlike her flat on-screen romance with 

Costner. Houston’s most disastrous real-life 

match occurred four months before The 

Bodyguard’s release: her marriage to Bobby 

Brown. As for other actual pairings, could 

The ‘Sunshine’ Cult 

Jeff Lieberman’s 

far-reaching rays 

BY SIMON ABRAMS 

This weekend, the Anthology Film Archives 

screens prints of three of cult 

filmmaker Jeff Lieberman’s trippy, nobudget 

horror films. All are worthy: Just Before 

Dawn, a knowing riff on Deliverance, is 

Lieberman’s favorite of the three, and the 

showing of Squirm, an amiably corny chiller 

about killer worms, features a Q&A with Lieberman 

and star Don Scardino. But it’s Blue 

Sunshine, the 1977 acidhead-as-monster 

movie, that stands apart. 

Shot at the end of 1976 and into early 1977, 

the influential film gradually amassed an 

eclectic but hardcore following over the years. 

Its champions include Gremlins filmmaker Joe 

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She will always (breath) love you. 

Nicki, Rachel’s sister and “personal secretary” 

in the film, have been modeled on 

Robyn Crawford, Houston’s close friend, 

executive assistant, and long-rumored lesbian 

lover? The Bodyguard launched Houston’s 

cover of “I Will Always Love You,” 

which its original composer, Dolly Parton, 

sang 10 years earlier to another overweening 

male co-star, Burt Reynolds in The Best 

Little Whorehouse in Texas. 

WAITING TO EXHALE (1995) 

Forest Whitaker’s adaptation of this 1992 

bestseller by Terry McMillan (who coscripted) 

finds Houston—as one of a quartet 

of dissatisfied, Phoenix-based 

Dante and even the late critic Andrew Sarris, 

who praised “Lieberman’s directional talent” 

and the film’s “intriguing premise” in this paper 

when Blue Sunshine screened on TV in 

1982. 

Blue Sunshine stars a young Zalman King 

as a wrongfully accused fugitive seeking to 

clear his name for a series of killings perpetrated 

by a flashback-addled LSD user. Lieberman 

recently explained that he wanted 

to make a film that facetiously explored the 

government’s misinformation surrounding 

the side effects of acid and other hallucinogens. 

For example, Lieberman gravely 

mocked hysterical fears of drugs and their farreaching 

effects by having his monstrous 

druggies lose their hair, a sly parody of hippie 

stereotypes. Blue Sunshine is, as Lieberman 

himself has suggested, modeled after atomicage 

horror films, like the 1954 giant killer-ant 

film Them! “Those films did the same exact 

thing with radiation that I did with LSD,” 

African-American women—sharing an 

easy chemistry with co-leads Angela Bassett, 

Loretta Devine, and Lela Rochon. 

As aspiring TV producer Savannah (her 

project: working on a segment about Colin 

Powell), Houston remains entangled 

with a married man, an old flame from 

Denver played by Dennis Haysbert, while 

doling out no-nonsense advice to her 

friends. “Girl, what do you expect him to 

say—‘I’m a crackhead’?” Savannah huffs to 

Rochon’s character, Robin, who’s unsure 

whether her swain is really on the stuff. 

That line anticipates precisely what Diane 

Sawyer wanted Houston to admit in their 

infamous 2002 “crack is wack” sit-down. 

Waiting to Exhale itself is a window into 

the future, serving as a higher-end—and 

Lieberman said recently. “Only there was 

nothing you could do to fight radiation. If 

there’s a nuclear war, you’re fucked.” 

The long-lasting appeal of Lieberman’s 

film is improbably inclusive. For example, because 

Blue Sunshine has a dramatic scene in a 

dance club in which blaring music drives an 

acidhead crazy, the film was screened in 1979 

at CBGB while disco-hating punk bands, including 

the Ramones, performed. The film has 

also lingered in the minds of contemporary 

filmmakers such as Panos Cosmatos, whose 

extraordinary 2011 avant-garde pastiche Beyond 

the Black Rainbow is heavily influenced 

by Blue Sunshine. 

Lieberman recently visited the now-defunct 

Montreal-based Blue Sunshine psychotronic 

film center, a small commune of film 

buffs who worship Lieberman’s film. In coaxing 

Lieberman out of the tristate area, the 

group did what the Cannes, Edinburgh, and 

London film festivals could not. Lieberman 

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more sexually frank—template of the 

women’s melodramas that Tyler Perry 

would start making a decade later. Both 

Bassett and Devine, supremely talented 

actresses who deserve better, have made 

movies with the man behind Madea. Had 

she lived, would Houston have, too? 

THE PREACHER’S WIFE (1996) 

Penny Marshall’s wan remake of The 

Bishop’s Wife (1947) opens with Houston, 

backed by a church choir, belting “Hold 

On, Help Is on the Way.” This listless, 

protracted film stirs to life whenever 

Houston, whose marriage to a pastor 

(Courtney B. Vance) is beginning to fray, 

sings to the Lord—or his close second, 

Denzel Washington, playing an angel sent 

to earth to help the couple fall in love 

again. Houston is no match against inveterate 

scene-stealer Jenifer Lewis, in a 

supporting role as her mother. But considering 

the amount of drugs Houston consumed 

during filming, as she admitted to 

Oprah in 2009, the fact that she made it 

through the shoot at all seems nothing 

short of a Christmas miracle. 

CINDERELLA (1997) 

Houston’s production company, Brown- 

House, was one of several behind this Disney 

TV movie, a multiracial remake of 

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s version of the 

fairy tale starring Brandy as one of the first 

African-American Cinderellas—Houston 

has a small role as the fairy godmother. 

Sporting a mass of blond-highlighted corkscrew 

curls and a gold, bejeweled cape that 

could have been designed by Gustav Klimt, 

Houston, her arms outstretched, preaches 

and sings self-empowerment to her charge 

(and to all young girls watching) as she reminds 

Cinderella, “There is music in yoooouuuuuuuuu.” 

But when she speaks, we hear 

the first hints of the hoarseness and raspiness 

that would be so alarming during her 

long chat with Oprah 12 years later. If only 

someone had waved a magic wand over 

Whitney in 2005, making her appearances 

in Being Bobby Brown disappear forever. 

says he didn’t attend the 1977 festival premieres 

of Blue Sunshine because, while both 

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in a hotel, neither offered airfare. “I didn’t even 

know what a film festival was back then,” Lieberman 

says. 

Although Lieberman is flattered by all of 

the attention his film has earned him over the 

years, he wears Blue Sunshine’s weird popularity 

lightly. He clearly appreciates trippy cinematic 

homages like Cosmatos’s film, as well 

as the attention lavished on him by the psychotronic 

center’s recent sold-out, albeit intimate, 

screening. But even that was a little 

frustrating, given that the center screened a 

DVD of Blue Sunshine and not a print. 

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▼ Film 

You Are Implicated 

Fast-food strip-search 

drama Compliance looks 

hard at what movies 

usually look at 

BY STEVEN ERICKSON 

After its Sundance premiere, 

Compliance might be infamous 

as the film that inspired 

a woman to cry out 

“Rape is not entertainment!” 

However, writer/director Craig 

Zobel is not Daniel Tosh. Judging from the 

film itself, which keeps its final sexual assault 

entirely off-screen, Zobel seems to 

agree with that heckler/critic. He has 

clearly learned a lot about unpleasure and 

anti-erotic uses of nudity from European 

artsploitation films, but the Ohio fast-food 

joint setting and minimum-wage-slave 

characters could hardly be more all- 

American. 

Zobel draws on Michael Haneke’s 

films, especially their use of off-screen 

space, during Compliance’s harrowing 

middle section. If he can’t match the Austrian 

director’s formal mastery, he thankfully 

lacks Haneke’s combo of sadism and 

self-righteousness. Compliance’s underlying 

humanism and political conscience lift 

it beyond being a macho endurance test. 

Based on a true story, Compliance begins 

on a busy day in a fictional Chick- 

Wich restaurant. Sandra (Ann Dowd) 

gets a phone call from a man calling him- 

Old Masters 

Film Forum reclaims the idols 

the French New Wave smashed 

BY NICK PINKERTON 

The popular idea of French cinema, if it reaches back 

further than Amélie, usually begins somewhere 

around Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. This 

amnesia is no accident, as a New Wave requires an Old to discredit, 

and Truffaut climbed into the director’s chair over the 

bodies of elders he had tomahawked as a critic, some of 

whom have never recovered. 

Older and granted the equanimity of success, Truffaut 

introduced a collection of his criticism, The Films in My Life, 

quoting Jean Renoir: “I considered that the world, and especially 

the cinema, was burdened with false gods. . . . My 

perseverance during a half-century of cinema has perhaps 

helped to topple a few of them. It has likewise helped me to 

discover that some of the gods were real and had no need 

to be toppled.” 

Film Forum’s 53-movie blowout “The French Old 

Wave” invites new worshippers to meet those old gods 

of French cinema. The bill of fare spans from the dawn 

of the sound era (René Clair’s 1928 The Italian Straw Hat 

being the lone silent) to the watershed year 1960, and 

an uninitiated visitor stands to discover a whole terra 

incognita of French cinema. 

There are works by undisputed masters like Cocteau, 


self Officer Daniels (Pat Healy). The cop 

claims that a young employee, Becky 

(Dreama Walker), has been seen stealing 

money from a customer’s purse. Sandra 

takes Becky into a back room and obeys 

the instructions from Officer Daniels: to 

take off all of Becky’s clothes and search 

her for the stolen money. But no amount 

of strip-searching can satisfy him, and 

from there, his commands quickly grow 

extreme and silly. 

On one level, it’s ridiculous 

that someone 

would take the nudityobsessed 

Officer Daniels 

for a real cop. His relish in degrading Becky 

is all too obvious. On the other, it’s a little absurd 

that we have to take off our shoes to 

board an airplane. More than any other recent 

narrative film, Compliance allegorizes 

the loss of civil liberties and creeping authoritarianism—even 

the sexual sadism that 

Ophüls, and Renoir, represented by his 1938 Zola adaptation 

La Bête Humaine, which stars Jean Gabin as an engineer running 

the Le Havre train who gets derailed by an affair with 

Simone Simon. There are also films credited to once-illustrious 

names since effaced by the passage of time, like that of 

Jean Grémillon, an emotionally potent filmmaker and sensitive 

director of women due for a reappraisal with the forthcoming 

arrival of a three-disc box set from Criterion imprint 

Eclipse. Grémillon is represented by five films, including 1941’s 

Remorques, with Gabin, the captain of a Breton salvage tug, 

drifting toward infidelity. 

In La Bête Humaine and 

Remorques, we can detect certain 

TO SAY THAT 

GABIN WAS 

BOGART 

AND TRACY 

IN A SINGLE 

ACTOR IS NOT 

ENOUGH. 

tendencies of the Old Wave, among 

films frequently grouped under the 

evocative catchall “poetic realism.” 

There is an implicit esteem for labor 

in Renoir’s attention to the engineer’s 

station rituals, as in the work of 

Grémillon, who satisfies his documentary 

impulse through a detailed 

rendering of the tug’s operations in 

Remorques, or through the details of a dam’s construction in 

1943’s ambitious Lumière d’été, which, like all great films, creates 

its own contained world, a birdcage inn in the French Alps. 

(If occasionally schematic in its opposition of a vitiated aristocracy 

and good, doughty laboring class, Lumière provides Pierre 

Brasseur a career role as the wild card, melodramatic, self-hateimmolated 

painter Roland.) 

Chick-fil-bad: 

Dreama Walker 

takes the call. 

popped up at Abu Ghraib—we have come to 

passively accept since 9/11. 

Considering what happens in Compliance, 

Zobel is relatively sparing with naked 

flesh; it’s a testament to his skill as a 

filmmaker that some critics have described 

the film as more explicit than it 

actually is. Zobel’s images of female nudity 

reveal Becky’s vulnerability rather 

than offer audience titillation, but it’s 

crucial to his project that Walker is a 

young, attractive woman. If male spectators 

desire her, they come to feel complicit 

in Officer Daniels’s funny games. 

COMPLIANCE 

ALLEGORIZES THE 

LOSS OF CIVIL LIBERTIES. 

Compliance lets neither men nor 

women off the hook. Obviously, its narrative 

involves men raping Becky, directly 

and by proxy. But men are also the only 

characters who rebel against Officer Daniels, 

while Sandra greases the wheels of 

Becky’s degradation. We’d all like to think 

we’d say no to tyranny; Compliance shows 

how hard it is to tell authority figures to 

fuck off. As critic Adam Nayman suggests, 

the reassuring note struck by its finale 

compromises the film’s political meanings, 

though it also keeps Compliance from 

slipping into nihilism. Still, no happy ending 

can take back the chill of Pat Healy’s 

Mister Rogers–gone-perv visage. 

Compliance 

Written and directed by Craig Zobel 


Opens August 17 

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Such attention to the nuts and bolts of the workaday 

world, and the way in which life takes place when labor permits, 

shows a fellow feeling for the working class, whose 

on-screen avatar was Gabin, as near a thing as Film Forum’s 

series has to a single star. To say that Gabin was Bogart and 

Tracy intersecting in a single actor would still not come 

close to encapsulating the importance of this extraordinary 

performer, who conveyed an entire philosophy in his carriage, 

as essentially French as the Parisian shrug. 

In efficient motion, Gabin was at once dainty and solid, 

brisk yet resigned, not particularly handsome yet capable 

of breathtaking close-ups. “One eye smiles; the other 

frowns,” Jacqueline Laurent observes of Gabin in Marcel 

Carne’s Le Jour se Leve (1939), epitomizing the actor’s 

dichotomy—the line is from Jacques Prévert, the screenwriter 

and poet responsible for many of the greatest works 

here, including both Grémillons mentioned (Brasseur in 

Lumière d’été: “Of course I love you, but I prefer myself”). 

