"For us, blues is all about grit and dirt. It's not about notes, or technicality or any of that crap."
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Celebs Oppose Brooklyn Development Containing Nets Stadium
Prominent actors and writers oppose the Brooklyn development that would include a stadium for the Nets.
Read More »Theater Review: Troika: God, Tolstoy & Sophia
The subject of Tolstoy's last days lends itself easily to a drama of passions and ideas.
Read More »CD Reviews: Indie Round-Up for May 4 2006 – The Holy Fire, Jeremiah Lockwood, Scott Weis
Full of sound and fury and signifying something.
Read More »CD Review: Dion – Bronx In Blue
A street poet is a street poet, whether from the Deep South or the Bronx.
Read More »CD Review: Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Way Back
For authentic traditional Chicago blues played by some of the best in the business, look no further.
Read More »Theater Review: Zarathustra Said Some Things, No?
A chillingly intimate portrait of a pair of psychological self-flagellants, and a Stoppardian cyclone of words.
Read More »Indie Round-Up for 4-20-06: Brandston, Wendt, Mulligan, Martin
More hooks per square foot than a velcro dance floor.
Read More »Bennett Calls for Imperial Presidency
The day journalists are beholden to the "wishes of the president" is the day we no longer have a free press.
Read More »Theater Review: A Jew Grows In Brooklyn
Ehrenreich represents both the now-vanished Catskills scene and the assimilated Jew as creator (and performer) of pop culture.
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