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mjbookreviews · 7 years

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LA Fiction Anthology: Southland Stories by Southland Writers

Summer may be over, but the reviews are not

I’ve lived in Southern California at various points in my life, and it has always had a special place in my heart, so of course I’m always interested to read literature from the area. Besides, isn’t it always sort of a thrill when you’re reading a book and it mentions a specific location you’ve been? It’s like, I’ve been there! I’ve been where this character has been! I know this place and now people will read about it! My movements have been memorialized in some small way in this book!

The LA Fiction Anthology was edited by John Brantingham and Kate Gale and published by Red Hen Press, an independent press based in Los Angeles and started by Gale. It boasts an impressive thirty-two short stories by various authors connected to Los Angeles, including Ron Carlson and Percival Everett. After each story, there are discussion and essay questions that would probably be helpful for college professors of literature in Southern California (or perhaps elsewhere teaching a course about literature from Los Angeles?).

While this is an ambitious collection of contemporary work, I have to be honest and say that I found myself underwhelmed by quite a few of the stories, as well as with the editing. For example, in the story “Flutter” by Anthony Starros (which was otherwise an impressive story), on page 226 there was a typo that I find myself thinking about two months after I finished reading it: “fire fighters” was spelled “figher fighters,” and I have to say, I found that so amusing that it stuck with me more than the story, which is generally not what an author wants for their story, especially for a serious story like this one.

In the end, I found three stories that I genuinely very much enjoyed and one that I absolutely did not click with; the rest I either ended up scratching my head (there’s a story about Huell Howser that I found super interesting, but I couldn’t make heads or tails of the twist at the end) or just not my style of writing (sexual innuendo through baseball equipment, anyone?). So take this with a grain of salt; these are just my personal opinions and preferences.

My favorite stories were Dana Johnson’s “Elsewhere, California,” Stephanie Barbé Hammer’s “Encore Plus,” and Percival Everett’s “The Appropriation of Cultures.” Johnson’s “Elsewhere, California” was a sweet story that is centered on Los Angeles’s love of the Dodgers; the characters felt alive and Californian, though as an excerpt, I did feel as if I was missing something. “Encore Plus” was a delightful little story about a woman dating an overweight tightrope walker who promised him that she would gain weight so he would be attracted to her but cannot gain weight, though she continually eats fried chicken and huge breakfasts. It was a silly and sad story about a woman taking up her own space, all things I can get behind.

The final story of the collection was Everett’s “The Appropriation of Cultures,” a story I first read my sophomore year of college and still find incredibly powerful today. The story is set in South Carolina and is about a black man, Daniel Buckley, and his experience “appropriating” the symbols of the Confederate South as symbols of black power. It is touching—Daniel Buckley seems like the kind of guy you want to root for and become friends with—and never preachy, yet it is so subtly educational about black experience and the lingering presence of white supremacy and racism (in this story pointing specifically to the South, but I think across the nation as well) that I wish every American would take the half hour or so necessary to read this story and digest its message. It was the perfect end to the anthology.

But I feel like I should discuss the one story that I found completely mystifying as well: “Spirals and Epicenters” by Ryan Sarehkhani. Just on the basic level of the story, on page 239 (which is a little over halfway through the story) there is a section that ends with an incomplete sentence, which I think is picked up in the next section after the line break, but I am not completely sure. It made an already confusing story frustrating to continue. I was unsure whether there was supposed to be some kind of science fiction element to the story—the main character almost gets into an airplane crash while holding a certain coin that he has picked up during his travels in China—but after finishing the story, I had almost forgotten that a plane crash was ever eminent. The near-crash itself is described in such slow calmness that the first time I read the story, I thought I had skipped over a paragraph; there is bad turbulence, and suddenly the passengers on the plane think that they are falling out of the sky and start weeping and praying. Furthermore, I found the main character to be fairly pretentious, that guy at the party:

“The friction that he felt, the currents, the entropy, the chaos, the channels churning beneath the surface—these elements perpetually clash with some fearsome magnitude and extremity that any single life is expected to be crushed in the crossfire or thrown into the spectrum’s periphery, but they do not operate with the intent to destroy; they are necessarily creative forces. On their grandest level, the cosmos, and, on the most miniscule, biology. Surely, he was somewhere on that spectrum.”

The ending did not do much to persuade me that I would enjoy this story after all. I clearly did not put in much effort to think about the deeper meanings of this story, but I think that’s somewhat significant in and of itself; my own reading style lined up so poorly with this author’s writing style that I did not feel like it was worth my time to think more deeply about the story, which I feel bad about and seems like a betrayal to English majors everywhere, but there it is.

So as not to end on a completely negative note, I will say that I thought this anthology did a good job of introducing talent as well as compiling some of the well-established masters. I do wonder, though, if this is truly the best that Los Angeles has to offer.

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davidisen · 7 years

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NYC Music I Like Mar 22-28

...trad jazz, Gypsy, swing, bluegrass, choro etc. w/ folk roots & virtuoso ensemble playing... Explanation/disclaimer.

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Allied music listings with overlapping tastes: Jim's Roots and Blues Calendar. Eileen's Lindy Blog - This Week in Swing.

This Week

Wednesday, March 22, 5:30 PM: David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band, Birdland (Most Wednesdays.) 6:30 PM: Sweet Megg & The Wayfarers w/ Megg (vocals), Jon Weber (piano), Nick Meyers (sax), Rob Adkins (bass). Top of the Standard. 7 PM: Jeanne Gies (vocals) w/ Sandro Albert (guitar). Andanada. 7:30 PM: Cole Porter’s “The New Yorkers” (a story of the 1930s & prohibition) w/ Cyrille Aimée & many others. City Center, 130 W. 56th Street. Info/tix. 7:45 PM: Chris Eldridge & Julian Lage plus Aoife O'Donovan. Fairfield Theatre Company, Fairfield CT. Info/tix. 9 PM: Emily Asher's Garden Party. Radegast. 10 PM: Alex Hargreaves (violin), Dominick Leslie (mandolin), Wes Corbett (5-string banjo). Rockwood Three. 11 PM: Avalon Jazz Band hosts Hot Jazz & Gypsy Jam. The Keep. (Most Wednesdays.)

