My boys are in town for my birthday weekend. Isn’t that nice of them to do that for me? Back in July tickets went on sale for Lucero’s fall tour. They were playing in Williamsburg on the day after my birthday, which was exciting enough. Then I saw that they were playing on Long Island […]
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen Squeeze – four years actually. Last time they played a free show at Coney Island and it was the last night of their US tour. This time, rtb and I were very excited to see them at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester for the last night of another […]
I got an email that Steve Earle was going to be playing a charity concert in NYC and on the bill were Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller, and The Milk Carton Kids. All five us were going – rtb, violaleeblue, mollyT, and Mrs. Devereaux. Unfortunately, Mrs. Devereaux couldn’t make it last night. And we […]
My fourth and final Open House New York site for the weekend was the Kings County Distillery. I’m not sure why I chose to go there. I don’t like whiskey so the tasting would be lost on me. I guess seeing a distillery in NYC was the draw. From Maple Grove Cemetery it was a […]
New day, new sites to see for Open House New York. A tour of Maple Grove Cemetery by the Friends of Maple Grove Cemetery had caught my eye because the cemetery is so close to my house. I knew it was an historical site that featured Civil War and Revolutionary War re-enactors and had people […]
Time for my second site for Open House New York. I left the African Burial Ground about 12:30pm and started walking uptown. There are no buses from that far downtown (Broadway and Duane Street) that go up all the way to north of Sugar Hill. I could have taken the subway all the way or […]
Every year there are several fun events in October in NYC. There’s Fall for Dance, the New Yorker Festival, and Open House New York. I’ve taken part in the first two and rtb takes part in all three. Sometimes there’s overlap and rtb has to make hard choices. This year TNYFest and OHNY were separate […]
I found my notes for the Gad Elmaleh show and the NY Philharmonic concert so there’s a short addendum to each. My plan was to have all the past shows posted by this week but I feel all written out right now. I still haven’t written up everything for June and now I’ve got a […]
My third and final event of the day and of the New Yorker Festival was a screening of Jeff Nichols’ Loving at the MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre 1 on 23rd Street. After the screening, Nichols would be interviewed by Hilton Als. The movie is scheduled for release in November. This time I decided to […]
My trip to the second event I was seeing on Sunday at the New Yorker Festival was 20 blocks north and 5 (long) blocks east from where I was. Normally I have enough time between events to walk to each location. This panel was supposed to take place at the same venue as the John […]
