The 10 best New York City moments of 2013

... wanted to be: "I wanna go to Stonewall right now!" she said after the verdict came down, referring to the Greenwich Village bar where the gay rights movement began. When she got there, hundreds of supporters cheered her on during a party that lasted ...

http://nypost.com/2013/12/31/the-10-best-new-york-city-moments-of-2013/

Scarlett Johansson's directorial ambitions

The BAFTA Award-winning actress has already branched out by launching a music career and she now intends to step behind the camera and make her own movies, and she is planning several projects already.

http://www.contactmusic.com/story/scarlett-johansson-s-directorial-ambitions_4008464

Natalie Douglas Hosts Two New Year's Eve Shows at The Duplex Tonight

Seven-time MAC, Backstage Bistro & Nightlife Award Winner, Natalie Douglas , returns to her annual New Year's Eve Bash with two shows at The Duplex Cabaret Theatre tonight, December 31 @ 7:30 p.m & 10:30 p.m. Natalie Douglas ' New Year's Eve performances in Greenwich Village have become a New York ritual, with this her 15th NYE Bash.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/cabaret/article/Natalie-Douglas-Announces-Two-New-Years-Eve-Shows-at-The-Duplex-1231-20131230

Kenny Kramer, inspiration for Kramer on 'Seinfeld' files $1M suit

... campaign manager for Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, back in 2001. He denies that his tour even goes to Greenwich Village and doesn't want to be seen as a gay basher, as one of the shows former writers, Fred Stoller, has claimed, says Kramer's lawyer. ...

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/kenny-kramer-inspiration-kramer-seinfeld-files-1m-suit-article-1.1561825

Bob Fischbach's top 10 movies of 2013

... latest black comedy follows a struggling, self-defeating folk singer (Oscar Isaac). Period detail of 1961 Greenwich Village and the score are terrific. So are John Goodman as a derisive jazz man, Carey Mulligan as an angry lover and Justin ...

http://www.omaha.com/article/20131229/GO/131229059

Audio Technology Student at SAE Institute NYC Honored at Prestigious...

Dominique Smith, a student in the Audio Technology Program at SAE Institute New York, competed as one of America's Top Producers at the iStandard Beast of the Beats seminar.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/school-new-york-audio/technology-engineering/prweb11452074.htm

Audio Technology Student at SAE Institute NYC Honored at Prestigious Hip Hop Producers Competition

New York, NY December 30, 2013 Dominique Smith, a student in the Audio Technology Program at SAE Institute New York, competed as one of America's Top Producers at the iStandard Beast of the Beats seminar, which was held in November 2013 at SAE's New York campus and Webster Hall nightclub in Greenwich Village.

http://technews.tmcnet.com/news/2013/12/30/7611289.htm

How to keep Gotham growing

... $2.4 billion investment has already spurred growth, even before it opens next summer. The West Side above Greenwich Village and below Central Park grew by 18 percent between 2000 and 2010, faster than any other New York neighborhoods. (Greenwich ...

http://nypost.com/2013/12/29/how-to-keep-gotham-growing/

'Inside Llewyn Davis' a melancholic tale about missed opportunities and failure

... a week in the winter of 1961, the quasi-musical follows Llewyn as he hopscotches between performing at a Greenwich Village club, trying to score a record contract, and bumming on couches at his friends' homes. Things weren't always like this - he ...

http://www.examiner.com/review/inside-llewyn-davis-a-melancholic-tale-about-missed-opportunities-and-failure?cid=rss

T Bone Burnett and the music of "Inside Llewyn Davis"

... would sit there quietly but then go out of the office and, 'Really?' That same roots music influenced the Greenwich Village scene in the '60s. Artists, like the fictional Llewyn, were trying to return to something authentically American -- even if ...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/t-bone-burnett-and-the-music-of-inside-llewyn-davis/

Believe, Grudge Match among films to see on Christmas Day

... a treacherous warlord. A struggling singer-songwriter navigates the 1960s folk music scene in New York's Greenwich Village in this Coen brothers drama.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/believe-grudge-match-among-films-to-see-on-christmas-day-1.2475904?cmp=rss

Recent releases: '47 Ronin,' 'American Hustle'

It's the story of Oishi, leader of a group of samurai living in peace under their master, Lord Asano.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013312290041

The Coen Brothers and Oscar Isaac get 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

... he tries to find some sort of way to make a living at what he does best: playing folk songs. Set in 1960s Greenwich Village before Bob Dylan made it a "happening" spot, Llewyn is person with some great talent, but has lackluster people skills. He ...

http://www.examiner.com/review/the-coen-brothers-and-oscar-isaac-get-inside-llewyn-davis?cid=rss

Travel Minute - Bargains on NYC Hotels During January Hotel Week

January is the slowest month for travel. So it only makes sense that hotels-even hotels in New York City-will offer deals during Hotel Week NYC, January 3rd to the 12th.

http://rudymaxa.com/2013/12/travel-minute-bargains-on-nyc-hotels-during-january-hotel-week/

Deeper "Inside Llewyn Davis"

... scripture by way of Kafka, an oracular philosophical authority. "Inside Llewyn Davis" is centered on the Greenwich Village folk-music scene in 1961, which has long been among the legendary moments in modern culture - which is to say that pretty much ...

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2013/12/deeper-inside-llewyn-davis.html

Movie review: 'Inside Llewyn Davis' lives within the struggling artist lifestyle

Watch a clip from the Coen Brothers film "Inside Llewyn Davis," a week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.

http://www.examiner.com/review/movie-review-inside-llewyn-davis-lives-within-the-struggling-artist-lifestyle?cid=rss

New Bedford folk singer the inspiration for Justin Timberlake's latest movie role

... and Clayton, the late folk singer from New Bedford. The Coen Brothers' film is about the folk scene of Greenwich Village in the 1960s, and is loosely based on Dave Van Ronk's posthumous memoir "The Mayor of MacDougal Street." The title of the film ...

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20131228/NEWS/312280331/-1/rss25

Inside DiCaprio's $17 million beach house

EVER wanted to see how the other half live? Check out Leonardo DiCaprio's Malibu beach house, complete with guesthouses and private gym.

