Lower East Side shapenote Saturday, Oct. 4

Lower East Side Monthly Singing this Saturday, October 4, from 2-5 PM at The Living Room. Located at 154 Ludlow St. (bet. Stanton and Rivington Sts.)
LES Sing

Universal law.

What is the rule that prescribes that if you eat crunchy snacks in bed you will, sooner rather than later, spill them?

Commentary — GEMS concert Sept. 27, evening: NY Polyphony, Grenser Trio, Ex Umbris

Three rousing sets! I’m so glad I got myself into midtown on this foggy, surprisingly warm evening. I could so easily have missed a super concert.
After a year in business the Times Center still strikes me as oddly designed. It’s meant to serve for any kind of event, I guess, not [...]

Open House New York, Oct 4-5

For the (is it?) fourth time, my friend D is coming in from San Francisco to do Open House New York. We’re going to meet on Saturday morning to visit locations in Gowanus and Crown Heights (maybe) — then I’m off to shape-note. Some of the tours are already fully booked, so act [...]

They also serve, 9/26 edition

From Manohla Dargis’ review of “Nights In Rodanthe”: Rated PG (Parents strongly cautioned). The official explanation is “some sensuality” — as if!
She was so angry at this movie, I have to quote from the review:
[R]evolves around the unhappily married Adrienne, who leaves her two nauseating children with her husband to baby-sit a North Carolina [...]

Pie.

I don’t know how the concept of the pie social fits into the Brooklyn ethnographic profile. Bubby’s in DUMBO is hosting this thing on Sunday (benefit for a couple of schools). Bring your own: it’s $15 plus a pie, or $25 if pieless, for five slivers. At 1 Main Street just off the [...]

Drums along the Battery

Alwan for the Arts, a peculiarly-located (on the fourth floor of an office building below Wall Street) organization focusing on Arab culture and the Middle East, will present a concert by the Glen Velez Frame Drum Ensemble of sacred-style (trance-inducing) frame drumming. It’s the final concert in a series of sacred music which I [...]

Lunchtime music

If only I worked in Midtown, rather than on the UES, I would have no excuse not to go to some at least of the enticing series (pl.) of lunchtime concerts at the Church of the Transfiguration and St. Bartholomew’s. This Tuesday, Sept. 23, Amy Bartram sings music associated with Henry VIII, with Ekko [...]

Music Before 1800’s concerts 2008-2009

Well, the blog has got me paying attention, if no one else. I realized I had to find out more, more! The Music Before 1800 list for this season looks good, if not outrageously adventurous. There is one group making its US premiere, the French male vocal consort Diabolus in Musica, who will perform [...]

They also serve, 9/19 edition

Manohla Dargis on The Duchess, NYT, 9/19/08: Rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). A discreet sexual assault, and the usual aristocratic decadence and vice.