Anne Margaret Daniel

Back in January, Steve Earle and Willie Nile had to cancel their City Winery show because of our awful New York winter weather.  It's April now, though still too cold for me, and the gentlemen reconvened with us for a warm, glad evening right after Easter. Willie Nile

"The Kinks at the Harold Pinter Theatre, tonight.  What time?" my husband asked.  I felt faint, even sitting down, for just a second:  I was dreaming.  Then I remembered -- oh yes.  The Kinks, the musical.  We were celebrating a new year with a new musical, about which,

The Beacon Theatre is one of my favorite music venues in New York City.  Opened just after the Crash of 1929, the Beacon is a wonder of fantastical Manhattan Modernism, its golden interior with gigantic Greek goddesses, and murals redolent of Arabian nights, still sounding with echoes of the Jazz

The story of the Basement Tapes – those songs recorded in 1967 at a house known as Big Pink in West Saugerties, NY, by Bob Dylan and The Band – is a quintessential American-music story, with all the appropriate elements of a classical epic: a beginning in medias res; the telling and