Storytelling This Week

I'll be performing at the Coraline Cafe in Brooklyn tonight at 8 p.m. (480 62nd Street). Cover is $5, and the simply magnetic Cyndi Freeman hosts. Great drink prices, too! Come see! (The Coraline crowd is one of the funnest to perform for, because they're kind of small--twenty-five people or so in an intimate space--and they get much more involved in the stories than is usual in places with, e.g., a more formal stage setup.)

Tomorrow, by the way, is Sherry Weaver's Speakeasy at the Coraline St. Cafe (29 Cornelia St, right at the West 4th A,C,E/1,2,3 stations). That's $10, but the show is about twice as long, so I figure it's win-win, and a steal in both cases. I'm not in this one, but Greg Walloch and Faye Lane are two of the five performers, and they're never less than mesmerizing. I can't wait to see them!

This is completely unrelated, but on Wednesday I FINALLY get to see, for the first time, Jonathan Richman in concert. He seemed to come through Tucson every three or four years all through the eighties, and I missed him every time, even after I'd discovered New Wave and read how much all the pop-loving critics liked him. That long-standing blind spot in my hipness vanishes at last!

This is going to be a great week.