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WOTBA New York Events Calendar: Howdy, Sailor! Edition Monday, May 18 - Monday, May 25, 2009
Hard to believe that next Monday, May 25, is Memorial Day. On Wednesday, Fleet Week begins and with it a multitude of events to welcome service members to New York. See the link for Fleet Week below for more information.• Monday, May 18. American B...
WOTBA New York Events Calendar: Kick Off Your Shoes Edition Monday, May 11 - Monday, May 18, 2009
While some people are sadly out of work and many more subsist on freelance wages, with the latter now said to make up 26% of the U.S. workforce, New York is still a workaholic city full of people with incredible drive. One subset of the city, however...
Back on the Boulevard: A Review of Bob Dylan's Together Through Life
Memory and forgetfulness...the varying international rhythms of an accordion, sometimes street French but often Mexican...chilly breezes and open streets...that gravely voice...here now are locked hearts, emptiness, but we find here too, among other ...
Walking the Street, and the Rhythms of New York City
Dutch artist Piet Mondrian spent the last four years of his life in New York City, and several of his last paintings, like Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-1943) (inset), respond to the frenetic pace of the city and its danceable sounds. Boogie-woogie, a...
A Lunchtime Concert at the World Financial Center (Diana Krall and Orchestra)
The word evidently got out about the free concert celebrating Diana Krall's new album, "Quiet Nights," the one today at 1 p.m. in the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center downtown, because by the time I got there at 12:30 p.m. the place was fi...
WOTBA New York Events Calendar: Monday, March 30 - Sunday, April 5, 2009
Before the listings, a bit of news. File this item under "something to keep in mind later." News reports indicate that the planned streetscaping of Broadway from Herald Square to Times Square may force the Macy's Thanksgiving Day route to take a diff...
Freewheelin' Jones Street
From Spring 2009I assume most of the civilized readers of these pages would be familiar with Bob Dylan's second studio album titled The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan from 1963. The covers features Dylan walkin' down the street with Suze Rotolo, his girlfrie...
Jacques Brel, Songs of the Street, and On Bleecker Street
Last month, Eric Blau passed away at the age of 87. A resident of Manhattan, the multi-talented Blau, a man of several careers, was best known as the creator, along with composer Mort Shuman, of the musical review, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and ...
WOTBA New York Cultural Events Calendar: Monday, March 23 - Sunday, March 29, 2009
A chilly start to this week, but looks like it will gradually warm up by the end. I'm ready for Springtime. What follows is a handful of literary, musical, and artistic events for this lovely Spring week in New York.• LITERARY TRIVIA. Monday, March...
WOTBA New York Cultural Events Calendar, with Events for MLK Day and the Inauguration: January 19-25, 2009
• CELEBRATION. 23rd Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mon, Jan 19 at 10:30am. BAM Howard Gilman Opera House. BAM, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, and Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York present N...
"Froze Right to the Bone:" A Musical Interlude with Bob Dylan
A little interlude while I prepare the next walk in the pre-Inauguration series. The references to the freezing cold in Greenwich Village seem particularly relevant right now. The song is "Talkin' New York," the second on Dylan's first album. A nice ...
Sing, Choir of New Yorkers: A Selection of Holiday Music Events in New York City, December 2008
With such a large number of talented musicians living in the city, it shouldn't be surprising that holiday music in New York is unparalleled. The following constitutes just a small selection of a long list of concerts about town. The sounds of the se...
Looking Back on Thanksgiving Week: Jones Street, Papabubble, New Museum, Star Trek Art, and More
Thanksgiving Week began for me on Monday when the sun came out after several days of rainy weather. Recovering from a cold and a sore knee, the result of wearing the wrong pair of glasses, misunderstanding the distance from the street to the sidewalk...
Escape from Savannah, 1928: Young John Mercer Moves to New York
During my stroll last week through the historic sections of Savannah, Georgia, a visit that included Flannery O'Connor's childhood home and many moss-covered trees, I meandered over to the Mercer-Williams House. Most know this landmark from The Midn...
Edgard Varèse Lived Here
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965), a French-born composer, moved into a house on Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village with his wife Louise in 1925. He became an American citizen the following year. While he was alive, people strolling by the townhouse must ...
