Monthly Archives: November 2009
Happy Thanksgiving from New York (and Macy’s)
Happy Thanksgiving. While most of you were sleeping, I checked off another one of my life goals today and attended this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. For the past however many years that I have been alive, I have never … Continue reading
Little Dragon at Le Poisson Rouge
I finish my concert binge at Le Poisson Rouge in Greenwich Village. At the heart of the NYU scene, LPR sits on the heavily trafficked area of Bleeker Street. It’s the closest thing New York has to a “frat row”. … Continue reading
El Ten Eleven (and Wolff) at Piano’s
My music binge continues at Piano’s, in the Lower East Side of Manhattan (LES in text speak), where I checked out a band called El Ten Eleven. Comprised of only two members (though you would never know it from just … Continue reading
These United States at Bell House
In the last week, I have seen 4 different concerts. I don’t know how I am pulling it off, but there is too much music to be heard and not enough time to hear it. With endless venues and an … Continue reading
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
Bowery Ballroom, 11/17/09 Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (w/Local Natives and Fools Gold) I tend to trust most things my friend Ryan says. When Ryan says that Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros put on the best show, he … Continue reading
Slam Allen Band at Terra Blues
It’s true. The verdict is in. The jury of your peers has decided. New York is better than whatever city you are in currently. The damages awarded? Rubbing it in your face. What other city can you go to a … Continue reading
Age of Iron – Off Broadway
Interested in some more bad theatre? Good, me too. Went and saw Age of Iron, an off Broadway adaptation of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, and Thomas Heywood’s Iron Age. Based on the Trojan war, this epic literally has you in … Continue reading
