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Zany Luck: St. John of Las Vegas Doesn’t Give Buscemi A Chance
They say fate follows character, but in Steve Buscemi’s case, it should be "fate follows face." Why is it when someone throws the master supporting actor a leading role, it’s a strange, quirky black comedy with midgets, strippers, nudists and plenty strung-out, sweaty Buscemi? In St. John of Las Vegas, Buscemi is a down-and-out recovering gambleholic who sets off on a surreal journey when assigned to a fraud investigation for the insurance company he works for. There’s a choice with any Buscemi film – do you place emphasis on the down-and-out or the quirky. St. John does quirky. The film is a weird, funny-strange, and rather pointless character study that has “cult” written all over it.
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Making A Natural Space: La Reunion TX’s Annual On-site Installation
Off West Jefferson Blvd, near the border between Dallas and Cockrell Hill, the future home of the La Reunion artist residency is a rolling, raw woodland, with a pretty little brook cutting down a steep slope under the remnants of an old Sante Fe Railroad trestle. That this pristine natural setting exists mere miles from downtown speaks to the unique promise of the La Reunion project – a Walden Pond surrounded by urban Dallas . It also helps explain why many of the artists who are part of La Reunion’s annual on-site, outdoor installation show, which opens this Saturday, are engaging in socially conscious, environmental concepts. We sat down with La Reunion Executive Director Sarah Jane Semrad, as well as artists Brad Ford Smith, Nicole Collum Horn, and Annie Abagli, to talk about their work in the upcoming show.