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You read, you acted The weird and wonderful world of the inbox page 6 Get your orange on: Queen’s Night and Day round-up page 13 More WWII student victims discovered and remembered page 4 The original gay and lesbian bar reopens page 5 FILM: French nightmare animations p. 25 / SEX: Is three the magic number? p. 27 / FOOD: The Zen of Hog p. 24

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Welcome to our special two-week edition. Nope, we’re not becoming Amsterdam Biweekly. It’s just that the unhandy alignment of Queen’s Day with Hemelvaart makes it impossible to distribute our paper through the orange muck in time. Just as well: the extra week gives us a chance to clean up our email inboxes and maybe find some more curious missives we can publish. Reader-generated content—you’ve gotta love it! The extra time also allows us to focus on the official opening of both party season and terrace season. It’ll certainly give us more time to get pissed off about that pit of despair that is the NZ-lijn.

Our happy little subway will now only open in 2015, four years late and at six times the cost originally projected— costs that the city is responsible for covering. Gee, no one saw that one coming. So expect a tax rise, folks.

And further cuts to arts funding.

That’s what you get for going underground...

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AROUND TOWN Montessori Lyceum honours its WWII victims.

By Floris Dogterom Since 2005, a wall in the courtyard of Montessori Lyceum in Amsterdam has been adorned with a stainless steel plaque that reads, in elegant cut-out letters, ‘In memoriam 1940-1945’ followed by 25 names of Montessori students and teachers, who died in World War II. ‘They are part of the Montessori Lyceum’ it says.

Many of those 25 were Jews killed in extermination camps, while others took part in the resistance and were shot by the German occupier. The plaque was unveiled at the 75th anniversary of the school, but soon afterward it became clear that the list was far from complete. After nearly two years of extensive research, the number will be updated to include ten additional names.

Rolf Schoevaart, head of administrative affairs and keeper of the school archives, says the plaque alone seemed insufficient. ‘There was a growing awareness that we needed to explain to the students why the plaque was there,’ he says. This was discussed within the school community and led to the idea for a booklet that would tell the story of the school during the war and the fate of the victims.

A team of editors was put together that included a few teachers and former teachers as well as two former students.

Schoevaart himself plunged into the school’s archives. Luckily, all the student records—little rectangular cards—from 1930 to 1945 had been preserved. Each one indicates when the student entered and left the school. One that Schoevaart holds up, for example, gives the date of the student’s departure next to the words, ‘To Palestine’.

‘One can be pretty sure then, that the student survived the war,’ says Schoevaart. ‘Still, in all cases, we have been looking for at least two sources to confirm whether someone survived or not.’ That proved difficult, but the research produced a list of 84 students whose fate was initially unknown.

In the course of nearly two years, Schoevaart and his research sidekick, a Montessori alumnus, Wim Oostveen (79) spent dozens of hours tracking what happened to those 84. ‘We called ex-students from the same period, searched the internet, went through phone books and all kinds of archives,’ says Schoevaart. They also relied heavily on the Digital Monument of the Jewish Community in the Netherlands, a survey of the community’s members who were killed during the war.

The most memorable part of the research, to Schoevaart, were the inter-

views, which put him in touch with people from all over the world: Israel, the US, New Zealand. ‘I spoke to people, who, after all those years, were confronted with their deceased loved ones again,’ he says.

‘I was the one who took those ex-students sixty years back in time, to their school days.’ He adds: ‘It was a bewildering experience to learn that during the war everyday life just went on. While people were playing tennis on Olympiaplein, trams with rounded-up Jews on their way to Muiderpoort station, where they would be transported to extermination camps, were passing by.’

Schoevaart, who is 56, wasn’t alive during the war. He was raised in a family that always commemorated the war victims. ‘Every year, on the 4th of May, us kids

would hang out of the window, looking at the half-mast flags and the cars coming to a halt at eight o’ clock,’ he recalls.

It was only very recently that the Montessori Lyceum learned about the fate of the last two students on the list of 84.

Two sisters had seemed to be untraceable.

The school knew only that they had gone to London in April 1940, and they hadn’t returned. Both their marriage certificates were found on the internet, in the UK, dating 1946 and 1951.

In the end, ten names will be added to a new version of the plaque, all of them Jewish. Of the 74 others on the original list, it is now completely certain that they all survived the war. The booklet, entitled Kom vanavond met verhalen [‘Come and tell the stories, tonight’], from a poem writ-

ten by the well-known Dutch poet Leo Vroman, is now 230-plus pages, and really deserves to be called a book. It contains short biographies of all 35 victims, interviews with wartime and post-war students, a report about the search, photos and other documents. It is expected to be presented on 6 June during a closed meeting at the school.

Sonja Vetter-Samuels, a former teacher and initiator of the original plaque, says in the book: ‘In this booklet people have regained their identities. They can be commemorated again, which means they aren’t dead.’

A few monthes after this picture was taken in 1941, 30 Jewish students were forced to leave.

WIM LOOPUIT

A war history, revised

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It’s all in the family ’t Mandje comes back out of the closet.

By Willem de Blaauw On the eve of Queen’s Day, ’t Mandje, Amsterdam’s oldest gay and lesbian cafe, will reopen. Not only will part of the city’s rich gay history come back to life, but hopefully it will now stay alive for generations to come.

Not only did pictures, pictures and more pictures originally line the brown cafe’s walls, Diana van Laar, the new proprietor, took a lot of them when she decided to reopen ’t Mandje. ‘I wanted the bar’s interior to be exactly as it used to be,’ says Van Laar, niece of the original owner, Bet van Beeren. ‘Of course, the bar has to be up to standard for

today’s safety, hygiene and building regulations, so we had to strip it completely.

Hence, saving the pictures, so I could recreate the old interior like it was before.’

Van Beeren, born in 1902, started to run that old, tiny bar at Zeedijk 63 in 1927, taking over from her uncle. Bet was a lesbian herself—she used to dress in a leather jacket and roam around on her motorcycle with a girlfriend on the back, which must have been a remarkable sight in those days. The cafe was her local boozer and soon it became a favourite hangout and safe haven for other gays and lesbians.

But the cafe wasn’t as openly gay as today’s gay and lesbian bars: Bet didn’t allow kissing and she only permitted same-sex dancing on Queen’s Day. In those days, with gay lib still ages away, being gay was not just frowned upon: it could lead to serious trouble. Bet tried to protect her customers. Whenever someone entered the cafe whom she suspected of being anti-gay or an officer from the vice-squad, she’d switch on a light in a porcelain owl behind the bar to warn everyone. It’s said that the Dutch slang for homosexual, ‘uil’ [‘owl’], has its origins here.

Bet wasn’t someone to mess with.

When drunk, she often got a pair of scissors and cut ties off the male customers; she’d pin these trophies behind the bar.

But she also donated money to good causes and actively helped Jews during World War II. Even the iconic Salvation Army Major Alida Bosshardt used to pop in the bar for a chat with Bet. Over the years, the bar became more than a location; it was a legend. Bet became known as ‘the Queen of the Zeedijk’, and a small part of the interior of ’t Mandje was recreated as a permanent exhibition in the Amsterdam Historisch Museum.

When Bet died in 1967, she was laid out on the cafe’s billiard table so friends and family could pay their last respects.

Her sister Greet took over the cafe and moved into the apartment upstairs. But in 1982, when crime reached a peak in the neighbourhood, Greet closed her cafe, only to reopen it for one week in 1998, during the Amsterdam Gay Games, as a tribute to her sister. Greet died last year and, like her sister, received her final tribute on the pool table.

Now there are a number of gay bars in the neighbourhood—De Barderij, The Queen’s Head, De Engel van Amster-

Memories of the original Lesbian biker chick.

dam—and the Zeedijk is a popular gay destination. The neighbours have been very welcoming of the new ’t Mandje, says Bettie van Laar, Greet’s godchild, who’s also helping out with the renovation. ‘We’re extremely happy about the help and support from people on Zeedijk,’ she says. ‘Lots of them came to us and said: “if you need a hand, just give a shout.” It was very heart-warming. Also the council was very helpful.’

The official opening is scheduled for Tuesday 29 April at 13.00, with presentations by Els Leping from the gemeente, and Frank van Dalen from the COC, the Dutch Gay Organisation. The bar is so tiny, though, that Bettie laughed, ‘We will have to have the opening ceremony in two shifts.’

Will customers from the bar’s heyday attend the opening? ‘No idea, but I know that there are some customers still alive who used to go there when Bet and Greet stood behind the bar. Last year, at Greet’s funeral, there were some old customers as well,’ says Bettie. From 17.00, after the opening ceremony, ’t Mandje will open again for regular business.

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The pictures were a pleasure to go through. I would suggest though that you might consider editing a little more critically when it comes to the comments provided by those making submissions. In particular, reader Bart Plantenga states that actress Jean Seberg was murdered by the CIA or FBI. I don’t know if this is something from a movie he saw or maybe he dreamed it, but articles I’ve read would suggest depression and suicide was the likely sad ending to her life.

- F. Weaver

Savonarola Lodewijk Asscher, the born-again Savonarola of Amsterdam, declares that: ‘When their windows will be closed, the prostitutes will probably move to Antwerp and Berlin.’ Ja! Just like the tourists, heer Asscher!

and they will sing the text for you: ‘Jan e Jansen zijn vrouw awas een koorddanseres maar bij gebrek aan een touw klom ze op het bordes, het eten werd koud en Jan e Jansen werd heet en in de straat weerklonk zijn kreet: KOmm e Van Dat DAK AF!!!’

The Tielmans WERE important, they WERE the 1st Indo Rock band, the 1st Rock&Rollers anyhow, but, they never made a big impact outside of their subculture, at least before the early sixties. (the subbacultcha being: ‘nozems’, ‘Kuiven’, etc. Now, look this up in your Holland material. What the .... is meant by Nozem?)

(I wasn’t one at least, later on in life I was more of a Beat Lover).

Secondly, from your fine overview of Pop Icons thru the decades is missing, to my view, one or two essential bands/genres: a. The Mid Sixties music revolution of ‘Neder Beat’, the first wave of bands in the wake of the British Invasion, led by, either

Russian Weekly Now, I’m back to Moscow, sitting and rereading your paper and browsing your website. The website says that AW is for the locals only and features mainly local events. Though, I, being not a local and a true tourist, read it with much interest.

This simply proves that it may contain interest to tourists as well. So please consider the following: Given the fact that there is no Russian daily or weekly or anything in Amsterdam of YOUR format, what if you add some info in Russian, too?

Sometimes. For instance, if your front page contains a small Russian phrase, say ‘Read in Russian, page No...’ and if this page or two contain some materials in Russian, an article, an overview, a description or mere ads I guess it’ll make sense.:) You may return me my proposal with ‘What about Germans, Italians, Spaniards, etc, who are larger in numbers?’—and you’ll probably be right, though I trust that

- Adrian Marlowe

RE: Nederpopping I felt a strong sense of resentment as I read the sentence of your Nederpop feature in which the songs of Eddy Christiani were referred to as silly. The lyrics of his songs may not have contained groundbreaking material, but his skills as a guitar player should not be underestimated. A hard rock guitarist once told me that he was in awe that ‘this geezer’ because he used a diff’rent chord for every word. Eddy Christiani was one of the) first Dutchma(e)n to use an electric guitar in his songs so he was a pioneer in his age and just portraying his as a square doesn’t do him justice. Greetings.

- Arjan.

P.S. Maar het blijft natuurlijk zeikmuziek RE: Nederpopping As a true Hollander, and (BUT?) admirer of your lovely weekly, I feel the need to give my comment on your Nederpop. My main concern is that I disagree on the importance, or even better, the IMPACT of the first Tielman Brothers record, 50 years ago, on the Netherlands ‘in general’. This in spite of all the fuzz given to it now.

AND, I find 1 or 2 essential music phenomena missing in the whole story. (who wouldn’t like Vader Abraham fans, or Frans Bauer aficionados?) From my own memory as a pop rock lover for the last fifty years comes another picture. (based on radio listening since 1960, record buying since 1961).

1. In 1958 my family already owned 2 rock%roll records: ‘Buona sera signorita’

by Louie Prima (the widest spread 45 record in the 2nd hand shops in Holland, from that era at least) and ‘Bird Dog’ by the Everly Brothers. I know my stuff! I bought a Buddy Holly 45 as my first in 1961. Hwever, from my memory, the first Dutch Rock record ever to have any impact here, was not the Tielman’s, but, in 1960, the forever famous ‘Kom Van Dat Dak Af!!’ (Get off thatta Roof!!) by Peter and his Rocket (who made a string of hits then, and were revived twice in later decades). Peter being the ever since very active record producer Peter Koelewijn, still a ‘legend’. Ask any Dutchie over 35,

Weekly. I read your entire website and your project sounds quite interesting. Last year I acted in a feature film produced by Innocent Pictures (a subsidiary of Lars von Trier’s Zentropa, specializing in erotica made for and by women.) The film is called All about Anna and my part called for unsimulated sex...’ I’d been hearing for years that Zentropa was doing something related to sex films, but most people dismissed it as a rumor. And here was Thomas Lundy, an actor from the very same project! Thomas and I bonded over coffee at Village Bagels, he auditioned, and I cast him in one of the roles. When I wanted to program his Innocent Pictures film for a festival I was working on, Thomas generously offered to introduce me to the company’s executive creative producer, Nicolas Barbano, who was the first of my growing community of is-it-porn-or-is-itart? colleagues. Nicolas turned out to be a boundless font of erotic film knowledge and, like my other erotica colleagues, a genuinely great guy interested in showing people that sexuality ought to be as exciting on film as it is in real life.

- Jen

WORLD OF INBOX Amsterdam Weekly always get interesting mail. But we got a lot more in the last month—both regular and related to our Buy-A-Block-Of-Us campaign...A sampling.

the Q65, or our Amsterdam pride The Outsiders! (frontman Wally Tax passed away a few years ago...in true pop style, penniless, addicted, etc.). b. Also missing are the, well known from America, so-called teenage girl singers, like your Connie Francis, Leslie Gore, Shelly Fabares, etc., in Holland imitated by the likes of Anneke Groenloh, Willeke Alberti (talking about Amsterdam Icons, the daughter of WILLY ALberti, the mother of JOHNNY de Mol !!), Trea Dobbs, and more.

Still I appreciate your magazine very much. I grab it wherever I see a “stapel” of it lying. You guys are having a true grip on what goes on here, BUT, not being local, sometimes you are missing a nuance. Never mind, AW is Naar Mijn Mening, the best free weekly around (dailies included, that comprise a heap of rubbish around the station and ferries every day...).

Keep on trucking !!! (as they said in 1971, underground comics , and all, Grateful Dead as well).

- mr. R. Nauta, Amsterdam

PS. I’m living right across the pond, you people are staring from your desks.....what to write now?

every week a good 5 or 6K of only Russians are arriving! :) A very good translation into live and jovial Russian of what you may find proper for this or that issue I’ll provide with much pleasure and meeting all necessary editorial requirements. I hope that my proposal will interest you. If not, OK, please let me know. Thank you.:) Sincerely, Andrei Mitine

Pedestrian safety We are visitors to the amazing city of Amsterdam, and after several close-calls with this city’s cyclists, we propose that it become mandatory for all pedestrians to wear a protective orange helmet when out of doors.

The Baylin-Stern Family Montreal, Canada

The international erotic community I was looking for actors and actresses for my first sexually explicit art film. After weeks of biking around the city with my crew, taping up casting posters in theatre schools, clubs, and performance spaces, this e-mail popped into my inbox: ‘I saw your ad for actors and crew in Amsterdam

Amsterdam Reloaded If I had to write a specific anecdote about some interesting experience I had because of the Amsterdam Weekly, I wouldn’t know where to start. Should I write about all the kick-ass places I’ve discovered while writing for and reading the Weekly? About how I discovered the beauty of Amsterdam Noord, lounged on a refurbished Russian Cruise ship or met up with a real life gondoleer? Should I write about how much my editors have taught me about writing and journalism, and how they put up with my incessant bad punning? Should I write about the great people I’ve had the pleasure to meet, ranging from living legends like Roger Corman to present day snake charmers and my incredibly talented fellow writers? The fact that they pay me to write about anything and everyone with an unprecedented amount of freedom of expression? Well, there’s that, and a whole lot more. But for me, the most important aspect about the Amsterdam Weekly is the fact that every week, I get to pick up a copy and discover a whole new side of the city I call home, forever showing me sides of Amsterdam I would’ve never known about otherwise. While the Dutch local yokels like to kvetch, bitch and moan about how everything sucks in this town, the Amsterdam Weekly is a potent reminder of all the great things that still happen and the great potential for fantastic stuff to come in this fair city of ours. It simultaneously reminds us we should not take this for granted and that we should be prepared to fight the petty bureaucrats, petulant yuppies and narrow-minded bigots who want to turn everything in this country into a mediocre, grey and predictable slush. The Amsterdam Weekly helps me make sense of this wacky, messed up, glorious town and it makes me feel I belong smack damn in the middle of it.

- Luuk van Huët

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Amsterdam Weekly gives me the impression that Amsterdam has its own cultural life. No matters it is 100% true or not, I don’t mind being charmed and cheated. I hope Amsterdam Weekly will find a way to continue its adventure and I would definitely buy it if I have to.

- Edouard

Kudos from the master Hello all there! See www.simonvinkenoog.nl—I did my bit today. Thanks for the party pack—keep on, may the Good Weather be with you: Amsterdam Needs You! Our Own (Amsterdam) Village Voice—meant as a compliment of course.

More one-liners wanted?

- Mad Master Vinkenoog.

Doesn’t quite get it I’m not going to write a long winded letter, so here goes. I appreciate your magazine (especially as an outsider from the States that’s living here for the next 2 months). I understand how hard it is to run a business with declining ad revenue. However, the attempt to generate ads by selling blocks not only compromises your journalistic integrity, it also alienates readers.

Why print it at all if you’re going to print fragments? It’s a dumb strategy and the person that came up with the idea should go jump into the canal. Realistically, you think people are going to think, ‘Wow, that missing piece was so compelling and incomplete. I’m not mad at Amsterdam Weekly, at all. Instead, I’m going to rush out and buy some ad space so that I can read the full review for the new Celine Dion CD.’ Really, I think most readers will be like me, ‘Fuck them. Why are they wasting my time?’ Then, like me, they will just pick it up every Wednesday and then quickly discard it. It’s a dumb practice.

Here are some suggestions (top of mind) that I hope will help out your publication: -Add more content so that you can sell more ad space at a lower rate. Invite university students to write, for free. That way they get the exposure, you get more content to justify the ad pages.

