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Happy New Year to all our readers from all over the world! We are so proud to tell you we had the best year ever and we hope 2019 will be even better thanks again to you, our readers and...
The Ever-Present Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball and the Drop Waiting To Happen
By Brad Balfour The Waterford Crystal Ball New York City’s Times Square Midnight, January 1st There are few things we can count on in life except for birth, death, exorbitant college loans and that the ball will drop in New...
Building on Tradition, “Red Bucket Follies 2018” Benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS With Song and Dance
By Brad Balfour When a friend offered me two “Red Bucket Follies” tickets, I said sure, and then asked, “What the hell is that?” I soon learned that this seasonal variety show offered a unique set of song-and-dance numbers especially...
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Unfortunately I have to start this week’s Out&About with sad news again as an Irish icon — Sidetracks Bar and Restaurant in Sunnyside, Queens has burned down to the ground. An early morning five-alarm fire burned through a Sunnyside strip...
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Andy Cooney has done it again, with his Christmas Celebration packing the house at Carnegie Hall last Monday. The question is, how does he do it and the the easy answer is TALENT; that’s right, talent, and boy does he have...
Mary Queen of Scots Tells a Tale of Medieval Intrigue — Confusing As Can Be
Mary, Queen Of Scots director: Josie Rourke cast: Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, Gemma Chan, Martin Compston, Ismael Cordova, Brendan Coyle, Ian Hart, Adrian Lester, James McArdle, David Tennant, Guy Pearce By Brad Balfour It’s tough e...
Spider-Man’s Re-Imagined Versions Weave Together Two New Entries into Marvel’s Cinematic Universe
“Venom” Director: Ruben Fleischer Cast: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, Reid Scott “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” Directors: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman Voice Cast: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld,Mahershala ...
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I would like to start this Out&About by wishing my mam Christina (Chrissy) a Happy Birthday. As she is in Heaven, she would have been 94 years of age on December 6th and I am sure my dad Tom and...
Van Morrison to Release 40th Studio Album This Week
The Prophet Speaks is Van Morrison’s 40th studio album and will be released on December 7th on Caroline International. This fourteen track album follows a recent run of hugely acclaimed albums (Roll With The Punches, Versatile and You’re Driving Me Cra...
Actors Robert Redford & Sissy Spacek Fire Both Barrels In “Old Man & A Gun”
By Brad Balfour Director David Lowery’s “The Old Man & the Gun” is much more than a simple crime drama — it’s also legendary actor Robert Redford’s last film he’ll ever star in, or so he has declared. But besides...