July 25: Good Music, Bad Advice.

Good Music, Bad Advice:
Super Fun Variety presents the Bad Advice Column + Sweet Soubrette

Super Fun Variety presents cabaret rock band Sweet Soubrette alongside Doppelskope, Matthew Silver, and Mistress B – NYC vaudeville all-stars who will follow individual performances in a game-show style forum with you, the audience, for  entirely improvised, highly public, and extremely ill-advised answers to your deepest life's questions.... One part Dear Abby, one part Savage Love, one part Ed Sullivan Show, what could we call it but The Bad Advice Column?

Sweet Soubrette’s dark, witty song style "comes with a pinch of Regina Spektor quirk and a spoonful of old-timey burlesque" (Time Out New York), and the roving performance arts spectacle Super Fun Variety presents “an incredible array of talent ranging from the silly to the sublime” (Impose Magazine).

July 25, 8-10 pm. $10 cover.
The Gershwin Hotel, 7 E 27th Street, NYNY

February 24 Means Super Hot Cheap Fun Variety

The Super Fun Variety Show returns with a radical underground circus cabaret, Sunday Feb 24, during the Hot Cheap Living performance festival that marks the end of the famous Living Theatre’s residence at 21 Clinton Street.

Super Fun Variety, launched in 2011, is committed to an irreverent spirit, a strong social consciousness, and an environmentally and creatively sustainable local community. Previous shows have sold out to standing-room-only crowds and featured top-flight talents, including world-renowned variety performers, internationally acclaimed circus artists, award-winning literati, and the 2012 Academy Award-nominated film short, “Time Freak.” Impose Magazine calls us “an incredible array of talent ranging from the silly to the sublime.”

Hosted by sibling ukulele sensations Ellia and Josh Bisker (of Sweet Soubrette and Cobra Gold), February 24th's Super (Hot Cheap) Fun Variety Show features a panoply of circus performers, physical comedians, acrobats, musical acts, bicycle arts activists, and more, and is paired with a show by Brooklyn-based ragtime-punk sextet Apocalypse Five and Dime (the perfect soundtrack to what happens after the world ends). With:

• Laura Witwer & Chris Delgado, sense-defying physical feats!
• The Good to Go Girls, hips that launch ships, wiles that crack smiles!
• Sabrina Chap, salacious, sultry chanteusery!
• Mistress B, your verst nightmare, or perhaps your zeekret fantasy, ya?
• Charming Disaster, songs to inspire and confuse!
• Cobra Gold!, songs to befuddle and amuse!
• Ambrose Martos, clowning to split sides and break hearts!
• New York Bike Dance, stealing hearts, riding bikes!
• A 9pm full set by Apocalypse Five and Dime!
• And many more indescribable wonderments!
• Get your tickets now »

WHAT: Super Fun Variety Show
WHEN: Sunday, February 24, 2013
WHERE: The Living Theatre
ADDRESS: 21 Clinton Street, NYC
FESTIVAL WEBSITE: http://hotcheaplivingperformancefestival.yolasite.com
DOORS: 7:00pm
TICKET PRICE: $10
TICKET LINK: http://bit.ly/superhotcheapfun
PRESS CONTACT: Josh Bisker
E-MAIL: SuperFunVariety@gmail.com
SHOW WEBSITE: www.superfunvariety.com

A Super Cub Comes to New York

A Super Cub C70 sighted in New York City! I love, love, love these little bikes. They're ubiquitous around Japan, indestructible, super comfortable, and adorable. I got to ride a friend's family's cub around all of Western Japan in a series of increasingly madcap adventures, and miss the thing as if it were a friend I'd left behind there.

Three-stroke cyclical clutch, nary a maintenance issue ever, hilariously good fuel economy, and SO CUTE. The speedometer on this one goes to 55 kph. Adorable!