Tickets for Oscar and Pulitzer winner Bob Dylan’s Prospect Park concert tonight are going for upward of $565 each, according to Gowanus Lounge. Meanwhile, tomorrow’s print Observer will have a story about a real estate deal that connects to Mr. Dylan.
Coincidence?
Brooklyn Vegan reports that at 10 a.m. today, presale tickets go onsale for for an Aug. 12 Bob Dylan concert at the Prospect Park bandshell in Park Slope.
Only problem is you’ll need one of those pesky pre-sale passwords to buy them, and even the all-knowing Brooklyn Vegan isn’t sure what Read More
Sony has come up with a creative way of generating revenue in the face of the industry-wide slump in music sales. The New York Times reports that executives at the company are tapping into the photo archives in the basement of its New York headquarters, and are expected today to announce a partnership Read More
The soundtrack for NBC’s popular superhero drama, Heroes, will hit stores on March 18, bringing fans 18 songs from the show that mix the old (Bob Dylan and David Bowie — the Bowie track is "Heroes," obvs!), with the new (Wilco, Panic! at the Disco, and Imogen Heap), according to The Hollywood Reporter. Read More
Everybody needs to stop complaining about Chan Marshall. If I hear another person talk about how she has smoothed over the rough edges that made her so great and eradicated all the warts-and-all charm from her repertoire, I’m going to spit.
Just a year ago, after releasing the strongest album by far of her career, Read More
Director Todd Haynes’ latest project, I’m Not There, an Indie about the life of Bob Dylan, has exceeded expectations at the box office. During its limited, five-day release, the film grossed over a million bucks, and the Oscar buzz has already begun. (Namely, industry insiders and critics have been alight over a winning Read More
I’M NOT THERE
Running Time 135 minutes
Directed by Todd Haynes
Written by Todd Haynes and Oren Moverman
Starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger
Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There, from a screenplay by Mr. Haynes and Oren Moverman, has convinced me that Mr. Haynes knows infinitely more about Bob Dylan, his life, his times Read More
Todd Haynes' new film I'm Not There will have New York audiences seeing double in more ways than one. Not only will the film feature multiple actors playing the role of Bob Dylan—the list inclues Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Richard Gere, and Cate Blanchett—it will now be released at the Film Forum and Lincoln Read More
Hassan Nemazee, the Democratic bundler chairing tonight’s Hillary Clinton fund-raiser (featuring Bill) just told me that the event has raised $500,000 for the Senator’s presidential campaign.
Nemazee, whose co-chairs tonight include the prominent fund-raisers Robert Zimmerman and Steve Robert, said that former DNC chair Terry McAuliffe called asking him to put the event together Read More
A frosty week in mid-winter when nothing of any major importance is opening may be the perfect in-between time to play catch-up. I wrote about the powerful German film The Lives of Others last week, so my excitement has dimmed momentarily. In the interim, the thin, superficial docudrama Factory Girl, about the five minutes of Read More
