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Jottings from a pop culture junkie

Be prepared to be delighted at the Met Museum’s “Musical Bodies” exhibit, on view through Sept. 27th. Be forewarned: It may leave you feeling randy. Near the end of our visit on the member preview Saturday night, with few people about, we literally danced on the floor keyboard, making music of our own bodies. From …

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Anyone who was a music fan in NYC between February 12, 1974 and January 22, 2004 has their own Bottom Line stories. I get to share a few of mine in “Positively Fourth and Mercer: The Inside Story of New York’s Iconic Music Club” (Backbeat Books), an oral history by Bottom Line co-founder (and already …

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May 1, 10:40 a.m., Acquavella Gallery, 18 E. 79th St. Riva and I meet our friend (the almost-a-relative kind) Herb, an artist still active in his 90s who lives in NJ and takes public transportation to and from Manhattan to tour galleries. We have two of his large paper cuts hanging in our home. Herb’s …

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