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Parting Tweet: Eugene Mirman Eases Your ‘Mad Men’ Woes
Here’s the latest rundown on the Mad Men affair: To save money, AMC has demanded that show creator Matt Weiner cut two minutes from each new episode and axe six characters at the rate of two per year. Matt is wavering on signing the deal, so AMC may be forced to push forward without him. Either way, we won’t be getting any new episodes until 2012 — a fact that we find personally devastating. So much so that we plan to take comedian Eugene Mirman‘s advice to heart. Golly, our Irish Spring pitches are coming along wonderfully! More »
Haiti Benefits with Patti Smith, Swell Season, Cold War Kids and Many More
City Winery, Brooklyn Bowl, and The Bell House are holding benefit concerts for disaster relief in Haiti. Here is the information:
At The Bell House on January 27 at 6 pm: 100% of the proceeds will be split between Save The Children and Partners In Health. Appearing: Jimmy Fallon, New York State Senator Diane Savino, Cold War Kids, Ted Leo, The Wrens, Sondre Lerche, Todd Barry, Pat Kiernan of NY1, Eugene Mirman, AC Newman of The New Pornographers with Rhett Miller… More »
John Wesley Harding’s Cabinet of Wonders
British author and musician John Wesley Harding (Wesley Stace is his real name) has put together a sort of variety show that has been appearing at (le) Poisson Rouge about every month since the spring. Last night was his last one of the year in NYC and he made it memorable with some great guests: Comedians Eugene Mirman and Mike Birbiglia, author Stephen Elliott and Steve Almond, and musicians Rhett Miller (Old 97s) and A.C. Newman (New Pornographers).
Harding started off… More »
All Points West: Coldplay, Beastie Boys, Tool, and More
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Andrew Bird at All Points West Festival 2008
The dates and lineup of the second year of All Points West Festival has finally been announced. Here are the deets:
It’s at Liberty State Park In NJ again (they promised better trasnsportation this year) and will take place on July 31, August 1 and 2. But you want to know the lineup don’t you? Here it is:
Friday, July 31: Beastie Boys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, The National, Fleet Foxes, MSTRKRFT,… More »
Election Night Festivities
Don’t forget to VOTE tomorrow. And after you do, go and watch the returns come in and either cry or celebrate. Here’s where you can go and do that in public for free:
The Bell House: “A Red + Blue ELECTION NIGHT celebration with Eugene Mirman, The Blue Album Group (playing Weezer’s Blue Album beginning to end!), and the Red Hook Vendors, co-hosted with Brooklyn Based and Myopenbar.com. Music / cocktails / tacos / change — and two big screens tuned… More »
Tickets On Sale Saturday
Don’t sleep in too much this weekend, there are lots of tickets to buy!
Andrew Bird / Eugene Mirman / The Fiery Furnaces / Kumail Nanjiani / Alina Simone / Heather Lawless / Guster / Lizz Winstead / Martin Bisi / John Roberts / Adira Amram / Special Secret Musical Guests for Obama fundraiser on October 7 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg at noon
Smashing Pumpkins on November 6 and 7 @ United Palace presale at 10 a.m.
Counting Crows on October 27,29,… More »
Bell House Opening in Gowanus
Brooklyn is getting a new concert venue called the Bell House. Owned by the same folks that run Union Hall and Floyd, this new joint is in Gowanus, will be at 149 7th Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues.
The storefront features a comfortable 150 capacity lounge which will be open seven nights a week as a friendly neighborhood bar and gathering space featuring beer from independent and local breweries.
The live sound in the performance space has been outfitted with flying… More »