THE HYPE.PLEASED TO MEET ME: The idea behind ``Are You Dave Gorman?'' is both ingeniously simple and benignly narcissistic: British comic Dave Gorman set out to meet everyone he could with his own name - at least 54 of them, in response to a drunken bet he made with a pal. So what begins as a lark soon becomes an obsession, as Gorman begins traversing Europe and, eventually, the globe, in search of like-named fellows. He even creates a statistic: MPDG, or Miles Per Dave Gorman, charting the distance he travels in order to shake hands to perform the customary act of civility by clasping and moving hands, as an expression of greeting, farewell, good will, agreement, etc. See also: Shake with each Dave Gorman in his quest. (He gets truly wonky won·ky adj. won·ki·er, won·ki·est Chiefly British 1. Shaky; feeble. 2. Wrong; awry. [Probably alteration of dialectal wanky, alteration of wankle when he aims to keep the MPDG between 300 miles - anything less, and he'd feel his name is too common - and 500 miles - more effort than that, and he's obviously coming unhinged.) Gorman himself comes off as an amiable enough chap, with an occasional bite and a mildly absurdist sensibility, making this very low-tech presentation (he stands on a bare stage, shows a few slides and some brief video clips) surprisingly entertaining. Gorman is currently performing ``Are You Dave Gorman?'' on stage in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , but you needn't venture beyond tuning into BBC America today from 5 to 8 p.m. or 9 p.m. to midnight. - David Kronke DEATH SONG: The New York Times has called cult performance artist and four-octave vocalist Diamanda Galas ``ghoulish ghoul n. 1. One who delights in the revolting, morbid, or loathsome. 2. A grave robber. 3. An evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses. yet gripping.'' And tonight, you'll see why. Galas rages against naysayers of the Armenian and Anatolian Greek genocides of the early 20th century in her latest work for voice and piano, ``Defixiones, Will and Testament: Orders From the Dead,'' in a performance at UCLA's Royce Hall. Born to Greek Orthodox parents and raised in San Diego, Galas has often said her interest lies in the duality of darkness and light
Darkness and Light is a fantasy novel by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya R. . Her breakthrough trilogy ``Plague Mass'' - based on Edgar Allen Poe's ``Masque masque, courtly form of dramatic spectacle, popular in England in the first half of the 17th cent. The masque developed from the early 16th-century disguising, or mummery, in which disguised guests bearing presents would break into a festival and then join with their of the Red Death'' - was a statement that was part investigation, part scathing moral critique on the politics, theology and sociology of the plague mentality surrounding AIDS. Showtime is 8 p.m. Tickets are priced from $25 to $40 (UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX students with ID pay $14) and can be purchased through the UCLA Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101. - Sandra Barrera CAPTION(S): photo Photo: no caption (Diamanda Galas) |
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