Composer Terence Blanchard taking a curtain call following the performance of his opera “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2021-22 season. Photo: Rose Callahan / Met Opera Terence Blanchard Brings in the New At around seven o’clock on a recent chilly Friday night, composer Terence Blanchard, wearing a crimson suit over leather... News 14 Oct 2021 | 02:09
Sergio Reyes, barista and photographer. Photo: Lily Telford The Strivers of Fall Every morning just before sunrise, twenty-six-year-old barista, Sergio Reyes, gets out of bed in his East Harlem apartment,... News 02 Oct 2021 | 03:26
Comic Ryan Beck performs at Union Hall. Photo by Phil Provencio. Punchline Prince Before a crowd of smiling women and howling men at Union Hall last week, Crown Heights-based comedian, Ryan Beck, recorded... News 27 Aug 2021 | 02:21
Pianist Benito Gonzalez (left) performing at Hermana with Will Slater on bass and Curtis McPhatter on drums. Photo: John Adams The Pianist Shines at Hermana Towards the end of his glowing show last Friday night at Hermana, the essential East Village Mexican restaurant/jazz club,... News 28 Jul 2021 | 11:09
Dr. Alan Manevitz. Photo courtesy of Dr. Alan Manevitz Coping with COVID Survivor’s Guilt Through about forty years of practicing psychiatry, Dr. Alan Manevitz has borne the anguish of many tragedies, whether it... News 09 Jul 2021 | 10:23
Guitarist Pasquale Grasso. Photo: Stefania Curto The Usher of Spring The guitar of Pasquale Grasso sings. Whether curling or sliding, pinging or dripping, the instrument in the hands of the... City Arts 19 May 2021 | 11:16
A photo of Abe Lebewohl hangs in the window of the deli on the Upper East Side. Photo via 2ndavedeli.com Elegy for Abe Lebewohl In the window of the 2nd Avenue Deli on the Upper East Side hangs a picture of a man with a thousand-watt smile, a caption... News 21 Apr 2021 | 06:56
Musician Jeremy Pelt. Photo: Kasia Idzkowska The Griot of New York As its title hints, “Griot: This Is Important!” (HighNote, 2021) by New York-based trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, is the vital jazz... City Arts 31 Mar 2021 | 09:55
Poet Bob Rosenthal, Allen Ginsberg’s former secretary and friend. Photo: Isaac Rosenthal The Resounding Wail From its electric start to its galvanizing end, Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” is ever vital as it celebrates its sixty-fifth anniversary... News 09 Feb 2021 | 03:02
Gordon Raphael before his first concert in Buenos Aires, Argentina 2013. Photo: Juani Bousquet, via Wikimedia Commons The Dynamo From a basement studio in Alphabet City, the rock band The Strokes, and producer Gordon Raphael, blasted a rocket two decades... News 03 Feb 2021 | 10:30
Sefton bar co-owner Joe Cremin (far right) on New Year’s Eve. Photo: Zachary Weg The Undying Sefton It was a New Year’s Eve like no other in recent memory. While last year and decades before it, New Yorkers celebrated with... News 02 Jan 2021 | 12:03
