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on’t Buy This Dog,” our December 9 DECEMBER 9–15, 2015 | VOL. LX NO. 49 | VILLAGEVOICE.COM | FREE (and I use that term LOOSELY) is allowed D cover story/rant about French to carry out what seems to be nothing bulldogs and their owners, generated more than a personal vendetta against a an avalanche of reader comments via email breed of dog and its entire community, and social media, some of which we share and also announced on the FRONT PAGE, below. u Given the passionate (and more than no less! REALLY? You had NOTHING else to

occasionally poison) pens wielded by most print? I am of course talking about Michael | CONTENTS | respondents, it isn’t hard to discern the depth Brandow and his attack on the French bull- of their love for their dogs. Similarly, the dog. This was REALLY the most valuable pointed prose of the story’s author, dog expert piece you had for this issue? If so, it may Michael Brandow Michael Brandow, does not negate his central be time you folded (which as I have heard rants about New York point: that Frenchies, widely popular in New City’s most popular is not far away anyway). If this guy is a writer,

York and beloved for their unique build and canine trophy and then the Kardashians are pillars of their NEWS facial expressions, have been genetically the clueless, wealthy community. He is nothing more than a humans who own engineered to suffer for their cuteness — a homely, bitter hack, an “ex” dog walker who | FEATURE | VOICE CHOICES | ARTS | EATS & DRINKS | TV FILM MUSIC truth their owners often fail to acknowledge. them bases his hate-filled spew on nothing more u The Voice encourages readers to reach out than his personal feelings and POSSIBLY and weigh in. The following letters have been one or two accounts that he may, or may edited for length, accuracy, and clarity. To see NOT, have been privy to. I really feel sad Brandow’s story, as well as these and more that what he said was allowed to be printed letters, visit villagevoice.com/news. in your once great paper. It truly is a sad day, and now, when I pick up the Voice, it will be for one very important reason: so Shifty Eyes my Frenchie can take a dump on it. I’ve never been able to make eye contact — Jeremy Gann with a Frenchie. I don’t trust them. —Midge Belickis Haters Gonna Hate So French bulldogs are the fracking, Negative but Not Wrong capitalist, free-enterprise, NRA-member, We all have dogs that we love and are hi- Confederate-flag-waving, Trump-support- larious. You know the breed doesn’t matter, ing, climate-change-denying, Republican, be honest. He is 100 percent right about the Zionist, Palestine-occupying cultural imperi- medical issues and the suffering these dogs alists of the dog world. But, conveniently, endure — more often than not thanks to lousy DON’T BUY THIS DOG unlike any of the above, they seem to take breeding. Humans have destroyed these poor “eat shit and die” literally. dogs as we are doing with boxers, German — Alexander Nussbaum shepherds’ too-short back legs, and several personal life that he is selecting to persecute dogs and plop them on the grass hoping they other breeds. The author is negative, but he is this breed and the owners of this breed? will frolic or pee, but the dog just sits where it But Seriously... being very honest about the dogs. People Was he perhaps jilted by someone who loves was placed and stares at them confused. French bulldogs seem to have hit the should filter out the rant and listen to the Frenchies more? In psychological terms, Adorable. — Aline Marie jackpot as far as life-threatening physical truth. — Kris Malkasian is this a reaction formation akin to raging traits: brachycephaly (all of them have it), bug homophobes harboring same-sex fantasies? High Standards eyes (very dangerous, especially when the Head in the Sand, Nose in the Air 3. Wouldn’t it be more productive to focus Wow, this writer sure didn’t just flat-out dog becomes old and the vision fades; they Unfortunately, the author, who apparently on irresponsible breeders of all breeds or the label individuals with little to no facts.... He can bump into things and easily injure their has been unable to find someone willing to neglectful and abusive humans who dump might as well have said everyone who has eyes), short legs, barrel chest, no tail. Both stomach photographing him in over two their animal companions at shelters? (I picked ever eaten cheese and drunk wine is a snob. they and pugs are cash cows for vets because years, has obviously had his head up...no, up a copy of the Voice when I saw the cover My Frenchie — along with many we know — is they always end up having some physical sorry, buried in the sand. We have owned because I expected to find an article on the well-mannered, trained, and healthy. They problem to be serviced — I mean treated. a French bulldog for over five years, and she often misguided urge to adopt a puppy as a can’t swim? There are full-grown adults who As a dog walker, I’ve known many

is the sweetest creature you would want to holiday present.) can’t swim or ride a bike. — Jacob Gedert Frenchies, and all of them have had either VILLAGE VOICE own as a pet. Other than not being able to Mr. Brandow makes so many erroneous physical or emotional problems — or both. jog with you on a hot day, she is what one assumptions and over-generalizations about Bombastic About Bulldogs One Frenchie I used to walk threw out her would like: easily trained, exceptionally the breed and their caretakers that the more As an experienced, registered breeder back — which is actually not an uncommon mannered, very loving, very cute, a home- important message of assuming responsibility and exhibitor of healthy, agile, and personable injury for small dogs — and she was under body, an excellent traveler, not gassy, nor as humans for our animal companions gets French bulldogs, I found almost all of this ver- 24-hour observation at the vet before she does she have any serious health problems. lost in his “dog”matism. — Marijo C. Adimey bose article to be poorly researched, mislead- died from her injuries. Your comment on elitist owners — you the ing, and heavily flawed. The author seems to The physical problems pale in comparison author are the one with your nose turned so Give Frenchies a Chance like the sound of his own voice more than to the mental/emotional problems, though!

far up you can’t see in front of you. Get a life. Such a hateful article. Shame on you, anything else. — Sue Cameron One Frenchie I walked was the half-brother D — Ed Fitzgerald Michael Brandow. As a Frenchie owner very of the one I mention above (who died), and ECEMBER offended by your article, I guarantee you if Eye of the Beholder I would walk the two as a pair but had to Dogmatic Bulldog Bully you had a Frenchie your life wouldn’t be so You are an idiot! My Frenchie is a loving always put a muzzle on the male because In attempting to read Mr. Brandow’s bitter! They’re the sweetest creatures and little guy that makes you laugh every day, and he couldn’t be trusted not to lash out if we 16 – D hate-filled “bully”-pulpit diatribe against make my life so much happier (as well as I would much rather look at him than your were in close quarters as in an elevator. At

French bulldogs and their caretakers, I won- every Frenchie owner I know)! ugly mug. — Lauren West the time, the couple who owned (for lack of ECEMBER dered about many things as my mind wan- — Andre Falcao a better term) him lived in a Greenwich dered off the seemingly unedited pages: Finally, a Use for the Voice Village apartment building, and there were —

1. What is going on in our society that fas- Pretty Little Fools I have loved the Voice for many years; naturally — a lot of neighbors with young 22, 2015 cist rhetoric is dominant? Mr. Brandow’s rant I intellectually agree with this, but I also it has been a huge part of my NYC life. children. is not unlike Donald Trump’s rant on banning get a lot of joy from watching French-bulldog But, boy, was I in for a surprise to find that To echo my first paragraph, however, Muslims, or the recent Planned Parenthood owners attempting to walk their dogs, who I can no longer count on your paper to be French bulldogs take the cake as far as having shooter’s rant on protecting babies. often just don’t seem to get it. And by that I any more credible than the fluff on E! TV the most life-threatening traits packed into 2. What happened to Mr. Brandow in his mean watching frustrated owners carry their or Fox News. How very sad that a “writer” one dog. — Scuba Diva 5 | OMNIBUS |

A Christmas Present for the Troops villagevoice.com

One man’s quest to give the gift of Star Wars to our armed forces BY LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV

that they have been told they will get to see Star Wars in time for Christmas, on December 24. This is very good news. Perhaps just before Christmas, we will see footage on

| CONTENTS | | CONTENTS the cable news networks of soldiers with M4 rifles slung over their shoulders lining

NEWS up on gravel lots outside movie facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, and sailors lining up on aircraft carriers, and men and women of our Air Force lining up on dusty air- bases, all of them waiting to see Star Wars, just like so many of us will have done. Be- ing included in cultural events like the opening of the new Star Wars movie will go a long way to help hardened soldiers and sailors and airmen and -women become, if only for a few hours, the boys and girls and young men and women we sent over there to serve in our armed forces. It will tell them that, after nearly fifteen years of their service and the service of those before them, we still care.

Lucian K. Truscott IV is a journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. He began his writing career at the Village Voice in 1967 Soldiers overseas composing letters to the editor. His first will catch a screening published piece ran on the front page of the of The Force Awakens Voice in January of 1969 and he was a staff on December 24. writer at the Voice for five years in the early

Lucasfilm 1970s. He is a graduate of West Point with a degree in civil engineering and comes from his is the time of year over in the combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan and about how disappointed they were that a long line of family members who have in other military outposts around the world when the men and women they were going to miss the big opening of served in the armed forces. He has three who serve in our armed forces overseas begin to really look forward to the new Star Wars movie back in the children, currently lives in Sag Harbor, New T postal deliveries and packages from FedEx because they are likely to con- States. Did I know of anyone who could York, and is writing an online memoir: tain the early signs of Christmas. I know, because I was with an Infantry help make sure they got to see Star Wars www.dyingofabrokenheart.wordpress.com.

| MUSIC | FILM | TV | EATS & DRINKS | ARTS | VOICE CHOICES | FEATURE | CHOICES | FEATURE | VOICE | ARTS & DRINKS | MUSIC FILM TV EATS company in the 101st Airborne Division in Mosul at exactly this time of year twelve along with the rest of us on December 17? years ago. We were in a little company-size base camp on the edge of the Old City. Iraq Well, I didn’t right then, but within a day had not yet descended into the violent chaos of a nationwide insurgency that would or so I was in touch with Lieutenant Colo- happen in the years to come, but it was a very dangerous place. The division was re- nel Joe Buccino, in the Office of Public OMNIBUS Affairs at the Department of the Army, porting about forty IED attacks or attempts every day. The battalion had just held a me- We know you have stories to tell. And morial service for a corporal and sergeant major who had been killed only days before. Colonel Michael Lawhorn, head of public we want to publish them. The Village affairs in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Lieuten- Voice is preparing to launch Omnibus, It was a war zone. Then one afternoon knees and carefully inserted the branches ant Colonel Raul Marquez, the public af- a weekly feature generated by our the executive officer returned to the com- into the trunk and fluffed them out with fairs officer for Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar. All readers, for our readers. pany in a small convoy from brigade head- their fingers to make them look right. three of them were eager to cooperate in We’re not putting out a call for pitches, nor are we handing out as- quarters carrying the mail. Practically They unwrapped some tree decorations any way that would treat the troops over signments. We want to see completed

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE everybody showed up as letters and pack- and hung them and someone pulled a there serving our nation to the excitement nonfiction submissions that tell local ages were distributed. There were whoops string of lights from the box and they of seeing Star Wars at the same time they tales. Do you have an essay, a tirade, and hollers as guys brandished letters strung them around the tree and plugged would be watching openings all over the or a fully reported story about life in from wives and girlfriends, and several them in. Suddenly the lobby of a dreary U.S. reported on CNN and MSNBC. It was New York City? We want to read it. If guys fell upon several large FedEx boxes, former Iraqi social security office building surprisingly easy to reach these senior we like what we see, we’ll contact you and put it in print. 22, 2015 22, cutting them open with knives. The whole was transformed. The spirit of Christmas military officials, but I had a more difficult Our goal is to run stories (mostly) as crowd turned at once as one of the guys was in the air. time reaching the directors of public rela- is — though we likely won’t be able to pulled a kit for a fake Christmas tree from I thought of that night in Mosul a week tions and marketing for the Walt Disney resist asking you to help us fact-check

ECEMBER one of the boxes. I watched as these tough or so ago when a friend of mine from Fort Company, which owns and distributes the and edit for length or clarity. We’ll also battle-hardened soldiers turned into the Leavenworth, Kansas, who teaches at Star Wars movie. Finally I received a reply pay you a minimum of $100 per article. from “Global Communications The Walt Email submissions to Editorial-Dept@ 16 – D boys and young men they truly were — 18, General George S. Patton Jr. Junior High villagevoice.com or tap out our address 19, 20, 23 years old — and began assem- School (from which I graduated in 1962) Disney Studios” assuring me that they on your trusty Selectric: bling the tree. It wasn’t more than three sent me an email and asked if I knew any- were “addressing the release of this film

ECEMBER feet tall — it had to travel all the way to one who could help her out. She has a through our regular channels” to the mili- Editorial Department

D Mosul, Iraq, in a FedEx box, after all — but daughter serving in Afghanistan, and her tary around the world. And recently I Village Voice it may as well have towered over all of daughter’s boyfriend is serving in Iraq. Re- heard from my friend at Fort Leavenworth 80 Maiden Lane, #2105 New York, NY 10038 6 them as they got down on their hands and cently she had heard from both of them that her daughter in Afghanistan reports | WEED | villagevoice.com

Despite the vast uses for hemp, Lupardo Crop Report had to work to educate her colleagues in the Get ready to see assembly and senate. The law enforcement community, she recalls, was particularly hemp fields in New York concerned about the bill, fearing that, be- BY MADISON MARGOLIN cause hemp looks similar to marijuana, it

would be easy to grow marijuana in the | CONTENTS | y spring, New York farmers middle of a hemp field to disguise it. may be able to grow hemp But those fears are unfounded, she says. legally for the first time in When placed next to each other, hemp and B decades. marijuana can cross-contaminate; one plant The Hemp Research Bill, can’t even be within blowing distance of the

introduced in Albany by Assemblywoman other. “If you plant marijuana around hemp, NEWS Donna Lupardo and Senator Tom O’Mara, the hemp would nullify the psychoactive

was signed by Governor Cuomo last year. As properties of marijuana,” says Scott Gian- | FEATURE | VOICE CHOICES | ARTS | EATS & DRINKS | TV FILM MUSIC its title suggests, the bill allows researchers notti, founder of the Cannabis and Hemp to grow and study “industrial hemp” — that Association, a New York–based cannabis is, cannabis with less than .03 percent THC, trade association. The security regulations the chemical that causes users to feel high. in previous drafts of the bill, such as high New York’s bill follows the Agriculture barbed-wire fence and security cameras, Act of 2014, a federal law that legalizes made cultivation more difficult and went growing hemp for research by state depart- above and beyond what was necessary, ac- ments of agriculture and universities under cording to Giannotti. “What do you think is the guidance of individual state laws. really going to happen with the hemp crop Once the regulations are finalized by — people are going to run in there, try to get the end of this month, ten hemp growing li- high, smoke one joint, realize it doesn’t censes will be awarded by the Department work, and leave?” he says. He adds that of Agriculture. Universities or colleges can there is a visible difference between hemp apply for a license and do research on their and marijuana: Hemp stalks usually grow own or partner with a farmer. between fifteen and twenty feet, while mar- “We’re at the very beginning for a new ijuana grows between four and five. and exciting crop for New York State,” Lu- “It’s a completely harmless crop,” he says pardo tells the Voice. She says states need to of hemp. And its nutritional value, utility in take steps on their own while the federal In- making strong textiles and even concrete, dustrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015 makes and high CBD levels make it a sustainable its way through Congress: “We must take source of food, clothing, and medicine. advantage of every opportunity we have “I think the potential is really big, but we while waiting for the federal government.” have to also keep in mind that the industry The federal bill would remove industrial is not going to grow overnight,” says Susie hemp from the Controlled Substances Act, Cody, who runs the New York chapter of the which currently regulates it as a form of Hemp Industries Association. The bill is pri- marijuana. “Hemp is a form of cannabis and marily focused on research, she adds; com- it’s caught up in this big mess,” Lupardo mercial interests will develop over time. “If says. “Eventually — we hope sooner rather we have people who are willing to put the than later — the federal government will re- time in and the effort in, I see a huge possi- lease the prohibition on growing hemp and bility of New York having an industrial get us back to where we were decades ago. hemp crop and the supporting businesses to We were a primary source of growing hemp uptake the supply and get into the market for the country and the world.” and manufacture different products.”

Industrial hemp is used for a variety of “I’d certainly hope that we get started VILLAGE VOICE products: fiber, oil, wax, seed foods, paper, with a foothold in this industry,” says cloth, and fuel. Recently, many have started O’Mara, a Republican representing five to grow hemp for high-cannabidiol (CBD) counties in the Southern Tier and Finger medical products as well. Cannabidiol, the Lakes regions. New York is behind states second most prominent chemical com- like Kentucky and Colorado, which already pound in cannabis, is non-psychotropic and have robust hemp industry research and has been found to be useful in treating pain, manufacturing programs. “I wish it was a inflammation, anxiety, and seizures. more wide-open ability for farmers to get

Lupardo, who represents Binghamton, into growing industrial hemp,” O’Mara says. D Vestal, and Union, says she was inspired to “This is what we were able to come up with ECEMBER propose the bill when she learned of hemp’s to at least get things started.” economic potential and broad applications. The potential financial profits for the ten “We think that hemp is a potentially lucra- licensees will remain to be seen, O’Mara 16 – D tive crop for our area of farmers,” she says, says, and will come down to how aggres-

“but also the uses of hemp are so vast and sively the agricultural sector engages the ECEMBER beyond what most people would realize.” program. “I think it’s imperative we get go- The bill itself is aimed at researching ing with these pilot programs as soon as

which “cultivars,” or types of hemp plant, possible and expand from pilot setting to ac- 22, 2015 grow best where, says Lupardo. “We’re try- tual industry activity in New York,” he says. ing to find out whether the Southern Tier “To get it up and running, [we need] to show is the best place to grow textile or biofuel that it can be done effectively and properly, hemp, or what might be best in Long Island to show that it cannot be abused. I really or in North Country.” don’t think that this is controversial at all.” 7 | NEWS |

commuters. He began to wonder how “There are cards that are wasted. No one’s because the unused balance rolls back to the Railroaded many of the cards contained little bits of benefitting from it.” He had an idea to put MTA. This past year, for instance, the transit leftover money. Probably not enough for a out collection boxes in some of the city’s agency reaped about $62 million due to re- villagevoice.com Why does the MTA full fare, he thought, but what if he com- subway stations, so riders could donate the mainders left on MetroCards. If the agency refuse to work with bined the value of all the cards he found remaining value on their cards instead of made it easy to aggregate those almost- a nonprofit that gives and distributed them to people who strug- tossing them on the ground. “Any retail or empty cards, it would essentially be giving rides to the poor? gle to pay for public transit? marketing expert would tell you the best away rides that might otherwise be paid for. BY ALEX ZIMMERMAN In early 2013, DuBow founded the Next product placement is where it’s being used For its part, the MTA won’t say much Stop Project, an effort to do exactly that: — when it’s at the ready in their hands,” about why it has denied Next Stop’s pro- achary DuBow was used to redistribute the pittance left on discarded DuBow adds. posal. In an emailed statement, spokesman seeing MetroCards strewn all MetroCards to the neediest riders. “It’s a The only problem: The MTA wouldn’t Kevin Ortiz mostly declined to comment on over the city’s subway sta- no-brainer idea,” says DuBow, a 26-year-old let them set up collection boxes in stations. the record. “This group has been at this for | CONTENTS | | CONTENTS Z tions — discarded by tourists Upper West Side resident who recently left DuBow surmises the plan was rejected over two years,” he wrote. “We haven’t com- or neglected by everyday a business technology/IT consulting job. partly for “bureaucratic” reasons, but also mented on it and do not plan on doing so.”

