Mexican-American pianist and composer Arturo O’Farrill will be the man of the hour tomorrow night when he leads the kick-ass African Latin Jazz Orchestra during two nights of performances at Symphony Space on the Upper West Side. The concerts come just as O’Farrill — whose Orchestra is based at Jazz @ Lincoln Center — returns [...]
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WE CAN'T WAIT TO TRY: Inakaya
Tomorrow marks the debut of Inakaya, the first New York restaurant from master Japanese chef Kozo Matsuo. Located in the new — and newly leveraged — Renzo Piano-designed New York Times building, the 3,000 square foot eatery is anchored around the grill-in-your-face robata concept. Diners peruse a central eight foot high ice shelf packed with [...]
UPDATE: Shalom/Salaam
Readers from yesterday will recall our attempts to interview singers Noa (above) and Mira Awad for Time magazine — the (Jewish and Arab) Israelis who will represent their nation at Eurovision in Moscow in May. We’ll, we just got off the phone with them both and can report they are as eloquent and elegant (at [...]
Giving Peace a Chance
Finally some good news coming out of the Holy Land. Israeli Arab singer Mira Awad (above) has been selected to represent Israel in this May’s Eurovision contest in Moscow. It is the first time Israel has ever selected an Arab to sing on its behalf and Awad — a local stage and TV starette — [...]