Thursday, March 23, 7:30 PM: Michael Daves (guitar), in a movie & concert situation w/ Tony Trischka (5-string banjo), Alex Hargreaves (fiddle), Tatiana Hargreaves (fiddle, vocals), Dominick Leslie (mandolin), Larry Cook (bass), others. National Sawdust. Info/tix. 7:30 PM: Cole Porter’s “The New Yorkers” (a story of the 1930s & prohibition) w/ Cyrille Aimée & many others. City Center, 130 W. 56th Street. Info/tix. 8 PM: The Blacktail Songbirds, frequently w/ Molly Ryan (vocals), Dan Levinson (reeds), Mike Davis (cornet), Terry Waldo (piano). Blacktail. (Most Thursdays.) 8:30 PM: Henry Butler (piano). Bar LunAtico. 8:30 PM: Gene Bertoncini (guitar) and Josh Marcum (bass). Ryan's Daughter, upstairs, 350 E. 85th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues. (Most Thursdays.) 9 PM: Jon-Erik Kellso (cornet), Evan Arntzen (reeds), Ehud Asherie (piano), Marion Felder, (drums). Luca's Jazz Corner @Cavatappo Grill. 9 PM: Gypsy jazz jam, Fada. (Most Thursdays.)

Friday, March 24, 6:30 PM: Margi Gianquinto (vocals) w/ the Aaron Johnson Quartet, Aaron (clarinet, flute, sax), Ilya Lushtak (guitar), and Kyle Colina (bass). Vaucluse. 7:30 PM: Cole Porter’s “The New Yorkers” (a story of the 1930s & prohibition) w/ Cyrille Aimée & many others. City Center, 130 W. 56th Street. Info/tix. 8 PM: Regional de NY, Brazilian choro w a slight NYC accent. Barbes. 8 & 10 PM: Bucky Pizzarelli (7-string guitar), Ed Laub (guitar, vocals), Larry Fuller (piano), Martin Pizzarelli (bass). Kitano. 9 PM: Noam Pikelny. The Bowery Ballroom. Info/tix. 10:30 PM: Fridays at Mona's, this week Regional de NY, Brazilian choro w a slight NYC accent. Mona’s, 14th & Avenue B.

Saturday, March 25, 11:30 AM: Tara O'Grady Quartet w/ Tara (vocals), Michael Howell (guitar), Trifon Dimitrov (bass), Michael Hashim (sax). Tanner Smiths Tipsy Tea Jazz Brunch. (Most Saturdays.) Noon: Glenn Crytzer Quintette. Brunch at Minton’s. 1 PM: Garden Party Quartet frequently with Emily Asher (trombone). (Most Saturdays.) Fraunces Tavern. 2 PM: Cole Porter’s “The New Yorkers” (a story of the 1930s & prohibition) w/ Cyrille Aimée & many others. City Center, 130 W. 56th Street. Info/tix. 2 PM: Lisa Liu's Gypsy Jazz Experience w/Lisa Liu (guitar), Dario Napoli (guitar). Rosamunde Sausage Grill. 4 PM: Roy Williams & Friends. The Shanty. (Most Saturdays, personnel varies). 7 PM: Hazmat Modine, w/ musicians such as Joe Daley (tuba), Pam Flemming (cornet), Kevin Garcia (drums), Reut Regev (trombone), Michaela Gomez (guitar, steel guitar), Erik Della Penna (guitar, banjo & vocals), Steve Elson (wind instruments), Wade Schuman (diatonic harmonica, lute guitar, vocals). Terra Blues. 7:30 PM: Margi Gianquinto (vocals), w/ Stefane Vasnier (piano) & Tal Ronen (bass). J House, Riverside CT. 8 PM: Cole Porter’s “The New Yorkers” (a story of the 1930s & prohibition) w/ Cyrille Aimée & many others. City Center, 130 W. 56th Street. Info/tix. 8 & 10 PM: Stephanie Nakasian (vocals) & Veronica Swift (vocals) with the Tardo Hammer Trio. Kitano. 11:30 PM: Matt Flinner Trio. Rockwood Three.

