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The Civilians benefit "Paris Commune II"

Theater

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Regular readers of this blog have seen many mentions of the theater company The Civilians. Their latest benefit is Monday, May 12th. Come join me and James at this fun event.

Update: I forgot to mention that Mary Testa and Celia Keenan-Bolger will be among the performers, and that the silent auction is likely to have some good art in it. I know that Mixed Greens is donating some pieces.

Paris Commune II
Communards in the South Pacific

Monday,May 12, 8 PM to 1 AM, Performance at 9 PM
Element Nightclub, 225 East Houston Street
@ Essex Street / Avenue A, New York, NY 10002

Enjoy drinks and dancing in this trendy Lower East Side club, surrounded byThe CiviliansÂ’ artists, friends, and supporters. This Benefit event will include complimentary sponsored drinks, full cash bar, light hors dÂ’oeuvres, and an exciting silent auction.

In honor of our production of Paris Commune at the Public Theater, the company will perform a special sequel to the revolution. Following the Communards (in song) from life in the streets of Paris to exile on the French Polynesian island of New Caledonia, this one-time only event is guaranteed to prove that the fight (and the show) must go on.

Tickets $25 to $150. R.S.V.P. at www.thecivilians.org or by calling (212)-730-2019.

Libby Hartle at Pocket Utopia

Art

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Libby Hartle
Nest, 2008
cast paper

The show closed yesterday, but I wanted to put up an image and provide a link to a few more photos I took. The nest above was made through a rather laborious process of turning found paper and collage detritus into castable paper pulp. That pulp was then used in molds made from real twigs. My crooked photo of some of the process documentation is below.

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Emily Noelle Lambert at Thomas Robertello (Chicago)

Art

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Emily Noelle Lambert, Forest through the trees, 2008, acrylic on canvas, 78 × 54 inches

Attention, all art fans converging on Chicago this week! I know I should have posted this earlier, but our dear friend Emily Noelle Lambert has a solo show of paintings and works on paper at Thomas Robertello Gallery opening Friday, April 25 from 6-9pm. You can’t go wrong with someone James and I have been continuous fans of since 2003.

The Clintons and Reverend Jeremiah Wright Jr.

Politics

I hadn’t heard about this until it was mentioned by Michael Moore in his newsletter. I can’t believe Hillary Clinton used the Rev. Wright to attack Obama given her family’s previous encounter with him. I’m disappointed that Obama failed to say anything. I guess he has more class about attacking fellow Democrats (and bringing up Bill’s infidelity) than certain other candidates.

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The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. and President Bill Clinton at a prayer breakfast at the White House in September 1998.

During one of the most difficult periods in the presidency of Bill Clinton, he addressed a group of clerics at an annual prayer breakfast in September 1998 just as the Starr report outlining his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky was about to be published.

Among those in attendance, was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., who is seen shaking hands with Mr. Clinton in a photograph provided today by the Obama campaign. Mr. WrightÂ’s relationship with Senator Barack Obama, as his longtime pastor, has been the subject of considerable controversy in recent days because of incendiary excerpts of sermons Mr. Wright gave at their church, Trinity United Church of Christ, in Chicago.