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On the Culture Front: A New Generation of New Yorker Cartoonists, No Place to Go, and more

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Jimmy's No. 43, Tribes, An Iliad, David Cromer, Manon, New Yorker, No Place to Go, Denis O'Hare, New York Theatre Workshop, Sixpoint Craft Ales, Benares, Taylor Mac, Ethan Lipton, Bianca Leigh, Joe's Pub, Jasper Hill Farm, NY Around Town, New York News

Singer/songwriter/playwright Ethan Lipton evokes the pain of being displaced from one's job and world, both literary and metaphorically as his character's job in No Place to Go is being relocated to Mars.

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Kids and Teens Cover Your Favorite 90s Hits

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Alternative Music, Kids Play Music, Video, 1990s Music, School of Rock, MTV Unplugged, 1990s, Joe's Pub, Arts News

School of Rock is more than a great film, it's now also a company which offers music lessons to kids of all ages. In e-mails to HuffPost Arts, Show Di...

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New Musical Tales Of Mysterious Biblical Women

HuffingtonPost.com | Josh Fleet | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: Story of Lilith, Jewish Feminism, Half You Half Me, Judaism, Gender and Religion, Interfaith Music, Jewish Music, Alicia Jo Rabins, Serakh Bat Asher, Women in the Bible, Girls in Trouble, Music and Religion, Joe's Pub, Girls in Trouble Album, Girls in Trouble Half You Half Me, Biblical Women, Video, Religion News

Sex, betrayal and weird skin disease -- Bible stories aren't so different from the everyday. So says Alicia Jo Rabins, frontwoman of Girls in Trou...

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Hurdy-Gurdy in the 21st Century

Michal Shapiro | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Classical Music, Austrian Cultural Forum, World Music, Schubert's Winterreise, Giles Chabenat, Balkan Music, Gabriel Yacoub, Folk Music, Hurdy-Gurdy., Joe's Pub, Loibner, Mirkovic-Dero, Arts News

Here's a simply wonderful performance of "Magla Padnala" a folksong attributed to Macedonia, albeit not without local controversy.

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Songwriter Michael Sackler-Berner Shimmers And Shines

The Huffington Post | Josh Fleet | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shimer and Shine, Stephen Talkhouse, New York Entertainment, Yes I Do, Sackler-Berner Single, Law and Order CI, Michael Sackler-Berner, Music, New York Music, Joe's Pub, Entertainment News

Michael Sackler-Berner occasionally lands a gig as an extra on television. Like in 2009, when he played "Band Member #1" on an episode of Law & Order:...

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"Life Is Short! Go Far!" -- Henry Rollins Is 50

Salvatore Bono | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Icon, State of Alert, Interview, William Shatner, Black Flag, Henry Rollins, Live Review, Rollins Band, Birthday, Joe's Pub, Hardcore, Son's of Anarchy, Grammy, New York News

Rollins, at the half-century mark, has probably done more with his life than most people older than him. A man this intense and this globally versed will never be able to sit still.

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Fun With Fado? Deolinda Plays Joe's Pub

Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ana Bacalhau, Amalia Rodriguez, Portugal, Fado, Joe's Pub, Deolinda, Lisbon, Nyc Events, Music, Fate, New York News

Lisbon-based Deolinda is not a Fado band. The influence of the music is very much there, but the tone is utterly different. It is whimsical and playful, but it never gets quite as brooding as Fado.

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MUSICAL THEATRE: The Sound of Music Like You've Never Seen It

Kris Wilton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sound of Music, Doug Elkins, Joe's Pub, Dance, Drag, Musical Theater, Flash Mob, Arts News

Excited about the upcoming Sound of Music cast reunion? Get in the Von Trapp family spirit over at Emerson College's beautifully restored Paramount ...

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On the Culture Front: Beowulf at Joe's Pub, The Housemaid, and the New York International Fringe Festival

Chris Kompanek | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Beowulf, Im Sang-Soo, NY Culture, Michael Haneke, New York Fringe Festival, Toronto Film Festival, The Housemaid, Joe's Pub, Luis Bunuel, New York News

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage is the kind of piece that's ripe for a cult following, so it'd be great to see it land a residency somewhere in the city.

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Sxip Shirey's Magic Journey: Sonic New York

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dead Kennedys, Appalachian Music, Dreamland, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Aimee Curl, Evan Rosen, Balinese Monkey Chant, Rhiannen Giddens, Beatles, Neil Gaiman, Jason Webley, Sammy Rubin, Sonic New York, Rachelle Garniez, Luminescent Orchestrii, Bill Nighy, Sxip's Hour of Charm, Statuesque, Evelyn Evelyn, Experimental Music, Adam Matta, Devo, Musique Concrete, Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, New Music, Sky TV, Daredevil Opera Company, Moog, Sxip Shirey, Kickstarter, Don Godwin, Anti-Gravity?S Crash Test Dummies, City Winery, Amanda Palmer, Joe's Pub, Polynesian Music, Joe ?Bass? DeJarnette, Wiyos, Nonesuch, Gamelan, New York News

Sxip Shirey looks like a magician, with his wiry gray exploding hair and mischief eyes, and he has an uncanny ability to cast a musical spell over a r...

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Mariachi Meets Tom Waits: The Music of Rana Santacruz

Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mariachi, Mexico City, Brooklyn, El Imperial, Cinco De Mayo, Arizona Immigration Law, Rana Santacruz, Tom Waits, Joe's Pub, Pogues, Arts News

Okay, it's coming on Cinco de Mayo, so it's only logical to do a blog post about something Mexican. But the truth is, I really like the music of Rana Santacruz on its own terms, which are solidly Pan-American.

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We Need Bloggers!

Posted 05.25.2011

Huffington Post continues its local coverage with the help our Citizen Journalism Unit. To join the local reporting team and receive advance assignmen...

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Stage Door: Ute Lemper's Last Tango in Berlin

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cabaret, Ute Lemper, Entertainment, Joe's Pub, Music, Singers, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, New York News

It's the voice -- a sexy contralto that can bring you to tears in a single note. If you've heard chanteuse Ute Lemper, you cannot forget her.

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