Craigslist Ad: Musician to play in restaurant We are a small & casual restaurant in downtown Vancouver and we are looking for solo musicians to play in our restaurant to promote their work and sell their CD. This is not a daily job, but only for special events which will eventually turn into a nightly event if we get positive response. More Jazz, Rock, & smooth type music, around the world and mixed cultural music. Are you interest...

The Free-Improv band, INNERrOUTe, has just released its 1st CD. It is available on CDBaby and iTunes among other outlets. Joe Vincent Tranchina is on keyboard along with Rick Savage on trumpet & flugelhorn, Bill McCrossen on bass & Michael D'Agostino on drums. All pieces are spontaneous group "compositions."

Uncorked Wines and Spirits, located at 9 Marshall Rd in West Milford, NJ, has recently expanded and renovated by moving into a new space two to three times its former size. When the vacated Hallmark store located next to Uncork’s old location opened up, owner Matt Mehta boldly bet that the new space would be good for his business and seized the opportunity. Sparing no expense renovating, he has provided a fresh, upscale décor  - adding wood ...

The Early Period: Fishermen and Farmers  The nearly eight hundred acres that comprise the former Mid-Orange Correctional Facility have for centuries been a place of dreams, imaginings and visions. For at least a millennium Algonkian-speaking Lenape Indians fished in the crystal clear waters of Wickham Lake, experimenting with new forms of weirs and netsinkers.  They fabricated light and swift canoes from bark that was stripped from the...

One month after my sixty-sixth birthday, and one month before retirement in 2009 I was on stage at Carnegie Hall. Along with other members of the Warwick Valley Chorale combined with choirs from across the USA, we were singing a tribute to Duke Ellington in honor of what would have been his 100th birthday. Getting to Carnegie Hall and less than a year later to Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall and soon after that to Greece to sing in the Festi...

Jay Friedman, age 41 Where are you from? I grew up most of my life on Long Island in Merrick. How did you end up in Warwick? I have an aunt and uncle who have been living here for maybe 35 years.  I was in the restaurant business for maybe 11 years, basically right out of college when I was 23. My family had a steel fabrication business that went under after forty years. I was playing in a band and my drummer’s father owned a little Medite...

"And while there has not been enough in the past, there will be more than enough in the future, for that is my current desire, and I am creator of my experience. There is more than enough. There is more than enough. THERE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH. There is more than enough! There is more than enough!"  A New Beginning I - Handbook for Joyous Survival, Jerry and Esther Hicks "Our day in the Volt" began enroute to Country Chevrolet, where we were ...

It’s been more than two peaceful weeks since the last flood clean-up here in upstate New York. Cleaning up seems to have become a yearly ritual for me (I’ve cleaned up 3 floods this year alone), and I have a fairly secure job when flood time comes. Repeatedly I have been hired to clean-up a flooded basement that was once home to approximately 1500 books. It’s not something I look forward to, as the work entailed may be fairly unpleasant, almost ...