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/leonardo-dicaprio-has-just-sold-his-exclusive-malibu-beach-house/story-fn907478-1226791054439?from=public_rss

An actor's classroom punishment that led to Llewyn Davis

... downfall, and all the stars aligned. Llewyn is based loosely on Dave Van Ronk, an avuncular figure in the Greenwich Village folk scene, nicknamed "the mayor of MacDougal Street," who helped other musicians find bigger success than he ever did. (The ...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/an-actors-classroom-punishment-that-led-to-llewyn-davis/article16117161/?cmpid=rss1

Jazz drummer Ari Hoenig visits home and looks to the future with two gigs at Chris' this weekend

... of an institution in Philadelphia." Back in NYC, the 40-year-old drummer has another home base, at the Greenwich Village club Smalls. He's been performing and sitting in at jam sessions there for most of his time in the city, and these days anchors ...

http://thekey.xpn.org/2013/12/27/jazz-drummer-ari-hoenig-visits-home-and-looks-to-the-future-with-two-gigs-at-chris-this-weekend/

An insider's take on Inside Llewyn Davis

... The new Coen Brothers' film Inside Llewyn Davis was inspired by folk musician Dave Van Ronk and the Greenwich Village folk revival of the early 1960s. Toronto's Sylvia Tyson, the folk-siren half of the duo Ian and Sylvia, knew Mr. Van Ronk well and ...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/an-insiders-take-on-inside-llewyn-davis/article16107307/?cmpid=rss1

Oscar, meet Oscar

... Coen Brothers film, he plays the title character, a 1960s folksinger - modelled after Dave Van Ronk, a Greenwich Village legend who never quite made it big, not Bob Dylan big - who stumbles through a life of almost succeeding and not quite arriving. ...

http://www.canada.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Oscar+meet+Oscar/9327113/story.html

Wintour bins 'too messy' Xmas tree

... bags sitting morosely in a bare corner. The holiday photo was presumably taken inside Wintour's lavish Greenwich Village townhouse in New York (she also has a home on Long Island). Last week, Wintour - who is also Conde Nast's artistic director and ...

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/bee-shaffer-posts-photo-after-mum-anna-wintour-throws-away-xmas-tree-because-its-too-messy/story-fn907478-1226790365641?from=public_rss

Watch a New Featurette for Inside Llewyn Davis that Reveals the...

... featurette. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS follows a week in the life of a young folk singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a musician ...

http://collider.com/inside-llewyn-davis-featurette/

Bridgestone Winter Classic Update: SiriusXMA Hockeytown Winter Festival Preview

Gooooooooooooooooooood morning/afternoon/evening Winging It In Motown! I hope everyone [who celebrated] had a fantastic Christmas holiday, and if not, at least relaxing day off.

http://www.wingingitinmotown.com/2013/12/26/5243138/bridgestone-winter-classic-update-siriusxm-hockeytown-winter-festival

It was my duty to study'

Allah willing, I will get to the previous article later. Now, I'm asking you to read and study these words in the book Closing The Gap .

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Columns_4/article_101085.shtml

Paper Monitor: Pine needle pain

... minus the tree. The picture shows bags of presents lined up in the corner of a room in Wintour's Greenwich Village townhouse in New York. Basically the Mail has nowhere else to go with this story, other than showing the Christmas Day picture. So it ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-25519727#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Coens' 'Inside Llewyn Davis' doesn't miss a beat

As much as any directors working today, the brothers Coen, Ethan and Joel, are unmistakable auteurs, filmmakers who place their own distinctive stamp on everything they do.

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Justin Timberlake finds harmony in 'Llewyn Davis'

NEW YORK -- Justin Timberlake, so often shuttling between movies and music, for once didn't have to choose.

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Moxy's Matt Louis to prepare meal at James Beard House

This just in - Portsmouth chef Matt Louis of Moxy Restaurant will get his chance to cook in the venerable brownstone the James Beard House on March 4, cooking a dinner rooted in New England history and products.

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20131205-LIFE-312050324

Tangled up in blue

... Joel Coen is this more true than in their latest, "Inside Llewyn Davis". This tragicomic snapshot of the Greenwich Village folk-music scene in the 1960s is a sort of spiritual sequel to "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", their amusing and tuneful take on ...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/12/new-film-inside-llewyn-davis?fsrc=rss

7 films in theatres on Christmas Day

... a treacherous warlord. A struggling singer-songwriter navigates the 1960s folk music scene in New York's Greenwich Village in this Coen brothers drama. The Great Fruitcake Debate Dec. 24, 2013 3:08 PM Pleasure is not a word some would use to ...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/7-films-in-theatres-on-christmas-day-1.2475904?cmp=rss

Landmark Approval Comes for Historic Greenwich Village None Too Soon

... live music," says Sansone. "Unfortunately, these days, being a good tenant just isn't enough." Historic Greenwich Village has, of course, long been internationally recognized as a beacon of bohemia, the birthplace of the East Coast beat and ...

http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-12-25/music/greenwich-village-landmark-approval/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+most%2Frecent+%28Village+Voice+-+The+most+recent+10+stories%29

What if the Stonewall riots had happened in Charleston?

What innocently began as the inaugural "Purple Haze" smoke bomb party in 1969, mistakenly drew the unwanted eye of Charleston authorities and quickly turned into something else In the summer of 1969, as a rebellious counter-culture movement rippled across America, a flashpoint for gay rights erupted at the Stonewall Inn in New York City's Greenwich ... (more)

http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/what-if-the-stonewall-riots-had-happened-in-charleston/Content?oid=4834415

'Inside Llewyn Davis' film explores late music...

... on Van Ronk's 2005 memoir that recounts his struggles to make a living in the folk scene of New York's Greenwich Village neighborhood and his coming of age during the postwar folk revival. Sadly, but not unjustly, the film is prompting a wider ...

http://southtownstar.suntimes.com/entertainment/24441596-421/inside-llewyn-davis-film-explores-late-music-makers-hard-knock-life.html

Concert Pianist Irene Jacobi: WNYC American Music Festival, 1943

... and at multiple venues in Europe. The above soft-focused image of the spell-binding Irene Jacobi by Greenwich Village photographer Jo Jonas understandably seized our attention at the Forward Archive. On the basis of such a striking portrait, we ...

http://www.wnyc.org/story/jacobi/

Recent releases

Christian Bale is Irving Rosenfeld, a New York lowlife who runs scams all over the city, and Amy Adams plays his paramour and partner in crime.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013312240008

Coens cast a loving, jaded eye on folk scene

... milieu was the Hollywood motion picture. Llewyn's is folk music, specifically the vivid folk scene of Greenwich Village in the '60s. We find Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) in a self-destructive loop. The film opens with him being punched out by a stranger ...

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/movies/coens-cast-a-loving-jaded-eye-on-folk-scene-237118801.html

Recent releases

It's really hard to be in a bad mood when you're wearing an ugly Christmas sweater, which is why... I got a call that said I won a gift card to big retail store.

http://www.freep.com/article/20131224/ENT01/312240008/1035/ent

What remain of New York's beat generation haunts in Greenwich Village?

