Blondie News

Could there be two more disparate musical genres than Punk and Prog Metal? And… Could those oil and water categories ever mix?

During a 2014 private tour of the massive Rainbow Room renovation still underway before its early October opening that year, architect Michael Gabellini famously told guests, “The idea is to burnish history, to polish and move it into the present day, with an eye on the future.” Undertaken in 2010 after years of decline under the Cipriani family's disastrous rule, the project was more than even a dramatic facelift.

Dance to Unite presents the 3rd Annual Benefit: ONE WAY OR ANOTHER tonight, May 3, 2016 at 6pm, featuring live music from Debbie Harry at Avenues: The World School, located in Chelsea at 259 Tenth Avenue, NYC, 10001.

Dance to Unite presents the 3rd Annual Benefit: One Way or Anotheron Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 6pm, featuring live music from Debbie Harry at Avenues: The World School, located in Chelsea at 259 Tenth Avenue, NYC, 10001.  The evening will be a celebration of artistic excellence and cultural diversity to benefit Dance to Unite's expanding free after-school dance and education programs.  This year, Dance to Unite proudly honors Jenny Morgenthau, who recently retired after 32 years as the Executive Director of the Fresh Air Fund.  As part of the celebration, students of Dance to Unite will perform to music icon and Blondie lead singer, Debbie Harry's biggest hits live.  Tickets can be reserved by making a $150 minimum donation per person at http://www.dancetounite.org/events/.  The attire will be business casual.

May is National Barbecue Month, and Dickey's Barbecue Pit has many delicious slow-smoked options to celebrate! As the school year comes to a close and graduation parties and family celebrations are planned, Dickey's offers an array of catering and online ordering options to add to the festivities.

Damn The Light Productions Presents: ICONATHON: Showcase Series Donna Summer & Stevie Nicks Tributes at The Cutting Room. The night will open with a rock radio hits tribute, "The is How We Duet" featuring students selected to participate in DTL's Pop/ Rock performance lab from Marymount Manhattan College's Theatre Arts program. The spring intensive course was funded by The Lerner and Lowe Foundation. It will also feature special guest performances by Shannon Conley (Broadway's Hedwig and The Angry Inch) and Matt- Katz Bohen (Blondie).

Warner Bros. Records releases the soundtrack to the upcoming feature film EVERYBODY WANTS SOME today, April 8th. The Paramount Pictures and Annapurna Pictures film is directed by Academy Award®-nominated director Richard Linklater (Boyhood, School of Rock, Dazed and Confused) and hit theatres on April 1st.

After tremendous success with Pulled Pork Sliders, the first LTO launched in two years, Dickey's Barbecue Pit has announced its newest limited time offer, Pulled Pork Street Tacos. This gluten-free offering includes Dickey's signature pulled pork with coleslaw and spicy barbecue sauce, packed into a traditional Mexican-style street taco with two four-inch corn tortillas to hold it all together.

In her latest intimate and in-depth conversation with a New York cabaret star, BWW reviewer/writer Remy Block learns more about veteran singer/performer Meg Flather, who has just won a 2016 MAC Award for Best Original Song and is currently performing a critically acclaimed show PORTRAITS at Don't Tell Mama.

The Her Universe Fashion Show, the ultimate runway for fangirl fashion, returns to the world's premiere comic book and popular arts convention, San Diego Comic-Con, July 21st 6:00pm at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel.

Comedy Central/National Lampoon star Tommy Koenig's Baby Boom Baby has been called wildly entertaining, touching, and very, very funny!  It has also been called well-written, high energy, and invigorating.  Koenig will bring his one man 'musicomedy'- a flashback through our times and the music that defined them' to the Palm Beaches theatre from April 28th through May 15th.

Dance to Unite presents the 3rd Annual Benefit: ONE WAY OR ANOTHER on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 at 6pm, featuring live music from Debbie Harry at Avenues: The World School, located in Chelsea at 259 Tenth Avenue, NYC, 10001.

Playwright, songwriter and director Randy Sharp (Last Man Club, Edgar Oliver'sEast 10th Street and In the Park)and songwriter, guitarist and longtime Blondie member Paul Carbonara (Blondie) have teamed up again to create Evening - 1910, a new musical about an immigrant to 1910 New York and a Bowery theater facing eviction as the dawn of cinema becomes day. Axis Company, of which Sharp is the founding Artistic Director, will present the world premiere of the work April 28 - May 28.

Warner Bros. Records will release the soundtrack to the upcoming feature film EVERYBODY WANTS SOME on April 8th

Glass Marbles is the sixth solo album from UK-born, NYC-based singer-songwriter, Edward Rogers, and his fifth on Zip Records. Glass Marbles is being released March 11.

In association with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Liss Fain Dance has announced the world premiere of TACIT CONSENT, an immersive performance installation with sound design and score by Dan Wool. Additional collaborators include installation designer Matthew Antaky and costume designer Mary Domenico. Tacit Consent runs Thursday, May 5 through Sunday, May 8 at the Forum at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Tickets are $20 to $35, and may be purchased online at tickets.ybca.org. 

Music legend Brian Wilson has added a slate of new show dates to his upcoming 2016 world tour to celebrate and perform the iconic album Pet Sounds for a final time, in honor of its 50th anniversary. 

RUPAUL's DRAG RACE is celebrating all things 100! The mega-hit competition series returns to Logo with a Queen-sized 90-minute premiere on Monday, March 7th at 9:00 PM ET/PT that also marks the 100th episode

We have a feeling Broadway fans are going to love the 2016 Boston Pops season, running May 6-June 18, under the direction of conductor Keith Lockhart. Featuring classic Boston Pops programming, including film scores of the silver screen, ballads from Broadway and the great American Songbook, classic rock anthems, and a Gospel Night spectacular, along with an impressive lineup of Boston Pops debuts, new programs that spotlight the best of the worlds of dance and puppetry, and the return of last year's audience favorite -- Pops On Demand: You Choose the Tunes -- the lineup features a slew of Broadway talent, including Sutton Foster, Mandy Patinkin, and Marin Mazzie & Jason Danieley.

The Grand 1894 Opera House presents THE WELLINGTON INTERNATIONAL UKULELE ORCHESTRA OF NEW ZEALAND, tonight, February 13, 2016 at 8 pm.