From Australia with love
Jordie Lane follows in the great tradition of traveling folkies like Neil Young and Gram Parsons. Catch him while you can. Jordie Lane hears no evil, speaks none too. Growing up, my dad was a clown and my mom was a comedian, so the idea of performing wasn t foreign to me, says Australian folk-singer Jordie Lane. But the idea of being a rock star, I didn t even know what that was. Then, when he was 10, a new kid moved to Lane s school, sharing with him records by The Beatles, Van Morrison and The Boss, which began Lane s obsession with musicianship.
Richie Tienken, Whose Comedy Club Propelled Careers, Dies at 75
At the Comic Strip, which Mr. Tienken and two partners opened in 1976, Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld and many others made a lot of people laugh.
Richie Tienken onstage at the Comic Strip in Manhattan in an undated photo. He and two partners opened the club in 1976, and a long list of careers began or were advanced there.Credit.via Tienken family
March 6, 2021
Richie Tienken, a founder of the influential Manhattan comedy club the Comic Strip, where Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and countless other leading comics did some of their earliest work, died on Feb. 27 in Ridgewood, N.J. He was 75.
How I Got a Special Present From Rush
Anyone who has ever met me, or has been around me KNOWS that Rush is & always WILL BE my favorite band of all time. After the events that happened this week, I will forever have a new love &appreciation for them.
March 1st was the date of my 28th birthday & to celebrate the occasion, my girlfriend & her aunt made me a homemade Rush cake: A confetti cake with buttercream frosting & it was one of the BEST LOOKING cakes that my eyes have ever set upon.
Daniel Paulus
The custom made blue vinyl record with the Rush & Starman logo on the top of the cake, my name on the side. it was just incredible. So incredible I had to post this cake & share it online.