June 15th, 2010 - jessicah -
New Opera Hero, a dance, opera and artistic collective, have just completed a four week residency at Shunt, a theatre group and performance space based in the tunnels underneath London Bridge Station.
New Opera Hero are led by Steff Ungerer and Michael Wilson, a powerful creative duo who have worked on the National Opera in London, Tokyo and Hamburg, as well as working on live shows for big names such as Pet Shop Boys, Asian Dub Foundation and most famously, Lady Gaga, for whom they created 3D elements for her live tour.
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Five months ago, the idea of the Tote ever reopening its doors seemed as likely as Bon Scott singing on the next ACKA record. However, through some miraculous turn of events, the iconic venue is set to defy the odds and dust off the taps this month for a grand reopening.
Prior to its untimely closure in January, the venue had been up against every brick wall imaginable.
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June 11th, 2010 - Simone Bruno -
The day Luis Eduardo Guerra died was hot. It was the dry season. The river that separates the village from his small cocoa plot was almost dry. For this reason, the easiest way to go was through the river itself. The stones made the journey uncomfortable, but not as much as venturing into the forest.
Luis Eduardo was crossing the threshold of middle age. He had three sons and his wife had recently died. With a black mustache and a beard cut with care, he’d looked death in the face many times. The first time he saw a corpse he was when he was perched on his father’s shoulders, running towards the coast, away from the war.
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June 9th, 2010 - Marisa -
This week the New York MOOKS Report jumped on a bus and rode two hours out to the neighbouring city of Philadelphia. We were going to a picnic hosted by hometown heroes the Roots, who would be joined by a slew of luminaries that the band picked up along the way. There are not too many times when braving the hellish experience that is the Chinatown bus is warranted, but the thought of seeing Wu-Massacre (Ghostface Killah, Method Man and Raekwon) was reason enough for us.
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Brain Children are a fascinating musical proposition.
Brain Children is the brain child of Michael Mate and Maxwell Crumb, two Melbourne music veterans who’ve completely ruined their lives by relentlessly peddling their musical wares across the globe.
Indeed, these young men have spent the majority of their youths and adulthoods on tour, cutting their teeth on bad roads, sticky floors and ramshackle stages. These years of extended poverty have created a degree of musical knowhow and a lack of pretense that certainly sets them apart from their bovine contemporaries.
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