NEWS But if one reason for the MTA’s resistance is losing the revenue that languishes on forgotten cards, DuBow says that doesn’t make much economic sense. After all, even if Next Stop could find $100,000 in unused cards (dramatically more than the group has collected), that would only represent about Does It Have The one-fifth of 1 percent of the MTA’s $62 million unused balance this year. And com- pared with the MTA’s multibillion-dollar budget, the fiscal impact starts to seem van- Apple Logo? ishingly small. Still, DuBow is careful not to directly criticize the MTA since he hopes to eventually convince it to work with Next Stop — 9G%CP(KZ+V and over the past three years, he’s built an operation distributing the cards without the agency’s help. He’s not the first to come up with the idea: A Washington, D.C., organiza- #V6GMUGTXGYGUWRRQTVCNNVJKPIU#RRNG tion has a farecard donation program designed to help homeless veterans. Similarly, Whether you’re having problems with your iPhone, iPad, Mac—or any Next Stop prioritizes those who struggle to scrape together transportation to job inter- RWKHU$SSOHSURGXFWċZHFDQWURXEOHVKRRWð[LWRUVXJJHVWDFRVW views and medical appointments; the group effective upgrade or replacement. mostly leaves decisions about which people get cards up to its partner organizations. So far, Next Stop has donated 1,103 round-trip MetroCards and 15 monthly passes to a Apple service you can trust. handful of organizations that serve needy populations, such as the Holy Apostles Soup As an Apple Premium Service Provider, we honor all Apple warranties Kitchen and the Hope Program.

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So then McIntosh did do something: He stabbed both officers, killing one. to the zeitgeist.” Within hours, a white mob burned McIn- In his second and third drafts, he sharp- tosh alive. The state investigated the McIn- about murderess Daisy Domergue, a bounty ened some jabs and softened others, such as tosh lynching, but the grand jury declined to hunter, a black Union soldier, two white su- when Goggins is asked if the people in his indict anyone. premacists, one cowboy, one hangman, one home state of South Carolina feel safe. “Be- Nearby, young newspaper publisher Elijah innkeeper, and one stagecoach driver, all cause of the murders at Emanuel [AME Lovejoy was horrified. A moral man, Lovejoy trapped in a rural outpost called Minnie’s Church in Charleston], I took it out,” Taran- decried McIntosh’s false arrest and furious Haberdashery during a Wyoming blizzard. tino says. “It was too on the money.” How- punishment as “awful murder and savage Count up the characters and you’ll notice that ever, he kept Ruth’s disgust for “losers gone barbarity.” The locals chased Lovejoy across the hateful eight are really nine — Tarantino’s loco wrappin’ themselves in the Rebel flag as the Mississippi River. But Lovejoy kept first clue not to trust anything you hear. The an excuse for killin’,” an insult made more speaking out. Haberdashery isn’t even a haberdashery, and, relevant when, a month after the film “As long as I am an American Citizen, and as the tensions on this cold night get icier in- wrapped, activist Bree Newsome braved as long as American blood runs in these veins, doors, these killers’ claims get harder and South Carolina’s state capitol and took down I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write harder to prove. We’re not even sure how to the Confederate flag. and to publish whatever I please on any sub- pronounce “Domergue.” Is it dough-min-gray In the months since, Tarantino has be- ject,” Lovejoy wrote. or dommer-goo? come an activist himself. The label caught Then the mob came for him. They torched “Nothing is for sure in this movie,” Taran- him off-guard. Lovejoy’s printing presses and shot him five tino says. “That literally is the goal.” While “I’ve never really been one in my public times. He was buried on his 35th birthday. writing his murder mystery, he’d ask friends life to take a big political stand,” he says. Until You’ve probably heard about what hap- what “facts” about these violent characters October, that is, when he joined a RiseUp pened next. Lovejoy’s death radicalized were true. Any statement people trusted, he’d rally in New York and spoke out against po- white abolitionist John Brown, who later sabotage. Tarantino laughs. “If they’re going lice brutality, declaring, “When I see murder raised a small army that in 1859 overtook to be that gullible, then I must torture them!” I cannot stand by. And I have to call the mur- Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in a failed slave re- The Hateful Eight is a fun puzzle box, a dered the murdered and I have to call the volt. It was Brown’s execution — the third palate-cleanser after Tarantino’s pair of am- murderers the murderers.” death in the domino chain — that politicized bitious sagas. But he’s still got plenty to say The police reaction was swift. Both the the country and triggered the Civil War. about race, cruelty, and justice. Legally, National Association of Police Organizations Historians call John Brown “America’s bounty hunter John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and the Fraternal Order of Police, together first domestic terrorist.” Abraham Lincoln could shoot the murderess (an animalistic representing roughly 571,000 officers (or just called him “insane.” Jennifer Jason Leigh) and trade her corpse over half of the cops in America), vowed to Quentin Tarantino calls him “my favorite for cash. He’d rather see her get a fair trial be- boycott The Hateful Eight. Jim Pasco, execu- American.” fore she hangs, and professional hangman tive director of the Fraternal Order of Police, “His idea was the minute white blood is Oswaldo Mobray (Tim Roth) agrees. cautioned Tarantino in the Hollywood Re- shed the way black blood is shed, that’s when “The good part about frontier justice is it’s porter: “Something is in the works, but the shit will start changing,” Tarantino says over very thirst-quenching,” Mobray says. “The element of surprise is the most important ele- iced coffees on a brisk afternoon in his Holly- bad part is it’s apt to be wrong as right.” The ment. And a lot of it is going to be driven by wood Hills backyard. “And like all great ghosts of Francis McIntosh and Elijah Love- Americans, he was hung for treason.” joy would nod in agreement. Yet Tarantino A decade ago, Tarantino thought about never makes his morality plays simple: Ruth’s eventually filming John Brown’s biopic — ethics are upstanding, but the man himself is maybe when he neared 60 and could play the a bully, a woman-beater and a jerk. white-bearded rebel himself. Today, at 52, The Hateful Eight is set six to ten years af- he’s changed his mind. Biographies are too ter the Civil War, soon enough that everyone THE creatively limiting, even for a guy who hap- remembers what side everyone else was on pily rewrote history by machine-gunning and what crimes they committed to defend it. Hitler. Even Samuel L. Jackson’s Union officer, Ma- Besides, adds Tarantino, “I’m dealing with jor Warren, is guilty of atrocities. “Their lives a lot of the things that I wanted to deal with.” to one degree or another have been ripped His recent movies have explored what drew apart,” Tarantino says. “They’re sheltering him to John Brown’s story: When does vio- together, these survivors of an apocalypse. QUENTIN lence deserve violence? Inglourious Basterds But the apocalypse is the Civil War. screwed with our code of ethics. Murder Hit- “I didn’t set out to make it this way, but ler? Sure, go ahead. But what about when this is a blue-state/red-state western.” Brad Pitt’s Lieutenant Aldo Raine has his Right now, America feels as polarized as FILM men bash an unarmed Nazi to death with a it has in a century and a half, and you see to- Tarantino, who is nothing if not predictable.” baseball bat? day’s battle lines drawn when Jackson stares “I don’t like being painted as a cop-hater, Django Unchained, set the year before down Bruce Dern and Walton Goggins’s and I don’t like the idea that maybe some man Brown’s Harpers Ferry raid, scales down the Rebel fighters. In the wake of Eric Garner, or woman wearing a blue uniform on the Civil War to one freed slave avenging himself Michael Brown, Tanisha Anderson, Tamir street who once liked me might think they on his masters. Yet the bitter twist is that in Rice, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, and Freddie don’t like me now because I’m against them,” Django’s hunt for justice, he allows innocent Gray, you shudder when Goggins’s Chris Tarantino says. “It’s not about that. It’s an in- slaves to be torn apart by dogs and literally Mannix, the town’s flagrantly racist new stitutional thing going on, and I’m highlight- makes money off other men’s dead bodies. sheriff, nods, “When niggers are scared, ing it — as are a lot of other people.” He’s The larger good demands the unpardonably white folks are safe.” made peace with the media frenzy. Bashing bad. Says Tarantino: “In my own little imagin- “The political discussions that happen in him kept police brutality in the news. ISSUE ing of a series of paperbacks, The Further Ad- the movie just come out of the characters,” Since he started giving interviews in 1992, ventures of Django, at some point he would Tarantino says. “The script hits a lot of hot- Tarantino has been open about his run-ins join John Brown’s army.” button topics, but I’m on record as having with cops. At 15, he was arrested for shoplift- Tarantino’s new film pivots away from his written it almost two years ago” — when The ing Elmore Leonard’s novel The Switch at sprawling epics, but it’s no less political. Hateful Eight’s first draft was leaked, and be- Kmart. Over the next five years he was ar- HThe Hateful Eight is a pared-down thriller fore Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tanisha rested three more times, stemming from $7,000 in unpaid parking tickets on his silver Honda Civic. It was a hefty sum for a VHS clerk earning $200 a week, and it culminated in what he says was an eight-day stint at the L.A. County Jail in the fall of 1989 — where he claimed he overheard dialogue that made it into Reservoir Dogs. The big-mouth director BY AMY In the fallout from Tarantino’s current public squabble with police, is about to drop his most NICHOLSON the New York Post interviewed Los unconventional movie Angeles captain Christopher Reed, PORTRAIT BY who told the paper that “a check of since Reservoir Dogs Los Angeles County Sheriff’s De- KEVIN SCANLON partment jail records revealed no ev- — and he wants you to idence that Mr. Tarantino was ever think for yourself incarcerated in our jail system.” The Post’s headline gloated, “Watch cop- hating Quentin Tarantino lie about being a tough guy in jail.” (Nicole Nishida, a Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman, states in an email: “The Sheriff’s Department is unable to either corroborate or refute Mr. Tarantino’s statements that he spent time in our jail system.”) If Tarantino did lie, it’s unclear what he hoped to gain from exagger- ating his punishment for unpaid parking fines. (He declined to re- spond to a request for a follow-up interview.) Despite Tarantino’s late-Nineties streak of punching producers and cab drivers, when it comes to con- fronting America’s racial politics, he’s not violent John Brown. He’s Elijah Lovejoy, another big, brave mouth who got in trouble for saying the word “murder.” >> p13 ISN’T TELLING TARANTINO YOU WHAT TO THINK o sentence distills the es- day, brothers Josh and Benny Safdie have a sence of one strain of cine- particular talent for assembling casts of philia — mine especially charismatic misfits to orbit around an often N — better than this one: THE BEST MOVIES OF 2015 aggravating but entirely absorbing protago- “Motion pictures are for nist — in this case, a tiny homeless junkie people who like to watch women.” Brac- Highlights from a year commanded by actresses | BY MELISSA ANDERSON named Harley, played with corrosive inten- ing in its profound simplicity, this line was sity by Arielle Holmes, here dramatizing written in 1983 by Boyd McDonald (1925– events from her own very recent past. 1993), author of the essential collection immensely intelligent exploration of the this biopic immerses us in its subject’s Cruising the Movies: A Sexual Guide to porous boundary between performing heady milieu. Best revivals of the year: Oldies on TV, reissued by Semiotext(e) this and being, text and meta-text consistently 6. In Jackson Heights As New Gilded Age 1. Out 1: Noli Me Tangere To describe fall. McDonald, a gay man, ruminated lust- surprises: Juliette Binoche, playing an in- excess in New York continues unchecked, Jacques Rivette’s thirteen-hour-long ily and wittily about actors, but few critics ternationally renowned star, and Kristen Frederick Wiseman’s tonic salute to this opus about post-’68 paranoia and despair, have expounded as passionately (if platon- Stewart, as her personal assistant, nimbly vital, vastly diverse neighborhood in which was filmed in 1970 and first ically) about actresses. His observation be- refract and reflect their own offscreen Queens reminds us of the quotidian mar- screened the following year, is in some came something of a mantra for me in personas, launching the viewer into thrill- vels that still define the city, made possible way to betray it or tame its strange power. 2015, a year dominated by superb perfor- ing ontological free fall. by, among thousands of others, immigrant Loosely organized around a pair of avant- mances by women and exceptional mov- 3. Phoenix In the role of Nelly, a con- activists, queer and trans protesters, and garde theater troupes, this deranging ies about them, several of which appear on centration camp survivor, the superlative taxi-school instructors. project takes place in a Paris that is both the list below. Nina Hoss must remake herself in Chris- 7. The Assassin I was lucky enough to freewheeling and sinister — and filled 1. Carol So much of the soaring romance tian Petzold’s ingenious, perverse melo- see Hou Hsiao-hsien’s exquisite martial- with some of the most incredible faces I in Todd Haynes’s flawless adaptation of drama, itself a reimagining of sorts of arts film with a friend who’s an Asian- saw on film this year. Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel, unprece- Vertigo set in Berlin in the immediate af- cinema scholar; she assiduously clarified 2. Losing Ground One of the finest por- dented at the time for the happy ending it termath of World War II. Seemingly self- the network of relationships and oblique traits of a marriage between two ambi- imagined for its lesbian couple, depends on deluded, the heroine delivers a coup de backstories in this Tang Dynasty–era tale. tious members of the creative class, grâce that, despite its As grateful as I was for her explication, Kathleen Collins’s second (and final) film, subtlety, still sears as an I’ve largely forgotten it. What remains in- from 1982, is effervescent, brainy, and indictment of a nation’s delible are the movie’s sensory pleasures: sexy — much like the central couple, a pathologies. a room filmed through gauzy silk; a low, philosophy professor (Seret Scott) and a 4. Mad Max: Fury Road mesmerizing drumbeat. painter (Bill Gunn), who are still very Did George Miller 8. 45 Years The title of Andrew Haigh’s much in love but not without their un- consult radical-feminist shattering marital drama refers to the orthodox arrangements. tracts of the 1970s when length of time that Kate and Geoff have 3. Will You Dance With Me? Derek Jar- envisioning the electrify- been wed — the beginning of their union man’s video chronicle of one September ing fourth installment of nearly coinciding with the moment that night in 1984 at a gay club in East London his dystopian franchise? the actors who play the couple, Charlotte is dance-floor reportage at its best, an ex- The title character is Rampling and Tom Courtenay, first be- hilarating record of a coed, racially di- nearly superfluous; the came stars. Rampling’s iconicity adds verse crowd chatting, drinking, flirting, planet is saved and the even more layers to her piercing perfor- and gyrating to Hi-NRG hits. Jarman’s patriarchy toppled by mance as a woman shaken by a ghost from document was the highlight of the Film woman power, as Charl- her beloved spouse’s past. Society’s “Art of the Real” program, where Wilson Webb ize Theron’s Imperator 9. The Wonders Alice Rohrwacher’s it screened only once. Which rep house Carol: Tops with Anderson, second in Furiosa goes rogue and second feature is an uncommonly grace- will book it for at least a week and (as the our poll joins forces with wizened, chopper-riding ful and astute coming-of-age story, one Shannon anthem goes) let the music play? separatists. rooted in the writer-director’s own biog- Honorable mentions, in alphabetical the gazes exchanged between Cate 5. Saint Laurent Spellbinding and sinu- raphy. Centering on the oldest of four order: Amour Fou (Jessica Hausner), Amy Blanchett and Rooney Mara. Watching ous, Bertrand Bonello’s study of the emi- daughters in a chaotic family living off the (Asif Kapadia), Anomalisa (Duke Johnson them is akin to the way Highsmith de- nent couturier, shrewdly played by grid in the Tuscan countryside, the film and Charlie Kaufman), Court (Chaitanya scribed the real-life encounter that Gaspard Ulliel, restricts its time frame to charts the dutiful pubescent’s slow rebel- Tamhane), The Kidnapping of Michel sparked her book: “I felt odd and swimmy 1967 to 1977, a decade marked by YSL’s lion, her liberation set in motion by an Houellebecq (Guillaume Nicloux), The in the head, near to fainting, yet at the same greatest excesses, whether on the runway elaborately costumed Monica Bellucci. Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro), The time uplifted, as if I had seen a vision.” or at the orgy. Rather than rehash the high 10. Heaven Knows What Among the best Royal Road (Jenni Olson), Spy (Paul Feig), 2. Clouds of Sils Maria Olivier Assayas’s and low points of a well-documented life, New York–based filmmakers working to- Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako).

