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AROUND TOWN

ANNA BOTERMAN

It’s not exactly rocket science.

Talking booze Staggering between fun and brain damage.

By Floris Dogterom Ah, alcohol. It’s the lubricant of human interaction. It makes the bespectacled, spotty adolescent engage in lively conversation—to the point where he’s annoying the living shit out of the bartender and everyone else. It’s the aphrodisiac par excellence, albeit one that must be taken in modest quantities in order to prevent performance problems—especially in the male human being. It can also make people sad. Very sad. Or aggressive, for that

matter. But how does alcohol work?

In a conference room in the rather depressing concrete rock that houses the University Medical Center of the Vrije Universiteit on De Boelelaan in ZuiderAmstel, Jeroen Geurts takes a flip-chart and a marker to sketch a brain cell. Geurts is a neurobiologist and a Doctor of Medicine and, as such, is a senior researcher in the radiology department at the UMC. He’s also the editor and main author of the recently published Over de kop, a collection of essays about the human brain.

‘The brain is a large collection of cells,’ Geurts teaches, ‘and alcohol affects the contact areas between these brain cells.’ In the meantime, a star-shaped cell with a long tentacle has appeared on the flip-chart. Geurts says: ‘At the end of the tentacle is the synapse, which holds vesicles filled with a chemical fluid. That fluid is called a neurotransmitter, which the cell uses to contact receptors on the other cell. So the reaction chain is as follows: a

cell generates an electrical signal, which is transmitted by means of a neurotransmitter, after which, the next cell generates an electric signal, and so on.’

He continues: ‘Alcohol disturbs your brain cells on four levels. Drinking stimulates the serotonin and dopamine systems, which causes one to feel elated, happy and rewarded. This is why people become cheerful, unrestrained—or even licentious. But it can also make people sad or aggressive. Generally speaking, alcohol enhances the mood you were already in. Furthermore, alcohol enhances the binding of GABA [gammaaminobutyric acid, also a neurotransmitter] to its receptor on brain cells, which makes your movements slower.’ Aha. So that’s what happens when you find it difficult to form recognisable words. Or, in a later stage, you fall off your bike.

Finally, there is something called the ‘glutamate system’, which, for example, is

activated when you start storing new memories. ‘Alcohol,’ says Geurts, ‘has a restraining influence on the binding of glutamate to its receptors.’ Which explains why you can’t recall falling off your bike. Or, for that matter, why you haven’t got the faintest idea who that person snoring next to you is.

There are many people who get hammered once in while and, while doing so, damage their brain a little, though not to the extent that they permanently don’t function well anymore. There are, however, people who chronically damage their brain by drinking. This is called alcoholism. ‘The stimulation of dopamine and serotonin release makes up for the addictive side of alcohol,’ says Geurts. ‘What’s more, the chronic use of alcohol blocks the glutamate receptors. As a reaction, more receptors are made. If the alcoholic doesn’t drink, all these extra glutamate receptors are stimulated and the brain cells become hyperactive, which causes restlessness, insomnia and transpiration.’

And there’s more: apart from cirrhosis of the liver and cardiovascular diseases, chronic alcoholism may cause the Wernicke-Korsakov syndrome. Wernicke’s is the acute version, where the patient becomes disorientated and hallucinatory.

They may even slip into a coma, which can be lethal. A large group of Wernicke patients subsequently develop Korsakov’s. With this, an area in the brain that is used in memory formation is damaged beyond repair. The patient cannot create new memories, starts confabulating— which is a difficult word for making up things—and is less aware of the effects of his or her behaviour on others. Geurts elaborates: ‘The memory damage caused

by Korsakov’s cannot be cured. And the funny thing is, unlike the dementia patient, the Korsakov patient’s intelligence is largely intact. But he suffers from severe memory impairment for the rest of his life.’

The message seems to be clear: drinking alcohol is fundamentally wrong. ‘Not entirely true,’ says Geurts. ‘Drinking one glass of red wine a day is actually good, since the antioxidants in the wine suppress the so-called “free radicals” the body produces. And free radicals damage DNA. But you might just as well have a cup of green tea. It contains antioxidants, too.’

So, does the alcohol expert have any tips on how to combat a hangover? ‘Well, I’m not much of a drinker myself. I’m a skinny guy who falls over after two glasses, due to a very well-functioning GABA response. But I do know lots of water after a drinking bout is an effective strategy. The water will thin down the alcohol, so that it will have a less negative effect on the nervous system. It’s even better to drink a few glasses of water in between alcoholic beverages. As to the morning after: I have heard that a full breakfast might be helpful. But I have no scientific basis for this statement.’

Cheers!

Over de kop is published by Scriptum.

Trading scales for kegs Drinking in coffeeshops-turnedsmoking-bars can cause paranoia.

By Mark Wedin On 1 April of this year, alcohol was banned from all coffeeshops, leaving many wondering if their favourite suppliers would soon be forced to convert to bars, as the loss of beer sales could be seriously detrimental to business.

But so far, nearly every coffeeshop remains as it was—minus the suds— many of them increasing their menu with other drink items and snacks to make up for lost profits. A wise move. Owners can always open a new pub but, under current law, once you give up your coffeeshop licence, you will never get it back. As for the few that took the plunge and stayed with beer, things have not drastically changed. Not yet, anyway.

‘So far, business is good, we’re not complaining,’ says Saloon Smoking Bull manager Thea Gabetti. ‘The nights continue to be busy, though it’s now quite slow during the day. It’s a bit harder to get new customers, but the old ones who know us, they continue to come back. But we’re still feeling things out. If they push through with the smoking ban like they’re talking about, that will, of course, change

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everything.’

Indeed, the general majority of toking drinkers are not particularly troubled by the previous law. But the likely prohibitions to come are a common topic of conversation.

‘There’s still plenty of shops that sell primo quality,’ says Evan, a regular at the Saloon Smoking Bull. ‘I’m just happy that we’re still allowed to smoke. With certain trends going the way they’re going, I’m wondering how long before all soft drugs are completely banned. It seems to me like this new rule—and mind you, it’s only the latest in a long list of new rules over the years—is just another sneaky step towards abolishing coffeeshops completely.’

Meanwhile, around the corner at the Greenhouse Effect, business is still strong. They’re in the fortunate position of having two separate but next-door addresses—meaning they can deal the smoke on one side, while providing plenty of drinking space on the other. ‘The only shitty thing is the way it impinges a bit of freedom,’ says their dealer Hendrix.

‘I hate having to go outside and tell people they can’t drink on the bench in front of the coffeeshop—they have to move one metre over and drink there.’ As for the possibility of an all-inclusive smoking ban, he doesn’t believe coffeeshops will ever become obsolete. ‘It sounds like there’s a couple of ways around it: they could all become vaporiser bars—so, in effect, there’s no smoke in the air. Or coffeeshops would all have to sell weed only for take-away.’

Hamish Macalister, a bartender at the smoke-friendly Nes Café, was clearly disappointed when his bar lost its licence with the new law. ‘Since we changed, everyday at least five groups of people come in and ask if we’re still a cof-

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feeshop,’ he says. ‘Every time they ask, it’s like a knife in the chest.’

Macalister is proud of the comfortable atmosphere and good-quality drugs the Nes became known for. ‘Our weed was decent enough. We were getting to the point where the place could really run itself. Now I’m standing here at one o’clock [in the afternoon] thinking: we shouldn’t be open till three. And that means someone loses their job.’

For Macalister, the issue stretches far beyond this one coffeeshop. He more or less expects a general smoking ban in the very near future. ‘They say they’re trying to protect the workers. I guess they’re protecting them from keeping their jobs. At the end of the day, if you come to work in a coffeeshop, you know what you’re getting into. You’ve got all these people who made their life on coffeeshops. Standing here, serving people on holiday, the wages aren’t worth it unless you love what you’re selling—and we’re not selling it anymore. It makes you wonder if [politicians] really believe what they said about coffeeshops, that it’s good to have them because it keeps unsocial behaviour in one place. If that’s true, where do they think all these unsocial people are going to go? You hear everybody now talking about “the good ol’ days [when we had] the guilder”. It’s bloody mad to think that in three years time people will be talking about “the good ol’ days when we had coffeeshops.”’

For now, regulars at Nes continue to enjoy a toke and a beer, but for how long?

‘I agree that we should all stop smoking,’ adds Macalister ‘But before governments tell us to stop smoking, they need to stop fucking up the world.’

You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay here.

Juicy quotations and sobering facts ‘Going for only one drink is like jumping off a tall building with the plan of falling only one floor.’ Simon Carmiggelt ‘Culture: a thin layer of varnish easily dissolved in alcohol.’ Aldous Huxley ‘What good can drinkin’ do, what good can drinkin’ do? Lord, I drink all night but the next day I still feel blue.’ Janis Joplin ‘O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should, with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!’

William Shakespeare

‘I’m home getting hammered while she’s out getting nailed.’ Banjo & Sullivan ‘I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won’t let himself get snotty about it.’

Raymond Chandler

‘You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.’ Frank Zappa ‘I wish I could drink like a lady. I can take one or two at the most. Three and I’m under the table. Four and I’m under the host.’

Dorothy Parker

‘The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.’ Humphrey Bogart ‘I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.’ Homer Simpson ‘24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?’ Charles Bukowski ‘Beer—it’s not just for breakfast anymore.’

Dorothy Parker

‘I’ve had 18 straight whiskies; I think this is a record.’ Dylan Thomas (shortly before he collapsed and later died.)

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The European Union is the world’s heaviest drinking region...

55 million: The number of adults who are estimated to drink at harmful levels in the EU— more than 10 % of the population.

195,000: The number of people killed each year by excess alcohol consumption in the EU. 13: The average age when Europeans begin getting drunk.

23 million: The number of Europeans dependent on alcohol at any time—5 % of men and 1 % of women.

11: The number of litres of pure alcohol consumed by the average adult in the EU—the equivalent of 1,400 small beers.

3: Alcohol is the third-biggest cause of illness and early death in the EU. 25 %: More than a quarter of traffic deaths on EU roads—at least 10,000 per year—are caused by drunk-driving.

From a 2006 European Commission Report on alcohol use in Europe.

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Mojitos and Bellinis

Doe m ’n ros

Savvying up on cocktail knowledge.

BY LAURA GROENEVELD, ILLUSTRATION BY YVO SPREY

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t’s taken us a while to get there, but Amsterdam finally seems to have picked up on alcohol’s finest achievement: the cocktail.

‘I wouldn’t call it a trend, but it’s definitely become much more accepted and popular to drink cocktails,’ says Sten van den Berg, who runs a temping agency for shakers, called Cocktailking. ‘A lot of that has to do with the improved quality of bartending over all, and the increase in cocktail-makers.

At the moment, there are about a hundred and fifty professionals in the Netherlands. These are people who are passionate about cocktails and experimenting.

Their efforts obviously make it a lot more fun to drink cocktails.’

According to Van den Berg, the essence of mixology is to explore new tastes and flavour combinations. ‘I often compare it to cooking. By adding and blending different ingredients, you create a whole new product. For me personally, the essence of a cocktail is the craftsmanship that’s been put into it. But it’s also the I’m-making-this-especially-foryou, luxurious, decadent, over the top, beyond expectations, wow feel of it.’

At the same time, the Zen of making cocktails lies in the balancing of different tastes. ‘One flavour shouldn’t dominate another,’ Van den Berg explains. ‘Ideally, you want to be able to taste all the different ingredients one by one.’

Although he’s an expert on all things mixed in a glass, the cocktail king can’t say what the ultimate cocktail tastes like. ‘It’s impossible,’ he states. ‘It’s obviously a very subjective matter, depending on someone’s tastes, the time, the place and the occasion. To some people, the ideal cocktail is a crisp drink with crushed ice, a liqueur and some fruit or sugar in it. But even then, the fruit of choice can range from anything like strawberries to watermelon or passion fruit. Other people prefer a strong long drink, or the taste explosion of a daiquiri. Personally, I don’t have one but eight favourite cocktails, all depending on the

‘I was very impressed with the class and style of restaurant Herrie’s cocktail bar, in the cellar. It might not be the best cocktail around, but if you’re looking for something spectacular, try the blazer. It’s flambéed.’

Herrie, Utrechtsestraat 30a, 622 08 38.

‘The Mansion has the reputation of being the best cocktail bar in Amsterdam. Although not everyone is equally enthusiastic about their efforts, their champagne mixes are beautiful.’

The Mansion, Hobbemastraat 2, 616 6664.

mood I’m in.’

So what would he drink if he were in a romantic mood on a first date? ‘A Bellini,’ says Van den Berg. ‘It’s originally a classic Italian cocktail, but there’s also a French version with white peach puree, peach liqueur and champagne. It’s sweet and tasty, and naturally, peach is an erotic fruit.’

Trends come and go in cocktail-making land. Raspberry, apple, vanilla sugar and chilli peppers are just a few ingredients that were considered hot a while back.

Before that, it was sake. Right now, the focus is on first-class ingredients—like fresh exotic fruit—and presentation. That means using beautiful glasses to pour the drinks into, and also throwing bottles in the air like a real Tom Cruise. ‘“Flairtending” is definitely in at the moment,’ says Van den Berg.

‘It’s interesting to see because there used to be a clear distinction between flairtenders and mixologists—almost as if they belonged to different religions. Personally, I don’t really care if bartenders throw bottles in the air, as long as they make a decent cocktail.’

Meanwhile, the cocktail set tends to stick to the classics. ‘If you’ve got a Mojito on the menu, you’re sure to spend half of your time preparing those,’ he says.

So, is there a cocktail that Van den Berg is particularly proud of? ‘There’s one of my own cocktails that is very special to me, called Comfortable Chloe. I had just made it to the first rounds of a cocktail contest, when my sister gave birth to a baby girl named Chloe. In honour of her, I designed a cocktail made of Southern Comfort, strawberries, creme de cacao and chocolate. The funny thing is that now, two years later, my niece is nuts about chocolate and strawberries.

Maybe in a few years time, she’ll feel the same about the liqueurs I used in her cocktail.’

Cocktail King’s poshest picks ‘The newly opened restaurant Diga has the biggest liqueur collection in the whole of the city. With two fulltime cocktail-makers on staff, they probably serve great mixes. One of the owners is also an expert on molecular cocktail shaking. They recently held a contest to design their signature drink, so I’d definitely try that.’

Diga, Amsteldijk 137, 404 4360.

‘The cocktail bar at Amsterdam Plage is one of the nicest, easygoing

attitude bars that inspired me to become more serious about running a cocktail bar. And the Mandarinha from bartender Thijs was a real eyeopener for me.’

Amsterdam Plage, Westerdoksdijk 44, 06 251 35772.

‘It’s not really a cocktail bar, but I have to name Misja Vorstermans from the cocktail-making company and consultancy the Fabulous Shaker Boys. This guy is definitely the best cocktail maker in the Netherlands!

Any cocktail he makes is great.’

Fabulous Shaker Boys, Singel 326a, 320 9512.

Now girls can d

BY SARAH ILLUSTRATION

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t is a well-known fact that we women don’t like beer. It’s bitter, it doesn’t look nice, and it’s a bit vulgar, too. In short: not girly at all. When nrc.next reported last year that only 15% of beer in the Netherlands was drunk by women, it became clear that something had to be done. After all, nowadays women have money to spend, so if you could get them to like beer, it would create a whole new customer base. Heineken has tried to reach that goal by introducing a beer for females, joined shortly after by Hoegaarden, Gulpener and Wittekerke.

The mission was to turn an ordinary vaasje into an object of desire for ladies. I imagine how product developers took an excursion into a woman’s mind in order to create a beer-ladyline. It might begin like this...

Step 1: Make it sweet. Girls like sweet. Bitter is yuck! So the base of the new product is witbier, which is less harsh than lager, with a softer taste. Add extra sugar, and the goal gets even closer.

Right. What else is known about girls?

Oh yes: we can’t handle alcohol. All too quickly do we get tipsy and lose balance on our high heels. So the new beer has to be weak. With four percent of alcohol instead of the usual five, there’s a chance we will drink more than one bottle before having to resort to hot chocolate.

The next stage is glasses. Normal beer glasses are far too coarse for women. After all, we like elegant things, and secretly all still dream of being a princess.

The new glasses are slim and made of thin glass, so we can easily lift them with our weak arms.

But wait: wasn’t there something else that girls like? Yes...yes... (I am picturing them sitting at a long table, the Heineken men in their grey suits, racking their brains). And then there it was, the stroke of genius. The beer, of course, had to be pink! No girl in the whole wide world could ever resist anything that’s pink! And voila!

Its name is Wieckse Rosé. Like Wieckse Witte, it is a wheat beer, but with added sugar, fruit extracts and

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Beer and tears

maar sé’tje!

A plunge into the dive bars of yesterday.

BY JARO RENOUT, ILLUSTRATION BY YVO SPREY

drink beer too.

H GEHRKE

BY YVO SPREY

aroma. Thank you very much, Mr Beer! Finally, I can buy your products, too! I immediately submit myself to a taste test.

It is very pink, almost neon. The foam is pink too, which I like. But the first sip is weird. Girls’ beer tastes like wheat beer with lots of raspberry syrup in it.

Sweet, but it goes down quite well, I admit. Soon, I’ve opened a second bottle, feeling very feminine.

In school, my teacher once made a direct connection between long-term unemployment and the technical improvement of washing machines. His argument was that, before the invention of washing machines, women spent all their time doing the laundry. When washing machines were invented, all of a sudden women didn’t have anything to do anymore.

With all this time on their hands, they started thinking stupid thoughts like: ‘I would like to get a job.’ But there weren’t enough jobs for all men and all women, thus a large-scale social problem was created. I’m sure this teacher wouldn’t have liked us drinking beer, either— although he might not have minded so much if it was pink.

Pondering this, I take the last sip of the second bottle.

Halfway through the third, I start making plans.

Tomorrow, I will go into town to buy a ladyphone and a Shakira CD. Also, I will finally learn to cook. But first, I’ve got this test to complete.

