It was with great anticipation and trepidation that I approached an evening with Jasmine Cephas-Jones at Joe’s Pub. I knew she was a brilliant singer because I’d seen her in Hamilton and listened to her many times on the cast album. She contributed beautiful harmonies as Peggy Schulyer and she had a magnificent star turn […]
This LIVE from the NYPL event was held in one of the auditoriums on the third floor. I used to go to the Main Branch of the NYPL on 42nd Street all the time for research. There were other libraries closer to me but this one has everything. All of this was pre-internet, of course. […]
This was my third time at Bowery Electric this year. The first was for Tommy Stinson (which was this summer and I still haven’t written up yet) and then to see a friend’s band, Pale Moon Gang (which I’m not going to write up), and then finally to see James Chance and the Contortions two […]
I shouldn’t read my Playbill. Reading an ad during Fall for Dance made me want to go to the Vail Dance Festival: ReMix NYC. And reading an ad during the Vail Dance Festival: ReMix NYC made me want to go see Chita: Nowadays at Carnegie Hall. Chita is, of course, Miss! Chita! Rivera! who I […]
The last day of the Vail Dance Festival: ReMix NYC at New York City Center was an afternoon dance workshop. It was also the day of the NYC Marathon so I saw a lot of people in their shorts and t-shirts wrapped in blankets walking down Sixth Avenue. This time I was in the Grand […]
The third night of the Vail Dance Festival: ReMix NYC at New York City Center was going to be a full night. There were 11 dances scheduled. For this night, I was on the right side of the front mezzanine so part of the right side of the stage was cut off. And because of […]
For the second night of the Vail Dance Festival: ReMix NYC at New York City Center I was sitting in the second row of the center rear mezzanine. I thought it was going to be a bad seat but the rows are steep so there’s no danger of a large head or tall person blocking […]
When I was at Fall for Dance, I saw an ad for the upcoming programs and one of them was a NYC edition of the Vail Dance Festival where Damian Woetzel is the artistic director. Woetzel was a principal dancer for the NYC Ballet and I’d seen him years ago. He leapt across the stage […]
“They grew up in a small neighborhood in Forest Hills, Queens. After they moved to the East Village in the 1970s, their music and image changed the world forever.” I very much wanted to see The Ramones exhibit at the Queens Museum: Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: Ramones and the Birth of Punk, which ran from […]
I hadn’t been to see my friends’ band The TarantinosNYC in some time and a Sunday summer afternoon at the Riis Park Beach Bazaar at Jacob Riis State Park seemed like the perfect opportunity. I hadn’t been to Riis Park since I was teenager and I’d always been taken by car so I didn’t think […]
