Rick Estrin & the Nightcats' "Contemporary" Award-winning Bay Area blues band Rick Estrin & The Nightcats, whose uproarious video for “(I Met Her On The) Blues Cruise” from their 2012 album One Wrong Turn was arguably too much fun for the blues, are at it again. The video for “Contemporary,” the titletrack of the band’s fifth album for Alligator Records (releasing Friday), offers another standout clip for any music genre. Opening with a black-and-white spoof of silent movies,

dooloop's Elizabeth Herriman in action at TTPM Holiday Showcase If Elizabeth Herriman seemed somewhat harried Thursday at the pets area of TTPM’s Holiday Showcase of hot toy product at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Pavilion, well, the annual event staged by the leading video review site for toys, baby gear and pet gear was her first trade show as an exhibitor, and in promotion of a product--the dooloop--that’s only been available since January. “It’s a very sexy thing!” she said,

Hatchimals' Penguala, left, and SuperThings' Enigma at TTPM Holiday Showcase TTPM, the leading video review site for toys, baby gear and pet gear, staged their annual Holiday Showcase event of hot toy product Thursday at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Pavilion. In addition to TTPM’s 2019 Holiday Most Wanted list, the service unveiled, with some overlap, its Top 40 toys list. “We launched our Top 40 list to feature the hottest toys, toys that are truly innovative, or meet a current

Jason Trachtenburg and Emily Frembgen perform "Havin' a Real Good Time" from "Me and Lee--The Musical" Best known for his role as "The Dad" in the acclaimed long-running Off-Broadway and indie-rock act The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players--in which he, his wife Tina and daughter Rachel present wacky original songs telling imagined stories to projected slideshows assembled from vintage mid-20th century American photographic slide collections--Edinburgh Festival Fringe awa