The ideal of unflappable-but-not-insensitive sangfroid is 

older than Gabin and can, in fact, be seen in Antonin Berval’s 

playing of the title role in Maurice Tourneur’s splendid 1935 

gangster pic Justin de Marseille. It is the defining note of 

classical control that runs through this absolutely vital 

series, which recedes the historically necessary romantic 

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The Odd Life of Timothy Green 

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Lots of people hate anything that’s 

different,” says Cindy Green 

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vision-board child Timothy (CJ Adams) 

while trying to explain why he must cover 

up the leaves that sprout on his legs. That 

hammer-to-nail, nutshelled life lesson is 

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fertility fairy tale hangs. It’s also one 

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sibling rivalry, emotionally distant 

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and her husband, Jim (Joel 

Edgerton), learn that they cannot have a 

baby of their own, artfully mud-speckled 

magic boy Timothy crawls from their 

garden and—yep—into their hearts. A 

host of plot points follows: a financial crisis; 

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catharsis without ever facing trauma. 

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Narrated by Death himself, embodied 

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adaptation of comic book artist 

Marjane Satrapi’s thematic trilogy of 

Iranian stories, adapted from the followup 

to her graphic novel Persepolis. 

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Satrapi also directed the Oscar-nominated 

adaptation of that book.) Nasser 

Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric), a brilliant 

musician, is driven to suicidal despair 

when his wife (Maria de Medeiros) 

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crazy, dramatic injustice—she actually 

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days in his bed for death to come. As a 

young man, Nasser Ali fell in love with a 

woman named Irâne (the inhumanly 

beautiful Golshifteh Farahani), whose 

father refuses permission for their marriage. 

Her face haunts him for the rest of 

his life, and she looms over the extravagant 

fantasy sequences that comprise 

Azraël’s unauthorized Nasser Ali bio. 

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OPENS AUGUST 17 

Another handsome handcrafted 

charmer from Laika, the stop-motion 

shop that gave us Coraline, 

makes up for lacking its predecessor’s delicacy 

by also lacking its dispassion. In scenic 

Blithe Hollow, whose main industry is 

the window-dressing of its own witchhunt 

history, and whose founding fathers 

return one night as marauding zombies, a 

lonely little dead-people seer finds his calling 

at last. Customarily shunned and necessarily 

groupthink-resistant, young 

Norman, voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee, 

stands poised to transpose middle school 

estrangement into redemptive proto-adult 

empathy. This occurs by way of agreeably 

domesticated grind house tropes, tricked 

out with snazzy F/X. At Comic-Con, debut 

writer and co-director Chris Butler called 

it “John Carpenter meets John Hughes,” 

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up, though the actual math still feels a little 

fuzzy. Butler and co-director Sam Fell, of 

Flushed Away, have more vernacular command 

than tonal harmony; if they achieve 

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it’s through a steady pressure of avidity. 

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cast playing contentedly against type: 

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Mintz-Plasse as a dopey bully, and Casey 

Affleck as a meathead jock. JONATHAN KIEFER 

Why Stop Now 

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Adapted by co-writer/director Phil 

Dorling and Ron Nyswaner from a 

15-minute short film, Why Stop 

Now is an unbearable 90-minute trip with 

a trio of loud, needy egotists—one whose 

updated scenario never feels like it needs 

the extra 75 minutes. Why Stop Now follows 

Eli (Jesse Eisenberg), a college-age 

piano prodigy who deeply resents his 

drug-addict mother, Penny (Melissa Leo), 

for making him take care of her and his little 

sister, Nicole (Emma Rayne Lyle). Unfortunately 

for Eli, Penny’s habit prevents 

him from taking a job at a Boston conservatory. 

Attempts to clean her up are stymied 

by a catch-22: Penny can’t check into rehab 

unless she tests positive for drug use. Wan 

shenanigans ensue when Penny and Eli 

spend a long day panicking together and 

working with drug dealer Sprinkles (Tracy 

Morgan) to score. More exhausting than it 

is endearing, Dorling and Nyswaner’s busy 

script never allows the cast to develop 

their worst. While Morgan seems barely 

invested in his part, Leo’s attempts to make 

Penny seem obliviously desperate only reveal 

how difficult it is for Leo, as a performer, 

to appropriately modulate her 

emotions. Worse still, Eli’s barely contained 

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▼ Music 

Havin’ a Party 

Kenny Chesney throws a summer blowout at MetLife Stadium 

BY MAURA JOHNSTON 

Beach balls are a common sight 

at outdoor concerts these 

days, their candy-colored signaling 

of summertime fun 

serving as a way to distract 

those patrons who might be too attentiondeficient 

or aesthetically displeased to focus 

on the onstage goings-on. But Saturday 

was the first time I’d seen airborne beach 

balls—plural—outside the gates of a concert, 

batted around by throngs of people 

drinking beer, sporting cowboy hats, and 

waiting to get past security underneath the 

scorching mid-August sun. 

We were at MetLife Stadium for the local 

stop of the Brothers of the Sun tour, starring 

chronicler of the down-home good life 

Kenny Chesney and country juggernaut 

Tim McGraw as the titular siblings. (Spunky 

VH1-beloved spitfire Grace Potter and brocountry 

singer Jake Owen were also on the 

bill.) And for many of the people crowding 

through the football stadium’s gates, the 

show itself was only part of the draw; the 

revelry had started out in the parking lot, 

and as Chesney would approvingly note 

later that day, some of the people waiting to 

get inside the stadium at 4:15 p.m. had been 

waiting to get inside the lot for grilling, beers, 

games of the beanbag game “cornhole,” and 

general camaraderie at 9:30 that morning. 

Partying, particularly in the summer, 

can be a full day’s work. No artist who has 

come up in recent years embodies this aesthetic 

better than Kenny Chesney; even 

Drake, who brought the acronym YOLO 

(“you only live once”) to many licensed Tshirts 

and hashtags, looks like a party piker 

next to Saturday night’s headliner. Chesney 

sings of time spent by the sea and happy 

hours; his tan is the bronze hue that implies 

lots of long days where “work” amounts to 

little more than applying SPF 8 and turning 

over every 45 minutes or so; early on in the 

night, he busted out “No Shoes, No Shirt, 

No Problems,” and that song’s Señor 

Frog’s–ready charm glowed over even 

those tracks that were slightly less hedonistic. 

(There weren’t many of those, though.) 

Chesney’s easy, breezy attitude, and the 

party atmosphere of his live shows, have 

garnered him comparisons to Jimmy Buffett; 

Saturday’s set paired AC/DC’s “You 

Shook Me All Night Long” with shots of 

beaches around the world, and not even 

his set’s 8:40 p.m. start time or the skulls 

on his sweat-drenched T-shirt could dim 

the ensuing sun-drenched charm. (Dude 

could show many a chillwaver how a musician 

can drown himself in beachy imagery 

while not making songs that sound like 

they’ve been rendered absolutely soggy.) 

That Chesney can pull off so many songs 

about doing a whole lot of nothing, though, 

is a testament to his relatability; he doesn’t 

come off smarmy like the licensing-happy 

Buffett, or the increasingly noxious Drake, 

or like the endlessly frat-partying rock 

bands who think that adding tinges of reggae 

to their music signifies their laid-backness. 

This might be a result of him 

operating in the country sphere, even 

though not all of his songs have the twang 

turned that far up. The shows in that genre 

I’ve attended, from Miranda Lambert’s 

arena gigs to Dierks Bentley’s in-the-round 

gig at Long Island’s former Westbury Music 

Fair, have all had at least one point—and 

sometimes more than one point—in which 

the artist thanks the assembled not just for 

coming to the show and singing along with 

the hits, but also for spending money on the 

ticket. Chesney thanked the audience profusely, 

as did McGraw. Of course, the people 

being shown gratitude had helped the 

headliners get into the record-industry record 

books—paid attendance for Saturday’s 

show was 56,285, breaking the record for 

biggest country show in the New York metropolitan 

area, set by last year’s Chesney 

show in the same stadium. 

But Chesney’s relatability extends to his 

music, as well. Saturday night’s atmosphere 

was that of a party—how could it not be 

when after the first song, he ziplined from 

the middle of the stadium’s field level to the 

stage, a camera 

tracking his jour- 

PARTYING, 

PARTICULARLY 

IN THE 

SUMMER, CAN 

BE A FULL 

DAY’S WORK. 

NO ARTIST 

EMBODIES THIS 

AESTHETIC 

BETTER 

THAN KENNY 

CHESNEY. 

ney— but there 

were a couple of 

moments that resembled 

real talk 

at the bar or after 

its last call. “Come 

Over” is the No. 1 

record on country 

radio right now, 

and it operates in 

the late-night 

drunk-dial idiom 

of Lady Antebellum’sadult-contemporary 

monster “Need You Now,” from its 

strummed lilt to its politely urgent loneliness. 

“I told you I wouldn’t call, I told you I 

wouldn’t care/But baby climbing the walls 

gets me nowhere,” Chesney sings right before 

uttering the invitation in the title. He 

explained this song by saying it was “about 

holding onto all that was good, basically the 

only thing that was good, and letting go of 

all the rest”—which might be one of the 

most mild-mannered utterances about the 

thrilling nature of breakup sex ever to be 

uttered, in public or in private. “You and 

Tequila,” which he performed as a duet 

with Potter, could be something of a prelude 

to that track (though it came later in 

the set); the chorus, which both of them 

sing, goes “you and tequila make me crazy,” 

with both the alcohol content of the spirit 

and the increasingly rancid nature of the 

relationship at hand being likened to poison. 

(It’s a fairly jaunty-sounding song, 

given its subject matter, and the chemistry 

between Chesney and Potter made the relationship 

seem more like one that would 

be depicted on a multicamera sitcom from 

the ’60s than anything resulting in car 

crashes or pain.) 

The night ended with an encore featuring 

all four of the day’s performers. Mc- 

Graw came out first for three songs, 

including the goofily triumphant downhome 

anthem “She Thinks My Tractor’s 

Sexy,” with Owen and Potter joining in for 

an extended version of Jackson Browne’s 

“Running on Empty.” In case you think that 

its title was supposed to serve as a metaphor 

for the performers’ collective energy 

being spent, though, know that this version 

of the song was a super-extended jam session 

with a breakdown where the day’s four 

stars high-fived audience members and autographed 

proffered items—even as some 

in the crowd streamed for the exits, hoping 

to beat the traffic out of the parking lot. After 

all, every party host worth his salt 

knows that even the most superlative soiree-throwing 

skills are nothing if guests 

don’t show up and have a good time. 

mjohnston@villagevoice.com 

Kenny 

Chesney 

setting 

attendance 

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Weasel Nation 

The daringly avant 

label ugEXPLODE 

BY BRAD COHAN 

In 1991, improvising percussionistabout-town 

Weasel Walter launched 

ugEXPLODE. Then based in Chicago, 

the label documented his projects 

like “brutal prog” ensemble the 

Flying Luttenbachers and his intrepid 

foray into experimentalism with his myriad 

collaborators. But since then, the now- 

Brooklyn-based ugEXPLODE has taken 

on a roster of maverick musicians from all 

over the country. From the radical guitarists 

Ava Mendoza (Oakland, California), 

Sandy Ewen (Houston), and Mary Halvorson 

(Brooklyn) to chamber-rock terrorizers 

Normal Love, Pittsburgh noise-rock 

duo Microwaves, and electronic composer 

David Earl Buddin, Walter has amassed a 

stable of avant-gardists to die for. 

Mastering releases, drumming in improv 

collabs, and serving as guitar overlord 

in Cellular Chaos, he remains immersed in 

the action. During a recent set at Long Island 

City’s Uncanny Valley, that no-wavedecimating 

nihilist quartet (rounded out by 

drummer Marc Edwards, bassist Ceci 

Moss, and vocalist Admiral Grey) incited a 

sonic riot: Walter, flailing and sweatsoaked, 

rattled off huge, hyper-distorto 

licks while the tie-dyed-out Edwards 

bashed living hell from his drum kit. Meanwhile, 

Moss squirmed on the floor and bled 

thunderous noise from her bass. A Bay 

Area transplant whose roommate was 

bandmates with Walter in noise meisters 

XBXRX, she moved east in the mid-aughts. 

Walter followed suit shortly thereafter, and 

Cellular Chaos soon took shape as a trio. 

Edwards soon joined permanently, yet 

the group needed a singer. “We really 

wanted vocals, and I was singing since the 

beginning,” explains Moss. “But the thing 

is, it’s really hard for me to play bass [and] 

sing at the same time and entertain. It’s 

hard to try to concentrate on those two 

things. I can still roll on the floor if the part 

of the song is really simple, and I don’t 

have to focus on bass as much. But sometimes, 

I do have to focus on what I’m doing. 

We really wanted a lead singer and 

tried out a bunch of people. We also 

wanted another girl in the band.” 

Enter Admiral Grey, a leotard-wearing, 

makeup-smeared, whooping provocateur. 

“I was missing heavy music, and my drummer 

from my old band started the Ladies of 

Experimental Music NYC Facebook page 

after a conversation we had,” Grey says. 

“People would just find us, and we’d add 

anyone in experimental music—and not always 

ladies. So Weasel ended up joining 

that group and posted about needing a vocalist, 

[writing]: ‘What the fuck? Why can’t 

we find a cool vocalist?’ My initial thought 

[upon reading Weasel’s post] was probably, 

‘Well, your music probably sucks.’” 

