Photos: Inside NYC's Annual Commemoration Of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
by A.A. Cristi - May 2, 2024
Each April 19th, the Congress for Jewish Culture, along with Friends of the Bund, Jewish Labor Committee and Workers Circle, has organized a gathering of musicians, academics, and survivors and their families at ‘Der Shteyn’ (the stone) in the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial Plaza in Riverside Park, (83rd/84th Streets). See photos from the event.
Anthony Hopkins Will Play George Frideric Handel in Biopic THE KING OF COVENT GARDEN
by Josh Sharpe - May 2, 2024
According to reportsm Anthony Hopkins will be taking on another real-life figure by playing composer George Frideric Handel in a new biopic from Andrew Levitas, director of Minimata. The script for the film, titled The King of Covent Garden, was written by playwright and professor Tim Slover and centers on Handel while he creates his 1741 masterpiece, Messiah.
Eddy Lee Ryder Releases New Single 'County Fair'; Will Play Brooklyn Show in June
by Josh Sharpe - May 1, 2024
Continuing to build anticipation for her first full-length album, self-proclaimed “demented pop” chanteuse Eddy Lee Ryder releases the new single, “County Fair,” on May 2, 2024. Quirky and charming while still precise and powerfully personal, Sweet Delusions reveals Eddy Lee Ryder as a one-of-a-kind new artist. Listen to County Fair here!
Redd Kross to Release Eponymous Double LP, Shares Single 'Candy Coloured Catastrophe'
by Josh Sharpe - Apr 29, 2024
Their new album – an eponymous double-album, no less, packed with 18 of their sharpest, most addictive songs yet – will hit the racks on June 28, 2024. These years of joyful service to rock’n’roll have seen Redd Kross evolve into a killer pop-rock concern, dealing in dayglo power-chords, choruses as tall as skyscrapers and a lyric sheet thick with acid couplets and arch pop- cultural references their loyal following will gobble up like quaaludes. Listen to a single here!
Review: WHAT (IS) A WOMAN?, Arcola Theatre
by Niamh Jones - Apr 26, 2024
A person’s life can be dictated by many things - career, relationships, decisions made… In the case of Andrée Bernard’s What (is) a Woman it seems that men have dictated the protagonist’s life.