Calvin Simon, best known as a founding member of legendary funk outfit Parliament-Funkadelic, passed on Thursday, at the age of 79. Simon was born in Beckley, West Virginia,…
Category: Arts & Culture
Live Music is Back, but Who Knows for How Long?
I can’t imagine that another industry was impacted as deeply by the COVID-19 pandemic as the live performance industry was. Thousands upon thousands of performers, production specialists, venue…
The Double Life of Davis Burleson
The life of a college student in New York City is chaotic and demanding as it is, but for Davis Burleson, an undergraduate student at Eugene Lang College…
Who Are Quarters of Change? Getting to Know New York’s New Alt-Rock Group
“We just want people to feel something, and we’re not trying to make them. There’s no indoctrination, there’s no message per se. We’re very much ‘You interpret it…
Pull Back the Curtains and take a look at “Surviving Supercon”
As a self-professed “fanboy” and attendee of conventions both large and small for over 15 years, I was elated to learn that a documentary chronicling behind-the-scenes moments of…
George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic Tear the Roof off Sony Hall
I’ve never seen anyone walk the way George Clinton did when he strolled into Sony Hall on a Friday night in November. He floated by us outside the…