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Reopening of the Statue of Liberty

Mónica Boixeda

On the 29th of October 2012, Hurricane Sandy caused severe damages throughout the East Coast of the United States, while leaving destruction all around. Even one of the most powerful cities in the world, New York, succumbed to the power of Sandy. Photo: William Warby Streets, tunnels and even the subway got flooded because of the destructive effects of Sandy, which was followed by a power cut that leaved in darkness the city that never sleeps. Meanwhile, Liberty Island, the island that hosts the Statue of Liberty, got flooded too, but fortunately the statue itself was not damaged due to its height. However, on the island the water reached nearly 3 meters high and destroyed all boilers and electrical systems, causing great damages to all infrastructure and ports where ferries used to arrive, while making it impossible for people to reach the island. 9 months after the Sandy nightmare, which caused damages for more than $ 71 billion, Liberty Island reopened its doors to visitors. The big reopening day will be the 4th of July, the American Independence Day. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of France to New York in the nineteenth century, more specifically on the 28th of October 1886, and was build by architect Frederic Bartholdi. The statue symbolizes freedom (obviously) and welcome to all New York visitors, as it is the first thing you’ll if you arrive by boat. Tickets for the grand reopening are already on sale and can be purchased online. If you want to get the best places, like for example, a place on the crown, you should...

Beer Week in New York

salermico

The Big Apple is going to be transformed from next February 22 to March 3 in the “city of beer”. Beer Week in New York is one of the most anticipated festivals of the year. Forget the sophisticated Cosmopolitan cocktails Sex and the City and tightly grip your ice cold beer mug to taste some awesome beer It will be the fifth edition of this popular festival that has become very popular in recent years . The event was born a few years ago with the idea of promoting local beer consumption among the population of the city. Publicize all specialties and marks as well as places where you can eat to and its popularity even more, if possible, of this liquid gold. The newly formed Brewers Guild of New York is the organizer of this festival. This organization defends the craftsmanship of beer. It is anticipated that this it is the most spectacular of all the many that has been held so far. For now we can say that it made more than 300 events, including festivals, parties , meetings and lectures. The organization has prepared more than 150 offices located throughout the city of New York. The Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn is where the Beer Week in New York will start. The event will have the voices of the sponsors encourage all attendees to enjoy the beer festival. Since that moment all festival venues will open their doors to customers to provide quality beer at the best prices. One of the original ideas of this contest is to buy a beer passport. This passport will...

Kimbra Concert in New York

Elena Alvarez

The city that never sleeps is getting ready for the arrival of the New Zealander Kimbra, who will perform two concerts in one of the most iconic nightclubs in Manhattan. If you happen to be in New York on the 19th and 20th of October, this is definitely a must do for you. From her early childhood, Kimbra knew she was born to be an artist. At the age of 10, she composed her own songs and performed her first concerts. At the age of 12, she sang New Zealand’s national anthem before an audience of about 30,000 people, in the opening of a rugby match and received her first guitar as a gift from her father. Although she began taking music lessons, her voice has always been a prodigious natural talent that she has developed on her own. At the age of 17, she moved to Melbourne to pursue a career in the Music industry. During this period of intense creativity and live performances, the Belgian-Australian musician Gotye watched one of her concerts and invited her to collaborate with him on one of the singles from his album Making Mirrors. The song, titled Somebody I used to know (an international success, which Youtube video reached 300 million views), marked her launch to fame and boosted the release of her first studio album called Vows in August 2011. A self-produced album, recorded between studios and her home. She spent three years in the production of this album, which success was immediate. This 22-years-old girl has dazzled both, critics and audiences alike with her dense and deep voice that...

50 Years of James Bond

Miss Moci

There are few fictional characters as iconic and enigmatic as Agent 007, also known as James Bond. Given the “license to kill” he possesses extraordinary and by that deadly skills, is intelligent and through all of that maintains impeccable style. He embodies the erotic fantasy of many females and the ideal male image that men strive for. On occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first Bond movie Dr. No in 1962, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (MoMA) is presenting all Bond Movies throughout the month of October. Over the years several actors have slipped into the role of the smooth secret agent. Whether he was played by Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, or Daniel Craig the mysterious, sophisticated demeanor and his quiet confidence make him irresistible and serve him countless romantic yet short lived encounters on a silver plate. He always remained a loner and the only woman he will always be loyal to remains the Queen of England. But it is not just the personality of this fictional character (created by novelist Ian Fleming in 1953) that turns the movies in such a phenomenon. As already mentioned before the Bond style remains timeless, his desirable women, his gadgets and vehicles never fail to surprise, the music of the movies is just as anticipated as the movies and his signature drink vodka martini, shaken, not stirred is a detail that everyone associates with James Bond. It has to be a question of personal taste which of the Bond actors and/or movies is your favorite, but what remains without...