Mad Max, Charlotte spectable second. bender the couple of points the Dying Girl. Still, that’s two Best Actress Best First Feature Rampling, and In the acting categories, critics gave him for his turn as more than named The Cob- Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years The Diary of a Kristen Stewart Kristen “Clouds of Sils Maria” another world-devouring bler, and you can’t fathom Nina Hoss, Phoenix Teenage Girl Dominate Village Stewart doubled the votes of egoist, in Macbeth, he would how terrible The Cobbler is. Saoirse Ronan, Brooklyn Rooney “Carol” Mara, her sneak into first.) Best Animated Feature Voice Critics Poll closest competition for Best Charlotte Rampling (45 Best Picture Best Supporting Actress Inside Out ere’s the statistical quirk Supporting Actress. But con- Years) bested Nina Hoss 1. Mad Max: Fury Road Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Hthat sums up Mad Max: sensus in the doublestuffed (Phoenix) more handily in the 2. Carol Maria Best Director Fury Road’s sensational film year proved otherwise Best Actress race, and Mark 3. Spotlight Rooney Mara, Carol George Miller, Mad Max: greatness: 73 of the 127 critics elusive. Best Actor is a Rylance (Bridge of Spies) 4. Phoenix Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Fury Road voting in our annual poll squeaker, with winner Géza won out over Best Support- 5. Tangerine Hateful Eight picked George Miller’s apoca- Röhrig (Son of Saul) and sec- ing runner-up Sylvester Stal- 6. Anomalisa Best Screenplay lyptic Busytown Racers clas- ond and third places’ Michael lone by only a handful of 7. Clouds of Sils Maria Best Supporting Actor Spotlight sic as one of the year’s best B. Jordan (Creed) and Mi- votes. If Creed and Rocky 8. Inside Out Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies films. Only one of those crit- chael Fassbender (Steve have taught us anything, that 9. Brooklyn Sylvester Stallone, Creed Worst Film ics voted for it in the Best Jobs) all within two points of counts as a win for both. 10. The Assassin Mark Ruffalo, Spotlight Me and Earl and Screenplay category. (The one another in our ranking As for the worst film of the Dying Girl winner there: Spotlight, writ- system. Fassbender actually the year: Unlike in American Best Actor Best Undistributed Film ten by Josh Singer and Tom turns up on three more bal- politics, hate inspires less Géza Röhrig, Son of Saul Chevalier Movie Everyone McCarthy.) But Miller raced lots than Röhrig, but Röhrig’s consensus than love. Only Michael B. Jordan, Creed Is Wrong About away with Best Director, with supporters ranked him seven critics sandbagged the Michael Fassbender, Steve Best Documentary Jupiter Ascending Carol’s Todd Haynes in a re- higher. (If we spotted Fass- winner/loser, Me and Earl and Jobs The Look of Silence Tarantino from p11 indulged in what he called Detest Fests, villagevoice.com late nights where he’d eviscerate himself In 1837, a big mouth got your printing for his stalled career. presses smashed and got you shot. Today, “They were about, ‘You’re falling asleep the mob just boycotts your films. in this video store, you need to get out of the South Bay, you need to get out to Hol- Part of what makes Tarantino a bold voice lywood. Screenwriting is what you’ve got is that he’s still excited people want to to be doing — that’s when you’ll make hear him talk. He remembers being some money is when you sell a screen- 6-year-old alphabetically challenged play.’ ”

Quentin Zastoupil, a kid who “was always Finally, he sold one — True Romance — | CONTENTS | NEWS | at the end of the roll call, of anybody get- and used that money plus every connecting anything special.” (His mother, Con- tion he had to direct Reservoir Dogs, nie, was briefly married to musician Curtis which finally came together when Harvey Zastoupil.) Keitel fell in love with the script. Today, when film obsessives debate the “I ended up lucking out in that when I best auteur of this generation, Tarantino is first started making my movies, it hap- the first name on the list. He has been for pened to coincide with the whole rise of two decades. Yet he still seems so over- American independent cinema in the joyed by his success that aspiring film- Nineties,” Tarantino says. “That’s like be- FEATURE makers embrace him as a fellow geek. ing a Seattle band at the time of grunge.” The Tarantino mythology — the video He says he’s no longer the guy who store, the job at a porn theater, the go- made Reservoir Dogs. “I’m related to that nowhere acting classes, the half-destroyed guy but I’m not that guy anymore. And one | VOICE CHOICES | ARTS | EATS & DRINKS | TV FILM MUSIC 16mm first film — is the story of a lot of of the things I love about Reservoir Dogs is Hollywood hopefuls with big dreams and I like that guy who made that. And I really big egos. They’ve also worked crap gigs appreciate what he did. When I made Res- like P.A. on a Dolph Lundgren exercise ervoir Dogs, I didn’t know if I was ever go- video. (“My first job — my only job — in ing to make movies again, and I’d wanted the entertainment industry before I did to make movies my entire life.” Tarantino Reservoir Dogs. I remember he yelled at smiles and points to his chest. “This guy

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me once because I was supposed to get Wrangling his Hateful Eight VILLAGE VOICE him to set.”) And anyone can empathize with Tarantino’s struggle to be taken seri- gets to make movies because that guy did a ously as an actor, his first and possibly good job. If it had just gone to video, that deepest love. As Uma Thurman told Van- would have been it. Nothing would have ity Fair in 2003, “If somebody asked him to happened.” act in something while he was prepping Instead, everything happened and then Kill Bill, he would’ve dropped everything some. to go and act.” Tarantino became the rare director

Before he was famous, the only acting who is a celebrity himself. “I actually dealt D gig Tarantino landed was as one of ten myself into that game for the simple fact ECEMBER Elvis impersonators on an episode of The that, the more popular I was on my own, I Golden Girls, the one where Sophia gets wouldn’t need an actor to get a movie married. Find the clip online to spot his made,” he says. “I would be enough.” 16 – D seventy seconds of glory. Tarantino’s hid- In 1995, the year after Pulp Fiction was den in the back row, but his commitment released, Tarantino took a date to the Ro- ECEMBER stands out. Every other Elvis is in a rhine- din Gardens in Paris. Everyone stopped stone jumpsuit and cartoon bouffant. Tar- staring at the sculptures to stare at him. antino is the oddball in a plain white jacket He’d officially lost his anonymity. A fa- 22, 2015 (his own) with a simple swoop of black mous actor friend advised him to go incog- hair (also his own). While the rest of the nito in glasses and a hat. “I just look like Elvii play to the camera, Tarantino closes me in glasses and a hat,” Tarantino groans. his eyes and sings to himself. He’s sincere. “I actually think I’m not that famous, I’m It was during this period that Tarantino just that recognizable.” >> p14 13 Tarantino from p13 Has he seen Django by now? “I have no idea,” Tarantino says. “I haven’t seen a By 1996, he was inescapable. Spike Lee movie since Clockers.” Time- Suddenly, the wannabe actor had racked wise, that would include his own cameo in up cameos in eleven movies, including one Girl 6. in Spike Lee’s Girl 6 as a creepy, backward- However, he’s considering watching baseball-cap-wearing version of himself. Chi-Raq, Lee’s update of Aristophanes’ sex villagevoice.com In an early scene, Tarantino — or “QT,” comedy Lysistrata. “Before I found out as his character is called — claims to be what it was about, the answer would have casting “the greatest romantic African- been no,” Tarantino says. “I can’t believe American film ever made. Directed by me, I’m saying this, but I actually saw him give of course.” Then he asks a black actress to an interview on it, and then I read some- show him her tits. thing else on it, and I go, ‘I think I might be Lee’s characterization was pointed intrigued to see this movie.’ ” and, at least when it comes to his eventual So maybe there’s hope that cinema’s view of Tarantino’s career, prescient. Tar- fiercest warriors will call a truce. After all, antino was still more than a decade away they’re practically fighting on the same from making Django Unchained, in which side. a great African-African romantic hero bat- “I like the idea that some black critic tles the entire South to rescue his beloved who has been paid to write three different | NEWS | CONTENTS | | CONTENTS | NEWS Broomhilda (Kerry Washington). Back think pieces about me and always looked then, however, Tarantino had only just at me with a jaundiced eye will be sitting started on Jackie Brown, which Lee would at Thanksgiving when he’s a grandfather FEATURE decry for its “ignorant” use of the N-word. and his grandkids are studying my films in “Black artists think they are the only school and it’s their favorite class,” Taran- ones allowed to use the word,” countered tino says. “That’s my revenge.” Jackie Brown co-star Jackson. “This is a good film. And Spike hasn’t made one of Tarantino has drained his iced coffee. I have, those in a few years.” Incensed, Lee told too. It’s sunset. He turns on the porch the Washington Post that Jackson was a lights and goes in to make us another. The “house Negro defending massa.” (In a sly cabinets of his kitchen are crowded with coincidence, Jackson glasses decorated with played a house Negro comic-book characters. “I defending massa in IN DJANGO AND didn’t just randomly give Django Unchained.) you Josie and the Pussy- In the eighteen years cats — I chose Josie and since the dustup, Lee THE HATEFUL the Pussycats for you,” he and Jackson have made says, handing me my re- peace. Just this winter, EIGHT , HE WIELDS filled cup. “I just had a Jackson gives phenome- sense.” nal performances in THAT WORD On the mantel is a row both The Hateful Eight of handmade Hateful Eight and Lee’s hilarious po- DELIBERATELY — action figures, garbed by lemic Chi-Raq. While the film’s costume de- shooting The Hateful IT’S A WEAPON. signer, Courtney Hoffman, Eight, Jackson would a radiant brunette who is cut out on weekends to also Tarantino’s girlfriend. shoot Capital One commercials with Lee. Over a doorway, he’s hung a vintage Bud- Tarantino jokes that he’d send Jackson off weiser lamp with a stagecoach that looks

| MUSIC | FILM | TV | EATS & DRINKS | ARTS | VOICE CHOICES | | VOICE | ARTS & DRINKS | MUSIC FILM TV EATS by saying, “Tell my buddy Spike I love identical to the one in the film. him!” Tarantino’s backyard has a fruitful or- Of course, Lee absolutely had a point. ange tree (“They make wonderful screw- In Tarantino’s early films, he used the N- drivers”) and one massive decoration: a word for blunt shocks, as when his Pulp statue of the Lawgiver from Planet of the Fiction character Jimmie whines that his Apes, who casts judgment upon the pool. house doesn’t have a sign reading, “Dead “Don’t call him a monkey!” Tarantino nigger storage.” In Jackie Brown, it’s a laughs. “That’s the M-word for them.” noun flung about like any other. In both Tarantino is an expert in taboos. He’s movies, you could swap it for “man” or braved most of them: gore, indulgent pop- just delete it and lose nothing except a culture references, indulgent genre refer-

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE startled, shameful laugh. ences, racist slang, anti-Semitism, slavery. Since then, Tarantino’s use of the N- But The Hateful Eight defies a taboo that word has evolved. In Django and The some critics are struggling to reconcile: Hateful Eight, Tarantino wields the word violence against women. deliberately — it’s a weapon that’s meant For Tarantino, this isn’t exactly new.

22, 2015 22, to hurt. Thurman as The Bride in Kill Bill was “My exploration of the West is dealing shot, hospitalized, and raped. Broomhilda with race in America and racial aspects in Django Unchained was strung up and

ECEMBER that had been ignored by the great western lashed. But in those movies, we knew that directors,” says Tarantino, who felt that a Thurman and Washington were heroes period piece about the Civil War where 16 – D and their abusers were villains. On the day Confederates didn’t use the N-word Tarantino filmed Washington’s whipping would, problematically, make racism scene, he cried.

ECEMBER sound more politically correct. In The Hateful Eight, however, right

D In 2012, Lee swore he’d never watch and wrong are deliberately muddled. Django, so it makes sense if he hasn’t taken Leigh’s accused murderer, Domergue, 14 note of the change in Tarantino’s work. is slapped, chained, pistol-whipped, Eastwood shoot-’em-ups, reinforce beliefs villagevoice.com their audiences already hold. Viewers who suspect they’ll be challenged or made to feel uncomfortable simply stay away. As America experiences a frightening surge of divisiveness — red state versus blue state, social-justice warriors versus Gamergate, Donald Trump’s entire existence — we’ve retreated into our pre- existing opinions like security blankets.

And when someone says something we | CONTENTS | NEWS | FEATURE | VOICE CHOICES | ARTS | EATS & DRINKS | TV FILM MUSIC don’t like, we attack. “You almost have to spell everything out for fear — or, not for fear but for the fact — that people will add four different meanings to what you have to say,” Taran- tino says. “Think pieces used to be liberat- ing!” He’s referring to the outcry following his suggestion that Selma, a movie he A Katz/Shutterstock.com hadn’t seen, perhaps didn’t deserve a Best dragged, punched, and battered so sav- Tarantino with activists this fall at New Director Oscar nomination. It’s fine for agely that her front teeth end up broken. York’s RiseUpOctober protest people who love Selma to tell Tarantino At the start of the film, Leigh has a black he’s wrong. But most dissenters went fur- eye that’s so cartoonishly perfect it could ther, calling him a racist and misogynist have been painted on Wile E. Coyote. Domergue really gets punished, the and, in the all-caps verbiage of the inter- Then she calls Jackson’s major an “N- audience has gone from gasps and net, demanding he go fuck himself and die word,” and Kurt Russell cold-cocks her in nervous giggles to, in my theater, quiet in a fire. the face. glee. Blame her, blame Tarantino. But if He wants to soak in all those different Both times I’ve seen the film, the audi- you can admit to feeling a furtive thrill opinions, especially the ones to come ence gasped. A few chuckled uncertainly. watching Domergue get hers, then Taran- about The Hateful Eight. “I would love to It’s hard to watch. tino has achieved his goal of scrambling hear all that shit,” he says. He dreams of “Oh, I know! And it’s meant to have our scruples. hiding out in the lobby during the film’s that effect,” Tarantino says. “She’s saying “The audience is there to be manipu- intermission as people “get their popcorn some hateful shit, but you weren’t quite lated, they are there to be corrupted, they and their Coke and they’re talking about, prepared for that!” In the script, he de- are there to cheer and laugh and appreci- ‘What the fuck was that?!’ ” Alas, that hat- scribes the blow as “sickening.” In the ate things that they would never feel OK and-sunglasses trick won’t work. film, Domergue glares mutely at the cam- about in real life under normal circum- Tarantino allows that “Americans can era as a stream of blood runs down her stances,” Tarantino says. “Giving yourself get certain things that other people don’t.” face. “It’s timed perfect as it trickles, and over and actually feeling different emo- We watch The Hateful Eight and think you’re like, ‘Holy shit, whoa, this guy’s a tions, that’s the freedom of movies.” about today’s resurgence in racial tension, motherfucker. We don’t even like this girl, Tarantino has found the freedom to say about police continuing to arrest innocent but damn!’ ” whatever he wants, even when, as in Pulp black men and women 178 years after Right away, The Hateful Eight elbows Fiction and Jackie Brown, there are certain doomed Francis McIntosh, and about you to take sides: Will you empathize with words we don’t like to hear. That’s not ex- a country steered by activists-turned- the racist murderer, or the abuser who actly the freedom he’s fighting for with murderers like John Brown, who’d fit beats her? Or, more murkily, will you be The Hateful Eight. right in with the fiends in Minnie’s Haber- OK watching a movie without any heroes This film is fighting for the audience’s dashery if the U.S. government hadn’t at all? intellectual freedom to go to the movies hanged him a decade before. Tarantino won’t answer that for you. and think for themselves. He continues: “But then also, other But don’t assume he thinks any of The “All through the story, there’s things countries get things that go over the Hateful Eight’s protagonists are heroes. that are really left open for you to decide,” Americans’ heads.” “That’s just a complete lack of imagination Tarantino says. Whose bluffs do you be- That was true back in 1992 with Reser-

as an audience member,” he says. lieve? “Whatever decision you make voir Dogs. “People at first in America tried VILLAGE VOICE “I’m taking these weasels — and I’m re- slightly modifies the movie you’re seeing.” to put it into a Scorsese Goodfellas box,” ferring to them lovingly as weasels — and The characters and the dialogue don’t Tarantino says, “but the French recog- throwing them in a burlap bag and tying change. But our empathy is up for grabs. nized the debt I owed to Jean-Pierre the bag and seeing what happens,” he says. “You can be on Major Warren’s side Grumbach, the Chinese saw the Hong “There is no moral center. You see every- from the beginning to the end and think Kong triad aspect of it, the Japanese saw body’s side.” that everything that he did was ultimately the yakuza, Takakura Ken aspect of it, and The first draft of The Hateful Eight was justified, and that’s legitimate,” Tarantino even the British really went for the film brutal to Domergue. The third draft, the says. “You can be on Domergue’s side from because it reminded them of Seventies

one he filmed, is too. beginning to end and actually explain British gangster films like Villain.” D But in between them, Tarantino wrote away everything that happens, and that The different reactions from different ECEMBER a second draft — Daisy’s draft — for him- can be completely legitimate as well.” cultures may be even more pronounced self. That kind of moral complexity used to today. “I almost felt I didn’t know her enough happen in the cynical Seventies movies “There was no controversy about 16 – D for such righteous indignation,” Tarantino that Tarantino grew up on. “The goal was Django in England at all,” Tarantino says. explains. “That whole draft was just to see just to get rid of all the stuff from the Fif- “They were responding to the moxie of ECEMBER where Daisy was coming from and look at ties that was just a fairy tale, the white hats the film, that it was so audacious and con- that story from another point of view. And and the black hats and all that crap.” fident in its button-pushing. But they were when that draft was finished, I did know In the Reagan years, the hats went back really hard on Inglourious Basterds.” 22, 2015 her, and then I could do to her what I on. Today, the hats have become super- So bring on the controversy. Bring on needed to do in the third draft. She doesn’t hero capes. When we sit down in the the- the think pieces. deserve what happens to her without me ater, we already know who to root for. “America is just a place on the planet,” knowing her through and through.” Even our political movies, from gay-rights Tarantino says. “I’m definitely making The trick of the film is that by the time family dramedies to militaristic Clint movies for the world.” 15 +++ VILLAGE VOICE NEW YEAR’S EVE GUIDE +++

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COCKTAILS TO GET YOU THROUGH NEW YEAR’S EVE GUIDE THE HOLIDAY SEASON

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ecember days bring with them bags full For the Person Who Is Always Cold: The Rock you the gift of lotto tickets. Says Nathan, “I grew up knowing

of cheer, presents, and, occasionally, the Your Face Off Toddy, New York Distilling about tzimmes from family holiday dinners. I never liked it full-on panic attack. If the thought of barely Company, 79 Richardson Street, Brooklyn as a kid, but today as an adult it reminds me of something D tolerable family functions, super-serious If all you feel during the holiday season is nothing mysterious. I thought port would be the best combination office parties, and the human form of tor- (because your body is frozen), try this take on a hot toddy. for a cocktail version of tzimmes, as it is sweet — tzimmes ture known as ice-skating is turning you into a grinch, Featuring the Brooklyn-distilled Mister Katz’s Rock & Rye, is often served as a dessert and at the end of a meal.” treat yourself to one of these amazingly soothing holiday made with cinnamon and dried cherries, the drink is mixed 2 ounces carrot-cardamom syrup cocktails. Which one is perfect for you? with honey and lemon for an ultimate throat-soothing rem- 2 ounces dry red wine edy. If you can’t feel anything after drinking a hot alcoholic 1 1/2 ounces 10-year-old port For the Person Who Wears Red-and-Green beverage, the holidays are the least of your problems. To make the carrot-cardamom syrup: Sweaters All Month: Gone Cho, Holiday 2 ounces Mister Katz’s Rock & Rye 17 ounces carrot juice (cold pressed) Cocktail Lounge, 75 St. Marks Place 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice 8 1/2 ounces demerara sugar

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE The holiday season wouldn’t feel complete without 1 teaspoon honey syrup (mix 2 parts honey with 1 part 4 cardamom cloves a stop at legendary dive the Holiday Cocktail Lounge, water) 3 cinnamon sticks which has a lot to be thankful for this season. The 1 dash Fee Brothers Whiskey Barrel Bitters For the syrup: Bring all ingredients to a boil. Turn the reopened lair is offering guests a special green-hued Add ingredients to a toddy or six-ounce juice glass. Add 3 heat down and let simmer for an hour. Remove from the cocktail, the “Gone Cho,” which makes use of a smoky ounces of hot water and stir. Garnish with a half-lemon wheel stove and let the syrup chill. Strain the syrup through a

22, 2015 22, substance that might remind you of a warm fireplace. “I in the glass. heavy colander and keep in a squeeze bottle or a container. wanted to create a somewhat savory syrup, and the first Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker but do not add spirit I thought to use with it was mezcal,” notes head For the Person Who Loves Winter Stew: ice. Shake for 10 seconds, then pour mix into a 12-ounce mug

