In and around...

Sag Harbor
On Saturday's from 9am - 12 noon
stop by or shop at the Farmer's Market
located in the parking lot of
the Breakwater Yacht Club on Bay Street.

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Saturday, August 11
Artists Studio Tour
Sponsored by the
East Hampton Chamber of Commerce

Tour of Artists Studios East Hampton,
Amagansett and Bridgehampton.
12 noon to 5 p.m.
Guild Hall Reception 4 to 6:00
Tickets $25.00

Some Highlights of the tour incude:
Pollock Krasner House
The Dan Flavin Art Institute

Private Studios Visits:
Frances Alenikoff, Francesco Bologna,
Bill Durham, Giancarlo Impiglia,
Maggie Kotuk, Haim Mizrahi,
Bill Negron, Mark E. Perry

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Free Concerts Thursday's Evenings @ 7:30pm
Grab a blanket and bring a friend.
Head over to Marine Park, on Bay Street

August 16
Caroline Doctorow

August 23
Six Gun

August 30
Vivian and the Merrymakers

movies and glamour

Smithtown resident, Lori Donaudy,

places at the national
Mrs. United States Pageant
held in Las Vegas, Nevada!

Lori is the reigning
Mrs. New York United States 2007

HER PLATFORM: Domestic Abuse Awareness & Prevention: Lori travels all across New York State for Yankee Manager Joe Torre's Safe at Home Foundation where she conducts high school assembly programs with teens about positive peer relationships and zero tolerance for all forms of abuse - physical, sexual, mental, emotional.

Tune in for an interview Thursday during the 5 o'clock hour (EST) via your computer and listen to a live interview with Lori. She was featured on urbanseshell in March in celebration of Women's History Month. She is the co-founder and Partner of Accounts & Planning at "freshbrick advertising". Lori will be a guest on the national radio show Grapevine, Talk Radio Network . She is scheduled for the 5:15-5:30 spot. You are in for a treat!

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Saturday, August 11
Artists Studio Tour
Sponsored by the
East Hampton Chamber of Commerce

Tour of Artists Studios in and around East Hampton,
Amagansett and Bridgehampton.
12 noon to 5 p.m.
Guild Hall Reception 4 to 6:00
Tickets $25.00

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Looking for something fun to do this coming weekend?
Stuck on the L.I.E. in Hamptons traffic?
Would you rather be riding bare back?

Then head straight out to Montauk and check out


located right off Rt. 27

Call ahead to reserve a trail ride.
(631) 668.2744

The oldest cattle ranch in the country and part of the
Teddy Roosevelt State Park, Deep Hollow was est. in 1658.
Owners Diane and Rusty Leaver run this ranch with their two children,
Gardiner and Rhetta to make your summer an unforgettable one!

Here's what they have to say:
"Riding at Deep Hollow Ranch is Western style,
from saddles to bridles to the real cowboys and
cowgirls who will be your trail guides.
Groups are small and we match a rider's
ability from beginners to advanced."

Private guided rides are available, too.

And don't miss a ride along the shore of Block Island Sound.
Pristine, white sandy beaches, and some of the
most beautiful coastline in the United States

For reservations and information about
boarding & horseback riding at Deep Hollow Ranch,
please call: (631) 668.2744.

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NEW YORK PREMIERE OF ‘THE KING OF KONG’ WITH DONKEY KONG CHAMP IN PERSON

SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 2007

Queens will have its second big movie premiere of the year (after Spider-Man 3), when the Museum of the Moving Image presents a special screening of The King of Kong: A Fistful of Dollars, an acclaimed new documentary about an epic rivalry for the world record in the classic video arcade game Donkey Kong. In addition to director Seth Gordon and producer Ed Cunningham, the reigning Donkey Kong champion Steve Wiebe will appear in person at the Museum on Sunday, August 12, at 3:00 p.m. The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and a Donkey Kong demonstration in the Museum galleries. Free with Museum admission. Reservation privileges are available for Museum members only. Call 718.784.4520.

[Members of the press are invited to attend a private 6:00 p.m. screening followed by a reception. Please RSVP to Nina Baron at nina.baron@picturehouse.com / 212.303.1734 or Gary Springer at gary@springerassociatespr.com / 212.354.4660.]

In The King of Kong: A Fist of Dollars, filmmakers Seth Gordon and Ed Cunningham capture the battle for arcade-game supremacy between suburban father Steve Wiebe and video-game legend—and hot-sauce mogul—Billy Mitchell in this engaging and entertaining documentary. An intimate and surprising look at a wildly arcane subculture, this film is about much more than a game. Variety film critic Ronnie Scheib describes the film as “an intricate tale of intrigues, tourneys, minions and fools that would put a Renaissance court to shame.” Visit the official website at www.billyvssteve.com to view the trailer. The King of Kong opens in theaters on August 17.

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Dollars
Special guests: Filmmakers Seth Gordon and Ed Cunningham and Donkey Kong champ Steve Wiebe in person
Sunday, August 12, 3:00 p.m.
2007, 79 mins. 35mm print courtesy of Picturehouse.
Directed by Seth Gordon.
Produced by Ed Cunningham.
Screening followed by a discussion with the filmmakers and a Donkey Kong demonstration in the Museum’s galleries.

