In April, Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, opened at the The Jewish Museum. My plan was to see it during a summer Friday before it closed in September. I finally had my chance last Friday. This is the exhibition that rtb saw in Montreal last year, so I was excited to see it. It […]
I wanted to see INK because it starred Jonny Lee Miller. rtb wanted to see it because it starred Bertie Carvel. And we managed to bring peg along with us. Mrs. Devereaux unfortunately was ill and could not make it. We had tickets for the center of the last row of the balcony. The 2-hour […]
Mark Morris and the Beatles? Could there be a more fun combination? As soon as I saw the ads for this, I told the rest of our concert-going troupe and several of us got tickets – me, rtb, peg, and mollyT. BAM’s Howard Gilman Opera House holds over 2100 people and the show was sold […]
I was looking forward to this because (1) a new (for me) venue and (2) Cory would be playing with a band, which I have never seen before. Coney Island Baby is a small bar on Avenue A off 10th Street. There’s a small stage in the back left corner and small banquettes across from […]
On May 2, I saw Plena is Work, Plena is Song at the Library for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College’s Silberman School of Social Work. Plena is original to Puerto Rico, unlike other types of Puerto Rican music like danza or salsa. Bomba (early 1800s) is one of the oldest styles […]
Last night, spurred on by peg because we had discussing it and wanted to see it before it left the theaters, peg, rtb, mollyT, and I saw Amazing Grace. The movie is transcendent. Aretha is 29yo and, of course, in great voice. The minute she opens her mouth and lets out the first note you […]
In 1980, Annie Leibovitz took what became a famous photo of Pete Townshend and it was printed in Rolling Stone. I immediately cut the photo out of the magazine, framed it, and hung it in my bedroom. Only three rock stars have ever graced my bedroom walls – another photo from Rolling Stone of Keith […]
My friends, The TarantinosNYC were playing at Freddy’s Bar in Park Slope and I had not seen them in a long time, plus it was a Friday night, so I decided to trek out to Brooklyn. I had been to Freddy’s Bar once before (for Rocky’s 60th birthday party) and I remembered it fondly. It […]
violaleeblue emailed the group about seeing White Noise at the Anspacher Theater in The Public Theater. Daveed Diggs was one of the stars, which was good enough for me but then I saw it was written by Suzan-Lori Parks, one of my favorite playwrights. And it was directed by The Public’s artistic director, Oskar Eustis. […]
One of the highlights of Fall for Dance at New York City Center is when Dorrance Dance appears. The troupe was appearing for three nights in March and rtb and I made sure to get tickets. We had decided on March 29th and by luck we got the longest and probably the best night of […]