-Throw some fund raisers! How about music/movie festivals? Free concerts, art shows, etc. for donations?

Those two alone should help. I don’t intend to be condescending, but I really do appreciate your publication. However, what you guys are pulling will only distance AW from its readers. This consultation is free. The next one will cost you $2.99 per minute.

- Roe!

Not an easy road Of all possible assignments Amsterdam Weekly could conjure up, I always got the weird ones. Whether this is a secret policy they won’t let me in on or sheer ‘luck’, I wouldn’t know. But fact remains that for the sake of getting a story I’ve insulted police officers, hanged with the street coaches in infamous Slotervaart, covered the art of chainsaw sculpturing, interviewed a crashed stuntman with nothing to say and talked to an anarchistic clown

who got branded as a terrorist. It’s all in a day’s work for Weekly contributors.

For this article though, no one got interviewed. It’s about all the crazy things that can happen to a writer when a story gets printed, or in my case; when a story doesn’t get printed. This is a tale of blood, broken bones, good old Amsterdam cockiness and dazzling stupidity.

As you may have noticed the last couple of weeks this newspaper didn’t actually contain any news. Vital parts were missing due to a daring and rigorous plan to save the penniless paper. The idea was to sell Amsterdam Weekly in small blocks to anyone who cared enough to pay.

Enough donations meant a fully printed and readable paper. But if not all blocks were sold, random parts of Weekly would be blank, thus creating something that, at best, would be considered as art, with a small (or even absent) letter ‘a’. But most of you zap-happy, bite-size news consumers out there had no idea and just discarded the thing as an unfortunate misprint. You may have understood by now that I didn’t believe this crap would work.

It so happened that in this period my old buddy Steve Korver, and one of the evil geniuses behind Amsterdam Weekly, asked me to interview the Hells Angels about matters like logo protection and name branding. Admittedly, I boasted that I had good contacts in this realm. I used to be what is called a ‘hang-around’ in Hells Angels-speak, during the 1980s, together with two of my closest friends. It’s like the first stage you enter when you want to join the club. After getting beaten up constantly for being punk rockers this biker brawn seemed like justice to us. But as we got older we drifted apart, in different directions. Only one of us stayed for the whole ride and became a full member. He still is.

He is my oldest friend, living or dead, on the planet. Because of this contact I would get the job done.

I called the right numbers and ‘bingo’, permission was granted. One Saturday night and a Sunday afternoon at the Angels Place later, I had my article. It was authorised by the club just in time to print. Yes! I fucking did it!

Wednesday I picked up Amsterdam Weekly, opened it and saw... nothing. The random blank spots had made the interview completely invisible. And for this I played my best card? I started to imagine Hells Angels picking up the paper, infuriated. Just for the record; they know where I live, work, and breathe. It pissed me off beyond belief. I needed a drink or ten.

After having filled myself up with alcohol like a truck in a diesel station I took my bicycle and rode home. The booze didn’t help much, I was still angry. Even more so when I approached a blockade of Sovietproportions in the De Clercqstraat. It obliged me to take a detour, but detours are for tourists. It was of course smack in the dead of night, nobody on the streets and my velocity was, let’s say, the absolute maximum speed one can reach with 8 gears. Confidence is a beautiful thing, but try not to forget some focus whilst you’re challenging Newton’s laws of physics.

A plastic pole used to stop traffic was in my way. I avoided the thing but somewhere in my blurred mind a couple of brain cells with questionable reputations

hollered something like: ‘Kick that fucker out of the way!’ My right leg obeyed. The pole did what it should do. It bounced back. My bike got hit so hard that it disappeared from underneath me and one twelfth of a second later I saw the asphalt coming closer, fast. I managed to regain control of my thoughts and decided to ward off the impact with my chin, which saved my hands from having nasty superficial scrapes. My jaw broke. A couple of ribs got busted, and I was bleeding all over myself like a young Picasso. Seven stitches stopped the bleeding, but not the shame. I’m currently recuperating, sucking soup through the wires that for now hold my face together.

I never heard anything alarming from the Hells Angels. But who needs them when you’re a self destructive stooge like me?

It didn’t cure me of wanting to write for Amsterdam Weekly though. I can’t wait to interview Robert Mugabe when he’s hanging by his balls.

- Jaro Renout

Bringing Quazatrons together Hello, The Amsterdam Weekly is hugely responsible for helping our band The Quazatrons find a wonderful bass player and a fantastic drummer via your free ad section. I personally hope the Weekly regains sponsorship and will continue to flourish. Your paper typifies all that is great about Amsterdam. Thank you very, very much.

- P. Hardman

out there and how best to approach it and profit from it. So while they’re all busy doing that, I find I have a spare day each week which I would like to put to good use. The Amsterdam Weekly has been good to me over the last 4 years since I’ve been here in Amsterdam and so I’d like to give the paper something back... Namely, my 12 years of ideas and advertising experience... for free, gratis, nichts!

- Craig

Random online block comments This would be more interesting if you allowed people some say over what goes into the space they’ve purchased... Anyhow good luck - Toby I like that the visible blocks are heartshaped! - Joost Come visit the International Information Centre and Archives for the Women’s Movement in Amsterdam - Lin McDevitt-Pugh I bought 1 block nr 12 in the page Music Agenda. How can I submit the text plus maybe photo? thanks - Guido Do not buy the picture blocks! We want to read it, please buy the blocks on the text columns! - di Lampedusa But the picture blocks are purty!- Joost Great Idea man. I don’t want this paper to disappear so I’m buying Goddamnit!

- Laser 3.14

I found my house in your classifieds! I love you! - Alexia Lost a reader you think you are funny? i will never touch your stupid paper again stuff it up your ass, wankers

Accidental suicide http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Ka7cNjKvSs

- harry

- Russell B Hurley

Unf*ck us marketing Is het een idee om t-shirts te maken met ‘Unf*ck us’? Die tekst gaat namelijk zo ongeveer ALTIJD op, of het nou om Fitna of de lousy lente zon gaat. Niet? Toch?

Spam doesn’t always work I’ve send the ‘For Sale’ email to at least 100 people, on two occasions, and unfortunately, I realised that only a small percentage of the people I approached bought some blocks. Somehow I have the feeling that in another country, another culture, people would show more solidarity. People here are quite self centred and blase, absolutists. They don’t believe they can make things change. It’s very sad. Anyway! Good luck, and I really hope for the best! Ciao!

- Simon

Ad capital on downward spiral I was reading my Amsterdam Weekly yesterday evening when I came across this weeks story—Communicating vs Advertising. I found it to be an interesting debate as I myself have been an advertising creative working within the advertising business and I have also worked at Strawberryfrog on a number of occasions. Yes the industry is going through a big change right now as I am very aware of—I’m a freelancer and I have found that there is not so much work going around because a large number of agencies and clients are hanging back, holding on to their cash, to see what their next move should be.

- ‘do we invest in more digital?’

- ‘do we invest in more branding?’

- ‘do we invest in more research about digital and branding?’

Right now, the communications industry (be that digital/advertising/branding/ PR etc, etc) is trying to figure out what is

- Corinne

eBay blocking Have you been thinking about offering AW blocks at eBay, too? You could end up earning more than €5 a block! And people really do sell EVERYTHING there right?

- Sarah

Eclipse Christ, that Ladywood is something, isn’t she? I observed a woman on the terrace the other day reading Ladywood’s column and watched her astonished eyes grow from marble-size to ping-pong to basketball-size and finally, they eclipsed the moon. Truly.

- Monique

Ciao from Milano!

It's a bit weird that Richard and I worked together on the paper for two years without any shenanigans...But now, four years on there's wonderful news, we're expecting a baby in October. If it wasn't for the Weekly we might never have met I guess, so thanks and long may you continue! groetjes, - Jen Thanks to Rialto Cinema, Peter Bartlema, Kate Dickens, Joe Garlick, Robert E Varley and Maude Yonkers who bought blocks but whose names slipped through the cracks last week.

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World Press Photo, Tuesday, Oude Kerk

THURSDAY 24 APRIL

only will there be readings in the building itself but also at a variety of locations throughout the Red Light District. See www.literatuurfestival.nl for the full programme.

(Steve Korver) OBA , Various locations, times and prices. Until 27 April.

Books: Babel on Amstel

Rock: Danko Jones

Until 22 April next year, Amsterdam will be World Book Capital. A dazzling number of literary events are being organised, one of the very first of which perfectly fits in our age of multiculti. The three-day symposium, Babel upon Amstel, organised by the Universiteit van Amsterdam in cooperation with the Dutch Literary Fund, looks at migration, language and literature in Europe. In a series of lectures, debates and workshops, writers and scholars will discuss European migrants’ literature, which is the literature written by non-Western writers living and working in Europe. Topics of the workshops include Mapping Babel (on the history of migrants’ literature), Translating Babel (on translating migrants’ literature) and Living Babel (about writing in two or three languages). On Thursday there’s an evening programme at Goethe-Institut (in German) and Maison Descartes (in French) with such participants as Fouad Laroui (Morocco/NL), Abdelkader Benali (Morocco/NL), Alain Mabanckou (Congo/VS), Jamal Mahjoub (Sudan/UK) and many others. For more info and registration, see www.babel-upon-amstel.nl. (Floris Dogterom) Various locations, times and prices. Until 26 April.

If the term ‘cock rock’ hadn’t already existed, no doubt some rock journalist would have used it to describe Danko Jones. ‘Do you kiss on the first date?’ asks the Canadian rocker, while sticking out his tongue Ace Frehley style. Pretty stupid indeed, but hey, hipsters, here’s the good news: Jones’s three-piece band is one of the most tight-assed hard rock outfits on the planet. Totally dedicated to the preservation of riffs à la AC/DC, the Mango Kid, in true punk rock style, never indulges in unnecessary things like guitar solos. The testosterone rocker, after more than five years of constant touring, finally took some time off to record his album Never Too Loud. Support acts are Canadian alternative sleaze rockers Die Mannequin (who are on at 19.15!) and the hard rocking Belgians El Guapo Stuntteam.

Respect the rock, baby. (Floris Dogterom) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.15, sold out.

Books: Internationaal Literatuurfestival Amsterdam 2008

Classical: Nederlands Kamerkoor

This annual literary event is especially frolicsome this year, as it is acting as the kickstart to Amsterdam being UNESCO’s World Book Capital 2008-2009. Under the theme of ‘The Free Word’, a variety of programmes will involve both Dutch and international authors in not only readings but also discussions on the role of freedom of expression in their work, lives and country of origin. Some of the big name guests include Ingo Schulze, David Grossman, Samir El-Youssef, Vikram Seth and Louis de Bernières. Other programmes focus on Iranian writers, Arabic poetry and freestyling. On Saturday at 16.00, at the new public library, Amsterdam Weekly writer Michael Martin will interview another Amsterdam Weekly writer/editor Julie Phillips (author of award-winning biography James Tiptree Jr, The Double Life of Alice B Sheldon) along with cartoonist/playwright Ben Katchor and novelist Junot Díaz. Another highlight is the Cultural Peepshow being hosted by poetry centre Perdu on Sunday from 16.00—not

SUNDAY 27APRIL If there’s one thing we know about contemporary composers, it’s that they’re inaccessible.

If there’s one thing we know about composers from the 16th Century, it’s that they’ve become inaccessible, too. But if there’s one thing we know about the Netherlands Chamber Choir, it’s that this ever-clever group won’t let such clichés stand. Under conductor Paul Hillier, the 20-voice choir will explore the development of Anglo-Saxon vocal music across the centuries. The technique is simple but stunning: interleaving works by Elizabeth I’s principal composer, William Byrd (including the entirety of his magnum opus, The Great Service), with contemporary scores. The latter include Howard Skempton’s Rise Up, My Love, Gavin Bryars’ And So Ended Kant’s Traveling in This World and Again by David Lang—the selfsame David Lang who just won the Pulitzer Prize for a piece commissioned for Hillier’s own ensemble. The result should show us the long shadow of Byrd’s influence, as well as deepening our understanding of vocal music’s genuine—and entirely accessible—continuities. (Steve Schneider) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €23.35/€27.50.

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TUESDAY 29 APRIL Photography: World Press Photo 2007 was the year Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. It was also another year of war in Iraq, casualties in Afghanistan and immigrants looking for a better life. All of these subjects feature in this year’s World Press Photo exhibition, in images that are sometimes subtle, sometimes painfully in-your-face. The 2007 World Press Photo of the Year, depicting a US soldier resting in a bunker in Afghanistan, speaks of exhaustion and the futility of war. It is all the more evocative for being dark and somewhat blurry. Its author, British photographer and film-maker Tim Hetherington, is not interested in aesthetic pictures: ‘I am a political storyteller. My main goal is communication with the public,’ he said in an interview for the Volkskrant. World Press Photo’s Awards Days, from 25 to 27 April, include a lecture by Magnum photographer Martin Parr on Saturday. Interested outsiders are welcome but must register in advance. See www.worldpressphoto.org for more details. (Terri J Kester) Oude Kerk (Mon-Sat 10.30-17.30, Sun 13.00-17.30). Until 22 June.

THURSDAY1MAY Photography: Shopkeepers Sometimes one comes across weird little shops. For example, there’s the one that sells only sewing machines. Or the one specialising in screws. Ever wondered how these shops can survive? Well they can’t. In his series Shopkeepers, Niels Helmink portrays a mercantile world which is in the process of disappearing, and looking at his pictures, makes one realise that this is a sad thing. Bringing to mind childhood memories and words like ‘haberdashery’, the photographs exude melancholy. Standing behind the counters of their humble realms, many of the shopkeepers already look like part of a world long gone. Their shops are usually crammed, often colourful, and sometimes they have big advertising posters from past decades hung up on the walls; and they look like you can find really interesting things if you rummage through the far corners. Much more exciting than Blokker. But sometimes nice things disappear, and there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s the way of the world kids: everything must go. (Sarah Gehrke) Galerie Bart (Thur, Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 12.00-17.00).

Until June 7.

FRIDAY 2 MAY Psychedelia: Daevid Allen Daevid Allen’s one of those guys that gets inspired in the right times to go to the right places.

While working in a Melbourne bookshop in the late ’50s, the words of the beat poets got inside him and he hopped a plane to Paris to find a scene for himself. Selling newspapers in the French Quarter, he met Terry Riley, who got him into tape loop experimentation. Soon, Allen befriended William Burroughs—also in Paris—and, after forming his own free jazz outfit, Allen performed in Burroughs’ theatre pieces. In the early ’60s, he headed over to Canterbury, England, where he met his landlord’s 16-year-old son Robert Wyatt, and they coformed Soft Machine, the group that came to be known, along with Pink Floyd, as one of the most influential British psychedelic groups—and Jimi Hendrix’s favourite. After visa troubles, Allen was back in Paris forming the psychedelic outfit Gong, the first band to be signed to Virgin records. Since then, Allen’s been all over the place, forming a slew of other projects and various re-incarnations of Gong, including the punk inspired New York Gong.

Tonight, in the latest edition of AUXXX, Allen reads poetry before performing with his San Francisco-born University of Errors, who revisit the sounds of Soft Machine. Similar lineup tomorrow night, and Sunday is a screening of various film shorts programmed by Allen.

(Mark Wedin) OT301, 21.00, €7. Until 3 May.

MONDAY 5 MAY World Dance: Pamina Devi An Enlightenment-era work that incorporates magic, The Magic Flute both embraces rationality and captures our need to go beyond it. So when choreographer Sophiline Cheam Shapiro sought to tell of her homeland, Cambodia, under the Khmer Rouge —a time of ‘ideology so extreme it loses its humanity,’ she said—she turned to the Mozartean opera as model. The dance-drama Pamina Devi lifts its storyline almost wholesale, but transposes the tale of struggle against authority and eventual liberation to a Cambodian setting. With 36 dancers, musicians and singers in gosh-wow costumes, the 90-minute piece proceeds cautiously, with an emphasis on mood and gesture.

Cheam Shapiro, born in 1967, was one of the first to revive traditional Cambodian dance after the Khmer Rouge’s ravages, and she also wrote the text and the Cambodian music that animate this work. Her aesthetic is one of reclamation, not postmodern pastiche, and so offers us a direct taste of a culture both little-known and exquisite—though strong enough to survive five years of brutal repression. In Cambodian, with Dutch supertitles. (Steve Schneider) Het Muziektheater, 20.15, €15-€35. Also 7 May.

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It’s all about the long haul...

Queen’s fun: all night and all of the day

A RIGHT ROYAL PISS UP Oh yes... Queen’s Day is coming up again. A chance to spend a whole day running all over town, buy lotsa silly things on the streets, finally wear that ginger wig and dance, dance, dance. And as always, every club, bar, and cafe in town are doing the best they can to offer something special to please the orange crowd. It all starts on...

Queen’s Night, 29 April A good starting point is the TWSTd DJ stage at Weteringplantsoen. The fun by the open-air stage begins at 19.00 and goes on till 1.00. DJs include Secret Cinema, Laidback Luke, MeloManics feat. Schwarze Manner, Dave Ellesmere, Quazar, Michelle Sars and Peter Horrevorts. And it’s all for free, too!

If that isn’t enough boomboom-boom-boom for you, head over to Amstelveld for the Rekor3r Open Air to get some extra techno, from funky to minimal and raw. This party is free, too, and runs from 19.00-1.00. More funky music, but with more of a traditional approach, is offered by Waag on Fire, in De Waag on

Nieuwmarkt. Their Amsterdamse Disco-fest starts at 22.00 and costs €15. Sugar Factory have got somethin’ special lined up as well. The Electronation Queen’s Night Edition stars special guest Jesse Rose. The time slot is 22.00-5.00, the entrance fee €15. Meanwhile Westerstraat goes worldly from 19.00-1.00: the Worldbeats Stage programme boasts world music stars from Inezeba to Kareem Raïhani.

But for more special than the Special Olympics, you should check out the action that’s goin’ down at the Homomonument.

Meubel Stukken, M.U.L.T.I.S.E.X.I. and many more have joined forces again to organise the annual Drag Queen Olympics. Disciplines include the stiletto sprint, handbag throwing and more. All this is accompanied by live music. This sporting highlight of the year begins at 19.00 and goes on till way after dark.

If you can still walk after all that stiletto sprinting, you should head over to the Chiellerie to personally say adieu to our Nachtburgemeester Chiel van

Zelst, who celebrates the termination of his legislative period at this official goodbye do. The party starts at 20.00 and is sure to be fantastic. After all, that dude is an expert!

