There’s something about “European Colon Hydrotherapy” that just doesn’t scream “Party!” to me, yet there it is in the same building as Bikini Bar @ Deno’s Party House USA. “Bikini Bar” is stated four times in signage. Get the point? Are the ladies sent upstairs for facials and enemas to stay fresh and pretty? I do [...]
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 [...]
The day started out with Mariachis on the subway. Click to watch. Then a three-hour boat tour around the island of Manhattan on the Circle Line. Click above to watch. The ruins of the asylum on Roosevelt Island and Lady Liberty. After a big Creative Time benefit (which honored a board member on [...]
Last night was tremendously satisfying. Mia and I presented selections from our repetroire in the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel. The day flowed beautifully. Mia picked me up and we loaded her concert grand harp into the bar and met Alex, from Germ Recordings, who set up the sound. We tweaked the levels, [...]
This went up a week or so ago across the street on a fancy new building they are finally finishing after two or three years. The newly fixed sidewalk is very nice, I was eagerly anticipating that detail. Of course, we will nostalgically reminisce about the sidewalk when it had a broken piece of slate [...]
I have been lamenting the imminent demise of classic Polaroid camera film, but today I stumbled upon an article about their new launch, and I have to say, I am intrigued. It is a pocket-sized printer for digital cameras and phones that uses a special paper (designed by former Polaroid techies) embedded with dye crystals [...]
“Body is pure. Everything loathsome is the mind, Which God screws into body with a lascivious thrust.” From “TV Men: Artaud” by Anne Carson I bought myself a volume by Anne Carson the other night, Men in the Off Hours, in honor of National Poetry Month (someone’s got to celebrate these things!). My first [...]
There’s magic around almost every corner in New York. Those are lights, not flowers.
