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Ok, it’s not a real preview. The photo above is just a silly out-take from the photoshoot done for Java magazine’s September issue. The real photo-spread was designed by art star Angela Ellsworth as a rework of Rembrandt’s 1632 oil painting “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp.” The Rembrandt original shows a crowd of medical students in black surrounding a corpse on the verge of autopsy. In Angela’s version, the bearded students are replaced by nurses in whites, the corpse replaced by Tania Katan. It’s a tribute to Katan surviving breast cancer—twice—and celebrates the upcoming performance of her one-woman play “Saving Tania’s Privates,” opening September 16 at Phoenix Theater. This is the first Arizona production of Katan’s play which was a hit in Europe at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where Katan took the limelight from bigger names like Joan Rivers doing solo shows.


For more info and to buy tickets, go to: www.savingtaniasprivates.com. Java should be on the stands Wednesday, and is available at many First Friday stops.

Photo: Joe Jankovsky