Betty Buckley "For The Love of Broadway"

Posted by Mondschein.

Betty Buckley: "For the Love of Broadway!" at Feinstein's at Loew's Regency, February 2, 2010

Kicking off a month-long run at Feinstein's, Miss Buckley is back to singing a more familiar book from the Broadway canon.  Apparently, she has steered into a very significant jazz mode over the last few years.  Based on her performance last week, she hasn't left that path.  While the titles are all from contemporary and classic musicals of this century and the last, her style is still jazz, through and through.

Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Posted by David

This past Sunday I attended a fundraiser in the West Village, just south of Washington Square Park.

The event was called Teddy Cares and is hosted and driven by Ruby Rims. Ruby is a drag queen, by the way, for those of you readers in Topeka.

Teddy Cares raises money for the Actors Fund AIDS Program. The event also supports Judson Memorial Church, where the performances were held. Judson is also deeply involved with the community and provides life-saving programs to any and all who need them.

I was there because of Ruby. I was first exposed - I don't think there is a better word for it - to Ruby when I was a regular at Eighty Eights, a long lamented piano bar that I have spoken of previously. Ruby was part of the inner circle at Eighty Eights that welcomed me almost immediately from the first night I happened upon the place. I, too, became a regular and in the years following the bar's demise, annual events such as this became the primary time we saw each other. [More, with pics and video, after the jump.]