Sunday, March 26, 11:30 AM: Tara O'Grady Quartet w/ Tara (vocals), Michael Howell (guitar), Trifon Dimitrov (bass), Steve Kortyka (sax). Tanner Smiths Tipsy Tea Jazz Brunch. (Most Sundays.) Noon: Megg Ryan Jass Band w/ Sweet Megg (vocals, guitar), Ryan Weisheit (reeds). House of Yes. (Most Sundays.) Noon: Women of the Guitar w/ Sheryl Bailey, Jiji Kimm, Kaki King & Ann Klein. 92nd Street Y. Free but limited seating. Info Noon: The Peewee Russell Memorial Stomp w/ Midiri Brothers Quintet, Peter and Will Anderson Quintet, Dan Levinson's Russell of Spring Band & Professor Cunningham and his Old School. Birchwood Manor, Whippany NJ. Info/tix. 1:30 PM: Koran Agan (guitar), others. Radegast. (Most Sundays.) 2 PM: Cole Porter’s “The New Yorkers” (a story of the 1930s & prohibition) w/ Cyrille Aimée & many others. City Center, 130 W. 56th Street. Info/tix. 4 PM: Roy Williams & The Human Hands. Skinny Dennis. 6:30 PM: Jack Wilkins (guitar), Andy McKee (bass), David Gibson (drums). Jazz Masters Series at Sarah’s Wine Bar, Ridgefield CT. Reservations at 203-438-8282. 7 PM: Courtney Hartman (guitar, vocals), The Brother Brothers w/ Adam & David (guitar, cello, violin, banjo), The Stash! Band w/ Stash Wyslouch (guitar), Sean Trischka (drums), Duncan Wickel (fiddle), Noam Wiesenberg (bass). Mercury Lounge. 7 PM: Cole Porter’s “The New Yorkers” (a story of the 1930s & prohibition) w/ Cyrille Aimée & many others. City Center, 130 W. 56th Street. Info/tix. 8 PM: Glenn Crytzer Trio w/ Hannah Gill. Blacktail. 8 PM: The EarRegulars w/ Jon-Erik Kellso (cornet), and other great musicians tbd. The Ear. (Most Sundays.) 9 PM: Stephane Wrembel & his band. Barbes. 10 PM: Baby Soda Jazz Band w/ Jared Engel (banjo), others. St. Mazie. (Most Sundays.) 10 PM: Irish (and more) session hosted by Tony DeMarco (fiddle). 11th Street Bar. (Most Sundays.)

Monday, March 27, 7 PM: TBA Trio takes the Monday Brain Cloud slot. Barbes. (Most Mondays.) 7 PM: The Crimson Ragdolls w/ Lisa Liu (guitar). Hofbrau Bierhaus. Info. 8 PM: Vince Giordano & his Nighthawks, with an array of the best traditional jazz musicians in New York, Iguana. (Most Mondays). 8 PM: Sweet Megg & The Wayfarers. The Belfry. (Most Mondays.) 8 PM: Jason Prover & His Sneak Thievery Orchestra. Radegast. 9 PM: Svetlana & The Delancey 5 - Svetlana (vocals), Jon Weber (piano), Mike Hashim (reeds), Charlie Caranicas (trmpt), Rob Garcia (drums), George Delancey (bass). Back Room Speakeasy - 102 Norfolk Street. (Most Mondays.) 10 PM: Mona’s Bluegrass Jam, Mona’s, 14th & Avenue B (Most Mondays.) 10 PM: Terry Waldo & The Rum House Jass Band w/ Terry (piano), Jon-Erik Kellso (cornet), Jim Fryer (trombone), Eddy Davis (tenor banjo) and frequently Dan Levinson (clarinet) & Molly Ryan (vocals). The Rum House. (Most Mondays.) 10 PM: Jim Campilongo Trio w/ Jim (electric guitar), Chris Morrissey (bass) & Josh Dion (drums). Rockwood Two.

Tuesday, March 28, 7 PM: “J’adore Ella,” w/ Les Nubians (sisters Hélène and Célia Faussart). Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Info/tix. 7:30 PM: Ehud Asherie Trio w/ Ehud (piano). Smalls. 8 PM: The Bailsmen. Radegast. 8 PM: Vince Giordano & his Nighthawks, with an array of the very best traditional jazz musicians in New York, Iguana. (Most Tuesdays). 8 PM: Tara O'Grady & the Black Velvet Band w/ Tara (vocals), Michael Howell (guitar), Trifon Dimitrov (bass). Winnie’s Jazz Bar. (Most Tuesdays). 10 PM: Michael Daves (guitar). Rockwood One. (Most Tuesdays.) 10 PM: Svetlana & The Delancy Band. Brooklyn Speakeasy at Bedford Hall, 1177 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn. (Most Tuesdays.) 11 PM: Trad Jazz Jam hosted by Mona’s Hot Four. The Hot Four house band is usually Dennis Lichtman (clarinet, etc.), Gordon Webster (piano), Nick Russo (guitar, banjo) & Jared Engel (bass). Mona’s, 14th & Avenue B. (Most Tuesdays.)

Future

March 29, 12:30 PM: Jayme Stone's Lomax Project. UBS Atrium, Weehawken, NJ. 8 PM: Sean Cronin's Very Good w/ Sean (bass), others. Barbes. 9 PM: Jayme Stone's Folklife w/ Jayme (banjo, voice), Moira Smiley (voice, accordion), Sumaia Jackson (fiddle, voice), Joe Phillips (bass, voice). Joe's Pub. Info/tix.

March 30, 9 PM: Glenn Crytzer Trio w/ Hannah Gill. St. Mazie.

March 31, 5 PM: The Glenn Crytzer Quartette. Broadway Lounge in the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. 7:30 PM: Margi Gianquinto (vocals), Jon Weber (piano) & Tal Ronen (bass). J House, Riverside CT. 7:30 & 9:30 PM: John Pizzarelli. The Emelin Theatre, Mamaroneck NY. 9 PM: Tara O'Grady & the Black Velvet Band w/ Tara (vocals), Michael Howell (guitar), David Shaich (bass). Swing the Teapot, Queens.

April 1, 7 PM: Salif Keita. Town Hall. Info/tix. 8 PM: John Prine. NJPAC. Tix. 8 PM: Acadia Swing w/ Svetlana & The Delancy Five, Sweet Megg & The Wayfarers, others. Connollys on W. 45th. Tix. 9: 30 PM: Madison McFerrin (voice). Joe's Pub. Info/tix.

April 3, 7:30 PM: Richard Dowling (piano) & Jeff Barnhart (piano) play the music of Scott Joplin. Bickford Theatre, Morristown NJ. Info/tix. 7:30 & 9:30 PM: Danilo Brito Quinteto. Dizzy’s. Info/tix. 10 PM: 10 PM: Jim Campilongo Trio w/ Jim (electric guitar), Chris Morrissey (bass) & Josh Dion (drums). Rockwood Two.

