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The Top Things to Do in Charlotte, NC Neighborhoods

Introduction

Charlotte is a city of many faces and personalities. It's the hometown of sports icons, like NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Sr. and NBA great Larry Brown, as well as music superstars like John Michael Montgomery and The Band Perry. Charlotte has seen plenty of ups and downs in its history—from the Great Depression to the latest recession—but it has consistently rebounded stronger than ever before with each new economic downturn. In fact, 2019 is shaping up to be one of Charlotte's best years yet for tourism thanks to a number of exciting new attractions opening their doors this year:

The Mint Museum of Art

The Mint Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the Carolinas and one of the best in the Southeast. It houses over 30,000 objects, including European and American paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and photographs.

The collection includes works by such artists as John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88), and James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903). There are also special exhibits featuring contemporary artists from around the world that change every few months or so--last year's featured an installation by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama called "Infinity Mirrors: The Universe Within You."

The Billy Graham Library and Museum

The Billy Graham Library and Museum is a must-see for any religious or history buff. Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, this beautiful brick building holds more than 40 million items related to the life of Billy Graham and his ministry. Visitors can walk through exhibits that chronicle his life as well as his work around the world. You'll also be able to see items from presidents like Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Ronald Reagan; celebrities such as Bob Hope, Elvis Presley, and Muhammad Ali; other well-known preachers such as Charles Stanley and T.D Jakes; historical artifacts like letters written by George Washington during the Revolutionary War; Bibles dating back hundreds of years (including one owned by Thomas Jefferson); paintings done by Michelangelo Buonarroti himself!

While there are many things we could list off about this amazing place (and trust us when we say it would take hours), here are our top five reasons why you should visit The Billy Graham Library & Museum:

NASCAR Hall of Fame and Convention Center

The NASCAR Hall of Fame and Convention Center is located in Uptown Charlotte, and it's the perfect place to learn more about NASCAR. The museum features exhibits on everything from racing history and technology to driver profiles and race cars. There are also interactive exhibits that let you try your hand at driving a car, designing a race car, or even getting up close with some famous race cars!

The museum is open seven days a week from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (closed on Thanksgiving Day). Tickets cost $19 for adults and $14 for children ages 3-12; children under 2 years old are free with an adult ticket purchase.

N.C. Music Factory and Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park

Concerts and music festivals: N.C. Music Factory is home to several live events each year, including concerts by artists like Drake and Maroon 5. Other popular venues include Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park and PNC Music Pavilion Charlotte.

Indoor/outdoor venues: You can catch a show at one of these indoor venues or head outside for some fresh air with your favorite band!

Food, drinks, shopping: You won't go hungry while enjoying your favorite artist in Charlotte--there are plenty of restaurants nearby where you can grab food before or after the show!

Discovery Place Children's Museum and IMAX theater

Discovery Place Children's Museum and IMAX theater

Located in Uptown Charlotte, this hands-on science center is open daily. The museum has an aquarium, planetarium, Discovery Center, and theater with immersive films and 3D glasses to view them. You can also see what it's like to be an astronaut or explore outer space while learning about your body as well as the animals and plants of our world.

For more information visit discoveryplacecmuseum.org

Noda

Noda is located in the heart of Uptown Charlotte and serves Japanese and Korean cuisine. The restaurant has a great atmosphere, with dim lighting and a variety of seating options for couples, groups or even solo diners. Noda also offers late-night hours that make it ideal for those who want to grab dinner after a show at The Blumenthal Performing Arts Center or another event at the nearby Spectrum Center.

The happy hour menu offers several unique cocktails as well as small plates such as edamame hummus ($5), pork belly tacos ($8), or spicy tuna rolls ($6).

Villa Heights

Villa Heights is a neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina. It's located about 10 miles from Uptown Charlotte and is one of the city's oldest neighborhoods.

The area is known for its Victorian architecture and small-town feel, but it also has plenty of restaurants, bars, and shops that make it a popular place to live for young professionals looking for an urban lifestyle without having to deal with all of the traffic or noise associated with living in downtown areas like Uptown or NoDa (North Davidson).

Conclusion

Charlotte is a great city to visit, and it has so much to offer. From museums and amusement parks to concerts and festivals, there is something for everyone. We hope this list has inspired you to plan your next trip!

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Radix Dance Convention, Atlanta, GA: RESULTS

High Scores by Age:

Rookie Solo

1st: MIla Simunic-’Never Enough’

2nd: Brenna Ferrell-’Showstopper’

2nd: Alaina Chadbourne-’Walk The Dinosaur’

Mini Solo

1st: Ellie Melchior-’Function’

2nd: Barrett Robison-’Ping’

3rd: Spencer Parnell-’The Return’

3rd: AnaKate Danner-’Unleashed’

3rd: Paislyn Schroeder-’Vibin’

4th: Kaylee Schwamb-’See Me Now’

4th: Lily Planck-’She’s A Lady’

5th: Georgia Beth Peters-’Come Together’

5th: Ava Grace Merritt-’Love Me’

5th: Anslee LeBlanc-’Take Care Of Yourself’

6th: Bella Smith-’Against The Music’

6th: Clare Gibbons-’Baby I’m A Star’

7th: Xin Lee-’Finding Home’

7th: Avery St John-’Tomorrow’s Song’

8th: Londyn Knox-’Without You’

9th: Lauren Fenton-’Boogie Shoes’

9th: Madelyn Laken-’Surprise’

10th: Penelope Thomas-’Love Shack’

10th: Lila Morath-’Miss Velour’

Junior Solo

1st: Amaya Llewellyn-’Must’

1st: Leila Winker-’Takt’

2nd: Emme James Anderson-’Resume’

3rd: Riley Fiorello-’Crippled Bird’

3rd: Estella Guzman-’No Contamination’

3rd: Ally Reuter-’Stagma’

4th: Mia Doyle-’Designated Harmony’

4th: Brinkley Pittman-’Gravity’

4th: Addison Cullather-’Tangent’

5th: Morgan Belyeu-’Older’

5th: Kalli Ramet-’Rock Me Baby’

5th: Roberta Marcos-’Torn’

6th: Luna Powell-’1977′

6th: Ella Paige Moore-’Breaking Point’

6th: Zella Wentz-’Fearless’

7th: Addison ?-’How Does A Moment Last Forever’

7th: Collier McLain-’Love Has No Limits’

7th: Mia Mondok-’Music Box’

7th: Gabriela Miller-’Sinking’

8th: Mia Narvaez-’Destinations’

8th: Amanda Fenton-’Devil In Disguise’

8th: Annabel Ellis-’The Forest’

8th: Sidney Hill-’The Moon’

9th: Zoe Kappler-’Changeling’

9th: Callie Ludtke-’Impossible’

9th: Leah Midgett-’Mirror Mirror’

10th: Kinley Andrews-’All That Jazz’

10th: Meredith Lee-’Especially A Woman’

Teen Solo

1st: Harlow Ganz-’End of Love’

1st: Preslie Rosamond-’Possibly Maybe’

2nd: Emery Sousley-’Birds of Paradise’

3rd: Olivia Taylor-’Closure’

3rd: Oliver Keane-’Electric Pulse’

4th: Kenzie Robertson-’1977′

4th: Josh Stephens-’Fires’

4th: Johanna Jessen-’Party’

4th: Gabriella Kennedy-’Ritz’

4th: Rianna Weck-’Sensory Overload’

5th: Delaney Lorenz-’Creep’

5th: Haley Midgett-’Smile to Me’

5th: Sydney Tam-’Touch’

6th: Natalie Bumgarner-’Maybe This Time’

6th: Kate Higginbotham-’Polly’

7th: Kennedi Washington-’Epilogue’

7th: Kayla Pierce-’Fire Speak’

7th: Kayla Montgomery-’Lalia’

8th: Cady Cropper-’Godspeed’

8th: Maddie Laine Callaway-’Piece by Piece’

9th: Mia Lott-’Flawless’

9th: Jordan Stevener-’Ghosts’

9th: Ally Organo-’Like You’ll Never See Me Again’

10th: Julia Deana-’Hate You’

10th: Madison marshall-’Icon’

10th: Dempsey Foxson-’Vain’

Senior Solo

1st: Seth Gibson-’Identity’

1st: Dai Boyd-’Try A Little Tenderness’