Slash Concert in New York

Alexa Ray

Everyone knows Slash: one of the best guitarist of all times and one of the founding members of the legendary rock band Guns N ´Roses. With them he recorded an album that has been considered among the best of the hard rock history: “Appetite for Destruction”. This album captured the best of an era of revolt as the decadent years in Los Angeles. By then (1986), the Guns N ´Roses lived a life on the edge, full of concerts, rehearsals and excesses. Slash’s talent would lead the band to become one of the biggest ones in the world. The multimillion-dollar contract, the band signed with Geffen Records, also allowed them to record a double album entitled “Use Your Illusion”, which not only proved that they very talented musicians, but also artists with very high pretensions. Of course, many have questioned the quality of both albums, but it was just a risky move that closed the eighties, before the grunge invaded the international radio stations. Slash on the other hand, after a few attempts in the mid-nineties to continue with Guns N ´Roses, formed his own band Slash´s Snakepit, with which he recorded two albums: “It´s Five O´Clock Somewhere” (1995) and “Ain’t life grand” (2000), with those albums he kept his blues and hard rock style, in a decade dominated by alternative rock. After this project, he founded the super band Velvet Revolver, in collaboration with Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum from the former Guns N ´Roses and the Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland. After several tours, two albums, and many problems with the drug addicted Weiland, the band...

The Vaccines in New York

Alexa Ray

When we talk about independent music, New York is probably one of the places that first comes to mind. With a tradition in underground or independent music that has been ongoing for over forty years, New York is the centre of attention of international indie rock. In New York, they know a lot about music, and it´s the place from where punk and hip hop have had some of their biggest representatives. In the same way, in New York you can find a knowledgeable musical crowd that´s dedicated to contemporary, minimalistic and experimental music. Not only is it popular music but the coming together of complex ways of making music, with urban styles and new musical interpretations of classics of soul, jazz, R&B, etc. That´s why the musical experience is totally enriching in New York for spectators and musicians alike. In New York, there are concerts 365 days a year. You just have to check magazines like Village Voice or the popular Brooklyn Vegan to find which music is being played around all the corners of the Big Apple. Among the organizing committees for important musical events in New York is Bowery Presents. They´re the owners of the Bowery Ballroom in the Bowery area, as well as the Williamsburg Music Hall in Brooklyn, two very popular places. These will be the venues for the concert of the famous The Vaccines, who will be playing live on the 10th of September (Bowery Ballroom) and on the 11th (Willamsburg Music Hall). Both venues are similar, being old ball rooms that have been renovated to hold the best international bands in...

Chicago the Musical in New York

Nancy Guzman

‘Chicago’ is one of the musicals that´s been on Broadway for the longest period of time. The musical was written by the journalist Maureen Dallas Watkins in 1924 and it was adapted in the 70s for a musical adaptation. Dallas Watkins began to write it after covering the trial of the murderers Beulah Annan and Belva Gaetner for the Chicago Tribune, achieving huge popularity with her chronicles on the sordidness of this story of lust, violence, corruption and adultery that had attractive elements for a theatre play, which took her to write one. The story reached the hands of Gwen Verdon, who read it and saw the potential it had for a music, asking her husband, Bob Fosse, to produce it. Fosse quickly became interested and asked Dallas Watkins to authorize an adaptation, without managing to convince her despite his insistence on various occasions. In 1969, after the death of the journalist, Verdon and Fosse were left with the rights and finally managed to produce the musical. Fred Ebb and John Kander worked on the music sheet and on the script and gave it the vaudeville style that was required for a musical, emphasising on a very interesting aspect that highlighted the central conflict of the play: the outlook on justice and showbiz in contemporary society. The musical premiered in 1975 with great expectations and it received mixed critics and ut stayed on until 1977. In 1996 it was premiered once again with new adaptations which brought even more public. The bare scenography and the amount of public it had meant that the musical recovered all the investment in...