TBA Diary: The Shipment, Race, and Modest Mouse

By Jonanna Widner
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TBA:09
Young Jean Lee.
Seems like Lee's theater piece The Shipment has been on the tip of every tongue,
The Shipment
is a strange, abrasive, gut-check--a frank examination of racism
Holy crap, this is a Modest Mouse song
Everything sounds off because, in all honesty, it sounds weird to hear black people singing Modest Mouse songs. That sounds terrible
The Shipment
Young Jean Lee's
at
Gerding Theater, 128 NW 11th Ave., 224-7422. 8:30 pm Sunday, Sept. 6. $15-$20.

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