Five decades have passed since America's troubadours and beat poets flocked to Greenwich Village, filling its smoky late-night basement bars and coffee houses with folk songs and influencing some of the most recognisable musicians of the era.

http://www.twincities.com/alllistings/ci_24782912/what-remain-new-yorks-beat-generation-haunts-greenwich?source=rss

Inside Llewyn Davis: Oscar Isaac has breakout with Coens

... movie's titular folk singer, he plays a talented but unlucky artist struggling for survival in New York's Greenwich Village in 1961. "It's not an accident that so many actors in their films get so much recognition. They really create the stage for ...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/inside-llewyn-davis-oscar-isaac-has-breakout-with-coens-1.2474502?cmp=rss

Up Next

... - email us with 'Declan' in the subject by 2pm today. We'll announce the winner on our blog after 2pm. Greenwich Village folk scene, 1961, + the Coen brothers = Inside Llewyn Davis . For more, read Dylan's Chronicles , volume one. Photographer ...

http://manhattanusersguide.com/article/up-next-december-5-2013

Todd McCarthy's Ten Best Films of 2013

... film have stuck with me all year. Interpretations have varied as to what we're to make of the struggling Greenwich Village folk singer who's his own worst enemy and is so sublimely played by Oscar Isaac . I still stick with the idea that the Coens ...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/todd-mccarthys-ten-best-films-667470

Tony n' Tina's Wedding Will Return to NYC in March 2014

... 1988 the first commercial production was mounted in Greenwich Village. The show became a fixture of the Greenwich Village neighborhood, running for 10 years, before moving to Times Square, where it ran for another 10 years. Tickets are $125 for ...

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/185772-Tony-n-Tinas-Wedding-Will-Return-to-NYC-in-March-2014

Defense against the Knockout Game? - Some Community Answers

... wears a Kevlar vest and other protective gears. Each member has a superhero alias. The NYI also patrols Greenwich Village to try to stop the mugging of gay people. Chris Rambo, a.k.a Snipers, a member of NYI, said that the knockout game has been ...

http://thebrooklynink.com/2013/12/12/53481-defense-against-the-knockout-game-some-community-answers/

Bloomberg's contested legacy as NYC mayor

... approach. Ronna Texidor became a community activist because of Bloomberg's support for a redevelopment in Greenwich Village where she lives. She can't wait to see the back of him. "He just makes pronouncements. Edicts!" she

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25410915#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

'Inside Llewyn Davis' Movie Review

... right notes with this brilliantly crafted story of a struggling artist. It's a wistful look at New York's Greenwich Village in 1961, before Bob Dylan's arrival would turn the music scene and popular culture upside down. As Dylan's lyrics so ...

http://www.examiner.com/review/inside-llewyn-davis-movie-review?cid=rss

Part of NY Greenwich Village gets landmark status

... from Edgar Allan Poe and Bob Dylan to Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg. About 250 buildings in Manhattan's Greenwich Village that reach back to the 1800s gained historic district status Tuesday after a unanimous vote by the city's Landmarks ...

http://www.theday.com/article/20131222/ENT18/312229975/1044

Inside Llewyn Davis

... and unforgiving world in 'Inside Llewyn Davis.' , is a musician in 1961 New York who wows small crowds at Greenwich Village pubs and bars but can't catch a big break. His first record, a duo effort he recorded with another singer, flopped, and his ...

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/22/3827503/inside-llewyn-davis-r.html

Jesus the New York Jew

... Island. Instead, many NYC Jewish teenagers went in the opposite direction toward the Lower East Side and Greenwich Village after hearing what Bob Dylan called something "blowin' in the wind." Then, they discovered California as a place to re-start ...

http://www.nycreligion.info/?p=10966

Part of Greenwich Village gets landmark status

... from Edgar Allan Poe and Bob Dylan to Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg. About 250 buildings in Manhattan's Greenwich Village that reach back to the 1800s gained historic district status this week after a unanimous vote by the city's Landmarks ...

http://www.masslive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/12/part_of_greenwich_village_gets.html

Armani Introduces The 'Socially Relevant Film'

... about the world around them. The festival will take place in New York City, at the Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village from March 14-20, 2014. The selection will comprise a 12-film competition for the Grand Prize, other spotlighted special film ...

http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg490616.html

Inside Llewyn Davis: Coen brothers still on the same page

... - came along and changed everything. Llewyn Davis is partly modelled on Dave Van Ronk, a growly voiced Greenwich Village singer who never made it big despite prodigious talent, but he also has aspects of other legendary singers of the age such as ...

http://www.canada.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Inside+Llewyn+Davis+Coen+brothers+still+same+page/9311252/story.html

Coen brothers' latest film transports audience to early '60s folk scene

Left to right: Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, and Adam Driver record a song written by Timberlake's character in "Inside Llewyn Davis," the newest film by Joel and Ethan Coen.

http://www.columbiaspectator.com/arts-and-entertainment/2013/12/05/coen-brothers-latest-film-transports-audience-early-60s-folk-scene

TV tourism on the rise in New York

An image on video monitors of actress Sarah Jessica Parker as her character Carrie Bradshaw seen on a busload of tourists as they ride down Fifth Avenue on a "Sex and The City" tour run by On Location Tours November 22, 2013 in New York.

http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/USA/2013/12/10/21338456-relaxnews.html?cid=rsstravelfeatures

Acclaimed Coen brothers still on the same page

... - came along and changed everything. Llewyn Davis is partly modelled on Dave Van Ronk, a growly voiced Greenwich Village singer who never made it big despite prodigious talent, but he also has aspects of other legendary singers of the age such as ...

http://www.canada.com/entertainment/movie-guide/Acclaimed+Coen+brothers+still+same+page+with+video/9311710/story.html

The Coens find authenticity in computer wizardry and a little luck

... Davis. (MICHAEL LEWIS/NYT) Joel Coen, 59, and brother Ethan, 56, are too young to have experienced the Greenwich Village folk scene of the winter of 1960-1961, when their new movie, Inside Llewyn Davis , is set. But the music that came out of those ...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/the-coens-find-authenticity-in-computer-wizardry-and-a-little-luck/article16068419/?cmpid=rss1&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheGlobeAndMail-Front+%28The+Globe+and+Mail+-+Latest+News%29

Inside Llewyn Davis, Reviewed

... because he's too broke for luxuries like warm clothes during a bleak East Side winter. He walks around Greenwich Village hunched over with his guitar and sometimes a cat, a runaway he couldn't catch before its absent owners' door locked. Any mention ...

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/film/2013/12/20/inside-llewyn-davis-reviewed/

Inside Llewyn Davis: a splendid mix of cinema, music, and politics

... folksinger in New York City (think Bob Dylan) who loses himself in a group of musicians and poets in Greenwich Village whose group norms were a hatred of commercialism and big money; a feeling of self-righteousness; and love of simple, democratic, ...

http://www.examiner.com/review/inside-llewyn-davis-a-freewheelin-mix-of-cinema-music-and-politics

Inside Llewyn Davis

Near the end of Inside Llewyn Davis , the titular hero - a struggling folk singer in 1961 Greenwich Village - tears into a version of a song we've already heard a couple of times before, the folk standard "Fare Thee Well."

http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-7-18525-inside-llewyn-davis.html

Beyond 'Llewyn Davis:' A fond look back at early-'60s New York from those who were there

In the Coen brothers' movie " Inside Llewyn Davis ," Oscar Isaac plays a folk singer barely making a living in Greenwich Village in the early '60s, sleeping on the couches of downtown friends, presumably unaware of a singer from Hibbing, Minn ., who has just hit town and will change the world - but not quite yet.

