Bright Star is the new Broadway musical with music, book, and story by Steve Martin; music, lyrics, and story by Edie Brickell*; and directed by Walter Bobbie. rtb was able to get balcony seats for a reasonable price so violaleeblue, mollyT, Mrs. Devereaux, Mrs. D’s friend, and I joined her for the night after opening […]
The Suffers! are from Houston! Lead singer Kam Franklin kept asking us “Who are we?” and “Where are we from?” and we kept shouting out the answers. The evening at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 started with a count-off from the band while they faced each other and then a cheer while they waved their […]
The Secret City is what used to be called a happening in the 1960s. It’s art and music and song and poetry and readings and movies and audience participation. It’s church – the performances are held at 11:30am on Sunday mornings once a month (their tagline is “We worship art”). It’s fun and funny. It’s […]
Works & Process at the Guggenheim is a performing arts series that explores artistic creation through conversation and performance. Performances take place in the Guggenheim Museum’s Peter B. Lewis Theater, which was also designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The theater has a strange layout. The orchestra sits in a shallow bowl that you walk down […]
The Lucero family is a group of people who look out for one another. On a Thursday in February I got a notice that one of my Lucero friends was paging me to a particular Facebook post. I go to the post and one of the Lucero Diehards had two tickets for that night’s Jason […]
Another February Friday night and another night out to see good music. I hadn’t been to the Bell House (in Gowanus) in a while and I was very surprised by how much the block has changed. It used to be a very dark and desolate block until you got to the club. The Museum of […]
There are a lot of southern alt-country/Americana/indie boys, who started in punk and sing with whiskey-soaked voices. I’ve seen several of them on The Revival Tour and I was really looking forward to this show. Cory Branan I’d seen a bunch of times and I adore him. He is a storyteller and uses words brilliantly. […]
Peter saw this on the Hill Country BBQ site and it seemed like it would be a lot of fun. rtb joined us on Sunday night for some more bbq and music. This time we knew the score when it came to ordering the food and drink. But we were thrown a curve when we […]
Saturday was one of those whiplash weather days that NYC is famous for. It had been cold – close to freezing. But on Saturday it was over 50 degrees. Perfect weather for checking out a gallery in Maspeth, Queens (on the Brooklyn border). The Knockdown Center is an old factory (they invented and manufactured the […]
So when Rhett Miller posted that he was playing a gig with Rusty Truck at Hill Country BBQ for free – for free – I knew I had to be there. Rhett and BBQ – what could be better? Before the show I needed to use the restroom and imagine my surprise when I went […]
