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Mayor Bloomberg Speaks at La MaMa Fiftieth Anniversary Gala

Mayor Bloomberg spoke yesterday at La MaMa’s Fiftieth Anniversary Gala at the Ellen Stewart Theater on East 4th Street, the block that is now renamed “Ellen Stewart Way.” Bloomberg talked about his first encounter in 2006 with Ellen’s driving visionary force, which made him hand over the building that was formerly called “the Annex” for [ READ MORE ]

La MaMa 50 World Block Party Day

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, East 4th street between Bowery and Second Avenue metamorphosed into a meeting place of world culture yesterday. Ellen Stewart died on January 13 2011, but her spirit was felt forceful as ever yesterday. Master of Ceremonies Carmelita Tropicana brought to the stage Bill de [ READ MORE ]

Apple tribute logo

Apple tribute logo a Web hit | Today in Tech – Yahoo! News[ READ MORE ]

The End of Videoheads?

Today, I received an alarming message from Jack Moore, founder and director of Videoheads – since 1966! “It looks like the end of Videoheads and their collection. After 45 years of work, play and accumulation, Videoheads is in great danger of disappearing. Various deals to sell our material or license it for publishing have been [ READ MORE ]

Laurie Lives

Was that fabulous last night? Those of you who were there must agree. Laurie Anderson. Delusion. Finely worked jewels of personal short stories sprouted from the back of Laurie Anderson’s mind, interspersed with shards of music played on her electronic violin, backed up by arrays of sound bits. Laurie Anderson – in real life of [ READ MORE ]

Reality Check

RITSAERT IS DEAD . . . Art is money and money is art. Ritsaert ten Cate was aware of that. The fun thing about him was: he had money. He had the money and made an art form out of presenting, producing and creating the cutting edge in the (performing) arts. What’s even more fun: [ READ MORE ]

Soccer Madness

I don’t care for soccer. Not a single shred in my body cares for it. If soccer would disappear from the crust of the earth today, I wouldn’t miss it. But others would. Eighty-thousand soccer fans trekked yesterday to the Museumplein in Amsterdam to join in the celebrations for the thirtieth national title of the [ READ MORE ]

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