The night after we saw a loud and violent Julius Caesar at the RSC's temporary theater its Victorian-era venue reopened last fall–I awoke early and walked the few winding blocks to the birthplace.
Hailed the "World's Finest Ballroom", its walls housed a dynamite Swing-Era venue, known for giving birth to the Lindy Hoppers and standing strongly against racial discrimination.
Despite the occasional noise complaints from some neighborhood residents, Los Globos since has established itself as a shuffle-era venue that showcases a range of genres, including house, dancehall, ska, hip-hop, cumbia, punk and industrial noise, while still regularly scheduling Latin nights.
Everyone likes to consider themselves club scene prognosticators, especially in a confusing era where venues are closing left and right while electronic music remains culturally dominant.
But the real heart of the book lies in Rotella's empathy for vanished eras and venues, like the small stretch of downtown Brooklyn that, in 1931, housed eleven theatres.
But it was the Giuliani era, and some venue owners were starting to realize how strict they were going to have be to stay in business.
Our home is New York City, one of the creative capitals of the world, affording access to exceptional talent pools and locations, major research collections, and the opportunity to see films from every country and era at the many venues dedicated to film culture.
This was the most joyously louche venue of that era, then situated at King's Cross, in what had briefly been, of all things, an ape house, the Primatarium.
Favorite venue from the era and why?
This was the third Open of the modern era for Shinnecock, and Open venues through 2010 have already been selected.
The collection, which includes pieces by Ai Weiwei, Wolfgang Tillmans, Thomas Ruff and Klara Lidén, is on display in an unusual venue - a Nazi-era bunker.