April 10, 10 PM: Jim Campilongo Trio w/ Jim (electric guitar), Chris Morrissey (bass) & Josh Dion (drums). Rockwood Two.

April 11, 6 PM: Bucky Pizzarelli (7-string guitar), Ed Laub (guitar, vocals), Martin Pizzarelli (bass). Luca's Jazz Corner @Cavatappo Grill.

April 17, 8:30 PM: Frank Vignola's Guitar Night w/ Frank (guitar), Bucky Pizzarelli (7-string guitar), Gene Bertoncini (7-string guitar), Olli Soikkeli (guitar), Vinny Raniolo (guitar) and Nicki Parrott (bass). The Iridium.

April 20, 9 PM: Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo (guitars). Luca's Jazz Corner @Cavatappo Grill.

April 21, 7 PM: Squirrel Nut Zippers. Brooklyn Steel w/ Ozomatli. Info/tix. 8 PM: Del (McCoury) & Dawg (David Grisman). Ridgefield Playhouse. Ridgefield CT. Info/tix. 9:30 PM: The Brain Cloud Album Release. Rockwood Two.

April 23, 2 PM: Gotham Jazz Festival w/ Dan Levinson, Baby Soda, Jason Prover & Sneak Thievery, The Avalon Jazz Band, Dalton Ridenhour, Gordon’s Grand Street Stompers, The Gordon Webster Band, Sweet Megg & The Wayfarers, Mike Davis & The New Wonders, Olli Soikkeli Trio, Jon Weber, and more. The Players Club. Info/tix. 9 PM: The Brain Cloud Album Release. Barbes.

April 24, 10 PM: Jim Campilongo Trio w/ Jim (electric guitar), Chris Morrissey (bass) & Josh Dion (drums). Rockwood Two.

April 27, The Jazz Epistles w/ Abdullah Ibrahim (piano), Hugh Masekela (cornet), others. Town Hall. Info/tix.

April 28-30, Brooklyn Folk Festival. St Ann's Church. Full Line-up here. Tickets here.

April 29, 9:30 PM: Danny Barnes (banjo), Grant Gordy (guitar), Joe K. Walsh (mandolin). Jenni Lynn Gardner opens. Hill Country Barbeque, Manhattan.

May 9, 6 PM: Bucky Pizzarelli (7-string guitar), Ed Laub (guitar, vocals), Martin Pizzarelli (bass). Luca's Jazz Corner @Cavatappo Grill.

May 13, 7:30 PM: Rhiannon Giddens (violin, banjo, vocals). Alice Tully Hall. Info/tix.

<<<SPECIAL>>> May 15-21. New York Hot Jazz Camp directed by Molly Ryan & Bria Skonberg . Info & registration info here.

May 18, 8 PM: David Crosby. Westbury Theatre. Info/Tix. Tix on sale February 3.

May 27, 7:30 PM: Battle of the Big Bands. Info/tix.

June 6, 6 PM: Bucky Pizzarelli (7-string guitar), Ed Laub (guitar, vocals), Martin Pizzarelli (bass). Luca's Jazz Corner @Cavatappo Grill.

June 13, 7 PM: Bob Dylan & His Band. Capitol Theatre, Port Chester NY. Info/tix (on sale Friday 3/25).

June 14, 7 PM: Bob Dylan & His Band. Capitol Theatre, Port Chester NY. Info/tix (on sale Friday 3/25).

June 15, 7 PM: Bob Dylan & His Band. Capitol Theatre, Port Chester NY. Info/tix (on sale Friday 3/25).

July 12, 9 PM: Pokey LaFarge. Bowery Ballroom. Info/tix.

October 13-15, Jeff & Joel's House Party, Branford CT. Info.

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complit22bproject · 10 years

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Ma vie en rose (Poster Analysis)

When one thinks of what meaning of a "life in pink" entails, one imagines roses and happiness, innocence even. This poster for example depicts a young boy crossed-dressed into garments the more appropriately express his gender. The white and pink for example are symbolic of an innocence that is attributed to children, however the child’s gaze is melancholic and pensive which seems to suggest that a “life in pink” is not easier, but rather filled with disillusionment and sadness. The poster reads “Sometimes you just have to be yourself” which reminds me specifically of Jamison Green and his experiences as a boy stuck in a girl’s body in his childhood. Nevertheless, the white to me is representative of the idea that although life may be difficult, there is always hope for the future.

Written By: Julio Estrada

#comp lit #comparative literature #complit022b #complit22b #stephanie barbe hammer #stephanie hammer #ma vie en rose #a #alain berliner #indie group project #analysis #The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville

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davidisen · 7 years

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NYC Music I Like Mar 15-21

...trad jazz, Gypsy, swing, bluegrass, choro etc. w/ folk roots & virtuoso ensemble playing... Explanation/disclaimer.

[Caution! Please verify with musician, venue, etc. before going. Send updata here.]

Allied music listings with overlapping tastes: Jim's Roots and Blues Calendar. Eileen's Lindy Blog - This Week in Swing.