http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/entertainment/ci_24765749/beyond-llewyn-davis-fond-look-back-at-early

The inside scoop on - Llewyn Davis'

... probably heard by now, the film represents the Coen brothers' affectionately jaundiced re-creation of the Greenwich Village folk scene of the late 1950s and early '60s, viewed through the eyes of a fictional musician (see title) whose career has had ...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2013/12/19/the-inside-scoop-llewyn-davis/5F55mNAXSDayWSJWzf96pK/story.html

Tony N' Tina's Wedding Will Return Off-Broadway for 25th Anniversary Engagement

... then walked along with the cast, across 7th Avenue to Waverly Place, the show became a fixture of the Greenwich Village neighborhood, running at that location for the first 10 years, before moving to Times Square where it ran for another 10 years. ...

http://www.broadwayworld.com/off-broadway/article/TONY-N-TINAS-WEDDING-Will-Return-Off-Broadway-for-25th-Anniversary-Engagement-20131220

Inside Llewyn Davis: Film sings grouchy song

... the latest film from Joel and Ethan Coen would be judged an unqualified success. The film presents Greenwich Village as it was in 1961: a haven for aspiring folk singers. The makers of Fargo and True Grit evoke the era to the last album cover and ...

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_and_entertainment/2013/12/20/film-sings-grouchy-song.html

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Movie Review: 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

In "Inside Llewyn Davis ," the Coen brothers let their natural pessimism run rampant against the backdrop of the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the early 1960s.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/20/movie-review-inside-llewyn-davis/?

Ensemble ACJW Set for Series of Shows at Subculture, Begin. 1/22

Ensemble ACJW kicks off a new three-concert series this season at Greenwich Village venue Subculture on Wednesday, January 22 at 7:30 p.m. with an eclectic program, titled Encounters, that features interesting contemporary works and world premieres of new music, composed and/or arranged by the Ensemble ACJW fellows themselves.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Ensemble-ACJW-Set-for-Series-of-Shows-at-Subculture-Begin-122-20131220

The Real Folk Blues: The Coens triumph in old Greenwich Village

Folk music is supposed to be the music of the people. Yet at the heart of Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis , set in New York in the winter of 1961, is a folksinger with no feeling for people.

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-12-19/film/inside-llewyn-davis-review/

Movie Review: a Inside Llewyn Davisa

In "Inside Llewyn Davis," the Coen brothers let their natural pessimism run rampant against the backdrop of the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the early 1960s.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/20/movie-review-inside-llewyn-davis/

NPR Film: A Spinner Of Sad Songs, Struggling To Sing Past The Gloom

The title character of Inside Llewyn Davis starts and ends the film in a little Greenwich Village folk club in 1961, singing the gloomy traditional tune "Hang Me, Oh Hang Me."

http://www.kqed.org/arts/movies/article.jsp?essid=130599

'Inside Llewyn Davis' is another soulful and whimsical Coen Bros. tale

... settles in, Llewyn finds himself at odds with just about everyone in his life as he drifts through the Greenwich Village folk scene. Having lost his singing partner to tragedy, Llewyn is trying to reinvent himself as a solo act, something his ...

http://www.examiner.com/review/inside-llewyn-davis-is-another-soulful-and-whimsical-coen-bros-tale?cid=rss

REVIEW: Inside Llewyn Davis

... aspects and I suspect audiences will too. "Inside Llewyn Davis" is a fictional look at the vibrant Greenwich Village folk scene. Imagine the cover of "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" come to life. Sharp-eyed folkies will note not-so-coincidental ...

http://www.newstalk1010.com/blogs/richardcrouse/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10625272

New Movie Roundup: Dec 20 - 26

"Who would beat up a folk singer?" This was the question that led to the new Coen Brothers movie, Inside Llewyn Davis.

http://303magazine.com/2013/12/new-movie-roundup-dec-20-26/?#038;#038;

Folk tale

... Me," the chestnut that opens "Inside Llewyn Davis," Joel and Ethan Coen's intoxicating ramble through Greenwich Village in 1961, before the neighborhood was annexed by New York University and Starbucks. Llewyn's repertoire and some aspects of his ...

http://www.staradvertiser.com/features/20131220__Folk_tale.html

Oscar Isaac in a scene from Mongrel Media's 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

In an alley behind a cafe in New York's Greenwich Village, an unidentified stranger knocks singer Llewyn Davis to his knees.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/movie-reviews/despair-proves-amusing-in-coen-brothers-inside-llewyn-davis-1.1595424

Despair's amusing in 'Llewyn'

In an alley behind a cafe in New York's Greenwich Village, an unidentified stranger knocks singer Llewyn Davis to his knees.

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013312200007

Despair in 'Inside Llewyn Davis' proves amusing

In an alley behind a cafe in New York's Greenwich Village, an unidentified stranger knocks singer Llewyn Davis to his knees.

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Folksinger's Blues

Earlier this year, Cathleen Schine published a novel called Fin & Lady , a deliriously nostalgic look at an orphaned boy who comes to live with his wealthy sister in a half-renovated Greenwich Village townhouse.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/folksinger-s-blues_771514.html

Inside Llewyn Davis: a freewheelin' mix of cinema, music, and politics

... folksinger in New York City (think Bob Dylan) who loses himself in a group of musicians and poets in Greenwich Village whose group norms were a hatred of commercialism and big money, a feeling of self-righteousness, and love of simple, democratic, ...

http://www.examiner.com/review/inside-llewyn-davis-a-freewheelin-mix-of-cinema-music-and-politics?cid=rss

Moxy's Matt Louis to prepare meal at James Beard House

This just in - Portsmouth chef Matt Louis of Moxy Restaurant will get his chance to cook in the venerable brownstone the James Beard House on March 4, cooking a dinner rooted in New England history and products.

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20131205-LIFE-312050324

Inside the New York City of a Inside Llewyn Davisa

... movie " Inside Llewyn Davis ," opening Friday, Oscar Isaac plays a folk singer barely making a living in Greenwich Village in the early '60s, sleeping on the couches of downtown friends, presumably unaware of a singer from Hibbing, Minn. , who has ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/more-than-just-folk-a-fond-look-back-at-early-60s-new-york-from-those-who-were-there/2013/12/19/db5eae50-6356-11e3-a373-0f9f2d1c2b61_story.html

'Inside Llewyn Davis' witty, bleak, superb

Is "Inside Llewyn Davis," the wonderful new film by Oscar-winning brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, a very dark comedy or a very comic tragedy? That's a fair question, since even Oscar Isaac - who plays the movie's hapless title character with pitch-perfect, hangdog accuracy - has acknowledged he sometimes wrestled with this question during filming.