Whatever parties you decided on for Queen’s Night, you possibly went on till stupid o’clock. But no matter how nice your bed might look right now, you’ll have to resist its temptation: the real thing is just about to start! So instead of sleeping, it’s time to get out there again, and turn it up to 11, for...

Queen’s Day, 30 April And you might as well start it off in a sporty spirit at the Apenkooi event on Marie Heinekenplein. No monkey business, but live bands, DJs and ball games are promised for this party; it starts at 12.00 and goes on till 21.00.

TWSTd continue their big-time DJ action all day—from 12.00 to 21.00, to be precise. While in the negen straatjes, Restaurant Barok, Cafe Brix, Wolvenstraat 23, NicePeople and WickedJazz Sounds rock the party, dedicated to their unofficial party patron saint St Bernhard. And

at Bitterzoet, there’s a nice barbecue, prepared along with juicy beats from DJs SP, Beesmunt Soundsystem, Lil Vic and Danny de Funk at their Live at the Queen’s BBQ, all for a fiver.

Then, the big bash at the Homomonument is organised by M.U.L.T.I.S.E.X.I. and Rauw, which should say enough about it being major.

In case you’ve had enough of all the outdoor action (or if you never particularly liked the colour orange anyway), you should take a peek inside Paradiso, from 16.00 onwards, for the London Calling Queen’s Day Special. It’s starring The Young Knives, Bettie Serveert, Scram C Baby and many more—all for €10. There’ll be a London Calling Afterparty, too, in the Kleine Zaal, while the main room hosts Raving for the Queen, with special guests from Berlin’s Panoramabar. For all the funsters that still don’t wanna stop, Sugar Factory throws on a Queen’s Day afterparty with Secret Cinema Invites from 21.00-5.00, for €12.50.

Then, the last stop of all the Queen’s action may finally be: Your Bed. Enjoy!

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Thursday 24 April Rock: Danko Jones This hard rockin’ Canadian trio sells out yet again. Although the the riffs are so generic and the macho posturing of Jones so predictable, it’s always possible that this is a delayed April Fool and the record label bought all the tickets in order to host a company picnic. See Short List. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.00, sold out Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performing that Schumann great, Scenes from Goethe’s Faust.

Conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and featuring a host of top vocalists. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €45/€55 World: Badi Assad Duo Virtuoso Brazilian guitarist, backed by cellist Dimos Goudaroulis. KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €18 Contemporary: Calefax Reed Quintet The reeders are joined by pianist Ivo Janssen for a rendition of Conlon Nancarrow’s Studies for Player Piano, arranged by Raaf Hekkema. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €17.50 Jazz: Ab Baars, Bite the Gnatze Two sets for the price of one. Sax/clarinet master Baars is going it alone for once. Meanwhile, Bite the Gnatze, starring players like Joost Buis, Michel Duijves, Steven Kamperman, Frank van Bommel, Paul Pallesen, Meinrad Kneer and Alan Purves, will be unleashing their adventurously diverse new album, Wals door het Raam. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14 World: Nuru Kane & Bayefall Gnawa Senegalese singer-songwriter who plays guitar, bass and guimbri.

Following the success of peers like Tinariwen (Mali), the hypnotic desert blues of Kane is blazing a notable trail around the globe. Podium Mozaïek, 21.00, €18 Jazz: Steve Smith & Vital Information Rock legends get funky with flavours of Southern India. Drummer Smith made his name with Journey, but has played on sessions for some of the world’s biggest pop and rock stars. He’s joined by keyboardist Tom Coster (Santana), bassist Baron Browne (Billy Cobham/Jean-Luc Ponty) and guitarist Vinny Valentino. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €20 + membership Pop/Rock: Club 3voor12 Live radio and TV session featuring sets from Exile Parade, At the Close of Every Day and The Rhythm Junks. Desmet Studios, 22.00, free, tickets: www.3voor12.nl

Blood Red Shoes, London Calling, see Friday

swing, but parts of this new equation are funky, urban grooves and dance beats. Players include bassist Boudewijn Lucas, drummer/sampler Erik Kooger, trumpeter Sanne van Hek and fantastic vocalists Claron McFadden and Edsilia Rombley. Melkweg, The Max, 20.00, €20 + membership

Classical: Nederlands Kamerkoor In this programme titled ‘The Great Service’, the chamber choir pay homage to the English polyphony; in particular, the 16th century works of William Byrd. Conducted by Paul Hillier. See Short List. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €23.35/€27.50

Classical: Trio Nota Bene Young Swiss trio playing works by Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Ivan Tcherepnin and Arenski. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €24

Latin/Jazz: John Fillmore Trio Latin jazz meets flamenco, with guest sax player Paul Weiling. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 20.30, €8

Flamenco: Juan Carmona Grupo Heroic rhythms, lyrical melodies and pulsating dance beats from the contemporary flamenco star. KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €20

Roots: Johnny Dowd Bluesy Americana with blasts of humour, absurdity and experimentalism. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.30, €11 + membership

Hiphop/Jazz: CrimeJazz Hiphop, folk, nu-soul and jazz with an appreciation for poetry and spoken word.

Bitterzoet, 21.00, €8 Jazz: Eliane Elias Trio The Brazilian-born singer and pianist is joined by bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Adam Nussbaum to recreate the beautiful ’60s jazz of the Bill Evans Trio. Bimhuis, 21.00, €20 Pop/Rock: The Posies The tale of an acoustic set between Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer, which ended up in drunken chaos and the PA being pulled, has appeared on these pages before—maybe it can be relived on www.amsterdamweekly.nl/blog sometime.

With nearly six years passing since that chaotic night and performances by The Posies becoming all the more fleeting, perhaps they’ll focus more on their sharp power pop harmonies this time. Either way, it should be a memorable gig. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €14 + membership Americana: Loomer Laid back Canadians letting loose with their rootsy Songs of the Wild West Island. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5

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Sunday 27 April

Festival: London Calling Getting more popular with every edition, the latest batch of Brit kids arrive at Paradiso this weekend to dazzle, energise and, if unlucky, confuse. Some of the ones to watch this time around are Blood Red Shoes, Make Model, The Ting Tings and Pete and the Pirates. Paradiso, 19.00, sold out

Classical: Members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Soprano Johannette Zomer, pianist Marja Bon and harpist Lavinia Meijer tackle songs by Debussy, Messiaen, Jolivet, Caplet and Ravel. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 14.15, €25

Opera: Un ballo in maschera Verdi’s murderous blend of tragedy and comedy, with libretto by Antonio Somma. Het Muziektheater, 19.30, €15-€90 Pop/Rock: The Independent Night Unplugged Diverse guitar bands ‘acoustified’. With Absinthe, Aura & Adam and Jasmine & The Jack Stafford Foundation. Winston Kingdom, 20.30, €6 Pop/Rock: Cinema Bizarre Polished German chart pop. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €13 + membership World: Martin Lubenov Orkestar Balkan party folk with this Bulgarian accordion virtuoso taking authentic gypsy music and mixing it with jazz, tango and salsa in exhilarating style. Bimhuis, 21.00, €15

Classical: Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie Daniel Raiskin conducts and violinist Jennifer Frautschi should dazzle as the German orchestra performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D and Brahms’ Fourth Symphony. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 14.15, €25.50/€30 Classical: Nata Tsvereli Piano recital featuring works

by Schumann and Prokofiev. Bethaniënklooster, 15.00, €16.50 Classical: Amsterdams Bach Consort Performing the Bach/Ziegler cantatas. English Reformed Church, 15.15, €18.50

Pop: Jozephine Soulful adult pop. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 23.00, €8

Classical: 100e geboortejaar van Olivier Messiaen Pianist Ralph van Raat and the Ribattuta Ensemble pay tribute to Messiaen, throwing in relevant works by Ton de Leeuw and Theo Loevendie. Noorderkerk, 14.00, €12 Festival: London Calling (See Friday 25 April) Paradiso, 19.00, sold out Jazz: Michiel Borstlap The Dutch jazz star unleashes new project Eldorado in grand style. Sure, the tunes still

Reggae: Rasta Transport Featuring the warm, Italian reggae and dub grooves of General Palma Sound. Bitterzoet, 22.00, €7.50

Monday 28 April Opera: Un ballo in maschera (See Friday 25 April) Het Muziektheater, 19.30, €15-€90 Opera: Opera per Tutti! Weekly performance by De Nieuwe Opera Academie. Vondelkerk, 20.15, €20 Classical: Skampa Quartet String quartets by Dvorˇák and Mozart. Featuring guest violist Nobuko Imai. Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal, 20.15, €33.50 Blues: Blues Caravan A fresh side to the blues world as this all-women tour rolls into town, offering sets by Shakura Saida (Canada), Deborah Coleman (US) and Dani Wilde (UK). Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.30, €12 + membership Contemporary: Slagwerktrio Triatu Adventurous percussion trio performing with singer/guitarist David Dramm. De Brakke Grond, 20.30, €20.50 Flamenco: Compas de Utrera In Utrera, the flamenco is sung slower and deeper than in other parts of Spain.

The gypsies from this small town near Seville hold on to the dramatic performance style made famous by legendary singer Manuel Torres, who has passed on his knowledge to his grandson, Tomas de Perrate, artistic director of this harmonious and hypnotic ensemble.

Bimhuis, 21.00, €20 Reggae: Israel Vibration Legendary roots reggae harmony trio dating back to the late ’70s. Support from Jampara & Batalion, featuring the Burundi Drummers.

Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €25 + membership Rock: Muziek Kapot Moet meets Subbacultcha!

Noise and beyond, with TV Buddhas (Israel), Capillary Action (US), Zibabu and John Wiese. OCCII, 21.00, €6 Soul: The Clipsters Vintage soul sounds from a modern ensemble. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €10 Pop/Rock: We Are Scientists Forget the title hype.

These American lads are in fact American guitar pop heroes rather than test-tube fumblers. Melodic and a little spiky, their biggest successes have been in the UK to date. They are currently promoting their new album Brain Thrust Mastery. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €13 + membership

Singer-songwriter: Eileen Rose Accomplished songwriter from Boston, fitting somewhere between the darkness of PJ Harvey and pop sensibility of Sheryl Crow. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5

Saturday 26 April

Jazz: Dave Douglas Quintet Steamy jazz from the renowned trumpeter, taking Miles Davis’ classic ’60s quintet as a point of departure. Bimhuis, 21.00, €20

Chris Garneau Singer-songwriter: Chris Garneau Softer-than-soft folk pop. In fact, you could catalogue this one as baroque pop, floating by like a fairy tale. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 15.30, €8 + membership World: La Nuit Arabe Diverse sounds from the Middle East, with set from Hakim, Oumnia and Haytham Safia.

Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 18.15, €21 + membership

Experimental: DNK-Amsterdam Weekly concert series for new, live electronic and acoustic music.

Tonight: Angel Arranz Moreno and x[presidentes + bigote]. SMART Project Space, 21.30, €5

Tuesday 29 April Pop: Oh No Ono If you thought Denmark was only good for spectacular soundscape music and stodgy rock, this bouncy synth outfit are out to prove otherwise with their new wave moves and ’80s-style pop. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €6 + membership

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Jazz: Dafnis Prieto’s Sextet The virtuoso drummer leads his sextet as they introduce works from new album Taking the Soul for a Walk. Bimhuis, 21.00, €16 Latin/Jazz: Choramundo Jazz wrapped up in a Brazilian jacket. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 21.30, €8 Pop/Rock: Club 3voor12 Featuring sets from Oh No Ono and The Styles. Desmet Studios, 22.00, free, tickets: www.3voor12.nl Rock: Dirty Sweet Retro riffs and sexy Southernstyle rock. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €8.50 + membership

Friday 2 May CocoRosie Experimental: CocoRosie Symphonic pop and experimental freak folk beatboxing from the alwaysbizarre sisterly outfit. Tonight they’ll attempt a challenging collaboration with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 22.30, sold out

Wednesday 30 April Festival: Koninginnedag Firstly, skip Museumplein and the Radio538 stage if you can. Sure, you may find a couple of things worth catching, but it’ll be a major struggle and you’ll mainly see the worst of the crowds.

SLAM!FM take their commercial dance sounds to Rembrandtplein. For more respectable electro and techno, head for TWSTd’s stage at Weteringplantsoen. Along the canals, you’ll find events as diverse as salsa parties to water golf. For a thorough list, see www.koninginnedagamsterdam.nl. For top recommendations, see article on p. 13. Various locations, 12.00, free Pop/Rock: London Calling Great Britain versus the Netherlands in a Queen’s Day special. Acts include Young Knives, The Courteeners, Peggy Sue and the Pirates, Bettie Serveert, Scram C Baby, Cheeky Cheeky & The Nosebleeds, ¡Forward Russia!, Hatcham Sociale and more. Paradiso, 16.00, €10 + membership Blues: The Moonhawks If all that orange gets you feeling down, Amsterdam Blues Club present this as a solution. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5

Classical: Candida Thompson & Derek Han The popular violinist and pianist get intimate for sonatas

by Beethoven, Schulhoff, Schlegel and Janáˇcek.

Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €25

Pop/Rock: LPG While their neighbours were playing with burning toilet paper, these melodic lads from Groningen were putting the finishing touches on their latest album, With The Earth Above Me. Full of energy and brightness, this is guitar pop perfect perfect for spring. Paradiso, Kelder, 19.00, 21.30, €7.50 + membership Opera: Un ballo in maschera (See Friday 25 April) Het Muziektheater, 19.30, €15-€90 Singer-songwriter: Scott Matthew Pop folk from the acclaimed Australian songwriter. A contributor to numerous anime films and TV shows, most recently he supplied the soundtrack to the dark comedy Shortbus. This one is a sombre seated performance.

Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.45, €10 + membership Roots: Kelvinators A raw blend of Dutch blues and country, with covers thrown in for good measure. Badcuyp, Zuidpool, 20.00, €4/€9

featuring internationals like Juliette & The Licks, Electric Eel Shock, Matt & Kim, Joan Armatrading and Alain Clark, with a decent crop of Dutch stars, too. See www.4en5mei.nl. Various locations and times, free

Jazz: Ruud Jacobs 70 The virtuoso Dutch double bassist gets to celebrate his 70th birthday in style: performing in a trio with Benjamin Herman and Han Bennink; a quintet with Rita Reys, Ferdinand Povel, Peter Beets and Joost Patocka; and then in a wild jam where anything goes. Bimhuis, 21.00, €18

Tuesday 6 May

Electro rock: Ladytron Static electroclash from these Brits, who’ve grown from shy indie band into icy dancefloor fillers across the evolution of their four albums—the newest of which is Velocifero. Support from local outfit Matik and Electrocute. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 23.00, €14 + membership

Sunday 4 May

Rock: Madrugada Beautiful and atmospheric downbeat rock, reminiscent of Tindersticks and Nick Cave.

Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €16 + membership Jazz: Marc Copland Trio & Greg Osby The melodic pianist comes up against sax player Osby, who’s previously dabbled in the hiphop world.

Bimhuis, 21.00, €18

Jazz: Warm Bad With the atmosphere of a New York piano bar, top vocal guests will join pianist Amir Swaab and DJ Rudy. Sugar Factory, 17.00, €10

Ska: Rolf de Band Punk, ska and laughs. Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5 Jazz: Sinas Heavy on the percussion and Latin rhythms, Sinas are an eight-piece jazz act intending to connect with their audience through dance-friendly moves. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 23.00, €8 Hiphop: Strange Fruit Project Underground hiphop group from Texas. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 23.00, €12.50 + membership Electronica: Hudson Mohawke, Flying Lotus, Cinnaman Amsterdam’s home of jazz gets electrically wired with vibrant electronica from two Warp acts—Hudson Mohawke and Flying Lotus. Tonight they’ll be introduced to the Amsterdam producer Cinnaman, known from the group Beat Dimensions.

Bimhuis, 00.00, €10

Saturday 3 May Thursday 1 May

Pop/Rock: Rogerthat, SunFireSouls Australian outfit Rogerthat deal in bluesy riffs and raw psychedelia.

SunFireSouls like a good groove too, but their warm punky reggae is more like a tribal dance to call out the sun. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €6

Classical: Clazz at the Monastery Jazz and classical collide in this performance by Trio Windstreken.

Bethaniënklooster, 15.30, €16.50

Singer-songwriter: Nicole Atikins Bright Brooklyn pop on a similar track as new Brit starlets Adele and Duffy. Bitterzoet, 21.00, €8

World: Modena City Ramblers Italian combat folk and acoustic ska punk. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 18.30, €7 + membership Classical: Lang Lang So good they named him twice. Tonight the world renowned pianist performs Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, with orchestral backing from the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €61.50/€72.50 Classical: The Amsterdam String Quartet Quartets

by Haydn, Mozart and Schubert. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €27.50 Ska: Vind It presents Gypska European ska and reggae party with sets from Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra (Hungary), The Upsessions and L’Chaim Klezmer. Melkweg, The Max, 20.30, €11 + membership Pop/Rock: Rising Benefit Party With Caspian Hat Dance and DJs. OCCII, 21.00, €5

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Opera: Un ballo in maschera (See Friday 25 April) Het Muziektheater, 19.30, €15-€90 Classical: Herdenking Following the national war remembrance at 20.00, this concert features works by Bruch, Ravel and Michael Cohen. The latter piece includes texts based upon the diary of Anne Frank.

Noorderkerk, 20.15, free

Pop/Rock: Hawksley Workman Canadian cabaret pop overflowing with extravagance. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.30, €10 + membership Classical: National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine & ‘Dumka’ Choir Performing Yevhen Stankovych’s Requiem For Those Who Died of Famine, which commemorates the seven million who starved in Ukraine in 1932/1933. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €15 Singer-songwriter: Open Mic (See Tuesday 29 April) Cafe Sappho, 21.00, free Electro rock: These New Puritans Electro garage meets post punk. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.00, €10 + membership Rock: Matt & Kim Dance punk duo from Brooklyn.

Paradiso, Kelder, 22.30, €7 + membership Rock: White Rabbits ‘Honky-tonk calypso’ from this rhythmic New York bunch. With their two drummers and trio of vocalists, they’re certainly not the standard indie fair. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 23.00, €7 + membership

Wednesday 7 May

Big band: Metropole Orkest Sounds from the music halls: Amsterdam-Paris 1920-1940. Well-known works

by Weill, Gershwin, Tal and Smit. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €15 Heavy: Le Club Suburbia Hardcore and punk underground bands: Glass and Ashes, Union Town (US) and Tenement Kids. OCCII, 21.00, €6 Jazz: Official Language Quartet with members from Serbia, Bosnia, Bulgaria and Macedonia. As you may expect, elements of Balkan music creep into their improvs. Badcuyp, Noordpool, 21.00, €5 Hiphop: Scratch Club Original hiphop and mindbending turntablism from London. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5

Monday 5 May Jazz: Candy Dulfer Candy continues to talk up the growing trend of saxism amongst younger audiences.

