It’s Chico Marx‘s 127th birthday, and you’re probably wondering how best to mark the occasion.
We have a suggestion for you: Why not show your support for Marxfest, NYC’s celebration of all things Marx Brothers, coming this May? Visit our Kickstarter site (we’re on the planning committee) and toss a few bucks into the kitty.
There are even some cool premiums to make it doubly worth your while. But really, do you need a better reason than it’s Chico’s birthday? Of course you don’t.
Hey friends — we’re on the planning committee for a very exciting series of events coming up in May of this year: Marxfest, a month-long celebration of all things Marx Brothers in the brothers’ hometown, NYC.
You can check out the calendar of events (more are to be added very shortly) at marxfest.com.
We’ve launched a Kickstarter campaign to help cover expenses (this is not a for-profit endeavor), so please, view the video below and chip in if you can. Any amount is appreciated, but there are some very cool premiums available at various levels of support.
And by all means, please share this with every Marx Brothers fan (in other words, every right-thinking citizen of the world) you know!
Did you ever wish you could be there for the first performance of an iconic work—say, the debut of George Gershwin‘s “Rhapsody in Blue” as performed by Paul Whiteman‘s orchestra on February 12, 1924, at NYC’s Aeolian Hall on West 43rd Street?
Well, we don’t have a time machine to lend you, but here’s the next best thing. Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, masters of the sounds of the 1920s and ’30s, are recreating that historic concert in collaboration with conductor Maurice Peress and pianists Ted Rosenthal and Jeb Patten.
Town Hall, which sits on that selfsame block of 43rd Street, is hosting this historic event on February 12th—ninety years to the night after the original concert.
It’s hard to imagine an event that might be considered more of a “don’t-miss.” Get your tickets now!
The venerable Katz’s Deli on NYC’s Lower East Side is celebrating 125 years in operation. If you’ve not been there, you should go. End of discussion. Any spot whose motto is “Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army”—offered with the notion that it rhymes, no less—deserves your patronage.
We’ve shared this footage with you before, but we’re convinced it’s worth revisiting: It’s newsreel coverage of the 1935 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and some footage of FDR carving the turkey for a group of very happy children.
Here’s wishing all Cladrite Radio readers and listeners a very happy and healthy Thanksgiving; we’re thankful for each and every one of you.