The Late John Lennon Would Have Celebrated His 80th Birthday This October

The Late John Lennon Would Have Celebrated His 80th Birthday This October

Reflections by Brad Balfour On October 9th, John Lennon, the former superstar Beatle, and genius singer/songwriter, would have been 80 years old. Born in 1940 at Liverpool Maternity Hospital to Julia and Alfred Lennon – a merchant seaman of Irish...
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Choir Master Jim Papoulis: Traveling the Globe Sharing Music with Kids

Choir Master Jim Papoulis: Traveling the Globe Sharing Music with Kids

Interview by Mike Greenly In my many years of working with musicians either as collaborators, whether for corporate projects or the public, I’ve met some major world-class talents. Jim Papoulis is one of them — respected globally for his mastery...
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Astoria’s The Strand Smokehouse Offers A Local Down-Homey Place for Meat and Mead Lovers

Astoria’s The Strand Smokehouse Offers A Local Down-Homey Place for Meat and Mead Lovers

by Brad Balfour The Strand Smokehouse 25-27 Broadway Astoria, NY 11106 info@thestrandsmokehouse.com 718-440-3231 Hours Tuesday -Thursday: 4pm – 12am Friday: 4pm – 1am Saturday: 12pm – 2am Sunday: 12pm – 12am Okay so maybe it took my lov...
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Gift Guide for the Perplexed and Preposterous — Oh I mean, Me

Gift Guide for the Perplexed and Preposterous — Oh I mean, Me

  As witness the image above, my last minute gift guide is peculiar, idiosyncratic and incomplete. So far, as far as I’m concerned there’s one concert I must go to that is this Bauhaus show. One of rock’s darkest of...
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Master Deejay Tony Smith Makes Music HIs Life and Love In NYC and Beyond

Master Deejay Tony Smith Makes Music HIs Life and Love In NYC and Beyond

As the club music throbs with electronic beats and the harmonic patterns shift and change according to the desired BPM and the pleasures of the moment, master mixologist Tony Smith has made it his mission and life work — to...
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Tourism Ireland’s Chief Executive Niall Gibbons Waxes Enthusiastic About Travel to Eire

Tourism Ireland’s Chief Executive Niall Gibbons Waxes Enthusiastic About Travel to Eire

Tourism Ireland’s Chief Executive Niall Gibbons may be the most passionate Irishman ever, at least when it comes to getting people to visit the Emerald Isle. Responsible for marketing the island overseas, Gibbons has been enjoying a series of success...
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