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Artscape is dubbed "America's Largest Free Public Arts Festival". I am not sure what that means, how they size it (or why, really) nor whether it's true or not. I personally feel that size here, especially on the scale the event has reached is irrelevant, but many will sure argue that I am just saying that because I have a small festival myself.
Foodcourt
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Dan Van Allen's TREE HOUSE FOR AN AUTUMN MOON. You could climb it. It was part of the Ceci n'est pas a Booth, Kiosk or Gazebo and Other Radical Shacks installation. What? I quote:
"[It is] a play on the title of surrealist painter Rene Magritte's picture of a pipe that he called Ceci n'est pas une Pipe (This Is Not a Pipe). The point being that, just like Magritte's painted pipe that viewers can't smoke, the booths occupied by the artists in the food court don't sell food, they only look like they do . . ."
- Accelerated Decrepitude
Jonathan Burns : the SHOWOFF Show
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Jonathan Burns : the SHOWOFF Show
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Jonathan Burns is a bit of a regular around town: I had caught him at last year's Artscape but have also seen him at the Inner Harbor. Blessed with impecable comic sense and rare flexibility, he combines physical comedy with joke telling and classic street performer routines flawlessly. And I tell you, ladies go nuts over his striptease number. The one he does right before he squeezes his body through a toilet seat.
Fashion Show
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Do you remember Henry and Jeff on the corner of Charles and Preston? Among the first places instituting inner city sidewalk seating? Well, they made it into City Paper's Best of Baltimore at the time for being the "best way of knowing you're not in Paris". I couldn't help but feeling a little bit like like that, that is I was made quite aware not being in New York at this Fashion Show. Although, I am not a fashion guru and it's entirely possible that I have no idea what I am talking about.
Nevertheless, Henry and Jeff's was a regular hangout of mine while working in the area, and I had a good time at the fasihon show, so please, no hate mails.
The Avett Brothers
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As other acoustic bands, The Avett Brothers have the benefit to not ever have to sound different on stage then in the studio. But that does not guarantee a good show, and a great crowd. This is the first time I saw them and they produced both.
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