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sarah

We really enjoyed the Twilight Vixen Revue. The women were wonderful and well choreographed. They kept the audiences alive with their charming and beautiful singing and dancing. Magician David Hirata is fabolous. He impressed us all especially with his card tricks and helium balloon. The hip-hop musics were okay.
We would definitely go attend to see performances of the Twilight Vixen Revue and David Hirata. We want to bring our children to see him. We even searched to see when David would perform next, unfortunately, there is nothing scheduled.

Written on Nov 16 2009

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More Information About Interlude: Four Nights of Entertainment

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Thursday 11/12 8 PM
Host: Dan Wolf  Performances by Diwon and MC Ephryme (hip-hop) and One Ring Zero

Friday 11/13 8 PM
Host: Ellen Sebastian Chang Performances by Twilight Vixen Revue (Burlesque Dance), David Hirata (Magician) and One Ring Zero

Saturday 11/14 8 PM
Host: Dan Wolf/Joanna Steinhardt
Performances by Zeek Magazine (Poetry), Austin Ratner (The Jump Artist) and One Ring Zero

Sunday 11/15 7 PM
Host: Michael Hearst featuring
a reading by Nelly Reifler - (author of See Through)
a presentation by Starlee Kine - (of NPR’s This American Life)
music by McCabe & Mrs. Miller - Alison Levy (of The Sippy Cups)  and Victor Krummenacher (of Camper Van Beethoven)

Diwon is the American-Israeli DJ/Producer extraordinaire behind the Shemspeed label. "Diwon is something else …in a profound kind of way. The New Yorker gets crafty when it comes to beats by extracting world music—mainly traditional Yemenite music-- and fusing it with electro hip hop; creating a titillating sound that’s juicy and for the ears. His musical influence developed from his migration from Yemen to Ethiopia to Israel." - Nicole Dawley, URB Magazine

Eprhyme, aka Eden Pearlstein, is more than one rapper; he represents an ongoing phenomenon of Jewish culture... post-sacred-cow radical pluralism, pantheism, religious consciousness fused with social action, and an uncompromising and unimpressed blend of urban forms and neo-Hasidic spirituality.....When rapping over sampled klezmer  and hip-hop beats, Eprhyme states: “I’m a consciousness catalyst sent/to abolish establishment /and this is why/with every word I try/to unify earth and sky/bring about the renaissance of the Most High.” He brings together the kabalistic concept of the fichu (unification) and a quasi-anarchist political sensibility, a postmodern musical aesthetic (DJ Spooky, aka Paul D. Miller, is probably the best source on the affinities between post-structuralism and hip hop) and, of course, his own personal vision. By Jay Michaelson  for  Forward

The Twilight Vixen Revue is a troupe of highly costumed precisely choreographed dancing girls executing show-stopping numbers in a wide range of thematic genres! An all-queer San Francisco troupe of fabulous showgirls, members of he Twilight Vixen Revue have been dazzling the Bay Area since 2003. Magician David Hirata

Zeek  is an award-winning journal (founded in 2002) that has retained both its independence and its expansive definition of Jewish cultural and spiritual life. Contributors range from well-known rabbis and professors to emerging artists, musicians, and poets.  Zeek values intelligence, independence, courage, and thoughtfulness, and believes that an articulate Jewish sensibility is one that speaks from its place of particularity in a much wider conversation.  

Austin Ratner’s The Jump Artist, heralded as “a remarkable work” by Harper’s Magazine and named one of ten promising debuts of 2009 by Publishers Weekly, is based on the true story of Philippe Halsman, a man who Adolf Hitler knew by name, who Sigmund Freud wrote about in 1930, and who put Marilyn Monroe on the cover of Life magazine.  The story begins in September 1928, when Halsman and his father were hiking in the Tyrolean Alps. While Halsman went ahead on the trail, his father was attacked and murdered. The Jewish 22 year old would be falsely accused of killing his father. The Jump Artist follows his life story from a mountain pass and a courtroom in Austria, into the depths of Halsman's despair in prison, to his rise in Paris and New York as one of the world's most renowned photographers.  Austin Ratner’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and has been honored with the Missouri Review Editors’ Prize in Fiction. This is his first novel.

Nelly Reifler is the author of the short story collection See Through (Simon & Schuster, 2003) Reifler's fiction has appeared in many magazines and journals including McSweeney's, Post Road, BOMB, Black Book, Swivel, Jubilat and Nerve. It has been anthologized in books including Nothing Moments, 110 Stories: New York Writes after September 11, Lost Tribe: Jewish Fiction from the Edge and the forthcoming Found Magazine anthology.

Starlee Kine is an American public radio producer and writer. Her work has been featured on This American Life and Marketplace. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine. She is currently working on a book about self-help titled, "It IS Your Fault".

McCabe & Mrs. Miller- Alison Levy (of The Sippy Cups) and Victor Krummenacher (of Camper Van Beethoven) released their debut CD, Time For Leaving, on a summer tour with Cracker in the Pacific Northwest.

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