Another One Bites the Dust
Chalk another one up to "gentrification" : on my way home last night, I was lured into the diminutive Puppet’s Jazz Bar, on what turned out to be their last […]
No Smiles This Summer Night
Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) "Intimations of divinity can be found in classical music, in which I think there is a sort of human holiness.” (from "Bergman Island," 2006) "His use of
Hallowed Ground
The weather held up yesterday, and the picnickers were out in force at Tanglewood, the storied summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and home of the Tanglewood Music Center,
An Ecstatic Experience
The best art makes you stop and think about your life. When the wind is right, it can even change the way you think about life. And, after an evening
Up to the Mountains
The weather’s not looking so hot for my trip up to the Berkshires this weekend, but fortunately there will be plenty of indoor activity to keep anyone heading up there
A Kings (County) Day
7th Annual Village Voice Siren Festival, 7/21/07 Dr. Dog Noisettes Lavender Diamond The Black Lips (seen from the Astrotower) We Are Scientists M.I.A Hal Willner’s Doc Pomus Project, Celebrate
A Day At the Beach
Tomorrow, I’ll be spending the day out in Coney at the 7th annual Village Voice Siren Festival. The lineup at these events have grown noticeably less luminous over the past
Folk Mother
Unfortunately, blues legend Bobby Blue Bland has canceled his Celebrate Brooklyn appearance tonight due to illness, but the replacement is no slouch: Odetta, the legendary folk singer who has been
She Did It Her Way
I didn’t have a ticket to last night’s Ani DiFranco show in Prospect Park, but I did manage to catch her set from outside the (loosely) covered fence. (Pardon the