This Week

Wednesday, March 15, 5:30 PM: David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band, Birdland (Most Wednesdays.) 6:30 PM: Margi Gianquinto (vocals) w/ the Aaron Johnson Quartet, Aaron (clarinet, flute, sax), John Merrill (guitar), Kyle Colina (bass). Vaucluse. 7 PM: Jeanne Gies (vocals) w/ Bruce Edwards (guitar). Andanada. 7:30 & 9:30 PM: Aaron Goldberg (piano), Yasushi Nakamura (bass), Kendrick Scott (drums) & Obed Calvaire (drums). Dizzys. Info/tix. 8 PM: Phil Lesh & Friends. Capitol Theatre, Port Chester NY. 9 PM: Stephane Wrembel & his band. Radegast. 9:30 PM: Gordon Webster Band CD Release w/ Gordon (piano), Charles Turner (vocals), Danny Jonokuchi (cornet), Danny Lipsitz (reeds), Rob Edwards (trombone), Ricky Alexander (reeds), Danny Zieman (bass), Kevin Congelton (drums). Joes Pub. Info/tix. 11 PM: Avalon Jazz Band hosts Hot Jazz & Gypsy Jam. The Keep. (Most Wednesdays.)

Thursday, March 16, 7:30 & 9:30 PM: Aaron Goldberg (piano), Yasushi Nakamura (bass), Kendrick Scott (drums) & Obed Calvaire (drums). Dizzys. Info/tix. 8 PM: The Blacktail Songbirds w/ Molly Ryan (vocals), Dan Levinson (reeds), Mike Davis (cornet), Terry Waldo (piano). Blacktail. (Most Thursdays.) 8 PM: Phil Lesh & Friends. Capitol Theatre, Port Chester NY. 8:30 PM: Gene Bertoncini (guitar) and Josh Marcum (bass). Ryan's Daughter, upstairs, 350 E. 85th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues. (Most Thursdays.) 9 PM: Gypsy jazz jam, Fada. (Most Thursdays.) 9 PM: Gordon's Grand Street Stompers w/ Gordon Au (cornet), Dennis Lichtman (clarinet, etc.), others. Radegast.

Friday, March 17, 5 PM: The Glenn Crytzer Quartette. Broadway Lounge in the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. 8 PM: Phil Lesh & Friends. Capitol Theatre, Port Chester NY. 8 PM: Leann Rimes. Patchogue Theatre, Patchogue NY. Info/tix. 10:30 PM: Fridays at Mona's, this week reggae with Sharabi Bhangra. Mona’s, 14th & Avenue B.

Saturday, March 18, Noon: Sweet Megg & the Wayfarers w/ Sweet Megg (vocals), Sam Raderman (guitar), Jim Robertson. Brunch at Row House, 2128 Frederick Douglass Blvd. Noon: Glenn Crytzer Quintette. Brunch at Minton's. 1 PM: Garden Party Quartet frequently with Emily Asher (trombone). (Most Saturdays.) Fraunces Tavern. 2 PM: Lisa Liu's Gypsy Jazz Experience w/Lisa Liu (guitar), Thor Jensen (guitar). Rosamunde Sausage Grill. 3 PM: Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks play music for the silent movie "The Cameraman" w/ Buster Keaton. Town Hall. Info/tix. 4 PM: Roy Williams & Friends. The Shanty. (Most Saturdays, personnel varies). 8 PM: Rhonda Vincent. Ramapo College, Mahwah NJ. Info/tix. 7:30 PM: Margi Gianquinto (vocals), Konrad Paszkudski (piano) & Yoshi Waki (bass). J House, Riverside CT. 10 PM: Brain Cloud Trio w/ Dennis Lichtman (mandolin, clarinet), Tamar Korn (vocals), Andrew Hall (bass). Fox & Crow, Jersey City.

Sunday, March 19, 11:30 AM: Tara O'Grady Quartet w/ Tara (vocals), Michael Howell (guitar), Trifon Dimitrov (bass), Michael Hashim (sax). Tanner Smiths Tipsy Tea Jazz Brunch. (Most Sundays.) Noon: Megg Ryan Jass Band w/ Sweet Megg (vocals, guitar), Ryan Weisheit (reeds). House of Yes. (Most Sundays.) 12:30 PM: Brunch with w/ Hilary Gardner (vocals) plus Greg Ruggerio (guitar) & Joel Forbes (bass). North Square. 1 PM: Tamar Korn & a Kornucopia. Casa Mezcal, upstairs. 1:30 PM: Koran Agan (guitar), others. Radegast. (Most Sundays.) 4 PM: The Stride Piano Jam w/ Terry Waldo (piano) & Ehud Asherie (piano). Fat Cat. 4 PM: Jim Campilongo Trio w/ Jim (electric guitar), Chris Morrissey (bass) & Josh Dion (drums). The Greenwich Library, Greenwich CT. 5 PM: Roda de Choro with Regional de NY. Genuine Brazilian choro with a slight NYC accent. Beco. 7 PM: Folk Fights Back, a benefit for immigrants & refugees, with Courtney Hartman & Celia Woodsmith, Eddie Barbash & Sam Reider, Hannah Read, Wyndham Baird, Lily Henley & Duncan Wickel, Phoebe Hunt & Dominick Leslie and many others. Concert Hall at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Info. 8 PM: The EarRegulars w/ Jon-Erik Kellso (cornet), and this week Scott Robinson (miscellaneous wind instruments), Matt Munisteri (guitar), Sean Cronin (bass). The Ear. (Most Sundays.) 9 PM: Stephane Wrembel & his band. Barbes. 10 PM: Baby Soda Jazz Band w/ Jared Engel (banjo), others. St. Mazie. (Most Sundays.) 10 PM: Irish (and more) session hosted by Tony DeMarco (fiddle). 11th Street Bar. (Most Sundays.)

