VOTE # 225, BRIARCLIFF MANOR NY
What the hell happened to the levers?
WHAT’S AT STAKE
Nobody ever said it better than John F. Kennedy, speaking before a rally in Boston Garden on November 7, 1960, the day before the national elections: “This is an important campaign, because it involves a high and distinguished office, an office which is given great responsibilities and great powers by the Constitution, and also by …
LUCKY TO BE UNIMPRESSED
We hosted Sandy, the Storm of the Century here this past week, and frankly, we pretty much missed it. Oh, we had impressively high winds that we could see thrashing the trees across the street all day. And yes, we lost phone/cable/internet service for three whole days. But in terms of personal impact, we’ve had …
A GARTH STRATEGY FOR OBAMA?
Why isn’t President Obama running harder against Congress? The president was effective in Tuesday’s debate, but he won only narrowly, even though Mitt Romney revealed an ugly side of himself that fits all the stereotypes about bullying bosses. Everything about the way he handled himself underscored the old “I love firing people” image. When he …
IZOD CENTER, EAST RUTHERFORD NJ, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3RD, 8:00 PM
(from newyorker.com) Leave it to Lucinda Williams, whose astringent lyrics have proven her capable of leaving no romantic notion unexamined, to ask the question of the hour. Sitting backstage at the Izod Center, in East Rutherford, before doing her turn at “Love for Levon,” the all-star tribute concert for Levon Helm, who died last April …
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IZOD CENTER, EAST RUTHERFORD NJ, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3RD, 7:00 PM
Meeting the media before the Love for Levon concert. Counter-clockwise from above: Allan Toussaint; My Morning Jacket; Dierks Bentley; the Clown Prince of Rock Joe Walsh, and the Dowager Princess; Ray LaMontagne; David Bromberg schmoozes, Johns Hiatt and Prine Fuse News; Lucinda Williams is fascinated by me; the great Garth Hudson.
IZOD CENTER, EAST RUTHERFORD NJ, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3RD, 5:30 PM
Rehearsing the finale at the Love for Levon concert. Above, from left: John Hiatt, John Prine, Grace Potter, Roger Waters, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams. Below left: John Mayer, Amy Helm, Teresa Williams, Larry Campbell. Below right: Gregg Allman, Bruce Hornsby, Warren Haynes and Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket Above: Dierks …
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LEVON HELM’S BARN, WOODSTOCK NY, OCTOBER 1, 3 PM
I sent a good part of a glorious day in Woodstock, reporting an article about the upcoming Levon Helm tribute concert. I got some great interviews with Larry Campbell, Teresa Williams, Levon’s rather groovy manager Barbara O’Brien, and the estimable Don Was, and got to listen in on some amazing rehearsals. Above, Byron Issacs, Teresa …
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DON’T BOGART THAT JOINT
This photo was taken on August 5, 1977, in the San Francisco offices of Rolling Stone on the last closing night (issue No. 247) before the magazine relocated to New York. From left to right: Virginia Team, Susan Vermazen, Susan Hemphill, Wendy Stahl, unidentified, Nancy Butkus, Mary Shanahan. I don’t know any of these people …