MEMBER BLOG TAG: bosnia
| Monday, May 5, 2008 7:54PM | | | | No moral turpitude at Pen Cabaret | Tags: moral turpitude, yodels, spade, Bosnia, Hamlet, Bill T. Jones, Dylan Thomas, Webster Hall, debauched life, Dandy in the Underworld, ironic, avatar, duet.
| | | | Cabaret is coming back. Not only the Pen Cabaret, the highlight of the Pen World Voices Festival, but cabaret is coming back all over town. Cabaret is not pretentious, cabaret is fun, cabaret is sophisticated, and the line-up at this year Pen Cabaret was impressive – half of them had won McArthur genius grants! One of the participants, Sebastian Horsley couldn’t even make it to New York, as the US immigration services refused him a visa on ground of “moral turpitude” on account of his dandyish and debauched life. So we didn’t get to see and hear him “recount his personal crucifixion or other hilarious episodes from his new memoir Dandy in the Underworld.” The other European performers who did make it to Webster Hall... | | | | | | | Sunday, May 4, 2008 12:05PM | | | | Fiction From Fact | Tags: Jo Nesbo, Nina Revoyr, Juan Gabriel Valasquez, Sasa Stansic, Le Sport Sak, Moderators, Bosnia, Silent Films
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This Festival has taken me to places where I have never been. And I am not talking about intellectually. This festival has taken me to swanky parts of Manhattan where the likes of me seldom tread. Trekking across 5th Avenue sort of skeeves me out. There is nothing more disconcerting that passing blocks and blocks of stores displaying dresses you could neither afford, nor fit. But I digress.
It was well worth the gauntlet-run to make it to The French Institute, more specifically Le Skyroom! Such a lovely calming space. (Such a funny name. Makes me think of Le... | | | | | |
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