Where will it stop? Sugar Factory, 21.00, €11 World: James Brown Tribute The title may not inspire, as tributes to The Godfather of Soul remain fairly commonplace. But this stands out from the crowd by featuring some of the most astounding musicians from the African continent, with a special guest role for percussionist Tony Allen to seal the deal. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 21.00, €17.50 + membership Festival: Bevrijdingsfestivals Following the Nationale Dodenherdenking on 4 May, it’s time to let loose with parties and concerts happening across the country.

The Amsterdam performances are centred upon Museumplein, with guests like New Cool Collective, Wouter Hamel and Beef. Over in Almere, it’s more hiphop and dance friendly, with sets from The Opposites, Ferry Corsten and Sticks (Opgezwolle). As always, Haarlem leads the way with the most adventurous programme,

Xiu Xiu Pop/Rock: Xiu Xiu, Dirty Projectors, Why? Eclectic sounds from the underground. Indie experimentalists Xiu Xiu recently released their seventh album, Women as Lovers. Dirty Projectors are another weird and wonderful American concoction: their last album is a collection of Black Flag covers re-imagined from memory. And, of course, Why? is one of the finest indie hiphop/rock outfits around. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €12.50 + membership Classical: Fancy Fiddlers The kiddy fiddlers return, this time with pianist Violetta Popova. Bethaniënklooster, 20.15, €10 Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra With pianist Maria João Pires; conducted by Trevor Pinnock. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €25/€52.50 Pop: Mark Ronson Horny pop from the acclaimed producer/DJ/composer. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, sold out Punk: Angry Samoans Back into the gas chamber with these authentic Californian garage punks. All the plaudits for the American DIY punk scene in the ’80s seem to fall to Black Flag these days, but the Angry Samoans have earned their place in history, too. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 21.00, €13 + membership Jazz: TryTone in Zaal 100 Progressive jazz sets from Trio van Wijck, Red Rocket and Andreas Metzler’s New Solutions. Zaal 100, 21.00, €5

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CLUBS Thursday 24 April Blackstro gets Electrorated The start of a hectic period for the Electronation peeps. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €5 Vreemd 2.0 Freaky dance beats from Daniel Sanchez, Frank Haag and Sandrien. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8.50 WKND H0use mus1c 1n a11 1ts gl0r10us f0rms.

Studio 80, 23.00-late, €5

Friday 25 April Monsoon Refreshing electronic beats from around the globe. Studio K, 22.00-late, €10 Appletree Nights A fresh and fruity blend of jazz, soul, hiphop and funk. Bitterzoet, 23.00 -04.00, €7.50 GRA-Party Art and sound event. The Wu-Tang Brothers will be performing live, there’s a long line of DJs sitting on the wall, almost as many VJs, plus live performances and painting. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €10 Carnivale Two rooms of house, minimal and techno in a new concept from the Particle people.

Studio 80, 23.00-06.00, €12.50 klinch: Traffic A cosy techno feast with DJ sets and live turns from the likes of Radial, Gimikk, Marco Carola (Naples), Bart Skils and Lauhaus.

Melkweg, The Max, 23.00-late, €12 + membership

Rex...Electronation Live Rex and Audiomatique join forces once more for killer electro with a live twist.

Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €15

Ratio? Koninginnenacht Special With Henrik Schwarz (Berlin), Sebo K (Berlin), 2000 and One and Melon. 11, 22.30-04.00, €15

Gemengd Zwemmen Two rooms of swimmingly diverse noise. In The Max, it’s classic hiphop and funk; in the Oude Zaal, there’s alternative dance, pop, rock and indie hits. Melkweg, 23.59-late, €9

Pixel Usually found in 11, tonight you can join up the electronic dots with Nathan Fake (London), Pantha du Prince (Paris) and Patrice Baumel at Westergas. Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €10

Sunday 27 April

T.N.T. Anything goes. Retro to present, live acts to DJs, classic soul to fried house tunes. Odeon, 23.0005.00, €12

Zenergie Reggae night with a soulful mix. If you get peckish, there’s Caribbean food to go around. Winston Kingdom, 19.30-03.00, €5

Bezet Indie and electro and indie electro from Intifida Soundsystem & Kill All Hipsters, 666 & Punch Out Pat, and RobotRock DJs. Club 8, 23.00-late, €7/€9

WickedJazzSounds Jazz, hiphop, broken beats, nu-jazz, funk and Afro sounds, as classic vinyl collides with live musicians. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €9.50

Queen’s Night Party Head breaking beats and bass from OT301 regulars and guests. OT301, 23.00-late, €10

Popcorn Super spinning from TomDamienLo, Chip Karten, Jamsquad and Ferro, plus hiphoppers The Opposites. Paradiso, 23.30-late, €10 + membership

Monday 28 April Cheeky Monday True skool jungle and drum & bass, featuring players from the local and international scenes. Tonight: a Reactor Studios special. Winston Kingdom, 21.00-03.00, €7

Tuesday 29 April Rekord3r Live With the Amsterdam Assholes, Rauwkost, Pitto and many more. Amstelveld, 19.00-01.00, free T-Dansant Royale Diverse dance sounds, with guests Sweet Coffee (live), Hardsoul (live), Sander Hucke and Marnix. Stopera, 19.00-01.00, free

Saturday 26 April

Fragile Queensnight With Evil Nine (UK), Viajay (US), Kiki Toao and Dikkie D. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 21.00-late, €9

The UnderClub Electro disco, deep house and techy tunes. Jet Lounge, 22.00-03.00, free

Queen’s Night Bash Hiphop, reggae and R&B party.

Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €10

Au10tique Deep house sounds from Rutger Docter and Edo Salgado. De Kring, 22.00-04.00, €8

Stamppot Bundling all Dutch public holidays into one party, this is all about house, acid and techno hits from the past 20 years. With special live guest, DASO (Frankfurt). Hotel Arena, 22.00-04.00, €20

Stereotypes Electro dance night. Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00-late, €7 Rebel Up! Soundclash Diasporic sounds from the global underground: mestiza beats, gypsy funk, roots, Arabic, African rhythms, Latino, Asian and gritty electronics. OCCII, 22.30-04.00, €4 The Horse Meat Club A roller coaster ride mixing alternative and hiphop with drum & bass, dance and rock. Winston Kingdom, 23.00-04.00, €6 Amstereo Galaxy First birthday party with Beesmunt Soundsystem, Rogerseventytwo & The Walk and PARRA Soundsystem. Flex Bar, 23.00-05.00, €9

Electronation UK/German-based DJ, Jesse Rose, is gonna be fronting the bill at Sugar Factory for Holland’s favourite public holiday. Backing—with an array of house, electro and acid sounds—are Mason, Terry Toner and Clockwork. Sugar Factory, 22.00-05.00, €15 klinch: Electric Deluxe #1 Headlined by big name DJs Richie Hawtin and Speedy J. If you’re looking for royal dancefloor fillers, then tough!

Tickets for this party are long gone. Melkweg, 22.00-late, sold out

This is Sander Kleinenberg The renowned house DJ/producer taunts his guests with a five hour set. Studio 80, 23.00-late, €12 Boss Urban licks from old school rapper and beatboxer, Doug E Fresh, backed by DJ Manga, KC the Funkaholic and Melly Mel. Paradiso, 23.30 -late, €17.50

Wednesday 30 April N.E.O. / Passion Freebie dance party during the day.

Come the night, it’s time to get passionate. Odeon, 11.00-late, free, €10 after 21.00 Earth Queensday Progressive electronica from Estroe, Sandrien, Per, Nuno dos Santos, Patrice Bäumel and many more. Westerstraat, 12.00 21.00, free Royal Fire! Squelchy synths and big beats from Sébastien Léger (FR), Michel de Hey, Secret Cinema (live), Alexander Koning and Bruno Banner (FR).

Stopera, 12.00-21.00, free Queen’s Off A royal edition of Kiss Off. Amongst a long guest list, MeloManics will be DJing. OT301, 20.00-late, €7 Cheeky Queensday The Cheeky Monday drum & bass residents get ultra brutal on her Majesty. Winston Kingdom, 21.00-03.00, €10

19 Static Bart Skils invites DJs Whighnomy Brothers and Nick Curly (Frankfurt). 11, 22.30-04.00, €15 Circoloco Circus beats meets the Vreemd kids.

Strand West, 23.00-05.00, €25 Panoramabar: Raving for the Queen Berlin comes to Amsterdam and gets all decked out in orange. Ain’t that sweet? With Steffi, Margaret Dygas, Boris Werner & Lauhaus, a London Calling indie afterparty and much more. Paradiso, 23.0005.00, €11.50 Samsobeats Electro to Latin. Hotel Arena, 23.0005.00, €15

Thursday 1 May The Queensday After After After An Electrorated Italo special. Winston Kingdom, 21.00-03.00, €5 Wildvreemd 2.0 Freaks, geeks and electronica, with Steffi, Reynier Hooft and Thomas Martojo.

Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8.50

Friday 2 May Club Cornholio Cartoonish blasts of ska, pop, soul, funk and fiery rock ’n’ roll. Club 8, 22.00 04.00, €5 Struttin’ Raw funk and soul with some hiphop and reggae seasoning. Special guest is Pete Isaac (Jelly Jazz, UK). Bitterzoet, 23.00-04.00, €7.50 Discocult The rising cult of the DJ personality, celebrating all forms of dancefloor motion. Before midnight 5th Avenue sort out the fashion. Afterwards the beats rain down, with sets from Ursula 1000 (New York), Graham B and Rubedo. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €10 Last Night On Earth This is the end, my friend, so join Aeroplane (Make Up Club, BE), David Gilmour Girls, Marco & Orpheu and My Little Soundsystem for a final blow-out. Studio 80, 23.00-late, €8.50 Genesis Beesmunt Soundsystem, Rogerseventytwo & The Walk pay tribute to Phil Collins’ prog-pop-rockers. Not really. Paradiso, 23.5905.00, €10

Secret Cinema Invites Riding on the crest of a sound wave, techno producer Secret Cinema returns with a Queen’s Day afterparty. Also with Edwin Oosterwal, Peter Horrevorts (live) and an exclusive live set from SLG (Poland), who’ll be making his NL debut. Sugar Factory, 21.00-05.00, €12.50

Crossfader Hiphop and dancehall classics. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.59-late, €10 + membership

Live at the Queen’s BBQ Sizzling sausages from SP, Beesmunt Soundsystem, Lil Vic & Danny de Funk. Bitterzoet, 21.00-late, €5

Bossa Boogie Super funky soulful vibes in a Stevie Wonder special. Bar Struik, 21.00-03.00, €5

The Basement Queensday Special Urban, hiphop, R&B, soul and reggae tunes. Melkweg, The Max, 22.00, €19.50 + membership

Saturday 3 May Addicted Two rooms of funk, house and dance.

Panama, 22.00-04.00, €15 RobotRock Indie disco robo dance heroes. Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €7

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Versch As always, the party starts with a media art programme, with performers blending audio and visual delights that you just don’t find in any other club. After midnight, the electronic music does its own talking, with a clutch of crunching live sets and DJ turns. Sugar Factory, 22.00-05.00, €10

Friday 2 May

Club Cut the Crap Quality over hype is the main rule.

Expect plenty of old hits plus blasts of newbie tracks.

Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00-late, €5

Party: FurBall The one and only party for hairy Marys and those in pursuit of the hirsute—and a few smooth admirers—is back. This time at the Westergasfabriek and boasting a special kilt theme. Don’t let that stop you, as there won’t be a strict dress-code. So kilt or not, the party is bound to be hot. Westerunie, 22.0005.00, €12.50

Gemengd Zwemmen In The Max, it’s a Balkan Beatz special; in the Oude Zaal, there’s alternative dance, pop, rock and indie hits. Melkweg, 23.59-late, €9

Saturday 3 May

Tuesday 6 May Funky Junkie A wild cross-section of funk sounds from DJ Koldun, who invites a selection of live musicians to improvise while he works the decks. Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €5

Wednesday 7 May Electronation’s Talent Hunt Searching for the next great spinners of the underground electronica scene.

Send your demo tape to hansjochem@electronation.nl.

Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Freakin Ill Old school rap and more. Patrons pick up a free mixtape. Bitterzoet, 22.00-03.00, €5

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Saturday 26 April Party: (Z)onderbroek Drop your pants and dance in your most sexy briefs/Y-fronts/boxers or jockstrap at this men-only afternoon fun party. We love it here! If the heat on the tiny dancefloor gets too much, head for the balcony for some relaxing action. Club La, 16.00-20.00, €12 Party: Ladz Finally a party for lads, scallies, skaters, sneakers and sportwear fetishists. Get your sexiest trainers and tracksuit bottoms on and groove to (hard) dance from DJs RW and Abraxas.

Strict dress code: no boots or leather! Club La, 22.00-04.00, €8-€10 Club: DTPM One of London’s most favourite parties is back in Amsterdam. For hard bodies who like to party hard. DJ line up: Gabriella Cutrano, Chris B. and Alexia. Odeon, 23.00-05.00, €12.50-€17.50

Sunday 27 April Party: Gay Western Saloon Regular dance party for Marlboro-men, AKA gays who like to dress-up country & western style and dance to this type of music. CREA Cafe, 15.00-19.00, €4.50

Tuesday 29 April Contest: Drag Queen Olympics Forget the controversy about the next Olympic Games, head to the Homomonument for the 5th Drag Queen Olympics.

Part of the annual Roze Wester Festival, this is all about a stiletto-run, a handbag throwing match and a limbo contest. 25 drag queens/kings will take part in this ‘most important sports event for transvestites’.

Organised by GALA and presented by Jennifer Hopelezz. Homomonument, 19.00, free

Wednesday 30 April Party: RoXY Colosseum It’s Queen’s Day and we know it! Gym queens, muscle Marys and those who like to show off will know where to head. Popular with a slightly younger crowd. DJs, performances, go-go dancers and visuals. Marcanti, 23.00-05.00, €17.50 Sex club: Queen’s Day Leather Pride Special Leather Pride edition. On Queen’s Day there’s a hot & steamy leather/rubber Playground Party and on Friday 2 May it’s Sleazy Gummi, London’s (in)famous fetish party. For details, see www.leatherpride.nl. Lexion Avenue, Westzaan, various times, €20-€42

Club: Garbo for Women Lounge, eat and dance at this monthly lesbian party. Every month there’s a different dish, either with fish, meat or tofu. After 20.00 tables get cleared for a relaxed and fun dance party to shed the calories. Reservation for dinner (€12.50) necessary on 682 6310 or info@strand-west.nl, re: Garbo Dinner. Strand West, 19.00-23.59, €5

Sunday 4 May Memorial Service Annual Remembrance Service, to commemorate gays and lesbians who were prosecuted or died during WWII. The ceremony starts with a procession from the COC building in Rozenstraat at 19.45 to the Homomonument. Then there will be a few speeches and—like in the rest of the country—a two minute silence to remember the victims of oppression and discrimination, followed by the laying of wreaths.

With homophobia on the rise, this event is now even more important than ever. Be present! Homomonument, 20.00, free

Monday 5 May Party: Roze Wester Festival Liberation Day is celebrated on and around the Homomonument with various stalls, DJs (Joost van Bellen, the fab Mr and Mrs Cameron), performances, a fashion show and a fun, mixed crowd. Organised by the lovely people from GALA, this is always a good spot to hang out and have a dance, and to celebrate our precious gay rights.

Homomonument, 12.00-late, free

STAGE Opening Performance: Playtime! Mime festival showcasing the latest works of graduating students. New performances each night. See www.hetveemtheater.nl.

Hetveem Theater, (24-27 April), €8 Theatre: Allemaal 37 A play about a group of thirtysomethings, and about the age when youthful enthusiasm is substituted by pragmatism and a house full of kids. Interestingly, the thirty-somethings are played by actors who are between 13 and 17 years old.

In Dutch. De Brakke Grond, (25, 26 April 20.30), €12 Theatre: Van oude mensen, de dingen die vorbij gaan In part three of Ger Thijs’ series on colonialism, Hummelinck Stuurman Theaterbureau present another daring adaptation of a work by Louis Couperus. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (28, 29 April 20.15), €15.50-€27.50 Theatre: Baal Alize Zandwijk’s take on Brecht’s debut play, with the eponymous libertine played by actress Fania Sorel. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (1, 2 May 20.15), €12-€23 Theatre: Point Blank A lonely young woman presents a large archive of photographs she has compiled of strangers. The audience is invited to comment on them, giving their opinions or even making up stories.

By Hungarian director Edit Kaldor. De Brakke Grond, (2, 3 May 20.30), €12

24 April-7 May 2008 Dance: Rotterdam/New York A collaboration between Rotterdam-based Ton Simons and the New Yorker Stephen Petronio. Simons’ work is often likened to the music from Bach, in its mathematical precision that reaches for the sublime. Petronio has a more physical, sensuous approach. Performed by Danceworks Rotterdam. Stadsschouwburg, (5 May 20.15), €11-€20.50 Music/Dance: Pamina Devi This dance production is a Cambodian version of Mozart’s 18th-century opera Die Zauberflöte. Here, 36 dancers, musicians and singers interpret the story, with choreography by Sophiline Cheam Shapiro. Het Muziektheater, (5, 7 May 20.15), €15-€35 Theatre: Het was zonder twijfel een ongeluk Can human beings really get used to anything? Or is that just a lame excuse for putting up with all sorts of shit?

New play by Natali Broods and STAN. In Dutch. De Brakke Grond, (7 May 20.30), €12 Theatre: Electronic City Susanne Kennedy’s adaptation of Falk Richter’s piece about lost identities in times of globalisation. In Dutch. Frascati, (7 May 21.00), €12

Ongoing Theatre: Friezen!/Orange Guinea Pigs 3.1 A double bill presented by Made in da Shade and Cosmic Theater. Friezen! is a one-act play that takes a new approach to multiculturalism themes. Orange Guinea Pigs 3.1 is an associative mime performance drawing inspiration from hiphop, soul and TV shows. In Dutch.

