Flavorwire Premiere: Low Fem Mines the Sad Erotics of “City Life”

Brooklyn-based duo Low Fem’s first two songs, which Flavorwire is lucky enough to premiere (for they are, full disclosure, friends of Flavorwire), begin sweetly, unassumingly. In “I Will Be There,” the soft androgyny of lead singer Max Silver’s vocals invites you in, as minimal electronic thwacks (via multi-instrumentalist Lucas Segall) punctuate his crooning. Abruptly, Silver’s […]

‘Measure for Measure,’ ‘The Little Hours,’ ‘The Decameron,’ and the Erotics of Chastity

Neither Jeff Baena’s The Little Hours nor a recently-ended production of Measure for Measure at Theatre for a New Audience (directed by Simon Godwin) is an all around great work of art; The Little Hours isn’t nearly as funny or sharp as it could be given its hilarious premise, and this Measure undercuts its attempts at contemporaneity (which itself is questionable given […]