Chinese crude oil imports during December totaled 14.37mn tons (3.40mn b/d), Chinas General Administration of Customs announced on 13 January. This compares with 13.36mn tons in November, or 3.25mn b/d, the lowest monthly average for the year (MEES, 5 January). The December rebound can be attributed partly to stockbuilding ahead of the Chinese New Year holiday in late January. The...
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16 classical, and ambient mUSIC show up on his latest release, "Everything Is Wrong." . . . fJI Soul Kitchen, the original sev- enties funk and R. & B. party, goes down (late) every Tuesday. . . . fJI The Swing Dance Society gathers here Sundays, with sets from eight until midnight. For information on the society, call 696-9737. KAPTAIN BANANA, 101 Greene St (343-9000)- French cabaret en travesti in SoBo. Three drag queens and eight dancers re-create the Court of Versailles, a carnival in Rio, Mar- lene Dietrich, and the Andrews Sisters There's also a singing gorilla. Dining. LIMELIGHT, Sixth Ave. at 20th St. (807-7850)- The rock-and-roll church. May 21: Hard- core, Queens-style, with SICK OF IT ALL. May 23: Industria] noise, Hamburg-style, with KMFDM. Wednesday night is Disco 2000. LUDLOW STREET CAFÉ, 165 Ludlow St. (353-0536)- An unassuming basement restaurant-bar, where you can drink cheap and catch live music nightly. Mondays belong to BEAT RO- DEO, a straight-shooting bar band that plays a mixture of country, blues, Dylan, Byrds, Velvets, and various pop curiosities. MATCH, 160 Mercer St. (343-0020)-This hip SoHo boîte is the place to be every Sunday night, thanks to the SHORTY JACKSON LEGACY BLUES BAND. Dining MAXWELL'S, 1039 Washington St., Hoboken (1-201 798-4064)-IVY and KITCHENS OF DIS- TINCTION entertain on May 19. MAGNETIC FIELDS rddiate on May 21. Fields mastermind Stephin Merritt recently enlisted a Who's Who of alternative-rock vocalists for a side project called The 6ths. but he claims to have no affinity for the genre. Instead, he likens his sophisticated, spare synth-pop to seventies-era Elton John and Abba. He's become one of New York's most revered underground artists and a reluctant anti- hero whose work is as catchy as his dour bon mots are clever L -. Street" and "London Calling." May 20: HE- LIUM makes a very loud sound. NELL'S, 246 W. 14th St. (675-1567)-A Victorian- style club, home to an eclectic crowd of down- town youngsters dancing to throbbing funk and techno- pop. PADDY REILLY'S MUSIC BAR, 519 Second Ave., at 29th St. (686-1210)-BLACK 47 plays on Sat- urdays, and Speir Mor (GaelIc for Big Sky) performs for a hearty following on Fridays. Séisiún-a traditional Irish jam-is on Thursday nights. LES POULETS, 16 W. 22nd St. (229-2000)-The name may be French, but the music here is Latin: expect salsa, merengue, and, now and then, cha-cha. MdY 20: A double bIll featuring RAY SEPULVEDA and TITO RODRIGUEZ, JR. Dining. S.O.B.'s, 204 Varick St., at W. Houston St. (243-4940)-A great grass hut with a fruit- and-bamboo motif, dedicated to calypso, reg- gae, and the bossa nova. May 22: LA INDIA. Dining. TRAMPS, 51 W. 21st St. (727-7788)-May 19: YO LA TENGO. This literate outfit, headed by the husband-and-wife team of singer Ira Kaplan and drummer Georgia Hubley, has a flair for crisp, three-minute pop songs and for interminable feedback experiments. In between, they occasionally dip into bliss- ful folk-rock, as heard on "Fakebook" (1990), a gorgeous collection of (mostly) covers. Concertgoers never really know which band they're in for. May 23: LITTLE FEAT. Since the death of Lowell George, this band has been a shadow of its former glory, but the re- maining members still know how to make chicken-fried boogie. WEBSTER HALL, 125 E. 11th St (353-1600)-A byzantine disco wonderland with four floors, a coffee shop, dnd d wig boutique. May 22: The STONE ROSES swing over from the Man- hattan Center Ballroom. Wednesday is drag night. Psychedelic Thursdays feature grunge acts and cheap beer. WETLANDS, 161 Hudson St. (966-4225)-May 19: The AUTHORITY is in charge. May 22: TINSEL TOWN REBELLION pays the music of Frank Zappa. - ........ : =-- ===--- .. -...... -- =-;;;: -- ........:: ==- . - \ -- Matthew Sweet, at the Academy. MERCURY LOUNGE, 217 E. Houston St. (260-4700)- Past the long bar, you'll find an exposed- brick room and a stage packed with some very hip rock acts. May 18: DAVID BROZA May 19: F.S.K., featuring David Lowery, late of Cracker. Lowery, who apprenticed with the California band Camper Van Beethoven in the late eighties, has a great voice for modern rock: he often sounds a little tired, but he manages to sneer, registering irony without losing the intensity that makes rock sound real. Cracker's last record, "Kerosene Hat," had that disreputable offhand grace that messed up albums like "Exile on Main 5 TONY@ AWARD NOMINATIONS including OUTSTANDING PLAY by TERRENCE McNALLY directed by JOE MANTELLO Call TEIE-ttH]r E@ Today 212-239-6200. Outside Metro NY 800-432-7250. Tickets: $45, $35, $20, $15 I Walter Kerr Theatre 219 West 48th Street - - aU R! t-V . .2- 6 DRAMA DESK AWARD NOMINATIONS -- e,. including . , Co NewB\Ock Â. ofTickets Available y .... 4W' thru Sept. 2 o z .. :;f^ & (WINNER!) 3 OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS including It OUTSTANDING BROADWAY PLAY ART Ars Immaculata O N entering "No More Stains!," the new installation by the Greek artist Konstantin Kakanias (at Postmasters, 80 Greene Street; through May 27), you encounter what appears to be a Greek village woman in a shapeless black dress and black kerchief, shuffling about in orthopedic shoes and patiently tidying up the gallery or whitewashing the eleven small' 'houses" that make up the exhibition proper. At once funny and scary, she is Kakanias himself, remind- ing us of the root meaning of "catharsis": a cleansIng, a purging. The houses are lit from within by votive candles, creating an atmosphere of sacramental mystery; the artist has painted the interiors with surprisingly merry scenes of sexual license, infantile aggres- sion, torture, murder, and incontinence. His style and his themes suggest a wide range of precedents, from the frescoes of Pompeii to Goya's "Caprichos" to the febrile etchings of Félicien Rops. Playing on the tensions between cleaning rituals BJ :::..:: and the unsanitizable realm of the un- c.... conscious, Kakanias has given form to a 0::: place in the imagination where pleasure S and terror lie excruciatingly close together. (9
Metro Government is one step closer to getting a $10 million loan from the Louisville Water Company.
The Board of Water Works voted Tuesday to approve the loan, which will be used to pay a $14 million settlement with a group of retired firefighters who were underpaid for overtime work.
“If we were not doing this loan, we would be investing these reserves in government backed securities and it would actually be a slightly lower rate so this is a good short term use of the funds that will generate some interest income,” he says.
The city used bonds to pay a larger settlement in a similar suit last year. Mayor Greg Fischer says the decision to borrow from the Water Company seems more popular.
“The reaction I’ve received from the citizens has been it’s an example of city agencies cooperating with each other showing common sense in how to deal with a liability that we face as a city,” he says.
The city will repay the Water Company with interest beginning in 2012. The Metro Council must approve the loan, too. They’ll vote on it Thursday. It’s expected to pass.
Jocelyn Pleasant performs live in the studio with three musicians from her group The Lost Tribe. Jocelyn talks about her training as a Jazz set drummer, her exposure to West African music cultures and her eventual merging of the two. Lost Tribe musicians Seny Camara, Mike Tepper and Matt Belliveau share their thoughts on acclimating to the cross-cultural shift.
Jazz, Latin, R+B, Funk and a variety of interviews on cultural and political topics. Regular phone guests include: Max Wolff, the People's Economist and Jack Beatty, Senior Ed. with Atlantic Monthly Magazine.
High School students from area schools share their news, live music, creative writing and commentary.