A modest yet dedicated crowd of Ed Koch fans gathered at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas Friday evening for the opening night of Koch, the long-awaited documentary by director Neil Barsky about the three-term mayor.
Men in heavy overcoats and women wrapped in furs came in out of the cold and into the small underground theater, Read More
“We’re pedaling as fast as we can,” the New York Philharmonic’s still-newish executive director Matthew VanBesien told the Transom with a laugh, when asked how things had been going since he took over from Zarin Mehta last summer. “There’s a lot to do.”
It was a brutally cold January morning, and Mr. VanBesien and his Read More
A snowy Friday night on the Lower East Side kicked off with a gathering of bodies looking for warmth at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema, where The Cinema Society and Artistry were hosting a screening of the hip zombie flick Warm Bodies. Although director and screenwriter Jonathan Levine managed to roll through with most of the Read More
When Tommy Mottola walked into the Today show Tuesday morning, he was not just tolerant of the paparazzi waiting outside Rockefeller Plaza—he was plainly delighted that someone wanted to take his picture. Mr. Mottola’s new book, Hitmaker, has the music mogul doing the press circuit, recalling the stunning innovations he brought to the music industry, Read More
Eccles Center in Park City, Utah—known to Sundance veterans as “The Big House”—is so massive that my first thought was that the Rolling Stones would have had a tough time selling this joint out at 10 p.m. on a Tuesday night in the middle of a frigid January.
The night in question was last Tuesday, Read More
You probably know him as Bunk, a k a Detective William Moreland, who teamed with Detective Jimmy McNulty in HBO’s The Wire. Or maybe music’s your thing, and you know him as Antoine Batiste, the trombonist who fronts Antoine Batiste and his Soul Apostles on Treme, another HBO hit.
As the star of two shows that have Read More
More than 25,000 conventioneers rolled in for the 102nd “Big Show” at the Javits Center this weekend—the retailing industry’s increasingly desperate annual attempt to assure itself that it’s not dying. Attendees heard from Donna Karan and Jeff Bezos and pondered “How Duane Reade reinvented itself as the quintessential New York brand.” One struggling big-box store Read More
The loveable, retro kitsch-fest that is the Miss America Pageant took place this weekend, and the parade of earnest Midwestern baton-twirlers and bright-eyed Southern belles pledging world peace felt to the Transom like something out of another world, or at least another America. So it was the surprise of the night when the winner was Read More
Rough weather is brewing in the jazz world. This Monday, jazz puns at the ready, the Transom took the A train to the Time Warner Center, where the National Endowment for the Arts was presenting, among other awards, its annual A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy. The award is given to an Read More
On Monday afternoon, the Transom stopped by the Tesla Science Foundation’s “Why Tesla Matters” conference at the New Yorker Hotel, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the inventor’s death—an auspicious milestone marked by the choice of venue. The Serbian inventor spent the final years of his life here—in room 3327, where he died—and the hotel has Read More
