There Should Be Sunshine After Rain

"There should be sunshine after rain," Mark Knopfler sings on "Why Worry."

Last night, at the “City Stories: Stoops to Nuts” storytelling show at Cornelia Street Café,  rollercoaster feelings rushed through me. I invite great tellers and songsmiths to come perform.  Artists, I admire for their talent and the power to engage me totally in their work. With the audience, I get to sit, listen, enjoy and participate in the show. I thoroughly enjoy curating this event.

Thank you, Cris Beam, Michele Carlo, Crystal Durant, Taffy Jaffe, Lianne Smith & David Terhune for a great show, I deeply admire your talent and hope you came back next year.  Lianne & David, I love your guitar work.

As always, thank you, Steve and Tiffany for making us welcome and keeping the customer satisfied. 

The West Village after dark is a dreamland. Here are photos from last night's show and my early arrival walking Carmine, Leroy & Bleecker Streets.

Next City Stories: Stoops to Nuts show is Tues, December 13th @ 6pm.

The artists:  Barbara Aliprantis, Kelly Wallace Barnhill, Carl Kissin, Mary Lee Kortes, Elizabeth Rowe & Amanda Thorpe. 

It will be a doozy!

Skateaway, That's All

Wednesday, I bundled up and biked through Central Park. Afterwards, I found a few pictures/prints that were in my memory of ice skaters from the 1800s' on the frozen Central Park Lake.

The four photo/print/paintings below, that are not my photos, are in order: skaters in front of the Dakota, which you can purchase from The New York Times Store, a small group in front of the Dakota with a guy in a bowler smoking on the right (no attribution), a Currier and Ives print from the 1860s, and last, Moonlight Skating, an 1878 painting by John O"Brian Inman with Bethesda Fountain in the background.

Every time, I go through the park old scenes pop up, then I see the same place now, and it's equally pretty and I see something new I missed before. The park still shines 150 years later.

Listened to Skateaway while I rode. Making Movies, Dire Straits, a perfect album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAYcBNAu6ik