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turd blossom tuesday and wednesday
classic overacheiver jack purcell
Gary Higgins and Band - Live in the WFMU Studios - Engineered By Gil Shuster
Gary's 1973 opus Red Hash has remained a enduring document of
stark, sad acoustic beauty. It's a deeply personal and eccentric record
created by someone on the edge of an abyss; in reality Higgins was on the
verge of a 3-year sentencing to jail for a marijuana bust. Red Hash, while
not distributed properly upon its release, has kept popping up on WFMU
playlists over the years (and was also recently documented on the
station's blog in detail) and tomorrow (July 27th) Drag City lovingly
reissues this elusive album. To celebrate, Gary has resurfaced and joins
Brian today with the addition of some Red Hash-era band members in tow.
They are: Dave Beaujon: Bass, Graham Higgins: Guitar, Maureen Wells:
Cello, Terry Fenton: Keyboard (not in session, just interview) and of
course Gary on Vocal/Guitar. Songs: Stable of Spuds, Thicker Than a
Smokey. More info at www.dragcity.com. Thank you to Gary & co. Ben, and
especially Zach Cowie for his infinite, continual good deeds to me.
Paul Shaffer Hosts All-Star Musical Tribute to Mike Smith
CBS Orchestra bandleader Paul Shaffer is organizing a benefit concert for Mike Smith, lead singer of the Dave Clark Five, who was permanently disabled in an accident in 2003 in his home in Spain.
A Tribute to Mike Smith will be held on Tuesday, August 2nd at B.B. King Blues Club and Grill in New York City @ 7:30pm.
The Zombies will be headlining the concert, which will also feature performances by such iconic 60s rockers as Billy J. Kramer, original Moody Blues lead singer Denny Laine (performing the classic "Go Now"), Peter & Gordon (reuniting for the first time in 35 years), and more.
For additional information and to order tickets online please click below:
www.bbkingblues.com
*Some say FD has made them cook at home much more.
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*Some mourn the further disconnection FD has created between consumers and their food.
down town jersey city now gets FD. not up here where i live though.
porch house
via zoller
help! stop the cycle of madness. arnt these big photographs of junk just more junk? the aggregating approach rarely works.
The issue remains in the news thanks in large part to an advocacy group named Landmark West, which went to court to fight the redevelopment and discovered emails between current landmarks commission chairman Robert Tierney and Laurie Beckelman, a former chair of the very same commission who now works for MAD as a kind of "fixer," ushering the 2 Columbus Circle redevelopment through the city approvals process. The emails seem to show the pair colluding to keep the Stone building from being considered by the landmarks panel.bus-ted
Camouflaged in the color of blue sky, an unmanned balloon was launched last month on a simple mission: to capture with its dangling camera the view from 1,400 feet above the future site of the Freedom Tower. The idea was to show potential tenants how much of the world they would see out of their office windows if only they would sign on the dotted line.
"Among the most unusual features, however, are the outdoor teaching spaces scattered around the perimeter of the building where honed black granite walls provide “blackboards” so that science classes can be conducted with a traditional teaching wall, allowing for the cultural tradition so closely identified with Swarthmore’s humanities departments where outdoor classes and seminars have been taught for decades."
As part of these endeavors Solomon has curated "If I Owned the Trenton Bath House," an exhibition that poses this hypothetical question to leading area architects, designers, and other interested parties. Their answers - essays and visual renderings - comprise the exhibit, along with historic photos of the building, at Art's Garage at 326 4th Avenue in Ewing. The show is on view through Thursday, September 22.
on being laurie bortz
floam is fun you can feel...
boogaloser - raging slab mp3 - play it loud!
the edukators - break into your home and rearrange your furniture - oh no, not that!
karen kramer ballad of greenwich village / nyt review which will disappear quickly enough - kramer also made the jolo serpent handlers documentary in 1977
recontextualised and otherwise saved bridges
via dave fink
outbid on these 5 snapshots taken in front of the tv on july 21, 1969.
It's a rare occasion—that Wow! moment—when art stops you dead in your tracks and makes you forget everything you thought you knew. I was struck dumb the first time I saw one of Cady Noland's corroded milk crates filled with useless automotive junk. No knowledge of Dada paved the way to that encounter or mitigated the powerful sense of abjection radiated by her distressed container, into which she had tossed a couple of Bud empties, some oilcans, and a "dead" rubber chicken. It wasn't the "shock of the new," as Robert Hughes described the riveting and alienating force of early-20th-century art. Rather, it was precisely because I thought I was on familiar ground that the rupture of the unexpected was so acute.
Fast-forward to Dia's Andy: Through the Lens of Patronage
the jupiter hotel portland oregon
The door has opened wider for jurisdictions to legally take private property for a broad range of city improvement purposes, even when improvement entails private investment and ownership. Moreover, given this ruling and the number of obsolete private properties in urban America, the eminent domain tool is likely to be wielded more frequently by urban planners and elected officials.