Chita Rivera: Carnegie Hall 7 November 2016

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 […]

Queens Museum 2 July 2016

“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 […]

The TarantinosNYC: Riis Park Beach Bazaar 26 June 2016

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 […]

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: NY Classical Theatre 23 June 2016

It was a busy week. Gall bladder surgery, Broadway show, nephew’s JHS graduation, and Shakespeare in Central Park. The graduation and Shakespeare were the same day so I took a nap in-between and then met rtb, violaleeblue, and mollyT at Central Park up near 103rd Street. I’d seen New York Classical Theatre productions at that […]