“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 […]
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 […]
I haven’t been to an event for Live from the NYPL at the main branch of the New York Public Library since December 2011. I did have tickets for three events in the fall/winter of 2012 but it looks like I never attended any of them, which is a shame. That was when I was […]
Normally Lucero performs in NYC twice a year – we get them in the spring and then in the fall/winter. This year we didn’t get them in the spring so we haven’t seen them for a year but at least we got them twice (Long Island and Brooklyn) this weekend. I know they’ve been busy […]
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 […]