2nd: Libby Wiley-’By Thy Light’

3rd: Brittany Willard-’Unchained Melody’

4th: Raven Rutledge-’A Pale’

5th: Rebecca Lewyn-’Devil I Know’

5th: Anna Goodman-’Fallen Alien’

5th: Alexandra Jinglov-’Take It Easy’

6th: Belle Mason-’Drones’

6th: Katelynn Midgett-’Georgia’

6th: Ayana Davis-’Progressing’

7th: Kaili Tam-’Malamente’

7th: Elaina Samady-’Loving Ghosts’

7th: Ally Pereira-’Daring to Love’

7th: CJ Parker-’A Letter From France’

7th: Madison Phelps-’A Feeling Felt’

7th: Avery Ferguson-’When You Sleep’

8th: Izzie Bringle-’Hush’

8th: Molly Fisher-’Moved’

8th: Lexi Elias-’The Weight’

9th: Gracie Avalos-’A Body’

9th: Kirsten Brown-’Asylum’

9th: Julia Hale-’Cellophane’

10th: Brooke Manchester-’Go’

10th: Ainsley Wharton-’These hands’

10th: Sophie Hooker-’We’ll Meet Again’

Mini Duo/Trio

1st: Academy for The Performing Arts-’Fall For You’

2nd: Milele Academy-’Miami’

3rd: Studio 413-’Party Planners’

3rd: Milele Academy-’Vibology’

Junior Duo/Trio

1st: Milele Academy-’Fiyah Speak’

1st: Academy for the Performing Arts-’Oceania’

2nd: B-viBe The Dance Movement-’The Mess We’re In’

3rd: Dance Productions Unlimited-’Superpowers’

Teen Duo/Trio

1st: The Royal Dance Academy-’Greiving’

2nd: Milele Academy-’Down We Go’

2nd: Accolades Movement Project-’I Remember Her’

3rd: Studio 413-’Distortion’

3rd: Academy for the Performing Arts-’Fledglings’

3rd: Academy for the Performing Arts-’Rebuild’

3rd: Academy for the Performing Arts-’Tiny Cities’

Senior Duo/Trio

1st: Studio 413-’Black Flies’

2nd: Milele Academy-’Darkest Hour’

3rd: B-viBe The Dance Movement-’Heartbeat’

Rookie Group

1st: Elite Studio-’I Don’t Want to Show Off’

2nd: Elite Studios-’90′s Babies’

Mini Group

1st: Encore Studio-’Uptown Girl’

2nd: Encore Studio-’Windowdipper’

3rd: Encore Studio-’Turn to Stone’

Junior Group

1st: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’All I Want’

1st: B-viBe The Dance Movement-’Down The Line’

1st: B-viBe The Dance Movement-’History In The Making’

2nd: Milele Academy-’Save a Horse’

3rd: Elite Studio-’Collective Breath’

Teen Group

1st: Academy for the Performing Arts-’Don’t Forget Me’

1st: Encore Studio-’Kinjabang’

2nd: Studio 413-’Social Media Overload’

3rd: Milele Academy-’Close Up’

Senior Group

1st: Elite Studios-’I Still Remain’

2nd: Milele Academy-’Get It’

3rd: Academy for the Performing Arts-’Holdin Out’

Rookie Line

1st: Encore Studio-’Conga’

Mini Line

1st: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Jailhouse Rock’

2nd: Encore Studio-’Truth’

3rd: Elite Studio-’Get Busy’

3rd: Elite Studios-’What You Did To Me’

Junior Line

1st: Milele Academy-’Missy’

2nd: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’It’s About That Walk’

3rd: Studio 413-’Into the Night’

Teen Line

1st: Studio 413-’Hold On Tight’

2nd: Encore Studio-’Yikes’

3rd: Encore Studio-’Just Say’

Senior Line

1st: Studio 413-’Rumors’

2nd: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Lost’

3rd: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Who You Are’

Mini Extended Line

1st: Encore Studio-’Vibeology’

2nd: Studio 413-’Critical Level’

3rd: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’I’m Alive’

Junior Extended Line

1st: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Covergirl’

1st: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Footloose’

1st: Studio 413-’Goodbye’

2nd: Studio 413-’Girl Boss’

Teen Extended Line

1st: Studio 413-’No One’

2nd: Studio Powers-’BLACK’

3rd: Studio 413-’Ready or Not’

Senior Extended Line

1st: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Shut It Down’

2nd: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Trust Me Again’

3rd: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Resolution’

Junior Production

1st: Studio 413-’Electricity’

Teen Production

1st: Encore Studio-’Cardi’

2nd: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’JLo’

3rd: Elite Studio-’That 70′s Show’

High Scores by Performance Division:

Rookie Jazz

1st: Encore Studio-’Conga’ 2nd: Elite Studio-’I Don’t Want to Show Off’

Rookie Tap

Elite Studios-’90′s Babies’

Mini Jazz

1st: Encore Studio-’Uptown Girl’ 2nd: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Jailhouse Rock’ 3rd: Milele Academy-’Move Your Body’

Mini Hip-Hop

Studio 413-’Lose Control’

Mini Tap

Studio 413-’Critical Level’

Mini Contemporary

1st: Encore Studio-’Windowdipper’ 2nd: Encore Studio-’Turn to Stone’ 3rd: Encore Studio-’Truth’

Mini Lyrical

1st: Elite Studios-’Every Single Thing I Have’ 2nd: Vermont Ballet Theater-’Build It Up’

Mini Specialty

Jill’s Studio of Dance-’I’m Alive’

Junior Jazz

1st: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Covergirl’ 2nd: Studio 413-’Electricity’ 3rd: Milele Academy-’Save a Horse’ 3rd: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’It’s About That Walk’

Junior Hip-Hop

1st: Milele Academy-’Missy’ 2nd: Studio 413-’Girl Boss’ 3rd: Academy for the Performing Arts-’New Skool’

Junior Tap

1st: Studio 413-’Into the Night’ 2nd: Academy for the Performing Arts-’You Can Feel It’

Junior Contemporary

1st: Studio 413-’Goodbye’ 2nd: B-viBe The Dance Movement-’Down The Line’ 3rd: Elite Studio-’Collective Breath’

Junior Lyrical

Jill’s Studio of Dance-’All I Want’

Junior Musical Theatre

1st: Academy for the Performing Arts-’Guns and Ships’ 2nd: Vermont Ballet Theater-’We Go Together’

Junior Specialty

1st: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Footloose’ 2nd: B-viBe The Dance Movement-’History In The Making’

Teen Jazz

1st: Encore Studio-’Just Say’ 2nd: Studio 413-’Body Language’ 3rd: Studio 413-’Social Media Overload’

Teen Hip-Hop

1st: Encore Studio-’Yikes’ 2nd: Studio Powers-’BLACK’ 3rd: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Fire Emoji’

Teen Tap

1st: Studio 413-’No One’ 2nd: Encore Studio-’Cardi’

Teen Contemporary

1st: Studio 413-’Hold on Tight’ 2nd: Encore Studio-’Kinjabang’ 2nd: Academy for the Performing Arts-’Don’t Forget Me’ 2nd: Encore Studio-’Sadness’ 3rd: Milele Academy-’Hurting You’

Teen Lyrical

Vermont Ballet Theater-’Gravity’

Teen Musical Theatre

1st: Elite Studios-’Take Off With Us’ 1st: Academy for the Performing Arts-’Wait For Me’

Teen Specialty

1st: B-viBe The Dance Movement-’Cage of Bones’ 2nd: Studio Powers-’Area 51′

Senior Jazz

1st: Studio 413-’Rumors’ 2nd: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Shut It Down’ 3rd: Elite Studios-’Sleep’

Senior Hip-Hop

Academy for the Performing Arts-’Welcome to Our Hood’

Senior Tap

Academy for the Performing Arts-’Holdin’ Out’

Senior Contemporary

1st: Elite Studios-’I Still Remain’ 2nd: Milele Academy-’Get It’ 2nd: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Lost’ 3rd: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Who You Are’ 3rd: Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Trust Me Again’

Senior Lyrical

1st: Elite Studios-’Kissing You’ 2nd: B-viBe The Dance Movement-’Came Here For Love’

Senior Specialty

1st: Academy for the Performing Arts-’Still Smiling’ 2nd: B-viBe The Dance Movement-’For This You Were Born’

