Name

Stephen Cedars

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Featured Contributor

Stephen is a writer, theatre director, and teacher, originally from south Louisiana.  After graduating from LSU, he spent two years teaching school in south Florida before moving to New York City, where he has spent the past six years producing his original theatre and pursuing various other forms of nonsense.
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LIFESTYLE COLUMN: COOKING WITH THE TROOPS
Charity Rings The Bell to Support our Troops with Food & Nutrition
It was hard not to remember how much we truly do owe not only the veterans who have risked their lives for our safety...
ARTS REVIEW: 'SLEEP NO MORE'
Wander Through a "Hotel" in a Creepy, Interactive Telling of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'
"It's powerful stuff that ought be experienced by anyone who knows what it feels like to wake up with the sweats..."
MUSIC REVIEW: WIRE - LIVE AT THE MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG
A Night in Brooklyn of Nostalgia & Vitality in the Company of Truly Great Punk Statesmen
They don't seem to be catering to nostalgia for what's passed, but instead are committed to realizing in their songs sounds and textures that are interesting, exciting, v
MUSIC REVIEW: LUCINDA WILLIAMS - LIVE AT WEBSTER HALL
Shooting Substance From The Hip, The Songstress Scores A Hit
Twenty years into her career and a veritable giant for a sizable group of devotees, the night Lucinda Williams comes to town remains something special...
MUSIC REVIEW: FAUST
Live In Concert at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY on 10/01/09
The four of them all seemed like little kids on a playground...
MUSIC INTERVIEW: JEAN-HERVE PERON
Front Man of Legendary KrautRock Band Faust Explains How to Sustain Magic & Invention
"When we are backstage, we think, we laugh, we have a drink or two, and then we decide 'What are we going to play?'"
Bob Log III and Willem Maker
There may not be anything particularly profound in BL3's performance, but that doesn't mean you've seen anything like it before.
Ghost
Lesser bands could make careers by playing to the stylistic synthesis inherent in just one of Masaki Batoh's songs.
Bob Dylan
Listening to 'Together Through Life,' you hear the fruits of his experience and the profundity of his perceptions...
MUSIC INTERVIEW: WILLEM MAKER
Slide Guitarist, Super Songsmith & On the Road With Bob Logg
Willem Maker is a singer/songwriter whose Southern heritage merges in his music with the rougher edges of more contemporary rock sounds. When I spoke to him about the up
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
The band played a show somewhere between a lounge act and a clown show, consistently undercutting themselves...
Les Claypool's Oddity Faire
It proved to be a wild night of positive energy and fiercely original performances.
Of Fungi And Foe
For all its eccentricity, the music is also confident and honest and direct, and it has no lack of intention behind it.
MUSIC REVIEW - A.C. NEWMAN AT THE BOWERY BALLROOM
New Pornographers Founder Goes Solo, Get Vulnerable
Newman's songs rely on his heavily arranged pop sound, and his live show makes no effort to detract from his strength...
Bruno Wizard & The Homosexuals
I urge you to make an effort to see this recently re-formed band play, if you can. You won't regret it.
MUSIC REVIEW - DAN AUERBACH - LIVE AT THE MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG
Review: Blues, Rock and Soul Blended Together And Turned Up Past Ten
His eyes closed tight while he sings, a simple rhythmic sway, and an attitude that is not oblivious to the audience but is somewhat unconcerned with it...
Meredith Monk at the Guggenheim
Never did the sense escape me that this was something I have never seen before and will never see again.
Marissa Nadler
It’s an effective and original approach to these songs, to treat them more as a means toward an imprecise mourning...
MUSIC REVIEW: DAN AUERBACH - 'KEEP IT HID'
Solo Album from Black Keys Vocalist Plays The Singer-Songwriter Card With A Flourish
An accomplished set of well-played songs, distinguished by the palpable spirit and honest affections of its creator...
MUSIC REVIEW: MOGWAI AT THE MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG
Mogwai Rip it Down & Build it Back Up With a Wall of Sound
Mogwai's hour and 45-minute set was dynamic and intense, and the band's virtues were abundantly apparent...