Today’s “Fab 5″/ Selected NYCity Events – MONDAY, JUNE 16, 2014.
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The Global Beat Festival
“Rolling Stone magazine recently called dakhabrakha the best kept secret at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. The Ukraine quartet perform free this evening at The Global Beat Festival. Also on the bill is Poor Rich Boy, an indie art rock band from Lahore, Pakistan, where they are known for their subversive and frenetic live shows.” (DNA Info)
Brookfield Place New York Winter Garden, 220 Vesey Street at West St.
7:30pm / FREE.
212-417-7000 / brookfieldplaceny.com/GlobalBeat
Joyce’s Dubliners at 100: 33rd Annual Bloomsday on Broadway
Ode to the language, life and love in James Joyce’s work.
Featuring Cynthia Nixon, Malachy McCourt & more
Symphony Space’s 33rd annual ode to the language, life, and love in James Joyce’s work centers on his short story collection Dubliners to celebrate the book’s 100th anniversary.
The event will feature readings by Cynthia Nixon, Malachy McCourt, Kelli O’Hara, and National Book Award-winning author Colum McCann of several of the book’s stellar stories, including the beloved final story “The Dead.” Between readings, songs from the stories will be performed by soprano Lisa Flanagan. Introductions by Irish writer Belinda McKeon.
“The stories contain some of the most beautiful sentences ever written in English.” -Colum McCann, from the Foreword to the anniversary edition of Dubliners
Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway
at 7pm / $25
symphonyspace.org
Night of a Thousand Judys
“This fourth annual Judy Garland birthday celebration has a serious purpose behind it—to raise funds for the Ali Forney Center. But its chief strength is that it captures not only the solemn diva of Garland’s classic ballads and the larger-than-life sacred monster that we all adore, but also the zany, irreverent Garland, born in 1922, with a wicked sense of humor, that comes through in her movies and TV shows.
Justin Sayre of the Meeting, a comedy/variety show he created, has cast a wide net for artists in styles from Broadway to soul and disco. There may not be a thousand Judys, but there will be more than enough: Natalie Douglas, Jane Monheit, Julia Murney, Jackie Hoffman, Karen Wyman, Gabrielle Stravelli, Sarah Dash, and the Judy-licious violinist Aaron Weinstein.” (WSJ-Friedwald)
Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center, 129 W. 67th St.,
(212) 501 3330
Andy Bey, vocals & piano
After a twenty two year absence from recording Andy Bey returned with four albums that have become a permanent part of the musical landscape. The 2005 Grammy Nominated American Song is a delicious celebration of one of America’s great gifts to the music world: The American Songbook.
On his new release Ain’t Necessarily So Bey brings the energy of live performance to compositions by the gods of American Songwriting. Insiders have always known about Andy Bey. Given his limited output of studio recordings, live performances were the source of Bey’s reputation as singer.
Aretha Franklin reminisces about the nights when Andy and The Bey Sisters worked the Village in New York: “Soon as I finished my gig I’d run over to hear them. Andy never got the recognition he deserved . . . jazz originals . . . brilliant and precious.”
Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, Greenwich Village
212-475-8592 / bluenote.net
At 8 and 10:30 p.m.,/ $35 cover at tables, $20 at the bar, with a $5 minimum.
Melissa Aldana and Crash Trio
“Last fall Ms. Aldana, a tenor saxophonist originally from Santiago, Chile, and now living in New York, won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, becoming the first female musician to do so. She works here with her Crash Trio, which features Pablo Menares on bass and Francisco Mela on drums, and has a new self-titled debut album on the Concord label.” (Nate Chinen-NYT)
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th St. and Broadway,
212-258-9595, jalc.org
At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. / $25 cover, with a $10 minimum
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♦ Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm ticket availability, dates and times, as schedules are subject to change.
♦ NYCity is a big town with many visitors where quality shows draw crowds. Try to reserve seats in advance, even if just on day of performance.
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Jolly Old Souls – Midtown
Patrons on a recent Thursday evening at the King Cole Bar and Salon at the St. Regis Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Behind the bar, Maxfield Parrish’s 1906 mural “Old King Cole.”
(June 15, 2014)
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A PremierPub – West Village
Corner Bistro / 331 W. 4th St.
Sometimes you just need a beer and a burger. If so, Corner Bistro is the place you want. Located just outside the hip Meatpacking district, this corner bar and grill is decidedly unhip, but it’s not uncrowded, especially at night. Seems that everyone knows this place has one of the better burgers in town.
In the maze of streets known as the West Village, where West 4th intersects with West 12th (and West 11th, and West 10th, go figure), you will eventually find Corner Bistro on the corner of West 4th and Jane Street. An unassuming neighborhood tavern, it looks just like dozens of other taverns around town. The bartender tells me that the Corner Bistro will be celebrating it’s 50th anniversary next year. The well worn interior tells me that the place itself is much older.
Corner Bistro has outlasted many of those other taverns around town because they know how to keep it simple — just good burgers and beer, fairly priced. The classic bistro Burger is only $6.75, and should be ordered medium rare, which will be plenty rare for most folks. Actually, it will be a juicy, messy delight – make sure you have extra napkins. I like to pull up a stool and sit by the large front window in the afternoon, where I can rest my burger and beer on the shelf, and watch the Villagers walk by.
Corner Bistro seems to attract very different groups of patrons depending on time of day. While it’s crowded with locals in the evening, in the afternoon you hear different foreign languages, and watch groups of euro tourists wander in, led by their guidebooks and smartphones.
For the classic Bistro experience, order your burger with a McSorley’s draft, the dark preferably. This is the same beer that you can get over at the original McSorley’s in the East Village, the pub that claims to be the oldest continually operating bar in NYCity. The only difference is that this McSorley’s ale is served with a smile by the bartenders here. Or you can get a Sierra Nevada, Stella, or Hoegaarden on tap if you want to go upscale a bit. Either way this is a simple, but quality burger and beer experience that is just too rare these days (sorry for the pun).
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Website: cornerbistrony.com
Phone #: 212-242-9502
Hours: 11:30am-4am Mon-Sat; 12pm-4am Sun
Happy Hour: NO
Music: Juke Box
Subway: #1/2/3 to 14th St. (S end of platform)
Walk 2 blk W. on 13th St. to 8th Ave.; 1 blk S. on 8th Ave. to Jane St.
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