BOWERY BALLROOM 6 Delancey St. (212-533-2111) — Nov. 9: Dr. Dog, from Philadelphia, makes endearing trifles full of shaggy guitars and heart-grabbing three-part harmonies; its live shows draw a dedicated crowd.
The throngs pouring into museums have little, if any, connection to the small, dedicated crowd of people who follow the contemporary art scene, and who tend to believe that museums have as much to do with supporting the life of art as the circus does with propagating wildlife.
Stewart Cink, the mad Twitterer (he currently has 341,000 followers), was greeted with cascades of "Go Stewie!" on No. 5. Zach Johnson, winner of the 2007 Masters, had a dedicated crowd on No. 4, but he was intent on practicing, befitting his serious demeanor.
Kickstarter, created by Perry Chen, Charles Adler and Yancey Strickler, is the largest website dedicated to crowd-funding creative projects.
"You get a dedicated listening crowd here, and that separates it from most of the other places where I've performed".
Last Friday, appearing in Manhattan as the star attraction of a WhoYork fan event at the Stone Creek Tavern, on East 27th Street, he took questions from a dedicated Whovian crowd.
Chromatic's grand plans are greeted with skepticism from the dedicated chip crowd.
It will no doubt sell well to the dedicated PS3 crowd and will probably even convince some Wii owners craving a deeper experience to make the expensive upgrade.
This might not be enough to please the dedicated theatre crowd, but no matter; if diehard Rocky fans leave the show enraptured, word-of-mouth and repeat visits could provide the Winter Garden with yet another long-running superhit.
Now sold out for its final runs, Kink.com and Vau de Vire's erotic fear experiment has proved successful with San Francisco's dedicated kink crowd as well as what Gaines describes as "bridge and tunnel people that come into the city and want to be titillated and scared".