It didn’t. “Weasel and I were just in totally 

different spheres, different scenes,” 

Grey explains. “We have a million friends in 

common, but for some reason, never heard 

of each other. Just different worlds totally.” 

Walter is no stranger to colliding worlds 

resulting in visionary music. His reach extends 

to the thriving experimentalist city of 

Houston, where bassist Damon Smith recently 

moved and where guitarist Sandy 

Ewen is an omnipresent force. Ewen’s singular 

method of playing—her ax flat on her 

lap, dragging raw sonics from her six-string 

using random items found on the street— 

went well with Walter’s brisk percussive 

clangs and crashes and Smith’s beefy 

phraseology, as evidenced by this year’s 

Ewen/Smith/Walter (ugEXPLODE). 

“Friends know that I look for these 

things, and if they find cool pieces of metal, 

they’ll save it for me,” Ewen says of her 

found sounds. “If you’re improvising with 

people, you have to improvise ways to make 

cool sounds and fit into stuff. So it just 

seemed natural to raid the closet. One of the 

main techniques that I discovered was playing 

the guitar with sidewalk chalk. So I figured 

that out just because I had some one 

day, and I tried it on a guitar. It sounds really 

cool, like an EBow. It sounds like a rusty 

piece of metal, but it 

THE SHARED 

SENTIMENT: 

‘WEASEL 

PUTS OUT 

MUSIC HE 

LIKES.’ 

works way better. 

It’s like the ultimate 

rusty piece of 

metal.” 

Survival Tricks 

(ugEXPLODE/ 

Public Eyesore), 

the massive second 

LP by the 

Brooklyn/Philly art-rock quartet Normal 

Love, weeds its way through the chaotic 

orchestral-damaged percolations of 

shrieking alien vocals, amplified violin 

skronk ’n’ scratch, delirious stop-start 

clangor, gnarly and futuristic electronics 

trashing, and disemboweled-guitarstring 

fuckery. “The amplified-violin 

sound I bring to Normal Love is actually 

an extension of some solo work I began 

creating in 2009 for violin and delay, 

which in part explores using the violin 

percussively and texturally,” Anthony 

Braxton disciple Jessica Pavone explains 

via e-mail. “It was a great coincidence 

that a year later, I was asked to join 

this band. Kind of a perfect sonic fit.” 

Pavone also works with Brooklyn-based 

guitarist Mary Halvorson, whose abrasive, 

conversational beauty with Walter is in full 

throttle on 2008’s Opulence (ugEXPLODE) 

and 2011’s Electric Fruit (Thirsty Ear). (The 

two are accompanied by ace trumpeter Peter 

Evans.) “Weasel is a unique musician, 

and his playing always pushes me in new 

directions,” Halvorson says. “He is an 

amazing listener and a great propeller of 

energy. He manages to be completely 

manic and extraordinarily sensitive at the 

Cellular Chaos in action 

same time, which is no easy feat.” 

Whether people are citing his tendencies 

toward being a manic and sensitive 

improviser, “secretly rock and roll all the 

way” (as Admiral Grey puts it), or a consistent 

damner of music and the business, the 

shared sentiment is “Weasel just puts out 

music he likes.” Which is why he demurs 

when he’s asked about the overblown 

topic of “Women in Experimental Music.” 

“I never implicitly thought of ugEX as a 

pro-female label, but I guess it is in a way. I 

am certainly interested in nonwhite-male 

perspectives in experimental music. I think 

it’s crucial,” Walter said in response to an email 

I sent proposing this article’s original, 

loosely based, concept: “ugEXPLODE’s 

iconoclastic female-musician movement.” 

Walter’s bandmate in QUOK, Oakland’s 

avant-jazz virtuoso Ava Mendoza, 

had a slightly more humorous take: “It 

sounds like we had picket signs or something—Let 

us on the brutal, weird music 

label. We’re equal! 

“My sense is that the new influx of 

women on ugEXPLODE isn’t because of 

an idealistic shift or anything on Weasel’s 

part. It’s just a continuation of what he’d 

already been up to. Women!” 

Cellular Chaos play Zebulon on August 16. 

Justina Villanueva

t Music 

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 15 

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John Abercrombie: There’s a lilt to the lyrical fare on the new 

Within a Song, and it’s born of the guitarist’s stylistic bent as 

well as the classic melodies he chooses to essay. From Ornette 

to Rollins, the program glances back to the ‘60s and pieces 

that initially impressed the young Abercrombie. Sharing the 

front line with saxophonist Joe Lovano, he guides a blend of 

dewy string tones and genteel horn bluster towards dulcet 

radiance. MACNIE 8:30 p.m. and 11 p.m., $30. Birdland, 315 

W. 44th St., New York, 212-581-3080, birdlandjazz.com. 

‘Amateur Night’: 7:30 p.m., $15-$25. Apollo Theater, 253 W. 125th 

St., New York, 212-531-5305, apollotheater.org. 

Ambassadors+mancicanparty+The Stationary Set+Lovelife: 

7:30 p.m., $10. Studio at Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St., New York, 

212-353-1600, websterhall.com. 

Suzie Brown+Caitlin Canty: 10 p.m., free. Rockwood Music 

Hall, 196 Allen St., 212-477-4155, rockwoodmusichall.com. 

Bushwalla + Todd Carey: 7:30 p.m., $15. Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette 

St., New York, 212-539-8770, joespub.com. 

Cedar Walton Quartet w/ Vincent Herring, David Williams, 

and Willie Jones III: 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., $30-$40. Jazz 

at Lincoln Center, 33 W. 60th St., 212-258-9800, jalc.org. 

Deep Time+The Babies: 9 p.m. Union Pool, 484 Union Ave., 

Brooklyn, 718-609-0484, union-pool.com. 

Ducktails+The Babies: 6 p.m., free. 285 Kent Ave., New York. 

The Dunnie Bobos+I’m Turning Into+Incorporated Village of 

Ghost+The Due Diligence: 8:30 p.m., $10. The Glasslands Gallery, 

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Enfants Terribles: Reconstruction is paramount for this intergenerational 

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Baron: They’ll grab a standard’s thematic DNA and twist it 

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Freshkills+Violent Bullshit+Graffiti Monsters+Chron Turbine: 

8 p.m., $8-$10. Public Assembly, 70 N. 6th St., New York, 

718-384-4586, publicassemblynyc.com. 

Harry and the Potters+Potter Puppet Pals+Uncle Monsterface: 

6:30 p.m., $12. Knitting Factory Brooklyn, 361 Metropolitan 

Ave., Brooklyn, 347-529-6696, knittingfactory.com. 

Jambalaya Brass Band+Outer Borough Brass Band: 8 p.m., 

free-$5. Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn, 718-963- 

3369, brooklynbowl.com. 

Emily King+Jennah Bell+Margaret Glaspy: 7 p.m., $15. Le 

Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St., New York, 212-796-0741, 

lepoissonrouge.com. 

Linkin Park+Incubus: 6:30 p.m., $37-$101. Nikon at Jones 

Beach Theater, 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh, 516-221-1000, 

jonesbeach.com. 

The Mandingo Ambassadors: 10 p.m., $10. Barbes, 376 9th St., 

Brooklyn, 718-965-9177, barbesbrooklyn.com. 

Maybe The Welders: 7 p.m., $8. Bowery Electric, 327 Bowery, 

New York, 212-228-0228, theboweryelectric.com. 

Melissa Stylianou Quartet: 7 p.m. 55 Bar, 55 Christopher St., 

New York, 212-929-9883, 55bar.com. 

Ches Smith and These Arches: Alto saxophonist Tim Berne 

(Snakeoil) has joined scrappy drummer Ches Smith’s fray 

alongside tenor man Tony Malaby, guitarist Mary Halvorson, 

and accordionist Andrea Parkins. The quintet, which oscillates 

impishly between form and freedom as grooves simmer 

underneath the clanging together of disparate sensibilities, 

will play music from their forthcoming Hammered. GEHR 

8 p.m., $10. Barbes, 376 9th St., Brooklyn, 718-965-9177, 

barbesbrooklyn.com. 

Soraia: 7:30 p.m., $10. The Mercury Lounge, 217 E. Houston St., 

New York, 212-260-4700, mercuryloungenyc.com. 

TK Blue & Blue Monk: 11 p.m., $5-$20. Jazz at Lincoln Center, 33 

W. 60th St., New York, 212-258-9800, jalc.org. 

Martha Wainwright+Nicole Atkins: $22-$28. City Winery, 155 

Varick St., New York, 212-608-0555, citywinery.com. 

Chris Watson+Marcus Davidson: 8 p.m., $12-$15. Issue Project 

Room 110 Livingston, 232 3rd St., Brooklyn, 718-330-0313, 

issueprojectroom.org. 

Yeasayer+Daedelus: 9 p.m., $32-$35. Bowery Ballroom, 6 

Delancey St., New York, 212-533-2111, boweryballroom.com. 

THURSDAY, AUG. 16 

Beanie Sigel+KA: 9 p.m., $18. S.O.B.’s, 204 Varick St., New York, 

212-243-4940, sobs.com. 

Buffalo Killers+Velcro Lewis Grou+Prince Rupert’s Drops: 

8:30 p.m., $10-$12. The Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent Ave., 

Brooklyn, 718-599-1450, glasslands.com. 

Cash Cash+Man on Earth+The Constant+The All Ways+Gone 

by Daylight+American Authors: 7 p.m., $5. Brooklyn Bowl, 

61 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn, 718-963-3369, brooklynbowl.com. 




Cursive+Titus Andronicus+Love as Laughter+Joyce Maynor: 7 

p.m., free. House of Vans, 25 Franklin St., Brooklyn, vans.com. 

Deep Time: 8 p.m., $10. 285 Kent Ave., New York. 

DJ Dyllemma+Nicholas Howard+Death by Plastic+Otis 

Clapp+Eddie B+Silent Knight and the Band Called Fuse: 

8 p.m., $10-$12. Public Assembly, 70 N. 6th St., New York, 


Enfants Terribles: See Wed. 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., $20-$35. Blue 

Note, 131 W. 3rd St., New York, 212-475-8592, bluenote.net. 

Le Chat Lunatique: 9 p.m. Radegast Hall and Biergarten, 113 N. 

Third St., Brooklyn, 718-963-3973, radegasthall.com. 

Marina and the Diamonds: 7 p.m., $25. Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th 

St., New York, 212-353-1600. 

Charlie Mars+Amy Cook: 8 p.m., $22-$30. City Winery, 155 Varick 

St., New York, 212-608-0555, citywinery.com. 

mewithoutyou+Kevin Devine+Buried Beds: 8:30 p.m., $16-$19. 

Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 N. 6th St., Brooklyn, 718-486- 

5400, musichallofwilliamsburg.com. 

Mischief Brew+Trepanning+Brook Pridemore: 8 p.m., $7. 

Death by Audio, 49 S. 2nd St., Brooklyn, 212-239-6200, 

entertainment4every1.net. 

Nude Beach+Swearin’+Yogurt Brain: 8 p.m. Union Pool, 484 

Union Ave., Brooklyn, 718-609-0484, union-pool.com. 

NY City Slickers: 9:30 p.m. Rodeo Bar, 375 Third Ave., New York, 

212-683-6500, rodeobar.com. 

Passenger Peru+Flying Pace+Magnetic Island+Grass is 

Green: 8 p.m., $8. Shea Stadium, 20 Meadow St., Brooklyn, 

liveatsheastadium.com. 

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Rakim+b.FUNK+DJ Spinna: 5 p.m., free. New Jersey Performing 

Arts Center, 1 Center St., Newark, 973-642-8989, njpac.org. 

‘Scott Siegel’s Broadway Ballyhoo’: Once upon a time, you 

could find a Manhattan cabaret late show just about every 

night. Now, if it’s not Friday or Saturday, you’re mostly out 

of luck, but every Thursday this ubiquitous impresario invites 

various performers to get up and do what they do so well at 

an hour that at least approaches midnight. You never know 

what kind of show you’ll see, but Marilyn Maye, Alice Ripley, 

Mark Nadler, Jeffry Denman, and Howard Fishman are only a 

few of the top-drawer entertainers who’ve previously taken 

to the soigné stage. FINKLE 11 p.m., $15-$25. Feinstein’s at 

Loew’s Regency, 540 Park Ave., New York, 212-339-4095, 

feinsteinsattheregency.com. 

Screaming Females+Hunters+Heliotropes: 9 p.m., $12. 92Y 

Tribeca, 200 Hudson St., 212-601-1000, 92ytribeca.org. 

Skaters+The Drowners+Texture+Coasta: 7:30 p.m., $10. 

Studio at Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St., New York, 212-353- 

1600, websterhall.com. 

Sonny and the Sunsets+Magic Trick: 9:30 p.m., $10-$12. The 

Mercury Lounge, 217 E. Houston St., New York, 212-260-4700, 

mercuryloungenyc.com. 

Stanley Jordan Trio: Back in the ‘80s, guitar wizard Stanley 

Jordan started blowing minds with an intricate fretboard 

tapping method that allowed him to play independent parts 

with each hand. For his four-day run at Iridium, he’ll be 

performing with his trio, even though he barely needs them. 

ASSAR 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $35. Iridium, 1650 Broadway, New 

York, 212-582-2121, iridiumjazzclub.com. 

Suicide Silence+The Word Alive+Dance Gavin Dance+I See 

Stars+A Skylit Drive+Winds of Plague+Stick to Your 

Guns+Attila+For the Fallen Dreams+Stray from the 

Path+Betraying the Martyrs+Make Me Famous+Obey the 

Brave+Ice Nine Kills: 1 p.m., $34. Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, 

New York, 212-777-6800, irvingplaza.com/index. 

