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A tribute to Bukowski. Love is a Dog from Hell.

At this tribute reading, you are welcome to bring your favorite Bukowski poem, or read an original poem that was inspired by Bukowski. We'll be showing videos of Bukowski, giving away books and other prizes. Plus a select number of readers including Host Kathi Georges will bring Bukowski poems to life in a very special performance.
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4 Storytellers, 3 True Stories, 1 Pack of Lies. Uncover the liar and win a prize worth its weight in fool's gold.

J. Keith van Straaten (Beat The Geeks; Curb Your Enthusiasm)

Ophira Eisenberg (Comedy Central; US Weekly's Fashion Police)

James Braly (NPR; Life in a Marital Institution)

Jennifer DeMeritt (Nerve; Glamour)

and host Andy Christie (Ny Times; Moth GrandSlam Champion)
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"Judgment is packed with memorable pieces, including a pair of edgy, show-stopping duo numbers, with Garzone and Zimmer sparring like they'd been doing so forever…"Cut Off" is a Jazz Messenger-style tune featuring engaging turns by Frahm, trumpeter Michael Rodriguez, Dodo and Zimmer that leaves listeners wanting more."
Downbeat Magazine

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SeaChange: Reversing the Tide blends the poetry of Shakespeare, Shelley, Robert Frost, Wendell Berry, Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver and others with a clear exposition of the consequences of our current indifference to Natural Laws and the benefits that can be achieved by living in accordance with those laws.
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"I'd go so far as to say that Translucent Space is the freshest and most individual jazz album of the year so far; it lets light through but in such a way that the antecedents and influences are sensed diffusely rather than clearly seen."
- Brian Morton, UK JAZZ REVIEW (Sept. 06)

"Translucent Space" (Fresh Sound-New Talent), the new album by the saxophonist and bass clarinetist Jason Rigby, doesn't come by its name casually; it's an album of airy, often diaphanous music, with faint echoes of early fusion and Third Stream. Mr. Rigby plays here with the album's rhythm section of Mike Holober on piano, Cameron Brown on bass and Mark Ferber on drums. At 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Cafe."
- Nate Chinen, NEW YORK TIMES (June 06)

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STREAMING LINK: jasonrigby.net/SoundFiles/TurquoiseTurkishMP3.mp3

This series explores in his highly personable, generous and informal style the astonishing variety of David Amram's interests and accomplishments--renowned composer of symphonic classical music, jazz compositions, improvisation, spoken word, scat, he sits at the piano, schmoozes about music, about the greats, the beats, the obscure, the legendary; plays the French horn, pulls out all kinds of instruments (flutes, drums, horns) gathered from his many circumnavigations of the globe, pulls in guests drawn from just about every artistic walk of life.
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FEATURED TELLER: REGINA RESS

FORMAT: Featured Teller/Open MIC/Swap: 6 - 7 minute limit

Barbara & friends celebrate the anniversary of the "2nd Tuesday of the Month" Series, with REGINA RESS, and a special swap by Jim Hawkins and Elizabeth Rowe, the featured tellers who helped Barbara and Dr. John Kallas launch this series back on a cold January night in 1997.

REGINA RESS returns to the Cornelia Street Cafe with some delicious Love Stories....old ones, new ones, funny, and maybe even true ones! She's been investigating the subject of Love for several hundred years (or so it feels)...and still hasn't discovered ALL of its secrets. But she does tell fabulous stories about it.

“The Best of New York…Storytelling at The Cornelia Café…” – New York Daily News
 Cover $7 (includes one house drink)   www.barbaraaliprantis.org ,  www.rnrproductions-nyc.com/regina

For our first Motel show of the new year, we are very pleased and proud to be bringing back our good friend Todd Barry. Todd will be scooting back and forth between Sketchfest shows in San Francisco, but we'll be lucky enough to have him for one night only.

From HBO's "Flight of the Conchords" to the Montreal, Aspen and Edinburgh Comedy Festivals, there's not much Todd hasn't done in the world of stage, film, radio and TV comedy. Howard Stern, Lucky Louie, Chappelle's Show, Letterman, Conan, etc., etc... just take our word for it, you are going to love Todd, OK? OK. (Everyone does. Uncanny, but true.)