ECEMBER bartender Danny Neff. Warm Tzimmes Punch, Timna, 109 St. Marks or a teacup. Top off with hot water and enjoy. 1 1/2 ounces Ilegal Joven Place For the Person Who Thinks Every Holiday

16 – D 1/2 ounce green Chartreuse It’s hard to outdo a time-tested recipe, but Timna’s bev- 3/4 ounce lime juice erage director Amir Nathan found a neat way to honor a Is Saint Patrick’s Day: Brady’s Milk Punch, 3/4 ounce peppered basil syrup traditional Ashkenazi Jewish sweet stew. The stew, which The Dead Rabbit, 30 Water Street

ECEMBER 1 dash orange bitters typically includes carrots, is honored here in punch form, When it comes to holidays, the Irish, for better or

D Egg white with a carrot-cardamom syrup joining red wine and port in worse, are known for their ability to knock back a few Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker. Shake. Strain. a glass. This might not be how your grandmother remem- adult beverages. The Dead Rabbit has one that features 16 Pour into glass. bered the recipe, but it should make her jolly enough to give Irish whiskey, Irish cream, and sherry that’s per- >> p18 villagevoice.com E ERSEEGIE NEW YEAR’S EVE GUIDE VILLAGE VOICE D ECEMBER 16 – D ECEMBER 22, 2015

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fect for capping off a silent night — or mak- housed a rebel base, Tauntauns, and Wam- ing it lively. pas can now be found in toddy form. The villagevoice.com 1 1/2 ounces Brady’s Irish Cream chilled cocktail, which you’ll have to make 3/4 ounce Clontarf Irish whiskey at home, preferably wearing a Jedi robe 1/2 ounce Oloroso sherry or stormtrooper outfit, depending on your 1/4 ounce Giffard vanilla liqueur allegiances, is made with rum, lime juice, 1/2 ounce half & half maraschino liqueur, an egg white and sim- Cinnamon ple syrup. Served in a chilled coupe and Ice garnished with nutmeg, this concoction Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker will have you feeling a force of some kind by and shake. Strain mix into a punch glass. the end of the night. Sprinkle cinnamon over the top. 2 ounces Bacardi Gran Reserva Maestro de Ron For the Person Who Recites 3/4 ounce lime juice A Christmas Story’s Ovaltine 1/2 ounce simple syrup Scene: Chocolate Negroni, 1/4 ounce maraschino liqueur Dante, 79-81 Macdougal Street 1 egg white Little Orphan Annie may have broken Shake all ingredients vigorously in a Ralphie’s heart with her demands to drink shaker with plenty of ice. Strain into a chilled

more Ovaltine, but negronis are a proven coupe glass and garnish with nutmeg. commodity when it comes to making people happy. Dante makes one using Valrhona For the Person Whose Brain Is chocolate shavings, chocolate bitters, and Already on Vacation: The Pine- white crème de cacao chocolate liqueur. apple Express, The Happiest We’re sure adult Ralphie would approve. Hour, 121 West 10th Street 3/4 ounce Campari This drink is meant to evoke an escapist 3/4 ounce Cinzano Rosso sensibility, which was, arguably, one of the 1/4 ounce gin main reasons tiki initially rose to prominence 1/4 ounce white crème de cacao around the time of World War II — the Hap-

NEW YEAR’S EVE GUIDE 3 dashes chocolate bitters piest Hour’s Jim Kearns 3 dashes chile powder 2 ounces spirit (recommended are Avua Valrhona chocolate shavings Prata cachaça, Zacapa rum, or Puebla Viejo Add all ingredients to a mixing glass and Blanco tequila) stir. Strain over one large ice cube in a glass. 3/4 ounce lime juice Garnish with an orange twist and top off 3/4 ounce honey with grated chocolate. 1 ounce pineapple juice Sage leaf For the Person Who Likes Shake and strain over the rocks. Garnish to Pour Liquor in Soda: with sage leaf. The Sugarfoot, The Wayland, 700 East 9th Street For the Person Who’s Hosting a Though whiskey and bourbon may Holiday Party: Slow Dancing, come to mind with winter’s first gust, you’ll RedFarm, 529 Hudson Street probably find The Wayland’s Mackenzie Whether you’re hosting an ugly-

Gleason with a root beer in hand. Gleason sweater party or observing Festivus, enjoys the beverage so much she decided to cocktails are best served with a side of pair it with Afrohead rum (aged in bourbon friendship. “The ingredients in this cock- barrels to create notes of honey, vanilla, and tail bring to mind baking spices,” notes oak) and sarsaparilla root syrup. The egg RedFarm’s Shawn Chenn. The mix in- whites give a creamy rich texture while the volves a scouring of the supermarket fruit syrup and black walnut bitters lend their section for cranberries, cactus pears, lem- hand to its autumnal color and flavor. The ons, and oranges. There’s also oolong tea name “Sugarfoot” is a reference to old and flowers in there, which may have you western TV show Sugarfoot, in which the thinking spring can’t come quick enough. main character, Tom Brewster, would order 9 ounces Stranahan’s Colorado whiskey

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE a “sarsaparilla” soda. 6 ounces Domaine de Canton ginger 2 ounces Afrohead rum liqueur 1/2 ounce lemon juice 6 ounces cranberry purée 1/2 ounce lime juice 30 ounces Osmanthus oolong tea, lightly 1 ounces sarsaparilla syrup brewed

22, 2015 22, 1 dash of Angostura bitters 6 ounces fresh lemon juice 1 dash of black walnut bitters 9 ounces apple juice Egg white 5-6 half orange wheels

ECEMBER Put all the ingredients in a cocktail shaker. 8-10 whole cranberries Dry-shake in order to whip the egg white. Then 5-6 whole lemon wheels

16 – D wet-shake with ice and strain into a chilled 1 whole cactus pear peel coupe. Garnish with an Angostura flower. 3-4 edible pansy flowers Add all ingredients to a Crock-Pot and set Star Wars ECEMBER For the Fan: temperature to low. Cover and cook for 3 hours D Planet Hoth Toddy and stir before serving. Serve in a Chinese If December were a fictional planet, it gaiwan teacup garnished with one candied 18 would be Hoth. The frozen tundra that orange wheel and one mint sprig. 2000 Years Later villagevoice.com Has the Miracle Maker Returned to save the planet or has the Antichrist arrived to bring the End of Days? As an Epic Apocalyptic Battle begins in

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SHOWS Macy Gray ries of excavations as part of the i call Phish america project, a collaboration with the Is it possible to be a casual Phish fan? Dev- villagevoice.com Deer Tick new Whitney Museum’s inaugural exhi- otees of the Vermont jam band are often Deer Tick take over Brooklyn’s favorite bition, America Is Hard to See. Tonight accused of cultish fervor, which may make bowling alley tonight, bringing their rootsy marks the culmination of that research, more moderate listeners want to steer sound, which blends alt-country, grunge, which has involved everything from clear this evening of MSG, where the pop, and straight-ahead rock. On their most construction-site hard-hat concerts to group’s NYE residency has become tradi- recent album, 2013’s Negativity, singer in-gallery improvisations. Red, white, and tion. But even non-Phishheads have to John McCauley flirts with melancholy and blue(s), performed with her New Year’s recognize that the quartet is a monster despair, but manages to never become a Eve Back Room 12tet, reflects all Roberts live: The blissed-out spectacle of their bummer: Songs that start off gloomy and has collected over the past year, followed performances — each of which boasts a Courtesy High Rise PR contemplative explode into Springsteen- by a set from DJ Rupture. At 9, Whitney unique setlist — and the crowd’s happy style barroom fist-pumpers. At 9, Brooklyn Since her 1999 smash hit “I Try,” Macy Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort frenzy make for a truly celebratory way to Bowl, 61 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, 718-963- Gray has put out several albums that Street, 212-570-3600, whitney.org, $45– ring in the new year. At 8, Madison Square 3369, brooklynbowl.com, $50 A.S. meld soul and r&b and highlight her $50 H.B. Garden, 4 Pennsylvania Plaza, 212-465- signature raspy voice. Though she 6741, thegarden.com, $70–$80 A.S. Jimmy Buffett and hasn’t again reached the triple- New York Philharmonic the Coral Reefer Band platinum status of her most famous For a very highbrow, grown-up NYE, They Might Be Giants Hoping life’s a beach in 2016? Starting off track, top producers and fellow musi- head to Lincoln Center to catch the They Might Be Giants have been around the year with a hit of Buffett could help. cians have clamored to collaborate with New York Philharmonic’s timely tribute for more than thirty years now, brighten-

The man’s put out dozens upon dozens of her. Earlier this month, she released to the musical riches of France. Despite ing your day with crazy-inventive pop and albums, not to mention an entire line of her take on “All I Want for Christmas,” the gravitas, the selections won’t put providing catchy scores to your favorite touristy restaurants...and complicated which includes a political holiday wish you in a somber mood: The perfor- TV shows. But the truly amazing thing is kitchen appliances...and Hawaiian-print list (items include free health care and mance kicks off with Offenbach’s Gaîté that while other decade-spanning bands menswear. He’s a brand unto himself, and gun control); audience members at Parisienne, which climaxes in a fa- go on and off sabbatical with each new that brand involves sun, tequila, cheese- legendary jazz joint Iridium may get to mously rollicking cancan. Audience presidential term, John Linnell and John burgers, and maybe pirates. You could do hear it this evening. At 7, Iridium, 1650 members will also be treated to pieces Flansburgh have been continuously writ- worse. Bonus: Huey Lewis and the News Broadway, 212-582-2121, theiridium.com, by Ravel, Saint-Saëns, and such crowd- ing, recording, and touring for pretty provide a very Eighties opening set before $65–$95 A.S. pleasers as “La Vie en Rose,” sung by much all of that time. As the duo wrap up

NEW YEAR’S EVE GUIDE it’s back to the future for a second time. Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano Su- the 2015 revival of their “Dial-A-Song” At 9, Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Matana Roberts san Graham. At 7:30, David Geffen Hall, hotline (which offered callers a new song Avenue, Brooklyn, 917-618-6100, Experimental sound artist Matana Rob- 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, 212-721-6500, for each week of the year), they return to barclayscenter.com, $65–$500 H.B. erts has had a busy year compiling her se- nyphil.org, $89–$275 A.S. their native Brooklyn to usher in 2016.

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Hop the L and hear TMBG doctor up tos Party House at least once. There’s a the old “Auld Lang Syne.” At 11, reason this space, co-owned by expert- Music Hall of Williamsburg, 66 North level partyers Andrew W.K. and Despot, 6th Street, Brooklyn, 718-486-5400, has become a downtown legend: Two musichallofwilliamsburg.com, $35–$40 H.B. floors of music, art, and fashion create a

frenetic atmosphere like none other. To- Tribute Bands night, enjoy a five-hour premium open bar Want to spend New Year’s Eve with the and Champagne toast over the beats of original Beatles? Well, you can’t; that’s im- Francis Mercier, Posse, Jeff Molner, possible. But you can try, damn it! The Fab Sphynx, Dean Mickoski, 1wayTKT, and Faux take over City Winery for two shows MGM. Let the trippy projection art carry this year, and in some ways this is better — you away into 2016. At 9, Santos Party the tribute band lets you experience favor- House, 96 Lafayette Street, 212-584-5492, ite tunes from across the spectrum of the santospartyhaus.com, $69 H.B. Beatles’ wildly varied career. Spring for a V.I.P. ticket to secure prime house seats, a five-course dinner, wine tastings, and a WILD CARD Champagne toast. If your mood is less “Here Comes the Sun” and more “Heaven Awesome Aughts Knows I’m Miserable Now,” but still pri- Is it too soon to fetishize the early Aughts?

marily British in nature, then opt for the No way — not when there’s a TRL-worthy NEW YEAR’S EVE GUIDE fantastic Smiths tribute the Sons & Heirs as lineup of hits to revisit this New Year’s they drown Littlefield in a wave of melo- Eve. Break out the old velour jogging suit drama and falsetto. The Fab Faux at 7 and 11, and “Shake Ya Ass” (but watch yourself!) City Winery, 155 Varick Street, 212-608- to some Destiny’s Child–era Beyoncé, 0555, citywinery.com, $60–$225; the Sons & Catholic-schoolgirl-era Britney, and Heirs at 9, Littlefield, 622 Degraw Street, creepy-marionette-era *NSync. DJ Steve Brooklyn, littlefieldnyc.com, $20–$25 H.B. Reynolds spins pop, rock, r&b, and hip- hop of the early 2000s at this special New Year’s edition of the Awesome Aughts

DANCE dance party. With a cover that runs you a mere $5, it’s one of the night’s better bar- A Night in Tropical Paradise gains. At 10, Union Hall, 702 Union Street, For those who want — nay, need — to get Brooklyn, 718-638-4400, unionhallny.com, down this New Year’s: Mark your course $5 H.B. due west for S.O.B.’s. The Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra headlines this all-out Ball of Fire dance marathon. Platinum ticket holders are invited to arrive at 8 p.m. for a five- course seated dinner and stay through to a breakfast buffet the next morning. Perfor- mances by Carimi and T-Vice continue through the night with party favors and a Champagne toast. This soirée is not for the faint of heart or delicate of feet. At 8, S.O.B.’s, 204 Varick Street, 212-243-4940, sobs.com, $50–$200 H.B.

Royal Palms’ Second Annual Courtesy Film Forum/Photofest VILLAGE VOICE Flamingo Formal Flashy Golden Girls–style leisure suits are For those who prefer the low-key practically made for New Year’s revelry, dinner-and-a-movie-type evening, go for and there’s not a cocktail on earth that Ball of Fire, Howard Hawks’s superbly doesn’t benefit from a tiny umbrella. Shuf- smutty 1941 comedy. It’s a harrowing fle into 2016 at Royal Palms’ second Fla- tale of descriptivist grammar featuring mingo Formal. The Brooklyn shuffleboard Barbara Stanwyck at her most brazen. As club hosts this low-key affair complete nightclub performer Sugarpuss O’Shea, with its usual party games, dancing, photo she teaches a handsome but stuffy pro- D booth, and drink specials. It will also be fessor (Gary Cooper) a thing or two as he ECEMBER one of the last nights to savor the Bolivian compiles an encyclopedia of American Llama pop-up restaurant before it’s gone slang. With Betty Page bangs, sequin hot for good. Dress code is black, white, and pants, and a working knowledge of the 16 – D pink all over. (Feathers will be appreci- conga, trust Stanwyck to set a kitschy ated.) Call in early to reserve a lane or a tone for your New Year’s night. Tonight’s ECEMBER private party cabana. At 6, Royal Palms screenings include a free glass of bubbly Shuffleboard Club, 514 Union Street, Brook- for viewers. At 7:30 and 9:45, Film Forum, lyn, 347-223-4410, royalpalmsshuffle.com, 209 West Houston Street, 212-727-8110, 22, 2015 free H.B. filmforum.org, $13 H.B.

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ON TAP! out a prime spot and enjoy free live enter- $4 CRAFT PINTS, tainment and hot chocolate starting at 11 p.m. For another majestic experience, try DISCOUNTED the 21st Annual Brooklyn Bridge Walk Into COCKTAILS & WINE the New Year. This nighttime walking tour Visit our Sister Bar by New York Talks and Walks hosts multiple groups at 10:15 p.m., providing history DROP OFF as well as spectacular views. Fireworks at midnight, prospectpark.org, H.B. NEW YEAR’S EVE GUIDE SERVICE newyorktalksandwalks.com, free–$75 211 AVE A • NYC New York Road Runners Midnight Run If cycling isn’t quite invigorating enough, New York Road Runners hosts its annual New Year’s Eve run, a four-mile loop through much of Central Park that begins and ends at the Bethesda Fountain. You’ll have to buy in — it’s $60 for non-NYRR members, if you purchase before the day of — but that gets you a T-shirt, a glowing bracelet, the chance to win prize money based on your time, and, best of all, a sense of piety about your fitness that you can

lord over your hard-drinking friends. Get to the park early for music, dancing, and the fifteen-minute fireworks show. At midnight, the 72nd Street Transverse near Bethesda Terrace, 855-569-6977, nyrr.org, $25–$65 A.S.

Sleep No More + The King’s Winter Masquerade The McKittrick — actually a five-story warehouse meticulously outfitted to re-

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE semble a Thirties-era hotel — is spooky- elegant, the perfect setting for the immer- sive theater of Sleep No More. The performance, in which guests don masks and wander the space, happening upon actors

22, 2015 22, mid-scene, blends elements of Macbeth and Hitchcock; it’s a transporting experience throughout in which anything can

ECEMBER happen. Tonight, the folks behind the hit have quite the party in store: Guests can

16 – D purchase tickets for just the play, or they can add entry to a pre-show “royal feast” and/or a post-show masquerade ball.