Thank You Scientist+Torlid+Chem Trail: 8 p.m., $12. Maxwell’s, 

1039 Washington St., Hoboken, maxwellsnj.com. 

‘Thursday Throwdown’: 11 p.m., free. No Malice Palace, 197 E. 

3rd St., New York, 212-254-9184, nomalice.com. 



Voice of the Wetlands Allstars: 8 p.m., $35-$65. Highline Ballroom, 

431 W. 16th St., 212-414-5994, highlineballroom.com. 

Joe Louis Walker+Felix Cabrera Band: 8 p.m., $15-$17. B.B. King 

Blues Club & Grill, 237 W. 42nd St., New York, 212-997-4555, 

bbkingblues.com. 

Yva Las Vegass+North America+A6/2Generator: 9 p.m., 

$6. Lit Lounge, 93 Second Ave., New York, 212-777-7987, 

litloungenyc.com. 

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SAT AUG 18 

Clarence Spady Band 

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Thursday 8/16 

7 - JR. MACK 

10 - MAGIC SLIM & 

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Friday 8/17 

7 - RAY SCHINNERYY 

10 - MICHAEL POWERS 

FREQUENCY 

Saturday 8/18 

7 - STEVE GUYGER 

10 - CLARENCE SPADY BAND 

Sunday 8/19 

7 - BLIND BOY PAXTON 

10 - THE PIONEERS 

Monday 8/20 

7 - MICHAEL POWERS 

10 - T BLUES BAND 

Tuesday 8/21 

7 - SARON CRENSHAW 

10 - BOBBY BRYAN BAND 

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Saron Crenshaw Band 

TUES AUG 28 

Bobby Radcliff/ 

Steve Guyger 

THURS AUG 30 

Willie J Laws Band 

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Drum Clinic 

Aug 28 8p 

Frank Perowsky 

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Oran Etkin 

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FRIDAY, AUG. 17 

Big Time Rush+Cody Simpson: 7 p.m., $30-$70. Nikon at Jones 

Beach Theater, 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh, 516-221-1000, 

jonesbeach.com. 

Black Bananas+Bosco Delrey+Wild Yaks: 9:30 p.m., $10-$12. 

The Mercury Lounge, 217 E. Houston St., New York, 212-260- 

4700, mercuryloungenyc.com. 

Bushwalla+Todd Carey+Joygo: 8:30 p.m., $10. The Glasslands 

Gallery, 289 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, glasslands.com. 




Doll Fight+Laura Stevenson+Wojcik+Leda: 8 p.m., $7. Death 

by Audio, 49 S. 2nd St., Brooklyn, entertainment4every1.net. 

The Drinkers Themselves+Kid Casanova+The Wooden 

Sky+Alex P+Shoestring Revue: 7 p.m., $8. Public Assembly, 

70 N. 6th St., 718-384-4586, publicassemblynyc.com. 

‘Dutty Artz Presents: Change the Mood’ w/ DJ Ushka+Chief 

Boima+DJ/Rupture+Taliesin+Geko Jones+Atropolis: 8:30 

p.m., $10. The Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, 

718-599-1450, glasslands.com. 



Futurist+Cobalt & The Hired Guns+Bam+Xylofaux: 6:30 p.m., 

$8. Bowery Electric, 327 Bowery, New York, 212-228-0228, 

theboweryelectric.com. 

Golden Bloom+The Grownup Noise+Timmy Williams+Dave 

Godowsky: 7:30 p.m., $8-$10. Union Hall, 702 Union St., 

Brooklyn, 718-638-4400, unionhallny.com/home.php. 

Gospel Queens of Brooklyn: 8:30 p.m. Fat Cat Billiards, 75 

Christopher St., New York, 212-675-6056, fatcatmusic.org. 

Helio AlvesTrio: 9 p.m., $10 cover plus $10 minimum. Downstairs 

at Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia, New York, 212-989-9319, 

corneliastreetcafe.com. 

The Hollows+Lily and the Parlour Tricks+The Bottom 

Dollars+The High Irons+The Ugly Club: 7 p.m., $10. Studio 

at Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St., New York, 212-353-1600, 

websterhall.com. 

Hot Sugar: 9 p.m., $8-$10. Spike Hill, 184-6 Bedford Ave., 

Brooklyn, 718-218-9737, spikehill.com. 

Imperial Teen+We Can’t Enjoy Ourselves: 9 p.m., $10-$12. 

Knitting Factory Brooklyn, 361 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, 

347-529-6696, knittingfactory.com. 

Wanda Jackson+The Saddletones: 9 p.m., $20-$25. Highline 

Ballroom, 431 W. 16th St., New York, 212-414-5994, highlineballroom.com. 

Jane’s Addiction+Die Antwoord: 6:45 p.m., $50. Williamsburg 

Park, Kent Ave., Brooklyn. 

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Jennifer Hartswick Band: 12 a.m., $8. Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe 

Ave., Brooklyn, 718-963-3369, brooklynbowl.com. 

Joel Beaver Trio featuring Carolin Pook: 6 p.m. Radegast Hall 

and Biergarten, 113 N. Third St., Brooklyn, radegasthall.com. 

Baby Johnson: 10 p.m. The Red Lion, 151 Bleecker St., New York, 

212-260-9797, redlionnyc.com. 

‘Karaoke Killed the Cat’: 12 a.m., free. Union Hall, 702 Union 

St., Brooklyn, 718-638-4400, unionhallny.com/home.php. 

Toby Keith+Brantley Gilbert: 7 p.m., $40-$89. PNC Bank Arts 

Center, Exit 116 Garden State Parkway, Holmdel, 732-203- 

2500, artcenter.com. 

Kenny Mehler+Dexter’s Kin+Ultralust: 7:30 p.m., $10. Sullivan 

Hall, 214 Sullivan St., 212-634-0427, sullivanhallnyc.com. 

The Kickdrums+Lushlife: 7:30 p.m., $10. The Mercury Lounge, 

217 E. Houston St., 212-260-4700, mercuryloungenyc.com. 

Kottonmouth Kings+Big B+Prozak+Moonshine Bandits: 7:30 

p.m., $25. B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, 237 W. 42nd St., New 

York, 212-997-4555, bbkingblues.com. 

Lacrymosa + Shenandoah & the Night: 7 p.m., $12. Joe’s Pub, 

425 Lafayette St., New York, 212-539-8770, joespub.com. 

Large Professor+Apollo Heights+Honeychild Coleman+ 

Marvalous+Frank Lacy: 7 p.m., $12-$15. Highline Ballroom, 

431 W. 16th St., 212-414-5994, highlineballroom.com. 

Luciano: 5 p.m., free. New Jersey Performing Arts Center, 1 Center 

St., Newark, 973-642-8989, njpac.org. 

‘Manhattan Haitian Dance Party’: 12 a.m. and 2 a.m., $18-$20. 

S.O.B.’s, 204 Varick St., New York, 212-243-4940, sobs.com. 

Pablo Mayor+Alejandro Zuleta Vallenato Collective+Gregorio 

Uribe+Alejandro Florez: 6 p.m., $15. Le Poisson Rouge, 158 

Bleecker St., New York, 212-796-0741, lepoissonrouge.com. 

mewithoutyou+Kevin Devine+Buried Beds: 8:30 p.m., $16- 

$19. Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancey St., boweryballroom.com. 

Michael Powers Frequency: 10 p.m. Terra Blues Bar Restaurant 

& Music, 149 Bleecker St., terrablues.com. 

Dan Neustadt: 9 p.m., free. Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St., 

New York, 212-796-0741, lepoissonrouge.com. 

Night Verses: 7 p.m., $12-$14. Santos’ Party House, 100 Lafayette 

St., New York, 212-714-4646, santospartyhouse.com. 

OCD: 7 p.m., $10-$25. Santos’ Party House, 100 Lafayette St., 

New York, 212-714-4646, santospartyhouse.com. 

Q-Tip: 10:30 p.m., $29. Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, New York, 

212-777-6800, irvingplaza.com/index. 

Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band: 10 p.m., $10-$12. Hill 

Country Barbecue Market, 30 W. 26th St., New York, 212- 

255-4544, hillcountryny.com. 

Donald Smith: 7:30 p.m. St. Nick’s Jazz Pub, 773 St. Nicholas 

Ave., New York, 212-283-9728, stnicksjazzpub.net. 

Son of Pony: Open Mic: 6 p.m., $8. Downstairs at Cornelia Street 

Café, 29 Cornelia, 212-989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com. 

Stanley Jordan Trio: See Thurs. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $35. Iridium, 

1650 Broadway, New York, 212-582-2121, iridiumjazzclub.com. 

Tan Vampires+The Yes Way+Viva Mayday: 8 p.m. The Rock 

Shop, 249 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, 718-230-5740. 



Willy Villegas: 8 p.m., $10. S.O.B.’s, 204 Varick St., New York, 

212-243-4940, sobs.com. 

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Amy Lynn & the Gunshow + Shayna Steele: 7 p.m., $15 in 

Advance; $18 at Door. Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St., New York, 

212-539-8770, joespub.com. 

The Aster Phoenix Project+Jay Everett Band+Bottle Cap 

Rockets+Jack Brag: 8:30 p.m., $10. Maxwell’s, 1039 Washington 

St., Hoboken, 201-653-1703, maxwellsnj.com. 

Gregg Bandy: $19. Lenox Lounge, 288 Lenox Ave., New York, 

212-427-0253, lenoxlounge.com. 

Big Time Rush+Cody Simpson: 7 p.m., $20-$95. PNC Bank 

Arts Center, Exit 116 Garden State Parkway, Holmdel, 732- 

203-2500, artcenter.com. 

Birthmark+The Rock Shop: Birthmark, The Rock Shop 8 p.m., $8- 

$10. The Rock Shop, 249 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, 718-230-5740. 

Black Dog (A Tribute to Led Zeppelin): 11 p.m., $17-$20. B.B. 

King Blues Club & Grill, 237 W. 42nd St., New York, 212-997- 

4555, bbkingblues.com. 

Boy Scout of America+Beggars in a New Land+Marsh Sound+ 

Too Young: 8 p.m., $5. Lit Lounge, 93 Second Ave., New York, 

212-777-7987, litloungenyc.com. 


and Willie Jones III: 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., $30-$40. 

Jazz at Lincoln Center, 33 W. 60th St., New York, 212-258- 

9800, jalc.org. 

Chicago+The Doobie Brothers: 7:30 p.m., $20-$150. Nikon 

at Jones Beach Theater, 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh, 

516-221-1000, jonesbeach.com. 

Clarence Spady Band: 10 p.m. Terra Blues Bar Restaurant & Music, 

149 Bleecker St., New York, 212-777-7776, terrablues.com. 

Kevin Crown+DJ Norie+Pantrin Vybez+DJ Calli B.: 11:55 p.m., 

$15. S.O.B.’s, 204 Varick St., 212-243-4940, sobs.com. 

Daddy Long Legs: 8 p.m., $8. Union Pool, 484 Union Ave., 

Brooklyn, 718-609-0484, union-pool.com. 

Dashboard Confessional: 8:30 p.m., sold out. Music Hall 

of Williamsburg, 66 N. 6th St., Brooklyn, 718-486-5400, 

musichallofwilliamsburg.com. 

Deadbeat Darling+Wild Adriatic: 9:30 p.m., $12. The Mercury 

Lounge, 217 E. Houston St., New York, mercuryloungenyc.com. 

‘The Dissident Arts Festival’: 4 p.m., $10. Brecht Forum, 122 W. 

27th St., New York, 212-242-4201. 

Dog Society Record Release Belt+La Res: 7:30 p.m., $8. Bowery 

Electric, 327 Bowery, theboweryelectric.com. 

The Emersons+The David Kolker Band+Late Night Nasty: 

7 p.m. The Bitter End, 147 Bleecker St., New York, 212-673- 

7030, bitterend.com. 



Floating Points+Jacques Greene+Secret Circuit+Hieroglyphic 

Being: Floating Points distills jazz and disco into a precisely 

engineered version of garage; when not studying for his PhD 

in neuroscience, he’s helped keep Ninja Tune and Planet Mu 

relevant. Jacques Greene reinvents Chicago house for UK 

bass fans, while Hieroglyphic Being drags Chicago back to 

the Afro-funk future. Secret Circuit delivered a “tribal surf” 

album for Tim Sweeney’s new Beats in Space label. HAWKINS 

2 p.m., $15. P.S. 1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City, ps1.org. 

Gerald Cleaver: 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., $10. Cornelia Street Café, 

29 Cornelia, New York, 212-989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com. 

J.P. Jofre: 7:30 p.m., $20. Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St., 

New York, 212-796-0741, lepoissonrouge.com. 

Jamey Johnson: 8 p.m., $36-$75. The Paramount, 370 New 

York Ave., Huntington, 631-673-7300. 

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings+Antibalas: Sharon Jones is 

the queen on the Daptone chessboard, but the label extends 

well beyond she and her Dap-Kings. Take Antibalas, a twelve 

piece out there spreading the gospel of Fela Kuti: Their new 

self-titled album that has the right mix of funk, clave, and 

screaming horns to turn the waterfront into the free-form 

dance party it was meant to be. They open for Jones, whose 

background as a corrections officer at Rikers easily makes 

her the toughest woman in all of Williamsburg, at least while 

she’s on the bandstand. LEVY 5 p.m., free. Williamsburg Park, 

Kent Ave., Brooklyn. 