Unfortunately, I feel a headache coming on, and things begin to change. The beer is tasting sweeter and sweeter with every sip. The pink foam starts looking slightly scary. The glass is sticky. I feel an urge to interrupt the experiment and go down the pub to have a pint of bitter and talk about football, or heavy metal. I also discard my plans for going shopping and cooking.

The last bottle of Wieckse Rosé remains undrunk.

Conclusion: It was a nice try, Mr Beer. But frankly, I wouldn’t consider your girls’ beer a complete success. I doubt that in the future, people will add a ‘Wieckse’ to their answer when asked to name an alcoholic beverage which is sweet, fruity, pink and comes in an elegant glass. Let me also give you a little piece of advice on the side: in case there are plans to expand your market to neighbouring countries, you should consider a change of name. In German, ‘Wieckse Rose’ translates as ‘pink sperm’. And that, surely, isn’t what a girl wants, is it?

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ike most major cities, Amsterdam is an onion.

It boasts several stinky layers of reality, and the deeper you dig, the more it makes you cry. But for those with a strong stomach and the uncontrollable urge to lick Mokum’s underbelly, there are lots of thorny roses to pluck.

The easiest way to reach the gut of the city is to put your boots on, and boldly walk into some of the most notorious dive dumps, sleaze shops and hell holes. And don’t worry. Many children of the night have preceded you...

The elusive Professor Nomad, for example; AKA Bartel Bartels, musician by choice and rock ’n’ roller by heart. Then there’s former enfant terrible, DJ Frankie D. Over a drink or two, we spend an evening pondering the more legendary places of (mostly) the past.

For those whose sizzled brain cells make them forget, 15 years ago there used to be consensus about getting sozzled: closing hours made it possible to stay open until morning—even if the licence said sleepy-bye. As long as you didn’t wreck the entire street or torture small animals you were pretty much left alone to enjoy your welldeserved refreshments.

‘You had this one place for quite some time, De Koophandel,’ Bartel remembers.

‘Everybody called it the “Coke Handel”. I had an apartment upstairs for a while, but I got kicked out. My guess is it had something to do with control of drugs in the area. I never indulged myself in cocaine or anything, so the finer motives were lost on me.’

For Frankie D, things were a bit different. ‘Good dope makes you wanna go beyond. I didn’t have any particular preference for where we’d get fucked up. It’s just where the road leads you, and that’s part of the fun. I’ve been

If Iggy Pop was a bar, he’d be De Diepte, the decrepit garage joint where low-fi dirty ass rock ’n’ roll and high profile alcohol abuse go mano á mano. The place was closed by the mayor recently, for breaking the rules about closing hours once too often. But owner Pjotr, who’s seen more illegal substances than Rotterdam’s harbour, was kindly given another chance.

De Diepte, Sint Pieterspoortsteeg 35, phone? What phone?

San Francisco is an old-school after-hours bar that opens when others close. And yes, it attracts that crowd. Nighthawks, Russian mobsters, pimps and prostitutes: San Francisco has it all. But make no mistake, the staff won’t tolerate any funny business. Believe us, they’ve

everywhere, man... San Francisco on Zeedijk springs to mind. Terrible. Lots of would-be criminals, but also some real tough motherfuckers in there. Great place.’

Bartel also remembers this bar’s (in)glory days: ‘André Manuel, the artist, pretended to be the doorman there one morning. Only he wouldn’t let people out. As if the world out there was a confined space we weren’t allowed into—so we were doomed to stay inside for all eternity.’

And for the next hour, Amsterdam’s shithole history flies across the bar: ‘Gaffa, owned by the Ekkel brothers who had a rock show on VPRO television.’

‘Yeah, and after that the Hell’s Angels had it.

It was called Slammer—now it’s De Diepte [see below]. There must be a voodoo curse on that spot I guess.’

‘Oh yeah, and the Winston Hotel: if you were a guest you could stay all night, so they issued hotel passes to regulars. In total, room numbers added up to over six hundred!’

The list went on. But the last round went to the epitome of trailer-trash ambition: The Last Bus Shelter. Bartel fills in the gaps: ‘It was situated in the east, on what we now call Azartplein. This was open space twenty-odd years ago, and a couple of English crusties made a café by cutting a bus in two equal parts, separating them a few metres and closing the top and sides with driftwood, thus creating a place big enough for a pool table and a stage. Bands would play there for pea soup, literally. But they would drive you there and back with a van, so hey! But one night the driver of the van drove straight into the water with an entire rock group plus equipment in the back. Everybody got out alive, much to the distress of the driver himself. He wanted to commit suicide...’

The five gates of hell for tonight seen it all. Chances are you won’t even get in...

San Francisco, Zeedijk 40, 623 2871.

Cut in two, Maloe Melo is a prizewinner. The back room is completely soundproof, and every artist of mythical proportions, living or dead, played there. Who? Let’s just say that Prince is the only one who didn’t show up. Throughout the years, the place changed addresses and even disappeared for a while, but you can’t keep a good bar down. Elvis haunts the space for personal entertainment.

Maloe Melo, Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592.

Legendary punk hang out The Minds is the place which every self-respecting hardcore band has demolished part of, meaning that the interior wreckorating is an international joint venture. When owner and professional drinker André took over the place ages ago, his disregard for closing hours and the law in general made him very popular amongst trash.

The Minds, Spuistraat 245, 623 6784.

Offkors: it’s Korsakoff. If The Minds is a hole in the wall, Korsakoff is a hole in the ground. Upstairs and downstairs, everything looks the part—if you’re into run down, dark Gothic scar-tissued discos, that is.

Note the cobwebs: they’re real.

Korsakoff, Lijnbaansgracht 161, 625 7854.

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SHORT LIST

Cornelius, Friday, Paradiso

THURSDAY 21JUNE

say innovation isn’t the point. But even if the evening breaks no new ground, the ground can still move under your feet. (Steve Schneider) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €35. Also 22 June.

Pop: Brian Wilson

Stage: Oerol Festival

In a time of inconceivable pop reunions—The Police, The Stooges, even, God help us, Cream—nothing surpasses the reunion of Brian Wilson. The sparkplug and songwriting genius of The Beach Boys, Wilson pretty much came apart while driving himself to better the Beatles with Smile, his follow-up disc to 1966’s still-brilliant Pet Sounds. The man who once did everything in the recording studio spent decades not doing much at all, beyond sparring with psychological glitches and the drugs that helped them along. Wilson’s gradual re-emergence since the mid1990s (most notably, 2004’s triumphant completion of Smile) has been great cause for joy, and now he seems intent on making up for lost time. Featuring a large band—including erstwhile Beach Boy Al Jardine—the show promises gaggles of hits (‘Good Vibrations’, ‘California Girls’, ‘God Only Knows’) in an evening whose musical rewards should easily surpass its nostalgic ones. A grand occasion. (Steve Schneider) Carré, 20.00, €39-€69.

This annual jamboree of music, art and spectacle theatre has already taken over the sand-duned island of Terschelling in the North Sea for the best part of ten days, and is set to continue until Sunday. With the whole island temporarily re-zoned as a podium and workshop, one cannot ask for an artier—or for that matter, more scenic—camping trip as salt air mixes with the temperaments of thousands of artists and art lovers as they glut themselves on hundreds of performances, sun and beer. And, with such absurdist heavyweights in the world of spectacle theatre as Vis à Vis, and such singular initiatives as Zomersprookjes, where glass shells on the beach tell tales from the sea, one cannot really imagine a better way to get away… See www.oerol.nl for the full scoop and transport details. (Steve Korver) Various locations in Terschelling, various times, pass €10 plus €2-€22/show. Until 24 June.

Jazz: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Wayne Shorter Quartet From Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue to Gunther Schuller’s Third Stream scores to Ornette Coleman’s Skies of America to [fill in any of the multitudinous others here], folks can’t stop mating classical music with jazz. The classicists envy jazz’s informality, freedom and irresistible rhythm, while the jazz community seem to covet the cultural authority that comes with a concert hall. Tonight will bring no fewer than four separate visions of jazz-classical synergy, when one of the world’s leading orchestras welcomes one of the world’s leading jazz virtuosos. For this Holland Festival event, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra commissioned works from a composer with a strong feel for jazz, Moritz Eggert, and from a fine local improviser who puts pen to music-paper, Guus Janssen; the first half will also feature the suite from Duke Ellington’s gorgeous Black, Brown and Beige, with orchestration by Maurice Peress. After the break, saxophone colossus Wayne Shorter will lead his quartet through original tunes adapted for full orchestra. The guys behind the gig

FRIDAY 22 JUNE Art: Mario Garcia Torres The stripped-down building of the Stedelijk Museum on Museumplein was recently infiltrated by a group of people led by Mexican artist Mario Garcia Torres and used as a stage for a run of performances. In a series of slides, we see them running and cycling through empty spaces, jumping against walls and lying on the floor. The new Torres work is exhibited in the Docking Station space at Stedelijk Museum CS, along with A Brief History of Jimmie Johnson’s Legacy. In this seven-minute video, a group of Mexican youngsters is setting a new record for visiting a museum, inspired by Godard’s 1964 film Bande á part. In his works, Torres usually references examples from conceptual art history as well as popular culture in order to tell his own stories.

Torres recently won the prestigious Cartier award at the Frieze Art Fair and his work is currently on display at the Venice Biennale. (Marinus de Ruiter) Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00). Until 29 July.

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Stage: Romeinse Tragedies Lovers of Shakespeare: this is your very last chance to catch a treat. As part of Holland Festival, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, under the directorship of Ivo van Hove, is performing Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies in the Stadsschouwburg. Not one; not two; but three plays: Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. And to top that off, they are all performed in one night. First up is Coriolanus, the leader who follows his own physical desires and disregards his people. Then comes Julius Caesar, the emperor who does the opposite and wins the love and respect of his friends, Romans and countrymen. And last but not least, Anthony and Cleopatra, the legendary lovers who are torn between their emotions and their responsibilities towards their countries. Mind, body and soul, all intertwined in a six-hour-long marathon of three tragedies presented as one play. There are no intermissions, but don’t worry, the doors stay open, so you can step out for a breath of fresh air, stay in and get a drink or even change seats if you like—an authentically Shakesperian way of experiencing drama.

(Shyama Daryanani) Stadsschouwburg 19.00, €39. Also 23 June.

Electronica: Cornelius In his latest albums Point and Sensuous, Cornelius is continuously looking for new ways of structuring pop music. By mixing instruments and vocals through the computer, he creates intricate, fragmented songs that are retro and futuristic at the same time. The live shows of the man who named himself after one of the characters in Planet of the Apes is in a category of its own. The remarkable visual gimmick at his previous gigs was a white screen, which displayed the silhouettes of the musicians.

In tune with the strange pop tunes, all kinds of visuals were projected on the screen, interacting with the shadows. Even more elaborate video trickery is expected on the current tour. Part multimedia show, art performance and music spectacle, a live gig

by Cornelius and his band is one of those events that push the boundaries of what a pop audience is used to. (Marinus de Ruiter) Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €15 + membership.

SATURDAY 23 JUNE Art: Open Ateliers Oud-West Walking through Amsterdam, you often get the feeling that you’re in a living, breathing art gallery. Tourists and residents alike marvel at the elegant mix of modern and classic architecture, gracefully spliced by the winding canals. It seems only natural, then, that various projects have emerged with the aim of incorporating the city’s innate appeal with traditional indoor art exhibitions. The latest enterprise in this hybrid crop is the Open Ateliers-Oud West expo, where more than 80 artists living and working in the area will open their workshops to the public. The open-air route will guide visitors along a promenade filled with the painters, photographers, sculptors and graffiti artists of this culturally rich buurt. Begin by taking in the central exhibition, which has information about all the participating artists, and allow your spirit and senses to lead you from there. See www.openateliersoudwest.nl for inspiration. (Stephanie Shewchuck) Various locations. Also 24 June.

Experimental: Volcanic Tongue Night Drone music meets free jazz tonight, with three acts related to Volcanic Tongue, the Glasgow-based record label, distribution channel and music store which was founded by music journalist David Keenan, together with Heather Leigh Murray and Alex Neilson.

Keenan improvises on saxophone to Neilson’s free-jazz style drumming in Tight Meat Duo. Leigh Murray, who used to be part of the ambient collective Charalambides, makes eerie, heavily distorted soundscapes with pedal steel, electronics and her own voice.

The night is closed with the droning vocal noise of James Ferraro and Spencer Clark, also known as The Skaters, whose CD-Rs and cassettes are distributed by Volcanic Tongue. The two Berlin-based Americans send ominous chants through sound effects, creating what can be described as a sonic equivalent to a demonic church service or a Hare Krishna session after a nervous breakdown. (Marinus de Ruiter) OCCII, 21.30, €5.

WEDNESDAY 27JUNE Rock: Gossip There are some bands that seem so indie they become caricatures of the scene they represent. Others epitomise what good indie music should do. And good indie music should make you shake your ass while cleverly borrowing sounds from the past, which is exactly what Beth, Brace and Hannah from Gossip do. At its core, Gossip make disco music, finished off with flashes of rock, trance and indie. The bass is king, placed higher in the mix than any other instrument—as disco instructs—and the choruses are booming, booty-shaking affairs. The trio have become impressively popular in the UK with their full length Standing in the Way of Control and a slew of dance singles and 12-inches. They are so popular that, in addition to being emblazoned on billboards across London, most clubs play their stuff within the first few minutes of turning on the PA. This show will prove to be a great, sweaty workout.

(Shain Shapiro) Melkweg, The Max, 19.30, €13 + membership.

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Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, see Tuesday

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Thursday 21June Festival: Feest der Muziek An international celebration of all things musical. For one day only, musicians of all ages will bring pop, folk, jazz and world music to the streets and squares of De Pijp. From afternoon till night, there will be around 50 separate concerts taking place, so just wander till you hear something that makes your ears prick up. De Pijp, 15.30, free Opera: Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena Opera heads to the waterfront as part of the Opera aan het IJ festival. Inspired by the characters of Cervantes’ famed novel, this comic opera by Francesco Conti focuses, in an almost Shakespearian fashion, on four young people as they struggle with love. Scheepvaartmuseum, 19.30, €45/€60 Pop: Brian Wilson The master of multi-part harmonyplays Holland Festival. See Short List. Carré, 20.00, €39-€69 Rock: Lou Reed This New York songwriting icon typically spends as much time looking forward as looking back when he heads out on tour. This show is a bit special, however, as it sees him performing his 1973 solo album Berlin in full, complete with a huge ensemble comprising string and horn sections and a children’s choir. Grossly maligned at the time of its release, it’s only now being brought to life as originally intended. Heineken Music Hall, 20.00, €56.50-€69.50 Jazz: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Wayne Shorter Quartet Living legend plus world premieres of orchestral compositions by Eggert and Janssen. See Short List. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €35 Opera: Anna Caterina Antonacci Star soprano Anna Maria Antonacci sings solo madrigals from the Italian baroque in the setting of a theatrical concert, all with help from Les Solistes du Cercle de l’Harmonie and a host of top notch string players. Muziekgebouw, 20.30, €35 Soul: Daughters Of Soul Quite literally who their name implies, this group features the female offspring of Nina Simone, Donny Hathaway, Chaka Khan and soul pioneers George and Gwen McCrae. So look out for that classic passion burning through old hits, as well as some more modern sounding material. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 21.00, €20 + membership Pop/Rock: Grote Prijs Showcase Featuring Only Seven Left, Kings of the Day, 21 Eyes of Ruby, Monstertrux and Szygy. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Jazz: Holland Big Band It’s already been five years but this boisterous bunch are just getting around to releasing their debut album Happy House. Led by trumpeter Loet van der Lee, the collection features twelve original compositions by him, with their repertoire stretching from the classic swinging big band sound to more modern arrangements. Bimhuis, 21.00, €14

Pájaro Sunrise Pop/Rock: Pájaro Sunrise A warm and sunny mix of folk, pop and rock all the way from Spain. Sugar Factory, 21.00, €7.50 Singer-songwriter: Kat Leese New Zealander turned Den Haag resident. Skek, 21.30, free World: Orville Caribbean crossover, touching on jazz, pop, rock and soul. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 22.45, €7 + membership

Friday 22 June Festival: Koorbiennale Embracing the choral world in all its diverse and wonderful forms. Until 30 June there are a host of memorable performances lined up, along with a bold programme of choir workshops, projects and masterclasses. See www.koorbiennale.nl.

Various locations, times and prices, Haarlem

Philip Glass Ensemble Contemporary: Philip Glass Ensemble Performing Music in 12 Parts, composer Philip Glass’ longest and most ambitious work, written for his own ensemble.

The song cycle was started in May 1971 and completed in April 1974, and normally requires three concerts to be performed in its entirety. Instead, tonight’s single session will stretch to almost five hours, so pack an inflatable neck rest. Het Muziektheater, 18.30, €50 Rock: Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Noisy American indie rockers. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.00, €9 + membership Opera: Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena (See Thursday) Scheepvaartmuseum, 19.30, €45/€60 Jazz: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Wayne Shorter Quartet (See Thursday) Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €35 Electronica: Cornelius Experimental electronic folk pop from the acclaimed Japanese enigma. See Short List. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €15 + membership Rock: Dark Water Club Meander, 20.30, €5 Hiphop/Jazz: Guru’s Jazzmatazz A hiphop star and member of New York duo Gang Starr, Guru is regarded

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Eric Borrias as Jules Schelvis.

For the first time in 65 years, the theatredeportation-centre puts on a play, based on a Holocaust survivor’s experience.

SCHOUWBURG REVISITS GRIM PAST STAGE Binnen de poorten Hollandsche Schouwburg, 22 June, 18.00, free 06 4705 6349 for reservations

By Marie-Claire Melzer

The exact date is unknown, but it must have been around June 1942 that the last public performance took place in the Hollandsche Schouwburg. In July of that year, the Nazis confiscated the building to use it as a departure point for deporting Jews to concentration camps in Eastern Europe.

In 1962, the former theatre was made into a memorial site. A permanent exhibition commemorates the dark history of the building. No violence is shown, no screaming can be heard—in fact no sound at all—yet walking through the building is a quite horrible experience.

