Monday, May 25, 2015
Jill Freedman: Circus Days at Higher Pictures through Mar 9 Â Higher Pictures presents the first New York exhibition of Circus Days by Jill Freedman. The show will include over twenty vint…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 05:58PM[SHARE]Â This part is part five of a five-part series. For Part One (Pilgrims) go here; and Part Two (Puritans) go here, for Part Three (Dissenters) go here, and for Part Four (where they all co…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 24, 2015
This part three of a series. For Part One (Pilgrims) go here; and Part Two (Puritans) go here, and for Part Three (Dissenters) go here. I think it’s pretty hilarious that in a nation t…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 04:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 23, 2015
Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Battery Park, Clipper Castaways, Clipper City, Dances of Vice, Manhattan By Sail, pirates
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:13AM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Dorothy Lee (Marjorie Elizabeth Millsap, 1911-1999). Los Angeles born Lee jumped into vaudeville at age 14, and married an adagio dancer named Robert Booth two…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:22AM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2015
This part three of a series. For Part One (Pilgrims) go here; and Part Two (Puritans) go here. History is very complicated. It’s even more complicated to five year olds. When we he…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:10PM[SHARE]Filed under: Burlesk, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Coney Island USA, Divas, Howling Vic, Liza Minelli
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:06PM[SHARE]Filed under: BROOKLYN, Coney Island, Indie Theatre, PLUGS Tagged: Coney Island, Dick Zigun, Funhouse Philosophers, Indie Theatre, Maxim Gorky
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:40AM[SHARE]Filed under: BROOKLYN, Contemporary Variety, Indie Theatre, PLUGS Tagged: Bushwick, Cobra Club, Force Majeuer, vaudeville
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2015
Tonight on TCM: a program of films from one of my favorite cinematic subgenres: the sinking ship flick. 8:oopm (EST) The Poseidon Adventure (1972) The first movie I ever saw in a cinema and …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:03PM[SHARE]This is the second post in our series on our distinguished New England ancestors. (The first, on the Pilgrims of Plymouth, is here. ) Plymouth struggled along for years, with just a few hund…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:35AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2015
It’s been my career-long ambition to study this ancient art form. It’s kind of the foundation of everything I’m interested in and it’s kind of a glaring gap in my dos…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:33PM[SHARE]This is the first in a promised series of posts containing details about my ancestry, for those four people who care. The first leg will take place over the next several days and will provid…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:26PM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Vivien Oakland (Vivian Andersen, 1895-1958). The daughter of Norwegian immigrants, Oakland started out as a child in vaudeville in San Francisco, became a Ziegfeld c…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Filed under: Dixieland & Early Jazz, Music, PLUGS Tagged: Sidney Bechet Society, Sweet and Lowdown Reunion, Symphony Space, Woody Allen
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:21AM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2015
 As we promised in our earlier piece on Penny Arcade, we here share some of the other things we discussed that didn’t make it into my Chelsea Now/ Village piece: On the development…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 02:17PM[SHARE]Tonight’s theme on TCM is “The 15th Century”. That’s all well and good, but there’s a sub-theme in tonight’s program in that they are showing two films fr…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:36PM[SHARE]Today is the birthday of Elsie Ames (1902-1983). Comedy is a matter of taste, of course. I’ve never encountered any comedian (no matter how popular or great) that I didn’t knowÂ…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:17AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 17, 2015
Tonight on TCM, starting at 12:15am tonight (tomorrow) , four classic silent comedy shorts starring the comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy: Double Whoopee (1929) One of the team&…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:06AM[SHARE]Tonight on TCM: two films set in the decadent cabarets of Weimar Era Berlin. We touched on this related art form in No Applause only a little. While a variety from, this type of cabare…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 16, 2015
Tonight at 6pm (EST), Turner Classic Movies will be showing the John Ford  western classic Three Godfathers (1948). It is a remake of his own 1919 silent Marked Men, and is…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:20AM[SHARE]Today at 1:45pm, TCM will be showing the sci-fi horror classic Mighty Joe Young (1949). The film is sort of re-make of King Kong by the same creative team: producer Merian C. …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:09AM[SHARE]Filed under: Contemporary Variety, Music, PLUGS, Ragtime Tagged: Canary Cottage Dance Orchestra, Dan Levinson, Scott Joplin Tribute, St. Michael's Cemetery
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:43AM[SHARE]I was so excited upon hearing that Retro Productions would be doing George S. Kaufman’s 1925 play The Butter and Egg Man, that I wanted to be among the first to see it, and last nig…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:24AM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2015
Filed under: BROOKLYN, Burlesk, Coney Island, Contemporary Variety, PLUGS Tagged: Cherry Delight, Coney Island USA, Coney Island Wild Cards, Shane Velazquez, Wolfheke Burlesque
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:57PM[SHARE]Today is the 100th anniversary of the release date of the Keystone comedy Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers (1915). This was among the first silent films I ever saw. It came on a video…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 01:07PM[SHARE]The theatre is Lucy Van Pelt and her football; I am Charlie Brown. I keep getting sweet talked back, but really it’s really just a trick, and this is what inevitably happens: I went to…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2015
Tomorrow morning at 9:15 am (EST) TCM will be showing the 1954 remake of A Star is Born, the one with Judy Garland and James Mason, directed by George Cukor, written by Moss Hart. This is…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:14PM[SHARE]When I moved to New York, Penny Arcade OWNED performance art. Her smash show Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!, her in-your-face response to Jesse Helms and the conservatives who de-funded the …
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:48PM[SHARE]Tonight on TCM as part of their month-long series on disaster movies: the destruction of cities! (plus an island). This is one of my favorite genres and accordingly I have many notes and tho…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 13, 2015
 The Mad Marchioness and I watched the great new documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck last week and, as a good movie will do, it unleashed a flood tide of thoughts and impressi…
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