Leonard Cohen returns to Manhattan to play Radio City Music Hall as part of his “Old Ideas World Tour.” The legendary sunglasses-and-black-chapeau-sporting singer/songwriter/poet’s first series of North American dates was so popular that he is back for more, so get your tickets now. Has there ever been a better song title than “Famous Blue Raincoat”? Read More
7:30 p.m. Bang On! N.Y.C. throws a (really early) Mardi Gras party featuring “burlesque, stilt walkers, a marching band, sexy chair dancers, and D.J. Curly’s mix of electro, rock and disco.” At 205 Chrystie Street and Stanton.
7:30 p.m. The “Chirpy Chirpy Cheap Cheap” concert series welcomes former Blue’s Clues host–turned–indie-pop front man Steve Burns Read More
OMG did we just read that Leonard Cohen is going to play his first American show in 15 years? And that it’s going to be in New York at The Beacon Theater on Feb 19??? According to Reuters, Mr. Cohen has been touring Canada and Europe since May, “forced back on the Read More
It almost goes without saying that the countless cover versions of Leonard Cohen’s iconic “Hallelujah” loom larger than the original. This is rare—Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” is one of the few other instances that come to mind—but it isn’t necessarily tragic. Cohen’s 1984 version is marred by chintzy synths and regrettable Read More
Meet Irina Lazareanu, a 25-year-old Canadian model and, more famously, Karl Lagerfeld’s main muse. Admittedly, this clip is kind of mesmerizing. She makes getting ready to go out look like a total blast—far more appealing than the Van Cleef and Arpels party where she ends up getting her groove on anyway. It’s easy to Read More
This was a first: The waitress who poured our wine was carrying a baby swaddled in a blue cotton shawl around her waist. As she uncorked the bottle, the sleeping child dangled over the table. A loud pop, and our glasses were briskly filled with lightly chilled Sancerre. The baby didn’t stir. Leonard Cohen played Read More
My father, he’s an enthusiast. When he likes something, he really likes it. A little over a year ago, while watching Shrek with his youngest grandson, he discovered Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” (sung in that instance by Rufus Wainwright). Shortly after, he bought himself the soundtrack, and then he sought out every imaginable Leonard Cohen version Read More
Leonard Cohen’s smoky baritone was almost a whisper. “It’s really difficult to talk about these things on the phone,” he said on Oct. 5. “Too bad we can’t meet for a drink. It would take several drinks to loosen both our tongues to try to get to the deep truth of the matter.”
Some truths Read More
For more than three decades, Leonard Cohen has been our great bard of late-night melancholy, our baritone-voiced scholar of heartache and cultural decay.
Though he is a citizen of the world–Canadian by birth, his travels have taken him from the Greek island of Hydra to a Zen monastery near Los Angeles, where he lived as Read More
