Mead Americano Spring 44 gin, Aperol, Fee Brothers grapefruit bitters, and locally-made Carroll’s mead star in this variation on a classic Negroni. “The mead replaces the traditional sweet vermouth and adds a nice subtlety,” says Wood. The cocktail is built in batches and then charged with CO2 to give it a slight effervescence. “We were in love with the idea of carbonating a spirit-on-spirit cocktail…It allows you to have a boozy, all-spirit cocktail without feeling like you have to be in the middle of winter to enjoy it,” says Wiley. (via Slide Show | First Look: Cocktails at Distilled NY in Tribeca | Serious Eats)
The Echo Vault is a temporary memory chamber dedicated to sonic experimentation and uncontrolled dance.
This event is two hours long on Friday, June 21 at midnight. Attending may put you at significant risk. This form may help you determine if entering the Echo Vault is for you.
Are you willing to hike for 30 minutes? Yes / No
Can you climb up a 20-foot ladder? Yes / No
There are no bathrooms. Are you cool with that? Yes / No
Once the event starts you will not be able leave until it’s over. That cool with you? Yes / No
This event occurs in a legally questionable venue. Do you have any outstanding warrants or open court cases? Are you in New York on a visa? Yes / No
There is a time and place for hot pants. Yes / No
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Drinks and food at Gallow Green this past weekend. No punch bowls, still.
They are serving lunch from 12-3pm (above food menu), but switch to a shorter snack menu after 3pm. (We thought the food was a notch better last year.)
I’m pretty sure the empty train car behind us isn’t local, sustainable, or organic in any way, either.
(via ‘Roadkill’ Bears Witness to Human Trafficking - NYTimes.com)
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Mercy Ojelade is so, so good as Mary in Roadkill.
Quick, someone get me a bunch of attractive people making out at a long dining room table in the dark, and it will be just like Sleep No More.
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Paper and wire sculptures by Polly Verity.
Parson’s machine serves a frosty Negroni variation made with great ingredients — Chicago’s excellent Letherbee gin, Luxardo Bitter, sweet vermouth and a bit of lemon juice.
(via The Negroni Slushy Is Taking Over Chicago | Food Republic)
Partway through the “Roadkill” bus ride, Mercy Ojelade, who plays the young girl, Mary (and at 30 looks surprisingly like a 14-year-old, which she portrays), boards the bus with Martha, an older woman (Adura Onashile) who is ostensibly caring for her. Riders interact with the naïve young girl, excited to have left her home for New York (or Chicago, or wherever — “Roadkill” is tailored to the host city). The time on the bus, Ms. Bissett said, is as vital to the show as the eventual destination.
“It’s so important that you bond with her first,” she said. “If you meet people right at the start when they’re already the victim, I think it’s harder for us to engage because they seem other. You can’t quite put yourself in their world, because it’s so far removed from you.”
Once the audience members arrive at the apartment, they witness Mary’s quick, brutal initiation into her new trade. She is trapped in the apartment as a succession of men pay a pimp for her services, and escape soon becomes a remote possibility at best.
“We have your passport,” Martha tells her. “We have your papers. You have nowhere else to go. You are one of us now.”
”Cora Bissett’s ‘Roadkill,’ Presented by St. Ann’s Warehouse
I saw this immersive theatre production a few days ago. I’m not sure I have the words to fully describe the effect of the show had on me, and continues to have on me.
Mercy Ojelade, though. Man. Mercy Ojelade. Her transformation from hopeful arrival from Nigeria to forced prostitute was so intense, so heartbreaking.
EDIT: There are some last minute tickets for this weekend!
The show is sold out otherwise.
Since 2007, Secret Cinema, a subsidiary of Future Cinema, has sold 120,000 film tickets without telling the audience what the film is. Its tagline is: “Tell no one”. Each production spills a film’s narrative into the real world. Riggall has stripped his customers of their underwear and imprisoned them in cells; filled Alexandra Palace with camels; and held simultaneous screenings in London and Kabul. Over 17 productions of movies, including One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Prometheus, Secret Cinema has blurred the line between film and reality.
(via The screen saver: Secret Cinema’s mission to save the movies (Wired UK))