MUSEUM INFORMATION
Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fridays, 12:00 to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday, school groups only by appointment.)
Film Screenings: See above for schedule.
Museum Admission: $10.00 for adults; $7.50 for persons over 65 and for students with ID; $5.00 for children ages 5-18. Children under 5 and Museum members are admitted free. Admission to the galleries is free on Fridays, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Paid admission includes film screenings (except for special ticketed events)
Location: 35 Avenue at 36 Street in Astoria.
Subway: R or V trains (R or G on weekends) to Steinway Street. N or W trains to 36 Avenue.
Program Information: Telephone: (718) 784-0077; Website: www.movingimage.us

Author, Illustrator Keith DuQuette

I was walking past Barnes and Noble in Park Slope today and noticed a sign in their window displaying a familiar face. It was a head shot of Keith DuQuette, author and illustrator of children's books. I attended SUNY College at Purchase with Keith in the Visual Arts department (which has since been renamed Art + Design).

Keith will be reading from his latest book entitled 'Little Monkey Lost' this Saturday, August 4 at 3pm. Get out of the heat into the cool world of monkeys.

If you attend the reading, comments are always welcome.

Barnes & Noble located at 267 7th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11215
718-832-9066

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Don't forget to scroll down for
cool summer events up until August 26.
Stay cool & enjoy my favorite month in the year!

Citywide Youth Opera—8.2.07—Manhattan

Andrés Andrade, Artistic Director

presents

Opera Under an August Moon
(A Benefit for Citywide Youth Opera)

Featuring Mutiyat Ade-Salu, Sergio Mauritz Ang, Arina Ayzen, Jessica Bauch, Michelle Billingy, Mario Castro, Kathryn Cohen, Jofanny Dessources, Miriam Drapkin, Diana El, Marcus Feldman, Rachel Greenfield, Lily Kass, Isabela Mingione, Joyce Mizrahi, Stephanie Morillo, Wayne Paul, Rosina Pohlmann, Claire Raphaelson, Marina A. Serhan, Rebecca Sheppard, Diana Shomstein, Allison Silverberg, Brooke Willig

Piano accompaniments by Max Midroit

Thursday, August 2, 2007 at 7:30 PM

Advent Lutheran/Broadway
Church 2504 Broadway at 93rd Street
New York, NY

Suggested Donation: $20 (tax deductible)

Citywide Youth Opera, Inc.
P.O. Box 3647
Grand Central Station
New York, NY 10163
212-539-3561

Summer Events in and around town—July 30 to August 26

"Another Rain" CD Release Celebration
Monday, July 30 2007
8:30-11pm

Saco Yasuma - compositions, alto & bamboo sax
Roy Campbell Jr. - trumpet, flugelhorn
Andrew Bemkey - piano, bass clarinet
Ken Filiano - acoustic bass
Michael T.A. Thompson - soundrhythum percussion

Special Guest

Golda Solomon - words
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www.sacoyasuma.com

www.myspace.com/sacoyasuma

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Want to read reviews?

www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=26009

www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=26235

http://downtownmusicgallery.com/Main/news/Newsletter-2007-05-18html

In Japanese

www.jazztokyo.com/zade/vol9/v9.html

"Another Rain" is available at
www.CDbaby.com

www.Apple.com/iTune/store &

Downtown Music Gallery (342 Bowery, NYC)
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Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia Street (Subway: A,B,C,D,E,F,V to W.4th Street)
212-989-9319
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
If you bring a friend with you, you get a free CD!

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LITERARY TUESDAYS
followed by open mic
7:30 PM
curated by Pam Laskin

suggested $5.00 cover or a drink

July 31-Linda Susan Jackson’s first collection of poems, What Yellow Sounds Like was a finalist in the 2006 National Poetry Competition, and was published by Tia Chucha Press in spring 2007. She has published two chapbooks, Vitelline Blues and A History of Beauty, both with Black-eyed Susan Publishing. Most recently, her work has appeared in Ringing Ear, Crab Orchard Review, Brilliant Corners, Asheville Poetry Review, Gathering Ground, Heliotrope and Rivendell, among others. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and a 2007 fellow from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is an assistant professor and Deputy Chair of the English Department at Medgar Evers College/ CUNY.

365 5TH AVENUE PARK SLOPE
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)
WWW.THEPERCHCAFE.COM

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PREVIEW SCREENING OF ACCLAIMED BRAZILIAN DOCUMENTARY ‘MANDA BALA (SEND A BULLET)’

FILMMAKERS IN PERSON ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 2007

As part of its ongoing series World Cinema Showcase, the Museum of the Moving Image will present a special preview screening of the new documentary about contemporary Brazil, Manda Bala (Send a Bullet), on Saturday, August 4 at 6:30 p.m. followed by a discussion with director Jason Kohn and producer Jared Ian Goldman. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Manda Bala examines the corrupt and violent underbelly of Brazil through the lives of a crooked politician, a Sao Paulo plastic surgeon, a frog breeder, and a professional kidnapper. The screening is free with museum admission.

In his review of the film for Variety, film critic Scott Foundas wrote “Manda Bala emerges as that rare film about the developing world that does not rub our privileged first-world noses in poverty and famine, but rather merely abides by that sage journalistic advice: ‘Follow the money.’” In his description for the Sundance Film Festival, programmer Trevor Goth called it “inventive and haunting…. Manda Bala is an ingenious documentary in the vanguard of what will hopefully be a new wave of documentary filmmaking.”

Manda Bala opens in New York City on August 17. Screeners are available upon request. Please contact Tomoko Kawamoto at tkawamoto@movingimage.us or 718.784.4520 x 303.

World Cinema Showcase is presented with support from the Independence Community Foundation.

