Archive | January, 2012

Music@Sundance/Slamdance

01/27/2012

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Music in film is my passion and Sundance usually has a slew of musicians coming through town. On Monday, January 23, I got a text message to get myself over to the Fender Music Lounge where James McCartney performed with his really tight band. I came in on the tail end of his show but […]

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Silent Films/Live Guitars: New York Guitar Festival

01/17/2012

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Groundbreaking guitarists perform original scores for silent films
 by the legendary Buster Keaton by Yuri Turchyn The New York Guitar Festival (NYGF) has been around for ten years exploring many aspects of guitar music through commissioning new work and supporting innovative, multi-media collaborations among outstanding artists. In 2009 NYGF at Merkin Concert Hall, featured artists […]

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Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston

01/11/2012

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Halston. Ubiquitous sophisticated style and casual chic. I was curious because I lived through and survived the 70s. Curious not only because the Studio 54 lifestyle was all that glittered, but the transition in clothing styles from the hippie look to polished, stripped down elegance. Simplicity. Halston was the master of simplicity– form, structure, cut, […]

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