BEIJING COMA by Ma Jian
translated by Flora Drew
Reviewed by Sarah Goodwin-Nguyen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008 , 592 pages
$27.50
With this year’s Olympic games being held in Beijing, China’s past and present human rights violations have become front-page news again. Perhaps the last time the world paid as much attention to Beijing was in 1989, when a […]
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Jazz in August...Charlie Parker Festival -- concerts, art, readings and more! Stay tuned for details; sign up on our mailing list. (see contacts for more information)Yolene Legrand Calendars
2009 wall calendars featuring the art work of the internationally known, Haitian-born, New York artist Yolene Legrand are now available for purchase at Tribes. This beautiful calendar, on high quality semi-gloss paper is 12" x 12" and has different images for each month.-
Charlie Parker Festival(link)
August 7, 2008- August 29, 2008
Venue: Tribes Gallery
Address: 285 East Third Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10009
Thur. August 7th, 6-9 pm: “Bird in the Bush” – Group art exhibition
7 pm: Live music by Search
Artists include: Itziar Barrio, Dianne Bowen, Stephanie Colonna, Robyn Desposito, Nikki Johnson, Hilary Maslon, Kelley Meister, Grace Rim, Emily Steinfeld, Angela Valeria, Chin Chih Yang, Alessandra Zeka
Sun. August 10th: “Dead Bird Films” (Films from the year of Charlie Parker’s death)
In Tribes Garden
8 pm: Ryder Pales – Live Concert
9 pm: Film Screening – “The Man With the Golden Arm” (1955 Frank Sinatra)
Tues. August 12th: 7-9 pm: Piano and Cello Duo featuring Francesca Tedeschi and Noelle Casella
Sat. August 16th: “Bird in the Bushes”
In Tribes Garden
5 pm: Poetry Reading featuring Erich Christiansen, Steve Dalachinsky, John Farris, Merry Fortune, Yuko Otomo, Amy Ouzoonian, Eve Packer
7 pm: Live Music - Will McEvoy Ensemble
8 pm: Live Music - Bobby Sanabria’s Quintet
Sat. August 23rd: “Love Does Not Make My Cat Play Ragtimey”
8 pm: Multimedia Performance and music featuring Sabrina Chapadjiev, Joseph Keckler and Chavisa Woods
Sun. August 24th: In Tribes Garden
6 pm: Acoustic Jam – Flash-Back Puppy Band featuring Denmark’s Carsten “Nado” Kragelund Adrian Chan, Cello plus an Open Mic
Fri. August 29th: “Charlie Parker Birthday Block Party” – Free!
2-9 pm: Day-long Street Fest featuring:
An Artist Flea Market
An Open Mic in the East 3rd St. Community Garden.Sign up begins at 2 pm and the event lasts until 5 pm (all types) with featured poets Jennifer Blowdryer, Steve Dalachinsky, Hattie Gosset, Tom Savage, Danny Shot, Chavisa Woods, and Susan Yung
7 pm: Street Concert featuring the Stumblebum Brass Band
Contributions are accepted at the door $7
This event is sponsored in part by: Capital One Bank, Poets and Writers, Loisaida Drugs, the DCA, the L Magazine, Astor Wines & Spirits, Chez Betty Café, Councilwoman Rosie Mendez, Phil Hartman, Anyssa Kim, Robert Mnuchin, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and other private donors.
- Bowery Poetry Club
- 13 Isolations
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- Tribes is a member of Chamber Music of America, Poets & Writers, Poets Society of America, St. Marks Poetry Project. We are Funded by NYC DCA, NYSCA & The Andy Warhol Foundation among others. All contributions are tax deductible.
- A Gathering of the Tribes, 285 East 3rd St, 2nd Floor (between Avenues C and D)
212-674-3778; info@tribes.org - Thanks to our 2008 funders: The Sonia Alden Foundation, The Greenwich Collection, David Hammons, NYSCA, DCA
Saturday September 13th 2-4pm Memorial reading of I Dream About You Baby, poems by Lester Afflick at the St. Marks Poetry Project located at 131 East 10th Street @ 2nd ave.
Fly By Night Press is proud to announce the publication of I Dream About You Baby, poems by Lester Afflick.