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The Kills+Black Bananas+Viva Viva: Bicontinental indie-rock 

duo the Kills have a brooding sound and a matching look, 

something that was recently the subject of a book, Dream 

and Drive, which captures the group’s lighter and darker 

sides mixing, shots of the pair at the beach with ones of 

frontwoman Alison Mosshart looking positively ghoulish in 

a grainy black-and-white Cure-like shot. When compared to 

the sparse mixture of garage rock, reggae, and guitar squalls 

of a song like their recent single “Satellite,” the photos are 

almost as nuanced as their music. GROW 6 p.m., free. Pier 63, 

Hudson River & 23rd St., New York. 

Marina and the Diamonds: 7 p.m., $25. Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th 

St., New York, 212-353-1600. 

Meltcha: 11 p.m., $10. Public Assembly, 70 N. 6th St., New York, 


Old Ceremony: 8 p.m., $10. Santos’ Party House, 100 Lafayette 

St., New York, 212-714-4646, santospartyhouse.com. 

Protomartyr+Parquet Courts+Bandname+Family Curse: 8 

p.m., $7. Death by Audio, 49 S. 2nd St., Brooklyn, 212-239- 

6200, entertainment4every1.net. 

Raquel Cion: Gilding the Lonely: 9:30 p.m., $15. Joe’s Pub, 


Raya Brass Band: 8:30 p.m. Radegast Hall and Biergarten, 

113 N. Third St., Brooklyn, 718-963-3973, radegasthall.com. 

‘Rub-A-Dub Combination’: 10 p.m., $5. Public Assembly, 70 N. 

6th St., New York, 718-384-4586, publicassemblynyc.com. 

Russian Circles+Chelsea Wolfe+Marriages: 8:30 p.m., $15-$18. 

Highline Ballroom, 431 W. 16th St., highlineballroom.com. 

‘Samba Soul’: 8:30 p.m., 10:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m., $10-$20. 

S.O.B.’s, 204 Varick St., New York, 212-243-4940, sobs.com. 

Sonny and the Sunsets+Magic Trick+Sam Jayne: 8:30 p.m., 

$10-$12. The Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, 


Spanish Fly+DJ Turmix: 11:30 p.m., $5. Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe 

Ave., Brooklyn, 718-963-3369, brooklynbowl.com. 

Ronnie Spector: 8 p.m., $45-$65. City Winery, 155 Varick St., 

New York, 212-608-0555, citywinery.com. 

Stanley Jordan Trio: Back in the ‘80s, guitar wizard Stanley 

Jordan started blowing minds with an intricate fretboard 

tapping method that allowed him to play independent parts 

with each hand. For his four-day run at Iridium, he’ll be 

performing with his trio, even though he barely needs them. 

ASSAR 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $35. Iridium, 1650 Broadway, New 

York, 212-582-2121, iridiumjazzclub.com. 

‘Str8 West Coastin’ w/ DJ Eleven+DJ Still Life+DJ Dopeshoes: 

2 p.m., free. Project Parlor, 742 Myrtle Ave., Brooklyn, 347- 

497-0550, facebook.com. 

‘Strawberry Fields: A Tribute to the Beatles’: 12 p.m., $25- 

$43. B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, 237 W. 42nd St., New York, 

212-997-4555, bbkingblues.com. 

Telephoned+Psychobuildings: 12 a.m., $5-$10. Knitting Factory 

Brooklyn, 361 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, 347-529-6696. 

The Spampinato Brothers: 10:45 p.m. Rodeo Bar, 375 Third 

Ave., New York, 212-683-6500, rodeobar.com. 

The STP Show+Posse N Effect+Punktum Remotum+Hornitz: 

7:30 p.m., $10. Sullivan Hall, 214 Sullivan St., New York, 212- 

634-0427, sullivanhallnyc.com. 

Tired Wings+Mahavatar: 7:30 p.m., $10. The Mercury Lounge, 

217 E. Houston St., 212-260-4700, mercuryloungenyc.com. 



Trespass+Five Finger Death Punch+Killswitch Engage: 5 

p.m., $36-$46. Prudential Center, 165 Mulberry St., Newark, 

973-757-6000. 

Dan Vapid and the Cheats+Kurt Baker+The Challenged+The 

Naturals: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Knitting Factory Brooklyn, 361 Metropolitan 

Ave., Brooklyn, 347-529-6696, knittingfactory.com. 

White Wizzard+Icarus Witch+Widow+Dark Empire+Left in 

Ruins: 6:30 p.m., $12. Studio at Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St., 

New York, 212-353-1600, websterhall.com. 

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Andrew McIntyre Band: 7 p.m. The Bitter End, 147 Bleecker St., 

New York, 212-673-7030, bitterend.com. 

Atiba Wilson’s B4 Quartet: 7 p.m. St. Nick’s Jazz Pub, 773 St. 

Nicholas Ave., New York, 212-283-9728, stnicksjazzpub.net. 

Mike Tait: 10 p.m. The Red Lion, 151 Bleecker St., New York, 

212-260-9797, redlionnyc.com. 

Mary J. Blige+D’Angelo+Melanie Fiona: 7 p.m., $63-$170. 

Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh, 





Chicago+The Doobie Brothers: 7:30 p.m., $21-$150. PNC 

Bank Arts Center, Exit 116 Garden State Parkway, Holmdel, 

732-203-2500, artcenter.com. 

Clarence Spady Band: 7 p.m. Terra Blues Bar Restaurant & Music, 

149 Bleecker St., New York, 212-777-7776, terrablues.com.

August 16&18 

Marina & the Diamonds 

Webster Hall 

August 19 

Sucker Punch 

Marc Brownstein and Aron 

Magner of The Disco Biscuits / 

Jamie Shields of The New Deal 

/ Mike Greenfield of Lotus 

Brooklyn Bowl 

August 25 

The Brian Jonestown 

Massacre 

Magic Castles 

Webster Hall 

September 5 

Zoogma 

D.V.S* 

Brooklyn Bowl 

September 11 

Amanda Palmer & The 

Grand Theft Orchestra 

Webster Hall 

September 12 

Yeasayer 

Tanlines / Daedelus 

Rumsey Playfield, 

Central Park 

September 12 

Dragonette 

The Knocks 

Webster Hall 

September 13 

Pistol Annies 

Terminal 5 

September 13 

Maxïmo Park 

Zambri / Stagnant Pools 

Webster Hall 

September 14 

Circa Survive 

Touché Amoré / Balance 

and Composure / O’Brother 

Terminal 5 

The Bowery 

Ballroom 

Thursday, August 16 

Planet of the Abts / Paper 

Robots 

Friday, August 17 

mewithoutYou 

Kevin Devine / Buried Beds 

Wednesday, August 22 

Sebadoh 


Gaelic Storm 

Saturday, August 25 

BoomBox 


Xiu Xiu 


Julia Holter 

Wednesday, September 5 

Sondre Lerche 

Thursday, September 6 

Breton 

Friday, September 7 

Patrick Watson 

Tuesday, September 11 

Lianne La Havas 


Alt-J 


Alberta Cross 

September 14 & 15 

Devotchka 

Monday, September 17 

Patterson Hood and the 

Downtown Rumblers 


David Nail 


The Whigs 


Dry the River 

Saturday, September 22 

The Sheepdogs 


Two Gallants 


Bell X1 (Acoustic Tour) 

Music Hall of 

Williamsburg 


Yeasayer 


mewithoutYou 

Kevin Devine / Buried Beds 


Dashboard Confessional 

(solo acoustic) 


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2 Skinnee J’s 


Quicksand 


Fang Island 

Sunday, September 2 

Leftöver Crack 

September 5&6 (9/7 SOLD OUT!) 

The Rapture 


Divine Fits 


The Vaccines 


WHY? 

Friday, September 14 

The Hood Internet 


Devotchka 


Deerhoof 


Austra 


Wye Oak 


Two Gallants 


The Bad Plus 

Saturday, September 29 

Mark Kozelek (of Sun Kil 

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Erika Spring 

Tiny Victories / Tezeo 

Soraia 


Sonny & the Sunsets 

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Myra Flynn / Zack DuPont 


Black Bananas 

Bosco Delrey / Wild Yaks 

The Kickdrums 

Lushlife 


Deadbeat Darling / Wild 

Adriatic 

Tired Wings / Mahavatar 

Sunday, August 20 

pillow Theory / Brother Reverend 

/ White Collar Crime / Ann Klein 

Monday, August 20 

Gus + Scout 

Turner Cody 

Matthew E. White 

Tuesday, August 21 

Craig Greenberg w/ Jeff Litman 


The Eastern Sea / Sundress 

Your 33 Black Angels / Variety 

Lights 


Yellowbirds / Gabriel and the 

Hounds 

Shovels and Rope 

Christopher Paul Stelling 


Kore Fest 3 


Betsy Kingston & The Crowns 

Next Tribe 

Crooked Man / Beatbox Guitar 

Sunday, August 26 

Hooray for the Riff-Raff 

Clear Plastic Masks / Feral Foster 

Monday, August 27 

White Heat / The Dead Exs / 

Baby Teardrops / Prospector 

September 14 

Ariel Pink’s 

Haunted Graffiti 

BODYGUARD / TEEN 

Webster Hall 

September 14&15 

Ryan Montbleau Band 

DJ Kraz (Eric Krasno) (14) 

Brooklyn Bowl 

September 15 

Kendrick Lamar 

Special Guests Ab-Soul / 

Jay Rock 

Terminal 5 

September 15 

Thrill Jockey 20th Anniversary 

Tortoise / Future 

Islands / Matmos 

Liturgy / D Charles Speer 

and the Helix 

Webster Hall 

September 18 

Michael Kiwanuka 

Marcus Foster / Foy Vance 

Webster Hall 

September 19 

The Offspring 

Neon Trees / Dead Sara 

Terminal 5 

September 19 

Ben Howard 

Webster Hall 

September 20 

Dr. Dog 

Delta Spirit / Kishi Bashi 

Rumsey Playfield, 

Central Park 

September 21&22 

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Bon Iver 

Doug Paisley (21) 

Radio City Music Hall 

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OCTOBER 3 

IAN ANDERSON Sold Out! 

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NOVEMBER 12 

ZAC BROWN 

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AUGUST 27 

CARNEGIE HALL 

New York City 

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BEN HARPER Sold Out! 

OCTOBER 10 

IDINA MENZEL Sold Out! 

OCTOBER 29 

HAMMERSTEIN 

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AUGUST 30 

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OCTOBER 3 

THE TEMPER TRAP 

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FRI OCTOBER 12 

New York City 

New York City 

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OCTOBER 18 & 19 

SOCIAL DISTORTION 

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OCTOBER 26 

HARD PRESENTS 

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NOVEMBER 30 

COCA-COLA 

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REGINA SPEKTOR On Sale Friday at 9am! 

WITH ONLY SON 

OCTOBER 24 

MARTINA MCBRIDE 

OCTOBER 25 

CHRIS ISAAK 

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CITIZEN COPE 

SAT NOVEMBER 3 

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DECEMBER 2 

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DECEMBER 30 & 31 

NEIL YOUNG 

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NOVEMBER 27 

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NOVEMBER 20 

New York City 

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Erin Harpe and the Delta Swingers: 9 p.m. Rodeo Bar, 375 Third 

Ave., New York, 212-683-6500, rodeobar.com. 

Heaven’s Jail Band+The Shivers+Trash Gut+Jo Schornikow 

Band: 8:30 p.m., $10. The Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent Ave., 

Brooklyn, 718-599-1450, glasslands.com. 

Jack Grisham’s Lost Soul+The Dead Ticks+Working Disorder: 

8 p.m., $12. Studio at Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th St., New York, 

212-353-1600, websterhall.com. 

My Morning Jacket+Shabazz Palaces: Rockers My Morning 

Jacket may still be celebrating the success of their sixth 

album,Circuital, which came out last year and was nominated 

for a Grammy, but change is in the air. In recent months the 

band’s frontman, Jim James, has been gearing up for a 2013 

solo release, saying that it’s enough of a departure that the 

only connecting thread between it and MMJ will be his voice. 

Only after that, will the band regroup to work on a new album, 

so this might be fans’ last chance to see them for a while. 

GROW 6:30 p.m., $50. Williamsburg Park, Kent Ave., Brooklyn. 

Nobuki Takamen Trio: 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m., $30. Blue 


Stanley Jordan Trio: See Thurs. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $35. Iridium, 

1650 Broadway, New York, 212-582-2121, iridiumjazzclub.com. 

Sucker Punch: After nine years, the disco-ier of the Disco 

Biscuits—Marc Brownstein (bass) and Aron Magner (keyboards)—once 

again join keyboardist Jamie Shields (of the 

disbanded New Deal) and drummer Mike Greenfield (Lotus) for 

something of a livetronica supersession. Don’t confuse them 

with the other Biscuits techno spinoff, Conspirator, although 

the deep beats, prog flourishes, and general oceanic mayhem 

will provide plenty of ecstatic overlap. GEHR 8 p.m., $15. 

Brooklyn Bowl, 61 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn, brooklynbowl.com. 

‘Sunday Gospel Brunch’: Featuring the Harlem Gospel Choir. 1:30 

p.m., $40-$42.50. B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, 237 W. 42nd 

St., New York, 212-997-4555, bbkingblues.com. 

‘Underground Music Awards’: 8:15 p.m., $40. B.B. King Blues 

Club & Grill, 237 W. 42nd St., New York, bbkingblues.com. 

‘The Village Gate’s Old Fashioned Piano Party’: 9:30 p.m., 

free. Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker St., lepoissonrouge.com. 

