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Charging for Plastic Upper East Siders debate proposed tax on plastic bags By Adam Janos
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But in a city as diverse as New York, opinions are – predictably – split. “It is what it is,” Kenneth Jackson, manager at the Gourmet Garage on Park Avenue and East 96th Street, says. “I think it’s bad for business… but people do need to recycle.” Still, Jackson thinks that, “Ten cents? That’s crazy.” Upper East Sider Brenna McCarthy supports the mandate. Walking home cradling two bottles of cranberry juice (single-bagged) in her arms, McCarthy states that she usually carries a reusable bag, but that “if it was a mandatory charge, I’d [always] bring my own bag.” Likewise, Yuan Hu, a Chinese immigrant who has lived on the Upper East Side for a year, doesn’t understand why the ban isn’t already in place. “That’s how I used to do it in my country,” Hu says. “In Beijing, people pay. It’s pollution for the whole world.” Meanwhile, some residents of the
How Safe is Our Pre-Cut Produce? A renewed focus on bodegas following a Hep A scare By Alissa Fleck
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Republican Candidate Has a Fighting Chance I am a former president of the Metropolitan Republican Club and I would like to take strong issue with Larry Penner’s letter (August 22) which claims that our party’s candidate for city council in the fifth district, David Garland, “has already lost.� In fact, we fully expect that David will run a strong race and has every chance to be elected. Mr. Penner does allow that Republicans elected five officials on the East Side in the fairly recent past, including Senator Roy Goodman, who despite Mr. Penner’s claims, retired and was not defeated in the 2002 election. Mr. Penner indicates that the days of Republican elected officials on the East Side are over, but he very much underestimates the appeal this year of a well qualified and fiercely independent candidate like David. Democrats have about a 3-1 voter registration advantage in David’s district (not the misleading 7-1 figure Mr. Penner mentions, which applies to all Manhattan). Slightly more than half the voters are registered as Democrats, with the remainder split among the Republican Party, Independence Party (which has endorsed David), unaffiliated voters and several minor parties. These type of ratios put the district very much in play. On the mayoral level, both Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg ran very strongly on the East Side. In addition, the dynamics of the race are strongly in David’s favor. The man who was seen as David’s most likely opponent is dealing with allegations of repeated sexual harassment and a coverup in Albany and has lost the support of many leading Democrats, including the current councilmember. David has already qualified for city matching funds and his fundraising has picked up rapidly. Most important, there is a deep distress in the district over the failure of the current one-party group of East Side elected officials to deal effectively with extremely important quality of life issues such as the impending Marine Transfer Station dump on East 91st Street and the continuing devastating effect
of the Second Avenue subway project on the residential and business community. We fully expect that, just as they did in the 1980’s and 1990’s, voters will recognize that they need to be represented by a strong, independent leader like David Garland. Bob Morgan
More Rats to Come You think you’ve seen rats on the Upper East Side now - wait till the city starts trucking in 1,860 tons of garbage on a typical day, (up to 5,280 tons in an emergency) six days a week with the proposed Marine Transfer Station. Think how easy the rats’ commute will be throughout the East side thanks to the Second Avenue Subway tunnel, too. It is beyond belief that candidate Quinn can defend between 372 and 1057 garbage trucks spewing diesel exhaust and smelling of refuse, right through a park and a playground, on the edge of the Riverwalk for Upper Manhattan and Gracie Mansion Park, where thousands of children play and picnic, adults run and bike and sunbathe. It’s going to be ten stories tall. The smell in summertime will draw vermin throughout the Northeast! Quinn’s accusations of “environmental racism� (against, among others, Bill Thompson, the only African-American in the race) and cries of “environmental justice� ring hollow except to the developers targeting the Brooklyn waterfront. No other community is being forced to have a waste transfer-station directly in the middle of a park located in a residential community with the city’s highest density. But then, Quinn is Bloomberg Lite. Who cares what the electorate think about things like term limits, or garbage or vermin and truck fumes pervading children’s playgrounds and parks? So, if you think you’ve seen rats on the Upper East Side? Just wait. Virginia Randall Send your letters to the editor to editor.ot@ strausnews.com. We reserve the right to edit all letters for clarity and space.