Frascati, (24-26 April, 1-3 May 20.00), €12 Comedy: Comedy Explosion New and used stand-up comics doing their thing, with guests like Tom Rhodes and Javier Guzman. In Dutch and English. Comedy Theater, (24-26 April, 1-3 May 20.30), €12.50 Theatre: De Fantasticks The famous ’60s musical, with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones, gets a Neder-reworking. Arjan Ederveen and Johnny Kraaijkamp Jr take the lead roles, as Broadway comes to Westerpark. In Dutch. Westergasfabriek, (24-26, 28 April, 1-3, 7 May 20.30, 27 April, 4 May 15.30), €25/€35 Performance: Varekai Yet another Cirque du Soleil touring monster. Grand Chapiteau, (24-26, 29, 30 April, 1-3, 6, 7 May 19.30, 25, 26, 30 April, 2, 3, 7 May also 15.30, 27 April, 4 May, 13.00, 17.30), €25-€74 Theatre: Naar Damascus Ingmar Bergman meets David Lynch in this Strindberg play, about the writer’s struggle with relations, fame and religion. In Dutch.

Stadsschouwburg, (6, 7 May 20.15), €12-€23

EVENTS Books: Babel on Amstel Three-day symposium discussing European migrant literature. See Short List.

Various locations, (24-26 April), various prices Literature: Internationaal Literatuurfestival Amsterdam 2008 Celebrating ‘The Free Word’, this edition of the literature festival falls conveniently at the beginning of Amsterdam’s reign as ‘Wereldboekenstad 2008’, and, as such, is packing as strong a punch as it ever has. Rolled out to venues across town—although the vast majority are at the shiny, new OBA—guests over the next few days include: Ingo Schulze, Michaël Zeeman, Philippe Claudel, Junot Díaz, Dragan Klaic and many more. Language varies. See www.slaa.nl. See Short List. OBA, (24-27 April), various prices Multidisciplinary: Studentenhaver Festival A quirky student fest with daytime activities like dining in the dark, blind trust and a debate consisting of gestures.

After 22.00 the party moves on to Strand West. See www.studentenhaverfestival.nl. CREA, various halls, (25 April 15.00), free, €5 after 22.00

Dance: Borrowed Landscapes Anouk van Dijk’s newest choreography is about freedom: of both individuals and society. Questioning what is authentic or original, she uses her dancers like pebbles in a Japanese garden, moving them around to create order and disorder in a limited space, forcing the individual to surrender to the greater whole. Frascati, (2, 3, 6, 7 May 20.30), €14 Theatre/Dance: Villa Vivaldi Muziektheater Transparant and De Vlaamse Opera with a piece about a party that’s performed to music by Vivaldi. The set is divided in two: while inside the house the party guests are dutifully socialising, the atmosphere outside in the garden is less well-behaved and more emotionally raw. In Dutch. Stadsschouwburg, (4 May 20.30), €15-€30

Foam_Lab—Bring Your Own Camera Workshop: Foam_Lab—Bring Your Own Camera A chance to hit the photography museum and learn how to take your own shots to a higher level via a series of workshops and masterclass. See www.foamlab.nl.

Foam, (25 April 19.00), €7

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24 April-7 May 2008 Multidisciplinary: VolksEvent—The Second Generation A day and night programme full of cultural activity: workshops, art, live music, DJs, stand-up comedy, dining and cocktails. See www.volkskrantgebouw.nl. Volkskrantgebouw, (26 April 15.00-03.00), €5/€7.50

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Literature: The Word as a Way Out A panel discussion with Junot Díaz (who recently won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao), author and Weekly editor Julie Phillips and Ben Katchor. In English. OBA, (26 April 16.00), €7.50

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Party: Window to the East Balkan and gypsy fun, mixing live music (Galoic & Skakavac Orkestar), DJs, film and photography. De Nieuwe Anita, (26 April 20.00), €6 Talk: Ben Katchor An interview with Katchor, the first comic strip artist ever to win a McArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’. His strips Julius Knipl Real Estate Photographer and The Jew in New York have been syndicated in the US since 1988. In English. Joods Historisch Museum, (27 April 15.00), €18.50 Film: Future Shorts The cutting-edge of the short films scene, hosted by MeccaPANZA Netherlands.

OT301, (27 April 17.00, 20.00), €5 Multidisciplinary: Urban Myth: Ich bin ein Berliner Urban Myth’s trilogy about love concludes with a whole lotta German love. East meets West in a battle of champagne vs vodka, accompanied by a number of visitors from the Teutonic neighbours—including Amsterdam’s number one Germanifier, Sven Ratzke. Stadsschouwburg, (27 April 20.15), €10 Multidisciplinary: Lloyd Time on Mondays Weekly eclectic programme featuring discussions, music, presentations and art. See www.lloydhotel.com.

Lloyd Hotel, (28 April, 5 May 21.00), free Music/Poetry: Alchemist Cabaret #4 Three nights of intensive psychedelia hosted by poet Daevid Allen and University of Errors. See Short List. OT301, (2-4 May 21.00), €7 Comedy: Quiet Night In The best of English-language comedy and sitcoms with the bonus of live sketches and short sets by the QNI Players. Comedy Theater, (4 May 20.30), €TBC

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Florian Pumhösl: Programm A Docking Station presentation. In his films, paintings, drawings and installations, this Austrian artist investigates the varied visual traditions of the 20th-century avant-garde.

With Programm he stages a meeting between the leading figures of Brazil’s cultural elite and a highranking military officer, set against the backdrop of a dilapidated villa. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.0018.00), opens Thursday, until 1 June Shintaro Kago The first European solo exhibition by this much-talked about Japanese artist, who deals in satirical and grotesque manga imagery. K-Space Amsterdam (Wed, Fri, Sat 12.00-19.00, Thur 12.0021.00), opens Thursday, until 24 May Inside Out Personal portraits in word and image show how youths deal with religion and the part it plays in their daily lives. Bijbels Museum (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), opens Friday, until 2 November Lectori Salutem Delving into the history of books, with original objects, beautiful manuscripts and books from Dutch collections, photographs and texts.

Allard Pierson Museum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), opens Friday, until 7 September Carli Hermès: The Elements The commercial photographer presents a new set of expressive fantasy images. Galerie Rademakers (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.30), opens Saturday, until 8 June Milly Betten, Henny van der Meer Recent grid-style paintings by Betten; organic looking objects and sculptures by Van der Meer. Galerie Roger Katwijk (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), opens Saturday, until 1 June

Multidisciplinary: Impakt Festival Films, street art, music, new media and more can be found at the latest edition of Utrecht’s Impakt Festival. See www.impakt.nl. Theater Kikker, Utrecht (Opening 7 May. Until 11 May), various prices

Mondriaan Following the publication of a new book, this exhibition attempts to put paid to the popular idea that Piet Mondriaan was a cold, mathematicallyminded man and reveals that he was in fact an artist engaged in a passionate quest for a new formal language in which to paint. Gemeentemuseum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), Den Haag, opens Saturday, until 26 October

Art: Tijdelijk Museum This imaginary museum series runs parallel to Art Amsterdam. To discover what’s happening at each of the 18 locations involved, see www.tijdelijkmuseumamsterdam.nl.

Various locations, (Opening 7 May. Until 12 May), €7.50/€18

Henk Langeveld: The Sugar Factory in Pen and Ink The musical sketcher showcases drawings which try to capture the movement, tension and the atmosphere of a night out at Sugar Factory. Opening night from 22.00 then throughout May. Sugar Factory (During events/parties), opens Sunday

Art Fair: Art Amsterdam The former KunstRAI is an event for fans and collectors of contemporary art.

Featuring 125 participating galleries, more than 750 paintings, photos, videos, installations and images will be on display in the vast caverns of Amsterdam RAI. See www.artamsterdam.nl. RAI, (Opening 7 May. Until 12 May), €18

World Press Photo Exhibition of winning photos from the 2007 World Press Photo competition, including the esteemed Photo of the Year: an image of an exhausted American soldier resting in Afghanistan, taken by UK photographer Tim Hetherington. See Short List. Oude Kerk (Mon-Sat 10.30-17.30, Sun 13.00-17.30), opens Tuesday, until 22 June

Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best, see Galleries

Niels Helmink: Shopkeepers Photos of shopkeepers in their winkel domains. Galerie Bart (Thur, Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 12.00-17.00), opens Thursday 1 May, until 7 June Marcel van der Vlugt: A New Day In this photo series, Van der Vlugt remakes John Collier’s painting, Lilith. But rather than rehashing religious imagery, this collection reinvents the character in a world of plastic surgery. Witzenhausen Gallery (ThurSat 12.00-18.00), opens Saturday 3 May, until 24 May Sustainability and Transparency A photo exhibition displaying the themes of ‘Sustainability’ and ‘Transparency’ through the eyes of a diverse group of international photographers, including renowned artist, Chris Jordan (US). Melkweg Galerie (Wed-Sun 13.00-20.00), opens Wednesday 7 May, until 1 June

Museums Allora & Calzadilla—Never Mind That Noise You Heard An opportunity to see and hear recent installations and videos that consider the continuum between noise and music. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 4 May Anton Heyboer Diverse works in a career overview of this renowned eccentric, who died in 2005. Jan van der Togt Museum (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.00), Amstelveen, until 4 May Art Nouveau The best of French and Russian art nouveau. Hermitage Amsterdam (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 5 May MAGNUM Photos 60 years This collection uses photographs, books and texts to illustrate the history of MAGNUM year by year. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 12 May

Lucas Lenglet: A Canary in a Coalmine Lenglet continues a series of installations in which he explores the ambiguities of ‘the architecture of security’. Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 12 May Nieuwe Oogst Shining the architectural spotlight on the newest members of the Bond van Nederlandse Architecten. ARCAM (Tues-Sat 13.00-17.00), until 17 May John Everett Millais He was the foremost painter of the English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and Britain’s most successful artist of the latter half of the 19th century. Van Gogh Museum (Mon-Thur, Sat, Sun 10.00-18.00, Fri 10.00-22.00), until 18 May Maria Sibylla Merian & Daughters—Women of Art and Science Containing the most important and influential natural history art from the Netherlands in the 17th century, this exhibition features more than a hundred rarely displayed masterpieces. Rembrandthuis (Mon-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 18 May Tobias Rehberger: the chicken-and-egg-no-problem wall-painting The first major Dutch retrospective of works by German artist Tobias Rehberger. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 25 May Edwin Zwakman: Fake But Accurate A retrospective of well-known Dutch photographer Zwakman, in which his three latest series can be seen together for the first time. Huis Marseille (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 25 May Paul Sietsema: Three Films The American artist Paul Sietsema has earned a reputation during the last decade with a refined cinematographic oeuvre of three films. Within the context of his first solo exhibition in Europe, the three works will be screened as a trilogy, representing three distinct phases in a conceptual artistic expedition through (art) history. De Appel (TuesSun 11.00-18.00), until 25 May

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Superheroes and Schlemiels Superman, Maus, The Rabbi’s Cat and many other heroes and anti-heroes from the art of comics feature in this exhibition of comics and graphic novels by Jewish artists. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 8 June

Rachel Howard Rachel Howard New work by the British painter.

Museum van Loon (Fri-Mon 11.00-17.00), until 26 May Boek Zoekt Lezer A historical overview of the Dutch literature world, showcasing advertising from the 17th century to the present. UvA: Special Collections Library (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 28 May Stella Faber: Foliage Presenting the work of Faber, who photographed the mountainous rainforests in Ecuador and Costa Rica. She researches the inner landscape of the rainforest in all its original complexity and dignity. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 29 May Karel Appel—Jazz 1958-1962 One of the nation’s most famous post-war artists, this collection comprises some 23 large-scale works. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 1 June Jessica Dimmock—The Ninth Floor An exhibition of socially-engaged photography by the young American photographer. This disturbing portrait series features a group of young heroin addicts living in a ninth-floor apartment in Manhattan, New York. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 1 June Wim de Haan—Drawings 1954-1964 Around 50 drawings from the late period of the artist’s life (he lived from 1913-1967), whose often intuitive and expressionistic style has a powerful immediacy.

CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 1 June Daniel & Geo Fuchs: STASI—Secret rooms This exhibition opens up the hidden rooms once used by the STASI, the infamous East German secret service, in a series of monumental photos. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 4 June

Kurt Lubinski: Photographer in Exile Documentary portraits by this German photographer, who gained a significant reputation as a successful photojournalist for his worldly travel reportages in the ’20s and ’30s. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 8 June

The Digital View Exploring the influence of digital media and techniques on contemporary art, featuring a selection of national and international artists. Arti et Amicitiae (Tues-Sun 13.00-18.00), closing Sunday Hunger & Work in a Savage Tribe Poetic messages—written and otherwise—created by graffiti artist Laser 3.14 and multimedia artist Jimmy Rage from the overflow of images and texts found in the public sphere.

ABC Treehouse (Thur-Sun 13.00-18.00), closing Sunday

Expanding the City Various photographers present their take on Amsterdam’s Zuidas. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 22 June

Wubbo de Jong A selection of photos by De Jong, who spent 28 years working as a photographer for Het Parool. Blow Up Gallery (Thur, Fri 14.00-18.00, Sat 13.00-18.00), until 2 May

Nancy Spero: Spero Speaks A solo exhibition by this prominent American artist, including exemplary works from different phases of Spero’s lengthy artistic career.

De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 22 June

My baked people are living in water painted landscapes Veritably enormous enlargements of small colourful sketches made by Martes Bathori. Soledad Senlle Gallery (Mon-Sat 11.00-17.00), until 3 May

Amsterdam and the House of Orange An exhibition surveying the ties which have bound Amsterdam and the House of Orange over the centuries. Amsterdams Historisch Museum (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 31 August

State of Transition Paintings by Johannes van Vugt that, in portraying a single moment, suggest the universal rites of passage that people experience. Suzanne Biederberg Gallery (Wed-Sat 14.00-18.00), until 3 May

Drie Meiden in Verzet—Hannie Schaft en de Zusjes Oversteegen Exhibition about Hannie Schaft—’the girl with the red hair’—and Truus and Freddie Oversteegen, the girls she collaborated with in the resistance movement, and the difficult choices forced upon them in WWII. Verzetsmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat-Mon 11.00-17.00), until 7 December

Galleries Barbara Wijnveld A series of self portraits utilising varied painting and drawing techniques. Galerie Bart (Thur, Fri 11.00 -18.00, Sat 12.00 -17.00), closing Saturday Lalla Essaydi In the photography series Converging Territories, Essaydi brings different worlds together.

Her memories of youth in Morocco are her most important source of inspiration. Witzenhausen Gallery (Thur-Sat 12.00-18.00), closing Saturday Menso Groeneveld: White Motivic Sounds Paintings exploring the boundaries between music, sound and visual expression. AYAC’S (Fri, Sat 13.00-17.30), closing Saturday

24 April-7 May 2008 Aurélien Froment: Acknowledgement The French artist presents a series of works which tackle the issue of image manipulation and the importance of reference systems. Motive Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 10 May Charlotte Dumas: Tiger Tiger Photographic portraits of tigers in nature reserves and zoos throughout the US. Galerie Paul Andriesse (Tues-Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 14.0018.00), until 10 May &10xID Photography tackling themes of globalisation, identity and integration. Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie (Thur-Sat 13.00-17.00), until 10 May Sit: Unwired Documenting the process of an Amsterdam street artist stepping away from his computer and getting back to black-and-white basics. GO Gallery (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 11 May Frisse Koeien The cows are back in town. De Kunstfabriek (Tues-Fri 12.00-18.00, Sat, Sun 12.00-17.00), until 15 May

Experience and Logic Structure Installations that challenge the dimension of the space in which they reside, built and conceived by artist William Speakman.

2x2projects (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 3 May

Field Work—Part One As a two-part exhibition and ongoing discussion, Field Work conjectures two parallel, interconnected, and yet differently oriented trajectories that encompass art, nature and ecology.

SMART Project Space (Tues-Sat 12.00-17.00), until 17 May

Jozef van Ruyssevelt: In de Ban van het Licht Paintings by the late Flemish virtuoso artist. Galerie de Rietlanden Exposities (Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 4 May

Pepijn van den Nieuwendijk: Salon Printemps 2008 Monumental three-dimensional ceramic objects and oil paintings. KochxBos Gallery (Wed-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 17 May

Jacek Laskus: Of Women Persuasion Digital stills by the cinematographer and photographer, expressing his admiration and possible fear for the female gender.

Gallery WM (Thurs-Sat 14.00-18.00), until 4 May

The Disobedients Works by Adel Abdessemed, Gabriel Orozco, Wilfredo Priëto, Fernando Sánchez Castillo and Pascale Marthine Tayou. Annet Gelink Gallery (Tues-Fri 10.00-18.00, Sat 13.00-18.00), until 17 May

Perspective of Disappearance Visual art duo Hiryczuk/Van Oevelen show how nature proves its strength every time man tries to control it, by building a miniature landscape, representative of the Netherlands, which the viewer walks through. Platform 21 (Thur-Sun 12.00-18.00), until 4 May

Chikako Watanabe: Animal Trail An installation attempting to visualise the invisible ‘animal trails’ of Amsterdam. Ellen de Bruijne Projects/Dolores (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 17 May

Joram Roukes Drawings and paintings. Carhartt Store (Daily), until 7 May Double Diplomacy New works by Folkert de Jong (sculpture) and Fendry Ekel (paintings). Galerie Gabriel Rolt (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 10 May

Thrill & Suspense! Diverse works by 19 young and talented artists from home and abroad. Walls Gallery, until 24 May Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best The Magnum photographer presents highlights from his 60 year career.

Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen (Thur-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 24 May

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ADDRESSES 11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999 2x2projects Veemkade 350, 489 7471 ABC Treehouse Voetboogstraat 11, 423 0967 Allard Pierson Museum Oude Turfmarkt 127, 525 2556 Amsterdams Centrum voor Fotografie Bethaniënstraat 9, 622 4899 Amsterdams Historisch Museum Kalverstraat 92, 523 1822 Annet Gelink Gallery Laurierstraat 187-189, 330 2066

Motive Gallery Elandsgracht 10, 330 3668

PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321

Theater Kikker Ganzenmarkt 14, Utrecht, 030 231 9666

Museum van Loon Keizersgracht 672, 624 5255

RAI Europaplein 22, 549 1212

Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200

Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010

RC de Ruimte J.P. Coenstraat 51-55, IJmuiden

Het Muziektheater Amstel 3, 625 5455

Reflex New Art Gallery Weteringschans 79A, 423 5423

UvA: Special Collections Library Oude Turfmarkt 129, 525 2141

NDSM-werf TT Neveritaweg 15, 330 5480

Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400

Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512

SMART Project Space Arie Biemondstraat 107-113, 427 5953

Van Zijll Langhout Brouwersgracht 161, 06 2825 9620

Soledad Senlle Gallery Sloterkade 171, 615 1395

Verzetsmuseum Plantage Kerklaan 61, 620 2535

Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311

Volkskrantgebouw Wibautstraat 150

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471

Vondelkerk Vondelstraat 120

Noorderkerk Noordermarkt 44, 626 6436 OBA Oosterdokskade 143, 0900-2425468 OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778 Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711 OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913

Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911

De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651

Oude Kerk Oudekerksplein 23, 625 8284

ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878

Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179-181, 788 4444

Arti et Amicitiae Rokin 112, 624 5134

Panama Oostelijke Handelskade 4, 311 8680

Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422

AYAC'S Keizersgracht 166, 638 5240

Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521

Studio White Space MJ Kosterstraat 18

Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669

Platform 21 Prinses Irenestraat 19, 344 9449

Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008

De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151

Podium Mozaïek Bos en Lommerweg 191, 580 0380

Bar Struik Rozengracht 160

The Powerzone Spaklerweg, 681 8866

Suzanne Biederberg Gallery 1e Egelantiersdwarsstraat 1, 624 5455

Bethaniënklooster Barndesteeg 6, 625 0078 Bijbels Museum Herengracht 366-368, 624 2436 Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150 Bitterzoet Spuistraat 2, 521 3001 Blow Up Gallery Hazenstraat 67, 665 3435 De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866 De Burcht van Berlage Henri Polaklaan 9, 624 1166 Cafe Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368 Cafe Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509 Carhartt Store Hartenstraat 18 Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703 Club La Kerkstraat 50-52 CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050 Comedy Theater Nes 110 Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345 Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950 CREA, various halls Turfdraagsterpad 17, 525 1400 Desmet Studios Plantage Middenlaan 4A, 521 7100 Ellen de Bruijne Projects/Dolores Rozengracht 207A, 530 4994 English Reformed Church Begijnhof 48, 624 9665 Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123 Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546 Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866 Galerie Bart Bloemgracht 2, 320 6208 Galerie de Rietlanden Exposities Rietlandpark 193, 419 4705 Ferdinand van Dieten-d'Eendt Spuistraat 270, 626 5777 Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146 Galerie Paul Andriesse Withoedenveem 8, 623 6237 Galerie Rademakers Prinsengracht 570-572, 6225496 Galerie Roger Katwijk Lange Leidsedwarsstraat 198-200, 627 3808 Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen Hazenstraat 27, 06 5203 1540 Gallery WM Elandsgracht 35, 421 1113 Gemeentemuseum Stadhouderslaan 41, Den Haag, 070 338 1111 GO Gallery Prinsengracht 64, 422 9580 Grand Chapiteau near Amsterdam ArenA (P2) Grimm Fine Art Hazenstraat 24, 422 7227 Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751 Hetveem Theater Van Diemenstraat, 626 9291 Homomonument Westermarkt Hotel Arena ’s-Gravesandestraat 51, 850 2400 Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989 Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589 Imagine IC Bijlmerplein 1006-1008, 489 4866 Jan van der Togt Museum Dorpsstraat 50, Amstelveen, 641 5754 Jet Lounge Westermarkt 25 Joods Historisch Museum Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 2-4, 531 0310 K-Space Amsterdam Nieuwezijdsvoorburgwal 262 KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711 KochxBos Gallery 1e Anjeliersdwarsstraat 3-5, 681 4567 De Kring Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 7-9, 623 6985 De Kunstfabriek Polonceaukade 20 (Westergasfabriekterrein), 488 9430 Lexion Avenue Overtoom 65, Westzaan, 0900-BelLexion Lloyd Hotel Oostelijke Handelskade 34, 419 1840 Maison Descartes Vijzelgracht 2A, 531 9500 Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592 Marcanti Jan van Galenstraat 6-10, 386 8848 Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181 Melkweg Galerie Marnixstraat 409, 531 8181 Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101

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Strand West Stavangerweg, 682 6310 Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 70, 521 8333

Ververs Gallery Hazenstraat 54

W139 Warmoesstraat 139, 622 9434 Walls Gallery Prinsengracht 737 Westergasfabriek Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 586 0710 Westergasterras Klönneplein 3, 475 1412 Westerunie Klönneplein 4-6 Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380 Witzenhausen Gallery Elandsstraat 145, 644 9898 Zaal 100 De Wittenstraat 100, 688 0127

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Essentially Zen Zen Japans Delicatessenhuis Frans Halstraat 38, 627 0607 Open Tue-Sat, 12.00-20.00 Cash Some days ago, I had the rare opportunity to attend a mask workshop led by a talented Devonshire lass who had spent some years in Bali, learning how to carve and paint their extraordinary masks, and the core mythology surrounding them. It was fascinating but also physically demanding, as we exercised in super-slow motion. I was surprised to learn there are definitely more muscles in the human physiology than those used for eating, drinking and excreting.

We closed off the workshop with a little meditation. There in my Zen silence, I found an image of a raging fire licking my vitals and consuming me. But I also felt hungry. And in those two contrasting states, I discovered my true spiritual path: the way of the rooting porker.

Luckily for me, one of my friends was also dribbling for nourishment and knew of a nearby Japanese eatery that was open for lunch.

Japans Delicatessenhuis Zen is a great success story and its few tables are almost always occupied. So you might be regretfully turned away—but they also do take-away.

We, however, managed to secure a table.

My friend Debbie smiled a warm hello to the Japanese lady in the open kitchen, who was engaged in making sushi rice. My thoughts ran to the delightful Japanese food movie, Tampopo, about a noodle bar, which my downstairs neighbour Paul had kindly copied for me recently.

THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON My meal was divine. I beamed like some lowly schmuck who was allowed to glimpse Nirvana for a brief moment.

We studied the menu. Debbie chose a miso soup with spring onions and seaweed for starters (€2.50). I chose a salad, wakame kyurisu, made up of green seaweed with cucumber in a rice

wine dressing (€3.80). For mains, we had a riceoriented meal called donburi (small €6.80, large €9.80). We, of course, ordered the large ones.

Debbie had the salmon teriyaki with vegetables

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on rice. I went for the chicken.

My iced green tea (€2.50) arrived with my salad. I examined the marinated seaweed bits and the thinly sliced cucumber slivers. It seemed to represent Zen simplicity where less is more (but these days, less also costs more...)

The flavour was a delight: simultaneously sweet and sour and it set my appetite soaring.

The donburi arrived in enormous deep bowls and my wriggly fingers were quick to snatch up my chopsticks. Debbie had a rehearsal to supervise so she tore into her lunch, and soon left me to peer into my bowl, a soothsayer reading deep meaning into the Way of Glutton. The composition was a poem, with the chicken teriyaki lacquered in a sweet soy glaze and sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds. The succulent chicken strands melted on my tongue.

My veggies were some blanched spinach in some delicious sauce, sauteed bean sprouts, slivered carrot and seaweed. The aromatic Japanese streamed rice contained the teriyaki sauce that sunk to the lower level, awaiting discovery.

The eating process slowed me down and flashed me back to my meditative state of earlier. I saw each rice grain as containing a world we aren’t aware of: the work involved in its cultivation, its work-intensive harvesting and the distance it took to land in my bowl.

My meal was divine. I beamed like some lowly schmuck who was allowed to glimpse Nirvana for a brief moment. Time stood still for me until, alas, it was over.

I sat back wondering if perhaps there was some more hidden Zen messages for me to discover. Whatever they were, I doubt I shall ever know. What I do know is that I don’t have to put on a mask to highly recommend this understated eatery, and the culinary skills of the lady who runs this tranquil establishment.

Arigato and sayonara!

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Black-and-white nightmares battle it out in your psyche as the French show how to make a creepy short.

FRENCH FEARS VERSUS DUTCH SHIPWRECKS FILM Peur(s) du noir Opens Thursday at the Melkweg.

In French with Dutch subtitles

By Marie-Claire Melzer

Peur(s) du noir is a French animation project about fear of the dark. Graphic designer Etienne Robial asked six cartoonists and illustrators to delve deep

into their anxiety closet. The result: six scary shorts in black-and-white.

One of the highlights, by cartoon designer Marie Caillou, is about a Japanese schoolgirl who is bullied by her classmates. Caillou’s style is heavily influenced

by Japanese arts, both traditional illustrations (pastoral villages, samurai, et cetera) and contemporary cartoons. The little girl is modelled on current Japanese anime figures, with big, round eyes and big, fat tears.

The combination of the somewhat naive visual style with hardcore cruelty yields disturbing results.

Also very scary is the contribution of Blutch (real name Christian Hincker). His pencil drawing is more traditional, even old-fashioned. Yet his film about an evil man walking around with a bunch of nasty dogs, attacking everything that moves, is very effective, in part because he adds cinematic techniques such as strong sound effects and changing camera positions.

One of the most beautiful entries is Lorenzo Mattotti’s little fairy tale, written

by Jerry Kramsky, about a dusty Mediterranean village that is suddenly haunted by an unidentified monster. Mattotti draws a desolate, De Chirico-esque seaside town and really makes you feel its burning sun and devastating boredom. Determined to find the monster, the villagers finally drag an enormous crocodile from the sea. The dead animal is taken to the local cathedral in a pompous religious procession that

seems to have come straight from Visconti’s Il Gattopardo.

The purest animation comes from Richard McGuire. With a few elegant lines, he creates an imaginative short film about a man in a haunted house that manages to be both scary and very funny. Also interesting is how he encourages sympathy with the ghosts—not with the main character, a rather rude and plumpish human.

In contrast, for De Nederlandse Animatie Tour 2008, which is touring the country currently, 16 short films by young Dutch cartoon artists were selected to be shown in theatres—an initiative by the Nederlands Instituut voor Animatiefilm (NIAF) and the Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF). Overall, the animation films in this programme are less sophisticated than those from the French project.

But there are exceptions. BWAP! by Marlies van der Wel is a quirky, original film about a girl with a voice like a foghorn. Van der Wel’s style is colourful yet dark, as she gives her figures bloated, fish-like faces.

Shipwrecked by Frodo Kuipers is a funny cartoon with echoes of Tex Avery.

With just a few lines, he creates a wide variety of expressions, enchanced by his subtle and beautiful colouring. Last but not least is the stunning Poëzie is kinderspel, made

by Bouwine Pool after a poem by Lucebert.

It’s just dots and lines of black ink, moving to the words and a jazz score performed by saxophonist Benjamin Herman, but they’re the most elegant, expressive dots you’ve ever seen.

This week, De Nederlandse Animatie Tour hits Middelburg and Groningen before landing at Utrecht’s Louis Hartlooper Complex from 1 May. See ww.nftvm.nl.

Five-Word Movie Review

FILM Edited by Julie Phillips.This week’s films reviewed by Lisa Alspector (LA),Massimo Benvegnù (MB),Angela Dress (AD),Don Druker (DD),Andrea Gronvall (AG),Luuk van Huët (LvH), JR Jones (JJ),Marie-Claire Melzer (MM),Mike Peek (MP),Julie Phillips (JP),Gusta Reijnders (GR),Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR),Marinus de Ruiter (MdR) and Bregtje Schudel (BS).All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted. Amsterdam Weekly recommends.

New this week African Bambi A Dutch nature documentary for kids, set on the Serengeti, with excruciatingly sappy music and cloying narration by Loes Luca. In Dutch. 80 min.

Het Ketelhuis, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Doomsday Neil Marshall follows up his subterranean chiller The Descent with this futuristic thriller about a team sent to eradicate a deadly virus. 105 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Getting Home When the simple factory worker Zhao realises that his friend and drinking buddy Liu has died during a binge, he decides to take his friend’s body back to his distant home town. The result is both a funny, original road movie and a tour of modern China through the eyes of director Zhang Yang (Shower). In Mandarin with Dutch subtitles. 110 min. Rialto Jellyfish* The celebrated Israeli author Etgar Keret and his wife, screenwriter Shira Geffen, directed this luminous foray into magic realism, Tel Aviv style. A withdrawn, disheveled waitress (Sarah Adler), aban-

DUMB AS A WOOLLY MAMMOTH 10,000 BC Pathé ArenA

La Maison

doned by her boyfriend and out of step with her busy divorced parents, befriends a little girl who’s emerged mysteriously from the sea. Across town, an old woman makes trouble for her Filipino caregiver and newlyweds find their fragile happiness threatened when the husband is distracted by a seductive poet. The overlapping stories pulse with a tidal rhythm, the film’s sensibility flowing between serious and wry. In Hebrew with Dutch subtitles. (AG) De Uitkijk La Maison A father in the midst of a divorce (Sergi López of Pan’s Labyrinth) looks at a house that’s up for auction. Gradually his life becomes entangled with the fortunes of Cloé (Bérénice Bejo), the young woman who grew up there, in this drama directed by Manuel Poirier. In French with Dutch subtitles. 95 min.

Het Ketelhuis Penelope More tart than sweet, this contemporary fairy tale provides a worthy vehicle for the fearless Christina Ricci. She plays a wealthy maiden who can be freed from a centuries-old family curse only by marrying a blueblood; her pig-like face repels all suitors until a tabloid reporter (Peter Dinklage) hires a downand-out aristocrat (James McAvoy, appealingly

Opening on May 1 raffish) to woo her. Updating Beauty and the Beast, screenwriter Leslie Caveny skewers the media’s fascination with the rich, famous and freakish while delivering a moral about facing one’s demons. Mark Palansky directed; with Catherine O’Hara, Richard E Grant and Reese Witherspoon. (AG) 101 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Peur(s) du noir French animated shorts about fear of the dark. See review above. In French with Dutch subtitles. 83 min. Melkweg Cinema Le Voyage du ballon rouge Chinese master HsiaoHsien Hou (Café Lumière, Three Times) has based his first French-language feature loosely on Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 classic Le Ballon rouge. Here the balloon and the story follow young Chinese film-maker Song (Song Fang), who moonlights as a nanny in the house of Suzanne, an edgy, emotionally unstable voice actress (Juliette Binoche in another brilliant, subtle role). Song bonds with Suzanne’s son, but still there’s something missing, symbolised by the presence of the self-willed red balloon, which peeks through windows and peeps around corners. (BS) In French with Dutch subtitles. (BS) 113 min. Filmmuseum

The Fall Tarsem Singh’s romantic epic was the opening film at AFFF. Fool’s Gold Charmless rom-com with Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson as divers searching for sunken treasure.

Iron Man Robert Downey Jr plays iron-suited crimefighter in mediocre superhero comedy. Also starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L Jackson, Jeff Bridges and Hilary Swank.

Silk Michael Pitt falls in love with a Japanese concubine in this 19th-century period piece.

Taken Spy thriller, directed by Pierre Morel and co-written by Luc Besson. With Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen.

Still playing 27 Dresses Katherine Heigl stars as a compulsive bridesmaid—she cultivates friends for the sole purpose of joining their wedding parties. Secretly in love with her boss (Edward Burns), she has to negotiate an emotional obstacle course after he proposes to her

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26 dependent and popular younger sister (Malin Akerman). Meanwhile a wedding reporter (James Marsden) has been dogging the older sister’s steps, writing a story about her compulsion. For most of this romantic comedy, fatuous contrivances run neck and neck with what seem to be authentic observations about repressed sibling rivalry; some of the latter are too painful to be funny, and eventually the contrivances win out, but the cast keeps it all watchable.

Anne Fletcher directed. (JR) 111 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Aleksandra Russian master Aleksandr Sokurov (Father and Son, The Sun) places himself in the position of an old woman questioning the motives of men of war.

Aleksandra, played by the opera singer Galina Vishnevskaya, goes to visit her grandson, who is stationed in Grozny with the army. For both the soldiers and the viewers she is a disarming presence at the base, with her dry, motherly comments about the macho habits and phallic-looking weapons she comes across. Aleksandra is based on a marvellous idea; its lack of story development makes it less poignant than it could have been, but it’s still a moving addition to the impressive Sokurov oeuvre. In Russian with Dutch subtitles. (MdR) 92 min. Filmmuseum

Atonement Based on the novel by Ian McEwan,

adapted by Christopher Hampton and directed by Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice), Atonement tells the story of a single tragic lie with horrendous consequences. This genre-melding film opens in 1935, when 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis accuses her older sister’s boyfriend of a crime he didn’t commit. Five years later, at the start of the Second World War, the young man is released from prison on the condition he join the army. In 1999, Briony as a dying novelist still feels she has to atone for bearing false witness. Starring Keira Knightley, James McAvoy and Vanessa Redgrave, Atonement is one beautiful film. (GR) Cinecenter Le Ballon Rouge & Crin-Blanc These classic shorts

by French director Albert Lamorisse are so pure in their emotion and elemental in their drama that parents may be as moved as their kids. In Le Ballon Rouge (1956, 34 min.) a little boy’s blue-grey existence is brightened by the arrival of a dramatically red balloon; in the lesser-known Crin-Blanc (‘White Mane’, 1953, 40 min.) a boy forges a bond with a proud wild stallion. Both films tell the same story—the balloon is coveted by neighbourhood bullies, the stallion by mercenary horse wranglers—and both end with a moment of transcendence, as the boy and his prized ‘friend’ escape the cruel world of grown-ups for the limitless unknown. (JJ) De Uitkijk

The Band’s Visit In this year’s art-house hit, the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Band, a small combo specialising in traditional Arab repertoire, flies from Egypt to Israel to play at the opening of a cultural centre. When their guide fails to meet them at the airport, they take the wrong bus and end up in the wrong city.

To their rescue comes beautiful Dina (Israeli superstar Ronit Elkabetz), the owner of the only café in town, who sees the band’s arrival as both a business opportunity and a chance to relieve the local boredom.

Directed with a firm hand by Eran Kolirin, who also wrote the original screenplay, The Band’s Visit gently lets you inside its unique sense of humour. The moment when the band is finally allowed to play its repertoire is the cherry on top of an appealing cinematic dessert. (MB) 87 min. Rialto The Banishment A chilling domestic drama from Russia, directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (The Return). The film opens with a shady urban character (Alexander Baluev) seeking his younger brother’s help in sewing up his bleeding arm. When the brother (Konstantin Lavronenko) vacations with his kids and troubled wife at the family’s country place, she suddenly blurts out that the child she’s carrying isn’t his. Spare dialogue and long takes add to the sense of foreboding, with Lavronenko (who won the best actor prize at Cannes) keeping his character so buttoned-up you could burst from anxiety watching him consider his revenge, while the verdant landscape devolves from pastoral to sinister in the space of a phone call. In Russian with Dutch subtitles. (AG) 150 min. Rialto Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead It’s hard to see the point of this hammily over-acted, confused and gratuitously violent heist-gone-wrong movie, directed

by Sidney Lumet. Brothers Ethan Hawke and Philip Seymour Hoffman bungle the robbery of their own parents’ jewellery store somewhere in the suburbs of New York, resulting in the death of their mother. An unpleasant subplot is that they are both sleeping with Marisa Tomei, Hoffman’s wife. Drugs get taken. Money gets stolen. Let’s face it: the characterisation is flat, the plot ridiculous and the dialogue silly. The end.

