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It comes complete with an attempt to launch a word (“philanthropreneurs,” and, um, keep trying) and, best of all, a graphic titled “Bono’s Beneficent Universe.” Just in time for Bloomberg’s $150 million help-the-poor initiative, the Times unloads a “Giving” section.The artists (and critics) who have already emerged - like New York’s own David Edelstein - will be interviewed or sit on panels at the Graduate Center at CUNY. For the remainder of the weekend, Joe’s Pub will host other performers like Morley and Martin Luther. Barron’s family supports his endeavors, and Joe’s Pub was filled with kin, right down to a third cousin, twice removed. Barron has been jailed for busking on the streets of London and Chicago, and he founded the Coalition for the Advancement of Street Arts. But last night, Barron and his backing band (including a bassist who looked like Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter movies) were busy emerging as artists.
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The tradition began in 2001, either in celebration of the paper’s 150th anniversary or in competition with The New Yorker, which began hosting a similar event the year before.
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The launch of a new monthly concert series is only part of the Times’ annual “Arts & Leisure Weekend,” running through Sunday, which this year features a slew of artistic heavyweights (Joan Didion, Mikhail Baryshnikov) singing, reading, and talking about being great, being artistic, and being great at being artistic.
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Nicholas Barron, a Chicago-based singer-songwriter, kicked off the New York Times’ “Emerging Artists” series with an intro by, of all people, James Taylor. If there were ever a love child spawned by Vince Vaughn and Dave Matthews just go with us here he was performing last night at Joe’s Pub. And so it fell to poor emcee David Cross to make light of things.Įmerging Artists Not as Interesting as Established Artists A barbershop quartet sang a cappella between bits. Jason Trachtenburg (of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players) led a hoarse, out-of-tune sing-along of “World’s Best Friend” (his wife and daughter were absent) that had most audience members heading for the bar for depressingly tiny $8 drinks. A much-hyped “iPod Battle” found the participants standing awkwardly onstage for ten minutes before they were able to kick off the “battle,” which culminated with a pair of oddballs in gladiator masks sprinkling glitter on each other to the tune of “Oh Yeah” by Yello. Would-be attendees stood for hours in the cold before being informed that the “day-of” tickets allegedly available at the sold-out show were a myth, the sound system was plagued with technical problems all night long, and, during the long wait for sets by scene favorites Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, El-P, and Silversun Pickups, attendees sat through a succession of odd, intermittently successful acts, very few of which went off without a significant delay. The 2007 PLUG Independent Music Awards at Irving Plaza Saturday night were an appropriately “indie” mess.