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DESPERATELY SEEKING PIZZA Someone tried to break into a pizza shop on Second Avenue. At 11:30 PM on Monday, August 19, a 50-year-old male worker at a pizza shop on Second Avenue pulled down and locked the security gate as he closed the store for the night. At 3:52 AM, an unknown perpetrator pried and bent the security gate outwards, attempting to gain entrance to the store. Second Avenue subway construction cameras recorded video of the incident.
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Fraudulent charges were made to a man’s credit card in Canada. At 7 AM on Friday, August 2, a man living on East 79th Street received a call from American Express to verify the authenticity of nineteen charges totaling $13,394.17 made to his credit card in Canada. The man replied that he had not been to Canada. He was in physical possession of his card and has since canceled his account.
A man was arrested after snatching a woman’s cell phone. At 7:35 PM on Saturday, August 17, the 24-year-old woman was walking northbound on Third Avenue with her cell phone in her hand, when a 24-yearold man came up in front of her and grabbed her cell before running southbound on Third Avenue and then eastbound on East 83rd Street. The woman chased after the man, and he ran into a parking garage on East 83rd Street, where he was stopped by a police officer running up from the garage. The officer recovered the woman’s phone under a car in the garage. The robber was arrested and charged with grand larceny. The recovered cell phone was a black iPhone 5, valued at $600.
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Sneaker Snatch A man was arrested after using counterfeit credit cards to make purchases. At 12:30 PM on Tuesday, August 20, a 25-year-old man was observed using counterfeit credit cards to make purchases exceeding $3,500 at a luxury department store on Madison Avenue. The man was arrested and charged with grand larceny. Six other credit cards were recovered from him. The items he tried to steal were a Celine handbag valued at $2,940 and Balenciaga sneakers worth $604.
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New York Joins Small Towns in Banning Bags 2012: A day after banning Styrofoam food containers, Brookline, MA bans plastic checkout bags. That paper bags – which cost the retailer more – are still okay causes heated debate. A resident told the Associated Press, “Cows aren’t choking on paper bags.” 2012: The Village Board of Mamaroneck in Westchester unanimously approves a ban on plastic checkout bags. Paper checkout bags must contain no old-growth fiber, contain a minimum of 40 percent post-consumer recycled content and display the words “reusable” and “recyclable.” March 2013: Larchmont joins Westchester next-doorneighbors Rye and Mamaroneck in banning plastic checkout bags. April 2013: Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA, bans plastic checkout bags. At the town meeting, the general manager of a grocery store argued that if plastic bags were outlawed, people would use more paper bags, which require cutting down trees and take more water to produce than plastic. June 2013: Tompkins County, NY (home of Cornell University) considers a plastic checkout bag ban. The law would go into effect in 2014 for big retailers and a year later for everyone else. Retailers would be required to charge between 10 and 25 cents for a customer-requested paper bag. July 2013: As Massachusetts debates a state-wide plastic bag ban, historic Great Barrington becomes the fourth town in the state to ban plastic checkout bags. Price Chopper in May said its Great Barrington branch will be the first of the 131 chain stores to do away with plastic bags.
The city trails far behind many towns in the northeast that have already put a stop to the use of plastic bags
Lexington Houses – a New York City Housing Authority development at Lexington Avenue and East 99th Street – think that the ten-cent cost could be prohibitive. “Even if you shop light, when you go shopping, that’s still four plastic bags,” A. Maycock Jr. laments. “That’s forty extra cents, every time you shop.” Victor Johnson, Jr. adds that, “They did it with metro cards, now they’re trying to do it with bags.” The MTA began charging a $1.00 “new card fee” for the purchase of new metro cards this March. That fee was similarly assessed using environmentalist rhetoric. The bag charge, in contrast, would not be a tax but would function as a pure disincentive, and would go back to the businesses themselves to cover the cost of the plastic. Taking some of these more cash-strapped New Yorkers into account, the new bill requires that stores waive the plastic bag charge when customers are using food stamps to make their purchases. Food pantries, likewise, will be exempt. Still some East Siders wish there were some middle ground. “I’m with recycling, but it’s ridiculous to pay ten cents,” Loriah Blackman, high schooler, says. “I’m paying for everything in the bag.” Still, she concedes that if a mandatory charge went into affect, she would cut down on her plastic waste. “I would definitely bring my own bags,” Blackman said.
