The Waitress on the Ukulele: A Short History of the Folk Opera
“To me folk music is about storytelling, and opera is about storytelling, so there’s no contradiction at all.”
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 1/25-1/31
This week: Work on the memoir you’ve always wanted to write with Michelle Tea, dance to benefit Doctors Without Borders at San Francisco Hearts Haiti, watch SF IndieFest take over…
Notable New York, This Week 1/25 – 1/31
This week in New York Lydia Davis and Richard Howard read, John Wray, Heidi Julavits and Sarah Manguso discuss ebooks at Melville House, Of Montreal and Damon & Naomi perform,…
Swinging Modern Sounds #19: One Recent Example of Talent
“Talent” is from the Greek for a certain weight of gold, because, I suppose, people who had a lot of it seemed to be metaphorically wealthy. Here’s one example I…
YouTube and The Music Industry: OK Go Tells It Like It Is
While technology has bought us many splendored things over the years, it has also caused the entertainment industry to take a long hard look at the way it has been…
MLK in NYC
In the greatest city in the world there are many ways to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the greatest civil rights leaders. In New York today, a…
Notable New York, This Week: 1/18 – 1/24
This week in New York, the Rumpus and HTMLGIANT present ONE YEAR LATER a multimedia event with an allstar lineup of readers and musicians including Rivka Galchen, Tao Lin, Jeffrey…