ECEMBER Feast starts at 6, the McKittrick Hotel, 530

D West 27th Street, 212-904-1883, events. mckittrickhotel.com/wintermasquer- 24 ade2015, $100–$500 A.S. VOICECHOICES villagevoice.com WEEK OF DECEMBER 17 – 23, 2015 WWW.VILLAGEVOICE.COM/CALENDAR | CONTENTS | NEWS | FEATURE | THIS CENTURY’S MACHINES Nikki Feirt Atkins’s team reconstructs classic Broadway choreography at the Joyce, Wednesday VOICE CHOICES | ARTS | EATS & DRINKS | TV FILM MUSIC

Kyle Froman since 1980. The soprano saxophonist and ter in Oakland, one of California’s most re- Voice’s 1981 Pazz & Jop poll. More re- THUR. 12/17 his ten-piece Consort transform the Ca- nowned dispensaries. Now DeAngelo’s cently, her 2015 documentary, Heart of a thedral’s aisles and oratories into open traveling across the country to read from Dog, was warmly received by critics na- DANCE W performance spaces, filling a building tall and sign copies of his new book, The Canna- tionwide. Drummer Kid Millions fronts enough to contain the Statue of Liberty bis Manifesto, at the upcoming monthly the Brooklyn-based, Kraut-rock-leaning THEY’RE NUTS, ALL RIGHT with music. In addition to the Consort’s gathering of High NY, New York’s largest band Oneida and has performed with NUTCRACKER WITH A MORRIS TWIST longtime solstice rituals — which include cannabis meetup group. “His book is a Spiritualized, Marnie Stern, and Yo La Same old night out? Not on your life. The slowly lifting the world’s largest gong high must-read for anyone who has an interest in Tengo. He also authored a pan, published Mark Morris Dance Group returns to Brook- into the Cathedral’s vaults and decorating ending cannabis prohibition,” says High NY on the Talkhouse, of last year’s popular lyn with The Hard Nut, now in its 25th year. a towering “tree of sounds” — this year’s co-organizer Michael Zaytsev. “We’ll also percussion-themed movie Whiplash, rat- Set at a swinging suburban Christmas party three-night celebration will feature Bra- be celebrating 2015, a major year for the ing the in-film musical performances “two in the Seventies, and designed by Adrianne zilian singers Renato Braz and Fabiana Cannabis Movement.” Sipping Champagne Z’s out of three.” And part-guitarist, part-

Lobel based on the work of the comic-book Cozza along with a winter-repelling and schmoozing over munchies, the crowd violinist Diodore played in the late Lou VILLAGE VOICE artist Charles Burns, the production re- samba band and chorus. Choreographer is expected to be in high spirits for the holi- Reed’s touring band, as well as in local spects the original Tchaikovsky score (with Abdel Salaam will also premiere a new days, but don’t actually expect to get high groups Number19, BM Linx, and Pura- a full orchestra, conducted live by Colin work for the 25 dancers and drummers of — New York is still waiting on legalization cane. The Symptoms hit Le Poisson Rouge Fowler) but takes gender-bending liberties the Forces of Nature Dance Theatre. At 8 to make that happen. At 7, Impact Hub last year, and the videos that surfaced on- with the casting, hands the snow to the tonight, through Saturday, Cathedral NYC, 394 Broadway, 646-801-1247, nyc.im- line depicted the trio merging in sonic dancers instead of to an overhead machine, Church of Saint John the Divine, 1047 pacthub.net, $20–$40 MADISON MARGOLIN hysteria — expect nothing less this time and incorporates real acting with the in- Amsterdam Avenue, 212-316-7540, around. At 9:30, Secret Project Robot, 389 tensely musical modern dancing. If we’re stjohndivine.org, $35–$90 RICHARD GEHR W MUSIC Melrose Street, Brooklyn, peatix.com/

lucky, choreographer Morris himself, now event/133045, $15–$20 SILAS VALENTINO D pushing sixty, may turn up onstage. At 7:30 W WEED A BAND APART ECEMBER tonight, through Sunday, BAM Howard THREE DYNAMIC MUSICIANS Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Avenue, CANNABIS DESTINY REPRISE 2014 COLLABORATION FRI. 12/18 Brooklyn, 718-636-4100, bam.org, $25– DEANGELO’S BOOK IS LATEST STEP Three master explorers of music’s infinite 16 – D FILM $115 ELIZABETH ZIMMER IN THE MARIJUANA MOVEMENT and experimental abyss converge as The W

THCelebrity Steve DeAngelo has been Symptoms: Laurie Anderson, Kid Millions ECEMBER W MUSIC named among the most influential people (né John Colpitts), and Tony Diodore. CSI: SANTA in the world of weed. For the past forty Each artist is powerful enough to stand on KILLER CLAUS ON THE LOOSE

A WINTER WELCOME years, he’s pioneered the “industry” as an their own, yet they collaborate flawlessly IN LURID CULT CURIOSITY 22, 2015 36TH SOLSTICE FOR THE VETERAN activist, advocate, educator, and entrepre- here in a swirl of off-kilter sounds. Ander- In a staggering two-minute rant on an epi- SOPRANO SAXOPHONIST neur, perhaps best known for founding the son’s visionary career began with the un- sode of Siskel & Ebert at the Movies, the Paul Winter’s fittingly monikered Winter ArcView Group, which connects cannabis orthodox 1981 pop hit “O Superman,” Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel leaned Solstice Celebration has been an annual industry investors and entrepreneurs, and which earned her a first-place tie along- into Charles E. Sellier Jr.’s controversial institution at this Gothic Revival edifice for establishing the Harborside Health Cen- side the Rolling Stones in the Village Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) >> p26 25 Choices from p25 A woman flanked by cleaning supplies in New York’s with nothing but contempt in his heart. Bellevue Hospital, the subject “You people have nothing to be proud of, of an illustrated lecture at even if you made a few bucks off of all the Morbid Anatomy, Monday. negative publicity,” he says to the makers of the movie. “Your profits truly are blood villagevoice.com money.” Yanked from theaters in a mad heartbeat to quell the outrage, much of it voiced by concerned parents, surrounding the movie’s concept of a killer Santa Claus, Silent Night, Deadly Night nevertheless went on to spawn a collection of sequels — including a third installment in 1989 directed, peculiarly enough, by Monte Hellman (Two-Lane Blacktop) — and a vi- able cult following. With its ludicrous depiction of a traumatized, Santa-outfitted man murdering people with iconic Christ- mas objects (one woman is impaled on reindeer antlers), Silent Night stands as questionable viewing for youngsters — but a midnight screening at Nitehawk is another story. At 12:15 a.m., today and

SAT. 12/19 Courtesy Wellcome Library VOICE CHOICES VOICE duces a range of spirits. Check out its inet-flavored “O Come, All Ye Faithful.” W ART American gin named in honor of the ir- MON. 12/21 Following the release, Wilson and his reverent New Yorker and known tippler bandmates began performing the album TALKS ALAN’S ADIEU Dorothy Parker, or its Mister Katz’s, W with surprise guests during the holiday THE ARTIST’S FAREWELL SHOW IS A which blends rye whiskey with rock season: In 2012, for instance, the band LIVE TEN-HOUR INSTALLATION candy sugar, sour cherries, cinnamon, LOCKED AWAY jammed with the guitarist Bill Frisell at The artist Michael Alan was recently diag- and citrus — a festive pour for the holi- PEEK INTO THE HISTORY OF the Jazz Standard. This year, Wilson and nosed with kidney failure. Tonight, the 17 days. At 11 a.m., New York Distilling Com- THE CRIMINALLY INSANE his cohort have arranged a sixteen-day, Frost gallery, near McCarren Park in Wil- pany, 79 Richardson Street, Brooklyn, In 1879, Bellevue Hospital opened its “pa- continent-hopping tour, with stops in San liamsburg, hosts a final show. Since learn- 718-412-0874, whiskeywafflesandwork- vilion for the insane,” an unfortunately Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, and more. ing of his terminal illness, Alan — a shops.splashthat.com, $27 ALANNA SCHUBACH named treatment facility which to mod- The merriment comes to an end with a pioneer of the sci-fi/psychedelic hybrid ern ears sounds like a Disneyland attrac- two-night run here, featuring the excep- known as Afrofuturism, a term that came tion hosted by Alice Cooper. There, tional Jason Moran on piano. At 7:30 and into use in the Nineties — has been work- SUN. 12/20 lawbreakers who were judged incapable 9:30, tonight and tomorrow, Jazz Stan- ing nonstop to get as much down on paper of understanding the nature of their dard, 116 East 27th Street, 212-576-2232, SPORTS as he can. Believing that creativity solves W crimes would be isolated from society jazzstandard.com, $30 DANNY KING any problem, Alan also conceived the and undergo psychiatric care. Tonight at “Living Installation” project, whose aim NO BLOOD, NO FOUL Morbid Anatomy, join forensic psycholo- was to bridge the gap between art, politics, FOUR ELITE STREETBALL TEAMS gist Judy Jackson for “Criminally Insane: WED. 12/23

| MUSIC | FILM | TV | EATS & DRINKS | ARTS | | ARTS & DRINKS | MUSIC FILM TV EATS and technology in a total transformation SQUARE OFF IN JERSEY From Bedlam to Broadmoor, Bellevue, and of human into art object. As the artist pre- Harlem’s Rucker Park is perhaps the most Beyond,” a lecture that will cover the W DANCE pares for his own next phase, this event storied streetball venue in the country — changing standards of legal responsibil- should prove once more Alan’s assertion tales abound of future NBA stars who cut ity, profile some notorious hospital resi- IT’S NIKKI’S MACHINE that in transcending corporeality we find their teeth on the Rucker pavement before dents, and reveal how Christmas was ATKINS’S COMPANY UPHOLDS our true humanity. At 6, 17 Frost, 17 Frost ascending to the big-league spotlight. As celebrated in the asylum. Coal for every- THEODORE’S BROADWAY LEGACY Street, Brooklyn, 17frost.com, $20 the host of the Entertainers Basketball Clas- body, right? At 8, Morbid Anatomy Mu- Hey, big spender! Back when candy bars BRIAN CHIDESTER sic, an annual summer streetball tourna- seum, 424-A Third Avenue, Brooklyn, cost a nickel and you could rent an apartment that pits colorfully nicknamed 347-799-1017, morbidanatomymuseum.org, ment for $80, Broadway musicals teemed W DRINK amateurs against off-season pros, the park $8 ROB STAEGER with troupes of dancers wrangled by in- can lay claim to having hosted a catalog of spired choreographers. Nikki Feirt At-

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE OUR AMERICAN GIN legendary performances: On August 1, 2011, kins, carrying on the legacy of the late NY DISTILLING CO. MIXES WHISKEY, Kevin Durant dropped 66 points at Rucker, TUE. 12/22 Lee Theodore, now helms American WAFFLES, AND HOLIDAY CRAFTS torching the competition and turning the Dance Machine for the 21st Century, a living In this era of unusual food and drink pair- crowd into an amazed, awestruck mob. So W MUSIC archive of Broadway dances by such mas- ings, the New York Distilling Company popular has the EBC been that a number of ters as Michael Bennett, Jack Cole, Mia

22, 2015 22, raises the bar this afternoon by serving spin-off events have resulted, including a HARK! ANGELS SWING Michaels, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Rob- waffle-bar creations alongside its Rock & celebrity challenge at Barclays Center last WILSON ENLISTS MORAN TO HELP bins, Susan Stroman, Tommy Tune, and Rye whiskey cocktail. The sweet and year in which Kendrick Lamar guest- JAZZ UP CHRISTMAS MELODIES Wayne Cilento, who directs this lively

ECEMBER smoky combo should help fuel a serious coached. Today, the Prudential Center In 2010, the jazz drummer Matt Wilson production. Share the holidays with the crafting session: The event includes a partners up with the EBC for an afternoon released Matt Wilson’s Christmas Tree-O, an cast of 22, all veterans of Broadway

16 – D workshop, organized by Splacer, that will doubleheader, with participating teams album of sentimental Christmas tunes liv- shows, who provide smashing entertain- teach participants how to make coasters originating from New York, Newark, Bos- ened up with his practiced brand of wit, ment staged and coached by crafty artists from rope and corkboard. A card-writing ton, and Los Angeles. Rick Ross and more rule-breaking, and inimitable craft. With Donna McKechnie, Robert La Fosse, Pa-

ECEMBER and present-wrapping station rounds will be on hand to perform during intermis- Paul Sikivie on bass and Jeff Lederer on mela Sousa, Gemze de Lappe, and others.

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FOLLOW US: twitter.com/pﬁzer facebook.com/pﬁzer #newhavencru 27 Marjorie Prime By Jordan Harrison Playwrights Horizons W Theater 416 West 42nd Street 212-279–4200, playwrightshorizons.org

villagevoice.com Do the Math In the futurist world of Marjorie Prime, one divided by one is two BY JACOB GALLAGHER-ROSS | VOICE CHOICES | FEATURE | NEWS | CONTENTS | | CONTENTS | NEWS CHOICES | FEATURE | VOICE Jeremy Daniel Prime movers: Stephen Root, ARTS rime numbers, solitary types, Lois Smith, and Lisa Emery are divisible only by themselves and one. They’re the P loneliest numbers — and that phy, he preserves evasions and half- makes them the most human truths as readily as he does facts. As we of integers. Like primes, we’re soon learn, Marjorie’s memories omit ultimately the product of our plural some painful realities. experiences and our indivisible singular- I won’t give away the subsequent plot, ity. This makes them a good metaphor for because the play’s eerie quality depends the fragile uniqueness of human on its uncanny substitutions. Suffice to consciousness. say that the primes are more durable But in the not-so-distant future de- than the people they surrogate, sum- picted by Jordan Harrison’s captivating moning the specter of a world populated new play, Marjorie Prime (now playing at by the former caregivers of dead hu- Playwrights Horizons), human beings mans, living on in borrowed identities, are suddenly divisible by two. Humanoid preserving the past in digital memory

| MUSIC | FILM | TV | EATS & DRINKS | & DRINKS | MUSIC FILM TV EATS computers — ironically called “primes” (some of it false). — provide companionship to the elderly, Emphasizing the transitory nature of serving as combination caregivers and true human perceptions, director Anne aide-mémoire. The androids store their Kauffman’s production limns eloquent owners’ memories as a hedge against the compositions for fleeting intervals — a moment when the fallible wetware fi- backlit silhouette here, a haloed still life nally breaks down and they begin to lose there. These are images that radiate themselves. Like precocious children, meaning but don’t resolve easily into the primes learn by parroting back, be- narrative data. And the excellent ensem- coming more human even as their own- ble, called upon to play both people and ers slip further into dotage — passing primes, subtly delineates the differences

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE each other on the staircase of sentience. between unthinking human movement The first prime we meet is Walter and its machine-learned facsimile. A lit- (Noah Bean). He belongs to Marjorie tle stiffness in the posture, an overeager (Lois Smith), a sharp-tongued WASP question, a too-cheery expression of in- growing mellower in old age. He’s a terest — these subtleties suggest uncanny

22, 2015 22, perfect doppelgänger of her deceased approximations of sapience, not the husband’s younger self. (For whatever spontaneous thing-in-itself. reason, a prime’s appearance and dispo- The looming prospect of artificial in-

ECEMBER sition seem to be based on unfinished telligence always invites definitions of psychic business.) A keen listener, the human kind, and Harrison asks the perennial questions: As time robs us of 16 – D blandly kind to a fault — even a little flirty sometimes — Walter is a creature our faculties, when do we cease to be of pure semantic memory. He can recall ourselves? Conversely, at what point

ECEMBER every anecdote and mnemonic cue, but could an avid machine, having acquired

D he can’t create any new experiences. And the accumulated memories of its owner, he’s only as good as what he has been effectively assume that person’s person- 28 told: Piecing together composite biogra- ality as well? Harrison’s vision is more benign than that of, say, Blade Runner or Wait, isn’t Paul left- villagevoice.com Ex Machina. His computers don’t want handed? Bryan Fenkart, to destroy us. They just want to be the James Barry, Lucas best humans they can be. Papaelias, and Justin Kirk Marjorie Prime’s ending offers an alle- in These Paper Bullets! gory of a machine-dominated future as arid and self-referential as it is chipper: Humanity, in its decline, has engineered its own bland replacements — a retirement home for humanity itself. Endlessly

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hakespeare performed in modern S dress is nothing new, but Rolin Jones ups the ante considerably with his an- tic pop confection These Paper Bullets! This version of Much Ado About Nothing features toe-tapping, carbonated songs by Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong that convinc- ingly channel the early Beatles, from super- Ahron Foster sweet lyrics to hummable harmonies. The dialogue is a conflation of Sixties lingo and a poet-performer. The story line traces Chin’s terly winning. (Also very loud.) Based on Hans tle’s twelve-piece pit orchestra. faux Elizabethan, generously sprinkled with road to motherhood — from the quest for a Christian Andersen’s “The Princess and the “Immigrants,” observes Lin-Manuel Miran- nods to both Beatles and Bard. sperm donor through insemination, preg- Pea,” Mattress itself is lumpy and overlong; the da’s Alexander Hamilton uptown at the Rich- ARTS It takes a minute to adjust to the funny, nancy, the birth and raising of her daughter, show was expanded for Broadway, and several ard Rodgers Theatre, “we get the job done.” frequently raunchy banter. But the visual sync and finally to what it all has taught her, ex- charming musical numbers feel tacked on. But Here too. “I swam the moat,” Hoffman, the | EATS & DRINKS | TV FILM MUSIC is instantaneous: The candy-colored mini- pressed as full-on feminist manifesto. under Jack Cummings’s sly direction, it’s dripping swamp thing from over the moun- skirts, Twiggy haircuts, and Mary Quant–style Chin’s script is well structured, funny, and smartly designed and gorgeously dressed (by tains, nonchalantly informs the bewildered, flower logos are spot on, vividly evoking the moving, her comic delivery exhibits veteran Sandra Goldmark and Kathryn Rohe, respec- desperate courtiers. She swam the moat! She Fab Four’s youthquake era. The band, com- game, and her physicality spans the gamut tively); the entire cast excels, as does Matt Cas- wins the prince! It’s her world. ELIZABETH ZIMMER plete with trademark bowl cuts, is all here from lithely sensual to unabashedly gymnastic. (cleverly called the Quartos — shades of She and director Cynthia Nixon make full use Shakespeare), performing with contagious of Kristen Robinson’s abstractly designed brio. Occasional audience participation, in- circular set, not to mention the aisles, along cluding characters racing through the aisles which the performer doesn’t hesitate to launch and black-and-white video projections of un- herself like the human-missile-on-a-mission witting theatergoers in simulated BBC news that she is. footage, adds to the general hilarity. At its heart, though, this cathartic bullet- The double — and double-crossed — train ride is a confessional narrative about find- romance of Much Ado becomes the story ing oneself. And as with rail travel, ticket of Claude (the Quartos’ Paul) and Higgy, the holders should come prepared to get on board Twiggy-like It-girl and model for Bea, the mod and heed the conductor. DAVID SPENCER designer of the moment. Then there’s the vil- lainous former Quarto Don Best, who conspires, Once Upon a Mattress pre-Photoshop, to doctor a pic of Higgy’s gal Music by Mary Rodgers; lyrics by Marshall Barer pal Ulcie shagging a burly tabloid writer in order VILLAGE VOICE Book by Jay Thompson, Dean to manufacture evidence that Higgy has be- Fuller, and Marshall Barer trayed her betrothed. But all’s well that ends Abrons Arts Center well, right down to double vows and a rousing 466 Grand Street rock number. Great fun. PHOEBE HOBAN 212-564-0333, transportgroup.org

MotherStruck! hen, in 1959, 26-year-old Carol Written and performed by Staceyann Chin Burnett burst into prominence at Lynn Redgrave Theater W the East Village’s Phoenix The- 45 Bleecker Street 212-925-1806, cultureproject.org ater as Winnifred the Woebegone in Once D Upon a Mattress, and when, for television in ECEMBER riter-performer Staceyann Chin’s 2005, Burnett took on the role of the imperi- new autobiographical solo show ous Queen Aggravain, who’d have guessed W 16 – D MotherStruck! blazes an epic arc that in 2015 the brilliant, raucous Jackie Hoff- through its 100-minute (plus intermission) man would, at age 55, be playing the intrepid journey. It starts with Chin’s childhood in Ja- princess, or that the monstrous queen ECEMBER maica, including her mother abandoning her mother would be impersonated by John to the care of a coldly insensitive aunt and her Epperson, better known locally as Lypsinka discovery, as a tween, that she’s a lesbian. and only occasionally camping it up across 22, 2015 Young Staceyann’s reactive vow never to the fourth wall? have children is forgotten once she’s old Lypsinka received the blessing of composer enough to break away from Jamaica’s gay- Mary Rodgers to play the glamorous monarch unfriendly environs and migrate to New York, who tortures Hoffman, and the Transport there to find her financially challenged way as Group’s production is delightful, timely, and ut- 29 villagevoice.com