By Becca Tucker 1990: Before it’s cool, Nantucket quietly becomes one of the first places in the world to require retailers to use biodegradable packaging. 2008: Westport, CT, which prides itself on being one of the first municipal bodies to pass a resolution opposing the Vietnam War in the sixties, becomes the second East Coast community to ban thin-film plastic checkout bags. Exceptions include bags for produce and meat, dry cleaning and thicker bags. These exceptions will become standard verbiage in subsequent bans. 2011: Looking to Westport for inspiration, Rye, NY bans plastic checkout bags, starting a trend in Westchester. 2011: Southampton Village, on the southern fork of Long Island, follows suit. The Town of Southampton later mulls a plastic bag ban but nixes the idea. 2011: East Hampton Village, NY follows Southampton Village’s lead, banning plastic checkout bags. At a debate at the village board meeting, a member of a business trade organization warned against dehumanizing an industry that employs hundreds of workers at nine plastic bag companies on Long Island.
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on’t get me wrong, community groups do considerable good, but are not above some critiquing. Like my column chiding the 19th Precinct’s National Night Out Against Crime event for being too soft on crime-prevention talk and too heavy on refreshments and live music. Unfortunately, deleted for space, was my saying to the civically inactive citizenry, “No better way to overcome this inaction than to attend your local precinct’s community council meeting. Call 311 for information.” The column also called for a National Night Out Against Traffic Crime. I was there at the northeast corner of 60th and Third, to reverently applaud this group’s vision and courage to put down a memorial stencil, one of eight recent traffic tragedy victim’s memorials they did that evening. These visuals are to remind us that a human being was needlessly killed here, and so often, as with 16-year-old Renee Thompson, because a vehicle, this time, a truck, turned into her crosswalk without yielding. I also remembered my friend, Lillian Yellen, who had made traffic safety a top concern of her Temple Shaaray Tefila’s senior group. And then this so-careful pedestrian was killed by a truck at that very corner. Ah, if only all senior groups would have such a priority, and especially protest the most dangerous to pedestrians “failure to yield” crime of traffic. Demand as well media coverage of every traffic tragedy including those of elder victims too often overlooked. As with 90-yearold Belle Moser, I’d not have known of her being stuck and cortically injured by a car turning in her 82nd and East End crosswalk had she not been a neighbor of a friend. She died after five weeks in Cornell Well’s I.C. U.
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Unit. And such untold suffering must also get out there. Had it not been for the fatal crossing area being repaved, Right of Way/Time Out group led by Charles Komanoff, would have placed a memorial stencil at that corner to remember this widowed mother, grandmother, great grandmother and aunt. Ah, if only those white line crossing markings would include warnings to vehicle operators to slow down and yield to pedestrians before making a turn.. But this corner will one day have a lifesaving street art memorial for Belle Moser. And featured in Belle Moser’s August 12th Times obituary was how “she had enriched the lives of family and friends with the bright colors of her paintings which reflected her love of the natural world and traced a full life from a childhood in Brooklyn to many summers in the Adirondack Mountains.’ There was a bit more about how much her family loved her and then it ended with “donations in her memory can be made to the 92Y Art School.” And this militant advocate for elders as well as for traffic safety, believes in art to reflect elderhood and its often harsh realities. And with needless traffic tragedies, to reflect the suffering like Belle Moser endured. And, of course, art to reflect the endless mourning especially for young victims like Renee Thompson. Surely, you get the picture or pictures we need to get out there to raise awareness and action to overcome the crimes of traffic so often to blame - and too little punished. Art to get attention paid! dewingbetter@aol.