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/dec/19/film-review-inside-llewyn-davis/

'Inside Llewyn Davis' a snapshot into '60s folk scene

... 1961, Inside Llewyn Davis also serves as an important cultural document. The arrival of Bob Dylan in Greenwich Village that year changed the history of American popular music and this film captures the zeitgeist of the Village scene at that specific ...

http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Reviews/I/Inside_Llewyn_Davis/2013/12/19/21349216.html?cid=rssentertainment

Oscar Isaac relishes brooding musician role in 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

Oscar Isaac faced a daunting challenge in "Inside Llewyn Davis." How do you portray someone who's supposed to be an artist of undiscovered brilliance? "I just worked on being talented," says the Juilliard-trained actor, laughing self-deprecatingly.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013312190009

Coen brothers take on early '60s folk scene in 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

As they always do with their films, Joel and Ethan Coen came up with a distinctive spin early in the creation of "Inside Llewyn Davis," a story set in the early 1960s folk scene in Greenwich Village.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013312190008

13 Culture Highlights of 2013

... by Croatians. But 2013 also saw the release of the Coen brothers' " Inside Llewyn Davis," about the Greenwich Village folk scene which gave birth to Dylan in the first place, and which is already climbing up critics' best-of lists and gathering ...

http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/189477/-culture-highlights-of-/

'Inside Llewyn Davis' movie review: Coen brothers' latest is all about strong writing, good music

... of fame. But it's really something simpler than that for the aspiring folk musician kicking around 1961 Greenwich Village in " Inside Llewyn Davis ," the latest existential ode from the Coen brothers . Even if he doesn't know it, he wants what we ...

http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2013/12/inside_llewyn_davis_movie_revi.html

Oscar Isaac breaks through in Joel and Ethan Coen's 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

... in Joel and Ethan Coen's melancholy comedy about the eponymous musician, who wows crowds at Greenwich Village pubs and coffeehouses in 1961 New York but hasn't made a dime off the self-produced album he released after his former singing partner ...

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/19/3827657/oscar-isaac-breaks-through-in.html

Oscar Isaac relishes brooding musician role in 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

Oscar Isaac didn't mind working with all those cat...: Oscar Isaac, the star of 'Inside Llewyn Davis,' said that he didn't mind working with the multiple cats in the movie, although some didn't always behave.

http://www.freep.com/article/20131219/ENT01/312190009/1035/ent

'Llewyn Davis' puzzles over the dark soul of a '60s folkie

... in the 1960s. Llewyn Davis exudes sensitivity when he plays the guitar and sings lilting folk songs in a Greenwich Village coffeehouse in 1961. But without his instrument, he's pretty much a jerk in the darkly mesmerizing film that bears his name. ...

http://www.freep.com/article/20131219/ENT01/312190010/1035/ent

Coen brothers take on early '60s folk scene in 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

Goodman, Coen Brothers Hit the Carpet for 'Llewyn ...: John Goodman and directors Joel and Ethan Coen hit the red carpet for AFI Fest's closing night gala screening of their new film 'Inside Llewyn Davis.'

http://www.freep.com/article/20131219/ENT01/312190008/1035/ent

Inside Llewyn Davis with Joel and Ethan Coen, John Goodman and star Oscar Isaac

... 2010 critical and commercial triumph True Grit , they now dive headlong into the early-'60s milieu of the Greenwich Village folk scene with the enigmatic and incisive Inside Llewyn Davis , with only an errant cat and 20 or so classic songs to lead ...

http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/inside-llewyn-davis-with-joel-and-ethan-coen-john-goodman-and-star-oscar-isaac/Content?oid=4001522

'American Hustle' and 'Inside Llewyn Davis' bring 2013 to a strong close

... at various theaters around the Twin Cities and Minneapolis-born directors Ethan and Joel Coen's 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene Inside Llewyn Davis is opening exclusively at Landmark's Uptown theater. Coming off the success of his two previous ...

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/arts/2013/12/18/inside-llewyn-davis-american-hustle

ARCHIVES: On the Traill: Difficult to peg reclusive leader

... code only he could decipher, Mr. Traill went to New York to preach his version of the Gospel on Greenwich Village street corners. It was a new, tough interpretation of Scripture, heavy on repentance and retribution and light on grace and ...

http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/archives-on-the-traill-difficult-to-peg-reclusive-leader-1.1603692

Are Jewish neighborhoods a good thing?

... Davis," Joel and Ethan Coen's new film, is the fictional story of one week in the life of a folksinger in Greenwich Village in 1961. Eight years ago, Zablon Simintov became Kabul's last Jew when his arch rival, Ishaq Levin, died. But it's unclear ...

http://www.jewishjournal.com/dennis_prager/article/are_jewish_neighborhoods_a_good_thing

Inside Llewyn Davis: The Coen Brothers Triumph in Old Greenwich Village

Folk music is supposed to be the music of the people. Yet at the heart of Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis , set in New York in the winter of 1961, is a folk singer with no feeling for people.

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2013-12-19/film/inside-llewyn-davis-the-coen-brothers-triumph-in-old-greenwich-village/

Inside Llewyn Davis: The Coens Triumph in Old Greenwich Village

Folk music is supposed to be the music of the people. Yet at the heart of Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis , set in New York in the winter of 1961, is a folksinger with no feeling for people.

http://www.dallasobserver.com/2013-12-19/film/inside-llewyn-davis-the-coens-triumph-in-old-greenwich-village/

New York has lasting effect

... Radio City Music Hall, Rockefeller Center, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. We saw the Bowery and Greenwich Village neighborhoods, Lincoln Center, the Dakota Hotel, Central Park and homes of fancy-smancy people like Robert Redford, Barbara ...

http://www.thecarrollnews.com/news/opinion/2863957/New-York-has-lasting-effect

Part of NY Greenwich Village gets landmark status

About 250 buildings in Manhattan's Greenwich Village that reach back to the 1800s gained historic district status Tuesday after a unanimous vote by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission.

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Ballad of a Thin Man

You were expecting A Mighty Wind , maybe? Folk singer Llewyn Davis is homeless in the winter of 1961 - he's a couch surfer especially unappreciated by Jean , the girlfriend of his buddy Jim .

http://www.bohemian.com/northbay/ballad-of-a-thin-man/Content?oid=2559113

Part of NYa s Greenwich Village, home turf of greats from Poe to Dylan, gets landmark status

... from Edgar Allan Poe and Bob Dylan to Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg. About 250 buildings in Manhattan's Greenwich Village that reach back to the 1800s gained historic district status Tuesday after a unanimous vote by the city's Landmarks ...

http://www.680news.com/2013/12/17/part-of-nys-greenwich-village-home-turf-of-greats-from-poe-to-dylan-gets-landmark-status/

Theater Resources Unlimited Hosts the Bumpy Road to New York Panel Today

Theater Resources Unlimited announces the December panel The Bumpy Road to New York: Developmental Paths for New Works tonight, December 18, 2013 at 7:30pmat The Players Theatre, 115 MacDougal Street, NYC.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Theater-Resources-Unlimited-Sets-1218-Panel-THE-BUMPY-ROAD-TO-NEW-YORK-20131217

