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November 26, 2015
Dylan’s Best NYC Shows
The next installment in my series for the Voice of best NYC shows is Mr. Dylan: HERE’S A LOOK BACK AT BOB DYLAN’S BEST NYC CONCERTS.
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November 25, 2015
Review of “The Ties That Bind” Documentary
I wrote about the new Springsteen documentary for Salon: Springsteen’s “Ties That Bind”: The new documentary goes deep into the “adult concerns” that fueled “The River”
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Related PostsSpringsteen & U2, World AIDS Day Concert, Times Square, December 1, 2014 On the 30th Anniversary of “Born in the USA” Drive All Night Concert Review: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Mohegan Sun Arena, May 17, 2014 Concert Review: Bruce Sprin...November 16, 2015
Patti Smith’s Journey to “Horses”
Rounding out the Patti Smith 2015 beat, I wrote this piece for Vulture on Patti’s road to rock and roll.
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Related PostsPatti Smith and Her Band, Webster Hall, 29 & 30 December 2013 Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, 12-3-12 Patti Smith: Camera Solo Patti Smith performs U2’s “Until The End of The World” live my best shows of 2011November 9, 2015
Patti Smith’s Most Memorable NYC Gigs
My latest for the Village Voice: PATTI SMITH’S MOST NOTABLE NEW YORK CITY GIGS. This was quite the research project / rabbit hole, but a very enjoyable one.
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Related PostsPatti Smith and Her Band, Webster Hall, 29 & 30 December 2013 Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, 12-3-12 Patti Smith: Camera Solo Patti Smith performs U2’s “Until The End of The World” live my best shows of 2011November 4, 2015
World Series Report
My story on going to the World Series is up at Bitter Empire.
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In Honor of the World Series…FREE Baseball Books!
In honor of the Mets’ triumphant victory to reach the World Series, I’m making my two baseball books available via Amazon Kindle for free this week.
A WHOLE NEW BALLGAME is a baseball novel, the story of a 20-something woman who finds comfort and solace in baseball as her carefully ordered world starts to unravel.
ONE GIRL, ONE TEAM, ONE CITY is a compilation of my six years of baseball blogging, beginning in 2006 and ending in 2012. metsgrrl.com remains the only female-run blog to ever b...
October 22, 2015
Patti Smith & Horses Turns 40
I went to Paris for the opening show of the tour, on Arthur Rimbaud’s birthday. I will write a longer more personal piece on it soon (like tomorrow) but here’s my report for the Village Voice. 
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Related PostsPatti Smith & Lenny Kaye, St. Mark’s Church, 2/9/11 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Night 2 NO WORDS Patti Smith: A Salute to Robert FrankOctober 9, 2015
New Writing In The Village Voice
Two pieces in the Voice today: a review of the Television show in Brooklyn last night, and the one I’m particularly proud of, a guide to the (mostly vanished) landmarks mentioned in Patti Smith’s Just Kids.
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Related PostsPatti Smith and Her Band, Webster Hall, 29 & 30 December 2013 Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Barclays Center, Brooklyn, 12-3-12 Patti Smith: Camera Solo Patti Smith performs U2’s “Until The End of The World” live my b...October 4, 2015
Two Nights With U2 In Berlin, 9-24 & 9-25-15
Wanting to see U2 in an arena in Europe managed to connect nicely with wanting to spend time in Berlin, so we traveled to see two of the four shows at the Mercedes-Benz Arena at the end of September. The queue outside was very international, with Poles, Finns and Russians (and their vodka bottles) heavily dominating the line.
The first night’s queue was a hot mess, with security deciding to hand out wristbands by standing outside the queue pen and yelling at people in German that they neede...
I Am A Donut: Berlin 2015
It all started in the spring of 2013, when we flew Air Berlin as a low-cost option to Scandinavia (recommended, btw). This meant changing plans at Tegel, not a big deal, except that the plane was late arriving and we missed our connection. Air Berlin put us on another flight, but it did make me check to see how often this happened, and if we might run into problems on the way back that could necessitate an overnight in Berlin. So, just in case, we sat down to write a quick list of things we...
