Fifty years ago, Bob Dylan began recording his iconic “Blood on the Tracks” in New York City. ( Xavier Badosa/Wikimedia Commons) “Blood on the Tracks,” Dylan’s Most NY Centric Album Was Recorded Here 50 Years Ago This Month Fifty years ago, in September 1974, Bob Dylan started recording the New York sessions for his masterpiece, “Blood on the... News 05 Sep 2024 | 06:05
Bob Dylan (right) was 22 years old when he appeared with Joan Baez on Aug. 28, 1963 during a civil rights March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I have a dream” speech. Sixty years later, Dylan is on his latest live tour that includes a Nov. 16th appearance at the Beacon Theater. Photo: National Archives and Records Admin/Wikimedia Commons True Troubadour: Bob Dylan is Flourishing by Acting His Age At an age when Bob Dylan could be clipping coupons at home in Malibu, polishing up his Nobel Prize for Literature or sipping... Voices 16 Nov 2023 | 05:46
Robbie Robertson was the leader of The Band, which backed Bob Dylan as he transformed from an acoustic guitar folk hero into his all electric era. Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Band’s Robbie Robertson Lived in a Magical New York Robbie Robertson, the leader of The Band who died on Aug. 9, was a true New Yorker. Back in 1965 and 1966, he called Manhattan... News 18 Aug 2023 | 02:39
The Pierre Hotel on the Upper East Side offers a truly full-on elegant stay. Photo via thepierreny.com Hotels for Visiting Friends and Family You dearly love your living space, of course. Unintended drama ensues when cousins come in from Philly to see the shows or... News 26 Dec 2022 | 10:09
Joan Baez and Bob Dylan performing at the March on Washington in August 1963. Photo: Rowland Scherman, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The Enduring Power of Bob Dylan’s ‘Hard Rain’ Sixty years ago, Russia was causing global paranoia and observers fretted that the planet was on the verge of a third world... Voices 26 Oct 2022 | 12:20
Joan Baez and Bob Dylan performing at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Photo: Rowland Scherman, via Wikimedia Commons A Bob Dylan Tribute Concert – 30 Years Later I was excited to attend a tribute concert for Bob Dylan, on Oct. 16, 1992, at Madison Square Garden. On that night, Stevie... Voices 03 Aug 2022 | 04:05
Woody Guthrie in 1943. Photo: Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons Woody Guthrie’s Land is Our Land I liked the way he played and sang. And I liked the things he said when he sang ... I was like a Woody Guthrie jukebox. I... City Arts 15 Jan 2022 | 06:03
Restaurateur Shelly Fireman. Photo: Rose Callahan Ringing in the New Year with the Man Behind Manhattan Hot Spots If you live in Manhattan, chances are you’ve eaten at one of Shelly Fireman’s restaurants. The famed restauranteur has given... News 23 Dec 2021 | 11:07
An album Bob Dylan wrote and recorded in New York. Photo: Jon Friedman Bob Dylan, 80 Years (Forever) Young – and Still Mr. New York The Village Voice was pondering what, back in September of 2017, was feared to be its final edition. The quintessential New... Voices 07 May 2021 | 01:53
Photo courtesy of Bob Gruen A Life of Chronicling Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Bob Gruen says he has been thinking of writing a memoir for 50 years. Now 74, and with the help of journalist Dave Thompson,... News 17 Mar 2021 | 12:38
Zoom with Benefits For the past 11 months, I’ve taught college classes thanks to Zoom on topics as diverse as, well, diversity and inclusion... Education Guide 22 Feb 2021 | 02:45
“Resembling a cross between a choir boy and a beatnik, Mr. Dylan has a cherubic look and a mop of tousled hair he partly covers with a Huck Finn black corduroy cap,” wrote Robert Shelton, music critic for The New York Times. Photo: Jon Friedman When Bob Dylan Came to New York City Sixty years ago, the times were a-changin’. On Jan. 20, 1961, the dashing John F. Kennedy placed his hand on a Bible and duly... News 27 Jan 2021 | 03:49
Camille A. Brown, a Tony-nominated choreographer, was preparing for a Broadway revival of "Aida." ( Photo via camilleabrown.org ) Dreams Deferred Erika Henningsen walked away from a key role in “Mean Girls” on Broadway to take a smaller one in a new Lincoln Center show... News 26 May 2020 | 01:48
The Beacon Theatre. ( Photo: Courtesy of MSG.) Arts & Culture Best Non-Touristy Museum THE JEWISH MUSEUM 1109 Fifth Ave. 212-423-3200 www.thejewishmuseum.org Visitors may follow their guidebooks... Best of Manhattan 03 Dec 2019 | 02:22
Bob Dylan Missed a Lively Talk in Stuy Town It’s really too bad that music legend Bob Dylan was away on tour when I gave a talk about him a few weeks ago in Stuyvesant... News 22 Nov 2019 | 05:12