Stephane Wrembel: 9 p.m., $10. Barbes, 376 9th St., Brooklyn, 

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8/30, 31 DAVID BROMBERG BIG BAND 

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LARRY CAMPBELL & TERESA WILLIAMS (8/31) 

S E P T E M B E R : 

9/1 DAVID BROMBERG BIG BAND W/ MICHAEL DAVES 

9/2 JOHN LENNON IMAGINED: BEATLES 

& SOLO YEARS FEATURING THE NUTOPIANS 

9/4 YONI RECHTER 

9/5 JOAN OSBORNE RESIDENCY WITH AMY HELM 

9/6 THE YARDBIRDS 

9/7 STEVE FORBERT & BEN SOLLEE 

9/7 DOC WASSABASCO’S BURLESQUE 

9/8 JOHN WESLEY HARDING CABINET OF WONDERS 

9/10-11 LILA DOWNS 

9/12 AZURE RAY WITH SOKO 

9/13 WILLIAM ELLIOTT WHITMORE & SAMANTHA CRAIN 

9/14 JOHNNY & JIMMY – JOHN SEBASTIAN & JIMMY VIVINO 

9/15 RONNIE SPECTOR’S “BEYOND THE BEEHIVE” 

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Babs Winn and the Kickin Boogie Band: 9 p.m. Rodeo Bar, 

375 Third Ave., New York, 212-683-6500, rodeobar.com. 

Bill Goodwin 50/70 Band: 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., $25. Jazz 


Brave Combo: 7:30 p.m., $20. Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St., New 

York, 212-539-8770, joespub.com. 

‘Brooklyn Raga Massive Jam Session’: 8 p.m., free. Branded 

Saloon, 603 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn, 718-484-8704. 

The Cast of Beatlemania: 8 p.m., $12-$15. B.B. King Blues Club & 

Grill, 237 W. 42nd St., New York, bbkingblues.com. 

Chasing Rockets+Reva Williams+Jill & Kate+Chloe 

Angelides+The Oz Noy Trio+Richie Cannata’s Monday 

Night Jam: 7 p.m., $10-$15. The Bitter End, 147 Bleecker St., 

New York, 212-673-7030, bitterend.com. 

Chicha Libre: In addition to being a popular alcoholic beverage, 

“chicha” also signifies the psychedelic style of cumbia 

fermented in Peru’s Amazonian rainforests during the ‘70s. 

This terrific Brooklyn combo features One Ring Zero accordion 

wizard Josh Camp and members of Las Rubias del Norte. They 

open a portal to Peru here nearly every Monday and have only 

gotten weirder and more wonderfully danceable over the 

years. GEHR. 9:30 p.m., $10. Barbes, 376 9th St., Brooklyn, 

718-965-9177, barbesbrooklyn.com. 

The Day Laborers+Lost Things+Rich Malone+Notoriety+DJ 

Ready: 8 p.m., $10. Public Assembly, 70 N. 6th St., New York, 


Frank Canino and Friends: 10 p.m. 78 Below, 380 Columbus 

Ave., New York, 78below.com. 

GNGR+Gonculator+Kayleigh Goldsworthy+Bern and the 

Brights+Matt Smith Band: 8:30 p.m., $10. Studio at Webster 

Hall, 125 E. 11th St., New York, 212-353-1600, websterhall.com. 

Gus + Scott+Turner Cody: 8:30 p.m., $10. The Mercury Lounge, 

217 E. Houston St., New York, 212-260-4700, mercuryloungenyc.com. 

Cissy Houston+Vickie Winans: 7:30 p.m., free. Wingate Field, 

Winthrop St., Brooklyn, 718-469-1912. 

Idle Warship: 9 p.m., $20-$25. Highline Ballroom, 431 W. 16th 

St., New York, 212-414-5994, highlineballroom.com. 

‘Jam Session’: 7:30 p.m. St. Nick’s Jazz Pub, 773 St. Nicholas 

Ave., New York, 212-283-9728, stnicksjazzpub.net. 

‘Jazz Night’: 8:30 p.m. Spike Hill, 184-6 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, 

718-218-9737, spikehill.com. 

John Farnsworth Quartet: 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., $10-$30. Smoke 

Jazz and Supper Club, 2751 Broadway, New York, 212-864- 

6662, smokejazz.com. 

Karl Berger’s Stone Workshop Orchestra: 7:15 p.m. and 9 p.m., 

$10-$20. The Stone, 16 Ave. C, New York, thestonenyc.com. 

Les Paul Monday’s: $35. Iridium, 1650 Broadway, New York, 

212-582-2121, iridiumjazzclub.com. 

Matthew E. White: 8 p.m., $10. The Mercury Lounge, 217 E. Houston 

St., New York, 212-260-4700, mercuryloungenyc.com. 

Nu Sensae+Psychic Blood: 8 p.m., $7. Death by Audio, 49 S. 

2nd St., Brooklyn, 212-239-6200, entertainment4every1.net. 

Reverend Vince Anderson: 8 p.m., free. Union Pool, 484 Union 

Ave., Brooklyn, 718-609-0484, union-pool.com. 

Max Schneider: 7 p.m., $15. Studio at Webster Hall, 125 E. 11th 

St., New York, 212-353-1600, websterhall.com. 

Marcus Strickland: 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., $10-$15. Blue Note, 131 

W. 3rd St., New York, 212-475-8592, bluenote.net. 

Tubetops+No Glow+Heavenly Beat+Beggars in a New Land: 

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Ape School+Heaven+Arc in Round: 8:30 p.m., $10. The 

Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, glasslands.com. 

The Bandana Splits+The Well-Informed: 8 p.m., $10. Highline 

Ballroom, 431 W. 16th St., New York, 212-414-5994, 

highlineballroom.com. 

Bob Parins and his Pint- Sized Cocktail Orchestra: 8 p.m. 

Radegast Hall and Biergarten, 113 N. Third St., Brooklyn, 

718-963-3973, radegasthall.com. 

Child Abuse+Bludded Head+Terminator 2+Little Women: 8 

p.m., $7. Death by Audio, 49 S. 2nd St., Brooklyn, 212-239- 

6200, entertainment4every1.net. 

Kelly Clarkson+The Fray: On her big singles—”Ms. Independent,” 

“Stronger”—Kelly Clarkson wields her voice like a battering 

ram, and that sense of vengeful, reinforced-octave valor is 

nice to have on your side when life is kicking you in the teeth. 

She’s that rare reality-television product who continues to 

outgrow her origins work overtime to earn the acclaim she’s 

already shown she deserves. CUMMINGS 7 p.m., $20-$95. 

Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, 1000 Ocean Parkway, Wantagh, 


ERIMAJ: 9:30 p.m., $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Joe’s Pub, 


Husky: 7:30 p.m., $15. Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St., New York, 

212-539-8770, joespub.com. 

Susie Ibarra, Thollem McDonas, Pauline Oliveros Trio: 10 

p.m., $10. The Stone, 16 Ave. C, New York, thestonenyc.com. 

‘Jam with Robert Rucker’: 8 p.m., $10. Cleopatra’s Needle, 2485 

Broadway, New York, 212-769-6969, cleopatrasneedleny.com. 

Jeremy Steding: 9 p.m. Rodeo Bar, 375 Third Ave., New York, 

212-683-6500, rodeobar.com. 

Jezzy & The Bells + Little Anchor+Kyle McNeill & The Stumble: 

7:30 p.m., $7. Bowery Electric, 327 Bowery, New York, 212- 

228-0228, theboweryelectric.com. 

K.D. Lang & The Siss Boom Bang: 8 p.m., $69-$144. Bergen PAC, 

30 N. Van Brunt St., Englewood, 201-816-8168, bergenpac.org. 

Adam Kane: 7 p.m. National Underground, 159 E. Houston St., 

New York, 212-475-0611, thenationalunderground.com. 

Mike LeDonne Quartet: 7 p.m., 9 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., $20-$30. 

Smoke Jazz and Supper Club, 2751 Broadway, New York, 212- 

864-6662, smokejazz.com. 

The Neighbourhood: 8 p.m., $10. Studio at Webster Hall, 125 E. 

11th St., New York, 212-353-1600, websterhall.com. 

Oh, Oh, Ecstacy+Weird Children+Easy Company: 8 p.m., 

$8-$12. Knitting Factory Brooklyn, 361 Metropolitan Ave., 

Brooklyn, 347-529-6696, knittingfactory.com. 

Joan Osborne+Meshell Ndegeocello: 8 p.m., $45-$60. City Winery, 

155 Varick St., New York, 212-608-0555, citywinery.com. 

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Annie Ross: 9:30 p.m., $25. Metropolitan Room, 34 W. 22nd St., 

New York, 212-206-0440, metropolitanroom.com. 

‘Sublime’ with Rome+Cypress Hill+Pepper: 6 p.m., $20-$65. 

PNC Bank Arts Center, Exit 116 Garden State Parkway, Holmdel, 

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Le Poisson Rouge 158 Bleecker St., New 

York, 212-796-0741, lepoissonrouge. 

com. ‘On the Sly’ w/ Thefft+Juakali 

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p.m., free. 

Brooklyn Bowl 61 Wythe Ave., Brooklyn, 

718-963-3369, brooklynbowl.com. DJ 

?uestlove Bowl Train: 11 p.m., $5-$7. 

Viktor & Spoils 105 Rivington St., 

New York. ‘Special Delivery’ w/ DJ 

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com. ‘Cool & Deadly’ w/ Scratch 

Famous+Queen Majesty+Mr. K+JD: 

10 p.m.; ‘The Freedom Party’ w/ DJ 

Herbet Holler+DJ Cosi: 11 p.m. 

Cielo 18 Little W. 12th St., New York, 212- 

645-5700, cieloclub.com. ‘Halcyon 

Presents’ w/ No Regular Play+Francis 

Harris: Wolf + Lamb and Soul Clap 

favorites No Regular Play draw on 

the radio sounds of their childhoods 

in Prince’s Twin Cities and time in 

Havana studying Afro-Cuban music 

to create some of the most effective 

basslines in house. Francis Harris—behind 

Matter-Form parties, the Scissor 

& Thread label, and the Proustian 

Leland album—engineered No Regular 

Play’s forthcoming album. With 

Los Angeles’s Modesty. HAWKINS 10 

p.m., free-$15. 

Webster Hall 125 E. 11th St., New York, 

212-353-1600. ‘Girls&Boys’ w/ Trolley 

Snatcha+Xilent+Steven Lions: 

10 p.m., $15. 

World Yacht Marina Pier 81, New York, 

212-630-8100, worldyacht.com. 

‘Verboten’ w/ Guy Gerber+Deniz 

Kurtel+Lee Curtiss+Guti: In his Fabric 

mix, Supplement Facts boss Guy 

Gerber did what the big guys do: 

The Israeli producer stuck to his own 

house tracks, and his arrogance paid 

off. Along with Seth Troxler, Shaun 

Reeves, and Ryan Crosson, Lee Curtiss 

is part of Visionquest, making deep, 

techno-savvy house that’s steeped in 

the history of r&b. Crosstown Rebels 

artist and Wolf + Lamb collaborator 

Deniz Kurtel has already delivered two 

albums of sophisticated yet accessible 

vocals-enhanced house. Buenos Aires’ 

Guti has harnessed his jazz training 

for work for Crosstown Rebels and 

Supplement Facts. HAWKINS 8 p.m., 

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com. Maxxi Soundsystem+JDH & Dave 

P+Paul Raffaele: 11 p.m., $10-$15. 

The Glasslands Gallery 289 Kent Ave., 

Brooklyn, 718-599-1450, glasslands. 

com. Internet Xplorer+Getawolfpup: 

11:30 p.m., free. 

Pacha 618 W. 46th St., 212-209-7500, 

pachanyc.com. Boris: 10 p.m., $20. 

Public Assembly 70 N. 6th St., New 

York, 718-384-4586, publicassemblynyc.com. 

Data+Dave Q+Clever: 

11:30 p.m., $10. 

Santos’ Party House 100 Lafayette St., 

New York, 212-714-4646, santospartyhouse.com. 

Brad Miller: 10 p.m., 

$5; ‘Electric Beach NY’: 11 p.m., $20.

Comedy 

Animated Stories: Professional comedians 

tell hilarious true stories from 

their lives. The best story is turned 

into an animated video that will screen 

at next month’s show. Thu., Aug. 16, 

7:30 p.m., $5. UCBeast, 153 E. 3rd St., 

212-366-9231. 

Asssscat 3000: A thrilling weekly show 

of long-form improv with possible 

special guests from SNL and The Daily 

Show. Sundays, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $10 

at 7:30 p.m., free at 9:30 p.m. Upright 

Citizens Brigade Theatre, 307 W. 26th 

St., 212-366-9176. 

Comedy at KFBK With Hannibal Buress: 

A weekly showcase hosted by Buress 

(30 Rock). Sundays, 9 p.m., free. Knitting 

Factory, 361 Metropolitan Ave., 

Brooklyn, 347-529-6696. 

Hot Tub: Kurt Braunohler’s weekly variety 

show features bizarre sketches and 

character monologues. Mondays, 7:30 

p.m., $5-$8. Littlefield, 622 Degraw 

St., Brooklyn, 718-855-3388. 

Improdome: Get involved in this longrunning 

free improv jam. Wednesdays, 

11 p.m., free. The Peoples Improv 

Theater, 123 E. 24th St., 212-563-7488. 

Janeane Garofalo+Gary Gulman+Harris 

Stanton: A showcase of top comics. 

Thu., Aug. 16, 9 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 17, 9 & 

11 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 18, 9 & 11 p.m., $20, 

plus two-drink minimum. EastVille, 

85 E. 4th St., 212-260-2445. 

The Two-Man Movie: Neil Casey and 

Anthony Atamanuik create and perform 

a completely improvised movie. 

Each week promises a different twist. 