Maybe what makes it so unsettling is that everything seems so normal. For example, behind glass is what looks like an ordinary looking form, but closer inspection reveals that it is to declare that a person is of Arische afkomst, a customary accompaniment to a job application at the time. Or you see a passport with a big ‘J’ stamped over it. Then there is footage of a wedding. A very normal wedding, except that no one is smiling. And all the guests are wearing stars. The film shows the wedding of Rosa Wertheim and Jim de Zwarte in the Nieuwe Synagogue on 7 June, 1942. Wertheim was murdered in Auschwitz on 15 December that same year. De Zwarte was murdered in Auschwitz on 28 February, 1943.

More than 33,000 Jewish people were deported from the Netherlands to Sobibor, an extermination camp in Poland.

Only 18 of them survived. (In total 250,000

people from all over Europe were sent to the camp, of which only 47 returned).

Jules Schelvis, born in 1921, is one of the few people who came back. On 25 May 1943, Schelvis and his wife Rachel were caught in a riot in Amsterdam and taken to Westerbork; from there, they were transported to Sobibor. On arrival, Schelvis and his wife were separated and he would never see her again. Rachel was sent to the gas chambers, while Schelvis was selected for work in the SS camp Dorohucza. He had been in several camps before being liberated on 8 April, 1945 from an Erholungslager, a so-called ‘recovery camp’ in Vaihingen, Germany.

Schelvis returned to Amsterdam. He had lost every member of his family, except for his mother and sister. In 1946, he remarried and decided to leave the past behind him. For years and years he didn’t speak about his experiences during the war. Until 1973, when an editor from Het Vrije Volk, where Schelvis was working at the time, wanted to interview him about Sobibor. Schelvis agreed to be interviewed, as he realised how little was known about the camp. He also realised that he was one of the very few people left to talk about it.

After he retired, Schelvis started writing about his war experiences, which resulted in the 1982 book Binnen de poorten. In 1993, he published Vernietigingskamp Sobibor, a scientific work about the concentration camp. This book led to growing public interest in the death camp, which in turn made Schelvis form Stichting Sobibor in 1999. In 1995, theatre director Gerard Evers turned Binnen de poorten into a play and, in 2000, into a solo performance for actor/storyteller Eric Borrias who, after a very long and successful run, has decided to call it quits. For his very last performance of this piece, Stichting Sobibor chose the location of the Hollandsche Schouwburg.

Stichting Sobibor’s Alwyn Kapitein explains: ‘We thought it would be an appropriate location, and the Hollandsche Schouwburg agreed. When the Schouwburg was turned into a memorial site, the [charity committee] decided that it should never be a place of entertainment again. But this piece is not for entertainment: it has a mainly memorial and perhaps an educational function. The play is a one-man performance. Eric Borias is impersonating several different characters besides Schelvis, while also telling the story. For the unspeakable parts, there is music—mostly traditional Yiddish music, selected and arranged by Kees Swenne. In the audience, we mainly expect people who have a connection with Sobibor. It will be emotional. Many elderly people may have lost relatives; some may have been at the Schouwburg themselves during occupation. Jules Schelvis will be present and say a few words. And we hope Job Cohen will come. We have to start early, as we have to stop before sunset, because of the Sabbath. Therefore, we cannot organise an official talk about the play afterwards, but anyone should feel free to join us later in a cafe.’

To make a donation, see www.stichtingsobibor.nl.

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Patronaat, Haarlem, 20.30, €18.50 Tango: Orquesta Típica Fernández Fierro Dramatic tango rock from Buenos Aires as Amsterdam Roots Festival meets Tangomagia. With this line-up, the ensemble may seem a traditional tango orchestra. But their rough and dramatic performances are ultimate proof that tango can rock too. KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €25 World: Amsterdam Roots Festival 2007 A Latin American crossover adventure with Caribbean flavours and some unpredictable world grooves thrown in for good measure. Performing throughout Melkweg’s rooms tonight are: Manolito y su Trabuco (Cuba), Africando (West Africa/France), Yerba Buena (New York), Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective (Belize) and Miguel Osorio & Parranda Vallenata (Colombia). Melkweg, 21.00, €30 Rock: Heavy Trash Rock ’n’ roll and eclectic guitar work from the noisy minds of blues psycho Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray of Madder Rose. Support from The Bloody Honkies, The Sgeurvreters and Trio Gastones. Patronaat, Haarlem, 21.00, €12.50 Ska: The Slackers Established New York ska troupe.

P60, Amstelveen, 21.00, €13 Soul: The Souldiers Young eight-piece formation playing classic soul, New Orleans funk, folk and R&B. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Singer-songwriter: John Spijker Skek, 21.30, free Jazz: N.O.H.A. Short for Noise Of Human Art, this cosmopolitan band from Germany specialise in modern dance jazz, mixing up club grooves with jazz experimentalism. Sugar Factory, 21.30, €15 Rock: PV and the Heartbeats Rockabilly runs wild.

Maloe Melo, 22.00, €5 Jazz: State Of Monc A hybrid set of jazz and electronica. Badcuyp, Bovenzaal, 22.30, €8 Electronica: Beetje Jammer A Ketacore Records special featuring sets from B.Slave vs Capslock, Peter Quistgard, Pisstank (UK), Pornologic, Gameboys A Gogo, FFF and DJ MC Fluffy Bunny. Paying patrons also receive a free CD sampler with tracks by all performers. OCCII, 23.00-04.00, €6

Saturday 23 June Festival: Koorbiennale (See Friday) Haarlem, various locations, times and prices.

Opera: Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena (See Thursday) Scheepvaartmuseum, 19.30, €45/€60 Opera: Doctor Atomic Minimalist opera by American composer John Adams about the latter stages of WWII. Set in the desert of New Mexico, a group of brilliant physicists are hit by a moral crisis in the hours before the test explosion of their newly developed atomic bomb. Het Muziektheater, 20.00, €20-€85 Classical: Vocaal Ensemble Frascanti Performing works by Charpentier, Couperin, Rameau, Schütz and others. English Reformed Church, 20.15, €7.50

21-27 June 2007 World: Amsterdam Roots Festival 2007 More dance-friendly grooves ranging from Afropop to Eastern European folk. Diverse artists performing tonight include Dobet Gnahoré (Ivory Coast), Manu Dibango & The Soul Makossa Gang (Cameroon), Mahala Raï Banda (Romania), Besh o droM (Hungary) and Netsayi (UK/Zimbabwe). Melkweg, 21.00, €30 Pop/Rock: Grote Prijs Showcase Featuring Clueless, Try Drowning, Doll House Drama and The Dolls. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Experimental: Volcanic Tongue Night Drone rock from The Skaters (US), pedal steel psychedelia from Heather Leigh Murray (Scotland) and free jazz from Tight Meat Duo (Scotland). See Short List. OCCII, 21.30, €5

Sunday 24 June Festival: Koorbiennale (See Friday) Various locations, times and prices, Haarlem Festival: Amsterdamse Muziekscholen Prijs Thirteen bands of differing styles and ages take to the big stage in the final of this annual music school contest.

Bimhuis, 12.00, 15.00, €4 per session, €5 for both Jazz: History of Music Sets from Yaso, Geert Chatrou, Duo Mellema & Van Klaveren, Ocobar and the Starvinsky Orkestar with Fay Lovski. Vondelpark Openluchttheater, 14.00, free Festival: Vrienden van Goyume Hippie Style Mini Festival Peace and love on the bridge over Admiralengracht at Jan Evertsenstraat. With live performances from Pascal Meyer (pianist/DJ) & Tine Deckers, Eleven 20 One, Luke & Juke Jumpers (funky rhythm & blues), ISH, Anne Chris (Latin jazz), GRIPP (rap) and Dreadnoughts (reggae). Admiralengracht, 14.00, free Classical: Carte Blanche Reünie Famous Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink leads this magnificent matinee performance of Debussy’s Pelléas et Melisande, with the music provided by Orchestre National de France and Choeur de Radio France. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 14.15, €105/€125 World: Groene Blaadjes Five-piece ensemble specialising in the sounds of Romania. Claes Claeszhofje, 15.00, free Classical: Vocaal Ensemble Frascanti (See Saturday) English Reformed Church, 15.15, €7.50 Reggae: Morgan Heritage Contemporary Jamaican reggae. Support from Irie Love & Laza. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 19.30, €20 + membership Singer-songwriter: Damien Rice His rise to fame was certainly slow burning, and in recent years this Irish songwriting star has certainly provided plenty of memorable nights at Paradiso. But tonight Rice moves up a gear, taking his acoustic folky sound—which seems to lend itself so perfectly to TV and film soundtracks—to the HMH cavern. Although, he may opt to take a rockier jam route for this performance, as sometimes happens. And, with vocal collaborator Lisa Hannigan now out of the picture, you never fully know what each show will bring—maybe even a full visual production, in contrast to the almost completely dark shows of old. Heineken Music Hall, 20.00, €36-€42 Rock: Sideburns Stomp Raw rock ’n’ roll and punk from STD, The Lobotomies and The Cunts. Winston Kingdom, 21.00, €5 Classical: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest & Edita Gruberova The Holland Festival comes to a close in spectacular style with Slovakian soprano Edita Gruberova performing memorable arias with the Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra, including ‘Casta Diva’ from Bellini’s Norma. Conducted by Ralf Weikert. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 21.30, €50/€60

Monday 25 June Festival: Koorbiennale (See Friday) Haarlem, various locations, times and prices.

Opera: Doctor Atomic (See Saturday) Het Muziektheater, 20.00, €20-€85 Aynur World: Amsterdam Roots Festival 2007: Aynur The young Kurdish female singer Aynur enchants the listener with her startling and dramatic voice. She sings both Kurdish songs along with jazz and pop improvisations, and is sometimes even accompanied by disco beats. Support from the Turkish modern improv outfit Gevende. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €20 World: Otros Aires Amsterdam Roots Festival meets Tangomagia as these Argentinians unleash their unique brand of ‘electrotango’ comprised of breakbeats, scratching and milonga. KIT Tropentheater, 20.30, €25

Pop/Rock: Ghosts One of the most hotly tipped bands in the UK this year, this English indie pop outfit are all about melody before noise, with a sound that’s reminiscent of ’70s and ’80s pop. Their debut album The World Is Outside was just made available a couple of weeks back, so let’s see if the hype sticks. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 20.00, €8 + membership Punk: Against Me! Power chords a-go-go as these Floridian punkers tear up Amsterdam with contrasting waves of angst and folk humour. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 20.30, €10 + membership Hiphop: Clipse Virginian hiphop duo in town in support of their much delayed second album Hell Hath No Fury. Melkweg, The Max, 21.00, €24 + membership

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Tuesday 26 June Festival: Koorbiennale (See Friday) Haarlem, various locations, times and prices.

Opera: Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena (See Thursday) Scheepvaartmuseum, 19.30, €45/€60 Punk: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes Something of a Californian punk supergroup featuring members of $wingin’ Utter$, Lagwagon, NOFX and Foo Fighters, this band of fools play it for fun without the slightest hint of punk pretension. As such they exist as a playful punk covers band with a particular affection for the ’60s and ’70s, although their most recent album was focussed on country & western covers, tackling the likes of Dixie Chicks, Garth Brooks and Johnny Cash.

Melkweg, The Max, 20.00, sold out Pop: Joan as Police Woman A hot, spunky woman with attitude and a former classical violinist, Joan Wasser discovered the magic of distortion peddles and a new indie-rocker was born. With her soulful voice that begins soft and jazzy before building into a passionate explosion, she rapidly became a buzz artist. In fact, it’s not that long since she was restricted to the Kleine Zaal. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €15 + membership Percussion: Extra Action Marching Band Percussive and horny chaos as these San Franciscan marchers pay a visit to OCCII, and quite possibly the surrounding streets. It’s not only the Americans who know how to reclaim the marching band scene, however, as also billed are colourful local street orchestra Fanfare v/d 1e Liefdesnacht. OCCII, 21.00, €5

Wednesday 27 June Festival: Koorbiennale (See Friday) Haarlem, various locations, times and prices.

Singer-songwriter: Justin Nozuka Soulful acoustic performer from Toronto. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.00, €8 + membership Rock: Gossip Storming live band and powerful punk soul trio. See Short List. Melkweg, The Max, 19.30, €13 + membership

Doctor Atomic Opera: Doctor Atomic (See Saturday) Het Muziektheater, 20.00, €20-€85 Pop: James Morrison Adult soul-pop heads to the park. Westerpark, 20.00, €36 Rock: Meat Loaf Rock opera theatrics as the Bat Out of Hell returns to Dutch shores. Heineken Music Hall, 20.00, sold out Classical: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Mariss Jansons conducts while special guest tonight is Japanese-born pianist Mitsuko Uchida. Expect spectacular performances of Wagner’s Overture to Tannhäuser, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.25, and Brahms’ First Symphony. Concertgebouw, Grote Zaal, 20.15, €57.50 Rock: Dinosaur Jr Roll back to the late ’80s because the Dinosaur is back in town. Following a reunion between J Mascis and Lou Barlow a couple of years ago, creativity was born from nostalgia, and early this year they released an album of new material titled Beyond. It’s surprisingly decent, though don’t expect anything drastically different from that trademark Dinosaur Jr guitar fuzz and slacker drawl. Paradiso, Grote Zaal, 20.30, €17.50 + membership Jazz: Brokkenavond Corrie van Binsbergen’s monthly programme where anything can happen. Tonight’s line-ups feature Trio Olthuis/van Veenendaal/van Binsbergen; Andy Bruce and the Rigidly Righteous; and Frédérique Spigt with Jan v/d Meij, Hein Offermans and Gwen Cresens. Zaal 100, 21.00, €5 Rock: DAWA Records Roadshow Guitar rock from S.C.A.R., A Day’s Work and Clayborn. Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 21.00, €5 Punk: Gehakdag Scare away those Wednesday worries with Frightning Fiction, Outlive and FFF. Maloe Melo, 21.15, €5

CLUBS Thursday 21June Pony vs Donkey Kong With Wannabeastar and Sanyi also battling in the bar. Flex Bar, 22.00-04.00, €5 Rush 3000 With the Rush DJs. Cineac, 22.00-late, €10 Poptrash Three decades’ worth of rock, electro and hiphop with The Punchout DJs. Melkweg, The Max, 23.00-late, €5 PROPAGANDA! A night to head east for the best Balkan beats, Russian disko, mestizo and whatever mood takes the DJ team of Tommi, Pizdabolkin and Gusztav. Melkweg, Oude Zaal, 23.00-late, €5 + membership

Friday 22 June ¿Que Pasa? You may have thought it had departed, but ¿Que Pasa? is back, this time for some Amsterdam Roots and Putumayo World Party fun. So you can expect a night full of Afro-Latin and Caribbean flavoured tunes. Melkweg, 01.00-late, €7 Off Roots Afro-Latino grooves from DJ Gringo. Leidseplein, 22.00, free DJ Kinky Peter Green From Japanese jive to mariachi melodrama. And if you’re quiet and behave you might even get a surf rock extravaganza from Los Tiki Boys. Pacific Parc, 22.00-03.00, free Binnenwereld A new place to show off for talented Amsterdam musicians, filmmakers and DJs. Live performers tonight include Sam van Gool and Valerius.

Club 8, 22.00-04.00, €6 Crosstown Rebels North versus south? Or just cutting edge underground dance tunes? Tonight’s guests include Pier Bucci of the Crosstown Rebels (Santiago de Chile/Berlin) performing live, plus DJs Damian Lazarus (London) and Radar. 11, 22.30-04.00, €12

house thrown in. Support comes from Shinedoe, Tony Boogs and 2000 and One. Studio 80, 23.00-06.00, €10 Labyrint Worldly grooves and groundbreaking international noise from State Of Bengal (London), DJ Yakuza (Istanbul), Ado, Vitamin K and Joosd & Roderik Flohil.

Paradiso, 23.30-04.00, €12.50

Sunday 24 June T-Dansant Summer Edition Celebrating the year’s longest (and hopefully sunniest) Sunday with twelve hours’ worth of beats. And beats, and beats.

Alongside T-Dansant residents, house legends Kevin Saunderson and Robert Owens are gonna come over to rock the beach. Blijburg, (12.00-0.00), €18 Cheeky Monday A jungle and drum & bass night featuring players from the local and international scenes.

Winston Kingdom, 22.00-03.00, €6 WickedJazzSounds Jazz, hiphop, broken beats, nujazz, funk and Afro sounds, as classic vinyl collides with live musicians. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8.50

Monday 25 June Club 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. DJs Kareem Raïhani and mps PILOT will take care of the eclectic non-performance segments. Sugar Factory, 23.00-02.00, €7

Wednesday 27 June Rub-a-Dub Minimum requirements: reggae and dub.

With Dub Tuan (Covenant Soundsystem) and guests.

Winston Kingdom, 21.00-03.00, €5

Creations Playing god with Mavado, Wayne Marshall and Busy Signal live on stage, plus DJs Pittyless and Cliffhanger. The Powerzone, 23.00-05.00, €22.50

GAY& LESBIAN

PILOT’s playground An international roots voyage with mps PILOT and Future World Funk. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €10

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Go!Crunc With Lucien Foort, Fedor Limjoco, La Nina, Leon Benesty, Skez and many more. Panama, 23.0004.00, €15

Kindred Spirits Afrobeat Special Following the live show by Dele Sosimi and the Afrobeat Orchestra at 22.00, Kindred Spirits kicks in with their mix of soul and jazz, Latin and funk, boogie and disco, hiphop, Brazilian and Afrobeat, soulful house and whatever other music exists on this planet. Paradiso, 23.59-05.00, €10

Saturday 23 June Gemengd Zwemmen Two rooms of swimmingly diverse noise that are so vain, I bet they think these Balkan Beatz are about them. Clock your rocks off to Russian disco, ska, mestizo, polkastomp, celtic folk, yodelmetal, Arabian carnival and reggaeton. Melkweg, 01.00-late, €8 Solstice Festival Thirty-two hours of psychedelic trance, with DJs pulling in from all over the world.

