Dec 27, 2013
Singer-songwriter Lucy Wainwright Roche grew up in Greenwich Village in an illustrious musical family, but she soon joined the wagon trains carrying courageous hipsters over the river to Brooklyn. Oh, Pioneers! Her latest album, There’s A Last Time For Everything, was released in October. To whet your appetite, listen...
Dec 19, 2013
Kevin Baker is celebrated for his journalism and his historical fiction, a genre that gets a bad rap as a kind of lesser literature. But isn’t all fiction historical fiction, with an obligation to effectively render details of time and place? The place that concerns him is New York City, and he ranges across its...
Dec 12, 2013
Born in New Jersey, Dean is the son of a Palestinian father and a Sicilian mother. Negin’s parents, Iranian immigrants, raised her in Palm Springs, something that would have been impossible in Iran. Or in New Jersey. Recently they assembled a group of comedians, mostly Muslim, and toured what might seem to be...
Dec 6, 2013
and Tom Petty. She’s given
a TED talk. In October, she released her second album. “At her age,” says Randy, “I was just
learning how to vacuum my...Nov 28, 2013