Part of NY Greenwich Village gets landmark status

In this undated file photo provided by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, an old sign for the Fat Black Pussycat Theater is still visible on Minetta Street in New York's Greenwich Village, where the coffee bar had been a beatnik haven, and some claim a young Bob Dylan wrote "Blowin' in the Wind."

http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Part-of-NY-Greenwich-Village-gets-landmark-status-5071753.php

Part of NY Greenwich Village gets landmark status

... from Edgar Allan Poe and Bob Dylan to Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg. About 250 buildings in Manhattan's Greenwich Village that reach back to the 1800s gained historic district status Tuesday after a unanimous vote by the city's Landmarks ...

http://www.greenfieldreporter.com/view/story/bf6b6faf60eb4b2caa6f966bdd64bd2c/US--Greenwich-Village-Landmark

Part of NY Greenwich Village gets landmark status

... from Edgar Allan Poe and Bob Dylan to Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg. About 250 buildings in Manhattan's Greenwich Village that reach back to the 1800s gained historic district status Tuesday after a unanimous vote by the city's Landmarks ...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11174655&ref=rss

Part of NY Greenwich Village gets landmark status

... from Edgar Allan Poe and Bob Dylan to Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg. About 250 buildings in Manhattan's Greenwich Village that reach back to the 1800s gained historic district status Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, after a unanimous vote by the city's ...

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/12/17/2860285/part-of-greenwich-village-may.html

Part of NY's Greenwich Village, home turf of greats from Poe to Dylan, gets landmark status

... from Edgar Allan Poe and Bob Dylan to Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg. About 250 buildings in Manhattan's Greenwich Village that reach back to the 1800s gained historic district status Tuesday after a unanimous vote by the city's Landmarks ...

http://www.nanaimodailynews.com/news/nation-world/part-of-ny-s-greenwich-village-home-turf-of-greats-from-poe-to-dylan-gets-landmark-status-1.763012

Inside Llewyn Davis: The Coen Brothers' Sad Ballad of Folk-Music Failure

When the Coen brothers make an outright comedy, they let you know it. There may be death and disaster in , but we're plainly being invited to laugh at human folly.

http://www.seattleweekly.com/film/950285-129/inside-llewyn-davis-the-coen-brothers

Part of NY Greenwich Village gets landmark status

About 250 buildings in Manhattan's Greenwich Village that reach back to the 1800s gained historic district status Tuesday after a unanimous vote by the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission.

http://www.sunherald.com/2013/12/17/5200985/part-of-greenwich-village-may.html#storylink=rss

Inside Llewyn Davis

... traded their beatnik bongos for Martin guitars, playing coffeehouses and living the bohemian life in a Greenwich Village of the mind. Our window into this world is Llewyn Davis (actor and singer Oscar Isaac), a soulful-eyed, bearded journeyman - in ...

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/inside-llewyn-davis/Content?oid=3789206

Greenwich Village homeland of greats from Edgar Allan Poe to Bob Dylan gets landmark ...

... is in better shape to last the ages as the city's newest historic landmark. About 250 buildings in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood that reach back to the early 1800s gained historic district status Tuesday from the city's Landmarks Preservation ...

http://www.weyburnreview.com/article/GB/20131217/CP14/312179803/-1/weyburn/greenwich-village-homeland-of-greats-from-edgar-allan-poe-to-bob&template=cpArt

The Foggy Ruins of Time? Landmarks Approves South Village Historic District

... Commission that granted landmark status to the relevant portion of the South Village. But the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation celebrated a victory today for filmmakers of the future who might look to approximate the Village in ...

http://observer.com/2013/12/the-foggy-ruins-of-time-landmarks-approves-south-village-historic-district/

Greenwich Village homeland of greats from Edgar Allan Poe to Bob Dylan gets landmark status

... is in better shape to last the ages as the city's newest historic landmark. About 250 buildings in the Greenwich Village neighbourhood that reach back to the early 1800s gained historic district status Tuesday from the city's Landmarks Preservation ...

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/travel/greenwich-village-homeland-of-greats-from-edgar-allan-poe-to-bob-dylan-gets-landmark-status-236282881.html

The Real Folk BluesInside Llewyn Davis might be the Coen brothers' best yet

Folk music is supposed to be the music of the people. Yet at the heart of Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis , set in New York in the winter of 1961, is a folksinger with no feeling for people.

http://www.citypages.com/2013-12-18/movies/the-real-folk-bluesinside-llewyn-davis-might-be-the-coen-brothers-best-yet/

Part of Greenwich Village gets landmark status

... is in better shape to last the ages as the city's newest historic landmark. About 250 buildings in the Greenwich Village neighborhood that reach back to the early 1800s gained historic district status Tuesday from the city's Landmarks Preservation ...

http://www.wfaa.com/news/entertainment/236285271.html

Part of Greenwich Village gets landmark status

... is in better shape to last the ages as the city's newest historic landmark. About 250 buildings in the Greenwich Village neighborhood that reach back to the early 1800s gained historic district status Tuesday from the city's Landmarks Preservation ...

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11174524&ref=rss

Part of Greenwich Village gets landmark status

... is in better shape to last the ages as the city's newest historic landmark. About 250 buildings in the Greenwich Village neighborhood that reach back to the early 1800s, including houses and famed small theaters that produced writers, artists and ...

http://www.yorkdispatch.com/entertainment/ci_24743411/part-greenwich-village-gets-landmark-status

Part of Greenwich Village gets...

... is in better shape to last the ages as the city's newest historic landmark. About 250 buildings in the Greenwich Village neighborhood that reach back to the early 1800s, including houses and famed small theaters that produced writers, artists and ...

http://www.wlfi.com/news/national/part-of-greenwich-village-gets-landmark-status_12370934

Part of Greenwich Village gets landmark status

About 250 buildings in the Greenwich Village neighborhood that reach back to the early 1800s, including houses and famed small theaters that produced writers, artists and musicians, like Lenny Bruce and Eugene O'Neill, gained historic district status Tuesday from the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission.

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/12/17/3908993/part-of-greenwich-village-may.html

The Real Folk Blues: The Coens triumph in old Greenwich Village

Folk music is supposed to be the music of the people. Yet at the heart of Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis , set in New York in the winter of 1961, is a folksinger with no feeling for people.

http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-12-19/film/inside-llewyn-davis-review/

Cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel Talks Inside Llewyn Davis,...

From Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen , Inside Llewyn Davis follows folk singer Llewyn Davis , who is struggling to make it in the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.

http://collider.com/bruno-delbonnel-inside-llewyn-davis-interview/

The American Jewelry Design Council's Showcase of 25 Years of...

