Saturday, December 5, 2009

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Penn and Teller Bill Graham Foundation fund raiser for P.S. 161

When Penn and Teller, well Penn told us his act was ripped off and the man reviewing the rip off artist praised Penn exposing the source I thought of many times I have been ripped off and this blog...my photos robbed....


It was a great evening and for such a powerful cause. One of Bill Graham's sons gave a very moving speech about his father and his work which lives on through this foundation. What a great way to enjoy an evening and help support the arts for P.S. 161 in Harlem. There is a lot more I wrote in the text portion of the YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8kbXXl28qM

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Lt. Joseph Giuseppie Petrosino honored at NYC Police Museum Suzannah given an NYPD pin with his badge no!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPcpw-gM-ww


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPcpw-gM-ww




http://www.nycpolicemuseum.org/ Please come visit this gem of a museum and moving exhibition honoring Lt. Giuseppe Joseph Petrosino a true American NYPD hero who was the first NYPD hero to lose his life in the line of duty. After visiting the historic building that was once an active precinct you can walk across to the other side of Lower Manhattan and visit the NYPD Memorial where you can see his name honored with so many courageous souls that have lost their lives in the line of duty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P...

My theory is if he had lived he would have been our first Italian American NYPD Commish!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Cooper Square Committee having a rally for affordable housing and they are true NYC heroes -- amazing work and achievements

Rally for long-promised affordable housing in the Lower East Side!

Sunday, November 15th - 1PM
Delancey St & Suffolk St, Manhattan (Lower East Side)

By Subway: F to Delancey St; J to Essex St

1,850 homes were demolished in 1967 as part of the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area - with the promise that new affordable housing would be built on these enormous tracts of land in the heart of the Lower East Side. After thousands were displaced, the affordable housing was never built.

42 YEARS HAVE PASSED, AND WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING!

On the site where thousands once lived in a vibrant community - there are five enormous open-air parking lots. These sites could be used for 2,000 units of affordable housing for low-income New Yorkers and community facilities for the neighborhood, while the construction of the site and affordable commercial spaces built in them could provide much needed living-wage jobs.

Please join us for a rally to demand justice for the Lower East Side. 42 years is more than enough! Affordable housing NOW!

For more info, contact the Cooper Square Committee:
212-228-8210

Damian the squeaking Jack Terrier Russell from Lorcan Otway Theatre 80




http://cinematreasures.org/theater/4698/

Monday, November 9, 2009

Lt. Joseph Giuseppie Petrosino honored at NYPD Museum downtown

http://www.nycpolicemuseum.org/

The complexity of Suzannah, I am fascinated by the mosaic of people and I just love Lt. Petrosino a true hero!!!!! I will be going down to the museum to check out this exhibition.

There is a beautiful write up in the NYDaily News with a photo of Commish Kelly and Susan Burke, the granddaughter of Lt. Petrosino but I can't find the link. The NY Post has the worst website of any newspaper in NYC but I can't express to you the frustration at not being able to share the article by John Lauinger.




I found the link to this wonderful article on the NYC Police Museum website!!!

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/11/08/2009-11-08_exhibit_shows_off_mementos_of_a_legendary_nyc_lawman_lt_joseph_petrosino.html

William Kunstler's daughters want you to come out and support their film this weekend Disturbing the Universe



Dear Friends, Family, and Supporters:

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe opens theatrically in New York this Friday, November 13th, atCinema Village, 22 East 12th Street.

The fate of our film rests on opening weekend ticket sales. Help us sell out! Buy your tickets now! Even if you have already seen the film, please support us by buying a ticket and coming out to see Disturbing the Universe in the theater! And bring your friends and family! If our film does well opening weekend, it will stay in theaters longer and be booked in more theaters across the country!

Please forward this email to anyone who you think might be interested in seeing the film.

Cinema Village Movie Info:
http://www.cinemavillage.com/chc/cv/show_movie.asp?movieid=1713

Check out our website:
http://www.disturbingtheuniverse.com

Watch the trailer:
http://www.disturbingtheuniverse.com/Trailer.html

Join us on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/William-Kunstler-Disturbing-the-Universe/40742962303?ref=mf

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Butterfly a documentary by Doug Wolens about activist Julia Butterfly Hill, Luna the tree and Mother Earth

http://www.butterflyfilm.net/ See this documentary, read Julia's book, "Legacy of Luna". As I mentioned before rumor on the world wide web is that Rachel Weisz is to play Julia in the future film based on her activism living up in Luna for two years.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Luca Ferraris Vineyard Il Salotto del Ruche, Italy visits the Lower East Side for wine tasting

Chiara Ferraris came to visit us at Inoteca (Italian for Wine Bar) on Rivington Street, the Lower East Side and this is the first wine tasting where we had a woman talking to us which was quite exciting. The Luca Ferraris Vineyard are a family owned vineyard from Castagnole Monferrato in the region of Piedmont. The Ferraris Family loves America and feel gratitude to our Country because their Grandfather came here way back when, during the gold rush and sent his earnings back to Italy. This helped the family to expand their property and develop the vineyard so they have a special love and feeling for our Country which I found very touching. They make 12 wines and export only 4 to the United States. I tasted all four and they are all exceptional, fragrant and delicious to experience!

