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Conversations with Paul Hutcheson.

We sent out Kat Hepburn this past weekend to the Frigid Theater festival. What follows is a diatribe on drunken sex, why we secretly...

TAKE Dance Company; World Premiere of Passionate, Physical Rants.

On the stage, enshrouded in a fold of dark blue lights, the elegant bodies of two dancers extend expertly as the onlookers stare breathlessly....

Who the hell is Malik So Chic? The geisha girl who could.

When buying into your own myth leads to a whole city buying into it as well. For all intensive purposes Malik So Chic is one...

Edward Albee-The Greatest Living Playwright in Montauk, NY.

Edward Albee, one of the playwriting giants of our time (a diminishing breed), made a rare ...

Ivy Levan the singer is about to explode into the stratosphere…

Euphoric, enthralled, edgy and overwhelmed by her miraculous melodiousness, the gift of song means EVERYTHING to the inimitable IVY LEVAN. IVY LEVAN is a noire-diva...
Music Trends 2021

Music Trends to Look Out for This Summer

Music Trends 2021. How COVID-19 forced musicians and artists to re-think being creative and monetizing their content as technology, consumption, services and changing costs...

Valerie Geffner shocks Fixx.

It’s Thursday night, I’m underneath The Mercer awaiting a performance by Valerie Geffner and there is hardly any room to move. Unfortunately, there...

Authentic Message or Gaga Flair?

There are a lot of musical mini-sensations around these days, but it is hard to see which of them, if any, is blessed with...

Victor Medina-San Andres. The mask in him…

Victor Medina-San Andres, film maker and from what we understand fellow bon vivant recently took it upon himself to have a photographic exhibit in...

Byron Janis: Pianist gone Novelist, a Poet.

Byron Janis: Exhibits the Victorian romanticism, of Lord Byron—a poet, hero—enmeshed, delicately with the desperation, power and charisma of Janis Joplin. Music infused with the...

5 Popular Songs Misused in Hollywood Films

Let's say you're Leonard Cohen. Brilliant Canadian songwriter whose lyrics provide calm, patient insight into issues of religion, love, intimacy, and the human condition....

The Travails of the Iconic; in Front and Behind the Cinema.

Seeing that 'Scallywag and Vagabond' (SCV) is a start up perhaps it would be appropriate (even though SCV is still trying to come to...

Bud Blacks Aka Euro; Bitches, and all that shit…

In the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant, things are changing. The Marcy projects look like a work in progress, with concrete and asphalt piled like a...

‘Youth in Revolt.’ Michael Cera’s alter ego…

Last night Michael Cera entertained us at the premiere of his new film “Youth in Revolt”. In not having read the book I had no...

Patti Smith belts it out for the American Folk Art Museum at Espace.

This past Saturday I had the sheer pleasure of being entertained, nay mesmerized by the immortal Patti Smith who with her...