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The Public Theater begins performances for the 10th Anniversary of the world-renowned Under The Radar Festival on Wednesday, January 8. A highly-anticipated program of The Public Theater's winter season, the 2014 Under The Radar Festival will include artists from across the U.S. and around the world, including 600 Highwaymen, Lola Arias, Edgar Oliver, tg Stan, SKaGeN, Andrew Ondrejcak, John Hodgman, Sekou Sundiata, Roger Guenveur Smith, Toshi Reagon, and Reg E. Cathey who has joined the cast of Feast. Check out a first look at the productions...

The Public Theater has announced that single tickets are now on sale for the 10th Anniversary of the world-renowned Under The Radar Festival, running January 8-19, 2014. A highly-anticipated program of The Public Theater's winter season, the 2014 Under The Radar Festival will include artists from across the U.S. and around the world, including 600 Highwaymen, Lola Arias, Edgar Oliver, tg Stan, SKaGeN, Andrew Ondrejcak, John Hodgman, Sekou Sundiata, Roger Guenveur Smith, and Toshi Reagon. The late-night Festival Lounge will also include an eclectic mix of adventurous music and cabaret performances, including Champagne Jerry, DJ AndrewAndrew, Invincible, Ethan Lipton, Nick Hallett, Holcombe Waller, and Middle Church Jeriesse Johnson Gospel Choir.

Helen & Edgar “Mother used to always say to us, ‘Savannah is a trap. It’ll try to imprison you; even if you manage to get away, it’ll find a way to drag you back.’” The voice delivering these words and the story that follows is one of the most unique and sorcerous you’re likely to hear in this world: Imagine olde English chanted by Charles Laughton, pumped through molten rock, extruded with a taffy-puller, and translated imperfectly back into contemporese. (Vowels and dipthongs emerge in forms that don’t correspond to any known dialect.) This is the voice of Edgar Oliver, writer, poet, and mainstay of the Moth. How did this man of frail and elfin late-middle-age — with his large, expressive eyes and translucent-looking hands folded protectively over his heart — end up with these plutonic pipes, these inscrutable affectations? And are they affectations? The next line offers a...

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For more than a decade, the East Village’s iconic Obscura Antiques & Oddities shop has been New York City’s foremost destination for one-of-a-kind, bizarre-and often shocking-artifacts. Since becoming the focus of Science‘s hit series, Oddities, the Big Apple’s epicenter of the eccentric has become pop culture’s Mecca of the macabre.

Entering its third season, the franchise has come to define the oddball subculture on television. Since its premiere, Oddities has won over legions of viewers and inspired “colorful” collectors throughout the U.S. and beyond to seek out Obscura’s purveyors of peculiarities: Mike, Evan and Ryan.

Don’T Miss Oddities’ Mid-season Finale This Saturday On Science

–The Mid-Season Finale of Oddities Premieres on Science

Saturday, March 10, at 9:00 Pm Et/Pt & 9:30 Pm Et/Pt–

The third season of Oddities takes all the deliciously weird elements from its past two installments and kicks it up a notch.

I gotta hand it to Jack White and his label Third Man's handlers. They make every vinyl release seem like an event. In a festively worded press release, Third Man announced its newest round of goodies, in time for Christmas, including rarities and singles from now-defunct White Stripes, from actor and musician John C. Reilly and from Edgar Oliver. Check out clips of some of these below. First, with Jack and Meg White's old band there are four records to be had, starting Dec. 6: "The Big Three Killed My Baby" b/w "Red Bowling Ball Ruth" Both originals. The A-side is...

Novelist Salman Rushdie, the host of “What Went Wrong?” Photographs by Beowulf Sheehan.Every year the Pen American Center in New York City hosts the World Voices Festival, a weeklong celebration of international literature. The seventh annual festival, which closed on Sunday, featured more than 100 writers from 40 nations and was helmed by a new director, the Hungarian filmmaker and journalist László Jakab Orsós. In his letter announcing the events, Orsós themed this year around humankind’s perpetual state of wrongness and literature’s ability “to analyze and understand the turbulent phenomena of our culture.” On Saturday at Cooper Union, Booker Prize–winning novelist Salman Rushdie hosted the festival’s culminating event—an evening of storytelling titled “What Went Wrong?” co-sponsored by the Moth, a performance series focused on the art of the oral story. Novelists Jonathan Franzen and Elif Shafak, playwright Edgar Oliver, memoirist Warren Macdonald, and comedienne Jenny Allen...

Fox Searchlight has provided /Film with an exclusive first look at Edgar Oliver, who plays the bad guy(s), Duncan/Lord Daysius, in Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess' Gentlemen Broncos. He’s quite a character in real life, as you can see. Watch the clip embedded after the jump. [flv:http://media2.slashfilm.com/slashfilm/trailers/EDGAR_INTRO_HD_480p.flv 550 310] Benjamin (Michael Angarano), home-schooled by his eccentric mother (Jennifer Coolidge), is a loveable loner whose passion for writing leads him on an offbeat and hilarious journey as his story first gets ripped off by the legendary fantasy novelist, Ronald Chevalier (Jemaine Clement) and then is adapted into a disastrous movie by the small town's most prolific homespun filmmaker. Gentleman Broncos hits theaters on October 30th 2009.

East 10th Street: Self Portrait With Empty House a new play by and about downtown icon Edgar Oliver, hold encore performances 2/12-2/28. This look at a life on the fringes of New York's Lower East Side comes on the heels of what could be Oliver's breakthrough role in the upcoming film from Napoleon Dynamite's Jared Hess, Gentlemen Broncos, opposite Sam Rockwell as well as a national ad campaign for mobile phones in Ireland that has become a cult phenomenon. This limited run Off-Broadway engagement is directed by Randy Sharp at Axis Theater where it premiered to critical acclaim in November 2008. In East 10th Street: Self Portrait With Empty House, downtown theatre icon Edgar Oliver takes the audience on a macabre voyage through the strange rooms of the apartment house where he has lived since his first years in New York. Inhabiting the dark, mysterious halls of this East Village...