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If you’re not ready to turn to witchcraft to satisfy all your wishes — as Cintra Wilson did — then at least turn to the experts. Gift-giving pros like Sheila Bridges, Thom Filicia and Deborah Needleman recommend the Impulse Ghost Tumbler, “a hollow wine glass form within a highball glass,” wall hooks shaped like the front and rear of a moose, and nearly anything from under-the-radar shops like Just Scandinavian and Kisan. Just do what they say, no hocus-pocus necessary. “Secrets Only Your Witch Would Know,” by Cintra Wilson “Gifts for Hard Cases,” by Joyce Wadler and Penelope Green
THEATER Going Dutch
“Divisions between players and parts, public and private, life and death, madness and sanity, love and hate and — oh, yes — the person you see in the flesh and the one you see on a screen (make that several screens) at the same time:” in “Opening Night,” the director Ivo van Hove “works his way through these distinctions like a prankish child with a magic eraser,” Ben Brantley writes. A stage adaptation of the 1977 Cassavetes film, the multimedia production runs at BAM through Saturday. In (subtitled) Dutch, of course, because why not? “Theater Director With a Filmmaker’s Eye,” by Tom Sellar “A Natural Cassavetes Woman, Theatricalized, Magnified and Multiplied,” by Ben Brantley MUSIC He Knows Whereof He Plays In addition to a MacArthur “genius” grant, the Latin jazz saxophonist and composer Miguel Zenón got a Guggenheim research grant, which he used to investigate Puerto Rican plena, a percussive folk style. Then he composed his own 10-part piece, “Esta Plena,” which he will roll out tonight (through Sunday) at the Jazz Gallery. Go hear what all those honors were about. “At Home in Two Traditions: Jazz and the Sounds of Puerto Rico,” by Ben Ratliff NIGHTLIFE Happy Holidays, and Happy Free
Take your pick of free holiday parties tonight. In Dumbo, Powerhouse Books toasts its authors and photographers with drinking, book signing and live music; at the Flying Saucer Cafe in Boerum Hill, Bomb Magazine hosts a reading by Nick Flynn and Fiona Maazel, followed by seasonal festivities. On the Lower East Side, the blog Cupcakes Take the Cake commemorates its fourth anniversary with guess-what at the White Rabbit, and over at the Delancey, a self-appointed authority on being broke celebrates the publication of his new guide to living cheaply in the city, with food, booze and DJs. The cover is a measly $1. MULTIMEDIA The New Festival on the Radar Screen
The Blip Festival, dedicated to repurposing old Commodore 64s and GameBoys into instruments worthy of Kanye’s AutoTune, starts up again tonight at the Bell House. Expect bleepy, New Wave-y electronica, video installations, and artists with names like noteNdo. Bring your vintage hardware and learn how to be a chiptune composer yourself at this weekend’s workshops. “Making Old Hardware Play New Tunes,” by Melena Ryzik |
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