Nomadics

A busy week’s ahead. Here are the details. Would be great to see any of you at any one of these events: Monday 13 Monday Night Experimental Cabaret at Tess’ Lark Tavern Host: Nicole...

In my post on Henry Roth’s 100 b-day I mentioned his description of the statue of Liberty as glanced when he and his mother arrived in these States in 1907, but couldn’t quote it...

Some more Euro-takes on the Caricature dispute gathered via that so very useful daily Perlentaucher service I have mentioned before. They now have an English version which you can find here. Die Welt today...

The New York Times, in its usual wimpy fake-liberal ways, has this to say today about the caricatures, in a article penned by Michael Kimmelman in the Arts section: Educated secular Westerners reared on...

Henry Roth, the author of Call it Sleep and 5 other books, would have been 100 today. I have been searching unsuccessfully for my copy of that novel — like the Vaneigem it is...

Rereading Raoul Vaneigem is a breath of fresh air. For some years now his ex-comrade-in-situationism Guy Debord has been getting all the attention, but for many of us, me included, it was reading his...

NICOLE PEYRAFITTEIn a MUSICO/VOCO/VISUAL CABARETof French Songs, Improvisations & VideosFriday February 10th 2006 8PM – $10/8 CAFFE LENA 47 Phila StreetSaratoga Springs NY(518) 583 0022 With:TRIO PAMPLEMOUSSEGeorge Muscatello GuitarDanny Whelchel Percussion & withYuko KishimotoPiano...

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Anne Tardos emailed her homage to Nam June Paik today; I asked her for permission to post it here. Which she kindly granted.

The mail brought an invite from Poets House in New York (that unhappily I can’t take up) to go enjoy a daylong festival celebrating more than eight centuries of Catalan poetry on February 11th....