Joining Todd, Comedy Central's Liam McEneaney has just returned from his European tour, and we're guessing he'll have some smart things to say for himself, as always. Old friend and winner of the Bud Light "Ladies of Laughter" Contest, Maureen Langan will be here, and you can see for yourself why Backstage magazine named her one of the "Ten Standout Stand-ups Worth Watching".

We had such a fun time last month with Chicago Second-City alum Thomas Middleditch that we've asked him back for an encore, and we're delighted to be able to present to you deaf comic Douglas Ridloff, co-creator and producer of "ASL (American Sign Language) in the Raw". Douglas - along with his interpreter for the hearing - will have you in stitches, guaranteed. Funny, funny man.
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Frank Agnello is best known as singer and guitarist for the Beatles tribute band, The Fab Faux. Frank has appeared with the Faux on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Howard Stern Radio Show, and CNN Headline News; as well as in Rolling Stone magazine (feature story) and New York Magazine. Musicians Frank has worked with include Elvis Costello, Rob Thomas, Marshall Crenshaw, Phoebe Snow, Al Kooper, Badfinger's Joey Molland, and Beatles recording engineer Geoff Emerick. Frank is currently at work on his first solo album, which he hopes to complete by the second half of 2008.

John Guth is a guitarist and composer as well as a producer and audio engineer. He has toured and/or recorded with many well known artists including Bob Gibson, Tom Paxton, Mimi Farina, Susanne Vega, Judy Collins, Red Grammer, Tom Chapin, Paul Winter, Galt MacDermot, Michael Wolff, and Peter Allen. His music opens and closes the Grammy winning audio book production of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire as well as the other Harry Potter audio books. He recorded, mixed and mastered the 2005 Grammy nominated CD Some Assembly Required by Tom Chapin. He recorded and played guitar on Neal Gomberg’s Lovers and Other Strangers. He occasionally ventures forth from his recording studio in Valley Cottage, NY. His website is johnguthmusic.com Steve Conte gets to have his cake and eat it too. He's a critically acclaimed singer, songwriter, guitarist, recording artist with his own bands (The Contes, Crown Jewels, Company of Wolves) and - his talents are also called upon by artists like Paul Simon, Willy DeVille, Maceo Parker, Peter Wolf, David Johansen, Simon & Garfunkel, Billy Squier, Phoebe Snow, John Waite, Chuck Berry, Willie Nile, Yoko Kanno and Prince & The Revolution singer Jill Jones. Currently, Steve plays lead guitar, sings backup and writes songs with the legendary New York Dolls, taking over for the late Johnny Thunders. Check him out on the web: www.thecontes.com and www.myspace.com/steveconterocks
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Lenny Bruce is back. The controversial stand-up comic, writer, social critic and satirist, who died in 1966, returns to earth and the stage for a hiatus from the afterlife, this time inhabiting the body of Peter Carlaftes.

Lenny has plenty to talk about. His hilarious afterlife perspective gives him a knowledge of all that came before, as well as all that's destined to happen in the future. For instance:

• Who really killed JFK? The answer is finally revealed--and it will shock you for the rest of your life!

• The dinosaurs are coming back. "Remember how the dinosaurs disappeared? Nobody knows why. Well, they come back. Nobody knows why."

• Cold War II. You think the first Cold War was bad? Brace yourself.

Lenny knows the heirarchy of heaven. And because no one can persecute him, he's a new man, with a new attitude, and a wealth of new material, that takes its cue from such Lenny classics as Religions, Inc., How Hitler Got Started and To Is a Preposition, Come Is a Verb.

"Carlaftes is the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce," (SF Weekly).
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The music will be an original mix of the beautiful Scandinavian melodic lyricism and simplicity and a strong influence from American jazz and the complex and spellbinding rhythms of African music. Compositions by Hess, and a few Danish and American standards in creative interpretations. Nikolaj and his brother Mikkel can also be heard together in the band HESS IS MORE: www.hessismore.com.

Nikolaj Hess won the RAI competion best young European jazzpianoplayer when he was 22, and gold in Berlingskes Rytmiske musikkonkurrence. He has been very succesful on the European Jazz scene the past many years, and is now based in New York, and is getting a lot of recognition on the scene here, also from his collaboration with dutch sax player Marc Mommaas in the band Global Motion. NH has also worked with Lee Konitz, Benny Golson, Fela Kuti, Robert Wilson, Marilyn Mazur, Caroline Henderson, Hal Wilner, Christian McBride and many others.
 Cover $10   www.nhess.dk