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OSCAR VIEWING PARTIES

oscarparty

ACADEMY AWARDS
Multiple locations
Admission: free – $225
www.oscars.org

The eighty-second annual Academy Awards plan to be bigger than ever, of course, hosted by those precocious twins, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be any better, especially with the Best Picture Oscar spread way too thin with ten nominees. The Super Bowl of the movie industry can be watched this year at locations all over the city, with fellow film lovers or loathers adding their own opinions as the night runs too long. The Oscar Viewing Party at 92YTribeca will have themed drink specials, interactive fashion commentary, and more with hosts Michelle Collins, Sara Benincasa, and Sara Schaeffer; eight bucks gets you inside and a complimentary glass of champagne. Admission is free to the Oscar Viewing Party at Comix, but you’ll have to RSVP quickly to kcrews@comixny.com if you want to get in and compete for prizes in trivia contests and partake of such food and drink specials as the Lovely Boneless Chicken Tenders, the Whoopi GoldBurger, the Hurt Liqueur, and the Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire Gin & Tonic. The Bell House in Brooklyn is holding the free WitStream Oscar Party, with comic emcees Gabe Liedman and Jenny Slate promising a pretty crazy evening. Crazy comedy is also the name of the game at the free Heeb Oscar-Watching Party at West 3rd Common, where Eliot and Ilana Glazer will MC the night, focusing on Jewish-related cinema with the folks from Heeb magazine and the Office of Cultural Affairs Consulate General of Israel. There’s no telling what might happen at the ninth annual Murray Hill Oscar Party at Joe’s Pub, with plenty of contests, audience best- and worst-dressed awards, impromptu live performances, and other glamorous nonsense from Murray Hill, Neal Medlyn, Cole Escola, Kate McKinnon, Robin Cloud, and Our Hit Parade (20-$25). Things will be a bit fancier and more serious at Oscar Night and the City at Alice Tully Hall. New York City’s official celebration will run you $150-$225 , starting with a cocktail reception with live music by the Juilliard Jazz Ensemble and including a copy of the official Academy Awards program. And if you can’t wait until Sunday night to see the Oscars, several statuettes are currently on view as part of Meet the Oscars at the Time Warner Center, including one that you can get your picture taken with.

J.VIEWZ

J.Viewz will play its hypnotic jazzy electronica at late-night gig at Joe’s Pub

Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette St. by Astor Pl.
Thursday, February 18, $12-$15, 11:30 pm
212-539-8778
www.jviewz.com
www.joespub.com

The J.Viewz project, brainchild of Israeli musician Jonathan Dagan, makes hypnotic sounds that are both lush and luscious. Working with a changing roster of talent, Dagan, who is also part of Violet Vision with Shay Raviv, melds a variety of genres into his experimental collages and remixes, usually featuring the vocal wizardry of Noa Lembersky. On such songs as “Under the Sun” and “Worth Light” from 2005’s MUSE BREAKS and Nina Simone’s “See-Line Woman” and “Move Change” — which is sung in a Stephen Hawking-like computerized voice — from 2008’s THE BESIDES EP, Dagan creates mesmerizing music that floats through the air on a cloud of mystery. The band’s version of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” is the best Jacko cover ever produced, turning it inside out and upside down, reimagining it as a Tin Pan Alley standard. J.Viewz will be playing their eclectic brand of jazzy hip-hop electronica on February 18 at Joe’s Pub, with Dagan on programming, turntables, and guitar, Lembersky on vocals, Eran Asias on drums, Alon Leventon on keyboards, special guest Glen Velez on percussion, and Urijah on trumpet.

JUDY GOLD IN JEWDY, JEWDY, JEWDY!!!

Judy Gold will be riffing on her crazy family and more at Joe’s Pub

Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette St. between East Fourth St. & Astor Pl.
November 27-29, $18
212-967-7555
www.judygold.com
www.joespub.com

A self-described “mom, comedian, actress, writer, author, and oh — my mother’s favorite—a lesbian,” Judy Gold is, understandably, the author of the book 25 QUESTIONS FOR A JEWISH MOTHER and has been on the road with her one-woman show “Judy Gold Is Mommie Queerest.” Born in Newark and based in New York City, the Emmy-winning Gold, who has been appearing on TruTV’s THE SMOKING GUN PRESENTS: WORLD’S DUMBEST, will be performing “Jewdy, Jewdy, Jewdy!!!” at Joe’s Pub for what should be three hysterical nights, November 27-29.

CAPATHIA JENKINS & LOUIS ROSEN

Capathia Jenkins and Louis Rosen will ache with possibility at four Joe's Pub shows

Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette St.
November 8, 14, 21, 22, $20, 7:00
212-967-7555
www.myspace.com/jenkinsrosen
www.joespub.com
The dynamic duo of guitarist Louis Rosen and vocalist Capathia Jenkins return to Joe’s Pub for a four-night engagement beginning November 8 and continuing on November 14, 21, and 22 in celebration of their smashing new CD, THE ACHE OF POSSIBILITY (Di-Tone, November 10). Previously, the pair collaborated on albums with lyrics based on poems by Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and Nikki Giovanni; the new record includes four songs with words by Giovanni in addition to nine originals by Rosen. Jenkins, a Brooklyn girl who sang in her family’s church choir and has gone on to perform on Broadway and toured in DREAMGIRLS, and Rosen, a Jewish guitarist and composer from the South Side of Chicago who wrote the book THE SOUTH SIDE: THE RACIAL TRANSFORMATION OF AN AMERICAN NEIGHBORHOOD, make an unusual but thrilling pair, combining for an infectious sound that grabs you and never lets go, mixing jazz, R&B, blues, cabaret, Americana, and soul in sweet ways. The expert band adds tasty flourishes, particularly Andrew Sterman on flute, saxophone, and clarinet, Richie Vitale on trumpet and fluegelhorn, and Mark Sherman on vibraphone and percussion.

New album features four songs with lyrics from Nikki Giovanni poems

Jenkins, who has quite a set of pipes, sums up the album on the finale, “Love of Song,” in which she sings, “There are songs that will move you / And songs that you move to / And prayer songs / And moon songs / Love songs / Birth songs / We fill the earth with songs,” which gets right to the point – THE ACHE OF POSSIBILITY is filled with the love of song. On an earlier tune, “I Need You,” Jenkins and Rose share the vocals, with Jenkins proclaiming, “I need you / Like pleasure needs pain,” and Rose responding, “I need you / Like confession needs sin.” Rosen himself takes over lead vocals for the shuffling “The Middle-Class (Used to Be) Blues,” in which he declares, “My shoes need soles / And my soul needs love / But my love needs money like a cold hand needs a glove / So it’s shoes or love, I guess I gotta choose.” The album gets political several times, including in the superb title track, in which Jenkins explains in a sometimes whispery voice, “Phones are tapped to ease our mind / Suddenly torture’s redefined / Terror threats to scare us blind / And still another child gets left behind.” Jenkins and Rosen make quite a pair; these Joe’s Pub shows are indeed filled with limitless possibility.