Since 1981 downtown New York City’s Paper Tiger Television, on Lafayette Street, has pioneered experimental, innovative and truly alternative community media and was an early innovator in video art and public access television of the early 80s.
Next Wednesday on July 28, at 92YTribeca, Paper Tiger Television and Red Channels are presenting a program of three Paper Tiger tapes; two from 1991’s Gulf Crisis project and one of their most recent productions together. For example, U.S. Defense Department Contracts is a live performance piece taped at Manhattan Neighborhood Network Studios in which Paper Tiger reads and responds to the United States Department of Defense Contracts for July 2nd, 2010. These contracts, valued $5 million or more, are announced each business day at 5 pm on the Department of Defense website.
Upcoming film events at 92YTribeca include Wong Kar-Wai Double Feature: Happy Together and Fallen Angels (July 22): The Other Network (July 23,24); and Meet the Lady: Brett Somers! (July 29).
92Y Video: Bill Charlap On The Legendary Partnership of Lester Young & Billie Holiday
Lester Young “changed the way that people play the saxophone.” Billie Holiday’s deeply personal style defined jazz singing; she “practically invented jazz singing.” Together, they were magic. As part of Jazz in July, tonight, we honor their legacies with a stellar ensemble including the vocal stylings of Mary Stallings, tenor sax legend Frank Wess and the incomparable Bucky Pizzarelli.
The Eagle Has Landed: Jimmy Heath Is Rehearsing Backstage!
Our intrepid reporter-at-large has photos from the legendary Jimmy Heath rehearsing backstage at Kaufmann Concert Hall. She’s uploaded them to the 92Y Concerts page here.
The News Distillery is a live news-comedy game show hosted by Faith Salie, CBS Sunday Morning contributor and star of Planet Green’s Treehugger TV. Contestants face off in a no-holds barred competition to be the funniest, fastest, best-informed and possibly prettiest news junkie in New York. Plus there’s air conditioning (free) and beer (nominal charge). The next one happens July 29.
One of the current event games played at The News Distillery is “news haiku.” Each contestant has to write a haiku about a news event that week. For example, here are some haikus from last Thursday’s show.
On Oct 13 at 92Y, architect Frank Gehry will sit down with Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker, to discuss Gehry’s legendary career.
The Jazz in July series begins this evening with Hooray for Hollywood, in honor of the great songs of the silver screen. The concert will feature vocalist Carol Sloane, who recently sat down with Capital to talk about her involvement and the Jazz in July festival in general.
The Wall Street Journal‘s resident jazz expert, Will Friedwald, is excited about Jimmy Heath:
Mr. Heath is a colossus. Many of the leading figures of the last half century have had their own special Jimmy Heath tune. For Mr. Davis it was “Gingerbread Boy,” Chet Baker played “C. T. A.” at dozens of concerts and Cannonball Adderley made the distinctive waltz “Gemini” into a jazz standard.
In a recent telephone interview Mr. Heath, 83, denied that his music is completely unique. “I just came back from playing with Benny Golson [his fellow Philadelphian and early bebop veteran], and he does the same thing I do, and so do the others, like Maria Schneider, Gil Evans, Charles Mingus. We’re all trying to write swinging music with a modern feeling.”
Mr. Heath’s modesty notwithstanding, his career has no parallel.
Jazz in July artistic director Bill Charlap agrees, and celebrates Jimmy Heath tomorrow, July 21, at Picture of Heath: Celebrating Living Legend Jimmy Heath, where Jimmy and seven other jazz greats will play an approximately 2 hour concert!
92Y Video: Women Writers on Life After 50 with Erica Jong and others at 92YTribeca
During a Daytime Lecture at 92YTribeca last month, an A-list panel of some of the most influential writers of our time, (Erica Jong, Ntozake Shange, Tina Howe, Carolyn See and Abigail Thomas with Emily Upham and Linda Gravenson as moderators) presented a candid and deeply personal view of what it means to grow older as a woman in our world.
View a full photo set from the evening on 92YTribeca’s Flickr and below, watch a video clip featuring the panel share their insights on life, love, loss, and the wisdom and opportunities of age.
Film: The Extra Man: preview screening with stars Kevin Kline and Paul Dano and Producer Anthony Bregman in person for post-screening Q&A moderated by Movieline’s Stu Van Airsdale.
Submit Your Questions To Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong
This September, friend of the 92nd Street Y Jordan Roth will interview Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong along with American Idiot and Everyday Rapture director Michael Mayer.
We’re giving you the opportunity to submit your questions to either guest now. Leave them here in our comments or on our Facebook page, and any questions submitted that are asked during the Q&A—as we’ve done on past occasions—will give the submitter glorious recognition as well as two free tickets to an upcoming lecture of your choice*, pending availability.