ARTS Fernando Bryce Reproduced in plain white paper and bitions by the likes of Jackson Pollock, Alexander and Bonin black ink, the drawings have been hung Arshile Gorky, and Robert De Niro Sr. 132 Tenth Avenue salon-style since they were first displayed. Taken together, the twin installations pro- W Art 212-367-7474 alexanderandbonin.com Despite their nature as copies, they make pose contrasting notions of enduring loss Through December 19 a convincing claim for uniqueness that and evolutionary change. While staring at channels Andy Warhol’s disaster paint- Bryce’s wall of forgotten period writings Pen Station ings and Roy Lichtenstein’s DC Comics. by Niels Bohr, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and For his current show at Chelsea’s Alex- George Bernard Shaw can be dispiriting, ander and Bonin — which you should studying counterfeit ads for bygone outfits Meet Fernando Bryce, one-of-a-kind copyist catch while you still can, through Decem- like the Bertha Schaefer Gallery, Julien BY CHRISTIAN VIVEROS-FAUNÉ ber 19 — Bryce turns to three distinct Levy Gallery, and Peggy Guggenheim’s Art stocks of historical publications from the of This Century gallery is like trudging mpressionable people, the Scottish leaguered civilization. Centuries later, as 1940s and ’50s for the very first works he through a mile of kale. No doubt a simi- historian Charles Mackay once said, Gutenberg’s printing press converted Eu- has produced in the U.S. (Until recently larly vigorous regeneration will befall think in herds, go mad in herds, and, rope from a manuscript to a print culture, the artist lived and worked in Berlin.) these galleries’ successors. unfortunately, recover their senses new editions of Bibles and other funda- These include articles and images from But directly contrasting these works —

| MUSIC | FILM | TV | EATS & DRINKS | & DRINKS | MUSIC FILM TV EATS I one by one. A crystalline thought for mental books eschewed the use of copyists Parisian and Latin American art maga- Bryce calls one group The Book of Needs, our conformist age, this observation cuts in favor of standardized processes. Today, zines unearthed from MoMA’s library, gal- the other simply ARTnews 1944–1947 — against the grain of our current copycat as the age of mechanical reproduction lery advertisements from the magazine only provides a partial reading of the aes- culture. For every thousand people who gives way to the relentless entertainments ARTnews, and pages and covers taken thetic and philosophical pleasure to be unthinkingly swear that social media of digital culture, certain creators have from the defunct print version of the peri- gained from these drawings. Sketched out trumps newspapers, Facebook friends are made it their duty to recover key ideas odical Courier, the magazine of the United in grisaille figures and interpretive block the same as actual friends, and art im- from the twilight of mass discourse. For Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cul- letters that constitute the artist’s mimetic proves when it’s in thrall to money, there Bryce that mission starts with selecting tural Organization (UNESCO) that was style — at times the drawings approach the are always a few cussed originals willing and hand-drawing historical archives. once published in more than thirty lan- look of Tintin comic strips — these works to challenge received assumptions. Minus the gold leaf, they function like pic- guages (including Braille). At the time, also provide a signal lesson in history’s One such pioneer is Peruvian artist tures with pronounced textual elements — UNESCO was considered the “intellec- passing romances and ruthless leavings.

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE Fernando Bryce, who is committed to ex- in other words, illustrated manuscripts for tual” mouthpiece of the United Nations. As underscored by a third set of silk- ploring the wisdom manifest in antique the 21st century. Today the organization is the largely for- screens Bryce made from old magazines ideas and timeworn technologies. Bryce’s Starting in 2000, when the artist gotten defender of a harried humanist and titled Arte Nuevo, the artist presents art consists mostly of ink-on-paper draw- sought to manually represent the recent project, known chiefly for decrying oblit- a composite portrait of New York at the ings of old books, pamphlets, newspapers, history of his native Peru in 494 drawings, erated world heritage sites like Nimrud time of its greatest cultural, political, and

22, 2015 22, advertisements, and magazines. The fact Bryce has applied what he calls a method and Nineveh. moral triumph. that his handmade versions of printed of “mimetic analysis” to various sets of Arranged low, for reading purposes, The historical moment Bryce renders matter can now be easily reproduced by printed archives. These include, among and in cloudlike formations, Bryce’s 81 in period black-and-white was enshrined

ECEMBER means of scanning, printing, photography, other disparate sources, English- and hand-drawn renditions of enlightened in the U.N.’s Universal Declaration of and photocopying bolsters rather than di- German-language clippings from the treatises published in Courier and 31 ads Human Rights and in the phrase “the triumph of the New York School” — later 16 – D minishes their potency. There’s a compel- magazines Time and Die Welt, U.S. tour- from ARTnews face off in the gallery’s ling anachronism at work here: Behold the ism brochures for 1940s-era tropical main space like two sides of a single publi- to be satirized on canvas by painter Mark case of the artist who arrived at the idea of paradises Cuba and Mexico, and a set of cation. On the one side is editorial, safe in Tansey. Ever the independent-minded

ECEMBER being an original by becoming a copyist. facsimiles of modernist paintings the Pe- the knowledge of its vaunted intellectual rummager, Bryce pays homage to that

D In the Middle Ages, copyists, or scribes, ruvian air force once used to educate superiority. On the other is the sales team, era’s universalist impulse and delineates not only transcribed books and lectures, pilots (even for fighting men, the 1960s eagerly pushing discounts and subscrip- its bedrock moral values yet makes clear 30 they proved crucial to the survival of a be- were really all about self-improvement). tions while it soberly promotes solo exhi- that his likeness is a fake. AwayEats-1; in 4.4165 in; 11 in; Black; -; 09-Eats-1a.pdf villagevoice.com a mangia Karen Tedesco Karen | CONTENTS | NEWS | FEATURE | VOICE CHOICES | ARTS |

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FILM from Godard and Robert Ryan’s rage-filled cop, sent out of some don’t-miss noirs town to help nab a murderer. Halfway through the movie, he meets the woman BY MELISSA ANDERSON who will transform him (and many in the

| MUSIC audience): Ida Lupino’s Mary, the blind wanted to tell the story of the last nand and Marianne (whose nickname for of the same name from Library of Amer- older sister of the teenager Jim is after. romantic couple,” Jean-Luc Godard her lover supplies the film’s title) as they ica. Baker’s film, based on Charlotte Arm- The actress was best known at the time for explained in a 1965 interview with lam it from Paris, where he’s left behind a strong’s novel Mischief, might have been the steelier roles she played in movies like I Cahiers du Cinéma about the impe- wife, kid, and haut-bourgeois existence, to one of the thousands of American noirs Jean Negulesco’s Road House (1948) — tus behind the riotous and efful- the Côte d’Azur. Bodies and weapons pile that Godard and his movie-mad Nouvelle and for her pioneering work behind the gently beautiful Pierrot le Fou, which up (Marianne is a member of some kind of Vague confrères consumed at the Ciné- camera, becoming the second woman to premiered that year at the Venice Film shadowy insurgency), as do dizzying in- mathèque Française. Set entirely in a be admitted to the Directors Guild. In On Festival. It’s certainly an apt tagline, even congruities and asides: She breaks into Manhattan hotel, Don’t Bother to Knock is Dangerous Ground, Lupino is at once un- for a project that, like all Godard films song twice, he imitates the iconic French full of small surprises, starting with the guarded and independent. “I have to trust from his fertile early period (and beyond), actor Michel Simon, they put on an absurd perfectly executed transition that Anne everybody,” Mary tells Jim, a line that jolts

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE abounds with headier concepts and refer- play about the Vietnam War for American Bancroft, in her film debut as chanteuse this long-dejected man back to life. ences both high and low — painting, litera- tourists. Reds and blues dominate; cine- Lyn Lesley, makes from her barstool: With ture, cinema, comics, consumerism, war. matographer Raoul Coutard’s primary- just a turn, she segues from lamenting her Pierrot le Fou But when considering the performers JLG color palette evokes both Mondrian’s love life with the mixologist to dazzling as Written and directed by brought together to play Pierrot le Fou’s Broadway Boogie-Woogie and the Sunday the hotel’s featured entertainer, launching Jean-Luc Godard Rialto Pictures 22, 2015 22, Ferdinand and Marianne, his remark funnies. Pierrot le Fou ends in betrayal and into “How About You?” Opens December 18, Film Forum Listening to the song, piped in to his becomes even more touching: Jean-Paul death, though it is this line from Marianne, Don’t Bother to Knock Belmondo, who five years earlier starred spoken in voiceover, that best captures the room, from his bed is Jed (Richard Wid- Directed by Roy Ward Baker ECEMBER in the director’s debut, Breathless, the film’s abandon and the delirium it instills: mark), a pilot recently dumped by Lyn. As Playing December 16, Film Forum a distraction from his heartache, he pays a story of another doomed duo; and Anna “I feel alive. That’s all that matters.” On Dangerous Ground Karina, in the sixth of seven features she Two days before Pierrot le Fou begins visit to Nell (Marilyn Monroe), the flirta- 16 – D Directed by Nicholas Ray made with Godard, whom she married in its week-long run at Film Forum, Roy tious — and deeply disturbed — babysitter Playing December 18 and 20, 1961 — and divorced before the shooting Ward Baker’s Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) visible from across the courtyard. Don’t Museum of the Moving Image

ECEMBER of Pierrot le Fou began. screens at the West Houston Street re- Bother to Knock gave Monroe her first Nightfall D Very loosely based on American crime doubt as part of the terrific “Women headlining role, and her entrance instantly Directed by Jacques Tourneur writer Lionel White’s 1962 novel, Obses- Crime Writers” series, occasioned by the reveals the actress’s talent for conveying Playing December 20, 34 sion, Godard’s movie giddily follows Ferdi- recent publication of the two-volume set extreme vulnerability: Emerging through Museum of the Moving Image CHEVY CHASE BEVERLY D’ANGELO JULIETTE LEWIS SUNSHINE AT MIDNIGHT $10.00! FRIDAY & SATURDAY

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Lucasfilm America, and Top Gun Tom Cruise. Or they’ve been gently cynical heroes- to-be, who carp a little as they’re nudged toward their inevitable world-saving and self-improvement: Iron Man, Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord, Bill Murray in Ghostbusters, villagevoice.com Will Smith in everything. Reynolds’s characters couldn’t improve — they’re already the best at everything they do, which makes them much tougher for most of us to match ourselves up to. Maybe that’s why he crashed into the Eighties like Por- kins into the Death Star trench. (Katniss Everdeen breaks these rules, of course, but she breaks all rules.) The early adventure films of Lucas and Spielberg wiped away the dourness of Seventies action films and the breezy plot- lessness of car-chase movies. Conviction to the fantasy was now as important as the stunt and effects work. Luke versus Vader felt epochal. Even the better Bond movies never seemed important — they were too grown up, in their way, to mistake their stories for anything more than fantastic play. Star Wars encouraged us to believe fantastic play meant everything.

The Triumph of Trash Before Star Wars, our popular culture wasn’t cluttered with fantasy heroes. There were comics — Marvel pioneered the self-serious smash-up serial. There were the pulps and old movies I used to The Empire is a band now? skip school to see on TV: Errol Flynn, Ray Harryhausen, Godzilla. W Film But you had to seek out those thrills, and they had the whiff of trash about them. During my Midwestern childhood, one relative warned me that a Conan The Pew-Pew Consensus comic would rot my brain, and a youth pastor inveighed against the cover of a col-

FILM BY ALAN SCHERSTUHL more than any other. Just a generation before it came to dom- while back, a friend ex- to say that second-graders should be The Three Musketeers, Burt Reynolds pic- inate our culture, fantasy violence was dis- pressed concern that her shielded from jolly pop mayhem. Instead, tures, or Roger Moore’s James Bonds. reputable, a little underground, scruffy and

| MUSIC son, a ten-year-old, was I just want to ask: Why do we agree, today, Nineteen seventy-seven changed every- impolite. It wasn’t always kid-friendly, and A watching too much My Lit- that this material is appropriate? How did thing. Elvis died, John Wayne was almost there weren’t clear rules covering what was tle Pony. “It’s sweet,” she the kapowing of stormtroopers become there, and Hollywood offered three strik- acceptable: Note how the Fangoria-lite said, “but not what I’d choose.” the pop-entertainment universe’s center ingly different takes on the masculine hero: bloodiness of the first Indiana Jones pic- I asked what she would prefer that he of financial gravity — and the shared imag- first, Reynolds’s high-on-his-own-fumes tures contrasts with the gentlemen’s fisti- watch. inative landscape of billions? wiseass, who probably couldn’t summarize cuffs of the third, made after the public “Well, his dad started him on that new [Please note that these questions are the plots his cars raced through. The action scolded Lucas and Spielberg for all their Star Wars cartoon.” being asked by someone who occasionally Hal Needham orchestrated around him heart-ripping and kid-whipping. But the That cartoon is Star Wars: Rebels, a enjoys Star Wars: Rebels at the gym.] was brilliant automotive slapstick — but sadism of Temple of Doom or the Daredevil retro-now adventure series that harks didn’t purport to matter. Netflix series differs from that of Star Wars back to the roguish, hardscrabble feel of The Men of ’77 Reynolds’s smile said, “Ain’t this all only in tone and degree: They’re still about

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE the original Star Wars films — but with the Let’s start in the Seventies, the decade just a laugh?” The other heroes of ’77 how awesome it might be to kick ass. look of PS4 cutscenes. Its insurgents wage that Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson first played it comic-book straight. Mark In the Eighties, for the first time since guerrilla strikes against the Empire: published Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks, Hamill’s dreamy naïf Luke Skywalker Bonanza and Vic Morrow in Combat!, Spaceships explode, stormtroopers get illuminating with mathematical clarity the grows great through violence in a manner Americans began to admit that what they blasted, Imperial middle management assumption that has long underpinned vio- closer to D&D than the Tolkien and Kuro- really wanted to watch was grown-ups

22, 2015 22, gets Force-murdered by Imperial senior lent storytelling: that killing makes us better. sawa that George Lucas has cited as influ- playing the old kids’ game of Cops & Rob- management. A captured Jedi gets sub- A long time ago, in this very galaxy, kill- ences. Meanwhile, Harrison Ford united bers, Cowboys & Indians, or whatever you jected to what I can only describe as nos- ing had become dirty work for grown-ups. Reynolds’s cocksure disinterest and just called it. (My neighbors, pragmatists, just

ECEMBER talgic torture: There’s the orb that Vader Once the westerns died, and Vietnam re- enough of that searching hopefulness of dubbed it “Guns.”) The success of Ken- used to interrogate Leia in ’77! The blue minded Americans it’s not always easy to Hamill: In the years to come, we would ner’s Star Wars toys sparked dozens of im-

16 – D lightning the Emperor fried Luke with! spot the villains, Hollywood heroes who believe that Indiana Jones believes non- itators, especially in the cheapjack world And the sparkplug-looking torture rack killed were mostly grim grown-ups: Dirty sense we knew Ford was barely tolerating. of TV cartoons. Han got strapped to in Empire! Harrys, Buford Pussers, Steve McQueens. The seekers and geeks were taking over. You don’t hear much today about how

ECEMBER Star Wars: Rebels is on the Disney Filmmakers expected you might want to Since then, most of our biggest non-R-rated stridently the culture resisted the peddling

D Channel. It’s rated TV-Y7 — fine for seven- close your eyes when the bullets hit. The movie and TV fantasy heroes have hewn to of this stuff to kids, how the clown Geraldo year-olds. flip side was the kids’ movies, where he- Hamill/Ford archetypes: true-believer assailed D&D while parents railed against 36 I’m not here, in Our Week of Star Wars, roic violence was a cornpone joke, as in dreamers who seem to level-up as they dis- He-Man and G.I. Joe. Evangelicals >> p37 Pew-Pew from p36 villagevoice.com

joined liberals to campaign against a suddenly pervasive media violence that today only seems to bug the latter. Advertisers got spooked, so a weaksauce fretfulness distinguished cartoon ass-kicking from the Lucas-Spielberg gold standard: Vader might hack off Luke’s hand, but in syndica- tion the Joes fought a war of Care Bears

And Then Everyone Got Old The real problem with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull isn’t its CGI or its aliens or its Shia LaBeouf. It’s that the director has grown past his interest in the woo-hoo! slaughter of bad guys. (He can still ace more innocent action, Raise your finger if though. Give Tintin another chance.) you’re the best reason Spielberg’s adeptness with — and am- to see this movie. bivalence toward — violence is the most interesting thing about him, apart from his Universal Pictures offhand mastery. He’s an artist aspiring to Sisters woman of her generation. She specializes moral seriousness, and he seems to share Directed by Jason Moore in characters with clueless empathy, go- the qualms of the critics of Temple of Universal Pictures W Film getter types who so exhaust themselves Doom: To compensate, he now plays too Opens December 18 trying to please it’s as though they’re nice. Late Indy won’t shoot in cold blood aliens from outer space sincerely aiming the way he shot that swordsman, or the to fit in. Trying to bond with the neighbor- way ’77 Han Solo shot Greedo. It’s Their Party hood hunk (a charming Ike Barinholtz), The prudes lost the first casualty of the Poehler puts on a tiny frown and asks, “So violence war, of course. Now the kids who did you see your parents die?” laughed at G.I. Joe’s tameness demand Sisters isn’t brilliant, but Fey and Poehler Fey’s wastrel single mom is too thinly tougher stuff, for themselves and their make it a bash BY AMY NICHOLSON sketched to keep pace, but the film is own kids, too. Like millennials, they relish packed with so many supporting charac- the high-stakes play of the Marvel films hat’s quietly revolu- the drugs and booze start flowing, the eve- ters that this isn’t fatal. John Cena is per- and the promise of a new Star Wars every tionary about Sisters ning is a mess: There will be fights, danc- fection as a taciturn drug dealer. (Can he year; millions of them have spent lives on

is that it’s a dumb ing and destruction, and probably foam please be in every movie?) Maya Rudolph the genocidal self-improvement tread- FILM party movie like a from the ceiling. Yes, suds and secrets spill plays the bitter mean girl determined to mills of Diablo and Fallout.

