Daniel Menaker on The New Yorker and Making Mistakes

... I remember a particularly funny scene in your book where you move from to Nyack in upstate New York from Greenwich Village in New York City at the age of 11. This meant that you moved from a very Jewish environment to one with very few Jews, and had ...

http://blogs.forward.com/the-arty-semite/188493/daniel-menaker-on-the-new-yorker-and-making-mistak/

Meet the Folk Singer Who Inspired 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

People who were close to Dave Van Ronk, the Greenwich Village folk-blues-jazz institution, had a feeling someone might be making a movie inspired by his life.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/meet-the-folk-singer-who-inspired-inside-llewyn-davis-20131202

Adventures in Barrywood: Roll out the golden carpet, it's December again

This is the time of year when Hollywood releases a glut of superior product on a suspecting public.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/12/02/3792331/adventures-in-barrywood-roll-out.html

Anthony Lane: "Inside Llewyn Davis," "Frozen" reviews.

Oscar Isaac plays a struggling folk singer in early-sixties New York, in the new movie from Joel and Ethan Coen.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2013/12/09/131209crci_cinema_lane

NAUGHTY/NICE Concert Reading Set for Caroline's on Broadway, 12/3

... writers Gerald Stockstill (music) and Kenneth Jones (lyrics) designed as an affectionate throwback to the Greenwich Village musical revues for the 1950's and 1960's that were lean, mean, spare, satiric and sharply funny. NAUGHTY/NICE was a ...

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/NAUGHTYNICE-Concert-Reading-Set-for-Carolines-on-Broadway-123-20131201

Theater artists help themselves grow

Dec. 01--Dressed in jeans and an untucked shirt, a small, lithe man with white hair and glasses slouched in a chair on the Gaslight Theater stage.

http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2013/12/1/theater_artists_help_themselves_grow.htm

Is Dubai the future of cities?

... who died in 2006, is perhaps best known for "The Death and Life of the Great American City," her paean to Greenwich Village and small-scale urban planning. But in her 1984 follow-up about the economies of cities and their surrounding hinterlands, ...

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/12/01/dubai-future-cities/5WcREp0dk9GenHEFPzpsqO/story.html