Best of Radix:

Rookie

Elite Studio-’I Don’t Want to Show Off’

Encore Studio-’Conga’

Mini

Milele Academy-’Move Your Body’

Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Jailhouse Rock’

Encore Studio-’Uptown Girl’

Junior

Elite Studio-’Collective Breath’

Milele Academy-’Missy’

B-viBe The Dance Movement-’History In The Making’

Studio 413-’Goodbye’

Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Covergirl’

Teen

Academy for the Performing Arts-’Don’t Forget Me’

Studio 413-’Hold On Tight’

Studio Powers-’BLACK’

Milele Academy-’Hurting You’

Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Fire Emoji’

Encore Studio-’Yikes’

Senior

Milele Academy-’Get It’

Elite Studios-’I Still Remain’

Studio 413-’Rumors’

Academy for the Performing Arts-’Holdin Out’

Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Lost’

Studio Standout:

Elite Studios-’I Still Remain’

Academy for the Performing Arts-’Holdin Out’

B-viBe The Dance Movement-’History In The Making’

Encore Studio-’Yikes’

Jill’s Studio of Dance-’Lost’

Milele Academy-’Get It’

Studio 413-’Hold On Tight’

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Gogol Bordello June 1, 2019 Riviera Theatre, Chicago

I had a great time with my wife seeing Gogol Bordello at the Riv. I have seen them twice before, both at Riot Fest. Their shows are incredibly fun. I always thought seeing them in a smaller venue would be awesome. I was not disappointed. With their unique brand of Gypsy Punk, they are very theatrical on stage with non-stop energy. Eugene Hutz has energy that exceeds that of Mick Jagger. He is always moving, jumping up on stage plinths while he sings and plays acoustic guitar, leaning into the audience, and dancing around the stage. Early in the show, he opens a bottle of wine. He drinks some of it but most of the contents get spilled out during his frenetic stage movements. Late in the show, he sends an old-style marching band bass drum out into the audience. The audience members, arms stretched high, hold the drum about their heads while Eugene sings both on his knees and standing on the drum. He is having so much fun and it is like he does not want the show to end. The band played a five-song encore and after they left the stage, Eugene stuck around and finished with a solo acoustic song. The Riviera is an old ornate movie theater that was built in 1917. The seats on the main floor have been removed and it was jammed with fans. We were up in the balcony and we had as much fun watching the moshing fans below as we did the show. The Riv is in the Uptown neighborhood on Chicago’s north side. Uptown was quite a seedy area a few decades ago. It has changed quite a bit, for the better, but not in a gentrified way. There are dozens of independent restaurants within a few blocks of the theater. My wife and I like Asia on Argyle, a section that is lined with Asian restaurants. This time we ate at Tank Noodle on the corner of Argyle and Broadway. The Riv is also less than a block from two other old theater/concert venues; The Aragon Ballroom and The Uptown Theatre. Sadly, The Uptown has been closed for several years now and its future is uncertain. (My best memory of The Uptown is attending Frank Zappa concerts). The Aragon is still alive and well, and on the same night we saw Gogol Bordello, Wu-Tang Clan was at the Aragon. Both shows got out at the same time and a throng of people spilled out onto the streets. With the revelry of the crowd and sirens screaming from emergency vehicles, it was quite a classic Chicago scene on an early-summer night.

Set List:

1.       Through the Roof 'n' Underground

2.       Not a Crime

3.       Immigrant Punk

4.       I Would Never Wanna Be Young Again

5.       Saboteur Blues

6.       My Companjera

7.       Alcohol

8.       Rebellious Love

9.       Trans-Continental Hustle

10.   Immigraniada (We Comin' Rougher)

11.   Passport

12.   Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis Presley cover)

13.   When the Trickster Starts A-Poking (Bordello Kind of Guy)

14.   Last One Goes the Hope

15.   Start Wearing Purple

16.   Wonderlust King

17.   Pala Tute

Encore:

18.   Sacred Darling

19.   I Can't Find My Mind / Wild On (The Cramps cover)

20.   I Just Realized

21.   Baro Foro / Undestructable

22.   60 Revolutions

23.   Sun Is on My Side (acoustic)

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'Cherry Pools' Concerts

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Casual theater lovers might think that there’s nothing else happening beside the Tony Awards in June. They would be wrong!

June calendar of theater openings: Stonewall 50 on Stages! Fairview Returns!

Still they are the only theater award that remains in this exhausting theater awards season. It’s certainly been a busy five weeks since the 2019 Tony nominations were announced, and a happy one, judging by photographs like the one below. Three of the five nominees for the Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play are smiling together at the Tony Honors cocktail party, one of a seemingly endless series of events that will be coming to an end with the ceremony this Sunday.

What’s intriguing is how much the Tonys seem split this year in half, between what you can call downtown and uptown — conventional versus experimental. More on this in the days ahead. (Sorry!)

May Quiz

The Week in New York Theater Awards

Paddy Considine as Quinn Carney (center, standing) and the company of The Ferryman

Christopher Sieber in “Love Thy Neighbor” number

The Drama Desk Awards: The Ferryman, The Prom, Fiddler, Waverly Gallery

Theatre World Award Winners On Their First Time, and Tough Times, and Cher

Third annual ⁦Tony Awards song⁩ compilation, available June 14, will feature one song from each of the 13 musicals in the Broadway 2018-2019:season, plus a bonus track sung by Marin Mazzie

The Week in New York Theater Reviews and Previews

Dave Malloy’s Octet: Internet Addicts Sing Their Support A Capella

More or Less I Am in Fort Greene Park

More Or Less I Am

A decade ago, theater director and educator Karin Coonrod conceived “More Or Less I Am,” a musical theater piece drawn from Walt Whitman’s 1855 poem “Song of Myself.” Her theater company, Compagnia de’ Colombari, has been presenting it around the city ever since, and especially during the week of the poet’s 200th birthday

Underground Railroad Game

Out of  a surreal childhood memory of being forced to re-enact the Civil War as a game in fifth grade, Scott Sheppard and co-creator Jennifer Kidwell have fashioned a captivating work of theater that is bravely acted, inventively designed, and relentlessly surprising — dizzying in its anarchic turns from playful to hateful, satiric to sadistic.

Play On Festival

The Play On! Festival is presenting staged readings through June 30 of all 39 of William Shakespeare’s plays “translated” into “contemporary modern English” by 36 American playwrights.

Dying City Colin Woodell and Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Dying City

Christopher Shinn’s “Dying City,” which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Drama after it received an admired production at Lincoln Center in 2007, is being revived Off-Broadway at Second Stages at the same time that there is a Broadway production of Lanford Wilson’s older play “Burn This,”  which it resembles in several ways. Both focus on a kind of unconventional love triangle involving two brothers. In both plays, one of the brothers is gay, and one of the brothers is dead. (The gay brother is the dead one in “Burn This”; the gay one is the one still living in “Dying City.”) Both also explore the effects of a death on the people left behind. But “Dying City” has a more ambitious and more stealth agenda – to bring us into a world not just of grief but of trauma.

What they also have in common is that neither revival quite works for me, for what feel like opposite reasons.

Fosse Verdon Finale: Yes that was Lin-Manuel

The Week in New York Theater News

King Lear with Glenda Jackson is closing on June 9th — the same day as the Tony Awards — and nearly a month earlier than scheduled. I liked it more than most

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For the 52 weeks of the 2018-2019 Broadway season (which ended last weekend), total attendance reached 14,768,254 and Broadway shows yielded $1,829,312,140 in grosses, according to The Broadway League .The attendance was said to be more than those of all ten major league aports teams in New York and New Jersey combined

What the Constitution Means to Me, Broadway 2019

A new program called NYC Civics and Arts Fund, overseen by The NYC Mayors Fund, will subsidize 500 students a year to attend arts events in the city. The first partner is “What The Constitution Means to Me,” which will make tix available for the students from now to the end of its run.

The play will also embark on a national tour starting January 2020 in Los Angeles, and playing 40 weeks in 22 cities including Charlotte, Hartford, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh

Encores City Center 2020 season:

Mack and Mabel (February 19 – 23) by Jerry Herman and Michael Stewart

Love Life (March 18 – 22) by Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner

Thoroughly Modern Millie (May 6 – 10) Dick Scanlan and Jeanine Tesori, starring Ashley Park

Enter Laughing at York Theater is closing June 16, a week later than planned, which is a good thing because it’s funnier than you’d expect, with Chris Dwan as an awkward teenager in the 1930s trying to break into show business.

