Features


Crowdfunding: The Do’s, the Don’ts, the Virtues, the Liabilities

Doing What You Have to Do to Get Your Work Out There When James Beaman decided to return...

Bistro Bits: Kazan Shazam! With Re-Released Albums, the World Gets a Burst of Vintage Lainie

On February 3, 1965, singer-actor Lainie Kazan stepped onto the stage of Manhattan’s Winter Garden Theatre for the...

Bistro Bits: Rolling Back the Years—with Mary Hopkin, Dory Previn, and Eydie Gormé

The songs, sonatas, and symphonies we gravitate to early in our lives set in motion our own particular...

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Club Reviews


Club Review: Can Yasar—”A Turkish Rhapsody”

Can (pronounced “John”) Yasar had a dream growing up in his native Turkey with which many of us...

Club Review: “The Rocky Horror Skivvies Show”

The Skivvies are the brainchild of Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley, singer/actor/musicians with many Broadway and theatre credits...

Club Review: Shannon Daley—”Love and Let Die: Confessions of a Bond Girl”

In her breezy yet ambitious Don’t Tell Mama show, Love and Let Die: Confessions of a Bond Girl...

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Album Reviews


Bistro Bits: Special-Case Albums—New Releases by Minnock and Aloisio/Pallatto

Today for Bistro Bits, I’m having a look at two recent album releases, both of which fall into...

Bistro Bits: Jazz Babies 2024–New Recordings by Russell and Mason, Loar, and Levy/Vannatter

A couple of weeks ago, writer Lisa Jo Sagolla discussed a number of new recordings on this site....

Album Reviews: A Pleasurable Trio of Recent Releases

Reviewing recordings by leading cabaret vocalists may be the heavenliest job on earth, as this latest batch of...

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