Expect food, drink, camping (if you bring a tent) and even somewhere to park the kids. Ruigoord, 16.00, €25 Fat Black Pussycat Eclectic soul and dance grooves from special guests like American DJs Derrick Carter, Darrin Lennel Boldon and Shaheer Williams. Hotel Arena, 22.00-04.00, €20 Fightclub With the first rule being not to mention the French and Belgian spinning talents. Flex Bar, 22.0005.00, €8 Twisted Arthouse Innovating the club scene with art, house and catchy visuals. Odeon, 22.00-05.00, €15 Dirty Dancing Will you have the time of your life? With DJs Karbonkid, Havok and Kriktonite. Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina, 22.00-late, €5 Pixel With Alex Smoke (Glasgow), Marcelo Umaña (Santiago de Chile, Amsterdam) and Carlos Valdes.

11, 22.30-04.00, €12 Black Disco Bust Turning Portuguese and going disco crazy with Tiago, D-Mars and San Proper. Sugar Factory, 23.00-05.00, €8 Inmotion A live set by Berlin’s own Tobias Freund will supply some funky vibes with a bit of old skool ’90s

Happy hour: After Shopping Cocktail Sale Cocktails €5: everything must go! PRIK, 19.00-22.00,

Friday 22 June Club: Artlaunch Summer Edition It’s summer. Some people go camping, some people go sunbathing, some people go disco dancing. The hottest instalment of Club ArtLaunch features Eva Maria, Louis Guilliaume and Trashling in the big room, and Taktakshitandtoiletpaper in the second room. Studio 80, 23.00-05.00, €7

Saturday 23 June Club: Unk DJ Lupe’s mixed gay-straight-cool club for handsome hunky punky junkies. Club 8, 22.00-05.00, €8

Sunday 24 June Club: Garbo Greta is go! Once-a-month women-only club session, augmented by Indonesian buffet. Exit, 16.00-22.00, €4.50

Tuesday 26 June Film: Movie Night Camp TV spin-off madness with Theo&Thea en de ontmaskering van het tenenkaasimperium. PRIK, 19.00, free

Wednesday 27 June Club: Bückstück - brutale Musik. Tonight is devoted to a special band. They’re playing in Westerpark on American Independence Day, they act like they’re cool but really they sound like Elton John. Yes, it’s Scissors Sister night! PRIK, 21.00, free Club: F*cking POP Queers Manga, Kmart, Claudette and De Draaivriendinnen work the dancefloor. Studio 80, 22.00-05.00, free before 00.00, €5 after

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NOORD WILHELMINA-DOK, Gedempte Insteekhaven, (Daily 11.00-0.00).

Sun hours: 11.00-sunset The backdrop: Relaxed, because the terrace is so huge that everyone’s sure to get a table.

Special feature: They do High Tea! (On reservation). And their broodjes are large, lekker, and low-price.

After sunset: Run! Catch the last ferry!

WEST TIG BARRA, Overtoom 31, (SunThur 11.00-01.00; Fri, Sat 11.00-03.00).

Sun hours: 16.00-20.00 The backdrop: The one nice Irish bar in town, where top-cuisinier Craig is always happy to cook up a delicious meal.

Special feature: Their large base of regular customers consists almosts entirely of mad Englishmen who are always highly entertaining.

After sunset: Go inside, drink more.

On a badass day, make the trip to Leidseplein—and fear tomorrow.

JORDAAN CAFÉ TABAC, Brouwersgracht 101, (Sun, Mon 11.00-01.00; TueThur 16.00-01.00; Fri 16.00-03.00; Sat 11.00-03.00).

Sun hours: 15.00-sunset The backdrop: They’ve got this special terrace thing where you can sit on huge cushions on their kitchen roof feeling very cool and superior to everyone who cycles by.

Special feature: Mojitos (see article, p. 6). Dim Sum. (Often excellent) music.

After sunset: Do a pub crawl through the Jordaan.

AMSTEL AMSTELHAVEN, Mauritskade 1, (Mon-Thur 11.00-01.00; Fri, Sat 11.00-03.00).

Sun hours: 11.00-21.00 The backdrop: Floating terrace next to the Amstel Hotel. Never mind the kakkers that hang out there, this location rocks.

Special feature: People lucky enough to have a boat can drop anchor here and get served in situ.

After sunset: You’ll hopefully have chatted up someone with a boat by now.

NOORDERLICHTCAFE, Neveritaweg 33, (Sun-Thu 11.00-01.00; Fri, Sat 11.00-3.00).

Sun hours: 12.00-21.00 The backdrop: Soak up the sun and some industrial romance proper—the café located on NDSM-werf.

Special feature: The vertigoimmune can take their drinks over to the high lock-door of the old dry-dock.

After sunset: Regular parties, theatre performances and more at NDSM.

OT EN SIEN, Buiksloterweg 27, (Sun-Thur 12.00-01.00; Fri, Sat 12.00-03.00).

Sun hours: 11.00-20.00 The backdrop: A bruiner-thanbruin café. The big terrace at the back gets sun all day.

Special feature: Although they normally don’t do food, they’ve held special theme nights like, for example, fondue evening.

After sunset: Go inside and try some of their many special beers.

CAFFE OSLO, Sloterkade 1a, (Sun-Thur 09.00-1.00; Fri, Sat 09.00-03.00).

Sun hours: 10.00-15.00 The backdrop: Newish bar at the bottom end of Overtoom.

Special feature: Really nice terrace where you can sit on cushions in the windowsills.

After sunset: No worries—they’ve got outdoor heaters.

SOUNDGARDEN, Marnixstraat 164-6, (Mon-Thur 13.00-01.00, Fri 13.00-03.00, Sat 15.00-03.00, Sun 15.00-01.00).

Sun hours: 13.00-19.00 The backdrop: While indoors is a typical dive bar (see p. 7), outdoors has a surprisingly lovely terrace on a canal.

Special feature: Raaawk!

Unspecial feature: washrooms.

After sunset: Go inside and make use of one of the city’s rare tablefootball games. Then raaaawk.

SPANJER & VAN TWIST, Leliegracht 60, (Daily 10.0001.00).

Sun hours: 10.00-19.00 The backdrop: Cute little restaurant with good organic food.

Special feature: Their terrace is directly by the water, below street level.

After sunset: It’s nice here when it’s dark, too.

SMALL WORLD, Binnen Oranjestraat 14, (Tue-Sat 10.30-20.00; Sun 12.00-20.00).

Sun hours: 13.00-16.00 The backdrop: Australian deli with food that’s worth fighting for the one table.

Special feature: Their homemade vegetarian salads are great.

After sunset: Do another pub crawl in the Jordaan.

IJSBREKER, Weesperzijde 23, (Sun-Thur 10.00-01.00; Fri, Sat 10.00-03.00).

Sun hours: 09.00-17.00 The backdrop: Large, beautiful terrace by the river.

Special feature: Their broodje kip-bacon is highly recommended.

After sunset: Take a romantic walk along the riverside. Or go over to De Pijp and get drunk.

OOST BOOM, Linnaeusstraat 63, (TueSun 12.00-01.00, Mon 17.00-01.00).

Sun hours: 12.00-17.00/18.0020.00 The backdrop: This is the loveliest terrace in town. Lovely setting.

Lovely staff. Lovely customers.

Special feature: Lots of flowers on their terrace to add to the loveliness. And the food is really lovely, too. And if it’s full, you can always go to the lovely East of Eden at No.11.

After sunset: On Mondays, they show lovely films on a big screen.

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BROUWERIJ ’T IJ, Funenkade 7, (Wed-Sun 15.00-20.00).

Sun hours: 12.00-17.00 The backdrop: The town’s very own brewery and bar are located next to a windmill. Though that may sound idyllic, the terrace is actually surrounded by busy roads and offers a direct view of the local Texaco.

Special feature: Their famous beers are quite something compared to the standard flat fluitje.

After sunset: You’ll be long gone, as they close at 20.00.

DE PIJP BLOEMERS, Hemonystraat 70, (Mon-Thur 10.00-01.00; Fri, Sat 10.00-02.00).

Sun hours: 10.00-18.00 The backdrop: Sweet little terrace in De Pijp, with swing seats.

Special feature: Chocolate fondue!

After sunset: Try to walk in a straight line after all that swinging and eating of oozy chocolate.

L’AFFICHE, Jakob van Lennepstraat 39, (Sun-Fri 12.00-01.00; Fri, Sat 12.00-03.00).

Sun hours: 12.00-21.00 The backdrop: One of the most beautiful canalside terraces in town.

Special feature: Every Friday there’s tapas, and apparently their tostis are the best-kept secret in town.

After sunset: Do the pub quiz.

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CENTRUM 11, Oosterdokskade 5, (Daily 11.00-late).

Sun hours: all day.

The backdrop: Situated on the 12th floor (ie the roof) by the IJ, this terrace offers the best view in town—and sun all day.

Special feature: They’ve got bean bags. They’ve got mini-swimming pools. In short—they’re funky.

After sunset: Go clubbin’, one floor down.

MUZIEKGEBOUW AAN ’T IJ, Piet Heinkade 1, (Daily 10.0001.00).

Sun hours: all day.

The backdrop: Another brilliant view, this time across the IJ. Special feature: You can actually bring your own food and drinks.

After sunset: Go and see a concert, obviously.

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CAFÉ STEVENS, Geldersekade 123, (Sun-Thur 10.00-1.00; Fri, Sat 10.00-03.00).

Sun hours: 14.00-19.00 The backdrop: Nieuwmarkt offers the perfect opportunity to catch sun all day long, as one side of it gets the sunshine in the morning, and the other side in the afternoon.

Special feature: Excellent people-watching spot.

After sunset: There’s a lot to choose from in the area.

DE JAREN, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 20-22, (Sun-Thur 10.00-01.00; Fri, Sat 10.00-02.00).

Sun hours: 10.00-17.00 The backdrop: Time-honoured grand café with ridiculously high ceilings and a beautiful terrace by the water.

Special feature: They supply for every need, from international newspapers to big time-gezelligheid. And they’ve just started to do fresh smoothies.

After sunset: Well, you’re in the city centre, so there’s plenty of choice.

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ONASSIS, Westerdoksdijk 40, (Mon-Thur 12.00-01.00; Fri-Sat 12.00-03.00).

Sun hours: all day.

The backdrop: Trendy café/restaurant/club with a super view over the IJ. Special feature: Great poshed-up food.

After sunset: People watching of people who like to be watched.

VONDELPARK ’T BLAUWE THEEHUIS, Vondelpark, (Sun-Thur 09.0023.00; Fri, Sat 09.00-01.00).

Sun hours: all day.

The backdrop: Multi-storey terrace in the midst of Vondelpark.

Special feature: On a perfect park day, everybody you know in this town will probably be here— or at Vertigo, a few metres away.

After sunset: Stay. They’ve got torches!

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Forsythe, see Ongoing

NDSM-werf, (Mon-Wed 21.30), €7.50

STAGE Opening Theatre: Pontiac Hotel A woman is stranded in a hotel, trying to get her head around the crazy outside world in this monologue patched together from various existing texts. In Dutch. De Brakke Grond, (Thur 20.30), €7.50 Theatre: Zomergasten Seven students take on Gorky’s play, which is set shortly before the Russian revolution and depicts a group of privileged members of the intelligentsia, who retreat to a country house for discussions, poem writing, walks, love declarations and general playing around. In Dutch. Frascati, (Fri 16.00, 20.00), €11 Dance: Vondelpark Openluchttheater Performances

by Bodies Anonymous and Leine & Roebana. Vondelpark Openluchttheater, (Fri 20.30), free Dance: New Moves: Choreografieworkshop 2007 An outlet for creative spirits: this aptly describes the Dutch National Ballet’s annual choreographic workshop entitled New Moves, a reference to the dancemakers of the future who showcase themselves in this event. Once again, this season’s Dutch National Ballet dancers and potential choreographers from outside the company have the opportunity to create their own work and present this to the public in a few small-scale performances. Het Muziektheater, (Fri, Sat 20.15, Sat also 14.00), €15 Theatre: Eucharisto! A theatre collage about being grateful for the little things in life that are nice, Eucharisto is a Greek expression meaning ‘thank you’.

However, there’s always a downside, so some death and sadness will be dealt with, too. In Dutch. Frascati, (Sat 14.00, 19.00), €11 Dance: Local Time Het Kabinet Danst take dance concepts to public spaces this weekend, including Beukenplein, Muiderpoort, Oosterpark and Iepenplein.

Simply head to Hotel Arena first and you’ll find out what’s happening where and when. Hotel Arena, (Sat 19.30, Sun 14.30), free Performance: The Lobster Shop In this multidisciplinary performance by Jan Lauwers and Needcompany, small and large tragedies, surreal and realistic situations, reality and fiction, theatre, dance and music are all blended together. The story follows Axel, a 40-year-old biogeneticist who is developing the new human being—one who will have conquered all fears, desires and even mortality itself. In English and French. Muziekgebouw, (Sat 20.30), €25 Theatre: Wie de frisbee tegen zijn hoofd krijgt, moet de boemerang nog vangen! One-woman storytelling show by Ilse de Koe; a little brutal, a little naïve, but always charming. Beware of flying objects! In Dutch. De Brakke Grond, (Mon 19.00), €5 Theatre: Life in a Crumble A solo act in which a woman takes an associative journey through her past.

In English. Frascati, (Mon 19.00, 21.00), €5 Dance: Introdans: See the Music Bringing dance together with live music. Accompanying Ed Wubbe’s choreography, Schubert’s Death and the Maiden will be performed live. In Sous le rhytme, je... by Patrick Delcroix, the dancers also function as percussionists.

And Ben Holder’s new piece has live music, too.

Stadsschouwburg, (Mon 20.15), €10-€18.50 Theatre: Coriolanus Shakespeare gets industrial.

Theatre: Es musste nicht sein Based on a script by Max Frisch, this performance is about a man who gets the chance to go back in his life to change its course.

It deals with the concept of predetermined destiny, and the consideration that we throw away thousands of possibilities everyday just because we choose one specific direction. In Dutch and German. Frascati, (Tues 19.00), €5 Music/Theatre: Combattimento Based on Monteverdi’s Il compartiment di Trancedi e Clorinda, theatre duo Bacchant have developed a musical play about two men who are trying to give their lives a new direction, but are being held back by their past. With libretto by Italian poet Torquato Tasso. In Italian with Dutch supertitles. De Brakke Grond, (Tues 19.00), €5 Theatre: Cargo A colourful, funny and messy performance featuring live music. Welcome to a world with Hugo Claus, Peter Handke, builders, scooters, tram singers, flamenco and Dutch birthday parties. In Dutch and English. Frascati, (Tues 21.00), €5 Dance: Danscombinatie Three performances by students of Arnhem’s ArtEZ academy and one programme by the Palucca Schule in Dresden. The evening offers a diverse programme from contemporary to classical. Frascati, (Tues 21.00, Wed 20.00), €11 Theatre: Uit Eten A solo performance about a woman in a restaurant. In Dutch. Frascati, (Wed 19.00, 21.00), €5 Music/Theatre: Let’s Do It! Set to the music and lyrics of Cole Porter, Let’s Do It! is all about different aspects of one of mankind’s favourite topics: love. In English. Odeon, (Wed 19.30), €30 Theatre: Suza Watch a woman contemplate a painting and ponder her life. A collage of image, text and poetry. In Dutch. Frascati, (Wed 20.00), €5 Theatre: Bekende gezichten, gemengde gevoelens Rozentheater presents a series of productions which are the end projects of theatre students. The latest performance is a drama by Botho Strauss, directed by Thomas BJ Bijsterbosch. In Dutch. Rozentheater, (Wed 20.00), €7.50 Dance: This Is Not a Sad Song Highly personal and intimate performances as three young dancers perform choreographies created especially for them. De Brakke Grond, (Wed 21.00), €11

Ongoing Dance: Forsythe/Morris/Fonte Featuring works by three of America’s most influential choreographers, with Het Nationale Ballet performing Forsythe’s Steptext, a ballet for one ballerina and three male dancers from 1985, Morris’ Sandpaper Ballet, and a world premiere by Fonte. Het Muziektheater, (Thur 20.15, Sun 14.00), €15-€32.50 Theatre: Droomspel Rozentheater presents a series of productions which are the end projects of theatre students. First up is Strindberg’s play, directed by Paul Knieriem. In Dutch. Rozentheater, (Thur, Fri 20.00), €7.50 Music/Dance: Michael Schumacher & Friends Featuring dancers Christian Burns, Michael Schumacher, Kirstie Simpson and Eileen Standley, with music provided by the duo Hilary Jeffery and Tom Bugs. OT301, (Fri 22.00), €5 Theatre: Romeinse Tragedies Shakespeare’s Roman tragedies merged into one marathon play. In Dutch.

See Short List. Stadsschouwburg, (Fri, Sat 19.00), €39

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Jacques Henri Lartigue, see Opening

ART Opening Jacques Henri Lartigue A retrospective of the work French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue (18941986) made in the first half of the 20th century.

Although rarely exhibited as such, most of his famous early photos were originally made as stereo images, but in this collection offering a unique impression of the photography pioneer’s life and work, the range of vintage prints, remarkable stereo pictures and personal documents will be displayed as originally intended.

Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), opens Friday, until 26 August Mario Garcia Torres: A Brief History of Jimmie Johnson’s Legacy A Docking Station video installation by the young mexican artist. See Short List.

Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), opens Friday, until 29 July Monique Horstmann: KEIHARD! A specialist in surreal needlework and bizarre toys, for this collection Horstmann gets sexual and pornographic. Let’s hope her newest objects are machine washable then. Chiellerie (Thur-Sun, Wed 14.00-18.00), opens Friday, closing Thursday

Rob van der Nol Rob van der Nol Attracted to the process of change and transition in lives, this young Dutch artist photographs adolescents. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), opens Friday, until 15 August Dream Amsterdam Using the city as his point of departure, Spencer Tunick creates impressive installations built from naked bodies. Now the images from that event are going on display at the locations they were created—Leliegracht and Q-Park at Marnixstraat. Various locations (Daily), opens Saturday, until 31 August Proefjes! Magische Getting mystical with an explo-

ration of magic and natural sciences from the 18th and 19th century. Teylers Museum (Tues-Sat 10.0017.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), Haarlem, opens Saturday, until 21 October Gerrit Rietveld Academy: Graduation Show Final works from this year’s graduating students. Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Wed 16.00-21.00, Thur-Sat 11.0020.00, Sun 11.00-06.00), opens Wednesday, closing Sunday National Geographic Fotowedstrijd Out of 13,000 entrants, 30 photos have made it to this final exhibition. Themes include ‘Animals’, ‘Landscape’ and ‘People’. Pakhuis de Zwijger (Daily 10.00-17.00), opens Wednesday, closing Saturday

Museums In dienst van de stad A look at the architecture and urban design of Amsterdam, Den Haag and Rotterdam, in particular examining how the three cities have come up with such varying solutions and developments. Zuiderkerk (Mon-Fri 09.00-16.00, Sat 12.00-16.00), closing Friday Pantelis Makkas: Daywatch / Nightwatch Two recent video installations: Blinds and Man About Crowd. Recently a resident at De Ateliers, the artist makes use of multiple screens and digital manipulations to disorient the viewer. Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 8 July Lise Sarfati: La Vie Nouvelle In 2003, photographer Sarfati journeyed through the United States, capturing young adults in the context of their solitary lives in towns such as Austin, Oakland, Los Angeles, Portland and New Orleans, finding connections with her subjects in their everyday spaces and situations—bedrooms, backyards, kitchens and grocery stores. Featuring a selection of colour photographs from recent work, there’s also a slide show of 70 images accompanied by ‘Candie McKenzie’ from British electronic duo Death in Vegas. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 8 July Summer in the Church While the winter programmes offer magnificent glances into distant cultures and insights into world religions, the Nieuwe Kerk offers up a summery alternative: a programme paying tribute to the church as a special monument in its own right, with many local treasures to admire. Nieuwe Kerk (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 16 July Maskerdansers in Malawi A series of portraits by Canadian photographer Douglas Curran, who immersed himself in the culture of the Chewa peoples of Malawi, eventually gaining entry to the brotherhood that guards the Nyau—their ancestral spirit entities.

Over the period, he captured the masks, costumes and rituals of the people on film. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 23 July Genesis An examination of the similarities between art and science. While the two fields may have entirely different objectives, the results of their work on information look remarkably alike. Participating artists and

A new documentary explores a fetish for a font that shapes the way we look at design today.

ONE HELVETICA OF A FONT...

FILM Helvetica Friday, 20:00 (sold out) and 22:30, Kriterion

By Julie Phillips

American documentary-maker Gary Hustwit comes to Kriterion this weekend to present Helvetica, a history of a typeface. Shot partly in Amsterdam, the film includes interviews with legendary designer Wim Crouwel and members of Amsterdam-based firm Experimental Jetset. It also features an impressive post-rock soundtrack, much of it specially composed by the likes of The Album Leaf, Sam Prekop, Battles, Caribou and Four Tet. That’s not surprising: Hustwit’s previous films include documentaries on the band Wilco and electronic music pioneer Robert Moog.

On his way to Amsterdam, Hustwit answered a few questions.

Why make a film about a font—and such a utilitarian font like Helvetica?

Fonts are part of everyone’s daily lives now, whether they’re typing an email or a resume, or just reading newspapers or advertisements. So why wouldn’t people want to learn more? Helvetica is invisible to most people until it’s pointed out to them; then they can’t stop noticing it. The

realisation that Helvetica is so ubiquitous is sort of an epiphany for people who see the film.

What was more important to you in making the film, the logic of type design (and the world of designers), or its effect on public space?

Both, I guess. I wanted to give viewers a window into the world of type design and graphic design, and hopefully they come out of the theatre a little more aware of the effect that the typefaces have on the words they’re reading.

How did you get from music documentaries to typefaces? Did you find any connection between the two?

Music and graphic design are both about communication and creativity. And I’m fascinated by those things, by the processes behind the art. So for me, it seems perfectly natural to go from a film about Wilco to a film about Helvetica.

But the strongest connection between my work in music docs and this film is the soundtrack. I came up with the audiovisual template for Helvetica during walks around New York City, listening to music and looking at all the type in the environment there. So when I envisioned the film, the music was just as critical as the imagery. It has to be screened loud!

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Nederlands Fotomuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 11.00-17.00), Rotterdam, until 26 August Fashion Palaces 1880-1960 The emergence of the first chic fashion houses in Amsterdam at the end of the 19th century is the focal point of the exhibition.

Grandeur and temptation typify the atmosphere of these magnificent, luxurious Amsterdam fashion houses and department stores. From that time the Dutch elite could buy fashionable French clothes not only in Paris and Brussels, but also in Amsterdam— from huge, impressive shops with illuminated windows. Amsterdams Historisch Museum (Mon-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 11.00-17.00), until 26 August Facing Death Drawings by Antwerp artist Eugeen van Mieghem (1875-1930) of his great love and muse Augustine Pautre. Even though she’d taken ill with tuberculosis in 1904, Van Mieghem continued to draw her, capturing her physical decline, much in the same way that Rembrandt had poignantly drawn his dying wife Saskia van Uylenburgh. Rembrandthuis (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 26 August Ligplaats Amsterdam An exhibition about architecture on water, including concepts for floating theatres, motorways, churches and more, as well as exploration of future possibilities of maritime architecture. There’s even an outdoor part of the exhibition, where one can admire yet-to-be-realised projects, too. ARCAM (TuesFri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 26 August Le Corbusier He’s by far the most famous and according to many the most important architect and urban designer of the 20th century, but he was also a painter, sculptor, photographer and textile designer. In this first major retrospective since 1987, more than 450 original drawings, models, paintings, tapestries, films, photographs, sculptures, items of furniture and interiors will be exhibited together to demonstrate the strength and influence of Le Corbusier. Nederlands Architectuurinstituut (Tues-Sat 10.00-17.00, Sun 11.0017.00), Rotterdam, until 2 September

21-27 June 2007 of bags and purses. Tassenmuseum Hendrikje (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 9 September Den Haag Sculptuur Enjoy sculpture in Den Haag.

Celebrating ten years, the theme is ‘De Overkant / Down Under’, promoting artists from Australia and the Netherlands. See www.denhaagsculptuur.nl. Various locations and times, Den Haag, until 9 September Persia The St Petersburg Hermitage lends some of its dazzling collection of Persian art to Amsterdam. This exhibition includes antiquities of the Islamic period all through the end of the Qajar dynasty in 1925. Hermitage Amsterdam (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 16 September Amsterdam in de wereld—De wereld in Amsterdam A collection of immensely rare treasures owned by the Universiteit van Amsterdam, including handwritten scriptures, printed books, pictures and objects.

UvA: Special Collections Library (Mon-Fri 09.30-17.00), until 16 September The Present—The Monique Zajfen Collection New contemporary artworks that have been added to The Monique Zajfen Collection since 2006. Focusing on the human figure and spanning a range of disciplines, the works in this exhibition explore various aspects of the human condition. Artists include Marlene Dumas, Thomas Schütte, Neo Rauch, Wilhelm Sasnal, Mike Kelley, Pawel Althamer, Paul Graham, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Lisa Yuskavage and George Condo. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 16 September Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama An exhibition about the first international superstar. In the course of an astonishing career that spanned 60 years the Bernhardt became the West’s leading tragedienne. Her name became synonymous with acting and continued to cast a spell on players and audiences throughout the world long after her death in 1923. Besides paintings, photos, clothes and Art Nouveau theatre posters, the collections presents personal possessions, a recording of her voice and fragments of films in which she appeared. Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 16 September Charlotte Salomon: Work in Progress Rarely and never seen works by Salomon, including reverse sides as well as individual sketches which she made for her series of over 800 gouaches, Life? or Theatre? Joods Historisch Museum (Daily 11.00-17.00), until 16 September De kunst van het verleiden You can’t run and you can’t hide—ads are everywhere, and they will have an influence on you, like it or not. This exhibition about advertising takes place in several rooms and devotes each room to another method, emotion or medium.

CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 16 September Oud Zeer Drawings and animations by Joep Bertrams, best known for his political commentaries in Het Parool. Persmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), until 23 September To See or Not to See Hortus celebrates the 300th birthday of Carl Linnaeus, the most famous botanist ever, who wrote his major works in Amsterdam. Hortus Botanicus (Mon-Fri 09.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 10.00-17.00), until 30 September

3rd International Architecture Biennale 3rd International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam Who and what will define the future of our cities and what role can architects play in this? The IABR brings together architects, urban designers, theorists, students, developers, policy makers and politicians from home and abroad to tear apart preconceived notions of architecture and to look to the future. Among the many special events, three exhibitions are central to the festival: Visionary Power (Kunsthal), New Dutch City (Kunsthal) and A Better World—Another Power (NAi). See www.iabr.nl. Various locations in Rotterdam various times, Rotterdam, until 2 September JR: Face to Face Diverse works by the French photographer and street artist who displays his works on walls all over cities. In his first Dutch exhibition, JR will be showing intriguing portraits in very large formats, inside and outside Foam, as well as in the streets around you. Foam (Sat-Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur, Fri 10.00-21.00), until 2 September Beeld voor Beeld Drawings that Dutch 16th- and 17th-century artists made of classical statues seen in the Vatican on their Grand Tour. The exhibition shows the drawings alongside moulds of the original statues.

Allard Pierson Museum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 9 September Aan de Amsterdamse Grachten Marking the opening of the Museum of Bags and Purses in its new idyllic location, an overview of exhibitions from the past ten years is featured alongside the permanent collections

Liberation Music: Songs After Five Years of Occupation A musical memorial to the emotional release that followed the end of the occupation in 1945.

Verzetsmuseum (Tues-Fri 10.00-17.00, Sat-Mon 12.0017.00), until 30 September Corneille: Some of These Days Celebrating the 85th birthday of Corneille, one of the most sparkling artists of the CoBrA movement—and one of the longest surviving members of the ‘CoBrA Three’. Alongside his paintings, photographs and film portraits of the artists can be seen during the exhibition. CoBrA Museum (Tues-Sun 11.00-17.00), until 30 September Yoshitomo Nara The first ever solo show to be held in any European museum by Yoshitomo Nara, one of today’s leading Japanese artists. As a representative of the Japanese pop art of the ’90s, he gained worldwide fame with seductive figurative paintings, drawings and sculptures, all executed in a deliberately elementary style. The emphasis in this collection will be on recent work, most of it produced especially for the occasion. GEM (Tues-Sun 12.00-18.00), Den Haag, until 7 October Scenes and Traces A lengthy exhibition focussing on three parts of the Stedelijk Museum collection: design, video and photography. Stedelijk Museum CS (Daily 10.00-18.00), until 25 November Grande Sertao A blend of photography Brazilian culture, literature and poetry, after Mark Nozeman and Marcelo Greco made a photographic journey through the Sertão—the provinces of Minas Gerais and Bahia in Brazil. Tropenmuseum (Daily 10.00-17.00), until 27 January 2008

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Galleries Stephan J Englisch Solo-exhibition for a photographer who wanders through the night looking for just the right image, usually employing 5- to 55-minute long exposures of quiet (night)time. Galerie Bart (Thur, Fri 11.00-18.00, Sat 12.00-17.00) Kleur Colourful textile explosions from the duo Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings. Galerie Binnen (WedSat 12.00-18.00), closing Saturday ArtOlive Offline #3 Works by four young artists: Linda Jansen (photography), Sabi van Hemert (sculptures), Caroline de Bruijn (ceramics) and Simone Henken (photography). ArtOlive (Mon-Fri 11.00-17.00, Sun 12.00-17.00), closing Sunday 2007: An Aerosol Odyssey Meet the current and next generation of artists from the street. Twenty artists from Amsterdam’s subculture have been invited to show works, including photographers, graffiti writers, fashion designers and street artists. ABC Treehouse (Thur-Sun 13.00-18.00), closing Sunday Water=Life An installation on the Amstel by Marlijn Franken made from West-African drink water bags.

Indoors, a photo exhibition details the history of the bags. Buitenplaats Wester-Amstel (Thur-Sun 12.0016.30), Amstelveen, closing Sunday 5 P.O. BOX: 5 Person Osmosis Box Five artists (Isabel Cordeiro, Inge van der Ven, Nanna Lahn, Menso Groeneveld and Aquil Copier) share a production space. So called ‘artworks’, are scattered around it, randomly placed where space allows for storage. Its these informal borders that define a sort of communication network between the five artists and their individual processes. An unconscious osmosis takes place between the five and its potential is explored in this exhibition. W139/Basement (Thur-Sun 13.0018.00), closing Sunday Rob Voerman: Neighbours A solo exhibition featuring installations, sculptures and graphic works.

Upstream Gallery (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 30 June Armando Andrade Tudela Film, installation and drawings. Annet Gelink Gallery (Tues-Fri 10.00-18.00, Sat 13.00-18.00), until 30 June Martha Colburn New films from the self-taught American film-maker. Galerie Diana Stigter (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00), until 30 June Malerie Marder: Nine A solo exhibition of new photographs by Los Angeles-based artist Malerie Marder.

Comprised of nine large-scale photographs, it presents a narrative of pregnancy, examining the inherent physicality, sensuality and psychology of the subject matter. Galerie Gabriel Rolt (Wed-Sat 12.0018.00), until 30 June Prix de Rome.nl 2007 Awarded annually to a visual artist or architect under the age of 35, the Prix de Rome always carries prestige. The actual battle began last September, but now with the entrants whittled down to a mere ten, you can check out the entries from Sung Hwan Kim, Maartje Korstanje, Alon Levin, Pablo Pijnappel and Maaike Schoorel. The only catch is, for the first time ever, the remaining finalists are being shown at Witte de With in Rotterdam, so some travelling is needed to catch it all. De Appel (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 1 July Iran. Standstill or Awakening Focussed particularly on young women, this photographic series by Ulla Kimmig provides an insight into modern-day Iran and its many facets, including the religious beliefs, cultural groups and contemporary living. Melkweg Galerie (Wed-Sun 13.00-20.00), until 1 July

Amsterdam Weekly Toon den Heijer New works by the Dutch painter. Feel Gallery (Thur, Fri 12.00-19.00, Sat 11.00-19.00, Sun 12.00-18.00), until 1 July Graduation Show VAV Large exhibition for the 25member graduating class of Rietveld’s Voorheen Audio Visueel department. W139 (Daily 11.00-19.00), until 1 July Uit en Thuis Diverse works by award-winning sculptor Wendela Gevers Deynoot, who creates sculptures of all shapes and sizes from materials such as wood, stone, metal, plastic and paper, as well as some more unusual sources. Galerie de Rietlanden (Sat, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 2 July Hot and New Featuring works by Maartje Korstanje (sculptures), Yvonne Lacet (photography), Haukur Oskarsson (photography), Lotte Geeven (drawings), Jeroen Glas (sculptures) and Danielle van Vree (video installations). Mart House (Thur-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 7 July Carmilla Enter the realm of the vampire and feast on the mythology, superstitions, lifestyle...blood. Featuring contemporary paintings, photography and other presentations by Erica Stanga, Emilio Cejalvo, Miss Magmin, Ketra, Hyde, Sonia Arata, Christian Zanotto and Damian Boyall. Red Stamp Art Gallery (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 7 July En Passant Getting photographic with some fantastic Dutch talents, including Paul Bogaers, Peter Cleutjens, Hans Eijkelboom, Erik Fens, Gerard Fieret, Arnoud Holleman, Theo Niekus, Paulien Oltheten and Martine Stig & Vanessa van Dam. CBK Dordrecht (Wed-Sat 12.00-17.00), Dordrecht, until 8 July Abner Preis Selected artworks by Preis, AKA Eat Shit.

Wolf & Pack (Sun, Mon 13.00-19.00, Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 12.00-19.00, Thur 12.00-21.00), until 13 July (In)visible Sounds In collaboration with the 5 Days Off music festival, this exhibition invites you to explore the world of invisible technologies: electronic fields, radio waves, frequencies and air pollution that surround us constantly. International artists contributing works include Erich Berger, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Theodore Watson, and Usman Haque & Rob Davis. Additions will include seminars and live performances. Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 14 July

Air Polluter An interactive smell exhibition which allows the visitor to decide how much they wish to pollute the air around them—both with nice smells and nasty. De Brakke Grond (Mon 13.00-18.00, TuesFri 10.00-20.30, Sat 13.00-20.30, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 15 July Het Licht van Tunesië Multimedia installation by Maarten Rens and Anita Mizrahi. De Levante (WedSun 13.00-17.30), until 22 July The Colour of the Maghreb: Morocco Old culture meets contemporary art in thisgroup exhibition celebrating artists of Morocco. Contributors include Youssouf Elalamy, Abbtoy, Dounia El Yassem and Shishunk. De Levante (Wed-Sun 13.00-17.30), until 22 July Spirit of the Wild Following on from the successful Earth From Above outdoor exhibitions by Yann ArthusBertrand, huge prints by South African photographer Steve Bloom are going public in Amsterdam, showing dazzling shots of the planet’s wildlife. Westermarkt (Daily), until 24 July Zomerexpositie In for the summer, 14 artists present their newest artworks. GO Gallery (Wed-Sat 12.0018.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 5 August Zomer Expositie 2007 Works by 14 artists, including Yvonne Zomerdijk, Margret Mijsbergh and Stefaan Eyckmans. GO Gallery (Wed-Sat 12.00-18.00, Sun 13.00-17.00), until 5 August Aernout Overbeeke Often dark photographs of the natural landscapes, still lifes and indigenous people Overbeeke encountered while in Masaï, Afrika.

