Back to one of my favorite venues to see one of my favorite bands. And I was finishing up my birthday weekend in excellent company – rtb, Mrs. Devereaux and her friend. For dinner I had the excellent duck tacos and their vegetable of the day, which was cauliflower. My drink of choice was a […]
Leave it to the Old 97’s to completely change my mood for the better. I wasn’t feeling well and I was tired and then they took the stage and suddenly I was dancing and singing and had all the energy in the world. I love my boys in Lucero but no one gets me dancing […]
Sixth night out in a row (plus brunch earlier in the day). And the fifth program for Fall for Dance. L-E-V’s Killer Pig was a violent piece. The dancers were dressed in beige and they start as a group and move in unison. One or more leave the group and the killing starts with the […]
Out for the fifth night in a row, this time to see Cory Branan as the opening act at Mercury Lounge. Mercury Lounge is one of my favorite venues – intimate and great sound. And Cory Branan is one of the best storytellers you’ll ever hear. He started with one of our favorites, “Prettiest Waitress […]
rtb and I returned to New York City Center for the fourth Fall for Dance program. Before the show we had a tap dancing lesson from this guy who is the face for FFD for 2015. He is Leonardo Sandoval and he would be dancing later with Dorrance Dance. One woman arrived late for the […]
Sorry that the next few reviews are so late in coming. It was one show after another while I was fighting off what I thought was allergies but grew to realize was actually bronchitis. But now I’m medicated and ready to write things up. Lucero opening for Lucero at Webster Hall. You can’t have too […]
While British comedian Eddie Izzard is off in France doing his act in French, French comedian Gad Elmaleh is in NYC doing a workshop of his act in English. Actually, Elmaleh is a Moroccan Jew, who lives and works in France. He is sometimes described as the Jerry Seinfeld of France. Elmaleh is also very […]
Before last evening’s Fall for Dance program there was an interview with two choreographers. Stanton Welch, artistic director of the Houston Ballet, and Stephen Petronio, director of the Stephen Petronio Company, would each have dances at Fall for Dance. The Houston Ballet was performed last night. Both men came to dancing late in life but […]
It was the second night of the second program of Fall for Dance and the night began with a panel discussion with the FFD commissioned choreographers for the year. One piece was going to be performed that evening and the other later in the week. Choreographer Pam Tanowitz heard a five-minute string quartet by Greg […]
Next for me at New Yorker Festival was The Writing Process, a panel with Jeffrey Eugenides (“The Virgin Suicides” “Middlesex” “The Marriage Plot”), Sheila Heti (“How Should a Person Be?” “Ticknor” “Women in Clothes”), and Ben Lerner (“Leaving the Atocha Station” “10:04” “Angle of Yaw”) moderated by Cressida Leyshon (deputy fiction editor of The New […]
