June 10, 2024

Charles Carlini, a well-known music impresario and avid guitar enthusiast brought together an International Who’s Who of guitar virtuosic talent spanning multiple genres of world music with the inaugural Guitar Masters Festival. The event was held at the Baha’i Center in Greenwich Village from April 25-29. Carlini is also the concert promoter and curator of

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May 6, 2024

I was asked to check out the screening of a new indie film comedy-drama called Katie’s Mom. The narrative of this film is essentially The Graduate from a woman’s perspective. It’s about a recently divorced middle-aged mom who has an affair with her daughter’s boyfriend when she returns home during holiday break. Katie’s Mom was enjoyable to watch and

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May 6, 2024

Tali wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg! Back in August 2023, I wrote an article about Tali Golergant, this wonderful young female singer/songwriter from Luxembourg living in NYC who really impressed me. My fascination would compel me to cover Tali’s now memorable performance with her eponymous band at Bowery Electric in the East Village last

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April 9, 2024

“Peoples’ Movements” is a special art exhibition running through April 15th at the Tenri Cultural Institute located at 43A West 13th Street in the heart of Greenwich Village. Luchia Meihua Lee is the founding Executive Director of the Taiwanese American Arts Council (TAAC) and the Chief Curator of the exhibition. Since 2014, TAAC has aimed

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April 9, 2024

What occurs when an immovable object meets an irresistible force? Or when the kinetic alchemy of some random meeting between a 3x Grammy Award-nominated jazz pianist and a 6x Downbeat Magazine Award-winning tenor saxophonist happens on stage? That’s what I dreamt would happen when The Axel Tosca Trio, led by its brilliant pianist Axel Tosca

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March 6, 2024

Corinne Bailey Rae is an amazing storyteller. She used this talent with high efficacy by introducing practically every song during her February 15th early show performance at the world-renowned Blue Note Jazz Club in NYC. There were moments where her stories equally elicited a deep contemplation or had the audience frolicking with laughter. However, such

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