Manda Bala (Send a Bullet)
Preview screening with Jason Kohn and Jared Ian Goldman in person.
Saturday, August 4, 6:30 p.m.
2007, 85 mins. Video. Directed by Jason Kohn. Winner of the jury grand prize at Sundance, this provocative and beautifully made documentary uses a money-laundering frog farm to launch a wide-ranging study of corruption and inequality in modern Brazil. The film evokes Errol Morris with its collage of lush images, revealing interviews, and stylish music.

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INDIAN CINEMA CELEBRATED WITH SHAH RUKH KAHN PROGRAM

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2007

As part of its ongoing series World Cinema Showcase, the Museum of the Moving Image will a special program this summer celebrating the vitality of Indian cinema. On Friday, August 10 at 7:30 p.m., in conjunction with the release of her book King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan, author Anu Chopra will introduce Devdas, one of the most acclaimed Indian films in recent years, a popular 2002 Romeo-and-Juliet style epic starring Shah Rukh Khan. The films will be free with Museum admission. World Cinema Showcase is an ongoing film series featuring contemporary international films presented with support from the Independence Community Foundation.

Devdas
with Anu Chopra in person
2002, 185 mins. 35mm. Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. With Sharukh Khan. In conjunction with the release of her book King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan, author Anu Chopra will introduce this epic Romeo-and-Juliet story. Khan gives a complex, textured performance as Devdas, the iconic Indian tragic hero, a haughty, temperamental man who must rebel against his parents to marry the woman he loves. Note: Chopra will also introduce the free outdoor screening of Kal Ho Naa Ho (India, 186 mins. Directed by Nikhil Advani) at Socrates Sculpture Park, on Wednesday, August 8. More information at www.socratessculpturepark.org.

MUSEUM INFORMATION
Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fridays, 12:00 to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday, school groups only by appointment.)
Film Screenings: See above for schedule.
Museum Admission: $10.00 for adults; $7.50 for persons over 65 and for students with ID; $5.00 for children ages 5-18. Children under 5 and Museum members are admitted free. Admission to the galleries is free on Fridays, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Paid admission includes film screenings (except for special ticketed events)
Location: 35 Avenue at 36 Street in Astoria.
Subway: R or V trains (R or G on weekends) to Steinway Street. N or W trains to 36 Avenue.
Program Information: Telephone: (718) 784-0077
Website: www.movingimage.us

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Saturday, August 11
Artists Studio Tour
Sponsored by the
East Hampton Chamber of Commerce

Tour of Artists Studios in and around East Hampton,
Amagansett and Bridgehampton.
12 noon to 5 p.m. Guild Hall Reception 4 to 6:00
Tickets $25.00

Event Details
Scroll down to August Events

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TICKET INFORMATION

Image: J. Bailie. Battle of Buena Vista.
Yale Collection of Western Americana,
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

urbanseashell celebrates it's 1st anniversary, 7.25.06-7.25.07

Welcome to urbanseashell — a collection from cityline to shoreline. If you click on the 'about urbanseashell' link 'on the half shell' you will see what prompted me to begin this blog. Now coming full circle, the site is growing strong. I have gained support from you my viewers which has enabled me to post more independents than I thought were possible. The list continues to grow. I want to thank you for your continued support. This venue has enabled others to connect where they may not have and that is in keeping with the spirit of this blog.

Bloggers crammed into the Old Stone House in Park Slope's JJ Byrne park this past May. The 2nd annual blogfest sponsored by Louise Crawford of onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn . Being influenced by last years fest, I was asked to design the poster for this years event and my spark continues to grow.

To help me celebrate urbanseashell's anniversary visit the links 'on the half shell' to see those I have featured throughout the year. Don't forget to scroll down to see the many upcoming events this weekend beginning this Friday, from cityline to shoreline.

Have fun!

—Lisa

Independents celebrate from Brooklyn to Southampton

THE PERCH CAFE
Literary Tuesdays, 7:30 PM
FOLLOWED BY OPEN MIC

July 24-Golda Solomon, poet, teacher, and jazz woman extraordinaire, heads the P’0 jazz series at Cornelia Street Café, where she brings together a terrific combination of verse and jazz. Known as “the Medicine Woman of Jazz,” she brings her experiences growing up in Flatbush back to Perch. She will be accompanied by Saco Yasuma on sax. Golda will be sharing the reading with two special guests, poets EJ Antonio and Cheryl Boyce Taylor. It will be an evening flavored with jazz, blues and Trinidadian spices. Hope to see you there!

365 5TH AVENUE PARK SLOPE
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)

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Stupendous performance of MacBeth from Piper Productions, directed by the brilliant John P. McEneny. Grab a blanket claim your stake as Piper Productions presents their Apprentice's Performances performing Shakespeare's Plays.

OLD STONE HOUSE
JJ BYRNE PARK // 3rd St at 5th Avenue // Brooklyn 718.768.3195 // www.alltheworldsastage.org

Wednesday, July 25 6:00pm - Romeo and Juliet
7:30pm - Hamlet

Friday, July 27 6:00pm - Twelfth Night
7:30pm - Macbeth

Saturday, July 28: Shakespeare Extravaganza!
All Day/Evening Performances (2:00pm-10:30 pm)
2:00pm - Twelfth Night
4:00pm - Romeo and Juliet
6:00pm - Macbeth
8:00pm - Hamlet

Please Note: Performances are free and open to the public, but donations are appreciated.
Volunteers are also appreciated. If you're interested, please contact Kim Maier at the Old Stone House, 718.768.3195 or via email.

