Metal Leaves Studio

Happy Chinese New Year- 2011 marks the year of the Rabbit!

Happy 70th Birthday, Neil!

The opening reception of Elizabeth Gregory-Gruens's latest exhibition, 'Double-Cut 2011,' was held tonite in NYC.  

Hold onto your hats, fasten your seatbelt, and be on the look-out for a '77 Dodge ambulance;  The Defibulators are rolling into Pontiac  tonight.  The much lauded Brooklyn-based band will be performing their auditory destruction live! at The Crofoot.

The Defibulators are one the most energetic, raucous bands you will see this side of the Mason-Dixon!  They will shake the dust off any joint they step into, whether it be the Brooklyn Country Cookout at SXSW or during their recent European tour  at various pubs, clubs, and prisons.

They came up as a bunch of boisterous musicians in Brooklyn, emerging out of the New York roots scene- mixing bluegrass, country, rockabilly, honky-tonk, and punk. They have been compared to watching 'Hee-Haw on mescaline,'  [this is not your mother's Mickey Gilley!]  The Defibulators rev it up hardcore, with both their instruments and their stage-presence. So put on your dancing shoes, high-tail it to Pontiac, and witness their debauchery for yourself.

Although some of my Coney Island Dreams were dashed when they shut it down, there are some that remain in tact. 

Where they shopped,