“I’m gonna fall in love with you, you said / I denied you at first, then I broke and bent / because you are the one – and it hit me” Stephanie Carlin sings on Tree of Series, the debut album from Avidya & the Kleshas. Out of context, this lyric may seem saccharine and sentimental but when you hear the …

I walked into Another Life expecting to be brainwashed by left wing liberal proselytizing. After all, the play was being hosted by an “experimental” off-off Broadway theater in the East Village and its subject matter confronted the George W-era U.S. torture program. But the play’s solid foundation in facts (the three torture stories in the play were based on real …

You no longer need to leave your house to see the world’s best bands in concert. TV programs like MTV Unplugged, VH1 Storytellers, Austin City Limits, and Palladia have been bringing live music into living rooms for years. Thanks to advancements in video production and Internet streaming technology, cable broadcasts have progressed into online webcasts like those done regularly by …

All I know about Andy Warhol I learned from the album Songs for Drella, the movie Basquiat and his brief, fictional cameo in Oliver Stone’s The Doors. I’m the kind of person that the Metropolitan Museum of Art had in mind when they curated the recently closed exhibit, “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, 50 Years”: someone too star struck by Brillo …

The first time I went to the Glasslands Gallery I almost walked right by it. It’s not because the building is an unmarked warehouse on an otherwise dark and residential street (I’ve become accustomed to such things in Williamsburg), but rather because the people gathered outside for the show on Dec. 13th weren’t as stereotypically hipster as I expected, given …