Audience members are encouraged to come early, and bring a picnic and a blanket to sit on. A concession stand will be available.

The Old Stone House will not be open for touring at performance times. In cases of inclement weather, shows will take place in the 4th Street Auditorium at MS 51, located next door to JJ Byrne Park. Informational messages will be announced on the Old Stone House phone line, 718.768.3195, as well as on the website, www.theoldstonehouse.org. We will attempt to alert you as soon as possible.

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Stages, A Children’s Theatre Workshop, Inc.
presents

A Stages & East End Premiere:
“Seussical” (the Musical)
Southampton High School

Come celebrate The Cat in the Hat’s fiftieth birthday with Stages. The Cat in the Hat and his many friends are sprung from the pages of Dr. Seuss’s books to the stage, in “Seussical, a fantastical musical extravaganz-ical! Oh, the places you’ll go! The Cat in the Hat will guide you on this magical journey from your world to the world of Seuss. You’ll meet Horton, the big-hearted elephant who hears the tiny Whos cry for help from their dust-speck sized world of Who. You’ll meet Gertrude McFuzz, the only inhabitant in Horton’s world, the Jungle of Nool, who believes Horton. You’ll meet Mayzie LaBird and Jojo, Sour Kangaroo, the Grinch, Yertle the Turtle and many more. And the songs that they sing! The dances they dance! “Seussical” is a delightful musical celebration for the whole family.

“Seussical,”
will be performed by the young actors of
Stages, A Children’s Theatre Workshop, Inc.,
at Southampton High School,
141 Narrow Lane

Friday, July 27th at 7:30PM
Saturday, July 28th at 7:30PM
and Sunday, July 29th at 3:00PM

“Seussical” opened on Broadway in 2000, with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and book by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (“Ragtime,” “Once on this Island”). It was co-conceived by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Eric Idle (of “Monty Python” fame). Helene Leonard will direct and choreograph Stages’ production of “Seussical.” Musical accompaniment to will be provided by Amanda Jones and James Benard, with sets designed by Goran Petmil, and costumes by Barbara Oldak.

A percentage of the proceeds will be
donated to Southampton Parents for the Arts.

Tickets are $12 for children and $15 for adults.
They are available in advance at
Stevenson’s Toys and Games
68 Jobs Lane
Southampton
or can be reserved by calling
Stages at 631-329-1420

Tickets are also available at the door
on the day of performance.
Don't miss it!

The Cat in the Hat (Raphael Odell Shapiro) will guide you on a magical journey from your world to the world of Seuss in Stages' production of "Seussical" this weekend.

Oh, the places you'll go!

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PRESENTS REDISCOVERED GEMS OF 1970S AMERICAN CINEMA
Six-weekend series includes twenty-two films and appearances by Larry Cohen, Jerry Schatzberg, and Jacob Brackman, July 28 through September 2

The 1970s is widely regarded as a renaissance period for American cinema, a time when young directors revitalized Hollywood with innovative, audacious films that reflected the turmoil and experimentation of the time. From July 28 through September 2, 2007, the Museum of the Moving Image will present a six-weekend, twenty-two film series, Uneasy Riders: American Film in the Nixon Years 1970-1974, that focuses on the lesser-known gems from this period.

The series will include personal appearances by directors Larry Cohen (with Bone) and Jerry Schatzberg (with Puzzle of a Downfall Child), and screenwriter Jacob Brackman (with The King of Marvin Gardens), and films by such directors as Hal Ashby (The Last Detail), Ivan Dixon (The Spook Who Sat by the Door), Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop), Dennis Hopper (The Last Movie), Barbara Loden (Wanda), and Elaine May (The Heartbreak Kid).

“The 1970s is an incredibly rich period in American cinema,” said the Museum’s Chief Curator, David Schwartz. “This series focuses on the maverick filmmakers who may have been overshadowed by the success of Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg.”

The beginning of the 1970s was a turbulent and fertile period for Hollywood. The social upheaval of the 1960s and unrest about Vietnam provided the backdrop for a film industry in economic recession. Before the studios regained their commercial footing with the advent of the wide-release blockbuster, there was a brief period when maverick directors could get studio financing to make edgy, idiosyncratic, and artistically ambitious movies. While the influence of the European art cinema could be clearly felt, these films reflected America’s changing social mores and political anxieties. Some of the movies address concerns about Vietnam and the growing Watergate crisis, and many of them deal with social change through the more intimate prism of changing ideas about marriage, social and gender roles, and the generation gap.

SCHEDULE FOR ‘UNEASY RIDERS: AMERICAN FILM IN THE NIXON YEARS 1970-1974’

July 28-September 2, 2007
Organized by chief curator David Schwartz.
Two-Lane Blacktop
 Saturday, July 28, 3:00 p.m.
1971, 102 mins. 35mm. Directed by Monte Hellman. With Warren Oates, James Taylor, A cross-country drag race structures Monte Hellman’s laconic, existential road movie, an offbeat portrait of the American landscape in the early 1970s. As Hal Hartley described it, “Fixing the car. Driving the car. Trying to impress the girl. The essentials.”

Fat City
 Saturday, July 28, 5:30 p.m.
1972, 96 mins. 35mm. Directed by John Huston. With Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrell. Veteran Hollywood director John Huston drew from his background as a boxer for this gritty, poetic drama about a washed-up fighter trying to make a comeback. Cinematographer Conrad Hall captures a seedy world of musty gyms, cheap bars, and low-rent apartments.

