Adrian Sangeorzan, poet and fiction writer, is the author of several collections of poetry, including Tattoos on Marble, Over the Lifetime, and The Anatomy of the Moon.
Angelo Verga is a widely published poet both here & abroad. He has been translated into Romanian. $8 includes a drink
This Sunday's Extra Special Liar Show comes with a twist. Two happily married couples will tell the stories, but one half of each of these statistical anomalies will be lying his or her head off. So there will be TWO Liars instead of one. Guess either correctly and win the unbelievable prize T-shirt.
Tonight's couples: LESLIE GOSHKO (Huffington Post, Sideshow Goshko) & KYLE ERICKSON (Kick Assonance, The Land) and....NAOMI AZAR (This American Life) & AARON WOLFE (Screenwriter; The Moth Podcast).
Hosted by Andy Christie (The New York Times, WNYC'S The Moth's Radio Hour)
"They can lie to me all night long!" - The New York Times
"Christie & Co. make dishonesty fun again." - TimeOut New York
$10.00 cover plus $10.00 minimum
Kim Sykes is an actress, writer and artist who lives in NYC. She has performed in New York City and regionally at The Actor's Theater of Louisville, Stageworks, Hudson and Crossroads Theater and the First Amendment Comedy and Improvisational Company. She is a member of the Actors Center Workshop Company. ies of New Music. She has premiered dozens of vocal works including music by Eve Beglarian, Corey Dargel, Daron Hagen, Edie Hill, Gilda Lyons and Eric Moe.
Composer and pianist ELLEN MANDEL has written music for sixty plays, from Shakespeare to Stoppard and beyond. Her poem-songs have been performed in concerts across the USA and in Ireland and England. Mandel song CDs: The Cat and the Moon, lyrics by Seamus Heaney, WB Yeats, Thomas Hardy, and Daniel Neer; a wind has blown the rain away, E.E. Cummings songs; and the first of all my dreams, Heaney, Cummings, Yeats, and others. The New York Times calls her music "ardent, spiky and refreshingly organic." Ellen invites you to her new CD release concert Sat May 17 at 3 PM at the Wild Project: There Was a World. .
Lizbeth Mackay read poems of E. A. Robinson earlier this year at the Cornelia St. Cafe. She is a NYC actress who has appeared in plays on and off Broadway, including CRIMES OF THE HEART, THE PRICE, SONS OF THE PROPHET and most recently DOMESTICATED. She is mom to Katie and John and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
Paul Hecht has been an actor for quite some time. He has appeared on and off Broadway, around the country,in film, on TV and even radio, and in various venues such as Symphony Space, the Morgan library, the 92nd street Y, and the Cornelia Street Café , where he regularly assembles evenings of poetry with musical accompaniment. He also reads to elementary school students as part of the Screen Actors Guild Bookpals program.
$15 includes a drink, food available http://www.ellenmandel.com , http://www.eleanortaylor.com
$10.00 cover plus $10.00 minimum http://sarahbernstein.com
Alfonso Colasuonno graduated from Beloit College with a BA in Creative Writing. He is a native son of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and aims to inject the chaotic energy of working-class New York into his writing. Alfonso currently splits his time between tutoring, maintaining a website to promote emerging writers and artists and his literary pursuits. (www.theadeptwriter.com), His poetry and fiction have and will appear in The Eunoia Review; The Milo Review; The Camel Saloon; Dead Snakes; Horror Sleaze Trash; ppigpenn; Zygote in my Coffee; Randomly Accessed Poetics; Gutter Eloquence; and Citizens for Decent Literature and other publications. Alfonso posts links to all his published pieces on his website (www.alfonsocolasuonno.com).
Robin Eisgrau, a graduate of NYU and The High School of Art & Design is a native New Yorker who can't picture herself living anywhere else. She wrote, produced and starred in her one-woman show "A Place.to Live" which was staged at the Bowery Poetry Club. She studied acting at the Deena Levy Theater Studio and Improv at the Homegrown Theater. She was editor-in-chief of NET magazine and her writing has appeared in publications such as Paper, Time Out New York, Seventeen, The New York Post and New York Newsday. This is her second appearance at City Stories and she is very pleased to be here.
