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...excesses." England's Queen Victoria visited five years in a row for a couple of months each winter, along with 60 staff. After World War I a series of setbacks - the Great Depression, German occupation, local corruption scandals - took their toll, even as sunbathing became fashionable and ordinary folk began flocking to the Côte d'Azur in the summer. Now, asserts the generally optimistic Kanigel, Nice has all the woes of mass tourism - traffic jams, polluted beaches, collapsing sewage systems and a mur de beton, or concrete wall, of hotels and apartment blocks that have compromised the Riviera...
...imagine Beckett grooving to DAVID BAERWALD. From his days as half of the '80s pop duo David + David to his gig co-writing Sheryl Crow's Tuesday Night Music Club, Baerwald has written about the misery of life and the imperative to go on. On Here Comes the New Folk Underground, his first album in 10 years, Baerwald remains the prince of rain, singing "Love is eternal as long as it lasts/ Good times come, then they pass." The lyrical dourness is leavened by a great shock of musical energy. Baerwald moves among roots, gospel, pop, rock and even cabaret...
...owners, Bob and Rae Anne Donlin tried to convert the space, which had been run on a non-profit educational charter, into a bookstore called Passim. But the demand for folk music never died down, and they soon found themselves “forced into booking music again,” according to Smith. The Donlins were soon doing so well, they at one point turned Bruce Springsteen down...
Club Passim has been open in its latest guise since 1994 as a folk and acoustic music haven. Like House of Blues, it has concerts every night, as well as a Sunday brunch show. But at Club Passim, all the shows are meant to be enjoyed over a non-alcoholic vegetarian or vegan meal...
...those who signed up a few weeks ago was that week’s Wednesday night headliner, folk singer Christopher Williams, who said he used to go to open mikes before his career started taking...