Puzzle of a Downfall Child 
With Jerry Schatzberg in person
Sunday, July 29, 3:00 p.m.
1970, 105 mins. 35 mm. Directed by Jerry Schatzberg. With Faye Dunaway. The directorial debut of fashion photographer Jerry Schatzberg (Scarecrow, Panic in Needle Park) is one of the era’s neglected gems, a stylish tour de force told in nonlinear flashbacks. Faye Dunaway gives a shattering performance as a fashion model living in isolation after a nervous breakdown.

Wanda 
Sunday, July 29, 6:00 p.m.
1970, 100 mins. 35mm. Directed by Barbara Loden. Barbara Loden wrote, directed, and starred in this impressive independent feature about a woman from a mining town who leaves her husband and children because “I’m just no good” and wanders into a world of one night stands and petty crime. Wanda is one of the few major features of its time directed by a woman.

Little Murders
 Saturday, August 4, 2:00 p.m.
1971, 110 mins. 35mm. Directed by Alan Arkin. With Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd. In an impressive directorial debut, Alan Arkin deftly blends absurdist black comedy and genuine emotion, adapting Jules Feiffer’s play about an apathetic New York photographer reluctantly starting a relationship. “Not for the middlebrow or fainthearted,” warned Variety, “but could go over big with the M*A*S*H crowd.”

Loving
 Saturday, August 4, 4:30 p.m.
1970, 89 mins. 35mm. Directed by Irvin Kershner. With George Segal, Eva Marie Saint. George Segal, a frequent Everyman figure in early-1970s film, gives one of his deepest and finest performances as a commercial artist trying to keep up appearances while juggling an unfulfilling job, a failing marriage, and a troubled affair.

Husbands
 Sunday, August 5, 3:30 p.m.
1970, 154 mins. 35mm. Directed by John Cassavetes. With Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara. Real-life friends Cassavetes, Falk, and Gazzara give powerful improvisational performances in this alternately hilarious and lacerating buddy picture about a trio of boozing, self-loathing suburbanites fumbling towards personal freedom.

Play It As It Lays
 Sunday, August 5, 6:30 p.m.
1972, 99 mins. 35mm. Directed by Frank Perry. With Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins. Frank Perry’s adaptation of Joan Didion’s taut novel about a crumbling actress facing bouts of existential despair is filmed in an elliptical style that evokes Antonioni. Painter Roy Lichtenstein was a visual advisor.

The King of Marvin Gardens 
With Jacob Brackman in person
Saturday, August 11, 3:00 p.m.
1972, 104 mins. 35mm. Directed by Bob Rafelson. With Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn. “What went wrong?” asks David Staebler (Nicholson), surveying the wreckage in Atlantic City, where organized crime, real-estate schemes, and kinky sex congeal in a faded vision of the American dream. The film, Rafelson’s and Nicholson’s ambitious follow-up to Five Easy Pieces, was beautifully written by Jacob Brackman, who will introduce the screening.

The Last Detail 
Saturday, August 11, 5:30 p.m.
1973, 105 mins. 35mm. Directed by Hal Ashby. With Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid. Bawdy and boisterous behavior barely conceals the angst simmering beneath the surface of this astute road movie about two sailors taking a young thief to the brig. With Robert Towne’s screenplay, Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude, Being There) creates a poignant portrait of America’s masculine underbelly.

The Heartbreak Kid
 Saturday, August 18, 3:00 p.m.
1972, 106 mins. New 35mm print from the Academy Film Archive. Directed by Elaine May. With Charles Grodin, Jeannie Berlin, Cybill Shepard. “A masterpiece of social pathology,” wrote J. Hoberman of Elaine May’s acerbic variation on The Graduate, in which a young husband and wife get to know—and hate—each other on their honeymoon, as the husband falls for a blonde shiksa.

Drive, He Said
 Saturday, August 18, 5:30 p.m.
1971, 90 mins. 35mm. Directed by Jack Nicholson. With William Tepper, Karen Black. Jack Nicholson’s directorial debut is a campus drama that turns the friendship between an earnest basketball player and his radical roommate into a microcosm of the era. “Very much a film of its time,” wrote Dave Kehr, “charged with all the morbid romanticism of the false optimism of the hippies.”

Charley Varrick
 Sunday, August 19, 3:00 p.m.
1973, 111 mins. 35mm. Directed by Don Siegel. With Walter Matthau. A small-time crook (Walter Matthau, in one of his most hardboiled performances) unwittingly robs a mafia-run bank in this riveting thriller by the director of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Dirty Harry.

Play Misty for Me 
Sunday, August 19, 5:30 p.m.
1971, 102 mins. 35mm. Directed by Clint Eastwood. With Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills. After a one-night stand with a disc jockey, a fan (Jessica Walter) decides he’ll love her or die. Eastwood’s finely tuned debut pays homage to Psycho and to his mentor Don Siegel, who has a cameo role.

The Crazies
 Saturday, August 25, 3:00 p.m.
1973, 103 mins. 35mm. Directed by George A. Romero. With Lane Carroll, W.G. McMillan. The citizens of a quarantined town, infected by a deadly virus, turn on the military and on each other in George A. Romero’s outrageous Vietnam allegory.

Straw Dogs
 Saturday, August 25, 5:30 p.m.
1971, 118 mins. 35mm. Directed by Sam Peckinpah. With Dustin Hoffman. A vacationing mathematician and his sultry young wife are confronted by rapacious small-town violence in Peckinpah’s harrowing study of machismo. “He is so passionate and sensual a film artist that you may experience his romantic perversity kinesthetically, and get quite giddy from feeling trapped and liberated,” wrote Pauline Kael.