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From Ghetto to Gallery Jay-Z bifurcates performance art in Picasso Baby By Armond White
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appers were always welcomed by the art world--a fact of the downtown avant-garde as captured in Blondie’s 1981 Rapture music video--even before Kanye West and Jay-Z deliberately sought art world approval. Jay-Z’s new music video Picasso Baby not only crosses the Black Curtain of limited, ghettoized knowledge, it literally crosses over! And director Mark Romanek, who helmed the ultimate ghetto music video, 99 Problems (which I had featured as one of the best music videos of all time at my annual Lincoln Center music video presentation) was there to bear witness and record the transubstantiation. In Picasso Baby, Jay-Z materializes before a crowd of celebrities at the Pace Gallery in Chelsea. He may be holding court but the invitees behold a deity. Judd Apatow, Jim Jarmusch, Rosie Perez, Taraji P. Henson, Adam Driver, Lorna Simpson, Andres Serrano, Marina Abramavic among other attendees are famous in their fields, but Jay-Z is a Forbes-listed entertainment mogul from the world of hip-hop. If there’s one thing the art world envies more than money, it’s the automatic hipster status of Black pop which Jay-Z has got--and in Tom Ford couture. Only dreadlocks would make him look safer to such an easily threatened crowd. A lack of menace separates Picasso Baby from 99 Problems. Romanek shoots this one in color yet it looks black-and-white--as if Hova’s 99 street-life predicaments were finally neutralized. In a glorified state of success, he performs smiling; pleased to entertain, happy to be celebrated. Hip-hop “arrived” a long time ago but this crossover constitutes a personal
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Marina Abramovic and Jay-Z in Picasso Baby advance. Romanek helps Jay-Z appraise himself, joining the hierarchy of financially and intellectually prized fine art. Subtitled “A Performance Art Film,” the ten-minute Picasso Baby bites the art world incursion already made by Jay-Z’s partnerin-rhyme, Kanye West. Even though Kanye’s New Slaves outdoor video projection boldly demolished conventional performance art tactics, leaping over the museum/gallery ghetto, Jay-Z and Romanek still seek that standard. It’s one of Romanek’s formalist appropriations, this time based on last year’s documentary Marina Abramovich: The Artist is Present which chronicled Abramovich’s 2010 Museum of Modern Art performance where she held court for thousands of spectators and art groupies who lined up to sit opposite her in a chair. Abramovich, Serbian pioneer of the peculiar “immaterial” practice known that she, since the 1970s, called “performance art,” accidentally slipped into “rock star”
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celebrityhood. Through Matthew Akers and Jeff Dupre’s 2012 doc, Abramovich’s power trip exposed the art world’s followers, sycophants as well as the New York freak show of oglers and exhibitionists. Her MoMA curator, Klaus Biesenbach, enthused “She did create a charismatic space, a rent in the universe.” Tearful throngs flocked to her performance the way others attend church and Romanek recreates that secular frenzy within the classbound safety zone of invited V.I.P.s. No hoi polli or street thugs allowed. This way, Picasso Baby is intended to enlarge hip-hop’s egalitarian fantasy but instead it bursts the “brotherhood” balloon: Each celebrity-spectator shown represents our culture’s bifurcated reality. Everyone here is an arriviste. Since the 2008 coronation, it’s been proven that nothing pleases Black Americans more than when crossing-over becomes getting over--getting above one’s original station. Picasso Baby is all about the “getting.” Jay-Z typifies this after making several art
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world shout-outs (from Picasso to Jeff Koons), dubbing himself “the new Jean-Michel.” Then, in the nicest line, does a proud Papa boast: “Yellow Basquiat in my kitchen corner/ Go ahead lean on it, Blue./You own it.” There’s no one-to-one compassion in Picasso Baby such as Abramovic displayed at MoMA or as when I saw Morrissey signing autographs and empathizing with fans at Tower Records. Jay-Z in Chelsea just grins and vamps. He’s a rapper; for him performance art is foremost about showing off. By referencing Picasso, the game-changing, innovative Spanish artist, Jay-Z’s brag of cultural knowledge and cultural reach also measures today’s short distance from the Marcy Housing Projects to a Chelsea gallery. Now he’s on intimate terms with Picasso’s autonomy and fame. Let’s hope he also questions the privileges. Follow Armond White on Twitter at 3xchair
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technique to the collective, they also bring a shared understanding to the collective process. This common understanding lends their performances a quality of familiarity, both among the dancers and between the dancers and the audience. Schumacher enhances this familiarity as he “strives to make them all look more like themselves and to give them movements that make us all understand them more.” But what particularly distinguishes the company is its musicality. Inspired by his work at NYCB, Schumacher taught himself to play piano in preparation for his role as BalletCollective’s resident choreographer. This musical grounding lets him glean the most from his collaboration with composers, while his dancers appreciate his ability to help them make sense of how the choreography grows with the music. The company’s musicality was especially obvious in The Impulse Wants Company. Playful moments between a group of friends alternated with moments of lyricism and pathos, resonating deeply within the music of Ellis Ludwig-Leone. Epistasis was enjoyable but unmemorable. Seeing it after Impulse Wants Company was like watching To Catch a Thief after Rear Window; once you knew what the players were capable of, you expected something more. Two memorable moments included a solo by David Prottas, who has the rare ability to be simultaneously relaxed and laser-focused, and a juxtaposition between a male-male and female-female duet that provided a nice contrast between the physical reality of the sexes. Many thanks to the Joyce for taking the initiative with “v6.0.” And congratulations to BalletCollective for making ballet a glorious thing of the present.
