Poet, filmmaker, mystic, photographer and publisher Ira Cohen, who died last April, can still fill a room with energy. With the aid of Cohen’s address book, friends gathered this month at the Living Theatre on New York’s Lower East Side to celebrate the life of the Bronx-born countercultural figure who spent years mixing it up…
Ira Cohen was a filmmaker, photographer and poet, but many people would agree that Cohen’s most amazing work of art was himself. A self-described “multimedia shaman,” Cohen passed away in April 2011. Jon Kalish reports from the Living Theatre on New York’s Lower East Side, where Cohen’s friends and admirers gathered this past month to…
Jerry Seinfeld plans to release nearly all of his recorded standup on his website, Jerryseinfeld.com, tomorrow. The latest LABA Journal is out, featuring Elissa Strauss on why she won’t marry King David, Basmat Hazan on why we definitely need to pay attention to what David is wearing, and Stephen Hazan Arnoff on Justin Bieber, the…
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