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...twentysomethings were left to stake new claim in another territory, the frothy world of Friends. That's where Kevin Smith stepped in. Taking a cue from Whit Stillman's so-so trilogy of yuppie angst (Metropolitan was delightfully disaffected, but did anyone really care about Last Days of Disco?), Smith began a series of post-yuppie angst-noir with 1994's Clerks, a grimly hilarious movie that combined Seinfeld's inane blabber and outlandishly tragicomic situations with more angst than you could scrub out with a bar of Fight Club's Paper Street soap. After that came Mallrats and Chasing...
...late partner Steve Rubell (whose family today runs its own hotels in Miami) opened Morgans in midtown Manhattan. It was both a professional and a personal reclamation project. The two spent slightly more than a year in prison for tax evasion following the collapse of their disco empire; soon after, they ventured into a more respectable branch of the hospitality industry. "People expected to see go-go dancers in the lobby," cracks Schrager, who is married with two young daughters. Yet Morgans was a quiet refuge from the city's hustle and bustle that quickly attracted a following from...
What you missed: disco-folk fusion, sweet trombone playing, a funked-out "In the Mood" and good Irish beer. The Humming rocked The Burren, a traditional pub in Davis Square, last Thursday night, outgrooving the Irish band in the next room and sending fans crowding into the street for an acappella encore of "Happy Trails." If this band's name doesn't sound familiar to you now, it will be in the very near future. Playing over 80 shows a year and expecting to put out their own album this spring, The Humming is poised to hit the big time...
Self-described American disco-folk, The Humming is also jazz-influenced, with a twist of reggae. This versatile and harmonious band has taken American rock-and-roll where it should be, away from whiny bands to musicianship and joy. Each band member is a real artist in his own right, and together Ian Steams, Reggie Martell, Ty Gibbons '00 and Frisbay create a unique sound. It is hard to succinctly describe a song set that included jazz breakdowns, a slide didgeridoo, the drummer on vocals and a jig. Some lounge, some first wave ska and some B.B. King slipped through...
...latest entry in New York City's alternative-theater boomlet, this disco version of A Midsummer Night's Dream takes place in a downtown club where the audience stands while the performers mingle, gyrate, sing '70s hits and enact something vaguely resembling a play by William Shakespeare. The guys are played by girls in wigs and mustaches; the fairies by guys in loincloths and glitter; and Bottom is a pair of street dudes who together are transformed into the show's title ass. Shakespeare must be spinning, but the retro high spirits are hard to resist...