Bone
 With Larry Cohen in person
Sunday, August 26, 3:00 p.m.
1972, 95 mins. 35mm. Directed by Larry Cohen. With Yaphet Kotto. In Cohen’s directorial debut, Bone (Yaphet Kotto) breaks into the home of an affluent Beverly Hills couple. His invasion exposes the deception and anger underlying the couple’s seemingly happy marriage. This provocative satire of American corruption upends stereotypes and defies expectations.

The Spook Who Sat by the Door
 Sunday, August 26, 6:00 p.m.
1973, 102 mins. 35mm. Directed by Ivan Dixon. With Lawrence Cook. In one of the most audacious political films of the “blaxploitation” era, an activist (Lawrence Cook) infiltrates the CIA to learn guerilla war tactics, then takes his skills to the streets of Chicago, forming a revolutionary commando group.
Klute
 Saturday, September 1, 3:00 p.m.
1971, 114 mins. 35mm. Directed by Alan J. Pakula. With Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Roy Scheider. The conventions of film noir mingle with sexual-revolution candor in this archetypal example of 1970s “paranoia cinema.” Jane Fonda won an Academy Award for her complex performance as Bree, a tough-minded prostitute who falls in love with a detective.

Hickey and Boggs
 Saturday, September 1, 5:30 p.m.
1972, 111 mins. 35mm. Directed by Robert Culp. With Bill Cosby, Culp. I Spy co-stars Bill Cosby and Robert Culp re-teamed for this tough thriller about a pair of down-and-out Los Angeles detectives searching for a missing woman in a web of violence, cadavers, and cash. Walter Hill (The Warriors) wrote the screenplay.

Ulzana’s Raid 
Sunday, September 2, 3:00 p.m.
1972, 103 mins. 35mm. Directed by Robert Aldrich. With Burt Lancaster. This complex, probing drama about two U.S. cavalry officers trying to capture renegade Apaches in the 1880s, is one of Aldrich’s best films, and one of the era’s most interesting Vietnam allegories.

The Last Movie 
Sunday, September 2, 5:30 p.m.
1971, 110 mins. 35mm. Directed by Dennis Hopper. With Peter Fonda. The most avant-garde Hollywood feature of its day, Hopper’s post-Easy Rider head trip begins as a fictional western directed by Sam Fuller and becomes a bizarrely imploding comic documentary.

MUSEUM INFORMATION

Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fridays, 12:00 to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday, school groups only by appointment.)
Film Screenings: See above for schedule.
Museum Admission: $10.00 for adults; $7.50 for persons over 65 and for students with ID; $5.00 for children ages 5-18. Children under 5 and Museum members are admitted free. Admission to the galleries is free on Fridays, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Paid admission includes film screenings (except for special ticketed events)
Location: 35 Avenue at 36 Street in Astoria.
Subway: R or V trains (R or G on weekends) to Steinway Street. N or W trains to 36 Avenue.
Program Information: Telephone: (718) 784-0077; Website: www.movingimage.us

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THE PERCH CAFE
Literary Tuesdays, 7:30 PM
FOLLOWED BY OPEN MIC

July 31-Linda Susan Jackson’s first collection of poems, What Yellow Sounds Like was a finalist in the 2006 National Poetry Competition, and was published by Tia Chucha Press in spring 2007. She has published two chapbooks, Vitelline Blues and A History of Beauty, both with Black-eyed Susan Publishing. Most recently, her work has appeared in Ringing Ear, Crab Orchard Review, Brilliant Corners, Asheville Poetry Review, Gathering Ground, Heliotrope and Rivendell, among others. She is a Cave Canem Fellow and a 2007 fellow from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is an assistant professor and Deputy Chair of the English Department at Medgar Evers College/ CUNY.

Piper Theatre Productions at the Old Stone House presents

A MONTH OF SHAKESPEARE UNDER THE STARS

PHOTOGRAPHY www.lisapines.com // DESIGN www.jenniferdamiano.com

MACBETH
By William Shakespeare
Directed by John P. McEneny

FEATURING //
Thomas Piper*, Wendy Peace*, Michael Buffer, Owen and Toby Campbell, Kelley Curran, Laura Dillman*, Beth Wren Elliott, Brandon Hancock, Ryan Healey, Thomas Hoagland*, Andrews Landsman, Will Lucas, Grace Pelosi, Sean Phillips, Francesco Tisch

*Courtesy of Actors Equity Association

Sound by Sound Associates

JULY 11 + 13 + 14 + 18 + 20 + 21 at 8 PM (FREE)

OLD STONE HOUSE
JJ BYRNE PARK // 3rd St at 5th Avenue // Brooklyn
718.768.3195 //
www.alltheworldsastage.org

Yummy food at each performance
// WILLIE'S DAWGS
+ Sandwiches from TEMPO PRESTO.