Manilow Broadway — Barry Manilow July 26 through August 17 at Lunt-Fontanne Theatre

Exciting 2019-20 Atlantic Theater season, including new works by Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), Stephen Adly Guirgis, Ethan Coen, even a musical by Sarah Silverman and Joshua Harmon.

Coming to TImes Square in 2020: The Museum of Broadway, a “pop up museum” (meaning it won’t last) with exhibits on 1. the evolution of the theater district, 2. behind-the-scenes making of a Bway show. 3. landmark musicals

Rebecca, the decade-long saga, has a next installment, by @PhilipBoroff:

After six years, 471 legal filings, and a trial, Ben Sprecher, the producer of the aborted Broadway musical Rebecca, has settled with his ex press agent Marc Thibodeauhttps://t.co/FCyyBKQkz5 pic.twitter.com/OXV1fAwHMj

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Congratulations @WesTayTay (@SpongeBobBway, @mcctheater‘s #AlicebyHeart) and @Isaaccolepowell (@OnceIslandBway, @LovevilleHigh), who have announced their engagement. May they make beautiful music together. (Well, somebody had to say that.) pic.twitter.com/hMzAHC9GRn

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) May 28, 2019

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Broadway Season by the Numbers. Tonys at the Home Stretch. Lear Dies. Constitution Expands. #Stageworthy News of the Week Casual theater lovers might think that there's nothing else happening beside the Tony Awards in June. They would be wrong!

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#Repost @video_dave ・・・ Hey it’s time for @open_mike_eagle, @sammusmusic, and me @video_dave on OME’s #StillCantRelaxTour Coming to these cities soon 03/28 – Milwaukee, WI @ Marquette University (free show) 03/29 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club 03/31 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater – Encore Room 04/01 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern 04/03 – Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade 04/04 – Cambridge, MA @ Sonia’s 04/06 – Charlotte, NC @ The Evening Muse (no Sammus) 04/07 – Louisville, KY @ Zanzabar 04/09 – Nashville, TN @ Bluebird Cafe 04/10 – Atlanta, GA @ 529 04/13 – Tallahassee, FL @ FSU – Club (free show) 04/20 – Lansing, MI @ The Avenue Café 1. Sammus, Mike, and me on tour in 2017 2. This Tour Poster 3. My ‘Video Dave Black Numeric’ limited edition tee (available online only!!) ~linkinbio~ 4. Announcing the ‘Video Dave NBA Relax’ limited edition tee (available only on tour!!!) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvfd_hRAEO3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ackn5kn5hqc7

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The Weekend Warrior 12/13/19: JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL, BLACK CHRISTMAS, RICHARD JEWELL, BOMBSHELL and more!

Woooooooo!!! We’re starting to get to the end of the year with only three more weekends of new movies before we’re into 2020, which on one hand, has to be better than 2019, but maybe not in terms of box office with no “Avengers” or “Star Wars” movie in sight.

Sony Pictures is releasing the second-to-last sequel of the weekend, JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL, which brings back all of your faves, including Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, and introduces a new character played by Awkwafina. I reviewed the movie over at The Beat, and also discussed its box office prospects

I also will have a review of Sophia Takal’s horror remake BLACK CHRISTMAS (Universal) over at The Beat, but that’s mainly interesting since it’s the second remake of the ‘70s horror movie, this one produced by Blumhouse.  I really liked Sophia Takal’s previous movie Always Shine, so I’m definitely interested to see what she does with a mainstream horror film.

You can read my reviews of both those movies over at The Beat, although the Black Christmas review is embargoed until Thursday night… make of that what you will. Plus you can read more about the three wide releases over at my weekly Box Office Preview.

One movie I haven’t reviewed over there is Clint Eastwood’s latest, RICHARD JEWELL (Warner Bros.), which stars Paul Walter Hauser as the famed Atlanta security guard who discovered a bomb in the city’s Centennial Park and was then accused of planting the bomb there to be seen as a hero. The movie also stars Sam Rockwell (as Richard’s lawyer), Kathy Bates (as Richard’s mother), Jon Hamm as the FBI guy who is after him and Olivia Wilde as the Atlanta reporter who first breaks the story about Jewell being a suspect. I’m going to try to write a mini-review for this one, but long and short of it, is that this is another really good movie from Eastwood, and if I get a chance, I will write more about it soon.

LIMITED RELEASES

There are a bunch of great movies coming out in limited release, some that will expand wider later in the month.

First and foremost is Jay Roach’s BOMBSHELL (Lionsgate), starring Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly and Nicole Kidman as Gretchen Carlson, and if you know those names, then you might already realize that this film written by Charles Randolph (The Big Short) is about the Fox News sexual abuse scandal. Margot Robbie also stars in this one, as does John Lithgow as Roger Aisles, plus there’s lots of other great character actors in roles as people you might know from the news (both on camera and behind the scenes).  I was hoping to write a fuller review of this and maybe still will but didn’t have time before getting this column out. Regardless, this is a very intriguing and entertaining film (just like The Big Short) with fantastic performances by all. The movie will expand nationwide next Friday.

Josh and Ben Safdie are back with UNCUT GEMS (A24), starring Adam Sandler as a New York jewelry merchant who gets his hands on a rare South African gem, and then spends the entire movie trying to get it back after lending it out to star basketball player Kevin Garnett (playing himself). I wasn’t really a very big fan of the Safdies’ Good Time, which Millennial critics tend to cream all over, but Uncut Gems is definitely better even if it’s similarly manic. Sandler’s definitely good in the role, but awards-worthy? Not even close… I think this ia good movie being sold by people as a great movie, and I couldn’t disagree more. If you liked Good Time, you’ll probably like this, too. This will be nationwide on Christmas Day.

Terrence Malick is also back, continuing his amazingly prolific degree of filmmaking in his mid-70s with A HIDDEN LIFE (Fox SEarchlight), a three-hour drama about an Austrian farmer (August Diehl) who refuses to swear allegiance to Hitler as WWII begins, which first makes him a bit of a pariah in his rural community but eventually gets him thrown in prison for treason. Valerie Pachner is quite terrific as his wife, and the movie has some great smaller roles for Matthias Schoenaerts, the late Michael Nyqvist, Bruno Ganz and Jürgen Prochnow. If you’re a fan of Malick’s better films than

Kristen Stewart plays French New Wave actress Jean Seberg in Benedict Andrews’ SEBERG (Amazon), about how the actress got into a relationship with Hakim Jamal (played by Anthony Mackie), causing trouble for her career. The movie also stars Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood), Jack O’Connell, Zazie Beetz and Stephen Root, and it will get a limited release this weekend.

Stephen and Robbie Amell star in Jeff Chan’s Code 8 (Elevation Pictures), Robbie playing Connor Reed, a guy with superpowers living in a world where those with powers are minimalized and living in poverty. In desperate need of money to help his ailing mother, Connor gets in with a powered thug named Garrett (played by his cousin, Stephen) to use his powers for elaborate heists. It’s a surprisingly good movie, mainly due to Jeff Chan’s ability to create a big movie on a seemingly limited budget.

You can check out the trailer and Chan’s original short film that inspired the feature below, and my interview with Robbie Amell will be on The Beat on Thursday sometime.

Steven Luke’s The Great War (Saban/Lionsgate), opening in select cities Fridays, takes place during the last days of WWI where a regiment of African-American “Buffalo Soldiers” are trapped behind enemy lines. When one escapes, he asked to join an all-white troop to find the survivors.s

An interesting doc, especially for lovers of dance, is Alla Kogvan’s documentary Cunningham (Magnolia), which uses 3D technology to explore the life and work of the late choreographer Merce Cunningham (who would be celebrating his centennial anniversary this year), combining archival footage with newly-created performances of Cunningham’s greatest work. This movie reminded me quite a bit of Wim Wenders’ doc Pina in that I enjoyed this, despite having zero to no interest in dance in general. It will open at the Film Forumin New York on Friday, as well as Film at Lincoln Centeruptown, the Royal in L.A, the Arclight in Sherman Oaks and Edwards Westpark 8 in Irvine.