Galerie Rademakers Tue-Sun 11.00-17.30, until 19 August Cristóbal Hara: An Imaginary Spaniard An exploration of the perceived cultural identity of Spain, by native photographer Hara. Huis Marseille (Tues-Sun 11.00-18.00), until 26 August

Rah Crawford: A Sassy Nation ‘Hip folk’ is the theme which inspires this latest batch of paintings from the American artist. Studio Apart (Wed 10.00-18.00, Thur 10.00-21.00, Fri 10.00-18.00, Sat 12.00-17.00), until 15 July

EVENTS Thursday 21June Discussion: Dizkuzz in Paradiso All you every wanted to know about music subsidies and sponsorship but were afraid to ask. Industry guests include Loes Wagenmaker, Cyriel Pluimakers, Nancy Poleon and Bong-ra. Paradiso, Kleine Zaal, 19.00, free, reserve at info@dizkuzz.nl Dance: Dansen op het Leidseplein Tango special with Tangotalks. Leidseplein, 20.00, free

Friday 22 June Festival: Torrentijd Festival Three days of music, dance, theatre and kids entertainment. Guests include Moon Baker, Melou, Lobi Traoré and The J-Stars. See www.torentijdfestival.nl. Next to Metrostation Ganzenhoef, 18.00, free

act Group exhibition focussing on the ‘process of doing’ with visual artist Célio Braga (Brazil), fashion designer Maaike Gottschal, jewellery maker Jeannette Jansen, and film-maker/visual artists Claudia Lisboa and Remco Veenbrink. Huis Rechts (opens May 13 17.00-19.00), until 14 July

Pom op het Menu A peak into the Suriname kitchen and the history of pom. It may spark memories or introduce you to new foodstuffs. Or it may just make you hungry. But hopefully, along with the images, there’ll be a chance to get involved and cook your own. Imagine IC (Tues, Wed, Fri, Sat 11.00-17.00, Thur 11.00-21.00), until 15 July

Tangomagia, see Friday

Lecture/Debate: Why Art? (The Old Brand New) Tim Etchells, leader of the British theatre company Forced Entertainment, and Bazon Brock, artist and art historian, speak about contemporary developments in the arts and the role that art can or should play in today’s society. In English. Stadsschouwburg, 20.15, €10

Thomas Elshuis, Alex Jacobs New works by both artists. Gist (Wed-Sat 13.00-17.30), until 14 July

Pond Part of the ‘Metabiosis’ project, Marloes De Valk (NL) and Aymeric Mansoux (FR) will be artists in residence, investigating to what extent information can develop in a network of computers linked with each other and how interact with it. Montevideo/Time Based Arts (Tues-Sat 13.00-18.00), until 14 July

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Dance: Dansen op het Leidseplein With Brazilian Dance Company Zouklovers. Leidseplein, 20.00, free 3rd International Architecture Biennale Han Singels: Polder Holland Following in the footsteps of Paulus Potter, Aelbert Cuyp, Gerard Bilders and Willem Roelofs, Indonesian photography Han Singels has trekked for years through the polders of North Holland, the riverbanks of Gelderland and the pastures of Utrecht. All in order to photograph cows in these magnificent landscapes. Huis Marseille (Tues-Sun 11.00 -18.00), until 26 August The Portrait Gallery Presenting an overview of portraits from 1950-today by ten veteran photographers, including Sanne Sannes, Ata Kando, Willem Diepraam, Machiel Botman and Barry Kornbluh.

Hup Gallery (Tue, Thur, Fri 10.00 -17.00), until 31 August

Festival: Tangomagia For the love of tango, this three-day programme features workshops from international tango stars, demonstrations, live performances and still leaves room for some intimate socialising after dark and under the stars. The performance highlights are tied in with Amsterdam Roots Festival (see Music section), but events also expand out into the Tropenmuseum and Tropenterrace, De Duif, Hotel Arena and CREA, meaning there are even more opportunities than previous years.

See www.tangomagia.com. KIT Tropentheater, various times and prices

Saturday 23 June Art/Walk: Open Ateliers Oud-West The artists of the Oud-West open their doors this weekend, all together for the first time. Start at the former tram yard De

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20 Hallen, pick up a route card and just wander. See Short List. De Hallen, Haarlem 12.00-18.00, free Multidisciplinary: Dance Department Sound, light, motion... Look out for live performances, light projections and street art in a creativity explosion.

Admiralengracht, 13.00-00.00, free Festival: Torrentijd Festival (See Friday) by Metrostation Ganzenhoef, 14.00, free Party: Midzomernachtsfeest Getting down in the longest day and shortest night with music, fashion, art and feasting. Guests include Benjamin Winter, Les Figurants, Bluesky & Greenyard, Kareem Raihani & Shiva and much more. Blijburg, 16.00-05.00, €5

on Rotterdam, which hosts the opening events, but Amsterdam has plenty to offer to, including a programme titled ‘Room Service’ that sees more than 20 hotels open their doors for locals to snoop around.

See www.dvda.nl. Various locations, times and prices, many events free

Architecture: Dag van de Architectuur (See Saturday) Various locations, times and prices, many events free Festival: Tangomagia (See Friday) KIT Tropentheater, various times and prices

Tuesday 26 June

Art/Walk: Open Ateliers Oud-West (See Saturday) De Hallen, Haarlem 12.00-18.00, free

Architecture: Dag van de Architectuur For this national celebration of architecture, there are events occurring throughout the entire country over the weekend, taking inspiration from the theme ‘temporary stay’. As is the pattern this year, much focus falls

Fashion: The Floating Fashion Parade Diverse and creative clothing, but rather than a traditional catwalk, professional models can be found in the middle of a canal. Admiralengracht, 15.00-17.00, 21.00-23.00, free

11 Oosterdokskade 3-5, 625 5999 ABC Treehouse Voetboogstraat 11, 423 0967 Allard Pierson Museum Oude Turfmarkt 127, 525 2556 Amsterdam ArenA ArenA Boulevard 1, 311 1333 Amsterdams Historisch Museum Kalverstraat 92, 523 1822 Annet Gelink Gallery Laurierstraat 187-189, 330 2066 De Appel Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, 625 5651 ARCAM Prins Hendrikkade 600, 620 4878 ArtOlive Polonceaukade 17, 675 8504 Badcuyp 1e Sweelinckstraat 10, 675 9669 Bethaniënklooster Barndesteeg 6, 625 0078 Bijbels Museum Herengracht 366-368, 624 2436 Bimhuis Piet Heinkade 3, 788 2150 Blijburg Bert Haanstrakade 2004, 416 0330 De Brakke Grond Nes 45, 626 6866 Buitenplaats Wester-Amstel Amsteldijk-Noord 55, Amstelveen Café Pakhuis Wilhelmina Veemkade 576, 419 3368 Café Sappho Vijzelstraat 103, 423 1509 Carré Amstel 115-125, 524 9452 CBK Dordrecht Voorstraat 180, Dordrecht, 078 631 4689 Centraal Museum Nicolaaskerkhof, Utrecht, 030 236 2362 Chiellerie Raamgracht 58, 320 9448 Cineac Reguliersbreestraat 31-33 Claes Claeszhofje 1e Egelantiersdwarsstraat 1 Club 8 Admiraal de Ruyterweg 56B, 685 1703 Club Meander Voetboogstraat 3, 625 8430 CoBrA Museum Sandbergplein 1-3, Amstelveen, 547 5050 Concertgebouw Concertgebouwplein 2-6, 671 8345 Consortium Veemkade 570, 06 2611 8950 DanceStreet 1e Rozendwarsstraat 10, 489 7676 Desmet Studios Plantage Middenlaan 4A, 521 7100 English Reformed Church Begijnhof 48, 624 9665 Exit Reguliersdwarsstraat 42, 625 8788 Feel Gallery Frans Halsstraat 40 Flex Bar Pazzanistraat 1, 486 2123 Foam Keizersgracht 609, 551 6546 Frascati Nes 63, 626 6866 Galerie Bart Bloemgracht 2, 320 6208 Galerie Binnen Keizersgracht 82, 625 9603 Galerie de Rietlanden Rietlandpark 193, 419 4705 Galerie Diana Stigter Hazenstraat 17, 624 2361 Galerie Espace Keizersgracht 548, 624 0802 Galerie Gabriel Rolt Elandsgracht 34, 785 5146 Galerie Rademakers Prinsengracht 570-572, 6225496 GEM Stadhouderslaan 43, Den Haag, 070 338 1133 Gemeentemuseum Stadhouderslaan 41, Den Haag, 070 338 1111

Film: Avant-garde Cinema An evening of short films.

OT301, 20.30, €4

Sunday 24 June

Festival: Torrentijd Festival (See Friday) by Metrostation Ganzenhoef, 13.00, free

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16.00, €10

Festival: Tangomagia (See Friday) KIT Tropentheater, various times and prices

Dance: Dansen op het Leidseplein Hiphop and breakdance from Spin Off. Leidseplein, 20.00, free

Gerrit Rietveld Academie Fred Roeskestraat 96, 571 1600 Gist Veemkade 364 GO Gallery Prinsengracht 64, 422 9580 De Hallen Grote Markt 16, Haarlem, 023 511 5775 Heineken Music Hall ArenA Boulevard 590, 0900 300 1250 Hermitage Amsterdam Nieuwe Herengracht 14, 530 8751 Hortus Botanicus Plantage Middenlaan 2A, 625 9021 Hotel Arena ‘s-Gravesandestraat 51, 850 2400 Huis Marseille Keizersgracht 401, 531 8989 Huis Rechts Vinkenstraat 154 Hup Gallery Tesselschadestraat 15, 515 8589 Imagine IC Bijlmerplein 1006-1008, 489 4866 Joods Historisch Museum Jonas Daniel Meijerplein 2-4, 531 0310 KIT Tropentheater Mauritskade 63, 568 8711 De Levante Hobbemastraat 28, 671 5485 Lexion Avenue Overtoom 65, Westzaan, 0900-BelLexion Maloe Melo Lijnbaansgracht 163, 420 4592 Mart House Prinsengracht 529, 627 5187 Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234A, 531 8181 Melkweg Galerie Marnixstraat 409, 531 8181 Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234a Melkweg, The Max Lijnbaansgracht 234a, 531 8181 Montevideo/Time Based Arts Keizersgracht 264, 623 7101 Muziekgebouw Piet Heinkade 1, 788 2010 Het Muziektheater Amstel 3, 625 5455 Nationaal Pop Instituut, Fantasio zaal Prins Hendrikkade 142, 428 4288 NDSM-werf TT Neveritaweg 15, 330 5480 Nederlands Architectuurinstituut Museumpark 25, Rotterdam, 010 440 1200 Nederlands Fotomuseum Wilhelminakade 332, Rotterdam, 010 213 2011 Nieuwe Kerk entrance on the Dam, 638 6909 OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 671 7778 Odeon Singel 460, 624 9711 OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 Oude Kerk Oudekerksplein 23, 625 8284 P60 Stadsplein 100A, Amstelveen, 023 345 3445 Pacific Parc Polonceaukade 23, 488 7778 Pakhuis de Zwijger Piet Heinkade 179-181, 788 4444 Panama Oostelijke Handelskade 4, 311 8680 Paradiso Weteringschans 6-8, 626 4521 Patronaat Zijlsingel 2, Haarlem, 023 517 5858 Persmuseum Zeeburgerkade 10, 692 8810 Podium Mozaïek Bos en Lommerweg 191, 580 0380 The Powerzone Spaklerweg, 681 8866 PRIK Spuistraat 109, 06 4544 2321 Red Stamp Art Gallery Rusland 22, 420 8684 Rembrandthuis Jodenbreestraat 4, 520 0400 Rozentheater Rozengracht 117, 620 7953

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Discussion: Sound Forum A spoken-word music magazine featuring lectures, discussions and presentations about contemporary compositions. Badcuyp, Bovenzaal, 20.30, free Ladies Only Multidisciplinary: Ladies Only A female friendly Lounge M special, with live music, Moroccan fashion shows, henna art and dance. Podium Mozaïek,

Ruigoord Ruigoord 15, 497 5702 Scheepvaartmuseum Kattenburgerplein 1, 523 2222 Skek Zeedijk 4-8, 427 0551 Stadsschouwburg Leidseplein 26, 624 2311 Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Rozenstraat 59, 422 0471 Stedelijk Museum CS Oosterdokskade 5, 573 2911 Studio 80 Rembrandtplein 70, 521 8333 Studio Apart Prinsengracht 715, 422 2748 Sugar Factory Lijnbaansgracht 238, 627 0008 Tassenmuseum Hendrikje Herengracht 573, 524 6452 Teylers Museum Spaarne 16, Haarlem, 023 516 0960 Theater Bellevue Leidsekade 90, 530 5301 Tropenmuseum Linnaeusstraat 2, 568 8200

Wednesday 27 June Dance: Dansen op het Leidseplein Folk with Terpsichoré and Paloina. Leidseplein, 20.00, free

Under the Grand Chapiteau Next to ArenA, 621 1288 Upstream Gallery Kromme Waal 11, 428 4284 UvA: Special Collections Library Oude Turfmarkt 129, 525 2141 Van Gogh Museum Paulus Potterstraat 7, 570 5200 Verzetsmuseum Plantage Kerklaan 61, 620 2535 Volta Houtmankade 334-336, 628 6429 Vondelpark Openluchttheater, 673 1499 W139 Warmoesstraat 139, 622 9434 W139/Basement Oosterdokskade 5, 06 2427 6657 Winston Kingdom Warmoesstraat 129, 623 1380 Wolf & Pack 232 Spuistraat, 427 0786 Zaal 100 De Wittenstraat 100, 688 0127 Zuiderkerk Zuiderkerkhof 72, 552 798

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All smoke, no mirrors Frank’s Smoke House Wittenburgergracht 303, 670 0774 Open Tue-Fri 09.00-18.00, Sat 09.00-17.00 Cash, PIN My dear readers, I sit here, grinning as if in a trance. If you enjoy smoked salmon as much as I do—and that, as you know, is a lot—you should visit the legendary gourmet mecca that is Frank’s Smoke House.

About a year ago, I reviewed a cafe where they proudly served me one of the best smoked chicken sandwiches I ever had the pleasure of sinking my chompers into. The meat was delicate, moist and flavoursome. The whole thing was truly delightful. The chef (who used to cook at Tramilijn Begeerte) informed me where the meat came from: Frank’s. For one reason or another I never got around to going there. Until now, that is. I awoke early, in anticipation of my visit.

An olfactory collage of smoking smells made me dribble as I entered the premises. Quality meats, such as smoked rib-eye, pastrami, whole smoked free-range French chickens the size of American footballs, lovingly stuffed with a thick dried fruit compote and herbs. After the turf there were whiffs of surf: smoked halibut, mackerel, Pacific cod and, the goal of my visit, ecologically-friendly wild Alaskan salmon. Everything is smoked on the premises with loving care and proud craftsmanship.

Frank Heyn, the American owner, was once an engineer. He went to Paris for a few days, a visit which stretched out to a few years. There, he made an early career change by training as a

THE UNDERCOVER GLUTTON My own gaping fish mouth hung open as if someone had socked me in the eye. I had never seen so much delicious-looking salmon in one go before. chef. He learned the gastronomic arts the old, traditional way, in the days when stockpots simmered for hours, reducing their contents to rich potent bases for soups and sauces.

It’s fortunate for we gluttons that he did what he did, because no one in town produces the variety of products—25 of them, in fact— like he and his highly skilled staff do.

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But smoking, one of the oldest, most traditional ways of preserving food, is his speciality.

I was shown a rack-load of hickory-smoked salmon, fresh from one of the two smokers— enormous things that look like industrial washing machines. My own gaping fish mouth hung open as if someone had socked me in the eye. I had never seen so much delicious-looking salmon in one go before.

The fish is smoked in small batches at low temperatures to ensure the natural flavours are preserved: this is the real McCoy. I’m used to the supermarket farmed stuff, onto which I lavishly lay on an altar of bagels and cream cheese mixed with horseradish sauce. This stuff, however, is to be consumed with respect: slowly, lovingly tasting every succulent morsel.

After garbling my question of whether it was possible to purchase a few different samples of products to take home to taste, I hastily exited Frank’s, vowing to return when I had earned the dosh for an entire side of salmon. (By the way, hint, hint, it makes an excellent present that can be sent throughout the Netherlands and Europe.)

Gibbering joyfully, I could hardly wait to get home. En route, I phoned a foodie friend of mine to join me in the tasting. It’s best to share—especially high quality delicacies—don’t you think?

The wild salmon was incomparable with my usual Norwegian fish. It was a poem, something profound. The soft, smoky smooth flavour was wonderful. The melt-in-the-mouth texture had me itching for more. (I confess, I ate it all before my buddy arrived.) But the pastrami, rib-eye, duck breast, cod, mackerel and stuffed chicken I did share, and it was all, of course, delicious.

But even the wide selection we consumed doesn’t do justice to the enormous array at Frank’s. It’s not cheap, but the prices are worth the quality you get. It is, truly, smokin’.

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Irina Palm

FILM Edited by Julie Phillips.This week’s films reviewed

by Massimo Benvegnù (MB), Angela Dress (AD), René Glas (RG), Andrea Gronvall (AG), Luuk van Huët (LvH),JR Jones (JJ),Dave Kehr (DK),MarieClaire Melzer (MM), Jonathan Rosenbaum (JR) and Marinus de Ruiter (MdR). All films are screened in English with Dutch subtitles unless otherwise noted. Amsterdam Weekly recommends.

New this week Irina Palm Marianne Faithfull carries the show here, in the title role of the latest film from Belgium-based director Sam Garbarski (The Rashevski Tango). ‘Irina Palm’ is the working name of Maggie, an English widow who needs money to pay for her grandson’s medical treatment. Lacking marketable skills, this suburban housewife ends up in Soho, accepting a job as a glory hole ‘hand-relief provider’ in a club managed by a Slavic mobster (Miki Manojlovic). Predictably, she not only tries to keep her employment a secret from her family and the town’s tea ladies (among them a nosy Jenny Agutter), but actually becomes really good at it, much to everybody’s disbelief but ours. Garbarski doesn’t spare the audience any stereotype in this

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Still Life comedy/drama, but his genius casting of the famously liberated Faithfull as the oppressed but freedombound Maggie manages to keep the tone, if not interesting, at least ironic. (MB) 103 min. Cinecenter, Het Ketelhuis, Pathé Tuschinski Still Life Most of what we read about China nowadays is about their incredible economic rise. Rest assured that behind the veil of success, misery is to be found.

