Taking Aim at Gun Violence
9mm America Performed by Girl Be Heard Directed by Ashley MarinaccioGun violence has been very much in the public mind lately, from the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School to Mark...
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View ArticlePop, Punk, Protest and Pastiche: Little Waist at The Rock Shop
On Saturday, January 4, Little Waist, a Brooklyn-based outfit, kicked off a show at The Rock Shop. The band’s music is a curious amalgam of sounds that the members identify as “pop-punk/Lanacore” — a...
View ArticleTheater with a Kick
Bruce Lee led a strenuous life, to say the least. Never mind his mysterious death at age 32, which has kept conspiracy theorists busy for decades. Lee’s time on earth threw quite enough at him: He...
View ArticleScenes of ‘Worship’
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View Article‘Light, Love & Power'
The William Hooker Trio burned up the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center on April 21. They played as part of the highly-eclectic Arts for Art series, which showcases experimental and...
View ArticleKarikatura's World of Sound
World dance-fusion band Karikatura packed the East Village’s Bowery Electric to capacity on Sunday, June 1, making the floors throb and the audience whirl. A listener might be hard-pressed to...
View ArticleExhilarating Defiance: TinVulva Roars to Life
A beat-up DiPinto guitar shines stage right and blares out, roaring, into the hall. Thrumming, churning drums and bass pummel the roar forward. Ringing vocals of defiance and disapproval ride over it...
View ArticleLove, Politics & Footsy
Brooklyn-based singer-songwriters — even political Brooklyn-based singer-songwriters — constitute a crowded field. Jean Rohe, who grew up playing music with her family across her home state of New...
View ArticleBetween Two Worlds
A disenchanted anti-war movement splinters into squabbling factions. Bombs go off. A liberal presidential candidate is felled. U.S. society is left reeling. Echoes of the late 1960s? Perhaps … For...
View ArticleChicha Libre Flows Freely in Brooklyn
Globalization isn’t a new phenomenon. Still, it’s easy to forget how much rapid cross-pollination existed even before this century.Starting in the 1960s in the Peruvian Amazon, largely poor, indigenous...
View ArticleDownhome Mexican Folk Tunes
For people who like really bare-bones, traditional folk music the way it was played before drum sets and synthesizers, Radio Jarocho will hit the spot. This ensemble plays the classic son jarocho music...
View ArticlePop, Punk, Protest and Pastiche: Little Waist at The Rock Shop
On Saturday, January 4, Little Waist, a Brooklyn-based outfit, kicked off a show at The Rock Shop. The band’s music is a curious amalgam of sounds that the members identify as “pop-punk/Lanacore” — a...
View ArticleTheater with a Kick
Bruce Lee led a strenuous life, to say the least. Never mind his mysterious death at age 32, which has kept conspiracy theorists busy for decades. Lee’s time on earth threw quite enough at him: He...
View ArticleScenes of ‘Worship’
WorshipBy Eduardo Machado Directed by Michael Domitrovich Theater for the New City Through April 13Why do so many of us keep coming back to people who constantly minimize and invalidate us? Worship,...
View Article‘Light, Love & Power'
The William Hooker Trio burned up the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center on April 21. They played as part of the highly-eclectic Arts for Art series, which showcases experimental and...
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