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March 4th, 2010
Original Article from Rolling Stone
Photo: Courtesy of the New York Historical Society
On March 5th, New York City’s oldest museum will open its doors to the first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive for The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New York Historical Society. Although the band formed in California and the Archive itself is located at the University of California Santa Cruz, this exhibit — which runs through July 4th — has come to the Big Apple to celebrate the band’s special relationship to the city. At a preview yesterday, the museum’s CEO Louise Mirrer explained, “The Grateful Dead first played New York in 1967 at the Cafe Au Go Go and Central Park and continued to play concerts in New York City every year from the late 1970s up until 1995.”
Test pressings, album covers, backstage passes, guest lists, performance contract riders and band merchandise are all featured in the show, along with decorated ticket lottery envelopes, fan surveys, letters, and Dick Latvala’s (the Dead’s tape archivist) own notebooks and original tape boxes. Other items of interest include sketches, budgets, and equipment lists for the Wall of Sound and marionette skeletons of Jerry Garcia, Bill Kruetzman, and Brent Mydland used in the band’s 1987 “Touch of Grey” video. While most of the items were loaned from the Grateful Dead Archive in Santa Cruz, a few came directly from band members and private collectors. Jerry Garcia’s custom made Rosebud guitar, which he used throughout the Nineties until his death, is on loan from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The exhibit also features a variety of concert posters designed by artist Dennis Larkins. Larkins, a former stage designer for Bill Graham Presents, was asked by Graham himself to make a poster for the band’s fall 1980 shows at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater in just four days. The resulting poster, which features two giant skeletons resting on the sides of the famous theater, would later go one to be one of the group’s most iconic images. Now a full time artist in California, Larkins admits the exhibit is a bizarre thrill: “I never thought this would be the work [of mine] that would be showcased in a museum.” At an earlier preview of the exhibit last October, the bandmembers shared similar sentiments. “Who knew we would ever be historic?” Phil Lesh said.
Related Stories:
• Lesh, Weir Turn Out Short Set to Preview Grateful Dead Exhibit
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February 18th, 2010
Original Article from The Hollywood Gossip
You won’t believe this, but a lot of drama is coming to The Real Housewives of New York City.
When the third season of the Bravo hit premieres on March 4, it will center on a feud between Jill Zarin and Bethenny Frankel.
“This is the angriest season yet,” Zarin shared with Life & Style. “There’s a lot of hurt, a lot of pain.”
What are those feelings based on? Sources say that Jill is pissed with Bethenny because the script calls for it she wasn’t there for Jill when the latter’s husband, Bobby, was diagnosed with cancer over the summer.
“It was a difficult time for me and my family, and the loss of Bethenny’s friendship tore me apart,” Jill confirmed.
Frankel agrees that the season ahead is “brutal,” but “I don’t have any hard feelings about anybody. She adds:
“I’m too happy. I have too much to be happy about to worry about what’s going on with other people.”
That’s the selfless attitude we love! Good luck with it, Jason Hoppy.
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February 9th, 2010
Original Article from PopCrunch
Alice Tan Ridley, mother of Academy Award-nominated Precious star Gabourey Sidibe, has been singing her heart out in subway stations around New York City three days a week for 18 years!
A R&B/Gospel fixture in the Big Apple, Ridley worked as a nursery-school teacher and a Department of Education teacher’s aide before relocating her act to Manhattan’s train stations — she also croons in Penn Station and 14th Street/Union Square. Although most people would see her daughter as the one with the more glamorous gig, Alice refuses to accept handouts from her kid.
While Gabourey, 26, could be well on her way to a life of a big spending in Hollywood, Ridley — a proud Harlem native — says she’s happy to continue hitting the high notes for straphangers.
“My name is not on Gabby’s paycheck,” Alice explained to The New York Post on Monday. “For a while, I was teaching and doing the singing, burning the candle at both ends to support my family…” Now the songstress says she makes enough money each day to “pay the bills and feed the kids.”
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February 9th, 2010
Original Article from PopCrunch
Alice Tan Ridley, mother of Academy Award-nominated Precious star Gabourey Sidibe, has been singing her heart out in subway stations around New York City three days a week for 18 years!
A R&B/Gospel fixture in the Big Apple, Ridley worked as a nursery-school teacher and a Department of Education teacher’s aide before relocating her act to Manhattan’s train stations — she also croons in Penn Station and 14th Street/Union Square. Although most people would see her daughter as the one with the more glamorous gig, Alice refuses to accept handouts from her kid.
While Gabourey, 26, could be well on her way to a life of a big spending in Hollywood, Ridley — a proud Harlem native — says she’s happy to continue hitting the high notes for straphangers.
“My name is not on Gabby’s paycheck,” Alice explained to The New York Post on Monday. “For a while, I was teaching and doing the singing, burning the candle at both ends to support my family…” Now the songstress says she makes enough money each day to “pay the bills and feed the kids.”
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February 5th, 2010
Original Article from The Hollywood Gossip
Try to hold back the tears, reality TV fans:
Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen are reportedly out of The Real Housewives of New York City. Sources tell The New York Daily News “there are a ton of reasons they aren’t being asked back” for a fourth season of the Bravo hit.
Such as…
“Viewers don’t have a positive reaction to them, so they’re easily replaceable at this point,” an insider said, while Simon himself doesn’t deny the rumor, saying:
“We have not had any discussions regarding a fourth season.”