Film-maker Jia Zhang-ke (Unknown Pleasures, The World) seems dedicated to showing us other aspects of a culture locked in massive change. His new film Still Life is a stunningly shot drama of people lost in the chaos of progress, in a city literally drowning as it is slowly engulfed by the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam. Shot entirely on high-definition video, Still Life looks and feels like a documentary; and while the story itself is not, the background of the drowning city is very real indeed. As such, this blend of fiction and reality paints an alienating and disquieting picture of a country where the individual is merely an obstacle to progress. In Mandarin with Dutch subtitles. (RG) 108 min. Rialto

(Ulrich Thomsen), a recently released neo-Nazi, arrives to test his fate repeatedly, leading to a clash of conflicting ideologies. Whether the film is moralistic or nihilistic is anyone’s guess, but it didn’t garner a Silver Scream Award at the AFFF for nothing, and the very Scandinavian undercurrent of dark humour keeps the film enjoyable and fresh during most of the running time. In Danish with Dutch and French subtitles. (LvH) 94 min. Het Ketelhuis Azuloscurocasinegro A bittersweet coming-of-age drama set in contemporary Madrid, where Jorge (Quim Gutiérrez) lives with his invalid father (Héctor Colomé). Despite his university degree, he works as a concierge. His brother Antonio (Antonio de la Torre) is in prison and his mother is dead, leaving him to take care of his father. When he meets Paula (Marta Etura), he realises that there may be more to life than slaving for others, and that he must take that responsibility. Yet his future stil looks His future looks ‘azuloscurocasinegro’: ‘dark blue, almost black’.

Directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (MM) 105 min. Cinecenter

Bamako In a courtyard in a slum in Bamako, the

Still playing Adam’s Apples Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, who might be the hottest thing from Denmark since certain cartoons, this black comedy stars Mads Mikkelsen, ‘the Danish Johnny Depp’, as Ivan, an insanely optimistic preacher with severe problems who rehabilitates ex-cons in his rural church. Adam

capital of Mali, the World Bank and IMF are subjected to a mock trial, accused of creating poverty in Africa.

Meanwhile, Melé, a bar singer, and her husband Chaka break up; another couple get married; the residents of the courtyard work and play alongside the abstract discussion of Africa’s economic malaise. Intriguing in both content and structure, the film was directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. In French/Bambara with Dutch subtitles. 115 min. Cinema Amstelveen

Five-Word Movie Review

A STRONG CASE FOR ISLAM Jesus Camp The Movies

Bes Vakit In a rural Turkish village, three children on the brink of puberty form a secret pact against their parents; one of them is even prepared to kill his father.

Through this small-scale generational conflict, director Reha Erdem sketches the friction between tradition and progress in contemporary Turkey. Bes Vakit never becomes outspoken, revelling instead in picturesque beauty, as if Erdem is concealing his subversive message with his stately, mannerist style. A slow film, but rewarding for some memorable and poignant scenes.

In Turkish with Dutch subtitles. (MdR) 110 min. Rialto Cashback There should be a movie law against using American Beauty-like music over supposedly ‘deep’ moments, especially if they are followed by fart jokes just a few scenes later. In this full-length remake of his own short film about an art student who turns into an insomniac after being dumped, director Sean Ellis

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A Cold War musical shows how a seductive consumerism pervades Hollywood films. Wim Sonneveld, watch out!

AIN’T DECADENT LIFE A LUBITSCH FILM

In the title song of Rouben Mamoulian’s 1957 Silk Stockings, Cyd Charisse dances around her room with a pair of them, newly bought. The stockings are a metaphor for the love and pleasure she has discovered in Paris with Fred Astaire.

Made at the height of the Cold War, Silk Stockings shamelessly celebrates capital-

ist ideology. Half a century later, the film is slightly outdated. Yet it’s fun to watch as a blueprint for the way commercials still celebrate consumerism. And even in Hollywood blockbusters, aren’t the action heroes simply vehicles for demonstrating the latest in mobile phones and other gadgets?

Silk Stockings is a remake of Ernst Lubitsch’s comedy Ninotchka (1939), in which Greta Garbo plays a stern Soviet official who is sent to Paris to keep an eye on three colleagues who are there to sell confiscated jewellery. In Paris, she meets Count Leon (Melvyn Douglas), who con-

seems incapable of delivering a consistent stylistic whole. Instead he keeps shifting from romantic drama to juvenile high jinks and back. Some of the cinematographic experiments linked to the manipulation and distortion of time—the film’s theme—are genuinely well made, but most of them are just used to get women undressed. Cashback feels like a pretentious take on the teen sex comedy, more often baffling than funny. (RG) 90 min. Kriterion, Pathé Tuschinski

friendship between three young people adrift in Kuala Lumpur. Hsiao-kang (played by Tsai’s regular leading man, Lee Kang-sheng) is a homeless Chinese man who gets mugged and is rescued by Rawang, an equally impoverished Bangladeshi guest worker. Later, Hsiao-kang meets a waitress named Chyi who helps care for her boss’ paralysed son, and the friendship between Hsiao-kang and Rawang is tested. With Dutch subtitles. 115 min. Filmmuseum

Daratt At the close of the 40-year civil war in Chad, a man gives a gun to his 16-year-old grandson, Atim (Ali Barkai), and sends him in search of Nassara (Youssouf Djaoro), the man who killed his father to avenge the death of his father. Nassara now owns a small bakery; Atim becomes his apprentice, and he and Nassara begin to develop a bond. MahamatSaleh Haroun directed this powerful parable of respect and revenge. In Arabic with Dutch subtitles.

96 min. Rialto

Jesus Camp Profoundly disturbing documentary about evangelical Christian summer camps for children in the US, directed by Heidi Ewing. The film includes footage shot at the ‘Kids on Fire’ camp at, appropriately, Devil’s Lake in North Dakota, where camp pastor Becky Fischer ‘preaches’ these children to the point of hysteria, then calls their distress evidence of communion with God. There is no voice-over or any other form of editorial comment—the footage speaks for itself, revealing a vile, ideologically incoherent mess of religious fundamentalism and right-wing politics. In one scene, an anti-abortion campaigner hands out miniature plastic fetuses to children as young as five or six and tapes their mouths closed with blood-coloured duct tape with the word LIFE written on it. Jesus Camp is an eye-opener for those of us who would like to dismiss fundamentalist Christians as a lunatic fringe. Also appearing in this film about how children are blatantly targeted by the religious right is Ted Haggard, leader of the politically well-connected National Association of Evangelicals until, in 2006 (after this film was made), a scandal involving a male prostitute and methamphetamines suggested he’d found other ways of getting closer to God. (AD) 84 min. The Movies

Silk Stockings Ninotchka Until 27 June at Filmmuseum

By Marie-Claire Melzer

Death Proof It’s unclear whether the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez exploitation-flick double bill Grindhouse will ever reach our cinemas in its original form, but luckily this extended version of Tarantino’s half stands on its own. Kurt Russell plays Stuntman Mike, a shady has-been who stalks and attacks two groups of women with his death-proofed stunt car. Unfortunately for him, his second group of intended victims are professional, kick-ass stunt driver gals. While two thirds of the film are pure chick-flick, Tarantino excels in the carnage and chases even more than the dialogue. The cinematography and soundtrack are both exemplary.

(LvH) 127 min. Kriterion, The Movies, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone This leisurely, sensual new film from minimalist Malaysian-Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang (The Wayward Cloud) is about a

Little Miss Sunshine In this offbeat comedy, a

fractious family of misfits piles into an ailing VW bus and sets off for California so the youngest (Abigail Breslin) can compete in a children’s beauty pageant.

verts her to capitalism by force of romance.

Ninotchka plays out all the stereotypes about communism and the Soviet Union. When Ninotchka arrives in Paris she is badly dressed, has no sense of humour and moves and speaks like a robot. She doesn’t believe in love, but is only interested in facts and figures.

(When looking at the view from the Eiffel Tower, she just sighs that all those lights are a waste of electricity). It is only through the frivolous French count that Ninotchka learns about love and pleasure, that is, ‘real’ life. He inspires her to dress like a woman, so she can be her ‘natural’ self. The film equates capitalism with freedom and presents consumerism as the only natural way to be.

All this is charmingly played over again in Silk Stockings, this time including song and dance—plus a major part for ‘our’ Wim Sonneveld as the defected Russian composer Boroff, a musician who falls in love with a Hollywood actress and is converted to the American way of making art.

In their 1944 book The Dialectic of Enlightenment, Marxist theorists Theodor

W Adorno and Max Horkheimer asserted that popular culture was a product of capitalist ideology, and that films made within the capitalist system of the Hollywood studios could never be real art. In fact, Hollywood films were dangerous: they sneakily transferred capitalist ideology by telling stories in a seemingly natural style, which made consumerism look like a normal way of life.

Adorno’s theories have gone out of fashion. Hollywood cinema just isn’t that one-dimensional. For example, the (fine) music in Silk Stockings is by Cole Porter, whose song ‘Stereophonic Sound’ mocks Hollywood for its tendency to sacrifice a good story for spectacle. It is sung by Fred Astaire and Janice Paige, who plays a swimming star—the water still in her ears—now being cast for a ‘serious’ part in a Hollywood version of War and Peace.

Yet when you see Charisse dancing with tights, you can’t help thinking that Adorno did have a point. Silk Stockings exploits the idea that you can only be a ‘real’ (wo)man when you buy the right stuff. Films and commercials are more closely related than we like to think, connecting attractiveness to the right shampoo, happy coupling to a shiny espresso machine, or true love to the comforts of a credit card. And what would Adorno have said about the Axe effect? The commercial of a skinny guy on a beach who has a horde of barely dressed women running towards him, just because he put on the right deodorant, is, of course, highly ironic. But would it stop anyone from buying that deodorant? Silk Stockings is a piece of— as Charisse herself sings in ‘Paris loves Lovers’—bourgeois propaganda and an ironic commentary on the consumer culture, all disguised as a charming bit of musical fluff.

Suffering each other along the way are her irascible grandfather (Alan Arkin), suicidal uncle (Steve Carell), Nietzsche-obsessed teenage brother (Paul Dano), beleaguered mom (Toni Collette) and abrasive dad (Greg Kinnear), a motivational speaker whose nine-step programme for success constantly aggravates the others’ sense of failure. As scripted

by Michael Arndt, this isn’t much more than a glorified sitcom, but it deftly dramatises our conflicting desires for individuality and an audience to applaud it. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris directed. (JJ) 102 min. Cavia

Notes on a Scandal A bitter old history teacher at a wild English high school (Judi Dench) befriends an attractive young colleague who’s just arrived (Cate Blanchett), only to discover she’s having sex with a 15year-old student. Adapted from a novel by Zoë Heller, this drama is both literate and urgently plotted, with a voice-over from Dench that cuts like broken glass. Her character is sly, controlling, desperately lonely and capable of anything, and when Blanchett’s secret gets out, a proper chamber drama explodes into something much more troubling. Richard Eyre (Iris) directed. (JJ) 91 min. De Uitkijk

Little Miss Sunshine The Messengers This stylish ghost story from rising Hong Kong codirectors Danny and Oxide Pang (the ‘Eye’ trilogy) and producer Sam Raimi earns points for its set and sound design, eerily desaturated palette, able cast and one really good special effect. Sadly, the movie just doesn’t deliver chills. Kristen Stewart (Panic Room) plays a troubled teen who reluctantly moves to a run-down North Dakota farm with her anxious parents (Dylan McDermott and Penelope Ann Miller) and mute toddler brother. Soon the tot is communing with the vengeful spirits of the previous inhabitants, who target the girl. The Pangs’ editing style of juxtaposing similar images shot from different angles and distances—a technique that worked in Bangkok Dangerous—here only dilutes what little suspense screenwriter Mark Wheaton could muster. (AG) 90 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

Nue propriété Isabelle Huppert plays a Belgian mother who feels her life is weighing her down. She decides to sell her house and, together with her new lover, start a bed and breakfast in the Alps. Left to their own devices, her twin sons take their abandonment out on each other in this film by Joachim Lafosse; the English title is Private Property. In French with Dutch subtitles. 105 min. De Uitkijk Nuovomondo At the start of the 20th century, a widowed Sicilian farmer (Vincenzo Amato) emigrates to America with his sons. Just before they embark, he meets an Englishwoman named Lucy (Charlotte Gainsbourg) who needs someone to marry her so she too can go to America. This film about the dream of a new world was acclaimed at the Venice Film Festival.

Directed by Emmanuele Crialese, with cinematography by Agnès Godard (Wings of Desire, Beau Travail).

In Italian/English with Dutch subtitles. 120 min. Pathé Tuschinski

Ocean’s Thirteen Directed by Steven Soderbergh,

Ocean’s Thirteen brings Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his pack of thieves back to that glamorous playground for adults, Las Vegas. But this time, it’s personal. One of their own, Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould), winds up in the hospital after being

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Special screenings 5 1/2 Roofs Dutch premieres of two new video documentaries about squatting in the 21st century.

One, 51⁄2 Roofs (directed by Sepp R. Brudermann, 84 mins., in English), is a tour of six London squats.

The other, Table, Bed, Chair (directed by Robert Hack, 30 mins., in English/Dutch with English subtitles), looks at squatting in contemporary Amsterdam. OT301 Avant-garde Cinema An evening of short movies by Man Ray, Robert Florey + Slavko Vorkapich, Dimitri Kirsanoff, James Sibley Watson + Melville Webber, Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Leger, Viking Eggeling, Jean Painleve, Orson Welles and William Vance. OT301

Best of Seven Years Shadow: Shorts Great Balls

of Fire (2001) is a six-minute interview with a homeless man in New York, filmed while the World Trade Center collapses in the background. The Crowned Rat (2005) recounts a Polish film-maker’s friendship with a drunk. In Axis of Evil, a couple at Niagara Falls avow their love for each other using the words that President Bush used to proclaim the war on terror.

And in Underneath the Skin (2003), Michael Noer profiles a Danish pornographer. De Balie Desperate Living In his first feature without Divine, John Waters finds himself without a moral centre.

This 1977 pre-punk midnight shocker and scabrous fairy tale is full of deviant sexuality, violent excess, and plenty of other Waters regulars, including Liz Renay, Mary Vivian Pearce, Susan Lowe, Mink Stole as a murderous housewife and Edith Massey as the Queen of the Underworld. (JR) 91 min. De Nieuwe Anita

Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) Mikio Naruse belongs with Ozu and Mizoguchi in the great classical tradition of Japanese cinema, though he remains almost unknown to American audiences. Like his famous colleagues, he specialised in melodrama, but his work rigorously denies both the spiritual transcendence of Mizoguchi and the human connections of Ozu, moving instead toward a sense of defeat and futility. Floating Clouds (1955), which was a huge popular success in Japan and remains his best-loved film today, tells of a young woman’s determined love

swindled by Willy Bank (Al Pacino). So Danny and the gang are out for revenge: clean out Bank’s finances and hit him where it hurts the most by ruining his chances of getting a Five Diamond Award for his latest hotel on the Strip. Not just another sequel, this is one of the most entertaining movies of the franchise so far: suave, sleek and snappy. Includes eye candy. (SD) 122 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski

FILM TIMES Thursday 21 June until Wednesday 27 June.

Times are provided by cinemas and are subject to last-minute changes. Film times also at www.amsterdamweekly.nl.

De Balie Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, 553 5151 Best of Seven Years Shadow: Shorts Fri, Sat 20.30.

Cavia Van Hallstraat 52-I, 681 1419 Little Miss Sunshine Thur 20.30 Thank You for Smoking Fri 20.30.

Cinecenter Lijnbaansgracht 236, 623 6615 Azuloscurocasinegro daily 16.15, 19.15, 22.00, Sun also 11.00, 13.30 Irina Palm daily 16.30, 19.15, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 13.30 Das Leben der Anderen daily 16.00, 19.00, 21.45, Sun also 11.15 Venus daily 16.15, 19.30, 21.45, Sun also 11.00, 14.00.

Cinema Amstelveen Plein 1960 2, Amstelveen, 547 5175 Assepoester en de Keukenprins Sat 13.30, Sun 12.00 Bamako Tues, Wed 20.30 Haaibaai Sat 15.30, Sun 14.00, Wed 13.30 Mr Bean's Holiday Thur 15.00 Shrek the Third Thur-Sat 20.30, Sun 16.00, Wed 15.30.

Filmmuseum Vondelpark 3, 589 1400 Bluebeard's Eighth Wife Sun 18.30, Wed 19.30 Curse of the Golden Flower Fri, Sun-Tues 21.45, Wed 21.30 Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin Thur 19.15 Exiled Thur, Sat 21.45, Tues, Wed 17.00 Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) Tues 19.30 Heaven Can Wait (1943) Sat, Sun, Tues 19.15 I Don't Want to Sleep Alone Thur-Sat 17.00 Krikou en de heks Sun, Wed 14.00

for a man she knows to be worthless; the film piles betrayal upon betrayal, but her hope is never shaken.

Naruse’s visual style is austere to the point of invisibility; his meanings are contained in his actors’ faces and in his distinctive dovetailing of dramatic incidents, a narrative pattern that allows his characters no rest, but affords a strange peace in its constancy.