So get questioning! Submission deadline is 12pm on September 17.
*92Y employees and their families are not eligible. No refunds or exchanges allowed.
Every Friday we’ll be posting a recap of the previous week’s activities in our Passport NYC Camp.
Week 2 has flown by so incredibly fast we can hardly believe it. This week was jam packed with exciting specialty adventures, all camp programs and visitors joining us to see the excitement that is, Passport NYC! We celebrated the 4th of July in two great ways, first by celebrating our First Passport NYC birthday, Happy Sweet Sixteen Amanda and 2nd by helping to decorate and celebrate the 4th with the Senior Citizens of the Jewish Home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It felt so great to bring our Passport NYC community into their home and spread some 4th of July cheer! We got to round the day out by viewing the incredible fireworks display from Riverside Park. Oh did we forget to tell you? We have clean clothes! We had a chance to do our laundry on Monday night which for many was a new experience. Although it was hot, we cooled off with ice cream and games in the laundromat’s outdoor space. Tuesday night we traveled to the Top of the Rock to see what New York City has to offer from way up high. We got an opportunity to share our perspective with one another and appreciate how beautiful New York is from all angles. Wednesday we cheered on the New York Mets in their new Citifield Stadium. We got a warm welcome with Passport NYC in lights on the score board… Too bad the Mets lost to the Cincinnati Reds. Thursday night we hit up Broadway by enjoying West Side Story, a really great way to start the wind down of our week. Now we are back at Friday, wrapping up our 2nd full week of Passport NYC. There is so much more to do, to see and to share in together and we hope that within the next week the sun will remain shining, the cool air will filter in and we will take in our last week of First Session as a large Mishpacha (family) of Passport NYC. We are excited about the week ahead and can’t wait to share it all with you!
He’ll be at 92YTribeca this Tuesday, July 20 as part of a scheduled tour that will only allow you to see him in London, Paris (sold out), Berlin or New York City.
This Just In: Paul Dano Is Coming To 92YTribeca On Tuesday
We’ve just received word that Paul Dano will be at 92YTribeca this Tuesday, July 20, for the preview screening of The Extra Man starring himself and Kevin Kline. Kevin Kline and Producer Anthony Bregman will also be in person for post-screening Q&A, moderated by Movieline’s Stu Van Airsdale. Tell your friends! Tickets are available here.
This week’s featured excerpt (seen above) is from a reading by Richard Wilbur, who served as laureate in the late 1980s. Upon his appointment in 1987, Wilbur told The New York Times he was relieved that the U.S. post, unlike the British one, did not require the writing of occasional poems—of poems-to-order. Referencing his predecessor as laureate, Robert Penn Warren, and then-President Reagan, Wilbur remarked, “Red Warren made clear that he was not going to write ‘Mr. Reagan’s Horse Cured of Colic.’”
Wilbur went on to tell The Times that he would gladly compose a civic poem, should he ever be so inspired by the events of the day. While he has yet to write in praise of the Presidency—Reagan’s or anybody else’s—in this excerpt he does offer paeans to both his wife (For C. and The Catch) and his daughter (The Writer).
In an ongoing effort to share with our readers some of the great literary moments which the Poetry Center has presented across the decades, this blog has begun to feature regular postings of archival recordings. For access to other recordings, please click here.
Yesterday on Twitter, @boobajones asked us: “Looking for tickets to see @adamcarolla on 11/2. What’s is the best method?”
Great question, and one we will review on the blog for everyone.
As we noted to @boobajones via Twitter, we would go online to purchase tickets; that’s probably the easiest way. If you require special seating considerations, such as wheelchair accessible seating or hearing assistance, you can call a Y-Charge operator at 212.415.5500 during our hours of operation for further assistance. As well, if you have received the priority registration package, you can purchase tickets for the fall season over the phone now, everyone else will be able to do so on July 29th.
Further, anyone can purchase tickets in person at the 92nd Street Y box office, located inside the lobby of 92Y at 1395 Lexington Ave (map). The box office is open Monday through Thursday from 9am-9pm, and on Friday until 5pm. The box office is closed on Saturday and Sunday.
The same applies to 92YTribeca at 200 Hudson Street (map)—you can buy tickets over the phone, online or in person. The box office at 92YTribeca is open Monday through Saturday during the summer. Please note closing hours will vary depending on the events of the day. For specific Box Office hours on a particular date, please call 212.601.1000.
In the future, you’ll probably be able to buy tickets via your mobile phone, special 3-D headgear or in vending machines on the moon. We are actively looking into all viable options!
This segment had the promise to start shifting the at-home dad conversation moving BEYOND Mr. Mom...and I thought the Today Show did a really nice job of delivering on that message. Yep, included my bit about being termed “modern men” or “involved father” as opposed to some other terms splashed around by the media.
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