Book release Party July 19th 2008 4-5:30 pm @ The Bowery Poetry Club- Readers TBA
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BEIJING COMA by Ma JianBEIJING COMA by Ma Jian
translated by Flora Drew
Reviewed by Sarah Goodwin-Nguyen
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008 , 592 pages
$27.50
With this year’s Olympic games being held in Beijing, China’s past and present human rights violations have become front-page news again. Perhaps the last time the world paid as much attention to Beijing was in 1989, when a […]
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño,
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño, Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
Reviewed by Sarah Goodwin-Nguyen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Hardcover, 2007, 577 pages
$27
Critics from The New Yorker, Bookforum, The Washinton Post, etc. proclaim Bolaño an exciting, pivotal voice in Latin American literature, and gush isn’t-it-great the book has finally been translated into English? The literati […]
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He is eternally young, eternally a memory. Because he cannot defend himself, he becomes eternally an ideological figure, a figure whose connotations have unavoidably trumped his personality. Dead men tell no tales, so men with agendas do so for them.
America’s Child
The Sixties were a bend in the river—-a river that seems to be in danger of going the way of the Rio Grande—dried up. Susan Sherman traces the gathering currents of this river at the confluence between some of its major tributaries. For her it begins in Los Angeles in the Forties and Fifties, which was by then the heart of America’s image-making machine. Her transformation follows the larger social trajectory of a country that rose victorious and prosperous from a world war. First are her frustrated early attempts to keep step with the world of toothpaste smiles, tidy lawns, backyard barbeques, martini cocktail hours, and non-filtered cigarettes. With her move to Berkley at nineteen, and the ensuing, age-specific progression of influences, relationships and their resulting liberations and limitations, she begins her five-decade investigation into political and social change and the power and beauty of language.
The Living Hair Do
“…Here we are well into fall and there’s so much catching
up to do so let’s begin where I last left off with a brief list of
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There was the Zorn – Lou Reed duo which culminated with guest
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later by Zorn, Reed, Ribot and Milford Graves who played impeccably and
tastefully throughout the night and who during set two when Reed
joined in, actually seemed to enjoy being “the drummer in the
band”…”
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up to do so let’s begin where I last left off with a brief list of
gigs I witnessed, before getting to the heart of this article.
There was the Zorn – Lou Reed duo which culminated with guest
appearances by Mike Patton, Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori, followed 2 nights
later by Zorn, Reed, Ribot and Milford Graves who played impeccably and
tastefully throughout the night and who during set two when Reed
joined in, actually seemed to enjoy being “the drummer in the
band”…”
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I miss you dearly
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BEIJING COMA by Ma Jian
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño,
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño, Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
Reviewed by Sarah Goodwin-Nguyen
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Hardcover, 2007, 577 pages
$27
Critics from The New Yorker, Bookforum, The Washinton Post, etc. proclaim Bolaño an exciting, pivotal voice in Latin American literature, and gush isn’t-it-great the book has finally been translated into English? The literati […]
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FIRST CHAPTER reading series at Gathering of
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Authors read the first Chapter of their unpublished novels.
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Review of “Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child”
He is eternally young, eternally a memory. Because he cannot defend himself, he becomes eternally an ideological figure, a figure whose connotations have unavoidably trumped his personality. Dead men tell no tales, so men with agendas do so for them.
America’s Child
The Sixties were a bend in the river—-a river that seems to be in danger of going the way of the Rio Grande—dried up. Susan Sherman traces the gathering currents of this river at the confluence between some of its major tributaries. For her it begins in Los Angeles in the Forties and Fifties, which was by then the heart of America’s image-making machine. Her transformation follows the larger social trajectory of a country that rose victorious and prosperous from a world war. First are her frustrated early attempts to keep step with the world of toothpaste smiles, tidy lawns, backyard barbeques, martini cocktail hours, and non-filtered cigarettes. With her move to Berkley at nineteen, and the ensuing, age-specific progression of influences, relationships and their resulting liberations and limitations, she begins her five-decade investigation into political and social change and the power and beauty of language.
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Most Hollywood films, take you on exciting thrilling car chasing gun fighting journeys where beautiful people meet and have sex with other beautiful people. And you get to go along for the ride. But afterwards you walk into the street, and back home to your apartment with your sick cat and your fat wife, and all of a sudden what you thought was an alright life seems pathetic and lame in comparison.
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AT HOME: relationships with living environments Oct 2-30
The work depicts the artists’ relationships with their living environments as well as with those who share their space, whether they be roommates, partners, or pets.
The Living Hair Do
“…Here we are well into fall and there’s so much catching
up to do so let’s begin where I last left off with a brief list of
gigs I witnessed, before getting to the heart of this article.
There was the Zorn – Lou Reed duo which culminated with guest
appearances by Mike Patton, Zeena Parkins and Ikue Mori, followed 2 nights
later by Zorn, Reed, Ribot and Milford Graves who played impeccably and
tastefully throughout the night and who during set two when Reed
joined in, actually seemed to enjoy being “the drummer in the
band”…”