Monday, March 20, 7 PM: The Brain Cloud, usually with Tamar Korn (vocals), Dennis Lichtman (clarinet, mandolin), Andrew Hall (bass), Raphael McGregor (lap steel guitar), Kevin Dorn (drums) and Skip Krevins (guitar). Barbes. (Most Mondays.) 8 PM: Vince Giordano & his Nighthawks, with an array of the best traditional jazz musicians in New York, Iguana. (Most Mondays). 8 PM: Sweet Megg & The Wayfarers. The Belfry. (Most Mondays.) 9 PM: Svetlana & The Delancey 5 - Svetlana (vocals), Jon Weber (piano), Mike Hashim (reeds), Charlie Caranicas (trmpt), Rob Garcia (drums), George Delancey (bass). Back Room Speakeasy - 102 Norfolk Street. (Most Mondays.) 10 PM: Mona’s Bluegrass Jam, Mona’s, 14th & Avenue B (Most Mondays.) 10 PM: Terry Waldo & The Rum House Jass Band w/ Terry (piano), Jon-Erik Kellso (cornet), Jim Fryer (trombone), Eddy Davis (tenor banjo) and frequently Dan Levinson (clarinet) & Molly Ryan (vocals). The Rum House. (Most Mondays.) 10 PM: Jim Campilongo Trio w/ Jim (electric guitar), Chris Morrissey (bass) & Josh Dion (drums). Rockwood Two.

Tuesday, March 21, Noon: Gotham Jazzmen. New York Library for the Performing Arts. 8 PM: Vince Giordano & his Nighthawks, with an array of the very best traditional jazz musicians in New York, Iguana. (Most Tuesdays). 8 PM: Tara O'Grady & the Black Velvet Band w/ Tara (vocals), Michael Howell (guitar), Trifon Dimitrov (bass). Winnie’s Jazz Bar. (Most Tuesdays). 10 PM: Michael Daves (guitar). Rockwood One. (Most Tuesdays.) 10 PM: Svetlana & The Delancy Band. Brooklyn Speakeasy at Bedford Hall, 1177 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn. (Most Tuesdays.) 11 PM: Trad Jazz Jam hosted by Mona’s Hot Four. The Hot Four house band is Dennis Lichtman (clarinet, etc.), Gordon Webster (piano), Nick Russo (guitar, banjo) & Jared Engel (bass). Mona’s, 14th & Avenue B. (Most Tuesdays.)

Future

March 21, 8 PM: Brother Roy w/ Roy Williams (piano, vocals). Rockwood Two. 10 PM: Cricket Tell The Weather. Rockwood Two.

March 22, 7:30 PM: Cole Porter’s “The New Yorkers” (a story of the 1930s & prohibition) w/ Cyrille Aimée & many others. City Center, 130 W. 56th Street. Info/tix. 7:45 PM: Chris Eldridge & Julian Lage plus Aoife O'Donovan. Fairfield Theatre Company, Fairfield CT. Info/tix. 9 PM: Emily Asher's Garden Party. Radegast. 10 PM: Dominick Leslie (mandolin), Alex Hargreaves (violin), Wes Corbett (5-string banjo). Rockwood Two.

March 23, 7:30 PM: Michael Daves (guitar), in a movie & concert situation w/ Tony Trischka (5-string banjo), Alex Hargreaves (fiddle), Tatiana Hargreaves (fiddle, vocals), Dominick Leslie (mandolin), Larry Cook (bass), others. National Sawdust. Info/tix. 7:30 PM: Cole Porter’s “The New Yorkers” (a story of the 1930s & prohibition) w/ Cyrille Aimée & many others. City Center, 130 W. 56th Street. Info/tix. 8:30 PM: Henry Butler (piano). Bar LunAtico. 9 PM: Jon-Erik Kellso (cornet), Evan Arntzen (reeds), Ehud Asherie (piano), Marion Felder, (drums). Luca's Jazz Corner @Cavatappo Grill.

March 24, 8 PM: Cole Porter’s “The New Yorkers” (a story of the 1930s & prohibition) w/ Cyrille Aimée & many others. City Center, 130 W. 56th Street. Info/tix. 8 & 10 PM: Bucky Pizzarelli (7-string guitar), Ed Laub (guitar, vocals), Larry Fuller (piano), Martin Pizzarelli (bass). Kitano.

March 25, Noon: Glenn Crytzer Quintette. Brunch at Minton's. 2 & 8 PM: Cole Porter’s “The New Yorkers” (a story of the 1930s & prohibition) w/ Cyrille Aimée & many others. City Center, 130 W. 56th Street. Info/tix. 7 PM: Hazmat Modine, w/ musicians such as Joe Daley (tuba), Pam Flemming (cornet), Kevin Garcia (drums), Reut Regev (trombone), Michaela Gomez (guitar, steel guitar), Erik Della Penna (guitar, banjo & vocals), Steve Elson (wind instruments), Wade Schuman (diatonic harmonica, lute guitar, vocals). Terra Blues. 7:30 PM: Margi Gianquinto (vocals), Stefan Vasnier (piano) & Tal Ronen (bass). J House, Riverside CT. 8 & 10 PM: Stephanie Nakasian (vocals) & Veronica Swift (vocals) with the Tardo Hammer Trio. Kitano. 9 PM: Noam Pikelny. The Bowery Ballroom. Info/tix. 11:30 PM: Matt Flinner Trio. Rockwood Three.

March 26, Noon: Women of the Guitar w/ Sheryl Bailey, Jiji Kimm, Kaki King & Ann Klein. 92nd Street Y. Free but limited seating. Info 2 & 7 PM: Cole Porter’s “The New Yorkers” (a story of the 1930s & prohibition) w/ Cyrille Aimée & many others. City Center, 130 W. 56th Street. Info/tix. Time?: The Peewee Russell Memorial Stomp w/ Midiri Brothers Quintet, Peter and Will Anderson Quintet, Dan Levinson's Russell of Spring Band & Professor Cunningham and his Old School. Birchwood Manor, Whippany NJ. Info/tix. 4 PM: Roy Williams & The Human Hands. Skinny Dennis. 6:30 PM: Jack Wilkins (guitar), Andy McKee (bass), David Gibson (drums). Jazz Masters Series at Sarah’s Wine Bar, Ridgefield CT. Reservations at 203-438-8282.