Wednesdays, 8 p.m., $5. UCBeast, 153 

E. 3rd St., 212-366-9231. 

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Alphabet Sundays: This boys’ party has 

cheap, strong drinks, go-go dancers, 

and DJs JROC & 80H8. Sundays, 8 

p.m., free. Arrow Bar, 85 Ave. A, 212- 

673-1775, arrownyc.com. 

Dark Friday: Get lost in laser lights and 

house music at this dance-a-thon. Fridays, 

9 p.m., free. Xes Lounge, 157 W. 

24th St., 212-604-0212, xesnyc.com. 

DJ Ironbound: DJ Ironbound presides 

every Saturday to a mostly black and 

Latino, male and female, crowd, with 

additional music by Hype Man and MC 

TQ. Saturdays, 10 p.m., $5-$10. Secret 

Lounge, 525 W. 29th St., 212-268- 

5580, secretloungenyc.com. 

Heaven Satrudays: Alan Picus, Steve 

Sidewalk, and Charles Winters host 

this dance night geared toward a 

young crowd. Saturdays, 10 p.m., $15, 

boiparty.com. Rush, 579 Sixth Ave., 

212-243-6100. 

GRRRL’s Night: Thursdays are strictly 

for the ladies at this lesbian-owned 

tapas restaurant with a happy hour 

that runs all night. Thursdays, 10 p.m., 

free. Beast, 638 Bergan St., Brooklyn, 

718-399-6855, brooklynbeast.com. 

Lesbo A-Go-Go: Come party with New 

York City’s hottest girl dancers as DJ 

Stacy spins music to set the mood. 

Fridays, 10 p.m., free. The Stonewall 

Inn, 53 Christopher St., 212-488-2705, 

thestonewallinnnyc.com. 

LovergirlNYC: DJ Mary Mac spins the 

tunes for sexy go-gos and a gorgeous 

room of mostly women of color. Saturdays, 

11:30 p.m., $10-$15, lovergirlnyc. 

com. Bona Fides, 60 Second Ave., 212- 

777-2840, bonafidesrestaurant.com. 

▼ Savage Love 

BY DAN SAVAGE 

Dear Dan: I’ve been confused about my 

sexuality for two years. I am a 22-year-old 

female. I liked guys when I was in school, but 

then, in perhaps the most stereotypical of 

fashions, I developed a HUGE crush on Tegan 

and Sara when I was nearly 20. I like the idea 

of being with women, but I have never had a 

major crush on anyone since. So I’m really 

confused over what my sexual orientation 

actually is. I know many hetero-identifying 

people experience same-sex crushes, but 

can someone’s whole sexual orientation just 

change overnight? 

Awfully Nervous Over Newness 

“When I was young, I dated boys,” says 

Tegan Quin, one half of the popular indie duo 

that prompted you to question your sexuality. 

“I never thought about love or being ‘in 

love.’ And I never thought about sexuality. I 

was lucky to have a group of friends much 

more interested in each other than dating. 

And so I was fairly untroubled about my 

status. Until I kissed a girl. Then I knew who I 

really was. I was gay.” 

Oh, hey, I hope you don’t mind that I 

shared your letter with Tegan and Sara, 

ANON. I figured you might appreciate getting 

some advice directly from your 

potentially life-altering crush. 

Like you, ANON, Tegan used to assume 

she was straight. 

“I’d gone most of my teens crushing on 

guys like Jared Leto, thinking that must 

make me straight,” Tegan says. “Even though 

secretly I was dreaming of make outs with 

Claire Danes. I thought my crush on Jared 

Leto vetoed my secret girl crush on Claire 

Danes. Maybe that was society weighing 

down on me. Perhaps it was peer pressure 

keeping me inside the lines of heterosexuality. 

Or likely, I just liked them both.” 

Based on your letter, ANON, Tegan 

suspects that you might like both. 

“Sexuality is not hard lines,” says Tegan. 

“It’s not black and white. Not for all of us, 

anyway. Some people know their whole lives 

who they are. Some people don’t. My advice: 

Go and kiss a girl, go and hold a boy’s hand. 

Don’t worry about who you are until you find 

out what you like. Maybe you’ll like both— 

and yay if that’s the way it turns out, because 

that means you have twice as many people 

to fall in love with.” 

And while Tegan doesn’t think a person’s 

sexuality can change overnight, she 

believes—she knows from personal 

experience—that a person’s awareness of 

their sexuality can change overnight. “You 

can have an awakening,” Tegan says. “Like I 

did when I first kissed a girl. A whole new 

world can absolutely be waiting for you if 

you end up feeling up to exploring it. 

Good luck!” 

Dear Dan: I’m a twentysomething professional 

snowboarder. I have a problem that I 

don’t really have anybody to talk to about. 

When I jerk it, I have to put a finger in my 

asshole to finish. Plain and simple, that’s the 

only way I can come. I’ve tried to learn to 

come without the finger, but I can never 

reach climax. I can’t even come in a girl’s 

pussy without sneaking a finger in my back 

door. I go to great lengths to hide it because I 

don’t want them to think I’m gay. (I have no 

problem with other people being gay, just 

FYI. It’s just that you do not want snowboard 

groupies thinking you’re gay. Girls talk, and 

then you never get laid again, and all of your 

bros find out you’re sticking things up your 

butt.) This letter is actually time sensitive. I’m 

pretty distraught that last night one of my 

regular chicks saw me do it! Today, she won’t 

return my texts. I’m worried it might already 

be out there that I’m “gay.” How do I learn to 

come without prostate stimulation? 

Butt-Using Manly Man Entirely Distressed 

I get a dozen letters a week from girls whose 

boyfriends “can’t come.” These girls tell me 

that their boyfriends get hard and stay hard 

and seem to enjoy fucking them—and fucking 

’em and fucking ’em—but no matter how 

long their boyfriends fuck ’em, their boyfriends 

never climax. Invariably, these girls 

ask me if their boyfriends are gay. Because 

otherwise they would come during straight 

sex, right? 

Your letter made me wonder how many 

of these girls are dating guys like you, 

BUMMED. That is, guys who need a poke in 

the prostate in order to come but either 

haven’t figured that out yet or know it but 

don’t wanna risk it in front of their girlfriends 

because their girlfriends might think they 

were gay if they did that. But their girlfriends 

think they’re gay anyway—because they’re 

not poking and not coming. 

So it looks like you’re damned if you do, 

BUMMED, and damned if you don’t. Stick a 

finger in your butt and come, and your girlfriend—excuse 

me, your groupiefriend— 

might think you’re “gay.” Don’t stick a finger 

in your butt and don’t come, and your 

groupiefriend might think you’re “gay.” 

A few practical suggestions: Get a butt 

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hold in place—picture a small lava lamp 

that fits in your ass—and once you get it in, 

BUMMED, it won’t slip out. Provided your 

groupiefriends aren’t touching your asshole 

or looking directly at it, they won’t even 

know it’s there. And a butt plug might help 

you break the strong mental association 

you’ve made between finger-in-hole and 

climaxing. 

Get a girlfriend. I’m not a noted proponent 

of monogamous coupling, so please 

don’t dismiss this as standard-issue adviceprofessional 

moralizing. But you might benefit 

from opening up to one person, someone 

you can trust with your secret—that will 

require an investment of time and emotional 

energy, however. But the payoff could be 

huge. Imagine having sex with someone you 

didn’t have to hide from. 

Get over yourself. You’re a heterosexual 

guy who needs to be on the receiving end of 

a little heterosexual anal play during heterosexual 

sex in order to get off heterosexually. 

There are lots of straight guys like you out 

there. You might not be gay, BUMMED, but 

you do need to come out. 

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Notice is hereby given 

that an Order entered by 

the Civil Court, New York 

County on 07/11/2012, 

bearing Index Number 

NC-001736-12/NY, a copy 

of which may be examined 

at the Office of the Clerk, 

located at 111 Centre 

Street, New York, NY 

10013, grants me (us) 

the right to: Assume the 

name of (First) HIROKO 

(Last) TANAKA-McHENRY. 

My present name is (First) 

HIROKO (Last) TANAKA. 

My present address is 

1701 WOODBINE STREET, 

APT. 16, Ridgewood, NY 

11385. My place of birth is 

OSAKA, JAPAN. My date of 

birth is October 30, 1982. 

Notice is hereby given 

that an Order entered by 

the Civil Court, New York 

County on 08/03/2012, 

bearing Index Number 

NC-001057-12/NY, a copy 

of which may be examined 

at the Office of the Clerk, 

located at 111 Centre 

Street, New York, NY 10013 

grants me the right to: 

Assume the name of 

(First) BROOKE (Middle) 

ALEXANDRA (Last) 

CHARNEY-SPECTOR. 

My present name is 

(First) BROOKE (Middle) 

ALEXANDRA (Last) SPECTOR. 

My present address is 500A 

EAST 87TH STREET, APT 9EE, 

New York, NY 10128. 

My place of birth is NEW 

YORK, NEW YORK. My date 

of birth is April 14, 2009. 

NOTICE 

SUPREME COURT OF 

THE STATE OF NEW YORK 

COUNTY OF NEW YORK 

Index No. 304528/2012 

Date Purchased: 

March 29, 2012 

SUMMONS WITH NOTICE 

Plaintiff designates 

New York County as the 

place of trial. Basis of 

venue: CPLR Sec. 509. 

Changhua Li, Plaintiff, 

- against - 

Rong Zheng, Defendant. 

ACTION FOR DIVORCE 

To the above-named 

Defendant 

YOU ARE HEREBY 

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SUMMONED to serve a 

notice of appearance on 

plaintiff’s attorneys within 

thirty (30) days after the 

service of this summons 

is complete and in case 

of your failure to appear, 

judgment will be taken 

against you by default for 

the relief demanded in 

the notice set forth below. 

Dated: 3/29/2012 

New York, The Colucci Law 

Firm, LLC, By: Joseph C. 

Colucci, Esq., Plaintiff’s 

Attorney, 158B Lafayette 

St., 2nd Fl., New York, NY 

10013, (212) 966-1566. 

NOTICE: The nature of this 

action is to dissolve the 

marriage between the 

parties on the grounds of 

(i) the abandonment of the 

Plaintiff by the defendant 

for a period of more than 

one year pursuant to 

DRL Section 170(2). 

(ii) irretrievable breakdown 

in relationship pursuant 

to DRL Section 170(7). 

The relief sought is a 

judgment of absolute 

divorce in favor of the 

plaintiff dissolving the 


parties in this action. 

NOTICE OF AUTOMATIC 

ORDERS. Pursuant to 

domestic relations law 

section 236 part b, sec. 2, 

the parties are bound by 

certain automatic orders 

which shall remain in full 

force and effect during the 

pendency of the action. 

For further details you 

should contact the clerk 

of the matrimonial part, 

Supreme Court, 60 Centre 

Street, New York, NY 10007 

Tel (646) 386-3010. 

DRL 255 Notice. Please be 

advised that once the 

judgment of divorce is 

signed in this action, both 

parties must be aware that 

he or she will no longer be 

covered by the other 

party’s health insurance 

plan and that each party 

shall be responsible for 

his or her own health 

insurance coverage, and 

may be entitled to pur- 

chase health insurance on 

his or her own through a 

COBRA option, if available. 

SUPREME COURT OF THE 

STATE OF NEW YORK 

COUNTY OF NEW YORK 

Index No. 400001/12 

Date Purchased: 

Jan 3, 2012 

SUMMONS WITH NOTICE 

Plaintiff designates 

New York County as the 

place of trial -- Basis of 

venue: CPLR Sec. 509 

LEONARD C. BARNES, 

Plaintiff, -against- 

ANNETTE BARNES, 

Defendant. 

ACTION FOR DIVORCE 

To the above-named 

Defendant YOU ARE 

HEREBY SUMMONED to 

serve a notice of appear- 

ance on plaintiff within 

thirty (30)days after the 

service of this summons 

is complete and in case 

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BY ROB BREZSNY 

ARIES [March 21–April 19] These days, you 

have a knack for reclamation and redemption, 

Aries. If anyone can put fun into what’s dysfunctional, 

it’s you. You might even be able to 

infuse neurotic cluelessness with a dose of 

erotic playfulness. So be confident in your ability 

to perform real magic in tight spots. Be alert 

for opportunities to transform messy irrelevancy 

into sparkly intrigue. 

TAURUS [April 20–May 20] The game of 

tic-tac-toe is simple. Even young children can 

manage it. And yet there are 255,168 different 

ways for any single match to play out. The 

game of life has far more variables than tic-tactoe, 

of course. I think that will be good for you 

to keep in mind. You might be tempted to believe 

that every situation you’re dealing with 

can have only one or two possible outcomes, 

when in fact it probably has at least 255,168. 

Keep your options wide open. 

GEMINI [May 21–June 20] Let’s turn our attention 

to the word “mortar.” I propose that we 

use it to point out three influences you could 

benefit from calling on. Here are the definitions 

of “mortar”: 1. a kind of cannon; 2. the plaster 

employed for binding bricks together; 3. a bowl 

where healing herbs are ground into powder. 

Now please meditate, Gemini, on anything you 

could do that might: 1. deflect your adversaries; 

2. cement new unions; 3. make a container. Create 

a specific time and place where you will 

work on a cure for your suffering. 

CANCER [June 21–July 22] Nirvana’s song 

“Smells Like Teen Spirit” was a mega-hit that 

sold well and garnered critical acclaim. But it 

had a difficult birth. When the band’s leader, 

Kurt Cobain, first presented the raw tune to the 

band, bassist Krist Novoselic disliked it and 

called it “ridiculous.” Cobain pushed back, forcing 

Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl to play 

it over and over again for an hour and a half. 