Xavier Dolan’s latest film The Death and Life of John Donovan (Momentum), stars Kit Harington, Natalie Portman, Susan Sarandon, Kathy Bates, Thandie Newton, Jacob Tremblay and more. It’s about the relationship between a young actor and a TV star that takes place ten years after the latter’s death. It will open in select cities and On Demand.

Lastly, there’s Danny Abeckaser’s MAFIA drama Mob Town (Saban Films), starring David Arquette, Jennifer Esposito, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and PJ Byrne.

Also, next Monday, Trafalgar Releasing is releasing Gorillaz: Reject False Icons, a new concert doc about Damon Alban’s Blur spin-off group with comic artist Jamie Hewett.

STREAMING AND CABLE

Michael Bay’s action-comedy 6 UNDERGROUND (Netflix), starring Ryan Reynolds, will get a very limited release Weds. before debuting on the service on Friday. I really don’t know much about it other than it’s about six specialists come together to do stuff.

REPERTORY

METROGRAPH (NYC):

This weekend, the Metrograph begins a fairly self-explanatory series called “Malick: The First Four Films” to coincide with the release of A Hidden Life (see above), although 2005’s The New World won’t screen until next weekend. Also, the theater also continues its annual “Holidays at Metrograph” series with Billy Wilder’s 1960 Oscar winner The Apartment screening Saturday and Sunday. Welcome To Metrograph: Redux continues with David Lean’s Brief Encounter  (1945) on Wednesday and Otto Premingers’ Bunny Lake is Missing  (1965) on Friday and Saturday. This week’s Late Nites at Metrograph  is David Lynch’s Dune (1984) while Playtime: Family Matinees is the 1992 The Muppet Christmas Carol.

ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE BROOKLYN (NYC)

Tonight’s “Weird Wednesday” is Blue Vengeance from 1989, while the weekend’s “Kids Camp” is last year’s animated The Grinch. On Monday evening is a 10thanniversary screening of Vernon Chatman’s Final Flesh. Tuesday’s “Terror Tuesday” is the original Black Christmas from 1974 (already sold out), and “Weird Wednesday” is the 1985 thriller Trancers, hosted by John Torrani.

THE NEW BEVERLY (L.A.):

The Weds. Afternoon Classics matinee is The Thin Man (1934), starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, while Friday’s “Freaky Fridays” offering is the original 1933 James Whale movie The Invisible Man. The Weds/Thurs double feature is Todd Haynes’ Carol (2015) and Far from Heaven (2002) with DP Ed Lachman appearing on Weds (sorry, sold out!). Saturday and Sunday offers the Kiddee Matinee of A Christmas Story, as well as a special “Holiday Edition” of the New Bev’s Cartoon Club. Friday’s midnight is Tarantino’s own Reservoir Dogs, while Saturday midnight is the holiday horror film Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984). Monday’s Matinee is Bad Santa, starring Billy Bob Thornton and Monday night’s screening is Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander (1982).

FILM FORUM (NYC):

“Scorsese Non-Fiction” will continue through December 17 with screenings this week of Rolling Thunder Revue and Shine a Light, as well as another screening of A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American MoviesFriday, and screenings of the classics The Last Waltz and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan on Sunday.The 70th anniversary 4k restoration of Alec Guinness’ Kind Hearts and Coronets will continue through December 19 with screenings at 12:30 and 6:10pm each day. This weekend’s Film Forum Jr. is the Disney animated film The Aristocrats (1970).

EGYPTIAN THEATRE (LA):

After an encore screening of Auntie Mame (1958) on Thursday, the Egyptian will screen a David O. Russell hosted screening of Tourneur’s 1919 film The Broken Butterfly with musical accompaniment on Friday. Saturday night is “Retroformat 10thAnniversary” sponsored by the George Lucas Family Foundation, showing two hours of movies from the early 20thCentury with musical accompaniment. Saturday night is a Spike Jonze double feature of Being John Malkovich and Three Kings, while Adam Driver will continue his awards campaign run by appearing for a double feature of Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Storywith Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson.

AERO  (LA):

Terry Gilliam will be appearing in person on Friday night for a TRIPLE FEATURE (!!!) of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Time Banditsand The Adventures of Baron Munchausen… which makes me really wish I lived in L.A. On Saturday, screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski will screen their new movie My Name is Dolemite along with Tim Burton’s Ed Wood  (1994). Edward Norton and Primal Fear  (1995) producer Hawk Koch will appear on Sunday afternoon for a double feature of the latter (in which Norton stars) along with Norton’s own new film, Motherless Brooklyn. Tuesday’s “Christmas Noir” Is Nicholas Ray’s debut TheyLive By Night (1949).

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE (NYC):

MOMI’s own Terrence Malick series ends this weekend with screenings of Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey on Friday and Sunday, The New World: Limited Releas Version on Saturday, as well as The Thin Red Line on Sunday evening. Monday, there is a free screening of Martin Scorsese’s Casino (1995) as part of “Martin Scorsese: Four Movies over Four Decades.” Saturday’s family matinee is Hiroyuki Morita’s 2002 film The Cat Returns, while John Cassavetes’ Gloria (1980) will screen on Sunday afternoon as part of the ongoing “Always on Sunday: Greek Film Series.”

MOMA  (NYC):

This week’s new series is called “The Wonders” and it’s the first American retrospective of writer-director Alice Rohrwacher and the actress Alba Rohrwacher. I’m really not that familiar with either although Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro last year was fairly well-received.Modern Matinees: Iris Barry’s History of Filmal so continues this week with Hamlet  (1920) today, Greed  (1924) tomorrow and a program called “Great Actresses of the Past 1911 – 1916” on Friday.

IFC CENTER (NYC)

Weekend Classics: May All Your Christmases be Noir will be screening Charles Laughton’s 1955 film The Night of the Hunter, starring Robert Mitchum;  Waverly Midnights: Spy Games will screen Hitchcock’s North by Northwest; and Late Night Favorites: Autumn 2019 will show Aliens and Eraserhead.

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER (NYC):

Not much to report except that there will be an encore screening of the 2001 Korean blockbuster My Sassy Girl on Thursday afternoon.

ROXY CINEMA (NYC)

Continuing its Nicolas Cage vintage series with 1991’s Zandalee on Wednesday, Barbet Schroeder’s Kiss of Death (1995) on Thursday and Sunday.

LANDMARK THEATRES NUART  (LA):

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LOOSE: Springsteen, Milwaukee, 10/2/75

A love affair can begin when you see someone you’ve never seen before, and instantly you can’t believe your eyes and ears, and something new blooms in your heart.

And so it was with me, when I first witnessed Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Uptown Theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the fall of 1975.

I had of course been lured by the “new Dylan” and “rock and roll future” encomia showered on Springsteen’s second album The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle in 1974. Though I found him to be closer to the new Van Morrison, I had no real problem there.

Born to Run, that grand neo-Spectorian slab of street romance, had detonated like a 100-megaton bomb at “Radio Free Madison,” the Wisconsin station I was working for when the album was released in August of ’75; some of the jocks there, like me and my roommate, music director Pete Steinmetz, were already Springsteen freaks and had been waiting for it. The album became an out-of-the-box hit in Madtown.

We didn’t think twice about driving to Milwaukee, just 90 minutes away, for Springsteen’s first show in the city with his E Street Band on Oct. 2 that year. His tour the previous year hadn’t rolled through any nearby outpost, so it was my first opportunity to catch this highly touted performer in person.

Festooned with preferential passes from the Boss’s label Columbia Records, we filed expectantly into the Uptown, a rococo 1,800-seat ‘20s picture palace not far from downtown Beertown, and took seats near the stage.

Shortly after 8 p.m., the set commenced with Springsteen, in a floppy knit cap, worn-out jeans, a striped French sailor’s shirt, and a tattered leather jacket, launching solo into the intimate “Meeting Across the River,” Born to Run’s slice of Jersey noir. I was instantly captivated.

Then, looking like a well-dressed street gang, Springsteen’s brawny six-piece band joined him, and the real rock show began. After a funky stroll through “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” – prefaced by Springsteen with a Homeric story about his first encounter with saxophonist Clarence Clemons -- he slipped into “Spirit in the Night,” from his debut album Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J. In mid-song, the wiry bandleader leaped off the stage and scampered up the aisle, close enough to touch. He wove a tighter bond with the audience on the next song with another long spoken introduction, reminiscing about a beautiful, elusive Jersey girl he’d see walking down the street in his teen years, before an aching cover of Manfred Mann’s “Pretty Flamingo.” A magician was clearly at work.

