I am very pleased to announce that DUELING HARPS is making its debut in New York City October 14-16! (Info below.) We also need your help! It costs so much to put on shows like this, and we are flying in and housing three fantastic artists from Los Angeles, including Ann, who has not made [...]
I am joining the growing boycott of Target based on their support of the hateful politician Tom Emmer, who supports a music group that calls for the execution of gays and lesbians. Dear Mr. Steinhafel: The website for Target proudly trumpets its support of “Diversity” and of fostering an “inclusive culture.” I guess this doesn’t [...]
I forgot to mention that the sound was great up in the family circle, despite or because of how far up and away it is. For the most part, the singers in the competition had no problem sending their voices up to us there. Particularly when they were singing forte, like the fantastic tenor Sung [...]
Time for my annual summer mixtape, although they are no longer on tape, but on CD — and actually for the last two years enjoyed mostly as a playlist on shuffle. Haute Summer 5: HOTTER THAN A SUPERNOVA 1. Boys Keep Swinging – The Associates 2. Black Swan – Thom Yorke 3. Athene – Hercules & [...]
Selections from the ADAM & MIA EP are now available for purchase in the iTunes Music Store and on Amazon.com: “Toxic,” our melodramatic interpretation of Mrs. Federline’s 2004 hit; “Three Ravens,” a dark and lovely 17th century folk balld; “Hallelujah,” the Leonard Cohen’s perennial. Photo by Lyndsy Welgos.
Oh, I couldn’t agree more. I have no patience for the new coterie of reality “stars” and their petty whoring. Call me old-fashioned, but I only want to celebrate people who make things or who can do amazing things, and I’m not talking about drawing sales figures. The Atlantic’s piece on the Britney phenomenon was interesting [...]
Here’s the first review of the play, from NYTheatre.com. I get a nice mention for the sets: Adam Dugas’s minimal set utilizes the space well. Two semi-transparent walls serve as a scrim, revealing the ominous, hazy visual of a hospital bed. They then double beautifully as a panoramic projection screen where larger-than-life video and still [...]
Detail from Chris Johanson’s painting “Excellent Workshop” and stills from “Get Confused.” The painting was apparently inspired by Chris’s visit to the Fischerspooner salons in Williamsburg in 2003-04. Art imitating art imitating life?
The other night there was a performance by Dita Von Teese at the Angel Orensanz Foundation building on the Lower East Side. Burlesque isn’t very interesting to me, despite the time I did on the circuit in the early part of the decade. I love some of the nouveau performers like Julie Atlas Muz, Dirty [...]