The early resistance dissolved. I foresee a similar 

process for you in the coming week, Cancerian. 

Give a long listen to an unfamiliar idea that 

doesn’t grab you at first. 

LEO [July 23–August 22] One of history’s 

most notorious trials took place in Athens, 

Greece, in 399 BCE. A majority of 501 jurors 

convicted the philosopher Socrates of impiety 

and of being a bad influence on young people. 

What were the impious things he did? “Failing 

to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges” 

and “introducing new deities.” 

And so the great man was sentenced to death. 

This is a good reminder that just because many 

people believe something is true or valuable or 

important doesn’t mean it is. 

VIRGO [August 23–September 22] With all 

the homework you’ve done lately, you’ve 

earned a lot of extra credit. So I’m thinking 

you’ll get a decent grade in your unofficial 

“crash course,” even if you’re a bit sleepy during 

your final exam. But just in case, I’ll provide 

you with a mini-cheat sheet. Here are the right 

answers to five of the most challenging test 

questions. 1. People who never break anything 

will never learn how to make lasting creations. 

2. A mirror is not just an excellent tool for selfdefense, 

but also a tremendous asset in your 

quest for power over yourself. 3. The less you 

hide the truth, the smarter you’ll be. 4. The 

well-disciplined shall inherit the earth. 5. You 

often meet your destiny on the road you took 

to avoid it. 

LIBRA [September 23–October 22] The 

Hubble Space Telescope has taken 700,000 

photos of deep space. Because it’s able to record 

details that are impossible to capture from 

Earth’s surface, it has dramatically enhanced 

astronomers’ understanding of stars and galaxies. 

This miraculous technology got off to a 

rough start, however. Soon after its launch, scientists 

realized that there was a major flaw in 

its main mirror. Fortunately, astronauts were 

eventually able to correct the problem. It’s 

quite possible, Libra, that you will benefit from 

a Hubble-like augmentation of your vision. 

Make sure there are no significant defects in 

the fundamentals of your big expansion. 

SCORPIO [October 23–November 21] To 

some people, sweating is regarded as an indelicate 

act that should be avoided or hidden. But 

there are others for whom sweating is a sign of 

health and vigor. In the coming weeks, Scorpio, 

I encourage you to align yourself with the latter 

attitude. It won’t be a time to try to impress 

anyone with how cool and dignified you are. 

Rather, success is more likely to be yours if 

you’re not only eager to sweat but also willing 

to let people see you sweat. 

SAGITTARIUS [November 22–December 21] 

“Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I 

do not take the exact amount,” wrote poet Antonio 

Porchia. “The exact amount is no use to 

me.” I suggest you try adopting that attitude in 

the coming days, Sagittarius. Be a bit contrarian, 

but with humor and style. Doing so would, I 

think, put you in sweet alignment with the impish 

nature of the vibes swirling in your vicinity. 

CAPRICORN [December 22–January 19] 

What is the longest-running lie in your life? 

Maybe it’s a deception you’ve worked long and 

hard to hide. Maybe it’s a delusion you’ve insisted 

on believing in. Or perhaps it’s just a wish 

you keep thinking will come true one day even 

though there’s scant evidence it ever will. 

Whatever that big drain on your energy is, Capricorn, 

now would be a good time to try changing 

your relationship with it. 

AQUARIUS [January 20–February 18] You 

may have heard the theory that somewhere 

there is a special person who is your other 

half—the missing part of you. In D. H. Lawrence’s 

version of this fantasy, the two of you 

were a single angel that divided in two before 

you were born. Personally, I don’t buy it. The 

experiences of everyone I’ve ever known suggest 

there are many possible soulmates for 

each of us. So here’s my variation on the idea: 

Any good intimate relationship generates an 

“angel”—a spirit that the two partners create 

together. This is an excellent time for you to try 

out this hypothesis, Aquarius. As you interact 

with your closest ally, imagine that a third party 

is with you: your mutual angel. 

PISCES [February 19–March 20] In the coming 

weeks, you’ll be wise to shed your emotional 

baggage and purge your useless worries 

and liberate yourself from your attachments to 

the old days and the old ways. In other words, 

clear out a lot of free, fresh space. And when 

you’re finished doing that, Pisces, don’t hide 

away in a dark corner feeling vulnerable and 

sensitive and stripped bare. Rather, situate 

yourself in the middle of a fertile hub and prepare 

to consort with new playmates, unexpected 

adventures, and interesting blessings.

Real Estate & Rentals 

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of your failure to appear, 

judgment will be taken 

against you by default for 

the relief demanded in 

the notice set forth below. 

Dated: 

New York, NY 

By: LEONARD C. BARNES. 

Plaintiff: 92 SAINT 

NICHOLAS AVE, #7B, 


NOTICE: The nature of this 

action is to dissolve the 


parties on the grounds of 

(i) the abandonment of the 

Plaintiff by the Defendant 

for a period of more than 

one year pursuant to DRL 

Section 170(2). The relief 

sought is a judgment of 

absolute divorce in favor 

of the plaintiff dissolving 

the marriage between the 

parties in this action. 

NOTICE OF AUTOMATIC 

ORDERS. Pursuant to 

domestic relations law 

section 236 part b, sec. 2, 

the parties we bound by 

certain automatic orders 

which shall remain in full 

force and effect during 

the pendency or the 

action. For further details 

you should contact the 

clerk of the matrimonial 

part, Supreme Court, 

60 Centre Street, 


Tel (646) 386-3010. 

DRL 255 Notice. 

Please be advised that once 

the judgment of divorce is 

signed in this action, both 

parties must be. aware that 

he or she will no longer 

be covered by the other 

party’s health insurance 

plan and that each party 

shall be responsible for 

his or her own health 

insurance coverage, 

and may be entitled to 

purchase health insurance 

on his or her own through 

a COBRA option, if available 

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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK – COUNTY OF NEW YORK 

INDEX # 810071/2011 FILED: 3/2/2012 

SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS AND NOTICE 

Plaintiff designates New York County as the place of trial. Venue is based upon the County in which 

the mortgage premise is situated. BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS SUCCESSOR BY 

MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF 

GSAMP TRUST 2005-AHL2, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-AHL2, Plaintiff 

against NILIE JACOB AND HER RESPECTIVE HEIRS-AT–LAW NEXT OF KIN, DISTRIBUTEES, EXECTUORS, 

ADMINISTRATORS, TRUSTEES, DEVISEES, LEGATESS, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS AND SUCCES- 

SORS IN INTEREST AND GENERALLY ALL PERSONS HAVING OR CLAIMING UNDER, BY OR THROUGH 

SAID DEFENDANT WHO MAY BE DECEASED, BY PURCHASE, INHERITANCE, LIEN OR OTHERWISE, 

ANY RIGHT, TITLE OR INTEREST IN AND TO THE PREMISES DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN; 

HSBC MORTGAGE SERVICES INC., BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE 203 CONDOMINIUM HOMEOWNERS 

ASSOCIATION, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND 

FINANCE “JOHN DOE #1” through “JOHN DOE #12, “ the last twelve names being fictitious and unknown 

to Plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if 

any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendant(s) 

TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS: NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME IF YOU DO 

NOT RESPOND TO THIS SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE 

ATTORNEYS FOR THE MORTGAGE COMPANY WHO FILED THIS FORECLOSURE PROCEEDING AGAINST 

YOU AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT, A DEFAULT JUDGMENT MAY BE ENTERED AND YOU 

CAN LOSE YOUR HOME. SPEAK TO AN ATTORNEY OR GO TO THE COURT WHERE YOU CASE IS PENDING 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON HOW TO ANSWER THE SUMMONS AND PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY. 

SENDING A PAYMENT TO YOUR MORTGAGE COMPANY WILL NOT STOP THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION. 

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF 

(MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED 

to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not 

serviced with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days 

after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is 

complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); The United 

States of America, if designated as a Defendant in this action, may appear within (60) days of service 

thereof and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default 

for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: THE 

OBJECT of the above captioned action is to foreclose on a mortgage which was recorded in Document 

2005000715109 in the office of the Clerk of the County of New York where the property is located on 

December 29, 2005. Said mortgage was then assigned by written agreement to BANK OF AMERICA, 

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS 

TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF GSAMP TRUST 2005-AHL2, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH 

CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-AHL2 by assignment of mortgage which was dated October 22, 2010, 

covering premises known as 203 West 81st Street 4E, New York, NY 10024 (Block: 01229 Lot: 01051). 

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described 

above to satisfy the debt described above. To the above named Defendants: The foregoing summons is 

served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Hon. Carol E. Huff, a Justice of the Supreme 

Court of the State of New York, filed along with the supporting papers in the office of the Clerk of the 

County of New York on February 27, 2012. This is an action to foreclose on a mortgage. ALL that 

certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, 

lying and being in the Borough of Manhattan, City, County and State of New York. BLOCK: 01229 LOT: 

01051 said premises known as 203 West 81st Street 4E, New York, NY 10024. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT 

ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL 

BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. By reason of the default in the payment of the monthly installment of 

principal and interest, among other things, as hereinafter set forth, Plaintiff, the holder and owner 

of the aforementioned note and mortgage, or their agents have elected and hereby accelerate the 

mortgage and declare the entire mortgage indebtedness immediately due and payable. The following 

amounts are now due and owing on said mortgage, no part of any of which has been paid although duly 

demanded: Entire principal Balance in the amount of $588,712.71 with interest at the rate calculated in 

accordance with the provisions of the note from June 1, 2006, together with unpaid late charges in the 

amount of $485.40 that have accrued prior to this action, for a total of $794,451.47 due and payable, 

with interest as stated above. UNLESS YOU DISPUTE THE VALIDITY OF THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION 

THEREOF, WITHIN THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER YOUR RECEIPT HEREOF THAT THE DEBT, OR ANY PORTION 

THEREOF, IS DISPUTED, THE DEBTOR JUDGMENT AGAINST YOU AND A COPY OF SUCH VERIFICATION 

OR JUDGMENT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU BY THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR. IF APPLICABLE, UPON 

YOUR WRITTEN REQUEST, WITHIN SAID THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD, THE HEREIN DEBT COLLECTOR WILL 

PROVIDE YOU WITH THE NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR. IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED A 

DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT, YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR 

THE UNDERLYING INDEBTEDNESS OWED TO PLAINTIFF/CREDITOR AND THIS NOTICE/DISCLOSURE IS 

FOR COMPLIANCE AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE 

New York State requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. Please read it 

carefully. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond 

to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the 

summons and complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid 

office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The 

State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking 

assistance from an attorney or legal aid, there are government agencies, and non-profit organizations 

that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender 

during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by New 

York state Banking Department at 1-877-Bank-NYS or visit the Department’s website at www.banking. 

state.ny.us FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” 

your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly 

profit from a homeowner’s distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any 

Entry Level Career Changessuggestions 

that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such 

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they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed 

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all such promised services. Section 1303 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you 

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do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving the copy of the answer on the attorney for 

Executive Thank You Letters the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the 

Thank You Letters court, a default judgment may be entered and you may lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to 

the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect 

your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. 

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF 

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There is 1 prescreening visit (90 min) and 4 test visits 

(3 are 3 hours long; 1 test visit is 90 min) 

The test visits will consists of: 

• Urine drug screening, breathalyzer, urine pregnancy test 

• Administration of experimental drug capsules 

• Vital signs, respiratory function 

• Blood samples at 4 time points 

• Cue session (listen to guided imagery that will make you 

crave heroin) 

You will be compensated $10 in cash for the prescreening 

and $150 for 4 test visits in gift cards 

To qualify, you must: 

• Be between 21 and 65 years old 

• Be dependent on heroin but be clean for at least 7 days 

(show no signs of withdrawal) 

• Pass a drug test and be healthy 

• Be able to come for 4 test sessions 

(the last session is 1 week after the 3rd) 

All Information Will Be Kept Confidential 

Principal Investigator: Yasmin Hurd, PhD 

If interested, please contact: 

Michelle Yoon, Clinical Research Coordinator 

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• Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder 

• 18-65 years old 

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medical and psychiatric assessments including 

lab tests and EKG’s at no cost. Qualified participants 

will receive a stipend of $75 per visit. 

Call 1-888-317-6262 for a screening 

Have 

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Have TROUBLE 

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NOT DEPRESSED OR MANIC? 

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a medication treatment on memory and 

attention problems. Participation in this 

research study includes: 

• 16 weeks of taking a study drug 

either galantamine or placebo 

• Two sessions neuropsychological 

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• Total six study visits 

• Compensation provided 

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If you qualify you may receive 

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Genital Warts Study 

The Department of Dermatology at 

Mount Sinai School of Medicine is 

looking for men and women with 

genital warts to participate in a 65 

week study requiring 6 visits. All 

subjects will receive cryotherapy 

(liquid nitrogen to freeze skin lesions) 

and 1 out of 2 subjects will 

also receive a topical ointment 

to apply twice daily for 16 weeks. 

Interested participants should contact 

Dr. Haddican at 212-241-6033. 

Do you suffer from 

Bipolar Disorder? 

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For more information, and to find out 

if you may be eligible to participate, 

please call (212) 746-5705 or 

visit our website 

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> Healthy females 

(must be of non-childbearing potential, postmenopausal) 

> 45– 64 years of age 

> Non-smokers 

> Normal weight to overweight (BMI 18.0 – 35.0) 

> Be compensated up to $3,000 

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] 

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people with different types of personalities. Participants 

must be between 18-60 and medically healthy. 

Reimbursement will be provided. For more information, 

please call (212) 241-9775 to speak with a member 

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Difficulty initiating friendships/relationships? 

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