Chiara Ferraris is vivacious and charming. I enjoyed her presence as much as the family's wines. The bottles have stunning art which are mosaic images from Churches in Ravenna, central to what was the Western Roman Empire. I was most taken with Luca Ferraris Monferrato Rosso Il Re 2006 with the mosaic of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine, most appropriate!

Some of the wines have the word "Ruche" meaning rock but it sounds melodious when spoken in Italian because these specific grapes grow in rocky terrain. A best seller is Ruche Di Castagnole Monferrato which I bought at September Wines. You can find their wines around town, so ask when you visit your favorite Italian eateries ask or you can find Luca Ferraris wines at September Wine, 100 Stanton Street, 212-388-0770 and Vino 121 East 27th Street, 212-725-6515 (Vino will ship wines to you!)

The wines are not organic but Chiari delighted me and made me laugh, telling us that Italy is not strict with rules for driving on the roads but when it comes to wine, they are very strict and police the vineyards...my words, not hers! I just laughed. The beautiful red wines, thoughts of the vineyards, and Italian country side was such a pleasant way to enjoy Italy and I did it all from the Lower East Side!

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Coney Island Sept. 12-13

Parachute Performance Festival
What: The first annual literary and performance festival in Coney Island
Where: New York City Aquarium, West 8th Street.
When: Saturday and Sunday, September 12th and 13th at 6:30pm

Coney Island has always hosted a magnificent array of performance: a naked Walt Whitman read Shakespeare to the Atlantic Ocean; Cary Grant walked on stilts at Steeplechase Park; Woody Guthrie strummed his guitar on Mermaid Avenue; the Bread and Puppet Theatre was in residence in the 1970s; and Coney Island USA has been a theatrical fixture for nearly thirty years.

The Parachute Performance Festival continues this tradition. This free poetry workshop will feature a wide array of established and up-and-coming Brooklyn-based poets and writers. Highlights include poet Patricia Spears Jones, John Ventimiglia from the Sopranos reading Henry Miller's words on Coney Island, Eileen Myles (named by BUST magazine as "the rock star of modern poetry") and the former Brooklyn Poet Laureate, Dennis Nurkse.


Festival Flyer


http://www.saveconeyisland.net/

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Suzannah B. Troy buys a jacket and waving goodbye to Gomi NYC closing Saturday

http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2009/08/suzannah-b-troy-buys-jacket-and-waving.html

Tonight at Theatre 80 Harps Galore, ballet & hip hop! Here is a photo with Lorcan Otway's Dad & Gloria Swanson on Broadway Let us be Gay


Lorcan Otway's Dad, Howard is the gentleman to the far left with the golf bad and the famous Gloria Swanson that many of us remember from the film Sunset Boulevard is front and center.

Theatre 80 opens officially Sept. 8 but tonight Mia Theodoratushttp://miatheodoratus.com/ is bringing us Harps Galore and ballet with classical music and Hip Hop

I have an amazing YouTube coming up tonight if I get time to edit it which will include a heroic story about Lorcan Otway's mom during World War 2!

Lorcan also has his photographs up around the theatre on display.http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorcanotway/

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Theatre 80 on St. Marks Place is reopening Sept. 8 & I am bringing you a YouTube that tells you the history starting with prohibition


Howard Otway, Lorcan's father who starred on Broadway with Katherine Cornell in Barretts of Whimpole Street. I believe he also performed on Broadway with Gloria Swanson.



Suzannah B. Troy on Mike Lichter's "Just Married" and Barry Wolman's Janis Joplin

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Scoop Theatre 80 on St. Marks will be re-opening Sept. 8

Lorcan Otway gave me a scoop! Theatre 80 and it will open Sept. 8 as a venue for off Broadway plays! Check out Loran Otway's photos......http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorcanotway/

Giuseppie Logan Tompkins go to YouTube to see my playlist on him

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Yes, you are seeing advertisements on my blogs! Why?

My goal is to quality for something called "partner" on YouTube when I have enough views and subscribers and I am warming up right now with my many blogs. I do not get to pick the advertisements and already I wanted to barf when I saw an ad for someone running against Norman Siegel but we are in a recession and with what feels like criminal activity going on both at Albany and City Hall, times are going to get tougher before they get better.

Why not attempt to make some money on advertisements on my blogs?

I just won't put anyone "Bloomberg Newzzz" because for me it is "high art" -- I am painting with words and I don't want cheesy ads next to my work. I prefer not to have it on any of my blogs but I want to see if I will actually make money from adsense and there is only one way to find out.

Inoteca wine tasting no. 2 Are all Italian men that own vineyards handsome? Seems like it!




Here is the young owner of the Vineyards to your left representing his family who have owned the property since the 19th Century and his charming public relations fellow representing wines that are like an exciting vacation for your palette without leaving NYC, the Lower East Side you can enjoy the lush beauty of Italy in spirit as well as with wine.