Moreover, the newspaper says the couple doesn’t “really fit in with the other wives,” while Simon threw a “hissy fit” when he discovered he was paid less than everyone else.
“Simon wants to be an equal on the show, but that doesn’t really make any sense to Bravo,” the source said. “After all, he’s not a ‘Real Housewife,’ now is he?”
No, he certainly is not. Then again, we’re pretty sure neither Bethenny Frankel nor Kelly Bensimon is married… or real in any sense of the word.
The third season of The Real Housewives of New York City premieres on March 4. In it, “Alex picks a lot of fights, and it looks like it’s an attempt to keep her story line relevant,” said the insider. “But it ended up seeming inauthentic.”
As compared to the rest of this totally believable, not remotely scripted show, of course.
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February 4th, 2010
Original Article from PopCrunch
The Real Housewives of New York City is losing one of its polarizing couples.
Big Apple socialite Alex McCord and hubby Simon van Kempen will not be back with the hit reality docu-soap returns for its fourth season on Bravo later this year.
Tattling tipters claim producers dumped the couple after refusing to do any more business with the overbearing Simon, who flew into full Bitch Mode when Bravo slammed the entire cast with a hefty reduction in pay. In addition, the network was concerned by the fact that the couple never quite seemed to resonate with viewers.
“Viewers don’t have a positive reaction to them, so they’re easily replaceable at this point. Also, they don’t really fit in with the other wives. All of the other women’s story lines have interwoven, yet Alex and Simon have kept theirs separate. It isn’t nearly as interesting as the other Housewives’.”
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November 13th, 2009
Original Article from Rolling Stone
Paul McCartney’s 2 CD/DVD set Good Evening New York City, featuring his sold-out three-night stand at Queens, New York’s new Citi Field, isn’t out until next Tuesday, November 17th, but we’ve got an exclusive preview of Macca rocking out in centerfield with this clip of his Band on the Run joint “Let Me Roll It.” The July 2009 concerts found the Hall of Famer and his band covering 33 songs from his entire catalog — from the Beatles to McCartney to Wings to latest side project the Fireman — over the course of two hours and 40 minutes,
Considering the Beatles’ history at Shea Stadium and the fact that McCartney played some of the last notes ever at that now-demolished field, it was fitting that Macca would be the first artist to perform at the new home of the New York Mets. Among the countless highlights from McCartney’s Citi shows are a collaboration with Billy Joel on “I Saw Her Standing There,” rare performances of “A Day in the Life” and “Day Tripper,” and a medley of Fab Four classics.
To document the concerts, crew members focused 15 cameras on the stage and also distributed 75 Flipcams throughout the audience to capture all angles of the performances — from first base to the left field line to the upper decks. As an added bonus, the deluxe edition DVD will also include McCartney’s entire performance atop the marquee at New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater for the Late Show with David Letterman.
Related Stories:
Paul McCartney’s Historic Citi Field Stand Coming to CD/DVD
McCartney Makes History at Citi Field With Billy Joel, Beatles Hits
Paul McCartney Stuns Manhattan With Set on Letterman’s Marquee
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October 15th, 2009
Original Article from The Hollywood Gossip
Bravo has confirmed the addition of two more rich, obnoxious, talentless women on The Real Housewives of New York City.
On the upcoming new season of the reality hit, Sonja Morgan and Jennifer Gilbert will make frequent appearances. Each is currently listed as a “recurring” character, as opposed to a series regular.
Morgan, who was rumored to take over for Bethenny Frankel, is described by the network as: “A fixture of New York City society, running in social circles that include European royalty and top-notch designers… worked for multiple restaurants across the city as a consultant and manager and often brought in her famous friends to spice up these locales.
A single mother of a nine-year-old daughter, Morgan loves art, decorating, gardening, skiing and visiting France every chance she gets – be it for her charity work or just for pleasure.”
She sounds awesome. We guess.
As for Gilbert, she’s a “busy career woman” who owns a corporate and social event planning company called Save the Date. Yet, she’s not too busy to star on a reality show, apparently.
At 29, Gilbert was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young. She has three children.
Filming on the new season is underway. It will premiere in early 2010.
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October 5th, 2009
Original Article from The Insider
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July 8th, 2009
The Real Housewives of New York City is coming back for a third season of mischief and cat fighting on Bravo.
But will the cast remain intact?
Last season’s new troublemaker, Kelly Bensimon, was the first to sign up for another go-around on the reality show, as sources told E! News” “She is considered the most hated woman in New York and will do anything to reverse that opinion.”
Somewhere, Ruth Madoff can’t believe she was overlooked for that honor.
The Real Annoying, Spoiled, Self-Serving Housewives of New York City are coming back to Bravo in early 2010.
Then there’s the newly-engaged Bethenny Frankel, whose rep has also confirmed her return to the series that made her famous:
“Bethenny Frankel loves being part of the Bravo family, and if invited back, she will 100 percent RSVP for the Real Housewives party.”
But the same can’t be said for Jill Zarin and Ramona Singer. These two are reportedly holding out for a raise, as insiders say they see themselves as the actual stars of the show.
“Bravo put out that press release saying they’re casting for new housewives because Jill and Ramona are playing hardball,” said a source.
What do you think, readers? Should the show move on with Jill and Ramona? Or is this pair integral to its success?