W | MUSIC million others. The all over the house. Fey and Poehler even sabotage the sisters’ big night, John And they seem to have agreed upon the hosts score booze, invite over dozens of divide into typical archetypes. Fey’s Kate Leguizamo is an aging rager whom Fey rules that Lucas and Spielberg were fum- friends and frenemies, and then watch in is the unhinged, oversexed loon while describes as “under-the-underpass bling toward. horror — and a touch of self-congratula- Poehler’s Maura has the self-sacrificial weathered,” Greta Lee is great as a wild There’s a generational consensus: tory awe — as their house gets trashed. prudery of a kid who spent her life clean- manicurist, and Bobby Moynihan, as the Young people’s fantasy violence should be With the sunrise come lessons, hugs, and a ing up after her older sister’s wreckage. That Guy of the party — the one who escapist, suspenseful, sometimes funny, hell of a hangover. We’ve seen this movie Their shared bedroom is a shambles, a shows up first, yells loudest, entertains full of passionate conviction about its own starring all ages (Project X to Old School) jumble of detritus that captures growing no one — is a one-man hurricane who mythology, populated with dreamers and

and social classes (The Party, The Great up girl: batons, jelly bracelets, Dep hair gathers energy as the night goes on. I nice-guy scoundrels, and it should always VILLAGE VOICE Gatsby) and with every backdrop from gel, ballerina jewelry boxes, Michael J. went from rolling my eyes every time be un-shy about whether the bad guys are high school (House Party) to college (21 Fox posters, clarinets, Care Bears, Popples, he came onscreen to cackling before he dying. (Even the Fast & Furious movies fol- and Over) to weddings (Bachelor Party) to and, of course, diaries. When they reread could even speak. low these rules.) But that violence should Armageddon (The End of the World). their childhood scrawl, Kate’s is a lurid Once the bash really gets going, I was never be too grotesque, bloody, or — even What we haven’t seen is a dumb party account of sex and debauchery. Maura swept up in the chaos and happily clicked worse — flamboyantly comic. Outrage movie starring two middle-aged women, quotes Helen Keller. off my brain. Screenwriter Paula Pell over Temple of Doom pales before outrage or, as one of those women, Kate (Tina Fey), During the film’s first third, you might classes up the dumb stuff with a touch of over the cartoonish risibility of The King- puts it, “two dusty old twats.” (The two ac- get restless as director Jason Moore (Pitch depth — these revelers, mature-ish people dom of the Crystal Skull. tresses definitely aren’t, but they have the Perfect) establishes their wearily predict- with mortgages and children, savor this That’s how Jedi-torture is now TV-Y7. D confidence to embrace harsh lighting and able dynamic. It’s tired stuff, but after two night because, as Poehler yelps, “We know That’s the baseline, the kids’ stuff, pew- ECEMBER unflattering spandex if it’ll get them a decades of friendship, Fey and Poehler we could die tomorrow!” Pell unabashedly pew as it should be. A couple hours later, laugh.) When her younger sister Maura know how to sell their characters’ bond. writes for and from a female p.o.v., trusting though, the grown-ups might watch (Amy Poehler) breaks the news that their These stars share a comfortable short- that we’ll get the joke when Rudolph’s something less nostalgic and more adult, 16 – D parents (James Brolin and Dianne Wiest) hand that we see in the way they touch character claims she vengefully flushed a something less beholden to those rules — are selling their childhood home, the two each other’s hair and communicate with tampon down the toilet and Fey counters, Game of Thrones, maybe. ECEMBER revisit the Orlando McMansion of their quick glances, or the way Poehler, seated “You’re pads all the way, and we know it!” The treat has become the staple, the un- youth to pack up their bedrooms and throw on a porch, casually scratches the stairs to Make no mistake: Sisters isn’t a brilliant derculture has become the overculture, and one last rager — that is, if any of their old beckon Fey to sit. comedy. But it doesn’t have to be. Even the now it’s the cartoons about ponies that par- 22, 2015 pals can get babysitters. (Or back out of “It’s like a good marriage,” Poehler better dumb party movies are ranked ents aren’t sure about. Once he gets hooked their pre-existing plans to drink chardon- told Glamour. Make that an exceptional somewhere between mediocre and pretty on Star Wars, my friend’s ten-year-old will nay and watch HBO.) one, as when Poehler and Fey pair up, they good. So sure, pour me a red Solo cup of never pass up the chance to watch heroes If you’ve ever seen a dumb party movie, generously egg each other on to look even Poehler and Fey dancing to Snow’s “In- kill — and be reminded that the killing is you can predict what happens next. Once funnier. Poehler may be the best straight- former.” In fact, I’ll have another. both good fun and of urgent importance. 37 Son of Saul Directed by László Nemes W Film Sony Pictures Classics Opens December 18, Film Forum

villagevoice.com Life at the End Son of Saul tracks one cog in the death camps’ machine

BY SCOTT TOBIAS Géza Röhrig, winner of best hat are the limits of actor in the representation? Voice’s 2015 That’s a moral ques- film poll tion that hovers over W Sony Pictures Classics any depiction of the Final Solution, and it’s not considered pher, Mátyás Erdély, are precise in con- matorium where Saul (Géza Röhrig) nect the audience to Saul’s numbness, lightly by László Nemes’s Son of Saul, trolling what the camera glimpses, their serves as part of the Sonderkommando, shielding us as much as possible from the which turns unimaginable horrors into main strategy is to limit visual perspective a unit of Jewish prisoners forced to clean cacophony of human misery that rings in tangible ones. By venturing inside the severely and leave the soundtrack — and up the gas chambers after executions. We his ears. The chill seeps in regardless, as it death factory of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the viewer’s imagination — to do most of learn nothing about how Saul came to be a should, and Nemes doesn’t try to counter Nemes risks greeting obscenity with ob- the dirty work. In his audacious feature Sonderkommando, but we can tell, based it with more than a tiny, stubborn flicker of scenity, as if the Holocaust were the latest debut, Nemes, a Hungarian who served on the rote fluidity of his actions, that he’s hope. After a young boy survives the gas frontier in you-are-there experiential cin- as assistant director to Béla Tarr on The familiar with the Nazi boilerplate promis- chamber, only to be snuffed out swiftly by ema. Whether Nemes crosses the line is a Man From London, narrows the frame to ing work to the soon-to-be-deceased, that a Nazi “doctor,” Saul makes it his mission matter of personal taste, but there’s no Academy ratio, keeps a shallow depth-of- he’s heard the screams and gasps from be- to save the body from cremation, find a question that he’s aware of that line, be- field, and tracks a single cog in the death- hind the metal door, and that he’s collected rabbi, and give the child a proper burial. cause nearly every second in Son of Saul camp machine. There’s a creeping sense, the personal effects hanging outside the There’s some ambiguity over whether the feels like an act of aesthetic calculation. throughout the film, that any attempt to showers. Though Saul and the Sonderkom- boy is Saul’s illegitimate son, but the small- What we see and don’t see, what we hear open the lens a little wider or follow a mando live apart from the other prisoners, ness of this gesture serves as a powerful and don’t hear — all rigorously determined more redemptive arc would be an un- their deaths are no less certain, only de- rebuke to the martyrs and saints that pop- to evoke a historical evil as fully as possible seemly act of exploitation. layed. Röhrig’s face, in these moments, is a ulate Holocaust narratives like Schindler’s without marinating in it. Son of Saul opens with its most harrow- mask of grim resignation. List or Life Is Beautiful. Here, hope is fleet- Though Nemes and his cinematogra- ing sequence, entering an Auschwitz cre- Nemes does everything he can to con- ing — and easily extinguished.

FILM Opens December 17, MoMA W Film Way’s merry, rapid-fire visual style shows Nordic cuisine made of exclusively Nordic age hunting youth and youth screwing ingredients, will retake its top spot on the Pacifico Pieruccioni, the rangy, sub- age, the battle for narrative control eter- World’s 50 Best Restaurants list in 2014, a 8tly charismatic sexagenarian at the The Genital Warriors nally stymied by the constant entangle- position Noma held from 2009 to 2012. It center of Simone Rapisarda Casano-

| MUSIC Written and directed by Matthew O.L. Way ment of reinventions, false memories, and fell to second in 2013, something chef René va’s majestic documentary, his second fea- CinemaFlix moviemaking conventions. One of his fa- Redzepi feels keenly even as he disavows the ture-length project, couldn’t have a more Opens December 18, Cinema Village vorite sources of amusement is cutting arbitrary nature of restaurant rankings. In suitable first name. Unflappable, the shep- If you ever wished for Leos Carax’s suddenly between differing film formats, between, Redzepi worries about the effects herd, who tends his flock in the Apennine 8Holy Motors to be reinterpreted as the result of shooting piecemeal over six of a February 2013 outbreak of norovirus that Mountains in Tuscany, calmly engages with a manic, wildly irreverent comedy, years. What makes this madcap film even sickened 63 Noma diners, whether anyone all creatures, whether they have four feet or Matthew O.L. Way’s The Genital Warriors funnier is that nobody actually seems to be else understands the nuances of using lemon two. His serenity stands in sharp contrast is the postmodern absurdist voyage of steering the ship, not even Way, who ap- thyme instead of regular, and whether or not with the bellicose history of the area, former your dreams. In the opening scene, the pears late in the running time as a minor he’ll get a third Michelin star — not that rat- site of the Gothic Line, the German bulwark narrator, a hoary ne’er-do-well named character. Yet despite the obstacles of de- ings matter to him. Deschamps has a hard in Italy during the final stages of World War Frank Ewington who’s holed up in a tours, distractions, and alter egos, the time dramatizing Redzepi’s year awaiting II; about halfway through The Creation of

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE “geronto-psychiatric” ward, wakes up characters always seem to dimly recog- further accolades; he solemnly films plates of Meaning, a group of Italian-resistance re- and proceeds to type up a bizarre semibio- nize each other, even if the audience food without any explanation of what they enactors shoot fake rifles near Pacifico’s graphical screenplay about his favorite ex- doesn’t. Like the ravings of a keyed-up are or why they’re worth documenting, as property, their war games ending up as a girlfriends, Lena and Barbara. From there screenwriter, there’s conviction, if not though their association with Noma is film-within-the-film. Like Rapisarda Casa- it’s a cannon-shot through a weird, wired logic, in its madness, and that makes it fun enough. The closest Deschamps comes to nova’s debut, The Strawberry Tree (2011), a

22, 2015 22, story characterized by magic wands, and fascinating. ABBY GARNETT creating real stakes is some unexplained, on- loose, relaxed ethnography about a Cuban Dutch philosophers, sexual capers, mur- going tension between Redzepi and his chief fishing village wiped out by a hurricane, der, and a movie theater in which Lena Noma: My Perfect Storm of research and development, Lars Williams: The Creation of Meaning is about a way of

ECEMBER and Barbara watch and comment on re- Directed by Pierre Deschamps For about ten minutes, the documentary life on the verge of extinction. A Pisa- enactments of their youthful experiences. Magnolia Pictures seems like it could be titled What’s Lars’s dwelling German will soon take ownership Opens December 18, Landmark Sunshine

16 – D No fewer than four demi–Frank Ewing- Available on demand Problem? or Will Lars Get Fired? He doesn’t; of Pacifico’s land, an irony lost on neither tons appear to try and manipulate things, Noma retakes the top spot in 2014, and busi- man and one that this movie, assured in its while eight different actresses play the rying to position an internationally ness carries on unchanged. Deschamps rhythms and observations, doesn’t push to

ECEMBER roles of Lena and Barbara, to say nothing celebrated, always booked restaurant never ventures below the surface of Redze- the point of redundancy. “Sometimes I

D T as an underdog is a ridiculous under- pi’s wildly successful experiment, and while think Italians don’t deserve all the beauty The check mark indicates a taking. In director and cinematographer the pictures are pretty, no one judges food on that surrounds them,” the future landlord 38 8Village Voice critics’ choice. Pierre Deschamps’s Noma: My Perfect appearance alone. MEAVE GALLAGHER says. However uncharitable the remark may be, Rapisarda Casanova’s film shows the old days and the new in footage that suggests our contemporary anxieties about The Emperor’s New Clothes villagevoice.com just how much natural splendor domi- feels charmingly close to informal, personal online anonymity. Later, there’s a French Directed by Michael Winterbottom nates the region, here caught at the height interviews; there are also priceless, late-life animated short about a sexually adventur- IFC Films MELISSA ANDERSON Opens December 16, IFC Center of estival glory. scenes of June Carter Cash, who was May- ous flapper harnessing the power of radio to Available on demand belle’s daughter, and her oak of a husband, (somehow) spy on a romantic rival and then The Winding Stream: The Carters, the Johnny Cash, both of whom died in 2003. shove her out of a contested man’s lap — f Russell Brand is worried about his Cashes, and the Course of Country Music The dead haunt this film something like well, there’s Facebook-stalking and proto- message of economic equality getting Directed by Beth Harrington I the way the ghosts of a long-gone America doxxing right there. Its clips come from eclipsed by his self-aggrandizing, his Argot Pictures Opens December 18, IFC Center haunt the Carters’ songs: George Jones some 200 films dating up to the 1930s, but new documentary with director Michael turns up to sing a number, and hot damn Dreams Rewired shows us becoming our- Winterbottom, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Even an unbroken circle has to start he sounds good. ALAN SCHERSTUHL selves. ALAN SCHERSTUHL doesn’t show it. Or maybe he’s making fun somewhere, and Beth Harrington’s of himself. At least he’s putting his magnetic 8 | The Winding Stream — an earnest, Dreams Rewired He Never Died charisma toward a good cause. (Though engaging doc history of the Carter Family — Directed by Manu Luksch, Martin Written and directed by Jason Krawczyk wearing a Ron Paul “rEVOLution” T-shirt FILM picks up at the precise moment when com- Reinhart, and Thomas Tode Vertical Entertainment while cheering public housing residents’ Icarus Films Opens December 18, Village East Cinema mercial music flowered on the wildwood of Opens December 16, Film Forum fight against the privatization of their | tradition. In 1927, A.P. Carter, the songwriter e Never Died has the outer shell homes does send mixed messages.) In a and mastermind, talked his wife Sara and capital clip-job, this brain-tickling H of Taken — an estranged daughter Michael Moore–ish turn, Brand enters her sister Maybelle into motoring down to A cine-essay examines how last kidnapped by a crime syndicate, a the London headquarters of many of the Bristol, Virginia, from their mountain home century’s mass-media technology father who carves through waves of hench- world’s biggest banking conglomerates, in Maces Spring. In Bristol, the family sang altered our minds, expectations, and under- men to get her back — but there’s a different asking to speak to each firm’s big boss, for a man in town to audition local musi- standing of the world. The film is assembled treat in the center. That’d be Henry Rollins’s whose financial crimes he has detailed. cians; a couple months later, the Carters mostly from early films, so its lens is that of a Jack, numb yet somehow magnetic; most In almost every case, he’s met by security

were earning royalties. Their lives changed: new medium’s examination of new media: movie tough guys are stoic, but Jack’s on guards, usually men of color, who politely VILLAGE VOICE A.P. endeavored to track down every old Here’s the telephone operator, in a silent, another level entirely. The explosions and but firmly stop him. In some of the build- mountain song he could, and they recorded overhearing some terrible plot; here’s a film animalistic roars inside his head hint at a ings, Winterbottom captures the employees hundreds, even after A.P. and Sara divorced. of a man telephoning in to an early televi- haunted past, but on the outside he’s a mis- on the upper floors, gawking, as their American music changed, too: Sara and sion broadcast to prove that the broadcast is anthropic bingo junkie who deadpans his guards — who are certainly paid tiny frac- Maybelle’s high-mountain belting is now in fact live. That last clip is endlessly rich. way through every confrontation. Suffering tions of the bankers’ salaries — struggle our very idea of an “authentic” past, and Tilda Swinton, our narrator, speaks about wound upon wound, Jack seems to only against Brand’s equally polite pushing. Maybelle’s self-taught guitar heroics — how the new technology must always con- dimly recognize the danger around him, Whether you find yourself rolling your eyes she could switch from rhythm to lead all vince the public of its legitimacy through and he cares so little that it raises the stakes at the stunt, feeling bad for the guards (who,

throughout a song — are still known as the the use of the old technology, and the chill- for everybody else. Kate Greenhouse plays no matter where their sympathies lie, can- D “Carter scratch.” The film breezes through ingest thing in Dreams Rewired is the way a waitress who takes an interest in Jack; not let him through for fear of losing their ECEMBER this history with the usual doc assortment that the TV announcer, a sprightly young once he opens up, her utter incredulousness jobs), or wondering if the wealthy on the up- of interviews, archival clips, and celebrity beauty, cheerily proclaims to be broadcast- at the scope of his life is one of this slow- per floors realize anyone can see these men testimonials. The treatment’s never as deep ing from the heart of the Reich. But Dreams building film’s unexpected joys. Another is doing their dirty work for them, it does pres- 16 – D as the stream of the title, but it’s certainly di- Rewired is no polemic, and it never mocks how much humor Rollins brings to his role. ent a more nuanced picture of the state of verting, and it’s likely to thrill devotees as it the past. Swinton’s narration makes com- At one point Jack lists his impossibly broad economic affairs than you might expect ECEMBER hips new audiences. “People should know mon cause with it. She’ll speak over the résumé, a prolonged gag whose goofiness from a man who once considered refusing to who they are just like they should know silent-film actors, giving us an of-our- he doesn’t acknowledge. The action se- vote activism. It can be hard to take someone who the first president of the United States moment gloss on what their characters quences have a similar aesthetic: Jack pre- so pleased with himself seriously, but amid 22, 2015 is,” says Texan rock/country master Joe Ely seem to be feeling. One sequence, a silent vails not because he’s stronger, but because his grandstanding, Brand does offer some in the first moments, and he’s not exaggerat- gag in which a stout phone operator agrees he can take enough punishment to outlast solutions to problems many of us rightfully ing (much). Family of the Family speaks of to meet up with a gent who likes her voice, everybody. ROB STAEGER feel are intractable. MEAVE GALLAGHER

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| Paige perfor- the fact that she truly inhabited the tor- birthed in Alan tured soul of the singer who brought the Cumming’s car, mance. So I asked, music of the streets into Paris’s cabarets where Piaf was and she enthusias- and concert halls. playing over the tically jumped on Paige tells the Voice that she came to speakers during board.” identify strongly with the chanteuse after a road trip. For Australian several months of researching Piaf’s life cabaret star Meow and artistry, including a long stint in Justin Downing Meow, the attrac- Paris. “There’s a lot about her life and threw his arms around me.” The next year, she had the luckiest of tion to Piaf was the opportunity to ex- beliefs that are not dissimilar to me,” If hardly at a Piaf level of angst, Paige breaks: the lead in what became the sea- plore her “exquisite pain of longing.” she says. “We are exactly the same height keeps her own life at the plangent pitch son’s hottest ticket, Evita. Her magnifi- “She wasn’t just a singer, but a storyteller

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE and are physically similar. She was also necessary for an adored diva. Her dra- cent voice and acting chops catapulted — so much drama packed into two or driven and very passionate about her mu- matic announcements of retirement fol- her career into the stratosphere. In Fol- three minutes.” But it’s worth noting that sic. She had a great sense of humor and lowed by comeback tours are beginning lies, she brought down the house every Piaf’s signature song, “La Vie en Rose,” is liked to hang with her own kind, not the to approach Cher’s record. (Yes, she tells night with “I’m Still Here,” and her origi- an ode to the joys of life. “People look for glitterati. But she was also very vulnera- the Voice, she “may be coming back” to nal version of “Memories” from Cats is the tragedy,” Meow Meow says. “It says a