The audience was roused by the new rockers “Born to Run,” already a big radio hit, and “She’s the One.” But, during a solo version of the new “Thunder Road,” we sensed an uneasy stirring in the theater wings. At the song’s conclusion, a suddenly nervous-looking Springsteen brought the night’s MC, WQFM DJ Bob Reitman, back on stage. Reitman told the crowd that an anonymous caller had claimed that a bomb was planted in the theater, and he asked the audience to clear the house, and return with their ticket stubs to the Uptown at midnight, when the show would start again after authorities had swept the venue for a device.

At first, a great disappointed cry went up from the crowd – it was a school night. But Milwaukeeans don’t need much encouragement to take a bar break, so the crowd gamely filed out and headed immediately for the nearest saloons.

My Radio Free Madison colleagues and I had been invited to a post-show party at the Pfister, then a still elegant but going-threadbare downtown hotel, and we decided to make the short drive there to see if there were free drinks available for credentialed air personnel. On the way there, we passed cars from which the sound of “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” and clouds of marijuana smoke wafted.

At Columbia’s suite at the Pfister, we encountered an unexpected sight: The members of the E Street Band, shaken by the threat of being blown to smithereens in a Midwestern backwater, were enthusiastically and two-fistedly drinking at the open bar. I don’t recall seeing Springsteen, who later confessed that the Milwaukee show was the only one he ever played completely drunk. But I vividly remember seeing Clarence Clemons, the Boss’s pimped-out sidekick Miami Steve Van Zandt, and bassist Garry Tallent quaffing whatever was available.

After maybe 30 minutes of elbow bending, we quietly bid the E Street contingent au revoir and returned to the Uptown. By midnight, the house was nearly full again, and it was immediately apparent that, like us, the other Springsteen fans had availed themselves of some liquid courage, and maybe other party favors as well. The hubbub grew loud.

Not long after the clock struck 12, Springsteen and his band returned to the stage, weaving ever so slightly, and kicked off the unmistakable see-sawing riff of Chuck Berry’s “Little Queenie.”

In a raspy yell, Springsteen asked the crowd, “Are you LOOSE?!”” A howl of assent came in answer from the seats. And the Boss rambled into a monologue, with call and response from Miami Steve, about the band’s post-evacuation return to the Pffffisssster for some much-needed drinks: “We said, ‘Bartender, somebody tried to blow us up tonight!’ He looked at me and said… ‘Son…Son…Are you LOOSE?” The battle cry for the evening was established, and it would be repeated several times, to growing cheers.

From “Little Queenie” on, the inebriated but keen-edged band rose from strength to strength. “It’s Hard to be a Saint in the City” climaxed with a pugnacious guitar duel between Springsteen and Van Zandt. The convulsive “Kitty’s Back” stretched to 18 minutes, with solos by organist Danny Federici, pianist Roy Bittan, and Clemons that bordered on free jazz. “Jungleland” materialized in CinemaScope, Technicolor, and quadrophonic sound. And the Mexicali magnum opus “Rosalita,” with a “Can’t Turn You Loose” band-introduction interpolation, wrapped the wear-it-out formal set.

The uproarious crowd, who had danced in the aisles for much of the set, would not let the band go, and Springsteen returned for an encore with the generous salute, “Thanks for putting up with the bullshit.” After a rampage through Mitch Ryder’s “Detroit Medley” of “Devil With a Blue Dress On,” “Good Golly Miss Molly” and “Jenny Jenny,” a dynamic downshift for the accordion-flecked, heart-bending ballad “Fourth of July, Asbury Park (Sandy),” and an exclamatory, temporally appropriate rendition of Gary U.S. Bonds’ “Quarter to Three,” the spent band waved and departed the stage for good. Their unplotted second set had stretched to 90 minutes, and it was now the middle of the morning.

Our posse of Madison disc jockeys had a great story to share with listeners on the air the following day; we didn’t know that the show we had witnessed would come to assume an exalted place in the annals of Springsteen lore as “the Bomb Scare Show.” It was never determined who called in the phony threat. Two weeks later, the rising 25-year-old musician’s face would be simultaneously plastered on the covers of Time and Newsweek, securing his reputation and finally launching his career into an orbit from which it would never descend.

As we stepped into the crisp Milwaukee air at 2 a.m. -- ears buzzing, drenched in sweat, exhausted, bleary, and already a little hung over -- and headed for the car, we didn’t grasp that we had seen a classic performance by an artist whose live shows -- and in particular the live show we had just seen -- would pass into legend.

All we knew was that we were tired, happy, and…LOOSE.

(photos © Robert Cavallo and Rick Kohlmeyer)

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Sammus goes on tour with Open Mike Eagle and Ceschi Ramos & Factor Chandelier. . SAMMUS ON TOUR  + with open mike eagle // • with ceschi 3.9    Fort Lauderdale, FL-San Juan, PR—JOCO Cruise 3.28  Milwaukee, WI—Marquette University+ 3.29  St. Paul, MN—Turf Club // fb rsvp+ 3.31  Kansas City, MO—Encore Room @ Uptown Theater // fb rsvp+ 4.1    Chicago, IL—Schubas // fb rsvp+ 4.3    Brooklyn, NY—Rough Trade // fb rsvp+ 4.4    Cambridge, MA—Sonia’s+ 4.5    New Haven, CT—Statehouse // fb rsvp• 4.6    Brooklyn, NY—Elsewhere // fb rsvp• 4.7    Louisville, KY—Tiger Room // fb rsvp+ 4.9    Nashville, TN—High Watt // fb rsvp+ 4.10   Atlanta, GA—529 // fb rsvp+ 4.11   Portland, ME—SPACE Gallery // fb rsvp 4.12   Burlington, VT—ArtsRiot // fb rsvp 4.13   North Adams, MA—MASS MoCA // fb rsvp 4.14   Kingston, NY—BSP Kingston// fb rsvp 4.19   Lansing, MI—Stoopfest+ 5.1     Dallas, TX—Ruins // fb rsvp• 5.9     Columbus, OH—Flyover Festival 5.11   Pittsburgh, PA—Spirit https://www.instagram.com/p/BuUfxGpgcTL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=u8bkhml6om2i

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Bruno Mars: 24K Magic World Tour—Worth His Weight In Gold

Bruno Mars: 24K Magic World Tour, Camila Cabello as the Opening Act

Date Seen: July 30, 2017

Cost of Ticket: $195 

Rating: 88%

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There are so many great things to say about tonight's Bruno Mars concert that it's hard to find a place to begin. So let's make a list so we get to them all:

1) The voice. Bruno sounds better live than on his record. He has an impressive vocal range that allows him to master ballads like "When I Was Your Man" and "Versace on the Floor." However, he also has a quick tongue that allows him to keep to the beat of faster tracks like "24K" and "Perm." There are moments when he channels legendary Michael Jackson with his voice and moves.

2) The moves. From the moment he stepped onto the stage, his feet didn't stay still. The man has an excess of swagger and moves. It is rare to find a performer who can move and sing so well together. His signature moves are perfect for his funky R&B disco vibe. By the second song, Bruno was dripping with perspiration as he jammed out to his songs. But that certainly didn't stop him from grinding and grooving for the rest of the night.

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3) The staging and lighting were innovative. I've never seen so much pyrotechnics used in one concert before. There was no shortage of fire and fireworks throughout the show. To the point where I could feel the heat 24 rows back. The stage had moving platforms to add extra levels. The stage was completed with a back row of lights as well as mobile floating banks of lights. These lights took on so many different formations that they were interesting to watch. On top of that, lazers were just the icing on the cake. Finally, there was a stage wide video screen to project video feed of the concert alongside two other big screens. 

4) The setlist. With the exception of "Billionaire," (which was part of copyright lawsuit), Bruno performed all of his hits while also including a good sampling of his new album. He put a fresh spin on older hits like "Grenade" and made us fall in love with some of his newer songs like "Perm" and "Finesse." My only criticism is that Bruno uses "Locked Out of Heaven" and "Uptown Funk" as his 'encore.' These are must haves in the setlist and so really they are just the finale. 

