A sad day in the world of dance… Merce Cunningham, the American choreographer who was among a handful of 20th-century figures to make dance a major art and a major form of theater, died Sunday night. He was 90 and lived in Manhattan. [NYTimes.com] In April 2009, BAM premeried a new evening-length work by Merce…
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All Points West Festival… Now with More Jay-Z
All Points West Festival Yup, it’s official, Jay-Z is replacing the Beastie Boys on the Friday night (July 31) of this year’s All Points West Festival. For those of you not near an Internet for the past couple of days, the Beastie Boys were forced to pull out of All Points West due to Adam…
2009 Mercury Prize Shortlist Announced Today
Lisa Hannigan & Glasvegas Photos: Tim Griffin Check the list of this year’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize finalists below: 2009 Mercury Prize Shortlist: Bat For Lashes – Two Suns Florence And The Machine – Lungs Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires Glasvegas – Glasvegas Lisa Hannigan – Sea Sew The Horrors – Primary Colours The Invisible –…
Meadowlands Rail Link Coming Soon
Getting to those Springsteen shows just got a bit easier… Trains will operate between Hoboken Terminal, Secaucus Junction and Meadowlands Sports Complex stations approximately every 10 to 20 minutes beginning 3 1/2 hours before and up to two hours after events. NJ Transit will announce daily service schedules at a later date. For events with…
The Limelight Becoming A Mall?
Page Six reports that the space formerly occupied by the Limelight nightclub, (which is currently operating as a sample sale outlet called “Lounge“), is “reopening soon” as a full fledged mall. Jack Menashe, who owned nightclub Lounge in SoHo, is turning the long-vacant, 1849 Gothic Revival church into Limelight Marketplace with the help of designers…
Tim Hortons Comes to NYC
Ah, a little slice of home, comes to the Big Apple (admittedly, I grew up on Robin’s Donuts, so Tim’s is not that big of a deal to me, but it’s still kind of cool.) Here’s a list of the new Tim Hortons locations around NYC: Rockefeller Center Area 1. 761 Seventh Avenue at 50th…