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azz musicians couldn’t be more individualistic. It’s the nature of the art. If you’re not your own man or woman, who are you? Every gig is another chance to explore a new direction, find a different sound, mesh with another group. The downside is you are truly and absolutely on your own, even when it might feel a lot better to have some support, other than an audience’s applause. Recently, four brilliant jazz musicians decided to do something unusual – form a collective and to present a united front in their professional lives. Not since the Art Ensemble of Chicago formed in the 1960’s has a group of musicians united so fiercely for a common cause. Pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Eric Revis, drummer Nasheet Waits and vocalist JD Walter fittingly named their new outfit, Likemind. In its debut at the Jazz Standard September 3-8 as a collective, each has his own night as leader, which sometimes includes the others and sometimes not. It’s Likemind’s debut week.
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Do Endorsements Really Influence Voters? Why regular folks might care about who newspapers and bigwigs pick By Tom Allon
August 21, 2013 UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION STATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REVIEW NOTICE OF PUBLIC SCOPING MEETING Lead Agency: United Nations Development Corporation (“UNDC”) This notice is issued pursuant to Part 617 of the implementing regulations pertaining to Article 8 of the State Environmental Quality Review Act (“SEQRA”). UNDC, as lead agency, has determined that the Proposed Action referred to below may have a significant impact on the environment and that a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (“DEIS”) will be prepared. A public meeting is being conducted to provide members of the public, as well as involved and interested agencies, an opportunity to comment on the draft Scope of Work for the DEIS. Title of Action: The United Nations Consolidation Project, including the United Nations Consolidation Building (“Consolidation Building”) SEQRA Status: Type I Action — 6 N.Y.C.R.R. § 617.4(b)(6)(v) Scoping Process In accordance with SEQRA, UNDC, as Lead Agency, is initiating a process to define the scope of the DEIS. As a first step in that process, a draft Scope of Work for the DEIS is being prepared and will be available to agencies and the public on or about August 30, 2013, for review and comment. The Proposed Action is the construction of an approximately 36 story, approximately 930,000 square foot, office building for use by United Nations workers currently using space leased by the United Nations elsewhere in New York City. The Consolidation Building would be located on an approximately 28,850 square foot site which currently is the western portion of the Robert Moses Playground on the east side of First Avenue (United Nations Plaza) between East 41st Street and East 42nd Street in Manhattan. In conjunction with the Consolidation Building, a tunnel would be constructed to provide direct secure access other than by automobile between the United Nations headquarters campus and the Consolidation Building. Construction is expected to begin in 2015 and to be completed in 2018. The United Nations is currently studying alternatives for meeting its need for space in New York City for offices and related purposes. These alternatives include the United Nations leasing the Consolidation Building from UNDC pursuant to terms that the United Nations is considering. The United Nations has made no advance commitment in this regard at this time. UNDC understands that the alternatives for meeting the need of the United Nations for space in New York City are subject to review, consideration and action by the UN General Assembly at a future date. A public meeting has been scheduled for Tuesday, September 24, 2013 at 6:00 PM and will be held at Farkas Auditorium, NYU Langone Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016. The purpose of the meeting is to provide members of the public as well as involved and interested agencies an opportunity to comment orally or in writing at the meeting on the draft Scope of Work that is being prepared for the DEIS. A copy of the draft Scope of Work will be available on or about August 30, 2013 for download at www.undc.org or at the offices of UNDC (address listed below), or at the offices of Manhattan Community Board Six located at 866 UN Plaza, Suite 308, New York, NY 10017, or at the New York Public Library Mid-Manhattan branch located at 455 Fifth Avenue (at 40th Street), New York, NY 10016. Written comments on the draft Scope of Work may also be provided to UNDC via mail, email or fax as specified below and will be accepted before and for a period of ten (10) calendar days after the public meeting, until October 4, 2013. Address for comments and requests for further information: Contact: Environmental Review Coordinator Attention to: Cindy Xie Address: United Nations Development Corporation Two United Nations Plaza, 27th Floor New York, NY 10017-4403 Email: EISCoordinator@undc.org Phone: (212) 888-1618 Fax: (212) 588-0758