The American Jewelry Design Council's free showcase of 25 years of outstanding jewelry design at the prestigious Forbes Galleries in New York has been drawing a host of budding and accomplished designers, art and craft creators and the merely curious.

http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwart/article/The-American-Jewelry-Design-Councils-Showcase-of-25-Years-of-Jewelry-Design-Features-Designer-Sandy-Baker-20131217

Part of Greenwich Village may be landmarked

... The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission is voting Tuesday on whether to designate a part of Greenwich Village a historic district. Advocates say developers have been demolishing or changing 19th century row houses and famed small theaters that ...

http://www.kansas.com/2013/12/17/3183856/part-of-greenwich-village-may.html

Part of Greenwich Village may be landmarked

... The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission is voting Tuesday on whether to designate a part of Greenwich Village a historic district. Advocates say developers have been demolishing or changing 19th century row houses and famed small theaters that ...

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/12/17/2860285/part-of-greenwich-village-may.html#storylink=rss

Part of Greenwich Village may be landmarked

... The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission is voting Tuesday on whether to designate a part of Greenwich Village a historic district. Advocates say developers have been demolishing or changing 19th century row houses and famed small theaters that ...

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/12/17/2952816/part-of-greenwich-village-may.html#storylink=rss

Part of Greenwich Village may be landmarked

... The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission is voting Tuesday on whether to designate a part of Greenwich Village a historic district. Advocates say developers have been demolishing or changing 19th century row houses and famed small theaters that ...

http://www.myndytv.com/entertainment/part-of-greenwich-village-may-be-landmarked_11547030

Part of Greenwich Village may be landmarked

... The city's Landmarks Preservation Commission is voting Tuesday on whether to designate a part of Greenwich Village a historic district. Advocates say developers have been demolishing or changing 19th century row houses and famed small theaters that ...

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/12/17/3378291/part-of-greenwich-village-may.html#storylink=rss

Shuji's Top Five Restaurants for 2013

I raise a glass to you, dear reader, with best wishes for a happy holiday. For this writer, the year's favorite restaurants share a common denominator: all very affordable places that you ought to visit often.

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/stickaforkinit/2013/12/orange_county_five_restaurants_2013.php

Rudin's St. Vincent's condos selling at $3,500 per square foot

The Rudin family and Eyal Ofer's controversial condominium conversion project at the former St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village has been rapidly selling out at some of Downtown's highest average prices, according to the developers.

http://therealdeal.com/blog/2013/12/17/rudins-st-vincents-condos-selling-at-3500-per-square-foot/

Hye-Jin Kim and Joao Luiz to Peform in New York City Classical Guitar Society Series, 1/15

... a performance presented by the Arizona Chamber Music Society and return engagements with New York's Greenwich Village Orchestra and the East Carolina University Orchestra, as well as debut performances with the Dupage Symphony (IL), Victoria ...

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Hye-Jin-Kim-and-Joao-Luiz-to-Peform-in-New-York-City-Classical-Guitar-Society-Series-115-20131216

Moxy's Matt Louis to prepare meal at James Beard House

This just in - Portsmouth chef Matt Louis of Moxy Restaurant will get his chance to cook in the venerable brownstone the James Beard House on March 4, cooking a dinner rooted in New England history and products.

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20131205-LIFE-312050324

This year, NYC SantaCon aims to curb ho-ho no-no's

... whimsical flash mob to flashpoint, even for New Yorkers used to such freewheeling shindigs as the giant Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. SantaCon's organizers are as tough to pin down as the elf himself - one responded to an inquiry from The ...

http://www.thenorthwestern.com/viewart/20131214/OSH04/312140227/This-year-NYC-SantaCon-aims-to-curb-ho-ho-no-no-s?odyssey=tab|mostpopular|text|FRONTPAGE

Star Studded Auction to Stop NYU Expansion Plan

... prerogative to destroy it," said the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan , one of dozens of Greenwich Village actors, artists, and writers aligned with a group of more than 400 NYU faculty members to protest NYU's ambitious expansion plan. ...

http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/84230476.html

Defense against the Knockout Game? - Some Community Answers

... wears a Kevlar vest and other protective gears. Each member has a superhero alias. The NYI also patrols Greenwich Village to try to stop the mugging of gay people. Chris Rambo, a.k.a Snipers, a member of NYI, said that the knockout game has been ...

http://thebrooklynink.com/2013/12/12/53481-defense-against-the-knockout-game-some-community-answers/

The 'Inside Llewyn Davis' Tour of New York City

The New York City of Inside Llewyn Davis is far from the gentrified real estate haven we know today.

http://www.movies.com/movie-news/39inside-llewyn-davis39-tour-new-york-city/14299?wssac=164&wssaffid=news

Coens tout their 'Inside Llewyn Davis' star Oscar Isaac as a 'real musician'

In mapping out a tale about a talented but luckless folk singer, writers-directors Joel and Ethan Coen admit they weren't that concerned with crafting a plot, or whether an actor could actually pull off such a demanding role.

http://www.brandonsun.com/entertainment/breaking-news/coens-tout-their-inside-llewyn-davis-star-oscar-isaac-as-a-real-musician-236061931.html

CUNY Re-Enrolls In West Village

... World Trade Center site. Greenwich street will be a main north-south thoroughfare from Battery Park to Greenwich Village when it is reopened in 2014. Currently 100% occupied, other tenants in 255 Greenwich Street include RR Donnelly & Sons , the ...

http://www.globest.com/news/12_752/newyork/leasing/CUNY-Re-Enrolls-In-West-Village-340616.html

Up Next

... - email us with 'Declan' in the subject by 2pm today. We'll announce the winner on our blog after 2pm. Greenwich Village folk scene, 1961, + the Coen brothers = Inside Llewyn Davis . For more, read Dylan's Chronicles , volume one. Photographer ...

http://manhattanusersguide.com/article/up-next-december-5-2013

Miley plans her own Vegas appearance on Britney's big night

... knows how to throw a staff party. The silver fox invited his staff to celebrate at his firehouse home in Greenwich Village on Saturday night. "Anderson's is the CNN holiday party everyone wants to get invited to," one staffer tells us. "He gives ...

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/miley-plans-vegas-appearance-britney-big-night-article-1.1548824

On Movies: Inside Oscar Isaac

Despite the new setting - the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early '60s - the character Oscar Isaac plays in Inside Llewyn Davis has much in common with many of the sorry souls who populate previous Joel and Ethan Coen affairs.

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/movies/20131215_On_Movies__Inside_Oscar_Isaac.html

moviesActor plays plain folk

... a fictional account of a folk singer, loosely inspired by the late, great Dave Van Ronk, navigating the Greenwich Village music scene in the early 1960s. Isaac was already a musician when he got his start as an actor. Born in Guatemala and raised in ...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2013/12/14/nothing-showy-about-inside-llewyn-davis-star-oscar-isaac/NAVVAHKVcB2ExS8Xf19M4K/story.html

The 'Beautiful' story of Carole King

Jessie Mueller as Carole King with cast in "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" on Broadway at the Stephen Sondheim Theater But to her alma mater she'll always be Carol Klein, a distinguished member of the class of '58 at Brooklyn's James Madison High School.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/beautiful-story-carole-king-article-1.1546110

This year, NYC SantaCon aims to curb ho-ho no-no's

... whimsical flash mob to flashpoint, even for New Yorkers used to such freewheeling shindigs as the giant Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. SantaCon's organizers are as tough to pin down as the elf himself - one responded to an inquiry from The ...

http://www.kcautv.com/story/24210943/this-year-nyc-santacon-aims-to-curb-ho-ho-no-nos

SantaCon 2013: Throngs of sloshed St Nicks descend on cities from...