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5) The band. Ooo...the band was good. After watching Ed Sheeran perform last week for 2 hours with just his guitar, I REALLY appreciated the awesome sound of The Hooligans. Special shout out to the 3 piece brass section that added that unique sound that differentiates Bruno from other artists in the pop genre. John Fossit on keyboards also had a solo that was showstopping. 

Now there are a few things that could have made the show a 10/10. Bruno was on stage for 90 minutes which just isn't enough. 90 minutes is the Las Vegas standard but not for a touring show. I think anything less than 2 hours is cheating. The opening act, Camila Cabello, was utterly forgettable. She started the show off at 8:15pm and wrapped her set after 30 minutes. Bruno came on stage at approximately 9:30pm and I was outside of Rogers Place by 11pm.  Lastly, while I will praise the staging, I didn't love the stage. When you tour a show in arenas, the show would have benefitted from a catwalk or a secondary stage. 

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Overall a great night of non-stop energy and music. If you don't have your tickets, get them quick. You will not be disappointed. The remaining tour dates are listed below. 

July 31, 2017     Edmonton    Rogers Place August 2, 2017    Winnipeg    Bell MTS Place   August 4, 2017    Fargo    United States    Fargodome   August 5, 2017    Saint Paul    Xcel Energy Center    August 7, 2017    Lincoln    Pinnacle Bank Arena    August 9, 2017    Kansas City    Sprint Center    August 12, 2017    Auburn Hills    The Palace of Auburn Hills    August 13, 2017    Indianapolis    Bankers Life Fieldhouse    August 15, 2017    Cleveland    Quicken Loans Arena   August 16, 2017    Chicago    United Center     August 18, 2017    Chicago    United Center   August 19, 2017    Chicago    United Center   August 22, 2017    Pittsburgh    PPG Paints Arena    August 24, 2017    Quebec City    Canada    Videotron Centre       August 26, 2017    Toronto    Air Canada Centre    August 27, 2017     Toronto    Air Canada Centre August 29, 2017    Montreal    Bell Centre August 30, 2017    Montreal    Bell Centre September 2, 2017    Las Vegas    The Park Theater     September 3, 2017    Las Vegas    The Park Theater September 14, 2017    Charlotte    Spectrum Center      September 16, 2017    Atlanta    Piedmont Park    September 17, 2017    Memphis    FedExForum    September 19, 2017    Louisville    KFC Yum! Center   September 20, 2017    Columbus    Schottenstein Center   September 22, 2017    New York City    Madison Square Garden    September 23, 2017    New York City    Madison Square Garden September 26, 2017    Newark    Prudential Center   September 27, 2017    Buffalo    KeyBank Center    September 29, 2017    Washington, D.C.    Verizon Center   September 30, 2017    Washington, D.C.    Verizon Center October 4, 2017    Brooklyn    Barclays Center    October 5, 2017    Uniondale    Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum    October 7, 2017    Boston    TD Garden   October 8, 2017    Boston    TD Garden October 10, 2017    Philadelphia    Wells Fargo Center    October 12, 2017    Raleigh    PNC Arena     October 14, 2017    Orlando    Amway Center     October 15, 2017    Sunrise    BB&T Center     October 18, 2017    Miami    American Airlines Arena    October 19, 2017    Tampa    Amalie Arena     October 21, 2017    New Orleans    Smoothie King Center     October 22, 2017    North Little Rock    Verizon Arena     October 24, 2017    Houston    Toyota Center     October 25, 2017    San Antonio    AT&T Center     October 27, 2017    Dallas    American Airlines Center     October 30, 2017    Denver    Pepsi Center     November 2, 2017    Fresno    Save Mart Center     November 3, 2017    Oakland    Oracle Arena     November 5, 2017    Phoenix    Talking Stick Resort Arena     November 7, 2017    Inglewood    The Forum November 8, 2017    Inglewood    The Forum November 10, 2017    Inglewood    The Forum November 11, 2017    Inglewood    The Forum Latin America November 18, 2017    Rio de Janeiro    Brazil    Praça da Apoteose November 19, 2017    Rio de Janeiro    Brazil    Praça da Apoteose November 22, 2017    São Paulo    Estádio do Morumbi     November 23, 2017    São Paulo    Estádio do Morumbi November 25, 2017    La Plata    Argentina    Estadio Ciudad de La Plata   November 28, 2017    Santiago    Chile    Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos    November 30, 2017    Lima    Peru    Estadio Nacional de Lima    December 2, 2017    Quito    Ecuador    Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa     February 2, 2018    Mexico City    Mexico    Foro Sol    February 3, 2018    Mexico City    Mexico    Foro Sol February 5, 2018    Guadalajara    Estadio Chivas    Oceania February 27, 2018    Auckland    New Zealand    Spark Arena     February 28, 2018   Auckland    New Zealand    Spark Arena March 2, 2018    Auckland    New Zealand    Spark Arena March 3, 2018    Auckland    New Zealand    Spark Arena March 7, 2018    Melbourne    Australia    Rod Laver Arena   March 8, 2018    Melbourne    Australia    Rod Laver Arena March 10, 2018    Melbourne    Australia    Rod Laver Arena March 11, 2018    Melbourne    Australia    Rod Laver Arena March 14, 2018    Brisbane    Brisbane Entertainment Centre     March 15, 2018    Brisbane    Brisbane Entertainment Centre March 17, 2018    Sydney    Qudos Bank Arena    March 18, 2018    Sydney    Qudos Bank Arena    March 20, 2018    Sydney    Qudos Bank Arena    March 23, 2018    Sydney    Qudos Bank Arena    March 24, 2018    Sydney    Qudos Bank Arena    March 26, 2018    Adelaide    Adelaide Entertainment Centre     March 28, 2018    Perth    Perth Arena    March 29, 2018    Perth    Perth Arena Asia April 12, 2018    Saitama    Japan    Saitama Super Arena    April 14, 2018    Saitama    Japan    Saitama Super Arena May 3, 2018    Manila    Philippines    Mall of Asia Arena     May 9, 2018    Kuala Lumpur    Malaysia    Axiata Arena     North America June 8, 2018    Monterrey    Mexico    Estadio Universitario

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Track Of The Day: Cuco’s ‘Hydrocodone’ is bedroom pop actually done well and ironically—most soberingly

Los Angeles singer-songwriter and producer Cuco has released his first bit of new music since last year’s collaboration with fellow bedroom pop phenom Clairo for the song ‘Drown.’

Vaporous yet comforting, his latest offering titled ‘Hydrocodone,’ is an assuaging hypnogogic concoction of 808s and synth, deliberately weaved together by determination and an agonizing life experience. Though the song in its entirety has been in the works for the past two years, Cuco’s lyrics are embracingly candid and of a certain time and place that cannot be replicated. In fact, following an ugly car accident that he and his band was involved in, ‘Hydrocodone’ was written while Cuco was recovering and under the haze of prescribed pain killers—hence the song’s title.

Cuco, whose birth name is Omar Banos, is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist who has become a burgeoning name since the release of his debut album back n 2016. Though the beats, moods and soundscapes he creates are nothing earth-shattering and of another dimension, his product is always crisp, palpable and most importantly, reflective of the emotion(s) he aims to convey.

On ‘Hydrocodone,’ Cuco croons about heartbreak but then parallels it to the injuries sustained from the aforementioned car accident. Lyrics in mind, the producer reflects the above sentiment through a sound that is colored with pain and a drug-addled state.

Though Cuco has yet to announce his next record, expect more material on the way. In the meantime, follow this rising talent on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and make sure to catch Cuco on tour at the following venues and dates:

26 May | All Points East, London 29 May | Primavera Sound, Barcelona, ES 17 June | U Street, Washington, D.C. 19 June | Brighton Music Hall, Boston, MA 20 June | Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, NY 21 June | Firefly Festival, Dover, NY 22 June | Machaca Festival, Monterrey, MX 25 June | The Basement, Columbus, OH 26 June | The Opera House, Toronto, ON 27 June | Electric Forest Festival, Rothbury, MI 28 June | Metro, Chicago, IL 29 june | Old Rock House, St Louis, MO 1 July | Encore at Uptown, Kansas City, MO 2 July | Tower Theater, Oklahoma City, OK 3 July | Bomb Factory, Dallas, TX 5 July | White Oak Music Hall, Houston, TX 6 July | Emo's, Austin, TX 7 July | Sunset Station, San Antonio, TX 19 July | Hawthorne Theater, Portland, OR 20 July | Venue, Vancouver, BC 21 July | Capitol Hill Block Party, Seattle, WA 24 July | The Grove of Anaheim, Anaheim, CA 25 July | Soma, San Diego, CA 26 July | Fox Theater, Pomona, CA 27 July | The Novo, Los Angeles, CA

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As It Is Debut Dark New Music Video For “The Reaper” Featuring Aaron Gillespie

Continuing to highlight their transition from pop-punk act to borderline emo outfit, UK act As It Is have just premiered an intense new music video for their Great Depression track “The Reaper” featuring Underoath’s Aaron Gillespie.  

