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Issue 104 Summer 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
WEB EXCLUSIVE! Part 2 of 2! Musician turned musicologist Ned Sublette unravels the histories and sounds that shaped New Orleans, our most “American” city. Click here to read Part 1 of the interview!
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Watch the speeches that ignited BOMB’s 27th Anniversary & Silent Auction, with Mark Morris, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Marilyn Minter, Elizabeth LeCompte, Casey Spooner, Mary Heilmann, and others, at The Bowery Hotel on April 11, 2008.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE! Part 1 of 2! Musician turned musicologist Ned Sublette unravels the histories and sounds that shaped New Orleans, our most “American” city. Out now: The World that Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square.
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Paternostro calls Goldman’s The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? “a surreal and very dark labyrinth.” Her book, My Colombian War, exposes a different side of the Latin American puzzle.
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BOMB 104 SNEAK PREVIEW! Filmmaker and installation artist Catherine Sullivan and choreographer Meg Stuart speak of mining the history of the avant-garde tradition and emotional overflow in ensemble-based work.
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As part of their “True Mirror” project for the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Dexter Sinister has set up a mirror press office at the Commander’s Room of the 7th Regiment Armory. Visit them in person and read about them here!
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David Levine spoke to director Michael Thalheimer as he prepared to bring his version of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu to New York which just played to rave reviews at BAM. This interview is a part of the Select Equity Series on Theater.
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Gabriela Jauregui talks with Daniel Alarcón and Alex Espinoza, born in Lima and Tijuana, respectively, about how their daring recent novels cross the language barrier, the history/fiction divide, and Icarus’s fall.
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Songbird Jambalaya: Musician and musicologist Ned Sublette talks to “blues growler” Coco Robicheaux, a true Louisiana spirit—a survivor of Katrina and more.
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In this epistolary exchange, novelists Nathan Englander and Rivka Galchen discuss the art of writing, pop culture, and the imagination. Watch their BOMBLive! conversation.
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