I didn’t have to wait long for the second interview. The next day was Harry Belafonte being interviewed by the Director of Public Programs at the New York Public Library, Paul Holdengräber. Holdengräber starts his interviews by asking the subject for seven words. Belafonte’s were “constantly answering questions from interviewers like you.” Belafonte’s book is […]
It’s a new season for Live from the NYPL and my first ticket was for John Lithgow being interviewed by his friend and neighbor Bill Moyers. Lithgow is promoting his latest book, Drama: An Actor’s Education. The book deals with Lithgow’s life up until 1979 when he became a movie actor who did theater instead […]
meli is in EnWhyCee! And that makes me very happy. So rtb, violaleeblue, and I searched and searched the internet for good music this weekend. And it seems that this is the one weekend in NYC when no one we like is playing or anyone we do like we can’t afford. What to do? I […]
Paul Giamatti is probably a terrific interview when given the chance to speak. Unfortunately the interviewer was Mark Singer, who seems to be madly hopelessly in love with his own voice. Instead of asking Giamatti to set-up a film clip, Singer droned on and on. In introducing Giamatti, Singer spoke so long that I thought […]
By the time I was reminded that tickets had gone on sale for The New Yorker Festival, I knew most of the panels/interviews would be sold out. I was able to get a ticket for Mavis Staples, who would be interviewed by Lawrence Wright and singing at The Gramercy Theater. The show was not sold […]
X is back on tour – this time performing their 1980 debut album Los Angeles and showing the 1986 documentary The Unheard Music – but most importantly touring with a healthy Exene, who announced back in June that she does not have MS. I got there a little after 7pm and the doorman told me […]
Another weekday night in Brooklyn where the bands don’t care that some of us have day jobs and find it difficult to sit through a show that starts at 9:00pm and has two opening acts so that the headliner doesn’t appear until 11:00pm. The saving grace is that this new band only had one album […]
Wilco’s shows at Central Park SummerStage sold out quickly and violaleeblue and rtb were able to get tickets but once again I was shut-out. Luckily this was a Bowery Presents show and my friend Kenny was able to get me in (Thanks! Kenny) and this time he decided to join us, which was a nice […]
When I first saw the Big 4 at Yankee Stadium concert advertised – a 30th anniversary celebration of the pioneer thrash metal bands – I was thinking this could be a lot of fun. My friend Joe mentioned wanting to go and he got several floor tickets. He was disappointed that they weren’t for the […]
Well if I ever wondered where Justin Townes Earle gets his charisma from I need not look any further than Steve Earle. How I’ve gone all this time not seeing Steve perform is a mystery – raised in Texas, songwriter in Nashville in the 1970s whose mentors are Guy Clarke and Townes Van Zandt, roots/rock […]