... whimsical flash mob to flashpoint, even for New Yorkers used to such freewheeling shindigs as the giant Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. SantaCon got underway at 10am with revelers taking to the streets dressed in their Christmas finest while ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2523860/SantaCon-2013-Throngs-sloshed-St-Nicks-descend-cities-coast-coast-massive-holiday-bar-crawl-New-Yorkers-crack-naughty-revelers.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Coen brothers

The Coen brothers' new movie takes place almost entirely in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, but a little Minnesota almost always creeps into their work, and "Inside Llewyn Davis" is no exception.

http://www.twincities.com/entertainment/ci_24720522/movie-set-new-york-but-always-touch-minnesota?

Burbank's vintage row keeps Hollywood rolling in period details

... Candelabra,” and Joel and Ethan Coen’s feature “Inside Llewyn Davis,” which is set in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s. Soileau, a former dancer, said the company generates nearly $500,000 a year in sales, about half of it ...

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/12/11/3449817/burbanks-vintage-row-keeps-hollywood.html#storylink=rss

A movie set in New York, but always a touch of Minnesota

The Coen brothers' new movie takes place almost entirely in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, but a little Minnesota almost always creeps into their work, and "Inside Llewyn Davis" is no exception.

http://www.twincities.com/entertainment/ci_24720522/movie-set-new-york-but-always-touch-minnesota?source=rss

The Dream Logic is a High Energy, Genre-busting Musical Collective;...

The Dream Logic is a groundbreaking new jam fusion band fueled by New York born and bred musicians-multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter, Charles Compo; bassist, Jerry Brooks; and drummer Camille Gainer.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/Dream/Logic/prweb11354610.htm

This year, NYC SantaCon aims to curb ho-ho no-no's

... whimsical flash mob to flashpoint, even for New Yorkers used to such freewheeling shindigs as the giant Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. SantaCon's organizers are as tough to pin down as the elf himself - one responded to an inquiry from The ...

http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/us/article/This-year-NYC-SantaCon-aims-to-curb-ho-ho-no-no-s-5060798.php

Jazz guitar master Jim Hall dies at 83

... Frisell, died early Tuesday at age 83, his wife said. Hall died in his sleep after a short illness at his Greenwich Village apartment in Manhattan, said Jane Hall, his wife of 48 years who described her husband as "truly beloved by everybody who ...

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/10/3810313/jazz-guitarist-master-jim-hall.html

SantaCon New York planners ready for rowdey red revelers

... whimsical flash mob to flashpoint, even for New Yorkers used to such freewheeling shindigs as the giant Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. SantaCon's organizers are as tough to pin down as the elf himself - one responded to an inquiry from The ...

http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/12/santacon-new-york-planners-ready-for-rowdey-red-revelers-98050.html

Bad SantaCon-troversy hitting the streets

... whimsical flash mob to flashpoint, even for New Yorkers used to such freewheeling shindigs as the giant Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. SantaCon's organizers are as tough to pin down as the elf himself -- one responded to an inquiry from the ...

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/bad-santacon-troversy-hitting-the-streets-235841461.html

This year, NYC SantaCon aims to curb ho-ho no-no's

... whimsical flash mob to flashpoint, even for New Yorkers used to such freewheeling shindigs as the giant Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. SantaCon's organizers are as tough to pin down as the elf himself -- one responded to an inquiry from The ...

http://www.wisinfo.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013312140227

This year, NYC SantaCon aims to curb ho-ho no-no's

... whimsical flash mob to flashpoint, even for New Yorkers used to such freewheeling shindigs as the giant Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. SantaCon's organizers are as tough to pin down as the elf himself - one responded to an inquiry from The ...

http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20131214/NEWS0102/131219613

Review: Donna Tartt's 'Goldfinch' one of the best novels of 2013

... an antiques business, with Welty handling buying and sales and Hobie working magic as a restorer. Their Greenwich Village townhouse, especially the calm and kindly Hobie's workshop, becomes an enchanted refuge for Theo, even after Pippa is spirited ...

http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/review-donna-tartts-goldfinch-one-of-the-best-novels-of-2013/2156388

NYU Shall Not Pass

'The Village is rapidly disappearing. I don't believe it's NYU's prerogative to destroy it,' said the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan, one of dozens of Greenwich Village actors, artists, and writers aligned with a group of more than 400 NYU faculty members to protest NYU's ambitious expansion plan.

http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/nyu-celebrity-opposition/

Composer Phil Kline Leads Chorus in Unsilent Night Tonight

... players as a medium, most notably in the Christmas piece Unsilent Night , which debuted in the streets of Greenwich Village in 1992 and is now performed annually in dozens of cities around the world. Other notable early compositions include Zippo ...

http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwclassical/article/Composer-Phil-Kline-to-Lead-Chorus-in-UNSILENT-NIGHT-1214-20131213

SantaCon tries to clean up its act

... whimsical flash mob to flash point, even for New Yorkers used to such freewheeling shindigs as the giant Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. SantaCon's organizers are as tough to pin down as the elf himself -- one responded to an inquiry from The ...

http://www.insidebayarea.com/crime-courts/ci_24722721/santacon-tries-clean-up-its-act?source=rss

NYC SantaCon aims to curb ho-ho no-no's

... whimsical flash mob to flashpoint, even for New Yorkers used to such freewheeling shindigs as the giant Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. SantaCon's organizers are as tough to pin down as the elf himself - one responded to an inquiry from The ...

http://www.newsday.com/news/new-york/nyc-santacon-aims-to-curb-ho-ho-no-no-s-1.6603517

New Yorka s homebrew crews

Kyler Serfass invites fellow homebrewers Ryan McMahon , Alex Dolginko and Chris Prout to his Greenpoint home to raise a glass of beer from the taps in Serfass's kitchen.

http://nypost.com/2013/12/13/new-yorks-homebrew-crews/

A book and recordings by Dave Van Ronk, the fascinating source for 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

... voice whose life story has now inspired the Coen Brothers' poignant new film about the early-'60s Greenwich Village folk scene, "Inside Llewyn Davis." Partly because his chord progressions were so cool - like the way he went to E major for the pay ...

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/soundposts/2013/12/13/a-book-and-recordings-by-dave-van-ronk-the-fascinating-source-for-inside-llewyn-davis/

Miami's Oscar Isaac breaks through in Joel and Ethan...

... in Joel and Ethan Coen's melancholy comedy about the eponymous musician, who wows crowds at Greenwich Village pubs and coffeehouses in 1961 New York but hasn't made a dime off the self-produced album he released after his former singing partner ...

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/13/3816577/miamis-oscar-isaac-breaks-through.html