by Downtown Magazine | Oct 17, 2016 | Culture, Entertainment, Music
In celebration of the 60th anniversary of Edith Piaf’s legendary final performance at Carnegie Hall, Piaf! The Show comes to Carnegie Hall on Jan. 6, 2017. In two 45-minute acts, the show narrates the rags-to-riches story of the Parisian singer’s career, as...
by Downtown Magazine | Oct 10, 2016 | Culture, Entertainment, Events, Music
On Sunday, Oct. 16, the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir will return to Carnegie Hall for its first performance at the Seventh Avenue venue in nearly 40 years. One of the nation’s most established and dynamic musical institutions, the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir is...
by Darren Paltrowitz | Oct 5, 2016 | Culture, Entertainment
Nicholas Ashe first came to my attention as one of the stars of Queen Sugar on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN. Yet this is not Nicholas’ only prominent credit of 2016, as the New York native played Viola Davis’ son in Custody, which premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film...
by Downtown Magazine | Sep 14, 2016 | Culture, Featured, Movies
A lot of people first noticed actor Chad L. Coleman when he portrayed Dennis “Cutty” wise on the Emmy Award-winning HBO series The Wire. But Chad was acting long before The Wire, having appeared on multiple episodes of Law & Order, New York Undercover...
by Downtown Magazine | Aug 24, 2016 | Culture, Featured
Lewis Black has been one of the country’s most successful stand-up comics for nearly two decades. While he has been active as a stand-up comic since the 1980s, one thing that people do not realize about Lewis Black is that his genius extends beyond...