March 27, 7 PM: “J’adore Ella,” w/ Les Nubians (sisters Hélène and Célia Faussart). Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Info/tix. 10 PM: 10 PM: Jim Campilongo Trio w/ Jim (electric guitar), Chris Morrissey (bass) & Josh Dion (drums) plus Adam Levy. Rockwood Two.

March 28, Noon: Gotham Jazzmen. New York Library for the Performing Arts.

March 29, 12:30 PM: Jayme Stone's Lomax Project. UBS Atrium, Weehawken, NJ.

March 30, 9 PM: Glenn Crytzer Trio w/ Hannah Gill. St. Mazie.

March 31, 5 PM: The Glenn Crytzer Quartette. Broadway Lounge in the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. 7:30 PM: Margi Gianquinto (vocals), Jon Weber (piano) & Tal Ronen (bass). J House, Riverside CT. 7:30 & 9:30 PM: John Pizzarelli. The Emelin Theatre, Mamaroneck NY. 9PM: Tara O'Grady & the Black Velvet Band w/ Tara (vocals), Michael Howell (guitar), David Shaich (bass). Swing the Teapot, Queens.

April 1, 8 PM: John Prine. NJPAC. Tix. 8 PM: Acadia Swing w/ Svetlana & The Delancy Five, Sweet Megg & The Wayfarers, others. Connollys on W. 45th. Tix.

April 10, 10 PM: Jim Campilongo Trio w/ Jim (electric guitar), Chris Morrissey (bass) & Josh Dion (drums). Rockwood Two.

April 11, 6 PM: Bucky Pizzarelli (7-string guitar), Ed Laub (guitar, vocals), Martin Pizzarelli (bass). Luca's Jazz Corner @Cavatappo Grill.

April 20, 9 PM: Frank Vignola & Vinny Raniolo (guitars). Luca's Jazz Corner @Cavatappo Grill.

April 24, 10 PM: Jim Campilongo Trio w/ Jim (electric guitar), Chris Morrissey (bass) & Josh Dion (drums). Rockwood Two.

April 27, The Jazz Epistles w/ Abdullah Ibrahim (piano), Hugh Masekela (cornet), others. Town Hall. Info/tix.

April 28-30, Brooklyn Folk Festival. St Ann's Church. Full Line-up here.

April 29, 9:30 PM: Danny Barnes (banjo), Grant Gordy (guitar), Joe K. Walsh (mandolin). Jenni Lynn Gardner opens. Hill Country Barbeque, Manhattan.

May 9, 6 PM: Bucky Pizzarelli (7-string guitar), Ed Laub (guitar, vocals), Martin Pizzarelli (bass). Luca's Jazz Corner @Cavatappo Grill.

May 13, 7:30 PM: Rhiannon Giddens (violin, banjo, vocals). Alice Tully Hall. Info/tix.

<<<SPECIAL>>> May 15-21. New York Hot Jazz Camp directed by Molly Ryan & Bria Skonberg . Info & registration info here.

May 18, 8 PM: David Crosby. Westbury Theatre. Info/Tix. Tix on sale February 3.

May 27, 7:30 PM: Battle of the Big Bands. Info/tix.

June 6, 6 PM: Bucky Pizzarelli (7-string guitar), Ed Laub (guitar, vocals), Martin Pizzarelli (bass). Luca's Jazz Corner @Cavatappo Grill.

July 12, 9 PM: Pokey LaFarge. Bowery Ballroom. Info/tix.

October 13-15, Jeff & Joel's House Party, Branford CT. Info.

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Red Riding Hood Film Analysis

Red Riding Hood Film Analysis The 2011 film interpretation of Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood attempts to retell the fairytale in a modern way, while still setting the story in 17th century France. Although the story contains elements of the original fairytale such as a beautiful protagonist, a wolf, and the moral “beware the wolf”, the film version is absolutely terrifying because it depicts women in a negative and sexual manner, perpetuating the misconceptions of women and the role they play in society. Perrault’s original fairytale follows a young girl, aged eight to twelve embarking on a journey to deliver her grandmother cake and butter made and produced by her mother, a woman who knows her place in society. The film version of the story does depict a little girl in the beginning but focuses on a much older version of the little girl. The film version of Little Red is a young adult woman, who evokes tenderness, an innocence that is seen throughout the film. As the film progresses, Little Red played by Amanda Seyfried becomes sexualized and attracts the attention of men in the village. Seyfried’s character loses her innocence as the story develops and the intrigue of the film unfolds. The director sexualizes Seyfried’s character and renders her submissive to the men of the village; she is as a result nothing more than a sexual object in the eyes of the viewer. Going back to Perrault, at the end of his fairytale the moral states that men are wolves that women should be cautious of for they have the power to use and abuse of them. The film depicts this idea in a very coherent and beautiful manner. The men are all handsome and evoke in Little Red sentiments of lust, sentiments her innocent character never encountered before. The men are charming and are very charismatic; they do what they want with Little Red, rendering her victim to their charm.

