Skip to main content

August 14–20: What the Review’s Staff Is Doing Next Week

Matt Berninger of the National. Photograph by Andy Witchger, licensed under CCO 2.0.

Tonight, the sun will begin to set before 8 P.M. once again, a milestone that always fills us with some low-level dread. This is all the more reason to participate in summer fun of all varieties. Here’s what the Review’s staff and friends are looking forward to next week:

Wine & Water Lilies at the New York Botanical Garden, August 17: Between 3 and 6 P.M. next Thursday, come to the New York Botanical Garden for a drink with a side of plants! This recommendation comes from our new intern Izzy Ampil; you can have a water lily–themed cocktail, a glass of wine, or a brownie with marshmallows while wandering among the lotuses. There will also be music.

The National at Madison Square Garden, August 18: Are you feeling vague malaise for no particular reason, which seems to sort of seep into everything, but is also not entirely unpleasant and in fact maybe kind of nice? If you’re not, and you want to be, you should join our web editor, Sophie Haigney, and go see The National, the prolific, excellent, low-grade-sad band whose new album includes a song that goes: “And there you are, sitting as usual / with your golden notebook …”

Annie Baker’s Infinite Life at the Atlantic Theater Company, opening August 18: This new play, an excerpt of which first appeared in the Review‘s pages, features five women in chaise longues at a fasting clinic discussing life, sex, and chronic illness. Their exchanges are unforgettable: “You had great sex with him but you left him because he was a screamer,” one woman says. “No he left me,” her friend responds. “He left me. And I was a wreck.” Their conversations probe the connection between physical pain and sexual desire, and much else; they show, in a sense, where conversation can lead. In partnership with the Review, the Atlantic is offering tickets to shows between August 25 and September 10 at a 30 percent discount if you use the code PARIS online at checkout. 

La Cevicheria in the Rockaways, anytime: If you, like many members of the Review’s staff, have not yet been to one of New York’s beaches this year, now is the time for your annual pilgrimage to the Rockaways. Friend of the Review Emma Goldberg recommends this one particular ceviche stand by Beach Ninety-Eighth Street, which, she said, “changed my life.” 

Seinfeld Night with the Brooklyn Cyclones, August 19: The Brooklyn Cyclones are an evergreen summer recommendation: after all, what’s not to like about minor league baseball by the boardwalk and beer at a steep discount? There are also many only-in-Coney-Island quirks, including the presence of the eccentric on-field MC, King Henry. Our former intern Owen Park alerted us to a particularly good evening to go: Seinfeld Night, when the first 2,500 fans to arrive will receive a George Costanza–Marine Biologist bobblehead; there will also be a Seinfeld-themed food buffet and an “Elaine Dancing Contest.”  

John Cale concert in Prospect Park, August 19: The art-pop soloist, avant-garde pioneer, and founding member of the Velvet Underground John Cale will perform in Prospect Park (for free!) as part of an ongoing concert series. This event was submitted for our listings by moreParis Review staff members and friends than anything else all summer, so it is safe to say that there will be some Paris Review tote bags in the audience. 

Roundup: Battery Dance Festival in Rockefeller Park, August 12–18 (Cami Jacobson, engagement editor), Margaret Glaspy at Rough Trade, August 18 (Izzy Ampil, intern); Alex Edelman’s comedy special Just For Us at the Hudson Theater, through August 18 (Emma Goldberg, friend of the Review); Everything Everywhere All At Once in Brooklyn Bridge Park, August 17 (Lily Biggar, friend of the Review), Blues BBQ Festival in Hudson River Park (Cami Jacobson, engagement editor).

 



from The Paris Review https://ift.tt/4cner7y

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Sphere

Photograph by Elena Saavedra Buckley. Once when I was about twelve I was walking down the dead-end road in Albuquerque where I grew up, around twilight with a friend. Far beyond the end of the road was a mountain range, and at that time of evening it flattened into a matte indigo wash, like a mural. While kicking down the asphalt we saw a small bright light appear at the top of the peaks, near where we knew radio towers to occasionally emit flashes of red. But this glare, blinding and colorless, grew at an alarming rate. It looked like a single floodlight and then a tight swarm beginning to leak over the edge of the summit. My friend and I became frightened, and as the light poured from the crest, our murmurs turned into screams. We stood there, clutching our heads, screaming. I knew this was the thing that was going to come and get me. It was finally going to show me the horrifying wiring that lay just behind the visible universe and that was inside of me too. And then, a couple se...
Post a Comment
Read more

DEMOCRACY DAY SPEECH BY PMB; MAY 29 2016

www.naijaloaded.com My compatriots, It is one year today since our administration came into office. It has been a year of triumph, consolidation, pains and achievements. By age, instinct and experience, my preference is to look forward, to prepare for the challenges that lie ahead and rededicate the administration to the task of fixing Nigeria. But I believe we can also learn from the obstacles we have overcome and the progress we made thus far, to help strengthen the plans that we have in place to put Nigeria back on the path of progress. We affirm our belief in democracy as the form of government that best assures the active participation and actual benefit of the people. Despite the many years of hardship and disappointment the people of this nation have proved inherently good, industrious tolerant, patient and generous. The past years have witnessed huge flows of oil revenues. From 2010 average oil prices were $100 per barrel. But economic and security co...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Private Life: On James Baldwin

JAMES BALDWIN IN HYDE PARK, LONDON. PHOTOGRAPH BY ALLAN WARREN. Via Wikimedia Commons , licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .   In his review of James Baldwin’s third novel, Another Country , Lionel Trilling asked: “How, in the extravagant publicness in which Mr. Baldwin lives, is he to find the inwardness which we take to be the condition of truth in the writer?” But Baldwin’s sense of inwardness had been nourished as much as it had been damaged by the excitement and danger that came from what was public and urgent. Go Tell It on the Mountain and Giovanni’s Room dramatized the conflict between a longing for a private life, even a spiritual life, and the ways in which history and politics intrude most insidiously into the very rooms we try hardest to shut them out of. Baldwin had, early in his career, elements of what T. S. Eliot attributed to Henry James, “a mind so fine that it could not be penetrated by an idea.” The rest of the time, however, he did not have this luxury, as pub...
Post a Comment
Read more