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Sound Clash: Skatalites Meet Eek-A-Mouse on 42nd St.
It is a proven fact, 4 out of 5 dub scientists state that SKA is good for your health. Throw in some singjay style to the prescription and you have just added at least an additional week to your life. This is exactly what the reggae doctor has ordered for you at BB Kings on [...]
Art, Music & Bicycles - East Hollywood Artcycle 2010
I attended the 1st Annual East Hollywood Artcycle last year and had a crackerjack time. This year promises to be even more exciting with a new location and another afternoon choc-full of music, art, food and yes, bicycles. Throw in exotic salsa dancers, art galleries, Killsonic gypsy jazz, Dublab DJ sets and a few more [...]
KRS-One : The Original Boom Bap Returns West
KRS-One is back. But you know he never left. The legendary Blastmaster rapper is coming to Los Angeles to take control of the Roxy Theatre on February 19th and he will no doubt be equipped with his usual artillery of philosophies, beats, teachings, rhymes galore and that old boom bap. Hip hop enthusiasts are certainly [...]
SOB’s, Home of The Universal Sound
Who remembers a strip of asphalt that led to the Holland Tunnel marked by nondescript warehouses and a squat, grey post office, south of Houston street, NYC, 25 years ago? Who knows what was the first establishment worth remembering in the area known today as SoHo?
25 years ago something began to bubble on Varick [...]
Performance Space 122
What was once a Public School 122 of East Village NYC, in 1979 was one-step-from-being-a-ruin abandoned four stories building to be found by a group of early artists and to be turned into rental rehearsal space at first and one of the most important houses of contemporary dance in NYC soon after. Choreographer Charles Moulton [...]
Actor’s Gang WTF?! Festival
Well, yeah, what is exactly wrong with the world? Why the theater needs to face continuously diminishing gifts from longtime donors who’ve seen their wealth shrink drastically in recent months, what happened to the foundation, government and education grants, and how long will it take to get the regular or prospective audience of the [...]
The Ghost Building (CoA)
Company of Angels Theatre, the longest existing repertory theater company in town (Downtown, to be exact), just about to celebrate 50 years of artistic activity, decided to stretch the Halloween spooky climates into November. From Damon Chua, the winner of the 2007 Ovation Award for Best World Premiere play comes a new tragi-comedy Directed by [...]
Oh! Opera in the Heights…Opera Up Close
If you ever thought the art of opera is very likely to be enjoyed by everyone … once they’re retired, you may be wrong. 13 years of consistently humming young blood got Opera in the Heights the fame of the place where young people sing for young people in the intimate yet stunning arrangement [...]
Felabration! Afro Funke’ Celebrates the Birth of Fela Kuti
Tomorrow evening at Zanzibar in Santa Monica, AFRO FUNKE’, GIANT STEP & Knitting Factory RECORDS presents “FELABRATION” a tribute to FELA KUTI featuring DJ Nu-Mark of Jurassic 5/Blendcrafters and Amon on percussion from Turntables on the Hudson NYC. Come celebrate in the music and life of FELA KUTI, afrobeat pioneer, human rights activist and political [...]
BAM…Beyond Words (The Next Wave)
Not many cultural institutions in the nation can pride themselves with a century and a half of history. Founded in 1861 the first Brooklyn Academy of Music facility at 176-194 Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights was conceived as the home of the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn. It housed a large theater seating 2,200, a smaller [...]
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