In Japanese with Dutch and French subtitles. (DK) 123 min. Filmmuseum

Helvetica A documentary about the typeface, shot partly in Amsterdam and featuring an impressive post-rock soundtrack. See interview on p. 17. Kriterion Histoire(s) du cinema Well over a decade in the

making, this eight-part, 264-minute video (1998) is Jean-Luc Godard’s magnum opus. Daunting, provocative and very beautiful, Godard’s meditative essay looks at the history of the 20th century through cinema and vice versa, mainly through a rich assortment of clips (sometimes superimposing more than one), sound tracks (sometimes paired with visuals from other films), poetic commentary (with plenty of metaphors) and captions. For better and for worse, it’s comparable to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake in both its difficulty and its playfulness. The beauty and power of this ambitious, dreamlike work are incontestable. In French with English subtitles. (JR) iLLUSEUM

Lightning (Inazuma) Director Mikio Naruse was particularly sympathetic to the difficult position of women in Japanese families. In this 1952 film, four children live with their mother and try to work their way up out of poverty. Naruse follows one of the daughters, an independent-minded bus driver (Hideko Takamine) determined to have a life of her own. Like Floating Clouds, Lightning is based on a novel by Fumiko Hayashi; unlike most of Naruse’s films, it has a relatively upbeat ending. In Japanese with Dutch subtitles. 84 min. Filmmuseum Older Brother, Younger Sister (Ani Imoto) A farmer’s unmarried daughter (Machiko Kyô) returns home from Tokyo pregnant, a scandal that threatens her younger sister’s chances of marriage. Meanwhile, their brother’s anger begins to take on terrifying proportions in Mikio Naruse’s 1953 story of

constricting family bonds. In Japanese with Dutch subtitles. 87 min. Filmmuseum La Pianiste If you like being shaken up, Michael Haneke’s 2001 feature, about a prim piano teacher (Isabelle Huppert) who lives with her mother and develops a sadomasochistic relationship with a young male pupil, is probably for you. Huppert gives her all, and you won’t be bored. Adapted from an Austrian novel by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. In French with Dutch subtitles. (JR) 130 min. Kriterion Repast (Meshi) Mikio Naruse’s mature period is often dated from this 1951 film, his first self-conscious use of the daringly understated style that would illuminate later masterworks like Lightning and Floating Clouds. Setsuko Hara stars as a middle-class housewife whose discontent with her life explodes when she finds her husband making love to her niece; she decides to leave for Tokyo, dreaming of the beautiful city she knew before the war, but finds only chaos and destruction. In Japanese with Dutch subtitles. (DK) 92 min. Filmmuseum Sound of the Mountain (Yama no oto) Made during his richest period, Mikio Naruse’s 1954 adaptation of a novel by Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata about the bonds between a lonely wife (the great Setsuko Hara), her brazenly philandering husband and her brooding, sympathetic father-in-law (So Yamamura) was one of the director’s favourites.

Characteristically, the poetry of the mise en scene and the economy of the editing are terse and unsentimental, with Naruse’s sense of life’s perpetual disappointments firmly in place. In Japanese with Dutch subtitles. (JR) 96 min. Filmmuseum The Spirit of the Beehive A sensitive 1973 mood piece by Victor Erice centred on small children in a Spanish village in the 1930s. The extraordinary child actress Ana Torrent (Cria Cuervos) made her debut here at the age of five. Much in the film is derivative, but Erice excels in precise evocations of childhood feelings—there is one dumbfounding moment of lyrical, joyful horror. Also showing: Erice’s 2002 short film Lifeline. In Spanish with English subtitles. (DK) 95 min. De Roode Bioscoop

Pan’s Labyrinth By mixing the narrative setting he already visited in The Devil’s Backbone with the Grand Guignol sensibilities he’s shown in his Hollywood films, Guillermo del Toro has managed to create a perfect, poignant fairy tale of the Grimm variety.

Young Ofelia must undergo a perilous quest that takes her through the depths of the underworld and pits her against her nefarious new father. Bittersweet and darkly disturbing at the same time, this movie’s guar-

anteed to keep your inner child up at night with delicious fright. Just refrain from accepting candy from Fascists and fauns and you’ll be fine. In Spanish with Dutch subtitles. (LvH) 112 min. The Movies, Pathé Tuschinski

Lightning (Inazuma) Fri 19.30 Ninotchka Thur-Tues 21.30, Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed 17.15, Wed also 21.45 Older Brother,Younger Sister (Ani Imoto) Sat 19.30 Repast (Meshi) Thur 19.30 The Sand Castle Sun, Wed 13.45 Silk Stockings Fri, Mon, Wed 19.15, Sun 16.00 Sound of the Mountain (Yama no oto) Mon 19.30.

OT301 Overtoom 301, 779 4913 5 1/2 Roofs Tues 20.30 Avant-garde Cinema Sun 20.30 Table, Bed, Chair Tues 20.30.

iLLUSEUM Witte de Withstraat 120, 770 5581 Histoire(s) du cinema Sat 19.00.

Het Ketelhuis Westergasfabriek, Haarlemmerweg 8-10, 684 0090 Adam's Apples daily 17.30, 22.00, Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed also 19.45, Sat also 15.15 De Avonturen van het Molletje Sat, Sun, Wed 14.30, 16.00 Donnie Darko Sun 19.30 Irina Palm daily 17.30, 19.30, Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed also 21.30, Sun also 10.30 Das Leben der Anderen daily 21.15 Shrek the Third daily 17.15, 19.15, Sat, Sun, Wed also 12.45, 14.45 Waltz Marathon Sun 10.00.

Kriterion Roetersstraat 170, 623 1708 Cashback daily 19.45, Thur, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed also 22.00, Sat, Sun also 15.30, Sat also 0.00 Death Proof daily 17.45, Thur-Mon, Wed also 22.15, Thur, Sat, Sun, Tues, Wed also 20.00, Sat also 0.30 Helvetica Fri 20.00, 22.30 Interview daily 17.30 La Pianiste Mon 22.00 Sneak Preview Tues 22.15.

The Movies Haarlemmerdijk 159-165, 638 6016 Anche libero va bene daily 17.15, Sat, Sun, Wed also 15.15 Death Proof daily 19.45, 22.00, Fri, Sat also 0.15 The Hoax daily 21.30, Sat, Sun, Wed also 14.45 Jesus Camp daily 17.30, 19.15, Sun also 12.30 Kill Bill:Vol 1 Fri, Sat 23.45 Kill Bill:Vol 2 Fri, Sat 0.00 Pan's Labyrinth daily 19.30, 21.45, Fri, Sat also 0.00, Sun also 12.45 Shrek the Third (NL) daily 17.00, Sat, Sun Wed also 15.00, Sun also 13.00 Venus daily 17.15, 19.30, 21.45, Sat, Sun, Wed also 15.15, Sun 13.15.

De Nieuwe Anita Frederik Hendrikstraat 111, 06 4150 3512 Desperate Living Mon 20.30.

Shrek the Third The big green babysitter is back, but the charm has evaporated. Cinephiles will enjoy some of the in-jokes (watching an awful play, one character

Pathé ArenA ArenA Boulevard 600, 0900 1458 Assepoester en de Keukenprins Sat, Sun 11.40, 14.10 Death Proof daily 19.05, 21.40, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.10, 15.45 Fracture daily 19.15, Thur, Sun, Mon, Wed also 21.50 Haaibaai Sat, Sun, Wed 13.10, 15.20, 17.15, Sat, Sun also 11.10 The Messengers daily 15.15, 17.40, 19.50, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.50 Mr Bean's Holiday daily 11.50, 14.10, 16.50 Mrs Henderson Presents Tues 13.30 The Number 23 daily 22.00 Ocean's Thirteen daily 12.00, 13.20, 14.40, 15.50, 17.20, 19.00, 20.20, 21.45, Sat, Sun also 10.20 Pirates of the Caribbean 3 daily 12.30, 14.00, 16.00, 17.00, 17.30, 19.30, 20.30, 21.00, Thur-Mon, Wed also 13.30, Sat, Sun also 10.30 Premonition daily 12.25, 15.30, 18.10, 20.40, Sat, Sun also 10.00 Shrek the Third daily 12.40, 14.50, 15.40, 17.00, 17.50, 18.40, 19.10, 20.00, 21.00, 21.30, 22.10, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 13.15, Sat, Sun also 10.20, 11.15, 13.30 Shrek the Third (NL) daily 12.20, 14.00, 14.30, 16.10, 16.40, Thur-Sat, Mon-Wed also 11.40, Sat, Sun also 10.10 Sneak Preview Tues 21.30 Spider-Man 3 (IMAX) Thur-Sun, Tues, Wed 18.20, 21.20 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sat, Sun, Wed 12.50, Sat, Sun also 10.45 Zodiac daily 20.10, Thur-Tues 16.30, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 13.00.

Pathé De Munt Vijzelstraat 15, 0900 1458 Black Snake Moan Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 19.15, Sat 18.45 Death Proof Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.50, 15.35, 18.50, 21.40, Sun also 10.10, Sat 10.30, 14.10, 16.50, 19.35, 22.30 Fracture Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed 21.20, Sat 20.30, 23.20 Haaibaai Sat 10.45, 12.50, 14.50, Sun, Wed 12.00, Sun also 10.05, 14.05, Wed also 14.00 The Messengers Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 16.15, 22.10, Thur, Fri, Mon, Tues also 12.00, 14.00, Sat 17.05, 23.10 Mr Bean's Holiday Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 14.25, 17.00, Sun also 11.30, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 12.15, Sat 11.45, 13.55, 16.20 The Number 23 Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 21.50, Sat 21.30 Ocean's Thirteen Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.10, 13.45, 15.00, 17.25, 18.00, 20.15, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 21.00, Sun also 10.45, Sat, Tues 21.20, Sat 10.05, 11.15, 12.40, 14.20, 15.35, 17.15, 18.25, 20.10, 23.00 Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed also 12.20, 13.05, 16.00, 16.45, 18.30, 20.00, 20.35, Sat 10.10, 11.00, 13.30, 14.35,

21-27 June 2007 cracks, ‘This is worse than Love Letters’). But then, if you’re a cinephile, why would you bother with this?

Chris Miller and Raman Hui directed; with the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas. (JJ) 93 min. Cinema Amstelveen, Het Ketelhuis, Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt, Pathé Tuschinski Thank You for Smoking Christopher Buckley’s 1994 novel about Washington spin doctors has been adapted to the screen by first-time director Jason Reitman, who preserves its libertarian zeal and acid satire of Beltway amorality. Aaron Eckhart plays a fast-talking spokesperson for the tobacco industry, Robert Duvall an ageing tobacco lion, Rob Lowe a vain Hollywood superagent, William H Macy a persnickety liberal senator. (JJ) 92 min. Cavia Venus Some great films have been made about the love between an older man and a young woman: Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962) and Billy Wilder’s Love in the Afternoon (1957), to name but a few.

Unfortunately, Venus is not such a great film. There is nothing wrong with the story, by Hanif Kureishi; it’s just that the supposed chemistry between Maurice (Peter O’Toole) and Jessie (Jodie Whittaker) doesn’t come across. Kureishi clearly modeled Jessie on Matt Lucas’s Vicky Pollard (from the hilarious TV series Little Britain) and Catherine Tate’s equally mouthy Lauren (‘am I bovvered?’) from The Catherine Tate Show. Yet portraying a troubled teenage girl takes a little more than putting on a pink sweater and eating crisps. Whittaker’s Jessie simply isn’t as convincing as her comic counterparts on television. The scenes with O’Toole and his exwife (Vanessa Redgrave) however, are very moving.

If only there had been more of those. (MM) 95 min.

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Zodiac David Fincher has come a long way in the five years since his last skilful but empty exercise in style, Panic Room. In Zodiac, about four men obsessed with their search for the infamous Zodiac Killer, Fincher finally emerges as a real storyteller. He meticulously follows the book by cartoonist Robert Graysmith without ever allowing it to get boring or lose tension. Fincher has matured, but Robert Downey Jr can claim the most amazing comeback. After some very rocky years battling drug addiction and poor film choices, Downey, as the ever-intoxicated reporter Paul Avery, now dazzles us with a cynical, funny and genuinely moving performance. (BS) 158 min. Pathé ArenA, Pathé De Munt

17.10, 18.10, 19.35, 20.45, 21.45 Premonition Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.15, 15.50, 18.40, 21.10, Sun also 10.40, Sat 11.30, 14.00, 16.35, 19.10 The Reaping Sat 22.00 Shrek the Third Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.30, 14.10, 14.40, 16.30, 17.00, 19.00, 19.30, 21.30, 22.00, Sun also 10.15, 11.50, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 12.00, Sat 10.05, 11.25, 12.20, 13.45, 15.05, 16.10, 17.30, 18.35, 19.50, 21.00, 22.15, 23.30 Shrek the Third (NL) Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 12.00, 14.20, 16.40, 19.05, Sat 10.40, 13.00, 15.25, 18.00 Sneak Preview Tues 21.45 Spider-Man 3 Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 15.15, 20.25, Sun also 12.10, Thur, Fri, Mon-Wed also 12.25, Sat 10.20, 13.15, 17.45, 20.55 Zodiac Thur, Fri, Sun-Wed 13.30, 17.15, Thur, Fri, Sun, Mon, Wed also 20.45, Sun also 10.15, Tues also 20.55, Sat 12.30, 15.55, 19.20, 22.45.

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SHOP2-hr workshop on Sun LANGUAGES 24 June. An enjoyable jourFIRST STEPS IN DUTCH ney through different techniques-isolations, articula- Enroll in very special 2-wk tions, shimmy, traveling in summer course everyday space & dance phrases. Focus Dutch for beginners. Lively on body posture & personal course in heart of A’dam with expression in the dance. opportunity to practice a lot.

Using different Oriental www.glossa.nl. rhythms. Interested please CONVERSATION CLASS email ificouldreachu@ Looking for conversation gmail.com. class in Dutch in exchange PUBLIC SPEAKING Work- for conversation class in shop will focus in a practical French and Portuguese. If and theoretical way on your interested send an email to sycomore69@gmail.com. public speaking skills. Covering such topics as speech ENGLISH LESSONS I am preparation, delivery styles, offering private English vocal ariety, body language. lessons for both business and Plus other topics. 15 years general English. CPE and

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RAAR EXHIBITION Sat 23 June, Schenk/Holtz-Sweet intoxication: Voluntary madness, art exhibition by Paul Schenk and Frank Holtz a.k.a. Nayayara. RAAR Art Space, Sint Jansstraat 37, near Damsquare, Open from ARE YOU AMERICAN?Join 18.00. Info at www.raarthe fun with like-minded gallery.nl.

Americans at Democrats Abroad, the official Demo- THEATRE GROUP (2 ppl) cratic Party organization for seeks transport to Bimbo millions of Americans living Town in Leipzig, Germany overseas. With monthly Dem from around 5-11 July. Petrol Drinks, discussions, issue paid and accommodation progroups, and other activities. vided. Please call Erin and Go to www.democratsabroad. Ewan on 423 1955.

Dave Dobbyn performing in nl and click “join”.

REALITYPORTAL LAUNCH Holland for the first time. Sat event party/Supperclub, 23 GENII OUT THERE? I am 30 June in the oude zaal in creating a website for genii June 13.00-19.00. Two-hr the Melkweg, A’dam. Preand potential genii to share Truth Shock Documentary. show starts at 19.30. your thoughts and visions. After 15 years welcome to http://www.davedobbyn.co.nz Genius can also have its down- the world premiere. Photo / General admission €20. side, the lonliness of genius. expo, about legalize, canhttp://www.ticketmaster.nl/ There is also support page nibus cup, Ruigoord, Alex or directly with Melkweg: and forum. Don’t be shy take Grey, Jack Herer, human http://www.melkweg.nl/. a peek. www.geniusnow.co.uk rights, coffeeshops, Luke PAINT NEEDEDIf you have Martyn 06 4638 8622. Dare Brown, 9/11 truth, AIDS? www.realityportal.info. any old house paint that is tak- to share. ing up room then let me take VIDEO CLIPMake-up artists PHOTOGRAPHER WANTit off of your hands. Am artist & hairstylists needed for 2- ED to document bio art prowho uses normal house paint day video clip being shot in ject in A’dam. Small fee can to work with and will gladly A’dam, 30 June & 1 July. No be paid to right person. Result take any old, used or unwant- pay, but a great 2 days work- will be part of a touring intered cans of paint from you. ing with A’dam-based Elec- national exhibition. Great Email atlas_shrugged1@hot- tro Act, dancers & film crew. exposure! Email eden.st.j@ mail.com.

Something for your CV! Email gmail.com or phone 06 4831 INVITATIONin the Research: slagroom@stikka.net or 3025.

Diagnosed and living with rheumatoid arthritis! Are you between 20-50? Do you speak English? Then you have opportunity to participate in research conducted at the UvA. 1.5 hour interview.

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WANTED: ECCENTRIC Dutch millionare to finance outrageous Canadian rock band. www.whitecowbell. com. Contact +1 416 516 8354 or iangoodhue@yahoo.com.

PRIVATE TEACHER Offered. I have 7 years of experience in teaching math, phyics, English and Spanish to children, teenagers, and adults. Private lessons. Rates: €10-€20/hr. Marta: 06 3842 4100 or ruiperezmarta@ yahoo.es. Feel free to contact me just for information!

BIKINI BOOTCAMPAccess Fitness offers you a 6 wk course to get in great shape for the summer. Work closely with program leader from www.ariavitale.nl Take advantage of our special offer now.

For more info, pls phone 423 3217 or check http://accessnl.org. More courses coming to help expats enjoy their stay here.

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TOEFL training for students.

All levels. Qualified teacher.

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LEARN SPANISH! Do you want to learn or improve your Spanish with professional native? Speaking, grammar, etc. What you want! Private €20 and group €15 each. (23). Phone 06 4384 5642. Y habla español!

DUTCH LESSONS A'DAM Improve conversation/professional purpose/studies/NT2. Also online. Min individual rate €15/hr. Adults & children. Also intensive courses. Min intensive: 15 hrs=€215.55. Mon-Sun. 10.0021.00. http://home.tiscali.nl/ stylusphant/indexdutch.html , excellentdutch@hotmail.com or call 06 3612 2870.

INTENSIVE DUTCHCOURSES. Do you really want to learn Dutch? Follow an intensive course at Joost Weet Het! Fun classes and emphasis on conversation. Prepare your

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BI-CURIOUS? Me too. I’m a exams here. Classes 4x4 hours p/wk. 3,4 and 8 weeks courses. Visit http://www.joostweethet.nl or email info@joostweethet.nl or call 420 8146.

MUSICIANS SINGERLooking for a band, rock-pop-alternative. Dave Matthews, Depeche-Mode, Coldplay, For 1-2 times a week. asaf123@gmail.com.

PERSONALS DATE WANTED! Young 37 y.o. man, 1.74m, 75k. Green eyes, white skin, sexy body, looking for date with ladies over 40, fat body. Interested? Call me for a cup of tea at 06 2334 9502. Marks.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

WALLPAPER WANTED?!

Um, what’s up w/ the artists who are supposedly searching for wallpaper but don’t call me to pick it up?? I need GET RID OF YOUR BOAT to know! Ian. bartsch_li@het- Looking for small boat in any net.nl. conditions to get for free.

DAVE DOBBYN MELKWEG