Jeff Harnar sings Sammy Cahn All The Way
Thirty-four years into musical marriage, Jeff Harnar and Alex Rybeck epitomize fertile affinity. Both artists continue to grow while playing off one another with the kind of secret language of long time couples. This is evident even in the revival of a 2000 Firebird Cafe show which emerges timeless. (The original CD is available.) Sammy […]
Songs and Stories with Harvey Granat: Alan and Marilyn Bergman
Lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman were both born out of the same Brooklyn hospital into Eastern European families. Despite neighborhood proximity, they didn’t meet until respectively landing in Los Angeles the 1950s. One might call this particular collaboration Kismet. The married couple has been nominated for 16 Academy Awards garnering three. Their extensive oeuvre also […]
Tony Danza: Standards and Stories – Charms
Tony Danza’s return to Feinstein’s/54Below is not based solely on popular recognition. The beloved sitcom star, with only two musicals under his belt, seems at home on a cabaret stage. Danza is personable and funny; his Brooklyn-accented vocals now more nuanced than during 2015’s Honeymoon in Vegas. Style reflects old school entertainment; he swings, scats, […]
Celebrate Frank Sinatra’s Birthday with One of His Favorite Dishes
Frank Sinatra’s Birthday is coming up on December 12. To celebrate, Patsy’s Italian Restaurant is sharing some of Ol’ Blue Eyes’ favorite dishes. Frank Sinatra first met “Patsy” Scognamillo in 1942, and the two shared a lifelong relationship. Whenever Sinatra was in New York, he would often visit the restaurant, usually with his friends. His legacy lives on […]
Five Films Featuring Hawaii
Aloha! Disney’s next big animated epic Moana (featuring Dwayne Johnson as the famed Hawaiian God Maui himself) comes out November 23. Clever timing not only to release a family friendly movie around the holiday season, but also now that the weather’s getting darker and chillier to beguile audiences with one of the world’s dreamiest tropical […]
An Evening with the Great Linda Ronstadt
Considered the “most versatile vocalist of the modern era,” you know that when Linda Ronstadt takes the stage, the crowd will rise, and shake the rafters. That was the case at the Tilles Center, in Brookville, Long Island last Thursday night. She’s not on a concert tour, nor a book tour (her bestselling memoir, Simple […]
Lee Day on Life, Liver and the Hirsute of Happiness
On a lovely early autumn Saturday (9/17) The Metropolitan Room hosted its first Pet Cabaret. It may now take a modest bowwow. I have never had much patience for clubbing baby seals; indeed I saw none today at the Met Room. But when it comes to shooting urban animals, photographs that is, I’m your man. […]