by Alice Teeple | Dec 7, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Music
By Alice Teeple Photos by Alice Teeple What sounds blare from passing cars as you walk down the street? The wham-boom of eardrum-shattering bass. Monotonous mumble rap. The prefab autotune wasteland beckoning erstwhile partygoers. The dreamy music of Blake Charleton...
by Grace Capobianco | Dec 6, 2019 | Events, Featured, Music, NYC
Christmas music brings back sweet memories and adds a feeling of nostalgia to the season. This year Downtown had a chance to sit with Giada Valenti, an award-winning singer and songwriter, born and raised in Venice, Italy. She is best known for her stunning...
by Alice Teeple | Dec 5, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Music
By Alice Teeple Photos by Alice Teeple Virginia Marcs is a force to be reckoned with in her stunning, unsettling new release, Wild. This collaboration with famed MTV VMA award-winning director Alexander Hammer (Beyoncé, Lizzo) unleashes a spectacular recollection of a...
by Alice Teeple | Nov 29, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Music
By Alice Teeple Photos by Alice Teeple Christine Smith takes a drag from her well-deserved cigarette outside the Bowery Electric. She’s just wrapped a spectacular solo performance for her sophomore album release, Meet Me On The Far Side Of A Star. It’s fitting this...
by Alice Teeple | Nov 27, 2019 | Culture, Entertainment, Featured
By Alice Teeple Photos by Alice Teeple Death is not a subject one wishes to consider during the Yule season, but Adrian Sexton stares it down with her new one-woman show, DEATH! A Macabre Cabaret, premiering this weekend at Solocom. The Titian-haired Sexton is a...
by Dan Metz | Nov 18, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Movies
Photo credit Josh Beech Oliver Trevena is a British actor and longtime host of the interview show Young Hollywood. In the two years after leaving the show, he has been part of more than a half dozen projects, two of which have already been released. In 2018, he had a...