"'The Reaper' is the moment in the record's narrative where The Poet becomes so desensitized to the concept of death, that death appears and manifests before him, offering an 'escape' — not in a malicious way, but as a means of release from the pain The Poet is feeling," explains guitarist Ben Langford-Biss. "It was one of the most crucial and challenging moments in the narrative, and it was the last one that came together – lyrically and musically." Langford-Biss continued to add, "To confer these themes of turmoil and conflict, the sort of inner claustrophobia The Poet is experiencing, we wanted the video to be gritty and dark. We ended up taking visual influence from some of our favourite horror movies and TV series, and our director Zak Pinchin really clicked with what we were trying to get across. The video shows each of us waking up trapped in rooms, each room representing one of the four stages of grief that the record is chaptered into: denial, anger, bargaining, and acceptance. Each of us faces off with death in some respect —whether that be in a literal or metaphysical sense, and there is an external antagonist controlling the events in the rooms, forcing us to face our fears, our grief, or even ourselves. We were super excited that Aaron Gillespie was able to be a part of the video, to play the part of this puppeteer/antagonist!" Lastly, the As It Is guitarist concluded, "Both the song and the video are so different to anything we've done before and we're so fortunate that our fans have embraced the darker and heavier side of our band and our constant desire to progress in new directions."

To check out the emotional new clip from As It Is to prepare you for their upcoming North American tour with Point North, see below. Afterward, to grab tickets to see the band, head here.   

THE GREAT DEPRESSION TOUR ACT II: N. AMERICA 1/17 —  Los Angeles, CA — Teragram Ballroom 1/18 —  Camarillo, CA — Rock City Studios 1/19 —  San Diego, CA — SOMA 1/20 —  Mesa, AZ — Club Red 1/22 —  Albuquerque, NM — Launchpad 1/24 —  Oklahoma City, OK — 89th Street OKC 1/25 —  San Antonio, TX — Jack's Bar & Live Music Venue 1/27 —  Houston, TX — The Secret Group 1/29 —  Dallas, TX — The Prophet Bar 1/31 —  Nashville, TN — The End 2/01 —  Atlanta, GA   Masquerade 2/02 —  Tampa, FL — Crowbar 2/03 —  Orlando, FL — The Social 2/05 —  Chapel Hill, NC — Local 506 2/06 —  Richmond, VA — Canal Club 2/07 —  Philadelphia, PA — Voltage Lounge 2/09 —  Asbury Park, NJ — House of Independents 2/10 —  Cambridge, MA — Middle East 2/11 —  Toronto, Canada — Velvet Underground 2/13 —  Grand Rapids, MI — The Stache at the Intersection 2/14 —  Columbus, OH — Woodlands Tavern 2/15 —  Chicago, IL — Subterranean 2/16 —  St. Louis, MO — Fubar 2/17 —  Kansas City, MO — Encore at The Uptown Theater 2/19 —  Denver, CO —  Hi-Dive 2/20 —  Salt Lake City, UT — Loading Dock 2/21 —  Las Vegas, NV — Vinyl at Hard Rock Las Vegas 2/22 —  Anaheim, CA — Chain Reaction

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Tender Is Performing

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Enjoy Tender in concert at one of the locations listed below. (more…)

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As It Is Live

As It Is Live

As It Is Concerts

Enjoy As It Is in concert at one of the performances listed below. With hits like Dial Tones, Cheap Shots & Setbacks and Pretty Little Distance As It Is has made a mark since forming in 2012. (more…)

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Vinyl Theatre Plot 'Starcruiser Tour'; Performing at The Curtain Club in Dallas on October 25th

Milwaukee alt-pop trio Vinyl Theatre have announced dates for a full U.S. fall headline tour, which kicks off September 5 in Chicago, IL and runs through November 10th. Tickets for the Starcruiser Tour are on sale now. Royal Teeth (Sept 5-21) and The Catching (Sept 5-21; Oct 7-Nov 9) will provide support. The band's upcoming third full-length album 'Starcruiser' will be out this fall. Singer/guitarist Keegan Calmes says: "Starcruiser tour is a first on many levels for us. We’ve headlined numerous times but this is our first time in some of these cities and venues. We put together this tour and album in conjunction with one another making this the most intimate show we’ve done to date.

We put together every layer of this full-length record and tour with our team brick by brick and we are ready to share our vision and sounds with you all. Over these past 4 years of touring we’ve been lucky enough to tour with some of the best bands and human beings we could ask for and so we’re taking some of those people on the road with us to give you the best show with 2 fantastic openers. Starcruiser to us has been a journey of self-discovery and human resilience. Each song comes from a heartfelt and personal place and weaves its way through our lives and the lives of our family and friends. Through the caverns of anxiety and depression to the mountainous heights of victory and elation. This record wouldn’t be what it is without this tour and the inverse is just as true. This year we bring to you our best version of Vinyl Theatre we could create. We hope to see you at an upcoming show and we cannot wait to give you the full-length record we’ve been working on." 2018 stands out as possibly the most transformative year of Vinyl Theatre’s career. Since amicably parting ways with their label Fueled By Ramen, the band emerged with a newly reimagined sound, which is clearly evident on their latest tracks, "Masterpiece" and "Feel it All." Creatively revitalized and feeling free to explore and create music that is boundless, they wrote songs that have expanded on their previous output, with the incorporation of programming and synthetic sounds. While still fully “Vinyl Theatre,” it is an exciting, bold and aggressive step that seems to have connected with fans old and new. Starcruiser Tour Dates: 2018 September 5--Chicago, IL--Beat Kitchen 6--Lakewood, OH--The Foundry 7--Columbus, OH--The Basement 9--Rochester, NY--Montage Music Hall 11--Burlington, VT--Higher Ground 12--Philadelphia, PA--The Foundry at the Fillmore 13--Lancaster, PA--Chameleon Club 14--Washington, DC--DC9 15--Richmond, VA--Canal Club 16--Jacksonville, FL--Jack Rabbit's 18--Gainesville, FL--High Dive 19--Birmingham, AL--WorkPlay Theatre 20--St. Louis, MO--Old Rock House 21--Ames, IA--The Maintenance Shop (Iowa State University) 22--Cape Girardeau, MO--Ivers Square 29--Milwaukee, WI--The Rave Bar October 5--Escanaba, MI--The Besse Theater (Bay College) 6--Kansas City, MO--Encore at the Uptown Theater 7--Ralston, NE--The Side Room at Ralston Arena 9--Colorado Springs, CO--The Black Sheep 10--Denver, CO--Marquis Theatre 12--Seattle, WA--El Corazon 13--Portland, OR--Paris Theatre 15--Sacramento, CA--Holy Diver 16--San Francisco, CA--Bottom of the Hill 17--Santa Barbara, CA--Velvet Jones 20--San Diego, CA--House of Blues Voodoo Room 21--West Hollywood, CA--Roxy Theatre 22--Phoenix, AZ--The Rebel Lounge 24--Austin, TX--Antone's 25--Dallas, TX--Curtain Club 26--Houston, TX--Warehouse Live Green Room 28--Orlando, FL--Soundbar 29--Tampa, FL--Crowbar 30--Atlanta, GA--Smith's Olde Bar November 1--Durham, NC--Motorco Music Hall 4--Cambridge, MA--Sonia's Nightclub 6--Brooklyn, NY--Knitting Factory 7--Buffalo, NY--Mohawk Place 8--Ferndale, MI--The Loving Touch 9--Dekalb, IL--The House Cafe 10--Minneapolis, MN--The Whole Music Club (U. of Minnesota)