(AD) 123 min. The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski The Bucket List Jack Nicholson is a billionaire Scrooge with terminal cancer, sharing a room in his own hospital with auto mechanic Morgan Freeman

—a family man endowed with all the kind, redemptive wisdom Freeman can bring to this piece of Hollywood claptrap. Class barriers vanish as the two become best friends and Nicholson bankrolls a spree in which they indulge their deepest romantic whims: parachuting, car racing and flying across the globe while sampling the emblems of the good life found in TV commercials. I don’t know if Rob Reiner is the one to blame for this atrocity, but he directed and coproduced. (JR) 97 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski

Cassandra’s Dream Cassandra’s Dream After making his best and smoothest drama (Match Point) in England, Woody Allen returns there for one of his most clueless and awkward, outfitted with a standard-issue Philip Glass score. In both cases Allen’s usual hang-ups about class and money lead to conventionally complicated murder plots. Two economically challenged cockney brothers in South London—a garage mechanic and compulsive gambler (Colin Farrell) and a more settled sort who runs the family restaurant (Ewan McGregor)—get pushed into killing a businessman who’s threatening to expose their rich uncle (Tom Wilkinson). (JR) 108 min. Cinecenter, Pathé Tuschinski

Control In this biopic on singer/songwriter Ian Cur-

tis, photographer and video director Anton Corbijn dares to be critical: Ian isn’t a tragic hero, but a bit of a wimp who uses his band as an escape from his own incompetence as a husband and father. The film is beautifully shot in black-and-white, though the stark contrasts and grey hues serve mainly to underline the desolation of the Manchester suburbs, and of Ian himself. (BS) 119 min. Melkweg Cinema

Dan in Real Life The title refers to an advice-to-thelovelorn column written by the hero (Steve Carell), a widower who takes his three daughters to a family reunion in Rhode Island. On an idle visit to a bookstore, he meets and falls for a woman (Juliette Binoche) who later turns out to be the girlfriend of his brother (Dane Cook). The setup of this comedy by director Peter Hedges (Pieces of April) and some subsequent twists may be contrived, and the laughs aren’t very plentiful, but much of the behaviour seems real, and the able cast makes the most of it. With

Dianne Wiest and John Mahoney. (JR) 98 min. The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski

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Darjeeling Limited Sometimes you travel through life with some extra baggage. In the case of the Whitman brothers, it’s a luxury Louis Vuitton set that looks colourful and flashy even in India. A year after their father’s funeral, Francis (Owen Wilson), Peter (Adrien Brody) and Jack (Jason Schwartzman) meet aboard a train for a journey of spiritual healing.

The fact that they have not spoken to each other in a year doesn’t prevent them from getting straight into the family’s old dynamics, which involve manic tics, substance abuse and sexual escapades. But soon both the emotional and the physical baggage starts to fall away. Film-maker Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums), much like his characters, has found his grown-up voice. This delicious curry comedy is a rich plate for film-goers, entertaining and poignant, just as it should be. (MB) 108 min. Kriterion

Definitely, Maybe A divorced New York ad man (Ryan Reynolds) gives his insufferably precocious 10-yearold (Abigail Breslin of Little Miss Sunshine) a lengthy account of his early love life. This highly uneven comedy by writer-director Adam Brooks might be easier to take if it were less infatuated with its own cuteness.

(JR) 112 min. Pathé De Munt Dunya & Desie A reasonably entertaining parade of ethnic and class stereotypes, based on the TV series and directed by Dana Nechushtan (Nachtrit). With Eva van de Wijdeven as kaaskop teenager Desie and the award-winning Maryam Hassouni as her Moroccan best friend Dunya. In Dutch. 96 min. Het Ketelhuis, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Studio K Earth This full-length documentary version of the British TV series Planet Earth follows a polar bear family, a herd of elephants and two humpback whales in their daily struggle for survival. Directed by Alastair Fothergill (Deep Blue) and Mark Linfield. 96 min. De Uitkijk

The Eye The Eye Aw shucks, not another insipid remake of an Asian horror flick just so American teenagers won’t have to read subtitles? Yessirreebob, but thankfully this film provides Jessica Alba with an opportunity to

24 April-7 May 2008 portray a strong, intelligent female character...no wait, the camera is ogling her curves like a nubile schoolboy and the filmmakers confuse horror with loud noises. The original, about a woman whose corneal transplant is giving her disturbing visions, is available in any decent rental store and has more class, atmosphere and scary shit in its credits than this remake has in its entire running time. Accept no substitutes!

(LvH) 97 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt Giorni e nuvole Elsa (Margherita Buy) and Michele (Antonio Albanese) are a middle-aged couple with a beautiful house, a 20-year-old daughter and good friends. Elsa gently restores an ancient fresco and long-hidden angels appear. Out of the blue, Michele tells her that he has lost his job, whereupon the couple’s situation rapidly worsens. They have to sell their apartment; they start quarrelling about money. Director Silvio Soldini (Pane e Tulipani) shows us a strong woman again: after the first shock, Elsa makes the best of it while Michele lets himself go. But despite fine performances and a nice rhythm, this sober drama stays flat and unsurprising. In Italian with Dutch subtitles. (GR) 115 min. Rialto La Graine et le mulet Sixty-year-old Slimane Beiji has just been fired from his dockworker’s job in Sète, in southern France. He has been living in a shabby hotel ever since his divorce, but does his very best to keep in touch with his children. At the same time, he is having an affair with his landlady and has grown fond of her daughter, Rym. It is Rym who helps him realise his last dream: to run a couscous restaurant. Tunisian-French director Abdel Kechiche wants to paint a complete family picture. He succeeds, but at a cost: estrangement from Beiji. It’s not until two hours in that we really begin to understand his pain and appreciate his friendship with Rym—just in time for a beautiful finale.

In French with Dutch subtitles. (MP) 151 min. Cinecenter, Rialto I’m Not There Todd Haynes’s ambitious and daring new film is a biopic in the sense that it depicts the main events in Bob Dylan’s life and career. But they are not told in chronological order, and Haynes uses six different actors to play the singer. The different performers (including Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale and the black actor Marcus Carl Franklin) and the constant moving back and forth in time don’t make it easy to identify with any of the Dylans. But simple identification is probably not what Haynes is after. His film is not about Dylan himself, but about the mythmaking around a pop star. I’m Not There has its moments, but in the end it’s more an interesting audiovisual lecture than an overwhelming

Special screenings À bout de souffle Jean-Luc Godard’s first film

(1960), with unforgettable performances from Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. It’s showing Friday at Cavia in a special Nouvelle Vague weekend, along with Truffaut’s Jules et Jim (Thurs) and Claude Chabrol’s Le Beau Serge (Sat). In French with Dutch subtitles. Cavia

Buffalo ‘66 A rather bewildering 1998 first feature

by Vincent Gallo, the enterprising actor who appeared earlier in The Funeral, The House of the Spirits and three Claire Denis features. Gallo plays a petulant loser emerging from five years in prison for betting money he didn’t have, but the whole time he’s been telling his parents in Buffalo (Anjelica Huston and Ben Gazzara) that he’s happily married and holds down a government job in Washington. He picks a random young woman (Christina Ricci) to impersonate his wife, kidnaps her and proceeds to browbeat everyone in sight while mysteriously winning not only the full cooperation of his captive but her unbounded trust and affection. (JR) 110 min. Kriterion

Funny Games All Georg wanted to do was take his wife and son to their gated country house for a relaxing vacation. But in writer/director Michael Haneke’s deceptive moral universe, bourgeois notions of security are like the sexual curiosity of teenagers in slasher movies—they ensure that the characters get punished. Two young men turn up uninvited, wearing white gloves that are only slightly dirty by the time they finish teaching the family—and us—a lesson.

Some writers have described this 1997 movie by saying all the violence takes place off-screen, and it’s true that we see only the aftermath of the really bloody stuff. But to suggest that what’s depicted on-screen isn’t violence is grossly inaccurate. Showing in a series of European films later remade in Hollywood: Haneke’s own Hollywoodisation of Funny Games will be released next month. In French/German with English subtitles. (LA) 108 min. De Nieuwe Anita

Future Shorts This month’s short film series features ‘The Bohemian Rhapsody Project’, a Singaporean operatic reworking of the Queen classic; ‘Heavy Metal’, about alienation in small-town Finland; and more.

OT301 Jules et Jim François Truffaut’s 1961 film about a ménage à trois isn’t quite as racy as it used to be but remains a classic of the nouvelle vague. In French with Dutch subtitles. 104 min. Cavia Mandingo One of the most neglected and underrated Hollywood films of its era, Richard Fleischer’s blistering 1975 melodrama about a slave-breeding plantation in the Deep South, set in the 1840s, was widely ridiculed as camp when it came out. But apart from this film and Charles Burnett’s Nightjohn, it’s doubtful whether many more insightful and penetrating movies about American slavery exist. Showing in the Melkweg’s Monday-night Cultcorner series. (JR) 127 min. Melkweg Cinema Miss Potter As the sheltered Londoner who created Peter Rabbit and struck gold with her illustrated children’s stories, Renée Zellweger gives a performance so cute she seems on the verge of turning into a bunny and hopping off into the brush. Ewan McGregor is the eager young publisher Norman Warne, who took a chance on Potter’s stories in 1902 and pressed her snobbish parents for her hand; Emily Watson is Warne’s sister, who befriended Potter. The romance is twee, but the movie’s first half follows in fascinating detail the innovations Warne introduced to popularise illustrated picture books for children. Chris Noonan (Babe) directed. (JJ) 92 min. Pathé Tuschinski

Rashomon Akira Kurosawa’s 1951 film won the

grand prize at Venice, introducing Kurosawa (and through him the Japanese film) to most of the Western world. Set mainly in 12th-century Kyoto, the film offers the radically different eyewitness accounts of four people (including a dead man) about a violent incident involving ambush, rape and murder. The philosophically subversive premise of the story, at least by implication, is that all four narrators are telling

the truth; Kurosawa’s much more sentimental conclusion, made even worse by a hokey finale, is that everyone lies. This serious limitation aside, the film is still an impressive piece of work, visually and rhythmically masterful. With Toshiro Mifune (as the bandit) and Machiko Kyo. The last screening of the season at the Roode Bioscoop. In Japanese with English subtitles. (JR) 88 min. De Roode Bioscoop

Sense and Sensibility Never mind the period costumes; Ang Lee’s 1995 Jane Austen adaptation is all about modern love, and in particular the choice between romance and security. Emma Thompson is the cautious older sister who won’t say what’s bothering her, Kate Winslet the passionate younger who allows herself (literally) to get carried away. With Hugh Grant, plus Alan Rickman in the performance that made him a romantic lead. (JP) 135 min. Rialto El sol del membrillo Victor Erice’s long, sensual documentary (1992) follows artist Antonio López García in his attempts to paint the sun shining through the leaves of the quince tree in his garden. Chosen and introduced by documentarist Henny Honigmann.

In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. 133 min. Rialto Little Dieter Needs to Fly A US Navy pilot, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos in 1966 and became a prisoner of war. In this deceptively conventional 1997 documentary by Werner Herzog, Dengler recounts and reenacts his astonishing story. The strangely low-key dramatisations were shot on location. (LA) 80 min. De Nieuwe Anita, Monday, May 5, 20:30.

Kinky Boots The owner of an English shoe factory dies suddenly, leaving the failing family business to his son (Joel Edgerton). He struggles until a chance encounter with a Soho drag queen (Chiwetel Ejiofor) gives him an idea: convert his product line to highfashion boots for cross-dressing men. This is the standard Full Monty formula, but Julian Jarrold's sincere, low-key direction erases any sense of artifice.

(JJ) Pathé de Munt's Gay Classics series, Wednesday, May 7, 20:30.

cinematographic experience. (MM) 135 min. Kriterion, The Movies Import Export Austrian despair monger Ulrich Seidl cuts between two tales of young adults sinking deeper into poverty. The ‘import’ is a tenderhearted Ukrainian nurse (Ekateryna Rak) who arrives in Vienna looking for decently paid work but winds up cleaning a geriatric ward. The ‘export’ is a Viennese youth (Paul Hofmann) who suffers various indignities while accompanying his filthy-minded stepfather on a trip to install vending machines in the Ukraine. Seidl’s drab long shots have a narcotic pull that keeps this absorbing throughout its 135 minutes, but the final image—a bedridden crone mindlessly chirping, ‘Death! Death!

Death!’—is typical of the movie’s knee-jerk grimness.

In English/German/Russian/Slovak with Dutch subtitles. (JJ) Filmmuseum

Into

the Wild Moving, if somewhat overlong, account of the life of Christopher McCandless, with a bravura performance from Emile Hirsch. At the age of 22, McCandless left his wealthy, dysfunctional family, gave his college cash to Oxfam and took off into the breathtaking beauty of the American wilderness. What starts as a run-of-the-mill road movie twists into an American Odyssey as, after two years away from it all, McCandless meets an untimely death in the wilds of Alaska. The usual Characters Met Along the Way include Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn and Hal Holbrook. McCandless won’t stick with any of them, and gradually begins to unravel in his determined solitude.

The film becomes a meditation on the human need for human company, framed against some of the most glorious scenery the world has to offer. A triumph for Sean Penn as a director, backed by a custom soundtrack from Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder. (AD) 140 min.

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It’s a Free World

It’s a Free World... In this ironically titled movie, director of the lower class par excellence Ken Loach collaborates again with his long-time screenwriter, Paul Laverty. Angie, a bike-riding beauty and single mom, gets the sack from an employment agency and decides to start up one of her own. Although Loach’s antiheroine means well—she’s only trying to make a better life for herself and her 11-year-old—she gradually turns from exploited to exploiter as she starts to use illegal workers from Eastern Europe. The film traces Angie’s progression but never passes moral judgement. In her gritty, Loachy world no solutions are given, but viewers can’t help questioning the political system in which Angie flourishes. (GR) 93 min. Kriterion It’s Hard to Be Nice Tragicomedy by Srdjan Vuletic about a taxi driver in Sarajevo who has been hanging out with petty criminals but decides to better his ways.

In Serbo-Croatian with Dutch subtitles. 102 min. Rialto

Juno Juno (Ellen Page) is 16. Juno is full of life and

sarcasm. Juno is pregnant. Oops. She gives up the thought of abortion after hearing that her baby has already developed fingernails and instead starts looking for adoptive parents. She finds the perfect couple in Mark and Vanessa. They’re wealthy, nice and Mark might even qualify as cool, since he shares Juno’s taste in music and splatter movies. Ellen Page is beyond perfect as the wisecracking but friendly Juno, who’s bright, yet young and naïve enough to think that there is no harm in spending time with the adoptive father of her unborn child. Add a solid script and a great soundtrack and there you have it: this year’s independent American masterpiece. Directed by Jason Reitman. (MP) 92 min. Cinecenter, Kriterion, Studio K

Lady Chatterley In the hands of Pascale Ferran,

and in French, DH Lawrence’s classic novel becomes an almost spiritual film about the transforming power of love and sex. The first time Constance Chatterley (Marina Hands) and her gamekeeper Parkin (Jean-Louis Coullo’ch) do it, things are a bit clumsy—and they both remain fully clothed. Their growing intimacy is shown by their increasing lack of garments, until, by the end of the film, we see them not only completely naked but dancing around in the rain, and feel we have gotten to know them. In Hands’s brilliantly natural, César-winning performance, Lady Chatterley is both funny and moving: you can’t help feeling for her. Hands has moved Lawrence’s novel past the pornographic and the feminist to the human level. (MM) Rialto Lars and the Real Girl If someone had told me this was directed by the guy who did Mr. Woodcock and revolved around a sex doll, I wouldn’t have gone near it. But Lars and the Real Girl is both hilarious and poignant, with a Capraesque humanity that caught

Amsterdam Weekly me completely off guard. An awkward young man in a small Minnesota town (Ryan Gosling) invites his older brother (goofy Paul Schneider) and sister-in-law (Emily Mortimer) to meet his new fiancée, but to their horror and embarrassment she turns out to be made of rubber. The local psychiatrist advises them to play along with his delusion, and eventually the close-knit religious community, moved by concern for the brothers, joins in. I’m not sure there’s still that much compassion in the world, but in keeping with the spirit of the movie, I was willing to pretend. Craig Gillespie directed a script by Six Feet Under writer Nancy Oliver.

(JJ) 106 min. Kriterion Lou Reed’s Berlin For those who missed his shows at the Heineken Music Hall last June, or those who attended them and want to revisit one of rock’s most hailed, and gloomiest, chapters, Lou Reed’s Berlin, documenting the live performance of that utterly dark concept album, is given theatrical release. Director Julian Schnabel, along with his daughter Lola, provided the visuals for the live show (which featured French star Emmanuelle Seigner as Caroline, the album’s most prominent character). The film, shot in Brooklyn in 2006, is a pretty straightforward rock documentary, but the high-octane performance by Reed and his acolytes makes it essential viewing for serious rock fans. Look out for a guest spot by Antony (of the Johnsons fame) and for Steve Hunter’s incendiary guitar solos. (MB) 85 min. Melkweg Cinema

No Country for Old Men The Coen Brothers’ latest brings Cormac McCarthy’s novel to the big screen, and it’s a shock to the system, simultaneously elegiac and terrifyingly violent. A subversion of the classic lawmen-chase-outlaw genre, the film is shot like a cross between a Western and a horror flick. A Texan named Llewellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) takes off with millions in cash he’s found at the site of a drug deal gone wrong.

Tommy Lee Jones is the laconic Sheriff Bell, trying to bring Moss in; Javier Bardem is Chigurh, the Terminator hitman dispatched by the cartel. The Coens give us none of the usual male-bonding, hunter-and-hunted nonsense: Chigurh, Bell and Moss are entirely alone, each in his own way, particularly Moss as the slaughter inevitably catches up with him. A stunning piece of cinema. (AD) 122 min. The Movies, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski The Other Boleyn Girl Love, sex, ambition, rivalry and intrigue are the keywords of this bodice-ripper set in 16th-century England. Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) and her sister Mary (Scarlett Johansson) are seen only as commodities by their scheming father and uncle.

