TV: Kris Carr on Oprah

Watch Kris Carr as she explains her fight with cancer to Oprah and Dr. Oz.
Watch as she explains the benefits of juicing, while using the Green Star.

This intriguing documentary is available by visiting Kris' website.

Village Interviews: Howard Schoenfeld

Dear Friends:

Happy Father's Day week to all of you fathers, father figures and mentors.

The following can be viewed on any high-speed computer anywhere or on TV in Manhattan:

This Wednesday (tomorrow), June 18 at 7:30 PM,(EDT-that's NYC daylight savings time) on my shoestring cable show Famousx2, on Channel 67, I am re-airing the first of three 29-minute programs of interviews I did with my late father in 1996 on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, this one about the Greenwich Village arts scene in the depression of the mid-1930s.

If you are in Manhattan and have access to Time Warner, you can see it on channel 67. On the RCN system, that should be Channel 85 or thereabouts these days.
If you are outside of Manhattan, anywhere in the world, and you have a good high-speed connection on your computer, you can go to mnn.org and click on
channel 67 to see it at the same time.

Sometimes MNN does screw up broadcasts, but usually its staff airs things without too many problems..... Be patient.

Best,
Jason Howard

Howard Schoenfeld's obituary in The Villager.

Film: Crazy Sexy Cancer

Crazy Sexy Cancer is an inspiring documentary film by Kris Carr about her cancer adventure. It is a funny, heartfelt, irreverent journey searching for a cure and finding life.

Please visit crazysexycancer for more info.

Check out Kris' blog.

Upcoming Shows: Steve Ben Israel

Thursday - Sunday June 26, 27, 28, 29
THEATERLAB – 137 W 14th St. (between 6th and 7th Aves)
all performances 8 PM $15
reservations recommended
Smarttix
or the Theaterlab box office: 212-929-2545

Nonviolent executions, Steve Ben Israel’s one-man show, is his latest séance to contact the living. A series of short takes combining humor, poetry, stories of rare poignancy, and his virtuosic acting abilities, nonviolent executions is an evening of entertainment with extraordinary intelligence and heart.

Mr. Israel started working as a comedian almost 50 years ago, then joined The Living Theatre and for many years toured this country, Europe, North Africa and Brazil as a leading actor in that ground-breaking group. More recently, he has performed extensively on the downtown scene, in such venues as The Kitchen, The Performing Garage, and The Nuyorican Poets Café, and has appeared in movies by Bertolucci, been a featured artist on recordings by Frederic Rzewski and Anthony Braxton, and has been a guest commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered.

In nonviolent execution, Israel comes full circle, to inhabit the city of his waking dreams and nightmares and confront the beauty, the horror and the possibilities of “the island that creates the spice that gives much of the country its flavor.”

When he finds communality with an immigrant cab driver, a cashier at the phone company, or an old jazz hand, he touches something in us all. When he tells his audience that he doesn’t “like the way white people are portrayed in movies,” he is completely sincere. When he sings the cantonal “Ballad of Black, White, and Jew,” sadness and hope ride a North African musical motif from hidden grief to deliverance.

Steve Ben Israel would present an audience’s most generous face to itself. If he pierces the slick armor masquerading as sense in our time with jolts of love and compassion, it is only his compulsion and our deep pleasure to be so subjected.

Steve is a 2007 Obie Award winner and recently performed Frederick Rzewski’s Attica at Carnegie Hall.

Health Care: Anti Pharma Rant

Great New Artists: Cosmo Herbert

Cosmo Herbert has taken up photography!

Cosmo's favorite anti-cancer foods are:
green tea
spirulina, and
fresh squeezed lemonade with stevia.

Faux Painting: Marbleized Fireplace

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Created by Dana Herbert and Nina Montezinos.

Music: Amy Winehouse and Linda Ronstadt

Village Interviews: Carlos Soares

Dear Friends :

This Wednesday, June 4th at 7:30 PM, on my every-other-week shoestring cable show Famousx2, on Channel 67, I am re-airing the first of two half-hour programs of an interview I did with in 1997 with Argentinian poet Carlos Soares.

Carlos grew up in Entre Rios, where Ernesto "Che" Guevara grew up, and is of the same generation as El Commandante and knew some of Che's family. When he arrived in NYC in the late 1960s, full of resentment at the Yanqui imperialist, he immediately fell in love with NYC, the Village and its people and started to modify and develop his thinking. As an Italian-Jewish and Criollo-Spanish Argentinian, he felt at home on the heavily Italian-American and leftwing Jewish Carmine Street (where he lived) of that time and soon became involved with many interesting poets and activists, including the Young Lords, and others.

In this part, among other things, you will learn of his coming to NYC. You will also have a chance to see some shots of my late father with Carlos in the late Washington Square Park. If any of you know where or how Carlos is, we would very much like to know. My mom and I tried to find him in the Bay Area, where he was living for many years, in 2004 when we were there, but with no success, and we haven't heard from him in at least 8 years. We are concerned, so do let us know if you have information.

If you are in Manhattan and have access to Time Warner, you can see it this Wednesday at 7:30 PM (DST-that's NYC Daylight Savings Time) on channel 67. On the RCN system, that should be somewhere around Channel 85 or thereabouts these days.If you are outside of Manhattan, anywhere in the world, and you have a good high-speed connection on your computer, you can go to http://www.mnn.org and click on channel 67 to see it at the same time.

Sometimes MNN does screw up broadcasts, but usually its staff airs things without too many problems..... Be patient.

Best,

Jason Howard

Music: Nicola di Bari - Giramondo

Feature from the 1967 film " L' immensità".