PIPER EDUCATION PROGRAM
// Twelfth Night directed by Ezra Barnes
Romeo & Juliet directed by Wendy Peace
// MacBeth directed by Thomas Hoagland
// Hamlet directed by John P. McEneny

JULY 25 // ROMEO & JULIET 7PM
HAMLET 8:30 PM

JULY 26+27 // TWELFTH NIGHT 7PM
MACBETH 8:30 PM

JULY 28 // Shakespeare Extravaganza
TWELFTH NIGHT 2PM
ROMEO & JULIET 4PM
MACBETH 6PM
HAMLET 8PM

Performances are free and open to the public, but donations are gratefully encouraged.
THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS //
CON EDISON AND WARREN LEWIS REALTY

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East Hampton
The Artists Alliance 22nd Annual Studio Tour
July 12,13 and 14

Preview Exhibition at
Ashawagh Hall
780 Springs Fireplace Rd

Preview hours 7/6-7/15
noon-5pm

Studio Tour Ticket $65.00
Ticket sale information
call the Alliance
631.324.2225

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NEW YORK PREMIERE OF
MULTIMEDIA HORROR EXPERIENCE
‘HEAD TRAUMA’
Cinematic alternate reality game accompanies performance

As part of its groundbreaking retrospective “It’s Only a Movie: Horror Films from the 1970s and Today,” the Museum of the Moving Image will present the New York premiere of Lance Weiler’s Head Trauma on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. This multimedia event mixes Weiler’s film, a psychological horror thriller, with live music, theatrics, and a unique alternate reality game that expands the experience beyond the theater. Weiler will participate in a discussion following the screening.

Tickets are $12 for Museum members/$18 for non-members and may be purchased online at www.movingimage.us or by calling 718.784.4520. Traveling directions and details can also be found on the website.

It’s Only a Movie: Horror Films from the 1970s and Today continues through July 22.

Fireworks July 7 in and around East Hampton + more

East Hampton

The Artists Alliance 22nd Annual Studio Tour
July 12,13 and 14

Opening Preview Exhibition
Friday, July 6th
from 5-8pm
Ashawagh Hall
located at
780 Springs Fireplace Rd
Preview hours 7/6-7/15
noon-5pm
Studio Tour Ticket $65.00
Ticket sale information
call the Alliance
631.324.2225

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Saturday, July 7
Sag Harbor to host Firework Display
at the Sag Harbor Yacht Club around 9:30 pm.
While this is a member only event, the fireworks
can be seen from the the harbor, Long Wharf,
Marine Park and surrounding beach areas.

Also on Saturday night,
the Devon Yacht Club
Members Only Firework Display
can be seen from the harbor
and surrounding beaches at sundown.

Grab a blanket, your honey, the kids or some friends and enjoy the works!

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See the award-winning documentary
"VITO AFTER"
a documentary by Maria Pusateri
-free screening-
Tuesday, July 10th at 8pm
at FilmFest Reloaded at
Karl's Klipper Restaurant
40 Bay Street, Staten Island,
across from the St. George post office,
just 1 block south of the SI Ferry Terminal,
718-720-4442
As evidence builds about 9/11's deadly toll on first responders,
this powerful film tells the story of one police officer's journey
toward physical and emotional recovery.
www.vitoafter.com

Maria Pusateri is an award-winning director/producer and founder of
DreamSlate Productions; Vito Friscia is her brother-in-law.

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THE PERCH CAFE
LITERARY TUESDAY'S
7:30 pm Followed by an Open Mic
July 10

Daniel Rabuzzi has had twenty articles and essays published, one of which won the silver award in a national competition. His most recent essay, Gender and Control in the Merchant’s World: Stralsund, 1750-1830 was in a collection published by the University of Michigan Press. The Small Beer Press Magazine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet published Grebe’s Gift and Shimmer will publish Monologue with Birds and Burin.’

365 5TH AVENUE PARK SLOPE
F/R Train to 4th Avenue/9th Street (btwn 5th and 6th St.)

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OLD STONE HOUSE SUMMER 2007
free programming in
J.J. Byrne Park
located on 5th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn
(btwn 3rd & 4th Street)

BROOKLYN FILM WORKS—
Screwball Brooklyn!
Tuesdays, 8:30 pm. Free.
July 10
The Lady Eve, directed by Preston Sturges,
starring Barbara Stanwyck,
introduced by film critic Ty Burr,
author of The Best Old Movies for Families

SUMMER CONCERTS
Thursdays, 6pm, free
July 12 - Red Rube
July 19 - Life in a Blender
July 26 -The Mercantillers

Tuesdays, July 10, 17, 24, 31
10 am-noon, free
Young Dancers in Repertory

Wednesdays & Saturdays
July 11, 13, 14,18, 20, 21
8pm, free
Piper Theatre at Old Stone House (OSH)
presents Macbeth
Wednesday, July 25
Romeo & Juliet, 7pm
Hamlet, 8:30 pm
Friday, July 27
Twelfth Night, 7pm Macbeth, 8:30 pm
Saturday, July 28
Shakespeare Extravaganza!
Twelfth Night, 2pm
Romeo & Juliet, 4pm
Macbeth, 6pm
Hamlet, 8pm

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PRESENTS

NEW YORK PREMIERE OF
MULTIMEDIA HORROR EXPERIENCE
‘HEAD TRAUMA’

Cinematic alternate reality game accompanies performance

As part of its groundbreaking retrospective “It’s Only a Movie: Horror Films from the 1970s and Today,” the Museum of the Moving Image will present the New York premiere of Lance Weiler’s Head Trauma on Saturday, July 14, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. This multimedia event mixes Weiler’s film, a psychological horror thriller, with live music, theatrics, and a unique alternate reality game that expands the experience beyond the theater. Weiler will participate in a discussion following the screening.
Tickets are $12 for Museum members/$18 for non-members and may be purchased online at www.movingimage.us or by calling 718.784.4520.