Written by: Julio Estrada

Image Credits:

GIFS of Amanda Seyfried, Shiloh Fernandez, and Max Irons

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Analysis: Little Red Riding Hood

The Little Red Riding Hood (1697)

Little Red Riding Hoodby Charles Perrault, although short in length illustrates the idea of the gender binary in a concise and creative way. The fairytale in a way serves as a model of what the ideal woman/child should be like. Perrault’s depictions of women in his fairytales often domesticate women and treat them as beings submissive to men. He uses his morals to establish a certain expectations that the patriarchal society in 17th century France abided by. For example, in the moral of Little Red Riding Hood he states that “…Children, especially attractive, well bred young ladies, should never talk to strangers, for if they should do so, they may well provide dinner for a wolf...” (Perrault). The language that Perrault utilizes is very important because he assigns women certain tasks they must fulfill to be accepted as “well bred” ladies, in other words to be accepted as decent and respectable women. The fairytale is not a harmless diversion; it does however serve the purpose of revealing the dominant social values of the time period. Perrault was especially gifted in presenting these social values because he made them easy to understand through the use of simple plots and the use of the “happily ever after”. Little Red Riding Hood is different however, it ends in a tragic manner but it does portray the “appropriate modes and behaviors [of] the ideal upper class citizen”.

The reason why we choose to analyse Little Red Ridinghood is because of the relation between it’s tragic ending and the elements of the story that lead to this tragic ending, an ending that is symbolic of the ideals of upper-class societies at the time. The story starts off with Perrault stating “Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen…” (Perrault). Once again, Perrault depicts women, especially female children, in a way that his society deems fit for a woman. The bourgeoisie of the 17th century for example, took it upon themselves to put looks and beauty before morality. Through his story he perpetuates the ideas as the woman as nothing more than a creature that is “beautiful” and “loved” by everyone. He is very conservative in respects to gender because he sticks to the gender binary created by society to teach women their place. Perrault in Little Red Riding Hood however does something that is would be considered risqué had he chosen to tell the story in another way. Perrault plays with the idea of transvestism or “the practice of dressing and acting in a style or manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex” (Ambrosio). We attribute the fairytale’s tragic ending to the fact that he introduces the concept of cross-dressing in a 17th century child’s fairytale. We believe that this was done to discourage people from cross-dressing, to condemn people who associate with or practice this act. Little Red Riding Hood for example trusts the male wolf who she believes to be her grandmother under the impression that she was sick with the cold. The wolf however, a sly and clever male creature uses cross-dressing as a means of attaining what he wants, the child as food.

Little Red Riding Hood is an interesting fairytale that encompasses the ideals of a bourgeois society of the 17th century. While it provides children, especially little girls with morals lessons and a model for appropriate female conduct, it also serves as a warning to people who identified as trans. It discouraged cross-dressing because it was a seen as a danger to the gender binary already in place.

Written By:

Julio Estrada with contributions from Eric Estrada and Ariana Rodriguez.

Sources:

Perrault, Charles, and Sarah Moon. Little Red Riding Hood. Mankato, MN: Creative Editions, 2002. Print.

Ambrosio, Giovanna. Transvestism, Transsexualism in the Psychoanalytic Dimension. London: Karnac, 2009. Print.

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Study of Charles Perrault

Date of birth: January 12, 1628 (Paris, France)

Date of death: May 16, 1703 (aged 75, Paris, France)

Charles Perrault was a French born poet and writer, born in Paris in the early 17th century. He was a leading intellectual of his era and is mostly known for the fairytales he published. Perrault grew up in a bourgeois family, which meant that he was wealthy and had to face little to no adversity growing up. As a result, he attended only the best schools of Europe and received a degree in law before “embark[ing] on a career in government service”.

Perrault later became a member of the Académie Française, which is France’s official authority over literary and intellectual matters. As a member of the Académie Française, he played a vital role in the literary controversy known as the dispute between the ancients and the moderns. In fact, he wrote a dialogue titled, Parallèles des anciens et des modernes (Parallels between the Ancients and the Moderns) from 1688-1697 in which he compared the contemporary authors of his era to the authors of antiquity, in other words the Ancient Roman and Greek philosophers. He argues that the contemporary writers of his time were far superior to the Ancient Roman and Greek philosophers that everyone in 17th century France held in high esteem. As you can imagine this caused outrage in the intellectual community, that being said his involvement in this argument led him to become a “…forerunner for the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, an era that was not always receptive to tales of magic and fantasy.”

He compiled eight well known stories and in 1697 he published a book titled Stories or Tales from Times Past, with Morals or (Tales of Mother Goose). These stories were part or oral tradition that had been present for countless generations prior to him compiling them and publishing them in a literary work. Although he did not invent these stories, he is the first writer to give these stories literary legitimacy and are universally known today thanks to the Disney’s animated renditions of these classic tales.

The fairytales included in this compilation of tales are:

Little Red Riding Hood (Le petit chaperon rouge)

The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood (La belle au bois dormant)

The Master Cat/Puss in Boots (Le maistre chat/Le chat botté)

Cinderella/The Little Glass Slipper (Cendrillon/La petite pantoufle de verre)

For the sake of this project, we will be analyzing Little Red Riding Hood for it encompasses some of the themes that we explored in class this quarter. That being said, although his fairytales were aimed primarily at children, they served a double purpose. These narratives were intended to amuse and educate young girls in how to become ladies. He contrasted his folktale subject matter, with details, asides and subtext drawn from the world of fashion. He used images from around him, such as the Chateau Ussé for Sleeping Beauty and in Puss-in-Boots, the Marquis of the Chateau d'Oiron. His stories often have morals, dealing with issues of achieving grace and beauty. They seem to idealize these characteristics as some of the most important a young woman could possess. In other words, he helped establish a gender binary in his works, a binary that still dictates how our society is run.

Written By: Julio Estrada with contributions from Eric Estrada and Ariana Rodriguez

Sources: Professor D.L. Ashliman from the University of Pittsburgh

Marjike. "Charles Perrault." Fabulous Fairytales. Illuster, n.d. Web. 29 Nov. 2013.

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