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[Wilfrid1]

I could put this on just about any thread, because it's a varied mix of craziness, but last year's festival was so much fun I just thought I'd link to the web-site in case anyone's interested.

Howl!

[yvonne johnson]

Thanks for that. I was looking for a dance event for that week and could see nothing of interest in the main press.

[Wilfrid1]

Drifting from event to event, I won't have time to post about them all. A great night at the Bowery Poetry Club, though, featuring Ed Sanders' 65th birthday party. Readings and songs by Ed and Tuli; some old Fugs favorites played by Ted Berrigan's son (Ed?); and a musical lecture on the history of punk by a young guy called Jeff Lewis, which was touched with brilliance. Birthday greetings were read out from Robert Creeley and Michael Horowitz, and there was a screening of a long-lost Yippe documentary, which Sanders had compiled, on the Chicago convention riots, featuring the pig which ran as Yippie candidate for the Presidency. All hugely entertaining.

[hollywood]

Did you see the best minds of your generation drive starving hysterical naked?

[Wilfrid1]

I have heard that line more often this week than in the last ten years.

[Wilfrid1]

Alphabet City II was a continuation of an oral history of the Lower East Side which the tiny Metropolitan Theater is presenting. Actors meet local residents, explore their life stories, then develop a monologue based on the material. Each evening in the series features different performers and monologues. The evening I attended, two out of three monologues were, I thought, superlative. Deeply felt and impeccably performed. Most strikingly, a young actress embodied, without the slightest sense of strain or unreality, a seventy-something year old man. And her subject was in the audience.

There are still some evenings left. Check for tickets here.