RAGTIME, RAGMEN, AND RAGAMUFFINS: HISTORIC SONGS OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE, a monthly residency (Sept. 2010-June 2011) at Bowery Poetry Club
with Franklin Bruno (piano/musical direction), Karen Waltuch (viola), John Wriggle (trombone), Jeff Hudgins (clarinet), and Nick Russo (banjo)

UPCOMING SHOWS:
Thursday, November 10, 8 p.m.
Thursday, December 8, 8 p.m.
Thursday, January 12, 2012, 8 p.m.

#NYC Concert for Japan on 4/9 Laure Anderson, Lou Reed, John Zorn, Phil Glass, Hal Wilner and more

If you’re sick of hearing Frank Sinatra tell you that he wants to be a part of it, or Alicia Keys gushing about how these streets will make you feel brand new, then rejoice – here’s an alternative musical history of the Big Apple. Ladies and gentlemen, get your walking shoes on for a journey through Flavorpill’s essential Manhattan lyrical topography. Click here for a larger version of our rock ‘n roll map of the borough and take our guided tour after the jump.

Here are places in New York serving the best coffee. Included are 10 outstanding coffee bars (listed with an asterisk) that not only produce extraordinary coffee at the highest standards, but also do so with consistency, day after day. There are also coffee bars that serve particularly good drip coffee, restaurants with great coffee, coffee bars with nice baked goods and places to buy beans, all of which are noted on a map, here.

Writing a book, short story or research paper is about more than hammering away at the keys until it's done. Research, scrawling fragmentary ideas that don't seem to fit anywhere yet, collecting faded photos from old newspapers, shuffling index cards to find that elusive structure - most writing software is only fired up after much of the hard work is already done. Enter Scrivener: writing software that stays with you from that first, unformed idea all the way through to the first - or even final - draft. Outline and structure your ideas. Take notes. Storyboard your masterpiece using a powerful virtual corkboard. View research while you write. Track themes using keywords. Dynamically combine multiple scenes into a single text just to see how they fit. Scrivener has already been enthusiastically adopted by best-selling novelists, academics, lawyers, script writers and journalists - whatever you write, grow your ideas in style.

What separates this new breed from older, super-Jewish music legends like name changer Bob Dylan and Buddhist Leonard Cohen is that even the irreligious among them insist on Jewishness in their art. And as some venture far beyond the overgrazed turf of th

Syncopated Homecoming: Jazz Swings Back Uptown

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