Lou Reed

It's been a good month for Lou Reed. Just weeks after it was made public that the 66-year-old indie icon wed his longtime girlfriend, Laurie Anderson, Sirius Satellite Radio announced that Lou Reed will host a weekly show on Sirius' Disorder channel, joining other hosts for the radio network like Marky Ramone, David Johansen (a.k.a. Buster Poindexter) of the New York Dolls, Martha Stewart, Eminem and Tony Hawk.  read more »

Everywhere at Once, Village East Cinema, 1:15 p.m.

can’t help but think that inspiration for Everywhere at Once must have been born during a late-night heavy-talking/drinking session…in this film photographer Peter Lindbergh and “experimental filmmaker” (uh-oh) Holly Fisher collaborated to “weave together a tapestry of images” using Mr. Lindbergh’s photographs and clips from the 1966 Tony Richardson film Mademoiselle starring Jeanne Moreau. Ms. Moreau narrates using a poem by Kimiko Hahn. Got it?

Donkey in Lahore, Village East Cinema, 3:45 p.m.  read more »

Lou Reed secretly married his long-time girlfriend Laurie Anderson in Colorado on April 12 and then celebrated back here in New York with friends like Julian and Olatz Schnabel and Richard Belzer of Law & Order. [P6]  read more »

The Tribeca Film Festival just unveiled the line-up for its Spotlight, Showcase and Restored/Rediscovered sections, which include titles by Jose Padilha, Julian Schnabel, Harmony Korine, Guy Maddin and Tom Kalin, and world premieres from Peter Tolin and Adam Yauch. Director Julian Schnabel's new film Lou Reed's Berlin, a documentary about Mr. Reed playing his Berlin song cycle live for the first time at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, and Gunnin' for That #1 Spot, a doc by the Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch, will premiere at the fest, which begins April 23. The festival also announced its Special Events, including a conversation with Errol Morris and the North American Premiere of his latest film, Standard Operating Procedure, and a screening coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey that will include a special panel with prominent filmmakers and scientists. Full line-up after the jump.  read more »

On April 2, St. Ann's Warehouse in Dumbo will present a concert celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Hal Willner's Stay Awake, the producer's classic 1988 interpretation of the Vintage Disney Songbook, Brooklyn Vegan reports. Mr. Willner revived the project last June at the behest of former Pulp front man Jarvis Cocker, who invited Mr. Willner to present it live for the first time at London's 2007 Meltdown Festival, which Mr. Cocker curated.

The St. Ann's Warehouse concert will be the American premiere of Stay Awake, as well as a gala benefit for the venue, and will showcase artists from the original recording including Natalie Merchant and Suzanne Vega, with addtional appearances by Steve Buscemi, David Byrne and Beth Orton, among others.  read more »

CONCERTS

Cyndi Lauper is bringing her True Colors to Radio City Music Hall on June 1 (and to Jones Beach on June 3), along with fellow new wavers the B-52s, Rosie O'Donnell, and the Indigo Girls, in a Logo channel-sponsored benefit for the LGBT lobbying organization the Human Rights Campaign. Icing on the cake: Queer Eye's Carson Kressley is hosting. [On Sale: Friday, March 14 at 10 a.m.]

From the "bands it's hard to believe are still around" vault come New York hardcore legends H20, performing Friday, May 30, 1995...er, we mean 2008, at the Blender Theater at Gramercy. [On Sale: Friday, March 14 at noon]  read more »

Hey, New Yorkers, where is your revolutionary spirit? Lou Reed, David Byrne and Blonde Redhead are wondering why our city of "visionaries" isn't rallying against the war in Iraq. Well they've got a solution: a SPEAK UP! concert in DUMBO.  read more »

New York artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel, along with French Vogue editor-in-chief Carine Roitfield and Bobby Shriver of the (Product)RED Campaign, will be honored by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) at the organization’s 10th annual gala on January 31, according to Variety. Presenters for the humanitarian fete, being held at Cipriani in midtown, include Marc Jacobs and Lou Reed (although the evening’s highlight may just be a special performance by none other than Barry Manilow!).  read more »

“Life is short. There’s no reason why you can’t love many different ways of creating,” said Vanity Fair and GQ photographer Mark Seliger at his 401 Projects gallery in the far West Village, where an exhibit called “Visions of Rock” debuted on Saturday, Sept. 8.

A black-and-white picture of Pink—topless (yikes!), arms raised high, shot by Bryan Adams—anchored the room. Other musician/photographers included Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Mick Fleetwood and Jakob Dylan.

Velvet Underground front man Lou Reed had several photos featured. He was wearing black Addidas sneakers and a T-shirt, a lone silver chain around his neck offering the only hint that he was in fact a punk icon, not a soccer dad. “I wrote a foreword for a book [Mr. Seliger] made,” said Mr. Reed, explaining how he’d become involved in the exhibit. “A beautiful book. You’ll look it up” (We did; it’s called In My Stairwell). Also, Mr. Reed said: “I’m a gear-head. I like equipment. I would always be asking Mark ‘What lens is that? What light is that?” Then, in a trippy moment that could only have been engineered by Fashion Week, Mr. Reed embraced LL Cool J, the latter wearing jeans and Prada sunglasses, who just “came to see some cool pictures,” he told The Transom.

Melissa Auf Der Mer, onetime hot-girl bassist for Hole (who is now working on her second solo album, she said), was wearing a purple velvet dress. “When I was thirteen I used to pray that I could’ve been born in New York City and lived in the Chelsea Hotel with those people,” she said referring to Mr. Reed and his ilk. “I guess I’ve never met Lou Reed, no! But I feel like I know him. I love him.”

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You gotta give Larry Silverstein credit for making a big deal out of what others might just want to gloss over: finishing a building before anybody is ready to move into it. The opening ceremonies for 7 World Trade Center on May 23 will feature a midday concert with Suzanne Vega, Ollabelle and kids from PS 89 and PS 234. By that point, only Silverstein himself and his architects will have moved in. The other tenants-on-tap, including the New York Academy of Sciences , Vantone Realty Group and Ameriprise are to outfit their spaces by the summer and move by the fall.  read more »

-Matthew Schuerman UPDATE: Lou Reed will perform too!