Finals cutting into your ability to visit this year’s Tribeca Film Festival? No worries. The downtown Manhattan festival is screening four of this year’s shorts on YouTube. You can see Wu (France), Section 44 (U.K.), The Confession (Ireland) and Kate Hudson’s directorial debut Cutlass starring Dakota Fanning, Chevy Chase (!!!) and her sort-of stepdad Kurt Russel. Information about the films is available here.
To check out the films, click here.
(Hat tip: Vulture)
Through This Lens gallery will be hosting an exhibition of works from Durham’s Club Boulevard Elementary School tonight from 5 to 8 p.m. The exhibition, featuring works from third, fourth and fifth graders, is the final result of a semester-long Literacy Through Photography project. A class (Full Disclosure: I am in the class) from Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies worked with the students to produce photographs and writing relating to various themes that include community, dreams and food. The show mixes digital and film photos.
The LTP method is what Jamara Knight used in her recently ended exhibition of photos from Tanzania Watoto Wanapiga Picha at Golden Belt.
The show is up for a limited time, ending this Saturday, May 2. You can get more info about the event and LTP here.
I probably caught wind of this really late, but how great is it that Spencer Krug will stop by Local 506 with his Sunset Rubdown June 15 and less than a month later Dan Boeckner will stop by the same venue (July 13 as presented by the Cat’s Cradle) with Handsome Furs? Plus, both shows are only $10 (advance anyway). It’s like seeing Wolf Parade without having to endure “Kissing the Beehive.” (Though, having experienced that 10-minute piece live, there are much worse things to have to put up with.)
Bob Dylan. Willie Nelson. John Mellencamp. Possibly the perfect summer concert but made even better by the venue: your local minor league baseball park. The triumvirate will be making a stop in Durham at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park Tuesday, July 28. The gates open at 5:00 p.m. and the show starts at 5:30 p.m. All tickets are general admission and cost $67.50. Children 14 and under get in free. For more dates and information, check out the aggregation of press releases at Brooklyn Vegan.
Never a university known for perfect town-gown relationships, the behavior of Duke students on LDOC seems reason enough to sour those feelings more, even if the students tend to remain on campus. So it’s funny to read various blogs that covered this year’s last day of class festivities. From the Indy Week’s Scan:
One student, hoisted onto her boyfriend’s shoulders, grew impatient with the newer material, with which Folds led the show. After telling her beau that the view was great, but meant she couldn’t finish her beer, she told Folds to “play something good, asshole.” For the diehard Folds fans—and those old enough to have watched MTV in the ’90s—it meant singing along to “Brick,” “Still Fighting It” and “Army” (during which, Folds broke a string … a piano string), occasionally yelling with ecstasy, and swaying back and forth, arms around your fellow man. Again, a lot of hugging.
And the less funny post from Triangle Music Blog:
By the end of the night, the campus was wrecked and everyone wandered home and hopefully stayed out of trouble.
