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THEATER: Temporary Distortion’s Welcome to Nowhere (bullet hole road) juxtaposes lushly photographed cinema with hypnotic live performance. Positioned within a small but elaborately designed boxlike installation, the actors draw the audience into their blood-stained world with a stillness that approaches meditation. When fused with the rich film projection above their heads – which furthers the abstract plot of the road movie/love story – the show draws you into an intimate embrace, as if the characters are whispering in your ear while you watch their dreams. (Read a feature article about Temporary Distortion in the current Brooklyn Rail.) – John Del Signore

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RALLY: Barack is back! This time he's hitting up Manhattan with an evening rally in Washington Square Park. It's gonna be a big one, so get there early! At least this time there won't be any unhappy paying customers, because it's free! Check out his video invite:

The season really gets underway this week so a lot of old favorites like The Simpsons, Heroes, and Boston Legal (along with some that shouldn’t be like The Batchelor) are back so you do know what to expect with them.

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Covering Coverage

"Some people think that because they have been addicted to drugs, that they've somehow earned a platform to preach to drug users. They are mistaken. " There's no preaching, sugarcoating, or glamorizing in Tony O'Neill's Digging the Vein. The novel is an unrelenting and brutal retelling of his experience as a heroin addict living in LA. Gothamist sat down with the young talent who now lives in New York, to discuss addiction, recovery, and freedom.

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This week, the film festival that Bobby De Niro and Jane Rosenthal built after September 11th has taken over most of downtown New York and some of uptown with its eclectic programming line-up. But there's more to do in town, movie-watching wise than just at Tribeca. So get out your TFF schedules, some snacks and some comfortable shoes to walk between screening spaces, there's movies to be seen this weekend.

The documentary isn't coming out for a month, but there's speculation about the upcoming Giuliani Time and what it could mean for the former mayor/possible Republican presidential candidate. Director Kevin Keating is trying to show the other, non-September 11 Giuliani - you know, the Gooliani we all remember from such events as the Abner Louima beating, the Amadou Diallo shooting, and the Sensation show debacle. The Times points out the film is being distributed by Cinema Libre, which is "known for its slate of leftish films, like 'Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism' and 'Uncovered: The War on Iraq.'" And the Daily News cuts to the chase and says for New Yorkers, it'll "offer few revelations." But it'll be a trip down memory lane!

This year's ads were lame, considering that we have no idea what 90% of the ads were for. Sure, there was beer, but what beer? And Ameriquest - thanks for sponsoring the halftime show and everything, but we have no idea what you do. People who work in the ad business or write about the ad business like the FedEx ad that mocked the conventions of ads: There's nothing like Burt Reynolds in a tight leather jacket, a dancing and talking (yet not masturbating) bear, and subtitles that says "FedEx is better than everyone else." Oh, wait, message got lost; we were just obsessed with Burt's rug. Gothamist is also confused about Tom Cruise in The War of the Worlds; if there are aliens, are you sure it's not a Scientology movie? Finally, let's talk the Degree Mama's Boy ad; how disturbing was it when the Mama doll was pushing the Mama Boy in the shopping cart?

Much to do this weekend. Much to do.

You might have heard that Moore has decided to take Fahrenheit 9/11 out of contention for the best documentary Oscar. We are sort of curious about the real motivation for this. It comes out of one of these camps:

Claiming that The Weather Channel is a safe haven for left-wing weather-liberals everywhere, Fox News today, launched it's own weather channel.