22, 2015 22, ble and came from a poverty-stricken the States next year.) equally memorable — but Evita remains lot about what an audience wants that background.” Piaf began singing in the streets to her signature role, even if she certainly is she’s always seen in a tragic light.” A visit to Charles Aznavour’s apart- keep from starving. Paige’s childhood “still here.” Vivian Reed, for her part, was originally

ECEMBER ment finally gave her the confidence that was hardly that Dickensian, but she had Piaf gives New Yorkers a rare opportu- trained to be a classical singer at Juilliard she could convey the way Piaf’s music been treading the board for a decade in nity to experience the effect that Paige — but found herself attracted to the story- 1976 when she began to despair that she who has given just two non-Broadway songs that are cabaret staples. A seven-

16 – D reflected her own intensity and turmoil. The singer, who had composed for Piaf, would never achieve her dreams of star- New York performances over the entire year sojourn in France and a French “had a beautiful grand piano,” Paige dom. A chance encounter with Dustin span of her career — has on audiences. manager, Lionel Lavault, inevitably got

ECEMBER recalls. “Much to my astonishment, he Hoffman produced some advice that We have impresario Daniel Nardicio to her interested in Piaf’s repertoire. “I’m

D asked me to sing. He sat down and played looks prescient in retrospect. “Early in thank for that. Long known for produc- particularly drawn to performers who live a song he wrote for her. ‘It’s do or die,’ I my career,” she recalls, “he told me if I ing some of the raunchiest gay parties in their lyrics, make them come alive for the 40 thought. Fortunately, he was thrilled. He had to, to sing in the street like Piaf.” town, he branched out to Fire Island sev- audience,” she says. “She was >> p47 BAR LOUNGE Karaoke LPs * 45s * 12” * CDs * DVDs villagevoice.com & 0RIVATE2OOMS NYC Record & CD Show /VER140,000 SONGSIN -->Saturday<-- 16 LANGUAGES one Many NEW December 19 songs added 10am-4pm HAPPY HOUR! +ROLGD\,QQ:WK6W | CONTENTS | NEWS | FEATURE | VOICE CHOICES | ARTS | EATS & DRINKS | TV FILM OPEN-7pm (betw 9th & 10th Ave) 1HDU&ROXPEXV&LUFOH Drinks and Rooms Half Price Lounge & Suites Rock, Jazz, Soul, 10am-4pm Blues, R&B, etc 29 W. 17th St. /0%.$!),9sPM AM (btwn 5th & 6th Ave.) PM AMON-ONDAY Admission: 212.675.3527 *May close early Sun-Wed www+ARAOKE17.COM please call and check $4 w/ ad contact:[email protected] 8am-10am Early Admission: $25 ZZZVKRZVDQGH[SRVFRP MUSIC | VILLAGE VOICE D ECEMBER 16 – D ECEMBER 22, 2015

41 “I listened to music to get away from bullying and all that, and Selena was just a really great role model.” villagevoice.com

Yvonne Terceros-Viteri of a counterculture icon and beloved fig- ure in the LGBT community, inspiring W Music drag shows and tribute concerts across the country, at last it seems her songs have been given some of the raw angst and energy they justly deserve. Selena, but “Amor Prohibido, it means forbidden love,” says Shomara “Shomi Noise” Ter- ‘Punk as Fuck’ ceros, the band’s lead singer. With a couple Amor Prohibido channels of hours to kill before practice, Terceros and her bandmates are huddled around a small the Chicana icon table at Champs Diner in Bushwick, idly BY JACKSON CONNOR sipping mugs of tea and black coffee. “She’s singing about being in love with someone n the moments leading up to Selena who might not be from her same social sta- Quintanilla’s final televised concert, tus, but she’s like, ‘I don’t care, we love each in February of 1995 — just weeks be- other.’ And to me, that’s punk as fuck. I fore the singer was shot and killed at a “You can even give it a queer spin,” Ter- motel in Corpus Christi, Texas — the ceros adds. “It’s like, ‘Oh, we’re queer and | FILM | TV | EATS & DRINKS | ARTS | VOICE CHOICES | FEATURE | NEWS | CONTENTS | | CONTENTS | NEWS CHOICES | FEATURE | VOICE | ARTS & DRINKS MUSIC | FILM TV EATS

| reigning Queen of Tejano music rode into we love each other. Who cares?’ ” the Houston Astrodome in a white horse- Born in Lake Jackson, Texas, a small drawn carriage. Twenty-three years old city some 300 miles northeast of the Mexi- and at the height of her fame, she waved can border, Selena would go on to both regally to over 60,000 screaming fans be- celebrate her Chicana identity and also fore belting her way through songs like transcend racial, cultural, and linguistic “Baila Esta Cumbia,” “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom,” lines through her music. Though today and “Como la Flor,” new Tejano anthems Amor Prohibido has made Bushwick its de that had taken the young singer from state facto home — rehearsing at the Sweatshop fairs and quinceañeras to sold-out stadiums on Meserole Street and performing regu- and world tours seemingly overnight. larly at Don Pedro, a punk club nearby on

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE But earlier this year, more than two Manhattan Avenue — its members origi- decades after Selena’s murder, Brooklyn’s nally hail from all over Latin America. Amor Prohibido took the stage for the very Raised in Bolivia, Terceros first heard first time in a drastically different setting. Selena on the radio as a little girl and fell in Though the setlist remained largely un- love almost immediately. After immigrat-

22, 2015 22, changed — the same songs of love and longing to West New York, New Jersey at the ing once sung sweetly by Selena twenty age of twelve, she used the singer’s music years earlier — the room was now filled to cope with feelings of isolation and oth-

ECEMBER with the sounds of distorted guitar, wailing erness despite her neighborhood’s bur- vocals, and dozens of sweaty punks all geoning Latino population.

16 – D shouting and raising their fists in unison. “I listened to music to get away from bul- Named after the final album released lying and all that, and Selena was just a really before the singer’s death, Amor Prohibido great role model. Her music is so positive,”

ECEMBER is perhaps the first group in New York City Terceros, now 33, explains. Over the years,

D to bill itself distinctly as a Selena punk she’s documented her personal journey as a rock cover band. And though, over the young queer immigrant and woman of color 42 years, Selena’s legacy has come to be that in a series of zines titled Building Up >> p44 villagevoice.com | CONTENTS | NEWS | FEATURE | VOICE CHOICES | ARTS | EATS & DRINKS | TV FILM MUSIC | VILLAGE VOICE D ECEMBER 16 – D ECEMBER 22, 2015

43 Amor Prohibido from p42 punk movement has found deep roots James Olmos, barks, “We are not a dis- rise to fame took place during a period in across the U.S. and Latin America. gusting punk rock group!” after his daugh- American history when the country’s La- Emotional Muscles. “I think for me it has to “There are people who say Latin Amer- ter’s guitarist and future husband, Chris tino community was rapidly transforming do with genuineness. Selena was very genu- icans don’t have any other option but to be Pérez, trashes a hotel room on the road. under controversial government policies, ine and true to herself and this comes across punk, because you’re so broke all the time But despite the denunciation in the film and many immigrant families saw Selena so clearly in her music.” and so against everything,” says Nico and the persistent image of the singer as a as a representation of their own hopes and Later in life, punk and DIY culture Behncke, Amor Prohibido’s bass player. polished pop star, there is perhaps some- aspirations. villagevoice.com would provide Terceros with a similar Born in Argentina, he found punk through thing inherently punk about Selena in “She died at a point in 1995 when there catharsis, emboldening her with a sense the Buenos Aires–based band Dos Minu- 2015. For decades, the performer has been were tremendous changes in the land- of community and a means of rebelling tos and, like Terceros, immigrated to West lauded for blending seemingly disparate scape for Latinos in the U.S. In 1996 there’s against her surroundings. She discovered New York during middle school. “There genres like country, cumbia, reggae, and immigration reform and welfare reform, the queercore scene, learned to play gui- are political systems against you; the In- r&b into her music. But today she is also and NAFTA had just been instituted in tar, and began listening to riot grrrl bands ternational Monetary Fund is on top of lionized across generations for her inde- ’94,” explains Deborah Paredez, an associ- like Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, and Lu- you; the U.S. Army is all over South Amer- pendence, nonconformity, and status as ate professor at Columbia University’s nachicks. And while punk is often still ica, so you have no other option but to pro- a sex symbol. (Terceros and the band’s School of the Arts and author of Selenidad: associated with white suburbia — even test everything, to become punk.” drummer, Maria Toro, occasionally honor Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of when it comes to the genre’s more inclu- In the 1997 biopic starring Jennifer Selena’s style onstage by donning her sig- Memory. “At the same time, there’s also sive iterations — for decades the Latino Lopez, Selena’s father, played by Edward nature rhinestone-studded bustiers.) Her this moment where Latinos are kind of being celebrated or discovered as a cultural phenomenon through Latin music. “People found [in their grief for Selena] a really important and vital space to mourn their own losses,” she adds. “She embodied the tragedy that many Latinos face, which is death at a young age.” Selena and punk rock are perhaps able to coexist because they represent two sepa- rate worlds that nonetheless shaped the lives of many young Latinas in America. For years, bands like Me First and the Gimme Gimmes have made careers out of turning pop songs from Madonna and Diana Ross into punk anthems by laying on the distor- tion and speeding up the tempo. But with Amor Prohibido, there seems to be a deeper cultural observance taking place. The band was largely formed around Riot Chica, a monthly party founded by Terceros in the hopes of creating a safe space for queer voices and women of color in the punk scene. And while Terceros has long performed in New York City as a DJ and tastemaker — also hosting Telenovela, a dance party featuring Latin oldies from the Forties and Fifties — the response to Amor Prohibido in particular has so far

| crowd was excited and they were going to love it even if we were bad, even if we were really bad,” says Emma Rock, the group’s keyboard player. Born to a Jewish family in South Brooklyn, she began listening to Selena this year after meeting Terceros and asking to join the band. “When that happened, I realized that we’re part of a bigger cultural celebration of a hero to the Latino/Latina community.” Twenty years after her death, Selena’s

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE legacy indeed continues to flourish and evolve. On December 19, in celebration of the two-year anniversary of Riot Chica, Ter- ceros and her bandmates will once again play through the singer’s greatest hits at

22, 2015 22, Don Pedro. And though her songs were perhaps never meant to be played in double- time on a beer-soaked stage, Amor

ECEMBER Prohibido is carrying on the spirit of Selena and Tejano music all the same by continuing to chart new territory nearly 2,000 miles 16 – D away from Corpus Christi, in Brooklyn. “There is something about Selena that’s

ECEMBER punk in her kind of DIY aesthetic,” admits

D Paredez, a Tejana herself from San Antonio. “If she hadn’t seen it done before, then she 44 was just going to make it happen herself.” villagevoice.com

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Courtesy Patricia Field n the words of style icon Patricia Don Patron on Patricia Field: “She is a Field, “if you don’t have an exciting defining voice in New York City culture.” life in New York, it’s your fault.” I With her fiery red hair and distinc- 24-year-old Field opened her first store tively eclectic taste in garments and near campus. “That was the little store glitz, the 74-year-old designer, famous for that started it all,” she tells the Voice. She

| ion-forward. Oozing with glitter, sequins, preneurial. I didn’t want to work for a spandex, neon, and tutus, her eponymous company; I wanted to work for myself — boutique at 306 Bowery is a downtown that’s why I did it.” She moved the bou- landmark — and it’s scheduled to close tique to a larger location on 8th Street in this coming spring, on the fiftieth anniver- 1971 (to be frequented by Destiny’s Child– sary of Field’s opening her first store. era Beyoncé and her mom, designer Tina Former employee JoJo Americo re- Knowles) and eventually to her current members how friends and colleagues used spot on the Bowery. to call Field the Andy Warhol of downtown In the beginning the era was mod, Field fashion for the way she provided a creative says, and then trends turned toward the outlet for street kids, club kids, artists, so- hippie. “The hippie I had a little bit more of

VILLAGE VOICE VILLAGE cialites, and pop icons, from Debbie Harry an aesthetic problem with because I like to Madonna to Missy Elliott. “When you’re clean lines,” she says. “I’m not a grungy one, an artist, you count on a distinct look. I but, you know, the Eighties were great fun.” counted on Patricia Field to stylize me, And by the late Seventies and Eighties, keep me fresh, and get my career going,” Field’s business came into its prime.

22, 2015 22, says client Don Patron, a portrait artist for “That’s when people went out and government officials, whom Field once be- danced. You know, you go out, you get dazzled in sequins for a black-tie charity dressed,” she says, reminiscing about her

ECEMBER event in D.C. (“They’ll think I’m Liza Min- favorite old clubs — Studio 54, Paradise nelli,” he originally thought.) Garage, and Area were Field’s top three. “At Studio 54, they wouldn’t let you in the 16 – D “If Pat Field isn’t there to put her finger on the pulse,” Patron continues, “then New door unless you looked fabulous.... The York has one less place for creative youth to mood was high. It was fashion and music

ECEMBER express themselves within the city bound- and art. People like Keith Haring or Andy

D aries. She is a defining voice in New York Warhol would be at Studio 54 or Paradise City culture.” Garage. It was another time, another way 46 In 1966, after studying at NYU, the of enjoying people, of people enjoying Piaf from p40 themselves. It included fashion because time for new creative endeavors, swim- stuffy,” Nardicio says. villagevoice.com people were going out being so-called ming, and seeing friends. “The quality of The Town Hall event marks another fabulous.” Field adds that things have my life is very important,” says Field, known for that. She was a dramatic per- step in Nardicio’s own evolution from changed, and that today it “only matters whose life the past couple of years has former; that’s what I’ve always liked hot boys in underwear to divas in dia- if you have enough money for a bottle of consisted only of “work and sleep.” about her.” monds (or diamanté). He calls his be- Champagne” at the club. The Patricia Field boutique is one of With two recent Piaf tributes at Fein- loved divas his “Norma Desmonds,” but Field was among the first to hire drag New York’s last standing relics of a bygone stein’s/54 Below under her belt, down- maybe it’s because he’s had some Norma queens, people from the clubs and from era, soon to be remembered among spe- town cabaret favorite Molly Pope “was Desmond moments of his own. “Some- “the scene,” recalls Americo. In the Eight- cialty shops like the Mask, a latex store on thrilled” to be asked — even though she one said to me, ‘You used to be huge,’ ” he ies, she started “House of Field” and be- Orchard (“fashion latex, not bondage la- worries about her French pronunciation. says. “I’m working on a TV project with

came a member of the ballroom tex,” Field clarifies), now long gone. “I’m a bit of an amateur Francophile,” she Alan. It’s not going to be so much about | CONTENTS | NEWS | FEATURE | VOICE CHOICES | ARTS | EATS & DRINKS | TV FILM community. The balls, which had originally “They’re gone, and I’m sorry they’re gone says. “When I started taking French at throwing parties. It’s a younger man’s been popular in community centers in Har- because they were kind of like our rela- Cooper Union, the teacher asked if I was a game.” lem, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, became tives,” Field says. “I basically always singer. Singers move their mouths more Bien sûr. But reflecting the title of one glamorous discos, beckoning the most ec- stayed away from trends. I see my store as violently, like the French. I know some of Piaf’s most famous popular songs and centric and most extravagant of New York’s a fashion bazaar. It’s been more important French people and fully intend to have her last big hit, “Non, Je Ne Regrette who’s-who to participate in fashion, body, as the years went on, with the advent of all them coach me.” Rien,” Nardicio doesn’t regret what he’s face, and dance competitions. this chain store volume, to be individual, To help segue between songs and sing- done. Instead, he’s looking forward to the “It was a gay event, basically, and I to stake out your brand image.” ers, TCM host Robert Osborne will be on next phase — and a rose-colored one at picked up on it,” says Field. “I remember “Pat gave people full rein to do what- hand at Town Hall to provide connecting that. a ball on Grand Street on the East Side. ever they wanted, to express them- anecdotes. Nardicio promises that this will We rented this ballroom there, and I in- selves,” says Americo. “She gave people indeed be a celebration that emphasizes Piaf (A Centennial Celebration) will take vited all the fashion people, designers, freedom that you would never have got- the glorious triumphs of Piaf’s checkered place at 8 p.m. on December 19 at Town and so on to come and to judge. And so I ten from anyone. There will never be life — none of that bathetic Judy Garland Hall, 123 West 43rd Street. For tickets basically introduced this whole idea to anything like it.” stuff. “I wanted to make sure it wasn’t and information, go to piaf100.com. the fashion world and many people.” Among them was Madonna, who frequented Field’s boutique and voguing balls; she released “Vogue” in 1990. As the Eighties whizzed into the Nine- ties, style became more sporty, inspired by surfing and athletic gear. “I remember Larry Levan, the major DJ at Paradise Garage, used to come in every week and get himself an outfit for the weekend,” says Field. She remembers that he fa- vored printed pants made by the com- dec 16 – 17 pany Life’s a Beach. Field claims to have inducted the body ed reed quartet with glove into fashion, as well, when it had ini- george cables, akira tana, tially been used only for windsurfing. “I and ugonna ukegwo was like, ‘This is great club wear,’ ” she says. “Dance music was prevalent, and I think dec 18 – 20 club clothes became, let’s say, a conscious- diva jazz orchestra ness: club wear.” Her boutique became a celebrates ella ﬁtzgerald’s club kid favorite; it even attracted the un- swingin’ christmas dercover DEA agents who would “party” at MUSIC major Ecstasy dens like Limelight and Tun- featuring vocalists camille nel before they were eventually shut down, thurman, christine fawson, as detailed by Lisa Sweetingham in the and sue giles | book Chemical Cowboys. Dog collars, fishnets, and latex filled dec 21* – 22 the dance floors. “We have the creative dick hyman solo piano customer, so to speak,” says Field. “A *monday nights with wbgo VILLAGE VOICE clique of people grew around the store; they would come and hang out. I kind of dec 26 – 29 called it a clubhouse.” Because the atmosphere was so fun and everyone knew chris potter trio each other, she says, people used to refer to the boutique as a kind of daytime club. dec 30 Kids who hung out even at small ven- winard harper & jeli posse ues like Club 57 and the Boy Bar on St.

Marks would spend the daylight hours dec 31 new year’s eve* D shopping at Patricia Field. “It had that ECEMBER sort of very home, family attitude,” she paquito d’rivera: says. “If I have any sorrow about selling pan-american ﬁesta - my property and closing my store, it’s new year’s eve celebration 16 – D that I love being on my floor and my cli- *sets at 7:30pm & 11pm; special pricing applies ents come in and tell me how happy they ECEMBER are. I can’t tell you the value of hearing those words.”

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