Tuesday, September 13, 2016
I’ve been planning this post for a while, as a follow up to my earlier post highlighting some of my idle dreams about a future Coney Island. It’s some of my cray-cray and not-so-…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:13PM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2016
If you’ve done any amount of time kicking around the Lower East Side, you’ve passed the New York City Marble Cemetery on Second Street Between 1st and 2nd Avenues. It’s not…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:39PM[SHARE]We were fortunate to catch opening day of Circus Amok’s 2016 touring season yesterday at the Abrons Arts Center. It’s a more stripped down, lean and mean show this year, with a s…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:52PM[SHARE]As part of their monthlong slapstick series, tomorrow TCM will be showing several classics from the 1930s — the first decade of talkies. Unsurprisingly, and much to their credit, they …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 11, 2016
Lest the relatively frivolous or contained nature of this tragic post offend you, I hasten to point out all of the appropriately somber posts I have done about September 11, 2001. This is…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:26AM[SHARE]Apart from the more somber anniversary we’re observing this morning, today happens to be National Grandparents Day. I thought I would take this opportunity to remember my own grandpare…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:09AM[SHARE]In remembrance of the day, a little wrap-up of some of our past articles posted here on September 11 in years past. Just click on the link to get to the post. Here at Travalanche we NEVER fo…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:07AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 10, 2016
Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: burlesque, Hard Swallow, Kita St. Cyr, Planet Kita
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:48AM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2016
It may be as long as ten years ago since I last saw my old friend Mel Delancey on stage. Let’s just say that it was long enough ago that she was still in an improv troupe with her (now…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:45PM[SHARE]The horrific events of September 11, 2001 were, you must admit, a triumph of planning: time, resources, personnel, organization. And for the most part, the perpetrators achieved what they se…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:22AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of James Maurice  “Jimmy” Barry (1868-1940). Barry was originally from Boston; his father was a harness-maker who immigrated from Ireland.  Jimmy s…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2016
Today is the birthday of character actor Frank Cady (1915-2012). Cady was a distant cousin of mine through my maternal grandmother Ruth Cady. While he grew up in California and Oregon, hi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:45AM[SHARE]I will take it as a sure sign of the un-momentousness of the news in our headline when (as they inevitably will) people respond to this when I post it with remarks like “What-? When di…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Everey Tuesday and Wednesday in September, Turner Classic Movies will be showing some of the finest silent comedy and slapstick classics (and documentaries thereon). Here’s what’…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:44PM[SHARE]Hugh O’Brian died earlier this week at the age of 91. While Baby Boomers and older probably know him best as the title character in the smash tv series The Life and Legend of Wyatt …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:09AM[SHARE]Today is the 100th anniversary of the release date of the Charlie Chaplin comedy The Count (1916). This movie shows Chaplin at the top of his game as a straight up comedian, chock …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Tonight on TCM: a menu of lesser-known but (for the most part) important silent comedy classics: 8:oopm (EST): The Golden Age of Comedy (1957) The first of Robert Youngson’s numerous a…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:37PM[SHARE]Filed under: Brooklyn, Contemporary Variety, Indie Theatre, PLUGS, SOCIAL EVENTS Tagged: benefit, Big Sky Works, BROOKLYN, flood, Louisiana, vaudeville
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:22AM[SHARE]Filed under: BROOKLYN, Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Broadway Brassy, Burlesque at Bedford Hall, House of Noire, Perle Noire
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:20AM[SHARE]Monday, September 5, 2016
Today is the centennial anniversary of the release date of the D.W. Griffith film, Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916). Perhaps the most spectacular motion…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:25AM[SHARE]Today is the anniversary of the release date of the 1931 Wheeler and Woolsey comedy Caught Plastered. In this one, the boys play a couple of failed vaudevillians who decide to help a l…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 4, 2016
I much enjoyed the play Spinoza’s Ethics at Theater for the New City last night.  As I mentioned in this earlier post, the book this play references both solved and saved reli…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Today is the birthday of Wheeler Dryden (George Dryden Wheeler, Jr, 1892-1957). It was tempting to include him in both my Stars of Vaudeville and Stars of Slapstick series, but Dryden was ad…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:31AM[SHARE]Monday, August 29, 2016
A thoughtful agent friend noticed the growing snowball of posts on Travalanche about American history and my family’s role therein. As she intuited, I have been posting this raw materi…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 28, 2016
I headed out to nearby Green-wood Cemetery for the annual Battle of Brooklyn Commemoration. Some snaps I took while I was there: Filed under: AMERICANA, BROOKLYN, HOLIDAYS/ FESTIVALS/ MEMORI…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 06:55PM[SHARE]Today is opening day of Theater for the New City’s annual Dream Up Festival. It’s great to see this festival still going strong after several years now. Many of the shows look in…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:21AM[SHARE]Friday, August 26, 2016
Yet another post triggered by working on The Iron Heel, this one less political than autobiographical and (quite literally) philosophical. One of my characters in the ensemble of the current…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 25, 2016
My new feature about the Lightship Lilac and her current exhibition just hit this week’s Downtown Express. Read all about it here. As a bonus, here are are extra stray photos I took wh…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Today is St. Bartholomew’s Eve. Funny — despite having worked on this post for several days, I was thinking to myself only yesterday that August doesn’t really have a holid…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:45PM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2016
Today is the birthday of the great George Herriman (1880-1944). I almost just called Krazy Kat the greatest comic strip of all time — surely no strip has ever been greater — but …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2016
“Why do Beft Always Go to the Left?” — Dr. Seuss Tonight, we plunge back into performances of The Iron Heel after a hiatus of several days and so it seemed a good ti…
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