As audience members approach the museum, they will be invited to participate in Weiler’s cinematic alternate reality game (ARG). Once the game-play begins, the film’s story and characters will mix with the Astoria neighborhood. There are hidden clues, ringing payphones, and characters from the film scattered throughout the neighborhood. Through text messaging, distribution of a cryptic comic book, and cell phone calls, the experience continues into the theater.

During the film screening, a live soundtrack will be performed by DJ Chief Wreck ‘em and The Quavers, a Brooklyn-based band that weaves the effects of low-tech electronics such as walkmans, vibraphonettes, and footpedal loopers, into their rich harmonic songs. The performance will have theatrical support from stage props and characters that emerge from the audience. The audience will also be encouraged to use their cell phones during the screening to interact with the film.

In Head Trauma, a drifter who returns to his dead grandmother’s house is haunted by feelings of paranoia and troubling visions of a mysterious hooded figure. He comes to believe that someone or something is trying to kill him. Head Trauma will be preceded by the short animated film Ray Harryhausen Presents The Pit and the Pendulum (2006), a stop-motion short that reinterprets Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale.

After the audience leaves the theater the movie will follow them home. Phone calls and text messages will lead audience members to a series of online hidden clues and sites that expand the story of the film. As the ARG unfolds online viewers can contribute video, audio, and stills, thus becoming collaborators within the evolving story.

For a detailed overview of the game, visit http://htmob.com/nydeck.pdf. “Cinema has classically been a passive experience. The Head Trauma cinema ARG creates an immersive story that allows audience members to interact with horror in a new way. The story of Head Trauma and its characters travel across mediums and devices, along the way creating a horror 2.0 experience that combines technology with scares. It’s about creating a world that the audience can move through, one where a scare can come from anywhere,” says Lance Weiler.

Lance Weiler is a writer/director whose digital feature, The Last Broadcast, is currently distributed in over 20 countries. It was the first all-digital release of a motion picture and enjoyed runs on HBO and IFC. Weiler is recognized as a digital pioneer for the way he makes and distributes his work. He’s been featured in Time and Forbes and on television programs such as Entertainment Tonight and CNN. Wired Magazine called him “one of twenty-five people helping to re-invent entertainment and change the face of Hollywood.”

About the musicians: DJ Chief Wreck’em has been creating soundscapes for years consisting of an ecclectic mix of jazz, space, and ambient noise. He has scored short and feature films with a focus on horror related projects.

The Quavers consist of songwriter/singer/guitarist/sampler-wrangler T. Griffin and violinist/singer/sampler-wrangler Catherine McRae along with frequent collaborators Dennis Cronin on vibraphonette, lap steel and trumpet and Bruce Cawdron on drums and glockenspiel. The Quavers evolved from a T. Griffin solo project into a duo project with Catherine McRae that recorded 2004's The Sea Won't Take Long under the moniker T. Griffin Coraline. Their new CD is called LIt By Your Phone.

Saturday, July 16 6:30 p.m. Head Trauma Multimedia performance by Lance Weiler 2006, approximately 84 mins. New York Premiere. Directed by Lance Weiler. With DJ Chief Wreck’em and The Quavers. In this innovative and playfully unsettling interactive multimedia event, the story of a drifter who returns to his grandmother’s abandoned house is brought to life in a collision of movies, music, gaming, and theatrics. Characters emerge from the audience, the DJ provides a live soundtrack, and your mobile phone becomes a cinematic gaming device. Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker. Preceded by the stop-motion short Ray Harryhausen Presents: The Pit and The Pendulum (2006, 7 mins., video. Directed by Marc Lougee).

Tickets: $12 Museum members, $18 public.
Call 718.784.4520 or order at movingimage.us.

It’s Only a Movie: Horror Films from the 1970s and Today continues through July 22. To view the series press release, visit www.movingimage.us/press/pdf/horror_060507.pdf

MUSEUM INFORMATION
Hours: Wednesdays & Thursdays, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Fridays, 12:00 to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays, 11:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Tuesday, school groups only by appointment.)
Film Screenings: See above for schedule.
Museum Admission: $10.00 for adults; $7.50 for persons over 65 and for students with ID; $5.00 for children ages 5-18. Children under 5 and Museum members are admitted free. Admission to the galleries is free on Fridays, 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Paid admission includes film screenings (except for special ticketed events)
Location: 35 Avenue at 36 Street in Astoria.
Subway: R or V trains (R or G on weekends) to Steinway Street. N or W trains to 36 Avenue. Program Information: Telephone: (718) 784-0077; Website: www.movingimage.us

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Sag Harbor Celebrates its 300th Birthday!

Check out the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce website for detailed information.

Upcoming Events in July

Annual House Tour
Friday, July 6 from 11am-4pm.
Advanced tickets are on sale at the Library .
located at 210 Main Street in Sag Harbor &
The Wharf Shop, on Main Street.
Tickets can be purchased the day of the Tour.
Price per ticket will be $35.00.
For more information call 725-0049 or visit http://sagharbor.suffolk.lib.ny.us

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Sag Harbor to host Firework Display
Saturday, July 7
at the Sag Harbor Yacht Club around 9:30 pm.
While this is a member only event, the fireworks
can be seen from the the harbor, Long Wharf,
Marine Park and surrounding beach areas.

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New! Farmer's Market comes to Sag Harbor
every Saturday from 9-noon at the
Breakwater Yacht Club parking lot
located on Bay Street

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Every Tuesday beginning July 11,
the Sag Harbor Community Band will give free concerts.
Location: American Legion Building
opposite Sag Harbor, from 8-9 pm