The Five Lesbian Brothers have a blog! I found it while looking into tickets for their new play, Oedipus at Palm Springs, about to open at New York Theatre Workshop. Go here for discounted tickets from TheaterMania (free registration required).
[photo from New York Theatre Workshop]
Don’t miss this video of Jon Stewart with his guest Bernard Goldberg. This makes me look forward to right-wing guests on The Daily Show, rather than dreading having to listen to them.
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I like what Tom Moody has been saying about the Rove/Plame affair. Meanwhile, the Iraqi prime minister we’re propping up just visited Iran and laid flowers at the grave of Ayatollah Khomeini.
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Check out this photo by Nancy Smith.
Mr. Jones was shocked to learn we don’t watch TV or read People (and didn’t know who he was).
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I was amused to see this pull quote:
Woodward came humbly on his knees to deputy director Felt in search of guidance.
in the print edition of today’s column by Les Payne, titled Now we can reveal the real Deep Throat.
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What a silly country we live in. Via Newsday (it’s in Florida of course):
The Holy Land Experience may seem like just another theme park, with its $30 admission charge, $5 parking fee and souvenir shops.
But, ending a four-year legal battle, a judge has ruled that the religious-themed attraction deserves the same tax-exempt status given to churches and museums. The ruling spares its owner from paying a delinquent property-tax bill that would have climbed to more than $1 million by the end of the year.
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From the start, The Holy Land Experience was controversial. Local rabbis greeted it with trepidation, given its parent company’s stated mission of converting Jews to Christianity.
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In her ruling, Circuit Judge Cynthia MacKinnon sided with Zion’s Hope, pointing out that the nonprofit company produces and distributes biblical cassettes, videos, books and CDs; publishes a religious magazine; broadcasts a syndicated radio show and supports missionaries in Israel.
“The property appraiser has failed to direct the court’s attention to any evidence that Plaintiff is using The Holy Land Experience to make money or for some other purpose than evangelizing and worshipping,” MacKinnon wrote.
If you use Google to find the home page, turn down your computer’s speakers before clicking on the link.
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Last week I mentioned how much I liked Dominic McGill’s work at PS1’s Greater New York. Ed Winkleman has a post on McGill as his artist of the week.
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I love this paragraph from Walter Robinson’s news roundup on artnet:
New York City mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who is running for his second term as a Republican mayor in an overwhelmingly Democratic city, is trying to ingratiate himself with New York CityÂ’s progressive voters by showering $20 million on 400 New York arts and social-service organizations, according to a report in the New York Times. Visual arts institutions on the list range from the American Folk Art Museum, Anthology Film Archive and Art in General to the Studio Museum in Harlem, Triple Candie and UbranGlass. Made through the Carnegie Corporation, the donations are for sums between $10,000 and $100,000. According to the Times, Bloomberg gave a total of $140 million to more than 800 groups in 2004. By contrast, the Bloomberg administration jailed peaceful protestors at the Republican National Convention and was only narrowly defeated in a scheme to turn over almost $1 billion in public funds for a private sports stadium on the west side of Manhattan.
From the invaluable Ray Sanchez at Newsday
Since 9/11, the aviation industry has received $18.1 billion for security from the federal Department of Homeland Security, according to the Washington-based American Public Transportation Association. By contrast, mass transit has received just $250 million.
Americans take public transportation 32 million times a day — 16 times more often than they travel on domestic airlines. About 4.5 million riders use the New York subway every weekday.
Of course, the MTA is probably too incompetent to spend the money they are given. Since 9/11, they have been given $600 million in state and federal funds for security improvements. They have spent $30 million, with very little to show for it. Most has been spent on planning and consultants.
Updated: I fixed the $300 million number. It is $600 million.
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Silo has a strong show of video work by Sarah Gregg Millman, with particular attraction for those of us obsessed with the women of New Wave film.
Two of my favorite quotes from Truth Stories follow. The first comes from a series of brunettes telling stories of frustration tied to their working lives. They seem to be mostly waitresses. The second comes from a series of blondes, narrated in whispers, imagining life inside an Impressionist work such as Seurat’s La Grande Jatte. The narratives are created by Millman based on her own life.
He was a pretty good manager. He knew a lot about fine wines and… subservience.
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On weekends I don’t have to help anyone. I’m free.
[still images above provided by the gallery]
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