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hen I was the publisher of a chain of weekly newspapers (including this one), each year around this time, numerous political candidates came to our office for their endorsement interviews. In races for city council or the state assembly or senate, where most voters have little knowledge of the qualifications or views of the candidates, the endorsement of the local newspaper can be very influential in the outcome of these “down ballot” races. But in much larger races, like for mayor or governor, endorsements from the local newspaper matter much less. One could argue that the endorsements of the large dailies like the New York Post, New York Daily News and even the once-allmighty New York Times, move fewer and fewer votes these days (as circulations plummet). A few years ago, a very bright and successful businessman, Harry Wilson, virtually swept the newspaper endorsements around the city (and in much of the State) but he came up short as the GOP challenger to incumbent state comptroller Tom DiNapoli. This year, we will have another very interesting test case on the power of newspaper endorsements in the city comptroller race. Scott Stringer swept the News, Post and Times, but according to recent polls, still lags behind former Governor Eliot Spitzer. Can Stringer use the “Good Housekeeping” seal of approval that these editorial endorsements represent to nose ahead of Spitzer on primary day? Time will tell. Beside newspaper endorsements, there are the much sought after union endorsements that often are accompanied by ground troops, independent expenditure advertising budgets and that old political tool, phone banks. This year’s democratic mayoral primary has a fractured set of union endorsements, with four of the five leading candidates (with the exception of Anthony Weiner) each claiming
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Tom Allon support from at least a few major unions. Until the run-off, it seems, the union support will be neutralized. There are also the many endorsements by current and former elected leaders, but like good looks and cotton candy, they’re nice to have, but don’t really matter much at the end of the day. There is one individual, I believe, whose endorsement in the mayoral race could tip the scales this year: Al Sharpton. The MSNBC pundit and former controversial reverend still has lots of sway in the African-American community. If he endorsed Bill de Blasio or Christine Quinn, it could be the death knell for the only African-American candidate, Bill Thompson. Conversely, a strong endorsement of Thompson by Sharpton could propel the former Comptroller into a run-off and beyond. I like to read endorsements for the persuasive cases they make for the candidate they support. They are part of my decisionmaking process. But at then end of the day, it’s an independent decision. Voters must educate themselves and then weigh the candidates pluses and minuses before deciding who will best move our great city forward. Most of all, vote. It’s your civic duty. Tom Allon, the president of City and State, NY, is the former Liberal Party-backed candidate for Mayor.
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When a Man Loves Music Singer-songwriter Michael Bolton visits the Y on Sept 9th to serenade us with stories of his career By Angela Barbuti
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any people tell Michael Bolton that his songs are part of the soundtrack to their lives. Behind this powerful statement is a tumultuous journey that Bolton endured to finally make it as a world-renowned artist. In the memoir he released this year, The Soul of it All: My Music, My Life, Bolton, 60, does bare it all. He sets the scene, which begins with him as a child writing songs in his closet during his parents’ divorce, and ends onstage with some of the greatest names in musical history. His path was not an easy one, but thanks to people in the industry who assured him that his voice was something special, he persevered. And now, the entire world can enjoy his soulful sound in classic love anthems such as, “How am I Supposed to Live Without You” and “When a Man Loves a Woman.” On September 9th, Bolton will be at the 92nd Street Y, which is fitting since the Connecticut native has a rich history in New York City which includes playing for money on the streets of Greenwich Village and closing down city studios with his all-night writing sessions.
You started your career in New York City. When I started out professionally, I learned the discipline involved in making the most out of whatever gift I had-my work ethic- during my time in New York. New York is the toughest place to succeed. On the other hand, when you do succeed there, every other city, every other country, is moving at a slower pace. It’s the greatest training ground in the world.
Before that, you actually sang in the streets of the Village. I did. Because people gave me money. It was a way of panhandling without asking. I was also aware when I was in New York, that a lot of great bands and artists started out there. At that point, I was broke and staying at a friend’s house. It was beyond broke, I think. [Laughs] To be respectful to the journey, that was not a time when I was focused. It’s such a haze, that period of time. People were smoking banana peels. Everyone you knew was basically high most of the time.
