Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'oncei'
January 20, 2008
Pictured: Steve Trimboli and Goodbye Blue Monday. Via Drew Grant's Flickr. When we interviewed Goodbye Blue Monday's Steve Trimboli in 2006, it was already over a decade since his Scrap Bar closed down. He had just opened GBM in 2005, but the coffeehouse/venue/"stuff orphanage" was years in the making. Nearly everything in the unique, cluttered joint is for sale, it's sort of like being inside of eBay. In the interview, Trimboli reminds us of......
Continue Reading "Bushwick Doesn't Want to Say Goodbye Blue Monday"
December 10, 2007
Writer/director Robert Tinnell has sifted through his fond childhood memories of big Italian Christmas gatherings and emerged with a unique fusion of comic book and cookbook called The Feast of the Seven Fishes. Originally a popular internet comic, the humorously fictional book is inspired by the Italian Christmas Eve tradition involving big seafood dinners and lots of red wine. (The book's boisterous familial storyline will also be adapted into a feature length film of the......
Continue Reading "Robert Tinnell, Author"September 13, 2006
Will Franken grew up in Missouri where he huffed Freon, took acid, and aspired to be famous. He came to New York, became disillusioned, and went to San Francisco to make a name for himself. He's been named "Best Comedian of 2005" by San Francisco Weekly and performed his one man show at the New York International Fringe Festival and The Comedy Central Stage in LA . Now he's coming to NYC. Tell me about......
Continue Reading "Will Franken, Comedian"February 27, 2006
Last weekend the Yeah Yeah Yeahs played their first shows in the New York area since opening for Devo at Summerstage in 2004. They have a new album on the horizon and scheduled a few small and quickly sold out club dates to showcase the new material. I was fortunate to snag tickets to see them at Maxwells in Hoboken on Thursday and the Bowery Ballroom on Friday. Of the two I attended, Maxwells was......
Continue Reading "Opinionist: Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Maxwells & Bowery Ballroom"January 22, 2006
Whoa-- busy Sunday night! Yesterday we told you about Charlie Todd's No Pants 2006 Subway Ride-- one of his more famous ImprovEverywhere projects. The plan for today was to ride from Brooklyn Bridge to 125th Street on the 6, and then turn around and come back down. Sadly, the fuzz busted the event up and nabbed six of Charlie's agents at 59th Street! Presta Cottage Industries has the details: Things seemed to be going......
Continue Reading "BREAKING: Arrests at No Pants 2006!"August 17, 2005
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Gothamist is hella amused by the R. Kelly song, Ignition, as well as the remix. The remix is actually better, as its lyrics are hysterical: Now it’s like “Murder She Wrote” Once I get ya out them clothes The privacy’s on the door Huh? Does R. Kelly get carte blanche to talk about "sticking [his] key in your ignition" because he mentions Murder, She Wrote, thereby sucking any sexiness out of it? Don't know what......
Continue Reading "Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce"April 5, 2003
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Rice to Riches Reviewed
For those of you in Basra, or Carroll Gardens, Rice to Riches is the new rice pudding place that opened on Spring Street across from that little park right off Mulberry....