Ginny Leise is a writer, actor and comedian. She can be seen improvising with her indie team Das Buttwerk & telling stories all over New York City. In 2012, her sketch group ThreeGForce won recognition from the Vote It Forward Festival for their video Getting Political. The May, storytelling brings her to Boston for the Women in Comedy Festival. Her site: ginnyleise.com
John Lewis is a writer, actor and internet radio host. He has played various roles in regional theater productions, independent films and television commercials. He has also written for the stage, creating and performing his one-man show “In the Ballpark,” examining the passionate, sensitive and funny side of the 'World of Sports' through the mediums of theater and fine arts. A noted sports broadcasting historian, John is the author of Radio Master – The Life and Times of Sports Broadcasting Great Ted Husing (Langdon Street Press) He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
Thomas Pryor's work is published in The New York Times, A Prairie Home Companion, and other periodicals. His blog:"Yorkville: Stoops to Nuts," is listed in The New York Times Blog Roll. Thomas appeared on PBS's TV series: "Baseball: A New York Love Story," NBC TV’s “New York Nonstop,” and Radio’s “This American Life.” His photography book, River to River ~ New York Scenes From a Bicycle, was published in 2012 (YBK). Last year, Cornelia Street Café hosted his two-month photography exhibition. NBC TV, New York Press/Our Town Downtown and NY1 TV praised the exhibit and the book. His stories are featured in three anthologies, "Have A NYC 2,” “Lost and Found: Stories from New York” and “Mickey Mantle - Memories and Memorabilia."
Marie Sabatino has been writing stories since she was a little girl. She tells all over NYC at venues like The National Arts Club, Galapagos Art Space, KGB Bar, Happy Ending Lounge and the Lit Crawl in Manhattan. You can find her work in Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, Word Riot, Fluence Magazine and Freerange Nonfiction and other literary journals. Marie is currently working on a collection of personal stories about her misadventures in New York City, which is certain to scare the hell out of her parents.
$8.00 includes a drink http://www.yorkvillestoopstonuts.blogspot.com/
With each member bringing much of their own individual experience, the newly formed quartet has rapidly mad a noteworthy impact on the City jazz community. Founded in September 2013, Brown House has already received a great deal of attention from New York’s seasoned jazz listeners. With several sold out concerts and a growing number of devoted listeners, the quartet has proven that it is a great new contribution to the New York City’s prolific jazz scene.
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Special Guests: Alice Quinn, Edward Hirsch, James Waller, Maurice Edwards, Stanley Moss
And Mona Nicoara (film director) who will show a brief film about Nina.
Carmen Firan, Romanian-American, writer and poet, playwright.
Here is the Jack of Diamonds, clad/ In the rusty coat he’s always had./ His two dark brothers wish him dead,/ As does the third, whose hue is red. .../ One brother, on his breast and sleeves,/ Is decked with tragic, spadelike leaves./ The next has crosses for décor./ The motif of the third is gore./ The Jack of Diamonds is dead,/ Leaving a vacuum in his stead./ This ballad seems at least twice-told./ Well, all Rumanian plots are old. $ 8 includes a drink, food menu available http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/arts/nina-cassian-exiled-romanian-poet-dies-at-89.html?ref=obituar
"Whether adding percussives to Mr. Bungle's avant-garde drama, wrangling electronics with Marc Ribot, or negotiating Persian rhythms with Secret Chiefs 3, the New York drummer succeeds by defining parameters--and embracing the unknown." --Modern Drummer
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"The music was all Byard’s, played lovingly and a bit loosely...Most of the songs in the first set were fine examples of standard form gone just slightly haywire. The absence of a pianist in the group is good strategy...here it created space for Mr. Okegwo to abandon rote walking bass lines in favor of roving pointillism...Mr. Kolker, his tenor solo on “Dolphy,” (showed) a casual study in extended harmony. It also exposed the intervallic oddness of some of the songs, as arranged for alto flute and bass clarinet, or flute and tenor saxophone...Mischief isn’t the only side of Byard’s music, though, and Ms. Baum, an experienced composer-arranger, has clear perspective on his lyricism. “Toni,” a ballad with waltz-like properties, was among the subtler highlights of the set. " --Nate Chinen, New York Times
$15 cover plus $10 minimum
$8.00 includes a drink
The experience is vivid: following Klampanis’ conceptions throughout the night, the styles mingling with complimentary undertones, one will always be engaged and in anticipation of what’s next. No matter what instrumentation used, and whether playing a jazz standard, traditional Greek folk song, or Paul McCartney tune, the outcome is always breathtaking.
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$ 12 includes a drink, students $ 8 includes a drink
(212) 989-9319 Reservations suggested
$12 includes a drink, food menu available
“Drummer Jeff Davis has a steady profile in left-of-center New York jazz circles…”--Nate Chinen (New York Times)
$10 cover plus $10 minimum http:// www.jeffdavisdrums.com
$8.00 includes a drink http://www.andrewsterman.com , http://www.electricsongs.com
Cover is given where known Many spoken words events are free There is always a one-drink minimum per set; times are door opening times
