What began as a living room Salon dedicated to bringing new work into the public eye forty years ago in the East Village apartment of writer and poet Miguel Algarin, is now one of the country's most highly respected...
Run, don't walk - to the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and catch the uber-talented Sarah Jones in "New Year, Nuyorican." Beginning on Jan. 17th, she'll present fourteen workshop performances at the intimate space where she got her start. Her one-woman...
There's a special event at the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe tonight: an appearance by the groundbreaking playwright and poet Ntozake Shange. Earlier this fall, she released a new novel, Some Sing, Some Cry," a 600 page family saga written with...
Infamous story-telling "hub," The Moth, is back at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe this evening with their monthly StorySLAM. This month's rather broad theme is "Science." Story-tellers are selected out of a hat (go early to put your name in)...
What's on our calendar for the weekend? Well, we have our (previously noted) Weekend Music Picks, shows from Joey Arias and Kate Clinton, a festival of Art in Odd Places and -- a few other items of note:
This week's...
The Moth's storySLAM series is back at Nuyorican Poets Cafe tonight. This month's theme - "Narrow Escapes." They limit stories to five minutes, and ten stories are heard. The stories are scored by three teams of audience-member judges,...
SummerStage is celebrating it's 25th anniversary and City Parks Foundation is dedicating the season to "several artistic movements that were developed in New York City neighborhoods and to key artists who created - or were inspired by - those...
Actress Elaine Del Valle is performing her award winning one-woman show, Brownsville Bred: Growing up Elaine, tonight at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe at 7:30 pm. The show, "an autobiographical account of a Latina's coming of age in 1980's Brownsville...
