David Wax Museum: Joe’s Pub 9 January 2012

First concert of the new year and I’m at the newly renovated Joe’s Pub with rtb and violaleeblue. They moved the entrance to inside the Public Theater and because my brain couldn’t adjust it felt like they had moved the stage instead. The bar is smaller and the terrible VIP section is gone. And now […]

Patti Smith: Bowery Ballroom 31 December 2011

Happy New Year to me! I had the most magical New Year’s Eve and I know that 2012 is going to be a good year because I was blessed by Patti Smith at midnight. For the last fourteen years Patti has played the Bowery Ballroom for New Year’s Eve and her birthday the night before […]

Lucero: Brooklyn Bowl 30 December 2011

A highlight of the holiday week would be the pre-New Year’s Eve show at the Brooklyn Bowl, which is a bowling alley, music hall, and restaurant. I got there early so I could secure a place at the bar in the back – I had no intention of being in the middle of the madness. […]