Both girls compete for the love of King Henry VIII, and both end up in his bed, but only the manipulative Anne will marry him and become queen. The sumptuous props and costumes and the vibrant colour schemes are sure to please period-movie fans. But the film focuses on the relationship between Anne and Mary at the expense of the historical context: the divorce of Henry VIII from Katherine of Aragon and the subsequent rift between England and the Catholic Church are mentioned only in passing. The result feels romanticised and oversimplified. Directed by Justin Chadwick. (GR) 115 min. Pathé De Munt, De Uitkijk

Persepolis A satisfying adaptation of the autobio-

graphical graphic novel about a girl coming of age in Iran during the Islamic revolution in the 1970s, struggling with everything from tight headscarves to bomb threats. In a cute and comical hand-drawn style, the book’s writer and illustrator, Marjane Satrapi, and her co-director, Vincent Paronnaud, draw parallels between a girl’s passage from innocence to puberty and the violent transition of a civilised country into a fundamentalist state. Even a denunciation from the Iranian government couldn’t stop the screening of this irresistible and intelligent charm offensive. The English, as opposed to the French, version is showing; voices include Catherine Deneuve, Sean Penn and Iggy Pop. Subtitled in Dutch. (MdR) 95 min. Rialto

Professione: Reporter Known in English as The

Passenger, this 1975 film is a masterpiece, one of Michelangelo Antonioni’s finest works. Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider star as a journalist who trades one identity for another and the woman who becomes his accomplice and, ultimately, the moral center of his adopted world. Less a thriller (though the mood of mystery is pervasive) than a meditation on the problems of knowledge, action for its own sake, and the relationship of the artist to the work he brings into being. Next to this film, Blow-Up seems a facile, though necessary, preliminary. By all means go. In English. (DD) 116 min. Filmmuseum Rendition They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but sometimes good intentions pave the red carpet to your tasteful local cinema. This is the case with Rendition, an overzealous attempt at heavyhanded Hollywood screenwriting designed to impart to American audiences that torture = bad. While it’s a noble thing to make a film that counterbalances the interrogation porn of 24, and it’s nice to jazz it up with great actors (Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep), anybody

who has been following the news should know all this already. And as always, the truth in this matter is far more insidious and noxious than fiction. Directed by Gavin Hood, apparently as a transitional project between his art-house hit Tsotsi and the upcoming XMen: Wolverine. (LvH) 120 min. Pathé De Munt

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The Ruins Friends on a Mexican holiday encounter an evil force at the site of an archaeological dig in this horror feature by Carter Smith. 92 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Shine a Light Martin Scorsese brings his superb eye (and ear) to a Rolling Stones concert experience.

Closer to The Last Waltz than No Direction Home in its structure, Shine a Light intercuts live performances of the band at the Beacon Theatre in NYC with some clips of its members’ TV appearances over the course of their 40-odd-year career. A funny prologue of the band’s interaction with Scorsese adds extra cinematic flair. If you’re not embarrassed to see grandpas Jagger and Richards sweat it out for two hours—with a little young blood, including Christina Aguilera and Jack White of the White Stripes—you’ll be highly satisfied. It’s only a rock ’n’ roll concert movie, but we like it. (MB) 121 min. Kriterion, Pathé ArenA The Spiderwick Chronicles The rebellious Jared and his twin brother (both played by Freddie Highmore) move into a dilapidated mansion along with their sister and newly divorced mom. In the attic, Jared finds Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Fantastical World Around You and discovers the existence of brownies, (hob)goblins and sprites, not to mention the ogre Mulgarath (Nick Nolte), who wants the Field Guide to rule the world. The children’s battle against Mulgarath’s army is of course a metaphor for a dysfunctional family pulling together. But except for some enchanting moments, much of the film gets lost in chaos and chase scenes. Directed by Mark Waters; based on the books by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. (GR) 97 min. Pathé De Munt, Studio K Stellet Licht The films of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas are an acquired taste. Not everyone will warm to his distinctive visual style, his use of an amateur cast and his uncompromising depiction of human nature. But if you’re looking for something out of the ordinary, Reygadas certainly delivers. His third feature, Stellet Licht (‘Silent Light’), starts at dawn and ends at dusk; it’s a meditative and languid tale about a married farmer, in a small Mennonite enclave in northern Mexico, who falls for another woman and thinks it might be a sign from God. In Plautdietsch with Dutch subtitles. (BS) 127 min. Filmmuseum Street Kings Another ‘roid-raging dirty cop drama from David Ayer, with a beefy Keanu Reeves as the embittered blue knight. The script is by Jamie Moss, James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential) and Kurt Wimmer (Ultraviolet); with Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie and Chris Evans. (JJ) 109 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt TBS A convicted murderer escapes from a psychiatric ward and kidnaps a 13-year-old girl in this thriller by Pieter Kuijpers (Van God Los, Dennis P). A great performance by Theo Maassen isn’t quite enough to save the film, but it might still make it worth watching.

In Dutch. 88 min. Filmhuis Griffioen

There Will Be Blood An epic film of intimate proportions about a ruthlessly ambitious oil baron who comes into conflict with a charismatic young preacher in the California desert in the early 20th century. A powerhouse performance by Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview netted him a rightly deserved Academy Award, but Paul Dano’s performance as the weaselly Eli Sunday is also impressive to say the least. Don’t let the sprawling length or the emotional investment the film asks of its viewers deter you: There Will Be Blood is a true masterpiece that any serious film lover simply cannot afford to miss. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia). (LvH) 159 min. The Movies, Pathé De Munt Tricks A Polish coming-of-age comedy directed by Andrzej Jakimowski. In Polish with Dutch subtitles. 95 min. Filmmuseum, Het Ketelhuis

You, the Living A brutally deadpan comedy by Swedish director Roy Andersson, who seems to have translated the entire range of human misery into a loosely connected series of slapstick gags. His black humor is impressively layered, each layer darker than the last: when a joker at a family banquet insists on performing that old parlour trick of yanking the tablecloth out from under the dishes, he not only shatters a huge collection of crystal and china but also reveals—look sharp or you’ll miss it—a vintage dining table inlaid with swastikas. Andersson’s building block is a static long shot so solidly composed it suggests a panel in a comic strip; the central figure is often encased in his own suffering, and sometimes additional laughs come from a background figure surveying his despair in open-mouthed bewilderment.

(JJ) 94 min. Filmmuseum, Studio K

RUTH VAN BEEK

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PARTY OF THREE My girlfriend tells me all the time that she wants to have a 3-way with another woman. I’m a straight guy, so I think the idea is totally hot—but it’s got me a little freaked out, too. What if she leaves me for a woman?

You deserve credit for treating female same-sex sexuality like it’s a real experience for your girlfriend and not just a pornographic novelty for your own hetero pleasure. Truthfully, you do risk your relationship when you invite any third party into your bed. It sounds like you’re wondering a few things: is my girlfriend really gay? How can I protect our relationship against a hot female newcomer? What if this experiment opens a door I can’t close?

Ask yourself honestly: is your relationship solid? Is she sexually attracted to you?

These are the twin pillars of safe threesome experimentation. If she’s into you, then she’s exploring girl-on-girl feelings in a bisexual way. It’s possible she only wants to fantasize aloud. Shared fantasies and dirty talk might be enough. If she actually wants to go for it, ask her, ‘Have you ever been with a woman before?’ and, ‘Do you have anyone specific in mind?’ If there’s a particular woman she’s already chosen and attraction and/or emotions run high, you’ll probably have some post-threesome drama on your hands.

Plan together: if you did this, would anything be off-limits? Kissing, oral sex, penetrative sex, toys? Is she okay with your having sex with the other woman?

Even if you feel like a dork asking, suck it up—you’ll be glad later.

If this is her first experience with a woman, she might or might not enjoy it. If she does, don’t freak out! It could still be just a one-off, and she’s still straight. Or maybe she discovers that she’s bisexual, which doesn’t change the fact that she loves you. It’s possible she’s a lesbian just figuring it out, but if you know she’s hot for you, that’s unlikely.

Worst case: occasionally people do fall for the third in their three-way. Or she might be entering a sow-your-wild-oats phase. Girl-girl sex is not the cause; you’d run the same risk if she wanted another guy in your threesome, or if she wanted to visit a bondage club. Best case: you have an open-minded girlfriend who trusts you enough to try new things with you. Lucky boy. ladywood@amsterdamweekly.nl

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FILM TIMES Thursday 24 April until Wednesday 30 April Times are provided by cinemas and are subject to last-minute changes. Film times also at www.amsterdamweekly.nl Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 À bout de souffle Fri, Sat 20.00 Le Beau Serge Thur 20.30 Jules et Jim Fri, Sat 22.00.

Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 Atonement Thur 22.00 Cassandra's Dream Thur-Tues 16.15, 19.30, 21.45, Sun also 14.00 La Graine et le mulet Thur-Tues 15.45, 18.45, 21.00, Sun also 12.30 Into the Wild Thur-Tues 15.45, 18.45, 21.45, Sun also 11.00 Juno Thur-Tues 16.00, 19.00, Sun also 11.15, 13.45.

Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5175 Horton (NL) Sat, Tues 13.30, Sun 11.30 The Kite Runner Thur-Sat, Tues 20.30, Sun 15.30 Winx Club Sat, Tues 15.30, Sun 13.30.

Filmhuis Griffioen Uilenstede 106, Amstelveen, 444 5100 TBS Thur, Fri, Tues 19.30.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Aleksandra Thur-Sat, Mon, Tues 17.15 Heimatklänge Sun 15.45 Import Export Thur-Sun, Tues 19.15 Kuifje en de Zonnetempel Sun 14.00 Professione: Reporter Mon, Tues 17.00 Stellet Licht Thur, Sun, Tues 21.45, Fri, Sat also 17.00 Tricks Thur-Tues 19.30, 21.30 Le Voyage du ballon rouge Mon 20.00 You, the Living Fri, Sat 21.45, Sun 17.30 Het Zakmes Sun 13.45.

Het Ketelhuis Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 African Bambi Sat-Tues 11.00, 12.45, 14.45 Dunya & Desie Thur-Tues 17.15, 19.15, 21.15, Sat-Tues also 13.15, 15.15, Sat-Mon also 11.15 La Maison Thur-Tues 17.00, 19.45, 21.45 Morrison krijgt een zusje Sat 11.00, 15.00, Sun-Tues 11.00, 13.00, 15.00 Tiramisu Thur-Tues 16.45 Tricks Thur-Tues 19.30 Zomerhitte Thur-Tues 21.30.

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 Buffalo '66 Mon 22.00 Buster Keaton programme Sun 11.00 The Darjeeling Limited Thur-Sun 22.15, Fri, Sat also 0.15, SatTues also 14.30 De Gebroeders Leeuwenhaart Mon, Tues 15.00 I'm Not There Thur-Tues 16.45, 19.30 It's a Free World... Thur-Tues 17.15, 19.15 Juno Thur-Tues 17.45 Lars and the Real Girl Thur-Tues 19.45, 22.00 Pippi in Taka Tuka Land Sat, Sun 15.00, Sun also 12.45 Shine a Light Thur-Mon 21.30, Fri, Sat also 23.45 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15 De Spiderwick-Kronieken Sat-Tues 15.15, Sun also 13.00.

Melkweg Cinema Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 624 1777 Control Mon 21.30 Lou Reed's Berlin Thur, Fri 21.00 Mandingo Mon 19.00 Peur(s) du noir Thur-Tues 19.00.

The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Thur-Tues 17.30, 22.00, Sat-Tues also 15.15 Dan in Real Life Thur-Tues 20.00, Sun, Mon, Tues also 11.30 I'm Not There Thur-Tues 16.15, 18.45, Sun-Tues also 11.45 Into the Wild Thur-Tues 16.00, 19.00, 21.45, Sun, Mon, Tues also 13.15 No Country for Old Men Thur-Tues 17.00, 19.30, 22.00, Sat also 14.30, Sun-Tues also 12.00, 14.30 De Spiderwick-Kronieken Sat-Tues 14.15 There Will Be Blood Thur-Tues 21.30 Winx Club en het geheim van het verloren rijk Sat 14.00, Sun-Tues 11.30, 13.30.

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OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Future Shorts Sun 17.00, 20.00.

Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 10,000 BC daily 10.30, 13.10, 15.30, 18.00, 20.40, Sat also 23.00 27 Dresses daily 20.10 African Bambi Fri-Wed 11.20, 13.20, 15.20, 17.20 Alvin en de Chipmunks Fri-Wed 11.10, 13.40, 16.05 The Bucket List Thur 12.30, 21.30, Fri-Wed 18.40, 21.00, Sat also 23.30 Cilgin Dersane daily 18.15, Thur also 15.30, Sat also 23.20 Doomsday daily 10.45, 13.00, 15.15, 17.30, 19.45, 22.00, Sat also 0.15 Drakenjagers Fri-Wed 11.00, 12.50, 15.00, 17.00 Dunya & Desie daily 11.15, 13.30, 15.50, 18.10, 20.30, Sat also 22.45 The Eye daily 19.20, 21.40, Thur also 10.15, 12.35, 14.55, 17.05, Sat also 23.50 Horton (NL) Fri-Wed 10.40, 12.40, 14.50, 17.00 Meet the Spartans daily 12.20, 14.20, 16.20, 18.20, 20.20, 22.20, Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed also 10.20, Sat also 0.20

Morrison krijgt een zusje Fri-Wed 10.15, 12.00, 14.00, 16.00 Penelope daily 10.25, 12.45, 15.10 Recep Ivedik daily 17.40, Sat also 22.30 The Ruins daily 17.50, 20.00, 22.10, Thur also 11.15, 13.25, 15.40, Sat also 0.20 Shine a Light daily 18.30, 21.15, Thur also 13.00, 15.45, Sat also 23.55 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 The Spiderwick Chronicles (Imax) Fri-Wed 10.00, 14.40, 17.10 Street Kings daily 11.30, 13.50, 16.30, 19.00, 21.30, Sat also 23.55 Taken Fri 21.50, Sat 23.50 U2 3D (Imax) daily 12.30, 19.35, Thur, Sat-Mon, Wed also 21.50 Untraceable daily 19.10, 21.20, Thur also 10.15, 12.25, 14.40, 16.55, Sat also 23.40 Vantage Point daily 12.15, 14.15, 16.15, 19.05, 21.10, Fri-Wed also 10.15, Sat also 23.15 Winx Club Fri-Wed 10.10, 12.10, 14.10, 16.10 Zomerhitte daily 20.50, Thur also 11.00, 13.10.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 27 Dresses daily 20.45 African Bambi Fri-Tues 14.10, 16.10, Fri also 12.15 Alvin en de Chipmunks Fri 16.45, Sat-Tues 10.10, 12.20, 14.35 Asterix en de Olympische Spelen Sat-Tues 10.15 The Bucket List daily 20.50, Thur-Tues also 13.15, 15.45 Definitely, Maybe daily 18.10, Sat-Tues also 10.40 Doomsday daily 18.45, 21.15, Thur-Tues also 13.45, 16.15, SatTues also 11.15, Sat also 23.40 Drakenjagers Fri-Tues 14.05, 16.05, Fri also 12.15, Sat-Tues also 12.00 Dunya & Desie daily 18.30, 21.00, Thur-Tues also 13.30, 16.00, Sat also 23.30, Sun-Tues also 10.45 The Eye daily 18.55, 21.10, Thur also 12.45, 15.15, Sat also 23.35 Horton (NL) Fri-Tues 12.20, 14.30, 16.40 The Hunting Party Thur-Mon 20.40, Thur also 13.00, 15.30, Sat also 23.10, Tues also 18.40, Wed also 21.25 Meet the Spartans daily 19.30, Thur-Tues also 12.30, 14.45, 17.00, Thur-Mon, Wed also 21.45, Sat also 23.50, Tues also 21.50 Morrison krijgt een zusje Fri -Tues 14.20, Fri also 16.25, SatTues also 10.15, 12.25 No Country for Old Men daily 20.15 The Other Boleyn Girl Thur-Tues 17.15 Penelope daily 18.15, Thur-Tues also 12.50, 15.15 Rendition Thur-Mon 18.00, Wed 18.40 The Ruins daily 18.50, 21.20, Thur, Fri also 12.15, Thur, Sat-Tues also 16.25, Thur also 14.20, Sat also 23.45 Samson en Gert: Hotel op Stelten Sat-Tues 10.30 Sneak Preview Tues 21.45 The Spiderwick Chronicles Thur, Sat-Tues 14.50 De Spiderwick-Kronieken Fri-Tues 12.25, Fri also 14.50 Step Up 2 daily 18.05, Thur also 12.15 Street Kings daily 19.00, 21.30, Thur also 14.00, 16.30, Fri-Tues also 12.15, 14.40 Taken Sat 22.15 There Will Be Blood daily 20.30, Thur also 14.35 Untraceable Thur-Tues 17.30, Thur also 12.20, Sat also 23.00 Vantage Point daily 19.15, 21.40, Thur, Fri also 12.20, 14.30, Thur, Sat-Tues also 16.45 The Water Horse Sat-Tues 11.30 Winx Club Fri-Tues 12.15, 14.25, 16.30 Zomerhitte daily 19.45, Thur also 12.20, 14.40 Zoop in India Fri 10.15.

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Rialto Ceintuurbaan 338, 676 8700 The Band's Visit Fri, Sat 15.15 The Banishment Thur-Tues 19.15, Sat also 13.15, Sun also 13.45 Getting Home Thur-Tues 19.30, 22.00, Sun also 11.15 Giorni e nuvole Thur-Tues 22.15 La Graine et le mulet Thur-Tues 18.00, 21.00, Fri-Sun also 15.00, Sat, Sun also 12.00 It's Hard to Be Nice Thur-Tues 17.10, Sat also 13.00 Lady Chatterley Sun 14.00 Persepolis Fri, Sun 16.50 Sense and Sensibility Sun 11.00 El sol del membrillo Sat 16.10.

De Roode Bioscoop Haarlemmerplein 7H, 625 7500, Rashomon Thur 20.30.

Studio K Timorplein 62, 692 0422, Alvin en de Chipmunks Sat-Tues 14.15 Dunya & Desie Thur-Tues 16.00, 18.00, 20.00 Juno Thur-Tues 17.15, 19.15 The Kite Runner Thur-Tues 21.15 The Spiderwick Chronicles Sat-Tues 15.15 You, the Living Thur-Tues 22.00.

De Uitkijk Prinsengracht 452, 623 7460 Le Ballon Rouge & Crin-Blanc Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues 17.15, Sat, Sun 15.30 Earth Sat, Sun 17.15 Horton (NL) Sat, Sun 13.30, Mon, Tues 15.15 Jellyfish Thur-Tues 19.15 The Other Boleyn Girl Thur-Sat 21.00 Tiramisu Sun-Tues 21.00.

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