Rudy Panucci On Pop Culture
Saturday
Halloween Bazaar
10 AM-3 PM Visit the valley’s only open-air artisan market at the East End Bazaar. Peruse Halloween-themed offerings of various vendors. Lee’s Studio of Dance will host a special flash mob workshop for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” that will be used during the HallowEast Zombie Walk.
NOTLD
Last chance to see it!
Zombie Walk/Run/Crawl
It all happens Saturday. Details can be found here.
The PopCulteer
October 25, 2013
It’s time for ArtMares again! The art exhibit component of HallowEast which I have been lucky enough to be part of for five years now. This year the art show is happening at Contemporary Galleries (1210 Smith Street) in the third floor showroom. More than forty artists have their work on display and for sale. Half the proceeds go to East End Main Street and half to the artists.
Tonight is the big reception, from 6 PM to 11PM with live music from Sean Sydnor and plenty of adult beverages and things upon which you can nibble. Most of the artists will be on hand. Tip your bartender and it’ll go to EEMS.
Your PopCulteer took his camera to the opening Wednesday night, and I’m bringing you about 90% of the works in today’s photo essay. With so much art to see, there were a few pictures that were too dark or blurry to run. Please remember that my photos do not do justice to the original art, and that you should go to the exhibit to see it in person. This photo essay will be light on commentary because there was so much cool stuff to take in.
Let the ArtMares begin…
Rob Cleland’s cool trading card portraits of the HallowEast bigwigs
Saturday both the HallowEast Run Like Hell Zombie 5 K Run and the HallowEast Zombie Walk are happening. In fact, they are going to collide somewhere around the intersection of Quarrier and Elisabeth Streets. Many people are planning to participate and they need to know how to look and act like a zombie.
As a public service, PopCult is happy to bring you a series of nine informative instructional videos to help you learn how to walk the walk and grunt the talk. Please watch and take notes. There will be a test later. Please note that most of these contain gory FX make up, and a couple have rough language, so maybe don’t watch these at work.
The PopCult Bookshelf
“Madwoman of the Sacred Heart”
by Alexandro Jodorowsky and Moebius
Humanoids
ISBN:978-1-59465-046-8
$29.95
Imagine a wicked satire of philosphy academia with a lot of sex, violence, surreal psuedo-Christian imagery, geo-political intrigue, a dash of Carlos Castaneda-style mysticism plus a mid-life-crisis and wish fulfillment thrown into the mix. Welcome to the world of Alexandro Jodorowsky.
“Madwoman of the Sacred Heart,” written by Jodorwsky with art by the legendary, Moebius, collects and translates three graphic albums originally published in France in 1992, 1993 and 1998. This is a superb work. That it has a cinematic quality is no surprise, given the extensive film work of both Jodorowsky and Moebius, but the disparate elements that blend so seamlessly make most attempts at describing in sound like a train wreck.
“Madwoman of the Sacred Heart” most assuredly is not that, but it does require a bit of a synopsis to explain. We meet Alan Mangel, a very popular philosophy professor at La Sorbonne University who seemingly has everything a man could want…until his 60th birthday.
Wednesday
You can see “Mr. Bones’ Head Shot” at ArtMares. You can buy it, too!
ArtMares opens at 6 PM. See here for Details.
The Rick Perdue Tribe will be at The Boulevard Tavern at 10 PM, admission is free with a Tedeschi Trucks Band ticket from The Clay Center.
RFC faves, The Diablo Blues Band, return to the Empty Glass at 10:30 PM, for what I’m guessing is a five-to-seven dollar cover.
It’s a busy Halloween week and here at Stately PopCult Manor we are still waiting for the arrival of some cool toy items to write about, so this week just check out these vintage toy commercials!
Be sure to watch the new episode of Radio Free Charleston, too!
Thursday and Friday night at the new Skeen Black Box Theater in the Cole Complex at West Virginia State University, The undead will trod the boards, all for a good cause. “Maul of the Dead” by Mitch Brian,is a fish out of water story about people trying to survive a zombie apocalypse in a mall. At least that’s what student Director Joshua Drew says.
“Maul of the Dead” will be presented Oct. 24 and 25 at 7:30 PM. and 11 PM. “It’s a funny, silly take on the ever popular world of zombies,” said Professor of Theatre Susan Marrash-Minnerly. “How can you not love a play about humans being trapped by zombies in a JC Penney store?”
This sounds like a load of fun. With a very low ticket price and a youthful, exhuberant cast and crew, “Maul of the Dead” looks to be a real Halloween treat. The 11 PM showings are perfect, not only to set the mood, but also so folks can attend other events and then head to the campus of WVSU for a fun and spooky nightcap.
“The intimate theater setting is sure to give the audience an up-close and personal interaction with zombies and survivors”, Promises Drew, Students are handling all major areas of production, and “that’s what makes this so exciting,” according to Minnerly.
Tickets, priced at a mere $3, are on sale at the door. All proceeds will be used to advance live theater on campus. “We are raising funds to make bigger and better productions here at WVSU. Live theater should be a top-of-mind entertainment option; with quality and affordability,” Drew said.
For more information on Box Five Theater and “Maul of the Dead,” contact Susan Marrash-Minnerly at minnerly@wvstateu.edu.
This is the fifth year for HallowEast, and it continues to drive itself deeper into the heart of Charleston’s Historic East End. This year a new event has been added, and the returning events are bigger than ever. Let’s look at what this Halloween Week will bring us…
ArtMares
The area’s only horror-themed art show is back for the fifth year and bigger than ever! The opening of ArtMares 2013 will feature over 40 talented local artists displaying twisted and horrifying art through various mediums and will last over three days of HallowEast. 50% of all proceeds from art sales benefit further East End business district revitalization efforts.
The exhibit happens at Contemporary Galleries, 3rd Floor Showroom (1210 Smith Street). Opening night is Wednesday, October 23, from 6 PM to 9 PM. The show will be open Thursday, October 24 from 6 PM to 9 PM, and on Friday a special reception with live music from the incredible Sean Sydnor, plus there will be beer, wine and food in addition to the frightening art on display.
This is the Radio Free Charleston 2013 Halloween special…part one!
This year we once again recorded our Halloween show at Shocka-Con, Charleston’s own Horror Convention, which took place in September. This is the first of our two-week Halloween show, and this week you’ll hear music from HarraH, The Renfields, The Big Bad and The McGees, plus you will see something we rarely do on RFC–Rudy Panucci interviews people…poorly!
You will see interviews with Jeremy Ambler, Eamon Hardiman, Danny Hicks and The Fiend, plus we’re going to bring you some of the sights and sounds of Shocka-Con 2013.
Last night at Dr. Sketchy’s, we artistic folk witnessed the Possession of Penny Maple. Above you see the end result. After the jump you will see a series of digital paintings and asaulted photographs that depict the descent of poor, innocent Penny into the clutches of the dee-vil himself, represented here by his agent, Elle Xombeah. It was a night of pre-Halloween fun. Special credit for the FX make up goes to Chris Woodall. Due to a technical issue, this week you can’t click the images to see them larger. You should just lean in and look at your monitor real close.
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