Kabuki Plays on Stage: Darkness and Desire, 1804-1864 v. 3 (Kabuki Plays on Stage, Volume 3)
Slog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Jaycee (Click to Enlarge) pun(c)tuation, a new gallery directed by local artist Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes opens tonight at 6 pm with a show called The Shogunate Revisited , featuring works from artists Mike Wagner and I AM. It's located at 705A E Pike Street (right next to Honey Hole ). The show promises, among other things, Japanese wood block print-influenced works displayed "against a backdrop...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Thierry Goldberg Projects 5 Rivington Street, 212-967-2260 East Village / Lower East Side November 20 - December 20, 2009 Opening: Friday, November 20, 6 - 8 PM Web Site Thierry Goldberg Projects is proud to present The Sky Above , new paintings by Hiroyuki Nakamura. With his characteristic deadpan clarity and sun-bleached palette, Nakamura stages an imagined American West peopled by wannabe cowboys...
Hell on Frisco Bay (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
More than ten years ago, the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, then still located in Golden Gate Park, hosted a retrospective of the work of Taiwanese master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien. I was preparing an extended trip abroad myself at the time, and missed the entire cycle, but upon my return I often heard Hou's name spoken in hushed tones by local moviegoers, and determined to seek his work out. I began...
Feed on Cooking With The Single Guy (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Does French-Japanese Fusion Work Watered Down? 1581 Webster St. (between Geary and Post), San Francisco Japantown PH: 415.409.4559 Open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Major credit cards, reservations accepted Bushi-Tei is an elegant, French-Japanese fusion restaurant on Post Street. Its food by Chef Seiji Wakabayashi garnered much attention (and once captured a Michelin star, although it has since...
Blogging Sundance (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Filed under: Independent , Sundance , Festival Reports , Exhibition If you can't make it to Park City, Utah, in January for the Sundance Film Festival, don't worry -- Sundance will come to you! Sort of! If you live in one of eight specific cities! Still, it's a good start, and a pretty nifty idea. They're calling it Sundance Film Festival U.S.A. , and it will work like this. On Jan. 28, while the...
NDN Blog - NDN Blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Congratulations to our friends and filmmakers Annabel Park and Eric Byle r, and our partner organizations Citizen Hope and Netroots Nation for last night's wildly successful Bay Area premier of 9500 Liberty . This important new documentary premiered before a packed house at the Sundance Kabuki Theater on Filmore, with San Francisco Supervisor David Campos and Human Rights Commissioner Michael Yaki...
Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
SEIU leads new banking shakedown campaign By Michelle Malkin • October 25, 2009 11:25 PM At the annual American Banking Association conference this weekend in Chicago, the SEIU army spearheaded an angry mob protest against major financial institutions who have taken federal bailout funds. It was the usual left-wing Kabuki theater. If the protesters were sincerely mad about the government [...]...
The Saloon dot net (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
At the annual American Banking Association conference this weekend in Chicago, the SEIU army spearheaded an angry mob protest against major financial institutions who have taken federal bailout funds. It was the usual left-wing Kabuki theater. If the protesters were sincerely mad about the government bailouts, they’d be yelling on Capitol Hill and in front of the White House. SEIU is simply...
News on Japan (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
KYODO Press – Jan. 28 TOKYO, Japan…an artist impression of a 29-story building that movie producer Shochiku Co. plans to build after closing the 58-year-old Kabuki-za theater in Tokyo’s Ginza district. A new theater for the traditional Japanese stage entertainment ”kabuki” will be built in a Japanese-style building from the first to fourth floor. [...]
The Mess That Greenspan Made (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Jeffrey O'Brien at Fortune comments on a gathering of movers and shakers in Beverly Hills the other day, painting a grim picture of current conditions in the Golden State and wondering about the future of a state the size of the entire eastern seaboard. If the world’s eighth-largest economy were a member of the proper religious order, it’d be time to call in a priest to administer last...
NDN Blog - NDN Blog (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Because you shouldn't miss this... Helloooo San Francisco! Are you reading...? NDN is co-hosting a very special event for all you folks in the Bay Area. The award winning documentary 9500 Liberty will be premiering at the Sundance Kabuki Theatre next Thursday, October 29th ! Now for those who haven't heard about the narrative of 9500 here's some scoop: 9500 Liberty is a compelling new documentary...
J-List side blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
It's funny how we're all wired to perceive things a certain way, depending on what culture we come from. When my daughter was younger, we took her to an eye doctor in the U.S. for some tests, and the doctor showed her some pictures and asked her to identify them. She wasn't able to answer properly, not because of some problem with her eyes, but because the pictures -- silhouettes of household objects...
Click opera (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
I have a slightly oblique relationship with The Performa Biennial , New York's performance art jamboree. Zach Feuer, who hosts my New York art shows, suggested I apply to the first one in 2007. So I put together an idea for a comedy act called Bob Newart, a development of the art-related joke routines I was doing at the Whitney Biennial in 2006. The basic idea was that Bob Newart is a comedian whose...
Underground Facades (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
About the futility of just spouting off about health care reform in the US... Yes, I just do. That is how I am, I care... But I get fucking discouraged. I can go Dickensian for 'outrage'. Yup. Just happens... can't do anything about it, and go for anger. Now, I don't know what the term 'Kabuki Theater' means. But you can find it here . And it seems to me... the people who called it that, well, they...
Politeia (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
I've seen a lot of his shows, but last night's beats it all! A hotline beamed into the campaign bunkers underneath the White House to set the record straight on any "mistake" that might occur (needless to say that that is not what is intended) and visualizations how the kabuki theater of smoke and mirrors is built. All you ever wanted to know about postmodern polical ploys. And make no mistake:...
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