Central Park Updates
The Wizard Of Oz Screened In Central Park
Flying Monkeys in the heart of Manhattan? Oh my! Yes, the Yellow Brick Road is winding through Central Park, Tuesday, September 29th. Netflix is sponsoring a 70th anniversary screening of the 1939 classic, “The Wizard Of Oz”. The showing is free and is taking place at Rumsey Playfield, the site of the annual SummerStage festival.
Feel Free: A National Parks Celebration in Central Park
Feel Free: A National Parks Celebration in Central Park featuring Carole King, Alison Krauss and the Counting Crows
Pavement Reuniting For Concert At SummerStage In 2010
Pavement Reuniting For Concert At SummerStage In 2010
Bard For The Birds
The starling is only mentioned once by Shakespeare, in a passage which shows that in his time this bird, which possesses remarkable powers of imitation, was taught to say words. The fiery Hotspur declares that although the King had forbidden him to speak of Mortimer...
Storm Cleanup Goes On In Central Park
The massive cleanup is continuing this week in Central Park, where the severe storm of Aug. 18 battered landscapes and brought down more than 250 trees. The storm lasted less than 30 minutes, but left areas of the Park’s north end devastated. It also left months of...
"The Bacchae" at the Delacorte in Central Park
JoAnne Akalaitis’ production of Euripides’ “The Bacchae” at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park is an interestingly realized production.
Summer Thunderstorm Wreaks Havoc in Central Park
Over three hundred trees, some over a century old, lay snapped in half and uprooted throughout Central Park today after a severe thunderstorm with winds as high as 80 mph crashed through New York City last night.
Bettye LaVette Rocks SummerStage
Bettye Lavette’s musical abilities span an eclectic range of genres that run from blues to disco to rock to soul and country. Last Friday she put on a performance at Central Park’s SummerStage Festival that ran the gamut – and back again.
From Pale Male to Pan Am – An Airport In Manhattan’s Central Park
Well it wasn’t the absurdity of the idea that immediately tagged the Manhattan Airport Foundation as a fictitious group. There have been a raft of idiotic suggestions on how to use Central Park since its inception. These included a race track, artillery range, public housing, large scale amusement park and, my personal favorite, a wild game preserve. What marked this as a well designed hoax was the fact that the website – manhattanairport.org – stated that they already had significant funding.
Thoth Arrested In Central Park
Anyone who visits Bethesda Terrace in Central Park is familiar with Thoth, a street performer that has made the center of the park his personal stage for years now. His performances evoke responses ranging from amazement to annoyance – last Sunday’s performance met with an entirely new reaction – his arrest.