When did you know you were going to make a living out of music? Just before I was 16, a record producer from Epic Records came to see me audition in Connecticut in this karate studio above Cutler’s record store, which is the record store in the New Haven. We auditioned for him and he wanted to sign us immediately. I was the lead singer and writer of the band. We were signed for one year. During that time, I met people who worked their whole lives in the industry, who kept repeating this sense of confidence that I could make it. That I had this element in my voice that people were looking for. At 16, that goes a long way.
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What were some obstacles you faced? I was with production companies that ran out of moneythey just went bankrupt while we were making an album. It’s almost crazy to keep going. It’s so out of your control. There’s nothing you humanly can do to control a lot of these factors. Some of the best musicians on the planet earth in the studio and no hits. For me, a large part of not giving up- it didn’t come from some superhuman feeling of courage-was really like a carrot that was dangling somewhere in front of me in the form of yet another producer, owner of a production company, or record executive.
And you had three children to support at the time. By that point, I had three kids, so rent checks and foodthey were problems to solve. And you never want your kids to feel the angst you’re feeling, knowing the reality of the last conversation with the landlord who was fed up and wanted us out.
Then you started writing songs and giving them to other artists. In the early 80s, some friends talked me into meeting with publishers. I started doing that in order to put food on the table and have some sense of stability and security for my family. I started writing out in California and all the songs I wrote got recorded. They were all covered by other artists. So they kept flying me back and forth. They were saying, “We hope your solo career happens, but in the meantime, we’re convinced you can have a career as a professional songwriter.”
You were writing a dozen songs a year and having countless hits. That didn’t make me feel like I should dive all into the song writing, that made me feel more confident that if I wrote hits for other people, I could probably write one for myself. What was obvious to the president of Columbia Records was not obvious to me- that I was giving away songs I should have been recording myself. I made a promise to Columbia Records- I did two more albums for them- that the third album would consist of songs that I kept for myself. And the first hit I had was on that album. It was called, “That’s What Love is All About.”
In our book, you say you’ve written over 220 songs. Take us through the writing process. Something like that, yeah. [Laughs] There are no rules, but there are theories that are applied. In general, you want to have a theme that speaks to you and you feel will resonate with others. A song has to speak to a certain amount of people, and
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it has to speak to artists in order for them to decide, “Yeah, I want to cut this track. I’ve been through this.” If you write a great song, it will always find a home.”
So the title is the first step? One of the things I learned when I was working with Desmond Child and Diane Warren was that if we start with a title, the whole process is going to be expedited because when you know what the theme is, you have something to live up to. You have to pay off the title with the rest of the lyrics. A song like, “How Can We Be Lovers if We Can’t Be Friends,” is kind of a lighthearted expression, but it’s really got a lot of truth to it. A lot of times, people treat their friends better than they treat their loved ones. There’s a lot to work with in that title and it’s basically about respect, forgiveness, and reciprocity in a relationship. When people have had long relationships, and I know this has been true in my life, especially if you’re busy and have a career that you love, you don’t necessarily need to fill your space with someone. But you lose your best friend when you lose a real relationship. The title may seem simple, but the reality and application of that title is really big.
I’m in Italy right now and in your book you talk about your deep connection to this country. I was in Italy twice this last month. It’s my favorite place to spend time. Any excuse I can get to go there for promotions, performances, or a stop-over in between other European shows, I try to get to Italy. Most of the work, promotionally, is done in Rome. I’ve done Christmas in the cathedral in Assisi, a show of opera in Catania.
You vividly describe singing Nessun Dorma with Pavarotti in Italy in 1995. That was a life-altering event.
More recently, you teamed up with a then-unknown Lady Gaga. I got a phone call from her label who said they had a great, young artist who is a big fan and would really like to write with me. I had never heard of her, so I said, “Send me some MP3s so I know what she does.” The first thing I heard was, “Just Dance,” and I said, “This is a smash.” We worked until about 7 in the morning, the first time we wrote together. I loved her work ethic; it was exciting to see it happen. Information on Michael’s 92 Y appearance can be found here: www.92y.org/Uptown/Event/Michael-Bolton.aspx Follow him on Twitter: @mbsings
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