You can find these fine Italian wines at De-Vino Wine Boutique, 30 Clinton Street, Lower East Side 212-228-0073

Inoteca has wine tastings that are as fun as they are luscious

http://www.organicwinejournal.com/index.php/2009/07/organic-sicily-in-downtown-new-york/

Mike Bloomberg King of New York "YouTube" has over 1,000 views

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E67PYtwkTUo

Mike Bloomberg assists NYU in the tear down of historic St. Ann's from 1847 & schills for NYU be ruthless destroy neighbors go to NYU!

http://mayorbloombergkingofnewyork.blogspot.com/2009/08/mike-bloomberg-assists-nyu-in-tear-down.html

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Mae West Walking tour coming to you or should I say come out and focus on female power!!!!!!

I received this missive!!!!!!

Hello from a dramatist in Washington Square!
Enjoyed your comments about MAE WEST and I wanted you to know I give an annual walking tour dedicated to the Brooklyn-born trailblazer on or near her birthday.
This year's walking tour is Sunday afternoon August 16th.
We'll start at Shubert Alley at 4 PM and focus on female power:
"GAUDY GIRLS on The Great White Way: Mae West and Texas Guinan in the Theatre District."
Details are on my Texas Guinan Blog TexasGuinan.blogspot.com - - - and also on my Mae West blog.
Stay happy, Mae


+For you youngsters, Mae West was a ground breaker in many ways from her earthy sense of humor and celebration of women as sexually empowered to her business acumen. She was hugely successful business woman starting from the most humble background in Brooklyn. Madonna has clearly molded her self after Mae West and other blonde bomb shells but Madonna never came close to Mae West's to sexy, funny and empowering theatrics.

Thanks Mae, I will try and stay happy but NYC is a tough town as you know when you got arrested by the NYPD performing in your play SEX on Broadway, the play you wrote. The mayor of NYC was behind your unfair arrests and I know many gay men protesting Mike Bloomberg because they feel the same way right now in 2009. The NYPD brought you to what is now Jefferson Library and than was a court house in the West Village and you were found guilty! But Mae you always were a winner and did your time with grace and good humor of course!

I love you Mae!
Sincerely,
Suzannah B. Troy


Watch my YouTube "Mayor Bloomberg King of New York Part 2"
and give me 5 stars or do not come up and see me sometime, right Mae!!!???!!!!!

Friday, August 7, 2009

The USPS 14 billion dollar loses in the last three years breaking the law business as usual

I don't get threatened by USPS employees and I have been intimidated or been made to be unsafe walking in to my lobby of my home. I just have nothing to do with the USPS because their customer service makes the Mafia look warm, cuddly and down right honorable and while the USPS does it's shady activities from intimidation to retaliation, breaking the law as pictured above and it is hard not to notice it says United States on their uniform as they go about their activities above the law.... including shady real estate sales, selling air space over St. Ann's as one example, 120 East 12th Street, selling it to NYU without notifying the State of New York as legally required -- the people breaking the law have "United States" emblazoned on their uniforms and stationary. Some message the USPS is sending.....The USPS wants to kid itself they lose mega billions because of email.

I don't set foot in a post office and I stopped having any mail delivered on my property because I am not comfortable dealing with activity that conjures up those famous words "going postal".

I saw the UPS and Fed Ex are getting tickets galore as usual but the USPS who breaks the law daily with confidence there is zero accountability and flouts that fact they have "federal protection" even when intimidating customers still can't break even let alone make a profit.

Why should the people of this country bail out the USPS when the USPS workers have better benefits and retirement packages than most Americans. It is like bail out Wall Street -- it is just plain wrong. The tax payers bailed out Wall Streeters who are counting their big bonuses and aren't eager to pay taxes so they claim any where but NYC as their home and they aren't offering to pay back any bail out money.

The USPS is so outdated but most of all lousy customer service is their biggest killer along with their abuse of their Federal Status as well as daily sites like this one of them breaking the law.

Burning the Floor! Broadway seats very cool on a hot summer night

The seat was free, the air conditioning full blast fabulous! If you like the Fox 5 dance competitions this is for you. The cast has beautiful bodies and it there is no story line, just all kinds of dance. When they have performers actually come out and sing the stage heats up along with the dancing. The two leads had small role and are in the show for two more weeks. The performances with Spanish live vocals and dance were my favorites.


Because of major stress, it was relaxing to not think about anything.

From there I went on to the Andy Warhol party.

http://suzannahbtroy.blogspot.com/2009/08/warhols-latest-party-last-night-of.html

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Sssh, notice the media coverage of NY Political corruption has gone quiet suddenly?

http://bloombergnewzzz.blogspot.com/ Read my very long piece "Bloomberg Newzzz" -- and I think he keeps socialite mega million, Amanda Burden, City Planner around because compared to her, Bloomberg is warm and cuddly! Also, since contacting the press with Bloomberg Newzz and calling for the "term limits deal ordeal", votes by a tainted City Council to be tossed out" -- I have noticed the press has stopped giving us any news on the on going investigation at City Hall. Amazing, every time the news shows politicians in handcuffs in New Jersey, I keep wondering why every New York politico has avoided such photos and media coverage. Even corruption at City Hall is "neatly" handled!

Very public arrests are needed here in NYC!!!!!!