Buster Poindexter performs "Desiree" and "Piece of My Heart" last summer at City Winery It’s another good season with David Johansen, in the middle of his annual once-a-month Buster Poindexter summer residency at City Winery. At Friday night’s July 27 installment, after coming out and complaining of schmutz on his pale pink jacket, he promised a great show, “full of magical moments and 15 minutes of dreadful bulls**t.” The magic followed--minus the extraneous quarter-hour--en

Jigsaw puzzle fanatics might well chafe at lead character Agnes’s declaration in a key scene of Puzzle that putting them together is “a childish hobby for bored people.” By then, though, she herself has realized that her newfound obsession has become her means of self-awareness, exploration and empowerment. For Agnes, a repressed housewife in working class Bridgeport who hasn’t been as far as New York City in years and has little use for the iPhone her youngest son gifts her

Kelli Jones and Joel Savoy sing Petula Clark's “Toi, Tu Joues à L’amour” Cajun music label Valcour Records president Joel Savoy has been playing on stage and on recordings with fellow fiddler/guitarist Kelli Jones for over 10 years but only now, with the release of “Toi, Tu Joues à L’amour” (“I’m Looking at the World Through Tear Drops”), have they actually made their first duet record together. Just out yesterday is a seven-inch opaque white vinyl 45 rpm single featuring “To

Brave Combo at Bryant Park “Are you ready to hear some polka?” asked venerable Brave Combo bandleader Carl Finch Wednesday night (July 18) in launching the Carnegie Hall Citywide series of five free concerts in Midtown Manhattan’s Bryant Park. Perhaps wisely, he wouldn’t wait for an answer. “Say yes—even if you aren’t!” commanded Finch, though really, he didn’t need to. Sure enough, there were numerous Brave Combo t-shirts visible throughout the crowd (one on a man carrying o