More Lost Downtown

by | Oct 5, 2009 | Conferences, Lost New York, Music | 1 comment

UPDATED WITH CORRECTED TIMESWe want to take special notice this week of a rapidly approaching conference co-organized by our colleague Sukhdev Sandhu, also to be held at NYU: Kiss Me Again: The Life and Legacy of Arthur Russell. The conference will take place...

Wild Combination

by | Dec 15, 2008 | Music, Neighborhood Scenes

I finally had a chance to see Matt Wolf’s much-acclaimed documentary on the avant-pop cult hero Arthur Russell, who died of AIDS in 1992 at age 40. He had been a key force downtown since the early 70s, when he was the musical director of The Kitchen, one of old...