Giddy for the 80-degree weather this weekend? You’ll laugh till you snort at Greg Walloch’s late-night comedy show at Dixon Place. The storytelling stand-up comic hosts another night of All the People You Love, which showcases entertainers he admirers including songwriters, comedians, yodelers, yarn spinners and circus acts such as glass eating.Tonight’s lineup includes illusionist Magic Brian, storyteller James Braly, banjo player Curtis Eller and accordionist Corn Mo.
You only have tonight and tomorrow to catch the latest show by multi-talented Dan Fishback, You Will Experience Silence at Dixon Place. Act now before the talented bugger moves on to his next music, or art, or comedy, or acting, or writing, or God-knows-what-else project.
The camp play juxtaposes two horny gay Jewish teenagers in ancient Jerusalem with a modern-day, neurotic, Jewish antiwar activist and contains such insights as “being a Jew is a lot like having an Internet boyfriend” (turns out that’s pretty accurate).
For more whip-smart observations, watch our exclusive clip of Mr. Fishback explaining the title of a lecture he’s been delivering on college campuses, “You Never Get to Make Out: Why I Can’t Tell the Difference Between Being Jewish and Being Queer.”
We were psyched last night to be invited to a rehearsal of You Will Experience Silence—the latest super-smart and funny creation of antifolk hero Dan Fishback, known for his bands Cheese on Bread and the Faggots, and for performance pieces No Direction Homo and Waiting for Barbara (Bush, not Streisand). You Will Experience Silence, which opens April 10 at Dixon Place, juxtaposes the story of two queeny teens living in ancient Jerusalem with that of a modern-day neurotic Jewish activist. When Fishback is not busy being an artist, he’s visiting college campuses, delivering his lecture “You Never Get to Make Out: Why I Can’t Tell the Difference Between Being Jewish and Being Queer.” We caught up with him after his rehearsal to ask him why. Here’s what he said:
Posted in Books by Drew Toal on March 24th, 2009 at 10:43 am
To my knowledge, no event quite like last night’s literary trivia throwdown (to celebrate the release of Slice magazine’s fourth issue) at Dixon Place on the LES has ever taken place. It pitted some local favorite authors—Jonathan Lethem (The Fortress of Solitude), Chip Kidd (The Learners), Darin Strauss (More Than It Hurts You), A.J. Jacobs (The Year of Living Biblically) and Susan Jane Gilman (Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven)—against formerly faceless (but integral!) teams of editors and book agents. But perhaps most importantly, the event was cosponsored by Sixpoint Craft Ales (beers are key, if only to moderate the cross-industry bloodlust). Are authors actually smarter than the people who keep them humble and financially solvent? Brief recap after the break. Read more »
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To my knowledge, no event quite like last night’s literary trivia throwdown (to celebrate the release of 