Shore Fire is a Fan of the GRAMMYS – Are You?

January 29, 2010 By Elizabeth Lutz 1 Comment

My excitement can’t be contained – I love the interactive GRAMMY site and the ability to make a portrait from all our favorite nominees – www.wereallfans.com

Here’s a Shore Fire Media portrait I created in seconds with the following Artist DNA. It looks cool as a picture, but click on the image to see a full motion multimedia show:


Zac Brown Band, Maxwell, Ledisi, Bruce Springsteen, Neko Case, Elvis Costello, Booker T. Jones, John Fogerty, Brian Setzer Orchestra, Levon Helm, Mavis Staples, Susan Tedeschi, Diana Krall, Smithsonian Folkways and Loudon Wainwright III

Don’t miss Maxwell and Zac Brown Band when they perform on the 52nd GRAMMYs Sunday January 31st at 8pm/7pm Central on CBS.

Your turn – please share your pages in the comments – I’d love to see them!!

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A most special birthday for Diana

January 27, 2010 By Nick Baily Leave a Comment

Yes, it was finally time for the big one, the landmark birthday, the one everyone’s been waiting for. It’s been a long time coming but our very own Diana D’Angelo has hit the big twenty-one, and is ready to take a few writers out for drinks. As you can see she was grinning ear to ear for the occasion:


Here’s Diana as she got ready to blow out her birthday… well, pastry collection, which may be a first for an afternoon Shore Fire birthday celebration, flanked by the front of Chris Taillie and the back of Andy Silva. The pastries were spread among the staff with joy, partly aided by the intrepid tong-wielder whose prominently displayed arm is obscuring Mark Satlof, just after bestowing some morsels on Matt Hanks, seated to his left.


And as the sugar and good conversation sets in, the staff eases back to celebrate another wonderful year with the lovely Ms. D’Angelo, at far right, with (counterclockwise) Chris Taillie, Carrie Tolles, Nora Lyons, Rob Krauser, Mr. Hanks, Mr. Satlof, and a glimpse of our fearless leader, Shore Fire President Marilyn Laverty, peeking into the photo at far left:


Happy Birthday Diana!!

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Me and Underdog: The Brilliance of Suzanne Muldowney

January 27, 2010 By Mark 1 Comment

In the late 80s/early 90s a mysterious Underdog roamed the streets of New York. I would see this lady dressed in full on costume here and there and wonder, and I knew her from her appearances on the brilliant late night public access show Beyond Vaudeville, probably the craziest talk show ever to air. Were they putting us on? You just never knew…the host Frank Hope was so deadpan and so obviously enraptured by his guest, themselves an eccentric collection of semi-b list celebrities (Soupy Sales, Joe Franklin) and work-a-day oddballs. Underdog fit right in. (I bought a DVD best of Beyond Vaudeville and it’s even better than I remembered. No rose colored glasses here). Later on I heard her on the Howard Stern show, but in recent years I’ve lost track of Underdog. A quick search shows that her legend lives on and she’s still active, though, sadly, recovering from a serious cat bite. And when I found this old photo of me and Underdog (Suzanne Muldowney) taken at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade many years ago, I was reminded of how thrilled I was to meet her at the time. Scroll down below too for a youtube clip of Underdog’s greatest hits as well as a clip from just last month.

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Another Talented Satlof, Now Out of Retirement

January 25, 2010 By Mark Leave a Comment
The TV directing and producing credits of Ron Satlof – my uncle – run as long as your arm. Mentioning 70s and 80s classics like the A-Team, Battlestar Galactica, Hawaii Five-0, Perry Mason, Quincy ME, Charlie’s Angels, The Dukes of Hazzard, McLoud, The Six Million Dollar Man and my favorite Get Christy Love barely scratch the surface of Ron’s TV work, while in the film world it’s hard to beat an Assistant Director credit on Mean Streets plus a cameo in the classic Scorcese film (as a bartender). Ron retired several years ago, to Florida, but he came out of retirement over the last couple of years to write, produce and direct the new film Misconceptions, a funny and poignant dramedy about a southern fundamentalist woman carrying a baby for a two gay men from Boston. I caught up with Ron at the opening of the film in New York City on Friday. The theater was packed and the crowd appreciative. Ron and his co-writer Ira Pearlstein stayed afterward to answer audience questions. It’s playing in NYC at the Quad Theater through Thursday, so this is a chance to run on down and see the film on the big screen.


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Scott Brown’s eHarmony commercial

January 25, 2010 By Chris Brudzinski Leave a Comment

I have crazy friends. And they are very funny. This all started because I wrote a post on Facebook begging my comedian friends to do a parody of those eHarmony commercials. They called my bluff and did this parody which features 29 dimensions of hilarity.

http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf

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A Little Saturday Afternoon Amusement

January 23, 2010 By Nick Baily Leave a Comment

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Doonsebury on contemporary music education

January 22, 2010 By bgilmartin Leave a Comment

Had to post this gem. In today’s Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau comes close to imagining campus life at Scott Booker’s Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Click on the image to read:

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If This Doesn’t Make You Smile…

January 22, 2010 By rkrauser Leave a Comment

As we wrap up another week, I thought I’d post this incredible video of PS22 students doing a version of ‘Empire State of Mind.” Hard to keep the smile off my face watching it.

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The Swell Season at Radio City – Inside & Out

January 22, 2010 By Matt Hanks Leave a Comment

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Here’s one way to deter scalpers.

On a moments notice, Glen and Marketa of the Swell Season – along with other members of Glen’s band The Frames, and opener Josh Ritter – decided to go outside and play for fans as they filed into the sold-out Swell Season show at Radio City Music Hall Tuesday night. (That’s Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons on sax, too).

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry watching a scalper trying to sell tix as the evening’s performers put on a free show just a few feet away.

It was perhaps my favorite moment in an awesome week of Swell Season activity that included a taping for Letterman, a show to benefit Haiti at City Winery, and much more.

Come back soon, guys!

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Costello’s Show is a Spectacle here in NYC

January 20, 2010 By Mark 3 Comments

My kids and I stumbled across a massive display of posters advertising Elvis Costello’s Sundance show “Spectacle,” right in the heart of the Times Square subway station a week or so ago. There’s at least 15 large posters in a row, so massive that I came up the stairs and stopped short in my tracks it was so impressive…and as of yesterday, it was still there. Wow. Then today, I gasped as I was reading the New York Times, flipped a page on the A section, and came across a full color full back page ad for tonight’s episode. Double Wow!


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